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More Letters to the Editor
R. Paul Robertson, M.D. and Pierre Lefebvre, M.D., Ph.D., plead for increased research funding against the impending world diabetes tsunami (Thursday). Huge research expenditures haven't stemmed this dire and worsening situation. No matter how much we spend, traveling the same research and treatment paths never will.
I recently helped my son cure his type 2 diabetes. Six weeks ago D had an infected finger with red streaks to his armpit. The ER discovered a very high 389 blood sugar, type 2 diabetes.
A very obese nurse, a diabetic, informed D he could anticipate lifetime medication dependency with 10 good years from the onset of diabetes before his organs would begin failing. Since he didn't know when his diabetes began, he couldn't know how many good years were left.
D, 42 years old, was 20 pounds overweight, though an exerciser; running eight marathons, bicycling, playing tennis but was slowly exercising less and less because of low energy. Despite too much fatty foods, animal products and snack foods, D's eating was possibly a little better than average.
I googled John McDougall, M.D. For 25 years with very low fat, sans vegetable oils, high complex carbohydrate, high fiber, plant-based diet with exercise he's cured almost all his type 2 diabetes patients, eliminating ALL medication dependency and for type 1 diabetics significantly reduced insulin dependency.
I showed D the dangers of diabetes medication, how medical model diabetics die early from diabetes with "good numbers," (lab tests). D decided to follow McDougall's protocol, forgo prescribed oral medication but take insulin. Within 10 days he discontinued insulin.. Now he has normal blood-sugar levels, better energy than in years. He doubled his exercising for shear pleasure. Without "dieting," he's 11 pounds lighter.
This anecdote is consistent with voluminous research. In 1935, H.P. Himsworth compiled research comparing six countries' diet and diabetes rates. Conclusion: As carbohydrate consumption increased and fat consumption declined, diabetes deaths plummeted, from 20.4 to 2.9 per 100,000 people.
In 1966 researchers studied Southeast Asian and South American nations. Conclusions: Nations consuming the "typically Western" diet – high calorie, protein, fat and animal fat – had most diabetes. Countries with "relatively lower in protein (particularly animal) fat and animal fat diets" had low diabetes rates.
Other studies factored in possible genetic differences . Second-generation Washington state Japanese Americans, compared with similarly aged Japanese men had four times more diabetes.
T. Colin Campbell, Cornell University professor emeritus of nutrition, for 28 years directed the China Study, "the most ambitious biomedical study ever undertaken." His same-named book details causes and cure, the safest, simplest lifestyle changes, for the vast majority of type 2 diabetics and amelioration of type 1 diabetes. He outlines the biggest obstacles; surprise, surprise; big medicine, pharmaceutical giants, dairy, meat and egg trusts, as well as the bought-off nonprofits, heart, diabetes, cancer associations, etc. that "own" government agencies, emulating the tobacco industry, protecting immense economic interests. Campbell saw it in person when serving on federal committees.
To many raised on SAD, low-fat, plant-based lifestyle may seem foreboding. Compared with blindness, amputations, heart disease, strokes, kidney disease, high blood pressure, dental disease, nerve disease, it's easy.
Spread the word: The cure exists,
Sidney Stock
(This is a letter to Seattle Public Schools superintendent and the Seattle School Board.)
Dear Superintendent and Honorable Members of the Board:
Some weeks ago, I was concerned to read that Seattle Public Schools was planning to cut down many mature trees on the campus of Ingraham High School to make way for an expansion project. This would have set an extremely poor example for students of stewardship of our environment
Now I am outraged to learn that the district is conniving to avoid further public involvement in the review of this plan. As a citizen of the city of Seattle, volunteer tutor at my local elementary school, property taxpayer and childless senior citizen, I have voted for EVERY property tax levy in support of schools since 1958; but you're losing me on this one. This course of action is one to be expected of private developers whose only principle is the bottom line. It is entirely inappropriate for a public agency – especially one entrusted with the children of our city--who learn nothing about becoming responsible citizens by this kind of "clever" maneuver.
Wake up and smell the fir trees.
I was extremely dismayed to see your inadequate coverage of the recent House Judiciary Hearing in the Saturday edition ( "House panel members charge Bush with crimes," July 26). The P-I gave a mere two paragraphs to a hearing about the balance of power in our government, a subject that should interest everyone who wants to protect the American way of life. Worse, those two paragraph provided no factual information to readers, only suggesting that this hearing was led by partisan critics who "couldn't pass up a chance" to attack the president.
However, there were a number of highly respected individuals testifying at this hearing, including Bruce Fein, who was the associate deputy attorney general under President Reagan. Fein spoke eloquently about how this executive "has destroyed the Constitution's time-honored checks and balances and taken the nation perilously close to executive despotism." Fein then listed three specific claims by this administration that are dangerous precedents: 1) unlimited executive power in a never-ending war abroad, 2) the rejection of the rule of law at home, and 3) the right to shield information about executive activities from Congress.
It seems to me that all Americans would want to be sure that the next president, whether John McCain or Barack Obama, does not have more power than called for in the constitution. That is what these hearings are about. We should ALL be listening, very carefully. And the P-I should be educating the public about our constitution and the facts of these matters.
I have witnessed Critical Mass and other groups of bicyclists behaving badly in several instances, taking over streets and threatening pedestrians and drivers, as well. Many more pedestrians and drivers are assaulted in their rides than is reported. The members of Critical Mass are nothing more than hoodlums and vandals pretending to have a cause.
Critical Mass and their ilk are an embarrassment to all law-abiding bicyclists in Seattle. Your paper correctly reported that driver injured in their rally was considered a victim by the police. Yet in the virtual P-I your paper says "We think there is a role for civil disobedience – at the same time, the group needs to make certain that it helps educate those caught in the whirlwind."
This reader wonders how should the group educate the pedestrians they hit and yell at as they take over the streets? And how exactly does damaging cars and assaulting drivers fit into the P-I's vision of the role of civil disobedience.
The Critical Mass movement has strayed from original intent. What was once an effort in the Bay Area to "educate" motor vehicle drivers about the rights of bicyclists to use the roadways has morphed into a political activism that seems to run along the same lines as the anarchists of Oregon: "Do what we want or we will make your life miserable, or worse."
I've been a Seattle road bicyclist for over 10 years. I'm also a motorist and a bus rider. I submit that all instances of conflict between bicyclists and motorists can be addressed if all parties simply follows current traffic laws.
1) Bicycle riders MUST start obeying traffic laws. No more running stop signs and red lights or weaving laterally through stopped traffic in the middle of the block. A bicycle in the road must behave like a road vehicle or there are going to be problems.
2) Motor vehicle drivers MUST recognize bicycles as fellow vehicles on the road. No more trying to force bicycles off the road because a motorist thinks the road is only for automobiles.
3) Police MUST start enforcing traffic laws equally for both bicycles and motorists. The lack of police attention to this area is a constant source of frustration for both bicyclists and motor vehicle operators, contributing to conflict.
We already have adequate laws that allow for the common use of our roadways by both bicyclists and motor vehicles. As long as we all adhere to these common rules we'll experience fair and adequate use of our roads for every type of wheeled vehicle. Once an individual or group decides the rules don't apply to them we end up with the type of conflict that occurred last month.
Charles Hudson
Thank you for the article highlighting the dangers of cycling in Seattle ("Riding with Danger Everyday," July 29). The driver involved in the incident on Capitol Hill last month was the first to cause violence, by deciding to pull his car out of a parking space and into the mass of cyclists. This action was unprovoked by Critical Mass riders, panic does not justify his decision. Nor does the unfortunate violence that followed. As if the fact that we weren't the SeaFair parade negated the fact that we were people at all, people whom he put into immediate danger by driving his car into us. As a rider in Critical Mass, this brings up my primary reason for taking part. I participate as a way to remind drivers that bicyclists are on the road, and that sharing the road is a responsibility and not a courtesy. An important reminder given the dangers inherent to carbon-free commuting highlighted in your article.
Every other day of the month I ride in bicycle lanes, yield to veering drivers on cell phones, and generally get treated as a roadblock rather than a human being. One day a month I get together with people on bikes and take up the space that people in cars otherwise congest. We didn't create the conflict by riding our bikes together, a fact ignored by Seattle Police. The entitled impatience of a car driver began the conflict, which ended with faults on both sides.
Stefanie Skiljan
P-I columnist Joel Connelly draws strange conclusions from simple statements. He quotes from the 2007 report of the Death With Dignity National Center and somehow manages to infer "manipulation, candidly laid out by the manipulators." Nothing could be further from the truth. The Death with Dignity Initiative campaign welcomes the expertise and support offered by this established and highly respected organization whose leadership was instrumental in the successful passage of the Oregon law.
As one of the many who have witnessed "a relative racked with pain," I object to the tone of this attack and will do everything possible to ensure that terminally ill adults have a choice. The ability to choose a peaceful death does not equate with "underpinning of our democratic society." Quite the contrary, this law will be a desperately needed option for a narrow group of people who meet all the conditions and safeguards.
Midge Levy
Vice president
Compassion & Choices of Washington
I appreciated Joel Connelly's column "Assisted suicide gets push from out of state" (July 28). When our best journalistic minds reassert values that have made this country – and this part of the country – great, they represent the majority of people in this region who speak quietly but think clearly.
James Purcell
I recently returned from a weekend trip East of the mountains where there are a lot of Dino Rossi for governor supporters. That gave me plenty of time to read his message over and over. On every sign, from the smallest ones to the billboards, was written, "Don't let Seattle steal this election." Did we steal it last time? In the paper here, he talks about not wanting to sound like sour grapes, but this sounds a lot like sour grapes to me.
I can't say that Gov. Chris Gregoire would be my first choice, but there is no way that Rossi will be able to convince me he has my best interests in mind.
Kelly Edinger
The Western Climate Initiative should be a non-starter (July 24 P-I). It's a shell game, it's a get-out-of-jail-free card for polluters. A cap and trade bill failed in the Congress this year because it became too expensive, with subsidies for everyone, and came with no plan for actually administering the trades. This current initiative will also have trouble allocating caps on different kinds of carbon dioxide sources. The most incredible part is stated as, "a company can pay for pollution reduction elsewhere, such as planting trees or turning cow manure into energy." There's cow manure involved all right. Getting credits or "offsets" for "saving and planting trees" is not going to have any effect on CO{-2} in the atmosphere unless the trees are buried and turned into coal. Trees die and their bound CO{-2} is returned to the atmosphere. It's sometimes claimed that the carbon can be sequestered in the wood in houses, but houses eventually end up in land fill. The resulting CO{-2} from decay is returned or, if the product is methane, it either escapes as just another greenhouse gas or is burned to produce, guess what?, more CO{-2}. Meanwhile polluters continue to pollute. Cap and trade is a temporizing measure that allows avoidance of sustainability issues and required life style changes. We don't live in the state of Washington; we live in a state of denial.
Herbert Curl Jr.


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AI War:Border Aggression
How Does Border Aggression Work?
A: As of version 3.107 of the game, there is a new "Border Aggression" feature for the AI. Here's how it works:
AI planets with more than X number of units in cold storage (basically, sitting idle as guards) will now set the excess units above X to be free. Usually planets would be capped around 4000ish in the first place, but on the lower difficulties this provides incentive for players to at least partially neuter really high-guard-post-containing planets that are near to the player's area. On the higher difficulties, it makes neutering way more important, and also gives the AI more latitude for interesting attack vectors.
The number "X," above varies in the following way:
- Difficulty >= 10 = 3300 - ( AI Progress )
- Difficulty >= 9 = 3600 - ( AI Progress )
- Difficulty >= 8 = 3900 - ( AI Progress )
- Difficulty >= 7 = 4100 - ( AI Progress / 2 )
- Difficulty >= 6 = 4400 - ( AI Progress / 2 )
- Difficulty >= 5 = 4600 - ( AI Progress / 2 )
- Difficulty < 5 = 5500 - ( AI Progress / 2 )
So does this mean that if you leave an AI planet on alert for long enough, that ships will just start pouring out of it over time? Potentially, yes. The per-planet ship caps for the AI are still very much in place, but if their ship cap for a planet is higher than their current "X" value above, then that's when you will start seeing a steady stream of AI ships coming out of that planet, with it never really filling up. But, this can be prevented pretty easily. See below for tips on how to defend against border aggression.
Defending Against Border Aggression
How Do I Defend Myself Against Border Aggression From The AI?
A: As noted above, border aggression only kicks in when an AI-controlled planet has more ships sitting on it than those caps. So to completely eliminate border aggression from a planet, you could simply neuter it. Of course, that comes with its own drawbacks -- in order to make the AI burn the most reinforcement points, you may actually want to only partially neuter the planet, unless it is a planet that creates a backdoor into your area that is hard to defend.

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Unless you've been living under a rock for the past 20 years (which is fine, we don't judge), you know what Amazon is. No, not the rainforest. I'm talking about that giant online retailer that now sells just about everything for a fraction of the cost. You know, free shipping with Amazon Prime? Never-have-to-leave-your-house shopping? Sometimes referred to as the death of all things good in the world? Yeah, them.
Well it turns out Amazon is out there making moves and changing the game for booksellers once again. Since Amazon began selling books online for significantly lower prices, traditional bookstores have taken quite the hit. The market has been especially hard on small, independently owned stores, but even the big guys, like Barnes & Noble, have been struggling. Remember Borders? Rest in peace.
So what's Amazon up to now? You may have heard some buzz about their brand new brick-and-mortar bookstore, called Amazon Books, that opened in Seattle in early November. I know, right? Why would this electronic giant need a physical bookstore? There are several reasons of course, but we can probably attribute the move primarily to sales.
Amazon's Kindle has been its pride and joy, and paved the way for their other media technology like the Fire TV Stick. But according to Forbes, Kindle sales were down last holiday season, and it would seem that, despite the rise of the ebook, millennials still have a thing for reading in print.
Enter Amazon Books. The Seattle-based store is meant to give shoppers a more traditional book-buying experience. They've got an open, but cozy floor plan and put a huge emphasis on the books, leaving almost every cover facing out as opposed to simply showing off the spines. There are nooks and crannies where shoppers can sit down to read and the whole store is nestled in the heart of University Village — perfect for millennials. And that's not to mention the fact that all books are priced the same as they would be on Amazon's website, an even bigger bonus for young, financially frugal individuals.
But of course, this isn't just your typical bookstore. I mean, it's Amazon, so there has to be a catch somewhere, right? One shopper described the store as a sort of bookstore meets Best Buy situation, explaining that Amazon Books isn't just a place for the company to sell books, but also somewhere they can show off their electronic offerings as well. The store boasts several displays where shoppers can try out Kindles or Fire TV Sticks in-store. There's even a seating area lined with Amazon Fire tablets, each preloaded with magazines for shoppers to browse through.
Amazon is also using their online origins to their advantage, using user reviews, ratings, and sales data to predict what books to stock. Not bad if fewer books end up pulped, right? A rating out of five stars and a selected review from Amazon.com is placed in front of each title for the convenience of shoppers.
But none of this tech stuff really seems too outlandish, except for maybe one glaring exception. There's not a single price listed throughout the store. Huh? Instead, the store encourages customers to download the Amazon app, which they can then use to scan the books they're interested in and determine the prices. Customers without a smartphone can use one of the store's kiosks for the same results.
I don't know about you, but as a shopper, I think that one might bother me a bit. What they're trying to do is pretty obvious — direct people to their app. But it still seems like a bit of a hassle.
The consensus seems to be that Amazon Books is a lot like your typical bookstore. Except not. It's techy and flashy and some would argue a bit too loud to provide the quiet bookstore experience many are looking for.
The real question is how the retail location will affect traditional bookstores — especially smaller, independently owned businesses. Amazon usually has the upper hand when it comes to low prices, and now they've got the brick-and-mortar location millennials are apparently looking for. Even so, does Amazon Books stand up to other, local bookstores, especially when it comes to ambience and overall experience? At this point, it's too early to tell.
While the Seattle location is currently the only brick-and-mortar store, the company has expressed interest in building more in the future. With only one location, our bookstores are probably safe for now, but this will definitely be something to pay attention to in the future.
— Jessica Demarest


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Mass. EMTs Retire Number of Slain FDNY EMT
Sure, they're baseball rivals—but EMTs from Boston showed Saturday that they're good friends, too.
To honor slain Bronx EMT Yadira Arroyo in 2017, the city of Boston retired her EMT badge number, 2017.
"Our solidarity with our fellow Emergency Medical personnel from New York City is unwavering," says a certificate signed by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, the city's EMS chief, James Hooley, and Boston EMT union chief Michael MacNeil.
"Its a great honor for our entire FDNY family, and wonderful what Boston did for our beloved Yadira, whose death impacted the entire nation," said EMS Local 2507 union head Oren Barzilay.
Arroyo died in March 2017 when career criminal Jose Gonzalez hijacked her ambulance and ran her over, authorities say. Gonzalez, charged with murder, is pursuing a psychiatric defense.
Arroyo, 44, had been an EMT for 14 years. She left behind five sons.
The certificate was presented in the Bronx on Saturday at an annual softball game between EMT teams from New York and Boston. New York won, 12-7.


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NASA Racers Make Up Majority of Mazda Club Racer Shootout Finalists
Napa Valley, CA - NASA is proud
to announce that NASA racers have secured the majority of finalist positions in
the 2014 Mazda Club Racer Shootout. Specifically, NASA competitors will be
representing 5 of the 6 positions coming from real-life racing, and potentially
taking the step up the racing ladder into the professional ranks.
"NASA has a stellar track record of producing top level racers that have excelled in the professional ranks" said Jeremy Croiset, NASA's Director of Business Development. "Last year's eventual Shootout winner Joey Bickers was a NASA racer and we're very proud to see NASA racers securing a majority of the finalists position in this year's Shootout competition. This goes a long way toward validating the fact that NASA competitors are as serious as they come and that there isn't a better place to try accomplishing one's dream of moving into the world of professional motorsports. We look forward to seeing the outcome at the Shootout and wish all the finalists good luck."
The Mazda Club Racer Shootout is the single largest prize in club racing. Since 2007 Mazda has annually promoted one talented club racer to the professional ranks. The $75,000 prize will help fund one driver on his quest to the 2015 Battery Tender Mazda MX-5 Cup Presented by BFGoodrich Tires. A record 22 racers were semi-finalists, having met the eligibility criteria for 2014: each won a recognized championship over a minimum number of competitors. Now, after each made a formal written business proposal, evaluated and ranked by industry professionals, the field has been narrowed to eight.
The 2014 Mazda Club Racer shootout finalists are:
Sam Adams Skip Barber Racing School (Summer Series) Hubertus, Wisconsin
Ben Anderson NASA Eastern States Championships (PTE) Minneapolis, Minnesota
Steven Diem iRacing MX-5 Cup (Season 3) Kailua, Hawaii
Joey Jordan NASA Spec Miata Teen Challenge (West) Santa Barbara, California
Kyle Loustaunau NASA Western States Championships (Spec Miata) Vacaville, California
Evan Maillard iRacing MX-5 Cup (Season 2) Nesles La Vallée, France
Zachary Munro NASA Spec Miata Teen Challenge (Rocky Mountain) Granby, Colorado
Eric Powell NASA Western States Championships (PTD) Orlando, Florida
John Doonan, Director of Motorsports, Mazda North American Operations noted, "Each year this shootout evolves. For 2014 we have our first simulator-racing champions, from the iRacing MX-5 Cup, and our first racers from outside of North America. The criteria for the shootout is to identify the aspiring professional racer who has the best range of skills required to succeed, including speed, consistency, racecraft, technical feedback, and off-track business and PR skills. History has shown that a driver will be limited in success if they are lacking in any of these areas. Past shootout winners have performed well both on and off the track, using this prize as a springboard for their career."
The final shootout will be at California's Buttonwillow Raceway Park on December 1 and 2. The first day will test the finalists' communication skills, marketing plans, and other essential attributes and skill sets required to continue to climb the racing ladder. The second day will consist of significant track time, data analysis, and a few surprises to help the judges gage the finalists' skills behind the wheel. It is a winner-take-all event with only one racer moving up the Mazda ladder in 2015.
"The diversity of backgrounds and racing experience across the competitors is truly remarkable. The proposals reflect that diversity and highlight how social media and modern technologies are embraced by Mazda Motorsports participants at all ages and around the world. Each year the quality of competition on and off track continues to improve. The finals at Buttonwillow should be fantastic," stated Peter Calhoun - Motorsports Marketing Manager, BFGoodrich Tires.
Additional information about the Mazda Club Racer shootout and Mazda support can be found at http://www.mazdamotorsports.com
Photos from top-bottom: Ben Anderson, Joey Jordan, Kyle Loustaunau, Zachary Munro, Eric Powell.
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
Fathers Day
♥ Is it really 20 years ago you became a Father. What a glorious vocation you have. Our children could not ask for a more dedicated Father, one who loves and cares for them so intensely.
You have been a Daddy who is dedicated to making our world better one child at a time. To furthering THE KINGDOM one child at a time.
In a world that does not honour it's children you have proven that love can conquer all, and given our children the gift of love and dedication by being the best Daddy you can. By constantly relying on the Grace of God to guide and protect our family you have been a true Knight of the Realm.
Here are a few quotes I found you may enjoy. I can't remember where I got them though ♥
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. -Author Unknown
There is no more vital calling or vocation for men than fathering. -John Throop
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him Father! -Lydia M. Child
Children's children are the crown of old men and the glory of children are their fathers. -Proverbs 17:6
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person--he believed in me. -Jim Valvano
One night a father overheard his son pray, "Dear God, make me the kind of man my daddy is."---Later that night, the father prayed, "Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be. -Anonymous
F...You are my friend.
A...You are my ally.
T...You are my teacher.
H...You are my hero.
E...You are my example.
R...You are my rock.
-K. Williams
♥ And for your viewing pleasure your very own Children.....
All our love
and your children
Shared by ♥ Gae at 8:30:00 PM
Labels: Beloved, Blessings, Family Life, Home and Hearth, memories, Traditions
1 comment:
- Erin said...
What beautiful quotes.
Happy Fathers' Day Stephen.
- September 07, 2009 6:08 AM
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Celebrities allegedly invloved in cheating scandals.
By Melody Chironda
Cape Town — Since we're so used to seeing celebrity couples look perfect in public, we tend to believe that their romances are all sunshine and roses – but that isn't always the case. While some try to hide the nature of their relationships, the truth always comes out. Confirmed and unconfirmed, we take a look at some of the cheating scandals that shook the continent.
Tanzanian singer Diamond confesses to cheating on Zari
The popular singer Diamond Platnumz succumbed to pressure and finally admitted that he cheated on his wife, Zari Hassan, with Tanzanian model Hamisa Mobetto. Diamond and Hamissa had repeatedly denied having sex with Hamisa, though they appeared in intimate scenes in the video of his hit, Salome. Before his confession, pictures emerged on social media of Diamond and Hamissa in bed together. In the pictures, Diamond is asleep with his hand thrown over Hamisa's chest while she lies on her back.
The singer has been also accused of being involved with 2013 Big Brother winner, Namibian socialite Dillish Mathews. It's easy to say that "once a cheater, always a cheater"…
South African rapper AKA
To say AKA was accused of cheating is an understatement. In 2015, DJ Zinhle accused the rapper of having an affair with TV personality Bonang, while she was pregnant with their daugther. DJ Zinhle revealed to fans that the reason she and rapper AKA broke up was because he cheated on her with presenter Bonang Matheba. Skipping to 2017, AKA has been accused of cheating yet again, this time on his current girlfriend, Bonang Matheba. The rapper has denied the accusations.
Zimbabwean rapper Stunner's infidelity drama
The controversial rapper Stunner and his ex-wife Olinda grabbed headlines after she shared allegations of infidelity on social media. The couple had been involved in publicised altercations amid claims of infidelity. However, in an interview with media personality, Ruvheneko Parirenyatwa, Stunner finally confirmed the allegations and the two later separated. Recently things are looking up in Stunner – his girlfriend Dyonne Tafirenyika was spotted with a bulging bump at his album launch.
Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage accused of cheating by husband
The once lovey-dovey couple washed their dirty linen in public sometime in April 2016, when their marriage hit rock bottom. In a flurry of Instagram posts, Tee Billz, husband and former manager of Tiwa Savage, accused his wife of infidelity. Tee Billz even name-dropped top entertainers like Don Jazzy, TuFace, Dr Sid in a series of allegations. The singer did not only deny the allegations, but also accused of Teebillz of being a habitual user of drugs, stealing her money and engaging in extramarital affairs. However, the two have patched things up and are back together.
Kenyan rapper Prezzo dumped after caught cheating
The controversial rapper proposed to socialite girlfriend Michelle Oyola in May 2016, but the wedding had to be called off. Trouble in their relationship began after Michelle decided to air their laundry to the public by posting WhatsApp conversations she had with Prezzo over alleged cheating. In a series of Instagram posts, Michelle exposed Prezzo as being a "player" despite their engagement.


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We're going to ship that resource off to India for 1/10th the cost.
is so cold.
We're going to ship that FTE off to India for 1/10th the cost.
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Back in 1978, 15 Torontonians were brainstorming in the Metro Reference Library, trying to dream up a meaningful name for a theatre festival that would feature short, original Canadian works. When meaningfulness failed, these brainstormers turned to meaninglessness until the meaningless became meaningful.
After five fruits and vegetables, they came up with Rhubarb.
"It's a perfect name," says Franco Boni, festival director of Rhubarb 2000. "To rhubarb is to complain. Rhubarb is what actors say in crowd scenes where everyone is talking simultaneously declaring, 'Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb! '"
Since its inception 22 years ago, Rhubarb has grown to become the largest curated festival produced by a Canadian theatre company. From Wed, Feb 2 to Feb 27, 26 theatre performances by 29 playwrights will bring one of the biggest buffets of theatre to hit this town – with your choice of light and playful or edgy and risky.
Boni believes this festival is all about choice. "If they want to make it a night of tears, there's some great drama. If they want to make it a night of funny stuff, there's that as well."
Rhubarb has never looked so tasty. With such size and selection, choosing the play you want is part of the fun. The Valentine, Sunrise, Crimson and Victoria rooms – each named after a different variety of rhubarb – will host five to eight shows nightly. All plays will be shown at the Buddies In Bad Times Theatre space.
Though there is plenty of tantalizing theatre to offer, here are a few of the queer highlights from the first two weeks of the festival (more to come, next issue). Hope it helps you with your feasting. Remember, most productions are only 30 minutes long and you can move around from one room to the next to optimize your evening meal.
When asked about his favourite athlete, Greg Kearney quickly answers, "Martini" (no last name given). This is the inspiration, where Kearney finds his Muse. "I'm obsessed with women in sports," says Kearney.
"Sporty women seem like a safe entry point to the world of sports, for me as a gay man. It's time to pay homage to all the women athletes."
It's an unusual mission statement, but Margot And The Great Big Plate is not a typical story line. It explores the desire to become a female athlete from an unlikely candidate. "It's about a really troubled middle-aged gal who thinks she can blossom into a world class athlete," says Kearney.
The play is not intended to show us Margot's rise to fame, but Kearney hopes audiences leave with a better understanding of what it is like not to become an athlete. While writing this script, Kearney has learned a lot about women in sports. "A contemporary athlete today is usually 16 – fearless and no bigger than a B-cup," he says. This certainly contrasts to what Kearney refers to "the lusty, fulsome dame" who the character of Margot embodies.
Margot represents what happens to a dream deferred. "She is completely marginalized," says Kearney, "a basement apartment dweller whose childhood, lesbian pal had made it big – living in Aspen with Martina Navratilova."
Still, Kearney hopes we can admire Margot for having the balls to aim for the impossible.
In addition to his fascination with athletic excellence in women, Kearney also had someone special in mind while writing the script. "I wanted to write something for my friend Caroline Azar, who is really underrated as a comedic talent. I want to show everyone what a gem she really is." Not only does Azar play Margot, but she is the co-director (along with Kearney).
All in all, the show offers a little drama, a little humour, plus courage and passion -everything you could find in the Olympics and more. Kearney (who may be familiar to you as an Xtra columnist) is a big fan of the play and honestly says, without any sense of irony, "I completely shit my pants when I was writing it – I think it is really fucking hilarious."
Maybe you will too….
Margot runs at 8pm during week two, Wed, Feb 9 to 13.
"It's action, action, action – a whole lot of action." That's how Evalyn Parry characterizes The Freelance Lover, a new play about a slutty dyke who knows the joy of non-monogamy and the pitfalls of freelance work. "It's a musical – it's pretty goofy, pretty irreverent, pretty jam packed."
With Ali Eisner on vocals, Scot White at the piano and Parry herself as the narrator, the story unfolds in rhymes. "It's kind of done in a cabaret style," says Parry.
Her work reveals the close relationship that exists between the life of the freelance worker and the life of the freelance lover. "If you're in a couple, it's like having a steady job," says Parry, "you have stability but it may not be as interesting as being single and having sex with lots of people."
The horny hero of Parry's story begins as a straight university girl who comes to Toronto, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed with no job nor friends. "At the start of the play, she really doesn't know who she is," Parry says. Of course, this lusty lass makes friends quick at her new job in a coffee shop where she tackles an array of new prospects.
"I'm telling a story about coming out while having fun with different lesbian stereotypes," says Parry. During her work at the coffee shop, the freelance lover meets the mochacino bombshell with a perfectly placed nose ring, low-fat latte Lucy with her tanned muscles and the Americano babe who can only have soy milk. And we can't forget the decaf butch who is perfectly dreamy, but just may be a man.
Themes of work and love abound throughout this play, but it is also a satire of people in their 20s who suffer from career instability despite their hard earned education. It is a tale of disclosure. The freelance lover does not only come out to her parents, but tells them about her free love philosophy.
Parry hopes to continue writing about the freelance lifestyle (though she is currently chez girlfriend) with more tales about the just-can't-get-enough girl. "This is the first episode in what I hope to be an on-going serial. "
Freelance Lover runs at 8:30pm during week one, Wed, Feb 2 to 7.
The seeds to Jan Derbyshire's play, Turkey In The Woods, began to grow in the warm months of summer when Derbyshire headed out of the city for the often quaint and classical theatre of the Shaw Festival. It was there that she was captivated by the family dramas between men, their relationships with one another and how they operated in a dysfunctional family.
"After I saw All About My Sons this summer, I wanted to write a family drama, but with three women," says Derbyshire.
Derbyshire was drawn to the intricate roles of the male leads. "As an actor," she says, "I knew I really would never play one of these male parts that are really quite fabulous – men in the family who hold secrets."
But that didn't discourage Derbyshire.
After replacing the men with women in her writing, she added her own brand of creativity. By focusing on the complicated relationships between women of the same family, Derbyshire put together a script strong on character.
The story takes place in Alberta and follows the lives of a mother and two daughters. One daughter is a visual installation artist from Toronto with an openness about her lesbian identity. The younger daughter has stayed in Calgary, suffering from a multitude of curious physical ailments.
Mom sees herself as the rock of the family. "She just wants to have a nice Thanksgiving," says Derbyshire. "She would prefer not knowing things."
With this play, Derbyshire hopes to explore the ceremony around holidays and what impact these occasions have on families. " I want to show what happens to us when we try to take on a ritual that isn't ours any more."
She also wishes to play around the secret attics where we store our family histories and insecurities. "There's all kinds of different dysfunctions in the family – alcoholism, manic depression, all kinds of mental illnesses."
With such demanding roles required for her play, Derbyshire is thrilled about the cast assembled for the show. "I'm excited to be working with the calibre of actors we have in the play – Sarah Stanley and Anne Hardcastle, plus John Palmer who is a wonderful director."
Turkey (a one hour show) runs at 10pm during week one.
Has Gordon MacKeracher been left behind? Not too long ago he performed the one man/ woman show, The Drag Queen That Time Forgot? For Rhubarb, he presents Dear John: What's Left After Goodbye," a play starring Ron Kennel and directed by Jordon Merkur.
This time, MacKeracher wants to explore the pitfalls of gay love gone awry and what happens when your loved one gives you the slip.
"It's kind of like art imitating life," MacKeracher laments. "I was originally going to write a play based on a series of love letters that I had written to an old boyfriend years ago. As I was starting to write this play, my current boyfriend ditched me – quite dramatically."
It's a sad tale indeed, familiar to far too many of us. If, however, you expect some respectable distance between MacKeracher's heartbreak and his craft, then you would be mistaken. "It's not theatre, it's therapy," he says jokingly.
MacKeracher believes that gay men have a particular relationship with the pain of being dumped. "Gay men are lucky – we can draw from male patterns of behaviour and female patterns of behaviour. We can be a real drama queen and we can be very stoic and clinical."
Though one may expect this performance to fall neatly into the comedy or drama slot, Dear John falls into both, offering its audience a pleasant anomaly. Though MacKeracher clearly wants to dive into the bluesy depths of being dumped, his play is not without its humorous moments.
MacKeracher has included a few songs for lyrical umph.
They include "Low Light Love," about looking for romance in bathhouses and back rooms; "Vengeance Is Mine," about the different ways you can get back at your ex-lover; and "Build A Better Mousetrap," about learning a lesson from all this dumping and broken heartedness.
If you're looking for direction for your own wounded heart, it should be known that there is little advice in the play. The only thing MacKeracher can tell you from his experience of losing love is this: "If you're gonna take a vacation to try to forget your boyfriend, go some place warm."
Dear John runs at 9pm during week one.
Other intriguing offerings include:
Conrad Alexandrowicz's The Erotic Curve Of The Earth, which probes how love and neuroses intersect (at 9pm during week one);
James Flagal's Roller City, directed by Patrick Conner, which presents the tale of a 13-year-old boy confronting his first love at a roller disco (9:30pm during week one);
Ronit Cohen's lesbian parenting comedy, Seed (9pm during week two);
Greg MacArthur's Girls Girls Girlsm, where gymnastic competitors get riled up (10pm during week two);
the first installment of the pay-what-you-can Guest Speaker Series, featuring Sky Gilbert, Richard Rose, Cynthia Grant, Richard Shoichet and Thom Sokolowski discussing the founding of Toronto's Theatre Centre in 1979 (at 7pm on Thu, Feb 3);
and the pay-what-you-can Under 21 Series, with readings by Blair Francy and Tara Michelle Ziniuk (7pm on Thu, Feb 10).
Rhubarb 2000.
$15 per night; $20 per week; $40 festival pass.
Wed, Feb 2-27.
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre.
12 Alexander St.
(416) 975-8555.
Feast on a queer buffet
Rhubarb, jocks, turkey, dysfunction & heartbreak
Back in 1978, 15 Torontonians were brainstorming in the Metro Reference Library, trying to dream up a meaningful name for a theatre festival that would feature short, original Canadian works. When meaningfulness failed, these brainstormers turned to meaninglessness until the meaningless became meaningful.


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It's Not Good!!
Patient watching the very Olympics lots lately either at home since the office (don't worry tax payers, I'm only looking at at lunch break, or any time slowly meandering past the entrance hall TV, or else occasionally about the split tv screen desktop what should I say, I will be a multitasker).
The other night Gabby Douglas put 3rd during the Women's Gymnastics All-Around getting qualified. Third outside 24 (Top 12%). But because your woman finished guiding her a couple of American teammates, she wasn't able to improve to defend her 2012 Precious metal medal. The woman smoked the rest of the field and also certainly would have edged outside either of her not one but two teammates inside the actual honor round, if perhaps given the prospect but not any dice. This girl was outside.
This is a younger woman who have grew up blowing away the competition in your ex home gym in addition to school. The lady was speedily the best on her express, region, along with ultimately hit national popularity. But the 2010 season, based on the most slight movements and choice in the Olympics, she would really have to watch through the sideline. And that is certainly when my sister stormed from the room railing about the inferior Olympic regulations and reiterating things like, 'it's not fair' and 'that sucks' simply because she gone upstairs that will bed.
We kept sipping my ingest. Because, you know what, it all felt like very familiar to me (cough… college programs ). She's correct though. Doable fair. It lets you do suck. First class athletes have edged out from their pursuit for an Olympic dream most along the way on trials, on nationals, together with yes possibly right at the actual last time by. 04 by her very own teammate.
This is the thing while she subscribed to it! Gabby knew great the other Olympians would be. She actually is trained with, supported and pushed Simone Biles in addition to Aly Raisman, along with the other PEOPLE teammates to extend over the last number of years. Would your woman have lost any night's sleeping before fighting at your ex state tourney? Absolutely not. She'd probably have stayed out and about late the night before eating Cheetos and trying to play Pokemon Head out. Then she would have waltzed in, closed her face, and still sailed to ist place. But about stage- with this level- the woman knew in which coming in final and having to cheer on her teammates in the medal round was a likelihood.
Everyone Perspective
Only about twenty colleges with our nation have got admit charges of 12% or a smaller amount. If you are signing up to one of these, and frankly, if you are deciding on a school acquiring 33% or simply less, you should know that getting edged released is a specific possibility. Is that fair? Will that stink? If your answer to both will be 'Yes' at this moment, you have a number of work to accomplish:
- Consider: You happen to be signing up for in which uncertainty and possible let-down. You may be among the best in your highschool, county, or state, however , that does not assure admittance when field is this strong. You will have 18 kin who have joined or happen to be wearing that will schools items since you ended up in diapers, but in of which year, to that college, and based on just where you're out of or what you would like to study, or perhaps what the the school is concentrating on or de-emphasizing (Institutional Priorities) and most notably the rest of the competitiveness, you may not obtain admitted. May your pleasure principle handle this? Can your folks handle of which? Gabby was absolutely frustrated, sad, together with https://www.mysparknotes.com/ upset. Nevertheless she compiled herself, cheered on her teammates and then plucked it together with each other to triumph other medals in the Rio Games. In which choice is upon you, too.
- Back-up: Annually we examine stories regarding students who seem to 'got directly into every Flowers League education. ' Although marvel and inevitably various TV channel broadcasts this unique 'success' throughout awe, very own normal effect is many people wasted a lot of cash, because those people place are quite different from oneself that finally the student for you to do all their homework about the college hunt. OR (and more likely) they or simply someone around them have an amazingly big libido, so thank heavens they did certainly not apply to Technical. Following i always am pondering, 'I learn it resolved, but My spouse and i sure intend they had at least one 'foundation' or maybe 'in- user profile school' unique list. No matter how high your personal GPA, volume of APs, experiment scores and also others experiences of an individual, you need at least one non-Olympic the school on your collection.
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BRONZE : We sometimes get calls from counselors or fathers and mothers who says this Tech is the only institution a student put on. Will you re-consider your disbelief because at this time it's the later part of March and other kinds of deadlines currently have expired? Drink. You signed up for that.
SILVER : We go for calls from parents or maybe counselors or possibly principals/headmasters a good brilliant student who carried out only to (insert your all five to seven crazy top-notch schools here) and has been denied and also waitlisted in all of the of them. That it is now earlier April as well as she's battling for an say that. 'This is a popular kid. I am aware you would are now a her in cases where she'd placed in Common because this woman is right on your profile. ' Sip. At that point, we've actually handed out our medals overly. 'Games' in excess of, friends.
GOLD : Take a look at this application and also admit price chart. Visualize two desktop computers are applying to Tech. One out of 2012 andf the other in 2016. Same courses, same quantities, same Type UN mentor and exact summer career. But in those people four several years the competition went up significantly and also the class dimensions stayed the exact same. The bar jogged up considerably based on the additional applicants from the pool, or field, or possibly whatever Olympic/Admission analogy you choosed use the following.
Listen, We get the want to compete within the highest levels. I applaud that. Furthermore , i see the interest to applying to one of the small set of schools in our location that take basically 1/10. Big name. Beautiful campuses. Successful alumni. Parents like the bumper ticket. Not hating on that will aspiration, thus don't misunderstand me. I will be just indicating you don't constantly know what typically the judges may well be looking for in the competition, and that there are a lot of Simones and Alys in the ones applicant swimming pools. That's most of I have to claim about not receiving 'Gabby Douglased' in the seuil process.


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Two cops injured as 400 migrants storm border fence in Spanish north African enclave of Ceuta
Two police officers and three migrants injured in drama
ALMOST 400 migrants have stormed through a fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
Two police officers and three migrants were reportedly injured as they forced their way through a tall fence that surrounds the Spanish city.
Ceuta and Melilla, another Spanish territory in North Africa, have the European Union's only land borders with Africa.
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They are favoured entry points for African migrants seeking a better life in Europe, who either climb over the border fence or by swimming along the coast.
In 2014, 15 migrants drowned as dozens tried to swim to Ceuta from a nearby beach.
The Spanish government did not immediately respond to a request for comment or confirm the number of migrants who crossed the border. Their legal status in Spain has yet to be determined.
"Most of the people have been apprehended and we are looking for the rest so that they can immediately be processed," Juan Ignacio Zoido, Spain's interior minister, told reporters as he arrived in Brussels, adding that 20 percent of those who had stormed the border had not yet been found.
Spain's two enclaves in Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla, are often used as entry points into Europe for African migrants, who either climb over their border fences or attempt a dangerous swim along the coastline.
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Just read an article that said, "Women's FitBit Reveals She's Pregnant".
What the hell?
The only thing my FitBit has ever revealed is that I'm a lazy bitch!
Just read an article that said, "Women's FitBit Reveals She's Pregnant".
What the hell?
The only thing my FitBit has ever revealed is that I'm a lazy bitch!
Been married to the hubby for 35 years!
So, last night I crawl into bed.
Hubby says: "I think I'm in an oral phase right now!"
Well, if that doesn't get a woman's nipples hard, right?
I got all giddy, rolled over towards him, adjusted my 'pajamas', looked him straight in the eye and said: OH MY GOD…me too! So…………what do you want to talk about?
A new doctor's report states that …
I told my kids I wanted to have the perfect body before I hit 58.
My son, the ever thoughtful one, sent me a link to update my photoshop application as an early gift!
Went to Taco Bell recently and saw a robed man with a bible under his arm and a protest sign that said….
"You cannot change the direction of the wind!"
ME: Really? Give me half an hour. I'll prove you wrong!"
It is never okay to suck his fingers, especially when he's got the needle in your mouth!
Listen up ladies…..!
No matter how cute he is…do not do this …. or you'll find yourself looking for a new dentist!
I take peeing down my leg on occasion as a sign of maturity!
…really, really piss me off sometimes. They spout off with their daily accomplishments like we should all give a shit.
Well, I've had it.
Did I just use your real name.
Sorry about that! It just kind of slipped out (on purpose).
Well, fuck you very much!
This letter speaks for all the other women in the world who can't, or don't cook like you, or don't want to cook like you, you desert serving bit……..
I digress!
Your updates on Facebook make me feel like a completely inadequate moron in the kitchen.
I stoled these from your page just to make my point!
"Just got home from New York. Busy Week. Great seeing and spending time with my family tonight. Enjoyed eating dinner outside this evening since it was way too hot to eat indoors. Made Bourbon buffalo wings, corn on the cob, roasted summer vegetables, and peach cobbler for dessert!"
"I've been working hard this week. Did a marathon prep, flew to New York, Atlanta, Florida, San Francisco, Japan, Costa Rico, Bali, Australia, England, Paris, but was thinking about being in my kitchen the whole time. Got home late but needed to chill so I prepared grilled salmon in a shallot, garlic, wine, dijon mustard, and wine sauce. Served this with sauteedmushrooms, rice pilaf, and mesculen salad with mandarins and raisins. Mixed berries for dessert."
My children accepted years ago that gourmet cooking meant that that can of Chef-Boy-R-Dee came from the 'special' shelf at the grocery store.
And then…….get this!
I recently hit the mother lode, when they announced they were adding a whole serving of vegetable to each can of Ravioli, Spagetti-O's, and the rest of their 'gourmet' line.
Not only did they love it, they really, truly appreciated the presentation. Since they're such fast food junkies, meaning they'll eat anything that comes in a bag or box, I went to great pains to salvage dozens of take out bags from the trash. I spent countless hours getting the grease stains or ketchup off the bag so it would appear good as new.
Their familiarity of said bags has always made my job infinitely easier. You see, it really didn't matter what I put inside. Whatever was in the bag was going to be Godhead in their stomach. My youngin's would look at me like I was a Goddess in the kitchen!
My only mistake was friending them on Facebook!
The premise for this is that they want to spend more time with me now, just like you guys do. They want to help me. So much for my dreams about the empty nest! I can't even have an empty kitchen now because of you!
As much as I like you I've no alternative but to un-friend you.


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SUNDAY PUZZLE — We have an excellent database of recipes and cooking advice at New York Times Cooking, but I don't recall Sam Sifton ever offering us a recipe like the one in today's puzzle by Andrew Zhou.
Who among us hasn't accidentally prepared a meal that wound up being a disaster? Today, Mr. Zhou provides us with an exact recipe that does that deliberately.
Today's Theme
Everyone have their aprons on? Washed your hands? Great, time to get started. Mr. Zhou asks us to follow a total of six steps to produce what ultimately becomes A RECIPE FOR DISASTER, which is the revealer at 106A.
The steps take the form of fairly common phrases where the first word is one that might also be an action taken when cooking: STIR, MIX, BEAT, POUR, CUT and finally SERVES (TWO). These phrases, however, are less recipe steps and more negative things, hence the DISASTER.
I liked the fact that all of the theme entries are unique (except for BEAT A DEAD HORSE, which has only been used once before in 1974).
Tricky Clues
■ 10A: "One thrown for a loop?" could mean someone who is surprised or confused, but today it's wordplay: The answer is LASSO, a thrown loop of rope.
■ 54A: This one made me giggle when I got it, because I am essentially 12 years old. "Had pants?" is GASPED because you might pant when you gasp.
■ 129A: Wordplay alert! "Hospital opening?" sounds like it could be a job opening or a doorway, but in today's puzzle, it's a STENT, which is a tube placed in a vein, artery or duct to keep it open.
■ 2D: Remember, a clue in a foreign language requires an answer in that language. "Nouveau-Mexique, e.g." might mean New Mexico, but the clue is in French, and asks for what New Mexico is an example of ("e.g."), so the answer is ETAT, the French word for "state."
Constructor Notes
I am particularly fond of 96A, which twists my linguistic processing a bit in order to get the original and contextual meaning of the idiom to jibe. Will kicked my first version of this puzzle back due to my entry at 39A: MIX YOUR METAPHORS, asking if I could change it to what it is now. The thinking there was that recipes would likely direct you to either "mix the metaphors" (aforementioned with the correct quantity in the ingredients list) or "mix your metaphors." (The latter, I suspect, is far more prevalent among those homey food blogs that Pinterest every step of the process, so that even a sink full of dirty dishes comes out looking Country Crock®-chic.)
On a related note, there was a second revision that mysteriously didn't make it to print. It contained a tiny revision in the upper-right corner, making 22A: VAPE and 26A: ETTA. Those with eagle eyes might spot why that emendation was made.
On a personal note, I'll be spending this Sunday at Commencement festivities, wherein many of my dear friends in the music department, and elsewhere, will be getting hooded as newly minted Ph.Ds and D.M.A.s (Doctors of Musical Arts). So I'll be toasting to them, likely with plenty of good food and drink. I may even try a Woo Woo.I hope others may do the same!
Want the Whole Enchilada?
Here's the answer key for today's puzzle.
Your thoughts?


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Global Warming Is Becoming A Big Issue…
Lately there has been increased worries about the issues of Global Warming, although not too much concern in the U.S., Russia, and China. But other countries like, Germany, France, Spain, and Japan, feel very differently about the issue.
And the environments in this countries have become more apparent as they do affect them by slowing the job markets there, and as a result the money that is put up to help fund this problem of Global Warming comes from the job markets there. As a result cutting job costs as a source to help fund it.
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Liberals feel that the disposition of global warming is getting out of hand. And four years ago, Britain had over a 60% flush on the political left side to make it evident that Global Warming should not be taken likely.
They felt that it will continue to be a constant problem that would presist to be a future threat. At that time Spain, France, and Germany, stood a little over 40% of concern about the issue then. But up until now, the problem has becoming more escalated. In 09′ President Barack Obama, was looked up for high expectations for the issue of climate changes.
Then Majorities and pluralities in twenty-one countries, felt that President Obama will get the U.S. to take higher measures to control global warming climate change. Western Europe see the very high expectations of this problem to be managed as well. Other countries as well expressed their worries, and in a survey poll it was charted rate the where they stood on the problem:
- Mexico ———–65%
- China—–30%
- Brazil—————————–90%
- India—————-67%
- Poland—–36%
- Nigeria———-57%
- Britain———-50%
- Russia———44%
- Pakistan——–50%
And that's just slightly under a dozen countries that taken notice of the climate change as a serious alert. So since 08′ Global Warming change worries has jump up considerably higher, especially in countries like Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon.
In a Egyptian poll study, it had jump 16% from a poll study before taking it up to 54%. And both Jordan and Lebanon held at 42% on their concerns about the topic viewpoint. Most of the overall concern about Global Warming still remains widespread. Other countries seemed not to worried about the climate changes, these include: Turkey, Poland, and Japan.
The in Turkey it was not even really seen as a big issue, where it had dropped from 82% to 65%. Poland falls to 36% of it as being a threat, and Japan is steadily less concerned as it is rated at 51%.
But either way you slice the mathematics percentage pie, this issue will continue to hit tax payers' pocket books here and others places in the world all together. And that way it looks, the "Pac-Man" scale chopper on this rating is at 71% (He left 29% of untouched currency that probably is going to global warming which is the issue at hand.) So something better change soon, before he was a bigger slice to munch on LOL…
Global Warming Is Becoming A Big Issue…
(By: Jaye Irons)
Till Then My Motto: Stay Calm, cool, collective, knowing that the only thing that keeps you from making a difference in life is yourself strive for the best!
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Happy Monday! So I have been searching out a few interesting small business folk that have things that I think are unique and interesting to sell in the shops (Stifel & Capra and FOUNDRY) and online! I found this amazing digital artist John Golden. He was even featured in Southern Living…fancy! Take a look at his work below, I adore it. These are now available through my shop on the website! Each print with matting is $27. If you don't see the one you want in the online shop just email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. My pictured don't do them justice, come see them for yourself. I only have one of each so if you want it come and get it!
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Wow. I can't believe we have made it to post number 100.
Thanks to all our family who religiously kept coming to the blog and getting us motivated to start again with many phone calls.
Thank you to everyone who has come to view our site over the last couple of years. Our blogging started out very spotty the first year but we are full tilt now for posting.
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This paper reviews how existing and potential uses of Internet technology can generate a competitive advantage for rural community banks. To do so, it offers a framework for analyzing Internet technology investment decisions. Organizations in this segment of the banking industry are often more removed from centers of technology and have traditionally been more conservative in their approaches to information technology (among other things). Banking Associations have developed in the U.S., such as the Independent Bankers Association, to try and help community banks coordinate marketing, legislative, and other issues that they have in common. The use of Internet technology can and will have a great strategic impact on the operations, management, and marketing for these banks and their associations. After a review of current technologies and their uses, the paper will identify specific opportunities for inter-, intra-, and extranet applications that could be used to enhance the internal and external competitive factors of these more isolated businesses and their associations. The paper will then present a framework for evaluating investment decisions in this new technology.
Recommended Citation
Southard, Peter and Siau, Keng
"Community banking in the e-business era,"
Journal of International Information Management: Vol. 11
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Available at: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/jiim/vol11/iss1/9


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Greensboro, NC – The man who is responsible for the murder of Gary Paris on May 14, 2015, is in custody. Today, Daniel A. Jones, a 32 year old, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Joint Fugitive Task Force (JFTF) out of Greensboro. Jones was wanted by the Syracuse Police Department out of New York for 2nd Degree Murder and Criminal in Possession of a Weapon. The warrant for Jones arrest was issued out of Onondaga County, on June 26, 2015.
On May 14, 2015, it is alleged that Jones and the victim were engaged in a verbal altercation that escalated when Jones pulled out a knife and fatally stabbed the victim. Jones then fled the scene. The incident took place at a homeless shelter in Syracuse, New york.
This morning, the JFTF developed information through investigative efforts that Jones was staying at 126 Aleo Ninth Avenue in the city of Rockingham, NC. The JFTF investigators verified the information when Jones was positively identified standing outside the residence. The JFTF surrounded and converged upon the residence, simultaneously, Jones fled back inside the residence as the JFTF approached. Contact was then made with the residents inside the home. Upon contact with the residents, Jones surrendered from a back room and was taken into custody without incident. Jones was transported to the Richmond County Jail where he is currently being held on the alleged charges.
The U.S. Marshals Joint Fugitive Task Force for the Middle District of North Carolina is comprised of investigators from the U.S. Marshals Service, Immigration Customs and Enforcement, Chapel Hill Police Department, Durham Police Department, Greensboro Police Department, High Point Police Department, Winston-Salem Police Department, Alamance County Sheriff's Office, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, Orange County Sheriff's Office and the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, Department of Community Corrections – Probation & Parole. For more information you can go to www.usmarshals.gov.


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New Policy Aims to Crack Down on Over-Serving
"Place of Last Drink" policies are popping up throughout Minnesota, with more than 30 cities using or considering the measures. Known as POLD, the policies allow law enforcement agencies to track where people have had their last alcoholic drink. The policies kick in after a range of alcohol-related issues, from driving while intoxicated to assaults or accidental injury, show up in police reports. The intent is to crack down on bars and restaurants that may over-serve alcohol.
The program began about two years ago, mainly with police departments in the Twin Cities' northwestern suburbs. Last year it expanded to cities such as Brooklyn Park, Champlin, Maple Grove, Wayzata, Golden Valley, Edina and White Bear Lake. One outstate city involved is Mankato, the home of Minnesota State University-Mankato and a large bar-restaurant community.
While those in the hospitality community agree the over-serving of alcohol needs to be addressed, individual business owners and organizations raise concerns about how alcohol consumption is tracked and what factors the tracking takes into account. These factors can range from how the size of an establishment or the number of patrons is weighed when viewing data, to how reliable information taken from an intoxicated person can be. Yet another concern is consistency of policies from community to community.
POLD communities use police reports, receipts and interviews about where a final drink was consumed. That data in turn is used to track potential problems and, as needed, provide education for liquor license holders. City and police officials said they prefer to use education before having to apply sanctions against a license holder.
Excelsior city officials just approved a POLD policy in December 2015 and have continued to work on specifics for its use. A first quarter review of data is wrapping up to see which, if any, establishments are in violation. City Manager Kristi Luger said establishments in violation would be notified. While nothing was set by FSN deadline, Luger said it appeared that two liquor license holders are in violation of the policy.
"We plan to reach out to those businesses," she said, and also noted that while Excelsior has a strong hospitality community and city officials don't want to kill what can be a popular area for summer fun and evenings out, there is a need to hold businesses accountable. "This is something our mayor and city council felt strongly about."
In Excelsior the policy applies to on-sale and off-sale liquor license holders. POLD in that city includes a reminder to licensees of the city's mandatory training for those who sell or serve alcohol as well as documentation of training. The city also has a quarterly POLD threshold for each establishment, using the number of POLD entries when a person had a blood alcohol measure at or above 0.20 percent. The threshold for each business is set based on occupancy. Other steps spell out when a business owner must meet with the city council and how POLD cases could affect liquor license renewal.
Bob Ziton is one of the owners of Bayside Grille in Excelsior. Among his concerns is how alcohol consumption is tracked, especially when patrons may have visited other establishments before going to Bayside to enjoy music or a late dinner. There's also worry that people who consume alcohol in their homes could claim they were overserved at a business. Another challenge unique to Excelsior is that people may consume alcohol on a boat and then come into an establishment.
"We're looking at this as an opportunity to further hone our policies and procedures," Ziton said. Bayside already has its own trained security staff, follows a wristband policy and has all staff go through training on alcohol service. Banning alcohol consumption on the dock outside the restaurant is another consideration.
Several restaurant and bar owners contacted said they are taking a wait-and-see attitude with POLD, as it is new in many communities. That includes West St. Paul's Cherokee Tavern co-owner Jim Casper. "I think it's just too early to tell," he said.
Proponents said they want to work with liquor license holders to get compliance, not to be punitive. They emphasize that the main intent is to get drunk drivers off of the road.
The POLD program is a partnership among law enforcement, the state Department of Public Safety and North Memorial Medical Center's Partnership for Change.
Jim Long, community relations officer for the Plymouth Police Department, said it has had the positive results officials hoped for. "We see POLD as a training opportunity and as a way to build relationships with businesses in the community," he said. Police and city officials have been able to offer additional training and resources for liquor license holders.
Plymouth police used a survey last year to track where the most people arrested in alcohol-related incidents consumed their last drink. That pointed to Cowboy Jack's, which was subsequently put on a three-month sanction period. But Long noted the establishment hasn't had any issues since then.
Long added that not all problems tied to excessive alcohol consumption happen in licensed establishments. According to the Plymouth survey, in 38 percent of incidents residents were coming from their own home or another home. "There's a need for community education as a whole," said Long.


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ccs faculty part deux
I asked "Blank Canvas" to review part one of the ccs faculty show so I see it fitting to let them finish off the review. I believe that part two is a better show than part one. There are some great pieces like robert schefman, nancy mitter, clint snider, kate silvio, nancy thayer, and joe nova - I hope you didn't miss his piece with the hole in the wall and eye looking back! Yes, there aresome bad apples of the bunch but overall a good show. Here is "Blank Canvas" to give a review...and I am sure some jokes!
Blank Canvas: good old robbie s. this is a nice piece. it definitely was interesting to see this drawing in comparison to the painted version of the same image currently hanging at Kidd.
kate silvio
bc: money, money, money - ccs' automotive side showing once again. why does every concept car poster look the same? hasn't this discipline progressed since the early-'90s?
bc: some of the pieces found their way over from the scholastic show.
bc: the always vibrant gilda snowden.
bc: materials and concept seemed to work, but the colors? totally corporate.
bc: this piece was called "mystic." for real.
bc: someone must have ridden this over from a DAM opening.
bc: part two of the faculty show had better ceramics - to the extent ceramics can be "better." everything is art, sure, but I find it hard to engage with ceramics.
bc: I expect more from the ad department. yes, oysters look like ears. but a good oyster bar ad? hmm.
bc: joe nova's creepy squirrel eye peep hole was ... creepy. and fun.
bc: composite-y looking portraits are over.
bc: somebody needs a booth at the dream cruise.
bc: nancy mitter. an excellent capturing of a quintessentially teenage facial expression. in person, this painting is quite captivating.
bc: cool wax/wood cone thing. nice size.
bc: old skool ccs prototype car drawings.
bc: one of the best in show. stephen schock's "piston lamp" was well-executed and professional looking. I could see these all over a nice restaurant or bar - a cool office even.
bc: uh oh, more and more people are discovering the idea of taking scenes of "detroit decay" and marrying them to high art. I think that field may be at its saturation point.
bc: I'm ready to see new work from clint. this older style stuff is cool, but I bet he has even better work to come.
bc: painting a non-traditional subject in a standard way doesn't make for an edgy painting.
bc: part two of the faculty show was definitely stronger than part one.


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Most folks in the White River Valley were sure the dog days of summer were over until they either volunteered or attended another successful Meeker Classic Sheepdog Championship. For the past 33 years, our community's different kind of dog days—the Meeker Classic—has heralded the end of summer. Watching the handlers and their prize winning dogs year after year, I realized that my first introduction to the idea of using dogs to work came during my first year in the White River Valley. After visiting with the Meeker Herald about starting work in their newspaper office, I saw a familiar face.
I had already been introduced to one unofficial member of the staff, a black Labrador Retriever named Rocky. I first met him in the center of sidewalk in front of the courthouse. My walking pace was fast and frenetic—his was slow and deliberate. He was plodding down the street by himself, but I was told he usually accompanied his owner, Jim Cook, Jr. or another family member to the post office.
He moved over to let me pass, though the wide sidewalk had plenty of room for both of us. The sun's glare obscured the hand-tooled letters on the flap of his leather mail bag. It wasn't until much later that I saw the words, Rocky's Special Service. Much as the service dogs today, his mission was obvious. He never seemed to veer from the direct path from the office to the post office until the job was done.
Those days, if anyone used their dogs on their farm or ranch, they weren't really referred to as a working dogs. The family dog might accompany someone on the daily rounds but the most common sight in town had to be a barking dog running back and forth in an old pick-up. Every so often one could do an impromptu canine count in front of the post office, where one could catch a glimpse of a few of the old-time ranch hands and their canine companions.
Going out to the sheepdog trials in its early years, I noticed that many folks brought their own family dog to watch as well. They might have had the sign informing spectators to leave their pets at home posted on the entry gate as it is these days, but I imagine that there must a been a few people that either ignored the sign or didn't notice it. Nowadays it continues to be a smoothly run operation that attracts more than dog lovers.
The number of community volunteers serving year after year continues to ensure the success of this annual event. Their willingness to help make sure that all of the visitors (including the handlers and their dogs) feel welcome is evident during every aspect of the five-day event. Congratulations for a job well done, Meeker Classic!
By DOLLY VISCARDI
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Our canals and rivers need our help every single day to make sure that they remain open and accessible to the millions of you who spend time on them each year.
While the heritage of our waterways is important to us, time isn't always our friend. Over time our lock gates rot, our towpaths can become overgrown and our canals can silt up so that they become hard to navigate.
To keep our waterways open and accessible to everyone our maintenance teams take on a year-round battle with the elements.
As part of our ongoing work to look after the nation's 2,000 mile long, 200 year old network of canals and rivers, docks and reservoirs, every two months we inspect every section of our waterways and align our processes to the international asset management best practice standard ISO 55001.
For our 72 reservoirs we carry out twice-weekly inspections, annual inspections and adhere to our obligation, which requires regular supervision, inspection and maintenance by independently certified reservoir engineers. This means that every 10 years, detailed inspections are carried out by an independent panel engineer along with our own supervising engineer.
This section of the website will show you what we do to make sure your visit to the waterways is as enjoyable as you would expect it to be.
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"Since Pakistan has a strong base in this sector, we can enter emerging international markets," said Kaiser Waheed, executive member and former chairman of PPMA while talking to a group of journalists here.
In a recent meeting with Saira Tarar, State Minister for National Health Services, Waheed said that the pharmaceutical industry has pleaded for medicine price adjustment of 1.5 per cent per annum.
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text: Election control problems model situations where some entity (traditionally called the election chair) wants to ensure some agent's victory by either adding or deleting candidates or voters. The complexity of deciding if such control actions can be successful is well-studied for many typical voting rules and, usually, such control problems are NP-complete. However, Faliszewski et al. [16] have shown that many control problems become polynomial-time solvable when we consider single-peaked elections. In this paper we show that a similar phenomenon applies to the case of single-crossing elections. Specifically, we consider the complexity of control by adding/deleting candidates/voters under Plurality and Condorcet voting. For each of these control types and each of the rules, we show that if the control type is NP-complete in general, it becomes polynomial-time solvable for single-crossing elections.