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Prosecutors In 'Sexting' Case Apparently Obtained Search Warrant To Photograph Teen's Penis
from the combating-child-porn-by-creating-forced-child-porn deptJulian Sanchez alerts us to a crazy story in the Washington Post (which, it should be noted, appears to be sourced from one side of the case, so recognize the potential bias), accusing prosecutors in a "sexting" child porn case of going so far as to get a search warrant to take a photograph of the defendant's "erect penis" in order to compare it to the one in a video he sent his girlfriend.
A Manassas City teenager accused of "sexting" a video to his girlfriend is now facing a search warrant in which Manassas City police and Prince William County prosecutors want to take a photo of his erect penis, possibly forcing the teen to become erect by taking him to a hospital and giving him an injection, the teen's lawyers saidLike many other similar cases, this involves two teenagers sexting each other. We can all admit that this is a rather stupid thing to do, but it would be crazy not to recognize that this happens quite frequently with teens these days. It's already a pretty big stretch to try to twist those cases into "child porn" cases, but various prosecutors have been doing exactly that for years now. In this case, the 15-year-old girlfriend sent her 17-year-old boyfriend a photo of herself, and he sent back the video. The mother of the girl complained, and prosecutors went after the boy for "two felony charges, for possession of child pornography and manufacturing child pornography."
If that already seems fairly questionable, prosecutors apparently decided to take things to the next level when the boy refused to plead guilty:
The male teen was served with petitions from juvenile court in early February, and not arrested, but when the case went to trial in juvenile court in June, Foster said prosecutors forgot to certify that the teen was a juvenile. The case was dismissed, but police immediately obtained new charges and also a search warrant for his home. Police also arrested the teen and took him to juvenile jail, where Foster said they took photos of the teen's genitals against his will.So, if you're keeping score at home, what we have is (1) two teens (stupidly, but not that surprisingly) sending each other revealing photos/videos of each other in a consenting manner that could be seen as "child porn" solely based on their age and (2) law enforcement forcing the boy to create more such "child porn" in an effort to pressure him into pleading guilty to two felony child porn charges. How does that make any sense at all? Can anyone actually claim that the "forced" photo by police and the followup search warrant, with the plan to "inject" him in a hospital to photograph his erect penis, is somehow less problematic than the original sexting video?
The case was set for trial on July 1, where Foster said Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Claiborne Richardson told her that her client must either plead guilty or police would obtain another search warrant "for pictures of his erect penis," for comparison to the evidence from the teen's cell phone. Foster asked how that would be accomplished and was told that "we just take him down to the hospital, give him a shot and then take the pictures that we need."
The teen declined to plead guilty. Foster said the prosecutor then requested a continuance so police could get a search warrant, which was granted by substitute Juvenile Court Judge Jan Roltsch-Anoll.
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Charity event puts spotlight on domestic violence
Torre hosts annual Safe at Home Foundation Golf and Tennis Classic
SCARBOROUGH, N.Y. -- Back in December 1995, Joe Torre found himself standing in front of a room full of strangers at a Life Success seminar, crying as he divulged details of the abuse that existed in his home growing up as a child. Until then, he kept those feelings to himself, continuously intensifying the pain.
About seven years later, Torre and his wife Ali started the Safe at Home Foundation. He wanted to save other children from experiencing the type of trauma he dealt with.
"The more people we can make aware of the abuse that's going on around the country -- and the world, actually -- I think we'll engage more people," said Torre, the executive vice president for baseball operations for Major League Baseball.
Torre held his annual Safe at Home Foundation Golf and Tennis Classic at Sleepy Hollow Country Club on Wednesday. The foundation aims to raise awareness of domestic violence while giving children who might be a suffering a place to go for help and comfort.
Safe at Home has placed "safe rooms" called Margaret's place -- named after Torre's mother -- in eight schools in the New York City area and two in Los Angeles. Each is staffed with a master's level counselor and offers children the opportunity to discuss their feelings or simply relax in a healthy environment.
"The one thing we want to let them know is they're not alone -- there are other kids in there -- and the fact that it's not their fault, what's going on," Torre said. "To me, I think that frees them up somewhat."
That's something Torre didn't experience until that Cincinnati seminar, just two months before he put on a Yankee uniform for the first time as manager.
Torre's father, who was a New York City police officer, physically abused Torre's mother and verbally abused Torre and his four siblings. Torre felt as if he was at fault, and that burden resulted in nervousness at school and diminished self-esteem.
But Torre had baseball, which served as an escape. For many children suffering a similar fate, they don't have anywhere to hide. Torre is hoping to change that.
Many of Torre's former teammates, players, coaches and fellow managers have supported the Safe at Home Foundation and some played in his golf classic on Wednesday. They included Bob Gibson, Tony La Russa, David Cone and Willie Randolph, among others. All of them want to help Torre promote the foundation's goals.
"I've been supporting Joe and Safe at Home for a long time," said Randolph, who served on Torre's coaching staff with the Yankees. "It just means your support, love for what he's doing, raising as much money as we can to continue to send home the message."
Ali Torre said she believes that those who suffer from abuse often suffer alone. She saw how it affected her husband, who rarely spoke about his father. After the seminar, Joe changed.
When they decided to create a foundation, his choice cause was domestic violence. Torre was finally ready to speak openly not only about the issue, but how deeply it affected him personally.
"It evolves over time," Ali said. "It's a process that takes courage and support from other people to come to terms with it, to discuss it."
Joe said early in the foundation's existence, he visited a school and started speaking to students about his own experiences growing up. As he spoke, he saw children nodding their heads. Torre said it "struck a nerve."
Ever since, his message has continued to spread. He said the foundation has reached more than 30,000 children since the beginning. Torre's hope is to reach even more, saving then from having to harbor the same feelings and the same pain he dealt with for far too long.
"That's the important thing for us," Torre said, "and of course raising money so we continue our work."

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At the Glamour Women of the Year awards, J. Crew's Jenna Lyons thanked her girlfriend, jewelry executive Courtney Crangi, by name during her acceptance speech. This was Lyons' first public acknowledgement of the relationship since she split from her husband last year. "Nothing worth having is easy," said Lyons in her speech, before thanking her son, Beckett, "for reminding me that the world revolves around him every day," and "Courtney, who has shown me new love." Coming out of the closet at an awards show: so hot ever since Jodie did it. [Fashionista]
Proenza Schouler is also exploring Web art in this new video (like, most recently, Rihanna, Azealia Banks, and Prada). [Fashionista]
This is awesome: Nick Knight shot female "athletes, artists, lovers" who he thought embodied the idea of physical power for V's "Girl Power" issue. [The Cut]
Jennifer Lawrence met Anna Wintour at a party and as soon as the editor had left, she exclaimed, "I just met Miranda Priestly!" [P6]
Nina Garcia has been promoted to creative director of Marie Claire. [@HearstCorp]
Raf Simons says that while he "respects" John Galliano's skills, he does not think his approach to fashion design is "relevant" anymore:
"I have so much respect for John [Galliano]'s technical skill and the fantasy, it's just something that I don't find relevant now, especially when it restricts a woman, because in every other area they have so much freedom."
[Vogue Australia, via Fashionista]
The winner of this year's Vogue/Council of Fashion Designers of America Fashion Fund Awards — the competition that has helped launch the careers of Joseph Altuzarra, Alexander Wang, Sophie Theallet, and Proenza Schouler — is Greg Chait of the Elder Statesman. The runners-up are Tabitha Simmons and Jennifer Meyer Maguire of Jennifer Meyer. The emerging brands who were chosen this year to compete for the $300,000 (for the winner) and $100,000 (for each of the runners up) business-development grants were Suno, Wes Gordon, A.L.C., Assembly New York, Giulietta, Illesteva, and Jennifer Fisher. [WWD]
Burberry's Christopher Bailey delivered a speech at the event where the winners were announced and related this anecdote about Donna Karan:
"When I was at the Royal College of Art I met this incredible person: Donna Karan. She completely seduced me with the way she sees the world. She stripped naked within about three minutes of meeting, and tried on all my things. That was one of my first big wake up calls to how nutty — and how brilliant this industry is."
Taking note of the weird attention paid Anne Hathaway's Les Misérables starvation diet in her new Vogue profile, including the mention that the actress subsisted on "squares of dried oatmeal paste" during filming, Fashionista set about a) figuring out what dried oatmeal paste is and b) making some. Conclusion: oatmeal and water baked in the oven does not taste good, and nor is it particularly nutritious or healthy. Let's hope pasting does not become the new juicing. [Fashionista]
Harry Winston bought a diamond mine. Obviously. [WWD]
Lacquerous, a monthly use-and-mail-'em-back subscription service for nail polish, sounds like a great way to pick up nail fungus from a stranger. [Racked]
Chanel is holding its métiers d'art show in Scotland's Linlithgow Castle. [Telegraph]
American Apparel had another shitty quarter despite strong gains in same-store sales. The company's net loss grew to $18.5 million, from $7 million during the same period last year. Sales were up 15.1%, to $162.2 million, and same-store sales rose a healthy 20%. [WWD]
Shoe designer Charles Philip is suing the Gap for allegedly copying his designs. Perhaps helping Philip's case is the fact that Gap named the shoes in question things like the 'Phillip Moccasin Slipper' and the 'Phillip Slipper.' [P6]
Abercrombie & Fitch had a good quarter despite a concerning drop in same-store sales. During the quarter just ended, profits rose year-on-year by 40.5%, to $71.5 million. Sales rose 8.7%, to $1.17 billion, but same-store sales fell 3%. [WWD]
Ermenegildo Zegna is perhaps the first European luxury brand to explore the retail potential of Africa in a systematic kind of way. Zegna is opening stores in Lagos, Nigeria; Luanda, Angola; and Alexandria, Egypt. It already operates stores in Cairo and Casablanca, and is evaluating locations in Libya, Kenya, and Algeria. Competitors LVMH and PPR have so far been slow to enter the retail market in African countries. [IHT]
Saks Fifth Avenue has cut its guidance for the fourth quarter because of the impact of Hurricane Sandy on its sales. [WWD]
- Salvatore Ferragamo's net profits rose year-on-year by 8.1%, to $108.4 million. [WWD]


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The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency has worked for the the last fifty years to assist its member countries in maintaining and further developing, through international co-operation, the scientific, technological and legal bases required for the safe, environmentally sound and economical use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
An international array of some 250 dignitaries and government experts in the field of nuclear energy gathered in Paris on 16 October 2008 to mark the 50th anniversary of the creation of the NEA and to discuss the future use of nuclear power for peaceful purposes.
Thursday, 16 October 2008
2:30 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.
Chair: Mr. Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
Co-chair: Mr. Richard J.K. Stratford, Chair of the NEA Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy
Opening ceremony
Mr. Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (speech)
Keynote addresses
Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency (speech)
Mr. Luis E. Echávarri, Director-General, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (presentation)
Ministerial session
Ministerial statements on the future of nuclear energy
Spain: Mr Miguel Sebastián Gascón, Minister for Industry, Tourism and Trade (statement)
Italy: Mr Claudio Scajola, Minister for Economic Development (statement)
Slovak Republic: Mr Ľubomír Jahnátek, Minister of Economy (statement)
France: Mr Pierre-Franck Chevet, Director-General for Energy and Climate, Ministry for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Town and Country Planning (Regional Development) (statement)
United States: Mr. Dennis R. Spurgeon, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy
Japan: Dr Shunichi Tanaka, Vice-Chair, Atomic Energy Commission (statement)
Czech Republic: Mr Tomáš Hüner, Vice-Minister for Industry and Trade (statement)
Round table
The challenges for new nuclear build
Chair: Dr. Dale E. Klein, Chair, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (introduction and dinner presentation)
Dr Aris S. Candris, President and CEO, Westinghouse Electric Company
Mr André-Claude Lacoste, Chair, French Nuclear Safety Authority
Mr Hugh MacDiarmid, President and CEO, Atomic Energy Canada Limited (remarks)
Mr Luc Oursel, President and CEO, AREVA NP
Special speakers
Mr Pierre Gadonneix, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Électricité de France (EDF); Chair, World Energy Council (WEC)
Mr Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director, International Energy Agency (speech and slides)
Conclusions and closing remarks
Mr Richard J.K. Stratford, Chair of the NEA Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy
The high-level session took place in Room CC1 of the OECD Conference Centre, 2 rue André Pascal, 75016 Paris and was followed by a reception hosted by the NEA Director-General.
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PARIS, April 25 (UPI) -- A French government agency is calling for closer supervision of fish pedicures, the practice of using small fish to eat dead skin away from someone's feet.
The practice, which involves Garra rufa fish and has long been popular in eastern Asia, is becoming increasingly common in France and the National Safety Agency is recommending the government regulate the practice and install safeguards, The Local.fr reported Thursday.
"Although no documented cases have been reported so far, we cannot eliminate the risk of transmission of germs or bacteria, some of which are resistant to antibiotics," said Gerard Lasfargues, deputy director of the agency.
The agency is calling for regulations including mandatory reviews of the quality of water in the tanks used for the fish pedicures.


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In gym class, circa 1976, my friend Rich and I used to sit in the bleachers in our green shorts and yellow t-shirts talking about great of matters of art and what would last and what wouldn't. I said that I thought the Beatles "Sergeant Pepper" album would still be highly regarded 50 years after its release, and he said, "Everybody thinks the Beatles will last. But I think 'Who's Next' will last 50 years."
Implicit in our discussion was a future world in which music would be changing substantially but that certain particularly excellent examples of an old form would remain as part of the culture, just as Ella Fitzgerald and Artie Shaw and Louis Armstrong remained names to be reckoned with, even though their music was no longer contemporary.
Of course, in 2014, we know already that "Sergeant Pepper" (47 years old) and "Who's Next" (43 years old) will make it to 50 and beyond. "Who's Next" might make it with The Who still playing it! And I think we would have been pleased to know this back then. But I do wonder how pleased we would be to know that "Fly, Robin, Fly" and "Lady Marmalade" and "Love is Like Oxygen" would also be making the leap across time.
The other day I was walking down a street in San Francisco, and I heard, blaring out a car, "Blinded By the Light" by Manfred Mann. I can tell you without looking it up that this song peaked in the summer of 1976 — probably late summer — because I remember the parties where it played. I remember who I was going out with and who my friends were going out with. I also remembered that I absolutely hated the song — though I think I would have hated it even more if I knew that I was going to be serving a life sentence with it.
Contrary to what we anticipated in 1976, we are now living in a period in which nothing ever goes away. A bad hit song that had its day almost forty years ago no longer vanishes within months. It now has the half life of uranium. And I just wonder if this deluge, this avalanche of inferior product, this ever-accumulating landfill of bad art from every previous season of every previous era has a way of suffocating creativity and innovation.
Let it go. Let it go away, already. Sure, keep a little, just to know where we've been. But, please, give the rest . . . a rest.
Update: Elton and Kiki Dee's "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart" was cited several times as an example of a bad song that should be allowed to die already. I won't disagree with that. However . . . Kiki Dee was OK. What I mean is, that song wasn't HER fault. She opened for Elton John in 1974 and was good. She could sing and had a certain something. Here she is in 1974:


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July 27, 2018
To close out our magical week with Greta Van Fleet, we want to say thanks to Josh, Jacob, Sam, and Danny for their stories, laughter, and the very ambiguous album release date info. And thank YOU, the fans, for tuning in all week.
We will leave you with these two awesome performances of "Flower Power" and "Black Smoke Rising" off the band's From the Fires album. Oh, and a little tease to keep you checking back for, perhaps, a top secret performance of an unreleased Greta Van Fleet song to come...


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Satyr: Have you ever studied value ontology, it's the stupidest thing I ever heard. There are 2 kinds of people, people who are so stupid they can only comprehend the world on the simplest level. Like liberals, people who believe in equality etc, everything has to be simplified to the most basic form, if everyone is not "equal" it's "evil", why because equality is the simplist thing their mind can comprehend.
And there's other people, like JJ, who the world is simply not enough. It is not enough to simply explore the world, they have to make everything more confusing than it already is, in order to sound intelligent and entertain themselves, and turn everything into complex bullshit. And this is the kind of shit like Value Ontology. What are your thoughts of Value Ontology?
me wrote:"The problem JJ has is he is not that intune with his emotions.
His value-ontology fails because it is very wispy and cloudy.
Personally, I don't have the brain stamina to read all of his walls of texts.
I dont think his value-ontology discovers any new truths about the universe, just makes the universe more confusing to understand.
But I can't actually argue with him, because he will bombard me with walls of text that I don't have the stamina to read.
You see, value refers to a mental emotion, an emotion that something is valuable.
Or, it refers to a mathematical system or logic that determines something has some future utility.
It is different from molecular bonds. Rock molecules are not self-valuing nor do they value anything."


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FORT LEE, Va. (CNN) — Authorities declared all-clear Monday at Fort Lee in Virginia after a lockdown because of a reported active shooter, the Army installation said.
"An all clear has been issued by the Fort Lee installation operations center at 9:50 a.m.," said a posting on the installation's Facebook page. "The law enforcement event is over."
Earlier, the Army post's website reported an "active shooter incident" at Building 5020 of the Combined Arms Support Command headquarters.
No immediate details were available on what happened.
The installation was locked down. The lockdown was then partially lifted, limited to one building and main gate, before being entirely lifted.
Fort Lee is near Petersburg, Virginia, about 30 miles south of Richmond and 135 miles south of Washington.
Retired Maj. Gen. James "Spider" Marks, a CNN military analyst, described the post as a "very active" one, with soldiers "routinely coming and going to get various types of training."
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(Enjoy my Rosh Hashanah table setting from September 2011!)
Dear Hostesses,
Even though Rosh Hashanah came a little bit later this year, for some reason I was still scrambling till the last minute. Thank goodness it all came together somehow by the time it was time to light the candles! Setting my table took about three days, (believe it or not), and of course it always looks so effortless when the guests walk in.
1- My tablecloth- a simple linen hem stitch cloth was the backdrop for the beautiful dishes that my mom packed up as a gift to me before the holiday. She had owned them for about 40 years, and I seem to remember the navy dishes with the gold scrollwork being piled high at the the disco-dinner party that my parents had made for my older brother back in the 70's. Looking back, she still wishes that she had ordered more than service for 18. Out of curiosity, I checked on Replacements.com and actually found these dishes! Unfortunately they are out of stock but will let me know if they ever uncover any more.
2- My napkin rings are lucite each napkin ring has a small hole to display a flower. You can purchase them at The Jewish Hostess Shop. I didn't want to deal with keeping real flowers alive with water that would spill on everyone's new holiday clothes, so I sent my daughter to the flower district on 28 Street between 6 and 7th in Manhattan to find very real looking orchids which we snipped with scissors and slid into each ring.
3- Honey dippers- I bought these wooden honey dippers from www.craftparts.com. They were so inexpensive! About $30. for 50 of them. The little kids had a great time sliding them into the lucite napkin rings, and I also bought honey sticks (not shown) which we also slid into the napkin rings on the kids table.
4- I have about 6 of my grandmother's little crystal shot glasses (above), so I poured some honey into each of them and spread them along the length of the table.
5- I had a lot of fun putting together my centerpiece of "new fruits" for my Rosh Hashanah table. Last year I purchased this L'Objet centerpiece bowl from Parci Parla, and I knew that it would be a perfect match for my mom's gold dishes. I purchased a gold apple for about $15 from "Aimee", and a gold butterfly from Karen's Invitations on Avenue U and then ran into Ouri's fruit store to get whatever new gorgeous fruits that were still left on the shelves. Ouri had the best Medjool dates, mini pineapples, dates on the vine, concord grapes, champagne grapes, raisins on the stem, Meyer lemons (which gave a pop of color), and several more fruits which I cannot remember the names. (If you really want to know ALL of the names of these fruits then I give you permission to email Martha Stewart with any questions and I'm sure she will answer you right away- let me know!)
6- I love these little tasting spoons and bowls that I found online from http://www.worldmarket.com, and I especially loved how cool all of the red pomegranates seeds looked lined up in the white ceramic tasting spoons before we said the Beracha.
7- Sugar in a mini silver dish…. (above), and "sillet"(next to the apple and the medjool date) made by my mother in law- which is a Syrian recipe for the gourd. I will hopefully post this gourd recipe by next Rosh Hashanah!
After this pic was taken, we put out the rest of the berachot which included leek edjeh, (fried patties made by my mother in law) sugared quince, and loobiah (meat stew made with black eyed peas)
8. Note the natural honey in the wood crate from Ouri's fruit. Ouri warned the women in the fruit store not to let their families eat the "waxy" exterior which he said is not kosher. Just serve the delicious honey that drips out!
Shana Tova Oometukah to all of my Jewish Hostesses!!!! Love, Marlene
P.S. Check out Candy Gabbay's Missoni Mania Rosh Hashanah table!!!!
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BRAMPTON, ON, Feb. 21, 2013 /CNW/ - TSX: L: The team at Real Canadian Superstore® is dedicated to helping Canadians lead healthier lifestyles. During the Bring Healthier Home™ campaign which launches in stores on February 22, customers can find lots of new PC® products that will make it easier to make more nutritious choices.
"Research* shows that eighty-five percent of Canadian families use mealtime as an opportunity to teach their children about healthier eating," says Tina Stewart, registered dietitian for Loblaw Companies Limited. "Getting your family to make more nutritious choices can be tricky which is why we created some new and easy ways to incorporate healthier eating into breakfast, lunch and dinner."
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Must Try! PC® Coconut Water from Concentrate is made from young green coconuts. Just one cup delivers 480 mg of potassium (more than a medium sized banana!), is a source of magnesium and has only 45 calories. Try it added to fresh fruit smoothies for an extra helping of vitamins in the morning; here's a Tropical Coconut Smoothie recipe available on pc.ca.
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In addition to developing innovative products for the PC® Blue Menu® line, the team at Real Canadian Superstore® also helps shoppers make better choices through a variety of partnerships and programs such as Hypertension Canada, Canadian Diabetes Association and Dietitians of Canada. In-store pharmacists are available to answer health questions and provide helpful tips.
Learn more at www.pc.ca or in the new President's Choice® Healthy Insider's Report® and follow us on Twitter (@preschoice #healthyeating) and Facebook.
Grocery stores in Western Canada that feature President's Choice® products and offer a variety of in-store programs include: Real Canadian Superstore®, Your Independent Grocer®, nofrills®, Extra Foods®, and Wholesale Club™
*Findings are based on a Vision Critical online survey among 1,500 randomly selected Canadians with children under 18 years old in the household.
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Loblaw Companies Limited, a subsidiary of George Weston Limited, is Canada's largest food retailer and a leading provider of drugstore, general merchandise and financial products and services. Loblaw is one of the largest private sector employers in Canada. With more than 1,000 corporate and franchised stores from coast to coast, Loblaw and its franchisees employ more than 135,000 full-time and part-time employees. Through its portfolio of store formats, Loblaw is committed to providing Canadians with a wide, growing and successful range of products and services to meet the everyday household demands of Canadian consumers. Loblaw is known for the quality, innovation and value of its food offering. It offers Canada's strongest control (private) label program, including the unique President's Choice®, no name® and Joe Fresh® brands. In addition, the Company makes available to consumers President's Choice Financial® services and offers the PC® points loyalty program.
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Pressed for reading time? Grab a young adult book. YA is always my answer to a need for light, easy- to- read but fun book. Vampirates just fits the bill…
Author : Justin Somper
Publication Date : October 4, 2006 (Hardcover)
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
No. of pages : 336
The Story :
Fourteen-year-old twins Grace and Connor are left orphaned and penniless in a gossipy old village and so both flee the clutches of their would-be guardians. They take a dinghy out to sea only to be cursed by a storm and separated from each other. Connor is rescued by a pirate ship while Grace is saved by a dreaded Vampirate, the terror their father had warned about in a catchy but strangely comforting shanty.
Despite being oceans apart, both siblings never give up hope that the other is alive and focus their energies into finding each other. Meanwhile, Connor carves a new life as a pirate while Grace faces dangers from the Vampirate crew who have yet to know of her existence on board.
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"Yo Ho Ho and a pint of blood!…"
What better way to curdle your RBCs but merge two devils into one — pirates and vampires! Hence, vampirates! Quite an original concept and a rather great way to grab the reading attention of very young readers, from nine to fourteen years old. Well, it caught my attention and I'm no spring chicken (Hey, I'm no geriatric either, LOL! ; but, I'm way over my teen years. How old? Let's just say I'm supposedly too old for YA. Tee hee!).
Since the book was written with this reading market in mind, I must review from this viewpoint and pretend to be twelve. If I were twelve, I would love this book and cajole mom to buy me the series.
It starts out strong with a good ditty and two engaging twin characters. The vampires are interesting creatures and quite different from the usual. There are normal pirates in the book as well; and well, they are the usual jolly, swashbuckling lot, quite appealing to young boys. An innocent, budding romance is also in the air for girls just discovering the world of crushes.
Somper's writing is just right for the age bracket but his style and the plot may be a little too juvenile for adult tastes. Still as an "oldie", I was entertained and finished the book in a day.
One thing I am puzzled about, though, is the fact that the story is set well into the future, specifically the year 2505. However, with the mention of swords and galleons and the utter lack of modernity in the story, the whole thing really feels a lot more sixteenth century"ish". In fact, you would forget the story's futuristic date. Maybe this question is answered in the sequels?
To Read Or Not To Read :
This is a series book, as most YA books are. To date, there are five, the latest being Empire of the Night, which according to Amazon, will be out in August 2010. Definitely read if you're a kid or when you're just too bored being an adult. Just remember that this series isn't over yet with the fifth.
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Victims of the crash of a Saturn Ion in 2004 have filed a lawsuit against General Motors Co to reopen a settlement and accusing the automaker of fraud.
Candice Anderson, 21, the driver of the Saturn Ion, was negotiating a curve in the road in Texas when the car went off the road and hit a tree.
Anderson suffered multiple injuries while her co-passenger and boyfriend, Mikale Erickson, 25, died.
Erickson's family and Anderson sued the company in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on Monday alleging the that the automaker "watched silently" as Anderson was indicted and prosecuted for a felony offense, despite knowing all along that the defective vehicle was at fault.
"GM placed 100 percent of the blame on a 21-year-old innocent girl and ended up paying $75,000 to settle the entire case," attorney Robert Hilliard of law firm Hilliard Munoz Gonzales, representing Erickson's family and Anderson, said in a statement.
This year GM has recalled 2.6 million older model cars, including Chevy Cobalts and Saturn Ions, to replace defective switches that can cause engines to shut off while driving, leading to a sudden loss of power steering, power brakes and failure of air bags to deploy in a crash.
Last week the company dismissed 15 employees, including several high-ranking executives, for their roles in matters relating to faulty ignition switches in older GM cars.
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As explained by Jacob Lund Fisker, blog host of Early Retirement Extreme,
If you're new here, this blog will give you the tools to become financially independent in 5 years. Here's how I did it and here's how I currently do it. The method is robust and replicable (no need to win the lottery, start a blogging business, or win at real estate), but not easy; much in the same way that a diet results in weight loss but is hard to follow persistently unless you set your mind to it. The key is to save 75%+ of your net income and invest it in income producing assets (bonds and dividend stocks). There is a "21 day" step-by-step plan for how to get beyond 75% in the left side bar.
Early Retirement Extreme is one of my favorite blogs (and I'll eventually get around to ordering Mr. Fisker's book). The key word in his early retirement plan is "extreme." He cut his expenses back to a point that most people wouldn't be willing to do. However, if you want what most people don't have, then you have to be willing to do what most people won't do.
Even though I'm not willing to cut back on my creature comforts and pleasures to the degree that he did, his ideas have greatly helped me streamline my expenses. I fall into the "Expeditioner" category the Sovereign Man blog host talked about in his post The 7 Expat Categories:
EXPEDITIONER: You are a classical traveler in the mold of British merchants and explorers– you want to make the journey overseas, but you want your amenities too, complete with a triple mocha latte.
You want to storm the plains of the Serengeti… with an armed guide. You want to see India up close and personal… then go back to your five star hotel.
I want my hot cocoa whenever I want it . . . and my pillows fluffed up "just right" with a chocolate mint left on them. I don't want to cut my own hair or give myself manicures. I want others to do that for me. I'm not into "roughing it" sorts of lifestyles. Nevertheless, it IS possible for people to combine:
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to create a lifestyle for themselves in which they DON'T have to trade their life for money with the daily grind of a 9-to-5 job. At minimum, it's possible to significantly reduce one's dependence on a job.
As Sojourners, we already know we can create our own "luck." And make our daily lives more about what we want to do, as opposed to what we have to do. Take a look around Early Retirement Extreme.
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I was in high school during the reign of Pres. Reagan. I remember the ugly realities behind his idiotic grins and statements. I watched local steel mills close their doors while their mostly White and Latino employees voted as "Reagan Democrats." I saw his destruction of the air traffic controllers' union. Most of the kids (of all races) I knew at my magnet high school hated him with a passion.
The closed steel mills never reopened. Those jobs went overseas, never to return. Reagan Democrats continued to vote for Pres. Reagan each step of the way as they were increasingly impoverished by his policies. Apparently, the emotional gratification they felt while fervently supporting him outweighed the reality of their diminished life circumstances. Most of all, I remember reading interviews with senior citizens who supplemented their diet with dog food because they couldn't afford an entire month's worth of real food plus their medications. I remember.
Many of the same dynamics are in operation during the Obama Administration. See the Black Agenda Report post, The New Black Politics: All We Want Is A Black Royal Family, Not Jobs, Peace, or Justice.
The once expansive horizons of black America's political universe have shrunk and withered. Our class of black political misleaders abandoned long ago the internationalism and Pan-Africanism of Robeson and DuBois. Black America's self-proclaimed best and brightest have traded the "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" refrain of the King era away. For themselves, they reap perceived access to power, or possible contracts or appointments, or just the thrill of basking in reflected glory. For the black masses they offer hollow excuses and the uncritical worship of a black royal family.
It's no exaggeration. Black political discussions in this age of Obama have assumed an almost feudal tone. Scarcely any black political discussion can be heard over mainstream airwaves or print that is not ended, begun and punctuated with avowals of love for the handsome brown president and his beautiful family. Once the vigilant advocates of fairness, decent wages and peace, our political talking heads fill hours of air time and reams of print obsessing over perceived and real slights to the dignity of the first family, while ignoring the president's vicious assaults on public workers, his unwillingness to halt the wave of foreclosures, his continued prosecution of unjust wars, and his vacuous prescriptions of "competition" and tax cuts for the rich as answers to record black joblessness.
I often think about the dog food-eating seniors from the Reagan era, and wonder how many modern day African-Americans are setting themselves up for similar futures. If you're planning on relying solely on a company- or government-backed pension plan to get you through your senior years in the U.S., I respectfully suggest that you think again. Whether public or private, employee pension plans are increasingly under attack. The odds are that these various strained and underfunded pension plans won't pay out enough for you to live a decent lifestyle in the U.S.
Once I became an adult, I realized that it didn't have to end that way for the impoverished seniors from the Reagan era. Even on their small, fixed pensions they could have lived much better than that. That is, if they had the knowledge and willingness to look beyond the United States. There are places in the world―decent places―where you can retire in style and have excellent medical care, a maid, and frequent dinners out while living on a Social Security-type of budget.
I see the various problems that I've warned about over the past few years. I see The Gathering Storm. At the same time, I also see a world that is still alive with possibilities if you're willing to seek them out. Of course, it's best to create multiple income streams and have as much money coming in as possible. It's best to be affluent.
Nevertheless, it's still possible to live well with much less money if you're willing to create overseas options for yourself. However, you can't wait until the storm hits to make preparations. You can't wait until you fall ill or reach retirement age to start wondering what you can do for yourself. If you want to have options, you have to start doing the groundwork to create these options as soon as possible.
The first step is to open your heart and eyes to the possibilities that exist. Too many African-Americans have the mindset of condemning themselves to a No Options At All Lifestyle. I've talked about this before:
The delusion that somebody else is going to rescue us is why we do very little to rescue ourselves. It's also the reason we are so quick to give up on self-rescue efforts.
Intertwined with the rescue delusion is the frequent refusal to accept responsibility for our own choices. This includes most African-Americans' free and voluntary choice of refusing to even try to upgrade their life circumstances. Instead of taking action in support lifestyle optimization, we proclaim all such strategies to be "unrealistic." Meanwhile, we watch people from other ethnic and racial groups use these same strategies that we've labeled "unrealistic" to get ahead. In fact, for almost a century, we've watched several waves of immigrants (including some Black-skinned ones) come to this country and do all sorts of "unrealistic" things.
I'm reminded of this because I recently ran across a comment by a detractor over at The Black Snob Blog. My frequent discussion of strategies for developing additional income streams and international relocation options seems to frighten and upset this individual. According to her, this sort of conversation is "unrealistic." I upset her even more when I spoke of sitting out this recent election, and researching third party candidates that I could wholeheartedly support in future elections.
This concerned individual proclaimed that, ". . . The truth is that MOST Americans of any race do not (and will never) have the resources or wealth to thrive even when the economy is not doing well and most Americans CANNOT run to a foreign country at will. We have to try to fix things here. If we throw our hands up in the air and do nothing, then we are GUARANTEED to fail. I hope that most black women will go out there and vote tomorrow, even though they may currently feel discouraged or disappointed." See the comments to this post at The Black Snob Blog for the entire comment.
I wonder if this concerned individual believes that it's more "realistic" for African-American women to continue hoping for new programs in the midst of a failing economy. Thereby putting their fates in the hands of the American voting public—roughly half of whom have repeatedly shown themselves to be insane.
Here's the thing: While various Black "frogs in a gradually boiling pot" are busy telling each other that various strategies are not feasible, other people—who are much poorer than even the poorest African-Americans—are busy using these same strategies to upgrade their lives.
The November 6, 2010, issue of the New York Times featured a story titled "In Venezuela, A New Wave of Foreigners." Among other people, the story mentioned a gentleman named Etienne Dieu-Seul, a street vendor who arrived in Venezuela from Haiti a month before the earthquake.
At the other end of the economic spectrum, many new immigrants continue to arrive on tourist visas and overstay their visits, drawn by incomes that are still higher than those in some of Venezuela's neighbors and by a broad array of social welfare programs for the poor championed by Mr. Chávez's government.
"One can live with a little bit of dignity here, at least enough to send money home now and again," said Etienne Dieu-Seul, 35, a Haitian street vendor, who moved here a month before the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January. After the disaster, officials here said they would grant residence visas to the 15,000 Haitians believed to have been here illegally.
I would bet that Mr. Dieu-Seul the street vendor is very thankful he did something as "unrealistic" and "not feasible" as leaving desperately poor Haiti to go to Venezuela. The people in Haiti that he's sending money to are probably also very thankful.
I won't even get into the steady stream of American retirees on fixed incomes who relocate overseas each year in order to live much better for much less money. There's nothing "unrealistic" about taking the minimal action steps of getting a passport and researching your options. Ladies, keep in mind there are a lot of nervous crabs in a barrel out there who are deeply frightened by the idea that you might make the leap into abundant life. It's one thing to discuss the hurdles and difficulties involved with an undertaking. I've never pretended that making any of these moves is easy. All the things I talk about involve putting in effort and work. Some of us don't want to put in that sort of effort, so we proclaim various things to be impossible or unrealistic.
As I asked during that post, which voices do you listen to? The crabs in a barrel who tell you that abundant life is "unrealistic" for you? Or the voice of your own hopes and dreams? Either way, it's your choice.
I've decided to do a new, ongoing Exit Strategies series of posts for those audience members who choose abundant life and maximizing their options. I've been running across all sorts of interesting information while researching and creating my own options. From time to time, I'll share the information I find about issues affecting potential expatriates (from residency requirements and health care, to employment opportunities, to travel). The more general Exit Strategies posts will be open to the public. The more detailed posts will be part of the Sojourner's Passport Confidential dispatches sent to regular commenters.
Like an earlier post, How To Work On A Cruise Ship, the point of today's post is to emphasize that there are all sorts of surprising opportunities available. Opportunities that don't necessarily exist in the United States, due to the differences between various countries' laws. Opportunities that you only find out about because you're actively looking for them. Because many of you have expressed an interest in Northern European countries, today I'll mention something that I recently learned concerning the Netherlands: anti-kraak.
Apparently, in the Netherlands it's legal to squat in a building or house that has been unoccupied for over a certain period of time. Here's a basic explanation of how antikraak ("anti-squatting") works from an American expatriate named Sam Coleman:
The Anti-Kraak means you're basically living there to stop a flat from being squatted. A property agency will contract you for extremely cheap rent to put you into a place where the property owner doesn't have a plan yet for leasing it but want to prevent squatters from moving in. I've done it. You can pay like €150 (Khadija speaking: this = $205.14 USD at the moment) with your utilities. It's really great. You have to sign up with a company, but you have to have a residency permit, so it's a bit of a Catch-22 because you're not getting a residency permit without a flat. So you have to have a residency first, get your residency permit, then search for an anti-kraak. If you're lucky to get one, it's a great way to live there.
Getting Out: Your Guide to Leaving America, pg. 185. See here and here for more information about anti-kraak. It seems to me that once a person has found a way to get some sort of residency permit, this anti-kraak arrangement is a good way to save money while exploring what it's like to live in different parts of the Netherlands.
February 20, 2011 120 Comments
"Limitless," Part 3
This post is part of an an ongoing series that explores tips, techniques and resources for:
- Becoming the perfect, optimized version of yourself; and
- Fully using the talents that God has already given you.
Today's resource is a podcast that I expect will be a "game-changer" for a lot of people. There won't be any new blog posts until the next Friday Finishing School, because I want people to take the time to listen to the podcast and seriously think over the ideas being discussed. . . . . The rest of the premium content in this entry has been sent to regular commenters.
February 12, 2011 No Comments
"Limitless," Part 2
This is a follow-up to Part 1 of an ongoing series that explores tips, techniques and resources for:
- Becoming the perfect, optimized version of yourself; and
- Fully using the talents that God has already given you.
. . . The rest of the premium content in this entry has been sent to regular commenters.
February 5, 2011 No Comments
As A Quality Lady Would Think, Part 2: A Lady Does Not Rally Around Criminals And Deviants
This is a follow-up to Part 1 of this series, and the ideas discussed during the Joining Better Networks series of posts.
Here and at the previous blog, we've discussed a number of self-defeating behaviors that only African-American women engage in on a mass level:
African-American women are alone on this planet in making loud, public announcements that they would never date or marry outside their race. This is usually said to emphasize the point that they would never date or marry White men. Nobody else is making these sorts of public statements. Certainly not Black men. And also not other women of color, including Arab women (many of whose men are actively at war with the White West). Including Black women from other countries. Everybody except African-American women keeps their dating and marriage options open.
African-American women are alone on this planet in characterizing all romantic interest from men outside their racial group as a negative "fetish." As I said during this post,
Faith, blog host of Acts Of Faith In Love And Life, is currently having an extremely important conversation. She's raising points that need to be repeated among African-American women and girls who want to live well. And among those African-American women who want to maximize the odds of their future children living well. She asks the question, Are Asian Woman Trophy Wives, Or Just Smart At Picking Quality Husbands?
I would answer "both." Yes, non-Asian men have stereotypes about Asian women. However, Asian women are shrewd enough to work those stereotypes to their individual (and indirectly to their collective) advantage! This is a lesson that more African-American women need to learn. We're so preoccupied with issues of political correctness that we cut our own throats in terms of maximizing our marriage options. Nobody else operates like this. Certainly not Black men, including the many Pan-African Black male activists who talked "Black" this and that, and married White women. Including that scholar-hero of the ultra-Black, "Blacker than thou" crowd,
Cheikh Anta Diop (yep the very one considered one of the greatest African historians of the 20th century a senegalese) married Louise Marie Maes, a French woman in 1953 in Paris.
Many African-American women worry about nonblack men having a so-called "fetish" with the traits that these men find attractive. Let's think about this for a moment. We're actually bothered and offended when a nonblack man finds our West African-derived skin tones, features, and hair textures attractive. Why is it called a "fetish" if a nonblack man is able to appreciate Black women's beauty? Meanwhile, we live among a collective of African-American men who are open about their hatred of those same West African complexions, features and hair textures in women! [See statements by creatures such as Yung Berg, NeYo, and so on. See statements and actions by countless other African-American men.]
And instead of calling these Black men the anti-Black racists that they are, we water down the language we use to describe what these racist Black males refer to as their "preferences." So, there's a post that asks, Does Hip Hop Like Light Skinned Girls Too Much? I need not say much more about how that question is being framed. It's sort of like asking, "Does the Klan like white sheets and hoods too much?" In both cases, phrasing the question and the so-called "preference" that way deliberately misses the point.
Back to "fetishes." Does it still count as a so-called "fetish" when the nonblack man is willing and eager to make a particular Black woman his wife first, and then the mother of his children? This type of "fetish" seems so much more respectful of the woman involved than a male who never offers marriage, and is willing to see his children by that woman born out of wedlock.
Instead of screening, dating, and possibly marrying nonblack men who might have a so-called "fetish" about their undiluted West African features that operates FOR them, many African-American women restrict themselves to dating Black men who have openly-declared fetishes that operate AGAINST them. How crazy is that?
African-American women are alone on this planet in being front and center with aggressively rallying around criminals and deviants. No other type of woman puts herself on the front lines of loudly screaming in support of criminals and deviants (grifters, chiselers, and scavengers). Criminals and deviants from other ethnic groups have women in their lives. The Italian and Russian mafia men have women in their lives. But you don't see the Italian or Russian women who are hooked up to these criminals on TV or writing articles talking about how So & So The Mob Enforcer was sentenced to "too much" time in prison. You don't see Latino drug lords' women publicly screaming in support of their vicious, violent crimes. You don't see the girlfriends and wives of Chinese-American Triad members on TV complaining about law enforcement. You certainly don't see decent, law-abiding women from these other ethnic groups screaming in support of the vicious, depraved criminals who happen to share their ethnicity.
Finally, you also don't see the nonblack women who are hooked up to Black men engaged in that type of Sister Soldiering. Not even on behalf of their own Black baby daddies or husbands. Not Prof. Henry Gates' White wife. Not Van Jones' White wife. And so on.
When you're the only one doing something, that's usually a hint that whatever you're doing is a bad idea. African-American women's programmed behavior pattern of publicly cheerleading criminals and deviants is a self-defeating pattern. One that will prevent many of them from ever being accepted into healthier, reciprocating, non-African-American social circles.
I understand the historical origins of this dysfunctional behavior pattern. It arose during the era of segregation and lynching. However, you need to understand that it's a new day. The greatest (and most probable) physical threats to your life and your children's lives are not coming from White segregationists these days. The greatest physical danger to your life is coming from mostly-fatherless African-American male criminals (with the support of their Black female enablers).
Modern African-American criminal defendants are not Rosa Parks or Emmett Till. Instead, they're more likely to be like the demons in the Dunbar Village Atrocity (during which a pack of fatherless Black males gang raped a mother and forced her to perform oral sex on her own son). They're more likely to be like the Black female neighbor of the Dunbar Village victims who reacted with indifference when told about that crime against humanity. Stop superimposing Rosa Parks' and Emmett Till's faces on the face of every modern day Black criminal defendant that you see. You're insulting their memories when you do that.
Please note that this warning to stop rallying around criminals and deviants also applies to rallying around deviant Black women who are grifters, chiselers, and scavengers. That means to also stop rallying around Baby Factory Black Female Welfare Queens. You don't see large numbers of women from other ethnic groups cheerleading the deviant "Octomom" types that are among their group.
A reader named Karen said the following,
Dear Khadija,
I commend you for taking the time to point out once again what is common sense to every other group of women. It cannot be underestimated the damage that brainwashing (i.e. "Sister Soldiering") has done to AA BW. At the same time, I find it very sad and tragic.
The only real solution I can see to this is for conscious steps on an individual basis be taken to "de-program" through exposure to more healthy environments, seeking professional help where possible and disassociating from toxic people (along with many of the actionable items you have provided at this blog and your previous one).
Our "Mis-leaders" survive and thrive on the minds, bodies, labor and money from Sister Soldiers. Without them, they would cease to exist and THEY.KNOW.THIS.
AA BW have their destiny in the palm of their hands. I wish we as AA BW would use the courage that we have to fight everyone else's causes to instead take that energy to save ourselves because frankly:
She's right. You mark yourself as an undesirable when you rally around criminals and deviants. If you want to be welcome among productive, reciprocating social networks in the global village, you'll stop rallying around criminals and grifters.
February 1, 2011 66 Comments


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Figure 1: Block settings interface.
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In the interest of giving its reasons for buying and wanting to restore the former Sievert's/J.C. Penney's building at 12 S. Sixth St., the Estherville Industrial Development Corporation has provided information on the building project and associated costs.
The Iowa Lakes Corridor Development Corporation is helping EIDC in developing vacant second floor space in downtown Estherville. Entrepreneurs would use the space in startup and emerging technology and Internet-based businesses. The intent is to move away from trying to fill downtown buildings with the same businesses that have closed or failed in the past.
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The EIDC bought the building for $17,340. Anticipated upgrade costs are:
n New roof and wall resurfacing – $136,000.
n West facade tuck pointing – $35,000.
n Tuck point 20 feet on north wall 2- $15,000.
n New entrance glass – $28,000.
n New windows – $20,000.
n Interior demolition – $20,000.
n Interior renovation – $82,660.
n Electric/HVAC/plumbing – $160,000.
The total $514,000 costs would be offset by:
n City of Estherville grant – $50,000.
n City of Estherville local option sales and service tax revenue – $389,000.
n Emmet County – $25,000.
n EIDC – $50,000.
According to the EIDC, the main floor was originally constructed as three separate store fronts but then opened up into one large single space which Penney's occupied for decades.
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n A community space, including private office spaces for the anchor tenant and other possible tenants, semi-private spaces such as conference room and restrooms, public spaces with welcome center reception area and other uses and second-floor access with a future elevator.
The second floor concept could include a community area with restrooms, kitchenette and copy room. There would also be private office space for each tenant, with additional floor space reserved for future use. The goal would be that the tenant could grow in place and not have to relocate to find a bigger space. There would also be semi-private spaces, such as extra office space and a conference room that tenants could reserve and use on an as-needed basis. There would also be leisure areas for tenants to relax, converse, strategize, collaborate, create and recreate.
The projected operating budget is $1,725 a month with income of $2,000 a month.
The EIDC cites the loss of the former depot, Elks and Grande Theatre buildings as motivation for wanting to save and restore the building.


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If you want to survive in the game of sports betting, Today Football Prediction Tips in Pretoria then you have to use effective money management. I recommend that you follow these guidelines at all times.
- Only invest what you can realistically afford to lose. Today Football Prediction you have to remember that you really do not need to start with al a lot of money. I got started with only $100 dollars and I followed the system and my money has doubled over and over again over the course of years.
- Do not make your initial bet too high. Only invest 5% of your total bankroll for a flat betting system (in which you bet the same amount each time) and no more than 2% for a progressive system. You need to be patient here and allow your systems to do their slow and steady work.
- Increase your initial bets when your bankroll has increased by 25%. This will increase your earning power, Today Football Prediction Tips just remember to stick to the suggested percentages in #2.
- Remember to Diversify your portfolio. If you have a total bankroll of $1000 and 4 systems that you would like to use, then each system should be allotted $250 and you have to keep those amounts separate.
You have to be disciplined in your use of your systems and in your money management strategy. It can be difficult especially you are doing exceptionally well or if you are losing badly. You may be tempted to deviate from the systems or the money management guidelines in either of those situations. But do not, Net Predictions For Today Matches just remain diligent and the rewards are sure to follow.
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This is the third instalment in a series of articles on profitable betting through sensible money management. So far, I have discussed the importance of getting value when you bet, to maximise the returns you achieve when your selections win. In the most recent article you should have learned to keep your stakes in proportion to the size of your betting bank.
Today I want to examine a common mistake that often gets punters into serious trouble – chasing your losses.
I don't think there can be many of us who have not at some time, decided to get back what we just lost by betting a little bigger on the next race. It is sometimes known as progressive staking.
Let's take a simple scenario: you bet £10 on Red Rum, and he loses. What do you do? Perhaps you continue with your selection methods and come up with another pick in the next race – Best Mate. The price is 6/4F
But, rather than putting another £10 bet on Best Mate, you decide to 'chase' your loss from the last race. You add another £7 to your stake so that when Best Mate wins you will pick up an extra £10.50 to recover the bet you lost on Red Rum. Good plan? Could be, after all Best Mate is a sure fire winner, right? May be. May be not!
What happens if Best Mate loses? You are now £27 'in the hole'. But you still have a plan. Your next selection is a dead cert winner at Even money. You place your usual £10 stake plus an extra £27 to cover your losses so far. No need to worry. When this one comes in, you will have re-couped your losses and have a £10 profit to show as well.
Let's take a step back here. You are staking £37 to win a £10 profit. Think about it – you are effectively getting odds of only around 1 to 4 odds-on about a horse that is Even money in the market. That is terrible value!
You may escape this time and your horse may well win. But what if, heaven forbid, your red-hot even money favourite fails to win? After just three bets, you are down to the tune of £64 when your normal stake is just a tenner!
Long losing runs do occur, more frequently than you might think, and even with short-priced selections.
If you spent a day in a casino at the roulette tables, and analysed how many times you witnessed a run of 7 or 8 consecutive 'red' numbers, I would not be at all surprised if you saw this happen four or five times – in a single day. Here we have pretty much a 50/50 bet, even money, that the roulette ball will land in either a red or a black slot. Yet I was amazed to learn that the longest run of the same colour (reported) was THIRTY-NINE consecutive reds!!
Imagine if you were betting on black, and saying to yourself each time "no worries, it's got to be black next time…. Surely?"
But let's go back to the more common occurrence of a losing run of 7 even money bets. We will be betting on the red.
We place a £1 bet on the first spin. It's black. We chase our loss by 'doubling up' and next bet £2. If we were to carry on in this manner, after 6 spins we would be betting £64 to win our original £1
I sincerely hope my point is getting across. By chasing your losses you can very quickly see your stakes climbing to preposterous levels, to win your original, relatively small stake. The risk is way out of proportion compared to the potential reward.
One last example to really ram the point home. The Racing Post runs a tipster competition. All the leading racing journalists are involved, representing the nation's newspapers and horse racing publications. These are experts at tipping horses. Take a look at the results table any day, and see for yourself the longest losing run. Remember, these are the experts.
I looked today, and Racing Post PostData has suffered this season a losing run of twenty-seven. Twenty-seven consecutive losers from an expert tipster! And believe me, he is not on his own, just the worst offender this season so far.
There is an old saying – "Don't throw good money after bad". If your selections don't make a profit from simple level stakes betting, don't try and make them profitable by throwing more money at them. You may survive with a profit for a while, but this approach is a disaster waiting to happen. Sooner or later you WILL blow your entire bank chasing a disproportionately small profit.
If your selections don't make a profit from simple level stakes betting, change your system.
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Wasn't it me that predicted that Twins manager Ron Gardenhire would be the first baseball manager to be shown the door in 2006? Yes I also think that Barry Bonds is being unfairly accused of using performance enhancing drugs? No Gardenhire is doing just fine these days as he and his troops prepare for a crucial three game set in the Twin Cities tonight.
Minnesota (59-41) has won 34 of 42 since June 8 to cut what was an 11-game deficit in the wild card to a half-game.
"We're just playing really good baseball," said manager Ron Gardenhire, whose team was 25-33 nearly seven weeks ago. "People keep talking about the streak we're on, but streaks don't last two months or a month and a half."
The Twins caught the struggling Chicago White Sox, who have led the wild-card race for most of the season, by completing a three-game sweep with a 7-4 victory Wednesday. Minnesota and Chicago are right behind the New York Yankees, who open a three-game home set against Tampa Bay on Friday night.
The Tigers under veteran skipper Jim Leyland have maintained their composure and now must deal with the newest phenom in the American League and that would be none other then rookie pitcher Francisco Liariano. The Twins look to keep rolling Friday behind Liriano (12-2, 1.93 ERA), who pitched poorly against the Tigers in two relief outings this season, allowing seven runs and 11 hits in 3 2-3 innings for a 17.18 ERA.
Since being moved into the rotation, though, the rookie left-hander has become a leading contender for the CY Young Award, going 11-2 with a 1.59 ERA in 13 starts. Minnesota is 2-7 this season against Detroit and has been outscored 64-25. In a three-game sweep from April 28-30 at Comerica Park, the Twins were outscored 33-1. The Tigers (68-33) have the best record in the major leagues, and their 30-13 mark against divisional opponents is also tops in baseball. Detroit leads the AL Central by 8 1/2 games over Minnesota and Chicago.
The question mark for all contending teams is the starting pitching and the Tigers send a struggling Zach Miner to the hill tonight. Miner has lasted only 6 2-3 combined innings and given up 10 earned runs in losing both of his starts since the break. In his first seven starts after being recalled in early June, the right-hander was 6-1 with a 2.57 ERA and didn't allow more than three runs in a game.
Detroit gave Miner a five-run lead after one inning Saturday against Oakland, but he surrendered five runs in the top of the second and was pulled after a season-low 2 1-3 innings of a 9-5 loss.
Detroit has lost 9 of the past 12 in Minnesota and will be a dog tonight!
Bob Acton
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