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Linda (Peterson) Everett (BHS '67) sent the following update on her first grandson, Augie, which includes wonderful family photos.
I asked if we could post them and she replied, "I know former students would be happy to see that Dad is doing okay, especially after we really thought we might lose him earlier this year. It seems as though Augie has brought a spark into Dad's life. He always loved kids of any age and he talks about how fun it will be to see Augie growing up. Praise the Lord!!!!"
Thanks Linda and please give our greetings and love to your Papa!
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Our precious grandson, Augie, has changed a lot over these last 4-1/2 months. He is a thriving, happy baby weighing 18 lbs and at 27 inches long and growing every day! This summer he got to know his Aunt Lou who was with us (along with Leo, her beautiful afghan hound) for six weeks and he also is the light and joy of his great-grandpa, Pete's life.....................
Here are a couple of pix from Augie's summer of 2010!
Greetings to all of you!
Bob and Linda
What a Cutie!!
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Cancer. A diagnosis no one expects to hear. As with many illnesses, everyone's journey is significantly different. At Stamford Health's Bennett Cancer Center, we promise to meet your changing needs from diagnosis through treatment, and into survivorship. It's all about helping you maintain strength, stamina and hope. To fulfill this promise, our staff offers a number of supportive care services.
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The Federal Institute of Industrial Research has revealed plans to build cassava factories in the 36 states of the federation.
The Director-General of the institute, Dr. Gloria Elemo, stated this during an interview.
She said the move would also help to stimulate interest in agriculture not only for food security, but as a means of empowerment.
The DG said already, a model cassava plant had been constructed in Lagos, adding that with the completion of the factory, it would soon be inaugurated by the government.
Elemo said, "The critical aspect of agriculture apart from production is processing the food into a form that can be kept for a long time to ensure maximum utilisation of your crops.
"We have to show the government that we are capable. We are building model factories, which will be opened very soon at Owode. We have built a complete cassava processing plant that can allow people to come in on cluster basis.
"We hope to establish small factories all over the country and when government sees that, I hope they will be able to buy into the programme."
To boost the processing of agricultural products, the DG said that the institute had developed about 250 technologies, while over 75,000 entreprenuers had been trained.


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Manchester United director and legend Sir Bobby Charlton is determined to help the team become the top team in the city once again, as reported by BBC Sport.
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A bandit from the gold fields moves to San Francisco and tries to go straight.
Barbary Coast confidence man Honest Plush Brannon is engaged to saloon proprietress Lil Damish, but has been postponing marriage until he has enough money to support himself. As he is planning his next money-making scheme, Plush is confronted by an armed Duke Cleat, his former partner-in-crime, who has just been released from prison after serving two years for his involvement in one of Plush's schemes. After Duke accuses Plush of double-crossing him, he prepares to shoot him, but the quick-thinking Plush fires first. Although Lil insists that Plush wounded Duke in self-defense, the police suggest that Plush leave town, so with money from Lil, Plush buys a train ticket to Denver. Upon boarding, Plush makes himself comfortable in a luxurious private car, which turns out to belong to railroad magnate Bradford Bellamy I. To avoid eviction, Plush tricks the sour-faced Bellamy into believing he is a blackmailing process server. Once in Nevada, however, Bellamy prepares to have Plush thrown out, but is distracted by a telegram from the Gold Town Civic Committee, which wants the tycoon to give a speech in their boom town. As his grandson, Bradford Bellamy III, has settled in Gold Town against his wishes and has become engaged to a local woman, Bellamy resents the invitation and gladly allows Plush to make the speech in his place. In Gold Town, Plush introduces himself to the appreciative crowd as Bellamy's financial cohort. Plush then runs into his old friend Johnny Adair, with whom he used to rob stagecoaches. Now a stagecoach driver, the reformed Johnny, whose daughter Portia is Bradford's fiancée, assumes Plush's impersonation is genuine and congratulates him. Plush then gives Johnny a letter from Bellamy, which is intended for the newspaper editor, but which Plush feels Johnny should have. The next morning, leading citizen Col. Watrous asks Plush to dedicate the cornerstone on the town's new jail, and Plush happily complies. As he executes the ceremonial blow to the cornerstone, however, the edge breaks off, and Plush pockets the broken piece of rock. When two old prospectors, Jake Compton and Tim Shea, ask Plush for a loan, he gives them the rock, and later, they notice it contains gold. Plush then comforts Portia about Bellamy's letter, which is an official announcement of Bradford's engagement to an Eastern debutante. After Bradford reassures Portia that he is not marrying the debutante, he expresses his gratitude to Plush for keeping his grandfather's letter from the press. When Plush then begins pushing his phony mining stock on the townspeople, Bradford, who is aware of Plush's impersonation, gently warns him to stop. That night, Jake and Tim throw the cornerstone rock through Plush's hotel window with a note identifying it as gold-laden. After the local assayer confirms Jake and Tim's assessment, Plush casually asks the jailhouse builder where he got the rock. Plush rushes to the specified location and makes an informal claim on it, then tells Bradford about his strike. Soon, everyone in Gold Town is clamoring to invest in Plush's gold mine, and Plush collects thousands of dollars with which to start mining. In San Francisco, meanwhile, Duke, whose arm has been permanently crippled by Plush's bullet, finds out about Plush's impersonation and heads for Gold Town. Soon after arriving, he meets Portia, who tells him about Plush's gold mine. Later, with gun drawn, the vengeful Duke demands Plush's investment proceeds. Penniless again, Plush is about to flee town when he overhears the local Wells Fargo agent discussing a payroll shipment. Wearing a hood, Plush then robs the payroll from the stagecoach and leaves behind a terrible poem. After several more stagecoaches are robbed by "Jingle Bill," Wells Fargo detective Alec Veeder is sent to Gold Town to investigate. Plush, meanwhile, uses his booty to open his mine and, after much drilling, finally hits the motherlode. Noting that the stage line is never robbed when Johnny is driving, Veeder becomes suspicious of him, prompting Plush to stage a holdup of Johnny's coach. Johnny shoots and wounds Plush, but later, when he notices blood dripping from his friend's arm, he covers for him. At the same time, Lil arrives in Gold Town to warn Plush that Duke stole a stack of his poems from her and is headed back to Gold Town. Just as Veeder begins to suspect that Plush is the robber, Duke shows up and confronts Plush in the street. The two men draw their guns and shoot each other, but only Duke's wounds prove fatal. When Plush's poetry is found on Duke, Veeder is ready to declare him guilty until Plush pridefully takes credit for the verse. Later, the reformed Plush says goodbye to Lil, Bradford and Portia and prepares to serve his one-year sentence in the just-completed Gold Town jail.
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UPDATE: Given the events of the past day, I feel it's worth referring back to my post from last February in which I discuss how intelligence failures are normally dealt with, and propose a more common sense solution. BRIDGE, the program I discuss below, would have provided a model for doing some of the things I recommended.
Back in October, the Director of National Intelligence killed a program called BRIDGE. (I've written about BRIDGE before.) As such a vocal advocate of BRIDGE with a financial interest in its success, my bias is clear, but for whatever that biased opinion is worth, BRIDGE's death was the biggest government IT failure of 2009.
The cause of BRIDGE's death is the most frustrating aspect of it, and it's a reminder of what makes government innovation so logistically difficult: BRIDGE wasn't deemed a failure or a waste or a PR risk. Technically, it wasn't even killed; it was just put on ice. Following the presidential transition, new priorities were made at the top levels of the bureaucracy. These priorities had nothing to do with BRIDGE in particular, or any other tech-related goals. BRIDGE just got lost in the shuffle along with countless other programs that deserve attention. Continue reading


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The Common Law of Business Balance states >
It is unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money; when you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything.
In other words, it prohibits paying a little money, and getting a lot in return; it cannot be done without trading one for the other
Additionally, something that is often not taught in the realm of financial literacy ( Resolution 8 & a cornerstone 'F' ) is the below – have you personally been taught/heard this? I hadn't before I was introduced to world class information not all that long ago >
Price is a monetary amount/figure.
Value is the relative, intrinsic worth / desirability to the end user
Think of it in these terms – does every dollar 'spend' like every other dollar? Or, is it not the truth that each dollar you spend is quite unique – especially when you grasp, immerse, and then apply the difference between a "You, Inc." $ and a "I want it due to advertising/peer pressure/lack of a budget" $ ?
Business, economics, and finances all overlap. They also are each a core part of our day to day lives – we all must be informed, well educated ( v. schooled ), and investment minded men & women in order to become wealthy in mind, spirit, legacy, & the bank account.
Have a fantastic day & blessed Easter to come!
Thank you & all due credit to Bob Burg for his wisdom & foresight in sharing much of the core of this post's core content. It's my privilege to pay it forward here in the blogosphere.


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Beyond the stock market correction
The current stock market correction is likely to be over quite soon, the fund manager Neil Woodford suggested yesterday, and I suspect that he is right for now. His view, sensible as always, is that the main reason for the market's fall is that investors have taken fright at the evidence of slower than hoped for global economic growth, particularly in Japan and Europe, plus a number of other contingent factors. The market correction, the sharpest for over two years, is long overdue, given increasing investor complacency in the face of Federal Reserve and other central bank manipulation of market prices. Read the rest of this entry »
Cyprus and beyond: more thoughts
As usual it will take a day or two for the markets to decide which of their initial reactions to the Cyprus bailout – relief that a deal has been struck, or concern at the implications of the terms imposed by the troika – will prove dominant. Some things do seem clear from what we have learnt already:
- This was the most acrimonious bailout negotiation yet, with little love lost between the Cypriot negotiators and the troika representatives on the other. Talks came close to breakdown on several occasions over the course of the past week. Apparently tipped off in advance that the Russians would not come riding to the rescue, the troika played hardball – and eventually won, although not before the Cypriot President had threatened to resign and/or take Cyprus out of the euro – a desperate course of action which the influential Archbishop of Cyprus, for one, has openly advocated.
- Although the deal will avoid the outcome of Cyprus leaving the euro for now, that still remains a possibility. The bailout creates a number of important precedents, raising the possibility that bondholders and depositors in troubled banks elsewhere in the Eurozone could be forced to pick up the tab if their bank needs to be rescued in future. The Dutch finance minister who now heads the Eurogroup said as much yesterday, and subsequent attempts to smooth over his remarks – which were remarkably explicit – have been less than convincing.
Cyprus: new fault lines in the Eurozone
What to make of the Cyprus rescue deal announced this morning? Is it necessary? Absolutely: the Cypriot banking system is insolvent, and has been ever since the Greek rescue deal last year, if not before. Is it fair? Probably not. Knowing how weak the Cypriots' bargaining position was, the troika (EU, ECB and IMF) has played hardball with one of the EU's smallest member countries, which makes it certain that for every irate mobster or money launderer who loses a chunk of their capital, there will also be many hard luck cases.
The deal administers rough and ready treatment to bank depositors in the country's two largest banks, while preserving – belatedly, and at the second attempt – the general principle that depositors with less than $100,000 euros are still protected from loss by state guarantee. (Important to note that while the EU has enshrined this principle as a political objective, the guarantees are only as good as the individual state that provides them. Cross-border deposit insurance, under which the EU would collectively guarantee bank deposits in all member states, is necessary if the banking union which the EU is trying to edge towards is ever to become a reality, but it remains so electorally toxic that it won't be introduced any time soon). Read the rest of this entry »
Fools rush in while wise men take their time?
The New Year has started well, with plenty of evidence that professional investors are continuing to rediscover their appetite for risk assets, with the price of equities, corporate bonds and high yield debt all heading higher. The charts for leading equity indices, including the S&P 500 and the FTSE All-Share, have been trending higher ever since Mario Draghi, the head of the European Central Bank, announced last summer his intention to "do whatever it takes" to prevent the eurozone from falling apart. He has every reason to be pleased with the response to his intervention, which to date has been effectively cost-free. Would it were always so easy! European stock markets, having been priced for disaster before, have led the way up as fears of the euro's fragmentation recede. Volatility, as measured by the VIX, has meanwhile fallen to multi-year low levels. Read the rest of this entry »
The eurozone's fundamental problem
For those with an interest in the interminable eurozone saga, this syndicated interview with the French president Francois Hollande is well worth reading. It sets out clearly the main current differences in approach between M. Hollande and Mrs Merkel as they set off for the latest European summit, which starts today. As always the meeting will attempt to paper over the cracks between these two very different ideas of how greater political and fiscal union in Europe should be achieved. There is still a long way to go before a really durable solution that can guarantee the euro's survival is reached (if indeed that proves to be possible).
The risk of a short circuit in markets
Richard Burns, until recently the senior partner at Baillie Gifford, is now chairman of a range of the firm's investment trusts, including Mid Wynd International, a special situations fund that holds positions in interesting companies that are too small to make a difference to its flagship funds. This is his most recent take on the investment environment, taken from the trust's annual report. With the Eurozone crisis continuing to cast a shadow over events, and equity markets not obviously cheap, cautious and pragmatic investors (a type much in evidence in Edinburgh) are mostly marking time for now.
Repeated central bank stimuli have managed to contain, for now, what would otherwise have been a combination of Western debt deflation and deep recession. These interventions buy time, but not an indefinite amount. Policy making in the afflicted parts of the Western world appears to be running up against the laws of diminishing returns. Underlying sovereign balance sheets are deteriorating further meantime. What has happened is akin to stripping insulation from the bare economic wire – governments and central banks are that insulation. As time goes on, and in the absence of a more potent recovery, the risk of short-circuit increases.
Ruffer: the right question to ask
The estimable and splendidly ideosyncratic private client fund manager Jonathan Ruffer, whom I profiled a couple of years ago in The Spectator, has some thoughtful points on the prospects for Europe in his most recent monthly investment review. Here is a short extract, in which he points to the underlying frailty of the European project, about whose future he is not optimistic:
The Treaty of Rome in 1957 was a great moment for the peacemakers, but now its architects are dead, as are pretty much all those who felt the visceral despair in the darkness of the late 1940s. That hope has been replaced with a sort of Communism: power divorced from economics. Just as Russia could not keep control when the figures didn't add up, nor can Europe. It is only a question of time. So, when does it all end? I think it is a mistake to try and guess. Observers of 1980s Russia fell into two categories: those who thought things would continue as they were forever, and those who could see the pressure, the inconsistencies, and imagined that the crisis would strike a week on Thursday. Nevertheless, it is striking on my return to find how far the status quo has shifted in Europe since March. It's the same tune, to be sure, but the violins have been replaced by cellos.
An invidious choice
I find it hard to disagree with these comments from Sebastian Lyon, the CEO of Troy Asset Management, writing in the annual report of Personal Assets, the investment trust to which he and his colleagues now act as Investment Adviser, following the death of Ian Rushbrook four years ago.
The secular bear market in UK and US equities is now in its thirteenth year. How much longer must we wait until we can again be fully invested (or even geared!) and reap the double-digit returns we long for? Ask the policy makers! Stocks would be considerably lower were central banks not keeping stock prices artificially high by means of zero interest rates and quantitative easing. Despite these interferences, stock markets have gone sideways during the past year. Savers have not been rewarded for taking risk and hence our cautious strategy has paid off, for now, although we are likely to lag short term rises in the market should further monetary interventions be forthcoming.
Politicians in Europe are confronted with the invidious choice between severe austerity, which is likely to lead to periodic recessions and declining tax revenues, or incautious borrowing in the hope of buying growth. Both approaches will eventually force governments to pay higher rates of interest on debts. The maths do not stack up. No wonder governments are looking to extricate themselves from an intractable problem by leaning on central bankers to pull their inflationary strings. But our greatest concern is that the European challenges that have dogged markets since early 2010 are merely the dress rehearsal for the main event – a US fiscal crisis. While the UK and Europe have at least tried to tame their budget deficits, the United States has pushed ever harder on the fiscal accelerator. Stock markets swooned last August when they got a shock preview of what might happen should the brakes be applied. Following the public disagreement in Washington over increasing the public debt ceiling, the Dow Jones Industrials Index fell 13% in seven trading days. Read the rest of this entry »
La commedia e finita?
Don Coxe, the Canadian investment strategist, whose monthly publication Basic Points is required reading for anyone who follows financial markets, has a wonderfully mordant turn of phrase which from time to time he uses to devestating effect in illuminating current issues. This is Don on the Eurozone crisis, as seen from four thousand miles across the pond:
We remain of the view that no new promises, no new money creation, no new bailouts, and no new debts will resolve the basic problem – that only a few eurozone members have soundly functioning, globally competitive economies. That these nations should continue to subsidise their dysfunctional co-believers in Europeanism would be OK if it were not inflicting such damage on so many millions of unemployed young people, let alone the global capital markets and the global economy. During the last two years, the rest of the world has watched with growing impatience as leaders strutted and fretted their hour upon the stage and then, in many cases, were heard no more, becuase their own voters, in an overdue spasm of good sense, rejected them. There is an Orwellian aspect to the emerging nomenclature of the emerging institutions in this process of illusions and disilusions. The latest bailout banking entity is called The European Stability Mechanism, which is eurospeak for a lender that allows deadbeats to get even more hopelessly indebted in the name of stability".
According to the most recent estimate I have seen, Europe's leaders have so far "invested" something like three trillion euros, in loans, bailout funds, transfer payments etc, to try and keep the Eurozone going in its current 17-member format – and the results to date have been dismal. Now, with the region slipping into recession, and Spain hovering on the brink of joining Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Cyprus in requiring a sovereign bailout to avoid bankruptcy, they are gearing up to throw even more money at the problem. Don's view is that "the euroelites should have declared La commedia e finita and rung down the curtain two trillion euros or so ago". Future historians, I fear, will have little option but to pass a similar verdict.
The Eurozone revisited
The latest Eurozone summit, the19th or 20th, depending how you count, has so far been well received by the financial markets. As always, however, this is not quite what it appears. The biggest mistake you can make is to impute approval or disapproval of recent developments to instant market reactions. You always need to take into account the context.
In this case the context was that few observers expected anything postiive to emerge from the summit and therefore the limited progress that was made can be classified as some sort of success, if only when compared to those low original expectations. The truth is that nothing much has changed, despite the optimistic noises coming out of various interested European parties.
Mrs Merkel made some apparent concessions at the summit, but they do not amount to much, when examined in the cold light of day. She is confident that she had not conceded much, and while subject to a range of domestic political pressures, there is no sign that Germany is ready to give in on the substantive measures that would be needed to give the Eurozone a chance of survival in its present form.
And that of course is to make the heroic assumption that even if Germany did agree to mutualisation of sovereign debt across Europe, and the fiscal and banking integration that would be needed to make that enforceable, it still might not solve the problems of banking weakness and lack of competitiveness that are the underlying causes of the current crisis. There is no magic wand to put those things right and it will take years for the necessary reforms to be shown to work in Italy, Spain and Greece.
Looking beyond Greece
We don't know whether the Eurozone agreement on Greece will hold – let alone for how long. My guess is not for long. In any case, for investors this long-awaited deal looks like a classic case of buy on the story, sell on the news. Financial markets have run up so strongly in anticipation of such an outcome that equities now look massively overbought, implying that the short-term reaction is more likely to be negative than positive. Longer term it is still impoosible to know for certain how this great drama reaches its endgame.
My view remains, as it has done for some time, that the best outcome now, as Bill Emmott was saying in The Times yesterday, is for a managed default (and probable exit) by Greece at some point in the course of this year, as it becomes apparent that the country cannot meet the demands which have now been placed on it. I suspect that this is the outcome which the Germans have been after for quite a while now, without of course being able to say so in so many words. It is also in the best interests of the Greeks themselves over time.
New Year hopes
My suspicions back in the autumn that a market rally was on the way have, I am happy to say, been borne our by events. Not for the first time, the peak of rhetorical despair – this time about the dire outlook for the world economy should the Eurozone crisis not be resolved – has turned out to be the moment to turn bullish. The rally since the failure of the Cannes summit has been impressive.
The MSCI world index is up by more than 20 per cent since its October low and has risen for seven straight weeks in a row, something that has not happened since the spring of 2009, according to the equity strategists at Societe Generale. Equity markets have made an even stronger start in 2012, with January producing one of its best monthly returns for many years. Contrarian sentiment indicators, such as the venerable Investors Intelligence survey of investment advisors in the United States, once again proved invaluable in identifying a turning point back in the autumn.
Talking markets: Jim Rogers
Global investor Jim Rogers thinks that the world is heading for an economic depression unless political leaders finally grasp the nettle of the debt burden they have accumulated over the past decade. He is not optimistic about the outcome. Bankrupt countries such as Greece need to default – and soooner rather than later. The longer they leave it, the worse the eventual outcome will be. Hear more of this – and how Jim is seeking to protect his own wealth in these difficult times – in my latest podcast, a 30-minute interview with one of the smartest investors I know. It is available to download from the Independent Investor website now. An edited transcript will be available in the New Year.
Mark Mobius on the Eurozone crisis
How does Mark Mobius see the outlook for investors in the light of the ongoing crisis in the Eurozone? You can find out by listening in to my latest podcast interview, which can now be downloaded from the Independent Investor website (link). Dr Mobius, who next year celebrates 25 years running the Templeton emerging markets funds business, with $40 billion of assets under management, discusses the threats and opportunities which the crisis has created. This is the first of a series of podcast interviews with leading professional investors and advisers. Other to be interviewed in the series include the global investor Jim Rogers, author and economist John Kay and Guy Monson, the Chief Investment Officer of the Swiss private bank Sarasin.
Forecasts be damned
If someone told you that the end of the world was coming tomorrow, and the day passed without incident, would you be inclined to believe the same person the next time they came out with a piece of radical advice? I doubt it. Yet one of the wonders of markets and economics is how quickly even sensible investors will switch their assumptions about the future without missing a beat.
The latest example of this bizarre phenomenon was evident in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement. The independent Office for Budget Responsibility, run by Robert Chote, a formidably bright former economist colleague of mine on The Independent, has drastically reduced its forecasts of future economic growth. They are radically different from the forecasts the same body presented just a few months ago. Yet by some magical process they are already being treated as gospel truth. Read the rest of this entry »
Good news, bad news for equities
Why have I mentioned more than once the possibility of a strong stock market rally coming soon? There are several factors at work here. The normal end of year experience of markets finishing strongly is one of them. The oversold technical position in many markets, allied to very low trading volumes, negative headlines in the media and deeply bearish sentiment, is another. More fundamental though is the possibility – which I now rate quite high – that Germany will in due course sanction some kind of ECB involvement in the Eurozone crisis that will provide a trigger for all the investors currently sitting nervously on their hands to rush back into the market. It may not yet happen – the politics of the Eurozone remain fragile and complex, and nothing is certain – but if it does the effect in the short term could be very powerful.
The Eurozone crisis: not insoluble
The Eurozone crisis is a political mess that can only be solved by a political solution, which you don't need a degree in politics to see is not proving easy, given the variety of interested parties involved – 17 eurozone member countries, 10 other EU member states and the governments of every other major economy on the planet also feeling the need to have their say. Much to the chargrin of some Eurozone leaders, voters too have to be consulted.
Given how many warnings there have been of the risk of a depression and financial meltdown if the Eurozone is not saved, the wonder is that financial markets have not been more affected than they have been by the failure so far to arrive at an agreed solution. The equity markets in particular have been surprisingly resilient. How can that be explained?
This is how one sensible wealth management firm, Saunderson House, is addressing the issue in its client comunications. Implicit in this view is that there will be an endgame in which the Eurozone survives, at least for now, without triggering an economic crisis, which must mean Germany eventually sanctioning some action by the European Central Bank once the various peripheral countries with the worst debt problems (Greece, italy, Spain) have their new governments in place. Read the rest of this entry »
Views on Europe
Back from a two-day trip to Paris, it is no surprise to find that the markets are still obsessing about Europe. In the absence of elections political change is rarely a straightforward business, as this week's tortuous attempts to form new governments in Italy and Greece are demonstrating. The markets remain volatile, but as yet nothing has happened to change my view that we are moving towards an endgame that will ultimately prove beneficial, howver messy it becomes in the short term.
What is noticeable is how opinion is at last slowly shifting away from arguing over how the eurozone in its present form can be saved towards the (more sensible) view that the eurozone cannot continue exactly as it is, whether or not it survives the immediate crisis.. See for example an excellent piece by Lord Owen, the former Foreign Secretary, writing in The Guardian on Monday which begins:
A eurozone may survive, but it will not be the present 17 member state eurozone. What will emerge, if it is to survive, will be smaller and more focused around German financial and monetary disciplines
Bye bye, Berlusconi
The word now is that Berlusconi is on his way out in Italy, as I predicted on this blog a week ago. Assuming that happens, as I am sure it will, it means that we have lost two credibility-shorn prime ministers in the troubled countries of the Eurozone in just 24 hours. In this long and tortuous process, nothing is certain, but I can't help thinking that this is good news for the markets, as indeed in time the failure of the Cannes summit will also turn out to be.
Why? Becuase it means that the Eurozone is finally getting ready to deal with ugly reality, rather than utopian and impractical dreams. The one premise that has only rarely been challenged throughout this whole drawn out charade has been the belief that the Eurozone could not survive unless it continued exactly as it is now, with all its members on board and Greece and others facing permanent but unsustainable austerity.
That was – and is – a pipedream. What we are seeing now is a process by which failed incumbent political leaders are having to face the consequences of their past errors, not least clinging to such a dogmatic and unproven assumption, which has never been put to the popular vote. Having done more than anyone to talk the Eurozone into recession, with his doom-laden warnings about the consequences of a Greek default, M.Sarkozy faces his own rendezvous with the voters next May. Mrs Merkel, now calling the shots in Europe, probably has until the following year to face the electors.
Whether the new Governments in Greece and Italy can do any better than their predecessors remains to be seen, but the markets are driving the Eurozone to a less worse outcome than wasting all its firepower on saving a bankrupt country, uncertain and potentially disruptive though the consequences may be in the short term.
Those damned voters…
Did I say there was a need to take these markets one step at a time yesterday? Make that one day at a time. The unexpected decision yesterday by the Greek Prime Minister to call for a referendum on the eurozone package clearly introduces a whole new element of uncertainty into the outlook for financial assets. It almost certainly brings forward the date when Greece defaults and leaves the euro (as eventually it must).
It has never been obvious to me that staying in the euro is the best option for the Greek people, and that may well turn out to be what they think too. They may opt to take the Icelandic route and vote for the devil they don't know in preference to the one they do, which has little obvious to commend it. The decision of the Eurozone to go all out for monetary union without waiting to establish the necessary fiscal and political regime that was needed to make it workable has always been its most serious flaw, but sadly not the only one.
A consistent failure to consult or carry public opinion has been another hallmark of the whole EU project, and one that may now prove very costly to its architects. Markets hate uncertainty, but if the prospect of a referendum in Greece now forces the Eurozone leadership to start planning properly for the consequences of at least a partial breakup of the single currency, instead of trying to do everything to avoid even thinking about such an outcome, it will be no bad thing. Look out next for the departure of Berlusconi.


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The Life She Was Given (Paperback)
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A GREAT GROUP READS Selection of the Women's National Book Association and National Reading Group Month
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From acclaimed author Ellen Marie Wiseman comes a vivid, daring novel about the devastating power of family secrets—beginning in the poignant, lurid world of a Depression-era traveling circus and coming full circle in the transformative 1950s.
On a summer evening in 1931, Lilly Blackwood glimpses circus lights from the grimy window of her attic bedroom. Lilly isn't allowed to explore the meadows around Blackwood Manor. She's never even ventured beyond her narrow room. Momma insists it's for Lilly's own protection, that people would be afraid if they saw her. But on this unforgettable night, Lilly is taken outside for the first time—and sold to the circus sideshow.
More than two decades later, nineteen-year-old Julia Blackwood has inherited her parents' estate and horse farm. For Julia, home was an unhappy place full of strict rules and forbidden rooms, and she hopes that returning might erase those painful memories. Instead, she becomes immersed in a mystery involving a hidden attic room and photos of circus scenes featuring a striking young girl.
At first, The Barlow Brothers' Circus is just another prison for Lilly. But in this rag-tag, sometimes brutal world, Lilly discovers strength, friendship, and a rare affinity for animals. Soon, thanks to elephants Pepper and JoJo and their handler, Cole, Lilly is no longer a sideshow spectacle but the circus's biggest attraction. . .until tragedy and cruelty collide. It will fall to Julia to learn the truth about Lilly's fate and her family's shocking betrayal, and find a way to make Blackwood Manor into a place of healing at last.
Moving between Julia and Lilly's stories, Ellen Marie Wiseman portrays two extraordinary, very different women in a novel that, while tender and heartbreaking, offers moments of joy and indomitable hope.
About the Author
Ellen Marie Wiseman was born and raised in Three Mile Bay, a tiny hamlet in Northern New York. Ellen lives on the shores of Lake Ontario with her husband, two spoiled Shih‑Tzus, and a rescued yellow lab. She loves to cook, travel, garden, watch movies, and spend time with her children and grandchildren. To date, her books have been translated in 17 languages and territories. For more, visit: www.ellenmariewiseman.com.


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Do you know that early summer is really nice season in Kyoto?
Today, we introduce you about the best 3 points of Kyoto in early summer!
1. Kawadoko
The best point of early summer in Kyoto is, the Kawadoko!
Kawadoko is the breeze-enjoying floor, which is built over a river. It is set very near the river, so you can put foot in the river. You can enjoy nice delicacy, splendid performance of Geisha and Maiko while listening murmuring of a stream.
It is the summer tradition of Kyoto. If you are luckey, you can enjoy Kawadoko with firefly and hydrangea!
2. Flowers
The 2nd best point of early summer Kyoto is the flowers.
The most popular flower in Japan is the cherry-blossom, and it blooms in spring. However, actually, there are so many Japanese flowers which bloom in early summer.
In early summer, many flowers of violet colour bloom. One of the most popular flower of early summer is hydrangea. There are many spot that famous with the hydrangea. For example, mimurotoji temple is called the temple of the hydrangea. There are 10,000
Blue flag and wisteria are also very popular violet colour flowers of early summer.
3. Firefly
The 3rd best point of early summer Kyoto is the firefly.
The symbol of early summer of Japan is, the firefly.
Do you love to watch firefly in your country? In Japan, firefly is the symbol of early summer since one thousand or more years ago. Season of firefly is late May to mid-June. When you go to some famous Kyoto's sight-seeing spot along a river, such as Tetsugakunomichi, Shimogamo-jinja shrine, Kifune, you can watch fireflies. They fly and flicker slowly at dusk. It is really romantic scenery!
There are a lot of nature and devices of enjoying early summer in Kyoto.
When you come to Kyoto in early summer, don't miss to enjoy those!
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It's time to finally join Helga's blog link-up! I thought it was a pretty cool way of reminding ourselves that there's a lot to be thankful for and we could always find things (big or small) to smile about. Posting it on a Monday though (~such rebel~) because I just came up with my list today.
1. Taking a leave from work on a Monday. There's just something oddly calming with the thought of not going to work on a Monday. It doesn't spoil your Sunday night and you don't feel extra anxious with the wave of workload ahead.
2. Had an 'old lady weekend.' You know that moment when you preferred to stay home and watch some 90s films instead with hanging out with friends and going places? I did that this weekend. I watched Almost Famous (finishing the film this time), The Big Lebowski and The Shining.
3. Looking out the window and seeing the blue skies and fluffy clouds. (Yup, that photo on the top.)
4. Staying in the shower until my hands are all pruney. I hate the summer heat!
5. Game of Thrones' episode 9. I'm still thinking if this should fall on this list given the turn of events in today's episode. I always wanted to watch this series with friends because of how freaked out I get each and every time! Hahaha!
6. Waking up to bacon, eggs and hotdogs cooked by my mom.
7. Champorado topped with Bear Brand powdered milk!
8. Cleaning up my external HDD. I've been putting it off for the longest time because it's such tedious work but I finally did it today (halfway there haha) because I can't find my copy of She's All That. Hahaha!
9. THE RAIN. Lots of it! Crazy weather we got! (Also, not worrying too much about the flood it will cause.)
10. Chris Pratt in Parks and Recreation. ❤


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Today we're thrilled to have authors A.F. Henley and Kelly Wyre on the blog to tell us about their new release, Breaker (Exile #1)! Check out this fantastic new release, a teaser from the book, and much more!
Welcome to the Breaker (Exile, Volume 1) Blog Tour and Giveaway! We're both super excited about this new release and thrilled to be able to share it with you. Throughout this tour, we're going to be introducing many of the characters within, and associated with, Exile's bizarre shores, as well as introducing Exile itself. Then we're going to top that off with a quick little teaser.
However, before we get into any of that we wanted to remind you that we've got a couple of awesome giveaways going along with the tour so be sure to read through to the end to find out how you could win either a Silver-plated Starfish Anklet (just by leaving a single comment!), or the grand prize of a signed, print copy of Breaker, a coordinates bracelet with the Believe. Seek. Prove. reminder so you can always find your way back to the island of Exile, and a $20 gift certificate to the Less Than Three Press book market.


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Did you grow sunflowers this year? Now is the time to harvest sunflower seeds for next year! Collecting seeds from your own sunflowers is super easy. Homegrown sunflower seeds make great gifts, and saving your own seeds will free up a bit of room in your gardening budget for next year.
By the way, a sunflower house is the perfect garden project for kids. You should definitely plan one for next year!
Here's how to harvest sunflower seeds for replanting and gift-giving…
1. Keep an eye on the sunflower heads as the petals begin to dry and fall off. The head will turn from green to yellow to brown. Now's your chance!
2. After the back of the head has turned brown, cut off the entire head of the sunflower with a knife with about an inch of stem.
3. Store the sunflower heads in a dry place with plenty of ventilation. You may want to keep a tray, bucket or large sheet of newspaper under the sunflower heads to catch any seeds that fall.
4. Allow the seeds to dry completely–this may take a month or so.
5. When the seeds are completely dried, spread large sheets of newspaper on a work surface. Rub your hands over the seeds to loosen, while gently shaking the sunflower head to release the seeds onto the newspaper.
6. Store sunflower seeds in a paper envelope. Don't seal them in plastic or glass–this will produce mold. Yuck! Keep your seed envelopes in a cool, dry spot, and be sure to label the envelope.
How to give homegrown sunflower seeds as gifts
There are countless adorable ways to package seeds, but here's how I did it…
You will need:
- sunflower seeds
- vellum envelopes or bags
- sunflower stickers
- jute twine, burlap string or natural raffia
- tags
1. Fill the envelope or bag with seeds.
2. Optional: seal with a sunflower sticker.
3. Make a tag.
4. Wrap with twine and tie a bow, using the twine to secure the tag.
5. Add to a gift basket!
Kathleen Henderson is the yankee behind the homestead. Follow along as we grow real food and three boys while renovating a 20-acre farm in northern Virginia. Do you love homegrown food, Paleo-ish recipes, and natural living? You're in good company! Let's grow together…


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Book Giveaway | So Damn Lucky (US & Can)
Title: So Damn Lucky
Author: Deborah Coonts
About the Book:
While performing his final trick at the performance marking the end of a forty-year run of one of Las Vegas' most renowned burlesque shows, magician Dimitri Fortunoff appears to have a fatal accident. Then, when his body disappears, the questions mount for Lucky O'Toole, head of Customer Relations for the Babylon resort, the crown jewel of the mega-resorts dotting the Las Vegas Strip. And the timing couldn't be worse. Her live-in lover, Teddie, has morphed into a rock star and been swallowed whole by life on the road. Her mother, Mona, pregnant, petulant, and perpetually under foot is giving new meaning to the term 'high maintenance.' Paxton Dane, a handsome Texan long on charisma and short on history, is forcing himself into the void of Teddie's absence, and a suave French chef is proving to be equal parts charm and venom, seasoned with a dash of irresistible.
But Lucky can't shake the question: Did Dimitri Fortunoff really die or is this an elaborate hoax? UFO conventioneers and high-ranking magicians fill her hotel and she turns to some of them for answers: Zoom-Zoom Zewicki, a retired astronaut with an agenda all his own, Crazy Carl Colson, a psychic clinging to the edge of sanity, Marik Kovalenko, a smoldering internationally renowned magician, The Great Tursinov, a famed mentalist, Bart Griffin, late-night talk show host, and Junior Arbogast, professional cynic and hoax exposer.
The trail leads her through the miles of storm culverts under the city of Las Vegas, to the hordes of believers who gather at Rachel for a glimpse of a UFO, to hints of secret programs at Area 51, then culminates on the catwalk above the crowd attending the annual Harry Houdini Séance on Halloween, where Lucky must risk her life to catch a killer.


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We are now just waiting for 10 East, Artificial Horizon, and this beloved gem Necrophones.
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Dischord 119 Lungfish Necrophones
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Lungfish's eighth full-length record, released in 2000.
This 12" LP is out of print. However, the songs are available on CD and as digital MP3s.
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- vocals
- Asa Osborne
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- Nathan Bell
- bass
- Mitchell Feldstein
- drums
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A basic, immutable Stack in Scala
Scala was one language that I played around with many years back (and blogged about then). Recently, I took the excellent course on reactive programming which rekindled my interest in Scala and I decided to brush up my knowledge on it as well as functional programming. I also happen to be reading what seems to be the best resource on functional data structures - Chris Okasaki's Purely Functional Data Structures. This blog is an introduction on how to implement some of those data structures in Scala. Since Scala is a general purpose programming language with an objective to fuse object oriented and functional programming, our implementation will follow that approach. It is also possible to do pure functional programming in Scala without bringing in object orientation, but that's not our focus here. So I'll call this implementation object-functional versus purely functional, but the properties are the same, the differences are only in the way code is organized.
We start with implementation of a really simple data structure. It is a container which supports the following operation:
cons: adds a new item to the container
head: get last inserted item
tail: get rest of the items
isEmpty: the container is empty or not
You can think of it as a cons list or Stack as Okasaki calls it. Before thinking about implementation, we can capture the behavior in a Trait like so:
trait Stack[T] {
def isEmpty: Boolean
def cons(t: T): Stack[T]
def head: T
def tail: Stack[T]
Digression: Variance
In Scala, the type parameters are invariant by default, which means if you have a
Stack[Shape], you cannot add a
Circle to it though
Circle is a subclass of
Shape. For immutable collections it is better to have this behavior, so we need to make it covariant which can be easily done by adding a
+ to the type parameter. When you do that,
Stack[Shape] will behave like a superclass of
Stack[Circle]. But this also means that the following is possible:
val onlyCircles: Stack[Circle] = ...
val shapes: Stack[Shape] = onlyCircles
shapes.cons(new Square)
This is clearly a problem so Scala compiler will prevent you from creating such an
cons function. In the example above,
cons should ensure that it only accepts a
Circle or its subclass. This can be specified by constraining its type to
[U >: T] where
T is the type parameter for
Stack. This is the intuition behind variance (we skipped contravariance) and if you are interested, read more here.
Armed with the idea of variance, we can make our
Stack trait more general:
trait Stack[+T] {
def isEmpty: Boolean
def cons[U >: T](t: U): Stack[U]
def head: T
def tail: Stack[T]
One way to implement
Stack is to consider two cases. A
Stack could be empty or it could have a head and tail. Further, empty can be a singleton and we introduce an abstract class
CList to represent this particular implementation:
sealed abstract class CList[+T] extends Stack[T] {
def cons[U >: T](t: U): CList[U] = new Cons(t, this)
case object Empty extends CList[Nothing] {
def isEmpty: Boolean = true
def head: Nothing = throw new NoSuchElementException()
def tail: Nothing = throw new NoSuchElementException()
case class Cons[+T](hd: T, tl: CList[T]) extends CList[T] {
def isEmpty: Boolean = false
def head: T = hd
def tail: CList[T] = tl
Given this, one could create a Stack like:
val stack = Cons(1, Cons(2, Empty)) // head = 1, tail = [2]
An important property of functional data structures is that they are immutable, any change on them would give us a new copy. This may not be as bad as it sounds since the structure can be often shared. For instance, if we have a list:
and we append
0 to it, we get a new list:
but the tail of second list is just a pointer to first list (in the image, only
0 is a new node as the color shows), so no extra space is required. If we insert an element in between, the elements till that needs to be copied but rest can be shared. If we append two lists,
xs and
ys, all elements in
xs needs to be copied but
ys can be shared:
++ ==
There are ways to optimize this to minimize copying.
But keeping things immutable has many advantages. One particular benefit is even after updates the previous 'version' of the data structure is available since we don't modify anything. For this reason, functional data structures are also called persistent.
Other operations
The implementation we have so far is trivial and we can add other operations:
update: inserts an element at a given index.
++: catenates two Stacks together
The implementation for this is straightforward. We just need to handle the two cases. Let's also add a
toList function to convert this to Scala
List for debugging.
sealed abstract class CList[+T] extends Stack[T] {
def ++[U >: T](ys: CList[U]): CList[U]
def update[U >: T](t: U, i: Int): CList[U]
def toList: List[T]
case object Empty extends CList[Nothing] {
def ++[U](ys: CList[U]): CList[U] = ys
def update[U](t: U, i: Int) = throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException()
def toList = Nil
case class Cons[+T](hd: T, tl: CList[T]) extends CList[T] {
def ++[U >: T](ys: CList[U]): CList[U] = Cons(head, tail ++ ys)
def update[U >: T](t: U, i: Int): CList[U] = if (i == 0) Cons(t, this) else Cons(head, tail.update(t, i-1))
def toList = head :: tail.toList
Note that the
update and
++ operations return a new Stack which potentially shares the structure of old Stack as we discussed before.
Digression: Testing
Now that we have written some code, how do we test it? We need to have some test data and unit tests for testing Stack. Also we need to test for
Empty and
Cons case separately. Instead of writing specific test cases, let's use Scalacheck. Scalacheck basically allows us to assert properties or invariants about the data structure and it takes care of generating random data for us.
Since we have a new data structure, which Scalacheck does not know about, we need to describe how to generate data. One way to do it is:
implicit def arbStack[T](implicit a: Arbitrary[T]): Arbitrary[CList[T]] = Arbitrary {
def genStack: Gen[CList[T]] = oneOf(Empty, for {
v <- arbitrary[T]
s <- genStack
} yield s.cons(v))
It might look a bit complicated, but all it is doing is describing how we can construct arbitrary Stacks. Once this is done, we can start writing our tests by just describing properties:
test("Stack head") {
check((s: CList[Int], x: Int) => s.cons(x).head == x)
test("Stack tail") {
check((s: CList[Int], x: Int) => s.cons(x).tail == s)
test("Stack append") {
check((xs: CList[Int], ys: CList[Int]) => size(xs ++ ys) == size(xs) + size(ys))
test("Stack update") {
check((xs: CList[Int], x: Int, i: Int) => {
if (i >= 0 && i < size(xs)) size(xs.update(x, i)) == size(xs)+1
else try {
xs.update(x, i)
} catch {
case _:IndexOutOfBoundsException => true
Note that we did not provide any sample
CList. ScalaCheck will do that for us by testing with various randomly generated
Implementing a
suffixes operation is provided as an exercise - given a
Stack generate all its suffices. So suffixes of
[1,2,3] should be
[[1,2,3], [2,3], [3], []]. It has to be generating in decreasing order of size. Given our classes, this can be easily done:
sealed abstract class CList[+T] extends Stack[T] {
def suffixes: CList[CList[T]]
case object Empty extends CList[Nothing] {
def suffixes = Cons(Empty, Empty)
case class Cons[+T](hd: T, tl: CList[T]) extends CList[T] {
def suffixes: CList[CList[T]] = Cons(this, tail.suffixes)
and a simple test which passes:
test("Stack suffixes") {
check((xs: CList[Int]) => {
val suffixes = xs.suffixes
size(suffixes) == size(xs) + 1
That is all for a basic implementation of
Stack. See the complete code for Stack and the test. We could add many operations like
filter etc in a similar way. If you are interested, take a look a Scala's implementation of List which is more general and feature rich.
Feel free to improve this article - submit a pull request or add a comment below.


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Foto: Business Region Bergen
Every year important actors from the Bergen region seafood industry enter Brussels to participate at the Seafood Expo Global through the Bergen delegation. This was the fourth time the separate Bergen delegation has been arranged, and never before have there been this many participants. 44 excited delegates touched down in Brüssel on the 20th of April, amongst them Bergen city councilman Helge Stormoen, Mayor of Sund Kari-Anne Landro as well as the Mayor of Bergen Trude Drevland.
The Seafood Expo Global in Brussels is the biggest of its kind in the world, with over 1700 exhibitors from over 70 countries, spread over an area of 36000 square meters. The Seafood industry of Norway is represented by 55 businesses at the Seafood Expo Global, which functions as an important meeting place where Norwegian seafood businesses can expose what they have to offer on the growing international seafood market.
During the three-day stay in Brüssel, the delegates got insight into the internal politics of the EU-system, and how trade agreements and fishery policy will affect the future of the industry. Amongst other things, the delegation visited the Directorate-general for fisheries and maritime affairs, and participated at a seminar organized by Storby Marin. The actual visit at the Seafood Expo Global was to the participants considered the most important part of the trip, where they got to meet with Norwegian seafood businesses, speak with them, make contacts and share experiences.
The Norwegian stands were arranged largely by Innovation Norway, which first participated on the Seafood Expo Global in 1993 with 8 businesses. The large growth in number of participating businesses is an indication of the enormous development within the Norwegian seafood industry the past decades, and hopefully it will keep growing.


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Taking Sushi to the Next Level
RA Sushi has been a big part of Scottsdale's restaurant scene for approximately 20 years, after it first debuted in Downtown Scottsdale. Nicholas Mailliard, one of the original owners, helped introduced sushi to Scottsdale, and now, nine states and 27 locations later, RA has proven sushi isn't just a passing trend but a lasting staple.
This past October, the North Scottsdale restaurant relocated to Scottsdale Towne Square at Scottsdale and Thunderbird Roads. General Manager Paul Underwood had the privilege of opening the new location and rolling out a new menu. Underwood brings with him 16 years of restaurant experience and much enthusiasm. His primary focus is customer service and making sure each server has extensive training to ensure every guest has an enjoyable RA experience. Underwood is also on a mission to demystify the misnomer that sushi is only made with raw fish.
"RA Sushi is known for its innovative menu with creative sushi from the Sushi Bar, bold dishes from our Asian kitchen and handcrafted cocktails, all served up in a fun, energetic atmosphere," states Underwood.
The RA Experience
When it comes to sushi, RA has nailed it, gaining a reputation for having some of the best in town. Executive Chef Tai Obata creates masterpiece sushi cuisine with fresh fish that's flown in daily.
"For me, creating new sushi or taking a traditional dish and putting a creative twist on it is what makes RA unique. I love to be creative and try new things with sushi, blending new flavors and textures together," explains Chef Obata.
His signature specialty rolls include the Viva Las Vegas, RA'lollipop, Crazy Monkey Roll, RA'ckin Roll, Scallop Dynamite Roll and Rainbow Roll. These beautiful, delicious creations are meticulously prepared to introduce your palate to a symphony of flavors.
Not crazy about fish? Don't dismay, as RA offers two kitchens and has a wonderful selection of other dishes, including Thai Chicken, Pork Tacos, Chicken Wings, Black Pepper Sirloin Steak, Tempura Shrimp and Vegetables, Japanese Fried Chicken, Lobster Spring Rolls and more.
Relaxing Fun Atmosphere
The restaurant's modern, Asian-influenced design greets you with a warm, inviting atmosphere, while a fabulous oversized indoor/outdoor wrap-around bar is the perfect location for gathering with friends and co-workers. The covered patio includes a modern fire pit that sets the stage for intimate seating, and the dining area and sushi bar carry out the same warm red hues and wood tones seen throughout with spacious booths and tables.
Not to be overlooked are the specialty cocktails, seasonal drinks, local craft beers, bottled beers and wine list. RA is a perfect spot for Happy Hour and Reversed Happy Hour, with drink and seasonal food specials. It's also a great time to try a couple of their 75 sushi rolls in a relaxing atmosphere. But watch out, before you know it you too may get hooked on sushi!
RA Sushi
13802 N. Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85254


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Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle (Virgin Records)
May 27, 2013
Laura Marling's timeless fourth album is the sound of an artist in total control of her own musical destiny.
Team Ghost
Soup Kitchen, Manchester
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Despite their leader's well documented musical ancestry, Team Ghost are far from being a one-man band.
Slow Club's Rebecca talks to the Motel about the band's forthcoming third studio album, interviewing Lemar and "music geek workshops"...
James Blake, Team Ghost and more feature in Benjamin's Take Five touring roundup special for April.
Maps & Atlases with The Physics House Band
Dingwalls, Camden Town, London
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Kate can't help but feel there's something missing in an uneven set from Maps & Atlases... however, The Physics House Band delight with their challenging, complex melodies.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd)
February 18, 2013
Dark, spellbinding and compelling... Push the Sky Away sweeps you up and spits you out on the strength of Cave's storytelling ability.
Featuring short-form starring roles from Daniel Radcliffe, Christina Hendricks and Idris Elba...
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Trump Is Locking Up and Threatening to Deport Children Based on Mere Suspicion of Gang Affiliation
Last week, flanked by police officers in Long Island, President Trump told a crowd of supporters his administration was getting rid of immigrant "animals" who were causing gang violence in their communities. "They're going to jails," Trump yelled, "and then they're going back to their country. Or they're going back to their country, period."
But a closer look at who the Trump administration is actually targeting shows that these so-called "animals" are sometimes children who have not even been accused of any crime. Police from Suffolk County are collaborating with the Trump administration to target immigrant children for arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement when the police are "not in a position to make a criminal arrest." This means that kids who the police department knows it does not have the evidence to criminally prosecute are nonetheless being summarily snatched up by ICE, torn from their communities, and shipped to jail-like facilities, hundreds or thousands of miles from their family and immigration lawyers.
Children from Suffolk County report being falsely labeled a gang member for wearing clothing with a Chicago Bulls logo, for playing soccer with suspected gang members, and for displaying the flag of their home country, El Salvador. This labeling appears to be the first step in a process that results in minors being snatched and whisked away to detention.
In many ways, this is history repeating itself. Back in the 1980s, the federal government held immigrant children with no criminal background in hot, crammed jail cells in remote facilities across the country. These egregious conditions prompted a federal lawsuit, Flores v. Reno, which resulted in a 1997 consent decree that remains in effect to this day.
Despite the lessons of history, the Trump administration is once again arbitrarily jailing children.
The Flores decree established several procedural protections for children to prevent their arbitrary detention, giving them, for example, the right to know why they were being placed in highly restrictive facilities and the right to challenge that placement with the help of counsel. Congress later followed suit and passed a 2008 law requiring that immigrant children be placed in the "least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child," and that no child be placed in highly restrictive jail-like conditions unless the minor "poses a danger to self or others or has been charged with having committed a criminal offense."
But at least nine children from Suffolk County are being held in highly restrictive detention based solely on unconfirmed suspicions that they are affiliated with gangs. Despite the lessons of history, the Trump administration is once again arbitrarily jailing children.
In a letter last week, the New York Civil Liberties Union warned the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which has custody of immigrant children, that placing minors in highly restrictive detention without adequate cause or process violates the agency's obligations under the Flores consent decree and federal law.
One kid's case stands out. Hector (a pseudonym) came to the U.S. alone when he was 14. Ironically enough, he fled his home country because a gang repeatedly threatened to kill him. After he entered the U.S., ORR screened him, found he was not a safety risk, and released him to his relative in Long Island. Now 16, Hector is in school and has a girlfriend.
In April, Hector and his girlfriend were leaving high school when two Suffolk County detectives stopped them. The detectives asked Hector and his girlfriend for their ID, then jotted down their names. One detective asked Hector if he was in a gang. When Hector said no, the detective lifted his shirt to look for gang tattoos. But Hector had none. The detective then made a gang sign to see if Hector recognized it. Apparently unsatisfied, the detectives told Hector and his girlfriend to move along, and no one from Suffolk police has bothered Hector since.
They didn't have to.
In July, ICE officials showed up at Hector's job. They arrested him and gave him to ORR, which placed him in a facility over a thousand miles away from his home. Hector and his immigration lawyer never had the chance to contest his placement before he was shipped off. In fact, after over a week, his lawyer and his family still don't know the facility he is being held in despite the lawyer's repeated attempts to find out.
Recently, a social worker from ORR called Hector's relative to say Hector is being held somewhere in Texas and that ORR officials do not think he is gang affiliated. But ORR is still holding him because the Suffolk detectives who stopped him three months ago suspect he is.
Hector is one of several examples of the "animals" that Trump and his administration are targeting for jail and deportation based on nothing more than unconfirmed suspicions.
We won't let him get away with it.
These dont look like "children" to me. They look like gangbangers that would snatch your life for the 20$ you have in your wallet. Here illegally? Out!
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- August 5, 2017
Some people talk soooo much doo doo. Do you actually know how 90 percent of gangs are created? Traveling to school and being beat up etc.because your Crap kind can't protect them. So they a group to fight a group and there's more cops tha kill innocent seniors,woman etc and you pay their salaries. Gangsters need rehabilitation their put in prision without rehab so they could hate the world come out and get retreated because the cities make 200 000 per year of one Prisioners. It's a business to pay city workers and create jobs. What if your kid was looked as a dollar bill. I know it would hurt you and you too would be upset. So wish them help not negativity you people without these issues are the worst people God has on the planet. Gangs hurt each other maybe some may go outside the line but there's more cops than gang violence against regular people. Do your homework.wish gang kids positive stuff like if your own kid was going through it and never ever say never my kid. Trust me the devil has no favorites including your kids.
- August 27, 2017
Better safe than sorry. If these "children" were living with mobsters, they have some mob training and must go. ADIOS THUGEES!
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- August 6, 2017
Hey anonymous. Your not too educated are You? The country sends soldiers to kill innocent woman and children just so they don't grow up to be terrorist. Is this how you handle your rights on the earth. Not waiting until they do wrong to kill them. Your all garbage in my eyes. All that worship these laws and try to kill instead of help. The young kids need help all ages need help. God wasted his time creating you. Your of no help to him. Wait maybe I should educate you and be of some help. Almighty father in heaven I need you to clean the Hart of this useless grown up and make him or her a less stupid person. Amen. God bless america
- August 27, 2017
Robert Graham
Stop with your lies. Those children are animals. If it were my call I'd order them to be assainated. Thumbs up to Trump for a common-sense approach.
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- August 6, 2017
Robert Graham
Those children are no innocent people. They are animals and the worst of the worst. Those children who have been identified as gang bangers must be brutally murdered. They have lost their right to live among us. Executing them would ensure they can never victimized anybody again.
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- August 6, 2017
I would crush you into a graham cracker and feed it to my pets.if this was a cartoon.were talking about children you pig it could be you kid in trouble. I bet your a white male brought up with hate for what does not act shit or talk like you I know some of your kind their all wife beaters too. You deserve to come across one of those kids at least the would do positive stuff shutting your evil mouth. Wishing kids death you piece of crap.why not wish God upon their soul. And not your God either he's weak. I wish God's discipline upon all of them. Why should God think of you and not think of young kids. Iiiiiddddiiiiooootttt. May holy clean your soul. Your of no use to God on this earth
- August 27, 2017
Robert Oberlender
We probably need to provide babysitters for these children as they are processed for deportation. We should probably provide escorts from the other illegal aliens who appear to be non-dangerous and children friendly. Illegals might be motivated to volunteer to be a babysitter if offered expedited processing so they can quickly return to their home country. A win all around.
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- August 6, 2017
You're talking about sending illegal back to their Countries, do you mean all illegals or just Hispanics?
Because if you mean all the illegals , then how come Ice is only targeting hispanics. What about all the illegals from Europe? They don't go to the White neighborhoods and arrest the white that are here illegally. My daughter is married to an Irishman. In that neighborhood you don't see Ice arresting any Irish . And there are a lot of them living here illegally.
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- August 6, 2017
Roger Meurer
Come on, you actually believe they're "only targeting hispanics"? Are you really that stupid? Just had an acquaintance DEPORTED back to Germany last week, but hate mongering, race baiting, left wing media can't push their hate against Trump by reporting that. And as usual, the drones push the sewage just like they're supposed to. And of course too cowardly to identify themselves as they repeat the moronic filth they're told to!
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"I tell ye ivrything an' I'll
tell ye this. In th' first place 'tis a gr-reat mistake to think
that annywan ra-aly wants to rayform. Ye niver heerd iv a man
rayformin' himsilf. He'll rayform other people gladly. He likes
to do it. But a healthy man'll niver rayform while he has th'
strenth. A man doesn't rayform till his will has been impaired
so he hasn't power to resist what th' pa-apers calls th' blandishments
iv th' timpter. An' that's thruer in politics thin annywhere else."
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Taylor, David & Lorna
|David Taylor
|Executive Diamond
|United States
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|Renfrow, Rex & Betty Jo
By most people's standards, David Taylor was living a dream life. He was the starting left tackle for the NFL Baltimore Colts. On the surface, it all looked very good. But, David knew life was ready to push him up against the wall. 'I felt like I was a walking time-bomb,' says David. 'I didn't know how long my football career would last. I had already had two knee surgeries. I had no security.'
David knew there was more to life than what he was experiencing. He just didn't know what or how to make it happen. 'This business came into my life at the perfect time,' says David. 'I was looking for an opportunity to be financially independent, as well as for a way to do something meaningful with my life.'
In just 2' years, David was able to walk away from football with his financial future totally secure. 'Through this business, I have become free' both financially and mentally' beyond my wildest dreams. At the same time, many other people have benefited as a result of my efforts.'
David enjoys a lifestyle that has allowed him the freedom to travel around the world, and to spend more time with his two children, now adults. 'I love this business and the people, and I am so proud to share this opportunity with others. It is well worth the effort!'
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