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St. John, the Apostle is one of the most interesting and intense people in the Bible. He is also known as St. John the Evangelist, John of Patmos and the Beloved Disciple. His feast is celebrated on 27th December. He was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and the brother of St. James 'The Great'. St. John was called to be an apostle by Jesus in the first year of His ministry and was the closest to Him during that time. It is said that St. John along with St. Peter and St. James formed the inner circle of Jesus. These three were the only witnesses of the raising of Jairus' daughter from the dead.
Most importantly they closely witnessed the Agony of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus gave St. John and St. Peter the responsibility of preparing the final Passover meal (Last Supper). St. John is one of Christianity's founding fathers, as well as a prominent leader of the churches in Jerusalem and Ephesus. He is the author of the Gospel of John and four other books in the New Testament: the three Epistles of John and the Book of Revelation. He really loved the church and always encouraged everyone to love each other and so he is known as the "Apostle of Love". He was one of the first disciples to follow Jesus, he overheard John the Baptist talking about Jesus and he went after him (John 1: 35). John was brave and stood at the foot of the cross when all the other disciples were still in hiding. He was the only disciple who had not forsaken Jesus during His sorrowful passion. He was the one to whom Jesus had given the exquisite honour, of taking care of His mother. Walking in a close relationship with God is what I learnt from the life of St. John. One thing that really touches me the most is that St. John never left Jesus at the time of His passion. He was the only disciple who did not forsake Jesus during that time. This makes me ponder on the love he had for Jesus, the loyalty toward Him and his friendship. I want to love Jesus the way he did and strive to have a similar relationship with Jesus.
John was humble, in his writings (John 21:20) he called himself the 'disciple whom Jesus loved'. He was a man who studied and knew the scriptures. Throughout his gospel he says how Jesus fulfilled certain scriptures. John was so in tune with the scriptures that he was able to call Jesus the Word and the Word was God (John 1:1). Later after the Assumption of Mama Mary into Heaven, St. John travelled to Ephesus proclaiming Christ for which he was banished by the Roman authorities to the Greek Island of Patmos. There, they tried to kill St. John by plunging him into a hot boiling pot of oil but miraculously he didn't get burned and was completely unaffected. All those who witnessed the miracle in the Colosseum converted to Christianity. When he was exiled on the Isle of Patmos, he wrote the Book of Revelations.
St. John through his letters encourages us to live in fellowship with Jesus and to love one another. One of my favourite verse is
"The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers" (1 John 3:16).
By this, St. John clearly tells us how he learnt what love is and why and how we need to love each other. For me, St. John is a witness of Jesus' love. After reading about St. John it has always been my prayer, asking him to help me love Jesus the way he did and also to love the people around me.
Acts chapter 4:13 says, "The members of the Council were amazed to see how bold Peter and John were and to learn that they were ordinary men of no education. They realised then that they had been companions of Jesus".
This verse again teaches me how St. John's accomplishments are the direct result of his close fellowship with God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Even though he was just an ordinary and an uneducated man, people recognised him to be a follower of Jesus only because of his love for Jesus which was seen through his boldness and confidence in Him, with the help of the Holy Spirit.
St. John's life in particular taught me that it is not about religion; rather it is all about relationship, a relationship with Jesus Christ.


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Let's face it: packing is a pain. There are a million more exciting things to do than to figure out how to get all of your gear packed up for an overseas adventure. Take the stress off your next trip and pack light on your next overseas adventure.
Select a Pack with Great Access
The key to keeping yourself organized on an overseas trip is to have the right pack. Select a bag that has great access from multiple points. Choose a bag that allows you to open the back as much as possible, enabling you to see everything at once.
Ideally, you want a bag that will work as a carry-on, allowing you to not worry about checked luggage. The pack should be around 35 to 40 liters and compress easily to fit in overheads. Check with low-cost carriers to see their dimensional requirements for a carryon and stick with a pack that meets those requirements.
Keep Clothing Versatile
If you are headed outdoors during your trip, chances are you will have some technical clothing. Pack layers to allow your clothing to function for multiple conditions, just like you would when you hike. Try to keep an active, "dirty" pair of clothes for activities, and a "cleaner" pair for downtime.
Select clothing pieces that would be great for both around town and out in the wild, such as a lightweight, odor-resistant button up shirt. Packing odor resistant clothing allows you to wear the same thing more than once. You can even wear underwear inside out and get double the use out of it. It's ok, I won't tell anyone.
Remember What You Can and Can't Carry on
If you plan on only using a carry-on bag, great. However, make sure you leave the following out of your carry-on bag.
- Stove fuel. In fact, you cannot take this on a plane at all, so stock up if you need it at your destination.
- Sharp tools such as ice tools, ice axes, knives, tent stakes, or any other sharp object aside from a razor for shaving.
- Personal Locator Beacons. Depending on your model you may or may not be allowed to have one of these on an aircraft. Check with your specific model and with the airline you are flying to make sure it is ok to take with you.
Lithium-ion batteries are another interesting item. As of January 2018, TSA requires you to carry on any loose lithium-ion batteries. These items cannot be checked and must be placed in clear storage baggies.
Don't Fold. Tuck and Roll Instead
Do exactly the opposite as your mother told you, do not fold your clothes. Instead, roll your clothes. This keeps clothing tightly bundled, enabling you to pack more in a tight space. It helps to wrap up items such as socks and underwear for added efficiency. You could choose to roll up outfits, clothing type, or individual items.
Pack Smart for Transit
Nothing beats you down quite like a long-haul flight across the globe. Be sure to keep essentials for your transit time in an easily accessible location. Items such as headphones, a book, toiletries, even a change of clothes are all great to keep handy while in transit. Use the same, lightweight toiletry system you use for backpacking to save weight and keep clutter to a minimum.
Next time you step into an overseas adventure, travel with ease utilizing these handy lightweight packing tips. Adventure on my friends!

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Seedcamp 2009
For those who don't know, Seedcamp is Europe's version of Y Combinator. It was started by Saul Klein and Reshma Sohoni a few years back and has grown into an important part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Europe.
I attended Seedcamp 2009 this week and sat through several panels, pitches, and did a panel and a masterclass talk.
The thing that struck me about this year's group of startups was the geographic diversity of the teams and the number and quality from eastern europe in particular.
The lessons and culture of silicon valley are being replicated all around the world. It will be decades before any other location has the scale of tech-based entrepreneurship that the valley has. But a week at Seedcamp tells me that it will happen.
There is no shortage of engineering skills around the world. The information that drives tech innovation and entrepreneurship is flowing freely in real time. The valley didn't learn about Pubsubhubbub and RSSCloud any faster than the entrepreneur/technologist in Zagreb.
So we are seeing teams and products coming from all sorts of places now. It reminds me very much of NYC fifteen years ago. What NYC didn't have then that it now has is the infrastructure for entrepreneurship, the role models, and a sophistication about how the game is played.
London is developing those things pretty quickly and it is now spreading them throughout europe through programs like Seedcamp. Europe is hard because of the geographic diversity but the internet shrinks things and I'm quite optimistic that we will see a lot more Skypes, Spotifys, and Vent Privees in the coming years. And I am also sure that at least a few of them will be Seedcamp alums.


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The Naming of the Dead
by Ian RankinSeries: John Rebus, #16Hardcover, 464 pg.
Little, Brown and Company, 2006
Read: June 22 – 25, 2018
|"Know what I think? I think all of this is because there's a bit of the anarchist in you. You're on their side, and it annoys you that you've somehow ended up working for The Man."
Rebus snorted a laugh. "Where did you get that from?"
She laughed with him. "I'm right though, aren't I? You've always seen yourself as being on the outside–" She broke off as their coffees arrived, dug her spoon into her cappuccino and scooped foam into her mouth.
"I do my best work on the margins," Rebus said thoughtfully.
Rebus is on the verge of retirement — really, he's about to be forced out, he's at the stage of his career where many detectives would be just coming into the office and doing nothing — if not outright retiring already. And, truth be told, that's precisely what everyone in the force seems to want (except for a few allies/friends), particularly the top brass. None of which Rebus has an interest in. He's going to have to be pulled out, kicking and screaming — probably with someone barring the door after he's out.
So when the G8 comes to Edinburgh in 2005, the police have their hands full with security, protests, riot preparations, and whatnot. They're importing help from all over Scotland and even England. Everyone has plenty of assignments to deal with, everyone but John Rebus, that is. So when a clue comes up that might turn into something interesting on months-old murder case, he's ready and raring to go. That evidence seems to point at multiple victims, too — so Siobhan Clarke is put in charge of that investigation, just please keep it quiet until all the important people have gone home (and yes, everyone is fully aware of the insult of putting the DS in charge of the DI on this one). Thankfully, there's a suspicious-looking suicide that's related to the G8 for Rebus to focus on.
At least one of the victims in Clarke's case has an obvious connection to Big Ger Cafferty, too. Because why not make this all interesting? Big Ger's the target of a local politician who happens to be making a lot of waves thanks to being in all the right places during the G8 protests, sticking up for his constituents and the cause of civility in the face of civil unrest. Rebus and Cafferty do their usual thing — Cafferty wants information so he can get his form of justice taken out of the murderer, Rebus needs information from Cafferty so he can prevent that. But at the end of the day here, Siobhan spends more time with Cafferty, despite everything Rebus tries to do.
Which is the crux of this novel, really. Rebus is at his career's end, he knows it. The closest thing he has to a legacy is DS Clarke — and he wants it to be a good legacy. He wants to keep her from Cafferty's clutches, from the dirt that's dogged him for years due to guilt-by-association — as well as his actual influence. At the same time, he wants her to maintain that "work on the margins" attitude, while staying in good graces with TPTB. He wants Clarke to be everything he is, just without all the bad that comes from it. (I think she wants that, too, actually). Bringing me back to the point that this novel features Rebus fighting all involved for Siobhan's soul.
In an interesting parallel, Siobhan's actual parents are in town to take part in the G8 protests. There's a young woman hanging out with them, almost like a temporary daughter (which really gets under her skin). She's determined to spend some time with them, to show herself that she can have some sort of personal life — a family — and still be a good cop. To not be Rebus. At the same time, she so wants her parents to see her as a capable detective, not just someone in the midst of a defiant reaction to her parent's lifestyle and beliefs.
Eric Bains shows up in a light I don't think anyone expected, and I'm hoping that things turn around for him soon. I like the guy. He's not Brian Holmes, but he's a nice character to have around. There's a reporter, Marie Henderson, involved in all of this, too (that's her opining in the opening quotation) — I really liked her, and hope we see her again. Rebus seems to actually enjoy her company and intelligence — at the same time, as the co-writer of Cafferty's biography, she represents everything that Rebus fears for Clarke.
I've not spent a lot of time talking about the cases — which are interesting enough, and watching Rebus not be careful around Very Important People from all over the world is fun. But on the whole, the cases felt familiar. Like we've been down these roads before — not exactly, and both held plenty of surprises, but they seemed like familiar Rebus/Clarke investigations. I might have been tempted to give his a 3-Star rating and move on.
BUT, Rankin won't let me — because putting all of this right smack in the middle of the G8 conference — and the hullabaloo surrounding it (protests, concerts, marches) — the Bush bicycling incident, the London bombings, and the announcement of the Olympics coming to London — added so much to the novel. It grounded it in reality, it presented so many obstacles to the investigations (as well as distractions from the investigations) — as well as unexpected sources of help (police officers from other jurisdictions that had just the right kind of information). Plus all the "keep Siobhan from becoming Rebus" elements of the novel just captivated me.
Another winner. What else is there to say?


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Hey, you.
Yes… YOU! Internet!
I'm talking to you.
You're so QUIET lately.
I mean, it ECHOES when I come in here, it's so quiet.
You don't write, you don't call… nothing.
Is our relationship in trouble, Internet? Do you not feel for me the way you once did? Has the bloom gone off the rose?
Well you certainly don't pay me much attention these days, that's for sure.
Oh, I know… you're busy.
You have a life, too. Right?
But I had grown accustomed to your boisterous, chatty self. You remember… we used to have quite a witty repartee going back in the day.
But now it's all quiet.
Well, I don't mean to be a bastard about it, but… all I'm saying is, if this keeps up, I am leaving you.
That's right.
I'll leave you and go back to my TV.


text: Photo gallery from round 6 of Formula Drift at Evergreen Speedway in Monroe, Washington (aka Seattle). Main camera with 300mm/2.8 was set to crop mode accidentally for all 3 days, so shots turned out 2x worse and also 2x harder to shoot. Second camera i was switching 35mm, 50mm, 85mm and 135mm for closer shots. It was extremely hot (96F) which is rare for Seattle, at least we didn't get rain 🙂


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The Sun, the Moon and the Witch's Blues Post 7″ TeaserPosted in Bootleg Theater on December 31st, 2015 by JJ Koczan
It's been a quick year since Swedish outfit The Sun, the Moon and the Witch's Blues made such an intriguing debut with an 18-minute single-song self-titled EP. Then working as the duo of Robin Hirse (also Asteroid) and Jonas Ljungkvist, they affected a heavy psych and blues atmosphere across the hypnotically-engaging track, seeming to serve notice of an arrival in the making. Even playing it back now, its organic flow and rich tonality leave a positive and encouraging impression, which is to say, it leaves me wanting more.
The band — now apparently a five-piece with Hirse on vocals or vocals and guitar, Ljungkvist on guitar as well as guitarist Tobias Eriksson, bassist Joakim Kohlscheen and drummer Jimmi Kohlscheen — will make their first physical offering in the form of a debut 7″ through Rock Freaks Records sometime sooner or later in 2016. Basically nothing about the release is known at this point in terms of what songs will be included, how many will be pressed and when it will be out, but a teaser has been posted that features a dreamy chorus and that's enough for me to go on. After they hit the studio this Spring and Fall, I'd been wondering what would come from it. Nice to have some idea on that one.
Also curious to see how Hirse winds up splitting time between The Sun, the Moon and the Witch's Blues and the recently-reunited Asteroid, and how the two projects will coexist going forward. I guess we'll find out. For now, if you listen to the teaser like six times in a row, it's almost like a whole song. Not saying I've tried that or anything. You know.
For your brief enjoyment:
The Sun, the Moon and the Witch's Blues, 7″ Teaser
Excerpt from the upcoming 7″ by The Sun, The Moon & The Witch's Blues. Out 2016 on Rock Freaks Records.
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DAT CAT WITH THE HAT! Too cute! XD (love the shading you've done with them!). Excellent work with the dragon in the first post, I'd actually really love to see that touched upon more if you ever go back to it.
Never too many dragons.
Omg do it
Look at him go~ XD Oh wow, top view! One of my enemys, but so pretty to look at. Lovin how straight your linework is on paper, such a steady hand


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I've decided I want to get the word "Be" tattooed on my wrist as a reminder. For me, it would be a reminder of a lot of different things. Relax. Be in the moment. Let the children be. Let the activity be. Watch. Observe.
It's becoming increasingly stressful to be an early childhood educator. The demand to get children ready for school is an ever-present thought in every educator's brain. My reaction to these demands is to BE. Be with the children. Grasp those teachable moments. Be in the process. Give children finger paint and let them explore. Be outside. Participate in the wonder of nature. Be amazed at the children's curiosity. Read books. Be in the story. Be quiet. Listen to the environment. Listen to the children. You may be surprised at how much children learn during these moments. You may also be surprised at how much YOU learn, as well.
As we are being, we are teaching and children are learning. Children are learning the scientific process while interacting with paint. They are learning about textures while exploring nature. Children are learning writing skills while using crayons and markers. They are learning math skills while working with blocks. Children are learning self-regulation while engaged in dramatic play.
Most of all, children are learning to BE. They are learning to be competent learners. They are learning that school is fun. They are developing a passion for learning. Children are learning to trust their adults. They are learning to trust themselves.
My advice to early childhood educators? Bask in the attention that's currently being paid to our field. Showcase your talents. Advocate for your children. Educate society on what the children are learning because you are BEING with them. Have an understanding in theory and developmentally appropriate practice so that your BEING is rooted in a firm foundation. Know why you are doing what you are doing. Soon enough everyone else will realize the value of being, too.
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That's Entertainment?
I'm pretty sure that a lot of sport nowadays is purely about the money making potential, with providing the general public with value, and entertainment a mere side issue. At least at times it feels that way.
I'm not even going into football, given the crazy sums that they charge people to go to a Premier League match nowadays, and even what some of the lower league sides charge, for an event that lasts about 90 minutes, crazy! But given I cant stand the sport, and have no wish to make it personal, lets leave it at that.
Not that (going up my scale of like) Horse Racing is an awful lot better now, what is charged for some of the major meetings (especially at weekends) sounds crazy to me, especially given that on top of the entry fee, you're going to end up gambling more money, which may, or may not add to the cost of the day out. Fine, some days it might pay for it, but anyway…
And OK, I'm not going to defend what some of my beloved US sports charge for a seat, especially the better ones, because they can be pretty outrageous too. On top of which, you pay a good sum just to park your car, which given the prevalence of out of town stadiums seems a bit unjust too, if thats the only way you can get there?
But ironically, the sport getting my ire tonight is one of my favourites, cricket. Yesterday saw one game where not only was 126 a good score, it was a winning score, which for leading pro's sounds crazy. Yes, I gather the wicket was to blame for that, which sounds daft, given that people pay to go and be entertained, not to see batsmen barely able to cope with conditions.
However, that wasnt as low as it got. Sky Sports were covering the game from Cardiff, due to the early end to the test match. It was a wicket that had previously been used, and sort of got back together for another match to be played on it. The commentators described it as an interesting wicket. Well, it was interesting if you want to see bowlers totally dominating, on a wicket where just about anything could happen. But for the people who'd paid a good sum, to see an entertaining cricket match, never mind!
The awful state of the wicket really showed up in the 2nd innings of the match, when both Hampshire batsmen got hit badly, by balls that leapt up from the pitch in a crazy fashion. Another ball in between, barely bounced! Anyway, after the second incident, the umpires declared the game abandoned, due to the unsafe state of the pitch. So not only did the paying public not get to be entertained, they got barely over half the match they'd paid to see.
Fair enough, if you want to pay large sums of money to go to sporting events, then go ahead and do it. I might add, that when on my own, I always go in the cheaper (though not the cheapest) seats at Baseball matches. But sporting teams, please at least provide conditions suitable for the contest, given how much you expect the public to pay to go and watch it.
The video, well its a question about yesterdays cricket, shall we say?
Oh, and fine, for the last time, given its now in its last 3 days, may I just ask that if anyone has a few spare pounds, dollars, euros, or whatever, and would like to help me change my name, the link is https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/e10ypc/ab/c2hJdb


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Getting to ride in a shiny C4 Corvette convertible Sunday was just the beginning of a day filled with fun activities for a 6-year-old cancer survivor in West Richland, Washington.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation made little Miette Nelson's dreams come true as they arranged for her ride in the car to Barracuda Coffee, where she even got to run the business behind the counter.
It was also a fun day for her family, who have been there every step of the way as Miette had to endure numerous treatments and doctor appointments.
"Miette obviously went through the brunt of the treatment," her mother Lisa explained, "but everybody had the cancer."
Miette's positive attitude was an inspiration for her family, though. "Whenever Miette had cancer she'd say, 'I like having cancer because we get to go places we never go,' her mother recalled.
Now she can really go places in her refurbished camping trailer that's just her style, decorated in lots of pink, with room even for her pet guinea pig she named Tina Turner.
The fun times arranged by Make-A-Wish Foundation helped put the memories of her treatment out of their minds for a little while, though her mother still has a soft spot for the others still going through their battles with cancer. "I'm thinking about this and at the same time, we have a little friend who just passed away after three months with leukemia," Lisa says.
Miette has been fortunate to have the support of others as well, including her friends who shaved their heads when she lost her hair due to the treatments.
"It felt good to support her that way," a little friend from her neighborhood told a news reporter.
Lisa is thankful for that kind of love. "I know that there are families going through this that don't have family support, and I frankly don't know how they are putting one foot in front of the other."
The Tri-Cities area in Washington is celebrating all week to raise funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, including Corvettes on the Columbia weekend on Saturday and Sunday. The big event will feature a concert, silent auction, and car show, among other activities. For more details, visit the 3 Rivers Corvette Club.
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1956-65 • A Sister Takes the Helm
St. Joseph's entered its fifth decade with its first female president. S. Vincent Thérèse Tuohy in 1956 replaced Monsignor Dillon, who led SJC for 11 years.
Under S. Vincent Thérèse's direction, the College's reputation for academic excellence and commitment to social justice flourished. Several students received Fulbright grants, international speakers delivered presentations on campus, and faculty members were picked by the Catholic Church to exhibit at the World's Fair in 1964.
S. Vincent Thérèse launched SJC's first and second capital fundraising campaigns, resulting in the construction of a four-level library, McEntegart Hall, in 1965 and the Dillon Child Study Center in 1968.
Judge Joan B. Carey '61
Former New York City Criminal Court judge
She hadn't received her official judge's robe, so it was in her St. Joseph's College graduation robe that the honorable Joan B. Carey first took the bench in Queens Criminal Court in 1978, launching a 30-year career presiding over a docket of robberies, assaults and homicides.
By her retirement in 2009, Ms. Carey had tried thousands of cases. She was an ardent advocate for the courts of New York state and a strong voice for reform of the laws governing domestic violence. It was a fitting legacy for a woman who started out as a social worker and public school teacher.
A 1961 graduate of St. Joseph's College, Ms. Carey earned a Bachelor of Laws from New York Law School in 1966. She went to work as an assistant district attorney in Queens, rising to become the first woman to serve as a bureau chief of a New York City district attorney's office.
Ms. Carey also worked as deputy chief of the Homicide Investigations Bureau, chief of the Supreme Court Trial Bureau and attorney-in-charge of the Rackets and Investigations Bureau.
Following her years as a prosecutor, Ms. Carey was appointed special attorney general in charge of Brooklyn and Staten Island, supervising the investigation and prosecution of cases involving corruption in the criminal justice system.
In 1993, Ms. Carey was named administrative judge of the Supreme Court Criminal Term in Manhattan, the largest criminal branch of the New York State Supreme Court. She held that position for nearly two years before being selected to take over the leadership of the New York City Criminal Court, thought by many to be the busiest criminal court in the world.
Ms. Carey received an honorary doctorate degree from St. Joseph's in 2002.


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The FBI, Europol and Britain's MI6 separately expressed misgivings about technology companies this week, with encryption especially sweating under the microscope.
Coming just weeks after Prime Minister David Cameron's inferred comments that encryption should be banned, Europol's Rob Wainright, Mi6's Alex Younger and FBI's James Comey reopened fresh wounds, suggesting that encryption is being used by criminals to hide their activities.
Speaking on the BBC's 5 Live Investigates programme earlier this week, Wainwright was vocal in how encryption can hinder criminal investigations.
"There is a significant capability gap that has to change if we're serious about ensuring the internet isn't abused and effectively enhancing the terrorist threat," said Wainwright, the Europol director.
On encryption, he added: "It's become perhaps the biggest problem for the police and the security service authorities in dealing with the threats from terrorism," he said. "It's changed the very nature of counter-terrorist work from one that has been traditionally reliant on having good monitoring capability of communications to one that essentially doesn't provide that anymore."
Wainwright added, as Europol EC3 chiefs have before him, that terrorists are exploiting Tor darknets to be anonymous on the internet, and criticised Apple for allowing customers to encrypt data on their smartphones. Encrypted IM apps also cause for concern as well as Twitter, which is being used by ISIS for recruitment.
"We are disappointed by the position taken by these tech firms and it only adds to our problems in getting to the communications of the most dangerous people that are abusing the internet.
"[Tech firms] are doing it, I suppose, because of a commercial imperative driven by what they perceive to be consumer demand for greater privacy of their communications."
But a TechUk spokesman on the programme, added: "From huge volumes of financial transactions to personal details held on devices, the security of digital communications fundamentally underpins the UK economy.
"Encryption is an essential component of the modern world and ensures the UK retains its position as one of the world's leading economies.
"Tech companies take their security responsibilities incredibly seriously, and in the ongoing course of counter-terrorism and other investigations, engage with law enforcement and security agencies."
Wainwright said that current laws are "deficient" and should be reviewed, but concurred: "We have to make sure we reach the right balance by ensuring the fundamental principles of privacy are upheld so there's a lot of work for legislators and tech firms to do."
Wainwright's comments came only days after FBI director Comey was speaking at Congress, in front of the House Appropriations Committee, imploring Congressmen to pass laws forcing technology companies to create backdoors.
He also suggested that the Obama administration might be crafting such a law right now. "One of the things that the administration is working on right now is, what would a legislative response look like that would allow us … with court process, to get access to that evidence", he said.
FBI's own advice, on enabling encryption on mobile devices, was removed from its site late last week, something the agency has said was down to an "ongoing website redesign."
Elsewhere, Alex Younger, the new head of MI6, was reported by The Guardian as saying that terrorists were increasingly exploiting internet technology.
Speaking at a conference in London this week, he said that the internet has offered both good points and bad, big data offered more targeted investigating, but technology had still created new vulnerabilities.
"The bad news is the same technology is in opposition hands, an opposition often unconstrained by consideration of ethics and law, which allows them to see what we are doing and to put our people and agents at risk," he said.
"So we find ourselves in a technology arms race. Contrary to myth, human intelligence operations are not an alternative to technical operations – the two are interdependent and set to become more so."
Adrian Culley, an independent cyber-security consultant and former Met Police Computer Crime Unit detective, told SCMagazineUK.com that, despite this flurry of publicity, this is not a new debate – with banning encryption on the map since the Walsh report was inadvertently published by the Australia Attorney General in 1999.
"This is not new; it's been going on for a long time. But I think there needs to be a deeper thinking on encryption at the moment - banning it is not the answer. You can't put the genie back in the bottle."
"It's great Europol is addressing the issue but there's more work to do." Culley added that part of this would involve educating senior management on the intricacies of encryption, as well as changing the law.
Citing RIPA, which he says has been used in the UK to get access to encryption keys, he said: "I think post-Snowden, it's clear that all legislation needs revisiting. With any legislation relating to tech, 15 years (when RIPA was first introduced) is a long time."
Digital forensics expert and white-hat hacker Jonathan Zdziarski had some extra strong words when speaking to SC: "If there's one thing I've learned about government it's never to put even the dumbest idea past them."
"[And] as far as whether any middle ground exists that would make everyone think so, I don't think so. Especially with Apple having such a strong posture that it's essential to freedom."
He added on the future, there is the possible continuation of backdoors: "Backdoors existed before we ever started fighting about it so I suspect it will continue; at some point I'd expect to see someone try to push through some key escrow or backdoor legislation. I think this has already happened historically."
"The only thing that's really changed is that privacy advocates have a new understanding of who their adversary is."


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The zoo is located west of Bandung Institute of
Technology (ITB) Jl. Taman Sari, offering Mini Botanical Garden which lay in the Cikapundung Valley.
The zoo was built in 1933 is a combination
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The merger is intended Due to both these places are no longer fit for storing a variety of animals that are gradually becoming more. A wide variety of animals either protected or not, by place like valleys make this zoo sights increasingly favored by parents who want to enjoy the atmosphere of Bandung and children who want to know the kinds of animals.


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The economy is in deep trouble. It's bad now, but this is just the beginning. There will be fundamental changes in the global banking system, the use of credit and the value of currencies. It's going to be rough.
So what do you do? Wait it out?
I think this is a time to be bold. Not stupid or careless, but bold.
So, in keeping with my "Be Bold!" strategy I'm still spending money, investing and growing my business. In fact, I'm working on buying a pretty expensive domain name for a project right now and I plan to launch two completely new businesses in the next two months.
One of my biggest sources of income is selling domain names. [I'm not talking about ultra-premium names I've kept in my portfolio for years either. I'm talking about buying and quickly reselling domains for ~$300 each.] Anyhow…In September of 2008, it really appeared that this part of my business was on a serious decline. I couldn't help but only expect it to get worse.
But, As quickly as my domain sales went down, they came back. Right now, January 2009 is looking like my second best month ever. How much money did I make flipping domains this month? It's a big number, trust me.
So, if I'm selling domains, that means people are still buying. The world (especially the world of entrepreneurs and small businesses) is made up of innovative people who will strive to survive the downturn. But more than that, there are many that will "Be Bold!" and take advantage of opportunities and weakness in the marketplace.
Your task, if you want to thrive in this bad economy, is to serve be Bold by serving the Bold.


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My first thoughts on aging are about acceptance: the grey hairs, the lumpy body, and the aches and pains. But aging gracefully is about so much more than that. It is about the acceptance of who I am.
Jane also has a neat blog.
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While at a media conference in New York, I had the chance to meet a cooking blogger named Alma Schneider. She wanted to know if I could put together a guest blog post showing how gratitude can lead to more energy in the kitchen.
Here it is: http://takebackthekitchen.com/want-more-energy-in-the-kitchen-teach-happiness/
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When I saw the Inspired Events Stamp set in this catalogue, I was so excited. It was at the top of my list of my wishlist! Why? I'm sure you are wondering…. We have had similar types of Stamp sets before with blessing sentiments and different types of Crosses in lovely designs, but this stamp set has one sentiment never before seen….
"First Communion"
Other sets have included Baptism, Christening and Confirmation… but I have longed for a Communion sentiment. For our family the timing could not have been more perfect with our son making his First Holy Communion a week or so ago. It arrived just in time and this is the card I made for him.
Inspiration came from the two projects featured with that stamp set on page 111 of the catalogue. It's from the For Babies & Kids section which is the feature this week at Case-ing the Catty.
The Designer Series Paper I used here was from the Coffee Break pack. I hightlighted the event sentiment by raising it and creating flags to both ends and finished off with some burlap ribbon beneath it.
This stamp set is very versatile as you can make greeting cards with it obviously, but the sentiments are also written in such a way you can create invitations with it too. Here I have modified one of the sentiments that would work for an invite. By inking up part of it allowed me to personalise the card for our son.
Once I got passed my excitement for that sentiment I stopped and had a good look at this set. It really has so many lovely wonderful elements and is so cleverly designed (thanks Stampin' Up!) I know I'm going to get loads of use from these for a wide range of events. I added the very elegant Cross design to the top of the card and that lovely filigree type edging to the bottom. Then I rearranged the elements to create a coordinated envelope.
I hope you have enjoyed this inspiration using this stamp set. I have a confirmation coming up later this year, I'm sure I'll be back then with more using this awesome set.
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How did all this tramping madness get started, you might ask? Because let me tell you, it's highly addictive. Now I know there are people who can't imagine anything worse or more miserable than carrying a heavy pack over kilometres and kilometres of track. I'm not one of those people.
Tramping is quite possibly one of the greatest joys of my life. I LOVE it. I came to NZ in 2007 and started tramping in 2008. I started off with some of the popular tracks – Milford, Copland, Rees-Dart. About 1 a year. They all absolutely kicked my butt, but I still loved them.
Then Dylan and I started dating in February 2012. What better way to test your relationship than going on one killer tramp together, right?
We decided to do the Gillespie pass over Easter (and my 29th birthday!) 2012. Gillespie pass is a popular 4 day circuit just north of Makarora. The weather was perfect – warm, it had barely rained in weeks (low rivers!). Five of us started out for this epic journey through the mountains.
I knew it was going to be tough (58 km, not a great walk, , but I'll admit I was still a bit of tramping rookie (1-2 tramps a year max) at this point.
Lets just say I learned a lot on that tramp. If I did the Gillespie again, I would do it totally different. But hindsight is 20/20, isn't it?
The first thing we learned early on was that the heat is not our friend. Well, the heat is not Dylans friend. Our first day was hot and long. We knew day #2 (going over the Gillespie pass) would be the real killer (you climb and then descend 1000 m), so we got up ridiculously early on day #2 and set out to do most of the climbing before the heat of the day (it was still hot enough that Dylan did most of the climb in his underwear. Just his underwear. Not only that, but New Zealand is a small enough place that inevitably Dylan ran into someone from his department while he was tramping in his boxers. Typical.). Now day #2 is 12 km and supposed to take 6-8 hours. I think it took us 11. 😦 We were fine getting up to the pass, it was coming down where we became absolutely stuffed. It was hot, there was no water, and Dylan was on the verge of heatstroke. We were saved by the tiny amount of crusty snow that lives at the top of the climb all year round.
But we learned! We learned critical things.
- A heavy pack is your worst enemy. Pack light.
- Always carry hydration salts.
- If you're carrying a tent, you're stuffed, and you come across an excellent camping spot – just stop. Don't keep going to the next hut just because. Undoubtably it will be filled with a million loud children.
- If there is the option to jet boat out, don't be cheap. Just pay the $85 and save yourself 27 km of walking through farmland.
So day #3 we were so stuffed most of us didn't make the day walk up to crucible lake – aka the highlight of the trip. Day #4 was a horrible 27 km slog out along the Wilkin river, watching every single other person zoom past us in a jet boat. Jerks.
I know, it sounds amazing (amazingly agonizing) right? Dylan loved it so much, we went on another tramp later in April with the tramping club (a much, much easier one. Just into the Greenstone hut and back out again).
If I were going to do the Gillespie again, I would definitely take a tent so that I could camp either just below the alpine area of coming over the pass, or down at the bottom of the valley where the track splits of to crucible lake (and saving you from having to backtrack the next day). I would also absolutely pay the ridiculous $85 or whatever it is these days to get jet-boated out. Live and learn.
Happy tramping! Read more about the Gillespie circuit here.


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huh. more imaginary star wars characters. well, you really gotta credit people for their active imaginations! (~_^)
happy new year everybody! (^_^)
previously: happy new year!
huh. more imaginary star wars characters. well, you really gotta credit people for their active imaginations! (~_^)
happy new year everybody! (^_^)
previously: happy new year!
i tried to come up with a top-ten list of what i think were my most important (delusions of grandeur!) posts this past year, but instead i've got a top-seventeen list. sorry, i just couldn't whittle it down any further. (^_^)
if you're new-ish to the blog, it might be useful to read these in order if you want to catch up on the conversation. if your new year's resolution is to read only one blog post per day, and it's after midnight where you are, then i recommend four things from last month:
jan: reductionism works
feb: cousin marriage conundrum addendum
apr: whatever happened to european tribes?
may: father's brother's daughter marriage
jun: genes for altruism
jul: medieval manoralism and genetic relatedness and and so my next question naturally is…
aug: setting the stage? and "hard-won democracy"
sep: but what about the english?
oct: technical stuff
nov: mating patterns and the individual and which altrusim genes? and inclusive inclusive fitness and four things
dec: the middle ages and visions of altruism genes
happy new year everybody! (^_^)
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"Genes Play Major Role in Primate Social Behavior, Study Finds"
"Social behavior among primates — including humans — has a substantial genetic basis, a team of scientists has concluded from a new survey of social structure across the primate family tree.
"The scientists, at the University of Oxford in England, looked at the evolutionary family tree of 217 primate species whose social organization is known….
"[T]he new survey emphasizes the major role of genetics in shaping sociality. Being rooted in genetics, social structure is hard to change, and a species has to operate with whatever social structure it inherits.
"If social behavior were mostly shaped by ecology, then related species living in different environments should display a variety of social structures. But the Oxford biologists — Susanne Shultz, Christopher Opie and Quentin Atkinson — found the opposite was true: Primate species tended to have the same social structure as their close relatives, regardless of how and where they live….
"The Oxford survey confirms that the structure of human society, too, is likely to have a genetic basis, since humans are in the primate family, said Bernard Chapais, an expert on human social evolution at the University of Montreal.
"'Evolutionary change in any particular lineage is highly constrained by the lineage's phylogenetic history,' Dr. Chapais said, referring to the evolutionary family tree. 'This reasoning applies to all species, including ours.'"
oh my lord! pass me the smelling salts — i do declare, i think i'm gonna faint!
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"France makes it harder to become French"
harder than before when all it would've required was some futuristic genetic engineering, i guess.
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i had visions of this schematic diagram (along with sugarplums, of course!) knocking around in my head over christmas. for those of you who haven't been following along, it came to mind 'cause of a brief conversation in this comments thread here.
the slopes might not be exactly right for conveying what i've got in mind — if i had actually drawn the graph myself, maybe they'd be more "right" (i brazenly stole and adapted the graph from wikipedia) — but hopefully you'll get my general meaning. see what you think:
(hint: as the degree of inbreeding in a population increases, the number of reciprocal altruism genes decreases while the number of "sib-altruism" genes increases. and vice versa.)
previously: technical stuff
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so, i spent christmas in a large, east coast city — in fact, THE large, east coast city — and i have a couple of observations to report re. the war-on-christmas — which, yes, is definitely occurring. but you know what? i am optimistic! and as you prolly already know, i am not a "glass half-full" type of gal — i'm more of a "why is the glass so small?" gal. (~_^) so if i don't think things are that bad, maybe they're not.
anyway, there was a lot of christmas spirit on display in the big apple! a LOT. it was very gratifying to see.
sure — most of the christmas songs being played in the stores and coffee shops were missing the christian part of christmas (i.e. they were mostly "rudolf" and "jingle bells"), but at least there were christmas songs being played — EVERYwhere as far as i could tell. my spirits were definitely cheered. (^_^)
and, yes, there were a lot of "holiday" greetings everywhere — but the local tv station that i saw (ny1?) did have merry christmas commercials (as well as happy channukah greetings). and the rockefeller center christmas tree is still a christmas tree.
lastly, yes, most of the sales clerks and restaurant/coffee shop staff would wish me "happy holidays," but if i started with or returned with a "merry christmas" (a little experiment that i ran), i was usually very cheerfully responded to with a "merry christmas." (^_^) (i did not, of course, wish any of the taxi drivers named mohammed a merry christmas, or the owner of carnegie's deli. (~_^) i'm not a fanatic — h*ck, i'm not even religious.)
maybe i imagined it, but i don't think that i did, but i had the impression that many of the sales clerks would say, rather unenthusiastically, what they had presumably been told to say ("happy holidays"), but when i would reply with "merry christmas" they would really light up and respond with a cheeful "merry christmas." like i say, maybe i'm imagining it (too much eggnog?), but i really think this was the case. and i seemed to get the best responses from blacks and puerto ricans.
so, that's my little set of anecdotal war-on-christmas evidence. (^_^) my impression, after a week in the heart of darkness, is that the war on christmas is not yet lost. (^_^)
my next social experiment?: columbus day, 2012. (~_^)
p.s. – i'm still sleeping off my holly, jolly hangover, so posting will prolly be light for a few more days.
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-TK- wrote:I'm confused…. What is the difference between this "limited" edition sold at the movies and the "regular" one? It seems the latter has the 64-pages booklet too, so… Clear files? Posters?
Maybe? a I haven't gotten to see what the regular BD includes. Maybe the postcards of the main image/the Luscinia and Alauda one? Or maybe limited just meant "early" lol.


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Deirdre Ward
Deirdre has completed more English Channel 21 miles/34 km crossings (four) than any swimmer from Ireland – including an over and back 42 miles/68 km swim:
2012 in 14 hours and 38 minutes
Her other marathon swims include: Lake Zurich 16.4 miles/26.4 km in 2010 in 8 hours 33 minutes and 57 seconds, Windermere over and back 21 miles/34 km in 2014 in 12 hours 2 minutes and 55 seconds and Around Manhattan in 2014 28.5 miles/45.9 km in 9 hours 21 minute and 10 seconds.
Deirdre learned to swim, trained and competed as a member of St Pauls Swimming Club in Dublin until she left Dublin in 2002 to live in London.
She also contributed over the years as a swim organiser and volunteer: Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation – committee, Serpentine Swimming Club - Vice Team Captain and Otter Swimming Club - Membership Secretary.


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Deciding to cohabitate with your significant other is a major milestone and a pretty serious commitment — one that shouldn't be taken lightly. Here are 6 important tips to help you survive the transition.
1. Take inventory
If you've both been living separately as adults, you'll likely have too much furniture for one home or apartment. It's a good idea to get on the same page before moving day to discuss what goes (and what stays). If you're not ready to part with half of your possessions, consider renting a storage space where you can safely keep overflow. And remember: compromise is key. Be considerate of your partner's favorite belongings and personal style. Try to be fair about who gets to keep what and figure out ways to showcase one another's taste in your collective space.
2. Shop together
Still arguing about who gets to keep their couch? Consider going a third route and buying something together. Shopping and purchasing a few key items as a couple (bed linens or a new mattress, for example) can make for a fun outing and is a great way to show respect for each other's tastes.
3. Share closets
Maybe you're already using every closet in the apartment. But now that you've got a roommate, you should be prepared to make some room. If you're pressed for space, consider doing a purge of old clothes that you don't wear anymore. Closet organizers can also help you make the best use of precious closet real estate.
4. Delegate chores
Many of the most successful partnerships involve some good old-fashioned give and take. Don't assume you'll magically share responsibilities with zero conflict. Take the time to talk about who'll be handling what — everything from doing the bills to cleaning the toilet should be up for discussion. Some couples may even benefit from creating a weekly or monthly chore chart to equitably divide up the housework.
5. Discuss finances
There are a ton of variables that can come into play when figuring out your finances as a cohabiting couple. The most important thing is to communicate about what's realistic given your unique set of circumstances and to set expectations early (preferably before your move-in date). Talk openly about your incomes and which expenses you want to share. Are you merging bank accounts or keeping everything separate? Some couples create a new, third bank account for shared expenses. Everything should be on the table: the security deposit, rent, utilities, groceries, gas, insurance, personal items. You should also talk about savings goals you may have (are you saving up for a house or larger apartment or paying off student debt?) and how you intend to get there. Whatever you decide to do, the most important thing is to have open, early discussions with your partner and try your best to arrive at a mutually acceptable agreement.
6. Maintain personal space
Everyone needs a little me time. Look for ways to maintain personal space after moving in together (and don't be offended when your new roommate does the same). Whether it's taking a solo yoga class or designating a corner as your own personal work space, it's good to balance your time together and apart.


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The Indian Army is in the process of acquiring 60 acres of land in Pantnagar in Kumaon to operate Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) there – a move which is expected to improve surveillance of the India-China border. The district administration of Udham Singh Nagar which is currently evaluating a proposal for acquisition of the land confirmed the development.
"We cannot divulge any further details regarding the project except that this is being executed keeping the strategic importance of Uttarakhand with regards to China," said Neeraj Khairwal, district magistrate, Udham Singh Nagar. Om Prakash, director, Uttarakhand Civil Aviation Development Authority (UCADA) said that the request for setting up a base was received from the Army "a few years back." "Currently, the proposal is in its final stages It will be submitted to the government for approval by May 15."
This will be the first time that Army UAVs or drones will operate in Uttarakhand. The Army currently has UAV bases in the Northeast in places like Kumbhigram and Lilabari in Assam. Elaborating on the significance of having a UAV base in Uttarakhand, a serving Army officer who is also a UAV instructor, told TOI, "Once we get a UAV base in Uttarakhand, then we will be able to do better surveillance of China from the state." The Indian Army currently has two major types of UAVs -- Heron and Searcher Mark-II. The official added that in all likelihood, the Heron series which is used in high-altitude areas will be deployed in Uttarakhand. The Heron drone is capable of flying for well over 24 hours at high altitudes as well as target acquisition and artillery adjustment capabilities."
According to the official, one UAV specialized unit can have up to eight drones which are overseen by an officer who is a qualified flying instructor (QFI) of UAVs. "We had requested for a land way back in 2006 but at that time it could not materialize. Around two years back, it was decided that we would operate on the same base as the civil aviation authority as is being done in Jammu, Leh, and places in Northeast where the availability of adequate land is an issue," he added.
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After years of this game being around to find original ideas is hard and you my friend keep on doing it great level from a great creator
once again, you succeed in creating a level that offers great visuals and really original gameplay mechanics, great to look and a blast to play, you always manage to give your levels a different approach to keep things fresh and interesting, with the usual trademark of yours, high quality! :D PS: i absolutely loved the boss fight, that was brilliant! :)


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Time to show one of the other things I did at one of the classes with 13arts. This one I did with Aida herself.
This was really fun to do and I just love the colors and glitter. I think I have to buy some more 13arts products 😉
Thanks Aida for a lovely class!


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But this isn't a piece about the board. This is a piece about Everton. And the board are not Everton.
One thing that has remained constant throughout Everton's history is a clearly defined identity. A proper identity. I'm not talking about the "we won the World Cup" or the "our star player was a piss-head" identity. I mean a proper set of events and values that even neutral fans can say "that was Everton".
A History Lesson
In 1891 Everton won the Football League. As the club celebrated being only the second club to win it, in its third season, one man who shan't be named looked to spoil the party and make a quick buck. The immortal George Mahon stood in front of a special general meeting of the club, produced an agreement to lease a plot of land in nearby Walton and declared Everton would do what had at that point never been done – construct a purpose-built football ground. For all time, Everton, and jointly Celtic, will be known as the first football clubs to have their own stadiums.
Fast forward to the 1950s, and postponements pockmarked the football calendar. It was decided that an ambitious undersoil heating system, the first at any British football ground, would be installed to carry the club through the winter months and cement Goodison's place as one of the world's premier sporting venues. Anfield didn't have it until 1982.
Even in 1995 as the country salivated over the prospect "dream final" a beleaguered Everton, midway through a decade of misery, stood defiant and wrote themselves into history as one of the best crap sides ever to win a pot, with the best cup final song ever made to boot. Christ, in 2005 they had to rewrite the European rulebook because we wouldn't do what we were told.
We've always done things a bit differently. Tried new things. Led the way. We have a proper identity. So the question must be asked, what identity will a post-takeover Everton have?
You may sit there and say "they'll never sell!" but the fact is, rumours aside, they won't be there forever. Bill Kenwright is 69. Jon Woods 68. Robert Earl 64. Eventually someone else will be running the club. So what will that club look like?
The Premier League Peep-Show
One of the greatest failings of the current regime is the laughably feeble commercial income compared to the clubs we seek to usurp. Everton's global profile can be generously described as low key. But profile is not identity.
Yesterday I saw someone walk out of the Liverpool shop on Williamson Square with a tote bag of purchases. Do you know what that tote bag said on it? Standard Chartered. It might have said LFC somewhere near the neck, but not in any noticeable size. All I could see is the name of their shirt sponsor who, when they're not laundering money for FIFA or Iranian Oil, contribute some 30% of Liverpool's eye watering £100m in commercial income. But at what cost? They take their kids to the club shop to stock up on tacky merchandise, only to take it home in a bag that's more libor than Liverpool. Fairytale stuff.
Tottenham and Chelsea are two shining examples of London-driven commercial muscle, with official dental floss partners accounting for 31% and 35% of their turnover respectively. This number is just under 10% for Everton. Yet, did anyone see what those clubs were up to last week as most of the world watched Arsenal ruthlessly destroying both Aston Villa and Christian Benteke's agent's will to live? Post-season friendlies in Asia and Australia. This is the cost of the commercial juggernaut that is the Premier League. Jetting off to another time zone to flog your brand whilst the oldest cup competition in the world is taking place. Which you should be playing in.
The point of highlighting these things is, yes, under new ownership Everton could quite conceivably join the ranks of the commercial elite. But the great danger is that in doing so, a part of our identity might be lost along the way. We don't have to march to their drum-beat. The most important thing for me with any new regime is that we don't succumb to the temptations of the 39th game, post-season friendlies and the like. We have to believe that there can be another way, and that we can find it, that the Houldings of the football world haven't won, that we don't need eight-figure commercial deals with ethically questionable financial institutions to compete with the best and win those trophies and titles that all Evertonians crave above all else.
Let Everton Be Everton
For me, the most important thing we must do to preserve our identity is to claw back everything that is associated with Everton but has been cast into the wilderness of outsourcing. The last accounts showed a £28m profit. Granted, the manager isn't going to see all of that, and the CEO says any stadium financing is not going to come from our end. But right now, one thing that can be done to at least claw back our identity, and probably make ourselves a little bit more marketable in the process, is to bring everything back in-house. Merchandise, catering, the lot.
Every single keychain, every single cup of tea, every pin badge with the word or crest of Everton on it should come from this club, and every single penny paid for it should go back to the club. Every person you see on matchday from the stewards to the hospitality suite cleaners to the players should be a permanent employee of the club on at the very least the living wage. Bring it all back. If it costs us an extra £3m a year than outsourcing, who cares? It's ours. It's Everton. We have the money.
From there we can start to talk about things such as fixed assets and Finch Farm. But at the very least, for now, we need to reclaim the identity of the club. That at least would be a start.


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Project Runway: Season 3 - Fashion, drama, Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn. What more could you ask for?
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"In Control" – Vol. IX, No. 11
This leg began (oddly enough) at the same place the last leg ended: near Darwin, Australia. The first team to leave was Ray & Yolanda, who opened their clue to discover that they were headed to Thailand. On the way to their car, they left a pair of Yolandas pants on BJ & Tylers car. Since Phil took all of the hippies possessions except the clothes on their backs at the conclusion of last leg, BJ was beginning the leg without any pants or shoes. (This fact would be repeated ad nauseam throughout the leg.) Hot on the heels of Ray & Yolanda came Eric & Jeremy (who left a pair of flip-flops for BJ), Joseph & Monica (who left nothing but scorn), and finally BJ & Tyler.
Teams all headed for the Darwin airport to book flights to Thailand. Ray & Yolanda discovered that the first flight went via Sydney and would arrive at 11:00 P.M. Soon all the other Racers were at the airport attempting to book the same flightexcept for BJ & Tyler, who for reasons unknown decided to head back into Darwin and beg for money before booking their tickets. This plan would backfire on them, as the flight the other three teams were on sold out while they were . . .
Hold on here. Is anyone still reading this crap? This is completely and 100% boring! No wonder we never write Race recaps! Didnt you all watch the freaking show? Then you already KNOW what happened. Why do you need us to tell you about it? You know what you do need us to tell you about? This:
Steve & Dave Present Real Answers To Fake Questions From Real TARflies Posters
Stan Dreamery writes: Hey, dont you think that you guys were a little hard on the guy who won your first contest? I think you should have given him the prize. Just my opinion. You guys are the greatest.
Stan: Hey, we know how to use the internet anagram server, too . . . Ryan DeMaster! Nice fake name, but we arent falling for it, and you are still disqualified, only now its for a full year!!! Thats right, no prizes from Steve & Dave for a year, Ryan/Stan.
miri wonders: Lately Ive heard some grumblings about your column. There have been a couple of folks who have implied that you really dont write about The Amazing Race at all. They say that the only reason you even get to write is that youre former Racers and that if anyone else tried to submit the pap you publish, they would be resoundingly rejected. They even go so far as to claim that you couldnt write a recap of an episode of TAR if you tried. I think you could, but could you please try to meet the deadline?
miri: Your whole letter sounds very familiar to us, almost as if we had heard it somewhere before. In any event, Steve & Dave dont do recaps. We tried one recently, and they suck.
JenEx says: Dear Steve & Dave . . . excuse me for a second. I have to go to the bathroom.
Chip of TAR5 stops by: Click here and here and here. But NOT here. Pretty funny, huh? Ill stop by next week when clicking here will be activated. The Chipper of Chip & Kim and Chip & Kim Chip: Thanks for stopping by. We still love you guys. Tribefan asks: Those maps you guys put in sometimes are pretty hilarious. Where do you get the ideas for them?
Tribefan: Do you actually watch the show, or are you just another Steve & Dave groupie (not that theres anything wrong with being a Steve & Dave groupie)? We get the ideas for the maps from the show, of course. Most of the time, we buy them fromwell, lets just call our source Bertram (which is definitely not our source Bertrams real name)someone who still happens to work for World Race Productions. Those things are real; we couldnt publish them if they werent! Look, heres the original planning map for last legs Detour, with the producers notes still in place:
JenEx tries once more: Dear Steve & Dave, I just wanted . . . Oh . . . I gotta pee AGAIN!
whereverthefk states: You two guys wont make me laugh THIS column. Ive got a sure-fire method of . . . oh look! Ferry dock and Fairy dock . . . bwahahahahahahaha!
whereverthefk: Yeah, we know. We put it there just for you.
Mailman Jamie inquires: Hey, Ive been thinking about this whole Christmas card thing. You guys arent gonna mail it to me, are you? Because, well . . . that would really increase my workload, and Im not so sure that I would appreciate it. I think you two guys are intentionally trying to piss me off, and that makes me want to . . .
Mailman Jamie: Calm down, dude. Step away from the Uzi. Everything is going to be all right. You can ask anyone. We havent sent out a Christmas card in years. Its just a meaningless threat. Really.
Ryan DeMaster wants to know: OK, Ive said nice things about you. Can I have my prize now?
Ryan/Stan: Want to try for a two-year ban? Keep it up.
RachelRSL whines: I have to stay home from ANOTHER TARcon because those assholes made me work another eight-day week. So I was going to placate myself with another Steve & Dave gem and THIS is the best youve got??! Great, now my faucets dripping, and Im out of Frosted Flakes. Ouch, that shouldnt hurt like that. The doctor is probably booked. Damn, its cold up here.
Rachel: Glad we could make your day another winner. Now go buy some lottery tickets.miri exclaims: Squeee! Did you see those pandas inhale? Then they exhaled! Im so happy! They are just TOO cute! Oooohhh, they did it AGAIN!
JenEx gives it another shot:JustwantedtoletyouknowifthiskidsaboyhisnamewillbeStevenDavid . . . gottago.
MamaTiger claims: When I was preggers with WhiteRabbit, I used duct tape to stem the ahem flow. Why, once, PapaTiger made a life-size replica of the Sistine Chapel using only duct tape. That (of course) was when we lived in Tibet so we could look out our window to see the detail.
MamaTiger: Did not, did not, did not.
Enough of the fake letters. Since this is the last episode of TAR9, it is time for us to make our picks to win the Race. Before we do, let us point something out. Back before the Race ever began, we printed this:
Bronze Medalists (i.e. Welcome to Loser Lodge): Fran & Barry, David & Lori, Lisa & Joni, Danielle & Dani, and Wanda & Desiree.
Silver Medalists (i.e. Also Welcome to Loser Lodge, Just a Little Later): John & Scott, Lake & Michelle, and BJ & Tyler.
Gold Medalists (i.e. 65,000 miles, 4 continents . . . ): Ray & Yolanda, Joseph & Monica, and Eric & Jeremy.
Do you notice something there? Thats right, we called the top four even before the Race began. Sure, one of our top three actually finished in fourth place, but we came pretty darn close. Now its time for us to pick the winner. Wed recommend you bet the farm on our pick:
Steve: Zach & Flow first, Eric & Jeremy second, Ray & Yolanda third. Dave: Eric & Jeremy to win, Ray & Yolanda to finish second, and BJ & Tyler in third.


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My very favorite food in the whole wide world is a perfect cheeseburger, and fortunately I am married to a man whose burger skills rival the best in the west—and that includes an I-can-die-happy-now rendition that burger queen Nancy Silverton grilled up in her backyard for our friend Carolynn's birthday. But as much as I would love a cheeseburger just about any night of the week, I get that it's not a great idea health wise. And so I've been experimenting with alternative burgers using leaner proteins than beef. So far, this Shrimp Burger with Roasted Garlic-Orange Aioli from FOOD52 takes the cake. Sautéed fennel, shallots, red pepper and meaty chopped shrimp are bound together with roasted garlic aioli (which doubles as a condiment on toasted burger buns).
The orange zest in the aioli totally makes this burger. It's subtle but adds a brightness to the rich aioli and shrimp. More later on the actual making of the aioli—it took me FIVE attempts—but now that I've got the hang of it these burgers will be making the scene all summer. I served with a bottle of Stony Hill Gewürztraminer and you'd be hard-pressed to find a better pairing, but a citrusy beer like the super-smooth 60-minute IPA from Dogfish Brewery would also hit the spot.


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