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of the Flies
Jim Kirwan
The 1954 novel, Lord of the Flies was a fictional-story about 30 privileged boys whose plane crashed on a deserted island. In the story they regressed back to an ever more savage state of brutal violence. That regression has continued with the global-leaders of today, in their sexual perversions and blood sacrifices that are held annually at Bohemian Grove in California. It's against these sexual & political perversions that the world is still fighting for our very survival today.
there are three apparently different scenarios being shown in order
to connect the continuing erosion of Western Society with their own
evil roots that have been present in the world since the Fifth Century.
The war against Muslim perversions, that if unchecked, will clearly desecrate the nations of the EU & the West, is just a fact. These false-alters upon which all of this is being carried out is predicated on primitive child-marriages, slavery and blood sacrifices around the world. This pedophilia is the key to understanding the total disconnect between the archaic practices of the Muslim World, in lock-step with Sharia Law, which cannot be allowed to invade the West in any country, to which these barbaric practices are totally foreign, under all the laws of the twenty-first century.
The way that this managed to make its way into the Twenty-First Century was simplegiven the facts. In the book, the children were cut off from the outside world, by accident. The plane crash and the deserted island created an artificial background, in a fictitious story that was was meant to illustrate a primitive society in miniature, without the necessary checks & balances of the then wider world.
In life we have now literally created a world wide-situation because we have almost totally erased the literal history upon which the Western societies were once built: And because too many now have no memory of the recent past the public has no memory of freedom or morals of any kind. They have consequently been seduced into believing that this Fifth-Century antiquated Horror has some merit to some twisted individuals, who have decided that they can behead any and all who refuse to swear allegiance to their Fifth Century Islamic practices, that are now seeking to take over what was once 'the world'.
Of course there is no real comparison possible between 30 privileged boys in a story written in 1954with what is going on today. Nevertheless; unfortunately since the rise to prominence of the Bohemian Grove and the thousands of 'protected-leaders' that have attended the real blood-sacrifices and their dark codes of secrecy that came from cults such as Skull & Bones, which the entire Bush family has always participated-in: We have an intolerable situation in the making.
The public in 2016 is now facing a total take-down of the civilized world, to subordinate us all into their dark-world of Evil, that can never be allowed to dominate over the rest of the planet.
This thought came to mind in the discussion today on CROSSTALK, and a discussion on RT about the allowance of child-marriage which Western Civilization considers to be pedophilia and obscene.
Bullhorns Out Gate!
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Concluding @ 8min 24 sec.
This is happening because of the ongoing global-convolutions discussed in Bullhorns above. But together it seems to indicate that there may be an artificial-resurgence of everything inherent in the basic perversions and blood sacrifices of the Bohemian Grove when coupled with Fifth Century Muslim practices: If the world of 2016 does not rise to this occasion and wipe these twisted Muslim-practices off the global-map forever, then humanity as we have known it is doomed.
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History of Earth Day:
The first Earth Day was celebrated was on April 22, 1970. Gaylord Nelson, known as the "Conservation Governor" was inspired by increasing campus activism, to bring together a team of people to develop a national day focused on the preserving and bettering the environment.
The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 had an estimated 20 million Americans that took part in the festivities. Here is the estimated breakdown:
10,000 Elementary & High Schools
2,000 Colleges
1,000 Communities
Since then, Earth Day has grown exponentially. It shows that people all around the world are concerned with our ability to help preserve the environment. In 2000, it was estimated that there were approximately 184 countries that help formal Earth Day Celebrations.
What better way to celebrate than learning about a
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Using sustainable and green products are not only better for the environment, they are also better for your facility management employees, all other employees/students and also all other customers or visitors you may have visiting your building. There are so many benefits to switching to green and sustainable products!
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Don't be Penniless when Disaster Strikes
You never really know when disaster is going to strike, right? Let's say extreme weather destroys some, or maybe all, of your belongings. Or you're suddenly let go of employment during a really bad time for hiring. I could list potential disasters all day, but perhaps it's best to get down to brass tacks: you need an emergency fund if you want to ensure you're not stuck penniless if disaster strikes.
A better definition of 'emergency'
If the scenario you find yourself in means that you need a large amount of cash as soon as possible, then the chances are that you're in a financial emergency. And no, I'm not talking about the kind of 'need' for cash that you have when you want to buy a new 100-inch Ultra HD TV. I'm talking about destruction, a death in the family, medical bills, that sort of thing. Very unfun stuff, you'll notice. (Although maybe that picture of the Hindenburg disaster was a bit of an overly dramatic choice.) We've got some more examples at www.completepersonalfinance.com.
Do I need an emergency fund?
Well, you certainly need to have some kind of safety net in case things go south all of a sudden. (No offence to people living in the south.) There are definitely financial situations people are in that perhaps mean they don't need to worry too much about an emergency fund. If you earn a lot of money, too much to spend in a reasonable amount of time, then this lessens your need for a fund. Being free of debt also helps. Perhaps the best alternative to an emergency fund is really good insurance, though savings are still recommended. Read more about all kinds of insurance at www.oklahomainsurancequotes.net.
How much to save
So how much should you actually place in your emergency fund? Many people would claim that you should save at least six months' worth of living expenses. But, when you think about it, this is an awful lot of money. You don't want to put yourself out too much when you're saving! And such a saving will probably take around 18 months, usually more. If you can do this, then you'll certainly have a great safety net. But perhaps, at first, you should aim to have three or four months' worth of living expenses saved up. Really, you should aim for an amount that helps you feel secure. Read more at www.wisebread.com.
Of course, you may already have a bunch of assets that are worth quite a bit of money. It's true that these can be very comforting when it comes to the potential for disasters, but you need to keep something in mind: liquidity. This refers to the speed at which you can actually turn an asset into cash.
Let's say you have a car you don't use all that much, but it's worth a good $10,000 or so. (Nice!) You decide that an emergency fund isn't really required for you or your family; after all, that car is the emergency fund, right? Well, you have to keep in mind how long it will take to get that money. You can't click your fingers and have the car turn into cash. You need to get out there and actually sell the thing – and this can be a pretty long process. Read more about liquidity at www.money.howstuffworks.com.


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All you need to know: LVL lashes by Sarah Lambert
Hello reader!
Welcome to our first blog about LvL lashes.
Sarah, our senior therapist and lash technician has been doing Lvl since March and you have loved it! Positive results every time and it's relaxing for you to have. In this blog, we will tell you how LvL lash lifting works, general advice including aftercare and pre treatment,also have some pictures to show off the end results.
How does it work?
LvL lash list works by using the lifting lotion to break down the disulfide bonds of the lashes which gives the lashes their structure and shape. We then set the lashes into position using the volumising fix, this sets the bonds back into a shape, in this case the lift. Once this process is finished, we can tint the lashes. It does come within the treatment but if you would rather not have them done just let Sarah know. By tinting, this then darkens the root and tip of the hair which is where most natural pigment is minimal. As you've had the lift and tint, this will show off the full length of the natural lash and enhances the lighter bits of the lashes giving the longer affect. At the end of the treatment, we always use the moisturising serum to recondition and rehydrate the lashes as the have just been through a chemical process. This helps them return back to as natural as they were before.
Pre Treatment Advice
Before you come for your treatment, you are required to have a 24 hours path test. This is a small amount of product applied to the skin behind the ear and left stone. Alternatively, you can pop in the salon and pick up a patch test kit to do it yourself at home.
On the day, please remember not to wear any make up (24hour before if using waterproof mascara) as any product left on the lashes can act as a barrier and stop the lashes from lifting well or lifting at all.
Post Treatment Advice
Leave your lashes alone! Don't touch them for 24 hours. Avoiding manipulating them so try and sleep on your back and don't play with them. Avoid mascara for 24-48hours. Don't get them wet so avoid swimming, not too hot shower/baths as the steam will settle on the lashes and make them drop.
After 24hours, wash your face and lashes as normal and you will wash off the remaining serum which will then make the lashes fan out to be as natural as before. Avoid using lashes curlers as you don't want to damage the disulfide bonds.
A tint is recommend after 3/4 weeks to maintain the look. LvL is recommended 6-8weeks but tinting I'm between will prolong the effect getting the most out of your LvL.


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It Takes a Somervillage
It Takes A Somervillage Last year there were 48 homeless children in the Somerville Public Schools who had to be transported from shelters and other emergency housing every day to go to school. This doesn't include all the homeless teenagers, couchsurfing and trying to keep their lives together and stay in school, hoping they can make a better life for themselves. We know the terrible effect homelessness has on children. Some studies show a child loses three to six months of their education every time they have to move — and homeless children are forced to move frequently, either to a different shelter, fleeing abuse, or trying to maintain affordable housing. These children are not the only problem. On a cold night last January, Somerville homeless service providers counted 158 people, families with children and individuals, homeless here in the City. The costs associated with homelessness are staggering. The classic story is Malcolm Gladwell's 2006 New Yorker story, "Million Dollar Murray". Murray was a veteran and a chronically homeless individual; over the course of the year Gladwell followed him he cost society, you and me, $1,000,000 from the jails, emergency rooms, ambulance rides, and other expensive systems that took care of him. This is an extreme example but the reality is it costs more to have someone homeless than it does to have them housed. What are we doing about this terrible problem? Last year Mayor Curtatone launched a plan to keep affordable housing in Somerville; he also created the Sustainable Neighborhoods Committee to look at programs and policies the city can undertake to insure everyone who wants to "live, work, and raise a family" in Somerville is able to. I'm part of these discussions, representing the Somerville Homeless Coalition, along with many other concerned citizens, nonprofits, and city workers. We're doing a lot — but there's more that needs to be done to meet the need of people coming to us for help. The tagline for the Homeless Coalition is "Working to put ourselves out of business since 1985". It's our 30th anniversary this year and, from one angle, we have to say we're not doing a good job of putting ourselves out of business. Homelessness is on the rise again in Massachusetts, unlike much of the country where the numbers have decreased. And it's all about the lack of affordable housing. Carla DeLellis, owner of Johnny D's and the honoree at our 2014 Under the Roof dinner, said it "takes a Somervillage to address problems like hunger and homelessness in our community." She's right; and it's not rocket science. The answer to homelessness is a home; the answer to hunger is food. They're both human needs that I think should be human rights. Hunger and homelessness are symptoms of poverty — and poverty is a political issue. If it was just an economic issue with it costing more to have someone homeless than in housing, wouldn't we have solved this a long time ago? To help us get the point across and encourage everyone in the community to get involved, Somervillian Macaela VanderMost and her team at Newfangled Studios just did a video for us, "It Takes a Somervillage." It includes a song by locals Hallelujah the Hills and some of our favorite people talking about the need. Our thanks to Macaela, the band and everyone involved. Check it out on our homepage, www.somervillehomelesscoalition.org, and please let me know what you think. Problems like homelessness exist right here — but they can be solved. Let's work together to make sure no child, no family, no individual is hungry or homeless in our city. Let's make Somerville, a great city, a Somervillage where everyone has a home. And we will get there when we all agree that hunger and homeless are unacceptable in our community and we are all going to work together to end it. Thank you. -Mark Alston-Follansbee Executive Director, Somerville Homeless Coalition


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Diver-Sipping: Espresso Diversity and Cappuccino Sipping
by shelbinator3000
Yesterday morning I woke up and, as soon as I could persuade nature and bike-riding physics to see fit, I was drinking a cappuccino.
It was crafted from an excellent barista, and the drink itself forced nature's hand as well – for I felt that it need not be ranked in my life amongst other cappuccinos, nor against perfections of coffee-crafting my mind could conjure.
It was perfect in it's own respect.
You see, at this level of craft where quality and skill shake hands, I realized that never again will I have a cappuccino that tastes quite like this (since espresso has a wide range of variables the resulting flavor is not easily repeated; even by the most consistent barista).
But, when espresso is this tasty and is becoming increasingly easy to find, diversity becomes a blessing that I embrace. So, rather than risk over-analyzing my drink (which would only lead to letting it cool far too long between sips), I do something that seems revolutionary.
I simply sit and relish my first and last Seth Mills, Thursday the 8th of September, 2011 cappuccino.
Six ounces of tasty steamed milk and espresso: it was simply that good. All else yielded to my sense of taste and I came to a conclusion: it had never felt in such good taste to think so simply.
An (inspired) blog post ensued.


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In a month and a half, we are joining 3 of our closest friends on a hike. You may have heard me talk about it a bit. The five of us are hiking to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and we are also hiking back out! After having "let myself" go over the past 5 or 6 years, I'm stepping up. It might be a little too much a little too late but I'm trying my hardest to get into shape for this hike. I don't want to be the one holding anyone back!
Here is my plan:
Jay and I are NOT eating out for the next 30+ days (crossing off a task on my 101's list). We'd like to make it for about 45 days but we'll have to see!
I've been visiting the gym Tuesday-Friday and working out for 1 hour divided between the treadmill, elliptical and the bike. I've also thrown in a few weight machines each day. This week I'll increase to 5 days (thus crossing off another task on my 101's list). In two weeks, I'll increase my time spent on the machines to 1 ½-2 hours total.
In March, I'd like to attend at least 1 hour long or more hike and complete it carrying my hiking backpack, loading it down with a little bit more gear each weekend.
I will not be consuming any alcohol for all of March and on into our hike.
I'm trying to eat healthier meals and make choices that are contributing to my success.
I've renewed my prescription for my heart medication and I'll be taking it EVERY day (another crossed off my list!).
This plan has been well thought out and I cannot wait to see the results in April. So far I've lost almost 2 pounds. It doesn't seem like much but I'm happy with it. I'd like to lose a total of 30 pounds in the next 3-4 months. Once I hit that benchmark, I'll set another goal for the remaining 30 I have (ha, ha! Another crossed off if I can reach this). I do realize it took years to put it on but I'd like it to take a lot less time to take it off!
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Minimum stretch speed control for flexible extrusions
Our sonar loop control unit uses an ultra-sonic sensor to monitor the position of flexible extrusions between two points.
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The main advantage of the sonar loop is that it gives a controlled speed signal while ensuring the extrusion is not stretched. This is often vital when handling more flexible materials such as silicone, rubber & certain flexible plastics. The sonar loop usually gives a significant improvement to cut length control & accuracy.
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zTailors - Uber for Tailors?
Ousted from Men's Wearhouse, George Zimmer still wants customer to "like the way he or she looks" — however this time, with a smartphone application.
Lately, Mr. Zimmer has been refashioning himself as a technology entrepreneur.He created zTailors, a website and app that connects customers and their troubled wardrobes with tailors who are available.
"It's Uber for tailors," - Mr. Zimmer, 66, said in an interview to The New York Times.
The concept is simple - app and the website allow customers to schedule a tailor to come home or to office, where they will measure and refit suits, shirts, jackets and dresses for a set price. Fixed items are then returned back in a few days.
Moreover, there is no obvious rival, which is currently on the market. As an example, a company called Combat Gent introduced a similar concept called Haberdash last year. But Haberdash failed to gain traction and was shut down.
How they make money? ZTailors takes a 35 percent fee from each purchase. Though that is steep, the company says that tailors will find it worthwhile given the higher volume.
What is a slogan to rival the Men's Wearhouse signature tagline?
"You're going to like the way you look — I guarantee it," Mr. Zimmer demurred.
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Rat's Nest
"Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure."
Late last week I was speaking with a friend who was complaining, again, about a co-worker. The person being lamented about doesn't seem nice, pleasant to be around or take other's feelings into consideration when she says or does certain things. My friend is struggling to find the good in this person.
After a few moments of listening I interrupted my friend and remarked; "We sure talk about this individual a lot." I then asked; "Have you let her build a rat's nest in your mind?" I explained that unwanted and unpleasant people can take over our thoughts. Like rats they chew, gnaw, scratch, bite, consume our waking moments. If a rat is in your house it has your full attention until it's dealt with permanently.
Unfortunately most times its difficult to get rid of the "rats" in our lives but we can keep them from building nests, taking up permanent residence, in our minds and spirits.
@BrianLoging (Twitter)
Posted on March 20, 2016, in Mindfulness and tagged #consider, #consume, #journey, #life, #lives, #nests, #rats, #wisdom, mindfulness, Truth. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.


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It started with grunge and ended with Spice Girls; Di died, Clinton didn't inhale and the All Blacks were poisoned. On screen, Ice TV and Havoc were for the kids and a grown-up Kiwi cinema delivered a powerful triple punch. Tua's linguistic jab proved just as memorable, Tem got a geography lesson and Thingee's eye popped and reverberated around our living rooms.
Country and western music legend Tex Morton presents this popular 60s Saturday night music show. The Auckland studio audience is seated on hay bales in a barn-styled set and provide the chorus to the musical numbers. The Hamilton County Bluegrass Band, The Country Touch Singers and Square Dancers, Jan Butler, fiddler Colleen Bain, and resident guest singers Kay and Shane perform. Tex himself sings a novelty number about the good ol' days, and applauds Butler: "Isn't she a redheaded little spark? I wish we had colour television!" The times they have a changed!
Sam Neill has acted in forgotten Kiwi TV dramas (The City of No) and classic Kiwi movies (Sleeping Dogs, The Piano, Hunt for the Wilderpeople). His career has taken him from the UK (Reilly: Ace of Spies) to Hawaii (Jurassic Park) to dodgy Melbourne nightclubs (Death in Brunswick). As Neill turns 70, this collection celebrates his range, modesty and style — and the fact he was directing films before winning acting fame. In these backgrounders, friends Ian Mune and Roger Donaldson raise a glass to a talented, self-deprecating actor and fan of good music and pinot noir.
Low-tech legend Chris Knox is an accomplished musician, cartoonist, critic, filmmaker, and jandal wearer. As this collection demonstrates, his genius takes flight in the DIY aesthetic of his music videos. As Flying Nun founder Roger Shepherd says in his backgrounder, "this is a unique and important collection of work perfectly illustrating what is possible with the barest of resources and a free-wheeling imagination". Russell Brown adds his view here. Alongside music videos, the collection also includes interviews with Knox and profiles of bands Toy Love and Tall Dwarfs.
Florian Habicht first won attention for 2003's Woodenhead, a fairytale about a rubbish dump worker and a princess. By then Habicht had already made his first feature-length documentary. Many more docos have followed: films that celebrate his love for people, and sometimes drift into fantasy. In this collection, watch as the idiosyncratic director meets fishermen, Kaikohe demolition derby drivers (both watchable in full), legends of Kiwi theatre and British pop, and beautiful women carrying slices of cake through New York. Ian Pryor writes here about the joys of Florian Habicht.
Sir Howard Morrison (1935 - 2009) was a Kiwi show business icon. This collection is a celebration of 'Ol' Brown Eyes' on screen. From classic concerts and performances of 'Whakaaria Mai', to riffing with with Billy T James; from hosting Top Town, to starring in 60s feature film Don't Let it Get You, to a This is Your Life tribute. Ray Columbus: "He was a master entertainer".
Director Florian Habicht's follow-up to his offbeat fairytale Woodenhead is a documentary tribute to a community of characters, drawn together by a desire to jump in a car for the local demolition derby. Behind the bangs, prangs, and blow-ups, the heart and soul of a small Far North town — Kaikohe — is laid bare in this full-length film, thanks to a cast of fun-loving, salt of the earth locals. Kaikohe Demolition won rave reviews, and The Listener named it one of the ten best films of 2004. Filmmaker Costa Botes writes about the film's characters and qualities here.
"The funniest, liveliest, most exuberant film ever made in New Zealand". So said critic Nicholas Reid, a year after Came a Hot Friday became 1985's biggest local hit. Though Billy T's loony Mexican-Māori cowboy is beloved by fans, he is but one eccentric here among many — as two scheming conmen hit town, and encounter bookies, boozers, country hicks, nasty crim Marshall Napier, and Prince Tui Teka playing saxophone. Until the arrival of The Piano in 1993, Ian Mune and Dean Parker's award-loaded adaptation remained NZ's third biggest local hit. Ian Pryor writes about the film here.
After her husband is jailed, matriarch Cheryl West (Robyn Malcolm) decides the time has come to set her family on the straight and narrow. But can the Wests change old habits? So begins the six-series long saga of the Westie dynasty. Hugely popular at home (beloved by public, critics and awards-nights alike), and imitated overseas, Outrageous Fortune has been a flag-bearer for TV3 and contemporary NZ telly drama; the series proved — in all its grow-your-own glory — that genre TV in NZ could be so much more than overseas stories pasted to a local setting.
Though most of his films have been documentaries, Florian Habicht's work has often blurred the boundaries between truth and fiction. His CV includes offbeat fairytale Woodenhead, two love letters to New Zealand's far north (Kaikohe Demolition, Land of the Long White Cloud), films on theatre legend Warwick Broadhead and Brit band Pulp, and his award-winning, genre-stretching romance Love Story.


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I'm back at work. This isn't necessarily a bad thing: I like work and I like working. Unfortunately, I don't feel "rested" after my Christmas/New Year break in New Zealand because I spent my holidays with the Orthomyxoviridae family. As you most likely know, members of this family make themselves right at home, and are so messy. They are annoying in the extreme, not least of all because they always outstay their welcome. While I thought I had escaped their clutches by flying home to Melbourne, it seems one of their more tenacious members has followed me across the Tasman and is making my nose run and my ear ache. If I'm really lucky, and have a quiet weekend, this last lingering member might actually get the hint, finally bugger off, and I can get back to some normal breathing and sleeping and hearing, which would be nice.
Apart from whinging about feeling ill through Christmas and the New Year and completely failing to travel south to see my family in Taranaki or catching up with many people in Auckland - I had a nice time with my offspring. Just hanging out, snuggling up, sharing meals and talking with, is what I like doing best. We did have a glorious day at the zoo, and while I took a whole gigabyte of photos, my memory card threw a wobbly and corrupted all my shots. A real shame because Auckland Zoo is such a fabulous place to get really close to the animals, that my shots were nice and close and you would have felt as if you were there just by viewing them! I took a Flip! or two, so check out this chocolate-loving Meerkat. There were several people who were eating Magnum icecreams, and had (before I started filming) dropped a sliver or two of chocolate into the enclosure (please, never feed wild animals, in zoos or otherwise, it upsets their metabolism feng shui and turns them into horrible little scavengers) and this little guy fancied it more than a little bit. The voice you can hear calling "puss, puss, puss" is 2 year old Tandia - who also owned the blue-topped drink bottle before tossing it over the barrier. She's got an arm on her, let me tell you - the hippos nearly got a new sheepie!
David and I spent, what turned out to be a very windswept, rainy day down at the Viaduct taking photos. He is planning on studying photography this, his final year High School, so was out testing his new (to him) SLR. We got pretty damn wet, and cold, so decided to warm up and dry off in the Gold Class Cinema watching the Curious Tale of Benjamin Button. It worked a treat - not only did we dry off nicely, we were very comfortable for the extremely long tale. Me with my beer and my other beer, and David with his coke and his Maltesers, we both decided that the only curious thing about said Tale, was why anyone had ever thought this world needed another Forrest Gump movie!
So here I am, back at work back in Melbourne and the beginning of a brand new year. I have made a few New Year Resolutions which include:
lying morephotographing more stuff
- reading more
- drinking less
- drawing more
- spending less
- learning more
Vague enough? none of them are measurable or specific - which is the key to making a goal achievable. So let's have a go at putting some detail into those ideas and see what we come up with:
Lie twice per weekCarry a camera every day
- Read from a book 30 minutes per day
- Drink one glass of water for each glass of alcohol
- One drawing per week
- Don't buy anymore Moleskines until the ones in the my bag (beautiful new red one!), my bookshelf (pile of about 6 black hardbacks) and my wardrobe (mishmash of smaller notebooks and exercise types) are full
- One hour of focused learning per day/5 hours per week
As you can see, I deleted the "lying" resolution. It's too difficult and I don't really see much benefit when weighed against the effort. So I'll take more photographs instead.
PS: resolutions start in February too, right? because I just bought a new, red Moleskine plain notebook. oops!


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Public Input Meeting #3 - May 15, 2016
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East North Street, Omaha Street/Highway 44, and Cambell Street form the backbone of Rapid City's east side arterial road network. Their ability to carry high levels of traffic is vitally important to the city for reasons of safety, mobility, development potential, and quality of life. Recent and continued growth in Rapid City has brought new development to northeast Rapid City, bringing challenges and opportunities for this portion of the city's transportation network. Increased development has resulted in localized growth, and with it increased traffic, leading to congestion, safety issues, and multimodal needs along these key corridors.
The Rapid City Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), in conjunction with the South Dakota Department of Transportation (SDDOT) and the City of Rapid City, has undertaken the East Rapid City Traffic and Corridor Analysis Study to complete the data collection, analysis, alternatives development, and recommendations for potential infrastructure improvements along these corridors, and along existing and future corridors within the study area (include study area map).
Public input is essential to understanding the issues and opportunities facing the East Rapid City transportation system now and in the future. Opportunities for public input will be announced through multiple communication techniques including this website.


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"Making a difference one person at a time Jackson's "We are the World"
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In memory of the good times, a song to unite the world.
The inspired and upbeat "We Are the World" is a 1985 song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, produced and conducted by Quincy Jones and recorded by a super group of 45 popular musicians to raise money for Africa which had experienced unusual drought in 1984/1985. Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie wrote the song for charity, knowing there were people dying of starvation in Africa. Quincy Jones agreed to produce and sent a demo to all the participating artists, along with a note to "check their egos at the door". Vocal format Jones worked out which singers would perform which lyrics, studying recordings of each of the selected singers to decide which would work well with each other.He paired Billy Joel with Tina Turner and Willie Nelson with Dionne Warwick, as well as Michael Jackson with Prince (who was a no-show for the recording), so instead with Diana Ross. During the performance, the solo portions, sung by the lead singers, allowed their distinctive, famous voices to be heard individually, or in pairs, for a short phrase, before the entire group sang the third repetition of the chorus verses. Fifty singers were turned down from lending their voices to the group effort. When the song was released worldwide to aid the poor in Africa and the US. The single became one of the best-selling singles of all time, with nearly 20 million copies sold and millions of dollars donated to famine relief.
We can make a difference one person at a time.
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The Night Stalker
Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker, epitomizes the unpredictable, compulsive serial killer. His motives and methods made it obvious that the rules by which we traditionally believed serial killers operated were anything but reliable. His horrific criminal career also taught us that there is no room for competition, jealousy, and lack of cooperation among local police jurisdictions when a pernicious murderer of the stature of the Night Stalker is moving among us. It is likely that a more coordinated and collegiate approach among competing police departments in Southern California during the 1980s would have resulted in an earlier apprehension of the Night Stalker, and would have saved lives. Unfortunately, this was not to be, and Ramirez used this unfortunate flaw in our law enforcement system to his advantage.
Ramirez was born in 1960 to devoted, hard working, Mexican immigrants. The last of five children, he was raised in El Paso, Texas, with a good deal of family attention and support, although without much money. When he was in the fifth grade, the Ramirez family learned that Richard suffered from childhood epilepsy, which, combined with the fact that he was the youngest child, made him the unquestioned center of his parents' attention. Although this disorder hampered the boy's ability to play sports—and clearly frustrated him—the seizures eventually subsided on their own and left him physically unaffected.
Since he was the last of the Ramirez's children, Richard's parents placed a good deal of hope in his future and tried to support him in the best way possible. Unfortunately, despite their persistent efforts, it is difficult to imagine how much worse his life could have turned out to be as an adult. However, until he reached adolescence, it seemed that Richard was on the right course in life, and his parents must have been generally pleased with their son.
Throughout his early school years, until the age of thirteen, Richard was a good student, often earning better than average grades. His early background was free of significant behavioral problems or brushes with the law, although he did show a sharp and sometimes unpredictable temper—an apparent trademark of all the males in the Ramirez family. Despite a promising start to his life, shortly before Richard was ready to attend high school he was set on a course of destructive behavior that would eventually lead him to become one of the most feared serial killers in California's history.
By his thirteenth birthday, Richard had grown close to his older cousin, who had been a Green Beret in Vietnam and had returned to Texas after his discharge from the military. He was an imposing, highly decorated soldier, who must have seemed like a real-life hero to the impressionable boy. However, Richard's cousin was also an angry and often violent man, who loved to share his war experiences with his young protégée. This regularly took the form of graphic combat stories that were sometimes accompanied by even more troubling photographs. Over time, Richard's cousin taught the youngster how to use weapons, how to fight, and how to use basic survivalist tactics. He also introduced the teenager to his first experience with drugs. During the time they spent together, Richard and his cousin became inseparable, and the youngster's behavior began to deteriorate significantly.
Ramirez was still only thirteen years old when he witnessed his cousin shoot his wife in the face after one of their seemingly endless arguments. His cousin was quickly arrested, tried for murder, pleaded temporary insanity, and received a lenient sentence because of his excellent military record. However, by this time, Richard had already become obsessed with his cousin's lifestyle and behavior, which he emulated in every way he could. With his beloved mentor now behind bars, Richard was suddenly left to his own devices, and his life decisions went from bad to worse. Even at such an early age, Ramirez was using marijuana on a regular basis, had lost all interest in finishing his education, and was beginning to steal.
For a short time, Richard went to live with his older brother, Ruben, in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, his experiences with Ruben were as bad as those with his cousin. Ruben was a heroin addict and a seasoned burglar, who did little to push his younger brother in a positive direction. Rather, he re-established the same kind of poor role model that had already captured the youngster's interest. By the time Richard returned to Texas, he was a regular drug user who had taken to burglary to support his habit.
For the next few years, Richard attended school in Texas, increased his use of drugs, and continued to steal, although he somehow managed to avoid any significant entanglements with the law. During this period, Richard was able to land a job at a local hotel, which provided him with a master key to the guestrooms. From time to time, he would steal valuables from the guests, although he was never caught or charged with a crime. It was also around this time that he developed a passion for voyeurism and would regularly try to catch women at the hotel or in the neighborhood while they were undressing.
At one point, Ramirez sneaked into the hotel room of a female guest and attacked her from behind, tied her, and tried to rape her. His assault was interrupted when the woman's husband unexpectedly returned to the room and severely beat Richard before turning him over to the authorities. In defending himself, Ramirez claimed that the woman he had attacked had actually solicited him for sex. Since the youngster had no criminal record, he was treated with astonishing leniency by the court and simply returned to the custody of his parents without so much as a probationary sentence. Ramirez was only fifteen years old at the time.
Shortly after he turned eighteen, Richard left Texas and moved to Los Angeles, where he initially stayed once again with his brother. However, the two men soon argued and Richard left his brother's home to find his own way in life. By then, he was a regular drug user and an experienced burglar. At this point, there was no turning back for the young man. He had simply fallen too far into the abyss that had grown around him years earlier.
Addicted to cocaine, and often using LSD or PCP, Ramirez found himself in a world of dark, violent fantasies that involved intense themes of sexual domination and sadism. He was an accomplished burglar, who began to feel invincible in his ability to avoid detection. Ramirez had also discovered the writings of Anton LaVey, the founder and high priest of the Church of Satan in San Francisco. Through LaVey's words, the young man discovered what he believed to be the most powerful force in the universe—Satan. In Satan he found the ultimate excuse to freely exercise a compulsion for unspeakable mayhem and violence that had been brooding within his heart for years. He had finally reached the point in his life at which society would become the victim who would catapult him to the fame he had always desired so intensely.
The Night Stalker's year of lethal violence began when he was twenty-four. It included beatings, slashing, shootings, and unspeakable acts of sexual abuse and molestation. His victims were children, women, men, and even those who were elderly and disabled. Although the Night Stalker is believed to have murdered as many as twenty individuals, several of his victims survived the assaults, and a few were even able to provide fairly detailed descriptions of their attacker. In addition to this, Ramirez was often sloppy in his brutality, regularly leaving a variety of clues at crimes scenes, although it took investigators a year to piece this information together and use it successfully in their search for the serial killer. Like a number of other serial murderers, Richard Ramirez was more lucky than proficient when it came to avoiding capture for so long, thanks in great measure to an uncoordinated investigation into his crimes.
Here is a brief summary of the Night Stalker's yearlong reign of terror in Southern California, which began in 1984. It does not include many of the victims who survived his attacks, nor the countless other felonies that he is believed to have committed during this period. Even in its abbreviated form, it is a tale of extraordinary viciousness that has rarely been duplicated in our long history of crime:
- June 28, 1984, Glassell Park: A 79-year-old woman is repeatedly stabbed and her throat is slashed in the first confirmed Night Stalker murder. Typical of the pattern that he will follow throughout the next year, the serial killer breaks into the victim's home at night and steals her valuables after the murder. In virtually every attack, Ramirez seemed to delight in spending time with his victims in their homes, inflicting a broad array of cruel punishments.
- March 17, 1985, Rosemead: A 34-year-old woman is shot to death in her condominium. Her roommate is wounded but survives, providing police with their first physical description of the suspect. The description is vague but later proves to comport with the appearance of Richard Ramirez.
- March 17, 1985, Monterey Park: On the same night as the Rosemead attack, a 30-year-old woman is dragged from her car and shot several times. She dies the next day from her wounds. This would not be the first time that Ramirez would claim more than one victim in two different locations on the same night. However, at this point in the saga of murder, investigators had no idea that the crimes were related.
- March 26, 1985, Whittier: A couple is brutally murdered in their home. The 64-year-old man is beaten and shot to death. His 44-year-old wife is shot and stabbed to death, and her eyes are carved out and placed in a jewelry box.
- May 14, 1985, Monterey Park: A 65-year-old man is shot in the head, while his wife, although beaten and brutalized, survives the attack. Footprints are discovered at the crime scene, which are later linked to Richard Ramirez.
- May 29, 1985, Monrovia: Two weeks after the Monterey Park attack, two elderly sisters, aged 81 and 84, are brutally beaten in their home. One of them is an invalid. The assailant draws a pentagram on one of the victim's thighs and scrawls other pentagrams on the interior walls of the home. One of the women survives the assault, while the other dies.
- June 27, 1985, Arcadia: A young, female schoolteacher is sodomized in her home and has her throat slashed in a fatal attack.
- July 2, 1985, Arcadia: Less than two miles away and a week later, a woman in her seventies is slain in the same manner as the schoolteacher. Police immediately see a connection between the two Arcadia murders, although they have not yet established a positive link with the previous attacks.
- July 7, 1985, Monterey Park: A 61-year-old woman is beaten to death in her home. That same night, the killer rapes and brutally beats another woman in her home. Fortunately, the Night Stalker's second victim survives the assault.
- July 20, 1985, Glendale: A 69-year-old man and his 66-year-old wife are slashed and shot to death in their home.
- July 20, 1985, Sun Valley: On the same night as the Glendale attack, a 32-year-old man is beaten and shot to death in his home. His wife is raped and beaten, and his 8-year-old son is also beaten.
- August 6, 1985, Northridge: A 38-year-old man and his 27-year-old wife are critically wounded by gunshots in their home. They survive the attack and provide a new description to investigators, which generally confirms the previous descriptions of the Night Stalker.
- August 8, 1985, Diamond Bar: Two days later, a 35-year-old man is shot to death in his home. His wife is beaten and sexually molested. Following this attack, investigators make a public announcement that they are searching for serial killer.
- August 17, 1985, San Francisco: Realizing that the police are on to him, the Night Stalker decides to change the location of his attacks. In the only known fatal assault outside of Southern California, a 66-year-old man is shot to death in his home. His wife is also shot and beaten, but survives her wounds. She provides yet another description of the assailant, which closely matches the appearance of Richard Ramirez.
- August 25, 1985, Mission Viejo: A 29-year-old man is shot in the head and his fiancée is raped before their car is stolen. Both survive the attack. On August 28, the automobile is recovered and a set of fingerprints belonging to Richard Ramirez is recovered. After the killer's description appears extensively in the newspapers and on television, Ramirez is captured by citizens in Los Angeles on August 31, 1985.
The Night Stalker's last day of freedom nearly cost him his life. Ironically, it was responding police officers who rescued him from several angry citizens who were beating him into submission after he had tried to forcibly steal an automobile. In a turn of events that should have shattered his belief in Satan's protection, Ramirez was relieved to be saved by the same pursuers who he had always thought would never be able to capture him. In fact, he pleaded with them to be taken into custody and out of the hands of his enraged captors. Much to the pleasure of investigators in the case, the man who had so terrorized Southern California for more than a year ultimately proved to be easily subdued.
Although Ramirez bragged that he had murdered twenty individuals, investigators believe that the actual number was sixteen. However, given the large number of unsolved homicides that typically plague this area of California, no one can ever be certain of how many murders were actually committed by the Night Stalker. In the end, he was formally charged with 13 counts of homicide and dozens of counts of other felonies, including sexual assault, and breaking and entering. It is virtually certain that many of his crimes, possibly including additional homicides, will never be brought to light.
After more than a year of legal delays, the Night Stalker's trial finally began in July 1988, more than two years after he first faced a preliminary hearing for his crimes. However, it took some six months before a jury was finally seated and matters began in earnest, in January 1989.
From the onset of the trial, it became clear that Richard Ramirez was basking in the self-perceived glory of his horrific crimes and the inevitable, sensational media coverage that followed in their wake. His typical court garb was a dark suit and sunglasses, which made him look like a cross between a rock star and a Mafia hit-man. Ramirez incessantly played to the court, the jury, a disturbing number of women who apparently had fallen in love with the killer, and virtually everyone else in attendance at trial. Throughout the proceedings, the Night Stalker showed no remorse for his brutality. Rather, he took every opportunity to demonstrate his unremitting faith in Satan and a complete disdain for his victims. Finally, on September 20, 1989, he was convicted of 13 counts of murder and 30 additional felonies, which resulted in multiple death sentences.
For a while, Ramirez fell from the media limelight; however, he continued to capture the imagination of many true-crime devotees. Seven years after his conviction, in 1996, while on San Quentin's death row, the Night Stalker was married to a woman who had become his ardent admirer during the unremitting media coverage of his trial and its aftermath. Today, Ramirez awaits the last of his appeals and a final date with the executioner.
What was Richard Ramirez, and how do we classify him? Was he an organized or disorganized serial killer? If organized, of what type? What do we really know about this predator, and what have we learned from his horrific crimes that could help us deal with future serial killers?
The Night Stalker is technically classified as a mixed-type serial killer because his behavior and signature borrowed elements from both the organized and disorganized type of offenders. In truth, Ramirez broke all the rules of how we generally understand these predators. He successfully defied any attempt to clearly categorize him in a formal way. Unfortunately, this is not an unusual scenario with serial killers. They often cannot be categorized successfully, or in more than general terms. However, the Night Stalker proved to be wildly beyond accepted psychological or criminal categorizations. He was a true predator without any hint of conscience, whose exceptional brutality helped define many of the essential characteristics of the kind of societal assailant that we now recognize as a Millennium Murderer.
In many ways, Richard Ramirez rewrote our understanding of serial killers, and he significantly clouded it. Like other serial killers, Ramirez selected his victims at random. However, he demonstrated no preference for any societal, age, or sexual subgroup. In this sense, the Night Stalker lashed out against women and men, young and old, the infirm, and even children, all with equal fury and disdain. He murdered his victims with unspeakable brutality using guns, knives, blunt objects, and even a machete. Like the disorganized serial killer, Ramirez would sometimes use weapons that he found in the victims' homes. Like an organized serial killer, he would often bring his own weapons with him. It didn't seem to matter to the Night Stalker how he killed his victims, so long as it was brutal and shocking.
Ramirez would travel significant distances to select his victims, at one point even driving the length of the state of California. This kind of behavior was traditionally attributed to the organized serial killer. However, the Night Stalker's crime scenes were typically chaotic and gruesome—and he would regularly attack his prey from behind—just as one would expect from a disorganized serial killer. In the end, the murder's ability and willingness to vary the locations of his attacks probably kept him on the streets far longer than he should have been.
Many believe that this predator was a master at claiming his victims across police jurisdictions, which confused and prolonged the investigation because of the poor cooperation and interdepartmental jealousies that were rampant in Southern California at the time. In effect, Ramirez used the weaknesses of his pursuers against them in a rather sophisticated way, which is certainly a hallmark of the organized serial killer. However, he also left numerous clues behind, such as footprints and even fingerprints in a variety of obviously sloppy and disorganized crime scenes. Nonetheless, Ramirez planned his attacks in at least a modest way, carefully selecting homes that he felt he could enter without being seen or immediately heard, although he did not seem to care about who lived in these houses. To the mind of this enigmatic killer, any victim would do, and the rules of the lethal game were his alone.
Richard Ramirez was convinced that he could not be captured—that his lord, Satan, would protect him throughout his killing career, regardless of his actions. However, despite this bizarre belief, Ramirez was legally sane and well able to understand the meaning of his actions. He certainly knew right from wrong, and he took obvious delight in living on the darkest side of human depravity that he could muster. In this sense, he was a serial killer by choice, not in accordance with the will of some ill-defined demon.
In the final analysis, Richard Ramirez was a Millennium Murderer of the most horrific kind—a man who felt no compulsion about his actions, cared only for his own unspeakable gratification, and was completely dissociated from his victims and society at large. That he was so successful in evading capture for so long, and claiming so many innocent lives, was more a tribute to the lack of coordination among several law enforcement agencies in Southern California than it was to the concise planning of the Night Stalker, or the intervention of Satan. Ultimately, Richard Ramirez was truly a man without a soul. In that sense he probably was the devil's work, as well as one of the most pernicious Millennium Murderers of the late twentieth century.


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Why Trump is right on Iran
Sep 25,2018 - Last updated at Sep 25,2018
US President Donald Trump will be the centre of attention this week as he addresses the UN General Assembly on Tuesday and chairs a special session of the Security Council on Wednesday. Just as he did last year, he is expected to be "undiplomatic" in criticising foes and allies on many issues, including trade, defence strategies, counter terrorism, non-proliferation and denuclearisation among others. But while he will not lambast North Korea, as he did last year, he will focus on Iran, especially his decision earlier this year to unilaterally withdraw from the nuclear agreement that was meticulously negotiated by his predecessor, and Tehran's regional meddling and its sponsorship of terror.
Trump's view of the world is different from that of previous administrations. He appears at the UN podium as a leader who has rattled his closest allies and partners over defence spending, foreign policy, trade, immigration, Iran and military alliances. His views and positions on many foreign policy issues are in contrast with those of America's closest allies. Certainly, he has taken the side of the Israeli far-right in dealing with the thorny Arab-Israeli conflict. He has punished the Palestinians while claiming that he will unveil a plan that will end decades of hostilities and hardship. No ally of the United States has endorsed his departure from the two-state solution.
But when it comes to Iran, Trump may turn out to be on the right side of history despite the widening gap that separates him from his European partners. There is no doubt that the nuclear deal that was adopted in 2015 was the result of years of secret and open negotiations, and that it delivered what was then the best possible outcome. As it turned out, Tehran did abide by the agreement, according to international and even Trump's own experts. But it did nothing to contain Iran's regional ambitions, its support of terrorist groups and its ballistic activities.
Today, the region is in turmoil and Iran is largely responsible for this. One can point to Iraq and its dysfunctional political system due to brazen Iranian meddling in its affairs. Tehran-backed militias have become a major player in Iraqi politics and have deepened the sectarian divide that has unraveled the fabric of Iraqi society. As Iraqi politicians quibble over positions and benefits, the country continues to sink in a quagmire of corruption and mismanagement. Iran's interference in Iraqi affairs has become a source of discontent among both Sunnis and Shiites as was evident in the recent protests in Basra.
The Yemeni crisis is a poignant reminder of Iran's irresponsible meddling and regional disruption. All attempts to end the Houthi insurgency that has destroyed Yemen's foundations and institutions have been foiled by Tehran. Iran's role in prolonging Yemen's ordeal is undisputed.
Tehran's controversial involvement in the Syrian crisis is another cause of regional instability. The Syrian civil war took a sectarian trajectory following Tehran's intervention. Iranian backed militias, as well as members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, are complicit in countless war crimes in Syria. A just political settlement in Syria will remain elusive so long as foreign meddling continues.
Regardless of how effective the nuclear deal is, it did nothing to contain Iran's regional ambitions and its bullying of its neighbours. Trump may have wanted to derail the agreement simply because it was negotiated by former president Barack Obama, but now that the US has withdrawn, the world must address its aftermath.
Europe will not be able to save the agreement in its present form. Trump has taken a hardline position threatening to punish companies and states that do business with Iran. The next batch of sanctions in November will hit Iran hard as it targets its oil exports. So far, US sanctions have dealt a heavy blow to the Iranian economy and ignited a major political crisis between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and parliament. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may end up ditching Rouhani and enabling extremists. Such a move will only deepen Iran's crisis.
But despite Trump's strong words and actions, he has left the door open for a possible settlement. He has expressed willingness to meet with Rouhani unconditionally, while a close aide has said that the US will seek to negotiate a treaty with Iran rather than an agreement.
So far, Khamenei has stuck to his anti-US rhetoric; rejecting calls for a dialogue. This is a big mistake. Iranian leaders cannot afford to wait as their citizens suffer, largely as a result of Iran's foolish regional meddling. Dialogue with the US will go a long way in addressing regional grievances. Tehran must change course if it wants to normalise its ties with its neighbours and open up to the world. Trump is right to pressure Tehran to renegotiate.
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The aim of the agreement was not to contain Iran from regional ambition but to control the nuclear program (that Iran abid) and to build trust for possible future negotiotions over other issues.
Now Iran is on the right side and all the Arab kingfoms and Israel + America which has no international trust and respect remain on the wrong side.
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Today is Selection Sunday. The show is at 9pm on ESPN2.
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Shocks are in. Will play Okie State at 13 seed Arkansas regional. Arkansas plays DePaul in the 1st round.
Regionals are double elimination.
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USF is at #2 Florida v Ohio State.
Tulsa is at #4 Oklahoma v Missouri (whose record is 28-27. )
Houston is at #11 LSU v Louisiana.
All four of the games are at various times on Friday.
The four teams from the AAC bests the two teams from the ACC. (See another thread about this speculation.)Last edited by flyingMoose; May 13th, 2018, 09:43 PM.
I think the Shocks received a pretty decent assignment. Hard to argue that they don't belong in this regional since the own a win over Arkansas and 2 wins over Oklahoma State.
I suppose the old adage that it's tough to beat a team 3 times in a season may come into play but at the very least the Shockers should not be awed by the competition they will face.
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Thrilled we got a bid. Thrilled.
But am I reading this right? All 13 SEC schools make it for the 2nd year in a row? Seriously? 14 of the 16 hosts are SEC or PAC12 schools. Seriously?
The women's sports are generally playing with stacked decks, much more so than men's. Unfortunately, it's that kind of stuff that stunts the growth of the sports.Deuces Valley.
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Originally posted by WuDrWu View PostCongrats to Kristi and her staff and the team. This was supposed to be a rebuilding season, and they moved into a better conference and succeeded, bigly. Well done ladies!
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flyingMoose commentedMay 14th, 2018, 07:18 AMEditing a commentThe "watch party" was at the airport on their way home. At the Ike?
1972Shocker commentedMay 14th, 2018, 05:43 PMEditing a commentI actually haven't been at the new Ike but I think this may have been in an airport enroute back from Tampa. Not sure this was in Tampa or perhaps at an intermediate stop/flight change on the way back.
I say this because a Souithwest flight attendant took a photo of the ladies on a plane enroute back to Wichita after they found out they had made the NCAA Tournament.
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flyingMoose commentedMay 14th, 2018, 10:17 PMEditing a commentSt. Louis airport - as the Southwest Tweet suggests.
Great to see the young ladies so excited. I'm sure they were on pins and needles waiting to see if there name would be called.
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Originally posted by 1972Shocker View PostI think the Shocks received a pretty decent assignment. Hard to argue that they don't belong in this regional since the own a win over Arkansas and 2 wins over Oklahoma State.
Not sure if the end-of-regular-season RPIs are published today.
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This is the first time the Hogs have ever hosted in softball. Courtney Deifel has really turned the program around in her third season. We have had a bad to mediocre program most years.
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Originally posted by flyingMoose View PostNot sure if the end-of-regular-season RPIs are published today.
Shockers - 35
Houston - 39
Tulsa - 47 (auto-bid)
From a quick scan of the RPIs, it appear that Wisconsin at 50 is the highest RPI to make the Tournament. Others with better RPIs not making the Tournament are Pitt at 48 (they lost their conference tournament and the auto-bid by a score of 5-4 to a two-out, three-run walk-off), Nebraska at 45, and Louisville at 44. Completeness of that list is not guaranteed.
The RPIs of other AAC teams are:
Memphis - 79
UConn - 137
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The Shockers are at the Fayetteville Regional along with Oklahoma State and DePaul.
They face Oklahoma State at 130pm on Friday. The telecast is on ESPNU - not part of my package. The second game of the day between Arkansas and DePaul is scheduled for 4pm and is on the SEC Network.
The statistics summaries below are for conference only. Since there is not a common pool of opponents no matter which route you take, I chose to use stats from conference reflecting later in the season. The toughest conference represented is the SEC followed by the Big 12, the AAC and the Big East. Handicap the numbers accordingly.
The Cowgirls of Oklahoma State were 12-6 in the Big 12 and 2-1 in the conference tournament. (The Big 12 used a funky pool system.) OSU are RV T31 (with Tulsa) in the latest coaches's poll. They are led on offense by Vanessa Shippy with an OPS of 1.073. She is followed by Madi Sue Montgomery (1.061 and four homers) and Taylor Lynch (1.022). Nobody else has an OPS above .800.
Samantha Clakley has over half of the innings in conference. Her ERA is 2.24 with a WHIP of 1.37. Emmie Robertson has the next most starts with numbers of 2.25 and 1.29. Logan Simunek, used mostly in relief, has a few more innings than Robertson. Her ERA is 2.76 with a WHIP of 1.06.
The Shockers were 12-9 in the AAC and 0-1 in the conference tournament. Mackenzie, the AAC Player of the Year, has an OPS of 1.240. She is followed by Ryleigh (1.035 and five homers), Bailey (.977), Laurie (.956 and seven homers) and Madison (.933).
Bailey is the staff at this point. Her ERA is 2.72 with a WHIP of 1.39. Caitlin is 4.50 and 1.46 with BaileyK in relief with numbers of 1.91 and 1.32.
#15 Arkansas finished with a 12-12 record in the SEC and were 2-1 in the conference tournament. The Razorback offense is led by Hannah McEwen with an OPS of .827, Katie Warrick (.825) and Kayla Green (.809). Here is where handicapping the numbers for conference comes in.
Mary Haff and Autumn Storms split the conference starts almost equally. Haff has an ERA of 2.47 with an WHIP of 1.06. The numbers for Storms are 3.46 and 1.48.
DePaul had a record of 15-3 in the Big East and 2-0 in the conference tournament, defeating Creighton in the finals. The offense is led by Kate Polucha with an OPS of 1.158, Megan Leyva (1.124 and five homers), Jessica Cothern (1.074) and Morgan Greenwood (1.021). These are a bit gaudy, but again, handicap for the conference.
The starts for the Blue Demons are virtually equally shared among three pitchers. Pat Moore has an ERA of 1.80 and a WHIP of 1.17, Missy Zoch is 1.91 and 1.41 and Kennedy Garcia is 2.19 and 1.07.Last edited by flyingMoose; May 16th, 2018, 02:19 PM.
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|~|Retailnews-winners200.jpg|~|Winners at April's Retail News Middle East awards ceremony.|~|Professionals in the Middle East's FMCG sector have had little time to relax during the past few years. Whether they are involved in food production, distribution or retailing, the levels of growth experienced by the sector have led to a sea change in the way FMCG professionals operate. In Saudi Arabia the food industry alone was worth some US$2.9 billion last year – an 11% increase on 2004, while in Dubai the growth is equally as impressive, with trade in foodstuffs increasing 128% in the past four years to reach almost US$5.5 billion. But this level of activity did not stop more than 200 professionals from the region's FMCG sector from gathering in Dubai in April for the inaugural Retail News Middle East Awards, which were held in association with Aujan Industries. This level of growth in the food industry means rapid expansion for the region's main supermarket groups and distributors, as well as a constant flow of new product lines onto the market place. The Retail News Middle East Awards were for 10 product category winners, ranging from baby products to frozen foods, hot and cold beverages through to toiletry and cleaning products, to recognise the very best in fast moving consumer goods in the Arabian Gulf. The awards acknowledged products that are best sellers, and others that are changing the shape of their market segment. They also recognised the companies behind these products – companies that are investing in the region and helping to drive the Middle East's FMCG sector forward. The awards also included three non-product related awards for food and drink production, distribution and marketing. These awards were designed to recognise the excellence of organisations that have contributed to the continued growth of the regional FMCG sector, and done their part to ensure the industry not only reflects the standards set elsewhere in the world but does its level best to redefine them. Judgement day The judging panel that selected the winners of this year's awards comprised some of the leading players in the Middle East's retail sector: Mohammed Adil, chief executive of Geant Saudi Arabia; Mark Mortimer Davies, purchasing director at Panda; Ashraf Ali, Emke Group's executive director; Boudi Ghandour, Carrefour's general manager for marketing and sourcing, and George Mojica, general manager of the Abu Dhabi Co-operative Society. It also included Roger Field, the editor of Retail News Middle East and Hubert Lobo, retailer services manager at ACNielsen in Dubai. For each of the nine product award categories a shortlist of up to seven nominees was created. This was done by combining the top three selling products in a segment, according to market research from ACNielsen, and two or more 'wild card' entries, which were chosen for delivering something beyond just great sales in the past 12 months. From here, the judging panel voted on the shortlist and the product with the most votes won. For the three non-product award categories, a shortlist was also created using nominations from the judging panel, with votes establishing the final winners. Categories and winners Best Dairy Product of the Year: Danone With products ranging from yoghurt to milk, butter and cheese, this year's best Dairy Product of the Year was always going to be a difficult choice. The company selected by our panel of judges was chosen for innovation and strength of sales of its products, particularly in Saudi Arabia where supermarket managers have reported that sales have exceeded all expectations. This year's award went to Danone for its Activia and Actimel yoghurts, which contain pro-biotic bacteria to aid the digestive and immune systems. Best Toiletry Product of the Year: FINE This category was a tricky one to shortlist, as this particular segment of the market has experienced enormous growth across the region in the past year, with new products from facial cleansers to deodorants and tissue papers entering the market. However, this year's winner stood out in its peer group for focusing on quality when many competitor products have been attempting to leverage sales by cutting prices. This year's award for best toiletry product of the year goes to FINE for its range of luxury tissue paper. Best Baby Product of the Year: Pampers This year's winner was selected not only for its outstanding sales record, but also for its consistent quality, innovation and commitment to the region. 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Best Cold Drink of the Year: Rani While an industry heavyweight took home the Hot Drink of the Year Award, the winner in this category was a smaller but some may say more innovative offering that has tapped into a growing demand for cold beverages that have an eye on healthy ingredients. Rani has also updated its portfolio with new flavours and some innovative packaging, helping it to achieve strong sales growth. Best Frozen Food of the Year: Americana Meat Although there are a myriad of frozen food firms vying for a slice of the Middle Eastern market, the judges opted for Kuwait-based Americana, one of the strongest brands around. Americana accounts for about 45% of the frozen meat sector and has a healthy market share in other products to. Best Canned Food of the Year: California Gardens This year's winner was the unanimous choice of the judging panel and it offers a large portfolio, including beans, fruits, vegetables and tuna. With its consistent quality and growing brand recognition, the winner is California Gardens. As with their frozen counterparts, canned foods have seen rapid growth in recent years. Leading brands, and lesser-known brands from across the globe are today competing on the shelves of supermarkets in the Middle East. Best Confectionery Product of the Year: Galaxy With the main international brands all available in stores across the region and numerous local confectionery producers are also taking a significant slice of the market, this was always going to be a tough choice. But this year, Galaxy managed to catch the attention of our judges, supermarket buyers and consumers alike with its recent brand re-design and a savvy marketing campaign. Best Food Producer of the Year: Al Islami According to the panel, this was not an easy category to judge with so many producers making an outstanding contribution to the region's food and drink sector. However, Al Islami caught the attention of the judges above the rest for its contribution to the region's halal meat industry, both in the way it is focusing on quality and promoting best practices. Best Distributor of the Year: Global Export Marketing Company As companies involved in the distribution business know, it's a tough market with margins being as tight as they are. As a result, efficiency is key and each of this year's nominees has made great efforts to make themselves lean, mean efficient distribution machines. Like it's peers, Global Export Marketing Company has invested in creating efficiencies in the supply chain, but it has also invested in its relationships and, by all accounts, has fantastic relationships with its partners, which include American Garden, Sue Bee honey and Keebler cookies and crackers. Best Marketing Strategy of the Year NTDE for Lays crisps At some award ceremonies this is often seen as a fluffy award, heavily influenced by sales teams. 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The coming session on 11/5 will be about word bubbles. Something simple and straightforward after the huge rush and relief from the election (assuming it's resolved by then).
Comics being used:
Daisy is Dead
Dinosaur Comics
Ghost Hunters
Kastle Comics
Okashina Okashi
Piled Higher and Deeper
Tracy and Tristan
I'm cutting back to only using 1 group of comics instead of 2 or 3 due to the reduction in attendance, so there will be less variety.
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