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Overnight trend:
Corn: Down 3 to 5
Soybeans: Mixed
Wheat: Down 2 to 9
Market waits for confirmation of USDA aid as trade rhetoric ramps up
Grain futures are mostly lower this morning as the late-planting rally takes a breather. Some position-squaring could also be seen ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, with traders waiting for official confirmation from USDA on its next round of tariff compensation.
Reports the package could include $2 a bushel for soybeans but only 4 cents for corn drove markets yesterday. The U.S.-China dispute showed no signs of easing, either. While the U.S. threatened to ban another Chinese technology company on security concerns, Chinese officials promised more stimulus for companies struggling with potential loss of exports to the U.S.
Amid it all, weather continues to wreak havoc with #plant19. Storms from the northern Plains to the eastern Corn Belt are part of a series of systems expected to sweep though the center of the U.S. over the next week. Official 6 to 10 and 8 to 14-day forecasts out yesterday and the latest updates from the ensemble model this morning call for above normal precipitation over much of the country, though parts of the Southeast and northern Plains could trend drier.
Growers posting Feedback From The Field Tuesday continued to report progress planting in fits and starts. Those in the eastern Corn Belt faced the biggest hurdles as more rain sweeps through the region. "Lot of the corn that's planted was planted into ground that was opened up wet and then planted, still muck underneath," reported a farmer in western Illinois who had 65% of his fieds in. Only 10% was emerged.
Farm Futures wants to know what farmers are experiencing as the spring of 2019 unfolds. Click this link to tell us what's happening in your area and we'll publish regular updates featuring first-hand accounts from growers with an interactive map of conditions. Grower reports this spring have been an accurate predictor of what USDA reports in its Crop Progress updates weekly.
Stocks traded mixed in Asia on the trade dispute and markets in Europe failed to hold on to most of their gains as well. Another attempt to resolve Brexit appears doomed, which could push British Prime Minister Theresa May from the stage sooner rather than later. U.S. index futures drifted lower, pointing to a setback on Wall Street today following Tuesday's rebound.
The dollar is a little weaker despite all the angst, but that's not helping commodities much. Crude oil futures lost their bid to move back above $63 a barrel overnight. Traders are unsure about the direction of crude oil inventories, when the government updates data from last week this morning at 9:30 CST. But diesel stocks are expected to show a decline as farmers struggle to plant 2019 crops.
Corn futures are posting modest losses, digesting gains from the mid-May planting rally. While loss of corn acres appears assured due to record slow planting progress, USDA won't update its figures until the end of June, when the market should be focused on weather forecasts into pollination.
This week's rally appears to be bringing a few bushels to town, weakening basis in western areas where planting is going a little better. Bids remained firm in the eastern Midwest, where farmers faced the most struggles making headway.
Rains caused more locks on the Upper Mississippi River to close again this week. St Louis could be shut by Thursday, with the river there expected to move back above major flood stage over the weekend.
The preliminary report from the CBOT showed daily futures volume up 24% yesterday to a very heavy 932,519. Open interest rose 18,371 despite aggressive fund short covering, suggesting elevators are hedging corn bought from farmers.
Options volume jumped 48% to 420,466, 68% of it calls as traders again aggressively rolled up in-the-money July calls while adding July puts with new interest also seen in the December $4.30 call and $3.80 put. Implied volatility in at-the-money December options eased to 24.88%.
Overseas markets are weaker today. September futures in China fell 2.3 cents to $7.328 and June Paris futures in morning trade are off 2.8 cents to $4.601 after adjustments for volumes and currencies.
Bottom line: Keep pricing old crop inventory while penciling out decisions on replanting, prevent plant or switching to soybeans. December futures have potential to hit profitable levels this summer, so hold off on pricing new crop. For more, see my Corn Outlook. For specific recommendations and daily charts, subscribe to our free E-newsletter, Farm Futures Daily.
Soybeans are fighting to hold on to a modest rebound, after the market was hammered Tuesday by ideas a large USDA aid package could move more ground into soybeans. While USDA officials told farmers to plant for the market – not for the compensation – that advice could fall on deaf ears from growers penciling out the details.
In the meantime, trading was very active yesterday as futures reversed lower. The preliminary report from the CBOT showed futures volume nearly doubling to 360,167 with moderate new fund selling adding 9,986 to open interest.
Options volume more than doubled to 114,391, 51% of it calls as traders added November puts, including the deep out-of-the-money $6.60 strike. Implied volatility in at-the-money November options increased to 19.30%.
Vegetable oil markets in Asia were sharply lower again today. September soybean oil futures in China settled at 35.67 cents per pound while July palm oil futures in Malaysia lost nearly a half cent to 22.21 cents.
Oilseed markets internationally are mixed. September soybeans in China lost 5.3 cents to $14.121, August rapeseed futures in Paris are down 3.8 cents to $9.203 but July Winnipeg canola overnight edged higher to $7.504 after adjustments for currencies and volumes.
Bottom line: Soybean fundamentals are bearish but the crop could still be profitable with government aid. Crunch the numbers now to see where your bottom line stands. Though no decision is needed on the farm program yet, ARC may wind up better again for most growers though PLC could also work. For more, see my Soybean Outlook. For specific recommendations and daily charts, subscribe to our free E-newsletter, Farm Futures Daily.
Wheat prices are lower, forcing winter wheat contacts to a test of their uptrend for the last two weeks. Spring wheat is also lower as traders ponder whether USDA aid will be enough to push farmers to plant.
Volume in soft red winter wheat was 24% higher yesterday at 173,282 while open interest fell 11,690 on only light fund short covering.
Options volume was 13% higher at 49,427, 63% of it calls as traders added the March $5 call and July $5.20 put. Implied volatility in at-the-money July options rose more than 1% to 34.51%
Volume in HRW was 8% higher yesterday at 84,973 on open interest that dropped 8,168.
Overseas markets are mixed today. July futures for Eastern Australian Wheat jumped to settle 25.3 cents higher at $6.369 as forecasts turn hot and dry again on the continent. December futures in Paris midday trade are off 5.2 cents to $5.378 after adjustments for currencies and volumes, following good rains across Ukraine and south Russia.
Bottom line: Too much rain is the biggest threat to the crop now, though problems won't show up for a while. For more details on the outlook, see the Wheat Outlook. For specific recommendations and daily charts, subscribe to our free E-newsletter, Farm Futures Daily.
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Nominated for 3 Oscars:
Best Actress: Goldie Hawn
Best Supporting Actress: Eileen Brennan
Best Original Screenplay
I think you're being generous, Alex.
Sure the first half is wacky well-handled fun, but once she's out of training it becomes a different film and very unsure of itself. If it ended where it shopuld have ended I'd give it a 9, but given it goes on far too long probably a 6 sounds right.
I'll admit I haven't seen it for a couple of years.
well, yes. I know I was generous. But it's a sentimental favorite :) so...ReplyDelete
I've never seen this, but Goldie is gold [forgive the cheese:)}ReplyDelete
well, it's a MUST for any Goldie admirer.
I've just seen it again, counting Goldie's screentime for my Best Actress routine AND I have to stop defending the second part. It's less amusing, true! But the last scene is so eliberating, nicely shot and it makes sense.

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Jack the Giant Slayer(2012)
Prepare for a giant adventure.
Bryan Singer (X-Men, The Usual Suspects) adapts the Jack and the Beanstalk fairytale. Nicholas Hoult (About a Boy) stars as the young farmer who leads a gang (including Ewan McGregor) against a kingdom of giants in order to rescue a kidnapped princess.... More
An ancient war is reignited when Jack, a simple farmer, unwittingly opens a gateway (via a giant beanstalk) between his world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing Jack into the battle. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend.Hide
Directed by Bryan Singer
Starring Nicholas Hoult, Ewan McGregor, Ian McShane, Stanley Tucci, Bill Nighy, Warwick Davis, Eddie Marsan, Ewen Bremner
Written by Mark Bomback, Darren Lemke, Dan Studney
- Adventure, Fantasy
- 114mins
- Rating: M for intense scenes of fantasy action violence, some frightening images and brief language
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BY Dominic Corry Flicks Writer
It's difficult for blockbuster films to shake the stink of failure suggested by a long delay. Jack The Giant Slayer was originally slated for a mid-2012 release, and it finally arrives after a couple of underwhelming trailers. Extremely low expectations rendered this film slightly more watchable than the chore I anticipated, but even a generous assessment must acknowledge the unfulfilled potential and flat design.... More
There's a fatal lack of creativity to the set-pieces here that I really hope doesn't show up in Pacific Rim. In relative terms, the giants are poorly executed CGI creatures - their faces look stupid and they fail as interesting villains. The toothless intentions of the film suggested by its title changing from "Jack The Giant Killer" to "Jack The Giant Slayer" are embodied on screen by the film cutting away every time a human is about to be munched by a giant. Even Jurassic Park let us see the lawyer get eaten.
Ewan McGregor is fun as a honorable soldier and the great Eddie Marsan livens things up whenever he's on screen. But pretty lead Nicholas Hoult isn't given much to work with, and I was never invested in his love story. Jack The Giant Slayer isn't a complete and total turkey, but fairy tale reboot fatigue isn't doing it any favours.
Warning: the opening scene features two former Shortland St actors.Hide
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BY Coraliee superstar
Lost interest half way through, went off for 20minutes to get the washing in off the clothesline and didn't seem to miss much, because it was predictable throughout.
It seemed very long - but then that was probably because I had become a little bored.
Wouldn't recommend it or watch again.
BY Ian_Anderson superstar
Stealing to get rich has been replaced by a more heroic lets-rescue-the-princess theme, which removes the dubious morality of making a hero out of a recidivist thief. Though I can't see an obvious reason why the script writer replaced Jack's mother with an uncle, nor why there are no female giants in the film.
The film seems... More to have relatively modest aims of entertaining kids, parents and others with a familiar, but sanitised, fairy tale augmented with other familiar themes and populated with characters that are easy to understand. Seen in that light I think Jack the Giant Slayer is entertaining, well paced and acted without being spectacular, challenging or memorable.Hide
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It's a bloodless, gutless piece of PG-13 fodder, geared to go down easy. That it does. It practically evaporates while you're watching it, lulling when you most want it to levitate. Full Review
So many blockbuster movies are impersonal, micromanaged hashes that Jack, with its bare minimum of craft and commitment, comparatively comes off like a diamond in the rough. Full Review
Not one for cynics or bedwetters, if you're after a ripping, roaring, thigh-slapping giant of a fairytale, Bryan Singer's blockbuster panto will be right up your beanstalk. Full Review
Jack the Giant Slayer feels, unsurprisingly, like an attempt to cash in on a trend, recycling storybook characters, situations and battle sequences to mechanical and wearyingly predictable effect. Full Review
Spends a great deal of its focus on fights that stretch out to Lord Of The Rings length, but without LOTR-level effects or panache. Full Review
Singer's tall tale is snatched from disaster by an all-hell-breaks-loose third act. Full Review
Fee-fi-fo-fum, this fairy-tale retread is pretty dumb. Full Review
There may never have been a Jack tale that delivered so little pleasure for so many dollars as what we have here. Full Review
Just a digitally souped-up, one-dimensional take on "Jack and the Beanstalk," capped by the kind of interminable blowout that makes many big-studio entertainments feel as long as the last Oscars. Full Review


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This week's 12 most promising concerts
1 Duncan Sheik
6:30 p.m. Sunday, McGlohon Theatre ($19.50-$34.50)
The "Barely Breathing" Grammy winner-turned-Tony-winning musical co-writer alternates between his solo pop work and material from the Broadway smash "Spring Awakening." With help from original cast member Lauren Pritchard, who also opens the show. 704-372-1000.
2 Nicole Atkins
8 p.m. Saturday, Neighborhood Theatre ($12)
The former UNCC student brings that artist's eye to the theatrical arrangements and colorful storytelling on her Columbia Records' debut "Neptune City," which was inspired by classic singer-songwriter rock, Broadway musicals and her chilly Jersey shore hometown. 704-358-9298.
3 Joe Jackson
7 p.m. Monday, Neighborhood Theatre ($50-$85)
The voice behind "Steppin' Out" continues to meld pop, jazz, classical and rock on 2007's "Rain," which rings with his familiar piano on the jolly rocker "Citizen Sane," the longing "Wasted Time," and the falsetto-driven, Tori Amos-like opener, "Invisible Man." 704-358-9298.
4 Cruiserweight/Pink Spiders
8 p.m. Wednesday, The Alley Cat ($10)
With songs like "Balboa," the female-fronted Austin pop-punksters live up to its name with sassy, catchy rock tunes that pack a big punch. Its Nashville-based tour mates turn up the howling garage grooves and handclaps on its September release, "Sweat It Out." www.groove tickets.com.
5 Spinto Band
8 p.m. Thursday, Visulite Theatre ($8-$10)
This Delaware sextet makes herky-jerky, frolicking pop on its new album, "Moonwink," which ups the playfulness with a Beach Boys-meets-Ben Kweller merriment that's as lively as vaudeville minstrels at a carnival. 704-358-9200.
6 Lake/Desolation Wilderness
8 tonight, The Milestone Club ($7)
Both bands carry the whimsical K Records/Olympia, Washington sound of the Northwestern '90s indie scene. Coeds Lake make merry campfire music that sounds culled from a '70s commune, while trio Desolation Wilderness' songs are awash in relaxed, lo-fi reverb. www.themilestoneclub.com.
7 Von Iva
8 p.m. Thursday, The Milestone Club ($7)
By the end of the year, you'll likely recognize this female electro-dance trio from the Jim Carrey/Zooey Deschanel flick "Yes Man" (in theaters Dec. 19). For now, the girl group's soulful alto, disco and synth-pop can be heard on the club circuit. With Culture Prophet. www.themilestoneclub.com.
8 DJ Steve Aoki
10 p.m. Thursday, The Forum ($8-$10)
Known for Dim Mak Records (Bloc Party, Klaxons), his clothing line, and transforming pop, rock and hip-hop tracks by Duran Duran and Good Charlotte, Aoki is red-hot in L.A., where he recently spun with other celebrity DJs at DJ AM's benefit. www.groovetickets .com.
9 Over the Rhine
7:30 p.m. Sunday, Visulite Theatre ($18)
On the Ohio married couple's latest, "The Trumpet Child," singer Karin Bergquist glides through tracks as if she's on a jazz-club stage over half a century ago, smoking a lit slim cigarette in an evening gown while husband Linford Detweiler provides the torchy Americana backdrop. 704-358-9200.
10 Automatic Loveletter
7 p.m. Saturday, Amos' Southend ($17.50-$20)
Given the success of female-fronted emo band Paramore, it's no surprise to hear this poppier version opening for heart-on-sleeve crooner Secondhand Serenade and Fuse favorites Cute Is What We Aim For. www.etix.com.
11 Dropkick Murphys
7 p.m. Monday, Amos' Southend ($23-$25)
For 12 years, this Boston octet has fused breakneck punk rock and Irish pub sing-alongs, taking the traditional direction further with a focus on working-class lyrics and the inclusion of bagpipes, bouzouki, mandolin, and the like. www.etix.com.
12 Norma Jean
6 p.m. Thursday, Tremont Music Hall ($16-$19)
The Atlanta hardcore outfit heads up the latest Solid State Tour with its thick, groove-oriented screamo (which is surprisingly textured) and Fugazi-meets-Boy-Sets-Fire-meets-Bobcat-Goldthwait-style vocals. 704-358-9298.


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MATAGAL nang humihirit ang NFAC na pinamumunuan ni Cabinet Secretary Leoncio "Jun" Evasco, ng dialogue kay Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ngunit tila hinaharang sila ni Special Assistant to the President (SAP) Christopher "Bong" Go.
Isa ito sa hinaing ni Chavez sa kanyang kalatas. Ngunit sina Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pinol at Aquino ay nakadidirekta aniya sa Pangulo.
"The NFAC members have also long been requesting for a dialogue with the President, again, through OSAP. This leads us wondering, how come Jason Aquino and Emmanuel Piñol, were able to get direct access to the President, when the Cabsec has been trying to get through the President from the gatekeeper (OSAP), but to no avail? To date, it appears to us that this request, along with the documents submitted by the OCS, which were personally handed down by Cabsec to the head of OSAP, have either failed to reach the President or have been tampered," ani Valdez.
Si Evasco, dating pari at rebeldeng New People's Army (NPA), ang itinuturing na political genius sa likod ni Pangulong Duterte mula pa nang siya'y maging alkalde ng Davao City.
Napaulat na suportado ni Evasco si Valdez kahit sinibak ni Pangulong Duterte kamakailan dahil sa isyu ng rice importation at kinampihan si Aquino.
Ang NFAC ay binubuo ng Cabinet secretary, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) governor, Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) chairman, Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) president, Finance secretary, Trade Secretary, NEDA Director-General, NFA, at isang kinatawan mula sa sektor ng magbubukid.
Matatandaan, nabuko sa Senate investigation na ang NFA ay kasabwat ng rice smugglers noong panahon ni dating Administrator Lito Banayo.
Si Banayo ay kasalukuyang pinuno ng Manila Economic and Cultu-ral Office (MECO) na nakabase sa Taiwan.


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Analytics of History: A Critique of
Freedom, Free Will, and Soul
- http://darwiniana.com/2011/05/28/assumptions-of-freedom-are-reflected-in-the-data-of-world-history/
- http://darwiniana.com/2011/05/28/the-onset-of-human-nature/
FREEDOM, FREE WILL, & SOUL – They're not completely bad as concepts, but their utility as analytical terms is up for debate. The dilemma is, this value-based language is precarious; it's like a metaphysical trap-door. You never know when it's going to spring open and pull you into the realm of transcendentalism. It can be good as an instrument of the humanities; a tool of self-reflection and a gauge of human expression and experience. But every time we use it to critically study either history or nature, we're pulled into the world of spiritualism once again & the province of religionism.
My recommendation for preventing this → Get straight on what's occurring at the level of higher-order natural phenomena and noumenal principles. If VALUE-related, then how is it differentiated from the transcendent, the spiritual, and
otherwise supernatural? … If not, then what's occurring at this
level that we're identifying it with such concepts? … That's
the question!
Vis-a-vis the Eonic Effect, I have to say I preferred the old terminology better. "Free Action Scripts" is a lot less tenuous a unit of systems-modeling than concepts like "Freedom" and Free Will." They carry too much ideological baggage with them to be helpful to us in modeling history and analyzing human events over historical time. As for anything like "vitalism" or "dialectic" here actually assisting us in
dealing with these issues; they can't … because heretofore, they've
never been able to show us why 'for the rest-of-the-natural-world-down-here' one group of operating principles exist, while supposedly for the 'higher' level, a much-more soulfully-based one is said to hold sway.
If, in fact VALUE and PHILOS-SOPHIA, is the real name of the game in nature and the universe, then why is the rest of reality and its laws apparently laden in material, logos-centric, non-idealist terms? This leads me to believe that, rather than VALUE having any intrinsic, metaphysic or ontological significance of itself, it is rather human psychology's way of coping with aspects of our world that (up- to-this-point) have been imperceptible to us except on anthropomorphic and "meaning"-based terms of consideration.
In other words, VALUE would be a projection of the human psyche onto the world. In such case, "Freedom" and "Free Will" aren't real analytics of history and natural-sequences of time, but instead self-reflecting human terms whereby we'd be understanding ourselves through history and the natural structures of historical procession. Furthermore, to arrive at a real analytic of history itself, we'd have to
determine the true qualitative nature of such principles, rather than just our moralistic approximations of them via the traditional language of value-oriented concepts.
That may be a tall order to do. But I remain confident it's possible …


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Has she lost her ever lovin' mind? Well nearly. MS does that to a person. Anyways I vowed to my husband and myself last night that I would leave Dell alone and focus on housework. Boy, does it need it. I'm unable to keep things up as nice as I'd like them but I do strive to maintain some symbolence of order.
My men, Dell excluded of course, do need clean laundry from time to time. And to make that happen the dirty ones must be collected, blah, blah, blah, etc. etc. All work you guys may gripe about, but I really do struggle with. I'm actually looking forward to diving into a pile of laundry higher than my head (not by accident as it sometimes happens) and coming thru the other side with a smile and baskets full of neatly folded, organized clothes and towels.
You know what? One day I might even carry that very same laundry up the stairs and put it all away. Standing to hang what needs hanging and stooping to put in drawers what needs put in its proper, neatly kept drawer. And not like Mary Poppins does it either. I want to be able to do it myself. Without a thousand breaks inbetween, without sitting at all really, and especially without having to half way thru the task - ask for help.
So aside from laundry (the boys are still dressing themselves with clothes from somewhere), I've been slacking in other areas as well. Dishes are failing to make it back to the kitchen. Trash is failing to make it, well, to the trash. i.e. the table closest to me is littered with an empty lunchables box, various candy wrappers, scattered worksheets from school, a couple of war torn wrestling action figures and a half-eaten Webkinz animal.
Jason used to roll his eyes at me when I'd call my scurrying about picking up about a million different things - DAMAGE CONTROL. But truly right now, it has become clear the little stuff I still do really does make a difference. A week off of any so-called damage control has really, wow, I can't even put it in to words. Angela, with nothing to say? I know, right?!
A tornado maybe? No, it wouldn't have left this much debris. Burglar maybe? No, surely he'd have taken something. Let's just say if one were applying to clean it, one would need a hazmat suit, a shovel (one of the large scoop variety) and alot of time. Any takers? Only kidding. Well, maybe . . .
So alas, Dell cried out to me and I longed for his embrace. No. Wait. More like he longed for my embrace. No. You aren't buying it are you? It's not Dell that I'm craving. It's CCSVI info. It's gotten baaaad, people. I liken it to cocaine, crack or heroin, maybe. Or Posey County's fave - meth! I just gotta have it. The info, not the meth! Even though its said to aid in weight loss and increase energy levels. What kind of info, Angela?
Success stories and others' blogs are best. Forums, one of which the good doctor, Fini, I call him, actually writes on himself answering patients questions. People are Vlogging on it now and not just blogging. Don't panic, I'll spare you the video until post cure maybe. There's even jokes about buying home remedy kits and people singing songs about it. My fave is stuck in my head now, thankfully because Annie was getting tired of singing. It goes "CCSVI, CCSVI, people tell me I'm wrong, but I know it's a lie . . . I got CCSVI."
I go thru "just the facts, ma'am" over and over again because stuff that came in today might be different than what I'd read about it yesterday. I anxiously await what will be out there tomorrow. I crave to know all there is to know about CCSVI. And I must be on top of things and get on as many waiting lists as possible.
Go ahead, call it a-d-d-i-c-t-i-o-n. Hello, my name is Angela, and I do have a problem, but its not addiction. My problem is nobody's fixing my problem. Those gracious docs that are doing this procedure on patients are rumored to be booked up already in to 2011. I must be diligent in keeping myself up on all the latest going-ons, in getting on as many studies lists as will have me, and in spreading the word.
Sure more demand will make for longer lists and longer waits, but I just can't imagine someone with MS not knowing about this. I didn't until a week ago. God at work I tell ya. Just happened to get news of this allowing for two or so days of research before my regularly scheduled neuro visit. Remember? The one I didn't cancel only because my prescriptions were needing re-written. Co-winky-dinks, indeed. Praise Jesus!
So to answer the question several followers have had . . . I don't have a clue when I'll hear back about results, if at all. I do plan to call the place that did the tests by Friday to see about getting a copy of them, if possible. I mean its my brain and veins, so surely it shouldn't be too big a hassle. We'll see.
P.S. I just got confirmation I was added to another list in New York. Way closer than, Bulgaria, right?! What up Tina? You ready for a roomie?
So please keep following. Keep praying (for me and my house)! And don't forget to shout from the rooftops, "There's a cure!"
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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Don't know if you are aware of it, but there is a MS walk in Eville later this month. I seen the info at work last night, and plan on looking into it more. I plan on signing myself and the girls up to take a little walk...
Oh my! No. I had no idea. You need to wear shirts that say C C S V I !!! Oh my! I wanna go, but how silly?! MSers can't walk, c'mon. What an oxymoron. Dang, I wanna go. Posters, banners, shirts, mega phone. Spread the word!ReplyDelete
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Transitioning from high school to college
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." -
Anatole France
The transition from high school to college is one of the biggest transitions that an individual will make. It can be an invigorating and exciting time. Yet transitions, even happy ones, can be stressfful and raise mixed feelings. Transitions can be difficult because of their potenential to challenge one's sense of identity and disrupt the fragiile balance of familiarity.
The first year of college is an opportunity to stretch one's wiings and stride the path of adulthood. High school students sometimes define themselves, at least in part, by their surroundiings. When these surroundings change, it can be disorienting. The fresman college student has to adjust to being away from home and separating from old friends. They may become disillusioned when academic, social and personal expectations are not met. The independence that they had dreamed about now seems a litle frightening. They may feel lost and alone.
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Peter Maier / Performing Arts Director | email
Peter grew up in a Bible-believing home in Medina, NY, and heard the Gospel at a very young age. Like many of us, his journey with the Lord has been a bumpy road. But God faithfully pursued Peter, and had big plans for his life in the arts.
Peter's first time acting on stage was as a Junior in high school. He loved it! He had always wanted to act, but fear got the best of him as a kid. "I never wanted to be on Broadway, but I knew I needed to work in theater somehow. I am quite a shy person, but there is something freeing about becoming someone else that lets anxiety take a backseat!"
After receiving his BFA in Theatre Studies at Niagara University, Peter took a job as a tour actor/director with the Missoula Children's Theatre out of Missoula, MT. He taught acting, singing and dancing to children all over the world. He took a short break to get his MS in Elementary Education and then went back out on the road. Even though his career was flourishing, his Christian life was not. "I knew I wasn't walking the walk. Something had to change, but I didn't know how to do it myself."
After several years with MCT, Peter began feeling "a pull" back to Western New York. What he didn't realize at the time was that God was calling him home, into a more committed walk with Jesus. Back in Buffalo, Peter worked for a couple of years in the professional theaters. He met his wife, Jeanine, while performing in the show West Side Story. While they were dating, she took Peter to The Chapel, a church in Getzville, NY, for the first time. It was there he rededicated himself to the Lord.
Soon to be married, Peter added classroom teacher to his resume while still directing and performing. For nine years Peter taught music and theater to K-4 students at Pinnacle Charter School in downtown Buffalo. After receiving his MA in Pastoral Counseling at Liberty Theological Seminary, Peter became the campus director of children's ministry at The Chapel's Lockport campus.
Then in 2015, a curious thing happened. Peter's friend posted on Facebook that Family Life was hiring a performing arts director. He thought his buddy would be a great fit for the job. (Peter was perfectly happy directing children's ministry at The Chapel.) A couple weeks later, Peter looked up the job description. He was amazed! It was as if Family Life wrote the job description off his resume! (That didn't actually happen, but boy are we glad Peter applied.)
Bob Dusek / Performing Arts Music Director | email
Bob grew up in the village of Menomonee Falls, just outside of Milwaukee, WI. As a child, he always had a drive for music, whether it was dancing to the record player or turning his mother's pots and pans into a drum set. He started taking piano lessons at the age of seven and hasn't turned back. After studying for a summer at Tanglewood Institute at Boston University, Bob decided to make music a career.
Bob came to know Christ while at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. Up until that time, he was an apologist against Christianity and delighted in arguing with college-aged Christians about their beliefs. However, God used the prayers and perseverance of the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship to change his heart and Bob prayed to accept Christ!
After college, Bob continued to give concerts and teach piano/composition, but his real desire was to teach college. He often made it to the short list, but opportunities to teach kept closing while doors to ministry kept opening. Within a few short years, Bob was serving as a pastor of worship arts in a large church in the Denver area. His passion for the Word eventually led to his ordination in 2006, and two years later, his passion for the musical arts led to his book, "Facing the Music: the worship leader in the evangelical church."
After serving more than 15 years as worship pastor in different Colorado churches, Bob took a break to seek the Lord's direction. It was during this time of reflection that Family Life contacted Bob on the chance that he might be looking for a job. One "so called" coincidence led to another and Bob joined us in October of 2016.
Bob's musical training includes a B.A. of Music in Composition from Eastman School of Music, a M.M. in Piano Performance from Southern Methodist University, and a Doctor in Musical Arts in Composition from University of Colorado Boulder. He has performed as a concert pianist throughout the U.S and is an award-winning composer with his works recorded by Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland), North South Consonance Ensemble (New York City), and University of Colorado Symphony, among others.
In addition to music, Bob loves large format photography, hiking, biking and shooting. He lives in Prattsburgh, N.Y., with his wife, Karen, whom he loves, and his dog, Toby, whom he tolerates.
Jeanine Maier / Performing Arts Administrative Assistant | email
Jeanine is excited about her position at Family Life because it combines her gifts of hospitality and administration with her talents and experiences in the arts.
Jeanine grew up in Buffalo, N.Y. Having a continuous passion for acting, singing and dancing, Jeanine has a long history in community theatre musicals and even met her husband while performing in a production of "West Side Story" at The Riviera Theatre in the Greater Buffalo area. Following her love of singing, Jeanine recently fulfilled a life-long dream of recording a music album she named, "My Kind of Christmas."
Jeanine graduated from SUNY Fredonia with a degree in communications and video production, and a minor in theatre arts. After college, she moved back to Buffalo to join the work force. She supported executives administratively in different types of industries before settling into a role at Independent Health as a product operations specialist.
Despite her busy life in the corporate world, Jeanine still found many ways to stay plugged into her local theater community. She has performed in "Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat," "West Side Story," "Lucky Stiff," and "Buffalo Quickies." Jeanine would say that theatrical acting is her first love, but she also enjoys film acting. She took a lead role in an independent film in Buffalo and even appeared on the Soap Opera, "All My Children."
She and her husband, Peter, also work together as commercial actors and spokespeople for TV ads and infomercials. Jeanine herself has acted in commercials for Buffalo and Rochester Athletic Clubs, Time Warner Cable, and Northwest Savings Bank.
Both Jeanine and Peter live in Bath and work together at Family Life in Performing Arts. "Pete's my biggest fan, and I'm his. We've learned over the years how to respect each others strengths and fill in each others weaknesses. We're not perfect at it, but we attribute our successes to the Lord as we seek him together."
Robbie Lindmark / Production Designer | email
As production designer, Robbie's main responsibility is designing sets for Family Life's theatrical performances. He also enjoys acting and auditions for as many shows at Family Life as time allows!
Having enjoyed a natural bent toward the dramatic arts most of his life, Robbie auditioned for Family Life's production of Narnia as a young teenager. He was thrilled to receive the role of Mr. Tumnus, and since he thrived in God-honoring atmospheres, Robbie continued auditioning with Family Life. Later on he was awarded the role of Willy Porter in "The Gifts of the Magi" – the ministry's first traveling Christmas production.
During his high school career, Robbie began taking advanced art and drama classes helped him snag lead roles in well-known productions, including Professor Harold Hill in "The Music Man," George Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life," Jim Dillingham in "The Gifts of the Magi," and Enjolras in "Les Miserables."
Since his first production with Family Life, Robbie noticed his passion growing for using theater to teach children about God. In 2011, he began his apprenticeship at Family Life, and a year later, Robbie made his directing debut with the colorful musical "Seussical," followed by "Peter Pan" and "The Wizard of Oz." He also oversaw the ministry's Youtheatre Workshop program for three years, teaching drama, set design classes, and directing shows.
Terry Miller / Stage Manager | email
Terry was raised in Attica, NY, and even though she didn't grow up in a Christian home, the Lord had a great plan in mind for her future.
Terry's mom spent much of her life searching for spiritual truth. When Terry was 12, her mom found a church and rededicated her life to Christ. Around that time, she decided her daughter should attend a youth convention called "Acquire the Fire." Reluctantly, Terry went, but it was there she met the Lord, joined a youth group, and met her now husband, Steve.
Terry has loved musical theater ever since adolescence. In middle school, one of her friends introduced her to Phantom of the Opera. Terry was hooked. She and her sister would drive around singing the Copacabana soundtrack without a care in the world!
Later in her college years, Terry and Steve had a mutual friend tell them about Sight & Sound. The couple didn't do much with the information except tuck it away. Two years later, and closing in on their wedding date, the pastor of their local church insisted they take time out to pray about their future together. The Lord brought Sight & Sound back to mind. Within a span of a few months, they both had job offers. The Lord was making their way.
After 14 years of employment at Sight & Sound working in production and stage management, the couple felt the Lord calling them back to their roots and family in Western New York. The pastor from Terry's mother's church suggested she look at Family Life's website to see if they had any openings – and here she is!
Terry works at Family Life as stage manager for the Performing Arts department and helps the radio ministry as an Underwriting Coordinator. She is "very excited for the opportunity to use her gifts and talents to work with these amazing two teams."
Lauren Norris / Choreographer | email
Lauren Norris grew up dancing and loves Jesus, ballet and kids. She studied ballet for 12 years at a private studio in Alfred and Hornell, and found her passion teaching dance students in that same area. Lauren furthered her dance education by attending the Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet where she studied under dancers from the New York City Ballet. In addition to ballet, Lauren has some experience with Ballroom and contemporary styles of dance.
One of her most valued accomplishments was her role in developing and directing Side Porch Ballet Productions in Almond. Side Porch Ballet offers one week of ballet instruction to students at no cost, and is held at Lauren's house on her side porch. After a few years of success, Lauren expanded the outreach to Jamaica on an missions trip with Source of Light Ministries. In Jamaica, she danced for schools and churches, which soon after, led to her teaching a free dance intensive to young Jamaican students.
Now living in Almond, NY, Lauren enjoys leading One Pulse, Family Life's premier dance ensemble. She is excited to teach and glorify God through dance at Family Life.


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HauteLit from HotLanta: Science Fiction
My books, disorganized by the move, lay splayed across the office in disarray. This has lead me to choose books that I may not have otherwise chosen because I've either forgotten about them completely, I'm not able to reach other books a midst the towers that were constructed by a lack of time to really organize them, or due to the fact that I probably picked it up for a few cents thinking, "this will be fun to read," but ultimately others took priority.
The latter dilemma reminds of my former roommate, a sixth grade science teacher, who loved all things science-fiction-y to the point where she had so many science fiction books, experiments, shows and interests yet so little time to fully enjoy them all. This time of year is the hardest for teachers because the kids sparkling beginning-of-the-year attitude towards school begins to fade and disciplinary problems start to occur more often. We had to get our cultural fixes wherever we could and I remember driving down the rural roads of Mississippi listening to her science fiction stories on cassette tapes, hearing Doctor Who in the background as we worked on our lesson plans at the kitchen table, or the comforting voice of Carl Sagan emanating from her laptop as she worked downstairs before I drifted to sleep. Her experimental science materials were perpetually scattered underneath a periodic table from the 50's she absconded from the storage closet at school, an unlikely reflection to the paintings, books and art supplies that lay on my side. We would practice the experiments she would conduct for her students the night before in the kitchen or front yard as neighbors raised an eyebrow. At times it seemed like she could be a mad scientist herself. I have no doubt she's still encouraging a new generation to pursue careers as scientists or engineers with her consistent passion for science and science fiction.
The disarray of my literature and memories are juxtaposed against a landscape of the darker half of the seasons being ushered into the weather pattern. Chilly air flows through my open windows in the kitchen as I write. In the shadows of my new office (we haven't replaced the ceiling lights in there yet), it's no surprise that my eyes should fall upon, "A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels," edited by Damon Knight. Really, under these circumstances, there was no other book I could have chosen. It just seemed right.
Then, as if ordained by some mysterious electromagnetic force, I've been attracting science-fiction-y things to me all week which has lessened my need to do my usual heavy gathering of information than usual, because it's all up here in the folds of my brain. Admittedly, All Hallows Eve looms nearby so this could be more of a factor than an unknown force, however, being in a science fiction culture crave, I'm willing to speculate while searching for hard evidence.
When were your eyes first opened through some kind of fictional vessel to the possibilities that could exist through scientific innovation or life on other planets? It's interesting to consider. At first, I thought that it wasn't until my college literature classes where I studied Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or Robert Louis Stevenson's, "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and although these are the precursors to the genre, I had contact with more modern aspects of the genre before I discovered the roots in these two works. Originally, it was through the vessel of my tiny antennaed TV which I had earned through good grades, or chores or expert persuasive skills that I first encountered science fiction. My TV did not have cable, I mostly watched public television and luckily, The Twilight Zone and Land of the Lost were finding a resurgence through public television at the time. This spurred me to consider comic books as an extra source of material for my science fiction craving (although, at the time I was under the impression that comic books were just for boys. This was a completely unfounded idea). I would sit on the floor of the antique store reading 25-50 cent comic books to my heart's content. I became entranced by the possibilities.
Later, when I attended Georgia Tech, a science and engineering university, I'm sure these TV episodes and comic books lingered in the back of my mind prompting me to ask strange questions about what is really possible and impossible in science in large lecture halls of students who knew much more than me about science. I've never been a scientist, having no attention to detail and having a shaky background in mathematics, but the possibilities fascinate me. Now, I find myself watching the soon-ending series Fringe, realizing that no matter how technologically advanced we become, we will always concern ourselves with what ELSE is out there and what we dream up in fiction can one day become a reality.
So, this weekend, I plan to curl up in many blankets to read Contact, by Carl Sagan for the third time and to listen to H.G. Wells War of the Worlds narrated by Orson Welles. Perhaps I'll even light some candles and watch Twilight Zone episodes in the dark. Or maybe I'll make some sort of Halloween treat reminiscent of Frankenstein or mix a drink imitating the elixir devised by Dr. Jekyll. Although I will likely never write science fiction myself, not being quite as talented as those such as Issac Asimov or Carl Sagan in the scientific realm, I admire the genre for reaching outside of the norm and bringing to light ideas we might not have otherwise considered.
Editor Damon Knight, "A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels"
Damon Knight, "Not with a Bang"
Carl Sagan, "Contact"
Brandon Graham, "King City"
Editor Hugo Gernsback, "Amazing Stories"
H.G. Wells, "Time Machine"
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, "Watchmen"
H.G. Well's "War of the Worlds" as narrated by Orson Welles
Carl Sagan's, "Cosmos"
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CLEVELAND, Ohio - A long-empty apartment building on the city's West Side sits at the center of a demolition dust-up that is raising concerns about a possible erosion of the Cleveland Landmarks Commission's say over the fate of properties in historic districts.
Councilwoman Dona Brady recently introduced legislation to "de-landmark" a building at 10025 Detroit Ave., in the Clifton-West Boulevard Historic District. The building, notable by its location but not individually recognized as a city landmark, has been condemned for years. It was damaged by fire in 2010 and later went through tax foreclosure and state forfeiture, selling for only $16,000 to a buyer who has since disappeared.
Now the city could step in and knock the building down. To speed up the process, Brady is trying to rescind the property's status as part of the protected district. The legislation, which is confusingly worded and does not include maps illustrating the change, requires approval by the Cleveland City Planning Commission and Cleveland City Council.
That approach leaves the landmarks commission, which typically reviews requests to raze significant buildings and structures in historic districts, out of the discussion.
Critics accuse Brady of attempting to end run the commission by following a path that will cut a hole in the historic district and reduce scrutiny of future development on the site. At a Jan. 19 planning commission meeting, some audience members likened the legislation to "spot zoning," a process of singling out a piece of land, typically a small one, and applying a land-use classification to it that's notably different from the surrounding properties.
Brady says she's simply trying to eliminate persistent blight. She believes the legislative process will be much faster than seeking demolition approval from landmarks, which typically asks for a site plan outlining the anticipated use of the property before a building can be razed.
"I am not going to wait until a child or adult is pulled into this building and found dead, raped, abducted," she told members of the planning commission.
The commission tabled the issue, temporarily declining to move the legislation forward. Members didn't seem particularly attached to the building, a 10-unit brick structure that's close to 100 years old. They expressed concerns, instead, about the process.
"Taking something out of the ability to review it later is, frankly, in my opinion - regardless of whether the building is demolished or not - going to deteriorate our ability to make sure that this incredibly important knuckle in the historic district is redeveloped properly," Lillian Kuri, a planning commission member, said.
When a property is part of a historic district, any exterior modifications to a building or plans for demolition or construction must go through the district's design-review body and the landmarks commission. If a property loses landmark status, it gets much less scrutiny. Owners and developers don't have to jump through as many hoops, or meet as many standards.
Under Cleveland's ordinances, there are two routes to demolish a structure that's part of a historic district or that's individually recognized as a significant building. The most common approach is to seek approval from the landmarks commission, which grants what's known as a certificate of appropriateness for a building to be knocked down.
That's what happened at Lake Avenue and West 117th Street, for example, where the octagonal Fifth Church of Christ Scientist was razed starting in autumn of 2016 to make way for high-end townhouses and a retail project, including a grocery store, immediately to the south.
Cleveland's code also gives city council the ability to rescind landmark designations. In the commission's 47-year history, though, that tactic hasn't been used often. But a handful of cases in the past few years indicate that that council members are more willing to take matters into their own hands.
Last year, Brady successfully moved legislation through council to cut nine parcels out of the Lorain Variety local landmark district, on Lorain Avenue between West 110th and West 125th streets. The properties are earmarked to serve as parking for the Variety Theatre restoration, a project that Brady champions. Other recent cases including the removal of landmark status for the old Oliver Hazard Perry School in North Collinwood, to make way for new construction.
During the recent planning commission hearing, Landmarks Commission Secretary Don Petit said the discussion about 10025 Detroit Ave. was occurring in the wrong forum. He said he respects council's right to revoke landmark status. But he's worried about the recent uptick in such activity and the precedent it might set for future cases where historic buildings are in play.
"We're happy to schedule this at landmarks at any time. We think it's important. We think it needs to be resolved," he said. "But I think the commission is the place to be doing this."
The next landmarks commission meeting is scheduled for Feb. 8.
During an interview, Brady said she's considering what path to take. She's surprised by the pushback against her legislation from some nearby residents, members of block clubs in the neighboring ward and - in a rare exception to an unwritten council rule that members don't get involved in issues in their colleagues' territories - public objection from Councilman Matt Zone, who represents areas to the north and east.
"For integrity, for principle, for good government, we need to preserve the landmarks district," Zone said during the planning meeting, adding that he believes there are opportunities to rehabilitate the building as part of a broader, transit-focused redevelopment across from the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority's West Boulevard-Cudell Rapid Station.
"If demolition is the route," he added, "go through the landmarks commission."
Last year, apartment investor and redeveloper Theodore Kanis actually came close to buying the vacant building and reviving it as housing. He had a signed purchase agreement with the elusive seller, Curtis Lee Terry, who has owned the property since 2014. But about a month before the sale was scheduled to occur, Terry disappeared.
Nobody - not Kanis, not the real estate firm that represented him and not a historic-district leader who hired a private investigator - has been able to find him. A phone number for Terry in public records has been disconnected. Addresses and social media are dead ends. Real estate documents show that Terry has fallen behind on property-tax payments. And there's a lien on the building for unpaid child support.
"I haven't given up on the property," said Kanis, who owns other nearby buildings. "I cannot just go, walk in and take somebody's property. I can't force somebody to sell their property if they don't want to. ... It's a solid building. If we fix it, it's property taxes for the city."
Brady said she hasn't heard anything about a potential renovation project.
She wouldn't say much about what might replace the building, though she acknowledged that a parking lot is one possibility. The site is next to a long-empty restaurant that doesn't have much parking of its own, though there's ample surface parking at the RTA station across the street.
"My goal is to eliminate a nuisance," she said.
The situation is further complicated by politics, several-years-old changes to council ward boundaries and overlapping territories for two community development organizations. Rose Zitiello, executive director of Westown Community Development Corp., told the planning commission that her staff has grappled with graffiti and other signs of neglect at the building since stepping into the neighborhood when ward footprints changed in 2014.
"It is a constant maintenance issue," she said during the public meeting.
But Anita Brindza, who manages the historic district design-review process, said she's worried about slicing a property out of the district in an act of expediency. "We should all be working together for the best that could happen in the city of Cleveland," said Brindza, who is also executive director at Cudell Improvement, Inc., the other neighborhood nonprofit in the area. "I like to follow through on things that are started. And we have devoted a ton of time - staff time and volunteer time - to the Clifton-West Boulvard Historic District to make it strong.
"People get very upset when we start down a path and someone says 'Oh, no, but this is an exception to it,'" she said.
Process aside, the city's building department is ready to deploy the wrecking ball, with plans to attempt to chase down money from the building's owner after the fact, Interim Building Director Ayonna Blue Donald told the planning commission.
"For our purposes, I don't care how it happens," she said of the process. "I want to raze the building."


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Well, I'm jumping in! I'm 12 years old, son to ArmyReserveSoldier and ArmyReserveWife. I love Christ and waiting for Him to come again! See ArmyReserveWife's blog at http://armyreservewife.blogspot.com and keep going!
Welcome to A Door to The Light! This is where my life story will be chronicled. I'm a Christian teenager, interested in video games, writing, and superheroes. The title of the blog used to be "Life of a Christian Teenager", but with growing up comes maturity, and thus the name change. But the content will be the same! God Bless, Nate
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Though it was tempting to sleep in on Monday, when I saw that it was almost 6:45 and thus time for ALA's Youth Media Awards live announcement from midwinter in Boston through a feed on the ALA website, I was up and running to the computer! How thrilling to "be there" for the announcements!
You can find the press release about the awards here:
I am very happy about Jerry Pinkney's Caldecott Award, as I have always loved his beautiful watercolors. _Sam and the Tiger_ is one of my all-time favorites! Were some of you able to hear him at TLA - many years ago, I think? He gave a tremendous presentation. I do not often have the Newbery Award and then need to order it right away, but I am happy to say I received it a few weeks ago, and it is checked out to a student, so I will need to grab it ASAP so that I can read it. Have you read it yet?
It has been fun to begin on the new TBA nominees. I finished _11 birthdays_ and _Umbrella summer_ this weekend and loved them both. I think _Umbrella summer_ may be received like _The truth about Georgie_, in that I liked it, but didn't think kids would, but I was pleased that they really did.
We have finished our '10 voting: 89 voters and their first choice was _Savvy_ with 13 votes and next _Alvin Ho..._ with 12 votes. As always, I will look forward to hearing the winner from each school!


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UnCategorized Stun guns are second only to pepper sprays worldwide in terms of popularity. They have been around for a long time mostly used by law enforcement because they were so effective. They have successfully made the transition into the civilian .munity where their popularity has boomed in the last 5 to 10 years. They are used for self defense especially for women. Stun guns are small hand held devices that conduct electricity through two or more prongs on the end of the gun. The electrical charge causes the body to over work and depletes it of all its blood sugars which are needed for energy. So once you get a blast of 3 to 5 seconds you literally can do nothing. The results can last anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes allowing you time to get away from a dangerous situation and seek help or just get away. There is no danger of the charge passing through to you and no permanent damage can be done to the assailant. Stun guns are just one member of a category of self defense products that include pepper spray, personal alarms, and tasers. But where do you find the best deals on stun guns? There very few retail stores that carry any self defense products and then only in limited numbers. The selection is very limited if any at all. The place to find the best deals on stun guns is on the Internet. Google the words 'where are the best deals on stun guns'. Then look for a .pany that has been around for a while, is a better business bureau member, offers discounts and perhaps a newsletter for useful information. Some online retailers even offer free reports on self defense tips. So do some shopping around and you will find the best deal on stun guns that way. When are you getting one? If you think crime can only happen to the other guy you are wrong. The "other guy" is thinking the same thing and to him you are that "other guy". There is a reason why they call it self defense. You have to protect yourself, your family, your home and business!! Chances are if you are reading this that crime has touched your life in some way or you consider yourself at risk. Take the next step and do something to protect yourself! Your life and safety is worth far more than the cost of home security device. If you are in the market for a self defense product look for quality, effectiveness, and a biggie-LEGALITY. Pepper sprays are not legal in some states. Check with your local police department first before you get one. About the Author: 相关的主题文章:


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Is change the new Big?
The owners of the future are important. They will write the story of your life. So will they own you, or will you own you?
Who will win the future? In the next decades we will become a fully Digital Earth. Can we build a successful planet with many new ways for everyone to succeed? If we could, then neither startups nor big companies win. You will win the future.
Building that Digital Earth will be a bigger business opportunity for both startups and leading companies — a planet where everyone wins and rises to the top of society.
Who will win the future — leading companies, startups or you?
How will America climb out of its economic decline, bring prosperity back to the middle class and give us "The Future" we want? The tech industry is where society thinks this question will find answers.
Here's what some in the tech industry think.
I recently went to Silicon Valley to meet with top tech companies. All said the Expandiverse's new technology to build a digital world describes where the tech industry is headed. All are moving forward toward new technology, each in their own way — with their own roadmaps.
I also met with entrepreneurs, angel investors and a VC (Venture Capitalist). As Silicon Valley's engine, startups drive change at ever faster speeds. They pivot until they find traction, build revenues and grow companies. In parallel, angel investors and Venture Capitalists want them to accept investments so they can share the valuable assets (new companies) they create.
Who will win? Will our solutions come from big company roadmaps, market driven startups, or something else?
The real question is where will we find "The Future" we want?
If I could choose a destination I'd choose greatness for everyone. "The Future" should be a world where success and greatness become normal. For you and for everyone.
The source of "The Future" is important. The ones who win will choose. They will own your future and write the story of your life.
When startups rule: Change is the new Big. Change eats the slow.
Change has changed: Every day, the future arrives faster. Today's scope and speed of innovations have expanded.
Innovation is more than new technology. Successful startups can add new tech, new IP, new business models and new ways to live, work and communicate.
When startups win their version of the future comes from finding anything that works, and evolving that into a business:
- Google: Started in 1996 as a PageRank algorithm to improve Search, became the world's largest online advertising business.
- PayPal: Started in 1998 as digital cash for PDA's, became eBay's online payments.
- Facebook: Started in 2003 as an online version of Harvard's houses' printed facebooks, became the world's largest social network.
- YouTube: Started in 2005 as a way to share short videos online, became the third largest domain by page views, and 17% of peak-period download traffic in North America.
- Twitter: Started in 2006 as a way to use SMS texting to communicate with small groups using short bursts, became faster news than the news, and a wider social media than Facebook.
- Instagram: Started in 2010 as photo sharing, became a $1 billion extension of a social networking service.
Startups can become exceptional. The biggest change a lot of people's lives, but startup companies grow by pivoting until they find what works. That proves their best plans didn't work.
Can that drive the future we need?
Today's top-down rule: Change is the new Big. The big still eat the small.
The leading companies have created ecosystems that capture customers and drive the future they want. The best ecosystems are from Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn, Microsoft and more.
Each has its own roadmap to build the future it wants — a future they own.
There's just one problem: Their customers (markets) and startups (potential competitors) change faster than them.
The leading companies are in an impossible race to stay ahead of constant changes. Except they have a powerful weapon — their deep pockets.
Expectations keep rising. Innovations are everywhere. Volatility and speed accelerate. Financial pressures mount as economies plateau, middle class incomes shrink, governments can't afford everything they promise and customers don't have enough money to buy the lifestyle they're trying to live.
Technology's pace is approaching the speed of thought. If it can be imagined, it can be built.
The "end state" for lots of startups, new technologies and IP is an acquisition. They become part of a leading company's weapons platform.
The big eat the small, and the biggest want to own the world.
They each have their roadmap, but is that the future you want?
Which Change is the new Big? Change to the future we need
The Silicon Valley meetings exposed the real story. Tech companies want to do good, but their focus is their business. Both startups and leaders want the same future: They win. They're the leaders.
We're just like them. Your biggest story is your future. We each want to be the winner in our future.
We're just like the startups and the leading companies. Our biggest story is our future. We each want to be the winner in our future.
But how will we get there?
It's time to look beyond tech.
The industrial revolution has been an unprecedented success. Humanity changed the world forever, taking our personal and economic potentials to unmatched heights. Now that's forcing us to learn how to cope with success.
During the next decade we will pioneer a new transition in human history, because we achieved so much during the industrial revolution. Here are some of the "Crisis of Success" that will drive us:
- Population growth to 9 billion
- Worldwide consumption that threatens the Earth's bio capacity
- Rising sea levels from greenhouse gases
- Mushrooming total debts
- Shrinking job prospects and declining middle class incomes in advanced economies
- Unemployment, especially among the young
- Income inequality
- Terrorism
- Fresh water supplies for our gargantuan needs, and more.
Inevitably, these will overtake us because we won't make sweeping changes in how we live and what we want. We like the way we are. Nearly everyone wants it all, wants it now, and refuses to slow down.
We're in a race against problems we will keep creating.
This dilemma is also history's first opportunity to build a far more successful world than has ever existed before. As we leave behind the industrial era, our coming digital world must become far better than we expect.
We need to use our greatness to become more, achieve more, fulfill our potentials.
It's time to look at tech in a new way. As we become a digital planet, our story isn't which company's products or services leads and drives "The Future." In the next decades, we will become a fully digital world. For the first time, we need to be so capable that we succeed in spite of ourselves.
Without tech we won't complete our journey or fulfill our destiny. We need tech so we become even greater than we can imagine we will be.
If Change is the new Big, where do you fit in the future?
Since 2007 I've been privately developing another way forward. Neither top-down nor bottom-up, it's new technology to build tomorrow's more successful digital planet today.
Suppose we could move into a continuously connected digital world that adds new ways for individuals, groups and societies to succeed.
Suppose technology could serve everyone so you can use your continuous connections — with people, devices, apps, services, tools and resources — to build the future you want.
Suppose this new tech were also IP that gives companies incentives to adopt it and use it to capture markets, so building this new kind of future could expand their revenues and profits.
This new technology is named the Expandiverse. It's an "expanding" digital "universe" that puts everyone in control, so everyone can move to the top of an expanding pyramid. It's a new path to universal personal success, to collaborative advances, to potential prosperity for everyone regardless of your education or financial resources. This IP will be in force until 2031, when it will become free for everyone to use. Forever.
What if the real owner of your future is you? Would you sit on top of the world's pyramid, rather than be controlled by it? Would you run your world in the ways you believe are best? Would you enjoy a digital world that's you-centered, a world that makes money by serving you?
Neither top-down nor bottom-up, it's new technology to build tomorrow's more successful digital planet today.
In addition to the future that will come from bottom-up startups and top-down leading companies, there's now another way. Buildable Expandiverse Technology and IP could be used by both leading companies and startups to produce a continuously connected digital world of the future.
The biggest surprise in Silicon Valley was hearing companies say this is where the tech industry is headed. But we actually talked about the Expandiverse's family of devices with continuous connections, its shared digital spaces that are you-centered and provide you a digital world that you control — and other specific business opportunities.
They saw its products, services and profits. I saw the future take a step toward a successful world.
If the alignment clicks, the world's biggest business opportunity might be building our advanced digital Earth. A world where you and everyone can rise to the top, where greatness becomes the norm.
That would be an interesting pivot for our struggling Earth, no?
Next Chapter: The Journey to Our Full Potentials
Can we survive the coming Age of Crisis? Only if we reach our full potentials before it arrives.
Dan Abelow is an independent inventor, author, speaker and technology consultant. His previous patents have been licensed by over 500 corporations that include Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung Electronics and others. He holds degrees from Harvard and the Wharton School.
The Expandiverse is new technology to simultaneously solve personal, economic and societal problems worldwide. Within months after its first patent issued, it was cited over 450 times by subsequent patents.
The Expandiverse vision is a people-first Digital Earth that includes:
- A Global Digital Transformation that eclipses individual company transformations, by developing personal and planetary success.
- Personal Exponential Growth begins, so everyone can rise to Personal Greatness and start Universal Prosperity. This accelerates growth throughout continuously connected markets and supply chains.
- Partnership Capitalism shifts Adam Smith's "invisible hand of the marketplace" (from 1776) to the "visible hand of digital consumers." When people use Digital Boundaries, customer-centered companies can respond accurately. People receive Journeys to Quality Lives.
- A small number of winner-take-all companies can drive this Expandiverse transformation. Your company can use this to lead your Industries, then scale that to lead a people-first Digital Earth.
Industry Roadmaps, Executive Briefings and Foresight Examples are at the Digital Earth 2025 website.
Expandiverse Technology and Services are at the Expandiverse website.
Can you envision a world where tech helps everyone succeed and prosper? If yes, can you share this with senior executives who may want to lead a people-first Digital Earth and its Digital Economy?
Get in touch. Let's discuss how your company can improve lives and fortunes everywhere, and lead our planet.


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The University of Westminster is awarded an Athena SWAN Bronze accreditation
29 April 2016
The award demonstrates the University's commitment to advancing the academic careers of women (and men where appropriate) in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) and arts, humanities, social sciences, business and law (AHSSBL), professional and support staff, trans staff and students in higher education. The award focuses on the following areas:
- representation
- progression of students into academia
- journey through career milestones
- working environment for all staff
The Bronze Award is the first of three levels, the others being Silver and Gold Awards.
The application process involved input from staff across the organisation and was overseen by Professor Graham Megson, Provost and Chair of the Self-Assessment Team for the Athena SWAN Award.
The award is valid for four years, during which time the University will be making faculty and departmental award submissions.
Professor Graham Megson, Provost and Chair of the Self-Assessment Team for the Athena SWAN Award, said:
"I am delighted that we have gained this award and I'd like to thank everyone who helped us achieve the Bronze Award status. This is a great achievement to then continue to implement the action plan, and I'm looking forward to working with many of you over the coming months as we start to implement the plan."
The action plan for the Athena SWAN Charter Award will be formally launched in May 2016. The plan ensures the University's HR policies, staff development, practices and initiatives are in line with the 10 Athena SWAN principles focusing on specific issues preventing women academics progressing in STEMM careers. The action plan recognises the barriers in other disciplines – including those for men, trans people and the impact of race.
Jean Harrison, Director of Organisational Development and Well-being, said "I'm thrilled with the award, and give special thanks to all who have contributed to this work and the effort they put into this achievement, particularly as we are the first to receive an institutional Bronze award using expanded criteria brought in last year. The Award will give us further emphasis on the work we do for equality and diversity across the University"
Achieving accreditation demonstrates the University's inclusive working environment and commitment to equality. The award also supports research funding applications that require Athena SWAN endorsement.
About the University of Westminster:
The University of Westminster boasts a vibrant learning environment attracting more than 20,000 students from over 150 nations and we continue to invest in our future with new developments, research projects and new ideas.
We offer highly attractive practice-based courses that are independently rated as excellent, many with international recognition. Our distinguished 180-year history has meant we lead the way in many areas of research, particularly politics, media, art and design, architecture and biomedical sciences, and our position in the city of London allows us to continue to build on our close connections with leading figures and organisations in these areas as well as in the worlds of business, information technology, politics and law.
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Dr Kang Li joined the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences as a Lecturer in 2002, and he is currently a Reader in Intelligent Systems and Control. He received BEng, MEng and PhD degrees from Xiangtan University, Harbin Institute of Technology and Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1989, 1992 and 1995 respectively. He also received a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (PGCHET) from Queen's University in 2000.
Prior to his appointment, Dr Li researched at Shanghai Jiaotong University (1995-1996); Delft University of Technology (1997-1998), and then Queen's University Belfast (1998-2002). Dr Li was a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore (2006), the University of Iowa and New Jersey Institute of Technology (2007), and Tsinghua University (2010). He is also a visiting Professor at Shanghai University (from 2007), and Polytechnic University of Bari, Taranto (2006).
Dr Li's main research interests include Nonlinear System Modelling, Identification and Control; Bio-inspired Computational Intelligence, including Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, Support Vector Machines, Engineering Genes and Evolutionary Programming; and Fault-diagnosis and Detection, with recent applications on energy efficiency and pollution reduction techniques in power generation plants and power systems, polymer extrusion processes, combustion engines and electric motors. His recent research interest is also extended to Bioinformatics and Systems Biology with collaborations on food safety, healthcare and biomedical engineering. He has published over 150 papers in the above area.
Dr Li is the current Secretary of the IEEE United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland Section, Chairman of the IEEE Control and Communication Ireland Chapter Committee and member of the IEEE Control Systems Society UKRI Chapter Committee. He serves in the editorial board of Neurocomputing, the Transactions of the Institute of Measurement & Control, Int. J. of Modelling, Identification and Control, and Cognitive Computation. He also served as special guest editor for Transactions of the Institute of Measurement & Control, Neurocomputing, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, and International Journal of Information Technology. He is the editor or co-editor of 7 volumes of conference proceedings in Springer's Lecture Notes series (LNCS, LNAI, LNBI, LNCIS).
He was the Program Chair of the 2010 International Conference on Life System Modelling and Simulation, and 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment (LSMS2010-ICSEE2010), both held in Wuxi, China, September 17-21, 2010; 2007 International Conference on Life System Modelling and Simulation (LSMS 2007); the 2006 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC2006). He was also a Special Session Chair of the 2008 International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC 2008) and 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC2010), and Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC2007). Dr Li served as an IPC member for over 50 international conferences since 2004.
Dr Li is the principal investigator, co-investigator or collaborator of several recent projects funded by research councils and industry, including the £2.3 million "UK-China Bridge project on Sustainable Energy and Built Environment (UC-SEBE)" funded by RCUK (EP/G042594/1) and QUB (2009-2012); EPSRC (EP/F021070/1) grant on "An integrated system of inferential measurement and control of polymer extrusion for self-tuning optimisation and response to disturbances" (2008-2011); EPSRC network grant "New-ACE: A Network for New Academics in Control Engineering" (2007-2010); EPSRC grant "Eng-genes - a new genetic modelling approach for real-time operation and control of engineering systems" (2004-2007); highlighted in EPSRC Newsline, issue 29, page 4, 2004; EPSRC grant "INTERACT: Establishing New Research Links with Chinese Universities and Chinese Academy of Science" (2005-2006); KTP project, with Seagate Technology Media (Ireland) (2005-2007). He also led a PMI2 International Mobility Programme at Queen's in 2010.
Dr Li is a member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and is a Fellow of the HEA (The Higher Education Academy, UK).