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Below is a collection of fables, folklore, and some May Day traditions that I was not previously familiar with. I have done my best to credit the authors of these yarns, along with a list of references at the end. Ordinarily I write these posts myself, but felt that sharing a collection pieces from my some of my favorite blogs, compiled with some illustrations by others and photos of my own may serve well for this sort of entry.
Butter Stealing Witches
From: The Fading Year
On May Day, or more particularly, May morning, witches are traditionally believed to be able to steal their neighbor's milk or butter, so that no amount of churning will create butter. These witches, or hags as they were often known, were usually widowed women, frequently they were poor, and invariably they were known in their community as odd. Anyone visiting a household between sunset on May Eve and sunset on May Day would be treated with great suspicion. People were particular in not giving anything away, especially fire, milk, salt and water as to do so was considered to be risking the household's luck and milk-profit for the coming year. Tradesmen who worked about the house would have to smoke by the hearth, and extinguish their pipes before they left the dwelling, while beggars who regularly received hospitality at other times of the year would know to avoid calling at Maytime.
To protect the household from harm on May Eve May-flowers, often marigolds or primroses, are strewn across the window-ledges and the threshold of the dwelling, while branches of rowan or mountain ash are placed above the byre and around the boundaries of the land to protect the cattle, who are thought to be particularly vulnerable to evil influence during Maytime. Holy water was sometimes used along with, or as an alternative to, May-flowers or boughs, while milk was in some instances poured on the threshold of the household as an offering to the fairies. Farmers went to special lengths to protect their cattle on May morning. R. Clarke in an 1882 article titled 'Folklore Collected in County Wexford' mentioned that on May morning cows are struck with a quicker-berry switch, which prevents any person putting any evil on them or taking their profit or butter.' While William Wilde tells us that before the famine súgans (straw ropes) were sometimes placed around the necks of cattle on May Eve to protect them against ill luck and the fairies, while another method to protect the cattle against the powers of witchcraft was to singe the hair on the heads of each of the cattle, or in other cases a sod of coal was passed around the animal.
Farmers would often watch the well though the night on May Eve to ensure that no one tampered with it, as there was great importance attached to being the first on May morning to draw water from the well, this first water was often referred to as the 'flower of the well', and was fed to the cattle in the belief that the milk-profit was protected from the power of witchcraft for the season. Conversely, if a witch managed to get to the well first on May morning, having retrieved a cinder from a fire on May Eve, it was believed that by dropping the cinder down the well, in an action known as "burn the well", she could gain the milk profit of the well's users for the year to come.
Witches were thought to have many methods for stealing a person's milk profit on May Day. If a person was seen dragging a straw rope, a spancel, or other object connected with cattle across the dew of a neighbouring farm on May morning they would be presumed to be attempting to steal their neighbour's milk and butter. On May Day witches were also believed to be able to transform themselves into hares and, in this form, steal the milk-profit from a neighbouring farmer by suckling on the udders of his cows. The ability of 'old hags' to transform themselves into hares is noted by Giraldus Cambernsis in his twelfth century text the History and Topography of Ireland, and is the subject of a local legend, still well known in many parts of Ireland that tells of how a farmer upon discovering a hare suckling one of his cow's udders on May morning chases the hare with his dogs, one of which manages to bite the hare as it passes through a small gap in the wall of a house belonging to a local elderly woman. Upon entering the house the hare is nowhere to be seen, however a wound is discovered on the woman in the same position as the spot where the hare was bitten.
Previously there was great reluctance to be the first household to light a fire on May morning as witches were believed to be able to steal the luck and the milk-profit from the first household that did so, with this in mind people would be waiting for their neighbours' fires to be lit, watching their chimneys, before they lit their own. In some areas the people waited until the priest's fire was going, believing that the priest's close relations with God would act as protection against any threat of witchcraft. An inventive method to protect a household's milk profit on May morning, noted in the 1890s in County Leitrim, was to 'get a bunch of rowan leaves, and tie it up the chimney to dry, then on May morn, light this, and let that be the first smoke to go out of the chimney; for witches can do nothing with it.'
If a witch managed to steal your milk-profit there were a number of methods to regain what was lost. The woman of the house, in this situation, is often advised by an outsider to the community on how this can be achieved. In one such instance, an old woman from Mallow related to the American folklorist Jeremiah Curtin that a firebrand was stolen from her house on May morning, the woman went on to explain that a 'man was sitting there that knew what that meant. He took a piece of peat and threw it into the butter furkin. If he hadn't done that, we would have been a whole year without butter.' The Journal of the Kildare Historical and Archaeology Society provides a detailed account of how to retrieve the lost butter along with the consequences the perpetrator would face; 'If on the May Day's churning it is discovered that the butter has been already robbed by a witch-woman, a plough-chain should be looped round the churn, which should be placed on three stones, and the colter of the plough should be heated and placed under the churn; it will then be found, on commencing to churn again, that the butter will come; but during the operation no one on any pretex should be allowed into the house. During the heating of the colter the witch-woman will suffer torture; and it is she who will come and endeavour to gain admittance in to the house when the churning is again in full swing, if anyone thoughtlessly let her in, the butter would again disappear to the witch-woman's house.
Hags as Hares
From: Irish Folklore
When it comes to witches stealing butter, one of the most prevalent forms that the story or account takes is in the form of the shapeshifting hag who transforms into a hare. They are quite often impervious to normal weapons as Mrs. Elis tells us in the NFSC: "when she was in that shape she could only be shot with a silver sixpence" (NFSC, Vol. 0949: 092). This element of the story pops up numerous times in the folklore tradition. Another story, told by a collector's grandfather tells of a man seeing a hare every morning in the field by the cow.
When the cow stopped giving milk he got suspicious. He decided to kill the hare and gathered a group of men and hounds. They tried to shoot the hare, but to no avail. The shotgun pellets would not harm it. When attempting again the next day the man had quicksilver in his gun and manged to break the hare's leg. When they followed it back to a house they found an old woman there with a wounded leg. They refused to kill her because she was an old woman. A month later when she died the cow started giving milk again (NFSC, Vol. 0950: 366).
There was a genuine threat felt by the people in terms of hags in the form of hares. The larger National Folklore Collection is littered with accounts of people who remember patrolling the fields with their fathers with shotguns loaded with silver sixpences on May eve to shoot any trespasser, especially if a hare was seen, showing that this was far beyond just being part of the story telling tradition. It is quite often in the tales with the "hag as hare" motif that when the injured hare is followed back to a house which it enters, an old woman is found injured inside in the same manner as the hare was. This injury isn't always as a result of silver as we see in the next example:
"There was once a woman who lived in the district and she was supposed to have the 'evil eye'. One day she was supposed to turn into a hare. When she was going in through her window a dog caught her leg and hurt it. The next day she was {found} in bed with a sore leg" (NFSC, Vol. 0946: 094)."
Blessed Beltane
May Day traditions and rituals woven by: The Goddess & the Green Man Blog
Sunset to Sunset
Beltane honours Life. It represents the peak of Spring and the beginning of Summer. Earth energies are at their strongest and most active. All of life is bursting with potent fertility and at this point in the Wheel of the Year, the potential becomes conception. On May Eve the sexuality of life and the earth is at its peak. Abundant fertility, on all levels, is the central theme.
The Maiden goddess has reached her fullness. She is the manifestation of growth and renewal, Flora, the Goddess of Spring, the May Queen, the May Bride. The Young Oak King, as Jack-In-The-Green, as the Green Man, falls in love with her and wins her hand. The union is consummated and the May Queen becomes pregnant. Together the May Queen and the May King are symbols of the Sacred Marriage (or Heiros Gamos), the union of Earth and Sky, and this union has merrily been re-enacted by humans throughout the centuries. For this is the night of the Greenwood Marriage. It is about sexuality and sensuality, passion, vitality and joy. And about conception. A brilliant moment in the Wheel of the Year to bring ideas, hopes and dreams into action. And have some fun…..
Traditions of Beltane
Beltane is a Fire Festival. The word 'Beltane' originates from the Celtic God 'Bel', meaning 'the bright one' and the Gaelic word 'teine' meaning fire. Together they make 'Bright Fire', or 'Goodly Fire' and traditionally bonfires were lit to honour the Sun and encourage the support of Bel and the Sun's light to nurture the emerging future harvest and protect the community. Bel had to be won over through human effort. Traditionally all fires in the community were put out and a special fire was kindled for Beltane. "This was the Tein-eigen, the need fire. People jumped the fire to purify, cleanse and to bring fertility. Couples jumped the fire together to pledge themselves to each other. Cattle and other animals were driven through the smoke as a protection from disease and to bring fertility. At the end of the evening, the villagers would take some of the Teineigen to start their fires anew." (From Sacred Celebrations by Glennie Kindred) Green Man – Beltane
As Beltane is the Great Wedding of the Goddess and the God, it is a popular time for pagan weddings or Handfastings, a traditional betrothal for 'a year and a day' after which the couple would either choose to stay together or part without recrimination. Today, the length of commitment is a matter of choice for the couple, and can often be for life. Handfasting ceremonies are often unique to the couple, but
include common elements, most importantly the exchange of vows and rings (or a token of their choice). The act of handfasting always involves tying the hands Handfasting ('tying the knot') of the two people involved, in a figure of eight, at some point in the ceremony and later unbinding. This is done with a red cord or ribbon. Tying the hands together symbolises that the two people have come together and the untying means that they remain together of their own free will.
Another common element is 'jumping the broomstick' – this goes back to a time when two people who could not afford a church ceremony, or want one, would be accepted in the community as a married couple if they literally jumped over a broom laid on the floor. The broom marked a 'threshold', moving from an old life to a new one.
Mead and cakes are often shared in communion as part of the ceremony. Mead is known as the Brew of the Divine, made from honey which is appropriate for a love ceremony (and is the oldest alcoholic drink known to humankind).
Going A-Maying
Handfasting or not, both young and old went A-Maying… Couples spent the night in the woods and fields, made love and brought back armfuls of the first May or haw thorn blossoms to decorate their homes and barns. Hawthorn was never brought into the home except at Beltane – at other times it was considered unlucky. Young women gathered the dew to wash their faces, made Flower Crowns and May Baskets to give as gifts. Everyone was free to enact the Sacred Marriage of Goddess and God, and there was an accepted tradition of Beltane babies arriving nine months later…
The Maypole is a popular and familiar image of May Day and Beltane. A phallic pole, often made from birch, was inserted into the Earth representing the potency of the God. The ring of flowers at the top of the Maypole represents the fertile Goddess. Its many colored ribbons and the ensuing weaving dance symbolize the spiral of Life and the union of the Goddess and God, the union between Earth and Sky.
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Slinfold captain Jonathan Hughes is hoping that their first league win can be a 'catalyst for the remainder of the season'.
The Lyons Road outfit notched up their maiden Division 3 West victory thanks to a seven-wicket away win against Pagham.
The visitors won the toss and elected to field, and the hosts were bowled all out for 158 off 44.4 overs, Ryan Barratt (34) top-scoring for Pagham.
In reply, Slinfold picked off the total in 32.5 overs, finishing on 159-3, with Mushal Murad (56*) shining with the bat.
Hughes was delighted with the win, praising his side's performance after a tough loss last week.
He said: "What a difference a week makes. We managed to produce a disciplined performance in the field and with the bat.
"I am really pleased for the team and I hope that this can be the catalyst for the remainder of the season."
Slinfold struck early with Kemar Small (2-30) bowling Pagham opener Gary Young for a golden duck.
A 52-run fourth wicket partnership between wicket-keeper captain Stuart Hanks (28) and Barratt steadied the hosts' innings but they lost their wickets in quick succession, leaving Pagham at 121-5.
After the loss of Barratt the hosts crumbled, losing their remaining five wickets for just 37 runs.
Slinfold lost skipper Hughes early for just 12, but a 50-run second-wicket partnership between Steve Haines and Murad got the visitors' innings back on track.
Haines made 30 before he was bowled by Pagham's impressive Rico Webb (3-45) as Slinfold found themselves at 70-2.
An 84-run third-wicket partnership between Murad and Small saw Slinfold just four runs away from victory before the loss of Small.
Small fell just eight runs shy of his half-century as he was taken lbw by Webb, leaving Slinfold within touching distance of Pagham's total.
It was left to Murad and new man in Guy Thorne (five*) to wrap up the win for the away side, their first league success of the campaign.
Hughes added: "Our bowling performance was much improved on recent weeks with all bowlers being accurate and economical.
"It was in the middle overs with spinners (Tom) Filby, Thorne, and Harrison (Webb) really putting the squeeze on the run rate. They were backed up with an energetic fielding performance with all six catches taken, a different story from last week when three important catches were dropped.
"Our batting performance was pleasing.
"Once again we got off to a fast start, however when wickets were lost the incoming batsmen were able to maintain the scoring tempo rather than get bogged down by the opposition bowlers as has been the case recently."
Up next for Slinfold is a league fixture away from home against third-placed Findon this Saturday.


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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- MRIs can spot the warning signs of knee osteoarthritis in people who have normal X-rays, researchers report.
They looked at 849 people, average age of 60, who showed no evidence of arthritis in either knee in X-rays. They were deemed at high risk due to factors such as being overweight or having a history of knee injuries.
The Northwestern University team also assessed cartilage damage, bone marrow lesions and meniscus tears on MRI images taken three years apart. If the MRIs showed worsening damage during that time, the patients were at increased risk of developing knee arthritis or symptoms such as pain, stiffness and/or swelling.
Depending on the type of lesion revealed by MRI, the risk of developing knee arthritis within three years was three to 20 times greater, the researchers said.
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"If we employ aggressive prevention strategies in persons with these lesions before they develop knee osteoarthritis, we may be able to delay disease development or alter its course," she added.
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My wife, Joyce, and I attended a tagging event last Saturday that took place in the wide open spaces and fresh air at Quivira National Wildlife Refuge and involved mostly exuberant kids with butterfly nets.
Known as Monarch Mania, this 13th annual event was a "citizen scientist project," meaning volunteers were used to net and tag monarch butterflies migrating through on their annual fall trek from as far north as southern Canada en route to central Mexico.
Pamela Martin, local monarch guru from the Kansas Wetlands Education Center and member of the volunteer group "Friends of Quivira," presided over the morning's events, which began with games and crafts for the kids, all centered on Monarch butterflies.
Local butterfly grower Imogene Hall had a display showing how she actually grows monarchs at her home in Reno County. Just before heading for the field, we were all given a "netting demonstration" by Quivira Visitor Services specialist Barry Jones. Jones stressed not chasing the butterflies, but following them until they land, then using a smooth sideways "swooping" motion to envelop them in the net. The taggers were divided amongst several team leaders - biologists and staff members from Quivira - and nets were passed out. The river of youthful butterfly baggers, nets in hand, quickly flowed out the door.
Joyce and I tagged along with Martin to get the scoop on the process.
For years, the University of Kansas has studied Monarch migration in an attempt to learn whether the butterflies navigate by using the sun, the earth's magnetic field or instincts. The tagging program began in 1992, and each year KU prints 100,000 of the 3/8-inch-diameter adhesive tags and mails them to locations east of the Rocky Mountains. Each tag contains the words "Monarch Watch," a KU Web site address and toll-free phone number, plus the number assigned to that butterfly.
Martin explained that Monarchs need two things to survive: shelter and nectar. She urged the kids to look for them along tree rows or among the abundant goldenrod, which is one of their favorite nectar sources.
Soon cries of "I got one" could be heard, and team leaders began assisting successful netters with the tagging process. The first one caught in our group was a little tattered and worse for wear, probably from being attacked by a bird.
Martin gingerly plucked the butterfly from the net and opened its wings to explain how to determine its gender. Two scent glands, tiny but distinctive black dots toward the back of each wing, told us this one was a male. Folding its wings together and gently grasping it between her thumb and index finger at the thickest, sturdiest part of its wings, which is near its body, she applied one of the tiny adhesive tags to the underside of one wing. Then, she gave the butterfly back to the girl who had caught it, to be released into the air. Its gender and tag number were recorded on a form, and as it fluttered away, we all wondered aloud how far it would get with its wings in such poor repair.
Monarchs complete three or four reproductive cycles each year before they die, meaning the butterflies captured last Saturday were three or four generations removed from the previous year's catch. Martin explained that these butterflies have an eight- to nine-month lifespan and will die upon reaching central Mexico, if not before.
Dr. Orly "Chip" Taylor, Monarch Watch director and professor of entomology at KU, used to take a group of graduate students to central Mexico each fall in pursuit of tagged monarchs, searching for them on the forest floors and hoping the native villagers there would also help by finding and saving dead tagged butterflies.
He has since developed a better and more effective strategy. Forest guides, mostly at El Rosario, the butterfly colony most visited by tourists, collect tags found on dead butterflies beneath the trees covered with butterflies. Tags are rare because there is only one tag per 20,000 to 40,000 butterflies, and searching for the tags takes hours. Monarch Watch pays the guides 50 pesos, or about $5, for each recovered tag. The Monarch Watch crew makes a brief visit to the area near the end of each season to buy the tags, the data from which has proven valuable.
Each year, the Monarch Mania crew at Quivira catches several monarchs ahead of time so that volunteers will have some to tag even if the weather is prohibitive. This year, including the 23 caught early, 53 monarch butterflies were caught, tagged and released to continue their annual journey southward. Since the inception of the tagging program in 1992, more than 11,000 tags have been returned, the farthest to date from 1,285 miles away.
Monarch Mania is yet another way to Explore Kansas Outdoors.
Steve Gilliland writes a weekly outdoor column called Exploring Kansas Outdoors and can be contacted by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com


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by Christine Wong
So I was shopping at 1 Utama just last weekend, JEOEL Jewels crossed my path and I could not take my eyes off the beautiful sets just for this Christmas. Much to my surprise, JEOEL celebrates the warmth of the holidays and the cool beauty of winter with its new collection inspired by the shades and splendour of the season.
Snowie earrings resembling ice flakes to go with that black evening dress for this year's Christmas dinner sounds like a plan. Then I saw the Anahera earrings and Esprit earrings got me in a dilemma. They are so tempting!
Saw really good jewellery range consisting of traditional yuletide symbols from petite Angels, a reindeer, skating boots and even a snowman with an openable belly to reveal a smaller snowman inside (how detailed!) The Snowman and Ice Skater Boots charm really seems to make for a good Christmas present. Oh so excited!
As I was all set to part with some hard earned cash, I realized that JEOEL is also running the 'A Gift from Santa' campaign.
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Wow this is surely music to my ears !! Now I can even score some instant prizes getting these lovely gifts for myself or for family and friends.
Here's what to expect from the Christmas Editions at JEOEL !
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Filipino boxer Al Rivera to fight Shinya Iwabuchi of Japan for the vacant OPBF super lightweight title on February 11, 2016.
The Filipino fighter has a record of 14 wins including 12 victories coming by way of KO and has only 2 defeats.
Rivera is a 22 years old boxer from Santa Rosa City, Laguna, Philippines.
He defeated Junard Postrano back in 2014 to win the vacant Philippines Boxing Federation (PBF) lightweight title.
In his previous fights, Rivera won 3 KO in his last 4 fights. Also defeated the former undefeated Filipino boxer Adones Cabalquinto via KO.
On the other hand, Shinya Iwabuchi of Japan is 30 years old hard hitting boxer with the record of 26W(22KO)-5L.
Shinya Iwabuchi is a former Japanese super lightweight champion. He also fought for OPBF super lightweight title but loses the fight against Keita Obara in 2014.
Iwabuchi also fought a Filipino boxer Jimrex Jaca in 2014 and won via TKO.
Al Rivera vs Shinya Iwabuchi will be held at Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan.


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Hi everyone! The weather has been very good the last few days and it really feels like the beginning of spring. So I decided that the best thing would be to post these photos of purple pansies. Today the weather, unfortunately, was cold and windy compared to the other days, but the day itself is getting longer and that is very nice. It's not dark when you get up and dark when you come home anymore, as it is during autumn and winter. That makes a great difference. So I thought it would be a good time to post these photos today.
Hopefully we won't get any more snow so I won't have to post any winter-like photos until much later this year. I also hope you enjoyed my review, I have more coming up. My goal is to be able to post a review every other week.


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Zinke proudly announced that the donated land would be used for what he dubbed the Great Northern Veterans Peace Park.†In asserting the present, he touted his personal profession in uniform and described the park as a present to Whitefish. His intent was to combine the railway land and an adjacent city-owned hill right into a youngsters's winter sledding park in a setting that recognizes the contributions of the veterans and the railroad to the area people,†in accordance with the nonprofit's publicly available IRS kinds.
Lesar, who also served as Halliburton's chief govt till final 12 months, is offering money to back the resort and retail growth, in keeping with business records and officers at Whitefish city government and Halliburton. He additionally has a longstanding relationship with the Zinkes. In 2014, he and his wife, Sheryl, gave $10,four hundred, the utmost allowed by regulation, to Zinke's first Home campaign. His solely other federal contributions that yr had been to Halliburton's PAC and the campaign of Rep. Liz Cheney, whose father, Dick, ran the company earlier than changing into George W. Bush's vp.
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Obtaining a Texas notary license to notarize records for the public is a simple and inexpensive process at Keystone Insurance Services, Inc. We will be happy to assist you with the application and to address your expressed insurance concerns. We understand cost is a concern for every business. Therefore, we are committed to assisting you in maintaining a low application cost as well.
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A good interviewer or host knows the secret to an engaging conversation with a guest is to ask questions that cannot be answered with a simple 'yes' or 'no'. However, many things in life can be distilled down to exactly that: Yes or No.
Despite the obvious interpretation that 'yes' is positive and 'no' is negative, we learn from an early age that life is not that simple. For a child, many manifestations of 'yes', including the non-verbal ones (a hug, a smile, a helping hand), are indeed positive.
But, just as surely, we discover that 'no' can also be positive if it is used correctly.
We may have resented our parents for saying, No! You cannot stick that key in a light socket or No, you are not allowed to spend all your money on candy, but eventually we recognized that in those instances, their 'No' was simply a different way of saying Yes, I love you enough to keep you safe from harm.
Similarly, 'Yes' became a negative thing if a sombre nod confirmed that a beloved relative or pet was seriously ill and likely to die.
As we grew older, the answers in life got more complicated. And I don't mean 'maybe'.
I'm no stranger to 'NO'. I've worked in direct marketing, and my stint as a door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson in the early 80s has helped me deal with the rejection inherent in submitting my writing to journals and publishers. Fortunately, 'Yes' is a strong part of my life too. I know that I am valued and loved.
Our life experiences and self-esteem influence how we react to 'yes' and 'no'. So, why do we still get it wrong after all these years? Now there's a question without a simple 'yes or no' answer! And my point is not to bore with my attempts to answer it, because the personal journey I make to that place will be different from yours.
What I will do is share a couple of things that have helped me explore that question for myself. Both of these links (one to an article, the other to a video) brought home the fact that, as much as I am affected by the 'yes' or 'no' responses I get from other people, it is the YES or NO answers that I give to myself that really makes the difference.
The first link is for an article by Kevin Ashton (Thoughts on Creativity) about the power of 'No' when it comes to protecting the creative mind from unnecessary distractions.
The second link is to a TED talk video featuring Amanda Palmer, (The Art of Asking) that has inspired me to say 'Yes' to taking more risks; to making myself vulnerable by asking for what I need, even if it means that the answer I get could very well be 'No'.


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"One perspective held by various NGOs—which I would call extreme—is that water should be declared a human right… The other view is that water is a grocery product. And just as every other product, it should have a market value."
– Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Nestlé's Former Chief Executive Officer
For you all that may not know, Nestlé's bottled water is sold in each state within America. That is magnificent, yet this post is not being made to congratulate the billion dollar corporation, but to inform our readers of the tragic mischief behind the World's Largest Bottled Water company. For the sake of time – and typing – I am going to just indulge into the Ice Mountain bottled water brand alone.
The company sucks its locations dry, including Michigan. Yes, the same Michigan where Flint, Michigan is located. For you all that may not know, there is a water crisis in Flint, but the company has been quoted saying that it "has nothing to do" with the crisis. To help fight it though, Nestlé, the billion dollar company, has partnered with three (3) other companies (Walmart, Pepsi, and Coca-Cola) to donate a whopping 35,000 bottles of water a month to the inflicted families.
So let's do some math really quick (don't pull out a calculator, I swear I got you on the adding, subtracting, and any carrying of a 1). Ice Mountain Bottled Water will give 8,750 (35,000 divided by 4) bottles a month for 12 months, which is 105,000 bottles of water a year. The price for that, if we are using the $0.89 price tag I just saw on Target's website, will be approximately $93,450 a year. Now if the company only has $1Bil in the bank, then it still has $999,906,550 to re-invest. That number insults my intelligence though because the company owns most of the foods we consume: Boost, Butterfinger, Coffee Mate, Cat Chow, DiGiorno, Dog Chow, Gerber, Häagen-Dazs, Jack's Pizza, Kit-Kat, Lean Cuisine, Nesquick, Nescafé, Poland Spring, Purina, Smarties, Stouffer's, Toll House, Tombstone, Wonka Taffy, and many others I did not list due to me never eating them. I am no Picasso, but you should see the picture I am trying to paint here: the people over at Nestlé are more than wealthy – they are filthy fucking rich and are killing the less fortunate.
It is not a black, white, purple, or blue person thing, it is a less fortunate thing. I am sure that someone in Michigan has $800 to buy the land, the same price Nestlé paid for it, but the inability to debate and slither through laws is where the average Joe comes up short. This is definitely an attack on the citizens in this country who can not afford to fight for themselves against the inhumanities of greedy-ass corporations — and today, Nestlé is going to be the poster child for all those corporations. The injustice of cashing in on our natural resources is being mopped up due to the amount of money & power the company has and political sponsorships it can produce.
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality approved the permit that will allow Ice Mountain to move from pumping 200 gallons of water per minute to pumping 400 gallons per minute out of the natural wells in Michigan. The organization is quoted saying that "we can't make our decisions based on popular opinion. We make our decision based on what the statute says we have to look at," which means that although the pumping is outrageous, it is not against the law. Science have proven that the amount of water taken from the wells/springs will not harm the environment due to the natural replenishment the Great Lakes have.
Now although it is not breaking the law, I consider it inhumane. The individuals are going through a water crisis, but instead of provide the city with the source of natural water, Nestlé bottles it up and sells it to them. The investment of $2.37 the billion dollar company gives to the City of Evart, Michigan, per 1,000 gallons of water they pump, is a disgrace – but not against the law.
To make the long story short, Nestlé, the corporation that owns Ice Mountain, is the world's largest bottled water company. They say it is sourced and distributed for the Midwest by the Midwest from 3 major water plants: White Pine Springs, Evart Springs, and Sanctuary Springs, in Michigan, but that is a lie (well just fine print). There is a full list on Ice Mountain's website. The company also gets its water from Pennsylvania, Maine, Colorado, and Tennessee. I have no degree in Map-ology, geography to be exact, but Tennessee is a Southern state, Pennsylvania & Maine are Eastern, and Colorado is Western – not Midwestern. So, not only are the individuals at Ice Mountain promoting false information, but they are getting away with – and getting paid for – turning the world into the Sahara.
The water is not even 100% pure! The U.S. Food & Drug Administration's new adjustment changes the filtration laws a little. That is for another story though, but if you want to read more on this issue – feel free to click any of the links below. If you want to correct me on anything or have any concerns, leave a comment below or hit me up on social media.
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Wondering if anyone can help me understand how Android (Gingerbread) figures out what network connection to use when a HTTP request is made?
Also wondering if once a connection is established (wifi, cellular) if this connection is maintained or if a best path calc is done and if so when?
Is there a way to control what network connection a network request takes?


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Prosecutor turns high-tech in an effort to convict Siegel
Jurors on Tuesday heard testimony from 11 prosecutorial witnesses in the governmental records tampering trial of Conroe attorney Jessica Siegel.
Witnesses included intelligence analyst Adam Unnasch, a researcher and criminal communications analyst with the Texas Department of Public Safety in Austin, who attempted to methodically examine Siegel's cell phone records in an effort to establish Siegel's contested place of residency before the 2012 Montgomery County GOP primary election.
Siegel is charged with two counts of tampering with a governmental record and is alleged to have made false statements on two applications she submitted to the Montgomery County Republican Party in a bid for the 418th state District Court judge seat in 2012.
After Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Tiana Sanford spent Tuesday morning reviewing a case history of the investigation with Sgt. Wende Wakeman, of the Texas Rangers (culminating with Siegel's arrest on March 9, 2012 at Montgomery County Republican Party Headquarters in Conroe), Sanford had Unnasch offer extensive analysis of Siegel's cell phone records, which investigators obtained through use of a search warrant.
Unnasch, whose work with the DPS has focused on analyzing cell phone data for the past five years, described in detail cell phone tower mapping procedures that appeared to precisely establish Siegel's whereabouts through her texts and incoming and outgoing cell phone calls.
At issue: exactly what dates Siegel departed her Timmons Lane apartment in southwest Houston and moved to establish residency on Mansions View Drive in the Conroe/The Woodlands section of Montgomery County.
Earlier in the day, Sanford had used the testimony of two apartment managers, three attorneys and a former banker to try to allege Siegel lived in her southwest Houston apartment longer than she stated on her election candidate's petition, and that Siegel falsified documents, not once, but twice, in an effort to meet legal residency requirements in Montgomery County.
Unnasch explained that through intricate mapping of cell phone towers and call data, his analysis was able to pinpoint large volumes of calls Siegel made or received while she said she was a resident of Montgomery County, which he said actually came from southwest Houston.
"You chose to determine where this defendant was sleeping?" Sanford said.
Siegel's attorney, Jarrod Walker, objected numerous times during Sanford's examination of Unnasch, citing the violation of Siegel's Fourth Amendment rights, but was consistently overruled by visiting Judge John Stevens, of Beaumont.
The court also heard testimony from Montgomery County Law Library Reference Attorney Sarah Williams, as well as Montgomery County Republican Party Chairman Dr. Walter Wilkerson.
Testimony in the criminal trial continues in the 9th District Court at 9 a.m. today.


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Materials Frontier No.133
Title: Crystalstructure characterisation of titanate based photocatalytic nanomaterials for the degradation of organic compounds
Speaker: Dong Zhi-Li, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Date/Time: 2014-03-26,10:00
Venue: Room.323,MaterialBuildingD
Inviter: Prof.Di ZHANG
Zhi-Li Dong is an Associate Professor in Nanyang Technological University of Singapore.
Dong received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering and Bachelor of Engineering fromTsinghua University,China. During his study towards a PhD degree, he was granted a Japanese Government Scholarship and studied atOsakaUniversityin 1987 and 1988. He completed his PhD work in 1989 under the MOE Joint PhD Programme.
Dong was trained as a materials scientist and engineer during his undergraduate and postgraduate study atTsinghua UniversityChinaandOsaka UniversityJapan. He has almost thirty years experience in x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy of materials.
Dong developed his research in the areas of materials engineering, electronic structure-crystal structure-property relationships, interface structure analysis, and surface modification when he was working in different institutions. He has graduated a few PhD students in those areas.
Dong's teaching in NTU is mainly focused on (1) metallic & ceramics materials, and (2) crystallography, X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy of materials.
Prior to joining the School of Materials Science & Engineering of NTU, Dong worked at the Environmental Technology Institute of Singapore as a senior research scientist,SchoolofMechanicaland Production Engineering of NTU as a research fellow,UniversityofBarcelonaas a visiting professor. He was a lecturer atTsinghuaUniversitybefore joining theUniversityofBarcelona.
Layered titanate nanomaterials, traditionally synthesized by alkaline hydrothermal process, have exhibited excellent properties for ion-exchange, catalytic reduction, molecular absorption, photoelectronicity and wettability [1-4]. So far, the synthesis of one and two-dimensional nano-titanate has been widely investigated with many interesting properties reported. For examples, 1D titanate nanotubes, nanowires, nanorods, and 2D titanate nanosheets have been synthesized through hydrothermal, high-temperature oxidation, molten-salt synthesis, and exfoliation methods. However, these approaches either take multiple steps or require a long time in order to ensure complete reaction, which poses a limit to the productivity and often results in high production cost. Here, we discuss a 3D hierarchical titanate micro-spherulite catalysts obtained from a simple, fast, and inexpensive method. The crystal structures of those materials are characterized using X-ray diffraction and high resolution transmission electron microscopy. The obtained titanate powders show relatively good ion-exchange ability and high adsorption rate with toxic Pb2+ ion and the methylene blue dye due to its specific morphology and crystal structure.
1. T. Kasuga, M. Hiramatsu, A. Hoson, T. Sekino, and K. Niihara, Langmuir 14, 3160 (1998).
2. D. V. Bavykin, J. M. Friedrich, and F. C. Walsh, Adv. Mater. 18, 2807 (2006).
3. X. M. Sun and Y. D. Li, Chem. Eur. J. 9, 2229 (2003).
4. D. J. Yang, Z. F. Zheng, H. Y. Zhu, H. W. Liu, and X. P. Gao, Adv. Mater. 20, 2777 (2008).


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It turns out there is another Microsoft project that includes the "Natal" name. In Africa's Lakeside Park Primary is in Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal — a province of South Africa. Larry Venter of Microsoft Retail Solutions recently visited the school and saw an opportunity to help the kids there learn English. Kinect (aka Natal) was the answer.
Past few months later with the help of other Microsoft teams and a local NGO, a set of training materials prepared for 8 teachers in Lakeside Park Primary:


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This is a prophetic word by Cindy Jacobs that was recorded on September 21, 2016 about how God is getting ready to move among families. You can listen to the word through the audio player below.
The Lord is saying that, "I am getting ready to move among families in extraordinary ways."
And the Lord says, "Even young people that your parents don't know the Lord and you've been praying for them, they're going to come to know the Lord in a great and powerful way. Even cousins, this is the time I'm moving for breakthrough for the family where even the hardest cases I'm going to bring unique visitations into their life's, unique circumstances into their lives, and don't doubt circumstances are brought by God also that release blessing."
And so the Lord says, "Don't be discouraged even though you've prayed a long, long time and it seemed like nothing has happened, because this is the time and this is the hour that I will do that," says the Lord.


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It's early in the game, but it appears that two men may have been cured of HIV infection through bone marrow transplants as cancer treatments. It also appears that the anti-retrovirals the men were taken, even through the transplant, which is not common, have protected the men from further infection.
Usually people with HIV are taken off their anti-retrovirals before cancer treatment, NBC News reported.
The finding "suggests that under the cover of anti-retroviral therapy, the cells that repopulated the patient's immune system appear to be protected from becoming re-infected with HIV," Henrich told ABC News.


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Board members are comprised of a variety of professionals from the community, and parents who have an interest in the operation of a child care center and education of young children. Our main center, state licensed to serve 71 children per day, provides care to children ages 6 weeks-12 from 5:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Our facility is conveniently located next to Black River Memorial Hospital. The Krohn Clinic, dental and eye clinics are also within walking distance.
Our Center is committed to providing high-quality services to young children. We participate in the State of Wisconsin YoungStar Program. We are proud to have received a 3-star rating from the State. We are continually striving to improve our program and are working toward a 4-star rating.
We also operate a school age After School program that is state licensed to serve 45 children from school dismissal to 5:30 p.m. Space is rented from the Black River Falls School District to operate the program in the gymnasium of Forrest Street School.
Our center is open for visits and observations during hours of operation. We have an open door policy and we welcome you to check out our facility or visit your child.


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|1-Sara Seam Detail Off The Shoulder Skater Dress-£20
2-Kate Heart Print Tassle Vest Top-£10
3-Jessy Drawstring Navajo Bag-£20
4-Ameera Cream Floral Lace Block Heel Shoe Boot-£35
5-Laura Neon Envelope Clutch-£15
I really like the tassle's on the vest top and the print, the tassles make me think of sun, festivals, music and having a good time with my friends so this is why I chose this. I would wear this with a pair of denim shorts and either Vans or any other 'gym shoe' like shoes.
The drawstring bag is really on trend for this Summer's fashion with the aztec print that is back again this year! The colours go really well with each other and personally, this is something I could see myself purchasing and wearing.
I fell in love with the shoes once I saw them, I love the lace detail and the fact that they are 'boot style' makes me like them even more as I'm more of a 'boot heel' person rather than just a heel person.
Finally, the neon clutch is on trend as well for this Summer, everyone should own at least one neon product this summer whether it's a top or a bag, you should definitely own one. I didn't really like the style once they came out on the market but I have grown to really like them.


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Gastric Banding
Gastric banding is considered the least invasive weight loss surgery. It is also the safest. The procedure can be reversed if necessary, and in time, the stomach generally returns to its normal size.
Short-term effects of the gastric band are encouraging, with an appropriate rate of weight loss (about 0.5kg to 1kg per week) and few major medical complications over the first one or two years. Total weight loss peaks at about three years, with about 50% of excess weight lost. For many people, this resolves or improves obesity-related conditions such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and sleep apnoea.
Gastric banding surgery has a low complication rate.
This is a revsersible, minimally invasive laparoscopic procedure.
Benefits of gastric banding
- No change to normal digestion
- Lower risk of early surgical complications
- Lowest mortality rate


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Well its quite simple, over the next four weeks we will provide a piece of the photo to help you name the footballing hero, (note one entry per person) and you could be our lucky prize winner, provided of course that you come first out of the hat. So e-mail
(setting the subject to photocomp) with your answer.
Please note that the judges decision is final.


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A Taste of Mallorca
Mallorca's mild climate and lovely beaches have made it a popular tourist destination. Enjoy the elegance of the old city of Palma and the fine beaches of the north coast.
Day 1 Palma de Mallorca
Arrival in Palma where you are met at the airport and transferred to your hotel. Overnight.
Day 2 Palma de Mallorca
Breakfast. A free day to explore the city at leisure. The hub of Palma city is the old-fashioned Passeig des Born, whose cafes invite you to try one of Mallorca's specialities, the ensaimada, a spiral of pastry dusted with icing sugar. You can visit the Gothic cathedral and the nearby Palau de l'Almudaina, a once-royal Moorish palace which now houses a museum. This evening, enjoy a local food and wine tasting. This relaxed yet informative tasting will satisfy the wine fan's thirst for extensive knowledge of contemporary island winemaking as well as the novice visitor interested in sampling the best the island has to offer. Our sommelier will also pair the wines with bites of local, artisan products. Overnight.
Day 3 Palma de Mallorca
Breakfast. Free days to explore the city at your leisure. A recommendation is to make an excursion to visit Soller. Soller is a delightful historic town and you can reach it by its famous delightfully old-fashioned narrow-gauge railway, complete with quaint wooden carriages. Overnight.
Day 4 Palma de Mallorca
Breakfast. Enjoy strolling the streets of the old town of Palma and be sure not to miss Palma's Gothic castle - the Castell de Bellver. It was commissioned by Jaime II during the short-lived Kingdom of Mallorca (1276-1349) as a summer residence, but soon after became a prison and remained as such until 1915. Overnight.
Day 5 Palma de Mallorca
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Judging from the scene that surrounds Teru (Satoshi Tsumabuki) as he struggles to open his eyes, he's either just waking up after the best party ever or something truly awful must have occurred. Where is he? Feeling around it seems like there are a lot of seats – a plane, or a train? Yes, a train. He remembers being on some kind of trip with his school mates – they were all on the train together so where is everyone? Struggling to get up, stumbling against walls he finds them – dead, all dead. Seemingly the only survivor of some kind of accident, Teru tries to get off the train to find out what's happened and look for other survivors. It seems the train is trapped in a tunnel, both ends blocked by fallen rubble. Beginning to fear he really is all alone he comes across another boy perched in the window of an adjacent carriage. Small relief however as Nobuo (Takayuki Yamada) seems to be acting very strangely and muttering on about red lights and embracing the darkness. Evading him leads Teru further along the train where he finds another survivor, a girl – Ako, desperately hiding from Nobuo after witnessing him completely losing control whilst looking for survivors.
You might think this is where our three plucky teenagers club together to figure out how to escape the train wreck and get home, but no this is not that type of film. Quicker than you can say Lord of the Flies, Nobuo has gone completely crazy – painting a strange grin on his face with some lipstick he found and dotting his his chest with it too, he even makes a makeshift spear go with with new tribal outfit as a sort of dedicatory effort to his new red light god. He's very much of the opinion that this stretch of tunnel is the only safe space left on earth and its three inhabitants have inherited a new eden, if they'd just learn to accept it. Teru and Ako though, clearly terrified by Nobuo's transformation, do little other than wait for help to arrive. When serious tremors start to shake the tunnel and they no longer have any choice but to act they finally manage to climb out through a supply tunnel. What they find on the other side though is a vast desert of ash – all visible signs of human civilisation have been destroyed and they seem to be alone in the world.
Dragon Head is a bleak, seventies style post-apocolyptic drama in which our 'heroes' discover that the threads that hold society together are incredibly weak and snap the moment the slightest pressure is placed upon them. Without spoiling too much, we never find out exactly what it is that has happened, only that whatever it was caused people to turn on each other in a terrible fashion and those few who have survived only want to forget. During in their travels our, frankly unbelievably clueless and incredibly lucky, duo come across a town full of men who've decided not to go on and don't want anyone else to either; mercenary soldiers with dubious motivations; a pair of strange brothers who've been surgically altered to remove all trace of fear and sadness and myriad other examples of humanity's darkest places.
In facing the successive crises, it has to be said that Teru and Ako are not exactly survival buffs. They react to each new situation in what might be termed a realistic fashion as far as two teenagers faced with seemingly impossible odds would do. Largely this means there is a fair amount of panic, crying, blind stumbling and a the recurrent idea of simply giving up. This realistic portrayal of ordinary people caught up in an extreme situation is quite refreshing and a direct contrast to the super smart, seemingly indestructible, level headed teens you often find in such movies. However, the vulnerability of the central couple may also be turn off those viewers who find them simply too whiny and wonder why they don't get on with trying to find a better way to survive.
For what was seemingly quite a low budget picture shot on early digital, Dragon Head features some very impressive visuals. Making use of old school techniques like matte paintings alongside CG effects, the post apocalyptic landscape is rendered in an extremely convincing way and this is certainly one of those films that has made the best of what it had. In fact it benefits greatly from not relying on CGI to the extent other films of its era often did and so appears much less dated in comparison. Its real world effects and attention to detail mark it well above the some of the big budget disaster epics that began to appear around the turn of the century and help it become much more engaging as a result.
Dragon Head is not without its faults – it's based on a manga which lends it an episodic structure which isn't always conducive to good cinematic story storytelling. It's also possible that some of the overarching mythology which isn't really explored during the course of the film is more fully explained in the manga (not to mention the Seventies style ending) but really these are small problems. Dragon Head turns out to be much more impressive than you'd originally think it would be and offers a refreshing dose of bleakness that's been absent from our screens for much too long.


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No Fair Increase for Southampton Taxi Trade Since 2014
Earlier this week the government announced the biggest pay rise in over 10 years for over a million public sector workers including teachers, police and the armed forces. But did you know that the Southampton taxi trade has not had a fare increase since 2014?
When putting in our proposal for a fare increase, we have to follow an antiquated system whereby firstly a proposed fare increase is presented to the Southampton licensing councillors and we are then cross examined by councillors as to why we want a fare increase - which is slightly bizarre! This system goes back to the 1847 Town and Police Clauses Act where fare increases were decided by commissionaires. In fact, the whole fare structure may even go back to the days of Oliver Cromwell in June 1654 who first licensed the taxi trade in London!
Unfortunately, we seem to be one of the only professions who have to go in front of a panel to decide our fate. Despite this, Southampton City Council still expect us to spend vast sums of money to purchase electric/hybrid vehicles to comply with the clean air policy but will not consider alternative fuel vehicles with lower costs. The whole system is ridiculous.


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Take control of your WordPress website. Learn the basics of WordPress.
You might be like other small business owners, and stuck with a WordPress website that you don't know how to use. Or maybe you want to make some money designing websites, and you heard WordPress is a good place to start.
You'll learn:
- How to buy a domain name (example.com) and server
- How to install WordPress
- How to select a theme
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The Last Days of Scallop Season 2013
Two weeks left to hit the Nature Coast for a limit of bay scallops, and it has been a very productive 2013 off the Homosassa/Ozello/Crystal River region. A little slower to the north around Steinhatchee. All summer long friends and Facebook have reported quick limits. With a lack of tropical activity, boaters have had a plenty of opportunities and ideal water conditions. Plus, there are just more scallops than in the past couple of years. Unfortunately, I won't be making… Read More »


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San Diego Port Board to Consider Broadway Pier Improvements
Cruise Line & Cruise Ship April 08, 2012
The Port of San Diego board of port commissioners will consider proposed improvements to Broadway Pier at its monthly meeting on April 10. If approved by the board, the pier would get additional lighting, flag poles, benches with planter boxes, table seating at the end of the pier, and bronze markers charting the history of the pier, which was built in 1913.
Also planned are movable lounge seating inspired by rail carts, movable bleacher seating for event viewing, movable umbrella lounge seating, and historic maps of San Diego Bay. The improvements are designed to attract residents and visitors and to accommodate community events such as festivals and concerts.
The improvements will tie in with the North Embarcadero improvements that are under way, including the addition of a wide walkway, a park/plaza area at the foot of Broadway and a park planned for the Lane Field development that will include two hotels and retail shops in the waterfront area on North Harbor Drive and West Broadway.
Also, representatives of One Park Boulevard LLC, owner and operator of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel, will present a proposal to the board of port commissioners to expand the hotel. The proposed Hilton expansion would add up to 500 guest rooms, a fitness/spa facility, and a ballroom and meeting space. The expansion would cover approximately 500,000 square feet of enclosed area.
The port is currently processing an environmental impact report for the expansion and San Diego Convention Center projects. The draft is anticipated to be circulated for public comment early this summer and finalized before the fall.
The San Diego Hilton Bayfront Hotel was completed in December 2008 at a cost of nearly $350 million. One Park Boulevard LLC leases the property from the Port of San Diego.
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Range of restaurants has brought couple success
Founder and president, Cohn Restaurant Group
Personal: Age 56. Born in O'Neill, Neb. Married to Lesley Cohn, his business partner. Two grown children and three grandchildren.
Education: Bachelor's degree in business, University of Colorado.
Career: Worked in the marketing department of the former Southland Corp., now
Hobbies: Photography and travel.
The son of a grocer from the Midwest, David Cohn first got the restaurant bug when he and his wife, Lesley, opened a small 1950s-style hamburger and hot dog joint called Rory's on Mission Gorge Road in 1982. Twenty-eight years and 13 restaurants later, the Cohns remain enamored with the restaurant industry, with no plans to halt their expansionist path.
Even in economic downturns as steep as the current one, Cohn said restaurants can be highly successful, but only by paying careful attention to a multitude of details and strategically planning for future locations and concepts.
Rather than sticking to a tried-and-true chain theme, the Cohns have introduced restaurants with widely varying concepts, from a whimsical diner and grill-your-own meat eateries to waterfront fine dining.
The couple has chosen to finance all of their restaurants themselves without taking on any debt and prefer the control they have over their operation without having to answer to investors or a board of directors, Cohn said. While the Cohn Restaurant Group has made some modest adjustments to adapt to the ailing economy, Cohn insists that it is important to never do anything that would noticeably detract from the customer's dining experience.
He spoke last week about the evolution of his business and the important lessons he and his wife have learned about sustaining successful dining establishments.
QUESTION: What drew you to the restaurant business?
ANSWER: I'd worked a little bit as a bartender and was always enamored with the business. I grew up in a family that did a lot of entertaining and always had people over. I just enjoyed the hospitality end of it, and I think Lesley felt the same way. I thought there were an awful lot of chains in San Diego and there was room for something more creative here.
QUESTION: Once you opened your first restaurant, what influenced your decision to open more?
ANSWER: We didn't have a plan to open 10 more restaurants or 13. No question, it was one restaurant at a time. We enjoy that part of the process — the brainstorming, getting together and talking about what the restaurant would feel like, taking a look at the neighborhood. We look at micro-markets and see what fits that particular area, but we always wanted to create a family restaurant. Some of it was growing up in the '60s and having the anti-chain mentality.
I've taught a couple classes in restaurant concept. I tell the students that doing it the way we've done it is not a smart way because you're always better off taking one concept and continually fine-tuning it. It's a lot more work to have multiple concepts.
QUESTION: How do you pick your locations and concepts for your restaurants?
ANSWER: When we get that call to do a restaurant in a strip center in Mira Mesa, we're not interested. We're interested in neighborhoods. Hillcrest was our first neighborhood, and we immediately immersed ourselves in the community, got involved in local associations and worked to improve that community for many years. The Gaslamp Quarter was the same way. We looked at it when it was just teetering on success but had the potential to be a great neighborhood.
Our second goal was to be in those one-of-a-kind locations, so when the Cafe del Rey Moro (now The Prado) became available in Balboa Park, we decided to respond to the city's request for proposals. Here was a chance to do something in a really unique location and become a part of San Diego history in that location.
A year ago we opened in Oceanside, and I don't know that I've ever had that much negativity with opening a restaurant. People there didn't feel that area was being served by decent restaurants, but we also heard, "Oh, it's all military, no one's done well with a more upscale restaurant there," all of which we felt to be untrue. Today, it's an amazing experience to walk into the restaurant there and have someone thank you for opening a restaurant in their community.
As for picking the concepts, we sit down with a group, some chefs, some of our people who've been with us for a while, and we'll also meet with community leaders and ask, what's missing here? In Oceanside, they said there were plenty of low-end and mid-scale restaurants, but when they wanted to go out for a nice dinner, they'd have to travel fairly long distances.
QUESTION: The restaurant business is inherently difficult, but what one thing about running a restaurant have you found most challenging?
ANSWER: It's all in the details. I know it sounds like a cliché. When you take each individual component, none of them are terribly complicated, but when you put them all together and add the pressure of time and people, it becomes a very complicated business.
Everything happens fast in restaurants. In the morning, the people who receive products have to make sure they're correct, and people working the prep list and making stocks and soups and sauces have to do everything properly because we're going to serve that in a short period of time. Also, people know what they want and are becoming more educated, or they're on specific diets, have food allergies or Oprah told them to eat this or not eat that, so restaurants have to get better at being more custom-oriented.
QUESTION: How have you adjusted in the current economic downturn, as fewer people eat out or choose to cut their dining-out budgets?
ANSWER: We've done more promotions. We try to do more value-added than simply discounting, like a three-course dinner for $30 or $33. Our answer has been this is going to be a tough couple of years and we don't want to reflect that in the guest experience. We've decided to keep our restaurants fully staffed and continually updated, which is something that people cut out during difficult times.
We've been tough with our vendors. We've said, "You've been our partners, you need to help us on this because we need to lower costs." We have not made management staff cuts.
QUESTION: Most of your restaurants have been successful, but there have been failures and closings. What happened in those cases?
ANSWER: The T-Bird Diner in Escondido was a great lesson. With the Corvette Diner, we looked at where people were coming from, and a great number were coming from inland North County, so we thought, let's do one in Escondido. We were busy on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, but it was too much of a suburban market, and during the week families weren't going out to dinner. So we found that certain concepts have to be in the center of things. You can't take everything to the suburbs.
I think companies like Planet Hollywood and Hard Rock Cafe found the same thing. When it was in every neighborhood, it was no longer interesting. There's that tendency to say we can be everywhere, but you can't be and you hurt your brand when you do that.
QUESTION: Have there been any surprises with any of your restaurants?
ANSWER: The biggest surprise is what's happened in the Gaslamp. I recently had a meeting with (longtime Gaslamp restaurateur) Ingrid Croce, and we talked about how we didn't think anyone would have predicted there would be as many restaurants opening there, and now the area is over-served. We always worked hard to get a mix of residential and retail and nightclubs in the Gaslamp, but unfortunately, retail proved even tougher than restaurants, and as a shop went out, a restaurant would go in. Z Gallerie is a great retailer and is perfect for the Gaslamp and located on a signature corner but they can't make it. And who's going in? Another restaurant.
QUESTION: What are your plans for the future?
ANSWER: At this point, we're looking for unique opportunities. If there are unique spaces available and we have the right people, we'll continue to look at things. Right now, we don't have anything on the drawing board. We're in the midst of a remodel (of the former Dakota Grill in Gaslamp). We're doing a franchise — The Melting Pot — there. We love the Gaslamp and we love that location, so we're bringing in something unique that isn't in downtown.
We're also trying to determine what the former Reuben E. Lee (on Harbor Island) will be, but the first phase will definitely be an open-air venue for special events, and phase two would be a restaurant and banquet facility on land adjacent to the Reuben E. Lee. I was hoping phase one would be done by the end of the year.
We could have stopped three, five years ago, yet we have a lot of people who've been with us a long time and they want to take on more responsibility and want to be with a growing company.


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The yacht club was buzzing with kids this past Memorial weekend for our first Junior Rappah social. Members children, grandchildren, friends and guest from Chesapeake Academy after school sailing club were sailing optis and sunfish with both Carter Creek and the club pool being popular for swimming and having fun.
The kayaks were a bigger hit than anticipated, maybe there is a need to introduce a junior kayaking fleet sometime in the future. The sound of laughter and Marco Polo echoing around the club was enough to make everybody smile. Our next Junior Rappah day is Sunday June 18th - Fathers Day, come along and have some fun.


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New Orleans Saints First Round Draft Choices: Cameron Jordan (2011)
The first round of the 2016 NFL Draft will be held on Thursday, April 28, in Chicago, Illinois.
Between now and then, we'll be looking back at all of the drafts of the New Orleans Saints, from 1967-2015.
Yesterday, we looked back at 2010.
Today: 2011
The 2011 draft was the 45th draft in the history of the Saints.
The selection turned out to be a good one for the Saints, landing a player who has been named a Pro Bowler on multiple occasions, and is still an extremely good starter for the team today.
The Saints actually had two first-round picks in 2011, but we're going to focus on the first one.
The pick: Cameron Jordan, a defensive lineman from California.
A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jordan, who was the 24th-overall pick of the 2011 NFL Draft, played five years for the Saints, from 2010-2014.
The 6-foot-4, 287-pound Jordan played in all 16 games, including 15 as a starter, at defensive end as a rookie in 2011, while compiling 18 tackles, including one sack.
In 2012, Jordan once again played in all 16 games, all as a starter, generating 41 tackles, to go along with 8 sacks, and two fumble recoveries.
During 2013, a season in which he was named to the Pro Bowl for the first time, Jordan totaled 29 tackles, to go along with a career-high 12 sacks, and two fumble recoveries.
After a little bit of a drop off in2014, where he slipped to 31 tackles and 7.5 sacks, Jordan rebounded with another Pro Bowl year in 2015, compiling 32 tackles and 10 sacks.
In 5 seasons in the NFL, all with the Saints, Jordan has not missed a game, appearing in 80, while starting 79, accumulating 151 tackles, 39 sacks, and 8 fumble recoveries.
With their second first-round selection in 2011, four picks later, the Saints selected Alabama running back Mark Ingram, who was selected to the Pro Bowl in 2014, after rushing for 964 yards and 9 touchdowns.
There's not much to brag about after Jordan and Ingram in 2011, with the team selecting Illinois linebacker Martez Wilson and Louisville defensive back Johnny Patrick in the third round.


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With eNetSettle, enterprise and e-marketplace operators now can bypass the cost and effort of connecting ad-hoc networks of multiple value-added service providers to achieve all necessary financial transaction services. eNetSettle provides an array of transaction settlement services through one source. CocoCommerce was established by Ariu Levi, who previously co-founded and served as president of Fundtech Ltd.
SoluMed.com's Medical EquipNet eMarketplace and QwikMedSites Custom Web Site Design provide organisations with around-the-clock sales tools and create a dynamic marketplace to accelerate sales cycles. More news on Solumed.com is to be found in the VMW May 2001 article Medical Equipment eMarketplace finds niche in enabling technology transfer to international locations.


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Rhino Time Lies!
A recent edition of the Rhino Times printed an article stating that they had won a lawsuit against The Knights forcing Pastor Robb to instruct friends and supporters of The Knights Party not to use discarded copies of The Rhino Times for the distribution of Knights Party literature.
This demonstrates once again that the Rhino Times is the newspaper you can not trust. You can get a copy of the settlement agreement by contacting The Knights Party at P. O. Box 2222, Harrison, Arkansas. The settlement agreement created absolutely no change in their national policy of literature distribution.
It has ALWAYS been the policy of The Knights Party not to place its literature INSIDE newspapers. It just makes common sense: Why insert a piece of literature inside a newspaper that is two, three or four months old? Who would read it and who would find the literature? It makes more sense to place literature AROUND the outside of sections of discarded newspaper and the settlement agreement does not alter that policy in any way.
The fact is Rhino Times was eager to settle the case and had made four previous attempts to settle which were all turned down by Pastor Robb. The Rhino Times was thrilled to get out of this quagmire they created. In other words they cut and run while they still could.
Now they are claiming that they forced The Knights Party not to put their literature INSIDE editions of the Rhino Times which is something they never did and have no intentions of ever doing. It would be a waste of time and money as stated above. The Rhino Times could just as likely claimed they forced The Knights Party to obey traffic laws.
I suspect that Knights Party literature will continually be placed AROUND sections of old discarded newspapers in the future as has been done in the past and the settlement agreement does not forbid any one from doing so.
And if Rhino Times think they want to reactivate the lawsuit then I suspect The Knights Party will stomp on the Smelly Old Whining Rhino again!
Pastor Robb can be reached at 870-427-3414


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The Old Posting House is 400 years old and from around 1845 it was a coaching Inn. The Mail coach from Glasgow to Whitehaven stopped here and the blacksmiths is still just near the inn. Inside the Old Post boxes are still there and protected they give their name to the Inn The Old Posting House..
Accommodation consists of 5 rooms 1 twin and 4 doubles all en~suite and each room is furnished to a high standard. with flat screen TVs and Tee and coffee making facilities and free WI-FI connection anywhere in the building. Food is served everyday from 12.00 to 2.00pm and 6.00 rill 9.30pm full menu and large daily specials board.
We are located on the edge of the national park making it a ideal base for exploring both the lake district and the West Coast.. Wonderful walks from the pub with Loweswater and Buttermere just over the hill from here.
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In Canada in 1991, ten year old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home. She is Ai-Ming, a young woman from China who has fled following the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square incident. As her relationship with Marie deepens she tells the story of her family in revolutionary China
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Family fun at Aberdulais
There's a wealth of wonderful things for families to discover and enjoy while exploring Aberdulais.
We've got an exciting fun packed programme of activities going on throughout the year.
Here's a sample of what's on offer, but you can always check our What's on page for more info.
Dress up like a Victorian tinplate worker
Dress up, wander round and take on the journey of one of the many men, women and children that worked here at Aberdulais tinworks.
Pop into the Old School House tea-room to see what a Victorian school lesson was like, then have a go at hopscotch or dance round the maypole.
50 things to do before you're 11 3/4
There'll be some self-led 50 things activities running throughout the year. You can join us to make daisy chains, hunt for bugs, go bird watching or even run around in the rain!
Don't forget to pick up your 50 things scrapbook from reception.
Pick up a brass rubbings booklet
Go on a family adventure and explore the tinworks through our brass rubbings trail, collect your booklet from our Visitor Centre, and discover Aberdulais with all the family.
There's plenty of wildlife to look out for at Aberdulais, so why not play together and see what you can spot. If you're lucky, you might spot the Heron!
Winter Nights
Discover Aberdulais like you've never seen before with our after dark experiences!
We'll be opening up late on selected evenings in the winter for some special fun activities at Hallowe'en and Christmas.
For this and all other events, please check out What's On page.


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When ordering a King Cake, Crescent City sweet seekers can no longer uniformly expect the standard braided cinammon twist with more or less the same flavor profile. King Cakes have become a creative canvass for adventurous bakers across New Orleans. Allow NoDef to help you choose which will satisfy your palette. We combined three years of King Cake coverage for one ultimate guide. After reading these diverse offerings, you may even want the baby:
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Cake Café Conquers Carnival Confections
After several years of sending writers out to sample the Crescent City's many takes on King Cake, NoDef opted this year to let the people weigh in. On Jan. 24, hundreds of guests piled into the Ogden Museum of Southern Art's weekly After Hours event to help us choose the most outstanding oval in NoDef's first public King Cake Quest.
Twelfth Bite: A Few New Takes on King Cake
The holidays are barely over, and that means it's once again time for the dawn of Carnival season. The excitement of breaking your tooth on a plastic baby and overload on gold, green and purple sugar, is in the air, and that can only mean it's King Cake season. Carnival season, the time of parades and parties that run up to Mardi Gras, officially starts on Sunday. But bakers have their production lines going full tilt on Saturday. Here's a few of this season's new takes on the timeless tradition:
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Life on Freret Street keeps getting sweeter as Pure Cake recently opened up just across the street from the NOLA Pie Guy, giving Uptown diners even more options to satisfy their cravings. Pure Cake has several specialty items including "cake pops," whose increasing popularity might signal that the cupcake trend—like rock-n-roll and the great American novel—is now officially dead.
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Billie Piper is giving you a once in a lifetime opportunity to travel to New York to see her sold-out Broadway hit, Yerma. The show, which premiered at London's Young Vic Theatre in 2016, was an enormous success, selling out months in advance, picking up countless awards including the coveted Olivier Awards for Best Actress and recieving more five-star reviews than any other play of the year.
This competition is to help raise much needed funds for Billie's chosen charity, The Primary Shakespeare Company. The Primary Shakespeare Company aims to engage, inspire and empower primary school children in the UK from disadvantaged backgrounds using the power of drama.
The winner will recieve two return flights to New York, accomodation for the weekend, two VIP tickets to see Yerma which includes a meet and greet with the cast backstage, and a Billie Piper goodie bag… all for just £1! You can buy as many tickets as you'd like – every ticket you buy counts as another entry into the lottery and every single penny goes to charity.
Competition open worldwide. Terms and conditions apply.
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