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Barbara McClintock died on September 2, 1992, at the age of 90.
September 2, 2017
A writer I'd never read before named Micah Fields wrote a piece in The Baffler on Monday
about his hometown of Houston and, specifically, a man named Mattress
Mack. Mattress Mack has become a local hero in the week of Hurricane
Harvey, opening up his store for those who have lost their homes,
feeding them, giving them shelter. (He was a useful contrast with Joel
Osteen.) But Fields was on this story earlier than CNN was. He had
watched Mattress Mack's commercials as a kid growing up in Houston,
knowing Mack as a local TV personality huckster who was also an avid
anti-government-assistance Tea Partier, one famous for demanding his
employees stand at attention when he would, without warning, play the
"Star-Spangled Banner" over the loudspeakers of his stores. Fields noted
his initial surprise when he learned that Mack was being so helpful,
supposed cold-hearted capitalist as he was. Why does he feel the sudden
urge to help now, while being so resistant to do so while building his fortune?
then Fields thought it over. He turns it into a
conservative-vs.-liberal issue that seems perhaps a little too simple —
I have seen just as many conservatives out doing social and volunteer
work as I have seen liberals, though from my experience, nobody out
helping thinks to ask anyone's political persuasion, or to even care —
and is a little too cynical about people's inherent compassion, which I
believe (still, somehow) to be a signature human trait, at least in the
day-to-day rather than the theoretical. But his overarching point is
dead-on. I'll quote him:
Once imagination's not required, once the consequences are real and close to you, the answers get easy. What do you do? Help. Contribute. Share. Why is that so hard to grasp in the abstract? Why must it be tested in the extremely, life-threateningly tangible to prove essential? Why is it so easy for some to fabricate and fixate on the image of the lazy citizen, the government parasite, but alternatively difficult for them to imagine the Houstonian grandmother standing on her roof, drenched in rain?
I'm less interested in this as a conservative-liberal issue — though I see his larger point — as I am the idea of the abstract vs. the concrete. I think we run into this all the time, particularly when you contrast the digital world with the physical one. One hour on Twitter is all it takes to convince me that the world is an angry, stupid place in which everyone who doesn't see the world exactly like the person who happens to be speaking at that particular moment is an asshole, liar or a crook. If the real world were like the way we have become online, we would never stop punching each other in the face.
But it's not like that. When I walk outside, I see simple, dumb, pointless kindness all the time. Whether it's something as small as keeping the door open for a stranger after you walk through it, or as large as a group of people who have never met each other all gathering around someone who has fallen from the heat and trying to find a way to help ... I just don't think people are as mean to each other, as inherently suspicious and resentful, as it seems. When we are just in the realm of the theoretical, we can assign the worst qualities to those who disagree with us. We give them sharp teeth and gnarled claws and the worst possible intentions. Because we don't know them, and they're saying something we think is wrong, we assume they are a monster. We treat them like the enemy.
We don't treat people like that in our regular lives. (Exception: People in traffic.) Our first instinct is not to think the worst of people, to reflexively distrust someone we don't know, to believe that everyone is out to get us. We smile and shake hands when we meet someone. We try to make polite converation. We don't assume someone is an asshole until proven otherwise. I'm sorry, but we just don't. There is a performative, look-at-me I'm-so-wise-because-I'm-onto-them cynicism that has invaded our discourse, but I am not sure it has invaded our actual lives. Not yet.
Mattress Mack, in political discussions, may be, as Fields notes, a hard-liner against assisting the poor. He may believe that those who don't have a lot of money are in that position because they are lazy, or not assertive enough, or just not Mattress Mack enough. But it's all abstract: It's all theory. When push comes to shove, he helps someone who needs help, just like the CNN reporter pulls the guy out of the car or people riding around in boats rescuing people from their roofs, because that's just what you do. Not everyone does it. But most people do. We are kind to each other all the time, when the stakes are a lot lower than Harvey. It's hard to demonize someone when they're standing right in front of you. So we don't. In real life, we treat each other people well because we want to be treated well ourselves. We cut people a break in real life. Not all the time. But most of the time. People want to be good. It's the other stuff that gets in the way.
Now we just need to get people to realize that people need help and shelter and food when there aren't natural disasters. We don't hesitate to help someone displaced or disadvantaged by a storm because we know it wasn't their fault. But the thing is, it's rarely their fault. And even if it is: They still need help. It has been heartwarming to see everything people have done to help their fellow man this week. But I think it can be heartwarming all the time. We just have to remember. But mostly: We just have to look.
Here is a numerical breakdown of all the things I wrote this week, in order of what I believe to be their quality. (This is an attempt to have an objective look at the value of my work in a way that I suspect will be difficult to sustain.)
1. This Brewers Team Has Been Fun to Watch, Sports On Earth. This is the last week of August, the most exhausting week of the year. How can one month be SOOOOO LOOOONG? Anyway, I don't know if I did the best stuff this week, but this piece turned out all right.
2. USMNT World Cup Qualifying: A Primer, Sports On Earth. Get excited! USA! USA!
3. Ranking the Last 10 MLB Septembers, Sports On Earth. If a ranking piece ends up No. 3 on here, you know it was a breather week.
4. Your AFC East Preview, Sports On Earth. Dirty secret: I kind of like the Patriots. I know. I know.
5. Your NFC North Preview, Sports On Earth. These are space fillers the last week of August, but they'll serve the purpose.
6. Dive Dive Dive, Sports On Earth. I'm gonna start making Illini and Georgia predictions in this space moving forward, just to keep me interested.
As I say every week: If you are the sort to subscribe to a weekly newsletter, I would have to think it wouldn't be too much of a hassle to subscribe to one of the three podcasts I do. You don't even have to listen to them! Just download them. Here they are:
Grierson & Leitch, we wrapped up the 2017 Summer Movie Season and then looked at "After Hours" and "Starship Troopers."
The Will Leitch Experience, talked to Alyson Footer, live from Houston.
Waitin' Since Last Saturday, big season preview show, plus a look forward to this week's Appalachian State game.
The Cardinals are essentially done for this year, but I'm still gonna show off my T.Pham Players Weekend jersey and William's old-school Cardinals throwback every chance I get.
the start of college football. Right after I send this, I'm off to
watch Illinois-Ball State and then drink heavily before heading over to
Sanford for Georgia-Appalachian State. Have a great weekend, all.


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So I meant to post the results this morning, but well… life just keeps happening. I'll explain better tomorrow in my Sunday Post (which I promise I'll actually do this week!). Anyway, I wasn't really keeping track of results and then last night I got a comment from Lola that she'd voted and now there was a tie! Oops! Well I had my BF settle the tie breaker… any guesses which one he voted for? *Hint: he's not a reader and chose 100% based on the cover…
August 2015 Results
Here are the three choices and the votes each received:
The Winner is: All the Pretty Lies by M. Leighton!
I'm excited to read this one and really hope I'll manage to get through it by the end of the month, considering how crazy my month is turning out to be!
Thanks for playing along! Now head over to Because Reading for the linky! I'm super excited to see everyone else's August 2015 Results!You voted and the results are in! Check out what I'm reading for August's TBR List Click To Tweet

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Now, Cuban is attempting to dive deeper into the mobile app arena with his latest project, called Cyber Dust.
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It's a free texting app that lets you send messages and photos in a sort of chat room, but the messages self-destruct after 30 seconds.
The app leaves no trace of the messages and they are not stored anywhere. It alerts you if the person has taken a screenshot, and it provides send and read confirmations so you know if someone viewed your message. If your friend hasn't viewed the message within 12 hours of sending it, it will expire and be deleted forever.
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Mysore Chamber signs pact on floriculture with Nepal team
Women in Small Enterprise (WISE), the women's wing of the Mysore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) and the Floriculture Association of Nepal (FAN) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for exploring business opportunities in floriculture.
The MoU was signed at an interaction meeting the WISE members had with a 14-member visiting team from Nepal. The MoU was signed by the Presidents of the two associations, Minerva Bista and Geethasri Rao. They agreed to explore business prospects in tissue culture, plant biotechnology, farming technology and eco-tourism. Representative of the Mysore District Horticulture Society and officials of the Horticulture Department, Government of Karnataka, were also present.
The MoU seeks to spread floriculture as an economic activity and exchange information, transfer technologies and upgrade skills through R&D in tissue culture and farm technology. It also seeks to develop hybrid varieties of flowers and plants, promote imports, exports, and eco-tourism and explore joint investments
The Nepal delegation was led by FAN President Minerva Bista and comprised FAN vice-president Sreedhar Karki, general secretary Shekhar Kumar Bista, executive member Anu Setling, programme coordinator J.B. Tamang, founder-president Rajendra Rai, Panita Rai of Parijat Nursery, Namita Maskey of Sagarmatha Agro Biotech Nursery, Arun Chetri and Tangaka Rai of Cut-flower Producers, and other leading floriculturists and exporters.
Inaugurating an interaction meeting between the Chamber members and the visiting delegates, MCCI President H.N.Ramathirtha said floriculture is an important business in Karnataka Exports of flowers was one of the major items of the State. Mysore is famous for jasmine but, lack of an airport came in the way of exports, he said.
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The first of the Lancashire dialect poets was John Collier, who is better known by his nom-de-plume 'Tim Bobbin'. He was born on December 18th 1708 at Harrison Fold, Newton (near Hyde), but his father, an impoverished Church of England clergyman also called John, moved to Flixton, Urmston soon after the birth. Young John was an excellent scholar and was expected to follow his father's profession, but when John senior went prematurely blind at the age of forty-six, his fourteen-year-old son's education came to an untimely end and he was apprenticed to Johnson of Newton Moor, a Dutch-loom weaver. The boy did not take to manual labour and persuaded Johnson to free him from his indentures, and then went on to earn a living as an itinerant school-teacher in the villages and hamlets around Oldham, Bury and Rochdale. At the age of twenty-one, he gained a position as assistant schoolmaster to Mr Townley at the free-school Milnrow, near Rochdale, and after the death of Townley he took over the vacant position at a full salary of twenty pounds a year.
In his spare time Collier began to write anonymous satires of local characters, to draw caricatures of them, and to play and teach the hautboy and flute. In 1740, he published his first piece of poetry – The Blackbird – which is, to be honest, pure doggerel. It tells the tale of a local knight and his groom who ride out on a Sunday morning and hear the sound of someone whistling. The knight is convinced that only either an atheist or a papist would do such a thing on the Sabbath, and he sets out to discover the sinner. He enters a house and although the whistling continues, he cannot find the source,
"He stamp'd with foot, and lift his eyes above,As tho' he call'd on thunder-ruling Jove;And then burst out in this emphatic strain:" Ungodly! Wicked! heath'nish, and prophane.To break the sabbath! Whistle against heav'n!The king and me! 'twill never be forgiv'n!"
Eventually he looks upwards and sees a blackbird in a cage, but even then he cannot trust his eyes and ears and accuses the bird's owner of importing it from Italy, where Jesuits had tutored it to sing thus on Sundays!
|The Blackbird
Collier was already on his way to becoming a local celebrity. He began to court Miss Mary Clay, who came from Yorkshire to visit her Aunt; she had spent time in London and was both graceful and beautiful. One day, whilst walking out together they came upon a pig-drover with two fine, clean pigs. John bought one and Mary the other, and they pledged that if one broke their engagement they would pay their pig to the other as a forfeit. Collier often said he believed she would never have married him, had she not valued her pig more highly than she did him.
Another Aunt, Mrs Pitt, gave the couple a wedding gift of three hundred pounds (remember, Collier was earning twenty pounds a year, so this was fifteen years salary), but the money went to his head and he quickly drank the lot away. Mary declared she was glad the money was gone, and sober John began to apply himself to provide for his increasingly large family – the couple had nine children together.
|Self Portrait - Tim Bobbin
He painted altarpieces for local churches, and signs for local inns, and began to gain a reputation with his caricatures of the people of Rochdale. His fame spread to Liverpool, where merchants bought his paintings and exported some to America and the West Indies, and order more – Collier said he regretted having only one pair of hands with which to paint. He started to call himself The Lancashire Hogarth, and with the fame came wealth, which went the way of the wedding gift, as his wit, humour and bonhomie brought him invitations to drink and carouse in Rochdale's pubs.
|Tim Bobbin - A View of the Lancashire Dialect 1746
In 1746, he published his most famous work, A View of the Lancashire Dialect which has the subtitle, Dialogue Between Tummus o'Willioms, o'Margit o'Roaf's, an Meary o'Dick's, o'Tummy o'Peggy's. This subtitle gives two examples of Lancashire speech – the pronunciation, it reads as Thomas of William's, of Margaret's, of Ralph's and Mary of Dick's, of Tommy, of Peggy's, and shows how, in places where many people shared the same name, a distinction was made by reference to a person's genealogy – so Thomas is the son of William, the son of Margaret, the daughter of Ralph. This method of identification is still used today; it shows your relationship to others but also acts as a living reference or pedigree to your standing and reputation. The dialogue between Thomas and Mary is written in broad south-eastern Lancashire dialect, and they relates various adventures and misadventures that have recently befallen them.
To get a feeling of it, here is the Thomas's opening line,
"Odds me Meary ! whooa the Dickons wou'd o thowt o' leeting o' thee here so soyne this Morning? Where has to bin? Theaw'rt aw on a Swat, I think; for theaw looks primely."
– which, for the benefit of those who aren't from around these parts translates as,
"Goodness me Mary! Who the Dickens would have thought of meeting you here so soon in the morning? Where have you been? You are all of a sweat, I think, for you look very well."
|Tummus and Meary
The book sold extremely well, and a second edition quickly followed, and when pirated copies began to appear, Tim Bobbin added some idiosyncratic illustrations and a glossary of Lancashire dialect, with reference to the etymology of some words.
|Tim Bobbin's take on literary pirates
The View and the glossary are tremendously valuable as they give us access to the pronunciation of the dialect and the vocabulary used two hundred and fifty years ago. It must be said, that little has changed much – I use many, many of the words and phrases that Tummus and Meary use, and pronounce them in just the same way, although it is interesting that some variations are due to place – the Blackburn accent is different to that of Rochdale.
In 1773, the Human Passions Delineated appeared, written and illustrated by Tim Bobbin, a collection of grotesque caricatures with added verses, which was again extremely popular in Northern England. A coloured edition of 25 plates was issued in 1810. Many of Bobbin's writings were collected in a single volume, the prose better than the poetry, but it is all a pleasure to read, although modern research has shown that some of the poems are by other authors. Tim Bobbin died on July 14th 1786 and was buried in St Chad's churchyard, Rochdale. The gravestone has the words, written by his son,
'Here lies John, and with him Mary,Cheek-by-jowl, and never varyNo wonder that they so agreeJohn wants no punch, and Moll no tea.'
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Happy Monday! Remember how on Friday I explained that I was so busy I didn't even have time to cut and past things from the internet into a blog post? Well, then it probably comes as no surprise to you that on Saturday I got hit with what felt like the beginnings of a very bad cold. I felt tired the whole day, I was sniffling, and my throat was scratchy.
Fortunately, I've gotten pretty good at attacking symptoms before they get too comfortable. My go-to get-better kit includes: grapefruit smoothies, ginger (in anything i can put it in), turmeric (same), lemon, oil of oregano extract, and lots of tea and water.
In an effort to combine several of those in one meal, I made a variation of my carrot soup. It's a super simple soup and you can make it with a lot of variations.
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3 large carrots, chopped
1 in. (or more) fresh ginger root
1 in. (or more) fresh turmeric root
2 c water (you may want more or less depending on how thick you like your soup)
juice from half lemon
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cayenne pepper
Heat the carrots, ginger, turmeric, and water in a pot at medium heat until it comes to a boil. Pour ingredients into a high speed blender. Blend until smooth.
Pour in a bowl, squeeze the lemon on top, add a dollop of tahini, and a pinch of salt and cayenne pepper. Also, maybe some kale.
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WACBA Honor Roll: Men's Basketball Week Five (Weds., Jan. 3rd)
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WORCESTER – With another week of college basketball in the books, it is time to unveil this week's Worcester Area College Basketball Association (WACBA) Men's Basketball Honor Roll, including our Player and Rookie of the Week honors.
Men's Player of the Week: Mike Rapoza (Anna Maria | So. | Charlton, Mass.): Rapoza recorded a pair off double-doubles last week, including 11 points and a career-high 21 caroms in a 62-56 win over SUNY Canton. One day earlier, Rapoza registered 19 points and 10 rebounds in a setback to Utica.
Men's Rookie of the Week: Matthew Kelly (Assumption | Fr. | North Potomac, Md.): Kelly averaged 21 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game while shooting 48.2 percent from the field in leading Assumption to a perfect 2-0 mark over the holidays. The freshman posted 13 points, six assists and four rebounds in a 65-63 win over Nyack on Dec. 16. He then poured in 19 of his career-high 29 points in the second half as Assumption overcame a nine-point halftime deficit to beat Mercy 81-68 on Saturday. The freshman helped the Hounds outscore the Lions by 22 points in the second half while also finishing the contest with five rebounds, two assists and two steals in 37 minutes. Kelly made 10 of 16 field goals and was 6-for-7 from the free throw line to help Assumption earn its second straight win.
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Samuel Durodola (Becker | Sr. | Rosedale, N.Y.): Durodola nearly led the Hawks to an upset victory at Bridgewater State, scoring 24 points, pulling down 11 rebounds and coming through with two blocks. The senior is averaging 19.6 points per game for the season.
Jake Needleman (WPI | Fr. | Morganville, N.J.): Needleman averaged 13.5 points on 9-of-14 shooting (64.3%) to go with five rebounds, four assists and a steal en route to E.M. "Mose" Hole/Wooster Kiwanis Classic All-Tournament team honors. He began with 15 points on 5-of-6 shooting (83.3%), including 80% (4-of-5) from beyond the arc, against host Wooster. He then scored 12 points and filled the stat sheet with two rebounds, three assists and a steal in the Engineers win versus Alma (MI).
Cal Howes (Worcester St. | So. | Maynard, Mass.): The sophomore guard registered a double-double of 19 points and 10 rebounds in the Lancers' 78-64 setback to Roger Williams on Saturday. He shot 40% (6-15) from the field, 33.3% (3-9) from 3-point range, and 100% (4-4) from the charity stripe.


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Mutual peer support was born out of the Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement of the 1960's. At that time, people begun realizing not only that recovery is possible but that it is greatly enhanced by sharing our own recovery experiences with each other. Since that time, peer support has evolved into a professional role within the behavioral health system that maintains the core essence of 'being with', in mutuality, to support others to find their OWN personal greatness. It is this very mutuality makes peer support effective. Mutuality ensures that we are supporting people to find their OWN power, voice and path, and are not serving as an expert, parent, monitor, counselor or any other authority in the person's life. While it is true that effective peer support requires the skilled use of your own lived experience to inspire others, it is also true that the profession is complex, requiring peer workers to support people in new ways while challenging systems to shift toward recovery an maintaining the uniqueness of working in the system while not being of the system's culture. Being effective in this role therefore requires a competency-based education that combines knowledge, skills, experience, exposure and tools.
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Pumpkin Soup – A recipe.
As promised, I would like to write something about the pumpkin soup that S-chan likes so much.
I made it a few days ago and everybody who tried it said that it was very good.
The ingredients:
1 pumpkin – not too big, 2 kg (about)
4 not too big onions.
3 table spoons of lemon juice or wine vinegar
3 glasses of broth (chicken / beef) – you can make it from the concentrate (the small cubes)
1 glass of cream (sour cream is ok – I took 1 glass of sweet cream additionally because I like cream a lot).
3 tee spoons of flour.
Salt, pepper, ginger (you could use fresh ginger root)
Peal the pumpkin, get the meat out of it.
Cut it in cubes - can be big ones. Get the seeds off.
Clean the onions, cut them finely (should be small)
Take a big pot, put the pumpkin and onion insikde, add the broth. If you should have more pumpkin and
onion (for instance if you really want to have a lot of soup,) add more brothe. Add the lemon juice or vinegar, some salt and pepper. Cook slowly for about half an hour. The onion should be fairly soft. At least 20 minutes. Actually, the recipe says that you should press remove the water and press the onion and pumpkin through a sieve into a different pot. Since it would take a lot of time and patience, I mixed the pumpkin and onion in a mixer - it went really well and was much easier to do.
Afterwards, I mixed the cream with the flour (I did it in a mixer as well :) )
Don't forget about the ginger! Since I had some fresh root, I blended it in the blender as well.
Just add everything to the soup and stirr it well. Then just cook it all slowly for about 20 minutes more.
And it is ready! Tastes quite well and rather easy to do - only it takes some time but should be ready in an hour at most.


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We left Saturday, we'll be back Saturday.
I'm trying to fix the photo issues we're having on some of our posts. For now, a lot of the photos will just be deleted because the original file is missing. So, if some posts are lacking pretty pictures, please be patient. This will be resolved when I get back from the Outer Banks.
I want to know what recipes you've been using. Fill us all in! Share the wealth!!
Regular posting will resume when I get back. Things have been hectic between house hunting, Spoke Folk, and honeymooning/family vacationing that I know we've lacked a regular schedule. Please forgive. When I'm back, some sense of normalcy will return. Hey, I said some.


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4x6 oil on canvas - SOLD
Well, I was looking around my house trying to figure out something unique and different to paint. I spied this little antique iron door stopper. It has a weird looking face and always looks like its watching me. Kind of gives me the willies. I sat it on the computer in my studio. There The Watcher sits watching me. BOO!
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Hi Bloggie,
Sorry for neglecting you for so long. Anyways, this year I have managed to get some vacation time to dive Anilao, Philippines (click for the dive log!) The trip was within my budget and available time-lah. I went with the Long Family and Patrick, who's the organizer for this trip. This trip was planned since last year, 2012! During the trip, met two new diver friends. All…errm…most of the divers are underwater photographers with god-sis, WW the only one shooting underwater video. The trip was an eye-opener, and I don't agree with some of the tactics deployed to please the underwater photographers…Sighhh! The activity put me off from taking lots of photos. During this trip, I got to know my camera a lot more! So that's a bonus. Diving Anilao is definetly a place to return to in the future for more diving. One good thing is that it doesn't place a lot of strain on the budget 🙂
Photos from the Trip <<<click here>>>


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The Odisha government on Wednesday urged the Centre to deploy more Central forces and logistic supports and provide adequate financial assistance for effective and successful operations against the Maoist ultras.
Raising the state's security related issues at a meeting of the chief secretaries and DGPs of nine Maoist-hit states convened by the Union Home ministry in New Delhi, the official delegation from Odisha including chief secretary JK Mohapatra, DGP Prakash Mishra and home secretary Vipin Kumar Saxena informed the conference that the Maoists are crossing over to Odisha in large numbers due to heavy deployment of security forces in the neighbouring Chhattishgarh.
Taking this into consideration, the state needs two additional battalions of Central forces for deployment in Nuapada, Bargarh and Balangir districts, they said.
Besides, the delegation also asked the ministry to provide a helicopter, preferably an MI-17, to add more precision to the anti-Maoist operations. It also demanded funds for the development of roads and telecommunications in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected districts to fight the red rebels.
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PORTLAND, Ore. – A building constructed 128 years ago is being deconstructed on Southeast Belmont Street, with a three-story mixed use development planned in its place.
Located at 3334 SE Belmont St., the 1889 building was formerly home to Belmont Records and Tara Tibetan Collections. Three years ago the building sold to Get R Done LLC, which lists Valerie Hunter as its registrant, for $659,400.
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As previously reported by the Portland Chronicle, about a year ago the Bureau of Development Services received an early assistance application for development of a three-story mixed use building to replace the existing structure.
A permit to demolish the 1889 building was applied for and received Aug. 2. The permit does not indicate whether the building would be deconstructed or not, but work began this month and Lovett Deconstruction is the onsite contractor. Observers report the building is being deconstructed rather than demolished.
In September the city received a building permit application for a new, three-story development. It would include retail on half of the ground floor, and apartments on the other half as well as the upper two floors, according to the permit.
A demonstration was held outside the building in June, and an effort to save the building was launched. The effort received news coverage on multiple occasions.
Former mayoral candidate Jules Bailey visited the building last year and discussed it on OPB, although he said he hadn't seen what was proposed to replace it so he couldn't comment directly on whether it was positive change or not.
This publication initially posted rendering images of the proposed replacement structure that were publicly available on the architect's website and Facebook page, but after a request from the architect the images were removed.
Shortly after the plans to demolish the building became public, a 1923 structure directly to the east was removed from the city's historic resource inventory. Although that doesn't signal any definite plans — and no development permits have been filed for that site — it does remove an extended delay requirement should the owner apply for a demolition permit in the future.


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Professional Engineer I
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Hillsborough County (County seat of Tampa, FL) is a great place to work! Situated along Florida's Gulf Coast, this region boasts an enviable quality of life with year round sunshine, a unique cultural heritage and a diverse business climate. For both individuals and companies alike, Tampa offers accessibility, affordability and opportunity.
Hillsborough County Government is a great employer looking for new members to join its team who are aligned with the core values of commitment to excellence; stellar customer service; and embracing diversity, transparency, and accountability. Our employees enjoy careers that are professionally and personally rewarding and provide competitive and reasonable compensation.
Hillsborough County Government consists of many independent agencies and thousands of employees. We provide a wide range of municipal services to the citizens of Hillsborough County, including port operations, childrens' education, arts and culture, courts, planning and zoning, public transportation, environmental protection, and employment-related services.
Read below to learn more about this exciting opportunity to join our team.
- Knowledge of the principles and practices for assigned functional area.
- Knowledge of public works and facilities construction project management methods and practices.
- Knowledge of computer modeling and computer aided drafting and mapping software and applications.
- Knowledge of the principles and practices of land surveying.
- Knowledge of federal, state and local laws, regulations ordinances, and other professional sources of information pertaining to public infrastructures, building and zoning codes, environmental permitting and real estate.
- Knowledge of field testing, sampling and investigative techniques and procedures.
- Ability to utilize computer applications for engineering modeling, design, drafting, and mapping.
- Ability to manage, train, schedule, assign, monitor, review, and evaluate assigned staff.
- Ability to comprehend and apply engineering, scientific and technical principles and methods to plan, formulate and carry out programs and policies.
- Ability to perform engineering calculations.
- Ability to write technical reports.
Note: The following duties are illustrative and not exhaustive. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position. Depending on assigned area of responsibility, incumbents in the position may perform one or more of the activities described below.
- Manages or assists in the management of one or more phases of a public works or developer project, or several phases of a smaller project.
- Assists with the management of the capital improvement program (CIP) award and procurement.
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- Reviews engineering documents, or supervises a small engineering staff that review engineering documents as part of an environmental permitting or compliance program.
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- May supervise the work of professional and technical subordinate staff by scheduling, assigning, and reviewing work; providing training and counseling, and evaluating performance.
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- Develops parts of large or all of small scale project goals, objectives, strategies, policies, procedures and budgets.
- Conducts pre-bid/preconstruction conferences, public meetings issues construction notice to proceed and initiates work orders.
- Analyzes reports, maps, drawings, blueprints, tests, and aerial photographs to plan and design projects.
- Prepares or directs preparation and modification of reports, specifications, plans, construction schedules, environmental impact studies, and designs for projects.
- Performs other related duties as required.
This classification description is not intended to be, nor should it be construed as an all inclusive list of the duties associated with a particular position. Management may require incumbents to perform job duties other than those contained in this document at any time.
VETERANS' PREFERENCE: The Civil Service Board and its client agencies value the service veterans and their family members have given to our country and support the hiring of returning service members and military spouses. Therefore, special consideration and priority in appointment will be given to veteran preference-eligible applicants (as described in Section 295.07, F.S.) throughout each step of the selection process.
The applicant claiming veterans' preference is responsible for providing required documentation that clearly shows dates of service, campaign awards or medals received, and character of discharge (DD-214 Member-4 or Service-2 copy) to support entitlement to preference. This documentation may be provided at the time of application submission. Documentation can easily be provided to us electronically through this online application system (preferred), but can also be provided to us by email, fax, or USPS. However, in ALL cases, required documentation must be provided to us prior to the closing date of the vacancy announcement.
Applicants that meet the minimum job requirements and qualify for Veterans' Preference who believe they have not been afforded employment preference in accordance with applicable Florida law, may file a written complaint requesting an investigation with the Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs, Division of Benefits and Assistance, 9500 Bay Pines Blvd, Room 214, St. Petersburg, Florida 33708. The complaint must be filed within 60 calendar days from the date the applicant receives notice that s/he was not selected. Prior to filing a complaint, however, it is the responsibility of the preference-eligible applicant to contact the employer at least one time after 45 days have passed from the final date for submitting an application or the interview date, whichever is later in time, if the applicant has not received notice of a hiring decision.
For more information on Veterans' Preference, please visit the Civil Service Board website by clicking here.
DRUG-FREE WORK PLACE: The employers of Hillsborough County have implemented a drug-free workplace and all offers of employment are conditioned on job applicants successfully passing a drug test.
RESPONSE/RECOVERY ACTIVITIES: Employees may be required to participate in response/recovery activities in response to a major emergency or natural disasters affecting County operations. In such situations, every effort will be made to maintain operations, but employees may be assigned to carry out response activities suited to their skills and capabilities.
Hillsborough County provides equal employment opportunity to all persons, regardless of age, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, political affiliations, marital status, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, age, sexual orientation, membership or non-membership in an employee organization, or on the basis of personal favoritism or other non-merit factors.
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Hey I can't see that portrait of Chairman Mao behind Costas through the smog
I hope I'm not the only one who noticed the plumes of smog hovering basically near ground level in the shot of the street behind the NBC studios, which shows up in most of the HD shots of Costas during breaks. And this is in the morning. Cleaned up my ass.
There are a few things I want to touch on this morning.
1) Bela Karolyi sounds like Borat.
2) Karolyi has every right to be pissed at China and the IOC and I am so glad NBC isn't censoring him for bitching about the age of the Chinese female gymnasts. Every chance he gets he brings this up and he's right. There is absolutely no way that those girls are all 16. The fact that China's authoritarian government has "produced" passports for these girls is simply not enough. I doubt there's a paper trail to follow to disprove these claims, though, since these athletes are more or less abducted at the age of 3 and put in elite training schools. I'm not a forensic (yet) scientist but it seems to me that in the year 2008 there ought to be a relatively simple way of using genetic testing to verify an age (or at least a range, some of those girls don't look over 13 let alone at least 16).
Regardless, the IOC absolutely has to do something besides whatever non-action they are taking now. Who the fuck just BELIEVES whatever IDs the Chinese Olympic people provide? The gymnasts they put out there are not developed in the slightest. Some of them look like they are still growing adult teeth. It's so obvious, and China is just flaunting it so brazenly. Kind of makes me sick. It's not the athletes' fault, they still deserved the Gold medal, but it's kind of pathetic that China is so desperate to win that they'd blatantly usurp the rules, and, outside of conjecture like this, nothing is ever going to be done about it.
3) Please tell me I'm not the only one that wants to see a coed swimming relay. Let's see Kirsty Coventry find the other 3 people in Zimbabwe that know how to swim.
This is one of the best byproducts of Google Street View I have ever seen:
'I mean, I wouldn't have been there in the state that I was in, but I wasn't really thinking there would be someone driving by with a video camera on the roof filming me, either,' Bill, 36, said from northern Australia, where he is working with a fishing company.
Regarding Bill's quote there, the strangest part about this whole thing to me is that he seems to have consciously decided to go to sleep there. Likely the first drunk person to ever decide to pass out on the side of the street.
I also have to create an addendum to Adam's post about cake at the office. Another one of my big pet peeves is the office pizza party. This always gets fucked up. I mean, everyone likes pizza. Almost everyone likes pepperoni pizza, or sausage pizza. As you add more toppings, it's only natural that less and less people are going to like those combos of toppings. Invariably, you show up in the conference room excited for pizza. You've been looking forward to this all day and you saw the delivery guy lug 6 large pies past your cube. What would you expect the 6 pizzas to consist of? Logic seems to say 2 pepperonis, 2 just cheese, and a couple specialties (just some veggies and sausage maybe). But every fucking time, whoever is ordering phones in this brilliant array of pizzas:
1 pepperoni
1 cheese
1 of some kind of stupid ass "white pizza" with no sauce but with sliced tomatoes on it
1 of hamburger, cottage cheese, and spam pizza
2 ice cream, celery, and oatmeal pizzas
And, also invariably, there is a guy there who LOVES him some ice cream/celery/oatmeal pizza. But you see this moron sitting down to eat with a slice of CHEESE and a slice of pepperoni. And he says "oh yeah I love ice cream pizza, I'm going to have some next". What a fucking asshole.
Following this, there is always some of the nasty pizza left over, which nobody wants to take with them. Jesus Christ. This happens so often. I can't tell you how many times I've seen this happen. And the person ordering will always make some asinine comment like "Oh! I didn't know how popular cheese and pepperoni were going to be."
Who doesn't know that? Who? I want to meet this person who is so out of touch with American culture that they're not aware that pepperoni is the de facto pizza that [most] everyone likes, and that cheese is a great option for vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike. Would you ever have a cookout and buy 1 package of hamburgers, 1 package of hot dogs, and 6 packages of fucking RAM'S COCK? It would be one thing if the person in charge got a pepp, a couple cheese, a sausage, and then some deluxe/supreme/whatever choices, but it's always some ridiculous combination adorning 2 of the pizzas that nobody wants anything to do with.
Free pizza is a huge deal. It needs to be taken seriously.
August 13, 2008 2:05 pm
Ah, three things:
(1) You are entirely accurate in assuming that no one in Zimbabwe can swim. In fact, I met an African a few weeks ago who is a friend of a friend of mine from UD and he admitted that he once walked out onto a sandbar in the ocean and got stuck there at high tide. The lifeguard swam out to save him and, frustrated, accused him of faking his inability to swim. The lifeguard said, "There is no possible way that you could have made it out this far without being able to swim." My friend's friend said, "Well, I can't.";
(2) I laughed out loud when I saw the picture from Google Street View. All I have to say is that there's no way they didn't know what they were doing when they posted it; and
(3) ❤ ram's cock.
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As for the age of the gymnasts, the PRC was foiled by a Google cache and an epic Wikipedia edit war:


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Loved our stay at Boomerang. Great location - close to beach and Moby's for coffee and restaurant. Neat, tidy and the perfect size for our family of four.
Would be great if the property had a dryer as there isn't much natural sun to the outside area and a bit of a challenge to dry beach towels.
The property was clean, spacious and felt very modern and welcoming. Lovely back yard and outdoor area. Very well catered kitchen with quality utensils and dinnerware. Location is terrific, 30 seconds walk to check the surf. We really appreciated the inclusion of linens and towels, soaps and cleaning cloths and dishwasher tablets.
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That up there? That's me, at the second Crack Village gig at Cargo back in 2001. It is the subject of a CAPTION CONTEST on my Facebook page, but feel free to leave nentreis here if you can't be arsed with that thing. It's sure been pissing em off lately. I log in to admion my page, and I am presented with a liost fo all the crappy articles my friends have been reading, like some amped up Daily Mail sidebar it is shameful.
Still, Facebook remains a good place for connecting with fellow humans, and fielding enquiries. Looky Khan asks via my wall:
I want to ask u a question. 'way back home' you said "I said yes to the deal, and no to the ice cream" the ice cream is a metaphor, this I know, but what? Was Jimmy lovine asking you to sell your soul to the devil??
Well, I suppose he was, but the ice cream was entirely literal. After sitting on a vast leather sofa in the room next to his office - which looked like the room Mr I Was Very Very Drunk from The Fast Show sits in - admiring his collection of framed letters from Tupac ("thank you dear Jimmy") and signed guitars and things, I was summon-ed. We went out on his balcony, overlooking LA, and, after blowing some smoke up my ass ("you've changed music forever! I knew the next seismic shift in rap would come from the UK! I want to put you in the studio with Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg!") he asked me if I wanted any ice cream. He said he had the finest ice cream know to man. I was like, "nah, I'm alright". It was obviously a massive foux par, as everybody got all weird and nervous. "You could have blown that!" squealed the guy helping broker the deal later, who we'd affectionately christened Ratboy. "You don't turn down ice cream from Jimmy Iovine!"
In retrospect I have no idea why I turned it down, other than I just wasn't particularly hungry, and whilst I am a lot of things, I am no glutton for sweets. I like Ice Cream - who, save the intolerant of lactose, does not? He also offered me run of the stock cupboard and I accepted that gladly. I left the Interscope offices laden with CDs - Guns 'n' Roses, Dr Dre Instrumentals, Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance cast recordings... But that ice cream will forever remain a mystery.
So, I spent an intense weekend recording Christmas music for my Xmas LP (with occasional JD and Coke fuelled diversions into San Andreas), which I am now mixing. My Logic skills are coming on in leaps and moon vaults, and I have been amassing some useful information, a little of whihc I thought I should share today, in case any of you ever have the same problem. See, Logic, unlike Acid, has no autosave, and late on Sunday I was sat in the candle light, cheeks wet with tears, having just spent half an hour recording a particularly emotional number, when disaster struck - an obnoxious little window popped up on screen decalring, rudely, "COULDN"R CREAT REGION ERROR"! A stab of sickness penetrated my belly, unleashing swarm of butterflies, and panic flooded my loungs as I desperately clicked around the screen trying to reactive the page, all to no avail. "Ping!" went the error noise "Piiiing!" This ensued for a long time, and I started to fear that I would have to force-quit Logic (the deadlier Mac equivalent of Control Alt & Delete), thus losing all that work.
I was saved, however, by some internet detective work on the Logic forums.
The fix: Simply go to "Window", then click "Cycle through windows". Once you do that, you can go to File and the save options are going to be enabled. Then, once saved, you'll need to force quit to be able to get Logic working again. When opened you should have the project you saved available wherever you decided to save it as.
Hallelujah! Praise Xenu! Praise R kelly! Praise the helpful humans of the Logic forums! It worked! And my work was saved!
And soon, you will hear it. Alongside a whole flipping Christmas album, we're having Advent on akirathedon.com, and it's going to be a beautiful, bountiful affair. It all starts on December 1st, with the Nothing Lasts Forever video. it is my best video ever, and I can't ewait for you to see it.
Meanwhile, the ATD XMAS SHOP is officially OPEN FOR BUSINESS ! Amongst many wonderful things, you can buy your very own custom Don Doodle for just £5!
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Princess Eugenie 'excited' about royal baby news
Princess Eugenie told Orange Is The New Black star Uzo Aduba that she is "excited" about Prince William and Duchess Kate's pregnancy.
The royal, who is William's cousin, chatted with Uzo at the US Open last month about how happy she is that the couple will welcome a new baby next year, adding that she had "much to celebrate" on the night she found out the news.
Eugenie and Uzo were deep in conversation at the US Open last month, which the Princess attended with entrepreneur Phil Winser.
Princess Eugenie is "excited" for pregnant Kate
The following day Eugenie and her mother Sarah Ferguson made a joint appearance at BGC's Charity Day in New York, where they were seen looking very happy.
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"God is Love!"
"There are two kinds of stupidity: one born of innocence; the other born of prejudice. The former can be taught; the other can only endure. ... also, the second is that secret NAZI inside us!"
[The Entertainment Industry seems to have found even another way, today, to make money off the ideas of black suppression and black Ghettos. Instead of making jobs and putting true purpose into the lives of those people, living in these Ghettos, it has enlisted its entertainers to push the idea of their pride in being separate from the rest of the population. Of course, these same entertainers live about as far as possible from these Ghettos, in their mansions in all white areas! More hypocrites, living off the sorrow of others! Pride in the "group" is not what they need – but integration into the rest of society! A society made for all by all! Hard work and determination does overcome; not rebellious hatred of people, they see as different! And, that is what I try to broach below. We have to get rid of the secret NAZI in all of us; NOT encourage it! More on this below...]
I grew up in the inner city. My father grew up in a similar environment, only worse; during the great depression of the early thirties. We were white, but of the original Latin origins – not Hispanic or Latino – but Italian, the original "greasers"2! My father was out, in the streets, selling newspapers, when he was six years old. His father had left for parts unknown, right after his birth, so he was raised by an older brother, Jimmy. The streets were hard on him; he once got hit by a Police car, and lost most of the sight in one eye. But, even bad habits sometime garner good results: for while stealing stale cakes from the back of a bakery truck, parked in front of the bakery, he noticed the pretty Italian girl behind the counter inside – she would later become my mother3. The Second World War came. My father and four of his brothers enlisted. My father was sent to the South Pacific and the Philippines; his brothers to Europe. The army taught my father discipline (although he almost got court marshaled along the way), and he learned a trade4, beside playing cards, gambling and stealing stale cakes, that would later sustain his family, when he married that girl behind the bakery shop counter.5 For me, it also wasn't easy. I got picked on and bullied, and had to fight for respect among my peers. Quiet, bookish kids never have an easy time of it, especially in a neighborhood like the one I grew up in6. But I fought my way through, went to College and Professional school; got graduate degrees and became a Field Grade Army officer to boot! If the will is there, you can do it. But what I learned along the way, I would now like to talk a little about. Today, the inner cities in this country, and around the world, are just the same as the ones I and my dad grew up in. But you don't make your way through them by complaining or going on about prejudice and discrimination. The Italians went through all that, as I said above. But we fought our way through with hard work and determination! Sure, it's a disgrace that neighborhoods like my dad's still exist today. But part of the cause of this is the people in those neighborhoods. If those people were good hard working people, those places wouldn't be what they are! Ghettos are that way, because people don't try to fit in and mesh together with others, outside that Ghetto. Ghettos are fortresses of prejudice and hatred! They are places, where people feel sorry for themselves, because of the prejudices the "group" has taught them. What they don't seem to understand is that if you stay a group, you only increase the hatred in those outside that group. The Hispanics, Latinos and Islamics coming to America and Europe today, just like the Jews and Italians of my father's day, all suffer from the same thing: that secret NAZI inside of them! We all have that in us! It's that part of us that makes us feel "better" than others, outside our group! It's that part of us that makes us look at others, and say "he's not like me... so I don't like him"! The people outside the Ghetto do likewise: "Why can't they fit in? Why are they so hateful and prejudice against others?" Think about what it is like for a white "outsider" (Police officer) going into one of those neighborhoods to face people, he knows feels that way about him – yet he is supposed to protect them! When I worked in Philadelphia, I once observed a somewhat muddled black man on a bicycle playing Russian Roulette with the traffic on Broad Street (a four lane major street in the city). My associate (who was black) and I watched, from a second story window, in horror, as a huge truck came screeching to a halt just an inch from his head! We immediately ran down stairs, and outside, to get him off the street; and what did we find? We found about ten black men cheering him on! When I hear that group "Black Lives Matter", talking about Police brutality, I think of that poor black man trying to kill himself to please his black audience!7 The Police are no different than they are; then we all are! But let's give the Police some credit too: they go into places where they know the people hate them... not an easy job! Sure they sometimes make mistakes, but most of the time they don't! We all have our prejudices – that secret NAZI inside us, edging us on in our prejudices! The trick is to shut him up! Sure, there is some Police brutality; but there is also a much greater amount of black on black brutality and crime; Latino on Latino brutality and crime; Hispanic on Hispanic brutality and crime! That's why anyone, who doesn't live there, doesn't want to enter those neighborhoods – Ghettos! The problem isn't so much the prejudice from outside, but the prejudice on the inside! A prejudice that creates gangs and groups that feed on that very thing to keep those Ghettos alive to favor them. That's why the drug trade is alive and well in those places; that's why crime and home invasions soar in those places! That's why illegal weapons are sold in those places – because everyone is afraid of everyone in those places, and trust is a foreign word! The same goes for the religious Ghettos of whatever religions! I know, because I grew up in an all Catholic Italian Ghetto. If people weren't Catholic, then they were the enemy! So, it is easy to see why Islamaphobia has grown to such proportions, with a religion even more vehement in its views of others, outside the group! That hidden NAZI is popping up in everyone today, just because of all these groups, and the lack of integration, they breed, because of that secret NAZI in them! Widespread integration is the answer; and, the realization in these very bigoted religious beliefs that people have to get along with other people – in other words, GOD is not a NAZI! He didn't put that NAZI inside of us – we did! If anything, He wants to take it out of us! He wants everyone, to see everyone, as just what they are: FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS; all helping each other exist in a world that can be a paradise, if we will all work together to make it that way! When I say these things, I can't understand why people can't understand all this! But, when I get mad; when my own secret NAZI pops up, I see why all this happens! But, in a way, we should all see this, for that very reason: groups breed hate, not love! The NAZI is inbred in us, because life isn't easy; or fair. An economy that takes advantage of this fact, doesn't help matters, either; neither do religions that seem to think that some people are better than others! Some of us are black; some white; some red, some yellow; some believe in one kind of God, some in another, or none at all – but underneath we are all the same! If we let the "group" destroy this truth in us, we will see that NAZI take its toll! This life on this earth depends on ALL of us – globalization existed long before the capitalist mentality! We are one people; with many differences that take nothing from the fact that we are all, human beings! That is the only group, we should truly acknowledge! The NAZIs lost; we won – let's forget them, and move on!
1 I use the word NAZI, because they are a group that favors the superiority of the racially bred "better", which they believe themselves to be. Thus, any inner thoughts (secret), we harbor that sees us as "better" than others, because of ethnicity, group or belief, instead of actions, I call "the secret NAZI", here.
2 The Italians were called "greasers" (sometimes "greaseballs", similar to the use of the word "nigger" for blacks) by the Americans. Today, the Latinos and Hispanics are called the same thing derogatorily. People of the Anglo-Saxon race use this derogative name to emphasize the slicked down or "greased" hair that many Latin men once used. Hollywood even emphasized this in the old gangster films, they made, in the Thirties, with the "greaser" style Italian gangsters, who were anything but Italian! Funny, how people, who were supposed to be so bullied themselves, found it so easy to bully others! It just shows how that "secret NAZI" lives in all – even those who were themselves persecuted by the very same ideas!
3 When I was a teenager, my father's adventures became public knowledge one night on the "Tonight Show"(with Johnny Carson then). A guest Star that night, Jack Klugman (the Hollywood Star), who use to hang around with my father and his cronies, said that he use to steal stale cakes from that same bakery. He didn't mention my father, but my dad, and especially my mom, whose brothers ran the bakery, were all thrilled by the free publicity they got. Jack was a little kid in the neighborhood, who my dad use to make fun of, for going to music and acting lessons. He later felt foolish for that, when he saw all that Jack accomplished.
4 My father learned to become a Dental Technician.
5 Unbelievably, all of them got back home from the war, in one piece, without a scratch!
6 That neighborhood later got some publicity, when the "Rocky" series of movies were produced. Rocky was supposed to have grown up in my dad's neighborhood; and later, in "Rocky II", he moved into the neighborhood, where I grew up.
7 By the way, we got that man out of the street. We called the Police, who found out, he was a psychiatric patient, and they brought him to his Doctor.
Originally Published:February 10, 2016
Revised:February 12, 2016


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Often in our busy lives exercise is one of the things which gets naturally put on the back burner.
If you feel like you are lacking energy to cope with your hectic schedule, just 30 minutes of exercise at the beginning of the day can leave you feeling energised for the rest of the day.
If the thought of exercise fills you with dread, it is possible to change your mind-set. It can help to remember that exercise is something which you will not regret doing.
If you are embarking on an exercise regime with the sole goal of losing weight, then you are unlikely to fall in love with exercising.
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If you have never enjoyed exercise, it may seem like a distant dream to fall in love with it. But trust me, it is possible to fall in love with exercise. Think back to your childhood, when running around outside was one of your favourite things to do. Most people forget the great feeling regular activity gave them. This is because as a child you didn't think of exercise as a chore, it was all about having fun.
The first step is to find a form of exercise you don't completely hate.
You don't need to be out running miles at 5am every morning or playing hockey in the rain. Start by increasing your exercise gradually. Why not take a long walk somewhere new, go out exploring, take up some dance lessons with your partner or go with friends to some group classes in a local gym. If it is exercising in public which makes you worried, there are so many fitness videos available online through websites such as YouTube.
Change your mindset towards exercise.
It is not healthy to see exercise as a tool simply for burning calories and losing excess weight; it will soon become a chore which you are keen to avoid wherever possible. Make a list of the most important benefits to you in taking up exercise, remind yourself of these before, during and after workouts, and before you have time to give up you will be loving exercise. Your health is worth it. You will soon begin to see the benefits throughout the rest of the day – boosts to your energy, feeling stronger and more confident.
Take small steps to achieve your goals.
Try not to set yourself a huge fitness goal when starting out, such as running a marathon. Instead, choose smaller, more realistic goals. These smaller steps will help you break down what you may see as a daunting task and help you to achieve your dreams. You will gradually build up your endurance and stamina rather than burning yourself out in the first week of exercise.
Find a way to track your progress.
Try to keep a log of your workouts, whether on paper, online of through a device such as a Fitbit. It will amaze you how motivating it can be when you are tracking things and you begin to see yourself smashing your goals.
Try to remember that a little activity is better than no activity. If you only have five minutes spare, it doesn't matter, you can definitely still benefit from this. So please, go and make your exercise time fun. You will soon fall back in love and start to reap the benefits.


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Puerto Rico's decision to cancel its contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings LLC, a small Montana-based company with ties to the Trump administration, has thrown the island's electricity restoration efforts into disarray.
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) CEO Ricardo Ramos said Sunday he would move to cancel the $300 million contract with Whitefish Energy, which has drawn intense scrutiny. The cancellation comes on the heels of revelations that the contract was awarded to a company with deep ties to Trump donors and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. The contract included a clause that barred the government from reviewing the company's profits related to its electric grid work.
While Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló contends power restoration efforts will remain on schedule, PREPA Executive Director Ricardo Ramos warned that cancellation of the contract could cause up to 12-week delay in getting electricity turned on for residents across the island. Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico more than 40 days ago, yet only about 30 percent of utility customers on the island have had their power restored.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said Sunday he plans to deploy additional utility crews and equipment to help Puerto Rico jump-start the repairs. "It's very hard to get the society up and running until you have the power restored. And there's been very little progress on the power," Cuomo told CNN. New York previously deployed resources to Puerto Rico immediately following Hurricane Maria.
New York is deploying additional utility crews and equipment to help restore power in Puerto Rico.
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) October 29, 2017
Rosselló said in a press conference on Sunday that the island would coordinate with New York and Florida to reinforce electric power brigades. To further help with relief efforts, Cuomo has organized a 28-person power restoration team consisting of engineers and supervisors that specialize in the supervision of transmission and distribution system recovery. The workers, pulled from various utility companies across New York State, reportedly will be deployed in early November.
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, welcomed the decision to cancel the Whitefish Energy contract and stressed that an investigation into how the contract came about should continue. "Taxpayers should pay a fair rate for the emergency repairs Puerto Rico desperately needs — not be gouged by Whitefish Energy or anyone else," Cantwell said in a statement.
PREPA's contract with Whitefish Energy raised red flags soon after it was signed. The company, based in Whitefish, Montana, was was tiny two-person operation with annual revenues of only $1 million.
The company also appeared to have close ties to Zinke, who lives in Whitefish. Zinke and Whitefish Energy CEO Andy Techmanski have denied any wrongdoing, but both acknowledged that they have known each other for years. One of Zinke's sons worked as a flagger at construction sites where Whitefish Energy was operating.
Among Whitefish Energy's investors is the Dallas-based HBC Investments LLC. Joseph Colonnetta, founding and general partner of HBC, donated $5,400 to Donald Trump's presidential campaign and $14,600 to the Republican National Committee through the Trump Victory fund, set up to raise money from big donors.
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI is investigating PREPA's contract with Whitefish Energy. FBI agents from the San Juan field office are looking into the deal, the newspaper said, citing three people familiar with the matter.
PREPA also has signed a $200 million contract with Cobra Acquisitions LLC to support the work on the island by Whitefish Energy to restore the main lines of transmission. Cobra, a subsidiary of Mammoth Energy Services, is based in Oklahoma.
Mammoth executives said officials with FEMA were "involved every step of the way to make sure the contract complies with their reimbursement requirements." Prior to beginning any work, Mammoth received a $15 million up-front payment, and billing will occur twice weekly.
Mammoth spokesman Matt Wagner said the company is confident its contract with PREPA will withstand scrutiny. The subsidiary was formed last spring and currently has 275 employees.
Arty Straehla, Mammoth's CEO, said on a October 20 conference call that Cobra's primary clients are electric utilities and that prior to winning the Puerto Rico contract, the subsidiary had sent crews to help with recovery efforts in Texas following Hurricane Harvey and in Florida following Hurricane Irma.
The contract was completed on October 20, and within days Cobra had a 60-person advance crew on the island starting to set up a base of operation. Over the coming weeks, more than 500 workers will be mobilized to the island to help restore the electric utility infrastructure, Cobra said in a statement.
Last week, Whitefish Energy reportedly hired a former House member to lobby on its behalf as lawmakers called for investigations into its contract with PREPA. Former Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA) told Politico that he would "meet people on the Hill" to make the case that Whitefish Energy won the contract fairly.
The Sierra Club described the Whitefish Energy contract as "only the latest scandal" for the Trump administration. "Puerto Ricans need someone capable of turning on the lights which obtains its contract through an open and transparent process in order to transform the electric grid, not one mired in controversy," Ramón Cruz, a member of the Sierra Club's national board and former member of the Puerto Rico Energy Commission, said in a statement.
With power still out across three-quarters of Puerto Rico, the need for electricity remains urgent. https://t.co/gA8Lp3PFcK pic.twitter.com/QFSjtnycYq
— Mark Hand (@MarkFHand) October 26, 2017
Like Cantwell, Cruz said Congress must continue to investigate how a company with close ties to Zinke and Trump donors obtained the contract in the first place. "The ongoing devastation in Puerto Rico should never have been used to profit friends of this administration, and we the people deserve answers," he said.
Rosselló had said the Whitefish Energy contract had become a "distraction" when the real focus should be restoring power to the island.
In a statement Sunday, Whitefish Energy said the decision to cancel the contract will "only delay what the people of Puerto Rico want and deserve — to have the power restored quickly in the same manner their fellow citizens on the mainland experience after a natural disaster."
Nonetheless, Whitefish Energy said it plans to finish any work that PREPA wants the company to complete. The company said its ability to mobilize immediately "exceeded all other efforts by other parties." In less than a month, the company brought 350 workers and was on track to have more than 500 workers on the island by this week, it said.
Whitefish Energy said it completed "significant work" on two major transmission lines that crossed over mountains and conducted "critical work" on remote parts of southern Puerto Rico, which are accessible only by helicopter and heavy equipment.
Despite the cancellation of the contract, PREPA said it remains "on track" to reach the target of 95 percent of power restoration by December, according to María Soledad, a reporter with Caribbean Business. In mid-October, Rosselló said his goal was to have 30 percent of the island's power restored by the end of the month. After that, the target would be to restore 50 percent by November 15, 80 percent by December 1, and 95 percent by December 15.
"We are on track" to reach the target of 95% of energy generation by Dec. said Power Authority Dir @CaribBusiness
— María Soledad (@Maria_Soledad7) October 29, 2017
Why the government of Puerto Rico decided to forgo mutual aid agreements and instead signed the agreement with Whitefish Energy remains an unanswered question. "No one in Puerto Rico, not Rosselló nor PREPA Executive Director Ricardo Ramos, has satisfactorily explained the decision to put off bringing in external crews and equipment and forego mutual aid agreements, which raises suspicions that the job had been set aside from the outset for mainland private interests," Armando Valdés Prieto, former director of Puerto Rico's Office of Management and Budget, wrote in an op-ed published Monday in the Washington Post.
The cancellation of the contract raises many questions, Valdés Prieto wrote. How much more will Puerto Rico have to pay on top of the $8 million to $10 million PREPA said it has already been disbursed to demobilize work crews under the contract's cancellation clause? How will PREPA make up for 10- to 12-week delay that Ramos predicted could result from the termination of the contract?


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