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April 30, 2004
What is Evil Glenn looking at in this picture?
Caption this picture.
Lots of possibilities exist. Let's take a look:
1) "Do I look sexy in this T-shirt or what?"
2) "Hey, I wonder if they have that outfit in my size?"
3) "I can hardly wait..."
4) "That is one really big dog and I'm feeling might thirsty..."
"I wonder if she's free tonight?"
Editor's note: Evil Glenn really needs to wear his glasses.
5) "A couple of scoops of vanilla ice are all I need to make this puppy float complete..."
6) "Heresy!"
7) "I wonder if it's too late to become a judge in the IMAO t-shirt babe contest?"
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It is every beer lover's summer nightmare - stuck in the middle of a park with the sun warming your drink. Thankfully, scientists have come up with a solution: the self-cooling beer can.
Slightly longer than a normal drink can, it simply needs a twist to cool its content down. It can, its inventors claim, cool a beer to the perfect temperature of 3C within three minutes.
The I C (Instant Cool) Can works by using water evaporation. The top half is surrounded by a layer of watery gel. The base contains a water-absorbing material in a vacuum, and a special heat-absorbing chamber.
When the bottom is twisted, a seal between the two halves is broken. The vacuum draws the gel, and the heat, into the base. The gel is absorbed by the material, the heat is absorbed by the chamber - and the drink gets cold.
Science the way it was meant to be used.
Update: Kevin has supplied an image for your viewing pleasure over here.
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April 29, 2004
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While Blogger gave me a place to start, I have been feeling like I have outgrown its capacity and have been offered space to move on.
Please come to visit me at
If you are not able to access the site, please email me.
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The Spice Girls Application Form
Real Age:
How would you best describe yourself?
( ) An energetic self-starter
( ) A team player
( ) A tasty, albeit untalented, bit of crumpet
Do you have any detectable vestige of talent, besides your tits?
Would it bother you to be the target of unrelenting hatred?
"I am willing to trade sexual favours for a career in the music
( )Yes ( )No
How many times have you been kicked out of a karaoke bar?
Does nudity bother you? If so, give three excuses for your
Explain the difficulties in identifying the source of individual
free will in light of the deterministic theories of neurochemical
medicine and modern behavioralist psychology. Just kidding!!
Seriously, do you like leather mini-skirts?
( )Yes ( )No
Are you deceptively attractive in coloured or stroboscopic light?
( )Yes ( )No
Choose an appropriate nickname:
Sexy, Nasty, Sweetie, Syphilis, Lardy, Sickly, Sporty, Slappy.
Choose an appropriate image:
( ) Cute, blonde, appeals to pedophiles
( ) Tub of lard
( ) Bloke. In a tracksuit.
( ) Vacant stare, no discernible brain activity
( ) Terrifying to small children and old men
( ) All of the above
Do you promise to make one album and then go away forever?
( )Yes ( )No
If two trains leave Liverpool an hour apart at 90 kilometers, and
75 kilometers an hour, respectively, how would you look in a
If required as part of your contract, would you be willing to
help alleviate Prince Charles's loneliness?
( )Yes ( )No
In space provided, tell us why you want, why you really, really,
want this job.
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Castle Argghhh! Fighting Fusileers for Freedom! $18497.39
The Victory Coalition $17567.44
Liberty Alliance $9004
Grand total: $45068.83
The 50k mark is right around the corner. Give until it hurts. And I gave one final time last night after my tax refund arrived. I couldn't think of a better thing to spend it on.
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April 28, 2004
Milan Kundera's novel The Joke traces the fortunes and amours of a young student, Ludvik, after his exasperatingly earnest girlfriend decides to show the authorities a postcard he had written to her as a joke: "Optimism is the opium of the people! A healthy atmosphere stinks of stupidity! Long live Trotsky!"
As a result of this whimsy, Ludvik finds himself expelled from the Communist Party and the university and is eventually conscripted to work in the mines for several years. Among other things, Kundera dramatizes the dynamics of political correctness. He is especially good at portraying one of its signal features, humorlessness. One of the points of The Joke is that totalitarian societies cannot abide a joke; humor is anathema; political correctness is a kind of geiger counter that registers deviations from the norm of earnestness. Any deviation is suspect, any humorous deviation is culpable.
The allergy to humor that is integral to political correctness is one reason the art of parody has suffered in recent years. Then, too, a parodist, to be successful, must be able to count on his audience's ability to distinguish clearly between the parody and the reality being spoofed. The triumph of political correctness has long since blurred that distinction. Whose ideological antennae are sensitive enough to register accurately the shifting claims of victimhood and entitlement? A mayoral aide in Washington, dc, uses the word "niggardly" in conversation with a black colleague; the colleague takes offense because he thinks "niggardly" is racist; the aide promptly offers his resignation, which is accepted. True? Or parodic exaggeration? True, all too true.
Item: A school board in San Francisco seeks to require that 70 percent of school reading be books by "authors of color." One board member explained: "Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, for instance, has a bias against African-Americans. And Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, while a great work, has an economic bias. It characterizes people based on their class."
Item: A mid-level executive at a large bank is overheard wishing a colleague "Merry Christmas." Her superior takes her aside and gravely tells her that such language might be construed as offensive and warns her against indulging in such public displays of religious sentiment.
Item: A doctor I know at Good Samaritan Hospital outside Chicago writes a letter to the hospital's "Cultural Diversity Team." He points out that their Diwali Festival celebrating Hindu culture neglected to mention the appalling abuse of women that is a prominent feature of that culture. A firestorm erupts. The president of the medical staff informs the letter writer that "many individuals reading your words . . . have found them disturbing, insulting, and ... elitist" and warns further that "continued correspondence in the same vein . . . will be viewed as harassment and contributing to a hostile workplace environment." In other words, cut it out or get out--which is not, incidentally, a bad characterization of the PC understanding of dialogue.
On an even more ominous front we have the activities of the European Union, that bastion of political correctness, whose tax-exempt ministers are appointed, not elected, who seem to be accountable only to themselves, who meet in secret and issue binding diktats that affect the daily lives of people all over Europe. It is nice work if you can get it.
Read the whole thing.
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Breakout the telescope and some beer: it's time for a party!
Reading science fiction cause global warming! Drinking a Slurpee causes global warming! Why not? It looks like everything causes global warming now.
Patient, heal thyself!
Obese children "face the prospect of coronary disease". No shit.
New H2O light: dryer than your regular water. Makes as much sense as what this "study" purports to prove. Funny how it contradicts decades of other research into the matter.
Does this sweater make me look fat?
Maybe people with pet slugs are next. Really folks, I already have a mother and a wife. I don't need a nanny and neither do my pets.
Screw these assholes. The Republicans gained control of the state legislature for the first time since the Reconstruction and them immediately emulate the tactics that got their opponents ousted. Good going, buttwipes. You've lost a voter in this state for the forseeable future.
What in the Hell is wrong with the world today? And I'm not making a snide remark about the current political culture in the US. I'm talking about headlines such as this one:12-year-old boy charged in girl's slaying.
Good news. And it's about time. I'll be watching the tests very closely.
So we-the readers- are to blame for your hiring/employing a lazy, no-talent hack? Guess again.
Are the Dem's suffering from buyer's remorse over John Kerry? Hugh Hewitt takes a look:
Dems know he's a loser. But can anything be done?
Who knows? Don't bother looking up the rules governing nominations. There were rules in Florida, and the Florida Supreme Court tore those up when Gore needed help. There were rules in New Jersey, but when Torricelli flamed, the New Jersey Supreme Court tossed those aside. There were rules in California, and three judges ordered a halt to the recall that only went forward because the luck of an en banc draw brought sanity to the review panel.
No, the rules won't stop Kerry's recall. Only Teddy can, and the weight of the senior senator from Massachusetts shouldn't be underestimated. The Kerry campaign is his last hurrah, and the convention's in Boston, for goodness sake. What kind of a reception would follow a party that tossed Kerry onto the tracks?
Jonah Goldberg, over at the Corner, on John Kerry:
Matt Yglesias writes about the Kerry Medal flap: "The real mystery in all this, if you ask me, is why Republicans persist in raising an issue that can't help but make their man look bad when the Bush and Kerry military records are contrasted."
First, I don't buy the desperate line that solely "Republicans" are raising this issue. The LA Times, Charlie Gibson and Tim Russert do not a vast right wing conspiracy make. Second, I'm mystified as to why he's mystified. Here are few plausible theories why some Republicans might think this is a good story for Bush:
1. Candidates only get one theme ascribed to them. For Gore it was "he exaggerates and lies to make himself look good" or something like that. It wasn't always fair, but it was no more unfair than the "Bush is stupid and ignorant" theme. For Kerry it's increasingly looking like his one theme is "can't take a stand on anything" or "can't be straightforward." This "I threw the medals away if by medals you mean the ribbons because I would never throw away the medals because they are too important to me even though I never saw a difference between the medals and the ribbons and I would have thrown away the medals if I had the medals with me even though that's not what I used to say or what I will be saying tomorrow" thing only reinforces this negative identification.
2. People already have made up their minds about Bush and his National Guard service. Indeed, he's a known quality in general. So while rage may still burn bright at the American Prospect over Bush' National Guard stint, most Americans stopped caring a while ago. However, people are only now being introduced to Kerry and what they're seeing is a caricature of stiff, pompous Senator.
3. As I try to point out in my column today (not up yet), Kerry has a particular problem with Vietnam. Unlike say John McCain, Kerry has two completely contradictory Vietnam narratives and he wants to brag about both and not be criticized on either. Lots of politicians have tried to have it both ways on Vietnam. But wants to get credit for fighting in a war which he says was criminal and a mistake and he wants credit for denouncing that war as criminal too. Meanwhile, lots of Vietnam vets and other pro-military types think the real Kerry is the one who came home from war, not the one who went to war. I think, given Kerry's record as a politician, that is the only logical position and the more people who realize that, the worse it is for Kerry.
4. Kerry looks like an arrogant shmuck when he's defensive. Any time the GOP or anybody else can get under his skin, the better it is for Bush. Particularly if it involves any kind of contradiction or inconsistency on Kerry's part because the guy looks like such an idiot when he insists that A and Not A are both simultaneously true.
5. During a war the Americans still support, it's always good (for the GOP) to have footage of the Democratic nominee calling American troops -- of any era -- war criminals.
6. And this one's a bit of a stretch. There are still people in this country who think the anti-war Kerry was right and the pro-war Kerry was telling the truth when he called Americans war-criminals. To see Kerry back-pedal on that doesn't only reinforce the image that he wants to have it every which-way, it might actually turn off the pugnacious doves in the Democratic electorate. I like to call these people "Nader voters."
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A poem:
© 2000 Barry Bell
Cow Brains
Nay I say, neigh.
Horse envy.
I graze, meander the field.
Retire to India, Promised Land.
Holy cow, fish eaters.
Well, swish my tail Charlie!
Got to fly, chew my cud.
Warm rear - sunny breeze?
Piss. Again.
Lay down, no tipping please.
Be here until we go home.
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A request for a raise in salary
I, the penis, hereby request a raise in salary for the following
I do physical labor.
I work at great depths.
I plunge head first into everything I do.
I do not get weekends off or public holidays.
I work in a damp environment.
I don't get paid overtime.
I work in a dark workplace that has poor ventilation.
I work in high temperatures.
My work exposes me to contagious disease.
Thank you for considering my request.
The Penis
- - - -
In Response:
Dear Mr. Penis,
After assessing your request, and considering the arguments you have raised, the administration rejects your request for the following
You do not work 8 hours straight.
You fall asleep on the job after brief work periods.
You do not always follow the orders of the management team.
You do not stay in your allocated position, and often visit other areas.
You do not take initiative - you need to be pressured and stimulated in order to start working.
You leave the workplace rather messy at the end of your shift.
You don't always observe necessary safety rules, such as wearing the correct protective gear.
It's doubtful you'll work until the normal retirement age of 65.
You're unable to work double shifts.
You sometimes leave your allocated position before you have completed the day's work.
And if that were not all, you have been seen constantly entering and leaving the workplace carrying 2 suspicious looking bags.
The Management
And now one directly related to my favorite hobby:
Ale's Well That Ends Well
Copyright 2001 W. Bruce Cameron http://www.wbrucecameron.com/
Believing that maybe it would help my relationship with my 12-year-old
son if we had a common hobby, I bought him a beer-making kit. My wife
seemed to think that the situation called for female incredulity.
"You got your son a BEER-making kit?" she demands. "Are you out of
your mind?"
"Hey, you were the one who said we needed to do more things together,"
I point out.
"So you picked drinking beer," she scoffs.
"Of course not. He'll only make it. I'LL be the one drinking it," I
respond. I hold my hands up in a representation of harmonious
balance in the universe.
She fixes me with a scorching look that I recognize from early in our
marriage, when I tried to train her to bring me snacks during football
games, but I will not be deterred. "It's very scientific," I declare.
"Fermentation. Carbonation."
My son is even less enthusiastic. "It smells bad; you DRINK this
stuff?" he sniffs, stirring the batch of malt and hops.
"Yes, but not until there is alcohol in it," I explain with fatherly
"Alcohol is a by-product of fermentation," he quotes, looking through
the little handbook. He squints at me. "You'll be drinking yeast pee."
"Real men don't read directions," I advise.
When we're finished, my home brew sits tightly sealed in a plastic
keg. "This is the pressure valve," I lecture my son. "The yeast builds
up carbon dioxide, which escapes out the valve; otherwise there would
be an explosion that would level houses in a four-block area."
I'm hoping this will excite him, but he's been reading the manual
again. "Carbon dioxide is another waste by-product," he intones.
"In other words, yeast farts."
For three days, the mixture sits implacably inside the plastic vessel,
as exciting as a bucket of paint. Concerned, I sneak in a little more
sugar to get the yeast motivated. "You're not supposed to do that,
Dad," my son warns.
The next day, the yeast have suddenly sprung to life, bubbling and
hissing as they busily produce waste products. Impatient, I pull on
the little tap, pouring an ounce of muddy liquid into a glass and taking
a sip.
"Does it taste like beer?" my son asks anxiously.
"Maybe beer that's already been through somebody," I respond ruefully.
That night my son prods me awake. "Dad, the beer is calling you."
My wife gives me a frown, as this is exactly the excuse I give her
whenever I meet my buddies at the sports bar. "What do you mean?"
I ask him.
He shrugs. "You sort of need to come hear it. It's making noises."
My wife puts her hand on my arm. "Could it be dangerous?" she inquires
I laugh. "Of course not. How could beer be dangerous? Beer Is Our
I follow my son out into the kitchen and, at his urging, put my ear to
the plastic keg. He's right: There is some sort of creaking noise
emitting from the seams around the edge of the thing. Through the
thick, dark plastic, I can see that the yeast has rioted, filling the vessel
with foam.
"Maybe you put in too much sugar," he worries. "Should I start calling
people in a four-block area?"
"Nonsense. More sugar just means a higher alcohol content. How could
that be bad?" But his question has drawn my attention to the filter,
which should be allowing yeast farts to escape. Instead, it looks
locked in place, a little button that should be bobbing up and down.
I reach out a finger.
"Dad " my son starts to say.
The moment I pry at the valve it fires straight up like a bullet, the
little button gone in an instant. The entire contents of the keg follow half
a second later, a thick spray of foam coating everything in the
kitchen. I don't even have time to blink and it is over, except that a
steady rain of gooey sludge comes down on my head from the ceiling.
Tilting my jaw, I'm able to catch a few drops in my mouth. My wife
bursts into the kitchen and stares at me, shocked.
"Not bad," I tell her, licking my lips.
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1) Iraq killed the Frenchman who discovered the recipe for soap.
2) Of course I'm kidding! That Frenchman hasn't been born yet.
3) Because the French draw blood from potential parents and then cross-match the DNA. That information is used to prevent such a child from being born.
4) Kidding again! We all know that the leeches contaminate the blood samples.
5) Or does the French blood contaminate the leech? I'm confused.
6) Iraq funded Cop Rock.
7) And Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
Saddam was responsible for New Coke- the bastard.
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Okay folks, we're down to the wire here. More than 33k has been raised so far. All the constant sniping and backbiting has really paid off. But it's time to give some more. Give until it hurts. Don't buy that soda pop today. Skip that grab bag of Doritos. Forgo that overpriced coffee from Starbucks. Give all of that money you're pissing down the drain to a worthy cause. You'll be glad that you did.
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Today is Wictory Wednesday. Every Wednesday I ask my readers to volunteer and/or donate to the Bush campaign if they haven't done so already. And if you have volunteered and donated, then get a friend to join you. It's the only way to defeat the lying liberal media.
If you're a blogger, you can join Wictory Wednesday simply by putting up a post like this every Wednesday, asking your readers to volunteer and/or donate to the president's re-election campaign. Be sure to visit these fine participating blogs:
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April 27, 2004
The Washington Post has been doing a series on the Red State/Blue State divide. Yesterday they profiled the "typical" Red State voter, described by writer David Finkel as a huntin', grits-eatin', church-goin' quasi-bigot redneck whose "truck is a Chevy. His beer is Bud Light. His savior is Jesus Christ." The entire piece was a tribute to East Coast snobbery and stereotyping.
This morning came the typical Blue Stater. Would it be a homosexual couple in San Fran's Castro District? A single, black mom in Harlem?
No, it's a straight, white, blue-collar, never-divorced Catholic couple with two happy, straight adult children...and who don't even drink. Oh, yeah, this is Deep Blue heart of the Kerry coalition.
If these are the hard-core liberal voters, yesterday's Red Stater should have been a pot-smoking agnostic Republican living in subsidized housing.
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It's not the first time, either. Just as scientists "admitted privately" the models don't work, so have prestigious environmental journalists told me privately they are concerned about Nature's handling of global warming stories, both in terms of increasingly shoddy reviews and timing clearly designed to influence policy. No one has forgotten that in 1996 Nature featured a paper, right before the most important U.N. conference leading to the Kyoto protocol, "proving" models forecasting disastrous warming were right. The paper was subsequently found to have used data selectively to generate its dire result.
Note to Nature: Even journalists, normally your friends on global warming, are getting suspicious.
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April 26, 2004
For once I agree with some Democrats:
Senate Republicans this week will launch a series of hearings to promote the value of traditional marriage, a move some Democrats are calling an election year ploy that is none of Congress' business.
Stayed tuned for anything else that politicians might think is none of their business. Don't hold your breath, though.
Watch out! She might lose an eye! Oops, too late.
It's crap like this that makes people contemptuous of law enforement officers. Apparently Common Sense isn't dead; it's a myth.
Today's forecast: continued light, followed by increasing darkness until nightfall. It will then stay dark all night. Hey, it's the only forecast that Russians will want to give in the future.
Leave it to Maxine Waters to provide the best WTF?! comment from this past weekend. Via KLJ at the Corner:
There were a good number of "Say What" moments at the March this weekend. Some of the most telling were at the pre-rally the night before, filled with music and ranting aimed at modern-day bra-burner wannabe college students and their nostalgic feminist mothers. One of the most bizarre though, came from Maxine Waters. After sending a civil message to the president (George W Bush, go to hell! And while you're at it, we want you to take Ashcroft with you. And don't forget Rumsfeld. And please carry along Condi Rice."), Waters told the rallied, "I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion."
What a freaking idiot.
Jonah Goldberg just linked to a site that clearly shows how pumped the Dem's are to vote for Kerry this fall: John Kerry is douchebag but I'm voting for him anyway.
Update: Mickey Kaus says the site is a fraud.
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I don't know if anyone will be able to do this, but I'm going to post it anyway. A friend of mine in Austin, Texas has Scleroderma and she is running her annual fund raiser again right now.
What is Scleroderma, you ask? Here's a basic description from the Scleroderma Foundation website:
Scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis, is a chronic connective tissue disease generally classified as one of the autoimmune rheumatic diseases.If you would like to help Heather out, she has a webpage on the foundation site which offers the capacity to sponsor by credit card. If that interests you, or you know someone who can help, click HERE.
The word scleroderma comes from two Greek words: sclero meaning hard, and derma meaning skin. Hardening of the skin is one of the most visible manifestations of the disease. The disease has been called progressive systemic sclerosis, but the use of that term has been discouraged since it has been found that scleroderma is not necessarily progressive. The disease may take several forms which will be explained later. There is also much variability among patients.
Scleroderma is a disease whose symptoms may be visible, as is the case when the skin is affected, or the symptoms may be invisible, as when internal organs are affected.
Just so you know, I get none of this money. This is not a scam. And, Heather is a wonderful, beautiful and delightful person to be around (who flew from Texas to Florida to be at our wedding, no less). I'm sad that she has to deal with this, but she has a huge amount of supportive family and friends to help her out. This is an attempt to do just that. Help if you can, but good thoughts and a prayer or two couldn't hurt either.
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He's French.
His hairdresser also grooms poodles.
He's a rich woman's pet.
That pretty much cover's it.
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Gareth Bale has insisted he doesn't deserve the praise that has been heaped upon him after his exploits this season.
Bale has enjoyed a spectacular campaign so far including outstanding performances in the Champions League, culminating in the Welshman being awarded the PFA player of the year award last month, an award he was a free bet favourite for.
But the 21-year-old, who endured a torrid time at the start of his Spurs career after his move from Southampton in 2007, believes he is not as good as many people have made him out to be.
"I don't think that I'm as good a player as people say I am," Bale said, according to The Mirror.
"That's what keeps me working hard – because I want to be the player that others say I am."
Bale early career at Spurs was hampered by a series of injuries which kept him out of the side, and the youngster revealed that despite setting a record for the most consecutive games without ending up on the winning side, he always had faith he could excel in the Premier League.
"When I first joined Spurs, it was hard for me when I was not playing, although I actually felt confident that I would show what I could do if I could get into the side. It was the same when I had a bad injury and couldn't get back in." he said.
"Then suddenly it took off. I went from strength to strength, because now I was playing regularly and not just training."
"I wasn't even in the squad for a good while, but it all went right when I had a run in the side. My confidence grew with each and every one of those games and there's no doubt that you learn more from playing than training, and you get better with every experience." He added.
The winger went on to pay tribute to his team-mates for helping him receive the player of the year accolade, acknowledging their role in his success.
"You have to acknowledge your team-mates and I did that at the presentation – you don't win awards like this without them." He commented.
Bale and Spurs now turn their attention to their next league game against Blackpool, which they have been installed as favourites amongst free bets placed, despite the shock 3-1 defeat at Bloomfield Road earlier this season.

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Storytime Preschool provides a warm, caring environment for our students to learn and grow. Since we are a child-centered community, everything here is designed with our young learners in mind. One of our facilities is our huge shaded bicycle track for children. This outdoor area is well shaded with natural light as well as shade cloth. When the children ride the bicycles, teachers are close by to ensure safety, educational guidance and fun. We have more than a dozen bicycles and tricycles, suitable for ages 1.5 to 6 years old.
Another shaded area is our playground. We have swings, sliders, play structures, a cubby house, a large sandpit and much more. Our grounds are well cared for and are made of synthetic grass. Daily morning assemblies are held in our garden and every class has a recess time to play and use the facilities we offer.
Our school events – Halloween party, Christmas Show, International and Sports Days are all held here in our big garden. Sometimes, we celebrate birthday parties in the garden too, as there is ample space for games like musical chairs and other fun activities.


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An EC funded study (2006) summarized in the Flosspols report, indicates that about 1.5% of FLOSScommunity members were female, compared with 28% in proprietary software. In 2010 with the help of Ubuntu Women and other mentoring projects throughout the Ubuntu community Ubuntu Membership by women passed 5%.
Ubuntu-Women is the first step in trying to usher in change by increasing the visibility and contribution of women by providing mentoring and role models, and creating opportunities for collaboration with new and existing Ubuntu volunteers. We aim to provide an opportunity for women who want to be involved in the Ubuntu community thereby increasing the diversity in Ubuntu-Linux by:
- Encouraging women to participate, for example, to learn to create new FLOSS software (or revamp existing software), not only to use GNU/Linux software, but to integrate backwards and learn more about it.
- Mentoring women in specific areas (such as technical, documentation, translation and communication) so they have the information and support necessary to take these new steps, to get through barriers or difficulties, and to keep learning and growing in the Ubuntu-Linux world.
- Providing opportunities by sponsoring women who wish to give technical presentations, or talk about their Ubuntu experience at International conferences and seminars.
- Organising hack-fests, bar camps for women at Linux conferences.
- Increasing the number of women using Ubuntu-Linux in a country-specific manner by providing a platform for talks at local universities, LUGs and schools, which will encourage others to join.
- Openly discussing issues facing women and their involvement in Ubuntu (and Linux) and how to address them.
To achieve the above objectives we currently:
have a casual Mentoring program to share knowledge and learning something from others in the community.
run the mailing list for discussion of related issues.
- run the IRC channels #ubuntu-women and #ubuntu-women-project at irc.freenode.net
Join us and introduce yourself, your interests or what you wish to share with others! We have a wonderful group already, from many different cultural groups and occupations and you are invited to join the Ubuntu world!


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Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, LL.M, is a senior international lawyer and heads the Economic Law & Policy programme of the International Institute on Sustainable Development (IISD). She is the Executive Director of IISD Europe.
In this role, she works with developing country governments across Africa, Asia and Latin America in relation to bilateral and regional investment treaty negotiations, investor-state contracts (with a particular focus on mining and agriculture), model investment treaties and foreign investment laws.
Nathalie has extensive legal, policy, and training experience in the area of international trade, investment, sustainable development, human rights, international environmental law and arbitration.
She previously worked as an attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law in Washington and Geneva, where she also managed the office. Earlier, she was a fellow at the International Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University Law Center and worked in Hanoi, Vietnam, for a legal reform project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and for the Australian law firm Phillips Fox. In Switzerland Nathalie is admitted to the Bar of Basel and has worked for the Justice Department, Berne, in the Section for International Law.
She is based in Geneva and is fluent in English, German, and French.
All Publications
- World Leaders Must Play Their Part in Rethinking Trade so It Can Help Us "Build Back Better"
Blog - July 28, 2020While the question of who will lead the WTO is important, political leaders must also renew their commitment to working together if trade is to contribute to a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient world.
- Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 11, Issue 2, June 2020
Newsletter - June 25, 2020Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD's flagship journal on international investment law and policy.
- As COVID-19 Continues, Governments Must Shield Emergency Measures From Investor-State Arbitration
Blog - May 25, 2020Governments need to be able to issue COVID-19 support packages without worrying about the possibility of facing a wave of arbitration.
- Protecting Against Investor–State Claims Amidst COVID-19: A call to action for governments
Commentary - April 14, 2020This commentary takes stock of emergency measures taken to curb the spread of COVID-19 and provides governments with options for avoiding a surge of investor-state claims challenging those measures.
- IISD Best Practices Series: Terminating a Bilateral Investment Treaty
Best Practices - March 25, 2020This paper examines recent state practice in bilateral investment treaty (BIT) terminations and related drafting, along with presenting options for states interested in addressing their stock of older BITs through termination and renegotiation.
- Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 10, Issue 5, December 2019
Newsletter - December 16, 2019Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD's flagship journal on international investment law and policy.
- Global Economic Governance Through the Lens of Inequality and Sustainable Development: Meeting Report
Report - December 16, 2019This meeting report was developed following a one-day workshop held in Geneva, Switzerland, on September 13, 2019, on the subjects of global economic governance, income inequality and sustainable development.
- Redesigning the Energy Charter Treaty to Advance the Low-Carbon Transition
Briefing Note - September 3, 2019This paper discusses practical ways to overhaul the Energy Charter Treaty to bring it in line with international law commitments with respect to climate change and sustainable development.
- Summary Comments to the Proposals for Amendment of the ICSID Arbitration Rules
Commentary - April 11, 2019This commentary focuses on select aspects of the ICSID Secretariat's March 15, 2019 draft proposals for amendment of the ICSID Arbitration Rules.
- Investor–State Dispute Settlement Reform Talks Resume at UNCITRAL
Blog - March 29, 2019The next meeting of a United Nations working group debating options for reforming investor–state dispute settlement takes place in New York April 1 to 5.
- SADC-IISD Investment Facilitation Workshop
Report - February 22, 2019Report of the meeting held August 21–23, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Survey on Developing Country Investment Treaty Negotiations
Report - February 19, 2019At the suggestion of participants at the 11th Annual Forum of Developing Country Investment Negotiators, IISD produced a survey of developing...
- Reply to Public Consultation on Canada's International Investment Agreements (FIPAs)
Commentary - November 5, 2018The Canadian government launched a public consultation on Canada's foreign investment promotion and protection agreements (FIPAs) on August 14, 2018. This commentary outlines IISD's reply.
- Investment Treaty News (ITN), Volume 9, Issue 3, October 2018
Newsletter - October 18, 2018Investment Treaty News (ITN) is IISD's flagship journal on international investment law and policy.
- International Investment Law and Sustainable Development: Key cases from the 2010s
Book - October 18, 2018This e-book features 10 summaries and analyses of decisions rendered between 2011 and 2018 by arbitral tribunals in treaty-based investor–state arbitration cases having sustainable development implications.
- IISD Best Practices Series: Security for Costs
Best Practices - October 17, 2018This IISD Best Practices paper explores challenges for states in obtaining orders for security of costs and provides model treaty language designed to help overcome those challenges.
- USMCA Curbs How Much Investors Can Sue Countries—Sort of
Blog - October 2, 2018The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) put the famous investor–state dispute settlement mechanism on the map. Now its rebirth as the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) is taking it off again—at least between the United States and Canada.
- International Energy Charter Draft Model Investment Dispute Prevention and Management Protocol
Commentary - August 10, 2018IISD legal analysis of the draft Model Investment Dispute Prevention and Management Protocol developed by International Energy Charter Secretariat.
- A Progressive Investment Agenda for Canada: Going beyond nice words
Commentary - August 9, 2018The Government of Canada has made the notion of a "progressive and inclusive" trade and investment agenda the linchpin of its trade policy development—but the government will have to go beyond nice words to ensure that investment policy can achieve sustainable development.
- Developing a Progressive Agenda for Reform of International Investment Law: Canadian perspectives
Report - July 13, 2018This report presents the ideas posited by various Canadian stakeholders in an IISD expert meeting on a progressive agenda on investment, held in Ottawa, Canada, June 13, 2018.
- How the Energy Charter Treaty Could Have Costly Consequences for Governments and Climate Action
Blog - June 19, 2018Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder explores the current status of the Energy Charter Treaty, and why now, more than ever, it deserves far more public attention and scrutiny.
- Integrating Investor Obligations and Corporate Accountability Provisions in Trade and Investment Agreements
Report - April 30, 2018This report synthesizes the main points that emerged from the discussions in the expert meeting co-organized by IISD and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) in Versoix, Switzerland, January 11–12, 2018.
- When Climate Leaders Protect Dirty Investments
Blog - November 27, 2017In 2016, global spending on oil and gas projects was more than double the total spent on renewables. That imbalance can be addressed only by restructuring the mechanisms, particularly existing trade treaties, that govern how energy investments are made and managed.
- Is "Moonlighting" a Problem? The role of ICJ judges in ISDS
Commentary - November 24, 2017Sitting judges of the International Court of Justice have worked as arbitrators in at least 90 investor–state dispute settlement cases. This commentary presents new data and examines the implications.
- Zambian Villagers Win the Right to Sue a Mining Company in the United Kingdom
Blog - October 27, 2017In an interesting development, the United Kingdom Court of Appeal recently upheld the decision of a lower court that British courts have jurisdiction to hear a case in which a United Kingdom-based mining company's activities caused harm abroad (in Zambia). We explore.
- Farmland Investments Are Finding their Way to International Arbitration
Blog - September 20, 2017A claim registered by a Swedish investor against the Tanzanian government for revoking a land title amid concerns over the impact on local communities and a wildlife sanctuary is the first known investor-state dispute against a government linked to the so-called "land grab" phenomenon, which arose out of the 2008 food crisis.
- Response to the United States Trade Representative's Stated Objectives on NAFTA Negotiations: An environmental perspective
Commentary - August 14, 2017On July 17, 2017, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published its Summary of Objectives for the NAFTA renegotiation. Taking a sustainable development perspective, this response examines the USTR objectives and how they directly or indirectly relate to sustainable growth through international trade and investment.
- Investment-Related Dispute Settlement: Lessons from international accountability mechanisms
Report - July 9, 2017Working toward elements of a new mechanism for investment-related disputes, the expert meeting held in Washington, D.C., United States, on April 11, 2017 focused on ways forward on a compliance structure to hold companies accountable.
- Investment Treaty News Quarterly (ITN), Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2017
Newsletter - June 15, 2017Investment Treaty News is IISD's flagship quarterly journal on international investment law and policy.
- Investment-Related Dispute Settlement: Towards an inclusive multilateral approach
Report - October 18, 2016This document outlines results from an IISD expert meeting discussing investment-related dispute settlement which was held in Montreux, Switzerland, May 23–24, 2016.
- A Sliver of Light in a Controversial Nuclear Power Arbitration
Blog - October 10, 2016A phase-out of nuclear power has triggered a controversial legal dispute with Vattenfall, a Swedish state-owned energy company, which operated and owned two nuclear reactors. The legal proceedings have so far been highly secrete, but that is changing with a decision to open up the hearings to the public.
- TransCanada Corporation's Arbitration Against the U.S. is Worrying for Democracy
Blog - January 11, 2016Each year companies lodge dozens of legal cases against governments under a little-known mechanism called investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). Few make headlines.
- How the Investment Chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Falls Short
Blog - November 6, 2015After years of negotiations behind closed doors, the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), concluded on October 4, 2015, by the Ministers...
- Brazil's Innovative Approach to International Investment Law
Blog - September 15, 2015One of the more contentious aspects of international economic law are so-called bilateral investment agreements (BITs).Dating back more than 50...
- Comparative Commentary to Brazil's Cooperation and Investment Facilitation Agreements (CIFAs) with Mozambique, Angola, Mexico, and Malawi
Commentary - September 11, 2015Unlike traditional bilateral investment treaties (BITs), which are geared toward investor protection, Brazil's Cooperation and Investment Facilitation Agreements (CIFAs—or ACFIs in their Portuguese acronym) focus primarily on cooperation and investment facilitation.
- Investment Contracts for Agriculture: Maximizing gains and minimizing risks
Paper - June 24, 2015This joint IISD, World Bank and UNCTAD discussion paper marries two substantial bodies of research to show how investment contracts can be set up to promote sustainable development. It presents the top five positive outcomes and the five downsides from private sector investments in large-scale agricultural projects.
- Investment Treaty News Quarterly, Volume 6, Issue 2, May 2015
Newsletter - May 21, 2015In this issue:The Merits and Limitations of General Exception Clauses in Contemporary Investment Treaty Practice; Rethinking Investment-Related...
- Public Consultation on Updating the Policy Framework for Investment: Submission by the International Institute for Sustainable Development
Commentary - December 31, 2014The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is updating its Policy Framework for Investment (PFI) to reflect new global...
- The State of Play in Vattenfall v. Germany II: Leaving the German public in the dark
Paper - December 24, 2014Two years after Vattenfall brought Germany to international arbitration for a second time (Vattenfall II), the German public is still left out in the dark. This briefing note reviews the background to the case on Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power and outlines its current state of play.
- IISD Best Practices Series: State-State Dispute Settlement Clause in Investment Treaties
Best Practices - October 31, 2014This paper looks at state–state dispute settlement provisions in international investment agreements, examining the different mechanisms used to settle investment disputes, including judicial, quasi-judicial and arbitration procedures.
- The IISD Guide to Negotiating Investment Contracts for Farmland and Water
Paper - October 30, 2014The IISD Guide to Negotiating Investment Contracts for Farmland and Water is a legal and policy tool for governments and communities that are involved in negotiating investment contracts with foreign investors.
- Reply to the European Commission's Public Consultation on Investment Protection and Investor-to-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP)
Paper - June 24, 2014On March 27, 2014 the European Commission launched public consultations on the investment chapter of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment...
- Investment Treaty News Quarterly, Volume 5, Issue 2, May 2014
Newsletter - May 13, 2014In this issue:The Practice of Responsible Investment Principles in Larger-Scale Agricultural Investments; Foreign Investment in Farmland and Water:...
- Investment Treaty Arbitration: Opportunities to reform arbitral rules and processes
Paper - March 13, 2014Investors are increasingly turning to investor-state arbitration to challenge a wide range of government measures, including laws, regulations and...
- A Response to the European Commission's December 2013 Document "Investment Provisions in the EU-Canada Free Trade Agreement (CETA)"
Paper - March 7, 2014On December 3, 2013, the European Commission issued a document concerning the investment provisions in the EU-Canada free trade agreement (CETA)...
- Commentary to the Draft Investment Chapter of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
Commentary - February 6, 2014Shortly before the Lisbon Treaty's entry into force, Canada and the EU started negotiating a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) that...
- Investment Treaty News Quarterly, Volume 4, Issue 4, September 2013
Newsletter - September 17, 2013In this issue:New UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules on Transparency: Application, Content and Next Steps; Conoco-Phillips and Exxon-Mobil v. Venezuela:...
- Investment Treaty News Quarterly, Volume 3, Issue 4, June 2013
Newsletter - June 25, 2013In this issue:Smart Flexibility Clauses in International Investment Agreements; The Quest for Commodities: Chinese Investment in Farmland;...
- IISD Best Practices Series: Registration and Approval Requirements in Investment Treaties
Best Practices - March 14, 2013This paper analyzes registration and approval requirements for investments in investment treaties, and examines the interpretation of such provisions by arbitral tribunals.
- Chinese Outward Investment: An emerging policy framework
Book - November 28, 2012This book is an English-language compilation covering over 80 primary texts relevant to Chinese outward investment issued from January 2000 to...
- Submission to Working Group II on International Arbitration - Vienna October 1-5, 2012 - Comments on Draft Articles 1, 3, 7 and 8
Paper - October 25, 2012In 2010, Working Group II on International Arbitration launched work on its mandate from the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law ...
- Investment Treaty News Quarterly, Volume 2, Issue 4, July 2012
Newsletter - July 19, 2012In this issue:Deference or No Deference, That is the Question: Legitimacy and Standards of Review in Investor-State Arbitration; The Source for...
- Addressing Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Through Insurance for Overseas Investments: The example of the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Paper - June 13, 2012The paper aims to illustrate the connections between government policy, investment and climate change; it looks at the role and activities of the...
- The German Nuclear Phase-Out Put to the Test in International Investment Arbitration? Background to the new dispute Vattenfall v. Germany (II)
Paper - June 6, 2012The Swedish energy company Vattenfall has now followed through on its threat to bring an international arbitration claim against Germany in relation to that country's recent decision to phase out nuclear power. Damages claimed by Vattenfall could exceed €700 million.
- Investment Treaty News Quarterly, Volume 2, Issue 3, April 2012
Brochure - April 12, 2012In this issue:Defining an ICSID Investment: Why economic development should be the core element; Pro-Investor or Pro-State Bias in Investment...
- Recent Developments in International Investment Disputes: Investment treaty cases from September 2010 to October 2011
Paper - March 13, 2012This brief was prepared for the Fifth Annual Forum of Developing Country Investment Negotiators, organized by the International Institute for...
- Commentary to the Austrian Model Investment Treaty
Paper - March 6, 2012The commentary examines the Austrian Model Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) and compares recent developments in the use of BIT models in North...
- A Critical Opportunity for Transparency in Investor-State Disputes as Government Delegations and Arbitration Experts Meet in New York
Paper - February 1, 2012Country delegations to the United Nations have a critical opportunity to bring much-needed transparency to international arbitrations between...
- Investment Treaties and Why They Matter to Sustainable Development: Questions and answers
Book - December 22, 2011This handbook focuses on international treaties that guarantee standards of treatment for foreign investors.Today, there are literally thousands of...
- Transparency in the Dispute Settlement Process: Country best practices
Best Practices - December 19, 2011In many investor-state arbitrations, it is difficult or impossible even to know that the dispute has been initiated, what the issues and arguments are, and what decisions or awards have been made to resolve the matter.
- Comments on Draft Rules on Transparency in Investor-State Arbitration
Paper - September 27, 2011IISD and CIEL have produced a note summarizing their response to the proposed draft articles and noting which options are, and which options are...
- International Investment Law and Sustainable Development: Key cases from 2000-2010
Book - July 5, 2011This book summarizes and analyzes select decisions issued between 2000 and 2010 by arbitral tribunals in investor-state arbitrations.In contrast to...
- Arbitrator Independence and Impartiality: Examining the dual role of arbitrator and counsel
Paper - April 14, 2011This paper examines the investor-State arbitrations in view of the available common institutional safeguards ensuring arbitrator independence and...
- Investment Treaty News Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 3, April 2011
Newsletter - April 6, 2011In this issue:Freezing government policy: Stabilization clauses in investment contracts; The problem of moral hazard and its implications for the...
- Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication - Enabling Conditions Supporting the Transition to a Global Green Economy
Book - April 5, 2011United Nations Environment Programme's Green Economy Initiative, in collaboration with economists and experts worldwide, compiled the book: ...
- Ensuring Transparency in Investor-State Dispute Resolution under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules
Paper - March 18, 2011The paper examines the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group's role in implementing the UNCITRAL Commission...
- Belgium's Model Bilateral Investment Treaty: A Review
Paper - March 1, 2011The paper gives a background on the International Investment Agreements (IIAs) , notably on Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and their...
- European Parliament hearing on Foreign Direct Investment
Paper - November 19, 2010Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder looks at some of the trends in the area of investment protection and dispute settlement, and at the investment...
- Background paper on Vattenfall v. Germany arbitration
Paper - July 13, 2009This paper provides background on an investment dispute between the Swedish energy utility Vattenfall and the Government of Germany pursuant to the Energy Charter Treaty.
- Trade and Environment: A Resource Book
Book - May 31, 2007Trade and environment policy is increasingly intertwined and the stakes are nearly always high in both trade and environmental terms. These issues...


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Welcome you with all my HEART
Welcome you with all my heart..
Actually I gave that to someone long time back…
And its because of him I am awaiting for you to blossom our love into a lovely pure relationship as we will be tying knots this year..
With all my Heart in which he dwells ….. I am graciously grateful to you for bringing US TOGETHER…..
Peace of Mind….
We people crave for many things…
Sometimes its money,some times its love..
Some of us want respect ,some prosperity while almost all need family…
But we are so focused on the process of achieving this that we don't understand that any craving can be satisfied only by the peace of mind ,by acting as per our conscientiousness ..
Peace of Mind gives you what you actually crave for..
Just achieve it and anything you need is already there ,you would not even have to WANT it….
The Secret
With my first post I would like to express my Heartfelt thanks to you Rhonda Byrne for sharing this beautiful and precious secret with me.
I am really grateful for receiving the love of Universe….
Thank you so much Sai Baba for making me choose this path rather making me follow it making me known to it…
Love you..
Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!


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by Leona West
Functional medicine is a form of medicine that views the body as one whole, integrated system.
In conventional medicine, deficiencies and steps leading up to a disorder are often overlooked.
Unlike conventional Western medicine, which divides the body up into multiple systems, functional medicine looks at how these systems relate to one another.
While functional medicine excels at treating chronic disorders, it is also used in preventative care. Read More


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Lizz Winstead is ready to slam door on 2015
It's been a bad 2015, but that doesn't mean we can't laugh about it.
"I am so panicked about the amount of material I have," Lizz Winstead says from her New York City office. Winstead, a Minnesota native, co-creator of the Daily Show, and all-around fearless political commentator, looks back at the year that was with two shows this week at the Cedar Cultural Center.
The upcoming election — yes, we have nearly a year of campaigning to go through — will be a key issue. The Republican debates, "minus the trays and shitty pizza, is like watching a bunch of young boys in a school cafeteria having a food fight. If this is how you are talking to each other, I don't want you deciding who we have a relationship with."
It goes beyond the infighting among candidates, though. "If we as a society can't differentiate terrorists and the victims of terror, that's problematic," Winstead says.
The other side has its own troubles, with the rise of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton's issues with email security. "I'll talk about Bengazi. During the 10 hours of testimony in the last hearing I wondered, 'Is she wearing astronaut diapers? How is she doing that?'"
There are other important issues on Winstead's radar. "Obviously, there is the continued erosion of reproductive rights and access, and the assets as a whole on clinics. There have also been more dumb things said about women's reproduction," she says. "The climate is crazy. Internationally, things are crazy. Entertainment has had lots of twists and turns, from Jared [Fogle] to Cosby to the Duggar family.
Winstead culls news reports and debates from the past 12 months to create her show. When she started, she was able to really hone it during December, as not much would happen the last month of the year. That's gone out of the window in recent years, to the point where she will work on material right up to curtain call.
"Who knows what will happen when it's an hour before showtime and something breaks, as it inevitably does," Winstead says.
And the light-speed nature of our culture means that it is easy to forget vital issues that distracted us for a day, like that stupid dress and whether or not it was gold or blue.
"You've got to be able to go everywhere. Really, every topic is within the limits," Winstead says. That means you will hear about race, sexism, sexuality, and our country's obsession with guns. "Guns are particularly insane. Why do we have a thirst for a well-armed fake militia getting in the way of common sense?"
Local topics will range from the serious (race in Minneapolis; Black Lives Matter) to the absurd (Cecil the Lion). The evening also includes performances from comic Frank Coniff and musician Sam Breckenridge.
For those can't make it to one of the shows, Winstead's performance will be available for streaming via pay per view over the internet.
Lizz Miserables: A Hilarious, Tragic Review of 2015
8 p.m. December 30 and 31
Cedar Cultural Center
416 Cedar Ave., Minneapolis
For tickets and more information, call 612-338-2674 or visit online.


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We've noticed an acute insufficiency when it comes to good financial information available online for first responders. Apparently, rank and file heroes are expected to contribute to their retirement like good little boys and girls and hope like heck it's actually there when they're done working. The Heroic Investing financial podcast is here to save the day, like Underdog. Maybe not exactly like Underdog but we're hoping to fill in the gaps when it comes to investing in assets that actually work.
Heroes like you deserve that.
The first episode of the Heroic Investing financial podcast is now live on this website. In it, host Jason Hartman discusses the Ten Commandments of Heroic Investing. This is your chance to unlearn the thorough brainwashing so many have suffered at the hands of the Wall Street media circus. We're not here to pick on stocks – well, actually we are – because these days they're nothing but a second tier investment driven by wild speculation and random world events. Does that sound like a recipe for building wealth? We sure don't think so.
In the process of unlearning all the Wall Street stock market silliness, real estate multi-millionaire, Jason Hartman, offers his thoughts on the ten most important aspects of investing: ANY sort of investing. He favors real estate in the form of income property but these commandments could be applied to any situation. In a nutshell, inflation has been busily devaluing stocks, bonds, savings, and cash at a pretty serious rate for close to four decades. Unless you educate yourself now about how to invest in inflationary times, you're probably not going to be able to live the type of leisurely retirement you dreamed about. You might even have to work longer than you planned!
That's where our financial podcast comes it. When hope you enjoy it and return again. Your financial life depends on it.
The Heroic Investing Team
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Saturday Night Fever at WBTPublished: Monday, September 26, 2016 By: Gary Chattman Source: Wesatchester Arts & Education Review
One of the songs in this production is "You Should Be Dancing," which closes Act I at the WBT. After you see this show—and you must see this show—you should be dancing to the music and the beat of The Bee Gees!
This is but another superlative production for this special Westchester Dinner Theatre. Where in heaven's name do they get the talent?
Thank you, Mr. Stutler and Mr. Funking, for choosing this show to grace your stage—You both are definitely "At The Top of Your Game!"
There is a song from Peggy Lee, called "Fever" and some of the lyrics go: "Everybody's got the fever…That is somethin' you all know…Fever isn't such a new thing;
Fever started long time ago." The fever we're talkin' 'bout at WBT is the "Saturday Night Fever" you get when you watch Tony Manero (played with gusto by Jacob Tischler—in the role created by John Travlolta in the movie-based-on-a-New York Magazine article) and Alexandra Matteo (as Stephanie) and Gianna Yanelli (as Annette—who, as she says to Tony, "If I Can't Have You," is one of the highlights of this superlative show.)
I have seen so-so-many shows here at the WBT, and each time they get better-and-better (D'ja hear? "Mamma Mia" in 2017? Can't wait!)
My wife and I arrive bout 6:00. We order the WBT special dinner—choice of roast beef…fish…special appetizers, peach melba dessert. I'll stop mentioning their food because I don't want to make you hungry—I just want you to leave some of your own personal "Tragedies" and find "100 Reasons" to see this show.
I don't have to mention the music by the iconic Bee Gees. We all know their worth. I will mention the direction and choreography by Richard Stafford—a Broadway maven! And there's also the spectacular costumes by Michael Bottari and Ronald Case and Set Design by them…Andrew Gmoser (a fixture in the lighting booth low these many years)…and the musical direction of Ryan Edward Wise. This indeed is a very Wise choice!
The plot: disco, which is an escape for Tony, his pals and the girls; dancing competitions that mirror life's challenges…"Tragedy" when one of the characters dies…happiness as Tony comes into his own…It's Saturday night in Bay Ridge Brooklyn—a boring life—but there's also the local disco, 2001 Odyssey—a beatin', singin' way to express oneself.
All-in-all, as I mentioned previously, Peggy Lee's "Fever" is all on Saturday Night in this show—a phenomenal showcase for WBT, a mainstay of the Westchester Theatrical Community for its fine representations of musical theatre (note I spelled it with the "re" not the "er") for years upon years.
As I have mentioned previously, why pay Broadway ridiculous prices? Why pay Broadway ridiculous dinner prices? Why pay for expensive parking? It's all Here! HERE AT THE WESTCHESTER BROADWAY THEATRE!
The song "Nights on Broadway" should be retitled: "Nights on WESTCHESTER BROADWAY THEATRE!"


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This is perfectly fine, as Tiger 06 offers pretty much the best all-around, everyone-accessible golfing experience out there. Plus, the dual analog swinging, smoother putting system and increase in overall polish make it the best of the Tiger franchise yet.
That's the overview, but you really should examine the specifics to decide if Tiger 06 is something you want to add to your collection. If you don't own any golfing titles and have been considering jumping into it, it's probably a safe bet to dive right in with 06. However, if you've been with the franchise for years, even sporadically, you'll want to consider exactly what it has to offer that's truly new and different. For starters, EA gave the course options a nice bump with a total of 15, a mix of fantasy and licensed; seven of them are brand new licensed courses, including TPC Sawgrass, Pasatiempo, Sahalee CC, Doral Golf Resort, the Nicklaus-designed Reflection Bay in Vegas, as well as Cog Hill and Pumpkin Ridge. So, although there are fewer courses total than some previous iterations had, EA makes up for it with all these new options. The only thing that seems out of place is exactly why they have removed some of the courses from previous versions. They seem to be rationing out the courses in an effort to plan for future installments.
We don't want to be too assuming, though. There are all-new mechanics that play into the balance of Tiger 06, as well as reactive Tiger proofing, which alters courses to challenge your skill level -- each course would have to be balanced to these things. So, 15 is a number we're not complaining about. The new dual analog swing mechanics we speak of are mostly optional (unless you want to pull off a fade or a draw), but Tiger fans will immediately want to sink their teeth into them. One stick is still used to swing the club, as usual, while the other is reserved for placing the strike point on the ball, which will incur front-spin, backspin, or your fade or draw. By taking part in this mechanic, you will be more vulnerable to a miss-hit, which immediately brings you one step closer to simulation. This is a major plus for fans that have been crying out that Tiger can be too easy. But, you have to get into the menu and completely turn off power hitting and spin control. There's still the "Tour" mode option which increases difficulty, but if you're into simulation you'll want to take advantage of turning off the marker readouts too -- this way you won't know exactly how much percentage swing is needed to yield the marker distance.
Having this kind of flexibility is admirable, but at the same time the lack of commitment has yielded a lack of balance. Beginners will still knock in eagles and pros will do the same despite these settings, even if there is more of a chance than before of finding yourself in triple-bogey territory. Having said this, it may be time for EA to commit to a style, instead of trying to walk the line between simulation and come-one-come-all playability. Or, if they're going to have both, the modes need to properly reflect the styles. Because it's still quite easy to hole out if you've never played the game, which has been an ongoing issue for those who take the game seriously.
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His asking range was higher than what we pay Poz. TAM was never in play.
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His asking range was higher than what we pay Poz. TAM was never in play.
That's a big drop off as he can't come close to the 6.5M he'd make based on his contract kicker on a TAM level deal. If he does, then, wow.
Patriots win the Super Bowl, as the road team.
Blues beat the Bruins 3/4 times away, including Game 7 in Boston to win the Cup.
Raptors beat the Warriors 3/3 times away, including Game 6 in...
I recall that on TV there seemed to be a pause after the goal, but all the camera shots were zoomed in on players/Vanney (who did look a bit puzzled). So perhaps they thought about looking at it and...
Bradley has terrible stats, doesn't score for shit. I don't get why we pay so much for the guy. WORST.
I'm not really sure how plotting the schedule out months ago could have predicted:
A) The Weather
B) The Raps/Leafs Playoff Schedule
You also just can't move games because you feel like it. ...
No. He's gone up the chain.
FYI - He didn't quit, still here.
My seat apparently went from 304 to 532? And an adjustment of 56 per seat? WTF
edit: they are looking into this for me, looks like "original pricing" may have been wiped out for some people...
I do find it odd that a dormant account of 15 months randomly shows up with "insider" information like this as it's first 3 posts.
They will always spend to the cap for the Leafs because they are the bread winners. No real indication of their financial mood IMO.
That's basically what Concacaf League is. Winner gets the 16th spot in following year CCL.
Another dumb tournament to add more congestion. Won't support it.
the rumor is 3x10
I like what I do for work, so no, I won't. Feel free to think what you want dude. Anyways, this is wildly off-topic so I'm good here.
The public is the last to know about anything a business is planning to do. So you not knowing doesn't mean much. It's not like when a business makes plans to do something, they whip it up in a day...
This isn't accurate.
The expansion is 3-4 years away from starting. My anticipation is they make another financial splash at that time and keep it far more modest for the next 3-4 seasons.
If they weren't losing money, these guys wouldn't be on the way out IMO.
I think they do.
They need to expand the stadium by at least 10K, along with other infrastructure expansion, so...
They aren't interested in losing 10M per season right now. It's that simple. This is bigger than Vanney/Curtis/Manning. It's out of their hands.
It's more than speculation, I assure you.
I can't believe these guys are going to go because ownership wants to go fucking cheap. Absolute shame.
I don't think they admit that at all. I think it's just about past results (putting TFC ahead) and then establishment of the franchises.
Also thinking that they plan to give the top 4 in CPL...
Knocked in some nice goals in that trailer for him. Sounds like a quality person. Hope he works out.
Not even close.


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Cherry-Chip Chewy Crispy Bars become grown-up fare with the addition of dried cherries to this variation of a favorite childhood treat.
How to Make It
Melt butter and marshmallows over medium-low heat. Stir cherries and vanilla into melted marshmallow mixture. Add cereal, and toss well to combine. Press cereal mixture into a 13 x 9-inch pan coated with cooking spray. Sprinkle mixture evenly with minichips.


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Cherries and Sprinkles
Posted at Feb 8, 2017 8:00 am
The lights dimmed and a room full of people, dressed in their finery, quieted and faced the stage. Names were called. Awards placed in the shaking hands of recipients who didn't know if they should laugh or cry—and ended up doing a little of both. Applause punctuated their words of thanks. And somewhere in the audience someone wished it would be their turn in the spotlight.
Whether it's a key to the city from the mayor, a gold watch and bonus check from your boss, an Emmy, Oscar, Rita, Pulitzer, or Nobel Prize from a celebrity host, this scene plays out many times in an average person's life. Not the receiving the award part—the sitting in the audience part. We all want our 15 minutes (or more) of fame.
But lately I've wondered if we don't have things backwards.
From the seat in the audience the moment can look a lot like having "made it." But is it?
The situation reminds me of a Zen proverb that goes something like this:
Before enlightenment—chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment—chop wood, carry water.
In other words, "making it" doesn't really change things.
In 1994, the movie Forrest Gump popularized the "candy box" view of life. "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get."
With all due respect to Forrest Gump's mama, I disagree.
Life isn't a box of chocolates. It's a piece of cake. We all start life with the same basic recipe: we need food, shelter, love, encouragement. We have people—parents, siblings, friends, teachers, children, spouses, mentors and those we mentor. Over the years we learn, grow, set and achieve goals, fall down and get up, find passions, have adventures and more. These relationships, passions, goals and experiences flavor that cake of life. Some cakes are rich and dense, others light and airy, but all are formed from everyday life.
On top of the cake, most of us have frosting. A positive attitude, sense of generosity and gratitude form the frosting. Creamy and thick or sparsely spread across the top—it's our choice.
Sometimes a dollop of whipped cream—those special experiences and opportunities you never planned for—layers another element on top of that frosting.
After all of the cake, frosting, and whipped delight, every once in a while, life adds cherries and sprinkles. Remember those awards? The gilded certificates, gold watches and statues to line up on your mantle? They're sprinkles and cherries. Nothing more than decoration on a life already packed with richness and meaning.
Be honest. If life were all cherries and sprinkles, wouldn't you miss the cake? I know I would. But if the cake is rich enough, I'm not sure I'll miss the cherries and sprinkles.
Remember: the world may-or may not—provide the sprinkles. But the cake and frosting are under your control.


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In the current world we have smart objects providing data (such as parking detectors telling which parking spots are currently available), and smart-objects/applications willing to find this data (such as an intelligent car or mobile applications looking for available parking). However, how can these components automatically discover and communicate among themselves? This is, in fact, the main problem we are addressing at the BIG IoT project.
Since 2016, the inLab Mobility Team is working in the BIG IoT European project (http://big-iot.eu/). This project is aimed at building a virtual marketplace where the smart objects might publish their data, so that applications can discover them. Moreover, the BIG IoT project is also building a library API that abstracts the differences between the different smart objects, and permits communicating with them with a unique interface. That is, smart objects publish data-offerings (a class from the library API), and smart objects willing to consume them only invokes data-offering operations (provided by the API). Thus, consuming data applications do not need to write a particular code for every particular smart object it wants to take data from (as it is happening right now), but only to invoke the BIG IoT library API offered methods.
In today's blog article, we show how we have used, in the inLab Mobility Team, the BIG IoT marketplace and library API to discover and invoke some parking detectors deployed in the Les Corts neighborhood (thanks to the Worldsensing parking detectors). In summary, the BIG IoT library and marketplace is used in the three steps shown below:
Data offering publication: this step consists in publishing the data offering to the BIG IoT marketplace. This step is performed by the smart object against the marketplace.
Data offering discovery: this step consists in querying the BIG IoT marketplace in order to find the desired data offering. This step is performed by the consuming application against the marketplace.
Data offering invocation: once the desired data-offering has been discovered, the consuming application invokes it. This step is performed by the application against the smart-object.
In the following, we review each one of these steps separately.
Data offering publication
The data offering publication step consists in making some data available through the BIG IoT marketplace. The BIG IoT marketplace only stores the endpoint (i.e., the URL where the data invocation should be done) rather than the data itself. This means that the data is always stored by the smart-object.
The publication of the data offering is paired with a semantic description of it. This semantic description is composed of a Category, which describes the data-offering at a high-level, and a semantic annotation for each input/output parameter. This semantic description is the key for the discovery of the data-offering. Indeed, the discovery step is based on matching a description of a data offering query, with the description of the published offerings.
In the following, we show a shortened version of the semantic description of the data offering (called LesCortsParkingService) regarding available parking in Les Corts (Figure 1). In particular, we see the annotation of the category of the service (ParkingSpaceCategory, which means that the service retrieves locations where there are available/unavailable parkings), and the annotation of the output parameters (the first attributes are a latitude and a longitude, which identify a geoposition for the parking, and the last one is a parkingSpaceStatus which tells if the parking space is available/unavailable). This description also tells that the data from the service is obtained from the city of Barcelona, and can be accessed through the given URL. These semantic annotations are taken from the Schema.org and its extension Schema.big-iot.org ontologies, which serves as a common vocabulary for the BIG IoT annotations.
RegistrableOfferingDescriptionChain offeringDescription = provider.createOfferingDescription() .withName("LesCortsParkingService") .withCategory(urn:big-iot:ParkingSpaceCategory) .addOutputData("lat", new RDFType("schema:latitude"), ValueType.NUMBER) .addOutputData("long", new RDFType("schema:longitude"), ValueType.NUMBER) .addOutputData("stat", new RDFType("urn:big-iot:parkingSpaceStatus"), ValueType.TEXT) .inCity("Barcelona, Spain") .withRoute(url-service) provider.register(offeringDescription);
When executing the previous code, the data-offering regarding Les Corts parking is ready for being discovered.
Data offering query
The data offering query step is aimed at discovering a data offering published in the marketplace. The way of looking for data-offering mirrors the way of publishing this data. I.e., the query itself describes the data-offerings we would like to find.
When a data-offering satisfying the query is found, we can register to it in order to be able to access its data. It is important to note that, up to here, we have not invoked, in any sense, the code from the smart object. On the contrary, we have only been communicating with the central marketplace. Thus, all the integration effort, up to this step, is to integrate the application looking for data with the central Marketplace. This one-to-one integration with the central Marketplace is what permits a component accessing the many different data-offerings published in the Marketplace without constantly changing the code for each different smart-object.
In the following, we show a shortened version of the code to discover the previous data-offering from Les Corts (Figure 2). Roughly speaking, the query matches the data-offering description given previously (i.e., same Category and same output annotations).
OfferingQuery query = OfferingQuery.create("BasicParkingPlaceQuery") .withName("Basic Parking Query") .withCategory("urn:big-iot:ParkingSpaceCategory") .inCity("Barcelona, Spain") .addOutputData(new RDFType("schema:latitude"), ValueType.NUMBER) .addOutputData(new RDFType("schema:longitude"), ValueType.NUMBER) .addOutputData(new RDFType("urn:big-iot:parkingSpaceStatus"), ValueType.TEXT); OfferingDescription offeringD = consumer.discover(query).get().get(0); Offering offering = offeringD.subscribe().get();
At this point, after running the previous code, we have discovered and we are able to invoke LesCortsParkingService.
Data offering invocation
In this last step, the application finally invokes the registered data-offering. It is worth to mention that this invocation does not go through the BIG IoT marketplace, but goes directly to the smart-object given URL.
In the following, we show the code to invoke LesCortsParkingService (Figure 3).
AccessParameters inputParams = AccessParameters.create(); offering.accessOneTime().get(inputParams);
At this point, we have invoked LesCortsParkingService and can consume its data. Moreover, if a new data offering with the very same description as LesCortsParkingService is added into the marketplace (that is, a new data offering regarding the parking in Campus Nord), we are able to automatically discover, register and invoke it reusing the same code. Thus, the integration through the BIG IoT marketplace and library permits integrating not with one, but with many smart-objects (provided that their semantic descriptions coincide).
Using the BIG IoT marketplace and library we can obtain data from different smart-objects minimizing the code effort of tightening to a particular interface for each different smart-object. Moreover, we are able to automatically discover and invoke our desired data by means of data-offering queries to the marketplace.
In fact, the inLab Mobility Team has used the BIG IoT technologies to build a dashboard (Figure 4) for the city of BCN to discover and show data coming from several smart-objects deployed in BCN (parking spot detectors, bicing available bikes, traffic status and electric car charging stations).
Want to know more? Check the webpage of the project https://inlab.fib.upc.edu/en/h2020-big-iot or the publication Enabling IoT Ecosystems through Platform Interoperability.


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Google's new Google Home assistant has been released this week, and is rival to the Amazon Echo. Both of voice activated, so is it possible for them to talk to each other? In fact, the answer is yes. They can keep talking to each other without end, assuming that you arrange things right.
Danny Sullivan discoveered this in the way all good things happen, with one of his kids tryiing to make both device lose their minds. Eventually, his youngest son played around with them enough to get them talking to each other…incessantly.
After some playing around, a final recipe was discovered that would cause the two devices to speak to each other.
If you have both devices, check this out!
On the Echo, create a shopping list that has six items. It's very important that it's six. The items can be anything, but the second item from the top should be something you think will cause Google Home to talk for a bit. Try things like "pizza" or "weather." For our test, we went with "What is Mr. Robot." You know, like the TV show.
The first item on the top — which will be the last item you add, because the most recent items get read first — should be "OK Google."
Here's how the list looked:
After this, ask Alexa on the Echo to read your shopping list. It'll say "Ok Google," which triggers Google Home to listen. THe next item tells Google Home what to search for. Google Home will ignore the oher items on the list, buecause it's busy answering what it was asked.
The magic is when Alexa gets to the fifth item. That's all she'll read unless told to do more. But as it turns out, if she hears anything at all, she'll start reading the list all over again. And if Google Home is still reading its answer, that sets Alexa off, and the loop is put into motion.
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By a graph I will understand an undirected graph without multiple edges or loops. By a morphism of graphs I will understand a map $f$ between the underlying sets of vertices, such that if $x$ and $y$ are adjacent, then $f(x)$ and $f(y)$ are either adjacent or equal.
Let $G$ be a finite graph. One can realise $G$ as a CW-complex $|G|$ and look at topological invariants, such as singular homology. But this captures only very little information about $G$, because except from $H_0(|G|)$ and $H_1(|G|)$ all homology groups are zero.
Consider the following alternative construction: Let us write $\Delta_n$ for the complete graph on $n$ vertices, and let us re-baptise this graph by the name "standard $n$-simplex". There are obvious codegeneracy and coface maps between standard simplices, so that we obtain a cosimplicial object $\Delta_\bullet$ in the category of graphs. Now, proceed as usual: Morphisms $\Delta_\bullet \to G$ form a simplicial set, applying the free group construction yields then simplicial group, and the associated chain complex is the one whose homology $H_i^{\mathrm{sing}}(G)$ I shall call "singular homology of $G$".
Obvious properties of $H_i^{\mathrm{sing}}(G)$ are: It is a finitely generated commutative group ($G$ is finite), covariantly functorial in $G$. In particular, if we work with coefficients in a field, we obtain representations of the automorphism group of $G$. The homology of the point is $\mathbb Z$ in degree $0$ and trivial in higher degrees. We can define singular cohomology accordingly, and get then a natural pairing between homology and cohomology.
The list of all natural questions one must ask after making such a definition is long, so I will not ask everything.
(a) Is there a comparison map $H_i(|G|) \to H_i^{\mathrm{sing}}(G)$, maybe even on the level of chain complexes? Is there some more elaborate CW-complex $||G||$ one can naturally associate with $G$ such that $H_i(||G||)$ gives back singular homology of $G$? In that case, one would ask for a natural map $|G| \to ||G||$.
(b) Given a graph $G$, is there a largest integer $i$ such that $H_i^{\mathrm{sing}}(G)$ is nonzero? Assuming yes, is this integer less or equal the size of the largest complete subgraph of $G$.
(c) Is there a Künneth morphism in singular cohomology? --is there a natural ring strucure on cohomology?
(d) What is a homotopy between morphisms of graphs? Given an answer to that, do homotopically equivalent morphisms induce the same maps in homology?
(z) Can you give an example of a graph with nontrivial $H_2^{\mathrm{sing}}(G)$?