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Yes, I know. This is getting boring. A local anti-fluoride campaigner misrepresents research on fluoridation – yet again.
Perhaps I should apologise for yet another article debunking this sort of misrepresentation. In my defense can I just say this is just such a clear example that it can help drive the message home. These people cherry-pick research from areas of endemic fluorosis in China and India – pretend they are relevant to New Zealand or the USA – and ignore those studies which are relevant to countries which carry out community water fluoridation.
Stan Litras is (yet again) the guilty party. He has disseminated a press release, FIND cites new research, which will, of course, be reproduced by the Fluoride action network and make its way into the "natural"/alternative health media. That will, in turn, be cited by other anti-fluoride campaigners as "proof" that community water fluoridation is harmful!
Stan claims that:
"New research has confirmed that increased fluoride in water results in reduced intelligence. The research, published in the journal,of environmental monitoring and assessment, found that the higher the fluoride content in water, the lower the IQ of children, . . "
The paper Stan Litras relies on reports data from an area of endemic fluorosis in India. An area quite unlike New Zealand. Here is the citation for the paper (it's a full-text version if you wish to check it out for yourself):
Das, K., & Mondal, N. K. (2016). Dental fluorosis and urinary fluoride concentration as a reflection of fluoride exposure and its impact on IQ level and BMI of children of Laxmisagar, Simlapal Block of Bankura District, W.B., India. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 188(4), 218.
Whatever its findings we can see how inapplicable that research is to New Zealand by comparing its data for dental fluorosis with similar data for New Zealand, USA and China. In this graphic below I compare prevalences of the mild forms ("none,", "questionable," very mild," and "mild") with the prevalences of "moderate" and "severe" forms. Only the latter forms are of concern (the milder forms are usually considered positively by adolescents and parents – see Water fluoridation and dental fluorosis – debunking some myths).
(Note: for a discussion of how severe dental fluorosis may influence IQ see Severe dental fluorosis and cognitive deficits.)
The figure contrasts data for prevalence of dental fluorosis in NZ and theUSA where CWF is common with data for an area of endemic fluorosis in China and data from this paper (Das).
While there is hardly any dental fluorosis of concern in USA and New Zealand these forms are very prevalent in the region of India covered by this study and a similar region of endemic fluorosis in China.
Or perhaps we should look at some more graphic evidence. Das et al., (2016) include the photo at the head of this article as an example of skeletal fluorosis found in the subjects they studied. And the photo below as an example of dental fluorosis found in their subjects.
Come on Stan – how often have you seen dental and skeletal fluorosis like this in New Zealand?
It is just not honest to cite this study in any discussion of the New Zealand situation. It has absolutely no relevance here.
To make this worse, Stan completely ignored New Zealand studies on these issues. For example the paper:
Broadbent, J. M., Thomson, W. M., Ramrakha, S., Moffitt, T. E., Zeng, J., Foster Page, L. A., & Poulton, R. (2014). Community Water Fluoridation and Intelligence: Prospective Study in New Zealand. American Journal of Public Health, 105(1), 72–76.
These researchers found no influence of community water fluoridation on IQ – see figure below.
So yes – just one more example of how local anti-fluoride campaigners are misrepresenting research on fluoridation. But a clear example of cherry-picking overseas studies irrelevant to community water fluoridation in New Zealand while, at the same time, ignoring New Zealand studies relevant to community water fluoridation.


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March 26, 2017 (Above) Notre Dame Monogram Club president Dick Nussbaum presents Jeff Jeffers with an honorary monogram.
By John Heisler
The University of Notre Dame has played a dozen football home games over the last two seasons combined, and those Saturdays might have been the most painful 12 days Jeff Jeffers ever had to endure.
The pain had nothing to do with the health issues that during that time prevented the former WNDU-TV sports director and anchor from covering the Irish.
It came simply from the idea that Notre Dame was playing a football game just a few miles north of where Jeffers and his wife Leslie and their family lived on the southern edge of South Bend–and Jeff couldn't be there to watch.
Not that he didn't follow all of Notre Dame's sports teams, coaches and players–but he particularly loved football. Between Jeffers' long-time role as host of the half-hour weekly Irish coach's show and the fact that WNDU for so long was owned by the University, with offices and studios on the west edge of campus–it wasn't hard to understand how Jeff and Notre Dame football became joined at the hip.
Don't misunderstand–Jeffers was a pro when it came to his craft. He earned a master's degree in communications from Notre Dame in his early years in South Bend. Yet there was a passion that infused everything he did–in great part because he came to know all those individuals he covered so well.
Jeffers, who died this morning at age 64, did not just cover Notre Dame at arm's length over the last four decades. He invested himself in the emotional cauldron of Notre Dame football on a day-to-day basis. When the Irish had a good day, it was a good day for Jeff. When things didn't go so well on the field, it almost seemed to pain Jeff as much as it did Dan Devine, Gerry Faust, Lou Holtz or anyone else on the long list of Notre Dame athletics personnel with whom he rubbed elbows.
Those who worked with Jeffers, whose passing was noted by ESPN announcers during the Notre Dame-Stanford NCAA Elite Eight women's basketball game Sunday, witnessed that devotion every day:
"Small market sports anchors are some of the true gems in that industry, and there may never have been a better one than Jeff," said Jim Daves, former assistant sports information director at Notre Dame and now assistant athletics director for media relations at the University of Virginia.
"He had it all. A keen sense of humor, well liked in the community, hard worker and great passion for his craft. Most importantly, he kept it all in perspective. He knew he was covering sports. Big business, indeed, but also entertainment.
"In my 30-plus years in this profession, I don't know if I have ever dealt with a group the likes of Jeff, Jack Nolan (now with Fighting Irish Media) and Chuck Freeby (now with WHME-TV). They were (are) the absolute best. A combination of the Three Stooges and the Three Tenors. And Jeff was the ringleader.
"I always felt like Jeff was sort of the local Walter Cronkite. You wanted to watch every night to see what he had to say and how he said it. It felt like a member of your own family was reporting the sports.
"The best thing about Jeff was that he cared. Sure, he wanted to get it first, but he also wanted to get it right. He cared about his profession. And he cared about the teams, coaches and athletes he covered because he knew they were more than just subjects to fill air time. They were people first.
"He had a big personality, but he had a bigger heart."
Added former Notre Dame sports information intern Scott Dupree, now executive director of the Greater Raleigh (North Carolina) Sports Alliance:
"He was one of the funniest, friendliest people I have ever known, with one of the most unique personalities. He commanded the room when he entered. You could hear him coming from a mile away.
"When I was working in the SID office and would hear Jeffers' booming voice down the hall, I knew it was only a matter of minutes before he would be in my office, trading barbs and jokes with the new kid from North Carolina–who he had only met a few weeks prior. But that was Jeff.
"He was naturally friendly and he loved to talk … to anyone and everyone. My two favorite things about Jeff … he had a good heart and he never took himself too seriously. He loved to laugh, he loved his job and he loved Notre Dame."
In his spare time Jeffers perfected imitations of former Irish basketball coach Digger Phelps and Faust, among others. He loved any sort of conversation that involved Notre Dame sports, and he reveled in the fact that he lived most of his professional life right in the middle of it all.
Mike Collins (public-address announcer at Notre Dame Stadium) worked side by side with Jeffers as the longtime news anchor at WNDU. They spent literally hundreds of nights on the set together.
"When Jeff's sister called early this morning with the news there was the inevitable sadness," said Collins. "Then, within minutes, it all turned around. First, I started to smile, then chuckle and finally a hearty laugh. How can that be? Because during those years when he was sports director and I was news director at WNDU we sure had a great time. The days and nights could be long, but Jeff had a talent only those on the inside could appreciate.
"You might know him as the dean of local sportscasters, we knew him as the prankster-in-chief. It might have been an otherwise miserable day, but Jeff had a real talent to brighten things up. His main foil for years was legendary WNDU meteorologist Dick Addis who would fall for Jeff's `tricks' over and over again. We would just sit back in the newsroom and watch it unfold. There hadn't been a duo like this since Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and Jeff was our Jerry Lewis.
"But there was another side to Jeff, the journalist who was going to get the job done no matter what.
"Case in point, the 1978 Final Four in St. Louis. For Notre Dame that was a big deal and along with a photographer, Jeff and I set out in our first WNDU live truck. Around Joliet we ran into a horrendous ice storm, but Jeff would have no part of getting off the road and waiting it out, so he took over as driver.
"It was harrowing and it took us 16 hours to get to St. Louis. We were gassed and needed rest, but Jeff said `no way' and off we went, no sleep, no shower, no shave. Jeff pulled it off and did his reports as if it were just another day at the office. Now that is a real pro.
"Our bosses at the station liked to call it the WNDU family. It was–and now the family is smaller because I have lost my kid brother."
Nolan shared the sports assignments with Jeffers for many years at WNDU.
"I arrived at Notre Dame in September 1982 as a 22-year-old sportscaster fresh off a nine-month stint at CNN," said Nolan. "I was outwardly confident but inwardly more than a little in awe of being at Notre Dame. Jeff immediately went out of his way to make me feel welcome, first inviting me to stay with him and Bill Thistlethwaite at what they affectionately called `The Little House on the Prairie' on Douglas Road until I found a place to live.
"Then on my first official day of work, Jeff personally took me to meet Gerry Faust, Digger Phelps, Lefty Smith, Joe Piane and many other Notre Dame coaches. He made it clear to me that I was already a part of the WNDU and Notre Dame families and wanted all the coaches to feel the same way. To this day I remain grateful to Jeff for that wonderful welcome, one that allowed me to have some success in my new job right from the start.
"I have never met anyone who had more love for Notre Dame, and more passion for Notre Dame sports, especially football, than Jeff Jeffers. "
Notre Dame graduate Jim Corgel was a close buddy of Jeffers dating back to the late 1970s.
"We were friends since his first summer in South Bend, which was my first summer working at IBM," said Corgel. "Jeff had a great way of quietly keeping his personal friends `inside' his professional life. From meeting him early on football Saturdays outside at Stadium stand-ups–or catching your eye before and after sideline reports. I always felt invited into the Notre Dame sports reporting world, because of Jeff.
"My favorite story was meeting Jeff one Sunday afternoon at a White Sox game when the Yankees were in town. We visited our good friend Mike Reilly, who was one of the umpires, postgame, deep inside Comiskey Park.
"And then it happened. Yogi Berra got fired. Right then, right there. Billy Martin would meet the team on Monday. It happened 30 yards away from us in the visitors' clubhouse. Talk about `Breaking News.'
"So we raced to the Yankee clubhouse, with Jeff throwing WNDU credentials around my neck, saying, `Act like you know what you're doing'. . . and `we' were among the first of the media to be there. While Jeff chased (Ron) Guidry and (Dave) Winfield and (Don) Mattingly, I bored Billy Sample and Don Baylor.
"It was a wild scene, to say the least. But Jeff got another scoop."
Added Mike Enright, former Notre Dame assistant sports information direction and current Connecticut senior associate athletics director for communications:
"On the surface, Jeff took the results of Notre Dame games, especially football, as life and death. In reality, I think what he enjoyed most was his relationship with all the various members of the Notre Dame community. . . coaches and athletes from all sports, administrators . . . the big and the little people.
"He really cared about people and loved to laugh and tell a great story. Jeff always asked about my family in Connecticut or called me after a big Red Sox win.
"Jeff was a unique character and his career bridged eras in journalism, but it seems to me that his personal relationships were the most important thing. We are losing far too many people of that ilk, it seems."
Tim Bourret, now assistant athletics director and football communications director at Clemson, worked with Jeffers in the 1970s as both an undergraduate and then a graduate assistant in sports information at Notre Dame.
"I was amazed at his knowledge of Notre Dame sports and history when he first got here," said Bourret. "We challenged each other all the time on sports trivia and had great respect for each other's knowledge.
"The thing I remember most about Jeff was that he was willing to do anything to help promote the best of Notre Dame in its student-athletes. When we gave him a story idea, he went the extra mile to get it done. He was a journalist, but he also looked for the good side of everything he reported.
"Jeff was close to all of us in the SID office because, quite frankly, he wasn't much older than us when he started. With just six students in the office at the time, we spent a lot of time with him at Notre Dame sporting events.
"Chip Scanlon, one of our other students, was a practical joker. He was interning at WNDU and worked with Jeff and we all lived together at the time. We played golf one Saturday at the Burke and Chip decided he was going to call Jeff after our round and tell him that I had made a hole in one on one of the par threes. I came close, but it did not go in.
"Well, we were watching Channel 16 sports that night and, believe it or not, Jeff mentioned it in his sports rundown. Must have been a real slow day. I still have the audio tape of it. That was Jeff just being a nice guy."
Added another former Notre Dame sports information intern, Doug Tammaro, a long-time member of the Arizona State media relations staff:
"Jeff was the most patient person when I helped with football interviews back in 1992. He always asked how I was doing, and he treated me like I was a 20-year pro when, in fact, it was my second year in a full-time position."
Eddie White, currently the NBA Indiana Pacers' post-game show host and a former assistant sports information director at Notre Dame (1982-86), was a kid when he first encountered Jeffers.
"I first met Jeff when he walked into my office at Notre Dame my first week on the job to introduce himself," said White. "He immediately wanted to reinforce to me how important Notre Dame is, what it stands for, what it means to him and what it means to the world.
"He then did something I will never, ever forget. He must have borrowed keys from Roger (Valdiserri) or John (Heisler) because he walked me across the street to the football stadium. Up the stairs, into the press box, to the roof of the box. Please note I had not been in the press box yet–I had only been in South Bend a few days.
"He took me out on the roof and said, `See that?' He was looking at this majestic, beautiful view of Our Lady on the dome and to the right was the Hesburgh Library with Touchdown Jesus seemingly welcoming `me' to this wonderful place. Yes, it was a glorious landscape, even though the campus was empty at this time of year. It was Notre Dame.
"`See that?'" said the voice of Notre Dame, the face of WNDU sports. "'That's what it's all about.'"
"He got emotional.
"I got emotional.
"It hit me. Yes, I was at Notre Dame. And it was special.
"And, as anyone who ever met him knows, Jeff Jeffers was special. And Notre Dame was special to Jeff. My, how he loved the school of Our Lady!
"`See that?'" Indeed. We did, Jeff. We did."
Senior associate athletics director John Heisler has been covering the Notre Dame athletics scene since 1978. Watch for his weekly Sunday Brunch offerings on UND.com.


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I took down all the Mardi Gras decorations and put up everything for Valentine's Day!
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…and everything else, including the felt cupcakes with sprinkles. The boxes at each end are the ones that Av and I use to put each other's Valentines in (we use the little ones like from Elementary school). This year, I am going to make a box for Shug's valentines!


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Anyone else get the feeling Conservatives are being a little over-protective about their election signs?
Sure, signs go missing or get vandalized every election. But it's illegal and the costs (usually a couple of dollars per sign) come straight out of the pockets of candidates. So don't damage signs, please.
That said, it seems the Conservatives are maybe getting a little bit carried away...
1. Stephen Harper is watching you
Between Bill C-51 and mass digital surveillance, you'd think Stephen Harper would go out of his way to avoid reminding us that he's silently watching all of us.
So of course campaign staff from the Conservative leader's Calgary-Heritage headquarters were spotted slapping black and white "24 hour surveillance" stickers on Harper's election signs in an attempt to scare away vandals and thieves.
More likely it will scare away voters worried about their rights and freedoms instead.
2. Hiding in the bushes
But that's not as weird as Yukon Conservative candidate Ryan Leef dabbling in vigilante justice.
Leef, who is a former Mixed Martial Arts fighter, and his campaign manager hid in the bushes late at night in full camouflage in an attempt to catch a would-be sign vandal.
When a woman who describes herself as "a 110-pound woman" was spotted vandalizing one a sign, she was "forced to the ground" after Leef emerged from the bushes. She says she was left kneeling "handcuffed in the pouring rain with the local Conservative Party member as my arresting officer."
Leef's campaign later began distributing camouflaged hats with the Conservative logo so you can "show your support." And maybe hide in a bush with Leef too:
#cammo hats are in Drop by campaign office get a hat & show your support. #ytpoli #cpc #elxn42 #cdnpoli #teamleef pic.twitter.com/VXOHlhp98p
— Ryan Leef (@ryanleefmp) September 25, 2015
The RCMP encourages citizens to "leave intervention to the police."
Unfortunately Leef's tough talk only seems to be making matters worse.
3. Shhh! Be verry, verrrry quiet...
Meanwhile in Owen Sound, someone's been monkeying around with signs belonging to Conservative candidate Larry "stay the hell where you came from" Miller.
Who did it? Was it the Communists? Here's what Miller told a local radio station:
"Every [sign was] on private property. We put very few signs on roadsides, because the Communist Party can put signs on the roadside … Whoever did it obviously isn't a Larry Miller supporter ... But it's just a couple of young punks probably that had too much to drink."
If true, that could lend credibility (it won't) to a completely phoney document Miller circulated a few weeks ago warning that "the breakdown of the old moral virtues, honesty and sobriety," could be a sign of a Communist uprising.
So how does Miller plan to put an end to his disappearing signs?
Hopefully the situation de-escalates before it comes to that.
4. Robo-signs?
And police in Saanich, British Columbia expressed concern over Conservative candidate Shari Lukens' use of unmanned aerial vehicles to fly her signs along the sides of highways during rush hour.
Although it could be a creative way of keeping election signs out of the reach of teenagers, police and some drivers were concerned that using drones to carry political advertising could pose a risk to public safety.
"To put it bluntly, flying the drone over a roadway where people are travelling at a high speed is not responsible," said Saanich police spokesman Sgt. Steve Eassie.
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MARYVILLE, February 3, 2018 – United States Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement after President Trump announced his intent to nominate John Ryder of Tennessee to serve on the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors:
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For most of us, our parents lives were less than perfect. Like all children, at some point during those formative years, the opposite sex became attractive giving rise to sexual feelings without necessarily having any intellectual appreciation of what was happening.
The transition from childhood through adolescence can be a biochemical nightmare for a great many children. They have hormones flowing through their bodies and sometimes uncontrollable urges are so strong that they have to quickly find a private space to relieve themselves through masturbation or some other activity that relieves the pressure of that energy building up inside of them.
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It's tough to improve on that headline, isn't it?
Convicted felon Jarrell Blackmon pulled a fake gun in his attempt to rob a Pensacola, Florida convenience store. It was real enough that the clerk thought it was a credible threat, and fired a shot through Blackmon's neck.
The morning didn't go too well for a man who decided to use a fake gun to rob a store and was shot in the neck by a store clerk before he fled the business.
The incident occurred around 2:25 a.m. at the Beacon Store, 1101 W. Cervantes Street. A store clerk told police he shot the suspect during the robbery. The clerk – Abed Alslaq, 20, of Pensacola – said the suspect entered the store wearing camouflage, a hat and a bandana over his face. The clerk said he told the suspect to remove the bandana but he refused. During the robbery, the suspect went behind the counter, pulled out a pistol and pointed it at the clerk, who believed it was real.
The armed robber managed to get some cash and 10 cartons of cigarettes before he fled the business. The suspect – Jarell Blackmon, 24, of the 7900 block of Beaber Road, Pensacola – was later seen in the area of E and Gadsden streets by Officer Matthew Mercado. Blackmon, who was bleeding from his neck, fled from Mercado despite being ordered to stop.
Officers set up a perimeter and Officer Patrick Kelly and his K-9 did a track. Blackmon was found hiding in the 600 block of North E Street. He was taken to a hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound that entered and exited his neck.
Blackmon faces a number of felony charges in relation to the crime, and was stupid enough to tell the police that the gun he used in the crime "wasn't real," which is both utterly irrelevant from a legal perspective and a confession to armed robbery.
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Israeli occupation troops have shot dead a 15-year-old Palestinian bystander in the West Bank town of Jenin while a four-year-old was seriously wounded in shooting at the Rafah refugee camp near Gaza.
The forces, backed by Israeli tanks and bulldozers, entered the Palestinian town of Jenin around midday on Wednesday and surrounded the home of an Islamic Jihad member, witnesses said.
Aljazeera correspondent in Jenin reported that Israel had besieged the eastern part of the town with more than 30 military vehicles and four bulldozers.
Seven Palestinians were injured during the incursion, some while throwing stones.
Yusuf Haseef, a 15-year-old bystander, was shot in the head by Israeli forces and taken to hospital in the nearby city of Nablus where he died, paramedics said.
Israeli troops launched the operation to detain a member of Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades.
An Israeli military source said they were fired at from surrounding houses after troops encircled the building where Hamza was hiding.
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"The force entered Jenin and surrounded the structure where he was hiding. They asked him to come and he did come out, but the troops came under fire from surrounding buildings while an explosive device was detonated."
"Two soldiers were lightly wounded," she said.
Israeli bulldozers and equipment were brought to the eastern neighbourhood to demolish the home, witnesses told Aljazeera.
An Islamic Jihad spokesman later said one of the group's members was arrested by Israeli forces.
Aljazeera's correspondent added that Israeli troops seized several Palestinian homes and detained residents.
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Meanwhile in Gaza, Aljazeera's correspondent reported that thousands of Palestinians had been restricted from entering Gaza at the Abu Holi military checkpoint, which separates southern Gaza from the central and northern parts of the city.
Residents were prevented from returning to their homes after Israeli forces closed the checkpoint indefinitely.
Israel later partially reopened the military checkpoint.
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Israel closed a Gaza checkpoint
In an another attack on Wednesday, a four-year-old Palestinian girl was seriously wounded by Israeli forces in the Rafah refugee camp in the south of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources said.
The girl, in a critical condition with serious head wounds was taken to Rafah hospital.
The sources said she was hit in shooting from a nearby Israeli military post while at home.
The Israeli army has, however, categorically denied any firing by its forces in the Rafah area.


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HYDER, Arizona (CNN) -- At least one person was killed and dozens injured when an Amtrak passenger train derailed in the southwest Arizona desert early Monday. Authorities said tampering may be involved. "We do suspect there is tampering but that is under investigation," George Anderson of the Arizona Department of Public Safety told CNN (187K AIFF sound or 187K WAV sound). "The engineer reported he saw something and it is being investigated as a criminal incident by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department." Anderson said he did not know what the engineer saw, or whether it was on the tracks or on the train.
Early reports said at least 100 people were injured. Seven were said to be in critical condition, but most of the injuries were thought to be minor. The train was headed from Miami, Florida, to Los Angeles carrying 248 passengers and a crew of 12.
The derailment occurred about 1:30 a.m. EDT in a remote desert area 60 to 80 miles southwest of Phoenix. "This is rough terrain, and it's almost impossible to get equipment in there on the ground," Anderson said. Rescue equipment is being flown in. At least 12 medivac helicopters were being sent to the scene, some from as far away as Payson, Arizona, about 80 miles northeast of Phoenix. The Phoenix Fire Department dispatched its search and rescue team. Officials at Davis Montham Air Force Base reportedly have offered the services of a large medical transport capable of carrying up to 40 people.
The derailed passenger train had 12 cars and two engines, all of which left the tracks, according to Rob Borela, an Amtrak spokesman in Washington. He said two sleeper cars and a dining car are believed to have tumbled off a 30-foot trestle into a ravine. Rescue personnel at the scene requested ropes and ladders.
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Here's my first contribution to the latest national conversation about race: I truly believe one mark of progress is that African-Americans in cities like Chicago now have ample opportunity to ascend to the highest levels of government and rip us off, just like white guys have for . . . ever.
In fact, today's news shows that women have also broken through the, um, the . . . corruption ceiling?
And that just expands the pool of targets for people like me. God bless progress!
Sure, some of us idealists hoped that the oppressed wouldn't behave like their oppressors, but translate their experiences into higher planes of public service. But then, it's probably not fair to set a higher standard of behavior for those who have been left out for so long and just want to get a piece of the action for themselves, like the jowly honkies who laid down the template and continue to benefit most from public corruption.
Still, the news today is disheartening.
First we have Donna Dunnings, cousin of Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, defending her $17,048 raise in the wake of a bitter budget battle that resulted in a controversial increase in the county sales tax.
"Dunnings said her critics could have submitted an amendment to Stroger's budget proposal to block the pay raise 'If they were so concerned about the salary of the first African-American female CFO,' the Tribune reports. (That's Chief Financial Officer, not Current Family Obligation.)
I'm not sure either how this budget line eluded Stroger's board opponents, but maybe they were preoccupied with, you know, the budget.
Or maybe they finally discovered that that the county's chief financial officer is a black woman and they don't like it one bit.
But who is Dunnings really hurting more, liberal white reformers or the poor people who are disproportionately black because of this country's shameful history who depend on the county for services?
Or her colleagues forgoing raises - or losing their jobs?
Today's second exhibit is a bigger fish than Dunnings, and she'll have to face the people come election time.
In his "Clerk Perk?" report last night, Fox Chicago's Dane Placko reported that Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown put a former police officer on her payroll as a "systems analyst" who instead appears to be her chauffeur. I say "appears to be" because Brown claims the man is part of her security force.
"That's just a budget title," she says of the "systems analyst" designation.
That sounds like fraud to me, but I'll leave that up to others to decide.
It turns out, though, according to Placko, that Brown's driver is "one of 10 investigators with clerical titles but carrying guns."
Stay away from those accordion files or I'll shoot!
Now, Brown says that she's received death threats because her name is on county documents, and that's no laughing matter. But Sheriff Tom Dart told Placko that he's not aware of either a security request from Brown or any threats against her.
Dart told Placko that, by and large, he drives himself to and from work.
(I got distracted at this point in the broadcast, but I'm pretty sure Placko said that judges don't get security details. And they aren't just like law enforcement people; they do the actual sentencing.)
Brown's driver $63,000 a year, but Brown assured Placko that he has a tough, five-pronged job. "He has to secure me," she said. He has to drive the vehicle, a Ford Expedition XLT, "which is not an easy job." I never got the other three, though I think she said something about investigations at the office.
Brown argued that she's really doing the taxpayers a favor; she couldn't be as efficient if she had to drive herself.
When Placko pointed out that other county employees drive themselves, Brown said in her best Leona Helmsley: "Am I just an employee of the county?"
Brown also complained that "I make only $105,000 a year."
And then the kicker: "I feel harassed, and I feel discriminated against."
You are being discriminated against, Dorothy. But it has nothing do with being an African-American woman. You're a Cook County politician, and that means you don't get the benefit of the doubt.
Beachwood Update
This will offer greater exposure for the Beachwood through cross-promotion, and bring a small bit of needed revenue into the company. At the same time, I'll get to work with some of the Internet and politics folks over there, which hopefully will produce exciting results.
Please visit, but please be gentle. It's still in the early-going and many improvements are coming. In short order, the blog will find a voice and character of its own.
I'll keep everyone posted on other developments as warranted.
I suppose this means an ethical disclosure is in order: I am under no obligation, nor would I agree to one, to praise Channel 5 or criticize its competitors. I rarely comment about TV in this space, and as you can see today, I gave major props to Fox Chicago's Placko, as I have in the past. Regular readers know that I am a big Carol Marin fan, and she is affiliated with NBC5, though I almost always reference her here in relation to her work at Chicago Tonight and the Sun-Times. But I'm more than happy to field questions or concerns about this.
Cab 101
Flake State
Geez, kind of anti-climactic.
I love this, though: "The winner of the auction, which lasted more than a week, is the owner of a trivia website who wants to add the corn flake to a travelling museum."
The Beachwood Tip Line: Divisive.
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The idea of the SIG was launched by Julian Hunt, after the successful PEPIT/ERCOFTAC workshop held in Ecole Centrale de Lyon, May 9-12, 2000, "Two-point closures and their applications" (see Godeferd, Cambon & Scott, J. Fluid Mech., 436, 2001, 393-407).
"Two-point closures" (or TPC), however, is perhaps too restricted a topic, and the range of activities of this SIG will in fact cover various multi-scale, anisotropic and multi-modal aspects, possibly in connection with strong body forces and mean gradients. Inhomogeneity, especially induced by solid walls, will be addressed too.
In addition to classic TPC used in statistical theory, linear theory ("Rapid Distortion Theory" or RDT, stability analysis), weakly nonlinear theory (e.g. wave-turbulence), low-dimension dynamical models (e.g. using pod), shell-models, Lagrangian models for dispersion (e.g. using Kinematic Simulation, or KS, RDT, nonlinear TPC), have to be considered from a pragmatic view-point, in order, for instance, to suggest guidelines to improve simpler models (single-point closures in RANS, subgrid scale models for LES).
Use of symmetry groups (Lie group, SO(3) ), in agreement with both dynamical equations and boundary layers, is very promising. The SO(3) symmetry group and spherical harmonic expansions, which begin to be used in the "intermittency and scaling" community, have to be revisited in connection with fully anisotropic spectral description used for two decades in the team "Ondes et Turbulence", LMFA. The above list of tools is not exhaustive.
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i'm trying to implement a simple p2p server.
the server should listen on a port for incoming connection and when there is it launches a new thread which will accept the connection and open a TCP port with this client.
before anything the client should send his username and version of prog he is using.
1- how can i implement threading that will allow to many users to connect to this server at the same time. (how will i differentiate between them if they use the same socket).
2- if the user send his username ... i store this in a string on the server and check for it, then he sends his password how will i check, will i override the prev string ( how will i know that the name ended and the password started)
Please helppp !!!!!!
Check this tutorial:
Writing the Server Side of a Socket (The Java Tutorials > Custom Networking > All About Sockets)
All you want is described in this tutorial in a step by step manner.
1. For handling multiple clients, check "Supporting Multiple Clients" section.
2. For username/passowrd, you will need t oimplement your own protocol just like they implemented The Knock Knock Protocol. In the first stage, you should accept the username. For example, you can have a predefined string for each command (e.g. PASS for password and USER for username) and your client can send that that string before user/pass. But note that all depend on your decisions: If you define to send password first before the username, that is a solution too!
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Soft-Constrained Iterative Methods for Blind Source Separation
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Blind source separation is a statistical inverse problem aiming to recover source signals and mixing filters (discrete Green's functions) without detailed knowledge of the environment. Cocktail party problem is an example of how humans perform this task by paying attention. Yet much remains to be discovered of the computation inside human brain for this task. For sound mixtures, source signals viewed as time series are much more independent of each other than their mixtures. The separation is formulated mathematically as minimization of generalized cross correlations. Iterative methods are derived from statistical principles, however, the resulting dynamics are nonlinear and solutions may blow up. A class of discrete integral differential equations are introduced to impose soft constraints, and control the scaling behavior of iterations. The solutions then exist globally and converge in some weak sense to the desired separation conditions. Performance on synthetic mixtures and room recording of sounds will be demonstrated.


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Book excerpt: Paper Asylum by Rochelle Potkar
Every time he read a book, burnt plastic, swatted an insect, or shot a bird for lunch, Jade was stamped right back.
He was hiking through the forest and stung by bees, he ran a cross-country race and was scarred by bush fire, he camped on a summit and was struck by lightning.
After discarding his mobile phones, TVs, computer, electronic appliances, when he camped in the woods of Thailand, he lost his way and had to eat camouflage plant that grew rashes all over his body. (Maybe he ate up its defences too.)
In the next wandering, he twirled in the Sri Lankan tsunami for eternity.
Even when he was done with nature, her fur and fury, her lengths, depths, girth, and breadth, he could count the marks she had given him: his flat, misshapen head, since his fall from the bed of his birth during an earthquake, his amputated toes from frostbite, the red-veined tattoo from a bolt on his arm that looked like an embedded tree about to rev up.
striped feline—
of our past lives
But nature's fury was decreasing now. She was back-slapping him. The more he ate off a banana leaf, the more he recycled water, cycle-rode . . . she left him with trails of pollen-laden sneezes and minor infections.
Life after death is not about soul-recycling, incarnations. Before the soul pulls away to ether through the ten dimensions, the realms of knowledge to the feet of light, it leaves behind its old coat, jacket, garment in dirt, mud, grit. Glove slips from finger, ring from toe, tongue from cheek, energy from promises, love from hope, hope from memory.
In this dark abyss, cells emit CO2 in a stream like steam from a train, smoke from a chimney. It turns into glue what was once your beauty. Bacteria, fungi, microbes melt your nationality, colour of skin. Sulphur, freon, benzine, carbon tetrachloride evaporate your caste, creed, religion. Maggots, beetles eat your Easter flesh, identity. Bones divide protein into dust and your once-ago body breeds trees.
Then the soul sings in a mynah bird, a parakeet, a guava fruit seed, a Newton's apple.
fading moon . . .
the head count ritual
of stolen children
About the book:
Paper Asylum is a book of 43 prose poems – mostly in the Japanese short poetry form: the haibun, published in May 2016 by Copper Coin Publishing.
The book is available on Amazon India.
About the author:
Rochelle Potkar is the alumna of Iowa's International Writing Program, and Charles Wallace Writer's fellowship, Stirling. She was the winner of the 2016 Open Road Review story contest for The leaves of the deodar. Her story Chit Mahal (The Enclave) appears in The Best of Asian Short Stories, Kitaab International. Her poem, The girl from Lal Bazaar was shortlisted for the Gregory O' Donoghue International Poetry Prize, 2018. Her poem Place won an honorable mention at Asian Cha's Auditory Cortex. Her poem Skirt has been adapted into a poetry film by Philippa Collie Cousins (UK) for the Visible Poetry Project 2018, USA. (https://rochellepotkar.com)


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Hluleka Nature Reserve is only 772 hectares, yet it has a diversity of habitats that includes picturesque coastal sections of secluded rocky bays interspersed with sandy beaches.
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It's Meals on Wheels in Québec!
Camille Ross speaks to the President of Meals on Wheels in Quebec Marjorie Northrup, about the Meals on Wheels week, their challenges and how we can help. Watch the video.
Video : Jean Leclair, volunteer at the VBM
The Volunteer Food Services Central Office is a program of the Volunteer Bureau of Montreal.
Central Office staff are responsible for the development and promotion of its associated network of Meals on Wheels groups and Lunch Clubs. This includes offering support services to existing groups and helping set up new ones as well as promoting and representing the movement.
The Central Office also provides liaison between volunteers and institutions such as CLSCs and hospitals. It receives the names of new clients, refers them to the appropriate group and maintains records of groups and clients as well as waiting lists. The Central Office's liaison person also acts as an intermediary between community workers, volunteers and clients on matters such as clients' needs and state of health, cancellations, complaints, etc.
The Central Office receives funding from the Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal for the role it plays in maintaining home care services for seniors.
A variety of services
The traditional Meals on Wheels group:
Volunteers handle all aspects of the service, offering home delivery of hot meals twice a week. In certain districts, less mobile clients can receive Meals on Wheels up to six days a week.
Lunch Clubs:
From 20 to 100 people have lunch together and participate in social activities. Transportation is offered by some groups.
Working with local restaurants or supermarkets, some groups organize weekly outings for their clients.
Intergenerational projects:
Some services use mostly young volunteers in order to stimulate interaction between young people and seniors.
Frozen meals:
Some groups offer frozen meals as a supplement to hot meal delivery.
Cultural communities:
A number of Meals on Wheels and Lunch Club services are based in various Montreal cultural communities.
Other services:
The Central Office is always ready to work with other partners in the community to develop new service models. For more information, call the Volunteer Food Services Central Office at the Volunteer Bureau of Montreal, 514.842.3351 and ask for mnorthrup [at] cabm [dot] net (Marjorie Northrup), Coordinator of Volunteer Food Services.
Do you have a few hours to give?
There are many ways to volunteer with Meals on Wheels : group leaders, cooks, kitchen helpers, drivers, delivery people and administrative and clerical help are always needed. The volunteer decides how much time she or he will give: some people like a once-a-week activity, others prefer a less frequent commitment.
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Create the ability to deploy updates superseded by Quality Updates even after the supersedence rule has expired them
We do not apply quality updates in our environment. We only deploy security only updates. There are updates that are superseded by quality updates only. They are also superseded for longer than our site configurations supersedence rules and therefore we have no way to deploy these to our environment except building a package for them.
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研究:说"谢谢"有助于增进人际关系作者: | 发布时间: 2010-05-06 | 阅读39179次
Simply saying "thank you" may benefit both the recipient and the person who express gratitude, according to the results of studies conducted by researchers at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
Simply saying "thank you" may benefit both the recipient and the person who express gratitude, according to the results of studies conducted by researchers at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
The studies, published in the latest issue of Psychological Science, found that saying "thank you" strengthens relationships by causing the person expressing thanks to feel more responsible for the recipient& #39;s welfare.
To understand how expressing gratitude helps strengthen relationships, the researchers conducted three different studies.
In one study, 137 college students completed a survey regarding how often they expressed gratitude to a friend or partner. Results showed that gratitude was positively linked with the person& #39;s perception of the "communal" strength.
In another study involving 218 college students, expressing gratitude found the expresser& #39;s perception of the relationship& #39;s strength over time was boosted.
In the third study, 75 men and women were randomly assigned to one of four groups. Over a three-week period, one group expressed gratitude to a friend; another thought grateful thoughts about a friend, while a third thought about daily activities and a fourth had positive interactions with a friend.
Those who expressed gratitude reported stronger relationships at the end of study than those in the other groups.
Gratitude, when expressed, boosted communal strength, according to the study& #39;s lead author, Nathaniel Lambert, a research associate at the University.
He said the findings make sense because "when you express gratitude to someone, you are focusing on the good things that person has done for you," he said. "It makes you see them in a more positive light and helps you to focus on their good traits."
Lambert said his research team tested the idea that: "The person doing the thanking comes to perceive the relationship as more communal, to see the person as more worthwhile to make a sacrifice for, to go the extra mile to help out".
Although the studies only looked at the people expressing gratitude, Lambert speculated that, "those who are being thanked will often feel an urge to reciprocate. They will want to express their gratitude back. It can become kind of an upward spiral."
(Read by Nelly Min. Nelly Min is a multimedia journalist at the China Daily Web site.)
研究:说"谢谢"有助于增进人际关系: http://insuns.com/article/19710-1.html
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Read all 2 events for 23 October at diary.QueenSongs.info
Composer: Freddie Mercury
Meter: 4/4 (occasional 2/4and 6/8 measures)
Keys: C-major, F-major
Intro | Verse | Chorus | Break 1 | | Verse | Chorus | Break 1'| Bridge | | Break 2 (Verse)| Solo (Chorus) | Chorus' | Chorus" |
"Play The Game" is a piano ballad, Freddie's stylistic homeland, "Jealousy" and the bridge of "Flash" are close neighbors. The song form can be derived from the one-bridge model. The phrasing is predominantly non-four squared.
The first note is G (dominant) followed by several descending synth glissandos and reverse cymbals. Toward the end of the intro the glissando gets continuous, and the noises get more intense, and just before the glissando reaches G again, enter Freddie and the piano (shades of "Death On Two Legs").
It is unusually short for a Verse, only four measures (2+2), and it is followed by a Chorus.
C: | C | Bbmaj7 | | I | bVII | | Am | Fm6/G# | Fm6/G# = C#halfdim/G# | vi | iv |
The tonality of the Verse is not very strong. The Bb chord is motivated by chromatic descent (C B A# A G#). Note the unusual maj7 leap in the lead vocal in measure 2. Bass enters in measure four, drums enter on the downbeat of the Chorus (except a short roll on the downbeat of the third measure). The lead vocal of the second phrase parallels the first. The fist phrase is closed with an exotic maj7th leap in the lead vocal.
In second Verse drums and bass play all the way; the bass imitates the lead vocal in measure 3. The last words are harmonized (four voices).
Break 2 is an instrumental Verse dominated by a guitar playing along with the chromatic descent. Synth glissando figures are added where the guitar holds the note. This hard section is "resolved" by substituting the rhythm guitar with piano in the next section(solo-Chorus)
We have four Choruses plus an instrumental one, so this is the central section of the song. The phrasing is not square. The first phrase uses a cliche progression.
C: | C Am | Dm G | | I vi | ii V | half | C -7 | F Fm(6)| C G/B | C | Gm7* | Ab Bb || C... | I V-of-IV|IV iv | I V | I |"bVII"|bVI bVII|| I...
The Gm7* chord/harmony is spelled from bottom: G Bb D F A C. This nice six-note chord superimposes Bb, Gm7, F and probably several other chords. The upbeat of the section ("it's so") features flat-6 and flat-7 degrees foreshadowing the end. The bass line is very jumpy.
The second Chorus has different lyrics for the first three measures.
The third Chorus is filled by the guitar solo. Note the ear-pleasing effect: how the noisy preparation switches to a mellow piano-driven accompaniment. The first two notes of the solo (notation with degrees: 5, 9 bent to 10)
are a recurrent element of May's soloing: "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Flash/The Hero", "It's A Hard Life". The solo is not speedy; it presents another possible lead vocal melody. Talking about the lead melody, it returns for the end of the section.
The fourth Chorus: the lyrics are in their second variant. Some lead guitar fills are added, and the seventh measure has a 3+3+3+3+4 pattern of 1/16ths. Freddie's vocal closes on a seventh, slowly resolving upwards.
The last Chorus: the lyrics are in the first variant. We have more lead guitar figures and once again the 3+3+3+3+4 rhythm figure that fades out.
Break 1
The harmony of these three and a half measures section is driven by electric guitar walking down chromatically from C to G.
c: half Piano :| C - | C? | Ab G | Ab ... || Guitar:| C5 B1 |Bb1 A1| Ab1 G1| Ab1 F Bb5 || | I ... | .... |bVI V | BVI IV bVII|| I
Note the delayed entry of the lead guitar and the sweet vibrato.
The variant Break 1 section is shorter and follows the original progression in the first two measures. In measure three the harmony modulates to F-major.
C: half Piano :| C - | C | G C || F Guitar:| C5 B1 |Bb1 A1| G1 C5|| F1 | I ... | .... | V I || F:| II V || I
The four-in-a-bar beat gives one a "double time" feel. Note the effect when the staccato fill changes to legato in measure 3.
| F Bb/F | F | Dm G(sus4)| C/G Em | C | Em C D | F: I IV | I | vi V-of-V | | | | e: ii III | VI i | VI | i VI VII| C: ii V | I iii| I |iii I II |
Four part harmonies:
6/8 6/8 | Em7 C6 | C7/Bb Gm7 |
The metric frame is distorted here: a 3+3+3+3 rhythm pattern is used, where the 1/8 pulse is slowed down, and this phrase is followed by a pause of non-quantized length.
... |... Ab Bb || bVI bVII|| I


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The current economic environment has made times a bit rougher for artists in America, particularly musicians. Take DJ Kool Herc. The pioneering hip-hop DJ, who created the music's breakbeat foundation by switching back and forth between the breakdown section of two different funk sides, was hospitalized for kidney stones last month.
Herc's friends and fans began a fundraising campaign to help pay for his surgery, which, due to lack of health insurance, he cannot afford. Although he has been released from the hospital, Herc is depending completely on donations by fans and supporters within the hip-hop industry to the DJ Kool Herc Fund to bail him out of this serious health crisis.
For most musicians, making music is a full-time job: A career that doesn't come with a salary or benefits. A part-time job, merch and record sales, shows, and maybe a place to crash while touring are the only tangible means of maintaining financial stability. Sometimes it's when they've finally reached an equilibrium that a car breaks down, instruments break, or someone gets sick.
So what's an artist to do when he or she has bills to pay on top of bills for creating music?
In the past few years, sites like Kickstarter.com have arisen that serve to alleviate artists' monetary burdens by depending 100 percent on fans to fund "projects" like albums, shows, and other releases. Kickstarter doesn't charge anything for starting up a project and runs on an "all or nothing" process - if a project doesn't meet its target goal, no pledges are charged and the artist loses nothing (but also gains nothing).
The site also requires projects to come with "rewards" for pledges. Rocks Off asked a few local artists how they feel about direct fan-to-artist support, such as fan donations for health complications and creation of albums, and if there should be any difference between the two.
FAT TONY: [That support] comes out of a respect for the artist. I think since an artist can be very literally personal with music, it's easy for a fan to feel a strong connection to the artist -stronger than a fan of an actor or photographer may feel (though fans can develop strong connections to any aspect of art). With Kickstarter, you can get your fans and people interested in you to invest in your project through one controlled site. It gives them all they need to know about the project and about yourself.
GEO, THE CUTTERS: I don't have insurance at the moment. I think that insurance is a necessity but it's an individual's responsibility - I don't think it should be put on fans. I think if a situation comes up, a benefit show is a good thing.
I had a friend who had a urinary tract infection and had a benefit to get his antibiotics. The flyer was hilarious. In the end, he raised the funds he needed because of the show. I think it would be really weird to rely on your fans on a constant basis.
Any type of site [like Kickstarter] is fine. If it's one where you ask for funds to make a record and people contribute, something positive comes out of it. I saw that Ssion (a Kansas City group) did that.
CHRIS TAMEZ, RIVERS: Unfortunately, I'm one of the many fish in the ol' "uninsured barrel of healthcare." That being said, the thought of who my health insurance provider is, is a distant one so I live life without it. It's definitely something everyone should have, too bad I'm not in the capacity to afford it!
A lot of people are in the same shoes, especially local musicians. So let me assure you that whatever money local artists come in contact with does NOT go towards health insurance. Much more pressing issues and planning is where the money goes. You know, like buying new strings and sticks or wait, maybe that thing called rent.
As for artists asking fans if they would be interested in giving money to help a poor brotha out, it would have to be in the form of a benefit show, where fans are free to make donations to help a good cause. I couldn't just blatantly ask for handouts, my conscience would run rampant into a barrage of guilt-ridden feelings. Never the less, I too make donations to support the greater good and would gladly except the same kind of gesture.
Any Web site that promotes and helps new artists and bands grow is a friend of mine. Being in that very position of trying new ways to promote yourself, I would say its a valuable commodity. Sites like Kickstarter, Bandcamp, and Reverbnation are all perfect for self-promotion and distribution. Kickstarter is great, I'd even use it myself.
Artists are put in a tough spot these days when it comes to making money off their records. I think in this day and age it's almost impossible for bands to rely on people buying their record when they could just download or burn it from a friend (unless they're picking up a physical copy at a show).
Setting up the opportunity for fans to purchase your music through the form of a donation is a cool idea. That makes it easy on the listener, not having to pay an outrageous price for a record. You would be getting a higher volume of your material out and into people's hands, as opposed to waiting on folks to pay ten or 15 bucks for your album. Isn't donating fun??!
ILL LIAD: I still work a 9 to 5 like everyone else, and thank god my job has great benefits to cover me if anything should happen. Honestly, I would never rely on anyone for money if something happened that took place in my personal life. I feel that there should be a respect factor between you and the people who dig your music.
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If you're an underground artist, you should act like a fucking underground artist. I put a whole album out for FREE and the bitch is still free....A lot of [prima donna] ass niggas walk around like they're Kanye West and they're not. I don't think that whatsoever; it consists of the music and the movement.
The longer they see you grinding and the longer you deliver great music, they will follow you as a person who enjoys it and supports you when its time to make the next step. It's very good to have people come out to shows and support the music; most of all my personal shows are free for everyone besides the kiddos.
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Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Melbourne.
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Indian court removes ban, allows OnePlus One to be sold in India for now
Carl Pei, the founder of OnePlus, said in court that he didn't find out about the deal between Micromax and Cyanogen until just a few days before his own phone was launched in India. Pei noted that his company is working on an Android skin that will replace Cyanogen on the OnePlus One handsets.
The Indian court requested written statements from both OnePlus and Cyanogen to be received within two weeks, and will hear the case again on January 7th. The judges decided to reverse the ban of the OnePlus One in India for now, since the phone competes in a different segment of the market than the Micromax Yu. Copying from the "destructive sales" strategy employed by Xiaomi, the Yu is priced online for the equivalent of $142 USD. The OnePlus One retails in India for the equivalent of $347 USD.
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Some may have noticed pictures popping up of my kids in the most stunning looking handmade clothes of late. For those who know me well, will know i cannot sew to save myself, therefore they must be coming from somewhere…and that is very true!
They are being made by Peta, a WAHM of 2 younng girls. Princess P. Creations was launched this year but the venture took of last year when i was asking for some custom clothes for the kids Christmas day outfits.
So here we go for the fashion parade starting with Christmas outfits:
Next i ordered the girls some nighties, Zachery some PJ's and a spare pair of everyday shorts…which arrived today:
I looooooove Peta's stuff….so as Peta's business cards say:
Handmade fashion for the littlest Prince or Princess through to the queen bee!


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Name the bank. It has more branches than all the other high street lenders combined. Twenty million of us walk through its doors each week. It has largely cornered the foreign exchange market. And it doesn't even offer a current account, yet.
Welcome to Bank of Ireland UK, the British subsidiary of the eponymous Irish financial group, and the exclusive long-term provider of financial services to the Post Office through more than 11,000 branches across the country.
The past five years have not been easy for the lender. A casualty of Ireland's Celtic crisis, Bank of Ireland needed two state bail-outs to repair its finances and is now partly owned by some of Wall Street's most savvy investors, including billionaire Wilbur Ross.
But the Irish taxpayer has been repaid the money spent rescuing it and it is now looking to pump the growth primer again.
"Our loan books have deleveraged now from £140bn in 2008 to as low as £85bn, so the big question is how we are going to change that by acquiring more loans and lending customers," says Des Crowley, chief executive of Bank of Ireland UK.
"We are seen by our parent as having a huge role in that through the mortgage market, car finance, personal finance [and] credit cards. What the Bank of Ireland group wants is to grow."
Crowley, who has worked at the bank for more than 20 years since joining as an IT executive in 1988, knows how tough it is to come back from the crisis, having effectively had to rebuild the British business bottom up after the UK authorities forced its parent to move from the more lightly regulated branch structure it had been using to a full subsidiary operation.
"You start from A and go to Z. You have to decide, what's our risk appetite? Where are we going to build a viable business model? How much capital are we going to need? How much liquidity?"
Rebuilding the business was not without its controversies, particularly when the bank last May told 13,500 customers with base rate tracker mortgages that it was going to increase the rate on their loans. The move led to questions from the Treasury select committee to the City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, which ultimately cleared the bank of any wrongdoing. Looking back, Crowley admits the situation was not handled as well as it could have been.
"We didn't feel we explained our right to vary well enough at the time. My lesson as chief executive was to explain why a lot more clearly and a lot earlier," he says.
That said, Crowley insists that it was the right thing to do.
"Even if we could wind back the clock, we would still do it, because we have the right to vary and we needed to cover our costs of funds and we needed to repair the capital."
Rebuilding capital has been an obsession at the bank since the crisis and maintaining pricing power is seen as a vital part of the recovery.
"Our lessons were around the funding base and risk. We have probably moved from a situation of deciding our business strategy first to setting the risk appetite first and putting the strategy within the boundaries of risk appetite."
While the Co-op Bank continues to wrestle with the problems caused by its disastrous attempt to become a challenger to the big high street banks, the Bank of Ireland is getting on with the business of building its more subtle challenge to the banking establishment.
Unlike the Co-op Bank, which tried to replicate the vast branch networks of its rivals, the Bank of Ireland has, through its joint venture with the Post Office, piggy-backed on someone else's.
The partnership, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and has yielded 2.7m customers, has been extended to 2023.
Crowley believes that the business can become the main challenger to the likes of Lloyds Banking Group and Barclays, offering in-branch and online services as rivals shrink their branch presence.
"We want to be their leading challenger, providing simple, transparent, accessible products to consumers right across Great Britain as an alternative to the high street banks. Twenty million potential customers walk through the doors of the Post Office every week. Our role is to work with our Post Office colleagues to make sure we attract a good selection of those customers."
Crowley talks of giving the venture, which is already the largest provider of over-the-counter foreign exchange, some added "oomph". A current account trial is under way in East Anglia, and the bank hopes to offer a range of three accounts to customers in the near future, allowing them to do most of their banking through their local Post Office branch.
Despite the tracker rate furore, Crowley says that the bank can dramatically increase its share of the mortgage market.
"We spent a lot of time making sure the balance sheet was properly put in place and that we were positioned for growth, and we have been driving hard with the Post Office to get that growth. Our key competitive advantage is that we have got a branch network that we feel can generate significant customer traffic," he says.
At a time when many banks have been withdrawing advisers from branches due to sales restrictions placed on them by the Government's Retail Distribution Review, Crowley says his bank will introduce financial advisers to certain Post Office branches.
However, he insists the bank will not be chasing risks.
"We have a philosophy of 'clean credit'. We are very anxious to give money to people who are self-employed first-time buyers, but one of our requirements is that you have a clean credit history for the past three years. We have never gone into sub-prime, or near-prime, that was never part of the DNA of the bank."
Given the potential interest of investors in buying challenger banks, the obvious question is: how long before it goes it alone? Crowley is coy, saying none of the current plans for the lender envisages a separate stock market flotation, but he concedes that he will offer his bosses back in Ireland "optionality".
Watch this space.