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You might remember that we recently had a trip to Disneyland Paris and you might recall that I'm a Toy Story Mom. So you won't be surprised to hear that I can't wait for Toy Story 4 to come out in 2018! However, I have my own ideas on what it should be about. (If somebody else has written something similar, it's pure coincidence, I'm not copying!) It's going to be a stand alone sequel, so it will not continue on from Toy Story 3 it will be a separate story about Woody and Bo-Peep.
My version makes perfect sense because adults of today were kids when Toy Story came out and they will totally relate to Andy as an adult.
This is what I think should happen… or maybe Toy Story 5?
Andy was 6 in the first film in 1995 and 17 in 2010, so as it isn't 'real time' my plan will work…
Andy finished college and returned to his hometown, he grew up with a single mother so it makes sense that he'd come back to her. He has bought a house in his old neighbourhood with his wife and 6 year old son. His son has been sucked into the modern age and spends very little time with Andy, he just wants to play on his tablet and isn't bothered with his toys.
Andy tries to fire up an imagination for him but he doesn't have much luck. Bonnie is now 17 and going off to college. We have a scene that mirrors Toy Story 3 where the toys are saying, "It's Andy all over again!" Where they are watching Bonnie packing up her stuff and don't know what will happen to them.
They are all thrown in a box and thrown into the back of Bonnie's car. They think they have made it, they're going to college with her! Shortly after the car stops and they are dumped on the roadside. It's raining and they watch Bonnie drive away. Woody is optimistic and tries to come up with a plan to escape, Jessie has had enough and just wants to be left to go to the dumpster. Buzz has to explain to Dolly, Trixie, Buttercup and Mr Pricklepants, he tells them about their Bonnie and why Andy gave them to Bonnie all those years ago. They can't believe this has happened to them.
As they're about to lose hope, a car pulls up. They haven't been left on the roadside, they've been left on a driveway.
Andy gets out of the car. Woody's eyes light up! He can't believe it! Andy reads out a soggy note that Bonnie left on the box, "I left for college today! I dropped by to say bye but you weren't home… Thought you and your son might like these old friends!" (He doesn't mention the kids name, we don't know it yet.)
Andy smiles and closes his eyes… he has a flashback to playing with all of them and remembers how happy he was playing with real toys. He takes the box inside and puts it in his bedroom.
He is getting ready for bed and telling his wife all about his toys and why he hates that (kid) only plays with gadgets. He wants him to have an imagination and experience what he had. His wife tries to calm him down and explain how times have changed. Andy isn't convinced he believes his kid can have fun like he used to.
The family go to bed and we see the toys in the box…
Rex is so excited. He starts shouting, "We're going to get played with… Andy has a son!" Trixie joins in and is very happy too! Jessie tries to hide a smile but she's still pessimistic, Bullseye looks sad and tries to comfort her. Dolly and Buttercup are trying to make sense of what is happening. Mr Pricklepants believes he is going to be able to put his acting skills to good use again and starts quoting Shakespeare. The Potato Heads try to stop their adopted children, the three peas, from jumping out the box. Slinky is getting old, his spring is all loose and he just wants to go to sleep. Hamm is old too and lost his cork, he's cuddled up next to him.
Meanwhile, Woody and Buzz are making their way to the kids room. They peer in and see a boy that looks just like young Andy. At first they're excited but then they push the door open… They can't see any toys! They look horrified at the few dusty lego men that wave to them from across the room.
A tablet pops up from under the bed and says "What can I help you with?' they talk to it siri style, siri has recognised that they are Buzz and Woody and so talks back to them Mr Spell style. The tablet explains that the kid uses him all day long and doesn't really like toys. The tablet would like a break because he gets too hot being on all day. They come up with a plan.
Buzz gets Dolly and Buttercup to help, they don't mind because they don't really know what's going on. They ride downstairs and sift through the junk mail, they find a flyer for Pizza Planet and leave it next to Andy's keys in the hallway.
Woody uses the tablet to download a retro game… Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue.
The next morning we see Andy get up and ready to go to work, he sees the flyer for Pizza Planet and has an idea. He shouts up to his wife, "Don't make any dinner tonight… I'm taking us out!" We see the son wake up and immediately reach for his tablet. He sees this retro game and initially laughs at it saying it looks old and boring. Then he has a play… Time passes and Andy returns home, his wife says he might be right about their son spending too much time on his gadgets and tells him he's been playing on it all day.
Andy insists that he puts it down and they all go out for dinner. Pizza Planet is now retro cool. The claw machine is no longer filled with aliens but instead the once popular, Zurg! Andy is shocked when his son asks for a quarter so he can try and win a Zurg. How does he know who Zurg is? He plays and wins! Andy is pleased to see his son playing with the Evil Emperor Zurg throughout dinner and thinks his plan might work. (He doesn't realise it's actually the toys plan!)
They play a few retro games before heading home. Wreck It Ralph makes a cameo appearance and the aliens now have their own computer game which Andy plays and loves. His wife joins in and plays Sugar Rush. We see a flashback to her childhood where she was addicted to games which explains why she wasn't too fussy about the kid playing on the tablet. They all have a great time laughing and playing and Andy has to pull his son away to go home.
When they get home Buzz is on the kids bed. The kid looks at Buzz but reaches for his tablet, Buzz looks disappointed, the plan hasn't worked. Just as the kid is about to start a new game Andy bursts in with Zurg and pretends to be aiming for his kid. The kid smiles and picks Buzz up and shouts, "To infinity and beyond! Buzz the space ranger will defeat you!" They laugh and play together as the other toys peer through the box from Andy's room. The kid goes to bed cuddling Buzz and Zurg. Buzz gives a thumbs up to Woody across the hall.
The next day we see the kid playing in a really messy room with all the toys. They're all so happy Jessie is racing with Dolly on Bullseye and Buttercup. Slinky and Hamm have new roles, they are the look out team and live on the shelf, they have to let the toys know what's going on outside.
Andy calls the kid down for lunch. Rex and Trixie are obsessed with the tablet and love playing retro games when nobody is watching. Buzz and Zurg are really close and always shake hands and apologise after their playtime wars. "I really didn't mean to throw you off the bed back there!" They laugh and hug it out. The Potato Heads have recruited the Lego men as their new monkeys, they throw tubs of Lego to attack during the games.
When the kid leaves the room, we see Woody come through the door. Although the kid is allowed to play with Woody, he lives in Andy's room, after all, Andy always had a soft spot for him. Buzz pats Woody on the back and they all lift up their feet where the kid has re-marked them all, 'Woody'. Woody is beaming with happiness.
Cut to the back yard where Andy is giving Woody (the kid) piggy backs and they are playing happily, gadget free! 'You've Got a Friend in Me' plays as it zooms out and we see Hamm and Slinky watching them play in the garden and all the other toys laughing together in Woody's room.
Credits. (Based on an idea by Momma Boss.)
Cut to the Mom obsessively playing a tablet version of Fix-It-Felix.
Cut to FaceTime with Barbie and Ken updating them on Sunnyside daycare. Barbie is really happy because somebody donated a Shelley doll so she has her little sister back. Ken shows off in the water play because somebody donated a jet-ski.
Boom! Who has got tears in their eyes then? (Apart from my younger sister, I know you're crying Child!)


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Paul Krugman is at it again. This time, he's using his position as the leading progressive columnist in the "nation's newspaper of record," to ballyhoo a letter from four former heads of the Council of Economic Advisors.
Their letter criticizes an economic analysis of Bernie Sanders' policies performed by University of Massachusetts economist, Gerald Friedman, which found that Sander's platform would increase growth by 5.3%.
Krugman's column this past Friday suggests that the former CEA chiefs' letter puts Bernie in the same camp as the Republicans, who've been spouting voodoo economics such as trickle-down and the elixir of tax cuts for decades now, complete with magic asterisks designed to make nearly $6 trillion in deficits disappear.
There's so much that is wrong with Krugman's column and with the letter from former CEA chiefs Alan Krueger, Austan Goolbee, Christina Romer, and Laura D'Andrea Tyson that it's hard to know where to begin.
Let's Start With the Letter Criticizing Freidman's Analysis.
The best evaluation of the …er … "economic analysis" done by Krueger et. al. on Friedman's paper comes from James K. Galbraith, former head of Congress's Joint Economic Committee who wrote a letter to the 4 former CEA chiefs.
To quote Professor Galbraith:
You write that you have applied rigor to your analyses of economic proposals by Democrats and Republicans. On reading this sentence I looked to the bottom of the page, to find a reference or link to your rigorous review of Professor Friedman's study. I found nothing there.
Nothing there. That about sums up the "analysis." Basically, Krueger, Goolbee, Romer, and Tyson – all appointed by either Clinton or Obama – wrote a hit piece and attempted to substitute pedigree for substance. They used pejoratives such as "grandiose," "extreme claims," and they go on to say, "no credible research backs up economic impacts of this magnitude." Professor Galbraith points out that these criticisms are not substantiated and – more importantly – not true. Professor Friedman's paper, it turns out, uses conventional economic multipliers and assumptions.
Finally, professor Galbraith dismisses the implication that Friedman's paper is politically motivated because it provides a favorable economic review of Sanders' platform, by pointing out that Friedman supports Hillary Clinton.
By the time Galbraith is through with this so-called critique of Friedman's work, the real partisans are revealed to be Krueger et. al., who, without rigor or analysis, cavalierly dismissed the careful work of another economist.
Which Brings us to Voodoo Journalism
I have admired Krugman for some time, now. His columns critiquing conservative economics are factual and effective, and his article on the Great Recession, How Did Economists Get It So Wrong, was an honest and trenchant critique of the discipline and it remains one of the best explanations of how some of the fundamental failings of economic theory made economists blind to the possibility – if not the inevitability – of the Recession.
But he's had a series of hit pieces on Sanders over the last few weeks that are poorly reasoned, poorly researched, and clearly partisan. The first, How Change Happens, was widely criticized, and rightly so. When you find yourself arguing with the likes of Ghandi, Martin Luther King, and both Roosevelts about how change happens, it ought to give you pause, even if you've won Nobel Prize or two.
His latest column on Friday, however, Varieties of Voodoo, embracing and ballyhooing Krueger et. al's shallow hit piece, jumped the shark, and it risks destroying the most valuable thing a columnist has – credibility.
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It's a deeply flawed use, of a deeply flawed paper, in pursuit of a partisan position. Here's a few of Krugman's most egregious errors:
It presents this non-analytical letter as a rigorous analysis, when it is little more than an opinion piece, and a baseless one at that. To quote Galbraith again:
It is not fair or honest to claim that Professor Friedman's methods are extreme. On the contrary, with respect to forecasting method, they are largely mainstream. Nor is it fair or honest to imply that you have given Professor Friedman's paper a rigorous review. You have not.
Ironically, Krugman uses a set of non-quantitative, non-rigorous ruminations to dismiss Friedman's paper as lacking rigor.
Conflating Freidman's Paper with Sanders' Campaign is just plain deceptive. Sanders did not commission or endorse Friedman's study. Implying that Sanders has done so, is the journalistic equivalent of a magic asterisk – it ignores the real source of the economic claims and suggests they are Sanders' claims.
Krugman goes on to say, "… Beyond that, this controversy is an indication of a campaign, and perhaps a candidate, not ready for prime time."
Wait. Talk about fuzzy logic. Sanders isn't ready for prime time because someone else's economic analysis of his platform (which is not an economic, but an ethical document – more about that in a minute) may exaggerate the benefits? Really, Dr, Krugman?
Sanders simply can't be held responsible for someone else's analysis. Sorry, but pretending that Friedman's analysis – conducted on his own, with no connection to Sanders – somehow "indicates" that Sanders isn't ready for prime-time is ludicrous. It's either deliberately disingenuous or deluded. And Krugman has made a career on not being deluded.
Finally, Sanders platform is NOT an economic document; it's an ethical position. Sanders is not, and never has, pretended that his platform is primarily or even incidentally, an economic platform. It is a moral and ethical one. It is intended to assure a more equitable and just allocation of wealth and income; to get money out of politics; to restore sensible regulation of the financial sector; to increase access to health care and education; and to generally move us from an Oligarchy back to a democracy.
So criticizing an ethical platform on the basis of a poorly constructed economic criticism of someone else's entirely mainstream economic analysis has no relevance to Sanders qualifications as a candidate. None. Nada. Zip. It's beyond disingenuous to suggest it does.
The fact that Sanders' ethical platform does, in fact, result in economic gains shouldn't be surprising. Empirical evidence shows that the 3 times we've adopted a laisez-fair approach to regulating the economy, it has resulted in extreme income inequality leading inevitably to the 3 biggest economic disruptions in US history: the Depression in 1890's, the Great Depression in 1930's, and the Great Recession in 2008. This shouldn't be particularly surprising. When most of the consumers in a consumer economy don't have much in the way of expendable income, there isn't enough demand to sustain growth. And the Paris Hilton's of the world can only buy so many yachts.
Conversely, when policies similar to what Sanders is advocating were in effect after the New Deal was passed, we had the single most sustained and equitably shared period of prosperity in US history. Again, no rocket science here. The middle class and poor spend more of their money than the rich, so there's more demand when they have relatively more money. And Sanders' policies put money in the hands of those who would spend it.
Summing up:
- If Sanders were pushing his policies as an economic agenda; and
- if Sanders had commissioned Dr. Freidman's analysis; and
- if Krueger et. al. had done a rigorous analysis of Friedman's study; and
- if the study had been lacking in rigor or making extreme claims out of whack with history …
then, and only then would Krugman have been justified in comparing Sanders' platform to Republican voodoo economics. But none of those conditions pertain. Not one.
Finally, what about Dr. Friedman's findings? Here, it's worth quoting Dr. Galbraith's rebuttal:
What the Friedman paper shows, is that under conventional assumptions, the projected impact of Senator Sanders' proposals stems from their scale and ambition. When you dare to do big things, big results should be expected. The Sanders program is big, and when you run it through a standard model, you get a big result. That, by the way, is the lesson of the Reagan era – like it ornot. It is a lesson that, among today's political leaders, only Senator Sanders has learned.
Dr. Krugman is batting zero on his partisan attacks on Sanders. The sad part about this is that he is squandering his credibility, and until lately, he has been one of the most insightful and courageous critiques of Republican economic policy. It would be a shame if his voice were neutered by his vacuous cheerleading for Hillary.


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Life in the fast lane: What to buy the airport traveler who has everything
There's Verified Identity Pass, which has been around since 2005, and the FLO card, which just came out last year.
The idea is that if you sign up for a pass or a card, you can go to the head of the security line at the airport. You still have to check your things, but it will be moments, not minutes, before you're on the other side, browsing in the airport bookstore.The first was created by the prominent entrepreneur Stephen Brill (he created Court TV and the magazine American Lawyer, as well as the now defunct Brill's Content), and the second by underdog businessman Glenn Argenbright. They're both part of the new registered travel industry. And I call Argenbright the underdog because FLO, which stands for Fast Lane Option, has 5,000 members while the Verified Identity Pass has 175,000. The Verified Identity Pass has kiosks in airports to capture potential customers. The FLO card has more of a guerrilla marketing take on all of this from what I can tell, but certainly it's working. They've been partnering with a couple meeting management companies, like Advantage Performance Network and Universal Meeting Management Inc., and The Washington Postmentioned FLO in an article a few weeks ago.
With Verified Identity Pass, you pay $128 a year for the privilege of cutting past everyone in line, and the same pass reportedly can or will eventually get you at the head of the line at some office buildings and sporting venues with tight security. With the FLO card, it's $100 a year, or $200, if you want the platinum version. Each of the $100 and $200 memberships come with a slew of benefits, in the way that a corporate frequent-flier program operates. For instance, with the $200 a year membership, you get extras like emergency cash transfer assistance and concierge help with golf reservations.
Of course, there is a catch. It takes a little more than mere money to get either the pass or the card. You have to be willing to first submit background information in order for the Transportation Security Administration to do a security assessment, and you have to be willing to give them a fingerprint or an iris scan, so they can create your secure identity credential.
Still, for honest travelers with at least $100 to spare, they both sound like a pretty nice deal. So far, there are almost two dozen airports that both FLO and Verified are accepted at, with more to come. If you look at each map of airports on the web sites, the numbers don't match up, but according to a FLO spokesperson, wherever you'll find one, you'll find the other. Some of the airports that you can use the pass or card at include Denver, Cincinnati, Orlando and the Reagan airport. Atlanta and Los Angeles will be added soon.
I'm hoping that, meanwhile, entrepreneurs don't forget about the folks who do have to wait in line because they either don't have the extra money or can't justify the expense because they don't travel enough. I'll bet an entrepreneur selling hot dogs or soda to the rest of us could make a killing, servicing the hundreds of people waiting in line to take their shoes off and have their personal belongings in their carry-ons sifted through.
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Leigh-Anne Pinnock flashes her flawless figure in an orange bikini as she parties with Pixie Lott and Lydia Bright in Ibiza
The Little Mix singer was covered in body glitter at Ocean Beach
LEIGH-ANNE Pinnock got a glittery makeover as she partied in Ibiza with Pixie Lott and Lydia Bright yesterday.
The Little Mix star showed off her famously flawless figure in an orange bikini which matched the cup she was drinking from.
Sitting in the sunshine at the Ocean Beach club with her hair in a bun and wearing shades, Leigh-Anne was decorated with shimmering gold glitter.
Elsewhere at the plush outdoor club venue, former Towie star Lydia fanned herself beside a gal pal as they walked through the seating area.
She wore a black swimsuit with cut-out sides and her blonde hair was styled in beachy waves.
Singer Pixie also went for a black one-piece with a lace-up front and a pair of oversized sunglasses.
Showing off her newly-dyed pink hair, Pixie looked to be having a blast as she got on the mic behind the decks.
She could also be seen smiling broadly and dancing away as the tunes were pumped out.
Little Mix are currently on the UK leg of their world tour before they head to Australia and New Zealand.
The group were left shocked just days ago when a fan slipped past beefed-up security and ripped open the door of their motor, forcing police to step in.
The pop babes were sitting in their blacked-out people carrier ready to hit the stage in front of 11,000 fans at Slessor Gardens in Dundee, East Scotland, when the incident occurred.
The venue was guarded by armed cops after the recent terror attacks, including one at a pop concert in Manchester in which 22 people were killed.
But while waiting to be called on, a group of fans surrounded the car.
And one cheeky guy decided to catch the chart-toppers unaware.
He shouted: "Are you ready?" and slid the door open, before saying to the stunned band: "Any chance of a signature for my young lad please?"
The hilarious incident was filmed by other fans and ends with a cop pushing the fan back and saying: "Did you just open that door?"
The band went on to perform and got rave reviews for their set.
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ACT Brumbies 15-25 Wales
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Wales' midweek side beat ACT Brumbies on Tuesday to give caretaker coach Rob Howley plenty to think about for selection ahead of the second Test.
James Hook scored the opening try, kicked well and showed impressive game control, although the fly-half was helped by a dominant Wales pack.
Justin Tipuric and Alun Wyn Jones tries gave Wales a 19-6 half-time lead.
Zack Holmes kicked all Brumbies' points as the home side hit back after the break but Hook's boot kept Wales clear.
Brumbies had struck first with a Holmes penalty after 10 minutes, but were only holding Wales at bay thanks to some committed tackling.
But the tourists were bossing the set-piece in Canberra, Paul James in particular giving rival prop Scott Sio a lesson, and giving the platform for Wales' backline to flourish.
A flowing move took Wales to within touching distance of the Brumbies try line and Hook took lock Ben Hand, skippering Brumbies, on the outside to score before converting his own try.
A thumping tackle from Josh Turnbull saw Brumbies spill possession and Wales pounced on the counter-attacking chance to claim a second try soon after.
A fine angle saw Ashley Beck scythe through the middle of the Australian defence and open-side Tipuric was on his shoulder to ensure another seven-pointer.
Ospreys seven Tipuric was part of a breakaway unit that was making life miserable for Brumbies, who were struggling to gain any quick ball from the breakdown.
Aaron Shingler had played his part in the back-row effort but the Scarlet had to depart to the blood-bin for attention, allowing Gareth Delve to make his first appearance in a Wales shirt for more than two years.
The Melbourne Rebels captain was called into the Wales squad after fellow number eight Toby Faletau broke his hand in the closing moments of the first Test.
Holmes cut the deficit to 14-6 with his second penalty, although the Brumbies fly-half had hit the post with an earlier effort.
But Wales increased their lead thanks to another storming Beck run that saw the Ospreys centre pulled down just short, allowing captain Alun Wyn Jones to pick up and dive over for an unconverted try.
Lock Jones did not emerge for the second half, with Ian Evans coming on for his first tour appearance after delaying his Australia departure to get married.
Wales were also forced into another change as Alex Cuthbert, Wales' try-scorer in the first Test, replaced Aled Brew after the wing felt the effects of a heavy tackle.
Brumbies reorganised after the break and at last started to make some headway against the Welsh defence.
Open-side Colby Faingaa came closest to getting a Brumbies try but while Wales kept their line intact they did concede penalties under pressure.
Holmes punished the visitors with three penalties to bring Brumbies to within four points.
But Wales managed to re-exert some control as the game entered its final stages, allowing Hook to ease the tourists back into a more comfortable winning position with two penalties.
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Robbie Coleman; Cam Crawford, Tevita Kuridrani, Andrew Smith, Kimami Sitauti; Zack Holmes, Ian Prior; Ruaidhri Murphy, Anthony Hegarty, Scott Sio, Leon Power, Ben Hand (capt), Peter Kimlin, Colby Faingaa, Ita Vaea.
Replacements: Siliva Siliva, JP Pradaud, Dylan Sigg, Fotu Auelua, Beau Mokoputo, Tom Cox, Jesse Mogg.
Liam Williams; Harry Robinson, Andrew Bishop, Ashley Beck, Aled Brew; James Hook, Rhys Webb; Paul James, Richard Hibbard, Rhodri Jones, Alun Wyn Jones (capt), Luke Charteris, Josh Turnbull, Justin Tipuric, Aaron Shingler.
Replacements: Ken Owens, Rhys Gill, Ian Evans, Gareth Delve, Lloyd Williams, Rhys Priestland, Alex Cuthbert.
Referee: Ian Smith


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A little after 7 P.M. on May 30th, Kevin Neish, a retired mechanic from Vancouver, stood on the inner stairwell of Turkey's Mavi Marmara passenger ferry. "This was the hospital," he said, gesturing to the dull green linoleum landing in front of the ship's information desk. "It was full of bodies. I counted them."
Two years earlier, nine activists—eight Turks and one Turkish-American—had been killed when Israeli forces raided the boat as it carried aid to Gaza. (Israel has said it will not make a formal apology, despite Turkish demands, but it has reportedly offered compensation to the families of the dead.) Like the hundreds of visitors who surrounded him, Neish had returned to Turkey to mark the anniversary by spending the night on board. The boat has been docked in Istanbul for repairs, and it is mostly refurbished. Tan couches stained with blood have been replaced with rows of red and blue chairs. The wooden decks have been scrubbed clean. But remnants of the violence remain. On a wall beside doors to the upper deck, someone had circled the gray scuffs from bullets in red ink. "It sounds like a cliché from a novel, but there was blood on the bannister right over there," Neish said, pointing to the polished wood. On the wall, there was a photo of the blood-covered bannister. "I won't sleep tonight."
The boat that night served both as a museum and a court room, stocked with evidence meant to re-create the raid. It was part of a campaign organized by the Turkish aid organization I.H.H. (in English, Humanitarian Relief Foundation), which, along with the Free Gaza Movement, also organized the 2010 "freedom flotilla." A giant banner with portraits of the dead covered one side of the ship. Inside, photos from the journey were propped up on tripods. Video stills from the raid were hanging on the walls, placed there to counter claims that the activists who'd been aboard were armed. Two years ago, the Mavi Marmara, along with five other ships, sailed from Antalya, Turkey, toward Gaza. The goals were to deliver aid and to draw attention to the Israeli blockade of the area. The activists failed to achieve that first goal. The boats were stopped in international waters, those aboard arrested, and the cargo confiscated. In bringing attention to Gaza, though, the Mavi Marmara surpassed expectations. After the raid, all eyes were on the flotilla and the blockade, and the Israeli Army was resoundingly criticized for its response. Relations between Turkey and Israel were damaged, perhaps irreparably.
The relationship between the two countries, once allies, began deteriorating in early 2009, when Turkey loudly condemned Israel for its conduct in Gaza. The criticism was both emotional and tactical. The Turkish government had been focussed for some time on raising its prestige within the Middle East, and solidarity with the Palestinians was a key element in building good relations with Arab countries. "There was a great euphoria when Erdogan bashed Israel," Ekrem Eddy Guzeldere, a political analyst based in Istanbul, told me. "Turkey, in its efforts to become a regional player, wants to be more influential among Arab states, and the easiest and most emotional way to do this is to criticize Israel and become a hero on the Arab street. After the Mavi Marmara, this was the main strategy." Now, Guzeldere said, Turkey's relationship with Israel has hit "the bottom," but there are reasons that Turkey might want détente; the economic bond between the two countries remains strong.
But two years on, the Mavi Marmara is still standing in the way. Only a few days before the second anniversary of the attack, Turkey announced that it was formally indicting four Israeli officials for their role in the raid. A march to mark the anniversary was buoyed by an extensive advertising campaign—all over the city, large banners displayed a photo of the Mavi Marmara next to a photo of doves circling the dome of a mosque with the words "We Are Walking" and "Free Jerusalem" over it. The night before the event itself, a van plastered with the poster drove through Istanbul, blasting information about the march from speakers propped on its roof. It worked. On Thursday evening, Istanbul's Taksim Square swelled with thousands of people walking in support of the Mavi Marmara. The demonstration—winding as it did through Taksim, a thoroughly Westernized area—could also be read as a symbol of the acceptance of the wider influence of Islam on Turkish society. I.H.H. is a religious organization, a fact that has alienated it from mainstream activism in the past, and cast suspicion upon it. I.H.H. employees have been accused of terrorism and religious fundamentalism. In the case of the Mavi Marmara, detractors said that the activists had provoked the army, and held up their religion as proof that they were eager to fight. But when the Mavi Marmara became a symbol of Turkish solidarity with Palestine, so did I.H.H. Religious conservatism once seemed contrary to activism in Turkey; in this case, it is steering it.
"We have never concealed our religious feelings," Bulent Yildirim, I.H.H.'s president, told me. "According to Islam we should take action where there is torture." He credits the Mavi Marmara with easing the passage of I.H.H. into the greater activist community in Turkey. "There is increased trust between the I.H.H. and the secular activists now," Yildirim said.
Turkey has repeatedly called for Israel to apologize for the raid on the Mavi Marmara, as though the only thing standing in the way of strong political ties between the two countries is two magic words. Yildirim claims that I.H.H. wants the same thing, for the raid and also for what was said about his organization. "They accused us of being terrorists, of being Al Qaeda, of being influenced by the Iranians," he said. "But we took a poll, and ninety-five per cent of Turks agree with what we did. Even if they don't like what we look like, they like what we do."
Throughout the event, Yildirim walked through the boat shaking hands and kissing cheeks like a mayor seeking reëlection. It's thanks to the Mavi Marmara that I.H.H. has seen an increase in participation and funding, which they say comes mostly from private donors. They have gained authority, become bolder, and more immune to criticism. They have had to defend their religious ideology less. They have become much more visible—their name is forever linked to the famous ship, which they still own.
At sunset last Wednesday, with the call to prayer reverberating on the event's loudspeakers, men unfurled large prayer mats on the concrete dock beside the boat. Women laid down their own mats behind the men. While Istanbul's many mosques echoed across the city, the hundreds of activists prayed together in the direction of Mecca, just to the left of the Mavi Marmara's bow.


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NOTE: The following commentary by Neal L. Wolkoff was originally published on his blog.
When a publicly listed for-profit exchange handles the initial public offering or IPO of a legendary company, should it be held responsible for investors' losses if the offering goes badly because of trading glitches caused by the exchange's technology?
Intuitively, the answer appears to be yes, because companies of all stripes have had to compensate victims who suffered losses caused by the corporation's negligence. However, since 1934 the securities markets have operated in large part as surrogates for the federal regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission, in maintaining fair and orderly markets and upholding principles of just and equitable principles of trade. When they operate under the mantle of surrogate of the SEC, exchanges are called Self-Regulatory Organizations, or SROs, and they are given wide latitude to act, or not act, in the best interests of the investing public. The courts have held that SROs when performing the quasi-governmental role as an SRO in regulating the marketplace have the right to be protected, just as the regulator would be, from lawsuits and damages resulting from a regulatory decision under a doctrine called "absolute immunity." In re NYSE Specialists Securities Litig., 503 F. 3d 89, 90-91 (2d Cir. 2007); Mandelbaum v. New York Mercantile Exchange, 894 F. Supp. 676 (SDNY 1995).
The question of whether Nasdaq was acting in its SRO role when it made various decisions surrounding the Facebook IPO may determine whether it will face the consequences of having to repay angry investors their losses – now totaling hundreds of millions of dollars – or be able to escape from any court imposed damages.
The basic details of what went wrong with the launch of the Facebook IPO have been broadly reported: the opening was delayed from the announced time, and after the first print was published by Nasdaq , investors and brokers began complaining that they did not know if their orders had been executed.
The opening of trading in the IPO of Facebook shares went awry quickly because of technology failures, and questionable decision-making in the face of those technology issues. In the days that followed the IPO several companies revealed that they and their customers had suffered losses of about $200 million. This weekend UBS upped the ante for injury caused by Nasdaq's handling of the IPO by revealing a whopping loss of an additional $350 million above what had been reported earlier by other market participants.
Nasdaq has apologized several times, and acknowledged the specific technical glitches that created that first day havoc (a "race condition" where the matching engine never enters a stable state was the root of the electronic havoc). Nasdaq has proposed a compensation pool of approximately $40 million, about a third of which would be paid in cash and two thirds in reduced or waived fees for future business. The exchanges that compete with Nasdaq have derided this offer serving up another helping of negative press to reinforce the view of Nasdaq as something of a bumbler. The competing exchanges complain, and with some justification, that using a compensation pool as a way to lock customers into using your market, thus helping your own market share numbers at the expense of your competitors, is against the SEC's rules for fair and competitive markets.
Normally, when a public company performs badly in its business and causes damages to the public or other companies the question of liability is one of calculating the damages and determining whether the misstep was the result of intentional misconduct where punitive damages might apply, or negligence where the company must repay the injured person for the harm it caused. Certainly no one in this matter claims that Nasdaq intended to botch the Facebook IPO, but botched it was. Leaving a marketplace full of investors and brokers wondering for hours whether they bought stock or not while the market was gyrating wildly is a failure by a market operator to perform its basic function.
Securities and futures exchanges operate in a strangely different world from other corporations, and thinking that normal rules of liability apply to them can be misleading to the extreme. Under normal rules of liability, Nasdaq could be facing damage claims of more than $500 million because investor losses can be tied directly to its systems failure. However, under the rules governing exchanges it is quite possible that Nasdaq will escape any liability, or at least significant liability, because it benefits from the legal doctrine of "absolute immunity" in performing the regulatory functions it must perform as a surrogate of the SEC. If Nasdaq was acting in its capacity as a regulatory body when it was making decisions about the Facebook IPO in order to protect the public interest, then Nasdaq will be able to say that it is absolutely immune from paying damages, even if its decisions were flawed.
Nasdaq realized early on that something was amiss with the technology supporting the Facebook IPO. It tried to assign an opening price manually while fixing what it believed to be the bug causing the problem. Nasdaq was empowered to halt the market under its own Rule 4120(a)(7), and cancel all trades that had occurred prior to the halt (remember the BATS IPO where BATS experienced system problems handling its own IPO after the market had started to trade, and reversed course to cancel all trades in order to preserve a fair and orderly marketplace). Or, Nasdaq could have halted the market, resolved the issues, and confirmed all trades occurring before the halt, and then moved forward with new trades. Should Nasdaq have been in doubt about actions it could have taken in the face of a halt, Nasdaq could have relied on Section 19 (b)(3)(B) of the '34 Act and implemented an emergency rule without prior public notice or SEC approval in order to maintain "fair and orderly markets."
In hindsight, notwithstanding the misguided criticism heaped on BATS after its IPO fizzled, a trading halt could have resolved the technical issues before too much damage was caused. Yes, a halt during the biggest IPO of recent years would have been embarrassing, but not on the scale of 500 million reasons to be chagrined. BATS, by contrast, chose to be embarrassed over flubbing its own IPO rather than risking the consequences of a technology failure during its IPO. Nasdaq on the other hand decided to plow forward, thinking at the time that its actions would solve the problems and preserve a fair and orderly market and just and equitable principles of trade. In hindsight, plowing forward only made matters worse, sowing confusion among investors and maximizing the losses that they incurred as systems issues plagued investors and the exchange during the day.
However, at the time it made its decision, Nasdaq officials believed that the best course for them to take to protect the interests of the market was to issue an opening price manually, fix the technology issues on the fly, and continue with public trading of Facebook shares. With 20/20 hindsight that may not have been the wisest or best decision. However, if Nasdaq made the decision not to halt as the best means to provide the public with a fair and orderly market, then Nasdaq can claim that it acted in its capacity as a Self-Regulatory Organization to provide and protect a fair and orderly market, and were thus protected by the absolute immunity doctrine that applies to exchanges performing quasi-governmental regulatory actions.
I expect that the question of absolute immunity for exchange actions taken during the Facebook IPO will receive much attention from the courts. Arguments will be made that Nasdaq acted primarily in its corporate interests, or that a for-profit exchange does not deserve the protection of the absolute immunity doctrine that arose when exchanges were not-for-profit membership owned organizations; instead its shareholders should bear the risk of loss. Those arguments have some appeal, and may prevail ultimately as the inevitable cases go through the courts. But, rules that are specific to the unique regulatory roles played by exchanges may well insulate Nasdaq from facing the consequences of significant damages from its handling of the Facebook IPO.


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Peter Pan, the classic tale of a boy who never grows up, will open The Georgia Ballet's 2016-17 season October 8-9 at the J. Alton Keith Theater in Cobb County. "We have always been a family-friendly company," says Joy M. Johnson, the ballet's executive director. "And Peter Pan is a wonderful story, well-known to most people. However, they most likely haven't seen it take flight in ballet."
The Georgia Ballet's version of Peter Pan is an original production created for the company by artistic director Daet Rodriguez and his wife, Margit Peguero, who serves as the company's ballet mistress. The couple has experience with bringing this story to life through dance. They've previously performed the roles of Peter Pan and his fairy comrade, Tinkerbell, with the Saint Augustine Ballet in Florida.
Rodriguez is a new face at The Georgia Ballet, embarking on his second season with the company this fall. "I'm very happy to be a part of The Georgia Ballet and extremely satisfied with all of our achievements," he says. "Starting this season is a new challenge and I would like to keep up the expectations, image and same quality of professionalism that we left audiences with last season."
His future artistic goals for the company include raising the technical level of the dancers, giving students the opportunity to develop as professionals and pushing The Georgia Ballet repertoire each season.
Rodriquez and Peguero grew up in Cuba where they received their ballet training and began their professional dance careers at Ballet de Camagüey. They went on to join Teatro Centro de Arte Leon Febres-Cordero in Ecuador and also opened a dance school there. They have appeared as guest artists in different countries around the world.
They joined The Georgia Ballet as faculty members at the school in the summer of 2015. During this time, Johnson was searching for a new artistic director. As she watched Rodriquez teach and interact with dancers and staff members, she realized she'd already found the person for the job.
"Daet brings his excellent background and Cuban ballet training to the company," Johnson says. "He is as much about improving individual technique as he is about delivering wonderful ballet to our audiences. The company loves him and works incredibly hard under his direction. He is demanding and at the same time so supportive. Last season, as he was struggling with his English, I saw him onstage with a dancer who was performing her first principal role. He had his iPhone turned to her and it read, 'I believe in you.' That is Daet Rodriguez."
Rodriquez's interpretation of Peter Pan will meld classical, contemporary, and other styles of dance to a score by Stephen Warbeck. Company dancer Francisco Aguilar will take on the title role, and Katie Owerbach and Kelsey Stanhope will alternate as Wendy.
"Learning the part of Peter is a whole new experience as an artist," says Aguilar. "That, for me, is thrilling. The rehearsal process has been challenging in the technical and interpretative aspects. I have received a lot of advice on how to make my character more real and fun. I am enjoying this experience of getting to be Peter."
For Owenbach and Stanhope, the role of Wendy combines the magic and demands of portraying a young girl. "It is both challenging and exciting to play her," says Owenbach. "The scenes in the ballet include both drama and dancing, which is exciting and fun for me. Wendy's actions must reflect those of a girl, not an adult. As performers, we hope to portray this wonderful story and transform the stage into a storybook."
Stanhope adds that, in rehearsals, she is encouraged to "be more childlike." Outside of rehearsal, she likes to find scenes in the Disney version of Peter Pan that feature Wendy and use them as inspiration. "This role allows me to just act like a kid again," she says. "I won't have to worry as much about how technical my steps are. I can just go out and really embody the character."
Rodriquez believes Peter Pan will resonate with audiences of all ages. "This ballet is a tale of fantasy and adventure," he says. "We are living in a world that is accelerated and agitated with technology. At times, we leave family and human relationships on the side. Peter Pan is a story that revives the belief in the imagination of children, strengthens family love, and keeps alive the light of youth that we all have inside us."


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I am so glad that I don't need to find a cannabis dealer anymore. And for any of you out there reading this within states that may not have legalized cannabis yet, my heart goes out to you. Here in Colorado finding a "hook-up" has now become as simple as asking your phone where the closest dispensary is. Not only has the ease of accessibility of cannabis gone through the roof in states that have legalized, but the quality just keeps going through the roof. Before legalization hit, it seemed like any Tom, Dick, or Harry that could pronounce the word "chronic" claimed to have the best in town. The sad truth of the matter was that frequently this "amazing weed" that we were buying was so low quality you couldn't even sell it at a dispensary in Colorado nowadays. We're talking crappy seed and stem laden brick weed that had clearly been condensed and smuggled into the United States through, no doubt, exceptionally nefarious means. When you really look at the full list of what was happening when you purchased cannabis before legalization it's not pretty. Not only were we breaking local and federal laws, we were potentially helping support drug smuggling and our only reward was laughably bad cannabis at exorbitant rates. Despite how much I sometimes relish the days of my youth, I have absolutely no love for the purchasing process of cannabis the way it used to be. Things have come a long way. With high-class boutique-style dispensaries like an Emerald Fields offering affordable pricing on true chronic cannabis, it is never been a better time to be a marijuana smoker. Not only can I get much better quality cannabis at a greatly reduced cost, but instead of supporting a mystery business I get to support local business and know that a portion of the tax revenue from my purchases it's going to support education in Colorado. Throw the demographic studies in Colorado showing the decreased use of cannabis among teens, add the reduced crime rates, and sprinkle liberally with a juicy tax surplus and just about everyone is winning from Cannabis legalization in Colorado. I feel that it wasn't until recently however that cannabis consumers really were getting the prices that were representative of market value. At Emerald Fields in Glendale, Colorado and in Manitou Springs, Colorado you can expect to now find strains on weekly specials. I won't claim to be as patient as those individuals waiting for cannabis legalization since the 60s, but I will say that my wait seemed long enough as it is already. Whether you are seasoned hippy coming back to cannabis for the first time in decades or Millennial sampling marijuana's finest for the first time I think we can all agree it is a pretty cool time to be in Colorado. And if you're looking for savings then Emerald Fields is a place for you.
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So, let's get into what you can expect from Emerald Fields new weekly strains. Perhaps the most exciting factor of the weekly strains at Emerald Fields is it they change every week. That means you get to sample a new handpicked, freshly cultivated Colorado stain every week. Emerald Fields knows green and when it comes time to decide which farms are going to represent their dispensary its serious business. In other words, you won't find any brick weed, stems, or seeds from either of Emerald Fields locations. This is the real deal, Colorado chronic at its finest. That doesn't mean that there aren't different qualities for you to choose from. Every week on the weekly strain deal there will be two different tiers to choose from platinum and gold. Each different tier is representative of the plants overall character and quality. With the Platinum shelves' strain of the week, you can expect to find large buds with outstanding flavor profiles. Strains that find their way to the Platinum Shelf display exemplary characteristics such as robust hair growth and trichomes so thick that they glisten. If you want to reward yourself or have friends coming in town that you want to impress, these are the buds that will do it. The gold shelf is what I would consider the new standard for cannabis products from dispensaries around Colorado. This is the Chronic that we would dream of back in the day. This is the type of product that we would maybe get once every year and consider a major boon to our existence. What used to be the stuff of dreams is the gold shelf at Emerald Fields. Now That's What I Call progress. There is one more shelf to choose from at Emerald Fields Glendale, the Emerald shelf. Don't be deceived for my descriptions into thinking that the emerald shelf is anything less than exemplary cannabis as well. A strain that lands itself on the emerald shelf isn't there because of low quality or inferior genetics but due to its surplus nature. This means that even on the emerald shelf there's a high potential of finding some of your favorite name strains that may only appear on the top shelves of other dispensaries. The emerald shelf is made for everyday smoking. This is fine chronic that hits the spot every time without hitting the bank too hard. Regardless of which tier you choose you're sure to be satisfied with the superior quality of Emerald Fields weekly strains.
The pricing structure on all of Emerald Fields weekly shelves is pretty self-explanatory. The only time things can get confusing as whether you're buying from Glendale or Manitou Springs. I sincerely hope you know whether you're in Glendale or Manitou Springs. If you don't know the difference you probably shouldn't smoke anymore. Due to local volume demands as well as regional tax laws the pricing breaks down a little differently.
Emerald Shelf: $25 per eighth
Gold Shelf: $35 per eighth
Platinum Shelf: $45 per eighth
Manitou Springs:
Gold Shelf: $45 per eighth
Platinum Shelf: $55 per eighth
Any way you look at it Emerald Field's new strain of the week tiers are pretty exciting. This is an opportunity to get high-class boutique-style cannabis for discount prices. Not only is the quality and the pricing amazing but the opportunity to sample a variety of different strains every week is an opportunity that I simply can never pass up. Trying a new strain is always exciting, especially when I can walk into Emerald Fields and experience a delightful retail setting instead of a moldy old dealer's couch. No more brick weed for me and my friends, not when we can pay the same price we used to for premium hand cultivated cannabis from Emerald fields. Get out there and enjoy the freedom of legal cannabis, Colorado style!


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oneworld airlines adopt alliance approach to new generation boarding cards and other industry simplification initiatives30 March 2005
oneworldTM is turning its focus to the next generation of airport boarding cards, after becoming the first global airline alliance to enable passengers to fly throughout its route network using electronic tickets only, with the completion of interline e-ticketing (IET) links between all its partners.
The grouping is adopting the same process as it used on its successful IET programme to develop an alliance approach to the new bar-code technology that industry association IATA is encouraging all airlines and airports worldwide to implement for boarding cards and other passenger documents, in the place of the existing magnetic stripe systems, which rely on traditional paper tickets.
oneworld comprises some of the biggest and best names in the airline industry - American Airlines, British Airways, Qantas, Cathay Pacific, Iberia, LAN, Finnair and Aer Lingus and their 17 affiliates. Together, they fly to 603 destinations in 136 countries worldwide, carrying 225 million passengers last year on more than 7 500 daily departures. It is the only airline alliance whose members collectively achieved a profit last year.
The two-dimensional bar-coded boarding pass project is one of IATA's current four key initiatives to simplify the industry's processes, to improve efficiency and reduce costs. The other three are:
- e-ticketing, which aims to eliminate paper tickets by the end of 2007.
- Common-use self-service check-in kiosks, to promote their use and share the cost.
- Radio frequency technology for baggage sorting and handling, with the aim of reducing mis-shipped luggage.
The Chief Information Officers from oneworld's member airlines have commissioned a core team drawn from the alliance's partners, headed by oneworld Vice-President IT Bob McNair, to work on their behalf with IATA on these core initiatives.
Bob McNair said: "oneworld was created to make travel to more places more easy for more people - and that is a theme reflected in all four of these IATA initiatives. oneworld is committed to offering our alliance customer service better than the competition and to reap the benefits that technology provides for both our customers and shareholders.
"By drawing from our experiences as the industry IET leader and adopting an alliance approach to these IATA initiatives, we can help the air transport industry overall develop approaches to benefit passengers the world over."
The oneworld core team will build on co-ordination work long underway throughout the alliance in all four "simplification areas".
While oneworld completes its own IET programme when links are completed between the final three pairings of its partners in April, it and its member airlines will continue to develop IET links with the other global alliances and unaligned carriers.
As the first alliance with full IET between its members, oneworld's customers can travel with the convenience of just one electronic ticket throughout the unrivalled combined network served by the alliance's eight member airlines - American Airlines, British Airways, Qantas, Cathay Pacific, Iberia, LAN, Finnair and Aer Lingus - and their 17 affiliates. Together, they fly to 603 destinations in 136 countries worldwide.
Besides the many benefits this delivers to customers, it also enables the airlines to make considerable efficiencies. With IATA, the world airline association, estimating that electronic tickets cut costs by around US$8 for each paper ticket eliminated, on that basis, with more than seven million passengers a year transferring between oneworld partners, the alliance's IET programme stands to save the eight member airlines around US$60 million a year.
Note: Electronic tickets cannot yet be used at a small number of airports where the appropriate technology has yet to be installed. oneworld carriers will extend the use of e-tickets to them as soon as these airports are equipped.
About oneworld: oneworld brings together some of the best and biggest names in the airline business - American Airlines, British Airways, Qantas, Iberia, Cathay Pacific, LAN, Finnair and Aer Lingus - enabling them to offer their customers more services and benefits than any airline can provide on its own. These include a broader route network, opportunities to earn and redeem frequent flyer miles and points across the combined oneworld network and more airport lounges. Together, its members serve 603 destinations in 136 countries. oneworld was voted the world's best airline alliance by readers of Business Traveller magazine in its 2004 poll and named the World's Leading Airline Alliance for the second year running in the latest World Travel Awards, based on votes cast by travel professionals from 80 000 agencies in more than 200 countries. Note: LAN affiliate LAN ECUADOR is not a member of oneworld.


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Jones Act injuries like any other injury will cause pain, which you must report to your supervisor. The biggest mistake a worker can make is to minimize their pain or saying that "it's nothing" or something similar. Your company expects you tell the truth especially since a lie about your pain can lead to inadequate medical attention and turn into more serious Jones Act injuries that will cost the company even more. If your company finds out that you lied about your pain they have good reason to fire you. When something inside of your head starts telling you to "dust yourself off" and go back to work without reporting your accident or your pain, you need to remember that you have a duty to your employer to report your injury and to tell the truth. Your company is required by law and by their insurance carriers to report all Jones Act injuries and they will suffer the consequences if you do not immediately and truthfully report your injury.
After you have reported your injury most companies want you to be examined by a doctor and Jones Act law requires that you be given proper medical attention. However, some employers will not allow you to be examined by a doctor. That's when you call an attorney who can force your employer to allow you off the boat or rig to be examined by a doctor for your Jones Act injuries.
Expect your employer to want you to see a doctor of their choice. Employers want you to go to a doctor over which they have some control. Most employers want a doctor is very conservative who will give you a pill and put you back to work. This may exacerbate your Jones Act injuries and cause your them to become more serious. Your injury may not be one that requires surgery but failure to get proper medical care may turn it into one that requires surgery.
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Celebrities have a unique way of celebrating their birthdays and I am sure you will be amazed by their birthday cake designs. Check out some of the most bizarre, odd and weird celebrity cakes.
1. The singer rang in 26 with an Orange County yacht party and an elaborate, 3-tier cake adorned with blue flowers. She also got a second cake, homemade by none other than her BFF Taylor Swift.
2. The "I'll Name the Dogs" singer and PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive celebrated his 42nd birthday by chowing down on a cake that was designed as a blown-up bottle of his Vodka label, Smithworks.
3. The actor celebrated his 46th birthday with a cake decorated as his favorite "cheat meal": a large stack of banana chocolate-chip pancakes drizzled with syrup. "This is not pancakes. This is a cake," he says in an Instagram video. "Take a good look at it. It's crazy."
4. Kylie Jenner didn't just rent out Six Flags for her boyfriend's 26th birthday, she went all out on the roller coaster theme. The couple celebrated with an AstroWorld cake, complete with tiny figurines of Scott, Jenner, and their 12-week-old daughter Stormi enjoying a wild ride. "I told them, make sure Stormi has a seatbelt," Jenner said in a video on her Instagram story
5. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star celebrated her 39th birthday with her family. She accompanied this bright pink floral cake with a birthday cake from her kids made of ice cream and strawberries.
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Ocala National Forest offers a mountain biking trail that is different than any trail in Central Florida. With winding paths through forested areas, hills that provide beautiful views, and bluff drop-offs that add a fun element to the ride, the Santos bike trail is a good introduction for anyone looking to try mountain biking for the 1st time!
How do I sign up? Registration is *only* in person on a first-come, first-serve basis at the Outdoor Adventure Center (on the bottom floor of the Recreation and Wellness Center) during the OAC's open hours. You must have a valid UCF ID for this course. You can only register yourself. No online, phone or email registrations are accepted. There is no way to "hold a spot" for this course. There are no refunds.
Please see the "Trips Policies" on for more information: http://rwc.sdes.ucf.edu/policies#p31
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Would You Pay $1 million in Bitcoin to Live Next Door to the Packers?
A house directly next to the Green Bay Packers' home ground is for sale, and the owner is looking to get no less than $1 million in bitcoin for it. Despite the asking price being almost four times what he paid for it in 2011, Chris Murphy is so positive about the sale that he believes the house will be snapped up within four months.
As one would think, Murphy is a born and bred Packers fan, having held season tickets throughout his life. As a child, he used to cycle over to Lambeau Field to watch the games, he recalls fondly.
The three-bedroom home is owned by Murphy's company, FinPar LLC, and used to host Packers parties for his family and friends. Being one of only six properties with access to the Lambeau Field parking lot, Murphy's piece of real estate is in prime position for the good old post-game tailgating party.
910 Stadium Drive is not the only house alongside Lambeau Field to go for $1 million. A nearby neighbor in Shadow Lane was asking a similar amount in September 2017 for his two-bedroom, two-bathroom property, although not specifically in cryptocurrency.
Why opt for the payment in cryptocurrency?
Surprising to some, it is not all that uncommon anymore for property to be exchanged for a decentralized digital currency, albeit largely speculative. Several Miami real estate brokers have accepted bitcoin payments in 2017, with many luxury homes in the United Kingdom and throughout the world following the same trend.
As well as bitcoin, Murphy is also open to accepting the payment in ether, one of the leading cryptocurrencies available.
According to Murphy, his primary motivation for requesting a cryptocurrency payment is to raise awareness about digital currencies and blockchain technology.
For those yet unaware, blockchain is the underlying technology infrastructure that Bitcoin and Ethereum are built on. Simply put, it is a digitalized open-source ledger which records and encrypts every transaction ever made.
Not only are blockchain payments highly secure, they are incredibly fast with a significantly reduced transaction fee.
Besides raising awareness, a bitcoin property purchase is far less complicated than one might think. With the transaction completed in a matter of minutes, it makes the process a breath of fresh air for all who are involved, offering a much smoother experience than a traditional housing sale.
Murphy also sites that he wants to show people that bitcoin has value as an actual currency, which has always been its intended purpose. With the exponential rise in value over 2017, many people saw it akin to a stock investment; an asset to be held while it appreciates.
Now that bitcoin's value dropped and has been hovering between $14,000 and $15,000 for some time, more people may begin to appreciate its worth as a seamless digital payment system.
Murphy partnered with the pioneering real estate company Propy for the sale. The decentralized title registry will list the property on its website and facilitate the cryptocurrency transaction on Murphy's behalf.
The listing for the house can be viewed here.


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Our 2nd graders will have the opportunity to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time today.
|Monday, 11th Mar
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|Tuesday, 12th Mar
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|Thursday, 4th Apr
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The Kindergarten teacher(Miss Heilman), PTO member, and administration will be available to give you and your children a tour of the school and answer any questions you may have.
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NERDSociety writes "I am Number Four is a hodgepodge of a bunch of alien teenager movies and television series. It has strong shades of Smallville, Kyle XY, and John Carpenter's Starman, although without Starman's complexity and sensitivity."
Still not worthy of watching.
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From Eliot Van Buskirk and Wired:
To hear some tell it, file sharing gutted the music industry by encouraging people to gorge themselves on free, illegal content. Indeed, unless Friday's landmark verdict against The Pirate Bay is overturned, four Swedes will spend a year in jail and owe millions of dollars to entertainment companies for operating a file sharing network.
Nonetheless, sites like The Pirate Bay taught — and continue to teach — valuable lessons to the content industry. Even as music labels and movie studios try to sue peer-to-peer networks out of existence, these same networks have been preparing music labels and movie studios for the emerging social-media world, in which sales form only a small slice of the revenue pie, and what really matters is who likes what, and who pays attention to them.
Facebook, MySpace, imeem, YouTube and other social media sites — which the labels now recognize as a major part of their revenue streams going forward — incorporate several aspects of Napster and other early, rogue file sharing networks: buddy lists, user uploads, filtering content by user, viral marketing, ad-supported content and the potential of mining valuable data. The complete DNA of social media was right there, from the very start of P2P.
And even in the early days, the labels were intrigued by the vast pools of user data available on networks like Napster and Kazaa, although they were reticent to take advantage of it.
"It was more than just stigmatized," recalled Eric Garland, CEO of BigChampagne, which measures the popularity of media on file sharing networks. "They feared that to even look at or inquire about what was happening in the file sharing universe would somehow compromise their unflinching stance that this was unauthorized."
But as the initial furor over P2P died down, labels began monitoring file sharing networks through BigChampagne and other services. The data they find there continues to help them in any number of ways, from choosing which leaked song to use as the single, to where a band should tour based on the IP addresses of its fans, to figuring out which artists should perform on the same bill.
The labels beat down Napster, Kazaa, Scour and other P2P networks, and if today's Pirate Bay verdict stands, they will have beaten four Swedes too. Meanwhile, new ways to share files continue to surface, including private and encrypted networks. And The Pirate Bay developers say mirrors exist in other countries, so no matter what happens in Sweden their site will continue to operate. Besides, The Pirate Bay is only one bit-torrent tracker site.
For some, the offense committed by an enabler like The Pirate Bay — as opposed to the people who actually do upload and share copyright material — may be difficult to grasp. You can also find torrents on several other sites — even on Google's search engine. And YouTube hosts pirated copyright material, until and unless it is asked to remove it by the owner, because it is unable to programmatically detect which video clips are pirated.
But the difference is that Google, Yahoo and MSN aspire to catalog everything indiscriminately, while services like The Pirate Bay explicitly cater to practitioners of digital piracy — and are proud of it, to boot.
Even as the content industry celebrates another false victory over file sharing, the world is moving on, to cloud-based, on-demand streaming services — some licensed — where you can hear music and watch videos faster and in a more social way than you can with bit torrent. And as content holders look to monetize those networks, P2P networks provide the only useful template, because they share so many characteristics with today's social-media networks.
Garland, who was there, says tools designed to measure user behavior on file sharing networks led directly to tools that now mine licensed networks like Facebook, imeem, MySpace and YouTube.
When it comes to "where and how people stream, download, watch, listen to, blog about or otherwise make use of or interact with music," said Garland, "file sharing ended up being the blueprint."
And it's a good thing that blueprint was there, from the labels' and studios' perspectives, because today's social-media networks contain even more user data than P2P networks do, and that translates to a bigger opportunity to monetize them through advertising, recommendations and, yes, the occasional sale.
In addition to teaching them how to mine social networks for user data, file sharing taught the content industry that it's often more efficient to address networks than users. On one hand, this sort of thinking led to The Pirate Bay lawsuit. On the other, we have Choruss, Warner Music Group adviser and digital music guru Jim Griffin's plan to license universities, then ISPs, to allow subscribers to download and upload as much music as they want for an overall, royalty-like fee.
"Asserting property rights and attempts at control have cost the sound recording industry over a decade of licensing revenue [and trading] control for compensation," said Griffin during his Digital Music Forum East keynote. "Monetizing friction-free access to music will require swinging to the next vine, and when we make that transition we'll uncover a bigger music service business that's been too-long trapped in the too-small body of an old product-based business of control."
The Choruss plan and the RIAA's official shift away from suing individuals are acknowledgments on the part of the music industry that file sharing will always be a factor, so it could be simpler — and even beneficial — to lump licensed and unlicensed services together under one monthly fee tacked onto users' ISP bills. (ESPN and other video networks already do something similar.) Love Choruss or hate it, Griffin would never have come up with this efficient way of addressing social-media consumption if file sharing networks had never existed.
Finally, P2P accelerated the development of products that people want to purchase when free alternatives exist. Whether music sales are competing with The Pirate Bay or imeem, the answer is the same: Sell ads against free content, and try to sell people something they can't access through the free alternative, be it bonus materials, instant access, concert tickets or whatever. Witness Radiohead's infamous deluxe box set, the recently launched iTunes pass (essentially an album subscription), Josh Freese's crazy album extras, or iPhone apps that deliver an artist's latest creations in near-real time.
File sharing networks forced an industry notoriously set in its ways to acknowledge the enormous power of the internet to distribute music through social channels — if anything, increasing its odds of thriving during the inevitable social-media era.
Lawsuits like this one against The Pirate Bay make sense on the surface. On another level, they're a funny way of saying, "Thanks."


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To all Urban Ops brothers / sisters,
Subject: Postal Transformation Depot Restructures – Major / Minor
Every few years, a community experiences changes in population growth and mail/parcel volume growth that Canada Post recieves thru their data collection processes. Canada Post reviews such information and then sets their Depot restructure schedules each year.
As per Art. 47.02, the Corp. has to provide our National CUPW office of what Depots will be implemented for restructuring exercises. Our Local will be notified if we have any scheduled. Since we don't have MSC routes ( Mail Service Courier ) in our Local, they are for the most part created in the Vancouver Local.
– What is a Depot restructure mean?
A- This means that if a Depot (s) is scheduled for what they call a "Plan A", it usually triggers all of the processes found in Art. 47. If however, it was a "Plan B", this means their is no volume count prior to them rebuilding all the routes in the Depot.
Q – Is there a CUPW Union Observer allowed to watch them during the entire process?
A – Yes, as per the provisions in Art. 47.03. Our Local appoints a qualified CUPW Observer whose role is to follow the various steps of their entire data collection and processing of all internal/external information. To be able to communicate with our members as to the ongoing processes of the restructure. Obtain completed forms used by their Route Measurement officers. Participate in all the consultations
Q – Is there any opportunity to be a CUPW Local Knowledge person during a restructure?
A – Yes. Preferably a person who is strongly familiar with the routes in the Depot.
Q – Will our Local be presenting a "Get to know your Route Course" for Urban/RSMC's?
A – Yes & No. The Pacific Regional CUPW has such a course that may/may not be scheduled each Spring as part of our mandated Union Spring Educationals. If there isn't such a course scheduled, our Local will try to facilitate one within our budget.
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text: There are no property taxes as such in Thailand that are exactly equivalent to the property taxes in the west, however, the most comparable taxes on properties in Thailand are the Land Tax and the Structures Usage Tax. The Land Tax levied on land is so minuscule, that in practice the body charged to collect it, rarely bothers to do so, and if they do, they usually wait several years until the amount accumulates. The second tax, the Structures Usage Tax, relates to buildings, is collected by the municipal office or district office, and is only applied to properties used for commercial purpose.


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The Anglesey 10K
The Anglesey 10K Run
Sep 29 2013
On the 29th September I will be running the Anglesey 10k with Rachel Varney - As those of you who know me, it won't be easy as I'm carrying a little more weight than your average marathon runner!
We are raising money for Emmaus Bolton - A charity based in Bolton that provides a home and work for formerly homeless people.
You can find out about Emmaus on their website - www.emmausbolton.co.uk
If you would like to support our good cause, click on ABOUT US, and then on the donate button.
Thank you for supporting us.
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