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We're like a lot of people. We're progressive, liberal people who live in a not-so-progressive, not-so-liberal state. Our state might be red, but we live in a blue city and an even bluer neighborhood. We live here on purpose: We wanted to be close to our families, but without the stereotypical small-town values that I experienced growing up. And we're happy here... for the most part. But as our children grow, we look around and wonder, "Is this the right place for us to be? Is this where we want our children to grow up? What is the environment we've chosen teaching them?"
All these questions were heightened after our oldest son started identifying as gay at a young age, and they intensified through the last election cycle. It's not fun or comfortable to be fighting for civil rights when the majority of those outside our liberal bubble vehemently disagree with us or think that we're making a big deal out of nothing. It's not fun to live in a place where "family values" don't include my family. When the election fuss calmed down, reality was still there to remind us exactly where we've chosen to make our home: the Midwest.
It's a place where my kid could be denied the right to attend his own prom, as almost happened to gay students at a high school in Indiana where a group of parents, students and a teacher fought to have a separate, "traditional" prom that would not have allowed gay couples, or as happens to gay students at a high school in Missouri whose handbook denies them the right to bring a same-sex date to prom.
It's a place where a church can be so rooted in hatred that its name becomes synonymous with it, like the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas.
It's a place where teachers could be fired for standing up for my son's rights, as happened to an assistant principal in Ohio who dared to write a pro-marriage-equality blog post.
It's a place where legislators are trying to take away the mere mention of my son's orientation, as is happening in Missouri, where a "don't say 'gay'" bill is currently moving through the legislature.
None of these facts corresponds with the life I want for my child. None represents a value system we want to live in or with.
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit Los Angeles. I was happily surprised by what I saw. Men holding hands with each other (and during the day, no less!) and families with gay parents were commonplace. Even in my blue neighborhood in my blue city, I'm not used to that. Where I live, I only expect to see men holding hands around the gay clubs, under the cover of nightfall. It isn't safe, and everyone knows it. Gay men are especially careful not to show affection around children. They have been taught to always be careful. It makes me so sad.
When I got home, my husband and I had yet another conversation about whether we should move, and if so, where. It's a hard question. In any move, there's extended family, employment, money, etc., etc., to consider. And then there's the question of what a move would teach our kids. Would we be teaching them to run away? But is that worth it if we're talking about safety and quality of life?
And there's something to be said about staying here and fighting the good fight. Where would we be as a country if every liberal person up and left the Midwest? What would that do to all the progress made in the last election? Would it create an even bigger sense of "us vs. them" than already exists in this country? I don't think any of those is a good outcome. I want our entire country to have equal civil rights for all citizens, not just those living in a few states here and there.
There are just too many questions that don't have any good answers.
Then, last week, I went to the parent/teacher conferences at my sons' elementary school. Some parents don't appreciate the ritual, but I love it. I love getting some one-on-one time with my kids' teachers and getting insight into their school lives. My older son's class is currently doing a unit on civil rights, and he's eating it up. He comes home these days talking about Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, which has led to some great discussions at home. I told all this to my son's teacher (whom I love, and who fully supports our son's right to be himself). She got quiet for a moment and then said, "Our last assignment for this unit will be for each student to write an essay on a particular civil rights leader. With your permission, I'd like to add Harvey Milk to the list. Would that be OK?"
I was stunned. "OK?" I said. "That would be amazing!"
"Your son won't have to write about him, and I won't single him out," she assured me, "but I wanted him to have the option of writing about someone he can identify with."
It's good to remind myself that things like this happen in the Midwest too. My son's school exists here. It's a place where his principal and teachers have offered nothing but support for him. It's a place where a group of second graders is now going to learn about Harvey Milk.
Are we going to move? I don't know. Today we're here, and we'll continue to work to make here the sort of place we want to be. Tomorrow? I don't know. Ask me then.
After the parent-teacher conference, my husband talked to my son about Harvey Milk, who he was and what he fought for.
"Like Martin Luther King for gay people?" my son asked.
"Yeah," my husband said. "A lot like that."
"Did someone shoot him too?"
My husband looked into my son's eyes and said, "Yeah, buddy, he was shot too."
No matter where we live, parenting can be hard.
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[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-632?page=all ] Alex Blewitt updated HARMONY-632: --------------------------------- Attachment: segment.patch Adds parsing for file_bands to segment options > Patch to provide parsing of file_bands at end of Pack200 file. > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HARMONY-632 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-632 > Project: Harmony > Type: Improvement > Components: Classlib > Reporter: Alex Blewitt > Priority: Trivial > Attachments: segment.patch > > This patch provides the unpacking of the file_bands at the end of a Pack200 archive. With this, the implementation is now capable of reading a non-GZipped pack200 archive and being able to correctly extract the file names and bytes. Currently, the parsing does no processing in terms of being able to reconstitute those into files. > Owing to a Java limitation in byte array initialisation, the maximum size of a file must be <2Gb in this current implementation. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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The president of the United Nations Security Council says now is the time for the Council to begin discussing a possible U.N. role in so-called "nation-building" for Afghanistan.
Richard Ryan of Ireland told reporters that he welcomes a statement from U.S. President George W. Bush that the United Nations should take over a future "nation-building" project in Afghanistan.
"Nation building is going to have to take place and there is no reason why we should not begin to get into that as soon as possible even while we are in the middle of crisis at the moment," Mr. Ryan said. "Council members will very much want to take this issue on board."
Mr. Ryan said the Council will meet next Tuesday with Lakhdar Brahimi. Mr. Brahimi, Algeria's former foreign minister, is the coordinator of all U.N. activities involving Afghanistan. His immediate focus has been on delivering relief supplies but he is also charged with developing contingency plans to assist in establishing a new government for Afghanistan.
Earlier, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said no one can impose a government on the Afghan people. He said the United Nations might be able to help through a transitional period if the Afghan people agree to work together to form a broad-based government.


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Beet biofuel plan for Portlaoise
The Togher Inland Port at Portlaoise is one of the preferred locations for a new biofuel plant as part of a major effort to revive the sugar beet industry in Ireland.
Spearheaded by Beet Ethanol Energy Teoranta (BEET) Ireland, the proposed €400 million state of the art facility would represent a massive investment in the county and a potential jobs boost for Portlaoise. An estimated 500 jobs are planned during construction with 250 staff to run the plant. A further 2,000 indirect jobs in the service sector are also promised.
The BEET Ireland group, consisting of former sugar beet growers, addressed the Joint Oireachtas committee on Agriculture last week, after which its Chairman, Michael Hoey of Country Crest Foods, indicated to media that a highly suitable site in the midlands had been identified.
The Togher site is believed to meet the criteria in terms of location, services, arable land, as well as local expertise in the industry.
The BEET Ireland group has targeted 2016 for the reintroduction of beet Ireland, with the next four years and the reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy being an absolutely critical factor.
BEET Ireland has also proposed a new business model for sugar and ethanol manufacturing, which includes using heating from the factory to cultivate protected crops in glasshouses, adjacent to the site. It business plan sees growers as having a key role and stakeholder status in the industry.
When contacted by the Leinster Express last week, Cllr James Deegan confirmed that he and Laois County Council's Senior Executive Planner, Kieran Kehoe have been in consultation with the Directors of Beet Ireland over the last number of months, regarding the Togher location.
They also attended last week's joint meeting of the Oireachtas committee of Agriculture.
"The Beet Ireland group headed up by Mr. Michael Hoey and his fellow Directors gave a two hour presentation to the Dail committee and the presentation received cross party support that the redevelopment of the sugar industry be part of the negotiations of the upcoming CAP Reform," stated Cllr Deegan.
"Togher Inland Port is now emerging as the favoured location for any new beet/ethanol processing plant because the site has all the requirements that have been set out by the promoters of this venture.
"There are other groups promoting alternative sites for the beet processing plant in all the beet growing areas, but the Portlaoise site ticks all the boxes. It's not a matter of if there will be a sugar beet industry in Ireland again, it's a matter of when," stated Cllr Deegan.
Senator John Whelan said he was delighted with developments.
"Laois County Council are to be commended for the initiatives they are taking to sell the county as an ideal location for a new state-of-the-art beet processing plant. This would create real sustainable jobs and Portlaoise is superbly suited in terms of logistics, road and rail network and a strong local tradition in the sugar beet industry.
"This kind of job creation is critical for the county and key to the country's economic recovery and I will be backing these efforts all the way and at every opportunity and hopefully these endeavours will pay off in the coming months," stated Sen Whelan


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|Move the original piano stop rail to a flat surface such as a table or bench top. Place a strip of matte finish, clear adhesive tape (Scotch brand Magic tape recommended) across the entire length of the stop rail top surface. Retain a hand length of excess tape at each end.
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- With a pencil, trace the left and right outer edges of the stop rail onto the tape.
- Carefully measure this left-right length of the stop rail with a tape measure and record this very important measurements at the far left end of the template and at the bottom of this measurement sheet.
- Trace the circle of each fastener hole. Avoid breaking the tape surface.
- Most stop rails are fastened to the key frame by wood screws at the ends and hex or disc nuts in the middle. Tape a sample of each fastener type onto the right end of the template. The samples will be returned with your completed order.
Record the Key Locations
- Raise the stop rail lower nuts so that fastener posts do not punch through the tape template. With the stop rail back in the piano, trace a single line between each key onto the tape. These marks should accurately reflect the spacing and angles of the keys as they pass beneath the stop rail. Don't forget the outer edges of each section.
- Write the letter name of the first and last key at their location on the template.
- Place a second layer of clear tape over the first layer to protect your marks.
- Carefully remove the two layers of tape from the stop rail and loosely wrap the tape around two widely spaced fingers, making a loop. The template is ready to be mailed. Please use a sturdy, padded envelope and/or wrap the template in a paper towel
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Here is the card I made.
I bought that pouch from Typo - thats an stationary.. actually not just stationary, they have all types of stuff store. It honestly drew my attention to the water coloured chevron pattern, I love it.
I feel like the distress ink colours I had were very similar to the colours on the bag, which made the card come out even better imo.
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In order to become a psychiatrist in the UK you have to become a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych). Becoming a member of the RCPsych involves passing a number of membership exams (Membership of the RCPsych – MRCPsych). To this end I sat MRCPsych papers 1 and 2 yesterday.
Yesterday was the first time papers 1 and 2 have ever been sat, replacing the old 'part 1', so no one knew exactly what to expect and at what level the expected knowledge would be set; the college had made available a syllabus, but this was rather brief.
I didn't think that paper 1 was too bad actually, as it covered a lot of what used to be contained in the written section of part 1 and I had used part 1 materials to revise. The exam was most notable for the arctic temperature of the hall and the fire alarm going off eight minutes before the exam's conclusion. We all filled out into the cold and then filed back in again fifteen minutes later, several people having taken the opportunity to steal a sneaky peak at their revision notes in between times.
Paper 2 was a complete horror.
In retrospect it was rather ambitious taking papers 1 and 2 on the same day. But oh my! I've sat a large number of exams over the past ten years (an occupational hazard when you've spent as many years as a student as I have) but I've never set eyes on such a stinker. Despite having spent a month revising I'd somehow managed to totally miss anything that the college was seeing fit to ask questions upon.
Most of my selections were based on whatever answer gave me the 'right feeling' (impressionable youth note: as a strategy, this is unlikely to succeed). I wasn't the only one finding it hard: as I looked around the room, there were a lot of furrowed brows and later, in conversation with my peers I discovered that they had had a similar experience. There was a lot of statistics in the exam, but my colleague couldn't do these despite having just been on a statistics course. The genetics questions required in-depth knowledge of DNA mutations, and a number of questions may have required knowledge of papers of which I have never heard.
I've been looking at the SuperEgoCafe forum concerning this exam and candidates are annoyed. There is talk of complaints. I'm a a little more sanguine. Now for next time I know what to prepare for.
But before I finish, I would like to offer a small prize to whomever can tell me why knowing the specific tracer used in PET scans to highlight specific neurone receptors makes me a better psychiatrist. I'm not seeing it myself.


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ONGC posts 48% rise in net profitTuesday, August 14, 2012
State-run oil and gas producer Oil and Natural Gas. Corp Ltd (ONGC) posted a 48.4% year-on-year rise in net profit for the three months ended 30 June at Rs. 6,078 crore, on the back of a depreciating rupee.
The company, which announced its results on Saturday, recorded a 24% increase in revenue to Rs. 20,149 crore in the same period.
ONGC's net profit was also aided by lesser write-offs on account of drilling dry wells compared with a year ago, according to its chairman and managing director Sudhir Vasudeva.
A decline in the value of Brent crude during April-June 2012 compared with the same period in 2011, along with the amount of subsidy towards compensating under-recoveries by downstream oil marketing companies that it shares, saw ONGC's net realization per barrel of oil fall 4.4% year-on-year to $46.62. Due to the depreciating rupee, however, the net realization in rupee terms was 16% higher at Rs. 2,181 per barrel.
ONGC has made a significant oil pool discovery in its D1 field in the western offshore basin, off Mumbai, which, according to Vasudeva, was the big discovery that had "eluded" ONGC so far. The ONGC chairman hoped that this discovery, along with two other onland discoveries in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, will help answer critics of the company who have questioned its ability to make a new significant hydrocarbon discovery.
Vasudeva also told reporters in Mumbai that at a board meeting of the company, ONGC had decided to invite fresh bids for companies interested in partnering it for the exploration and production of coalbed methane in India. The oil ministry had earlier asked ONGC to scrap its plans to farm out a stake to private energy firms without an open tender.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said on Monday that "minority students across America face much harsher discipline than non-minorities, even within the same school" after the release of a study breaking down student racial demographics and suspension rates. The study also shows that APAs are suspended at extremely low rates. Unfortunately, Secretary Duncan's comment implies that APAs are not minorities.
This is not the first time media coverage of minorities and education has ignored APAs. Two weeks ago, the New York Times published an article called "To Be Black at Stuyvesant High," which chronicled the day-to-day experience of a black student at a highly selective New York City public school. The author focused little to no attention on APA students. At Stuyvesant, 1.2% of students are black and 2.4% are Hispanic. The proportion of APA students? 72.5%.
It appears to me that the mainstream media outlets are gravely concerned about reporting on aggrieved or oppressed minority populations—so long as they're not Asian. (Where was the mainstream media coverage on reports that APA students are struggling?) The few times the author of the Times article mentions APAs, she lumps them in with white students. Articles that cover Secretary Duncan's comments or the study on suspension rates have included no commentary on why APA students are suspended at such low rates.
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Lately, it seems like every week, there's news of another group leaking so-called government hacking tools to the public. There's the massive Wikileaks reveal of CIA hacks and their use by hacking groups. And the hits just keep on coming.
A group known as the Shadow Brokers has leaked alleged NSA tools used to attack and break into Windows computers. While the previously unknown tools are said to be extremely potent against earlier Windows versions, experts are saying that even Windows 10 is vulnerable as well.
The leaked tools include malware with codenames like EternalBlue, Oddjob, Esteemaudit, ZippyBeer, and Fuzzbunch. Most of these tools are capable of infiltrating and taking control of any pre-Windows 10 computer. If you think that old Windows computers usage should be dwindling by now, well, think again. Market research shows that older versions of Windows were used by more than 65 percent of desktop users surfing the web last month.
Most of the exploits are said to use zero-day vulnerabilities, previously unknown software exploits that are already being used by hackers even before the software makers are made aware of them.
Security expert Matthew Hickey, co-founder and director of cybersecurity firm Hacker House, is particularly troubled by the leaks and its scope. "In about an hour or so any attacker can download a simple toolkit to hack into Microsoft based computers around the globe," he stated.
Microsoft's response
On April 14, Microsoft published a blog post stating that after analysis of the leaked tools dumped by the Shadow Brokers, it found that most of the exploits were already patched by security updates issued earlier. To protect against these hacks, Microsoft encourages customers to keep their computers up-to-date with the latest security patches.
Microsoft's list of patches and the corresponding tool is as follows:
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|Addressed by MS17-010
|Addressed by MS10-061
|Addressed by CVE-2017-0146 & CVE-2017-0147
|Addressed prior to the release of Windows Vista
|Addressed by MS14-068
|Addressed by MS17-010
|Addressed by MS09-050
|Addressed by MS17-010
|Addressed by MS08-067
Additionally, Microsoft said the other remaining exploits "EnglishmanDentist," EsteemAudit," and "ExplodingCan" cannot be reproduced on supported versions of Windows – Windows 7 and later – and customers are advised to upgrade their versions to a supported platform as soon as possible. Note: support for Windows Vista just ended recently.
As we always say, to protect yourself against zero-day attacks and security holes, make sure you apply the latest security updates and software versions as soon as possible. Also, if you're running an outdated and unsupported version of an operating system, please stop using it and upgrade to a supported version.
Read Microsoft's official blog post addressing the Shadow Brokers leaks here.
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Poker Night in America: Season 4, Episode 24
– From Choctaw Resort in Durant Oklaholma, this is Poker Night in America. Welcome to Poker Night in America at Choctaw Resort, he's Joe Stapleton and I'm Chris Hanson. – Coming up on today's show Brandon Cantu and Alec Torelli tangle, E-Tay Brady hits her sister Marsha Hellmuth in face with a metaphorical football and speaking of metaphors the aforementioned poker brat thinks bluffs are a lot like potato chips.
– Let's pop the top on this episode huh? Day two continues, we've got three new players who are gonna sit down, Roger Sippl's buying in for 10,000, Phil Hellmuth back at the game and Craig Stanley will take up the seventh seat with another 10,000. – [Joe] Craig won his way into this game.
Roger Sippl's a big time CEO out of Silicon Valley I believe he started a company called Aviato. – [Chris] And he also plays as you will find out in the same home game in California as Phil Hellmuth. – What's it like to have 100 million? (laughing) – I don't have 100 million.
– [E-Tay] Torelli's no longer the richest at the table. – It might have been a brief second where before taxes I had five million, during my peak of all peaks. – Right okay at the peak of all peaks up at the summit what's it like?
– It's really good. (laughing) – I mean like did you expect a different answer like? – [Joe] You gotta appreciate the honesty.
– One of my favorite stories is about what you did to your friends when you won the, when you, when one of your top companies went public. – Oh are you talking about the year of Roger Cruz? – Yeah. – [Roger] Oh that was good. – [Joe] Well don't leave us hanging, tell us.
– It's, it's really good. – [Chris] There's something that Phil Hellmuth is very good at, it is pulling information out of people and putting people on the spot to say something. – [Joe] He's also really good at getting run down, he's a 76% favorite here, make that 91% favorite. It's a story of a girl named Brady, who is raising too soon but not so good cards, one of them was the same as her opponent, both of them in hearts.
– [Chris] Alright she picks up a little help on the turn. – [Joe] You know I was just joking before about Phil getting run down but it is looking significantly more likely. – [Chris] Well Ester-Taylor Brady was bluffing with the first bet, now it's a semi bluff, a bet here on the turn. (commentators laughing) Oh no. – [Joe] I say I get no enjoyment out of watching Phil get run down, but I just laugh so I'm not sure what that means.
– [Chris] And you were the one who said he gets run down a lot, at the very beginning of this. – [Joe] Oh he hates poker some nights. – [Chris] So which is it buddy boy? – [Joe] He just does. – I'm going to be so disappointed if he had like jack ten of hearts and was just stone cold dead the whole hand (laughs) oh my God.
– [Joe] You're not far off buddy boy. – What a joke. – [Chris] Really tough spot for Phil because I know she's totally capable of doing this without absolute air. Phil's totally capable of making good lay downs. – I have the big pair.
– [Chris] Nice fold. – You could show me a bluff E-Tay I don't mind. Yeah and, – Four of hearts. – Four of diamonds? – She probably had ace four of hearts, I had jacks and I was going to let her bluff off all our money. She might of even had seven four.
Come on it's so unfair. Right I'm just going to try to bluff Phil even though he's stacked cold 1,600. Good play I give her credit but you needed a miracle river card.
– No I know, I know. – [Phil] You really needed a seven or a heart. – [E-Tay] I'm agreeing with you on all, all accounts.
– [Joe] Miracle turn and river. – [Phil] That sucks for me, I got somebody, then I trapped somebody and they tried to give it all to me. – You did trap me to be honest. – Of course I trapped you, it's not hard, every time you raise you're gonna have a pair. – If you bust Phil are you going to text like your whole home game?
I would expect that. (laughing) Like send out like a– – [Alec] Take a picture – Oh there's already an email chain going. – Oh okay.
– [Alec] The group chat. – [Phil] It was so tilted I should've called it, she has to have a– – [Chris] Nice flop Brandon Cantu. – [Phil] Or nothing, I should've called her, she either, she's not betting a king, not. – [Chris] Simple pairs his three and bets 400.
– [Joe] Sippl may be the one guy at the table I would not feel bad about stacking, he can afford it. – [Phil] Is he, is he your friend? – [Joe] He's been on the board of over 12 corporations. – [Phil] You know I just lost a big pot right, I just got bluffed for all the money. – [Chris] Easy Phil, easy. – Against the one person I knew would bluff it off of me.
– [Joe] What's happening over there? – [Chris] Phil's like a Phil in a china shop. – [Alec] I think he just did, he only pulled in two jacks and made up a story about it I don't know. – Good luck man, good luck.
(bleep) man I should've had that, should've picked that off. – [Joe] Sippl with just 8% equity. And it looks like– E-Tay's going to call thin. – [Phil] Do just a three barrel bluff, I knew it. – No can't do it, not against you maybe, but he definitely would. – Nobody three barrel bluffs anymore.
– What? – It's a lost art. – Stop.
– And when's the last time you saw it on the show? – [Joe] Oh man how in the world, you get 3% equity on the flop, 8% equity on the turn. – Which is why I should've finished the job with ya. – [Chris] Slamming home on the river. – You gave me the money and I, – I did. – refused it.
– [Craig] She's that good. – [Phil] And you might give it to me again. – But now you've, now you told me that you're going to trap me, so maybe not. – That doesn't matter. Once you get away, bluffs are like potato chips, once you get away with one, it tastes so good you want another and another. – I don't like potato chips.
– Doesn't matter, what's your favorite food? – Cheetos. – Cheetos, so bluffs are like Cheetos. Almost everybody that bluffs me I end up beating busting, – I believe it, I believe that. – my whole life it's a weird thing. Cause I'm going to trap them again and they're going to bluff again, that's all.
– I got a straight. – I got a full house. – [Joe] Yep. – You and I are playing so good Cantu how does that (bleep) happen? – [Chris] Oh man.
Nice trap. – Let's see if Phil can make like Elsa and let it go, after the break. For more from Poker Night visit pokernight.com or find us on Twitch, Facebook, Twitter, or Youtube where you can see complete episodes and unedited live streams.
Welcome back to Poker Night in America with Joe Stapleton I'm Chris Hanson. Blinds are 25 and 50 with an optional $100 straddle. – [Joe] And Roger Sippl has decided to exercise that option, he's putting in 100 blind, he'll be last to act before the flop.
Himmelbrand raises with sixes. – [Phil] What was the flop last time? – Oh, we missed three already so. – [Phil] Okay.
– So I don't even know, but. – That's a good point, I agree with you this hand. – Yeah, if it was the first one we should probably go back but given that we missed. – Agreed, well thought out, yeah I like it.
– [Chris] And Brady re-raises with aces. – 1,000. – [Chris] Action on Cantu. – [Joe] Hard to believe this guys a dad now. – [Chris] We're all getting older Stapes. – [Joe] Oh, speak for yourself.
I think you pretty much always have to call with a pair when stacks are deep enough, too much implied odds. And implied odds, that's the money you stand to win when you flop a six. A set of sixes against a pair of aces can sometimes get you the entire stack. – [Chris] Himmelbrand calls and here's the flop, oh, oh my.
– [Joe] Okay so of course there's also this thing called reverse implied odds and that's the money you stand to lose when you flop a set and someone else flops a bigger set. – [Chris] I like to call it, screwed. (laughs) – [Joe] Yeah. – [Chris] You can call it whatever you want, but you just got screwed.
– [Joe] I don't know if a raise is mandatory here with a set of sixes, it's kind of a dry board, and your opponent can only continue if they have an ace. Or two or three aces. – 1850. – [Chris] 1,100 for Taylor-Brady to call. – [Joe] And I think E-Tay may also just flat here and I was wrong before, there aren't a lot of value hands Greg could be raising with. And if he's bluffing a raise here would send him heading for the hills faster than Audrina Patridge.
So she does flat, before it gets shradyer on the turn. – Call it, call it. – [Dealer] Very well then, and a call. – [Joe] Oh no. – Hope it's ace king and not aces.
– [Chris] It's aces. (talking over each other) – That's cold. – Oh my God. – [Joe] Greg Himmelbrand more like Greg Himmelstacked.
– [Chris] Oof. – [Joe] Greg felted brand. – Another 17.
– Thank you. – What's crazy about that hand is, if I literally had like $500 less in my stack I wouldn't have peeled the three bet. I had like just the minimum amount that I needed, and she hadn't really been three betting very much so I gave her a very strong range when she did so I figured the times that I did flop a set I was gonna get paid almost 100% of the time, and it came ace high with both of our sets so at this point I can play a very small pot in case she has aces or just hope she has ace king and get the money in, so I decided on the latter and when she snapped me on the turn I wasn't really super happy, I said I hope this is ace king and not aces, and it wasn't it was aces. – Pulled it out, yeah like– – Yeah I should've played it slower. – Definitely.
– I was doing better when I was trash talking you, Alec. I think I'm going to go back to that, telling him how– – [Alec] When he was being an orangutan he was doing better. – Yeah like, I'm going back to being an orangutan. (laughing) – [Joe] Stanely's raised the queen jack. – [Chris] Sippl's in. Starting right now I'm just letting everybody know.
– Okay good, kick it up. – Not against you though, everybody else, everybody else. – [Roger] You've already shown– – [Brandon] By the way I can suck out, I mean, Alec, Alec will tell you a story there. – Do you think those, you're the only one I don't need more of.
– Yeah we've had some good ones, that was a massive pot too. (laughing) It was like, this is a good one. – [Roger] The suck outs have been against you here are small compared to the– – Yeah, it was so brilliant, it was against J.R.B. too, it was so priceless.
– [Joe] Very good flop for Stanely. – [Chris] There are a couple of options for him to get a Phil Hellmuth style rundown. – Who dissin' when the pot has got a what, maybe 400. – [Joe] Yeah somehow Taylor-Brady is the favorite even though she's behind for now. I like this big bet too, he's going to get action with the best hand so why not?
– [Chris] And the player they call E-Tay, calls with all of her drawings. – Like live against like the online wizards. – [Joe] Does she know my name is Simon and I like to make drawings.
– [Chris] Misses on the turn. – They play a different style for sure. I'm not saying– – Of course you do because, you know exactly what they're gonna do.
– Yeah they have such a like, funnel style – Narrow minded yeah. – [Joe] Three calls there but no one's got a club. – [Alec] Just cause they play like everybody else, you know. – Yep I agree.
Categorizes them very– – That's why I said they don't do well when they go live, cause it's like, you know they have the fundamentals right, but they're so– – There's just like a transition phase I guess because it– – Mmmhmm so ABC in a way, in a weird way, even though it's solid it's still like the same– – [Joe] Looks like Roger's going to bet at this now. – [Dealer] 1,000. – What's your hand range when I, like what's bottom line hand range when I open or cut off when you drink wine? – Why are you asking? – Because I love to hear your responses.
(laughs) – [Joe] I guarantee you Alec does not answer him. (laughs) – There's a well thought out answer, that's why– – Yeah that's true if I give you one. – [Brandon] I know. – My well thought out answer is that yours changes, – [Joe] Conversation over. – depending on your mood. – Really, really, I'm surprised to hear that.
– [Joe] Alright Craig, you've got the best hand, what's the planely Stanley? – [Chris] All in, nope guess not. – [Joe] I think he meant to go all in, it looked kinda like a stringy all in. – [Chris] Now it's 2,200. – I like discussion where they, – Yeah that's what I mean.
– yeah yeah yeah like. – [Alec] It's just like pretty straightforward. – [Greg] And E-Tay thought our hand was exciting but, not– – [Joe] Nice hand I'd like to bet, I think Roger is more likely to call the bet on the end than he was to bet with his own hand so well done Stanley. Coming up next some tense words exchanged between Brandon Cantu and Alec Torelli. – More Poker Night in America straight ahead. – I never seen the slow roll coming but he's like "You're good."
It is what it is man. Go on, hey and we'll play tomorrow, you know, we'll keep going. Welcome back to Poker Night in America, we've got two hands to go for the day, and both of them involve Cantu and Torelli, take it away boys.
– I mean you know Alec he's looking, he makes all these weird three bets. – [Brandon] No I know, he's playing– – [Joe] Yeah like all your weird three bets. – [Phil] Half the time with nothing. – He plays the internet era you know like. (laughing) And it's funny when like– – [Phil] You know it and I know it and we just, I didn't have a choice I had sixes. – He catches the most basic tell, and he'll try to go with it, thinking that we don't know of the tell and we're not going to the next level you know what I mean?
It's just, it's very basic– – [Phil] Yeah but that's why– (laughing) It's why you can't, you can't, they don't know how good we are, they don't understand. – It's why the internet players like all get just, they all just get crushed. – That's why we're deep every tournament. – [Joe] These two need to be in a buddy cop movie together. – Come on Alec, I'm already too late.
– I mean all you had to do was make it 12,000 no big deal. – I know, if you don't think I considered that by the way. – I think you considered it. – I swear on my mother I considered that. – [Phil] I think, I think 2,000's considered though.
I mean considering and doing it are different things though I consider a lot of things am I right? – Yeah you're right I wouldn't do that. (Joe whooping) – [Chris] Wow, did you see that look? (laughs) – [Phil] He could easily– – [Joe] Cantu.
– 600. – [Joe] Alec flops trips, Cantu raises his flush draw. So in the Hellmuth Cantu buddy cop comedy, I guess Alec Torelli is the villain. – [Chris] Yeah good looking, smart.
– [Joe] I'm taking you down Torelli. – [Chris] Well dressed, yeah he'd make a good villain in that movie. I see him stealing part. (laughs) – [Joe] Dogs playing poker. So it goes bet call on the turn.
Cantu dead to a heart which he binks. Hey Mr. Meeseeks I want you to help me be able to suck out better on the river. Cantu! Nobody, Rick and Morty, alright fine. – [Chris] No lost me.
– [Joe] I mean how many people just auto call with trips there? I can see the hands and I almost called. (laughs) – [Chris] As Phil Hellmuth said they underestimate how good we are. – Back to hell I was going to unload the clip. – [Chris] And that just shows you how good a player like Alec Torelli is.
– Yeah but this year I'm up a couple hundred dimes so. – Okay. – I can't always play great and lose you know. – [Joe] A couple hundred dimes, what is that four, five, dollars? No sorry, bad math, 40, 50 dollars. – [Chris] Yeah.
It's not much. – [Joe] Who plays for dimes any more that's crazy, I thought these Silicon Valley guys had money. – Between the hand you and I played, I would've move on on the turn against my friends in Palo Alto and they would've called and hit the heart. And then I would've– – Yeah I couldn't have called.
– [Roger] And you would've ramped it. – [Phil] And then I would've ramped it, – [Roger] We would've seen it yeah. – [Phil] They would've got there cameras out. (laughs) They would've.
– Do they film you, your rants? – Oh yeah, he said he has 10 of them. – Did you just hear that he said he has like five videos of him, yeah. – Oh I didn't hear that. – Yeah.
– Yeah. How did I lose the other day? Someone raised with ace five of clubs, I did a monster re-raise with aces and it came deux three four.
– [Joe] Three ways to this flop, Cantu the original raiser. Action flop. Torelli flops trips Cantu and Hellmuth both flop a pair. Pairs very likely to be good most of the time. – 1,000.
– [Joe] Brandon, Cantu, what're you doing buddy? I mean I'm sure it's fine I can just see the whole cards. I think you can get action from worse 10's, when you make this raise here it's just unfortunate Alec Torelli has got a jack. And I think, yeah I think that two calls here is often not gonna happen.
Phil is pretty intent on calling with that 10 and then when Torelli calls in front of him he knows his 10 can't be any good. It's very unlikely to be good at least. – [Chris] Three on the turn. And now Cantu slows down.
– [Joe] If Cantu bets here I don't expect it to be very big, almost 2,800 in the middle. And Cantu does not bet. The only problem with not betting here is now Alec gets to set the price. – [Chris] And that price is 2,000. – [Joe] It's over 2/3rds pot, and this is just why it sucks to play out of position. Alec gets to see what Brandon did and make the move himself.
Could be a bluff. We know it's not. Fire fire fire. – [Phil] Yeah she had heart heart.
– [Joe] Good fold Brandon. – [Chris] Saved himself money because there was obviously no way Torelli was going anywhere, he was probably going to raise, and the Brandon would've had to fold anyway. – I had a lot bigger than eights Alec, it might've been a bad fold. – Yeah, I didn't think you had two eights.
– What's that? – I didn't think you had two eights. – Ah I was just, I was just sniffing some stuff out. – Eights don't make much sense. – It would be a very weird play if I had eights. – Yeah it'd be weird.
– Because we can't judge their play solely on height we're going to have to use chips. We'll find out who's winning when we return. – Before he said, he must have had at least a five or six. He was already having fun. – Ah it's all good, but I never seen the slow roll coming but he's like, you're good.
And then he rolls over middle set, I got 2's, he's got 7's and I think there was a king after, queen whatever it was. I lose. It is what it is man. Hey and we play tomorrow.
We keep going. Closed captioning is brought to you as public service by Poker Night in America. – Alright that's it for this week let's check out the final tallies. – [Chris] We be done with day two of Choctaw and here are the people with the red downy marks, not optimal. – [Joe] Sad clown.
– [Chris] And here are the people with the green uppy charts, very optimal. – [Joe] Where the hell was Daphne Turner this episode, what'd she hit and run? – You know it's not that often that you see Alec Torelli in the loser bracket, let alone the bottom of it.
– Nope but I'm sure Phil is happy for the company. Next time we are back to Choctaw for the final day with a host of locals looking to take their shots. Will they do as well as Daphne, I don't know, that's why you watch you dingus. – Check it out.
For more from Poker Night in America visit pokernight.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Twitch for up to date information, full episodes and unedited live streams. For Joe Stapleton I'm Chris Hanson, see you next time on Poker Night in America. – These guys love to play against me, let's be honest they love to call raises with hands they shouldn't and then crack me and hear me go speechy, he has like, if I– – You might have had that like once or twice tonight. – If I gave him permission, he has 10, he told me he has 10 videos of me ranting at our game.
When I start ranting I like, you know see me on the show, I become kind of oblivious to my ranting and I'm like how could they do that?


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How to make carved candles
How to make candles.
I usually write on more mundane subjects like reality and consciousness. But I used to make candles for a living and had my own business for almost ten years.
I was having a conversation with Mr Happy, a Hub Pages contributer recently, when he asked me to explain the candle carving process. So here it is.
As you see in the picture these are the type of candles I used to primarily make and demonstrate at shows in malls. Particularly around Christmas time. We made most of our year's profits in the months leading up to Christmas. But we did alright in between as well until the craft market went bust in the late 1970s. No. I did not make this one. I found the picture on the net.
So first let me tell you about the set up. To make candles you need wax, of course. To start my business I bought half a ton of paraffin that melted at around 130 degrees F. This is a medium wax. You can buy wax that melts at lower temperatures but then you have a lot of drips when you burn them. Or you can buy high temperature wax which does not drip when burned.
When making these candles you want a medium wax because you don't want it to stay warm for too long or your work sags and you don't want it hardening before you are finished carving. So the medium wax works best for these kinds of candles.
The next thing I needed was a vat. I made a tub out of metal. You can make it out of galvanized sheet metal but it is hard to solder. So a light gauge to medium gauge is probably best. You want several colors of wax going at the same time so the tube has to be big enough to hold at least 6 to 8 5 gallon metal pails.
So the tube has to be at least 2.5' by 6 to 8 feet long and at least two and a half feet deep. Your vat should have a cover so you can cover it at night. You can save electricity that way. I have seen round vats as well. The choice is yours.
Next you have to get a heater. I used a 120 volt heater for an electric water tank. You can get them in most hardware stores. You also need a thermostat to regulate the temperature and you should really have a safety relay that shuts it all down if the thermostat fails and it gets too hot.
So you are never heating the wax directly. The water is heating the wax. It is so much safer that way and so much easier to control the temperature of the wax and keep it even.
You want to do this preferably in shop away from your house and you need insurance. But we did it out of our basement most of the time, and later we converted a detached garage.
Once everything is assembled you have to fill the tube with water and fill the pails with wax. The wax comes in sheets about two inches thick by 18 inches by 24 inches. You may need a hammer to break them up to put them in the pails.
So once the wax is melted at around 155 to 160 degrees, you can add colour. The wax, of course comes clear so if you want colour or scent you have to add it. However, for carved candles you wouldn't usually add scent.
You can buy colour for wax at most craft shops. But if you are making a living with it you can usually find a wholesaler.
One pail always stays clear because as you use wax you need to add wax that is already at the right temperature or you would have to stop work while the wax melts again. You will also want one pail full of white. White wax is hard to get. There are no good white wax dies. So what is used instead or was at the time I was doing it was white paint. It has to be a special white artists paint with titanium in it. You therefore do not want to make any candles that are pure white. In these carved candles the white never burns so it is ok.
You obviously also want yellow, blue, green, and red. If you have eight pails you can add orange and purple or whatever you like. You can always have extra pails on hand for special orders. Or you could build two vats.
So now we have the hot wax all ready and coloured to taste. Next we need moulds. You can buy moulds in most craft shops but it you need a lot of them a wholesaler is obviously better. The moulds in the case of these candles is a tapered star. It has at least 6 points.
The moulds are galvanized sheet metal and have a hole at the bottom for a wick. You string the wick through the mould and then tie the wick to a metal bar that is long enough to lay on top of the mould where the wax goes in. You can then center the wick, tighten it a bit on the bottom, and pour in your wax. You want to leave your wick sticking at least 4 inches out of the top of the candle. Eventually you will be tying a hook to it for dipping.
So now you have made a bunch of coloured moulds. You can get these tapered star shaped moulds in several sizes. The most popular is the 12 inch. But you can get 18 inch and 6 inch as well. When the moulds are cool and dry you need to remove the candles from them. At this point they are already candles. But you want to make them look artistic and appealing. Right now they are one solid colour.
So now you are ready to start. Well almost. You will need a thin flexible kitchen knife. Something you might use to peel potatoes. I found the perfect knives for the job. They were dirt cheap and available almost anywhere. You also need two tools out of a wood burning set. One is the round cutter, the other is triangular. You can use other shapes but those two are standard and the minimum required equipment.
So now you have to tie your tapered stars hooks. We made our own out of coat hanger wire. You also need a stick or metal bar to lay over top of the pail with the same colour as the tapered star. Otherwise you end up mixing colours and you end up with a brown mess. Now you put the tapered star in to the pail and leave it there for less than a minute. The tapered star is now warm enough. You remove it from it from the pail and dip it in a large pail of cold water.
Then you start by dipping in white. After each dip in wax, you dip in water to cool the surface. After you have dipped a few layer of white you can dip a few layers of another colour. Then white again. You always want to end up with white and you need to give the last layer at least three to five dips in white to finish it depending on the thickness each dip leaves, which is determined by the temperature of your wax.
I cannot be exact anymore because I have not done it in almost 30 years. So if you try this you will have to play with the temperature to get it right.
When you have dipped for the last time and cooled you need to hang your candle on a stand so that you can carve it. So yes, you need to make a stand for carving in advance.
The first thing you do is cut the bottom off. At this point it has become a series of peaks from the dipping process. You want a flat bottom so you have to gauge where the bottom is and cut off the excess as straight as you can. Now you are left with a bunch of wax in different colours that cannot be re-melted. It is essentially waste. What I used to do was shape mushrooms out of it to use in decorative wax scenes, or just to give to the kids at shows.
Then the fun begins. You have almost exactly seven minutes before the wax is too cold to carve. But seven minutes is a long time. You can start on any point of the star, of course. You start you first cut almost halfway up the candle and coming down to about two inches from the base and pull that layer down. Then you do it again and curl the next cut. You can make bows in the center, barber poles up the sides using the triangular blade, etc. The picture shows the cuts and how they are folded.
At the end you take down the candle and put it on its bottom. You can still mould it a bit at his point so if it is not straight you can fix it. Then you need you carve out the top. You use the round blade for that. It makes a nice pattern around the candle and opens up the core so there is no white wax on the top at all. Then you put it back in cold water until it is hard and cold.
At that point you cut the wick to right length and you are done.
Again, you can use many different shapes of core candle. But the 6 sided star is standard.
For your regular tapered candle you just need a wick. You keep dipping the wick in the colour you want and then in to water to set it until you have the desired thickness. Once you gain some experience with your set up you know exactly how many times you have to dip for exactly the right thickness every time.
You can make a rack and dip several wicks at the same time. You can also get a device to shape the bottom of your candle to a standard candle holder.
Once you have the set up and the tools you can do amazing things with wax. Limited only to your imagination.
Please remove the pink and white candle picture from your page. You did not make it - I did.
Thank you.
I am just wondering how you get your cork handles to cooperate my core likes to stick to my knife. And also peels away from my dipping wax which has pigment try different pigment does the same. Try pouring Mike or wax at different temperatures cooling them at different temperatures the same results
The wax i use is German wax(paraffin), but its too tender, and cant be formed and curved,do you have any idea for my problem? should i add any thing to my wax?
Im in south africa, i use m3m paraffin wax for my pillar candles....wil this do for carving
Mahalo for this page, saw a candle made and i'm a crafter and love new challenges, those ready made wax heaters are so costly but I think my husband can make me the heater and the pails are a great idea :]
i really want to be able to do this. can you recommend any good ways to get started? i do not have much to invest. biggest cost would be the heating element...but i do have some ideas in mind for that. do you know anybody who sells good wax? how about any good instructional books or dvds? thanks for any info you may have!
How did you hook up the heating element? I am working on something similar and I'm not sure if I should use an inner or outer element. I have scoured the net and cannot find any other info
would you happen to have any equipment that you want to sell?
Thank you! Your post was extremely helpful and insightful. I've just started making candles but always faced a challenge in terms of what kind of wax to use for dipping.Paraffin wax is too hard for carving/curling and twisting..So i'm contemplating using soft wax with a low MP or using a combination of 60% Paraffin and 40% Beeswax.I hope it works! Thank you again for your write up...
Wow!! Those are beautiful candles!
Thank you for writing this. It is a lot more complicated than I would have thought. I am not much of a handy-man ... I don't even know half of the terminology but it was a great beginning.
I will certainly book-mark this page and have to come back when I understand things a little better. Much appreciated though - cheers!
I was quite unfamiliar with carved candles before reading this Hub. Fascinating! Thanks for sharing your insider know-how with us.
A man of many talents :) Awesome, dude!
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this hub. I have always admired creativity and this is an example of this. You created something beautiful that appealed to people and they bought it. You also enjoyed doing it. A creative entrepreneur is a dying breed nowadays. Thank you Slarty. Would you not consider placing a link at the bottom of this hub to your book "It's all about me." I think after reading this hub people may want to know more about the things you got up to. I am saying no more but they are in for a treat if they do get your book.


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When Dennis Lehane was working on his latest novel, The Given Day, did he think about whether he was creating that elusive thing, the great American novel?
"I had that pressure on me at one point," Lehane says. "I had to say to myself, 'You need to stop writing for critics and write the story you want to read.' "
Questions about the great American novel aren't out of line. The Given Day is a big, ambitious, beautifully written novel about a dramatic moment in American history, filled with complex characters seeking to define themselves. In September it debuted to glowing reviews - the New York Times called it "a majestic, fiery epic" - and vaulted onto bestseller lists.
Lehane has been on those lists many times as the author of Mystic River, Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and other novels. He's one of a handful of crime fiction writers whose work erases genre lines, thanks to both his craft and his expansive themes.
Both are on display in The Given Day, but it's a departure for Lehane in its scope and its setting in the past - it takes place before and during the Boston Police strike of 1919. "I had heard about it all my life" in his native Boston, Lehane says. "But it was just 'The Boston police walked off the job.' "
Several years ago, between writing Mystic River and Shutter Island, "I paused one day and thought about what that sentence means: 'The Boston police walked off the job.' And I thought, what the hell happened next?"
The more he found out about the strike, which began on Sept. 9, 1919, the more his interest grew. "I heard that the rioting began within 15 minutes and went on for three days" as mobs vandalized and looted businesses and beat, raped and stoned bystanders; the violence killed nine people.
"Then I heard about the cavalry charge" into Scollay Square by military troops called in to restore order, Lehane says, "and I knew. I thought, I've got to write this book."
He spent a year researching it, reading "a lot of books. I went to the Boston Public Library and did a lot of microfiche." Then he spent four years writing it; all told, it took twice as long as any of his other books.
When he began, he didn't conceive of the book as a commentary on contemporary America. "But it became brutally apparent that the mirrors were there," Lehane says. "I found that so many of the reasons for the Boston Police strike are things that are floating around in the zeitgeist now."
When the strike took place, just after the end of World War I, the nation was shaken by economic instability, racial conflict, controversy over labor unions and immigration, and political corruption - all themes on which Lehane built his book.
But, as he says, "I'm not a polemicist, I'm a novelist," so those themes became embodied in a fast-paced plot and a diverse cast of characters. The two central characters are Danny Coughlin, a young Boston police officer and first-generation Irish-American, and Luther Laurence, a young black man on the run from his past.
Lehane says he didn't plan the dual protagonists. "Luther walked into the book and said, 'I'm staying.' I know from past experience it's absolutely futile to argue with a character who wants to be in a book."
Danny Coughlin, he says, was difficult to write "because he's so classically heroic, and I'd never really done that before. I had to figure out how to dirty him up a little."
Danny's gradual move toward sympathy with the police effort to unionize makes him "a stand-in for a lot of readers, I hope," Lehane says. "People seem to forget that unions have been a good thing. Some terrible things have happened, like Mafia infiltration. But, you know, I'd like to say thanks for the 40-hour workweek, thanks for the weekend, thanks for the health insurance, thanks for my kid not having to work in a sweatshop."
Lehane says his next book won't reprise his five-book series about Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. "They've stopped talking to me. I've been dropping fishing lines for nine years, and no bites."
Nor does he expect to stray far from writing about Boston, even though he now lives most of the year in the Tampa Bay area. An Eckerd College alumnus, he is co-director of its annual Writers in Paradise conference, and this year he married Angela Bernardo, an optometrist who practices in the bay area.
"Boston for me is this deep well, and there's still plenty of water in it," Lehane says.
One of the Kenzie-Gennaro books, Gone, Baby, Gone, became a hit movie directed by Ben Affleck in 2007, and Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood, was an Oscar winner in 2003.
Lehane's last novel before The Given Day, Shutter Island, has recently been filmed and is set to be released next year. Martin Scorsese directed, and the cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley. "Yeah, those little low-budget indie movies, they're good for the soul," Lehane says with a laugh.
Having had pretty good luck with translations of his books to film, does he think in cinematic terms when he writes?
"Never. I'll stare you right in the eye and say it."
When he writes, Lehane says, "I'm transporting myself into a conversational mode with a reader who's not there. I'm talking to a ghost. There's no room in that relationship for cameras and directors and actors."
He already has "just the slightest kernel of an idea" for his next book: "I want to know what happens to these families" in The Given Day.
Staying with the historical novel appeals to him more than writing about the present day. "I'm not comfortable with the present day. I might just write 700 pages that say, 'Arrest Cheney. Arrest Cheney.'
"Stepping back in time gives me a better handle on things."
Colette Bancroft can be reached at email@example.com or (727) 893-8435.
Dennis Lehane
He will talk about his new novel, The Given Day, at 10 a.m. in the Campus Activities Center.


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The Esports Shop is a new storefront offering Wheels, Decals (for Octane and Dominus), and Player Banners representing teams playing in the Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS).
To visit the Esports Shop:
- Select Item Shop from the main menu
- Select the Esports tab
Six items will be on sale each day. The Esports Shop will refresh each day at 12 p.m. PDT (7:00 p.m. UTC). Each item will have a timer displayed to show how long that item will appear in the Shop. Once the timer expires, a new Esports Shop item will take its place. Some items will be featured for 24 hours, while others will be featured for 48 hours.
The currency used in Esports Shop is Esports Tokens. Esports Tokens and the items purchased in the Esports Shop are not tradable. Your total number of Esports Tokens is displayed in the top right-hand corner. Credits cannot be used in the Esports Shop. If you attempt to purchase an Esports Shop item but do not have enough Esports Tokens a purchase pop-up page will appear allowing you to purchase Esports Tokens through your gaming platform.


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I was not sure what to expect the following day for Jennie Rayment's "Suduko with Texture" workshop. If we laughed as much as we did yesterday how would we ever be able to complete the project?
I must say the day was one of the best workshops I have attended. Jennie's instructions were first class, she demonstrated each stage of the 9 square suduko twice so those wanting to rush ahead could do so whilst those who wanted to take more time were not left behind. Each square showed a different technique and Jennie told us the aim was to finish the project in the workshop and I think most of the group achieved this. I would like to add some embroidery and beads to my work but this can be done in due course. This workshop helped me considerably with my current module of City & Guilds as I had to learn about fabric manipulationand also research Jennie Rayment as a textile artist.
Everybody was focused all day with little time for chat but we ended the session with a super joke from Jennie which stills makes me giggle two days later.
Thank you Jennie for being so generous with your techniques and a fun workshop.
Report by Ros
This was the first time since I joined the Embroidery Guild when I spent most of the monthly talk in fits of laughter. The name, Jennie Rayment, was known to me but I did not realise that she was such a wit and raconteur. Jennie's talk was entitled "Trials & Tribulations of the Travelling Nipper & Tucker" so I might have guessed we were in for fun. Jennie travels the world talking to groups, attending conferences and shows and giving workshops showing her fabric manipulation in the form of tucks, pleats & various textures a number of which are transformed into quilts. She has written a several books and has a regular slot on the Create & Craft TV channel.
Jennie told us hilarious stories about her travels whilst displaying really beautiful quilts which show her techniques. They included various incidents at airports, the challenge of buying a pair of tights in the USA and the time she caught her skirt in her hotel bedroom. The grand finale of the afternoon was Jennie transforming into a Bunny Girl serving a tray of drinks.
The next meeting of the Guild will be on Monday 6 October when the Branch AGM will be followed by a Show & Tell and member Kath Danswan's talk will be entitled "Travels with a Needle". The doors will open at 13.30 and the meeting will start at 14.00.
Reported by Ros
Information in this blog is provided by branch members who have attended the meeting, workshop or event.
August 2020
Marlborough & District Branch is a member of the Embroiderers' Guild, the UK's leading crafts association
* The Embroiderers' Guild website -https://embroiderersguild.com/
* The Guild Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/embroiderersguild/
* The Guild Pinterest pages - https://uk.pinterest.com/theembroiderers/


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What would happen if you increased homogenization pressure or changed the temperature? How do you go from a retort process to a UHT process… or from a batch process to a continuous process?
New live streaming at the Lund Product Development Centre
While travel restrictions are in force, our Lund PDC is offering real-time, high-resolution live streaming of product trials. The service is now up and running at full capacity and the list of satisfied (remote) customers is growing daily.
With virtual participation, you can keep your product development program going without going anywhere. Your people can follow the trial live wherever they are too. They can even see what's happening inside some of our machines. And to maximise the long-term usefulness of your virtual visit, we deliver a 'take-home' package that includes:
• Written technical report
• Webinar-type video of the trial, for unlimited free use
• Samples from the trial itself
Located in the US, Sweden, Singapore, China, Japan, India and Brazil, our Product Development Centres (PDC's) are a great resource for developing into new products and categories. We also have specialized centres for both ice cream and mixing in Denmark, evaporation and drying in the Netherlands, and powders in France.
So how can we help you? Read more and see 10 examples in A taste of things to come, Product Development Centres (pdf)
After a series of comparative tests at the PDC, this yoghurt got just the right creamyness and is now a bigseller in US supermarkets. Using Tetra Pak ultra filtration technology the producer reach superior product quality while generating up to 50% higher protein retention and up to 10% better yield.
For more examples, download brochure Moving Food Forward. Together (pdf)
More information about our PDC's?
About Tetra Pak
Together with our customers we make food safe and available, everywhere. Since the start in 1951 we have taken pride in providing the best possible processing and packaging solutions for food.
Tetra Pak is one of three companies in the Tetra Laval Group – a private group that started in Sweden. The other two companies are DeLaval and Sidel. Tetra Laval is headquartered in Switzerland.


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Nationwide Title Clearing Named in Several Categories as Finalist in 2019 Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service
The 13th annual awards will
be presented on February 22nd in
Las Vegas
PALM HARBOR, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nationwide Title Clearing, Inc. (NTC) was named a Finalist in three
different categories: National Sales Team of the Year, Woman of the Year
in Sales, and Senior Sales Executive of the Year, in the 13th annual
Stevie® Awards for excelling in Sales & Customer Service, and will
ultimately be a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie Award winner in the
The awards are presented by the Stevie Awards, which organizes several
of the world's leading business awards shows, including the prestigious
International Business Awards® and the Stevie Awards for Great Employers.
The Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie placements from among the Finalists
will be revealed during a gala banquet on Friday, February 22nd
at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. More than 600 professionals from
across the globe are expected to attend.
More than 2,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in
virtually every industry, in 45 nations, were evaluated in this year's
competition. Finalists were determined by the average scores of more
than 150 professionals worldwide, working in seven specialized judging
committees. Entries were considered in 93 categories for customer
service and contact center achievements, including Contact Center of the
Year, Award for Innovation in Customer Service, and Customer Service
Department of the Year; 60 categories for sales and business development
achievements, ranging from Senior Sales Executive of the Year to Sales
Training or Business Development Executive of the Year to Sales
Department of the Year; and categories to recognize new products and
services and solution providers.
"The 2019 judges were very impressed by the caliber of this year's
nominations, which set another record for this competition. The quality
of the accomplishments outlined in every Finalist nomination was
remarkable," said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie
Awards. "We look forward to announcing the Gold, Silver, and Bronze
Stevie Award placements in Las Vegas next month."
Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Danny Byrnes said, "It was no
secret that the transition from 2017 to 2018 was going to be challenging
for everyone in the mortgage industry, given the forecast of significant
interest rate increases. Our team embraced the challenge and while other
companies contracted in both their numbers and employees, NTC continued
to expand, out-performing the expected forecast. I am extremely honored
to have NTC secure spots as finalists for the National Sales Team of the
Year, Woman of the Year in Sales for our Vice President of National
Sales, Debbie Lastoria, and an unexpected spot for myself as Senior
Sales Executive of the Year."
Details about the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service and the
list of Finalists in all categories are available at www.StevieAwards.com/Sales.
About Nationwide Title Clearing
Nationwide Title Clearing, Inc. (NTC) was founded in 1991 and has grown
into a national leading post-closing services provider for the
residential mortgage industry. NTC provides a wide range of services to
the nation's top mortgage lenders, servicers and investors as well as
various government entities. NTC's mission is to deliver Life of Loan
services with the highest level of accuracy partnered with the mortgage
banking industry to protect homeowners while also preserving the
integrity of the nation's land records. For more information, visit the
company's website at www.nwtc.com.
About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in seven programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie
Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The
International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers,
the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the Stevie Awards for Sales
& Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000
entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring
organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the
Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide.
Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.
Sponsors of the 13th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service
include Sales Partnerships, Inc. and ValueSelling Associates, Inc.
Carolynn Smith


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Jeanne and I have come under attack for sharing Per Otte's protocol—which has been available in the public domain for years—on this blog. We've also been criticized for spotlighting Eye Acupuncturist Mats Sexton and his desire to share his knowledge to help people around the world gain affordable, local access to treatment that could possibly save their eyesight.
Like many of you who follow this blog, Jeanne and I have benefited from specialized eye acupuncture and are grateful to all of the acupuncturists out there who have sought out training and specialized education to help those of us suffering from RP, MD and other devastating blinding eye diseases to hold onto our eyesight.
But the lengths to which a few acupuncturists have gone to block or greatly control the access other acupuncturists have to this treatment protocol is, in our view, unethical and unconscionable and goes completely against the holistic healing philosophy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Here's our response to those who are angry with us for sharing information and for our ongoing commitment to do everything we can to make this treatment affordable and accessible for anyone, anywhere in the world, who wants to give it a try.
- Mats Sexton did not disclose Per Otte's acupuncture protocol. Per Otte disclosed his protocol in an abandoned patent application (click here to access) that has been in the public domain for years. This isn't the first time that a blog has featured it. It was spotlighted on a blog post as far back as 2010. I'm disappointed with myself for not digging deeper sooner—especially given that my husband is a patent attorney. I get two or three emails a week from people all over the world who are desperate for local, affordable treatment options in hopes that they will continue to be able to see.
- We are NOT Money Trees. We are mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters who are fighting hard to hold onto our eyesight so that we can watch our children grow up, see our spouses grow old, continue to support our families, do the work we love and maintain our independence. We are not independently wealthy and cannot afford to spend thousands of dollars every few months and take off four to six weeks from work each year for the rest of our lives to fly across the country or half way around the world in hopes of accessing a treatment that can help us save or maintain our eyesight.
- Affordable, widespread training is critical. This should be taught in every acupuncture school in the world. It's simply not true that acupuncturists aren't interested in learning this protocol and helping patients save their eyesight—despite the argument I've heard repeatedly for a couple of years now. Thanks to the increasing awareness about the possible benefits of acupuncture, numerous patients and skilled acupuncturists have been clamoring to access the needling points and necessary training and have been consistently shut down. We are thrilled that more skilled acupuncturists like Mats Sexton are stepping forward to share their knowledge with others—without concern about creating competition for themselves by helping millions of people around the world access a treatment that might benefit them.
Of all the criticisms and ridiculousness I've heard since THIS BLOG POST appeared, this one I received Sunday from a long-time eye acupuncturist stands out: "Many people are so attached to their conditions that you could put a cure right in front of them and they'd refuse it. It's not up to you to have every blind person treated with acupuncture."
In the three years since starting this dedicated quest to save my eyesight, I've connected with thousands of people suffering from RP and other blinding eye diseases and every one of them is fighting hard to save, maintain and help their sight. To suggest that we are attached to our failing sight or that we would prefer to lose it is downright cruel and there is absolutely no place for that brand of negativity. The last thing Jeanne and I want is to mandate that every "blind" person be treated with acupuncture. We're working to ensure that an affordable, accessible treatment option be made available to those who are doing everything in their power to rescue their sight and want to give acupuncture a try. We will continue this battle so that everyone struggling from a blinding eye disease has a way to hold onto his or her precious sight. And we invite like-minded acupuncturists and naturopaths to join our fight.
One final thought: We've spent a lot of time on this blog promoting the merits of acupuncture. But that is only one component of traditional Chinese Medicine and naturopathy. Diet, exercise, lifestyle and emotional health are ALL key to maintaining our eyesight and overall good health.
As many of you know, I've spent the past few months undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer and am now teaming with a wonderful naturopath in Seattle to focus on building my immune system and nourishing my body – physical, mind and spirit. Over the next few months, this blog will focus on diet, lifestyle, nutrition, exercise and mental health—with an emphasis on personal empowerment and all we can be doing ourselves to promote our eye health and overall health. Jeanne and I invite any naturopath or acupuncturist interested in providing patient education in this area to do a guest post on this blog.
Here's to our eye health—and to all of those practitioners out there whose first priority is their patients, not their pocketbooks.


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SCENAR therapy
SCENAR-therapy is effectively applied for treatment of headaches (caused by brain vessels spasm, over-strain and contusion), nervous exhaustion, depression, pain syndromes of neurologic character, muscle spasms, initial stages of any inflammatory process, impotence caused by nervous exhaustion. These are conditions of functional disorders, i. e. disorders of functioning.
SCENAR-therapy is not a panacea. Above all, its action is aimed at normalization of the disordered body functions, while providing harmony in the body and stimulation of its defense potentials.
Considered as a biological object, a human body is an organized complex of functionally related cells, tissues, organs and systems. Their correlation provides vital functions of the body under constantly modifying conditions.
A human body may be considered as a system with a number of subordinate according to a certain hierarchy feedbacks. This system is half-open to external environment. The biological system is constantly exchanging its substance, energy and information with the external environment. Conditions of the environment are continuously changing, which may require maximum use of the adapting abilities of a human being.
At the same time, a human body is a great information system. Every functional system of a living body — from central nervous system to cells and cell parts — is supplied with controlling, executive, and monitoring elements and feedback system.
Control of every system can be carried out by two ways: changing its structure or conditions of functioning. The first way is rather complicated. The second one, which suggests control of the systems, is carried out with SCENAR. This method is aimed at restoration of the optimal activity of cells, tissues, organs, and systems of the body. A living body reveals amazing potential during complicated processes of regulation. The success of regulation mostly depends on the cutaneous integument.
For a long time skin has been considered as a regulator of various physiological functions. Irritating different reflexive areas it is possible to eliminate pain, cramps, increase or decrease metabolism, accelerate or decelerate cardiac rhythm.
Body reaction depends upon the irritated area, due to peculiarities of the nervous system adapting the body and its systems to the conditions of external environment. There are certain cutaneous integuments of increased physiological activity which are applied for treatment of various disorders by SCENAR-therapy methods.
The most complicated engineering (like spaceship) is crammed with thousands of sensors and receptors controlling and monitoring units, modules, etc. Skin has much more sensors and receptors carrying minute data, concerning all the processes in the internals and their condition, and receiving important information from the environment.
Cutaneous integument indicates condition of the internals and regulation systems. After proper processing, this information gives a full picture of the processes occurring in the body.
The cutaneous integument perceives external signals significant for vital activity of the body and control of malfunctions of the internal systems.
Changes in the body are possible on energy and information levels. The action can be conducted upon both the systems and their correlations.
The method of acting with information is more accurate and universal since it promotes control of energy, humoral and other processes.
Skin has a unique ability to combine functions of a diverse sensor and a receptor for different by their physical nature signals. For example, the cutaneous integument perceives signals of such irritants as mechanical (acupuncture and massage) or thermal action, electric current, magnetic field, biological field, laser ray, or ultrasound.
As a receptor, skin can perceive external information in the form of electric, optical, thermal, chemical, magnetic, mechanical and other signals, preprocess it, form appropriate coded signals, and transmit them into control systems of the human body.
More significant for SCENAR-therapy are transmission of information in the form of electric signals (the quickest way) and transmission of the signals through membranes (which is a slower and less studied way).
The irritant is amazingly small, but its energy is unequal to the body response — organism total reaction, because while receiving information, the skin acts as an input circuit of hypersensitive power amplifier, i. e. a human body. As has been proved by physiologists, reticular formation in the centre of the brain, which is our energy centre, amplifies signals of any origin received by our body.
Input signal level is extremely small, but being a control signal, it causes significant energy changes in a human body which has its own power supplies (reticular formation).
It is known that malfunction of any organ causes change of conduction, capacity, and temperature of certain areas of the cutaneous integument. Increased skin sensitivity manifests in painful contact.
This variability of signals at the input and output of cutaneous integument testifies to perfection of creations of nature. Now when information processing can be automated with computers, we can carry out profound study of a human body and create efficient medication-free methods of treatment.
As a rule, biological processes are accompanied by electric currents of very low voltage. Thus, to act upon biological processes occurring in a human body, it would be expedient to apply electric signals in the form of microcurrents of low voltage, with parameters similar to the currents accompanying biological processes.
Electric current of microampere range provides reflexive action upon the central nervous system which enables influencing vital processes at the cell level by stimulation and inhibition, transferring charges or ions, and, sometimes, by destruction or creation of individual cell formations.
Such action can be put into practice by various devices providing low voltage direct current of microampere range and alternating current of certain frequency and intensity. In contrast to this, SCENAR-therapy acts upon the body with voltage pulses similar to biological ones. The action is focused on harmonization of body vital activity and stimulation of its defensive potential by invoking the idle body reserves.
One should always bear in mind that our body is coded for maintaining its homeostasis, i. e. coordination of organs and systems. First of all, the method is effective for treatment of functional disorders.
Amazing results of SCENAR-treatment of various acute and chronic conditions is hardly explainable from the scientific point of view. But the facts are stubborn things — patients do recover! This is obviously promoted by the following:
Information in a human body is transmitted in the form of bipolar short pulses of electric current without direct current level.
Cutaneous integument and organs of sense are an information field connecting external environment and complicated processes occurring inside the human body.
A human body can be considered as a hierarchic system with a number of feedbacks, which exist on every level and are related both across and down. This provides self-regulation, connection >with the external environment, and enables reaction upon the changes of the latter.
The internal environment is focused on preserving its homeostasis.
That is why, mobile system of a human body should be acted upon by the identical self-regulating mobile system, like SCENAR.
SCENAR may put into practice the views, ideas and hypotheses supporting a unified theory of diseases origin. Two similar systems — a human body and SCENAR — can cooperate with each other. Of course, a human body is a leader in this interaction, and SCENAR is a means executing the body commands and providing help. Such harmonious cooperation contributes to successful treatment of many diseases and pathological conditions with SCENAR series devices.
The Healing Blanket – an energy regulator, pain management device and cell regulator for the body.
The Healing Blanket acts as a regulator of energy and cells, as well as being an effective device for pain management. As with the SCENAR, the Healing Blanket's origin lies in the Cold War Soviet space program, with the technology adapted for marketable products in today's complementary medicine industry. The Healing Blanket works around the principle of acupuncture meridians to both regulate and unblock the flow of energy around the body.
Our energy may fluctuate when exposed to high electrical radiation emitted by devices such as computer monitors and cell phones. The Healing Blanket protects the body from external electromagnetic and electrostatic fields to help the body to rebalance its own electrical charge and energy. This protection can re-energise the body and relieve pain, over time.
How the Healing Blanket works?
The Healing Blanket itself is made up of a series of membranes that allow the body to retain its natural bio-energetic state, reducing the dissipation of energy into the environment.
The Healing Blanket works on several different levels, providing the user with several beneficial outcomes. Treatment covers redistribution of charge, pain management and extremely high frequency (EHF) therapy.
Redistribution of Charge with the Healing Blanket
Redistribution of charge relates to meridians, as used in acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine. These are the channels of energy flow throughout the body which can be manipulated at specific points (acupuncture points). The Healing Blanket uses acupuncture points to tap additional energy into the channels where it is lacking, or release energy through the points where there is an excess, thereby helping to keep the energy flow in equilibrium. The apparatus within the Healing Blanket which makes this possible is called the 'energizer', which simultaneously helps reduce the reoccurrence of energy blockages.
The Healing Blanket & Pain Management
The Healing Blanket uses infra-red (IR) radiation to increase blood flow and energy emission. This IR radiation has beneficial effects on the body, increasing the potential for tissue repair. More importantly the IR radiation increases the vital activities in pain management systems through the release of neuropeptides, thereby altering pain receptors and making the removal of pain causing cell metabolites more efficient. Various positive side-effects may also occur such as a local and systemic boost to the immune system and a reduction in inflammation.
Healing Blanket EHF Therapy
The third and final function of the Healing Blanket is the production of Extremely High Frequencies (30-300 GHz). As many energetic medicine devices identify, a living cell vibrates at a particular frequency, between 30-300 GHz. When a cell becomes 'ill' it will resonate at a frequency determined by the individual malady, e.g. a cell group with mercury poisoning will resonate differently to a group damaged in a sports injury. It is through the detection of these different frequencies that energetic medicine systems such as the QXCI act as diagnostic devices.
The Healing Blanket uses EHF to bring the cell frequency back to normal, enabling the cell to repair more quickly, or emit toxins more efficiently. It should be stated however that this is very much a gradual effect after using the Healing Blanket for many sessions.
The Healing Blanket is effective, in combination with other therapies, for the treatment of a wide range of disorders, including:
Psycho-emotional regulation
Sleep improvement
Increasing of the resistance to stress
Reduction of the muscular spasms
Prolonging the action of medicines, followed by reduction in doses of drugs and supporting therapy without drugs
When comparing the Healing Blanket to other SCENAR type devices, it becomes apparent that whereas the SCENAR is best used for direct cell/tissue regeneration and local pain management, the Healing Blanket is best used over a series of therapy sessions, producing gradual positive results.
Healing Blanket Therapy protocol
The client can be treated systemically or locally where appropriate, by applying the Healing Blanket to whole body or the specific area concerned (on the neck, back, shoulders, etc).
The Healing Blanket therapeutic protocol is fairly straight forward. The client lies covered by the Healing Blanket for around 40 minutes, 2 – 3 times a day over a course 15 – 20 days. In order to achieve the best result, the course should be resumed after a one week break.
In rare cases, adverse reactions such as pain, headache, dizziness or nausea may occur. In this case the treatment course should be continued until disappearance of discomfort, even if whole procedure will be extended up to 50 minutes. If the client can't sustain the discomfort, the time for the procedure should be reduced by 10 minutes. The duration of each following procedure should be extended by three or four minutes, gradually building up to a 30–40 minute session.
Use of the Healing Blanket is contra-indicated in patients with acute infectious diseases, feverish conditions with unclear diagnosis, active Tuberculosis, acute heart attack, cardiac or pulmonary insufficiency.
Healing Blanket Overview
The Healing Blanket is particularly useful for the treatment of non-ambulant conditions, i.e. when the client is unable to do much more than lie wrapped in the Healing Blanket for extended periods. In these cases, the Healing Blanket may provide not only a comforting therapeutic experience, but also positive physiological benefits.


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Today's AGS Cross Country Practice is Cancelled today (9/20/18) Today's FHS Soccer Practice is Cancelled today. The Soccer team will practice tomorrow morning (9/21/18) at 6:00 am in the Main Gym at FHS. Bring your gym appropriate shoes. FHS Tennis pictures are cancelled for today. Tennis team is still working the football concessions