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text: Ok, Last year I bid and got 8 apartment complexes, all at the right price. They asked me last week to bid 3 more in town, I bid them last year and the scab that had done them the year befor got them again, for half my price, but no hedges, no weeding beds, no edging, none of the stuff they wanted to make the properties stand out. I hope you see where I'm going. I bid everything on a 7-10 day schedual,everything the whole deal, but to help myself out I priced them on a on a 12 month payment contract. This is the first time Ive done anything like this, I took what I'd charge over a seasons time and divided it by 12. OK Here is my question. What advice would some of you who do this give me?

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'Gasthof 2002', various activities / projects, organised by Dirk Fleischmann & Jochen Volz, at Städelschule Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule Frankfurt am MainStaatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Städelschule) Städelschule StädelschuleStädelschule Architecture Class (SAC), Frankfurt-am-Main, 2002 ©, Copyright, Carsten Höller
with Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Rirkrit Tiravanija,Clémentine Deliss, Leopold Kessler, Richard Evans and Martha Colburn at Städelschule.
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Gasthof Städelschule, Frankfurt, 2002
In 2002 I brought up the idea and initiated a symposium named GASTHOF at the Staedelschule art academy in Frankfurt, where I was still a student at that time. I developed the final concept and organisation in co-operation with Jochen Volz. GASTHOF was a week with a special program in addition to Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt and Documenta 11 in Kassel. The idea was to host and to bring together over 200 art students from more than 30 countries at the Staedelschule and to provide them with an infrastructure which could enable them to experience both art exhibitions and get in contact with a wide range of international colleagues and artists who were specially invited to host workshops with the students.
GASTHOF functioned as a kind of home base: A forum for theoretical reflection as well as recreation and communication. Participants lived at the building of the art academy for one week and joined workshops on the nature
of GASTHOF. They were invited to reflect on the issues of hospitality, cooking and music and to investigate on their relevance to visual art.
A stage, placed in a circus tent near the Städelschule at the Main river, was offered as a research laboratory for the student activities and a discussion platform with artists, scientists and theoreticians such as John M. Armleder, Miriam Bäckström, Thomas Bayrle, Daniel Birnbaum, Jürgen Bock, Iara Boubnova, Peter Cook, Clémentine Deliss, Dobrila Denegri, Florence Derieux, Ayse Erkmen, Charles Esche, Robert Fleck, Isabelle Graw, Søren Grammel, Carsten Höller, Ronald Jones, Maria Lind, Sarat Maharaj, Laurie Makela, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno, Tobias Rehberger, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Biljana Tomic, Stéphanie Moisdon-Trembley and Heimo Zobernig.Dirk Fleischmann


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Reported: 7/27/2013 2:19:18 AM 02:19
Posted: 8/30/2013
Location: Portland, OR
Shape: Circle
Duration:35 minutes
|I walked outside to my patio and looked to the east I saw a falling star and then a very bright blinking light surrounded by a haze. Colors changed red yellow blue ..didn't seem to be a pattern to it and it seemed to disapear and reapear...It hovered for awhile moving up and down eventually moving north then it just vanished. I have cell phone video but its not the best being the object was so far away. I thought maybe it was a satellite so I checked rotation times and it didn't fall within those time frames.


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'Game Of Thrones' Preview: Ygritte Is Thirsty For Revenge On Jon Snow
Though viewers are likely still picking their jaws off the floor after what happened in King's Landing last week, there's still an all-important war going on up north. And at the heart of the battle between the Knight's Watch and the wildlings are television's most star-crossed lovers, Jon Snow and Ygritte.
Jon Snow (Kit Harington) went deep cover in Game of Thrones, killing one of his Knight's Watch brothers, shedding the black, and even bedding a wildling girl — Ygritte, by far the most attractive wildling in the north. But he never forgot his vows. By the end of Season 3, it was clear where his allegiances lied, and good ol' Jon took three of Ygritte's arrows for choosing the crows over her. Now, the impending war between the wildlings and the Knight's Watch is personal — and Rose Leslie, the woman behind Ygritte, told HollywoodLife.com all about it.
Rose Leslie: Ygritte Wants To Get Payback On Jon Snow
No one tells Ygritte "I am yours and you are mine" and gets away with it (I recall Ygritte floating the threat of castration), so Jon's betrayal has set his fire-haired ex on a personal warpath. "We pick up with Ygritte at the beginning of the season being a very, very different character," Rose tells us. "She's a scorned woman, and we all know that scorned women are dangerous, especially in the world of Westeros."
On a larger scale, Ygritte and her band of wildlings are preparing to raid Castle Black, but there's really only one crow she wants to kill: "She is on a ruthless mission and she is going to make sure Jon Snow pays," Rose says.
Ygritte is "angry," Rose reinforces, "and she's fearless. She feels that she's got nothing to lose. She believed everything that Jon Snow was telling her and she felt that they were going to have a life together and because that didn't work she has a one-track mind and a one-track mission to get him back."
And in a rare bit of spoiling, Rose indicated to us that she would indeed get another chance to mutter her famous words, "You know nothing, Jon Snow," once again.
Ygritte's Revenge: Will She Actually Go Through With It?
Though she's clearly on a path of vengeance, there's still a bit of mystery surrounding what Ygritte will actually do if and when she gets her hands on Jon. As Tormund Giantsbane (Kristofer Hivju) pointed out in the Season 4 premiere, Ygritte had the chance to end Jon's life — three point-blank shots — and she ended up "missing," hitting him only in non-critical spots. "If that boy's still walking, it's because you let him go," Tormund (rightly) told her.
Will she let him go once again? Love overpowers many things. We'll just have to see if it overpowers Ygritte's thirst for revenge when the time comes.
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Finding casual, everyday outfits is a category of wardrobe that can be kind of challenging. I can throw together a date night look in no time flat but even I stare aimlessly at my closet wondering what the heck to put on to run to the grocery store. Since I work from home, it almost seems wasteful to wear a great outfit when I'm not going to be out and about. And let's be honest, we all know I'm a creature of comfort so most days, I'm in some type of athleisure (fave leggings HERE) which makes sense because when I'm not working, I'm chasing a toddler around. But here's the thing...I've found that if I get dressed a little...I'm talking jeans and a casual top or an easy shift dress and booties, I feel so much more put together during the day. And I'll be honest, that feels good!
When I'm styling my clients the #1 thing I get asked is for help putting together casual, everyday outfits. The drop off line seems to be the place of everyone's concern.
If I had a dollar for the amount of times I've heard, "Can you help me coordinate outfits that will take me from the gym to drop off or from drop off to coffee with a girlfriend?"....
But I get it! You want to feel good during your daily to-do's and one way to do that is to be wearing something that makes you feel pulled together, comfortable and cute. For me, a great pair of comfortable jeans and a cute top are wear it's at. If you've read the blog for a while, you know I don't spend and arm and a leg on jeans and when I find something that works, I stay ride or die loyal to it. These distressed jeans by TopShop are it for me and here's why: 1) they fit like a legging and have a ton of stretch, 2) they are on trend with their washes, distressing and hems and 3) at under $80, they don't break the bank. I throw a cute top on with them like this camo one, some booties and boom, a cute, casual outfit in the making.
Need another layer? Add one of these: this suede moto, this long grey cardigan or if you're feeling sporty, this vest (and then I'd throw on my favorite black Nikes). If camo isn't your thing, a few of my favorite neutral basics are here, here and here! Add any of the layers above or a scarf like this and hit the drop off line feeling like a million bucks. What are your go-to casual outfits? I'd love to hear! As always, thank you so much for following along.
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Slim profile, allowing for 5% less weight than the alternatives
Mounts left or right with use of the side mount bracket
Reduced energy consumption - up to 90% less energy consumption than pedestrian signals with incandescent lamps
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Aluminum Pedestrian Traffic Signal represent the foundation of safety at any signalized intersection. They also represent the first, and arguably the most important, interaction motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians have with Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
For more than eight decades, Econolite has led the industry in both innovation and breadth of traffic and pedestrian signal solutions for virtually every application, helping transportation agencies and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) efficiently and cost-effectively meet evolving traffic management programs.
Econolite also leads the way in ultra-bright LED (Light Emitting Diode) technology's use in traffic signal applications. More visible than traditional incandescent bulbs, LED signals increase overall safety for all roadway users. In addition, since LEDs are longer-lasting and require significantly less energy than their incandescent counterparts, which yields significant budgetary savings.


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It was Oscar Wilde, one of London's more flamboyant 19th century guests, who said of it: "Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be." One wonders if his views would be much changed by today's influx of tech entrepreneurs, many of whom might affectionately fit part of his description.
London has long had a tradition of welcoming, even embracing, foreigners. The 2011 census showed the capital to be the UK's most cosmopolitan city — just 3.7 million out of 8.2 million residents described themselves as "white British."
It is not Wilde's London nor Dickens's gloomy vision of the city that causes geeks and outliers with great expectations to flock here; today the UK capital is seen as the best place for European entrepreneurs to raise money and to scale.
Mally co-founders Issa (l) and Morato (r): After four months still looking for accommodation
But what is Europe's largest city like for the people driving its tech boom? We asked overseas entrepreneurs in Wayra, a global program for entrepreneurs set up by Telefónica, who have made London their temporary home. It may surprise locals, but one word that came up time and again was "polite."
"You don't feel threatened by bumping into someone on the street," says Slovenian Igor Čenar, CEO of JollyDeck, an online learning platform. "Everyone is very polite, everyone says sorry — even if they don't mean it."
War Stories About Renting Apartments Abound
But while the city's hospitality may score highly, its prices do not. Renting an apartment is prohibitively expensive compared with other European capitals. Exact cost-of-living comparisons are notoriously difficult, but according to Numbeo, a user-generated price comparison website, average rents in Berlin are 63% cheaper; they're 58% less expensive in Madrid and 27% less in Paris.
That's if you can find a place to live. Frida Issa, a computer engineer from Israel, and CEO of Mally, a tool for navigating inside buildings, and her husband Pablo Morato moved to the UK earlier this year from Spain via Israel to join Wayra.
"We turned up at Heathrow in February. We thought it would be like when we were in Israel and like we did it in Spain. We would look for two to four days tofind an apartment, find one and close the deal. We took a hotel for three days thinking that would be fine."
So when did they move in? "We haven't. We don't have an apartment." After four months of searching the couple is still living in temporary accommodation.
Daly: Registering for Council Tax will get you the much-needed proof of residence
War stories about searching for accommodation abound and so do tips about how to land an apartment. Neil Daly, the Australian CEO of Skin Analytics, a startup that monitors moles for cancer indicators, advised turning up with cash in hand. "When I was trying to find a flat for the first time, if you didn't show up with a deposit in your hands in cash and went away to get it, by the time you got back the flat was gone," he says. "Competition is fought tooth and nail."
The Significance Of The Utility Bill
But it's the most commonly cited bugbear of living in London — the utility bill — that is the true test of entrepreneurial ingenuity. Utility bills assume a significance far beyond their status. Proof of address, in the form of a utility bill, is absolutely vital.
"Don't start me on that," says JollyDeck's Čenar. "You need a bill to open a bank account, to get a phone contract. To do anything. You have to have this bill. But how do you get one?"
Everyone has their work-arounds. Mally CEO Issa's was to persuade her cousin, who lives in London, to allow her to pay for the electricity for a month so her name was on the bill. Skin Analytics CEO Daly advised registering for council tax. "The councils are really fast at getting you out the confirmation form and how much you have to pay them. Much faster than anything else they do."
You even need the bill to open a business bank account, another topic guaranteed to generate weary sighs from entrepreneurs. EU citizens have no problems opening personal accounts, but business accounts are more problematic because of the credit checks. No bill, no credit check.
"Diversity — there is no city on earth that can match it"
"The credit check is so rigid," says JollyDeck's Čenar. "It is slow and laborious. It takes four to six weeks to complete. I even had a bank phone me up to apologize for the process."
But assuming you can get a flat, sort out the bank, and get your utility bill, what is London like? Does it live up the the cliches? By and large, yes. For better or for worse.
The good parts? "Diversity — there is no city on earth that can match it," says JollyDeck's Čenar. This view is shared by Mally CEO Issa. "We don't stand out. You are not the weird foreigner."
Britain's notoriously mixed food got, well, mixed results. "I love the different cultural groups and ethnic food," says Jaime Hodson, Engagement Officer of JollyDeck, who comes from Missouri in the U.S. Her colleague was less impressed. "If you want to go to a pub and get English food it is expensive and not very good," says Čenar.
Not Much Romantic About The District Line
The bad parts? Transport seemed to feature highly. "You romanticize about London and the fun things," says Hodson. "The Tube [the London Underground] is a tourist attraction for a lot of Americans — people buy the T-shirts. I can tell you there is not much romantic about the District Line."
One thing all were agreed on, even native English speakers such as Hodson and Daly, was British English often took some decoding.
"People are very polite, but sometimes you just don't get what they mean," says JollyDeck's Čenar. He said a recent internet "meme" about what British people say and what they mean had him crying with laughter. "It is so true," "I am from Israel; people are used to telling you what they think," said Mally's Issa. "Here you have to translate everything they say."


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Ph.D 1995, City University of New York;
Aisha Khan
Associate Professor
National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship
Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, residential fellowship
National Humanities Center, residential fellowship
NYU Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award
National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend fellowship
NYU Golden Dozen Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences
NYU Center for the Humanities Faculty Research Fellowshipd
Grant-in-Aid Award, NYU Center for the Humanities
Islam and the Americas.
Empirical Futures: Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz.
Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad
Cultural Dynamics, special issue guest editor, "The Life and Work of Michel-Rolph Trouillot."
In press "Aftermath: Life and Post-Life in Atlantic Religions." In Passages and Afterworlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Death and Mortuary Rituals in the Caribbean.
In press "A View from the Caribbean and the Americas." In Imperial Races: Russian and Soviet Histories of Race in a Global Context.
2015 "Material and Immaterial Bodies: Diaspora Studies and the Problem of Culture, Identity, and Race." Small Axe: A Journal of Criticism 48:2949.
"Dark Arts and Diaspora," 2013, Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 17(1):40-63
2012 "Islam, Vodou, and the Making of the Afro-Atlantic." New West Indian Guide 86(1-2): 29-54
2009 "'Caucasian', 'Coolie', 'Black', or 'White'? Color and Race in the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora." In Shades of Difference: Transnational Perspectives on How and Why Skin Color Matters. Evelyn Nakano Glenn, editor. Pp. 95-113. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
2001 "Journey to the Center of the Earth: The Caribbean as Master Symbol." Cultural Anthropology 16(3):271-302.
2003 "Portraits in the Mirror: Nature, Culture, and Women's Travel Writing in the Caribbean." Women's Writing 10(1).
1997 "Rurality and 'Racial' Landscapes in Trinidad." In Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy. Barbara Ching and Gerald Creed, editors. Pp. 39-69. NY: Routledge,
1994 "Juthaa in Trinidad: Food. Pollution, and Hierarchy in a Caribbean Diaspora Community." American Ethnologist 21(2): 245-269.
1993 "What is 'a Spanish'? Ambiguity and 'Mixed' Ethnicity in Trinidad." In Trinidad Ethnicity, ed. by K. Yelvington. Pp. 180-207. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Selected Presentations
2018 "Islam in Haiti, 'Land of Vodou'." Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.
2018 "Performance of Shadows: Race as Ritual in the Colonial Caribbean." Center for South Asia, Taub Center for Jewish Studies, Department of Music, Stanford University.
2016 Public keynote address, "The Many Rainbows of Caribbean Heritage: Asian Indenture and Its Stories." Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW), College of Charleston, South Carolina, and Charleston Carifest (June).
2016 Workshop on "Islam and Religious Identity: The Limits of Definition," Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations," University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
2016 Symposium on "The Political Biography of the Caribbean and Other Lessons: A Symposium in Honor of Colin A. Palmer." The Center for the Humanities, City University of New York Graduate Center, NY.
2016 Workshop on South Asian Diasporas and the American "Nation." Dhar India Studies Program and the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
2015 Panel chair and commentator, conference on "Islam in Global Perspective." The Organization for Islamic Area Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; the AsiaEurope Institute, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur; and the Malaysia Arab Crossroads and History Programs at NYU Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi.
2014 Keynote Address, "A 'Race of Angels' or a Soaring of Spirits? Thinking Through Diaspora." The Windrush Roundtable annual conference, Department of Black Studies, University of California Santa Barbara.
Updated February 2018
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Thursday, August 11, 2016
Hans Hofmann: Pioneer of Abstract Expressionism
Hans Hofmann (German, 1880-1966)
Taurus, 1946
oil on panel, 38 1/2 x 48 1/2 in.
Hans Hofmann was born in Weissenburg, Bavaria in 1880. At the age of six, Hofmann and his family moved to Munich, and he began to study painting at Moritz Heymann's art school. He then studied for ten years in Paris, where he met influential contemporary painters such as Matisse and Picasso. During the First World War, Hofmann opened the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in Munich. As Nazi oppression grew during the early 1930s, Hofmann fled to New York City, where he opened the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in Manhattan in 1934, and in 1935 heintroduced the famed summer outpost of his school in Provincetown, MA. Hofmann's impressive roster of students included many artists who would go on to achieve great recognition, such as
Helen Frankenthaler
Joan Mitchell
Wolf Kahn
Lee Krasner
Carl Holty
Louise Nevelson
Robert De Niro Sr.
, and
Frank Stella
Along with his notability as an influential teacher, Hofmann soon came to be recognized as a leading figure in the American Abstract Expressionistmovement. In 1944, Hofmann's first major exhibition in New York was organized by Peggy Guggenheim and held at the
Art of This Century
followed in 1947 by an exhibition at the
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
organized by Betty Parsons. In 1957, the
Whitney Museum
of American Art
hosted a major retrospective of Hofmann's work which travelled to seven additional US Museums over the next year. During his lifetime, his work was exhibited and acquired by notable collectors and museums including the
Addison Gallery of American Art
in Andover, Massachusetts,
Musée de Grenoble
in France,
Joseph H. Hirshhorn
, and the
Museum of Modern Art
. Hofmann's workis now represented in the permanent collections of major museums world-wide.
In 1946, the year that Hofmann created
, the noted American art critic, Robert Coates, first coined the term "abstract expressionism", referring to Hofmann's work as such in his review of an exhibit at the Mortimer Brant Gallery in New York.
is an excellent example of Hofmann's works from that period, showing "push and pull", a term Hofmann often used in his writings on art theory to describe the "play between color, shape, and placement on a surface to create competing forces that produce depth within a flat surface."
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Daily Grind - New Sculpture by Jim Rennert
Jim Rennert (American, b. 1958)
Daily Grind
bronze and steel, 14 x 29 x 10 in.
When one encounters a sculpture by Jim Rennert, it is hard not to relate his work to one's own personal experience, or find humor in his pieces which represent the competitive nature of business and contemporary life. Rennert's body of work stems from the concept that "business has become for many the sport of a lifetime". His signature works portray an anonymous suited-man with unidentifiable facial features, often combined with hard lined forms of bronze and steel representing a challenge that the man must overcome. The anonymous figures accompanied by intuitive and clever titles help guide the viewer in reflecting on their own similar experiences. Rennert hopes that viewers will see his works in an optimistic and hopeful light, rather than through a disheartening lens. Rennert states, "I think people are still struggling and dealing with making a living and all of the challenges that it entails. Work is a big part of all of our lives. I find a lot of inspiration in seeing the innovation, tenacity and success that people are experiencing."
Daily Grind
(2016), is the embodiment of the physical and mental struggles that people face on a daily basis in business. In this particular piece, Rennert displays two suited-men back to back with their arms locked in a grueling physical tussle, with no end in sight to their exertion. The title of the work,
Daily Grind
, emphasizes the struggles with one's self to compete and perform day after day. This work draws on Rennert's earlier sculptures, where he incorporated the action derived from sports to parallel with themes of business.
Rennert's work is regularly exhibited at the major art fairs throughout the US, as well as represented in galleries, and private and public collections worldwide. In 2014-2015 Rennert was honored with a public exhibition in New York City of his monumental sculpture,
, which was displayed in Union Square in cooperation with the NYC Parks Department.
Please contact the gallery for additional details:
or 508.325.4405
Cavalier Galleries Nantucket Sculpture Garden is also currently featuring a collection of Jim Rennert's large scale works:
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Historic Boston Light by Maritime Master Maarten Platje
Maarten Platje (Dutch, b. 1967)
The Annie Johnson at Boston Light, 2016
oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 35 3/8 in.
Maarten Platje was born in 1967 and raised in the famous port city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where he still lives and works today. Platje studied at the Ars Aemula Naturae Art Academy in Leiden where he was able to hone his technical skills as a draftsman and painter. Prior to his artistic studies, Platje spent much of his youth as a sailor, a period that certainly contributed to his ability to transform his impressions and observations into highly accurate and lively marine paintings later in life. In 1996 Platje was invited by the
Royal Dutch Navy
to embark on a frigate during NATO operations in the Mediterranean waters around the former Yugoslavia. During this voyage, he followed in the steps of the famous Dutch marine painter
Willem van de Velde (1611-1693)
, the official artist for the Dutch Fleet in his time. This resulted in a series of paintings illustrating various naval operations which are now on a permanent display at the
Naval Museum in Den Helder
and at the
Museum of the Marine Corps of the Royal Netherlands Navy
in Rotterdam. Platje's current body of work focuses on accurate recreations of historically important ships and regatta's from the 18th and 19th Centuries.
Platje achieves remarkable detail in his painting,
The Annie Johnson at Boston Light
(2016), with his signature style of capturing the light reflected off the waves combined with dramatic, almost haunting, shadows in their natural conditions. It is apparent that he possesses an unparalleled ability in portraying the atmospheric interplay between sky, sea, and shore. The painting depicts the iron barque
Annie Johnson
passing Boston Light on Little Brewster Island (Massachusetts). In 1872, R. Williamson at Harrington built
Ada Iredale
, which would become the
Annie Johnson
. Her history was a tumultuous one—a fire resulted in her being abandoned by her crew, and the
Ada Iredlae
drifted westward for eight months before being taken in tow by a French cruiser and taken to Papeete, Tahiti, with her cargo still smoldering. She was sold to American owners in 1878, the fire having stayed alight in her hull until May of that year.
Ada Iredale
was rebuilt and rechristened the
Annie Johnson
; triumphantly sailing out of San Francisco. She had a diesel engine fitted in 1923 and would serve for four years as a merchant ship before moving to her next life as the French Ship,
. The present painting shows the fully-rigged
Annie Johnson
in her heyday passing one of the most famous monuments in the rich history of American shipping: Boston Light. Boston Light is a lighthouse located in outer Boston Harbor. The first lighthouse built on the site dates back to 1716—the first lighthouse ever built in what is now the United States. The current lighthouse dates from 1783 and is the second-oldest working lighthouse in the United States after New Jersey's Sandy Hook Lighthouse. Boston Light received National History Landmark status in 1964.
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Taking a little break from my 31 days wedding series for a little Halloween spirit. I just want to say that I had an absolute blast making these with my daughter! They were so much fun to make, and pretty simple too.
The night before we made the bats, I went ahead and got everything ready. First things first.
I started with foam balls like these (Hobby Lobby). I painted the foam balls black. I used plain acrylic paint. It would probably be easier to spray paint them, but I didn't have any black spray paint on hand.
Then I took a few sheets of this glittery black foam and cut out 12 sets of wings.
I just looked at a picture of bat wings and free-handed an outline on the back of the foam with a pencil.
The next day was production day! My daughter was super excited if you couldn't tell.
I hot glued the wings to the foam balls. Any of the glue that still showed up, I just painted with my acrylic paint. To glue the wings down, I put a strip of glue along the inner part of the back of the wing. Then I just laid it flat on the front of the foam ball body, leaving enough space between the wings to add eyeballs.
After all foam bat bodies had wings, I dug out the googly eyes. I got these glow-in-the dark ones from Hobby Lobby. I let my daughter pick out the eyeballs for each bat. I put a tiny bit of hot glue on the body of the bat, and let her put the eyeball in place. She really enjoyed helping and giving the bats their faces.
The last step to get the bats ready to hang up was attaching a tie to the top. I poked a small hole in the top of the bat. Then I took some plastic string I found at Hobby Lobby and folded it in half. I hot glued the string so that both ends were hanging out at the top.
I decided that I wanted to hang them along our pathway to our front door. Luckily we have a tree that is in line with a hook in our entryway. I took the same plastic string and tied a long piece from the tree to the house. Then I took each bat and tied them individually to the long string between the house and tree.
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Table of ContentsDefinition / general | Clinical images | Microscopic (histologic) images | Positive stains | Differential diagnosis
Cite this page: Shankar, V. Kaposi sarcoma. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/softtissuekaposi.html. Accessed January 17th, 2019.
Definition / general
- Vascular proliferative disorder mediated by inflammatory cytokines and angiogenic growth factors in patients with HHV8 / Kaposi sarcoma associated herpesvirus infection, influenced by immune status
- May originate from cell type capable of undergoing lymphatic differentiation based on D2-40 staining, a lymphatic specific marker (Mod Pathol 2002;15:434)
- Usually limited to skin; may involve mucus membranes, visceral organs, lymph nodes
- HHV8 also positive in multicentric Castleman disease, primary effusion lymphoma, some multiple myeloma
Microscopic (histologic) images
Positive stains
- FLI-1 (nuclear stain, Am J Surg Pathol 2001;25:1061), vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-3 (Mod Pathol 2000;13:180), D2-40, other vascular markers
Differential diagnosis
- Angiosarcoma: may have Kaposi-like features but is HHV8 negative (Arch Pathol Lab Med 2002;126:191)
- Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma: may have Kaposi-like features but is HHV8 negative


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Katy Perry is the highest-paid woman in music, earning $135 million in 2015. She beat out Taylor Swift by some $55 million. (Refinery29)
NASA is recruiting new astronauts for an eventual trip to Mars. Have YOU spent 1,000+ hours piloting a jet aircraft? (Refinery29)
Mexico's Supreme Court ruled in favor of the cultivation of marijuana for personal use. Technically, the ruling only applies to the four plaintiffs. (Refinery29)
GOP presidential candidate John Kasich asked an Iowa woman whether she's ever "been on a diet." Rude. (Mic)
Ben Carson's campaign released an old-school rap ad. It rhymes "Carson" with "awesome." (Refinery29)
Despite protests, it seems Saturday Night Live will not drop Donald Trump as a host. (Huffington Post)
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Just a quick note this morning to let you know that the C10 circumference rulers from Tentemari that so many of you ordered will be here in a couple of weeks. As soon as they arrive, I'll contact you and give you information on how to purchase them. I have also ordered a lot more Kyo thread since my last batch sold out within hours!
We've heard that the Japan Temari Association will not be ordering new V rulers. Oh no! I use mine all the time for all sorts of measuring - not just for the C10 division. Well, I decided to bite the bullet and order some V rulers to be made. I found a company who can do it for us. Since I've always wanted numbers printed on the V ruler, I added them when I did the artwork. I should have this new version of the trusty ruler in about 6 weeks.
I feel the love! Thank you for all your kind words about the new Temari Workbook. It's being translated into Japanese now as a gift to temari makers there. You can download your copy and print pages as you need them to record your temari stitching - one of the best ways to learn and keep track!
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Determinants of slash and burn : the case of chitemene farming system in Zambia
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Determinants of slash and burn : the case of chitemene farming system in Zambia
Kapekele, Evan Mutale
Slash and burn shifting (Chitemene) cultivation has been the dominant traditional land use system in the Miombo woodlands of Northern Zambia. The land use system adopted by farmers depends on the interaction between biophysical and socio- cultural and economical resources available to them. Socio economic resources also include policies, which influence the farmers' decisions. Despite the so many interventions that have been done and condemnation of this system, this practice of cultivation still persist up to today. It is estimated that Northern Province has lost 35% of its biomass, representing about 43000 km2 of forests land over the past 40 years. The continuation of Chitemene system is in the long term unsustainable. This is because if the rural population continues to grow and if the current trend in Chitemenecontinues, complete deforestation may occur in a few decades. This study tried to investigate the factors that determine this practice in Zambia. The study employed a binomial logit model in order to identify the factors that influence the farmers' decision to practice chitemene and to quantify the relative importance of these factors. This was employed on data collected from a survey of 90 farmers from Kasama district in the Northern Province of Zambia.</p.> It was hypothesized that the farmers' behavior is influenced by a complex set of socio economic, demographic, technical, institutional and biophysical factors. Some of the determinants of slash and burn practice found in studies done are structural adjustment programme in Zambia, population growth land tenure system, infrastructure, necessary support services, number of household members, age, gender, education level and amount of available land. It was also hypothesized that the traditional way of life of the people has more influence on the farmers' decision to practice slash and burn than other factors such as land tenure and even availability of agricultural inputs. This is because despite the so many interventions the practice has continued. Also the older the farmer is in his farming practice and age the more likely he is to practice chitemene. The reason is that farmers usually base their practice on experience and older farmers are a bit conservative and often tend to perpetuate the practice. The other one was that farmers with bigger land area are more likely to practice chitemene than those with less total land area. Farmers with bigger land area have more woodland and therefore more likely to practice. The study revealed from the bivariate analysis results that availability of land increases the chances of the farmer practicing chitemene. It was also shown that non-availability of credit influences farmers' decision to practice chitemene positively. Lack of money to acquire inputs contributed more to farmers' decision to practice chitemene. In the econometric analysis, age of the farmer, effect of non-availability of credit facility, effect of household size and influence of tradition had a significant influence on chitemene practice. It was found that the main reason for chitemene practice is lack of money for acquisition of inputs. Policies that facilitate provision of credit and infrastructure development like roads are necessary if slash and burn is to be reduced. This study identified some entry points for policy. Poverty may prevent poor farmers from investing in land conservation due to imperfections in credit markets and high subsistence requirements. So unless the government employs policies that target these factors, there is every reason for the farmers to continue the practice of slash and burn. This study brings to light that practicing of Chitemene depends upon a number of factors that dictate its continued practice. It is imperative that the policy makers and all those involved in agricultural development and policy formulation understand these factors and their relative importance in order to have targeted policies. Moreover although a number of studies have been done on slash and burn and its effects in Zambia, these studies have not analysed the significance of these factors. This study has considered this. Apart from this, it has also contributed to the bulk of research literature on chitemene that might be relevant for future research.
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Now, as I can see the trend continue at CeBIT.
How can a smaller mobile phone company such as VK mobile get the attention at CeBIT 2006 when the big company such as Samsung is busy announcing 10 megapixel cameraphone?


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I am 22 years old, and I've got a crisis on my hands. One of the greatest challenges my generation will face is confronting global warming. With the advent of the Internet naturally comes Internet activism. Unfortunately, it can be tempting to shoot off an e-mail to a congressman, sign a Facebook petition, and call it a day for fighting for what you believe in.
Today, however, more than 5,500 young people are confronting and shattering accusations of their so-called apathy: Today marks the beginning of Power Shift 2007, the very first national youth summit on climate change.
The summit, which will take place at the University of Maryland – College Park, will include speakers, workshops, music, and good old-fashioned rallies on Capitol Hill. The summit has three main goals:
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- To empower a diverse network of young leaders in environmental policy.
- To achieve broad geographic diversity.
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Looking to tempt your thrill of the paranormal outside of Halloween? Shaker's Cigar Bar caters to the paranormal experience on its haunted ghost tour, which combines its rich history with speculations of its haunted existence.
Shaker's Cigar Bar is a functioning bar and restaurant located on South 2nd Street in the Walker's Point area of Milwaukee. Constructed in 1894 as a cooperage house for the Schlitz Brewery, the site of Shaker's was sold in 1905 and used as a distribution center for the ABC Bottling Company, owned by the infamous Al Capone. Capone operated the soda distribution center out of the site, while simultaneously operating an underground speakeasy and brothel.
First stop on the tour: a walk into the original entranceway of the former speakeasy. This is a small, cramped area with two double doors along the north wall where, as the tour guide informed, a goon would stand at the door and wait for a signal – usually a knock or two – and the phrase, "bottling inspector." A hole in the ceiling still exists, where one floor above, bordello women would do the can-can to appeal to the gentlemen customers below.
A widely popular and final stop of the tour is the penthouse apartment, located on the third floor of Shaker's. The master bedroom of this floor holds some spooky history that may leave the stomach a bit uneasy – it is the brutal murder site of a former call girl. The penthouse is rented out overnight to customers of a daring character.
Walking into this classy bar, formerly resident to elite mobsters of the past, visitors do not initially get a spooky feeling. The spookiness is delayed until one heads to the far back area of the bar where the women's restroom is located. The restroom is said to be the home of the residing ghost, a young girl named Elizabeth who allegedly died on the site centuries ago after falling to her death from an apple orchard on the property.
In the center of the bathroom hangs a portrait of Elizabeth herself. Various dolls and toys are scattered along a mantel in the bathroom for Elizabeth to play with at her leisure. Customers and employees at Shaker's have recalled hearing a young girl calling out to them from the women's restroom and ominous knocks on doors at times.
Historians coming to Shaker's to unearth facts will instead find a solid background and great stories. The tour is not intended to give a history lesson but instead an experience that will not soon be forgotten.


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The federal fisheries minister has been diagnosed with leukemia.
J'ai émis cette déclaration aujourd'hui. // I issued the following statement today. pic.twitter.com/4W3pZAst0X
— Dominic LeBlanc (@DLeBlancNB) December 6, 2017
Through social media, Dominic LeBlanc has announced doctors at the Dumont Hospital in Moncton diagnosed him back in the spring following an annual physical exam.
In a statement, oncologist Dr. Nicholas Finn explained that LeBlanc has a chronic form of leukemia (CLL – chronic lymphocytic leukemia) which must be closely monitored and sometimes treated but it can be controlled.
LeBlanc noted he will continue to serve as a cabinet minister and Member of Parliament for Beausejour.
He added the parliamentary calendar gives him the flexibility to start treatments right away and he's confident this will not impact his work.
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My friend and I came up with a few good ones today. I googled the phrase, and only came up with Christians using it to (very poorly) mock atheism. Let's show 'em how it's done.
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yea, better find a girl/guy who screams "oh my science!" when happy...
You know you're an atheist when...
... you actually use the "oh my science" phrase sometimes.
... when you know at least some parts of the bible better than the believers (my favorite parts to quote or mention are leviticus, just because that book is so fscked up)
... for a US atheist: when you have/would want to get the money stamp with "federal endorsement of a religion or a deity violates the US constitution" text, and/or when you use that in a sentence or situation where it's applicable. Such as in court...
... when you consider atheists to be smarter and sexier than the believers of something (if you know nothing more about them, or when in comparison to people otherwise with the same attributes but subscribing to a religion)
There is a definite question mark integrated into the phrase and experience of, "Oh My Science" and the life of Science in this earthly circumstance where there are Christians and Atheists can not continue to use itself that way. After all, science is absolute whole knowledge. Within that there exists no questions. When you are shown to sight a new interest, provided a new awareness, experiencing communication that is appreciating, you know immediately about that interest related fluidly to what you have known about that interest completely before. That is true science doing what science can continue to do.
1. ... you don't know what to say after someone sneezes
2. ... you start collecting books by the four horsemen. (... hitch... sob)
3. ... religious people start looking like nonsense-spouting idiots
4. ... you get yelled at for "using god's name in vain" by accident
5. ... you get 2 or more "save your soul" messages in your facebook, youtube, email, etc inbox.
6. ... your facebook friends start having religious vs. atheist wars on your wall.
7. ... your (well-meaning) friends or fam start buying you books by C.S Lewis, Lee Strobel, and "I don't have enough faith to be an atheist" by Gieser, Turek, and Limbaugh
8. ... you start viewing the bible as a "bad book"
9. ... you find going to church to be awkward.
10. ... Any question you ask on religion can bring an explosion.


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Thousand Oaks Rotary Chili Cook Off and Classic Car Show
April 25, 2015 @ 11:00 am - 9:00 pm
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The Thousand Oaks Rotary Club hosts its 39th Annual Chili Cook Off and Classic Car Show on Saturday, April 25, 2015 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Conejo Creek Park South in Thousand Oaks.
The annual event will feature a regional Chili Cook Off, sanctioned by the International Chili Society, Classic Car Show, live music, food, beverages and fun activities for the whole family. DSB Journey Tribute band to perform at 6:30pm to 8pm.
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Opinion: The Facts about Waterboarding
Former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen appears on OJ Live to discuss why waterboarding isn't illegal and has been useful in gaining critical intelligence.
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... welcome back opinion Journal Live on Jason Riley in joining me next to mark the sum ... of the American Enterprise Institute to talk about ... GOP presidential candidates and waterboarding was a mark ... so at last Saturday's debate Herman Cain the Michele Bachmann expressed some approval ... for waterboarding and of course this led to some ... outraged by liberal commentators ... but using some of these critics have their facts wrong I can explain ... Blondin waterboarding was incredibly effective ... that it had not been for the waterboarding of collegiate monitored ... and other enhanced interrogation technique unit were due to the terrace ... we would not have that information to stop the series of terrorist attacks after September eleven ... unbeknown to us ... on September twelve two thousand won the network that attacked the GSM network ... and a series of other tax plan ... they were planning to fly an airplane is elaborate era Los Angeles ... they're planning to blow the U S Marine camp in Djibouti ... they were planning to carry out a IIa an attack on London's second nine eleven in Europe ... I just Europe and in Europe and flying into Heathrow airport building in downtown London ... it that most of ... the look the U S Marine contingent duty in an attack that would've been reminiscent of the ... Marine barracks bombing in nineteen eighty three in Beirut ... look the U S consulate in Karachi an attack that that that might be a step in to the bond that we didn't know any of that ... we didn't know the noble or ... worse than the stairs are captured on September twelve two thousand won ... that it was the mastermind of nine eleven the operational commander of the Kidder who ... is she allies were endlessly start attacking the terrorists ... and applying in an interrogation some cases ... we got the information they rounded up all the members of these networks are out there planning the terrorist attacks ... well ... in fairness to the credit score of the political right doesn't exactly speak with one voice on the summing we stocked ... up on stage effective date Jon Huntsman ... said that ... while ... he would not re Institute waterboarding of ... Ron Paul agreed we didn't hear from up that Romney on that and know what you read into that even voluntary response the webmaster yes the get retreated and then did he agree that one of the ... outside ... then again she he did during the debt they can't paint weeded out ... that he agreed that waterboarding is torture ... yes OK ... OK but then you have with this um on the right that we're not there you Avici have folks like ... of former Vice President Dick Cheney defended ... of the interrogation practice that than others like ... John McCain ... aam say that it's not torture ... I would say that said that it is torture and it's not right ... and that even if it doesn't yield ... useful information it's it's the wrong thing to do America should be above that sort of thing ... honey respond to like McCain's argument ... Iran ... last Update of the ... nine eleven ... to Afghanistan or Iraq or anywhere else in technical move was right at me ... or I'll ... be deployed to the isolation of mine ... Dunigan the Don McKinnon contenders opinion ... in my book courting disaster which has a book about the enhanced interrogation program IFT when an interview a number of John McCain ... Ms zHome Atento and fellow prisoners epitome Hilton ... I including curtail the game Medal of honor winner was detached ... from the mini ... camp and you survive in the jungle for repeating meeting of prawns ... and was only brought back severely tortured and asked him ... you consider waterboarding torture he said absolutely not ... I support waterboarding any I asked him what what you stated the man who waterboarding reach a common means that to me ... you did the right thing ... Admiral Jeremiah Denton who was also in the famous Peter W ... Goulet who linked in Morse code the word torture during a propaganda interview was purely ... orders ... were given me ... he also supports waterboarding ... Cornelio or snapped another medal of honor winner who actually ... do Reliance Banorte U can you understand what torture is that waterboarding torture Mr Ward ... said John McCain doesn't speak for all of this will be adapted to it ... um what are the argument that Tom ... you know we lead by example and therefore if if we don't do this we lessen the chances of it being done to our servicemen and women ... yes ... I did at the All-Star team in an out tell you why ... when they look the U S embassies in East Africa and the Cie interrogation for ... waterboarding them a little while but when it blew up ... the US has called it was no CIA interrogation of water for nine eleven the ... CIA interrogation program ... so the Viterra the founder of the reasons to recruit operatives than that ... and and and attacked us ... so I thought I don't mind the origin of the ... damages the reputation when ... it would damage the reputation ... around the world in a moral example people with all the state that will reduce water or ... not to mention the fact that people know ... the Obama administration under the Obama missed ration the United States continues to low water port ... we do into our own troops ... we knew that there are more than twenty thousand American servicemen and water boarded ... as part of the military training of the torture statute doesn't have a ... a training exemption it was real issue is actually torture under a lot would be illegal to apply it ... to America ... we don't break their bones with that with him and we don't ... like the screws ... on iron ... ore up or auto ... well then announced rules were I want to keep them with a profit although the legal ... but we do what it was an everyday US Navy continues to waterboarding ... it's raining so ... we were boarding our own service members to waterboarding ... I believe I've also read ... that ... there's a difference between waterboarding ... and the type of water torture ... that was then ... employed throughout history can you elaborate on the eleventh ... I'm interested in one of the one other things the damage to reputation around the world people running around saying things ... like reading the same techniques that the Spanish Inquisition and the materials and and and prosecute people for war crimes are doing exactly what the I did ... we actually incorrect ... when that when the Japanese use water torture American servicemen but they did was they strap and go for ... it but ... on a limb there now and that for putrid water filled with human waste ... into any pumped into their bodies until they're in it entered expanded ... to the point that the recent surge in the past out ... an intimate ... that they would jump on their stomachs may involve one of the water and start the process over again ... they even had time to drive the Japanese ... you then use ... that simple and could rise and then filled them with water to make it so the REITs would expand in May to enter for it ... is nothing like what this EIA did not even remotely close to people who say this ... they are the ones who are responsible for for a ... rate that all comparisons are replicated the disruption to our reputation ... upend has just read the place I think it um ... 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More Stunning Emails to Come in Facebook Ownership Lawsuit
Eye-opening emails released in a lawsuit Tuesday could change the very ownership of Facebook -- and more emails have yet to be released, FoxNews.com has learned.
Paul Ceglia, an upstate New York businessman, claims that in 2003 he made a $1,000 investment in Facebook, which entitles him to 50 percent of what is today the 500 million-user force powering social networking. Facebook calls the emails -- as well as Ceglia himself, and the entire case -- an utter fraud.
But they haven't seen the whole story yet.
Robert Brownlie, a partner with giant law firm DLA Piper and Ceglia's chief legal adviser, said there's more evidence still unseen. "There are more emails," Brownlie told FoxNews.com.
Whether they would be part of the case was still undetermined, however. "That's possible at some point," Brownlie said, explaining that all relevant material evidence in the lawsuit would be turned over to Facebook's legal team ... eventually.
When told that Ceglia had still more emails, attorney Orin Snyder, of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, which is representing Facebook, lambasted the case and Ceglia, calling him a convicted crook with a checkered past.
"That simply means the fraud is going to deepen," he told FoxNews.com. "The so-called emails are bogus, and so if there are more, we'll look at them when they come." He called the new emails "no more genuine than those referenced in the complaint" -- and continue hammering Ceglia's history.
In 2009, Ceglia was arrested in New York on charges he allegedly defrauded customers out of at least $200,000 through the wood pellet business Allegany Pellets, which Ceglia and his wife own. A spokesman for the attorney general's office told FoxNews.com that the case was quietly settled in October 2010, with Ceglia paying $106,000 in restitution fees and $25,000 in penalties and fees.
The website for Allegany Pellets is still active, however. The Attorney General did not respond to FoxNews.com questions about the current status of the business.
Ceglia also pleaded guilty to a felony charge in Texas decades ago, over possession of psychedelic mushrooms.
Calls to Ceglia's home in Wellsville, N.Y., went unanswered; Brownlie explained that his client wasn't giving any more interviews. But Ceglia has already explained the unbelievable genesis of the case: He had simply forgotten about the deal with Zuckerberg, he claims -- and the agreement that could easily yield him billions of dollars.
Ceglia said he stumbled across the files when sifting through his records last year, following his 2009 fraud arrest.
"If this thing hadn't happened the way it happened, no way I would have ever started looking through these ancient folders," Ceglia told BusinessWeek. "That contract would just be sitting in there gathering dust."
Why release the emails Tuesday, a day after the end to the long-running lawsuit by the Winklevoss brothers (who argued that Zuckerberg stole their idea)? Mere coincidence, Brownlie said.
"By court order, the first amended complaint in the case was due," Brownlie said. The stunning emails weren't planned to coincide; in other words, it was just an odd accident.
The emails released so far appear to document a business arrangement. By April 2004, the email chain appears to show the relationship between the pair spiraling downward and devolving. According to the complaint, Zuckerberg even claimed the site wasn't doing well -- and he planned to shut it down.
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"Paul, I have become too busy to deal with the site and no one wants to pay for it, so I am thinking of just taking the server down. My parents have a fund that I can tap into for my college expenses and I would just like to give you your two thousand dollars back."
A war of words ensued, with Ceglia, according to the emails, telling Zuckerberg to "Grow up, take a f--king ethics class, choke yourself with that silver spoon of yours."
"If you've followed the evolution of Mark Zuckerberg's response to this case, it started with 'I never had an agreement' … to questioning the nature of that agreement," Brownlie told FoxNews.com.
Facebook's reaction to the emails has been consistent and adamant.
"This is a fraudulent lawsuit brought by a convicted felon, and we look forward to defending it in court," Snyder said, referring to Ceglia's guilty plea in the Texas drug case. "From the outset we've said that this scam artist's claims are ridiculous and this newest complaint is no better."
Brownlie told FoxNews.com he was waiting on a Facebook response at this point. The company is obligated to respond within 20 days, either by answering the complaint -- in which case the social network must walk through the complaint and respond, fact by fact -- or file a motion to dismiss, if they believe the allegations aren't sufficiently proven by the evidence.
"Before agreeing to come on the case, we did a lot of due diligence or research on our part to determine to our level of comfort that the evidence is genuine," he said.


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French gambling group Mangas Gaming SAS with substantial investments in online gaming and sports betting has revealed that two major deals have been finalized.
Betclic, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire a controlling stake in Bet-at-home.com AG, and that it will launch a public offer to acquire the shares held by the minority shareholders.
A Malta jurisdiction licensed company, Bet-at-home has a registered player base of over a million people. Founded in 1999 in Wels, Austria. Since it's early beginnings the company has made great strides in online gambling operations in Eastern Europe, Germany, and Austria. Mangas reported that the completion of the Bet-at-home acquisition and tender offer is subject to certain conditions, including the usual regulatory approvals.
Mangas stated that it has gained control of Expekt, a Scandinavian online sports betting operation with offerings in Northern European markets, and online poker.
Isabelle Parize, Chief Executive Officer of Mangas Gaming, said, "After the acquisition of Betclic in 2008 and the recent announcement of the acquisition of Expekt, one of the leading online betting and gaming company in Scandinavia this transaction perfectly complements the Mangas Gaming strategy of creating a strong European-wide network of online sports betting and gaming operations."
Bet-at-home founders Franz Omer and Jochen Dickinger said: "We are happy to welcome Mangas Gaming as shareholder of Bet-at-home.com AG which gives bet-at-home.com AG the opportunity to join one of the leading online gaming and betting networks in Europe. We also appreciate that the shareholders of Bet-at-home.com AG are given the opportunity to sell their shares to Mangas Gaming."
Parize added that Mangas now has a presence in over 25 countries and benefits from a balanced breakdown of its activities over continental Europe, offering its services in 24 different languages. Although exact figures were not revealed the figure of $125 million Euro for Expekt was suggested and Bet-at-home was at around $38.2 million Euro.


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Zuma talking rubbish, he did not want to work with Mbeki – Malema
EFF leader Julius Malema has rubbished President Jacob Zuma's claim that he had spoken against the recall of former President Thabo Mbeki.
Malema said the President was lying and that in fact it was Zuma who pushed for Mbeki to be removed.
"He is talking rubbish, CR (Cyril Ramaphosa) is the one who opposed it. Zuma told me that we should remove Mbeki because he can't work with him," Malema tweeted on Wednesday.
"He never opposed it, he actively supported it and mobilized all of us to support the removal of Mbeki. Ramaphosa opposed it and Gwede Mantashe argued that instead of removing Mbeki, let's call early elections" said Malema.
Zuma was speaking to the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) on Wednesday following his recall by the ANC.
Zuma compared his current situation with that of Mbeki.
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"I was one of those who said we must not recall Comrade President Mbeki, it would set a bad precedent. I was defeated by the majority," said Zuma.
Mbeki was recalled in September 2008 and he resigned shortly after.
Malema was the president of the ANC Youth League until he was expelled in 2012. He was a staunch supporter of Zuma. After his expulsion and the founding of EFF, Malema has been opposed to Zuma's presidency.
The President said that back in 2008 when Mbeki was recalled, it was justified as the ANC National Executive Committee had reasons on why they wanted to recall him.
Zuma painted himself as a victim as he explained that he had not been told by the ANC top officials why he had to resign.
He said that the call for him to resign was not based on any "policy".
Zuma said he noted the Parliamentary process that was underway to remove him and that he accepts that he was elected by Parliament. Politics Hub


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I've been craving watermelon like crazy so yesterday I picked one up from Fairway. I didn't realize though, that I bought a yellow watermelon. Have you ever heard of these? I don't think I've ever seen one before!
Anyway, it's delicious, just like regular watermelon and it looked so festive cut up with yellow pineapple. I love the monochromatic look. You could add some peaches and mango to continue the yellow theme.
And this got me thinking about Martha Stewart's version of green fruit salad from their latest August issue. It is made up of kiwifruits, green apple, honeydew melon and frozen grapes. I think this looks absolutely beautiful.
Red fruit salad could easily be made with red watermelon, strawberries, raspberries, and cherries. And finally, I found this picture on Pinterest. What a great way to serve your monochromatic fruit salad!
Monday, July 18, 2011
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- Prippy Handbook said...
Yellow... who knew? I had watermelon on my mind this weekend, too. At Sunday brunch, we made Watermelon Pimm's Cups. Yum. Love summer!


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|One of a thousand cranes distributed at the 2/19 event.
I moved to California about a year ago. While the US internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II is a legacy that every person in the US must own, it is particularly relevant to California, the home of so many of the people interned.
During the past year, I read Farewell to Manzanar - a memoir that is frequently assigned in high school and college classes here. It is a high impact book -- easy to read, and full of insights about the life of a second-generation girl of Japanese descent who was sent with her family to an internment camp in central California.
|Farewell to Manzanar
In a way characteristic of this country, the US had created a situation combining mistreatment based on "race" identity with discrimination based on (involuntary) lack of citizenship
In 1943, the US government began to try to undo what it had done. It circulated a questionnaire to the internees, including "loyalty questions." If you answered the questions properly, you could obtain leave from internment.
Imagine having been rounded up and sent off to an internment camp, held for a long period, and then being given the "opportunity" to state where your loyalties lie. How would you feel? How would you feel if you were a US citizen? How would you feel if you were an immigrant who had been denied the possibility of ever becoming a US citizen?
The situation faced by those internees in 1943 is relevant to the continuing situation of various groups in the US today, especially immigrant populations and people subject to discrimination. Which properly comes first: loyalty? or equitable treatment? (Is the answer different if you're "white"?)
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Dirty Wars and Extrajudicial Execution (So 1984!)
Does a Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC) need to be part of a "new plan of Chicago"?
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It was, the man said, a miracle. An infection had ravaged his body, collapsed his lung, and forced him into the hospital – without insurance. He was released with a fistful of prescriptions that would cost $1,000 and told to follow up with his primary care doctor. He had neither. And the hospital staff probably guessed that.
Then Jason Odhner, a registered nurse and co-founder of PACH clinic, visited him at home and found a solution. The man and his family burst into tears, calling him an angel, a miracle, an answer to their prayers.
"Maybe I should just be glad I was able to help," Odhner says. "But honestly, it just made me feel angry." It should be the norm that someone cares enough to save a dying man, he says. "The fact that they saw that as a miracle is frankly an indictment of the entire system."
As its name suggests, PACH (Phoenix Allies for Community Health) is patching the cracks in a broken system that poor people slip through. The volunteer-led nonprofit provides free health care to the uninsured: undocumented immigrants, refugees and the working poor. The response has been so positive the four-year-old clinic moved in January from a former squat house on Roosevelt Street to a facility in west Phoenix.
But PACH isn't just a free version of today's rushed and red-taped rule. On a busy February morning, enthusiastic volunteer nurses and physician assistants discuss strategies for a patient's care and for enhancing diabetes education in the community. There's also a life coach/hypnotherapist/reiki practitioner and a woman who conducts sound-healing sessions steeped in native traditions. They're both lifelong Spanish speakers and, Odhner says, "a lot more sensitive and culturally competent on these complex issues than other people would be."
PACH staff frequently spend an hour with a patient and emphasize holistic care, including naturopathy and acupuncture. Undocumented people face waves of emotional turbulence from deportation threats, unscrupulous employers and sexual harassment, Odhner explains. "The idea that we can just throw pills at that and make them healthy is absurd. They need and deserve a very complex level of comprehensive care."
One of these undocumented patients is Jesús, a diabetic with an amputated toe. During a consultation, Odhner speaks with him about foot care, dietary changes, family and work. Thanks in part to the clinic, Jesús – a freelance laborer – is clearly health-savvy. He avoids soda, steams his vegetables, and goes to church or fixes his truck instead of drinking with his cousins. "[PACH] has helped me a lot," Jesús says through a volunteer translator, "because I didn't know I was a diabetic, and now I'm taking medicines for it, and it's very expensive... Here I'm not paying anything. So if I have money I give a donation."
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During the Ebola epidemic last year, Jason Odhner risked his life treating patients in Liberia for five months. "What I saw in Africa mirrored very much what I see in America," he says. For decades, African countries have had a woefully inadequate and underfunded medical system, "and the world didn't care," Odhner says. But when the Ebola emergency struck, "the global community threw billions of dollars into this, and that money was invested in a way that made very little meaningful change in terms of... benefit[ing] them outside of the immediate Ebola crisis. It was the global health equivalent of discharging somebody from the ICU and saying, 'Follow up with your primary care provider.'"
In America, the government is not willing to invest in lower-cost primary care for marginalized people, he says. But when their conditions escalate into an emergency, "we'll spend any amount of resources to save this person's life." Afterward, we ignore them again, even though a relapse – and another costly intervention – is practically inevitable.
Next, Jesús gets an EKG and blood work taken onsite. Without PACH, he'd have to get each of these done at separate facilities, for $100-plus a pop, losing a day's pay each time. That's why most uninsured people put off seeing a doctor until their condition intensifies into a heart attack or stroke. The patient then suffers and becomes incapacitated needlessly, and hospitals must swallow thousands of dollars in uncompensated treatment.
Free clinics save hospitals millions by treating conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol – the most common conditions seen at PACH – early and inexpensively. In 2013 alone, free and charity clinics in Texas saved the state an estimated $63.8 million, according to the Lone Star Association of Charitable Clinics.
"But we hate to emphasize that here," Odhner says, "because we're not trying to say that these people should receive good-quality, respectful, dignified primary care because it's cheaper. They should get this because they're humans and because we have a moral duty as a society to provide good-quality primary care for our neighbors."
PACH sees 30 to 40 patients a week, plus house calls. Though they'd like to serve more, they have limited funds (they're supported by co-founders Bob and Amy McMullen, plus individual donations). But they're comfortable growing slowly, Odhner says. "The most important thing for us is to prove that it's possible to provide exceptionally high standards of care even to patients who face a lot of barriers."
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It's Booking Through Thursday! Yay!
Do you keep a list of the books you've read? How? In a journal? Through one of the online services? If so, WHY? To keep good records for future reference? To make sure you don't accidentally reread? If not, why not? Too eager to move on to the next book? Too lazy? Never thought to bother?
I do keep a list! in fact I use this AMAZING program I am sure many of you guys are familiar with called Goodreads !
Why? Well I find that Goodreads is a helpful program for so many reasons:
1. I can keep a log of how many pages I read a day and write little comments about what I think of the book at that point (which helps for reviews and just looking back)
2. I can keep a list of books I've read ~ I love this because I want to make sure I don't forget and it's nice to know how many books I've read since 2010 (when I joined Goodreads)
3. I can keep a list of books I want to read. ~ as the Goodreads 'motto' goes: "meet your next favorite book" well I can attest that I have found some wonderful books on Goodreads and read their synopsis and viewed their star rating and reviews and decided if I would like to read it or not. It's quite helpful in choosing new to-read books and keeping track of them
4. *see details of number 3*
5. I can chat with people about different books
6. I can participate in giveaways, groups, and polls.
7. I can visit author pages and find the other books that the author has written if I really like their work.
8. I can take trivia quizzes, look up quotes, and give/receive recommendations.
overall it's a fabulous program and it is worth my time and helps me organize my reading world in a very ordered way.
"I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction."
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
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25 March 2012
Body Issues, or Puberty (Again)
A curvy stomach
Curvy thighs
Curvy hips
I look down and think, "Where did those come from???"
The other day I had to shop for something I haven't needed for a long time.
Or, maybe not.
It was like going through puberty all over again. First I had to figure out my bra size. When I figured out I had a D cup, I knew my calculations were wrong. I mean, I have breasts, but I don't have *breasts*. If you know what I mean.
So I recalculated and realized I had a B cup...I was right back into the size I was at sixteen, when I first develop these breasts.
Then I had to find a "comfortable bra" — two words that constitute an oxymoron, in my opinion. First I went with Victoria's Secret yoga bra, figure it was close to my beloved - and oh so comfortable - camisoles.
But I couldn't wear these bras with a lot of things because of the way the shape curves up. I knew I needed a "real bra." One with underwire and hooks and shaped cups.
First I dug out some old ones that were in the size I *finally* figured out I wear, but these were padded and for some odd reason, the padded ones were too big in the cup. My cup didn't runneth over, but instead ran too small.
Then I headed for the local Kohl's, where I almost went into sticker-shock. Can anyone tell me why a piece of clothing that goes *under* my regular clothes can cost more than my regular clothes? This wouldn't be because we live in a male-dominanted society that still seeks to disenfranchise women, would it? I mean, men have it all wrapped up — they don't have to be expensive undergarments and they don't have to buy tampons or napkins every single month until they hit fifty or so.
I tried on some of the less-expensive makes, refusing to even consider spending fifty dollars for what basically amounts to a glorified bikini top...and while I'm on the subject, who decided to start selling swimwear in two or more separate pieces? What's next — selling a coat and its hood separate? A shirt and its buttons separate? (Don't get any ideas, retail!)
I was gratified to actually find a bra that I can wear all day and not feel like I'm going to die of suffocation. So here's my bra recommendation, for what it's worth: Barely There by Hanes. Most.comfortable.bra.I've.ever.worn.
Pluses: bras are prettier than camisoles (who knew that there were so many different colors for bras?) and my figure is pretty darn good (I actually feel sexier than I have for years! Now if I could find someone to appreciate all this sexiness...)
On a totally random and unrelated note: I've finished reading Unorthodox:The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots and started reading The Hunger Games.
Unorthodox was a good read about a woman who fought against a repressive and misogynistic religious sect — and before anyone calls me an anti-Semite, I would have written the same thing about books that depict fundamentalism and misogyny in any form; i.e. FLDS or strict Southern Baptist. I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, and they preached that it was a sin for a. girls to wear slacks and b. anybody to do anything that remotely made them happy. We used to watch films about hellfire and damnation, and it was the principle reason why I still struggle to not be afraid of God. Read Unorthodox before you judge me or Deborah Feldman.
The Hunger Games is interesting, yet depressing. I didn't really need another thing to depress me, but I'm too far into the book now to stop. I also bought The Covenant by James Michener the other day, and plan to re-read it soon. I love that book! Anyone interested in historical fiction and the history of South Africa and apartheid should read it.
Finally, I finished reading - yet again! - Black Like Me. I highly recommend it. (Read my review of it on Amazon or at Goodreads. Or just scroll down and read my review on the right of this blog.)
5 comments:
- Agrace12 said...
Encouraging. Embracing your body and loving it! This is something I still struggle with, a woman's body. I developed my ED as a child and I still identify with a child's body even though I am a mother! Crazy. I admire you for this!
- March 25, 2012 at 2:46 PM
- Angela said...
I have gained curves, breasts...still not enough to really warrant needing a bra, but it does remind me of puberty. How many times can my body change? I've gone through puberty, anorexia, pregnancy, anorexia, medicine induced weight gain, anorexia, and now recovery. a womans body is in constant flux. We have to embrace the changes. You appreciate your sexiness, and one day someone else will!
- March 25, 2012 at 9:41 PM
- Dawn said...
recently did the same thing and found one at Victoria Secret that I could seriously live in. I don't think I've ever in my life had a bra that has been so comfortable, barely feels like I'm wearing anything, and it makes me feel pretty. It was hard to spend $50 on a bra though and it was hard to try on so many many before I found "the one".
And I agree with you on Hunger Games. Good read but depressing. The 2nd one is more action than the first and the 3rd is dark and depressing. Still good but difficult to read at the time that I read it.
- March 26, 2012 at 10:13 AM
- yogaduchess1982 said...
I love Vera Wang. But I HATE vera wang lingerie for Kohl's. The bras are NOT supportive, and the panties are just so odd. Good choice with Hanes. :)
- March 27, 2012 at 12:38 PM
- Leigh said...
Great post. I HATE bra shopping for the same reasons you listed.
- March 27, 2012 at 2:17 PM


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