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For Christmas, and a little bit after (New Years Eve), i have a very special offer you: all Compact Discs ever released on Fettkakao now for €15.
This also includes the very rare Fettkakao Sampler 2011, only a few are left.
here is the the list of the 11 Compact Discs:
fett001 Vortex Rex – Short Attention Span
fett002 Lonely Drifter Karen – Sinsweetime
fett004 Seven Sioux – Argue Again
fett005 Vortex Rex – Powermess
fett006 Spoenk – Hard To Mend
fett007 Seven Sioux – We Are Not The Scared People
fet008 A Thousand Fuegos –Like Big Black Clouds Through Burning Eyes
fett021 Stefanie Sourial – Amsterdam
fett022 Fettkakao – Sampler 2011
fett028 Plaided – Playdate
fett035 Fettkakao – Sampler 2014
15 € + Postage (3,60 Europe, 6,30 World).
please write me an email if interested!
the sampler is out for some weeks already. it features artistes around the label – but mostly people i work with on a regular basis – or just encountered at a moment; people i find interesing, friends. as always: i try to hold on to a moment for a little longer by capturing it.
after having presented the compilation in Graz and Vienna – we are now off to a little germany tour w/ Just Friends and Lovers, Goldsoundz and Tirana.
here are the dates!
June 1oth @ Wien, Wagenplatz
June 11th @ Leipzig, HandstandundMoral
June 12th @ Berlin, Schokoladen
June 13th @ Kassel, Nord
June 14th @ TBA
June 15th @ Augsburg, Der Ludwig
June 16th @ Wien, Celeste w/ Brooke's Bedroom!
just in time for the tour, Wilhelm Show Me The Major Label have released the Tape Version of the Sampler. so now you can choose between Vinyl, Tape, CD … stream and digi download!
also in time for the tour is this fine video by Just Friends and Lovers, which was made by Theresa Adamski of Beach Girls and the Monster. the band is also featured on the compilation. (youtube / dailymotion)
bands/songs on the compilation:
Beach Girls and the Monster – Butcher From the Surf ° Just Friends and Lovers – Showdown ° Bad Weed – Show Me What You Got ° Dot Dash – Evil ° Les Trucs – Fuchs Frisst Weltraum ° Mile Me Deaf – Vietnam Air ° Stefanie Sourial – Everybody Else and my Metronom ° Tirana – Window Shop of Love ° Goldsoundz – Cat Phone ° Brooke's Bedroom – The Comfort Of Furniture ° Armin Lorenz – Eyes Wide Shut ° Crazy Bitch In A Cave – Masquerade (Infinite Palace Remix)
listen to the sampler on bandcamp; and purchase Vinyl + CD via Fettkakao mailorder.
hey 2012!
last year was kinda busy. at least around this time. i had 4 releases in the oven. but the situation was similar: after september 2010 (festkakao and two 7″es at the same time) i haven't had a release until the beginning of 2011. even though we had plans for fall. last year it was stefanie sourials CD that came out more than 6 month later, this time it is the great fuegos album we have in the oven for so long already, and the armin lorenz 7″. both records will happen. and are more than worth their wait i can assure you.
but fettkakao wasn't lazy. we had the FM4 soundpark studio 2 session, the youki, melanie friedls exhibition. every month another joyful moment, with so many nice people involved.
behind the scenes me, my friends and family were busier. and our ideas grew into reality. i started to take sewing lessons, learning to work with fabric with my father. and am at the beginning, still. nick and me came up w/ the idea to print textile, so that i can start learning to sew on those, which helps my father and me since we have defined projects that way. nick and me had the idea for a three colour print – cubes, that need to be put in a rather exact order – so that you -dear reader- can read the name of the little art platform in three colours… im glad i got help from agnes, who's a very precise person and made us the perfect stencil for the screen. here's an insight on how we work, put the pattern on the fabric. and. to be honest: i love the way it looks with the construction aspect of it.
this was the first attempt to make it right. the full disclosure will follow, also what we are using the fabric for.
fettkakao stoff = fettkakao fabric. and is happening already. hello 2012. more soon.
when i did the 5 year fest last september – Rainer Krispel asked me if there would be a compilation along to the fest. no there wasn't one. and with a reason: i did not want to try to capture something that seemed so alive to me – alive like the fest was. 10 days w/ exhibitions + shows at different places in vienna, so many acts… so many nice people coming and sharing. i thought i had documented a lot of the music anyways – with all the 7″e.p.'s, LPs and CDs released.
some months later the idea of doing a compilation made sense though. not for a jubilee, not for showing what this label has put out so far – but the people around me, with their great ideas.
everyone contributed songs never released before (or at least not in these versions). most recorded exclusively for this piece of mini plastic. i loved how Paper Bird and Crazy Bitch In A Cave came up with the idea to cover their partners or boss song (both on the label) – or TIRANA completing a song for the compilation, Vortex Rex doing it last minute, Sex Jams going different directions for it etc.
i am really thankful to all artistes involved. for making it such a great record.
here's what it looks like. my old friend Lisa Max did it in Perth Australia, where the summer comes to its end finally.
the list of acts and songs:
01) Plaided – Let Go
02) Stefanie Sourial – Hide & Seek
03) Karin Depp – Plateau
04) A Thousand Fuegos – Coma Toes
05) 8 Hours Manatee VS Das Fieber – New Year's Gift
06) Crazy Bitch In A Cave – Forever
07) Paper Bird – Escape Plans
08) Brooke's Bedroom – Somewhere
09) Mile Me Deaf – Call Us Rats
10) TIRANA – Red Hills
11) Vortex Rex – Freeway Girl
12) Sex Jams – Gone Chillin'
13) Räuberhöhle – I'm Not Part Of The Shit
14) Gurlfriends -Treehuggers
15) Andreas Erstling – Autolied
the CD will be available from april 28th on; we will be celebrating its release at the follwing places:
May 6th & 7th, 2011 @ Lend Wirbel, Graz w/ Mile Me Deaf, Gurlfriends, Plaided, Vortex Rex
May 12th, 2011 @ Sckokoladen, Berlin w/ Stefanie Sourial, A Thousand Fuegos, Sex Jams, Plaided
May 14th, 2011 @ Final Club, Praha w/ Stefanie Sourial, A Thousand Fuegos, Sex Jams, Plaided
May 21st, 2011 @ Rhiz, Wien w/ a special line up – to be announced!
stefanie is an actress, a performer and a friend who writes her own music. i have been telling this before: if she's performing, having an act or simply playing the ukulele in front of a crowd – it will melt into one thing and become pretty entertaining.
i dont remember where i have met stefanie for the first time. probably at the theobald flat – the breeding place for (queer) feminist artists and intellectuals. and it must have been her show with beidl (her band at that time) where i have seen stefanie perform for the very first time. they opened up a show for ilsebill who had just released their 7″ on fettkakao. i was impressed. what an act! and her friends on stage had these big penises made out of… what was that?pap maché? dont know.
i think it took a year until i've seen stefanie doing the ukulele thing. it was a birhday party at elektro gönner. plaided did a short set, we did a few songs with the BHCB and stefanie was playing some songs with veronika and julia from plaided. it was so good. especially iko iko they did together.
i cant even remember when i asked stefanie to do s/t on fkk. must have been in between our trips to various places. i saw her play weddings and parent's birthday parties. saw her perform at the academy and on a burlesque show… and missed her very important play at the kosmos theater this winter. the one the CD is .. well embedded in. difficulties you might get being an artist.
thanks for taking a walk with the kakao stefanie!
here are some links. and pictures. and videos.
sourialistic links: youtube, soundcloud, description on festkakao blog. find upcoming events with her here.
stefanie at the love_gallery // festkakao 2010.
with half of nic's art in her face.
stefanies and nick's feet. oh. and confetti.
the video for difficulties.
looks familiar?
her CD on fettkakao (amsterdam, fett021)!


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Utilize este identificador para referenciar este registo:
|Tabaco nas síndromas coronárias agudas: o "paradoxo dos fumadores" revisitado
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|Smoking in acute coronary syndromes--the "smoker's paradox" revisited
|Gaspar, A
Nabais, S
Rocha, S
Torres, M
Pinto, J
Azevedo, P
Brandão, A
Álvares-Pereira, M
Correia, A
|Síndrome Coronária Aguda
|Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia
|Rev Port Cardiol. 2009;28(4):425-37.
|INTRODUCTION: Although a well-known risk factor for coronary disease, smoking has long been associated with lower short-term mortality in acute coronary syndromes (ACS). There are few recent works on Portuguese populations examining all aspects of smoking in ACS, particularly the interaction between smoking and other risk factors, and the management and prognosis of patients according to smoking status. OBJECTIVE: We sought to examine clinical characteristics, presentation, in-hospital treatment, angiographic features and prognosis of patients with and without smoking history admitted with ACS. METHODS: A total of 1228 patients consecutively admitted with ACS from January 2004 to March 2007 were analyzed. Patients were classified into two groups, those with present or past smoking habits (n=450) making up Group I and those without smoking habits (n=778), Group II. The main outcome analyzed was overall mortality during hospital stay and at 6 months. RESULTS: Smokers and former smokers were younger and more frequently male (odds ratio [OR] = 22.46; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 12.94-38.96), and less often had diabetes (OR = 0.41; 95% CI: 0.30-0.54), hypertension (OR = 0.31; 95% CI: 0.24-0.39) and renal insufficiency (OR = 0.26; 95% CI: 0.18-0.36). Patients with smoking habits more frequently presented with ST elevation (OR = 1.32; 95% CI: 1.04-1.67), more often received evidence-based medical therapy, namely beta blockers (during hospital stay, OR = 2.42; 95% CI: 1.63-3.56 and at discharge, OR = 1.45; 95% CI: 1.03-2.1) and statins (at discharge, OR = 2.48; 95% CI: 1.2-6.1), and more frequently underwent coronary angiography (OR = 2.15; 95% CI: 1.63-2.84). Although smokers and former smokers had lower in-hospital mortality on univariate analysis (OR = 0.54; 95% CI: 0.31-0.96), this association was not confirmed on multivariate analysis, with adjustment for known short-term mortality predictors (OR = 1.25; 95% CI: 0.61-2.54). Similarly, multivariate analysis failed to confirm lower 6-month mortality for smokers and former smokers (OR = 2.0; 95% CI: 1.17-3.41). CONCLUSIONS: Clinical characteristics and management options differed between ACS patients with and without smoking habits. These differences explained the lower shortterm mortality initially observed between the two groups. In our population of patients admitted with ACS, we did not find a real "smoker's paradox".
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A Queensland man charged over a stabbing murder has been granted bail after a court heard he had "viable defences" to allegations levelled against him.
Shane Colin Duffy is accused of fatally stabbing James Beel-Endycott, at a property on Tubber Street, Beaudesert on June 10.
His bail application in Brisbane's Supreme Court on Friday heard the 35-year-old and Mr Beel-Endycott started fighting after an argument broke out at the property.
During the stoush, the deceased man sustained the knife wound to his chest and later died on the way to hospital.
Duffy's lawyer Andrew Bale submitted self-defence was a viable response to the crown allegations, his client did not pose an unacceptable risk of fleeing and didn't have a serious criminal history.
But crown prosecutor Phil Jackson argued the crown case relied on key evidence from a small number of witnesses, heightening the stakes should Duffy indulge in an "irresistible temptation" to try to make them change their accounts.
However, Justice Peter Applegarth found statements had already been taken from a number of these witnesses and ultimately approved the bail application.
"I consider any attempt by the applicant to do so is likely to be detected and is likely to result in cancellation of any grant of bail," he said.
He accepted there was an inferential case that Mr Beel-Endycott was stabbed during the course of the fight but noted the circumstances left open the defence of self-defence, amongst others.
"On the materials before me, the applicant has viable defences," he observed, weighing this against likely time in custody ahead of a trial.
Duffy was not in court for the bail hearing.


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After using stock Fox seals on my fork for about one year I decided to try those pretty blue seals from Enduro.
The price is identical to stock Fox. Enduro seal kit consists of three parts: foam ring, oil seal ring and wiper ring. Here is one difference because Fox seals consists only of two parts: foam ring and wiper/oil seal ring, so Enduro parts only have one function for each part Installing Enduro seals is a bit tricky and need some skills and strength to do it in comparison with fox seals, but if we follow the instructions it´s easy to install.
Break-in time is longer on Enduro seals as they are tighter and more rigid than Fox seals. After break-in time the Enduros still have a bit more resistance than Fox ones, but they do their job in a flawless way.
Since Enduros are more tight, stanchion lubrification is needed more often. For that I use teflon dry lube before each ride. Just pour some drops on stanchions, spread the oil with fingers, compress fork 2-3 times, wipe excess and it´s done.
Maintenance times are extended due to a less inside contamination. Since Fox seals allow a little bit more stanchion play so I´ve experienced a more buttery smooth work with Fox seals than with Enduro seals, but the lube oil gets grater longevity with the blue ones.
For the past two years the Enduro seals on my Fox 36 experienced all kinds of dust, mud, snow, etc, and still do their job like day one. The wiper still let´s the stanchion shiny in one passage and the fork oil takes more time inside, so service time intervals are longer. The only downside is the work resistance, which is more noticeable in my fork since I use the hard spring no it. In general the fork works very good but in small bump compression is noticeable a little more friction, but nothing that compromises normal fork functioning.
- Better oil sealing
- Wiper longevity
- Less stanchion side play
- Longer service time intervals
- Installation a bit tricky compared to Fox seals
- More stanchion lube needed
- More resistance to stanchion work
Enduro fork seals for Fox 36 forks are a good upgrade if you don´t care too much about ultra-smooth buttery work and want a "fit and forget" seal that do a great job and lasts more than stock ones.
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Hot Track of the Week - Flume & Chet Faker—"Drop the Game"
Make sure you check out this track: "Drop the Game" by Flume & Chet Faker. This effort is a collaboration of Chet Faker, a new age electronic artist who harps on jazz-style singing, accompanied with swooping bass comping. The entire video showcases a breakdancer gliding around a dark empty street as the deep rhythms of "Drop the Game" fill out his droning voice and a chorus of "oos". Flume collaborates on this work with Chet Faker to produce a version of what I call "Indie Techno", using the same style of editing and driving meter, but with Indie samples you might find in a Passion Pit or Local Natives piece.
Two up-and-coming artists set to burst out in their respective genres is never a bad choice for hot track of the week. This track bumps. Period. The slow vibe of the song, combined with the eerie hook, blend together in this masterpiece. This track from LockJaw EP is number one on the Australian Indie charts. When I showed this song to my homies, the general reaction was that "it got great flow and a real hood vibe that the general population will stop at a stand still for."
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The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Clark, November 15, 1805
Clark, November 15, 1805
November 15th Friday 1805
Rained all the last night at intervales of Sometimes of 2 hours, This morning it became Calm & fair, I prepared to Set out at which time the wind sprung up from the S. E. and blew down the River & in a fiew minits raised Such Swells and waves brakeing on the Rocks at the point as to render it unsafe to proceed. I went to the point in an empty canoe and found it would be dangerous to proceed even in an empty Canoe The Sun Shown untill 1 oClock p.m.which gave an oppertunity for us to dry Some of our bedding, & examine our baggage, the greater Part of which I found wet Some of our Pounded fish Spoiled I had all the arms put in order & amunition examined.
The rainey weather Continued without a longer intermition than 2 hours at a time from the 5th in the morng. untill the 16th is eleven days rain, and the most disagreeable time I have experienced Confined on a tempiest Coast wet, where I can neither get out to hunt, return to a better Situation, or proceed on: in this Situation have we been for Six days past.- fortunately the wind lay about 3 oClock we loaded I in great haste and Set out passed the blustering Point below which is a Sand beech, with a Small marshey bottom for 3 miles on the Stard. Side, on which is a large village of 36 houses deserted by the Inds. & in full possession of the flees, a Small Creek fall in at this village, which waters the Country for a few miles back; Shannon & 5 Indians met me here, Shannon informed me he met Capt. Lewis Some distance below & he took willard with him & Sent him to meet me, the Inds with him wer rogues, they had the night before Stold both his and Willards guns from under their heads, Capt. Lewis & party arrived at the Camp of those Indians at So Timely a period that the Inds. were allarmed & delivered up the guns &c. The tide meeting of me and the emence Swells from the main Ocean (imedeately in front of us) raised to Such a hite that I concluded to form a Camp on the highest Spot I could find in the marshey bottom, and proceed no further by water as the Coaste becomes verry dangerous for Crafts of the Size of our Canoes-and as the Ocian is imedeately in front and gives us an extensive view of it from Cape disapointment to Point addams, my Situation is in the upper part of Haley Bay S. 86° W. ____ miles Course five to Cape Disapt. and S. 35° W. Course ____ miles from point Addams
The River here at its mouth from Point addams to the enterance of Haley Bay above is ____ Miles or thereabouts, a large Isd. the lower point of which is immediately in the mouth above
4 Indians in a Canoe Came down with papto roots to Sell, for which they asked, blankets or robes, both of which we could not Spare I informed those Indians all of which understood Some English that if they Stole our guns &c the men would Certainly Shute them, I treated them with great distance, & the Sentinal which was over our Baggage allarmed them verry much, they all Promised not to take any thing, and if any thing was taken by the Squars & bad boys to return them &c. the waves became very high Evening fare & pleasent, our men all Comfortable in the Camps they have made of the boards they found at the Town above


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The Department of Training and Placement organized an"On-Campus Drive"on 18.03.2017for ECE and CSE graduates of our College students.Skypro Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bangalorehosted the campus drive.
Skypro Technologies Pvt Ltd, vision is to strive to be leaders in the field of Information Technology and enabled services sectors, through their relentless efforts to provide Quality Solutions to our customers through knowledge excellence, ethical business practices and sustained growth.
Through commitment to Customers, Stake Holders, Employees and the Industry that they operate in, their Mission is to Provide Services that exceeds their customers' expectations.Contribute to forward-looking transformation of society through innovative solutions.Achieve sustained growth with progressive business values.Promote and nurture right skills to increase the employability of young talents.Skypro Technologies is also involved in sales and service of IT and IT related products, licensing and hardware accessories for last 3 years.
Prof.V.Jethose (Head – Training and Placements)welcomed the HR team and the gathering.Mr.G.Jayaprakash (Corporate Relationship Manager)delivered the key note address and Mr.Vijay, HR Manager presented the company profile.
The Recruiting teams from Skypro Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bangalore were Mr. Vijay, HR Manager and Mr. Hussain, HR Manager. They conducted the pool Campus Drive at JCT College of Engineering and Technology. Mr. Hussain described the selection process and narrated about the job description.
42 studentswere scrutinized for attending this drive. In first round of Group discussion 12 students were selected. They went through two levels of Technical and HR round,6 students were selected in this campus recruitment drive.
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A little more about me; Elise.
It all started when...
There were two significant factors in my life that lead me to blogging... Growing up constantly writing and developing an interest in photography in my early years.
It wasn't until Totes turned mobile around 15 months old that I felt I had a little time back to myself and started getting the nagging itch to do something more with that time than clean up the house. I wanted something creative. I graduated from the University of Utah's Davd Eccles School of Business with a degree in Accounting. Accounting just came so easy to me after I took my first class in high school. I knew it would be a great basis for anything I wanted to do in the future, but after a trip to New York City in 2007 to apply for an internship at PriceWaterhouse Coopers, I knew right then and there I didn't want to work in the corporate accounting world. I was lucky enough to land an amazing job shortly after I moved to Seattle with a small startup company, an ultra modern yoga studio and spa. Working as the General manager allowed me to feel creative and utilize my business background at the same time, the best of both worlds. But it was always my plan to be a stay at home mom and raise my kids full time.
When I was fourteen years old, I picked up my first real camera. My dad was into photography and after watching him take photos and develop the film for years, I grabbed my Dad's camera and my best friend one afternoon and we set out on our first 'photoshoot'. We put on our sauciest outfit, overdid the hair and makeup and posed like we were in Vogue. I still have those images ingrained in my memory even though I have long since lost the physical photos. Over the years since then, I was always the one bringing a nice camera along on school trips, summer camps and birthday parties. Good quality photos were always very important to me. I sought out to model and be involved in photography from the front end. It never went anywhere other than a few fun gigs but during my shoots, I was always chatting with the photographers on what kind of equipment they were using. I finally purchased my first DSLR almost ten years ago now, but did so with the intention of learning to shoot with it well and master the camera before I had my target subject... my children. I've still come a long way in my photography since the birth of my son but am really proud of some of those first photos I had taken of him.
As for writing...
It was only recently, this year even, that I realized how long I've been writing. When I first started this blog, I did so with the intention of just sharing my photos and an outlet for my photography passion. I didn't want to include my own text or have my voice heard. Or very little if at all. I simply did not consider myself a writer. But over time I kept wanting to say more, and more... until this year I finally came to the realization that I enjoy writing! I grew up in the LDS church and was encouraged from a very young age to journal often. I have several volumes of journals at home in my parent's storage room and still journal regularly to this day. So I've been writing for a really long time! And have come a long way. I really love to sit down and read back over my old journal entries. It's a great way to refresh the memories and get a chuckle of the silly things that I obsessed over at the time or feel a bit nostalgic of those early years when I first met my husband. I've recently been reading back over the time that Totes was the age Apple is now and seeing how different or similar they are.
Both writing and photography have done more than just be a creative outlet for me. It's been stress relieving and therapeutic. I strongly believe everyone should journal and hope my kids do!
I really appreciate you taking this time to read this page and the rest of my blog. While it has taken me several years to even tell anyone that it exists, as it continues to grow, it has helped me grow as well and I am very happy with it. I hope you have found some of the posts helpful and enjoyable to read and view!
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I'm also currently working on taking my photography to the next level and have started working commercially. My personal instagram page: VillaVarchetta is becoming a portfolio of my personal work around the house (and beyond) and I also continue to run the media outlets for our own restaurants: Cinque Terre Ristorante, Barolo Ristorante and List Restaurant.


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New Delhi:Gold prices rose by Rs 78 to Rs 28,663 per 10 grams in futures trading today as speculators enlarged their positions amid a firming trend overseas.
At the Multi Commodity Exchange, gold for delivery in far-month June rose by Rs 78 or 027 percent to Rs 28,663 per 10 grams in a business turnover of 277 lots.
Similarly, the yellow metal for delivery in April was trading higher by Rs 57 or 0.20 percent to Rs 28,464 per 10 grams in 343 lots.
Analysts said a firming trend in the global markets where gold headed for the biggest quarterly advance since September 1990 as demand for haven assets surged to make the metal one of this year's best performing commodity, influenced metal futures here.
Globally, gold rose as much as 0.30 percent to USD 1,228.96 an ounce in Singapore.


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The makeover of the sewing studio continues. While the vertical blinds in the studio were removed for wall painting, I decided that the patterned vinyl valance was a little boring and needed....something.
I loosely wrapped some sheer fabric and coffee-dyed cheesecloth over the valance, hot gluing it in place. Then I added some extra prettiness; flowers and beads. I bought a couple of sprays of tiny fabric flowers from the dollar store, and used small seed beads (11/0, I think) and buttons and glitter to add some color and sparkle. All the embellishments were attached with a combination of tacky craft glue and hot glue. I don't always get good results using just hot glue, and I don't want bits to fall off as the temperature fluctuates in the room.
The ivory color and hits blue help to soften the pink of the walls. I love pink, but if I add too much, it's going to look like a baby girl's room. So I'm trying to keep to an ivory/white color scheme for anything else I add from this point.
Yesterday, Sweet Baboo and I went to Edmonton, and bought light fixtures, business supplies and a couple more furniture pieces for the studio. I found a kitchen island at Ikea, which will be perfect for my front counter, and we figured out curtain systems for the changing room and to separate the studio from our kitchen. We also bought a freestanding mirror.
I am now also a fan of Habitat for Humanity's ReStore! We visited two of the three locations in Edmonton, and found brand new light fixtures for $30 each. I got a used steno chair there as well, for $20. What a great place to buy windows, doors, furniture, tile....and if you ever need a picture frame of any size.....the ReStore have hundreds of them! Like any thrift store, the stock is always changing. But the selection is always huge and the prices are great. If there's a ReStore in your area, I encourage you to check it out.


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This group of doll artisans brings to Art and Antique Studio an outstanding show of creativity and style in the art of doll making.
Each doll, with its unique characters, from head to toe, will leave you feeling like a kid again. You won't want to miss this special exhibit by a special group of ladies. The sit, they stand, the hang, they make you smile! You will be inspired when you see the creativity put into these special works of art.
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If you are or know someone who is a CF-Level 1 that wants a great opportunity to coach please let me know! I have 29 days left at Bragg and need a replacement ASAP!!!
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You should have 90 seconds or more to rest after each round. You should do the BSQ and HSPU as fast as possible. Scale these movements or reps as needed (up or down) so you can complete them quickly and unbroken. Then complete as many C2B pull-ups as you can in one unbroken set. Rest the remainder of the 3 minute interval and then begin a new round at 3:00.
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Focusing on Trust and Estate Administration The legal entities called Trust and Estate Administration might be extremely difficult for men and women who do not have understanding about it. Nevertheless, all of us are really required to learn what these matters are, considering that we may face instances that need the knowledge of these subjects. In this content, these subjects will be briefly discussed so anytime the need arises, people may have at least a slight idea about it and may be helped in finding appropriate solution for related concerns. A Trust can be defined as a legal enterprise made by a person, known as the trustor, in which another person called the trustee is given the right to handle the investments or properties for the beneficiary's sake. There could be various kinds of trust namely living trust, testamentary trust, revocable trust, and irrevocable trust. We will consider differentiating each form in the subsequent paragraph. Living Trust is a trust established when an individual is still living. Next, testamentary trust is a trust which may be created by a trustor when he or she is still alive but would be initialized when he or she is without life. The trustee on this sort of trust would handle and tell the beneficiary what has been produced by the trustor. Revocable trust is simple to understand. It is a form of trust that can be modified or stopped by the trustor anytime after it is generated. And irrevocable trust is basically in contrary to revocable trust in which trust is can never be altered after it is established by the trustor.
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Sep 21, 2007
Old Ironsides
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky;
Beneath it rung the battle shout,
And burst the cannon's roar; --
The meteor of the ocean air
Shall sweep the clouds no more.
Her deck, once red with heroes' blood,
Where knelt the vanquished foe,
When winds were hurrying o'er the flood,
And waves were white below,
No more shall feel the victor's tread,
Or know the conquered knee; --
The harpies of the shore shall pluck
The eagle of the sea!
Oh, better that her shattered hulk
Should sink beneath the wave;
Her thunders shook the mighty deep,
And there should be her grave;
Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the god of storms,
The lightning and the gale!
(one of my favorite poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes)
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- Dan Hawkins said...
I like another of his poems pretty well, though I can't think of the title right now...
- October 7, 2007 at 8:04 PM
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United States District Court, D. Minnesota
October 16, 2017
Michelle A. Kunza, Plaintiff,v.Clarity Services, Inc., Defendant.
matter is before the Court on Defendant's Motion to
Dismiss. For the reasons that follow, the Motion will be
Clarity Services, Inc. ("Clarity") is a consumer
reporting agency (Am. Compl. (Docket No. 18) ¶ 5),
meaning it assembles credit information about consumers and
furnishes that information, for a fee, to third parties. 15
U.S.C. § 1681a(f). In April 2015, Plaintiff Michelle
Kunza received a copy of her credit report from Clarity,
which revealed that the report had been disclosed in 2014 to
two payday lenders, Flurish, Inc. and RHC/Rolling Hills. (Am.
Compl. ¶ 6.) According to Kunza, she never applied for a
payday loan or any other form of credit from these companies.
(Id. ¶ 7.) This discovery "alarmed and
upset" her, and she undertook an investigation to
determine why her report had been disclosed. (Id.
¶¶ 8-9.) She learned that an unknown person or
entity submitted an online application through a British
company, Quintessential Financial Group, for a payday loan
using her name, email address, home address, phone number,
and social-security number, but incorrectly listing her year
of birth. (Id. ¶¶ 10-11.) Quintessential
sold the application to Flurish and RHC/Rolling Hills, which
in turn requested Kunza's credit report from Clarity
using the incorrect year of birth on the application.
(Id. ¶¶ 12-14.) Clarity then furnished the
report to the companies. (Id. ¶ 15.)
learning this information, Kunza commenced the instant
action, asserting that Clarity had violated the Fair Credit
Reporting Act ("FCRA"), 15 U.S.C. § 1681
et seq., and committed invasion of privacy. Clarity
now moves to dismiss both claims.
FCRA authorizes a consumer reporting agency such as Clarity
to furnish a credit report to a third party only for certain
express purposes. 15 U.S.C. § 1681b(a). One permissible
purpose is providing a report "to a person [the agency]
has reason to believe intends to use the information in
connection with a credit transaction involving the
consumer." § 1681b(a)(3)(A). Kunza alleges Clarity
violated this provision here by disclosing her credit report
to Flurish and RHC/Rolling Hills when it should have
recognized, based on the incorrect year of birth provided,
that neither had a valid basis to request it. In other words,
the year of birth was a "red flag" that should
have provided Clarity "reason to believe that [Kunza]
was not involved in a transaction with the Payday Lenders
seeking her consumer report." (Pl's Opp'n
Mem. (Docket No. 25) at 3 (emphasis omitted).)
the "plain language of the statute . . . focuses on the
intent of the party obtaining the consumer report."
Trikas v. Universal Card Servs. Corp., 351 F.Supp.2d
37, 42 (E.D.N.Y. 2005) (emphasis omitted). Thus, the key
question is whether the payday lenders intended to use
Kunza's credit report for a permissible purpose,
namely, to decide whether to loan her money. That is
precisely what the Amended Complaint alleges: Flurish and
RHC/Rolling Hills received an application for credit in
Kunza's name, and to evaluate whether to extend that
credit, they requested her report from Clarity. It makes no
difference that an incorrect birth year was provided, because
Clarity had every reason to believe the lenders were
evaluating whether to extend credit to Kunza-indeed, there is
no other reason the lenders would have requested her credit
report. See Shepherd-Salgado v. Tyndall Fed. Credit
Union, Civ. No. 11-427, 2011 WL 5401993, at *7 n.12
(S.D. Ala. Nov. 7, 2011) (Ҥ 1681b(a)(3)(A) turns
on the user's intent, not on what the actual true facts
may be."). "The only reasonable inference to be
drawn from the Amended Complaint [is] that the two lenders
sought Plaintiff's consumer report with the legitimate
intent to process her credit application in the regular
course of their business." (Def.'s Reply Mem.
(Docket No. 26) at 2-3.) As a result, the allegations do not
plausibly suggest that Clarity lacked "reason to
believe" that the lenders intended to use the report
for a permissible purpose.
case is therefore similar to Kennedy v. Victoria's
Secret Stores, Inc., No. Civ. A. 03-2691, 2004 WL 414808
(E.D. La. Mar. 3, 2004). In that case, plaintiff Kennedy made
a purchase at a Victoria's Secret store and tendered
her American Express card for the purchase. Id. at
*1. Unbeknownst to her, however, the cashier opened a
Victoria's Secret credit-card account in
Kennedy's name and charged the purchase to that
account. Id. To extend this credit, Victoria's
Secret obtained a copy of her credit report from Experian.
Id. at *3. Like Kunza, Kennedy alleged that Experian
had violated § 1681b(a)(3)(A) by releasing her credit
report without her involvement in the credit application.
Id. The court rejected her argument, noting that
liability turned only on whether Experian believed
Victoria's Secret intended to use the information to
decide to extend credit to Kennedy-even though she had not
asked for it. Id. The same result follows here.
focuses on the alleged fact that the loan application
contained an incorrect birth year, asserting that this should
have alerted Clarity that Kunza was not involved in the
transaction. (See Pl.'s Opp'n Mem. at
4-6 (quoting Andrews v. TRW, Inc., 225 F.3d 1063
(9th Cir. 2000), rev'd on other grounds, 534
U.S. 19 (2001)).) As already noted, however, this argument is
misplaced, because the key fact is the lenders' intent
in seeking her report. But more importantly, even under
Kunza's reasoning, Clarity could only have had reason
to believe that the purported loan involved her. The fact
that the year of birth was incorrect while all of the other
information provided was accurate-including Kunza's
email address, home address, phone number, and social
security number- would not, in and of itself, undermine
Clarity's belief that Kunza was involved in the
transaction. The FCRA is not a strict liability statute; it
does not demand perfection. See, e.g., Hauser v.
Equifax, Inc., 602 F.2d 811, 814 (8th Cir. 1979).
Carried to its logical conclusion, Kunza's argument
would mean that any inaccuracy in a loan application, even a
simple one caused by a typographical or transcription error,
would preclude an agency such as Clarity from providing a
credit report, lest it become liable under the FCRA. While
the statute is remedial in nature and designed to be
construed broadly, it does not sweep that far. See
Shepherd-Salgado, 2011 WL 5401993, at *7 n.12; see
also Kruckow v. Merchants Bank, Civ. No. 16-2418, 2017
WL 3084391, at *5 (D. Minn. July 19, 2017) (Frank, J.)
(noting that a "business does not violate the FCRA when
an identity thief causes the business to obtain a credit
these reasons, Kunza's claim under 15 U.S.C. §
1681b fails. As a result, her claim under § 1681e(a),
which mandates that consumer-reporting agencies maintain
reasonable procedures to ensure reports are furnished only
for permissible purposes, also fails. See, e.g.,
Washington v. CSC Credit Servs., Inc., 199 F.3d 263,
267 (5th Cir. 2000) ("[A] plaintiff bringing a claim
that a reporting agency violated the 'reasonable
procedures' requirement of § 1681e must first show
that the reporting agency released the report in violation of
§ 1681b."). So, too, does her assertion that
Clarity willfully violated the FCRA in contravention of
§ 1681n.
Invasion of privacy
also asserts a claim for invasion of privacy under Minnesota
law. Clarity argues that this claim is ...
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Mark Davis, the head coach, and Chris Nash, a senior player, are both to leave Sussex.
The departure of Davis is expected to be announced later on Tuesday following a review of a bitterly disappointing 2017 season. The club's failure to achieve promotion despite investing heavily in imported players was one factor that counted against Davis, though it is understood he also lost the confidence of some senior players.
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Both men have been involved with the club for many years. Nash, now aged 34, developed through the youth system at the club from the age of eight and, having made his first team debut in 2002, played in squads that won the County Championship in 2006 and 2007, List A trophies in 2006, 2008 and 2009 and the T20 competition in 2009. He averaged 27.52 in first-class cricket in 2017.
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The People Who Saw Okja and Became Vegetarians
All it took was a CGI super pig for people to rethink their eating habits.
A good way to convert carnivores to vegetarians: show them a real-life pig farm. Or you could settle for a documentary, one that really shows the cruelty and suffering of a slaughterhouse. But maybe that sounds boring, and instead, you just want to watch a good action movie on Netflix.
Maybe some viewers didn't know what they were getting into when they streamed director Bong Joon-ho's Okja, a terrific movie about a young Korean girl (Mija) and her adorable CGI "super-pig" (Okja). Sci-fi is often a backdoor way to reinterpret and explore real-life issues, but Okja's messages hit more on-the-snout than most. In this case, that's probably a good thing. The movie's message? Eat less meat.
But I couldn't help but wonder: Did Okja inspire anyone to actually change their diet?
For some, the narrative detachment separating Okja from, say, a documentary, helped the cause, if anything. For some, it served as a jumping-off-point for their own study of the ethics of meat-eating. "I'm seeing more of my friends move away from red meat due to health and environmental issues," said filmmaker Tom Park, who has been a vegetarian since the release of Okja. "It led me to do a lot of quite saddening research into intensive farming. It was like a dark twisted Pixar film. The finale is such a horror story of the families being torn apart and the living conditions of the pigs."
Annie McCarthy, a 23-year-old designer, rediscovered her lapsed vegetarianism after being reminded of what inspired her in the first place, despite the challenges. "I've stuck with it since [the end of the movie]. About a week out, I went to my favorite phở place out of habit and I noticed they didn't have any meat-free dishes. I realized being vegetarian was going to be a lot harder than I remembered."
Jon Ronson, a writer who co-penned the movie with Bong Joon-ho, told me he himself has been approached by people whose lifestyles changed after seeing Okja. "Oh, [there were] so many people. So many stories. I remember getting an email right before the film came out saying, 'There are people all around the world who don't realize they're about to become vegetarians.' I read that google searches for "vegan" went up 58 percent (it was 65) after Okja. I have no fucking idea if they carried on that lifestyle, but the impact is definitely there."
So, why this movie? Why Okja and not documentaries like Food, Inc. or Jonathan Safran Foer's vegan manifesto Eating Animals? The auteurist, conflicted self-inspection of Bong Joon-ho helped, never presenting a moral imperative one way or the other. He extended that courtesy to his cast, too. Paul Dano, the leader of the fictional Animal Liberation Front (ALF, no relation) in the film, spoke to GQ about his complicated relationship with eating meat last year, and Ronson, himself a vegetarian (with the occasional foray into seafood), simply says it never came up. "For his part, Bong never asked me what my eating habits were, but I think it was appropriate that I don't eat meat."
"It was really powerful, informed, and humanizing storytelling on the part of Bong Joon-ho," said Abbey White, a 26-year-old pop culture and food writer, who, post-Okja, found it very difficult to switch to a herbivore lifestyle, given her distaste for "vegetables that weren't dripping in sauce or had the taste steamed out of them."
"After becoming a vegetarian, I had some fried veggie dumplings delivered to my apartment. I was not a fan. I got frantic over it. I thought, I live in New York and I can't eat dumplings anymore?" White continued: "I spent the next month sampling the hell out of dumplings around me until I found a vegetable dumpling I could enjoy. That, to me, is the key to going vegetarian. Pushing yourself out of your comfort zone to find new comfort foods."
The ending of Okja asks: What is our place, our responsibility within a system where we can't change all that much? Mija's direct purchase of Okja in order to save her is as much a dark punchline as it is a victory; only by participating in the draconian consumer capitalism that bred (and imprisoned) Okja in the first place can she free her friend.
"I will tell you: when we were writing the screenplay, we didn't have a distributor," said Ronson. "We wrote it as we thought the story should be told. All the major studios wanted to cut the slaughterhouse scene. Or at least, make it practically invisible. Bong and I felt some alarm bells, but Netflix saved the day. I believe the power of Okja would have been greatly diminished by a major studio."
Halting the consumption of meat might be more a personal gesture than anything else. I asked Abbey White: Where do we go from here? "It's about getting people to care about that change and then giving them the keys. And I think, at least when it comes to the former, Okja did a pretty decent job for me."
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| Indie Rock | Post-Punk |
Sonic Youth were one of the most unlikely success stories of underground American rock in the '80s. Where contemporaries R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü were fairly conventional in terms of song structure and melody, Sonic Youth began their career by abandoning any pretense of traditional rock & roll conventions. Borrowing heavily from the free-form noise experimentalism of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, and melding it with a performance art aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk avant-garde, Sonic Youth redefined what noise meant within rock & roll. Sonic Youth rarely rocked, though they were inspired directly by hardcore punk, post-punk, and no wave. Instead, their dissonance, feedback, and alternate tunings created a new sonic landscape, one that redefined what rock guitar could do.
Sister is a nihilistic, distorted, noisy record. There's absolutely no doubt about it. The guitars spike through the mix like a rusty knife, creating some cacophony of melodic noise. The overall tone of the album is extremely warm, due to the fact that (smart) people still used analog tape in 1987. Right, so you know it's nosiy. It's Sonic Youth, for God's sake. Mixed in with all this "damn noise!" are heavy doses of liquid, chorused, melody. Songs like "Schizophrenia" and "Beauty Lies in the Eye" are eerie, beautiful pieces of music. Both songs are enveloped in waves of melody and harmony, and show the ideal that 'noise' can be coupled with melody to form something magnificent. Other songs, like "Tuff Gnarl," the industrial-esque "Pacific Coast Highway," or the slow, droning "Cotton Crown" are schizophrenic in their approach. The songs teater back and forth, eventually falling off into a pit of noise, or melody. On "Tuff Gnarl" especially, Sonic Youth provides one of their most hair-raising songs, with melodic bass and guitar lines, covered over in a blanket of fuzz. "Master-Dik" provides a somewhat 'different' ending to the album. The song features Thurston 'rapping', with spiralling, chaotic noise. Kiss samples are repeated over and over, and add a sort of, cynical, feel, I guess you could say. Think The Smiths anti-ending "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others," done Sonic Youth-style. And a lot funnier.
So, like, gag me with a spoon! Sister is up there as one of the best Sonic Youth albums. The record itself feels very dark, and you can easily feel it brooding, constantly. I guess you could say that Sonic Youth let it all out on Daydream Nation, and that Sister was just the volcano's base stretching. All of the songs here are class, and I can't find anything wrong with them. They represent what Sonic Youth do best, that being artfully, and cleverly combining noise and the 'avant-garde' and somewhat-conventional song structures and melodies. "There's something in the air, that makes you go insane", Kim Gordon sings, and that's what Sister is, well.. kind of.
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