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Where to Go From Here
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
It is an eis tzarah leYaakov, a very dangerous time for Jews. Ever since the announcement of the founding of
Being a Yid is a two-sided coin. The lamb that dwells amongst seventy wolves benefits from the remarkable love of her Shepherd, but has to deal with the open animosity and blood-lust of the wild beasts that encircle it.
The posuk at the beginning of Parshas Yisro states that Yisro heard and decided to join the Jewish people. What, asks Rashi, did he hear? Rashi answers that Yisro heard of two confrontations. It was his comprehension of the current events that drew him close. When he heard what transpired at Krias Yam Suf and milchemes Amaleik, he decided that he had to change the trajectory of his life.
Yisro heard about the extraordinary fashion in which Hakadosh Boruch Hu showed that His beloved children were above the laws of nature. He heard that Hashem had demonstrated that the most powerful force in creation, the raging sea, was there to serve His children. But Yisro also heard something else. He heard about the passionate hate and the hostility the nations of the world unleashed toward Klal Yisroel and the inexplicable campaign mounted against them when they were at their strongest.
Yisro understood that there are two indications of truth: the love from the Source of all truth and, inevitably, the hatred by people of deceit. They go hand in hand. They always have and they always will.
Given the historical context, we should never be surprised when the world's superpowers foist upon tiny Eretz Yisroel illogical and totally unreasonable demands. This has been the historical, oft-repeated pattern.
Now, in 2011, the American president has reminded us of this timeless lesson.
The wave of anti-Israel sentiment spreading across the new
In his response to the president's speech on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sounded like a teacher chiding a hot-shot student, informing him of some basic facts that he seems to be ignoring. The well-educated president seems blind to the reality that
In his remarks at the White House Friday, Netanyahu really said nothing new. He simply laid out the facts as they are. One could be forgiven for having believed that the president would have known those oft-repeated and studied facts without having to be lectured about them by the visiting prime minister. Netanyahu summed it up stating succinctly, "Mr. President, it's not going to happen."
In his remarks, President Obama created a moral equivalence between
Despite the fact that the Palestinians don't disguise their agenda with nice platitudes, the world hides behind a blanket of blissful unawareness. It is morally repugnant for an American president to allow the ones engaging in this travesty the comforting notion that they have a friend in the White House.
What our president did, was invite his only real ally in the Middle East for dinner and effectively make sure that there was no place-card for him when he arrived. While Netanyahu was en route to
Instead of doing the proper thing and first discussing his position with the leader of an ally country, the president rushed to announce and deliver the speech which robbed
The lamb is all alone, again.
The Gaza Strip, which
The big winner in all this positioning is the Muslim Brotherhood, who are committed not just to
Stability in the Mideast does not begin by squeezing
Obama, on Sunday, tried to dial back what happened on Thursday and Friday. He said, "When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the centuries that the Children of Israel had longed to return to their ancient homeland."
To the cheers of the receptive AIPAC crowd, who wanted to believe that Obama really is the friend of Israel they hope he is, the president went on to describe himself as an unshakeable, dependable friend, just asserting friendly candor, telling a friend the necessary, though bitter, truth.
Obama said some nice and important things, among them that "While we may at times disagree, as friends sometimes will, the bonds between the
"A strong and secure
"Because we understand the challenges
"You also see our commitment to
"I firmly believe, and repeated on Thursday, that peace cannot be imposed on the parties to the conflict… The
Obama reassured
He didn't speak about land
He didn't say that there is nothing at all sacrosanct about the pre-1967 borders, which were armistice lines never recognized as legal borders. He didn't slam the proposed Palestinian peace partners for not abiding by the terms of the vaunted
He didn't say that the Arab states occupy land 650 times the size of
He didn't speak about the repeated changes of his Thursday speech, and its timing, as Netanyahu was about to depart for a Friday meeting with him to discuss the very touchy topics between friends. Why did the president feel the need to rush out to the State Department and deliver that speech?
The real question for us should be: Where does all this leave us, Torah Jews?
By now, it should be painfully obvious that we do not have a friend in the White House. Additionally, the Jewish politicians, those liberal Democrats who seem so proud of their Jewishness and smilingly accept the awards bestowed upon them by fawning Jewish organizations, will do nothing to help the situation. Sure, they will fire off a ceremonial letter and maybe issue a quote to the media to placate their Jewish donors, but that's it. They will never jeopardize their relationship with the president or dare challenge him behind closed doors. It is "al tivtechu binedivim" time all over again.
So that leaves us back where we started. Ein lanu al mi lehisha'ein...
The hate has no logical basis and is not grounded in reason, so reasoning with it will get us nowhere. We are alone, with neither friends nor allies. But we are not G-dless. With our eyes raised heavenward, we know what path to take. We know how to make Eretz Yisroel stronger - by strengthening the real Eretz Yisroel.
We know that this is done by seeing past the infrastructure, the shell of political
In Rav Shlomo Wolbe's classic work, Bein Sheishes Le'asor, he relates a conversation he had with the great Telshe gaon, Rav Mottel Pogromansky.
"I shared with him one of the last sichos I heard from admor Rav Yeruchem, the mashgiach of Mir, who had a deep love for Eretz Yisroel and would follow developments from there with great interest. In 1936, the mashgiach said that sinners would never succeed in building Eretz Yisroel [and] that Eretz Yisroel can only be built in a spirit of kedushah and with commitment to halacha," writes Rav Wolbe.
"Rav Mottel responded, 'It's true. 'Oiffboi'en kennen zei nisht,' they cannot build it up, 'ubber boi'en, kennen zei,' but they are still able to erect its physical shell. Now Hashgacha must sustain it.'"
These are remarkable words. Eretz Yisroel isn't the United Nations' to negotiate, and not even Obama's to dictate to from the security of his fortress. It's ours oifftzuboi'en; no one else has that ability.
The lesson of Parshas Bechukosai which we read this past Shabbos rings in our ears. True peace, "Vehishbati chaya ra'ah... ushechavtem ve'ein macharid," and true serenity occur as a result of "Bechukosai teileichu." The blessings of peace are ours to earn.
So even while we daven for the success of those charged with representing political Israel, the shluchim for the 'boi'en', we focus inward, reaffirming our own commitment to strengthening the Torah infrastructure in that country, helping yeshivos, kollelim and organizations dedicated to spreading Yiddishkeit.
It is up to us and our maasim tovim to bring about change in the
No president, prime minister or terrorist, nor any of their trusted confidantes, has the power to effect change in Eretz Yisroel. They cannot impact the lives of anyone within any of borders of Artzeinu Hakedoshah by themselves. They might stand at podiums and nod sagely at press conferences, but the real Eretz Yisroel is only in their reach if we allow it to be by shirking our responsibilities as laid out in the Torah.
It's up to us. Yerushalayim is the light of the world, and the light of Yerushalayim is Hakadosh Boruch Hu. And we know where and how to find Him.
It is He Who has always been our only true friend in a lonely world; then and now.
Eis tzarah hee leYaakov, umimenah yivashei'ah… Ki Elokim yoshia Tzion.


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Bruce Garner offered some helpful tips for PIO's on Firehouse.com. Here's some of his key advice:
Establishing a Rapport with the Media
Whether you're a part-time or full-time PIO, it's a good idea to get to know your local news media. If you've been interviewed by a network personality like the Today Show's Matt Lauer, good for you, but you're not going to be dealing with him on a regular basis. In general, you will be dealing with local reporters, photographers, assignment editors, producers and news directors.
To do your job effectively, it's helpful to know reporters by name. This could involve personally visiting the newsrooms and introducing yourself, or hosting an informal get-together at your place. Introduce them to your fire chief and other chief officers and give them a short tour. The whole idea is to get acquainted, because the better you know each other on the front end, the better you can deal with them when it's "show time."
Working with the Media on Fire/Rescue Scenes
How you and your colleagues deal with reporters on fire/rescue scenes is critical. Your firefighters will most likely be busy. Your job is to keep reporters out of the way, and to facilitate their coverage. Physically escort the reporters to a safe spot where they can see the firefighters at work. It does not help you or your department to hide your efforts. Your firefighters are the proverbial good guys. Show them off whenever you can.
Occasionally, you will have reporters get a little too close to the action. They're just trying to get a good shot, but safety isn't always their primary concern. In that event, it's okay to be polite but firm in directing them back to a safe area. On a large fire scene, you cannot guard the entire site. Scene tape works wonders for giving the media visible guidelines for boundaries and in my experience, few reporters feel comfortable crossing it. If the reporters are already in place before you arrive, try to go to them first or at least make eye contact with them so they know that you know they are there. This lets them know that they can expect to receive some information from you fairly soon.
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Bonefish's original Bang Bang Shrimp recipe is kept secret, as of 2015, but there are a few copycat recipes. The ingredients include 1 lb shrimp, 1/2 cup mayonnaise, 1/4 cup Thai sweet chili sauce, 3 to 5 drops of hot chili sauce and 1/2 to 3/4 cup cornstarch.
To make a copycat version of Bonefish's Bang Bang Shrimp, thoroughly clean and devein each shrimp. In a medium mixing bowl, add in the mayonaise, Thai sweet chili sauce and hot chili sauce. Mix well. Using a large mixing bowl, add the cornstarch and bread the shrimp by placing a few in at a time and placing on a rack.
In a large heavy bottomed pot, heat a few cups of oil on medium-high. Deep fry the shrimp until they are fully cooked and turn a golden brown color. Drain the excess oil from the shrimp by laying them flat on a paper towel for a few minutes. Add the shrimp to the spicy mayonnaise mixture and toss evenly.
To serve Bang Bang Shrimp, clean and wash a head of lettuce. Remove the lettuce leaves whole and line individual bowls or one large serving bowl with the leaves. Add in shrimp and top with freshly chopped scallions.


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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Socks, socks, socks
So that has motivated me to keep on knitting those socks. The measurements this year have 3 of the boys with 12" long feet! That's a lot of knitting. This gray pair is 12". Not real exciting unless you have big, cold feet.
Then I finally finished darning in all the yarn ends on a 10 1/2" pair of socks knit from leftover small balls of yarn. Of course, there are more socks on the needles. too.
Today is the first day of our year-long Afghan Knitalong on the Holiday Mystery Gifts Yahoo group. This project features strips of 11 different pattern stitches developed by 11 designers. Each month a new strip will be released as a free pattern. This way folks can knit smaller amounts spread out over a year and have a completed afghan at the end! Look for my strip in a few months.
Also on the Holiday Mystery Gifts group this year, we are releasing 24 different little patterns for ornaments for an Advent Calendar of Ornaments project. Soon I'll be able to share with you what I've developed as part of this knitalong.
All's well here in Guatemala as the countdown to tearing ourselves away from the dock continues...20 days...
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Your socks are lovely and even better that they are going to the needy. Thank you for the link to the afghan KAL ! Oh I wish I had the time... You have a very nice blog.
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K2 is undeniably the King of Mountains; climbing it is a dream aspired to by only the toughest, wildest and fit of mountaineers, even so, many die trying in the attempt. First ascended by Achille Compagnoni on 31 July 1954, the mountain has since sprouted various routes across its faces that lead to the top. Whether or not you're crazy enough to attempt it, you're not getting anywhere without a road map.Mountaineers usually take one of these ten pre-determined routes to the peak of K2.


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I finished some paintings ;o)
The first one is called, "The King and The Queen" (9" x 12" canvas)
They are watching over their Kingdom ;o)
Big Hugs ;o)
Awesome. I love the holiday one..I love all of your paintings....ReplyDelete
LOL Love your surprised crow... cute! Very nice paintings!ReplyDelete
Gosh Stacy, your art brings such a smile to my face. I love your goofy inspired crow! I also love how you work hearts into your art, like in the "King and Queen," because you have such a kind heart! I'm so lucky that the one I was so fortunate to win from you has a heart as well.ReplyDelete
The first one reminds me of Game of Thrones, not sure why(?) but it definitely appeals :) Hey I get inspired by things too, but unless I write the idea down I often jump onto another thought & in the end I'm not sure what that 'great' idea was anymore LOL, often it is words, love the way Goofy inspired you, and your mum LOL, hilarious :)ReplyDelete
Oh sweety you sure made me smile, disco dance with the ball, it's too funny what a fun artist you are still everytime I fall for your winterland crows it does something in my heart, it squeezed like happy memories of Christmas as a child, oh it's wonderful to feel this way, and it's good of you to do soReplyDelete
"Disco Rules" is absolutely darling!
Many thanks for introducing me to Magaly! She is such an interesting person and I am enjoying her blog.
That is just way too cute. I am home for a few days then off to care for my mom again.
Happy day to you
Love your "Disco Crow" Stacy! "Winter Wonderland" is so sweet! Have a nice weekend, hope it warms up a bit!ReplyDelete
Ha ha That disco crow is awesome ! Winter wonderland aww getting me in a Christmassy mode . You are really fab at this you know sweet girl !!ReplyDelete
LOL love the Travolta crow strutting his stuff at the disco.ReplyDelete
Stacy, want you to know your art always, always makes me smile! I l had to laugh at Disco Rules! too funny and the Winter wonderland is precious.. You truly have a talent! Makes my heart melt when I see these pictures..ReplyDelete
I simply want to dance Stacy - I loooove that disco crow!!!!! We are also preparing for winter..... Have a lovely weekend. Hugs :-)ReplyDelete
Oh goodness.....all three of these are wonderful, each for a different reason. I'm with Shelle. I have to write down my inspirations because often they do what the Goofie mug did, transmutate your original into your masterpiece disco homage. When I look back at my journal and see where things begin and where they come out of the bizarre factory called my brain, I give myself a laugh. Great job, Happy Weekend my friend. Oma LindaReplyDelete
I for one always love to see what goes on in an artist's mind. Love the sharing of your inspiration (and who would have thought that the mug would lead to the disco). Awesome.ReplyDelete
'The King and The Queen' is dreamy! I love those colours! And thank you for the insight into your creative process. isn't it funny how things never end up anywhere near their starting point?
And...and... I won the giveaway! *happy dances* Thank you, thank you! I'm just so thrilled! :) Wow! now I need a matching frame!
He has wonderful eyes, very BOO, it is coming amaising painting. Huray Stasy!ReplyDelete
I love the expression on the disco crow! Can't wait to see it finished! Winter will be here before we know it, and your Wonderland crows are just the thing to brighten up a snowy day! Have a wonderful weekend!ReplyDelete
Oh I love the disco dancing crow! How funny!
Goofy was always my favorite Disney character growing up. Now the characters we see are typically from the newer movies. I can't remember the last time I saw Donald Duck!
Your Winter Wonderland is so cute but I am not looking forward to that white stuff! We are going to a wedding at 5:30 today. The ceremony is supposed to be outside. While I adore my friend, I think she is nuts! :) It is cold and windy outside so hopefully she decides to move it inside. LOL
Oh I love them all but the King & Queen are special,love the faces.
We've had rain ,some snow and cold. Just not ready for the white to invade my yard yet.Our Robin's are gone,smart bird . Wish I could fly with them !
Lol! I love the goofy surprised crow. :) And winter wonderland is just fantastic.ReplyDelete
I love your "king and queen'
You are so talented and your art always makes me smile.
Thank you for that and I have the lovely crow that I won from you close by as I'm writing this and that really makes me 'happy'
Hugs and smiles
Fantastic art, my sweet and talented friend and your header is absolutely stunning!!!
Great Big Warm Hugs,
ha! Boo is a great one!ReplyDelete
I love your surprise crow...truly wonderful. It all made me smile..It is 6:15 and 32 degrees... I'm off to work this cold morning. Hope you have an awesome day!ReplyDelete
They're all totally cool Stacy! The Disco Rules made me smile!
Hehe. You have a Goofy Mug - We have a 'Have you seen this penguin' mug (Wallace and Gromit).
Have a fantastic day!
tell me how much would it be if i wanted to buy the magic crow winter wonderland, I do love it so, it's crazy, maybe it's a call from my inner child lolReplyDelete
Hah! I love disco rules! Its so neat to see where your inspiration comes from!ReplyDelete
Crow? Christmas decorations. Just putting it out there. Your crows would look great on a shiny Christmas decoration...ReplyDelete
Loving the Disco Crow and of course winter wonderland :) Happy Monday!ReplyDelete
Stacy...the Kind and Queen is an awesome painting...there is strength and unity in it. You go girl!ReplyDelete
LOL Love it and it isn't even done yet! This is different from what you usually do! Love the expression!
Oh your paintings are awesome, as always. However Disco Rules totally cracked me up. You certainly gave that crow a big surprise that shows in his face, like: "what happened to my legs? And what am I wearing?". The disco ball totally takes us all back a bit too! Big hugs girl!!!ReplyDelete
Thank you for taking the time to comment! I'm very grateful! Your words are very special to me! Big Hugs!


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What have I been up to?? Crochet, crochet, and more crochet!
When summer comes it seems like I turn to the hook instead of the needles.
The first set of dishcloths was done around Christmas time. A set of 3 for a late Christmas gift. I had read so many differing opinions about Hobby Lobby's I Love this Cotton that thought I would give it a test drive.
I loved them! So I duplicated that initial set and still have the 2nd set of 3 in a box on hold for a hostess gift or some other fitting occasion.
They have a retro feel to them, maybe due to the colors, or maybe because of the scalloped edge which feels "old school" to me. Either way they are a hit for me!
I got a little tired of dishcloths through spring – took a break –
And then decided..wait! I need dishcloths for myself. I stuck with the I Love Cotton because it is easier for me to crochet with since it is not as stiff as the cotton that I normally use. And I love them! The colors just make me happy when I see them and they're pretty.
So pretty that I made a couple more for a friend's birthday….
Combined with some strawberry/rhubarb jam it was the perfect birthday gift to be mailed off to Nebraska.
The dishcloth saga will continue soon….. into the knitted world!!!


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I know there's a better way to put MP3s on blogger; if anyone happens to see this and would like to share, please let me know in the comments. Thanks.
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text: A scholar's worldly-wise appraisal of the mutually expedient ties that have bound the US and Japan since the end of WW II. Drawing largely on archival sources to provide a perceptive overview of the crucial period from the Occupation through the mid- 1970s, Schaller (Douglas MacArthur: Far Eastern General 1989, etc.) makes a persuasive case for the arresting proposition that latter- day Japan is to a great extent what American foreign-policy made it. To begin with, he recounts how Washington (concerned that Tokyo might try to improve relations with the Red regimes in Beijing and Moscow) decided to promote the defeated country's economic development and open domestic markets to its merchandise. In the name of continuity and stability, then, its puissant industrial combines were left largely unscathed; in like vein, many politicians penciled in as candidates for rough military justice found themselves summarily rehabilitated. When the Cold War turned hot, first in Korea and later in Vietnam, the author (History/Univ. of Arizona) documents, money poured into Japan from the US, accelerating the island nation's recovery. In addition, Schaller points out, presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson all provided the Liberal Democratic Party with sizable amounts of secret financial aid, largely to ensure that its conservative, anti-Communist leaders would remain in power. By the 1960s, he observes, America's Asian ward had become a formidable economic force and appreciably less deferential to its longtime protector. The author provides details on the increasingly difficult relations between Japan and the US through the so-called Nixon shocks (imposing restrictions on imports, pulling troops out of the Far East, and reaching a rapprochement with China). In conclusion, he fast-forwards through the past two decades, an equally convulsive era during which the USSR's implosion depreciated Japan's value as a strategic partner. An informative briefing on a decidedly odd geopolitical couple's increasingly ambivalent alliance.


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THE 1000th Krones 'Topmatic' labelling machine has been delivered -- 25 years after the first model was developed in the company's Neutraubling manufacturing plant.
The high-performance labeller - the fastest bottle dress machine in the Krones range - features three wet-glue labelling stations plus an AMB automatic (magazine) loading system.
Sturdy construction, exceptional dependability and the capacity to handle up to 72,000 bottles an hour have helped the 'Topmatic' gain a reputation as a workhorse.
On average, one 'Topmatic' is completed by Krones every week, and they are used in breweries throughout the world.
In Australia, the Krones range is exclusively distributed and serviced by JL Lennard , a family-owned, fully Australian company founded in 1879, which can tailor a Krones model to custom-fit any application.
"The 'Topmatic' is remarkably flexible, and you can change over to different size bottles is just 20 minutes without any tools," said David Boekemann, managing director of JL Lennard.
"The machine is also suited for upmarket dress configurations for wine, champagne and spirit bottles."
To get the best out of Krones equipment, JL Lennard provides free training, either on-site or at its premises, covering advanced diagnostics, maintenance and repairs.
It also keeps a full inventory of Krones parts.


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- If an emergency, contact SUNY Potsdam University Police immediately at (315) 267-2222 or use a Blue Light emergency phone.
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Remember, assaults, sexual or otherwise, are crimes; they are not the victim's fault. Victims have the right to pursue adjudication of crimes that occur on the SUNY Potsdam campus through criminal courts and/or through the University's internal disciplinary process (under the Campus Code of Student Conduct). SUNY Potsdam's University Police are trained to assist with prosecution in both systems.
The College will make every effort to be responsive and sensitive to the victims of these serious crimes. Protection of the victim and prevention of continued trauma is the College's priority. When the victim and the accused live in the same residence hall, an immediate hearing with the Director of Student Conduct and Community Standards will be held to determine the need for modifying the living arrangements. Assistance for any other personal or academic concerns will be reviewed and options provided.


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Professor and author Con Slobodchikoff from US-based Northern Arizona University has spent the last 30 years studying prarie dogs and has began work developing an algorithim to interpret their calls to determine what they are 'saying'.
He told NBC News he thought if he can do this with prairie dogs, he can certainly do it with dogs and cats. He has launched a company, called Zoolingua, with the goal of developing a similar algorithm that can translate pet sounds, facial expressions and body movements into a language humans can understand.
The goal is to fine-tune the algorithms so people and animals can hold a conversation.
He is currently building a library of thousands of videos of dogs showing various barks and body movements.
The footage will be used to develop an AI algorithm that correctly picks what an animal is attempting to "say".
The algorithm will sit inside a device that can be pointed at an animal to translate their "speech" into English.
Dog Translator Will One Day Convert Barks Into English
A university professor is currently working on an algorithm that one day could translate a dog's bark, growl or woof into English words and sentences


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Minister of State for Universities and Science (attending Cabinet)
Looking across all departmental business at strategic priorities, higher education (including HEFCE and Student Loans Company), science and research (including Research Councils), life sciences, innovation, also responsible for the Technology Strategy Board, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), Energy Technologies Institute, the National Measurement Office, the Design Council, the UK Accreditation Service, the British Standards Institute and Space.
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He was a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, is a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation and a member of the Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He has written widely on economic and social policy.
His book, 'The Pinch: How the baby boomers took their children's future – and why they should give it back' was published earlier this year.
David is married to Sarah Butterfield and they have two children. David and Sarah are keen walkers and swimmers. He has swum the Solent and raised £1,500 for charity cycling in the Paris to Hayling ride.


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BusinessWeek: Telx Group Seeks $75 Million to Refinance Debt
Telx Group is negotiating a $75 million term loan to refinance its debt, a BusinessWeek article said. Morgan Stanley and TD Bank are arranging the loan.
Proceeds will be used to repay the company's $50 million revolving line of credit due in September 2016, the article noted.
Telx Group is a data center operator owned by Abry Partners and Berkshire Partners.
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The Covert Avenue Chamber of Commerce was formed to incorporate the businesses along Covert Avenue to unite Stewart Manor and Floral Park.
Our goal is to unify the district by encouraging our residents to shop and use the valuable services our merchants provide. Each year we organize the "Street Fair" in an effort to have residents become familiar with Covert Avenue. Raffles are sold in all participating stores and offices to help defray the cost of this event. The winners of the raffles are given vouchers in the amount of $25.00 to be used at member stores as an incentive to familiarize them with local merchants. During the holiday season, we sponsor the Christmas Tree Lighting and this year we decorated Covert Avenue. The response from our residents and the Village Officials has been positive. In the past couple of years, we have successfully worked with both municipalities to upgrade our sidewalks and install new lighting. In the recent year we have participated in the beautification of Covert Avenue, moved some merchant parking meters from the front of our stores, added a parking spot, changed meters from 12 hours to 2 hours, hanging flower baskets, fall cornstalk decorations, wreaths for all our members' storefronts, garland and lights on our light poles, new garbage cans, attend village meetings to bring merchants up to date on village items, supported merchants with any problems, and supported new businesses. We also have our town trustees and mayors attending our meetings and addressing merchant's concerns and most of all continuing to keep Covert Avenue looking charming and inviting. All the work is done by our members on a volunteer basis, understanding how important it is to keep our business district vital and pleasing. The annual dues help defray the expenses to achieve our goals. Please consider becoming a member. It is important for our prosperity and growth. Always remember whether you work, live or both in Stewart Manor or Floral Park that this is our neighborhood. What we do as a Chamber or individual business reflects onto our street and throughout the community. Keeping our stores looking inviting and our avenue clean and charming will help keep our merchants vital.


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Willie Waffle Movie Reviews: Something For Everybody This Week
Three new movies out this week for you to choose from. A little something for everyone....an animated feature from Disney, a scary movie and a comedy. Are they worth your money? Willie Waffle, the Mix 106 movie critic knows. See the Trailer and Listen to his review below
Here are you're movies this week. Here are your movies this week: Planes, Fire and Rescue - Dusty the crop duster is back, but his racing career is over, so he joins the Fire and Rescue team.
The Purge: Anarchy - A group of people try to survive as citizens are allowed to break any law they want for the night.
Sex Tape - Cameron Diaz and Jason Segal make a sex tape to spice things up, but it is accidentally sent to everyone they know. Check out the trailer below


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Japanese prodco Nippon Animation has tapped TV-Loonland to handle multi-territory distribution for its 26 x five-minute preschool series Penelope. As part of the deal, TV-L will handle rights for TV, home video, VOD, broadband, IPTV, and mobile sales to Western and Eastern Europe including Russia, the Baltic states, Scandinavia, Israel, the Middle East and Africa.
Based on the children's book series of the same name written by Anne Gutman and illustrated by Georg Hallensleben, the CGI-animated Nippon/NHK/Shirogumi co-pro is aimed at the younger end of the preschool demo.


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Philip Martin Gallery
Erik Frydenborg: Dr. (Illegible)
November 5 - December 17, 2011
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In his second solo exhibition at Cherry and Martin, Erik Frydenborg develops a sustained examination of a single, found scholastic illustration. Through a series of dissections, alterations, and physical reconstructions of the original image, Frydenborg merges elements of collage, sculpture, display architecture, and a "timeline" of taxonomic wall reliefs, constructing a chimerical museum environment. In an elliptical blending of analysis and fiction, the objects on view are presented as historical artifacts from the obsolescent work of a vaguely described, possibly delusional academic-- likely discredited in his methods, and separated by an irretrievable distance from our own era.
In its staging of these ersatz specimens,
Dr. (illegible)
traces a quixotic combination of morphologic diagnosis with the lyrical composition of abstract parts. The exhibition's central illustration—a once discernable machine surgically reduced to an illogical hull and its extracted organs— is recreated as a wooden model and a set of colored plastic morphemes. These molded symbols are incorporated into an ordered sequence of linear display, where their repetition and chromatic coding suggest the transcription of a musical score, an archaeological catalog, or a hieroglyphic system of unknown purpose.
Conceived as a notional sketch of an apocryphal atmosphere,
Dr. (illegible)
searches for new structures and cadences that might be gleaned from disused, apparently defunct information. Frydenborg explores a tension between organized presentation and redacted instruction-- modulating a semblance of informative display that is missing its explanatory text, and employing the subsequent cipher as an instrument unto itself. In his allusion to the indistinct namesake of the exhibition, Frydenborg invokes the figure of the doctor both as self-parody, as a caricature of moldering patriarchy, and as a paean to the hyperbolic character of the lost polymath.
Erik Frydenborg received his BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art and his MFA from the University of Southern California. His work has been reviewed in such publications as
and the
Los Angeles Times
. Frydenborg is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at The Suburban (Chicago, IL); and his work has recently appeared in
On Forgery: Is One Thing Better Than Another?
at LA><ART (Los Angeles);
They Have Not the Art to Argue With Pictures
at Cherry at Martin (Los Angeles); and
Touchy Feely
at Human Resources Los Angeles. Frydenborg lives and works in Los Angeles.
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It didn't help that I actually like that song. I wanted to sleep. And when I'm trying to sleep, any song that loud is like an alarm clock, and just about as annoying.
He shook me around, trying to wake me up, but that was sorta the last thing on my agenda.
Then of course, my mom came bounding in.
"Jessica, you have to get up!" she cried, excitedly. "There's something really cool that we're going to do, but you have to get up now if you want to find out!"
I moaned and buried my face in my pillow in reply. What did they want to do now?
"Jess, come on! If you don't hurry we're going to miss out!" she repeated. "It's going to be really fun!"
There was no way I was getting back to sleep. I knew they wouldn't leave me alone unless I said I didn't want to go wherever we were going. But of course, that would mean I'd have to know where we were actually headed.
"What is it?" I sighed in defeat.
"Mom," my dad cut in, before she could reply. "Don't tell her! You have to let it be a surprise."
"Dad, just tell me what it is or I won't want to go," I sorta lied, becoming secretly curious.
He smiled, but didn't reply.
"Come on, Jessica," my mom pleaded again.
"What could possibly be so exciting?" I asked. "Am I even going to like it?"
My dad raised an eyebrow and in a tone of voice I know was meant to make me doubt, he said, "Well... maybe she won't. We'll have to see."
I just wanted to collapse back down onto my pillow and close my eyes. Maybe once they left I could pick my computer up and edit my next chapter. Still, my mom was extremely excited. But she got excited when we went to the park the last time. Which might be a good place to be drafting a story, especially if you're writing on paper. But on a sunny day, staring at a computer screen while trying to edit is extremely hard.
My mind tried to come up with every single way I could go about this. How could I weigh this secret event that might turn out to be not worth the trouble when I got home and still had over a hundred pages to edit? I had to get my editing done. I'd been waiting all weekend for a day where I could sit and edit until I got sick of it. (Which is a very long time for me).
Reluctantly, I got up. It was the last thing I wanted to do, but what choice did I have? The burning need to know was consuming me, despite my worries that they were just trying to get me excited then take me to the local athletic club.
I got in the car along with my brother and sister. During the drive, I wondered what mood I should project. If I act excited, and it turned out to be boring, then they'd have gotten the better of me. But then, if I acted annoyed and skeptical (which was how I felt), and it turned out to be really awesome... well, they'd have gotten the better of me, too.
So, I tried to remain neutral.
We pulled into the movie theater and I couldn't help but smile.
We hadn't seen the movie The Avengers yet.
It was awesome.
Funny, action-packed, sorta sci-fi, futuristic, a hint of fantasy maybe... really, it's one of my favorites now. If you haven't seen it yet, I suggest you do.
When the movie was over, my dad smiled.
"Don't you just hate it when I'm right?" he asked, slyly. "You have to write a blog post about this."
I laughed. "Maybe I will."
Did you enjoy my little tale of what happened on Monday? I tried to tell it as it happened, but of course things are different from different POV's.
My dad would want me to 'admit' that the moral of the story is: parents are always right. But of course, both he and I know they're not. Sorry dad. But thanks for taking us to the movie :)
Do you guys like to surprise your kids? Did your parents surprise you with fun things when you were kids? Tell me about it!
At least my dad was wrong about working out last night... he said that would be fun and make us feel better....


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Faux fur embroidered jacket: Zara || ACDC tee: Forever 21 || Lace-up shorts: old || Platform boots: Vagabond
A bit more of a classic Rock 'n' Roll/Hollywood style look I really like. Shorts, band tees and a cozy faux fur jacket can never be wrong. Here I really like the small details that make the look more unique like the lace-ups of the shorts, my vintage jewelry and belt or the embroidery on the faux fur jacket.
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Harper says he did nothing wrong in nominating Nadon to Supreme Court
Justice Marc Nadon is pictured Oct. 2, 2013 in Ottawa. (The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld)
Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press
Published Friday, May 2, 2014 5:47PM EDT
Last Updated Friday, May 2, 2014 6:27PM EDT
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he ignored a legal caution from Canada's chief justice on the eligibility of a potential Supreme Court nominee last summer because to listen to such advice would have been improper.
In an unprecedented prime ministerial rebuke of the top court, Harper unloaded Friday on Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, one day after government leaks and an extraordinary exchange of public statements revealed a deep rift between the two.
Speaking to reporters in London, Ont., Harper said McLachlin acted improperly last July in advising his office that Marc Nadon, a Federal Court of Appeal judge, might not fit the legal criteria set for Quebec justices under the Supreme Court Act.
At the time, Nadon was one of three judges on a short list of potential appointees being vetted by a panel of MPs. That panel had sought McLachlin's advice.
"I can tell you this," said a clearly irked Harper, who appointed Nadon last September after commissioning independent legal advice that approved of the choice.
"I think if people thought that the prime minister, other ministers of the government, were consulting judges before them or -- even worse -- consulting judges on cases that might come before them, before the judges themselves had the opportunity to hear the appropriate evidence, I think the entire opposition, entire media and entire legal community would be outraged," he said.
"So I do not think that's the appropriate way to go."
McLachlin's office responded with its own public statement, the second in as many days.
McLachlin spoke to Harper "as a courtesy" last April to give him the retirement letter of justice Morris Fish, said the statement.
She met with the parliamentary vetting committee on July 29 "as part of the usual process," then contacted Justice Minister Peter MacKay and the Prime Minister's Office on July 31 "to flag a potential issue regarding the eligibility of a judge of the federal courts to fill a Quebec seat on the Supreme Court."
McLachlin's office said it contacted the PMO to make "preliminary inquiries" about setting up a call or meeting with Harper on the matter, "but ultimately the chief justice decided not to pursue a call or meeting."
"Given the potential impact on the court, I wished to ensure that the government was aware of the eligibility issue," McLachlin said in her statement.
"At no time did I express any opinion as to the merits of the eligibility issue. It is customary for chief justices to be consulted during the appointment process and there is nothing inappropriate in raising a potential issue affecting a future appointment."
Harper's office, meanwhile, issued a statement late Thursday saying the prime minister was advised by his justice minister that accepting a call from McLachlin would be "inadvisable and inappropriate."
"The prime minister agreed and did not take her call," said the statement from communications director Jason MacDonald.
Harper ended up nominating Nadon, a semi-retired 64-year-old with a specialty in maritime law, last Sept. 30 and he was duly sworn in to the top court by McLachlin on Oct. 3.
However, constitutional lawyer Rocco Galati challenged the appointment, and in March this year the Supreme Court ruled 6-1 that Nadon did not meet the legislated eligibility requirements.
Court watchers were agog Friday at the spectacle.
Emmett Macfarlane, an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo who has written a critical history of the Supreme Court entitled "Governing From the Bench," called the public dispute unprecedented in Canadian history.
Macfarlane said court experts may debate whether McLachlin was imprudent in contacting the Prime Minister's Office about her concerns.
"It was perhaps unwise, that's all I'll say," he said. "But for the prime minister to engage in this kind of spitting match with the court and with the chief justice is absurd."
Macfarlane called the public breach of confidentiality "mind boggling."
"Other than if they see a fight with the court like this itself as some sort of political gain, it's unfathomable to me what exactly the benefit here is."
Mel Cappe, a former clerk of the Privy Council, the top federal bureaucrat, said one of McLachlin's key roles as chief justice is to safeguard the integrity of the court.
"The chief justice and the prime minister have an interest in maintaining the legitimacy of the Supreme Court," Cappe said.
"If the chief were preoccupied with the appointment process, it would be only in so far as it maintained the legitimacy and respect for the bench."
Opposition critics said Harper's decision to take his concerns public undermines the court.
"It's so cheap that ... it's beyond contempt," said NDP justice critic Francoise Boivin, who sat on the vetting committee that examined Nadon and other unnamed candidates.
"I wish the chief justice had the power to cite for contempt what the minister of justice and the prime minister of Canada (are) doing right now."
Harper said Friday he consulted constitutional and legal experts both within and outside the government, and they argued Nadon was eligible.
And he said the Supreme Court decision to reject Nadon means that Federal Court judges from Quebec are essentially ineligible to sit on the high court, a situation he considers unfair.
"The reality is the Supreme Court has decided that a Quebec judge at the Federal Court is a second class judge," said Harper.
He said Quebec jurists may no longer aspire to the Federal Court because it will rule them out of a shot at the Supreme Court.
However, Federal Court judges from Quebec remain eligible to sit on the top bench -- and in fact at least one has in the past -- but not in one of the three seats explicitly reserved for Quebec jurists.
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Natalie d'Arbeloff and Augustine
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Wonderful to see all these responses here again, I'd forgotten all about them. It's a mistake to treat blog posts as fast food, gobble them down and then move on. Some of them deserve to be wined and dined on, with candles and proper cutlery, to be savoured slowly and returned to often. Maybe we could start a club for Slow Blogs??
Thw word I have to type as entry code is:
Don't be a hasbnx!
I'm slow at most things so I'm all for that. And I agree, one of the downsides of blogging is that anything off the front page seems to cease existing.


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City And County Offices To Close For Holiday
Updated November 25, 2013 7:11 AM
(UNDATED) - Lawrence County, Bedford and Mitchell offices and Oolitic Town Hall along with BMV license branches will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 28th and 29th in honor of Thanksgiving.
All license branches with Saturday hours will resume regular business hours on November 30th.
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Reward: french fries at the summit.
In operation since 1869, the cog ascents the west side of Mount Washington, reaching a maximum grade of 37.41 percent at the steepest point on a section called Jacob's Ladder. At this point, the train is suspended 30 feet above ground.
Runs on weekends from Memorial Day through mid October. Operation is of course suspended during snowstorms, gales and other types of extreme weather that often occurs on the mountain.
Powered by coal, the cog unfortunately contributes a considerable amount of pollution on the mountain.
The Mt. Washington Cog Railway
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Besan laddu is a very simple laddu recipe from all other laddus and it is very easy to make. My MIL use to prepare these laddus for any occasion. She will prepare tiny laddus for my daughter too.This is the first time I did by my own and hubby likes it much and told me to prepare again... :) This is one of the easy and quick Diwali sweet recipes and melt in the mouth.. :)
- Besan flour (Senagapindi) - 1 cup
- Sugar - 3/4 cup
- Ghee - 1/4 cup
- Cardamom powder - large pinch
- Take a wide kadai, heat ghee. Now add besan flour and fry in remaining ghee until it turn to golden yellow with nice aroma.
- Take a wide cooking vessel, add sugar, very little water and mix well to get syrup with thin consistency. Sprinkle some cardamom powder and mix well.
- Switch off the flame, add fried besan and mix well. Cool the besan mixture until it turns warm. Now take a small portion of mixture and make in to small balls of required size.
- Make sure you roast besan flour till raw smell leaves else it will give a raw taste to the laddus.
- You can even add add chopped & roasted cashews in laddus.
- While shaping I added extra 3 tbsp ghee to make the dough moist and smooth.


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In the following video, The Motley Fool's Alison Southwick talks with Fool.com contributor Tim Beyers about Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), and the lackluster market reaction to the company's earnings report. Though the company improved revenue by 5% and non-GAAP earnings per share by 8.5%, the stock has risen by only a mere 1% since earnings were released last week. Tim tells us what's behind the weak reaction and where Cisco plans to go from here.
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Nerdy Bits: Get Your Paws on Hot Toy's Black Widow, Mark Hamill as The Trickster, Wisdom From Your Fav TV Dads, Red Shirt Tribute and MOAR!
Every day the internet produces an astounding amount of goodies and gems. Most hilarious, some amusing, but all worth at least a few seconds of your time. We here at Nerd Bastards try to bring you the best bits of news and nerdery the webz has to offer, with a bit of snark thrown in. But sometimes not everything makes the cut. Monday through Friday we'll be bringing you our inbox leftovers, our forgotten bookmarks, the nerdy bits that simply slipped through the cracks. You can submit items to Nerdy Bits by emailing us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Above: That isn't Scarlet Johansson or even a cosplayer with an uncanny resemblence, no, it's the new Black Widow action figure from Hot Toys. Hot toy indeed. Get up close and personal at Geek Tyrant.
I feel like that adult should be explaining to those children it's a bad idea to stick your hand into a wild Pikachu's mouth instead of encouraging it. Got something to add to this image? Kotaku is running a photoshop contest for it.
Summer is Coming: The far less foreboding words of the Stark's tropical relatives, the Starbucks. (TDW)
Here's an awkward photo I'm sure you've never seen from the set of The Empire Strikes Back. I don't even have anything to add here. (Geek Tyrant)
I will say, clearly Mark Hamill is no stranger to awkward photos. Here he is as The Trickster from The Flash series starring John Wesley Shipp. Who wants to to tackle this cosplay challenge? (The Mary Sue)
As fan posters go this one for all three Nolan Batman films might easily be the greatest. In fact, I hope AMC adopts this to promote their opening day marathon. You going? (Buzzfeed)
Father's Day just happened, did your Dad impart any classic wisdom? No? Never fear, here's a supercut of wisdom delivered by your favorite TV dads. (TDW)
This is a pretty kick-ass, fan-made Justice League trailer. Sure, it uses quite a bit of footage from Smallville, but it does give a sense of what could be if that Justice League movie finally happens. (CBM)
Those brave, brave men in the Red Shirts. This is their tribute, because without them, how would we have known space was a dangerous place and still keep the main cast alive? (The Mary Sue)
Speaking of Star Trek, the Quintek Group have given is this fantastic animated opening for The Original Series that I demand to see added to all subsequent DVD/Blu-Ray releases. (io9)
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Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Guest-posting on Infant Formula Marketing in Madagascar
Blacktating this week on the subject of infant formula marketing in Madagascar - Nestlé and Blédina say they don't do it but they do!
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Event: 14th Tennessee Senior Amateur Match Play 1st Super Senior Match Play
Host Site: Five Oaks Golf & Country Club, Lebanon, Tennessee
Playing Dates: August 15-18, 2017
Down to the Semis at Senior Match Play
The 16 person Senior Match Play bracket has been cut to four while the Super Senior Bracket has just 2 players remaining.
Related: Tournament Home |Senior Scoring | Super Senior Scoring| Championship History | @TNgolf
LEBANON, TENN (August 17th, 2017) The first two rounds of match play at the Senior Match Play Championship took place Thursday at Five Oaks Golf & Country Club. Despite the No. 1 seed and co-medalist losing in the quarterfinals, and incredibly talent final four remain.
Bob Rice made relatively quick work of his opening round match, a 5&4 victory over Patten Smith. The defending champion squared off against Jeff Golliher, the No. 1 seed,in the quarterfinals. The defending champion continued his title defense with a 3&2 victory.
Buzz Fly opened match play with a commanding 6&5 victory. Fly, who qualified to play in the upcoming U.S. Senior Amateur, continued his strong play in the quarterfinals. Fly, who won this event in 2013, defeated Craig McElhaney 4&3 to earn a date in the semifinals against Rice.
Danny Green labored in his opening match, but eventually won 2&1. Green, who was a co-medalist in stroke play, met Ken Lee in the quarterfinals. Once again Green had to see nearly the entire golf course before earning another 2&1 victory. Remarkably, Green is the only player left that does not have his name on the Senior Match Play Championship Trophy.
Tim Jackson also opened with a commanding 6&5 victory in the Round of 16. Jackson, the 2015 Senior Match Play champion, had a much closer contest in the quarterfinals. Jackson eventually outlasted Greg Guinn 2&1 to set up a clash of the TGA titans in the semifinals. Jackson and Green will square off in the semifinals.
Super Senior
Ed Link, who made a hole-in-one during stroke play qualifying, won his quarterfinal match 2&1 to set up a semifinal against stroke play medalist Dan Schorsten. Link pulled of the upset in impressive fashion, punching his ticket to the finals with a 4&3 victory. On the other side of the bracket the No. 2 seed Dr. Neil Spitalny advanced to the semifinals with a 4&3 victory in the morning. Spitalny kept rolling right through the semifinals where he defeated Five Oaks member Doug Ryerson 7&5 to make the first ever Super Senior Match Play Championship Match.
About the Tennessee Golf Association
In 1914, the Tennessee Golf Association (TGA) was organized at Memphis Country Club as an association of five private clubs. The objective of the Association, as stated in its Constitution, "shall be to promote the game of golf in Tennessee." From these small origins the TGA has become an association which now includes over 200 member clubs, courses, and organizations, comprised of over 32,000 individuals from across the state.
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How have you all been? Sorry for the really long break from blogging.
It all started first with me feeling a little overwhelmed with different aspects of my life then i think i got to the point where i worried my pretty not so little head into actually falling ill.
Lately I have been pondering on lots of things, and have been in that phase where a lot of 20 somethings & maybe 30 somethings find themselves. You know that phase where you ask yourself - are things really just simply Black or White or are there grey areas?
Career/Finance: I guess i am at that point where i have to ask myself some very serious questions regarding my career. I am a Learning & Development Consultant in Human Resources but my passion is fashion. I have actually gone ahead to invest in my passion. The question however is do i go with my passion or do i go with a career that pays the bills? (Common Sense right?)I actually enjoy my job because i can do it for free however i feel my passion is suffering because of my career (Confused.com). I have decided to ask myself a few questions and i hope this helps anyone who is in my shoes.
- Is the market for your passion saturated?
- Have you researched to see how you'll make a differential factor in the industry & stand out?
- If your passion cannot be done on the side with your career, have you made a decision to follow your passion? (This is usually very hard).
-Most importantly, have you set a timeline to save up & plan for your passion? (As much as i hate excel spreadsheet, i have realized its been my true friend this season).
I am also learning to apply the Walk-Away Law: This law states that you walk away from certain wants even when you can afford them. (Am i being too hard on myself? thinking). E.g, that dress that you already own in a similar cut but in black & you just saw the mustard & you know you 'must' get it...ermmm the choice is yours.
I am also learning that internet shopping in Nigeria is fast rising & it isn't bad at all.
Health/Staying Fit: Being fit isn't a trend, its a way of life. But i'll start by saying you must love who you are before going on this journey. I have never been a fan of any diet, (Diets actually irritate me) but recently, in my pursuit of black, white or grey areas, i decided to try a detox program of just fruits & and i told my power puff girls about it but trust me, i didn't last 4 days...LOL. Sometimes


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What would you think if scientists were to suggest that large tracts of uncultivated land, which could be used to grow crops to feed hungry people, should be left untouched? And how would you react if their reason for leaving this potential farmland unused was to combat climate change?
Believe it or not, that is precisely the scenario discussed in a recent issue of the journal Nature. Since 1990, about 77 million acres of cropland have remained uncultivated in Eastern Europe. Given the millions of hungry and undernourished people in the world, one would think that an intentional refusal to cultivate such land would be absolutely out of the question. However, if this land were put to the plow, some worry that the carbon released into the atmosphere as a result would contribute to global warming, and one scientist has even suggested that about two-thirds of this land should remain uncultivated indefinitely.You can read the rest of this global warming and evolution connection at "The Bitter Harvest of Evolutionary Thinking".


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You've all heard the words Shabby Chic.
Just what is Shabby Chic, and how can it save you money?
I like to call this style "the legitimized
loss of control." One definition of shabby chic is "secondhand
stylishness." It
is a decorating style that appears to be here to stay. It is great for people
who like to save money.
Shabby Chic can mean a lot of things. In
the same way that Realtors use words like cozy or cute to mean small and crowded
when it comes to houses, Shabby Chic can mean scratched, full of holes, bad
paint job, lovable eyesore, etc.
However, the value of Shabby Chic is the
original quality of the piece, and the fact that it are still around,
and/or the character you give it when fixing it up. Whether it is an old piece
of furniture, or a faded piece of fabric, the fact that it is worn, yet still
useable, is a lot of its charm.
Shabby Chic is antiques without the price
tag. It's finding furniture at flea markets and fixing it up. It's peeling
paint, milk paint finishes, worm holes, rust, or anything green! Nicks and
scratches don't matter. They are character. The underlying quality is what
What does this mean to you? It means you
can scour the basements of relatives and look for old, discarded items that they
will be more than willing to let you have. It means that things you were once
embarrassed to have in your basement can now sit proudly in your living room.
It's freedom, it's creativity.
Some of the hallmarks of shabby chic are
old faded patchwork quilts, old ivory lace curtains, and overstuffed chintz
armchairs. Shabby Chic is comfortable. It's inviting. It's a style where one
doesn't have to worry about shoes on the coffee table.
Recently I purchased some fabric on eBay
to recover my dining room chairs. The fabric was inexpensive, because of a flaw
in the material. It was a splurge on my part, because the chairs did not need
recovering. However, it was a look that I wanted for about a dollar a chair- and
as I've said before, being frugal can mean saving money on the things that
aren't important to you, so you can have the things that are important to you.
This fabric is a good example of Shabby
Chic, so I have put a picture of it on this webpage. It looks old (although it
is new fabric), and it is covered with Cabbage Roses- which are a trademark of
Shabby Chic. I have put the old chair next to the newly upholstered one, so you
can see the difference. One is modern and hard edged; the other looks soft and
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Hi guys!!
Today's post is how I organise my youtube playlists- mainly the Filofax ones!!
I love watching youtube videos! About fountain pen advice, Sims 3 house building and game tricks, scrapbooking techniques... and FILOFAXES!!! I watch them all the time, and in the last few months I've been watching them more and more, even instead of watching TV! I like to keep a 'collection' of the youtube videos I like- just like people collect matchbook cards or postage stamps, I like to add to my collection of videos! And it can all be done so easily nowadays with youtube, I don't have to have a bookcase full of homemade VHS video tapes!
I use Youtube's playlist function to organise my videos. It isn't as customisable as I would like- I wish I could organise sections within each playlist, but this isn't possible. One day I might figure out a way to organise them better, or I might dedicate several pages to them in my Filofax, but for now I'm focussing on adding videos to my playlists rather than searching for a particular video, so at the moment I'm not concerned if they're not so organised within the playlist.
You can see some of my playlists here:
You can't see all of them because several are private- e.g. the playlists I am currently sorting out and not ready to make public yet.
These are the playlists I have:
Public- Filofaxes, Filofaxes 2, Filofaxes 3, Crafting.
Private- Filofaxes Videos- to sort, Favourite videos (default youtube playlist)
Also: Watch Later list
I have playlists for my main hobbies- Filofaxes (obviously!!), and crafting- this is a new playlist, with only 14 videos in it, mainly scrapbooking techniques, but soon I will add videos about knitting, crochet and cross-stitch. I'm also thinking of making a playlist for fountain pens etc. Any videos I like which don't fit into these categories mainly go into my Favourite videos playlist.
Ok, now here's what I wanted to talk to you about: How I organise my Filofax videos!!!
I have 3 playlists of Filofax videos- Why? Because youtube limits each playlist to hold only 200 videos, so when that playlist fills up I have to make a new playlist. So in total, those 3 playlists hold... 590 Filofax videos and counting!!! Well, actually some of them are Midori Traveler's Notebook and Franklin Covey/Day Timer videos, but you get the point! These playlists are growing everyday and soon I'm going to have to make a 4th playlist! I made my playlists public so anyone can look at them and watch videos from them! :)
Links to my Filofax playlists:
'Filofaxes' playlist
'Filofaxes 2' playlist
'Filofaxes 3' playlist
How do I find and add so many videos?
I find most of my videos from Philofaxy Video Web Finds! Twice a week Steve posts a list of the most recent Filofax videos. He doesn't add some of them- vertical videos are a big no no!!...
... and he doesn't usually include many unboxing videos, hauls or decorating videos. Mainly he includes videos which you can learn something from, or which show you something you may not have seen before.
I also get links to videos from facebook and twitter, people's blog posts and suggested videos on youtube. Occasionally I search for 'Filofax' on youtube, arranging the search results by 'most recent' etc to make sure I haven't missed any new videos!
I click on each link and press the 'Watch Later' button at the bottom of each video. This adds the video to my 'Watch Later' list.
With all of these videos added to my Watch Later list (which can also only hold 200 videos, and they can quickly add up to this number!), I start watching them!! This is the fun part :) I love most Filofax videos, but I generally don't watch unboxing videos, because I already know what the Filofaxes look like from photos etc. I know some people like unboxing videos, it feels to them like they are unboxing a new filofax themselves, but as I have so many videos to watch, I have to narrow it down somehow! I also don't watch many hauls or RAK (Random Act of Kindness) videos, because most of these videos come from the US, and they have amazing craft shops over there with stationery bits I can't buy here, so I get really jealous!!
After I have finished watching a video, then I have to sort it into a playlist. If I know I haven't watched it before, I add it to my latest Filofax playlist. These playlists are my vaults for my Filofax videos!! :)
When I made my playlists a few months ago I added videos to them randomly, with no organisation. When I looked through them I realised I had dozens of duplicates- it took me hours to sort through and delete the duplicates! To ensure that I don't create any more duplicates within the playlists (and with 3 separate playlists, this is easy to do!), I have to take precautions- this is why I have my private playlist 'Filofax Videos- to sort' playlist. If I think I might have watched a video before (I watch so many it's hard to remember!), or if it's older than a couple of weeks, I add it to this playlist. When this playlist gets quite full (100 videos or more), I first sort through the playlist to make sure I don't have duplicates within it- I rearrange them by name or length etc, so that duplicates go together, and then delete any duplicates that I find. Then I open up my 3 Filofax playlists in different tabs on my internet browser, and do ctrl+f to search for the name of each video from my 'To Sort' playlist. If I find that I have a video in one of my playlists already, I delete it from my 'To Sort' playlist; if I find that I don't already have it in a playlist, I add it to my current Filofaxes playlists, then I delete it from the 'To Sort' playlist! It takes quite a long time to do this, but it's fine by me if it works in the end!! I love having my collection of Filofax videos!
So after a very long blog post, the moral to this story is...
I make these Filofax playlists so you don't have to!! Please feel free to use them as resources to watch Filofax videos!!
Follow the links I posted above and save them to your favourites in your web browser! :)


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The Polio Plus programme, launched in 1985, aims to immunise all of the world's children against polio. To date over two billion children have benefited. Working with the World Health Organisation, UNICEF and the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Rotary has contributed nearly US$700 million to keep alive the dream of a polio-free world.
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The Green Business Fund is an attractive and accessible support package offered by the Carbon Trust to help small and medium sized companies in England, Wales and Scotland identify energy saving opportunities and install energy efficient equipment in their business. This includes a 15% financial contribution towards the cost of your energy saving equipment, up to £10,000. The contribution is available to small and medium sized businesses for projects that comply with the requirements of the fund.
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Applications are made online via the Carbon Trust website.
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CQ's web blog on the issues in biostatistics and clinical trials.
Friday, September 09, 2011
Is it time to change the clinical monitoring practice in clinical trials?
Guideline for Good Clinical Practice and the 1988 FDA's "Guidance for the Monitoring of Clinical Investigations". These guidance only require "the sponsor should ensure that the trials are adequately monitored" and leave the door open in terms of the frequency of the monitoring and the approaches of the clinical monitoring. In industry, the conduct of the clinical trials are highly regulated. Sponsors are usually take the most conservative approaches no matter how costly these approaches are.
Will 'on-site monitoring' be really effective? Will 100% source data verification really be needed? Should we identify the new ways to conduct the cost-effective clinical monitoring?
Last month, FDA withdrew its 1988 guidance on "Guidance for the Monitoring of Clinical Investigations" and issued its draft guidance "Oversight of Clinical Investigations - A Risk-based Approach to Monitoring". The newly issued guidance suggested it is acceptable to use alternative approaches (such as remote monitoring, centralized monitoring, risk-based monitoring). The guidance also suggested that the source data verification should be focused on critical fields (key efficacy and safety variables) and less than 100% source data verification on less important fields may be acceptable. The guidance gives a clear signal that the Sponsors are encouraged to explore the cost-effective ways to conduct the clinical monitoring instead of solely relying on the on-site monitoring.
If this guidance gets implemented, we may expect the increasing role of statisticians in clinical monitoring, especially the centralized monitoring. Currently, statisticians will identify the issues in the late stage of the clinical trials when statisticians or statistical programmers start to perform the data analyses. The new guidance says:
"…notably, the advancement in EDC systems enabling centralized access to both trial and source data and the growing appreciation of the ability of statistical assessments to identify clinical sites that require additional training and/or monitoring."
"Centralized monitoring is a remote evaluation carried out by sponsor personnel or representatives (e.g., data management personnel, statisticians, or clinical monitors) at a location other than the site(s) at which the clinical investigation is being conducted."
2 comments:
- Carl Anderosn said...
I agree that more statisticians will be necessary in monitoring clinical trials. This is not only necessary for centralized monitoring, but also for what FDA has been calling, "compliance monitoring." This can mean looking at different trends to determine if data outliers indicate research misconduct or serious noncompliance. I am convinced that biostatisticians at FDA find as much fraud as the inspectors, if not more.
- Web blog from Dr. Deng said...
During DIA conference, one officer from BIMO (BIoresearch MOnitoring program) in FDA stated that FDA will require the sponsor to provide an analysis data set containing the site-level summary results (for example the treatment difference for each site). This data set will facilitate the agency to identify any outliers or any issues for auditing. This request is in line with FDA's position "Prioritization of Clinical Trial Inspections" as indicated in their website.
"Prioritization of Clinical Trial Inspections. FDA Centers are developing new approaches for improving the process for selecting clinical investigators and other entities for inspection, both at the pre-approval stage and earlier in the product development process. The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) is piloting a tool that uses a sponsor-submitted clinical analysis dataset and assesses clinical sites associated with an application for inspection using a risk-based prioritization process model. This tool also has automated features to streamline the inspection request process, and is expected to provide a more efficient, analytical, and timely approach to clinical site inspection and site monitoring. Similarly, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) and the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) have early intervention programs whereby ongoing studies are identified for inspection using risk-based criteria. "
However, this request will add additional burden to the sponsor side and the request data set may not be very useful if the # of subjects at each site is small.
CBER representative later clarified that this request for site-level summary data set was only for CDER division.


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It's based on fable written by an Australian guy called Larry Hannigan in 1971. He had clearly worked out what was going on. You can find the original story on here, or an updated version (dating from 2009) here. There's also a pdf version to download here.
Great stuff. The video version has some extra bits at the end that describes how the takeover of the system has occured in Australia.
"The Federal Government already has the power and duty to create our money system with No interest and NO Debt" (Australian Constitution Section 51 and Section 115)."Sounds like it has been a similar story all over the world. When will we wake up and do something to get this changed?
"The Nullabour Railway, the Snowy River Scheme and many other projects were financed with No interest and No debt."
"So why has it not been done by any Federal Government since 1960?"
"The Commonwealth Bank (the peoples's Bank) was illegally "sold" 16 April 1991 to the International Banksters."


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How Much Do You Really Know About The Life of Your Cloud Resources?
You finally developed a Cloud strategy, shopped for an IaaS/PaaS that provides the services you need, with the compliance levels you require and at the most competitive prices you can find. Off to the races. You can now focus on the core of your business and worry less about IT, THE Cloud will carry you gently to success through all its benefits: agility, scalability, manageability (that being the responsibility of someone else) and sometimes lower costs. We all heard what a beautiful view one gets from up there.
With all in place, you keep busy signing up customers and keeping the existing ones happy. Then one day you get this email:
Date 12/8/2016 18:50PM
Subject: Host Node Reboot
Our monitoring system indicated an issue with the hardware node hosting the instances listed in this email. Our engineering team has investigated the issue and initiated a restart of the host node in question.
Please note: While this event rebooted the instances listed in this email, we expect no impact on data and/or configurations.
Thank you,
Your first thought: "Whew, a problem was averted without customers noticing it!"
Your second thought: "This Cloud stuff really works, my old IT would have taken some time to sort the issue out once they heard about it from a customer."
Your third thought might highlight a personality trait:
- Option 1: "Do not want to know anything else about this, we move on. The Ostrich approach to things I don't want to deal with"
- Option 2: "So was that really all? Did the event truly go unnoticed? Trust but verify."
This was a real message receive by one of our customers. Here is what v6Sonar told them about the same event. An "offline" notification was sent before the Cloud provider email, when the incident actually started.
And then the "recovery" notification 10 minutes later.
This is the timeline of the incident:
Maybe there is no impact on the configuration and data for this host (something not always the case) but how about the impact on the services delivered?
All of a sudden that unexpected yet "feel good" notification seems to raise more concerns than deliver piece of mind. Now other thoughts rush through your head:
Your first thought: How many customers were affected and are now considering alternatives without even telling me they are upset?
Your second thought: How I avoid such incidents from happening in the future and how much will it cost me? Is this the right Cloud provider for me?
Your third thought: Whoever my Cloud provider will be, I need to see for myself, in a simple, inexpensive way, how well is my cloud based service infrastructure doing. Trust but verify.


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In this article I give a very precise but easy to follow tutorial explaining how to make a very simple Santa Claus figure in the 1:12 scale.
This figure is of course much simpler than my usual figures and therefore easy to make, even for beginners.
And don't worry – it's not important that you make it perfect.
What really matters is that it is a Santa Claus character made by you .
Use your imagination and feel free to add an extra personal touch to your own Santa.
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Broker Dealer Financial Services and Investment Advisors Corp. understand the value of giving back to one's community. That is why we are active in a number of charities, sponsorships and we donate thousands of volunteer hours per year. In our tradition of community support, the firm provides a generous amount of paid time off for staff who would like to volunteer. In 2015 alone, our staff donated approximately 3,000 hours to dozens of charities.
In addition to countless hours with youth sports, church-affiliated charities and various local community causes, these are just a few of the causes our firm and our staff are involved with to improve the lives of the people in our communities:
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. Habitat is a nonprofit and Christian ministry founded on the conviction that every man, woman and child should have a decent, safe and affordable place to live.
Big Brothers Big Sisters
The Big Brothers Big Sisters provides children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
Animal Rescue League
The Animal Rescue League of Iowa (ARL) is Iowa's largest nonprofit animal shelter, caring for many thousands of pets each year.
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Meals from the Heartland is a nonprofit organization made up of volunteers from businesses, schools, churches, community organizations and beyond who package meals for delivery to starving people around the world as well as in Central Iowa and elsewhere in the United States.
American Lung Association
By joining the Fight for Air Climb, you are helping to make a positive impact in the lives of those affected by lung disease. Participants raise funds to support the mission of the American Lung Association while training to climb the stairs of three of the tallest buildings in downtown Des Moines.
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The Fraternal Order of Eagles is an international non-profit organization uniting fraternally in the spirit of liberty, truth, justice, and equality, to make human life more desirable by lessening its ills and promoting peace, prosperity, gladness and hope.
Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence
The Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence seeks to engage all people in a movement to change the social and political systems that perpetuate violence against women. We do this through education, advocacy and quality services.
The Rotary transforms your gifts into projects that change lives both close to home and around the world. Rotarians invest their time, money, and expertise into priorities, such as eradicating polio, poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition and promoting peace.
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Community involvement adds value and creates a win-win situation for our employees and increases the return on investments for both our company and the community. We are proud of our volunteer hours and community involvement!
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