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It has never been more expensive to fill up your car. Whether you are in the UK or the US, fuel prices are at an all-time high, but with elections coming up the issue has never been more important. Depending on who you talk to, there are multiple reasons and people to blame. For some, it is the turmoil in the Middle East, for others it is the oil companies and for a certain demographic it is the Obama administration. So who is to blame and what can be done?
In a report released today by the federal Energy Information Administration, it emerged that for the first time since 1949, the USA exported more petroleum products than it imported. Not just that, but it appears that the rise in fuel prices will continue for the foreseeable future. To quote the report, "during the April through September summer driving season this year, prices are forecast to average about $3.92 per gallon with a peak monthly average price of $3.96 per gallon in May."
This is going to appal those of you with low mileage vehicles, especially as the current average price for regular-grade gasoline is $3.74 and could go up as high as $5.
Certain Republican senators have proposed the Keystone XL pipeline, but if that was to start construction today, fuel prices wouldn't drop (even if they did) for years. Plus, that is not even mentioning the environmental impact. However leading Republican politicians, including the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell have been quick to blame President Obama for rising costs.
"Over the past few weeks, the American people have begun to feel the painful effects of President Obama's energy policy. Make no mistake: The rising price of gasoline isn't simply the result of forces we can't control," McConnell was quoted as saying to The New York Times.
While certain candidates have pledged lower gas prices should they become President, industry experts say it is not that easy, even if you do start drilling in areas like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Firstly, gasoline prices fluctuate globally. What happens in the US affects what happens in Europe and vice versa. If the US was to access oil reserves in Alaska or other wildlife reserves, it wouldn't make enough of a difference to lower prices.
According to Jeff Bingaman, who heads the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, "While domestic oil production plays an important role in the energy security and economy of our own country, its contribution to the world oil balance is not sufficient to bring global oil prices down." Bear in mind that this includes the fact that oil production in the US outstripped all other major producers from 2008 to 2011.
The fact is that if the US wishes to be part of the global economy, it is going to have to accept that fuel prices are rising globally — not just domestically — and this is due to demand and dwindling resources. While planning to drill in a reserve may sound appealing, it just won't make enough of a difference.
Speaking about the fuel costs, President Obama said: "There are no quick fixes to this problem, and you know that we can't just drill our way to lower gas prices. If we're going to take control of our energy future and avoid these gas price spikes down the line, then we need a sustained, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy — oil, gas, wind, solar, nuclear, biofuels and more."
That's one idea. There is another, but it is rather radical – use less oil. However, with our power stations and cars still reliant on the fuel – that is not really an realistic answer.
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I was so delighted by the oysters that I stopped on the way home and bought some fresh ones to recreate the dish. It is simply marvelous, if I do say so myself!
Try it as an appetizer or luncheon entree with a green salad.
Roasted Oysters with Bacon and Parmigiano-Reggiano (Parmesan Cheese)
1 dozen large oysters, in the shell (I used
) Samish Bay
1 cup heavy cream
1 to 2 cloves garlic
4 strips of cooked bacon, crumbled
1/3 cup grated Parmigiano Reggiano (go for the good stuff here, not the old green can)
Fresh cracked black pepper
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Peel and slightly crush the garlic. Add the garlic and heavy cream to a small sauce pan. Heat to a simmer and reduce by half (approximately 10 minutes). Remove from heat.
Scrub the oysters with a wire brush until clean. Shuck the cleaned oyster and place them on a baking sheet. (Note: Shake a layer of rock salt onto the baking sheet before placing your oysters. This will help them to stay upright and level while roasting.) Sprinkle with bacon crumbles. Spoon 1 ½ teaspoons of Parmegiano Reggiano onto each oyster. Then spoon on heavy cream dividing it equally among the oysters.
Roast the oysters until they are hot and the cream has begun to bubble and brown, approximately 10 minutes.

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Summer Noon
O for a summer noon, when light and breeze
Sport on the grass, like ripples o'er a lake
Alive with freshness! when the full round Sun,
With the Creator's smile upon his face,
Walks like a prince of glory through the path
Of Heaven!—Thou vast, and ever-glorious sky,
Mantling the earth with thy majestic robe…
~Robert Montgomery, "Beautiful Influences," A Universal Prayer; Death; A Vision of Heaven; and A Vision of Hell; &c. &c., 1829
But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~ A Life for a Life, 1859
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ~Wilson Mizner
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. ~ William Shakespeare
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. ~R.E. Shay


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I was reminded of a favourite song of mine the other day, Standing Outside The Fire, by Garth Brooks. The song focuses on the need for people to take chances in their lives and to create the destinies they want. I truly believe that. I always have. I guess that's why that song, and others like it, strike such a strong chord within me.
When we write anything, an article, a song, a poem, a story, a letter, anything at all, we have to believe that what we have to say is worth others hearing. Some call that ego. Maybe it is, but maybe its also about sharing this human condition of living. I like to think it's about connecting with others on a basic level.
When a writer writes a story, they create characters who have to DO something. The characters must have a purpose, needs, flaws and desires that readers can relate to, otherwise the story is boring. Plot lines and flow charts aside, it's the characters who must echo humanity and human lives. Even in science fiction, horror or other genres where the characters aren't actually human, the characters must exhibit a human character. They have to move the story along by their words and actions, just like we do.
But by nature, most writers are introspective and can be a little more solitary than some people. We are happiest to sit at our desks and create worlds, characters and dialogues in our heads while putting them to paper, or on a computer screen. Then the book comes out. Now we're supposed to be PR experts and marketing moguls. Uh, maybe not so much. But if we want our work to be a commercial success, and if we don't that's fine too, but if we do, we have to step outside our comfort zone. We have to push ourselves to get out there and promote our work and ourselves so people will know we, and it, exists. I write for two reasons, because I love it, and because I am hoping others will get some real enjoyment from the stories I've crafted. I hope the characters will come to life for readers and provide a measure of entertainment and escape. Oh, and yes, I would like some financial redemption for that work. No apology. If I have to make money somewhere, this is how I'd like to do it.
That means having confidence enough to push myself beyond where I'd normally go. I'm not an experienced public speaker, and I don't necessarily seek the lime light. I watch famous writers like James Patterson, J.K. Rowling and others who have learned how to reach out to readers and brand themselves to the buying public. Maybe they're more extroverted than I am, but possibly not. They just know it has to be done, so they do it. I like to think I can too. I'm fortunate to have been blessed with years of watching both my mother and younger sister, Stephanie, in public speaking engagements. Each is amazing and inspirational. They speak about women, to women, and business professionals about creating the business and lives they want. I love listening to them. They are my inspiration. My middle sister, Melanie, runs a very successful business with her husband and has done for the past fifteen years or more. They've learned a lot along the way, and she's definitely had to step out of her comfort zone to promote her business, on more than one occasion. My brother, Stephen, followed his dream of playing in the CFL when he was younger and now runs his own contracting company. He wanted to play in the Greycup, and damn if he didn't do it! I'm so inspired by these people and their drive. I've always been the quiet one. The studious one. Now, I'm having to step outside my comfort zone and pull out all the stops in marketing and promoting the heck out of my book. I've been contacting local libraries to ask for book readings/signings, I've contacted local news publications to ask if they'd be interested in interviewing me as a local emerging author, I've had to start reaching outside myself in so many areas I feel my arms are growing (too bad my legs wouldn't). It doesn't feel natural to me, but it's important. When I needed to have my book on Kobo because I'm Canadian and Kobo is a major venue in Canada, supported by major book retailers and libraries, I stepped in and liazed between my publisher and Kobo directly to encourage a working relationship. It worked and In The Spirit Of Love is now on Kobo, in addition to all the other venues it's been on.
Each step I've taken these past months has been difficult, but also fun. I'm learning and growing and gaining confidence. My first public appearance was at a book reading/signing at a small local library. I had no clue how to proceed, and neither did they, but I went with my gut instinct and kept it light, easy and hopefully fun, for the attendees. I'd never done anything like it before, where I'd be the center of attention, and you know what, I liked it. I was fine, and I brought my mother with me for moral support, which was a great idea.
My point is this. As writers, we have to make our characters stretch and grow to gain the desired objective. As people, we do too. While recently talking to the manager of a local major book retailer who is considering placing my books on consignment and hosting a book signing, she told me flat out, "I want an author who will connect with my patrons and draw them in. If he or she just sits there, I'm not going to be happy, and I won't invite them back." Point taken, challenge accepted. I might bring my mother with me though, for moral support.
So, like Garth Brooks sings, "Life is not tried if it's merely survived, If you're standing outside the fire".


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I've always talked about having a cocktail party but did not have much time in 2012 because I was still trying to get my life in order. I have been a single mom for 2 years and have a full time career. I was occupied rebuilding my life as well as my family's. Needless to say, by the end of 2012, I was ready to entertain again and have a party with my girl-friends.
I added a little bit of a challenge for myself when prepping for the party. I wanted to see if I can make healthier versions of traditional hor d'oeuvres – maybe vegan, maybe raw – plus with minimal number of ingredients. Well, given the amount of food left (or lack of), I think the attempt was a success. Not only were these foods appetizing, it was also a lot of fun making them.
Fluently lived,
The ambiance…
Steph's eclectic living room served as the setting for the ladies' only night. Whimsical peacock plates and vintage silverware added a touch of boho chic to the table.
The Hor d'Oeuvres
Egg Salad Recipe – Well, this is not exactly vegan, but, instead of 2 cups of mayo, we substituted the other cup with greek yogurt.
1 cup mayo
1 cup greek yogurt
2 tbsp relish
6 eggs
pack of sesame crackers (Trader Joe's)
caviar (optional)
salt & pepper to taste
To make:
- Boil the eggs. When done, dice them or use an egg slicer.
- In a bowl, mix mayo, relish and yogurt.
- Add the eggs and mix.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Arrange by putting the egg mixture over crackers. Put a little caviar on top and serve.
Top: Scallops on Fried Wonton with Pesto Sauce| Left: Beet Salad| Right: Cucumber Slices with Salmon & Cream Cheese
Scallop Dish– brought by one of the ladies' (hope to get the recipe soon and will post details)
Beet Salad Recipe
6 to 8 beets
Half a bunch of basil
1 cup of nut pate
1 to 2 tbsp. of extra virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
How to make:
- Boil the beets until tender, about 15 to 20 minutes. Let it cool. Peel the skin off the beets.
- Slice the beets. Put in a mixing bowl.
- Chop some basil. Add to the beets.
- Add the nut pate. (The truffle and garlic in the pate we used was just perfect but you can use any other nut pates or goat cheese, cream cheese. Maybe add some truffle oil)
- Sprinkle some olive oil.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Mix all the ingredients
Cucumber Slices with Salmon & Cream Cheese Recipe
2 cucumbers
1 package of smoked salmon
1 package of cream cheese, softened
How to make:
- slice the cucumbers in 1/2″ slices
- top cucumber slices with a dollop of cream cheese
- add smoked salmon slices to top off
Vegan Bruschetta Recipe, delicious and refreshing!
Chambers Lane's yummy, organic, vegan & gluten free nut pate food line. We are so thrilled for Chamber's Lane and honestly we can eat this everyday if given the opportunity. We served it with Trader Joe's Rosemary Italian crackers. Top: Rosemary Thyme Almond , Left: Truffled Cashew, Right: Fig Balsamic Walnut Cashew.
Vegan Mushroom Recipe, filled with healthy goodness
And Dessert…
Steph and I have come to love raw/vegan desserts, who knew desserts can taste amazing and be good for you at the same time! Here is a recipe Steph found on theveganchicpea.com that we tried out. Easy to make, (the best part no baking required) with just a few ingredients.
Cocktail Shoes…
left: on Kriselle, Giuseppe Zanotti| right: on Steph, YSL
I served as Steph's trusty "sous chef." We went food shopping together the morning of the party and since the majority of the recipes she chose called for no cooking, mainly just chopping and prep, it was pretty stress free. We laid out the recipes and ingredients, threw on the iPod and 2 hours later the table was filled with appetizing trays. It's always fun to be able to spend time with the ladies, leisurely eating/drinking good stuff, chatting, and lastly ending the evening with coffee and dessert! Hope you enjoy and will try out these recipes.
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Obligatory coffee shop sketch post for the month.
At Stella's Coffee Haus
Tenn Street Coffee and Books
Bardo Coffee on Broadway
Dazbog Coffee on 17th and Browning
The soon-to-be-relocating Common Grounds at 32nd and Lowell.
Inside Caribou Coffee on the 16th St Mall.
More soon!
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Lots of coffee
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Other is our large group gathering that meets every Wednesday evening from 6:00-7:30pm for 7th-12th graders. Other is a movement of teenagers from every walk of life and background engaging in musical worship, fellowship, and teaching. For more information about our student worship or student ministry contact Chris HERE
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After 9 yrs. of piano study she began organ studies with Ms. Helen Pope and served in her home congregation (Peace Lutheran Church, Arnheim, OH). She has also studied organ with Mr. Ric Jaeggi, Dr. Mark Schaffer, and Dr. David Mulbury, with whom she continues her skill development. Besides serving Peace Congregation, she has served St. Mark's Lutheran Church (Milford), Mt. Carmel Baptist Church (Kenwood), Kenwood Baptist Church (Kenwood), Immanuel Presbyterian Church (Clifton), and here at Faith Lutheran Church (Finneytown).
Her Science, Math and Business Administration skills were used working for Procter and Gamble for over 33 yrs.. Her initial employment was in consumer research, but she quickly advanced to a manager in Product Development. She was Technical Brand Manager for Ivory Liquid, Crisco, Duncan Hines Cake Mixes, Cookies and Folger's Coffee.
While at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Donna Mae presented an organ recital for the congregation and their friends. She has been awarded the American Guild of Organists (AGO) Service Playing Certification. For the 25th Anniversary of Messiah Lutheran Church (Greenhills), Donna Mae wrote the words for a hymn, "With Our Hand in His."
She also designed the technical aspects of Faith Lutheran's organ expansion, and oversaw that installation.In professional services to the AGO, Donna Mae served as Dean of the Cincinnati Chapter as well as: Convention Coordinator, Region V, 1995; Ohio District Convener; Coordinator, Professional Development, Region V; and Director of the National Committee for Career Development and Support.


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Jim Carrey on The View26 Feb 2007
By Omnipresence (Web correspondent)
It was on Thursday of last week when Jim Carrey made his latest television appearance to promote "The Number 23". For the first time in his career he appeared on ABC'S "The View".
Bearing a gift of flowers Jim walked onto the program smiling. Obviously happy about life Jim told the interviewers why he chose to act out a part so different to what he is famous for. In addition to this he told of how he was very grateful that he could carry out such diverse roles.
The discussion then turned to Jim's real life obsession with 23. Interestingly he then goes on to talk about the meditation temple he has in his garden.
During the second half Jim compliments his co-star Virginia Madsen, and, as is so often the case the talk then drifts towards the topic of Jenny McCarthy. Predictably Jim rejects roomers of marriage and children. The infamous ten million dollar cheque is then discussed.
Afterwards the interview concludes with the audience giving Jim a deserving round of applause.
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You might (or might not) know me from my personal domains:
echoing.org, echoes.nu, echoic.org and the domain that hosts this collection, echoverse.org.
I go on random joining sprees. Therefore this list grows in fits and starts, bulking up in certain areas as I go. Perhaps you and I are fans of the same stuff. Read on and find out, fruitcake!
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Sorting "a' family words.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Another Great Week: Montessori Monday
Right now we are doing a lot more independent work which is requiring me to give more lessons! I still have children who love to touch the camera and take some photos for me, if they are not too busy themselves. Here are some great shots of them working:)
Sorting "a' family words.
Sorting "a' family words.
The children will not be in attendance this Monday, but please come and join us as we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jrs' Dream. I will be sharing the activity we do everyday starting Tuesday, during our Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Week.To see others inspired by the Montessori Method please visit Living Montessori Now.
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I love all your works this week. Your blog is a wonderful resource.ReplyDelete
Is the work they do with the fraction skittle different than the work with fraction circles? I'd love to know more about them, I don't have any presentations for those.ReplyDelete
Great work, as usual! Thanks so much for linking up with Montessori Monday. I just featured your post and your MLK Week at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/LivingMontessoriNow. At the end of MLK week, I plan to add your MLK posts to my Martin Luther King Day post.ReplyDelete
Looks like hard work pays off! Great job! This group looks focused..then proud! :)ReplyDelete
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Small banks are big problem in government bailout program
Monday, June 14, 2010
The Treasury Department's financial bailout has a growing problem on its hands, and this time, it has nothing to do with Wall Street.
A new report from the agency shows that community banks continue to plague the program. A total of 101 bailed-out banks -- nearly all are small -- have missed paying the government a dividend, which was a condition of taking the aid. That number is up 25 percent since February and has nearly doubled since November.
The rising number of "deadbeat" banks, as they are known, could force Treasury to become more deeply entangled in the affairs of small financial firms that are troubled. The bailout legislation gives Treasury the right to appoint members to the boards of banks that miss six dividend payments.
So far only one firm, Saigon National Bank in Southern California, has missed that many payments. Eight others have missed five payments and 16 have missed four. Most banks that received federal aid agreed to pay the government a 5 percent dividend every three months upon taking funds from the Troubled Assets Relief Program.
Treasury officials declined to answer questions about whether they were preparing to make board appointments.
While big Wall Street banks have been sharply criticized by politicians and ordinary Americans for taking federal bailouts, they have quickly repaid that money with interest and billions of dollars in additional compensation.
Meanwhile, hundreds of small institutions have not yet returned their aid. Nearly one in seven banks that took aid also have failed to issue the required dividend to the government. The missed payments have cost taxpayers $233 million, according to Linus Wilson, a finance professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
During the crisis, Treasury pledged to give aid only to banks that were in relatively good shape and needed help to get through the financial turmoil. But the growing list of delinquent banks shows "the investments that were made were not in healthy banks," Wilson said. Many of these firms can't make their dividend payments because they are struggling with losses on real estate development loans.
Wilson and other financial analysts say the trend of missed dividends raises questions about whether Congress should approve an Obama administration proposal to spend another $30 billion to aid banks that lend to small businesses. Advocates of the new spending say it is necessary to help small-business lenders since these institutions don't have as many funding sources as big banks and are therefore more vulnerable in recessions. The proposal may come up for a vote in the House as soon as this week, Democratic aides said.
Treasury officials say the small-business measure in the House would require regulators to review the applications of banks and ensure that only viable lenders get the money. But back in 2008, the TARP program established a similar process that proved vulnerable to lobbying.
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), for instance, inserted language into the TARP legislation that effectively directed Treasury to give OneUnited Bank of Massachusetts special consideration. The bank has now missed paying five dividends.
In addition, said Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.), chairwoman of the House Small Business Committee: "Previous attempts that simply gave banks money and trusted they would lend have fallen far short of meeting small-business credit needs. That is why we must make sure this proposal has strong small-business protections, so that we actually see capital end up in the hand of entrepreneurs."
Treasury officials said the TARP program has been well administered. On Friday, the Treasury lowered its estimates of the ultimate cost of the TARP bailout to $105.4 billion, $10 billion lower than what was published in President Obama's budget in February. The biggest piece of that expense will come from the aid sent to the nation's automakers, not banks. Last August, the administration had estimated the cost of TARP would be $341 billion.
"TARP repayments have continued to exceed expectations, substantially reducing the projected cost of this program to taxpayers," said Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability Herbert M. Allison Jr. in a statement. "TARP is achieving its intended objectives: stabilizing our financial system and laying the groundwork for economic recovery."


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About a year ago a friend did one of those tagged posts where you had to respond with a recipe. I chose my great-grandmother's recipe for sugar cookies as they are delicious and easy. When it came cookie time again, I knew that I would need to alter them for the monkey. I debated a number of options with using the King Arthur Multipurpose flour being chief among them. I wanted to keep it simple. Then I remembered that I had a box of the Better Batter All Purpose Flour. I decided to go ahead and use the latter as I had been wanting to see why Adventures of a Gluten Free Mom loved it so much. In this case, it was a fairly simple one for one substitution, and they were exactly like the one's I grew up with minus the frosting. (I am so not a frosting person on cookies, and a straw poll on Facebook showed that about 50% of respondents agree with me!)
Grandma Darling's Sugar Cookies (now gluten, soy, and corn free!)
2/3 Cup butter
150 grams sugar
1 egg
1/2 Teaspoon vanilla extract
1 Teaspoon grated orange peel
300 grams Better Batter All-purpose flour
1 1/2 Teaspoons baking powder
3-4 Tablespoons non-dairy milk
Cream sugar and butter in mixer. Add egg and beat until mixture is light and fluffy. Add vanilla and orange peel; mix thoroughly. Add dry ingredients alternately with milk. Divide in half. Chill one hour. Keep half chilled while rolling the other to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut and bake at 375 degrees F for 8-12 minutes.
Note: I prefer my cookies a little thinner and crisper. The monkey told me they looked burned so I did a few for him that were thicker. Icing or not is up to you!


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I am running a little behind with my weekly photo post this week. My boy and I just got back from a lovely long weekend in sunny Brisbane and it is taking me a while to get back into reality I think...
November 22, 2011
The Week That Was...
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5 comments:
- Becky (Page Turners) said...
The best Australian Stories of 2011 sounds great, Ill look forward to hearing about that
- November 22, 2011 at 7:17 PM
- Tamara said...
Love that tea cozy!!!
- November 25, 2011 at 3:16 AM
- Karen said...
Hi Becky - I have only read the first two stories from the collection so far but they were both brilliant so I am looking forward to the rest of them!
Hi T - It's great isn't it!! This was tea at the Avid Reader bookshop in Brissie.
- November 27, 2011 at 12:23 PM
- Relish said...
Stay there Karen! Reality is overrated!
- November 27, 2011 at 1:16 PM
- Karen said...
Hi Relish - I know exactly what you mean!!
- November 29, 2011 at 1:38 PM
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Five years after the most recent global economic crisis, its effects are felt everywhere. Among the rich and the investor class, the crisis is a constant struggle to maintain profits. For everyone else, the crisis is an ongoing attack by the rich and investor class on their security and dignity. In response to a collapse in profits, economic elites worldwide have sought to make workers, poor people, women and undocumented labourers pay for their recovery.
In Canada, the top tier of the investor class has mandated the all levels of government to recuperate the money spent on bailouts, military hardware and corporate tax cuts by cutting funding to health care and education, raising tuition, lowering unemployment benefits, adding user fees to public services, rolling back union rights, gutting environmental regulations and attacking social assistance and housing initiatives.
At the same time, this ruling elite is seeking to increase profits by inflating the housing bubble while protecting banks and expanding integration with the US military-industrial complex. Corporate and state power is attacking environmental regulations and Indigenous land and treaty rights to speed up profitable and destructive resource extraction like tar sands and fracking. Projects like Plan Nord or the tar sands represent billions in subsidies to the ultra rich.
Federal, provincial, and municipal governments are carrying out these attacks on behalf of the 1%.
Harper's Conservatives have taken the lead with privatization initiatives, layoffs of almost 20,000 public sector workers, reducing Employment Insurance, changing the Old Age Security program to start at age 67, cutting arts funding, and paving the way for the reckless expansion of oil extraction. The announcement of the end of mail delivery in urban areas heralds a push for the privatization of Canada Post.
In Québec, the Parti Québécois (PQ) has cut social wages and plans to increase Hydro Québec fees by 22.2 % by 2018. And yet, Hydro-Québec anticipates profits of more than $3 billion in 2013 alone. Agnès Maltais, Ministre de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale, has announced cuts to welfare payments to people aged 55 to 57 and families with one or more children. This, at a time when 10% of children in Québec are raised in families that depend on social assistance. Such moves are hardly noticed while debate over the the deeply racist Charte des valeurs québécoises does the work of distracting and dividing the people hit hardest by austerity measures.
In Montreal, the municipal government is pushing forward a process of gentrification without investing in social housing, while ramping up an attack on women involved in the sex industry. To quell the inevitable unrest, the city government has, with Law P-6, placed itself at the forefront of a legislative assault on the right to protest.
Honesty is not an option for the political class, or for the economic elite who order them about. Austerity amounts to transfer of wealth from the majority to a tiny minority of economic elites, but it can never be described as such. Instead, precarity and austerity are described as "flexibility" or "economic restructuring."
A recent report by the Québec Ministry of Labour indicates that over 450,000 workers in Québec now have precarious jobs, which means jobs that pay low wages, have few benefits or none at all, have little regulatory protection, and no security. That same report also found that nearly 1.3 million workers face employment insecurity. And yet, massive corporate cuts across the board are portrayed as normal and necessary under austerity. Québec has introduced a 10-year tax break to foreign investors, but we already know who will bear the cost of this unjust policy.
In Montréal, many community initiatives have already staked out the front lines of this fight: anti-gentrification activists; unemployed workers; postal workers; campaigns to fight Hydro Québec fee increases; students demanding free education and an end to tuition hikes; Idle No More and Indigenous solidarity initiatives; resistance to social assistance cuts; labour organizers fighting the growth of precarious work, the stagnation of the minimum wage and mass layoffs; and many more.
Each of these struggles has specific demands and needs, but they are all fighting against the same corporate-driven policies aimed at extracting profits for the rich from the austerity imposed violently on everyone else. These efforts and struggles can find common cause. Let us clearly identify the source of this assault and confront it together.
Colonial policies are at the heart of capitalism and Canada's austerity agenda. Capitalism began with large-scale land theft, and it continues on this basis today. Supporting Indigenous struggles for land and dignity and for the decolonization of these territories is, by necessity, of central importance to the anti-austerity struggle.
Comité d'action solidaire contre l'austerité (CASA) aims to challenge the austerity agenda through actions and solidarity, and contribute to a growing movement against austerity policies in Québec and Canada. Most immediately, CASA aims to organize a popular forum to help unite the struggles prompted by attacks from the Harper government, and to build toward a pan-Canadian day of action and economic disruption in 2014.
Austerity will not end with a change in ruling political parties. Only by building solidarity, popular power and hitting the streets can we become a real challenge to this elite agenda. But our movement can't stop when the cuts stop. Together, we must create a fundamentally cooperative and democratic basis for economic self-governance that distributes wealth equally and embraces our abundance of creativity, knowledge and skills while operating within the ecological limits of the planet we share.
Together, we can fight back against the neoliberal crisis and austerity economics. In solidarity, let us resist these polices, but also build the collective power and direct democracy that can deliver social and ecological justice.


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Photo greeting cards on sale at the library!
Come check out original photo greeting cards made by National Park Ranger, Alyssa Parker-Geisman. The images are from national parks around the country and beyond.
The cards sell for $3 each or 4 for $10, and proceeds will benefit the Friends of Brownell Library.
Thank you for your support!


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Sunday, September 18, 2016
"...a fundamentally creative act"
Sunday reflection:
"Early encounters with math can be misleading. The subject seems to be about learning rules -- how and when to apply ancient tricks to arrive at an answer. Four cookies remain in the cookie jar; the ball moves at 12.5 feet per second. Really, though, to be a mathematician is to experiment. Mathematical research is a fundamentally creative act. Lore has it that when David Hilbert, arguably the most influential mathematician of fin de siecle Europe, heard that a colleague had left to pursue fiction, he quipped: 'He did not have enough imagination for mathematics."
-- Gareth Cook in NY Times (2015)
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The flat top koppies (mountains) of the Karoo is as part of this arid region of the country as windpompe, Angora goats, Karoo lamb, flowering aloes and big open skies. Two of the best known Karoo koppies are the Koffiebus and Teebus south of the town of Steynsburg.
The word "Bus" means pot in old Dutch as the hills are said to look like the old teapots and coffee pots of the early Dutch Settlers. This means that if you had to translate, let's say, one of the names, the mountain would be called "Coffee Pot" or "Coffee Caddy". I really enjoy driving this particular road, the R390 between Steynsburg and Hofmeyr, when heading back to the coast from up north. Perhaps for one specific reason. Stopping to take a photo of the koppies.


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Controversial software claims to tell personality from your face
A start-up says its face-recognition tech can identify people's personality type from photos – and spot terrorists, paedophiles and poker players in crowds
CAN software identify complex personality traits simply by analysing your face? Faception, a start-up in Tel Aviv, Israel, courted controversy this week when it claimed its tech does just that. And not just broad categories such as introvert or extrovert: Faception claims it can spot paedophiles, terrorists – and brand promoters.
Faception's algorithm scours images of a person from a variety of sources, including uploaded photos, live-streamed video and mugshots in a database. It then encodes facial features, including width and height ratio, and key points – for example, the corners of the eyes and mouth.
"Using automated feature extraction is standard for face recognition and emotion recognition," says Raia Hadsell, a machine vision engineer at Google DeepMind.
The controversial part is what happens next. Faception maps these features onto a set of 15 proprietary "classifiers" that it has developed over the past three years. Its categories include terrorist, paedophile, white-collar criminal, poker player, bingo player and academic. To come up with its custom archetypes, Itzik Wilf, Faception's chief technology officer, says the system was trained on the facial features of thousands of images of known examples. The software only looks at facial features, he says, and ignores things like hairstyle and jewellery.
"Faception claims it can spot terrorists, paedophiles – and even brand promoters and bingo players"
Wilf says this has led to notable successes. When presented with the photos of the 11 people behind the 2016 Paris attacks, the algorithm was able to classify nine of them as terrorists. Similarly, it spotted 25 out of the 27 poker players in an image database.
The Faception site also lists more prosaic uses for its tech, including marketing, insurance underwriting and recruiting. "HR could use it to identify suitable candidates," says Wilf.
Many machine vision researchers are crying foul, however, including Emin Gün Sirer at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. "A classifier that tries to flag every single person of Arab descent could identify 9 out of the 11 Paris attackers at the cost of falsely flagging 370 million out of the 450 million Arabs in the world," he says. "Such a classifier is completely useless."
Wilf says that for each of their classifiers, the training sets of images run in the thousands. But for behaviours as uncommon as terrorism or paedophilia, this will still lead to a number of false positives and Wilf acknowledges this. "There are always accuracy issues with machine learning algorithms," he says. For that reason, the algorithm will always defer to human judgement.
What that means in practice is unclear, as the human ability to infer personality from facial traits is only slightly better than chance, says David Perrett at the University of St Andrews in the UK.
Face recognition technology has been the subject of many ethics debates in recent years. Most recently, there was an outcry over FindFace, a Russian app which uses data from social network Vkontakte to enable users to identify people they snapped on the street.
"We would never license our IP to someone who would use it for those kinds of purposes," says Wilf. But Gilad Bechar, a co-founder of the company, says one of its clients is an unnamed security contractor outside of the US.
"This is a new idea," Wilf says. "New ideas are often greeted with friction."
This article appeared in print under the headline "Spot that poker face"


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Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! 🙂 I know we sure did! The weather was beautiful and got to enjoy some much needed time with loved ones! Helped throw my friend a bridal shower and made my first cinnamon roll wedding dress 'cake' (normally made with cupcakes but I like to take risks and try new things 😉 ), walked in the Leprechaun race downtown with my mom, received a super kind gift from a sweet friend, and enjoyed some much needed R&R at home.
Here are a few pics from the weekend…
and no, I did not try one of these beauties…but I was told they were delicious! I do love to bake!
Isn't my mother adorable?? ♥
Such an extremely kind gift to receive…meant the world! 🙂
We also had an awesome bon-fire BBQ at my dad's house Saturday evening…
(Yea…we don't mess around! 😀 )
…and was asked to make a salad. With the incredible weather we had enjoyed that day it totally made me crave something fresh and delicious, as in something you would enjoy at a summer BBQ! I came across this awesomely scrumptious looking salad from Stupid Easy Paleo and decided to use some of the same veggies she recommends for hers and made up my own dressing.
So here is my twist on Stupid Easy Paleo's Holy-Guacamole Salad…(and seriously, if a priest did bless an avocado, it would be a holy guacamole! Hehehehehe…I know…horribly cheesy joke…gotta love it! 😀 )
Prep time: 10 mins Makes: 5 cups
2-large avocados
3-organic cucumbers, skin and seeds removed
1-pint of red grape or little yellow tomatoes, halved
1-yellow bell pepper (or pepper of choice)
½ red onion
2 jalapeno peppers
1 clove of garlic
1 handful of fresh cilantro
¼ cup of olive oil
1/3 cup of balsamic vinegar
1 tsp pink Himalayan salt (or whichever salt you have)
½ tsp black pepper
¼ tsp dry mustard
2-crushed cloves of garlic
Dash of cayenne
To make:
Cut/dice/chop all veggies and cilantro to your liking and mix together in a large bowl.
For the dressing; add all ingredients to a small mixing bowl, whisk, pour over salad, and ENJOY! *see tip
Tip: I pre-made this salad so I decided to hold-off on adding the avocados and the dressing until I got to my dad's house. I would almost always recommend making the dressing ahead of time to let the flavors meld together! Just prep, store in an airtight container in your fridge, and dress when ready! So, so tasty!
Luckily, we had some leftover so I finished up the last of the salad yesterday with half of a cooked turkey breast on top! Oh-my-word delicious! The flavors had even MORE time to marinate together and just made the most delicious tasting lunch ever! I was so sad when I looked down to grab another bite and my bowl was empty. 😦 Just means I will need to make another soon!
Hope you all enjoy this salad! Totally perfect for a spring picnic or summer BBQ! So fresh, crisp, and delicious! Yummm!
We can persevere through anything we put our minds and our hearts to. ♥


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Alexander Wang's First Ad for Balenciaga Is No Gisele With a Mullet
It's a Kristen McMenamy about-face.
It's a Kristen McMenamy about-face.
And Baja suede-trimmed striped tweed jackets.
Nine hundred workers are still missing.
To a Gatsby screening.
The designer recounts his struggles in System magazine.
"Karl Lagerfeld/Karl Lagerfeld/Karl Lagerfeld/Imma call Lagerfeld."
The 20-year-old on growing up in Estonia, Givenchy hair, and her grandma's care packages.
Rescuers are continuing find employees alive in the wreckage.
He told Paris Match his real age.
Uh-Oh 101.
In which E! falls all over itself.
Not this guy.
Her name is Hildy Kuryk.
For Kmart.
In appreciation.
Hide yo' kids.
She owes her doctors at least $16,000.
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Not on Facebook or Twitter? You Might be Considered A Psychopath
Social Media is huge and many of us are on Facebook or Twitter, or both. However there are many out there who want nothing to do with Social Media which is fine, but don't be shocked if your employer finds it suspicious. According to the Daily Mail:
Facebook has become such a pervasive force in modern society that increasing numbers of employers, and even some psychologists, believe people who aren't on social networking sites are 'suspicious.'
The German magazine Der Taggspiegel went so far as to point out that accused theater shooter James Holmes and Norwegian mass murder Anders Behring Breivik have common ground in their lack of Facebook profiles.
On a more tangible level, Forbes.com reports that human resources departments across the country are becoming more wary of young job candidates who don't use the site.
The common concern among bosses is that a lack of Facebook could mean the applicant's account could be so full of red flags that it had to be deleted.
Slate.com tech reporter Farhad Manjoo wrote in an advice column that young people shouldn't date anyone who isn't on Facebook.
Don't worry though. Not having Facebook or Twitter doesn't necessarily mean that you are crazy. It just means that there is a potential that some will think something is wrong with you. Which I guess that isn't a good thing either.
What do you think?
Just a reminder, you can find KFYO on both Facebook and Twitter.


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SEMCO Productions has been producing consumer and trade shows since 1959. Their portfolio of shows runs deep yet they are always looking for new ways to entertain and educate various markets around the world. The World Culture & Travel Expo is one of those new shows meant to do both: educate while entertaining.All Terrain Studios is dependable, forward-thinking, creative, and brand-sensitive. After a strong eight year relationship, we consider ATS to be an integral part of our team. So integral, that as we plan future growth into new markets we include ATS from the very beginning of the planning process. – Michael Schoppenhorst, President, Atlanta Home Show/SEMCO Productions, LLC
After we designed the new logo, we swiftly began work on a new, multi-facted website.
Show websites are complex beasts. At any given moment one of three audience types can be seeking information: the attendee, the exhibitor, and the sponsor. Each type is as important as the rest, so presenting the right information at the right time is crucial.
We approached this project as three separate websites living under a single website "roof" and deployed a multi-site WordPress site. This allows our client to maintain the copy and photos on all three sites via one admin interface and one set of login credentials.
The exhibitor list is tied directly to SEMCO's web app. So whenever a new exhibitor signs up, the exhibitor's name is automatically added to the exhibitor list for attendees to view on the attendee website. This small step saved countless man-hours. We believe in eliminating as many redundancies as possible, and adding new exhibitors to the website after adding them to the web app would have been redundancy at it's finest.
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|Dirty Sanchez -- UNRATED
Actors: Susanne Bier, Matt Pritchard, Ning Cai, Michael Locke, The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Genres: Indie & Art House, Comedy
UR 2007 1hr 36min
In their debut feature-length comedy, the Dirty Sanchez team travel the world on a real-life quest to commit the Seven Deadly Sins. The boys never cease in their tireless pursuit to destroy the bounds of taste and decency... more »
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Even More Crude than Jackass
ak317 | San Francisco, CA USA | 09/16/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Dirty Sanchez Unrated is an extremely crude DVD that would be great for the collectors of the CKY video series, Jackass, and Steve-O. Some of the extreme stunts includes inflicting painful stunts for people in exchange for money, drinking games to the extreme, and some very interesting tattoos.
Be aware that this film is not recommended for anyone under the age of 18, cannot tolerate frontal male nudity, and heavy swearing."
Great movie
Michael M. Rios | fontana, ca, usa | 03/28/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)
"these guys come in the same categorie as the guys from jackass except that the dirty sanchez gang blows jackass out of the water. i enjoy watching movies that have out of the ordinary stuff in it and this movie has nothing but out of the norm skits and pranks. its really a guy movie but more power to you girls who are down with it too"
Gross -- really gross -- but not that funny
J. Mcdaid | Cambridge, MA USA | 02/07/2008
(2 out of 5 stars)
"I certainly didn't buy this movie expecting much, but I did think it would at least be funny. The inclusion of the barf bag struck me as a demonstration of good humor, but I think viewers may actually have used it. They attempted to wrap up all these ridiculous "stunts" in an loose plot -- which was a bad idea to begin with -- and it really failed. Dismally. They should have just strung the clips together and forgot about continuity.
My worst complaint: there were maybe 3 stunts in the whole film that were actually funny. Most of them were just gross. I'll stick with Johnny Knoxville, thank you very much."


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The – all – seeing – eye : YouTube
It's amazing how you can find anything starting from small random "how to" video clips to quantum mechanics theory clips on just one website, namely YouTube. By the way, Most of the people would say "wake up! its 2014, gosh everybody knows what YouTube is" . Yes. I know YouTube has been there forever for many other countries but it's been only a couple of years that we could legally watch YouTube here. Needless to say I'm from burma.
Before 2011, it's beyond impossible for us to access YouTube as well as some news websites. We had to go through many proxy/firewall skipping websites such as C tunnel or V tunnel. So..It took us several minutes just to see YouTube page. Leave alone watching or downloading clips from it unless you literally live in an Internet cafe or a public access centers.
Then one day, around 2011 I think, we could use YouTube without having to crack or skip firewalls. I was so happy that I even thought that was a dream. Before, you knew that there is a digital sea of all kinds of knowledge somewhere on Internet but you can't go nowhere near it. Then "SPLASH" …you are swimming in it. You can sense the sweet air of knowledge and ideas which were shared by millions of different people around the world, going through your nose. It's like a huge mobile library to me. I can take it with me where ever i go.
Right after I knew that I could use YouTube, I quickly decided that I'm gonna learn all the stuffs I wanted to learn since preschool. I learned sunskrit, I watched loads of scientific discussions and doccumentries, I followed a few artists that i like and many people who shared weird ideas of them. I called them "neo buddhas" and I could also learn how our brain works mysteriously from videos provided by a mathematic specialists and brain surgeons. How precious is that? These people are generously sharing their life-long researched knowledge FREE to everyone!!! But you know it's sad that one video clip explaining how fibonacci sequence and numbers build the whole mother nature, has incomparably less viewers than miley cyrus's twerking video or even a kitten playing with a ball clip. To me i think i don't have enough time to learn everything i wanted even if i learn 24 hrs a day. I don't have time for cute kittens nor double rainbows.
So finally, I thought it's time to start learning my ultimate childhood dream: drawing animated cartoons.
I still remember how far my jaws dropped down when I first saw "mighty mouse" 2 dimension animation on TV. I had no idea how the made these drawings move. That was so new to me and I thought it's extremely difficult to draw such animated movies. But you know what? I pinned it. I pinned that curiosity on my mindboard. I promised myself that one day I'll make my own animation movie no matter how short it is.
To be honest, when I typed "how to draw animated videos at home" in the YouTube 's search box, I felt pretty hopeless. I mean..who would upload such complicated procedures right? But I forgot that not everything has to be difficult or complicated. Some smart people are doing things so simply and all they focus is only on basic ideas and presentation. I found one genius showing how he draws animated cartoons ….Not on the papers but on white board. So that you don't have to draw everything you drew in last frame all over from the beginning. You can just erase the part you wanna move by using a normal whiteboard duster and then draw over it. It's so easy and cost effective. All you need is a white board, a marker pen, a duster, an LED light with a stand, a Web cam and an easy video editing software like monkey jam or even a built – in "window movie maker" software will be just fine.
So what I did was I hang the LED stand over the whiteboard and I clipped my Web cam somewhere on the LED stand it's lens facing towards whiteboard. It's kinda tricky to get the right spot for LED cos if it's right over the whiteboard , the white board's surface reflects it's light which can ruin your drawings.
Then I started drawing some stuffs and tapping on space bar at the same time to capture the frames I drew. After several frames, I clicked "preview" and saw my characters started to move. That moment is the most amazing minutes of my life. I repeat and repeat that 12 – second – preview again and again. Of course It's nothing compared to all the other animations in the world. Mine wasn't smooth, it had rough edges , the running time is unstable..its obviously a shit animation after but the quality of it never was my point. It's just that feeling….feeling of satisfaction. , fulfilling your long dwelling thirst, feeling "I made it" is the whole point. I kept on drawing and after a few hundreds of frames I got a clip which was just long enough to play along with a back ground track. I swiftly picked up one of my songs and edited it on the time line together with the clips I just rendered.
I named it "flowers are forever".
It's really really not a big deal at all, but who knows, if my daughter asked me how they make cartoon movies some days, I can proudly say "you know, tha mee, papa made a small animation once. You wanna check out?"with a big confident smile on my face.
I hope she says "yes" though. Hahaha.
Here's that little suckie clips I did.


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The railways of Britain are probably some of the most studied organisations in the history of the world, with tens of thousands of enthusiasts nationwide researching and writing about them each year. These enthusiasts have been invaluable in advancing our knowledge of Britain's railways and their operations, and have shed light on many areas of railway history that have previously been unknown. Indeed, my own work has been immeasurably enhanced by the London and South Western Railway's study group, the South Western Circle, whose membership has provided me with documents, articles and pieces of research. In fact, such has been their contribution to my work that they get a big credit in the introduction to my PhD. But the Circle is only one part of a network of study groups across the country that research individual companies and lines. However, within this community there is an approaching problem.
It cannot escape anyone in the enthusiast world that a lot of these groups' members are in their senior years and new members are in short supply. Subsequently, I predict this will have an effect on the level of research these groups undertake, the number of meetings they will hold and the dialogue they engage in with academic railway historians. But what concerns me most is the fact that many of these groups may start to fold, creating very dangerous situation. A look at the document catalogue of the London and North Western Railway Society lists the original documents it has in its possession on an immense 134 pages. This equates to approximately 2500 individual items related to the L&NWR, more than is held by the National Archives at Kew. If the group were to fold or was unable to maintain such a collection what would happen to these items? Additionally, if a member of the society who holds a large private collection of documents died, where would they end up? Ultimately, I can't give you an answer because there isn't a plan in place for the future.
I believe that we cannot simply allow groups to fail before any action is taken. Structures have to be put in place in the next 10 years to make sure the documents that these groups hold will be preserved. Nothing drastic needs to be done now, and we don't need to move at a rapid pace because this problem itself won't materialise rapidly either. But, there needs to be a concerted effort by the study group community to protect what they have so that all these archives are not deposited in a nearby skip.
So, how could the study group community begin to undertake such a task? I believe that the only way that this can be done is through the creation of an umbrella body that would be responsible for the monitoring and registering of the nation's railway study groups. This group would, therefore, act as a basis for the cataloguing of all records that the different groups and their members hold, and facilitating, if and when a group folds, the transferral of the archival material to the jurisdiction of a central body that can take care of them. Subsequently, it may arrange for the documents to be deposited in a county or national archive (i.e. The National Archives or the National Railway Museum Archives).
However, such a group may also lead to a standardisation of the rules regarding how external individuals could access the documents that are held, the procedures that societies could follow to take over the custody of documents when an individual passes, and the rates they charge for access to their archives. Furthermore, like the railway clearing house in the 19th century helped coordinate aspects of the industry beyond its initial remit, this umbrella body may also lead to greater unity between organisations, standardisation of membership rates and act as an advocacy body for the study of the railways. It may even, dare I say it, set up its own archive to preserve the nation's railway history .
Overall, I feel so strongly that something needs to be done in the future that I may, after my PhD, pursue this issue. Furthermore, if you, dear reader, are a member of a company study group and feel this is an issue, please pass this post onto other members so they can start thinking about it. We need to do something, lest railway archives pass into the midst of time…or into a skip.


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In my early 30's, I suffered from high anxiety as a result of my high-stress, corporate job. This also impacted my digestion where I ended up bloated and uncomfortable after most meals. As a result, in my late 20's and early 30's I suffered with skin issues that I thought was only meant for teenagers. My sleep was also impacted where I slept restlessly and I woke up lethargic, and with low energy. Coffee became my best friend. Does that sound like you?
Investing in my own health by studying holistic nutrition was my way of understanding what the underlying causes of my health issues were.
It was then that I realized that I was out of tune with my body. I had no idea how to give it the fuel it needed nor the lifestyle changes that I needed to make in order for my body to function optimally. And, trust me, when you make some tweaks, you body will respond!
I am in the process of completing my certification in holistic nutrition studies with the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition. As a result, I need to perform a number of nutritional consultations as part of my certification. If you've been struggling with some aspect of your health, this may be your sign. This is where I come in…
As a nutritionist (in training) I will help you identify the underlying causes of your health issues, as well as any areas of your nutrition that could be improved. Whether you are looking to embark on a healthy eating plan, detox, shed some excess pounds, or take your health to the next level, I'll tailor nutritional strategies so you can achieve your goals. Everyone is different, so every client gets a personalized treatment.
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Discover what good nutrition means for you. I won't get too scientific to confuse you but I will help you understand why nutritional deficiencies happen.
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As Hippocrates said "let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." And, I will help you understand this approach and empower you to make sustainable changes.
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So far in my nutrition studies, I see people who are at different stages of their health journey. They all want to make improvements and they have the commitment and gumption to get there. It is so inspiring to work with clients like this.
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I've Never Known About Words
I've never known about words
as much as I've wanted to.
Relegated to a time,
they don't look for me.
I too, Auden, have
the best dictionaries that money can buy.
Pieces that line up
with distress.
Our life is arduous,
back there,
I don't want style,
but honesty.
Gestiones (1992)
{ Rafael Cadenas | Venezuela, 1930 }


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Things That Are Better Single
You may have heard, but Valentine's Day is sort of coming up. And since I am harboring slight resentment towards people who own penises, I will be spending the holiday with… yep, Charlie the stupid miracle dog. And maybe drinking wine while opening presents that my mom gets me every year since it's become quite apparent that her daughter is doomed for spinsterhood… oh, your mom doesn't pretend to be your valentine? Me neither… (hi, mom!)
So, in an attempt to remind those of us who may or may not be planning on throwing a grenade (bomb, not ugly Jersey- girl) through the window of your local romantic eatery that there are some major perks to singledome, I offer you this shabby list:
Things That Are (Slightly) Better While Single:
- Happy Hour. All eight hours of it because you have no other commitments and nobody is blowing up your phone or asking why you are still out drinking with those people you only kind of know.
- Christmas. You just saved yourself a whole lot of money and time by not plotting the perfect gift for a man who will inevitably buy you something in the wrong size, or tickets to something that he really wants to see more than you… or in my case, the dog that you didn't want and had to give away once you broke up… (poor Penny).
- Vegas. There is absolutely no good that comes from having a significant other while you run around in what is probably a shirt that automatically gets reclassified as a stand-alone dress in Vegas.
- Bars. Because if you're taken you essentially just got dressed up to look at strangers hotter than your boyfriend that you aren't allowed to talk to. Lucky. You.
- Lifetime Television. For reasons unbeknownst to me, men can never fully appreciate the joys of movies called She's Too Young, or Someone Else's Husband. So good. (Who doesn't want to watch Tori Spelling's TV-movie comeback?)
- Free Time. For those of you without boyfriends, it's the time you spend napping, or shopping, or reading the book you always wanted to read, or brunching with girlfriends. For those of you with boyfriends: it's the time you spend staring at him watching basketball, or running errands or hanging out with his parents.
- Panties that are not thongs. Sweet hallelujah. Because sometimes you just gotta rock the full-butt undies.
- Holidays that revolve around booze and/or costumes. Actually, any holiday that doesn't require extensive family time. He's seen you naked already, dressing up like a slutty beer wench is for the strangers you meet on Halloween, not for him. Let's get real.
- Shopping. No feeling guilty that maybe you should buy him that shirt he wanted, or him telling you that he really is not a fan of you in blue so then you stay away from the color blue. It's all about you and your limitless materialism. Get it, girl.
- Sleeping. No snoring. No weird boy smell in your bed. No awkward pillow-sharing. No sleep-talking, mumbling, shouting or punching. No other-people's alarms going off at the fucking crack of dawn. Just you, sleeping pleasantly by yourself without any interruptions or other nuisances. So good.
Okay, so if you do not dabble in a love of drinking, you probably should think about getting a boyfriend because really, I'm not sure what you do all night/weekend… Lifetime movies aren't THAT good, and there's only so much shopping for yourself you can do until your that broke, lonely girl.
There. This was uplifting. You're welcome, single friends!
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hahahah! Is it bad that I totally agree with all the points related to drinking? How do non-drinkers survive? How do they meet interesting people in bars? Those people who say, "I don't need to drink to have fun"… pshhh.. that's because you're boring either way!


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States paid $18.4 billion in 2013 for worker retirement benefits other than pensions, which are known as other post-employment benefits (OPEB). Almost all of this total was spent on retiree health care.1 The payments covered the cost of current-year benefits and, in some states, included funding to address OPEB liabilities—the cost in today's dollars of benefits to be paid in future years. These liabilities for covered workers totaled $627 billion in 2013.
On aggregate, states had enough assets set aside to fund 6 percent of these liabilities, although there are large variations in both funded status and liabilities. Setting funds aside for future benefits can both make costs more predictable for taxpayers and make benefits more secure for retirees. This may be particularly important for states with higher levels of benefits and liabilities. The aggregate OPEB liabilities reported by states nationwide declined by 10 percent between 2010 and 2013, adjusted for inflation.
This brief provides an analysis by The Pew Charitable Trusts indicating that changes in state health plan provisions and funding policies, along with lower than expected health care inflation, drove this reduction in liabilities. It also includes an examination of state OPEB assets and liabilities.
The research is part of a larger look at how states handle OPEB costs. State Retiree Health Spending: An Examination of Funding Trends and Plan Provisions, a joint report released by Pew's State Health Care Spending and Public Sector Retirement Systems projects, explores the issues more broadly. Future analyses will provide recommendations on pre-funding strategies, consider the current and projected costs of workers' benefits, and examine the goal of ensuring that the cost of benefits is sustainable over the long term.
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Keywords liabilities , actuarial , GASB , valuation , post employment
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West Coast Brewery - Background
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Once upon a time (over a couple of beers) Paddy Sweeney and a group of mates came up with an idea to buy a brewery. They figured that with the amount of beer they had consumed between them it would be quite a good investment... so strike me dead if they don't up and do it! Low-and-behold West Coast Brewing is born. For a group of West Coasters, Miners Brewery in Westport was the perfect purchase. The Brewery was already producing award-winning beers and now with the expertise of a few legends in their own right they've already gone on to produce a few more. So the next time you're sitting down with your mates for a few — talking about how to solve the world — just remember... they've already started doing it on the West Coast.
On the West Coast a Tui is a bird with a bit of white fluff under its chin, a lion is a pommie who thinks he can play rugby, and a DB is a dead bloke. A good beer? Now in these parts that's the stuff legends are made of because around here, if they didn't trust it they wouldn't drink it. This is why the best is now brewed right under their noses at the West Coast Brewery in Westport. The West Coast Brewery creates naturally brewed beers. It's a slow brewing process that takes time — 'West Coast' time. Our brewery is run with the same strong work ethos that has always been the backbone of this region. We don't pretend to be the 'big boys' in this game, we don't want to be, we are more concerned with satisfying our customers. We are driven to succeed in all we undertake and like the West Coast; we choose to stand apart from the rest.
Originally the Miners Brewery, the West Coast Brewery is located in Westport on the West Coast of the New Zealand South Island. This is the home of naturally brewed beers — beers that are hand crafted with natural ingredients. We use no chemicals, no additives and no added sugars so our beers won't knock your body around. The traditional art of brewing is on the endangered skills list, threatened by today's fashion of accelerating the brewing process to produce more beer, faster. At the West Coast Brewery we take our time, ensuring that the age old, slow brewing process won't be lost to mediocrity. We make beer to be enjoyed, beer that is refreshingly natural. It's what you come to expect on the West Coast, where the sky is deep blue and the sand is jet black — our beer is pure gold.
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Green Fern is our award winning organic lager. We always knew it was el primo, but now it's official. This year it took out the top award in its class for premium lager at the New Zealand International Beer Awards. When we say it's organic, we're not paying fashionable lip service - Green Fern is certified organic by BioGro New Zealand. Organically grown barley and hops are stripped bare to leave a naturally brewed, premium lager with no added sugars, chemicals or preservatives. Purely natural - the way beer should be on the West Coast.
Good Bastards is a range that is only for certain customers — you've simply got to be a Good Bastard. If you enjoy a few beers, a good yarn, and like to stick it up the establishment in a non-offensive way then you're perfect for a Good Bastard.Good Bastards Dark Ale (Award Winner), Good Bastards Lager Top Drop, Good Bastards Draught
West Coast Draught - "Paddy was an amazing bastard and a bit of an ace at fly fishing. Legend has it that he would put a small hole in the lid of a bottle of West Coast Draught and place it upstream. The fish loved the stuff just as much as Paddy and would swim for miles around to drink the stuff. We reckon it was a waste of a damn fine beer but Paddy reckons it made them easier to catch!"
West Coast Black - "Butch is a living legend, a pig hunter with trophies as tall as his stories. He's got a boar mounted that you'd swear was smiling at you. Butch reckons he woke from his sleep around the campfire one night only to find 100kgs coming right at him, he grabbed his schooner of West Coast Black and single-handedly poured it down the beast's throat. It stopped the animal in its tracks. Butch swears black and blue, it was the West Coast Black that put the smile on its face!"
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Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land breaks ground on greenhouse restoration project
May 9, 2018
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The Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington broke ground on their greenhouse restoration project May 7, marking the beginning of a project to make the more than 100-year-old building once again functional.
The volunteer Franciscan Monastery Garden Guild maintains the gardens at the monastery and provides fresh produce to local food banks and religious communities, including the Capital Area Food Bank, Community Food Bank, DC Central Kitchen, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary sisters. In 2017, the Garden Guild donated 8,000 pounds of food.
At the groundbreaking ceremony, Franciscan Father Larry Dunham, the guardian of the monastery, said the Garden Guild has "a mission that is near and dear to the heart of St. Francis, and therefore near and dear to our hearts."
He called the groundbreaking a "historic occasion" because for at least 38 years, the greenhouse, which was built in 1915, has been non-functional, or "an albatross," he said. But with the restoration that was scheduled to begin the next day, "we are prepared to turn an albatross into a really beautiful thing" that will "serve the mission of the monastery in serving others," said Father Dunham.
The restored greenhouse will allow the Garden Guild to harvest produce year-round, and as a result they aim to double food donations annually. The project will include stripping the iron and steel beams and adding new painting, as well as removing the existing glass and replacing it with new tempered glass. They aim to be finished at the beginning of July, and plan to dedicate the new greenhouse in the fall.
Another hope for the restored greenhouse is that it will serve as a space where the Garden Guild can invite students to come and teach them how to plant and harvest, and possibly have an observation beehive to teach them about beekeeping, since the Garden Guild also tends to beehives around the grounds of the monastery.
"It is a real stewardship of St. Francis of Assisi," said Joe Bozik, a Garden Guild Board member, which he said includes taking care of the environment and making sure that they propagate the fruits of the earth in the right way.
As a part of that mission, the Garden Guild is making sure to use environmentally friendly treatments to remove the lead-based paint on the greenhouse, and they do not use pesticides or herbicides in their gardening. They have also repurposed tanks to collect rainwater, which they then use to water the plants.
The Garden Guild meets Wednesday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from May through August also on Wednesday evenings from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Volunteers are welcome to come learn about gardening, or to help with other things like flower arrangements, making preserves or canning tomatoes. The Garden Guild will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in October.
"For us, it is also a way of showing by example," said Lou Maroulis, the CEO of the Garden Guild. "When people come here, the first comment they make is how peaceful it is. People don't realize they are in the middle of D.C. People come here because they want to get closer to the environment and closer to God, and this does both."
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There are currently 3 different PS4 Models; the original PS4, the PS4 Slim and the PS4 Pro.
The original PS4 is currently being phased out, replaced by the PS4 Slim, which has the same specs but is a third smaller. Both are available as 500GB and 1TB, and like the PS4, come with HDR due to a recent PlayStation update.
The PS4 Pro is the most powerful PlayStation ever, allowing you to play games in 4K. It is currently only available in 1TB.
When the PlayStation 4 came out in November 2013, there was only one 500GB model available. Times have changed: now, you can find the original PS4, the slim PS4, and the PS4 Pro on shop shelves. That's three different models – and each have their own differences.
So, which PS4 should you buy?
What is the PS4 Pro?
Released on 10th November 2016, PS4 Pro is the newest version of the console. It's a more powerful version of the original PS4, with a faster graphics processor and support for 4K and HDR TVs. It plays all the same games as the original PS4, with improved graphics and performance in some games.
Here's a quick PS4 Pro FAQ:
- Do I need a 4K TV to use a PS4 Pro? – Nope, it works with any HDTV. But, if you do have a 4K TV, then some games will display in 4K and, if your TV supports it, HDR.
- Will PS4 Pro play my old PS4 games? – Yep, all of them. Some will have improved performance.
- Is it worth getting a PS4 Pro if I don't have a 4K TV? – If you want higher framerates and detail levels, yes.
- Will PS4 Pro have any exclusive, 'Pro-only' games? – Nope. Sony has clearly stated that all PS4 console versions will play all PS4 games.
- Does PS4 come with the new DualShock 4 controller? It's a slight revision with an extra light bar on the front.
- What are the hard disk/storage options? – Right now you can only get a 1TB PS4 Pro.
Sold on the PS4 Pro?
What is the PS4 Slim?
The Pro wasn't the only new PS4 to launch in 2016. In September, Sony replaced the original PlayStation 4 with a smaller and cheaper version that's been unofficially named "PS4 Slim".
In terms of performance, PS4 Slim is identical to the original PS4. That makes it slower than PS4 Pro… but they all still play every PS4 game.
Here's our quick PS4 Slim FAQ:
- How much smaller is PS4 Slim compared to PS4 Fat? – About 1/3 smaller. The Slim is 264 x 288 x 39 mm, while the Fat is 275 x 305 x 53 mm.
- Did any original features get cut from PS4 Slim? – Yes. PS4 Slim doesn't have an optical audio out jack.
- Does PS4 Slim have any new features not in PS4 Fat? It has a more rounded case design and a new version of the DualShock 4 controller. Specs are the same.
- What are the hard disk/storage options? – Right now you can only get a 500GB PS4 Slim.
Is the PS4 Slim for you?
What about the original PS4?
For now, the original PS4 is still available in shops. But since the PS4 Slim is designed as a straight replacement, those Fat consoles should disappear sooner or later.
Should you buy an original PS4? Well, it's basically just a bigger PS4 Slim with a 1TB option. So if you don't mind not having the newest model, or the most powerful, PS4 Fat should suit you fine.
Here are some more OG PS4 answers:
- Does PS4 Fat play the same games as PS4 Pro? – Yes, but they might not look as nice.
- Does PS4 Fat support HDR? – Yes. All PS4s can do HDR graphics in supported games, since firmware v4.
- Does PS4 Fat have any advantages over Slim? – It has an optical audio out connector, unlike the Slim.
- What are the hard disk/storage options? – It comes in 500GB and 1TB versions.
So… which PS4 should I buy?
Now you know all about the three different PS4 models, you're ready to make up your mind. Here's a roundup of the best options in a bunch of difference scenarios.
"I just want the best, money's no object": Get the PS4 Pro. It's the most expensive, but it's also the newest and most powerful. Games look and perform better on Pro.
"I want the newest console possible, but I'm on a budget": Get the Slim. Although it's got the same specs as the original PS4, it's smaller and has the newest DualShock 4 controller. It's also a great price.
"I want the cheapest PS4 available": Get the original or the Slim. The original PS4 has some great deals as retailers work to clear old stock.
"I want 1TB storage": Get the Slim or the original. It is currently the cheapest option at the moment.
"I really need optical audio for my amp/receiver": Get the Pro or the original PS4. The Slim doesn't have optical out.
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NEW DELHI: Virtually rejecting Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee''s call to participate in the forthcoming assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, Hurriyat Conference on Tuesday said polls were no solution to the Kashmir problem. Read this story in...ĀĀHindi''We want permanent settlement of the dispute and polls to the legislature is not an aim of our movement,'' Hurriyat Conference Chairman Abdul Gani Bhat said here.He was reacting to the statement made by Vajpayee in Rajya Sabha on Monday urging separatist organisations to join the election fray and that his government would ensure free and fair polls.''Elections will not produce a result in terms of resolution of the (Kashmir) dispute,'' Bhat said.He said the ''movement'' had been launched not to facilitate any political party from coming to power but for allowing Kashmiris to exercise their choice in regard to the state''s future dispensation.When asked whether the Hurriyat leadership would meet the Prime Minister in Kashmir, the Hurriyat Chairman said ''I don''t know''.Vajpayee, during his statement, had also said that he along with Home Minister L K Advani and Defence Minister George Fernandes would be visiting Kashmir soon.Bhat refused to answer any further queries regarding the fate of their parallel election commission. He neither confirmed or denied reports that such an exercise had run into ''rough weather''.
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The Paper Girls - Open, MF, E3, RW (prizes only to North American continent), 2W - (W1 of 2) - #116, Grateful
MonthlyHouse of Cards - Open, OE9, SW, M - (November) - Lots of Layers and/or Colors
Lost Coast Portal to Creativity - MF, Prizes vary according to number of entries - (November) #30, Thankful/Give Thanks
My Besties UK - MU, SW, M - (***) - On Break until the New Year
Path of Positivity - Open, Voted winners, M - (November) - #41, Appreciation
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STAMPloration - Open, RW, T3, M - (November) - Stamps & 3 of Anything, Also Sketch (see below)
The Paper Nest Dolls - CU to be in Random Draw, E2, RW, T3, M - (November) - Always Anything Goes
UnstampaBelles - Open, NO STAMPING, E3, RW, T1, M - (November) #63, Resistance
Whoopsi Daisy - MU a Digi or Image/Element/Paper from a CD, E2 (CU E3), RW, T3, M - (November) - Lots of Layers
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Newbie help midi from daw to multi LCD
FredricSweden posted a topic in MIDIbox HUIsHi. Im new to the midibox, i got the link from a friend. Im about to build me a new home-studio. I got cubase and 2 behringer bcf2000 and one Presonos Masterfader. All is working fine. But now i want to intergrade 8 to 16 lcd displays in to my desk. I want to display vu-meters, trackname/number and any outher usefull info i can get out from the mackie-midi-out. Iv seen some youtube-projects with the adurion and one lcd-display. but nothing with 8 or 16. If its not possible i can go with 4 lcd´s displaying sevreal tracks on the same lcd. What should i buy. My friend said that i should get a MidiBox NG. I have 4 4x20 hdd44780 lcds at home, but with the china-prices a can buy new models if the hd44780 is a bad lcd. So first of all i need to now what to buy. So i start in the right end.