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Wake up American Jews, the jihadist are here! We shouldn’t be like our brothers and sisters in Europe. We have the right to bear arms to protect our selves . We can’t be seen as being weak and scared like the Europeans. It’s time to let Muslims in the U.S. know we’re coming after them if they try to threaten us.
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The USA Jews have a policy.They figure if that they only say nice things about terrorist and defend their unorthodox style while attacking conservatives that the terrorist will chop off everyone’s head but the liberal Jews.They refer to this method as the “Playing possum concept”. | {
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Archinect member applet sounded offended by Sherin’s focus on passive technologies writing "The information you are writing is so main stream and only shows you are just discovering things known to first year architecture and design students". Yet, as Amy Leedham, correctly pointed out "While the passive strategies here sound obvious and simple, most people are not using them, hence the need to remind people."
Sherin Wing, brought the research for the newest installment of the COUNTOURS feature, wherein she looks at New, Energy-Efficient Technologies, in which she explores passive technologies such as the solar shading CRATE system, developed by a team consisting of... View full entry » | {
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Pop-Up Kids Church
Did you know that Montrose Kids Church is a completely portable ministry? Our Sunday activities for kids take place at the Valley Vista building across the street from our campus. On Wednesdays, kids programs take place at the Montrose Campus. In order to make this happen, we haul a lot of equipment and supplies back and forth from week to week - and did I mention that kids have a lot of "stuff"?
In addition to the need for portability, we are also challenged with storage space! That's why we're looking to create a "Pop-Up" Kids Church (drumroll, please)! As a team, we have been creating a kids curriculum, unique to Montrose Church, that will take children through the Bible in one year and bring the stories to life with engaging materials and sets to draw them into the Word of God! This box truck will allow us to transform the Valley Vista space into an unforgettable experience of the Bible that's just for kids!
We want to say a huge thank you to so many of you who have donated to help make this happen in the next few months! To date, we've raised close to $9,000 of our $20,000 goal! We're almost halfway there, and every one of your prayers and gifts make a difference to our kids! Click here to donate now (Give to: 4-Designated, Kids Church Truck). You can also text the amount and TRUCK to 818-330-1180 (Example: 500 TRUCK).
Thank you for your support!
About the Author
Shawna Diehl
KIDS DIRECTOR, MONTROSE
Meet our Montrose Campus Kids Director, Shawna Diehl. Shawna grew up in ministry, taught school for three years in Nashville, and now she and her husband Dalton (a singer/songwriter), are happy to be here in California with their two dogs, Penny and Oatie. | {
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SYDNEY, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Australian retail sales surged past all expectations in November as consumers splashed out on Apple iPhones and Black Friday promotions, a major boost for an economy that had been struggling with sluggish spending.
The local dollar jumped almost half a U.S. cent to a three-month peak of $0.7882 as the strength countered concerns consumers had lapsed into a near-permanent depression.
Thursday’s figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed retail sales jumped 1.2 percent in November from October, when they rose a solid 0.5 percent.
That was three times the market forecast and the steepest gain since early 2013.
Sales were up 2.9 percent on a year earlier at a record seasonally adjusted high of A$26.38 billion ($20.77 billion). Gains were led by a hefty 4.5 percent rise in household goods and a 2.2 percent increase for other retailing.
“Seasonally adjusted sales in both these industries are influenced by the release of the iPhone X and the increasing popularity of promotions in November, including Black Friday sales,” the ABS said in a note.
Consumer spending has been under pressure from record-high household debt and sluggish wage growth, one reason the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is in no rush to raise interest rates from record lows.
Futures markets <0#YIB;> slightly narrowed the odds of a hike in rates this year following the sales data and now imply around a 50-50 chance of a move by August. A rise from 1.5 percent is fully priced in by December.
The revival in sales burnished the outlook for gross domestic product growth in the fourth quarter, given household spending accounts for 58 percent of annual economic output.
Household consumption had expanded at its slowest pace since 2008 in the third quarter, marring an otherwise respectable annual growth outcome of 2.8 percent.
“The underlying consumer may be more resilient than we previously assumed,” said Diana Mousina, a senior economist at AMP Capital.
“There may be an upside risk that the Australian consumer may not act as such a large drag on the economy in 2018 as the consensus is currently assuming.”
THE COMING OF AMAZON
The data also showed rapid growth in online sales, which are only expected to take a bigger share as Amazon fully set up shop late last year and is rapidly expanding its offerings.
The ABS measure of online sales surged 22 percent in original terms in November to A$1.51 billion.
Anecdotal evidence from traditional retailers suggest they also had a better December holiday season than first feared, while surveys found a marked brightening in the consumer mood.
A survey from ANZ and Roy Morgan out this week showed confidence had improved to the best since late 2013. Notably, those saying they were “better off” financially picked up to 35 percent, helping offset concerns about slow wages growth. ($1 = 1.2702 Australian dollars) (Reporting by Wayne Cole; Editing by Paul Tait & Shri Navaratnam) | {
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NSR’s “Emerging Space Markets Analysis, 2nd Edition (ESMA2)” report tracked more than $17.8 billion invested in Emerging Space companies from 2000-2018 for the more than 600 companies founded over that period.
The Canadian Department of National Defence awarded a C$15 million contract to Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) for development of multipurpose microsatellites to support Arctic surveillance. | {
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Simply put, productivity growth refers to the growth in economic output per worker or more precisely, per hour of work. When this growth slows, the potential for real wage increases diminishes since the growth in wages typically reflects the ability of workers to create more output per unit of time.
To the obstensibly naive observer the following idea may seem a plausible explanation: Higher-cost energy inputs into the production of goods and services reduce productivity growth because the economic output per dollar of energy consumed declines. And, though energy inputs aren’t the only thing to consider, they are important. The high energy prices of the last decade or so may be, in part, responsible for low productivity growth. (Conversely, low energy costs would imply more output per dollar of energy consumed.)
But strangely, almost all economic models for productivity consider only so-called "tangible" factors, that is, labor and capital. In the bizarro world of modern economics, energy and materials are not considered "tangible."
Now, the way in which that productivity growth which is attributable to "technological advances" is typically calculated is to add up contributions to productivity growth from labor and capital (machines, buildings, vehicles, tools of any kind) and then subtract this sum from the known amount of total productivity growth. What is left is the so-called "residual" which is presumed to result from "technological advances" caused by increases in human knowledge. These advances and the increases in capital per worker are assumed to be the drivers of productivity growth.
Let me explain this from a slightly different angle: Obviously, if you work more hours, you will be more productive. But your output per hour will remain the same, barring some new input such as better, more efficient machines to work with or more efficient techniques, both resulting presumably from an increase in knowledge.
Note that there is no way to measure this "knowledge factor" directly. It is merely assumed that the unknown portion of productivity growth comes from "technological advancement."
But, energy researchers asked long ago whether productivity growth might be affected by changes in the quality and cost of energy inputs. Authors of a paper entitled "Energy and the U.S. Economy: A Biophysical Perspective" which appeared in Science in August 1984 noted the tight correlation between economic growth and energy consumption. They also noted that labor productivity increased with increasing energy consumption per employee. While not dismissing the effects of technological change, they believe that energy has had a central role in the persistent rise in labor productivity witnessed for most of the last century up to the time of publication:
From an energy perspective, productivity gains are facilitated by technical advances that enable laborers to empower their efforts with greater quantities of high-quality fuel embodied in and used by capital structures.
Notice the use of the term "embodied." The researchers recognized the energy necessary to produce the capital equipment used by workers. This is called the "embodied energy." The researchers also noted the following:
We found that in the U.S. manufacturing sector, output per worker-hour is closely related to the quantity of fuel used per worker-hour. A similar relation exists in the U.S. agricultural industry.
The mining sector also fit this pattern. While productivity per worker-hour has increased or, in some cases, merely stayed flat, the energy data showed just how much more energy was needed to achieve stable or growing productivity:
Technical improvements in the extractive sectors have made available previously uneconomic deposits only at the expense of more energy-intensive forms of capital and labor inputs. Physical output per kilocalorie of direct fuel input in the U.S. metal mining industries has declined 60 percent since 1939, although a few exceptions to that trend are known. The energy cost per ton of metal at the mine mouth for industrially important metals such as copper, aluminum, and iron has risen sharply as their average grade declined. For all U.S. mining industries (including fossil fuels), output per unit input of direct fuel declined 30 percent since 1939.
These findings suggest that fuel costs, fuel quality and fuel availability can be limiting factors in productivity across the economy. The idea that energy inputs used in production are central to productivity isn’t so counterintuitive after all. And yet, in a sampling of recent coverage of the productivity issue, not one piece mentioned energy. (See here, here, here and here.)
One of the authors of the research cited above, Charles A. S. Hall (now retired), says that the report’s findings need to be updated to see whether the relationships his team discovered still hold. It would seem wise to follow up given the exceptionally slow productivity growth associated with the period of rising energy prices before the crash in 2008 and to a certain extent with high average daily oil prices from 2011 through late 2014 (though, as one might expect, this is not even mentioned as a possible explanation in the piece cited.)
Whether such updated research would confirm the original findings can’t be known. Whether it would make any difference to mainstream productivity models is known. Such new findings will make no difference whatsoever until the economics profession recognizes the central role of energy in the productivity of the workforce.
Kurt Cobb is an author, speaker, and columnist focusing on energy and the environment. He is a regular contributor to the Energy Voices section of The Christian Science Monitor and author of the peak-oil-themed novel Prelude. In addition, he has written columns for the Paris-based science news site Scitizen, and his work has been featured on Energy Bulletin (now Resilience.org), The Oil Drum, OilPrice.com, Econ Matters, Peak Oil Review, 321energy, Common Dreams, Le Monde Diplomatique and many other sites. He maintains a blog called Resource Insights and can be contacted at [email protected]. | {
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Nisha Mehra
I work on definites and not possibilities, towards making things happen and getting results rather than giving dead-end answers. Every question has a possibility to go right or wrong, my job is to correct and cross the unwanted or make it work to your advantage. And something I say ever so often to those who consult me : Your Success is My Success. My work entitles for me to look into people's situation and offer guidance on the basis of the cards pulled put ! I combine Western and Eastern Astrology along with Numerology and Feng Shui to look into the situation with a microscopic view of where the problem lies. | {
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The Geography Blog focusing on all things geography: human, physical, technical, space, news, and geopolitics. Also known as Geographic Travels with Catholicgauze!
Written by a former National Geographic employee who also proudly served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
The United States of Angry People who Protest by Petitioning to Secede
Social media allows radicals to talk amongst themselves and inflate their message and numbers artificially. If one judged importance by mere number of websites or comments on a web forum then one could easily believe that Old Catholics, Continuing Anglicans, and Ron Paul are very serious forces in the world. However, they have little impact because people forget that fringes tend to be organized but overall numbers pale in comparison to silent majorities.
Such is the case with the petitions by upset conservatives claiming a desire to leave the United States because of the reelection of President Barack Obama. In reality these petitioners represent a very small number of actual citizens (Texas' petition has been signed by the equivalent of 0.3% of Texas' overall population). Overall this is mostly people venting their anger at Obama's win and not a true desire to leave the union. These petitions' existence are a non-story, much like the supposed desire of some in Vermont to reestablish the Republic of Vermont during the presidency of George W Bush.
A late night browsing of petitions revealed 41 states have petitions pertaining to leaving the union. The petition for Alaska merely asks for the right to vote on whether or not to leave the union, and Alaska is the only state with a quasi-serious independence party which actually won a statewide election. The states without a petition are the swing state of Iowa and the majority Democrat Party states of Hawaii, Washington, Iowa, Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine.
It is not so much Red State v. Blue State but you can find angry people who will copy a press-driven protest almost anywhere. Map created from 270towin.com
In semi-serious statehood news Puerto Ricans voted in a non-binding referendum for statehood compared to the traditional winner of status quo commonwealth and the never popular independence option. However, caveat this with the long stated desire of Puerto Ricans for statehood which is always matched by the their knowing they could never afford to be a state. The little reported news out of Puerto Rico was that at the same time of the referendum pro-statehood Governor Luis Fortuño lost reelection to pro-commonwealth/anti-statehood Alejandro García Padilla. Granted the election was very close and local issues did play a role, but none the less Puerto Rico voted for the status quo in reality while giving them a playful statehood pat-on-the-back. | {
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Airplane II - The Sequel (1982): 1:18:55 - 1:19:20 (1080p)
"Hello. We'd like you to have this flower. We're with the Church of Lunar Consciousness. Would you like to make a donation?"
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High Protein Diets: Meat Or Veg?
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High protein diets have been associated with better appetite control. Most studies have focused however on meat-based diets and there has been major concern that these diets have negative results in gut microbiome changes. They can be seen to increase hazardous metabolites and decrease the levels of cancer-protective metabolites. Researchers with the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition have investigated the effects of a vegetarian high protein diet and if it was also associated with good appetite control. This may have the potential to assist with weight loss whilst at the same time maintain gut health. The study looked at 20 obese men who followed High Protein diets, both meat-based and vegetarian, for two weeks at a time. The study found that there was no significant differences in appetite control and weight loss between the two diets. They were the able to conclude that a vegetarian high protein diet is as effective as a meat-based one, even better if you take into account gut health. Larger studies are still needed however to fully examine the extent of vegetarian high protein diets and its affects. | {
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Wednesday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
| 7/10/2013
› Polk County OK's Tax Abatement for Amazon[Lakeland Ledger] The deal gives 10 years of property tax incentives to Amazon, reducing its tax bill by 75 percent if the Seattle-based company decides to open a fulfillment center, as the company calls them, in Polk County.
› Hann Powerboats gets order from Air Force[Sarasota Herald-Tribune] Hann Powerboats Inc. has received a five-year blanket purchase agreement from the Air Force to provide high-performance towable target watercraft. Russell Hann, owner of the south Manatee County-based company, said he already has already supplied the Air Force with 52 of the boats.
› Margaritaville developer officially takes over city parcel[South Florida Sun-Sentinel] The developer of Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort took possession of the city-owned site Tuesday with the blessing of Hollywood officials. "The city has officially turned over the property," Hollywood spokeswoman Raelin Storey said. "It's incredibly exciting to see the redevelopment of this property." | {
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Section 1. K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 1-316
is hereby amended to read as
follows: 1-316. (a) It is unlawful for any person, except the
holder of a
valid permit issued under K.S.A. 1-310, and amendments
thereto, or any
firm, unless it is registered under the provisions of K.S.A. 1-308,
and
amendments thereto, to affix or cause to be affixed the signature
of any
such person or firm to any accounting or financial statement,
to any opin-
ion on, report on or certificate
to any accounting or financial statement
with any word indicating that such person or firm, or its members,
officers
or employees, are certified public accountants.
(b) It is unlawful for any person, except
the holder of a valid Kansas
certificate, to use or assume the title ``certified public
accountant'' or to
use the abbreviation ``C.P.A.'' or any other title, designation,
words, let-
ters, abbreviation, sign, card, or device likely
to be confused with ``certi-
fied public accountant.''
(c) Except as provided by this
subsection, no person holding a permitor firm holding a registration under this act shall use a
professional orfirm name or designation that is misleading as to: (1) The
legal form ofthe firm; (2) the persons who are partners, officers, members,
managersor shareholders of the firm; or (3) any other matter. The names
of one ormore former partners, members or shareholders may be included
in thename of a firm or its successor. The use of a fictitious name
by a firm ispermissible if the fictitious name is registered with the board
and is nototherwise misleading. The name of a firm may not include the
name ofan individual who is neither a present nor a past partner,
member orshareholder of the firm or its predecessor.
(c)(d) Any
person who violates any provision of this section shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be
subject to
a fine of not more than $500, or to imprisonment for not more than
one
year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 1-316 is
hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
I hereby certify that the above BILL originated in the
HOUSE, and passed that body | {
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I tried to simulate memory warning on iOS Simulator and it turned out that when the app was in the background, the function didn't get called at that moment, but after the app became active again that the applicationDidReceiveMemoryWarning was being called.
When tested with Instrument:Activity Monitor, my app didn't release any memory when in the background while the other apps memory consumption were getting less.
However, if I call applicationDidReceiveMemoryWarning via applicationDidEnterBackground, the memory get released correctly, but I don't want to release memory at this stage though.
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Unfortunately, what you want to do is discouraged by Apple in the iOS App Programming Guide. An app briefly enters the background, allowing you to free up memory. After that, the app is suspended and cannot receive messages, except applicationWillTerminate. If a low-memory warning fires, the operating system kills suspended apps as needed. | {
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
In this 5-minute video, Dr. Christos Kolias, Senior Research Scientist at Orange Silicon Valley and one of the founding members of the NFV initiative within ETSI, introduces the basic concepts and objectives of network functions virtualisation. An ETSI meeting is underway this week in Bonn, Germany to further advance the initiative.
NFV, in a nutshell, is about implementing and running network functions and services purely in software, on commoditized servers. The NFV vision is summarized as being able to operate in an environment where most if not of all of telecom boxes have given way to software-based solutions.
Back in fall of 2012, a number of operators got together and decided to form an industry specifications group under the European telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in order to pursue the development of NFV. The clear objective and mandate of the group is to produce a set of requirements (as laid by the operators) and an overall specifications framework that could lead to further standardization efforts - but the latter is a sought goal of this group. Other goals include the exposure of use cases and the in-lab development of Proofs-of-concepts. | {
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Walk into the restaurant like you’re making an entrance; it’s literally your show and not hers.
When you walk into a restaurant, you walk in with complete and utter confidence. And when you see a waitress that you find the most attractive, walk right directly over to her and say something immediately.
Don’t wait, don’t hesitate, and don’t do what most dudes do.
She’ll say, “Evening boys” or something like that.
I’ll look at her and say, “Yes it is. Come. Let’s sit down. Let’s eat. What are we going to have tonight?”
Immediately I’m subconsciously asking her out on a date, playing with her.
She’ll say something like, “Ah, I wish.”
“Really, you wish? Fine. If I were a genie I’d make your wish come true. Where’s your manager?”
“Why?”
“Just show me your manager.”
So then she’ll point to her manager.
I’ll say, “Great. You’ll be eating dinner with me by the end of the night.”
So then I go sit down. She comes over and takes our order. I asked her what she likes. Flirt a little bit more. Then when she leaves with the order, I go over to the manager.
I walk up to him and say, “Eric…”
Eric looks at me like he’s supposed to know me even though we’ve never met before.
“Your waitress, Amy, is amazing. Best service in the world. And I’ve got to tell you something: the second we walked in, we felt absolutely fantastic. I love that, because I go out to eat all the time, and most service really stinks, so good job on your staff; good picks too.”
At some point she’ll come back to the table and ask, “What did you say to my manager?”
“Why?”
“Well because he wants to buy you guys a round of drinks. And I go on my break in five minutes…”
When you approach directly with confidence, you’re going to be able to connect with the waitress in ways that you’ve never connected with her before.
It’s strong; it’s powerful; it shows conviction, and it shows that you know how to run the show and that’s what women are looking for. Women love when you run the show because they feel they are amongst a strong man.
She’ll come back to your table a few more times. She’ll bring the drinks. You’ll be old friends. Eric will come over. You’ll have social proof because the manager likes you also.
Now go out there and try it. Only a strong, fearless, magnetic, confident guy is going to go pull this off and that guy needs to be you.
I am Mariam used every single spell worker on the internet, spent untold amounts of money and discovered they are all fakesi was the fool though; doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. In the end, I decided that I wanted a tarot reading to know what my future held for me; I contacted a woman who lives locally to me and she told me about a man named (priests Abija); he does not advertise on the internet, has another job for income, has no set prices, makes no false promises and refuses to help anyone that cannot be helped and even helps
for free sometimes, he will give you proof before taking money. He is a wonderful man and he was the only person who actually gave me real results. I really hope he doesnt mind me advertising his contact on the internet but Im sure any help/ extra work will benefit him.contact him as [email protected] He travel some times . love marriage,finance, job promotion ,gambling voodoo,lottery Voodoo,poker voodoo,golf Voodoo,Law & Court case Spells,money voodoo,weigh loss voodoo,any sicknesses voodoo,Trouble in marriage,its all he does Hope this helps everyone that is in a desperate situation as I once was; I know how it feels to hold onto something and never have a chance to move on because of the false promises and then to feel trapped in wanting something
Heck, sure, why not. But, I will come down with a couple of my girlfriends. I am not so nuts as to just show up alone and meet dudes from the internet in another state. I mean, John- you are the one who pointed out exactly how my identity would get stolen so I am sure you understand.
Howdy Hans. Yeah, been steady driving for two days. been reading the blog on my phone. why y’all giving Mel such a hard time? You can’t expect her to find a guy From the first three or four she meets. I have been out with dozens of women since my divorce 5 years ago and there is not one of them that I wanted to make pemanent. I just look at dating as an adventure and never expect to meet the perfect woman. some are worth keeping around for a while others I ditch as quick as I see them. gotta have the abundance mentality. I’m over on the east side near Melbourne. you have probably heard of Cocoa Beach I am near there.
John have you use all your vacation? you live near Mel don’t you? bring her down here for me. We’lll all go out and have a blast
Will be at my Florida pad tonight. Time to get ready for some pool parties And some sailfishing in my new boat. Looks like this strng is going to break 200. It has been an interesting read. Now I know why it is so easy for me to find women…
” It has been an interesting read. Now I know why it is so easy for me to find women”
Haha. For the record, I have NOT talked about poking my holes, or about math flubs, or Biggest Nerd Awards, or about the mathematics of dating odds and axe murderers, when I am around a woman. I just do that kind of thing to have fun with the goofballs on this site
Hey, your picture is standing on its side. I just want to grab it and set it right side up. It’s driving me nuts. Argh.
Err, wow! OK you win Melissa. You and your friends do indeed surround yourselves with shitty guys and I should stop defending them. There are two kinds of men – those you date and sleep with, and those you complain to about how shitty all the men you date and sleep with are ;). Unfortunately for me I am still the latter.
FYI though I am a relentless optimist and like to focus on the positive. I could just as easily say the most characteristic moment for MichiGander was when we went hiking, and I would keep climbing ahead and hold out my hand to hoist her up, and she would keep going nope I am not the hand holding lift needing type. Or I could tell you about the one who is never speaking to me again (I keep running into her over and over again) because there was this one time I didn’t notice her and say hi to her when I came in. Or the one who sent over 50 pages of texts and emails before our first date on topics ranging from european history to science fiction to astrology to her disastrous track record to breaking necks to war propaganda to … . Or I could tell you I am very frustrated right now because I have been working on myself for A YEAR, and I am doing SO many things right it’s unbelievable, and bottom line is I am looking at a summer of zero prospects and zero upcoming prospects – exactly where I started.
Overall though here is where we differ – I tend to pick ones who are some combination of competitive athlete and rocket scientist, and completely unavailable / impossible to claim. I swear I don’t do this on purpose, I just go by who I vibe with.
“I tend to pick ones who are some combination of competitive athlete and rocket scientist, and completely unavailable / impossible to claim. I swear I dont do this on purpose, I just go by who I vibe with.”
See Techno….we are back to the pick or get picked problem. Women get picked, if we are playing our roles right. And if you are a nice girl, “giving a guy a chance”, not judging a book by anything superficial, you have to talk to a guy a bit and apparently, that’s when the creeper comes out.
And for the record? We do NOT surround ourselves with losers. At least not on purpose. I live in an affluent area. I have dated men from all income brackets and walks of life. From 30-50. My friends and I have met men through online dating, out and about, Meetups, classes, whatever…we are not meeting men only outside of seedy strip clubs.
The only common denominiator is the fact that they are all….. men. The only conclusion I can come to is that only BAD guys approach women when out and about. Only BAD guys try online dating…while the good guys, maybe a little shy and intimidated, stay home alone, or have married their HS sweetheart or meet women through friends.
It seriously seems impossible, there HAS to be some decent guys out there…there just HAS to be.
Interesting twist on that. It turns out MichiGirl technically picked me first. I’m a regular at two places she goes to and she was actually spying on me for weeks before she happened to be standing next to me when I was looking for a dance. I was totally clueless though – I thought I was the one calling the shots the whole time. She is good at this game I think ;).
“If the man is the head of the household, then the woman is the neck, turning the head to whichever direction she chooses.”
Some more details on how MichiGirl picked me, Melissa. Grab your notepad, because this WILL be on the final exam, guaranteed:
She spied on me for a while and saw me interacting with a lot of people and helping out behind the scenes, so she knew that I was safe and couldn’t possibly be an alcoholic ex drug dealing axe murderer freak.
She was looking straight at me with a big smile when I was looking for a partner. She was NOT chatting with her buddies, or staring at a screen or into space, or hiding in the corner, OR approaching me and asking me to dance with her. Now if you are in my shoes who are you going to ask for the next dance? Right, her. Duh.
At the end of the dance, she did not turn around and run off to the next partner. She was waiting for me to do that first. So instead we just ended up chatting for a while and swapped numbers. She made that part easy, too. Just wouldn’t turn around and leave me alone until I was done closing her, the stubborn thing
John, rounding off numbers for simplicity, that is exactly what Lehman did…
What bothers me more is the percentage of axe murderers, which you put at 10. Do they get Obamacare as well ?
Anyway, reading about Melissa’s friends and their experiences is rather interesting. I am now thinking about all the male people I have met through the years. There are many, in many countries. I am thinking about how many of these guys could be described as decent guys, and who could be somebody a woman would want, as a partner, somebody who would be a real addition to a woman’s life. I am fast scanning my memory, and that is where it becomes harrowing. Because it is like using an anti-virus scanner on your computer: it sifts through millions of files, and in the end, you have a list of a handful of potential threats. The vast majority of women I know tell me that their partner is more like an additional child. My own mother has been telling me that about my dad for the last 30 years. I know many guys, especially guys in their forties, who have somehow decided to put their personal and professional development on hold and wait until retirement before coming back to life. A lot of them revert to alcohol and growing blubber bellies. I am now thinking about an example of a guy whom I believe a women would definitely adore, and I can only come up with some fictional character from a movie: Daniel Day Lewis in ‘The Last of the Mohicans’, most of you probably know that movie. He has humor, wit, intelligence, integrity, he protects the woman, protects his friends, and he pretty much does everything right. Obviously it is just a movie, but I can see Melissa’s point. It seems to me that most women, and most of those I know actually are in relationships, just put up with a guy, for lack of alternative. My general observation is that the root of the problem is most likely that women have gone through a rather fast forward development in the last few decades, while most guys have not.
That said, my guess is that most of the guys on this forum are really decent guys. Now if you believe what I just said, that most women are not happy in their current relationships, that widens the pool of potential candidates enormously. A ring doesn’t mean a thing !
Hans.. they only get Obamacare if they refuse to work another job. (Besides axe murdering)
Since axe murdering is a fairly low paying career, then yes, I believe they would be entitled to free healthcare paid for by me.. umm. I mean the taxpayers.
(Unless they recieved an exorbitant bonus based on the number of people they axe murdered.. then they would have to pay for their own healthcare insurance as mandated by the Obama administration, or face a $5000.00 tax penalty, plus the axe murdering bonus would be taxed at a rate of 35%.)
You are totally right. When I was out with my friends Friday night, my one girlfriend (in her 40s) was talking about her boyfriend and how “relationships are work” and how bummed she was that the night of their anniversary they got a hotel room and she ordered champagne and got all dressed up and wanted to go out and he just wanted to stay in the hotel and watch tv.
What anniversary you ask?? Their SIX MONTH anniversary. Whhhoooooo hooooo…sign me up.
So. Again. I can’t remember what I want a dude for…hence the continuing boy-tox. | {
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Why anti-john laws don’t work
Laws that decriminalize sex workers while criminalizing purchasers haven’t been effective in Sweden.
A young woman works the corner of Gerrard and Jarvis Streets. (Oct. 21, 2009)
By:Lisa M. Kelly and Katrina Pacey Published on Wed Oct 19 2011
The Ontario Court of Appeal is due to release its decision on the constitutionality of Canada’s criminal laws around adult prostitution. Last year, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down these laws, finding that they significantly contribute to danger for sex workers. If the current laws are unconstitutional, what comes next for the regulation of prostitution in Canada?
Conservative MP Joy Smith has one answer: more criminal law. Smith’s campaign to criminalize the purchase of sexual services reflects a crusade by conservatives, evangelical Christians and some feminist organizations to import Swedish prostitution laws to Canada. These laws decriminalize sex workers while criminalizing purchasers (clients). The purchase of sexual services is not currently illegal in Canada. The Swedish model aims to eliminate the sex industry by “ending demand” for prostitution. In this imaginary scenario, criminal sanctions will eliminate clientele for commercial sex and thereby end sexual exploitation.
Measured on its own terms, the Swedish model has proven ineffective and harmful. In Sweden and other Nordic countries that have adopted such legislation, prostitution has not been eliminated, only reshuffled. Sociological research in Sweden has shown a significant shift from street-based to online sexual advertising since the law was adopted in 1999.
What did these laws accomplish? They made sex work more dangerous. In recent research from the University of Leiden, Swedish sex workers report having to rely more on third parties (agents, pimps or helpers) because clients are nervous about direct contact with workers. Street-based workers report having to work in more isolated areas and to rush transactions, increasing their danger.
If Canada adopts the Swedish model, we can expect a disproportionately negative impact on street-based sex workers, the most vulnerable workers in the sex industry. Since the mid-1980s, street-based transactions have accounted for the lion’s share of prostitution-related charges in Canada. As many urban areas face the pressures of gentrification, street-based sex workers and their clients, homeless persons, and street-based drug users and sellers become common targets of police sweeps. “Not in my backyard” campaigns result in street-based sex workers and their clients being much more heavily policed than indoor sex workers. Criminalizing purchasers of sexual services would force street-based workers to continue to resort to furtive and isolated transactions with clients who are seeking to avoid arrest.
And herein lies the hypocrisy of the prohibitionist campaign. Advocates of “ending demand” claim the moral high ground by asserting that their efforts to eliminate commercial sex are motivated by a desire to end sexual exploitation and to protect women. But the evidence suggests that the Swedish approach in fact increases dangers for a significant proportion of these women.
Prohibitionists calling for the adoption of the Swedish model reduce all sex workers to victims and all clients to perpetrators. They gloss over a diverse industry that includes independent home-based sex workers, street-based survival sex workers and male and female escorts. This is inconsistent with the diverse experiences of Canadian sex workers, some of whom feel exploited while others do not.
Coercion and exploitation in markets is not unique to sex work. Yet in no other service industry are concerns about exploitation met with proposals to outlaw demand. The commercial sex industry is singled out because it is still subject to moral disdain and stigma. This moralism and stigma costs lives.
We all want to end exploitation and coercion in the sex industry and to address the social conditions that leave some women and men with few choices other than to engage in sex work. But continuing the failed and misguided experiment of criminalization is not the answer.
Let us instead support the efforts of Canadian sex workers to fully decriminalize the adult sex industry and secure safer working conditions. In order to end exploitation and coercion in the sex industry, we should focus on social and legal reforms that will make a meaningful difference for all vulnerable workers: labour and employment protections, increased social assistance rates, affordable housing and child-care programs, accessible mental health and substance abuse treatment, immigration protections for migrant workers, and ongoing resistance to sexism, racism and other forms of oppression. Evidence-based policies, not ideological reactions, will address the real harms to workers in and beyond the sex industry.
If we identified the underlying social and economic causes of vulnerability and exploitation, we may be inspired to undertake far more transformative measures than the doomed criminal law project of “end demand.”
Lisa M. Kelly, a Trudeau Scholar, is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School and a Fellow in the International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Program at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law.
Katrina Pacey is litigation director at Pivot Legal Society in Vancouver and counsel in the constitutional challenge to prostitution laws currently underway in British Columbia.
On Oct. 20, the International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Program at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law will host an afternoon panel discussion on “The Myths of ‘Ending Demand’ for Prostitution.” | {
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Northwest RVing
The Northwest RVing Blog site is hosted by MHRV (Manufactured Housing and Recreational Vehicle) Show Association. Each year, MHRV presents two important trade shows in the greater Seattle area to promote and display the RV Lifestyle. We are all about RVing and hope you will enjoy the many articles posted here about RVing in general and about our upcoming shows.
Exploring the RV Lifestyle - Getting Ready
As someone who is very involved in RV Shows and promoting the RV Lifestyle, I must admit that I have only been RVing for a short weekend several years ago. Traveling with a friend, we had such a great time and talk about it to this day. We decided last Fall that it would be fun to take a longer trip and really experience RVing and the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. As I investigated RV rentals, one of the MHRV dealers, Tacoma RV, offered to lend us their “employee” motorhome for a week. It's used to encourage their employees to venture out and gain direct experience of what it’s like to travel and camp in an RV so they are better informed with customers. How fortunate we were to have this opportunity to travel in a 29-foot Class C Coach!
RV Adventuring - What If You Need Help?
The Pacific Northwest offers such a wide array of geographic areas to explore. You can head west to the Ocean, east to the Rocky Mountains, southeast to the Oregon desert and north to remote areas along the Canadian border. In between you have Puget Sound, the Willamette Valley, the Cascade Mountains, several national parks, designated wilderness areas, lakes, mountain streams, volcanic peaks and so much more on which to recreate.
The recreational opportunities you can enjoy are practically endless. There is hiking, biking, mountain climbing, ATVing, fishing, hang gliding, skiing, bouldering, boating, snowmobiling, Geocaching and white water rafting to name a few.
But what happens when you twist an ankle, become lost, your bike breaks, you are caught in a freak storm, stuck above a cliff or become hypothermic during a storm (etc.) when you are far from your vehicle?
Should I Use Solar For My RV?
You probably already know this because everyone is talking about it. RV solar panels are devices that convert sunlight into electricity for running equipment in your RV. They usually are mounted to the roof of your coach to capture the sunlight and send a charge to your batteries. This a great way to save energy and maximize your battery life, but is it right for you?
Don't Wake the Baby - Life After Bedtime
Anyone who has had children knows the struggle that can come with putting your baby to bed. Once they finally doze off to sleep you will do anything to avoid waking them up. Whispering, tiptoeing, or holding your breath sound familiar? That’s definitely been the case with our son. Bedtime can be a challenge no matter where you are. Putting your baby to bed in an RV may seem no different than putting them to bed at home except for one key thing: there’s no door! While RVs offer great spaces that function as extra sleeping quarters, to call these actual bedrooms would require a physical door closing off the space. With curtains that often provide privacy for these areas, doors are not a necessity in RVs. But when it comes to your baby’s sleeping area, the challenge lies in the fact that there is no door to cancel out noise or darken the space. So once your baby is put down for a nap or early bed time, how do you continue to enjoy yourself or use your RV without waking your precious little one?
Filling Up the Toyhauler
Two new partnerships were formed at this year's Puyallup RV Show; a new presenting sponsorship with TwinStar Credit Union and a charitable partnership with Emergency Food Network (EFN). A special promotion to "Fill the Toyhauler" was introduced asking people to bring non-perishable food items and place them in the toyhauler just inside the gate. Food items would go to EFN while the Puyallup RV Show (MHRV Show Association) along with TwinStar Credit Union would match these donations pound for pound. The promotion helped support EFN's May Hunger Awareness Month in Pierce County. | {
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Durant claims national award
Posted: Monday, April 02, 2007
ATLANTA - Kevin Durant became the first freshman to be awarded the Naismith Trophy as college basketball's Men's Player of the Year Sunday.
The University of Texas swingman, who led the Big 12 in scoring, rebounds and blocked shots, was chosen by the Atlanta Tipoff Club's board of selectors, a group that includes basketball journalists, coaches and administrators. Fan voting also accounted for 25 percent of the selection for the third straight year.
The 6-foot-9 Durant was the only player to rank in the top 10 nationally in both scoring and rebounding. He was fourth in both with an average of 25.8 ppg. and 11.1 rpg. He was also second nationally with 20 double-doubles this season.
"Kevin has enjoyed an incredible season, not only with personal success but in how he helped elevate his team,'' said Gary Stokan, president of the Atlanta Tipoff Club. "To think he accomplished everything as a freshman is just all the more impressive.''
'Big Ball' package
Ohio State coach Thad Matta has a name for the package when Florida coach Billy Donovan wants to go huge across his front line.
Donovan will sometimes use 6-foot-11 Joakim Noah, 6-10 Al Horford and 6-9 Chris Richard on the floor at the same time, giving the Gators an NBA-like front line.
"Well, it's something that they use," Matta said. "I guess we call it the 'Big Ball' package. The thing that makes it so great is you've got two guys outside that can shoot the basketball as proficient as Lee Humphrey and Taurean Green. Those guys can all finish inside. They get great rebounding position when they do that." | {
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Go back 360 million years in the past into the Carboniferous Era. Where the oxygen is double what it is today. This resulted in hyper plant growth and hyper insect growth. Step through the time travel portal and prepare for what lies ahead!...[Read More] | {
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The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Hot Air Baboons
In the fifth adventure of this popular young graphic-novel series perfect for fans of Captain Underpants and the Lunch Lady series, our bucktoothed heroes are up against a band of baboon bandits.
It's winter break, and Ace and Bub are hitting the slopes! But their ski session is interrupted by a sudden influx of . . . swimming pools? A band of enterprising baboons has graced Beaver Island with the Easy Breeze, a giant hair dryer designed to melt all the snow off the mountains and channel it into swimming pools. The residents of Beaver Island are over the moon about their new relaxation stations, but Ace and Bub don't trust these monkeys any farther than they can ski down a hill with no snow. Can they uncover the baboons' real plan before their neighbors become too attached to the summery island makeover?
With environmental themes, laugh-out-loud humor, and fast-paced adventures, the Flying Beaver Brothers are sure to fly off bookshelves! | {
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How to manage the mess with overnight guests
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You enjoy having overnight guests during the holidays — but you don’t welcome the disorder that it brings to your house.
We asked some of the nation’s most experienced hostesses for tips on keeping order in a full house. Surprisingly, it all comes down to planning ahead. Come along as Eugenia Smirnova, innkeeper at The Gingerbread Mansion in Ferndale California, and Judy Hotchkiss, innkeeper at Prospect Hill Bed and Breakfast Inn in Mountain City, Tennessee, show us, room-by-room, how to take the “guest work” out of hosting overnight guests.
Place a welcome mat outside entry doors so guests can wipe their shoes before setting foot in the house. Add a longer “walk off” mat inside for extra cleaning.
Keep floors clean by placing a shoe tray next to the door to corral snow-crusted boots, rainy day galoshes and muddy shoes, says Hotchkiss.
Prevent “coat-litter” by taking care of coats and scarves as guests enter. Hang them on a coat rack, coat hooks or in a nearby closet, she adds.
In the guest bedroom
Keep bed-making simple by using comforters (they make up fast and easy) and a couple pillows (one soft and one firm). Placing eight throw pillows on a bed is only asking for work — from guests and from you.
Same goes for surfaces. Remove all clutter so guests can use dresser tops to hold their own stuff. Clutter-free surfaces are easier to clean.
Give guests closet and dresser space, if possible, add Smirnova. This is a sure way to keep a room neat.
Every guest room should have a wastebasket to keep trash and tissues off the floor.
Smirnova suggests storing rolled cloths in one basket and provide another for used cloths. Once a day, collect the soiled cloths for laundering.
She also suggests using liquid hand soap instead of bar soap at the sink, and using liquid bath soap in the shower. It’s more hygienic and not as messy as bar soap.
We all know how annoying it is to find make-up stains on facecloths and towels. Nip that problem in the bud by providing disposable make-up remover cloths in each bathroom — and make sure to point them out to guests.
There should be a clothes hamper in each bathroom for dirty clothes and linens, says Smirnova. This keeps towels off the floor and makes collecting laundry a breeze.
In the living room
Use baskets in the living room to hold cozy throws, magazines and the TV/DVD remote controls. You can straighten a room in no time when everything has a place.
Type out basic instructions on how to use the TV remote control. This saves you time explaining it to guests, plus it spares you aggravation of getting the TV back to normal after they leave.
Turn in your waiter’s apron and make guests feel at home with DIY beverages and snacks. Set up a beverage station so guests can make their own drinks. Include the everything they’ll need for coffee, tea, cocoa or bottled drinks, says Smirnova.
Put out a basket of snacks (fruits, individual cheeses, crackers, nuts, cookies) to satisfy guests between meals. This frees you to enjoy their company instead of worrying about keeping their bellies full. Keep wastebaskets in every room for wrappers and peelings.
Finally, if guests want to help in the kitchen, let them! Just make sure the task is simple. | {
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The SmartEQTM Pro is a fully computerized mount with a database of 59,000 objects. It offers the next generation GOTO technology from iOptron. The Go2NovaTM Hand Controller is intuitive with a large LCD screen, with which you can easily set up your telescope and select where you want to navigate.
The Pro also features: metal gear, guiding port, and a polar scope.
The SmartEQTM Pro is universally compatible with any tubes using a Vixen-style dovetail connection, making it useful for beginners as well as hobbyists with multiple tubes. | {
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Welcome Families!
We are delighted to welcome you to the IUPUI Jaguar Family! The years of your student’s college career will be rewarding, challenging, and memorable. As parents, family members, and supporters we realize you will walk alongside them during these years that will change their lives. We recognize you may have questions about the journey your student is embarking on at IUPUI, and we are here to help. | {
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Video
Posted on: April 09, 2014
Hire When Ready
As volume increases, so does the need for labor. Industry consultant and long-time JLC Live presenter Leslie Shiner talks with JLC chief editor Sal Alfano about the right time to hire. They also discuss how to prevent scope creep with a simple jobsite change order process. | {
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We can, like Mushtaq Ahmed, spin it both ways. We could herald the first half of the summer of 2007 as a minor triumph. Michael Vaughan resumes the captaincy and races past Peter May as the England captain with the most victories to his name. West Indies are walloped 3-0. Yet another series win after that little hiccup Down Under. Peter Moores is embedded as coach and gives fresh momentum to slick, sleek Team England. And all these riches come without the presence of the great all-rounder Andrew Flintoff.
Or we might conclude that no England side could have failed to beat a dreadful West Indies Test team, whose incompetence was exacerbated by no practice, injuries, arctic conditions during their trek around the northern shires and a board back home who haven't a clue. England could bowl like novices and still win.
Then when the white ball came into play we saw England in their true colours: a motley collection of county journeymen and non-achieving Test stars were beaten 2-1 in the NatWest series. England could not realistically claim to be a half-decent one-day team, although that does not usually stop them trying.
For the moment, I lean towards the latter interpretation. However, the series against India should help to decide whether any progress is being made. India are hardly on the crest of a wave, but a side featuring Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman and Sourav Ganguly provide a Test challenge way beyond that offered by West Indies, or, to be more precise, the heroic Shivnarine Chanderpaul. And the law of averages demands that they will have the advantage of playing some cricket in sunshine.
Given the outcome of the West Indies Test series, the England selectors are unlikely to surprise us this morning. There is a problem with Steve Harmison who has a recurrence of his hernia injury. David Graveney said that Harmison will be reassessed on Monday before adding that he was 'extremely doubtful' for the Test, in which case James Anderson is the likely replacement in the final XI. An additional paceman will be named in a squad of 13.
Andrew Strauss is under more pressure for his place than anyone. The fact that he was chosen to lead the England Lions (the A team under another name) against India at Chelmsford is surely more a warning shot than a vote of confidence.
Strauss did hit 77 in the final match against West Indies at the Riverside, his first half-century in 10 Test knocks, but the way he scratched around in the second innings suggested that the gremlins are still with him. They will be loath to omit him for three reasons: he is a trusted veteran now of 40 Tests; he is a good bloke; there is no obvious like-for-like replacement in the wings so that his omission would cause ripples of change that most teams like to avoid.
England could draft in Strauss's Middlesex colleague Owais Shah or Essex's Ravi Bopara, but neither is an opener. If they do, Vaughan would have to revert to opening the batting, hardly a radical change, but not ideal as England's captain completes his rehabilitation. The one long-term replacement at the top of the order, if the Strauss slump continues, might be his old partner, Marcus Trescothick.
But the earliest that Trescothick could conceivably return as a Test opener is in Kandy in December and there are many hurdles to overcome before that is possible. Somerset's director of cricket, Brian Rose, urges caution in the knowledge that there is no space for any more touring setbacks. Even Trescothick was suitably measured about his inclusion in the preliminary Twenty20 squad for September's World Cup in South Africa. As it happens, Trescothick has been far more prolific in the longer game this summer.
The other place up for discussion is that of Ryan Sidebottom. Unlike Strauss, he has done nothing wrong. At the Riverside he took five wickets in the first innings and he ended the series with 16 at a highly respectable average of 21.
The question marks over Sidebottom are whether his style of bowling will function in the future on subcontinental tours - this winter England are in Sri Lanka in December and New Zealand, where he could be effective, in March - and the perennial problem of who bats at eight.
It did not take Duncan Fletcher long to decide that he would never take to the field with three number 11s in his team (as in Devon Malcolm, Alan Mullally and Phil Tufnell). With Sidebottom playing - as he should be at the moment - Moores' team have four number 10s, hardly ideal.
So one of Harmison (or Anderson), Matthew Hoggard, Ryan Sidebottom and Monty Panesar, all of whom bat at 10 or 11 in county cricket, will have to bat at eight in a Test match. Forget the propaganda of a few months ago; Panesar will never be a bona fide Test number eight. Moores is sufficiently pragmatic to recognise that this balance cannot be sustained indefinitely, but it may have to do for Lord's.
There are potential number eights on the sidelines, who are not ready or sufficiently reliable: Liam Plunkett, Stuart Broad and, here's one to keep the romantics happy, Adil Rashid, the Yorkshire wrist spinner. For the moment Sidebottom is a better bet.
One intriguing element of the series will be to see how the teams fare, given the contrasting nature of their backroom staffs. England now have Andy Flower and Allan Donald, both highly impressive men as well as cricketers, alongside Moores. India, despite all their resources, are still looking for the man to succeed Greg Chappell as coach.
Dilip Vengsarkar, their chief selector, is travelling with the team throughout the tour. But essentially India will operate in the old-fashioned way with the captain and his senior players in charge. They have a quartet of thirtysomethings in their squad with vast experience: Dravid, Tendulkar and Ganguly are all 34, Anil Kumble is 36. Is a high-powered, influential coach essential in the modern era or can a group of senior players still run the show effectively? Again I lean towards the latter. | {
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
I have spent some time (probably not enough, though) studying this holiday that everyone remembers, and here are just some of the facts about how it started.
The first thanksgiving celebration in what would become known as "America" happened on September 8, 1565. A Spanish explorer named Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed in Florida. He was grateful to have arrived safely, and held a feast of giving thanks with a group of the Timucua native Americans. They stuffed themselves with a bean soup. In 1820, the Timucua became extinct, thanks to European diseases and invasion warfare.
In the "Commonwealth of Virginia," thanksgiving feasts and celebrations are recorded from as early as May 14, 1607. Captain John Woodlief declared, "the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned for plantacon in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God." I haven't found the reason for it, but 9 people there, and about a third of the colony population, were killed by the Powhatan Indians in 1622.
"The First Thanksgiving, 1621" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.
Pilgrims never wore such clothes, and the northeast region
natives never wore these great plains styles.
The story we all think we know from Massachusetts isn't much different. The Pilgrims were NOT Puritans. They were a political group of English Separatists. (The Puritans had settled nearby, where Boston is now, but were not part of this story.) All but about 50 of the Pilgrims died over the winter of 1620. The survivors only lived because the Wampanoag Indian tribe taught them how to plant, gather, and preserve foods. After their fall harvest in 1621, they celebrated a feast of thanksgiving. The food was deer taken in the forest by natives, fowl raised by the Pilgrims, natural nuts from the forest, seafood, and various harvested grains. The celebration lasted 3 days. Within 20 years, the Wampanoag were nearly wiped out by the combination of disease and the Pilgrims' belief that they had the right to take over the land.
Native elders rarely saw any of the true Christian settlers who followed a highly desirable "spirit-man" named Jesus. Christian leaders rarely saw natives who started every day by giving thanks to Creator for life, and celebrated every gift from him. Neither understood the other. Only a few of both sides truly loved God with heart, soul, and mind. On the rare occasions when they faced each other through the love of God, they lived in peace.
All Americans should know the truths about the Thanksgiving holiday. (And I'll tell you now, I have only scratched the surface here.) We should learn from its history, then we should let that history pass. It was good in some ways, and evil in others. But what about today?
Today, just make it a holiday of giving thanks to God for whatever blessing you have received, and for bringing you through whatever hardships you have faced. God loves every person to the point that he gave his only Son, that through the cross all could accept his love. Meet your neighbors with that love, and share your thanksgiving.
Who do we hate? Who do we ignore? If we are truly saved by and living for Jesus Christ, we can't hate or ignore anyone. What are we missing? What do we have? Whatever our conditions may be, whether the table is loaded or light, give thanks to God for the greatest gift he has given, Jesus Christ, and reach out with the love from that gift to everyone else.
"Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else. And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!" (2 Corinthians 9.10-15)
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Father, this morning I'm feeling low. No, not low. Feeling so bad it would need a word that's been cleaned from my vocabulary. Why do I feel so bad this morning? I'm not hurting anywhere. I got a great night's sleep. I went to the doctor's office yesterday, and after they took their blood tests, he told me how great the numbers were. Everything going on around me is working fine (except that I have to go to work, I guess). And everything I'm being told is good news. So what's up?
I start the next wave of treatments next Monday morning, but I thought that was under control. We've been through that. The doctor told me he didn't expect I would have any problems. I took this drug for a month, and had no side effects. My blood numbers didn't go down at all, even with the radiation along with it. So now I get to take the drug for just five days. Then take 23 days off before taking it again.
Well, the stuff IS a poison after all. Yeah, I know. I've got a Chemistry degree. I've seen what this chemical is. I know what it does to cancer cells, and how it does it. I also know it does the same to a bunch of the other cells in the body. My body. The doc said that during the 23 days after taking it, the good cells will rebuild, because the body cares about them and will replace them. The cancer cells-- If they're there at all, and we know they're not.-- They won't be replaced, because they're not connected to the body. My body.
But now the dose is being doubled, since the radiation is done. And if the doctor thinks I'm looking OK, he may increase it even more. Yeah. More poison if I'm doing good.
I've been through so much with this, Father. You have strengthened me and led me through all of it.
OK. Yeah, I remember. That first message you gave me through another leader. "You'll come through it. But you have to go through all of it." When I heard it, it sounded alright, but I didn't get it right away. Then-- when my self-reliance was torn down to nothing and my reliance on you replaced it-- I understood. In everything... Everything!... I had to learn to put it all on you. Fear and courage. Worry and confidence. Pain and pleasure. Suffering and relief. Anger and attraction. Hatred and love. Sorrow and joy. All on you, Father. I learned about praying these things, and truly leaving them at your feet. At the cross of Jesus Christ. Your son. My Lord and (in ways I'll never fully understand) my perfect brother.
So Father, you're telling me I'm not all the way there yet. Will I ever be? No? But oh-- OK-- I will always grow in my faith and trust and confidence and love and all those other ways in you, for the rest of my life. Right now it's the trust thing. Yes, Father. I trust you will get me through these next six months of treatments, and the recovery time after them. And I trust that my trust and faith and trust and confidence and trust will be stronger than I can imagine. Already stronger in you now, than I ever knew I could be. Yet I know it's just the beginning of what you have in mind for me, so you can fulfill what you have called me to do for you and for your Kingdom.
So here I am, back at the Cross. I see and feel your perfect love flowing into and around me, from my loving Saviour who sacrificed himself on it, for me. I love you, Lord, with all my feelings, all my being, all my strength, and all my thoughts (Luke 10.27), weak as they still are. And you've given me a most unexpected, but blessed, answer. In my past days, I was more like that disciple Simon Peter, than I ever wanted to believe. "'Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.' Peter said to him, 'Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death.' Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day, until you deny three times that you know me.'” (Luke 22.31-34) And like you did with him, Lord, you are bringing me out the other side.
Now I understand. Well, at least more than when I started. So here, Lord. Take this fear and worry and emotion that I have right now. I'm handing them all over to you, and will not pick them up again. I see and accept that you're not done. Through these six cycles of treatment with poison, and recovery time after them, you are going to make me into what I never dreamed possible. And I will rely on you as my source of strength and wisdom and knowledge and everything else, far more than I do already.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Late in July of this year, I was found to have cancer in my brain. If you want to review the story, you can read an earlier posting about the details of my cancer treatment in the hospital. And you can read about an unexpected gift, Boomer.
Since those postings, I have had six weeks of combined radiation and chemotherapy treatments. I was supposed to feel fatigue, and have an upset stomach. The radiation was supposed to cause a "sunburn" on the side of my face. I had none of those.
Here's a common sermon illustration-- When a person goes to the altar to pray, she takes the burdens off of her shoulders, and prays to the Lord that He will take those burdens away. Then she gets up from the altar, picks up the burdens again, and carries them back out. It's fairly clear-- When a person asks God to take her burdens, she should leave them there, right? Right.
Well, that illustration isn't totally accurate. What usually happens is a person takes his burdens to the altar, but never takes them off his own shoulders while he asks God to take them away. He prays while holding the burdens to himself!
The Star Trek bridge device, shooting my head with X-rays.
My head was held in place by a stiff plastic net.
Thousands of shots, from hundreds of angles,
all within 2 minutes.
When I was taking the treatments, they were shooting through one of my brain's emotion centers with high powered X-rays. What I felt coming on was depression. Now, I understand what can cause depression, but I had none of those usual causes. So I knew that it was from the radiation. I passed this information to those praying for me, and I handed the whole thing over to God my Father. I told Him that I knew there was nothing I could do about it, and asked Him to get me through it.
The result was that the depression passed that day. And each day through the treatments, my personal feelings of joy and satisfaction increased. At the end of the treatments, when I was supposed to be at my worst, I felt almost normal.
Read 1 John 4.7-21. Right now, I'll focus on verses 18-19: "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us."
I had bypassed fear on all of this. When I could have been afraid, I had no emotions at all. I think that was God's gift, for His purposes. When they came back, the most powerful emotion I felt was the joy of knowing Jesus Christ and the love He had given to me.
I know many, many Christians who have disease or injury, and have not been healed. Why is that, even though they love God? It's because they don't let go! Maybe he thinks he has to do something to earn healing. Maybe she wants to be healed, more than she loves the Lord. Maybe his heart is such that if he is healed, he'll wander off some other way. Maybe she thinks she loves God, but it's just an emotion of her own. Whatever the details, they don't truly let go of the burdens they are carrying.
I also know Christians who have disease or injury, but are not bothered or afraid. They serve and love God and other people. They may or may not be healed in their lifetimes. But they aren't worried by that. They are powered by the love of Christ that lives and moves within them.
How did I get through this so far? How can I face the possibility that the cancer could return, yet live with confidence that it is gone forever? Because I learned about that "perfect love" John talked about. Every person has love. But like everything else, it's not perfect. The only perfect love is the love of Jesus Christ, which He offers to every person as a gift. He did that by giving His life on the cross, for every person. I you don't have that perfect love, then run to the cross of Jesus Christ, and turn yourself completely over to Him.
The love I feel for God, and the love I feel for everybody, is no longer my own love, but the love of Christ that was given to me. Because I have that love, I took these burdens off, handed them over to God my Father through the name and love of Jesus Christ, and walked away from them. Now free of those burdens, even though they could still exist physically, I am strengthened to serve and love God and other people completely, with the love of Jesus Christ.
Monday, November 11, 2013
Thirty-three years ago, I was riding my motorcycle (a '76 Gold Wing, if that matters to anyone) on Indiana State Highway 3. I was a student at Christian Theological Seminary (CTS) in Indianapolis, near the end of my third year. I was student-pastor of the Springport Christian Church. I was returning from a hospital visit in Muncie.
About a mile from the turn-off to Springport, I topped a hill overlooking farmland and forest, where one of the church members let me hunt. Suddenly, the bike's radio turned on. Strange, though, because I heard it in my helmet. Back in those days, a motorcycle radio was hung under the windshield, and there was no connection between it and the helmet. Unless you were rich. Which I certainly was not. So it wasn't the radio, but a whole other source. I brought that Wing to a halt!
This was my "Damascus Road Experience." If you're not familiar with that road, let me make reference for you. A young Jewish Pharisee named Saul was big on the literal law that kept people in line. He didn't care at all about the people themselves. His mission was to hunt down them Jesus people and get rid of'em, any way he could. Well, Saul was riding his horse on his way to Damascus, intent on having a big mass arrest, followed by a big mass execution.
"Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?''Who are you, Lord?' Saul asked.'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,' he replied. 'Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.'" (Acts 9.1-6)
Standing on the edge of the shoulder, I was trying to figure out what I was hearing in the helmet-- then in my ears once the helmet was off! I was hearing the Lord's voice. I don't think anybody else would have heard it, if they were with me. "You are finished at Springport and at CTS. Anderson will accept you. You are to be an evangelist more than a pastor."
And that was it. The gracious difference between my experience and Saul's was that I was not blinded and knocked off my steed. At 60 miles per hour.
That night, and the next two nights, I had a dream about it, telling me (by events, not dates) when the calling would truly come to life. In the meantime, I was to serve Him, however life would take me. Within two weeks, I was fired by the Springport church, because CTS told them that I had failed. Then I applied at the Church of God seminary in Anderson IN, and was accepted. I excelled there, but the falling economy pushed me elsewhere.
I accepted the call to ministry 36 years ago. After three years, the call was clarified on the road. I finished seminary (Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary) and was ordained. I was a pastor for 18 years. Then for 18 years I worked in regular-world jobs, serving the Lord however I could. My wife and I founded a world ministry for widows, still in its early stages. Then those events I had dreamed about? They happened.
This is long enough for today. Details in following articles. For now let's just say that God never forgets, and time belongs to Him. Ultimately, when we wonder what's going on, the best thing to do is "get up..., and you will be told what you must do." | {
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Ronnie Dunn Shares Full Track List, Cover Art for 2011 Solo Album
Ronnie Dunn has revealed the complete track list and cover for his upcoming solo debut, the simply titled 'Ronnie Dunn.' It's Dunn's first effort sans longtime partner Kix Brooks, with whom he performed for 20 years.
The first single, 'Bleed Red,' is currently dominating the radio airwaves, and the video will be available for purchase as a digital download tomorrow. The album will be released on June 7, and anxious and excited Dunn fans can pre-order the record here.
To wet fans' appetites, Dunn has also issued the album cover, which is essentially a photo of the bearded vocalist with a guitar on his lap, shaded in orange tones. It's a stark but powerful image -- and while you can take the Dunn out of the Brooks and Dunn duo in which he forged his biggest success, you can't take the musical talent and voice out of Dunn as he embarks on his solo career. | {
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Plekos is a fresh take on the popular Coin Soccer game, played on a wooden board with nails representing the players and a coin by way of a ball. In this version, the coin has been replaced by a bottle cap, and you can play against the computer, or have your own Cup championship, with up to eight players offline on the same device.
The game has been carefully crafted with a lot of attention to detail. Gameplay is simple and intuitive, yet very realistic. In the offline Cup mode for up to eight players, you can get together with your friends and the game will automatically set up the Cup table. Everyone is called to play at the right moment, and the competition kicks off!
You can also choose how many touches per turn and the number of goals scored to win.
In this version the player dives straight into the 2013 Confederations Cup, setup with all the right flags and teams, and ready for eight players to face-off against each other.
Plekos is a fresh take on the popular Coin Soccer game, played on a wooden board with nails representing the players and a coin by way of a ball. In this version, the coin has been replaced by a bottle cap, and you can play against the computer, or have your own Cup championship, with up to eight players offline on the same device.
The game has been carefully crafted with a lot of attention to detail. Gameplay is simple and intuitive, yet very realistic. In the offline Cup mode for up to eight players, you can get together with your friends and the game will automatically set up the Cup table. Everyone is called to play at the right moment, and the competition kicks off!
You can also choose how many touches per turn and the number of goals scored to win.
In this version the player dives straight into the 2013 Confederations Cup, setup with all the right flags and teams, and ready for eight players to face-off against each other. | {
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PM Lee hints that taxes will go up in Budget 2018 through feel-good CNY message
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong appears to have hinted that taxes will rise when Budget 2018 is unveiled next week, through a feel-good message he wrote in commemoration of Chinese New Year.
In the post, PM Lee wrote that the challenges of caring for Singapore’s aging population and providing for the next generation would “guide the thinking” behind Budget 2018, which will be delivered by Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat after the Chinese New Year holidays, on Monday, 19 Feb.
Besides focusing on how our population is aging, the PM said that the nation must focus on investing heavily in the younger generation, as well. He added, “We should uphold our time-tested Asian values of thrift, self-reliance, and leaving something more for our children, instead of burdening them with their parents’ debts. We must always think beyond the immediate and beyond ourselves, to look and plan over the horizon on behalf of future generations.”
This statement brings to mind the reason PM Lee gave last year when he confirmed that a tax hike is inevitable and that is not a matter of whether but when tax is increased.
The head of government had explained then that while there is enough revenue for this current term of government, the government and the people must bear the cost of increased spending for the sake of the next generation.
The PM appears to be reiterating this explanation with his official Chinese New Year message:
“Chinese New Year is about family. The many Chinese New Year traditions passed down from generation to generation are steeped in family values. Families gather on Chinese New Year’s eve for reunion dinners (团圆饭). Even those who are abroad will make an effort to connect with their families back home, and celebrate this special occasion together. We stay up through the night to see the year in (守岁) for our parents’ longevity, and give our children red packets (压岁钱) for good fortune. These customs reflect the enduring hopes of every generation, that our aging parents live well in their silver years, and our children grow up happy and successful, in a peaceful and prosperous world.
“Honouring our seniors and nurturing the young are not just limited to individual families; they are values and attitudes which hold our society together. As a people too, we should look after the elderly as we are the beneficiaries of their labours, and care for the young who carry our hopes for the future.
“Our population is aging. We are working to enable Singaporeans to lead active and meaningful lives in their silver years. This means creating strong social support and community networks, keeping elders socially engaged, and building up healthcare systems and services. It is not just younger generations taking care of their elderly parents, but today’s generation looking ahead and providing for our older selves of tomorrow.
“At the same time, we strive to give our children the best chances in life. We are fortunate to live in Asia – a dynamic and fast growing region. We should prepare ourselves to seize the many economic opportunities around us. We should make full use of new technologies, to progress with our partners and neighbours. We will help our young to uncover their diverse talents, and invest heavily in them through education and training, so that when they grow up they can strike out on their own, build their own families and careers, and fulfil their aspirations and dreams. We will invest in Singapore, to build our city and infrastructure, and upgrade our living environment and economy, so that the next generation can continue to create new possibilities, prosper and flourish. We should uphold our time-tested Asian values of thrift, self-reliance, and leaving something more for our children, instead of burdening them with their parents’ debts. We must always think beyond the immediate and beyond ourselves, to look and plan over the horizon on behalf of future generations.
“I hope you will reflect on these issues in quieter moments over the festive season, in between celebrating with friends and family. The Government too will not stop thinking about what it needs to do, to ready our society for these challenges. Minister Heng Swee Keat will deliver his Budget speech on Monday, immediately after the holiday weekend. These issues guide the thinking behind the Budget. Let us build our shared future together, so that generations of Singaporeans can look forward to more prosperous and joyous Chinese New Years.
“As we usher in the year of the Dog, let us be dogged in our efforts to create a better Singapore and a brighter future for our children. Let us also cherish the blessings of kinship, thank our elders for what they have done for us, shower our children with love, and create more shared happy memories with our families.
“Happy Chinese New Year! 祝大家狗年兴旺，万事如意!”
The Prime Minister’s explanation that taxes must go up to accommodate groups like seniors has attracted criticism from civil society players and politicians. SDP chairman Dr Paul Tambyah is one such personality who asserted that the government should not use the aging population as an excuse to raise taxes, in the recent Budget 2018 forum organised by The Independent:
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Looking @ cronies like that Sink-NOL-go-SPH ex-general, the diamond-rice-bowl ex-general (again) & those Ministers/MPs who kept their jobs despite their failures, he certainly has his party members prepared well to seize lobangs.
I think the government should lead by example – starting with them having a significant pay cut. Further more “increase spending” is not dictated by the Singaporeans…the government should curb and manage increase spending.
I hope you are not the poster boy for the 30%. Using dirty words behind a nick called “Anonymous” proves what? That you are very macho? Use your own name and print your NRIC No plus use your recent passport photo for your avatar, then I will say you got balls! Otherwise, you are just another coward!
Asian values. What Asian value. Sister calls you dishonourable son and brother calls you untrustworthy. To the Chinese face is most important. Carrying such names from your kith and kin, you are so shameless to continue as PM and show us your face. A Indian who disowns her father’s race will never be my President as that is also not Asian values.
One day your next generation all foreign talent who hardly work and wait for payouts. Some are leeches who live off others hard work and some who only want their work to be seen and heard. Who are these unfortunate people in the middle who think there is a future or pretending there is one. The Sacrifice will decide everyone journey
One day your next generation all foreign talent who hardly work and wait for payouts. Some are leeches who live off others hard work and some who only want their work to be seen and heard. Who are these unfortunate people in the middle who think there is a future or pretending there is one. The Sacrifice will decide everyone journey
They took billions of our father’s generation hard earned money and promised to grow. Now we are seeing nothing returning. For the hundreds of billions, even if they had invested in safe instruments, we should have enough to look after our ageing population. How many old people are there? Not in millions, even if one million old people are there, we can’t feed? That means they failed. Sorry I won’t buy any more stories. Unless open the book and show us the true situation. We had enough!
What is the purpose of our reserves. Under what circumstances can we use it. How much is in the reserves
What are out investments and show us the books. Convince us why we should contribute. If you have squandered our savings, you find the solution. You are paid millions to govern. Not to squander and tax us.
You know what is called cheap gambling money? That’s the cpf.
They crafted the law to take your money, then crafted the law from returning to you.
They then check themselves not to be thieves. Make sense?
Extreme ministerial salaries is one matter but much more costly is bloated unproductive gigantic ministries & bureaucracies. Improving productivity must start from the top. Appointing the right skilful experienced Singaporeans to manage our hard earned reserves is very necessary.
So he said they will take care of the poor. What he means he will squeeze the poor bone dry. When a country fails it raises taxes. Very clear he ran out of ideas to manage a small country. Indonesian President paid lowly manage a country with a population of over 260 Million, here our PM paid obscene salaries for promises he has yet to delivery. You fucking 70% time to wake up and open you bloody eyes.
⛳The next generation is endless but the current dictator’s generation will surely come to an end very soon!
Whe our great ecomist elite Dr Goh Keng Swee started the “Reserve Funds”, the party said that it is meant for the next generation, not the future unending generations, especially not the imported immigrants or foreign talents!
The next generation of Dr Goh Keng Swee and LKY is the current senior citizens age 60-75 but did PAP distribute Universal basic income to this generation who are unemployed and with medical issues ??? With the implementation of GST by the dishonourable son, the great mathematician only clever to make the poor, much poorer and to fill his family’s coffins, but has not honoured the will of the old guards!
He has the cheeks to preach what he did not practise about Chinese New Year reunion dinner when his only two siblings are not invited! A good leader must be a role model, not singing and dancing with no emotion
Please stop using our aging population as an excuse to raise taxes when you already lock up our aging population CPF funds!
This year lots of citizen tree blossom 鉄树开花！The lost of GRC to opposing part seems impossible has become possible by GE2019
By Yasmine YahyaSingapore's economic performance last year was healthy, marked by a better-than-expected expansion and encouraging productivity growth, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.He expressed... | {
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Does Having a Day Job Mean Making Better Art?
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CreditCreditMari Maeda and Yuji Oboshi
By Katy Waldman
March 22, 2018
ONCE UPON A time, artists had jobs. And not “advising the Library of Congress on its newest Verdi acquisition” jobs, but job jobs, the kind you hear about in stump speeches. Think of T.S. Eliot, conjuring “The Waste Land” (1922) by night and overseeing foreign accounts at Lloyds Bank during the day, or Wallace Stevens, scribbling lines of poetry on his two-mile walk to work, then handing them over to his secretary to transcribe at the insurance agency where he supervised real estate claims. The avant-garde composer Philip Glass shocked at least one music lover when he materialized, smock-clad and brandishing plumber’s tools, in a home with a malfunctioning appliance. “While working,” Glass recounted to The Guardian in 2001, “I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. ‘But you’re Philip Glass! What are you doing here?’ It was obvious that I was installing his dishwasher and I told him that I would soon be finished. ‘But you are an artist,’ he protested. I explained that I was an artist but that I was sometimes a plumber as well and that he should go away and let me finish.”
What is an artist supposed to be? The figure this anecdote suggests — holed up in an airy turret with her materials, descending only to glissade through parties and openings — may be the one of popular imagination, but she is also a recent phenomenon, a product of our fetishization of genius. She doesn’t work, likely because she makes so much money she doesn’t need to. As a consequence, her talent can start to feel corruptible, like easily torn silk, or larger than life. (Either way, all the more reason to avoid the office.)
But even the celebrity painters of the past half-century had to hustle at one point. As David Salle — who was financially insolvent at the time of his first show, held at the loft of a young dealer named Larry Gagosian in 1979 — admitted in a 2005 lecture, “It was common not to expect to be able to live from your art” in 1970s New York. Inclusion in the city’s top exhibitions during the ’80s brought Salle the fame that allowed him to spend “most days in my studio, alone,” no supplementary income required. Artistic success, it can often seem, means earning enough money from your art not to have to take a job.
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The artwork of Edi Rama, who is both an artist and the prime minister of Albania.CreditEdi Rama, “Set 34, 6/6,” 2007, mixed media on paper, courtesy of Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
And when contemporary creators do seek additional employment (which they frequently must), they mostly hew to work that falls within the range of their skills or talents. The novelist goes into screenwriting, like Dave Eggers or Ray Bradbury. The poet becomes an ad man, like James Dickey, who crafted slogans for Coca-Cola. (“I was selling my soul to the devil all day … and trying to buy it back at night,” he said, after getting fired for not meeting deadlines.) Stephen Dunn viewed corporate copywriting as a wan reflection of his real calling, the moon to poetry’s sun, albeit in a zero-sum universe in which the moon gobbles up the sun’s radiance. Meanwhile, the painter paints walls or signs (as did Willem de Kooning, who also worked as a carpenter) or — like Barbara Kruger, subbing in as a graphic designer for Mademoiselle magazine — illustrates text. The sculptor builds sets, à la Alexander Calder, who lent an eerie sensibility to Erik Satie’s 1936 voice and orchestra piece “Socrate” with his simple backdrop: a red disc, interlocking steel hoops, a black-and-white rectangle and a turquoise screen.
But then there is another category of artists-with-jobs: people whose two professions play off each other in unexpected ways. For these creators, a trade isn’t just about paying the bills; it’s something that grounds them in reality. In 2017, a day job might perform the same replenishing ministries as sleep or a long run: relieving creative angst, restoring the artist to her body and to the texture of immediate experience. But this break is also fieldwork. For those who want to mine daily life for their art, a second job becomes an umbilical cord fastened to something vast and breathing. The alternate gig that lifts you out of your process also supplies fodder for when that process resumes. Lost time is regained as range and perspective, the artist acquiring yet one more mode of inhabiting the world.
THE ACT OF producing art can be anything but romantic. To escape the blank page, the only thing on earth as passive as yourself, you cast about for distractions, half-convinced that avoiding your project will shower some sort of mystical growth hormone on your ideas. Yet for some artists, such as William Carlos Williams, life and art were more than each other’s palate cleansers. The poet doctor saw his dual vocations as mysteriously fused. “They are two parts of a whole,” he contended in his 1967 autobiography. “It is not two jobs at all … one rests the man when the other fatigues him.” As a physician, Williams developed an antenna for the “inarticulate poems” emanating from his patients, even as he resolved to “use the material I knew” from practicing medicine in his writing.
What, then, is the real relationship between art and trade? Agonistic? Complementary? The question, suggesting something like a creative sanctum shimmering a few meters above the room in which you punch a clock or schedule a meeting, supposes that aesthetic experience is categorically different from everyday experience, and that muse-fueled invention floats apart from earthier forms of productivity.
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Frank O’Hara’s 1964 book “Lunch Poems” is a series of reflections the poet made on his lunch breaks from MoMA, where he worked various jobs (including as a curator) for years.CreditFred W. McDarrah/Getty Images
But those borders have a tricky way of dispersing. Frank O’Hara’s 1964 “Lunch Poems,” a set of imagistic, peripatetic musings on a city in motion, are beloved in part because they manage to articulate the balance of work and life. Written on his breaks, their title an invitation to us to read them on ours, the seemingly dashed-off lines celebrate the pleasure a mind can take in wandering through its own busyness: Creative practice can be meditative flow, but it can also be worthy of a Ricky Gervais punch line. The author Sujatha Gidla, whose recent memoir, “Ants Among Elephants,” examined India’s caste system, has been a conductor for the New York City subway since 2009. “I’m very disorganized,” she told me immediately, before I could frame my first question. “You must factor that in to how difficult it is to manage work and writing.” But for all the stress of brainstorming ideas during her commute and transcribing interviews in the M.T.A. break room, Gidla would never quit her day job. “It’s masculine; I fancy it,” she said. What’s more, Gidla fervently believes that the individual “should be participating in social production, something useful for society.” She has met people from all over the world (“even Liberia”) at the M.T.A., drinking in their “cosmopolitanism and openness.” She enjoys their company. “Writing is kind of lonely,” she said. “It doesn’t make me feel like, this is my environment. At work I have no choice but to talk to people.”
Some cultivate their art because it sustains their work, or because it fulfills a sense of civic responsibility. Writing children’s literature “has helped me grow in confidence as a person, which in turn has helped me develop … as an officer, too,” said Gavin Puckett, a U.K.-based policeman (it remains his primary income source) and author of the prizewinning 2013 “Fables From the Stables” series. Puckett, who joined the service in 1998, sketched the rhyming adventure “Murray the Horse” after passing a horse in a field while listening to a radio announcer report on “sports and activities you can only complete backwards” — he imagined a story about a horse that runs in reverse. He admits that telling stories still makes him feel as though he’s “stepping out of character.” “My role as a police officer came first,” he told me.
Others are pulled, almost involuntarily, the other way. Edi Rama, the Prime Minister of Albania, sometimes feels his hand doodling as he contemplates a political decision. The art pours out to center and steady him. In 1998, Rama left a promising career as an artist in Paris to become Albania’s minister of culture. Now the country’s leader, he shows his loose, improvisatory drawings and sculptures in galleries around the world. “I found myself drawing almost all my working time whilst interacting with people in my office or on the phone,” he said in a 2016 interview. “I began to understand that my subconscious was being helped … by my hand to stay calm while my conscious had to focus on demanding topics.”
Art, so often the wild or ephemeral factor in this equation, stabilizes the politician. Do politics abet the artist? Unlike Williams, Rama does not borrow directly from his waking life for subject matter; he aims to explore automated and preconscious processes. But perhaps the day’s noise makes the quiet of drawing more numinous and clarifying. A year ago, Rama papered the walls of the Kryeministria, Albania’s main government building, with his own compositions. He wanted to remind himself of spaces in which “politics, with its characters and struggles, has evaporated” — to appreciate a freedom he might otherwise forget he had.
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William Carlos Williams enjoyed being both a practicing physician and a writer. Here, early notes for his five-volume epic poem “Paterson” (1946-1958), jotted down on his prescription pad.CreditWilliam Carlos Williams, “Book Of The Poem,” Page 1, El(B), William Carlos Williams Collection, the Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo. Used by permission of the William Carlos Williams Estate c/o of Jvnla Inc
BACK TO THE artist in her turret. Though ethereal, she possesses monomaniacal focus. She can barely cook for herself, let alone pursue other hobbies. Her cultural ascent coincides with the waning of another figure: the renaissance person, who is allowed to excel at multiple things. At the risk of overliteralizing, one of the West’s foundational creatives, Leonardo da Vinci, held down at least a dozen occupations, from cartographer to engineer to painter to architect. But today, we ridicule Tom Hanks for composing short stories, Steve Martin for trying his hand at a novella, James Franco for making a run at poetry. Why do we rain down suspicion on those who seem ruled by competing creative impulses? In this moment when our pieties about identity are unraveling to admit more nuance, what’s wrong with letting people do two things at once?
Some artists may try to simultaneously grow both of their undertakings — and yet the balance shifts from year to year. Tanwi Nandini Islam launched Hi Wildflower, a line of perfumes, candles and beauty products in 2014, 12 months before her debut novel, “Bright Lines,” arrived in bookstores. She needed a space for her “olfactory experiments,” she told me, referring to the fragrant projects she’d started as a species of “method writing” while crafting a story about an apothecary. At first, Islam imagined the two endeavors — the company and the writing — as “sisters,” more similar than different. She inscribed lines of poetry on the candles’ packaging and enmeshed herself in every aspect of design and production. Hi Wildflower also became a form of introspection, “a space to rethink my values,” Islam said. The business was separate from the work of book-composing, but not conceptually distant from it: Islam envisioned her aromatherapy and skin-care artifacts moving through the public sphere in the same tender way her sentences did.
Yet as Hi Wildflower developed into the author’s main source of income, morphing from an alternate expression of the energies that drove her fiction into “a way of keeping afloat in a society that doesn’t pay artists to do their work,” its meaning mutated. The company now has three employees, 70 products and distribution ties to boutique retailers. Business is where Islam works; writing is where she dreams and roams. She no longer notates individual candle wrappers with poems, and she’s delegated some of the more menial production tasks. When I spoke to her, Islam was at work on a collection of poems and a second novel. Meanwhile, Hi Wildflower, an erstwhile extension of her aesthetic self, has clumped off into its own entity, an enterprise that props her up materially and gives her space to write.
Financial security (for now, at least) is not the only thing the business has bequeathed Islam. “When I create, I want this sense of quietness and wisdom to seep in,” she told me, echoing Rama. “But leading a company has made me tough on myself as an artist. You experience so much discomfort [in writing]: pitching articles, revising, building your brand. Having a business primes you for that kind of grind, that hustle.”
In “A Room of One’s Own” (1929), her famous, passionate argument about the material conditions necessary for writing, Virginia Woolf compared fiction to a “spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.” It is a lovely vision of art hanging from the beams of reality, only people are not spiders — they don’t generate just one thing. The trope of the secluded creator has echoes of imprisonment and stasis. (After all, who wants to spend all their time in one room, even if it belongs to them?) Sometimes the artist needs to turn off, to get out in the fray, to stop worrying over when her imagination’s pot will boil — because, of course, it won’t if she’s watching. And regardless of whether the reboot results in brilliance down the line, that lunchtime stroll isn’t going to take itself, those stray thoughts won’t think themselves, the characters on the corner certainly won’t gawk at themselves. Artists: They’re just like us, unless they can afford not to be, in which case they still are, but doing a better job of concealing it. | {
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Information doesn’t have any opinion. WikiLeaks have opinions. They want information to be free. Well except information that hurt themselves. That’s just harmful and evil. But please – please don’t blame the information. Poor old thing.
But information REALLY wants to be free?!
Well so does my Willy, but that doesn’t mean it’s wise to release it to the public. Because you can, doesn’t means you should. That goes for most decisions in adult life.
But if we don’t show the world the wrongdoings, it will go unpunished?!
True – and we should make sure to spank those who selfishly disregard laws and ignore consequences. Does this remind you of someone?
But to do so we need to pass the evidence?!
Sure we do, but that’s not what WikiLeaks have done. They leaked everything regardless of informative value and they published it to everyone. Not just those who could use information to stop the specific crime.
I would have had plenty of respect for Wikileaks if they kept to publishing info that proved real wrongdoings instead of letting the lid of everything. It’s not helping anyone to know what American diplomats think about Angela Merkel or Sarkozy. Funny facts sparking my curiousity? – oh yes indeed, but not really important to world peace. Let’s be honest about it.
Somehow I don’t see Julian Assange as a hero or a freedom-fighter. A fundamentalist hacker who believes that his personal agenda is the only way – yes maybe. A guy who set aside all laws to get his one-sided message through – well yes.
Did he really rape someone in Sweden? I don’t know. If he did, I’m sure he’ll get his punishment. If he didn’t then good for him.
Did US stage the rape charges with help of Sweden? No idea, but why not. We’ll probably never know and to be honest I don’t care.
Will he be punished for leaking the cables? Yes – I’m pretty sure he will eventually. One way or the other.
Has the US been proven bad at keeping confidential information secret? Certainly.
Should they be embarrassed? I sure hope they are.
Is there anything surprising about how diplomacy works behind the curtain? Naaaah.
Will Wikileaks change the way governments work? Yes.
Is that for the better? Probably not.
Has the new material proven governments to do doubtful things? Sure they have.
Has it been necessary to release every singe byte to make this point? Nah, not really.
It’s not public information WikiLeaks released. Its classified. “Classified” as in “not for everyone’s eyes”. Unless you are a diplomat with hands-on experience you’re probably not the right to judge if it’s harmful or not. I know I’m not.
I’m not a big fan of politicians, nor am I a blind America follower. I do, however, believe in justice and an good spanking to those who break the law. Politicians, diplomats and civilians – none is above the law. If you have information that can help stop the lawbreakers, then fine. Even classified information can in rare cases be helpful. But send it where it belongs. Don’t spread it to every fool on the planet. That’s what went wrong in the first place.
“Name one law he has broken or ‘set aside’.”
Sure – I’m going to waste my day digging up laws that has been broken? Passing on stolen material is not a criminal act where you live?
“He did not leak the cables. They were leaked to him (or rather to Wikileaks) and they reported them. Big difference.”
No, he initially didn’t steal the cables, they were passed on to WikiLeaks. They did, however, make sure to leak them to the rest of the world when they had a chance. Does that take away his/their responsibility? Does stolen gods suddenly become not-stolen if you pass them on?
“They haven’t released “every single byte”. They have released only a tiny fraction..”
True, they may not have releashed every single byte. I used that experssion to make my point. It doesn’t make any difference to the fact that too much non-important information is released, which again shows that WikiLeaks are blind to their own mission.
Once again you get it wrong. Which law has he broken? Are you suddenly judge and jury. Let me remind you he has not been charged with a single offence anywhere in the world over this, never mind convicted. Most lawyers in the USA believe that he has broken no laws there. THe only people bleating are ignorant right wing politicians who have incited his murder. When will they be charged?
In what way is Wikileaks (stop personalising it to Assange) publishing it any different to The Guardian in the UK, The New York Times in the USA and the countless other newspapers publishing it? None whatsoever.
“True, they may not have releashed every single byte. I used that experssion to make my point”
The very fact that you have ‘dig up’ broken laws clearly demonstrates that you don’t know already know any laws which he has “broken”. Perhaps you should have checked that out before accusing him in your article.
I have googled you. Hope you don’t mind. I just couldn’t resist. Something about your writing and the fact that I rarely have outsiders commenting here made the word ‘trolling’ pop up.
I’m not the first to have done so it seems. Thats one of the things I’ve learned from google. It also seems that you have a skill of pissing people off with mostly semi-rude comments all over the place. You’re a grammar freak and love to criticize everyone for misspelling. You’re a food aficionado living in (or has previously lived in) China. You dig Dylan and perhaps Beatles. Erik Havaby seems to be an alias you use for anonymous surfing.
Nevertheless I have a pretty good idea who you are. I can’t prove anything and to be honest I really don’t need to.
You could try googling your alias too. You might learn how many tracks you leave behind you on the net.
Even though your argumentation about WikiLeaks is fair enough, I’ll stop replying to your comments from now on. Nothing good can come from discussing with you. Thanks for your interest and good luck with your life elsewhere. | {
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The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service has new publications on two opportunistic and invasive grasses from Mexico now spreading into some Edwards Plateau and Concho Valley pastures, said Dr. Morgan Russell, lead author of both publications.
Russell, AgriLife Extension range specialist at San Angelo, said the culprits are Mexican needlegrass, which is infiltrating mostly from oil and gas operations, and Mexican feathergrass, a popular ornamental, which is escaping landscapes and cropping up on rangeland.
“Mexican needlegrass is an introduced species from Mexico, though we don’t know how it first got here,” Russell said. “Range professionals are getting more questions about it as ranchers notice the grass in their pastures, mostly along disturbed sites such as oil and gas locations, pipelines and along caliche roads.”
Russell said identification is straight-forward as the grass is very noticeable when spotted in pastures.
“It can look a lot like Texas wintergrass, which is a very common species to most ranchers here,” she said. “But it is much rougher and coarser with very saw-toothed leaves that scratch when you wrap your hands around it. You can really feel those edges and know what you’re dealing with. That texture is why livestock mostly shun it.”
Russell said Landers first noticed the grass more than 30 years ago in Menard County and wrote a paper on it in the 1980s.
“But then the flurry of interest waned until today when we are seeing a surge in Mexican needlegrass population and density, so we are focusing more on it now and are using some of that earlier work that Dr. Landers provided Texas A&M AgriLife.”
The other pest, Mexican feathergrass, is a common plant material in the region’s landscape trade, Russell said.
“It’s kind of ironic that Mexican feathergrass is such a threat to native pastures,” she said. “It’s a great ornamental grass here and you see it all over. It’s very fine textured with a pretty seed head and it doesn’t become overgrown like some other grasses do in the landscape. Aside from its beauty, its popular because it’s so well adapted to dry arid environments and very shallow soil. It can practically be planted in a flower bed and walked away from and it will maintain itself.”
Russell said problems occur when it escapes those flowerbeds into native pastures.
“In some areas where it has escaped, we are noticing prolific seed production and establishment in nearby ornamental landscapes and also in pastures surrounding those ornamental landscapes,” she said. “Consequently, we’re watching rangeland being invaded by this grass in some areas.”
Russell said Mexican feathergrass has been declared a noxious species in California and a couple of other Western states, but not in Texas, though the potential and opportunity exists for it to become a problem.
“The more word we get out to groups and individuals buying this grass for ornamental purposes, the better educated and informed they and the general public will be concerning this grass,” she said.
Mexican feathergrass is palatable, she said, but only during the prime growing season.
“Once it produces its seed head, it rapidly deteriorates in palatability and nutritional value, so most grazing livestock given the choice will venture away from it to graze more desirable forage. Doing so further gives this invader a competitive edge as the better plants are eaten, thus lessening the competition for water and nutrients.
“We’ve had some cold weather and these grasses will be going dormant if they are not already,” she said. “They are perennial though and will green up again next spring, so producers should make a point to keep an eye out for them next year.” | {
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A Japanese bar has been ordered shut after they mistakenly served bleach to their customers instead of sake, hospitalising two customers who apparently did not notice they were downing a cleaning agent.
The Niigata prefecture izakaya served two men in their sixties sake one evening, but soon both were complaining of sore throats.
They were later admitted to hospital, and it was discovered they had been chugging an alkaline cleaning solution rather than the booze they expected. Neither man was severely injured by the tipple.
Local authorities investigated the bar and discovered their staff had for some reason poured the detergent into a labelled 1.8 litre sake bottle, and then mistaken it for actual sake and served it to the customers.
They punished the bar by ordering them to stay shut for a grand total of 3 days.
The bar has issued a boilerplate statement of contrition:
“We caused great inconvenience to our patrons. We will ensure this never happens again by properly managing our cleaning agents and instructing our staff.”
Both the bar and authorities are silent as to what all this implies about the expected quality of their beverages (or the discerning palette of their patrons).
The article clearly states that the Bleach was poured into a sake bottle for some unknown reason. You also realize that both liquids are a clear substance so it's hard to distinguish between the two unless you actually try to smell it, which in a bar environment would be hard considering the smell of cigarettes and booze would linger about making everything that much harder.
Depends on the bleach, there are various kinds of viscosity and colour, which should serve as an indication about what it is. I guess in this case, the bleach was clear? But we will never know....maybe the staff was retarded, sleepy, drunk, etc. not much details other than, they fucked up.
I have to agree about the bar setting being a possible factor in this case.
No shit son...why dont you read what i wrote too.... Im asking a question and you reply with a quote that sumerizes with doubt about what transpired. Key word in your quote is FOR SOME REASON, and that reason is what we are talking about.
Why dont you take an english course on literary analysis before attempting to correct others.
Local authorities investigated the bar and discovered their staff had for some reason poured the detergent into a labelled 1.8 litre sake bottle, and then mistaken it for actual sake and served it to the customers.
There would be practically no chance of that working, so that is extremely unlikely. The patrons are obviously going to notice that something is not right after the first swig, and most people would notice the smell even before tasting it. While bleach could technically kill someone if they drank a lot of it and didn't seek medical help, the chances of that happening would be pretty slim.
The bleach may have not even have been full strength. Since it was in a different bottle, that may have been because it was diluted with water. That could also explain why the smell was less noticeable.
No one said that murderers are always bright. I can very well see a murderer trying this and having it fail on him.... hell, come to think of it, they had someone try to kill their child in this manner 5 years ago in the state where I live.
I worked at a host club in Tohoku as a singer where my friend was a manager. Before work, the hosts would fill up expensive bottles of liquor with cheaper alcohol. Of course there would be true bottles, but once a patron was drunk enough, they'd switch to the fake bottles. | {
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I hope you guys had a good break over Memorial Day Weekend, because now it's time to get right back into the game with your next challenge. Are you ready?
Sometimes, models are asked to be corespondants for television at events, parties, and the like. As such, it's a good idea to be able to form a good question and hold a conversation. A great interview is always one where you try your best to get juicy details--whether they're privy or not, at least you tried--or a soundbite out of your guest. While sometimes models aren't necessarily known for their brains as much as their beauty, they have to be able to hold their own on a red carpet swarmed with paparazzi and journalists. That's why, this week, for your challenges, you ladies will be doing..
That's right. Each of you will have to come up with two original questions to ask each judge individually--a total of 10 questions. This will tie directly into your photoshoot--whatever it may be--and you should try to draw as much information out of the judges as possible within the confines of two questions. That doesn't mean, however, that you can have a six-parter question! You may only have one two-parter question, so use it wisely! The judges will also be answering three pre-set comprehensive questions.
Here are some tips for good interviewing:
o Open-ended questions will get you more information. Asking questions that can be answered with a simple 'yes' or 'no' will probably be answered as thus. Instead of starting with "Do you like..", instead ask, "What do you like about.." or "How do you feel about.." This will force them to answer in a way that's more descriptive, whether it be a negative or positive response. o Don't be too familiar with the people you're interviewing. If you seem to know each other or know all about one another, the person you're interviewing may be less descriptive because they don't feel like they have to explain anything, because you know each other well. o When you can't do a conversational interview where you pass the mic back and forth, always go for a soundbite. A soundbite is a small piece of a longer interview chosen to be the most important point of the interview. You want the point of your questions to hit strongly. Whether it's graceful or bitey, you'll have interview gold. (Just make sure to keep it ethical--misusing someone's words is the number one route to journalistic disaster!) o Be friendly, be nice, and always keep the focus on your guest. Even if they ask you a question, turn it back around to them.
The winner of this challenge will be the girl whose questions the judges feel are the best--the one that draws the most information out of the interviewees, as well as the most creative and comprehensive questions. The winner will recieve a special prize that will help them greatly for the next photoshoot. This is the challenge to win, ladies!
Remember: you must formulate two questions to ask each of the judges, a total of 10 questions. (And don't worry, it doesn't have to be about fashion. Heard any gossip recently? Feel like asking about something about their home lives? Go right ahead! That's what great interviews are made of!)
This challenge is due Sunday, June 8, before midnight, EST.No extensions this time around. It's a simple challenge--all you have to do is make up 10 questions. (If you feel like re-using the same questions on each judge, you can, but you won't win any challenges that way, will you?)
1) Well, to be honest, moving from art photography to fashion photography is a bigger step than most people would believe. Art is lots of still-life, lots of nature, and when it is form, it's usually not clothed. Modeling is more about showing the clothing and capturing the model. Doing some of the tricks you do with art photography could actually make an outfit sell less, because it has less to do with the model and more to do with the picture as a whole. I've improved from when I switched over because I managed to learn to curb my urge to capture the artistry of the shot more than the garment or the model. Of course, especially if it's a shoot where I'm not pressured by the amount of film or time I use, I'll sneak in a few shots that capture an artistic side as well.
2. There are so many, it's really hard to say.. I will say that I had a lot of fun shooting the winner of CBNTM1, Bethany! The pictures have yet to be released, but, she was really fun to work with, and since we had a great time, and got along, and we resonated well, the pictures came out nicely. I also shot the winner of Cycle 0, Maranda, and.. Well, we had a great time! Those pictures haven't come out either.. Haha.. I also enjoyed shooting the girls for Cycle 2, the black and white headshots.. I don't know, they're all my favorite, because they're all special to me in some way or another. I always try to have fun, no matter who or what I'm shooting that day! | {
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"The Calling Whisper" was the 5th album. Released on January 31, 2012. This album was the most Progressive album I did within the New Age/Ambient genre. It's theme throughout the entire album was finding a purpose in life. Even though the themes were of hope, the music was moody, genuine, atmospheric and especially from the heart. This album was dedicated to my late aunt and contains 2 bonus tracks.
The Calling Whisper is a pleasant and relaxing album to listen to. There is a hint of darkness layered within each song. This creates an interesting kind of tension. Coupled with the progressive influence you hear brings a welcomed change to this genre.
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There is so much of interest to see in Gran Canaria that you will undoubtedly find you don't have sufficient time to visit all the places you’d like to. So to really see and appreciate what Gran Canaria has to offer, here’s a quick glance at the must-see of the island:
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Furnished 2 bed 2 bath with boat slip and boat lift. Has had updates to interior and being sold furnished. Short golf cart ride to your slip in a 3 stall dock. Near marina, cafes and in the heart of the Blue Water part of the lake. Call to see this.
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Council calls for comment on its Climate Change Action Plan
Is your business doing its bit for the future survival of the planet? Do you have strategies for sustainability, energy conservation, recycling and so on? Do you have advice to pass on to other businesses? If so now is you chance to share best practice and lend the benefit of your experience to others.
Public consultation starts on the council's Climate Change Action Plan on Friday 19 May for a period of three months. The plan illustrates the council's
Long-term commitment, as a signatory of the Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change, towards a sustainable future for the local(and global) community.
Councillor Simon Burgess, Leader of the Council, says, "This Action Plan will not only draw public attention to the serious threat of climate change, it will also demonstrate, in practical terms, how we are committed as a council to leading the way on reducing the carbon-dioxide emissions that are a major cause of climate change, and preparing the city for its impacts.
The current water shortage is just one indication of the level of climate change that we are already experiencing in this country. To prevent any further dramatic changes we must act now by serious investment in renewable energy and alternative forms of transport, we must increase our rate of re-use and recycling, and above all we must bring about a change in behaviour, which means educating our children, and re-educating ourselves to lead sustainable lifestyles. The Action Plan provides a framework to help all of us achieve these essential goals."
The Action Plan outlines council aims to:
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions in our city by conserving energy, reducing local waste, and promoting the benefits of sustainable transport, such as cycling or walking, rather than using the car for short journeys around the city.
Encourage local businesses and other organisations to follow the council's lead and take responsibility for their own environmental impact on the city.
Prepare for the changes that will happen in Brighton & Hove because of the changing climate, such as hotter summers, drier winters, storms and downpours.
Create a change of attitude to renewable energy, such as wind and solar power as viable alternatives to the use of fossil fuels, such as coal and petrol.
Illustrate the economic, social and environmental benefits of taking action now on climate change.
A summary version of the council's draft Climate Change Action Plan [PDF 494kb] is now available to view or download on the council's website. The Brighton & Hove Economic Partnership (BHEP) will be responding in full to this consultation opportunity. | {
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Chris Bliss Diss
It seems that lately lots of non-juggling people have become quite excited over Chriss Bliss’s juggling routine video. The funny thing about it is that, to a juggler, the routine looks ridiculous. The juggling isn’t really hard and the perfect lead-in to the routine would be “Chris Bliss will now show you what it would look like for somebody with a severe case of Parkinson’s disease to juggle!”.
I’m not saying Chris Bliss is a bad juggler, but he certainly is very far from being world class with 3 ball. I’ve seen harder 3 ball routines performed without a drop in much better form (i.e. without the Parkinson’s touch). Luke Burrage‘s routine, which is perfectly choreographed as well, comes to mind.
Neither am I saying that it’s not permissible to entertain an audience by doing easy stuff! It’s show business, and the only goal is to entertain people, which he obviously does.
Jason certainly cheated a little bit, though. He didn’t do the whole routine in one run. Look closely at the cut at 1:10, for example. Even so, what he did is so much more difficult than Chris’s routine that it’s hard to put it into perspective. Lots of tricks in his Jason’s video are harder for themselves than Chris’s whole show, by quite a wide margin.
At one point, though, something occurred to me and I wrote to Jason:
I just watched Chris Bliss’s video for the first time in its entirety (I couldn’t make it past one minute before) and it now occurred to me that Chris is so much more genius than anybody had ever thought. His routine is actually a parody of your 5 ball Bliss Diss routine and he did it before you even conceived that routine! That dude has psi powers! So, I guess now you should really give him the credit he deserved.
Jason promptly replied:
Exactly! watching his routine for the first time, I KNEW it was a parody of something. But it just didn’t exist yet. He is the Nostradamus of jugglers.
What everyone seems to miss is that Chris Bliss juggling is a perfect marriage with the music. While admittedly, Jason’s 5 ball routine is technically more difficult, he does not have the feel of the music. Difficult or not, it is the combination of uniting the art of juggling and the interpretation of the music, are the main factors that brings the audience to their feet.
Since you seem to be a piano player let me put it in these terms: Saying that Jason’s version is technically more difficult than Chris’s is like saying that playing Liszt is technically more difficult than playing the one-finger version of Happy Birthday. And calling Chris’s juggling routing “art of juggling” is like calling a not terribly well executed one-finger version of Happy Birthday the “art of piano playing”.
What you fail to realise Mr Burt is that Chris Bliss’s routing goes with ANY piece of music and looks in synch. Have a look at Jasons site where he demonstrates this by changing the music a dozen times during Chris’ routine and it all still stays in synch. Its a con. | {
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Philadelphia experienced its first brutally cold temperatures this week (it dropped to 14°F!) and we even had snowfall yesterday! So this weekend was spent indoors, listening to holiday albums of my youth. (Hanson’s “Snowed In,” anyone?) Yesterday, my boyfriend made us biscuits and mushroom gravy (with my homemade seitan & bean sausage) for breakfast and it was the absolutely perfect way to begin our lazy Saturday. (Though, admittedly, it was noon when we ate.) Today, I wanted to make pancakes but he requested waffles–with chocolate chips! So I obliged. This is what I came up with:
Ingredients
1-1/4 C flour
1/2 C rolled oats
1 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 C semi-sweet non-dairy chocolate chips
1 ripe banana
1-1/2 C non-dairy milk (soy, almond, rice, etc.)
1/4 C canola oil
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
Combine flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Whisk with a fork until combined. Add chocolate chips and stir to combine.
In a separate bowl, mash the banana with a fork until smooth. Add the milk, oil, and vanilla extract, whisking with a fork until combined.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir gently to combine.
While the batter rests, begin pre-heating your waffle iron to your desired crispness. If necessary, spray with oil to prevent waffles from sticking.
When the light turns green, use 1/3 cup scoops of the batter to fill each waffle mold.
The waffles are ready when steam stops rising out of the iron.
Top with vegan butter, maple syrup, and powdered sugar, or any toppings of your choice.
They are perfection! They are so light and fluffy yet still have that delectably crispy shell. I didn’t even take any pictures because they were devoured so quickly >_<
Now to continue this lazy weekend with some reading and knitting, while listening to ‘NSync’s “Home for Christmas” album…
Last week, Alex and I were craving pancakes but wanted something a little different from our usual carrot cake pancakes. I had one ripe banana and not much else… so I whipped up a batch of these plain pancakes that we ate with vegan butter and maple syrup, with a side of tempeh bacon. So delicious!
Add the wet ingredients to the dry. Stir well to combine, being careful not to overmix.
In an oiled, preheat skillet/griddle, add batter in scant 1/4 cup scoops. Cook in batches of three or four at a time (being careful not to overcrowd the skillet) for about 4 minutes (or until the tops look mostly cooked), then flip and cook until lightly browned, 2 more minutes. | {
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I’ve just finished up a year of “Leadership Nashville,” which involved 14-hour days and field trips and a lot of time on the bus with strangers who – thankfully, wonderfully, quickly and sometimes slowly – became friends. In our group of 44: a sparkling news anchor, a beautiful rabbi. An editor of our newspaper and a museum curator. The heads of Metro Nashville Sports Authority, …
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August departs in a dreadful deluge. But September arrives – I hope, I believe – with hope and hustle, even in times such as these. September strides in with energy and eagerness, industry and effort. Today’s post features one book, two readings, and three performances perfect for this month – plus tremendous gratitude for a home that is safe and dry and those who help …
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My husband and I recently attended a dinner at Montgomery Bell Academy here in Nashville featuring celebrity chef Jonathan Waxman, who has opened the restaurant Adele’s (named for his mother) in the Gulch to rave reviews. Waxman seemed like someone who enjoyed his food and an audience as he stood before us in the MBA dining hall, beginning his cooking demonstration. Chatting all the while … | {
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When it comes to “method acting,” I’m very much on the fence. On one side, there’s still that child within me, very much alive, who loves grand stories about grand acts. I don’t know how many times I’ve read Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon at this stage and, indeed, I even recorded an album inspired by the imagery it conjured. Like the rock fans of decades past, reading up on the outlandish and, routinely, morally repugnant acts committed by bands like Led Zeppelin in planes and hotel rooms all round the world, ridiculous tall tales about Marilyn Manson having ribs surgically removed to perform auto-fellatio, not to mention the extent to which the character of The Thin White Duke allegedly had on David Bowie’s nervous breakdown during the production of Station to Station, film journalism even in 2016 cannot get over romanticising the self-destructive exploits of certain, otherwise abundantly privileged Hollywood stars.
The other side of me, and I cannot stress this strongly enough, doesn’t give a toss about actors. When some of the greatest films ever committed to film have been made without so much as a single camera, let alone a single actor, the necessity for the obnoxious toadyist personality cultism, and the obnoxious cultish personalities upon which cinema is allegedly dependent really starts showing its holes. There’s more and purer cinema in Paul Sharits’ Ray Gun Virusthan in Room and Spotlight combined, so please don’t insult me by suggesting we need to put up with Christian Bale disgracefully losing his shit at a blue collar worker for “throwing him off” his unintentionally hilarious performance in a Terminator sequel nobody ever asked for.
Given that you’re currently reading the blog of someone with a Maya Deren tattoo, but is as yet bereft of any Spielberg-related designs, you’re presumably less than surprised my main interest is not, in fact, contemporary Hollywood. That’s not to say, however, that I don’t have a certain adoration and fascination for its potentials – just read my recent love letter to Some Like It Hotif you need convincing of my faith in Hollywood as an entity’s abilities. It takes considerably less practical or academic knowledge of the machinery of the American film industry (which, I’ll be the first to admit, is not one of my strong suits) to know that everything is a product, every product has an “image,” and make no mistake, the image of having no image at all is the most meticulously constructed one there is. Thus, concepts such as “truth” and “reality” become aesthetic choices in their own right – André Bazin discussed “realism” as essentially the dialectical synthesis of reality and the inherent artifice of the cinematic medium, and that was when he was describing people wandering through bombed-out Rome with a 16mm, let alone the studio sets of tinseltown, complete with traumatised runners, dodging traffic whilst desperately clutching Mr. Cruise’s almond milk extra foam double shot decaf mint mocha matcha macchiato in one hand, and his prize pet salamander in the other.
See, here’s the thing: there’s a certain undiscussed, unacknowledged violence in empathy. Alejandro González Iñárrituis quite correct in saying The Revenant would never have worked if, the moment he yelled “cut,” Leonardo and Tom could happily pop back to their trailers for hot coffee. Thing is, though: coffee is still available at the end of the road. It always is. Lived experience is not simply some room you can walk into; it’s a complex intersection of an array of nuances, multiple pasts, presents and futures. Who cares that you’re hungry today? You were at a 5-star restaurant last month and, come the wrap party, you’ll be at one again. Dumping your girlfriend and selling your house is not, actually, an accurate way of accessing first-hand experience of being a victim of Shoah. Losing masses of weight by only eating melon and steamed fish for a set period of time will teach you nothing – repeat, nothing – about destroying and ending your life through heroin addiction at the tender age of 21. Trust me. Still, I have no objection to someone changing their lifestyle to one degree or another during a role in order to achieve better the constructed aesthetic of realism, as opposed to the constructed aesthetic of “stageyness;” knock yourself out. What I object to is not the addition of realism to a role; what I object to is the complete undermining of the “method” by creating such a performance out of the method itself that the only thing embellished is the star’s own image, to the great detriment of their character.
Unsurprisingly, Jared Leto is the strongest example here, and not just on the basis of his remarkable levels of self-satisfaction, but also on the basis of his remarkable levels of self-preservation. See, Leto represents quite simply the ultimate hypocrisy of outlandish method acting: not only do you get to pretend that lived experience is simply a room you can just walk into, you also get to choose exactly how long you stay in the room, and even how far into it you’re willing to walk. “He started watching footage of actual violent crimes on YouTube, until he had to stop himself.” Oh, fuck off. It’s 2016. Who hasn’t? I couldn’t go to school without someone shoving a phone in my face, with footage of Saddam Hussein’s execution, or a military contractor’s beheading. I imagine for a moment the cornucopia of “useful” method experiences that were so easily accessible to him for which he apparently did not opt – namely, anything that might have put him remotely in harm’s way.
I think back to all of his godawful interviews with regard to the character Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club. It’s actually quite incredible how many people are willing to blow smoke up an actor for the most trivial and frivolous of pursuits. Take John Patterson’s pitifully obsequious interview with Leto, in which he, riotously, describes Rayon as yet another example of Leto’s “total immersion.” What method of total immersion is that, you ask? To go out, dressed as the transgender female character. Once. TO WHOLE FOODS. Let’s break this down for a second: Jared Leto, method actor extraordinaire, “immersed” himself as his character once and only once, “to get a little judgement, some meanness, a little condemnation…for the part,” from those notoriously violent denizens of spelt bread, purple cauliflower, and ultra-conservative social politics: Whole Foods. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve gotten the occasional dirty look, passing through a farmer’s market, but it’s not exactly the same as wandering into a Plaistow lock-in, either. Of course, the irony of Leto’s choice lies not only in the stereotypically liberal stance Whole Foods projects – however genuine or ersatz these projections may be – but in the fact that, at the steep prices of Whole Foods’ organic gourmet produce, there’s not a snowball’s chance in Hell that Rayon, or indeed most trans women – real or fictional – would or could ever shop there, anyway. Perhaps Leto is too solipsistically self-involved to realise that, or perhaps he knows perfectly well, but didn’t feel like taking a bigger risk. Still, it was vastly apparent that his “method” was founded upon ignorance, hypocrisy, or both. Beyond the issues’ amplification due to Leto’s inappropriateness as an actor for the role, by being cisgender in the first place and the hilarity of his jaunt round the supermarket being called “total immersion” is that, for trans women desiring genital reconstructive surgery, required time for “total immersion” into the role of one’s true gender can be a year or more. Had he the desire, Leto could have got estrogen and anti-androgen medication delivered to his trailer on a silver platter within the hour but, no. Some total immersions can be a little too immersive, apparently. Am I suggesting that Jared Leto should have altered his hormone levels, thus reducing body hair and developing breasts? I don’t know, I’m no actor; I’m just a film-loving tranny with an axe to grind.
Leto can flatter himself into thinking he “got into the mind of a psychopath” by sending his fellow Suicide Squad cast and crew dead pigs and used condoms because it didn’t affect him. He was surrounded by professionals who were kind enough not to leave him, picking up his teeth with a broken arm, but also were kind enough not to have him sectioned under any local mental health acts for doing so, as would of course happen to anyone who was actually suffering bouts of mental illness, and was making others suffer, too. It seems particularly pertinent because, of course, there are uncountable people who have had front-row access to abusive, sadistic, psychopaths and narcissists their entire life, in the form of their mothers, fathers, husbands, boyfriends… But who cares about the survivors of those kinds of psychopaths, the real ones? They’re boring, right Jared? Perhaps, more than anyone else, Leto represents the ultimate paradox of a “method” actor, who is clearly bereft of the experience of being told “no,” on account of who he is: there’s no chance of a character’s fictional psyche EVER dominating an ego already so inflated. I might politely suggest that, for his next role, Leto might want to try and get cast as a decent human being, mindful of others, with more than a shred of humility. But I’m sure he’d manage to interpret his remit as requiring him to shoplift from charity stores and prank-call orphans, pretending to be their parents.
The meticulous cynicism with which actors like Jared Leto pick and choose which roles demand what levels and what means of “method” approach reveal all too clearly that we aren’t dealing with an actor “losing himself in the role.” We’re seeing someone push all known boundaries to ensure that the role gets lost in him.
You will never understandHow it feels to live your lifeWith no meaning or controlAnd with nowhere left to goYou are amazed that they existAnd they burn so brightWhilst you can only wonder whyRent a flat above a shopCut your hair and get a jobSmoke some fags and play some poolPretend you never went to schoolBut still you’ll never get it right‘Cause when you’re laid in bed at nightAnd watching roaches climb the wallIf you called your dad he could stop it allYeah | {
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Phonesnoop: spying on you via your BlackBerry
New application can secretly monitor your chats
A new application called PhoneSnoop has been released for the BlackBerry range that lets users dial in to the phone and start listening in to what's going on.
The app basically responds to a pre-configured number and uses BlackBerry APIs to intercept the call and auto-answer.
The new application has been given an 'advisory' warning ahead of its launch - but don't worry if you're a BB user, as there are a number of safeguards in place to stop it being used.
Physical contact
For instance, the application needs to be physically installed on the phone and know your PIN, which means it would have to be someone quite close to you intent on spying.
The quality of the recording is such that audio can only be heard if the phone is out in the open, meaning it's pretty likely you'll notice an incoming call or see the suspicious device hanging around.
Admittedly it doesn't bode well for refined versions of the application - it's possible a more evil-minded hacker could put something together that makes it harder to detect when you're being listened to.
And of course there's always the possibility of super spies seducing you and tampering with your BlackBerry while you're in the bathroom - but there are some sacrifices we'd be willing to make. | {
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History and ICT in Y5GI
Today in history we have been learning all about the Tudor timeline. We tried to think of interesting ways to present our learning, some of us used google drive, others used Popplet. We really enjoyed ordering the timeline and learning lots of interesting facts. | {
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Odd SMS Behavior - marks read messages as unread
If I have a read message from one of my contacts and then receive a group message containing the same contact, my Z10 shows two unread messages. It shows the unread group message and then resurrects the old read message from the contact and marks it unread. It does this for the most recent read message for the contacts in the group message.
If I have a read message from one of my contacts and then receive a group message containing the same contact, my Z10 shows two unread messages. It shows the unread group message and then resurrects the old read message from the contact and marks it unread. It does this for the most recent read message for the contacts in the group message.
I have this same issue...I wonder if it is a BlackBerry 10 bug or AT&T issue...
Even if you're not sure of the resolution, has anyone else besides MDinFL and me seen this behavior? I would have guessed it to be a little more prevalent, but aside from this thread, I haven't seen any other mentions of it.
If I have a read message from one of my contacts and then receive a group message containing the same contact, my Z10 shows two unread messages. It shows the unread group message and then resurrects the old read message from the contact and marks it unread. It does this for the most recent read message for the contacts in the group message.
I am on AT&T and do a lot of group messaging and I've noticed the same thing. Hopefully they fix it soon, it's actually really annoying.
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Essex County Freeholders Wednesdays, 2x/month 7:00pm
New Jerseyians always ask, "What is a 'Freeholder' ???" Come learn more about what your County Board of Chosen Freeholders work to resolve. An opportunity to provide and listen to fellow county residents make Public Comment is a part of the agenda. | {
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I reproduce below some excerpts from a long article about the psychological theories of Chris Mooney. It is headed: "The Science of Fox News: Why Its Viewers are the Most Misinformed". I first reproduce Mooney's "proof" that conservatives are wrong to be skeptical about global warming and then excerpt his explanation of why that is.
Note that his only evidence for conservatives being wrong about global warming is that they DISAGREE with the authorities on the subject. He then explains that this is because they are authoritarian! The good old Green/Left black-is-white reasoning again! Ya gotta laugh!
Just a small point: He relies heavily in his thinking on the work by Robert Altemeyer on "Right-wing authoritarianism". He evidently overlooks the fact that, like most Leftist psychologists, Altemeyer has no idea what conservatives actually think. As a result, by Altemeyer's own admission, he found that his measure of "Right-wing authoritarianism" did NOT correlate with vote. In other words, about half of Altemeyer's "right wingers" actually voted for Leftist political parties. You can't make this stuff up! | {
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Why the World is Shifting Towards a Cloud-Native Approach
Do you know, according to the forecast of some research organizations, cloud services will contribute as nearly $500 billion to global revenues. With a massive potential for business impact, it also has an ability to move an idea into production quickly and efficiently.
A significant number of organizations, including start-ups, have already migrated their functions to the cloud. But still, according to Capgemini, only 15 percent of enterprise workloads run in cloud-native ecosystems.
Well, one of the strongest reasons for this slow rate is that the concept of cloud-native didn’t exist a decade ago. In fact, it was barely a part of IT lexicon. But with the promising potential of the cloud-native delivery model and its delivery in terms of elasticity, scalability, and resiliency by using a continuous delivery method, the use of this methodology is expected to increase to 35 percent by 2020.
Organizations which are losing revenue and growth because of a monolithic approach are now gearing up for the microservices approach of cloud-native architecture for software development for futuristic growth. This change of mindset is not limited to retail and consumer-focused industry, but traditional businesses run on a monolithic approach are shifting to the cloud environment for future-proof growth
Businesses which are running on traditional cloud services are also making a shift towards cloud-native infrastructure for more elasticity and scalability. As it is designed on a modular architecture composed of many microservices, each of which are fast to develop, deploy, and modify.
Organizations which have integrated this modular architecture across their organization are responding better to consumer queries by using customer data with cloud-native application development. Plus software designed on cloud-native approach is designed to operate in sync with different cloud environments, enabling organizations to work independently with any architecture.
Technically speaking, a cloud-native architecture is an innovative approach to upgrade the prototyping, designing, and operation of applications using infrastructure-as-a-service. Its basic operation is to deliver high speed, scalability, and quality.
Cloud-Native Benefits
From a high level, here are some of the benefits of cloud-native architecture:
Speed: Meeting all the compliance requirements in a short time is a difficult task for organizations, irrespective of their sizes. A cloud-native approach makes it possible for them to make the process speedy from inception to development to testing. Apart from improving software development lifecycle, it takes care of things like bugs and slow loading speed.
Scalability: With the evolution of software-as-a-service, cloud-native architecture has been enabling scalable development to support a different and increasing customer base, and managing variable costs.
Cost-effective: Well, nothing is better than a pay-as-you-go system in the ecosystem of Infrastructure-As-A-Service. You can use additional services according to your new product and business requirement.
Automation: Using cloud-native infrastructure enables you to save IT costs with successful deliverables. Within this infrastructure, organizations can prototype, design, develop, test, and deliver applications faster than before.
Empowers teams to focus on deliverables: Cloud-native infrastructure enables developers and architects to access their system anytime from any remote location. It brings fast response and productivity in the development process.
Greater flexibility: Today, many public cloud providers offer many services at affordable prices. But, in reality, most organizations wish to use more than one platform. With a cloud-native approach, organizations can run their applications on multiple platforms, public and private, without making any changes.
Agile development: Cloud computing comes with the framework of Agile development. It promotes cross-team interactions and minimizes the risk of failure. It reduces downtime by dividing tasks and make processes automated.
Conclusion
It is almost impossible to add new features for your customers every time. Are your developers facing issues in adding new code to the software? Or do you face difficulty in meeting deadlines?
Then a cloud-native architecture is an optimal solution for you to get over these problems in continuous delivery and adding new features. It will help you to focus more on customer-centricity, quality, and end-to-end visibility.
It could be the answer to challenges your enterprise is facing, like assessment, selection of the right methodology, platforms, services, and new-generation architectural patterns.
We know the priorities of businesses changes with time. That’s why our cloud service is easily migratable and distributable to enable our developers to add any service or feature without causing any harm to the existing system.
It also has pre-designed outcome-based programs for case-driven portfolio assessment, and it simply integrates the concepts of DevOps, continuous delivery, microservices, and containers.
Integrating a cloud-native approach in software development processes in no longer a matter of upgrading. It is a requirement to stay relevant and efficient in the market. With the customized cloud-native architecture, you can access the flexibility, speed, and security that top cloud companies are enjoying.
Going by the statistics produced by IDC that 80 percent of application development will take place on cloud platforms using microservices and cloud functions, are you in the same picture? If not. Then it’s time to make a move.
To deploy a cloud-native methodology across the organization may cost you a small fortune upfront, but it keeps you running and wealthy in this competitive market in the long run. | {
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It can be difficult to think about end-of-life issues, even for people who understand the importance of estate planning. As with any other important life decision, professional advice on your estate plan will give you more options, better outcomes and peace of mind.
Atkinson Law can assist in planning for your family’s future by preparing documents including:
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When it comes to your family’s future, you should not wait until you have an adverse health event before you draft a will and prepare an estate plan. And when you do, make the decision to have your last will and testament prepared by a licensed attorney in Norfolk, Virginia.
Online and store bought wills and powers of attorney are a poor substitute for an estate lawyer
Whatever the retailer or online outfit promises, their documents are not backed up by a Virginia licensed local attorney. In the long run, they are not cost effective. If you have a problem with them, or even a question, these outfits will tell you that they cannot give legal advice (if not they are committing a misdemeanor) and that you need to contact an attorney. Why not consult with one from the outset and avoid the frustration of the “quick fix” route altogether? | {
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OURSERVICES
Signage
Words are one of the most important design elements in signage. The curvy shapes & lines of each letter create word forms which utilize valuable space within the design. And yet, we don't typically think of words as being a "design element" at all. As a consequence, one of the most common design mistakes in creating a sign we see is bad wording. When you carefully choose the words which correspond with your sign's primary purpose, your message will be clear and precise.
Here are three important concepts to help you stay on the right track:
You only have 3½ seconds!
Signs viewed by passing motorists often have a lifespan of just 3½ seconds before the vehicle whizzes right on by. Overcrowding your sign with too many words or lines of text can make your message too difficult to read. Plus, too much information can make the sign look so busy, people won't take the time to read it. It's just too much effort!
Less Is More
The most successful sign design will communicate clearly and concisely. Therefore, in as few words as possible (seven or less), create the message you wish to convey to your target audience. The number of words used on a sign is a classic example of where, "Less Really Is More". This all seems so obvious doesn't it? And yet I'm bringing this issue to your full attention — "just in case" — because overcrowding signs with too many words is still such a common problem.
Don't leave anything to chance.
Make sure people can tell the type of business you're in from your sign design. Otherwise, you'll miss key opportunities to attract the attention of potential clients who are in the market for your products and/or services. If you currently have a business name that doesn't make it apparent what you do or offer, you can always add a descriptive word or phrase that'll do the job. For example, Rachelle's Bakery or Studio Lettrage.
Sign & Letter Sizing
Ensuring that potential customers can view and understand your message is vital to your business' success. At Studio Lettrage, we are experts in determining the correct size of your signage for maximum effect. Below is a chart that advises on the appropriate letter height for readability at certain distances. | {
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I have been a teacher since graduating from Washington State University in 1991 (Go Cougs!). I had the privilege of subbing for many local area school districts before landing my first job at Toutle Jr/Sr High. After spending 8 great years as a Fighting Duck, I went back to subbing in order to be a full-time mother and am now working on my 13th year at Castle Rock High School. My goal is to help your student become a creative thinker and life-long lover of the arts whether as a patron, performer, or hobbyist. The Arts help us communicate and make sense of the world as well as bring us joy and tranquility and I want your child to experience many opportunities to express him/herself creatively. | {
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Cook bacon in large sauté pan. Remove bacon from pan and put aside. In same pan, add chopped onions to bacon drippings; sauté until tender. Add in chopped zucchini and cover. Cook 10-15 minutes on low until zucchini is tender. Add in chicken soup starter, crumbled bacon, salt and pepper. Fold ingredients together then place tomatoes on top of mixture and cover with Velveeta. Place cover on pan again for about 5-10 min until cheese is melted. Serve immediately.
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Is Louis Theroux Married? Nancy Strang Is A Director With A Long BBC Career
It's a big night for documentary devotees: Louis Theroux finally makes a return to BBC Two with a new three-part series, titled Altered States. In the series, set across the United States, Theroux examines issues of birth, love, and death. The first episode, which airs at 9 p.m., is titled "Love Without Limits"; Theroux looks at polyamory in Portland, Oregon, meeting families who reject the typical expectations of monogamous relationships. But what of the documentarian himself (forgive the tenuous link, won't you): is Louis Theroux married? Here's what we know about his life offscreen.
The couple have three children, a Radio Times profile reveals: Albert, Fred, and Walter, aged 11, 9, and 2 when the October 2017 profile went to press. Theroux told the magazine that he finds it difficult to be separated from his children while working, adding, "But sometimes it’s nice to have a break. From the routine. So, it’s not something I could give up lightly."
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He continued, "I have thought about whether it’s fair on the family, me being away a lot. But I get so much out of doing the work. I did stay in the UK for a year after having our third son, which was the right thing to do."
Strang and Theroux moved back to Los Angeles — where Theroux has lived before — in August 2017, the Guardian reports. Where, exactly, is the family based? "A neighbourhood close to the Hollywood sign and the Scientology headquarters," according to the newspaper. Previously, the family lived in Harlesden, London, for over a decade, as Theroux told the Evening Standard.
Here's one more tidbit about Nancy Strang: she appeared on a celebrity episode of Pointlesswith Theroux in 2015, alongside Michael Underwood and Angellica Bell, Calum and Angie Best, and Gary and Harry Lineker. Theroux and Strang played for two charities: Theroux for the Trussell Trust, which operates a food bank network across the UK, and Strang for Lift, which supports homeless and disadvantaged people in London. Sadly, they didn't win the jackpot, but the show donated £500 to their respective charities all the same.
And that's about all the information Google has to offer about Nancy Strang (and all any misc Internet stranger has any right to know, too). I'll leave you with an anecdote from Louis Theroux about filming "Love Without Limits." Theroux told the Sun that he asked his wife's permission before attending a "blindfolded sensual dinner," explaining, "She’s a very understanding and cool person, not the sort of person to get insecure and in a flap about something like that."
"I don’t remember what she said," he continued. "Probably something like, 'By the way, you still haven’t taken out the rubbish.'" | {
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Muni Catchup 8/15
by Pat Luby
This Week in the Muni Catchup
3 Fewer Muni ETFs
Speaking of Muni ETFs…
Caveat Emptor
The Wisdom of Buffett
The Bottom Line
3 Fewer Muni ETFs
State Street Global Advisors announced that 12 ETFs will be closing soon, and that among them are 3 muni bond ETFs that are sub-advised by Nuveen. (BABS, CXA and INY.) While the three that are closing are the smallest of the SPDR muni ETFs, it does seem surprising given the $45+ billion in inflows into the municipal fund market this year, that these three funds have not been able to attract more attention from investors. In particular, BABS, which is focused on taxable Build America Bonds, a part of the muni market which I have viewed as presenting an overlooked opportunity for investors seeking taxable income. (There is a weekly update of flows into muni open-end mutual funds and ETFs on the Context page.)
Speaking of Muni ETFs…
For the first time in several years, munis will be on the agenda for this year’s Inside ETFs Inside Fixed Income Conference. There is a great line-up of speakers and ideas, so please consider joining me in Newport Beach in November. I will be presenting “The Case for Muni Bonds: Active vs. Passive in the Puerto Rico Era.”
Caveat Emptor or Audentes Fortuna Iuvat?
Bloomberg reports the approval of a plan to issue $800 million in munis to finish construction of what Governor Christie called “the ugliest damn building in New Jersey, and maybe America.”
The bonds will be non-rated and when they come to market will no doubt offer investors a much higher yield than investment grade bonds.
“Buyer Beware”? Some investors may reject the bonds offhand simply because of the garish appearance of the buildings (see for yourself) or a general distrust of non-rated bonds.
Or, does “Fortune Favor the Brave”? Other investors may be inclined to overlook some of the risks in order to pursue the promise of the higher yields.
Neither reaction is an appropriate way for the prudent investor to decide whether or not to buy. As Ben Graham wrote in The Intelligent Investor, “Operations for profit should be based not on optimism but on arithmetic.” (From Chapter 20, Margin of Safety.)
Self-directed investors who may be tempted to consider bonds such as these need to be honest with themselves about their ability to judge the merits and risks involved, and–even more importantly–their ability to maintain surveillance on the issuer’s ongoing financial condition. With rare exception, my preference would be that for investors for whom high yield is appropriate, consider using a professional manager to do so by investing with a high-yield open end mutual fund or one of the high-yield ETFs. Even for investors with a portfolio of individual bonds, adding a fund or an ETF to the portfolio is worth considering. (For additional reading, I recommend reading my article about The Benefits of Professional Managementand my two articles published by Van Eck about adding ETFs to a portfolio of munis. See the links on my Bibliography page.)
So after the bonds are issued for American Dream, fund and ETF owners may see them show up in their underlying portfolios, but they will be there because the portfolio manager made a rational decision based on arithmetic–not an emotional decision based on a need for income or an aversion to an ugly building.
Buyer beware? Yes–always. And does fortune favor the brave? Perhaps, but in my experience, fortune more often favors the prepared.
The Wisdom of Buffett
Is it hot where you are? It’s hot here..it has been hot, and the forecast is for more hot. In fact, right now it is hotter where I live than this well-known destination. Even though they have wide easy roads that have been recently repaved, I do not want to go there.
A better course of action may be to slow down and chill out with some “Wisdom from Buffett.” It is especially in summer when I find that his insights and stories really resonate with me, but his timeless wisdom transcends seasons and appeals to young and old alike. I have always been impressed by how well he is able to express himself, which is why–as my family knows–I simply refer to him as The Poet. This week’s quote:
The more we learn the less we know
What you keep is what you can’t let go
Take it fast or take it slow
Just one way for you to go
Don’t chu-know
From Don’t Chu Know, by Jimmy Buffett
THE BOTTOM LINE
Check Your Calls: Didn’t believe that rates could go down again, did you? Declining rates can mean an increase in market value but also an unwelcome increase in call risk. If you hold premium bonds (and who doesn’t!), beware of how concentrated your call risk is–especially before you add any additional callable bonds to your portfolio.
Beware the Coupon: All other things being equal, lower coupons mean higher duration and therefore higher interest rate sensitivity. Add in the unfavorable tax treatment of market discount on munis and investors who do not plan on holding bonds to maturity should be wary of buying par or discount bonds.
Curve Positioning: picking a spot on the curve is too much like trying to time rates–of which I am not a fan. Going out to the “bump” in the muni curve around 20-years can be tempting as there is not much incremental yield to incent investors to go further, and because of the slope of the curve, holding today’s 20-years bonds as they approach maturity may offer some nice price appreciation–if rates remain steady. But as shown on the Context page, 20-year par bonds can have a duration of close to 15–meaning that a 1% instantaneous increase in rates would mean a 15% decline in market value. That would hurt. So when you are looking at the curve positioning, check the duration. If you are considering funds, it can also be helpful to also check the correlation with your equity holdings. (See my recent article on ETF.com for additional insights on the topic.) Additions to your portfolio should reflect first and foremost what you need to get done with the money, not how you “feel” about the market.
If you are an advisor, please contact me if you need help deciphering any of this for yourself or your clients. | {
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IBM Red Hat: Reading the tea leaves
I have certain core IT values. I like customers to buy versus build systems . Have long been a buy cheerleader. But in return, I expect vendors to build not buy. So, I have never been a fan of big acquisitions. Certainly not at massive multiples.
So my initial reaction to IBM’s $ 34 billion play for Red Hat is that of distaste.
But the opinions of bankers and investors matter more than mine so not going to comment more on that front.
Reading the tea leaves, though I wonder if this signals
a) The end of another hype cycle for AI?
I saw a recent Fortune issue which was all about AI and I wondered if that is a signal of the peak of the current AI hype cycle. BTW, we are going through the 4th or 5th hype cycle around AI. They appear and disappear every decade or so. As I wrote in Silicon Collar
“Since the 1950s! That is when Alan Turing defined his famous test to measure a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to that of a human. In 1959, we got excited when Allen Newell and his colleagues coded the General Problem Solver. In 1968, Stanley Kubrick sent our minds into overdrive with HAL in his movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey. We applauded when IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat Grandmaster Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997. We were impressed in 2011 when IBM’s Watson beat human champions at Jeopardy! and again in 2016 when Google's AlphaGo showed it had mastered Go, the ancient board game. Currently, we are so excited about Amazon's Echo digital assistant/home automation hub and its ability to recognize the human voice, that we are saying a machine has finally passed the Turing Test. Almost.”
Is IBM’s pivot from the attention it has given Watson the last several years more of a confirmation of the peak?
“Yes, we are approaching a pivot in the cloud apps market. This is where the geopolitics were in 1989. The next decade and beyond will be tumultuous – exciting for some, disrupting to others.
It is the end of cloud apps 1.0.”
Last week, Larry Ellison announced a more secure Gen 2 cloud. IBM’s play for Red Hat is about “multi-clouds” and given its traditional hardware and hosting strengths, I read more of a pivot towards private clouds.
My fellow analysts who watch hawk-like for multi-tenant, public cloud architectural purity will be having conniptions with the cloud washing we will see in the next few years.
I have a feeling J.J. Abrams could make a next career cataloging the cloud pure and evil that are about to unfold.
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IBM Red Hat: Reading the tea leaves
I have certain core IT values. I like customers to buy versus build systems . Have long been a buy cheerleader. But in return, I expect vendors to build not buy. So, I have never been a fan of big acquisitions. Certainly not at massive multiples.
So my initial reaction to IBM’s $ 34 billion play for Red Hat is that of distaste.
But the opinions of bankers and investors matter more than mine so not going to comment more on that front.
Reading the tea leaves, though I wonder if this signals
a) The end of another hype cycle for AI?
I saw a recent Fortune issue which was all about AI and I wondered if that is a signal of the peak of the current AI hype cycle. BTW, we are going through the 4th or 5th hype cycle around AI. They appear and disappear every decade or so. As I wrote in Silicon Collar
“Since the 1950s! That is when Alan Turing defined his famous test to measure a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to that of a human. In 1959, we got excited when Allen Newell and his colleagues coded the General Problem Solver. In 1968, Stanley Kubrick sent our minds into overdrive with HAL in his movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey. We applauded when IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat Grandmaster Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997. We were impressed in 2011 when IBM’s Watson beat human champions at Jeopardy! and again in 2016 when Google's AlphaGo showed it had mastered Go, the ancient board game. Currently, we are so excited about Amazon's Echo digital assistant/home automation hub and its ability to recognize the human voice, that we are saying a machine has finally passed the Turing Test. Almost.”
Is IBM’s pivot from the attention it has given Watson the last several years more of a confirmation of the peak?
“Yes, we are approaching a pivot in the cloud apps market. This is where the geopolitics were in 1989. The next decade and beyond will be tumultuous – exciting for some, disrupting to others.
It is the end of cloud apps 1.0.”
Last week, Larry Ellison announced a more secure Gen 2 cloud. IBM’s play for Red Hat is about “multi-clouds” and given its traditional hardware and hosting strengths, I read more of a pivot towards private clouds.
My fellow analysts who watch hawk-like for multi-tenant, public cloud architectural purity will be having conniptions with the cloud washing we will see in the next few years.
I have a feeling J.J. Abrams could make a next career cataloging the cloud pure and evil that are about to unfold. | {
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Marc Weiss Enterprise - Soft Coral Grow :: Reviews
Soft corals and polyps primarily eat detrital aggregates colonized by beneficial microplankton adhering to , and in their copious mucus layer. These organisms farm their own food in their mucus layer. Soft corals are carnivorous and highprotein microbes support their growth and health.
Soft corals do not appear to digest phytoplankton (algae) but there appears to be a positive response to their dissolved remains. Theyâ??re nourished through their mucus envelope mostly via the by-products of bacterioplankton. Large zooplankton are sparse in nature and make up a small amount of the soft coralâ??s nutritional intake. Microbes in the mucus layer are required to degrade it first. In time, mainly the bacterioplankton fix and reduce nitrates produced by this rotting food. These large pieces of dead coral nutrients are adding to the pollution in the aquarium until itâ??s consumed. Microbial enriched coral mucus also contains other beneficial organisms that may eat, overgrow or provide antibiotic by-products against pathogens.
Soft Coral Growâ?¢ provides a bio-film that adheres to and enhances the coralâ??s mucus layer. This bio-film provides an enhanced environment for increased microplankton colonization allowing soft corals ands polyps to feed them-selves more efficiently from the microbes already in the aquarium or added to it. This eliminates pollution caused by excess food. The use of the appropriate trace elements and water conditioners should be continued. Soft Coral Growâ?¢ is a natural cultured detrital aggregate and algal colloids with no biocidal preservatives, as are needed in liquid coral foods. Results are usually seen within two weeks.
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The elderly suffer more serious complications from infections and benefit less from vaccination than the general population. Scientists have long known that a weakened immune system is to blame but the exact mechanisms behind this lagging immunity have remained largely unknown.
Next year will be another banner year for blue-collar labor. Be they truck drivers or HVAC workers, employees who didn't do four or more years in a liberal arts college are hard to find and in hot demand heading into 2019, according to a report released December 13 by The Conference Board, a nonprofit organization researching the American business climate.
China is widening their lead in AI globally by concentrating on a core set of best practices that energize entire industries to pilot and adopt AI for unique use cases. Thanks to its thriving start-up landscape, the United States is in second place when ranked by share of active players.
The administration of President Donald Trump proposed yesterday (December 11) to reinterpret the Clean Water Act such that the legislation protects fewer streams and wetlands from pollution, reports. It is doing this by redefining the Waters of the United States rule to exclude so-called ephemeral streams-those that flow only after rainfall and snowmelt-and wetlands not adjacent to or connected by surface water to other bodies of water.
Bruce Sterling at The Interval: The future is a kind of history that hasn't happened yet. The past is a kind of future that has already happened. The present moment vanishes before it can be described. Language, a human invention, lacks the power to fully adhere to reality.
The flying cars depicted in science fiction classics such as "Blade Runner" and "The Fifth Element" have long been seen as flights of fancy, but their arrival is closer than you think. At least a dozen companies are prototyping or testing flying cars or passenger drones, according to a Deloitte report from January.
Hi Fidelity Genetics (HFG), which combines sensors, data and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve plant breeding, today announced that it has raised an $8.5 million Series A led by Fall Line Capital and Finistere Ventures. This brings the total amount raised by HFG to $11.5 million. There are two parts to the HFG system.
Hello, I am really interested in the technology behind self driving cars and hope to own one someday. My question is what is the current stage we are at in developing a level 5 autonomous car. When will the first model be available for sale?
The amount of runoff from Sierra snow into California's largest reservoirs is heading for a 54 percent drop in the next 20 to 40 years and 79 percent in the next 60 to 80 years, according to a new study.
The Brainstorm long read: from satellite TV to telephones, some science and tech brainstorms from 50 years ago did arrive as predicted By Harun Siljak, TCD In 1968, a group of experts contributed chapters to a book called "Toward the Year 2018", a visionary take on the next 50 years of science, technology, politics, economy, culture.
The race is on to create lab-grown meat products. Still, little is known about their safety and potential impact. In this episode of Moving Upstream, WSJ's Jason Bellini visits entrepreneurs, scientists, and ranchers to understand how it's made, and gets a first taste of steak grown from cultured cells. | {
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Virtual Reality: 5 Reasons Why Fiction Could Become Reality
Virtual Reality is more than just a fad. It’s available on a wide range of platforms and it can easily bring you the immersion you want. There are lots of devices that give you Virtual Reality features, and the great thing about them is that they work extremely well.
Numbers show everything
In the next 2 years, we can imagine that the number of VR users will be around 171 million. But let’s face it, as more and more technologies appear on the market, we will find the older models cheaper. As a result, the adoption rate will be a lot higher and that’s exactly the type of situation and approach that you may need in this situation. It’s important to adopt Virtual Reality, as it can help businesses in the future.
Immersion
Let’s face it, the reason why VR is so popular comes from its immersion factor. Being able to become a part of amazing, wonderful worlds is downright extraordinary and it shows a lot of potential tool. In the future, users may be able to view services and products without distractions and that will generate sales a lot faster. But you have to invest in this type of tech if you are a business owner. While the technology may not be very far off, it does take a bit of time until we can handle this adequately.
Creating a story
With Virtual Reality, you have the ability to fully immerse your customer in any type of experience. You can create a story that allows you to show the benefits of this service. You can offer your customers a much better way to interact with your offerings. Static campaigns work now, but they may not work in the future. You have to know how to adapt everything.
Trying stuff before you buy
Things like website design, customer services or tech products may get trials with Virtual Reality. The reason is simple, it’s easy to see these and interact with them with help from virtual reality. It’s a very distinct and unique experience that does seem to work really well as a whole.
How is your company perceived?
Knowing how is perceived your company can be very useful. What you have to do here is to make sure that you focus on Virtual Reality and you use it in an adequate manner. The more you take your time adapting solutions, the harder it will be for you. But doing this does have its perks.
At the end of the day, Virtual Reality is a very good technology and it slowly pushes itself in the business world. So, it’s only a matter of time until most of your customers will be able to get the results that you expect. It’s not an easy thing to imagine and expect, but at the end of the day it can indeed pay off extremely well.
Prepare for Virtual Reality starting with this point, and you are bound to get a good outcome!
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Rebels, Dawgs hit ice for doubleheaders tonight
TUPELO – Ice hockey returns to the BancorpSouth Arena for the second time in three weeks tonight and Saturday with doubleheaders featuring Mississippi State and Ole Miss.
The Rebels take the ice first at 6 p.m. today against Arkansas followed by the Bulldogs versus Alabama. MSU faces Memphis to open Saturday’s action at 5 p.m. Ole Miss and Alabama play at 8.
Admission is $12 per day or $20 for a weekend pass good for all four games.
Mississippi State is seeking its first victory after an 0-6 start, which includes a sweep by Tennessee in Tupelo two weeks ago.
The Bulldogs’ other four losses were on the road and without a full roster. MSU expects to have its complete roster available this weekend, however, according to coach Cole Klubek.
“We want our fans to see a full hockey experience. That’s our main priority,” he said. “With a full roster, we should get our first win hopefully.”
Team captain Chris Moore and R.C. Martin, who had a hat trick against Tennessee, lead Mississippi State in goals.
Rebels back in town
Ole Miss hits the Tupelo ice for the first time since sweeping Mississippi State last November. The Rebels (7-8) are glad to be playing close to home after road trips to Michigan and Florida this season.
“For us that makes a world of a difference,” said Ole Miss coach Kristian Skou. “Not just financially, but the fans give the players a little extra energy and push to get through the game.”
Cameron Cook and Lee Edelman have eight goals apiece to lead Ole Miss, which is coming off a program best 22-win season. Senior Leo Cuzin has eleven assists to go with seven goals.
MSU and Ole Miss are scheduled to play each other Jan. 18-19 at the BCS Arena. | {
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The Sims (Deluxe Edition)
There has never been a better time to buy the game everyone is talking about. The Sims Deluxe combines into one premium edition the most popular PC game of all time, The Sims, as well as the top-selling Sims expansion pack, The Sims Livin' Large, and a host of all-new exclusive features and content.
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THE SIMS: Create an entire neighborhood of Sims and run or ruin their lives with the full version of the best selling PC game of all time. Help your Sims pursue careers, make friends, and find romance -- or make a complete mess of things! Open-ended gameplay gives you the freedom to set your own goals and chart your Sims' destiny;THE SIMS LIVIN' LARGE: With over 125 new items, five new career tracks with 50 new jobs and a cast of wild characters like the Grim Reaper and the Genie, this best-selling expansion pack puts your Sims into outrageous situations and settings;THE SIMS CREATOR: Recreate any Sim you can imagine with this powerful new tool that allows even novice users to customize every detail of how their Sims look. Choose their clothing or create your own. Select from a variety of details like ties, jewelry and decals. Players can even put their own face in The Sims with this easy to use tool;25+ EXCLUSIVE OBJECTS: Furnish your Sims' homes with two completely new design sets with over 25 objects exclusive to The Sims Deluxe;50+ NEW CLOTHING CHOICES. A selection of modern and extreme fashion choices await your Sims | {
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Anterior Hip Pain Exercises
What contributes to overload of the anterior hip? How can you incorporate manual therapy, motor control, postural correction and strengthening to address the factors overloading the anterior hip?
Nichole Hamilton presents this video which will help you identify which tissues need to be released, when motor control patterns need to be retrained, the best way to train the deep stabilisers, and how to make your hip rehabilitation functional.
You will learn how to keep the femoral head centred in the acetabulum during movement, how and when to progress hip strengthening, ways of further challenging your patients hip control, and how to tie it all together.
Part 1 covers a review of the biomechanics of the overload, daily habits and postures, soft tissue release and manual therapy, activation of the core and deep stabilisers.
Part 2 further explores learning to centre the femoral head, common mistakes of core stability training, centring the femoral head in the acetabulum during movement, adding proprioceptive challenges and single leg loading.
Part 3 incorporates eccentric psoas control, biomechanical ideas for optimal walking and running, and putting it all together. | {
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This is your one stop shop for for high quality, in depth tabletop sports games. Our products utilize dice and individual player cards to accurately portray sports simulations in several different sports. Baseball games, hockey games, soccer games are just a few of the sports games available. So, hit the baseball field (or the soccer pitch, or the hockey rink), grab some dice, and rewrite history with our sports games.
Matchups are key in all sports. Normally, in any given circumstance, any one player has a chance to be better than his opponent. However, in certain situations that a players knows he/she performs well, they can 'dig deep' for that little something extra to tip the scales in their favor. This is the basic game theory behind all Diggin Deep games. - Rob Lennon
As promised.... The 2016-17 European Soccer Leagues are now available from Diggin Deep Sports
As I fill in the gaps in the Diggin Deep Library, the 2016-17 European Soccer Leagues were the first to make the comeback. You can replay the English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish Soccer Leagues for Diggin Deep: World's Game and Glory on the Pitch. Click on the links below to order, and hit the pitch today with Diggin Deep Sports!!! Please note, the 2016-17 French Ligue 1 E-Book is free. And will be till the end of time. The Diggin Deep: World's Game game parts will continue to be free of charge until September 30.
Hey, everyone. First off, I want to sincerely apologize for the absence. It's been a while since I have created new content for Diggin Deep Sports. That ends now! There are several reasons for why I was away. Some reasons were medical related. I am feeling much better, thanks to all the well wishes I received. Some reasons were family related, and some were personal related. None of that matters, as I should never have let this much time go by. For that, I humbly and sincerely apologize to all.
Let me give you an idea of what I am going to try and accomplish. I am attempting to back fill my library with all the games and seasons that I should have released since the early parts of 2017. My first release will be the five big European Soccer Leagues for the 2016-17 season for Diggin Deep: World's Game and Glory on the Pitch. Please expect this to be released in the coming days. I am going thru my library, and see where my biggest gaps are. And cross reference that with the popularity of certain titles. The next seasons that I am going to tackle are the 2017 ATP/WTA season for Diggin Deep Tennis. The next seasons after that will be the 2018 ATP/WTA seasons for Diggin Deep Tennis. This way, I can cross DDT off my list as 'caught up'. After that, I have an idea of what to release next, but I am open to suggestions. I do not have a timetable for when the tennis sets will be released, but I will be active here and other mediums to try an give updates. I also do not know how long it will take to catch up my other titles, but I am going to try my best.
As a token of the gratitude to everyone in this great hobby, I am giving away the 2016-17 French Ligue 1 season for Diggin Deep: World's Game for free. Simply click the link below to download it. Don't have the game parts? No problem, I have marked the game parts at $0.00, for a limited time. This is my way of saying 'Thank You' for staying with me.
Also, in an attempt to broaden the horizon, I have created a Discord server dedicated to not just Diggin Deep Sports, but Table Top Sports in general. The link to the Discord server is https://discord.gg/QwkCus. If you have Discord, join up and let's start the discussion. You can also direct message me on Discord (RLennon72#3124)
More posts to come, but I wanted to let everyone know that Rob and Diggin Deep Sports are BACK!
Rob LennonDiggin Deep Sports
Here are a few other updates on other Diggin Deep related items:
- PLAYING AIDS - I have lost contact with the gentleman who designed the Player Aids. He did a wonderful job with the Soccer and Tennis Aids. Unfortunately, I cannot create these myself, and will not be offering any other aids then the ones currently in the shop.
- PRINTED ORDERS - I am truly a one man show. I may be looking into options to have assistance with certain aspects of running a business such as this. One place I admit that I am still learning is printing and shipping. I have explored several different avenues regarding this. All, but one, has been out of my budget. I would have to charge way more that I would like to make a profit. I currently outsource my printed orders to Staples. Between life, work, family, and dealing with Staples, I have always asked that you allow up to five weeks to receive your printed order.
- RESPONSES - Please continue to feel free to e-mail me any questions, concerns, or comments you have about anything you'd like. I will respond, to the best of my ability. If I have missed you e-mail or question in the past, I am sorry. As mentioned before, there is no real excuse for inactivity. I love this hobby, and I love how helpful the people in this hobby are to each other. I wanna be part of the positives of the Table Top Sports community.
- DIGITAL GAMES - Similar to my venture with Diggin Deep Tennis PC. I would love to try and bring some of my IP's into the digital age. I have no coding experience at all. If you do, and have interest in partnering up for an endeavor like this, hit me up. I'd love to see what can be done.
- DRAWING BOARD - The two games listed are still works in progress. Battle for Nobleronn is still in the pre-alpha / brainstorm phase. However, Matrix Baseball is MUCH more along in the process. I still need to create more seasons, but the game is mostly complete. Just needs a little more love before I unleash it on the public. Expect more on this in 2019.
Serena Williams' 2015 card in both the old and new formats.
Diggin Deep Cards have a new look!!!
I have listened to gamers who enjoy Diggin Deep products, but have commented that they wish the cards would be a little easier to ready. I have reached out to other gamers for their opinions and decided to slightly tweak the basic card design of not only Diggin Deep Tennis, but all of the Diggin Deep game titles (Baseball, Football, Hockey, World's Game, Golf, Boxing...and the upcoming Diggin Deep Basketball and new baseball game I am working on).
The 2015 ATP and WTA seasons for Diggin Deep Tennis are the first seasons to be offered in the new format. As you can see, I removed most of the gridboxes. This 'frees' up the data on the card. This allowed me to change and increase the font as well. You can see the difference to the left where I have Serena Williams' 2015 WTA card in both the older and newer formats.
The newer cards are easier on the eyes. Information is quicker to read, and the card has an overall cleaner look. I hope to use this same formatting methodology going forward. I'd love to hear you opinions. Once you have a few matches under your belt with the new cards, please feel free to let me know your thoughts.
Rob LennonDiggin Deep Sports
We currently offer twelve different games. Click on a game below to learn more.
If you want the whole enchilada...the whole ball of wax...everything under the sun, you can order the 2017 Euro Special. This includes ALL five leagues, and I'll throw in the game parts! The possibilities are limitless. Replay all the leagues. Create your own 'Super' League, and see how things pan out. With over 2,000 individual player cards, you can run your own personal soccer world. If you a big fan of soccer, you cannot go wrong with this deal!
Once you have completed your order, you will receive a link to download your order.
Diggin Deep Basketball - 2016 WNBA Season: E-Book
This is the 2016 WNBA Season for Diggin Deep Basketball. This represents over 160 players from the WNBA during the 2016 season. Once you have completed your order, you will receive a link to download your order.
Diggin Deep Sports are designed by Rob Lennon. All printed products are printed by Staples and shipped by USPS | {
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Mawarire warns Dangote against investment plans in Zimbabwe
Exiled social and economic rights activist, Pastor Evan Mawarire says he has warned Nigerian business tycoon Aliko Dangote against blindly pouring his investments into troubled Zimbabwe which he said was not safe for foreign investments.
The #ThisFlag founder twitted Tuesday he met Dangote in the United States of America where he took time to chat with the billionaire about his business prospects in Zimbabwe.
“And then I told Aliko Dangote that in Zimbabwe government loots investors’ money…,” said Mawarire who also posted images of him and Africa’s richest black man.
This comes after Dangote has shown interest to invest in cement manufacturing, coal mining and power generation in Zimbabwe.
He was in the country August last year where he met President Robert Mugabe and other top government officials over his investment prospects.
Since his widely publicised Harare visit, little has been heard of the tycoon with strong suspicions he has had a change of heart.
Mawarire, on his part, skipped the country via South Africa in July this year to seek refuge in the US.
Before he left, he had given government sleepless nights through his social media campaign for a massive job boycott to demand accountable leadership from the Zanu PF government.
The Baptist cleric turned firebrand anti-Mugabe campaigner has since continued with his campaigns in the safety of America.
He has since joined Zimbabwean based activist, Patson Dzamara in New York to stage protests against President Mugabe’s government on the sidelines of an ongoing UN General Assembly.
President Mugabe and his delegation are part of the world’s greatest inter-state event.
Mawarire said they have since met some UN top officials in attempts to impress upon world leaders to pressure the Harare administration to give in to key reforms being demanded by the opposition back home.
“We come a long way. At the UN knocking on every door telling out #ThisFlag story…,” said Mawarire on his twitter account, in a picture with Dzamara. | {
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OKAFOR: 26 POINTS, 9 BOARDS AS JO JO-LESS SIXERS FALL 109-93!
The Sixers were without the great Jo Jo Embiid in Washington and it showed!
The Wizards checked all the boxes in a 109-93 rout of the Sixers last night that gave them their 11th straight win at home, their longest such streak since the 1988-89 season.
John Wall scored a team-high 25 points and Bradley Beal added 20 as every starter reached double figures. Marcin Gortat reached the 200th double-double of his career (12 points and 10 rebounds) and finished a plus-24 while on the floor.
The Wizards (20-19) rallied from a 13-point first-half deficit, the 10th time they have overcome a double-digit margin this season to win.
Emboldened by the hundreds of fans who traveled to Washington, the 76ers built that lead through the first quarter. Chants of “trust the process,” a reference to center Joel Embiid and former general manager Sam Hinkie, filled the arena when a Philly player stood at the foul line — and those serenades happened often, because Washington sent the Sixers to the line 11 times in the opening quarter.
It wasn’t long before the home crowd of 17,880 got behind its team, however, as the Wizards improved to 16-6 at Verizon Center overall.
Although the Wizards held the Sixers to 37 points in the second half, the comeback began with their shot-making. In a stretch spanning the final 5½ minutes of the second quarter to the start of the third, Washington connected on 15 of 20 shots.
Wall’s sore pinkie finger didn’t seem to affect him during a heat-check run. On Wednesday against the Boston Celtics, Wall missed 17 shots and scored a season-low nine points, then revealed how he has been dealing with soreness involving his pinkie and left wrist.
Near the end of the third quarter, he made three three-pointers in a row. After hitting one of his deep shots and forcing Philadelphia to call a timeout, Wall turned to the bench, crouching low and swinging his arms back and forth. He was feeling good — and so were the Wizards, who closed the quarter with an 86-71 lead.
The comeback saved the Wizards from a second loss to the 76ers, playing again without Embiid, who has not been playing in the second legs of back-to-back games.
Instead, second-year center Jahlil Okafor earned the start. Okafor had fallen out of the Sixers’ rotation and had sat out the previous four games, so coach Brett Brown hoped the playing time would jolt his former No. 3 pick.
Asked what he expected of Okafor, Brown said: “Just for him to remember who he is. To be reminded of his pedigree. To relax. For him to completely understand that we all look forward to putting him on the floor and helping him play NBA basketball again.”
Okafor showed traces of promise while playing against the Wizards’ frontcourt. He drew two shooting fouls against Gortat before four minutes had expired in the opening quarter. Then, Okafor forced another pair out of reserve center Jason Smith and sent little-used backup forward Andrew Nicholson to the bench with his second foul early in the second quarter.
Through the first half, Okafor attempted seven free throws and dominated inside (6 of 9 attempts from the floor). As Okafor dominated the interior while Ersan Ilyasova controlled the perimeter. Ilyasova scored 18 points and knocked down 7 of 9 shots, including all three from beyond the arc.
“The first half we weren’t defending at all, we weren’t physical and we didn’t accept the challenge,” Beal said. “In the second half, we just turned it around.” | {
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Taking Sides In Egypt
There are a series of historical precedents that can give us insight into the problems now seen in Egypt. These precedents are from both the West and the Middle East. Both are relevant because the conflict in Egypt has modern structural qualities that are transcultural. Among others, these qualities are: a traditional military caste allied to a reactionary police force, to a reactionary judiciary and to “big business” elements; a middle class most of whose members have a stated aspiration for both stability and a democratic society; and a bete noire (dark beast) factor – a fear shared by the first two groups of a third group. In the European/U.S. context this bete noire group is usually identified as a politically organized left designated as Communist. In the context of the Middle East this role is usually played by politically active Islamist organizations. In both cases the bete noire element may represent a significant portion of the population.
Here are two examples, one from the West and one from the Middle East, of how precedents involving these transcultural structural elements played themselves out. In both cases the consequences were horrific. After setting these out we will see how these precedents shed light on the current Egyptian situation.
Part II – The Weimar Republic 1919
In the chaotic conditions that prevailed, the Weimar leaders mistakenly assumed the loyalty of the bureaucracies of the monarchical era would transfer to the new democratic government. Thus they made no attempt to purge their reactionary elements. This turned out to be a fatal error.
It was also the case that the democratic government and most of its supporters (there were but few exceptions) feared the left more than the right. The reactionary bureaucracies hated the left but also had no love for the democrats. Ultimately, the democratic parties acquiesced in the often extralegal and violent actions the reactionary right took to destroy the left. Once the Communists had been destroyed the democratic forces, including the government itself, had no leverage against the armed and ascendant right. Within a short time democracy was dead in Germany.
For our purposes, the important points to remember about the Weimar Republic are: Most of the German democrats, when confronted by a choice between a reactionary right and the politically active left chose a de facto alliance with the right. Also, in the case of Weimar, the rightist reactionary mentality was already institutionalized in the army, police, and courts.
Some would say that this is the way things had to be to save Germany from Communism which would have established its own harsh authoritarian system. However, this was never a necessary outcome and Germany’s democratic forces could have made other alliances than the one with the reactionary right. Of course, that did not happen, so we will never know where such an alternative path would have led.
Part III – Algeria 1991
The Algerian military coup against the democratic process was supported by many of the Algerian middle class who saw themselves as Francophiles (that is, more culturally French than Algerian Arab). In principle they would have preferred a democracy, but not one that brought Islamists to power. If they had to choose between an Islamist democracy and a reactionary right-wing dictatorship, they would, with but few exceptions, opt for the latter.
At the time some claimed that a free election won by moderate Islamists would not really result in democratic government. They claimed that the FIS would change the country’s constitution and then cancel all future elections – the “one election, one time” phenomenon. However, while those who supported the coup asserted this, they did not know it would be so. And, because of the military dictatorship that resulted from the coup, new elections would not be held for twenty years.
Part IV – Egypt 2013
Most Egyptians, religious and secular (the exceptions were the military officer corps, elements of the police and judiciary, and some of the business class), wanted the thirty-year dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak replaced by democracy. Using the tactic of mass demonstrations, both secular and Islamist organizations managed to get rid of the dictator in February 2011 and scare the military into allowing a process that led to free and fair elections.
Those elections were won by Muhammad Morsi, who was a follower of the Muslim Brotherhood, and an array of Islamist legislative delegates. Morsi and his government began the process of creating a new constitution for the country that reflected the Islamic nature of their victory. This was a work in progress and there may ultimately have been room for compromise, particularly as Morsi became aware of the strength of the secular opposition. It is estimated that some 54% of Egyptians would like to see democracy on the present Turkish model, “a secular republic currently being successfully ruled by moderate Islamists.”
We will never know if such an evolutionary direction was possible under Morsi. What many of the secular democrats of Egypt (transformed into the “Egyptian mainstream” by many media outlets) saw in his victory was not the potential of an evolutionary democratic process leading to the Turkish model, but rather the prelude to a quick emulation of Iran.
Almost immediately upon election, the Morsi government met resistance and sabotage. As had happened with the Weimar Republic, The new government inherited a court system, police establishment and military that were the creatures of the old authoritarian regime. These bureaucracies had no loyalty to the Egypt’s elected government, as can be seen by the fact that the economic and internal security situation within the country immediately deteriorated. Artificial shortages of important goods, such as gasoline, appeared. The crime rate started to climb as the police presence on the streets became sparse. The legitimacy of the new government was repeatedly challenged and always through a court system full of judges appointed by the prior dictatorship.
Most importantly, the secular organizations (such as Tamaroud and the June 30Movement) which had helped dislodge Mubarak now decided that they were unwilling to accept the results of a free election in which the wrong party had won. They convinced themselves, as had happened in Algeria, that an Islamist government would never allow another free and fair election. They did not know this to be the case, but fear made the assumption seem an inevitable truth.
A host of rationalizations followed: the entire Muslim Brotherhood has been characterized as a terrorist organization because some protestors attacked Christian churches and police stations, and the responsibility for hundreds of dead unarmed protestors has been laid at the feet of “armed Islamists” who first attacked soldiers who were just trying to keep order, and all those deaths are really the demonstrators’ fault because they did not disperse even though they knew the military would come and attack them, and the Morsi government, by definition theocratic in nature, had to be the death knell of democracy in Egypt.
Thus the secular democrat organizations of Egypt decided to support the brutal actions taken by reactionary military and police establishments to destroy not only the government, but also the bete noire of political Islam. With but too few exceptions, their followers cheered as the election was overturned, and they naively believed the assurances of the military leader, Abdel Fattah el Sisi’s, that after Morsi was done away with, the military would bring them “real” democracy (an idealistic 33-point liberal constitution was produced but never implemented). In this way the secular democratic groups who helped bring down one dictatorship provided cover for the return of the same sort of dictatorship with different faces.
In doing so the Egyptian democrats helped open Pandora’s box. Following the Algerian model, the army swept in and arrested almost all the moderate leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood. This only opened space for more violent Islamist elements and began an erosion of the Brotherhood’s chain of command. Thus we saw the attacks on the Coptic churches, police stations, government buildings, and soldiers and police in the Sinai area. Despite this, the wonder is that the vast majority of Egyptian Islamists have stayed nonviolent even now. We do not know if this restraint will last.
Part V – Conclusion
Why would the democratic elements of society ally themselves with the reactionary right? Why wouldn’t they see a dictatorship of the right as their bete noire? The reason may have to do with a long period of cultural conditioning. In the modern history of both the West and Egypt, the largely middle-class democratic elements we are considering have embraced much the same values and lifestyle. They have both also been culturally conditioned to see the greatest danger to their idealized society as coming from somewhere other than the reactionary right.
In the West the democrats have been conditioned by a capitalist culture to believe that the bete noire comes from the specter of Communism. The Egyptian democratic middle-class, which is largely a secular group that has taken on Western values, hasn’t got the same historical fear of Communism as those in the West. However, they have long considered Islam and its Sharia law as an archaic and potentially totalitarian force that could destroy their political and cultural ideals.
Of course, there are real dangers to democratic values and practices coming from both these sources. Yet, in having become so sensitized to Communism and political Islam, the democrats of both the West and Egypt have failed to develop sufficient sensitivity to the threat from the right. So much so that many of them willingly ally with reactionary forces at the first sign of political success of that other third force, their respective bete noire.
Facing a feared maybe of a theocratic state, the secular democratic forces of Egypt rushed headlong into the certainty of a renewed military dictatorship operating behind civilian front men. They have also brought on the possibility of years of civil strife. If only these democrats had looked for the precedents, they would have known that the probability of this outcome was high. Yet apparently they did not stop to consider this. “Ignorantia est semper periculosum principium.” Ignorance is always a dangerous starting point.
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Taking Sides In Egypt
There are a series of historical precedents that can give us insight into the problems now seen in Egypt. These precedents are from both the West and the Middle East. Both are relevant because the conflict in Egypt has modern structural qualities that are transcultural. Among others, these qualities are: a traditional military caste allied to a reactionary police force, to a reactionary judiciary and to “big business” elements; a middle class most of whose members have a stated aspiration for both stability and a democratic society; and a bete noire (dark beast) factor – a fear shared by the first two groups of a third group. In the European/U.S. context this bete noire group is usually identified as a politically organized left designated as Communist. In the context of the Middle East this role is usually played by politically active Islamist organizations. In both cases the bete noire element may represent a significant portion of the population.
Here are two examples, one from the West and one from the Middle East, of how precedents involving these transcultural structural elements played themselves out. In both cases the consequences were horrific. After setting these out we will see how these precedents shed light on the current Egyptian situation.
Part II – The Weimar Republic 1919
In the chaotic conditions that prevailed, the Weimar leaders mistakenly assumed the loyalty of the bureaucracies of the monarchical era would transfer to the new democratic government. Thus they made no attempt to purge their reactionary elements. This turned out to be a fatal error.
It was also the case that the democratic government and most of its supporters (there were but few exceptions) feared the left more than the right. The reactionary bureaucracies hated the left but also had no love for the democrats. Ultimately, the democratic parties acquiesced in the often extralegal and violent actions the reactionary right took to destroy the left. Once the Communists had been destroyed the democratic forces, including the government itself, had no leverage against the armed and ascendant right. Within a short time democracy was dead in Germany.
For our purposes, the important points to remember about the Weimar Republic are: Most of the German democrats, when confronted by a choice between a reactionary right and the politically active left chose a de facto alliance with the right. Also, in the case of Weimar, the rightist reactionary mentality was already institutionalized in the army, police, and courts.
Some would say that this is the way things had to be to save Germany from Communism which would have established its own harsh authoritarian system. However, this was never a necessary outcome and Germany’s democratic forces could have made other alliances than the one with the reactionary right. Of course, that did not happen, so we will never know where such an alternative path would have led.
Part III – Algeria 1991
The Algerian military coup against the democratic process was supported by many of the Algerian middle class who saw themselves as Francophiles (that is, more culturally French than Algerian Arab). In principle they would have preferred a democracy, but not one that brought Islamists to power. If they had to choose between an Islamist democracy and a reactionary right-wing dictatorship, they would, with but few exceptions, opt for the latter.
At the time some claimed that a free election won by moderate Islamists would not really result in democratic government. They claimed that the FIS would change the country’s constitution and then cancel all future elections – the “one election, one time” phenomenon. However, while those who supported the coup asserted this, they did not know it would be so. And, because of the military dictatorship that resulted from the coup, new elections would not be held for twenty years.
Part IV – Egypt 2013
Most Egyptians, religious and secular (the exceptions were the military officer corps, elements of the police and judiciary, and some of the business class), wanted the thirty-year dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak replaced by democracy. Using the tactic of mass demonstrations, both secular and Islamist organizations managed to get rid of the dictator in February 2011 and scare the military into allowing a process that led to free and fair elections.
Those elections were won by Muhammad Morsi, who was a follower of the Muslim Brotherhood, and an array of Islamist legislative delegates. Morsi and his government began the process of creating a new constitution for the country that reflected the Islamic nature of their victory. This was a work in progress and there may ultimately have been room for compromise, particularly as Morsi became aware of the strength of the secular opposition. It is estimated that some 54% of Egyptians would like to see democracy on the present Turkish model, “a secular republic currently being successfully ruled by moderate Islamists.”
We will never know if such an evolutionary direction was possible under Morsi. What many of the secular democrats of Egypt (transformed into the “Egyptian mainstream” by many media outlets) saw in his victory was not the potential of an evolutionary democratic process leading to the Turkish model, but rather the prelude to a quick emulation of Iran.
Almost immediately upon election, the Morsi government met resistance and sabotage. As had happened with the Weimar Republic, The new government inherited a court system, police establishment and military that were the creatures of the old authoritarian regime. These bureaucracies had no loyalty to the Egypt’s elected government, as can be seen by the fact that the economic and internal security situation within the country immediately deteriorated. Artificial shortages of important goods, such as gasoline, appeared. The crime rate started to climb as the police presence on the streets became sparse. The legitimacy of the new government was repeatedly challenged and always through a court system full of judges appointed by the prior dictatorship.
Most importantly, the secular organizations (such as Tamaroud and the June 30Movement) which had helped dislodge Mubarak now decided that they were unwilling to accept the results of a free election in which the wrong party had won. They convinced themselves, as had happened in Algeria, that an Islamist government would never allow another free and fair election. They did not know this to be the case, but fear made the assumption seem an inevitable truth.
A host of rationalizations followed: the entire Muslim Brotherhood has been characterized as a terrorist organization because some protestors attacked Christian churches and police stations, and the responsibility for hundreds of dead unarmed protestors has been laid at the feet of “armed Islamists” who first attacked soldiers who were just trying to keep order, and all those deaths are really the demonstrators’ fault because they did not disperse even though they knew the military would come and attack them, and the Morsi government, by definition theocratic in nature, had to be the death knell of democracy in Egypt.
Thus the secular democrat organizations of Egypt decided to support the brutal actions taken by reactionary military and police establishments to destroy not only the government, but also the bete noire of political Islam. With but too few exceptions, their followers cheered as the election was overturned, and they naively believed the assurances of the military leader, Abdel Fattah el Sisi’s, that after Morsi was done away with, the military would bring them “real” democracy (an idealistic 33-point liberal constitution was produced but never implemented). In this way the secular democratic groups who helped bring down one dictatorship provided cover for the return of the same sort of dictatorship with different faces.
In doing so the Egyptian democrats helped open Pandora’s box. Following the Algerian model, the army swept in and arrested almost all the moderate leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood. This only opened space for more violent Islamist elements and began an erosion of the Brotherhood’s chain of command. Thus we saw the attacks on the Coptic churches, police stations, government buildings, and soldiers and police in the Sinai area. Despite this, the wonder is that the vast majority of Egyptian Islamists have stayed nonviolent even now. We do not know if this restraint will last.
Part V – Conclusion
Why would the democratic elements of society ally themselves with the reactionary right? Why wouldn’t they see a dictatorship of the right as their bete noire? The reason may have to do with a long period of cultural conditioning. In the modern history of both the West and Egypt, the largely middle-class democratic elements we are considering have embraced much the same values and lifestyle. They have both also been culturally conditioned to see the greatest danger to their idealized society as coming from somewhere other than the reactionary right.
In the West the democrats have been conditioned by a capitalist culture to believe that the bete noire comes from the specter of Communism. The Egyptian democratic middle-class, which is largely a secular group that has taken on Western values, hasn’t got the same historical fear of Communism as those in the West. However, they have long considered Islam and its Sharia law as an archaic and potentially totalitarian force that could destroy their political and cultural ideals.
Of course, there are real dangers to democratic values and practices coming from both these sources. Yet, in having become so sensitized to Communism and political Islam, the democrats of both the West and Egypt have failed to develop sufficient sensitivity to the threat from the right. So much so that many of them willingly ally with reactionary forces at the first sign of political success of that other third force, their respective bete noire.
Facing a feared maybe of a theocratic state, the secular democratic forces of Egypt rushed headlong into the certainty of a renewed military dictatorship operating behind civilian front men. They have also brought on the possibility of years of civil strife. If only these democrats had looked for the precedents, they would have known that the probability of this outcome was high. Yet apparently they did not stop to consider this. “Ignorantia est semper periculosum principium.” Ignorance is always a dangerous starting point.
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Hollywood optioning every single board game, action figure, and childhood knickknack on Earth is the gift that keeps on giving. That’s because it’s plenty of fun to imagine teams of screenwriters, locked away on major-studio lots, chugging coffee while grappling with how to graft plots onto stuff like the View-Master and it’s even better to hear what they actually came up with. Thus far, the field’s high watermark comes via Peter Berg, who somehow figured out how to cram evil, sea-faring aliens into his Battleship movie. Now Ridley Scott’s talking up the Monopoly adaptation, and what his description lacks in insanity it makes up for in clearly perceived bafflement that he’s for some reason making a Monopoly movie.
We had a hard time initially, because my head led me down the route of saying, 'Somehow, I have to integrate the game. Do I have to show the game, with people running around on a board, with the large houses and funny top hats and that sort of thing?’ [Hasbro] said no. We just want a movie. And that makes it a lot easier.
So, Scott decided to make a comedy about a Donald Trump–type character and his dealings with equally vicious real-estate tycoons: “It's about greed Greed becomes, hopefully, hysterically funny.” Sensible! This next part is less relatable:
You know, if you hover above Central Park at night in a helicopter, and you look down below, when you're right in the middle of the park, it looks like a Monopoly board. It's green, it's lit, it's got the most expensive real estate in the world around the edges — and that is where we start.
Also:
I always liked films like 'Trading Places' with Eddie Murphy. I'm not saying it's like that, but it's somewhere around that route.
So, adapting Monopoly has led Ridley Scott — director of Blade Runner, Gladiator, and American Gangster — to try to make something resembling an eighties Eddie Murphy comedy? Awesome. | {
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Canadian Advocacy
The equipment manufacturing industry supports 149,000 good paying jobs in Canada and contributes $45 billion a year to the national economy. With over 100 member companies in Canada and growing, and Canada being the largest export market for U.S. manufactured equipment, the decisions made in Ottawa and throughout the provinces have a direct impact on our industry.
AEM is advocating throughout Canada for public policies that help our industry grow. Whether advocating for increased federal investment in rural broadband, updating Canada’s tax code to incentivize increased investment in manufacturing, ratifying the Canada - United States Mexico Agreement, or working with governments to develop regulations, AEM is the voice for the off-road equipment industry.
Don't Walk Away From NAFTA. An Op Ed from Doosan Bobcat President, Rich Goldsbury, emphasizing the importance of NAFTA and the opportunity to update and improve sections of the agreement. January 23, 2018.
Canada Demo Day (Ottawa). Watch a video of the first Canada Demo Day hosted by AEM. The event was attended by 40 representatives from Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA). September 25, 2018.
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In The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler presents an intimate portrait of Macon Leary, a middle-aged man coming to terms with the tragic death of his son. After his wife leaves him, Macon cuts himself off from the rest of the world. Almost against his will, he becomes involved with an unconventional woman who helps him cope with his loss and take control of his life.
On their way back from a vacation at the beach, Macon's wife, Sarah, informs Macon she wants a divorce because he has not been "a comfort" to her since the death of their son Ethan. Initially shocked, he begins to see her departure as a chance "to reorganize" the house. He expresses his penchant for order in a series of guidebooks he writes under the title The Accidental Tourist for those people forced to travel on business. Like his readers, Macon... | {
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Romney returns to the campaign trail in Florida
After the devastating effects of Superstorm Sandy, Governor Mitt Romney is back on the campaign trail, making an appearance in the key swing state of Florida.
Speaking to supporters in Tampa, Romney urged them to help those affected by the hurricane. He said: “Please, if you have an extra dollar or two send them along [to the Red Cross] and keep the people who are in harm’s way, who have been in harm’s way, who have been damaged either personally or through their property. Keep them in your thoughts and prayers.”
The candidate avoided any questions about the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which has led the post-Sandy recovery efforts. Last year, he made a statement that he would scrap FEMA if he became President.
Vice-President, Joe Biden, was also campaigning in Florida yesterday for the Democrats, as devastation caused by Sandy kept President Barack Obama off the campaign trail for another day. Earlier in the week, the President was due to appear alongside Bill Clinton in Orlando but had to return to Washington to monitor the storm.
Florida is the largest and one of the most crucial of the nine swing states, with 29 electoral votes on offer for the winning candidate. In the last ten Presidential elections, the state has voted for the winning President nine times. The state’s population is often referred to as the “microcosm of the country as a whole”. Recent figures show the candidates are neck and neck in the state, though Romney currently has a slight edge over the President. | {
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Government Is Coming for Our Guns!
Each and every time patriots dare imply that the government registers guns for future confiscation, they are derided as right-wing, extremist wackos.
Don’t you believe it! In New York state, with the passage of the infringing Safe Act, guns were unlawfully seized from David Lewis, 35, who was wrongfully identified as violating the mental health provision of said act.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Thursday, a state Supreme Court Judge ruled guns seized from David Lewis, 35, must be returned to him after he was incorrectly identified as violating the mental health provision of the SAFE Act.
“We know that from the health care agency to the State Police, there was some kind of breach,” said Lewis’ attorney, Jim Tresmond.
Tresmond says his client was ordered to turn in his weapons last week because he was once on anti-anxiety medication, which is a violation of the SAFE Act. Wednesday, State Police informed the Erie County Clerk’s Office that it made a mistake when it said Lewis was in violation of the state’s new gun law.
But Tresmond says it was no mistake.
“When they targeted David, they not only targeted him by name, they also targeted him by his pistol permit, so they identified him as David Lewis with this particular pistol permit number on the letter that they sent to him,” said Tresmond.
This is just the first gun grab, and it is frightening beyond belief. Anyone who remembers the timeline of WWII and the Nazi regime will recognize the ominous consequences of such laws. New York is now the pioneer state re the match-up of private health records with gun permits to confiscate firearms.
Amazing, isn’t it? The Aurora, Colorado movie shooter was on all sorts of prescription medications, warned his psychiatrist of violent fantasies and even left her a notebook. That book remains sealed. The defense has argued, successfully thus far, that it is not evidence because it “is part of doctor-patient privileged communication”.
Yet, according to New York’s Tresmond law firm, some of that state’s law enforcement agencies are dipping into private medical records for the purposes of gun confiscation:
John Doe, an upstanding professional with no outstanding criminal convictions and no history of violent action received a letter from the Pistol Permit Department informing him that his license was immediately revoked upon information that he was seeing a therapist for anxiety and had been prescribed an anxiety drug.
He was never suicidal, never violent, and has no criminal history. The New York State Department of Health is apparently conducting a search of medical records to determine who is being treated for anxiety drugs and using this as a basis for handgun license revocation.
I would like to add that the police departments are demanding that whomever turns in a pistol also turn in accessories for that pistol such as magazines, despite the fact that these magazines are not firearms themselves and anyone can purpose a magazine without a pistol license.
Even more troubling was the fact that the police officer taking custody of the pistols cheerily informed the client that “the department” would be destroying his pistols if they were not retrieved within one year. When she was questioned as to what he should do should he choose to sell the pistols out of state, given that he has a property right to the monetary value of the gun, she became confused, her expressions changed to perplexed, and she made a referral to another officer.
Jazz Shaw of Hot Air contemplates how this relates to universal background checks:
This new universal background check bill is the hot ticket in DC right now. You can read the full text of it here, which thus far contains nothing about expanding how one qualifies as “mentally ill” but there are multiple amendments to come, so we don’t even know what will be in the final version. A repeating theme is that it will have to “do something” about keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. But how is that to be accomplished? Will it only affect those who have been adjudicated in court to be proven, dangerous, unstable individuals and who have had the opportunity to object to their classification? Or will it be something that slides closer to what we now have in New York?
In this same vein, the Missouri Department of Revenue, which is the issuer of concealed carry permits in the state, may have transmitted private information concerning a CC permit holder to DHS.
Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder held a press conference to announce his involvement in an attempt to stop the Missouri Department of Revenue (DOR) from transmitting this private data to the Federal Government. The data transmission was discovered after a Missouri Resident Eric Griffin’s Concealed Carry permit was denied when he refused to let the DOR scan and transmit his private data to the Feds.
According to LT. Gov. Kinder, this information is not only being turned over to the fed, but also to a private agency in another state. Both actions are specifically prohibited by State Law, and seem like yet another attack on law abiding gun owners.
Kinder, and the Stoddard County Prosecutors, filed legal actions against the Missouri Department of Revenue; late today that action resulted in a temporary restraining order being issued that will force the DOR to stop transmitting this private information to the Feds.
Patriots must be aware and must resist the registration of guns in America. With each passing day another story comes to light, in spite the Main Stream Media’s side-steps, of government usurpation of individual liberty to keep and bear arms. Our forebears shed blood for those rights. Our vets and troops have given the last full measure of devotion for those rights.
This present generation of America and liberty-loving patriots must never relinquish our Constitutionally guaranteed rights, all of which are protected by that which many consider preeminent–the Second Amendment.
"Meanwhile, you are firmly in control. If (actually, when) you experience problems with poverty, crime, gangs, lack of urban development in cities where you have a black mayor, a black congressman, a black city manager, a black superintendent of schools, a black county treasurer, a black chief of police, a black fire chief, blacks on the county Board of Supervisors, blacks on the school board, etc., find ONE white man, preferably a Republican to blame for all those problems. If one doesn’t exist, don’t be afraid to refurbish one, even if you have to blame Republican Presidents George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Herbert Hoover, or T.R. Roosevelt."
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An unarmed man is a subject…An armed man is a citizen
Tonto
Amen!
jack
Get the govt out of our lives.
Johnny
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
If you choose to own a firearm – You by the Right To Bare Arms cannot be taken away from you. This Right is God given. Only God can take it away and not any government.
Lib’s say we have a right to bare arms (Yes – you may roll up your sleeves). Conservatives say we have the right to bear arms. (Not to be confused with black or brown bears…) …Posted since the author says she is a grammar Nazi. (I am just trying to help …and have a little fun.)!!
apen
A review of murders mental status’ reveals that those who become unstable are known to those who have contact with them as acting strange if not bizarre but those same people do not act, do not alert anyone who might act and in fact are the real problem. Nobody wants to rat out a friend. That idea needs to be changed to nobody wants their friend to commit murder.
Interestingly congress doesn’t see the public as their friend. Loyalty has no bearing on their reasoning at all.
tionico
even those who ARE aware of such mental issues and DO report to the appropriate people to DO something get ignored. James Holmes’ psychiatrist (Aurora Cinemark) had reported his homicidal behaviour and statements a month before his rampage, and to the proper authorities. They did… nothing but wait until it happened, then showed up for the cleanup and chalklines. The laws, and the means to implement them, ARE in place.. but are ignored. Background checks? Hah….. some 14,000 illegal attempts last year by felons debarred the use of arms were refused…. and only a small handful prosecuted. It is a FEDERAL FELONY to lie on the 4473 form for the BGC…. out of that 14K liars, I’m certain at least a few thousand wilfully did so, and that such wilful violation of the law could easily be prosecuted. Felons in possession? Sure, its another felony… but how often is THIS violation prosecuted fully? Most often it is used as more weight on the sword hanging over the perp’s head, then waived in the plea bargaining stages of what passes for “justice” these days. NO!!! Prosecute EVERY ONE of those violations. ONLY when the risk of getting caught with a gun means ten years in the slammer, no matter what else they get, will such people begin to think it not a good idea.
apen
Indeed there are sheriffs who have the authority to act but don’t. They should be removed by their constituents ASAP.
On the idea that a failed background check is a crime, WRONG ! I found out the ruse here is that most people who fail don’t know why. You see, NICS is not a valid database of persons who have lost a right to keep arms. It is a database of reasons for you to prove to the feds that their records are incomplete. The few that get prosecuted are those who try to buy a gun while an order of protection is in place. The rest are simply notices that you must do something like cause a court to produce records to the feds. Many “felons” were never adjudicated a permanent loss of rights however the feds do not respect state court rulings anyways. You might guess there are reasons for these rulings as not everything in this country is done by police to protect and the same goes for the feds. This is the very reason that the second amendment should not be INFRINGED. Your right to arms is locally controlled not state controlled or federally. If the database of felons was properly assembled by each state from records that were complete and accurate and each state were required to protect it’s citizens from BAD records and BAD courts from other states then I’d say a denial is a denial. The way the system is set up now it’s BS.
http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/ Ted R. Weiland
This is another reason why the Second Amendment will ultimately not protect us. Think about it: Already, the amendment with the wording “shalt not be infringed” is the most infringed, licensed, and limited amendment of the twenty seven, and the day is probably coming when the Second Amendment will be repealed. This is the inherent nature and danger of optional constitutional rights versus non-optional Biblical responsibiities, such as found in 1 Timothy 5:
‘But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house [including spiritual and physical protection], he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” (1 Timothy 5:8)
Listen to “The Second Amendment: A Knife in a Gunfight,” preached last month at the Springfield, Missouri Firearms and Freedom Symposium. Click on my name, then our website. Scroll down to our “Featured Messages” about halfway down the home page. There you will also find an interview Larry Pratt (Executive Director of Gun Owners of America) conducted with me on the same subject.
tionico
even if they manage to ilegally repeal the Second Ammendment, our right to arms will remain, as it is God given and CANNOT be taken away by another. These gun grabbers seem to forget this. That collection of words on an old piece of paper is not the source of our right to defend ourselves, our lives, our liberties. The God who created us is the source of that right. Even Cain, the first murderer, was not denied self-defense. Rocks (or clubs, or whatever he used) were not banned, regulated, licensed, taxed, registered, permitted…… HE was banished, yet the command was given to not kill him, to let him live with his shame as an example. His right to life, and the means to defend that, was kept…. though later, that was reversed…. whoever by his hand takes the life of another, by the hand of man shall HE die. We don’t do that anymore… which is a good bit of the reason we have this “war on guns” now. If that penalty were restored to its rightful use, and murderers quickly but fairly tried and, if convicted on the testimony of two or more witnesses, they should be executed forthwith. No more of this coddling, dragging things out for so many decades no one can remember what happened any longer….. it is as anti-biblical as removing our God-given right to self-defense, and defense against a tyrannical enslaving government.
http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/ Ted R. Weiland
Thanks for responding Tionico. Please consider that the Bible knows nothing of optional rights. On the other hand, it’s replete with non-optional responsibilities. Rights are a bill of goods that helped to sell us down the river. See blog article “Rights, Rights, Everyone Wants Their Rights.” Click on my name, then our website. Go to our blog and scroll down to title.
Oneyeopn
Molon Labe…..I hunt, we eat what I hunt. I target shoot, I stay well practiced. Please don’t try to take them, please.
Daniel F. Melton
They won’t like the reaction if they do try to take our guns.
Dan S.
Well, so much for the hippa law. You know, the one that does not allow even our spouses to have access to our medical records unless we specify they can have it. It’s pretty bad when the feds, (to whom we are NOT married), can have unlimited access to our medical records and the very person we ARE married to cannot access the information without our written permission.
What a horrible joke.
DrSique
HIPPA, due process, 2nd Amendment!!! Cuomo is walking all over the Bill of Rights and it has become obvious that he is nothing more than a budding tyrant who needs to be relieved of his position in Albany ASAP.
kbatface
I will be giving money ALL OVER THE COUNTRY whenever I can to oust any politician who votes for this bill and has a challenger who is a solid 2nd ammendment supporter. And we also need to give to the NRA so they can advertise against the politicians who don’t stand for our freedoms!
Ethan Ellingson
Personally I think I would rather be dead than hand my weapons over to some fed whose pention is paid by my taxes.
DrSique
As General Patton stated(paraphrased), “Noone ever won a war by dying for his country, wars are won by making the other SOB die for his.”
Ethan Ellingson
Lord willing it won’t be me doing the dying.
Tonto
Quotes list from history and current citations linked to source;
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.” — Ronald Reagan
“The most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’.” — Ronald Reagan
“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien
Remember our veterans.
All gave some; some gave all.
Rest in peace my brothers.
“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.” – Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1693), French economist and Minister of Finance under King Louis XIV
“The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference they deserve a place of honor with all that is good.” — George Washington
“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.” — Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers, p. 184-188
“The Constitution shall never be construed….to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” — Samuel AdamsQuotes list
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.” — Ronald Reagan
“The most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’.” — Ronald Reagan
“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.”
— J. R. R. Tolkien
Remember our veterans.
All gave some; some gave all.
Rest in peace my brothers.
“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.” – Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1693), French economist and Minister of Finance under King Louis XIV
“The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference they deserve a place of honor with all that is good.” — George Washington
“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.” — Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers, p. 184-188
“The Constitution shall never be construed….to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” — Samuel Adams
“A government that doesn’t trust its law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms itself is unworthy of trust.” — James Madison
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” — Thomas Jefferson
Remember our veterans.
All gave some; some gave all.
Rest in peace my brothers.
“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.” — Mohandas Ghandi, An Autobiography, Part V, Chapter XXVII, page 446.
911 may take a few minutes to reach your house. My AR15 responds at 3,200 feet per second.
“The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference they deserve a place of honor with all that is good.” — George Washington
“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.” — Alexander Hamilton
“The Constitution shall never be construed….to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” — Samuel Adams
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” — Thomas Jefferson
“A government that doesn’t trust its law abiding citizens to keep and bear arms itself is unworthy of trust.” — James Madison
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” — Thomas Jefferson
Remember our veterans.
All gave some; some gave all.
Rest in peace my brothers.
“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.” — Mohandas Ghandi, An Autobiography, Part V, Chapter XXVII, page 446.
911 may take a few minutes to reach your house. My AR15 responds at 3,200 feet per second.
“The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference they deserve a place of honor with all that is good.” — George Washington
“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.” — Alexander Hamilton
“The Constitution shall never be construed….to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” — Samuel Adams
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” — Thomas Jefferson
Damian
Of the people by the people and for the people, if you forget why we have a second amendment you need to read only so far as the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence where it explains what circumstances are necessary to defend a free people from an oppressive government.
Ron Beal
Government is not a ‘friend’ of anyone. When ‘they’ speak in the collective, they think they have the power, not the people. Having said that, ‘they’ are cowards and rule by force and intimidation, like a bully in grammar or high school. Once they are knocked on their ass, they become a little more humble. The ‘government’ will have to be dealt a severe blow to wake them up. Since ‘they’ have considerable force, and many allies, the wake-up call will have to be extreme, in the same discipline, i.e., force/violence. A one-million man, armed force marching on Washington, DC would get their attention. Unfortunately, if it was announced, each car/truck would have to gun their way to DC. The government would use every possible defence to prevent a massing. Every overpass, National Guard and Armed Forces would attempt to block and/or destroy the onslaught of the people. BUT, that is what ‘they’ need. A million armed people surrounding the Black House would cause a change of mind. Can you ‘see’ all auto surrounding the BH in flames simultaneously? “Wake up B, there is someone outside!”
Daniel F. Melton
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. Winston Churchill
Tonto
So HIPAA laws that protect your medical information can be shared with the “Brownshirts?”
This can not ethically be shared with spouse without permission.
Wouldn’t our founding fathers be pleased at this abomination of bureaucracy?
http://www.divinenewsnetwork.com/ DNN
My 2nd Amendment declars if you or anyone infringes our rights you are Domestic Terrorists and we will treat you as such.
Berzrkr50
These gun grabbers are nothing less than traitors and are unfit to call America home. My suggestion is that they move to North Korea or Iran to live in the type of country that they desire. Molon Labe!
Black Sphere Editor, Tami Jackson is a life-long Conservative embedded in her once red state of Oregon. The grand-daughter of (legal) Norwegian immigrants, she is equal parts goofy and stubborn!
Tami is a Christian, the “mom” of one Persian cat (Omar), a 2nd Amendment aficionado and NRA Certified, the chief organizer and instigator of trouble among the Hugh Hewitt Tri … See full bio and list of articles. | {
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I never had a problem with match.com itself. I left a couple of months before my membership expired because I decided to take an indefinite break from dating, but overall I made four dates from the site.
As for Plenty of Fish, I used to be on there and frequented the message boards, but I quit that site because the moderators of the message boards are complete jerks. I literally (I'm not at all exaggerating) was banned for three days for saying I like peanut butter ice cream.
Ok, so I've had my profile on a local website. There was this one particular guy who contacted me. We emailed back & forth for a while & he seemed really nice. Well, I sent him my picture when he asked for it, feeling ok with it. The next thing I knew he had been talking to someone else & he wanted to pursue that relationship. Ok. So be it. So long.
So I changed my profile. He is the second one to contact me. It's been a couple months since I talked to him last. I'm not asking to speculate what is on his mind. He was very polite, he at least ended it instead of telling me he'd call me later only to never call me again, I wasn't given the power to read minds so I just take people's word at face value. I'm just wondering...
Should I even reply?
Should I give him another chance?
And of course I would tell him up front that I am the chick he blew off. I think I can do that in a polite way.
my net antennae say he's a player. he may not be courvoisier-grade, and players do get married (and divorced), but he will at the very least "need to expand and grow personally, nothing to do with you."
ok. now let me tell you about this guy who contacted me. twice. he wanted to run his fingers through my silky blond hair.
Thanks for your reply. I have an open mind & sometimes that has not been to my benefit. You know that they say... open your mind too much & your brain falls out. I'm going to resist the urge to contact him & let him know who I am. Besides, he only emails me from his work email, which might indicate that he's fooling around on someone.
I swear. Months ago when Brett mentioned Plenty of Fish dating site, I joined because I was curious to know what men in my area are single (since I don't know anyone my age single, I had to see that). I EXPLICITY said in my profile no men. God, not only are the marrieds contacting me, they recontact me and they even list me as one of their favorites (Of course, I don't have my picture posted. That would serve them right. LOL).
The one single guy that contacted me sounded like a Jerk in the email. He was teed off because I didn't have a picture.
The thing about those sites is that every one, including me, sounds AWFUL. There is no way to sound good online
Ok, so I've had my profile on a local website. There was this one particular guy who contacted me. We emailed back & forth for a while & he seemed really nice. Well, I sent him my picture when he asked for it, feeling ok with it. The next thing I knew he had been talking to someone else & he wanted to pursue that relationship. Ok. So be it. So long.
So I changed my profile. He is the second one to contact me. It's been a couple months since I talked to him last. I'm not asking to speculate what is on his mind. He was very polite, he at least ended it instead of telling me he'd call me later only to never call me again, I wasn't given the power to read minds so I just take people's word at face value. I'm just wondering...
Should I even reply?
Should I give him another chance?
And of course I would tell him up front that I am the chick he blew off. I think I can do that in a polite way.
Thanks for your input, guys.
Yeah, he's certainly up to something no good. But yep, I'D certainly reply, with enough pieces of my mind to make him think twice about being a player again, and ESPECIALLY about cheating on his wife, if that's what he's doing.
Alternatively, you could play with his head and pretend like you've never met him before, string him along, find out lots and lots about him(like getting his ph. # and doing a reverse directory on him, checking local real estate records of that address to find out if the title is jointly owned, etc.), then dump him like last month's garbage...right after leaving a nice note to let his wife, friends, family and boss(es) know what he's been up to on websites while she's been working her a** off...if that's the case.
Warmest regards-
Hatman
"History records that the moneychangers have used every form of abuse, deceit, intrigue, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance."-- James Madison(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
Well he emailed me again. I was going to just ignore him because there is someone else right now who has my attention. Oh hell no! I let him know who I was & what he did. Of course I said it in a mature manner, but I was pretty cold. So far no reply from him, but I don't really care. I'm done with him. He rejected me once, he lost his chance. Why should I put myself on the line for someone who has already rejected me? I'm moving on.
I can't even believe I considered giving him another chance to begin with. That was that old junk in the back of my head put there by my crazy *ss family years ago. I'm over it!
Well he emailed me again. I was going to just ignore him because there is someone else right now who has my attention. Oh hell no! I let him know who I was & what he did. Of course I said it in a mature manner, but I was pretty cold. So far no reply from him, but I don't really care. I'm done with him. He rejected me once, he lost his chance. Why should I put myself on the line for someone who has already rejected me? I'm moving on.
I can't even believe I considered giving him another chance to begin with. That was that old junk in the back of my head put there by my crazy *ss family years ago. I'm over it! | {
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Liu Xiaobo’s Shining Example and Stern Warning
For speech at Forum 2000, Oct 2017This speech would have been made by Dr. Jianli Yang, President of Initiatives for China, on the night of Oct. 8 at the opening ceremony of Forum 2000 held in Prague, Czech. Dr. Yang was not able to make it to the Forum due to a travel document issue. We are sharing the text of the speech for your reference.
Dr. Yang Jianli at Forum 2000 in September, 2013
Standing on this Forum 2000 stage created by Václav Havel, I cannot help but thinking of our Václav Havel, China’s Václav Havel, my friend and hero-Liu Xiaobo.
Liu Xiaobo died a martyr’s death less than three months ago. In this oblivious world, while many people are yet to know him, many others are pretending they’ve already forgotten him. Truly, as Milan Kundera wrote, “the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”. As a friend and supporter who represented his family at his 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony and helped conceive the idea of Empty Chair at it, I think the meaning of remembering him is to embrace his legacy and follow his example in our continued struggle for democracy and freedom.
By the 1980s, Liu Xiaobo was one of the most provocative thinkers in China. His learning encompassed both Chinese and Western scholarship, particularly in philosophy and the humanities, and his genuine academic integrity enabled him to maintain independence and profundity in his thinking. An admirer of thinkers such as Václav Havel, Liu Xiaobo prided himself on his intolerance for hypocrisy, groupthink, and political pandering.
Compelled to live in a society that would not accept the public expression of dissenting views, Liu Xiaobo struggled with a dilemma: How could he stay true to his beliefs under such repressive circumstances? He particularly admired former Václav Havel as one of those rare human beings who, even while living in totalitarian circumstances, somehow found the strength in himself to step beyond “living within the lie,” and manage to find a way “to live within the truth.” Echoing the sentiments of Havel, Liu Xiaobo argued that “We need not demand of ourselves any extraordinary courage, nobility, conscience, or wisdom. We need not ask ourselves to risk prison, or go on hunger strikes, or carry out self-immolations. All we need to do is to eliminate lies from our public speech and give up the use of lies as a tactic of dealing with the threats and enticements of the regime… To refuse to lie in day-to-day public life is the most powerful tool for breaking down a tyranny built on mendacity.”
When Liu Xiaobo flew back to Beijing from New York in late April 1989, the largest march of the weeks-old protest was in full swing. An endless crowd of peaceful protesters flooded the miles-long Chang’an Avenue-a true demonstration of people power. This march was a strong testimony and symbol for the Chinese people: that the pursuit of democracy was not the goal of just a few dissidents, but the common hope of millions of Chinese citizens, especially the youngest generation of students. From that point on, Liu Xiaobo undertook a 28-year-long journey from a scholar to a committed fighter for democracy. Before his fourth and final arrest, he was widely recognized as a political leader-a role which he never felt comfortable to play, but a responsibility which his sense of mission drove him to shoulder.
He was last arrested in 2008 for being the lead author and organizer of Charter 08. Modeled after Charter 77, the declaration spearheaded by Václav Havel and Jan Patočka in 1977 that helped bring about the Velvet Revolution to end communism in Czechoslovakia, Charter 08 was published on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with the goal of spelling out the reforms necessary to end one-party domination and establish the rule of law in China. Since its release, this manifesto for democracy and constitutional government has been signed, at great personal risk, by more than 14,000 Chinese citizens. Liu’s imprisonment only increased his stature and international fame, and in 2010, he was deservingly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Through intense struggles, Liu Xiaobo came to the conclusion in his 2009 courtroom self-defense, “Hatred only eats away at a person’s intelligence and conscience” and can “poison the spirit of an entire people (as the experience of our country during the Mao era clearly shows). It can lead to cruel and lethal internecine combat, can destroy tolerance and human feeling within a society, and block the progress of a nation toward freedom and democracy… I hope that I can answer the regime’s enmity with utmost benevolence and use love to dissipate hate.” As he acknowledged, June 1989 was a turning point, engendering a new philosophy, which he summed up in these words: “I have no enemies and no hatred.”
Liu Xiaobo’s unwavering commitment to bear such a burden as the misery of Chinese society shall live on and shine in history. Yet, his sudden death before our ultimate triumph brings tears and pain to everyone who shares his cause, values and ideals. The international community stood helpless as the Chinese government ruthlessly shattered Liu Xiaobo’s last wish by denying his request to seek medical treatment abroad and die as a free man. The free world’s appeasement of the evil deeds of the Chinese regime will adversely affect global democratization, which is exactly what Liu Xiaobo warned against a decade ago. Liu feared then that the West might repeat the same mistake it made during the rise of the fascist Third Reich and the Communist USSR. He warned that the international community must remain vigilant in the face of the rising Chinese Communist dictatorship because the game for world dominance had changed. The Chinese Communists had also morphed into a new beast-more adaptive, cunning, and deceptive than ever before.
And we are now witnessing an astonishing reversal of world history: Dictatorial China is gaining the upper hand. This constitutes the most serious threat to universal human rights and democracy since World War II.
From playing a pivotal role in Tiananmen Square in 1989 to suffering a lonely death under police guard, Liu Xiaobo’s fate has become both a symbol of the plight of China’s democracy and an urgent warning to the world. In Liu Xiaobo’s own words: “To eliminate the adverse impact of the rise of China on world civilization, the free world must help this largest totalitarian country to achieve a democratic transition as soon as possible.”
I hope that Liu Xiaobo’s example will continue to shine on all freedom fighters and his stern warning will not fall on deaf ears. | {
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I'm a Triathlete, I Don't Kick When I Swim
If you read the title of the article and you identified with it, I regret to inform you that you are absolutely wrong. You often hear triathletes or even open water swimmers state they don’t need to kick on the swim, that it is all upper body and no focus should be put on lower body work. I even had a swimmer request I don’t give out kick sets because it is useless for him to work his legs. Absurd! Your legs are right there behind you when you swim, perhaps you won’t get much propulsion from them when you swim, but it is crucial to learn to kick smart if you are going to be efficient in your swims.
You might ask, “So if I am not going to get any propulsion from my kick, why is it so important that I work it?” Simple - making the kick more effective will decrease the effort required to swim by reducing drag in the water.
Previously we covered the importance of head and hip positions to make you a faster and more efficient swimmer. If those skills are not yet mastered, you may want to brush up on them before attempting to fix your kick.
There are four key factors that will contribute to an efficient kick:
The kick should be low drag.
The timing of the kick should drive rotation.
The kick should be low effort.
More importantly, the kick should come from the hip.
One of the key skills for great kicking is ankle flexibility. While most swimmers have great ankle and foot flexibility, I often find the average recreational swimmer or triathlete does not. Each of these flexibilities provides important features to the efficient kick.
Foot Flexibility
The key here is to differentiate between plantar flexion and dorsiflexion. An effective kick will feature great plantar flexion, when you point your toes in your kick. This presents a much lower profile to the water, while dorsiflexion (flexing yours toes back toward your shin) will not only kick water in the wrong direction creating negative propulsion, it will create extra drag from the exposed foot.
Ankle Flexibility
Ankle flexibility goes hand in hand with foot flexibility. Great ankle flexibility usually leads to good plantar flexion. Thus, your toe pointing will be limited to how flexible your ankles are. As a swimmer I am able to flex my foot beyond straight, providing me great foot amplitude (my foot turns into a “fin”). However this hyper-flexibility presents issues when it comes to my running. So word of caution here, while you want to increase your ankle flexibility in order to give you the best kick you can possibly achieve, you will want to be conscious that if you intend to run or cycle you may not want overly flexible ankles.
A good way to practice ankle flexibility is the use of fins for kicking. I would recommend shorter blade fins (FINIS makes three great versions of these). If your ankle flexibility is poor the longer the blade of the fin the more likely you will develop cramping of your calf muscles. It is tempting to constantly use fins because it makes you faster. Don’t fall into the temptation of using fins as a crutch; try to approach them as an instrument of training and use them only for that purpose.
Kicking From the Hip
One of the major issues I find with swimmers, and definitely triathletes, is the inability to kick from the hip. This usually looks like the swimmer is trying to pedal a bicycle under the water with their legs, and happens because the athlete bends their knees too much while kicking. You don’t have to be a swimmer to realize this kicking technique causes a lot of drag and will without a doubt lead to sinking of the legs (even if your head and hips were in the right position to begin with).
This is particularly common among triathletes who, through cycling and running, develop power from the knee. So we reteach them to kick from the hip. Kicking from the hip presents a relatively straight leg, with a slight bend of the knee on the down stroke. Imagine it more as keeping the knee/leg relaxed as opposed to kicking with a tense leg, which is the first mistake swimmers make when asked to kick with a straight leg. The power of the kick will then be transferred from the knee to the hip, preventing sinking of the knee and thigh and thus reducing drag from the exposed thigh.
Timing of the Kick
The most widely used kicking strategies are the 2-beat and the 6-beat kick. This means that the swimmer uses 2 or 6 kicks per stroke cycle (in freestyle a stroke cycle is described as 2 strokes, one per arm). The 6-beat kick is the most common and widely employed by most swimmers. It is also referred as the flutter kick and usually more propulsion is generated from this kick, however it is also more energy consuming and therefore potentially more useful to swim shorter distances. This makes it by no means exclusively useful in sprinting. The flutter intensity can be controlled to make it also effective for distance races, although it will require careful training and planning as to not over-kick.
The 2-beat kick is especially suited for long swims and triathlons. It uses 2 kicks per stroke cycle, it is slow and economical. However, it requires skill to master. Don’t feel pressured to use a 2-beat kick. It may not be the most effective for everyone. Try it, train it, but if it doesn’t feel natural, revert to what does, making sure the kick is coming from the hip with pointed toes.
Ultimately my message to those who state “I’m a triathlete, I don’t need to kick” is, do you want legs that are dead behind you and dragging along while your upper body plows through the water? Or would you like legs that kick, and although not significantly adding to your swimming speed ensure that your body stays in the right position significantly decreasing the drag and therefore the amount of energy your upper body needs to make you move in the water? | {
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LG Escape Coming to AT&T on Sept. 16 for $50, Comes With Android 4.0 and LTE
The leaked photo and info attached to this weekend’s LG Escape leak has become official. AT&T on Monday announced the budget-friendly device, as expected, and priced it at just $50 with a new two-year contract. The phone will be available officially on Sept. 16. The Escape features feature a 4.3-inch qHD true-color IPS screen, Android 4.0, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, a 5-megapixel rear camera with 1080p recording, NFC and LTE. That’s a pretty excellent starting price point to hop into the futuristic LTE speeds. $50 also gets you a 2,150mAh battery, Bluetooth 4.0, and 4GB of internal storage (microSD expandable). Finally, AT&T outlined a new feature called Skyfire Horizon, which is a new browser toolbar extension that allows users to easily access social media links and other sharing options. Check out the video for a full overview.
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The LG Escape features the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) platform and 4 GB onboard memory with the option to add up to 32 GB with a microSD card. A 1.2 GHz dual-core processor delivers seamless multitasking agility. The crisp 4.3-inch qHD IPS display gives users enhanced image clarity with true-to-life color rendering. Near-Field Communication enabled and equipped with the QuickMemoTM feature lets users instantly capture a screen image, add notes or decorate using just a finger, then share with friends. The LG Escape has full HD video recording capabilities, and users can even create customized videos by adding themes, music and text to videos or a series of photos with the Video Wiz editing application, played back in crisp cinematic Dolby® Mobile surround sound. To see more of the Escape’s features in action, check out this video.
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Larry Murphy appeared in two Memorial Cups as a member of the OMJHL's Peterborough Petes, winning the championship in 1979.
The story of Larry Murphy is one of perseverance and longevity. Quietly yet efficiently, Murphy has delivered one of the most productive careers of any blueliner in NHL history.
The story begins March 8, 1961 in Scarborough, Ontario. Moving back and forth between forward and defense on his minor league teams, when the only spot available on the team with which Murphy wanted to play was defense, he shrugged, accepted the role and played on the blueline from that day forward. It turned out to be an outstanding decision. After earning an OHA First All-Star Team berth in 1980, Larry was the first pick of the Los Angeles Kings that summer.
Jumping straight to the National Hockey League, Murphy proved that his skills were legitimate. In his freshman season (1980-81),
One of the most lopsided trades of all-time occurred when the Washington Capitals acquired Murphy from Los Angeles for Ken Houston and Brian Engblom in 1983. Houston and Engblom scored a combined 93 points over the remainder of their careers while Murphy added another 1,009 points before retiring in 2001.
Murphy recorded an NHL defenseman record 76 points. Early in his fourth season with L.A., Larry was traded to Washington and continued to prove that he was a gifted offensive defenseman. In 1986-86, he was selected for the NHL's Second All-Star Team. But just before the playoff run in 1989, Murphy was sent to the Minnesota North Stars. In December 1990, Murphy again changed teams, going to Pittsburgh where he helped the Penguins win the Stanley Cup championship both that year (1991), then again in 1992. Larry was a Second Team All-Star again in 1992-93, enjoying a career year with 85 points, compiled from his 22 goals and 63 assists. Murphy was a Second Team All-Star again in 1995 with Pittsburgh, but was traded to the Maple Leafs that summer. Preparing for a Stanley Cup run, Detroit secured the talented defenseman in a transaction with Toronto in 1997, and Larry contributed to the Red Wings' Stanley Cup victory that spring. For the second time in his career, Larry was part of a back-to-back championship, winning again with Detroit in 1998.
Larry Murphy retired in 2001 having collected 287 goals and 929 assists for 1,216 points through 1,615 regular season contests. In 215 playoff games, Larry added 37 goals and 115 assists for 152 points. Steady and reliable, Larry Murphy was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2004.
Larry won his first of four Stanley Cup titles with the 1990-91 Pittsburgh Penguins.
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Several women have accused Republican senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual assault. How will the “Fox News vote” react?
If you encountered Roy Moore as a character in a novel, you’d roll your eyes and accuse the author of gross stereotyping. Look at him: a 70 year-old with a comb-over who dresses in cowboy outfits, a denier of evolution, a de-frocked judge, a lover of guns and Jesus—almost certainly in that order—a sworn enemy of feminism, gay rights, the United Nations, and “socialised medicine,” and now a man accused of dubious behavior with teenage girls. Even William Faulkner, creator of the outrageous “white trash” Snopes clan, never stuffed so many Southern clichés into one body.
Unfortunately for the South, indeed, the entire United States, Roy Moore is all too real, as large as life and twice as backward. And come 12th December, he may be elected the United States senator from Alabama.
It will not, however, be an easy contest. Perhaps emboldened by those who’ve come forward to accuse Fox News presenters, Hollywood producers, actors, renowned comics, and other powerful men of sexual harassment and worse, four women have told the Washington Post that Roy Moore kissed them, and in one case, touched them inappropriately. One was an 18 year-old cheerleader, who says Moore plied her with Mateus Rosé; another, 17, says she met him when he gave a talk in her high school civics class; 14 year-old Wendy Miller says she was working as a Christmastime “Santa’s Helper” at the Gadsden, Alabama shopping mall when Moore first approached her, though he didn’t ask her on a date until she was 16.
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Inline XBRL – Another Step in the Right Direction
Posted on Jul 02, 2018
After much anticipation, the SEC announced that it is moving its voluntary filing program related to Inline XBRL to a mandatory one. Operating companies and mutual funds will be required to file Inline XBRL instead of the traditionally-separate XBRL and HTML documents. There is a phase-in schedule for both operating companies and mutual funds to promote a smooth transition to the new format, consistent with the initial XBRL voluntary filing program that started in 2009. The adoption of Inline XBRL has many advantages for investors, regulators and filers.
The traditional format for XBRL and HTML submissions to the SEC is comprised of 6 XBRL files (one instance document, five extension taxonomy files) and then separate HTML and supplemental files such as JPEG files for graphics. With Inline XBRL, the XBRL instance document will no longer be submitted to the SEC since the XBRL tagged data is included as part of the HTML file. This allows both XBRL creators (companies) and consumers (investors) to review the HTML and XBRL simultaneously. The traditional format is very cumbersome for reviewers because the HTML and XBRL had to be reviewed separately and compared for consistency. With Inline XBRL, consistency is inherent in the HTML document’s structure.
The phase-in schedule mandating Inline XBRL for operating companies is as follows:
Large Accelerated Filers using U.S. GAAP will be required to file with fiscal periods on or after June 15, 2019
Accelerated Filers using U.S. GAAP will be required to file with fiscal periods on or after June 15, 2020
All other filers using U.S. GAAP will be required to file with fiscal periods on or after June 15, 2021
The requirement applies to the first Form 10-Q filed for a fiscal period beginning on or after the applicable start date. For instance, a Large Accelerated Filer using U.S. GAAP filing a 10-Q with a quarter end date of June 30, 2019 would be required to file in Inline XBRL. Alternatively, if the quarter end date of the same registrant was June 10, 2019 it would be not required to file in Inline XBRL until their next quarterly submission.
The phase-in schedule mandating Inline XBRL for mutual fund companies is similar in concept but different from operating companies, as follows:
Mutual funds with net asset size over $1 billion will be required to file two years from the effective date of the amendments
All other mutual funds will be required to file three years from the effective date of the amendments
In addition to mandating Inline XBRL, the Final Rule removes two previous XBRL-related requirements. First, companies will no longer have to host XBRL files on their website. Most investors are accessing the data through other tools such as Certent DisclosureNet, the SEC’s EDGAR site, or other third-party service providers. Second, mutual fund companies will no longer have the 15-business day grace period to submit XBRL after their HTML filing. Instead, mutual fund companies will be required to file XBRL and HTML simultaneously which is consistent with how operating companies have been filing their XBRL. The reason for this change is to allow more timely access to the data.
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A $2 billion project to cover 10 square miles of federally owned desert land east of San Diego with solar dishes is struggling with financing and might not get built if a judge sides with an Indian tribe, its backers said Monday.
“At this point, we don’t know when we can start construction,” Ella Foley Gannon, a lawyer for Imperial Valley Solar LLC, told a San Diego federal judge.
San Diego Gas & Electric is counting on power from the 709-megawatt Imperial Valley Solar project to help it meet state requirements for green energy.
An Indian tribe, the Quechan near Yuma, is asking Judge Larry A. Burns for an order that would prevent construction of the project. It says federal approvals were improperly given and the land is inappropriate for such an intensive use.
Burns heard arguments Monday afternoon, and said he’d make a decision on Wednesday.
The Irish-backed companies behind the project have spent $20 million so far, Gannon told the judge.
They were hoping to get construction started before Dec. 31 to qualify for up to $600 million in federal grants, but that’s highly unlikely, she said.
They’re now hoping that the federal deadline for green energy stimulus funding is extended.
Unlike photovoltaic panels, which convert the sun’s light into heat, the project is designed around mirrored dishes concentrating the sun’s heat onto Stirling engines, a technology never before rolled out at this scale.
Officials have been meeting with investors, but so far, nobody had agreed to put in the money that it would take to get the project built, she said.
“This lawsuit has certainly chilled the discussions,” Gannon said.
The land on which the project is planned was set aside for conservation 30 years ago, Thane Somerville, a lawyer for the Quechan said during Monday’s hearing.
Even though solar projects are allowed, development shouldn’t proceed in a way that harms natural and cultural resources, he told the judge.
“This project is simply not appropriate for the land,” he said.
The companies developing the solar farm and building the dishes to be placed there are owned by NTR, a money-losing Irish conglomerate.
Houston-based Tessera Solar is the developer, while Stirling Energy Systems, of Scottsdale, Ariz., will provide the dishes.
NTR told investors last week it had to write off 96 million euros, or about $127 million, related to the solar investments in the United States, according to a report in the Irish Times.
The company lost 210 million euros, or about $280 million, in the fiscal year ended March 31.
NTR also said that it plans a “liquidity event” in the next two to three years. That’s a financial term that could refer to an initial public offering, selling to a larger company or liquidating assets.
The company, with its roots as a toll-road operator, invested heavily in Stirling engines and other green technology in the United States. That was before Ireland’s financial meltdown.
Its Stirling engines are also at the heart of a separate project in Riverside county called Calico Solar.
A report on industry website greentechmedia.com last week cited unnamed sources saying that Tessera and Stirling had laid off a large percentage of workers and had undergone management changes.
“We don’t discuss individual staff-related actions,” spokeswoman Janette Coates said. “I can confirm however, that as we transition out of the active development stage now that the California projects have been approved, we’ve recently restructured the businesses to manage expenditures.”
She said the company is looking for someone to buy into the projects before construction starts.
Tom Budlong, a Sierra Club member who testified against the Imperial Valley project during a hearing this summer said money will be hard to find because the Stirling technology has been difficult to perfect despite 100 years of history.
“Large investors, who tend to look carefully at where they place their bets, get skeptical when they look deeply at the dish-Stirling prospects,” he said. “Even though the Imperial and Calico projects would be almost entirely government funded or loan-guaranteed, the fundamentals still bubble up to the surface.”
SDG&E has long cited the project as one that will supply renewable power across the Sunrise Powerlink, for which it broke ground last week.
SDG&E spokesman Art Larson said the utility is still planning to get power from Imperial Valley Solar.
“We’re just hoping this is a minor setback,” Larson said. “We’ve always considered to project to be promising and beneficial to the region.”
SDG&E proposed investing up to $600 million in a Montana wind farm this summer as a way of making sure it got built and the utility could buy its power.
The company said that investment is necessary because banks aren’t putting money into green investments.
But Larson wouldn’t say whether SDG&E would do the same with Imperial Valley Solar.
“It’s too early to speculate,” he said.
Some critics of Sunrise have also knocked the Imperial Valley Solar project, saying SDG&E wasn’t serious about buying power from it.
“What will the Sunrise Powerlink connect to if the dish solar project in Imperial County is a mirage?” asked engineer Bill Powers, frequent SDG&E critic.
He then pointed to gas-fired power plants owned by SDG&E's sister company, Sempra Generation, in Arizona and Mexico.
SDG&E's Larson said the utility is spending money on other wind and solar projects in the region. | {
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The affluent merchant Marinus Willett (1740–1830) was a New York leader of the Sons of Liberty and a political radical who fought valiantly during the Revolution. Here, Willett wears his regimental uniform and the sword (17.87.3) that was presented to him by Congress in honor of his actions against the British at Fort Stanwix, in upstate New York, in 1777. The presence of three American Indians alludes to Willett’s role in negotiating a 1790 treaty with the Muscogee (Creek) tribe. Willett successfully balanced his military and political careers, culminating in his appointment as mayor of New York City in 1807.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Yeah, so the BlowJays are coming to town today. I don't really care that much to be honest. We are in the playoffs, all the four possible playoffs opponents are good teams, but they all have weaknesses, so I don't really care what team we get. A win would be nice of course, but this is probably the least I have cared about a game all season. But well, it is the goddamn motherfucking BlowJays and they fucking suck. Losing to them is really, really bad, cause then we have sucked even harder. So yeah, it would be nice to win this, but I wouldn't mind another Osgood start and stuff. Um.. so I'm gonna go off on a wild tangent here, actually I don't remember what off topic thing I was gonna discuss so, well, here's another one: A girl saying the word blowjay for blowjob is possibly the sluttiest thing ever. Just really, really tacky. Gets me everytime in superbad. Fuck. The first off topic idea was much better, but I totally forgot it. Nevermind then. Yeah. But win the game. I am officially declaring this the worst blogpost ever made in the history of mankind.
Keys to the game- Better defense, less turnovers- Good goaltending- Make Rick Nash frustrated again- At least pretend like you care
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Declaration passed. Motion carried. I have to disagree with you that blowjay is the sluttiest thing ever. If you're familiar with Dane Cook, we all know that a girl using the term "raw doggin'" is the most slutty thing ever. Major red flag.
Is there a way to contact the NHL regarding the penalties involved in last nights game? If not the fans, then team management MUST address what happened last night. I do realize it is detroit and that the NHL needs to promote its two team league (see NBC sunday games schedule). If they want the list of inexplicable calls I would have to go over the game again, there were too many. I remember the call against Blunden at the side of the detroit net where the defenseman went down. The Blunden call on a hit along the boards, that was duplicated exactly by #17 that started the scraps (see resulting penalties). The call on Umberger for complaining about #96 in the crease, as I am sure noone has ever done that before, but he had to sit. Alas, detroit was down a goal, so they needed the advantage. The cup final was once between the ducks and senators. The NHL did not like the low ratings resulting from a small market canadian team playing a west coast team not named LA. Since then there have been the same two teams in the final. The explanation is simple, further promote the NHLs team and the NHLs player. The only way to make it more obvious would be to stamp WWE on the broadcast. All of the passive fans are so taken as to think if you do not like one of those teams then you are obviously a fan of the other, there is no other possibility in existence. The one team was considering a move to Winnipeg because they had no attendance and no support for a new arena. Then along came the NHLs player, and with it national broadcasts and a new arena for the second favourite franchise. Is there no way the average hockey fan can have his/her voice heard. Are we to be continually bombarded with this? I speak for everyone who watches those "other" 28 teams in this league. The ones who drive to the games and do not ride the NHL sponsored bandwagon to the arena. Something needs to be done.
Yes, Mr. Reason, there is. I have done so myself a few times. Both the NHL website and the NHL referee/officials website have contact emails. Don't expect to get an answer though. They simply ignore critisism.
I agree that the Wings had some luck with the penalties last night and as a Wings fan I must say it feels good to see the penalties go our way for once. But I don not think the penalties were intentionally skewed. The tripping call was hard to call for a misplaced referee. The unsportsmanlike call is harder to explain. When it comes to Eaves's hit, it was clean. Påhlsson was falling on his own, but too late for Eaves to stop the check. And it is absolute bullshit that he has to stand up and fight for a clean hit. It's crap and I blame Wayne Gretzky for starting that retarded tradition. The boarding call was a good one, dirty hit.
If you are trying to make a statement that the Wings get calls in their favour often, well, then you are wrong. We have been screwed up, down, sideways, in the arse and in every possible way this year and last year. Remember the two insane calls in Dallas vs. Detroit games? Search for "Steve Ott shootout detroit" or "Brad may goal dalls" on youtube and see for yourself. Or what about the intent to blow bs against the Ducks in the playoffs last year? Search "brad watson detroit anaheim" and see for yourself. And these are just the graves of many examples.
I do believe that these mistakes are because of bad refereeing. They suck, they can't keep up with the speed of the game. However I do agree that the NHL has a promotion agenda, that now and then alter the refereeing and often alter suspensions and calls from the league. The league needs to make money and I have no doubt that they try and promote the Pens, Caps and Coyotes. I mean, the fact Malkin was not suspended in last year's SFCs is ridiculous. But even though the NHL does a lot to promote their NBC games, the golden boy and whatever, I feel that most of the mistakes, both on their part and especially on the part of the referees come from incompetence and stupidity.
Of course, that's not any fun standpoint to have. So Fuck the NHL. Gimme my goddamn tinfoil hat! The NHL are trying to screw the Red Wings! (I honestly think they at times tilt the table against us, because we have won our share and they wanna promote other markets, but there is no conspiracy or anything like that) | {
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Bodleian and Vatican libraries to digitise ancient texts
12 April 2012
The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) are announcing a new collaborative digitization project with the aim of opening up repositories of ancient texts and 1.5 million pages from their remarkable collections freely available online to researchers and the general public worldwide.
The initiative has been made possible by a £2 million award from the Polonsky Foundation. Dr Leonard Polonsky whose passion, interest and commitment is to democratize access to information, sees increasing digital access to these two library collections, among the greatest in the world, as a significant step in sharing the wealth of resources on a global scale.
Dr Polonsky, said: ‘21st-century technology provides the opportunity for collaborations between cultural institutions in the way they manage, disseminate and make available for research the information, knowledge and expertise they hold. I am pleased to support this exciting new project where the Bodleian Libraries and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana will make important collections accessible to scholars and the general public worldwide.’
Driven by the same vision of opening up their collections, the two institutions have recently established a partnership brokered by the Bodleian’s Centre for the Study of the Book. The digitization project builds on the existing relationship between the two institutions.
The digitized collections will be in three subject areas: Greek manuscripts, 15th-century printed books (incunabula) and Hebrew manuscripts and early printed books. These areas have been chosen for the strength of the collections in both libraries and their importance for scholarship in their respective fields. With approximately two-thirds of the material coming from the BAV and the remainder from the Bodleian, the digitization effort will also benefit scholars by uniting virtually materials that have been dispersed between the two collections over the centuries.
The project will span four years and will result in approximately 1.5 million pages being made available in digital format.
Sarah Thomas, Bodley’s Librarian, said: ‘Transforming these ancient texts and images into digital form helps transcend the limitations of time and space which have in the past restricted access to knowledge. Scholars will be able to interrogate these documents in fresh approaches as a result of their online availability. Today’s world (and tomorrow’s) is one of global connectedness. The Bodleian Libraries are pleased to have the opportunity to work closely with Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in this cross-cultural collaboration.’
The Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Patten of Barnes, said: ‘We are very grateful to Dr Polonsky for his insight into the importance of widening access to the fundamental texts which have had a major impact on the development of civilisation. By making these collections available online we give the wider public access to a small, but significant part of the world’s heritage.’
Monsignor Cesare Pasini, the Prefect of the Vatican Library, said: ‘Thanks to the far-sighted and generous support of the Polonsky Foundation, two of the oldest libraries in Europe will join forces in an innovative approach to digitisation driven by the actual needs of scholars and scholarship. With this joint initiative, the two Libraries continue to accomplish their mission for the benefit of science and culture; it represents a great step forward in the Vatican Library’s entry into the digital age, and the Library is particularly grateful to Dr Leonard Polonsky for giving us this extraordinary impetus.’
Cardinal Raffaele Farina, Librarian of the Holy See, said: ‘The service to Humanity which the Vatican Library has accomplished over almost six centuries, by preserving its cultural treasures and making them available to readers, finds here a new avenue which confirms and amplifies its universal vocation through the use of new tools, thanks to the generosity of the Polonsky Foundation and to the sharing of expertise with the Bodleian Libraries.’
Another recent major project made possible by contributions from the Polonsky Foundation is the digitization of the Bodleian’s exceptional collection of over 25,000 Cairo Genizah fragments. For the first time, the Bodleian manuscripts can now be consulted, browsed and read online at http://genizah.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
SUBJECT AREAS TO BE DIGITIZED
1. Early printed books (incunabula)
BAV
With almost 8900 incunabula, the Vatican Library possesses the fourth largest such collection in the world. The Vatican Library in its early days played an important role in the development of early printing in Rome and surrounding area, together with members of the Roman curia, many of them otherwise known as distinguished humanists. Many of the first books printed in Rome between 1467 and 1473 are still preserved in the Vatican Library.
BODLEIAN
In terms of size the Bodleian’s collection of incunabula is probably the fifth-largest in the world, and the biggest collection held by a university library. This digitization project will focus on the incunables printed in Italy, since the choice of Italian decorated books and those with Italian provenances would provide a close link with the collections in the Vatican. Some 45% of the Bodleian’s fifteenth-century printed books (the largest percentage for any single country) come from Italy.
2. Greek Manuscripts
BAV
The exceptional importance of the Vatican Library’s collection of Greek manuscripts is due not so much to its size — though it collection of about 5,000 Greek volumes is rivaled in this respect by only a handful of other libraries — as to the quality of the materials it preserves. Examples: works by Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Hippocrates, manuscripts of the New Testament and of the Church Fathers, many of them richly decorated with Byzantine miniatures.
BODLEIAN
The collecting of Greek manuscripts by the Bodleian goes back to its founder. By the end of the 17th century the Bodleian was already established as the most important repository of Greek manuscripts in the British Isles. However, the majority of the Bodleian’s manuscripts of Greek classical authors date from the 15th and 16th centuries, some of them written in Italy by immigrant Greek scribes.
3. Hebrew Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
BAV
The collection of Hebrew manuscripts in the Vatican Library is one of the most important in existence, even though it is not one of the largest. Except for a few dozen items, all the manuscripts were written in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance from the 9th to the 16th centuries. Examples:
a manuscript that is probably the earliest Hebrew codex in existence, a copy of the Sifra written towards the end of the 9th century or in the first half of the 10th century;
copy of the entire Bible written around 1100 in Italy;
In addition there are large numbers of volumes of texts in the fields of Biblical commentary, Halakhah, Kabbalah, Talmudic commentaries, liturgy and liturgical commentaries, philosophy, medicine, astronomy and other sciences as well as both Jewish and Christian polemical texts.
BODLEIAN
Hebrew books and manuscripts have been central to the Bodleian’s collections since 1601 – when Thomas Bodley, the Library’s founder, took a personal interest in them – and remain one of its great strengths. | {
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