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Skill level: Basic
The purpose of a project charter is to define the focus, scope, direction, and motivation for a team. The project champion typically creates the preliminary charter with the team leader. The project team reviews the draft and provides input for the champion’s final approval.
- Key components of a project charter include:
- Business case – financial impact, why important, why now
- Problem statement
- Project scope – what are the boundaries, or what is in scope and what is out of scope
- Goal statement or success measures
- Roles of team members
- Milestones and deliverables – what needs to be accomplished and delivered by when
The project charter can be, and often is, modified through the analyze phase of an improvement project. After the analyze phase is complete, no further changes should occur.
- Builds the vision and case for change
- Provides a constant and consistent target for project team members
- Clearly aligns team members
- Indicates why a project has priority over other projects
- Describes the gap between the current state and the desired state
- Provides a reference point the team can continually refer back to in order to keep direction and scope
How to Use
- Step 1. Define the business case. Why is the project important, and why now?
- Step 2. Define the problem statement. Quantify the problem, its impact on the process, and how long it has existed without causation.
- Step 3. Define the project scope. What are the boundaries of the project team, what is in scope, and (sometimes even more important) what is out of scope?
- Step 4. Define the goal(s) of the project team. What are the tangible performance improvements that the team has as a target?
- Step 5. Define the resources and the roles that each will play.
- Step 6. Define the milestones and deliverables. What needs to be accomplished and delivered by when?
- Step 7. Review the project charter with the entire team to solicit input. If potential changes are identified, review with the champion to gain approval before publication.
The example below is related to the Chapter 7 bankruptcy process of a financial institution.
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19 September 2018
Lower Hutt woman Kiely Pepper will be flying the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) flag in Australia next month, when she competes in the Invictus Games Sydney 2018.
The Games are the only international adaptive sporting event for wounded, injured and ill current and former servicemen and women. This year’s event, in Sydney from 20-27 October, will involve competitors from 18 allied nations in 11 different adaptive sports. The NZDF is sending a team of 24.
Major Pepper, who has been in the New Zealand Army for 22 years, is eligible to compete because of ill health – she has suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) since 1997 and in 2015 was diagnosed with breast cancer.
“I saw the Invictus Games as a way to set and reach some goals that have eluded me for quite some time, and to do it in a safe environment with some good coaching,” she said.
“Obviously the pinnacle is going to the Games.”
Major Pepper will compete in archery, indoor rowing, cycling and wheelchair basketball in Sydney.
Her illnesses have both been debilitating.
“People understand cancer. The support for cancer is unbelievable. A lot of women who have had breast cancer have paved the way for people like me to have a better time of it.
“(But) CFS is very difficult to diagnose and there was very little awareness of what it was about when I got it. It’s a horrible condition. It’s very mean because it’s very inconsistent and painful.”
The NZDF had been incredibly supportive throughout both illnesses, including allowing her to have flexible work hours and working with her to identify suitable roles, she said.
“My family have also been very supportive throughout both illnesses and can see how the Invictus Games are helping with my recovery.”
The Games are the brainchild of Prince Harry, who was inspired by the Warrior Games in the United States. He launched the first Invictus Games in London in 2014, aiming to help competitors on their journey to recovery through the power of sport.
That journey is taking Major Pepper far and wide – she recently returned from a world breast cancer dragon boating regatta in Italy, where she was part of Wellington’s CanSurvive team, which finished second.
Having the sporting goals of the dragon boating regatta and the Invictus Games had helped in her recovery, she said.
“It distracts you from the illness, to a certain degree, and helps you to consider what you can do instead of what you can’t.
“It also helps you to feel healthier, and being around others who have suffered but are ‘moving on’ is inspirational.
“With Invictus, you belong to a team that has NZDF links and some awareness or understanding of illness/injury difficulties, so everyone is helping each other.”
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Love Birds (Love Wins) Decorative Throw Pillow 17 x 17. Love is in the air! This sweet pair of lovebirds embrace the words "Love Wins" to create a charming accent in your room. The antique color palette is neutral enough to add to any room. Toss this pillow on any bed, sofa or chair and add a romantic touch to your chic and stylish decor. Zippered cover for easy removal and cleaning.
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With the launch of Google+ Pages, businesses can finally join this new social site, but if you’re wondering if it is worth the time to commit to another social network, you are not alone. Many are keen to know what Google+ has to offer that they can’t already get on Facebook or Twitter. Google+ has many features, such as Hangouts, Circles, and Ripple (and coming out with more all the time) which make it particularly useful for businesses – maybe even more so than for individuals.
1. Getting to Know the People Behind the Company
Google+’s brand pages are much more than another place for businesses to advertise, but are a way for people to get to know and interact with those behind the company. This provides a great opportunity to build brand loyalty as consumers feel much more connected with a business when they can put a face with the overall public image.
Instead of mass messages to all followers, businesses are encouraged to form “Hangouts” where small groups of 10 users can participate in a video chat with someone of interest from the company. Those who are curious, but not involved in the chat, can stream the conversation and watch everything that happens. What better way to show customers you care than by speaking to them directly?
Who’s doing this: While promoting their recent movie, The Muppets held a Google+ Hangout where fans could chat with Kermit, Miss Piggy, and other famous characters. The Muppets were one of the first businesses to establish a Google+ brand page and serve as a good example of how to do it right.
2. Posting Unique Content
Google+ and its users are not interested in seeing recycled Facebook content. Although both are social networking sites, Google+ has distinct differences which make it unique, and any content you post should follow suit. The purpose of the brand page isn’t to sell your product or service (at least not directly); the spirit behind the platform is to connect with your customers on a personal level. The best way to do this is through unique, interesting content – not parroting what can easily be found on your website or on a different social network.
Who’s doing this: William Sonoma has a clear understanding of the spirit of the brand page. Instead of focusing specifically on its products, they provide subscribers with useful dining and entertaining ideas as well as stories and daily recipes. Using this approach, even with Google+ pages in their infancy, William Sonoma has amassed over 84,000 followers.
3. Effectively Utilizing the “Circle” Tool
Perhaps Google+’s most distinguishing feature is the ability to categorize followers into Circles. Although diehard Facebook fans would say this is merely a means of creating multiple versions of yourself, Google feels it makes it easier to personalize messages to like-minded groups of people. Business can categorize their followers into circles based on location, gender, age, whether they’re customers or employees, or virtually any other type of differentiation; then, tailor a message specific to each circle.
Another benefit is that Circle members only receive relevant content and won’t have to filter out information targeted at some other demographic. This encourages sharing, feedback, and the establishment of a micro-community within the overall follower base.
With the addition of Ripple, users can even track how their content is shared through the web. This information is invaluable to brands as they are able to pinpoint who is most engaged in their page and to whom they are passing along the information. With this knowledge, businesses can have greater insight into where they are succeeding and where they need to focus on more meaningful connections.
Who’s doing this: ThinkGeek is still growing, but it has a rather large cult following. This company knows exactly who its subscribers are and what they want. Its page connects users with one-of-a kind ,geek-related products, photos, and more. Instead of trying to appeal to everyone, ThinkGeek has focused on one niche and is proving that share rate increases dramatically when content is appealing. | <urn:uuid:2310b4a2-ebed-4770-bea0-3390e692957d> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.sparklogix.com/how-companies-are-using-google-plus-and-how-you-can-too/ | 2019-06-20T16:19:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999261.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20190620145650-20190620171650-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.959704 | 852 | [
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About Hope and Other PunchlinesBrought into the world by: Julie Buxbaum
Published by Delacorte Press on May 7th 2019
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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The New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things and What to Say Next delivers a poignant and hopeful novel about resilience and reinvention, first love and lifelong friendship, the legacies of loss, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
Sometimes looking to the past helps you find your future.
Abbi Hope Goldstein is like every other teenager, with a few smallish exceptions: her famous alter ego, Baby Hope, is the subject of internet memes, she has asthma, and sometimes people spontaneously burst into tears when they recognize her. Abbi has lived almost her entire life in the shadow of the terrorist attacks of September 11. On that fateful day, she was captured in what became an iconic photograph: in the picture, Abbi (aka "Baby Hope") wears a birthday crown and grasps a red balloon; just behind her, the South Tower of the World Trade Center is collapsing.
Now, fifteen years later, Abbi is desperate for anonymity and decides to spend the summer before her seventeenth birthday incognito as a counselor at Knights Day Camp two towns away. She's psyched for eight weeks in the company of four-year-olds, none of whom have ever heard of Baby Hope.
Too bad Noah Stern, whose own world was irrevocably shattered on that terrible day, has a similar summer plan. Noah believes his meeting Baby Hope is fate. Abbi is sure it's a disaster. Soon, though, the two team up to ask difficult questions about the history behind the Baby Hope photo. But is either of them ready to hear the answers?
I can remember first learning about the 9/11 attacks. I was in an interesting point in time and space. At 10 years of age, I was old enough that I understood to some extent what was happening, and I can remember it happening, but I was still young enough that I didn’t completely grasp the horror. I was also on the other side of the world at the time, living in China. Not being American, nor being in the country, it was a terrible but distant concept for me, like seeing all the other atrocities on TV and in the news. Two things made this day stand out to me personally. First, my aunt was living in NYC and was apparently several blocks away from the World Trade Center. Second, my teacher at the time was American, and so it was a Big Deal the next day at school. (The crashes happened overnight for us.) I remember leaning over my teacher’s desk to look at the casualty count for each country, looking to see how many South Africans lost their lives. (Remember, I was 10, and this was something that happened far away from my world.)
But I’m a whole decade older than the young adults of today, who have grown up either being far too young to remember the day…or not having been alive at all at the time. This is still such a weird thing for me to think about. Abbi, the one main character in this story, falls into the former group. Born on September 11th 2000, she was celebrating her first birthday in the daycare centre of the WTC when the planes struck, and she became a strange sort of symbol around the world – “Baby Hope”. Instead of being able to live a normal life, hers became defined by a tragedy she happened to survive but cannot remember. My whole story above? Her mere presence would trigger people to remember where they were on 9/11, the people they lost.
Imagine being Abbi, an otherwise typical teenager – hormones, awkwardness, and all – who is not allowed to be one. This very train of thought was what drew me to Hope and Other Punchlines. All she wants is to have a normal summer, working two counties away in the hopes that no one will recognise her. She doesn’t want to be a trigger or a symbol anymore, especially with something looming on the horizon. It was easy to slip into her mind and understand where she was coming from, the first person really working here.
On the other hand, I struggled a bit with Noah. He was a bit blunt to begin with, and it was only once the reasoning behind his actions slowly became apparent that I warmed up to him. But it took a while.
Thanks to Noah’s obsession, the two of them get caught up in some sleuthing. Specifically, hunting down someone from the Baby Hope photo. Along the way, there’s a whole lot of teenage Figuring Stuff Out, be it about friendship, family, feelings, or …ok, I can’t think of another f-word (tehe)… who they themselves are. It did feel a bit slow at times, but it was still enjoyable throughout.
A special mention goes to Abbi’s parents. My parents are divorced and rarely talk to each other, so it was utterly bizarre that they were such good friends and really worked together to raise Abbi. I also loved how supportive and empowering they were. Plus, while Abbi’s mom was great, she didn’t come across as the super maternal person you normally seen in fiction, with Abbi’s dad handling the more emotionally intensive conversations. It’s nice to see the dynamic switched up like that.
Another more serious side tangent, I can’t help but point out how American-centric the whole 9/11 thing is. Yes, lots of people died that day. But lots of people have died in other events around the world, yet we don’t have the same reaction. We don’t remember that day, what we were doing, where we were. Or did I only burn that day into my memory because I was at an American school at the time? Do people in other countries also have such strong memories of 9/11?
I think that sums up this book for me: it got my mind whirring. It was a bit jarring, though I don’t think that’s the book’s fault. I think it might because of my own personal experience with 9/11, but I guess that’s the risk when writing about events that really happened. You take this tragic thing that happened, you add in all the thoughts and feelings and experiences teenagers have now about it, but then there’s this romantic element thrown in that sort of threw me a bit. It just goes to show that even people who the rest of the world dub special are just normal people with their own everyday lives and relationships.
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I am delighted to welcome back the philosophical community for a new and exciting year. I am also pleased to be able to convey several pieces of good news.
It is a pleasure to announce the recruitment of two new assistant professors, Timothy Clarke and Wesley Holliday. Professor Clarke joins us from Yale, where he recently completed his Ph.D. in ancient philosophy. Professor Holliday comes to us from Stanford, where he earned his Ph.D. in epistemology and philosophical logic.
In addition, I am delighted to announce that we have been able to retain Professor Alva Noë from CUNY’s attempt to recruit him away from us. Professor Noë is now back full time with our department. We were also successful in being given a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Alex Madva, who joins us from Columbia University. His Ph.D. is at the intersection of ethics and epistemology. Dr. Madva will teach two courses a year both in 2012-2013 and 2013-2014.
The department offerings will also be strengthened by Katharina Kaiser and Tim Crockett. Kaiser will offer courses in the area of post-Kantian continental philosophy and Professor Crockett will offer courses on Spinoza and Locke/Leibniz. In the Spring, Professor Markus Gabriel (Bonn University) will be visiting the department and adding to our strengths and offerings by teaching courses on Hegel and on epistemology.
Graduate students in our department had a terrific year on the job market in 2011-2012, despite the challenging conditions that continue to prevail. Seven of them have accepted attractive tenure-track or continuing positions, and another four have taken taken very good postdocs or visiting jobs; here are the complete results:
Joseph Barnes, UC Berkeley (1-year lectureship)
Brian Berkey, Melbourne University (2-year post-doc)
Vanessa de Harven, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Andy Engen, Illinois Wesleyan University
James Genone, Franklin and Marshall College (2-year visiting position)
Markus Kohl, University of Tennessee
Tamar Lando, Columbia University
Julia Nefsky, University of Toronto
Matthew Parrott, Oxford University (2-year Mellon postdoc)
James Stazicker, University of Reading
George Tsai, University of Hawaii, Manoa
We will miss these philosophers in Moses Hall, but offer them our warm congratulations and our very best wishes for continuing success in their careers.
It is always a pleasure at this time of year to welcome to our community a new group of students. This year five students will be starting their graduate work in our Department: Michael Diaz (Claremont-McKenna), Alex Hansen (U. Colorado), Jackson Kernion (Harvard), Antonia Peacocke (Harvard), Rachel Rudolph (McGill). In addition, three new students will be starting in the Logic and Methodology Program: Russell Buehler (Carleton), Matthew Harrison-Trainor (U. Waterloo), and Alex Kocurek (Notre Dame). We wish them every success in their graduate studies and beyond.
The Berkeley Philosophy Department regularly attracts a large group of visiting scholars from around the world, who join us for shorter or longer periods, and contribute substantially to making ours a more cosmopolitan and stimulating community. Please check the Visiting Scholar section of our website for a list of new and continuing visitors to our Department.
We have, as always, a very lively program of philosophical events scheduled for the coming year, including a Townsend Visit by Michael Friedman, a George Myro Memorial Lecture by Timothy Williamson, a Howison Lecture by Robert Brandom and many talks and colloquia by distinguished philosophers from the US and abroad. Detailed information and updates are available on the events section of our website.
Paolo Mancosu, Department Chair
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Packing for a move is a time-consuming and labor-intensive process. Often people have a long list of other duties to accomplish during the move of a home or business. Discover seven benefits of hiring professional packing services in Naples FL.
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Ella and the balloon
That moment when the balloon is just out of reach…
Ella tied and was holding the balloon string, but somehow it broke off!
I have had so much fun exploring and finding the right characters for the poem Fair Weather Friend by Shannon Tappana. Now is onto rehearsing and finding all the emotions they can convey.
It is interesting how in finding their emotions I explore my own. This one made me think about the things I tie myself too, and how some are fleeting (like the balloon - red) and some are foundational (like the shoes - red.)
Letting go is an art that I am just beginning to learn. And as much as I plan, the one constant is change.
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FY2017 Progress in Enforcement of the Act against Delay in Payment of Subcontract Proceeds, etc. to Subcontractors and Efforts for Fair Subcontracting Practices
August 27, 2018
The Small and Medium Enterprise Agency
The Small and Medium Enterprise Agency (SMEA) has been strictly enforcing the Act against Delay in Payment of Subcontract Proceeds, etc. to Subcontractors (hereinafter referred to as the “Act”) through on-site inspections of main subcontracting enterprises and other actions, while strictly addressing violations of the Act.
SMEA hereby releases a report of the FY2017 progress in enforcement of the Act, results of services at aid offices for subcontractors and initiatives for improving the business transaction conditions.
1. Results of the enforcement of the Act
SMEA conducted a written survey of approximately 250,000 companies, targeting both main subcontracting enterprises and subcontractors. Based on the survey results, on-site inspections and other actions were performed at 958 main subcontracting enterprises which were suspected of violating the Act, and orders for improvement were issued to 867 of those companies.
2. Results of the services at the aid offices for subcontractors
Aid offices for subcontractors in 48 locations in various prefectures across Japan responded to 6,838 requests for advice from counselors and accepted 601 cases for free consultations with attorneys as well as 14 petitions for conciliation under Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).
3. Initiatives for improving the business transaction conditions
In September 2017, Japan established a Liaison Council of Responsible Ministries and Agencies for Improving Vitalization of SMEs and Small Enterprises under the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, aiming to address a variety of challenges surrounding SMEs and small enterprises, such as improvement of business transaction conditions. Since then, the council has been conducting necessary discussions across ministries and agencies.
In addition, SMEA has been dispatching inspectors who monitor subcontracting business. In FY2017, the inspectors visited SME subcontractors across Japan and conducted 2,727 interviews. On the premise of the confidentiality of private information, and if necessary, SMEA will give feedback on or convey details of the interviews to respective companies or industrial associations so as to contribute to improving subcontracting practices and will go on to inspections of companies suspected of violating the Act. Through these efforts, SMEA will urge companies to conduct measures for disseminating appropriate trade practices.
- FY2017 Progress in Enforcement of the Act against Delay in Payment of Subcontract Proceeds, etc. to Subcontractors and Efforts for Fair Subcontracting Practices (summary) (in Japanese) (PDF:398KB)
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Reach for a happier day, every day! Imagine what tonight’s finest memory will look like. Then be the producer of your own plan of action. Give yourself permission to forecast your day.
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How attentive are you to your right-to-happiness? Do you reach for your cell phone before your eyes are even ready to focus? What you read on your phone can influence how you begin your day. You can drift away from well-being and into a world of worry, concern, fear mixed with a covering of perhaps humor, cute animals, and even inspiration to share with others. All of this can wait!
As you rise from sleep, experience the pleasure of waking up in a bed: the pillows, sheets and warm covers. Enjoy meeting up with yourself. Try leaving your phone a minimum of five feet away from your bed. You can have access to your phone in case of something urgent.
Great powers lie within you. But you may not always be aware. You may leave this day to roll out on its own.. Sometimes this works out for you. Sometimes it leaves you without clarity. We can develop unique tools for starting a successful day.
With great endeavors comes great commitment. Here are five steps to creating satisfying days:
- Commit to leaving your phone at least five feet from your bed. If you are like me, you sleep with the phone nearby. Landlines are a thing of the past in my home. I tell myself I need to be close to the phone. But do I? I can still have it in my room without having it within arms distance. I can commit to this!
- Commit to waking up in a state of appreciation. Appreciation is the key to opening doors to well-being. It creates mindfulness of yourself, of others and the world around you. Appreciation is the air of contentment and is a prerequisite for a most extraordinary day!
- Forecast your day in terms that delight you. Dare to write your personal screenplay for this day. Use words like, I’m going to have new energy as I clean up the kitchen! I see myself smiling at the the people in the doctors’ office today and I sense a new feeling of wellness. I actually enjoy the project at work and seem to be finishing in record time.
- Pay close attention to your fears about the day. Be brave about identifying your fears. Bring your fears into the light and watch them disappear. Fears are emotions. Emotions are messages to you. What is fear telling you? Fear says, STOP! Turn around! Rethink this! The way you are thinking about a situation is getting you farther away from where you want to go! Is there a better way to think about this situation? Keep looking for a better attitude until the fear ALERT BUTTON stops.
- Observe your emotions throughout the day. Emotions navigate us toward our goals. When we experience uncomfortable emotions, we can STOP what we are doing and find actions that make us feel more comfortable. The more we are aware of our emotions, the more we are able to navigate toward what we want.
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stainless steel repairs
Not every welding/fabrication shop in your brewery’s local area has the equipment and capability to perform sanitary stainless steel welding suitable for brewery processes. Bennett Forgeworks offers you this capability, and can repair your parts with our mobile stainless steel welding service . If a damaged part is small, we can also repair at our facility in Ridgway, Colorado, and ship the repaired part back to you.
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It . fit 1!1 Fills .;.!, im' r- V j!irli'jTi rav to h;l.".dlo k :nt row. ir?rrr- fT3fc I T . 1 (? TYfi - 4 C OF JACKSON W11JJAM I 'A AH LEON CL1PPAKT) w i t i t e -t '"5 - He fts-a- The ladies of the Christian church will give their annua! Chrysanthemum Show November 1f-17 Et Arniorv Hall. "Ma Usenberry" and her pretty girls " will be there but will not have anything particular to say. "Ma" says she cannot be at the first show but will be at the second chance or the slightest benefit of j a. doubt, it takes ten cents to j get in the hall but you will be; w?l!tnfr tr nsv fur the fun Vit-- ; sides helping a good cause. Two excellent dramas are being re hearsed nightly for the evening entertainments. Music will be furnished by the orchestra. Ad mission each afternoon 10c. Children under 6 years free. Admission each evening 25c, Children between !C and 12 years, 15c Kev. Ross, who has been in Kansas City attend img the Presbyterian synod, returned to Jackson Saturday. While in Kansas City Rev. Ross was in strumental in geiting the synod to meet at Jackf-on next year, which will bring something like eighty elders ami ministers to this city. The synod met here sixteen years ago. Much interest is being mani fested in the sale to be held by he Cape County Stock Breeders' Association in this city No vember 16th. Some fine stock will be offered. The Westminster Circle met Tuesday evening at the home of lira. Sallie Hutfmeisier and the usual routine was carried out with success. Mr. and Mrs. A. lb Milde are in Hot Springs where they went to improve the health of Mrs. Milde, which has been bad for gome time. Edw. Houser, the popidir cashier of the Cape County Sav ings Bank, has returned from St. Louis where he went on business. Mr. A. Taylor, manager of the Jackson Steam Laundry, wuit to Benton, III. the Jirst of this week on business. CUT Ft2WERS AK0 FLORAL CESlCrjS Fok All f Koaskjns. J. 17. f!eC0r.SS, JR. UiidSfUii'g 2ni fs!n'itg. Day Phoned) Night Phone 144. t! I t! rnofn'0 iv ' li iv ami !! it 7 f.; ' f fj , Assistant Ca.iici' " j The Ihursday Utemy Club. met in ca.led session with Mrs. i C. W. Henderson Tuesday even Clinton Coyert, ps.d:-ted by Harry Wagner, are install!!.? an electric light plant at Uur field. Ark Gov. XIadley Issues Thanksgiv ing Prockmjiion. Jefferson City, Nov. 6. Gov- e10r HaaIe-Y 8 Thanksgivi ng pro iclamation, issued today, follows: "The president of the United States, in accordance with an appropriate custom that has come down to ua from the be ginning of our national life, has designated Thursday, November 30th. as the day of Thanksgiv ing and prayer. "I feel that the people of Mis souri can appropriately join in the observance of this occasion. During the last year nature has brought to us a bountiful return from farm and field; labor has bsen generally employed at fair wages; business has boon hot active and prosperous. We have enjoyed a freedom from lawless- j ness ana public disorder; ourj Fees Collect" j laws have been generally satis-i . ' factorily observed and impartial-j'f cial Street fund. ly enforced, without resoi t to L Rp''i'vv fe 03 -.00 extreme or unusual efforts. Our mihlicKei vice has hnnn f.fncipnl- ly conducted and free from .scan - dais or abuse: the niihhV ho ,!i h hem Bafoiior,i A im.! pioved;our public schools have furnished adequate oppoicunity for an education, whils the con- ditions of life have furnished an equal opitortunily for success and achievement.1 "1 therefore request that the people of Mirs-juri ceaue their usual avocations aiid on Thurs day, Nov. 30th, return thanks to Almighty (kd for the blow ings they enjoy." SALESMEN WANTED--To look after our interest in Cape Girardeau and adjacent coun ties. Salary or Com miss ion. Address TIIF, HARVEY MT, CO., Cievcla.'id. O. EDW. D.HAYS Attorney at Lav. Notary Public --OKKICK IN UU'lIT llOli E S. T. DALEY, Located at Wh. tstine's Machine Shop, east Sid3 of puhlit; sOll.irfe. PLUMBING & PIPE FITTING Special attention toutteriinf and tin work. David B. Mays ATTORNEY AT LAW I Jackson, Mo. (Jfiice: West Ua of TeJphona 4i. 'uhlic '"-niiare (Cor.l .vt3!.) , to; 30. o ' , ;tv"J. for Po've G s. d 01 I'?, I i V C':', nh;rj , 0 j ; 1 .''r .1 or i. !.!. F.T Two i" 1 k 2'.-f 1) i... tvdjMCO. . . 0-o; ifr. F F.v f. II-' Hi.: member. the ora 3(th: I! v, Rabich. ma nr.. G K.1. v: ,vs. 2s-. m!i. IT, . !.'-. 10 -esr.ua.. ! ? -: amou ! : iV-r "Phone" re LMj Mil uu i'or ! rler e-r.ding Sepfembt turn, 1 1 . Ti z i 0 , Kik-'w' F'.-uSir;--..', (.-', Druo-.iiiiji:': t:fi..T)!',:ma!in. Ie?--cl !cr. Ccllt-ctor. po. t the follow-' N 1 1 , :ia for the month of Ociob'?i: For ta.rts rt A and jier- C't O.-s: Tot l lUr-i i j onal tljp'or h-.tfTest on delin-:"-3l rjvicnt .?C44.20,i . . 52.20 ....1.25 . ..12.00 For do?: tax snd check For dram shoo ad-val. Fnr i;nwr ror licenses: Automobile, (6) . 11.53 Occupations and vehicles. 1,750.00 1.761.50 For' Collector's fees on Del. taxes . 1. uiv ... o.u.) Tf t-t? oa .f.t innc 1 7 i i iCtai cou.cuons, h.ito.l City Sexton. No report. City Engineer, C. E. Stive? Go.!ect:on3 for p. :va .e sur- their ercammation and approval. 'di should be passedardthe veys. forOcsooe-. ... S:0.00; The Mavchal presented arc- Judid Commitfe Due from paH.es for Sep- iport showing tne number of;to prepars such an ordinance tember surveys . 5.o0 street lamps that failed to b.a, d t h gt the ,ext rneet. .i;.. u a.ou amount due for services of rod - men for October 33.75! Post Warden, II. G. Dcmpsey. Said officer reoo officer rep.) cs having is- sued 16 Wharage receipts at $2.00 each, dm-mg the month of Octobe .32.00 City We 'she -A. Di'ctlir.ger, for Sept. Oct... F. W. Moirhion " .. J. C. Cuerkle " .. .$ 7.50! 5.25 Robt II. Rheumsn " 7. 10 P. F. Dietrich " . . . Total 71.05, C:t ' Clerk, Goo. E. Chappell. t"1 m "even:e Uflu; ! For building permits 1.00, ! or Excavation permits. . . 3.50 i r or "ncates to copies 01 ordinances, etc 2.50 Total $10.00 Ex-City Clerk C. F. Betten under date of October 27th, sub- mits statement of collections made by him. for fees, etc. as fellows: S2 building and excavation permits, at 50 cents ?41.00 9 Automobile registry fe 4.50 Rent of Missoo-'i Park. paid by Ed. Flentge 37.50 To'al SS2.00 Louis Stein, City Treasurer. Balance in tieastoy Septem ber 30th. last 320,253. 47i Receipts since said date. From Edward Wilier, Col lector 2.175.135 From V'. A. Summers, Marshal 105.60 Fxom W. A. Summers, Marsha! t3. CO i From G. E. Chapi e'l, i City Clerk 10.00 i From C. F. Beueo, Ex-Cicy Clerk b2.C0 Fiom C. E. Stiver City Engineer 10.C0 Fom City Weighers: A. Diitlif"?er, . .'S 7.V.0 .. 5.25 R. II. Rheiimar.i 7.40 J. C. Buerl-'e.. . 11.25 p. f. d;. :-;.. vjaj F. W. Moiri . 7.2) TV:i! 71.05 Fiom H. G. !).-!-ip v . Prt Wiira. i) ;'2.0 Tot-d rtceip.ts 2,5,S1.2Si $iT837.75!" I;V;.urcmer:tiV Warrants paid. For Gcneus! revenue Fund V'!,n For Other Funds Sih. GO a. t.: ort'lO i ("1 (h i.. 1 c i t'rv.''.'v ' C'Oii. . . . "r trci-'- j (UiS as !' Ge Fur-', r. F;'.! Total -V-Din-ccd. Gentry I Fei'enue Fund, as per vouch ers (warrant?) fded by t-ersurer 3,7-13. r. Other Fund.-;, r. per vouchers filed by j treasurers 1)7.02 o,s;).w Calaneo November j 4th 1911 ?lS.tn;1.152 j On motion of Mr. Coerver, said reports were received and ordered filed and the Clerk in structed to issue wai rants to the several parties for the amounts due them under said report. There being no objections, it was ordered, that the Clerk no- ftify the assisant Fire Chiefs I that all bids or claims against the Fire Department, shall here - , , , . after Kp endorsed as to the r I after be endorsed as to their ;tu : , r' , - t u.. il. . tt: (o.uv, ut-io:u ueinjf Pe.ucu tu UU1 UliT Ut LOUe. , Vv HlCfl Oil 11101 on ' Vas received and filed, and the Clerk insi.ucted to deduct the, amount of -aid shoitage from the bill of the Cape Girardeau , Water Woi-ks and Electric Light Company for the month of Octo- ;ber. The following bills, having, . t.c j i . a 3:i: bze1 certified bv the Auditing Committee as approved, were 7.20Presented and read: 11.25! City Clerk. Mexico, Mo., $ 2.50 1.50 20.00 1 Fred Goyert Co. Clerk,. . Cape County Herald 32.75 ; "enryBreme. v. a 4-w : lIack Diamond Goat tx I C. G. Water Works and ; E.UOo., (Sept) . . C- G- vVater Works and .t oi t.oo El. L. Co., (Oct) W A Summers Marshal o0.4Oj r-83 j 1-80 i j Temple-Robbins Co Standard Printing Co. . Beauvias Co., Edw. Wilier.... Brunke Bros S. Albeit Gro. Co.,..., oO.IJ1) 3.00 3.00 5&.80 47.35 ' Joe Warner 48.35 ' Lawrence Morrison 5.00 1.05 7.07 H. H. Haas, C. E. Stiver Cape Foundry and Ma chine Co 19.00 Cape Co: Abstract Co. . . . 2,00 Meyer & Schwab, 1.15 Edward Healy 27.80 Vogel Sanger Hdw. Co. ,. . 5.35 Phillips L & F. Co., 6.00 Chas. J. Haman 6.00 Black Diamond Coal Co. Bahn Bros. Hy. Koch A. H. Hamilton, , 1.50 . 5.37 3.75 . 4.65 . 9.35 . 5.40 .75 , 37.30 . 9.27 . 2.15 .05 . 2. GO case of Wesco Sup. Co Wm. Sailer Black Diamond Coal Co. A. B. Gockel Union L & M. Co., S. Albert Gro. Co Sam. Randol Circuit Court fees in Gordon va City, and salaries for the month as provided by ordi - nance or order of the Council: . Geo. E. Chappell, City Clerk $125.00 j Edward Wilier. Collector 125.00; Thos. F. Lane. City i 75.'JOj 60.00 60.00; ! 100. 00 Counselor, W. A. Summers, Marshal, Fivd Brunke, St. Corn., . . C. E. Stiver, City Engineer. Willis Martin, Health OXccr 100 Goo. W. Taliy. K. J. IIwt.?on, John Mackc, Harry IV liccrr.an, each CO. 00 W.. C. Stevens, Nirht 'V.tfc h man C1,:m. IHwn, F. C. 13.00 r.o.oo 4)M i ,"0!t Jono", A-t F. C. . . ;ic;ner 30.00 20. 00 1.00 (ftrO'iro Uritlon. Janiior, . Meinbora Foard of Ilo:tltii . N. II.v.ard, Dr. G. L'. Schulu, ! Dr. (J. W. WtAkec 10.00' 1.0.00: IDr. K. F. Wichtcritli,... I I'iro pK-anl. P.. F. Iltrnn- stead 2.W . 4.00 . 4.00 4.00 hat the A. J. Flcnte Clias. G. Moeder, J. M. Morrison Mr. Wilson moved bilk? as read, be received and ordered filed and the Clerk in structed to issue warrants in payment for raid bills together with the salaries due the several officers and employes named, and t.lio motion carried. Dill of T. J. Schorb, presented to the Auditing Committee but not approved, was by said com mittee submitted to the Council for its action thereon. Said bill states that it is for work done on certain parts of Whitoner Street and Ye.t End Foulevard, amounting in the aggregate to S1S3.40. On motion of Mr. Wihon, the bill of Mr. Schorb was referred 1 f fK Cfw nA to the btreet and Wl.a' i com .... . . I mittse for adjustment. I Mr- Wilson presented a reso- ; ,utJon dedarin it lh nKe of 1 iMt; tuuui.il mill, a 'Curfew" or- i ing On motion of Mr. Flentge, &iyd resolution was adopted. L 5' 4a0f jet P'-arco. Mr. Moeder i'i'e.senttd a re.;o- aon autnonzmg tne ...aiorto oraer anu sign wnasever war rants may be ncees'ry, in pay- ' "l11 tt " ' d.'t'on to the new c.ty cemeiei y. which resolution was oo. moiion of Mr. Morrison, adopted. Mr. Coerver presented a reso lution instructing the Judiciary committee and City Counselor to nscp.rtain the cost of nrir.tina- p!1 !ofthe ordinances of a general nature now in force, also all or- - dmance3 conferring upon public ' service corporation fi f nchises, sajd ordinance to be printed in ! pamphlet form. gajd committee and counselor to give title in brief of the or-. dinances proposed to be included ; ;n k-olfj ni'intincr and mstt-A rv. port at next meeting. On motion of Mr. Flentge, said resolution was adopted. The City Engineer as instruct ed by the Street and Wharf Com mittee, presented profile, plans, specifications and estimate of ithe cost of improving Spvigg Street from the south property line of Broadway Street to the North property line of Maple Street, by resurfacing said part of Sprigg Street with macadam and constiucting, where none are now constructed, granitoid curbs and gutters. The Council having examined said profile, plans, specifications and estimate, Mr. Wiison moved that they be received, approved, adopted and filed as of date November 6th. 1911, and that they be so marked by the City Clerk and filed in hisoT.ce. Said motion carrit-u a-d it was 10 ordered. Mr. Coerver prerei-.red a reso lution, entitled "A Resolution to impiwve Sprigg Street, from the South Properiy Line of Bioad- 1 way Street to the North Proper- ty Line of Maple Street, in the City of Cape Girardeau. Mo.", paid resolution bein? for the l)!inose of improving said part of Sprigg Street, in accordance with the plans and specifications therefor prepared by the City Engineer and approved and adopted by the Council of this date. On motion of Mr. Wilson, said rc.iolution w?.i adopted. On motion of Mr. Wibon, the Cemetery ordinance presented by the Judiciary Committee at this meeting, wa.9 again referred to said committee for insertion of the .subject matter, concern ing pk.t, prices of lots etc, as re ported by tht Cemetery Com mittee at this meeting. The Committee on Watwr and Light. submitted a retort submiti'ing propositions from the Cipe Girardeau-Jackson Intrnuvan Ry. Co., and th Cape Girardeau Water UorKs ami Electric Light to., for in stalling incandescent lamps on certain streets of the city. The Council having considered the propositions. Mr. Wittmor moved that the report of the committee be roceived and that the proposition of the Cape Gir ardeau Water Works and I iectric Light Company be accepted and the said committee instructed to have the necessary contract signed, conditioned that the lamps are to be installed and in operation in thirty days. Said motion carried. On motion of Mr. Wilson, the Street and Wharf Committee was instructed to submit plans and cost of installing plumbing for toilet room in Court House building and make report 8t the next meeting of the council. The Mayor stated, that as the question of providing better ril ing facilities for the vault in connection with the Collector's and City Clerk's offices, had been previously discussed but no action taken in the matter, he had made a personal investiga tion and found that owing to the limited space for filing and con Ivenier.tly taking care of the books ard papers of the city, it is a'jjoluteiy necessary that so.moi.j.in'j be done toward rem edying the matter and unless the-e b3 objections, would ap point -i special committee ta that en J. There being no coje.t.rs, the Major a.joointed the c1 owim? committee for the purpose: Messrs. Wilson, Wulm-r and Mo i r i .-: n. Sa i d c .-: m m tt e e to make report at the next meet ing. O; motion of Mr. Wittmor, the t".ncil then adjo.nned. 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Download PDF: Pape, Preaching about Stewardship
In an earlier essay, I offered some reflections on preaching about stewardship from the Synoptic gospels along with a brief specimen of practice. That essay spoke to a particular homiletical scenario, but it opened onto broader issues concerning the move from text to sermon. This essay will go “under the hood” and discuss in greater detail two aspects of the hermeneutical theory that informed that earlier essay. The simplest and clearest way to accomplish this will be to re-present that earlier essay punctuated with a pair of excursuses that unpack the theory behind it. In what follows, I will comment on 1) the notion of a world projected “in front of” the text, and 2) the genre description “realistic narrative” and its implications for understanding the nature of the world projected in front of the Synoptic gospels.
The argument of this essay grows out of wrestling with a request by my own denomination’s Center for Faith and Giving to lecture on the subject “Preaching on Stewardship throughout the Christian Year.” Specifically, the question addressed here is, “How might the preacher think with integrity about the call to prioritize a topic such as ‘stewardship,’ if 1) the preacher is committed on theological grounds to preaching that privileges the itinerary of meaning that emerges from the biblical text; and 2) the Synoptic Gospels, for example, are not, in the first place, about ‘stewardship’?” Although the specific case I address here relates to preaching on the topic of stewardship from the Synoptic Gospels, the hope is that the hermeneutical approach developed may also prove helpful generally in relation to the tension between the preacher’s desire to prioritize the agenda of the biblical text and calls for a more topical approach.
Preaching under the “Vow of Obedience”
In order to lay the groundwork for an argument about the special case of preaching on the theme of stewardship from the Synoptic Gospels, it will be helpful very briefly to sketch a framework for thinking about a “typical” text-to-sermon process, i.e., one that is not concerned with prioritizing a pre-decided topic. The goal in this section is not to argue a case, but to supply a summary that can serve as a baseline for one understanding of the text-to-sermon process. Then it will be possible to extend this thinking toward preaching on a “topic” without betraying one’s commitment to privilege the biblical text.
On any given Sunday the preacher stands up from the midst of the congregation, takes the witness stand, and offers her testimony concerning an eventful encounter in the world projected in front of the biblical text. In other words, although the sermon itself is a world-projecting “text,” it is not a discourse generated in perfect creative freedom. Rather, the preacher constructs the sermon under a self-conscious debt to something that precedes the preaching moment: an encounter “in front of” a canonical text. Ideally, this encounter emerges out of a close reading that 1) is critically informed, 2) is in continuity with—not to say conformity to—the tradition, and 3) strives to experience vicariously the issue of the text on behalf of a particular congregation. On this view, the task of the preacher is to become an exceptionally competent surrogate reader adventuring in the world in front of the biblical text on behalf of the community of faith; then, in turn, the task is to shape the language of the sermon in such a way that it recapitulates that eventful encounter.
Excurses: The world “in front of” the text
Paul Ricoeur’s notion of a world projected “in front of” the text is an attempt to gather up into a single image a cluster of hermeneutical insights about the locus of textual meaning, and the phenomenology of reading. In order to clarify what Ricoeur is getting at, it will be helpful to distinguish this approach from other ways of understanding textual meaning.
To speak about a hermeneutical encounter “in front of” a text is, in the first place, to challenge the common assumption that texts refer by pointing “back” to a temporal past hidden “behind” them. In the case of a naïve reading, this may be a matter of uncritically accepting the past tense of narration at temporal face value: the verbs speak of action in the past, and it stands to reason that the issue of the text is, simply, what happened in the past. In the case of historical criticism, the text is viewed through a more sophisticated lens, but the focus is still on the past. The historical critic construes the text as an evidential artifact produced in the past, and therefore capable of supplying clues about the circumstances of its production. For biblical studies, it is easy to see how historical criticism can become a strategy for pivoting away from the supernaturalism that is so troubling to the modern sensibility, toward the more manageable project of sleuthing out what is “really” going on behind the text—a space that is both obscured and unwittingly betrayed by the text. Here the referential function of the text is not as straightforward as in the case of a naïve reading, but the text is still taken as a window into past happenings and the locus of textual meaning is still taken to be the world “behind” the text.
With respect to historical criticism, Ricoeur would not wish to deny the legitimacy of employing a text for the purpose of historical investigation. The words of a text “come out of a head, not a hat,” after all, and those trying to reconstruct the past are surely justified in taking any text as a clue about the individual or community that produced it. But it is reductive to insist that this is the only or even the most interesting thing one can do with a text. The historian assumes that to “explain a text…means primarily to consider it as the expression of certain socio-cultural needs and as a response to certain perplexities well localized in space and time.” But just as New Criticism problematized the assumption that authorial intention behind the text is the true measure of textual meaning, Ricoeur doubts that the meaning of a text is exhausted in terms of its “intelligibility from its connection to the social conditions of the community that produced it or to which it was destined.” For Ricoeur, historical expertise is valuable because it enhances our competence as readers and funds a more robust encounter with the text on its own terms; but he rejects the idea that engaging a text meaningfully is reducible to exploring the world that produced it. The understanding at stake when we engage a text from the past is not, primarily, an understanding about the past.
If the meaning of a text is not primarily about its author, or the world that produced it, where should meaning be sought?
The sense of a text is not behind the text, but in front of it. It is not something hidden, but something disclosed. What has to be understood is not the initial situation of discourse, but what points towards a possible world, thanks to the non-ostensive reference of the text.
[W]hat has to be appropriated is the meaning of the text itself, conceived in a dynamic way as the direction of thought opened up by the text. In other words, what has to be appropriated is nothing other than the power of disclosing a world that constitutes the reference of the text.
For Ricoeur, textual meaning is activated in front of the text in the moment of reading. And because that meaning is a matter of appropriation through reading, it must be admitted that the meaning generated is, in some strong sense, about the reader. Yet in rejecting the claim that texts signify by referring “back” to the history or authorial intention “behind” them, Ricoeur is not advocating a relocation of textual meaning all the way “forward” to the reader exclusively. To do so would be to deny that the text proposes anything more than an opportunity, a pretext, for restating what the reader brings a priori to the encounter with the text. Rather, by speaking of a “possible world” disclosed “in front of” a text, he invites us to imagine the reader being drawn into a space that partakes both of the textual itinerary of meaning, and the reading subject’s own capacity to appropriate what she finds there. Reflecting specifically on biblical narrative, Ricoeur describes this synergy in terms of the intersection of two worlds:
[T]he meaning of a narrative . . . occurs at the intersection between the world of the text and the world of the readers. It is mainly in the reception of the text by an audience that the capacity of the plot to transfigure experience is actualized. By the world of the text I mean the world displayed by the text in front of itself, so to speak, as the horizon of possible experience in which the work displaces its readers. By the world of the reader I mean the actual world.
At the intersection of these two worlds, a hermeneutical space opens at the moment of cooperative reading. In this “space” the reader is invited to move and explore new possibilities—to encounter what is more than the self and to risk becoming a new self. In other words, for Ricoeur, to speak of a textual world is to name the immersive, immediate, and pervasive new options that show themselves in the encounter with the language of the text. It is an attempt to indicate the way a text mediates access to “something more” than one is able to achieve independently through reflection on experience. The world in front of the text is not a window into other times, places, and events; it is a present alternative to the reader’s prior settled construal of life and its possibilities—an alternative world that “…incites the reader…to understand himself or herself in the face of the text and to develop, in imagination and sympathy, the self capable of inhabiting this world by deploying his or her ownmost possibilities there.”
Anyone who has had the experience of becoming immersed in a good novel can appreciate what Ricoeur is talking about. As one opens the book, and thinks along with the words on the page, a remarkable transformation occurs. The language immediately founders in relation to the ostensive domain around you. The sentences predicate boldly of agents and action, but they have no apparent purchase upon one’s physical surroundings—the comfortable chair, the reading light, the night sounds, the neighbor walking his dog outside the window—all these continue, unperturbed by this insistence of discourse that so-and-so does such-and-such. Language has apparently come unhinged; it revs impressively, but unproductively, a linguistic engine seemingly unburdened by any engagement with reality through the gears of reference. But human consciousness does not tolerate such incongruities for long. Indeed, the ineluctable pull of discourse in consciousness is toward both sense and reference, and so, for the cooperative reader who follows the direction of thought offered by the text, a space opens up—a space in which the language of the text will have its way. This is an act of imagination, of course. But the things that happen in this space are far from imaginary. For suddenly, here is this powerful insight, this palpable revulsion, this augmented awareness, this subtle subversion, this terror, awe, embarrassment, and fondness—a very real sense in which the reader is transported, shown something, enlarged, given access to a way of being that was not available or present apart from this encounter with this carefully crafted language. And having been shown this new world—Ricoeur has summarized its effect as “the shock of the possible”—things will not be as they were. Even as the book closes again, and its projected world collapses—instantly gives sway in consciousness to the familiar ostensive domain—there is the powerful sense that something remains fundamentally changed for the reader. The world of objects is unaffected by the adventure in the world in front of the text, but one thing is different, and that is the reader. Her consciousness has been exploring that other space in front of the text. And if the consciousness of the reader has been shaped in some way by an encounter in the world in front of the text, then all things are new, for she now enjoys new options for being in relation to the world of the reading lamp, and the night sounds, and especially the neighbor. It is this phenomenology of reading that applies not only to narrative but also to any genre, literary or otherwise, which leads Ricoeur to assert: “for me, the world is the ensemble of references opened up by every kind of text, descriptive or poetic, that I have read, understood and loved.”
Much more could be said to flesh out this understanding of the text-to-sermon process, but this is enough to bring into clearer view the problem with superimposing a topical agenda like “stewardship” on this process. Meaning is negotiated between the congregation’s situational concerns (achieved by proxy through the preacher’s “surrogacy”) and the text’s own agenda, but when read under the “vow of obedience” the text pushes back against any categorical attempt to pre-decide the question of theme. By gift, training, and commission, preachers are exceptionally competent readers, and the power of the text to make its own proposal is intensified in direct proportion to such competence. As a strong reader on behalf of the many, it is the preacher’s work to display, explore, and interact with the world proposed by the biblical text. A seriously imaginable new way of being that is commensurate with that strange new world is always the “topic.”
Honoring the World in Front of the Synoptics
By limiting the case to the Synoptic Gospels it will be possible to frame this hermeneutical problem with greater conceptual precision. The preacher’s first task is to display, explore, and interact with the world in front of the biblical text, and the nature of that world is, in the first place, a function of genre. Paul Ricoeur’s phenomenology of reading and the notion of a textual world is not a case of special pleading on behalf of canonical texts. There is nothing mystical about the capacity of the Gospels to display a world. Chili recipes, lawnmower manuals, and letters to the editor all project worlds of various sorts. The important question is: What is the genre of—and therefore, what is the distinctive nature of the world projected in front of—a text like Mark, Luke, or Matthew?
Although the matter is contested, Hans Frei has proposed one particularly compelling answer. Building on the work of Erich Auerbach, Frei used the genre descriptor “realistic narrative,” and argued that the Synoptics are a bit like a modern novel. They are stories that function primarily to render the identity of their protagonist by depicting what he says, does, and suffers in “fit” or “realistic” relation to his circumstances. In the process of telling what he does, says, and suffers, the story makes this character available to the cooperative reader. In other words, Frei is making the rather astonishing proposal that the Synoptic Gospels are about Jesus—not in the sense of offering accurate historical reports, but rather in the sense of bearing adequate poetic testimony to his unique and unsubstitutable identity.
Excurses: “Realistic” narrative
In his classic work, The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative, Hans Frei offers a hermeneutical proposal that turns on claims about some distinctive qualities of biblical narrative organized under the genre description “realistic narrative.” This constructive proposal is best understood against the backdrop of the hermeneutical disposition he critiqued. Frei argues that, in the wake of the Enlightenment, the interpretation of biblical narrative tends to go astray because of a genre mistake—a fundamental misunderstanding of literary form. Broadly, this unfortunate “eclipse” takes two forms.
On the one hand are those who mistakenly assume that the Synoptic gospels, for example, are meaningful because they refer back to the history “behind” the text. This is a misreading shared in common by interpreters across the theological spectrum. Both the fundamentalist who is fully convinced that Luke is an accurate report of past happenings, and the historical critic who questions its accuracy, agree that historical accuracy is the right measure of its meaningfulness. For both of these readers, the biblical text stands or falls on its ability to refer back to the history behind it.
On the other hand are those who seek the meaning of biblical narrative “above” the text. On this reading, the Bible refers not “back” toward history, but “up” toward a set of religiously significant ideas. This referent “above” the text may be understood as an abstractable moral content—a set of good ideas about how all people ought to live. Or, it may be conceived as a series of insights into authentic existence encoded within the Bible’s mythological language. In both cases, the reader is in pursuit of a higher meaning, and the interpretive assumption is that these stories are really about something other than what they appear, on the surface, to be about.
Both of these broad approaches share the reading strategy of seeking the meaning of biblical narrative as a function of its reference to things outside the text. As the Enlightenment and its new historical sensibility gained traction, some interpreters sought to establish that biblical narrative could be trusted as a rigorous chronicle of past happenings (historical/ostensive reference). Others no less committed to the Bible’s significance and authority abandoned the project of defending its historical accuracy, and sought its religious significance as a source of moral ideas or authentic modes of being (ideational and, later, existential reference). But, according to Frei, all of these approaches overlook, or “eclipse,” a critical feature of the text itself.
Drawing on the work of Erich Auerbach, Frei insists that close readers of the Bible must come to terms with something about the shape of biblical narrative that resists such reading strategies. While some kinds of narratives, myths for example, seem to beg to be read as cyphers pointing beyond themselves to some other frame of reference, key biblical narratives tend to invite, through their distinctive formal qualities, a different mode of reading. The Synoptic gospels do not present as a code to be deciphered but as a narrative that draws the reader into its own thick web of signification:
For whatever the situation that may obtain in other types of texts, in narrative of the sort in which character, verbal communications, and circumstances are each determinative of the other and hence of the theme itself, the text, the verbal sense, and not a profound, buried stratum underneath constitutes or determines the subject matter itself.
Frei’s argument is that this is a quality to be discovered within the text itself, and not merely a decision imposed upon it from the outside. To seek the meaning of biblical narrative in some external domain—whether the history behind it, or in a realm of religiously significant ideas above it—is to run roughshod over the clues the text itself gives about how it should be read. In biblical narrative, “[n]either character nor circumstance separately, nor yet their interaction, is a shadow of something else more real or more significant.”
To take an analogous case, one ought not to prejudice the reading of a realistic novel by superimposing an agenda that demands that one always be on the lookout for some “higher” or “deeper” meaning, nor would one insist that a novel fails to signify because it does not accurately report on historical happenings. A realistic novel is “about” precisely what it seems to be about: its characters and all that they do, say, and suffer in fit relation to the circumstances in which they find themselves. Likewise, biblical narrative, when read on its own terms, invites a similar kind of reading. Frei simply equates verbal sense and reference, and so discourages the search for reference outside the framework of the story itself. This comparison to the realistic novel is one that Frei himself encouraged: “There really is an analogy between the Bible and a novel writer who says something like this: I mean what I say whether or not anything took place. I mean what I say. It’s as simple as that: the text means what it says.”
But if textual meaning is not a function of historical or ideational reference, what kind of meaning is at stake in a text like the gospel of Matthew? Building on the identity theory of Gilbert Ryle, Frei argued that the Synoptic gospels function to render the unique and unsubstitutable identity of their protagonist, Jesus Christ. Ryle claimed that the modern habit of taking actions as derivative of an essential identity hidden deep within the psyche is backward. It is more correct, he argued, to think of enacted intentions as themselves constitutive of human identity. As it happens, enacted intentions as identity is a match for the kind of testimony Frei thought the realistic narratives of the canonical gospels supply. If there is a sense in which a person simply is what he says, does, and suffers in relation to his circumstances, then a story that traffics in precisely those categories—a history-like story about what Jesus says, does, and suffers may adequately render his identity. In his discussion of Karl Barth’s way of reading biblical narrative, Frei’s Yale colleague David H. Kelsey explained the kind of reading Frei had in mind:
There is another way in which biblical narratives may be used to authorize theological proposals. It consists in construing the narratives as “identity descriptions.” Narrative can “render” a character. A skillful storyteller can make a character “come alive” simply by his narration of events, “come alive” in a way that no number of straight-forward propositional descriptions of the same personality could accomplish. He can bring one to know the peculiar identity of the one unique person. Moreover, what one knows about the story’s central agent is not known by “inference” from the story. On the contrary, he is known quite directly in and with the story, and recedes from cognitive grasp the more he is abstracted from the story.
The identity of Jesus, which the quests for the historical Jesus have sought “behind” the biblical accounts, Frei sought within and in terms of those accounts. For Frei, the gospels show us Jesus, not in the mode of supplying a series of true propositions about the Jesus of history, but in the mode of storied testimony to his true identity.
To put the matter in terms of the theoretical framework sketched earlier: What does the preacher adventuring in the world in front of, say, Mark encounter? The answer is that there is a person in there—not a high-minded ethical concept, but a person: Jesus. Furthermore, this general literary claim about the function of realistic narrative takes on special resonance when applied to the specific situation of a community that reads these texts under the conviction that the identity rendered in the narrative is not merely a fictional character, or a historical curiosity, but a living presence somehow present in the midst of the gathered community in the power of the Spirit. For the Christian preacher, the encounter in the world in front of these texts is an encounter with a living presence.
One important ramification of this claim is that the Gospels are not about “stewardship,” or “faith and giving,” or even something as theological as “generosity.” For that matter, they are not about any abstract principal, such as “limit experience”, or abstract virtue—not even one that sounds distinctively Christian, such as “sacrificial love.” The Gospels are not about any of these universal concepts that well-meaning people have tried to claim they are about while attempting to domesticate the scandal of the Christian gospel by wrangling it over to the more respectable side of Lessing’s ditch.
The Gospels are not about stewardship or generosity—unless at its secret heart true “generosity” is not a concept, but a person. The Gospels are not about a person who embodies pre-understood concepts, but rather are about a unique identity that is itself constitutive of the Christian understanding of virtue. This is not a trivial distinction.
The scandal of Christian claims about Jesus is not that Jesus was an especially moral and religious person. For example, the claim is not that Jesus was an especially loving person—as if we already know precisely what love is, and now we are simply asserting that Jesus meets the standard and so can be made serviceable as a good role model. The logic of Christian claims about Jesus is precisely the reverse. The claim is that we know what true love is only when we encounter this unique and unsubstitutable identity, Jesus Christ. In knowing him and experiencing his unique way of being in the world, God’s own loving being is disclosed and all pretenders to the throne are exposed. Or again, Jesus is not the exemplar of some previously established virtue called “generosity,” but rather we come to know what true generosity means just when we encounter this Jesus in whom God’s own generous being is disclosed, and all counterfeits exposed.
Preaching about Jesus and Money
In light of this analysis, one way to think about topical preaching on texts from the Synoptics is to ask not, “What did Jesus say about X?” but rather “What would it mean to ponder X in the presence of Jesus?” If the function of the text is to render the identity of Jesus, and if preaching properly conformed to the text recapitulates that textual world, then the sermon should not merely be about what Jesus says about a given topic, but should invite the church to think about the matter in the company of this Jesus. In other words, it would be a kind of hermeneutical violence to treat the Gospels as a collection of authoritative sayings about various topics that can be helpfully mined by the topical preacher for nuggets of wisdom. One can, without too much difficulty, imagine a literature well-suited to efficiently documenting large numbers of esoteric wise sayings from Jesus, but the canonical gospels are realistic narratives and their genre exercises constraints on the obedient reader. Sermons that take these texts seriously as stories will proffer an imaginative space into which the cooperative listener is invited to enter. In that space, new possibilities for understanding oneself in relation to some “topic” will emerge because the topic will appear in a new light in relation to the identity of Jesus Christ.
The following brief homiletical sketch—originally offered as a short “stewardship meditation”—may serve to demonstrate this approach to topical preaching from the Synoptics:
No Financial Wizard
Little known fact about Jesus: not very good with money. Just not his thing.
I’ll give you an example. Take that story he liked to tell about the guy who kept going out to hire day-workers. The first group he hired early in the day with the promise to pay a fair wage for the day. No big deal, right? But the guy just can’t leave well enough alone. Every few hours he’s back in his pickup truck, driving around town. He’s hitting the usual spots looking for day-labor. Mid-morning he’s at the gas station picking up workers. He takes on a couple more down by the Whataburger at lunchtime. Later he’s out running errands and comes in with a couple of guys who had quit looking for work altogether that day. He had to go and ask them if they wanted a job. The problem, as I expect you know, is that at the end of the day he paid them all a full day’s wages—even those two guys who started working an hour before quitting time. Jesus loved that story, but it makes no fiscal sense. He would tell that one and then slap his knee and laugh. “It’s just like that when my daddy’s in charge!” Jesus would say.
He never seemed to understand that you’d go broke that way. Every now and then an MBA would be in the crowd and hear him tell that story and say something like, “Yeah, but pretty soon he’s not going to be able to hire anyone in the morning. People will just come around after the heat of the day and sign on at the end for a little light work. It’s not practical. He’ll go out of business!” But Jesus never got it. Just a blank stare. And then after a minute, there’d be another story: “Did I ever tell you the one about the kid who wasted all his dad’s money?” And off he would go.
Or consider the financial counseling Jesus gave to the man who asked him what life is all about: “If you wish to be perfect,” Jesus said, “go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” It’s no wonder that those who followed Jesus around soon found themselves homeless like him. They would point this out and he’d just throw up his hands, “Alright fine!” he’d say, “Let Judas handle the finances.” Jesus was hopeless with money.
But to his credit Jesus did understand that this was a problem for others. When someone new would offer to come along with his gang he would tell them right up front that he was no financial wizard. I remember one guy said, “I will follow you wherever you go.” Jesus wanted him to be clear about what he was getting into. He had this little saying: “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
You get the idea that a guy like Jesus could start off with everything, and wind up with nothing. It’s just that way with some people: give them every advantage and they can find a way to blow it. Jesus started out in a part of town where the streets were so clean they shone like gold, and died without a shirt on his shredded back on a hill outside Jerusalem.
Some time later, the apostle invited the Corinthians to ponder this little known fact about Jesus as they passed the offering basket. Paul writes: “For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.”
Jesus is not very good with money. What are we who are pretty good with money supposed to make of all this?
Preaching that is properly conformed to the world in front of a narrative text will not be heavily didactic. In the case of the Synoptics, this is because realistic narrative is about encountering a person, not assenting to propositions about what one ought to do. In a real sense, both the text and the sermon are not about money at all, but about this Jesus and his unique way of being in the world. In this example, the sermon ends with a serious kind of wondering about this peculiar identity Jesus, and how it might transform us to confess this Jesus as Lord. The hope and trust is that by getting in touch with that winsome identity, our thinking about everything—including money—may be transformed.
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Lance Pape, “Talking about Money in the Presence of Jesus: Biblical Hermeneutics and the Call for Topical Preaching,” Practical Matters 7 (Spring 2014): 92-8.
The assumptions behind the assigned title were as follows: 1) the Christian’s proper disposition toward money is a topic that ought not be addressed only during a fall “campaign” during which the church tries to “make its budget” (on the model of secular fundraising drives); indeed, 2) stewardship should be integrated into the church’s ongoing project of theological reflection and ethical formation; and finally, 3) opportunities to address it will naturally arise in the course of preaching the Revised Common Lectionary if the preacher is sensitive to this need (and is not actively avoiding the subject).
The understanding of preaching sketched in this section is indebted to the work of Thomas G. Long, The Witness of Preaching, 2nd ed. (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005). For a discussion of the Ricoeurian theoretical underpinnings of this approach, see Lance B. Pape, The Scandal of Having Something to Say: Ricoeur and the Possibility of Postliberal Preaching (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2013).
Note that the designation “text” does not depend upon the use of a sermon manuscript, nor is it logically reducible to the semantic augmentations that emerge from the capacity of written discourse to perdure and signify independent of its author’s intentions, and the circumstances of its production. The sermon functions as a world-projecting poetic “text” in the Ricoeurian sense not because it is inscribed, but rather because it is wrought, i.e. constructed out of carefully chosen language arranged under and empowered by the constraints of genre. Ibid., 118.
“To speak of a textual world is to name how immersive, immediate, and pervasive for the reader are the new options for being that open through an encounter with the language of the text.” For an account of the phenomenology of reading implicit in the notion of “entering the world projected in front of the text,” see ibid., 79-80.
Paul Ricoeur, Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1976): 90.
“One must ask how a critic expects to get an answer to the question about intention. How is he to find out what the poet tried to do? If the poet succeeded in doing it, then the poem itself shows what he was trying to do. And if the poet did not succeed, then the poem is not adequate evidence, and the critic must go outside the poem‑for evidence of an intention that did not become effective in the poem.” W.K. Wimsatt, Jr., and Monroe C. Beardsley, The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1954): 4.
Ricoeur, Interpretation Theory: 90.
Ibid., 82.
Ibid., 94.
“[By speaking of appropriation] are we not putting the meaning of the text under the power of the subject who interprets it? This objection may be removed if we keep in mind that what is “made one’s own” is …not the intention of another subject, presumably hidden behind the text, but the project of a world, the pro-position of a mode of being in the world that the text opens up in front of itself by means of its non-ostensive references.” Ibid.
Paul Ricoeur, “Toward a Narrative Theology: Its necessity, Its Resources, Its difficulties,” in Mark I. Wallace, ed. Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative, and Imagination (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995): 240.
Ricoeur, “Naming God,” in Figuring the Sacred: 232.
“My contention is that discourse cannot fail to be about something.” Ricoeur, Interpretation Theory: 36.
Paul Ricoeur, Time and Narrative, vol. 1, trans. Kathleen Mclaughlin and David Pellauer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), 79.
Ricoeur, Interpretation Theory: 37.
“Hermeneutics seems to me to be animated by this double motivation: willingness to suspect, willingness to listen; vow of rigor, vow of obedience.” Paul Ricoeur, Freud and Philosophy: an Essay on Interpretation, trans. Dennis Savage (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970): 27.
“…[T]he notion of a text absolutely free, absolutely open to us, in which we can ‘produce’ meaning, is—as most of its proponents allow—a utopian fiction. There are constraints that shadow interpretation; and the first is genre.” Frank Kermode, The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979): 18.
Hans W. Frei, The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974). For a thorough and illuminating appropriation of Frei’s hermeneutical project for homiletics, see Charles L. Campbell, Preaching Jesus: New Directions for Homiletics in Hans Frei’s Postliberal Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997).
Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Princeton, N: Princeton University Press, 1953).
Hans W. Frei, The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974): 280.
Frei, Eclipse: 14.
Hans W. Frei, “Response to ‘Narrative Theology: An Evangelical Appraisal,’” in George Hunsinger and William C. Placher, eds., Theology and Narrative: Selected Essays (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993): 208.
David H. Kelsey, The Uses of Scripture in Recent Theology (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975): 39.
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“God intended it all for good.” Ge 50:20 NLT
Rising to a challenge reveals hidden abilities within you that otherwise would have remained dormant. Just as you find out what’s inside a tube of toothpaste when it gets squeezed, adversity reveals what you’re made of. Sometimes we say, “I could never go through what that person went through. I would die.” Then you go through it, and guess what? Your heart keeps beating. Your world goes on. You don’t know what you’re capable of until you have to cope. Wise people have always understood the connection between suffering and growth. Meng Tzu, the Chinese sage, said, “When heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on any man it will place obstacles in the path of his deeds so as to stimulate his mind, harden his nature, and improve wherever he is incompetent.” God could have let Abraham stay in the comfort of Ur, and Moses in the splendor of Pharaoh’s courts. He could have kept Daniel out of the lions’ den, Nehemiah out of captivity, Jonah out of the whale, John the Baptist away from Herod, Esther from being threatened, Jeremiah from being rejected, and Paul from being shipwrecked. But He didn’t. In fact, God used each of these trials to bring them closer to Himself—to produce perseverance, character and hope. It’s said, “The school of hard knocks produces the greatest scholars.” And guess who the teacher is? Adversity! You either face it with God, or without Him. And those without God are watching you. When they see your faith sustain you and God bring you through, they’ll get interested in what you have to say. And not before!
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Large eddy simulation of a turbulent diffusion flame: some aspects of subgrid modelling consistency
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In the context of Large Eddy Simulation (LES) solely for the momentum transport equation there may be found several models for the turbulent subgrid fluxes. Furthermore, among those relying on the eddy diffusivity approach, each model may be based on different invariants of the strain rate. Besides, when heat and mass transfer are also considered, closures for the subgrid turbulent scalar fluxes are also required. Hence, different model combinations may be considered. Additionally, when other physical phenomena are included, such as combustion, further subgrid modelling is involved. Therefore, in the present study a LES simulation of a turbulent diffusion flame is performed and different combination of subgrid models are used in order to analyse the numerical effects in the simulations. Several models for the turbulent momentum subgrid fluxes are considered, both constant and dynamically evaluated Schmidt numbers. Regarding combustion, in the context of the Flamelet/Progress-Variable (FPV) model, with an assumed probability density function for the turbulent-chemistry interactions and four different closures for the subgrid mixture fraction variance are considered. Hence, a large number of model combinations are possible. The present study highlights the need for a consistent closure of subgrid effects. It is shown that, in the context of an FPV modelling, incorrect capture of subgrid mixing results in a flame lift-off for the studied flame (DLR A diffusion flame), even though experimentally an attached flame was reported. It is found that a consistent formulation is required, that is, all subgrid closures should become active in the same regions of the domain to avoid modelling inconsistencies. In contrast, when the classical flamelet approach is used, no lift-off is observed. The reason is that the classical flamelet includes only a limited subset of the possible flame states, i.e. only includes burning flamelets and extinguished flamelets for scalar dissipation rates past the extinction one.
This is a copy of the author 's final draft version of an article published in the journal Flow turbulence and combustion. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10494-017-9813-2
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Massachusetts State Police Media Release – 07102014 – State Police Investigate Fatal Motorcycle Crash in Revere
Last evening at approximately 4:25 p.m., troopers from the Revere Barracks responded to reports of a single-vehicle crash, involving a motorcycle, on Route 16 Eastbound at the Route 107 off-ramp in Revere. Initial reports reported that the operator of the motorcycle, a 2006 Yamaha YZFR1, for reasons under investigation, lost control and crashed while attempting to exit.
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If she America forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
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Who put up that cage? Who hung it up with bars, doors? Why do those on the inside want to get out? Why do those outside want to get in? What is this crying inside and out all the time? What is this endless, useless beating of baffled wings at these bars, doors, this cage?
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Steampunk Summer Postcards: Ichabod Temperance
Welcome to Steampunk’d Lancaster my dears! I am Mrs Baker, otherwise known as The Last Witch Of Pendle. My soup kitchen is rather quiet now for the summer, Max and Collin are out selling Lemonade, everyone else seems to be off on their holidays and things are overly quiet around the bakery. Nevermind, it gives me a chance to go through all the lovely postcards I have been receiving – although some appear to be mis-directed and others seem to be from dimensions I have never even heard of! Still, it is very nice to have mail, lets see now what have we got in the letter box today… Why it’s a postcard from my dear friend Mr Ichabod Temperance and Miss Persephone Plumtartt! …
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Wish You Were Here in Sunny San Monique!
“Do you wish to remain a Virgin, Mr. Temperance?”
“Oh my Goodness, Miss Plumtartt! I’m a good boy!”
“I was referring to your ‘Pina Colada, sir. One had hopes that you might indulge a splash of San Moniquan spiced rum into your fantastical fruity concoction, eh hem?”
“I don’t think I oughter, Miss Plumtartt, Ma’am. I want to have all my senses operating at peak efficiency since I plan on communicating with our friends in the distant futuristic year of 2018. Thanks to my trans-dimensional, temporal scripto-rator, we can tell our friend Mrs Baker and her pals about our adventures here in 1877 on the island.”
“Delightful, Mr. Temperance, please detail the skinny on our dip into the Caribbean pool.”
“Yes Ma’am, Miss Plumtartt, Ma’am. Well, you see, what happened was, a big, mean, VooDoo bigwig named Sku Le’Bizzare done up and kidnapped a pal of ours; the Right Reverend Alonzo Dolomite, and whisked him off to his secret island with the intention of instigating a global cadaver-awakening catastrophe. Well what do you know, this island is hidden by magic and our rescue party must seek passage on a ghost ship to visit the shark-infested waters of this tropical isle of terror.”
“One might make note, sir, that you and I were in the midst of heretofore unseen tribulations within our own relationship. I must say, your having taken up an unseemly friendship with that dance-hall floozy has left me uncharacteristically unnerved.”
“But you started running around with that handsome and dashing Kit Eppington first!”
“Be that as it may, our primary purpose here on San Monique is to free our friends and prevent an undead apocalypse, eh hem?”
“Yes, Ma’am, but things sure have not gone as I might think they would.”
“One cannot imagine how One would preconceive such an event. Never mind, sir, and listen. I detect the approach of shambling feet and dirge-like, though rhythmic, chants. One suspects that our gratefully undead waiter returns with delicious refreshments.”
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“Mmm! These are some yummy drinks, that VooDoo zombie dead feller brought us, Miss Plumtartt!”
“Just so, I quite agree, Mr. Temperance. I say, his curious song reminds me. This adventure we are upon, ‘The Measure of Temperance’, is your sixth of ten publications. Each of our previous five novels contain but a small amount or rhythm and song, yet this book and the subsequent four have music from end to end, do they not, eh hem?”
“Yes, Ma’am, Miss Plumtartt, Ma’am. I reckon they are a bit Dr. Seuss-like in that regard, but I don’t see anything wrong with writing kids’ books for grown-ups, Ma’am.”
“One is not quite sure how to respond to that statement, Mr. Temperance.”
“Ain’t no response necessary, Ma’am. Let’s just say goodbye to Mrs Baker and her wonderful friends in Lancaster. I wonder if my little pal Collin the Octopus will read this? Let me know if you need any adjustments on your above-water breathing apparatus, little buddy!”
“Thank you, ever so much, Mrs Baker darling, for allowing Mr. Temperance and myself to send greetings from Sunny San Monique. Ta ta! We do so truly wish that you and your kind readers were here.”
Oh how splendid, I’m so glad they are umm… enjoying themselves! I hope they make it back in one piece though, having had my own encounters with zombies I can vouch for their ferocity! I’ll be sure to pass this postcard on to Max and Collin when they come in from their hard days’ work, I think Collin may be keen to approach Mr Temperance upon their return on the subject of a tentacular cooling system for this hot weather…
If you’d like to find out what happens to Mr Temperance and Miss Plumtartt in this their 6th adventure you can do so here:
Or if you’d rather start at the beginning (and I highly recommend that you do as it is a splendidly entertaining steampunk saga!) you can find the first book here…
Bon Voyage and blessings on your pina coladas my dears!
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It’s been a busy two days at GEO Business in London, and the Topcon team has had a great time making new connections and catching up with clients.
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Our experts shared their insights and knowledge in the seminars and workshops taking place today, sparking great conversations about the future of the construction industry.
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Step # 1: Download the VPN App
- Locate the VPN on Google Play Store on your streaming TV Box. In other words, click on the Google Play Store icon on your TV screen.
- While in the Play Store, type hide.me VPN in the search bar
- Next, in the result page, select hide.me VPN and click install. Still, at this point, click, ACCEPT to commence the installation process.
- Click OPEN once the download is complete.
- Subscribe to hide.me’s Premium plan from within the app.
Step # 2: Start Using hide.me on your Android TV
- Login the app and fill the needed details
- Fill the username and password and press enter to log in.
- Next, connect to the VPN server location.
- Once you locate the location, double-click on it.
- Finally, if an alert appears asking you to give the application authority, accept by ticking the I trust this application box then hit OK.
- Once the connection is successful, you will enjoy the internet secure and with freedom.
NOTE: Some Android-based TV Boxes are not compatible with hide.me or other VPN. If you typed hide.me in your Google Play Store and you didn’t find it, you have one such device. Check the list for best Android TV boxes below:
Best Android TV Boxes
Amazon Fire TV Stick
This device is perfect if you are after a discreet. It functions like an Amazon Fire TV, however; it can get loaded with Kodi then get plugged into the back of the TV. At this point, you can stream the content without the need of a black box sitting under the display.
NVIDIA Shield TV (2017): The gamer’s Choice
If you want games, streaming and ultimate Android flexibility, be sure to check out on this device. It’s compatible with Android 7 Nougat. Besides, you can plug in USB 3 external drive; format it, so it runs as internal storage. It has more to offer, check it out.
Other best Android TV Boxes include Amazon Fire TV: Flexible, stable and readily available. GEM Box: Pocket-sized Kodi Power. Matricom G-Box Q2: The made-for-Kodi box, without Kodi. We Tek Core: one of the cheapest 4K Kodi boxes around, Q-Box 4K: Affordable and feature packed kodi device and more.
TV Channels You can Stream on Android TV using a VPN
- BBC News
- Fashion TV
- Food Network
- CNN and more
The main reason you should setup VPN on Android TV is to avoid snooping from ISPs and government mass surveillances. It is also an essential need to unblock geo-restricted content.
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There is no better time to find out the true character of people than before a national election. Not only do we find out who among us are passionate or indifferent about the state of the nation, we also find out how far some people would go for their advocacies or for their politics. Take the members of the Philippine Opposition, for example. Whether they are already in power or still vying for power, their greed is in full public display every time there is an up and coming election. They don’t even hide their desperation to be in control. To be specific, I’m talking about the members of the Liberal Party and their allies. It’s not like they are concerned about the public or the future of the country, they are simply after control over the National Budget. Their rabid supporters are something else too. They don’t have any qualms about breaking the law just to help their candidates win.
A government position is very lucrative in the Philippines. It’s big business. In the Philippines, particularly during the term of former President Benigno Simeon Aquino III, once you are in public office with a budget to dispense, you can hire whoever you want, even your own relatives to “deliver” the goods or the services. That’s not supposed to be the case, but even the so-called auditors seem to be turning a blind eye to this traditional and illegal practice. How many times have we seen audit reports, years later, claiming that a former classmate or a relative of this or that cabinet official, congressman, mayor or councilor was hired to do a job? Countless of times. Mind you, some of them were hired without going through proper procedure.
Even when the audit shows an anomaly in transactions years after a supposed “project” was done, no one seems to get prosecuted or jailed. It is not surprising that the infrastructure in the country is still not at par with that in the First World. This is something that has baffled me for so long. The public doesn’t seem to care. Or they could be too busy living their normal hectic lives to notice that their public servants are laughing all the way to the bank with public funds. The public’s apathy or lack of concern is disturbing. The problem here is that a lot members of the public think public servants are there to give them money. This is precisely the reason why a lot of people ask for money from public servants for all kinds of reasons like an illness or a funeral. But I digress…
Going back to greedy politicians, the members of the Liberal Party are all about greed. With the exception of the new players like Samira Gutoc, Florin Hilbay and Gary Alejano, most of them are from the elite members of Philippine society. They come from a small clique of wealthy politicians whose families have been in power for decades. Politics is like a game of musical chairs to them. Whoever is in power among them would help others get into business with them to secure government deals and everyone gets a share of the kickbacks.
You can say that most politicians in the Philippines behave the same way and you would be right. But why would you vote for members of the Liberal Party knowing that, aside from mismanaging public funds, they also deliver dodgy work. It’s bad enough that they don’t deliver the goods, the taxes just go to waste. Just look at how badly they managed the operation of the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) as an example of their appalling track record. And how about the rehabilitation of Tacloban after it was hit by the devastating super typhoon Yolanda? That was a disgrace. The food donations had to be buried because, instead of distributing the goods to the typhoon victims, the government just let these rot in the warehouse. Some say it was because the delay of distribution was due to politics. If you are not a Liberal Party supporter, you won’t get any food relief. It doesn’t matter if you were starving.
There is no escaping the fact that the Liberal Party doomed itself. The Opposition candidates don’t even want to identify themselves as members of the party and its colour anymore even though their policy – the policy of negative propaganda has yellow written all over it. Yes, destroying the reputation of their enemies is all they are good at. Currently, they seek to destroy President Rodrigo Duterte, his family and allies just to get the votes. Unfortunately for them, they haven’t been succeeding. The reason why the members of the Opposition always fail in their attempts to bring Duterte down is they keep trying to use negative propaganda on someone who enjoys a high trust rating. They can’t accept that the President is very popular. The people are also tired of their modus operandi.
Their latest attempt simply backfired because they used an ex-convict to speak against Duterte. A few days before the mid-term elections, a self-confessed creator of the Bikoy videos – videos that contain accusations against the Duterte family – surfaced and conducted a press conference inside the integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP). The high-ranking officials of the IBP – the “esteemed” lawyers – denied prior knowledge of Bikoy’s plan to hold a press conference in their premises, but the people aren’t that dumb to believe they had nothing to do with it.
It’s either they gave Peter Joemel Advincula access to a platform to publicize his tall tales against the Duterte family or Advincula used some sort of Jedi Mind Trick to do his deed. Either way, the IBP officials are facing backlash and possible disbarment. After all that, the public didn’t believe Advincula anyway. Only the Yellows believed him, but only for a few hours though until the truth came out that the con artist and convicted scammer already tried selling his wares to Senator Tito Sotto a few years ago, before Duterte came to power. Back then, Advincula was implicating BS Aquino and his allies as drug lords. It all went pear-shaped in just a few hours.
While the Bikoy saga is laughable, it is proof that poverty is not the main problem in the Philippines. The main problem is the padrino system or patronage politics. It’s obvious that powerful people like members of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines are in cahoots with members of the Opposition in promoting chaos in the country. No wonder the country remains a basketcase.
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Company file lawsuit for 'failing in their due diligence'
Gwen Stefani and co had sued Activision over the issue of their game characters being able to perform songs by artists other than themselves. They claimed that by allowing this to happen Activision had failed to stick to the agreement about the band’s inclusion between the two parties.
Now Activision has sued the band, claiming it is they who are in breach of contract. The company clamis No Doubt had failed in their due diligence by not promoting the release despite supposedly benefiting from appearing in it, reports the The Guardian.
They claim the band should have been well aware their characters may be used in such a way and are seeking costs and damages.
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January 22, 2019 10:51 am
Kartemquin is absolutely thrilled to share that Minding the Gap has been nominated for the 91st Academy Awards® in the Feature Documentary category.
Minding the Gap is presented by Hulu; edited by Joshua Altman and Bing Liu; original music by Nathan Halpern and Chris Ruggiero; cinematography by Bing Liu; executive producers Sally Jo Fifer, Justine Nagan, Gordon Quinn, Steve James, Betsy Steinberg; produced by Diane Quon and Bing Liu, and directed by Bing Liu.
The film is a co-production of Kartemquin Films, American Documentary | POV, and Independent Television Services (ITVS); with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program.
Watch the trailer:
"I've been bedridden with a feverish flu the past couple of days, so waking up to this news this morning in the middle of my delirium made it all seem that much more unreal. I'm so thankful for the loving and caring people I've gotten the chance to work with and know over the years and over this past year especially. Honored to be amongst a crop of amazing films and filmmakers; thanks to the Academy for getting even more eyes on Minding the Gap!"
– Bing Liu (Director, Producer, Editor)
"I am still in shock from the wonderful honor of Minding the Gap being nominated! It is so true that making a film takes a village, and I cannot thank everyone enough–our participants, our family and friends, and all the partners who got us where we are today: Kartemquin, ITVS, POV, Sundance Institute, and Hulu. But nothing would have been possible without Bing. I'm grateful to have been on this journey with him, and thankful to all the other filmmakers of 2018 documentaries, who make me so proud to do this work."
– Diane Quon (Producer)
"We celebrate this nomination with the whole Kartemquin community, especially those who have participated in our filmmaker development programs. Bing first joined us exactly five years ago this week through our Diverse Voices in Docs program, and then he first met the film's producer, Diane, through our KTQ Labs. We are elated for Bing and his collaborators. He's been a joy to work with since day one. He deserves to enjoy every moment of this."
– Gordon Quinn, executive producer (Kartemquin Artistic Director and Co-Founder)
The film has been a triumph since its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, where it earned the Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Filmmaking. It has since garnered over 50 awards and recognitions, most recently winning Best Feature, Emerging Filmmaker, and Best Editing at the International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards; Outstanding Achievement in Editing, Direction, and in a Debut Feature Film at the Cinema Eye Honors; Best First Time Director at the Critics' Choice Awards; and was voted Best Documentary by the New York Film Critics' Circle and the Chicago Film Critics Association, and for Best Editing by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Liu will also receive the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2019 Independent Spirit Awards, where the film is also nominated for Best Documentary.
The nomination marks the fourth Academy Award® nomination for Kartemquin Films, with previous nominations for Hoop Dreams (1994), Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2018), and Edith+Eddie (2018). It is the first nomination for Bing Liu and the first nomination for Diane Quon.
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Many years ago I wrote a response to a report I read from the Southern Baptists – talking about their mission work in Scotland. To their credit they picked up on my article and used it. I often get asked about this article entitled ‘How Not To Be An American Missionary In Scotland” – so I am just reproducing a slightly updated version of it here.
“Over paid, over sexed and over here” was one common saying concerning the American GI’s during the Second World War. I doubt that this is the appropriate description for the growing number of American missionaries who are coming to Scotland today in order to take part in a different kind of warfare – the spiritual battle for Western Europe.
This is a subject dear to my heart – I have been involved with American missionaries for over twenty years and continue to encourage them to come to Scotland. Bear that in mind as you read the rest of this article. I am writing from the perspective of someone who wants American missionaries here and who believes moreover that we need American missionaries here.
Cross cultural mission is difficult. There are dangers as well as opportunities. I believe that for American missionaries to be effective over here they need to have a passionate realism, a people centered ministry, a Biblical God centered theology and a willingness to work in partnership.
A Passionate Realism – Avoid the danger of Romanticism
Scotland is not the land of Mel Gibson, Brigadoon, quaint wee redheaded Highland lasses, Eric Liddell running in the Glens and John Knox preaching in the pulpits!
Equally Scots going over to America sometimes get the ‘grass is always greener on the other side of the fence’ syndrome.
To be in large churches, with extensive programs and great wealth, who also seem to be making a significant impact upon their community – that is quite an experience and one which sometimes leaves the Scot feeling a) inferior and b) thinking ‘this is it. This is the way God wants us to work’. The result is that some of us come back with the notion that the Americanisation of the Church will be its salvation. That is patently not true. Likewise American missionaries who come over here thinking that all Scotland needs for revival is for things to be done the way they are back home, will not get very far.
Having that attitude will do a great deal of harm – not least by causing an opposite reaction whereby anything new is seen as American and thus de facto to be rejected. Cultural sensitivity is a basic requirement for any missionary.
Another aspect of realism is to avoid stereotyping and to seek to understand the culture you are coming to. A few years ago I looked at the Southern Baptists missionary website on Scotland (it has considerably improved since then!) – it was appallingly inaccurate – almost to the point of being offensive and laughable. The scary thing is that this information is what Southern Baptist missionaries come armed with. According to the website – Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism are infiltrating the country through ‘ambitious East Indian businessmen’. – Mormonism and the religion of the JW’s are taught in public schools – ‘Scots enjoy football (soccer), rugby, cricket, golf and Highland Games. On a sunny day beautiful parks are filled with families and their dogs..’
All this is fairly patronizing and harmless but when it comes to the report of the Celtic Languages team it becomes farcical – according to this report Scotland’s population is 7 million of whom 150,000 are potential Gaelic speakers.
“The Celtic languages team targets the minority population of Scotland who speak Gaelic, an ancient Celtic language…At present there are few (literally to be counted on one hand) or no evangelical Gaidhlig-speaking churches with a Gaidhlig outreach in Scotland. It would be estimated that there are probably fewer than 50 fluent Gaidhligh- speaking evangelicals in Scotland”
– lest those of you from Lewis (with several hundred Gaelic speaking believers) cry foul at this it is only fair to point out that the Missionary organisation go on to helpfully inform us that that there are currently no Gaelic speaking Baptist churches in Scotland. The implication is obvious. Real Christians are Baptist. Pity that no-one told Knox or Chalmers or Eric Alexander or James Maciver.
As well as avoiding romanticism and stereotyping, realism means grasping and understanding the spiritual state of the nation. Scotland is in a bad way spiritually – but it is not helpful to act as though there were no evangelical Christians in the country nor is it helpful to come across with a superior mindset which screams ‘I am here to tell you how it should be done’. There is a distinct lack of humility in some of the presentations I have seen.
I once looked at a missionary team where young girls hardly out of high school were described as providing ‘church leadership’. Everyone wants to have a ministry that is considered ‘significant’ by their peers (It is a good job that Christ was not like that – he emptied himself). A worthwhile ministry is not achieved by down playing or ignoring the number of fine native Christians who are already labouring in this part of the vineyard.
It is also helpful to be realistic about what you can do. I have met men who tell me with a straight face that their mission is to bring revival to Scotland and Ireland; to unite the churches, to ‘disciple tomorrows leaders today’, ‘develop a CPM (church planting movement) that will envelop the whole nation for Christ’. Much of this is the Christian equivalent of spin and corporate business talk. Meaningless except to those schooled in the jargon. It is better to be honest. I know that saying you are running a pensioners club in a rundown area of an inner city is not quite the same as ‘bringing revival to Scotland’, but it is more realistic.
Of course your work could result in far greater blessing but you cannot promise that and you do not know that. The trouble is that American missionaries are often funded by individuals or churches who want to know what their money is achieving. Plus there is a lot of competition for a limited amount of cash – and when there is any kind of recession it is missionary work that often gets hit first – so each missionary is in the unenviable position of having to sell their work in order to obtain funds to continue it. In such circumstances it is not surprising that jargon and exaggeration come into play.
And the passion? Realism can sometimes come across as lifeless defeatism. That is not what we need. We need people who recognise the need, who have moved beyond the ‘Braveheart’ kilt and heather view of Scotland, who know their own weaknesses but who are passionate about Jesus Christ, his Gospel and the people of Scotland. And who are self-effacing.
People centred ministry.
Which brings us on to the question of methodology. Why are the Southern Baptists seeking to plant churches in Dingwall and Tain? These are hardly unchurched places – both small towns having good Free Churches, evangelical Church of Scotland’s, the APC and charismatic groups etc? What is the thinking and the strategy behind that? The thinking is betrayed in their websites view of other churches – real Christians are Baptist, (and real Baptists are Southern) or at least they should be because their churches are dead. At best the strategy seems to be non-existent. At worst it is a blatant attempt to plant a church, not in one of the many urban housing schemes where there is little or no gospel, but rather in an area where it is easier to get disaffected ‘Christians’ from the already established churches.
In terms of methodology – combine the system of raising finance; with Arminian theology, cultural insensitivity and a business ‘success’ model and you have real potential for a disaster. Why? Because these factors combined together mean that there is an enormous pressure on the missionary to be seen to be successful. Those who are funding you demand results – that means bottoms on seats. It means numbers. In order to be able to report home that God is at work through you and therefore people should be supporting you, you need to highlight the growth and the numerical increase. For that to happen in postmodern Scotland the easiest way is to go to an area where there are a significant number of churches (which you consider to be pretty dead) and poach.
Given the manpower and money it only takes a modest level of competency to gather 50 plus people. You can then send reports of how you have established a church (or to use the jargon – ‘how God is working through you’) and your supporters back home will be happy. But at what cost? I do not deny that the Lord can and does bless even through such methods. Of course there are people who are genuinely converted but there is also harm done – some churches are weakened, others are tempted to try such short-termism and overall the impact of the gospel on the community is severely weakened.
The methodology adopted should not be that of the commercial venture but rather that of the Lord. He came to save people and to glorify his Father. In many ways he was a disaster in terms of what the world would regard as success. For us, following Christ means that we will be people centered rather than programe centred. And I don’t mean that just as a soundbite or a neat turn of phrase. I am tired of being offered this program for church revitalization, or that proven method of evangelism, or this program to ‘reach Scotland for Christ’.
Of course there is value in looking at different methods and strategies. Of course there are new ways of doing things. And of course some of these programs are excellent. But we really do need to beware of the program mentality. It is often easier to sell a method than it is to live Christ. It is also sometimes far more lucrative – especially for the author. Several people have written, phoned and even visited offering ‘their’ particular brand or program. They come with all the right words (‘we are your servants… we want to help you reach Scotland) and as far as one is allowed and able to judge these things, their motives are admirable, but their agenda is very limited. They are answerable to a higher authority and it’s not the Lord. Their church or their mission board has told them they must use this program and that any help offered is conditional upon that. So what do you do if you are a Scottish minister in desperate need of help and someone comes and offers you untold riches – the only catch being that you must do it their way? If you think that what is offered is harmful or not appropriate then you must refuse. That is not easy.
In summary then our methodology is to be people centred and focused not so much on what the ‘folks at home’ might think. It needs to be relevant and culturally appropriate in Scotland. And Biblical. Which brings us onto the third requirement.
Biblical God centred theology
There is a tendency in some of our churches to divide the world into those who are theological and those who are mission minded. That is a fatal error. For both theology and mission. In terms of the latter it often leads to people saying that theology does not really matter – all that matters is getting the gospel/Jesus to people. The problem with that statement is that the gospel is theology and theology is Jesus. When theology becomes a dry academic discipline, used only to justify church division then it becomes blasphemous. When it is full of Christ then it is essential.
In terms of mission in Scotland we do not need any more Arminian evangelism. I do wish Reformed Christians would stop being emotionally bullied into supporting any and every work that claims to be Christian (providing it only sells itself well). I know the Lord can and does use it (I met a lovely Arminian Baptist from Alabama the other day – I am sure that the Lord will continue to use him. His grace and humility shone threw) but that does not mean that we should give into the notion that Reformed evangelism is a misnomer. There are far too many ‘Reformed’ Christians who think that we can evangelise like Arminians and then teach like Calvinists. Again the success model and the pressures thereof sometimes force us to act in that way.
I find it ironic that you will get mission teams ‘bringing the gospel to Scotland’ who think that they have done so by going and singing in St Giles in Edinburgh. St Giles is a bastion of theological liberalism. It is the church where Jenny Geddes flung her stool at the preacher when he tried to use Laud’s liturgy. Yet now her Presbyterian descendants celebrate their Scottishness and their Knoxian heritage by supporting a church which Knox would not be seen dead in!
I question how theologically valid it is to send mission teams over to ‘prayer walk’ the Highlands. Why not just come on a walking holiday and don’t use the ‘mission tag’? I have been offered clowns and drama groups, choirs and basketball players. Again don’t get me wrong – I actually believe there is a place for clowns and drama groups. That place is the circus and the theatre – or perhaps the school and the market place. I don’t say that to be facetious. We need more Christians involved in the popular arts. My objection is to calling that mission or evangelism – just because it is done in ‘a Christian way’ or tracts are handed out.
I believe that Christians should be involved in the wider culture and that there is a place for the fine Christian groups in the US who are involved in these things to come over here on culture trips.. But we need a lot more than that.
We also need a lot more than short term mission teams – which are often more for the benefit of the people who come and the sending church than they are for the recipients. Sometimes Congregational Mission Committees even use these as ‘vision’ trips to stimulate interest. But mission should not be sold like that. Certainly let people come on ‘vision’ trips to see what the need is and what might be done – but again please do not call that mission.
For any sending Church the criteria must not be – what can we get out of it, but rather what can we put in? Again let me stress that I support the idea of short term mission teams. We have had several very beneficial ones in St Peter’s. I have led about 12 to other churches. However the ‘hit and run’ type of outreach as so often exemplified by these teams is one of the least effective form of outreach one can do. Or at least it is if it is not part of a longer term relationship which gives a boost to the ongoing work and which can therefore be continued and followed up. Which brings us on to the last point.
The key to work in Scotland is for the American Presbyterians/Baptists/Pentecostals to come and partner with us. Scots must resist the temptation to think that we do not need help and we must also resist the temptation to see the American Church as some kind of cash cow – that we have to woo or sell the ‘vision to. We must also avoid any kind of cultural or spiritual superiority or snobbery (we need to take the beam out of our own eyes before the take the spec out of our brothers).
Americans on the other hand must avoid seeing us as a ‘project’. And they too must avoid cultural or spiritual superiority. It does not really matter if Europeans do not think that Donald Trump is the best thing since sliced bread or do not want to eat hormonised beef. American missionaries are not here to defend or proclaim American culture – they are here to proclaim and live Christ. The fact of a MacDonald’s opening in Moscow should not be seen as an advance for the gospel!
What is more important is that we can work together in partnership in the cause of the gospel. We can learn from each other as we proclaim Christ together and who knows , perhaps we Scots may be able to be of some help to our American brothers and sisters as well?
American Presbyterians owe us a debt of love. It was the Scots who took Presbyterianism over to the US and it was the Scots who helped fund and plant Presbyterian churches in the US. Now we need the favour returned. Not just by romantic ‘Scots celebration’ services in memory of Knox, nor by reading lots of books about the Covenanters, nor just by sending the occasional holiday tour/mission trip, but we need your help. We need commitment, sacrifice, prayer and trust.
Let me add another note here…I can get any amount of missionaries, teams and groups who feel ‘called’ to minister in Edinburgh or St Andrews, but never have anyone volunteering to go to Cowdenbeath or Kilmarnock. Why? Part of it is a mistaken missiology which comes from the notion that if only we go to the city centres, reach the middle classes and the leaders, then there will be a trickle down effect. For various reasons I think that is worldly thinking and never works. But another reason for this attitude is just sheer snobbery. Its very easy to get money for areas that already have money (Edinburgh) but ask for Dundee and there is a kind of condescending ‘can anything good come from Narareth’ mentality. If Americans want to come and help with the Church in Scotland maybe they would be better asking us what they can help with, not telling us what we should be doing?
In the years since I first wrote this article I am aware of several Scottish ministers, theologians and students who have been ‘called’ to the US. I am not aware of any experienced American minister coming over here. Can I make a plea to the American church – if you are going to continue to cherry pick our best people could you in return heed the Macedonian cry to come over and help us? And please send us your best – no other sacrifice is good enough for the Lord…
I have to add this – given the reaction already. Firstly this was not written about any specific individual (that should be obvious) – secondly it is not just about any particular group (the Southern Baptists are only mentioned as one example) whether MTW, PCA, etc. I am talking about general trends and patterns.
Thirdly it should also be obvious that I am very grateful for those Americans who did a power of work here in Dundee and elsewhere in Scotland; and who have worked hard and sacrificially for the Lord here. However I am also aware that we have a reputation of sending home missionaries from Europe in general and Scotland in particular, in ‘body bags’.
Unrealistic expectations, pressures from home, inexperience, the tough spiritual climate, lack of understanding are some of the many reasons why this happens. As we say in Scots ‘its a sair fecht’ (its a tough fight), but then as Christians what do we expect? I thought we were to take up our cross – not just go to the places and people that seem to be more attractive.
I don’t think this is a problem that is particular to one nationality – it seems to me endemic in Western Christianity that our own personal comfort and situation is the priority (and I include myself in this). How can we do mission like that? Perhaps we need a deeper awareness of Christ and ourselves, before we think we can change the world?
Another PS….here is an example of what I was writing about….just came across this today…
”Scotland, we have found to be a spiritually cold nation. Many of its churches are practically empty with many of them being occupied by Muslims. Secularism is the modern day God. We have been preaching and taking mission teams there since 2002. The Baptist Union has become quite liberal. It is also completely Armenian. There is no Reformed witness or churches within the Baptist Union. The state churches, Church of Scotland, etc. are very liberal. There is a Presbyterian presence, mostly thru the Free Church of Scotland. But there is a very small Reformed Baptist presence in Scotland. We feel led to ask God to raise up Reformed Baptist Churches across Scotland, the U K and Europe according to His Will.”
It is really important that people get facts right….’many’ of Scotland’s churches are not occupied by muslims, there ARE reformed churches and witness within the Baptist Union, the Presbyterians churches are not mainly through the Free Church, and not all the State churches are ‘very liberal’. ( on a slightly more amusing note I am intrigued that the Baptist Union is completely Armenian….personally I thought it was full of Turks!).
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Hybrid seed… will they produce fruit?
I’m a garden newbie…. I have a eustis limequat tree (cross between a lime and kumquat). A couple years back I rooted a clipping from the tree (and that tree is actually doing better than the first tree it came from). I wanted to plant some of the seeds, but I heard that if you save seeds from hybrid plants, they will not produce the same plant and fruit. Is this true?
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today’s second city guide holds a special place in my heart. savannah, georgia is probably my favorite city in the world, home to a fantastic art school (SCAD), and and it’s also where we’re tying the knot this spring. designer marisa avelar was kind enough to create this guide for d*s and i’m so thrilled to finally have a guide up for this amazing city. if you’ve never traveled to the south you’re in for a treat. savannah is full of southern charm, beautiful homes, great shopping and warm people. so grab yourself a glass of sweet tea and enjoy the guide. thank you, marisa!
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Savannah, Georgia the “Hostess City of the South”
During the Civil War when General Sherman came tearing through the south and burned Atlanta to the ground, he arrived to a gorgeous and unique town named Savannah. The story is he fell in love with the city for its beauty and charm and gave it as a Christmas gift to Lincoln. The city comprised of 24 squares (plazas) carefully planned by the city’s founder, General James Oglethorpe, is surrounded by historic homes, churches and buildings. Another tidbit, “Over 1,600 restored structures are rated as historically and architecturally significant in a variety of styles including Federal, Georgian, Gothic Revival, Greek Revival, Italianate, Regency, Victorian, Colonial and more.” It is home to one of the biggest art colleges in America, SCAD (The Savannah College of Art and Design) who also maintain and have restored practically the whole town and was the center of John Berendt’s popular book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
I’m a romantic and it’s only natural that I would be drawn to the romanticism of the city. I moved to Savannah because I fell in love with a boy (my husband) and then I fell for the town. I couldn’t afford SCAD but I went to Georgia Southern in Statesboro, GA (40 min. outside of Savannah) and was fortunate to be taught there and major in graphic design and painting. They have an awesome art department and I suggest a visit to Statesboro to see the work they are doing. I lived in Savannah for four years and may not be a native but became an adopted one. I also most recently got married in one of my favorite places in Savannah, in front of the fountain at Forsyth Park.
When Berendt wrote Midnight, or “The Book” as it’s known to natives, he managed to paint a colorful portrait of Savannah that reveals what makes it so special: Savannah is eclectic, colorful, artistic, unique, mysterious and magical. Savannah is filled with a variety of scenes. A rich architectural, musical, and cultural history alongside a young and vibrant contemporary design and art scene. Savannah has a lot of style. Most recently it drew Marc Jacobs to open up his own store on the main downtown shopping spot Broughton Street. It is also home to the Savannah Film Festival that seems to get bigger every year, bringing in celebs like Michael Douglas, James Franco, Tommy Lee Jones and Ileana Douglas. The Savannah Music Festival also is drawing the likes of the Marsalis family and Neko Case. Being a town chock full of history, a downtown preserved since its days of the 18th century and insisting that nothing be torn down to build the modern high rise skyscrapers of most cities, they most recently had a parking lot torn down to rebuild an original park. Who has heard of such a thing? It’s a reason I call Savannah another home.
Another quality I love about Savannah is it’s a little big town. When you go to any of these famous boutiques, restaurants or cafes you will almost always see the owner working hard away behind the counter and greeting and chatting with their customers. Many are town celebrities or well respected in their industries but they can be seen bussing tables, taking orders and attentively serving their guests. It’s a quality I haven’t seen anywhere else. I hope they never lose that.
The design district is a series of boutiques and antique shops that are a great designer resource. There are antiques, art, bath, bed, furniture, garden, gifts, interiors, kitchen, lighting and more. This is a comprehensive list of shops to visit and a group of a growing design scene in Savannah. They have also begun to host an annual holiday party for owners, design enthusiasts and designers alike.
Owner Liz Demos has created a store known as a “vintage general store” for those who love beautiful unique finds that are antique or vintage inspired. Any time you visit the shop you discover something new and she has managed to fill it with all kinds of beautiful and unique pieces from such artists as Jennifer Murphy, Cody Foster, Dee Foust and many more. She has a wonderful selection of stationery, antiques, gift wrap, fine ribbons, textiles, paper, garden accessories, and neat vintage finds for crafty people and artists alike. All affordable as well, I had to make two trips while in Savannah on holiday vacation!
This shop is gorgeous and eclectic. A love of world travel combined with a whimsical design style, the owner Paula Danyluk has a large collection of vintage and new finds from around the world. Inspired by her travels she brings beautiful pieces back to Savannah that come from her “initial forays into the Parisian ‘Marche aux Puces’ that soon led to the chaotic, intoxicating bazaars of Cairo (Khan el-Khalili), Alexandria (El Attarine), and India (fabled Rahjastan).” Sometimes if you are lucky you will see a beautiful shell sculpture or bust by local artist Cathy Jarman. She also has a wonderful collection of shells, bugs, quail eggs and natural wonders alongside blocks of French handcrafted lavender soaps, unique garden decor, home decor and books.
The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) has a beautiful and unique gallery store that exclusively features the artwork and designs of students, faculty, staff and alumni. They have rare collections of handmade wares and artistic creations that range from jewelry, paintings, handmade books, pins, handbags, shirts, pottery and seasonal decor. The store is located across the street from the Gryphon Tea Room and is always an inspiration to visit.
Located in the Downtown Design District (a row of shops on Whitaker) One Fish, Two Fish is a fun and inspiring shop to visit. Filled with fanciful and unique home decor, office, lighting, jewelry and furniture as well as stationery. If you happen to go eat at Mrs. Wilkes and are waiting in line, ask someone to hold your place and go walk over to the boutique! It’s right at the corner.
A home and lifestyles store that is contemporary and cool has been featured in the New York Times and Elle Décor Magazine. Has been around in Savannah for a long time and one of the first stores that has always been forward thinking in design. It was a former family furniture business that was given a swift kick and edgy re-do by the founder’s son, Ruel Joyner, Jr. and his wife, Delaine. My favorite thing is the ceramic penguins they sell every year for the holidays. Make sure to visit the second floor to see the furniture and more inspiring designs.
Based in Los Angeles, the partners of DC2 – Dean Caldarelli, Dimitri Chami and Barbara Rose – were on a weekend getaway before being captivated by the beauty of Savannah and decided to open a showroom on the historic main shopping spot Broughton Street. The space is filled with furniture, lighting and accessories that you can’t find anywhere else and are the most current in contemporary design. They also feature a large jewelry and handbag collection and a coffee/dessert bar.
I always make sure to stop by here! Another shop on Whitaker, right around One Fish, Two Fish. A wonderful collection of all things stationery and paper. Sure to make any home office hip and cool and get a unique greeting card that isn’t the cheesy kind you find at a local drug store. They also offer custom wedding invite and monogram services and carry a variety of fine papers.
Arcanum is an antiques and interior design shop known for a masterful mix of antiques, fine art and home furnishings. It is an important design resource for the “low country” Georgia and South Carolina. Arcanum has been featured in Southern Accents, Elle Décor, Vanity Fair, Traditional Home, and Better Homes and Gardens. A great shop to visit and to be inspired.
Owner Heidi and Joe Berkeley run this beautiful shop filled with tin art, hand blown and etched glassware, iconography, pottery, textiles, folk and indigenous crafts and jewelry as well as several pieces that are culturally unique. It’s always great to have shop like this that puts artists and shoppers in touch with other cultures and their unique art.
Another stop on Whitaker next to La Paperie is No. Four Eleven filled with a great taste in modern design. The shop sells everyday decor for the bed, bath and home and are known for their custom monogramming service. Each monogram is custom designed for each customer and they have a variety of items you can have done that you wouldn’t even think of.
This is a colorful and wonderful shop. A floral design studio and boutique, they are located on West Taylor and Whitaker Street. You don’t get to see many floral design studios and this is an inspiring and great one to visit. Owner Michele Mikulec has really created a unique and fun shop. I also just love her logo!
” Greenware Design is a two woman team that combines the talents of two longtime friends, Irene McCollam and Leslie Geer. Irene, the potter, creates original ceramics on her pottery wheel. Leslie, the planter, fills them up with unique succulent plantings. Together they design each planter with loving care—getting their hands dirty so you won’t have to.” You can order these lovely creations on their etsy shop. Succulents are really popular lately and these ladies do a beautiful job with them.
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An old bookseller that has been around a while has 12 rooms of books, rare maps and gifts. They also carry a lot of local southern history and Savannah books. If you ever want a recommendation they are more than happy to give you one and are a great source for local information of any kind, historical or whimsical.
A large store and importer of Asian antiques, artifacts, furniture and crafts this place has an immense selection and you are sure to find something that will peek your interest. The owners have great knowledge of Asian culture and have many different imports from allover Asia including Thailand, Myanmar (formerly Burma) China and Tibet. They also publish a printed catalog of their inventory.
Located in historic Monterey Square they specialize in antique maps and prints. They are very respected collectors and carry a variety of old engravings, mezzotints, lithographs, photographs, old books and new Savannah books. They have prints of architectural interest, birds, animals, botanicals, fashion, sporting scenes and tens of thousands of portraits. A beautiful collection and worth a trip!
A large old warehouse by River Street filled with antique imports from Europe and row after row of Victorian furniture.
Right next to Jere’s by River Street this great place has all kinds of knick-knacks and antiques to peek your interest.
The historic district’s largest house and has a lot of inspiring antiques and furniture in every room.
Civvies, a boutique founded by Primary Arts founder Robyn Reeder, is new and recycled clothing store that has an awesome selection of vintage finds as well as new designer pieces. It’s not only a place to shop but also a cool place to hang out and have fun. Civvies buys clothes as well that can be used for store credit or cash. They also carry local music scene memorabilia.
Starting out as a small boutique, Bleu Belle has grown and gets a lot of traffic and has moved to a larger space on Broughton. The hot spot for contemporary fashion in Savannah they have many brands of designer clothing. They are also carrying a new line of clothing called “vintage belle” that is vintage pieces from the 1940s through the 80s. With a keen eye for fashion I am sure these vintage pieces will be great finds.
Fabrika is a custom sewing and fabric boutique owned by Kendrah White, a Savannah College of Art and Design alumni. A fun place to visit for crafters and seamsters alike they have a wonderful selection of fine apparel fabrics, vintage buttons and supplies. There also several handmade gifts and sewing lessons!
A fabulous art supply store. Dare I say I once found something cheaper there then Michael’s. They have a wonderful selection of supplies, paper, canvases, brushes as well as magazines, gifts and cards. They are SCAD alumni owned and operated.
A must see place in Savannah. A local beekeeper, Ted Dennard opened this wonderful local store and educational spot about honey. You will be delighted to learn all of the different ways honey can be used and the range of organic products. Honey tastings, honey-inspired lattes, an interactive children’s in house hive theater, as well as several different flavors of honey are some highlights of the many things there. My favorite is the Tupelo, but try them all! A great souvenir to bring home from Savannah.
A new shop that has all natural bath products made locally. They also have soy candles that are hand poured in the store and a variety of lotions, body scrubs, bath fizzies and any other pampering products. All organic and relaxing…
I had to put Polk’s because it’s a Savannah family tradition. My husband’s family has been going to Polk’s for years. We love to buy fresh vegetables and produce and when I say fresh, I mean fresh. Anything you bring home from there to cook is sure to please and they also have a wonderful selection of floral items. Also if you are looking for boiled and roasted peanuts (a southern tradition) look no further!
Mrs. Wilkes only gets her publicity by word of mouth and it does well because people love her food. A line gathers each morning and the lunch crowd is ushered in to sit family style with family, friends and strangers. Immediately everyone gets acquainted because you find yourself passing the bowls of food around from person to person as you serve yourself. The tabletops are filled with her AMAZING fried chicken, cornbread dressing, black-eyed peas, snap beans, squash, corn muffins and all the trimmings. When you are done, make sure you walk your plate to the kitchen. This isn’t any regular restaurant; it’s a boarding house!
This place is famous for a reason. The lines are long, it’s hard to get in, but if you do, it’s worth it! She has a wonderful buffet where you can try everything from my favorite fried chicken, macaroni and cheese (the best I have ever had), old 57 yams, black eyed peas, mashed potatoes, green beans, collard greens, etc. plus dessert! Everything she touches has a ton of flavor and be sure to enjoy your hoe cakes and cheese bread alongside a tall glass of yummy sweet tea!
The closest to good New York style pizza you will find anywhere. A favorite spot to hang out and one of the places we have to go to every time I come to Savannah.
Zunzi’s has some realllyyy good food. Fresh and quick, it’s another hot spot in Savannah to pick up lunch or dinner. They bake their own breads and my favorite sandwich “The Conquistador” that is baked chicken breast with lettuce, tomato, special sauce and French bread. They also have soups, baked potatoes, salads and other really good sandwiches with their signature baked bread. Make sure you also try the African Sweet Tea!
Skyler’s is a great little hidden gem of a restaurant in Savannah that is a fusion of east and west. My favorite thing and a signature of theirs is the Teriyaki Chicken, which is fried chicken fingers glazed in a teriyaki sauce. Their crab cakes and other dishes are wonderful as well.
The Gryphon Tea Room, housed in an adapted turn-of-the-century pharmacy, is another spot I love to visit for a relaxing and fun afternoon tea. They have a wonderful range of international teas and offer a pot of tea, afternoon tea 4 to 6 pm (with tea sandwiches, scones, sweet delights and choice of tea) or a recommended tea set (scones, fruit salad and pot of tea). Make sure to walk across the street and browse shopSCAD while you are there.
A great spot to see art and enjoy a nice cup of coffee, Gallery Espresso is always having a revolving show of artists’ works on its walls. It’s a nice place to relax and visit with friends.
A great selection of fair trade coffees and baked goods. Also they have live music, film screenings and poetry readings.
Another great little lunch spot and cafe that serves paninis, soups, and sandwiches. Everyone raves over the tomato soup, so next time I go I will definitely try that out.
Owners Cheryl and Griffith Day own a very friendly and cute shop that make delicious artisan baked goods with a down home feel. They also have a nice selection of old world loaves of bread that range from French baguettes to Italian breads. Their cupcakes are to die for and are cute as can be.
Delicious ice cream made on the spot and a family tradition, owner Stratton Leopold was the youngest child who learned the ways of ice cream business from his father and two uncles who founded Leopold’s in 1919. My husband’s grandparents used to get their sherbet when the kids were sick to help “cure” them. It worked. Also Stratton is successful movie producer who has all kinds of movie memorabilia of the movies he’s produced. One of my faves is “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.” The old ice cream shop next to the SCAD Theater is designed by Academy Award nominated designer Dan Lomino and he used many of the original fixtures and applied his Hollywood magic to create the old timey looking ice cream shop. Stratton is also always friendly and a nice man. Try their signature chocolate malt shakes and a Johnny Mercer favorite, the Tutti Frutti!
Belly dancing and delicious Moroccan food. It’s always a treat to come here and have dinner. When you walk inside you are not in Savannah anymore and it feels like you are in a large Moroccan tent. The food is unbelievable and I also loved having my hands washed with rosemary after the meal.
I love chicken fingers and these are the best ones in Savannah. Get a chicken finger basket and their famous spuds, both soaked and fried in their secret recipe beer batter. Yes its bad for you but it’s soooo goood.
Located on Savannah’s southside (further down towards the malls) this exotic restaurant offers delicious gourmet dishes and has just a wonderful spin to anything they make. Some favorites are the Jamaican Jerk Tilapia with black beans, rice and mango salsa and the Havana black bean soup with Cuban spices and red onion.
A fun outdoors place to eat seafood and on the way to the nearby beach getaway Tybee Island, you can enjoy boiled blue crabs, alaskan snow crab legs or a regional “low country shrimp boil.” With a great view of the water and a little park where you can see the baby alligators, this is always a fun stop.
Located in an old brick building in City Market Belford’s is a classic Savannah restaurant that has wonderful seafood and steak.
Also located on the southside of Savannah this Cuban restaurant is just delicious! It’s a small hidden gem and the hospitality and food are excellent. The roasted pork is to die for and anything they cook is full of flavor along with the beans, fried yuca and plantains. I miss it already!
Started in the 1920s, Johnny Harris is a Savannah tradition and is famous for its dining in particular the bar-b-cue sauce and pork barbecue. This restaurant is one of Savannah’s longest standing traditions and is still the same on the inside since the time they first opened. For generations people would dance and dine there and have receptions.
Has the best Brunswick stew, another low country recipe that is a tomato based stew that contains beans, vegetables or meat. This is usually a wonderful side with the shredded pork bar-b-cue. Also they have awesome deviled crabs and seafood platters.
Not sure if they still are but they would stay open until 4 a.m., one of the few places downtown to do that. It’s always a favorite place in Savannah to have the best sushi and hear some good new wave music!
Starfish is a cafe that serves lunch daily that is prepared by students being trained by the local Union Mission and Savannah Technical College to enter the workforce. Many have been homeless or helped by Union’s mission programs and each day there is a featured entree prepared by them. Eat well and support a good cause!
A famous little cafe featured in the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, this cafe is a must visit just to remember the stories of the eccentric Luther Driggers that would come through there. Around since 1903, they serve breakfast all day and can whip up sandwiches and any down home southern food your heart desires.
Lulu’s is a wonderful local spot for chocolate and any sweets imaginable, all made from scratch on site. This is a quality that makes all of these Savannah spots so special.
A fashionable Savannah gathering place, Ye Olde Pink House is a beautiful little building with a lot of history. They are notable for their seafood, she crab soup and dessert and keep on the lookout for the ghost of James Habersham, the wealthy Savannahian who built the house; it is said he makes appearances. The house on the interior still has the traditional southern decor and style from the 1700s and is yet another example of historical homes that we are privileged to still have around.
Founded by a mother daughter team, this wonderful candy shop located on Savannah’s historic tourist spot River Street (along the Savannah River), they specialize in local candies, chocolates, and nuts. If you are curious about some traditional southern treats this is the right place. They also are always giving free samples of the famous pralines and don’t forget to try the saltwater taffy made from scratch and stretched by their 80-year old taffy machine.
–Local 11 Ten: delicious local food, New American.
–Elizabeth on 37th: this is one of Grace’s favorite spots in Savannah. Enjoy delicious local, seasonal fine dining in a gorgeous old home.
–Sweet Leaf Smokery and Eatery: great sweet tea and BBQ.
The Telfair Museum of Art opened this new 64,000-sq. ft., state-of-the-art building to the public in March 2006. This is a wonderful museum for modern and contemporary art from Georgia and internationally. “Designed by architect Moshe Safdie, the Jepson Center for the Arts features two large galleries for major traveling exhibitions; galleries for African American art, Southern art, photography and works-on-paper; a community gallery; a 3,500-sq. ft. hands-on gallery for young people; two outdoor sculpture terraces, education studios, a 200-seat auditorium, café, and museum store.”
Mary Telfair of the Telfair family was a patron of the arts and since 1886 donated the family mansion to the Georgia Historical Society to make it a museum. The museum has many exhibitions and original artwork and the original “Bird Girl” sculpture from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Its other two buildings are the Jepson and Owens Thomas House are staples of Savannah and give Savannah venues to see famous and contemporary art up close.
The Lucas is an old theater that has been around since the 1920s. Supported by donations from Savannahians and celebrities, it took 13 years to restore. It’s charming and beautiful, and a great venue to see musicians and theatre productions.
The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum is a must visit. Named after the pastor at the historic First African Baptist Church on Franklin Square in Savannah, this museum has many ongoing exhibitions and has three floors and contains exhibits, archives, and a research center.
The oldest African American Church in North America, this is a historic church was a survivor of the Revolutionary War and a center during the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. It was one of the first places Martin Luther King Jr. preached segments of his “I Have A Dream” sermon before he preached it famously at the March on Washington.
Located in the old Central of Georgia Railway passenger shed, this showcases the city’s history from its founding to present day. A good hub to start for Savannah visitors and tourists. There are a couple of nice exhibits on Georgia’s history and a video that is interesting to learn about the founding of Savannah. Its also home to the famous Forrest Gump bench and Johnny Mercer’s Oscars.
My favorite art gallery in Savannah, the Chroma Gallery always has vibrant and beautiful work by artists of the southeast. They are always friendly and more than happy to answer any questions about the artists. Some favorites that are usually exhibited are Loja, Siddharth Parasnis, Laura Dinello, Jan Clayton-Pagratis and Ikeda Lowe.
A wonderful little gallery, an artist’s cooperative that has an eclectic mix of jewelry and fine art.
A new gallery and becoming a hit in Savannah, Dimensions always has new and exciting openings and is very open to new and upcoming artists in every genre.
A contemporary gallery space that is one of SCAD’s main galleries located on Broughton street. There is always something new and interesting there, they feature art by the alumni of SCAD and prominent contemporary artists.
Tucked away under the Talmadge Memorial Bridge in Savannah, Alexander Hall serves as a space for the graduate painting studios. The bottom floor has access to the public where they have a gallery that shows the art of the painters and graduate program students but If you get a chance to go upstairs and walk around it is truly inspiring. Its a large space of studio after studio of graduate student and all over the walls is there work.
At Hun is a fun gallery space located in the popular City Market. Every year there is an Art Crawl and At Hun is always hopping. Filled to the brim with several different artists you are sure to find some new work that is beautiful and new. Also the artists are sometimes there and are accessible and love to talk about their work.
2CarGarage Contemporary Art Gallery another gallery for contemporary art, featuring over 3,000 square feet of exhibition space in downtown historic Savannah. They also feature a lot of wonderful local artists and have some beautiful work there.
Representing national and regional artists the Whitney Gallery offers yet another place to view modern and contemporary art as well as a lot of figurative and landscape art that isn’t tacky and has a fresh artistic touch.
The original physical gallery has closed but it is worth visiting his site and noting the photography and work Jack Leigh has contributed to Savannah. He has managed to capture through his photography the heart of Georgia and the south and the work is simply gorgeous. He passed away of cancer in May of 2004 but his legacy and work live on. He has many pieces in numerous private and museum collections and his famous bird girl photograph (on the cover of John Berendt’s book is a famous and widely recognized image.
Alix Babtiste has a studio in City Market among many artist studios. His is one that I have always remembered and has stood out. He has gorgeous very detailed and colorful paintings. They are very unique and unlike most of the art there. He grew up in Haiti in great poverty and sold mangos to go to school. He later immigrated to Savannah and stayed with his father and stepmother. His stepmother bought him some art supplies and he began to sell paintings soon after that. He has no formal training and took the local art scene by storm. It’s always a delight to go by his studio when perusing through City Market.
A great place to see what young local and contemporary artists are up to in Savannah. They usually have really fun art openings with good music. They host weekly art exhibitions as well as artist talks, open critiques, and sidewalk art events.
–Forsyth Park (Bull St between Gaston St & Park Ave):
Forsyth Park is the large city park in downtown Savannah that occupies 30 acres. Sometimes there are concerts and annually they have a SCAD Sidewalk art event where all of the sidewalks of Forsyth are covered in colorful chalk art. The highlight of the park is the gorgeous park fountain that is perfectly surrounded by the large oak trees and Spanish moss and when the sun shines down on it, its stark white antique design glow through them.
At the center of the book Midnight in the Garden and Good and Evil is the Mercer Williams House. Recently opened to the public for tours and a great shop in the carriage house, this historic home was a popular and classy place for the late Jim Williams’ exclusive parties. It was designed by New York architect John S. Norris for General Hugh W. Mercer, great grandfather of the famous Savannah composer Johnny Mercer. In 1969, Jim Williams, one of Savannah’s earliest preservationists bought the vacant home and completely restored it.
This home is marvel in architecture; it was designed by a young English architect William Jay who really got creative with the design of the home. Owned and operated by the Telfair Museum of Art, it’s a must visit.
The childhood home of Flannery O’Connor who was born in Savannah and lived there until 1938.
If you are visiting Savannah you will be sure to see a lot of Girl Scouts running about. It’s because their founder Juliette Gordon Low was born and raised in Savannah. The historic home of her family was saved from demolition by the Girl Scouts and is authentically preserved and furnished.
The Andrew Low House is another special place in the hearts of many Girl Scouts because it was the home of Juliette Gordon Low after she married Andrew Low’s son.
Threatened with demolition in 1955, the saving of the Davenport House was the first effort of the Historic Savannah Foundation and the beginning of the historic preservation renaissance in this port city.
The house is well known for the fact that General Sherman used it as his headquarters during the Savannah occupation in the Civil War. In the bedroom is where he wrote the famous telegram to Lincoln giving Savannah as a Christmas gift.
–Asendorf House (Known as the Gingerbread House):
Beautiful and elegant home from 1899.
–Historic Wormsloe Home:
The mile long Live Oak Tree entrance is amazing and is yet another wonder of Savannah’s beauty.
A gorgeous cathedral and with the highest spires it stands tall and beautiful and on a plot on Liberty Square. The cathedral is especially beautiful on the inside and has a gorgeous nativity scene during the holidays. It has been renovated several times and even survived a fire in 1898.
Located on Forsyth Park, it’s a Bed and Breakfast and birthplace of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Conrad Aiken.
African-American heritage museum named for its owners, Eugene and Sarah King, and Sarah King and Robert Tisdell.
A beautiful museum that exhibits ship models, paintings and maritime antiques from the 18th and 19th century. A beautiful garden and spot for weddings, this place is a must visit.
The Battle of Fort Pulaski in April 1862 marked a turning point in military history. This is a major historic site and there are daily interpretive programs with musket firings, trails, picnic areas, a visitor center with lots of info and a park film about the battle.
The Isle of Hope National Historic District is a sandy peninsula with a high bluff looking over to Skidaway Island across the Intracoastal Waterway at Skidaway Narrows and the Isle of Hope River. Along the river if you get to drive to the Isle of Hope Marina, the neighborhood there has some gorgeous homes that face the river. Some of the residents and their homes have been featured in magazines such as Martha Stewart Magazine. I would love to buy a home there and its always nice to drive by and dream.
Many of Savannah’s famous inhabitants are buried there such as Johnny Mercer, Conrad Aiken, and Jack Leigh. The whole cemetery is filled with old oaks and Spanish moss overlooking a scenic bluff of the Wilmington River. It’s a beautiful, unique and haunting place to visit.
Famous for the Lady Chablis, from “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” this is a three level dance and show bar. They have regular drag shows and are notable for being one of the most eclectic gay bars in Savannah with patrons that are famous and straight as well! It’s all entertainment and a good time to be had.
–Pinkie Masters: One of Grace and AC’s favorite bars. A little rough around the edges but full of character and history.
This bar has been featured all over the place and is a classy joint, known for their tapas food, drinks, art and music. This is a great place to hang out in style.
A famous spot in downtown Savannah, this cute British pub has been in several movies and has tasty bangers and mash, French onion soup and shepherd’s pie. They have nice outdoor seating and an array of beers and ciders on tap from the U.K. and Ireland.
A favorite spot on River Street, this Irish pub has wonderful live Celtic and Irish music and when Savannah’s favorite Irish folk singer Harry O’Donoghue comes to town, its always a treat to catch him there.
Largest single malt selection in Savannah and offers single malt tasting classes as well.
The Jinx is the local dive that hosts cutting edge local bands and is a great hangout for the young indie crowd, freaks, geeks, and tattooed heroes of the local underground. They have different nights of dance offs like 80’s night and a fabulous local DJ (who also DJed our wedding) Keith Kozel who does a “Kaleidoscope of Music and Madness” night.
A notable fun hangout in Savannah, the talented piano players always make the audience interact and the drinks always seem to be strong. If you want to dance, sing and get loud this is the best place to go.. or just watch the piano players entertain you!
They carry 20 different draught beers, mostly European imports, and a large selection of American and European bottled beer. This is another pub that has been around a while and is a popular Savannah spot.
Savannah’s local brewery creates six varieties from bitter to light. The Captains Porter has hints of caramel and chocolate and they have the Road Trip Hard Cider that is fresh pressed from apples from the Mercier Orchards in the North Georgia Mountains.
Every year the festival gets bigger and better and draws all kinds of celebrities and guests to see the best upcoming independent and emerging films. This is movie buff heaven and gives local Savannahians a sneak peek at the future big movies of the year as well as bringing some talented and famous celebrities up close.
Celebrating the musical arts, over 100 programs for adults and children are brought to theatres, schools, and historic venues. Past artists have included: Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Les Ballets Africaines, Buddy Guy, Eddie Palmieri, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Joshua Redman & the San Francisco Jazz Collective, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones and many others. This year they will have Neko Case, The Ellis Marsalis Quartet, and Bonnie Raitt among others.
Every year the historic and lovely homes of Savannah open their doors and allow the public to have a sneak peek of their beautiful holiday and interior decor. Always inspiring and a treat this is a great thing to do while in Savannah for the holidays. They also have a tour of homes in May for those who won’t be there for the holidays.
A different neighborhood is featured each day and guests are delighted to visit gorgeous private homes and gardens where they would normally not get such an opportunity.
The Savannah College of Art and Design puts on this annual festival that is always a ton of fun and inspiring. A chalk drawing competition is made on the sidewalks of the beautiful Forsyth Park and the winners are awarded prizes. Admission is free and open to the public.
Every year at Georgia Southern in Statesboro the ceramics department, under the name of Club Mud, puts on their annual sale in May and December. It gets more popular every year and it features the work of undergraduate and graduate students. They sell ceramics, porcelain, stoneware, jewelry, small metals, prints and handmade books. It’s a bit of a drive from Savannah but worth the trip and you are sure to find some beautiful work from emerging artists and grads like myself. ;)
Have fun perusing one-of-a-kind, hand crafted pottery and ceramic gifts from Armstrong’s students, faculty and staff.
Savannah has been celebrating St Patrick’s Day since 1813 and every year its gets wilder and rowdier. Its worth noting though because its a huge event in Savannah and more than 300,000 people come to visit. The St. Patrick’s Day Parade is the highlight followed by a crowded River Street. It began with a private procession by the oldest Irish society in America, the Hibernian Society, and then in 1824 the first public procession was lead by James Hunter, the local Hibernian president who invited all local Irishman to meet for mass and parade through the streets of Savannah. Since then it has become a parade and a huge annual party.
LOCAL TOWNS TO VISIT
Head 20 minutes east of Savannah and you will find a beautiful little island community and beach. Tybee is a fun get away and has great food, beaches and shopping.
Statesboro is a small town but it has a lot of history as well, good food and is my college town. I really can’t stress enough that you should visit the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art. The faculty and students have a lot of talent and usually aren’t seen because the town is a little further away and small. Be sure to visit their new state of the art gallery and exhibitions and stop by the department to greet the friendly faculty and staff who would be delighted to give you a tour.
**A few additions from Grace**
Where to Stay/Lodging:
Savannah is home to some beautiful B&Bs, and for my money, they’re the best places to stay in Savannah. They have character and are full of great history. I love:
–Dresser Palmer House– great rooms (ask for the Mercer Suite and enjoy the gorgeous porch) and a great porch you can have wine and cheese on at night.
–The Gastonian– lovely b&b near Forsyth Park
–Forsyth Park Inn– ditto
–Eliza Thompson House– you can’t ask for a more picturesque location.
Regular Hotels- if you want something more modern try these spots:
–The Mansion– a modern hotel on the side of Forsyth Park- we’ve had iffy service here but the rooms are nice.
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Amanda Hammoud requested shareholder and accounting records from Advent claiming she was entitled to receive this information as a shareholder to “monitor the financial health of the corporation, especially given recent communications about the corporation’s financial position and financial decisions, reducing benefit and payments to the shareholders, employees… to affirm her ownership / shareholder share… and to ensure Advent was in compliance with the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws.”
Advent did not respond to Hammoud’s request for the records so she filed a lawsuit pursuant to MCL 450.1487(3) which states “(3) If the corporation does not permit an inspection within 5 business days after a demand has been received in compliance with subsection (2) . . . the shareholder may apply to the circuit court . . . for an order to compel the inspection.”
In response, Advent claimed that Hammoud was not a legitimate shareholder, but as proof of her shareholder status Hammoud presented a notarized transfer of stock certificate for 400 shares.
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Congratulations on your engagement!
They say all good things must come to an end.
Sorry you are sick.
I could tell by the way you’ve been looking lately.
I’ll still keep in touch.
You owe me money after all.
To the happy graduate.
Enjoy your free time.
They say good things come to those who wait.
Now that I’ve found you, I realized I haven’t waited long enough.
They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder.
It’s true. I’ve found lots of people who I’m fond of since you’ve been gone.
Good things come in small packages.
You should be very popular with the ladies.
Thanks for all you help.
You made my situation f@#*#ing worse.
Sorry for your loss.
It’s nice to be rid of the bitch though. Don’t you think??!!??
Congrats on your baby news.
It’s funny. I never pictured anyone actually having sex with you.
I hope you get better.
Try rehab you damn drunk.
Graduation is a special day….
…..for those who will find employment.
Congratulations on your move.
Too bad it’s back into your parent’s basement.
You got the promotion. Awesome.
It’s looks like all that screwing and back stabbing worked out for you.
It’s a great day when a child arrives.
So enjoy that one day. It’s all you’ve got.
I love you.
But…..I love your bank account more.
Things will get better.
Just kidding. They won’t, but you felt good for a split second.
No one really gives a crap!
Happy Sweet Sixteen!
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Column: City continues to explore aquatics options
For nearly a century, recreational aquatics has been woven into the fabric of Wisconsin Rapids life. From the East Side Pool, built in the early 1900s, to Mead Pool, constructed during the 1970s, the city and its river have provided residents and visitors with a form of safe and healthy fun.
In early January, the city held a series of focus groups representing a cross section of our community to inform a study to be conducted of city residents. Since that time, our researcher conducted a random phone and email survey about potential aquatic options in Wisconsin Rapids, to gain insight into the community’s needs and desires. We have been gratified by your willingness to provide feedback, because such collaboration is vital to making quality aquatics a reality.
The need to upgrade our local aquatics offerings became urgent late last year, when state and county health Inspectors moved Mead Pool’s operational permit to a “conditional” status. Based upon a third-party engineering review and resident feedback, the option of reactivating our operating license and re-opening Mead Pool in 2016 would not offer the long-term, cost-effective solution our community deserves.
The city expects to have the results of the aquatics survey and will share them during a public forum, where we encourage additional input. In the meantime, city leaders want to keep you updated on where our community is in the process of revitalizing our aquatics offerings.
Options under consideration include:
- Building a new outdoor pool, with the possibility of splash pads.
- Partnering with the South Wood County YMCA on a project that would allow public access to a proposed indoor facility.
- In the interim, utilizing already-budgeted resources to fund a range of summer youth recreation opportunities.
Our community is at a crossroads in terms of deciding how much we wish to invest in a solution that is economically feasible, makes our community an attractive and welcoming environment for new residents and businesses, and contributes to the health and well-being of our citizens, both now and in the future. Investing in our quality of life is an integral part of our economic development strategy.
Armed with public support, the Wisconsin Rapids City Council and I continue our commitment to pursue a sustainable solution to our aquatics needs.
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All staff took part in some Outdoor Learning training today. They learnt how to start and maintain a fire - they even got to cook their lunch on it. They also learnt how to use a variety of tools and created art work using natural materials. Then they wrote and performed poems based on their learning. Here at Ludworth, we are proud to say EVERYONE learns together! | <urn:uuid:d7c4d72d-f013-46aa-978c-f903d15372c1> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | http://www.ludworth.org.uk/news/detail/staff-training-outdoor-learning/ | 2019-06-26T16:34:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560628000367.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20190626154459-20190626180459-00552.warc.gz | en | 0.98886 | 81 | [
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In her own words, “WAC has struck a perfect balancing act as a little school with a global focus.” From colonial-brick buildings, to a parking spot with her name on it, Washington College took Holly by surprise and quickly became the place she knew she wanted to call home.
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Mark your calendars for the Spring Merit Badge Academy on Saturday, May 13 at Saint Leo University. We are offering a combination of adventure/hands-on classes, like Climbing and Digital Technology and Eagle Scout required merit badges, such as First Aid and Citizenship in the World. There will be a class for every Scout! Cost is $25 per Scout and $5 per adult leader and includes a lunch buffet!
Merit badge counselors (or prospective ones): We still have openings in our course schedule and could use your help. If you serve as a counselor, your lunch is free!
Unit leaders and adults: We are offering training and classes, including a new course: Fundamentals of Unit Finance in Scouting.
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What is a PEM Fuel Cell? A Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts the chemical energy of hydrogen into electrical energy and heat. The core part of a PEM fuel cell is the membrane electrode assembly (MEA) where the electrochemical reaction takes place. The MEA is consisted of an electrolyte medium (polymer membrane) sandwiched between two electrodes, the anode and the cathode. Hydrogen gas stream is fed to the anode compartment where it is oxidized to protons and electrons. Protons are moving through the electrolyte (polymer membrane) to the cathode, while electrons reach cathode trough an external circuit. At the cathode compartment, protons, electrons and atmospheric air are producing water and heat. The reactions that take place inside the fuel cell are the following:
Anode: H2 → 2H+ + 2e–
Cathode: 2H+ + 2e– + ½ O2 → H2O + Q
Conventional polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells operate at relatively low temperatures, around 80°C. Low-temperature operation allows them to start quickly; however, the platinum catalyst is extremely sensitive to CO poisoning, making it necessary to employ an additional reactor to reduce CO in the fuel gas if the hydrogen is derived from an alcohol or hydrocarbon fuel. This also adds complexity and cost to the final system.
The operation of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells at temperatures above 150°C offers very significant advantages compared to the conventional PEM fuel cells which are listed below:
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Advent Technologies is involved in the design, development and production of polymers, membranes and membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) for HT PEM Fuel Cells. Advent is the Membrane Electrode Assembly provider of choice for HT PEM stack constructors or HT PEM system integrators who deliver energy systems for many applications, such as stationary power, transport, portable power, telecom/utilities applications and application in space. | <urn:uuid:6e9fce39-6eed-40bd-8b58-55e22ef5a94d> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.advent-energy.com/technology-high-temperature-pem/ | 2019-06-18T17:37:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998808.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20190618163443-20190618185443-00352.warc.gz | en | 0.886918 | 449 | [
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The Ohio State University has new Dean of the College of Medicine, Dr. Craig Kent. We are very excited to have someone as esteemed to lead our college. But the occasion...
In 1995, New York Times columnist Daniel Goleman authored Emotional Intelligence, a book that popularized the idea that people who are able to recognize their own and other people’s emotions and then use that information to optimally manage relationships are more effective leaders. Goleman also examined leadership behaviors of executives and classified them into 6 leadership styles using different elements of emotional intelligence. Four of these styles are generally positive and two are generally negative. When you are working with physicians, no one leadership style works best in every situation.
This is a top-down, bullying style where the leader demands immediate compliance with his or her directives and can be summed up by the phrase “Do what I tell you”. Subordinates are dissuaded from expressing their own ideas and there is a sense of lack of flexibility in the organization. This is not a style of leadership for the long-run of an organization but can be effective in the short-run when there is a crisis in the institution or when there is a group of problem employees. After the crisis is resolved, however, the coercive leader has a negative impact on the organization by undermining motivation and rewards.
Authoritative leaders are visionary and motivate subordinates to want to follow them. Their style can be summed up by the phrase “Come with me”. These leaders tend to not direct people in the specifics of how to do their job but rather on what the ultimate goal of the organization is, thus allowing people to devise their own means to that goal. This is one of the most effective leadership styles for most organizations, particularly when the organization has lost sight of its long-term mission. However, in hospitals, where the physicians are the subordinates, an authoritative hospital leader can sometimes come across as overbearing or out-of-touch, particularly when those physicians are more skilled or experienced than the leader.
These leaders create harmony and create emotional bonds by utilizing empathy and building relationships. It can be summed up by the phrase “People come first”. Communication skills are the greatest tool of these leaders. They use frequent positive feedback to motivate and build a sense of belonging. Although generally a positive leadership style, by exclusively relying on positive feedback, poor performance may go uncorrected. Furthermore, exclusive use of this leadership style can result in people losing sight of the ultimate mission of the organization.
These leaders strive to create consensus and their style can be summed up by the phrase “What do you think?” They seek input by their employees and use their actions to maintain high morale. By doing this, employees are better able to be realistic about what can and cannot be accomplished in the organization. However, in a committee, this leadership style can result in endless meetings where everyone is speaking their mind and nothing gets accomplished. This style works best when the leader needs ideas and guidance from employees and works best when the leader can subtly use it to make subordinates come to a desired conclusion on their own to make them feel empowered. It does not work in times of crisis or when the employees are not knowledgeable or competent in the issue at hand.
These leaders set an example of high performance standards by being a high performer. They are often the hardest workers and set expectations for everyone else to work just as hard. This style can be summed up by the phrase “Do as I do, now”. The problem with this style is that most of the other employees can’t keep up with the highest performer and over time, these leaders can be exhausting. It can be used effectively in brief and selective situations in order to motivate highly skilled employees, for example, to meet an upcoming, important deadline.
This style of leadership is best for developing people for the future by improving their performance or developing their individual strengths. These leaders are great listeners and use their communication skills to foster employees career growth. This style can be summed up by the phase “Try this”. These leaders will accept short-term failures if those failures result in better long-term performance. However, this is a very time intensive leadership style that requires the leader to do a lot of one-on-one personal mentoring and it can be hard to incorporate into a 60 or 70 hour work week. Furthermore, some employees are not able or willing to change their behaviors and in this situation, persisting with coaching can be frustrating and waste the leader’s time.
So, what is the best leadership style? Ideally, all 6, when used in the right situations. No one style is best all of the time. This is especially true when you are leading physicians. Ideally, a hospital leader needs to primarily use authoritative, afflictive, democratic, and coaching styles most of the time. But, there can be occasions when coercive and pacesetting styles need to be used in moderation. The key is to try to match the style of leadership you employ to the specific situation. And the reality is that most of us cannot do all 6 styles but we do need to be able to recognize others who do have the leadership styles that we lack so that we can appoint them to leadership positions when that style would be the most effective one to use.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will host a Community Mitigation Resiliency Workshop on Thursday, January 24, 2019, from 6 until 8 p.m. at the Bladen County Emergency Operations Center.
Area residents can get tips and advice on how to make their homes more resistant to flood damage at community mitigation resiliency workshops.
FEMA mitigation specialists will be available to answer questions about home repair and resiliency, making disaster plans, the importance of flood insurance and the opportunity for attendees to locate their properties on the floodplain map.
Mitigation is an effort to reduce the loss of life and property damage by lessening the impact of disaster. The workshops will be held at the following location:
The Emergency Operations Center is located at 5853 US 701 North, Elizabethtown. Please come and invite those who were affected by Hurricane Florence.Share: | <urn:uuid:b098627e-6361-4b43-951e-93aae57a21af> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://bladenonline.com/fema-to-host-community-mitigation-resiliency-workshop/ | 2019-06-19T21:37:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999041.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20190619204313-20190619230313-00512.warc.gz | en | 0.944763 | 201 | [
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Facilities & Operations is responsible for maintaining all buildings and grounds on campus. We serve as a resource for safety and environmental concerns, including recycling and oversight of custodial services. Space planning, furniture acquisition, office and classroom design, as well as fleet vehicle scheduling and maintenance are other services provided by our department.
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“My body, my choice” is possibly the most common slogan in defense of abortion right now and an embarrassing number of pro-life people completely misunderstand it. Consider the following popular meme:
Hilarious right? Aren’t pro-choice people stupid? Aren’t they logic-impaired?
No. Please stop.
To what is “my body” referring in the “my body, my choice” slogan? Pro-life people far too often incorrectly assume that it is the body of the unborn. If that was the case, then yes, it would be a dumb thing to say. Let’s call this the Scientifically Ignorant View. That is almost never what pro-choice people mean. They mean the parts of the woman’s body that are affected by pregnancy, such as her uterus, vagina, ovaries, etc. Those are indisputably her body parts and pregnancy affects them.
The pro-life mind is naturally inclined to be focused on the unborn, and understandably so. They are being killed daily by the thousands. Almost nothing justifies killing a human person. But to most pro-choice people, even if the unborn is a human person, women have the right to kill the unborn if they are inside her body. This is the Bodily Rights View. Shouting that the unborn is a human being does nothing to respond to the Bodily Rights View. Absolutely nothing.
To put it another way, consider the following basic pro-life syllogism:
Premise 1: It is morally wrong to intentionally kill human persons.
Premise 2: Abortion intentionally kills human persons.
Conclusion: Therefore abortion is morally wrong.
When pro-life people hear “my body, my choice” far too many assume that the pro-choice person is denying Premise 2, when in fact they are denying Premise 1. They aren’t saying that the unborn child isn’t a human person, they’re saying that the woman is justified in killing him because he is in her body.
If a pro-choice person says, “my body, my choice,” never, ever, ever respond by saying “but the baby has its own body,” or “but the baby is a human being.” Always respond with a clarification question to find out if they have the Bodily Rights View or the Scientifically Ignorant View.
I want to make sure I understand what you mean, and I’ve heard people use that phrase in different ways, so help me out. Do you mean that the embryo’s body is literally just part of the mother’s body, like a kidney or another organ, or do you mean that because the embryo is in her body she has the right to kill it?
I have asked some variation of this clarification question literally hundreds of times. At least 95% of the time the pro-choice person has had a Bodily Rights View.
If they are part of the 5% of pro-choice people that hold the Scientifically Ignorant View, graciously educate them. But if they are part of the 95% of pro-choice people that hold the Bodily Rights View, you have to respond with something other than a declaration that the unborn is human. To learn more about how to do that, see the following resources:
- Autumn in the Sovereign Zone: Why “It’s My Body, I Can Do What I Want” Won’t Do
- Bodily Rights Arguments Necessitate Extremism
- De Facto Guardian and Abortion
- Two Bad Pro-Life Responses to Bodily Rights Arguments
Some pro-choice people don’t communicate clearly, so I’ll give some pro-life people a pass for not understanding this distinction. But many pro-choice people are perfectly clear. The level of confusion pro-life people have about what pro-choice people actually believe is often a failure on their part to listen well and a failure on the part of their pro-life friends to educate them and clarify this misunderstanding.
Make no mistake, this confusion is a full-fledged catastrophe for the pro-life movement. In order for us to end abortion, we need to actively (and graciously) educate pro-life people who don’t understand this. If we don’t, then many pro-choice people will never hear a good response to their Bodily Rights View, and the well-meaning, ignorant, unintentionally obnoxious pro-life people will continue to drive them away.
When one of your well-meaning pro-life friends shares a meme like the one above, take a few minutes to explain why they are misunderstanding the pro-choice position, or at least take a few seconds and share this post with them.
Please tweet this article!
- Tweet: Fellow Pro-Lifers: Please Stop Sharing This Straw Man Meme
- Tweet: Shouting that the unborn is a human being does nothing to respond to the Bodily Rights View.
- Tweet: Make no mistake, this confusion is a full-fledged catastrophe for the pro-life movement.
- Tweet: In order for us to end abortion, we need to actively educate pro-life people who don’t understand this.
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Composite materials are gaining widespread use in aerospace, automotive, wind energy and other industries because of their high strength-to-weight ratio. However, composite structures are highly prone to impact damage. Very often, the presence and extent of the damage is hidden from view, and it can grow without being noticed, eventually leading to catastrophic failure of the structure. The susceptibility of composites to damage from impacts has raised safety and reliability concerns for airplanes, automobiles, rockets, wind blades, etc. Failure to detect the impact damage can lead to loss of life, loss of mission, and/or damage to flight hardware, facilities, and ground support equipment. As such, it is important to monitor the integrity of structure.
Acellent has developed a method for integrated "passive" and "active" diagnostics utilizing a distributed sensor network to: a) detect impacts and b) monitor structural changes due to impacts on composite and metal structures. The miniature sensors and actuators are integrated with the structure and used passively to detect and locate impacts on the structure. Once an impact has been detected, actuators are used to actively excite and interrogate the structure at the impact site and assess structural changes due to the impact. ROI studies conducted by Boeing show that there is a 94% cost reduction by using Acellent’s technology over traditional NDI Reduction in maintenance costs due to easy accessibility o the structure.
Health Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMs) used in helicopters are capable of acquiring and storing huge amount of data related to aircraft systems parameters, which can be useful for increasing know-how about the helicopter, leading to many benefits, such as safety improvement and indications for future design. However, it doesn’t include capabilities for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), technology which can help to reduce time and cost effort due to periodic manual inspection and scheduled maintenance. Acellent’s Active-Passive SHM system could help in monitoring health of critical parts and components, avoiding periodical manual inspections, and, in addition to HUMS data analysis, allow early damage detection and residual life prognostics, leading to the adoption of Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) policies.
In the active-passive mode shown in the attached video, the system combines the two functions for a complete analysis of the integrity of the structure. The sensor information gathered by the active-passive system is transmitted wirelessly to a centralized hub containing the diagnostic algorithms to determine if the parts need more detailed inspection or repair. Prognostics and decision support algorithms can be located either on-board or off-board to provide an assessment of the integrity of the structural components. The picture below gives an illustration of the process in the case of an external impact made on a helicopter.
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All Day Pass
One Way Trip
Water Taxi Miami
The only original Water Taxi Shuttle service in Miami and Miami Beach-South Beach. With 6 Hop-On Hop-Off locations.
Enjoy a trip departing from Bayside Marketplace every 90 minutes and in the weekend after 2pm every 45 minutes to Sea-Isle Marina where you find the Marriott, Grand Hotel and Hilton Hotel, besides hotels you find great restaurants like authentic Chinese, Seafood, Italian, Steakhouse or Deli
The Water Taxi Miami Shuttle continues its journey passing the Venetian Causeways, Monument Island, Hibiscus Island and Star-Island while the crew highlights some of the main point of interest along the way heading to Miami Beach/South Beach Marina.
Arriving on the Beach you can walk, bike, drive or take the FREE Trolley to Ocean Drive, South-Beach, The Pier, Lincoln Road or the Beaches. When you follow the marinas boardwalk passing Monty’s and Texas de Brazil restaurants on your left walking South/East to the inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, which is also the beginning of the Beaches from the entire Florida coast line. Or go to Ocean Drive, Collins Avenue, Washington Avenue or Lincoln Rd.
While the Water Taxi shuttles on it’s route passing Fisher Island, Port of Miami and the Virginia Key Causeway into the Miami River arriving first at American Social located underneath Neo Vertika condominiums. About 1 block away houses the newest open air mall where you will find Retail shops, Restaurants, Entertainment and Offices with a total construction cost of 1 billion dollars “Merry Brickell City Center” with anchor tenants like Saks 5th Avenue, Zara, Louis Vuitton, Bally a table service cinema to much to mention. Behind Merry Brickell City Center you will find Merry Brickell where locals hang out and you also find Shops, Restaurants, Bars and Entertainment.
Our Hyatt Convention Center Hotel stop #5 is our Brickell and hotel pick up and drop off location.
Bayfront Park Pick up location is Central located right behind Big Bus. This station is steps away from our main Bayside Marketplace station.
Just take the Water Taxi Shuttle to or from the Beach or just cruise around Biscayne Bay.
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The electrifying true crime story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children, murders he vehemently denies committing…
Bestselling author Joe McGinniss chronicles every aspect of this horrifying and intricate crime and probes the life and psyche of the magnetic, all-American Jeffrey MacDonald—a golden boy who seemed destined to have it all. The result is a penetration to the heart of darkness that enshrouded one of the most complex criminal cases ever to capture the attention of the American public. It is a haunting, stunningly suspenseful work that no reader will be able to forget.
Includes photographs and a Special Epilogue by the author
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❉ Former Soup Dragon HiFi Sean has assembled an all-star cast for new long player “Ft”, reviewed by We Are Cult’s Ange Chan.
The long-awaited album by ex-Soup Dragon turned international superstar DJ HiFi Sean called “Ft” is a veritable ‘Who’s Who’ of classic talent. From dance-floor groovers to chilled vibes, it’s all killer, no filler.
The opening track features Crystal Waters, a house music singer and songwriter best known for her 1990s dance hits Gypsy Woman and 100% Pure Love. It’s the ideal opening track for the album, giving a funky vibe which can’t fail to make you shake your tush, and features an insanely catchy hook.
The next couple of tracks take the funkometer down a notch or two and features Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake, the inimitable Yoko Ono, and William Earl ‘Bootsy’ Collins, who rose to prominence with James Brown in the early 1970s, and later with Parliament-Funkadelic.
The album progresses seamlessly to the tushie-shaking funkmeister himself, Mr David McAlmont with Like Josephine Baker, a track which can’t fail to have you grooving like the song’s namesake!
The dance floor fillers continue with Paris Grey’s Lost Without You, and then turning the funkability up to 11 with Ultratheque which has the unmistakable vibes of both The Grid and Soft Cell’s dance floor classic Memorabilia, which is unsurprising, as the legend that is Dave Ball features in this track. This track was written as a tribute to Glasgow’s first laser disco, and was available as the first released single from Ft.
Don’t sit down just yet because Truck featuring the legendary vocals of Fred Schneider of The B52’s fame will satisfy your need for an eminently danceable disco track.
Back to a more relaxed vibe, to catch your breath, is a track by Nu Jazz Lounge singer Jean Honeymoon, before the techno beat is ramped up again to the gorgeous Little Annie’s Just Another Song. The charming Jazz chanteuse is pure New York and is an amazing woman of many many talents including singer, songwriter, painter, poet, writer, performing and recording artist, pastor and stage actor. This track is most definitely not just another song and the trip hop melodies over rubbed with Annie’s unmistakeable husky voice will stay with you for a long time.
The impressive line up continues with über-cool, disco diva extraordinaire Billie Ray Martin’s Heavy Game, a funky groove which fits right in.
Heartbreak House featuring Scarlett Fantastic’s Maggie K de Monde which is a dub-base departure from her usual style, however the change in direction isn’t unnatural and proves her depth of range as a highly adaptable and accomplished artiste.
The album finishes all to soon with the poignant A Kiss before Dying by Soft Cell-influenced, electronic-protopunk Suicide’s Alan Vega who sadly passed away just two months prior to this album’s release, on 16 July this year. This track was the last thing Alan recorded so it’s right and fitting that his wish for the track to be included, is here.
It’s a lamentable song which is like a musical kiss before an eternal goodbye. Extremely moving.
All-in-all this ageless album will be played on repeat for a very long time. It will move you. It will groove you and you’ll lose yourself in its gorgeousness for many fun-filled nights and days to come. It’s if it’s time yet also a classic album in the making. Bravo HiFi and all who’ve been involved in this amazing release.
❉ ‘Ft.’ is available on double vinyl, CD and digital formats from iTunes and all usual retailers of fine music.
❉ Ange Chan is a poet and novelist. Her fourth poetry collection, ‘FAME; What’s Your Name?’ was published in paperback and on Kindle earlier this year, and her second novel, ‘Baby Can You Hear Me?’ was published this August in paperback and on Kindle. | <urn:uuid:125a98b0-06d7-42a4-aeee-dffa41a68c6e> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | http://wearecult.rocks/hifi-sean-ft-album-review | 2019-06-26T20:45:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560628000545.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20190626194744-20190626220744-00432.warc.gz | en | 0.93706 | 930 | [
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8455 Lotticks Corner Road SE
Elizabeth, IN 47117
Antiques and Collectibles
1:00PM – 3:00PM
3:00PM – 4:00PM
Remainder of Auction Antiques, Household & Holiday Decor
4:00PM — End of Auction
Selling live on site just 5 miles North of Elizabeth the lifetime collection of Robin and Shannon Schoen including antique furniture, country store items, quilts, advertisement, stoneware, holiday decor, Longaberger baskets and more.
Frank Lloyd Wright style oak dining table with extra leaf and (6) chairs, 1800’s drop leaf table, oak plant stand, oak lowboy dresser, primitive painted open stepback cupboard, turn of the century masonic altar and ornate chair from Madison, IN, mission oak pedestal with door, antique plant stand, (4) primitive stand tables, outstanding highback victorian doll bed, Singer treadle sewing machine with cast iron base, victorian rocking chair, spinning wheel, victorian fainting couch, 1920’s partners desk, (2) victorian high back beds, 4-piece pine bedroom suite, modern entertainment center, modern zebra print chair, book shelf and modern upholstered couch.
ANTIQUES, ADVERTISING & COLLECTIBLES
(5) Hand stitched quilts, featherweight Singer sewing machine with case and attachments, (2) Clark’s O.N.T two drawer spool cabinets, 4’ tabletop oak showcase, wooden dough bowl, primitive cloth rocking horse, large selection of framed needlework phrases, 15-gallon Red Wing stone crock, stoneware drink dispenser, blue and white stone dough bowls and pitchers, Poosh-M-Up Jr. game, antique pipe wrenches, Enterprise lard press, cast iron meat grinders, apple peeler, Griswold waffle iron, retro kitchenware, pulleys, IH cadet, metal gas cans, brass horn, Reynolds Aluminum thermometer, porcelain “Danger” signs, “No Smoking” sign, gas station pump sign, Jerry B Rhodes Kalamazoo oil bottle with funnel, Bull Meat Brand barrel top, Hot Wheel collectors carrying case, dozens of cookie cutters, cat cookie jars, vintage paper mache holiday decorations including Halloween and Easter, cast iron cat bank and doorstop, rolling pins, pink and green depression glass, carnival glass, art deco red and white milk glass canister set, large selection of children’s books, comic books, large selection of leather bound books, Coca Cola tray, binoculars with leather carrying case, dozens of travel postcards, George Washington postcards, holiday postcards, Hull pottery vase, fishing tackle, galvanized minnow buckets, (10+) frog giggers, wicker fishing creel, hand painted china fish platter with (5) plates, coffee grinder, oil lamps, (10+) Longaberger baskets, dolls, galvanized wash tubs, cross cut saw, several framed prints, ornate mirrors and more.
HOUSEHOLD & COLLECTIBLES
Red Kitchenaid mixer with attachments, large selection of modern holiday decor including life size Halloween figures, large halloween lamps, dozens of Department 56 Christmas and halloween pieces and more.
SELLER Robin and Shannon Schoen
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March has been a weird month! The BIG news that I talked about in my previous posts happened in terms of the threat of war between Russia and the US. This may not seem like BIG news, but it is and has set part of the tone for 2014 and beyond! Things are coming to a head and truths are being revealed daily if you look close enough.
Many of us feel like ‘something is going to happen’ or just have an anxious feeling inside that we just can’t explain! It feels like we are waiting for the action to start! If you are feeling like things have just stopped moving or you are not sure what direction to go in next, don’t panic as this is the case for most of us at this time! I have been going through this with where I need to be next in terms of countries!
As most of you know, Luke & I are still travelling and we have been since last August! Spirit have been guiding us as to where we should go and when, but this information seems to have stopped at the moment! Neither of us have been shown where we should go next and we both feel that we should only stay where we are for the next couple of weeks, so this makes me feel a little anxious! I know we need to go to another country, but I am still not being guided as to where. I have learnt that I am either not ready to hear this yet or other things need to happen before I get the next bit of information. I am still learning to not stress about planning everything, one of the things I need to completely release! I will know what to do when the time is right!! So if you are worrying that nothing is coming to you about what to do next, then relax, let this thought go and focus on today instead! I know this is hard as I have to remind myself to do this a lot too, but it is helping us to get mentally prepared for not being prepared!!!!
The energy of March has been jumping around all over the place, hence why we all feel like we are taking GIANT leaps forward yet at the same time feeling like we have taken 5 steps back! I have been reading a lot of energy updates about how the energy is going to change and turn into something wonderful once we have passed the Equinox, but we are now passed that date and I feel the energy around us has actually got heavier! We have to remember that we have taken great strides already this year, but there is so much more to come!!
I have received information that I am being guided to share during this energy update as it is important to our health!
We are currently experiencing bouts of heavy rain all around the Earth. It isn’t dramatic in the sense of floods or major storms, but some of this rain and I stress the word ‘some’ is not good for us to be out in. Some of these rainstorms contain heavy metals and other irritants that may be harmful to our health. It feels like what is in the chemtrails, but slightly different. So please take out an umbrella with you or find shelter if the rain is coming down very hard! Ask YOURSELF if the rain is safe where you are. If you get a good feeling or a yes, then all is good, if not, then check with yourself what you should do. This isn’t meant to scare anyone as most of you reading this are well aware of chemtrails! This is the same thing, just in the rain!
As more of us are awakening, the harder others will make it for all of us to continue our growth! We need to look inside ourselves and see, feel and hear the truth of what is going on around us! Remember my post on Channeled disinformation?! Read as much as possible to help you discern what is truth or disinformation. It is hard because much of the information out there contains a lot of truth as well as lies. We just have to learn how to see through it. The way I have learnt is to read everything, the good, bad and the ugly and see how it feels! Don’t shy away from channeled posts that you don’t think are good, read them and actually notice how they make you feel. Then when you read something that may contain a lot of truth, the disinformation will stand out because YOU will FEEL it!
The rest of March will be a bit up and down and we may need to rest more than we want to. Instead of getting frustrated that you are not doing things quickly enough, pause and listen to what your mind and body need at this time! I still have to do this to, like today I was getting a bit stressed with how much work I had to do, but instead of doing it feeling frustrated I lay down and gave myself healing for 30mins! I felt so much better afterwards and everything became more enjoyable! 30mins is nothing really when you think about it, so if YOU need time out take it! Everyone will thank you for it as you will be much nicer to be around plus you will feel better! Everything can wait as time is just an illusion right?!
April will be a testing and challenging month as we move into a new energetic space. Will it be light and wonderful like everyone says?? I get that at times, yes this will be the case as the gateways will be flung open when possible and we receive some amazing energy downloads. However, April also feels like quite a chaotic month in a number of ways, which is not just to do with the energy of the planet. So watch out if you feel stressed, remember to breathe through the frustration and the density of certain situations as your words and actions will have more power than you realise this month!
Until next time, have a blissful week
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Paula Dean has diabetes! Of course, you have to have been living in a cave to not have already heard this news! First, we’d like to offer our sincere apologies to Mrs. Dean for her recent diagnosis. Type II Diabetes is a disease that would be tough to live with. And, if left ignored, can have a huge impact on the expected lifespan of the person diagnosed. So, our thoughts go out to Paula and her family while they adapt to the changes required in her life to treat her disease.
However, the true topic of controversy here is that Paula has announced that she has no desire to change her cooking and eating habits to accommodate her newly diagnosed disease. Instead, she is turning to medication to treat it. Although modern medicine provides great opportunities to treat sicknesses in our society, we believe that the best way to treat Type II Diabetes is through a combination of diet, exercise and medication when necessary. And, although claims have been made that her diabetes is hereditary, Type II Diabetes is primarily caused by poor eating habits like choosing foods that are high in fat, sugar and calories. Rather than fresh fruits, vegetables, lean proteins and foods that are low in carbohydrates and fatty oils, which we all know are used heavily in Paula’s most famous recipes.
Here are some shocking statistics! Approximately 26 Million Americans are currently living with some form of diabetes. And, approximately 58% of them are treating their disease with oral medication. The total cost for Diabetes Management is estimated at $174 billion, yes that’s BILLION, each year! It’s important to note here that we acknowledge there are times when medication is necessary to treat diabetes. However, using it as a blanket treatment for diabetes is very expensive for the patient, and isn’t always necessary in order to treat it appropriately. This is why diabetes education is so important!
I’m not sure if you know this, but NCES offers a wide range of diabetes education products to help patients who have been diagnosed with diabetes. We also carry a number of products designed to help the diabetes educator teach their patients about the disease. Check them out today, and be sure to share them with your friends too. Diabetes is the most commonly diagnosed health-related illness in our society. Let’s turn this trend around! Plus, you never know… maybe if we share this enough, Paula Dean herself could get wind of these great tools and incorporate them in to her daily life!
Do you struggle with portion control? I know this sounds like the intro to 90% of Dr. Oz’s TV shows. But, it’s an honest question. Why? Because the truth is that most of us do struggle with it. We live in a society where food tastes so good that we just want to eat more and more. Eating a small handful of snack crackers is no longer enough. We only feel satisfied if we down at least half of the box! Let me tell you this… if you feel this way, you are not alone! That is why portion control has become such an important topic in nutrition. It’s not enough to solely focus on nutritious foods, although it is still important, you also need to remember portion control.
There are many products out there advertising that they can help with portion control. However, we have found a few that we think are more helpful than others, which is why we carry them in our catalog. Yum Yum Bowls are perfect for any snack. These perfectly portioned bowls conveniently tell you when ‘Yum Yum Time is Over’, ensuring that you will only eat a proper portion of your favorite snack. Yum Yum Plates are very similarly designed. At 9”, they are the perfect size for anyone who wants to eat correct portions. Each plate is sectioned and labeled for Protein, Carbs and Veggies to help you with portion control. And, of course they are all microwave and dishwasher safe! As if all this wasn’t enough motivation to order right now, both Yum Yum products are currently 20% off on the NCES website. Simply enter code Yum6 at checkout to receive your discount!
We’re also big fans of our Right-Sized portion plates. With two different designs, one focused on kids and one on adults, these plates are sure to fit everyone’s portion control needs. The size of the average plate has grown wildly out of control. This 9” plate demonstrates the plate size that we should be basing our portions off of. It also demonstrates how to fill our plate using each of the food groups as recommended by the USDA’s MyPlate and 2010 Dietary Guidelines.
The bottom line is that portion control is not something you can ignore! It is something that every adult needs to understand, not only to become healthier, but also to be a positive example for our kids! We learn eating habits based on what we see those around us doing. Why not take advantage of these exclusive savings to kick off your commitment to portion control?
Okay, last week, we talked about ways to avoid the gym altogether during this extremely busy month! But, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that a majority of you probably didn’t listen. Or, maybe you did. But, if you get brave, you may end up going back a little before the rush actually ends. So, we’ve put together a few more ideas to make your life easier! Picture this… You pull in to the parking lot at the gym, drive around looking for a parking spot, only to realize that there are no parking spots available. What are you going to do? You don’t want to waste valuable workout time sitting in your car waiting for a spot. So, why wait? Start your workout right in your car! Here are a few ideas to get your workout started in the comfort of your own car.
- The easiest exercises for the car include squeezing and releasing your muscles, also known as isometric contractions. So, pick any muscle of your choice and begin squeezing and releasing.
- Exercise/ Relax your Shoulders. Doing shoulder shrugs will engage your shoulder muscles, while relieving tension from your hectic day. Lift your shoulders up towards your ears and hold for about 10 seconds. Then, release and repeat.
- Similar to our first exercise, isometric contractions; you can also try placing a sweater (or other soft item from your car) between your thighs while you squeeze. This will increase the difficulty of the workout.
All too often, it is hard to find time to fit exercise in to your routine. So, the last thing you need is to be forced to waste time sitting in the parking lot. The key to fitting exercise in to a busy schedule is to get creative! Find ways to workout in your office, while cooking dinner, cleaning your house and even playing with your kids! Make exercise a part of your everyday routine. Not only will you see the difference in your body, you’ll also be setting a positive example for your kids! How do you fit exercise in to your everyday schedule? We always love learning about how you live healthy! Share with us here on the blog. Or, connect with us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
What’s your New Year’s Resolution for 2012? Mine is to make the gym part of my daily routine! Wait… You’re Kidding… that’s yours too? Okay, let’s face it… the most common new year’s resolution is to hit the gym more often. If you’ve ever been to the gym in the month of January, you’ll know exactly what I am talking about. At times, I forget if I am waiting in line for a weight machine or the newest attraction at Six Flags! So, how can you keep your commitment to your New Year’s resolution, but not waste your entire evening at the gym? Just stay home! That’s right… stay away from the gym. The truth is, you can get creative and complete your entire workout at home, at least until the gym starts to clear out again at the end of the month. Here are just a few ways you can get started today!
Static Running (Medium Difficulty)
- Stand tall with feet shoulder-width apart
- Lift one leg toward the chest and raise the opposite arm, mimicking a running action
- Alternate legs and arms Repeat 20 times
Squat (Medium Difficulty)
- Stand with feet shoulder-width apart and arms crossed on your chest
- Keeping the back straight and looking forward, bend the legs 90°
- Return to the start position Repeat 20 times
Oyster (Medium Difficulty)
- Lie on your left side with your lower arm extended above your head; keep the legs together, bent at 45°, making a straight line from shoulders to hips to feet.
- Life the upper knees as high as possible, keeping the lower leg on the floor.
- Return to the start position. Repeat 20 times
- Turn over and repeat with the opposite leg.
Side Raise (Medium Difficulty)
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- Without collapsing the arm, lift the hip to the ceiling, keeping your knees on the floor and making a straight line from shoulder to hip to ankle; hold for 10 seconds. Return to start position and repeat 3 times
- Roll over and repeat for the left hip
- Standing upright and looking forward, extend both arms above your head
- Without bending forward or backward, lean to one side
- Hold for 20 to 30 seconds
- Return to the start position Repeat for the other side
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MUNCAR, Indonesia ― You smell the beach here before you see it. The stench of decay hits you at around 100 yards.
A layer of plastic trash several feet thick covers the black sand. Millions of moldy diapers, ratty shopping bags, sauce and sugar packets, degrading detergent bottles, old shoes and toys clump together at the water’s edge.
In March, when HuffPost visited, the beach wasn’t even at its worst. Seasonal rains had washed much of the debris carpet out to sea, said Khoirul Anam, head of the town’s association of fishermen. “The plastic is so deep it makes the sea shallow,” he added.
This beach in Muncar, an otherwise picturesque fishing town in the East Java province, is a garbage hotspot. Muncar sits at the mouths of four rivers, which carry waste from dozens of small towns, villages and factories to the sea. Thousands of tons of plastic flow out from the port each year, mixing with yet more industrial and household trash that washes over from the neighboring island of Bali.
The trash problem here is getting worse, despite recent cleanup efforts by the community and an influx of foreign money. Similar scenarios are playing out across Indonesia, a country that has become emblematic of the world’s addiction to disposable plastic goods.
Muncar, home to 134,000 people, is just one of many towns in the country that have failed to cope with its plastic garbage in the last decade. Muncar’s streets look clean but its rivers and canals are clogged. As Indonesia’s economy has grown, plastic packaging has become ubiquitous. Rudimentary collection systems have been overwhelmed and most people carry on disposing of their trash the way they have always done ― by throwing it straight into rivers.
While this may seem like a local problem, there are bigger forces at work. Some of the items found on Muncar’s beaches are made by Indonesian companies; but a high percentage of the plastics dumped here are branded by giant food and drink corporations like Nestle, Unilever and Coca Cola.
Plastic trash, most of which doesn’t biodegrade, can hang around in the environment for decades or more, breaking into ever-smaller pieces. It has been found to choke wildlife and can potentially carry diseases; it also gets into the food chain as fish and other animals eat it and then become meals for bigger predators.
Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country, with nearly 260 million people, is second only to China for dumping plastic waste, according to a 2015 study published in Science. A more recent study in Nature suggested that nearly 15 percent of all the plastic which gets into the world’s oceans from Asia comes from Indonesia, and much of that from the island of Java.
The heat is now on Indonesia to clean up its act, and there are signs of change. The embarrassed central government has pledged $1 billion a year to reduce marine debris 70 percent by 2025. International banks, conservation groups and food and drink companies are offering additional funds to help communities curb the amount of plastic reaching the sea.
Indonesia has become a laboratory of social and technological ideas about how to reduce plastic waste. Cities which are running out of space for landfill dumps are setting up “banks” for people to bring recyclable plastics. Mass beach clean-ups led by youth are now common, and awareness of the problem is growing.
But the tide of plastic is still rising, with no sign of turning.
Small Towns Are Struggling
Muncar’s mayor, Lukman Hakim, wasn’t prepared for the rubbish crisis when he was appointed to the fishing port in 2016.
“I was horrified,” he told HuffPost. “The plastic affects everybody. It hurts the economy as well as people’s health, and it adds to flooding because it blocks the drains. The fish catch is declining because the plastic sits on the feeding ground of the fish. It interferes with the propellers of the fishing boats.”
In the days before plastic, it made perfect sense for people to rely on flowing water to remove their trash, according to Husnul Chotimah, head of the local government’s Environment Agency in the regional capital of Banyuwangi, near Muncar.
“They only generated small amounts of mainly organic waste, which they habitually threw into a river,” she told HuffPost. “That has changed. Towns like Muncar do not have the money and are not equipped to collect and process the huge quantities of plastic waste now being generated.”
The regional government doesn’t have the money to keep up with the scale of the problem either, said Chotimah.
“There are 1.75 million people in this region of the country,” she told HuffPost, and her agency’s budget for waste collection and treatment is only $1 million.
“It’s not enough,” she laments. “The problem is now very serious. We have 108 miles of coast to protect.”
Mayor Hakim doesn’t just want a quick beach clean-up so much as a complete change in attitude and culture.
“We need education and awareness,” he said. “We need a collection system and infrastructure to process the waste. We need barriers across the rivers to stop the waste going out to sea.”
Hakim also sees an opportunity to limit the amount of nonessential plastic available. Plastics, of course, are necessary in certain economic sectors, such as health care services, but there are many examples of excessive packaging on display in shops and restaurants. Manufacturers deserve a large portion of the blame for this, Hakim told HuffPost. He added that the national government needs to take the problem more seriously and clamp down.
“We need government to legislate to ban plastic bags and make the producers of the plastic more responsible,” said Hakim.
Bali, an international tourist destination, already has a ban on plastic bags, as does the city of Bogor, near Jakarta.
“We are optimistic that we can clean up the town,” Hakim said of Muncar. “But we need help.”
For now, help has come from Project STOP, a $15 million joint initiative of European investment company Systemiq working with global plastic, food and oil industry partners Borealis, Borouge, Nestle, the Indonesian authorities and others. Their aim is to find a series of long-term, profitable solutions to prevent Indonesian plastic waste getting into the sea.
HuffPost followed the “Warriors of Waste,” a group of cheerful young Muncar women employed by STOP to go from house to house in the narrow back streets of the town picking up household waste. The Warriors earn a few dollars a day for their efforts.
They can’t charge much because households have little money to contribute. But they make a clear impression on the locals they reach.
“Yes, I used to throw my rubbish into the river. Everyone did,” said Ti Ama, a Muncar resident who now pays for her waste to be collected. “The new system is better. The streets are cleaner. I prefer it, but I can’t pay more than $1 a month.”
Project STOP has been in Muncar a year, employs nearly 100 people, educates children and collects and sorts 11 tons of both organic and inorganic waste a day from 9,000 of the town’s 40,000 households.
It’s a start.
STOP has also set up a fly breeding factory, where millions of black soldier flies feed on the organic waste the group collects. The flies become cheap fish food for the town’s 60 small fish farms, and the money earned should make up for losses incurred in collecting the waste and paying for machinery to separate it.
“We are on track to collect 100 percent of the town’s waste by April 2020,” said Joi Danielson, a McKinsey-trained waste analyst from Portland, Oregon, working with Project STOP. “That should prevent more than 10,000 tons of plastic from leaking to the ocean over five years.”
STOP is investing over $2 million just to clean up Muncar. Despite that amount being more money than most Indonesian towns could match, it won’t block plastic flowing from upriver, unless other towns adopt similar waste-collection models.
Big Cities Are Overwhelmed Too
Cities present a similar set of challenges on a vast scale.
The amount of trash generated by a town the size of Muncar is puny when compared to Indonesia’s booming urban centers.
Cities have more money for waste collection, but they can barely keep up with the tidal wave of consumer goods, said Eri Cahyadi, head of planning and development in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city. Located just 135 miles northwest of Muncar, Surabaya is home to over 2.5 million people, generating over 1,600 tonnes of waste a day.
“We have a real problem,” Cahyadi told HuffPost. “No one wants to separate their plastic and recyclables and everyone wants cheaper and cheaper goods. There is no culture of recycling.”
Surabaya has a rudimentary garbage collection system but there’s little separation of plastic from the general garbage, and much is still burned in the street or dumped into rivers. No one goes door to door winning hearts and minds in a place this size, the way the Warriors of Waste do in Muncar.
So officials in Surabaya are getting creative.
This is the only place in the world where people can pay for bus rides by presenting plastic bottles to the driver, said Cahyadi. The scheme collects 3 tons of plastic a day. The government is planning a similar program so parents can pay for school fees with bottles.
The city has also built river barriers to catch waste heading to the sea. Cahyadi said they’re stopping 220 tons of plastic a day, but he’s realistic about the larger factors preventing bigger wins.
“We have no power over the companies and we can’t stop plastic coming,” he said. “Only central government can do this.”
Like other big cities, Surabaya has set up small-scale neighborhood “waste banks” for people to drop off sorted plastic for recycling by local volunteers. The banks pay a small amount of money for recyclable plastic. Surabaya hopes to have 1,000 of these banks collecting 300 tons a month by 2020.
But many waste banks are barely used, said Eddy Sudarwanto, who volunteers weekly at one in the Gading Fajar area of town. His bank is faring better than most.
“We have 50 households registered, and more people come every month,” he noted. “When we started, we met a lot of resistance from local people. They said it was dirty and smelly. Now they are OK. The challenge is to get people to separate their waste. Not all communities are willing.”
Foreign Waste Gets Dumped
For every initiative that a city like Surabaya introduces to tackle plastic waste, more trash piles up elsewhere.
The World Bank expects the country’s waste to grow 76 percent in the next 10 years. And since China stopped importing much of the world’s scrap plastic for recycling, shipments of plastic to Indonesia have increased by nearly half.
Every day, containers with waste plastic and paper from the U.S. and Europe arrive in the city’s port, said Cahyadi. A HuffPost investigation earlier this year found that the same thing is happening across Southeast Asia, with damaging effects on local populations and ecosystems.
Vast amounts of the plastic trash shipped abroad is said to be too low-quality or contaminated for recycling, meaning it likely gets sent to landfills, or is burned or dumped illegally. U.S. and European companies may also be exporting trash that they know to be unusable, simply because it’s easy and cheap to do so, alleges Prigi Arisandi, an Indonesian biologist whose work fighting industrial pollution in rivers earned him the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, known as a “green Oscar.” These companies, he says, stash items like diapers and shoes into bales of paper, to hide them from customs agents.
“We are finding plastic from the U.S.A. and Canada, the U.K. and Ireland, and Australia and New Zealand,” Arisandi said.
“The paper industry then sells the scrap plastic to communities who dump it in landfills or straight into the River Brantas.” This river, one of the most polluted in the world, is a water source for 6 million East Java residents, he added, noting that 80 percent of the fish he and his team have tested from the Brantas River had tiny particles of plastic inside them.
Landfills Are Overflowing
The 2015 Science journal report estimated that nearly half the 3.2 million tons of plastic Indonesia produces every year ends up in the ocean. Of the rest, around 70% goes to massive, unsanitary landfill sites, and just 2-7% is recycled. But the country is approaching a tipping point: Major dumps are too full.
“All the big cities like Jakarta, Bandung, Denpassar, Medan and Semarang are running out of landfill space,” said plastic recycler and ecologist Bhima Diyanto. “They cannot expand because of opposition from neighbors, and so the plastic waste is being burned or going straight into rivers.”
At 92 acres in size, Surabaya’s main landfill site is one of the best managed in Indonesia, but it is close to capacity.
Surabaya wants to be plastic-free by 2030, by which time it hopes to generate 10 MW of electricity a year burning plastic and other waste from a new incinerator and from collecting gas from its landfill site. That way, say the authorities, it will help solve both the landfill and plastic problems.
For now, the country relies on individuals to comb through garbage at fast-growing dumps and pull out the reusable items. Nearly 2 million people in Indonesia now live by collecting plastic and metals, according to the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers. These jobs are dirty, dangerous and low-paying, and an untold number of people do the work in an unofficial capacity, meaning authorities don’t have a clear picture of how much they collect or whether they dispose of it properly.
Eighty waste-pickers live and work on the giant Benowo dump, located between shrimp farms and rice fields outside Sidoarjo, an industrial city of 2.2 million people 20 miles from Surabaya. In just 13 years, Sidoarjo’s waste mountain has grown to over 100 acres and now needs to expand again.
Karisun, a 55-year-old waste picker, tells HuffPost that he collects over 20 pounds of plastic per day, for which he earns about $2.80.
There’s more plastic debris at the Benowo dump than ever, but because companies are making items like water bottles thinner in an effort to reduce waste, Karisun receives less cash than he used to.
“I am proud that the plastic I collect is recycled,” Karisun said. “But we must collect more to make any money.”
Local Companies Try To Compete With Foreign Giants
Diyanto, who is also a director of a waste company, has a bold plan to build a network of small recycling facilities in areas where none exist. So far, he has teamed up with an Indonesian investor to build five neighborhood sorting centers in Sidoarjo that can process even the most contaminated plastic and allow it to be recycled. He is now the biggest plastic waste handler in the city, employing over 200 people, including former waste pickers from the dumps.
“We can go to any town or village and recycle all the plastic,” Diyanto claims. “It can all be recycled except diapers, which must go to the incinerator. Our vision is for every community to have a recycling center and to sort its own waste.”
But Diyanto and local companies face stiff competition. Twenty-five of the biggest oil, plastics and chemical companies, including Dow, Shell, and Chevron, have committed $1.5 billion over the next five years to stop plastic getting into the sea, starting with Indonesia and other Asian countries.
In addition, the environmental nonprofit Ocean Conservancy has attracted money from the U.S. government and is working with the Indonesian government. Investment company Circulate Capital has raised about $90 million to combat ocean plastic, attracting corporations like Dell, Ikea, Danone, Veolia, HP, Pepsico, and Procter and Gamble. Meanwhile, Ikea and HP hope to divert at least 25,000 tons of plastic from the ocean waters around Indonesia by 2025.
Meanwhile 250 of the world’s largest food, drink and packaging companies, including Danone, H&M, Coca Cola, Carrefour, Nestle and Unilever, have signed up to the United Nations-backed New Plastics Economy initiative, which intends to increase the recycled content of their goods to an average of 25% by 2025, up from the current 2%.
“Everyone now wants Indonesian plastic,” Diyanto observed. “We are in the plastic wars. People compete with each other for our plastic.”
But, he noted, foreign investments don’t always trickle down to people like him, who actually work with the trash. “There is big money in waste. There is theoretically money available for better management, but where is it?”
Many foreign initiatives have been small-scale, and others have been dismissed by Greenpeace and other environmental groups as “greenwashing.”
“The problem is that leading brands are producing more plastic waste than recycling systems can cope with,” said Louise Edge, senior oceans campaigner for Greenpeace. “Global plastic production is set to quadruple by 2050. We need consumer brands to reduce the amount of plastic they put in circulation.”
Diyanto, for one, is not waiting around for what he calls the “plastic colonialists” to solve Indonesia’s trash problems. Instead, he’s putting his faith in local people to get the work done.
“Indonesians can solve [their] waste crisis,” he insists. “Its seas and beaches can be clean.”
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Great Places for Sports Fans that offer a little extra:
(Not including inside casinos or in Chicago, Boston or New York City)
Five listed this week, and Five more next week:
FX McRory’s – Seattle, Washington. This building dates back to 1906, and originally housed Seattle’s largest Wholesale Whisky business, conveniently located next door to “Madame Damnable’s brothel. It was then used for McKesson-Robbins drug manufacturing from 1929 to 1977, when it became FX McCrory’s.
The present day owner, and original partner won sole ownership of FX McCory’s in a coin flip off the Seattle Space Needle! The main bar features a LeRoy Neiman masterpiece of a FX McRory’s crowded bar scene, valued at $100,000.
FX McRory’s has over 1600 liquors and bartenders scamper up and down ladders retrieving bottles as part of their Mixologist skill set. Since 1977 they claim to have also expertly poured over 1,000,000 pints. It is quite a scene when the place is bustling, almost like being on a crowded vessel with crew scrambling up, down and around the room from practiced memory.
They are really a one of a kind place, and have great food on an extensive menu. Most impressive is they always seem to serve oysters from all over the world. Last time I visited I was handed an Oyster menu featuring 8 types from all over the worlds available catches, including local.
Silky O’Sullivans – Memphis, TN – Silky’s has been around in Memphis since the early 70’s, and boast that Silky’s is like S. Patricks day all year round, and they seem really happy about the situation. (not sure everyone would agree, as the lead singer for Flogging Molly once told me, while shakily holding an empty coffee cup looking for a fill, after waking up at midday: “Being in the band is like St. Patrick’s Day 3 hundred and Sixty Five F**king days a year!” He didn’t seem that happy about it, although after a shot of coffee and some Bushmills Irish Whiskey he did seem to be warming up to the task!)… But I digress…. Silky’s is currently on Beale Street (since 1992), housed in a location over 100 years old, a former saloon with poker and race horse room.
Silky was a great promoter, a gracious host, real Bar Business Royalty, and though he has moved on to the great green beer and Guinness soaked Drink Bucket sharing party in the sky, they still continue his Beale Street location tradition of having live goats in their courtyard pen with slide and Goat House, as their pets/mascots.
This is just a great place to watch sports and people watching sports, with live entertainment, ranging from Barbara Blue, an internationally acclaimed Blues Singer (she knows all the College fight songs too!) and also “Dueling Pianos”. You can dance, wiggle, scream and shout – go get a dozen oysters on the half shell, slosh it down with The Diver – a gallon of “Southern Fun” that has put more than just Sailors on their ass. Oh yeah you can watch sports on TV if you are not too distracted.
Located across the street from FEDEX Forum it is the epicenter of pre and post game celebration for sports and entertainment held there.
Steiners Pub – Las Vegas, NV (3 locations)
This place is a great stop for sports fans. Steiners features a 24 hour kitchen with really good food at reasonable prices with daily specials, Gambling – with Poker table top machines.– it is 21 & Over only – Only drawback is that it is a SMOKING establishment.
You Must try – the Wellington Lamb Chop appetizer – marinated and grilled – Awesome and is discounted at Happy Hour!
The bartenders are women that maintain a short but quick wit, seasoned with touch of sarcasm and personal experience of hoisting mugs to fill for guests and empty into themselves….
Mannings – New Orleans, LA
Manning’s is not in a Casino, but next door to Harrah’s, across an alley/courtyard, usually filled with heavy partying patrons, both being indigenous to the New Orleans bar and restaurant scene. Manning’s has great Sports Memorabilia from the family and friends careers, and quotes from all 3 brothers, including Cooper!, and Archie on the walls. They have a nice mini stadium area with tiered ledges in front of the largest TV. The main bar windows open to the patio area and it is a fun place to amble around, beverage in hand and see how the different groups of partiers are doing. Above average Cajun and Creole twist on bar food, they sure do let the good times roll at Manning’s. And then you can dip into Harrah’s usual Casino vortex. Oh yeah, if you are lucky you might see Archie when he is around town.
Alice Cooperstown – Phoenix, AZ – They say “Where Jocks and Rock meet”
Located downtown Phoenix, across from where the Phoenix Suns play and down the street from where the Diamondbacks play, it is a pretty interesting place. Unfortunately it does not have the neighborhood component that makes a lot of Sports fan hang outs great, but it does rate a visit. The sheer amount of rare and unusual Sports AND Rock N Roll memorabilia under one roof makes for great wandering around inside with a brew. There is a unique outdoor concert & stage area that is perfect for an intimate show.
They say they are a BBQ restaurant, but being from Memphis, I have a hard time taking them seriously on this account. However, the food is usually pretty good and they feature “The Big Unit” named after Randy Johnson – a One pound, 22 inch Hot Dog, served on a full baguette! Usually served with a lot of commotion from the staff and bug eyed guests.
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All the desktop computers were deployed without modification, either directly from Dell (complete with crapware galore), inherited from the county, or built by a system integrator and then equipped with Office 97 and all subsequent patches afterwards. The lone agency server (hosting the accounting and payroll systems) was running NT server on a Pentium 3 500mhz processor... with DAT tape backup (never really was sure if any of those tapes had uncorrupted data on them). The file server was an XP machine with a shared out folder. Email services were a conglomeration of personal accounts and a domain poorly and expensively hosted by Earthlink. It wasn't pretty, but it worked for them... mostly.
I can imagine that this scenario is probably more common than not for non-profits who cannot afford full-time IT staff. When I finally had a complete picture of the task before me, it was more than a little overwhelming, but I enjoy a challenge.
So where to begin? Well, I realized I needed to overhaul the desktop management process first, since that's the core component of the infrastructure here. I have since set about identifying and refining my toolset for this aspect of my job, and it's a big piece of the puzzle. My next several posts will catalog the details of my processes and the tools I use to manage the PCs here at CCARC. Below is a list of topics I will cover:
- Setting minimum hardware specs, OS requirements and creating a software "package"
- Purchasing PCs and software
- Using TechSoup.org and the Microsoft Donation Program: Don't pay full price for that OS!!!
- Dell: A consistent source of quality desktops and laptops for under $500
- Managing workstation images
- That first build: patched and up to date in one afternoon with Autopatcher!
- Minimize driver hunting with Driverpacks.net
- Batch software installs with ninite.com
- Enable remote support with Echoware and a Remote Desktop tweak
- Final custom touches with Group Policy Editor
- Wrap it all up with Acronis True Image Workstation and Universal Restore
Before I had this process nailed down, it would take me a minimum of a day and a half to build a PC with Windows XP Professional SP2 from scratch, taking into account all the updates and patches that had to be downloaded. I didn't have a lot of experience with imaging PCs but I knew there were ways to streamline the process.
These days it takes me less than an hour to go from blank hard drive to deployable, managed XP or Win7 Pro desktop. Considering that I am building about 10 PCs a month, that's 11 times faster than it would be without these techniques. When you're running the show solo, that kind of time savings is critical.
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Body: Canvas of Time is a meditation and exploration of the self marked by the ephemerality of others. Nothing is ever permanent but our bodies become a canvas of intersections and remains over time.
IPA is partnering with Singapore Heritage Society to offer 1 Grant to participate in the Singapore Photo Project Workshop happening from 15th – 18th January 2016.
We are offering 1 Scholarship Grant for the 8th Edition of the IPA Mentorship Program commencing in October 2015.
Motherhood, a most epic adventure. Somewhere only I know, by Donna Chiu was made during the IPA Mentorship Program.
UNDERPASS, by Teng Kiat was made during the IPA Mentorship Program. Welcome to the realm of the underpass.
We are offering 1 Scholarship Grant for the JULY 2015 Edition of the IPA Mentorship Program. APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, 12TH JUNE 2015.
We are offering 1 Scholarship Grant for the IPA PHOTO+ Workshop MANILA which takes place 20th – 24th April 2015. DEADLINE: TUESDAY, 17TH MARCH 2015.
The airport is a mass transit point for departures and arrivals. I found particular interest in the staging of objects in such a functional space.
Our nights always seem to be colored by things peculiar and bizarre, but this may be because we are still young.
“ Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau
We are offering one Scholarship Grant for the April ’15 Edition of the IPA Mentorship Program. APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10TH MARCH 2015.
Walking through the streets of Milan in the summer, I hear thousands of familiar voices and conversations as if I am still in Manila.
“In every parting there is an image of death”- George Elliot. If life is a process towards death, it is also a process of erasure.
Our history is full of all kinds of violence. I have a part in it too, I understand. We used to be very close.
We spotlight some new work produced by members of the IPA Workshop Alumni, each exploring their new journey in photography. River Moon is a series by Vietnamese photographer Dương Hài Cốt. | <urn:uuid:e3e157c5-5fbd-437d-9d70-68c6f0355deb> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://invisiblephotographer.asia/tag/ipa-workshops/ | 2019-06-17T17:41:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998513.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190617163111-20190617185111-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.946035 | 470 | [
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Director: James Franco
Writers: Scott Neustadter (screenplay by), Michael H. Weber (screenplay by)
Stars: James Franco, Dave Franco, Ari Graynor
When Greg Sestero (Dave Franco), an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau (James Franco) in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true.
When “The Disaster Artist” hit the cinema last month a few critics and fans alike said to get a lot of the references in this movie you would have to view Wiseau’s “The Room”. Set around the early 2000’s Sestero and Wiseau develop a relationship for their love of film and acting. Greg’s biggest problem is being comfortable performing his abilities in front of an audience. Having witnessed Tommy perform at an audition in what can only be described as “expressing” himself. Greg is in awe on how much Tommy is liberated on stage and shows no signs of fear. This is the basis of their adventure to Hollywood and the big time….or so they thought.
I haven’t watched “The Room” and to be honest it didn’t stop me enjoying this movie. I ranked this my third best film of 2017 in our Movie Burner Podcast (Episode Twelve) and over the course of this review I will explain why.
The basis for “The Disaster Artist” is working around what lead Tommy Wiseau to make what is arguably one of the worst movies ever made. I can’t comment on “The Room” but there is something magical about the experience of “The Disaster Artist” the blend of naivety, humour and characters is what entertained and intrigued me. Tommy Wiseau is such an interesting guy in the sense you don’t know what’s coming next with him.
There were a lot of questions about him in this film that have been also asked in real life. Where is that accent from? He claims it’s a New Orleans accent. Where did he find the cash to have another home in LA and finance a film that came in at $6 Million? Does it really matter? In fact no it doesn’t.
James Franco continues to surprise me with his acting abilities and some of his recent projects he has worked on. Taking the Directors chair for this movie as well as taking the lead role shows Franco’s commitment to the film and his ability to impersonate or should that be embody the essence of Wiseau is stunning. His mannerisms and timings is what keeps you focused on the character and the actor deserves a lot of praise for this and his ability to laugh at (or with) Wiseau but sympathise with him also.
Dave Franco is also terrific as Greg Sestero. I previously reviewed both “Now You See Me” films and the movie “Nerve” and if I’m totally honest, neither of these performances from Dave stood out for me. In “The Disaster Artist” it’s a different story. Although Wiseau dominates the screen it would be ignorant not to recognise Dave Franco’s presence throughout this story. There appears to be a bit of guilt put on Sestero’s shoulders by Wiseau in the final third of the film. Tommy brought Greg out of his shell, he also took him to LA to stay in his house and have a strong role in his movie that he was financing.
Dave Franco displays this well in frustration and disappointment as a chance to appear as a “lumberjack” in “Malcolm in the Middle” after a chance meeting with Bryan Cranston is thwarted by Wiseau not allowing Greg to keep his beard (job requirement for a lumberjack by all accounts) as his final scenes in “The Room” required a clean shaven Greg for his grand entrance. You could be forgiven for thinking that wasn’t the real reason Tommy put a block on this as he comes across jealous and petty at this point.
Overall “The Disaster Artist” is a terrific film, directed well by James Franco. Both brothers just slot right into their characters and although I haven’t seen “The Room” I don’t think has hindered my viewing pleasure in any way. Neither do I feel the urge to go and watch “The Room” out of curiosity as my viewing of “The Disaster Artist” was fulfilling and satisfactory. Highly Recommend. | <urn:uuid:c2d75bb8-0cc5-4b40-95f5-a76a8624a7c9> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://movieburnerentertainment.org/2018/01/05/the-disaster-artist-review/ | 2019-06-17T17:01:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998513.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190617163111-20190617185111-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.975486 | 949 | [
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Immediate Dentin Sealing (IDS)
Optimizing adhesive performance for indirect restoratives.
Protecting the pulp is of utmost concern to the restorative dentist. Esthetic and restorative excellence can take a back seat to sensitivity for any patient. Understanding the biology of sensitivity has led clinicians to look for progressive protocols that improve clinical outcomes and prevent patients’ sensitivity and pain.
Immediate dentin sealing (IDS) is the application of a dentin bonding agent to freshly cut dentin when it is exposed during tooth preparation for indirect restorations (inlays/onlays, crowns). IDS is a progressive protocol designed to address the challenges of preparation, temporization, and final cementation of indirect restorative procedures, and offers several distinct advantages.
Effectively sealing dentin and bonding to enamel is at the core of clinical success. A clean dentin surface is mandatory for optimal seal and adhesion. Freshly cut dentin is uncontaminated and clean, thus more easily capable of resin infiltration. Immediately sealing dentin protects it from contamination from bacterial leakage or remnants of temporary cements.1,2
Creating a hybrid layer that both mimics the dentino-enamel junction (DEJ) and promotes proper adaptation and adherence of the final restoration is the basis of minimal intervention dentistry. Creating a hybrid layer by precuring a dentin bonding agent before impression taking provides a significant thickness to reduce the collagen collapse that may occur during the impression taking and cementation process.3-8 Allowing the hybrid layer to mature while temporized, void of the shrinkage stresses and strain from cement polymerization, helps to create a stress-free dentin bond development.9,10
Additionally, effective sealing of dentin addresses the challenges of hydrodynamic water movement in dentinal tubules which has been shown to induce sensitivity.11 Using a layer of low-viscosity resin (liner) may help to protect the underlying hybrid layer, and will better preserve the dentin seal.12 Alternatively, a filled resin liner (low-elastic modulus liner) has also been shown to facilitate the clinical and technical aspects of IDS.13
Patient comfort with reduced postoperative sensitivity is a compelling clinical advantage. Water movement within cut tubules is the most widely accepted physiological mechanism leading to sensitivity (hydrodynamic theory).14 Effective sealing of dentin with low-viscosity polymerizable adhesive resins results in physical obturation of cut tubules.15 The authors report sealing dentin immediately after preparation has resulted in significantly less interim sensitivity by patients and, in many cases, limits the need for anesthesia at cementation.
Creating the hybrid layer before impression taking eliminates the concern about the thickness of the adhesive layer affecting the fit of the final restoration.16 Capturing the hybrid layer into the impression will eliminate the concern for gap formation and ill-fitting restorations. Upon final cementation, a single layer of bonding agent is placed and light-cured in conjunction with the resin cement, eliminating film thickness as a concern.17-19
IDS allows the clinician to address the importance of dentin sealing and desensitization during the preparation appointment, and establish a durable bond to enamel at the cementation appointment. Standardizing these protocols will lead to optimized clinical outcomes. IDS does not compromise bonding16 and helps to optimize dentin bonding in indirect restorations.13
The defective restoration on the first lower molar was removed and a rubber dam was placed (Figure 1 and Figure 2) prior to preparation for an indirect onlay restoration. After removal of the restoration and decay, the dentin was built up and undercuts were eliminated using a self-etch adhesive (All-Bond SE, Bisco, http://www.bisco.com) followed by a flowable composite (Aelite Flow A3, Bisco). The tooth was then prepared for an indirect onlay restoration (Figure 3). The dentin was conditioned using All Bond SE (A and B mixed)for 20 seconds with a gentle scrubbing motion (Figure 4). Excess solvent was evaporated using an air syringe, leaving the preparation visibly shiny. The preparation was then light-cured for 20 seconds.
All-Bond 3 Resin (filled) was applied to the preparation and light-cured for 10 seconds. It is postulated that a layer of low-viscosity resin (liner) may help to protect the underlying hybrid layer and would be better to preserve the dentin seal12 (Figure 5 and Figure 6). The enamel of the preparation was redefined and margins were re-beveled. The oxygen-inhibited layer was removed with an alcohol swab, leaving the preparation with a visible matte finish (Figure 7). The final impression was taken with a PVS impression material (Figure 8).
After the impression was taken, one to two coats of Pro-V Coat (a hydro-gel separating agent, Bisco) were applied to the entire preparation and air-dried for 10 to 15 seconds. The water-soluble Pro-V Coat allows a clinician to utilize the benefits of IDS without the risk of the provisional material bonding to the tooth structure. It also serves to protect the dentin surface from contamination and is designed to clean up easily without any residue.
A temporary restoration was created using Bisco’s Pro-V Fill, a packable composite for use in onlay restorations (Figure 9). Pro-V Fill has excellent handling and sculpting properties offering matrix-free modeling directly in the mouth (Figure 10). One coat of Biscover LV, a low-viscosity, light-cured resin liquid polish (Bisco), was applied and light-cured for 30 seconds.
The patient returned for the cementation of the final Tescera indirect composite restoration (Bisco) (Figure 11). The provisional was removed using a sharp instrument (Figure 12). The preparation was cleaned using a slurry of pumice, and the restoration was tried in for proper fit. Note the distal contact was initially too tight and required adjustment (Figure 13). Next, the enamel of the preparation was etched with 32% Uni-Etch with BAC (Bisco) for 15 seconds, rinsed, and dried (Figure 14). Equal parts of All-Bond 3 (A & B mixed) were applied to the entire preparation, air-dried, and light-cured (Figure 15). The internal surface of the onlay restoration was cleaned and prepared with one to two coats of All-Bond 3 (A & B mixed) and thoroughly air-dried and light-cured (Figure 16). The restoration was seated using Bisco’s Duo-Link dual-cured resin cement (Figure 17). Excess material was immediately removed with a rubber tip and the margin was light-cured for 3 seconds to a gel state (Figure 18). The margins and interproximal areas were cleaned and the entire restoration was light-cured for 60 seconds. Adjustments were made to the occlusal surface initially with an egg-shaped carbide bur on high dry (Figure 19). Before final polishing, the lower right second molar was restored with an occlusal composite using Aelite enamel A1 (Bisco) (Figure 20). Both restorations were then finished sequentially and polished (Figure 21).
Dr. Morgan has received honorarium from Bisco Inc.
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2.Pashley EL, Comer RW, Simpson MD, et al. Dentin permeability: sealing the dentin in crown preparations. Oper Dent. 1992;17(1):13-20.
3.Dietschi D, Herzfeld D. In vitro evaluation of marginal and internal adaptation of class II resin composite restorations after thermal and occlusal stressing. Eur J Oral Sci. 1998;106(6):1033-1042.
4.Dietschi D, Magne P, Holz J. Bonded to tooth ceramic restorations: in vitro evaluation of the efficiency and failure mode of two modern adhesives. Schweiz Monatsschr Zahnmed. 1995;105(3):299-305.
5.Frankenberger R, Sindel J Krämer N, Petschelt A. Dentin bond strength and marginal adaptation: direct composite resins vs ceramic inlays. Oper Dent. 1999;24(3):147-155.
6.Magne P, Douglas WH. Porcelain veneers: dentin bonding optimization and biomimetic recovery of the crown. Int J Prosthodont. 1999;12(2):111-121.
7.McCabe JF, Rusby S. Dentine bonding—the effect of pre-curing the bonding resin. Br Dent J. 1994;176(9):333-336.
8.Tay FR, Gwinnett AJ, Pang KM, Wei SH. Variability in microleakage observed in a total-etch wet-bonding technique under different handling conditions. J Dent Res. 1995;74(5):1168-1178.
9.Dietschi D, Monasevic M, Krejci I, Davidson C. Marginal and internal adaptation of class II restorations after immediate or delayed composite placement. J Dent. 2002;30(5-6):259-269.
10.Reis A, Rocha de Oliveira Carrilho M, Schroeder M, et al. The influence of storage time and cutting speed on microtensile bond strength. J Adhes Dent. 2004;6(1):7-11.
11. Drisko CL, et al. Dentin Hypersensitivity: Consensus-Based Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Dentin Hypersensitivity. Inside Dentistry. 2008;4(9 Special Issue).
12.Duarte RM, de Goes MF, Montes MA. Effect of time on tensile bond strength of resin cement bonded to dentine and low-viscosity composite. J Dent. 2006;34(1):52-61.
13. Magne P. Immediate dentin sealing: a fundamental procedure for indirect bonded restorations. J Esthet Restor Dent. 2005;17(3):144-155.
14. Brannstrom M. Sensitivity of dentine. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol. 1966;21(4):517-526.
15. Trowbridge HO, Silver DR. A review of current approaches to in-office management of tooth hypersensitivity. Dent Clin North Am. 1990;34(3):561-581.
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17.Paul SJ, Scharer P. Factors in dentin bonding. Part II: A review of the morphology and physiology of human dentin. J Esthet Dent. 1993;5(2):51-54.
16.Paul SJ, Scharer P. Intrapulpal pressure and thermal cycling: effect on shear bond strength of eleven modern dentin bonding agents. J Esthet Dent. 1993;5(4):179-185.
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About the Authors
Michael J. Morgan, DDS
Douglas J. Brown, DDS
Senior Manager, Clinical Affairs
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· Land Rover Chief Design Officer, Gerry McGovern honoured at Grand Prix du Design during Festival Automobile International in Paris
· Prize awarded for original Land Rover designs and brand’s influence on the car industry
· Masterpiece’ Range Rover Velar SUV singled out for praise by international jury of experts
Paris, 30 January 2018 – Gerry McGovern, Land Rover Chief Design Officer, was last night named Designer of the Year at the Festival Automobile International.
The Grand Prix du Design prize recognises McGovern’s Land Rover designs and their influence across the car industry.
The awards are decided by a 15-strong jury from the automotive industry, sport, architecture, fashion, design, culture and the media. Jury members at the Hotel National des Invalides included architect Jean Michel Wilmotte, stylist Chantal Thomas, designer Anne Asensio and Etienne Gernelle, President and CEO of Le Point magazine.
Rémi Depoix, President of the Festival Automobile International, said: “Gerry McGovern has been recognised by the jury of the 33rd Festival Automobile International of Paris for his astonishing masterpiece, the Range Rover Velar, and for his whole career.
“One of his remarkable achievements is to adapt Land Rover’s DNA, a transformation that began with the Range Rover Evoque. The British automotive industry has been reinvented in Gerry’s vision and Land Rover is an incredible success story. Congratulations to him and his team.”
Gerry McGovern, Chief Design Officer, Land Rover, said: “It’s an incredibly rewarding time to be a designer in the automotive industry and to be recognised by a jury from a wide variety of design disciplines shows the importance of design in all our lives.
“My team has worked tirelessly to create the most desirable vehicles that our customers will love for life – vehicles that resonate with our customers on an emotional level.”
The all-new Velar, the fourth member of the Range Rover family, fills the space between the Range Rover Evoque and Range Rover Sport.
Jaguar Land Rover has announced that from 2020 all new vehicles will be electrified. A new plug-in hybrid powertrain for the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport is available now. | <urn:uuid:9e936c68-5a93-4e92-beab-6c41c1594607> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.landrover.in/experiences/news/gerry-mcgovern.html | 2019-06-17T17:50:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998513.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190617163111-20190617185111-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.933936 | 475 | [
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- Energy1722kJ 407kcal
of the reference intake*
Typical values per 100g: Energy 675kJ / 160kcal
- Fresh egg pasta.
- Made in Italy Made with durum wheat and fresh egg, expertly shaped to hold sauce All our pasta is made by a family run business in Italy with their passion, care and knowledge passed down over four generations.
- Made in Italy Made with durum wheat and fresh egg, expertly shaped to hold sauce
- Pack size: 300g
Durum Wheat Semolina, Pasteurised Egg (20%).
- May contain soya. For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold.
Suitable for home freezing. Ideally freeze as soon as possible after purchase but always by 'use by' date shown. Once defrosted use on the same day and do not refreeze. Keep refrigerated. Once opened, consume within 2 days and by 'use by' date shown.
Instructions: From chilled: 3 mins / from frozen: 4 mins
Bring a large pan of water to the boil.
Add the pasta and simmer for 3 minutes (from chilled) / 4 minutes (from frozen).
Drain and serve immediately.
Produced in Italy
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- Welwyn Garden City AL7 1GA,
|Typical Values||Per 100g||1/2 of a pack (225g**)|
|Energy||675kJ / 160kcal||1722kJ / 407kcal|
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USA Basketball announces roster for FIBA Americas U16 Championship
Poffenbarger, a 6-foot-2 guard at Middletown (Maryland), and Kiki Rice, a 5-foot-11 point guard at Sidwell Friends School (Washington, D.C.), are two of the 12 players chosen by USA Basketball to compete at the 2019 FIBA Americas U16 Championship that will be played June 16-22 in Puerto Aysen, Chile. Both Poffenbarger and Rice play AAU ball for the Fairfax Stars.
The roster was announced Thursday night after 18 finalists competed in a four-day training camp at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
"We have a lot of height, a lot of athleticism, everybody is unselfish," coach Mark Campbell said. "This is the most unselfish group of people I have been around that are great basketball players. I think they really have bought into the fact that it is not about them and it is about the USA." | <urn:uuid:eadc5620-5b62-4c80-8c6d-333cfd44d5e0> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article/26863111/usa-basketball-announces-roster-fiba-americas-u16-championship | 2019-06-24T14:53:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999539.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20190624130856-20190624152856-00552.warc.gz | en | 0.973211 | 212 | [
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Electric Vehicle Rate
The Electric Vehicle rate is ideal for Consumer-members who own an electric vehicle (EV) and want to save money by adjusting when they use energy. You'll pay for a lower rate for electricity during certain times of the day. This rate is suited for EV owners who recharge their vehicles overnight. Proof of EV ownership is required to be eligible for this rate. To sign-up, call 800.342.3616.
Basic Monthly Service Charge $30.00 (as of Apr. 1, 2019)
This charge covers what it costs to bring energy to your home, provide offices, metering personnel, member services representatives to assist you, and billing services.
kWh* Charges: (As of Apr. 1, 2019)
- Super Off-peak: 0.05 Cents per kWh between the hours of 12 a.m. and 6 a.m. daily
- Off-peak: 0.955 Cents per kWh between the hours of 6 a.m. and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and 12 a.m. daily
- On-peak: 0.1706 Cents per kWh between the hours of 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. daily
*A kilowatt-hour (kWh) is a measurement of electricity. One kWh runs a 100-watt light bulb for 10 hours.
All Rates are subject to the addition of the Wholesale Power Cost Adjustment.
Wholesale Power Cost Adjustment
The amount calculated at the above rate will be adjusted to compensate for the changes in Flint Electric Membership Corporation’s cost of wholesale power under the provisions of the Wholesale Power Cost Adjustment Rider, Schedule WPCA.
Other costs you may find on your bill include the following: City Franchise Taxes, Georgia Sales Tax, City/County Sales Taxes, Special Purpose Local Option Sales Taxes (SPLOST). Flint is required to collect these taxes for state and local governments.
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Ability to determine visually the distance between objects.
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The ability to perceive depth seems to exist early in life. Research with infants has revealed that by two months of age, babies can perceive depth. Prior to that, they may be unable to do so in part because of weak eye muscles that do not let them use binocular depth cues.
Monocular Depth Cues. Psychologists have identified two different kinds of monocular cues. One comes into play when we use the muscles of the eye to change the shape of the eye's lens to focus on an object. We make use of the amount of muscular tension to give feedback about distance.
A second kind of monocular cue relates to external visual stimuli. These cues appear in the table below. Artists use these visual cues to make two dimensional paintings appear realistic. These cues may seem obvious to us now, but artistic renderings from earlier than about the sixteenth century often seem distorted because artists had not yet developed all the techniques to capture these visual cues.
Binocular Cues. Binocular cues require that we use both eyes. One cue makes use of the fact that when we look at a nearby object with both eyes, we bring our eyes together; the muscle tension associated with looking at close objects gives us information about their distance. The second binocular cue involves retinal disparity. This means that each eye (or, more specifically, the retina of each eye) has a slightly different perspective. The slight difference in appearance of an object in each eye when we gaze at it gives us further information about depth. Children's Viewmasters produce a three-dimensional image that has depth because of a slightly different picture that is delivered to each eye. In the natural world, because of the relatively small distance from one pupil to another (about2.5 inches or 6.5 centimeters) binocular cues are effective only for objects that are within about 500 yards (455 m) of the viewer.
Animals that have eyes on front of the face, like primates, will be able to use binocular depth cues because the two eyes see almost, but not quite, the same scene; on the other hand, animals with eyes on the side of the head, like most birds, will be less able to use binocular cues because the visual fields of the two eyes do not overlap very much and each eye sees different scenes.
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LOL ... so what's your preference, Big Dave!
Perfected? IDK about that. My experience with the Quadra Jet is that it requires a lot of maintenance to keep it properly tuned/running correctly. I'm out on that.
My first thought was a big Holley even when I was looking to keep my 283. Thanks for the info ... so I'll need the return line.
Just curious, though, for a big CFM carb, wouldn't it have the same problem when not "wide open" as the EFI? need to return unused flow? thanks.
I run an 1150 cfm Holley Dominator on a high rise dual plane manifold and it is fed by an Aeromotive electric fuel pump that puts out 90 psi (great for EFI) at a rated 105 gallons per hour at 70 psi. That is a lot more gas than my motor requires when cruising on the street; but it meets my engine's needs at WOT while racing.
I bought the Areomotive despite how expensive it is along with a Barry Grant four port pressure regulator (one in, two out to carb, one return line) to replace two Holley Black pumps to feed the motor. Despite their advertising they couldn't keep up at WOT. This is because of the small print. Holley tells you their pump flows 140 gallons per hour but only with an open line and no head pressure (level flow from tank to pump out let). It was rated at 14 PSI maximum which is twice the maximum pressure that a carb can use. Both the Black and the Blue pump requires a non-return (deadhead) pressure regulator (not included with the pump).
What Holley doesn't tell you is that when you try and feed a carb as big as mine at WOT that their pump can not keep up. Nor do they tell you that while cruising the fuel recalculates in their pump (rather than be returned to the tank) so that it heats the gas up above the boiling point at which time you are in vapor lock; and all you get at the carb inlet is splashes of fuel at zero psi and a lot of gas fumes.
So much for external (outside of the tank) fuel pumps. As to a carburetor it works, It isn't as sensitive to manifold pressure variations as the EFI TBI is (though if you use a cam that never closes the intake valve you will get reversion which is why a big cam has that big cam sound). You can not have a carb that is too big for an engine dyno. If you are running at WOT such as in a race then bigger is better. If you want to drive it on the street then you will need a smaller carb if you want any throttle response (no surging or hesitation).
EFI has a better start up procedure because the computer gives the car extra fuel and retards the ignition timing to allow the motor to spin over faster for a quick start up. The same computer monitors your air fuel ratio, as the motor warms up (How does it know how warm it is, It has a temperature sensor in the coolant and the air cleaner to measure air temp and coolant temp). These sensors are inexpensive (about $20 to buy as service replacements), but if you break out the kit price for the EFI conversion they are closer to $200. Most kits use the Chrysler computer and sensors for some reason and everyone I have heard about on the four boards I work as a moderator usual trash it and buy an even more expensive Holley or other aftermarket controller to get features not included on the Chrysler system.
A carburetor relies upon a bimetal strip to do everything EFI needs a computer and sensors and programming to accomplish the same thing.
EFI was introduced to meet emission requirements not because a carb wouldn't work but because a computer can be programmed to pass an emission test (think VW was the only one doing that?). The customer was buying the parts along with their new car so the manufacture was happy to be able to pass a test that you should never see. | <urn:uuid:87a9afd4-5cbb-4d05-ac81-e17517968402> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.impalas.net/forums/8-restoration-corner/35842-my-61-restore-erath-county-texas-3.html | 2019-06-24T13:39:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999539.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20190624130856-20190624152856-00552.warc.gz | en | 0.969341 | 844 | [
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Working in the fitness industry, it’s kind of my job to keep people educated on topics pertaining to their health and wellness. Sometimes I’m amazed at the lack of information that those around me have about their fitness and their nutrition. There are so many myths out there that farrrrrr too many people believe.. here are some of my favorite ones and why you need to forget about them right away.
1. You need to go on a cleanse.
I’m just gonna go out on a limb here and tell you exactly how it is… cleanses are bullshit. They are. Congrats to you if you’ve ever done one because you wasted a lot of time and a lot money. In my opinion, cleanses are for people who are too lazy to actually learn good eating habits, and want a quick fix. It’s easy to fall for these marketing slews… drink this green drink and you will instantly feel better, clean out your cells, lose weight, stop your breakouts!
“I need to detox my body” is what I usually hear from people trying cleanses. But, if you ever took an anatomy class, and paid attention in it… you’d know that your body detoxes itself. That’s what it’s supposed to do. Toxins are naturally eliminated through your colon, liver, and kidneys. This is a natural process, and works WELL when you eat WELL. When your diet is full of processed shit, sugar, and alcohol, your body has a tough time keeping up with its own detoxification system. So what seems to be the obvious solution for this??? Changing your diet. Not picking up some green smoothie mix, starving yourself for the rest of the day, taking some pills, and spending the majority of your time on the toilet. Yes, you might lose weight on this cleanse. But the second you go back to your normal eating habits, you will gain it back. You will never see long-term, hard-earned results from a diet unless you make some serious changes to the way you eat and stick with them.
2. Calories don’t count on the weekends.
Obviously, this is a joke, people know that their calories count on the weekend, but quite frankly, they don’t care. They’ve chosen the lifestyle of eating clean Monday through Friday, and eating whatever the f*ck they want on the weekends. Besides for a cheat meal (which I’m all for)…if you want true, long-lasting results, your weekend should look exactly the the same as your weekdays. How do I know this? Because I’ve been there!!! I was a weekday dieter for the longest time. I worked so hard, I earned those calories, right? As someone who wants to be competitive in my sport (Crossfit), I was always looking for that thing I’m missing. What can I do to get a more competitive edge? My life and my training changed so much when I stopped shoving every piece of food I saw in my mouth on Saturdays & Sundays.
I get it, not all of us are competitive athletes. But if you want to feel good and look even better, and you’ve tried everything else, this might be your issue. Hint: it’s really f*cking hard. I’m not asking you to be perfect, I’m asking you to just try. Maybe instead of a whole cheat day on Sunday, make it just a cheat meal. Maybe instead of waffles and bacon with your kids on Saturday morning, you could opt for eggs and toast and veggies instead. Even though it seems like small tweaks, they help for long-term success.
3. Carbs make you fat.
What needs to change about this statement, to make it true, is just the addition of one word. Listen people, and remember. Carbs are your friends. Carbs do not make you fat. EXCESSIVE CARBS CAN MAKE YOU FAT. EX-CESS-IVE. Say it with me one more time!!! Excessive carbs can make you fat.
It’s really pretty simple, when you look at it from a scientific standpoint. It comes down to calories in versus calories out. If you intake more calories than you’re expending, you will gain weight. If you expend more calories than you take in, you will lose weight. These calories can come from ANY macro nutrient– protein, carbohydrates, or fat. So why are carbs always blamed for our weight gain???
Now, there’s lots of things we could discuss here that I would love to get into, about hormones and insulin and water retention and what happens to your body when you decide for whatever reason you need to “cut carbs.” But I’m just gonna keep it simple. Carbohydrates are the most efficient source of energy for our bodies. We run off of carbs, not proteins, not fats. Carbs, once broken down, get absorbed either immediately and used in the muscle cells for energy, or stored for later use as glycogen in the muscle and liver cells. Carbs are also VITAL to fueling the CNS (central nervous system) and brain. (I know someone reading this has had a time where they were cutting their carbs and their brain felt foggy and exhausted and they felt like they couldn’t concentrate… you were literally cutting off nutrients to your brain!)
So next time you think cutting carbs is the answer to your weight loss problems, please do some research first. Yes… you should stop stuffing your face every day with donuts, muffins, white bread, chips, and candy. But there is absolutely no reason to be scared of meals that have a portioned amount rice, potatoes, whole grains, fruit, whole grain pasta, rolled oats, etc. especially before or after your workouts!! These types carbs are your friends. This stigma around carbs is so undeserving! THEY ARE YOUR FRIENDS!
4. Eating at night makes you fat.
We’ve all heard this before, “Don’t eat after 6pm” “Don’t eat after 8pm”… whatever it is. I’ll say it again, calories in vs. calories in is what’s going to make you fat. But, timing of your meals does makes it a little more complicated. For some reason, we are under the impression that we don’t need any energy for sleep, that fasting for 8-12 hours is a good thing. I’m sorry, what??? If you care at all about your blood sugar levels (which you should)… snacking at night might not be such a bad idea. If you starve yourself from dinnertime until you wake up the next morning, you may experience some trouble sleeping, or wake up feeling groggy the next morning. This is most likely from low blood sugar levels. Blood sugar levels affect your appetite and energy levels and your body’s efforts to either burn or store fat. So, pretty important if you ask me. No, don’t go for that pint of ice cream before you hit the hay. But some complex carbs or some healthy fats (like peanut butter!!!) could do some good, rather than harm.
5. Lifting weights will make you “too big.”
First off, as someone who wants to “get big”… this is absolutely insulting. It takes years of hard work, clean eating, and discipline to get too big. People work their asses off in the gym and in the kitchen to try to build muscle. So, when someone walks in the gym, and says they’re scared to pick up a weight (because just touching the weight will make you automatically gain 10lbs of muscle???) says this ridiculous phrase to me, it’s insulting. I dare you to try to get too big. Lift all the weights. Drink all the water. Eat all the good, muscle-building foods. You know what will happen? You’ll burn fat. You’ll feel better. You’ll have a ton of energy. You’ll fit better in your clothes. You’ll see your shoulders and your leg muscles start to pop out. You will be more confident in yourself. These are all the outcomes of adding weights–any kind of weights, kettlebells, dumbbells, barbells, bodyweight training– into your workout regimen. I promise you, you’ll be happy you did.
6. Light weight/high reps = “toned”
To keep it going with the rumors and myths that surround weight training… this one is a goody. I don’t even know what “toned” means, or where the term came from. I’m assuming it means when you start weight training, and eating well, you burn fat, and build some lean muscle, and you start noticing your muscles popping out when you’re walking by a mirror. “Wow, I looked so toned” is maybe what you say to yourself… I don’t know. But for those of us that workout, this is obviously a goal that we all have. We all want our hard work to show. We all want to look like we work out.
Contrary to popular belief, light weight and with high repetitions is not the way to go. Light weights, high reps, and lots of sets (high volume), are what bodybuilders do. Why do they do this? Because it builds the size of their muscles, not necessarily their strength. If you want to look like a bodybuilder, do that. Heavy weights and low repetitions, are typically what strength athletes do (depending what cycle they are in, but think powerlifters, weightlifters, football players). This is because it builds their strength of their muscles, not necessarily their size. This is why sometimes a girl may be able to deadlift 350lbs.. but she doesn’t look like a bodybuilder. Make sense?
So if you’re going for a “toned” look (honestly, I wish we could get rid of that term forever)… you should be doing moderate volume, somewhere in the middle of what I just explained. Moderate weight (don’t be scared to go heavier!!!) for moderate reps and sets. the 10-15 rep range for 3-5 sets is sufficient. To build muscle (the toned look that you seek) the muscle needs to be overloaded, or challenged. So don’t be scared to grab a heavier dumbbell or throw some more weight on that barbell. Your body will thank you.
7. You need supplements.
Ok, I’ll say this, with this statement, there are exceptions. But I guarantee some of the supplements you spend lots of money on, are a complete waste.
So let’s start with what actually works. Creatine is just about the only scientifically-proven, legal, training aid out there. Creatine phosphate, naturally made by our bodies, supplies our fast-twitch muscle fibers with immediate energy. When you supplement with creatine, basically your muscles can produce more energy, and faster. This is really helpful in training harder, and more often. But… its only really effective for short bursts of power. Creatine is a great supplement for sprint training, weightlifting, high-intensity exercise. You can perform well without creatine supplementation, so it is not necessary, but it may be something you’d want to try if you’re looking to get that extra edge.
Next, lets talk protein powder. First thing’s first, protein powder and shakes are meant to be supplements. Meaning they supplement your diet. They don’t replace anything. A protein shake is not a replacement for a meal with real food. Real food always take precedence. I recommend protein powder for people who come to me and say they feel like they’re not getting enough protein. I say, “Eat 3 meals a day with a protein source, and a shake with water after your workout.” That’s it. You don’t need 5 protein shakes a day to gain muscle. If you have trouble getting enough protein in your day, then protein shakes are an easy way to help. But, getting enough protein without protein shakes is absolutely do-able.
If you do supplement with protein powder, or you are eating a well-balanced diet with high-quality protein, you are getting plenty of essential amino acids (there’s 9 of them). With that being said, you don’t need to buy BCAA’s (branch chained amino acids, 3 of the essential amino acids that you need) that come in the form of flavored powder you drink with water during your workout. They are a waste of money. They are marketed to make you think that during your grueling workout, your body needs to be replenished with amino acids right then and there. Wrong. You can get plenty of these necessary amino acids, before and after your workout, from high-quality proteins like meat, eggs, dairy, and whey protein supplements. Supplementing even more is just wasteful and not necessary.
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The New Yorker, December 27, 1952 P. 14
Talk. Interview with Arthur Maisel at his new restaurant, the Floridian, at the corner of Broadway and 51 St. His other restaurants are the Virginian, the Texan, the Californian and the Georgian. An ad in the Mirror described the restaurant in glowing terms, saying it was patterned after "Wolfie's" in Miami Beach. Maisel said it is the ULTIMATE in delicatessens, serving things like corned-beef sandwiches and salami and eggs. It seats only 60 persons but the furnishings and equipment cost over $150,000 and it requires a staff of 83. It will be open every day from 8 AM to 5 AM the following day, Maisel expects his chefs to carve up to four tons of beef a week when the Floridian hits its stride. He does not like this food - he is catering to the Broadway type. He prefers Voisin's. | <urn:uuid:c54e943b-6612-49bd-93f5-6155a1937c10> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1952/12/27/with-tonic | 2019-06-25T19:41:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999946.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20190625192953-20190625214953-00152.warc.gz | en | 0.962757 | 200 | [
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After a week off with Xander Torres at the League of Legends All Stars Event and Emily Rand off snowboarding for a rare vacation, Overwatch Weekly is back to discuss the Chinese Contenders bracket, the playoff outlook for some of South Korea’s Contenders teams, and all things in the Asian Contenders leagues.
Emily: I know we said two weeks ago that quad DPS is not the answer, and I still don’t think it’s the answer but, how about StormQuake? One of the original quad DPS challengers in Contenders Korea — because O2 Team fumbled their execution — we’ve talked about StormQuake in a previous column when they unexpectedly took a map off of one of Group B’s best in GC Busan Wave. This week they upset Kongdoo Panthera 3-1, putting Kongdoo’s playoff hopes at risk. Kongdoo will likely be fine — although they face a tough opponent in GC Busan Wave, StormQuake should be able to eliminate Gen.G Esports, cementing the playoff teams from Group B — but how about StormQuake?
Xander: I was super happy about StormQuake’s performance this week. I loved them for the quad DPS comp, but it also showcased just how much talent is present on the roster. Most importantly though, Ryu “Kaiser” Sang-hoon showed up in great form. I doubt they prevail over Kongdoo without him returning to that “Eye of the Kaiser” status. Considering their last match is against Gen.G Esports, they look to be a lock for the playoffs and a potential dark horse. Unfortunately, their rise this week is accompanied by the death of Meta Athena, who looked worse with Lee “WhoRU” Seung-jun in the lineup.
Emily: Yeah getting Kaiser in sync with the rest of the team was key, especially in this meta which relies so much on backline communication. Not-so-coincidentally, Meta Athena’s demise was related to this as well. I can’t help but feel a bit badly for WhoRU, whose play certainly wasn’t the the only problem for Meta Athena. If anything, WhoRU is one of those players who has fallen through the cracks due to the Overwatch League age limit. He was a beast in APEX, but continues to be stuck in Contenders (either Fusion University or on loan with Meta Athena). His trajectory thus far is what I really hope doesn’t happen to players like Xavier Esports’ Patiphan “Patiphan” Chaiwong, who show immense talent at comparatively young ages. The gap between the level of play in the Overwatch League and Contenders leagues is still present, so I hope some of these younger players don’t fall through the cracks. Sorry, I know that’s a bit of a tangent, but watching WhoRU return to the South Korean Overwatch stage like this was a bit surreal. WhoRU didn’t look great with Meta Athena, but a large cause of that was Gen.G’s latest signing, former Goin Water S and Rhino Gaming main tank Um “Umtae” Tae-hyeong. It’s difficult to do much when Umtae is in your face the entire game.
Xander: Umtae is actually a beast. Kim “LUKE” Hyun-jun was a steady tank for Gen.G, but it feels like he always lost the Reinhardt mind games when Brigitte wasn’t involved. Also, whether it was Umtae’s doing or Gen.G’s, their actual approach to the game is more streamlined. There is a lot less meandering and a lot more “doing” from the lineup with Umtae’s addition. I find it funny that not matter what meta it is, the main tank largely decides how a team plays. Umtae’s performances also show just how much talent depth there is in Contenders Korea. People talk about top 500 a lot, but realistically it’s like a top 1500. Even Blossom — arguably the worst team in Contenders Korea — put up a significant fight against RunAway with some pretty fun strategy. That being said, we have playoff brackets pretty wrapped up. What’s going on in China? Those brackets are actually set in stone.
Emily: FLAG GAMING. I mean, what? I’ll depart from my new favorite contenders team (and a favorite to take it all) for a bit and talk about the final week in China. Unlike South Korea where StormQuake has been the main team at the forefront of composition innovation, Chinese teams have played a lot more fast and loose with their comps, sometimes to their detriment (sorry, Lab, I’m talking about you) and more often to if not success then some really interesting counter compositions. The rise of Pharah has been of particular note in China, and before StormQuake were running quad DPS, Chinese teams were willing to dabble in a variety of DPS counter-compositions trying to break the GOATs stranglehold. This week, LGD Gaming even pulled out an odd Bastion for Liu “Eternal” Nian on Hanamura. It wasn’t executed as well as it could have been, but it was interesting.
This week, the big story to me was LGD, who unexpectedly beat a slumping Big Time Regal Gaming. BTRG lost to Flag Gaming in last week’s highlight matchup, and now are looking sluggish and disorganized going into playoffs. Meanwhile, LGD have piqued my interest. Wang “Rook1e” Jundong has been performing really well, which probably takes away the sting that could have accompanied Dongjian “MG” Wu’s departure and subsequent success on Flag Gaming after LGD had picked him up again, this time for a matter of days. For LGD, Rook1e has been the standout that has allowed the team to pull out whatever they want for DPS heroes. I pointed out the Bastion because it stood out, but Route 66, as always, was a breeding ground for interesting hero choices both from LGD and BTRG. With the bracket set, LGD are a team to watch out for in playoffs, especially with Team CC showing holes in their play this week in an 0-4 loss to T1w Esports. But I’ve rambled enough, any opinion on the Chinese playoff bracket?
Xander: LGD has been one of the best teams in Chinese Overwatch since the very beginning and it’s no surprise they’ve developed another good team, even after selling Genji star Ou “Eileen” Yiliang. You’re definitely right that Rook1e’s amazing success will probably make fans forget that star tank MG was also once on the team. LGD have generally been pretty solid this split, but their current trajectory feels like Stormquake’s in Korea — they might just poke in and win it all again. After losing to Korean teams twice in Contenders Finals, it would be a nice a change of pace to finally win it all.
LGD aside, I still have faith in Team CC when it comes to this bracket. BTRG is off their game and they have pacific talent Jason “Ieatuup” Ho on deck. Australians have more wins in the Overwatch League than Chinese players so I think we all know the end result here. Actually though, I still favor Team CC’s pace of play against a struggling BTRG. GOATs continues to bend and I have faith that Team CC will force their will on it with Wei “Jiqiren” Yan-song still being one of the best main tanks in the business. Most importantly though, again, they have Ieatuuup.
Emily: It’s no wonder that Team CC have stuck to standard GOATs compositions for a large part of the season, unlike a lot of other Chinese Contenders teams which have been more experimental. They have Jiqiren and one of the strongest support lines in China right now with Chen “SIO” Zhaoyu and Zhao “Orchid” Tangyang. I know a lot of people are probably down on SIO once they hear the name “Fiveking” of Shanghai Dragons, but it’s important to note that his signature Lucio is back in meta. He and Orchid have been really strong this season, especially in the more meta compositions that Team CC has favored. I also expect Team CC to best BTRG, especially if BTRG are looking like they have in the past two weeks.
The first round of playoffs looks fairly straightforward to me, and since everyone loves predictions, we can end it here. I’m thinking Team CC over BTRG, LGD over LinGan e-Sports, T1w over Lucky Future, and of course, my boys Flag Gaming over Triple Six Legend.
Xander: I’m glad that you also buy into Team CC and my boy Ieatuup. As Shanghai Dragons’ farm team, they have the support and talent to really press the league, season in and season out. BTRG has been great, but their recent form is hard to ignore. And for the record, I’m in full agreement with these predictions and look forward to the upcoming Contenders China playoffs. A Chinese champion will finally rise and that’s exciting enough.
We’re nearing the end of the calendar year and so is Overwatch. Contenders playoffs in China will end by the start of the new year, but Korea and Pacific will pick up and finish in the middle of January. By then, there will only be a month before the glorious return of the glitz and glam of the Overwatch League, complete with pink skins and angry Pandas.
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As soon as you lay eyes on the Winnebago Adventurer 38Q Class A motorhome, you will immediately see that it is in a class all its own. The exterior offers many full-body paint options, aluminum wheels and chrome accents to give it a sleek and desirable design. However, there is much more on the inside of these RVs that are sure to take your breath away as soon as you cross the threshold.
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The Cumberland sausage has been around for 500 years. Distinctive because the meat is coarse cut, not minced, which gives the sausage a chunky, meaty texture. Unlike the herb-dominated flavours of other British sausages the flavour of a Cumberland is dominated by black and white pepper.
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Beside facilitating speech and chewing teeth also play a role in a person’s facial appearance. The facial appearance determines how people will view a person. Teeth may also experience problems like cavities, tooth decay, plaque, tartar, overbite, underbite and tooth sensitivity. Teeth conditions may develop in childhood or manifest in adolescence. Some of the teeth conditions that affect children are tooth decay, thumb sucking, tongue thrusting, lip sucking and early tooth loss. Teeth require special attention when dealing with teeth problems. A pediatric dentist is a specialist trained to deal with children dental issues. Before deciding on a pediatric dentist, one should consider a couple of tips.
First, when choosing a pediatric dentist, one should consider their qualification. A pediatric dentist should have enough qualification to qualify to offer services to children. A pediatric dentist should have undergone through proper training and gained enough skills. A pediatric dentist should have attended all required institution and passed to be qualified. Different regions have different certification bodies with different terms and conditions. Accreditations of a periodontal dentist should be easy to prove from the alleged institution. An accredited periodontal dentist is likely to offer quality and satisfactory services.
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Dictionary entry overview: What does biweekly mean? • BIWEEKLY (noun) The noun BIWEEKLY has 1 sense:. 1. a periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year) Familiarity information: BIWEEKLY used as a noun is very rare. • BIWEEKLY (adjective) The adjective BIWEEKLY has 2 senses:. 1. occurring twice a week 2. occurring every two weeks
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More than 50 well-known conservatives today convened the Council for National Policy, a new group they hope will gain influence much as they believe liberals have in such organizations as the Council on Foreign Relations.
Louis (Woody) Jenkins, the group's executive director and twice a losing Senate candidate in Louisiana, said the meeting had concentrated on individual statements of personal and national goals and on such subjects as how conservatives could best influence such matters as judicial appointments.
Richard Viguerie, the direct mail entrepreneur who works with a variety of conservative causes and candidates, said, ''We have never had, up to now, any kind of broad, all-inclusive organization of conservative-thinking people, people who have a lot of leverage.'' He said that this group would fill that gap.
Last night, at Mr. Viguerie's home in McLean, Va., the group honored David A. Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, for his efforts to cut the budget.
Howard Phillips, head of the Conservative Caucus, presented Mr. Stockman with the group's Thomas Jefferson Award, saying, ''The leadership of President Reagan has given us an unprecedented opportunity to turn around much of the harm that has been done'' in recent years. Without Mr. Stockman, he said, ''the prospects for defunding the Left simply wouldn't be here.'' Stockman Is Honored
The plaque quoted the 53d chapter of the Book of Isaiah, in reference to the criticisms others have made of Mr. Stockman, saying, ''The chastisement he bore is health for us, and by his scourging we are healthy.''Continue reading the main story
The president of the council is Tim LaHaye, who is also president of Family Life Seminars of El Cajon, Calif. Mr. Viguerie and Mr. Phillips are members of the council's executive committee, along with Paul Weyrich, head of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress.
Among the members of the council are Morton C. Blackwell, special assistant to President Reagan for public liaison; Robert Billings, a former leader of Moral Majority who is now an aide at the Department of Education; Joseph Coors, head of the brewery and a donor to many conservative causes, and Senator John P. East, Republican of North Carolina.
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Here's a loaded question. Suppose you have just bought a brand-new, expensive luxury car. As you're driving around, showing off your prized possession, the fuel light comes on.
By coincidence, you're at an intersection with two service stations.
One of them is known for selling a lesser quality gas and oil. In fact, there is even a sign up in front of the station: "Cheap gas! Cheap Oil!" The other sells the high-quality fuel that is recommended for your car.
In the past, maybe you did cut corners. And perhaps that's the reason you needed a new car. Seriously, why would you even consider putting cheap, second-rate, low-quality gas and oil in your shiny, brand-new possession? It's a safe bet that you wouldn't think twice about paying a bit more for higher quality, right?
So why in the world would you cut corners on a far more precious possession? Remember, you can buy a new car.
But when it comes to your health, it's not as easy as going to the new body store. If you wouldn't try to save a few pennies on your new car, why try to save a few pennies on your body?
More and more people are becoming concerned about their food choices, and realize what they eat does make a difference, both in how they look and feel and in the quality and length of their lives.
At least, that's what they say. But just take a stroll around your local malls and stores for evidence of the seemingly ever-increasing obesity epidemic that continues to plague the U.S.
This is even though there has never been more information available concerning what we should eat, as well as what we should avoid. To put it bluntly, we're still not getting it. There are two main reasons for this.
First, convenience. More and more people are trying to do more and more in less and less time.
This results in increased consumption of fast foods, processed and canned foods, and whatever other swill saves time. Many people are unwittingly not even thinking about what they are shoveling into their bodies.
Second, confusion. Once folks decide to change their eating habits for the better, they are bombarded day and night by admonishments…low fat…low carbs…make sure you eat this…don't eat that. It's enough to make anyone scream: "Help! What should I really be eating?"
No question about it. There has never been more confusion about what we should eat. The ever-increasing number of "food guru's" continue to add to the confusion factor with a maze of conflicting ideas.
Avoid carbs…low fat is the only safe way to eat…some fats are good…try vegetarian…some carbs are good…dairy is bad…and on and on.
What's worse, what was "in" yesterday is "out" today.
And what about the food industry? Are genetically modified foods safe? According to the industry, there's nothing to worry about.
Just like the additives in our foods that require a dictionary and a degree in chemistry to understand when reading the labels of ingredients.
What about your physician? With so much emphasis on surgery, the latest miracle prescription drugs, and other medical findings, it is easy for doctors to overlook the importance of correct nutrition.
Most doctors are not nearly as concerned about food as they are about other medical topics and procedures.
To be fair, staying abreast of new medical treatments, along with seeing dozens of patients each day is a full-time job. As a consequence, many hard-pressed-for-time physicians overlook the healing powers of food.
Need some more convincing about the importance of food? Here are a few numbers to think about: according to Bottom Line's Daily Health News, a mere century ago the odds of dying from heart disease were 1 in 24…now they have surged to 1 in 7. Cancer? A century ago, the chances of dying from this killer were 1 in 49…now they have jumped to 1 in 7.
One caveat: our longer lifespans do play a role in these numbers. But regardless, as hard as it is to believe, there appears to be a disturbing trend: we are going backward in the critical, life-and-death struggle against these terrible afflictions.
Faced with these numbers, it is impossible for anyone to ignore the role of nutrition in our health and well-being.
The result of all of the above concerns? The average American diet has meant that we are digging our graves with our knives, forks, and spoons.
So, what to do? Is there any way to cut through this fog of confusion and allow you to finally understand what is right, and what is not…in plain English?
Fortunately, the answer is a resounding "YES." A vast, vital part of the Conscious Evolution Lifestyle is you are what you eat. With that in mind, let's look at a few simple guidelines that you can put to use…not years from now, but now!
Be tough about simple sugars, bad carbs, bad fats, processed foods, and excess sodium. None of this stuff is found in nature. This goes double for the "super no-no's (candy bars, donuts, sodas, cakes, potato chips). Even world-class athletes will break down on rare occasions and have cheat days. Just keep those days to a bare minimum. Don't forget that sugar is a drug, and we can quickly become addicted to it. Stay away from fast food chains, boxed or frozen dinners, canned soup, processed meats and cheeses, and ready-made sandwiches. Once again, be tough!
Load up on fresh fruits and vegetables. For all-around health, energy, and disease-fighting, the nutrition found in fresh fruits and vegetables can't be beaten. However, don't entirely rule out frozen produce, which may be even more nutritious than some fresh produce. Why? Because frozen fruits and vegetables are frozen at their peak ripeness when they are densely nutrient-loaded. While freezing produce may cause a slight loss of vitamins, the process protects what is left. Fresh food may be shipped for long distances, depending upon the season - and thus lose much of their nutritive value. The take-away? Buy your produce fresh when in season, and frozen in the off-season. Either way, you can't go wrong.
Don't forget the importance of protein: lean meats and other sources of protein are vital to your weight-control and strength building.
Don't neglect the power of juicing. According to ancient Chinese Taoist thought, by taking fruits and vegetables in the form of raw juice, the vitamins, minerals, and enzymes they contain go to work immediately upon entering the stomach, rather than hours later. These juices effectively neutralize excessive acidity in the stomach and zap the condition known as acidosis, which can be a severe and life-threatening condition. Fresh fruit and vegetable juice helps to keep our all-important pH level in balance. This level measures the ratio of acid to alkaline in our blood. Due to the typical American diet, consisting of excess meat, fat, sugar, alcohol and starch, our bodies tend to be acidic. Juicing adds a layer of protection from this condition. But this does not mean stop eating your vegetables and fruits. They are needed for the fibrous bulk that keeps us healthy. Just add juicing your raw fruits and vegetables to the mix.
A few more things about the importance of juicing: if you haven't been eating correctly, your body may be loaded with toxic junk. Nothing, absolutely nothing, works faster than juicing when it comes to detoxifying your system. Most people say that it begins to go to work immediately! It makes fruits and vegetables taste great. Also, as an added benefit, juicing can slash your cravings for the wrong kinds of food. Finally, there is the convenience factor. Modern, high-speed juicers have eliminated the need for canned, frozen juices that are packed with artificial flavors and enough preservatives to last for years. No more of that. You can now "roll your own." Your body will thank you.
A quicker method of juicing is to use powders or buy the actual vegetable juice. Barley Green, Beet Juice Powder, and Raw Carrot Juice are highly recommended.
Stay adequately hydrated. This is so important that we have much more to say about it shortly. Stay tuned
Be aware of portion size. Did you know that each person in the United States wolfs down over 500 more calories in a day than they did a scant 40 years ago? It takes 2 hours of walking to burn those calories off - and most of us just do not need extra calories. A little trickery is helpful here. Trick your eyes by using smaller plates as a way of making your meal look bigger.
Minimize dairy. If you do consume dairy, look for eggs and milk from free-range chickens and grass-fed cows. As with humans, the food that animals consume is directly related to the quality of the eggs and milk they produce. Mass-produced, crowded, force-fed animals result in inferior dairy products. And if that weren't enough, never forget the effects of pasteurization. Pasteurization destroys milk's natural enzymes and alters its delicate proteins. Raw milk contains the active enzymes lactase and lipase, which permit raw milk to digest with little stress on the stomach. To put it bluntly, pasteurization takes the life out of milk…but since it helps the bottom line of the dairy industry, raw milk is illegal in many states, and therefore hard to come by. Seriously consider restricting milk unless you can obtain certified raw milk.
Instead of the typical "three squares," spread things out, and strive to eat 5 or 6 smaller meals each day. This will prevent hunger and allow your system to process the nutrients you take in far more efficiently.
Consume most of your calories early in the day (breakfast and lunch). Try to avoid a heavy dinner, and beware of eating in the evening…this can have a disruptive effect on your Human Growth Hormone release cycle.
Drink Green Tea. Green tea is widely known for many of its health benefits. But not many are aware that it has been shown to increase growth hormone. According to a study conducted by the Alternative Medicine Review, Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) - the active ingredient in green tea - has a boosting effect on growth hormone levels. Participants in the study were put on a calorie-restricted diet. Then, half of them were given a green tea product, and the other half received a placebo for 90 days. The results? The participants who received the green tea product for 90 days increased their growth hormone levels by more than 320%! They also pumped up their insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) by 24%, compared to 20% and 15% rates for the placebo group. The green tea group also lost almost three times more weight than the control group. This didn't happen overnight. The results were not conclusive until near the end of the 90-day study; at 45 days, not much change was apparent. So be patient, and stick with it.
Consider organic produce, grass-fed beef, and free-range chicken. These may cost a bit more, but organic produce is not filled with dangerous pesticides. Grass-fed cattle and free-range chickens are not loaded with steroids and are allowed to develop in a far more natural manner than the typical over-the-counter meats. Also, after you consider the problems with our food supply, they are well worth the extra cost. Here's why: grass-fed beef is leaner, lower in omega-6 fats that have been linked to heart disease, higher in healthy omega-3 fats and linoleic acids…and it tastes better! Free-range chicken contains more protein than the meat coming from the assembly lines of "Big Agra," (the giant food companies). Therefore, make free-range chicken your first choice.
Apple Cider Vinegar and Honey. Vinegar, when combined with honey, can supply many different nutrients. As apple juice ferments, it produces a liquid laced with newly created enzymes, while retaining tiny particles of apples with their supply of vitamins and minerals. Often, the concentrated power of honey is included in vinegar tonics. The rich, natural sweetness of honey makes a great combination with vinegar's tartness. Together, these two nutritional powerhouses provide a combination of health-promoting nutrients. Mixing these two with water is an excellent way to start your day.
- Aloe Vera Juice. Aloe Vera juice can aid in digestion, eliminate toxins, strengthen the immune system, and speed up weight-loss. Just remember not to consume Aloe Vera that is not made for internal use.
Let's take a more in-depth look at these general guidelines:
Protein. Protein is essential since it gives us the amino acids we need to build muscles, repair injuries and boost our immune system.
Protein is also found all through our bodies: organs, hair, skin, tissues, and cells. There are two kinds of protein: complete (lean beef, tuna, eggs, chicken breast, and milk) and incomplete (legumes, beans, seeds, and yogurt).
Strive for the complete kind as much as possible. If you are eating incomplete protein sources, look to combine different types for the most benefit.
For example, for grains and legumes, combine black beans and brown rice; pasta and peas; whole wheat or rye bread and peanut butter; bean soup and whole-grain crackers; lentils and almonds.
These combinations will deliver sufficient amounts of the amino acids you need.
Protein plays a massive role in any exercise routine since it is an essential nutrient for muscle growth and increasing strength.
For every research scientist that states they can prove "on paper" that protein does not build muscle, there are dozens of massive powerlifters and bodybuilders that say it does.
Remember this simple formula: protein = more muscle growth and strength = more growth hormone release. How much protein is needed? As a rule, strive for 30% to 40% of your overall daily caloric intake.
Good Fats. In the latest dietary recommendations by many so-called "experts," fats have taken a beating. Pardon the pun, but this is NUTS! Fats are an essential part of a well-balanced diet. In fact, we can't survive without them.
Fats regulate our body temperature, keep our skin glowing, our hair shiny, and give us energy. The important thing here is that there are two kinds of fats: good and bad.
Examples of good fats are olive oil, almonds, walnuts, fish and omega-3 rich fish oil. These are called unsaturated fats and are what we need to eat. Saturated fats are found in animal products (ice cream, whole milk, butter, and cheese). They have the potential to raise cholesterol and should be limited.
Trans Fats are the worst kinds of fats. They don't occur in nature, but when foods are fried, they can appear and raise our LDL cholesterol levels (the wrong type of cholesterol).
Try to minimize margarine, packaged, frozen and fast foods, baked goodies like cookies and chips, and salad dressings. Look for the word hydrogenated in the label…then avoid it, since this means trans fat. In the real world, it is virtually impossible to eliminate trans fats entirely.
But do everything you can to cut them out.
Carbohydrates. In the "diet wars," proponents of a high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate eating plan have made a good case for the harmful effects of excessive carbohydrate consumption.
But, as anyone who has tried this eating plan will testify to, eliminating almost all carbs works…for a while. But it is indeed rare to find someone who can stay on this plan for long.
What the no-carb crowd neglects to mention is this: as with fats, there are different kinds of carbs…simple and complex. The difference between the two is simple (again, pun intended) and easy to remember.
Simple Carbs. Examples of simple carbs are white bread, sodas, white rice, cakes, pies, syrups, and candy. Will these give you quick energy? Yes…but the energy jolt won't last.
The reason is that they are broken down quickly by the body, which causes your blood sugar to spike, making you "crash and burn." Worse, you will probably be hungry soon after eating them.
Complex Carbs. These are naturally occurring, and are found in fiber-loaded foods like fresh fruits and vegetables, oatmeal, wheat, brown rice, sweet potatoes, and legumes.
The body breaks down complex carbs at a much slower rate than simple carbs.
As a result, glucose is released more slowly than with simple carbs. This means that complex carbs give us longer-lasting energy and do not spike our blood sugar levels.
They also fuel our nervous and muscular systems. Complex carbs will power us through the most grueling workouts, so please don't cut them out.
But when it comes to simple carbs, try to cut them way down. Better still, strive to cut them out completely.
Complex carbs like fresh fruits and vegetables are loaded with the life-preserving vitamins, minerals, and fibers that we need for balanced nutrition. The benefits of fresh fruits and vegetables are one of the few areas that virtually everyone agrees.
There are many good varieties of each. Try them all, and go with what you enjoy. Load up on every brightly colored option available, since brightly colored fruits and vegetables are densely packed with anti-oxidants and other nutrients.
Blue, purple, orange, red, yellow and green should give you a broad spectrum of products to have fun trying.
To further drive this point home, consider this. When the food researchers initially recommended that we lower our intake of fat and increase our consumption of carbs, they meant leafy vegetables, whole grains, fruits, and beans.
So, what did the average person do? They piled tons of fried potatoes, white rice, and pasta on their plates.
Their ever-expanding waistlines provided the answer to the question of "How did that work out for you?"
Whole grains are unrefined, provide us with usable energy, fight disease and deliver a wide array of vitamins, minerals, and fiber.
They also are filling, and therefore helpful in controlling our desire for the wrong kinds of foods. Don't forget oatmeal, whole-wheat or rye bread, brown rice, and popcorn.
Dairy. As mentioned earlier, dairy products should not be mindlessly consumed. On the other hand, dairy can play a beneficial role in our good health efforts.
Dairy foods are rich in calcium, phosphorus, Vitamin D, potassium, protein, and magnesium. The key things to remember is to look for organic dairy. If that's not possible, at least look for low-fat options in milk, cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt, and butter.
Fad Diets. There is one quick, simple and easy answer to the question of fad diets: AVOID THEM AT ALL COSTS! Many of the rigid diet recommendations and plans have contributed some useful ideas to the nutrition puzzle.
But the problems of the "my-way-or-the-highway" attitude of every fad diet approach highlights their weaknesses. For example, the low-carb folks are to be commended for correctly pointing out the dangers of simple carbs.
The low-fat people are to be similarly saluted for their emphasis on the dangers of fat.
However, they both throw out the baby with the bathwater. As mentioned above, complex carbs and unsaturated fats both play beneficial roles in our search for optimal health.
And some fad diets are outright dangerous to your health…as well as being too complicated and restrictive for the average person follow.
By following the guidelines above, and applying common sense, you can harness the power of food in a safe, long-lasting manner.
The Incredible Power of Water
It has been a long-time and favorite dieting secret: Drinking more water helps you lose weight. But is it true?
The Secret to Losing Weight is not Complicated
Think about it: Drinking more water is not mission impossible. You don't need to have iron willpower, nor do you have to drastically cut back on calories or spend hours a day in vigorous, grueling exercise. So why aren't more people doing it?
Because Americans gorge themselves on way too many useless, empty calories in the form of sodas and other sugar-filled drinks.
Just the simple, straightforward act of keeping a bottle of water with you at all times will help you take in far less soda, juice or energy drinks…or better still, cut them out completely.
This one simple change can result in drastically slicing your calories intake - and shredding dozens of pounds of ugly, unwanted, disease-causing fat.
It's a fact that most people are dehydrated, which causes many health problems, including obesity.
Dehydration causes the body to retain excess water as a protective measure. This is a direct cause of weight gain. If that weren't bad enough, dehydration lowers the body's metabolism, causing even more weight gain.
More bad news: dehydration causes fatigue, which makes exercise even more challenging. Finally, many folks have lost their sense of thirst due to chronic dehydration, and mistake thirst for false hunger. This is still another factor in gaining weight.
Reaching for a bottle of water will significantly reduce hunger pangs.
Here are some other reasons to add water to your weight-loss program:
Initial weight loss is mainly due to loss of water. As mentioned above, be sure to drink an adequate amount of water to avoid dehydration and lose fat
A side effect of burning calories is a release of toxins. Water plays a vital role is flushing toxins out of your body
Dehydration causes blood to become thicker, which makes it less efficient in supplying oxygen to your muscles. This causes fatigue, making it harder to exercise and speed up fat loss
Staying properly hydrated will help to maintain muscle tone and make sure that your weight loss is fat, rather than muscle tissue.
- Most weight loss diets are heavily loaded with fiber. Water will make sure your digestive system will easily handle the added fiber workload.
Science agrees: Drinking more water = weight loss
After years of every weight-loss idea, from low-fat to zero-carbs (and just about every diet in between) arguing over which approach is best, they all agreed on one thing: "drink more water." Now science has weighed in…and admits that water does help you lose weight.
Researchers in Germany report that water consumption increases the rate at which people burn calories.
Doctors at Berlin's Franz-Volhard Clinical Research Center tracked energy expenditures among seven men and seven women after drinking 17 ounces of water. The researchers found that the subjects' metabolic rates (the rate at which calories are burned) increased by 30% for both men and women.
Here is the exciting thing to remember from this study: the researchers estimated that throughout a year, a person who increases his water consumption by 1.5 liters a day would burn an extra 17,400 calories, resulting in a weight loss of five pounds.
They noted that up to 40% of the increase in calorie burning is caused by the body's attempt to heat the ingested water.
In another study conducted at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, researchers found that each overweight dieter who drank two large glasses of water before every meal lost approx. 2.26 KGs (5 pounds) of weight more than a group of obese dieters who didn't increase their water intake at all.
Water can even help you make healthy food choices.
Try this simple test: grab a bottle of soda, a can of fruit punch, then add a bottle of water. Now ask yourself this question: "Which one of these is the healthiest choice?"
The answer is in the "DUH" category: water wins, hands down - and for more reasons, than you might think. We know that water is free of sugar, calories and the artificial garbage found in soda and fruit punch.
But water has another colossal advantage
Drinking water will encourage you to choose healthier foods…and eat more of them! Researchers at the University of Oregon and Michigan State University conducted two studies examining the role of drinks on food choices.
In the first study, subjects reported that they desired soda with salty, high-calories foods like pizza or chips far more than with raw or cooked vegetables. They also said that water, while not always their first choice, went quite well with most foods.
The second study suggested that water doesn't only encourage you to choose healthier foods - it actually may help you eat more of those healthy foods.
Children aged three to five in the experiment ate approximately one-third more red peppers or carrots when they were served water, as opposed to a sweetened drink like fruit punch.
Why these results make perfect sense
Think about this. Most of us form an idea of what foods and drinks "go together" the first time we eat a bag of chips with soda or eat fresh fruit with water.
These become habits that result in automatic choices, and for a good reason. Broccoli and soda seem far less appealing than broccoli and water.
Also, don't forget the role our taste buds play. Soda is sweet and powerful, enough to overwhelm our sense of smell and taste.
If we are going to eat something with it, it makes sense to choose another powerful, sugary, salty or fatty food…foods that are savory and creamy, and won't be overpowered by the soda.
But when you choose water, you can appreciate…really appreciate the subtle sweetness of fresh fruit, the freshness of a piece of meat, and the raw wholesomeness of fresh vegetables. Certain foods and drinks make great combinations, and water works with all of them.
Let water help you kick the soda habit…forever
As you can imagine from what we have discussed, soda and other sweet drinks can wreak havoc with your health and weight-loss goals. Not only are they devoid of nutrients, but they cause us to crave junk foods.
But don't lose hope. In this case, these bad habits are not your fault - and the good news is this: they can be changed, easier than you could ever imagine, by merely substituting water for sweet drinks.
To sum it up, remember this: In addition to the bright, refreshing taste of water, and all of the other incredibly powerful, life-changing health benefits that water delivers (more energy, healthier organs, less joint pain, better digestion), we can add another reason to enjoy water: Healthier eating habits!
The All-important pH Balance
Hydrogen is the measure of acidity or alkaline in the body, pH via a number between 0 and 14 measured through blood testing.
A pH of 7 is neutral, a pH below 7 is acidic, but between 7 and 14 is alkaline.
For optimum health, the body's blood chemistry needs to be slightly alkaline, with a pH level ideally between 7.38 and 7.42. When the pH level strays too far above or below this level, disease and illness are likely to follow.
It is possible to become too alkaline (known as alkalosis). However, due to the average American diet, a condition called acidosis (too much acid) is far more widespread.
Acidosis is a severe medical condition, with symptoms such as a headache, confusion, coma, shortness of breath, increased heart rate, nausea, seizures, muscular weakness, and many more problems.
A normal stomach has an approximate ph measure of 4.0. Consuming high pH alkaline food causes the stomach pH to rise. When the stomach pH rises above 4.5, the stomach produces hydrochloric acid to try to raise the acidity. Here is the chemical formula of hydrochloric acid formation:
H20 + CO2 + NaCl = HCI =NaHCO3
Sodium chloride (salt) and Co2 (carbon dioxide) produce hydrochloric acid and sodium bicarbonate. The hydrochloric acid goes into the stomach, and then the sodium bicarbonate goes into the bloodstream.
When the blood becomes too acidic, sodium bicarbonate works to raise the blood pH level.
If we don't have enough sodium bicarbonates in our blood, we have trouble controlling too much acid, which can result in high blood pressure, kidney stones, premature aging, osteoporosis, and many other health problems.
Since the standard American diet consists mainly of acidic foods (meat, dairy products, grains, and sweets) and because of toxins in the environment, most people have an acidic pH level.
If the pH level in our blood drops too low, acidosis may result. The dangers of this condition were mentioned earlier.
Why is this important?
Because disease grows far more efficiently in an acidic environment and has much more difficulty thriving in an alkaline environment.
In an acidic environment, we are forcing our bodies to work much harder than they are designed to. This explains why disease can get a foothold to cause illness.
A slightly alkaline body is necessary for optimum health. Many diseases cannot survive in an alkaline environment.
No matter how hard you work out, and how much you watch your diet, you will never achieve optimum health until you have the proper acid/alkaline balance in your body.
Here are a few of the consequences of Acid-Alkaline Imbalance:
An acidic environment weakens the body's cellular structure. This results in making the entire system function less efficiently and speeds up the aging process
Acidosis reduces the body's supply of oxygen, which is the primary source of energy, leading to fatigue/tiredness.
Another side effect of acidosis is a result of the body being forced to use its alkaline mineral supplies to reduce acids in your fluids and tissues. Reduced mineral supplies can cause dry skin, brittle nails, sensitive gums, and thinning hair.
The brain requires roughly 20 percent of all the oxygen you breathe in. As acidosis lowers the body's oxygen levels, this can result in forgetfulness, poor concentration and a host of other adverse brain problems.
- As the heart needs oxygen, lack of it can lead to cardiovascular problems. Acidosis equals low oxygen
If you are suffering from any of these problems, there is a good chance that you are overly acidic. This is true for so many people…and sad because the solutions are readily available: stay appropriately hydrated and…
Choose The Right Foods
In addition to staying properly hydrated, be concerned with the alkaline and acid content of the food you eat. Here is a brief list of alkaline and acid foods:
Acid Forming Foods: Corn Tortillas…Sourdough Bread…White Bread…Ketchup…Mayonnaise…Mustard…Cheese…Eggs…Milk (pasteurized) Yoghurt…Beer…Coffee…Fruit juice…Liquor…Beef…Pork…Sardines (canned)…Tuna (canned)…Veal…Artificial sweeteners…Pickled vegetables…Soda
Alkaline Forming Foods: Alfalfa…Barley Grass…Cucumber…Kale…Avacado…Lima Beans…White (Navy) Beans…Spinach…Fresh Red Beets…Red Radish…Cabbage…Celery…Fresh Cut Green Beans…Garlic…Ginger…Oregano…Fresh Lettuce
This is a list to study and be aware of. It is nearly impossible to avoid all acidic foods nor is it necessary. The key is a balance. The goal is to add more alkaline foods and eat fewer acidic foods.
Putting It All Into Action: A Few Helpful Ideas
1. Write…and write some more. Write out a detailed food plan, and make it as precise as possible. This will bring the power of your subconscious mind into the equation, and increase your self-discipline many times over.
You may even want to take a day and write down everything you eat or drink in 24 hours …everything! Remember, it all adds up.
The milk, cream, and sugar you pour into your coffee or tea, the extra beer you have with dinner, and the late night snack. You may be surprised.
Last, write down an affirmation before going to bed. This can be anything that will help you stay on your program. "I followed my nutrition plan today, and I will follow it tomorrow" is just an example. Personalize whatever phrases or motivational sayings that will work for you.
2. Don't Skip Breakfast. This gets the day going right and gives us the energy boost we need. Also, when it comes to our intake of calories, the earlier, the better.
3. Slow It Down. Scientists tell us that it takes about 20 minutes for the stomach to signal the brain that we are full. Eating slower will both allow us to eat less, and give our overworked stomachs some well-deserved help in digesting our food since we are taking the time to chew more thoroughly.
4. No Evening Eating. Why go to bed on a full stomach? Think about it. The food we eat at bedtime has a much slower rate of digestion and therefore will turn to fat easier than what we ate earlier.
5. Learn More About Food Preparation. Steaming, juicing, blending, grilling, baked, roasted, stir-fried, saute: There are so many options for food preparation. Whoever said that eating healthy has to be drab, bland and boring? It ain't true. Study recipes, and you'll see why.
6. Prepare a Shopping List. This will keep you focused, reduce impulse buying and make it easier to make the right choices when temptation is staring directly at you.
7. Eat Only When You're Hungry. Learn from the family pet. You don't have to force anything down just because the clock strikes a certain hour. Listen to your body. It's that simple.
8. Forget About The Adage: "Clean Your Plate." This was good advice from mom when you were a growing child. But for most of us, that was a long time ago. When you feel full, just remember that there is no law against saving what's left for another time.
9. Read Labels. Anything that ends in "…ose" is probably sugar. A general rule here is that the more ingredients, the worse the product is to eat. Also, the ingredients are listed in the amounts that they are in the product. For example, the first listed ingredient is in the product more than the last one. If sugar is listed first, beware.
10. Listen To Your Body. This may be the most important rule to remember. If you feel guilty about eating something, that is telling you something. Conversely, if you are having a hard time-consuming something that you know is healthy, then don't! There are many healthy alternatives. Learn them.
By following these guidelines, you will set the stage and create the perfect environment for Human Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy to blast off…and deliver to you all of its miraculous benefits. It's really that simple. Remove the obstacles, then watch and feel the difference!
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Every reporter Li Keyu and every editor Li Jinghan
Nowadays, self-portrait has become an indispensable part of many womens lives: self-portrait for enjoying afternoon tea, self-portrait for watching ballet and self-portrait for visiting famous mountains and rivers.
However, when you take out your self-timer and examine it carefully, and show off these photos on micro-blogs and micro-letters, and get dozens of comments on Mei Mei Dai, have you ever thought that these self-timer photos posted on social platforms might become tools of micro-merchants fraud, or even be used by criminals to promote pornography business?
Recently, there is such a news, which has aroused a heated discussion among netizens, especially female netizens: a media survey found that on the network platform, 35 female life photos can be bought at a price as low as 19 yuan. Some pictures are even printed on small cards. How did such a terrible thing happen? In response, Daily Economic News reporters launched an investigation.
Beauty Living Photo Underground Sales
The reporter opens an e-commerce platform and searches for the keywords mentioned in the report to solicit business. From the search results, the e-commerce platform has cleaned up the keywords, and the reporters have not searched the shops that sell private photos.
However, some online stores continue to sell large quantities of photos suspected of violating other peoples privacy in a more covert way. For example, an online store sells so-called breast enhancement contrast maps at a price of 2.88 yuan. Its page description says that these photos can be used for copywriting materials of breast enhancement products sold by micro-merchants.
After the reporter contacted the seller and successfully purchased, he received a web link, which was about 50MB in size. It included more than 300 pictures of women with full breasts, mainly life photos and self-photos. Most of these pictures are rough and have obvious signs of piracy from the Internet. When inquiring about customer service in online stores, customer service also clearly indicated that these pictures were collected online.
For the reporters query, customer service said that there would be no infringement of these photos. However, after looking at these photos in detail, the reporter found that many of them can clearly see the features of the photographers facial features and clearly show the photographers portrait, which will involve the issue of portrait rights.
In addition to the so-called breast enhancement contrast map, the shop also sells acne elimination contrast map and whitening contrast map and other products. From the public information, there is no so-called Beauty Life Photo. But after contacting customer service, the reporter found that the product was still sold underground. According to customer service, if you want to buy this kind of product, you need to add a micro-signal, after sending a red envelope to it, you can get further information.
In another online store, sales of so-called circle of friends photos are relatively less obscure. On the home page of the shop, there is a link called real cover girl of Weixin circle of friends.
However, due to similar news reports in recent years, the customer service of this shop is more cautious. When the reporter asked where the photos were from, the customer service did not reply. However, the reporter found on the online store page that it clearly indicated that these photos were collected by the network.
Grabbing No Benefit, No Benefit for Network Pictures
Where does the picture come from? Daily Economic News reporter noted that with the help of tools, online businesses can collect a large number of pictures in a cost-free way for profit.
After searching online, reporters found that there are many tools that claim to be able to collect photos in batches on multiple platforms, such as micro-blog, and some even free of charge.
In this kind of software, as long as the users photo album address is input, the pictures can be exhausted in one net. Reporters take a well-known female stars micro-blog as an example, as long as you enter a link to her album, you can automatically download all the pictures in the album. In addition, users are free to choose the number of pictures they want to grab. For example, if you enter the option of grabbing 1-3 pages of pictures in the software, the software will automatically wipe out the first three pages of pictures in the female stars micro-blog album.
Whats the use of buying these private photos? Reporters learned that, in addition to the photos mentioned in the reports were printed on small cards, they were also used in micro-commerce advertisements or false propaganda. For example, in the so-called breast enhancement material map folder purchased by journalists, in addition to female pictures, hundreds of so-called breast enhancement product advertising copy are attached.
In the recent Wechat Tea Sale fraud, which has been repeatedly seized by public security organs, a large number of young womens life photos and self-photos are also commonly used tools by fraudsters. Some micro-signals use the above-mentioned ways to buy photos, pretend to be beautiful women to deceive the trust of the other side, and then sell low-cost tea for various reasons, thus succeeding in the fraud.
In June this year, the Huizhou Public Security Bureau of Guangdong Province issued a message that it had successfully cracked down a large telecommunication network fraud criminal gang that used Wechat to make friends and commit fraud.
According to reports, the suspect used Wechat to disguise as a tea seller to publish false information to make friends, and then used fictional family misery, birthdays, lovelorn and public fried tea to deceive micro-credit users of sympathy, and sold tea at 580 yuan, 880 yuan, 1280 yuan and other prices. Tea Seller cheats money by sending inferior tea at a price of only about 50 yuan to the owner.
What laws are specifically violated by the act of selling photographs of others? Daily Economic News reporters learned that if such photos on the Internet appear the portrait of the person being photographed, or the portrait is not clearly covered, it involves the infringement of citizensportrait rights.
Article 100 of the General Principles of Civil Law stipulates that Citizens enjoy the right to portrait. Without their consent, they may not use their portraits for profit.
The Supreme Peoples Courts opinions on Several Issues concerning the implementation of the General Principles of Civil Law (trial implementation) are more clear: For profit-making purposes, without the consent of citizens, the use of their portraits for advertising, trademarks, window decoration, etc., should be recognized as violations of citizensright to portrait.
In the above cases, it is illegal for online stores to sell other peoples portrait photos to users for profit. If there are micro-merchants using the purchased portrait photos to attract business, it is also for profit purposes, so it also violates the relevant laws and regulations.
Beauty Living Photos Selled by E-commerce Platform are photographed by journalist Li Keyu
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Last month, Raw and Smackdown purported to celebrate their first brand exclusive Pay per Views, with this development personifying the continuation of the WWE’s New Era gimmick. Truthfully both the red and blue brands have had plenty of previous form for presenting their own unique content. When the company first made the decision to split their roster into two, way back in April 2002, they originally decided on dual Raw and Smackdown PPVs, seemingly believing that the paying public would not commit to purchasing shows deprived of several key performers. It wasn’t until over a year later, in June 2003, that Raw hosted it's own special event in the form of the forgettable Bad Blood; Smackdown followed suit with the far superior Vengeance in July. Whilst the brands continued to share ownership of the traditional big four shows (Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania, Summerslam and Survivor Series), all other events were brand specific, with Raw and Smackdown taking alternate months to present their stars and storylines. This pattern lasted until February 2007, with the Smackdown exclusive No Way Out ending the experiment; over the next few years Raw and Smackdown shared the spotlight until the initial brand split was quietly dropped in 2011. From 2005-2009, the third brand, ECW, was also a part of the mix, hosting three of its own distinct PPVs and contributing talent to the collaborative shows between 2007-10.
This particular era of brand exclusive Pay per Views isn’t especially celebrated by modern fans. It doesn’t yet command the nostalgic appeal of the Attitude era and, bell to bell, the standard of wrestling was not as consistent as it is today. However, 2003-2007 remains a fascinating period in WWE history: each PPV was TV 14, allowing for a mature, at times shocking, presentation of the form; notable young performers rose to prominence and classic matches were crafted. Indeed, several of the shows are very good indeed, with the best of the bunch listed below.
ECW's One Night Stand 2005
This show, from New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom, was a legitimate representation of the ECW product, reflecting the styling and ethos of Paul Heyman and not Vince McMahon. ECW or WWE, undoubtedly this is one of the best PPVs of all time, overshadowing many a Wrestlemania. The crowd is red hot, the commentary is passionate and the action is insane. Mike Awesome vs Masato Tanaka is simply breath-taking.
RAW's Vengeance 2005
This is the best Raw exclusive show, and was also the best performing of all of the brand exclusive PPVs, drawing a total of 420,000 buys. The card was deep, mostly due to the fact it took place during the middle of a month long draft, meaning that Raw found itself in possession of both the WWE and World titles. As a result this show delivered an early John Cena title defence against Christian and Chris Jericho (this marked one of the first occasions of the crowd turning on the babyface champ) and the best ever contest between HHH and Batista. The mid-card featured an instant classic between Kurt Angle and Shawn Michaels and a very decent match between Kane and Edge.
Smackdown's Vengeance 2003
The Smackdown PPV era began with a US title match between Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit; many might have seen this as an indicator of a serious, scientific wrestling product but later in the show Vince McMahon pulled a gruesome juice job in a vicious match with Zach Gowen. The main event between Angle, Big Show and Brock Lesnar was as an excellent example of the triple threat format.
RAW's Backlash 2004
The undercard was far from gripping but the big two fights delivered in a huge way: Randy Orton vs Mick Foley was a bona fide hardcore classic, easily in the top three bouts of each man’s career. The sight of Orton’s back, lanced with dozens of thumb tacks lingered in the memory and the decisive win he secured set him on the way to the main event scene. The Wrestlemania 20 rematch between Benoit, Triple H and Shawn Micheals was a shade below the original but still delivered action aplenty as Benoit won before a hometown crowd.
RAW's Unforgiven 2006
Speaking of hometown crowds…live from Toronto, this event was largely sold on two big matches: the first was a spectacular TLC stunt-fest where the champion Edge (who, despite being the heel, is moved to tears during his rapturous ring introduction) squared off with arch rival John Cena; the second was a Hell in a Cell match in which D-Generation X faced the McMahons and the Big Show. This match was not a purist classic in any sense but showcased a memorable spot whereby Vince got up close and personal with the Big Show. Vince’s special club was very much a product of this era…
RAW's Vengeance 2006
This event didn’t feature the best wrestling but the roster was so eclectic that it made for absorbing viewing. The return of DX was the headline attraction here as HHH and HBK lined up against all 5 members of the Spirit Squad but this was a card that featured Flair vs Foley, Cena vs Sabu and RVD vs Edge. The opener between Randy Orton and Kurt Angle was an excellent start to the show.
Smackdown's No Mercy 2003
Largely forgotten, this was a very enjoyable show. The battle between Vince and Stephanie McMahon was initially engaging before morphing into some ultimately uncomfortable viewing but there was plenty to enjoy on the card: Brock and Undertaker competed in a spirited main event, Rey Mysterio and Tajiri battled over the first incarnation of the Crusierweight title and Cena entered a, then, career best performance in the match of the night with Kurt Angle.
There you go: seven shows that celebrate the work of departed legends, showcase the early years of current stars and present a more bloody, controversial style of wrestling. Maybe you’ve never seen the aforementioned events; maybe you haven’t re-watched them since they first aired: regardless, it may be time to fire up the WWE Network and appreciate what the original brand wars contributed to the history of the business.
|Editor - Arguably the Top 4 performers of this period, but that's another article for another day....|
Words - Sean Taylor-Richardson
Images - James Marston
Editor - James Marston
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Peering over the cliff’s edge, the vast Pacific stretches out before me on a picture perfect day. It’s unusually clear for seven a.m. in April. Just north of Bodega but shy of Jenner, this section of the Sonoma Coast undulates in a ragged ribbon of rocky shoreline, prettier than a postcard and dramatic enough to take your breath away. For me, it is one of the most incredible places on earth. But I am biased. I grew up nearby. The significance of being exactly here for this purpose at dawn on Earth Day is not lost on me.
Below, amongst the rocks, with heads capped in beanies, their puffy vests twisting around tidepools as the waves crashed theatrically behind them, a team of foragers hunts for kelp. Among them is Tyler Malek, co-founder of artisanal ice cream company Salt & Straw, and I am on my way to meet him.
“Bringing my team out here is a chance for them to be on the ground to understand the where, how and why we source our ingredients,” Malek tells me. “Because they are part of the experience, they are more excited to describe the flavors in the shops and ultimately sell the product. While it’s a team-building and educational experience, it also instills passion and excitement for the flavors that translates to their interaction with customers in the shops, day to day.”
As part of a seasonal ice cream series in June 2019, Malek teamed up with Heidi Hermann and Forage SF to harvest kelp for an upcoming flavor, North Coast Foraged Trail Mix, which will be offered in the Bay Area ice cream scoop shops. As I scamper around the rocks, snapping shots of the scene, Hermann guides Malek and the group through the flavor profiles of the varieties of the different kelp in the area.
“Working with Heidi was integral to understanding the wide assortment of kelp available to us that day, growing wild up and down the Sonoma Coast. We tasted so many kinds of seaweed with different textures, shapes and sizes, and each with a unique level of salinity too,” says Malek. “In the end, kombu was chosen for the North Coast Foraged Trail Mix due to its abundance, flavor, and our ability to translate it to ice cream.”
Once we harvested enough, the group takes a moment to look around and collectively, silently thank the earth for its abundance and the gifts it gave us that day—what we foraged, the morning sunshine, crisp air, and pristine views.
In developing the June flavor series, Malek was inspired by the great outdoors, which triggered nostalgia for recent camping trips with friends and family—and all the foods that went with it. In the spirit of getting outside during summer, flavors in the series include: Campfire S’mores; Buttermilk Pancakes; Bacon & Eggs; Mushroom Muddy-Buddies; Berries, Beans & BBQ Sauce; and the North Coast Foraged Trail Mix, specific to the Bay Area scoop shops.
In the company of such beloved “third wave” artisanal ice cream makers to emerge recently—those who offer unusual pairings, and often combine savory with sweet—Salt & Straw might be the most zealously adored. The line of customers that accompanies the opening of one of their new scoop shops is the stuff of social media legend, and months after the ribbon is cut, the fervor hasn’t dwindled one iota.
Malek and his team develop the flavors in their Portland, Oregon, test kitchen and along with classic mainstays, offer limited-run menus to coincide with the seasons and pay homage to the local communities in which they set up shop.
I was as excited as anyone to see how North Coast Foraged Trail Mix turned out. So when the dry ice-packed pint arrived shortly before its regional release, I opened it up and dug in. Ice cream for breakfast? All in the name of journalism.
It was so much more than I expected. Huckleberry jam, pecans, dried apricots, dried blueberries, pine nuts, coconut oil, and of course the kombu mingle together in a nuanced, delightful way offset by a creamy base. The balance of sweet, salty, crunchy and creamy is excellent and the combination of flavors is unexpectedly addictive. Not only that, it’s downright gorgeous with thick streaks of huckleberry swirled into bright white, in a richness of hue a painter would be proud of.
As head ice cream maker at Salt & Straw, this is what Malek and his team do—blend adventurous and surprising flavors that wildly exceed expectations. The Salt & Straw Chef Collaboration series of flavors and outtakes—with such combos as Duck Crackling with Cherry Preserves and Ras el Hanout and Pickled Rose Petal Jam by the likes of chefs Traci des Jardin and Renee Erickson—read like a four-star dining menu, complete with buzz-worthy chef attached.
However, the magic ingredient might not be found in the bottom of your ice cream cone. Beyond doling out scoops, founders Tyler and Kim Malek have made a point to develop relationships with local food purveyors, farmers and chefs in each of the unique food locales where they do business. In doing so, they have endeared the Salt & Straw brand to those communities in meaningful ways, bringing their ethos of inclusivity and building camaraderie along the way. For example, prior to opening in San Francisco for the first time, they partnered with La Cocina, a non-profit incubator focused on bringing immigrant women-created food businesses to market. In Portland, they work with elementary schools to develop flavors thought up by the kids through their Ice Cream Inventor Series.
Those who live in Portland know how different the city is from San Francisco and L.A., where Salt & Straw also has locations. Despite the fact that the inhabitants of one region are as food-savvy as the next, each food community is truly unique with its own set of challenges and opportunities. Which is why foraging kombu and learning from Hermann along the Sonoma coast is about so much more than making a wacky ice cream flavor.
It would be easy for Malek to buy some commercial trail mix in bulk created in a lab, dump it into a vanilla base, charge $5 a scoop, and call it a day. But when it comes to developing flavors, easy, cheap and fast are not the ethos of Salt & Straw.
Unique flavors and highest quality ingredients are only one component of the recipe for success at Salt & Straw; a mission to engage with every single person involved in the chain of creation—from Hermann and her kelp-foraging business to the scoopers at each Salt & Straw—is about creating community, making food responsibly, and honoring locality. Fortunately for their guests, what they come up with just happens to taste truly delicious. | <urn:uuid:708f1d9a-8d36-4a08-a231-ecc4d088280f> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://lifeandthyme.com/food/foraging-for-flavor-with-salt-straw/ | 2019-06-20T05:54:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999141.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20190620044948-20190620070948-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960559 | 1,474 | [
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Recent US immigration policy changes have a lot of immigrants concerned — understandably so. Those policy changes removed some restrictions on the groups that can be removed from the country so more people are potentially affected. If you recently received a Notice to Appear, you’re currently navigating the deportation process, or you think you are at risk of deportation, it’s important to know what the steps are. Understanding the process can help you prepare appropriately. Learn more about how deportation works in the US and contact the Law Office of Diron Rutty, LLC if you seek deportation or immigration help.
Notice to Appear
The first step in the deportation process is an official Notice to Appear from US Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE). The notice will provide at least 10 days notice to appear in court. Often, a Notice to Appear will come after arrest by local or federal law enforcement. The arrest can be in relation to a serious crime, but it can also occur if you are pulled over by local law enforcement for something minor, like a traffic violation. You may also be detained at a border crossing or at an airport when traveling.
Please note, any individual facing deportation may have the help of an immigration lawyer throughout the deportation process, but the courts will not appoint one. It will be up to you or a loved one to find an immigration lawyer if you so choose.
Detainment & Bond
Those arrested by local law enforcement can be detained by ICE based on a security/safety risk. If individuals are detained within 100 miles of a US border and if they’ve been in the US for two weeks or less, they can be deported through the expedited removal process. Otherwise, a Department of Justice immigration judge will decide whether bond is necessary and set the amount. Like bail, the detainee can be released after posting bond.
Some individuals are eligible to choose to voluntarily leave the US, referred to as voluntary departure. There are strict guidelines in place governing who is eligible for voluntary departure. However, voluntary departure can permit individuals to return to the US later under legal means.
Master Calendar Hearing
This short hearing determines how a case will move forward. An ICE attorney will present charges and the person in question will be asked to admit or deny each charge. The person in question will also have the opportunity to present a defense (called relief). Defenses can include asylum, marriage- or family-based petition, or cancellation of removal. An immigration lawyer can help determine which defense to present and how to support it.
Merits Hearing & Order of Removal
This hearing is when individuals can present their arguments for staying in the country. At the end of the Merits Hearing, the judge will decide whether the individual can stay in the US. The decision may be made at the end of the hearing or sent in the mail.
If removal is ordered, individuals can request a delay of deportation to appeal the order. However, some individuals may be detained throughout the appeals process, even if they were eligible for bond.
If you or a loved one is facing deportation, you don’t need to navigate the process alone. Get help from the experienced professionals at the Law Office of Diron Rutty, LLC. Contact our offices in the Bronx, Manhattan, or Poughkeepsie to get started. | <urn:uuid:bda4ef82-db80-44ad-8f8a-679c8e30baa8> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.dironruttyllc.com/immigration-lawyer-the-bronx/answering-deportation-questions-how-deportation-works-in-the-us/ | 2019-06-20T05:41:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999141.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20190620044948-20190620070948-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.949874 | 671 | [
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Citibank Sold Credit Card Debt with Inflated Interest Rates; Debt Collectors for Citibank Altered Affidavits
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today took two separate actions against Citibank for illegal debt sales and debt collection practices. In the first action, the CFPB ordered Citibank to provide nearly $5 million in consumer relief and pay a $3 million penalty for selling credit card debt with inflated interest rates and for failing to forward consumer payments promptly to debt buyers. The second action is against both Citibank and two debt collection law firms it used that falsified court documents filed in debt collection cases in New Jersey state courts. The CFPB ordered Citibank and the law firms to comply with a court order that Citibank refund $11 million to consumers and forgo collecting about $34 million from nearly 7,000 consumers.
“Citibank sent inaccurate information to buyers when it sold off credit card debt and it also used law firms that altered court documents,” said CFPB Director Richard Cordray. “Today’s action provides redress to consumers who were victimized by slipshod practices as part of our ongoing work to fight abuses in the debt collection market.”
Citibank, N.A., is a national bank with headquarters in New York, N.Y., that issues consumer credit cards. From 2010 to 2013, Citibank sold portfolios of charged-off credit card accounts. It typically provided debt buyers with information about the consumer and the debt, including the supposed annual percentage rate (APR). A “charged-off” account is one the bank deems unlikely to be repaid, but may sell to a debt buyer, usually for a fraction of face value. The debt buyer then can try to collect on those accounts.
Illegal Debt Sales Practices
Citibank broke the law when, from February 2010 until June 2013, it provided inaccurate and inflated APR information for almost 130,000 credit card accounts it sold to debt buyers. These buyers then used the exaggerated APR in debt collection attempts. Citibank also failed to promptly forward to debt buyers approximately 14,000 customer payments totaling almost $1 million. The CFPB found that Citibank violated the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Financial Protection Act. Specifically, Citibank:
- Overstated the annual percentage rate in accounts sold to debt buyers: Between February 2010 and June 2013, Citibank overstated the APR for 128,809 accounts it sold to 16 different debt buyers. For some accounts, Citibank claimed the APR was 29 percent when it was actually 0 percent. Consumers paid about $4.89 million to debt buyers who used an APR inflated by more than 1 percent in collection efforts.
- Delayed sending consumer payments to debt buyers: From 2010 to 2013, Citibank delayed forwarding to debt buyers nearly 14,000 payments made by consumers, totaling almost $1 million. This delayed the updating of account balances and subjected consumers to collection efforts from debt buyers after they had already, in reality, paid off their account.
Under the Dodd-Frank Act, the CFPB has the authority to take action against institutions or individuals engaged in unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices. Under the CFPB’s order addressing illegal debt sales practices, Citibank must:
- Refund an estimated $4.89 million to roughly 2,100 consumers: Citibank must refund all payments consumers made from Feb. 1, 2010 to Nov. 14, 2013 to debt buyers that referenced an inflated APR provided by Citibank in their collection efforts where the discrepancy was more than 1 percent.
- Accurately document the debt it sells: Citibank must provide certain account documents when it sells debt, such as the credit agreement and recent account statements.
- Stop selling debt it cannot verify: Citibank cannot sell debts if it cannot provide documentation, if the consumers notified Citibank of identity theft or unauthorized use, if consumers allege in writing that they do not owe the amount claimed, or if the account is within 150 days of the end of the statute of limitations.
- Include certain protections in debt sales contracts: Citibank must include provisions in its debt sales contracts prohibiting the debt buyer from reselling the debt.
- Provide consumers with basic information about the debt: When it sells a debt, Citibank must give consumers information about the debt, such as the name of the original creditor, the credit agreement, and recent account statements.
- Pay civil money penalties: Citibank must pay a $3 million penalty to the CFPB’s Civil Penalty Fund.
Separately, the CFPB is taking action today against Citibank, two of its affiliates – Department Stores National Bank and CitiFinancial Servicing, LLC – and two debt collection law firms for altering affidavits filed in debt collection lawsuits. Citibank retained Faloni & Associates, LLC, of Fairfield, N.J., and Solomon & Solomon, P.C., of Albany, N.Y. to collect credit card debt on its behalf in New Jersey state courts.
Citibank filed sworn statements attesting to the accuracy of the debt allegedly owed. Citibank then provided the affidavits to their attorneys to file with New Jersey courts. The two firms retained by Citibank altered the dates of the affidavits, the amount of the debt allegedly owed, or both, after the affidavits were executed. This violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
In May 2011, Citibank learned that one of its law firms had altered affidavits and stopped referring new credit card accounts to it. At Citibank’s request, a New Jersey court dismissed actions pending as of Sept. 12, 2011 that Citibank identified as involving altered affidavits or incorrect information.
The CFPB’s order requires Citibank to comply with the New Jersey state court order, in which Citibank had to refund $11 million collected from consumers and stop collection of an additional $34 million in debts, both of which Citibank has done. Solomon & Solomon, P.C., must pay a $65,000 penalty to the Bureau’s Civil Penalty Fund. Faloni & Associates, LLC, must pay $15,000. Consistent with the Bureau’s , the CFPB did not impose civil money penalties on Citibank for this violation, especially in light of its efforts to recompense harmed consumers.
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Look at these fluffy biscuits!!!! Courtesy of Bob Evans. We got these today to go with lunch.
Love having a Bob Evans right down the street. Ohiophotogrl went there and also brought us home some chicken noodle soup. Lunch was great.
Still not 100 % but doing better and better every minute.
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42Q customers include Fortune 100, Fortune 500 and smaller companies. 42Q is deployed at one company in over 50 of their manufacturing facilities in 20 countries, and at another company who has just one facility.
If you want to deploy 42Q across multiple plants, and want a truly fully featured foundation for digital factory transformation, we recommend our MES 101 platform. MES101 has broad functionality built in, and has many options for a wide range of requirements.
If you want to start smaller in order to quickly prove value and feasibility, our “Rapid Series” products let you demonstrate basic functionality including electronic travelers, online work instructions, component traceability and verification in just weeks. | <urn:uuid:8ee1bdde-856d-46ee-ad5a-eddc5ff7adcf> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.42-q.com/products/ | 2019-06-16T18:38:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998291.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20190616182800-20190616204800-00232.warc.gz | en | 0.94885 | 140 | [
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