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That original reminds me of a monumental bronze bust of Martin Luther King that sits in front of the MLK center in Lusaka, Zambia. Except for the plaque on the base, no one would ever have guessed who it was supposed to represent. Same with this Lucy. An artist has got to know his limitations. The artist who did the original Lucy and the one who did the original MLK should NOT be doing representations of real people.
"The only thing red about Lucy is her hair, and even that is not legitimate." — Desi Arnaz, Jr.
As if to prove the point, Lucille Ball, after divorcing Desi and buying out his share in Desilu Productions in 1962, proceeded to green light Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, and The Untouchables. Some will (rightly) point out that Star Trek's/Gene Roddenberry's politics leaned left. I think Ms. Ball looked at the vision of the future in which the bridge had a Russian navigator, an African-American communications officer, and an alien science officer, thought of her Communist-refugee Cuban ex-husband, and hoped for that future, whether it happened in her lifetime or not. | {
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Comments on: How 12 Wildly Successful Online Stores Use Visual Merchandising to Drive Sales (and How You Can, Too)https://www.bigcommerce.com/blog/visual-merchandising/
Ecommerce Blog delivering news, strategy and success stories to power 2x growth for scaling brands.Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:09:00 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4By: Cynthia Ratkeviciushttps://www.bigcommerce.com/blog/visual-merchandising/#comment-335516
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:35:00 +0000https://www.bigcommerce.com/blog/?p=19920#comment-335516Hi Tracey! Nice post!
After reading this, I was wondering, if you´d like to become a professional Online Visual Merchandiser, which kind of courses or schools are available to start a career in that field?
Thanks!!
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Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:25:00 +0000https://www.bigcommerce.com/blog/?p=19920#comment-335134Hi Tracey,
Great post – are you able to confirm the name of the templates within bigcommerce for the
Collection-Based Only homepages, and a Collection-Based + Featured-Products homepages
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Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:39:00 +0000https://www.bigcommerce.com/blog/?p=19920#comment-334921Thanks @debhomewardfounddecorcom:disqus !! Glad you found it so helpful!!
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Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:16:00 +0000https://www.bigcommerce.com/blog/?p=19920#comment-334920Tracey, this is an excellent post. Your content is immediately actionable and the images illustrate the high points clearly – very well done. Nigel Stevens from Big Commerce alerted me to the post, since VM is my field and topic of posts on my blog. My content is geared mostly toward B&M merchandising, but I have just shared a link to your post as I know some of my readers will find your information very useful. I’ll be digging into your blog archives to see more of your great content! ;)
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The Mahabharata
Book 6: Bhishma Parva
Kisari Mohan Ganguli, tr.
[1883-1896]
This book of the Mahabharata is important for two reasons.
First of all, it contains the Bhagavad Gita, the best-known
Hindu sacred text.
Secondly, this book describes the start of the enormous battle which
is the center-piece of the work, specifically the first ten days of
conflict, up to the fate of the hero Bhishma.
The Bhishma Parva starts with an overture of apocalyptic and unnatural portents.
It then immediately digresses into a treatise on geography
and natural history--one of several texts which the great epic
accreted over time.
After this comes the Bhagavad Gita, which unlike some of the other digressions,
is a good thematic fit in the narrative.
Arjuna, facing a battle in which he will have to fight
many of his immediate relatives, is understandably hesitant to fight.
The Avatar Krishna then proceeds to explain to Arjuna why he must
fulfill his duty as a warrior, and how he can emerge from this spiritual
crisis of conscience with a clean slate.
This text deals with the contradictions of living a devotional life
in an imperfect world.
Even non-Hindus have found the Gita meaningful for this reason.
Then Krishna reveals to Arjuna his divine form; this section is one
of the best attempts to describe the indescribable ever written.
Finally we move on to the battle itself, which occupies two-thirds of Book 6,
a relentless and immersive description of the horror of war.
This is literally a blow-by-blow description of each incident of combat
over a period of ten days.
And this is no ordinary battle.
The combatants absorb incredible numbers of arrows and are still standing,
ready to fight the next day.
The field is stalked by vampires and cannibals.
There are rivers and oceans of blood and gore.
The heroes wield superweapons and magic spells,
only described elliptically,
with which they slay thousands of opponents at a time.
And at the end we learn how Bhishma, the undefeatable leader of Duryodhana's
army, is finally brought down. | {
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How to Write an RFP for a Fire Station Alerting System
If you’re like the majority of fire agencies we’ve interacted with, you’re required to put projects out for bid if they exceed a certain dollar amount.
More often than not, it requires you to write a request for proposal (RFP) or request for information (RFI). This ensures that the due diligence process is transparent and fair to all vendors wishing to participate.
A high-quality fire stationalerting system represents a large expenditure in an agency’s budget. It’s crucial that the committee assigned to write an RFP asks the right questions to make sure potential vendors can provide you with a product that will meet the agency’s requirements and expectations.
“Must Ask” QuestionsCommon sense dictates that you begin with the most basic questions, such as asking for the vendor’s name, contact details and other demographics. These can include such information as the number of staff they employ; the number of successful, similar projects they’ve completed for other fire departments; and any other crucial details that might be helpful, so vendors are clear about what you’re looking to accomplish with the alerting system you’re seeking.
Other key questions that US Digital Designs recommends asking include:
Will the solution provided be a turnkey fire station alerting system that includes all equipment, materials, installation-related services and supervision, training and support? If not, why not?
Will the solution be compliant with all application, local, state, and national electrical and building codes and will it ensure that all required permits are secured prior to launching the project? If not, why not?
Will the solution be fully compliant with the 2013 edition of National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1221 and 1710 as applicable? If not, why not?
Breaking the RFP Into Easy-to-Follow SectionsIt’s important to write an RFP as simply as possible for both the vendor to complete and, ultimately, for your fire department committee to review. Keep in mind that responses can contain dozens of pages of text, making it a fairly time-consuming endeavor.
General. Questions in this section should be broadly worded and require vendors to provide details about how the station alerting system will be offered, including specifications for power supply, capacity, and design to allow for future expansion and upgrades.
Automated and manual alerting interface. This is the segment where you must solicit feedback from vendors regarding how the proposed system will interface with your existing computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system. Also, ask if the system will interface with any radio systems used by the agency.
Station alerting. This particular section is vital because it truly is the “bread and butter” of any cutting-edge fire department alerting system. Within this section, there can also be subsections that include questions related to audibility, automated voice, mobile alerting of personnel, relay control, visual reinforcement/signage, intended reuse of existing audio equipment, dispatch printing, and other related requirements. Providing the responders with floor plans for each station being considered is highly recommended and will result in much more accurate responses.
Configuration and software updates. Here’s your chance to quiz prospective vendors about their approach to the initial setup as well as how they envision ongoing system maintenance of after it has been deployed.
Training. What type of training will the vendor provide for your staff? Will it be done on site or off site? What will the training schedule look like?
Pricing. In today’s challenging economy, the final price for the solution requested might be the deciding factor in choosing which vendor you ultimately go with. Make sure that you are asking for detailed pricing with a line-by-line breakdown of each cost as part of your RFP.
Warranty, service, and support. Ask the RFP participants what warranties and technical services and support are included. You’ll want to know the costs, duration and how their pricing is structured.
In addition to the bullets above, consider asking all respondents to provide a proof-of-concept system as part of their contractual obligation. This will not only protect your agency from a vendor potentially misinterpreting language in your RFP, but they will show you that there’s “proof in the pudding.” It can also offer greater levels of security and reduce your risk.
Finally, when sitting down to write an RFP, ask questions that delve into the station alerting system vendor’s financial history, industry status and experience. Ask them for bios of members of their leadership and engineering teams, including their levels of expertise. Responses to these questions will either raise “red flags” or give the “green light” to one vendor over another, when it’s a tough choice between several of them.
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Just as our physical body is protected by our skin, our psyche and spirit have energetic boundaries that keep out harmful influences. These boundaries, invisible to the naked eye, are more than just defenses—according to Cyndi Dale, our spiritual borders communicate to the universe what we do and don't want to experience in life. With Your Energetic Boundaries, this renowned intuitive and energy medicine expert presents a complete training course for maintaining this essential aspect of your health and personal integrity.
Your Interface with the Universe—The Value of Strong and Flexible Boundaries
Have you ever picked up on emotions or even illnesses that aren't yours? Do you sometimes feel drained of vitality by certain people? Are there specific patterns with your health, prosperity, or relationships that you can never seem to break? As Cyndi Dale teaches, these are some of the most common signs that we have damage to our energetic boundaries. Over six sessions, she teaches you how you can identify the seven most common syndromes that affect our energetic fields—and provides essential practices for creating healthy, flexible boundaries that protect you from harm while inviting supportive forces into your life.
In her experience as both a scholar and a healer, Cyndi Dale has found that working directly with our energetic boundaries is often the most effective way we can make immediate, positive changes in our lives—and share who we truly are with the world. Filled with insights, guided practices, and easy-to-learn techniques, Your Energetic Boundaries provides indispensable tools for staying protected and connected in every aspect of your life-in your relationships, career, health, and on your spiritual journey.
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Headed to Cincy.
Headed to Cincinnati this weekend, hopefully to watch the beloved Cubs clinch the Division! Anyway, wondering if anyone knew of a good store or two, that I can check out across the river. Really looking for some Four Roses. If anyone can suggest anything else that I can't get in Chicago, that would be great too.
Re: Headed to Cincy.
It's been years since I've been to Cork 'n Bottle - not for any particular reason, just the others are closer to me. Party Source of course already mentioned - but Party Town in Florence also has a really nice bourbon collection. It's a bit further than the others, but I love going there. I don't think it is related to Party Source, but I could be wrong.
Re: Headed to Cincy.
I get to Cincinnati a few times a year, and the Cork n' Bottle is my regular stop. Great selection of bourbons as well as any other type of alcohol you may require. And definitely go to a Skyline Chili for a three way. | {
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Recognition of Twin Flame Reunions
This is the discussion by Karenann, who is the foremost authority on Twin-Flames and who taught me about it. She can help clarify some things.
Twin Flames…they are a paradox of this reality we live in. A Twin Flame is part of dreaming, feeling, yearning for this magick of Love inside you in every night’s mystical whisper and every bird’s chirp of song in daylight, with the rumble in the pit of your stomach waiting to be totally intoxicated with this Love to be present in your life. It is part of the person I am as Karenann, as it is part of who you are –
There is a list of many possibilities people go through to determine if someone is your Twin Flame. I am here to say, when you “truly” meet your Twin Flame in this time-line, you do not need a check list. You simply know – you know in your heart – you know in your connection to each other – you know in your soul and in your connection to Spirit “attuned” with theirs -- you know because they rest in every atom that is you and that is part of this Universe – you know because it is the first person you truly resist because you are naked before them in who you are without restraint for the all of you to be shown. So, you do not need a list of checkmates.
I know much of Twin Flames, not because I read it in a book or Google (d) the term to my hearts desire to find answers – I know of them because I have breathed the very essence of what they represent in my Awakened Heart since a wee little girl. The term Twin Flames came to me rather randomly one day in my poetic rhymes of Love written; only to realize they were a term used often though-out human history.
Twin Flames are eternal, they are the Lovers of this world seeded here as the father and mother of various soul groups -- to Ignite the Hearts of all our souls in unity to become a Being of Intelligent Heart -- in its Enlightened Wisdom to be a Conscious Being of Light and Thought. Twin Flames are the Hearts of this world of souls on Earth, being part of every single heartbeat of all that has been loved and unloved trying to restore the balance. They are people shaped like Hearts in its greatest analogy and there is no accident when they re-unite.
We can see when two people are about to fall in love and also when they are about to part and move onto their next journey of Love. We can see who is destined to meet their Twin Flames in this life and who is meant to simply connect to the Energy of the Flame in Spirit to unite their polar opposites of “who they are” to become a ball of Absolute Love in Truth. We can feel the pains of this world in their cries from within and see the truths they deny – It’s a beautiful gift to feel Love everywhere in you and in every living thing, even with the pains incurred at times.
ALL can bathe in this miraculous feeling if they allow themselves to surrender to just Love, connecting to the Inner Flame – nothing else. No dramas, no debate, no victimization, no blame and no excuses. Ignite Your Inner Flame to feel the “we” in the everything that is you AND Become a person breathing, transformed into the one absolute beyond all manifestations – Pure Love.
We are going to stress this misunderstanding many are being illusioned into – not all of us are meant to meet our Twin Flame in this time-line and hold this intense and often difficult relationship in constant evolution with each other. We are not planted here in this world to tell people what they want to hear or cater to the possibility of “I want to meet my Twin Flame”, attitude.
Many because they attach soul mate, companion mate and divine partnerships to Divine Flame Relationships have missed very important factors – becoming illusioned by the game of Love itself.
** The Flame/ The Flames Energy is inside you – The Flame Energies many Twin Flames Speak of are the connection to the All of what we are to attain in our own beings -- to evolve into a person of Absolute Love and to shift into this energy field known as Higher Love. To move out of individualism and move into a state of “we”. You must first connect to the Energy of your Flame and Ignite that Flame in you – become the purity of Love connected to the source of truth, to even be able to harmonize with the ultimate Divine Partner, never-mind meet your Twin Flame and be harmonious in nature.
** It doesn’t occur to people that Twin Flames are not about having this perfect, ideal partner to build and have a loving relationship with – they are here on mission to heal within each other the many karmic pains in their surrounding soul groups in each other. There is a responsibility attached to Twin Flame reunions – it is simply not just about raising, having family and having this ultimate connection with one person. You can have this ideal partner relationship with a Divine Soul Mate, not simply your Twin Flame.
Focus on the aspect of you to embrace having a Divine relationship with first! Then the possibility of an ideal Divine Soul Mate to engage in life with, maybe a Twin Flame. You cannot even have a harmonious relationship with another being if you are not within the purity of love felt in yourself and living with ulterior motives attached to True Love.
** The Why and IF a Twin Flame reunion is destined to meet and merge into each others energies IS something in your soul, your memory you have been attached to for many years prior connecting to this Complimented Energy in preparation for your meeting. Messages have been given to you in exchange with each other in Spirit when you connect to the Divinity. This is why no question is present or check list as to “knowing truth” if you have met your Twin Flame. You have already been in a constant relationship with them since you were born preparing for this meeting, as the Universe aligns all in order for this meeting to take place. Twin Flame relationships cannot be forced, they must have freedom!
** IT must occur to people that your Twin Flame may be a 6 year old child on the other side of the world for that matter – If even; your complimenting Flame Energy exists in physical form right now to be able to meet them. Twin Flames is ALL about connecting to the Energy of Love within you – connect to this and then you have your truth.
We cannot understand for the life of our little hearts beating why this is so difficult for us to embrace as human beings – except for the mere fact of reasoning we desire this ultimate higher love to share with another person and we are so attached to physical senses to realize Twin Flames move beyond the physical senses.
TAKE personal responsibility for loving yourself and stop looking for or forcing Love to be present in its free-flowing nature Pure True Unconditional Love is supposed to be…let go and surrender you to yourself in humility. Humility defined as humble, unassuming in nature, modesty, gentleness.
Grace of love in finding our own sustainability in the essence of love knocking at our doors:)
by Karenann Whelan of Universal Heart To Soul World Center
Hello, XYZ! that is wonderful, too, if you meet this way. Meeting your Twin in the physical does not mean you are intended to reunite with them in this lifetime. You were brought together for a reason, but not necessarily for that purpose. If you are both happily married, then you would leave that part alone, and concentrate only on the mission and spiritual connection. You can, if you wish, carefully broche the subject with the other Twin and explain that while you are aware that they are your Twin-Flame and want them to be aware of what it means, that you can both work together in another way without it interupting their personal lives. They may understand the term, and they may not. If you just tell them that you both are soul-mates or deeply connected, they may get the wrong idea. If they understand the spiritual aspects and mission of Twins, they may not feel as threatened. It is best to keep it as a friendship, and if there is any physical draw that Twins usually have, don't spend time alone together unless in public. A person can be very happily married, but the intense and overwhelming energy draw of twins can take over in a heart-beat. If you are both on a spiritual path, you can learn to connect telepathically and perform spiritual work together without being together down here at all. I would guess that is why you two met at all. If not on the path, or the other isn't, then it may have been only for you to be aware of the fact that we have Twin-Flames, all of us. if you are on the path and the other isn't, you can use the Twin prayer in the discussions to connect and provide support for them for their own spiritual growth. When Twins are not to reunite in that lifetime, they often pick and send soul-mates or partners to the other to make them happy. Your Twin always wants you to be happy. You may have chosen the partners for each other intentionally through your Higher Selves and not even know it. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions. Love, Light, and Blessings, Brenda
You almost sound like me, Rosa! I know it can be very confusing at times, and the confusion can seem to drag on for long periods of time, but you must believe that there is a reason why you two met and were brought into each other's lives. You were brought together for a reason. Having the strength to end one relationship that isn't going anywhere is just one advantage. God and the Twin-Flame love gives us the strength to tackly and accomplish even the hardest tasks that we otherwise would have not done. I would have continued to stay in my marriage and be miserable and unloved without this, and you probably would have to. Having met them does not mean you will reunite right away. You need time to completely separate from the husband, or get a divorce, and have time to heal yourself. He also needs time to decide about his relationship and heal from it. We are not allowed to reunite until both Flames are ready, and when the emotional healing has been done. Have you talked to God or spirit and asked if you two are supposed to reunite in this lifetime? Meeting your Twin in the physical doesn't mean you will reunite in this life; I was told by God that we would. Sometimes it takes years for you both to move away from current situations and heal and move on in your lives. You need this time to get whole in yoursself and grow spiritually, because a Twin relationship is the highest, but also the hardest. If you are not whole and strong, you wouldn't be able to handle the intense energies and the difficulties. Trust me when I say that the fact that he's famous will complicate it some, too. Gary is also famous, and though he is extremely spiritual, there is a certain amount of ego and control that comes with fame and makes it hard for them to relinquish control and give in to the overwhelming energies. What will be will be. If you are meant to be together, you will be, no doubts, it is already written. Just have faith, be strong, and use this time to get independent and whole and into a new life. I can say this has been very hard on my kids, too, but they'll be o.k. When we finally get the grandest prize, all the confusion and pain will be so worth it we will wonder why we were so upset. My biggest problem is that I miss him so much. If you both are not on a spiritual path, that needs to be worked on. If you don't have a spiritual relationship with him, that can and should be established by using the Twin Prayer. It is better if you can do this and connect and support each other spiritually first before joining. I hope this helps. Love, Light, and Blessings, Brenda
Yes, I know what you mean. I miss him, but it's also like he's always here. He just has such an amazing presence and awesome energy. He lights up a room like no one I know of. Gary is very inspiring to women as well, and gives us the strength to stand up and be who we really are. I understand how you feel when you separate. I feel the same. I want so much to see him, but after the show the separation anxiety is excruciating at best. I think they feel it too, cause I can feel a difference in his energy for about 3 days after. I can tell when he is sad or his energy is down. It is a most magical love and nothing in the world compares. Just hang in there. We have to remember that each and every day spirit is working behind the scenes to bring us together with them and help us with what we need to do first. Patience is indeed the hardest lesson of all at times like this. Love, Bren
That's cool, Rosa! I feel his energy all over, but more in the tummy like you said. I don't feel the communication is there though, it's in my head. I talk with him many times a day telepathically, and I talk with him in person whenever he comes to town for a show. The months in-between shows, I don't get to talk with him physically. he is very subtle, hence the Southern Gentleman in him, but has said enough and given indicators that he knows of and aknowledges the connection, feels the same way, and knows what Twin-Flames are. He always comes down off the stage after each show and gives me a hug, and he always asks about the kids and how they are doing. He says to tell them he misses them. One show he was much more open and affectionate, but last time he backed off just a little. I think the strong energies scare him, and he's afraid of what might happen if we get too close before it's time. It used to seem like I was a secret and he wasn't comfortable with people knowing about us, but now he seems just fine with it. If I post something on his wall on facebook or myspace, he leaves it there, but hides almost all others. I send him links to songs a lot, and he plays them before and after his shows. We are getting there, slowly but surely, and in time we will all be with them and living a blissful love and life. I'm very happy for you that he has told you how he feels and about the kids. Many Twin men won't acknowledge it at all for years. It is so wonderful to know that they love and accept the kids, too. Love, Bren
Hi, Angel Healer! I didn't state that everyone will find their's in this life, just that every person does have a Twin. Some believe that they don't have one at all, but they do. No, not everyone will reunite in this lifetime. Some of us older souls are in our last incarnation and are supposed to reunite with our's; others are not. The ones that are reuniting right now in this lifetime are in their last life and meant to. Most people will not find their Twins in this life, correct. Any one person that is spiritually aware and wants to can connect spiritually with their Twin, though. They can establish a spiritual bond and telepathic connection and lend support to each other this way.
The reason why there are so many on the planet right now is because of the great spiritual awakening, and the number of us that are in our last life is greater now than ever before. At previous times, there were not so many old souls that were ready, very few in fact. There are some things now that are different than they have ever been, though, and we must take that into consideration. This is a time that is unique for this planet and will never happen again. This is a mass awakening and ascension like none other in History. God knows who is ready & who isn't, and wants as many Twins in place to help as possible.
Some Twins are even reuniting in this life without having had to meet all the usual criteria. It is God's choice for the sake of humanity. We bring so much love and light with our Twins, and we need that present now to help. Although it is very true that extremely few Twins have reunited before or been on the planet at the same time, that is because we were not old enough souls yet, and now we are. A great many of us have reached that point now in this life, but the majority of the Earth's population will not. We already know our life purpose and that we were chosen, and chose ourselves, to come and be here at this time period to aid humanity. Many have their destinies without reuniting with their Twins, but many are reuniting as well.
The biggest issue is making sure that it is truly a Twin relationship and not a mock Twin, soul-mate, or karmic-mate. Many people now are hearing the term and believe that they have met their's when they haven't. That accounts for a good portion of the numbers we're seeing right now. That is why this post is here, to help people know if it is a Twin relationship or not.
Yes, there have been a great many lives in which we were not incarnate at the same time, and we have had many lives in different places, different times, or even in the same life, but as some other relationship (a child, a parent, a sister, a friend). Still, we are going to see more Twins come together at this time than ever before; that's a forgone conclusion, and I have gotten all my information from God, Angels, and ascended Twins, as well as other highly evolved beings. Arch Angel Michael IS a Twin-Flame, with Faith as his Divine Counterpart. Others do have a Twin out there, but not necessarily on this planet.
Hello, Courtney! Good to hear from you. Yes, I would have to say it is highly likely that he is your Twin-Flame, but I can't say for absolutely positive. When I am pretty sure of something, but wish for a little more clarification, I use truth statements made to God & the Universe. You say out loud that you are making a truth statement and to please give you a definate response in warmth or cold. Truth always has a warm feeling and lies or untruths always have a cold chill. You would simply say out loud something like: "He is my Twin-Flame that comes to me in spirit." Then watch for the feeling you get. Then go the other way and say he is not and feel for the response. Early on when I wasn't sure of what was going on I did this. The first one I got a warm feeling. Then I followed it with the other, a mistake on my part, and I not only got a cold chill, but a very yucky aweful feeling followed by a big pain through my chest & heart, my chest tightened up, and couldn't breathe for a few seconds. I'll never do that again, but even though it was a bad feeling, it gave me an answer that I couldn't argue with at all. There was no doubt.
It is entirely possible for you to meet your's even being very young. I have taught students the meditations at 15 yrs. old and met their Twins when they opened up completely. If you have been told you're in your last life, then it is very possible. What you need to know is whether you'll be together in the physical in this lifetime or not. It is always possible for your Twin to visit you, comfort you, show affection, etc. from spirit whether they are incarnate on Earth right now or not. That doesn't mean you'll be together physically. I would pray about it and talk to Spirit and ask them that part. Your Divine Mission can be fulfilled either way, and you'll need to work on your own self and mission regardless. Believe me, I know how hard it is to concentrate and not have them take up every second of the day once we know who they are, but it will not come to us unless we are fully ready. Divine Timing will play heavily, and you need to be whole and balanced, and fulfilling your mission independently before you come together. He will need to do the same. It also doesn't mean that he is ready just because his higher self comes to you this way. Our Twin's higher selves are capable of this whenever, and we don't feel it or know until we are somewhat awakened, but his physical self may need time.
My Twin is an extremely gifted and evolved man, but still had things that needed healing down here, & was not ready for a relationship yet, and I had much work to do. We are getting much closer now, and will be together soon enough. He has literally had to know and watch as I transformed and grew, became independent, learned my gifts, began my work & Mission myself, and raise myself up to take my place where I am predestined to be. He cannot interfere with this, and only supports me spiritually with little response down here. It's required of him because if I knew everything he knows, they said it would interfere with my Mission. If you need help finding out what your gifts are and your path/Mission, I can teach you the meditations. They will open you up more completely, unlock your soul and DNA, and much more. Let me know if you would like help with this.
I do wish you tons of love and blessings on your path and on hopefully meeting your Twin. Be prepared energetically if you meet him in person. There are no words to describe it.
I'm so glad to be of help to you. First of all, you need to stop worrying and thinking you may be wrong. If you know in your heart that it's him, then there lies your answer. The first thing we teach with the meditations is to trust your inner voice and not second-guess yourself. Just like with psychics, the first thought that comes into your head is the right one, and when you try to keep going back over it or rethinking it, that is when it gets messed up. Yes, it is his higher self that is communing with you in spirit. The Twin prayer is helping you both whether you see it in evidence or not, so keep it up. Don't worry further about the truth statements. Nerves will always alter the outcome of it. You have a strong enough inclination from the negative statement and the feelings from it. There is really no other reason why he would have initiated a spiritual connection with you if he wasn't your Twin. Strong soulmate connections can have some of the same characteristics, like the telepathic communications, but they don't usually initiate this spiritually first before ever meeting. This would be something that would develop after meeting a soul-mate to add to it. Your Twin is the one who loves you and supports you in spirit no matter where they are. I will send you a message so we can discuss the teachings.
Hi! I have sent a message with some information for you. The connection you have with him spiritually/telepathically is what they mean by "in consciousness." The more you do this, especially full-heartedly and without doubts, the stronger your bond with him will grow. Try learning how to astral travel with him, and know that you can show affection this way, too. If you think about it, he'll feel it. He may respond energetically back to you. So much for private, unknown daydreams!! LOL Just keep on with what you're doing. I'm so glad you feel this is helping you out; it is my pleasure!! Love, Bren
Thank you for the work you do. I met my twin flame when I was 12 years old as a camper at summer camp. We were both born on a Tuesday nine months apart. I feel in my soul that I was with him on his journey to birth. The day he was being born I was conceived. Both our middle names are ancient hebrew names that mean "messengers of God." or "light of God" His middle name is also the name of a well known angel. His first name is the same name as my own flesh n'blood brother, a sign given to me from the very start of my life. As he is my "soul brother" so to speak. I am a Pisces Sun, he is a Pisces moon, which represents spirituality, the dream world, and our final incarnation. the sun and the moon work as mirrors of each other as do we. As teenagers we spent several years seeing each other, only once a year, for just a few brief and magical weeks. When we were together it was like time stopped,like no time had passed since we last saw each other, we had always been together, we both confirmed this feeling. We understood each other like no one else could. When we re-united physically we became inseperable. I remeber once in his arms a counselor at camp walked by and stared at us a look of shock in his face "You two! you look just like brother and sister or a married couple thats been together for a life time." We just laughed, but I have thought about that moment many times and realized that counselor, who is very evolved spiritualy, recognized us as twin souls and it startled him. When we kissed it was like fire ran through our bodies. We had an inexplicable closeness for years even if we would go months without talking. Sometimes the pain was so intense and we missed each other so terribly. He once stated to me several years ago that he wanted to "stop this constant need I have for you, lying in bed every night dreaming of the other wishing we could be together" Throughout the years in between our summer time we contacted each other often through e-mails and phone conversations. In the beginning we were both very curious, honest and open about the fact that we felt an undeniably strong connection that was purely ours and sacred. He once said It was "Like your own little secret." I developed another relationship with a man I am still dating today, who wants to marry me and build a life together. My twin on the other hand was not able to sustain long lasting relationships with other woman because "All he ever wanted was me." I wanted him too, but I was at first more capable of feeling him when I wanted and letting it go when I wanted, this dynamic changed entirely later on. Five years ago we attempted to be together finally and forever, during our senior year of high school we planned to end the separation. It was simply too strong and magical, us, we did not want to live without it. He lives across the country and in the same area as many of my family members so I was willing to move there for him finally putting an end to the obsession with each other that had haunted us both for years, "Words can not express how you complete me." I however was only 18 at the time and ignorant of twin flames and their purpose.I was not able to give up my boyfriend while I was waiting, I love him deeply always have and always will,he has been a support and guide for me, for years. I did not want to be alone, and the confusion was too much for my twin. When my twin did finally meet one of his soul mates he chose to separate from me on a level that has not been restored in this waking life yet. The loneliness was hurting him beyond what I could see. We ended our years of love and affection for each other with cruel words. I responded by flying across the country to fight for him, my ego blazing brightly the whole way, but my need and strong desire over-powered my ability to truly love him and let him go. I did not understand that I had all ready had years of a soul mate connection to learn from and he had not. He even told me this himself in different words. At the time I saw his separation from me as a betrayal, and I was beyond heartbroken. I could not see that it was my selfishness inflicting the pain. I could not set him free to explore and learn on his own. I used to feel angry and victimized feeling like I had been tricked for years. The thoughts of him did not stop, they never stop, but the awareness of him was tainted with anger hurt and loss. A couple years later we did re-unite again when I was staying with family in his home town, but he was so hurt by his previous relationship and I was blinded by my own desires. I could not see that what he really needed from me was to be his friend and help him through it, instead I took the fact that he was not ready for us, as a manifested committed relationship, as an insult. I was not mature enough to accept his polar destiny.My needs unleashed his fear. Lately things have changed between us I am more in love with this being then I can find words to express. He is still not ready to talk to me on this plane, but I dream with him almost every night. It started off as few and far between but now it is almost every single night I dream with him. Sometimes we talk on the phone for hours like we used too, other times we are at parties and he's on the other side of the room playing a hide and seek game with me, sometimes we laugh together tell each other jokes, share our lives our relationships, other times we just stare into each other's eyes, or simply hold each other. I see his name every day shooting out to me like fireworks reminding me that I have found him, I see 11:11 everywhere, everyday, reminding me that I have found him. I have done everything humanly possible to let him go, and I used to think I was going crazy loving someone this much who I no longer talk too, feeling this constant presence, memories cascading through my head. Sometimes I think of him or hear his voice in my head and I smile or laugh right out loud, other times I fall on the floor weeping so hard to the point where it feels like my heart just might burst right out of my chest. He is everywhere all the time, I can not escape it. I fought it off at times trying to rationalize, to talk myself out of it, this never works. I understand that meeting your twin flame is a gift of the highest order, yet I also can see why we are kept from them at times, and why so many people are not ready for this kind of intensity. If you meet your twin flame be prepared to sacrifice a normal life for the purification of your soul. Its unlike any other relationship you have ever known. It is the aching that shows us who we truly are, but it can be so overwhelming that we can not concentrate on the present work in our lives. I understand that our connection became too intense for him and that is why he had to stop talking to me on this plane. We needed to re-unite as our true selves, and our ego-based selves destroyed our relationship before. Even though he needs to be free, his higher self has made a greater effort now more then ever to contact me in my dreams and comfort me. It was haunting at first and so confusing, but I am beginning to see that it truly does make it easier for me. I have found that I must learn to love all of the precious soul-mates in my life, and I have a few, and must love them perfectly instead of making him the only love that matters, it is Love, it is an illusion to believe anything I am is not him too, therefor; those I love, and am in relationships with he Loves too, and it is right. I want to confirm that I am saying with out a doubt that he is my twin flame. I am always with him, and he is always with me. Knowing that is a big part of the battle, once I understood this answers began to come. My psychic awareness has expanded more then I ever could have dreamed. I have become extremely telepathic, dream about things before they happen, and can, as an empath,take the negative feelings of others and heal them in my body. These are skills that scare me, confuse me and at times get out of control but they continue to grow. I used to go back and forth in my head, until finally I decided to LOVE. We will unite again, and for eternity, in this human life, it is our last time in this human experience. I know this, I have no question. In the meantime I am forced to learn perfect love in patience, gentleness and peace, and have many more challenges to go through. I am no longer angry at my twin, I forgive him and I forgive myself. I no longer attempt to contact him, knowing he will return when he is ready. For those of you who are struggling with this phenomenon of the "Twin connection" Know that you are strong enough to let them go. You are strong enough to let go of all judgments and anger as a result of being sad about missing them. You have not lost them, and a limitless relationship on the astral plane of your dreams can be more meaningful and more true then a physical relationship here in this fixed and confusing reality. I have begun a contract of peace with my soul and I am grateful. I must focus on perfecting my body mind and spirit. Think of it as a game, just like my hide and seek game with him in our dreams. You are always together nothing will ever change that. Thank you for the opportunity to share my story and for those suffering please know that you are un-locking your heart, tears are release and keys to freedom. Love infinitely, without conditions without need, and you will see that Love is what you are and always have been.
Thank you so much, Sweetie, for this amazing story and all the details that will help others so much in understanding it all. This is truly special and I know as you do that you two will come back together when the timing is right. God Bless you both and for sharing with us. Love, Light, and Blessings, Brenda
I became strongly aware of a man almost 5 years ago. He lives in the same city as me, and from all I have learnt, we are both very alike, yet very different. I had an instant sense that he was the one. The energy when near him was so powerful, I had a major struggle to control my desire to simply be near him all the time. It was so comforting. And from all accounts, initially, he was very excited on first seeing me, and told a lot of people about me, and his eyes shone. We are both on the autistic spectrum, and so the path has not gone smoothly, because after all this time, we have yet to truly make contact in the physical plane sense. We communicate telepathically. I have the most incredibly realistic dreams with him in, involving questions and discussions. There were so many synchronicities over the first years, that I started giggling about it. I could walk out my door, and he would be walking along the end of the road, as an example.
But things changed. He has been alone for many years. He, like myself, has had a very difficult past. And he reacted after his initial joy, by becoming defensive, keeping a distance, and simply watching me and hovering, but doing everything he could to make sure I made no attempt to talk to him. He is very socially awkward. Anyway, this year things seem to be heating up. I keep hearing the question of 'where are you?' and he turns up within 5-10 minutes later. He hovers. He has taken to simply standing near me or looking at me, at times gazing in my eyes and it is like looking in a mirror, I cannot describe it. It is as if time just stops and it was that way the first time we made eye contact. We both froze for moments. He was nervous the very first time he looked at me. I have had many soulmates in my life, and none have come to close to the pure energy that seems to exist between myself and this man. It would take pages to go into the synchronicites, such as when we both turned up at the same place during a full lunar eclipse. We were both born on the 6th (myself May, he September).
I feel his emotions, I seem to live his emotions. When he is frustrated or angry, I live those emotions as well. I know when he is there, I simply feel it so strongly. I often feel him in the room with me, even though he lives 15 minutes away. On a spiritual level, it is all there, but the wait is so long. I love him totally and unconditionally, and there is no explanation for that logically, because I loved him from the moment I was in his presence. I felt as if he was a part of myself, and that feeling is still there. I gave up on the idea of twin souls a long time ago, when I had made a common mistake, and presumed a strong soulmate connection must be 'the one' lol. I was very idealistic then.
But this, this does not even come close to that. It is on a level I have never experienced before. My initial instinct was, no doubt, this is it. I was so, so sure. But time has gone by. I have had doubts because of the way things have been progressing. And each time I try and step away, and try to move on from this connection, the synchronicities increase, or rather, I see him more, lol. or the dreams start coming, as if to tell me to not give up on this. I have had so many people telling to 'give up' or that I am wasting my time as he is a loner blah blah, And I cannot give up. Not totally. But, we have yet to really speak to each other or make the connection earthly/physical. And although I don't mind that, it bemuses me that he is clearly very aware and as drawn to be close to me, as I am to him, yet he cannot face taking the risk of speaking to me.
I cannot really fully describe the situation here as there is so much of it over such a long period, and neither of us reacts to situations or people in what might call an average way, lol. But any insight welcome, I think, especially if it comes from heart/intuition, rather than mind as I have grown a little tired of people using logic to try and explain the situation, and telling me that 'you can do better' and the like. My reply to them is 'no I cannot'. Because to me, he is the best. | {
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Timothy Scott; TV, Movie Actor
Timothy Scott, a character actor perhaps best remembered for his role as Pea Eye Parker in the "Lonesome Dove" television miniseries, has died. He was 57.
Scott died of lung cancer in Los Angeles on June 14.
Inducted last year into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in honor of his many Western roles, Scott appeared in about 30 feature films, including "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," in which he portrayed News Carver, and "The Electric Horseman," in which he played Leroy Smitley.
He also appeared as Smokey Lonesome in "Fried Green Tomatoes" and Shag Bag in the film "In the Heat of the Night."
On television, Scott portrayed Grover the affable bumpkin in the series "Down Home," which ran on NBC in 1990 and 1991. He also appeared in numerous TV movies and miniseries.
Scott was a co-founder with fellow actor James Gammon of MET Theater in Los Angeles and was involved in many productions there as an actor and director.
He is survived by his wife, Donna Leigh Scott; a stepdaughter, Marissa Scott Windom, and two sons, Dean Swope and Scott Harmon.
A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. July 23 at the MET Theater, 1089 N. Oxford Ave. | {
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Worlds of Fun error adds multiple charges to credit cards
Customers with ongoing problems should notify park
Kansas City's Worlds of Fun theme park said a transaction error over the weekend resulted in some customer credit cards being processed multiple times for the same transaction.
One customer who visited the park from out of town said her family was charged 37 times for lunch and a couple of snacks at park concession stands, a total bill adding up to more than $900. Another customer said she was charged 38 times for a $38 lunch, adding up to more than $3,000.
She said she was concerned about people who used debit cards and may find excessive withdrawals and overdrafts in their checking accounts.
The park said it was notified of the situation Wednesday and immediately began to work with banks to reverse the erroneous charges.
Park officials said that while the charges were reversed Wednesday afternoon, some of the reversals may not appear in accounts until Friday.
Officials asked any guest who was negatively impacted by the mistake to contact Worlds of Fun directly at 816-454-4545 so it can address their concerns.
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Ladies Night - 18+ July
Ladies Night - 18+ July
Ladies night
Get the girls together and leave the husbands at the door
Enter the star clothed auditorium to Scott Jordans Pleasure boys. Formed in 2007, they have fast become one of the top Ladies Night shows in the UK and abroad.Led by a dynamite Drag Queen Compare, you will be entertained to the max! From interactive routines, karaoke sing-a-long to solo performances.
WARNING - This show is really funny, choreographed with breathtaking routines and will contain nudity.
Book Now for Saturday 19th January!
FREE parking
Doors Open at 7.30pm
Showtime at 8.00pm
At Conkers Discovery - DE12 6GA
Licensed Bar
Book online or call 01283 216633 If you are booking your group for a celebration and would like a shout out, please email Jade on [email protected] | {
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Sunshine, afternoon clouds, and dry weather is in store Wednesday
DRY COUPLE OF DAYS:Skies clear fast behind the front during the afternoon and evening.Temperatures touch the lower 60s then fall quickly through the 50s. Morning lows are not too cold in the lower 40s. It’s a breezy day Wednesday under partly to mostly sunny skies.Highs are mainly in the upper 50s to near 60 degrees.High pressure calms the winds and brings brighter skies Thursday but it is chilly in the lower 50s.Clouds quickly traverse the area overnight into Friday. A chilly rain ends the week, as an area of low pressure develops along the coast.Wet weather continues all day into the evening holding temperatures in the 40s. Drier but much colder air moves in for the weekend.
COLD WEEKEND: Brisk northwest winds dries the area out but also provides a shot of colder air. Morning lows begin in the middle 30s and, under a mix of clouds and sunshine, afternoon readings are held in the lower 40s.The winds stay gusty all day until high pressure builds in overnight calming conditions.However, this will lead to a very cold morning, in the 20s, Sunday.Veterans day is dry with plenty of sunshine. Bundle up because afternoon highs are only in the middle 40s.
ANOTHER COASTAL SYSTEM TO WATCH: There is the potential for another coastal low to develop Monday. With high pressure sliding over the northeast, this sets up east-southeast winds, and allows clouds to increase by Monday morning.Not all the models agree but since this has been the trend, it is likely we’ll see showers developing late evening.Readings are held in the middle and upper 40s.The low hugs the coast and tracks northeast keeping rain around for most of Tuesday. Amore potent and deepening trough moves over the northeast, wrapping colder air behind the departing system, which will result in the precipitation ending as a wintry mix.. The winds will be gusty again too. | {
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Versuri WOLVERINE - Coma
Machines that make me breathe, I just can't stand their terrible screamI'm stumbling through smoke-filled roomsWith only
darkness ahead, I wish I was deadDrowned in a distance, I'm so safe and soundDamn well protected from all those aroundSeeking
the life that was taken from meStill all I see is a man on his knees
Although I'm asleep, can you feel I'm here?Lost in
this place, screaming for you
Back on my feet when a distant lightBrings me some hope and a strength that had diedA doorway
that speaks of the world I once leftA final way out and a final way backThen a sudden change makes the light start to fadeI
need to run but I stumble insteadThe light disappears as I lay on the groundMy last hope of freedom is turned into
none... | {
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Brought my 2000 Z3 in for repairs: ABS warning light on, dashboard night light check, trunk struts replacement, new fob activation, radio volume knob check, and oil change check up. I had had problems with Ferman in the past where my car was brought in for the same air conditioning repair several times, and I had to pay again. So, I told Mr. Wilder that I was concerned about my history with Ferman, and asked how much would the repair cost. He said "in the thousands. Your car is 20 years old." (even though my car is seen regularly and successfully at Reeves in Tampa). He said "he could find 5 things wrong with a new car right now", which made me wonder what I was getting into. I asked him if I could drive to Reeves, and he insisted it was not safe, that they will give me a loaner, I asked about an oil change, and he said my car would be checked ???from head to toe." Did not get an estimate until the third day. The estimate was for $3975.21, and included ABS module box for $2117.14 (although Mr. Wilder told me that may not be the problem), front brakes pad only and replacement (yellow 4) at $355.02, drive belt replacement for $239.65, wiper blades replacement for $94.61, headlight switch for $536.46, shop charges of $52.57, taxes of $260.06, two diagnostic charges at $160 each, but did not address my request for trunk struts, radio volume knob check, oil change, or programming the new fob I had brought in. I was given a separate quote for $125 for the oil change, and $296 for the trunk strut replacement. I decided to take my car to Reeves since I was not comfortable with the quote, and I was asked to pay $343.47 for the estimate. I was not allowed to apply the $343.47 estimate charge to the struts or oil change because according to Mr. Wilder it was not part of the estimate. I asked to speak to a manager, and was told none were available -- all were in training. Incidentally, the multipoint check had not been done: fluids were not topped, tire pressure was not checked. I bought the OEM trunk struts at Advanced Auto Parts for less than $30/pair. The attendant replaced them for free in less than 5 minutes. Two rings need to be snapped off each strut using a flat screw driver, and then the replacement struts snap back on. I also purchased extreme weather premium wipers for $33/pair, which again the attendant snapped on my car for free in less than 3 minutes. However, when he replaced my wipers, he said my old ones were in good condition, and would not have needed changing. Update After writing this review, I was contacted by Ferman's General Manager, Mr. Bob Murray to discuss the situation. I visited the dealership and in the absence of Mr. Murray, spoke with the Assistant Manager, Mr, Karl Alvarez, who listened attentively to my concerns and introduced me to Mr. Brian Pelletier, Service Manager. Mr. Pelletier was very sympathetic, and asked for a chance to make things all right. He assigned my case to Ms. Jamie Annese, Assistant Service Manager and Kyle Silcox of the Gold Team worked on my car. They made all the necessary repairs: abs module, electric switch, drive belt, oil change, and fob activation (the new fob could not be programmed, but the old one seems to have been restored to its old glory) at a reasonable price. Ferman did right by me. Trust is something your can't buy. Thank you for restoring my car and my faith in you.
2018 Ford Explorer Base Review
I love the style of this vehicle.
by Robert from Sunbury
April 19, 2019
5
I'm a car guy and it's important how the vehicle looks......and I really like this vehicle. It'll take me awhile to get used to all the new electronics. Once I learn everything, I think this will be my favorite vehicle I've ever owned.
I get my car service at Auto Nation because it's close to my home & work. The courtesy van drivers are nice and try to control their shifts for the customer's convenience. I did wait briefly before I was helped by the manager, Sheila. Even tho, I didn't have a coupon, she gave the oil change @ $39.95 which is what I've paid on my last 3 visits.
2017 Ford Explorer XLT Review
Love driving this car!
by S. Barbara T. from Keller, Tx.
May 14, 2019
5
Meets all of my needs. Excellent room and features. Also, feel like I’m driving in a very safe and sturdy car. Pickup is awesome V6 engine 3.5 liters EccoBoost. Love this car!
This past Sunday the 22nd I visited Elder Ford looking for a good deal for my dream car. I was very lucky to be served by Eddie Burke who is one of the sales associate. Eddie was very honest, understanding, and worked with me for several hours in order to help me get the best deal. Even though I couldn't get what I was looking for, I left this awesome dealer very happy and with a lot of knowledge on how to work towards getting a better deal. Eddie helped me understand every aspect of what I wanted and tried to help me the most. His customer service skills are highly recommended for anyone who wants to feel good while making the big step of buying a new car. Eddie is a great asset for this Dealership and I think because of him and other associates like him, this is a great place to buy a car. Elder Ford of Tampa also has a great selection of new cars with the latest technology.
Thank you Elder Ford of Tampa, thank you Eddie Burke, and when I'm ready I would definitely go back to you guys to buy my dream car. Furthermore I will definitely recommend this dealership and Mr. Burke to all my friends and family.
2018 Ford Explorer XLT Review
newest car I have ever owned and I really like it
by Kathy from Erie
May 8, 2019
5
perfect car for my purposes, traveling, camping etc. I look forward to many fun trips and adventures, I need 25 words but for now I think this is about it.
I brought a BMW x3 from Five Star and I love it! I went into this location nervous and discouraged because of my past experiences from trying to purchase a car. Mark and his staff made the process easy and comfortable. I knew exactly what I needed to do and had multiple options to choose from. I would recommend anyone looking for a great vehicle with low mileage and well kept to go here. Thank you Mark and Staff for everything, you guys rock!!!
2015 Ford Explorer Limited Review
Most spacious and comfortable car I've had!
by Doctor B from Clovis, CA
April 12, 2019
5
This car met my needs. It is spacious for my 3 kids and their friends, with plenty of room on the third row sit. The remote key and keyless start is very useful, specially summer time, when you can leave the car locked but running, so the AC is still cooling.
Good experience with both my visit and follow up by staff. Met with Kasey, Felix (Sales Rep) and Robert (part owner) and test drove vehicle. They were very friendly and low key. Vehicle was beautiful and very fairly priced. Ultimately went with same model, but 1 year newer and lower miles from another dealer. They have a lot of very beautiful and rare vehicles at Discovery.
2017 Ford Explorer Limited Review
this car skips at 55-60, hesitates with accelerati
by Sjackson.. taxi from Gable, S.C.
March 20, 2019
3
engine slips at 55-60 and when it takes off.I have had this car over a year and am so tired of the skipping.Ford motor said to just drive it til they get a code to fix it..I think when you pay this much for a car and it's new it should run like one...not a very happy customer.My family has always been a ford family..
This is a review of Bob Weinstock, Service Manager at Parks Lincoln of Tampa. I am a female who is well past retirement age. I need to work with folks who are honest, courteous, easy to understand and more than capable of delivering a quality repair job. Bob Weinstock at Parks Lincoln on North Florida Ave in Tampa is that and more. In April, 2018 I took my Lincoln Town Car in for what was a 'periodic' issue with the transmission. At the time that I arrived at the dealership the problem would not reveal itself, which is always an issue with the customer ... that egg on your face feeling! But Bob listened carefully as I explained the history of the prior few days and he knew this intermittent problem was soon to be a major one. He kept the car and sure enough his transmission tech found the problem ... which required major transmission work ... and within days I was back in my car. Two months later all is still good. This all sounds simple, but I have been to repair shops where, when the problem was not immediately detected by their diagnostics, would not have taken the time to listen, who would have sent me away, making me feel like a totally incompetent female. This is just not the norm for the professional and tech staff at this dealership. They are top notch. It is common for the tech to come to the service office to speak with the customer. Bob and his staff listen, they make you feel comfortable, and even when stressed to the max they offer a kind smile. I have taken my automobile to Parks for 8 years and have never regretted it.
2008 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer Review
This Car Is Amazing
by PattiB from Durango Colorado
April 27, 2019
5
Incredible room, front and rear air/heat, absolutely spotless interior and exterior is in great shape. Drives like a champ. I feel so safe behind the wheel of this vehicle. Great Experience with salesman Bill Fountain at Durango Value Autos!
I was looking for a specific car and they had it! I don't thought the price was fair and we worked out a good deal! I would absolutely recommend this dealer to anyone looking for a pre owned automobile!
2017 Ford Explorer XLT Review
Great features, comfortable and reliable
by DavidMSN from Madison, WI
March 11, 2019
5
The fifth generation Explorer is a fantastic offering in its class. The Explorer Platinum offers features that compete with luxury brands (first row heated/cooled/massage seats, lane keep, adaptive cruise), and in 52,000 miles I haven't had an issue so far. The 4WD system handles great in the snow, and the 3.5L twin turbo V6 offers plenty of power. The second row captain's chairs can be moved forward to offer third row occupants livable legroom, and there's still plenty of cargo space behind that. It handles well, tows well and is all around the best vehicle I've owned. I would recommend this SUV over any other in its class.
Went in knowing what I wanted and my price. My sales person was Jose Pagan and was very helpful, knowledgeable, and extremely patient. I had to go back 2x - the first time the sales manager (Michael Cash) was useless and literally a waste of beautiful showroom floor space. I made an offer to him which he didn???t even awknowledge, only told me to come back with my wife before he???d talk numbers (in his words ???because it seems to me she is the decision maker???). Interesting sales tactic being condescending to a customer, but I quickly realized that watching the TV guide channel is a better use of my time vs uselessly talking to Michael. The 2nd time I went in I made an appointment with my sales guy Jose. Test drove the truck again which he had parked out front ready to go when I got there, and told him I want to talk numbers. This time he came back with Robert Tucci who was light years ahead of his counterpart in the area of customer service. I gave Robert my bottom line number (exact same offer I made my previous visit), and after some back and forth he made it work. Exactly what I wanted. Jose and Robert I feel went above and beyond to make the deal happen and are an all-star team. They make you feel welcome, not rushed/pressured, and I would highly recommend anyone looking for an exceptional experience to request their assistance. The 5 starts is attributed to their teamwork and customer service, and they were able to turn what would???ve been 1 star around. Both gentleman have called me even after the sale to make sure everything was ok and if I needed anything. THATS how you treat a customer and retain business/generate referrals. I still feel like the waste of new car scent that is Michael should utilize his time in a more meaningful role that is NOT customer facing - maybe making copies for Jose and Robert...? Anyway thanks again for the new whip Jose and Robert!
2015 Ford Explorer Limited Review
Nice, but Ford needs to fix their SYNC problem
by NadineMN from MN
April 5, 2019
4
Only had it for 2 weeks now. Nice, but the Ford SYNC has a major issue, no bluetooth and costly to fix. Rides nice, nice interior.
I went to Elder Ford with a F-150 in mind that came with specific options. Haider Fayiz was my sales associate and he listened to my wants and needs and the first vehicle he took me to was exactly what I ask for. Haider was polite and courteous. He immediately made me feel comfortable with my car shopping experience, and you know how pushy some car salesman can be. Not Haider. I felt comfortable and in control of my purchase the entire time. When it came time to talk about the bottom line both Haider and Robert Torino fought for the best deal the could for me and made sure I was comfortable with my monthly payment. When it was time to sign all the paperwork, Jim Brandt made it quick, easy, and simple to understand everything I was signing. After the sale, Ed Meneely and Brent Tedesco took care of all my accessory needs. I had multiple accessories installed (6) including full tint and my truck was in and out within 24 hours. I even received a loaner vehicle while I was without my truck. Great Service! I can???t give any more praise to the people at Elder Ford. From sales to management to the business office to the service department. A+/5 Star rating in every department!
Last week I had never heard of Hertz Car Sales, Tampa FL. I had been searching on my computer for my dream car for about 3 months and there it was! But Tampa is 150 miles away from my home. I decided to call the number anyway. A very nice young, Rafael Peña answered all of my questions so I made an appointment to go there and check it out. Since I am an elderly woman, this was a long way for me to travel plus I have a small dog that had to go along. Needless to say, I thought it was going to be a stressful day for me. Much to my surprise, I had a wonderful experience! Rafael did an excellent and efficient job with handling all of the details, plus he and other personnel took over helping me with the dog. My dog was treated with food, water and taken out for walks! I will certainly rate this business as the best and should be put on top of the list as an excellent place to go for a car.
2017 Ford Explorer sport Review
Amazing SUV! It’s a beauty
by G dub from Portland OR
February 22, 2019
5
Does it all for us! Incredible vehicle for the $$. We believe the Explorer is the best bang for the buck. We will love this car for another ten years min.
I recommend Explorer those looking for comfort and spacious car interior. Everything is well designed and looks luxurious all over. I purchased this two months ago and might be a little soon to review its performance but so far I am happy with what I got.
I just don't recommend the dealership where I bought from : " Ford of Orange, CA" stay away from them.
Rivard GMC used to service our Yukon XL and the service and professionalism was always top notch. It was this experience and familiarity that led us back to them when we were looking for a mid-size truck. After visiting another GMC dealer where they made little attempt to try and meet our requirement, we went to Rivard. We originally went there to look at a slightly used truck and test drove it but the price was not much less than a new one. Mr Anthony Edwards was very patient and very professional as he showed us their used inventory and newer options. He was very pleasant and forward with valuable information and not pushy with probing questions. He listened to our questions, answered them and offered options. He showed us several new models and broke down the numbers and all were on par or better with another dealer's offer. But his willingness and patience to assist us was the exceptional factor in accepting a very good offer on a new model and gave us a couple of days to ponder. Afterwards we went to a nearby Chevy dealer where we looked at their counterpart model. We told the sales rep we also looked at the GMC version and he concurred the GMC models were a little higher quality than the Chevy version. When we decided on a comparable model and attempted to negotiate a price, the Chevy offer was at least $500 more on supposedly/admittedly a lesser quality than a GMC. They asked what would it take for us to accept their more expensive offer and we reiterated that they have to give us an incentive in lower price to bring us over from the GMC offer. They were not willing to do so and we accepted Mr Edwards offer at Rivard GMC. Mr Anthony Edwards without a doubt has been the most pleasant auto sales rep we have ever dealt. After dealing with other dealers, we felt very confident we received a very good deal from Rivard GMC and Mr Anthony Edwards was the key!
2014 Ford Explorer Limited Review
We made and comfortable to drive.
by Indiana Irish from Columbus Indiana & Tennessee
March 30, 2019
4
The car met all our needs but one, towing. Decent and as advertised but not great with rolling hills or the mountains of Tennessee. Advertised limit is really the limit.
I left an unfavorable review below because I did not receive good customer service when we purchased the car. The store manager called me personally to apologize and will address with his team. He also sent me the operators manual for the car that we purchased since the salesman that sold me that car told me that the car is purchased as is without it. The store manager made it right and I appreciate him for it. Thanks.
2019 Ford Explorer Limited Review
Proud new owner of a Ford Explorer
by Bill98038 from Maple Valley, WA
May 14, 2019
5
Great vehicle, very comfortable to ride in, great visibility, makes driving a pleasure again. Safety features are great without the clutter and distractions on other new vehicles. Features are very intuitive to use. One feature that it came with is the front camera, I didn't think it was necessary, but after trying it out, it really is handy to see what you can't see over the hood of the vehicle.
Great experience purchasing a car. No hassle. Staff was friendly and attentive. They let me do my thing but checked on me often. Was there on a Saturday - weekends are busy for them. Left with a great deal on a car!! Will definitely be back! My best advice.. use their site and pre-check your financing. It will save you time. Great company!
2016 Ford Explorer XLT Review
Great everyday car
by Gavin C from Tampa FL
May 14, 2019
4
Has everything you could ever want in a car. We have a 2016 Ford Explorer limited. Seems to have every option ever invented ! Even has massaging seats.
Very pleasant experience at EVO Motors. Cars are super cheap all the guys are friendly expect to pay $2,000 to $5,000 below any other place but you dont get to negotiate or ask for any free things which was ok to me. Financing was easy as well and we got offered almost the same interest as my bank offered and financed thru them with a large national lender their extended warranty option is also great . The only complaint is some of the cars need to be cleaned or not detailed very well but I did ask them to clean somethings they missed and they did.
2017 Ford Explorer XLT Review
Stylish and great performance. Very pleased
by Ford_Guy40 from Milwaukee,WI
March 30, 2019
5
This vehicle has everything that I need, tow package, four wheel drive and is very stylish and comfortable inside. The third row seating is surprisingly roomy and I love the stowable seats.
We all know car buying is nerve wracking and I went in feeling no different. Stressed and apprehensive about what I was sure to deal with. But I went in with a friend just after they opened on a tuesday and was greeted quickly by Jay. He inquired about what I was there for. Perhaps I made it easy on them, or easier than most, as I was very prepared and had researched for a long time before coming in. But I gave him the car I was looking for and he took me right to it. He also explained how they worked there. They don't pressure or hover but are there when I was ready with questions or to test drive. When that first car turned out to be an unsure for me, I asked to look at a few others I had saved online. Those 2 were sold but they took me inside to look at their inventory and I wrote down 3 more. They sent guys out to round them up and bring them up front for me. I looked them over, test drove. I asked questions about hidden fees and Jay responded immediately without trying to run around it. I found one that I wanted, a 2014 Altima that was priced to sell. I came in preapproved and just had to fill out the quick credit app on their computer then they sent it in, about 10 min later it came back and I called the insurance while he finalized. He was wonderful, knowledgeable and efficient. When I came back thr paper work was ready and he explained everything, the breakdown with all the amounts were on their own page, the amounts were exactly as I expected for tags, tax, title, no hidden fees, there was and small and fair dealer fee especially compared to most places in FL but no additional fees. It was incredibly straight forward. I signed, paid and when I was ready to go, the car was washed and waiting for me out front. It was a great experience and I would recommend this place to anyone. They are fair, honest and no bull. I would like to give a little shout out to Javier who really went out of his way for me and was incredibly kind and helpful. My friend who was with me was so impressed when she is ready to replace her recently totalled car, she will be shopping here. Thank you all so much for making what is usually a dreaded way to spend a day, into something I enjoyed.
2017 Ford Explorer XLT Review
Great vehicle
by TJ from Central, VA
March 18, 2019
5
I wasn't looking for this one but it stood out and I had to test drive it. My Wife feel in love with it before we got out of the lot.
Purchasing my car from Evo Motors extremely easy and very enjoyable. I didn't feel any pressure or stress. Every member of their staff was extremely helpful - from the second I stepped foot on the lot to the moment I drove away. I will without a doubt be returning for future purchases. I recommend everyone purchase heir next car here. Thank you Cavenchy!! Also to everyone at Evo Motors, you are all amazing.
2017 Ford Explorer XLT Review
Would recommend this car is safe and comfortable
by Retirement travelers from Pequot Lakes Mn
February 11, 2019
5
Absolutely love our new explorer! So glad we chose the explorer it’s very comfortable for long trips we will see slot of the us in this vex hikers
How the staff treats you like family. The 27 point inspection keeps me up to date on my Silverados condition.
2017 Ford Explorer Base Review
Feels like an expensive car for a great price!
by TMichel from Indianapolis, IN
February 26, 2019
5
This car has all the bells and whistles one would expect from a premium vehicle, but at a much more affordable price. The interior is sleek and accommodating, as well as comfortable. I love the double panel sunroof and the heated seats! So far it's doing decent on gas mileage for considering its size. It also doesn't feel like driving a tank, it maneuvers well and rides smoothly!
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Return to Kneipe der Untoten is a UGX remake of Bar 1.1, the custom zombie map, which W1NG3D released with the help of Tom_Bmx a couple of years ago. This time around it will feature a plethora of new additions with UGX mod features, which include custom weapons, gamemodes, zombie types, and much more! The layout has been totally revised and tweaked, with the addition of a new area to replace the apartment block (it's now bigger and better). Graphics have also been radically overhauled with custom textures, models, and added detail.
UPDATE 10th DECEMBER 2012: This map will be released as a mostly stock 1.4 version initially,. It'll feature all four perks, the Pack-a-Punch machine, a power switch and a moving random weapons box. Note that this version will lack any UGX features, and will pretty much be a basic 1.4 style map (though from testing so far, I find it's still great fun to play solo and with friends).
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If you were paying attention, you might recall a Kickstarter last year that raised money for Last Stop, an Atomic Robo animated short film. To call it successful is a bit of an understatement — it racked up over $72,000 after setting an initial goal of just $12,000, which led the animators at the Fictory to scrap what they’d already done and start over, taking advantage of their new, higher budget to do higher-quality animation.
To show off, they’ve released a clip of the upcoming short film! Unfortunately, it’s four seconds long and completely silent, but still, it looks pretty cool. So why not take a look at it and see what 100% true facts we can learn about Atomic Robo: Last Stop?
0:01: Okay, the first thing we see in this clip is Robo sliding underneath something on his back. Given the series’ recent focus on the history of robotics and science (the Turing arc being a key factor here), I think we can assume that this is Clevinger and Wegener’s tribute to Mega Man 3. It’s a safe bet that Robo will be getting a robot dog sidekick at some point in Last Stop.
0:02: While comedy has always been a key element of Robo‘s success, the full-on pratfall here shows that the short film will follow in those footsteps. Will it be accompanied by Hanna-Barbera’s classic sound effects or a laugh track? One can’t help but wonder.
0:04: Robo looks at us. Could this be the prime spot for a fourth-wall breaking quip at the viewer? I… I really hope not.
In all seriousness, the animation here looks great, and I honestly can’t wait to see how it all turns out. For more, including production art and trailers, check out the Fictory’s website!
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Archive | Financial Crisis
Eight more states have joined a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of various provisions of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. The states are Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Texas and West Virginia. As three states (Oklahoma, Michigan, and South Carolina) had already brought suit, this brings the total number of states involved in the suit to eleven.
Courts are supposed to put the policies of presidents and Congress to the test of judicial review, to evaluate decisions by the executive to sanction someone for wrongdoing and to resolve disputes between private parties. But the really sweeping programs that Congress and the president put in place during the financial crisis will not receive much courtroom attention at all, even as the executive’s individual enforcement decisions receive scrutiny. It is only in private disputes that the facts of the financial crisis will get a judicial airing – and even then, all signs point to the airing being a modest one.
The courts have played such a low-key role for three reasons: the government has rarely been challenged for its own crisis-related conduct; at the same time, the Justice Department and other federal agencies have hesitated to prosecute the financial executives in place during the crisis; finally, private litigation over losses sustained during the crisis has been slow to develop, and quick to settle. In all, it is likely to be a disappointment to those who believe that the blame for the financial crisis can only really be apportioned through verdicts and judgments. . . .
In many ways, this modest turn to the courts is underwhelming. Practicing finance during a recession should not necessarily be a criminal offense, but holding no executives responsible for the actions that led to the housing market collapse, after hundreds were imprisoned during earlier downturns, suggests arbitrariness. Even worse, it sets a different standard for Wall Street financiers of today and the bankers who went to jail in the wake of the 1980s bailout of the thrifts.
And while the government has been criticized for not holding individuals accountable for the crisis, the really huge decisions it made
Yes, it did. We use exogenous variation in banks’ incentives to conform to the standards of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) around regulatory exam dates to trace out the effect of the CRA on lending activity. Our empirical strategy compares lending behavior of banks undergoing CRA exams within a given census tract in a given month to the behavior of banks operating in the same census tract-month that do not face these exams. We find that adherence to the act led to riskier lending by banks: in the six quarters surrounding the CRA exams lending is elevated on average by about 5 percent every quarter and loans in these quarters default by about 15 percent more often. These patterns are accentuated in CRA-eligible census tracts and are concentrated among large banks. The effects are strongest during the time period when the market for private securitization was booming.
If anything, the authors note, their study underestimates the CRA’s effecton lending practices because it only looks at landing activity around examination dates. IBD has more. (Hat tip: Hit & Run)
UPDATE: There’s a discussion about the paper at Marginal Revolution. Note that the paper does not claim that the CRA was the cause of the financial crisis. As Tyler Cowen notes, the claim is that the CRA was an “amplifying mechanism” — a contributing factor to the severity of the crisis, but hardly the only contributing (or causal) factor. […]
Former White House counsel Boyden Gray and Adama White explain how Dodd-Frank effectively subsidizes large financial institutions at the expense of smaller institutions and “Main Street.” Gray and White are also representing some of the plaintiffs who are challenging Dodd-Frank’s constitutionality (see here and here). […]
A news release from the Competitive Enterprise Institute notes that the attorneys general of Michigan, Oklahoma, and South Carolina have joined their lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of portions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The original suit challenged several Dodd-Frank provisions, including creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Board. The states’ challenge focuses on Title II’s “orderly liquidation authority,” which allows the federal government to seize allegedly troubled financial institutions with minimal notice or recourse. According to the states, these provisions lack adequate due process and could threaten state pension funds. Here’s the amended complaint. […]
“I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made — along with a lot of other smart people — a fundamental mistake, which is that deregulation works fine in industries which do not pervade the economy,” he said in the appearance on Spitzer’s viewpoint.” “The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.”
The mea culpa—hedged with a supercilious “I may have started it but conservatism got out of hand” aside—fails to satisfy minimum standards of intellectual coherence and empirical evidence.
The suggestion that the markets that produced the 2008 financial crisis were “free”—in the sense of unregulated—is charitably described as contrary to fact. The money that juiced the markets wasn’t supplied by some reckless profiteer; it was supplied by the Fed. The GSE’s that by everyone’s admission contributed (and on many accounts caused) the disaster operated (and are still operating) with government guarantees.
Similarly, but more broadly: the financial system operated and continues to operate against the rule that depositors—unlike shareholders, bondholders, vendors, employees, or anybody else—will in the event of failure get 100 cents on the dollar. That arrangement encourages banks to play with somebody else’s money. It is not a “free market” rule. It is a law and a regulation, and the source of a convoluted system that desperately tries to cope with the risks of its own creation by piling layer upon regulatory layer.
It’s true that if you “deregulate” one piece of a market that’s already shot through with government regulation, subsidies, guarantees, and warped incentives, you can increase risk further and get very bad results. Maybe that’s what happen in the
The New York Times Room for Debate Blog, where various Conspirators have served as discussants one time or another, has a very interesting discussion on whether and in what respects the financial crisis might have been avoided. It’s a good short read. From the introduction:
Last week, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, after reviewing thousands of documents, issued a report, which explained the causes of the financial unraveling, the role of government and the banks, and the aftershocks of the crisis. The 10-member commission, however, split along party lines, with the six Democrats voting to adopt the report and its findings, and the four Republican members issuing two dissenting reports. On NPR, Keith Hennessey, one of the Republican commissioners, said that the disagreement could perhaps be boiled down to one statement in the majority report: “We conclude this financial crisis was avoidable.”
The report, majority and dissents, is well worth reading as well. I agree with some of the criticisms that it is too much narrative history and too little analysis, but there’s still value in creating a record of what happened for its own sake.
What are the books specifically about the financial crisis 2007-2009 that that you would put on the genuinely short list for reading? […]
(Update. Megan McArdle has a number of interesting comments and posts on foreclosure, modification, the effect of securitization, and the processes for recording title and other things. This blog post has very interesting comments as well.)
Adam Levitin writes at the ForeclosureBlues blog about the Ibanez decision in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (pdf via Creditslips blog), handed down last Friday. (Actually, I think Adam’s post originated at CreditSlips.) This is an important decision in addressing the exceedingly vexed and, as Megan McArdle notes, highly technical legal questions surrounding the property issues – chain of title, etc. – in foreclosures on mortgages that have been securitized. Levitin offers this assessment of the holding in Ibanez (I recommend also his article with Anna Gelpern, Rewriting Frankenstein Contracts):
The Ibanez case itself is actually very simple. The issue before the court was whether the two securitization trusts could prove a chain of title for the mortgages they were attempting to foreclose on.
There’s broad agreement that absent such a chain of title, they don’t have the right to foreclose–they’d have as much standing as I do relative to the homeowners. The trusts claimed three alternative bases for chain of title:
(1) that the mortgages were transferred via the pooling and servicing agreement (PSA)–basically a contract of sale of the mortgages
(2) that the mortgages were transferred via assignments in blank.
(3) that the mortgages follow the note and transferred via the transfers of the notes.
The Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) held that arguments #2 and #3 simply don’t work in Massachusetts. The reasoning here was heavily derived from Massachusetts being a title theory state, but I think a court in a lien theory state could easily reach the same result. It’s hard to predict if other states will
(Note: I was writing this on the plane without quite being able to see the computer screen, so I’ve gone back and corrected some grammar and spelling, and tried to make a couple of things clearer. I’ll post separately as well on the topic of national security and the financial crisis, and the role of executive discretion in responding. But I also wanted to note that over at The Conglomerate, the compadres there are also having a discussion of Professor Skeel’s book, including my friend David Zaring, who, along with the redoubtable Steven Davidoff, was responsible for a seminal article and concept in this question of discretionary regulation, “Regulation by Deal.”)
Flying to and from meetings this week at the Hoover Institution, I re-read David Skeel’s brand-new book, The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and Its (Unintended) Consequences (Wiley 2011), for a second time. I am even more impressed with this book the second time around, and I believe that it is one of the short list of essential books on the financial crisis and the regulatory aftermath. If you have any interest at all in these topics, this is a book to give serious consideration to reading.
The New Financial Deal is very far from being a dense, specialist book readable only by a lawyer, or law professor, or bankruptcy or finance expert. You might guess from the title that the book is a technically useful, but, for the general reader, impenetrable commentary on the Dodd-Frank bill. After all, the bill itself runs several thousand pages of impenetrable legislative language and Skeel himself one of the country’s leading bankruptcy scholars. It might seem from the title that it is simply an unpacking – at the technical level – of what Dodd-Frank says. Technical experts […]
I am curious as to whether any law school offers a (seminar?) course on the law and regulation of central banking, either specifically on the Fed in US domestic law or else something like “comparative central banking” in the transnational law curriculum. I’d be interested in responses as to courses, syllabi, reading, and course topics. Serious responses please; no rants or off topic responses. (Let me add that I don’t mean exactly what typically features in the banking course, which is, in my experience, less about the law governing central banking than the legal mechanisms by which the central bank interacts with the rest of the banking and financial services sector. They are not quite the same thing.)
The legal powers of the Fed – and their limits, regulatory, statutory, and Constitutional – are obviously a question of importance today. The financial crisis, the response, and the continuing unemployment rate make the question of the Fed’s mandate, independence, and limits germane in a way that has only rarely been true in the economic history of the US since creation of the Federal Reserve. Consider one of the latest arguments – will the Fed move to monetize the fisc, meaning the fiscal deficits of states and municipalities, as a source of – not liquidity of last resort – but instead as a provider of solvency? A George Will column expressed the concern, set against public pension issues, this way:
People seeking backdoor bailouts hope that the fourth branch of government, a.k.a. Ben Bernanke, will declare an emergency power for the Federal Reserve to buy municipal bonds to lower localities’ borrowing costs. This political act might mitigate one crisis by creating a larger one – the Fed’s forfeiture of its independence.
Over at the business law professor blog, The Conglomerate, the book club has been reading Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera’s book on the run-up to the financial crisis, All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. David Zaring introduces the book, his brief take, and the book club discussion here – then scroll up for the other mini-reviews and comments. The Conglomerators think the book is worth reading, and I’ve just ordered it. (For my own part, I have just finished a second, closer read of David Skeel’s The New Financial Deal, which is outstanding, and on which I’ll post a short review later.) […]
Although I have a few reservations about the tone of the article being just slightly conspiratorial, Louise Story’s front page NYT story today on the evolution of derivatives clearinghouses is highly informative and very well done. The graphics showing how the bilateral trades would turn into centralized clearing are quite good and would be useful with a class. On balance, I think the overall shift to centralized clearing is a good move. But I also have a bad, bad feeling about this in the context of Dodd-Frank and future expectations. As I have said in past posts, in a future of financial regulation in which the central question of systemic risk and moral hazard has not been addressed, the result of what is otherwise a sensible move (yes, yes I’m skipping over all the concerns about end-users and Main Street, etc.) could turn out to create not so much a central clearing house but instead … a central address for depositing unwanted risk.
After all, why should any of these leading market participants believe at this point that the government would allow the central clearinghouse to burn down in a crisis? And if they don’t believe that, then what is their incentive to set terms that will adequately address the risk as a matter of private ordering of fees, margin, whatever form of insurance the central risk-clearer needs? Having a central clearing counterparty is a great idea – if it and the actors that run and control it have the private incentives to make sure it is not a mechanism for accumulating and compounding risks.
Presumably the answer is that government regulators will set those requirements and solve the problem. But the general theory of financial regulation used to be that systems would be monitored for risk-taking, after private parties […]
The Wall Street Journal and New York Times each have good, comprehensible explanations of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis on the front pages today. (The Journal has a particularly useful graphic that breaks out each country.) […]
While I wait for David Skeel and William Cowan’s new book on the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill to appear next month (The New Financial Deal), I have tried to make my own assessment of what the bill means in the aggregate. In order to do this, I have read the bill in its entirety twice. The first time was when the bill was first passed, and this was in order to see if anything in it took me by total surprise. That amounts to a search for particular nuggets that jump out at you, not the “totality” of the bill. I’ll add that he experience of reading the entire thing as a “thing” made clear to me why “reading” bills before you pass them, if it is a good idea, needs to mean “reading” in a really different way. You have to read the bill with all the cross references to other legislation being amended to hand in advance, and a staff of experienced people to make sure that you know the context into which this change or that fits. One hopes, of course, that this was also part of the drafting of the bill … but let’s pass over that detail. (Update: I just ordered Skeel-Cowan from Amazon.)
The second time around reading it was not for nuggets, but instead to try and understand the whole thing, as a comprehensive thing. I realize that this makes little sense given that it is not a “thing” but an agglomeration of many things, some of which fit together and some of which don’t. But this second time, I read it with some research help, and more importantly with the several hundred page bill summary to hand. This was partly to understand the bill, but partly to get a reality […]
UPenn law professor and corporate finance and bankruptcy specialist David Skeel has an important article in this week’s Weekly Standard talking about the possibility and utility of bankruptcy for states. The article argues first that a new chapter for states in the Federal bankruptcy statute would be constitutional, and then turns to argue, second, that the benefits to the public would be considerable:
When taxpayer-funded bailouts are inserted into the equation, the case for a new bankruptcy chapter becomes overwhelming. And it’s a case for Congress to move now on the creation of a state bankruptcy law.
With the presidential election just two years away, the pressure to bail out California, Illinois, and perhaps other states is about to become irresistible. As we learned in 2008 and 2009, it is impossible to stop a bailout once the government decides to go this route. The rescue of Bear -Stearns in 2008 was achieved through a “lockup” of its sale to JPMorgan Chase that flagrantly violated corporate merger law. To bail out Chrysler and General Motors, the government used funds that were only authorized for “financial institutions,” and illegally commandeered the bankruptcy process to give the car companies a helping hand. There is, in short, no law that will stop the federal government from bailing out profligate state governments like those in California or Illinois if it chooses to do so.
The appeal of bankruptcy-for-states is that it would give the federal government a compelling reason to resist the bailout urge.
This is an important piece of public advocacy by a leading scholar, agree or disagree with its two main contentions, and repays close reading. (The illustration above is a thumbnail from the WS.) | {
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How A Possible Brexit Is Impacting Dealmakers
According to a recent Intralinks survey of almost 1,500 global dealmakers, global M&A activity could be severely impacted should Britain take the decision to leave the European Union (EU). In the survey, 65% of global M&A professionals believe the value of European assets will be negatively impacted if Britain voted to leave Europe. Additionally, 76% of global dealmakers stated that a British exit from the EU will have a negative economic impact and 67% of dealmakers believe it will negatively impact M&A levels across all of Europe.
The results are starker among respondents directly impacted by the Brexit referendum, being held on the 23rd June. 87% of dealmakers in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and an overwhelming 92% of UK dealmakers believe a British exit from the European Union will have a negative economic impact. This has wider implications on the European economy, particularly major economies such as Germany, which heavily rely on cross-border deals from China.
Concern over a potential Brexit are not limited to dealmakers in EMEA. 74% of U.S. M&A professionals think that a Brexit will have a negative impact on the U.S. economy. First, The Federal Reserve is waiting on the result of the Brexit vote to decide what to do about rate hikes this year. Other specific concerns if Britain votes to leave the EU include the following:
It presents a major question on how to handle intra-Europe M&A tax issues.
Trade would be heavily impacted as Britain will have to enter into separate trade agreements with the remaining 27 EU nations.
It will change the way any U.S. financial services firm with a heavy presence in the UK conducts business.
It would create complications in single-bloc negotiations for various matters such as trade, security, etc.
Despite these concerns, dealmakers across the globe are all in agreement about the likely outcome of the referendum: 80% of global dealmakers believe Britain will not exit the EU. However, it will not be business as usual until after the vote is final. | {
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This video is brought to you by a donation from Joel and here's what he has to say: "Hey Sandman, great video, thank you! Since I'm support you on patreon and subscribe star, I had a another (much quicker) video concept for you regarding Jon Snow from Game of Thrones, the Ultimate MGTOW ending. Just curious to know what your take on the ending of GOT is in regards to MGTOW and how it made all of the angry feminists turn into mad queens themselves after Jon Snow essentially decided the fate of a loner, going his own way after killing Daenerys and actually seems happy at the end knowing he did the right thing. I thought it was an interesting and somewhat of a mgtow type ending and since Game Of Thrones is trending a lot, it would probably get a lot of hits. Do with this what you will, but I thought it was a great concept. Certainly not as urgent as my last one, which I'm grateful for, thank you." Well Joel thanks for the donation and topic. But but before I get to it let me tell you about today's sponsor Body Transformation Made Simple: Anyways, Now back to Joel and my thoughts about just how MGTOW Game of Thrones really is. I'll spend the first two thirds of this video discussing your topic Joel and then I'll discuss the progress I've made promoting the Brave Browser and creating a viable business model that goes beyond just Google Adsense. As for covering Game of Thrones or Game of Thongs or whatever else you want to call it I don't think that covering this topic is really going to bring many views. As of scripting this which is around July 20th, 2019 YouTube has been throttling my video suggestions down quite a bit. The videos that still get recommended on people's YouTube homepage do well if they have a title and thumbnail that make you laugh. But if they don't then I'm lucky if they get twenty thousand views.
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How Much Outdated Technology Can Cost Your Business
When running a small business, there can be a tendency to save on tech costs. However, this could actually hamper long-term growth
Buying all new tech for your business sounds intimidatingly expensive – but it may not be as expensive as sticking with the old tech you already have lying around. Squeezing a few more years out of your old computers isn’t thrifty – it can actually be dangerous.
If you’re looking for reasons to justify the costs of a major technology overhaul, you’ll find that there’s no shortage of them. There’s no better way to save money and make your business better than by making the jump to better equipment.
It consumes more power
Newer tech is designed with environmental concerns in mind. Optimized performance allows newer tech to perform to its highest potential without drawing up as much power. Not only is this great for the planet, it’s also great for your wallet.
When you think about long term savings on your energy bills, it quickly becomes clear that new tech can pay for itself – at least partially. This is great for both budget concerns and eco-friendly initiatives that are sweeping the modern office environment.
It reduces productivity
If it takes something 30 seconds to load, that’s 30 seconds of time your employee has wasted. It may not seem like a big deal when you consider such a small amount of time, but you need to consider how often your employees need emails to load and programs to respond.
Before you know it, half an hour went out the window. If you have 40 employees each waiting a total of 30 minutes a day for a slow computer to do what they need it to do, that’s 20 hours of lost productivity a day, or 100 hours in a five day business week. Imagine how much more you could be doing if your computers were as fast as they should be.
It kills convenience
How often do your employees need to say “Let me run in the back and check for you”? Wouldn’t it be great if your employees could reference everything immediately, while they were in conversation with a customer?
Instant answers give customers the highest level of convenience. You’re providing them with better service and a memorable experience. Great customer service keeps customers coming back. If you don’t already have tablets available, getting a few for the office will make things better for everyone.
It’s less safe
Older hardware is sometimes incapable of handling the newest software. Since antivirus and malware protection software is constantly being updated to handle the newest threats, the highest safety measures can outgrow what you have to work with.
Data breeches and destroyed equipment are costly. Many businesses fold after a disaster, and upgrading to newer, safer technology makes it a lot less likely that your business will find itself in such a position.
It hinders growth
You probably designed your tech infrastructure to handle the amount of employees you started out with, plus a few more you anticipated would join up with your business along the way. How many more employees do you have now? You could be overwhelming your equipment.
Better tech can help your business expand. Switching to cloud computing and mobile devices can even allow employees to work remotely, which means they’ll be able to get more accomplished while they’re away on a business trip. Technology can extend barriers.
On a closing note, it’s important to remember that the life of business technology should usually be around five years. After that, things become obsolete. If you’ve had the same computers for more than half a decade, you’re long overdue for a switch.
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TS100 Hyperextension bench exercise: raised feet pumps (1 bar)
OBJECTIVE
This exercise works the pectoral muscles, the deltoid (anterior head) muscles, triceps and abdominals. This exercise is more difficult than the traditional movement. The lower part of the pectoral muscles is worked, as a priority.
MUSCLES WORKED
Mainly, the pectoralis major, the deltoid (anterior head) muscles and triceps. Additional muscles, notably the abdominals are worked to maintain balance.
EXERCISE TIME
4 times 10 seconds.
BREATHING
Breathe in when lowering and breathe out when returning to the start position.
SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS AND TECHNIQUE
Slow and controlled execution
Start position: feet on the TS100 bar.
Execution: lower the chest a few centimetres from the ground keeping the abdominals tense. Return to start position.
LEVELS OF DIFFICULTY
Vary the range of movements and intensity of repetitions. Use a weight vest.
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In this Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 photo, towers of churches are silhouetted against the sun in the village of El-Aziyah near the city of Assiut, southern Egypt. / Petr David Josek, AP
by USA TODAY
by USA TODAY
ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) - A campaign of intimidation by Islamists left most Christians in this southern Egyptian province too afraid to participate in last week's referendum on an Islamist-drafted constitution they deeply oppose, residents say. The disenfranchisement is hiking Christians' worries over their future under empowered Muslim conservatives.
Around a week before the vote, some 50,000 Islamists marched through the provincial capital, Assiut, chanting that Egypt will be "Islamic, Islamic, despite the Christians." At their head rode several bearded men on horseback with swords in scabbards on their hips, evoking images of early Muslims conquering Christian Egypt in the 7th Century.
They made sure to go through mainly Christian districts of the city, where residents, fearing attacks, shuttered down their stores and stayed in their homes, witnesses said.
The day of the voting itself on Saturday, Christian voting was minimal - as low as seven percent in some areas, according to church officials. Some of those who did try to head to polling stations in some villages were pelted by stones, forcing them to turn back without casting ballots, Christian activists and residents told the Associated Press this week.
The activists now see what happened in Assiut as a barometer for what Christians' status will be under a constitution that enshrines a greater role for Shariah, or Islamic law, in government and daily life. Even under the secular regime of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's Christians complained of discrimination and government failure to protect them and their rights. They fear it will be worse with the Islamists who have dominated Egypt's political landscape since Mubarak's ouster in February 2011.
"When all issues become religious and all the talk is about championing Islam and its prophet, then, as a Christian, I am excluded from societal participation," said Shady Magdy Tobia, a Christian activist in Assiut. "If this does not change, things will only get worse for Christians."
But some of the Christians of Assiut are pushing back against the emboldened Islamists. In recent weeks, young Christians joined growing street protests to demand that the charter is shelved, casting aside decades of political apathy.
Assiut province is significant because it is home to one of Egypt's largest Christian communities - they make up about 35 percent of the population of 4.5 million, perhaps three times the nationwide percentage. At the same time, it is a major stronghold of Egypt's Islamists, who now dominate its local government. The province was the birthplace of some of the country's most radical Islamist groups and was the main battlefield of an insurgency by Muslim militants in the 1990s.
It was one of 10 provinces that voted in the first round of Egypt's referendum. Nationwide, around 56 percent voted in favor of the draft charter, according to preliminary results. Assiut had one of the strongest "yes" votes at more than 77 percent. It also had a turnout of only 28 percent - one of the lowest in a round marred by a low participation of only 32 percent nationwide.
The second and final round will held the coming Saturday in 17 provinces, including in Minya, which has the country's highest proportion of Christians, at 36 percent.
Rights groups reported attempts at suppression of the "no" vote in many parts of the country. But Christians say intimidation and suppression are more effective in this smaller, largely rural province.
"In Assiut, we face more danger than in Cairo," said businessman Emad Awny Ramzy, a key organizer of local protests against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and his ruling Muslim Brotherhood. "Here they can easily identify, monitor and attack us."
A senior figure of the Gamaa Islamiya - which was once one of the main groups waging the Islamic militant insurgency in Assiut but has since renounced violence and is allied to Morsi's government - dismissed the Christians' allegations of intimidation in the province.
The claims are "just lies and rumors that surface every time we have an election," Assem Abdel-Magued said. The Brotherhood and officials in Morsi's government have similarly dismissed claims of violations around the country.
The draft constitution, finalized by Islamists on a Constituent Assembly despite a boycott by liberals and Christians, has polarized Egypt, bringing out huge rival street rallies by both camps in the past four weeks. Opponents of Morsi accuse him of ramming the document through and, more broadly, of imposing a Brotherhood domination of power. Morsi supporters, in turn, accuse his opponents of seeking to thwart a right to bring Islamic law they say they earned with election victories the past year.
Egypt's main Coptic Orthodox Church and smaller ones have taken an uncharacteristically assertive approach in the constitutional struggle. They withdrew their six members from the Constituent Assembly to protest Islamist domination of the process and later refused to send representatives to a "national dialogue" called for by Morsi.
The new Coptic pope, Tawadros II, enthroned last month, publicly called some of the charter's articles "disastrous."
In response, the Muslim Brotherhood - which usually keeps a moderate tone toward Christians - has turned toward more inflammatory rhetoric.
Senior Brotherhood figure Mohammed el-Beltagi in a newspaper interview this week depicted mass anti-Morsi rallies outside the presidential palace in Cairo this month as mainly made up of Christians, hinting at a Christian conspiracy against the president.
In a recent speech, Safwat Hegazi, a famous Islamist preacher linked to the Brotherhood, warned Christians against joining forces with former Mubarak regime figures to topple Morsi.
"I tell the church, yes, you are our brothers in Egypt, but there are red lines. Our red line is Morsi's legitimacy. Whoever dares splash it with water, we will splash him with blood," he said, using an Arabic saying.
In Assiut, Tobia, Ramzy and other Christian activists spoke of an atmosphere of intimidation ahead of the vote, including the large Islamist march.
They said threatening messages were sent on mobile phones and on social networking sites. During an opposition demonstration on Dec. 7 outside the offices of the Brotherhood's political party in Assiut, suspected Morsi supporters seized six protesters - five Muslims and one Christian - beating them and shaving the head of one.
With tension building up over the last four weeks, many Christian voters registered at polling centers located in predominantly Muslim areas did not vote, fearing violence, they said.
Those who made it to polling centers in districts with significant Christian populations were soon frustrated by the long lines or delays, which activists said was intentional. In some cases, they said, Islamists who had voted elsewhere then went to stand in lines in mainly Christian areas to make them longer, increase delays and prompt Christians to give up and leave.
Two Christian clerics said that outside the province's main cities, only about 12 percent of registered Christian voters left their homes on Saturday to vote and that no more than seven percent were able to cast their ballots. They based the figures on statistics gathered by members of the Coptic Church's youth group who monitored voting across the province. The two clerics spoke on condition of anonymity because of sensitivities over the church role in political issues.
In the Christian village of el-Aziyah, only 2,350 of the village's 12,100 registered voters cast ballots on Saturday, according to acting mayor Montaser Malek Yacoub.
Yacoub is among the growing number of Christians who are pushing back against persecution.
He has taken advantage of the tenuous security situation of the past two years and built two churches without permits and reclaimed a large area of state-owned desert that lies outside the village's boundaries toward a rock mountain. Under Mubarak's rule, Christians rarely received permits to build or renovate churches.
"Let me just tell you this: As far as I am concerned, this is our country and everyone else are guests," he said. But "we're ready to cooperate with anyone who shares Egypt with us."
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Tips, Tricks and Tales from the Road
Havana, Cuba – A Photo Diary
I can say wholeheartedly, that I absolutely loved Cuba. Last month I stayed in Havana for a week and I still look at the pictures over and over. The colors were amazing, the cars were surreal and the people were absolutely delightful. I can’t get over it. I’ll need to return soon!
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Category Archives: Admission
The complex process of college admissions is a high-pressured business that few of us will ever see from the inside. With big money on the line and parents pushing their kids to the brink of insanity, applying to college has become a game of high emotional and monetary stakes. Suffice it to say, the days of easy-flow transition from high school to college are definitely a thing of the past.
There are some 37,000 secondary schools in the United States, yet those who attend posh prep schools up the ante and level of admissions play by deploying an annual mass of glowing curricula vitae to America’s finest universities. Not only do these high caliber students put the squeeze on the competition, but they also turn up the heat for admission officers as they attempt to bring only the best and brightest to their respective campuses.
Author Jean Hanff Korelitz provides a glimpse into the chaotic, mystifying world of university admissions in her engaging novel Admission. Korelitz has firsthand experience with the process of Princeton University admissions where she was a part-time reader for their Office of Admission during the 2006 and 2007 seasons. Intimate with student essays, credentials, and recommendations, Korelitz fuels her story with the angst and crush of desperate 18 year olds determined to make a difference.
Main character Portia Nathan, also an admissions officer for Princeton University, takes us inside the big machine of Ivy student acceptance and decline. Hand picking from thousands of applicants across the globe leaves Portia emotionally drained as the future lives of the finest students teeter on the brink of her decision. The “ordinarily qualified, the usually brilliant, and the expectedly talented” are all relative when moving through the towering stacks of mega potential.
The drama surrounding Portia’s personal life is a bit predictable and overdone, but the characters are vidid and certainly entertain. Admission exposes the shocking world of inflated ego, poor parent behavior, privilege, entitlement, and the lengths that people will go to access the ivory tower.
Not everyone was as entertained by Admission as I was, particularly this high school senior who reviewed Korelitz’s “silly novel” for The New York Times. Regardless, should you live in an area of privilege and affluence and think your child is a shoo-in for the ivy league, Admission is a must read and will definitely leave you thinking again.
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Colorado Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Executive Director Trudy Kareus announced today that the Colorado FSA will conduct a four-week Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) general sign-up beginning May... | {
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Re: Fairy Tail [KEFI] Chapter 1 Released!
Its called plagiarism, but i dont know the ins and outs of the law nor if its up to the orginal author to prosecute.
Copyright violation is up to copyright holder (author/publisher?) to sue the other party. No one else can take any action. At least in Japan, that is.
For me, if Oda's style is copied in somewhat crappy way (ie. Tsugihagi Hyoryu Sakka), I'd get really sad, but seeing how Mashima draws + develops the story so far, I don't have any problem with it. At least he's not ruining Oda's works.
Re: Fairy Tail [KEFI] Chapter 1 Released!
I meant it as a joke, anyway (hence the 'XD' ) but still, his style is ridiculously similar to Oda's. I didn't know that he had already published another series 7 years prior with the same style, so I suppose it could just be coincedence. Interesting.
Re: Fairy Tail [KEFI] Chapter 2 Released!
no, no new thread: it is a good idea to changee the topic titles for it. Now back on topic: I did not read c002, but I will later on this night. But good kefi is doing this one and have my trust in the second release.
About the guys who say this is a rip off. This is always a lame reaction. Every mangaka is influenced by another one. The art is similar (now wonder, because he worked with oda) but the story is no rip-off. It is original, and good. I like it, fairy tail...
The biggest virtue is to support these Seven Deadly Sins in their fight!!!
Re: Fairy Tail [KEFI] Chapter 2 Released!
Its like finding a good manga for the first time in a while..........and also,
Originally Posted by tars
tnx very much. 2 bad i can't use IRC. have 2 wait 4 direct dwnload.
IRC is easy to pick up, go find the thread here one Mangahelpers.com and you can alsobe on of the IRCers!
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About the guys who say this is a rip off. This is always a lame reaction. Every mangaka is influenced by another one. The art is similar (now wonder, because he worked with oda) but the story is no rip-off. It is original, and good. I like it, fairy tail... | {
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Let’s be clear: Guotai Junan Securities Co’s fixed-price Hong Kong IPO, which begins trading Tuesday (April 11), is not a solution to the exchange’s price-discovery problems. It is a symptom of them. But it might, at least, be pointing us in a better direction.
The mainland brokerage’s HK$16.5 billion ($2.1 billion) float is unusual for having dispensed with the standard price range bookbuilding process and gone out with a single offer price.
To understand the reasoning for this, one has to look back over the past two years of Hong Kong IPOs, which have been characterized by high issuance volume and dreadful performance. Hong Kong had more listings than any other exchange last year – $24.5 billion. But, according to local online broker Boom.com, out of 110 listings since January 2016, 50 are still below their listing price as of April 6, despite the Hang Seng having risen 15% over that time and almost 25% since lows in February 2016.
Performance has been so bad because many deals – chiefly from mainland enterprises and particularly state-owned ones – have simply priced at the wrong level. This is due to the distortion effect of Chinese onshore money, which manifests itself in two ways.
One is the so-called friends-and-family effect, wherein a mainland issuers decides what price they want and enlists friendly and chiefly domestic enterprises to commit to that price, even though that’s not what the international institutional market would pay based on an analysis of the issuer’s merits.
Chris is a journalist specialising in business and financial journalism across Asia, Australia and the Middle East. He is Asia editor for Euromoney magazine and has written for publications including the Financial Times, Institutional Investor, Forbes, Asiamoney, the Australian Financial Review, Discovery Channel Magazine, Qantas: The Australian Way and BRW. He is the author of No More Worlds to Conquer, published by HarperCollins. | {
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Hi,
I am trying to make coreboot v4 works with a old version of filo(stand
alone).
I build the coreboot and definde a paload which has been build with an old
filo which is not using payloadlib of the coreboot.
when filo try to read the linuxbios table , but it can not find the
signaturr LBIO. and it hangs.
Do i have to use filo and payloadlib of the coreboot, or is it a way to fix
this problem. we don't want to have any depency between coreboot and filo.
thanks,
/Masoud
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Should NUCLEAR holocaust deniers be jailed?
Who are the real “holocaust deniers” – those who question the victors’ version of World War II history? Or those “in denial” about rapidly-approaching World War III?
In this week’s FALSE FLAG WEEKLY NEWS (watch it above – click HERE for links to all the stories) Prof. Tony Hall points out that the term “holocaust” entered post-World-War II usage mainly to describe the impending incineration of most of humanity through nuclear war. When Tony and I were kids in the 1960s, “holocaust” mainly meant nuclear war, not gas chambers.
Then Israel invaded its neighbors in 1967, stole their land, puffed up its hairy chutzpah-bloated chest, and imposed its peculiar mythology on the world in general and the USA in particular. As Norman Finkelstein points out in The Holocaust Industry – the book that got him witch-hunted out of American academia – hardly anybody ever thought or talked about the Nazi holocaust of the Jews prior to 1967.
Today, the Nazi holocaust of the Jews has become the West’s dominant religion. It is the only sacred narrative left – the only one that you can be thrown in prison for questioning.
On this week’s FALSE FLAG WEEKLY NEWS Tony Hall, Ole Dammegard and I courted prison, and/or the annihilation of our careers, reputations, and ability to earn a living, by asking why “holocaust deniers” are being raided, thrown in prison, and denied a livelihood.
This week’s top news story eliciting such dangerous discussion was the police raid on Alfred Schaefer’s home in Germany. The police arrived while Alfred was in the shower. They seized his computers and arrested him stark naked. [Correction: It was not technically an arrest: They just served a warrant on him and seized his computers and papers.]
I watched it twice. What I saw was a sweet, gentle, smiling violinist, Monika Schaefer playing music and offering a heartfelt apology to her German mother, who had endured tidal waves of hatred simply for being German and having lived in Germany during World War II.
Where is there any hatred in Monika Schaefer’s video? Am I missing something?
The real hatred is coming from the other side. The real haters hated Monika’s mother for being German. And now they hate Monika for expressing her well-researched views and her heartfelt feelings.
While such dangerous free thinkers as Alfred and Monika Schaefer are being persecuted for alleged “holocaust denial,” the world is sleepwalking straight toward the NUCLEAR holocaust we all feared in the 1960s. And the mainstream media, the politicians, and the military and intelligence communities are all in deep, deep denial about it.
Why is aggression worse than genocide? Because aggression, the ultimate crime, leads to all the other criminal acts, starting with mass murder, that occur during wartime. This has been the consensus position of international law since World War II.
So this week, the US just committed a war crime worse than any genocide that occurred during World War II…and hardly anybody even noticed.
Making that crime even worse is the likelihood that it will lead not just to genocide – that is already ongoing in the Middle East – but omnicide, the mass murder of most if not all of Earth’s population of more than 7 billion human beings, as well as the destruction of much of the biosphere.
The stage has been set for nuclear war. Syria is the likely flashpoint. It could happen any time. Some predict the escalation into World War III beginning within the next few months.
The sacred holocaust narrative about World War II, the one you can be thrown in jail for questioning, feeds the self-righteousness and pro-war sentiment that is leading the US, Europe, and Russia straight toward World War III.
The US, Europe, and Russia all use the sacred holocaust narrative to cast the Nazis in general, and Hitler in particular, as the incarnation of Satan.
Today, the US and Europe use this demonization of the Nazis to justify their own aggression. “We will not be appeasers like Neville Chamberlain!” they scream. “We will go to war and murder millions, because we are right and our enemies, like Putin and Assad, are modern versions of Hitler!”
The Russians, too, allow their traumatic memories of World War II to drive them towards World War III. Like the West, the Russians imagine Hitler as the ultimate evil. Like the West, they magnify Hitler’s World War II crimes, and forget about their own.
So who are the truly dangerous “holocaust deniers” – those who quibble about the details of the 60 million murders conducted during World War II? Or those who stick their heads ever deeper into the sand, thereby making themselves complicit in the looming hecatomb of humanity, the onrushing specter of World War III?
Should we arrest and imprison the nearly seven billion earthlings who are guilty of “nuclear holocaust denial”?
Or allow them to sleepwalk into horrific deaths amidst the radioactive rubble?
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16 Responses to "Should NUCLEAR holocaust deniers be jailed?"
captain obvious August 29, 2016 at 11:10 am
can we start with the chemtrail deniers first? it would rid us of most government and media figures very quickly, maybe we avoid a big nuclear holocaust with them off their thrones.
guibus August 29, 2016 at 4:58 am
Holocaust or Shoah is a Jewish Ritual, as celebrated in Purim where millions of jews celebrate the assassination of 70000 babylonian people 2500 years ago, as described in the Book of Ester (Ishtar). So a holocaust can only be commited by jews and the WW2 holocaust story is repeated again and again just for the goyim never reseach on this truth.
Yehuda_Abraham August 29, 2016 at 2:47 am
Dr Barrett; Just to confirm your recollection of the use of the term “holocaust”
On Friday, Sept. 20, 1963 Time Magazine’s cover boldly featured the word Holocaust………, except they were referring to a fire in Brazil.
That’s right, prior to the invention of the Jewish holocaust in the mid 1970’s via the NBC special mini-series, the word holocaust was used to describe something completely different.
Worker Bee August 28, 2016 at 7:21 pm
“The US, Europe, and Russia all use the sacred holocaust narrative to cast the Nazis in general, and Hitler in particular, as the incarnation of Satan.” – KB
Nice to see others are starting to pick up on this, as the creation of “Hitler as the devil for secularists” needs to be mentioned more often as part of the Holohoax Religion™.
P.S. Is it Kevin, Tony, or Ole who forgot to feed their Tactical Cat before the show?
What was Stalin´s former name ? In every case a jewish name. Read Gifting the UN to Stalin by Greg Hallet and you know his roots. Must sear the name but this takes a moment.
Trakkath August 28, 2016 at 4:17 pm
You may doubt everything, even the existence of god or allah or the devil but never touch or come near the sacred golden jewish calf.
Ian Greenhalgh, Managing Editor August 28, 2016 at 2:57 pm
Again, you are spouting nationalist, racist rhetoric that is largely nonsense. The Serbs were not responsible for starting WW1, Princip and the rest of the Black Hand were employed by the Zionists based in London, we have documents proving this such as the letter written in Ladino sent from the Serbian legation in London to Belgrade containing details of the assassination plan and the payment in British pounds to be made to the assassins. Therefore WW1 was started by a flase flag planned and financed by the Zionists. Blaming the Serbs for WW1 is like blaming Iraq and Saddam for 9-11 – nothing more than a lie used as an excuse to start a war for profit. The Serbs were victims, despite your racist rantings to the contrary.
Trakkath August 28, 2016 at 2:34 pm
Utterly Bullshit, go and inform yourself who Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Churchill are rooted from, then come again and talk to us.
joetv August 28, 2016 at 10:47 am
Ah, Hate Crime(s). “ya gotta love ’em”. Say it ain’t so, and sorry, lose your career, and go direct to jail. But not until the Jewish legal system steals your bank account. Hate Crimes came into law when we allowed 2% of our population access to 35% of? Should I list them all. Ok, just a few. Law, particularly judgeships, education, Defense Dept., banking, and we must not forget opinion making thru ownership of major media corps, antimedia trolls, race baiting, the publishing houses, etc., no need to go on. After 100 years of this nonsense Bubba is stirring. When fully awake maybe he may get down to the business of adding the USA to the long list of nations which tossed these Jewish carpet baggers to the curb.
Trakkath August 28, 2016 at 9:39 am
We are already jailed or what do you think this world is ? It´s an open air FEMA camp and none can escape not even the guards. So they can jail us only on single arrests and blow the whole jail up with nukes.
Trakkath August 28, 2016 at 10:13 am
Check the background of the members of the Knesset-2 called Bundestag and you will know who is and was in power again here in germany.
Trakkath August 28, 2016 at 12:47 pm
Liberté, Egalité, Varieté
Trakkath August 28, 2016 at 4:14 pm
but it is all a big theater like a varieté
brabantian August 28, 2016 at 8:21 am
Hello Kevin … something key for your own notes, just posted on another thread … Turns out that leading Dutch anti-Islamic political leader, ‘close the mosques’ Geert Wilders with the fake dyed blonde hair, nominally Christian … is actual Jewish on his mother’s side, with Indonesian-Muslim heritage as well … and Wilders has been frequently seen visiting the Dutch Israeli embassy – Mossad agent?
Wilders’ grandmother was Johanna Ording-Meijer [Mayer etc] … his ancestors were administrators in the Netherlands’ Indonesian colony & married locals … for more racist Dutch, Wilders is a lower-caste ‘half breed’ … funny given Wilders ‘pure Christian Dutch’ agenda … his ‘Freedom Party’ tho popular is already regarded by some Dutch as ‘controlled opposition’ tied to Mossad, hence the wild statements etc
brabantian August 28, 2016 at 8:29 am
You know Kevin, seeing your article title, at first I thought you were referring to the claims – recently on ZeroHedge & the Daily Bell – saying that Hiroshima & Nagasaki were not ‘nuclear blasts’ at all, but rather chemical firebombings just like Tokyo & Dresden … A ‘smoking gun’ is that, e.g., the day of the Hiroshima ‘atomic bomb’, records show 66 bombers (the size of a chemical fire-bombing fleet), were sent to bomb Imabari … which however no longer existed, Imabari was just rubble due to previous bombings
Retired Swedish engineer Anders Björkman living near Monaco, has long argued no nuclear weapons have ever existed, it was always fake, mushroom clouds also resulting from chemical explosions … The theory is that Soviet elites & the West & now China India Pakistan etc all conspired to profit from the trillions spent, plus the intimidation by, e.g., the State of Israel claiming to have ‘nukes’ of their own
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J.D. Zumwalt spent a year in Vietnam before taking a sixteen year break in service.
During the break he worked as a police officer in Houston, Texas (Class 56), a tug boat pilot pushing barges in the intra-coastal canal, a firefighter and an EMT on an ambulance.
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While the government should take steps to cut expenditures, shifting the burden of paying for the treatment of service related injuries to the soldiers and their insurance is not a good idea.
First, implementing such a plan will save relatively little money. The estimate is that the government will save $530 million each year by implementing this plan. While this is a considerable sum to most people, it is rather tiny compared with the billions AIG received. If we can afford to dump billions into companies like AIG, surely we can afford to pay millions to help our soldiers. Are we so poor that we cannot take care of those who have bled in our service?
Second, the plan is a public relations fiasco. While there are no doubt some people who approve of the plan, the reaction has been uniformly negative. Even Jon Stewart expressed his outrage at this plan. While I dislike paying taxes, I do not begrudge any of my money that is used to treat veterans. The evidence seems to be that most people also think this way. Even the folks who have been calling Obama a socialist are for this socialized medicine. Weighing the savings against the damage it would do to the administrations popularity and approval rating shows that this is not a good idea.
Third, there is the obvious moral argument. Veterans who are injured in the line of duty deserve to have their medical bills paid by the taxpayers. The moral basis for this is the fact that these soldiers are injured on behalf of the people and this creates a debt that must be paid. In short, if soldiers are injured in service to the country, then the country owes them. To bill their insurance shows a profound lack of gratitude for their sacrifices.
As such, the Obama administration should stop considering this proposal. The prudent and right thing to do would be to issue a statement saying that the proposal is no longer being considered. An apology to the veterans might also be in order.
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The Army is a socialist structure. Socialism works at smaller levels than national. At the national level, a centralized government cannot efficienly manage the whole system, so a decentralized “capitalist” system works much better. At smaller scales, like armies and families, socialism has benefits, though of course those structures still exist in a capitalist nation, thus giving them more money for better training and equipent. One would also hope they’d get better medical treatment then say, Venezuala.
To bill insurance companies for a limb that got blown off by a Taliban member is pretty bad though. It’s somewhat understandable that some service members may have to pay for injuries that didn’t happen in relation to their jobs, but who wants to be deployed to Afghanistan thinking that the Army won’t pay for a terrible injury that resulted from fighting for your country?
Hey, I can see first hand that socialized medicine here results in a somewhat lower level of service. But soldiers shouldn’t have to worry about medical treatment. They need to focus on the mission, and the Army taking care of injured soldiers is one of the things that gives us the greatest fighting force in the world.
There are many things going on in the military that evidence a shoddy treatment of soldiers. Let’s not add one more to the list.
I am not so sure that caring for the soldiers should just be considered a socialized medicine structure. I am not sure it is fair to compare the two. After all, the soldier has exchanged service to his country for being taken care of. | {
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Why I started this. . .
Several years ago, we lived in a house much like this one, (but not quite as fancy) in West Adams, which at that time was a mostly middle class African-American enclave somewhat West of USC, in the heart of Los Angeles. We--white and Jewish, clinging to Middle Class by our fingernails--were fortunate to have found that particular neighborhood at that particular time.The area had been built around the turn of the 20th century and ranged from mansions to more-than-comfortable homes. By the Great Depression, the fancy part of town had moved North and West to Country Club Park. During those tough years of the 1930's, many of the great homes of West Adams took in boarders while paint faded on their mammoth walls.By 1947 and 48, the first Negroes (as they were then called in polite company) moved in. These were the educated and the well-to-do--lawyers, insurance company owners, teachers, nurses, doctors, some of them movie stars on the order of Hattie McDaniels, the first African-American to win an Oscar. That didn't matter. The impolite response was burned crosses, minor riots and white flight. Soon the neighborhood was almost completely Black with a smattering of Asian, mostly Japanese.But it turned out, our block had someone of color who had moved in long before 1947. According a neighbor down the street, her great-aunt had built their sweet Craftsman cottage in 1908, when that branch of the family was passing for white. Successfully--Nonny (not her real name) even mentioned one of them who was an Admiral. In the Navy. Yup.Her story started me on the long road to writing my novel, "The Color of Safety," which is about a hundred years in one house in West Adams, and which is in part about someone in the first half of the last century who is "passing for white," as that slip across the color line is called.But trying to research what it was like to pass proved tough. Oh, there are literary sources. Charles W. Chestnutt wrote of men who succeeded and women who were punished for crossing the line. Nella Larsen, who was scarred emotionally when her mother crossed over, leaving her behind, wrote of passing in terms that screamed, "Danger, Danger." Chester Himes wrote a painfully hilarious almost-sketch of a story (Dirty Deceivers, 1948) in which a couple, both passing, believe they have married "up"(i.e. white) only discover that their beloved wife/husband is--yes--just a person of color, passing, like they are. Though at first, they are delighted--it turns out they are even distantly related--within paragraphs, they feel cheated that they didn't manage to catch someone 100% white. The very short story ends with them suing for divorce. So, yes, those literary sources certainly gave me insight, particularly Himes'.But I wanted details. After all, if you're going to write a novel, you have to know about, oh, smells, sounds, tastes. What you're seeking are those perfect minutia, that pebble in the shoe that makes each moment come alive as someone reads it. Those--those just weren't there.So I started calling around academia, history departments, looking for any kind of oral histories. And I ran, slam, into a stone wall. Sure, okay, I get it, white woman doing research on passing? In most well-to-do families, the idea of passing was a shameful thing. Only classless people would not want to be wealthy and African-American.And today, it really carries a sense of shame, as if these people didn't realize that Black is Beautiful, without much understanding of what folks in the past were really up against.So what I heard was, "Oh, well, that sort of thing really didn't happen. I mean, people would pass to sit in the front of the street car, or maybe to get a job, but then they'd come home and within a block, they could go back to being Negro again, return to the family, relax.""But," I'd say, "What about what Walter White said in his autobiography?" (Ironically titled, "A Man Called White" since White was then the blue-eyed, blond-haired, fair-skinned president of the NAACP.) "In 1948, White wrote: 'Every year approximately twelve thousand white-skinned Negroes disappear—people whose absence cannot be explained by death or emigration. Nearly every one of the fourteen million discernible Negroes in the United States knows at least one member of his race who is “passing”—the magic word which means that some Negroes can get by as whites, men and women who have decided that they will be happier and more successful if they flee from the proscription and humiliation which the American color line imposes on them.""And," I'd say, "What about Melba Pattilo Beals? You remember, she was one of the kids who integrated Little Rock High school. She wrote in her absolutely brilliant memoir, 'White is a State of Mind,' about her fair-skinned cousin, Griffin, who went north to college and on his first day, fell madly in love with a white woman, love at first sight. Knowing she was from Alabama, he was instantly sure she would never marry him if she knew he was Negro, so he called his mother and said he was going to live his life white. And now this cousin, Griffin, was a sheriff in a small southern town by day and a member of the Klan by night. He had to be, or he would have been found out (and couldn't have maintained his place in Alabama society.) And he was calling to warn Beals' parents that the Klan was offering a reward to anybody to kill all five of the children integrating the school."That was when my academics would start to talk. Not that they had much to offer. Because how do you get oral histories of people who have vanished into the whitewashed woodwork? Even Shirlee Taylor Haizlip couldn't do it. Taylor Haizlip, in case you missed the Oprah episodes like I did (because my kids leave me no time to watch TV) by dint of persistence and energy, found and reconnected with her aunt who had left the ranks of "Colored" around 1916. But--and for me, this was a huge but--though she talked with her new-found "white" cousins, Taylor Haizlip was too kind to ask her eighty-some-year-old aunt the questions that would have come out of me like a hail storm, rat-a-tat-a. Not. . .not ethical questions, no. I understand that there was--and probably still is--a tangible need to pass. After all, I am a blonde Jew who could easily pass for English or Swedish and I am married to the child of Holocaust survivors. Of the very few Jewish children who survived the Holocaust, almost all of them were able to pass. If those eleven cousins of my husband who died during WWII had been fair enough (and lucky enough--at least two of them were blond, so we're told by those who still miss them) and if parents' Polish or French had been good enough, and if all the stars had aligned enough, they might have survived the war.What haunted me, though, was the idea that this cousin of Beals, Griffin, was not only a sheriff, but had joined the Klan. But of course, he would have to, wouldn't he? If you were passing, you'd have to be the worst of them. And you'd have to keep an eye on them, the way Griffin did for his little cousin, Melba, back in Little Rock. You'd have to brag about your pure white sheet and trash-talk Niggers--and maybe even lynch a few--in order to survive.And then there was the rest of Walter White's introduction to his autobiography: "Often these emigrants have success in business, the professions, the arts and sciences. Some of them have married white people, lived happily with them, and produced families. Sometimes they tell their husbands and wives of their Negro blood, sometimes not. Who are they? Mostly people of no great importance, but some of them prominent figures, including a few members of Congress, certain writers, and several organizers of movements to “keep the Negroes and other minorities in their places.” Some of the most vehement public haters of Negroes are themselves secretly Negroes.”My (Jewish) mother always said to me, "Be careful about marrying out of faith. Because if you don't teach your children to be proud of being Jewish, the world will teach them to be ashamed of it. And if you scratch the grandchild of someone who converted to Christianity, you're likely to find an anti-Semite." Of course, Mom's rule doesn't hold true for all the world, but there is something twisting in having to hide who you are. (And one other Jewish girl in my class (there were only about seven in my whole school) the one whose Dad had married a non-Jew, used to wear a cross on a chain around her neck, and pretend nobody at her house at matza around Easter)And if you have to hide who you are in a world that holds who you are in contempt, then who do you become? What happens to you on the outside? What happens to you on the inside? Do you become that mouth-foaming, gay-hating politician who plays footsie in the Minneapolis airport? Do you become Griffin, the Klan Klegal, who is secretly black?That was the origin of my complicated novel, the Color of Safety. I hope to lead you on the journey of discovery along with me as I finish the last section of the book.Sara Selznick
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Some houses are haunted. Some haunt us. I am writing a house much like this one, (but not quite as fancy) located in West Adams, which is a mostly middle class African-American enclave somewhat West of USC, in the heart of L.A. We--white and Jewish, clinging to Middle Class by our fingernails--were fortunate to have found that particular house in that particular neighborhood at that time. The more I learned of the history of West Adams, which started as a wealthy white area, became wealthy black in about 1948, had a freeway rammed through Black-owned mansions, yet even after the crack epidemic, was still a strong and caring neighborhood, the more I cared for and respected our neighbors. Now we have moved. I still miss both house and neighborhood. The novel I am writing, "The Color of Safety," is both an homage to the neighborhood and an imagining of its first one hundred years through the inhabitants, black and white, Christian, atheist, Muslim and Jewish, of one wonderful house in what remains a wonderful part of an often unfriendly city. | {
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On Blind Spots and Doing Better When We Know Better
Three years ago, I wrote a blog post detailing my journey with the book When We Was Fierce and in particular the journey with realizing that a book I had marveled at and called a must read was being critically reviewed by others. While at first I was embarrassed by my enthusiasm and not knowing better, in the blog post I wrote about the growth I had when I put away my own embarrassment and instead approached the moment as a learning opportunity, simply put; when I knew better, I could do better. It is a journey I have tried to continue on ever since.
Since that post, I have tried to be more in tune with critical reviews. I have tried to read new or old books that come my way with a broader lens trying to step out of my own lived experience to discover how others may view a book. How others may be potentially harmed by a book. How others may have world view shaped in a an inaccurate manner because of a book. While the voice in my head has gotten better at alerting me to potentially problematic texts, it is far from perfect and it is a journey I continue to be on.
I share this because this week I published my best books of the year so far list, a list I try to carefully put together in order to help others find books that may heighten their reading experiences. It is also a list for myself to look back upon as I celebrate the incredible works put out in the world that have deepened my own children’s’ reading lives as well as my teaching experience. This morning, I woke to a tweet sent to me by a colleague highlighting a potentially problematic book on the list.
My response: Thank you, I will definitely look into it. Which I did.
Dr. Laura M. Jimenez (@BookToss) had written a great post detailing problematic aspects of the book Stonewall: A Building, An Uprising, A Revolution by Rob Sanders and Jamey Christoph. This book was on my best of the year so far list and a book I had really enjoyed, even contemplating how I could use it as part of our upcoming historical research unit where we will write from the perspective of an object. While I had read the book and the voice inside my head had noticed how there didn’t seem to be a broad acknowledgement of the trans community, I had put aside my concern rather than followed up on it, despite having also read the book The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets by Gayle E. Pitman that had explicitly discussed the broad community anger and how this went past the mostly gay men present in the inn on the first night of the riots. Dr. Jimenez discussed those concerns and then some in her blog post, and also received a reply from the author, Rob Sanders, which I really think you should read.
After reading the blog post, the concerns with the book were crystal clear so I pondered why I had I put aside my concerns? The answer? Because I really liked the book AND also because of my lack of knowledge. While I had a minor concern, I didn’t follow up on it and instead chose to highlight the book because I thought that it would be great for others to read. End of story.
And this is what I want to write a little bit about, because those two things, dismissing our concerns and not knowing better, are exactly why I think many, especially white, educators keep problematic books in classrooms and home collections year after year. I know the emotional attachment is what makes me sometimes try to mentally finagle a way to be okay with a book in our collection that may do potential harm. Even though I know better. Even though I end up not placing it in our library because I know better. But how often do we, and especially us white educators who live within the dominant lens, simply not know better? Or how often do we dismiss the criticisms because we somehow think that having the book will surely alert students to their own concerns and then be able to navigate potential problems within it?
But here’s the thing, if I, as a 39 -year old educator who has taught for nearly 12 years and reads hundreds of books, as well as reviews of books, and critical discussions of books every year cannot figure out on my own that a book is problematic, then how can I expect my students to do so?
Because they won’t, not unless we teach it, not unless we discuss our own mistakes when it comes to reading and highlighting problematic texts. This is why I use the book The Secret Project by Jonah and Jeanette Winters in my classroom. While I had the book at first because I loved it and had already read it aloud to my classroom, after I read Dr. Deb Reese’s post on the problems with it, I re-visited the book with students and we discussed why we had not ourselves caught these problems with the text and instead taken it at face-value. It led to a larger discussion on what else we miss when we don’t know more, or the blind spots we all walk around with and how to shrink them.
This is why we must do better when it comes to vetting our own collections and also being okay with admitting it out loud. I know that there are a lot of emotions attached to books and their creators. I know I don’t want to hurt other people when I distance myself from their work. I know that many educators, me included, like to think that I know enough to carefully select books that will not present problematic, inaccurate, or full on harmful stories to my students, but that is simply not right. Even though I have grown and gotten better, I have so much to learn still. I will, probably despite my best intentions, continue to embrace books that because of my own lens, my limited perspective, I cannot see the problems in until others point it out.
So what can we do when we realize either through our own investigation that a book is problematic or when someone else points out harmful representation or stories?
Say thank you when someone points it out. We cannot grow if we don’t know what we need to do better on. That is why recognizing when someone offers you an opportunity to grow and acknowledging it as an opportunity to grow rather than getting defensive is always the best way.
Get over our own feelings. Is it embarrassing to screw up? Absolutely. Would I rather do well? Sure. Do I learn from these interactions? Every time. However, when our response is one of incredulity or dismissal we are not really growing, we are certainly not focusing our energy on what we should be focusing on, which is the conversation surrounding the text or illustrations rather than our own feelings. (I am listening to White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo and this is part of what she discusses).
Read the criticism, seek to understand it, and ask questions. I always read or listen to what is being said and then try to find other voices who are discussing it as well. If I am not sure why something is being discussed the way it is, then I ask questions. That is why I love being connected to others because social media gives me a quick way to reach out.
Take action outwardly. Whether it is publicly acknowledging your screw up if you have recommended it, or spreading the word by amplifying the discussion happening, do your part. It is often isolating to be someone pointing out critical aspects so knowing that there are others who will back up your words and calls to action is powerful.
Transfer the knowledge. Teach this critical skill to students by also connecting them with book reviews blogs so that they can be adults who have access to information, so that they can notice their blind spots, and also try to see whether a book may be harmful or not. Make it a part of your already embedded curriculum units so that it is not a stand-alone lesson but instead one that is addressed in many different ways. After all, isn’t teaching critical analysis one of our main teaching goals?
Take actions personally. Remove the book altogether or use it to discuss blind spots like I have done with a few books, but do something, rather than just push it aside because “no one will know that you still have the book.” While that may be true, this is also an incredibly twisted way of looking at the process. While it feels very strange to throw books in the garbage, almost sacrilegious, yet sometimes, that is where certain books belong. Don’t just say you will do something, actually do it.
Try to do better in the future. While I definitely catch more problematic books before I recommend them than I have in the past; as evidenced by this post I still have a lot to learn. All of us do. But the good news is that through social media we can easily learn from others as long as we are willing.
So what did I end up doing with Stonewall the book that started this whole blog post? I removed it from my best books of the year so far list and with the encouragement of Dr. Jimenez wrote this blog post to make my thinking visible. While I love the missing parts of history that the book represents, I cannot use it as an actual representation of what happened that night, there is too much missing.
And that is where I start my summer vacation. Knowing that I have so much to still learn about others and from others. Not a bad way to start my summer as I try to grow as a person and as an educator. I now know better, so hopefully I can do better. Can’t we all?
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It takes bravery to acknowledge and accept challenges to our initial responses to literature. I had a similar challenge to my enthusiastic response to “My brother’s husband” and I think part of it is we each approach a story with our limited world understanding and it takes others with different perspectives and world views to help us open our eyes to alternative interpretations.
Have you read Kathy Short’s keynote on “the dangers of reading globally”? https://muse.jhu.edu/article/723529. I will need to broach this with our Language and Literature team next year, as there are a few books on our middle school lists. It is perhaps not so much a case of removing them as teaching them differently and acknowledging our flawed and limited understanding of very complex global issues.
There is a similar “battle” going on with the diversification of the GRA – and I for one was someone constantly asking for this, and that has been addressed – but the impact has been that many North American educators are recoiling as the books don’t fit neatly into their idea of a read aloud, just as previous books didn’t fit into global educators ideas of a global book.
Nadine, thanks for sharing that article. There was a lot to think about and a lot of good ideas. In a class where everyone chooses their books, helping each of reader gain a more complete perspective on a book is a challenge, but I like the idea that they don’t necessarily have to pair the book with another full novel. Instead, picture books, articles, and other short texts can do the job. It also provided some great ideas to help me confer with students about some of the books they read.
Also, one thing I forgot. I agree that the article doesn’t make the case for not reading the books it talks about. Instead, it makes the case for helping readers evaluate what they read and helping them understand how their background affects the way they respond to the work.
Thanks for this post! My team was just discussing this issue as we refined our Summer Reading lust. We like to offer a broad range of diverse books, but after a valid parent concern, we realized we needed to vet our selection process for the reasons you mention in this post! Thanks —- I will be using your ideas to reassess my classroom library this summer!
Thanks for posting this. I just read an article critiquing the wordless picturebook Unspoken by Henry Cole. I am grateful that I am at a point in my evolution as a literacy educator that I can read the critique, think about it, and make the decision to pull it from my collection without feeling embarrassed or defensive.
My new challenge as a coach is how to support other educators with this. I watched a teacher present yesterday and use Unspoken as a shining example. I have no judgement, I know she has not read what I read and doesn’t know what I know, but I shied away from starting a conversation with her about it. It’s because the first time someone challenged a book choice of mine in that way (It was SkippyJon Jones, circa 2009!) I remembered feeling embarrassed and defensive. I didn’t want to make her feel that way. I don’t actually know how she would have reacted, but I errored on the side of not making her feel bad. I’ll be thinking about this and what I might do going forward.
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The nova clips are nice.I had a Camaro clip in my 51 Chevy truck,It rode great,A very big difference in the ride.The good thing about the Nova clips,They are a little narrower then the Camaro.About a 1.5'' hub to hub.The back,You need to put the rear end on top of the spring,Then you can add a bock between the spring and the rear end to set the rod.There is other ways,It's just how far and how much you have to spend..
I put my 48 chevy flatbed on a 1991 extended cab S-10 frame and love it. It is plenty low in almost stock s-10 configuration. Some people don't like the really narrow front end, but I can tuck my 20's and drive just fine.
If you are going to run a bed. The standard cab long bed is the S-10 to get.
You can have a low-stance vehicle with any front or rear suspension, but you need to adjust your thinking and consider the car/truck as three separate and distinct units. Front suspension, body and rear suspension. The front and rear suspension can be placed anywhere you want them by "Z"-ing the frame rails. All the geometry can remain the same as stock, but the ride height will be wherever you want it.
You can have a low-stance vehicle with any front or rear suspension, but you need to adjust your thinking and consider the car/truck as three separate and distinct units. Front suspension, body and rear suspension. The front and rear suspension can be placed anywhere you want them by "Z"-ing the frame rails. All the geometry can remain the same as stock, but the ride height will be wherever you want it.
The S-10 basically has a Z from the factory. That is why they are nice to swap into stuff. ....and narrow enough to keep the front tires off of the fender lip.
My truck is low, but goes down the road like a stock S-10. My suspenion is stock except for cutting a coil and a quarter off of the front.
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Thank you. I wouldn't know where to start with that though. I'm thinking, if there's nothing wrong with doing it, that I will find a Mustang II IFS with drop spindles, and then lowering blocks for the rear w/conversion to disc. I don't think I'll need to z the frame with an MII IFS. As said before this is my very first project so I'm learning as I go. Thanks again..
That's a good idea, thanks. So does this sound like a good plan then? Z the frame, put a MII IFS on it, and add lowering blocks on rear with disc brake conversion. My only question now is, will the stock rear track with the MII suspension? Also what's the easiest way to go about finding gears for the rear so it doesn't have a melt down during freeway speeds? Thanks again for all the help guys.
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One you're under the car, you want to remove the splash shield first. There are 17 screws that hold it in. Bumper cover doesn't have to be removed. Once we get the splash shield off, we'll do the access from underneath. The factory bezels are held in place by these five body colored tabs. We want to start at the top. The tabs you're going to have to pull them down slightly while putting some force on the bezel from the outside to remove them. This will a take a little bit of force to get off. Now we're going to install the fog light bezel. It's going to mount to the five body tabs that we just used. In addition, these four tabs here are going to get screws through them due to the additional weight of the fog lights. Make sure all five tabs are tight. Now we're going to install four screws in each of these corners. Make you do not over tighten these screws. Just get them snug.
Now we're ready to install the fog light itself. The bottom two holes line up with these two alignment pins are held in place by four screws. Put all the screws in loosely to hold it in place before you tighten anything down. You might find it easier to use a quarter-inch socket for some of the more difficult screws. Now we're ready to wire up our fog lights. You have to go the engine bay to remove this cover. Once you get the cover out of the way, we're going to modify the wiring harnesses. The cover's held in place by these push-pins. Simply pull up on the center and then remove the entire push-pin. Now that you've removed all eight tabs, you can pull the cover off and set it aside. These two wires here go down to your fog lights. You want to tap into the wires closer to the fog light plug to make sure you have enough extension. By the way, the wires are held on the pinch by these metal tabs. Just pop the tabs off, you should be able to fish the wire. You might have two tabs on there, and then you can pull the harness up through.
The factory plus is going to have four wires going to them. We're only going to need two for our fog light. Starkey provides us with wire taps. What you'll do is just pull back the insulation. You want to separate out your wires. The only two wires you need are the black and green and the tan and yellow here. Both all black wires are not used. You're going to carefully strip a small section for the wire tap. Slide the tap right over the bare wire and clamp it down. Now you want to grab the supplied fog light harness and plug it into your taps. It doesn't matter which end plugs in here. Make sure they're nice and tight. We're going to put electrical tape around them just to insulate them a little bit. I'm just going to drop the harness right back into the bottom here. Then, we'll go under the car to plug it in.
Once you finish the wiring you put your radiator cover back on. Now you want to finish your harness over the side of this radiator shroud here. Bring it down, then you can plug in your light. The plug's only going to fit one way. You'll probably have some excess slack. You want to zip tie it safely out of the way. Once you've safely tied all the wires out of the way, you're ready to reinstall our splash shield. Now we're going to test our lights. There's no power going to your fog light harness unless your ignition switch is turned forward, so you want to do that first. First, we'll check them with our parking lights, and now we'll check them with our headlights as well.
The installation of our driving lights is a nice addition to the front of our car. Installation should take you roughly about two hours. You'll be back on the road in no time. | {
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Monday, November 15, 2010
Osaka Toy Crawl
Ah, Osaka...So much to see and do. You've got your great restaurants and foodstalls...
Osaka okonomiyaki rules - even the cheap stuff!
...your plastic food window displays...
...interesting architecture...
...and famous covered shopping arcades.
Plus you've get your discount ticket shops...
...your creative store displays...
I don't think we can call this one a POP...
....and your socially conscious clothing shops.
Then of course there are toys. (What, you're not here for my ward-famous okononmiyaki reviews?)
There are still a lot of good toy shops in Osaka, and most of them are conveniently located in two adjacent areas: Shinsaibashi and Namba. There's a fine selection of vintage sofubi, anime, manga, western toys, storming, transforming, and terraforming robots (new and vintage), and more. That's the good news.
The bad news is Osaka is in pretty bad shape when it comes to original sofubi from outfits like Secret Base, Real Head, Yamomark, etc. There was a time (as recently as last year), when shops were stocked with great finds at bargain prices. Maybe that was the writing on the wall, but still, over the last five years, prices were consistently better than Tokyo, and the selection was decent.
A couple of shops still have interesting, out of the blue assortments from one or two companies like Rainbow or Marusan. And if you hit every store you might find a few figures you need. But the sad truth is, in terms of new sofubi, you can probably find more in a single visit to Nakano Broadway than in a day roaming through Osaka.
It all boils down to what's hot. From my discussions with shop owners, new sofubi just isn't cutting it for collectors. Sure, you've got blue moon events like the recent Pushead show at Astrozombies, which drew a ton of people and was a huge success. But in terms of a sustained interest, it's just not there any longer to justify shops keeping multiple display cabinets stocked with new figures.
Anyway, like I said, there are some great shops, and if you're on the lookout for other toys, you might wind up with a nice haul. Here's a roundup.
Popsoda:
Popsoda is always a fun shop for cool stuff like vintage TMNT, Wacky Wobblers, Toy Story, and other US toys.
The shop also sells original figures, like this one from Mirock.
Plus, Popsoda has original sofubi from Real Head, Spooky Parade and more. These figures were sculpted by Aya, of Refreshment Toys
Aya (visiting from Nagoya) and Hossy (Popsoda owner)
Much more after the jump...Shinsaibashi Mandarake:
One of Osaka's biggest toy stores, this shop is down to 2 cabinets of original sofubi.
Psychedelia:
For years, this place had sofubi bargains. Now, the pickings are slim. But the overall variety of toys is nice.
Astrozombies:
The Skullwings are display only.
Cool old skool stuffed to the brim display. Some nice pieces in there, and the prices are good.
Astrozombies has tons of Monster Movie figures.
Jungle:
Jungle had some insane deals up until recently. Now, though its sofubi rack is slim, there are still some interesting pieces from Sin and Wombat, Skullhead Butt, and other companies you don't see every day.
Hero Gangu:
One of Osaka's oldest and most famous vintage Takara (among tons of other companies) shops.
Some fantastic vintage pieces. Hiro (the owner) also has bags of newer figures (mostly from Rainbow - also some RxH and other bits and bobs) in the back. Plus, he has an amazing two-headed Bemon collection on display - not for sale.
Super Position:
The store is stocked with random figures from across the toy spectrum, but the original sofubi side (which was once impressive) has all but evaporated.
Aside from sofubi, Osaka has a ton of other hobby shops. Many are concentrated in the Namba area. Here's a sampling:
Gundam and other robot model kits, diecast figures, etc.
Giant crane shop - I love crane shops! I also love those revolving candy scooper games...if you ever see me, ask me about the Great Osaka Candy Game Money Dump!
New toys
More new toys
Card shop (place was seriously packed!)
Showcase shop
Otaku lifestyle outlet
My Osaka haul:
There are a couple of other shops worth checking out. The Umeda Mandarake currently has a nice assortment of Marusan, Rainbow, and Marmit figures. If you have time to head out to US Toys, that's always a fun place to visit - and packed to the rafters!
Not far from Osaka, you've got interesting places in day-trip striking distance like Kyoto, Nara, and Kobe (which has a few toy shops). Tomorrow, we're planning to head to the site of the 1970 World Expo. Should be fun.
So, a trip to Kansai is still great - just not quite as good on the new sofubi side as in years past. Hopefully things in that department will turn around in the coming months and years. Ganbarimasu!
Thanks for the scoop! I have the best luck using the "mashing" technique, where the weight of the crane or arms jostles the figure(s) free. Scored a mini plush Softo-san that way the other day - 1 coin!
Osaka is definitely a fun place to walk around, pick up great eats at food stalls, and check out toy shops. Namba is a bit like Akihabara, but with more of a pedestrian Shimokitazawa vibe (but without the artsy/boutique atmosphere). | {
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Pink ties for cancer
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Several prominent men in South Bend will wear pink ties for cancer
And today South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg joined the group the Pink Ties Guys.
The big event was sponsored by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
The Century Center endured a make-over as well.
Pink lights were placed around the ceremony to remember those who beat the disease.
"The more awareness we can have and the more we can fund research and help these survivors, the stronger our community is gonna be, and I was really proud to be asked to be included in this effort," Buttigieg said.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and this is just one of many events to raise money or a cure. | {
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Stylish School Uniforms
Being a student in today’s day and age is not easy feat. Apart from the conventional pressures of studying, taking notes, preparing for term exams and test, they also are faced with a relatively different new-age pressure.
Being a student in today’s day and age is not easy feat. Apart from the conventional pressures of studying, taking notes, preparing for term exams and test, they also are faced with a relatively different new-age pressure. This new age pressure is one to look fashionable and trendy by wearing clothes that make them look as good as the rest of them in school. However, keeping up with the changing trends and dictates of the fashion industry is easier said than done. It is particularly challenging for those that hail from families that are less fortunate.
One solution for the administration committee of various schools is to institute Dickies School Uniforms. By making it mandatory for its students to wear these uniforms, schools can completely remove the need for its students to spend exorbitant amounts of money on flashy, superfluous branded clothes. It also wills serve as a means of avoiding any sort of discrimination amongst students on the basis of the brand of clothing that they sport. Recent times has witnessed several occasions were students who were found wearing less expensive or second hand clothes, were bullied and treated badly. Therefore, by implementing the practices of wearing Dickies School Uniforms, schools can well avoid such unwanted behaviour and more importantly, focus on their prime objective – providing education and moulding the future of all its students.
The Dickies range of school uniforms comes in a wide variety and range of collection. For boys, it offers various styles of trousers and shirts. For instance, the shirt can be either a simple full sleeved or half sleeved shirt, an oxford shirt among others. They can also avail of pullovers, turtlenecks and sweaters to wear over the uniform during the cold winters. For girls, shirts can range from being a gathered top, a polo shirt among several others. The range also includes cargo finish and the classic pleated look. Moreover, the bell sleeved or flared bottom trousers are available in the vast collection. The range also offers very durable and sturdy bags to carry your school books.
If students are required to wear uniforms, they should be permitted to wear some form of accessories as a means of self expression and individuality. These accessories could range from simple pendant on a chain, coloured ribbons, clips and belts.
Hence, it is vital to realize that it does not have to be either extremes, boring uniforms or expensive branded clothes. Dickies School Uniforms is the way to find a happy median. | {
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Here is a very pretty village house, in the heart of the historic town of Aigues-Mortes dating from the 12th century. This House of character is close to shops and restaurants and is located in a very quiet area. Size of 180 m² + 100 sqm of patio, accommodating up to 6 people in a setting typically Camarguais (works of artists) and a careful decoration. Ideal location to explore the magic of the medieval... House Rental in Aigues Mortes #16217 > | {
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May Blog Favourites
I’ve previously written posts like this in the past and promised to make it into a monthly series, something which simply didn’t end up happening. The only excuse that I have for not doing this is due to a lack of time, but I really do want to make this into a monthly series on my blog because I love sharing love and appreciation for some of my favourite posts that I’ve read! Previously, I’ve done this in August and in September if you want to give those two a read after this post.
Before I make this intro too long, let’s get into the blog post!
The first blog that I would like to share with you is 4 ways to increase your blog traffic through twitter. This is a super useful post and informative post for those who are looking to increase their blog traffic through twitter! Personally, twitter is my favourite platform to promote my posts and interact with other bloggers. I would definitely recommend checking out this post.
If you ever need inspiration for props to use for flat lays then the next post that I’m going to share with you will be right up your street. The next post that I would like to share is 12 flat lay props every blogger needs by Bexa. If you’re struggling for inspiration then this is definitely the post for you!
Have you ever wondered about the kind of skills that you develop whilst blogging? Then look no further than this blog post by Abigail on 4 skills you develop as a blogger. It’s great to think about the variety of skills that you gain and improve upon simply by blogging, there’s a lot more to blogging than people might realise! The skills you develop through blogging, even if you’re only blogging as a hobby, are definitely invaluable!
Blog posts that I personally enjoy reading about at the moment are those that involve learning to drive, so if that’s something that you’re interested in reading to then I have the post for you. This blog post was written by Alice on Learning to drive, I enjoy reading people’s experiences of leaning! In her blog post she also gave some tips and tricks to pass your driving tests which I’m hoping will be very useful for me too.
If you’re a blogger and you’re wondering if the recent GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) that have come into place on the 25th May affect your blog or not, then this post is here to help you out. Gwennan has written a post on GDPR and what it means for bloggers over on her blog, a super useful and informative post for those bloggers who are confused and unsure on this particular topic! It’s definitely worth checking out if you’re still unsure.
That’s all that I have for today’s post, I hope you managed to find something useful out of this post. You should definitely check out the blog posts that I’ve included in this post if you haven’t seen them already!
Thanks for sharing this lovely. What a lovely way to spread the love for other bloggers!
I know what’s it’s like being super busy and trying to keep up that blog. Haha. So far, *knock on wood* I’m proud that i’m getting more consistent.
I have too many fave bloggers to share LOL!
But some are lenadeexo.com and hellobexa.com
These are lovely ladies who’s writing I enjoy very much.
Love,
Rose – http://www.rainbowsdreamcloud.com
What a lovely idea for a post! I really enjoyed this and will definitely be checking out some of those posts. I’m not sure what I would pick: I’ve read some really great posts recently. Too many to chose from!
Such a great way to share the love! A lot of the posts you’ve linked look really informative too which is great (obviously). I definitely think Twitter is the best platform for growing and sharing your blog x | {
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Hill Country Science Mill Brings ‘World’ of Music to Johnson City
Los Texmaniacs are bringing their international sound to the Hill Country Science Mill as part of ‘World Music, World Stories’ from 1-6 p.m. March 18. The event includes Analogix of Fukuok-shi, Japan; Hanato Chiruran of Tokyo; and Tribu Baharu of Bogota, Colombia. The concert is free with regular paid admission to the Science Mill. Go to sciencemill.org for more information. Courtesy photo
Hill Country Science Mill Brings ‘World’ of Music to Johnson City
JOHNSON CITY — While the Hill Country is home to great musicians and songwriters, four groups are bringing an international flair to the scene.
On Saturday, March 18, the Hill Country Science Mill and OUTSIDE VOICE are hosting "World Music, World Stories" from 1-6 p.m. at the Science Mill, 101 S. Lady Bird Lane. Even with SXSW happening down the road in Austin, it's tough for some people — particularly families — to make the trip and experience a wide world of music.
"World Music, World Stories" is bringing that experience to Johnson City.
“We believe that creativity, imagination, and curiosity are certainly part of innovation, but music and art also play a big part,” said Bonnie Baskin, founder and board chair of the Hill Country Science Mill. The facility uses science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) to encourage kids to explore their world and develop an interest in STEAM-related activities and possible careers. The Science Mill features many hands-on displays and activities for youth to experience.
Music, especially world music, definitely supports the mission of the Science Mill.
“This is an opportunity for kids to experience music from around the world and those cultures and those stories,” Baskin added.
Two of the bands come from Japan, one from Colombia, and one from San Antonio. Each brings a style not usually heard in Hill Country venues.
The lineup is Analogix of Fukuoka-shi, Japan, at 1 p.m.; Los Texmaniacs of San Antonio at 2 p.m.; Hanato Chiruran of Tokyo at 3:15 p.m.; and Tribu Baharu of Bogota, Colombia, at 4:30 p.m.
Baskin said each group brings music that people in the Highland Lakes don’t usually get the opportunity to experience, especially live.
“Tribe Baharu, they have this South American with reggae sound, it’s just amazing,” she added.
She admitted to favoring Los Texmaniacs, but she also wants to experience the Japanese music.
“I’ve never really been a techno fan, but I’m going to approach it with an open mind,” she said of Analogix and Hanato Chiruran. “Who knows? Maybe I’ll discover I do like it.”
The concert is included with the museum’s regular admission, which is $10 for adults, $8.50 for ages 3-18, $8 for seniors 65 and older and military members, and free for ages 2 and younger.
Blankets and picnics are allowed but no glass containers. Also, food will be available from the Lady Bird Lane Cafe and a number of food trucks.
Baskin added that the Science Mill has been busy trying to better utilize its outdoor area, which now includes a stage and other amenities.
“We hope kids will be out there dancing and just having a good time,” she added. “And, it is a family event.”
Along with the concert, the museum and all its regular activities will be open from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tickets may be purchased at sciencemill.org or at the door. | {
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Pokemon Episode 10 Analysis: Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village
CotD: Melanie – A sweet girl, but terribly boring, Melanie is the caretaker of a Pokemon village that consists of only one house. She nurses sick and injured wild Pokemon back to health with the hopes of releasing them back into the wild.
Pokemon: Technically none, though she is the caretaker of many.
Reappears?: No
Pokemon Debuts:Ash’s Bulbasaur – Quite the serious and protective Pokemon, Bulbasaur is one of Ash’s longest staying Pokemon in his team besides Pikachu.
Plot: Lost in the forest yet again, Ash and the others take a break only to stumble upon an Oddish. Ash and Misty both want to capture the Oddish, and Misty shoves Ash aside to capture it herself. She pits her Starmie against it and manages to weaken it but as she’s about to capture it in a Pokeball, the ball is suddenly batted away. A Bulbasaur has suddenly appeared to protect the Oddish from the capture and it quickly does away with Starmie. Ash, excited about a new prospect of capturing a Bulbasaur, sends out Butterfree to attack.
Butterfree uses Sleep Powder only to have it blown back in his face by Bulbasaur’s breath. Butterfree tries to continue battling, but a quick Tackle also takes care of Butterfree and Bulbasaur and Oddish take the opportunity to run off.
Ash is disappointed that he couldn’t capture Bulbasaur, but is excited under the belief that there are likely others in the forest to catch. As they continue on their path, Ash and the others cross an unmapped bridge that suddenly collapses under their feet. Ash and Misty manage to hang on, but Brock falls into the rushing waters below.
Ash and Misty pull themselves up and quickly rush to find Brock’s corpse—I mean totally alive body, but Misty is caught in a pitfall trap. Surprisingly, Team Rocket is not behind the trap, and Ash and Misty continue to look for Brock.
They spring yet another trap which lands them in a net stuck in a tree. They see the same Bulbasaur down below who gives them a glance before walking away. Later, Brock returns safe and sound to save Misty and Ash from the trap. Brock explains that he was saved from the river by a beautiful girl and brings Ash and Misty to her Pokemon village where she nurses sick and injured Pokemon back to health in the hopes of returning them to the wild some day.
Ash, Misty and Brock decide to help out at the village for a while, and Misty makes amends with the Oddish she attacked earlier. While Misty is talking to Oddish, Ash pops up to tease her, causing Misty to yell at him. Bulbasaur suddenly Tackles Misty and knocks her to the ground. Ash, fed up with Bulbasaur, decides to finish their battle from earlier, but Melanie stops him. She explains that Bulbasaur has offered to be the guardian of the entire village, and he only acts so aggressively when he thinks someone is a threat to the Pokemon there. When Misty yelled at Ash, Bulbasaur took that as a threat to Oddish and started defending it.
Bulbasaur tries to push Ash away, and Melanie explains that Bulbasaur doesn’t like Pokemon trainers and is trying to make them leave. Ash understands Bulbasaur’s feelings and admires its bravery and resolve.
Team Rocket shows up, and using a giant flying baseball stadium with a giant vacuum hose, they start sucking up all of the Pokemon. Brock, Melanie and Misty take all of the Pokemon into the cabin, but Oddish nearly gets captured. Its saved by Bulbasaur, and Ash assists it in carrying Oddish back to the cabin. Bulbasaur and Ash team up to take Team Rocket down with Bulbasaur swatting away the vacuum hose and Ash using Pidgeotto’s Gust to combat the vacuum winds and create a tornado to whisk Team Rocket away.
After Team Rocket has been taken care of, Melanie offers to have Bulbasaur go with Ash to be on his team. She states that, while Bulbasaur is a great and brave Pokemon who has done a lot for the village, he’s very much restricted there and has no real opportunity to grow. In addition, his fierce protection of the village Pokemon makes them feel so safe and relaxed that Melanie finds it difficult to return to them to the wild back where they belong.
Bulbasaur agrees to go with the arrangement on one condition; Ash has to beat Bulbasaur in a battle and capture him fairly. Ash excitedly agrees and the match begins.
Ash uses Pikachu against Bulbasaur, and after some failed Vine Whips, Bulbasaur decides to give Pikachu a head-on Tackle. Before he has a chance to recover, Pikachu is hit by another Tackle, but manages to regain his composure in mid-air, responding with a Tackle of his own.
Bulbasaur attempts Vine Whip again and succeeds in wrapping Pikachu up with the vines and slamming him repeatedly into the ground. However, Ash strikes back by having Pikachu use Thunderbolt on the vines, sending the shock through them and back to Bulbasaur. Ash uses this opportunity to use a Pokeball on Bulbasaur and manages to capture it.
Melanie thanks Bulbasaur for everything its done for the Pokemon, the village and her and bids it farewell while Ash promises to take good care of Bulbasaur. The group departs from the village with their new friend back on their journey to Vermillion City.
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– Why does Misty want to catch Oddish? It’s a Grass type; isn’t she all about Water types? This is made even more confusing when she tries to justify it by saying the Oddish was near water when they found it and Water is her specialty thus she should have it. By that logic, any Pokemon that drinks water is one Misty has dibs on.
– This is the first of many instances of this happening, but why does Ash need to whip out his Pokedex to see what an Oddish is? Despite never encountering one in the series thusfar he had an Oddish doll in his room. I assume having a toy of something means you know what it is.
– Also, this is one of those capture attempts that just seems cruel. Oddish was minding its own business drinking water when Misty’s Starmie Water Guns the crap out of it, then as its trying to run away Starmie tackles it. 😦
– Huh, yet another instance of Ash seemingly showing interest in pretty girls, even though he doesn’t know what Melanie looks like.
– Okay, look, I really respect Melanie for what she does. Creating and maintaining a Pokemon sanctuary of sorts with absolutely no financial benefit on her part is really great and respectful. I can understand wanting to keep trainers away from the Pokemon in her village so they don’t get attacked or captured, but is there really no better way to do that than setting dangerous traps?
I mean, the pit in the ground and the net, I guess those aren’t that bad because as long as she checks them very regularly then there’s no terrible harm done to the people wandering around. But the bridge being rigged? That’s really dangerous! What if a handicapped person or a person who can’t swim was going across that bridge? Hell, even someone who can swim would likely have trouble staying afloat in that current.
Considering the bridge wasn’t even on Brock’s map, I can only assume that she built the bridge just to dump people into the river. And what if she forgot to check the traps, which is implied by Melanie’s dialogue where she acts surprised that the traps actually worked? People could end up in those traps for days or weeks and end up dying in them. What if random Pokemon stumbled across them? They’d get hurt or die.
This is just such an overall terrible and dangerous idea, and it really could’ve been avoided by putting up a lot of signs that explain what this area is and telling trainers to please not catch Pokemon there. Or maybe marking Pokemon who are staying at the village with a little collar that explains where they are and requests not to capture them.
– Ya know, I’m actually kinda glad this is one of the only times Brock gets so embarrassed when talking about one of his crushes. The way he keeps smacking Misty for teasing him about it would probably get really old. Also, why are we able to see Misty get punched in the top of the head twice full out but Ash getting slapped by Misty in the first episode had to be censored?
– Why is Ash mocking Misty for falling into the pit trap earlier? 1) He and Misty both got snared in a trap after that and 2) he falls into Team Rocket’s pit traps all the time.
– Nice coloring error on Meowth’s ears when they get caught in the net.
– Let’s address this line that I had to write earlier;
“Team Rocket shows up, and using a giant flying baseball stadium with a giant vacuum hose, they start sucking up all of the Pokemon.”
Team Rocket’s not exactly known for making sense most of the time, and they are infamous for creating huge outlandish contraptions out of nowhere, but I just have so many questions.
1 – This is pointless to ask but where did they get an enclosed baseball stadium?
2 – How is it flying using about four or five balloons?
3 – Why a baseball stadium? That has absolutely nothing to do with the topic of the episode or anything related. It’s not like they stumbled upon a baseball stadium earlier or anything either. There’s nothing but woods as far as the eye can see. This would’ve been fine in a much later episode with…..She who shall not be named until Johto, but just why here?
4 – Why is the big threat of this baseball stadium two huge vacuums? What do vacuums have to do with baseball?
– Okay, I’m no scientist or meteorologist, but I’m gonna call BS on the ‘creating a tornado with a vacuum and high wind’ thing. From what I can gather, twisters are caused when two winds blowing at different speeds at two altitudes meet. This causes initial spinning effect. Other factors such as updrafts cause an increase in the spinning speed, and if the spinning gets fast enough, it will cause a funnel cloud which will touchdown on land.
Blowing air into a vacuum should logically just cause the air being blown into it to just get sucked up without any noticeable effects, right? Or if the gust is powerful enough I assume the vacuum effect would get nullified.
I will admit that if Ash meant to do that then that is a really cool use of Pidgeotto for a change instead of its later usual schtick of popping Team Rocket’s balloon.
– Wait, why does Misty want to battle Bulbasaur now? Not only does it tarnish Melanie’s speech about Ash being the best candidate to help Bulbasaur grow, but it also, again, makes no sense. Bulbasaur is also a Grass type not a Water type; why does she want it? In addition, Bulbasaur has been nothing but aggressive towards her this whole time with ruining her capture, glaring at her while she was in the trap and then Tackling her later. Why does she suddenly want it? Because the water is nearby?
– Huh, I wasn’t expecting a new and very clean capture attempt animation.
– Holy crap, that wild Staryu grew like five feet in 15 minutes!
Granted, picture two is the closest to the size we know of Staryu taking from Misty’s Staryu, but it’s been consistently like a foot tall the whole episode. I assumed it was a baby, but apparently it’s a mutant super Staryu.
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Ah, the Kanto starter arc. I think most people agree that, in order, the best episodes are Charmander, Squirtle then Bulbasaur, with most of the debacle going on between Charmander and Squirtle’s episode positions, but we’ll jump that hurdle when we get to it. Bulbasaur’s episode, to me, is perfectly fine. I can’t really think of anything seriously wrong with it, but it’s just not horribly interesting is all. It doesn’t have the excitement or fun or Squirtle’s episode and it doesn’t have the emotional impact of Charmander’s, which is a shame because, like I said, out of all of Ash’s original team, Bulbasaur stuck around the longest with him being a regular member through even half of Johto. He also has a great English voice even if it’s a little rough here.
I would’ve liked less time to be spent with the traps and more time to be spent on exactly why Bulbasaur dislikes Pokemon trainers. He doesn’t have to have the same abusive trainer backstory of Charmander, but maybe explain like a bunch of troublemaker trainers frequent the woods or something and they tend to harass the Pokemon. That would both explain why Bulbasaur dislikes trainers and why the traps are so necessary. It’s a shame because Bulbasaur is such an interesting Pokemon in terms of its personality and you really have to wonder what happened to him to make him that way, but we never get told.
Next episode, Kanto Starter Arc Part 2 – Charmander’s Debut! When the group spots a weak Charmander on a rock, they soon come to realize that it belongs to an abusive trainer who left it there stating that it would return some day but really had no intentions on doing so. When a rainstorm threatens Charmander’s life, they have to move quickly to keep Charmander’s flame from dying out.
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The rugged coast of Robinson Crusoe Island, a two-hour flight from Santiago, Chile, is largely unchanged from the days of sea captain Alexander Selkirk, marooned there in 1704 and immortalized by Daniel Defoe as "Robinson Crusoe."
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Chile: "As primitive as can be" does not apply to the lodgings of a new four-night tour of Robinson Crusoe Island that includes a two-hour flight from Santiago. Hiking, diving and horseback riding, though, reveal how little has changed since a captain was marooned here in 1704, inspiring Defoe's novel. www.adventurelife.com.
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Is it an insignificant crack, or a sign that the foundation is about to crumble? That's what Pepco Holdings found itself wondering when one of the 16 participants in its revolving-loan syndicate recently exercised an option to reduce its exposure by 20 percent.
Any threat to its credit line triggers alarm at Pepco. The $1.5 billion revolver provides liquidity for the electric utility's unregulated businesses, which have commodity price exposures and mark-to-market collateral activity, says CFO Paul Barry.
"We had heard of several banks dropping out of credit facilities altogether, so we are fortunate. But the surprise is that only one bank has come to us asking to [offset] some of its exposure," says Barry. "A number of banks are under pressure to do it."
While investment-grade Pepco has largely evaded fallout from the subprime crunch, CFOs at other companies may see lines of credit shrink or even vanish as more banks scramble to buttress teetering capital structures. In response, Pepco has heightened its credit monitoring of financial institutions. "We want to know our exposure to them as a trading partner, especially with volatile commodity prices," Barry says. "We have limited or stopped trading with those that pose a significant risk."
Changes that only marginally disrupt solid borrowers such as Pepco may be more keenly felt in transportation, retail, financial, and other distressed sectors, where routine refinancing arrangements are history. United Airlines, RadioShack, and Radian Group, for example, have gone to unusual lengths in recent months to tailor revolvers or find substitute lenders willing to extend credit lines.
"It's the worst credit environment I've seen, and I've been with the company 18 years," says Bob Quint, CFO of Radian, a $1.3 billion bond insurer. Last April, ahead of a credit downgrade, Radian renegotiated the ratings covenant out of its revolving facility. A less than accommodating bank group cut the commitment size by 37 percent, to $250 million, secured it with Radian assets, and slightly shortened the term. The group also charged an amendment fee of $1.9 million. "For now, we will live with the reduced size of the facility," Quint says. Radian shifted some funds from its financial-guaranty business to its mortgage-insurance business to cover a shortfall.
In this dicey climate, CFOs face tough questions about revolving credit lines. Are they safe? When the time comes to renegotiate, will borrowers have enough clout to secure a newline on similar terms? The answers pose serious implications for day-to-day operations and long-term growth.
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At banks with huge mortgage losses and write-offs, idle commercial lines of credit are shrinking — but not because companies are borrowing more. According to the Federal Reserve, Wachovia Corp.'s unused commercial-credit commitments to U.S. companies dipped to $151 billion in the second quarter, 10 percent less than a year earlier. Merrill Lynch's commercial bank reports that unused lines dropped by 25 percent, to $31.3 billion, while Cleveland-based National City reports a modest 7 percent pullback in corporate lines of credit, to $20.5 billion.
Data from Reuters Loan Pricing Corp. shows that revolver issuance to companies was tepid in the first half of 2008 — just $288.2 billion, almost 50 percent less than in the first half of 2007. "If banks are feeling bad about life, they start chopping unused lines wherever they can," warns Christopher Whalen, managing director of Institutional Risk Analytics, a firm that monitors bank safety and soundness.
Tremors can be felt far beyond commercial banks. Other financing sources, including institutional investors, show scarce interest in standing behind corporate lines of credit. For borrowers, says David Casper, executive managing director of BMO Capital Markets, "the world has gotten a lot smaller in the last six months."
As pivotal cogs in the corporate credit growth engine, institutional investors have no need to back revolvers with low fees on large commitments. "Investors don't want in-and-out activity," says Steven Bavaria, a managing director in leveraged finance at rating agency DBRS. "They want to get their interest coupon every three months and have the money outstanding earning a return." Even in good times, says Mike McAdams of Los Angeles–based Four Corners Capital Management, many investors participated in revolvers only to stay on line for term loans.
Before financial institutions can even extend credit lines to corporate customers, they must tend to their debt. Together with seven of their money-center peers, Bank of America, Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase must refinance $247 billion of bonds maturing between October and March 2009, according to Dealogic. Worse, as of September, nearly one in five banks stood on the verge of credit downgrades by Standard & Poor's, up from 9 percent in similar straits a year ago.
Rising demand and weaker credit spell one sure outcome: more-expensive debt for lenders and borrowers. Bankers' borrowing spreads have already doubled since early January, to 377 points over LIBOR and 105 points more than the tab for investment-grade nonfinancials.
The ripple effect on Main Street is clear, says BMO Capital's Casper: "If a bank has to raise money at 8 percent, it can't lend at 6 percent."
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Even capital-constrained banks cannot simply yank lines of credit without repercussions, says consultant John Walenta, a partner in corporate banking at Oliver Wyman. But they can seek modifications, especially if a company is close to violating a covenant. If a bank is already committed, the focus may shift to "just managing down the size of the line," Walenta says, especially if a borrower rarely uses more than a fraction of the balance. Banks may not pull credit lines overnight, but "they will say, 'Our relationship with you on this particular facility is coming up for renewal — find yourself another bank,'" says Bob Graves, co-chair of the banking and finance practice at Jones Day. "Banks' credit committees are getting much more finicky."
Hampered by restrictions on its line of credit, troubled UAL, parent of United Airlines, often won concessions by demanding them. But recently it had to dangle an exceptional offer in front of lenders to temporarily ease a restrictive covenant. The company paid a 7 percent fee ($109 million) so earnings could at times slip below fixed charges without triggering technical default.
Wary borrowers now fear lenders won't be able to renew facilities when they mature. In August, RadioShack issued $325 million in convertible unsecured notes to replace a revolver terminating in June 2009, which it uses for working capital. While RadioShack will pay a lower rate of interest (2.5 percent), it can't redeem the notes prior to maturity, and the holders can force the company to buy the notes back on a material adverse change. What's more, $40 million of the proceeds go to hedge against dilution to the company's common stock when the notes convert to shares.
Middle-market companies and small businesses have less leverage when it comes to protecting their credit lifelines. With these customers, a line of credit more often is simply a demand note. "Absent lenders liability, a bank always had the contractual right to reduce or eliminate a line of credit as it saw fit," says Robert J. Pruger, finance chief at Rudolph/Libbe Cos., a commercial builder with a $27 million revolver.
Banks simply don't make money on credit lines, and may even lose money if the credit lines are a substitute for more-productive loans. Returns increase only when amounts are drawn, when banks also issue a term loan, or when opening a line leads to sales of other profitable services to the customer, like cash management. As a remedy, banks have tried to raise fees for unused credit lines above a typical 25 basis points, but fierce competition has often stymied those efforts.
"[Lines of credit] are attractive to us in the context of a broader relationship," says Todd Morgano, a spokesman for National City. "We are moving forward with less emphasis being placed on stand-alone credit."
With bad news surrounding banks, regulators are digging into commercial lending on several levels. They want to know more about the nature of those loans and underlying assets to "detect weaknesses in asset quality that may result from slowing economic conditions and to ensure appropriate risk-management practices," Donald Kohn, a Fed vice chairman, said during a Senate hearing in June. Regulators are particularly interested in the condition of large syndicated credits shared by three or more banks, as well as underwriting practices for leveraged loans, Kohn said.
That can affect credit lines, says attorney Tom Vartanian, a partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP and a former general counsel for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. More scrutiny puts a damper on lending and, by extension, credit. "When a financial institution is hunkering down and regulators are evaluating its risk, capital, and management," says Vartanian, "it fundamentally means there are fewer funds available at the margins."
Accounting-rule changes could lower an even weightier boom, not least by forcing wider recognition of credit lines on lenders' balance sheets. Imminent changes to the Basel II accord, which set standards for how much regulatory capital banks set aside, could off set an expected reduction in capital needed to support commercial loans. The Basel II committee has recommended that by January 2010, banks treat trading and banking portfolios alike, so that both encompass risks related to defaults, liquidity, credit and equity spreads, and changes in credit ratings.
So far the committee has not directly addressed liquidity risk stemming from undrawn commercial lines of credit. Agreement exists, however, that they represent a significant threat to liquidity in the banking system. A recent CFO survey found that 43 percent of U.S. companies and 59 percent of European companies have not drawn down any portion of their lines.
"How does a banking organization come up with the liquidity if there is suddenly a massive run to the bank to draw on those lines?" asks Bert Ely, an independent banking consultant. "We need to factor this more explicitly into the capital requirements of banks — that feeds back into pricing." That could boost the cost of credit lines, Ely says. The good news for companies? "The Basel process is slow and cumbersome."
Banks alleviate pressure on their balance sheets by selling loans to other investors, but offloading lines of credit defeats the goal of eventually booking profitable loans. If banks want to adjust the business model by initiating lines of credit and then handing them to other lenders (somewhat like origination fees for home mortgages) that's another matter, but fees would likely be razor-thin. Moreover, if activity in the market for investment-grade loans (which plummeted 66 percent in the first half of 2008, according to Reuters Loan Pricing Corp.) is any indication, there would be few if any buyers.
A sliver of good news awaits credit-hungry CFOs. By historic standards, loans are very cheap, says Four Corners's McAdams, whose firm structures fixed-income investments. That could entice buyers. And if inflation goes on a rampage, it could draw investors seeking a buffer against interest-rate hikes, because loans are floating-rate products. "They can pick up spread" without going further out on the yield curve, he explains.
Enduring the Irony
But good returns for investors mean the loan market is pricey for issuers. Double-B credits were paying spreads of 300 to 400 basis points in late summer, on top of original issue discounts — pricing below par that increases the return. Hudson Products, a B-credit manufacturer of air coolers and fans, had to sweeten its loan deal twice in August, eventually offering a discounted yield of LIBOR plus 623 basis points.
To maintain fluid credit lines, CFOs should strengthen their relationships with well-capitalized banks while keeping an eye on banks' balance sheets. Credit ratings alone tell an incomplete story: watch the same dashboard that regulators and counterparties use to gauge a bank's creditworthiness. Robust metrics, say experts, include loan-to-deposit and loan-to-funding ratios as well as a bank's allowance for loan losses — measured against total loans and against nonperforming assets.
While there is certainly some irony in having to gauge the credit of a lender from which you want credit, BMO Capital Markets's Casper says it is simply a sign of these troubled times. As one CFO he knows put it, "I now realize I'm a better credit risk than the guys lending money to me."
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Reacting against the view of nature “red in tooth and claw,” ecologists and behavioral biologists such as Warder Clyde Allee, Alfred Emerson, and their colleagues developed research programs they hoped would validate and promote an image of human society as essentially cooperative rather than competitive. Mitman argues that Allee’s religious training and pacifist convictions shaped his pioneering studies of animal communities in a way that could be generalized to denounce the view that war is in our genes.
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Although science may claim to be “objective,” scientists cannot avoid the influence of their own values on their research. In The State of Nature, Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal how explicit social and political concerns influenced the scientific agenda of biologists at the University of Chicago and throughout the United States during the first half of this century.
Reacting against the view of nature “red in tooth and claw,” ecologists and behavioral biologists such as Warder Clyde Allee, Alfred Emerson, and their colleagues developed research programs they hoped would validate and promote an image of human society as essentially cooperative rather than competitive. Mitman argues that Allee’s religious training and pacifist convictions shaped his pioneering studies of animal communities in a way that could be generalized to denounce the view that war is in our genes. | {
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Posted
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timothy
on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @09:44AM
from the cutting-the-ropes-instead-of-boring-the-hull dept.
crumley writes "Blackboard, the proprietary giant in the learning management software market, has purchased two companies, Moodlerooms and Netspot, that sell support for their open source competitor Moodle. Blackboard said that they plan to allow Moodlerooms and Netspot to continue operating with their current leadership. It will be interesting to see if this move leads to an exodus from Moodlerooms and Netspot, since many of their clients were intentionally trying to avoid doing business with Blackboard."
Which is rather unfortunate, since I can say without exaggeration that Blackboard is probably the worst piece of modern software I've ever had to use. Moodle's certainly not perfect, but I've found it absolutely fine in general day-to-day use; Blackboard is slow, buggy, and has a web interface which manages to disable such revolutionary new browser features as 'the back button', and 'middle click'.
Blackboard is one of those products where the idea is great but the execution is horrible. Compared to having to maintain a website themselves, it is a huge step forward for teachers and students. It enables them to do things that most education IT departments didn't support before, like discussion forums and per-student access permission (for grades, feedback etc). Compared to just about any other popular webapp however, it is complete shit. It is like all those horrible intranet applications sold to business that are completely dependent on plugins just serve static content, require 7 clicks to do something that should require 2, have poor browser support, break when you do normal things like click the back button, and seems to get worse with each new release.
One of the things I remember about Blackboard is the regular re-introduction of old bugs. Blackboard would fix a bug and the bug would come back a couple of releases later, at which point we would have to prove to Blackboard support that the bug had come back; because of course they had it in their head that they had fixed it. And of course, Blackboard would take several months to fix any bug that had any kind of workaround, even though many times the workarounds were completely unreasonable, like they IE7
break when you do normal things like click the back button, and seems to get worse with each new release.
Yes, but after (how many years?) the latest release finally fixes the race condition that would delete an entire class's worth of grades if two teaching assistants (who teach, say, different lab sections for a single lecture section) dared to upload grades at the same time! The same release forces you to triple-click on a cell to enter a grade, but hey, we've almost advanced to 1960's-era databases!
But in all seriousness, I don't know a single professor in the department who would use Blackboard if it wer
Most of the teachers and professors never create content in blackboard. They use course cratridges ( archive of course content provided by text book publisher) and pawn the associated text books to students as required material.This is why blackboard is popular since teaching staff can use it without any pain and and courses are taught using canned publisher provided content.
It's the opposite of intuitive, I had to have someone take me through how to upload a simple SCORM course the first time. It's burried under about six menus, half of which tend to be un-alt-tagged generic icons. Needless to say that a year later when we had to do it again I had completely forgotten how to do it.
It's *really* clunky, and every one I've seen uses frames like they're going out of fashion. Rather than, you know, DOA.
Right now there is shit storm brewing because I added a bunch of wait-listed students to a course. The only thing is, I deleted them after adding them. Guess what, wait-listed students are logging in. FUCK!! Blackboard admin, oh the fun.
Manual additions and enrollments caused a bit a grief and confusion for us too. We solved the issue by banning the manual creation and enrollment of students. The only way a student could be added or enrolled in a class was through the snapshot process. We only ran it twice a day, so students would have to wait up to 12 hours to get into their class, but it eliminated a common source of confusion.
I would be laughing at this comment if I had not been in that war myself. Unfortunately, I am now forever unclean.
And it's not just Blackboard Learn. It's every piece of software they've ever written (I have a great deal of experience extending and supporting BBTS at every level, there were massive gaps in middleware that they didn't provide that I had to write myself). I'm quite convinced they design the software to be intentionally bad to secure service contracts (that are enormously expensive, indeed). Even something as simple as monitoring their services was a nightmare. The tools they provided almost always hung when opened. I had to reverse engineer the protocol they were using and write an app that would detect when a service was having problems and auto-restart it. One service would just kill itself if it got too many errors (as I was told by one of their engineers, it maintains a count of failed actions, if that count gets too high, the process either hangs or exits), and these errors were internal, not really "errors," and happened at a very rapid rate. I just can't comprehend that level of bad. Don't even get me started on the DB structure, the backup methods, nor the interfaces between the individual components and their 3rd-party bindings (which weren't well maintained). Holy shit, man. Holy shit.
There were some bright people working there, unfortunately they have to support a monumental failure. I feel their pain.
While not the underlying technology, the landing page is the first thing potential (and, in many cases, existing) clients see and such antiquated structure would warn me away from such a provider. If companies like Netspot are the competition Blackboard can squash only through purchasing, Blackboard must be a really shitty company.
My guess, the Blackboard application will be the one getting killed in the future. Many states are in the process of trying to get students on a single-login-for-life and I can't see everyone standardizing on a proprietary closed-source system housed within the gates of a single company. Moodle is a better choice since it is open-source. Let the community build it, test it, and Blackboard can make their own mods and specialize in support and content. It is not like most schools can even begin to implement t
I work for a government department. Guess how many open source products we use? If you guessed "zero" - well, you'd actually be wrong. We're using open source for content management. But everything else? Proprietary. And the university we're partnered with? Also proprietary all over the place.
I think it it's "if you can't beat 'em directly on the field of battle or if you can't buy them out, see if you can choke off their logistical support". People will run from hosted Moodle because Blackboard now runs it (and starves it of good support/innovation). Then some genius administrator who holds purse strings will say "Hey, how about we host with Blackboard!?!?!"... Not that I've ever seen any thing similar to that happen.
I don't see how this can kill Moodle, as they are not buying Moodle, just 2 of its partners. There are over 50 partners world-wide that provide funding for Moodle development. They will never get the largest Moodle partner, www.remote-learner.net, who are dedicated to open source.
It's important to remember that Blackboard bought 2 of 52 Moodle Partners. Others, like the company I work for, are completely independent of this deal. The Partner program gives good insulation to customers - if they don't like the Partner they are contracting with, they can switch to another one, or bring their Moodle site in house.
Some of the other LMS companies have an open source option, however none have a Partner program, so you have to choose between DIY or the commercial company that also owns the
It's a bit odd then that they say on the front page of their web site that they now support both commercial and open source learning platforms, and have joined forces with Moodleroom. But I suppose only time will tell.
Every time our college escapes Blackboard and their horrendous technical support and technical staff they buy the company we moved to. Likewise, every time they buy the company we moved to, the technical support takes a noticeable nosedive. Our support people notice it, our staff notices it, it's just that obvious when it happens. We have to almost fight with them to get things done sometimes and the only thing they can manage to do with reasonable turnaround time is notify you of outages (caused, the majority of the time, at least for us, by their mistakes).
Sorry to dig up bad memories. If I recall some of the latest issues we've had with them... they like to add servers to our server pools without notification or copying customizations. They also occasionally try to mis-represent the amount of used disk space, sometimes by tens of gigabytes, to try to get us to renegotiate our contract. Bug reports generally go unanswered for days and sometimes can span for weeks at a time only to be closed with "it's not a bug, it's a feature that can sometimes be used malic
My institution is in the same boat. We were a WebCT school and then moved to ANGEL shortly after Blackbeard conquered, pillaged, and plundered WebCT. We'd been running ANGEL for a couple of years when, out of the blue, we found that ANGEL had been assimilated by Blackborg.
Blackboard has a tendency to buy anything that appears to be making a positive change in the LMS market. Rather than purchasing these competitors and incorporating the innovations and enhancements into new products, they
I find it incredibly eerie that your institutions entire history almost mirrors mine. Every LMS you used, we used, and I've complained to my boss about almost everything you have. I could almost confidently say that I might actually know or work with you if I didn't know from your website that you're from the state next door to me.
What makes it almost scary was that just today I was speaking to my boss about Instructure being pretty much the last choice to stay away from Blackboard, but with their popularit
Unfortunately, it appears as if our tale is the industry standard. I was at the ITC conference in Long Beach a few weeks ago and had the same discussion with several people. It seems as if we all do our best to escape the clutches of Blackbeard and just about the time we think we're free from their grasp, they suck us in again.
It's not so much that clients are specifically avoiding Blackboard; schools and such are vastly under-funded, and given the choice between competent free software with smaller support costs and a proprietary LMS, why pay the premium? My university has been steadily moving courses from Blackboard to Moodle for that reason specifically.
So long as the services and prices of these companies remain the same, I don't think clients are going to care who the owner is.
Wish our was. We seem to have the mind set of "The more they charge us, the better it is!" Hence we have Blackboard and it is hosted. I expect once they have our content locked up good and tight we'll see substantial annual increases in their fees.
The university I work for has developed our own home-grown learning management system. The beta is going...so-so and we're supposed to drop-kick Blackboard in 2 months and go wholesale with our own LMS. As a tech I'm somewhat concerned.
To be honest, I have had better experiences with home-grown systems than with prepackaged software. My alma mater got rid of their home grown system in favor of Banner (by Sunguard) and it was a complete disaster, after having flirted with Blackboard (which was less of a disaster but still terribly annoying). My current school uses Sakai, and it is just awful compared to the CGI scripts that professors sometimes write.
I have experienced three of these systems -- Blackboard, Sakai, and Banner -- and I have to say, I am not particularly impressed. Each one came with a phenomenal set of headaches, both for students and for professors/TAs.
Ugly as they were, simple CGI scripts rolled by professors worked just as well and did not induce any further headaches (and usually had fewer issues). At my alma mater, they had a less aesthetically pleasing system for entering and viewing grades, but it worked -- you never had to go more than two levels of links deep to find what you wanted. Yet schools seem to constantly get rid of these home-grown solutions in favor of Blackboard 'n pals...why?
Actually, no. It's not the headcount, it's the headaches when whoever programmed the home-grown solution leaves for a higher paying job. Remember, we're in education; they pay as little as they can get away with. My take-home is about 32k a year, and there hasn't been a raise (or cost-of-living-allowance increase) in 7 years. We lose more people to industry jobs that pay twice as much.
Sometimes it is the headcount, and sometimes that's with good reason. It costs a lot more than a salary to keep a person on payroll, and the overhead for each employee is only getting higher. And it is genuinely risky for the institution and the students to rely on any proprietary system, home-grown or COTS, if there's really only one person who knows how it all works.
Don't forget an import aspect for stupid managers, reducing head count and outsourcing can improve ROI or ROE numbers. When you divide revenues by investment (or employees), outsourcing is good by definition.
You know, I've never understood that. My disillusioned manager once explained it as having something to do with shifting expenses from the OPEX budget to the CAPEX budget, but even that doesn't make sense to me. Surely it's the same money, and more of it, being used?
Hospital Administrator: Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.[Everyone in the room applauds]Hospital Administrator: Thank you, thank you.
"Yet schools seem to constantly get rid of these home-grown solutions in favor of Blackboard 'n pals...why?"
Because of CYA support contracts. Executive university ITS staff hate the thought of having the buck stop with their department. By paying outrageous fees to these big players, they always have an out when things don't work - they can yell at someone at Blackboard.
The linked article only mentions Moodle, but Blackboard also announced yesterday that they have hired Charles Severence, one of the founding architects of the Sakai project, in the role of "Chief Sakai Strategist", and also announced that they will provide hosted Moodle and Sakai installations. This is a major foray into the Open Source LMS world, and it's still to be seen whether it is an opportunity to keep relationships with non-Bb schools, or a razed-earth invasion of the OS support arena.
As a side note, technically Banner isn't an LMS, it is a Student Information System (SIS): it goes rather deeper into the registration process than an LMS, and also acts as the HR system at most institutions that use it.
I had several Professors who used the Course Page features, such as Forums, File Management, the ability to allow students the ability to upload files, and email in the Banner portals rather than use BlackBoard. That speaks volumes to me.
CYA is part of it, but in academia the teachers and administrators have all the power, and they want the new shiny that'll put them on the cutting edge of 'education'. A home grown system doesn't have any cachet and is usually reviled for any errors. IT also has to go with it because otherwise "you're interfering with teaching!". It's ironic, but academics are the only ones allowed to have an opinion on teaching while ignoring ITs opinion on software.
I have not used these in any large distribution, but I do use them in small distribution. Like any prefab product, there is a need to conform your expectations to the product, which means that both student and instructor has to adjust to the product. This is pretty much the same in any situation. One could make the argument that use a prefab DBMS is silly when one can simply write a customized version in C that does not have to the same compromises. Of course most people do not see the compromises they
A lot of online courseware comes in ims format - which you simply import into a course shell and it has lessons, content, quizzes etc all setup - at most you just need to setup permissions on the quizzes and setup the grade book.
I think there is a lot less instructional design time required for tools like D2L and Blackboard than a roll your own solution. And from my experience in a university roll your own solutions typically only have one developer who is a student or something and when he/she moves on - y
When blackboard bought WEB CT, we were all aboard on moving to the blackboard collaboration, till the cost doubled during the planning phase. We went to Moodle rooms for a more cost effective approach.....guess they adopted the Microsoft model, buy everyone that is a competitor and phase them out.
If Blackboard took some of the money they spend buying up open-source competitors and used it to make a product that didn't suck, they wouldn't be gasping for air.
The college I teach at switched from Blackboard to Moodle a few years ago, and it's been glorious. Better for students, better for professors, better for administrators, better for the budget. We administer it ourselves, and switching from "supported" to "do-it-yourself" software actually *reduced* the time our techs spend with administrative ta
I'm sitting in my office having lunch and I got really excited because the company I work for (Blackboard) made Slashdot! And then I started reading the comments....
I have read a few extremely negative comments directed towards the company that I think do a wonderful job at pointing out some severe flaws, which I will be forwarding to several people. Thanks for those.
As a professor, I HATE blackboard. I use it to enter grades and post basic texts, and that's it. For every other use, it is absolutely awful. Example: I have a directory of files I want my students to have. I should be able to upload the directory itself, like every other ftp app has been able to do since the 1980s. But Blackboard? Nooooo. I have to create a directory, name it and check its attributes, and then set it into the Blackboard system, and then load each file to it individually. Or, I have to go and zip the files together, which assumes my students have unzipping software and that I have the time to zip the stuff up (As if I don't already have enough to keep me busy with bullshit).
When I enter grades, out of 200+ students, at least one or two grades somehow get "undone".
Its ugly, its clunky and completely retarded. I'm sure you are a nice guy, but I want your company to go out of business. Now.
You guys should really get out more, and remove the Outlook rule you clearly have to delete every email from your customers. And check your voicemail and clear the letterbox sometime, because I can't imagine there's any contact method that hasn't been used to tell you that Blackboard sucks donkey balls.
So, Blackboard acquired some firms supporting open source LMS. At most, they've inconvenienced the folks who have been using the services of the firms they purchased with needing to find new support. At least, they've acquired some new potential profit centers. And, if they do a poor job of managing them, or deliberately kill them, they will have succeeded in creating an opening for new firms supporting LMS. They can't impact the code or the knowledge base, and those people currently working for those firms always have the option of working elsewhere, like new start-ups. Come on people, a huge percentage of us got into this business, at least in part, because we didn't like how someone else was doing it, and knew we could do better ourselves. This is just another one of those opportunities;-)
If I recall correctly, in addition to commercial support, MoodleRooms also contributed back to the code base. I don't know the percentage of improvements that came from them, or from NetSpot, but I'd bet they were solid components if someone was willing to pay to have them written. And there's all the improvements related to running Moodle as an enterprise app, as opposed to on an old 486 in the back closet, which is often how many installations start out.
Interesting argument, but I still disagree. Being purchased by Blackboard does not prevent those previously contributing to the code base from continuing to do so. Additionally, talent moves into/ leaves open source projects regardless, and Moodle is certainly large enough to draw new talent in on its own. Again, it's an opportunity. In an absolute worst case scenario, Blackboard further enhances their bleak reputation, while Moodle remains the same. | {
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Дата публикации: 26.11.2018
Dear colleagues!
On November 23 and 24, 2018, in Saint Petersburg took place XXIV St. Petersburg Endoscopic Educational Course "Modern diagnostic and surgical endoscopy opportunities", dedicated to the newest and the most relevant methods of operative endoscopy.
Dr. Vladimir Malkow, head of the endoscopy department of the Saint-Petersburg Multidisciplinary Center of the Ministry of Health of Russia, assistant of the endoscopy department of the Mechnikov University (St. Petersburg);
Dr. Evgeniy Levchenko, Head of the endoscopy Department in the City General Hospital №2;
Dr. Mikhail Kuzmin-Krutetsky, MD, PhD, Head of the endoscopy Department in the North-western State Medical University named after L.I. Mechnikov (St. Petersburg).
Practical trainings were conducted using high-quality tools and consumables:
clip-applicator (Endo Stars LLC, Russia);
stents self-expanding and other tools (Endo-Flex GmbH, Germany);
endoscopic clips (Ovesco AG, Germany);
endoscopic knives (Finemedix LTD, Korea);
The educational course was organized for endoscopists, oncologists and surgeons.
The "Endo Stars" company expresses gratitude to the participants and is always glad to welcome you in St. Petersburg! | {
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Looking Back
50 Years Ago December 1, 1961
Former Loomis resident Ernest Warren passed away at his home in Orland, Calif. He operated a dairy in Loomis for many years.
Frank Nute, Jr. received an all expense paid trip to the 40th Annual 4-H Club Congress in Chicago as a guest of Humble Oil Co. He was honored for his activity and leadership in the Tractor Program.
Two Loomis boys were in the Navy. Kenneth Nakashima, Electricians Mate 2nd Class, served aboard the destroyer USS Wiltale. Anthony Cal, Interior Communications Electrician 3rd Class, was aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Little Rock.
Frank Vierra bought the Farrel Wrenn fruit ranch 5 3/4 miles west of Newcastle on the Newcastle-Lincoln Road.
Some 50 friends surprised Mr. and Mrs Nick Mangiaracina with a party on their 25th Wedding Anniversary.
Among those who traveled to visit family or friends for Thanksgiving were Marguerite Webb, the William Tudsbury family, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Dudley and daughter Mary.
For sale or trade - 1951 Buick $125 or trade for a milk cow.
The "Chow Hounds" 4-H cooking group elected officers Eileen Billingsley, Melodee Day, Susan Ferreira, Linda Oseto, and Gayle Billingsley.
25 Years Ago December 4, 1986
Services were held for Kaneichi Mihara, 96, a fruit rancher for the past 47 years in the Newcastle-Lincoln area.
Services were held for Sakuyo Ikeda, 92, a resident of Penryn for the past 70 years and a member of the Placer Buddhist Church and the Fujenkai.
Andrew Luebke submitted the Loomis 4-H Club news to the newspaper. Giving reports at the monthly meeting were Shanti Waddell, Karen Thompson, Dana Luebke, Laura Thompson, John Enright, Tara Wilson, and Kara Carpenter. Brett Mayhew raised the steer, which produced the outstanding carcass at the Gold Country Fair and was also the Champion at the fair.
Del Oro High School winners of the Voice of Democracy contest were Kari Winter, Lyrad Riley, and Jennie Clark.
Preschoolers Petrina Kline, Justin Walstad, and Aaron Righos displayed some of the gifts for the Loomis Community Nursery School's Children's Store.
The "Destroyer Escort Sailors Association" planned a reunion for shipmates who served on those ships. The Navy decommissioned all of those ships.
Aaron Ciszek and Tom Lewis were honored by Principal Bud Nobili as Del Oro Students of the Month.
Town Clerk John Ferguson administered the oath of office to the new Loomis town councilmen Dr. Greg Fellers, John Ireland, and Walt Scherer. Each was given copies of the draft general plan, "I Love Loomis" coffee cups, and antacids.
10 Years Ago December 6, 2001
Shigeo Yokote, Fusae Miyamoto, Nob Hamasaki, and Mack Tsujimoto were guest speakers at Sierra College and told students of their WWII experiences.
Del Oro's football season ended in a loss to Manteca in the Sac-Joaquin Div. II Championship game in a mud bowl at U.O.P. in Stockton. Despite the heartbreaking loss, the Golden Eagle players and fans stood together one last time and sang the Del Oro Fight Song with pride. That was also the last game for Larry Wyatt and John Fletcher, who ended their tremendous careers as coaches, mentors, and friends to their players.
Children enjoyed shopping at the Loomis Community Nursery School Christmas Store. Among those were J.J. Castle and Vanessa Cervantes with the assistance of teacher Sherry Mock.
The Loomis Basin Congregational Church held its annual Christmas Breakfast with the help of many volunteers including Louise Black selling tickets and Peggy Hansen serving coffee.
A pasture fence was knocked over twice in five days along Horseshoe Bar Road with neither driver notifying the owners. In the pasture was a herd of cattle owned by Marge Crossley and her daughter and son-in-law, Barbara and Ken Mackey.
Laura Feusi, a 1977 Del Oro graduate, broke her own world record at the World Association of Bench Press and Deadlift Championships. She is the daughter of Jim and Joyce Feusi, of Loomis. | {
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Star Worms II: Attack Of The Pleasure Pods (1985)
Jessup, forced to hide his true identity, is imprisoned on a deadly and desolate planet, the Star Prison. banished to mine rabid rivers for the elusive Fire Gems, Jessup and his men must battle bands of derelict prisoners and fight the fatal fangs of the Star Worms in order to supply the Lords of the Evil Empire with the sacred source of their hedonistic hallucinogenic opiates. | {
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This work
outlines a research on tensegrity structures, currently under development at
the Department of Structural and Foundation Engineering of the Polytechnic
School of the University of São Paulo. It proposes a methodology to simulate
of erection of tensegrity structures, which can be numerically represented by
a set of nonlinear, geometrically exact truss and cable elements and, in
particular, a kind of truss element capable of sustaining a constant normal
load (in tension or compression), and a cable element capable of representing
ideal or non-ideal sliding between the cable and other objects. Initially the
paper derives the stiffness matrices and load vectors for these different types
of elements, which have been implemented in the PEFSYS finite element code.
Afterwards, the paper describes the use of the proposed methodology to
simulate the assemblage of a large cable dome. The main aspects of the
assembling process are discussed, and some possible operational problems are
investigated, as those arising from the non-synchronous actuation of
hydraulic jacks. | {
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Holy old thread... but I have had the same experience. Right side brake light error, one of the 921/W16Ws on that side was still working but very blackened, I replaced only that bulb and no more errors.
The only other bulb error I've had on the car was one of the angel eyes, and that one was burned out. Looking at the service history of the car though it looks like the dealership replaced a lot of light bulbs on the car. | {
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De-Horning Rhino by the International Anti-Poaching Foundation
by Pete Roberts
(Victoria falls)
De-Horned Rhino (Courtesy IAPF)
Rhino Horns (Courtesy IAPF)
De-Horning Rhino ( Courtesy IAPF)
De-Horning Rhino ( Courtesy IAPF)
Back in September last year the International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF) led an operation on the Victoria Falls Private Game Reserve to de-horn five critically endangered black rhino. The rhino were darted from a helicopter by Zimbabwean Vet Dr Chris Foggin. Ground teams then moved to the location of the downed animals to stabilize their breathing and body temperatures.
Samples were taken by the Wild Horizons Trust team to be analyzed in their new laboratory facilities in Victoria Falls. The whole day went very well and all animals were back on their feet in a short amount of time. Both mother and calf couples were reunited with each other within 24 hours.
The shame is, to protect these rhino, they must disfigure the very feature that defines them. Although extremely sad, the idea behind de-horning is to take away the value of the horn in an effort to protect the animal. With less than 2,500 black rhino now left in the world the situation is desperate.
Occasionally de-horned animals are still killed by poachers out of spite or to reduce their chance of tracking the same animal again, but overall their chances of survival are much greater without the horn. The horn, much like hair or fingernails will grow back within 3 years and the process of de-horning will need to be repeated.
The illegal trafficking of wildlife is now the third-biggest criminal industry in the world. And although its value as a medicine and aphrodisiac has been proven false, demand for rhino horn is so insatiable that even the calves must have their small horns removed.
The funding to complete this important operation was generously donated by Channel 9's 60 Minutes film crew from Australia. Footage of the operation was used in a profile piece called "Damien’s War", which was broadcast in late September and helped raise awareness of the IAPF and its work. To view the documentary online visit this page
Damien Mander sold just about everything he owned and invested $250,000 to create the International Anti Poaching Foundation. His plans for an anti-poaching army might sound ambitious, but nowhere is it more needed than strife-torn Zimbabwe. For more on the work of the IAPF visit http://www.iapf.org/
Comments for De-Horning Rhino by the International Anti-Poaching Foundation
Dear Damien,I live and work in Nicosia - Cyprus. Just wanted to say keep up the good work. Everything you do, helps. I used to live in Botswana up until 1994 so I am aware of the difficulties you face on a daily scale.Keep well - bravo to your team - respectChris Constantinou | {
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From the Chaplain's Desk
Johannes Vermeer The Allegory of the Catholic Faith retrieved from : http://www.metmuseum.org/special/vermeers_masterpiece/view_1.asp?item=10
One of the most lasting and personally helpful insights that I gained through my experience of living in Europe was the ubiquitous use of the allegories of the virtues in Christian and Renaissance art. Masterpiece after artistic masterpiece, in places both religious and secular, the portrayal of the virtues carved into stone and impinged into plaster served as a clarion call to pattern one's life after these defining qualities of the good man. Alongside the mysteries of Christ's life, surrounding the depictions of the saints, or nestled into a niche on the facade of a government building, one would notice clearly symbolic women holding mirrors, a scale, or breastfeeding children: allegories of virtues such as prudence, justice, or charity.
Over time it became clear to me that the way that Christians saw their place in the world was much more clearly defined than the understanding that I grew up with in contemporary America. The allegories of the virtues, like the masterpiece allegory of faith painted by Johannes Vermeer (pictured above), spoke a symbolic language about what it meant to be a good man or woman, fully alive and most authentically human. The allegories of the virtues pointed to what was objectively good and called all onlookers to make that virtue their own.
Today, talk about virtues has become about as common as talk about quantum physics. Do some people talk about virtues and try to pattern their lives by them? Yes. But most of those people are about as secluded from common conversations as the people talking about quantum physics. When is the last time you praised someone for their virtue? Maybe it wasn't so long ago... you just didn't think of generosity, humility, or faith as a virtue.
One difference between America today and Europe centuries ago is that now we talk about values. Americans value tolerance and freedom. Italians value leisure. North Dakotans value hard work and family. Yet, there is a vast difference between a worldview defined by values and another defined by virtues. Values are dependent upon the person doing the valuing. I value faith. You may not. Virtues, on the other hand, stand athwart to any subjective claim to decide for ourselves what is good for the human person and human society. The greatest difficulty with values is that only the saint always values what is virtuous, but all people ought to value what is virtuous. Without the guidance of the virtues, people are left to themselves or formless values to find their way to a morally upright life. While only the perfectly good person will always value what is truly good, all the less than perfect people can look to the virtues to learn what they ought to value. This, I think, is eminently helpful in trying to live a good life, and eminently helpful for education of the youth.
So the next time you are sitting around the dinner table talking about life, perhaps when the conversation turns to values you can draw on the wisdom of our Christian forefathers and talk about virtue. It would be wise thing to do.
In Christ, Fr. Nelson
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2011 GMC AcadiaDavid Townsend - Cross City, FL12/10/2017
I am a family man- have 3 kids. It has the third row option. It seems that all of this model come with a V-6 which the fuel economy is found wanting, however it has the power to get up and moving rather quickly. I have a fwd and no trailer hitch (yet) however, I am sure it will pull a small trailer or U-haul if needed. When the passenger space is not used by my kids, all seats (with the exception of the front passenger seat) can be folded down for cargo. It also features dual Air conditioning. For a family man who isn't ready for the nickname "super-minivan" this crossover isn't a bad option for you.
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New firmware Synology DSM 2.1.0839 released
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Today Synology released a new firmware version (2.0.0839). It is recommended to install this version because it will fix a security issue.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
I heard remarkably sad news on the radio this morning: Alex Karras has died.
Even if you don’t know who Alex Karras is, it is worth pausing a moment to note that I heard breaking news on the radio. Not via a Tweet, not thanks to a friend’s post on Facebook.
The radio jock handled it just right, talking between songs about a book his father had let him read (which I happened to know was Paper Lion just by the description), an account of George Plimpton’s saga as a poseur quarterback to get the inside scoop on trying out in the NFL, the Detroit Lions one got to know as a result, the standout “character” who was a lauded defensive tackle. A guy who went on to a legitimate career as an actor (remember differentiating acting careers on “legitimacy”?), and who -- now pay close attention here, this was huge to a pre-adolescent girl paying attention to such things -- married Susan Clark after starring with her in a movie about Babe Didrickson.
The guy had brains and character enough to marry a woman who could carry off Babe.
You might not even know him as a football player. You might know him for adopting Webster. Or for punching a horse in Blazing Saddles.
To me, he was a scary Lion who wasn’t so scary after all. Well, who COULD be scary, but who had brains, too. And a sense of humor.
These are very important character traits for a) an impressionable youth, b) an impressionable young woman trying to figure out if guys were no particularly different, as things had seemed until quite recently, or incredibly so, as culture and occasional circumstance were starting to suggest, and c) somebody from Detroit.
So there I am, driving. I have been riding in cars all of my life. I acknowledge this is true of a lot of people these days, but not all. There are still some New Yorkians, for example, for whom a driver’s license is not a certificate validating your 16th birthday that happens to be issued by the Secretary of State. But there was once a time when most of us knew either in our own family, or a friend's family, a Grown Up Who Did Not Drive. And even in Detroit, I remember my friend's mother telling me about how she got places in a streetcar. A STREETCAR, for the love of Mike. And she lived in Detroit! Wrapping one's head around the novelty of riding in cars is perhaps a lost phenomenon, but there it is, and there it was ghosting in my head as I thought about riding in and then driving cars. Riding and driving in cars, gerund form, present tense, life hapenning; gerund form, passive voice, object of the action.
So there I am, driving. The radio is on. A throwback station, with a strong local identify, running a “freeform rock experiment” for longer than I've lived here, purchased by a conglomerate nearly ten years ago and in jeopardy ever since. And a guy -- a real guy, talking only on this station, not over a satellite -- is weaving a story I’m thinking is going to head somewhere else. And then WHAM. Alex Karras is dead.
The horse goes down.
And the guy catches me up on a few things I didn’t know about Alex’ life in the past few years. He’s had dementia. He’s part of the NFL players lawsuit on head injuries. My favorite Lion of all time.
Mongo, whose character name which then showed up on a player for the football team in my adopted home town.
Babe’s husband.
He slugged the horse, but now he is the one down. One defensive back in a field of NFL players, going down with traumatic brain injuries, one by one. One influence on my periphery, stepping forward from a field of semi-forgottens who re-emerge in my direct line of sight via obituary.
Karras is down. The radio jock stops talking. I keep my hands at 10 and 2 o’clock, as I have during so many flummoxing pieces of news in this past year, and keep the nose of the car between the lines, and continue on to donate the books my sons do not want to keep to an organization who tells me they will find children who do want them.
The news has been delivered, and I have most of an hour there and back to process how a guy who was done playing by the time I was aware of Lions football ended up meaning so much to me. How a personality that I never directly paid attention to, except for that movie--by which I mean the one about Babe Zaharias and not the one with the guys farting around the campfire--ended up throwing me a sucker punch when he died puzzles me. Perhaps because...
It’s hometown.
It’s being grateful for someone showing that you can be physical and brainy.
It’s the time I saw him interviewed and it was clear he took each of his endeavors seriously, but never so seriously as to be puffed beyond reality.
It’s knowing he ended up with a $#@!*L%! brain injury, blast it all to pieces, which should be no surprise to me, as I’ve been on the concussion trail for over five years now, but oh the thought of his funny self compromised by controllable, avoidable circumstances slays me.
It’s realizing I don’t know if word of mouth, as in word from mouth, will ever be the way I hear an important piece of news again. Chirp chirp. Tweet tweet.
Many moons ago, I was a potentially aspiring musician in training camp, erm, master class, at the very university where the Lions held their training camps. I was there for prospect week. I helped move a couple of players in, in fact; a gaggle of giggling teen flute players showing incredibly large young men how to find their rooms and where the vending machines were and how to get to the cafeteria. Because I had legitimate Lions fans in my family, I knew that one of the guys I was helping out was their number one draft pick that year.
I kind of forget his name. Keith someone. I forget the names of the four guys in the elevator who launched into an a cappella version of “After The Gold Rush,” too. And this even though I never collided with other human beings on a gridiron (or a soccer pitch, or an ice rink, or a rugby field). I forget, but I remember.
The horse wobbles.
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My scent of the day, for those who of you who happen to find me and remember that when I was here before I wore perfume goggles as I thought and wrote things, is Arpege. It is neither a current nor a vintage version, and edp from one of the iconic round black bottles with a ribbed gold cap and the image of Mme. Lanvin and her daughter on the side.
The fairly close to skin waft is all quiet creamy sandalwood now, a few hours after spritzing and then driving and listening to the radio. But Arpege has always been a non-glitzy scent, adapting to its conditions, beautiful enough to stand up to formal occasions, yielding enough to give me space to let go of treasured books while I wear my jeans and ponder what a former NFL player and actor who loved to cook and garden and made friends with his teammates and George Plimpton and had a film/television production company and wrote three books, one called “Even Big Guys Cry” meant to me.
AS I SHIFT FOCUS to perfume, I remember more about Karras; Karras was the James Garner buddy in Victor/Victoria. And I have the thought that Arpege, as one of those scents that is not brash but consistently attractive, could have been worn by a number of the characters, in whichever guise they happen to be assuming.
I remember more; there is a punch you don’t see coming in Victor/Victoria: Victoria decks the hustler and kicks him out of her friend’s place. Another whallomp out of the blue. In Blazing Saddles, the recipient is the surprise; in Victor/Victoria, the deliverer. I guess Karras kept on showing up in places where life shows there are fresh angles.
I’m glad Arpege has remained largely the same, with its adaptability underscoring the idea that sometimes you need to re-check your vision and/or your assumptions.
And comforting me as I let some things go.
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I am back. What I’ll be writing about, and how, or to what extent perfume and photos will enter, remain to be seen. I'm sure I will be hiccupy. I'm glad you are stopping by nonetheless.
3 comments:
Gosh. That radio dj delivered you a sucker punch when you were happily driving to drop off books for other kids.
There's something to be said for reading of someone's demise instead of hearing of it unexpectedly. Somehow it seems less flummoxing in print, to me, because you can pause, re-read, control how you take the news in and respond to it. (Showing my age, being more dependent upon print media!)
It was good to read your thoughtful words again, even if the reason for writing was not a happy one for you.
Well...welcome back. I've missed both your posts and your comments. Hope you'll be posting more, at your own pace, so I can have an excuse to get a big cup of coffee and settle in for an intellectual journey. God knows I need smartening up. If smartening is a word... | {
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There is no shortage of comments about us selling out or running advertisements as stories. As you might expect there is no shortage of mail with the same theme. What I enjoy most about them is all the different corporate entities and sometimes political parties, that we are supposedly working for. If even half of them were true, I would have a stack of W-2s as long as my arm every year for the tax man. The truth of the matter is, nobody here sits in their Microsoft smart chair, talking on their minion iPhone, while playing in the Google money pool. (If someone knows how to get into the Google money pool, please send me a mail.) Conspiracy theories have been around as long as man, so I guess it should come as no surprise that Slashdot has a few of it's own. Read below to find out who is pulling our strings.
Traditionally the Slashdot community has had a harsh view of Microsoft, its software, and especially its management. All the more reason for us to become pawns in the evil Windows army, and it would have worked if it wasn't for this guy and his irrefutable statistics.
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 ******* wrote:
"I can't understand how you managed to convince so many *smart* people that you support the open source and free software movement. It couldn't be more obvious that you sold out to Microsoft in 2004. I've kept careful records of your stories for many years and I've got the evidence. Pre-2004 showed a negative Microsoft story rate of 87% and a positive Microsoft story rate of 13%. From 2004 until today the negative story rate has crashed to a mere 62% while the positive story rate has climbed to 38%. Am I to believe that a 25% increase in positive stories is not significant. When i comment on this trend I get marked as a troll, nice. I suppose that is a coincidence to. Good work I'm sure the current political administartion will own you soon. I used to enjoy your message before it became Bill and Bush's."
With the failing health of Steve Jobs, we thought it would be the perfect time to get firmly entrenched into the Apple hierarchy. It's a shame that our rabid love for Apple and all its products made our actions so transparent.
On Fri, 2 Feb ******* wrote:
"Apple sure does pay good don't they! Is there anyone not on the Apple payroll at Slashdot? If you're going to become an Apple mouthpiece you might want to try and hide it better! How much does a frontpage Slashdot story cost anyway? I hope it's a lot. If you're going to become Apple whores you might as well get paid well. Just know that I know it's rotten to the core!"
I have to give him credit for the, "rotten to the core" Apple thing. Usually the rants I get aren't so poetic. Most of the time they are rambling and confused, like this.
On Wed, 23 Apr ******** wrote"
"I noticed today that many Slashdot stories are listed on Google. I thought you were supposed to be a neutral internet party? I can't believe what you have as "news" if you are in cahoots with the "do no evil" gang. Almost everything I used to believe in is on Google now I was hoping that Slashdot would be strong enough to resist the Google money pool but I guess I was naive. Google is going to slowly absorb everything is that ok with you? it doesn't seem so bad when your playing volleyball or bringing your cat to work but it is. A cat is no trade for integrity. Look back at what you used to stand for and not greed or I will have to find a news source that hasn't been swallowed by Google."
Seriously. Like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe. So, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. 'Give me five bees for a quarter', you'd say. Now, where were we? Oh, yeah...the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war; the only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.
If you don't like disagree mail, then by all means contribute to it. Your clever arguments for its demise should be enough material to get the rest of us through to the next posting. Or if you would rather remain out of the limelight STOP READING THIS and then commenting negatively. Go read about cutting edge technology and leave us troll haters alone.
If there was a way to disable it like sigs or anything else here, it would be one thing.
Generally it could be argued that/. is about choice and provides a pretty decent set of tools to achieve this (user submitted stories/firehose/tagging/comments/comment rating and filtering/etc).
So aside from the fact that disagree mail is stupid and mostly insulting to those of us who do this work (I do technical work; posting and commenting on help-desk emails seems unoriginal [rinkworks.com] and asinine) this seems like a rath
Weird. I had to click on the link to come in here. Normally I just "j" past it in the newsreader, or scroll on my merry way. I'd love to have this new-fangled Internet of yours automatically clicks on every link and pulls pages (and comments forms, too!) for me...
I don't think its that people dislike the idea. I think its that we've all been around long enough that the crap posted here is just not funny.
I've had family members send me worse trolls, certainly far more amusing.
I think you'd get less complaints about this crap if someone else decided what was 'the worst of the worst' because this stuff is just lame and only entertaining to those who have never actually seen a good troll.
When the comments telling you to stop spewing the crap are better trolls than the
I was reading/. from 1998. I only registered so I could get in on the 10th anniversary party at the Beacon Hill Amazon office here in Sea-Town. If only I had registered back in the day I could pwn all the n00bs in UID wars.
At least the 10th anniversary party was cool. Met some people from my lab days I hadn't seen in half a dozen years.
Also why is the great grandparent modded flamebait? Doesn't anybody have a sense of humor? (Yeah I know, I must be new here.)
Disagree mail sure does pay good don't they! Is there anyone not on the Disagree mail payroll at Slashdot? If you're going to become an Disagree mail mouthpiece you might want to try and hide it better! How much does a frontpage Slashdot story cost anyway? I hope it's a lot. If you're going to become a Disagree mail whore you might as well get paid well. Just know that I know it's rotten to the core!
Agreed. Why is it when anything new comes to/. it's viciously attacked? OH NOES this new thing I don't have to read or pay attention to has shattered my existence into a thousand, tiny, pathetic pieces! KILL IT! RAAAAAH!
It's not as difficult as you simply believe to be listed in the rant sanctuary. A fervent rant against a yes comment is like turning around 360 degrees in the opposite direction, so it's clear as political speeches that you have no clue what they are talking about. Surely you have enough uncommon sense to surmise that to opine in the back alleys of slashdot is sublime when compared to posting on some other red comment news site. The evil underlords of slashdot have connived with trivial cunning to convince
I was in the Google money pool for a few years. Getting in is easy, as long as you can pass 4 hellish interviews and wait 6 months for HR to respond.
Having said that, what you really need is a time machine. Go back to August 2004 and get hired. Even if you get a meager grant back then, you'll make out pretty well. Getting hired now, well, they aren't as forthcoming with the stock as they once were, and the base pay is pretty terrible. Free food, though.
Pay is horrible? Horrible compared to the industry average, or horrible compared to what you'd expect if you made it through the damned interviews which are even worse than the bullshit microsoft makes you go through?
Just curious... not bitter at all at the seemingly irrelevent brain teaser interview questions that have little to do with anything. Do they at least start out at a 6 figure salary if you make it through their mental maze?
Being by 2004, I think Windows XP SP2 came out and solved lot of the origional problems with XP. As well most modern computers can run XP smoothly and easilly. As well XP solved a lot of the problems that 95, 98 and ME had. Windows 2000 was still consiered Pro-Grade so not a lot of people used it. But XP being the first consumer focused using the NT Kernel. Also many of the virus and such started to clear up. Code Red and such... So yea there are less MS Bashing as they did fix a lot of the major problems they had.
Ok lets try again... XP is the best OS that Microsoft Made for home use. It is not perfect or the best inclass. But it is good enough for most. Being that it is good enough there is a newtral additude thus. Less people hating it.
If even half of them were true, I would have a stack of W-2s as long as my arm every year for the tax man. The truth of the matter is, nobody here sits in their Microsoft smart chair, talking on their minion iPhone, while playing in the Google money pool. (If someone knows how to get into the Google money pool, please send me a mail.)
Judging from the comments that most Idle stories bring these days, I think I must be about the only one to find these segments worthy of at least a chuckle.
Of course they're mostly groaners, but at least I know what I'm getting myself into when I open it:)
Don't dismiss this disagree mail thing. I'm finding it valuable actually as a sociological study. Think about it: there are people out there who actually get inflamed enough to write in and post this stuff. What kind of mind honestly works this way?
To me, it's a viewpoint into a perspective way different from my own. And that is useful, because it reminds me that the world is not filled with my clones who all perceive the world the same way I do.
Plus it is funny.
Thinking that diverse opinions are limited to slashdot is a mistake. You might as well go read Conservapedia if you want to make a social study of various, erm... perspectives. I'd rather have this site be about news for nerds and stuff that matters.
...and then there's the concept that for every one person that actually writes in with an incomprehensible rant about anything, there are a thousand or more equally disturbed and marginally functional individuals, who, sitting in their parents' basement all day, sleep-deprived and sunshine-deficient, are just thinking about writing something oh-so-clever to them, but virtually unreadable to the normal world upstairs, if not even to their blogmates and fellow fraggers who are equally incomprehensible but hid
It would be a lot better if they specifically addressed the whole Roland Pipsqueel orwhathisnameis ( I can't be arsed to look for one of his stores) accusations.
Sorry, it's obvious to anyone whose been here a while that certain stories are posted onto the front page because someone in the slashdot compound is getting compensation "above and beyond" the usual ad revenue. Roland's stories are an example of that -for more just browse through some of the stories tagged as slashvertisements.
I don't really have a huge problem if Slashdot gets paid to put things on the front page, as that is how most media works.
That being said, I have to agree with you. There are 'stories' that make the front page that are obviously ads, and the mocking done by samzenpus actually argues that the slashdot editors DO get paid. I have a hard time believing that the people running slashdot are dumb enough to believe that payoffs come in W-2s. Saying that a lack of W-2s from companies is any indication as to
Hate to comment twice in one article, but I have to say: Show the names of the people writing you! Maybe not their email (though that would be OK), but at least their slashdot ID, if they have one. Shit, make it a requirement that they have a slashdot account before they write in.
No one makes you read these stories, if you don't like them, don't read them, that simple.
Although this batch isn't funny, some of the stories were so random that I actually did laugh (of course after my headache stopped due to the bad coloring scheme.) Post more pointless stories imo, like the guy talking about racism...
C'mon,/., is that all you got? All of these geeks on Red Bull, off their meds, raging on hormones, and this is all we get? Puhleeze. Do us all the favor and just pull this thread's plug. Now-- before you make the rest of us growl, gnash our teeth, and wail. Mod me incredulous.
I think the reason most people bitch about the Idle articles is not due to the fact that there is an Idle section or what it's about, but rather because it kind of a let down. I can't believe that after more than 10 years of being on the cross hairs of every nutjob and bored teenager on the internet, these are the weirdest emails you've received or the strangest stories you can tell.
If you're going to take up space on the front page with this, you better make it worth the while for people who read the site.
"There is no shortage of comments about us selling out or running advertisements as stories. As you might expect there is no shortage of mail with the same theme."
There is also no shortage of people who find this "disagree mail" thing to be a complete waste of time and editor resources, especially when they STILL can't seem to make the reply box width more than some horribly miniscule value. Listen to the tags, guys. Make it stop!
It is foolish to believe that slashdot is in the pockets of MS or Google or Apple. Slashdot editors are above that. They equally and openly take ANYONE's money for a frontpage story. No questions asked other then HOW MUCH
I read it and replied to it. You didn't read it but clicked the link and replied to it anyway?
Man, I only have enough free time to read and comment on the things that interest me. Can I borrow some of your free time to have the luxury of not reading but commenting on boring, uninteresting things?
Man, I only have enough free time to read and comment on the things that interest me. Can I borrow some of your free time to have the luxury of not reading but commenting on boring, uninteresting things?
You must be new here. Free time?!? For most of us, this is a freaking job!
Why is parent marked troll? Idle should be killed or hidden from view somehow or seriously changed.
I think every Idle topic has been tagged as these: "pleasestop, humor, idleispants, makeitstop". You think that would say something as most posters give every single topic 3 tags simply begged for idle to be killed. I don't understand what/. could possibly be thinking. Obviously they ARENT thinking the same now as they were when they picked the slogan.... | {
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Whether the kitchen design calls for a big angular "pro-style" hood, or a smooth Italian charm with rounded glass, or a timeless hood with wood trim, there is a perfect layout out there to match any kind of kitchen.
When picking the best kitchen hood, also think about the simplicity in upkeep and the cost for components replacement. You could talk to sales agents or examine the specifications or handbook to see whether the filters and also components you have to maintain are easy to clean up through basic methods. When cleaned in soapy water, examine if they are made in material that does not corrode. Getting a variety hood with parts that don't break easily as well as cost a lot to change will ready investment.
The even more sophisticated array hood models also supply a feature that maintains the hood running on a 10-15 min timer after you're done cooking, in order to cleanse the last traces of odor as well as then silently turn off. | {
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Heracles (Hercules): Birth and Early Adventures
In a Nutshell
Harry Potter was just a simple boy who lived with his aunt and uncle at Number Four Privet Drive in the village of Little Whinging. He was lonely and mistreated.
Percy Jackson was just a kid who lived in Queens, NY with his mom. He had a knack for getting kicked out of school.
Katniss Everdeen was a normal teenage girl who lived in District 12, an impoverished coal-mining region in the country of Panem. When her father was killed in a tragic coal-mining accident, she had to step up and take care of her family.
Harry, Percy, and Katniss are only three of many heroes on our bookshelves today. Depending on your definition of "hero," we could probably come up with a mile-long list of characters who fit the bill. Why do we love heroes so much? Well, maybe it's because they make us feel like we might also be extraordinary and capable of superhuman feats.
You may disagree, but we think the most fascinating part of a hero's story is his or her beginning. That's why we go wild over stories about young heroes and also hero origin stories. In fact, these stories may be more popular than ever, based on the recent release of movies like X-Men: First Class, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Batman Begins, and the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man. We want to know how heroes find out that they're extraordinary, and how they react to the discovery.
To the ancient Greeks, Heracles wasn't just a superhero he was a super superhero. And no hero would be complete without an awesome origin story, right? Wolverine was ripped apart and had his bones coated in adamantium by the sinister Weapon X project. Baby Superman was launched into space just before his home planet of Krypton was destroyed. Harry performs some surprising magic and sets a giant snake free at a zoo. And Heracles? Well, you'll just have to read on to find out how the greatest Greek hero got his start.
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In the Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus runs into the ghost of Heracles in Hades. This sighting is a little confusing since Heracles would have been immortal at that point and hanging out on Mount Olympus.
Heracles pops up in The Metamorphoses by Ovid when the river god Achelous describes having a fistfight with the hero over a lady, Deianira. Heracles ends up winning Deianira's hand in marriage, but later dies as a result of her jealousy. Later, he shows up again when he rescues Hesione, daughter of Laomedon, from a sea monster. But then he causes major trouble because the Trojans won't give him the horses they promised him. Word to the wise: Don't break a promise you've made to Heracles.
The men in Love's Labor's Lostby William Shakespeare sure do love them some Heracles. They like to talk about his many feats and the fact that he was love-struck, just like them.
We see how much Hamlet idolizes his father when he talks about how his uncle Claudius measures up to Old Hamlet as much as he (Hamlet) measures up to Hercules in Hamlet. (He's being sarcastic.) | {
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Korean style soba noodles "nang-myun" with Spicy Sauce - Thin (Asian Vermicelli) NET WT.: 22oz / SERVINGS ABOUT 4 SERVINGS PER AMOUNT Calories 490 / Calories from Fat 20 INGREDIENTS: Noodle - wheat flour, buckwheat, sweet potato starch, salt, water Sauce - soy sauce powder(soy bean, salt, water), red pepper powder, garlic, ginger, sesame, scallion, salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate COOKING DIRECTION: 1. Put the noodles(5oz) into boiling water(4 Cups at 100C) for 5 minutes. 2. Remove the noodles from the boiling water and rinse them in cold water 2-3 times to cool. 3. Mix the noodle with liquid soup thoroughly. 4. For improved taste please add kimchi, green onion, egg, or etc. 5. The food is ready to serve. Enjoy! Buckwheat has been consumed in Asia for thousands of years, and it has recently been found to be very effective in reducing high blood pressure and slowing the aging process. The most common way of using buckwheat in Japan is in the form of buckwheat noodles (soba), which are served at fast-food soba shops. In Korea the buckwheat noodles are called "nang-myun" which can be served with soup base or spicy pepper paste along with other delisious toppings. More specifically, buckwheat contains 31 percent more protein than brown rice and 43% more than polished rice. In particular, the buckwheat protein contains 8 kinds of amino acids in a well-balanced way, so it is considered superior to that of rice or wheat. In addition, buckwheat contains a great deal of B-group vitamins and minerals. DISTRIBUTOR: Wang Globalnet PRODUCT OF KOREA(ROK) | {
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5 tools to improve client communication
At FCPR we take pride in being expert communicators. From engaging Facebook fans to hosting weekly internal team meetings – we are always looking for new ways to be the best communicators we can.
With that, we strongly value communicating – thoroughly and often – with our wonderful clients. As Erin mentioned in her post earlier this week, we are blessed with some phenomenal clients that make our jobs that much more enjoyable.
We often say around here that we actually work for the media, not our clients. Inevitably, if the media is happy, our clients are happy. BUT communicating to our clients that the media is indeed satisfied, is a key piece to the puzzle.
Here are a few ways we make sure client communication stays front and center.
Weekly status calls – We host phone calls with our clients to go over projects on a week-to-week basis. This is a great way to make sure everyone is on the same page and bring new ideas to the table – and often. Hannah expands on the benefit of phone conversations versus email here.
Pitch reports – This is a great tool to stay organized internally and share media interactions with your client. Pitch reports in a way give your client an insider’s view on feedback from the media. Kim shares the importance of this key document here.
Coverage updates – If we have a special event or major initiative, we often compile links to recent coverage in emails and inform our client as soon as we see it coming in.
Clip reports – Every month, we compile media coverage and social media analytics to show our success. This is our chance to showcase how our hard work has paid off!
Quarterly planning sessions – We often set up quarterly meetings to discuss goals and opportunities for the coming months, and to reflect on past success and/or challenges. This involves more “big picture” planning, compared to our weekly meetings.
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Play with Color! Jazz up a canvas with a paint scraper
This project is a great one to (re)create a a canvas into a fun bit of wall art. All you need is some paint, a paint scraper or putty knife and an old (or new) canvas -you know the one that you bought at the discount home decor store that is outdated? Or the juvenile print that your teenager has rejected?
For this bit of “art”, I had a ton of fun playing with color. Rainbows were a favorite of mine long before they became symbolic of anything other than a promise and this project combined an image I love – a tree by a stream -with the beauty of a mosaic style background. It felt reminiscent of my childhood days when I could squish my fingers into plates of paint – and brought about a ton of joy as I played with the color.
The supplies are pretty simple – Acrylic paint in the color of your choice, gel medium (I recommend matte) to keep the edges of your paint raised, a paint scraper/putty knife measuring the width of the squares you would like to create and a standard paint brush to create the tree trunk and leaves. A large plastic tray works well as a palette for mixing the color, but you could easily use disposable plates.
First things first: choose your color palette. The beauty of this style is that you can choose almost any color. Blues (imagine water, sky and clouds!), greens (a deep forest, or a wide open meadow) or your favorite colors, swirling and rolling across the canvas.
Next, plan the placement of your focal point, if you have one – and the outline of how you would like the colors to lay. Sketch them lightly on your canvas with a pencil for reference.
Now, roll up your sleeves and get ready to have some fun!
Start with the lightest color, mix 1 part gel medium to 2 parts acrylic paint. This will create a paste like paint that will be slightly more opaque than it will appear when dry. Load the putty knife’s edge with the color and beginning in the center of where your focal point will be, lightly stroke down for one square and then stroke to the side for the second.
Next, without cleaning your putty knife, pick up a bit of the next color and stroke on the paint palette to blend the color slightly. As you work across your canvas, you may need to pick up some of the previous color along with the current color. Remember to stroke the paint palette to blend the color ever so slightly on the putty knife.
Continue to work through the design, laying down the background in the same “stroke down, stroke across” pattern. The gel medium will give your paint body, and the edges of your squares will be slightly raised.
Once you have completed the background mosaic, allow the paint to dry completely. Because of the added gel medium, this will take a little longer than standard acrylic paint.
When the background has dried completely, begin to paint your focal point. A field of flowers? A boat? A silhouette of a child?
For added interest, you can add a significant amount of gel or modeling paste to the acrylic paint for the final details of your focal point. For my tree, the leaves were quite raised. The pedals on a flower stem, or the sail on a boat would also look quite interesting.
Go ahead and give it a try! It might just take you back to your childhood as well. | {
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On the Added Bytes blog there's a humorous post about what PHP would be like if it were British:
When Rasmus Lerdorf first put PHP together, he - quite sensibly, despite his heritage - chose not to write it in Greenlandic or Danish. [...] He opted instead, being in Canada at the time, for the local tongue. No, not French - that bastard dialect of the Queen's English commonly referred to as "US English". PHP developers in Britain have been grumpy about this ever since. What was he thinking?
Suggestions include replacing the $ with £, more correct "Hello worlds" and comments on abbreviations in function names, eloquence in control structures, spelling, manners and class(es). Check out the comments for more lovely puns. | {
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Why your business needs an extreme weather action plan
Extreme weather conditions are increasing around the world, and Australia is no exception. Experts predict this summer will, again, be one of the hottest on record, with severe bushfires, storms and floods all set to increase.
In the absence of the vast resources of larger organisations, there is an urgent need for small businesses to have specific plans in place.
Preparing your property and fully understanding the risks in the event of extreme weather events, in both regional and urban areas, such as storms, fire and cyclones is vital. However you also need an overall strategy to protect your business and its assets to ensure its survival.
Building a support network
After Cyclone Larry hit Queensland in 2006, a National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility report found businesses and individuals with strong community ties recovered better, as they relied less on overburdened government systems and their workers were less inclined to leave the area.
“Individuals, households and groups who have strong social networks are able to draw on shared material and social resources to sustain them during and through the aftermath of a cyclone,” the report said.
In both urban and rural settings, banding together during a crisis can be mutually beneficial. Having a plan for how small businesses can help each other can be the key to survival.
After the northern NSW town of Murwillumbah was ravaged by flood in 2017, locals led the recovery effort and a database of hundreds of volunteers was created to help those in need.
“Constantly we’re expecting governments and services to fix things for us,” organiser Carmen Stewart told the ABC.”I’m interested in what happens when a community is engaged first, then bringing government and services in as a partner, not as the leaders.”
Be prepared
Complacency and a failure to adapt to the increased likelihood of extreme weather is a real danger for small businesses. Research conducted by James Cook University revealed 90 per cent of cyclone-related insurance claims could be avoided through proper preparation.
Ensure you have formulated an emergency action plan for your business in the event of extreme weather, such as flooding. Educate your employees so they understand the risks and know how to react.
There are other vital proactive measures you can take. Regular maintenance on your property ensures it is as well placed as possible to handle and recover from extreme weather events. Contracting an expert to assess the structural integrity of your dwelling ensures any weak or degrading materials particularly vulnerable to damage can be repaired.
Clearing your property of refuse, such as fallen branches and bushes can help to ensure any damage severe storms can cause is limited. This includes securing outdoor items and garaging vehicles and machinery.
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Kashmiri cuisine is primarily meat based. Vegetarian food though present, perhaps is not in a great deal of variety as in other parts of India. Kashmiri vegetarian (and non-vegetarian) food includes local vegetables and fruits like spinach or greens (haak), … Read More | {
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A public school must enroll any school-aged child who lives in that school district, including homeless students and undocumented immigrants. A child’s residence refers to which school district they live in. Their residence is usually the same as their parent’s. If the child lives with a qualified adult who is not their parent, then the residency of the qualified adult is the child's residence. A child can’t have more than one residence at a time.
A qualified adult is someone who is:
A legal parent
A legal guardian
A short-term guardian
An adult relative who gets public aid for the student and who the student lives with, or
An adult who has taken legal responsibility for the student and provides the student with a regular, fixed, nighttime home.
You don’t need a court order of guardianship to sign children up for school. It is illegal for a school to tell you that they can’t enroll your child without a legal document stating you are the guardian. If you’re at least 18 years old and the child lives with you, the school must enroll them as long as they didn’t move in with you just to attend the school. Your child doesn’t have to live in a school district for any amount of days, weeks, or months to establish residency.
Once enrolled in the district, your child has the right to finish out the school year at the same school, even if you or your child moves to another district. | {
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Windhorse Podcast Ep. 1: What Makes Windhorse’s Approach Unique
Windhorse: Welcome to episode one of Integrative Mental Health: the Trialogues podcast. This is the first part of an eight part series. Each episode of our podcast is part of an hour-long conversation between me and Mary. In this first episode we talk about the interactive elements of a podcast versus a webinar, how it starts to build relationships and dialogs, which are some of our core values, and we discuss the healing that can happen in connection through relationships. We also talk about self-worth as a foundation for healthy choices, and mental health existing on a continuum.
With that, let’s get into the podcast. …
What makes Windhorse’s Approach unique?
Windhorse: Yes. Phoebe, who is our clinical director, I’m just saying that for whoever’s listening, we had a really interesting discussion about what makes Windhorse unique. And she said it’s not about somebody having problems. It’s about the space in between people, and that’s where Windhorse does the best work. So for somebody who has, you know, a mental health problem and a family member looking at the space between them as the space where a clinician, a skilled clinician could say how do we work with this space differently? How do we work with this space?
Mary: Or what’s going on in this space?
Windhorse: What’s going on in this space?
Mary: And sort of not bringing so much of a microscope to any one individual but looking at the interaction between them and seeing how, if it’s family work, seeing how the system is working and see what the patterns are. I think also a lot of our work is looking for what we would call habitual patterns. And that’s true in a family system or an individual or in a relationship, one on one that we tend as humans to kind of repeat ourselves and get a well-worn groove going in some of our habitual patterns and not even realize that very often we react to situations it the same way and recapitulate that pattern.
Windhorse: Well there’s something comfortable in the predictability of it.
Mary: There’s something safe in the comfort and predictability of habitual patterns. And I think that also underlies the process of recovery; is that part of what the recovery process is doing is becoming aware of what your patterns already are, and you got a team of people who are with you who also might help you to be more self-aware of sort of how you’re relating to the world and how you’re relating to other people, and be able to shed some light. I mean it’s all about you developing more self-awareness, but our relationships can help us to shed some light on our own habitual patterns. And once you’ve been able to see them and stop beating yourself up about them then there’s some possibility for change.
Self-worth and Healing
Windhorse: And it is, I think, you have to be in the space of knowing that you’re worth it, knowing that you’re valuable.
Mary: Absolutely.
Windhorse: And knowing that you are worth making a healthy change.
Mary: And that can be a huge step. We can get really wrapped up in self-loathing and just kind of go down that rabbit hole, go down that black hole, and get very isolated and not even be able to accept the way our family or friends do care for us because we’re so convinced that we’re worthless.
Windhorse: Even I get stuck in that loop from time to time.
Mary: That’s right, so not to mention people who are really have developed some serious psychiatric issues.
Windhorse: Ya, I think that’s a problem with everybody especially…
Mary: I think it’s a human problem.
Windhorse: It is a human problem.
Mary: But I think it exists on a continuum where everybody struggles with it to a certain extent, and certainly that’s another really important principle here is that everything exists on a continuum. And you have a job, I have a job, we’re doing okay in life but under the right circumstances that might turn around, and under the right pressures, under the right stresses, anybody can develop instability and difficulty.
I mean one of the ways we characterize how that looks is it’s life disrupting. And if it’s life disrupting then sometimes it helps to do some work on yourself. And we’re all involved in working on ourselves to one degree or another. Somehow perfect human beings haven’t arrived yet. | {
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I expected the announced mayoral candidate to wheel into the Ward Warehouse parking lot in a white van emblazoned with his name and profession: Duke Bainum, M.D. But a few months ago he traded that political trademark for a status symbol, a Lexus SUV. Duke ain't poor.
Councilman Duke Bainum gets high marks from his colleagues on the Honolulu City Council.
Advertiser library photo Sept. 5, 1996
But the 48-year-old physician has something better than personal money to win. He has the support of a powerful politician in a high place Mayor Jeremy Harris, himself the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for governor.
Jeremy's support goes beyond letting Duke represent him at public functions and appearing with him at others, to gain some much-needed name recognition. The support includes the services of Harris' money man, attorney Peter Char, and Harris pollster Don Clegg. Other backers are political insider Norma Wong and Bert Kobayashi, the former state senator from whom Duke learned about politics.
"I'll be sign-waving on Duke's behalf," says City Council colleague Steve Holmes. He confides, "Duke doesn't get along with Mufi (Hannemann)," the leading candidate for the job in the early going. He explains, "Duke is in politics because he has a good heart. Mufi is in it for himself."
"I hold Duke Bainum in the highest regard," says councilman John Henry Felix, a Republican. "He is a man of great character. Eminently qualified. A dedicated public servant."
Ad man Jim Loomis, a mutual friend, joined us for lunch at Kincaid's, at the 'ewa end of Ward Warehouse. Jim cut his political teeth on Frank Fasi's many campaigns, and later campaigned for Harris.
Is Duke your given name?
"It's a nickname given to me at Kuakini Hospital in 1980. People there thought my Arkansas accent sounded like The Duke's (John Wayne)." This Duke's given names are Mark Edmund.
Bainum served two terms in the state house of representatives before winning election to the city council six years ago. A general practitioner, he works part-time at the Sex Abuse Treatment Center at Kapi'olani Hospital. If elected, he'll give up that practice, he promises.
Will Mayor Harris be a hard act to follow?
"He's done a good job. And I'll expand on what he's started."
Will you continue the "Vision" process?
"Absolutely. That process empowers people to shape their community."
Duke once considered the idea of replacing the strong mayor/managing director administration we now have with a professional city manager and ceremonial mayor.
"There are many advantages to a municipal city manager. Efficiency is one. But there's no support for getting rid of our present system. However, if eIected, I will strengthen and expand the duties of the managing director.
Loomis interjects that Harris continued to act like a managing director after being elected mayor, liking nuts and bolts. And that Bob Fishman, Harris' first managing director, appeared more mayoral because of it. "They should have switched jobs," Jim said.
Duke, who received an ethics award from the Hawai'i chapter of the American Society of Public Administration, is obviously pained that two of his colleagues Rene Mansho and Andy Mirikitani have been charged with unethical behavior. If elected mayor, he promises to give some teeth to the city Ethics Commission.
The only other candidate, besides Hannemann, is former mayor Frank Fasi. "I have a great deal of respect for Mufi," says Duke. "He is articulate and very personable."
He agrees with his pollster that Fasi will get about 10 percent of the vote, and be a spoiler for Mufi. He also agrees with me that more people will be stepping forth to run for mayor, especially women.
I thought Ann Kobayashi, who once challenged Harris, would run. Instead, she has her eye on the council seat occupied by Andy Mirikitani. But if not Ann, surely some other well-known woman will run. Lt. Gov. Mazie Hirono would be an exceedingly strong candidate, but she's contending for the gubernatorial nomination.
The race is winner-take-all, not your run-of-the-mill primary. The candidate with the most votes wins election. In a three-way race, possibly the victor would need but 34 percent of the vote.
Duke Bainum isn't the only candidate favored by Harris. For lieutenant governor, Harris is backing Jon Yoshimura, the chairman of the Honolulu city council. The ubiquitous Peter Char recently held a fund-raiser for Yoshimura, an attorney.
Bainum was there.
Having the backing of Harris gives a candidate more than an edge. Harris commands the most powerful political force in the history of this state. Walter Heen, former head of the Democratic Party, calls it a juggernaut.
If Harris and his stable of candidates are successful in their 2002 races, the structure of power in Hawai'i will be drastically altered. It will be Jeremy Harris who decides who our next U.S. senators will be. And he just might choose to be one of them. The next decade and beyond will be the Harris Era. | {
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