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Broadway West Theater concludes the 2007 season with the hilarious production of Greater Tuna, a comic tour-de-farce by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard, and directed by Jim Woodbury. What began as a party parody, Greater Tuna opened in New York (Off Broadway) on October 21, 1982 and has since become one of the most produced plays in America. Broadway West's opening night took place on Friday, November 16.
"Less is better" in this production, in which talented actors Robin Dunn and Todd Wright portray (and engage the audience as) the colorful citizens of Tuna, Texas. Dunn and Wright are impressive with their quick costume and characterization changes and are notably comic with their theatrical illustration of small town close-mindedness.
Dunn is funny as Petey Fisk of the Humane Society, who advocates passionately for the adoption of Yippy (a part Terrier, part Chihuahua puppy with incessantly piercing "yips"), and as Charlene Bumiller, the local high school senior whose dream to be a cheerleader remains unfulfilled but whose touching poem "Tuna, Oh My Tuna" has a chance of winning the Regionals and going to Nationals in Butte, Montana.
Wright is captivating as Bertha Bumiller, who shows patience and love for her three children, but not so much for the ten dogs that her youngest has adopted, and as R.R. Snavely, the local drunk who has repeated sightings of a flying chalupa.
Dunn and Wright's entertaining portrayal of all twenty different and eccentric roles make Tuna's inhabitants memorable. They deliver an uproarious send-up about the residents of the third smallest town in Texas. "Yes, they do. They do. They do. They do." | {
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CIA tapes demonstrating torture techniques against prisoners were destroyed before being turned over to the 911 Commission – but the CIA told the Commission it never had such tapes. The National Intelligence Estimate says Iran isn’t ready to build nuclear weapons – yet; at this point, with all the confusion, can the CIA be trusted? Mitt Romney gives his long-awaited speech on public life and his Mormon religion (sort of) – the real question is: does religion belong in public life at all? And will freezing interest rates help relieve the mortgage crisis and the people who need it, or reward speculative investors and banks?
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CIA tapes demonstrating torture techniques against prisoners were destroyed before being turned over to the 911 Commission – but the CIA told the Commission it never had such tapes. The National Intelligence Estimate says Iran isn’t ready to build nuclear weapons – yet; at this point, with all the confusion, can the CIA be trusted? Mitt Romney gives his long-awaited speech on public life and his Mormon religion (sort of) – the real question is: does religion belong in public life at all? And will freezing interest rates help relieve the mortgage crisis and the people who need it, or reward speculative investors and banks? | {
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Perhaps, the world around us would come to a halt if there wasn't enough power. Despite the fact that demand has always exceeded the supply, the market is adding more and more power-hungry machines and gadgets. To meet this ever-growing demand, and to tap into one of the core infrastructure segments, Hallmark has decided to get into energy generation. The company which has recently been incepted is studying the various options available including the alternative cleaner and greener renewable forms of energy. A reflection of Hallmark's commitment to building a sustainable future.
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Comment on attachment 8635748[details][diff][review]bug1184550_BodyUsedfix.diff
Review of attachment 8635748[details][diff][review]:
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This is the right idea. Can you take a look at the existing tests in test_request.js:
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/tests/mochitest/fetch/test_request.js
And add something to verify this behavior? I think something like this should do it:
var req = new Request(url, {body: 'hello'});
fetch(req);
fetch(req); // this should reject with new changes
Or maybe just:
var req = new Request(url, {body: 'hello'});
var req2 = new Request(req);
var req3 = new Request(req); // this should throw with new changes
You can run these tests with:
./mach mochitest dom/tests/mochitest/fetch/test_request.js
Also, just FYI, I'm on travel this week and may be slow to respond to feedback and review requests.
::: dom/fetch/Request.cpp
@@ +138,5 @@
> + if (inputReq->BodyUsed()) {
> + aRv.ThrowTypeError(MSG_FETCH_BODY_CONSUMED_ERROR);
> + return nullptr;
> + } else {
> + inputReq->SetBodyUsed();
I think the SetBodyUsed() call should just happen inside the if (body) check right after inputRequestHasBody = true statement.
Hi Sir,
Initially, without the added test case, all tests passed successfully.
After Addition of these test cases, there was one case which failed:
failed | uncaught exception - TypeError: HEAD or GET Request cannot have a body. at http://mochi.test:8888/tests/dom/tests/mochitest/fetch/test_request.js:460
Is this the expected behaviour? Am I missing something?
Sorry for the late response, I have a presentation in the coming week which is consuming most of my time.
Thanks :)
Comment on attachment 8637892[details][diff][review]bug1184550_AddedTests.diff
Sorry, the sketch of the test I gave you is not 100% complete.
The error you are running into means you need to specify the POST method in the new Request:
var req = new Request("/index.html", {method: 'POST', body: 'hello'});
Also, the test needs to verify that the promise returned from the second fetch rejects. You can do something like this:
var req = new Request("/index.html", {method: 'POST', body: 'hello'});
fetch(req);
return fetch(req).then(function(resp) {
ok(false, 'second fetch with same request should not succeed');
}).catch(function(err) {
is(err.name, 'TypeError', 'second fetch with same request should fail');
});
And then you have to invoke your new test function in the list of async tests in the promise chain.
Hope that helps. Thanks!
(In reply to Ben Kelly [:bkelly] from comment #19)
> Here is a try build:
>
> https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=3d0776059803
>
The build seems to be stuck at 97%, but the vast majority of builds are successful and none of the errors look to be in the request module or added test. I haven't found any criteria on the Mozilla wiki or Code Firefox videos for determining if a try build is successful or not. Is it just a value judgement?
There was some sort of glitch earlier today that dropped a few builds on the floor, which is probably where your other 3% are. Basically as long as you don't see any relevant patterns in the test failures, you're good to check in. Your tryserver run looks fine to me.
(In reply to Ben Kelly [:bkelly] from comment #24)
> Yep. Everything looks good to me too. Thanks for working this!
Thank you for mentoring me! You made my introduction to contributing to Mozilla a very positive experience. I will definitely continue to contribute, and I hope I get to work with you on other bugs! | {
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Luke 12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Covetousness is often considered a “mild” sin but God calls it wicked and foolish. It’ll cause you to be discontented, unsatisfied and unthankful with God’s provisions while distracting you from laying up treasures in heaven.
1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
The church in Corinth had numerous problems highlighted by contentions and divisions among the people. The church to is be united in mind and judgement glorifying Jesus Christ and not men.
Sins That Will Get You Kicked Out of Church – Part 1
1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
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Malaysia: 33 Feared Dead in Genting Highlands Ravine Bus Plunge
More than 30 people are feared dead after their bus plunged off the road and into a deep ravine in Malaysia.
The bus fell more than 60 meters (200ft) into the gorge as it was traveling downhill in the resort area of Genting Highlands, central Malaysia.
Local authorities said that 49 passengers were on board. Rescuers at the scene pulled 16 survivors out of the wreckage.
Authorities were trying to recover the bodies of the remaining passengers trapped inside the vehicle. Azizan Ismail of the Kuala Lumpur Fire and Rescue Department said they were all believed to be dead. The driver was believed to be among them.
The bus was carrying mostly Malaysians and several tourists believed to be from the Middle East, Azizan said.
The incident occurred a few kilometres form the famous Taoist temple of Chin Swee Caves, one of the numerous tourist sites that attract thousands of people to the area every week. Genting Highlands is also home to Malaysia's only legal casino.
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In Powering the Future, Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin transports us two centuries into the future, when we’ve ceased to use carbon from the ground. Boldly, Laughlin predicts no earth-shattering transformations will have taken place. Six generations from now, there will still be soccer moms, shopping malls, and business trips. Firesides will still be snug and warm.How will we do it? Not by discovering a magic bullet to slay our energy problems but through a slew of fascinating technologies, drawing on wind, water, and fire. Powering the Future is an objective yet optimistic tour through alternative fuel sources, set in a world where we’ve burned every last drop of petroleum and every last shovelful of coal.
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Welcome to the Carbon Future, at least as far as energy for transportation is concerned. The author clearly and unequivocally sets for the case that carbon is an optimum store of chemical energy, and that we humans just better get our heads around that.
I greatly respect the author's credentials and mastery of the subject, but I would have like a good deal more detail in various points. He seems to possibly be somewhat over focused on the pure energetics and doesn't allow for the fact that fuels come from a value chain with lots of factors... aggregation, processing, distribution, etc. And it's the 'output' of this process that determines the winner, not the fundamental nature of the product itself, although this is a very important part of the story. This is manifest in his doubts about the ability of bio sourced coal proxies (he names many, algae and miscanthus being a couple of the stronger competitors) to compete in a world where coal, as abundant as it is, naturally is getting more expensive to mine and transport while the bio side is busy moving up learning curves... such as for example the development of algae that 'produce' an oily product that will separate directly, so the algae itself can be left in it's watery, sunlit soup.
All this is at the margin though, and the basic case, that we should plan to live in a world with a lot more, not less, fossil fuel burning, is compelling.
This is not a book about the greenhouse effect and it's consequences per se, but I would certainly have enjoyed more from this author on this topic, as it is fundamental to understanding how the 'externalities'.... if any other than a warmer Siberia and Canada... will affect the costs implicit to the fossil vs. bio competition. | {
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Anyone has a clue? If i use "su - root", i have all aliases in /root/.profile working. If i use "su", /root/.profile doesn't seem to be read by ksh. What's the solution? Typing "su - root" every time is annoying.
Anyone has a clue? If i use "su - root", i have all aliases in /root/.profile working. If i use "su", /root/.profile doesn't seem to be read by ksh. What's the solution? Typing "su - root" every time is annoying.
That's intended behavior. If you simply "su", you're keeping your environment while gaining elevated priv. If you "su -", you are using a login shell to read root's environment.
Just read it, but haven't found a solution. I've also noted when i use "su" i'm keeping my environment partly. E.g. exported variables like PKG_PATH or CVSROOT are preserved, but aliases ar not. I'm confused.
By default, the environment is unmodified with the exception of LOGNAME,
HOME, SHELL, and USER. HOME and SHELL are set to the target login's
default values. LOGNAME and USER are set to the target login, unless the
target login has a user ID of 0 and the -l flag was not specified, in
which case it is unmodified. The invoked shell is the target login's.
This is the traditional behavior of su.
and a command you may not have considered, sudo(8), which has significantly more capability than su. You can set the environment variables you want carried over, or not, by configuration file. And then, you can even override them, as described here for the -E operand:
Quote:
The -E (preserve environment) option will override the
env_reset option in sudoers(5)). It is only available when
either the matching command has the SETENV tag or the
setenv option is set in sudoers(5).
I found that even with 'su -' some environment variables were read and some were not (as explained above) and the working directory changed to /root too. The aliases issue had to be overcome by putting those in a .kshrc file referred to by a $ENV variable defined in .profile. Running 'su' carries over the aliases defined in the user directory without changing working directory which I find useful.
Also csh would read root's .cshrc. Does that mean csh is not secure as root shell?
Roots .cshrc is OK. What you do not want is to read .cshrc from your regular user account. My understanding was that he wants exactly that. To read all the environment of the regular user. I will admit that would make work more convenient but on the multi user system is just plain dangerous. | {
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Alaia looked past Rosalie to see February walking out of the common room. "She looks rather upset, perhaps I will talk to her. Carry on girls, and don't forget the staff meeting tomorrow. Professor Marin-Booth expects to see everyone there".
She walked quickly out of the common room in time to see young February disappearing around a corner in the corridor. "Miss Fortescue, may I have a word" she called out.
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Classes currently enrolled in: Alaia is a Professor in charge of teaching History of Hogwarts: The Founders. Although she may be found lurking in the back of other classrooms of subjects she enjoyed during her student days.
Best Magical Talent: Alaia excels in all charmwork.
Worst Magical Talent: Divination, she considers it unworthy of being called 'magic'.
Best Non-magical Talent: She is an exceptional musician, with a lovely singing voice, and is a natural guitar player.
Worst Non-magical talent: She has never been noted for her correct spelling or grammar.
Special Possessions: Her guitar, which travels wherever she does.
Greatest Fear: Public humiliation. Alaia prides herself on her poise and elegance, nothing would be worse to her than being made a fool of in public.
Future Goals: Well that would be telling...
Alaia paused before stepping into the common room, it was important for her to be looking her best for this first foray into the Dungeons since leaving her student days behind her. She knew she looked stunning in her silver robes, but took a moment to compose herself and make sure not one single hair was out of place.
Finally satisfied with her appearance, Alaia fixed her trademark smirk on her face and stepped through the doors. Her green eyes scanned the common room, looking for a situation that she could use to her advantage. It would be important to start the year off in firm command of the students.
Cody and Ashley appear to be making an early start on the season. Alaia thought to herself as she spied the Slytherin Quidditch Captains in SQT's usual corner, they appeared to be drawing up practice rosters. She wandered over. "Welcome back you two. Let me know when you need the quidditch pitch, the lazy lions wont even have started thinking about the season yet, I should be able to book the pitch out for whenever you need it. Also, I've brought my beaters bat with me again this year, I will of course be at your disposal should you need me. Oh, and if you happen to see Mr Greb anywhere, send him to my office, I need him...."
Alaia broke off mid-sentence as she heard raised voices from the other side of the room. "Excuse me, it appears I may need to bang some heads together".
She walked off across the room to where her prefect, Rosemarie, and promising student Rosalie appeared to be having some sort of confrontation with another student. She also spotted what was obviously a first year making a fast exit towards the dormitories.
"Rosemarie, Rosalie, hope you two had good summers". She didn't wait for a response. "Is there something going on here I should be aware of?"
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Bologna achieves vendor independence for its office applications
December 4, 2009 12:26 am
The administration of the Italian city of Bologna has almost completed its move to OpenOffice. Most of the 3600 PCs now run this open source suite of office applications. The administration is planning to move more applications to open source, aiming to become less dependent on specific IT vendors.
This municipality started its first open source pilot in 2004. It now plans to include free and open source software in all parts of its IT infrastructure, and says this will result in significant cost savings.
“We spent 570,000 euro on proprietary office licences in 2006. Next year, however, we expect to save some 160,000 euro “, says Massimo Carnevali, IT manager of the municipality.
In both presentations, he outlined Bologna’s free and open source strategy. Apart from vendor independence and cost savings, the important goals are to increase cooperation with other public administrations, to reuse software that is developed by other public bodies and to make sure the municipality’s data will always be accessible by moving to open document standards. Continue reading at Open Source Observatory & Repository Europe.
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They say truth is stranger than fiction. We write fiction, creating unique and different worlds within the pages of our books. We also create familiar and comfortable worlds, populated with characters readers can relate to, and therefore care about. But every once in awhile, truth blows us away. A real life event motivates us to create a story around it, but the idea is so strange that we find ourselves thinking there’s no way anybody would ever believe we dreamed up such a thing, and who would buy it? And yet the event really did happen.
Is that why so many people are obsessed with reality TV? Can people or situations presented on TV really exist as they are portrayed? What’s the attraction? And why do we care?
The 24th season of Survivor began last week, which means I will be parked in front of the TV every Wednesday night for the forseeable future. I’m not interested in being a member of the cast. Are you kidding? One, I’m not a water lover. Two, I don’t like spiders and snakes. And three, just. . . no. I’m perfectly happy watching from the relative safety of my family room. I watch the show because of the people. The writer in me is fascinated with their motivations and interactions. There are obviously different mentalities on how to play the game. What makes these people tick? How do their personalities shape their game strategies? What makes one player “click” with another and form an alliance? How much trust can you have in anyone playing a game for a million dollars? My mind churns with character possibilities.
Other than Survivor, I’m not a big TV watcher. I’d much rather curl up with a good book 99% of the time. But occasionally, as hubby flips through the channels complaining that there is nothing on (again or still), another reality show catches my eye.
Call of the Wildman is unique. A backwoods kind of guy (Turtleman) travels around removing nuisance critters from buildings and properties. In lieu of payment, he accepts whatever the owner can pay - ranging from gas money to food to furniture and other goods. It’s obvious he does what he does because he loves helping people. He’s funny, but the show is heartwarming, too. How many people go out of their way to help others and expect nothing in return?
Mantracker pits two people against two trackers on horseback in remote areas. The people have 36 hours to reach a prearranged spot, 25 miles away, without getting caught by the trackers. Sometimes the people have wilderness experience, sometimes they don’t. But their goal is all the same: to outsmart the trackers and reach the spot without being captured. Many people today are looking for ways to get back to nature. This show offers an opportunity to pit your skills and knowledge against nature and man.
What young girl (and yes, some of us older ones, too!) hasn’t dreamed of being beautiful and skinny enough to be America’s Next Top Model? Diverse personalities make the modeling world a different and sometimes difficult place, one which not all are cut out to thrive in. This show provides a glimpse of the hectic pace and the hard work that goes in to being a model. How far outside your comfort level are you willing to go, especially when your job is on the line? I vividly remember one episode where the models were expected to showcase jewelry - while “wearing” things like giant cockroaches and tarantulas. I would have lost that job.
Music and dance reality shows offer people the chance to strut their stuff, to show off their talents and maybe even launch careers. The Biggest Loser offers obese people the chance to get help with their weight problems and change their lives. Who Wants to be a Millionaire and The Weakest Link provide opportunities for people to match wits by answering trivia questions. Viewers may envy the singers and dancers their opportunities for fame. They may watch the Biggest Loser to learn ways to bring change to their lives. And who doesn’t think they could go farther than at least some competitors on trivia shows?
The purpose of some other reality shows eludes me. Big Brother – don’t we have enough Big Brother in the world already? Who needs to live in a house with strangers to experience this? The Bachelor or The Bachelorette – I know a lot of women who love these shows but they don’t do anything for me. Fear Factor – um, NO, do not put me in situations you think will make me overcome my fear. I’ll only hate you for it.
But in my opinion, the worst of them all is Honey Boo-Boo. Children are supposed to be cute and natural, not made up to look like teen-age celebrities gone bad. Previews are made to get viewers’ attention and entice them to watch shows, but these previews are downright scary and I refuse to watch the show. That child is going to be a holy terror as a teenager. What is that mother thinking?
Reality TV shows represent different worlds, worlds as diverse as those writers create for their books. Obviously there are people or situations that viewers relate to, or the shows would not be as popular as they are.
What reality TV shows are you hooked on? Why do you care about the people on the show? Do they fuel your writing in some way? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
I'm an introvert, hence I’m someone who naturally goes for the deep meaning, the explanation, the "ya see, Timmy," when things in life go right and when they go wrong. When my children are going through tough times my mind tends to suggest things like, "This experience builds character." If a job opportunity doesn't pan out, my brain may suggest, "There's something better coming."
This tendency goes for my writing, as well. If I don't sell a story idea to a market or my latest book is rejected, once again, I find myself looking for and maybe assigning an abstract meaning to the rejection – it's a sign I'm not meant to write. Maybe this tendency is an influence of my fundamentalist upbringing. Nothing happens just because; there is a message or lesson. It can be exhausting. Such is the life of a member of a self-aware species, an introvert and the survivor of an intense upbringing.
It also can be exhausting to simply be present with what is. It's hard to stay put and persevere when things don't seem to be going well. To avoid the move away to something more comfortable or the quick explanation. If I do that maybe I'll see that my book is crap. Maybe I need to do some serious revisions. I have started more than one story but I can't sustain them, so am I lacking in creativity? I'm struggling with finding an audience, so what does that mean? I have a healthy readership but now I feel like I can't do something different for fear of losing them. If I stay in the place of how situations like this make me feel, what are the implications? Cue abstract message: "Ya see, Timmy, we don't always get what we want."
The problem with moving to some meaning that may not be applicable is it may not be useful for anything other than assuaging the discomfort of the truth. My story is crap. I do need to revise extensively. I need to spend time doing more research so I have more information to draw from. I don't have an audience and how am I going to find it? If I change my writing, I may lose readers, but do I still want to change?
Wise people, people who are not me, suggest that in staying put and not resorting to the ya see, Timmy, writers may find a more meaningful truth about themselves and their writing. It may be an opportunity if we can sit with the situation for a bit and let it tell us more. It may be an opportunity we don’t want to miss.
This parable seems fitting:
A man built his house on a cliff by the sea. He was excited about the view. Soon, a month-long fog rolled in. He quickly hated the place because it pained him that it wasn't the beautiful thing he had envisioned. He moved away. A week after he'd gone, the fog cleared.
I'm frequently the person who curses the fog, not having the patience to wait and learn, and concludes, "It wasn't meant to be." Have you had a situation in your writing life where you needed to wait and because you did, you learned something? Share?
The Write Way Café is happy to welcome romantic suspense author R.T. Wolfe today.Hello, HiDee and Lynn. I enjoy your blog posts and am honored to be your first guest author! Thank you!When did you first have the thought you'd like to write a book? Was that first thought related to writing romance?Honestly, I never had a first thought of writing a book. I’m a bit of an insomniac. I’m not sure what made me write the first line in Black Creek Burning in the middle of one of those sleepless nights, but somehow the first line turned into the first page and then into the first hundred pages…It was absolutely addicting. The research, editing, revising…I truly love all of it. Nine months later I had completed my first book in the Black Creek Trilogy. As far as your question regarding writing in the romance genre, you mean to tell me there are other genres besides romance? LOLWhat was your path to getting this first book written and published? What type of research did you do?I used books listing literary agents, pitched at a writing conference and found my lovely Romance Writers of America friends. Each has given me equal knowledge. My contract offer from Crimson Romance came from a call for submissions, forwarded to me through one of those lovely friends.Where did the idea for your story come from? Was it always the first in a series?I wish I knew. As eccentric as this sounds, I simply don’t. Sometimes when I’m proof reading my work I say to myself, “Where did I come up with this stuff?” So fun. Book two, To Fly in the Shadows, started spinning holes in my head when I was about half way through Black Creek Burning and ideas for book three weren’t far behind. Each book is also a stand alone. It was incredibly difficult to make that work and some of the best fun I can remember!Why did you pick the setting you did?Since the heroine, Brie Chapman, is a landscape designer who works outside much of the time, I wanted a climate close to what I’m familiar with. Upstate New York is similar to where I live, although I did plenty of research. I’ve had the privilege of three Master Gardener reviews for Black Creek Burning regarding the authenticity of the mention of plants and shrubs twined throughout the novel. The first review is already on my website. Mostly, I needed seasons. I use subliminal metaphors when I write. The growth of Brie’s character tandems the growth of the plants she works with.Are your main characters completely imaginary or do they have some basis in real people? Do they reflect aspects of yourself?The main characters are completely fictitious. However, Brie’s sister is an absolute duplicate of one of my sisters. Her daughters have previewed Black Creek Burning and have commented on how creepy the similarities are. Have I mentioned how fun this is?Did you face any blocks while writing the book, and if so, how did you handle them? If not, what's your secret?Ugh! That is such a scary question. I have never experienced writer’s block. There. I said it. Where is some wood to knock on? I’m not sure I have a magic secret. I expect writer’s block will hit me as it does most of us. What have been surprises you've encountered while writing the book and after?Agents want something new and fresh. Yet, editors want the work of author’s to fit in a very tiny box. I work hard to listen to advice, but I try to listen to my readers a bit more than the others. After all, who am I writing for anyway?What did you learn? For instance, what did you learn about yourself, your process, the writing world, woodworking, education?I’ve learned boat loads about writing, but I’ve mostly been writing about what I know and what I know well. The hero, Nathan Reed, is a woodworking artist. I am knowledgeable on this subject as well as the landscape design and planting references in the book. Book two is about a conservation biologist who specializes in the rehabilitation and banding of eagles. I know a great deal about this, also. Again, however, I have a talented gal from the amazing custom furniture store, Sawbridge Studios, previewing Black Creek Burning and a biologist from the east coast Center for Conservation and Biology previewing book two for authenticity.What are some of your favorite books and why?Using all of my senses, I want to be taken into another place when I read. I like to learn new and interesting facets in life. I like books to be realistic with tangible and diverse characters. I only hope to have brought that experience to my readers. Some of my favorite novels include the Women’s Murder Club series by James Patterson, Northern Lights by Nora Roberts (although not the film-ugh) and the Circle Trilogy by Roberts.What are you working on now?I am polishing book two for a possible February release. This would be my first self-published book. So, I’m not sure precisely how much time the set up would be for that new adventure. I also have another publishing company interested in taking a look at that one…who knows? I am very close to being finished with book three in the Black Creek Trilogy, Dark Vengeance. My readers are graciously hounding me mercilessly to finish. It’s all so humbling, as well as serving as a guest on your lovely blog. Thank you, once more!About R.T. Wolfe: R.T. Wolfe writes romantic suspense stories that manage to touch the hearts of her readers as well as their intellect. She lives in the Midwest and is a loving mother to her boys. She enjoys working in her gardens and spending time training her Golden Retriever and writing in and around each of these.
Black Creek Burning by R.T. WolfeBrianna Chapman learns to handle just about anything. Witnessing the murder of her parents had that effect. Knowing the unsolved arson had been meant for her is the one thing she can’t handle. Instead of dwelling, she stuffs her guilt soundly into her subconscious through diving into the teaching job she loves by day and the dirt of the landscaping business she owns by night. Her habit of remaining aloof to personal relationships is, well, working. Will her guilt be as easy to keep buried if the killer comes back to finish the job?In the midst of juggling a scorched yard, dead animals on her doorstep and her vandalized car, the one thing she didn’t count on was the staggering Nathan Reed. A nationally renowned woodworking artist, Nathan and his two priceless nephews move into the run-down historical house behind her and over Black Creek. They have a canny way of maneuvering around her aloof demeanor and into her heart. Will they still want to be part of her life when they discover she is haunted by past memories and hunted by present dangers?Buylinks:Amazon Pre-Order buy link: http://amzn.to/Tycagh
My daughter claims to be a trisquirclgon. She does not roll with the punches – any punches. She cannot be neatly pegged into any type of hole. In spite of her denials, she’s very much like her uncle who is admittedly OCPD. Their world is black and white, with no consideration of gray. They have to be in control, and they have to be right. It’s good that I am a circle. I have a few rough spots that catch from time to time, but for the most part, I roll. I am adaptable. I am gray.
Gray is somewhere in between black and white. Being gray means being better able to accept opinions different from your own. Gray is not constant but rather reflects many gradations of the extremes of black and white. Each gradation is no more or less gray - they are just shades of the same.
Romance authors are encouraged to create a brand so readers will know what to expect, but there can be variations within each brand. Romantic suspense might be coupled with paranormal, and contemporary with a mystery. By adding these components, the original brand is enhanced. They are still romantic suspense or contemporary books but with shades of other elements.
Google “writers of America” and you will find several organizations probably familiar to writers.Western Writers of America, Inc. promotes the literature of the American West. The founding authors wrote traditional Western fiction, but the organization grew to include historians and other nonfiction authors, young adult and romance writers, and writers interested in regional history.
SFWA is a professional organization for authors of science fiction, fantasy and related genres.
RWA stipulates membership is open to “all persons seriously pursuing a publishing career in the romance genre.”
There are also listings for outdoor, horror, and garden writers; football, golf, track and field, baseball, bowling, dog, and young writers of America. And in all of these organizations, rules have been made to include – and to exclude – certain types of writers. The organizations were designed to help writers of their respective genres. If you write something different, that doesn’t mean you are less a writer - just that your focus is a different genre or area. A different shade.
We all have our own beliefs and opinions, wants and needs, likes and dislikes. Does that make any one of us more right or wrong than any other? No, we are just different. We are individuals. But the best part is there is an audience for every writer because non-writers are also individuals. Not all of us are the same, nor should we be. So reach out and grab your slice of life, go for your dreams, and don’t let being different slow you down. Embrace your uniqueness.
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Texas Senate Passes Campus Carry 20-11
Posted by Dean Weingarten on 03/19/2015
SB11, the Texas campus carry bill that allows adults with concealed handgun licenses to carry on public university campuses, passed the Texas Senate yesterday, 18 March, 2015, on a vote of 20 to 11(pdf). The bill was amended to require that people with concealed handgun licenses must keep their handguns concealed while on public campuses.
Second amendment activists have been pushing for this reform for several years, while disarmists on university campuses have claimed that students with concealed handgun licenses, who are among the most peaceable of Texans, will suddenly become dangerous and unpredictable on college campuses.
The bill still has to go through a House committee, and be voted on in the House before it would be sent to Governor Abbott.
According to UT-Austin’s fiscal note, which estimates expenses associated with campus carry, the policy would not cost the University any additional funds. The System gathered the documents and submitted them to the Legislative Budget Board for review.
Other members of the University of Texas estimated costs of as much as $39 million for additional security. Most of the additional cost estimate came from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center that estimated that an additional 22 million dollars would be needed. Why additional security would be needed was not addressed. As people with concealed carry permits are far more law abiding than the general population, the estimate seems to be created out of thin air. The author of SB 11 made that point:
“It is patently absurd to suggest that additional security resources would be needed to accommodate faculty, staff or student [concealed handgun license (CHL)]-holders on Texas campuses,” Birdwell said in a statement. “I think it is bordering on offensive to suggest that [CHL-holders] will conduct themselves any less thoughtfully or lawfully the moment they set foot inside a university building.”
According to Students for Concealed carry on Campus, a similar
bill passed both houses of the Texas Legislature in 2013, but was stopped by the Senate Democratic Caucus. From ammoland.com:
This issue has been fully vetted by both the House and the Senate over the past three legislative sessions. It has passed out of every committee hearing and passed in both chambers, House and Senate.This session the issue was halted by the Senate Democratic Caucus after the bill had passed in the Texas House.
Now that the bill has passed the Senate, the impediment of the Senate Democratic Caucus is no longer in play.
Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and recently retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation. | {
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The Competition
A Novel
In a horrific scene torn from the headlines, two masked gunmen massacre students and staff at a pep rally in the gym of their suburban L.A. high school. Two bodies found in the library, masks at their sides, are presumably the shooters, who committed mutual suicide. But it's soon apparent that the library scene was staged and the real shooters escaped, having not only exceeded Columbine's body count but also having walked away alive. And this is just the beginning, one of the shooters says in a letter to Deputy DA Rachel Knight (who achieved media prominence in a previous case); this is a competition in mass murder. So Knight and Detective Bailey Keller must work against the clock to find the killers, consulting with psychologists and dealing with parents who deny that their children could be perpetrators. It's a bone-wearying search, undertaken carefully with a future trial in mind, as seemingly good suspects turn out to be dead ends. | {
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I just didn't get my fill on Wednesday and had to go back for some more.
After having to cancel my backcountry plans this weekend due to my wife's grandmother being sick, I scored a hall pass for Sunday. My buddy Trey joined me today, and we headed into the unspoiled wilderness for an adventure.
I was a little surprised to see this today. I guess everything will continue to be early this year
We hiked to the "end of the trail" and crossed the creek and headed into a slice of heaven.
I don't know why you guys want the first fish pic, but here you go. I snagged him before Trey even got his soles changed and rigged up.
I was working alot of sweet water and was coming up empty handed in 3 out of 4 pools. Was it the full moon? Was it the water being a bit high? I don't know but it was definately slower than 3 days before.
The fish that were brought to hand were some nice ones though
This next one I called - tomorrow night's dinner
Here's some stomach contents - How many bugs do you see? And this next one further proves how Byron must be crazy to tell people to use a green weenie | {
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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
18 August 2018
Asia
India: Beedi cigarette workers strike indefinitely in Mangalore
Over 200,000 beedi cigarette workers strike in Mangalore after walking out on August 7 for higher piece rates. The workers, who are members of the Centre for Indian Trade Unions Beedi Workers Federation, are only paid 190 rupees ($US2.72) for 1,000 beedis rolled. The Communist Party (Marxist)-controlled union has only asked for a 20-rupee pay increase, which would take the rate to just 210 rupees per 1,000 beedis.
The poverty stricken beedi rollers, who are mainly women, are only employed for three days a week. They are demanding payment of the state-mandated minimum wage and a dearness allowance. These long outstanding demands have been rejected by the Karnataka state government. Beedi Workers Federation leaders have threatened mass protests if the government does grant the union’s demands.
India: Transport workers protest in Punjab
Punjab Roadways and PUNbus contract workers held a protest march on August 14 to demand abolition of second- and third-tier wages for PUNbus employees, permanent jobs and an end to the use private buses on state roads.
The contract workers have struck six times this year, forcing about 1,200 PUNbuses off the road during the walkouts. The protesting workers said they would wear black armbands to work and strike on September 10 if their demands are not met. The demonstration was organised by Punjab Roadways/Punbus Contractor Union.
Contract sanitation workers on strike in Odisha, India
About 100 contract sanitation workers remain on strike at the Sonepur Municipality in Odisha state to demand pensions, provident fund payments and other benefits.
Even though the contractor and the municipal council are supposed to contribute 50 percent apiece towards a provident fund, the council is not paying its share. “We are forced to resort to agitation because the municipal authority has not contributed its share to our provident fund,” one worker told the media. Garbage is not piling up in 11 wards in Sonepur city.
Several hundred construction workers in Kakinda, one of the largest cities in Andhra Pradesh, have been holding a sit-down protest outside the Deputy Commissioner of Labour’s office since August 10. They are demanding the government pay a range of benefits to construction workers.
The protest was called by the Kakinada Construction Workers Union, which is affiliated to the Indian Federation of Trade Unions.
The building workers want the provision of a Provident Fund and Employee State Insurance benefits, 1 million rupees accident insurance, a 100,000-rupee marriage incentive and a 100,000-rupee maternity benefit to female construction workers. The protesting workers have submitted a memorandum with their demands to labour department authorities.
Sri Lankan tea plantation workers strike for wage increase
Almost 2,000 tea plantation workers from Waverly and Glasgow estates in Sri Lanka’s central province went on strike and held a protest on August 14 in support of two plantation workers undertaking a hunger strike. The tea plantation workers want a pay rise and other demands.
The main unions covering Sri Lankan plantation workers are the Ceylon Workers Congress, National Union of Workers and the Up Country Peoples Front.
The strikers, who picketed the Dayagma-Talawakelle Road, are demanding the basic daily wage be increased from 500 rupees to 1,000 rupees. The hunger strikers—Karupaijah Tharmalingam and Suppaijah Sathiyenthira—began their fast on August 11.
Pakistan: Council workers strike in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) workers in Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, held a pen-down strike on August 8 to demand the immediate payment of outstanding wages for July. The Municipal Workers Union called off the strike on Sunday after the administration agreed to pay the outstanding amounts.
TMA authorities have said the necessary money would be deducted from its development fund. Frequent and prolonged delays in payment of wages and dues are a common problem for federal and provincial government workers and contract employees.
Hundreds of garment workers rallied on Friday outside the National Press Club in the capital Dhaka to demand payment of the Eid festival bonus, last month’s salaries and an 18,000-taka ($US243) minimum monthly wage for all garment workers.
The workers, who were organised by the Garments Sramik Front, marched along different city roads after the rally, demanding that they be paid seven days before Eid festival, which is observed on August 22 or 23.
South Korean finance workers vote for mass strike
Workers employed in South Korea’s financial sector have voted overwhelmingly for an industry-wide strike next month.
The stoppage will involve up to 100,000 workers, including from major firms such as KB Kookmin, KEB Hana and Woori Banks. Around 93 percent of unionised workers voted for the action. It will be the first such action in the sector since the introduction of a performance-based pay system two years ago.
The strike is over employer resistance to the official implementation of a recently introduced shorter work week. The regulation calls on companies with more than 300 employees to limit maximum working hours to 40, plus 12 hours of overtime, down from the previous 68 hours.
The financial union claims companies continue to require employees to work an average 52.4 hours per week. Half of them are forced to do night overtime every day.
Chinese workers protest at Jasic Technology
Workers at Jasic Technology, an electronics manufacturer in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, continued their public protests last week in a bid to have their union officially recognised. Twenty-nine workers have been arrested during the course of the dispute and seven sacked.
On August 6, student members of Utopia, a Maoist grouping in the Chinese Communist Party, joined rallying workers to demand the unconditional release of workers from police custody. The students called for the punishment of security and police who previously threatened workers.
Hong Kong bus drivers protest over pay dispute
Bus workers staged an impromptu strike Tuesday morning at a busy terminus in Sha Tin. They were protesting a paltry pay rise by the company, which failed to meet the Motor Transport Workers General Union’s demands.
Kowloon Motor Bus Co. (KMB) increased salaries by 5 percent after the seventh round of negotiations Monday, but fell short of workers’ calls for a 5.5 percent increase.
The protest disrupted traffic near the Sha Tin Central Bus Terminus for 30 minutes. Forty members of the KMB union participated, including bus drivers and station supervisors.
Australia and the Pacific
Aurizon train crews campaign for wage increase
Train crews at Aurizon’s coal haulage operations in New South Wales (NSW) have begun a campaign of industrial action in a dispute for a new enterprise agreement. It involves limited work stoppages and bans.
The Rail Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) is demanding a 3 percent per annum wage increase, barely above the company’s offer of a paltry 2.5 percent. Workers have voiced opposition to the push for camera monitoring equipment in locomotive cabs and driver only operations.
The campaign includes crews at depots in Mayfield and Antiene in the NSW Hunter Valley and Quirindi in the state’s North West Slopes, which provide coal haulage services to mines in those areas.
North Queensland council workers strike for pay increase
Around 350 workers at the Cairns Regional Council in Northern Queensland are taking industrial action in a dispute for new enterprise agreements.
The workers, who are members of the Australian Workers Union, the Services Union and the Transport Workers Union, held a brief stop work in April this year over the same issue and rallied outside the council chambers.
The unions have called for a 4.5 percent pay increase backdated to the expiry of the last agreements. Workers have rejected the council’s pay offer of just 2.5 percent.
Unions end industrial action at NPA print plant in Melbourne
Three unions covering about 120 workers at Printing Australia (NPA) in Melbourne called off all industrial action this week and pushed through a sellout enterprise agreement that does not meet the original pay claim. The unions had restricted industrial action at the plant over the last three months to limited work bans.
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), the Electrical Trades Union and the Finance Sector Union had initially demanded a 3.5 percent per annum increase. The unions’ deal, however, only provides for a 2.5 percent rise.
AMWU assistant state secretary Tony Piccolo admitted to the media that cosmetic changes to domestic violence and casual conversion provisions were aimed at making the reduced pay offer, which barely keeps pace with the official rate of inflation, “more palatable.”
The company is owned by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and is responsible for producing banknotes for Australia and other countries, along with the polymer sections of Australian passports.
BlueScope steel workers take action in New Zealand and Australia
Workers at BlueScope Pacific steel in Auckland, New Zealand, struck for 24 hours on August 15. The Australian Workers Union (AWU) says its Port Kembla members will vote to strike later this month.
The Australian-based BlueScope, which also operates throughout the Asia-Pacific region, has more than doubled its profits in the last year, primarily by cutting hundreds of jobs. In 2015 the company threatened to close its Port Kembla plant in Australia if workers did not accept a wage freeze.
Workers in Australia and New Zealand have been in negotiations for a pay rise for the last five months. The AWU says workers want a 10 percent pay rise, but the company has only offered 7.5 percent and a $1,500 bonus. New Zealand’s E tū union says their workers were offered the same. Workers in Auckland voted to strike after the company withdrew an offer from the union on August 10. Workers have also banned overtime since then.
Neither the AWU nor E tū have coordinated trans-Tasman industrial action to fight for the company.
New Zealand quarry workers’ strike ends with new pay deal
First Union have ended industrial action by 14 quarry workers at Atlas Quarry in Northland. It follows a lockout imposed by the company from August 6 to August 12. Negotiations with the company have dragged on for over 10 months.
The union announced on Tuesday that a deal had been reached offering a $2–$4 wage increase, putting workers in line with the “market rate.” At $22 per hour, this puts some workers just $1.45 above the supposed “living wage” of $20.55.
Truck drivers, who work up to 88 hours a week, also demanded a reduction in hours. The union announced that workers will receive overtime rates for weekends and “agreed hours of work” but provided no details to the media.
New Zealand: Second strike by bus drivers in Hamilton
Around 120 Go Bus drivers in Hamilton went on strike from 5 a.m. to midnight on Tuesday to demanding better pay and working conditions. The Go Bus drivers in Hamilton and Te Awamutu struck earlier this year.
According to the First Union, the drivers are only paid as little as $17.35, with the top rate at $19. The minimum wage is $16.50. Go Bus is offering a 75 cent increase to the top rate. Drivers also complained that buses were poorly maintained and unsafe to drive.
The First Union cancelled further strikes planned for the rest of this week and said they would continue negotiations with the company. | {
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Well I got a job and tried to put my money away
But I got debts that no honest man can pay - B. Springsteen
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. - 2 Tim 4:3-4
My pound of LNF weighs more than either the pound of feathers or pound of lead because I had to put it in all these little glass jars.
Well I got a job and tried to put my money away
But I got debts that no honest man can pay - B. Springsteen
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. - 2 Tim 4:3-4
Tobacco tale of woe: So I picked up a clay pipe today in Colonial Williamsburg. Through research I found that these clay tavern pipes they sell all over Colonial Williamsburg are in fact made by Old Dominion Pipes - it's their “Williamsburg” model. I was excited about trying this out, having read some positive stuff about clay pipes. I also visited Havana Connections a couple miles away. They're a small cigar shop that also carries some pipes and pipe tobacco. I saw they had in a large bulk jar a tobacco they call “Commonwealth” which, to my eyes, looks just like Stokkebye Luxury Bullseye Flake (the only really similar looking flake I've seen is Escudo, but that doesn't have the cavendish center. Also, the store stocks “Proper English” bulk, so I can't imagine this is anything other than LBF) So I asked the guy working the counter if he could confirm that this is LBF being called by a different name. I couldn't get a straight answer from him - IDK if he was being evasive or ignorant.
Anyway - I got back to the motel and loaded a bowl of Commonwealth, noting how dry the tobacco seemed. Oh, my gosh - it was incredibly tasteless. Idk if it's all the air getting into the massive jars (air that was likely regularly permeated with cigar smoke - 4 people with Cigars burning when my wife and I walked in) The Virginias seem almost non-existent, and the perique is the most noticeable thing here. I wasn't all that impressed with the taste of it in the clay pipe. So upon finishing the pipe, I loaded some Star of the East flake from a jar I've been smoking, and found the taste to be noticably different as well, and not necessarily in a good way. The bowl gets hot, and the clay gives off a cool, dry smoke, but it just isn't the same taste as a briar or cob pipe. I don't know exactly how to describe it, but the overall smoking experience isn't at all what I'm used to enjoying. I guess the pipe just needs some breakin-in.
I decided to give the supposed LBF another try, this time in my Peterson 999. It was better than out of the clay, but it still not an enjoyable smoke, and I'm probably going to trash the rest of the bag.
Adam Z wrote:Tobacco tale of woe: So I picked up a clay pipe today in Colonial Williamsburg. Through research I found that these clay tavern pipes they sell all over Colonial Williamsburg are in fact made by Old Dominion Pipes - it's their “Williamsburg” model. I was excited about trying this out, having read some positive stuff about clay pipes. I also visited Havana Connections a couple miles away. They're a small cigar shop that also carries some pipes and pipe tobacco. I saw they had in a large bulk jar a tobacco they call “Commonwealth” which, to my eyes, looks just like Stokkebye Luxury Bullseye Flake (the only really similar looking flake I've seen is Escudo, but that doesn't have the cavendish center. Also, the store stocks “Proper English” bulk, so I can't imagine this is anything other than LBF) So I asked the guy working the counter if he could confirm that this is LBF being called by a different name. I couldn't get a straight answer from him - IDK if he was being evasive or ignorant.
Anyway - I got back to the motel and loaded a bowl of Commonwealth, noting how dry the tobacco seemed. Oh, my gosh - it was incredibly tasteless. Idk if it's all the air getting into the massive jars (air that was likely regularly permeated with cigar smoke - 4 people with Cigars burning when my wife and I walked in) The Virginias seem almost non-existent, and the perique is the most noticeable thing here. I wasn't all that impressed with the taste of it in the clay pipe. So upon finishing the pipe, I loaded some Star of the East flake from a jar I've been smoking, and found the taste to be noticably different as well, and not necessarily in a good way. The bowl gets hot, and the clay gives off a cool, dry smoke, but it just isn't the same taste as a briar or cob pipe. I don't know exactly how to describe it, but the overall smoking experience isn't at all what I'm used to enjoying. I guess the pipe just needs some breakin-in.
I decided to give the supposed LBF another try, this time in my Peterson 999. It was better than out of the clay, but it still not an enjoyable smoke, and I'm probably going to trash the rest of the bag.
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Interesting. Clays do smoke very differently that briars. The coins look similar but not identical to LBF to me... could just be very old tobacco. This is why I don’t like to buy tobacco from jars in B&Ms.
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"Pleasures are shafts of the glory as it strikes our sensibility... Make every pleasure into a channel of adoration." ~C.S. Lewis
Interesting. Clays do smoke very differently that briars. The coins look similar but not identical to LBF to me... could just be very old tobacco. This is why I don’t like to buy tobacco from jars in B&Ms.
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Yep.
Clays do taste like... clay. Not necessarily unpleasant, but if you're expecting the same experience as briar, you'll be disappointed. Ditto Johnny's comment about jarred tobacco at a store. I've been known to buy it, used to buy it a lot, but always check it for being old and dry first.
Now, check out the manufacture dates on the Acadian and the Bold Kentucky
Acadian - Dec 2015
Bold Kentucky - Jan 2016
Kind of fun to get two tins with 2 1/2 years age on them fresh from the store.
Well I got a job and tried to put my money away
But I got debts that no honest man can pay - B. Springsteen
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. - 2 Tim 4:3-4
Couple more 100g tins of McClelland 40th Anniversary from a CPSer. Love this stuff. Best tobacco I ever have, or ever will have savored. As our 'ol Rusty would have said, it doesn't have any Perique and it doesn't need any.
"At present we're on the wrong side of the door. But all the pages of the New Testament are rustling with the rumor that it will not always be so." ~ C.S. Lewis
Well I got a job and tried to put my money away
But I got debts that no honest man can pay - B. Springsteen
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. - 2 Tim 4:3-4
I had a couple of bowls and have jarred it up. The tin was only 3 months old when I popped it and I think it might be better with at least 3 more months in a jar (but probably 6 more). I have realized I like PS LNF a lot more after 6 months in a jar over fresh, so, I am hoping the same here.
Well I got a job and tried to put my money away
But I got debts that no honest man can pay - B. Springsteen
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. - 2 Tim 4:3-4
I had a couple of bowls and have jarred it up. The tin was only 3 months old when I popped it and I think it might be better with at least 3 more months in a jar (but probably 6 more). I have realized I like PS LNF a lot more after 6 months in a jar over fresh, so, I am hoping the same here.
Indeed I’ve got some with a few years on it.
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Uncharted Waters Bundle
Uncharted Waters Bundle! This collection includes all the Uncharted Waters items by Glitz. These water-themes papers, and embellishments are everything you need to create a mini-album (as shown) or to use on your...More Info » | {
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How do you define life?
I feel that sometimes we take what we have for granted such as the life we were given. Unlike other things, Life we are given only one chance at. So I say why not make the most out of it.
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Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Rules of Writing
I was listening to All Things Considered on NPR last week. Mark Vonnegut, son of Kurt Vonnegut, was the guest. He gave
an intimate glimpse of what it was like to grow up with a used car salesman turned iconic author. [He also gave] his account of coping with mental illness and finding his calling as a pediatrician.
At the end of the interview, the host, Robert Siegel, read Kurt Vonnegut's 8 rules of Writing - first published in Vonnegut's Bamboo Snuff: Uncollected Short Fiction (1999). I thought I would share them here because I think Vonnegut was brilliant. Sometimes we writers lose sight of this simplicity.
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
Start as close to the end as possible.
Be a sadist. Now matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages. | {
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Beauty Box 5 March 2017 Review + Free Eyeshadow
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Beauty Box 5 March 2017 Review
Beauty Box 5 is a beauty subscription box that sends at least 5 beauty full size and sample size products to your door each month.You can get a box for $12.00 on a month to month plan and save even more with a multiple month plan.
Bellapierre Cosmetics Cosmetic Glitter – Spectra (FULL SIZE) $15.00 This is a loose glitter that can be applied to your face, body or hair. It works much better with the use of primer. While not for an everyday look, I will use this for special occasions.
Sweep Lashes (FULL SIZE) $15.00 These lashes have a dramatic look! Beauty Box 5 gave easy constructions on how to apply the lashes. There wasn't any lash glue includes, but there are several good brands you can use. I personally haven't used false eyelashes before, mainly because I am scared of glue near my eye.
Sweep Lash Helper (FULL SIZE) $9.99 These tweezers are designed to help you properly apply eyelashes. They have curved tips, which help pick up the curved eyelashes.
Manna Kadar Lash Extending Primer $14.00 This primer helps plump lashes before you apply lashes. I have a similar primer that I use with my mascara. If you are not a fan of false lashes, try this before your regular mascara. I believe the full size bottle is .24, and this sample is .14.
Final Thought: This box had a total value of $63.74. I really like that Beauty Box 5 is including so many full size products in their boxes. You really get your value with this subscription. If you want to subscribe to Beauty Box 5, use this link and you will get a Free Eyeshadow with your 1st box. Grab a year subscription and pay only $9.08 per month! | {
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*** Note that due to weather conditions, this is the rescheduled session from it's original date on 28 February ***
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According to io9, the BBC is planning a radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's romantic fantasy Stardust, due to air in the UK (and worldwide on the internet) this December. It will be directed by Dirk Maggs, the man responsible for the recent radio adaptations of Gaiman's Neverwhere and Good Omens for BBC Radio 4, and will be preceded by a radio version of the Neverwhere spinoff "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back", scheduled to air in November. | {
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Beauty: Love Label Hair Dryer as Featured on Big Brother
Big Brother is one of those programmes that every year, I can’t help tuning into and once you start following it, it gets way too addictive! This year, I was pleased to see that Very.co.uk are the official sponsors – I love Very and always use their website when I’m looking for a range of different things, whether it be clothes, electrical items, beauty or homeware.
With being the official sponsors of Big Brother, it means that the BB house has been kitted out from top to toe with lots of amazing items from Very.co.uk, and even have their own special website which features all the items that you can spot around the house that are available to shop at Very.co.uk. I have even managed to get my hands on the Love Label Hair Dryer with diffuser and x2 nozzles which is being used in the house at present!
I have naturally straight hair so the diffuser doesn’t benefit myself, however I have dried my hair with this dryer attaching the smooth and sleek nozzles and it is a fabulous hairdryer for giving my locks that shiny, uber-straight look. I don’t need to use hair straighteners after using this hair dryer, however if your hair is naturally wavy I’m not too sure how it will work for you, but for the straight hair ladies, this is the perfect dryer for providing a chic look! The best thing is that for a really good, professional dryer, it is currently on sale from £45 to £27 which is a fantastic bargain! You can shop the hairdryers as seen on BB here…
As I’m also a big fan of homeware and fun, quirky pieces for the living room, bedroom and kitchen, I decided to browse the Big Brother house shopping page on Very and check out what other cool items were available to buy. How funky are these little additions to the bedroom?…
I love this Estaban Wool Pouffe, it’s such a fun, bright yet useful little ‘seat’ to have in your room! You could also use this in your living room or study, as an extra seating arrangement! Love it! And also, keeping up with the geometric print and bold colour style, how fab are these triangle printed cushions? These would look great placed on top of my white bedding…
For more lovely items that you may have seen on Big Brother that you think could look great in your own home, or be useful appliances, visit the website at Very and browse away! | {
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AS-IS Ukuleles
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Nokia HERE Drive + Beta back in the Store
After a mysterious absence which was clearly not intentional, if comments from Nokia employees are anything to go by, Nokia’s HERE Drive + is back in the Windows Phone Store, and still a Beta.
The reason for for the app going missing is not known, but developers have been complaining of other weirdness in the Store, in particular app download counts being recorded as zero when this is clearly not the case. | {
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Dessert Theater October 7, 2018 What is a Dessert Theater? It is our version of a Dinner Theater. We decorate our studio, take reservations, seat our guests, provide a dessert menu and beverage while the...
Morrison Homecoming Parade Join us for a fun afternoon! Our studio has been invited to take part in the Morrison High School Homecoming Parade. We will have a hayrack (some students riding, some walking). If... | {
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Cased Victorian silver-gilt, gold and turquoise, double-ended glass scent bottle. The clear glass scent bottle has silver-gilt mounts at each end, with rose gold monogrammed cartouches and turquoise surrounds. All this in a fitted case and retailed by Asprey of Bond St. London. Quite the best scent bottle we have had for some time; exceptional!London. 1868. Thomas Whitehouse.Retalied by Asprey, Bond St. London.Length of bottle 14cm.Length of case 18cm.Postage; by Royal Mail Special Delivery free of charge for deliveries within UK; outside UK deliveries by quotation.Payment; by using the payment button on this item's description, or bank transfer, please contact us for our bank details.All items are professionally packed prior to posting. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any information regarding any of our stock items, we try to make our descriptions as informative as possible, but are always delighted to be of any further assistance.Internal Ref: 28/1273
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Cased Victorian silver-gilt, gold and turquoise, double-ended glass scent bottle. The clear glass scent bottle has silver-gilt mounts at each end, with rose gold monogrammed cartouches and turquoise surrounds. All this in a fitted case and retailed by Asprey of Bond St. London. Quite the best scent bottle we have had for some time; exceptional!London. 1868. Thomas Whitehouse.Retalied by Asprey, Bond St. London.Length of bottle 14cm.Length of case 18cm.Postage; by Royal Mail Special Delivery free of charge for deliveries within UK; outside UK deliveries by quotation.Payment; by using the payment button on this item's description, or bank transfer, please contact us for our bank details.All items are professionally packed prior to posting. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any information regarding any of our stock items, we try to make our descriptions as informative as possible, but are always delighted to be of any further assistance.Internal Ref: 28/1273
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Actress Greta Gerwig attends the "Lola Versus" Premiere during the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival at the Borough of Manhattan Community College on April 24, 2012 in New York City.
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NBA Player of the Week
The Milwaukee Bucks moved within three games of the division lead this week as Brandon Jennings (left) was named the NBA Player of the Week. In right photo, guard Monta Ellis goes in for a lay up over Detroit. Below, Bucks’ great and assistant coach Sidney Moncrief watches the game. (photos by Bill Tennessen)
Jennings named NBA Player of the Week
The National Basketball Association announced that Bucks guard Brandon Jennings has been named Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played last week. The award is the third of Jennings’ career and second this season after he took home the honor following the opening week of play on Nov. 5.
Jennings averaged 24.5 points and 6.5 assists per game while shooting 47.7 percent from the field and 50.0 percent from beyond the arc in leading the Bucks to a 3-1 week. He led or co-led the Bucks in scoring in all four games, and his 24.5 points per contest was the second best average in the conference during the week, trailing only Carmelo Anthony’s 28.7 points per game mark.
Jennings exploded for 20 points in the third quarter alone at Chicago on Jan. 9, helping the Bucks erase a 15-point first-half deficit and sweep the road season series against the Bulls for the first time since the 2000-01 campaign.
Jennings’ Player of the Week honor is the third for a Bucks player this season. In addition to Jennings taking home the NBA’s first Player of the Week award this season, his backcourt mate Monta Ellis also won for the week ending Dec. 30. With three Player of the Week winners already, the Bucks are tied with the Miami Heat (LeBron James – 3) and Oklahoma City Thunder (Kevin Durant – 3) for most in the NBA this season. | {
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About the Million Dollar Wiki
The Million Dollar Wiki is a site much like Wikipedia, except each page is owned by someone.
Each page originally cost $100.
Owners of pages are allowed to resell their pages for any price. (The Business page sold for over $6,000 on eBay)
This site was started by Graham Langdon, a student at the University of Connecticut. The purpose of it is to help Graham pay off his enormous college debt and to give him the resources to open the best bar in the known world, right in the heart of Boston. Details about the bar are veiled in mystery. Over 1,000 pages have been purchased to date. | {
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People Who Sleep Longer Are Twice As Likely To Develop This Disease
We all love a good lie-in and it’s often been thought that sleeping as much as you like is good for you, but did you know that regularly sleeping longer can mean that you are at an increased risk of developing dementia? Sleeping for 9 hours or more a day has been directly linked to the development of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia which can ultimately lead to an untimely death in the sufferer.
There have been several studies which appear to prove the link between excess sleeping and developing the disease. It has been shown that the people who are driven to sleep a lot have a smaller brain volume which may in turn be a driving factor.
It’s important to note that people who sleep longer do not necessarily choose to do so, but rather it’s in their natural sleeping pattern. Meaning, they feel that they need a certain amount of sleep to feel awake and alert. This is a key point because researchers have highlighted that it’s not the actual fact of sleeping a lot which causes dementia, but rather individuals who do so are more likely to be predisposed to developing it compared to those who do not. Prolonged sleep duration may therefore be a marker of early neurodegeneration rather than a cause, and intervening to prevent people sleeping as long is in fact unlikely to prevent the onset of the disease.
However, it may be that in future, medical professionals are able to screen individuals for dementia based on such symptoms as a need to sleep more as well as daytime sleepiness, which has also been shown to be linked to a decline in cognitive function.
Interestingly enough, it has also been observed that individuals who are predisposed to sleeping 9 hours a night or more are also less likely to have been through higher education and even have a lower cognitive function. It is therefore thought that these two factors could also be markers of the eventual development of dementia.
Finally, it’s important to note that all the research conducted thus far into the link between excessive (and indeed diminished) sleep does not highlight a cause but only a possible relation. | {
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James Brady on Samphire Bites
Monday, 15 July 2013
AGFG caught up with James Brady to talk about Samphire Bites and Pigs & Pints.
As Samphire Bites moves from Chevron Island to Broadbeach, AGFG was curious to see if there were any changes and surprises in store for Gold Coast diners. Although James was a little reserved on the details he went on to say that Samphire Bites will be more evolved and a greater experience for diners in Broadbeach than it was on Chevron.
“The Gold Coast is always evolving and so Samphire Bites had to also, it will evolve from what it was on Chevron. On Chevron, Samphire was a diluted form of myself, it never really became trendy, which was a good thing as we wanted to test the response it was going to get from diners, now that people know a bit about me I want to show them all of me so we are taking the idea of the bar we had on Chevron and making it a larger part of Samphire in Broadbeach where smaller savoury and sweet bites can be ordered by those that just enjoy a drink and a bite,” said James.
In the main dining room of Samphire, there will be room for up to 60 diners. For lunch there will be a two course minimum as James wants everyone to have a full dining experience.
“It is very hard to expect a diner to be able to balance a menu so at Samphire we will do it for them, we have designed a two course and four course set menu, it won’t matter what the diner chooses from this menu as it should give the results of a very balanced meal and of course we will have a Sommelier to accommodate all meals with the correct wine,” said James.
Everything in Samphire Bites has a purpose; every dish has a little bit of James’ personality, life experiences and history. Before each service Samphire will be filled with the smell of Thyme, which will kick start the diner’s metabolism and appetite. James went on to explain that when he was in Spain there were thyme bushes everywhere and it was all he could ever smell, and it always made him hungry, so this gave him the idea to wet the appetite of his customers with one of his life experiences.
It’s set to be a very busy year for James as he also looks forward to extending his Pigs and Pints venture. Pigs and Pints, also located on Chevron Island, were into the slider craze before it was trendy, pairing craft beer from across Australia and locally from Burleigh Brewing Company.
It was a venture that came to James when he was working at Poseidon. James used to serve a Grange box before each meal; diners would sit there stunned that the waiters would just serve them a bottle of Grange without asking. Most would start worrying about how much that one bottle of Grange would cost and whether they could afford the rest of the meal. To their surprise James would pull off the lid and it would start to smoke and once the air cleared the diners would be left with smoked chips in a Grange box. This was to put diners at ease and have a good laugh about the common stereotypes fine dining had. The idea of smoked potato chips grew into creating gourmet sliders which eventually grew into Pigs and Pints.
James hopes to extend Pigs and Pints from his one venue on Chevron Island to another venue in an undisclosed location in Burleigh. Before the second venue, a mobile Pigs and Pints van will take to the streets with their own mobile app, so at any time you will know where you can get your next gourmet slider fix.
AGFG has been watching James for quite some time, from his early beginnings at Vue de Monde in Melbourne to Poseidon and now to his own venture Samphire Bites and Pigs and Pints. His aspirations and passions for Samphire Bites are high and AGFG would definitely recommend following James’ story, as he endeavours on his journey in fulfilling his personal goals including making the San Pellegrino 50 best restaurants list in the years to come. | {
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Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare were twin stars in Anthony Burgess’s intellectual and artistic firmament. Inspired by them he wrote and composed abundantly, from his dissertation on Marlowe’s Dr Faustus as a student at the University of Manchesterto the last novel published in his lifetime, A Dead Man in Deptford. On Shakespeare he was prolific: two novels - Nothing Like the Sun and Enderby’s Dark Lady - a biography, short stories, journalistic articles and scholarly chapters, a film script, a television series, a symphony and songs inspired by his plays, even a ballet suite for full orchestra about the career of Shakespeare, Mr W.S. performed for the first time in November 2010 during the fourth international symposium of the Anthony Burgess Centre at the University of Angers. Here is a collection of papers from that symposium which includes the synopsis of the ballet, published here for the first time. | {
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"Grandma" to my little guy announced last night that her bio daughter is pg. And I feel bad about it, but I'm... jealous? upset? I'm not real sure what I'm feeling, but it's not nice. Like she's only doing it because I did? dunno. Maybe it's just hormones.
Part of it I'm sure is knowing that her marriage hasn't been the most stable, or maybe it's that with the announcement was the info that she's having an u/s this week, when she can't be more than 8 wks... which implies that she's just doing what the doctor tells her (and I think we all know how I feel about that).
Just needed to vent a bit, since the person I usually tell these things to, my BFF is her sister.
I think it's probably one of those inexplicable Mommy feelings. I know I felt a little like that when each of my SILs had kids. Like they're somehow taking attention/love away from my kids, yk? So stupid - but I felt it none the less.
Don't worry, you've got lots of time to let it grow on you. And hopefully you'll be an AUNT soon!
i know exactly how you feel!
in my family, both between marriage and my sisters- i've had two women have babies after i had my first, for the attention. i'm a pretty shy person, and am so not into being lavished with attention from people who aren't extremely close to me. my husband's sister has always competed with him, and after we had our first, she had to get preg again. she would get so jealous over people loving on our baby- always forcing her youngest into the mix. dh and i found it comical. then my older sis- a total nut, drug addicted, bi-polar, emotional mess who is always victimizing herself, and forever competing with me, got pg. now, 1.5 years after her dd was born, the attention is over, and my sis can't take it. she hates her dd, and tho she's a sahm, dd is in daycare for 10 hours a day! no one in our family is happy about this. everyone who knows her hoped when she had a baby it would change her, give her a reason to feel loved and happy. everyone hoped it wouldn't make her crazier and angrier. and through all this, she talks about starting to ttc again in the next year (b/c my 2nd lo was just born!)! i think its just the dumbest thing in the world to have kids in competition!
Yeah, I've been there. It sucks and I'm sorry for you.
When I was 4 months pg with DS, my SIL announced she was pregnant too. I felt big time like she was stealing my thunder. It didn't help matters when she announced they were going to name the baby "Olivia" if it was a girl, after we had already chosen the name "Oliver" for a boy. That was pretty lame. It's kind of funny in hindsight, but at the time I was LIVID. And then she had a girl, the first grandaughter, and I know gender isn't something you can plan, but their family really went gaga over the new baby and she's kind of the favorite now, which hurts. But what can you do, right? I've just kind of tried to enjoy my own babies for the blessings they are, and not think about all that family politics stuff too much.
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Villa’s backline knew they were in for a busy afternoon from the off as the Gunners burst out of the blocks straight away and took the lead on six minutes.
With Matt Lowton pushing forward and Vlaar slipping, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain burst down Villa’s right and the speedy England wideman raced to the byline.
His neat cross with the outside of his right boot found Giroud who swept in a first time finish from close range beyond Guzan at the near post.
To add injury to insult, Villa lost Baker just before the half hour mark when he failed to recover from a foot problem sustained in a tangle with Theo Walcott.
Ciaran Clark came on in place of his fellow academy graduate instead of Jores Okore with the Danish international still lacking match fitness after a pre-season hamstring problem.
With the Emirates crowd buzzing, Villa’s gameplan of trying to frustrate the Arsenal faithful finally paid off midway through the first half.
Out of nothing, Gabby Agbonlahor tore through the centre of the hosts’ defence and rounded goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny who contrived to bring down the Brummie striker.
After a moment’s hesitation, referee Anthony Taylor pointed to the spot and Benteke stepped up intent on scoring his first goal against his boyhood club.
The Belgian battering ram’s poor penalty was saved by Szczesny, but as the ball sat up, Benteke reacted quickly to nod in the rebound and make it 1-1.
In a frantic first half, Vlaar and Jack Wilshere were both booked when the Arsenal midfielder reacted angrily after being chopped down by the Villa skipper.
Villa lived dangerously when a mix up between Luna and Brad Guzan allowed Walcott to steal the ball, but his cut back for Giroud was scrambled away by Clark.
Next it was Arsenal’s turn to breathe a sigh of relief after Szczesny over-dramatically saved Westwood’s ambitious shot after the keeper’s poor clearance got the Gunners into trouble.
Luna was harshly booked just before the break after a clash with Oxlade-Chamberlain where both players were equally culpable, but the Gunners man was injured and was replaced by Santi Cazorla at half-time.
In a lively start to the second half, Tomas Rosicky should have restored Arsenal’s lead when he was played in by Giroud, only to blaze his effort over from just inside the box.
Villa came even closer moments later when Delph’s cracking low drive rattled the right-hand post and rolled across the goalmouth before spinning past the opposite upright.
But the claret and blues did take the lead just after the half hour mark – in controversial fashion.
Agbonlahor intercepted a lax pass to Cazorla on the half-way line and accelerated into the penalty box and away from Laurent Koscielny, whose afternoon was about to go from bad to worse.
Koscielny appeared to get his foot to the ball as he slid in on Agbonlahor, but the officials saw it differently, awarding another penalty and booking the Arsenal defender.
This time Benteke kept his composure and tucked the ball expertly into the bottom left corner, much to the delight of the claret and blue army behind the goal.
With Wenger still fuming on the technical area at that decision, the Gunners manager’s mood darkened moments later when his team were reduced to 10 men.
His fellow Frenchman Koscielny got his marching orders on 67 minutes, picking up a second booking in six minutes after fouling Andi Weimann near the touchline.
Wenger and the Emirates crowd were furious again when Vlaar, already on a booking, committed a foul on the edge of his box but avoided a red card.
Rosicky did his best to conjure up a leveller with a winding run through the heart of the Villa defence, but Guzan was out quickly to deny the Czech playmaker.
Guzan made an even better save to somehow push Cazorla’s effort onto the crossbar from close range to annoy the majority of the 60,003 crowd packed into the Emirates, while Benteke slided an angled hat-trick chance past the post.
But Luna frustrated the Gunners even more on 86 minutes when he found the energy to burst forward from the back, latch onto Weimann’s precise pass and steer in a calm finish.
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Interreality was an umbrella for a few software development efforts involving online 3d virtual worlds, distributed data structures and computing, etc, the core of which was the Virtual Object System (VOS) platform. There are some new ideas floating around between the original developers, and hopefully something will come out of that in the coming years.
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'Absurd' math used to calculate 'Comeback Agenda,' financial pro says
There won't be any coming back for high-wage earners who will exit Illinois in a hurry if the so-called "Illinois Comeback Agenda" passes, a financial services professional said.
"There's no way that anyone would stick around to pay this liability," Mark Glennon, founder of Wirepoints and managing director of Ninth Street Advisers, said on the Chicago-based talk show "Illinois Rising." "And it wouldn't be going to pay for higher education or schools or whatever the left wants to see the money spent on. It would be going toward paying down that legacy pension debt."
Illinois' pension debt liability is estimated at more than $200 billion, which would amount to more than $700,000 shouldered by each Illinois household in the top 6 percent income bracket, Glennon said of the budget proposal being pushed by Democrat lawmakers. It would amount to a tax of about $36,000 per top-6-percent household just to cover the state's budget deficit, which is estimated at between $10 and $13 billion, Glennon said.
"So the math is plainly absurd on the central piece of the left's 'comeback proposal,' as they call it," Glennon said.
Illinois Rising is co-hosted by Illinois Opportunity Project co-founder Dan Proft. Proft is a principal of Local Government Information Services, which owns this publication.
Since it was announced on March 29, the agenda has been backed by 22 House and Senate Democrats. It is intended to push an apparently progressive agenda as an alternative to Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s "Turnaround Agenda." Five targets of the Democratic plan are the state budget, campaign financing, criminal justice, education funding and health.
The same legislators also unveiled the nonprofit Reimagine Illinois to support the proposals, though that seems to be largely a petition sponsored by the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform that supporters may sign.
The centerpiece of the agenda is a progressive income tax that lawmakers such as Sen. Don Harmon (D-Oak Park) and Rep. Will Guzzardi (D-Chicago) say would raise taxes for Illinois' top 6 percent wage earners while cutting the taxes of the remaining 94 percent. Democratic lawmakers say it is more of a compromise than the largely dead "grand bargain" budget offered.
"I think that this is an important part of us working toward a solution," Guzzardi said, according to the Chicago Tribune. "In order to make a deal, you need something for everyone. I think us outlining these values and visions about what needs to be done is going to be vital in reaching compromise."
For their part, Republican legislators said they were alarmed by the new proposal's lack of anything to lower property taxes or increase jobs in Illinois, while Rauner has said he prefers an earlier budget proposal by Sen. Bill Brady (R-Bloomington) that includes more of what conservative lawmakers are looking for, like more than $5 billion in spending cuts.
Proposals by right-leaning state lawmakers have not been well-communicated, Glennon said.
"The primary criticism of those proposals is that it would pass the buck on some of the pension liability to local governments, and it would cut their share of revenue that comes to those localities," he said. "But what's not mentioned is that this would be coupled with removal of the unfunded mandates that are very expensive for the local communities. So that would largely be offset."
Glennon said that other proposals that would slash state salaries by 10 percent across the board are not so far-fetched as some have suggested.
"You could call that draconian, maybe, but that happens all the time with companies that get into trouble," he said. "A lot of us went through that in 2007 and 2008 when the recession came -- cuts of at least 10 percent."
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Top Trending YouTube Videos That Went Viral in 2017 | Time
The Top Viral YouTube Videos of 2017. By Lisa Eadicicco. December 6, 2017. Since its inception in 2005, YouTube has become one of the biggest platforms for new-age Internet celebrities and one-hit wonders alike. That was no different in 2017: YouTube’s top 10 trending videos for the year have garnered more than 633 million views collectively, up by 83 million compared to last year’s list. They were watched for a collective 40 million hours, and the channels that created them have more than 55 million total subscribers. Here’s a look at the YouTube videos that got the most attention in 2017. 1. Top Trending YouTube Videos That Went Viral in 2017 | Time
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YouTube has released the top-trending videos of 2017 along with the year’s top 10 music videos — with the No. 1 music video, “Despacito,” having shot to the top of the list of most-viewed of all time. For nearly five years, the YouTube record for most-viewed video was held by South Korea’s Psy for “Gangnam Style.” This year, Psy was unseated: first by Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again” featuring Charlie Puth in July, and then the following month by Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito” featuring Daddy Yankee (not the version with Justin Bieber), which now sits atop the rankings with over 4.4 billion views — and Top Trending YouTube Videos That Went Viral in 2017 - Dofch Sök | {
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The selected contractor, Westwater Construction, will begin work March 9, 2015. The initial construction notice (viewable here) will be followed by emailed weekly updates more information about the sequence of work, as well as bi-weekly flyers.
To ensure you recieive information about project construction activities as soon as available, please email [email protected] requesting the Georgetown Festival Street updates.
Project Overview
Just what IS a Festival Street? A festival street is a public place that has been designated for recurring temporary closure to vehicular traffic use for the purpose of pedestrian-oriented special activities.
The Georgetown Festival Street will be on 12th Avenue S between S Vale (All-City Coffee) and S Bailey Streets (at the end of the block – past the overpass). It will also include S Vale Street between 12th Avenue S and Airport Way S.
Project Design
The design was completed in December 2014, with guidance provided by the eight-member Citizen Advisory Group. This group actively worked with the design team since April 2014, providing invaluable feedback on the project.
The project features a raised concrete section of roadway – level with the sidewalk – on S Vale Street west of the intersection with Airport Way S. This raised section will stretch to 12th Avenue South, defining one end of the Festival Street while a raised crosswalk on 12th Avenue S just north of S Bailey Street will define the other.
The sketch above shows South Vale Street between Airport Way South (to the left) and 12th Avenue South (in the upper right). The dashed red lines show the existing curb lines; you can see that the sidewalk area will be greatly expanded. This image also shows the new streetlights, the pedestal for new art (diamond near lower left) and defined crossing points (in yellow).
In addition, the full length of 12th Avenue S will be repaved, while the sidewalk and driveways will be fully replaced. The width of the 12th Avenue S will not change, but the back-in angle parking will be on the west side at the northern and southern thirds of the Festival Street, and on the east side in the middle. This arrangement will: discourage cut-through traffic, slow vehicles down due to limited sight lines, and provide both back-in angle and parallel parking in both directions.
The project will also include new bike racks, an outdoor power source for use during events and new storm drainage elements, as well as the relocation of one tree.
With construction beginning on schedule, we expect the project will be complete prior to the first festival of the season: Georgetown’s Carnival (followed closely by Honkfest).
Project Background
Residents of Georgetown requested improvements to the street and successfully obtained funding through the Neighborhood Street Fund in 2012. The neighborhood’s goal is to integrate traffic calming and create a more bicycle and pedestrian-friendly space that can be closed easily for neighborhood festivals throughout the year.
When originally proposed, it was intended that the project would get street and sidewalk repairs, pedestrian lighting, maybe a raised crosswalk but it wasn’t clear what else. Other elements that were considered but ultimately not included were:
Tree pits and street trees
Replacement of brick pavement under asphalt with new base
Green stormwater infrastructure improvements
Public Involvement
A Citizen’s Advisory Committee was formed in February 2014 to review options for the scope and character of the Festival Street in concert with the project designers. To help develop some initial concepts we invited the Georgetown community to a Design Workshop on March 19th. Then Citizen’s Advisory Group met with the design team every other month or so as the plans developed – at each stage offering valuable feedback.
The Georgetown Community Council and the Georgetown Merchants Association were briefed at their general meetings at every design review milestone.
Public Art
The Georgetown Festival Street Project was coordinated with a 1 percent for Art commissioned art element. Georgetown artist extraordinaire Chris McMullen, who was selected in a competition with other Georgetown artists, attended many of the Citizen Advisory Group meetings, along with Laura Becker, SDOT’s Artist in Residence.
Chris has developed a large kinetic sculpture, lit from within and reflecting Georgetown’s industrial character to be placed at the NE corner of S Vale Street and Airport Way S (depicted below).
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF MEDIA CONFERENCE
December 3, 2017
THE MODERATOR: Good afternoon and welcome. In a moment we will bring College Football Playoff Selection Committee Chair Kirby Hocutt and Bill Hancock forward. Kirby will make brief opening remarks and then we will turn it over to questions.
At this time please welcome Kirby Hocutt and Bill Hancock.
KIRBY HOCUTT: Thank you. Good afternoon.
After a late night last night and a detailed, thorough review this morning, the committee, as you know, ranked Clemson as the No. 1 team in the nation. We ranked Oklahoma No. 2, Georgia No. 3. Obviously the big question the Committee faced was whether the No. 4 spot would go to Alabama or to Ohio State. Let me walk you through it.
First and foremost, the Committee is guided by our protocol. The protocol is the rules of the road. It's the instructions we're obligated to follow. It's how the commissioners established the College Football Playoff from the start.
Our protocol states that our job is to, and I quote, 'select the four best teams from among several with legitimate claims to participate.'
The Committee viewed Alabama and Ohio State as teams with legitimate claims to participate.
We are also instructed that we have the, and I quote again, 'flexibility and discretion to select a non-champion or independent under circumstances where that particular non-champion or independent is unequivocally one of the four best teams in the country.'
The Committee views Alabama as a non-champion that is unequivocally one of the four best teams in the country, and that's why they are in.
Here is why the Committee ranked Alabama at No. 4.
Alabama has one loss, and it was on the road to now No. 7 Auburn.
Ohio State has two losses, one by 15 points at home to Oklahoma, and the other more damaging by 31 points at unranked Iowa.
Alabama is superior in just about every statistical category that we think are important. For example, they are No. 1 or No. 2 in every key defensive category.
As part of our process, we considered the case for Ohio State. They won a conference championship while Alabama did not. Ohio State played three teams in our top 10 and beat two of them, No. 6 Wisconsin and No. 9 Penn State. They also beat No. 16 Michigan State.
The Committee discussed both teams in depth and detail. We challenged ourselves and played the devil's advocate to make sure we thought through this from every direction. We know how important it is to get it right, and that's what we did.
The Committee's conclusion that Alabama is the fourth best team in the nation was widespread and strong. It was unequivocal. It was informative, for instance, to hear the coaches' point of view about how and why they believed Alabama is a better team than Ohio State. It's why the Committee weighted the factors I mentioned earlier, and why we view Alabama as the No. 4 team in the nation.
The Committee also determined the pairings for the Cotton, Fiesta and Peach Bowls. The pairings are based on what we view are the best matchups of the highest ranked teams while also taking into account fan friendly travel accommodations to the greatest extent possible.
The Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on December the 29th will feature No. 8 Southern California against No. 5 Ohio State. No. 11 Washington and No. 9 Penn State will play on December 30th in the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl. On New Year's Day, No. 12 Central Florida and No. 7 Auburn will square off in the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl.
UCF is the highest ranked group of five teams to make the Playoffs in our four years.
The Orange Bowl also announced its matchup. It will included No. 10 Miami versus No. 6 Wisconsin on December 30th.
It's been an exciting year. I want to thank the Selection Committee for their hard work and dedication. The members give their time and expertise to the Playoff, and they do so to a person because of their love for college football and their desire to give something back. I'm grateful.
With that, I'm happy to take your questions this afternoon.
THE MODERATOR: We will now open it up for questions.
Q. Kirby, we heard a lot for the first three years of the Playoffs about quality wins, top 25 wins. Are we now factoring in damaging losses as part of what the Committee will be looking at with what happened this weekend?
KIRBY HOCUTT: Well, I would answer that by saying it all matters. The quality wins, as it seems to begin with our first couple of rankings above teams with winning records. Then that transitions to quality wins being defined in our conversations as wins against teams ranked in the CFP top 25.
Wins matter, losses matter. How you play in the wins matter, how you play in the losses matter. In this account, where you're doing a detailed discussion, taking a deeper dive on what separates teams, I would tell you all of it matters.
Q. I guess the tenor of your first few press conferences about Oklahoma's ranking was that the Sooners didn't play very good defense. You had some concerns about OU's defense. Were those concerns kind of allayed over the past few weeks? Did they play better defense? Were you guys just that impressed by their offense? Is that how you reconciled that?
KIRBY HOCUTT: Well, our discussions in our room each and every week, you look at the complete football team. We weigh how a team's performing on the offensive side of the ball, the defensive side of the ball and the special teams. You look for that complete team. You look for that perfect team.
All of us know in college football, that perfect team is never going to exist because we're trying to rank an inconsistent product week to week.
We talked a lot about, as a Selection Committee, Oklahoma's offensive power, one of the most impressive offenses in the country. They're scoring a lot of points. At the same time defensively they haven't performed statistically as strong as they have on the offensive side of the ball. But the thing that Oklahoma has done is built an impressive body of work with a 12-1 record.
In the last couple of games, last few games, they've made progress, strides in the eyes of the Selection Committee on the defensive side of the ball, are very deserving to be ranked No. 2 in the final ranking of this year's College Football Playoff selection.
Q. Can you as best you can take us inside the room last night after the conference championship games and paint a picture of what the conversation, the atmosphere, the mood and the debates were like? Especially compared with years past, is it the most difficult?
KIRBY HOCUTT: It seems every year is a little unique and different. I would say last night we were watching the games and ready to get to work. The turf issue happened in the Big Ten game. We watched the young man out there on the turf working hard to get it fixed so we could finish watching that game and get into our meeting room.
We walked into that meeting room I think knowing that we had a big task in front of us. We had a very important conversation to have for that top four ranking.
I would say the first three teams, being Clemson, Oklahoma and Georgia, were strong support and widespread agreement those were the top three teams. As I said earlier, it came down to that fourth slot.
We went into the room and we'd already established on Saturday -- actually, we established on Friday afternoon when we came together that there was a good chance that we were going to extend the recusal policy, as we did last year, for those individuals that were recused when we were talking about their teams or any possible matchups that may occur. We recused Dan Radakovich, Gene Smith and Frank Beamer from the conversation.
What happened next was a deep dive into that No. 4 spot. Before I looked up, Bill had nudged me and said, We've been talking about this for over an hour already.
It was great conversation. I left last night, as I do every Tuesday, feeling very proud to be a part of this Selection Committee because it was so important to us to get this right.
Our charge is to rank the four very best teams. We were fortunate that we have that flexibility and discretion given to the Selection Committee, given to the 13 of us, by the commissioners to have that discretion when there's a non-champion or independent involved, to select the four best teams in college football.
I would say it was a serious conversation. It was a detailed debate and discussion. Pretty quickly we established that Alabama, for the reasons that we stated earlier, was in that 4 spot.
We came back this morning at 7:30, revisited that same conversation for probably over an hour easily this morning. Took a break, came back, talked about it again. We were confident that we had the fourth team identified for this year's final ranking.
When you look at the history of the College Football Playoff, 14 of our 16 teams that have participated have been conference champions. So obviously we see significant value there.
In this particular case, as we looked at Alabama's full body of work over the course of the season, we favored that body of work over Ohio State.
When you go back and you look at the weekly rankings that we do, we start with a clean sheet of paper each and every week. We were consistent, now that we had the full body of work in front of us each and every week, we had said that Alabama was the better football team than Ohio State each and every week.
We talked about TCU. TCU was a team that, even through the first half of Saturday's Big 12 championship game, I was sitting beside Tyrone Willingham. Obviously I'd seen TCU play in person. I commented, and Tyrone agreed, how impressive TCU is on the defensive side of the ball, especially in the red zone. Their team speed on the defensive side of the ball is something that we talked about in our Selection Committee room.
Two of TCU's three losses are to the same team, obviously No. 2 ranked Oklahoma. But it was that loss to unranked Iowa State that positioned TCU just two spots below Stanford in our final rankings.
Q. You mentioned the Notre Dame game. You mentioned the loss to Iowa State. Both were true heading into the last ranking. Why was TCU in that case ranked ahead of Stanford?
KIRBY HOCUTT: Well, I think we had total body of work. We had the final season in front of us. We had every chance to watch these teams that we could have. We watched Stanford and Southern California play Friday night in a very competitive Pac-12 championship game.
The way that Stanford performed the last stretch of this season, the second half of this season, again winning eight of their last nine games before going into the Pac-12 championship game, I would say it was watching Stanford compete toe-to-toe in a very competitive game with the Pac-12 champion Southern California, a Southern California team with only two losses that played extremely well the second half of their season once they started getting healthy. They faced a lot of injuries the beginning of the year, into the middle sections of their season, especially in their loss against Notre Dame and Washington State.
I would say it's more how Stanford made a positive impression down the stretch, more than anything, that gave them the final No. 13 ranking over TCU at the 15 spot.
Q. Kirby, you knew obviously a time would come that two teams from the same conference would make it into the Playoff. I know your job is to select the four best teams regardless. Does that come up in the room kind of knowing the impact that will have in that two conferences will be sitting home during the Playoff?
KIRBY HOCUTT: Well, it's not talked about in our room. Actually, we remind ourselves at the beginning of every meeting each and every week, and we did so Friday when we came together, we did so last night after the Big Ten championship game, and I started the meeting again this morning with us being very focused and reminded about our focus and our charge from the commissioners: that is the four best teams.
Of course, we all know at the end of the day what the narrative is going to be based on the identification of those four very best teams because we're all in this profession, this is our livelihood, we're very familiar with it. Does that impact our discussion in that room? I can tell you very straightforward, no.
We're very adamant, we're very focused. We remind ourselves on a consistent basis what our charge is. As I read earlier, it is to find the four very best teams in college football, regardless of conference affiliation.
Q. Kirby, the only way to ask this is kind of straight up. Basically from watching the press conference today on ESPN, it does appear that the Committee, you had decided that if it came down to Alabama and Ohio State, it was going to be Alabama all along. Am I seeing that incorrectly?
KIRBY HOCUTT: Respectfully, I would say yes, you are seeing that incorrectly. Up until approximately 11:00, 11:15 last night central time, it had not been discussed. We did not have the Big Ten champion in front of us. We didn't have the final body of work for those teams, being Alabama and Ohio State, to compare side-by-side in that comparison for that last spot.
To say that our minds were made up prior to going into our discussion last night after the Big Ten championship game would not be correct.
So close, yes. Close enough to require us to go to our protocol, not there.
Q. Kirby, for the first two years of the Playoff, it was nothing but conference champions. Now each of the last two years we've seen a non-champion in there. Has the Committee's view of the importance of a conference championship at all changed or evolved over the four years?
KIRBY HOCUTT: Yeah, I don't think so. I think, again, we want to identify the four very best teams. I said conference championships are important. They're important for these young men that play this game. They're important for the coaches and the fans. But it is one piece of a total body of work that we as a Selection Committee have in our evaluation.
Conference championship, important. Is it a deciding factor in our rankings? No. It's a piece of information that we have for our discussions in determining our top 25 rankings and ultimately the four top teams.
Q. Kirby, shifting to the New Year's games. Did you set the matchups and then decide the rotations, especially the Cotton and Fiesta Bowl, did you decide USC and Ohio State would be playing each other, then Washington, Penn State, that's where they would go? How do you go about that, if so?
KIRBY HOCUTT: Actually we were notified by the Orange Bowl for their particular matchup, so the Orange Bowl selected Wisconsin and Miami for their bowl game matchup.
Then the Selection Committee, we looked at the other three games that we had. We try to look at it from a matchup perspective as well as a geographic consideration that ought to be in front of us. We also look at recent history, recent destinations that a particular team may have frequented.
Honestly, this came together, these New Year's Day bowl assignments and locations, pretty quickly. The Auburn-Central Florida matchup seemed to be a natural for the Peach Bowl. Then with Ohio State having been to Phoenix a couple of times in recent history, the 5-8 matchup, Ohio State-Southern California, made sense to bring here to Dallas for the Goodyear Cotton Bowl. That left a very attractive matchup for No. 9 Penn State, No. 11 Washington.
An assignment that was our responsibility today, honestly those matchups came together and seemed quite obvious a lot quicker than what I thought they might have when we began the conversation.
Q. Kirby, just to confirm the obvious, you're watching the game last night. If Wisconsin had scored on its final drive and won by one point, assuming that the Badgers were in for sure, that's the first part. Secondly, how much does precedent factor in, specifically not wanting to set the precedent of a team suffering a blowout loss getting into the Playoff moving forward?
KIRBY HOCUTT: The first part of your question, you know, speculation about what may have transpired last night with a different outcome, I don't want to go there with my own opinion because I'm not the sole voice. I'm speaking on behalf of 12 others. I cannot do that because we did not have that conversation.
The second piece would be the precedent that was set by this year's decisions. I would say there's no college football seasons that are ever identical. Next year's Selection Committee will make the best decisions that they can. I have so much confidence in the process that they will follow, confidence they'll get it right, as we did this year.
Q. Kirby, I realize that you can't know how a football season is going to unfold. But you have two ADs on the Committee from powerhouse football programs, another coach who has a family member employed in college football. It seems like a problem in the system when you have to recuse nearly 25% of your Committee for the most difficult decision. Would you agree that is a problem? It's already a small Committee, then we go from 13 people making this decision down to 10. That seems like a problem.
KIRBY HOCUTT: Respectfully, I don't see that as a problem. I think that keeps the process pure. I think it keeps it above reproach and question when it comes to character and integrity.
I might look to Bill Hancock to talk about the recusal process and his thoughts related to it.
BILL HANCOCK: It keeps the process above reproach. These are high integrity people. It's a high integrity process. But keep the reproach in mind.
When we started this, we modeled the recusal policy in many ways after NCAA sports committees which have the same policy. Ours is a little more stringent because we recuse family members where they don't in the NCAA.
But we're all very comfortable with the recusal policy. And the 10 people who are in the room to make the decisions, we're all 10 college football experts, also people of high integrity, who put in the time and effort necessary to get the right teams.
Q. What is the message that you would say to your fellow athletic directors out there regarding scheduling when it comes to the College Football Playoff? You look at Alabama, some of the teams they've played, fans are saying, Wait a minute, Vanderbilt, Tennessee. Who did they really beat? Who were their best wins against? How do you answer the schedule question?
KIRBY HOCUTT: I would answer it related to the College Football Playoff, wanting to be one of the top four teams, I would say play a competitive schedule and win those games. At the same time my colleagues know that each of our football programs is at a little different point in their building process. They've got to make the best decisions they know better related to their football team and where they're at as a program.
In the eyes of the Selection Committee, I would say play a good schedule and win those games. Those high-quality non-conference matchups are valued in the eyes of the Selection Committee.
Q. Kirby, you look at UCF. Obviously they go through, win all their games, have multiple wins over ranked opponents. Do you think you're sending a message to the group of five that it's virtually impossible for them to make the Playoffs regardless of what they do?
KIRBY HOCUTT: I would not send that message. I think anything's possible. I would look at Central Florida with a highly successful season this year, undefeated. Those young men, coaches, are going to have a great experience in the Peach Bowl against a good Auburn team.
Again, I think it relates back to the question just asked. It's those non-conference scheduling opportunities. Play a strong non-conference schedule, win those games, and you will position yourselves in the best light in the Selection Committee's eyes.
I said all along that the thing that was holding Central Florida back, so to speak, was they had not been as challenged with their non-conference schedule, and their schedule overall, as teams right above them and right below them.
Again, in that particular case, I would say schedule competitive games, win those games, and that will be looked at in favor by the Selection Committee.
Q. How did the Committee view the Alabama win over Florida State, a team at the time ranked No. 3 in the country, a key injury in that game? Did they value it more than just the win over a .500 team?
KIRBY HOCUTT: Good question. We talked a lot about that. We talked about that as recently as this morning.
I would say it was very subjective based around our table. Some looked at it in different ways than the others. Some looked at it as a victory over a 6-6 team. Others looked at it as a quality win against a very talented and athletic team when they were at full strength.
Actually, one of the coaches in the room this morning spoke to that win against a Florida State team with their starting quarterback being a quality win. So I would say it was probably viewed a little differently around our table based upon the circumstances of what happened to Florida State losing their quarterback in the second half of that game and how they performed the remaining portion of the year.
I would say the difference between No. 4 Alabama and No. 5 Ohio State today is close but not close enough in the determination of the Selection Committee to trigger our protocol where then we are instructed to go look at the four metrics that the conference commissioners have given to us.
Close but not close enough in the eyes of the Selection Committee for Ohio State to overtake No. 4 Alabama in this week's final ranking. | {
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Your lipstick stains, on the front lobe of my left side brains,
I knew I wouldn't forget ya, and so I went and let you blow my mind.
Your sweet moon-beam, the smell of you in every single dream I dream.
I knew when we collided, you're the one I have decided,
Who's one of my kind.
Hey, Soul Sister, ain't that mister mister on the radio, stereo,
The way you move ain't fair you know.
Hey, Soul Sister, I don't wanna miss a single thing you dooooo...
Tonight.
Heeey Heeeeey Heeeeeey...
Just in time, I´m so glad you have a one-track mind like me.
You gave my life direction,
A game show love connection, we can't deny...
I´m so obsessed, my heart is bound to beat right out my untrimmed chest.
I believe in you, like a virgin you're Madonna,
And I'm always gonna wanna blow your mind...
Hey, Soul Sister, ain't that mister mister on the radio, stereo,
The way you move ain't fair you know.
Hey, Soul Sister, I don't wanna miss a single thing you dooooo...
Tonight,
Way you can cut a rug,
Watching you's the only drug I need.
So gangster, I'm so thug,
You're the only one I'm dreaming of you see.
I can be myself now finally,
In fact there's nothing I can't be,
I want the world to see you be, with me,
Hey, Soul Sister, ain't that mister mister on the radio, stereo,
The way you move ain't fair you know.
Hey, Soul Sister, I don't wanna miss a single thing you do tonight... | {
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Drone Racing Is About to Become a Spectator Sport
Drone racing is edging its way toward becoming a serious spectator sport.
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The Drone Racing League announced its first season today -- a series of six challenging courses, including abandoned malls, stadiums and subway tunnels where pilots will control drones as they weave through the courses at speeds as high as 80 mph.
Nicholas Horbaczewski, CEO of the Drone Racing League, told ABC News that while he hopes to see crowds watching the races one day, for now "our focus is creating great races, filming them and letting people consume them digitally."
Drone racing is different than flying a typical hobbyist's drone. Pilots will use drones built by the Drone Racing League, giving everyone an equal playing field before the races. They'll then strap on goggles that give pilots a view of what the drone is seeing, essentially placing them in a virtual cockpit and allowing them to make quick decisions as they navigate the courses.
Drone Racing League
The Drone Racing League is turning high-speed drone races into a spectator sport.
"It's like a real-life video game -- you're wearing goggles, holding a controller but you are in the middle of a real thing," Horbaczewski said. "It's an e-sport brought to life."
The first race is set to take place in Miami on Feb. 22, according to the league. They've already been identifying skilled pilots to compete in the races. Pilots who finish the season with the most points will be invited to compete in a world championship and earn the title of world's best pilot.
Horbaczewski, who previously helped grow the Tough Mudder races into a global brand, said he hopes people will watch for the racing excitement but also get to know the pilots, the same way people may have a favorite NASCAR driver.
Drone Racing League
The Drone Racing League is turning high-speed drone races into a spectator sport.
While a good pilot should have "incredible hand-eye coordination and an innate sense of spatial relations because you're controlling this craft remotely," Horbaczewsk said there's one big talent the most successful pilots will have to have: control of their nerves. | {
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Leader of Nuns on the Bus calls GOP budget immoral
Sister Simone Campbell, who led the summertime Nuns on the Bus tour for social justice, called the GOP budget plan “immoral” in a spirited speech at the Democratic National Convention.
“Paul Ryan claims this budget reflects the principles of our shared faith,” Campbell said, as she took direct aim at Mitt Romney’s running mate, who has often cited his Catholic faith as the underpinning of his fiscal policies. “But the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops stated that the Ryan budget failed a basic moral test, because it would harm families living in poverty,” she said on September 5.
Ryan has argued that his budget plan is informed by Catholic social teaching and that reducing the federal deficit through budget cuts would help the poor and all Americans by allowing the economy to grow.
The bishops, with some notable exceptions, have countered that Ryan’s budget in fact violates Catholic social teaching by emphasizing cuts in programs for the needy while reducing taxes for the wealthy. Ryan’s plan has also been criticized as likely to expand rather than reduce the national debt.
By framing her critique in the context of her Christian faith, Campbell was using the kind of religious language that has been a hallmark of the GOP’s campaign to rally believers behind Romney and Ryan. But she also sought to identify the sisters and the Democratic agenda with Catholic tradition at a time when Catholic voters—who constitute close to one-quarter of the electorate—are considered key to the November election.
Just as important, Campbell neatly folded her remarks in with statements from the Catholic hierarchy, which has had more than its share of disagreements with President Obama and the Democratic Party over issues like gay marriage and abortion.
“We agree with our bishops, and that’s why we went on the road: to stand with struggling families and to lift up our Catholic sisters who serve them,” said Campbell, who heads a Washington-based Catholic social justice lobby called Network. “Their work to alleviate suffering would be seriously harmed by the Romney-Ryan budget.”
In her seven-minute speech Campbell did not address hot-button issues like abortion directly, but she earned her loudest ovation when she defended Obama’s health-care reform law as a cause she considers “part of my pro-life stance and the right thing to do.”
Like many other speakers at the convention in Charlotte, Campbell framed the election as a choice between a philosophy of individualism championed by Republicans and a more communitarian approach to society building emphasized by Democrats.
“During our journey, I rediscovered a few truths,” Campbell said. “First, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are correct when they say that each individual should be responsible. But their budget goes astray in not acknowledging that we are responsible not only for ourselves and our immediate families. Rather, our faith strongly affirms that we are all responsible for one another.” —RNS | {
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Breakwater School
About This School
Breakwater School is located in Portland, ME. It is a private school that serves 108 students in grades PK,K-8. Breakwater School is coed (school has male and female students) and is nonsectarian in orientation. The school belongs to the National Association of Independent Schools.
In 2010, Breakwater School had 12 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The Maine average is 12 students per full-time equivalent teacher. | {
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High school students studying Japanese at level III and IV are encouraged to compete in the second annual Japan Bowl® of Southern California! It will take place on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
The grand prize for Level IV winner is airfare, accommodation and entry fee to the National Japan Bowl® which will be held April 10-11, 2014 in Washington, D.C.!
Japan Bowl® of Southern California is presented by the Japan America Society of Southern California (JASSC) with the collaboration with the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University. Additional supporters include the California Association of Japanese Language Teachers, the Consulate General of Japan in L.A., the Japan Business Association of Southern California, The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles and Teachers of Japanese Southern California.
What is the Japan Bowl®?
In 1992, to make the study of Japan and the Japanese language both challenging and enjoyable, the Japan-America Society of Washington, D.C., launched the National Japan Bowl®, an annual competition that recognizes and encourages the nearly 50,000 high school students across the United States who have chosen to study Japanese as their foreign language. Over the years, the National Japan Bowl® has grown to become the pre-eminent venue for demonstrating American students’ knowledge of Japan, its language, its history, and its culture, focusing a national spotlight on the close, longstanding relationship between the two countries and their people.
The Japan Bowl® of Southern California will be modeled on the National Japan Bowl®. Given that one-third, or approximately 15,000, of all high school students studying Japanese in the U.S. live and go to school in Southern California, Japan Bowl® of Southern California promises to be one of the most important regional contests of its kind.
In addition to being an outstanding opportunity for students of Japanese language and culture to meet one another, immerse themselves in all things Japanese for a day, and publicly demonstrate the depth of their knowledge of Japan, the Japan Bowl® of Southern California will serve as a preliminary round for the National Japan Bowl®, with the winning team representing Southern California in the national championship.
The Japan Bowl is a team competition - and is open to full-time students who are currently enrolled in Levels III and IV Japanese language classes at a high school in the United States, whether in regular or block schedule classes. Each team must consist of two or three students, and all team members must be formally studying Japanese at the same high school.
At the conclusion of the Japan Bowl® of Southern California competition, the winning Level III and IV teams will be declared Southern California Champions. The Level IV winners will be awarded a trip to compete in the National Japan Bowl® on April 10-11, 2014 in Washington, D.C.!
This Study Guide describes the format, content, and rules of the Japan Bowl® of Southern California competition. It also describes who is eligible to compete. The Study Guide’s purpose is to help students and teachers form teams and prepare for the 2014 competition.
Teams from Title 1 schools may be eligible to receive financial support for the application fee. For more information about Japan Bowl® of Southern California or for information on financial support, please contact Kay Amano, JASSC Programs Director at 310-965-9050 x104 oramano[at]jas-socal.org. | {
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Feel Corsica
South of the Côte d’Azur and north of the Italian island of Sardinia, Corsica is a land of contrasts and a miniature continent all its own. Wild, dramatic mountains and gentle sandy shores; time-warped villages beside buzzing coastal resorts; the language of France with an Italian-style cuisine. This nature-lover’s playground is directly accessible from the UK in season and from France all year round, by both air and sea.
Feel Corsica with our top sensory experiences…
See
They don’t call Corsica the ‘Île de Beauté’ (Island of Beauty) for nothing. In the island’s north west, Calvi’s beautiful sweeping bay is best appreciated from Notre Dame de la Serra, a chapel perched high above the town. From Calvi you can explore the Pointe de Revellata, a natural paradise with 300 acres of flora unique to Corsica, as well as a magnificent underwater world attracting keen divers.
A day trip from Calvi to the Scandola Nature Reserve is a must, with boats departing from the port every day. This UNESCO World Heritage Site was established in 1975 and schools of dolphins can be found just a few dozen yards from shore. The Piana calanques (rocky inlets), also UNESCO listed, offer an awe-inspiring sight of red granite cliffs eroded and sculpted by the sea over centuries. Some of the shapes are famous for their resemblance to animals, people or symbols. The Desert des Agriates is a barren, dramatic landscape of rocks and scrubland where eagles soar overhead – and Corsica is generally a very mountainous island, its highest peak (Monte Cinto) standing at 2,710m.
In the south of the island, feast your eyes on the gleaming yachts moored in the marinas at glamorous Porto-Vecchio and Bonifacio. The former has 380 berths and is one of the south of France’s best equipped to accommodate large private vessels. The beaches around these two resorts are also considered by many as the island’s best, with startlingly vibrant turquoise waters lapping shingly coves and stretches of fine, white sand. Palombaggia and Santa Giulia are among the most breathtaking.
Hear
Go to a concert of Corsican polyphonic singing to truly fall under the island’s spell. Included on UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage since 2009, this haunting musical tradition is performed by small groups all over Corsica in a range of venues – but consider choosing a large church or cathedral, where the acoustics really add to the experience. The official festival devoted to this singing is held in September – the Rencontres Polyphoniques de Calvi.
For something lighter and louder, time your holiday with the Calvi on the Rocks (External link) electro festival (June/July) and dance the night away on the beach. Ajaccio also hosts a jazz festival every June, showcasing some of the most exciting artists of the international and French jazz scene today.
Taste
Although classically Mediterranean and combining elements from both France and Italy, Corsica has its own unique cuisine. Most famous is its charcuterie: richly-marbled coppa, lonzu, prisuttu and figatellu. Fish and seafood are accented with local herbs including oregano, marjoram and mint. Honey and chestnuts are other staple island products; you should also taste fiadone, a traditional Corsican cheesecake made with lemon and the local brocciu, a ewes’-milk cheese similar to ricotta. The Corsican clementine, a cross between an orange and a mandarin, is grown on the island’s eastern plain.
Wine connoisseurs shouldn’t miss the vineyard tour itinerary across 276 hectares between L’Île-Rousse and Calvi, a delightful wine terroir producing rich, aromatic wines with their own strong identity. The island also makes a range of fruit-based liqueurs, the most distinctive using myrtle, and the local La Pietra beer is brewed with chestnut flour – distinctive and delicious.
Touch
Corsica is a tactile island perfect for outdoor activity: there are 250km of walking trails surrounding Calvi alone, and you can hire an electric bike if you need help tackling the hilly terrain. Water-lovers can windsurf, waterski and jet-ski to their hearts’ content from any of the coastal resorts.
On lazier days, browse locally-made jewellery in the boutiques lining the shopping streets in any of Corsica’s main towns (look out for the Calvi ‘eye’ motif, said to keep evil spirits at bay). Also discover pottery, glass and musical instruments in the Balagne villages of Pigna and Sant’Antonino, perched in the hills inland from Calvi; follow the Route des Artisans to meet the creative locals in their workshops.
Corsica is also known for its beauty products, made from the plants of the maquis (scrubland) that blankets the island. One of these, immortelle, is thought to have excellent anti-ageing properties and is used in numerous creams, serums and essential oils.
Smell
Corsica’s trademark fragrance is the maquis (scrubland), carried on the wind from the mountains to the coast. This heady mix of plants includes eucalyptus, juniper, rosemary, heather, myrtle, sage, mint, thyme and lavender. The yellow immortelle has the most distinctive aroma and is one of the most celebrated plants.
Visit Porto-Vecchio’s plant nursery ‘Les Aromatiques de l’Île de Beauté’ and meet horticulturalist Stéphane Rogliano, a specialist grower of the wild and aromatic plants of Corsica. Or roam the fragrant seven-hectare Parc de Saleccia, an amazing natural wonder and Corsica’s only botanical garden dedicated to aromatic plants and flowers from across the Mediterranean.
You can also smell wonderful local produce – fresh fruit and vegetables, fish and charcuterie, cheese and olive oil – at Corsica’s markets. One of the most popular is held in L’Île-Rousse on Tuesday mornings, in the shade of a 21-pillared portico resembling a classical temple. | {
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Sphere: Amazing app! Review
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A major step BACKWARDs...Not sure what happened here, but Sphere has replaced the phenomenal Tourwrist app that was groundbreaking and intuitive. Sphere no longer provides the ability to search for specific images by name or location on a map.
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New name, same poor quality.It's a bad sign when a company has to change their name. In this case it was to reset all the poor reviews of "tour wrist". It has a new UI but the same lackluster panoramas, if they even load. Most wouldn't on my new iPad mini. Panorama tech is cool but this is a "me too" product. If you want the real thing check out 360 Cities. Their archive of high quality panoramas is unrivaled.
Good StartThe update has a good start. I like the new format and the Discover panos are beautiful. However, where can I see my liked panos and settings like changing my password and such? Also, it would be nice to have a search button. I saw this one pano of the mountains and Milky Way and it was beautiful, and I'd love to find it again. | {
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Did illegal voters swing any congressional races?
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There are several pressing issues confronting the routed Republican congressional cadre as it recovers from its “fiscal cliff” defeat and prepares to do battle in two months time over raising the debt ceiling, already in nose bleed territory (“Tax hike deal Obama’s first or GOP’s last?” Thursday, Page 1).
Republicans are terribly weakened by their failure to accomplish anything substantive on the spending-cut side of the ledger in the just-concluded fiscal cliff negotiations. We recognize that it is not easy to deal with a re-elected president dripping with derision for his political opponents and acting more like a neighborhood clubhouse politician than a national leader actively seeking compromise. We also recognize that President Obama, smelling the rank odor of Republican weakness and having marshaled the mainstream media behind him, has no reason to even engage in debt ceiling talks, or so he says. He is awaiting complete capitulation by a chastened GOP as it licks its wounds and wonders whether its leader, House Speaker John Boehner, only now recovering his voice after a beatdown from his own raucous caucus over his failed “Plan B,” can muster a unified opposition to extract spending cuts in exchange for a debt-ceiling increase.
These are perilous times for our nation — times that call for bold leadership and opposition unity. Those of us repelled by improvident governance call on Republican leaders to restore fiscal sanity in our nation’s capital. | {
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Month: December 2016
A friend of mine requested that I write about this topic, and after seeing a video that’s been circulating my social media lately, I decided it was time.
When you are a shooting survivor, there are certain things that are hard to see in your feed. At least, there are for me, and I’ve heard the same from other survivors.
I’m not asking people to tiptoe around, always trying to figure out what to share in their feed without upsetting someone. Sometimes, things need to be shared that I personally can’t watch, because they’re important for other people to see.
But, here’s the best, BEST thing you can do. If you know that you know a shooting survivor, and you want to share something in your feed that:
Directly mentions a shooting
Depicts/discusses gun violence themes
Depicts/discusses graphic violence (bombings in Syria, for example)
Then I encourage you to send that person a private message, and ask – “should I share this? How can I share this?”
The messages I have appreciated most from friends are when friends have messaged me to alert me that a shooting has happened, so to be careful on my feed. Or to alert me of a particular video I should be careful watching. Or they message me to ask what kind of trigger warning they should put on something before sharing.
These all mean a lot to me and are extremely helpful, because then I can:
Make a decision about whether to be on social media that day
Make a decision about whether I am okay to view a certain video/read a post
Makes me feel considered and protected on my social media account because I know they are thinking about how to label things
On top of all that, I of course do a lot of my own screening for self care. I almost never watch videos out of Syria, for instance, because one of my biggest triggers is children screaming/people in distress. I can’t deal with it, so I choose not to watch it.
Even with doing my own screening, however, I can’t even explain my level of gratitude when I know that people are watching out for me on social media. I so appreciate when they send me a message to ask about how to share or whether to share something. Because one of the shittiest things for me is to be surprised by something in my feed. Getting blindsided by something is a part of a trigger for me, too… there’s a huge element of surprise and sneak attack involved in a shooting, and that’s hard to deal with. So it honestly feels PROTECTIVE for me when people are looking out for my wellbeing.
I also want to address the current video circulating. I’ve seen it mainly from Buzzfeed. It depicts a cute relationship beginning between a boy and girl scratching words into a desk. I (THANKFULLY) knew that the content required a trigger warning before watching it (Thank you, Lauren), or I would have freaked out. At the end, out of nowhere it is revealed that in the background, a student has been planning a shooting all along.
The problematic part of this video for me is the -out of nowhere- piece. There is a significant part of a shooting that is the unexpected factor; someone just starts shooting “out of nowhere.” You get blindsided. In my event, I never even saw the shooter and so there’s an aspect of “out of my field of vision” that’s really triggering for me personally, also.
If I had watched this video without a trigger warning, I would have had a breakdown. It just so happens this video is also circulating this week, and on Friday this week I have the 9th anniversary of my shooting. I don’t always know where I’m going to be emotionally during what I call “anniversary/hell week”, and so it was particularly helpful to have a trigger warning this week. Furthermore – the Sandy Hook shooting anniversary is on December 14th. There are lots of survivors out there right now.
So, with that in mind, I’m asking/imploring you to share this video with a content or trigger warning. Wording like “Trigger Warning: Gun violence/mass shooting” is helpful. Or even “themes of mass shooting.” Something to let us survivors know whether we should choose to watch it or not. It helps us to feel more protected out in the world, which is sometimes a daily struggle. I think I can speak for more than just me when I say that we would all appreciate your thoughtfulness.
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E.4 The Crawled Index is Taking a Long Time to Generate; I Want to Know What’s Going on, But Don’t Want to Cancel It and Lose Everything
QuickFinder has added a new “stop” feature in addition to the “cancel” feature on the View Active Jobs page. Unlike cancel, stop simply quits finding new files and makes indexes of what it has collected so far. That lets admins look at the indexing logs to see what is going on or what is going wrong. | {
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"Our car was a handful all evening. We just could never get it to get through the corners very well. We threw a lot at it but unfortunately couldn't ever get it to where we needed it. We had a fun weekend and a fun couple of weeks with everyone from Rumple Furniture and Bailey Excavating, paying tribute to J.D. McDuffie. It was cool to have them with us, and we're glad they were able to play a role with our throwback effort." | {
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Guild Wars 2's The Lost Shores Ascended Gear Explained
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ArenaNet's Linsey Murdock has made a post on the official blog telling us all about the new high-end gear that will be obtainable in the upcoming November update.
Ever since the original announcement, players have been voicing concerns about the team adding gear progression and its long-term effects on the game, and it looks like they've been watching Reddit as well as discussions in-game to determine the best path. A notable quote from the post:
As we watch Guild Wars 2 mature in its Live environment, we have found that our most dedicated players were achieving their set of Exotic gear and hitting “the Legendary wall.” We designed the process of getting Legendary gear to be a long term goal, but players were ready to start on that path much sooner than we expected and were becoming frustrated with a lack of personal progression. Our desire is to create a game that is more inclusive for hardcore and casual players alike, but we don’t want to overlook the basic need for players to feel like they are progressing and growing even after hitting max level. Adding item progression is a delicate process normally undertaken in an expansion, but we feel it’s important to strive to satisfy the basic needs of our players sooner rather than later. | {
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whats up nextlive in studio
June 8 2020 – From our archives, we'll be sharing past interviews with activists, artists, and community members to speak about Black Lives Matter.
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About Dragonroot Media
Dragonroot Media is a feminist media collective that aims to produce anti-oppressive media with a gender focus. We value media skill-sharing as a means of knowledge production, education, resistance, and community building.
Born out of a collaboration between the Centre for Gender Advocacy and CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, Dragonroot works with an intersectional feminist lens and hosts a bi-weekly radio show Mondays 7:00-8:00 PM on CKUT. | {
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15 Interesting Facts About Germany
Germany, a Western European country has been one of the top in the list of tourist destination for a very long period. Germany has about 2 millennia of history since it has been amidst many ups and downs. Apart from the historical anecdotes, Germany has been famous for a variety of things like Sausages, Cars (Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes, eh?) and who can be unaware of Oktoberfest??
Let us know some more about this wondrous city:
1.Consuming Beer
Germany is the second biggest consumer of beer after the Czech Republic (bonus fact 1: so that you know, in Bavaria beer is considered food!)Source: telegraph.co.uk, Image: tumblr.com
2. Ockotoberfest (Festival of Beer!)
Not actually celebrated in October but in last two weeks of September, this is one of the most popular (and awaited) festivals in the world. Also, the first Oktoberfest was actually a wedding celebration for Prince Ludwig of Bavaria in 1810.Source: telegraph.co.uk, Image: tumblr.com
3. Berlin
Berlin is about nine times bigger than Paris and has bridges more than Venice.Source: factslide.com, Image: pinterest.com
4. Break Free
From Germany prison, there is no punishment for escaping since the need to be free is a natural human instinct.Source: factslide.com
5. Shortage of Men
After WW I, there was a much shortage of men, that only one in three woman could find a groom for herself.Source: studying-in-germany.org, Image: historywars.com
6. Longest Name
Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft is the longest word to be published. It is 79 letters long which translates to “Danube steamboat shipping electricity main engine facility building sub clerk association”Source: studying-in-germany.org
7. Diversity of (Some) Foods
There are about 300 kinds of bread and more than a 1,000 kinds of sausages in Germany.
(Bonus fact 2: There’s a bread museum!)Source: studying-in-germany.org, Image: bbcfood.com
8. Lost in Translation
When JFK visited Berlin, he (might have been pranked!) said “Ich bin ein Berliner,” which translates to “I am a jelly donut.” Though that’s not what was interpreted. Berliners knew he meant he was one of them.Source: truenomads.com, Image: flickr
9. Tannenbaum
Or the Christmas tree tradition came from Germany. Three cheers to that one!Source: truenomads.com, Image: festivalsaroundtheglobe.com
10. Another Long Name Fact
The word Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz (law delegating beef label monitoring) was removed from the German language in 2014.Source: blog.young-germany.com
11. Fake Bus Stops
Supposedly, Germany has fake bus stops for Alzheimer’s patients, who escape from nursing homes because they tend to wander to the nearest bus stop so they can go home. When nurses find them, they let them know the bus will be late and have them sit inside.Source: blog.young-germany.com, Image: germanfiles.com
12. Branded Country
Adidas was founded by Adolf “Adi”Dassler, a Bavarian and the company owns 10% of Bayern’s shares. (Bonus fact 3: Adolf’s other brother, Rudolf Dassler founded Puma.)Source: confessedtravelholic.com, Image: traveleu.com
13. World’s Narrowest
The world’s narrowest street is called Spreuerhofstrasse in Reutlingen and is 31 cm (one foot) wide at its narrowest point.Source: confessedtravelholic.com, Image: wikipedia
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In the 4th grade, German kids are placed into Hauptschule, Realschule or Gymnasium, which pretty much determines if you will go to university or straight to the work force (Gymnasium is the highest level).Source: supervices.com, Image: youtube
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NORTHWICH Vics players are facing a tough Christmas as their wages have not been paid in full due to the financial problems at the club.
Vics owner Jim Rushe confirmed that only half of their monthly salary had been paid and that he was unsure about when they would receive the remainder.
But despite the credit crunch biting and the uncertainty over the forthcoming sale of the Marston’s Arena, Rushe is confident that the players will play on for Northwich as they bid to climb out of the Blue Square Premier drop zone.
He said: “Nobody will be leaving the club as 99% of them are contracted. Their contractual obligations have been met as half of their wages have been paid this month and the other half will be paid in full as soon as possible.
“But nobody has a bottomless pit and I am no different.
“It is the same for every business at the moment. And when there is a recession it is the leisure industry that suffers first.”
Rushe added that a consortium of local businessmen have now submitted a bid for the Marston’s Arena which is in the process of being sold by global financial firm Deloitte Touche.
The company seized the ground from former chairman Mike Connett’s firm Beaconet after it recently went into receivership.
He said: “The consortium associated with me has put in a bid and we are waiting to see if it has been accepted and also whether or not the funds are available.
“If we have the highest bid then we will get the ground.”
Manager Steve King is hoping his improving side can earn their first victory since he took over the job earlier this month when they host Crawley Town on Saturday (3pm).
Vics still find themselves in the bottom four of the Blue Square Premier despite taking a well-earned point from Salisbury City on Saturday (see page 30).
King is determined to lead Vics out of the danger zone and sees no reason why they can’t beat the play-off chasing Red Devils.
He said: “The fixture list has not been kind to us recently but we will take the game to Crawley and hopefully we’ll get the victory.
“I want to win every game. We will not sit back against anyone and we will take it to them.”
Dean Saunders’ rejuvenated Wrexham side are the visitors to Northwich on Wednesday, December 3 (7.45pm).
Vics have been given a home draw in the first round of the FA Trophy. York City are the visitors to the Marston’s Arena for the tie to be played on Saturday, December 13.
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Placer FFA Officers Caleb Porter, Holly Hockett,Jacob Parker, Heidi Wolken, Elaina Lewis, Jennifer Fisk, and Carlos Sahagun pose for a group picture in front of the FFA emblem made entirely out of seeds.
Placer High School FFA holds its own little piece of history, and no one is looking to give it up because of its unique character and inspiring story.
On the back wall of the Ag science classroom sits a framed FFA emblem made entirely out of seeds, hand placed by a Japanese-American student in the early 1940’s.
“I’m glad we have it at Placer and not in a museum because it allows our students to learn a little more about FFA history,” said Placer FFA advisor Shannon Browning.
The history behind the emblem is truly what makes it shine with historical value. During the 1940’s, Placer High School was the only school in the county and the student population was primarily composed of the sons and daughters of local farmers and ranchers. Of these students, there was a large number of Japanese-Americans.
During World War II, there was a widespread panic directed at the Japanese race and many were sent to internment camps to prevent anti-US espionage. Of those sent to the internment camps, there were many Placer families that had to pack their bags and leave until the end of the war. One family was the Kurahara family.
The Kurahara family owned a local orchard, and with no one there to maintain the trees, they would surely lose their livelihood and return to their home in poverty and despair. However, the Agriculture teacher at the time, Frank Benito, did not see this fit and took action.
Benito moved himself and his family out of their home, and relocated to the Kurahara orchard. The Benito family took care of the orchard until the end of the war, a sacrifice not many would be willing to make, and when the Kurahara family returned, they were able to pick up where they left off. Thanks to the Benito’s; this Japanese-American family came home to a sustained orchard and a peace of mind.
As a thank you, R Kurahara created the seed emblem that still hangs in the Placer agriculture room today. It took him approximately 400 hours to hand place each and every sugar beet, corn, safflower, and sunflower seed that comes together to form the beautiful mural.
The emblem is a constant reminder to Placer agriculture students that kindness, hard work, dedication, and taking action are time honored traditions at Placer High School. It inspires anyone who knows the story to go above and beyond, a feat that R Kurahara surely could not have anticipated.
“I’m really glad we have something like it at our school. I don’t think there is another school around that has something like that” said Browning.
Placer truly is blessed to have this historical emblem in our possession. Because of it, Placer agriculture students truly do “believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words but of deeds,” (E.M. Tiffany, 1930). | {
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February 15, 2012
The Essence of Coastal Living
Water, sand, and wind are big part of what makes life on the coast what it is.
There are other elements that are important in defining coastal life. Among them are pine trees, live oaks, and the creatures of the air, water, and forests.
All these pieces of our environment make up a world that is very different even from places only a couple hours drive from North Carolina's Crystal Coast.
No matter where you live, there are landmarks or scenes that tell you when you are home. For years I worked in Northern Virginia and would make weekly drives from the Washington, DC area to Roanoke, Virginia where we lived on a mountain.
I would always feel that I had left Northern Virginia as I drove up the slopes of the Blue Ridge. I knew that I had moved to another, calmer world when I turned off of Interstate 66 and headed south down the Shenandoah Valley on Interstate 81. However, I would never feel like I was home in the Roanoke Valley until I saw the towering flat top of Tinker Mountain which guards the northern entrance to the valley.
Similarly when I leave Roanoke for the coast, the roller coaster ride down from the mountains to the North Carolina Piedmont is a different world. Then there is the flat coastal plain with little but pine trees. It seems to stretch forever.
As I am making the long drive down Highway 70, it is only when I reach New Bern do I feel like I have arrived at the coast. When I come down Interstate 40 and take Highway 28 towards Swansboro, I don't have a sense of being at the coast until I cross the big bridge at Jacksonville.
It turns out that water on the horizon is a big part of the feeling of being at the coast. That vista of water which seems to never end is as much a part of being at the coast as are the mountains of the Blue Ridge which stretch to the horizon are for life in the mountains.
It is hard to deny the importance of water being at the core of our coastal existence.
Yet the mountains and the water are very different. Somehow the mountains are more distant and perhaps even more unattainable. Many times I hiked far up our mountain often making it to within sight of Twelve O'Clock Knob Road, but I never made it to the actual summit. Always there was too much private land that I would have to cross to get to the top.
In fact many of the mountains that you can see from our former Roanoke home are not places that you could hike at all. Of course if you limit yourself to the Appalachian Trail and the peaks connected to it or the Blue Ridge Parkway, you can get to some great spots, but unfortunately those aren't the mountains that are in my backyard.
The water at the coast is more accessible. The White Oak River that I see out the window of my office at home can be reached by sliding my kayak in the water from my backyard and paddling ten minutes. The water that I see while I am walking along the Point at Emerald Isle only takes a few minutes to reach by skiff.
Even as I look at the water, I know how it feels on my skin and my mind even remembers the smells of different places on the water and even how the wind felt when I was on the water at a certain time.
So while I might have lived on a mountain, the watery coastal world is a more intimate part my life. We are lucky at the coast. The North Carolina shore is the people's beach. We can walk for miles without a no trespassing sign. In the mountains outside the parks, the mountains are owned by people and often remain out of reach. While they are beautiful to look at, they are harder to sample than the beaches and waters of the Southern Outer Banks.
There is no question that the scenery in the mountains can be spectacular, but a sunset on or near the water often comes with more than just a visual image. Being on the water at sunset immerses me in the essence of coastal life. As the sun slides down behind the pines, great blue herons often glide through the sky, and for much of the year as the warmth of the sun disappears, I can feel the warmth of the water and the breeze that always comes at sunset.
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Water, sand, and wind are big part of what makes life on the coast what it is.
There are other elements that are important in defining coastal life. Among them are pine trees, live oaks, and the creatures of the air, water, and forests.
All these pieces of our environment make up a world that is very different even from places only a couple hours drive from North Carolina's Crystal Coast.
No matter where you live, there are landmarks or scenes that tell you when you are home. For years I worked in Northern Virginia and would make weekly drives from the Washington, DC area to Roanoke, Virginia where we lived on a mountain.
I would always feel that I had left Northern Virginia as I drove up the slopes of the Blue Ridge. I knew that I had moved to another, calmer world when I turned off of Interstate 66 and headed south down the Shenandoah Valley on Interstate 81. However, I would never feel like I was home in the Roanoke Valley until I saw the towering flat top of Tinker Mountain which guards the northern entrance to the valley.
Similarly when I leave Roanoke for the coast, the roller coaster ride down from the mountains to the North Carolina Piedmont is a different world. Then there is the flat coastal plain with little but pine trees. It seems to stretch forever.
As I am making the long drive down Highway 70, it is only when I reach New Bern do I feel like I have arrived at the coast. When I come down Interstate 40 and take Highway 28 towards Swansboro, I don't have a sense of being at the coast until I cross the big bridge at Jacksonville.
It turns out that water on the horizon is a big part of the feeling of being at the coast. That vista of water which seems to never end is as much a part of being at the coast as are the mountains of the Blue Ridge which stretch to the horizon are for life in the mountains.
It is hard to deny the importance of water being at the core of our coastal existence.
Yet the mountains and the water are very different. Somehow the mountains are more distant and perhaps even more unattainable. Many times I hiked far up our mountain often making it to within sight of Twelve O'Clock Knob Road, but I never made it to the actual summit. Always there was too much private land that I would have to cross to get to the top.
In fact many of the mountains that you can see from our former Roanoke home are not places that you could hike at all. Of course if you limit yourself to the Appalachian Trail and the peaks connected to it or the Blue Ridge Parkway, you can get to some great spots, but unfortunately those aren't the mountains that are in my backyard.
The water at the coast is more accessible. The White Oak River that I see out the window of my office at home can be reached by sliding my kayak in the water from my backyard and paddling ten minutes. The water that I see while I am walking along the Point at Emerald Isle only takes a few minutes to reach by skiff.
Even as I look at the water, I know how it feels on my skin and my mind even remembers the smells of different places on the water and even how the wind felt when I was on the water at a certain time.
So while I might have lived on a mountain, the watery coastal world is a more intimate part my life. We are lucky at the coast. The North Carolina shore is the people's beach. We can walk for miles without a no trespassing sign. In the mountains outside the parks, the mountains are owned by people and often remain out of reach. While they are beautiful to look at, they are harder to sample than the beaches and waters of the Southern Outer Banks.
There is no question that the scenery in the mountains can be spectacular, but a sunset on or near the water often comes with more than just a visual image. Being on the water at sunset immerses me in the essence of coastal life. As the sun slides down behind the pines, great blue herons often glide through the sky, and for much of the year as the warmth of the sun disappears, I can feel the warmth of the water and the breeze that always comes at sunset. | {
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Everyone Needs Their Own Space
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04.11.12
At least once a day at work I encounter a patient who needs to, but can’t be confined away from its owner. Sometimes, dogs need to be confined because they are aggressive toward unfamiliar people and can’t interact with them. Others are destroying the owner’s home when left alone. Some dogs are not used to the new baby and are not ready to interact with the little one yet. Some of these dogs were never trained as puppies to accept confinement and appreciate alone time. Others were not able to be confined as puppies because they reacted so severely that the owner just gave up. Still others have made a negative association with the crate.
Confinement training is a necessary skill for any puppy. Confinement training teaches your dog that she can be away from you and it doesn’t have to be stressful — it can even be fun. This is a valuable lesson for your pup. We teach our kids these kinds of lessons all the time, don’t we? (I am ashamed to admit, but it was easier for my daughter to accept being away from me at school than it was for me to accept it!)
There are lots of times when you might want to confine your puppy. You might confine her to keep her safe until you know that she will not hurt herself when she is alone; to prepare her for stays at the veterinarian’s office; to housetrain her; to keep her from escaping while someone is working in your home; and to travel by plane, train and automobile in safety and comfort. Confinement areas, whether they be crates, travel bags or exercise pens, give your dog a cozy place of her own to enjoy her chew bones and other goodies without anyone bothering her. Shouldn’t we all be so lucky to have a place which means peace and quiet?
The area that you choose to confine your dog is not as important as what you do to help your dog enjoy being there. Start by feeding your pup her meals in her confinement space so that she understands that good things happen there. Scatter treats in that area each day so that when she wanders into that space she will get a wonderful surprise. Give her any new toys, bones or chewies in that space as well. Make it so everything good comes from her special place.
Once daily, confine your dog to her special area for a couple of minutes with something great like a food toy stuffed with canned food when you are home. This will help her to understand that the confinement area is not always associated with your departure. If she barks for a short period of time, completely ignore her. Don’t call out to her to comfort her or yell at her to punish her. Just ignore her. If she barks for more than ten minutes and you left her with something incredible to chew on, she may have "Confinement Anxiety."
Some puppies cannot be crated or even confined. This problem is called Confinement Anxiety or Barrier Frustration. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish the pups that have learned that the crate is a bad place because it is associated with a traumatic event like the owner’s departure or a thunderstorm from the pups that have Confinement Anxiety. Dogs with Confinement Anxiety exhibit panic when confined starting in puppyhood. They don’t just bark for attention, they cry for hours, paw at the crate and salivate all over themselves. For these dogs, a larger confinement area closed off with a baby gate instead of a closed door is a good place to start. These puppies need lots of rewards for accepting confinement without the owner for slowly increasing lengths of time. Then, as the puppy becomes conditioned to stay in her place, the space can be made smaller and smaller. Realistically, most of these dogs will not ever be able to be crated, but they can be confined happily.
Confinement is not cruel; it is a gift to your dog. It is the gift of independence and security, the understanding that she will be OK even if she is not with you.
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I'm of the notion that vintage is for everyone! You've just got to know how to pull it off. The easiest vintage to wear is by far vintage accessories. Not sure where to start? Just say desinger! Go gaga over Givenchy, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel!!
For the vintage newbie, start with designer vintage. If you wear it right, no one will even know it's vintage (unless you want them to, of course)!
This vintage Chanel necklace gleams in gold. Draw attention to your assets by wearing a V-neck dress with a perfect length necklace. Add this striking Givenchy heart necklace to your holiday pantsuit. This will add a stylish feminine touch to pants. PS Don't forget the heels!!
Pair a chunky Christian Dior necklace with a strapless number. This will draw the attention to your face and collarbone. Skip the big earrings and bring all the attention to the neckline. This stunning silver Yves Saint Laurent necklace would evoke glamour when paired with bold colors. Think red, black or green. Avoid pastels and greys if you want the necklace to "pop". | {
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Why I was foolish to mock police bike training | Peter Walker
I'm walking through the 1960s housing estate when a policeman, cycling furiously, overtakes. In a single elegant move he rear-wheel skids his bike to halt, drops the bike and approaches, arm held out: "Just a second, sir." I take an instinctive step back – straight on to the front wheel of another police bike. A burly arm pulls me backwards across the handlebars. Helpless, my collar is well and truly felt.
This is, luckily, a training exercise, but if the officers involved – PCs James Aveling and Mike Notley – had been minded to take me in for questioning you could understand why.
About three weeks ago I wrote what was, in retrospect, a slightly foolish post for this blog. Why, I wondered, did police in Northampton need 10 hours of training before they were allowed out on a bike? How hard could it be? A number of readers (including Secretcyclist a police cycle patrol instructor) put me right. Soon afterwards, London's City police, the only force in the UK with a full-time, dedicated cycling squad, got in touch. Their training course wasn't 10 hours, but four days. Would I care to try a condensed version?
And so it was, earlier this week, that I was wheeling my mountain bike through Snow Hill police station, headquarters of the force's cycle team. I feared the worst, but Aveling, a bike patrol officer for nine years and now head instructor, could hardly have been nicer.
We began with a ride through the streets, Aveling and Notley, a new recruit to the patrol, following behind and noting my mistakes. Despite years of commuting experience it seems I made several, not least glancing carelessly behind me using peripheral vision rather than twisting round for a proper look. Aveling even gently rebuked me for using the middle of a narrow cycle lane. I should have been on its far edge, nearer the middle of the road. He is, in fact, fairly sceptical about a lot of bike-specific road infrastructure.
I'm given a taster of some of the many skills cycling police are expected to master. To start, there's a lot of fiddly riding in tight circles around cones to perfect low-speed handling skills.
More fun is going up and down stairs. Descending is fairly straightforward to anyone who's been mountain biking – weight to the back. Bum over the rear wheel – but going up is less intuitive. "It's easy," Aveling tells me. "Get some momentum going, stand up in the saddle and stop pedalling. Don't try and lift the wheels, just hit the first step straight on – treat it like it was a normal slope." It works – the bike bumps itself up the stairs as I cling on.
This is simple stuff for Aveling, who can chase a wrongdoer more or less anywhere. At 6ft 3in and 15 stone he is essentially your urban criminal's worst nightmare. Recently he pursued a pair of miscreants down a flight of steps into a Tube station. "They gave up when they saw I'd followed them," he says. "One of them told me, 'You're a nutter.'"
He and Notley then show me their method for tackling fugitives. With all the skidding about it's a bit like The Sweeney but with a mountain bike instead of a Ford Granada. Aveling demonstrates the various ways to deal with potentially violent ne'er do wells. The most dramatic involves propelling the bike forwards into them, handlebars first. This would hurt, given the weight of equipment the bikes carry in panniers.
Away from the excitement, Aveling stresses how difficult it can be when such training is mocked. Particularly damaging was a story in the Sun about a planned 93-page volume for training UK cycling police. The product of much effort, the mockery – including, I'm ashamed to say, also on this blog – led to it being dropped.
He points to the case of a police community support officer with no training who was killed by a skip truck on his first day of bike patrol in Wigan in 2007. "Police drivers get weeks of training, so do motorcyclists," says Aveling. "Why should the cyclists be different?" | {
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The Motley Fool Take
Published Saturday, May 30, 2009
'Say on Pay' Rejected
For all the complaining that we do about executive pay, it might come as a surprise that investors recently rejected two out of the three "say on pay" proposals at pharmaceutical companies' annual meetings. Shareholders at both Johnson & Johnson and Abbott Labs rejected the idea, and Pfizer's investors just barely passed the resolution.
Investors may have figured that the proposals, which give shareholders only an advisory role, don't have enough teeth. There are other ways to get shareholder opinions. Amgen and Prudential Financial have been gathering opinions online, for example, while other companies, such as Home Depot, have met with shareholders individually or in groups.
Of course, investors have always had a voice: their sell button. Don't like the pay that the board is bestowing on the CEO? Just sell and move on. Or vote out the board members. Remember, shareholders own the company, and the board is supposed to act on their behalf.
"Say on pay" sounds good, but an advisory role really isn't worth very much. It would be a good start for investors to be able to trust managements to increase shareholder value, and for boards to pay executives appropriately. If that's not occurring, however, it's sometimes best to move on.
(Home Depot and Pfizer are Motley Fool Inside Value recommendations and Johnson & Johnson is an Income Investor pick.) | {
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As reported today in The Scotsman, after spending six years behind bars for walking around Great Britain with no clothes on, 53 year-old Stephen Gough – known as the “Naked Rambler” – was released from prison in Perth, Scotland. Mr. Gough, who left the facility naked, vowed to continue his “vocation in life,” which involves not wearing clothing to demonstrate his non-conformity with social norms, and to prove that people are prejudice. To make his point, Gough has spent most of the past decade in prison, and much of it in solitary confinement.
In truth, Scouting’s “extensive research and evaluations” that were used to support its position provide a convenient smokescreen for the real reasons why the Boy Scouts will continue to ban gays from the organization.
In his 2004 book, Scout’s Honor: A Father’s Unlikely Foray Into the Woods, New York Times reporter Peter Applebome explains that religious organizations represent the largest number of chartering organizations of Boy Scout troops across the county, and at least two large religious sects have threatened to pull all of their charters (and ultimately put Scouting out of business) if the Boy Scouts of America do not maintain a hard line on gay membership. Additionally, many large corporations with non-discrimination policies have withdrawn funding as a result of Scouting’s ban on gays.
So…who is more deserving of our respect?
The loony, naked Scotsman who’s willing to give up his freedom to maintain his ideals.
or
The respected youth organization that’s willing to compromise its stated underlying values to ensure its own existence.
It’s time for Scouting to man-up; to refuse to be blackmailed by its chartering organizations and financial supporters, regardless of the consequences. Time for Scouting to determine its own future. Time for Scouting to walk the talk…with or without its uniform on. | {
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Empathy and Crystals
I have found certain crystal that have been beneficial to my empathy. They are Citrine and Breacceated Jasper. I am more partial to citrine since it never has to be cleaned but the breacceated jasper was recommended to me by someone at a shop in the spiritualist town of Cassadaga.
Properties of Citrine
This wonderful stone is associated with the Solar Plexus and it DISSIPATES all kinds of negative energies (clears the aura of negative energies and influences). The awesome thing about this stone is that it DOES NOT absorb any negative energy and therefore never has to be cleaned. Not only can it be used to clear negative energy for its environment but also family issues caused by negative issues are resolved and cleared by this little gem.
Citrine also relieves depression, anger and irrational mood swings. It is also good for dream recall and dream work and I can attest to that. When I place citrine under my pillow at night I have a much easier time recalling dreams but holding on to them longer after I awake.Despicable Me 3 2017 movie
Properties of Brecciated Jasper (also known as Brecceated and Bracciated Jasper)
If you want stone which will help to keep your feet solidly on the ground, promoted tranquility and wholeness then this is the stone for you. Although I need to look into it further I have also read that it is a dream inducer stone. I will have to actually test that to tell you if I think it is true however.
This form of jasper contains hematite and is the reason it has grounding properties. It is said to encourage empathy and communication with animals.
I hope this information was helpful. If you are an empath who have found a crystal to be helpful to you please post a comment so other can know as well. Thanxs! Smile!
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BANGKOK (AP) — Stock markets charged ahead Friday after President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, spoke by phone and reported progress in resolving trade tensions. Investors are looking ahead to U.S. jobs figures due later in the day.
KEEPING SCORE: The CAC 40 in France jumped 1.3 percent to 5,150 and Germany’s DAX advanced 1.5 percent to 11,637. Britain’s FTSE 100 rose 0.7 percent to 7,168. Futures augured a strong start on Wall Street, with the Dow future contract up 0.9 percent and that for the S&P 500 up 0.7 percent.
CHINA-US TRADE: U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that he spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping and that the two countries were making some progress in trade negotiations. He didn’t give details, but there have been few signs of movement in the trade dispute in recent months, and investors are getting nervous about the prospect of huge tariff increases. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman told reporters the discussion was quite positive and that the two leaders were optimistic about resolving the dispute over technology that has resulted in both sides imposing penalty tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of each other’s exports. Meanwhile, Chinese state media said Xi has promised tax cuts and other help to China’s entrepreneurs in a renewed effort to revive the cooling, state-dominated economy.
US JOBS: The momentum in the markets will likely depend on the U.S. jobs report, which is expected to show a healthy net increase of 190,000 workers to the economy. That would be just short of this year’s monthly average increase of 208,000 and leave the Federal Reserve on track to keep raising interest rates. It’s an open question whether the figures could influence voting in the U.S. midterm election next week, as polls suggest that while many Americans approve of the economy’s direction, that has not translated into greater support for Trump or Republican congressional candidates.
CURRENCIES: The dollar rose to 112.85 yen from 112.71 yen, while the euro gained to $1.1450 from $1.1408. The British pound was up to $1.3028 from $1.3004 amid hopes for progress in the Brexit talks.
ENERGY: Oil prices continued to weaken after the Department of Energy said U.S. crude stockpiles increased for the sixth straight week. Benchmark U.S. crude slipped 3 cents to $63.66 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It slumped 2.5 percent to $63.69 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, used to price international oils, was up 25 cents to $73.14 per barrel. It shed 2.9 percent Thursday to $72.89 a barrel in London. | {
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Taking a Step Ahead for Labor in Union-made Shoes
Two decades after a brush with prison turned his loud life into a quiet suburban existence, a former political crusader is suddenly muscling his way back into activism, albeit in a new arena: the sneaker business.
On May 1, “May Day,” Adam C. Neiman, 47, plans to strike a blow for union labor in the apparel industry by unloading his first shipment of “No Sweat” sneakers, a $35 high-top produced at one of the only unionized contracting shops in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Neiman and his partner (and now wife), Natalia Muina, founded No Sweat Apparel in 2002 with the goal of capitalizing on what they saw as a growing awareness of large clothing companies’ willingness to employ so-called sweatshop labor in manufacturing facilities abroad. Another co-founder was Jeffrey Ballinger, a former union organizer who wrote an expose of Nike’s allegedly abusive labor practices for Harper’s Magazine in 1992.
No Sweat’s lines offer a hip take on the old ad campaign that told consumers to “Look for the union label” by guaranteeing that all of its clothing is made in union shops. While its lines have all been produced in the United States or Canada until now, the move into Indonesia is important because it follows the route that much of America’s apparel industry has taken — out of the country and into the Far East, where work is cheaper and less closely regulated than it is domestically. Neiman believes that his company will capitalize on a growing consumer backlash against worker exploitation.
“What we’re producing is just as good as The Gap,” Neiman said over lunch at a Thai restaurant in Cambridge, Mass., where he struggled to find something that accommodated the Passover dietary laws (he is not Orthodox, but is Passover-observant). “We’ll never be as cheap as Target or Wal-Mart, but all things being equal, I believe that most consumers would prefer that the stuff they purchase be ethically produced. What CEOs do is what people want them to do as consumers. If consumers make the right choice, the CEOs will, too.”
Now No Sweat is taking a big step by going after the business that in the minds of many Americans represents the heart of sweatshop labor: athletic shoes. After two years of catalog sales of stock items like T-shirts and yoga pants, Neiman is anticipating the arrival of No Sweat Sneakers as a way of issuing his loudest cry for worker rights to date.
In each box of the shoes, which echo the famous “Chuck Taylor All Star” line of Converse lace-ups, workers have placed a “No Sweat Challenge,” a document listing the wages and benefits of the people who made the shoes that dares larger sneaker manufacturers to match them. According to Neiman, it also forges a bond between the company and its customers, most of whom are likely to be buying the sneakers because of what they themselves believe in.
While unions might not be the most popular groups in America right now, Neiman said, they are certainly more appealing than companies that exploit their workers. The decision to purchase clothing that represents a statement for workers’ rights is one that Neiman believes — and bets his economic future — that consumers will make, even if the clothes cost them a bit more. So far, it seems to be working: The company is projecting gross sales of $1 million this year, a target Neiman believes is a number that will legitimize it in the eyes of potential investors.
Of course, Neiman is fully aware that a small business like his could fail, and he’s made that clear to his customers since November with a message on his Web site (www.nosweatapparel.com) telling them that without new customers, No Sweat could be in jeopardy. “If there isn’t a significant number of progressives who are willing to put their money where their mouth is, yeah, we’ll go under,” he said.
Besides Neiman’s economic future, No Sweat is also a link to his activist past. A campaign operative so young he could have been regarded as a prodigy, Neiman worked full-time on George McGovern’s presidential run at a time when he should have been walking the halls of his high school. He had developed his political sensibilities at the feet of his uncle, Abraham Chayes, a Harvard Law professor who served under John F. Kennedy, and from a socialist grandmother who was an attorney at a time when most of the women working in law offices were either cleaning them or taking dictation.
Neiman chose to attend Harvard in the 1970s, he says, “because they got the most press when they shut the campus down.” But his promise as a liberal activist soon spiraled into a miasma of dismayed idealism, academic failure and a felony count of cocaine possession.
After a year at Harvard, Neiman took a leave of absence to work for the Carter campaign in 1975. But a split in the philosophy of the campaign staff caused him to become disillusioned with the political system, and lost in his academic life.
“I went there very much for politics, and once I dropped out of politics, I didn’t know what I was going to Harvard for anymore,” Neiman said. He left the school in 1979 without graduating, and it was his expired Harvard ID card that he presented to a Cambridge police officer upon his arrest three years later for possession of nearly two ounces of cocaine — enough for a felony count of possession with intent to distribute.
Neiman was sentenced to serve six months of a 30-month sentence, but with his attorney working on an appeal, managed to make bail after just a week of imprisonment. Although that appeal was ultimately denied in 1986, by then Neiman had gotten clean and started a successful business in the roofing trade. A judge suspended the prison time remaining from his first sentence, keeping him in business and out of prison. Life on the edge became life on the roof, and he turned his attention to raising his family in buttoned-down Newton, Mass.
Asked why he would decide to start a company like No Sweat after so many years of working as a quiet businessman, Neiman looks back at his family and the examples they set.
“I wanted to show my kids that it mattered what they did as ordinary people — that ordinary people would and could make a difference,” he said. “I started thinking about it a lot in 2000. My uncle was dying, and he was an ordinary man who’d done extraordinary things. My mother is the same. I believe in the ability of ordinary people to do extraordinary things, and I asked myself, how do I show it to my children?”
Neiman said he believes the variety of his experiences has afforded him an understanding about class in America that most CEOs lack, and that is what’s keeping him working to produce his clothes at union-only shops.
“My story is a story of someone who knows all the different elements of class in America well or better than anybody possibly could,” he said. “I’ve been to Harvard and I’ve been to jail. I’ve hitchhiked across America in the cab of a teamster and I’ve ridden in a limo with the next president of the United States. That knowledge of class I think matters a lot, and it’s both brought me to this project and brought a perspective to this project that’s a little different. I don’t have the ‘noblesse oblige’ of a rich liberal. I know that nobody is going to save working people other than working people themselves.” | {
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Entering a presidential election year, it’s likely more young viewers — who more often vote in presidential elections than midterms — will tune in to TV news, offering all three networks the opportunity to improve their youth numbers.
24 TV Newscasters Ranked by Popularity (Photos)
Scott Pelley, "CBS Evening News"
Q Score: 19
Anderson Cooper, "AC 360"
Q Score: 18
Lara Logan, "60 Minutes"
Q Score: 17
Brian Williams, "NBC Nightly News"
Q Score: 15
Chris Cuomo, "New Day"
Q Score: 15
Kate Bolduan, "New Day"
Q Score: 15
Diane Sawyer, "World News"
Q Score: 13
Ann Curry
Q Score: 13
Morley Safer, "60 Minutes"
Q Score: 13
Rachel Maddow, "The Rachel Maddow Show"
Q Score: 13
Tamron Hall, "News Nation"
Q Score: 13
Christiane Amanpour, "Amanpour"
Q Score: 12
Thomas Roberts, "MSNBC Live"
Q Score: 12
Michaela Pereira, "New Day"
Q Score: 12
Bill O'Reilly, "The O'Reilly Factor"
Q Score: 10
Piers Morgan, "Piers Morgan Live"
Q Score: 10
Nancy Grace, "Nancy Grace"
Q Score: 10
Sean Hannity, "Hannity"
Q Score: 10
Shephard Smith, "Shephard Smith Reporting"
Q Score: 10
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, "Sanjay Gupta MD"
Q Score: 9
Leslie Stahl, "60 Minutes"
Q Score: 9
Andrea Mitchell, "Andrea Mitchell Reports"
Q Score: 9
Alex Wagner, "Now"
Q Score: 8
Chris Matthews, "Hardball"
Q Score: 6
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Anderson Cooper, Lara Logan and Brian Williams are up there — but who ranks No. 1? | {
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I was in that boat with Husqvarna a few years back. It took so long for the TE250's to finally get here, I had gotten out of racing and didn't want it any more. Got my deposit back and just kept my 410
Does anyone want to buy a great starter home in Marion? Great garage space. It hasn't been broken into for over a year now. Latest attractions include a throat slitting at the annual Popcorn Fest downtown today, and about an hour ago I had a tweaker just about OD on Heroin in my backyard.
I work 2nd shift Luke. But if you have any time over the weekend I might take you up on that offer. I have all the tools we'd need. I actually did put the last rear tire on myself, but it took me about 5 hours. Much harder than on my old 20" stingray when I was a kid. I would like to get better at doing it myself so maybe a little tutoring from someone with experience would help. Plus from what I get from reading on here You're the size of an oak tree so that could help too. Planning the big Alaska trip next summer so being able to spoon one off and on in a reasonable time would be a good idea.
I keep looking for bikes in any of the driveways when I go past Broadgauge but so far I haven't seen any.
So if you do have any free time this weekend that would be great, but if you have things going on no biggie.
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Spoon schmoom come over to Frazeysburg and we'll be done in 5 minutes. Probably good to know how to do it yourself though.
Does anyone want to buy a great starter home in Marion? Great garage space. It hasn't been broken into for over a year now. Latest attractions include a throat slitting at the annual Popcorn Fest downtown today, and about an hour ago I had a tweaker just about OD on Heroin in my backyard.
A man found dead in a University District apartment this afternoon apparently was a burglar who broke out a window with his arm, then bled to death after he severed an artery, police said.
Columbus police were called to Apt. C at 119 Chittenden Ave. shortly before 2 p.m. by three Ohio State University roommates who had just returned back to their apartment after a long Labor Day weekend at home.
They came inside to find a man dead in the living room and blood everywhere.
By all accounts, it looks like a burglary, said Sgt. Steven Little of the Columbus police homicide squad.
Little said it appears the man severed an artery in his arm on glass after he broke out a window in the apartment with his fist.
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A man found dead in a University District apartment this afternoon apparently was a burglar who broke out a window with his arm, then bled to death after he severed an artery, police said.
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A couple bottles of H2O2 will clean that right up. I'm thinking Whitey's issue is worse because he has a house full of kids. I'd be looking into a bigger dog. Whitey I can hook you up with the doberman rescue I got butch from. Not all dobermans are as kid unfriendly as he is. | {
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