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Johannesburg, South Africa: MasterCard and Blue Label Telecoms Limited (Blue Label) today announced a partnership that will see 22,000 small traders and rural shops in South Africa equipped with Point of Sale (POS) devices, enabling them to accept card payments for the first time.
Blue Label currently provides thousands of POS terminals in South Africa, which are used predominantly to sell prepaid vouchers such as airtime and electricity and are identified by the BLU Approved branding. Servicing millions of customers in rural areas and under-served settlements, these BLU Approved traders have historically operated on a cash-only basis.
“Over and above the estimated 100,000 spaza[1] shops spread across South Africa, there are tens of thousands of small- and medium-sized retailers and service providers. Through our partnership with MasterCard, we will introduce many of these businesses to the safety, security, and convenience of electronic payments, enabling financial inclusion in communities where consumers have largely been unable to use formal payment products,” says Mark Levy, Joint CEO, Blue Label.
“While the number of South Africans with access to formal banking products has increased significantly in the last year, the number of card acceptance locations – especially in rural and peri-urban areas – has not grown in tandem,” says Philip Panaino, Division President, MasterCard, South Africa.
Blue Label will introduce innovative solutions to increase the number of MasterCard card acceptance locations in South African townships and informal settlements, with the intention of rolling out more than 15,000 new EMV-certified, contactless-ready POS terminals. These will allow traders to accept Chip and PIN and contactless payment cards for goods and services and to sell Blue Label’s prepaid vouchers using a single device.
Blue Label also plans to upgrade some 7,000 of its existing terminals used in smaller spaza stores using MasterCard Mobile software. The MasterCard Mobile payment platform will enable MasterCard cardholders to use their PIN-based debit, cheque or credit card issued by Standard Bank, Absa, Nedbank and the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and their mobile phone to pay for their purchases in-store at select BLU Approved merchants.
“This is the first time MasterCard Mobile is made available to consumers in the physical retail environment. This innovation is a cost-effective payment mechanism that doesn’t require customers to open another bank account,” explains Panaino.
Both of these payment solutions will assist merchants to reduce the amount of cash they currently handle, which can be unsafe and costly to process, increase sales, and improve cashflow. Merchants will also be able to offer cash-back and cash withdrawals to their customers, and provide them with the flexibility to pay the way they want to.
Cashless shopping provides many benefits to consumers, who will no longer have their shopping habits determined by whether or not they have cash in their wallets. They will also not be burdened by concerns related to safely carrying cash.
“These new solutions will enable our merchants to respond directly to their customers’ increasing and frequent requests to use payment cards at POS terminals to pay for their goods,” says Levy.
“Our collaboration with Blue Label is another step by MasterCard towards realising our vision of a world beyond cash by bringing new and innovative electronic payment solutions to a generation of customers who are mostly banked, but are currently underserved. Through the introduction of these solutions that respond directly to the needs of merchants, MasterCard and Blue Label aim to increase the level of penetration of electronic payments in South Africa, and help stimulate economic growth,” concludes Panaino.
Ann Cairns, President of International Markets, MasterCard (left), visited Love Ntuli Distributors, a small BLU Approved merchant in Soweto, South Africa, where she completed the first live, in-store MasterCard Mobile transaction with April Nkosi from Blue Label Telecoms Limited
Note to the Editor:Between March 2012 and July 2012, the SASSA Debit MasterCard card was cited as the main contributing factor to the 4% growth in the country’s banked population from 63% in 2011, to 67% in 2012 according to the FinScope South Africa 2012 survey. As at July 2012, 2.5 million SASSA MasterCard cards had been issued to grant recipients. Since then an additional 7.5 million cards have been issued to grant recipients which should further increase financial inclusion in South Africa.
About MasterCardMasterCard(NYSE: MA), www.mastercard.com,is a technology company in the global payments industry. We operate the world’s fastest payments processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. MasterCard’s products and solutions make everyday commerce activities – such as shopping, traveling, running a business and managing finances – easier, more secure and more efficient for everyone. Follow us on Twitter @MasterCardNewsand @MasterCardMEA, join the discussion on the Cashless Conversations Blog and subscribe for the latest news.
About Blue Label TelecomsListed on the JSE: BLU. Blue Label’s core business is the virtual distribution of secure electronic tokens of value, predominantly prepaid airtime and electricity, and transactional services across its global footprint of touch points. The Group’s stated strategy is to extend its global footprint of touch points, both organically and acquisitively, to fulfil the significant demand for the delivery of multiple prepaid products and services through a single distributor, across various delivery mechanisms and via numerous merchants or vendors. See: www.bluelabeltelecoms.co.za. | {
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When a retiree decides to take his retirement global, one of the first big questions he faces is: where? Not only will you need to choose the country that might be best for you, but also the type of housing you will reside in. You could choose a house, an apartment, or a gated community.
But your first question shouldn't be where to buy a retirement residence overseas. The initial question for a retirement buyer should be: Should you buy a retirement residence overseas at all?
If your overseas real estate agenda involves finding a place to live in retirement in a foreign country, maybe it's not a real estate purchase you want but a rental. There are many reasons to rent overseas. Perhaps most important, renting keeps you mobile and flexible.
Panama City is a good example, because, for such a small city, the diversity of lifestyle options is great, and neighborhoods just a mile or two away from each other make for dramatically different living experiences. Buying before giving yourself a chance to understand this can mean the difference between loving your new life overseas and regretting it.
In addition, depending on the country where you're retiring, the costs of buying and reselling property can be significant, meaning that buying in the wrong spot can be expensive. Plus, owning a home means carrying costs. There will be maintenance and repair expenses, plus homeowner's insurance, caretaking, and, in some places, property tax. Further, if you buy with financing, you'll also have to make, in much of the world, an investment in life insurance. Renting, you have none of these expenses. Only rent.
On the other hand, I can imagine circumstances when you might choose to ignore the "rent first" caveat and buy from the start of your retire overseas adventure. If you're retiring to a place where property values are appreciating, waiting a year before buying means you could be passing up healthy gains. Remember, the market dynamics that attracted you are attracting others, and early buyers enjoy the greatest rates of appreciation.
Buying real estate overseas is fundamentally about diversification. This is true whether you buy for investment or for retirement, and argues in favor of buying for retirement rather than renting. Buying a new retirement residence overseas means moving money out of the U.S. and putting it into another market and, potentially, another currency. Moving all your money out of the U.S. and into a new retirement residence overseas doesn't provide you the diversification you should be seeking right now. However, using some of your capital to purchase a retirement residence in the place where you want to live and putting other capital to work in another market (that perhaps uses a different currency) gets you not only diversification, but also what amounts to a rent-free retirement.
Another advantage of buying your retirement residence overseas rather than renting it is that it helps you to "take the plunge." It allows you to move your life forward, unequivocally, and embrace the new adventure. Many people who rent before they buy do so to be able to maintain a property back home, "just in case." While this can be sensible, it's also an anchor, a drag. It can divide your attention and keep you looking backward instead of ahead to your new life. Keeping one foot on the pier and the other on the departing boat can land you in the drink. You may remain only partially committed, which will be a handicap.
The bottom line for the retiree-buyer is to follow your instincts, not only with regards to what to buy overseas, but also when answering the question, should you buy at all? You know your motivations and preferences, and how well you've researched your chosen destination. You know your level of commitment, your level of readiness, and your tolerance for risk.
If you're buying real estate for personal use in retirement, you want to think about things like:
--How much space will you need? Do you want an apartment or a house? One bedroom or two? (You probably won't need more than two.) Two levels or only one? A guest room or even a guest house? Will you have guests often, for example? Will you want them to be able to stay with you, or would you prefer if they came and went from a hotel nearby?
--Do you want a front yard, a back garden, or a swimming pool? All of these things require care and maintenance.
--Do you want to be in the heart of downtown or out in the country?
--Do you want a turn-key, a renovation project, or something in-between?
--Do you like the idea of living in a gated community, or would you prefer a more integrated setting, such as a neighborhood where you could become part of the local community? This is a key consideration. Going local means you have to learn the local language (if you don't speak it already). Or perhaps you'd prefer to be off on your own with undeveloped acres between you and your nearest neighbor. In this type of rural setting you will need to build your own in-case-of-emergency infrastructure.
--Consider traffic patterns and transportation. Where you base yourself determines whether you'll need to invest in a car, which is an important budget consideration.
--Consider the convenience factor. How far is it to shopping, restaurants, nightlife, parking, and the nearest medical facility?
--Do you want a furnished home? You may have no choice but to buy unfurnished (unless you buy, say, from another expat who's interested in selling his place including all contents). Buying unfurnished means you'll need to purchase furniture locally or ship your household goods from home.
--What's your budget? This is the most practical guideline of all, of course. Be clear on your finances before you start shopping, and, if your budget is strict, don't be tempted to consider properties outside your price point. You'll only be disappointing yourself unnecessarily.
--Finally, ask yourself what kind of view you'd like from your bedroom window each morning. This can be an effective way to focus on something important that might otherwise be overlooked until it's too late.
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30 September 2008
Chao & Eero Jewel - Comma pendant - Chao-Hsien Kuo:"This Comma pendant belongs to our SIGNS collection, which was inspired by the use of emails and mobile phone messages. A comma is a little pause, such as in our busy everyday routine, it is precious to have a little break. The hand-textured surface gives this silver pendant an elegant and unique sheen. All Chao & Eero Jewel products are manufactured and hand-finished in Finland."
This seems like something that would be so simple, so sweet and so cheap. Uh, try 75 Euros, which is a BIT more than $75 if I know my exchange rates (which I admittedly don't).
Seeing as how I rarely leave the apartment, jewelry expenditures aren't really something I need. But it's fun to think and plot and list.
It was a long ride on the 6 up to 103rd and 5th. We had lunch at a tiny Mexican place that had semi-good food. Nothing to write home about though. And I spilled beans on my white shirt - typical Mari-ness. It should come out though.
The museum was good. Interesting special exhibit about New Yorkers and the presidential campaigns, and my favorite was the video about the history of New York - from the famous $24 real estate transaction with the Indians to the 9/11 changes and how the city is still changing. There was also a section about Broadway, and specifically all the Broadway shows that have been about New York (Barefoot in the Park, West Side Story, Rent, etc.)...
In the campaign exhibit they had cardboard cut outs of the campaigns - and Shawn wanted his picture with Hillary. So here's that:
I only chanced one (so no pic of me with Obama or McCain) - because w/o the flash the pictures were worthless and I wasn't sure if we were allowed to be photographing the exhibits. Meh.
This museum is also free admission with your City Sights NYC tour bus - so I guess if you're here you could go to this. But I think the art museums are a better use of time if one is only here for a short visit... Me, I've got the time.
27 September 2008
That’s right! Today is the day to get serious about playing. Yeah, I didn’t know either until I met up with Annie from KaBOOM! She let me in on the news that today is the Worldwide Day of Play. Here’s the news about it.
Much like with International Crochet Day a couple weeks ago, I didn't know this was going on until I stumbled across it in my usual RSS feed (Liz writes great social media stuff). Anyway, I read it AFTER I had, in fact, come home from playing. LITERALLY.
Shawn and I went to the NYU gym today and played HORSE, did a few passing drills and just shot basketballs for about an hour. It was good fun and we're both worn out - man it's been almost TEN YEARS since I was a high school athlete. Hrm. But whatever - world wide day of play was commemorated by us!
Next up - Smithsonian's Museum Day - we're going to the City Museum of NYC... More on that later.
24 September 2008
Edit - interesting note, on the 23rd of September the DVD of Sex and the City the Movie came out. The movie opened on our wedding day, 5-30-08. SO our marriage outlasted the box office run of SATC. Score one for us!!!
In the final year of the Bush administration, social conservatives have successfully pressured the Department of Health and Human Services to propose a rule that would ostensibly protect health care workers who object to performing abortion and sterilization procedures. The catch is that there are already federal laws in place that do just that. The regulation would instead open the door to denying patients access to all sorts of potentially controversial health care services.
There's more on this - probably could write a lot if I read more and understood more, but over all - it just scares me, and I can't exactly say why...
23 September 2008
"Researchers from the University of Georgia have found that the number of Facebook friends and wallposts that individuals have on their profile pages correlates with narcissism. In other words: How you behave online — with numerous yet shallow relationships — is often consistent with how you behave in real life."
First, this post from yesterday stuck with me - as in, "Bet you think this song is about you" catchy tune stuck with me.
I don't think about how I use Facebook too much - but I do know that I don't have a plethora of friends or contacts on that or MySpace or LinkedIn. But I do share items and update a bit on Facebook more than the others.
Social networks may be about the way you present yourself but it also is a wealth of information for a stalker-azzi type. I am NOSY and I admit it. I'll add people from my high school or whatever to find out what they're up to and feel connected, but also because I am interested in the details of what everyone is doing. It's a small-town mindset. Can I blame it on that?
19 September 2008
"In any case, here's something that super fab designer Stephen Reed showed us at 100% Design in London a couple months ago: Alphabetized paperclips. At first we were thinking: OK – and now what? But then when we started playing with them the genius dawned on us: Whether you want to organize certain things alphabetically or just want to prioritize – always a fun task - or turn your Moleskin into an alphabetized notebook. Or if you are into lists and want to have organized lists or if you just want to fool your fellow people and seem as if you are all organized. They are simply a lot of fun!"
Via MightyGoods, I think. At $25, these are technically do-able. Wonder if there's a way to come up with a DIY-paperclip project. Because I think I would just love to have a full set of M's and W's for my office organization needs, and you have to buy these in full sets...plus $25 is a LITTLE frivilous. Although I'm always looking for gift ideas for others, and I really need to get started on my Xmas shopping list. (Which is going to be extra hard this year given the fact that Shawn is SUCH a good budgeter and stays on me about spending...)
I already had this bookmarked so MAYBE I had already written a post about them. Who knows?!
"Do you ever get the feeling you have too much 'stuff'? Sometimes it just feels good to put a few things away for a little while. I'm the kind of person that has to be neat. I don't like seeing a mess, and I can't go to bed with a dirty dish in the sink or something lying on the floor. Lately my closet has been overcome with clutter. Each time I open the door I feel tired just looking at it all. I don't know where to begin. So yesterday I started putting a few things away and cleaning up the chaos. I think it really frees your mind as well, not thinking about the mess behind the door."
In preparation for my in-laws' visit this weekend, I went through my closet, drawers and bathroom shelves and purged-purged-purged. I do have most of my belongings packed up and stored - under the bed, in the top of the closets, back of cabinets and at my parents' house. But there is still always MORE I can be rid of. So, yesterday we walked four giant bags of clothes, purses, etc. to Salvation Army. Add that to the bag of trash I purged from outdated medicines, hair products and old socks...well I'm breathing a little lighter now. The process is ongoing, but I'm keeping my intake to a minimum to avoid getting back into the position of suffocating under STUFF.
OK, the pictures aren't as dastardly as I had hoped, and I think/hope/pray I've got them under control with twice-daily Claritin and night-time Benadryl (50 mg - or twice the "regular" dose). But here are the photos I've got, both of my right arm... I promise (and you can ask Shawn) they were MUCH grosser in person. (They look like mosquito bites and itch three times as much)
So I've been blogging since April 1998. I hand coded a self-journal and posted it on free Tripod space. I posted my teen-angst and had a few "Dreambook" comments ... I have decided to my first blog entry, written before I knew what blogging was. Too bad I didn't post in April, to mark my 10 year blog-a-versary. Too bad.
Oh to be seventeen and in lust. (Although 27 and in LOVE is so much better, I'm giddy just thinking about it):
TrianglesApril 9, 1998In geometry, we are learning to find the areas, angles, sides, etc. of triangles (as well as other figures, but I'm focusing on the "tri" today). I am also involved in a triangle in my everyday life too. It's a long, drawn out story...It is a b*tch and I'm struggling to make the best of it. My feelings have changed in the past few days about the whole thing, which consists basically of me, a guy, and his ex-girlfriend who I've known for like ever. He and she are still flirting, or whatever. We (the guy and me) have gone out a couple of times, but I don't lay any claim on him. It's just that they're both so hard to figure out! I wish someone would just explain to me what is going on and fix it...Either make me not care at all or have him choose me to like best. (Right now I'm in an obvious second place and falling fast) He and I are going to prom though. I don't want to be in a heavy relationship with him, I just want to hang out and basically be his friend...I'm ready for prom to be over. The planning is killing me and I never talk to the guy about it. I've seriously got to get some self confidence. Well, my fingers may fall off soon and I don't want to tell everything in a day. Believe me there is so much more to tell... I'll add updates about prom as they become available.
OK, I had to edit it a little. Who knew I was so OPEN as a 17 year old? Hrm. Anyone who knew me as a teenager would know to whom I'm referring in the Triangle. Throughout the posts I kept that year and through the last year of high school I gave them fake names (Ben and Cinderella I think). I think that's enough nostalgia though and I'll press forward
12 September 2008
When I wear clothes made from synthetic fabrics, I seem to get itchy and uncomfortable. Could I be allergic to them? —R.L., Chevy Chase, Md.
Yes. Synthetic materials such as acrylic, elastic, and polyester can cause redness and itching in susceptible people, and they also tend to trap moisture, which can add to the discomfort. But because laundry detergent can irritate the skin as well, the simplest first step is to try a mild detergent made for sensitive skin. If that doesn't help, a dermatologist can test to see if you're allergic to synthetic fabrics. If you are, avoid them in favor of natural fibers like cashmere, cotton, linen, or silk. For items where some elastic is unavoidable, such as bras and underwear, look for labels that say '100 percent cotton' and indicate that the elastic has a layer of cotton over it.
This article first appeared in the October 2008 issue of Consumer Reports On Health."
"International Crochet Day, Friday, September 12th 2008! How will you celebrate the day?"
Since I just found out about this day today, I can't imagine I'll change my plans... But I WILL continue work on my superfine thread crochet bedspread. I've got 2 squares down, and am about 1/4 through the third one... Too bad a full/queen size spread will take 20-24 squares total. But it's going to be so rewarding when it's done.
09 September 2008
"Crime TV has become a staple of the typical American viewer’s diet. From “Law & Order” and “CSI” — both of which come in three separate flavors — to “Criminal Minds,” “Cold Case” and “The Closer,” it’s hard to avoid the banquet of brutality offered up each week, each day or even each hour if you happen to have cable.
But a new study published in the Journal of Consumer Research may give viewers pause about all the death they’re routinely letting into their living rooms. Apparently, must-bleed-TV may just make you eat and shop more."
Oh man, hilariously funny study... That I'm writing about while watching Law & Order (original flava) and contemplating dinner.
"Google Chrome's 'Incognito Mode' isn't just great for hiding your sultry late night browsing habits, it can also keep you logged into the same webapp as a different user than your main window, like two Gmail accounts."
This could be just what I'm looking for, as I have my personal Gmail and two work Google accounts (long story)... Question: can I have TWO incognito windows? Separate windows equals the same clutter as having 3 separate browsers open (now I've got Firefox for myself, Explorer for main work one and Safari for secondary work one)...
"NEW YORK: Scholastic will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first book in J.K. Rowling's popular series, by hosting a fan read-thon September 23. On 'Harry Potter Cover to Cover Day,' muggles of all ages will have a chance to sit in the throne used by Rowling in her US appearances and read from the book."
I could probably read the first book cover to cover in one day (I read the last one cover to cover in one day - what a day that was!), but I didn't like the first book so much. I wonder if I could get my HP-look-alike husband to read one of the books to mark the 10th Anniversary... Or not.
"Are you unhappy? Bloated? Is it hard to concentrate? Do you have food cravings? Breast tenderness?
If you read the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association, you will find your symptoms listed under 'premenstrual dysphoric disorder' (PMDD). In other words, because of those symptoms, a therapist or doctor could label you as having a mental disorder.
The DSM is the bible of psychiatric diagnosis, used by nearly every hospital, clinic, doctor and insurance company, as well as Medicare and Medicaid. Since PMDD first was mentioned in the DSM in 1987, people have received the mistaken impression that it's real and that it's a mental illness. With the manual's fifth edition currently in preparation, that notion seems likely to be strengthened rather than discouraged."
I don't go seeking these things out - they just come to me via work blogs and self blogs and RSS feeds and tweets and all the good stuff I soak in during a typical day.
07 September 2008
Went to church - the new interim pastor started, WONDERFUL sermon "It's All About Love."
Itching/hives/whatever they are much worse, and itching like mad during the service. Praying during communion and realized that God could take this away from me, could take my back pain away ... read a little bit of Job - just because I'm hurting doesn't mean God wants me to hurt. Praying for him to take it away or show me how to get rid of it.
Walk to Walgreen's next to the church, thinking I'll get some more anti-itch cream and maybe some Ace bandages to wrap my arms in to keep myself from itching...
Look across the street and see the Duane Reade - and the sign that says "Walk In Clinic, open 7 days a week"
Cross street, go in, am the only patient.
Fill out forms, answer questions, see doctor within 20 minutes.
Stump doctor - he doesn't know what this could be any more than Shawn or I do.
Doctor writes me 4 prescrips - a cream, an antibiotic because the itching caused "cellulitis" (?) and a steroid to take temporarily to reduce swelling (?) - also wrote a scrip for Benadryl ... which my insurance didn't cover so the pharmacist just told me to buy it over the counter.
Itching still but the bumps are down - instead of puffy and red, just red. Painful regardless, and I just took the two Benadryl and will likely be passed out within the hour - but maybe it will help the itching more than the one Benadryl I took for two nights in a row - then woke up at 6 AM itching - maybe I will sleep through the night then wake up and start the pill cycle (minus Benadryl).
04 September 2008
A fabulous new contemporary tree den for kids (and big kids!) which is treehouse, trampoline and hideaway all in one. Suspended from a tree the treepee is big enough for little ones to stand up inside plus they can zip themselves in and out or use as an aerial bouncy castle and even a swing.
Yeah, but it's over $400. So he'll have to stick to blanket forts for now I'm guessing!
This boxed set contains 40 cards and 42 envelopes. Each card is imprinted with an icon; text inside the card states the occasion. For the person who likes to stay in touch, we can't imagine a more thoughtful gift.
Too bad they're out of stock... But there are many other cute things on this site... wish I could be notified when it came back IN stock. I swear I spent more than $60 per year on cards, and usually they aren't as nice as these are...
For Meg Ryan’s turn in The Women, she got a mop of curls to reflect her messy life. Glenn Close had them in Fatal Attraction; Anne Hathaway shed them to be a princess. But isn’t it time for Hollywood to realize that wavy doesn’t equal crazy?"
To the left is a photo of Shawn and me at Jamie's wedding last month - my hair crazy curly. Earrings: H&M, Sweater: Target; Dress: Dressbarn. Shawn's tie: Kohl's.
Reminds me of the b/w photo I have, now in our bathroom, that my mom took when she was in her 20s. So simple but great curves. I love the color of this one - and the discoloration on the faucet itself.
"In Manhattan, he suggested, Target would be a logical successor to the retail space currently occupied by the aging Kmarts at Pennsylvania Station and Astor Place, near New York University.
“You could imagine most of the N.Y.U. dorms being outfitted from that store,” Mr. Dreher said."
Oh if only this could be true... Most of the article is about pop up "bodegas" Target is going to open as part of fashion week (didn't that just happen? my how time flies), but the "bodegas" will only carry clothes - and probably a limited supply of sizes, if I know my stuff (which I probably don't).
01 September 2008
"'I have heard some of the news on this and so let me be as clear as possible. I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people's families are off limits, and people's children are especially off limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics, it has no relevance to governor Palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18. And how family deals with issues and teenage children that shouldn't be the topic of our politics and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that is off limits.'—Democratic nominee Barack Obama, on GOP veep nominee Sarah Palin's daughter's pregnancy."
There's so much going on with this... I just am ready for the outcome.
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I am a mom living with my husband and daughters in Baton Rouge, LA. I am a freelance communications specialist. Originally from Oklahoma, I have degrees in journalism from Oklahoma State University (bachelor's) and the University of Maryland (master's). I have lived and worked in Alexandria, VA, and New York. AMLBO! | {
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FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — JAN 23, 2013 – Editor’s note: during each election season, the News-Ledger invites every candidate to a sit-down interview to cover public issues in some depth. West Sacramento voters face a special all-mail election on March 5, when they will choose from among five people competing to fill one vacancy [...]
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER – West Sacramento voters will choose a new school board member at a special election on March 5. Last day to register to vote in time for the Washington Unified School District race is Feb. 19. You must be 18, a County of Yolo resident at least 15 days before the resident, [...]
FROM THE NEWS-LEDGER — JAN 16, 2013 – On the News-Ledger’s “Facebook” internet page this week, we invited comments to last week’s newspaper editorial. The editorial (we’ve provided a link below) contrasted the way Washington Unified School District and Sacramento City Unified School District each handled the appointment of a new school board [...]
NEWS-LEDGER — JAN 9, 2013 – Former board member David Westin and temporary member Elizabeth Bagdazian are not among the candidates – By Steve Marschke News-Ledger Editor Five candidates have signed up for West Sacramento’s special school board election on March 5. The all-mail ballot will ask voters to pick one person to fill the [...]
EDITORIAL from the News-Ledger — JAN 9, 2013 – In March, West Sacramento residents will vote in a special election to fill a vacant seat on the local school board. The vacancy was already filled once – last fall, when remaining school board members accepted applications and chose West Sacramento’s Liz Bagdazian to fill the [...]
BREAKING NEWS — NEWS-LEDGER ONLINE — Nov 19, 2012 – By Steve Marschke News-Ledger Editor The Yolo County Elections Department has made it through the final 3,000-or-so West Sacramento ballots cast in the November 6 election. The count left local results little changed from the early totals released last week. As elections officials began counting [...]
Interesting. I always see people fishing these two ponds. Anyone have any idea what they are fishing for? It’s near my house and I’ve always thought about walking over and throwing my line in but I don’t know what’s in there. […] | {
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Snoop Dogg Will Be Honored With a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star
Snoop Dogg finally will be awarded his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The legendary rapper and actor will be presented his star on Monday, Nov. 19, by late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel. President and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Leron Gubler, Dr. Dre, and Quincy Jones will accompany Kimmel during the dedication ceremony.
Producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame and radio host Angie Martinez said in statement: “Snoop Dogg is one of those people who can do anything. He raps, he acts, he hosts a television show, he cooks, and helps community kids with his philanthropic work. He is a man of the ages and we welcome him to our Hollywood Walk of Fame.”
Snoop’s award is well-deserved, being that he is definitely a jack-of-all-trades. Last month he dropped his own cookbook, “From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes From Tha Boss Dogg’s Kitchen.” In March the West Coast rapper displayed his musical versatility with the release of his gospel album “Bible of Love.” His collaborators included many of gospel’s biggest names, such as Fred Hammond, John P. Kee, Marvin Sapp and The Clark Sisters, and the album topped the Billboard gospel chart for seven weeks.
He will be awarded his star on Nov. 19 at 11:30 p.m. in a live stream on WalkofFame.com. | {
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A part of the Open Smart Grid Platform community will be present at FOSDEM 2017. FOSDEM is the biggest open source conference in Europe with thousands of open source enthusiasts. FOSDEM takes place 4 & 5 February 2017 in Brussels. Drop by if you like to know more about us or the Open Smart Grid Platform and other open source technologies. We will participate in 2 events:
Jonas van de Bogaard will give an (introduction) talk to the Open Smart Grid Platform. The Talk will include an demo of the open smart grid platform. | {
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State Plans To Begin Paying For Website Helping Ex-Inmates
Arkansas Community Correction officials plan to continue operating an online portal that assists ex-convicts in their transition back to society. On Wednesday the state Board of Corrections approved a $50,000 contract for maintenance and upgrades to the Good Grid, a social media-like website. It allows former inmates to upload and build resumes and set up profiles accessible to prospective employers.
Non-profits and charities assisting the formerly incarcerated also set up accounts on the site to list their resources. Kevin Murphy, the chief deputy director of the Department of Community Correction, says the service has been a way to connect various entities trying to solve issues relating to life after incarceration.
“This is a community issue. It’s a community problem,” says Murphy. “The state can’t be the solution. We’ve got to get communities involved. And there’s other efforts going on, kind of on the parameters of the Good Grid, where we’re trying to pull the communities together and then the Good Grid [can] be one of the components of that community coalition.”
Little Rock-based software company Protech Solutions, Inc. developed the Good Grid. The company invested $19 million in the program, according to the ACC. For the last year and a half, Protech has operated the site free of charge to the department.
“Whenever Protech was developing Good Grid, they built it off of a social network paradigm, which many people are familiar with, such as Facebook. So usability-wise, there’s not a lot of usability issues that we run into and a lot of people really like the ability to post a job opportunity or an event to a social network that’s also social impact-minded,” Sims says.
Sims says about 1,300 community partners have active accounts. She says at least 100 former inmates have obtained employment through the Good Grid. That number, however, does not count others who may have used the program without guidance from the department.
Murphy says there are likely “hundreds and hundreds” who have found employment through the site.
“The Good Grid is designed where the inmate or the parolee can go in and look at the job openings and either take that and go and manually apply or apply through the Good Grid and then get set up for the interview and we’d never know about it, which is fine as long as they were able to get employment,” he says.
Arkansas Community Correction supervises the state’s population of parolees and probationers. At the end of the 2016 Fiscal Year, about 54,000 people were on parole and probation in the state. The department also oversees incarcerated people who are approaching their release date.
Murphy says inmates who face release within 24 months are directed to upload resumes and set up accounts on the Good Grid.
Murphy says it has been “a struggle” to keep some community partners active on the site because some of them are “small mom and pop operations and they come and go.” He says there are roughly 15,000 inactive accounts belonging to people in the community who signed up as service providers for the ex-offenders.
“Other states have little systems, little portals, but no state has anything close to this,” Tyler says. “Probably at some point, I’m willing to bet that other states will have this system. It’s that big. It’s that inclusive and comprehensive that it will make reentry easier. It will.”
Murphy says the state Office of Procurement and the Department of Finance and Administration still have to approve the $50,000 contract for operating the Good Grid.
They sit in rows, 150 closely shaven men in yellow uniforms and white identification badges, before opposing walls, in a cinder-block walled gymnasium.
A selected group of four sit in plastic chairs forming a circle before their co-residents. Two stand up and shake hands, and the others say, “Squash it!” and clap.
These residents at Little Rock’s all-male Community Corrections Center have a daily ritual, a conflict resolution practice, meant to teach them interpersonal skills before they return to the real world.
The non-profit Winrock International, which promotes economic development in impoverished areas around the globe, announced on Wednesday that it will take under its umbrella the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub.
A Springdale-based charity is the only entity in Arkansas approved to help resettle Syrian refugees who may qualify under the Obama administration's recent plans to take in an additional 10,000 people fleeing the Middle East conflict. The Springdale branch of Catholic Immigration Services is among some 180 other processing centers around the U.S. on a list compiled by the U.S. State Department.
Before 28-year old Timothy King was convicted of second degree murder in 2009, he says he spent the majority of his time running with the wrong people.
“There was a night at this one party where a guy was cutting himself and trying to throw blood on people and I asked him to leave and he wasn’t happy about it. And from that point on, the next few nights he was openly threatening people and my wife at the time.”
King says the threats escalated, leading him and a friend to send a violent message. | {
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Get Information About Car Title Loans
At some point, everyone is going to run into some kind of money problems. When that happens, you need to find a way to get some help. There are a lot of ways that you can do that. One way is car title loans. These are short term loans that you use your car title as collateral for a car title loan. Generally they are for 30 days, although they can be longer.
Applying for auto title loans is easy. You can go right online to do it. You can either do the full application online, or you can print out the application and fill it out that way. Once you have filled out the online application, you need to send them a current bank statement. The loan company is going to need the bank statement so that they can send the money to your bank through automatic deposit. You can either email or fax that information to them. After that, you will need to contact the loan company that you are using. They will need to send you some paperwork, and arrange for an inspector to come out and look at your car to make sure that it is what you say it is. You won't need to be present for that, you just have to make sure that your car is available.
Once you have gone through the application process, and all your paperwork has been turned in, then you should get your money deposited right into your bank account. It will happen either that day, or the next day, depending on when the process is finished.
When it comes to paying back your auto title loan responsibly you have some options. You can pay it all back on time. That is called buyback. You pay all of the loan, fees and interest back, and you get your title back when the money clears their account. You can choose to refinance if you need to. If you choose to do that, you will have to pay a certain minimum amount, plus interest and fees. You can also choose to use something called buy down. That is when you want to refinance, but you want to pay more than minimum, but not entirely pay the loan back in full. If you aren't sure which option you should go with, then you should get into contact with your loan company. They can help you figure out which option you should use, based on what is going on in your life.
If you want to get one of these car title loans, you should do a little research first. You should check around and see which company offers the best fees and interest rates. You should also check with friends and family members to see if they have used one of these companies. They can tell you what they liked and didn't like about the company they used. You can also search them through a search engine. That will let you find out if that loan company is a scam or not. | {
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Lundy trial told of vineyard venture
Murder accused Mark Lundy repeatedly spoke of a British investor whose £500,000 investment would save his vineyard; the would-be investor was thinking more along the lines of £3000, she told the High Court in Wellington yesterday.
Mr Lundy, 56, has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife and daughter, Christine and Amber Lundy, whose bodies were found in their Palmerston North home on 30 August 2000. His retrial, before Justice Simon France and a jury of seven men and five women, is in its second week.
Mark Lundy Photo: RNZ / Alexander Robertson
The Crown contends he killed his wife for her insurance money, and his daughter because she saw what he was doing to her mother.
Main points from day six:
Mark Lundy given until 30 August to settle on land he had bought for a vineyard or pay $100,000 in penalty interest. The bodies of his wife and daughter were found that day.
The Lundys' Salu Vino vineyard venture needed to raise $2.8 million through shares and mortgage bonds within four months of its prospectus being issued to proceed; it attracted just $108,500.
A investor in England Mr Lundy had been pinning his hopes was looking to invest at a level of about £3000 - not the £500,000 he was hoping for.
Mr Lundy had a "stress attack" over financial strains a few weeks before his wife and daughter were killed.
Life insurance agent Bruce Parson recommended the Lundys increase their life insurance from $200,000 to $1 million but they could not afford the premiums, so opted for $500,000. However, the policy document had not yet been issued so the old rate of $200,000 applied.
A New Zealand woman who lived in Britain in 2000 yesterday said a family friend told her of a proposed vineyard looking for investors - the Lundys' Salu Vino venture.
She expressed interest in seeing a prospectus.
"I enjoyed wine and I was interested in seeing what the proposal was about," the woman, who has name suppression, said.
She was "mostly interested in the free cases of wine" offered on the investment, and was looking to invest about £3000.
Instead she received an email directly from Mr Lundy outlining what the return would be on £526,000 - the amount he believed she had to invest.
Mr Lundy said for that investment, which converted to $NZ1,750,000 at the time, she could expect a 15 percent return plus 500 cases of wine free and 2500 at cost.
The woman said she simply turned off the computer as the proposal was so far removed from her reality she did not even know how to respond to it. She did not have that sort of money, or know anyone who did - then or now, she said.
The court was earlier told Mr Lundy signed up to buy 44 hectares of land to set up a vineyard, with the contract due to go unconditional before he had secured finance.
The land comprised two parcels, one owned by Chris Morrison, who wanted $700,000, and the other by Doug Twigg, who wanted $1.3 million.
Landowner and vineyard/orchard contractor Michael Porter put the deal together and Mr Porter told the court Mr Lundy missed the first settlement date in March, and then subsequent dates.
Mr Morrison told Mr Porter in July he had another buyer and that Mr Lundy was to be given until 30 August to pay up; if he did not he would face a $100,000 penalty interest bill, as well as losing the land.
Mr Porter told Mr Lundy in July of the impending deadline, and then rung him again on 28 August - two days before it.
"That was when he said that 'if you do this, you realise you're going to send me bankrupt'," Mr Porter said.
"He was quite short with his words. He wasn't like he had been before."
However, Mr Lundy remained optimistic he had an investor and asked for a bit more time.
Mr Morrison said he spoke to Mr Lundy in July about the continued settlement delays.
"He was still very positive. He was apologetic about the delays," he said.
Mr Lundy told Mr Morrison the delays were caused by documentation issues, and that he believed the only problem would be an excess of investors; in fact, only about $108,500 of the minimum $2.8 million needed for the venture to proceed was raised.
The trial continues.
* Clarification - For the avoidance of doubt, please note that Radio New Zealand reporter Sharon Lundy is no relation to Mark Lundy. | {
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“You may then, boldly declare the highest good is singleness of mind: for where agreement and unity are, there must be virtues: it is the vices that are at war with one another.” – Seneca
A problem or task so consuming that while we are working at it the rest of the world fades from view. Those moments in life where we look up from what we have been doing and realize that a hours have passed without our realizing it.
Modern day philosophers, sociologists, and self help types call this feeling “flow” and it’s a good term for it. That rapt attentive feeling that pulls us in and holds us on task longer than any other task would be able to.
Not all tasks that lead to “flow” are productive but they do all share similar traits. The most important one seems to be immediate feedback about progress. This is likely why very difficult and slowly achieved goals are so rarely actually achieved.
We can hack this system by changing the feedback. Instead of focusing only on the long term goal, we can break the task down into smaller bite sized achievements. First we have to determine what the long term task is and that is fits with our goal of becoming better people. Then we find the smallest way possible to measure that we are making progress or sticking with that path.
If we do this, at the end of everyday we can look back and see how far we have come. Everyday. This will keep our minds focused on the goal.
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“A friend loves you, of course; but one who loves you is not in every case your friend. Friendship. accordingly; is always helpful, but sometimes love does one harm.” – Seneca The most important quality we need to develop, nurture, and perfect to get the most out of the path we are on is discipline. … Continue reading December 26
“Hence it is that the larger part of goodness is the will to become good.” – Seneca There is a saying that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Beginning is often the hardest part of any project. The more significant the project, the more difficult it can be to determine … Continue reading December 25 | {
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My Summer Trip on a 30-hp Time Machine
Nate Chisholm was one of three teachers who accompanied Steve Newton on the NCSE Grand Canyon rafting trip. This is a blog post about his experiences.
For a week this summer I was privileged to be given a seat on a time machine measuring less than twelve meters long and powered by a small outboard motor. We began our journey at Lee’s Ferry, Arizona, and over eight days traveled back in time roughly 1.5 billion years to a time when multicellular life did not exist on this planet. Of course, I am referring to the annual Grand Canyon river trip sponsored by the National Center for Science Education! This trip was dedicated to the examination of the geological, paleontological, and archaeological evidence found in the canyon, as well as being a fun adventure the entire time. Living in the canyon for over a week revealed an abundance of science, but also a smattering of history, both of which I love immensely. This trip will influence my teaching for the rest of my career!
Gazing up at the beautiful Milky Way as we slept on the sand each night, we were reminded of our minute size in an immense galaxy. Then every day, as we encountered progressively older rock formations, we were reminded of our tiny span of existence within the larger picture of geologic time. We experienced places sacred to many Native American tribes, such as the blue waters of Havasu Canyon and the confluence of the Little Colorado River and the Colorado River. Today, the confluence is also sacred to the endangered humpback chubs whose population has dwindled into these tributaries where they can still survive. We met teams of researchers trapping these fish, implanting microchips in them to better track and understand their population dynamics. Time will tell if these organisms vanish from the earth due to the difficulties our species has wrought upon their existence in the Colorado River. Over the course of the entire trip, we soaked in (literally!) as much possible adventure with each rapid and side canyon we experienced while inside the depths of the Grand Canyon.
We were not the first to relish the experience of living in the Canyon. In fact I enjoyed the human history revealed within the Grand Canyon almost as much as the geological history. We saw an ancient bridge, pottery sherds, storage granaries, and foundations of dwellings made by ancestral Puebloan cultures roughly a millennium ago. These people’s migration from this region, probably due to an inability or unwillingness to adapt to climate changes, remind us that our descendants may someday evaluate our strategies to cope with or mitigate the anthropogenic climate change of today.
We saw exploratory drilling sites and remnants of the camp and tramway at the proposed Marble Canyon dam site, which, if not opposed just a few decades ago by groups of citizens such as the Sierra Club, would have flooded the first day and a half’s worth of river that we traveled. We saw debris left over from a 1957 flood, high above the current flow, testament to how much more powerful the Colorado River was before the Glen Canyon Dam was built.
But most importantly, we witnessed science firsthand! Before we even touched the frigid water of the river, we saw two California condors, back from the brink of extinction. Then over the next few days, we saw evidence of much earlier species that ultimately succumbed to the opposite fate, such as crinoids and Permian reptiles (ancestors of the dinosaurs), as well as orthocone nautiloids. The details in these fossils were spectacularly preserved, not destroyed in a global flood soon after deposition. We saw terrestrial river channels of Devonian age incised into limestone rocks formed in shallow seas, and in time overlaid by younger limestone, another piece of evidence for an ancient earth undergoing climatic changes as oceans recede and advance. We saw characteristic life forms in each progressively older rock layer until there were no fossils recognizable to the unaided eye because multicellular life had not evolved yet. By this time we were surrounded by ancient igneous and metamorphic rocks such as the Vishnu schist and Zoroaster granite. At a few places in the canyon, the Great Unconformity is visible, a gap of 1.2 billion years not deposited or eroded away from the sequence of rocks. We were privileged to stop and place our hands on either side of this gap in time after a short hike up Blacktail Canyon. In more recent times, lava flows have plugged the canyon until the river can erode a new path around or through the resulting basalt. In these places we could see the former path of the river, preserved by dark basalt within lighter rock, and of course the current path of the river, on which we were floating.
This trip provided an ideal combination of history, science, and adventure that I can take back to my classroom in Colorado. I can describe to my environmental science students more fully the environmental impacts that dams have on riparian ecosystems. I plan to have my biology students analyze the depositional environments that each of the Grand Canyon’s distinctive layers formed in, so that they can see the evidence for these changes in climate over millions of years of the Earth’s history, not within the span of one year of global flooding. I am humbled and grateful for this opportunity to represent so many skilled and qualified science teachers on this voyage of discovery within the Grand Canyon and will do my best to make the experience come alive for my students as well. | {
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SAARC WOMAN ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR AWARD
The SAARC Woman Entrepreneur of the Year award was conceived to inspire the next generation of women in power. Identifying and honouring women who possess vision, innovation, entrepreneurial drive, leadership, individuality and tenacity with the ultimate goal to present role models for other women to aspire. Each SAARC country will nominate the Country’s Woman Entrepreneur of the Year – 2018 which will culminate in an event where the SAARC Woman Entrepreneur will be selected.
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Note : As requested by applicants the deadline has been extended to 31st December 2018. We encourage all to submit on or before the extended deadline
WELCOME TO WCICThe Women’s Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Sri Lanka (WCIC) was initiated in 1985 by a group of visionaries - women who were successfully running their own businesses and a few professionals. Their main objective being to incorporate women entrepreneurs into the mainstream of business activity in the country and now we have a membership of about 200 and growing.
It is known to be that WCIC was in fact the first women-only trade chamber to be set up in Sri Lanka and the first in the world.
The Founder Chairperson was Chloe de Soysa. The original founder members whose financial contribution as membership fee enabled the WCIC to set up fund which was then supported by Asia Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The WCIC’s priorities is to harness our members’ economic power in the country gaining recognition and improving their lives while stimulating the socio-economic growth.
In its history, WCIC has to its credit many innovative projects such as the Agromart Foundation, Training Course for Women Migrant Workers, Poverty Alleviation Through Entrepreneurship Development, SAARC Chamber Women Entrepreneur Council, and the most recent South Asian Women’s Economic Network which links leading women’s organizations in South Asia, the Women’s Entrepreneur Awards, the launch of the first Commonwealth Women’s Entrepreneur Awards, Capacity Building Workshops, Financial Literary Programs, Women in Business Trade Fairs, Business English, Business Delegations, Empowering War Widows through Chick Farming , Micro Credit Projects, Empowering differently-abled women through training in beauty culture among several more.
The 32nd Annual General Meeting of WCIC was held on 28th Sep 2017
"The Annual General Meeting of Women’s Chamber of Industry and Commerce was held at Galadari Hotel In Colombo on Friday 28. Prof. Maithree Wickramasinghe was the chief guest. The new Board was elected on the occasion. Mrs. Chathuri Ranasinghe was elected as the new Chairperson...
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Miss Intercontinental Sri Lanka 2017 Mentorship Program "Discover the Entrepreneur in you" Women’s Chamber of Industry & Commerce collaborates with the Miss Intercontinental pageant to mentor the title holder and the first and second runners up for the year of their reign.
Charitha Abeyratne Hettiarachchi Charitha is the visionary Founder and CEO of Saraii Village www.saraiivillage.com, which is a Sustainable Tourism brand that showcases off the beaten path experiences to smart global travellers. She’s a Fulbright Scholar and a Presidential Scholar at Colorado State University, USA and has an MBA in Global Social Sustainable Enterprise. Read More | {
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American Rapper Kevin Gates Sentenced To Six Months In Jail
Gates was arrested after he kicked a female fan in the chest after she tugged at his shorts during a performance at a club in Lakeland, Florida in 2015.
The I Don’t Get Tired singer was slapped with 6 months in jail after being found guilty of battery.
According to Pitchfork news, Gates claimed that he kicked 18-year old Miranda Dixon in self-defence after she grabbed his legs multiple times.
The jury, made up of six women, didn’t buy it and found Gates guilty. The judge wasn’t on Gates’ side, either, and rejected the state’s request for 60 days in jail, with one year of probation and mandatory anger management classes, opting instead to triple the sentence. | {
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New Belgium Brewing Taps Craft Malters for RyePA Revival
Can we get an “Amen!”? Two years after its initial release, New Belgium Brewing’s RyePA is coming back with a nod to the brewer’s dual hometowns in Colorado and North Carolina. Originally brewed with Carolina Rye™, heirloom rye grown in North Carolina and floor malted by Riverbend Malt House in Asheville, RyePA revival also incorporates rye from Colorado Malting, a fourth-generation family farm in Alamosa, CO. The hoppy Rye IPA is available in New Belgium Folly Packs nationwide through May.
“As we open our east coast home in Asheville this spring, making a beer with roots in both homes led us right back to RyePA,” said New Belgium Brewer, Matty Gilliland. “Using malt from Riverbend and Colorado Malting allowed us to source hyper locally, brewing some essence of both places into the beer and growing our existing relationships with awesome craft partners.”
This beer is brimming with big hop flavors. Galaxy, Cascade, Simcoe and Mosaic hops round out the hop profile. Blackcurrant and tropical fruits compliment grassy herbs in the nose, while a sweet-bitter-sweet taste voyage and 6.6% ABV make this a very drinkable beer. Big, juicy, fruity hop flavors are complemented by a spicy rye finish. The bold, spicy RyePA sings with a bowl of jambalaya, a spicy meatball sandwich or a hot masala. Mexican brownie anyone? Hallelujah!
New Belgium brewers and Riverbend co-founders first developed a Rye Saison using Riverbend’s Carolina Rye Malt for Asheville Beer Week 2013. The brewers were so pleased with the beer, they decided to use the Carolina Rye™ in RyePA in 2014 and now again in the 30% rye malt profile in the RyePA revival.
Riverbend and Colorado Malting co-founders met at the Craft Brewers Conference in 2014 and then again at the Craft Malt Guild in Denver. The craft malters have admired each other’s work over the years and this is the first time they know of that their grain has been brewed into the same beer.
“Having been grown by farmers in North Carolina for more than 200 years and hand-crafted utilizing traditional floor malting techniques, the Carolina Rye™ malt embodies the terroir of the southeast,” said Riverbend co-founder Brian Simpson. “Riverbend Malt House is excited that New Belgium will bring this taste of the South to so many new palates.”
As pioneers in the malting industry, both Riverbend and Colorado Malting have unique processes and regionally specific grain varietals. Serving as the missing link between farmers and the brewing industry, Riverbend uses a traditional artisan floor malting technique dating back to the 1700s. Each batch of their heirloom rye is raked by hand to release heat and incorporate fresh air into the grain bed.
Operating from their fourth-generation family farm in Alamosa, CO, the Cody brothers designed and built their malting equipment and run their operation from what used to be their grandparent’s home. From the field to the glass, Colorado Malting is taking beer back to its roots so brewers can make the best beer in the world.
“We grow it and malt it, so we see it from the time it sprouts to the malt bed,” said Jason Cody, Colorado Malting Company. “The grains are like children to us,” said Joshua Cody.
In addition to brewing a great beer, the partners are aligned in shared truths, including conducting business as if people and place matter. As a B Corp, New Belgium looks to align with purpose-driven businesses whenever possible. Both Riverbend and Colorado Malting operate with care and consideration to their communities and the land.
ABOUT RIVERBEND MALT HOUSE | Malt with a Mission
Founded in 2010, Riverbend Malt House is the only production scale malting facility in the southeast United States. Riverbend’s mission is to provide area craft brewers and distillers with locally farmed, artisan malts, helping to reduce the industry’s impact on the planet. As a founding member of the North American Craft Maltsters Guild, Riverbend Malt House is a leading force in the nation’s micro-malt movement. www.RiverbendMalt.com
ABOUT COLORADO MALTING COMPANY | From Field to Glass
Founded in 2008, Colorado Malting is a handmade malting operation. Operating from the Cody Farm, a fourth generation family farm, the Cody brothers designed and built their equipment and run their operation from what used to be their grandparent’s home. From the field to the glass, Colorado Malting is taking beer back to its roots so brewers can make the best beer in the world. http://ColoradoMaltingCompany.com/
About New Belgium Brewing
New Belgium Brewing Company is a craft brewery located in Fort Collins, Colorado. It opened in 1991 after Jeff Lebesch, the brewery's founder, took his homebrewing passion commercially. In 2011, it produced 712,800 barrels of its various labels. As of 2012, it was the third-largest craft brewery and eighth-largest overall brewery in the United States.
Fat Tire, an amber ale, is the company's flagship beer.
New Belgium will be opening the doors to their Asheville location located in the River Arts District in 2016. | {
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On December 11, 2009, a federal judge ruled that Congress had unconstitutionally cut off all federal funds to ACORN. The judge issued an injunction stopping federal authorities from continuing to cut off past, present and future federal funds to the community organization.
ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and its allies in 75 cities will again have access to millions of federal dollars to counsel people facing foreclosure, seeking IRS tax refunds, and looking for affordable low cost housing. ACORN, which has received about $54 million in government grants since 1994, will be able to apply for new federal programs just like any other organization.
The court ruled that Congress violated the U.S. Constitution “by singling out ACORN and its affiliates for severe sweeping restrictions” and that such action constitutes illegal punishment or a “bill of attainder.”
What is a bill of attainder? Even most lawyers have no idea. Bills of attainder are acts of congress which unilaterally punish an individual or organization. Essentially Congress acts as prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner.
The U.S. Constitution has prohibited bills of attainder since 1787. U.S. founders objected to bills of attainder because in England Parliament passed many such bills against political enemies, used them to throw people in prison and even execute them without trial.
Congress punished ACORN without even trying to figure out if any laws had been broken or allowing the 500,000 member organization to defend itself.
What about protecting the taxpayers against fraud? As the court pointed out, there are many legal ways for the government to investigate and terminate federal contractors which have been proven to engage in fraud or illegal activity.
But Congress did not want to wait for trials or proof or to allow ACORN due process.
Conservatives developed a voting majority and imposed punishment without a hearing or anything.
ACORN has been a target of right-wing politicians for years. Conservatives hate ACORN primarily because it registered over two million people to vote since 2003 and because it has an overwhelming African American, working class, democratic-voting, membership.
Fox News is obsessed with ACORN. Google Fox News and ACORN and you will see over two million hits. Google Glenn Beck and ACORN and you get over a million hits, six hundred thousand for Rush, and three hundred thousand for Michelle Malkin.
Right wing members of Congress accused ACORN of being a “shell game” using millions of taxpayer dollars “to advertise for a political candidate” and which “helped President Obama get elected.”
After a highly dubious right-wing sting operation in September, the conservative media machine overran Congress members, including, sadly, many democrats, and passed the bill of attainder cutting off all federal funds to ACORN and any affiliates, subsidiaries and allies.
Most Congress reps knew full well this was an illegal bill of attainder as it was pointed out in the debates and even by the Congressional Research Office, but voted to let it go through anyway. Representatives Nadler and Grayson and Senator Leahy, among others, repeatedly pointed out that this was unconstitutional. Democrats who voted for the bill of attainder included many who had sought and received help from ACORN members in the past. They have some explaining to do.
Progressives who remained silent while the nation’s largest low income African American community organization was under attack also should re-think their lack of support. Did anyone think that if the right-wingers took down Van Jones and ACORN they would stop there?
What is ahead? Surely the conservative opponents of ACORN will continue to bloviate and continue to try to put ACORN out of business. There will likely be fights galore. But with this ruling the fights will be a little fairer.
ACORN won this case. The U.S. Supreme Court has called the prohibition of congressional bills of attainder a “bulwark against tyranny.” Here the bulwark against tyranny worked to stop the right-wing smear machine.
But the rule of law won too. And all of us and Congress have again been taught a valuable lesson – there are no shortcuts when it comes to following the Constitution.
BILL QUIGLEY is a Loyola Law professor working at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Bill can be contacted at [email protected]. | {
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The 2014 and 50th British Championship started in April 2013. All those who played
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on the list of qualifiers. Note: This list may contain
players who are not our members or do not have the required British nationality or residency requirements.
Those eligible could play in the Candidates' Tournament
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The top 8 available players, including Champion Andrew Kay, played in the Challengers' League
held over the holiday weekend 24th - 27th May, in London at ISH.
Andrew Kay ended on 7 wins and Alex Kent ended on 5 wins and would play the title match.
The players agreed to play a best of five match as allowed by the current rules
(default best of three).
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There was a live relay on KGS in the British room by "BGAadmin" from 10:00.
Game 2 in this year's Title Match, between Andrew Kay
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Game 3 was held on Saturday 29th November in Oxford.
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Page 6 of Addresses delivered at the Grand annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky : held at the Masonic Temple in the city of Louisville, October 18th, A.D. 1869, A.L. 5869 / Elisha S. Fitch.
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ADDRESS OF GRAND MASTER
To Mt. Vernon Lodge, No. 14, at Georgetown, Scott co., June 14;
To Morrison Lodge, No. 76, at Elizabethtown, Hardin co., Aug. 28.
I have also granted like Dispensations to the following Lodges, whose
charters have been lost:
To Columbus Lodge, No. 173, at Columbus, Hickman co., April 3;
To Monticello Lodge, No. 431, at Monticello, Wayne co., Sept. 15;
These dispensations having now expired by constitutional limitation, it
will devolve upon you to renew them, or supply charters in their stead, as
in your judgment may seem expedient. In regard to all those lodges, which
have been unfortunately despoiled of their charters, I would recommend the
donation of duplicates by this Grand Lodge, upon payment of the Grand
Secretary's fees.
Quite a large nuimber of petitions for new Lodges have been received and
dulv considered, and in withholding all further dispensations I fear I may
leave unfortunately subjected myself to the censoriousijudgment of many good
brethren throughout the State, whom I personally esteem and honor, and
would delight to serve in any matter involving simply a personal responsi-
bility. But while I sincerely regret their disappointment, and would not
willingly perpetuate any of the grievances, real or imaginary, of which they
complain, I nevertheless feel sustained in the negative policy I have pursued
by the highest interests, as I conceive, of the fraternity in this jurisdic-
tion.
By way ot self-vindication, permit me to say that in many instances the
petitioners themselves have unwittingly defeated their own purpose by put-
tiDg the case too strongly, or proving too much; for, in addition to the usual
loran of appeal, it would often be represented to the Grand Master, by way
of special inducement, that many members of an adjoining Lodge would
procure dimits and affiliate with the proposed new Lodge, as soon as organ-
ized; and yet, upon an examination of the annual returns, it would turn
out in evidence (as lawyers say) that the aforesaid adjoining Lodge was it-
self too feeble to undergo any depletion, and yet remain self-sustaining. In
all such cases, therefore, the establishment of the new Lodge would perhaps
involve the suspension or embarrass the work of an old one, and the result
would be, that while adding to the number of our Lodges, and thereby in
curring the expense of separate organizations, there would be but little, if
any, addition to our aggregate membership, and no commensurate increase
whatever of the general prosperity.
In other cases it was very apparent that the applications for new Lodges
were prompted by General Regulation No. 15. According to the represen-
tations of the parties, a large majority of them had been for many years
the victims of something like chronic coma-a sort of Rip Van Winkle
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Part Three – Fits
So now you know all about fabrics and colour (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, read up on fabric here and colours here), you may have decided that you want something ivory and lacey, or something white and organza but haven’t thought about the style and how it will fit on your body. Enter part three of our jargon buster series, Fits.
Fishtail
A fishtail dress is fitted to your curves until around the knees, then it gently flares out creating a curvy, glamorous silhouette. It will enhance an hour-glass figure and give the illusion of curves to a straighter body.
Ballgown
Think Disney Princess and most people will think Ballgown. Usually fitted on the bodice, a ball gown flares out making your body a bell shape. This is a classic dress, usually quite formal and a guaranteed show stopper.
Tea-Length
This is a dress that can be worn with or without a petticoat to give it a totally different look. The tea-length dress
typically stops at the middle of your shin. A petticoat can lift it higher and give it some drama and edge, while without a petticoat, the tea-length dress can be a classic and demure choice.
A-Line
A style that suits almost every body shape and side, A-line dresses are a popular style. The bodice is usually fitted, like the ballgown, but instead of the dramatic bell shape, the skirt gently slopes down into the shape of an ‘A’.
Mermaid
Very similar to the fishtail, the mermaid dress fits your curves down to your knees, then flares out, but much more dramatically than the fishtail. The mermaid is a great style to show off your figure and maintain the drama of a ball gown.
Straight
This style is exactly as it sounds. It simply falls straight down. This style tends to be a little more informal, perfect for a beach wedding!
Well, hopefully, by now you are experts!
If you’re still unsure, talk to a pro. Book an appointment and come for a fitting where you can try on different styles, colours and fabrics and you’ll soon find something you fall in love with. Actually, that’s good advice even if you know what you want, try on a range of styles, and you might just surprise yourself.
*All images depict dresses that are for sale at Lydia Couture at the time of writing.*
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Beckie’s bridesmaids are rocking our D19 Pretty dress in champagne. With each dress made to measure, each girl’s individual curves are hugged and flattered by the soft chiffon. And the straps coming from the sweetheart neckline add uniqueness to a classic style.
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The Power of Publics: Reflections on Sanctum Producers’ Masterclass from Dina Ntziora
“Situations’ method of working is to define a set of principles, which sit around an artist’s practice and then start building around them. In this case, they worked with the idea of a soul of the city, then began to tell a very visual story about the city we live in.”
Photo: Max McClure
Now the Sanctum hours are coming to an end, I begin to wonder whether a project like this actually has an end or whether it works beyond a timeline, surpassing beginning or closure. Sanctum is so much more than a one off project, it’s a new way to look at art, community and the city we live in.
Together with the 552 hours of performances there are also all those other layers of the project that unfolded in front of us. Attending the masterclass on Public Art (Now) from Situations allowed a deeper look into the thoughts, work, inspiration, logistics and efforts that brought the project together.
Coming from a Project Management background I expected to focus more on the logistics of the project; health & safety, licensing, timelines, production schedule. Instead I found myself getting immersed in the ethos and working practice that so characterised this project. Before attending the session I had assumed that the project was a strict operation: the final outcome being designed in every detail from the beginning. I was pleasantly surprised to find out how the work developed with a much more organic approach, which allowed so many additional elements and ideas to feed into the project.
I was also impressed with the honesty of both Claire Doherty and Matthew Austin while exploring some of the difficult moments of the project, not just its successes. It also made obvious how the team used their imagination and creativity to turn all the difficulties into additional features and highlights. The team not only built a physical space to perform in, but a community and a framework where local creative potential was really maximised.
Photo: Max McClure
The masterclass or ‘still trying to master it class’, as Claire has called it, became an insight into the challenges, excitement, commitment, problem solving and community engagement that make Sanctum happen. Admiration for the artist, persistence, a clear vision, respect for the local culture, the ethical sourcing of local significant materials, curating the programme of performances, respect of the physical site, an inclusive call for artists across Bristol, a great production team, and revisiting and adjusting the vision, are just some of the many great qualities the team brought to the project.
Situations’ method of working is to define a set of principles, which sit around an artist’s practice and then start building around them. In this case, they worked with the idea of a soul of the city, then began to tell a very visual story about the city we live in. This approach led to a gathering of stories around the materials, methods and ethos, all feeding into the puzzle that became Sanctum. Listening to Claire and Matthew presenting the process behind many parts of the work reinforced the idea that every aspect has been crucial towards the project’s success. If you were to remove any of those elements the project would have not been the same.
Sanctum brings together all the aspects of working in the arts I strongly believe in: community, performance, creative use of empty spaces, history, architecture, time and above all, people. The entire project is made of Bristol. It brings back to my mind the words of Theaster Gates at his St. George’s performance;
‘This is not my project. It is Bristol people’s project. People are powerful and when we create platforms they can create powerful things. Sanctum is about Bristol’s capacity to be amazing’.
People are naturally interested in empty spaces and changing a space from private to public creates a feeling of ownership. Allowing them to come back as many times as they wish and experience the space in such different ways allowed Sanctum to become part of daily routines, becoming a point of reference in our social circles like no other public art piece, performance or exhibition had. We went to Sanctum, and Sanctum came back home with us.
Everyone felt welcomed. One of my favourite quotes is ‘equality is inviting someone to a party, inclusion is asking them to dance’ and this is what the project achieved. The whole of Bristol was invited to a party and asked to perform.
Photo: Situations
For the last hour of the masterclass, we heard from the Exceptional Projects discussion panel, including Simon Cooper (Chair) Helen Davies (Director of Audience Engagement, Arnolfini), Luke Jerram (Artist), Zoe Sear (Communications Director, Bristol 2015). While listening it soon became clear why Bristol is such a great city to be in – so much art is created outside gallery walls and is accessible to all. A city can grow in many important ways without always relying on large capital expenditures or a major construction. Instead well-placed, site specific projects encourage the emergence of new spaces and/or the creative use of the existing ones. Public art is the most durable part of a city’s infrastructure; it can constantly change form but maintain its function of bringing the community together.
Arcadia, Bristol. Photo: Ben Daure Courtesy Bristol 2015
This can be especially true when work is created in derelict spaces. Here it can help create dynamic and resilient places in and around our cities and can act as an urban catalyst. Such uses are an integral part of both short and long term planning to bring urban landscapes back to life. A temporary structure within the shell of Temple Church broadens accessibility to the arts by extending the locations in which these activities take place. It can expand democracy and empower the local community. We are never going to look at Temple Church again as a derelict church; it is now a community space and a creative hub. Many people will walk past it now and reflect on memories of Sanctum.
Theaster Gates’ work is about shaping attitudes about the cities we live in, and it feels like the raw material is becoming bigger. He states: ‘I feel like I am always in the middle of a breakthrough and am trying to work out those ideas, I am still learning what change is, what my role is in articulating what needs to change.’ So are we. This is why Sanctum as a project, has no end.
Instead it has allowed us to look at our city in a different way, re-connecting with space and people. The project has positioned artists in the heart of the city as part of the thriving creative community, allowing everyone to contribute to re-designing the city and its spaces. | {
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Five Great Places for Vegetarian Food in Chiangmai
With its eclectic and energetic gastronomic scene , Chiangmai is no stranger to quirky hipster cafes cum art galleries, hidden rooftop bars that come alive under starlight and an amalgam of street food, international cuisine and local delicacies.
While a lot of the dishes in Chiangmai are predominantly meat-based, there are plenty of restaurants offering mouth-watering meat free options that don’t just toe-the-line between bland salads with limp greens or dishes that are uninspired, watered-down versions of their meat-based counterparts. Instead, think signature Thai curries prepared with the freshest seasonal veggies, farm to table restaurants that beautifully utilise the local ingredients as well as experimental cutting edge cuisine that’ll leave even the most skeptical meat lover impressed and asking for more.
So whether you’re a vegetarian or simply looking to add a little variety to your Meatless Monday endeavors, here are five wonderful places to get your green on in Chiangmai. To get the best savings for dining, travel tickets and holiday rentals in Chiangmai, remember to hit up Saleduck for the latest promotions and online deals.Pun Pun
A sustainable learning centre, Pun Pun also houses an organic farm as well as a restaurant dedicated to serving inventive and honest vegetarian food with a distinct Thai touch. Pun Pun – meaning one thousand varieties- was founded by husband and wife team Jon and Peggy in an effort to promote and preserve sustainable agriculture and the restaurant dishes out some of the best lacto-ovo vegetarian food you’ll find. Be sure to try the nam hed song kreung, a fermented mushroom sausage that is a vegan version of Thailand’s popular street snack and the panang curry, a rich coconut curry loaded with oyster mushrooms and eggplant. Also get your fill of organic local fruit juices, smoothies and brewed coffees.Khun Churn
Considered by many as a pioneer in vegetarian cooking in Chiangmai, Khun Churn crafts the most beautiful vegetarian renditions of traditional Thai dishes and is quite possibly the most popular vegetarian restaurant in Chiangmai. Despite being in the business for over 20 years, there is little sign of wear and the painstaking effort that goes into the food is as on point as ever. For when you’re especially hungry, the lunchtime buffet offers an extensive plethora of dishes ranging from khao soi to tom yum, salads to wraps all for a very affordable 169 baht per head. The restaur ant is also open for a la carte meals during dinner and the isan laab – a salad garnished with fresh aromatics, chillies and lime juice – comes highly recommended.Manna Mango Sticky Rice
Mango sticky rice is the dessert du jour in Thailand and beloved by both locals and travellers who often make the pilgrimage to sample this sweet treat in its most authentic form. Which is why Manna Mango Sticky Rice gets an honourable mention in this list. This humble little shop is notorious for dishing out the best mango sticky rice in all of Thailand and while it does offer a small variety of other items on its menu, we all know which dish is king. While it’s still relatively under-the-radar amongst travellers, this is where the locals go to get their fix and that’s more than enough to convince us that this is the place to be. The mangoes are always perfectly ripe and sweet; and when served with the sticky glutinous rice coated in coconut milk, this dessert is simultaneously sinful and heavenly. We also really like the sprinkle of crispy fried mung beans that offers the dish a nice textural contrast.Bamboo Bee
If you’re all about casual chillaxed vibes paired with heartwarming food, then Bamboo Bee is right up your alley. The best thing about this place is that it also offers cooking classes so if you happen to come across any particular dish that sticks with you, there’s a high chance that you can find out how to make it yourself! It’s the sort of nondescript place that you really need to look out for but once you step inside and take note of the varied menu that features a whimsical mix of Thai, Shan, Japanese, Korean and Western dishes- you’re hooked. The food here is simple, accessible and most-importantly, well-prepared and worth the price tag.Happy Green
Situated in a serene little hideaway along the bank of the Ping River, Happy Green is an under-the-radar gem that serves authentic Thai dishes as well as massive organic salads accompanied by a selection of raw, vegan dressings. Food here is farm-fresh ( with some ingredients sourced directly from the restaurant’s own garden) and includes universally familiar favourites such as laab and p ad thai – all cooked to perfection and vegetarian-friendly.
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Smartphone apps that monitor pill-taking are now available, and researchers are testing how well they work when medication matters. Experts praise the efficiency, but some say the technology raises privacy and data security concerns.
Selfie medicine works like this: Open an app on your phone, show your pills, put them in your mouth and swallow. Don’t forget to show your empty mouth to the camera to prove today’s dose is on its way. Then upload the video proof to the clinic.
Fans say the technology addresses a big problem: About half of drugs for chronic conditions aren’t taken as prescribed because of cost, side effects or patient forgetfulness.
With treatment for opioid addiction, a skipped dose can mean a dangerous relapse. The National Institute on Drug Abuse is funding research to tailor a smartphone app for those patients and see if they’ll use it.
“If we can keep patients engaged, we can keep them in treatment longer,” said lead researcher Dr. Judith Tsui of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle.
The next phase of her research will compare a group of patients who use the monitoring app called emocha (ee-MOH-kuh) with those who don’t to see if there’s a difference.
At one Tennessee treatment center, some patients with opioid addiction are already using the app to upload selfies of their daily dose and answer questions about how they’re doing.
“Every time they sign on, it allows us to capture data. Are they having cravings? Suicidal tendencies?” said Scott Olson, CEO of Dallas-based Pathway Healthcare, which is trying the app at its Jackson, Tennessee, site. “Maybe a phone call from a counselor might make the difference between staying clean and a relapse.”
Olson thinks insurers will pay for the service with more evidence. For monitoring tuberculosis patients, health departments pay roughly USD35 to $50 per patient each month for systems that include encrypted data storage. A small health department might pay as little as $500 a month.
The idea of watching someone take their medicine — called directly observed therapy or DOT — has roots in tuberculosis where one person’s forgetfulness can be serious for everyone. If patients don’t take all their antibiotics, their infectious TB germs can get stronger, developing drug resistance and endangering the broader community.
But taking a handful of pills daily for up to a year is difficult, so public health departments traditionally sent workers to people’s homes and workplaces to watch them take their doses. Today, many TB patients prefer remote monitoring. Nurses like it too.
Nurse Peggy Cooley has used Skype for years to chat live with patients taking TB medicine.
“We can accomplish in a two-minute phone call something that might have taken an hour to do and most of that hour was in the car,” said Cooley, who works for the Tacoma-Pierce CountyHealth Department in Washington state.
The new uploaded selfies don’t need an appointment. They are a daily routine for many tuberculosis patients in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Houston, where savings on mileage and worker time amounted to $100,000 in a recent year.
In Boston, Albuquerque and five other cities, researchers are studying whether the technology works for hepatitis C, a blood-borne virus that’s surging among a new generation of injection drug users. New drugs for hepatitis C can cure, but they’re expensive — $75,000 for a 12-week course of treatment — so insurers want to make sure patients take them.
“I think it holds a lot of promise,” said researcher Dr. Alain Litwin of University of South Carolina School of Medicine, who’s testing whether patients do better when someone watches them take their pills.
What’s next? An insurer in Maryland plans to use the technology in diabetes and high blood pressure to make sure Medicare and Medicaid patients take their medicine. Startups selling the apps say they could be used by faraway adult children monitoring an elderly parent’s daily pill-taking.
“That’s the biggest ick factor,” said Carolyn Neuhaus, a medical ethicist at the Hastings Center in New York. “You can imagine a program where benefits are tied to compliance and the insurer says, ‘We won’t pay for medication anymore unless you’re taking it correctly.’”
Globally, the rapid spread of smartphones creates an opportunity to eradicate TB, say the app developers.
But eliminating TB may take simpler, cheaper technologies that can be scaled for millions of cases, said Dr. Daniel Chin, who leads TB efforts for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The group supports research in China and India on two homegrown technologies. China’s tool, about the size of a child’s shoebox, reminds patients to take their pills and saves data for review. In India, the government favors a blister pill pack printed with phone numbers; a patient punches out a daily pill, then calls the revealed number.
Worldwide, TB kills more than 1.6 million people annually, even though most deaths are preventable with treatment.
“If we are going to eliminate the disease, we need technology,” said Dr. Richard Garfein of the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, who helped develop one of the smartphone apps, SureAdhere. Carla K. Johnson, AP Medical Writer | {
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Due to the overwhelming popularity of Cork in summertime it won't be possible to accommodate the 40 odd paddlers of an ISKA meet anywhere along the south coast on the original date of the June bank holiday. From June to August everywhere is booked up or unwilling to take large groups. Even the secluded coves are already full of camper vans.
But the meet will go ahead, just a week earlier than originally planned. I know you couldn't wait any longer
The base will be Garretstown House holiday park/campsite http://www.garrettstownhouse.com/index.htm . It's only 2 min drive from the beach and has indoor areas if the weather turns. There are plenty of sheltered paddling options and surf if the conditions don't allow a longer trip.
Please post here or message me by Monday week (21-May-2018) so I can let the campsite know how many to expect and facilitate a group rate.
Next week I'll post up more details of where to meet Saturday morning or indeed Friday afternoon if not at Garretstown beach.
The forecast is stunning for the weekend, I hope a few more can make it. It should to be a fairly relaxed weekend in the sun - no epic conditions to deal with The numbers are small enough that I can confirm with the campsite by friday morning, so if anyone else is coming just let me know. Looking forward to it!
I would like to look at coming along this weekend, would you be able to fire me through details of the itinerary for the weekend, if there is any, if not could you let me know what time you would be meeting on Saturday morning? Are there any pre-requisites for attending?
The schedule is to meet at the Speckled Door 1030 Saturday morning. You can drop your kayaks in the driveway https://goo.gl/maps/AXd8MirX1bM2 close to the steps to the pier but then move your car as soon as you can to the car park around the corner. We will then shuttle cars to the get out at Coolmain beach - about 15 min drive https://goo.gl/maps/7FMX2ZDxpMK2 . We'll paddle through and around the old head before making our way west along the coast, stopping on the beach for some lunch. There's usually some pizza/coffee vans there. We'll spend the afternoon rockhopping along to coolmain. I can guarantee a sighting of a fin whale - well the skeleton of one anyway . Garretstown house campsite for the evening is at P17 NP66 , a small few of us will be there Friday.
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Late in the game with the win sealed, Phoenix Suns players and especially Gerald Green had the opportunity to let go of concentration and focus, instead setting their sights and looking impressed with a sexy young lady walking behind them.
It wasn’t an easy win, but the Lakers had no chance to catch up with the Suns in the final seconds of the game, as the scoreline on the Gif shows (111-104 with 19.9 seconds left). Green was the best player in the game, scoring 26 points, and was already in ‘going to the shower’ mode, without his jersey on.
Playing around with a towel, sucking it for some reason, it’s clear to see from his reaction as the woman walks past him that he’s really impressed. Every other player on that bench turned their heads as well.
Maybe now they should do a Youtube video of ’10 hours of walking in the Staples Center as a woman’, following the current trend.
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3 Ways Millennials Influence Business & Finance
The largest generation in U.S. history has changed the way we look at business and finance through their entirely different values and perceptions of what is important in the world today.
Millennials have embraced a wide range of lifestyles that has shifted the traditional models of what it means to be an adult member of the United States society.
Basically, what was important to their parents, most likely holds little to no value to the millennial or at the very least, ranks much lower in their list of priorities.
Let’s look at three ways these shifting values influence the world of business and finance.
Huge Student Loan Debt
According to a survey conducted by the National Financial Capability Study (NFCS) in 2015, 45% of the millennial age group (18-34) currently have student loan debt. Among the baby boomers age group of those over 55, only 9% of them have student loan debt. It’s easy to try to dismiss that statistic by thinking that the baby boomers have had time to pay off their student loans, and many have. But, you have to look at also how college tuition inflation has hugely outpaced wage growth.
In 1970, according to Rita J. Kirshstein, Ph.D. a managing director at American Institutes for Research, the national average for yearly tuition was $348. Adjusting for inflation, that’s $2,153 in today’s money. And for 2016, the national average yearly tuition for a public universities was $9,650—some private universities can run north of $60,000 a year.
Add to that the increase in cost of living and you can quickly see how much more encumbered the millennial generation is by student loan debt than previous generations. This leads to a much different way of thinking about investing, renting versus buying, when to retire, etc.
Non-Linear Career/Life Path
The age of the internet has enabled us to digitally experience so many wonderful places on the planet. High Definition video has given us a window into the wider world. For some, this means they never have to leave the comfort of their home, but for many more it ignites a wanderlust. But like all things, the price has gone up and millennials are starting down traditional career paths right out of school with the express intent to cut and run after a few years.
Millennials leave college, mired in debt, with no delusions about what the workforce entails. Many are strapping on their 9-5 business suits while still bartending weekends and nights. They’re after cash to fund their next great adventure. They know they won’t be retiring at 60 or even 65. In all likelihood, they’ll be working till damn near 80.
This makes for a sense of urgency to see the world or put all that earned income into retrofitting a van and hitting the road. They know they can rejoin the workforce after exploring the world while they’re young enough to really enjoy it. And with their renting over buying mentality, they’re much more at ease with packing it all up and moving to wherever the next job lands them.
No Faith in the Stock Market
Every millennial has seen The Big Short. And they lived through “the Great Recession,” witnessing the wreckage the housing bubble caused to the baby boomers and their retirement investments. So for those on the upper end of the millennial age range, the Great Recession annihilated their financially formative years. For the younger portion, it blew their faith in investing money into a system they’ve seen collapse.
For those that haven’t lost faith, having enough money to properly invest is also an issue. Bankrate.com took a survey of over a thousand millennials and found that 48% said money is the main barrier to investing; 25% said they don’t understand the stock market; 11% think stocks are just too risky. These numbers show us that millennials aren’t going to invest their money in the same manner as generations prior. This mistrust of the system and lack of funds has a major influence on how financial companies will market to millennials and will ultimately lead to dire need for innovation in that industry.
So What Does it Mean?
Well, millennials are changing the way we communicate, the way we conduct transactions, and how finance and business will shift to accommodate them. The educational world is feeling the changes as four-year degrees are yesteryear’s high school diplomas. Certificates are needed to differentiate and beat out the competition.
Accountants can’t get by anymore with just a degree, they need to become CPAs, CMAs, EAs, and CFAs. A whole industry of test prep and review courses for such programs has sprouted and flourished to meet this new need. And that’s the biggest way Millennials are influencing business and finance, through entrepreneurial ventures that rise up to meet their specific needs.
Christine Sato founded the site cpareviewcourses.org – an online resource dedicated to helping professionals pass all four sections the CPA Exam on the first try. Seeing the growing need for students to get advanced certifications, Christine compared the Best CPA Review Courses of 2017 to help students fast-track their success.
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Well, Dancing With The Stars didn’t win for “Favorite Competition TV Show” at the 2014 People’s Choice Awards (“The Voice” won), but, Cheryl Burke and Karina Smirnoff showed up to attend and watch the show as you can see below. To see more new pictures of Cheryl doing the Red Carpet, see Zimbio Pictures and Getty Images . To read more on who won last night, visit US Magazine.
Didn’t Cheryl look stunning?
The photo below is from Karina’s instagram. Sorry, so far, this is all we have for Karina. If more pictures come out, we’ll be sure to post….
I'm a fashion and music fan....and I have always loved dancing too of any kind. Dancing With The Stars seems to have this way of bringing all of those things together. One of my favorite dancing quotes at the moment: "No matter what, nobody can take away the dance you've already had...." ~Gleb Savchenko . For fun music and dance mixes, visit WilUnleashed Soundcloud. | {
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The purpose of our study is to compare the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of two treatment strategies of Intermittent Claudication (IC) due to an iliac artery obstruction: to start with SUPERvised Exercise Therapy (SET) and deferred Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA) in case of SET failure, or immediate PTA.
It is our hypothesis that PTA as first line treatment is more effective than SET as first line treatment with regard to maximum walking distance, quality of life and costs after one year.
The Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA) procedure will be performed by an experienced interventional radiologist using a conventional guide wire and balloon catheter technique. A stent will be placed in cases in which the residual mean pressure gradient is greater than 10 mmHg across the treated site or when more than 30% stenosis after the procedure is detected. All PTA patients are encouraged perform at least three walking sessions every day.
Other Name: Endovascular treatment
No Intervention: Control: Supervised Exercise Therapy
Other: Supervised Exercise Therapy
Supervised Exercise Therapy (SET) will take place in the hospital or community based according to the guidelines of the Dutch Society for Physiotherapists. The duration of the treatment will be at least 6 months and with a frequency of 2 times a week for at least 60 minutes and an intensity near maximum pain barrier (defined as pain of which it is not possible to be distracted). The frequency of the training will decrease after 3 months and the patients will receive homework, make a plan and keep a log of their exercise activities. Furthermore the program consists of walking pattern improvement and enhancement of endurance and strength. All SET patients are encouraged to perform at least three walking sessions every day on their own.
Other Name: Conservative treatment
Detailed Description:
Intermittent claudication (IC) is a manifestation of cardiovascular disease, reflected by a threefold increased risk in these patients of developing serious cardiovascular events. Treatment of patients with IC is aimed at secondary prevention of cardiovascular events by control of risk factors for atherosclerotic disease, and to improve walking distance and subsequently quality of life. Supervised Exercise Therapy (SET) and Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA) can effectively improve pain free walking distance, but the optimal choice of treatment, specifically in patients with an iliac artery stenosis or occlusion is unclear. PTA is attractive as initial therapy since PTA of the iliac arteries has an immediate effect and it is durable. There is a lack of evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCT) to define the optimal treatment strategy for patients with IC due to iliac artery lesions; first line treatment with SET and PTA in case of failure, or immediate iliac artery PTA.
Purpose:
To define the optimal treatment strategy of IC due to an iliac artery obstruction: To start with SET and deferred PTA in case of SET failure, or immediate PTA.
Design:
Multicenter randomized controlled trial.
Patients:
400 patients with IC due to an iliac artery stenosis or occlusion.
Interventions:
SET and PTA.
Outcomes:
Primary outcomes are quality of life (Qol) recorded with the disease specific VascuQol instrument and maximum walking distance on a standardized treadmill test with a speed of 3.2 km/h at 10% incline after 1 year.
Secondary outcomes are pain-free walking distance, generic Qol, functional status, complications, number of treatment failures and costs. Economic evaluation comprises a cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis from a societal perspective, with the costs per patient able to walk maximal, respectively the costs per Quality Adjusted Life-Year (QALY) as outcome measures.
Eligibility
Ages Eligible for Study:
18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:
Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
No
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Inclusion Criteria:
Age 18 years or older;
Disabling claudication as defined by surgeon based on patient's history;
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Doug Seegers
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Doug Seegers
It’s just your typical Music City story.
A frequently homeless, 62-year-old singer-songwriter-guitarist gets discovered at a Nashville food pantry by a Swedish country music star, who helps him from the streets to superstardom in a country best known for ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” and the like.
“What’s ABBA?” asks Doug Seegers, in a voice free of irony.
Seegers isn’t much into pop music. He grew up on the hard-country sounds of Hank Williams, and came to adore the heart-first country-rock that Gram Parsons made with the assistance of young harmony vocalist Emmylou Harris.
Those influences are present on Seegers’ remarkable debut album, Going Down to the River, a fully realized version of the music he has been making on Nashville streets for decades. Before that, he was making it in New York, Austin and other locales.
“I’ve made a ton of money playing out in the street,” he says, slight Southern flair dosing the accent of his Long Island youth and his post-grad years in the Big Apple, where he lived in abandoned buildings, “ate and breathed everything John Lennon” while playing for tips in downtown Manhattan.
Guided by his guitar, he wound his way to Austin, Texas, where he became “Duke the Drifter” – a playful twist on Hank Williams’ “Luke the Drifter” moniker, the name under which country’s often-impaired superstar delivered Christian music and recitation.
In Austin, Doug/Duke teamed up with now-Nashville (music) and Nashville (the television show) GRAMMY-honored musician Buddy Miller. (That friendship, by the way, was recently reignited thanks to the Swedish recording project on which Miller, who is among Seegers’ ardent backers, appears.)
In Austin, the former John Lennon wannabe came under the spell of not only Parsons and Harris but of other country-rock-stylists like Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young and The Byrds. “They took me back to country music,” he joyfully testifies.
Somewhere in the timeline “I left Austin to go home and get married and raise my children in Upstate New York. I stayed with my wife quite a while.”
But he dreamed of Nashville. “Right after my son grew up, maybe 16; I decided it was time to go to Nashville. I had two kids and I wasn’t about to leave them.
“So I went out for a ride with my son one day, and I asked him what he thought about me moving to Nashville to play music. He said he was cool with it.”
The lamentation in his voice is perhaps because he misses his son. Or perhaps it’s because he’s calling from Sweden and he misses his Nashville street corners.
“I played all over Nashville. But one of my favorite spots is sitting in front of the Goodwill at Charlotte and 54th (in West Nashville), just across from a record store and a Laundromat.
“Goodwill is a Christian organization. I’ve been sitting in front of that store for 18 years. Only on Saturdays, though, and only if it’s nice and warm.”
Plenty of time also was spent among the buskers who open guitar cases and sing for tips in Nashville’s neon-lit Lower Broadway tourist district. He was among the faceless chasing the impossible dream, most-often hurried past to an accompaniment of hushed tones by tourists and musical elite. Brilliant, with a satchel of magical, big-time-writer-worthy life-songs, he went virtually unnoticed.
In an era when country music brass find stars on televised singing competitions, Doug, musical brilliance hiding in plain sight, went ignored while his crystal-country voice offered songs from the heart rather than the Music Row assembly line.
“Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, well, they are songwriters. I’m just a person that likes to write songs. That’s a big difference,” Doug says, when complimented on the collection on the album that made him a star in Sweden and, he hopes, will finally launch a real career in the States.
Even so, he admits joy in the process of rhyming words to acoustic accompaniment. “It’s a free therapy session. That’s pretty much how I describe my craft if someone was to ask me how I define songwriting in general.
“Everyone is different, there’s so many approaches to writing words, whether it is a poem or a letter to a girlfriend.” One of the tracks on his album, “Angie’s Song,” is a little of both. “I woke up one morning and I was really sad that she was in jail.
My heart was mourning for her. I said I wish there was some way I could make this girl feel better while she is in jail.
“All the songs on this album are important to me but I guess if I was going to narrow down one song it would have to be ‘Angie’s Song.’ She has some bad habits, as do I.”
It’s one of the songs grabbing Swedish hearts. “Been here, playing every day,” he says. “I’m way up in North Sweden. I really don’t know the names of these places. I just get led around by my booking agent guy who I’m traveling with. He brings me to the club, shows me where it is.”
But this isn’t strictly a club tour. Other times he’ll open for Neil Young or Dwight Yoakam, appropriately rootsy stage companions.
“I’ve been doing these sold-out shows, where people are coming up to me and wanting my autograph.” Often pleasing, it’s sometimes baffling to a guy who spent much of his life either on the streets … or at least teetering on half-empty vodka bottles at the brink of homelessness.
It was in seeking redemption that he was “discovered.” He’d decided he could put down the booze and take his best shot at the Nashville dream or he could flourish as a drunken street performer in a town filled with such souls.
“I am totally done with the drugs and the drinking. … And I made my commitment to God and God started shining in my life.”
During his self-reclamation, Doug received encouragement (and food and guitar strings) from Stacy Downey, who runs “The Little Pantry That Could,” a charity serving the hungry of West Nashville.
Jill Johnson, the previously mentioned Swedish country star, in Nashville to do a documentary about down-and-out musicians, learned of Downey’s charity and was especially interested in the Pantry’s singer-songwriter nights, where Doug and kindred spirits entertained and encouraged each other.
Downey knew many fellows with worn guitars, busted strings and frayed hopes, but one person she was sure the Swede should meet was Doug.
Today’s Swedish superstardom was born when Doug sat on the grass by Johnson and sang “I’m going down to the river, to wash my soul again/I been running with the devil, and I know he is not my friend.”
The startlingly powerful song and pure voice changed Johnson’s mission. Her focus became this man, weathered of soul and spirit, so she took him to the Cash Cabin – where John and June created magic – to record the rough-edged fairy tale of redemption.
Going Down to the River became an instant sensation when it was rolled out in Sweden, topping the iTunes chart. This guy Johnson found on the streets of Nashville, a gentle but battered soul who was both unheard-of and unheard in Music Row’s corporate suites, was an overnight sensation in Scandinavia.
And that success fueled a desire to capture more of Doug’s music. A three-day flurry of recording followed at Nashville’s legendary Sound Emporium – an iconic studio founded by the late Cowboy Jack Clement, a Country Music Hall of Fame member and pal of Johnny Cash, who, of course, had recorded there. So had Emmylou, Taylor Swift, Elvis Costello and so many greats. The formerly homeless street singer was making music in hallowed space.
Produced by Will Kimbrough, the album features a duet with Country Music Hall of Famer Harris on Parsons’ “She,” which features instrumental assistance from members of Emmylou’s Red Dirt Boys Band and from steel guitar legend Al Perkins.
And then there’s Miller, whose participation was a lucky accident. During his own musical rambling that eventually brought him to Nashville, where he is widely and wildly regarded as a kingpin of Americana as well as about every other form of music, he’d lost track of Duke the Drifter, a regular houseguest back in their Austin days.
When Kimbrough, another highly regarded citizen of Music City, began to produce this album, he reached out to Miller, who he hoped would sing and play a bit of guitar during these sessions he was producing by a formerly homeless busker who had been featured on Swedish TV and had this MONSTER hit in Scandinavia.
Miller politely declined (he’s as polite as he is busy) Kimbrough’s request…. Until a follow-up message pointed out that Doug the busker was Miller’s long-ago pal “Duke the Drifter.”
Miller not only participated, he became a tireless advocate.
While “She” and title song “Going Down to the River” carry the most emotional weight, the album includes everything from Texas swing dance-floor gem in “Hard-Working Man” to woe-is-me heartacher in “Pour Me” to shuffling “Baby Lost Her Way Home Again” … songs sampling steel, sadness and celebration.
Every song on the album would be right at home on nicotine-stained jukeboxes in every roadhouse in America. They also, of course, have helped this hard-timer conquer stages in Sweden, tuning him up for success in his homeland as well.
This stardom thing, well, predictably it’s tough for this country-and-western Pygmalion, literally lifted from the streets of Guitar Town and whisked off to Scandinavian superstardom.
“I’ve always wanted to be someone who has the opportunity to get his music heard. If there was some other way to do it, I would totally be interested in it,” says Doug.
“But there are good things about fame. When you have a reputation for yourself, people spend more time listening to your music.” | {
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Song Seung Hun and Park Min Young Change Roles in Japanese Dr. Jin
The characters of Song Seung Hun and Park Min Young in Time Slip Dr. Jin will make a slight change in their relationship in the upcoming Japanese version. The lovers in the Korean version will become siblings in the Japanese version of Dr. Jin, which is scheduled to air on May 25th in Japan. Dr. Jin is based on a Japanese original and will star JYJ's Kim Jae Joong as well.
A drama official told enews about the change, "We expect the change in relationship will help the drama describe with more detail the emotions attached to the event." The official added that while the setting of the past hasn't changed, the actors will become siblings and new scenes with child actors will be filmed. There will also be more narration from Song Seung Hun.
Both Song Seung Hun and Kim Jae Joong are very popular in Japan so the drama has been gathering a lot of interest. There is even a rumor that the show might be aired on main Japanese broadcasts.
What do you think of the change in the characters' relationship?
(Source: www.sg.entertainment.yahoo.com) | {
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Palo Alto Weekly
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A WAKE-UP CALL ... Palo Alto's effort to ban vehicle dwelling within city borders has featured all the elements residents have come to love and hate about the famously thorough city — focused community meetings, long public hearings, deep divisions, frequent revisions, heavy outreach, considerations of alternatives, reconsideration of the whole process and, ultimately, a reversion to the original proposal. This week, the city will head into the final stretch of the long and unpleasant journey when the City Council's Policy and Services Committee reviews the vehicle-banning ordinance that it directed staff to draft last month. If it votes to approve the ordinance, the law would then head to the full council for final approval. Even if the ordinance becomes law, as now seems increasingly likely, Palo Alto officers won't exactly be rushing out to bang on the car windows of vehicle dwellers. Under a plan prepared by the department, the city would embark on a "robust notification progress" about the new law, personally reach out to known vehicle dwellers to couple them with social-service providers; devote 60 days to "education, outreach and transition" and give warnings for additional 30 days. Even after this leniency period ends, enforcement will be complaint-based and will "generally not have officers self-initiate contacts for violation of the ordinance," Assistant Police Chief Bob Beacom wrote in a memo. "As current practice dictates, officers will continue to provide affected parties with referrals to social-service agencies. The goal will be to assist these individuals, who violate the ordinance, to find appropriate social services and utilizing the judicial system only as the last resort."
WITH HONORS ... When South Palo Alto's newest housing development opens its doors at the former site of the Palo Alto Bowl, it will include as part of its design a direct link to the city's past. Monroe Place, as the housing portion of the development is called (there will also be a four-story hotel), will feature three new interior streets. Under a proposal made by the Palo Alto Historical Association and scheduled to be approved by the City Council on Monday, these streets will be named for three Palo Alto officers who had died in the line of duty: Lester Cole, Gene Clifton and Theodore Brassinga. "We have heard from the Police Department about their interest in having streets named for police officers who had died in the line of duty," city Historian Steve Staiger wrote in a letter to the city. "We support this desire and have recommended that the three streets in the Palo Alto Bowl (former) site be named for the three Palo Alto officers who died in the line of duty." The only obstacle is that Palo Alto already has a Clifton street, which bears no relation to the fallen officer. After discussing this issue with Police Chief Dennis Burns, the historical association accepted his suggestion to name the street "Gene Court." The other two streets would be Cole Court and Brassinga Court.
HERE COMES THE SUN ... For years, Palo Alto has been scouring far and wide for green sources of electricity, from dams and wind farms to geothermal plants and methane-burning landfills. Until recently, solar energy has been in short supply. That changed last week, when the city signed three 30-year solar contracts that between them will supply 18 percent of Palo Alto's energy needs once they come online in 2017. The three contracts with Elevation Solar, Western Antelope Blue Sky Ranch, and Frontier Solar, which will cost the city about $350 million, are the latest installment in the city's quest to make its electric portfolio completely carbon-neutral. These days, most local electricity already comes from renewable sources, with the remainder offset through purchase of "renewable energy certificates" that support green-energy projects in other parts of the state. By 2017, the city expects to go 100 percent carbon neutral without buying the certificates. "Palo Alto has bought the entire output from these three new projects, which are being built right here in our home state," Jane Ratchye, director of the Utilities Department's Resource Management, said in a statement. "People can go gaze upon the fields of solar panels and know that's exactly where their electric power is coming from! I find that pretty cool."
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Week 3 Winner & Flash Fiction Challenge #4
Week 3 of the Tales of Whoa / Potato Chip Math Flash Fiction Challenge is in the books. We had a light week for entries but a lot of people stopped by to take a look and many promised to submit something in the weeks to come.
Thank you, everyone. We'll be doing this every week all year, with chance to win prizes every few months so keep coming back.
Gordon and I read through the entries and are pleased to announce that this week's winner is Jane who can be found on Twitter as @janesharp11. Congratulations! You can read Jane's entry here.
Now, let's get on with Flash Fiction Challenge #4!
This week it's Gordon's turn to host the challenge so if you'll all please make your way over to Tales of Whoa you'll find this week's prompt and challenge rules.
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Following the release of the original PlayStation edition Resident Evil 2 in January 1998, Tiger Electronics released a sprite-based 2.5D version for their Game.com handheld in late 1998. It included only Leon Kennedy's story path and removed several of the original game's core features.
Having been developed for a woefully underpowered console, it lacks much of what defined the original game. It can be seen as attempting to boil Resident Evil 2 down to its bare essentials: Killing zombies and collecting items. However, with the poor framerate and lack of visual fidelity afforded by the Game.com, it fails even in this regard. Despite this, it is known as one of the best games for the Tiger Game.com.
In the history of the franchise, it is the first game to be rated "T" for Teen by the ESRB, as opposed to the more typical "M" for Mature. This rating can be attributed to the Game.com's inability to render the same level of graphic violence as the original game. | {
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Smoking ban may present hard choices
A local restaurant may have to choose between children or smokers. At Players Retreat near NC State, the staff has been mopping up, getting ready for the daily lunch crowd. The restaurant has always been kid-friendly and smoker-friendly.
Now, owner Gus Gusler may have to choose one or the other and neither is a good option.
"It's just not fair," Gusler said.
The State House made history Thursday when it passed legislation banning smoking in most restaurants and workplaces. The exception is businesses that don't serve or employ people under the age of 18 -- primarily bars -- can still have a smoking section.
That leaves business owners like Gusler in a bad spot.
"I'm gonna have to make an economic decision, saying no one can come here under 18 and allow people to smoke, which is completely against the tradition of the place of being a family place," Gusler explained. "Or say no smoking, keep my families, and I'm gonna go out of business."
Gusler said he is hardly a smoking advocate because cigarettes killed his mom. He even supported the original bill, which proposed a ban in all public places.
"None of us want smoking in our restaurants and bars," Gusler said. "We'd much prefer to not allow it, but you can't take it away from us and let somebody else do it and take business away from us."
Even some of those who won't lose business are upset with the bill. That includes the folks at Tobacco Road Sports Cafe, which is already smoke-free.
"Just as we have the right to choose to be non-smoking, we feel business owners have the right to be smoking," said Darren Birt, restaurant manager.
Now that the bill has passed the House, it will go into the Senate. Leaders there tell Eyewitness News they expect it will have "significant support."
Perhaps it will have support at the Legislature, but it certainly doesn't have support amongst many of those whose businesses may depend on it.
Gusler said he and a couple dozen restaurant and pub owners will meet Monday to discuss what to do next. He said if the bill becomes law as is, he will sue, claiming his constitutional right to equal protection under the law is violated. | {
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A beautiful true-stereo harmonic-tremolo & panner featuring standard and panning modes of operation, fully independent left and right audio paths with an especially sweet & tonally rich pre-amp built right into each channel of the pedal.
A preset can be saved by pressing the Save button and activated/de-activated by pressing the Preset foot-switch.
Any standard expression pedal can be assigned to any, or all, of the control knobs on the fly, by simply connecting the expression pedal of choice to the EXP jack and turning the desired control all the way up to the blue dot.
True-stereo circuit featuring two fully independent audio paths
Specially tuned "Sweet'ner" pre-amps on each channel
Pulsing LED indicates tremolo speed
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Standard Tremolo & Harmonic Vibrato as well as all shades in between tuned to user taste, via the Shift control
Super easy to use preset save/recall
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Expression control input assignable to any and all controls on the fly | {
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“These new products enable operators to address two key challenges facing their business: addressing wireless capacity needs due to the explosive growth in mobile broadband data networks and expanding their coverage footprint to areas where current technologies do not accommodate,” said Jack Mar, CEO of Star Solutions. “With iCell COMPAC IP-RAN customers can deploy basestations cost-effectively leveraging any form of backhaul technology, including satellite transmission for rural wireless networks, or even Internet backhaul for addressing broadband hotspot areas.”
The iCell COMPAC IP-RAN basestations are IP-67 rated, easy to transport and flexible in physical installation. Different mounting solutions are available to enable simple wall-mount, pole-mount or floor-mount configurations. Low power consumption enables these basestations to be deployed where commercial power is not viable and alternative energy sources must be used.
The CDMA2000® 1X model contains additional technology features which make the solution perfect for operators looking to address rural coverage requirements. This complete outdoor solution provides up to 10W of RF power output and is capable of supporting integrated BSC capabilities for mobile network integration, a SIP interface for integration with next generation network (NGN) softswitches or even stand-alone operation with an integrated wireless call manager.
The CDMA2000® EV-DO model is ideal for network operators with existing 1X deployments looking to deploy a broadband network overlay for broadband data services. In addition, iCell COMPAC basestations can be used to enable additional capacity in existing EV-DO networks by providing a broadband network underlay addressing heavy data usage areas with focused capacity where needed. Additionally, the COMPAC basestations can be deployed with Star Solutions' distributed RNC/PDSN to optimize data traffic offload.
Star Solutions' iCell COMPAC IP-RAN basestations are currently available for CDMA2000® 1X in 450MHz, 800MHz, and 1900MHz frequency bands. These new basestations are based on the All-IP Mobile Network architecture that Star Solutions has deployed in hundreds of systems in over 20 countries world-wide. | {
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“I am bitterly disappointed in the Obama Administration for this unwarranted and destructive attack on medical marijuana and patients’ rights to medicine,” Ammiano said in a statement. “Today’s announcement by the Department of Justice means that Obama’s medical marijuana policies are worse than Bush and Clinton. It’s a tragic return to failed policies that will cost the state millions in tax revenue and harm countless lives. 16 states along with the District of Columbia have passed medical marijuana laws - whatever happened to the promises he made on the campaign trail to not prosecute medical marijuana or the 2009 DOJ memo saying that states with medical marijuana laws would not be prosecuted? Change we can believe in? Instead we get more of the same.”
On Friday, U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag for the Northern District of California said the feds would likely crackdown on other pot clubs in San Francisco and the Bay Area. “Although our initial efforts in the Northern District focus on only certain marijuana stores, we will almost certainly be taking action against others. None are immune from action by the federal government,” she said. | {
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Maryland is committed to the growth and success of our small business community. In 2004, the state created the Small Business Reserve (SBR) Program, providing small businesses with the opportunity to participate as prime contractors on state contracts by establishing a unique marketplace where small businesses compete against other small businesses instead of larger, more established companies.
Maryland is currently involved in a statewide procurement modernization effort to make the state contracting arena more transparent and user friendly to the small business community. As a result, several significate legislative changes took effect on October 1, 2017 that directly impact the SBR Program.
Under state procurement law, the SBR Program directs 70 participating agencies/department (increased from 23) to spend at least 15% (increased from 10%) of its fiscal year procurement expenditures with qualified small businesses.
Once a solicitation has been designated as “SBR,” an award can only be made to a registered SBR vendor. Registration is an online process through eMaryland Marketplace (see the Quick Reference Guide for Certification and Re-Certification in the column to the right.). Vendors attest to meeting the eligibility standards and must re-certify annually. There is no cost to participate in the SBR Program.
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Creative Embellishments and Heartfelt Creations have teamed up once again, so our team got to play around with some wonderful HFC products! I chose the Italiana Riviera Paper Collection to work with. It features gorgeous imagery, lovely purple and green colors with some neutrals and a whole grape and wine theme. For my project, I started by coating my canvas board with black gesso. Once that dried, I sprayed some webbing primarily onto the top and down the center. It only takes about 5 mins to dry, but it’s best to wait an hour before handling. So while I waited for that to dry, I altered my CE Grapevine pieces using gesso, PITT markers, and a Lindy’s Stamp Gang color shot. I also fussy cut tags, a ticket, and some images from the HFC papers. Using the CE Crackled Brick Stencil and some opaque modeling paste, I added the brick details on the background. I then used 2 different Lindy’s magicals and the same color shot I used to alter my chippies to add color and details to the brick pattern once it dried. I then layered, a couple of doilies, flower pieces, and embellishments with the fussy cut papers, tags, and ticket. Last, I adhered the grapevine pieces I’d altered, and cut up one of the flourishes from set 26 that I’d altered using white acrylic paint, and tucked those bits into the cluster. Here’s how my project turned out:
I’m a huge fan of Heartfelt Creations’ products. I love their stamps and dies, but more than anything, I LOVE their gorgeous papers, so I was thrilled when I heard about the team up between two such amazing companies! I got to work with HFC’s Once Upon a Time Papersand Celebrate the Journey Papers. Since two other team members used Celebrate the Journey, I primarily used Once Upon a Time for my project along with a few scraps from other HFC papers I already had on hand. This is going to be photo heavy because it’s a paper bag mini album (my first!), using 3 full sized paper lunch bags. | {
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linaria
any of various plants belonging to the genus Linaria, of the figwort family, especially of the cultivated species, as L. maroccana or L. aeruginea, having slender clusters of spurred flowers in a variety of colors. | {
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Mary Margaret Johnson
Funeral services for longtime Mancos resident Mary Margaret Johnson will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 28, at Ertel Memorial Chapel. Interment will follow at Cedar Grove Cemetery.
Mary Margaret was born Nov. 14, 1919, in Perkins, Okla. the daughter of Charles Dennis and Lida Rae (Carlile) Knipe. She passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, at her residence at the age of 93.
In 1938, Mary Margaret married William Earl Johnson in Ponca City, Okla. A hardworking woman her whole life, Mary Margaret devoted her love and time to her family and their ranch. She will be greatly missed.
Surviving Mary Margaret are her children, William Jerry Johnson of Tulsa, Okla., Larry Earl "Pete" Johnson of Tulsa, and Robert Paul "Bob" Johnson of Durango; and her sister, Camilla.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and by her husband, William Johnson.
Services are under the direction of Ertel Funeral Home. For further information or to send condolences, log on to www.ertelfuneralhome.com and click on the obituary section. | {
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Fiorito Interior Design is a residential design firm specializing in fully customized yet cost-effective solutions for every design project. The company has been owned and operated since 2007 by principal designer Jeff Fiorito, Allied ASID.
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A Vauxhall Astra in front of the Ellesmere Port factory, which won the right to make the car over the Bochum plant in Germany in 2012.
Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images
Vince Cable pushed at the revolving door of General Motors’ New York offices and stepped into the bustle of a February afternoon in Manhattan. As he scanned the street for his awaiting taxi, the then business secretary breathed a huge sigh of relief.
It was 2012, and Cable had just persuaded Dan Akerson, then chief executive of car giant General Motors, to hand production of the seventh-generation Astra to Britain.
Cable’s 11th-hour intervention, along with generous concessions on pay and conditions from the unions, helped save Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port factory in Cheshire from closure. It also outmanoeuvred Opel, Vauxhall’s German sister, which was desperate to secure the Astra for its ailing Bochum plant.
“The Germans were incandescent,” Cable recalled. “We think they even had [Angela] Merkel on the phone to persuade GM to reverse its decision.”
GM Europe employs more than 38,000 people, with about 19,000 at plants in Germany and 4,500 at Vauxhall’s sites in Ellesmere Port and Luton. The scale of the turnaround task facing Carlos Tavares, chief executive of PSA, is clear. The Vauxhall-Opel operation hasn’t made a profit since 1999 and has made cumulative losses of $20bn since then.
British carmakers are already nervous about their prospects when the country leaves the European Union: tariffs or other trade barriers on British cars exported to the EU could deal a hammer blow to the sector.
Jim Farley, president of Ford Europe, last week insisted that barrier-free trade was essential to protecting his company’s 14,000 British workers. Ford is planning to cut up to 1,100 jobs at its engine plant in Bridgend, south Wales. “For the future of those employees and for customers in the UK, a zero-tariff environment is really, really important,” Farley said.
Britain’s car industry is dominated by continental (Volkswagen and BMW), American (Ford and GM) and Japanese (Nissan and Toyota) manufacturing groups whose main export market is the EU. Eight out of every 10 cars that roll off British production lines are exported and the EU is the biggest export market, with 56% of British-made cars sent there.
Car manufacturing in Britain is close to a record high, with 1.72 million made on these shores in 2016: not far off the peak of 1.92 million in 1972. Consequently, the sector is a key player in the British economy. Figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show the UK car industry clocks up annual turnover of £71bn, employs 169,000 people directly and supports a further 814,000 indirectly.
But new trade barriers are also likely to make it more expensive for British manufacturers to import components. If costs go up, it may give PSA an easy excuse to shut its newly acquired British factories. On the flip side, cars made in Britain are likely to be cheaper for UK buyers than those from Germany, Spain or Italy, and if the government can strike trade deals with nations outside Europe, PSA’s UK factories could tap into those markets.
Tavares hinted at this, noting the “potential opportunity” that a hard Brexit might present “to have inside of the UK some manufacturing plants”.
This may still mean slimming down operations until enough trade deals with other countries are inked in.
The tie-up makes PSA, owner of the Peugeot and Citroën marques, the second-biggest European carmaker – accelerating past Renault, but behind VW – with a 16% market share.
Tavares has a reputation as a cost-cutter, and PSA, which is 14% owned by the French state, estimates savings and other benefits from the deal should reach €1.7bn on an annual basis.
It said most of this would come from “synergies” – eliminating duplication in head-office functions such as marketing. However, analysts reckon there are sure to be large-scale job cuts, and even plant closures.
Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, who leads the Centre for Automotive Research (CAR) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, estimated 6,250 job cuts are required to achieve the necessary savings in production. “The shuttering of entire plants is therefore not excluded,” he says.
Tavares has pledged to honour GM’s current contracts, which guarantee production of the Astra at Ellesmere Port until 2021, and the Vivaro van in Luton until 2025. That gives British workers some assurance about their jobs in the short term.
But unions reckon talks about a new model to replace the Astra will start again some time next year. And unlike 2012, ministers and union bosses are likely to have less bargaining power in these negotiations.
This time around, the already powerful French and German interests will be in the driver’s seat. Factories inside the EU are sure to target Brexit and the tariff advantage their plants are likely to have over British rivals.
Cable is gloomy about the prospect of outfoxing Opel this time. “Of course, we didn’t have to deal with Brexit, which has thrown a huge spanner in the works this time around,” he says. “It probably makes it more difficult.
“German pressure is going to be huge. When we were negotiating for Ellesmere Port, there were people pushing from the German side because they didn’t want Bochum to lose out. This time around it will be much more intense.” Pointing to Brexit, the Opel brand’s dominance overseas and the French government’s shareholding in PSA, he repeats: “All these factors make it a lot more difficult.”
Tavares has already sent tremors through Westminster after signalling that he wants to create a “European automobile champion with German-French roots”.
It doesn’t bode well for Vauxhall, which has been building cars in Britain since 1903 and was bought by GM in 1925.
Trades unions don’t want to leave anything to chance. “The uncertainty caused by Brexit is harming the UK auto sector,” says Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite. “We need every assistance from the government to give this sector a fighting chance.” | {
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'It was Clara. My name is Chava now.''Forgive me, Chava, ' said Gesia. 'But you know, I would never have taken you for a Zionist. Such a staunch one, in any case, to want to give up your name.' Three Russian-Jewish women are flung from their homes in the Ukraine and Bessarabia - the 'wild west' of the tsarist empire - by pogrom and revolution. In 1922 Clara goes to Palestine where she joins the legendary G'dud Ha'Avodah or Labour Battalion, the roving collective initially formed to build roads connecting the growing Jewish settlements. But she soon becomes uneasy about Jewish settlers taking work from Arabs and usurping their land. As the schism widens between socialist and more conservative Zionists, Chava's abiding sense of justice has potentially lethal consequences. Clara's younger sister Manya migrates to the relative safety of Omaha in the American Midwest, reinventing herself as Marion for better assimilation. Despite escaping mounting antisemitism in Europe Marion feels isolated on the prairie, eventually finding her way to New York, an acting career and a life of ease compared to the hardships of Palestine. Zippora, Chava and Marion's niece, is a committed Zionist who hides from the Soviet secret police in a Ukranian forest and, in frequent letters, begs her dear Doda Clara to help her get to Palestine. Once there, Zipporah is dismayed by Chava's disillusionment with Zionism, her ardent belief in a future Jewish state remaining undiminished. Thus Clara, Manya and Zipporah form three sides of a triangle - the doomed revolutionary, the American immigrant, and the committed Israeli - three very different yet equally influential perspectives on the creation of present-day Israel. Sara Dowse's As the Lonely Fly is an epic story of persecution, migration and dispersal during tumultuous events in the 20th Century, which shines a light on the intertwined fates of Jews and Palestinians - a scenario with deep contemporary resonance. An urgent and moving novel from one of this country's most gifted storytellers.
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Evanescence-My Heart Is Broken chords
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** Capo on the 1st fret **
Intro: A#CDA#CDA#CDA#
I will wonder till the end of time
C
Torn away from you
DA#DA#DA#DG
I pull away to face the pain
DA#DG
I close my eyes and drift away
A#
Over the field
GDA#
That I will never find a way
CD
To heal my soul
A#GDA#
And I will wonder till the end of time
C
Torn away from you
[chorus]
DA#FA
My heart is broken
DA#FA
Sweet dream my dark angel
D
Deliver us from sorrow's hold
DA#DA#
From my heart, heart
DA#DG
I canít go on living this way
DA#DG
I canít go back the way I came
A#
Change of this field
GDA#
That I will never find a way
CD
To heal my soul
A#GDA#
And I will wonder till the end of time
C
Half alive without you
[chorus]
DA#FA
My heart is broken
DA#FA
Sweet dream my dark angel
D
Deliver us
A#
Change
[bridge]
A#A
Open your eyes to the light
A#DA#
I've been denying so long, oh so long
A#C
Say goodbye, goodbye
[chorus]
DA#FA
My heart is broken
DA#FA
Release me, I can't hold on
Deliver us
DA#FA
My heart is broken
DA#FA
Sweet dream my dark angel
Deliver us
DA#FA
My heart is broken
DA#FA
Sweet dream my dark angel
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Deliver us from sorrow's hold | {
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Ozanne spent some 25 minutes laying out investigative findings in the case. He said multiple witnesses and 911 callers described Robinson punching a friend, attacking pedestrians and screaming on a street near his apartment house.
Kenny, who was first on the scene, said he believed Robinson was assaulting someone inside the apartment and he had to go in.
“He (Kenny) said Tony Robinson immediately turned the corner and struck him with a closed fist on the left side of his head, knocking him back and into the wall,” Ozanne said.
Kenny said he was hit hard enough to cause damage to the drywall, and Robinson continued to swing at him as he was losing his balance on the stairs.
“He (Kenny) indicated he was afraid he would be struck again and lose consciousness falling backwards on the stairs and that his firearm would be taken and used to shoot him and possibly the other person in the apartment,” Ozanne said.
The shots all hit Robinson from front to back within three seconds, Ozanne said. Robinson was unarmed.
Police found two knives, a shotgun and a samurai sword in the apartment where Robinson was shot, according to the warrant.
The warrant says a friend told Madison police that Tony Robinson smoked marijuana and said, "He was looking to purchase 'shrooms'" on day he died.
The search warrant quotes a friend saying that friends texted that Robinson was "going crazy, punching holes in walls of their apartment."
“We believe the district attorney’s decision today to exonerate Officer Matthew Kenny was appropriate," Wisconsin Professional Police Association President Jim Palmer said in a statement. "The exhaustive independent and transparent investigation into this tragic incident has confirmed that Officer Kenny’s actions on the night of March 6 were lawful and in response to a deadly threat, from which Officer Kenny sustained numerous injuries, including a concussion."
The Robinson family held a brief news conference late Tuesday afternoon.
“I don't have an option to hold him anymore. I miss him and really love him. He was a great kid,” Tony Robinson’s grandmother Sharon Irwin said.
“It is a tragedy for the family and a tragedy for this community. The loss that this family has experienced is almost impossible to put into words,” Robinson family attorney John Loevy said.
The family is asking that any protests remain peaceful, as they have throughout the investigation.
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People did take to the streets to march to the state Capitol following the decision, including Dontre Hamilton's mother.
"I'm here to support Andrea and her family. This is what Mothers for Justice do. If they need me in any shape or fashion, I'm here for them," Hamilton said.
The Young Gifted and Black Coalition, a group that organized rallies after Robinson's shooting, said it’s asking people to spend the day reflecting, rather than demonstrating out of respect for the Robinson family.
Several churches in Madison said they opened their doors Tuesday for anyone who wants to reflect in private.
Organizers with the Young Gifted and Black Coalition said they are planning a rally Wednesday in response to the district attorney’s announcement.
The group is inviting people to attend a rally at 1125 Williamson St., the house where Robinson was killed, on Wednesday starting at 9 a.m. for Black-Out Wednesday in conjunction with Black Spring, a national Black Lives Matter campaign for Black liberation. | {
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ELEANOR HALL: As the Prime Minister prepares to announce changes to Australia's asylum seeker policy, the Coalition is accusing him of, as it puts it, "internationalising" the problem.
Kevin Rudd has indicated that he has concerns about the effectiveness of the UN Refugee Convention, which Australia was one of the first nations to sign in 1951.
The details of Mr Rudd's plans are being tightly guarded, but the Government has been in discussion with UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
From Canberra, Lexi Metherell reports.
LEXI METHERELL: Labor wants to be able to show it has a plan to reduce the number of asylum seeker boats heading to Australia before calling an election.
Frontbencher Bill Shorten is the latest minister talking tough on the issue
BILL SHORTEN: What motivates Prime Minister Rudd is maintaining the integrity of our immigration system, is making sure that people do not put to sea in unsafe boats, cruelly and dangerously exploited by people smugglers. And we know that the composition of people coming to Australia is changing from just straight political refugees to people coming for a much wider range of reasons.
It's hinted there could be changes to the operation of the Refugee Review Tribunal and the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has signalled that the 62-year-old UN Refugee Convention is in his sights.
KEVIN RUDD: We are looking at this right now globally, in terms of the effectiveness of the refugees' convention.
LEXI METHERELL: The Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
TONY ABBOTT: Mr Rudd is always trying to internationalise problems, and that's an excuse for inaction here in Australia.
LEXI METHERELL: Nonetheless he also has concerns about the Convention.
TONY ABBOTT: The difficulty with the convention is the way it's been imported into Australian law - that's the difficulty. It's the things that we do here in Australia as Australians that matter and we should get cracking on doing what we need to in this country and on our borders to fix this problem - not raise yet another red herring which is Mr Rudd leading some kind of an international crusade to change an international rule.
The executive director of the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre, David Manne, says the international discussion is not about retreating from the convention but expanding its remit.
DAVID MANNE: Because what we do know in current times is that there are many new forms of violence, internal armed conflict, there are civil wars, there are tragedies around the world unfolding in Syria and other places.
The real discussion internationally is about how to ensure that the Refugees Convention can be responsive to people stuck in their home countries at risk of brutal violence or indeed people that have fled from it - not about how to retreat from protecting people but how to expand the protection for them.
LEXI METHERELL: The convention's main aim is to commit countries to not returning people into danger.
But it doesn't prescribe the way countries should handle asylum seekers.
The Federal Government is reviewing Australia's high rate of acceptance compared to other countries like Canada.
When John Howard was prime minister his immigration minister Philip Ruddock struggled to overhaul processing procedures because of the appeals system that's in place and the precedents set over the years.
On AM the Coalition's immigration spokesman Scott Morrison indicated the Coalition would again crack down on appeals.
SCOTT MORRISON: We had a two track process before and that is the process that we think was the best way to handle those things when we were last in government. Last time we removed the appeals to the Refugee Review Tribunal and that is obviously an outcome that if legally can be implemented once again, that we would look kindly upon.
LEXI METHERELL: The magnitude of the problem the Government's facing has been underscored by two separate asylum boat tragedies in the last week in which at least five people have drowned on their way to Australia and the occupancy of the Immigration Detention Centre on Christmas Island continues to balloon.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Snow, wind, ice, Walmart hell, spilled milk: but most of all thanks
Last evening was the first of what I hope to be many wonderful years of Christmas time memories. We decorated Christmas cookies. I know, I know, that's so cliché to say. Isn't decorating cookies as a family a requirement - at least once - while your kids are young?
There's something so magical about the build-up to the moment. If you're family is like ours, you go to the store to buy the ingredients because you don't have them in the cupboard like most. One person takes the kids (in this case it was me) while the other stays at home making last minute preparations, and the one doing the shopping calls the one at home to ask what ingredients are needed, only to have to wait for the person at home to get on Recipe Czar and find out.
Once you get to the store, in our case it was Walmart, you walk the aisles of the grocery section finding the perfect ingredients. Passing the baking powder, you spend five minutes looking for vanilla, you forget about the sprinkles and various colorful toppings, you go to the back of the store to get the butter, come back to the front to find candy, and eventually you have it all...once you go back through the middle of the grocery and find the baking powder. Then, after you find all of these ingredients, you realize - just in time - that you don't have cookie cutters. So you walk nearly every square inch of Walmart looking for cutters only to find that they placed an entire aisle of Christmas cookie decorating supplies, complete with cookie cutters (and baking powder), in an aisle next to the linens. Of course! Towels, picture frames, cookie supplies.
After you fight through the throngs of the other 2,000 last-minute gift and supplies shoppers, pay for your goods, get the kids' coats back on, and dredge the cart through the slushy wintery mix that blasted your town during the past hour of Walmart hell, you can finally head home to begin your homemade Rockwell Christmas.
Inside, Tony Bennett, Harry Connick, Jr. and Barry Manilow adorn your Spotify playlist. You find your rolling pin that was thrown in the back of the cabinet after regretfully doing this last year; you clear off the counter top and the magic begins. Batch after batch of crispy golden Christmas delight comes out of the oven. The kids are hopped-up on cream cheese icing by now, the tops of the sugar sprinkle canisters are clogged with icing because your youngest - if he's like mine - can't quit doing sugar shots with them, and momma is already dreading 4 more batches that daddy is preparing to pull out of the oven.
Then it happens. The final cookie is frosted, sprinkled, and topped with a non-traditional Hershey's Kiss. The kids are shuffled down the hallway to the bathroom to have their faces, hands, forearms, foreheads, hair, ears, necks, elbows, and bellies, wiped off before going to bed. They crash from the massive sugar high they have been riding, the house quiets and mom and dad get some time to clean up and have a couple of cookies in peace.
But there was something about this year that made me pause over and over, whether I was in Walmart jockeying for those Hershey's Kisses or pulling the icing spoon from my youngest child's clasp again and again. It was a thought that caused me to continuously give thanks to God for the blessings and memories we were enjoying before our eyes, and not get hung up on a messy kitchen or frosting-stained children and clothes.
It was the thought of all of those who don't get the opportunity to spend Christmas with their children this year. While I warm my bones from fighting the slushy parking lot at Walmart to go home and decorate cookies with my family, many families on the east coast have no home at all. While I dig my cart of kids and groceries through the snow, 28 graves are being dug in Connecticut. The list of analogies could go on and on, but I wanted to take a moment and ask you all to be thankful during the busyness of the holidays.
Be thankful if you are able to watch your kids open presents around your tree on Christmas morning. Be thankful if you have those 4 or 5 basic ingredients for a batch of cookies, as well as the basic ingredients that make a complete family. We can go crazy and flip out over the proverbial spilled milk, or we can be glad that we have little ones after which to clean up. We can go crazy and flip out over the long lines at Walmart, or we can be glad that we have the funds and resources to go shopping. We can be filled with anger and a little bit of rage while we drive 20mph below the speed limit on our way home in windy and icy conditions, or we can be thankful that we still have a house to walk into and call home. | {
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“It’s purely anecdotal but there are a lot of women who have told me that they cannot deal with the sort of chest thumping that goes on in an undergraduate computer science program,” he says. “That’s where our program steps in.”
That program, Hackbright, is currently teaching its second all-female class the basics needed to get a gig as a software engineer over a ten-week period. With the female-only format, Fernandez and his co-founder David J. Phillips are aiming to serve a largely untapped pool of women who missed the boat on traditional routes into tech careers – due to a disinclination towards chest thumping or for any other reason.
“Maybe you were driven away from tech at an educational level either because no one inspired you to try it or you went into a program and found it wasn’t for you for whatever reason but you’re willing to try it again,” says Fernandez.
You might not guess it based on the gender imbalance in similar short training programs, but there are plenty of women who meet that description. Interest in Hackbright was muted at first, Phillips explains, “but we started getting more involved in the community and volunteering at events. Groups like Women Who Code were really supportive of us, getting the word out there to their communities, and so the first class that we did had about 40 applicants, and we accepted 12. Then with our current cohort of students, we had over 80 applicants and we accepted 16, so we definitely have enough demand to fill our classes.”
Driving, Not Navigating
It’s early days yet for the program but it appears the all-female format is not only inspiring more women to seriously consider tech careers, but is also providing educational advantages once they start learning. Fernandez, who has taught at co-ed programs in the past, says he’s noticed a difference in how women progress when they’re surrounded by other women.
“The first class I taught was mixed. There were three women and it was weird because the women were systematically two or three days behind on the material, and what I noticed was when we had them at pairing stations, they basically would shut down. We use the term driving and navigating when we talk about pair programming, and essentially the women would let the man in the pair drive if they were paired with men. When they were paired together though it was a very different environment. They would talk openly to each other and there was real discussion and so there was definitely something different there,” he says.
Phillips, for his part, puts the more positive educational environment down to confidence. “I think with any minority in a class, especially when you’re learning something as intense as programming, confidence is really important. We want everyone to be super confident and not be shy. Having an all women class takes down those barriers of feeling like the minority,” he says.
After the Training Wheels
Whether its confidence, the mentorship opportunities and training in interviewing skills provided by Hackbright, the all-female format, or simply some extraordinary applicants, the graduates of the first class have managed to launch promising tech careers.
“So far, of our last graduating class, over 80% of the people who were looking for jobs already have jobs as software engineers. One person went to be a product manager. So the graduates are doing really well,” says Phillips.
Fernandez is a bit more blunt. “Is it gauche to talk about salaries?” he asks, “because one woman got an offer after our program and it was kind of an obscene salary. I’m really proud of them.”
Women 2.0 readers: Do you think the option of learning in an all-female format would help more women learn to code? Let us know in the comments.
About the writer: Jessica Stillman is a freelance writer based in London with interests in unconventional career paths, generational differences, and the future of work. She writes a daily column for Inc.com and has blogged for CBS MoneyWatch, GigaOM, and Brazen Careerist, among others. Follow her on Twitter at @entrylevelrebel. | {
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“These are our enemies,” Judge Jeanine said. “Their mission is to kill us. So while their Allah says, ‘Kill the infidel,’ you and your Senate Democrats say we need to be kinder and gentler to them.”
“I, for one, am tired of American apologists like you trashing those assigned to protect us, those who put their lives on the line, like the CIA and law enforcement. They, and not you, have the high moral ground.”
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Sen. Diane Feinstein this week released her so called Senate “intelligence report,” bemoaning America’s brutal and ugly treatment of 9/11 detainees – our enemies – as a stain on our values and history.
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My response? People who kill thousands of innocent Americans have no right to gentle and humane treatment! And I for one will not hang my head in shame because the CIA did what the president, his cabinet and Congress thought was right in a time of war – let alone apologize to those who killed us.
And by calling it a “torture report,” the senator turns our enemy into the victim:
“The CIA’s actions a decade ago are a stain on our values and on our history.” – Sen. Feinstein
Now calls for criminal prosecution of the American torturers, articles on how to prosecute Americans, calls to compensate the detainees and suggestions that the UN investigate us for violating of international law
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Context, Diane – context. September 11th, 2001 – 3000 of us killed in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania
We don’t know who the enemy is, where they’re located, what their mission is and fearing another attack – we act to get information.
Rules are adopted by the president, the national security advisor, the attorney general, the justice department, while congress authorizes the use of military force.
“What happened here was that we asked the agency to go take steps and put in place programs that are designed to catch the bastards that killed 3,000 of us on 9/11 and to make sure it didn’t happen again.” – Vice President Dick Cheney
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I was in New York City that sunny 9-11 morning. I had friends at the world trade center. The next day as I walked through the ashes and the rubble I wondered how my friends died. Were they burned alive? Crushed to death Or did they jump to their deaths?
And you’re worried about “blowing cigar smoke in detainees faces”? Hell, I had a judge do that to me in the middle of a trial. I got over it!
These are our enemies. Their mission is to kill us. So while their Allah says, ‘Kill the infidel,’ you and your Senate Democrats say we need to be kinder and gentler to them.
Should we have matinees at Gitmo? How about exercise classes? Hell, the president said one detainee took up yoga, so he’ll never be a danger – that one now walking the streets of home.
Are you interested in saving the enemy at the expense of Americans? You say one thing and do another – you support drone killings of Americans without due process, no arrest, no indictment, no trial, just kill them with a drone!
So you justify the drone killings of American citizens who’ve gone to work with al Qaeda, but we can’t waterboard Al Qaeda themselves to save an American citizen?
So did we get actionable intelligence? John McCain says no. Dick Cheney and John Brennan say yes.
Honestly, I don’t know. I don’t know who to believe
But what I do know is the Obama White House and Eric Holder investigated whether any crimes were committed during those interrogations. No charges ever filed.
The fact that Barack Obama – who has spent the last 6 years blaming George Bush for everything but his golf score – didn’t file charges tells me there was nothing to prosecute. Not to mention, doing so would have embarrassed high-ranking Democrats like Nancy Pelosi – who knew about everything happening and did nothing.
So why now? Besides the obvious political gamesmanship, who was clamoring for this? Where was the drumbeat from – the Gitmo terrorists? Do we even need to have this discussion and point the finger of blame at ourselves when they attacked us! And our government did its best to protect us
Now, there were no follow up attacks, now were there?
What was gained? There is nothing new and nothing prosecutable. All you’ve done is jeopardize Americans abroad, create recruiting material for fanatic jihadists and in true Obama fashion throw our allies under the bus
I, for one, am tired of American apologists like you trashing those assigned to protect us, those who put their lives on the line like the CIA and law enforcement. They and not you have the high moral ground, you and your namby pamby lets be friends hogwash.
And while you’re at it, Dianne, what’s your solution? Have you read the papers lately? Americans are beheaded by these same Muslim fanatics
You know what I think? I think you’ve been in Washington too long. Your ivory tower, liberal, kumbaya naiveté is dangerous.
And simply talking to high value captives who are responsible for murdering my friends and other innocent Americans is naive.
You want to play with the big boys? Get the hell out of your ivory tower and highfalutin fundraisers, put on your big boy pants and start drawing a moral distinction between those who live to murder Americans and innocent Americans who rely on you for their safety.
If you commit the ultimate crime, to me, you forfeit your right to freedom. We should be allowed to purge our sensibilities of you and not be required to endure your existence for a moment longer than is absolutely necessary.
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PBA DRAFT: Lao hopes good Draft Combine showing lands him a PBA nod
ABS-CBN Sports on Dec 15, 2018 02:10 PM
Kyles Lao hopes that his good showing during the Draft Combine would be enough to land a nod in the 2018 PBA Draft. (Photo courtesy of the PBA)
Gauging his talents alongside his peers, Kyles Lao believes that he has already made a good account of himself in the two-day 2018 PBA Gatorade Draft Combine.
"It was nice to see the immense level of talent in this class and I think I was able to hold my own naman," the UP guard said after participating at the event held at the Gatorade Hoops Gym in Mandaluyong City.
Lao showed how he's one of the most intelligent prospects in this group, making the top five in the reaction tests as he got 83.33-percentage of hits during the biometrics phase of the Combine.
However, data could only speak so much on one's talent, and the former Xavier standout did show glimpses of what he could do when he played in the Combine’s mini-tournament.
The former UAAP Rookie of the Year didn't shy away from the spotlight in the scrimmages, helping his team finish runner-up to the JP Calvo and CJ Isit-led squad in the Finals.
Lao even uncorked 20 points in the semifinals against a team led by Robert Bolick, showing off his fearless slashing and precise sniping that hopefully, turned the heads of some of the coaches. | {
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Winners!
First, the winner of Erin Nicholas' HOTBLOODED is elaing8! Erin will be in contact soon!
And the winners of the Halloween Bewitching Trick or Treat Blog Hop are...
Kathryn Merkel has won an e-copy of BAD KITTY
and Jennifer S has won an e-copy of BAD KITTY plus a $10 GC to either Amazon or Barnes & Noble!
Congratulations and thank you for participating! I'll be in contact with the winners soon. And watch this space for more upcoming contests...especially in December as I celebrate the release of UNWRAPPED, my m/m/f menage releasing 12/6 from Loose Id! (Which I just got the GORGEOUS cover for and will be sharing soon!) | {
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Tour: Didyma, Miletos and Priene, Ephesus, TurkeyDate: Oct 11, 2015
I would like to thank Ilke for a wonderful day visiting these 3 fascinating sites, we had a great day with him and learned a tremendous amount about Turkey's history and culture. both ancient and current. We especially loved the stop for lunch and meeting the owner of the property it was a unique experience. Ilke was both informative and made everything very interesting. I would not hestitate to recommend him as a guide. Definitely 5 stars. Thank you. | {
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Commentary: South Carolina is a hotbed of 'Hell No-ism'
Many summers when I was young, I spent a week or longer at a camp in Floridas Ocala National Forest. During one evening assembly, a cabin mate named Wayne loudly proclaimed: Im gonna take my pig and secede.
Wayne, who was from Wildwood, Fla., was playing to an audience of country boys who understood his references agricultural as well as historical. Everyone laughed.
Ever since, from time to time, Ive wondered whatever happened to Wayne. More recently, Ive become convinced that he changed his name, moved two states north and got elected to the S.C. General Assembly.
In the state that touched off a war that led to the death of more than 600,000 Americans, talk of secession and nullification has become increasingly common in some circles.
Consider: More than 40,000 people not all of them South Carolinians have visited a White House Website and indicated they support a petition calling for the Palmetto State to secede from the United States.
Put into perspective, that amounts to less than 1 percent of the states population. Nevertheless, one wonders whether those folks merely are expressing disdain for President Obama or the federal government, or whether they truly believe the outcome of the Civil War is still in doubt.
How many people support nullification of one or more federal laws is more difficult to measure, but if lawmakers who advocate defying Uncle Sam are a reliable indicator, South Carolina once again is becoming a hotbed of Hell No-ism!
Sen. Lee Bright, R-Spartanburg, introduced a bill making it a crime to enact any part of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare); and
The S.C. House of Representatives last year passed the South Carolina Incandescent Light Bulb Freedom Act, which would nullify a federal ban on incandescent light bulbs by exempting bulbs manufactured within the state.
Pundits point out that nullification is a fools game. It didnt work in 1957 when, in defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus tried to prevent black students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High; and it failed when Lester Maddox brandished an axe handle to intimidate blacks from entering his Atlanta restaurant following passage of the 1964 Civil Right Act.
South Carolina is the poster child of nullification.
Scholars hearken to the 1830s when the Palmetto State tried to resist federal tariffs that U.S. Sen. John C. Calhoun and others argued were prejudicial to the states agrarian economy.
Delegates to the Nullification Convention of 1832 declared the tariffs unconstitutional and threatened to secede from the Union. Congress adopted a less punitive tariff the next year but not before President Andrew Jackson reportedly threatened to send federal troops to enforce the law and to hang nullifiers from the first tree he could find.
Actually, South Carolina came late to the concept of nullification.
As early as 1786, in Massachusetts, the militia was called out to repress what would be known as Shays' Rebellion, an uprising of Revolutionary War veterans and others who resisted state attempts to collect taxes.
Five years later, President George Washington led 15,000 troops across the Allegheny Mountains in western Pennsylvania to crush resistance to a federal excise tax on whiskey.
In each of these confrontations, the rebels had legitimate complaints.
Before they engaged in acts of terror against federal agents, for example, instigators of the Whiskey Rebellion unsuccessfully tried to persuade Congress to repeal the tax on distilled spirits. Rather than a sinful luxury, which is how spirits were viewed by many, whiskey was the coin of the realm in areas cut off from populous markets by mountains, bad roads and unnavigable rivers.
Unfortunately, for the rebels, the federal government took a dim view of its tax collectors being threatened, beaten, and tarred and feathered. The rebellion was put down, swiftly and firmly.
The record is pretty clear. Nullifiers may find favor with some voters, but they have a lousy track record overall.
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Not that I know of just yet. But I havn't called today.
I got to shoot Evil yesterday. Traded a kit a case of Nightmare for it cuz he couldn't shoot it... too brittle.
Oh, and the DM shoots like a dream.
hi im from washington but used to live in okinawa. my grandmas side all live there
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"Originally posted by Nomahsib: So yesterday I walked onto the field and told Tyson that he was sexy and I really wanted to touch him. His response was calling me gay and sending me to the other side of the field :("
shes like one of my best friends down at the high school who everyone feels looks like me. Apparently a service member saw her and asked if she was my sister, she played along for a minute then admitted we are just good friends and now related. She does not remember what the person looked like, nor what branch. I figured it was one of you guys cause you're the only service members I know/hang out with | {
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Riverhead to Wildwood Electric Transmission Line
In evaluating the electrical transmission and distribution system on Long Island, National Grid has determined the overhead transmission line between the Riverhead and Wildwood Substations needs to be upgraded from 69 kilovolts to 138 kilovolts. Because this transmission line is more than 10 miles long and 100 kilovolts, AKRF prepared an Article VII application to the Public Service Commission for the requisite Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need authorizing the construction, operation, and maintenance of the line. Our environmental analyses included land use, natural resources, visual resources, coastal zone consistency, and construction impacts, and we assembled the full Article VII package from various sources within National Grid and the Long Island Power Authority.
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This project upgraded the electrical transmission and distribution system from 69 kilovolts to 138 kilovolts. | {
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Battle of Dazar'alor Mythic Race Has Started on NA and Community Updates
With the opening of Mythic Dazar'alor, the race has started on NA realms. We'll be providing updates throughout the race and are proud to sponsor Method's World First Event.\r\rBelow, you can see what guilds are in the Top 10 for Mythic progression, using data powered by Raider.io. This data will update automatically as bosses are downed. Wowhead's Dazar'alor guides will also track the first three kills per boss, and our Today in WoW progression widget has returned to the front page.\r<iframe width="800" height="600" src="https:\/\/raider.io\/battle-of-dazaralor\/rankings\/world\/mythic?embed=1" frameborder="0"><\/iframe>\r\rRaider.io has also launched a new progression tool, breaking down the World First race by region. You'll be able to compare each region's progress and see the time gaps between boss kills. As usual, you can also get Discord Alerts powered by Raider.io for the World and Region Firsts. Below is a mockup with sample data of how the progression tracker will look when multiple regions are open:\r\r\r\rThe World First race used to be pretty secretive before Battle for Azeroth. However, Method live-streaming the race to a massive audience generated a ton of hype for this type of content. For the launch of Mythic Dazar'alor, we are seeing more top guilds stream or launch new community initiatives surrounding the race.\r\rLimit, the World 2nd guild in the Uldir race, will not be streaming Dazar'alor. However, they have partnered with HeroesHearth to bring you progression blog updates at Progress.limit.gg. This progress blog is part of HeroesHearth's new WoW site, designed to be a social center for WoW much in the same way they are for Heroes.\r\rExorsus, the World 3rd guild in the Uldir race, has decided to stream Dazar'alor. Voice will be muted, quite similar to Method.\r\r<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We are happy to announce that we will be streaming this raid progression. Voice will be muted (no alien language), tho you may ask your questions to our streamers about anything during breaks (in english too). Spread the word! Check all our streamers here: <a href="https:\/\/t.co\/xvyKwNgdcu">https:\/\/t.co\/xvyKwNgdcu<\/a> <a href="https:\/\/t.co\/5kqYrSD8gl">pic.twitter.com\/5kqYrSD8gl<\/a><\/p>— Exorsus (@ExorsusWoW) <a href="https:\/\/twitter.com\/ExorsusWoW\/status\/1087808463999328257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> \r\rWildcard Gaming, who achieved World First Heroic Jaina with over 19,000 people watching on stream, is also planning on streaming progression. They finished Uldir as US 2nd. You can watch their top streams, and learn more about their roster, here. Finishing World 8th in Uldir, their goal this tier is to get World 5th.\r\r<iframe src="https:\/\/player.twitch.tv\/?channel=tmsean&autoplay=false" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" height="378" width="620"><\/iframe><a href="https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/tmsean?tt_content=text_link&tt_medium=live_embed" style="padding:2px 0px 4px; display:block; width:345px; font-weight:normal; font-size:10px; text-decoration:underline;">Watch live video from TMSean on www.twitch.tv<\/a>\r\rBig Dumb Gaming, who achieved US 3rd in Uldir, will also be streaming progression. Similar to Limit, they've also launched a new website to cover raid updates and gameplay tips.\r\r<iframe src="https:\/\/player.twitch.tv\/?channel=cherryvodka&autoplay=false" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" height="378" width="620"><\/iframe><a href="https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/cherryvodka?tt_content=text_link&tt_medium=live_embed" style="padding:2px 0px 4px; display:block; width:345px; font-weight:normal; font-size:10px; text-decoration:underline;">Watch live video from CherryVodka on www.twitch.tv<\/a>\r\r\rDid you enjoy this news article? Receive instant notifications when the latest news is published through the Wowhead Discord Webhook and join the community with Wowhead's Discord Server, Twitter, and Facebook. | {
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Tire Fire Spreads Black Smoke Across Mission Valley
Emergency crews from several Mission Valley communities were dispatched to a large tire fire early Friday morning.
KERR Radio's Jeff Smith said the fire is reminiscent of a blaze that occurred near the same area in 2001.
"You may remember a massive tire fire at the Tire Depot between Polson and Pablo," Smith said. "Luckily at the time the EPA had specialized equipment they were using in Libby to mitigate the asbestos problem, so they were able to use bulldozers to extinguish that fire. We may have that same scenario again."
Smith said the fire was reported at about 5:35 Friday morning.
"The fire is sending thick, black smoke high into the Mission Valley sky," he said. "The good news is, there don't seem to be any structures affected by this, it's just a pile of tires. As you know, tires can throw a lot of smoke up into the air. As far as getting this fire extinguished, we could be looking at the same scenario we had back in 2001 and it could take several days."
Smith said crews from several agencies are on the scene and more are on the way.
"There are resources from the Ronan Volunteer Fire Department, along with Polson City and Polson Rural Fire departments at the scene," Smith said. "I can imagine that crews from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes will respond as this fire continues to burn."
There is no word yet on how the fire started, and traffic on U.S. Highway 93 North does not seem to be affected. | {
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I now see the image button, but when I click it, I don't get taken to the correct page now.
Any thoughts?
dresden_phoenix
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where did you want the button to take you to? you have added a .js that sends a user to "credits.php", in your OP this button would have simply submitted the form. if that's what you want then just remove the onclick .js
ChrisjChrisj
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2013-04-21T20:30:39Z —
#5
Thanks for your reply.I'm not clear on what you're saying, but this is an open source script that's modified.I didn't add .js, it came that way.It works correctly without the image (including the .js and onclick and credits.php).I'd like it to continue to work the same way, but I'd just like to add an improved image, to the button. Which I did but it somehow screws up the button's original execution, which is to take me to credits.php.Any other help will be appreciated.
dresden_phoenix
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2013-04-21T20:59:19Z —
#6
Sorry, I see how my phrasing was all worbly there.
you need to counter the default action of the image input ( which is to submit the form) to do this you add 'return false; ' as the last thing in your onclick e | {
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Things to Consider Before Buying Camping Tent
Before you buy a best waterproof camping tent, answer these fundamental inquiries on how you will utilize the tent and what kind of outdoors you will do. By figuring out what sort of outdoors tent is ideal for you before you get, you will spare cash, time and have the ideal tent for your outdoors encounter.
best waterproof camping tent
What Type Of Camping Tent Do You Need?
This all boils down to one inquiry. What kind of outdoors do you anticipate? On the off chance that you need to encounter the rushes of climbing through the backwoods, a light weight outdoors tent for two is the best decision for you. On the off chance that you are family outdoors in one area at a campground, at that point you should need to select some common luxuries of home! For example, room outdoors tents and huge family outdoors tents that won’t just serenely rest your whole family yet will hold all their own apparatus also.
What number of individuals will utilize the tent? Furthermore, for what purposes?
As this article is intended for family outdoors, we’ll remain with the vast family style outdoors tents. Initially settle on how you will utilize your tent. Is it true that you are simply resting in it? Is it accurate to say that you are likewise putting away individual things (garments, stimulation, toiletries) inside? Will you utilize the tent to store other outdoors adapt? These are immensely critical to consider before you buy an outdoors tent, since when a maker expresses that a tent rests four individuals, what they extremely mean to state is – this tent will just fit four ordinary estimated dozing sacks with space for little else! So if your group of four intends to utilize the tent for something other than rest, at that point it’s savvy to purchase an extensive family outdoors tent that dozes six and conceivably a tent with in excess of one room (for the individuals who are anticipating outdoors with pre-adolescent and additionally high school kids – you comprehend what I mean!).
What Kind Of Camper Are You? Also, Why This Affects The Type Of Camping Tent You Buy
Again solicit yourself what kind from outdoors you are arranging – delicate hiking, extraordinary wild trekking or family campground? Regularly, in the event that you are a family campground camper, the measure of time or intricacy of setting up your tent is less basic. Clearly, the less difficult the better, yet for family outdoors the simplicity of setting up a substantial or numerous room family outdoors tent isn’t as critical of a component. That is unless you get to your campground after sunset, at that point you would do well to have stuffed your outdoors lamps last! Nowadays most expansive family outdoors tents can without much of a stretch be set up in around 15-20 minutes – on the off chance that you have perused the set-up guidelines and have all the person lines, stakes and coverings helpful and prepared to utilize.
What Seasons And Typical Weather Are Most Likely To Encounter?
Clearly spring, summer and fall are the seasons we camp amid the most. However relying upon the geographic territory, ask yourself how regularly would you be able to encounter more outrageous climate? We as a whole realize that sudden rain tempests and high breezes do happen, and on the off chance that you ordinarily camp in regions where the likelihood of extraordinary climate can happen, you need to be readied. Each tent is water impervious to some degree, yet in the event that you camp in a region where visit rain storms happen, you might need to buy a tent particularly intended to repulse rain. A similar thing can be said for high breezes, searing sun and warm and the outdoors tents that are intended for those sorts of outdoors circumstances, for example, more grounded posts, sun screens and bunches of vents. Purchase the tent with the best possible highlights and your outdoors experience will be significantly more great!
Tent Design And Why It Matters
Outdoors tents come in a wide range of shapes, sizes, hues and developments. Picking the best one for you again relies upon what style of camper you are, the place you commonly camp and what you will utilize your tent for. When buying a tent for family outdoors, recollect you just need to set it up once and bring it down once. So amid your outdoors encounter your tent ought to be agreeable for everybody to utilize and work for all exercises. Here are a few contemplations: Height of tent – in case you’re 6’4″ and you buy an arch tent that is 5’6″ high at the tallest point, be set up for loads of stooping, else you might need to buy a family style outdoors tent with enough tallness leeway for the tallest individual from the family! Climate – on the off chance that you camp in a continually breezy zone (like some shorelines) an arch style of tent would be better as it’s particularly intended to support high and steady breezes. Mugginess – outdoors in high moistness regions can convey loads of magnificent creepy crawlies to your outdoors encounter! You might need to buy a tent with loads of screened vents and perhaps a screened eating shelter too. By and by, I’m not a bug-in-my-nourishment sort of camper!
A Final Note On Family Camping Tents
Before you set out on your remarkable family outdoors excursion, set up your tent! Ensure all the person lines are flawless and that you have enough stakes (in addition to additional in the event of some unforeseen issue) to set up your tent. Additionally perfect within and outside of your tent as per the maker’s headings previously you repack, you’ll be appreciative you did when you get to your campground! | {
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Nested "for" loops
This is a discussion on Nested "for" loops within the C Programming forums, part of the General Programming Boards category; Is there a limit on how many for loops I can nest or would it complicate the program?...
Both the translation and execution environments constrain the implementation of
language translators and libraries. The following summarizes the language-related
environmental limits on a conforming implementation; the library-related limits are
discussed in clause 7.
— 127 nesting levels of blocks
— 63 nesting levels of conditional inclusion
— 12 pointer, array, and function declarators (in any combinations) modifying an
arithmetic, structure, union, or incomplete type in a declaration
— 63 nesting levels of parenthesized declarators within a full declarator
— 63 nesting levels of parenthesized expressions within a full expression
— 63 significant initial characters in an internal identifier or a macro name (each
universal character name or extended source character is considered a single
character)
— 31 significant initial characters in an external identifier (each universal character name
specifying a short identifier of 0000FFFF or less is considered 6 characters, each
universal character name specifying a short identifier of 00010000 or more is
considered 10 characters, and each extended source character is considered the same
number of characters as the corresponding universal character name, if any)14)
— 4095 external identifiers in one translation unit
— 511 identifiers with block scope declared in one block
— 4095 macro identifiers simultaneously defined in one preprocessing translation unit
— 127 parameters in one function definition
— 127 arguments in one function call
— 127 parameters in one macro definition
— 127 arguments in one macro invocation
— 4095 characters in a logical source line
— 4095 characters in a character string literal or wide string literal (after concatenation)
— 65535 bytes in an object (in a hosted environment only)
— 15 nesting levels for #included files
— 1023 case labels for a switch statement (excluding those for any nested switch
statements)
— 1023 members in a single structure or union
— 1023 enumeration constants in a single enumeration
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Monday, March 13, 2017
Lipstick Lovin- the inside scoop on LipSense
As a stay at home mom with an unconventional job, I know what it's like to have to hustle to make extra income on the side. These days, with the internet, social media, blogs, YouTube, etc, the possibilities are endless. If you know how to network and understand the intricate weave of website algorithms, you can make money doing just about anything. I make a modest little side income from this blog, which is good enough for me because I started this out years ago just as a fun hobby and a way to keep our spread out family and friends up to date (before they were all on Facebook). Since I know a lot of people with "unconventional" internet-type jobs as well, I'm always trying to be that supportive friend, just like my friends have always been with me in regards to my blog. They've followed along, commented, shared, and done all that kind of stuff.
That being said, when I saw a bunch of my beauty blogging friends jumping on the latest "bandwagon" a few months ago, I have to admit, I gave some major side-eye. LipSense? What is this $50 lipstick about? Wait, it's supposed to stay on all day? Can I just buy it from a store? No? I have to buy it from you or go to your Facebook party? Whoa, whoa, whoa...hold the phone. It seemed like too much work and I didn't have time to figure out what all the hoopla was about. I did, after all, just have a baby a few months prior, so my lips could wait.
It wasn't until about a month later that I kept seeing LipSense on Instagram, and a trusted blog friend started selling and posting about it that I really started paying attention (or maybe coming out of the "baby" fog I had been in). I messaged her right away and told her I needed to try it. She helped me pick out a color- how the heck do you pick out a lip color on the internet without seeing it in person or trying it on? I took a gamble, sent her the money via PayPal, and waited.
When my the pretty, pink envelope arrived 2 days later (quick shipping- love that!) I couldn't wait to rip it open and try it on. I skimmed over the little instruction card that was enclosed and applied it to my lips, not really sure of what I was actually doing because I honestly didn't pay close attention to the detailed instructions. How hard could it be? I slapped a few coats of it on, added the clear gloss, and made a kissy face in the mirror- I loved the color! I chose a really fun, bright, Barbie pink called Fleur De Lisa. I kissed the mirror thought "Yaaaaaaay!" when I saw that my lip color didn't come off. OK, maybe this stuff was legit.
Truth time: a couple of hours later my lips felt kinda dry and wrinkly and I wanted the LipSense off. I knew I probably did something wrong in my speedy, overly confident application, and since I was also a cheapskate and skipped the $10 remover, I had to wrangle up every bottle of makeup remover I owned to see what would work to take off this crazy lipstick. I tried everything I had and nothing worked very well. The darn stuff had some crazy staying power. After about 10 minutes of straight up scrubbing with 2 different makeup removers, I finally got the LipSense off, along with most of the skin on my lips. I immediately messaged my LipSense gal and she was like "Yeah you shouldn't have to scrub! I'll send you the remover ASAP!" What a doll. She also directed me to a video she made showing how to apply LipSense that she posted in her Facebook group (yeah- this is where I'd normally roll my eyes about the Facebook group thing) but I'M SO GLAD I JOINED THE FACEBOOK GROUP! I watched her video and realized that I had put the product on waaaaaaay too thick and didn't allow enough time for it to dry in between coats. The tube of LipSense Ooops Remover arrived 2 days later I tried another go with LipSense again, this time going a little slower and not so heavy handed with the 3 layers of color. I glossed and was immediately hooked. I wore that color all day! And when it was time to take it off, low and behold, their special remover that I insisted I didn't need wiped off all of the color without taking off my skin in the process. Magic!
Fast-forward a few weeks and a small fortune spent on LipSense later and I began asking my sweet LipSense friend some burning questions I had about becoming a distributor. In just those short weeks I'd been using it, I started to seeing LipSense all over social media. A few more bloggers that I knew were selling it and talking about how great they were doing financially, how fun it was, and how there were incentives, like trips and cars. I'm a long-time follower of one of these bloggers and I'd just seen her post about being on vacation with her husband somewhere warm and tropical...come to find out it was a PAID FOR trip from doing so well with LipSense! That's when I found out that my own LipSense girl was on track to qualify for a car. A freaking car, can you believe it? Just for selling lipstick. Craziness, right?! Sign me up!
Well, not quite. I sat on the fence debating whether or not to become a distributor for about a month. I bombarded my poor friend with SO many messages asking everything I could possibly think of about LipSense and the company. I wanted the skinny and I knew she'd give me the truth. She's a mom of 3 little ones, a blogger, and has a lot going on too, and she's been pretty darn successful selling LipSense. She was so sweet and answered all of my questions and agreed that with my experience and people I knew I could be successful as a distributor too.
Fast-forward another 2 months and here I am, a LipSense distributor! I officially joined at the end of January and I'm so glad I did. I paid just $55 to become a distributor and I've already made my money back, like more than tenfold! I feel like it totally helped me come out of that crazy postpartum phase and has done wonders for my self-esteem again. Selling LipSense forces me to shower, get dressed, and put on makeup- something I was rarely doing just a few months ago because I was home most days with a baby and a toddler. What was the point? Nowadays I'm up, LipSense is on, and I'm taking a selfie if it's a new color I'm trying because I have to show my friends and customers what it looks like if I want to sell it. I feel like it's really helped me reignite that passion I've always had for the beauty industry that had kind of been repressed lately, because, well...hashtag momlife. After four kids, I finally truly understand the struggle!
OK, so with all this talk of this magical LipSense stuff, some of you might be wonder what the heck it is and why it's so awesome. Here's the 411 on LipSense.
What is LipSense?
Lipsense is a long wearing, waterproof, kiss-proof, smudge-proof lip color that wears for up to 18 hours. It's lead-free, wax-free, gluten-free, GMO-free, cruelty-free, and is made in the United States! LipSense is not a lip stain. It molecularly bonds to the lip and is worn with a shea butter gloss that permeates through the color to hydrate your lips while keeping the color on
Why do I need a kit?
LipSense has 3 products that work together, so first time users will need to purchase a lip kit for their initial purchase. A lip kit comes with a color, the gloss, and the remover. You choose your color and apply it in 3 thin layers, allowing each one to dry for a few seconds in between. Then you seal the color with the Glossy gloss, which is also what hydrates your lips. Finally, to take off LipSense at the end of the day (or touch up any mistakes) you use the Ooops remover.
Here's a video I made showing how to apply LipSense. There is a slight learning curve to applying it but the video will help a lot. It seems like a process because I'm slowing down and explaining things in the video, but I promise, it only takes about a minute in real life. Once or twice and you'll be a pro.
Here's why I absolutely love LipSense:
1. It stays put. Duh, that's an obvious one, but it's HUGE! I can put on my LipSense before I head out the door and know that it's going to look just as perfect at the end of the day as it did when I first applied it. No lie! I just throw my Glossy gloss in my purse (or diaper bag- #momlife) and regloss when I need a little moisture on my lips, but my color doesn't budge. It survives baby kisses and slobber, endless cups of coffee, eating, touching my face and lips, and everything else motherhood throws my way...all with zero color transfer. Ahhhhmazing!
2. I can wear so many different colors. One of the best things about LipSense is I can break out of my comfort zone and wear bold, bright colors that I'd usually shy away from. Normally, I'm a pale pink/nude gloss kind of girl. I have puny lips and lipstick always looks like crap on me after about an hour. Now I can throw on a bold pink or a dark red and rock it with major confidence because I know it's not getting on my teeth or smudging all over my face. Plus, no touch ups! (besides Glossy, but you don't have to look in the mirror for that).
3. Layering. One of the greatest things about LipSense, besides it's staying power, is the fact that you can make so many different shades from just 2 colors! You can customize and mix and match depending on how you layer the colors. Two tubes of LipSense equals 8 different colors!
4. LipSense makes my dry lips feel better. Seriously you guys, I'm one of those people who always has to have something on her lips or they feel extremely dry and I can't stop obsessing over it. I was a chapstick/EOS lip balm freak, and it's no wonder. Those lip products are full of wax, which doesn't actually moisturize your lips- it just makes you feel like you are because you have something on them. But the moisture wasn't really soaking in, so no matter how much I applied that chapstick like a crazy person, it wasn't doing much for my parched lips. LipSense's Glossy gloss drenches your lips in shea butter and vitamin E. Just say no to waxy lip products.
5. Speaking of ingredients. LipSense is made with really great quality ingredients, while leaving out things the bad stuff, like lead and wax. Some people are quick to point out that it contains alcohol, which you'd think would dry out your lips. This isn't just rubbing alcohol folks. It's SD40 cosmetic grade alcohol, and it's used to help deposit the color molecules on your lips. It also keeps the yucky bacteria out of your tube of LipSense, which is great because 1 tube lasts 4-6 months. Imagine how much is crawling in your lead-filled, waxy lipstick that wears off after an hour. LipSense for the win!
6. Don't forget the gloss options. There are different gloss finishes to go over any LipSense color, which is a total game-changer in itself! Glosses include traditional, matte, pearl, glitter, diamond, and more. Gloss options are such a fun way to change up any LipSense color! Go for sparkly one day and matte the next. Everything can mix and match so you have soooooo many options.
7. SeneGence rules. SeneGence is the company that owns LipSense, and they have so much more than just magical lipstick that stays on forever. Did you know there is a whole skincare and makeup line as well? All are long-wearing and are made with great quality ingredients, that aren't tested on animals, that and are manufactured in the United States. Plus, this company is great to work for. Their compensation is incredible- so much higher than any other MLM type business I've ever seen. SeneGence is all about helping women start their own business and change their lives. I know so many women out there who have been financially blessed thanks to this company and their products. From paying off debt, to getting cars paid for, to creating a second income in a struggling finacial situation, and to working hard and winning fun trips. It really is a sisterhood too. Everyone is super helpful, encouraging, and genuinely wants the women around them to succeed in this business too. It's crazy but so awesome. I can't even stop gushing you guys. It's seriously fun.
So pretty much what I'm saying is LipSense is awesome and you should try it. I've tried and reviewed a lot of lipsticks and glosses out there, and this one takes the cake- as in you could literally eat an entire cake and your lipstick would still be on point. If you're hesitant about trying it let me put your mind at ease- LipSense comes with a 100% money-back guarantee. So if you try it and you don't love it I'll refund your purchase (or trade it for something else if you'd like). So skeptics, fret not, I've got your back. I was you just a few months ago! I totally didn't buy the hype. But there's a reason this product is blowing up- it does what it says it's going to do and people are telling their friends. I'm telling everyone I know because I believe in the product that much and I want to share it with everyone. I love getting messages saying "OMG! I love this stuff! Thank you!" It makes my day.
If you're still a skeptic, I'm here to answer your questions about LipSense and help you choose a color that will look amazing on you. The easiest way to do this is to join my Facebook group. In there you'll find tons of informative stuff on all things LipSense- what it is, how to apply it, different colors, pricing, etc. I'm always posting my updated stock on hand (what I have ready to ship immediately), as well as new colors coming in that are available to pre-order. If you're not on Facebook I'm also on Instagram and post updates on there too- feel free to comment on a post or DM me and I can usually respond fairly quickly. Or you can also shoot me an email at [email protected], or just leave a comment here on the blog.
If you have any questions at all on how to become a distributor, please comment, message me, or shoot me an email anytime and I'd be happy to give you some information on how it all works and answer any questions you have about it. It's just $55 to become a distributor and have access to the 20-50% wholesale discount. There's no monthly minimums, no auto ship, and you only sell what you want to sell. Some girls even sign up just for the personal discount and buy for themselves and a few friends or family members. Or you can hustle and sell to everyone you know and build a team of girls with SeneGence and make some major commission, group bonuses, earn trips, get cars paid for, and much more. The income I'm making selling LipSense is contributing to my family's finances. I paid our car payment the last 2 months in a row, and that's no small feat. We just moved so money is a little tight, and this extra income is helping ease some of the burden from my husband, as he has a lot on his plate besides working overtime to pay for the new bigger house and everything else. I'm able to do this at home with 4 kids! I'm telling you, this is the best decision I've made in a while. Anyone who is interested can sign up now at Senegence.com and use my distributor number 266314 to register. I've already got a few girls on my team and they are doing so well! I'd be happy to help you get started and answer all of your questions.
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Currently thousands of Pennsylvanians struggle to pay their energy bills when they come each month. Love Energy Fuel recognizes, and that is why we partnered with a government program called LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program). LIHEAP is a federally-funded program that helps qualified families with their home heating oil bills.
What Is LIHEAP?
LIHEAP supports low-income families with their home heating concerns. The dates for support changes each year. Your payments are issued directly to Love Energy Fuel and appear as a credit on your bill. The amount available varies according to your income, the number of people in your family, and the type of fuel your home uses. The Department of Human Services may extend or shorten the program depending upon the availability of federal funds.
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You can apply for LIHEAP whether you are working or not. To qualify, your annual income must fall below a given level, depending on the number of people in your household. You also need proof of your oil or propane account, as well as the information for everyone in your home.
Pennsylvania Income Eligibility Limits
To qualify for LIHEAP in Pennsylvania for 2016-2017, your annual gross income for the number of people in your home must be:
For an individual living alone: $17,820/year
For a two-person household: $24,030/year
For three family members: $30,240/year
For four family members: $36,450/year
For five family members: $42,660/year
For six family members: $48,870/year
For seven family members: $55,095/year
For eight family members: $61,335/year
With each additional family member, the income cap is raised by $6,240/year.
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There are three different ways you can apply for LIHEAP, online, on paper, or in person.
A Love Energy Fuel representative can advise you on the documentation you’ll need get your application approved. This can include:
Names, ages and Social Security numbers of all household members
Proof of income for all household members
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When you are eligible?
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The Crisis program will reopen in the Fall of 2017.
Emergency situations include:
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Scramble for the Ball: Over/Under Update
by Ben Riley and Vince Verhei
This week, we give thanks that Scramble is immune from the predictive pressures that our readers expect of DVOA and DYAR as we look back at our preseason Over/Under predictions. Who looks to be cashing in on their AFC and NFC picks as we head into the final quarter of the season? The success or failure of some picks is still in doubt, so there is no final leaderboard at the end. We'll run one at the end of the season to see who really won and lost.
AFC
Team: Baltimore Ravens.Record: 7-4.Over/Under: 6.0.Vince then: "We'll start off with a cakewalk ... The schedule's a toughie, with the AFC South and NFC East ahead, but it looks like a down year for the AFC North, so I'm going with the Over."Vince now: Anyway, this cake is great. It's so delicious and moist.Ben then: "The danger here is that the team will abandon Troy Smith after he gets sacked 15 times in Houston in Week 2 just so they can evaluate Joe Flacco and His Incredible Tools, but I think I can live with that risk." (Over.)Ben now: Clearly I meant to say that the danger was that the Ravens would stick with Troy Smith instead of evaluating Joe Flacco and His Incredible Tools! (Hey, at least I got the over part right.)
Team: Buffalo Bills.Record: 6-5.Over/Under: 7.5.Vince then: "I look at this team and a schedule with Oakland, St. Louis, Kansas City, San Francisco, and Miami twice, and I can't help but think Over."Vince now: I look at the next four games -- San Francisco, Miami, New England at home; Denver and the Jets on the road -- and can't help but think this is going to come down to the wire.Ben then: Concerns about Jason Peters, Trent Edwards and Dick Jauron led me to predict the Bills would go 7-9.Ben now: You know, I still have concerns about Peters, Edwards and Jauron. I really can't figure out if this is a good team or not.
Team: Cincinnati Bengals.Record: 1-9-1.Over/Under: 7.0.Vince then: "Hooray! The circus! ... This was not a particularly good team to begin with, and with all the chaos, it's easy to pick the Under."Vince now: The Ryan Fitzpatrick Show is not the circus. At 8.0 yards per completion, it's more like bingo, and a rather dull bingo game at that.Ben then: "I think this team could surprise people this year" before predicting a 9-7 finish, although with caveat that "they could almost as easily go 5-11."Ben now: Although I wish I could blame Ryan Fitzpatrick for this misfire, the reality is that Carson Palmer looked like garbage too. This team won't even finish with five wins. Pathetic.
Team: Cleveland Browns.Record: 4-7.Over/Under: 8.0.Vince then: "Cleveland's advance [in 2007] was due entirely to its offense and a rebuilt line that produced career years for Braylon Edwards and Derek Anderson. Anderson, in particular, is likely to come crashing back down to Earth."Vince now: Anderson has been benched, Edwards should join him, the Browns are terrible, and I'm on a roll.Ben then: After boldly stating that "Derek Anderson is no Aaron Brooks," I boldly claimed that "Anderson's the real deal, the Browns are back, and even though we're going to have to deal with the national nightmare that is Drew Carey, this team is going to the playoffs."Ben now: Vince was right: Derek Anderson is Aaron Brooks. On the other hand, at least we haven't had to deal with the Drew Carey scenario.
Team: Denver Broncos.Record: 6-5.Over/Under: 7.5.Vince then: "Our projection system has the Broncos at 8.7 wins, but my gut tells me otherwise. I'm going Under."Vince now: The Broncos could hit the Under and still get into the playoffs. Personally, I think that would be great.Ben then: Correctly identified Jay Cutler as a good quarterback and the defense as having serious problems; incorrectly slammed Brandon Marshall as a head case; predicted Broncos would go under.Ben now: Jay Cutler led my fantasy team to the first seed in our league's playoffs, but the Broncos just lost to the Raiders at home. Folks, don't let your defenses grow up to be made of Seahawks cast-offs.
Team: Houston Texans.Record: 4-7.Over/Under: 7.5.Vince then: "I'm thinking this team is still a year away from real contention and taking the Under."Vince now: Make your plans for 2009, Texans fans!Ben then: "Steve Slaton should be on everyone's fantasy radar."Ben now: True story: I traded Steve Slaton for Darren McFadden in Week 5, and my fantasy running backs presently consist of Steven Jackson, Earnest Graham and BenJarvus Green-Ellis. That soft white noise you hear is me weeping into my pillow.
Team: Indianapolis Colts.Record: 7-4.Over/Under: 11.0.Vince then: "Like everyone in Indiana, I'm crossing my fingers and taking the Over."Vince now: The Colts could still win 12 games and hit the over. All they have to do is beat Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Jacksonville, and then Tennessee in a Week 17 game that probably won't matter to the Titans.Ben then: Dithers around with a joke about bursa sacs before mistakenly claiming that locals are referring to the new Colts' stadium as "The Lube."Ben now: The Colts have at least two wins they shouldn't have, and they still aren't going to get to 12 wins to make the over. So there.
Team: Jacksonville Jaguars.Record: 4-7.Over/Under: 10.0.Vince then: "The more I think about this, the more obvious it seems that Jacksonville is going Over 10 wins."Vince now: Obvious! It was obvious, I tell you!Ben then: "Remember the preseason in 2006, when anyone and everyone picked the Carolina Panthers to win the Super Bowl, and then the Panthers proceeded to go 8-8 and miss the playoffs? I'm not saying things are that bad, but there's way too much hype around this team." (Under.)Ben now: I blame Maurice Jones-Drew, who has become the modern day Corey Dillon, good for three monster games per season and complete obscurity for the other 13 games.
Team: Kansas City Chiefs.Record: 1-10.Over/Under: 5.5.Vince then: "I think five wins really is the best-case scenario for Herm and the gang. Under."Vince now: I think three wins really is the best-case scenario for Herm and the gang.Ben then: Turned it over to Herm Edwards before predicting the Chiefs would go over 5.5 wins.Ben now: Tempting to rely on the Herm Edwards crutch again, but there's only so many times you can type "Uh, HELLO?" without feeling guilty.
Team: Miami Dolphins.Record: 6-5.Over/Under: 5.5.Vince then: "I call this a strong contender to pick number one overall again, and I call this Under."Vince now: OK, so they've already gone over. Let's see how they do now without the offensive juggernaut that is Greg Camarillo.Ben then: "The Dolphins might win against the Raiders, Rams, and Chiefs, and maybe they split with Buffalo. That gets us to four wins, which not coincidentally is the same number of gin and tonics I've consumed this afternoon."Ben now: I blame my drinking problem for missing this prediction.
Team: New England Patriots.Record: 7-4.Over/Under: 12.5.Vince then: "I think New England will get back to the Super Bowl, so I have no problem taking the Over here."Vince now: I could still be half-right here. You never know.Ben then: Promotes usual anti-Patriots diatribe in illusory attempt to convince "FO haters" that site does not have pro-Patriots bias.Ben now: Somehow, I find myself rooting for Matt Cassel. Nightmare.
Team: New York Jets.Record: 8-3.Over/Under: 8.0.Vince then: "Put it all together, and I see a team sneaking Over the projection and competing for a playoff spot late into December."Vince now: They still play the 49ers and Seahawks. They're not sneaking over the projection, they're barreling through it, hollering with guns ablaze.Ben then: Makes obligatory "Favre is just having fun out there!" joke before predicting the Jets to go over eight wins.Ben now: I've been working for two weeks on a massive lawsuit involving eighth graders, and whether they should be forced to learn algebra in California. I misspell "eight" and "eighth" at least 60 times per day. I mention this only because it may explain why I called James Harrison "Jerome" last week, and I'm still feeling a little bashful.
Team: Oakland Raiders.Record: 3-8.Over/Under: 6.0.Vince then: "It's a few spectacular talents surrounded by several dozen replaceable players, in a chaotic setting. That spells Under."Vince now: Can they get four wins against Kansas City, San Diego, New England, Houston, and Tampa Bay to hit the over? No, actually, they can't.Ben then: "Rookie quarterback + semi-lame duck head coach + possible alien life form that is Al Davis = less than six wins."Ben now: The logic seems sound, but how did they win last week?
Team: Pittsburgh Steelers.Record: 8-3.Over/Under: 9.0.Vince then: "The 2005 Steelers team that won the Super Bowl would struggle to win 9 games in this schedule; the 2008 Steelers won't come close. Under, under, under."Vince now: Well, they're going over, but I would like to note that their next four games are New England, Dallas, Baltimore, and Tennessee, before finishing with Cleveland. So expect a lot of hand-wringing when the Steelers don't get a first-round bye.Ben then: After rattling off all the reasons I thought the Steelers would be good, I nonetheless predicted them to go under 9.0 wins.Ben now: It's possible, just possible, that my prediction was clouded by dark memories of the 2005 Super Bowl.
Team: San Diego Chargers.Record: 4-7.Over/Under: 10.5.Vince then: "Every game on the slate looks winnable, so it's easy here to take the Over."Vince now: It turns out that while all of those games looked winnable, a lot of them were also loseable.Ben then: Predicted 13 wins and claimed the team had no flaws other than the coaching staff.Ben now: Upon further reflection, that's a pretty big flaw.
Team: Tennessee Titans.Record: 10-1.Over/Under: 8.0.Vince then: "Their presence in perhaps the NFL's toughest division seals their fate and dooms them to Under status."Vince now: Sometimes, it's funny that I get paid to write about football.Ben then: Despite gushing over Chris Johnson in Peter King-to-Brett Favre-like fashion, I rip the receiving corps and predict that the Titans will finish with less than eight wins.Ben now: With back-to-back fantasy performances of less than 10 points, let's just say I'm no longer sending C.J. bottles of Hennessey with special notes attached.
NFC
Team: Arizona Cardinals.Record: 7-4.Over/Under: 7.5.Vince then: "Year after year, season after season, there's always somebody out there saying the Cardinals will finally return to the playoffs. Well, no more. Everyone has given up ... You know what? I've given up too. Under."Vince now: Just when I gave up on the Cardinals, they came through, like they were trying to torment me. Reminds me of some women I've known.Ben then: After stating that "I expect this is the year the Cardinals will break out," I go on to praise for Kurt Warner, Anquan Boldin, and Tim Hightower.Ben now: Hopefully this offsets my Bengals prediction somewhat.
Team: Atlanta Falcons.Record: 7-4.Over/Under: 4.5.Vince then: "I think Matt Ryan will avoid mistakes. I like the playmaking trio of Michael Turner, Jerious Norwood, and Roddy White. And the offensive line should be more stable than last season. Still, there's that defense, and the schedule includes more Green Bays, San Diegos, and Minnesotas than Detroit and Oaklands. Yes, I'm really taking the Under here."Vince now: I still question their defense, but they're much better on both sides of the ball than they have any right to be.Ben then: "With Roddy White and Matt Ryan playing the role of a poor man's Braylon Edwards and Derek Anderson, respectively, the offense should be surprisingly potent."Ben now: Little did I know this would be a disservice to Ryan and White.
Team: Carolina Panthers.Record: 8-3.Over/Under: 7.5.Vince then: "I see very few unwinnable games for Carolina. I like the Over."Vince now: They've already gone over, but are fighting for their playoff lives. They'd better hope any unwinnable games are behind them.Ben then: "Not only do I think the Panthers are a lock for the Over, I think they win the NFC South and seriously contend for a Super Bowl berth. Provided John Fox doesn't have plastic surgery, of course."Ben now: In a sign that I may have written my prediction column under the influence, I have no idea what the plastic surgery joke is about. Literally, no idea.
Team: Chicago Bears.Record: 6-5.Over/Under: 7.5.Vince then: "So that's the Chicago offense: Orton passing to Brandon Lloyd and Marty Booker, or handing off to Adrian Peterson (no, the other one). Can that attack win eight games that include Minnesota and Green Bay twice each, plus the entire AFC South? No. No, it can't. Under."Vince now: Kyle Orton, Real NFL Quarterback, remains the biggest surprise of the 2008 season.Ben then: "Seriously, the idea this team can win eight games is a joke, even if the offense is actually throwing to (former cornerback) Devin Hester or handing off to (unimpressive rookie) Matt Forte. Load up on bratwurst and the Under."Ben now: By unimpressive rookie Matt Forte, I meant "really impressive multidimensional rookie" Matt Forte.
Team: Dallas Cowboys.Record: 7-4.Over/Under: 10.5.Vince then: "It takes a good team to top 10.5 wins. This is a very good team. Over."Vince now: This may be a very good team, but they still play the Giants, Ravens, and Steelers. They're not winning 11 games.Ben then: After ripping on Wade Phillips, I made yet another tired Jessica Simpson joke before predicting the Cowboys to go over 12 wins.Ben now: I'm out of Jessica jokes and have nothing left to say about this team.
Team: Detroit Lions.Record: 0-11.Over/Under: 6.5.Vince then: "What? You can't be serious. 6.5 wins? Do the preseason victories over Cincinnati and Buffalo count? How the hell else are the Lions going to top six wins?"Vince now: They're not.Ben then: Nothing better than an entire paragraph based on Kid Rock lyrics.Ben now: As always, I'm in it to win it like Yzerman, could drink about 15 Heinekens. Speaking of 15, that's how many losses the Lions will have this year.
Team: Green Bay Packers.Record: 5-6.Over/Under: 8.5.
Vince then: "A talented team plus an easy schedule makes for an easy Over."Vince now: I've got to learn to be more ambiguous in my writing. "Could," "possibly," "perhaps" -- these are words I need to use more often.Ben then: A drunken digression against Ghandi, Mother Theresa, Winston Churchill, Christopher Columbus and Brett Favre for some reason leads me to take the over.Ben now: I'm just having fun out there! Oh wait, I made that joke earlier.
Team: Minnesota Vikings.Record: 6-5.Over/Under: 8.5.Vince then: "... I'm sticking to my guns, and sticking to the Over."Vince now: The Detroit game on December 7 will get them to seven wins. Can they find two more among Chicago, Atlanta, Arizona, and the Giants?Ben then: "The Vikings are a little overhyped -- think of them as the Jaguars of the NFC -- and I don't think Tarvaris Jackson is a viable starting quarterback."Ben now: It took a couple of weeks, but eventually Brad Childress agreed with me.
Team: New Orleans Saints.Record: 6-5.Over/Under: 8.5.Vince then: "I'm not comfortable with the Saints. I think they could be really good, or really bad. Most likely, they'll fall somewhere in the middle, and just short of this projection. Under."Vince now: They've been really good AND really bad, but should still finish short of that projection.Ben then: Picked the over despite the scheduling black hole the Saints just emerged from.Ben now: This summer, I made the mistake of ordering a Hurricane on Bourbon Street at 4 a.m. Did you know you can get food poisoning from Slushee-like substances? In New Orleans you can.
Team: New York Giants.Record: 10-1.Over/Under: 8.5.Vince then: "I think the improvement Eli Manning showed in the playoffs may be real and not a four-game hot streak, but he could find himself throwing three touchdowns in losing efforts several times this season. Under."Vince now: In the Giants' only loss, Eli Manning threw just one touchdown. So I was wrong about that too.Ben then: Picked the under despite equating the Giants' defensive line to a Corvette ZR-1, even after the losses of Michael Strahan and Osi Umenyiora.Ben now: Hey, even Vegas pegged the over/under line at 8.5 -- no one thought they'd be this good.
Team: Philadelphia Eagles, 5-5-1.Over/Under: 8.5Vince then: "Much like the home purchased by Tom Hanks and Shelley Long in that underrated classic The Money Pit, the Eagles are a beautiful house on a shaky foundation that could give way at any time ... I see a team going Over. All bets are off, however, come 2009."Vince now: Much like the U.S. real estate market, it was only a question of when, not if, the Eagles would collapse.Ben then: "As for the Eagles, our projection system continually wants to have sex with them, so I'll go with the Over too."Ben now: Our projection system has contracted an STD (or should I say computer virus?) and is currently undergoing treatment.
Team: San Francisco 49ers.Record: 3-8.Over/Under: 6.0.Vince then: "This, folks, is an Under team if ever I saw one."Vince now: I see the Bills, Jets, Dolphins, and Redskins on the schedule, and I still see an Under team.Ben then: Bad idea to rely on Isaac Bruce, Bryant Johnson, J.T. O'Sullivan, and Mike Martz to revitalize the offense.Ben now: Still a bad idea, although it's fun to have a head coach in the NFL who likes to strip for motivational purposes.
Team: Seattle Seahawks.Record: 2-9.Over/Under: 8.5.Vince then: "I just can't see any reason not to take the Over."Vince now: I hate 2008.Ben then: I expressed concern that "Matt Hasselbeck did not play in the last three preseason games due to a mysterious back ailment, thus depriving him of the opportunity to build chemistry with new starting wide receivers Logan Flotsam and Jordan Jetsam," but nonetheless picked the over.Ben now: Amazingly, Logan Flotsam and Jordan Jetsam gave way to Billy McNobody, Keary Craphands, and the return of Koren Drinkingbuddy. What a season.
Team: St. Louis Rams.Record: 2-9.Over/Under: 2.5.Vince then: "Later games against the 49ers, Dolphins and Falcons could push the Rams up to five wins, maybe even six, but certainly not seven. Under."Vince now: Those games against Miami and Atlanta are still on the schedule, and they look significantly less winnable now.Ben then: "Last time I checked Scott Linehan remained the head coach, so I take the Under and a healthy dose of sodium amytal."Ben now: Did you ever do the Kenosha, Vince? I never did. (This joke will make sense to exactly four people who read this column.)
Team: Tampa Bay Buccaneers.Record: 8-3.Over/Under: 8.0.Vince then: "Still, with no division rival looking particularly dominant, the NFC South looks ripe for the taking ... I'm good with the Over here."Vince now: After three games against divisional foes, the Bucs close with the Chargers and Raiders. A first-round bye may be likely.Ben then: "Gregg Easterbrook may believe in football gods, but I'm an atheist, and I think this team is just talented enough to win nine games before making yet another first-round playoff exit."Ben now: Wait, here comes my second straight week of using a TMQ-based "Ye gods!" joke. Ye gods, I think my prediction regarding the Bucs will come true! Stop me before I binge drink again!
Team: Washington Redskins.Record: 7-4.Over/Under: 7.5.Vince then: "Has everyone forgotten that this was a playoff team last year? And it wasn't a schedule fluke -- their 7.9% DVOA ranked 12th in the league ... Over and out."Vince now: At least I was right about one team in this division.Ben then: Predicted the Redskins would end up with the first pick in the NFL draft.Ben now: Vince, they tried to warn me of my evil ways, but I couldn't hear what they had to say. So yes, I was wrong -- I realize now that I was wrong.
Keep Choppin' Wood
Although Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb seem to vie for the trophy almost every week, we here at Scramble headquarters are breaking the mold in order to give the award to Surry County, Virginia, prosecutor Gerald Poindexter, who somehow managed to fail to indict Michael Vick on six charges of killing dogs, even after Vick admitted to federal authorities that he'd personally participated in killing dogs prior to Poindexter seeking the indictment. Impressive work, counselor -- keep choppin' justice.
Colbert Award
Leading 24-21 on the first drive of the second half, Saints coach Sean Payton had a fourth-and-1 at his own 45. Payton kept his offense on the field, and Pierre Thomas gained four yards and a first down. The Saints went on to score on a touchdown pass to Billy Miller. Mid-game fourth down conversion attempts are somewhat common, though, and it takes more than that to win a Colbert Award. Take, for example, the trickery the Saints attempted in the third quarter. Up by 17 and within shot of a field-goal attempt that would boost the lead to three touchdowns, Payton called for a double-pass, with Lance Moore lobbing a ball to Thomas, which was picked off by Aaron Rouse. We can question the wisdom of the call -- why would you ever want Moore passing instead of Drew Brees? -- but it was undeniably ballsy.
Loser League
QB:Donovan McNabb put up a -4 this week to "lead" all quarterbacks, but it was not the Eagles who saw two quarterbacks go into negative numbers -- it was the Browns, who saw both Brady Quinn and Derek Anderson finish at -2. (For the record, Kevin Kolb finished right at 0.)
RB:Sammy Morris and Frank Gore take the stage here. Each player scored a 2.
WR:Eddie Royal and Kevin Curtis take the stage HERE. Each player scored a 1.
K:Matt Prater and Josh Scobee each missed a pair of field goals, and each scored a 0.
No one laughes in seattle anymore. No one. Can you imagine going to these games, wathcing pretty much whomever shows up play down to the Seahawks, and leave the game legitimately with in reach for the most part and they still lose. And weirdly November has been clear and sunny instead of windy and rainy for the first time I can remember. So I'm going to chalk it up to global warming and blame the oil companies.
I have season tickets. After so many losses at home, laugh is about all I can do. From the week Seneca pulled his calf during warm-ups when he was supposed to be one of the few healthy receivers (my buddy caught him jogging into the tunnel) to watching Hass throw an easy pick for the second week in a row in the closing minutes, it has been one of the strangest seasons that I can remember.
This (the Cowboys) may be a very good team, but they still play the Giants, Ravens, and Steelers. They're not winning 11 games".
Just wanted to point out the Cowboys are 7-4 right now, so assuming they win vs. Seattle and Philly, they would be able to lose one of those games and get to 11 wins. Not sure if you meant you don't think they can even win two out of three, but I think its possible they do.
Great article, though. Its pretty damn hard to make preseason predictions, isn't it?
Ben, I think you made that joke because the altercation between Ken Lucas and Steve Smith (during which Smith punched Lucas, breaking his nose) had something to do with Lucas allegedly having had plastic surgery.
I prefer to keep the KCW to actual football things, I mean we could pull any number of news stories off the headlines to find "keep chopping justice"...
This week I'd give it to Jacksonville Center Brad Meester, who on the first play from scrimmage apparently did not realize that David Garrard was well behind him in a shotgun formation, and snapped the ball as if he were under center (does he not.. um... tap.. before the snap?). The result of this snap to no one was the ball lying on the ground, as Meester didn't even seem to realize he'd snapped to no one and blocked away from it, leaving Napoleon Harris (signed off the waiver wire a few weeks ago) an unexpected gift which he returned for a touchdown seven seconds into the game, part of a horrific start that saw Jacksonville down 14-0 less than a minute into it (the second resulting from a kickoff return fumble, something you can at least understand).
"Folks, don't let your defenses grow up to be made of Seahawks cast-offs."
I guess I don't really know where some of the "players" the Broncos added on defense came from, but other than Niko Koutovides, who in this astounding festival of suck is a Seahawks cast-off? I suppose it could be any of the safeties, but I would challenge you to prove that any of the Broncos safties exist *right now* let alone that they, in fact, existed elsewhere before this year. | {
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It should? I question it only because I have not heard of anyone doing it although i am sure it has been tried before by this point.
The seat frame mounting points are the same style front and rear and their is not any offset to the left or right so I believe the only issue would be that your seat recline lever would be to the inside instead of the outside. The seatbelt is anchored to the floor so that will stay the same.
I would give it a try and see, it should not take any more than an hour to do it if you take your time.
Most of us have just replaced the old seats because they were not all that comfy to begin with.
I got a estimate on my seats being redone at this body shop,they want 250.00 per seat,went to O'reilly's and got some seat covers for 50 bucks and stuff some towels on top and taped them to build them up and put seat covers on.He said he would use vinyl.Just the driver side is bad.These seats are very uncomfortable.
You can probably renew the original seat easily. If you look under the bottom there is a heavy cardboard between the springs and the foam cushion. Replacing that should take care of the problem. Simply cut the "hog rings" that hold the cover and take it apart. you can just use wire to put it back together if necessary. You can probably switch the foam between the seats if needed. | {
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