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Theatre & Dance - Still/Moving
Date and time:
Friday, 4/25/2014
7:30 PM
- 10:00 PM
Location:
Highlander Theatre
Description:
The strokes of a painting. The lines of a sculpture. Life behind a photograph. This year’s spring dance concert will bring art to life as each dance work will reflect upon a piece of artwork created by the students and faculty of the UCM Department of Art & Design. These pieces will be choreographed to musical compositions composed and performed by the students and faculty of the UCM Department of Music. Music, Art & Dance are the elements of Still/Moving and the collaboration between these three departments is a unique opportunity for dance students to expand their journey into artistic independence & expression and to collaborate with some of today’s most promising young artists! | {
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Bloggers on the Iraq supplemental appropriations bill.
Bloggers on the Iraq supplemental appropriations bill.
Pork Roast
Bloggers are skeptical about the pork-laden Iraq war supplemental bill, sympathetic to John and Elizabeth Edwards, and cheering a cuddly polar bear.
Pork roast: House Democratic leaders are luring lawmakers to an Iraq funding bill, which would place a timetable to remove U.S. troops from Iraq, with promises of funding pet projects ranging from money for rice farmers and spinach growers to funds for wildfire prevention. Bloggers are skeptical.
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Michael Linn Jones, a contributor at The Gun Toting Liberal,grumbles at the patchwork legislation: "Spinach? Peanut Storage? What do Popeye and Jimmy Carter have to do with the war in Iraq? This bill is about funding the TROOPS. Period. End of story. It does not MATTER what one's position on the war, or the Bush administration is. Those men and women have their trousers hanging over the edge, and deserve far better than this."Conservative Gateway Punditsums up the feelings of many war supporters: "Holy,Honey Baked Ham! Democrats are out buying votes to lose a war. Honestly, could there be anything more disgusting?"
Donny Shaw at Congress Gossip Blog, an arm of watchdog organization OpenCongress, takes a step back from the ire to award an A for effort: "Whether or not you like the bill, you have to be impressed by how precisely the Democratic leadership has crafted the war supplemental to get the maximum support of House Democrats. … The leadership's skill is in finding the right balance of provisions in the bill so that it rests it in a spot where it can withhold as much swelling as possible without bursting at the seams and deflating entirely."
The conservative Discerning Texan sees blatant hypocrisy: "Remember when the Democrats ran for Congress last fall, promising to clean up the pork and all the special interest money in Congress. As I recall that was the entire raison d'etre of their campaign. … So that has been, what... 5 months ago now, right? Well, the baby has officially been tossed out with the bathwater."
Staying on the trail: John Edwards will keep campaigning despite the fact his wife, Elizabeth, has had a recurrence of breast cancer *. Bloggers are full of good wishes and discussing the political ramifications.
Andrew Sullivanthinks well of Edwards after the press conference: "What I saw in this press conference was the reality of family values - not the rhetoric, not the divisiveness, not the politics, just the reality of an actual family dealing with real issues. We all face such issues…In this, John Edwards is doing a public service. He was admirably candid about his wife's cancer being treatable, if not curable. That paradigm is increasingly common - and it's affirming to see someone in public life live through it so positively, so admirably and so passionately."
Conservative Kleinheider at Volunteer Voterssympathizes: "She has cancer and she will never be cured. The cancer is treatable but she will never get free of it. That has to affect this man's mind. John Edwards may not have suspended his campaign in deed but in his mind he has to have." At the Huffington Post, Edwards supporter Linda Milazzo commiserates: "With all my heart I want Elizabeth Edwards to be our First Lady. What a White House she would have. … A genuine, warm and gracious woman who would restore honor, gentility and humanity to the leadership of this nation which it desperately needs. I don't know what lies ahead for Elizabeth. What I do know is that millions are pulling for her. Millions believe in her. And millions believe in her husband, John, too."
Politico blogger Ben Smith declared before the announcement that Edwards would suspend his campaign, only to retract his post and apologize later. David Corn, Washington editor for the Nation, says the "mis-scoop is no big deal. But it's a reminder of the truism that since most journalists are now able to post what they know (or think they know) immediately, there are more opportunities to get things wrong."
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Read more about Edwards. See what Edwards' stock is doing in the political markets in Slate's "Political Futures."
Polarizing bear: The Berlin zoo is not giving in to calls from animal-rights activists that it should euthanize an abandoned polar-bear cub because hand-feeding is not "species appropriate." Bloggers are besotted with "Cute Knut."
Economics student Kitty at catallaxy questions the assumption that rights supersede life: "It's a presumptuous assumption and one that fails to adequately value the very strong will to survive that animals, human or otherwise, naturally possess. One only has to look at how animals chew their own limbs off in order to survive to see some evidence of this."
The South Carolina conservative at Mike's Americapokes fun at the contradiction in liberal stereotypes: "And the same loony tune lefties who would go ballistic if a sparrow were killed to build a freeway are still demanding the death of Knut... for his own good. No doubt to save him from global warming."
Dan at Skirl | Dan Dickinsonthinks the activists are going too far: "If the question were whether we should be going into the wild to adopt abandoned bear cubs, I'd say no, that's disrupting the natural cycle. But, as I said, I also don't think we should be putting animals in zoos, so until that practice ceases I don't think we should be euthanizing healthy zoo-born animals just because, all other things being equal, they'd die in the wild."
Correction, March 23: Because of an editing error, the article originally stated the Elizabeth Edwards had been diagnosed with bone cancer. Rather, the breast cancer that was first diagnosed has metastized in her bones. (Return to the corrected sentence.) | {
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Google Android executive moving to China’s Xiaomi
AFP, NEW YORK
Sat, Aug 31, 2013 - Page 15
China’s Xiaomi (小米) has poached a key Google executive involved in the tech giant’s Android phones, in a move seen as a coup for the rapidly growing Chinese smartphone maker.
Hugo Barra, who was Google’s vice president in charge of Android product management, said in a blog post late on Wednesday that he is joining Xiaomi to help the firm expand its business outside China, where it already has some market share, but is well behind Samsung and Apple.
“After nearly 5 1/2 years at Google and almost 3 years as a member of the Android team — the most amazing group of people I’ve ever worked with in my life — I have decided to start a new career chapter,” Barra wrote.
“In a few weeks, I’ll be joining the Xiaomi team in China to help them expand their incredible product portfolio and business globally — as Vice President, Xiaomi Global,” he wrote.
“I’m really looking forward to this new challenge, and am particularly excited about the opportunity to continue to help drive the Android ecosystem,” he said.
Android is the Google-developed smartphone operating system that is battling with systems from Apple and Microsoft for dominance in the smartphone market.
It is already offered on Samsung and other phones.
International Data Corp (IDC) reported early this month that smartphones powered by Android software increased their global market share as iPhones lost ground in the absence of new models being unleashed by Apple.
Android’s share of the smartphone market grew to 79.3 percent in the second quarter, while that of iPhone slipped to 13.2 percent from 16.6 percent in the same three-month period last year, IDC figures show. | {
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Editorial: Cars off the road
Published: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 4, 2013 at 4:31 p.m.
Nearly 25 years ago, Gainesville's Regional Transit System first identified the need for park-and-ride lots. On Monday, the first lot finally opened.
It consists of 43 spaces in a designated park-n-ride area within the lot of the new Walmart Supercenter off Northwest 34th Street near U.S. 441. Commuters can park their vehicles there for free and catch an RTS bus to the University of Florida and Shands.
It might not seem like much, but these kind of efforts are exactly what the area needs to reduce traffic congestion.
Community discussions about transportation sometimes descend into a dynamic of roads versus buses. That's unproductive and misguided.
Everyone who drives should cheer when increased mass transit options lead to cars coming off the roads. There's a desperate need for road improvements in the area, but we won't be able to simply build our way out of the problem of crowded roads.
Park-and-ride lots are envisioned in plans for new developments including the Butler Plaza expansion, Celebration Pointe and Newberry Village. Putting park-and-ride lots at entry points into the city will provide options for commuters to leave behind their cars, rather than fight for limited parking spaces on the University of Florida campus or downtown.
College students have the incentive of bus rides paid through their fees, while more than 32,000 area employees are part of an employee bus-pass program. But more incentives are needed to convince workers to ditch their cars and ride the bus.
It might simply mean improvements to the frequency and reliability of RTS buses, or some version of a bus rapid transit system might be necessary. Either way, continuing to increase bus ridership is a key part of solving the area's long-term transportation problems.
So even if the new park-and-ride lot isn't an option, cheer when you see people parking there if you're shopping at the new Walmart. It means one less car on the road when you're driving home.
<p>Nearly 25 years ago, Gainesville's Regional Transit System first identified the need for park-and-ride lots. On Monday, the first lot finally opened.</p><p>It consists of 43 spaces in a designated park-n-ride area within the lot of the new Walmart Supercenter off Northwest 34th Street near U.S. 441. Commuters can park their vehicles there for free and catch an RTS bus to the University of Florida and Shands.</p><p>It might not seem like much, but these kind of efforts are exactly what the area needs to reduce traffic congestion.</p><p>Community discussions about transportation sometimes descend into a dynamic of roads versus buses. That's unproductive and misguided.</p><p>Everyone who drives should cheer when increased mass transit options lead to cars coming off the roads. There's a desperate need for road improvements in the area, but we won't be able to simply build our way out of the problem of crowded roads.</p><p>Park-and-ride lots are envisioned in plans for new developments including the Butler Plaza expansion, Celebration Pointe and Newberry Village. Putting park-and-ride lots at entry points into the city will provide options for commuters to leave behind their cars, rather than fight for limited parking spaces on the University of Florida campus or downtown.</p><p>College students have the incentive of bus rides paid through their fees, while more than 32,000 area employees are part of an employee bus-pass program. But more incentives are needed to convince workers to ditch their cars and ride the bus.</p><p>It might simply mean improvements to the frequency and reliability of RTS buses, or some version of a bus rapid transit system might be necessary. Either way, continuing to increase bus ridership is a key part of solving the area's long-term transportation problems.</p><p>So even if the new park-and-ride lot isn't an option, cheer when you see people parking there if you're shopping at the new Walmart. It means one less car on the road when you're driving home.</p> | {
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For Health Professionals
We Can!® recognizes the important relationship that health professionals have with parents and families. Parents often turn to health professionals for accurate information and guidance regarding their child's health.
In addition to these tip sheets, We Can! provides other materials, resources, and community–based opportunities that empower health professionals to help their patients' families. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with We Can! by reviewing the online We Can! Energize Our Families: Parent Program training. The Parent Program provides parents and caregivers with guidance on getting the entire family to eat right, move more and reduce screen time. The online training is great for health professionals and educators, community organizations, or anyone interested in working with parents and primary caregivers to give them the tools they need to help children maintain a healthy weight.
One great benefit of the online training is that you can view the modules at your leisure, and pause it with the click of a mouse if necessary.
Health Professionals can help educate parents and young patientson ways to improve nutrition, increase physical activity, and limit screen time. Health professionals often have the ability to identify at-risk children and youth whose parents or caregivers can most benefit from this information. We encourage you to:
Ensure that your patients with health conditions like asthma understand how to safely engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity. Most patients with asthma should be able to participate vigorously in any activity they choose without experiencing asthma symptoms. This can be accomplished by developing 1) a treatment plan that keeps the patient's asthma well controlled on a day-to-day basis, and 2) if the patient has exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB), an action plan for the patient describing what treatment to take for EIB (see the National Asthma Education and Control Program Expert Panel Report-3: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma Summary Report 2007, section on "Managing Special Situations" (3.9 MB PDF) for more information).
Refer families to the We Can! website, which provides families with tips, resources, and ideas for maintaining a healthy weight. You can link directly to the We Can! website from your practice’s intranet or website. | {
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Friday, October 27, 2006
A drugstore belonging to Zegin company, housing pharmaceutical laboratory of the Public Health Facility, has been demolished late Wednesday, Makfax's correspondent reported.
Marija Litoska, the manager of the drugstore, confirmed the incident took place at 23:00 hrs, adding that the perpetrators did not took a thing, but merely committed the act of vandalism.
She also said that the security agency "Protect" that was supposed to guard the drugstore, informed her about the incident as late as at 6 a.m., because, according to the agency, the contract with Zegin had been expired.
The Police conducted inspection at the site and the operation for tracking down the vandals is under way. | {
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Rigging diesel-fueled trucks to emit large clouds of black smoke is both a kind of protest and a way to let other drivers know what you think of them.
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The EPA has a message for all those “coal rolling” hooligans who intentionally rig up their vehicles to fart out giant plumes of black smoke: Your black puff blowing ways are over. The Environmental Protection Agency, in recent commentary, said the hazardous practice of coal rolling – modifying a diesel engine to emit a large plume of black smoke and soot – is illegal.
Per EPA press secretary Liz Purchia: “The short answer is this is illegal.”
It is a violation of the [Clean Air Act] to manufacture, sell, or install a part for a motor vehicle that bypasses, defeats, or renders inoperative any emission control device. For example, computer software that alters diesel fuel injection timing is a defeat device. Defeat devices, which are often sold to enhance engine performance, work by disabling a vehicle's emission controls, causing air pollution. As a result of EPA enforcement, some of the largest manufacturers of defeat devices have agreed to pay penalties and stop the sale of defeat devices.
The CAA prohibits anyone from tampering with an emission control device on a motor vehicle by removing it or making it inoperable prior to or after the sale or delivery to the buyer. A vehicle's emission control system is designed to limit emissions of harmful pollutants from vehicles or engines. EPA works with manufacturers to ensure that they design their components with tamper-proofing, addresses trade groups to educate mechanics about the importance of maintaining the emission control systems, and prosecutes cases where significant or imminent harm is occurring.
Coal rolling is a form of protest, a lashback of sorts against environmentalists advocating lower emissions from vehicles. In its distilled form, the practice is seen as pitting Prius drivers against pick-up truck tough guys. Some spend the $500 to $5,000 to rig their vehicles and see it as a political statement, others just do it for kicks.
According to NewsMax, “coal rollers can channel the soot through smoke stacks and onto people nearby. An article by Vocativ last month drew attention to the trend.”
“The feeling around here is that everyone who drives a small car is a liberal,” Ryan, a high school student who works at a diesel garage told Vocativ in an article entitled Rollin’ Coal Is Pollution Porn for Dudes with Pickup Trucks. “I rolled coal on a Prius once just because they were tailing me.”
A particularly provocative piece was written by Wonkette.com, and said the practice of “Manly Men who modify the fuel systems of their big diesel trucks to deliberately dump excess fuel into their engines, creating thick black smoke and proclaiming their freedom from clean air and other despicable liberal plots” is “especially hilarious when they blow smoke on a Prius driver or a bicyclist, ideally one with asthma.”
Per Wonkette:
You get the sense that if they could find an emphysema patient on oxygen to roll coal on, they might just ejaculate in their pants. It’s technological assholery as political statement, the closest these motorheads can get to actually taking a [expletive] on the environmentalists (and the “environment,” which isn’t even a real thing) they hate so much. Oh, and incidentally, the Environmental Protection Agency clarified Monday that rollin’ coal is unquestionably illegal. But what would you expect from a bunch of wimpy poindexters who think the environment needs protecting?
On a related note, we see that PickupTrucks.com posted an editorial calling on truck owners to stop this coal-rolling nonsense, because it “gives other media outlets another opportunity to paint a stereotypical picture of pickup truck owners and enthusiasts.”
Not surprisingly, the coal-rollers quickly took to the comments and declared anyone opposed to the practice a liberal idiot, and of course suggested that the author of the article was some kind of traitor to the pickup-truck-loving community.
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Is This Story Real?
It is evening at the Brasserie Lipp, on the Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris.
The fall after-theater crowd shrugs off furs and foulards, as waiters take balletic strides in ankle-length black-and-whites, balancing plates of choucroute, andouille, and Bismarck herring. Signs warn against feeding les chiens at the table, or expecting to pay by check. Painted angels on the ceiling, yellowed from ancient smoke, watch over Art Deco ceramic panels of cockatoos frolicking in palms and prickly pears. Flouting the rules, a lapdog pants on the red moleskin banquette. Everything is multiplied in wall-sized mirrors, such that among the thin columns and glass dividers, there is almost nowhere to look chezLipp without seeing some version of yourself.
Lipp’s regulars have included Chagall, Camus, Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. French Presidents de Gaulle, Pompidou, and Mitterand (and his extramarital daughter) were all regulars. The tables—in one of three sections, known (never out loud) as purgatory, the aquarium, and paradise—have hosted Bergman and Rossellini, Jagger, Madonna, the archbishop of Paris, and France’s most offensive pornographic filmmaker. Ex-President Bill Clinton was denied Coca-Cola on the terrace, because Lipp does not serve Coca-Cola. A Moroccan nationalist was lured here to be “disappeared.” Ernest Hemingway loved Lipp: “The beer was very cold,” he wrote, “and wonderful to drink.” Another habitué, French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, creator of The Little Prince, crashed his prop plane in the Egyptian desert attempting a Paris-to-Saigon speed record in 1935, but five days later, as the legend goes, thought lost forever, he walked through Lipp’s revolving wood-and-glass doors to astonished cheers. The owner poured free champagne until 3 a.m.
Or so they say. That’s the kind of place Lipp is—a place of a thousand stories—and has been for 135 years.
Monsieur Serge, as he was known, was for most of his adult life a waiter chez Lipp. In his late 30s, already bald save for a horseshoe-shaped tonsure, he wore an elegant mustache, pointed at each end, that echoed the faint trace of the Eurasian steppes sharpening the corners of his eyes. He was broad-shouldered, handsome, and a hard worker, capable of long stints of physical activity without rest. Polite and courtly, he delighted in the electric atmosphere of Lipp’s self-infatuated dinner theater—but with Gallic discretion, he never fawned. He engaged his clients with a lilting foreign accent that seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere. Everyone loved Monsieur Serge. No one knew him.
That’s because Monsieur Serge kept his private life to himself. Some of his co-workers in 1960s Paris gathered he was a Hungarian Jew named Imré Kovács, born in 1926 in Makó, a small town not far from the Romanian border. The vague outlines of his past life circled as rumor: He was raised a peasant, along with his sisters Klari and Margit and his half-brother Laszlo. His father was a veteran of the Great War. His mother, Ilona, was a devoted housewife. They were not deeply religious, but they were Jews, and that, as much as anything, determined their fate. That much was known.
What his colleagues at Lipp didn’t know was that as a young man, Imré Kovács had escaped the Hungarian fascists. How he had done this was not something he seemed to be interested in boasting about at work. Unlike Lipp’s patrons, the staff there inhabit a great anonymous dignity. They are given numbers one to 25, which they wear pinned to their lapels. The career garçons come from demanding apprenticeships or Lipp lineage, or else they have bought their way in to what is a lucrative job for the field. They handle their clients with unobtrusive hustle, hauling trays up 23 cramped steps from the basement kitchen. Equal parts stagehand and Greek chorus, they spend their days and nights asking how everyone is doing, never to be asked it in return.
Had anyone broken through Monsieur Serge’s defenses, though, they would have heard an amazing tale about infiltrating the 26th Waffen-SS, the 2nd Hungarian Division of the German elite fighting force. He might have told them about surviving a brutal Soviet POW camp and spying there for an international Zionist intelligence ring. Or about joining the armed resistance in Palestine and seeing the birth of the State of Israel. Or he might have talked about tracking former Nazis in Indochina and Algeria after the war, meting out vengeance through assassination plots in the French Foreign Legion. But that was Imré Kovács. Monsieur Serge was a man with a wife and eight children in Paris, a waiter chez Lipp.
In some ways, each of these creations invented the other.
In September 2003, Serge Kovács, Imré’s eldest, received a phone call telling him in halting French that his father had died. It had been years since they had seen each other. As a parent, Imré had been a reserved and mercurial man who worked late nights and weekends and left his children to fend for themselves. Still, Serge felt his filial duty and a great loss. He flew to Budapest, and then made his way to Orosháza, where his father had decided to spend his last years.
Imré had died at home. Responding to complaints of a stench, the local police had subdued his two famished dogs and broken in the door to find him face down in a pool of blood. The cause of death was thrombosis. He had been rotting for four days. With no family nearby to claim him, Kovács had been buried in an unmarked grave.
To locate insurance and pension records, Serge had to rummage through the disorganized papers of a demented old man. Among the clutter, in Imré’s bedroom, there was a wooden Hungarian armoire, rustic and worn. A mirror inside the door reflected Serge as his father might have seen him: 46, divorced, and now orphaned. On the shelf, he found an orange folder with elastic bands that contained about 100 pages of photocopied typescript. Distracted by his guilt and grief, Serge decided to bring it home with him to Paris, along with the Hungarian death certificate, to coordinate matters with his siblings.
In France, Serge sat down to read the unfamiliar text from his father’s closet. Within a few pages, he realized that he held his own father’s life story, which Imré had probably set down two decades before. The epigraph, from Leviticus 19:34, read: “You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” The need to write down his wartime experiences had never left him, Imré explained in his typescript, but time had to pass for his wounds to heal.
“It was a miracle that any Jews survived,” he wrote, “but each miracle was different for each survivor. Most of the victims, especially those who were the strongest believers, have become atheists. For my part, the contrary happened: Ever since, I am certain God exists.”
As if in a trance, Serge read it in one sitting. It revealed a father he had only the smallest hints ever existed—nothing like the carefree Parisian bistro waiter. Some of the episodes were vaguely familiar, but much of it was a revelation. Like many children of Holocaust survivors, Serge knew merely the rough outlines of his family’s history. At home, the subject had been taboo. But here in his hands was all the missing detail that his father had never opened up about. And it was not a ragtag tale of survival but an epic, full of amazing exploits.
Serge was stunned. My father, a Hungarian Jewish peasant—could it all really have happened like that? The stories seemed incredible. But there it was. Serge understood that he would have to publish his father’s account of his life.
The first chapter, “The Orphan of Makó,” begins with Imré’s mother Ilona calling three of her four children to dinner: “Klari! Margit! Imré!” We are in the onion capital of Hungary, a prelapsarian idyll of happy Jews before the war. “My mother,” Imré writes, “I can hear her like it was yesterday.”
By May of 1944, Imré Kovács needed underwear. His family’s sudden forced removal to a Jewish ghetto in Szeged that month left him without his things. On orders of the German occupation government, thousands of Jews have been confined to a few city blocks in Budapest and in the provincial capitals. In Szeged, Ilona finds a small room and learns to barter for smuggled rations. She cuts a pillowcase and lovingly sews the pieces into something Imré can wear.
It’s a confusing and shocking turn from the modest comfort Imré knew as a child in the 1930s. Sure, word had trickled in even to his family’s small farm that, to the north, in Poland, the mass deportations and killings had blossomed into a full-blown extermination campaign, but he and many other Hungarians remained incredulous, or stunned into inaction, or otherwise helpless.
The war came to Hungary with breathtaking speed. In just two short months after March of 1944, German troops occupied the country and propped up the puppet fascist Ferenc Szálasi in Budapest, who in turn deployed the murderous Arrow Cross paramilitary. By April, Imré and his sister Margit—way out in rural onion-growing territory—had been arrested for refusing to wear the yellow star identifying them as Jews. By May, mass deportations had begun. Within 56 days of occupation, 440,000 Hungarian Jews would be sent to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
In Szeged, Ilona is ordered to the train station.
She turns to her boy, 18 at the time, still fit from farm labor, and asks, “Imré, you love me, don’t you?”
“Yes, Mother,” he answers. “You are the dearest thing in the world to me.”
“Then promise me you’ll use all your strength, your whole life, to help the weak, the small, and the oppressed,” she says.
“I swear it, Mother,” Imré says.
He does not want to leave her, but he knows he must, if he is to escape.
This late stage of the war’s Eastern Front is a race. On one side, the retreating Nazis, trying to deport and exterminate as many Jews as they can—a madness of ruin. On the other, the Russian Red Army, surging across Romania like a rising tide, washing over the chaotic Hungarian border in pursuit of the increasingly bedraggled and outmanned fascists. Once a prosperous land of onion farmers, the region is now a hectic morass of soldiers, villagers, and desperate citizens with nowhere else to go, packing what they can and beating a path back to Budapest. To get there, the refugees must cross the plain between the Tisza and the Danube rivers, where wild horses run and where a mirage known as fata morgana makes cowherds appear to float upside down on the summer horizon.
Out of the ghetto and having said farewell to his mother, Imré tracks down a farmer with a horse-cart, which he shares with Mátyás Gajdács, a young architecture student at Budapest’s beaux-arts school. But then Gajdács remembers that he left some important things with his aunt on the other side of town. The Reds are bearing down on them, so Gajdács agrees to ride his bicycle to a rendezvous point near a bridge. Tragically, he is cut off by a turn in the battle, and never arrives.
Kovács and the farmer decide to press on to Budapest without Gajdács but are stopped at the Danube, where all the bridges have been blown out. Ferries are pressed into service, but people jump into the river and drown rather than wait to be strafed or bombed by Soviet aircraft. Those who survive the passage arrive at a Hungarian capital convulsing under Szálasi’s reign of terror. His Arrow Cross paramilitary squads are rounding up Jews by the thousands to be sent in cattle cars to concentration camps. Fascist sympathizers are shooting Jews in the streets and throwing the bodies into the river. Checkpoints blanket the city. Hearing of this, Kovács grabs Mátyás Gajdács’s papers and assumes his identity.
Kovács and the farmer are pressed onto an Austria-bound military train by a Hungarian officer. Heading north, Kovács witnesses lines of Jews deported out of the ghettos, marching to their certain deaths in the cold and snow. Is his mother among them? As he tells it, a mysterious bloodstain appears on the underwear she’d made for him. He takes this as a sign she is lost to him forever.
Győr, near the Austrian border, crawls with German and pro-Nazi Hungarian soldiers. The walls are plastered with posters of wild-eyed Bolsheviks with knives in their teeth and patriotic appeals to join up to defend the country from the Communist invader. Kovács takes shelter there with a family and befriends the 20-year-old daughter of the house, Ilonka, whom he gallantly escorts home from work.
Later, whiling away the hours in Győr, Kovács comes upon a magnificent neo-Gothic synagogue, much larger than any he has seen. It is closed: Thousands of Jews have already been deported from the region. But with his borrowed papers, Kovács has little to fear. He seeks a way in, when suddenly the temple door swings open.
“Sir, are you looking for someone?”
The speaker is a man in his 20s, not Hungarian at all. Kovács says he isn’t looking for anyone in particular. He wonders, though: What has become of the Jews of Győr? And Makó?
The man asks in Hebrew: Are you Jewish?
In his telling of it, Kovács doesn’t hesitate to answer yes, despite the obvious risks. Kovács is invited inside. He says he is from Makó, has seen the doomed Jews, suspects his mother is in Germany or worse, and wants to find her. Thanks to his false papers, he declares he has some freedom of movement.
The man says his name is Yossef. He says, “There is something you can do. But be warned: It’s extremely dangerous. If you are found out, there will be no saving you.” He goes on: In town there is a recruitment post for the newly formed Hungarian divisions of the German SS. The commander is Hungarian, but the men wear German uniforms, and many boast German ancestry. They are to bring glory to fascist Hungary and the Reich, a gift from Szálasi to the Führer. Kovács listens. Yossef continues, explaining the value of a mole for the Jewish resistance. “Tomorrow, you will go to the bureau,” Yossef tells Kovács. “You will sign up.”
Nervous young men fill the Nazi recruitment office in Győr. None are more nervous than Imré Kovács. His papers identifying him as an architecture student have served him in the current chaos, but they can do nothing to grow back his missing foreskin. One by one, the youths are called up for their physicals. Leaving now would only be suspicious. With each called name, Kovács’s fear grows. As it grows, so his sex retreats and shrinks until it can barely be seen. A miracle! His circumcision goes undetected. He is to report to the train station the next day as an enlisted member of the Waffen-SS.
Determined to bring his father’s story to the world, Serge Kovács set about finding a publisher. An old university classmate of his named Frédéric Ploquin brought Kovács’s manuscript to his editor, the French titan of letters Claude Durand, who championed Solzhenitsyn and first introduced magical realist Gabriel García Márquez to French readers in his own translation. Though Durand was amazed at the heroics of the placid waiter from Lipp (where Durand often lunched), he had reservations. Was it a fantasy or a true account? Durand suggested that a story about Hungarian Jews might be too obscure for his readership, so he agreed to consider the manuscript on the condition that Ploquin and Serge find evidence for all the claims and that they write interstitials and introductory material to situate the rough-hewn, naïf tale in the historical context of the Second World War.
Ploquin and Serge would get 4,000 euros in advance and split the royalties. But Serge hesitated. Should they wait out a year of shiva, in the Jewish tradition of grief, before launching something so important to his father’s legacy? Financial pressures nudged things along. Imré’s neighbor in Orosháza, Erzsébet Boldog, called to say she had sold all the furniture: What was to be done with the house? It would shortly be foreclosed on. Meanwhile, Imré Kovács still had no tombstone, and Serge had no money to pay for one. So Serge went back to Ploquin and said, “OK, let’s do it,” using the advance to fly to Hungary, sell the house, and track down a marble worker in Makó willing to trace Hebrew letters out of a Bible—and etch the hands raised in blessing that symbolize the Jewish priestly clan, the kohanim—for a gravestone. A rabbi from nearby Szeged would officiate at a proper Jewish funeral.
Back home, on Durand’s orders, Ploquin and Serge hunted for evidence of Imré’s many adventures. Serge checked place-names and returned to Hungary to try to pry open local archives that had for years been closed to the public. Hungarian names turned out to be German names for Polish locations. Anachronisms complicating the plot had to be untangled. Ploquin, meanwhile, wrote about the village of Orosháza, where the typescript was found, and set up the broader tale. As best he could—admittedly no historian—Serge described the state of Jewish resistance in 1942, the movement of Soviet troops across the Eastern Front, the fall of Berlin and the liberation of the camps, and the catastrophic loss of Hungary’s Jews. (Churchill would come to call the persecution of Hungary’s Jews “probably the greatest and most horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the world.”) He wrote about the Mandatory Palestine to which his father emigrated after the war and described the French Foreign Legion of the 1950s and its quagmires in Indochina and Algeria. And Ploquin rounded it out again with a meditation on Hungarian complicity in the war and the nature of unfinished justice.
Serge wanted to title the book “Le Justicier” (The righter of wrongs), but Ploquin and Durand both thought their best chance at sales was to call it Le Vengeur (The avenger), highlighting Kovács’s pursuit of “les criminels nazis”—a small part of the book—over his less exciting adventures as a refugee and prisoner of war.
When the book came out, Serge showed it to his brothers and sisters, who had left him in charge of estate matters, largely out of indifference. Their reaction was not good. A number fairly wondered why they had not been consulted. One sister complained that Serge had sold the rights for too little. Another questioned why Ploquin had to be involved. Ploquin traveled to Nice, where Serge’s sister Nathalie lived, to try to convince her otherwise. A third sibling, upon hearing that a Hungarian film company was interested in making the book into a movie, sued the editorial house to get the rights back. Ploquin, embroiled in the family drama, fell out with Serge. The crux of the argument, besides money, was this: Did Imré ever want to publish his manuscript? Did it reflect on him well? Was it true? Serge believed his father’s story was true, and believed he wrote it in order to publish it, not to leave it in a closet. At least one brother strongly disagreed; Serge and he no longer speak.
When Fayard published Le Vengeur in 2006, the critical response, though not broad, was wide-eyed: How could such a heroic figure have passed unnoticed among us? (“The French elite”—meaning Lipp’s regulars—“couldn’t imagine that ‘M. Serge,’ the longest-serving waiter at Lipp, was a former Nazi hunter,” read one review.) But sales were modest.
In print, Kovács’s story isn’t just his own personal fantasy of Jewish heroism and daring; it can be read as a universal fantasy of power and revenge, a pleasing revisionist view of the war, in which Jews are no lambs to the slaughter. Kovács’s exploits were the hidden secret of a mild-mannered waiter, an affable but otherwise unremarkable bon vivant. Maybe elsewhere in France, with its dark history of capitulation and collaboration, there were other secret heroes?
When I met Frédéric Ploquin at Le Nemours, a café in Paris, on a rainy December evening, I asked him about the book: “Is it true?” Ploquin’s manicured look did not betray any of the fearlessness he had shown in writing several highly acclaimed exposés of organized crime and jihad. He pursed his lips into a pout and sucked air through his teeth: the French equivalent of a shrug. Then he reached across the table and pointed to the back-cover blurb he had written 10 years before. Le Vengeur is a temoignage, or “testimony,” not a history or report or investigation. “If Serge’s father made things up,” he said, “those are the dreams and nightmares of the Holocaust survivor. It might be fantasy, but those fantasies still tell us something.”
In Raggendorf, over the Austrian border, Imré Kovács dons the uniform of the 26th Hunyadi Division: an eagle on the chest, death’s head on the cap. The other 16- to 18-year-old fascist recruits proudly display their new finery in town that night, while Kovács, still under the alias Mátyás Gajdács, uses the password Yossef has given him to contact another Zionist operator there, Isaac. The secret-agent ring Kovács has happened upon is international, and this agent is a sabra, born in Palestine. They have come to save Jews and fight the fascists. They are masters of falsifying papers, and of stealth, protected by Protestant clergy. How did they get here? They know a lot about the SS but need Kovács’s intelligence, now that on their orders he has infiltrated the Nazi guard.
Strong and fit, Kovács is sent into an elite alpine unit of the SS in Austria, where he trains for several weeks. On a free day, he uses a password at a Protestant church to meet Ygal, who connects him with Haya, at his next posting in the Alps. Kovács skis in the morning, manipulates explosives in the afternoon and, whenever he can, jarringly, claims to court a beautiful young Austrian Zionist rebel in the nearby town. She wants to know more about the high command, and so Kovács gets himself hired as the aide-de-camp to the ObersturmführerSchroeder, who takes a liking to his obedient valet. Thinking that his name is Mátyás Gajdács, Schroeder calls Kovács King Mátyás, in honor of the large nose he shared with the great 15th-century unifying Hungarian ruler of the same name.
Abruptly, the narrative jumps to Berlin, January 1945. Kovács wanders the city in his SS uniform, and stops at a department-store Fotomat for an admiring self-portrait in his sheepskin jacket over Nazi black cloth. The city is in partial ruins after repeated bombings. Hitler has retreated into his Führerbunker with Eva Braun. Sirens go off, and ragged German servicemen get what pleasure they can as the Red Army marches west. Schroeder and Kovács are given R&R passes to the Ballerina nightclub, where the evenings begin with a striptease followed by a dance. For a fee, patrons can take girls upstairs. The brothel is the same place, as it happens, where a Zionist agent named Sarah is stationed. Though the club is dry (save for weak lemonade), Schroeder encourages his faithful servant to indulge in the lascivious offerings. Kovács tells the madam he’ll have no other except Sarah, whom he claims to know. But Sarah is … occupied. So he waits.
At midnight, the blue-eyed, dark-haired female spy approaches. She’s not a day over 22. “Do I know you?” she asks. “Yes,” he says. But she doesn’t appear to believe him. She’s seen many men, too many to know them all, and anyway the fee has been paid. She takes Imré upstairs to her small room, lays down seductively on the bed, and beckons to him.
“I’m not here for that,” he says. “Haya sent me.”
Once over her shock, Sarah tells Kovács that they cannot stop the Germans from finishing their secret weapon, the atomic bomb. The only thing they can do is help speed up the meeting of the Soviet and American fronts to end the war first. The exhausted Germans are throwing their fresh young Hungarian divisions at the most important battles, she says: Any information on the whereabouts of those troops will be invaluable to the Allies.
Kovács sees the logic, and the danger to himself, of delivering his camp’s positions to Allied bombers. Sarah does, too, and, being the older and more daring of the two resistance fighters, reassures Imré Kovács of the worth of his sacrifice. As Kovács tells it, fateful and full of abandon, they fall into a bout of passionate lovemaking.
Not long after, Kovács—an alpine chaser and SS machine gunner using the name Gajdács—is caught in a shallow trench on the bank of the Elbe River with a dozen other Waffen-SS. Gunfire echoes in from the nearby village, where Communist partisans have holed up. Bullets ricochet off a milestone pointing to Prague. A radio call for reinforcements goes unheeded: The nearest division is in combat with the Red Army. Trapped, the SS squad leader decides to risk a quick retreat to the opposite bank, across a bridge, behind a dike. The first to run takes a bullet through his stomach. His guts explode. He screams, “Kill me!” A last leftover smoke bomb misfires, so the Nazis’ only hope for cover is to launch rockets.
Dudás, an SS soldier, jumps up to throw a grenade and ducks back down into the trench. Kovács braces for the explosion that doesn’t come. He sees then that Dudás is still clutching the grenade.
“What are you waiting for?” Kovács cries.
Dudás rolls over to reveal a stream of blood on his forehead. He has been shot—but by some grace, he has not had time to pull the pin.
Imré Kovács realizes the direness of his situation in the exposed trench and prepares for his early death, when, pressing his ear to the ground, he hears the rumbling of German reinforcements behind him. A tank! It aims its cannon at partisan headquarters in the village. The enemy waves white flags. One of Dudás’s friends coldly plugs a bullet into the head of a partisan, declaring things even. The other SS loot the homes and finish half-eaten meals abandoned in haste; Kovács changes into fresh stolen underwear and keeps a wristwatch. The rest of the villagers and fighters—60 of them by Kovács’s count—are herded into the town square. SS soldiers set automatic weapons at the four corners, and massacre them all.
Eventually, Kovács is caught by the Russians as the war comes to an end. He discards his former SS identity, taking back the name Imré Kovács. He is marched, along with other Hungarians, four days and four nights to Wrocław, Poland, where a co-religionist from Makó puts Kovács in touch with a sympathetic Soviet camp officer. Kovács asks about his mother. He’s told that most Hungarian Jews were sent to Bergen-Belsen, now destroyed by the Allies.
“The war’s over,” Kovács says bitterly. “Let me go back to Hungary.”
“I can’t and furthermore don’t wish to liberate you,” the officer says, after hearing some of Kovács’s recent exploits. “For us, the Jews, the war is not over. The Nazis who committed unspeakable crimes like the one that ended your mother’s life must be tracked down and punished, one by one, in the name of all dead Jews.”
Naively, Kovács asks what he could do.
“You will be a friend to the Soviets. You must stay with the prisoners. That is your calling. And when the time comes, I will contact you.”
Passed by cattle car from camp to camp, Imré Kovács, now a prisoner of the Soviet Union, crosses Transylvania and Moldavia, battling dysentery. He lands in labor Camp 6, in the Black Sea port of Odessa, where he’s put to work breaking down the remnants of destroyed ships. The Soviets are eager to find the war criminals hidden among the ranks of the captured. In the camp yard, naked prisoners are made to stand with their hands on their heads, to identify former SS by the blood-type tattoo under their left arms.
Like the others, Kovács is interrogated. He bravely decides to tell the truth about his Jewish espionage, which somehow leads him to another spy handler, who enlists Kovács for his next task: to sniff out the untattooed later recruits to the Waffen-SS as well as the rearguard killers who organized the deportation and extermination of Jews—hiding now as simple German soldiers unlucky enough to be prisoners of war. Kovács is sent to a labor camp in a quarry, a brutal, harsh, cold place. His assignment is to listen for confessional remarks or signs, to spot the criminals as they reveal themselves through trust or carelessness. Eavesdrop, he’s told. Locate the worst commandos of the concentration camps. Where had they really worked? What had they done? All this information was to be gleaned by subterfuge, camaraderie, and close contact in the camp, where Kovács would have enough of a struggle just to survive. To maintain his cover, Kovács must not be treated differently from his fellow prisoners.
Isolated on a frozen high steppe hundreds of miles from Odessa, Kovács and the other POWs in four barracks cut and shape 26 stone blocks a day to earn a ration of 50 grams of bread, half a teaspoon of sugar, and a meager ladling of rotten potato gruel. As the winter of 1945 takes hold, stores become ever more scarce. First the dogs are eaten. Hunger gnaws at the men, and even the cook who bartered extra food for homosexual acts has nothing left to offer. The worst comes in the spring of 1946: The frozen trash heap thaws to reveal potato peelings mixed in with human excrement. Returning from work, the famished prisoners pounce on them and stuff what unclean shreds they can into their mouths before they are beaten back by guards. With no medicine or doctors, 15 to 20 prisoners succumb to typhus every day, their bodies tossed into unused parts of the quarry. By late spring, of the 3,100 prisoners who had departed Camp 6 for the quarry, only 124 are still alive. More die during their transfer back to Odessa.
Why does Kovács survive? It is no coincidence or feat of fitness or guile. God, he writes, has kept him alive—not as a privilege or a mystical expression of good or even evil. He simply isn’t done with Imré Kovács yet.
Spring rolls into summer. Kovács labors in potato fields and then on brigades reconstructing bombed-out Odessa. He finds ways to steal and barter for tobacco and food, and regains the weight he lost in the quarry.
On labor gangs that season, at a damaged but inhabited apartment building, Kovács falls for a beauty by the name of Natacha, who reminds him of his mother. Natacha speaks four languages and at 18 is already in her fourth year of medical school. He writes that her skin is peachy, somewhere between velvet and silk, and her lips are the clichéd ripe cherries. Her golden hair shines like a field of tall wheat. Demure and angelic, Natacha is also self-aware, just as Kovács’s mother was, perhaps her greatest quality. Imré and Natacha form a mysterious bond, talking about Hungary, art, and culture. The topic of a local opera production of Strauss’s The Gypsy Baron comes up, and they decide it would be fun to see it. But how? He is a penniless prisoner with nothing but filthy work clothes. The arrangement sounds ridiculous, but in truth the postwar border zones were chaotic ruins where captive and guard were largely interchangeable concepts.
Natacha’s father meets the charming if ragged suitor. He promises to speak with the camp commander, a friend, to request leave for Kovács, on his honor, so that they might attend the opera. Natacha arranges for her father to loan Imré suitable costume; as it happens, her father and Imré are the same height and build.
The next evening, Natacha’s father collects Kovács at Camp 6 and brings him home to bathe and change into his eveningwear. Kovács catches himself in the mirror. After years of war, flight, and servitude, he barely recognizes the civilized man he sees there. The company eats a festive meal prepared by Natacha’s mother and head to the show. The Odessa opera hall, now in 1946, is packed with newly hopeful citizens. In their loge, Kovács spends the time admiring Natacha and holding her hand. He can hardly believe it’s all real.
Back at Natacha’s home, Imré and the father have a man-to-man talk over vodka and cigars. Imré tells the father of his serious intentions toward Natacha, a proposal that is met with pleasure. The father happens to be Jewish, though not practicing, but that’s far from the only thing he shares with Kovács. But the hour is late, and Kovács’s permission is expiring. He must return to his prison camp.
“You can find your own way back,” the father says. “I trust you.”
A few more vodka toasts and off Kovács goes, into the late-night empty streets. A half hour later, he realizes he is lost, and there is no one to ask for directions. Down a lane, he spots a building with a light on where he rings the doorbell.
A woman appears in the doorway. She’s sleepy and wearing only a nightgown. Kovács explains that he needs to get back to Camp 6. She tells him—“poor dear!”—he’s much too far in the wrong direction, and that he should come in and stay the night, to catch the first train in the morning—a courtesy Kovács would never have asked for himself.
He is led into a large darkened dormitory, where he senses that others are also sleeping. Exhausted and still a little drunk, he lays gratefully down to sleep. Not long after, he is awoken by a hand on his leg. The hand ranges over his lower parts and then circles ever closer to his sex. Then, in the dark, the owner of the hand quietly crawls into bed, and without preamble or fanfare proceeds to use Imré for her sexual satisfaction.
The act completed, the woman disappears back to her bed, and Kovács falls asleep. But not for long, as he realizes the neighbor to his left has now inched into bed with him for her sexual satisfaction. And then a third female. And a fourth.
At the sixth, Kovács writes, he is exhausted. Dawn reveals the trap he had landed in: an institution for young women!
As for Natacha, a series of unfortunate events conspire against Kovács’s plans to emigrate to the USSR to be with her, and by treachery and bad luck, he also loses the messenger he had been using to communicate with her from his prison camp. In the manuscript, it isn’t long before, without much explanation, his liberation is announced. He prepares his return to Makó, not knowing what he will find there. But before he does, he has one final goodbye with Natacha, who runs to embrace him on the train platform. The steel wheels scream into motion, carrying him away from his first true love. Imré cries, knowing he will never see her again.
The first person to dispute the veracity of Imré Kovács’s published account was László Karsai, a professor of history at the University of Szeged and a respected scholar of the Hungarian Holocaust. In 2007, having read an interview with Imré’s son Serge about the memoir, Karsai got hold of the French text and issued a scathing denunciation titled “‘Avenger’ or Liar?” Citing multiple examples of impossibilities, near impossibilities, and historical inaccuracies in the tale, Karsai took greatest offense at the anecdote of the shrunken member in the SS recruitment office. “If [Kovács] had written that the [SS] doctor was tired or that he never looked at the foreskin, perhaps it would have been a more believable version of this episode,” he wrote, before bashing one of the mysterious meetings with a Zionist agent as wishful thinking. With barely veiled sarcasm, Karsai called Le Vengeur an “incredibly interesting, but also very special memoir” that reminded him of Winston Churchill’s famous aphorism: “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
I decided to visit Karsai in Budapest. Under the reactionary populism of authoritarian nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the Holocaust, and Hungary’s role in it, had lately been a subject for debate. Were the Hungarians victims or perpetrators? Who knew what when? A pair of Holocaust museums, one state-sponsored and delayed, the other private, presented competing narratives of the war. The right wing wanted to whitewash the past. The left wanted Hungary to formally face up to it. The battle was best encapsulated in a monument, erected in Budapest’s Freedom Square one night under Orbán, made of a bronze statue of the angel Gabriel, Hungary’s guardian, being tormented by a rapacious eagle, representing Nazi Germany. The inscription above it reads “Memorial for the Victims of German Occupation”—meaning the innocent Hungarians, duped by the Nazis into killing their countrymen, an interpretation that Jewish groups, many Hungarians, and the State of Israel dispute. This explained some of Karsai’s vehemence, and perhaps his lack of sympathy for Serge.
Karsai was willing to show me his research in person, so now, with him as guide and translator, we drove southeast across plains checkered in dormant potato and wheat fields, and yet-to-bloom orchards of peach, apple, and apricot, and on through garlic and onions. Armed with a notarized letter of permission from Serge Kovács, we headed to Imré Kovács’s home region to see if any documentation existed to support the published claims in Le Vengeur. A young Kovács had crossed these same plains, under very different circumstances, six decades before.
At a branch of the Hungarian National Archives in Szeged, in a room down a long darkened corridor decorated with historical maps of Greater Hungary, a librarian showed Karsai and me an official record of Imré Kovács’s birth. It was on the bottom line of page 121 of a frayed blue register labeled “Makó, birth certificates, 1924-1926” and it confirmed he was born in 1926 to a 48-year-old father and 37-year-old mother. Companion documents supported the claim that Imré’s father was a veteran of the First World War and noted official name changes as the family went from Kohn to Kovács to Kohn-Kovács.
Some 50 kilometers away, at the county archives in Makó, a kindly former high school teacher named Zsolt Urbancsok pulled, copied, and stamped what records there were of Imré’s participation in local society before the war. Documents listed his places of residency and his family’s modest personal effects. A police record described how Imré was arrested on April 22, 1944, together with his sister Margit, fined and detained for refusing to wear a yellow star identifying him as Jewish. Urbanscok said the behavior was unusual: Most Jews would have either tried to hide their religion or would have worn the star. To openly defy the order, as he seems to think Imré and Margit did, would have been a dangerous bit of theater. Indeed, Margit, unable to pay the fine, is “taken away to an unknown place,” the local police chief noted, because she “belonged to the Jewish race.” Why Imré was spared isn’t known.
Makó was the center of a thriving allium agriculture that supported a substantial Jewish bourgeoisie before the war. The archivist had written a history of the local Jews, published in Hungarian: a compendium of all that was lost, pieced together from the fragments he watches over from his third-floor municipal office in a former imperial military garrison.
I asked Urbancsok, from what he knew of the history of Makó, could someone like Imré have infiltrated the SS?
“I don’t know,” he said, taking in a breath. “I don’t know the family, I don’t know the circumstances. I can’t answer. It may be possible. Maybe it is absolutely not.”
During the war, Jewish families across Europe were deported, separated, killed, liberated, or hidden, and there was often no way of knowing what had become of them. Survival rates among rural Jews were particularly low. In daily life, dread commingled with expectation, inquiry, euphoria, and false hope. The not knowing was sometimes worse than the news of death. There was little incentive to try to start life over as it was. Return was impossible; home, obliterated.
Before his own wartime odyssey, Kovács had seen his sister Klari marry a Protestant and convert to Christianity. She could still be alive, he realizes in his manuscript—maybe even in Makó. Kovács decides to go there first, as he has no hope of finding any of his Jewish family or friends where he last left them and would at least locate Klari’s husband. In Le Vengeur,Kovács recounts arriving unannounced in the middle of the night, like a revenant. Klari is there, with her kin, alive and well, and overjoyed to see him.
Kovács learns, as he had intuited, that his mother died at Bergen-Belsen. Klari tells him their mother had declared before her deportation, with chilling clairvoyance: “They are taking us away to kill us!” A family that survived the same camp tells Kovács Ilona’s life ended during the Allied liberation bombing, dying not from an ordinance, but out of fear, a heart attack. This makes her a kind of survivor, able to withstand the Germans but just short of fortitude at the cusp of freedom. Did Imré convince himself that such a woman as his mother could not have died of anything less noble than fear—typhus perhaps, so cruel and indiscriminate, or dysentery, or hunger? Her Yad Vashem file, which was submitted in 1993 by her granddaughter Natalia, says bluntly that she was “murdered in the Shoah,” at the age of 52 in Bergen-Belsen, in July of 1944—but even this comes with an institutional disclaimer about the mystery of individual fates:
During the Shoah, Jews were murdered in a variety of ways, among them gassing, shooting, burning, drowning or burial alive, exhaustion through forced labor, starvation, epidemic diseases, deprivation of medical care and minimal hygienic conditions, and more. Some Jews took their own lives in order to escape arrest and further persecution, or to end their hopeless, relentless suffering.
As accessible as the Yad Vashem file is—thanks to the work of thousands of scholars, historians, volunteers, relatives, and witnesses, and the State of Israel—it’s still, on the level of lives like Ilona Kohn-Kovács’s, just the officializing of hearsay. Serge told me a legend that somehow took root that Ilona, being too beautiful, was taken under the wing of an enamored German SS who sequestered her to an anonymous long life in postwar Germany. In Kovács’s version of events, the Red Cross claims his older sister, Margit, is also alive somewhere. And Kovács himself brings news of other prisoners he was with, and through these networks and accounts, people like Kovács tried to piece the events back together, to understand who was gone, here, murdered, lost.
Few of those narratives were linear, sensible, self-contained. They were shrouded by guilt and silence. Most were marked by inexplicable luck or unpredictable intrusions of power: forced out of homes, forced out of the ghetto, separated, forced into labor, forced to sell everything or abandon it, forced to flee just to stay alive. Which of these versions of survival or death is less or more credible than the other?
Back in Budapest after our rural excursion, László Karsai reaffirmed his “100 percent” belief that Imré Kovács could not have been in the SS. He was sipping a fragrant onion soup in a renovated Soviet-era cinema. The capital was humming with Christmas shoppers and smelled of mulled wine and ozone from the electric tram lines. For 600 years, the city had barely had a chance to tidy up before the next revolution or conquest or war had altered its landscape.
Other Hungarian Jews produced memoirs of the Holocaust that didn’t embellish where they lacked information, Karsai said, citing Nicolas Roth’s lucid Avoir 16 ans à Auschwitz (To be sixteen years old in Auschwitz), which appeared in French in 2011 and was presented as the work of a man with an “exceptional memory.” Truthful memoirs aren’t catalogues of heroism and don’t shy away from the worst, Karsai said, citing the example of another Hungarian memoir that unflinchingly describes a prisoner facing the dire choice of partaking in cannibalism or dying from hunger, and choosing the former. Kovács, on the other hand, seems to meet only beautiful women.
“There are a lot of documents about Zionist resistance movements everywhere in Europe, from Istanbul to Stockholm via Budapest,” he continued. But in 33 years of scholarship, “I have never seen documentation of this huge network of Hungarian-German Zionist resistance. No memoirs from members, no files in the Zionist archives in Jerusalem.” If I could somehow bring him a piece of paper from the German Bundesarchiv (Federal Archive) with Imré Kovács’s name and SS recruitment age on it, he’d tip his hat. Karsai insisted that it was impossible for someone’s penis to shrink enough out of fear to not be noticed by a military physician. And yet it is possible, true even, he said, that members of the Arrow Cross threw dead or dying Jews into the Danube.
“Even I can imagine that he was in the SS,” Karsai said, allowing for the war’s insanity. “But not also working for the Zionist resistance.” That, somehow, was too much.
I saw no bridge across this valley of historical memory.
“So why did Imré feel the need to lie, if he did, to make it more amazing than it already was?” I asked.
Karsai put down his spoon. “He hadn’t suffered enough,” he offered. Then he ventured that Imré’s son Serge, the journalist, had either written the whole thing or filled in parts to make it attractive to publishers. Karsai enumerated his evidence. Serge had a motive: He needed money. He had an accomplice: Ploquin. And his actions broke apart his own family, with fights over greed and deception.
Did Karsai have any other examples of survivors’ stories being retold or embellished for them by their children?
“No,” he said. “But why not? This will be a first.”
Later, by email, the Hungarian military archives confirmed there is no record of Mátyás Gajdács, or any of the aliases known to Imré Kovács, having enlisted in the 26th Waffen-SS. Krisztián Ungváry, a leading historian of the SS, went further, saying that there aren’t even any known recruitment directories for the division. The 2nd Hungarian SS barely had time to organize itself, let alone arm. It was made up of mostly paper conscripts and remained a “collection basin for quitters,” he said. From the whole of the European theater, he knew of one single case of a Jew hiding in the SS: the Yugoslav Vladislav Rothbart, who seems to have joined a Hunyadi SS column in their chaotic 1945 retreat from the Eastern Front, but not on the line.
As for the so-called Zionist resistance, it existed. But in Hungary, with the breathtaking speed with which events unfolded there in late 1944 through the summer of 1945, there would have been little time to react and organize. Jews did defy the genocide—in some cases buying time with the approach of the Soviets—using negotiation, bribery, and document forgery, as well as hiding and assisting refugees. But everything about the resistance was complex. The most famous Hungarian case is that of Rudolph Kastner, who negotiated with Adolf Eichmann to allow 1,684 Jews to avoid Auschwitz and instead leave for Switzerland on what became known as the Kastner train, in exchange for money, gold, and diamonds—and, perhaps, his silence about the 12,000 Hungarian Jews a day being sent off to the gas chambers. In Israel, after the war, Kastner was accused of collaborating with the Nazis and was later assassinated by avenging right-wing Zionists. At the same time, many of the people saved by the train went on to lives of consequence. There is also one known photo of a youthful Jewish Zionist resister named Endre Grózs (later known as David Gur) wearing an official full black-leather Arrow Cross uniform in disguise, looking very much like Imré might have in the photo-booth snap of him dressed as an SS.
István Deák, the eminent 91-year-old Hungarian-American Jewish historian who was born the same year as Imré Kovács and lived through the war in Hungary, told me that, though he deferred to Karsai, he thought it “conceivable but not likely” that Kovács could have enlisted in the 2nd Hungarian SS Division. The conditions at the end of the war were chaotic enough, and the 2nd SS ragged enough, that it isn’t impossible. But, he asked, was Kovács circumcised? I told him the story of Imré’s shrinking member. “That complicates it,” he said. Plus, his neighbors would have known him as a Jew. Like Karsai, Deák wondered how Kovács, an able-bodied 18-year-old, avoided being conscripted into the Hungarian “labor service” battalions required of all “politically unreliable” Jewish men—where Deák himself (in one of the many cruel ironies of the period) avoided deportation to the concentration camps.
“Just imagine the total confusion,” Deák said, recalling his personal experience of Hungary in late 1944 and trying to empathize with Kovács. “A big mass of people moving very uncertainly to the west. The 2nd Hungarian Division was totally untrained and unequipped, a bunch of poor kids with unenthusiastic officers, drafted, living in schoolhouses, doing nothing.”
Why did he think Karsai was so adamant in his incredulity?
“I guess he didn’t experience it,” Deák said. The war made many impossible-seeming things real. “It’s difficult. What do you do? Everything was a risk. One tried this and that, looking for a solution for how to survive.”
One of the most intriguing and troubling episodes in Le Vengeur takes place around Makó. In the book, the war has been over for a year, but the lost and scattered are only just starting to return to see what’s become of their shattered past and fragile future. Kovács himself wends his way to his village from the Soviet POW camp in Odessa, in the company of a fellow Makó native named Jeno Davidovitch.
Now that the war and his imprisonment are over, Imré prepares to depart for Palestine. Unlikely to ever return to the region that destroyed his loved ones, his sister Klari suggests he visit with the relatives he has left in Hungary. He travels to Mezőtúr, some 100 kilometers north of Makó, to see his paternal aunt and uncle. Aunt Pirike is 35, one of few survivors of the deportations. Imré’s uncle, Pirike’s brother, is away selling livestock, together with the uncle’s wife and Pirike’s husband—the extended family lives under one roof. So Imré finds himself alone in the house with his aunt and a maid.
Imré and Pirike stay up late in her rough country kitchen in rural Hungary, 1946, talking by candlelight about their experiences during the war: she of her terrifying deportation and miraculous survival, he of his journeys and suffering.
The hour grows late, but after years apart, the pair still have much to tell each other. Pirike invites Imré into her chamber—to keep from disturbing the maid, she says—and asks the 20-year-old to sit on the bed with her.
In his naïve prose, Kovács explains how the formerly modest Jewish women like Pirike had since the end of the war cast off their strict upbringings and thought only of enjoyment—to forget the gas chambers, the camps, and death. “You see, Imré, you and I are some of the rare Jews who were lucky enough to escape this war,” she says. “Now we must enjoy life.” Young Imré senses the true meaning of her words, as he allows himself to be seduced.
Later, Pirike tells Imré not to worry: If she gets pregnant, she promises to take responsibility for the child. Her husband is selfish and a bad lover, she says—worse, he’s infertile, and Pirike wants children. No, it’s an obligation to replenish the Jewish population, she explains. The incestuous affair continues a few weeks, until Imré seduces a neighboring farmer’s daughter, which sends Pirike into fits of jealousy. The odd domestic idyll turns sour, poisoned by accusations and threats. The uncle, who had delighted in discovering Imré alive, kicks his nephew out of the house. Imré is happy to go anyway: He is headed for Palestine.
According to a footnote added by Serge Kovács in the 2006 publication, a child was born of this incestuous union, and turned over to the maid, to be raised elsewhere. Imré allegedly searched for this lost son in vain—a man who may still be alive, in his early 70s, perhaps in Budapest, ignorant of his extraordinary postwar origins. After the book came out, Serge thought he had found his half-brother, through resemblance, in a famous Hungarian actor. “But who are we,” he said, “to suddenly unsettle a man’s life with the truth?”
In Israel, Imré Kovács is given the codename Asher Cohen, a member of the notoriously disciplined and secretive Zionist paramilitary known as the Stern Gang. Later, Kovács quits the regular Israeli army after a series of disappointing combat experiences in the Golan Heights but then is persuaded to attend officer training instead. Meanwhile, his sister Margit, living in Haifa, introduces Kovács to a dark-haired Hungarian beauty named Martha Weiss, whom he thinks of marrying, until he meets Martha’s friend Esther. All three of the women become infuriated with him for his dalliances. Between more battles and training near the Syrian border, he has another amorous adventure, this time with a married woman, who, at an ultimatum, chooses her husband and son over Imré—a wounding of his pride that leads him to a night of uncharacteristic heavy drinking, which leads him to meet, by chance, with Yair, who informs Imré about the Nakam, also known as The Avengers, a group of former partisans who had organized to retaliate for Jewish death through methodical assassinations of Nazis.
It’s 1953. The war in Israel is over and things appear calm. Yair hooks Kovács up at a Haifa nightclub called The Piccadilly with a representative of The Avengers. Many of the highest-level Nazis have fled to Latin America with their stolen hordes and can’t be tracked, the contact explains. But thousands of the lower-level SS have found refuge in the French Foreign Legion.
Engaged in postcolonial struggles in Indochina and Algeria, the Legion, lacking for men, had recruited in the wreckage of the war, where identity was as fluid as a new set of papers. By some estimates, certain units of the Foreign Legion comprised nearly 45 percent soldiers of German origin. The legion was known to prefer personnel with military experience in their home country—as long as the identification they offered didn’t appear on an Interpol list, they were in. Yair’s contact had a role for Kovács because Imré was 27—most of the secret group’s members were already older than the recruitment age limit of 35. Would Kovács consider enlisting in France to hunt Nazis?
Three weeks and one Piccadilly waitress later, Imré Kovács is the owner of a fresh passport and a one-way boat passage from Tel Aviv to Marseille. Recruitment there goes off without a hitch: France is desperate for reinforcements in Southeast Asia. Kovács, now legionnaire 61-750, signs a five-year contract with minimum two years in Indochina. He is shipped to Algeria for basic training, and after revealing his elite sharpshooting skills (acquired as an SS trainee in Austria), he is promoted in rank. He maintains contact with Yair through encoded post.
On base leave, a few weeks later, he discovers his first Nazi, a German going by the name of Pischler who refuses to eat at a Jewish-owned bistro and, a few beers in, openly longs for the Führer. Kovács eggs him on by admitting to being a former SS himself. Pischler, delighted, boasts of his murderous career in great detail, describing massacres in Warsaw and regretting only that the Soviets arrived too soon to allow him to liquidate more Jews. “One day,” he brags, “when this story is written, you’ll hear about a Müller … and that’s me.” Müller is on the secret list of Nazis to hunt down, compiled with the help of moles at the Nuremberg trials. Kovács sends word to Yair. At the next roll call following another base leave, Pischler/Müller is missing and never heard from again.
On the 28-day passage to Saigon, Kovács is discovered by a co-conspirator, an officer also engaged in the anti-Nazi cause. They make an alliance. At a screening of an American World War II film, a German by the name of Weber begins to complain to Kovács of the failure of the Reich to exterminate all Jews. Weber has joined the French Foreign Legion because he is wanted by the Americans “and all those dirty Jews.” He boasts of overseeing the death of 30,000 Jews in and around Kiev, claiming to have made them dig their own graves before massacring them on the spot because there was neither time nor resources to get them to the concentration camps. Kovács contemplates this horror while leaning on the ship’s rail and watching dolphins play in the wake. He unburdens himself to his new ally, who sympathizes and promises to take care of Weber.
The next day, the cry comes: “Man overboard!” Two hours’ search comes up empty. All hands on deck to identify the missing soldier: It’s Weber.
Once in Asia, Kovács’s camp is destroyed by typhoon. He enjoys a Vietnamese massage parlor, meets a Jewish-Hungarian madam at a brothel and takes another “taxi-girl” home (a photo in the book shows him grinning in a rickshaw with a Vietnamese woman on his lap), patrols the jungle, takes grenade shrapnel in his hand, and avoids death with the timely arrival of reinforcements. In convalescence in Haiphong, he takes up dynamite fishing. When he finds the dog tags of dead German legionnaires he can cross off his secret list, he thanks the “Viets” under his breath for doing the job for him.
Through the spring of 1954, Kovács fights at Dien Bien Phu, is taken prisoner, is released in an exchange associated with the Geneva peace accords, and participates in the long slow retreat of French forces. What’s left of his brigade is shipped to Algeria, their morale at a nadir. In the Suez Canal, 26 men jump ship, escaping into the desert and an unknown fate. Among them are two former Nazis.
Once in Algiers, things don’t improve much. Kovács is engaged in the cruel and ill-fated struggle against the guerrillas of Algeria’s National Liberation Front. In rocky Berber outposts, he narrowly avoids death, sees many comrades die, and, worst of all, watches one of his own companions sadistically torture a suspected militant. Desertion, theft, brutality, cruelty, senseless death—Kovács has had enough. He decides to quit the Foreign Legion, no matter the cost.
It is May of 1956. The Second World War recedes into the past. The Cold War rises. Nasser nationalizes the Suez. Rumors flare of an anti-Soviet insurrection brewing in Budapest. But Yair informs Kovács by letter that their work is not done: Many prominent Nazis remain at large in the world, and Paris, capital and crossroads, would see its share. Two months later, Kovács was there.
Discharged from the Foreign Legion, Kovács undergoes psychological and social counseling to prepare his reentry into French civilian life, even though his service does not qualify him for citizenship. He is given a residency permit and paid welfare. After a few false starts, he is connected with a former legionnaire he knew from Dien Bien Phu who sets him up at a hotel restaurant, Kovács’s first paid job since being a stable boy in Makó. But in his telling, Imré prefers to quit rather than rat out a thieving cashier.
Kovács moves on to a larger and more reputable establishment in Paris, where he punches a domineering chef who teased him for his Hungarian accent. When the chef responds by wielding a rolling pin, Kovács knocks him out. Meanwhile, 200 tourists await their meals. The rest of the staff is pleased to see the dictatorial and ill-mannered long-serving cook taken down a rung. When Kovács is fired on the spot—“a waiter is replaceable, but not a chef!”—the rest of the staff go on strike out of solidarity. Either both Kovács and the chef go or neither goes, they demand. The hungry tourists have tickets to Les Folies Bergère, so the owner rehires Kovács and then keeps him on. The bully cook becomes the butt of jokes and loses 40 pounds. Rumor circles back that he had never previously been fired because, as a longtime employee who ran the hotel’s black-market operations during the German occupation, he knew too much.
Kovács is so impressed by the solidarity on display in his defense at the hotel that he decides to live in France. He is 30 years old.
This is where Imré Kovács’s written account leaves off, like a 19th-century novel ending with the heroine’s marriage—in 1961.
But life goes on, beyond the page. Kovács finds a Tunisian-born Jewish bride in a personal ad in Ici Paris and considers that, though plain, she has child-bearing hips, and so will do. His father-in-law helps him purchase the Boulangerie Hongroise, at 5, rue des Blancs-Manteaux, near Les Halles, which he runs until he has a marital crisis and heads south to Cassis to cure his nerves. On his return to Paris, he takes a job at Flambaum, a celebrated Kosher restaurant and banquet hall in Montmartre, near Les Folies Bergère. He bakes Hungarian wedding cakes and charms guests at the front of house, and meets Roger Cazes, who had taken over the Brasserie Lipp from his legendary father, Marcellin. Cazes brings Imré Kovács to Lipp in 1965, and for the next 16 years, that became Kovács’s life.
There, Kovács called himself Monsieur Serge, because his eldest son’s name was easier for his French clients than his own Imré. From Tuesday through Sunday, he labored in his server’s tux and long apron. On Mondays, he tossed some coins and candy at his kids or took them out for a pastry. He had eight Jewish children: Serge; Stéphane; Pierre; Thierry, who died as a newborn; Nathalie; Annie; Esther; and, unexpectedly, Michel. Home was a chaotic free-for-all. Twice, Imré made plans to emigrate, to Australia and Israel, but his wife refused to leave her family in Europe. In the late 1970s, Imré and his wife divorced.
For some 14 years after that, Kovács floated in retirement, living for a few years in the Parisian suburb of Vanves before heading further south to join a former waiter from Lipp in Auxerre, in Burgundy. There, every afternoon, in a small house he bought, he sat down to write what he remembered of his life, chapter by chapter, starting with the sound of his mother’s voice calling out to him for dinner in his Hungarian home village before the war. He then recorded the manuscript on cassette tapes. He approached his son Serge, in journalism school at the time, to see if he had any interest in the project, but Serge declined. Imré’s daughter Nathalie, like any teenager—and like many children of Holocaust survivors—wanted none of her father’s burden.
“My father wanted to talk,” she told me many years later, “but I was not listening.”
Serge connected his father with a girlfriend, who for a fee agreed to type up the tapes. Kovács then approached Jean-Paul Sartre’s postwar journal, Les Temps modernes, to see if the existentialists would be interested in publishing it. Their subject had been the calamity of Europe. Their offices were down the street from Lipp. He was not given the courtesy of a reply. Claude Lanzmann, the French dean of Holocaust memory, director of the nine-hour epic Shoah and a regular at Lipp, sent him packing. Another Lipp habitué, Georges Lambrichs, a celebrated editor at the French publishing house Gallimard, also declined. Eventually, Kovács put the typescript away, and never spoke of it again.
One day in 1995, after a week of living on his son’s couch since selling his house in Auxerre—divorced, sick of France and the French, pining for home, mourning his youngest son, Michel, who had died in Israel the year before, terrified by signs of dementia and unwilling to be taken into supervised care—Imré Kovács took himself to the Gare de l’Est, to board one last train. He rode all the way to Budapest, where he lodged with distant cousins. With the help of a young Hungarian man he met in France, he made his way to the village of Orosháza, a few miles from his hometown of Makó, the onion capital of Hungary. With his savings, he bought a modest house on Csabai Street, large enough for visitors.
Alone there, tending roses, visiting the market, losing his grip on reality, he spent his days waiting for the end. He crashed his car, had his license revoked. Simple things like a bottle of perfume would send him into a paranoid rage. When his adult children visited, he believed they had come to poison him. Then he would calm down and wake up the next day with no recollection of the drama.
For many Jewish survivors, the simple act of living could be hard. Imré’s sister Margit, for example: No one knows how she endured her deportation to Auschwitz. Serge told me of an unconfirmed family belief she may have been raped by an SS officer; when she miscarried, she was experimented on like a lab rat. She eventually landed in Palestine and lived in Haifa, marrying, divorcing, remarrying, divorcing again, but never able to have children.
Nathalie recalled Margit carrying an elegant small handbag that had nothing in it and living in a cockroach-infested apartment there—a confused, lonely woman. Eventually, as Serge put it, “she lost it” and was taken into the care of the Jewish state. She died in 2005, at age 85, and was buried as Margot Kovich in Kiryat Ti’von.
Her sister Klari, who survived the war because she had married a Protestant, lived a simple, rural life in the town of Baja, Hungary, on the banks of the Danube. In the 1960s, Klari renewed her relationship with Imré, and the siblings saw each other when they could. Her children called their uncle Imré bájos, “lovely Imré.” But brother and sister no longer understood each other the way they had before the war.
In 1986, at Imré’s urging, Nathalie organized an encounter between Klari and Margit in Haifa, at the old-age home where Margit was living. The two sisters had not seen each other in 40 years. Unprepared for the depth of feeling, shocked Margit was full of bitter recriminations: Klari had escaped the atrocities Margit had endured. The hoped-for loving reunion instead was a tearful, befuddling disaster. The sisters never reconciled.
I thought of Primo Levi’s painful introspection in The Drowned and the Saved when he comes to the appalling realization that the good were more likely to die in the camps than the “the worst … the selfish, the violent, the insensitive, the collaborators of the ‘gray zone,’ the spies.” To be alive after the calamity was to be counted among those worst. It meant carrying the incomparable guilt of having taken the place of another, perhaps better, human being, who might have had greater purpose in life—and yet to be entirely blameless at the same time.
The cemetery where Imré Kovács is buried sits behind a squat white ceremonial hall with a pair of arched windows. Clipped pines and skeletal fruit trees line the street off the main entrance to Orosháza, and single-story houses under ceramic-tile roofs mutely observe anyone who approaches—which is essentially no one, as the Jewish population of Orosháza, once thriving, is gone. On the day I visited, low grayed-out clouds, like breath mist, dulled the sky.
Nándor Berger, the 68-year-old volunteer who for about $30 a month cared for Orosháza’s Jewish cemetery, stood at the gate. I was the first foreigner since Serge himself to arrive here, he said. He wore a ragged black jacket and a black knit cap in the humid cold, accented by tufts of black hairs in his ears. Though not Jewish himself, he expressed a sad admiration for Jews, whoever he imagined them to be, saying, like a great guilty sigh from his people, “It’s not easy to fulfill the obligations of Jewish life.”
Inside, overgrown and derelict, the cemetery was a tangle of ivy and stone. A passenger train rumbled by along a track laid on a dike, the same tracks that carried Jews by the thousands to their deaths. A monument to locals killed and deported from 1944 to 1945 listed hundreds of names: Sarolta Gelbermann, Magdolna Preisz, Emil Grossman, Jakab Klein, Endre Altmann, too many whose final resting place is unknown.
Down a central alley, between Imré Klein and Lászlóné Singer, is KOHN-KOVÁCS IMRÉ, as his gray tombstone reads. His grave was tidy compared to others, despite the weeds pushing through cracks in the cement walkway. Berger pointed to it and shrugged, before showing us around some of the other corners of the plot, where 1944 and 1945 appear more often than they should.
A few blocks away, Erzsébet Boldog was excited to share the walnuts she had collected from the tree in her courtyard. She was living in a single room of what was once her parents’ house, because it was all she could afford to heat. There was a single bed, a television, a table with a vase of carnations, some hunting trophies on the wall including a gaping fishbone maw and a skittish tabby cat outside. Her son József Attila Boldog would call her every day from Northern Ireland, from the truck he drove there. He left Orosháza, the Boldogs’ native village, at the age of 18, with a visa to emigrate to Australia, but went instead to France, then Italy, then Israel, after rediscovering his Jewish roots. He is what Western Europe calls an economic migrant from Hungary on generous days and a refugee on harsher ones. Boldog, widowed for years, plied her visitors with snacks and peach nectar.
“Imré,” she said, was a “very decent” older gentleman, “a very handsome man,” who lodged with her for a year and then bought a house nearby. Kovács landed here because of his friendship with her son, who thought the village might please him, so close to his boyhood home of Makó. “All Hungarians are the same,” she told me through a translator. “When they get to be older, they want to come home.”
“Did he ever talk about the war?” I asked. “Did you ever hear of a manuscript about his life?”
“No, never,” she said.
“Did he own a typewriter?”
“Yes,” she said. “He had one, an old machine.” Later she said, “He was a very good storyteller.”
Awash in Le Vengeur’s far-fetched descriptions of gallantry, I wondered out loud if my hostess had fallen for Imré’s romantic wiles. From photos his sharp features were still dashing under his cap, even in his old age. And after spending so much time in his fabricated world, I wanted him to have found love. This charming, attractive widow, who swelled with heartfelt affection for him, seemed a perfect match. I pictured Imré tending his roses under her appreciative gaze.
But naturally I had it wrong. “During his last years,” Boldog said with a hint of bitterness, “a gypsy lady moved into the house with him. Her name was Ilona Rácz. She was present during his funeral, and he even bought a house for her. This 28-year-young lady,” she tsked, “she took a lot of money from old Imré.”
So Imré had seduced a woman again, in real life. Or Ilona Rácz had seduced him. His last conquest, half his age but unable to resist him. In truth, she was using him. It was no coincidence that she shared Imré’s mother’s name, the mother he lost in the Holocaust, a murder never forgiven and the driving force of his life. Boldog didn’t like the “gypsy lady,” who she said took everything Imré had and left him to die.
But did he like her? I think he might have. Imré’s daughter Nathalie later told me, “My father was a man who loved women.” Serge conceded the same, when, at his spare apartment outside Paris, I asked him about Rácz. “I don’t know if he slept with her,” he said. “But this girl, even if she exploited him, at least she was there to warm his heart.”
Or maybe she wasn’t. In the end, Boldog said, “Imré was totally alone.”
If he were alive, we could ask Imré if what he’d written was a fantasy, a novelization or as true an account as he could muster. The freedom to fictionalize is after all one of the great luxuries of life—to invent stories, sometimes about yourself. The Holocaust imposed its narrative on Imré and his family; his defiance was to insist otherwise. Maybe in reality he was so wracked by guilt at having survived or had done something so low and debased to have gained that survival that the only way for him to repair the damage was to imagine himself infiltrating the Waffen-SS and hunting down his mother’s killers. Maybe he was inspired by the fantastical world of Brasserie Lipp. It’s hard to know where the real blurred into the imagined. Or maybe it was all just as he said.
“I think we all have secrets,” Nathalie told me. “We all have things that we are proud of. We all have things that we are not proud of. Knowing my father, I suspect that many things in his story are true. Some things have probably been a little bit twisted, but on the basis of true situations. You understand what I’m saying?”
So here are the facts: Imré Kovács was born. He survived the war. He traveled to Palestine and became a legionnaire. He lived in France, where he worked as a waiter chez Lipp, and died in Hungary. A story that was written down in typescript was attributed to him after his death, and published in French. In the Holocaust, millions of Jews died, including Imré’s mother.
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TOKYO: Clients emerge from black stretch limousines, displaying VIP passports to the staff. Inside, the building is decked out in crystal chandeliers and ornate black-and-gold wallpaper.
The tinkling of neon-lit slot machines blends with the clatter of an electronic mahjong table which mixes the tiles for waiting players.
Las Vegas Adachi would seem to be just another commercial casino – but it’s actually a day care centre for the elderly in Japan.
Patrons playing at the automated mahjong table. (Photos: Lien Foundation)
It was a trip to an actual casino in Las Vegas that inspired the CEO of Day Service Las Vegas, Mr Kaoru Mori, to set up this unusual centre. At the MGM Grand casino, the former salesman was surprised to see a large number of elderly patrons.
“They were placing small bets – only $10 or $15. But they were all dressed up for their day out and clearly having fun,” he said.
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That scene gave him the confidence to take a gamble of his own: Setting up a casino-themed day care centre back home in 2014.
“The ageing of the population is a central problem confronting Japan, where around 6.22 million people need care,” said Mr Mori.
“I wanted to create a place that gives the elderly a reason to head out.”
Day Service Las Vegas CEO Kaoru Mori thinks it’s an effective way to get the elderly out of the house and staying active.
It was a bold move then as gambling in Japan is frowned upon – indeed, casinos would only be legalised two years later in 2016.
INCENTIVE TO EXERCISE
But the games and services provided by Day Service Las Vegas are part of a system designed to motivate the elderly to keep fit physically and mentally.
For one, no actual money is used within the centre. Before clients can begin playing each day, they have to have their temperatures and blood pressures checked, and do stretching exercises to earn 10,000 gaming credits, called ‘Vegas’.
“Many elderly people don’t like doing exercises, so this is a good way to get them to take part,” said Las Vegas Adachi’s manager Mayu Ichikawa.
Clients must earn their ‘Vegas’ currency by doing exercises.
Clients can use their ‘Vegas’ to play games such as mahjong, poker, blackjack and pachinko (jackpot).
Madam Katzuko Kikuchi, 83, is a regular at the mahjong tables. “I have friends here and the games are fun,” she said.
Besides table games, clients can also get massages, sing karaoke, play with brain training games, read, paint or watch movies. The games at the centre help stimulate brain function and can improve memory, math skills and situational judgement, said Mr Mori.
In addition, games are regularly interspersed with five- to 20-minute exercise routines throughout the day. The centre also offers a 45-minute rehabilitation service session to train their clients’ muscles.
There are massage services on offer.
Today, Mr Mori’s wager would appear to have paid off – even his own 93-year-old mother is a regular client. And the Adachi centre is just one of the 16 Day Service Las Vegas outlets catering to nearly 700 clients across Japan.
LOOMING RISKS?
Yet, one potential complication threatens to derail its success. The centre is currently kept affordable for seniors, as Japan’s long-term care insurance system pays for 90 per cent of its S$100-a-day charges.
But it might not continue to be insured in the years to come, as this insurance system is under growing strain as Japan ages, and is being reformed with raised premiums.
Casino-styled centres are also still frowned upon by many – for instance, in 2015, Kobe voted to ban mahjong and slot machines from its eldercare centres.
Gambling is still frowned upon in Japanese society.
But Mr Mori, who never wanted to “just make another ‘elderly home’”, still firmly believes that his centre helps his elderly clients – nearly half of whom have dementia – become healthier and happier.
I think people want to believe that they are still young deep down, but when they age and need a care service, that in itself makes them feel old.
“Here we don’t treat the elderly like children who need care, but as adults who need to be engaged and energised… I believe that people will live longer if they feel happy every day, and we put this principle into practice here,” he said.
This is part of a CNA Insider series on the services for seniors in Japan, based on a recent study trip by the Lien Foundation. | {
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The nakedly greedy ploy was met with a combination of laughter and derision back in February, and Sky Captain O’Leary later poo-pooed the idea and said he was just taking the piss. But now that he’s gone away and given it some further thought, he genuinely thinks he can justify it now. His reasoning is that, as the average Ryanair flight lasts for about an hour, people shouldn’t need the toilet anyway.
Better still, he has explained that if he got rid of two of the three toilets in his Boeing 737-800 jets, he could fill the space with up to six extra seats and claw in some more much-needed revenue that way.
Maybe it’s related to something that stretches back to his childhood. Perhaps he was made to stand in the corner until he danced on the spot like a possessed Michael Flatley before he was granted permission to have a leak. Or maybe he’s just a grabbing, sociopathic bastard. He’s probably just a daringly clever self-publicist… and we’ve fallen for it yet again. Oh Sky Captain, we hate you but we can't resist you!
So if there are no toilets on aircraft. I can't take bottles more than 100ml each per bottle on a flight due to safety reasons to piss into them then where the hell I am going to piss or take a dump for that matter then when nature calls?
If I really had to for a piss or dump, could I borrow the Captains cabin for privacy while on autopilot to relieve myself. So what does this button do then. Opps, Mayday, Mayday.
What a Irish twat!
> His reasoning is that, as the average Ryanair flight lasts for about an hour, people shouldn’t need the toilet anyway.
They should also not need to eat, drink or buy fucking lottery tickets. But I bet he won't stop trying to sell them.
Oh no - I thought this was already happening ("within the next two years") - I also forgot this today whilst returning on a BA flight - the sick bag was an ideal substitute -no need for dragons den, Tom. I was suprised by the trolley dolly's expression though! | {
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Bangladesh PM, Qatar Ambassador Review Ties
(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday met with HE Qatar's Ambassador to Dhaka Abdullah Abdulaziz MohamedAl Mana. During the meeting, the two sides reviewed existing ties between the two friendly countries and means of boosting and developing the
(MENAFN) Qatar is ready to pump almost USD13bn on mega infrastructure projects in the country in the coming year with a main focus on projects related to the FIFA World Cup 2020.Moreover, the country ...
(MENAFN) A mutual summit between GCC leaders and British Theresa May confirmed to launch the GCC-UK Strategic Partnership to enhance relations in all fields.Moreover, UK will spend more than 3bn euro ...
(MENAFN - Gulf Times) The number of passenger cars in use in Qatar is expected to reach about 912,000 units by 2020, registering the highest annualised growth of 5.4% in the Gulf Co-operation Council ... | {
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Patricia Kozowyk ART
My work has always been landscape based. Predominately 2 dimensional and occasionally 3 dimensional/installation work.The gallery below is divided into medium or themes. Biographical selections are listed before each gallery grouping.
EDUCATION:
Honours BA, Art and Art History McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont
Artist in Education Certificate Course, York University/Ontario Arts Council Toronto, On
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: SOLO
2011 A Diary of Sorts; 31 Years of Art-Making.Gallery on 4,Hamilton Public Library, On.
2002St. James’ Church,Dundas, On.
1995 Lullaby of Leaves and other worksThe Spectator Gallery,Hamilton, On.
Ukrainian influence:12 years of seasonal farm life; experiencing, observing, and learning that nature is always ready to surprise; has led to a change in my art perspective.I am exploring symbolic ideas in art, because it now seems more true than representational expression. I believe this shift in thinking is a result of my farming experience.The symbolic form I am drawn to is Ukrainian traditional folk art since it is part of my heritage. I do not wish to repeat precisely traditional images because that would not be authentic to my experience with this land. | {
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"I've got to find a rhythm," Antetokounmpo said to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "Because of the trade we lost a little bit of rhythm.
"I've just got to try to get everybody involved when I've got the ball. If that doesn't work, I've got to go back to my old move and start attacking the basket more and more and more."
Bucks' Kidd on Antetokounmpo: 'He can be an All-Star'
by R.J. White | CBSSports.com
(2/12/15) Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is set to participate in the Slam Dunk Contest and Rising Stars Challenge during All-Star Weekend, has drawn rave reviews from teammates and coaches around the league, including from his own coach, NBA.com reports.
"He has shown that he can be an All-Star in this league," Bucks coach Jason Kidd said. "When you look at his numbers, he has been consistent offensively and defensively. It’s just a matter of time for him to be one of those players that will be in the game and be looked upon as one of the best players in this league. In a short amount of time, his work ethic and the time he spends working on his game and studying the game is starting to show."
Lakers coach Byron Scott called the 20-year-old "special" and added that "he can be a difference-maker." Celtics coach Brad Stevens said that Antetokounmpo is "unique" and that he's "got a chance to be really special."
Guard Jerryd Bayless called Antetokounmpo "a hard worker," while guard Brandon Knight pointed to the forward's improving jump shot as a vital component to his growth. "It’s big, because it allows his defender to come up and feel that he needs to play him instead of just sagging off," Knight said.
"The game is slowing down for him," guard O.J. Mayo said. "He’s getting better every day, picking up on little things, gaining more confidence in his jump shot and his post-up game. His thing is time. Next week he’ll be a better player than he is today."
Antetokounmpo has averaged 12.0 points and 6.6 rebounds while shooting 50.7 percent from the field in his sophomore season.
Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo doubles up Rockets in losing effort
by Brandon Wise | CBSSports.com
(2/6/15) Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 27 points on 11 of 16 shooting from the field and pulled down a career-high 15 rebounds in Milwaukee's 117-111 loss to the Rockets Friday.
It was Antetokounmpo's third double-double in his last four games and sixth of the season. He also dished out four assists and blocked one shot in the contest.
Rising Stars Challenge participants for All-Star Weekend named
by R.J. White | CBSSports.com
(1/28/15) The 20 first- and second-year participants for the Rising Stars Challenge held on Feb. 13 during All-Star Weekend have been announced.
Antetokounmpo and Oladipo were both drafted in 2013, and have already emerged as strong prospects. Antetokounmpo has averaged 11.7 points and 6.1 rebounds per game. He's known as the "Greek Freak" due to his impresseive wingspan.
Oladipo has averaged 16.3 points per game during his sophomore season. LaVine is just 19-years-old, and is known for his vertical leap.
Plumlee is the only player involved with contest experience. He finished second in the McDonald's High School All-American game dunk contest.
03/01/2015 01:12Burke scores 23, Jazz hold on for 82-75 win over Bucks
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Milwaukee Bucks have been one of the NBA's best defensive teams all season and entered Saturday night's game against Utah holding opponents to 43.2 percent shooting - the third-best mark in the league.
Giannis Antetokounmpo entered the league as a rookie with little track record, after playing in lower level Greek leagues before the Bucks made him the 15th overall pick in last June's draft. The 19-year-old acquitted himself quite well in spite of his lack of experience, appearing in all but five games as a rookie and averaging 6.8 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game. He even worked his way into the starting lineup 23 times for a last-place Bucks squad, though his role did not change much throughout the season. With a full season of experience under his belt, Antetokounmpo should be better equipped to take on a larger role, but he still remains something of a blank slate for Fantasy purposes. Consider him worth a late-round flier in all Fantasy formats on Draft Day, given his upside.
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Tag Archives: yahoo account recovery
Yahoo password is meant to keep the outsiders out of your Yahoo account. The more complex password you create, the safer your account will be. However, sometimes you can forget your password yourself. And, forgot Yahoo password is also not uncommon. Therefore, there are ways to recover your Yahoo account.
Since you are here to recover your password, we assume that you know your Yahoo email address. Moreover, you’ll need to have access to your mobile phone, or “Optional recovery number” you have entered while signing up for your Yahoo account. Or, you should have linked an alternate email address to your Yahoo account.
Forgot Yahoo password recovery can be done from a computer or your mobile device. But it is easier and quicker from a computer.
How to recover forgot Yahoo password:
Open a web browser, or a new tab in this browser, and go to “www.ymail.com“
In the page that opens, enter the Yahoo email address, the password of which you have forgotten.
Then, click on the Next button.
Now, click on ‘Forgot password?‘ link found right below the “Sign in” button.
In the following page, confirm your email address and click on Continue button.
You may need to enter the CAPTCHAcode in the image to avoid unauthorized access. Then, click on Submit button.
There are two ways to recover access to your Yahoo account depending upon the information you have entered while signing up for the account.
Your mobile number: a reset code will be sent to your mobile number.
Your recovery email: a recovery mail will be sent to the recovery email address.
i. For mobile number option:
Mobile recovery will be the primary option. However, the number associated with your Yahoo account should be accessible to you.
Enter the missing digits to verify that this is your phone number, and click Submit button.
Note: each asterisk (*) denote one digit of your mobile number.
You are required to enter 2 digits of your phone number preceding the last two digits.
If you don’t know the digits, use the No, I don’t know the digits button.
This will take you to any alternative recovery option, if available.
Note: If you don’t have any other recovery option, there’s no way you can recover your account.
Click on the Yes, text me a code.
You’ll receive a text message with the reset code.
Type in the reset code in the space provided, and click Verify button.
Click on Create a new password button to get a new password for your Yahoo account.
ii. For recovery email option:
If you have selected any of these buttons: No, I don’t know the digits, or I don’t have access to this phone, recovery email option will prompt, given that you had linked an alternate email to your Yahoo account.
If you don’t have access to this email, or if you haven’t added an alternate email to your Yahoo account, there’s pretty much nothing you can do to recover your account.
Click on Yes, send me a code button.
Go to the recovery email inbox, and open the mail received from Yahoo.
Click the link in the mail and you’ll be directed to the password reset window. Now, jump to step 12. | {
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Has anyone experience with this wide angle convertor ZCW-300 KIT for Konica Minolta Z3 and the future Z5 ?
- size / weight ?
- is it easy to plug on the camera and to remove ?
- do we directly plug the converter into the camera or do we need a additional tube ?
- is it "plug and play" or, once attached to the camera, do we need to change sth in the menu of the camera ?
- is the image quality acceptable ?
Has anyone experience with this wide angle convertor ZCW-300 KIT for Konica Minolta Z3 and the future Z5 ?
- size / weight ?
- is it easy to plug on the camera and to remove ?
- do we directly plug the converter into the camera or do we need a additional tube ?
- is it "plug and play" or, once attached to the camera, do we need to change sth in the menu of the camera ?
- is the image quality acceptable ?
Thanks a lot for your answers.
The ZCW-300 kit consists of the .75 converter lens, an adapter tube and a lens pouch. To attach it to the camera you screw the adapter tube into threads around the base of the lens and then screw the conveter lens onto the adapter tube. In the menu of the camera is a section to select the wide adapter. Once this done the camera zooms to full wide angle and stays fixed at that focal length. The zoom buttons no longer function. This is as it should be because there is no reason to use the wide converter at any other focal length than full wide angle. I have the ZCW-100 for my Z1 so I can't really comment on the quality of the ZCW-300 but I suspect it is the same lens as the 100 with a different adapter tube. My experience with the100 is that it is of good quality. It does tend to magnify the barrel distortion of the main lens and has a bit of softness in the corners. Also if you try to use it with the inbuilt flash it will cast a shadow in the lower portion of the picture.If you want to take indoor flash photos with it you will need an external flash to get the desired results.In spite of these limitations it will give acceptable results for those times you needa widerangle viewandcan't physically move back far enough to get the picture you want. | {
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Artist Roy McMakin talks with people while standing near the wall of a commercial building (behind him) with 870 seven-inch-square bricks that are being painted individually from a choice of 60 different colors. Above on the scaffolding is one of the project’s painters Guillermo Arellano. CHARLIE NEUMAN U-T
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Artist Roy McMakin talks with people while standing near the wall of a commercial building (behind him) with 870 seven-inch-square bricks that are being painted individually from a choice of 60 different colors. Above on the scaffolding is one of the project’s painters Guillermo Arellano. CHARLIE NEUMAN U-T
“That person said blue or whatever. And then they looked to the right, to the person next to them; it just started.”
Without McMakin’s prompting, the question went all the way around the table of 18.
“Everybody was both interested in everybody else’s favorite color and desirous and happy to be sharing their favorite,” he said. “It reminded me so much of childhood, when you would talk to friends about your favorite color.
“I just think it’s interesting and about something. I don’t even have to figure out what it’s about — it just is.”
When McMakin was approached by the San Diego Foundation and its affiliate, the La Jolla Community Foundation, to do the second in a series of La Jolla murals (the first, by another UCSD graduate, Kim MacConnel, is at 7724 Girard Ave.), it seemed only natural to turn to color, especially as the foundation wanted the project to have a community aspect. His “canvas,” the wall at 7596 Eads Ave., was essentially a grid of hundreds of blocks, and McMakin decided to make each block reflect an individual’s favorite color.
“The idea just came to me how cool it would be to cover this wall with the colors that people felt represented something that was close to their favorite color, or the color that at that moment they most responded to,” he said. “Then people would drive by when it was completed and see a wall of many colors.”
McMakin was in La Jolla on Dec. 18 to oversee the project, appropriately titled “Favorite Colors.” In preparation, he put together a palette of 65 colors, from which people could choose a favorite. Although he didn’t do it intentionally, he was only one off from the number of colors in a standard box of Crayola crayons: 64.
“You always felt that was the one,” he said. “For me, if you had a smaller box than that, you felt you were missing something, and if it was bigger, you were sort of indulgent. Over the course of several days, with a friend that has helped me before with color things, I just went through the colors and we kept adding and subtracting. I think we had most people covered.”
Notices in local stores and La Jolla’s two community newspapers alerted people to the event, and 879 people showed up (even if some just happened to be walking or driving by), despite a damp, overcast day. Each chose a color, which was then assigned to one of the blocks on the grid.
“I was a little worried it would be seen as sort of cynical, or people wouldn’t really do it,” McMakin said. “But people took it seriously and it just reinforced what I believe − that color really matters to people in a very core way.”
While some informal online surveys have shown blue to be the most popular color, McMakin found the choices almost evenly divided. Some people even admitted they had been less than honest in the past about professing a love for the color blue.
“People heard people say, ‘If someone would ask me what my favorite color is, I would say blue, but it really isn’t,’ ” he said. One person reportedly said she would say blue because her mother liked blue. Another said blue was not his favorite, but he identified with people who liked blue.
“I mean, craziness, right?” McMakin said. “And so interesting.”
McMakin is an artist, not a scientist, perhaps best known for his furniture, which blurs boundaries between art and design (if such a boundary even still exists). And he’s convinced color preference comes from something deeper than conditioning or childhood associations. He’s certain color is genetic. Still, even he admits he can be influenced.
“I was helping someone do some furniture commissions and other (design) aspects and we were working with the color of this house,” he said. “And this woman, this extremely contemporary and sophisticated woman, loved Easter colors. She loved them with the deepest of passion, right?
I mean, for me, I was just like, ‘oh-my-god,’ because, I mean, pale purples and pale lemony yellow — that’s my idea of the worst color I’d ever want to live with, and this woman was so excited.
“She really showed me lavender in a way I had never seen it because of her enthusiasm.” | {
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Preview of Sunlit 2.2
As I get ready to fly to Portland this morning for IndieWeb Summit, I wanted to give a quick preview video of the upcoming Sunlit 2.2 release. We are very excited about the new Timeline tab, which brings an Instagram-like experience to the app for the first time.
There is so much potential for photo blogging. As you watch the video, remember that all these posts are coming from someone’s blog, usually at their own domain name. There are no ads or gimmicks. Sunlit works with your Micro.blog account and the people you are already following on Micro.blog.
We’re not adding anyone else to the beta, but I’ll share more as we get closer to the release next month. Thanks for supporting Micro.blog! | {
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Making a Healthy Choice: Where to Buy Organic Food
Today there are many more options in where to buy organic food than there were twenty years ago. Before, if a person wanted to buy organic food they would have to go to a specialty store or to go to the local farmer’s market to buy from the farmers in the area. Since the organic food industry has grown so much since that time, there are ways to buy organic food online and ways to even buy organic food in bulk if the individual desires to try to save a little money. When choosing where to buy organic food, individuals should choose places that get their produce from the local farmers in the area rather than from large farmers where the food has to be shipped across the country.
Benefits
The benefits of choosing where to buy the organic food carefully are many. If the store gets the food from the local farmers, then the individual is helping to support the local industry in the area rather than large food chains. In addition, the individual is helping to save the environment from the shipping that has to occur with the larger farms, as well as the packaging material that also has to be supplied in order to ship the produce.
There are online resources that help individuals find where to buy their organic foods. These resources will often tell what farmers markets are in the area, what farms sell the foods directly to the customers, and what food cooperatives are available that allow individuals to become members and to volunteer time for reduced rates on the foods in the cooperative. These online resources on where to buy organic foods also help to inform individuals on the benefits of eating organic foods and also how to grow their own foods organically if they like to garden. These resources will inform individuals where to go to buy seeds that are organically produced so that there are not any trace chemicals in them that could contaminate the food even if organically grown.
Some individuals will choose to go places where they can buy the organic food in a bulk package so that they can split it up among friends and family and come out cheaper in pricing that way. Often fruits and grains are packaged in bulk containers so that individuals can bring their own sorting containers to the person’s home who bought the produce in bulk and divide it up according to their needs.
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The goal of The Prepper’s Blueprint is to help you find freedom through self-reliance, and ultimately, to get you and your family to a point where you can not only survive, but thrive, in a world that may be permanently altered.
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Modern society is becoming very dependent upon software. Our
transport systems, financial systems, medical systems and defense systems all
depend to a very large degree upon software. As a consequence the safety of
many human lives and much property now depends upon the reliable functioning of
software. Moreover, the fall in the cost of hardware has now made possible the
development of large software systems.
Ada is a programming language of special value in the development of large
programs which must work reliably. This applies to most defense applications
(from which background Ada evolved) and extends to many application domains.
Indeed over half the Ada programs now being developed are for non-defense
applications.
This document introduces Ada 95, the revised International Standard which
increases the flexibility of Ada thus making it applicable to wider domains but
retains the inherent reliability for which Ada is noted. Important aspects of
Ada 95 include
Object Oriented Programming.
Ada 95 includes full OOP facilities giving the
flexibility of programming by extension which enables programs to be extended
and maintained at lower cost.
Hierarchical Libraries.
The library mechanism now takes a hierarchical form
which is valuable for the control and decomposition of large programs.
Protected Objects.
The tasking features of Ada are enhanced to incorporate a
very efficient mechanism for multitask synchronized access to shared data.
This is of special value for hard realtime systems.
These enhancements to Ada make Ada 95 an outstanding language. It adds the
flexibility of languages such as C++ to the reliable Software Engineering
framework provided and proven by Ada 83 over the past ten years.
Ada 95 is a natural evolution of Ada 83. The enhancements have been made
without disturbing the existing investment in Ada 83 programs and programmers.
Upward compatibility has been a prime goal and has been achieved within the
constraints imposed by other requirements.
This document contains four chapters. Chapter 1 gives the background to the
development process including the capture of the requirements from the existing
and future user community. Chapter 2 introduces the highlights of the
language, especially the three topics mentioned above, Objected Oriented
Programming, Hierarchical Libraries and Protected Objects; it is in a tutorial
style. Chapter 3 gives an overview of the whole language showing how the new
facilities fit into the overall framework. Finally, Chapter 4 addresses the
issue of upward compatibility with Ada 83 and shows that for normal programs
the goal of compatibility has been achieved. This document will be of special
value to program managers, team leaders and all software professionals with
concern for the organized development of software.
Ada 95 deserves the attention of all members of the computing profession. It
is a coherent and reliable foundation vehicle for developing the major
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I ran into an old friend (someone I briefly dated several years ago) and we agreed to get together for dinner. We had a good evening...just kissing...and the next day, i agreed to visit. He told me that he was positive and while I was not sure what that would mean long term, I really enjoyed our time together and we ended up talking very candidly about the disease and how he has dealt with it.
Nevertheless, we becamse very aroused while watching a movie and ended up kissing ("french" or open-mouth kissing) and removed our clothes. We ended up making out and he ended up ejaculating. While there was absolutely no penetration, the ejaculate ended up on my stomach, near the navel (belly button) area. I immediatley wiped the ejaculate off and have been freaking out ever since. I was not prepared for him to do this and was suprised that it happened so quickly.
I respect this person a lot and was aware of his status, and he has assured me that he would not place me in a high risk situation, but i feel as though this was certainly a high risk situation...
Am I overreacting?
Should I go and start taking the post exposure prophylactic medication?
While I know I need to be tested, it has been 26 hours since the exposure. Is there an anonymous test that will test this early?
What about the kissing? I see "no HIV in saliva" everywhere, but is there ANY risk, no matter how low, for exposure from kissing?
PLEASE HELP ME...I AM VERY CONFUSED AND HAVE RAN INTO CONFLICTING INFORMATION...
You are over-reacting and a BIG NO to the PEP. It's for use when a person has a REAL risk, such as unprotected vagainal or anal sex with an HIV+ person.
It's true that Saliva is not infectious, but there is more. There are proteins in saliva that inhibit the virus and cause it to lose it's ability to infect.
The above is probably a major reason why no one has ever become infected from kissing...or getting a blow job for that matter. Close or Open-Mouth. French Kiss to your hearts content. You won't get HIV that way. Might get some other STI's from that, but not HIV.
So, he ejaculated on your stomach. Skin is an effective barrier to transmission. You certainly were NOT at risk with that.
There are very special cells that can facilitate transmission. Those found in the mucous lining as found in the vagina and Anus. And Dentric (sp?) cells found on the underside of the foreskin on uncirmcusized men.
Your friend assured you that he would not place you at high risk. Your friend placed you at NO risk. He kept his promise.
HIV is going to be around for a long time. You have a choice. Learn the actual facts about how HIV is transmitted or continue to OVER-REACT over non issues.
Most people that are infected will test postive between 4-6 weeks. The CDC says that 3 months is conclusive.
You do not need to test for HIV over this incident, however if you have never had a test it's a good thing to know your status. If you are sexually active you should get a test once a year as part of your routine health care.
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This Pillow Lets Me Fall Asleep to Music Without Driving My Spouse Crazy
Only someone whose head is directly on the pillow will hear the sweet, sweet sounds.
Ever since I was a little kid, I required sound to fall asleep. When I was in elementary school it was the deep-voiced jazz DJ on the local college station. In my twenties, it was paranormal radio host Art Bell. Podcasts radically changed my world in the last three years and have become my late-night go-to. Sadly, being a night listener comes with unique difficulties when you share a bed with someone who requires silence.
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I’ve destroyed hundreds of dollars in earbuds, risked strangling myself in their cords, and have most likely done irreparable damage to my ears, all to keep the sound from disturbing my spouse. So you can imagine my reaction when introduced to the secret sound of the Dreampad pillow.
If you’re a viewer of Shark Tank, you may have caught the Dreampad on the show. They didn’t get a deal, largely because of their crazy valuation, but the Sharks did the see potential. After being sent one of their pillows for review, so did I. Not only is the Dreampad a comfortable pillow in its own right — it comes in a variety of standard firmnesses, from slim to firm — but once you’ve connected it to your phone, it becomes a startling private sound system.
There’s a strange magic in the Dreampad. The second I took it out of the box, I plugged it into my phone’s headphone jack, booted up the sleepy sounds on the free Dreampad app and slipped my phone into the pillow’s zippered pocket. With my head far from the pillow, neither I nor my wife could hear a thing. Slowly I brought my head closer. Still nothing. I’d started to worry ⏤ maybe I’d received a dud. Then my ear hit the pillow. Boom. There was the music a clear as day. More than that, I could feel the bassy rumblings tingle against my face.
Head up? Nothing. Head down? Wham. Sound. What’s more, you might expect that there would be some hard, speaker-like device inside the pillow to produce the sound. There is not. The pillow, like standard models, is squeezable, bendable, and foldable.
Over the next week, I put the Dreampad through its paces. Not once did my wife ever complain of hearing sound coming from my pillow. I was in my own sonic land.
Given that I’m a podcast listener, that’s where I found a weakness in the Dreampad system. The system is clearly not designed to deliver podcasts. Speaking voices tend to be a tad muffled as if you’re listening to them from an adjacent room. However, after tweaking the equalizer on the Spotify app, I managed to boost the vocals enough that conversations were clear and easily followed.
An important point here. You do not have to use the Dreampad app to enjoy the Dreampad. However, the pillow is designed to perform best when delivering its particular tunes, which are engineered to lull you to sleep. I tried doing this for several nights. And after the initial anxious feeling of not having someone yakking in my ear as I was drifting off, the droning vibratory cycles of the Dreampad music eventually began to soothe me. My eyes would pop open in the morning, the sound gone, and my mind and body feeling refreshed. Nevertheless, I returned to my podcasts (because I’m a creature of habit).
For those who already need meditative music to calm their mind at night, the Dreampad is an ideal solution, particularly when there’s somebody else in the bed. However, it’s also a pricey solution. The standard-sized, medium support pillow I was trying runs $160. Add a Bluetooth receiver to go cordless (say, if you want to charge your phone and listen at the same time) and you can add an additional $20.
That said, if you amortize that cost over the many nights you won’t be strangling yourself with cords or ruining headphones, your ears, or your relationship, the cost gets affordable pretty quick. | {
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Neighborhood Selection of Public Housing Residents in the Housing Choice Voucher Program: Quasi-Experimental Results from Chicago
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Millions of families are supported nationwide by housing subsidies which have traditionally tied them to a place - a public housing unit. Based on promising results from Gautreaux program and midterm evaluation of national MTO experiment, it is deemed reasonable by the housing policy researchers to relocate all households in public housing projects to rent-subsidized units in open market via Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP). Policy design based on voucher-based housing subsidies requires detailed knowledge of the preferences and relocation choices of subsidy recipients. However, little is known about these decision processes. In this paper we seek to understand the intricacies of family relocation decision given an opportunity to use housing vouchers. Data for this study are derived from an initiative in Chicago dating from 1997 in which families on the waiting list for the then "Section 8" program were purged in a management review and the waiting lists repopulated. Families on the waiting list were then chosen to receive Section 8 vouchers via a lottery. This paper uses a logit model to identify correlates of destination outcomes. Unlike most studies on housing relocation, our choice set is comprised of census tracts, based on a belief that families originating in public housing have limited exposure of distant destinations and therefore do not take decisions based on larger aggregates. It is found that a focus on Census tracts leads to large but tractable models, and that most households relocate to tracts close to their origin address. It is also found that age, sex and employment among others affect the relocation choice. | {
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When bikeshare stations are near Metro, more people use them… especially if they’re outside of DC
Bikeshare can help get people to a Metro station when they live or work too far away to walk there. As a result, the region’s busiest Bikeshare stations are next to Metro, especially outside of DC.
The CaBi station at the Pentagon City Metro. Photo by mariordo59 on Flickr.
Although some people do use bikeshare as their primary mode of getting around the same way others use bus and rail transit, one of bikeshare’s most important functions is to act as a first and last mile connection, meaning people take it to and from home and wherever they board another service. That’s where bikeshare has the most benefit when it comes to increasing transit access and use.
The graph below takes a look at how many of our region’s Capital Bikeshare (CaBi) stations are located near Metrorail and how many trips begin and end at those stations. As you can see, CaBi stations near Metro are more active than those that are not:
All charts by the author.
Nearly a third of our region’s CaBi stations are within a quarter-mile of a Metro station, but nearly half of all trips begin or end at them. Also, 8% of CaBi stations are located at the Metro (I determined by counting the stations whose names include a Metro station name), and 9% of all trips begin and end at them.
To dig deeper into different parts of the region, I divided the region into geographic clusters: In Montgomery County, there’s Rockville, Silver Spring/Takoma Park, and Bethesda/Chevy Chase/Friendship Heights; In Arlington County, there’s North and South Arlington (with Arlington Boulevard being the dividing line); there’s also Alexandria, and of course DC. Prince George’s doesn’t have any CaBi stations yet.
The CaBi stations near Metro in DC see slightly more use than the stations that aren’t near Metro. But in the clusters outside of DC, CaBi stations near Metro see much more use than ones that aren’t. In fact, while 26% of CaBi stations in these clusters are within a quarter mile of Metro stations, 45% of all trips start or end there, and while only 10% of CaBi stations in these clusters are at the Metro, they account for 21% of all trips.
Since so many people outside of DC use Metro to commute, we would expect CaBi stations near Metro to capture both local users and commuters and for their overall use to be proportionately higher than the stations farther from Metro. That’s the case just about everywhere— for instance, in South Arlington, 18% of CaBi stations are within a quarter mile of a Metro station, however these stations account for 39% of all the trips in that cluster.
Similarly, 5% of the CaBi stations in South Arlington are at Metro stations, but they account for 20% of the total trips. Curiously, the CaBi stations a quarter mile from Metro stations in Alexandria have proportionally fewer trips, but those at the Metro station have proportionally more trips.
Bikeshare at transit stations provides another mode for people to travel to and from the transit station, introducing another opportunity to increase the level of activity in a specific area.
It’s likely that CaBi stations at Metro stations outside of DC have higher levels of use because they serve not only people in specific neighborhoods, but also people who use the Metro system. Although it seems intuitive that people using bikeshare at a Metro station would also use Metro, the available the CaBi data do not include the exact reasons why people are using specific CaBi stations.
As other jurisdictions in the region look to start their own bikeshare systems, it would be wise to not only place stations at and within a quarter mile of Metrorail stations, but also to use a bikeshare system that is compatible with CaBi. Doing so would open up the number of potential bikeshare users to not only people in the neighborhood, but to everyone with access to the Metro system.
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En el video se muestran una serie de imágenes de los paisajes de Chile. Desde el desierto de Atacama en el norte, hasta la Patagonia en el sur. Charagua, la canción de fondo, fue compuesta por Víctor Jara en 1970 y es interpretada por Inti-Illimani.
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In the video, we can see a series of images from the different Chilean landscapes; from the Atacama desert in northern Chile to Patagonia in the far south. The background theme is Charagua, a song composed by Víctor Jara in 1970 and performed by Inti-Illimani.
For those of you who haven’t met me yet, I’m Pablo and I’m from Chile. I graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso with majors in History and Education and minors in Geography and Social Sciences. This year I will be one of the language assistant at WU.
When you ask someone about Chile, probably the first thing that comes to mind is the poetry of Pablo Neruda, the novels of Isabel Allende, or the Moais in Easter Island. Nevertheless, Chile is much more, and that’s why I’m going to give you a few names to look for.
Literature: José Miguel Varas, José Donoso, Armando Uribe, Pablo de Rohka, Vicente Huidobro, Diamela Eltit, Nicanor Parra, Gonzalo Rojas, Enrique Lihn, Óscar Hahn, Roberto Bolaño and Floridor Pérez.
Visual Artists: Guillermo Nuñez, Nemesio Antúnez, Roberto Matta, Gracia Barrios and Camilo Mori.
Music: Víctor Jara, Violeta Parra, Inti-Illimani, Quilapayún, Congreso, Los Jaivas, Illapu, Los Tres, Ángel Parra, Quelantaro and Mauricio Redolés
I invite you to do some research and see that Chile is much more than you can imagine. | {
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Commitment to Diversity
Champaign Schools are committed to diversity, and believe diverse schools offer the finest education to all students. From 2002 to 2009, Champaign Schools operated under a consent decree, which changed the way we view diversity in our schools. The expiration of the consent decree was not the end, but the beginning of our renewed commitment to increasing achievement levels and access to opportunities for all students. Our district has established a number of initiatives and programs to help achieve these goals. You can also read more about the consent decree below.
About the Consent Decree
The Champaign Community Unit School District #4 has worked collaboratively over the past decade with African American Plaintiffs, the community, and the Court Monitoring Team led by Dr. Robert Peterkin to improve academic outcomes for African American students. The Second Revised Consent Decree that guided this process was agreed upon by Plaintiffs and the Board of Education in 2001. The Decree was entered into the Court Record on January 29, 2002, and Superintendent Arthur Culver assumed leadership of the District in July, 2002. The Board of Education charged him with successfully completing the terms of the Consent Decree. On November 4, 2009, Judge Joe Billy McDade ruled that the District had successfully fulfilled the terms of the Decree, and the legal process ended with a Settlement Agreement for continuing the improvements made under the Decree. In the Agreement, the District committed to implementing equity policies about the opening and closing of schools and to the establishment of an EEE ( Education Equity Excellence) Committee. Special education policy, the Novak Academy, and support for students making transitions from alternative placements back to their home school are also addressed. The complete Agreement can be viewed by clicking here. Related documents can also be viewed by clicking here.
Prior to the June 9, 2009 Settlement Agreement, the District spent considerable financial and human resources on implementing programs, policies and practices that would ensure high expectations and equitable access to opportunity for all students, with an emphasis on improvements for African American students. Notable improvements were made during the Consent Decree including:
The transformation of Stratton Elementary School from an under chosen school in danger of state sanctions to an Illinois Spotlight School with a waiting list for students.
Improvement of the high school graduation rate from 89.6 percent to 93.6 percent from 2003-2009 while the rate for the state of Illinois only moved from 86 percent to 87.1 percent.
ACT scores remaining above state and national averages.
Math and reading scores for African American elementary students increasing 30 percent and 23 percent respectively over a five-year period.
Enrollment of African American students in Honors and AP courses increasing by 300 percent.
Bottenfield Elementary School earning the region’s first state Academic Excellence Award for having over 90 percent of all students meeting or exceeding state academic standards.
Barkstall Elementary School earning an Academic Excellence Award one year after Bottenfield.
The implementation of an AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) program that has successfully improved achievement for students with the potential to attend college, but who might need additional support to complete a college prep curriculum.
Recognition of Jefferson Middle School as a National Demonstration site for AVID.
The addition of an Novak Academy for students needing a learning environment that is different from a comprehensive high school.
The passage of a countywide Sales Tax Referendum to support school construction and increase seats north of University Avenue as required by the Consent Decree. A new school is being built for Booker T. Washington Elementary, and additions and renovations are being funded for Garden Hills Elementary.
As he ended the Consent Decree, Judge McDade said that the Court is convinced that “the future of Champaign school children is in the hands of the persons best equipped to educate: the administrators, teachers, and staff of the Champaign schools, the community they serve, and the parents that are part of that community.”
Both Superintendent Wiegand and the Board of Education have vowed to continue the progress made on the equity goals in the Consent Decree. The Board has adopted policies and regulations that will ensure an emphasis on equity and excellence for all students. | {
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Call For Papers – alt.HRI
Within the 12th Annual ACM/IEEE HRI Conference, alt.HRI is a venue for radical, unconventional, thought-provoking and rigorous submissions that have high potential for impact. One of the goals of alt.HRI is to explore the future of what HRI could be, including controversial aspects.
To guide this exploration, we look forward to submissions which follow this year’s alt.HRI theme: The Less Positive Side of HRI: beyond human acceptance, statistical significance and algorithmic performance lie deeper questions of positive and negative downstream impacts, and the transformational impacts that HRI work can have on society. Given possible detrimental effects, what new methodologies or techniques can be proposed to encourage awareness and more positive results? We encourage researchers to consider the bigger picture of their work. Not just “can we do this?” but “should we?”
alt.HRI sees itself as an avant-garde track targeting the boundaries of mainstream human-robot interaction submissions. As such, submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed, in a double-blind fashion, by a dedicated alt.HRI program committee that will be announced on the HRI website.
Specifically, alt.HRI has the following two acceptance criteria:
is there potential for relevance, controversy, or thought-provoking discussion, even if the work seems unusual, unlikely, or unorthodox?
is the work rigorous, well researched, well argued, well written, fully detailed and, if appropriate, well implemented?
While not a strict requirement, the authors are encouraged to relate their work to this year’s theme (“The Less Positive Side of HRI”), whatever their conclusions. We especially welcome submissions grounded in real robot system(s) (be it ethnographic, experimental or algorithmic evaluations).
Accepted papers will be orally presented in the main program and will be archived in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore Digital Library along with the main conference papers. Up to eight anonymized and camera-ready pages (excluding references are allowed). | {
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I had bought this pattern to do leisurely once the baby was born but before you think I'm superwoman I will tell you I was working on it while I had all that waiting time (11 days overdue). All that was actually left was the clouds, which I've done in all the newborn napping time.
It is a wonderful sampler and I learnt a lot of new stitches, which I enjoyed doing. Some I'm better at than others but then that's half the point of making a sampler. I really love the finished result and will be framing this for the baby's room.
There has been no fabric sewing going on but I did receive this gorgeous bundle of yumminess from The Village Haberdashery. Annie is a superstar and I've ordered a few times from her fabulous shop so please take time to check it out. These are destined to become low volume shapes in my rose star quilt.
Finally here's what we're all focusing on at our house. Baby Lois is amazing and adorable and I'm basking in baby cuteness :)
after her first bath - that towel was mine as a baby and is super soft! I adore the stitched house
big brother is rather taken by the cot mobile and the 'magic' remote control!
Inspired by your last showing of Abel and being a bee mate of Nicole's, I ordered the Sailing Polar Bear (Zaki's choice)a couple of days ago and can't wait to get some DMC and start! Lois is ridiculously cute Lucy - enjoy her and your beautiful family!
What a great sampler :-) Your embroidery is the best. I had a stuffed pieced hot air balloon that hung in my room as a baby. Can't go wrong with hot air balloons. Your embroidered version is so much prettier and much more timeless. Instant heirloom :-)
She's beautiful Lucy! Congratulations. :) I also adore your stitch work. It looks like a fantastic way to make a fun sampler and have a beautiful piece (complete with a wee little mouse!) to display in Lois' room.
She's a beautiful baby! And so alert, wanting to know exactly what's going on. The stitchery is gorgeous. I thought the clouds were continents! There is one the shape of Australia, on the left hand side. Hehehe
Hello! I'm Lucy from Manchester, UK. A quilter and eternal optimist with miscellaneous style. I teach sewing and quilting classes, click here for info.Follow along to see my projects and get tips, patterns and tutorials. | {
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Horakhty OTK - Tournament Deck
Posted 16 September 2012 - 03:59 PM
SonicArtist3000
Junior Member
Location:Ames, Iowa
Hello, I have been in lots of yu-gi-oh tournament's around the USA and hold the only English Card of Horakthy in the USA besides Konami.I am close friends with a friend of Kohei Uchimura and I have alot more connections. I also hold all 3 legal Egyptian gods.
But the problem is, im not able to tribute fast enough for this deck to be put into play.
Extra Deck: I also have these in my deck - Trying to go for a xyz summon, to making a tribute with the engine.3x Daigusto Emeral3x Lavalval Chain2x Number 10: Illumiknight2x Number 39: Utopia2x Number 16: Ruler of Color - Shock Ruler
- I don't duel to win or brag. I duel with honor and respect and have the heart of the cards to guide me, aswell as fighting for my father who has cancer. I'm determined to do whatever it takes to win the prize money for my father and family.
Posted 16 September 2012 - 04:00 PM
skullvarnish
I like to call it "funposting", actually
Team:None
Country:
Location:Chicago's drunken baby cousin
Ultimate Offering is Limited.
Are you serious? I am the best player in the game today. I started out with a Kuriboh as my boss monster, and have since climbed up the ladder of success. I am willing to break my back having to carry a team. Some say that there is no "I" in 'team," but what if I am the entire team? I'll carry this team across the river, to Victory Island. We'll pull out the champagne, with the ladies surrounding us. With a cigar in my mouth, I'll deliver the final speech. Our pilgrimage is complete. Our lives are over. The perpetual euphoria has been reached. The impossible has happened. You ask yourself if what has just transpired can possibly be real. I am no miracle worker, but I do have heart. And sometimes with a little bit of heart and some imagination, the world is yours for the taking. -Inflation
Holy shit skullvarnish, give me classes on how to burn the fuck out of people like that PLEASE
Monster spam is the definition of solitaire. You aren't building up your forces to get ready to out-think your opponent. You are making a first turn dracossack and Felgrand to lock out what your opponent does, a LADD to lock out what your opponent does, a shooting quasar to lock out what your opponent does, or an infernity loop to lock out what your opponent does, or even a geargia/karakuri spam that doesn't really lock out the opponent, but plusses you so substantially that you essentially win the game even if you get dark holed right away. You are playing a game of coin flips. Either you have the combo pieces and they don't have hand traps so you win, or you don't have the combo pieces or they do have the hand traps so you lose.
Control with traps takes far more skill because it turns the game into baiting, mind reading, judging risk/reward, waiting for the right card to "push" instead of doing it immediately because your deck forces you to, saving certain trap for the right situation and using more tech cards like Snowman Eater or shiba-warrior taro that are safer on the set, but have xyz/synchro applications for when you are ready to push. The more turns the game drags on, the more complex decision-making between both you and your opponent, and that is the definition of skill. Relying on monsters to do all your attacking and defending in the form of plant/water/dragon spam makes the game a rock-em-sock-em robot fight that doesn't last nearly enough turns to get meaningful interaction. It also doesn't allow for much in the way of counting cards based on your opponent's graveyard to see which traps are out of the equation or close to exhausted, by knowledge of certain traps being 2-ofs or 1-ofs. - NatsuTerran from Pojo
Posted 16 September 2012 - 04:08 PM
- I don't duel to win or brag. I duel with honor and respect and have the heart of the cards to guide me, aswell as fighting for my father who has cancer. I'm determined to do whatever it takes to win the prize money for my father and family.
Posted 16 September 2012 - 04:09 PM
C05M1C_A1CH3M1ST
Member
Sell it for millions $_$
Or you could use the most common Horakhty strategy, which essentially revolves around banishing Slifer and Obelisk, using return from a different dimension, summoning Ra alongside the other two, and tribbing for Horakhty. You could also do this with a sort of Macronarchs engine and summon them all one at a time if you so wish.
- I don't duel to win or brag. I duel with honor and respect and have the heart of the cards to guide me, aswell as fighting for my father who has cancer. I'm determined to do whatever it takes to win the prize money for my father and family.
Posted 16 September 2012 - 05:09 PM
GreyZekrom
Professional Bandwagoner
Team:Remember [SX]? Neither do I.
Location:Area Unknown
Needs MOAR frogz. Like 12 moar. They are the best Tribute engine and, unlike gadgets, they can spam the field by themselves without taking out your LP so you don't get pnwd. Also, you can just get one god (Obelisk is the best) and punish the heck out of your opp with it Aaaand also side into a regular frogz deck which can be a surprise for your opp...or maybe not.
[08:36 p.m.] Alex "AntiTcb" Gravely: Every day, about 116,000 searches for 'Child Pornography' are made on search engines worldwide. Of that, 30,000 is TamA.
Posted 16 September 2012 - 10:36 PM
Sorairoday
Veteran Member
That is the kind of summon I wanted ! Cool, I'll try that ;o
Anyone else have anything I should try ? I can only buy $600 worth of Yu-gi-oh cards this month.
Only $600. You make it sound like that's a small amount of money to spend on yugioh cards. I wouldn't spend that much money on yugioh cards in a year, let alone one month. What the hell do you do for a living to spend $600 for cards in a month.
Posted 16 September 2012 - 10:41 PM
Fuchebol
Veteran Member
Team:[DLLR] D.O.L.L.A.R.S
Location:Canada
Only $600. You make it sound like that's a small amount of money to spend on yugioh cards. I wouldn't spend that much money on yugioh cards in a year, let alone one month. What the hell do you do for a living to spend $600 for cards in a month.
A job? Like he said, if its true, he has connections with people, so his family is probably rich. He himself probably is not rich, but his family is most likely.
Posted 17 September 2012 - 05:20 AM
Judai~Yuki
Veteran Member
Loop what?
Activate Chain Material and Fusion Gate.The pre-loop field is E-Hero Gaia and E-Hero Electrum. Make those first for convenience.
• Loop 1:1. Make E-Hero The Shining with Gaia and Electrum.2. Make 2x Karbonala Warrior.3. Overlay for Lavalval Chain and dump a god.4. Make E-Hero Nova Master (use Shining and Chain).5. Make Gaia with Nova Master and Karbonala.6. Make 2nd Gaia with 1st Gaia and other Karbonala.7. Make Electrum to reset to pre-loop.
Repeat until you have all four gods in grave.
• Loop 2:1. Make 2nd Gaia with Electrum and a Swift Scarecrow from deck.2. Overlay both Gaias for Ptolemys M7 and grab a god from grave if there's more than one.3. Make Shining with Ptolemys and an in-grave Gaia.4. Make 3rd Gaia with Shining and the other in-grave Gaia.5. Make Electrum to reset to pre-loop.
Use Ptolemys M7 to take back Horakhty, Ra, and Slifer. Leave Obelisk in the graveyard.
• Loop 3:1. Make 2nd Gaia with Stratos and a Swift Scarecrow.2. Over both Gaias for Ptolemys M7.3. Make Shining with Electrum and Ptolemys.4. Make 2x Karbonala Warrior then Daigusto Emeral and use Emeral's effect to shuffle a Karbonala and 2x Gaia into the extra deck to draw a card (This works as long as you keep a third monster in the grave. In this case I'm using Obelisk. ).5. Make E-Hero Great Tornado with Shining and Emeral.6. Make Gaia with Tornado and the in-grave Karbonala.7. Make Electrum to reset to pre-loop.
• Finish:1. Make Gem-Knight Seraphi. Use Seraphi's effect and tribute Electrum, Gaia, and Seraphi to normal summon Ra.2. Make 2nd Gaia with in-grave Gaia and Electrum.3. Make 3rd Gaia with Seraphi and in-deck Stratos.4. Make Electrum.5. Normal summon Slifer by tributing 2x Gaia and Electrum.6. Use Monster Reborn on Obelisk7. Special Summon Horakhty for game.
Posted 17 September 2012 - 03:41 PM
Activate Chain Material and Fusion Gate.The pre-loop field is E-Hero Gaia and E-Hero Electrum. Make those first for convenience.
• Loop 1:1. Make E-Hero The Shining with Gaia and Electrum.2. Make 2x Karbonala Warrior.3. Overlay for Lavalval Chain and dump a god.4. Make E-Hero Nova Master (use Shining and Chain).5. Make Gaia with Nova Master and Karbonala.6. Make 2nd Gaia with 1st Gaia and other Karbonala.7. Make Electrum to reset to pre-loop.
Repeat until you have all four gods in grave.
• Loop 2:1. Make 2nd Gaia with Electrum and a Swift Scarecrow from deck.2. Overlay both Gaias for Ptolemys M7 and grab a god from grave if there's more than one.3. Make Shining with Ptolemys and an in-grave Gaia.4. Make 3rd Gaia with Shining and the other in-grave Gaia.5. Make Electrum to reset to pre-loop.
Use Ptolemys M7 to take back Horakhty, Ra, and Slifer. Leave Obelisk in the graveyard.
• Loop 3:1. Make 2nd Gaia with Stratos and a Swift Scarecrow.2. Over both Gaias for Ptolemys M7.3. Make Shining with Electrum and Ptolemys.4. Make 2x Karbonala Warrior then Daigusto Emeral and use Emeral's effect to shuffle a Karbonala and 2x Gaia into the extra deck to draw a card (This works as long as you keep a third monster in the grave. In this case I'm using Obelisk. ).5. Make E-Hero Great Tornado with Shining and Emeral.6. Make Gaia with Tornado and the in-grave Karbonala.7. Make Electrum to reset to pre-loop.
• Finish:1. Make Gem-Knight Seraphi. Use Seraphi's effect and tribute Electrum, Gaia, and Seraphi to normal summon Ra.2. Make 2nd Gaia with in-grave Gaia and Electrum.3. Make 3rd Gaia with Seraphi and in-deck Stratos.4. Make Electrum.5. Normal summon Slifer by tributing 2x Gaia and Electrum.6. Use Monster Reborn on Obelisk7. Special Summon Horakhty for game.
Posted 17 September 2012 - 04:01 PM
SonicArtist3000
Junior Member
Location:Ames, Iowa
No I'm signed to a music contract. That's why. But frog engines don't work well anymore now the best card in there is now banned.. I will try all these and see what works. Please feel free to open up more ideas to me though !
- I don't duel to win or brag. I duel with honor and respect and have the heart of the cards to guide me, aswell as fighting for my father who has cancer. I'm determined to do whatever it takes to win the prize money for my father and family.
Posted 17 September 2012 - 04:08 PM
masonhater
Junior Member
Team:WeTeamFlawless
Location:York, PA
Well good sir, ill have you know that the frog engine is still alive and kicking. Granted maybe not in a God deck but in a deck that just uses the frogs as a sort of tribute engine for less powerful monsters it can still do quite a bit. But I do hope your endeavor with this deck proves positive and you receive the outcome you want.
Posted 17 September 2012 - 04:10 PM
Posted 17 September 2012 - 04:58 PM
Judai~Yuki
Veteran Member
Holy sh**. That is one hell of a combo.
yup ^^ .،~
No I'm signed to a music contract. That's why. But frog engines don't work well anymore now the best card in there is now banned.. I will try all these and see what works. Please feel free to open up more ideas to me though !
You will see that, Fusion Gate + Chain Material combo is the best one for Horakhty OTK .،~
Posted 18 September 2012 - 02:53 PM
SonicArtist3000
Junior Member
Location:Ames, Iowa
The reason why I want this deck is because my father has cancer and I am well on the Top 10 duelists in Iowa which is why I won the only english card of Horakhty. I want to win the prize money for my father.
- I don't duel to win or brag. I duel with honor and respect and have the heart of the cards to guide me, aswell as fighting for my father who has cancer. I'm determined to do whatever it takes to win the prize money for my father and family.
Posted 18 September 2012 - 03:36 PM
YCheck137
Oh, this old thing? Thank you so much! I love the way it twi
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The reason why I want this deck is because my father has cancer and I am well on the Top 10 duelists in Iowa which is why I won the only english card of Horakhty. I want to win the prize money for my father.
It really means alot to me.
Good for you man. Actually doing something for something other that self gain. Idk, you remind me of Joey Wheeler now. | {
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Morocco’s Berber Bride Festival
When you visit the country of Morocco you will undoubtedly find yourself immersed in quite a bit of Muslim culture. There are numerous moussems – or Muslim festivals – held throughout the year and being in the country during one of them is something that cannot be avoided. If you are lucky, you may actually be able to witness one of these festivals during your own vacation. If you do, it will be a memorable experience. One of the best festivals not to miss is the Berber Bride Festival held annually in Imilchil.
Every late September the festival of Imilchil is held. It has become one of the most celebrated and famous Muslim festivals in the world. The festival itself however calls for the wearing of colorful clothing, social interaction and dancing.
You see, the festival of Imilchil is also known as the Berber Bride Festival–a time of year where young girls and boys – and some men and women – come from different villages around Imilchil to find a husband or a wife. If you’d love to see it, contact our team at Journey Beyond Travel in Morocco.
Legend Around The Morocco Festival
The festival of Imilchil was born from the legend of Tislet and Isli. Two young lovers, Tislet and Isli were from enemy Berber tribes that lived in the Atlas on a trek of Morocco. They were deeply in love, but their parents – who became angered by their children when they found out what they had been doing – adamantly refused to allow them to marry which subsequently broke Tislet and Isli’s hearts. The couple refused to live apart so they exchanged vows under the watchful eye of Allah before throwing themselves into two lakes that today bear their names.
But the young lovers were destined to be apart no matter what. Even in death they are unable to unite as the imposing mountain between their two lakes acts like a guard, standing between them so that their spirits reach for each other eternally never to touch or join. The act devastated all of the clans of the Berber tribes in the Ait Haddidou region and it prompted the village parents to announce that from that point on, they would allow the children the right to choose their own husbands and wives.
Since then, the men and women of the Ait Haddidou region of Morocco descend upon Imilchil each September to find themselves a mate. The festival is held high in the lake plateau area of the Middle Atlas Mountains near the burial place of Sidi Mohamed El Maghani, the patron saint of the area. It is believed that any marriage blessed by the saint were long lasting and happy.
Witnessing The Morocco Festival
The festival is as much a ‘family reunion’ as it is wedding as many people from the fifty-five tribes of Berber come here for the Festival. Only recently have the Berbers accepted visitors to Imilchil and the festival to take part in this happy time. Of course, the climb to the festival’s location is not for the faint of heart and it keep the amount of outsiders to a nice minimum each year, much to the resident’s relief. Your Morocco Itinerary should include a trip here if you have the stamina to climb.
The Berber’s who attend the festival have gotten used to visitors and they open their tents wide to people who manage to make it up into the high Atlas. If you are respectful of the men and women involved in the ceremony, you will find that your hosts are quite charming and willing to share everything they have with you – from food to lodging. The more discretion you show, the better you will be treated by the Berbers during the festival.
In between the main activities of the Imilchil festival, you will want to explore the area and take in the beautiful views of the area. You can travel to the lakes named after the festival’s doomed lovers and when you return to Imilchil, you will find your Berber hosts ready to enjoy an evening around the campfire singing, dancing, and enjoying a hearty meal of some authentic Berber cooking.
The Festival of Imilchil is truly a romantic one as many of the men and women that come to find mates have met before in the small villages that occupy the area. You will be able to witness a courtship ritual that spans centuries and you will see men and women pair up for weddings that take place during the festival and ones that promise themselves to one another as soon as they are old enough to marry.
If the lucky bride and groom marry before you, you will know. The bride will leave the ceremony with her new husband with her face veiled from view. | {
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Sunday, 3 November 2013
Bath City 3 Havant & Waterlooville 1
02nov13Conference South
Twerton Park, Bath
att. 451
A few steps forward, a pivot, then a few steps back. As familiar a pattern to we Hawks fans as it is to those who regularly dance the Gay Gordons. That dance either ends with a vigorous polka or, in my case when I last danced it at a conference dinner, a pounding headache. A joyous coda, or a painful one. This season could still finish with either. Or indeed neither. It is difficult to predict with confidence what will happen from one week to the next, let alone come the spring.
The smart money at the start of the season was that this campaign would be a relatively decent one if it merely fizzled out in mid-table come April. We’re not the big spenders of the division, nor are we operating on the breadline, so the play-offs are a dream, but not one I can imagine we’ll be getting in an angry lather about should we not make it. Thus we’ll get games like this, where an uninspired team display is punished by a virtuoso effort. We may be only a couple of days into November but Ross Stearn has stencilled his name on Bath’s Player of the Month trophy already.
The second half was a bit ‘never-ending story’. Kicking off twenty minutes after the rest of the division due to our team coach getting caught in traffic, we then had the assistant referee go down with an injury requiring an “is there a qualified official in the house?” announcement over the PA. A volunteer was found and squeezed into a black t-shirt about two sizes too small for him, and eventually we could continue a long, cold second half that was to last 65 minutes from whistle-to-whistle. The poorly fitting clothing was certainly far from ideal given this week’s temperature drop and the late finish but the emergency lino won’t have struggled for a place to hang his winter coat. His chest would not doubt have done the job for both him and a friend.
You could argue that the linesman’s injury turned the game as much as it did his ankle ligaments, as he went down just as Sahr Kabba was scoring our very well worked equaliser. Having brought on Christian Nanetti and Sahr at half-time, it seemed to have worked wonders, with Jesse Kewley-Graham linking well with Christian before crossing to Dennis Oli who nudged expertly into Sahr’s path and he made no mistake. Why we continue to leave our leading scorer on the bench does not make much immediate sense, as we always seem a lot busier and more dangerous when Sahr is on the field.
However our downfall came at the back and in part thanks to the momentum lost after twenty minutes of idle kick about to keep warm as we waited for a new man to carry a flag. As our early second half oomph hissed to flaccidity like a bouncy castle getting into an argument with fourteen javelins and a pick-axe, Stearn upped his scoring stake from one to three in the space of five minutes. After his well-taken free-kick in the first half which took advantage of Scott Bevan’s less than perfect positioning, he hit his second after 71 minutes, an easy tap in after good work by Andy Watkins. Four minutes later, Stearn won a soft penalty and converted easily to complete his hat-trick.
When he later won the Man of the Match award, and also when he was substituted, he got a round of applause from our section of the away support. A rare privilege for an opposition player that but he had blown us away in every sense. It was certainly clear that Bath were exploiting a weakness on the right hand side. The dependable Dan Blanchett was injured so was replaced by new signing Ryan Case. In terms of the new boy’s permanent inclusion in the starting XI, it’s fair to say the Case has not yet been made.
A 3-1 defeat was about as much as our lacklustre effort deserved all told, although we had our moments in that long second period, there was nothing to really cause Bath as much alarm as Stearn had created pretty much single-handedly in us. He had been flying around like an agitated bat, and our defence had reacted like someone who had got that bat caught in their hair.
Still, it could be worse, our old striker Dean Holdsworth’s Chelmsford charges had, meanwhile, lost 0-6 at home to lowly Boreham Wood. They would have been the ideal team to face at home next weekend with Deano still in charge. Sadly, even though they are indeed our opponents at WLP next Saturday, Holdsworth has now been paid off and cleared out. Here’s hoping Chelmo’s hapless lads don’t come alive with ‘sacked manager bounce’, and we can get back to the performances like those against Maidenhead and Basingstoke a few weeks ago | {
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The Canucks were a mess last season under coach John Tortorella, who was unceremoniously fired after one year on the job. With a new coaching staff in place, can Henrik Sedin and company challenge for a playoff berth?
Eriksson established himself in the AHL last season, posting a 24-24-1 record, .911 save percentage and 2.61 GAA with Utica. The talented Eriksson figures to assume at least a timeshare at the AHL level again this season, and could get an opportunity with the Canucks if injury strikes the goalie ranks. He’s still developing, and with another strong showing at Utica, the 2015-16 campaign could mark his breakthrough to the NHL club.
2013-14
The Canucks signed Eriksson to a two-year deal in June. The 23-year-old netminder was one of the top goalies in Sweden last year, going 21-9-0 with a 1.67 goals-against average and .931 save percentage while playing for Skelleftea HC of the Swedish Elite League. He’s big (6-2, 190) with quick reflexes while working out of the classic butterfly. Eriksson is expected to compete with Eddie Lack for the backup gig in Vancouver. | {
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Paperwork and tuning is the last 1%... Nearly there, now if the wind will just give me a gap.....
Luck-The moment when preparation meets opportunity.
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." -Henry Ford
"Opportunity Is Missed By Most Because It Is Dressed in Overalls and Looks Like Work." - Thomas Alva Edison
BUSHPILOTS FLY TAILDRAGGERS
Failure is not the opposite of success, it is the stepping stone for success
6 hr's of flying and counting.......The weather was good the last 3 days. First time in weeks.....Some small niggles to sort our still. We had an issue with not getting full rpm on take off. I found that the gearbox was still the 2,27:1 so we removed 1 blade and made it a 2 blade. I am now getting 5780 on take off. She is not fast with that prop and gearbox combo but cruises nicely at 100mph.
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Luck-The moment when preparation meets opportunity.
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." -Henry Ford
"Opportunity Is Missed By Most Because It Is Dressed in Overalls and Looks Like Work." - Thomas Alva Edison
BUSHPILOTS FLY TAILDRAGGERS
Failure is not the opposite of success, it is the stepping stone for success
Luck-The moment when preparation meets opportunity.
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." -Henry Ford
"Opportunity Is Missed By Most Because It Is Dressed in Overalls and Looks Like Work." - Thomas Alva Edison
BUSHPILOTS FLY TAILDRAGGERS
Failure is not the opposite of success, it is the stepping stone for success
Luck-The moment when preparation meets opportunity.
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." -Henry Ford
"Opportunity Is Missed By Most Because It Is Dressed in Overalls and Looks Like Work." - Thomas Alva Edison
BUSHPILOTS FLY TAILDRAGGERS
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Currently Listening To: Mali Music
"I put my lighter in the air for you
I see what you doing, yeah I see what you go through
Put my lighter in the air, the truth is you’re beautiful, beautiful
Now put your lighter in the air for us,
Everybody singing together, sing a new song
Put your lighter in the air for love is beautiful, beautiful"
I dedicate this post to the amazing unions I was so fortunate to witness the past two weeks.
Love is such a beautiful thing, and when you are blessed to witness it; it stays with you. When you are able to experience it; it changes you. | {
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"Editions Mego is proud to present the first recordings by Edvard Graham Lewis released this century. Having made his name in legendary punk/experimental outfits Wire, Dome and He Said Lewis has developed an exceptional voice with ceaseless exploration of a wide variety of musical forms. 'All Over' is a song based album that resides amongst the cracks between narrative and song, sound and music. Cloaked in an atmosphere of beauty and paranoia 'All Over' conjures the spirit of Wire's experimental pop trajectory whilst simultaneously exploring a multitude of sonic possibilities. Gritty mechanical operations support Lewis' wry human observations in a uniquely disturbing melange of punk, industrial, techno and pop. A dream logic plays throughout 'All Over' courtesy of Lewis' odd lyrical content being set with all manner of disorientating sound and rhythm. All tracks were written and composed between 2003-13 in parallel with the works included on 'All Under'. Several contributors generously collaborated at distance from LA, Japan, Scotland, Italy, Germany, UK and Sweden furthering this catchy excursion into the unstable grid of the 21st Century. 'All Over' is a major amalgamation of music, media, man and mind." (label info) | {
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Today’s tip
Tips to keep you and your family safe from carbon monoxide exposure
Did you know that carbon monoxide (CO) incidents increase by more than 10 percent during winter months? Here are some important safety tips to prepare your home, garage or fish house against a buildup of this silent but deadly gas.
CO is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas and when inhaled, it enters the blood stream preventing proper absorption of oxygen, which can lead to illness and even death. According to the National Fire Incident Reporting System, municipal fire departments across the country respond to more than 60,000 CO incidents each year.
Typically, CO is created when fuels such as gasoline, wood, coal, natural gas, propane, oil or methane don’t burn completely. Home heating and cooking equipment that burn fuel inadequately can be sources of carbon monoxide.
“According to the Minnesota Poison Control Center, there are thousands of deaths each year as a result of carbon monoxide, making it the leading cause of death due to poisoning,” said Perry Ebner, Minneapolis Fire Marshall. “Additionally, our response to non-fire related CO incidents increase by 10 percent during the winter, so the time for prevention is now.”
Unusually high indoor humidity with persistent heavy condensation on walls and windows and soot or water collecting near a burner or vent can indicate a CO problem.
Stuffy or stale indoor air.
If you suspect CO exposure, leave the area immediately taking your pets with you and tell others to do the same. Once you are safely away from the area, call 911 to report the suspected CO incident.
Treatment for CO exposure is fresh air or oxygen. Severe exposure requires medical attention. Do not return to your home or building until the source of the problem is discovered and corrected.
To prevent CO build up:
Purchase a CO detection device with an audible alarm and digital display and install it no more than 10 feet from each sleeping quarter, as required by law. Fuel-burning appliances, equipment and combustible engines all produce CO that can reach dangerous levels if improperly operated or maintained.
Never operate an automobile, lawn mower or any combustion engine, barbecue grill or similar equipment in an enclosed area such as your home, garage, tent, fish house, trailer or place of business, even with the door open. Any pollutants in the air from the garage, such as a car engine running, can travel into the structure and CO can accumulate.
Never leave a fire smoldering in a fireplace.
Check frequently for visible signs of problems, such as high indoor humidity and soot or water collecting near a burner or vent.
Equipment that uses natural gas should produce a clear blue flame. A yellow or orange flame may indicate a qualified technician should check for a potential problem with the equipment. When natural gas equipment is properly operated and maintained, it usually will not produce CO.
Provide adequate combustion air for all your appliances.
Be certain fuel-burning equipment properly vents to the outdoors.
Keep vents, fresh air intakes and chimneys clear of debris or other obstructions and check for vent pipes that have gaps, leaks and spaces or are rusted through.
Never attempt to heat a room with a natural gas range, oven or clothes dryer.
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Record details
ISBN:9781937006983
Physical Description:245 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher:Berkeley, California :Parallax Press,2015.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.:
After years of struggling with eating disorders and anxiety around food and eating, Annie Mahon figured that having a path, any path, would be helpful. When she read The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh, she found a path that not only changed her (and her family's) relationship with food, but also transformed nearly every aspect of her life. In I Ate the Whole Mango, Annie shares her path to mindful cooking and eating. With humor and I Ate the Whole Mango fits together like a wheel, rather than sequential steps. Readers are invited to just jump in and take what works for them.Each section has a short humorous story about Annie's own journey toward more conscious cooking and eating. She shares practices for developing mindfulness that will support more ease around food, and journal questions to help you look more deeply at the roots of your thinking about food, cooking, and eating. Simple, delicious, vegan recipes compliment each section, demonstrating mindful alternatives for every meal and many eating challenges, including eating at work and school, eating at restaurants and on vacation, and mindfully feeding friends and entertaining.Mindful eating has been shown to improve body acceptance, diminish negative self-talk and support weight loss. Mindful cooking is a mindfulness practice in itself, creating more ease in our day-to-day lives. Annie Mahon's recipes and suggestions are scaffolding anyone can use to build their own mindful kitchen and eating practices. | {
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On Aug 31, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Josh Tilles wrote:
> Dear Racketeers,
> I'm (comparatively) young, and so also not familiar with the social protocols of IRC & newsgroups in the world of software development. My basic question is whether there is a place that explains the etiquette of interacting with the Racket & PLT communities. Or perhaps just a few sentences detailing how to use the ListServ effectively? Because you all do seem to be wonderfully active and helpful, but I'm just not sure how to jump in.
Sounds like you just did!
>> But before you direct me to How to Design Programs: I don't think I'm that much of a n00blet. A representative sample of the sorts of questions I've wanted to ask more experienced people include:
> -- In learning about continuations & how they can be used in web servers, I'm really reminded of Haskell's use of monads to accumulate state. How similar are monads and continuations? Am I falling into some conceptual trap by linking them?
You can use a monad to model continuations (the continuation monad), just as you can use a monad to model state (the state monad). I don't think that I would naturally use monads to understand continuations any more than I would use monads to understand state... but that's up to you, I suppose.
> -- Is there any sort of general practice or prevailing taste in when to use (for example) null vs empty vs (list)?
:)
> What about (let ([...])) vs (local (define ...))?
In the last few years, there's been significant motion towards allowing (define ...) in more places; at this point, I would say idiomatic Racket uses (define...) without the local.
> -- When is it appropriate to use RackUnit, and when should Contracts be used instead?
:)
>> P.S. Has anyone given any thought to consolidating some of the Racket discussion to a StackExchange site? Or something else of that ilk?
Without knowing more: what advantage would that have?
John Clements
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"We respect Earl," Suns President of Basketball Operations Lon Babby said. "We like him. Just looking forward, it didn't seem like we could make that commitment to him now. We met with him (Monday). He understands our thought process." It doesn't mean we don't like him. It doesn't mean he doesn't have a future here. It certainly doesn't mean that he doesn't have a future in the NBA. He's going to be a terrific NBA player." Arizona Republic
"We respect Earl," Suns President of Basketball Operations Lon Babby said. "We like him. Just looking forward, it didn't seem like we could make that commitment to him now. We met with him (Monday). He understands our thought process." It doesn't mean we don't like him. It doesn't mean he doesn't have a future here. It certainly doesn't mean that he doesn't have a future in the NBA. He's going to be a terrific NBA player." Arizona Republic
I read about this, this offseason and mentioned a bit of it in my offseason breakdown. The Suns are disappoint in Clark. They really expected him to be further along than he is. Last year we heard reports that he would have played more because he was ready but didn't because Lou was such a good energy guy off the bench, I think now that may have just been b.s. coming from the Suns camp to try and buy more time with him. His summer league performance really did him in, I hope he can straighten this out and become the player that the suns thought of with such promise.
I read about this, this offseason and mentioned a bit of it in my offseason breakdown. The Suns are disappoint in Clark. They really expected him to be further along than he is. Last year we heard reports that he would have played more because he was ready but didn't because Lou was such a good energy guy off the bench, I think now that may have just been b.s. coming from the Suns camp to try and buy more time with him. His summer league performance really did him in, I hope he can straighten this out and become the player that the suns thought of with such promise.
It appears that the Suns are trying to convince the rest of the NBA that Earl Clark has value in the league. More likely the Suns will end up letting this guy go because he didn't show much of improvment compared to last year. It's a shame because I was rooting for this guy to be a good solid player for the Suns. Maybe Gani will be ready next year.
Maybe, but somebody is ready now. Dragic is the future of this team, I might get flamed by the Suns fans that are Nash fans first but we may need to trade him and let dragic grow further. He has that second unit looking good. Suns should work out a 3 way deal and send him to a contender. We'd probably have to do a 3 team deal because on the contenders there isn't really anybody to get from them. Hate to want to trade Nash but I'm a Suns fan first, we gotta do what is right for the team and it may mean trading him.
Maybe, but somebody is ready now. Dragic is the future of this team, I might get flamed by the Suns fans that are Nash fans first but we may need to trade him and let dragic grow further. He has that second unit looking good. Suns should work out a 3 way deal and send him to a contender. We'd probably have to do a 3 team deal because on the contenders there isn't really anybody to get from them. Hate to want to trade Nash but I'm a Suns fan first, we gotta do what is right for the team and it may mean trading him.
I totally agree with you man. I'm a Nash fan too, but we have to think about the future. I would love to see Nash play for a contending team while we try to get whatever we can for him. Like most Suns fan, I respect what he did for our team over the years but the Suns have to think about the future. I was hoping we can trade Clark but I'm guessing the Suns is dropping him by the end of the year since we can't get any value for him.
I totally agree with you man. I'm a Nash fan too, but we have to think about the future. I would love to see Nash play for a contending team while we try to get whatever we can for him. Like most Suns fan, I respect what he did for our team over the years but the Suns have to think about the future. I was hoping we can trade Clark but I'm guessing the Suns is dropping him by the end of the year since we can't get any value for him.
Maybe you could trade Nash + Draft Pick to Atlanta for Mike Bibby + Josh Smith? Just have Bibby come off the bench. | {
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Services seek to improve joint operations
NORFOLK, Va.-This year the Pentagon conducted military exercises here to determine how the Information Revolution will affect the ability of the four armed services to fight together, or "jointly." The results were disquieting.
Members of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, fed up with their often-incompatible communications systems, in essence led an information revolt. According to a Pentagon analysis of the exercise, the result was a "de facto migration away from command-and-control systems to ad hoc use of readily available, user-friendly commercial technologies." In plain English, the troops used e-mail.
The fact that the services still can't communicate adequately during joint operations, despite years of lectures by congressional committees to make it happen, was one reason Defense Secretary William S. Cohen in October put a single military command in charge of what the Pentagon now calls "Joint Experimentation." Cohen gave the job to the U.S. Atlantic Command in Norfolk, assigning it 1,100 additional people and putting it in charge of five military analysis and computer centers stretching from Suffolk, Va., to San Antonio, Texas. Cohen's move follows a 1993 reorganization of the Atlantic Command that gave it responsibility for joint training, as well as command over 80 percent of military forces stationed in the United States. The Atlantic Command has now become one of the fastest-growing, least understood and most influential bureaucracies in the Pentagon's far-flung empire.
"I think it's fair to say we've been handed the 'joint' baton," said Adm. Harold W. Gehman Jr., head of the Atlantic Command, in an interview at his headquarters here.
The transformation of the Atlantic Command into the chief advocate of cooperative war-fighting, Gehman explained, began with the 1993 Roles & Missions Report, a congressionally ordered study of how to decrease duplication and increase cooperation among the armed services. That study recommended that the Pentagon choose a single war-fighting commander in chief to be the advocate for jointness. With the tools Cohen has given him, Gehman is that man.
Indeed, the Atlantic Command has evolved into the official torchbearer of Congress's landmark 1986 Goldwater-Nichols reforms, which promoted a more streamlined chain of command and a focus on smooth joint operations between the four services. Following the relative debacle of the 1983 invasion of Grenada-where the U.S. armed services were hamstrung by dangerously incompatible equipment, war-fighting doctrines, and operational procedures-Goldwater-Nichols vested far more power in the Joint Chiefs and Joint Staff in the Pentagon and in the unified commanders in chief ("CINCS" in Pentagon jargon), who now oversee units from all four services brought together under collective regional commands. The aim was to give more power to the Pacific, Atlantic, Central, European, and Southern commands, whose leaders would have a joint perspective and could get the services operating cooperatively, rather than at cross-purposes.
Ever since passage of Goldwater-Nichols, the services have been improving their ability to operate together. Joint Staff positions that were once considered career dead-ends are now the stepping-stones to promotion and thus attract the services' best officers. Most major recent Pentagon operations-from Desert Storm to Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti and Bosnia-were conducted by joint task force commanders using a headquarters staff made up of troops from all four services.
Yet, as the Norfolk exercise revealed, some obstacles remain. "We still have big-time problems with incompatible command-and-control systems," Gehman said, "and the way I've decided to tackle that is to focus on the future rather than trying to figure out how to connect all our present systems together. Other people are already working on that. My argument is that if we're going to develop a new piece of equipment, or a new doctrine or operational concept, design it `joint' right from the start. That way in the future we won't have to spend many years and billions of dollars retrofitting everything to make it inter-operable on the battlefield."
The Atlantic Command is treading on sensitive turf when it tries to influence the development of weapons and war-fighting doctrines. Under Goldwater-Nichols, the individual services remain responsible for "training and equipping" their own forces. They guard those roles jealously.
Aware of how sensitive the issue is, but convinced that joint operations are the wave of the future, Sens. Dan Coats, R-Ind., and Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., both senior members of the Armed Services Committee, pushed the Pentagon this year to fully fund and promote joint military experiments. The Atlantic Command was given the lead, as well as the responsibility for the five analysis centers.
"What that did," Gehman said, "was give me enough people, volume, and mass to go out and experiment independently-to hold seminars, war games, and exercises-so that when I go to Washington, D.C., I have the evidence and insights that allow me to compete on equal terms with the individual services. I also have a fairly aggressive and forward-leaning per4sonal philosophy on the need for jointness, so there will be tensions. And those tensions are likely to grow, because I plan to bring up topics that people probably hoped were resting quietly in a graveyard somewhere."
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Android 4.4 (Kitkat) is the latest version of Google's mobile operating system. While the market is flooded with devices based on the previous generation of Android OS, handset makers are now focusing on launching devices based on the latest release.
Handsets like LG's Nexus 5, Moto X, Moto G, Karbonn Titanium Hexa and Lava Iris X1 are based on Kitkat. Another homegrown firm Intex has also announced that it will launch an Android-powered device priced under Rs 10,000. | {
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*Sigh* So I wasn't in NY last night due to travel difficulties, but I did get the chance to make it down to Boston to chill with the homie Reks and sit in on some studio sessions with him and his super-producer, Blaze P. On the way back I popped in Reks' new album, Grey Hairs, and my jaw literally dropped all the way to the ground. Go cop that on July 22nd!
Anyway, here's some footage of last night's Wale/Blu/Che Grand/Skillz (?) show at SOBs in Manhattan. Word is Che didn't really get to perform because of some sound difficulties bullshit, but Blu insisted they rock together onstage during his own set. (Cool.) Spotted over at Frank's spot and big shouts to dreamchasers. | {
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Plans for lunar settlements aren't the only things that NASA has in its sleeves. There are possibilities of further advancing national security through developments in space exploration.
NASA estimates that these projects would require at least $1.6 billion to fund. These funds will be allocated for the production of lunar landers, development of technology in exploration, and other missions that the space agency will conduct in preparation for the Moon Plan. However, they would take some of those funds away from the lunar Gateway.
The Trump administration has prioritized an acceleration of America’s space exploration program, with the ambitious vision of returning astronauts to the moon’s South Pole by 2024 and establishing a sustainable human presence by 2028 using NASA’s new deep space exploration systems, the powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion crew vehicle.
With a renewed emphasis on space, the Trump administration is reasserting American leadership in an area that is not necessarily front of mind as a strategic concern. Fortunately, the administration’s efforts are bolstered by the fact that Congress has a history of acting in a bipartisan manner to protect and strengthen America’s interests in space. | {
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For those wondering, ‘partial’ support means that this tool
can grant users access to their root filesystem on A12 and A12X devices, but it
will not install Cydia or Cydia Substrate (yet) as they aren’t yet prepared to
work on this small subset of devices. We expect that will change soon, however.
It’s
worth noting that the unc0ver v3.0.0 pre-release is still a beta, and while it
might be tempting to hop onboard right now, we’d strongly advise waiting for
the official public release to prevent any possible bugs from manifesting.
These ‘partial’ support releases are really only intended for developers, and allow them to prepare tweaks to support iOS 12. Users will get the most benefit from their jailbreak when Cydia and Cydia Substrate are added in the future.
Those
already jailbroken on iOS 12 with the unc0ver v3.0.0
pre-release are being advised to download and run this update as soon as
possible to take full advantage of the new features and improvements.
The
latest public release of the unc0ver jailbreak tool is v2.2.6 with support for
iOS 11.0-11.4 beta 4 – the unc0ver v3.0.0 pre-release is the only iteration
that supports iOS 11.4-11.4.1. Both versions of the unc0ver jailbreak tool can be had from Pwn20wnd’s official GitHub repository.
Are you excited that A12 and A12X devices are coming into
the picture for jailbreak eligibility? Let us know in the comments section
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2013 Ktulu’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Emporium
Meet the artists, collectors, and enthusiasts participating in our second annual Ktulu’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Emporium, an experience-based market only found at Belle Isle, each day and night of the Festival weekend!
LOCKERS
Don’t worry about lugging your items around with you – keep yourself light on your feet by using a rental locker to safely stow your personal items. The lockers will be located near the Festival entrance, just next to the cell phone charging station.
If you reserve a locker online, you will receive an email 24 hours before the Festival containing your locker location, locker number, and lock combination so you can simply find and use your locker. You will have unlimited access to your locker throughout Festival hours. | {
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
STEVE'S SURGERY TODAY
My Husband, Steve, is having his inner ear removed today Nov. 2nd, due to having several vertigo attacks over the past year and being hospitalized.. Just wanted to ask you to say a prayer for him and just think of him today and that all will go well..... thanks, so much Pam !
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MAY 27TH AT THE ALLEGAN MICHIGAN FAIRGROUNDS, FROM 8am TO 4 pm, BOOTH # OUTSIDE 192
PLEASE STOP BY AND INTRODUCE YOURSELF, HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!!
Welcome to Calico Cupboard Antiques
Thanks for looking at our blog.. we love hunting and searching out antiques, collectibles and then taking them to the various shows starting in April thru Nov.. My partner makes window cupboards from scratch.. He finds an old window and builds a cupboard around it. We also love to repurpose and upurpose. Look around and if you have any questions email us.
About Me
My business partner, Louie, and I do shows in MI, OH, and IN, starting in April and continuing thru november. We carry primitives, shabby chic, kitchen items, country store and garden.. My partner makes cupboards from old materials and old windows etc. We love going to garage/estate sales and auctions. Last year we did go to florida and do the circuit of shows, I think we did over 25 shows last year!!Whew!! We love what we do, it is our passion.. The name Calico Cupboard comes from the story of a coat of many colors -- I pictured Joseph's coat as calico, and Louie puts together one of kind cupboards soooo Calico Cupboard antiques was born. | {
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Re: What was your handicap when you broke 80?
I do remember being 12 years old, but I don't remember actually having a handicap. When I played in junior tournaments between members of various country clubs back then, we only played gross score individually and team total. I don't think there were handicaps for children.
Re: What was your handicap when you broke 80?
As a youngster I played most of my golf over the local ' muni ' Silverknowes Golf Course in Edinburgh. I wasn't a member so was playing of an unofficial handicap at the time of 15. Still remember highlights of that round and parring the monsterous 18th for a 79. par was 71, so it was a day to remember.
“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose” | {
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WHILE many people insist such subject matter is fine for directors to explore, there were fears some images could normalise sexual violence.
The Human Centipede II was cut by more than two minutes prior to release
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BBFC chiefs will tighten their policy on "sexual or sadistic violence" after new research found public concern over its effect on "vulnerable viewers".
The research, carried out on behalf of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), comes after controversy over so-called 'torture porn' films including The Human Centipede II.
More than two-and-a-half minutes were cut from the film about an obsessed horror movie fan who staples people together for kicks before it was given a certificate last year.
Around the same time the BBFC banned another film - The Bunny Game - about a prostitute kidnapped and sexually abused by a trucker.
Both films, and other controversial titles including A Serbian Film and Lars von Trier's Antichrist, were shown to carefully selected focus groups as part of the research.
The BBFC report stated that "much of the public believe that sexual and sadistic violence are legitimate areas for film-makers to explore", but added they were "concerned by certain depictions which may be potentially harmful".
It went on: "This concern is particularly acute in relation to young men without much life experience and other vulnerable viewers accessing a diet of sadistic and sexually violent content, which could serve to normalise rape and other forms of violence and offer a distorted view of women."
The BBFC said it would consider "cutting, or even rejecting, works aimed at adults and containing violence" even if it was legal to show them, but its director David Cooke said there was no "one size fits all rule".
He said: "Once again the public have told us that context, tone and impact, and a work's overall message, can aggravate a theme, or make it acceptable, even in cases of sexual and sadistic violence. The decision as to whether and how to intervene in scenes of sexual and sadistic violence is complex, but drawing out and applying these aggravating and mitigating factors is helpful in arriving at a decision which balances freedom of expression against public protection." | {
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Saddleman Windsor Velour Seat Covers Reviews
This is my first new truck so I kind of wanted to keep it nice at least for a little while. These seat covers fit nice and tight and match my interior almost perfectly. They seem rugged enough to stand up to years of abuse
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It’s summer. Time for escaping to somewhere… how about the fictional town of Bristol? It’s got a little bit of everything — murder, bribery, jury tampering, vote buying, and gambling! And it’s a fun read! Part John Grisham, part Tom Clancy, a page-turner that’s also got a lot of humor, and unforgettable, richly drawn […]
Captain Crunch’s Peanut Butter CRACK. That’s what it should be called. I have a problem. I love this cereal. I’m Sherlock Holmes, it’s cocaine. I’m our dog, Roxy, and the Captain is rawhide. I’m not going to lie; the Captain and I have a history. I thought it was over long ago. Then, my son, […]
Just an update on my ongoing negative feelings toward the Wii Fit Plus little animated balance board dude. So, I’ve been running, working out, and dutifully wearing my little Wii pedometer everywhere, every single day, so I can suck up to the Wii and get credit for wandering around the grocery store and walking the dogs. […]
It’s Day 3 since we got Wii Fit. If you’re not familiar with this phenomenon, there’s this annoying fake-friendly talking animated Wii board that appears on your TV screen, and you check in with him/her/it every day, and you get a “Wii age” based on how well you do. I think the thing is a guy, […]
News from around the old homestead: Two coyotes and one mountain lion so far this week. We’ve had some up-close-and-personal wildlife sightings this week. All of them, oddly, have been in our driveway, which is kind of long and has woods on either side. I think this is happening for a few reasons: First, this […]
Well, it’s Monday. That’s about the only reason I can find for why annoying people, and even an annoying animal, seem to be coming out of the woodwork today — and it’s still morning! There’s plenty of time for more of them to show up! For example: I went to Starbucks to get coffee for […]
Boy, am I cranky. Oh, didn’t you sleep well? No, as a matter of fact, I didn’t sleep at all. The great physician, Sir William Osler, once said, “The man who is well wears a crown that only the sick can see.” I have always been struck by that quote, because it just goes to […]
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Bumble Creek Farm
A delightful true account, told with love and humor by award-winning writer Janet Farrar Worthington, of her young family's riotous adventures on their own "Green Acres," as two urban professionals "who had no idea whatsoever what we were doing" start a farm in beautiful Horse Oak, Virginia.
Janet has done it again in this charming book giving happy little snapshots of home and family, animals with attitude, life in a small town, and finding the funny when everything seems crazy. | {
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The CPM Wolverine Proctor Stem Dryer is designed specifically for drying tobacco stems in a GLT Plant without a reordering requirement. It utilizes a specially designed conveyor plate that is used to prevent the sticking of the stem. It also has specially designed feeding systems that provide uniform loading of the conveyor over a wide range of feed rates. To suit your needs, it can be provided with or without cooling to meet the needs of the process.
For a fluffier, low-density product at a high production rate, there are few better choices than the CPM Wolverine Proctor Cased Burley Dryer/Toaster. This piece of equipment is capable of “hard” or “soft” drying/reacting and of high reordering rates. | {
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The Center for Wildlife Ethics is tracking trapping incidents across the U.S. and Canada in an effort to document the countless animal victims who are killed and maimed by trappers and expose the scope and intensity of the violence associated with the archaic trapping industry. If you have information on an animal trapping incident and would like to help CWE's efforts to stop trapping cruelty, please complete our trapping incident survey. | {
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Solar Power World Releases 2014 Top 400 Solar Contractors List
Solar Power World, the industry’s leading publication, has released the 2014 Top Solar Contractors list. Featuring 400 of the industry’s most successful solar installation and development companies, the annual list shines a light on businesses that are bringing gigawatts of clean energy to grids across the U.S. and Canada.
The 2014 Top 400 Solar Contractors list features companies working in four markets – utility, commercial, residential and off-grid – and in varying capacities. From residential rooftop installers to construction firms building multi-megawatt projects, the Top 400 Solar Contractors list recognizes the heart of the solar industry.
The list ranks applicants according to their influence in the solar market in 2013. Ranks were determined by the number of megawatts a company installed in 2013. In some cases, companies reported megawatts for which they were a sub-contractor. If two companies reported the same 2013 numbers, they were sorted by total megawatts installed.
Photo Courtesy of Maui Solar Project
A new feature of the list this year is specific company categorizations. Companies self-identified as an EPC, construction firm, developer, electrical subcontractors, rooftop installer, off-grid contractor, non-profit or solar hot water provider.
Solar Power World also expanded the list by 150 companies over last year’s Top 250, mirroring growth in the industry. This is the third iteration of the Top Solar Contractors list, which began in 2012.
“America’s solar industry is currently on pace to achieve another record-shattering year,” says Rhone Resch, President and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). “This simply wouldn’t be possible without the effort, hard work and creativity of these Top 400 Solar Contractors.”
The 2014 Top Solar Contractors list is a multi-faceted project by Solar Power World. The list details each company ranked, from No. 1 First Solar to No. 400 Sunnyside Solar, including location, year founded, number of employees and website. Solar Power World divided the Top 400 list a number of ways, including by market:
Beyond the lists, Solar Power World reported on how Top Contractors achieve success. Contractors shared tips for effective hiring and powerful marketing. Experts weighed in on how banks could soon help local installers obtain financing. And one company shared a story about finding success after experiencing the devastation of Superstorm Sandy.
“We are so proud of our list, which has expanded not only by number, but by the types of recognition we can give contractors in multiple segments across the solar industry,” says Solar Power World managing editor Kathie Zipp. “Thanks to all the companies who participated – we are thrilled to honor your hard work in our publication.”
Solar Power World also featured three Top Contractors in “A Time To Shine,” a video about being a solar contractor today. View it here:
As a former “employee” of Future Energy Savers (San Jose), I am disgusted by their lack of ethics and lack of best business practices, and a true black eye on the industry. I am glad they are not recognized. | {
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Way back when, if you wanted to make a contribution to a cause, there were a number of ways to give. You might give an animal, for instance, or food you had grown. As time went by, and the barter system wasn’t cutting it anymore, people might use objects, like shells or precious stones, as currency. Next came precious metals, and eventually coins were fashioned with particular values. Paper currency arose later, and still later personal checks and credit cards became the norm.
All of these methods of transacting business were also used by people of faith in giving to their favorite causes, whether houses of worship or otherwise. It stands to reason that our choices in giving would continue to expand as our financial options expand. Many of us pay bills online, or with automatic withdrawals at the same time each month so we know the bill gets paid, and we know when it will come out of our account. What if you could do the same thing with your regular tithes and offerings to Spirit of Hope?
Now you can! On this page, you are able to sign up for e-giving, which is simply the newest way to express your generosity through your tithes and offerings. If you would rather not, no worries. You can keep on giving in the manner that is comfortable for you. If you want to make sure that important contribution makes it to Spirit of Hope regardless of weather, illness, vacations, procrastination, and whatever else can get in the way of your being present to drop it in the plate, e-giving may be for you. | {
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Sinkevičius' former and current colleagues describe him as an ambitious and energetic politician, but others warn that a lack of experience could be a hindrance in his new job as economy minister. The man will have to convince sceptics that his limited managerial experience will not stop him from making tough decisions.
Sinkevičius now is only the chairman of the Seimas Committee on Economics, but also the captain of the parliament's basketball team. The politician used to play as a shooting guard in non-professional leagues, but now his family and work obligations leave him with little time for the sport.
Is his young age an asset or a liability?
Sinkevičius worked as a volunteer editor at The Lithuania Tribune, a news website covering Lithuania in English, between 2012 and 2015. Ruslanas Iržikevičius, the founder of the platform, describes him as an energetic and responsible person.
"I hear others remarking about his age, saying that this may hamper him. But this may appear to be true on paper. All doubts are gone when you meet him. This is a person to whom his age is an asset. We need the energy that is bursting out of him," Iržikevičius told BNS.
"He worked as a volunteer and never received any payment for his work at The Lithuania Tribune. I could always rely on him. He kept his word and did everything he promised," he added.
However, Bronislovas Matelis, a member of the Seimas Committee on Economics who has left the political group of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), sees potential risks, too, saying that time will tell whether the new minister has sufficient autonomy, determination and managerial skills.
"Like with the health minister, who is relatively young, but those around him want to do the opposite of what the minister wants. The question is how Sinkevičius, a young man who hasn't yet been in that political mincer, will manage to have the whole situation in the ministry under control. He is a cautious, non-confrontational man. The question is whether this kindness and non-proneness to conflict may also mean that he is indecisive. I don't know. We'll see," he said.
Matelis recounted an episode when the young politician's "over-zealousness" angered his colleagues in the Seimas.
"We invited (Transport) Minister Rokas Masiulis to a committee meeting. At the (economics) committee, it is the opposition that asks questions first and the chairman chairs. We had some hard questions ready for the minister, but Sinkevičius, as the chairman, decided to ask around 10 questions himself. He watered down all the hard questions we had and no discussion took place," the lawmaker said.
"This shows that he still needs to be polished up to become a good leader," he added.
Political skills will be needed, too
Lietuvos Oro Uostai (Lithuanian Airports) CEO Gediminas Almantas, who was Sinkevičius' boss for almost a year, says that he sees great potential, but he would not predict how successful the new minister will be in reconciling his political agenda with managing a large structure.
"As a young and ambitious man, he has a lot of potential. Heading the Economic Ministry involves both the political part and managerial competence. I have no opinion about his. I don't know how he'll manage this. What I as the head of a state-owned company would like to see is that people who take leading positions are not only willing to work politically, but also have an understanding of how the economy and companies work and what managing means. This is what I expect from the new economy minister, too," he told BNS.
According to Almantas, Sinkevičius, as a project coordinator at Lietuvos Oro Uostai, proved his ability to find common ground with different people -- from politicians to technical staff.
"In terms of communication, he has good skills and is receptive to other people's opinions. I don't know if the time spent in the Seimas has changed him, but when he worked with us, he was a young, strong talent and he could be very persistent when it came to achieving goals," he said.
Little time for basketball
Sinkevičius says that his family and his almost two year-old son Vincentas are his number-one hobby now, leaving him with little time for basketball.
"I now spend very little time with my family because of my work and my busy schedule, so my family and my son are my main hobby," he told BNS.
Sinkevičius met his future Ukrainian wife Kateryna during his MA studies at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands and married her in August 2014.
The politician speaks English, Russian and Polish.
He has a Bachelor of Arts in Economic and International Relations from Aberystwyth University, in the United Kingdom, and a Master of Arts in European Studies from the University of Maastricht. He he did a traineeship at the Lithuanian mission in Washington, D.C. in 2013.
Sinkevičius worked as an assistant project manager at the Washington-based Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in 2013 to 2014, and as an international group project manager at Lietuvos Paštas (Lithuanian Post) in 2014. He worked as a project coordinator in Lietuvos Oro Uostai's concession project in 2015 and 2016 before taking the position of a team leader in the Group for Improving Investment Environment at the government's foreign investment promotion agency Invest Lithuania in 2016. | {
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Ok I am going to(After I have finished my eeveelution team and gardevoir) train a charizard. I wanted to know is it worth it to go throught the trouble of getting an E-quake tm to make a D-dance sweeper(Fire punch and Dragon claw for it's other moves) or should I go with a special set. I don't want to do a mixed sweeper and I was considering a D-dance sweeper becuase it has to low speed to do a swords dancer becuase garchomp can just stone edge it before it can D-claw it but if it had D-dance it will be much better.
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Umm, first of all, it's a terrible idea to even pit Charizard against Garchomp. Charizard is strong, and I like him as much as the next trainer, but Charizard actually beating Garchomp one on one has very low odds.
A Dragon Dance Charizard is very rare on Wi-Fi, so I think it'd be a good idea for screwing over your opponents. Dragon Dance, Earthquake, Fire Punch, and Dragon Claw give perfect coverage against any enemy, so that's always good.
Just be careful about when you use Charizard in battle. Even though it'll be pretty tough to match after a Dragon Dance or two, it'll be hard to efficiently boost him, seeing as Charizard is pretty frail.
This could well very well as a switch-in, though, so don't lose hope. :)
I don't think its wourth to give charizard physical moves cuz its potential is in sp attack though youre moveset is good and not a lot people will expect a physical charizard but there is a risk that someone will get a water sweeper and by the time charizard will d-dance to out speed it the sweeper will get you sweeped
this moveset is pertty good but again untill you will charge youre charizards speed a garchomp can end youre charizard and if youre charizard will have like 4 hp left and you use dragon claw it may not take the chomp down and charizards sp attack is much better the attack so I think the rel potencial of chaizard will be in the special moveset which has only one weaknes too:
dragon pulse-better the claw and special
sunny day-takes a turn like d-dance
solarbeam-take adventege
heat wave\flamethrower-STAB
to wrap things up I think youre moveset has everything charizard has to offer a special moveset is only and opsion but I like the physical cuz charizard dosent need to cover ground beacuse its a flying I would go with mix sweeper but as you want it I would go with the pure physical
I honestly don't think a sunny day solar beam would be the best idea for a fire type, if your against a rock type and you try it BOOM your dead b4 you can get the solar beam off, with a water type, you can cut the power, but if you can't one hit KO it, or its faster than you ( as Speed Freak mentioned charzards speed isn't something to brag about, then you would get killed.
Wow, I have to admit, this was insanely creative, I do random Wi-fi battle on PBR and if someone pulled at a physical charizard on me, I would be surprised. something I would try though, I wouldn't go for the physical route, because charizard has a higher base SP. ATK stat. If you wanted a special set, you could switch D-Claw with D-Pulse, Get flamethrower, or heat wave, whatever floats you boat, and something I tried with my charizard that worked great, was using roost, I had a charizard with this moveset,
Charizard:
Flamethrower
Dragon Pulse
Toxic
Roost
My charizard almost never dies, you can set a toxic ( Almost no one expects a charizard to use toxic, ) then use flamethrower for power, Dragon Pulse for pesty dragon types, and when his HP gets to about half, use roost. My charizard has literally never lost a batlle. | {
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Donald Trump has selected retired Marine Gen. John Kelly to lead the Department of Homeland Security the Washington Post reported Wednesday. The pick disappointed some immigration hawks, who hoped the president-elect would tap Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to lead the agency. One of those Kobach supporters is Rosemary Jenks, director of government relations at NumbersUSA, an organization that seeks to reduce both legal and illegal immigration.
Hordes of Japanese fighter-bombers swooped down from the sky onto the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor, killing thousands of soldiers and sailors, devastating the American fleet, and propelling the United States into World War II with extreme prejudice. Two and a half months of repairs were enough to put her back into service, where she became a workhorse of the Pacific fleet for the rest of the war.
The video, posted to Facebook last month, shows 22 men standing completely still and brandishing guns outside 5012 Powell Drive in Huntsville. The mannequin challenge is a viral Internet video trend in which people try to stay completely still as if they were part of a Madame Tussauds wax exhibit, typically with the song “Black Beatles” by Rae Sremmurd playing in the background. The shootout video, however, makes use of “Ain’t No Comin’ Down” by TEC & Maine Musik.
The father of the knife-wielding 14-year-old shot by a cop at a Nevada high school has come to his son's defense, saying he was reacting to relentless torment from bullies. "He was being bullied," Justin Clark wrote on Facebook Wednesday. The teen was filmed with two long kitchen knives in startling video footage posted to social media after a fight reportedly erupted between two boys at Reno's Hug High School.
Alfa Romeo announced Thursday that its new sedan, the Giulia would start at $37,995 (without destination fees) here in the U.S. of A. All-wheel-drive is available as a $2,000 option on both cars, and buyers can also add Alfa's $1,250 "Sport Exterior Package" if they're looking for some colorful brake calipers and 18-inch sport wheels. Both the entry-level Giulia and the Ti will arrive on sale in January.
Young artists, musicians and educators were among the victims of the deadly warehouse fire that broke out in Oakland over the weekend, killing several dozen attendees of a party in an art space. According to Alameda County Sheriff’s Deputy Tya Modste, 36 bodies had been recovered as of Sunday from the dilapidated, two-story Oakland warehouse known as the Ghost Ship. The San Francisco Chronicle has reported that the teenage victim was Draven McGill, a junior at Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts and the son of a deputy for the Alameda County sheriff’s office.
By Isabel Coles MAKHMUR, Iraq (Reuters) - Wearing a camouflage cap over her headscarf, Miaad al-Jubbouri cuts an unusual figure among the hundreds of men fighting to retake a village from Islamic State in northern Iraq. The mother of five was the sole woman among a joint force of Iraqi army and tribal militias who attacked the village of Kanous on Wednesday - one of multiple fronts in a campaign to drive the insurgents from their remaining strongholds in Iraq. Like the men around her, Jubbouri said her motive for taking up arms was hatred of Islamic State, which overran large parts of the country more than two years ago, meting out brutal punishments and killing its opponents, including several of her cousins.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Tsunami Warning Center released an animated video showing all of the world’s recorded quakes from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2015. The video graphically demonstrates why the Pacific Rim is also known as the “Ring of Fire.” Quakes seem to continually hammer the chains of islands from the Aleutians, through Japan, and into Indonesia. The latest major earthquake rocked Indonesia on Wednesday, killing an estimated 100 people and injuring over 500.
Months after heavy flooding destroyed parts of North Korea’s northeastern region in late August and early September, Kim Jong Un’s regime has termed the disaster recovery after mass mobilization a “miraculous victory” for the East Asian country. The heavy rains triggered by typhoon Lionrock in late August and early September led to severe floods in North Korea, leaving hundreds of people dead and tens of thousands others stranded. A mass mobilization movement, referred to as the “200-day battle,” has been credited for the “victory” on the “reconstruction front” in North Hamgyong Province, state-controlled news agency KCNA reported Wednesday.
Edgar Maddison Welch, who has admitted to being the gunman who opened fire inside of the Washington, D.C., pizzeria Comet Ping Pong on Sunday, expressed regret in a new interview with the New York Times. No one was injured by the gunfire, but Welch's actions drew national attention because he was motivated by a fringe conspiracy theory about the pizzeria. Police say Welch told them he wanted to "self-investigate" the theory, which purported that Comet is the center of a child-sex ring involving Hillary Clinton and her campaign chief.
Take a look back at this week's top news headlines, including the deadly wildfire in the Great Smoky Mountains. I was at a major theme dominating this week's headlines from that deadly wildfire in the grace that he mountains to the devastation. And tragic
Newt Gingrich speaks to the media after a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York on Nov. 21. “I have a job,” Newt Gingrich told me this week, when I asked him if there was a job he might accept in the new administration. Yes, he would have accepted the vice presidency had Donald Trump asked him.
It’s rare that a vehicle can be so ahead of its time when first introduced that it remains relevant for the good part of a decade. Somehow, the Volvo XC60 has accomplished such a feat with minimal updates and fairly safe styling. The 2017 Volvo XC60 T6 AWD doesn’t look that much different from the 2010 XC60 which is actually quite impressive.
Today on Drive Wire: Dodge has announced the first all-wheel-drive muscle car with the 2017 Challenger GT. While we've known about the impending Challenger GT for a couple of months now, the fact that it will be all-wheel-drive instead of the standard rear does come as a surprise. People have been retrofitting all-wheel-drive systems to muscle cars for years, but the new Dodge Challenger GT will be the first muscle car with no retrofitting necessary.
When Felicia Sanders opened her eyes, she saw a young white man the parishioners had welcomed to the study only a half-hour earlier. Dylann Roof was mowing down the pastor and eight others with gunfire and hurling racial insults. Sanders, the first witness in Roof's death penalty trial, fought back tears as she recalled sheltering her granddaughter under a table and telling her to play dead.
Syria's army battled to take more ground from rebels in east Aleppo after President Bashar al-Assad said victory for his troops would be a turning point in his country's five-year war. Three weeks into a major offensive to retake all of Aleppo, government troops have captured about 85 percent of territory rebels controlled in the city's east. The UN reiterated its call for an immediate ceasefire in Aleppo, warning that as many as 500 sick and injured children desperately needed to be evacuated from the besieged last pockets of rebel-held areas.
Ronald Smith, 45, was pronounced dead at 11:05 p.m. (0505 GMT) at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, where he was executed by lethal injection, a spokesman for the Alabama Department of Corrections said. Smith was executed after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a second stay on the execution, having twice put it on hold on Thursday. The Supreme Court gave no explanation for any of its three orders issued in the case on Thursday.
A famous Russian submarine design bureau is working on a drone that imitates submarines. The drone, tentatively named "Surrogat," could be a useful decoy in baiting a trap…or escaping one. The Rubin Design Bureau of St. Petersberg, designer of Cold War Soviet missile submarines including the enormous Typhoon class, is working on this drone for the Russian Navy.
Eva and Erika Sandoval, 2, had the complicated surgery Tuesday at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Stanford, California, the Miami Herald reported. The operation to separate the twins can result in a 30 percent chance of fatality, according to the Sacramento Bee. The surgeon leading the twins’ operation was Dr. Gary Hartman.
One of the most controversial decisions in Supreme Court history was caused by aftershocks of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and it’s still being debated today. On December 7, 1941, Japanese military forces attacked the United States base in Hawaii without warning. More than 2,000 Americans died in the attack, and a united Congress answered President Franklin Roosevelt’s request for war.
A US Marine Corps pilot whose F/A-18 crashed into the Pacific Ocean has been confirmed dead, a US official said Thursday. Japanese rescuers earlier said they had found the missing pilot, whose plane crashed off the coast of Japan on Wednesday, but they would not say if he was alive. Marine Corps spokeswoman Captain Sarah Burns said the pilot had been "pronounced deceased," and she identified him as Captain Jake Frederick.
New cars are often intimidating to first time buyers. The idea of debt is enough to scare most new-comers into a corner without much second thought, but does it have to be that way? Three of the nation's cheapest cars can be had for under $14,000, a sensible
Television and radio personality Denise Albert, who has breast cancer and wears a medical port in her chest, has claimed she was "aggressively" searched by TSA agents at Los Angeles International Airport. The co-host of “The Moms” radio show was traveling with colleague Melissa Gerstein, who shot video of the pat-down. When the agent puts her hand on Albert’s chest, the passenger says, "I have breast cancer.
TOBYHANNA, Pa. (AP) — An 18-year-old girl was live-streaming herself as she drove along a Pennsylvania highway in the moments before the crash that killed her and a passenger.State police say Brooke Miranda Hughes was broadcasting live video on Facebook
By Dominique Patton and Steve Holland BEIJING/NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Iowa Governor Terry Branstad as the next U.S. ambassador to China, choosing a longstanding friend of Beijing after rattling the world's second largest economy with tough talk on trade and a telephone call with the leader of Taiwan. Branstad has visited China at least six times, and Chinese President Xi Jinping has traveled to Iowa twice, including once while Branstad was governor. | {
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ENTERBAY HD MASTERPIECE T-800 FIGURE
This new 1/4 scale figure of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800 Terminator
has over 30 points of articulation as well as multiple weapons with
bullets and shells, the famous gold box of roses, interchangeable body
parts and more. We have this hot new figure listed at $399.99.https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=ENB10047&mode=retail
ARKHAM CITY SERIES 01 - SET, SINGLES
DC Direct's first assortment of Arkham City figures includes an Unmasked
Batman, Harley Quinn and Robin. We have them listed as a set of three for
$49.99 ($7 off the MSRP); we also have singles remaining of Batman and
Robin, priced at $17.99 each.https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=401&category=7436
HALO ANNIVERSARY SERIES 02
This new assortment has figures from a wide variety of games. We have
"The Package" version of Master Chief, Captain Jacob Keyes, a Spartan Mark
VI (White/Blue), a Sentinel & Guilty Spark Two-Pack and Mickey from ODST.
This figures are available singly at $11.99 each, as a set of 5 for
$54.99, and as a case of 8 (two each of MC, Spartan and Mickey) for
$84.99.https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=MCF13581&mode=retail
KOTOBUKIYA THOR CLASSIC AVENGERS FINE ART STATUE
This new figure of Thor in his original Marvel look is the first of a trio
representing the "Big Three" - Thor, Cap and Iron Man - in time for the
release of the "Avengers" movie. The statue stands about 13.5" tall and
shows Thor or a rocky base, holding Mjolnir aloft. We have this statue
listed at $174.99, saving you $25 off of the MSRPhttps://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=KOT10802&mode=retail
DC PLUSH - TOYNAMI SKELANIMALS
Now available is the comic-book crossover you never thought you’d see: the
all-new Skelanimals DC Heroes! For the first time, your favorite
Skelanimals pals are here in their secret identities as the World’s
Greatest Super-Heroes! Dax the Dog has become Superman, Jae the Fox has
taken up the mantle of the Batman, ChungKee the Panda has transformed into
Green Lantern and Jack the Rabbit is now the Flash!https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=75&category=7994
BROWNNOIZE PRODUCTIONS 'THRONE OF CHAOS' UNICRON STAND
This accessory to the extremely popular Supreme class Unicron toy is a
must-have for fans wishing to replicate the iconic look of the chaos
bringer from 1986's "Transformers: The Movie". Unicron's planet mode is
securely held aloft on a crystal clear acrylic display stand, ominously
pointing straight forward, matching the classic animation look. The stand
features instant, tool-free assembly and extremely solid construction.
Each stand is listed at $34.99.https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=BRN10000&mode=retail
DC COMICS SILICONE ICE TRAY - SUPERMAN, BATMAN LOGOS
As a follow-up to the immensely popular Star Wars trays, Kotobukiya has
announced two new trays with DC hero logos. Batman and Superman's iconic
logos are now available, and each tray includes both large and small
versions; each tray is listed at $9.99.https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/search.aspx?search=DC+Ice+Tray
NEW JAPANESE EXCLUSIVES
We have new listings for a number of Japanese exclusive figures and more.
We have the Dragon Shiryu Final Bronze Cloth Original Color Edition at
$113.99, Blue Exorcist Shura Kirigakure at $89.99, Kamen Rider Ryuuki
Blank Body S.H. Figuarts at $74.99, Kamen Rider Tamashii Stage Mirror
World Exclusive Stand Set at $38.99, Saint Cloth Myth EX Custom Orange
Display Stage at $49.99 and the Busou Shinki Battle Masters Mark 2 Special
Edition Complete PSP Set at $479.99.https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/list.aspx?list=7580
LORD OF THE RINGS HEROCLIX
The long-awaited Heroclix release of Lord of the Rings is finally on the
way. The initial release of the game consists of two options - an 8-piece
Starter Pack (with 3 exclusive figures) for $29.99 and a 24-pieces
Countertop Display containing random single-packed figures from the
21-piece assortment. This set is compatible with other Heroclix releases,
such as Indy, Marvel and DC, so don't miss out.https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=2128&category=7979
MLB PLAYMAKERS SERIES 03 - CASE, SINGLES
McFarlane's third assortment of MLB 4" Playmaker figures includes players
like Adrian Gonzales, Derek Jeter, Robinson Cano, Josh Hamilton and more.
We have them listed as a case of 12 for $74.99; you can also pick your
favorites singly, priced at $6.99 each.https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=499&category=7974
JUST-US-LEAGUE OF STUPID HEROES 2011 - SET, SINGLES
These new and re-released figures are being done in celebration of Mad
Magazine's 60th Anniversary. The reissued figures even contain some color
changes, most obviously on Superman. Each figure is Alfred E. Neuman done
up as one of DC's greatest heroes; the first assortment includes Superman,
Green Arrow and Aquaman. They are available singly at $17.99 each, or as
a set of 3 for $49.99, saving you $7 off of the MSRP.https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=75&category=2405
WORLD OF MMA CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES 02 VERSUS SET OF 4
The Versus line continues with this assortment of two-packs. It includes
Forrest Griffin Vs. Stephen Bonnar, Lyoto Machida Vs. Randy Couture,
Georges St. Pierre Vs. BJ Penn and Brock Lesnar Vs. Cain Velasquez. We
have the set of four two-packs listed at $114.99, $5 off the MSRP.https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=RDF10122&mode=retail
MINECRAFT ITEMS
This popular game has spawned a number of new items. In addition to a
line of T-Shirts, we also have listings for foam weapons, hats, magnets
and more. Be sure to check out all of the items at the link for more
information.https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=2768
BLITZWAY 12" TONY MONTANA FIGURE
This new version of the "Scarface" character comes with guns, necklaces, a
cigar and even his signature chair. Note that his shoes are actual single
units - the legs attach directly ball-joint-style to holes in the shoes,
negating a need for separate feet. We have this figure listed at $199.99.https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=BLTZ10000&mode=retail
MARVEL UNIVERSE 3.75" 2011 SERIES 04 - CASE, SET
This assortment includes X-23, Commander Steve Rogers, Ultron, Namor the
Sub-Mariner and Darkhawk. We have them available as a set of 5 for
$49.99; we also have them as a case of 12 (two each plus Doctor Doom and
the Falcon) at $104.99. Doctor Doom and the Falcon are also available as
singles.https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/search.aspx?search=2011+marvel+04
SCI-FI REVOLTECH #030 DOTM OPTIMUS PRIME
The second version of Optimus Prime to be made in Revoltech form has
arrived. This version is designed based on his appearance in the "Dark of
the Moon" movie, and includes five different guns that can peg all over
him or to each other, as well as an energon sword and multiple hands. We
have this figure listed at $54.99.https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=KAI10363&mode=retail | {
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Tongkat Ali
aphrodisiacs
Aphrodisiac formula for man, plant, tea, tablets, Information
Is there a love potion formula that works safely to improve sexual pleasure and function? Is there a diet that can help improve sexual pleasure?January 1 2017
Formula, review, for a man and woman
An aphrodisiac is defined as any substance that can arouse or enhance sexuality and pleasure. This substance could be a food, drug, herb, spice, or any kind of animal or plant material. Many scientists and doctors would be surprised to learn that aphrodisiac plants do exist, and have been known for millennia. There is such a thing as a love potion formula (more like sex rather than love) but it takes a few days to become most effective, rather than immediately.
Buy Aphrodisiac herbs and products for a man and woman:
You can purchase the high quality and effective aphrodisiac Tongkat supplement at Advance Physician Formulas
Or
Passion Rx with Yohimbe for men and women. Passion Rx is a popular aphrodisiac formula for men and women which works very well to enhance libido, sensation, pleasure, and performance.LJ100 is a high potency tongkat ali extract.Tribulus Terrestris Extract herb is a good aphrodisiac plant that works quite well.
Other effective sexual improving herbs include yohimbe bark and maca. Some of these may be helpful as an impotence treatment in a man.
How quickly do benefits appear? How soon do they work?Once the effects from the aphrodisiac herbal enhancers begin within a few days, the benefits can last a day or two longer even when no further pills are taken. Some people only need to take these pills 2 or 3 days a week to maintain full arousal. Yohimbe herb is one of the few that works quickly within hours but high doses have side effects.
Plant Information
There are hundreds of plants with Natural Aphrodisiac properties. We will just mention a few.
J Complement Integr Med. 2012. Efficacy of aphrodisiac plants towards improvement in semen quality and motility in infertile males. Dhanaji Nana Mahavidyalaya, Faizpur. Infertility is the inability to conceive after one year of unprotected intercourse. In the present study, herbal composition prepared by using medicinal plants having aphrodisiac potentials was administered orally to the albino rats for 40 days and to the oligospermic patients for 90 days in order to prove the efficacy of herbal composition. Herbal composition was the mixture (powder form) of the medicinal plants namely, Mucuna pruriens, Chlorophytum borivillianum, and Eulophia campestris. In the neem oil treated albino rats, there was significant reduction in almost all the parameters viz. body weight, testes and epididymes weight, sperm density and motility, serum levels of testosterone, FSH, and LH compared with control rats. Treatment with said herbal composition for 40 days results significant increased in the body weight, testis, and epididymes weight in rats. Concomitantly the sperm motility and the sperm density were significantly increased. After 90 days of treatment with this herbal composition, sperm density vis-a-vis motility was increased in patients with low sperm count as a result of elevation in serum testosterone levels. No side effects were noticed during the entire duration of the trial.
Love potion is real?
Q. What do people mean by the term aphrodisiac love potion? Is this a particular product or are there many products that are considered in this category? How can I make a home made version?
A. An aphrodisiac love potion is any product that has sexual stimulating property. Many years ago there was a book called Love Potions which made the term more popular. You can make a home made formula by mixing any number of plant extracts in juice or a little bit of brandy or other form of alcohol. There are dozens to choose from including Tongkat Ali, mucuna pruriens, horny goat weed, catuaba, muira puama. The easiest way is to buy the existing capsules rather than searching for the bark or root. With trial and error you can create your own potent potion.
Liquid versus capsule or tablet
Does an aphrodisiac drink work better than a capsule or tablet?
Perhaps, but a capsule gets absorbed quite well and quickly, therefore we don’t see the advantage of using a drink product. Plus, the drink would be much more expensive and not have as long a shelf life.
Side effects, adverse reactions
Some of these natural plants and extracts can have a stimulating effect and increase heart rate. Therefore they should be used with caution in those who have heart disease or taking heart medications.
Seizure, epilepsy
I have a seizure disorder, are aphrodisiac herbs safe to take?
A. Hardly any aphrodisiac herbs have been studied for their influence on seizures, therefore it may be best not to use them unless specific research is published on their safety.
Influence on blood pressure, hypertension
I am a MD and have purchased several supplements from Physician Formulas. I chose not to try any formulation with yohimbe as it has raised my blood pressure. My hypertension is well controlled (Atacand 32 mg and Vasotec 5 mg ) and by eliminating yohimbe I am able to tolerate aphrodisiac supplements including damiana, maca, muira pauma, and tribulus. I did consider Passion Rx without yohimbe , but there seem to be a number of other aphrodisiac ingredients with stimulant properties. I am considering trying catuaba, tongkat ali (only a few days per week) and arginine amino acid. Is this reasonable? Also, do DHT Blockers (commonly seen in hair regrowth regimens such as follicare, including Avodart, Proscar, and Propecia) adversely effect sexual function and act as anti aphrodisiac medications?
A. The influence of aphrodisiac herbs on blood pressure is dose dependent. Meaning, lower doses would not influence blood pressure much whereas higher amounts may raise blood pressure. Yohimbe is known to increase blood pressure and it is possible tongkat ali may also. DHT blockers such as finasteride and Avodart do have a negative influence on sexual urges and genital sensation. Generally, those who have high blood pressure or heart problems should be taking lower dosages and be more patient in getting the results from the aphrodisiac herbs.
Roots, herbs, leaves, barks, and other plant materials from around the world that have sexual improving benefitsAphrodisin, an aphrodisiac lipocalin secreted in hamster vaginal secretions.
Peptides. 2004.
Vertebrates communicate through pheromones, which favor biological regulations within each species. Aphrodisin, a protein belonging to the lipocalin superfamily, found in hamster vaginal secretions, is detected by the male accessory olfactory system and induces or facilitates its copulatory behavior.
Asparagus plantAsparagus racemosus roots are popular for their aphrodisiac and immune enhancing properties.
Burada plant The bark of Parinari campestris, in Guyana known as burada, is frequently used as a aphrodisiac in the same way as bois bandé.
Chuchuhuasi plant Chuchuhuasi or chuchuwasi is a common name for some members of the genus Maytenus, found in Peru and Colombia. An infusion of the bark is used not only as a famed aphrodisiac but also as a muscle relaxant.
Cistanche is a Chinese herb that in high dosages can cause slight visual blurring.
Shilajit is from Asia, an Ayurvedic substance, it is a rock exudate and may be helpful for sperm production
Palwen from Chile
Chileans are rediscovering the ancient herbal remedies of the Mapuche indigenous tribe, including a sexual energizer touted as a natural Viagra and other inexpensive alternative medicines. Chile’s largest native ethnic group, the Mapuche, who live mainly in the Temuco area of southern Chile, have long used a wide variety of herbal remedies for everything from arthritis and acne to a lack of libido. One of the most popular aphrodisiac remedies is palwen, known as “Mapuche Viagra.” The Mapuche, whose name means people of the earth, are famous for their fierce resistance to the Spanish conquest. Their modern-day population is relatively small, and indigenous culture is not as influential in Chile as in other Latin American countries.
Seahorse or seadragon
I was wondering if you are familiar with the herb Seahorse or seadragon and it use as an aphrodisiac? Do you possibly know what active component it is that gives it its benefit? Have there been any modern research on this. I ate Seahorse when I was in china en experienced a very stimulating effect as well as increase sexual interest.
We are not familiar with seahorse or seadragon.
Damage to penis?
I have read somewhere that natural or herbal sex enhancing supplements and similar other sex boosters may have a damaging effect on tunica albuginea. a sheath in the penis, leading to formation of plaques and ultimately a angularly bent penis. a condition known as Peyronies disease. I would like to be informed in details about this query.
A. We have seen no data that show the tunica albuginea is harmed by natural plant herbal products. | {
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Irrigation Project in Ulongwe Area
Project information
Location
The site is located just outside Liwonde National Park in Bimbi Village of Bimbi Group Village Head in TA Kalembo. It is in Tambala Section in Ulongwe EPA. The Dambo stretches from Katapasya Stream down to Shire River in Liwonde National Park. It's Elevation is 482m.The Dambo is surrounded by Bimbi, Gopole, Chisawa Villages and Liwonde National Park.
Population
The population is very poor and theiy are living from agriculture. Without irrigation only one harvest per year is possible. A harvest that is usually in March, is not enough the whole year. Therefore, the people suffer hunger with increasing time and are dependent on food aid from abroad.
What is the problem?
The area is very hot and also lies in the rain shadow of the mountains. Therefore there is too little precipitation for doing farming to throughout the whole year. In the villages, the water table is in the dry season about 4.60 m deep - too deep, that the plant roots reach the water.
Our help
We plan and give technical advice to the the people and a interdisciplinary team for an irrigation scheme of 9 hectares. In three other phases more land will be irrigated. Since the irrigation area is not far from the Shire River water from the river infiltrates into the irrigation area.
With irrigation three instead of one harvest during a year can be achieved. This is for the own requirementy and also enough to sell something for income generation. So the families will have enough money to pay school fees, medical expenses etc and they are independent of foreign aid.
One hectare is sufficient for 10 families, each with about 6 family members.
Our co-operation partner
Our co-operation partner on Malawi is EI Malawi. On site we are working together with EI and the Church of Grace in Ulongwe.
How much is the project?
The construction costs for the project of 9 hectare are: about 44,500 US-Dollar.
Our part: about 4,000 US-Dollar for technical advice and planning on the ground
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Insitute Water for Africa e.V. works in development aid. Through the dissemination of simple methods, the use of appropriate technologies in water supply, water treatment and sanitation, the population should be enabled to care even for enough clean water and good hygiene. | {
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For Xbox Live Gold members, Microsoft has put up fresh new gaming deals for you to take note of. Well, here are this week’s games and add-on deals on the Xbox Games Store.
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The Bradbury & A Spicy Octopus
Like many people who never see things that are famous in the place where they live, until this year, I had never seen the Rose Parade live, nor gone to the Bradbury building. The first floor is open to the public, so next time you go the Grand Central market, walk across the street and take a look 🙂
The elevators still work!
Even on a cloudy day, the skylights brighten up the center courtyard.
So many places to eat in Grand Central Market, so I stopped by La Tostadaria for a light and filling snack; they only take cash unless you buy more than $10 worth of food, so my octopus tostada just put me over the barrier.
As octopus tostadas go, this was the best I’ve ever eaten, with tender marinated octopus and fresh crunchy vegetables on top of a beautifully fresh tortilla. It was marked with two peppers indicating it was spicy, and halfway through eating I started blowing my nose and thanking my stars that I did not add any more of the habernero sauce that was available at the counter! I would gladly order this again, but with a cool fire dousing drink to go along with it….I must remember that here in LA a warning for spicy means business! | {
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Will the Religious Right Cause an Increase in Abortion?
A very interesting statistic has just been released, indicating that the rate of abortion and teen pregnancies is on the decline in Canada, but not since Stephen Harper planted the Religious Right on Parliament Hill.
The 36.9% decline was for the period between 1996 to 2006, and is being attributed to: "Better access to contraception, higher quality sex education and shifting social norms ... "
And yet those are all of the things that Harper's ungodly, not of this world, "God Squad" want to put an end to. They only see things in black and white (for some literally).
“It’s important to look at teen pregnancy rates because they’re a basic fundamental indicator of young women’s sexual and reproductive health. While not all teen pregnancies are a bad thing, when we see [rates] dropping, it’s a fairly clear indicator that young women are doing increasingly well in terms of controlling and protecting their reproductive health.” “In comparison to the United States, we tend to have a more balanced, sensible approach to adolescent sexual health. Generally speaking what you find is that the more a society has an accepting attitude toward the reality of adolescent sexuality, the lower the teen pregnancy rate is. Canadians tend to have a more relaxed attitude towards adolescent sexuality than people in the United States.”
Mr. McKay said America’s emphasis on abstinence-only sex ed “tends to result in a higher percentage of teens becoming pregnant,” as does the country’s lack of universal health care. Poverty is another factor.
Hmmmm ... "emphasis on abstinence-only sex ed “tends to result in a higher percentage of teens becoming pregnant ..." And also no doubt a higher percentage of abortions.
Pro-choice does not mean pro-abortion, and unless the Religious Right start pushing for MORE social programs instead of less, women and young girls will be given fewer choices. I saw a sign at one of the "pro-life" rallies that read "poverty is no justification for abortion". Maybe that marcher should have sat down, turned their sign around and read it. Duh!
Maybe those self-righteous, sanctimonious teabaggers who can actually read, should read this article, because what they believe they're marching against, might just result in an increase in what they're marching against, if they're successful.
And since we know that abstinance doesn't work with teenagers, they could just lose their own daughters to Dr. Coat Hanger. Then what will they march for?
[Harper] has given the suggestion of landing on the righteous side of a religiously charged debate, while keeping himself at arm's length. This way, Harper doesn't alienate himself from the average Canadian – particularly the centre-right voters. It is a repeated, adept, but not at all secretive, pattern of finding and exploiting those secular issues that strike at the heart of a silently religious nation.
It all means that the decision not to allow funding for safe abortions in developing nations most likely has very little to do with the security and health of the approximately 70,000 women who die annually during unsafe ones. Instead, it has everything to do with the Conservative party's own domestic political gains, and pandering to a lucrative – and growing – conservative base. It's decidedly cynical, but it seems to have worked. A recent poll found that, though 58% of Canadians said they were against the government's decision, it was those in favour of the move who held the biggest ever pro-life rally on Parliament Hill to celebrate it. | {
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José Sócrates studied in Covilhã's basic and secondary schools, until the age of 18. Then, in 1975, he went to Coimbra in order to attend a higher education institution. He earned in 1979 his 4-year bacharelato degree as a civil technical engineer from the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra (established in 1974 and later incorporated into the Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra in 1988).
Sócrates–Independente affair[edit]In March 2007, Universidade Independente (UnI), a private university in Lisbon, was placed under investigation for alleged irregularities on several matters.
In that same month, Sócrates' licenciatura degree in civil engineering by Universidade Independente was put under enormous public scrutiny.[6] Journalists found that qualifications awarded did not follow procedure and that four of the five academic disciplines were given in the private university by the same professor, António José Moraes, a socialist government appointee. A fifth academic discipline, "technical English" was given by the Independente's rector. A strong case was built up related to possible false declarations by José Sócrates regarding his university degree, and the way he was awarded this degree in civil engineering. Among other issues, the Independente degree in civil engineering was not an accredited degree, a civil engineering department was not yet established at that university, one examination was sent by fax and Sócrates' diploma was issued on a Sunday, a day on which the university was always closed.
Some Portuguese news media professionals stated that Sócrates or members of his staff, through phone calls, threatened court action against journalists and tried to stop the reportings on his licenciatura degree awarded by UnI.[39] On 9 April 2007, Universidade Independente was closed by government officials after an investigation reported several serious irregularities in the running of this private university.
Under heavy pressure, Sócrates provided his version of the facts on Wednesday 11 April 2007 in a live broadcast interview for the RTP 1 TV channel and RDP radio. The Prime Minister stated he was not favoured by the Universidade Independente to obtain the degree, declared he had been the target of "catty accusations", and defended the authenticity of the degree, though admitting he is not a fully chartered civil engineer.[40] In his official biography at the Portuguese Government's official website Sócrates claimed to have already obtained the qualification of engineer. He later admitted that this was a "lapse", and the government website altered his CV, downgrading "civil engineer" to "diploma in civil engineering". In the interest of accuracy, he should have used "licenciado em engenharia civil" instead of "engenheiro". Before he had been granted the degree, he presented himself as an "engineer" when he was solely a "technical engineer". Portuguese Parliament documents with official information on Sócrates personal data were found proving such inconsistencies.[41] Sócrates and his staff replied to this by stating that it was probably a misunderstanding in the parliamentary services. After having the licenciatura diploma he used the title "engineer" in several official documents, despite the fact that his unaccredited degree in civil engineering from Universidade Independente was not legally recognized to allow for the use of the title "engineer"; a profession which is regulated in Portugal by the Ordem dos Engenheiros.
José Sócrates was fiercely criticised by members of Portugal's democratic opposition in the Parliament regarding both proved and unproven issues related with this controversy. Nicolau Santos, a television journalist and a director of Expresso newspaper, criticised the controversial series of fait-divers published in Público and claimed that despite the extensive coverage of details, Público's investigation lead to "no definitive conclusion" and might be connected with other issues. In the same tone, several other media personalities, like SIC Notícias' journalist Ricardo Costa, also suggested controversially that SONAE corporation, the parent company of Público newspaper, was behind the beginning of the controversy due to a failed takeover bid of SONAE's telecommunications operator over the largest Portuguese telecom – Portugal Telecom.[42] The complexity of the takeover bid involving the largest Portuguese telecom, prompted State intervention by the Autoridade da Concorrência (The Portuguese Competition Authority).
It was found that a close friend of Sócrates, Armando Vara, was also awarded a diploma by the Universidade Independente days before he was appointed to a high ranking banking administration position in the state-run Caixa Geral de Depósitos, which in turn was strictly opened to candidates holding at last one academic degree in any subject.
Investigation[edit]State authorities investigated the affair and archived the file on the grounds that the suspicions of falsification and irregularities allegedly attributed to José Sócrates turned out to be formally impossible to prove. On the other hand, the Universidade Independente was investigated by education state authorities in 2007, which resulted in the compulsory closing of that private university due to lack of academic rigour and teaching quality, along with generalized managerial and financial chaos in the institution.
Wikipedia[edit]On 17 August 2007, a new controversy arose after the discovery that a government computer had been used to remove all the references to the Sócrates-Independente affair from the English Wikipedia.[43] The specific government computer is only one among several dozen included in the IP range of the computer services of the state.
Magalhães computer[edit]A low-cost Intel Classmate PC-based netbook for use by children, announced and sponsored by Sócrates' cabinet, named Magalhães (after Fernão de Magalhães), assembled by the Portuguese company J.P. Sá Couto, was at the centre of a controversy on 7 October 2008, when the company was suspected of €5 million worth of tax evasion.[44] J.P. Sá Couto dismissed all the accusations regarding alleged fiscal fraud within the company.[45] Other major controversy regarding Magalhães computer were the legal issues about public contracting procedure in the agreement involving the Government and the company J.P. Sá Couto. The case led to an investigation that raised other similar issues involving other governmental agreements and public contracts.[46]
Use of foreign languages[edit]Sócrates was criticised for his low proficiency in both Spanish and English. An article published in Expresso accused him of blending Portuguese and Spanish expressions with a Spanish accent in an official meeting in Madrid, instead of speaking his mother tongue, or at least trying to learn and use proper Spanish.[47]
Freeport outlet controversy[edit]Since 2005, and, especially again in 2009, it was suggested by some Portuguese and British media that José Sócrates allegedly waived environmental restrictions, following intervention by one of his uncles and a cousin, to grant the British company Freeport a licence to build the Alcochete mall, a gigantic emporium near the Tagus river, developed in part on protected land outside Lisbon in 2002, when he was Minister for Environment of the PM António Guterres cabinet.[48][49] Portuguese authorities have meanwhile insisted José Sócrates was not under investigation, nor was he a suspect, while UK's Serious Fraud Office refused to confirm the veracity of reports emanating in Portugal. José Sócrates also stated the Freeport project was in due compliance with all legal requirements at the time.[50] Júlio Eduardo Coelho Monteiro, a businessman who is an uncle of José Sócrates, told the Portuguese newspaper Sol how he established contact between his nephew and Freeport's representatives.
In a DVD held by the British police and released in March 2009 by the Portuguese media, Charles Smith, a consultant hired to handle the licensing of the Freeport of Alcochete, clearly stated that José Sócrates "was corrupt" and that he received, through a cousin, money to give the green light to the project for the "outlet". The recording revealed by TVI is only part of a conversation of 20 minutes that alongside Charles Smith also included John Cabral, an official of the consultant, and Alan Perkins, director of Freeport. It was the latter who, without knowledge of the other two, has recorded the event, where Smith and Cabral were questioned about the money that left the company to be used for the payment of "gloves" to the current Prime Minister. Charles Smith is one of two defendants in the case Freeport, commercial space on the process of Freeport Alcochete, related to alleged suspicions of corruption in the amendment to the Special Protection Area of the Tagus estuary (ZPET) decided three days before the elections of 2002, through a decree-law, when José Sócrates was Minister of Environment.
The conversation now revealed took place in 2006 with the aim of explaining the large outgoing amounts of money from the company's headquarters in London at the time of approval of the project. According to some sources contacted in London by TVI, José Sócrates remains the main suspect of British police. The British police are now set to send to the Portuguese authorities the 25 volumes of all research done in this process in England. The Serious Fraud Office, which investigates major financial fraud in Britain, has seen its activity limited due to the lack cooperation of the Portuguese authorities in investigating the case. The first official meeting took place only on 17 November 2008 in The Hague, the headquarters of Eurojust, a body which is designed to facilitate judicial cooperation in the EU. The judge Cândida Almeida, director of DCIAP (Central Department for investigation and prosecution), which coordinates the department's prosecutor who investigates the case, refused a joint research proposal by the English. Then have taken note of the DVD. The prosecutor dropped the evidence, arguing that it was not in Portuguese law.[51]
The Eurojust tried to distance itself from the scandal involving its head, José da Mota, a Portuguese, who allegedly put pressure on prosecutors in order to stop a corruption probe involving Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates. Two magistrates dealing with the so-called Freeport affair accused José Mota of having tried to persuade them to side-line the investigation at the request of the Portuguese premier and the minister of justice. The premier and Mr Mota's relationship goes back to the late nineties, when they worked in the same government as state secretaries for environment and justice respectively. In 2002, when the new EU body was formed (Eurojust), Mr Mota was transferred to The Hague as Portugal's representative to Eurojust. He was elected head of the judicial co-operation body in 2007, at a time when the so-called Freeport case had already started in Portugal.[52]
On 22 May 2012, Alan Perkins, a Freeport manager between 2005 and 2006, said, under oath in court, that illegal payments had been made to the minister of the Environment. At the time, the minister of the Environment was José Sócrates.
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While Caterpillar believes mechanical drive is the best solution for the vast majority of situations, the company listened to its customers and explored the situations and conditions where electric drive would be the preferred option. Cat is the only manufacturer of 200-ton and above mining trucks with both drives.
Cat will produce mining trucks for every application—uphill, downhill, flat or extreme conditions—and now with electric as well as mechanical drive.
—Chris Curfman, president of Cat Global Mining & vice president of Caterpillar Inc.
At MINExpo 2008, Caterpillar will introduce four new trucks. The 793 series in the 240- to 250-ton class will be available in both mechanical (793F) and electric (793F AC) versions. The 345-ton 795F AC, a new size for Caterpillar, will be available in electric drive only, while the flagship 797B is replaced by the new 797F mechanical drive, maintaining its 380- to 400-ton target payload.
The 797F and 795F AC, along with the recently introduced 777F, will be displayed on the exhibit floor. Completing Caterpillar’s new mining truck line will be new versions of the 785 and 789 mechanical drive trucks, upgraded to meet customer requirements for safety, serviceability, operator comfort and emission standards.
In the late 1960s Caterpillar was one of the first manufacturers to commercialize electric-drive trucks but elected to focus its design and development efforts on mechanical drive. With advances in AC drive technology, coupled with proven components and technologies from existing Caterpillar products, the company concluded it was the appropriate time to make electric drive available to its customers as a complement to its mechanical drive.
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The next generation of trucks will be phased into production over the next two years, with the Cat AC drive models expected to go into production in late 2010.
These are trucks for mining operations which means they are used only in a local area. Consequently, the electric versions do not need a range extender or diesel generator. Instead, they can use large swappable batteries that they can swap in a few minutes at a local swap and recharging station. A 300 tons miming truck should easily be able to fit in two 2 ton battery modules with a total of 400 kWh of power. The world record until now for electric trucks is this 30 tons electric container terminal truck from http://www.balqon.com/index.php
I am convinced the economics of heavy duty local service trucks is very promising as it is now with $100 oil and these new very durable and high power lithium batteries.
The economics don't seem to work out Henrik, at least not yet. While I imagine there is some optimization wrt battery pack size and operating time, if we simply replace all the diesel carried with A123 cells, the hauling capacity would drop by about a third. Even if the cells are used down to ~50% of capacity, at roughly 10,000 equivalent full cycles, they will still cost ~$.15/kWh. Tack on electricity at ~$.05c/kWh and we're at ~$.20c/kWh. With diesel fuel at $4/gallon, that's ~$.10c/kWh, or ~$.25c/kWh delivered to the wheels given the relatively high efficiency of larger diesels. The problem is that since battery weight decreases capacity by a third give or take, the vehicle will need to operate 1.5 times more than it would have as a diesel, so the cost of an electric (batteries/electricity) would then be correspondingly higher at around $.30/kWh. That being said, there's probably some combination of pack size/charging window that's optimal, so it's probably less than this. In any event, from what I've read, in the volumes needed for this sort of work, synthetic fuels are economically viable at these prices, so I'm not sure if we'll ever see all electric HDVs like mining trucks outside of specialized roles.
The quote mentions some vehicles are used for downhill operation. If a truck is filled-up at the top of a hill, could it use the weight of its load to help recharge supercaps or batteries, and then go up hill on electricity when it is lighter as it has no load?
These are electric drive not bev as in a generator provides all the power all the time and not any battery. These behemoths use gargantuan motors and a rather massive generator is used to provide the power.
Knowing the weight of fully loaded trucks (250 tons - it's about half the weight of smaller passenger train), the most natural choice seems to be something like Diesel-Electric locomotive drivetrain.
It drops mechanical transmission for more reliable AC drive with inverter.
Plug-in or battery swapping don't seem very likely at this stage of batteries development (and availability).
Electric drive trucks may have advantage at sites where load is mostly driven downhil - by applying e-motor braking it greatly reduces brake wear and therefore downtime (for mainteinance)) of the very expensive trucks.
These trucks often operate at mining sites in wilderness where diesel generators are used for electricity - for them any plug-in is not an economical option, would mean waste of diesel fuel.
Considering that many of these trucks operate 24/7, and diesel heat is freely available, Zebra batteries could be suitable.
Mohsen, I stated that down to 50% dod (approximately 4% capacity loss every thousand cycles) they would be equivalent to 10,000 complete (100% dod) cycles. No that they would only do 10,000 cycles at 50% dod.
In any event, even that depends on how they're used. Like most other batteries the discharge rates greatly influence pack lifespan, and I'm not sure if we could count on the low (1C IIRC) rates needed to see a longer lifespan in these applications.
Almost forgot. As for A123's prices dropping, I'm not sure if that would be passed onto the consumer, at least until there is sufficient production for the market. As of right now people will pay more for a better battery.
There are NO batteries and NO regeneration here. These are electric transmissions, like in the Diesel-Electric locomotive and many, many applications where it is impractical to design and manufacture a huge mechanical transmission.
Just as stated by:
Reality Czech 'The article says "electric drive", not "electric power"'.
and
wintermane "These are electric drive not bev ...."
and
Mikey "I don’t think that these designs use any form of regen. .."
And it’s NOT about time the heavy hauling mining, and material industries caught on - electric drive is just another type of transmission.
@ToppaTom:
There IS regeneration here.
Only the regenerated el energy (when braking, and going downhill) is wasted as heat on large resistors, not saved in batteries.
Regen braking reduces brake wear (of mechanical brakes).
The same is often done on el locomotives for the same reason.
Next step would be to add large batteries and save that energy.
These trucks have a huge variation in power requirement, so in theory some from of energy storage (super caps?) could significantly reduce the size of the required diesel generator and allow the generator to run at an optimum speed.
A smaller diesel could be a lot cheaper.
This is really a power requirement. What's needed? 500KW for 5 minutes?
General Electric has successfully tested ZEBRA batteries for regeneration is similar mine vehicles. Any lithium batteries were rejected right off because they need to be kept cool and are not robust. Ultra-capacitors can put out a lot of horsepower but only for a few seconds. The use of D-Cell sized ultra-capacitors would recover the truth about the American name for electric torches FLASHLIGHTS. Ultra capacitor cells do work well in the CSIRO lead acid ultra battery. Perhaps the EFFPOWER bipolar battery could be modified to incorporate them as well. The battery cells prevent the ultra capacitors from overcharging. ..HG.. | {
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Baltimore Police Arrest Man in Connection with Memorial Day Shooting
A Baltimore man has been arrested for the shooting death of a man over Memorial Day weekend.
Tavon T. Hammond, 28, is charged with the murder of a 24-year-old Sykesville man, Blake Harris. According to police records, Harris was shot at the intersection of Marble Hall Road and Cold Spring Lane in Baltimore around 7:30 p.m. on May 24. Police said he was transported to a local area hospital. Harris was pronounced dead 30 minutes later.
In addition to a count of first-degree murder, Hammond also faces charges of first degree assault, use of a firearm with a prior felony record, second degree murder, second degree assault and possession of a handgun.
According to court records, Hammond has been arrested on a host of other charges going back to 2003.
Harris’ murder was one of three shooting deaths which occurred over the holiday weekend, including the slaying of 16-month-old toddler Carter Scott, who was hit in the leg by a bullet while sitting in the backseat of his father’s car in Cherry Hill. A third incident was a police involved shooting in the 300 block of S. Poppleton Street on May 25. Police reported nine non-fatal shootings during that weekend. | {
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There are many different philosophies and styles of church services. At Crosspoint we seek to be intentionally directed by the scriptures. We want you to feel warmly welcomed to come and share in what God is doing at Crosspoint. The corporate singing of the congregation is emphasized, real fellowship and encouragement is encouraged, and the reading and preaching of God’s Word will be central to our worship of Jesus Christ.
The following statements nicely summarize our weekly meeting:
Scripture will be read…so that what we believe and confess is what the Scriptures confess.
Scripture will be taught…so that we might respond more clearly and more passionately to the knowledge of God as revealed in His Word.
Exhortation will be made…so that we might be encouraged to conform to what we confess, to persevere in holy living, and to abandon self-dependence.
Fellowship will be enjoyed…so that we might actively pursue unity within the body.
Prayers will be prayed…so that we might align our hearts to the will of God and request that He do it.
Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs will be sung…so that we might express our adoration of and dependence upon our God.
Ordinances will be observed…so that we might remind ourselves of the grace that we find in the Gospel and of the unity we have in the body.
Gifts will be given…so that we might demonstrate our dependence on God and be a part of God’s plan to spread the Gospel.
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Meeting location – Crosspoint gathers together on Sundays at 10:00 am at the Beuf Community Center at 3435 Pinnacle Peak Road. Throughout the week smaller groups of the church family meet both formally and informally for Bible study, fellowship, and sharing life together.
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To some, church is a place you go to get married or a place you are forced to attend on Easter at the prodding of your grandmother. To some, the church is just an irrelevant group of people that teach about what you should and shouldn’t do. Well, we are here to tell you that the church is very important in God’s eyes. It is relevant because God is relevant. The church is not, or should not, be about religion, but about a relationship with Christ. And as we seek to know God more and serve him better, we understand that God designed the Christian to do so in a caring and committed community of believers. It is when we are in relationships that point us to Christ that we honor him most! | {
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AUSTIN – The Smoke-Free Texas coalition exceeded 50,000 Facebook fans Monday, adding to the momentum for the state’s largest Facebook policy group. The group had more than 29,000 Facebook fans at the end of the last legislative session in June 2011.
As the coalition prepares for the start of the 83rd Texas legislative session, its broad base of supporters – including organizations, businesses, chambers of commerce, community leaders and everyday Texans – continues to grow significantly. In addition to more than 50,000 Facebook fans, more than 22,000 Texans, 3,500 Twitter followers and 240 organizations, business and community leaders support the effort to make all Texas workplaces smoke-free.
“This important milestone once again confirms the growing support from hundreds of thousands of Texans who are more united than ever in their support for a statewide smoke-free indoor workplace law,” said Melinda Little, co-chair of the Smoke-Free Texas coalition. “We are actively working to educate Texas lawmakers to ensure they understand the urgent need and strong support for this legislation among Texans.”
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Smoke-Free Texas is a broad coalition of organizations who believe all Texas employees have the right to breathe clean indoor air. Because science tells us that secondhand smoke kills, we support a statewide law to protect Texans from the dangers of secondhand smoke exposure in the workplace. Our members include the American Cancer Society, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, LIVESTRONG and the Texas Parent Teacher Association. On the web at www.smokefreetexas.org. Visit us on Facebook and Twitter at www.Facebook.com/SmokeFreeTexas and www.Twitter.com/SmokeFreeTexas. | {
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If I'm level 46 could I still get the bunny suit from lord nightshade.
Yes, you can get the bunt suit from lord nightdshade. However, if you were wondering, you cannot get the secret bunny mount from nightshade IF you are going to farm for the mount on the character you were talking about. Hope this helped! | {
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My son took over a large part of my vegetable garden this year. The plan was that he would grow storage crops, while I got to experience life as a CSA member. Both experiences were great.
But now we are flooded with roots. There are sixty pounds of carrots chilling in my extra refrigerator (The basement steps where I’ll store my root vegetables is not cold enough yet.). I have onions, potatoes, beets, and Gilfeather turnips – some farm-bought, some homegrown.
The carrots are weighing heavily on my mind right now. I usually use up about one pound a week. The sixty pounds he harvested? More than we need. My son thinks I should make carrot soup more often. I’ll be roasting them for sure, adding them to soups, grating them into salads, and even pickling some of them them. Turns out the rest of the family really loves cooked carrots (though not met) and would be happy to have them show up more frequently at the dinner table.
Sixty pounds of carrots
But back to the carrots. I wasn’t aware of the varieties, or I would have plundered the Little Fingers and Tonda di Parigi earlier this summer when they were at their optimal sizes. You see, my son swapped seeds with friends and didn’t tell me he was chosing to grow some of the carrot varieties past optimum size because he couldn’t figure out how he would store them. In any case, here’s what I know about the carrots he grew:
Little Finger. Developed in France for canning and pickling. Nice orange color; should have been harvested when about 3 inches long.
Kuroda. An 8-inch long, deep orange, carrot with a blunt tip. Supposedly very good for juicing.
This one is a monster.
Danvers 126 Half Long Carrot. The Danvers variety dates back to the 1870s, and this strain was developed in the 1940s. It’s an American classic.
Red Core Chatenay. No red core at all, but a standard, classic 5- to 7-inch carrot with smooth sides that taper to a blunt tip.
Atomic Red Carrot. It’s beauty is only skin deep, but the carrot is theoretically very high in lycopene, which has been shown in studies to help prevent several types of cancer.
Scarlet Keeper Carrot. A lovely orange carrot that is supposed to store very well.
Napoli Hybrid. An extra-sweet carrot with a fine texture.
As my son harvested the carrots, he carefully separated them in trays, casually rinsed them with water from the hose, and refrigerated as many as he could. The remainder went onto the too-warm basement stairs. I thought the dirt that was clinging to them was sucking out moisture. So I washed them and bagged them, and in so doing, destroyed his classification system, and now we aren’t sure which carrots are which.
Last night I was cooking some Chinese dishes, so I made a carrot pickle to go with it all. I usually make this pickle with a mixture of carrots and daikon radish, but our daikon radishes all went into the compost pile. These daikon grew to enormous size, bolted in the heat, and developed all the sharp, sulfurous flavors of a turnip and none of the sweetness that would balance it. No problem, though; carrots only work just fine.
1. Combine the carrot with the salt in a bowl and mix well. Cover with ice water and let sit for at least 2 hours, up to 6 hours.
2. Combine the water and sugar in a small saucepan and heat, stirring, until the sugar completely dissolves. Remove from the heat and stir in the mirin, rice vinegar, white vinegar, ginger, garlic, and chile. Let cool to room temperature.
3. Drain the carrots and pack into a clean pint jar. Strain the brine, discarding the ginger and garlic and pour in. Add the dried chile, if desired. Seal. Best flavor will develop if you can allow it to cure for at least 1 week before eating. | {
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1Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand , and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed ? for the end of those things is death. 22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. | {
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Just when things couldn’t seem worse: Pussy-grab for president
I would like to live in that world. But apparently, I’m living in this one, where my brain has now been forced to archive the exact leering, nasty cadence of a pompous businessman bragging to a giggling compatriot about the joys of grabbing women’s genitals because he’s a “star”.
For approximately the thousandth time during this election cycle, what had seemed like the hard, dirty floor of political discourse was revealed to be a false bottom, and we all learned we had much further to fall.
We’re probably still falling — this news cycle in particular has gone so far afield it seems impossible to pause and write about it, because we have no idea what direction we’re headed next. I attempted to write this column many times already. As you can imagine, it went something like:
THURSDAY: “Da-da-daaaa, almost done explaining this poop-show to our mapley neighbors, can’t wait for the weekend…”FRIDAY: “What’s that, Twitter? There’s a what? A video of — Ahem. Standby, Great White North. I must rewrite.”LATER FRIDAY: “[collective American wailing and gnashing of teeth]”
Let’s be clear. It is not a shock that Donald Trump, who has said and done many more disgusting things, would sit in the back of a bus with another smarmy white man and talk about women as if they were objects to be appraised, grabbed, handled, owned. Nor would it be altogether shocking if more vulgar, more offensive video or audio existed, as the Internet rumors are trumpeting. This is a candidate whose morning-show appearances include vows to commit war crimes, whose campaign rhetoric has been patently racist and xenophobic, who likes to do mocking schoolyard impressions of his opponents on camera, at the podium. Yes, he is likely an even more hideous person in private than he already is in public.
But there is something to be said for the bracing experience of watching and listening to the display — and even more so, watching and listening as Republicans who thought they could grin and bear his candidacy have to grapple with something they can’t explain away as out of context, or misconstrued, or distorted by the lamestream media lie machine.
This is the real presidential race and one of the first questions to a candidate in Sunday’s debate was “You bragged that you have sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that?”
During the debate, Trump answered a Muslim town hall attendee’s question about Islamophobia by saying that American Muslims should report on their neighbors. (Specifically, he said, “When they see hatred going on, they have to report it,” which led many people, Muslim and not, to report that hey, they did indeed see some hatred going on, right on a televised debate stage in St. Louis.)
He said if he were president, he would throw Hillary Clinton in jail. I guess because while he’s tried on a lot of dictatorial fashions, he hadn’t quite gotten to “publicly threaten to jail your political opponents” yet, and he saw it in the catalog and thought it looked fun.
He even told us that you, dear Canadians, have a “catastrophic” “disaster” of a health-care system, and that you’ve been coming down here to have all your surgeries. Cheeky!
That debate, while darkly funny in retrospect, was physically painful to watch.
Regardless of your opinion on her political positions, Clinton has demonstrated a lifelong commitment to public service and a complex understanding of national and international politics. She’s served as a U.S. senator and the secretary of state.
I watched a creepy businessman stalk around behind her, glaring and sniffing — a man so offensive he’s been denounced by candy (Skittles and TicTacs, if you’re counting), a man who cannot construct sentences, let alone a cohesive foreign policy. And my body responded with adrenaline, and fear, and nausea.
This is the feeling of being injured. That’s a body’s response to a fear of real pain, of real harm. Regardless of the outcome of the election, that harm is happening already, and we’ll need to mend it.
I guess what I’m saying, Canada, is that we need a hug. Which is yet another thing American health care doesn’t cover.
Anna Minard thinks Canadian medicare is neat. Follow her on Twitter: @minardanna. | {
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The UAE national cricket team were treated to an "amazing" welcome upon touching down in Zimbabwe ahead of the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament.
The UAE are in the African nation aiming to secure a place at 2019 Cricket World Cup. Beginning their campaign on March 4 against Papua New Guinea, the UAE will also take on the West Indies, Ireland, and the Netherlands in Group A with the top three sides advancing to the Super Sixes. The top two teams from the Super Six are then guaranteed entry into next summer's tournament.
The UAE booked their place at the Cricket World Cup Qualifier after success in the World Cricket League Division 2 in Namibia earlier this month.
After opening their Cricket World Cup Qualifier campaign against PNG, the UAE will face the West Indies on March 6 and the Netherlands on March 8 before concluding the group phase against Ireland on March 12. | {
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Good Morning!
"It all started with a hug." To explain how my mind works this is the opening line to the sequel of a story I am working on. Oh, and I haven't even written the first story yet. I thought of this last night at around 11:45 pm when I couldn't sleep. Even though I had to be up at 6:00 this morning I could not get my body to go to sleep...
So, time for another picture of my life here in Mexico. Here's the other half of my room:
1. My bookshelf. This is only a small fraction of my actual books. 2. Is my DVD binder. 3. Is my hamper. 4. School supplies. 5. A cork board. 6. The lyrics change every week. 7. Notice there is NO CAFFIENE. The fact I had caffiene could have something to do with not being able to go to sleep. 8. Another cork board that should be used, but isn't. 9. My luggage. I'm breaking free I tell you... | {
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Photos: Top 10 public gardens in the U.S.
10. Chanticleer: Wayne, PennsylvaniaCelebrating its 20th anniversary as a public garden in 2013, those visiting this romantic retreat can marvel at more than 5,000 plant varieties that cover the grounds' 35 acres. Open April 3 through November 3, tickets are $10 for adults; children 12 and under get in free.
9. Sarah P. Duke Gardens: Durham, North CarolinaLocated on the grounds of Duke University, travelers can explore over five miles of walkways through diverse flora, including vibrant daffodils and blossoming cherry trees. Open year-round, admission is free.
8. Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park: Grand Rapids, MichiganWith a vast expanse of 132 acres, travelers to this Midwest attraction can venture through lush outdoor gardens or visit the Tropical Conservatory, which boasts exotic blooms and serves as the home to the country's largest tropical butterfly exhibit in the spring time. Open year-round, admission is free.
7. Hillwood Museum & Gardens: Washington D.C.Nestled in the hills of the nation's capital, travelers visiting the estate of breakfast cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post can stroll through 13 acres of garden "rooms." Open year-round, a $15 donation is suggested for adults.
6. Brookgreen Gardens: Murrells Inlet, South CarolinaOpened in 1931, this "Palmetto State" wildlife preserve features the first sculpture park in the U.S. and is now a National Historic Landmark. Open year-round, tickets are $14 for adults, $12 for seniors and $7 for children ages 4-12; children 3 and under get in free.
5. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: Tucson, ArizonaDedicated to the conservation of the Sonoran Desert, travelers will see more than 1,200 species of plants in the botanical garden at this Tucson museum. Open-year round, tickets are $14.50 for adults and $5 for children ages 4-12; children 3 and under get in free.
4. The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens: San Marino, CaliforniaAmid lush rolling lawns, this Golden State sanctuary features more than a dozen gardens, including one of the largest camellia clusters in the country. Open year-round, tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors, $12 for students and $8 for children ages 5-11; children 5 and under get in free.
3. Missouri Botanical Garden: Saint Louis, MissouriFounded in 1859, this St. Louis oasis includes nearly 80 acres of natural beauty including one of the world's largest orchid collections in its 14-acre Japanese garden. Open year-round, tickets are $13 for adults and seniors and $5 for children ages 3-12; children 3 and under get in free.
2. Longwood Gardens: Kennett Square, PennsylvaniaWith 40 indoor and outdoor gardens, travelers will see more than 1,000 acres of eye-catching blossoms along with European-inspired water fountains. Open year-round, tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for seniors and $8 for students; children 4 and under get in free.
1. Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens: Boothbay, MaineSpanning 250 acres, travelers are invited to explore the spectacular grounds at this New England garden. Open year-round, tickets are $14 for adults, $12 for seniors and $6 for children ages 3-17; children 3 and under get in free.
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This week I have been reading The Words We Carry by D.G. Kaye and would like to share my thoughts with you on the book.
About Words We Carry
“I have been a great critic of myself for most of my life, and I was darned good at it, deflating my own ego without the help of anyone else.”
What do our shopping habits, high-heeled shoes, and big hair have to do with how we perceive ourselves? Do the slights we endured when we were young affect how we choose our relationships now?
D.G. takes us on a journey, unlocking the hurts of the past by identifying situations that hindered her own self-esteem. Her anecdotes and confessions demonstrate how the hurtful events in our lives linger and set the tone for how we value our own self-worth.
Words We Carry is a raw, personal accounting of how the author overcame the demons of low self-esteem with the determination to learn to love herself.
My review for Words We Carry.
Words We Carry is packed with the accumulated knowledge, wisdom, survival tips and strategies from someone who went through difficult and unhappy childhood and teen years.
I think it is fair to say that most of us are less than confident about our body shape, and that is particularly tough when you can no longer use the excuse of puppy fat, and your friends are heading out in slinky black dresses and high-heeled shoes.
Unfortunately, not all mothers are born with the nurturing gene and as soon as you become competition, there is an opportunity to reinforce your lack of self-esteem with carefully chosen and cutting words. I would like to think that the experiences that D.G. Kaye describes were rare, but I am afraid that after counselling women on their health and weight for twenty years, the story is very familiar.
Those harmful words from those who are supposed to love us, are the ones we carry throughout our lifetime, unless we can find a way to dilute their power and replace them with affirmations of a much more positive nature.
D.G. Kaye describes her strategies to claim her own identity, build her self-esteem and evolve from the ugly duckling that she had been made to feel she was, into a swan. This involved a makeover in a number of departments, including wearing high heels at all times and over every terrain, and standing out from the crowd with her now signature titian hair colour. She also developed a healthy, outgoing personality and independence that led her to discover groups of people who accepted and embraced her as a friend.
In the second section of the book Kaye looks at the impact this early negative conditioning had on her relationships, including romances with older men whose different approach to dating and expectations provided a more secure environment. Unfortunately, having entered one serious and long-term relationship, echoes of the verbal abuse that she received as a child and teenager, threatened to undo all the hard work that she had accomplished. Thankfully she went on to find happiness and empowerment with someone who appreciates all that she has become.
Kaye looks at issues such as the difference between Alone vs. Lonely, Negativity and Self-Worth, Forming Healthier Relationships, and importantly Exposing our Personality Through the Internet. All the chapters provide commonsense strategies to overcome a lack of self-confidence, and I do think that women and men in their 50s and 60s, will definitely be able to draw parallels to Kaye’s own experiences.
Whilst I recommend this memoir/self-help book to men and women of my age, I also think that it should be read by all mothers whose daughters are heading into their teens and beyond. It might just remind them of how fragile their child is when about to face the outside world, and that there are enough external challenges to be overcome, without encountering them in the place they should feel safe.
It is also a book for young women who are struggling with weight issues and those who feel that they are not as attractive as their friends, or who feel that they are somehow going through something never experienced before.
There is no reason to reinvent the wheel. By reading this they might take strength in knowing that this is an age old problem, and that they can change the narrative and write their own story.
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Thanks Jane.. I am nearly 65 and it reminded me of behaviours in the past that are echoed in the present.. now it is magic potions for smoother skin and flattering tops to hide a multitude of sins.. xxx
Debby is so attractive, Sally. It is always amazing how people have so little idea of their own good looks but I do understand the concept of self esteem being undermined continuously. It is even more amazing that a mother would wish to compete with and break down her own daughter. I don’t have a daughter but I am very proud of my lovely boys – even when they are driving me crazy!
It is difficult to comprehend.. and I know from your writing that you and your mother have a lovely relationship. I do think it is a generational thing too. My mother was born in 1917 had a very tough first 7 years with her mother as a war widow before she remarried. She was an only child and was really her mother’s carer from 15 until she died when my mother was 24. Young women today and certainly since the 90s have been going out to work, seeing the world and managing the tough job of balancing a career and motherhood. My mother never worked after marriage and it must have been difficult to see three daughters out there working, dating having fun, wearing the 1960s fashions and I guess that really did not help. Anyway.. water under the bridge now and as my husband says I was a rebel from the moment i drew breath and a pain in the backside.. funnily enough though, she knew that I was strong enough to take care of her when she got old. hugs xx
You are very strong, Sally, and a very kind person too. My Mother has her quirks and occasionally drives me nuts but I know she had a difficult time growing up during the war and she always means well. On the whole, I am most blessed to have both her and my stepdad.
Thank you for your lovely compliment Robbie. But it’s a fact that the power of words can overshadow what we think of ourselves, casting doubt within our psyche. If nobody is around to help resolve our insecurities they only grow with us. I was fortunate because some can never get past the damage. I hope my stories can inspire others. ❤
Wonderful review, Sally. I think you’re right that Debby’s writing is appropriate for mothers of all ages and for daughters finding themselves as young women and adults. I haven’t read this one yet, but I’m looking forward to it. ❤
Excellent review, Sally. Self-esteem is so fragile, especially in our early years. Children are blank slates to be written upon, shaped and molded. Unfortunately, parenthood doesn’t come with a user manual; and if it did, those devoid of sensibility or pertinent neural pathways wouldn’t benefit. I’ve read several of Debby’s superb books and look forward to reading this one ❤
This is an excellent sensitive review Sally. Debby’s work is so important. As Tina said self esteem is such a fragile thing, especially when you are young and trying to find your place in the world. It constantly surprises me how schools never really tackle the fundamental subject of who we are as humans. If we are lucky we only come to terms with a lot later in life after much soul searching. That is why Debby’s work is so important. It helps people understand they are not alone and that others have not only survived but overcome negative feelings and relationships. Books like this should be on the school syllabus.
I agree Paul.. life skills often turn out to be more important than some subjects they teach.. I think that by the time they leave school they should be able to read, write and express themselves articulately and be able to cook, clean and take care of their health nutritionally. xxxxx
Such an excellent review of Debbys book Sally.. And yes, the words we carry take a long time before we set them down.. Many thanks for sharing.. And much love your way and to Debby.. It takes us through our own journeying to come to understand our own self worth..
Love and Blessings
Sue xxx ❤
Fantastic review, Sally! You sum Debby’s book up really well. I imagine it is a memoir that is helpful for everyone and for generations to come – the theme touches everyone’s heart strings and sounds very recognizable.
I feel a bit like I’m carrying coals to Newcastle, Sally, but I want to take just a moment to add my kudos to you for this wonderful review of Deb’s wonderful book.
I agree that it is a good read for women of ALL ages – whether they have a few unconscious remnants of introjected hurtful words in later life or are just beginning their journey into womanhood with fresher wounds. Plenty of food for thought to inspire us all to DUMP those words!
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From GoPro: After 6 hours of tow surfing, Garrett decided to paddle his 12ft Dick Brewer gun during the biggest swell of the year in Nazare, Portugal. He went for the first wave, missed it, turned around to paddle back out and was faced with one of the biggest waves of the day about to break on his head. He attempted to take his leash off but had no time so he went over the falls along with his gun. The Dick Brewer made it to the beach with GoPro still intact before Garrett came up for a breath. Thanks to his Body Glove Survival Suit and Martin Stepanek’s Waterman Survival Course he came up with a big smile on his face and ready for more! | {
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So YOU can get higher, roll a joint of dank. Have her take 2 hits and wait about 10 minutes to see if she's high, if so, no more hits for her and she can enjoy it while u take the rest to your face and get blazed.
DO NOT USE A BLUNT! The last thing you want is to get your loved one hooked on tobacco! t would also be very harsh.First watch The Union with her(see my sig down there).
Explain how you normally feelafter using cannabis.
Things to tell her for preparation:-Always stay hydrated DURING AND AFTER smoking, keep cold water within reach at all times(very important as you can dehydrate easily after using).
-Do not use cannabis on an empty stomach(eating a light meal or healthy snack a half hour before is ideal).
-Take deep breathes and remain RELAXED! VERY IMPORTANT!!! Playing chill music that she likes is key!
-First, have her take a few decent sized hits from a pipe or joint, wait 20-30 minutes, see how she feels, and continue from there. REMEMBER, it takes longer to kick in for people who dont use it very often, dont smoke too much too fast or she WILL freak out. TAKE IT SLOW.
i didnt get high from smoking until i bought a bong sadly, and i got fucking ripppppppedddddd uppppppppppppp
seriously joints and blunts probably burn away half of your weed.
pipes are freaking nasty to me... and i must be a retard cuz i couldnt inhale right for shit.
but i bought a bong and the hits are so easy.. you dont even feel the smoke until after u exhale... its like breathing in cold air basically... its so easy on newbies like myself.
you should buy a cheap bong (although i think every stoner should have a sick bong) have your girl get faded and make love like theres no tomorrow my friend.
and by the way like the others said take it slow....
my first bong hit was a gigantic rip of blueberry kush which was an extremely stupid fucking mistake for my first time because i was paranoid off my ass... but the second time i did it i was in heaven for a good 5 hours
Well, i just smoked up my girl for the first time not too long ago, smoked her up with a mix of mids and dank through a bowl. I'd teach her how to hit a bong first, so you get the complex shit out of the way so it makes it easier to teach her how to hit a bowl correctly, and how to hit a bong correctly. For some reason new girl smokers think all our pieces are so fucking complex, they dont know how we do it.
Also most people dont feel it on the first time, so tell her that if you dont want her to get RIPPED. She wont notice shes high, but you definatly will lolol.
If you dont have a bong, go with a clean pipe. Thats just my two cents though.
DO NOT USE A BLUNT! The last thing you want is to get your loved one hooked on tobacco! t would also be very harsh.First watch The Union with her(see my sig down there).
Explain how you normally feelafter using cannabis.
Things to tell her for preparation:-Always stay hydrated DURING AND AFTER smoking, keep cold water within reach at all times(very important as you can dehydrate easily after using).
-Do not use cannabis on an empty stomach(eating a light meal or healthy snack a half hour before is ideal).
-Take deep breathes and remain RELAXED! VERY IMPORTANT!!! Playing chill music that she likes is key!
-First, have her take a few decent sized hits from a pipe or joint, wait 20-30 minutes, see how she feels, and continue from there. REMEMBER, it takes longer to kick in for people who dont use it very often, dont smoke too much too fast or she WILL freak out. TAKE IT SLOW.
im not challeneging what youve said. but how can you get addicted to tobbaco through blunts? i started smoking blunts occasionally and never felt addicted. then i started smoking daily and never got addicted. of course i smoke cigs now. but this was back when i never touched a cig.
DO NOT USE A BLUNT! The last thing you want is to get your loved one hooked on tobacco! t would also be very harsh.First watch The Union with her(see my sig down there).
Explain how you normally feelafter using cannabis.
Things to tell her for preparation:-Always stay hydrated DURING AND AFTER smoking, keep cold water within reach at all times(very important as you can dehydrate easily after using).
-Do not use cannabis on an empty stomach(eating a light meal or healthy snack a half hour before is ideal).
-Take deep breathes and remain RELAXED! VERY IMPORTANT!!! Playing chill music that she likes is key!
-First, have her take a few decent sized hits from a pipe or joint, wait 20-30 minutes, see how she feels, and continue from there.REMEMBER, it takes longer to kick in for people who dont use it very often, dont smoke too much too fast or she WILL freak out. TAKE IT SLOW.
Heres a great link just for good measure Annual Causes of Death in the United States | Drug War Facts
Is it really this complicated?
Roll, a joint, let her hit it a few times, help her understand how, and take it from there.
Freakouts happen, and they are not that bad. Even if she freaks out you will look like a god damn hero when you help her relax.
im not challeneging what youve said. but how can you get addicted to tobbaco through blunts? i started smoking blunts occasionally and never felt addicted. then i started smoking daily and never got addicted. of course i smoke cigs now. but this was back when i never touched a cig.
Yeah i stopped smoking cigs and still smoke blunts which even that is rare. So yeah no connection to addiction. Tobacco for me just isn't addictive because you realize its almost useless compared to ganja.
I'd make sure it's just you and her, in a setting she's comfortable with, and with a pipe. The first time my girl smoked way back in the day was with a little spoon I had. We had three bowls and she was so mega ripped and she was loving it.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
When, in 1937, George Orwell wanted to convey the dark side of “mechanical progress” to his readers, he wrote, “the logical end of mechanical progress is to reduce the human being to something resembling a brain in a bottle.” Of course, he said, it is not as if that is really our intention, “just as a man who drinks a bottle of whiskey a day does not actually intend to get cirrhosis of the liver.” But that, he argued, is where the socialists of his time seemed to want to take things. Their emphasis on doing away with work, effort and risk would lead to “some frightful subhuman depth of softness and helplessness.”
Now, very nearly eighty years later, we still don’t want to get cirrhosis. But in a review this week of the finally released Oculus Rift virtual-reality gaming system, Adi Robertson writes, “I love the feeling of getting real exercise in a virtual sword-fighting game, or of walking around a real room to see the artwork I’ve created. Sitting down with the Rift, meanwhile, feels as close to being a brain in a jar as humanly possible.” And just in case you might have missed this wonderful endorsement in what is a pretty long review, the “brain in a jar” quote is repeated as a pullout in a large font with purplish text.
So over time the brain in a bottle can become our intention, it can transform from nightmare scenario to selling point. By “progress” do we mean “slippery slope”? | {
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"When your child has died, your last task as their mother is to grieve them." Bella returns to Forks with empty arms and an aching heart. In her past is a lost child, a broken marriage, and a beloved parent gone. In her future is Edward Cullen and his strange family. What do they want from her? Can a heart thrice broken bear the risk of making a new start? Vampire AU.
The Cullen children are adult trust fund babies; dependent on company CFO Bella Swan to keep them in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed. Prodigal son Edward returns to claim his rightful place as the next CEO just as the Cullens' world is set to crumble. Can he trust Bella?
Are the wicked just as vulnerable to corruption as the innocent? Tanya's giving Bella an offer she can't refuse. The catch? Bella will have to face the devil, AKA, Edward Cullen. HEA. AH. Bella/Edward. Cannon couples.
Annie is a single woman, fetching, lucky and mildly obsessed with Twilight. She doesn't miss a thing in her life. Until one day she sees her own personal Edward. A beautiful boy, way too young to even think about it. - - - AH, ExB kind of, December. Rated M.
A depressed woman stumbles upon a dead body while reeling from a friendship gone awry. She's warned off the investigation by the lead detective, but nevertheless finds herself pulled into the mystery as she begins to lose her sense of the difference between fantasy & reality. There's also noir, Gnosticism, Buddhism, NeoPlatonism, a dash of Existentialism, & a Tulpa. HEA B/E
"As a cinematographer, I've given some thoughts to how I might die, but never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd die of dehydration, cut up and bleeding while perched in a tree in the middle of the Australian outback. As you can see, Sam is down below. He's an insane and perpetually randy, 7-foot tall, alpha-male kangaroo, and he belongs to that equally mental bloke, Cullen."
It was just a long weekend in Vegas, so how did eighteen year old high school senior Bella Swan end up married to thirty one year old movie exec, Edward Cullen? This is the story of their awkward life. Rated M for future lemons.
Armed with some knowledge about all of the things that go bump in the night, a bag full of equipment, and three ghosts, paranormal investigator Edward Masen had seen and heard a lot since the day he died, but didn't stay dead. Nothing prepared him for her.
10 yrs ago, Edward was accused of murder & Bella was his alibi. Today, the murder is still unsolved & Bella hates Edward. Can a penchant for gothic mystery, a hearty dose of lingering hostility & a desire for justice really right old wrongs? Inspired by old newspaper serials. AH HEA
"Sometimes the world doesn't need another hero. Sometimes what it needs is a monster." Isabella Swan had a plan-Find. Infiltrate. Destroy. That all changes when the prodigal son of Carlisle Cullen returns after a five year absence, suspicious of the circumstances of his father's death and her involvement, with his own agenda. Ready or not, here I come. You can't hide.
Edroar the Angry Lion frightens all the girls and boys at Cullen Publishing with his loud roar. Will his new massage therapist Bella Swan run away like all the rest, or can she tame this savage beast? AH/AU OOC
Bella and Jacob have been married for six years when he dies suddenly, revealing a long going affair. Edward is her best friends brother in-law who recently started at his families law firm. Jasper knew about the affair and caused Bella to pull away from Alice. Will Edward be able to bring her out of her grief and will her to trust again, even with Jacob haunting her?
After a vicious attack when she was thirteen, Bella Swan writes a story about what happened to her to try to find and bring her attacker to justice. She had no idea what the ramifications of signing over the rights to have it made into a film, or what choosing Edward Cullen to play her brother Emmett would be. BPOV A/H A/U Canon pairings. Rated M for mature themes and later lemons!
"How can you teach a vampire to abstain from humans?" I asked Carlisle. "Starve them and take them to the zoo?" He shook his head at me and smiled. "Rehab," he said. Rehab for vampires. It was the worst idea I'd ever heard.
Complete. For two years, Bella's had a cotton candy romance going on with her taciturn best friend. In her head. So after catching bits and pieces of Edward's unusual upbringing, Bella pays a visit to Alaska. AH
Bella, a good girl, was dumped by her long-time boyfriend. Edward, a young doctor, is feeling suffocated by his father's plans. Waking up next to a stranger is a shock for a good girl. Seeing the girl of your dreams run out on you the morning after sucks for a nice guy. What if two blue lines will bind the two together for life? What if they can't even remember how they came to be?
Edward's life is pretty sweet. He has a successful career, an awesome apartment, great friends and his choice of bed partners. He's got life all planned out. But what happens when he finds out he has a five-year-old daughter and meets her adoptive mother? Sometimes life can be unexpected.
Bella doesn't let people in easily. When she does, she commits absolutely - to family, to friends, to love. With a blossoming career and a fiance she adores, there isn't much more she expects out of life. Then, a crushing revelation derails her dreams and fractures her sense of self. Gluing the pieces back together isn't easy when you can't find them all.
Bella is anxious to finally meet the object of her desire: handsome, wealthy, enigmatic Edward Cullen. After almost three years of talking and teasing via e-mail, text and phone calls, is she truly ready for something real?
She only remembers a silent kid, he doesn't remember her at all. When they meet again years later, they feel a connection that isn't of this world - - - ExB; AH; Rated M. Autism; age gap; unconditional love.
In 1950, a pair of mysterious, gifted vampires arrive at the Cullen residence, ready to join the family. That's right, it's finally time to meet Alice and Jasper! Can be read alone, or as the seventh installment in the Tale of Years Series. Canon-Friendly Twilight Prequel, Edward POV. Begins with Edward's first time in medical school.
Access Hollywood thinks he's gay. Extra thinks he's secretly married. In reality, Hollywood Hot Shot Edward Cullen is just busy. The literary world recognizes M. Dwyer as one of the most prolific writers of this generation. The business world knows Isabella Swan as a philanthropic real estate mogul. What happens when all of this comes crashing together? Canon Couples. Adult lang
Federal prosecutor Bella Swan is already standing on the precipice of a dark abyss when her world is thrown into madness. Struggling for a lifeline, the reemergence of a man she vowed never to trust again will change everything. Life and death. Love and hate. In the middle of obscurity, what is the cost of redemption? Banner by: Fallingsnow Winter
Hollywood actor Edward Cullen moves back home to New York to reconnect with his family, and escape the stress of LA after a bad break-up and the end of filming for his latest movie. On his first night back in town he goes to visit his cousin's new club, and meets a beautiful yet odd young brunette. EPOV,A/H, canon pairings. Rated M for mature themes and later lemons. Please review!
As a Seattle sports talk radio host, it's my job to give my opinion on the Seahawks new quarterback, Edward Cullen. But maybe I shouldn't have said what I did...you know, about his butt. E/B Rated M for language and adult content.
Axiom - a premise so obvious as to be accepted as true without controversy. Edward and Bella were best friends until a perfect storm of circumstances, insecurities, and misunderstandings separated them. But some things are just meant to be, even if they take a slight detour.
Bella Swan is a physician assistant student trying to survive a grueling clinical year. Add Dr. Edward Cullen, a cocky, irresistible ob/gyn resident. Throw in some chocolate, sprinkle with a few of Bella's quirky theories about life, and see what happens.
A first kiss, a first dance, a first curse word shared between best friends. This is the tale of a boring, young geek and the social pariah who thought the world of him. A tale of growing up. A tale of a Non-Romantic Romance.
"Daisy bit her lip and nodded, trying hard not to audibly moan. The way Swirl wielded his hammer rendered her speechless." For the moments that boring, young geeks and social pariahs share - snapshots from Swirl and Daisy.
Having to experience other people's dreams and fantasies about himself is not all its cracked up to be as Edward soon realizes, but will it change his personality for the better? A Bella and Edward actor story with a good dose of humor, a helping of angst, plenty of drama and a lot of love, with some Shakespeare thrown in for good measure. Rec'd by FicSisters, Rob Attack,TLS & ADF.
Isabella finally thought her life was moving down a brighter path when she ended up at her third foster home in Forks. After quickly being pulled into the knowledge of the hidden magic in the world, everything seems to crumble apart around her. She makes a promise, but living without love is a hard life to live, and it's hard to love when everyone you love seems to die. Rated M!
Chef Edward is used to people fawning over his cuisine. Enter Bella. She would far rather grab a cheeseburger at her favorite place- McDonald's. What is Chefward to do but try and show her the errors of her ways? But can she teach him anything?
F.B.I agents Edward Cullen and Emmett McCarty rely on psychologist Bella Swan to help them solve their most complicated cases. But when a new case exposes the secret that Bella has kept hidden, can Edward save her before it is too late?
Complete. Follow Bella as she grows from a bullied little girl into a sassy young woman. After all, it's not about what you're looking at, it's about what you see. An unorthodox story about best friends and their journey. Humor/Angst/Friendship/Romance. AH.
Jobless, penniless, college dropout Edward takes a chance on a Craigslist job listing to be the face of Jasper's new company. An unlikely friendship blossoms over pancakes and ketchup but is tested when a saucy new waitress catches Edward's eye. Too bad she's the press, and Edward can't afford to be scooped. Life is hard for an ex-Russian-Literature-Major turned professional liar.
He white-knuckles his pen, dragging a line of ink across the page. I can guess which passage he's marking: "All things truly wicked start from an innocence." Hemingway wouldn't have known about us. No one does. Teenage E/B, AH, quasi-dystopian.
Sometimes it's easier to live your life for someone else. To ignore your mundane days and sleep through your lonely nights. And then one day, it's not enough. A story about finding love when you're not even looking. You just get caught.
30 year old Bella Swan is the swimming instructor who teaches the Sunday morning daddy and baby classes. Although he's a forbidden man, her attraction to Edward Cullen - the newest daddy to join the Waterbabes group - is instantaneous. Can Bella drown her libido and maintain her professionalism? B x E x H2O equals slippery when wet. All Human. Minimal angst. Complete.
Bella Cullen has spent the last ninety-five years giving everything to protect her family and mourning the loss of her long dead human husband. A trip to Alaska to meet Tanya's latest romantic interest changes everything. The vampire she meets there has his face, his hair, and his body, but not his memories. It's a strange new world.
Bella is investigating a rash of serial killings in Rochester, NY when Edward Cullen crosses her path and raises her suspicion. Is there more to Edward than meets the eye? Can Bella fight her attraction to a man who might be her suspect?
Bella is walking home during a blizzard and stumbles on a homeless man on the ground. Despite her better judgment she decides to save him from the cold, and the night turns into something she never expected. ON TEMP. HIATUS.
Bella Swan goes to Forks to bury a secret and meet the father she never knew. But what she discovers is not the quiet town she was hoping for. Some secrets can't be buried and in this case, hers just might save everyone.
It's important for any private investigator to maintain a good relationship with local law enforcement and it's representatives. Therefore, I am always cooperative and polite with Chief Swan. Also, I try not to drink his daughter Bella's blood. Complete.
Edward/Bella - WIP, AU, AH, OOC. When Bella goes to live with her father in Forks, things go much better than she expected. At least until a slick parking lot, a careening van, a broken arm, and her weird lab partner from biology get in the way...
On our first night away at college, Bella Swan, thinking the room was her own, drunkenly stumbled into my bed. She was broken and I wanted to fix her. I loved her for four years before she left. Never did I expect her to come back, but she surprised me.
Bella meets the big man on campus, Emmett Cullen. He is smitten with her, but she is drawn to his disturbed brother. She can have the golden boy, or try to make a relationship work with someone incapable of giving her what she needs. All human.
Edward is an agent with OCD running for his life. Bella is a slob running to save her father. They end up together, unknowingly chased by the same people. Can Edward leave a job he loves for the woman he loves? AH story by SDFreeze
Exes and co-workers Edward & Bella are sent to investigate the strange happenings in Forks, but they might drive each other crazy figuring out what's going on in the town. And between them. Humor/Romance. | {
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Warmane Paladin Retribution Talents Guide(PvP)
This is a full guide about Paladin Retribution Talents (PvP), hope you guys can get some ideas from this article, which is my intention. You must know that we are Warmane Gold online store - you can buy gold for Outland, Icecrown, Medivn and more, in a word, all you want in this game can be found on our website.
Everybody is inspired to see talent descriptions and understand them, then create builds that belongs to them. We all have their very own playstyle and it is asked to embrace such.
Seal of Righteousness "spec" - This can be a talent build type that concentrates on the very best seal for PvP. The most crucial talent is "Seals from the Pure". Another dependence on this spec is by using Glyph of Seal of Righteousness. This really is preferred to have an arena, but does succeed in most areas.
Additional control and survivability. (One loose point to spend.)
Additional damage.
I utilize Seal of Command presently. Why? First of all, I don't play rated arenas, and when I actually do, I solo 2's. Next, my overall gear, weapons, and trinkets optimize my melee damage. As a result, my melee hits perform a lot of damage. Enough harm to perform some serious injury to my opponents. Thus, I go for Seal of Command over Seal of Righteousness. Seal of Righteousness is what you need to be utilized in almost every other conditions.
The world specs have Divine Sacrifice, that you can use to interrupt certain CC effects when used preemptively (polymorph, sap, etc) and may mitigate the harm completed to your lover by a good deal.
The world spec has Benediction rather of Deflection because mana efficiency is mandatory. As the parry supplied by Deflection is superior generally use, extra precaution is preferred in arena allowing you to have a smaller sized possibility of losing a match because of being from mana.
These specs have a minumum of one reason for Vindication. I added the Vindication talent like a junk debuff to help make the opponent's friendly dispels become more difficult. It's OK to get some point so you keep some point rather of two. However, this debuff is extremely important since it makes your target harder to defensively eliminate for.
Benediction VS. Deflection - 5% chances to parry (opportunity to avoid damage) from the decrease in spell mana cost if you have almost infinite mana because it is? Well, the treatment depends on for those who have mana issues or wish to steer clear of the issue.
Improved Blessing of Might - Sure, zinc heightens your attack power by a percentage if you use it, but frequently occasions it will likely be dispelled/spell stolen, and you will be utilising Blessing of Nobleman rather, anyway. Depends upon the number of points available for you, as well as your own preferences which buff you utilize most frequently.
Seal of Command - With Seal of Righteousness being fixed, this seal is not necessary. Also is able to ruin any CC effects like Repentance or Polymorph.
Eye for an Eye - While it's useful against opponents that crit you for a small amount and incredibly frequently (especially rogues), I've found so that it is rather annoying whenever an annoying shadow priest will get from Repentance because certainly one of their dots critted you.
Righteous Vengeance will not proc often enough to be a worthwhile damage increase, but it can benefit keep stealthers from restealthing, so 1 point is suggested. A second point is optional for a bit more damage but likely will not cash effect unless of course, you've got a high quantity of crit.
Why no Swift Retribution? - Only 3% haste. Not just is haste a dreadful stat for you personally generally, 3% is extremely little. Waste of three talent points, for me.
Vindication - Optional. Begin to see the following quote.
Everything else is pretty much a must.
Glyphs
Major glyphs:
Glyph of Judgement
Glyph of Exorcism
Both of these are mandatory. They'll grant the greatest situational damage increase because they are both an excellent damage increase and could be used at range. Your third glyph is clearly situational.
Glyph of Seal of Righteousness - Mandatory if you are going to use this seal and have at least 3 points in Seals of the Pure.
Glyph of Salvation - Excellent for the arena when you need another personal defensive cooldown. Not much use elsewhere.
Glyph of Hammer of Justice - Probably the best all-purpose use glyph. The increased range on your stun can be useful and may catch kiters off-guard.
Minor:
Glyph of Sense Undead - Though only really useful against Death Knight ghouls, or Death Knights specced into Lichbourne, it is the only minor glyph available that grants a direct damage bonus.
Glyph of Lay on Hands - What's not to like about it? 5 minutes less cooldown on Lay on Hands? Yes, please!
Glyph of Blessing of Might - Excellent for not having to worry about reagents when buffing yourself, plus it is less recognizable by dispellers than the Greater blessing is.
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Anniversaries; delayed commemoration of, and associated excuses
Yesterday was the second anniversary of the first earthquake. I had planned to blog about it on the day, but, Mother Nature having a very highly tuned sense of irony, there was a particularly exciting thunder storm that spent the afternoon tethered to Southbridge. We had lightning, we had thunder, we had hail. We even had rain. Not, all things considered, the right sort of weather to accompany the use of expensive electronic equipment that is attached to what can loosely be thought of as free-range lightning rods. (Well, power and phone lines.) We lost power for about three hours, and were facing the prospect of Apple Surprise for dinner (the surprise? it’s an apple), except we didn’t have any apples, so it was more likely to be Tuna Surprise. But then the power came back, and we were able to eat Hot Food after all.
The reason for my not posting in the morning? Week Three of my marathon Funding Application Writing Session. I have now officially lodged my request to Creative New Zealand for some dough to allow me to spend a good chunk of time next year getting Book Number Two finished. I really really hope the application succeeds, and not only because the money would be very nice indeed. (Cough cough mortgage cough cough.) But because I really really don’t want to have to go through the [insert preferred expletive, and may I recommend using the quite strong end of the spectrum?] process of filling out another such application for a very long time. Whole forests died for it. And writing out a case for why they should pay me to write poetry for six months has left me with the desire to have nothing whatsoever to do with poetry for months, if not years. If you’ve ever seen those insane Japanese gameshows where people allow themselves to be dragged across gravel and spiky things until their bottoms are more thoroughly grated than parmesan in a cheap Italian restaurant, then you’ll have some conception of how it feels. My theory is that at least fifty percent of the selection is actually attrition.
And yes, in case you were starting to have inklings, the above is really a way of me distracting myself from what yesterday actually was. Part of me is drawn to the memory of that first, horrendous event. Trying to put words around it, how it felt, how it sounded. But … I start crying. Still. I feel my muscles tensing up, my body clicking into flight-mode. And I have a superstitious dread of actually writing the poem that I keep meaning to write. (So I capture it. What the hell do I do with it then?)
I actually woke up at 4 am yesterday morning. According to Geonet there wasn’t any seismic activity then, so it was just some part of my brain keeping track of things. (By another co-incidence, we finally heard back from the Fletchers people the night before about starting the repairs on our house – yes, the ones that were supposed to have been completed by mid-August.)
But I’m incredibly, verging on obscenely lucky. All I have to do to remind myself is drive through the city, especially if I head east. The world has so many ways to break your heart, especially in spring, and Canterbury has added a slew of variations that are all our own. It’s hard to remember what life was like before the quakes. How will it feel, when there’s a rumble in the distance, and your first thought is thunder?
I have to believe that we’ll get to that point. Hang in there, my people. Kia kaha.
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Are you going to stay in the house while your repairs are done? If not, I recommend a burglar alarm. I am hearing stories about people who have been burgled, because the burglars check where the contractors are working, and figure the house will be empty at night.
Or you could train your chickens to attack intruders 🙂
I’m envious of you getting your repairs done. We are still entangled in the nightmare that is apportionment, and TC3, and all those other technical issues. And we’re not the worst off by any means.
Yes, we’re planning to stay very much put. If nothing else, the stories I’ve heard about contractors staying overnight and inviting friends would make me determined not to budge. I’m very territorial, I admit it, and just the thought of strangers making themselves free with my house gets my hackles up. I had started checking out the RebuildMe option, but I think they only deal with Christchurch city. And we haven’t got a start date yet, so who knows when it’s going to happen. (Deap breaths. Deeeep breaths.) | {
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Best Answer: I have 1 32 cal, 5 shot, Saturday Night Special, that has been in my family since 1922. I only had 5 bullets for it, until my Son sent me a box for my B-day. They are very hard foo find.
So, I can say, that the last time I got ammo, it was a gift.
When my parents passed away I inherited the house and ALL CONTENTS. That included a fully stocked gun room w/tools and enough ammunition to last my lifetime. The only guns I don't have ammo for are those that have been permanently decommissioned for safety or legal reasons..
p.s. - I had to get a collector's licence to be able to keep some of them. | {
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People all over the United States will go out into their backyards, parks, and nearby nature areas to count the birds on February 17-20, 2006. Parents will help children, bird watchers will gather, and serious bird enthusiasts and groups will help others learn how to count and identify birds all over the country. In 2005, more than 52,000 checklists were submitted, with a record-breaking 613 species and more than 6 million birds counted.
The reason that this Great Backyard Bird Count is so important and “big” is due to the impact of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. Massive habitats were destroyed along the Gulf Coast, a major bird migratory route. Researchers are very interested in learning about how the hurricane impacts bird migration, from the path they take as well as where they are wintering this year.
In conjunction with the Audubon Society and the Great Backyard Bird Count, many organizations are working together to help promote wildlife and natural habitat restoration. Among many local, state, and federal agencies, Arbor Day Organization has announced the Trees for Katrina Program where people can donate money to buy trees which will be given away throughout the Gulf Shores area in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama for people to plant in their years, parks, and elsewhere. This helps to restore forests and natural areas, as well as helps to provide habitat for birds.
To participate, you can count birds at one period of time each day from one location and then report on the count and birds you find through the forms at Great Backyard Bird Count. If you want to report on more location counts, just head down the street to the nearest park, neighbor’s backyard, or elsewhere and report again. You are allowed one report per day from each location for each day of the count weekend.
There are also Great Backyard Bird Count Contests for a variety of competitions including top ten states, top three provinces, top 5 communities in the United States, top 5 communites in Canada, and top community within each state.
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Great Expectations but Average Cruise
Sail Date:
January 2011
Destination:
Western Caribbean
Embarkation:
Miami
We had a fine cruise on the Epic, but it did not live up to our expectations. Sometimes bigger just isn't better. We booked the trip with friends after hearing so much about the Epic on our previous Norwegian cruise. Once on board, the ship didn't seem any grander than most other cruise ships. The extra space seemed to be taken up with cabins and specialty restaurants rather than roomy elegant spaces. The cabins were just as compact as usual. Instead of feeling pampered, we generally had a feeling of being nickel and dimed throughout the cruise.
On the positive side: service was excellent throughout the ship. The staff was efficient and accommodating. The ship and the rooms were kept impeccably clean. The ship layout was easy to navigate. The color coded carpet for port and starboard really helped, as did the clear labeling of floors and the maps available at frequent intervals. The interactive computer boards didn't always respond.
The entertainment was also great. More
We really enjoyed the Blue Man Group, Second City, and Howl at the Moon. We appreciated that you could make free reservations for the first two, since on a ship that large, there could have been long lines. I thought the movies in the Atrium were neat, but they made our fellow travelers seasick. We never did watch a complete movie, but the playoff football games were fun, and the free popcorn was a nice touch.
The freestyle dining worked well for us this time. We had no waits to be seated in the two main dining rooms. The music in Manhattan was lovely, service was great, and the food was generally quite good. The buffet in the Garden Cafe was huge, with every kind of buffet food I could think of. O'Sheehan's had fun pub food all the time, food was plentiful poolside, the fresh pizza was delicious, and hard and soft serve ice cream were available almost all the time.
We were rather disappointed in the food in the dining room, though. There were plenty of options, but there weren't as many elegant choices as we've had in the past. No beef Wellington, plain lobster, filet mignon, oysters Rockefeller...the really luxurious items. Some of the dishes were not exactly what I expected - shrimp scampi without garlic or butter? Norwegian really pushed the specialty restaurants with the surcharges, and to get the best dining, I guess one needed to pay extra. We didn't - with three Japanese and dozens of Chinese restaurants right in my little village, why pay extra for them on board? We did have some excellent a la carte sushi, so I imagine the specialty food was pretty good.
The cabins? The circular design was attractive but just as cramped as most regular balcony rooms. We had several choke points in the room, and the couch stared at the closet door, but it was okay. There was lots of good storage. People have written a lot about having the bathroom right at the entrance. It was pretty weird, but I can see how it saved space, and also provided flexibility using the facilities. It was okay getting out of the shower into the main entrance, as one could lock the cabin door and use the flimsy privacy curtain, but with translucent walls, there was little privacy in the toilet regarding sight, sound or smell. When we had our friends over, it was quite awkward.
The featured activities - rock climbing wall, bowling, water slides - were nice to have aboard. I enjoyed trying the rappelling and rock climbing for free, and $5 for bowling seemed okay. We were not travelling with children, but there were many on board, and they appeared to be having a wonderful time. The weather was on the chilly side for me, but you wouldn't know that from all the kids splashing in the pool and spinning down the giant slides. The music poolside was quite loud, but that kept the festive atmosphere going. We took two excursions, and they were both fine.
We were pushed through the casino more often than we'd like. We hate smoke, so that was annoying but not unbearable. I thought the smoke purifiers worked pretty well.
Our main complaint is that there seemed to be a lot less available for free than on past cruises, and few deals to be had. There weren't as many dance lessons, demonstrations, or contests as we're used to. There was nothing much scheduled from 3 to 6. The art auctions only offered champagne the first day. There was no Chocoholics buffet, always featured on our four previous Norwegian cruises. There were no two-for-one drink specials except in the specialty restaurants. There were no laundry deals till the second to last day. There was no Captain's party or Latitudes reception. We felt pretty disappointed by the things that were not offered. Instead, the things that cost extra - casino, bingo, spa, and specialty restaurants- were heavily promoted.
It was a good cruise, and we had fun, but I think we'll try another cruise line next time, and read lots of reviews before we book. Less | {
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Rangers season ends in Game 7, double OT heartbreak
From anxious moments and nervous tension, to last minute jubilation and heartbreak; Game 7 of the Western Conference Final had it all, which makes deciding games that much more compelling and entertaining.
The only thing the Kitchener Rangers and their fans wish they could change about that thrilling Game 7 was the outcome.
Jack Kopacka scored his ninth goal of the playoffs at the 4:00 minute mark of double overtime to crown the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds as OHL Western Conference Champions with a 4-3 win in front of 4,859 fans at the Essar Centre on Monday night.
The game was in stark contrast to the previous Game 7 in which the Soo partook, which saw them defeat the Owen Sound Attack 9-7 for the right to meet the Rangers in the conference final. This game was tight checking, defensively sound, and about as closely contested a series deciding game that’s been seen in some time.
The Greyhounds jumped out to a late first period lead, but the Rangers tied the game just over a couple of minutes into the middle frame. Three times on the night the Hounds would take the lead, only to have the Blueshirts battle back to tie the game.
A power play goal with 8:19 to play in the third period gave the Greyhounds a 3-2 lead and sent the home team fans into a frenzy, as they believed Morgan Frost’s seventh of the playoffs would prove to clinch the series, but more dramatics were to come.
Logan Stanley – who over the course of the 84 minutes of Game 7 played what felt like north of 70 minutes, seemingly never leaving the ice – sailed a blast from the point with just 51.8 seconds remaining in regulation to beat Soo goaltender Matthew Villalta, tying the game 3-3 and keeping the Rangers playoff hopes alive.
The first overtime frame saw the Hounds outshoot the Rangers 11-8, but the Blueshirts had a high number of offensive chances to put the game away, falling just short.
The Rangers were dealt their fair share of blows to their lineup in the playoffs having the likes of defencemen Connor Hall, Austin McEneny and forward Givani Smith on the shelf, but the remainder of the team stepped up in a big way; getting big-game performances from top to bottom, young and old which shone a light on the depth of this year’s squad.
Monday’s game was the final OHL game for overagers Kole Sherwood and Mario Culina who, along with defenceman Austin McEneny, will now move on from the league.
Like a broken record, Culina was once again spectacular in goal for the Blueshirts, tonight turning aside 37 of 41 Greyhounds shots while earning the game’s Third Star. Villalta made 33 saves in the win.
Boris Katchouk opened the scoring for the Greyhounds with just 3:33 remaining in the opening frame, giving the home team a 1-0 lead as the game went to the first intermission.
Shots on goal after the first period of play favoured the Rangers, 6-5.
But just under three minutes into the second period Kitchener battled back to tie the game, 1-1, as Jonathan Yantsis notched his fourth of the playoffs, from Nick McHugh and Michael Vukojevic, at 2:47.
The Greyhounds reclaimed the lead at 9:01 of the second when Katchouk tallied his second of the night, making it a 2-1 game.
But again the visitors rallied to even things up as Rickard Hugg made it 2-2 on the power play, from Sherwood and Riley Damiani, at 11:40.
Shots on goal were limited through 40 minutes, leaning Kitchener’s way by a slim 15-10 margin.
Frost’s power play marker put the Soo up 3-2 at 8:19 and had fans on the edge of their seats, but Stanley’s fourth of the playoffs, from Connor Bunnaman and Logan Brown, cued the dramatics at 19:08 to tie the game, 3-3, silence the crowd, then send the game to overtime.
The first overtime of course would prove nothing, despite a number of quality chances for both sides.
Kopacka’s ninth of the postseason ended the Rangers playoff run at 4:00 of the second overtime, which gave way to series-ending handshakes.
Shots on goal were 27-26 Soo at the end of regulation, 11-8 Soo in the first overtime and 3-2 Greyhounds in the final frame.
The Rangers and Greyhounds each went 1-for-3 with the man advantage.
Mario Culina (KIT) (3), Jack Kopacka (SSM) (2), and Boris Katchouk (SSM) (1) were selected as the Three Stars of the Game.
Logan Stanley, Adam Mascherin, and Logan Brown each wore an “A” and skated as alternates to Rangers’ captain Connor Bunnaman.
The Kitchener Rangers would like to thank the best fans in the Ontario Hockey League, Rangers Nation, for your cheers, support and unwavering dedication and loyalty throughout this 2017-18 season and exciting playoff run.
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Just in Time for Christmas: The Pressure is on for Couriers
As Christmas rapidly approaches, the demand on couriers to deliver goods across the country increases. Alongside added pressure from companies promising next day deliveries, how will UK couriers cope and how important is effective courier van insurance and goods in transit insurance?
The Christmas holidays are upon us. Following the rush of Halloween and Black Friday commercial pushes from retailers and supermarkets, UK households prepare to make their final big purchases of the year as the ‘golden quarter’ for the retail industry comes to an end.
Over the next week, thousands of UK households will purchase last-minute gifts for their loved ones. For couriers, this likely means your schedule could never be busier. And with the increasing number of companies that promise next day delivery, the need for effective courier van insurance and goods in transit insurance is greater now than at any other time in the year.
So, as the retail industry ramps up its productivity in the lead-up to Christmas, how will you be affected as a courier and what will 2019 bring for the industry? Let’s take a look.
E-commerce is still driving the change
A key driver of this movement is the unquenchable need for convenience
While UK online retail sales growth has been relatively subdued this year, it’s no lie that e-commerce still plays a central role in today’s consumer lifestyle.
According to the IMRG Valuing Home Delivery Review, the total volume of orders despatched in the UK will exceed the 1.5 billion mark for 2018, which is up 32 per cent from 2016.
Despite the UK’s uncertain political and economic future in anticipation of a final Brexit deal, we’re still seeing that Brits are willing to pay a little extra for their goods to be home delivered. Dominated by such players as Royal Mail, Hermes and Yodel, the UK parcel market still endeavours to cater to the voracious demand for online shopping.
A key driver of this movement appears to be the unquenchable need for convenience. This is perhaps best illustrated by Waitrose’s trial this year of ‘in-home’ deliveries – an outlandish concept where items are actually unpacked directly into the customer’s home by the courier.
While it’s too early to see whether this will be a winning formula, it’s certainly illustrative of the retail industry’s move to offer increasingly attractive e-retail services to their customers. And with steep competition in the sector, who knows what will come next.
‘Demanding’ is how many couriers might describe their customers and clients. While this may be a result of generational expectations for fast, efficient services at the click of a button, there is also a great deal of pressure from employers who promise their customers next-day delivery.
Next-day delivery services are used as a strategy to drive sales and retain customer loyalty with the promise of better services than competitors, but how many retailers actually follow through?
According to data from the IMRG MetaPack UK Delivery Index, the percentage of orders arriving on-time has declined over the past 18 months, now established around the 90 per cent mark. Many, including IMRG, have commented on the larger implications of this on the industry, noting how overpromising and underdelivering could impact how the industry performs overall moving into 2019.
Naturally, couriers will have to take the brunt of this responsibility and will be tasked with meeting ever-increasing delivery expectations this winter, on top of already demanding working conditions.
It’s also a time when courier van insurance and goods in transit cover is more important than ever to provide a level of security against the increased likelihood of accidents taking place over the holidays, as couriers spend more time on the roads.
On the flip side, the current demand for courier services is certainly positive, but until the tide turns and focus is placed on managing customer expectations, rather than impressive (and sometimes unachievable) delivery times, couriers are likely to feel the heat.
Staying protected with courier van insurance
If you’re not sufficiently covered, you may pay the price of incomplete deliveries from your own pocket
As recent evidence suggests, a great deal of pressure has filtered down to couriers in order to deliver on their employers’ promise of next day deliveries this year.
We’ve talked before about the impact this can have on delivery networks and the inherent dangers that come with tight delivery schedules, but for couriers currently in the game or those considering a move into the sector, it’s worth reminding yourself.
As well as covering yourself against potential delays or missed delivery times in the event of unforeseen circumstances, effective courier insurance will protect you against general road risks. Accidents and emergencies are much more likely to occur during hectic periods of delivery requests, so adding this layer of security to your business is a great move.
Also, as a courier, it is important to remember that you are responsible for any loss, damage or theft of your client’s property while it is in your vehicle. Effective goods in transit insurance will protect you against such unfortunate losses.
Ultimately, there are many different types of courier insurance, so it’s worth checking what best suits you and your business activities. The team here at ChoiceQuote are always happy to advise.
If you’re aiming to get your packages delivered just in time for Christmas, make sure you’re fully covered!
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