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How Women Protect Themselves From Stalkers | Xtreme Urban Survival Kit
The world is increasingly becoming a dangerous place. How can you protect yourself from stalkers as a woman? Below, we analyze changes that you may need to make. Urban Safety Solutions has tools that you need for better personal protection.
Cut all communication with the stalker
You can protect yourself from stalkers by ensuring that your contact information remains private. That may mean switching all your social media accounts to private and thoroughly scrutinizing whoever requests to follow you or be your friend.
If you have had an experience with a stalker in the past, it would similarly be helpful to block them, blacklist them, and make your contacts unavailable to them.
Beware though that when reporting the case, you may need to produce all evidence of phone calls and text messages. If you get these from a stalker, do not delete, just archive them. But don’t reply or answer the calls.
Protect yourself from stalkers. Don’t let them know where you are or where you are going to be.
Carry a phone with you all times along with a spike stun gun
Phones and stun guns are some of the emergency tools for high-risk women. High risk means having a crazy ex-boyfriend or husband. It means living off-campus or in a dangerous part of the city where sexual predators thrive. Your handbag should have a phone and a compact palm-sized Spike Stun gun.
Your phone, as you may expect, is for calling for quick help when you find yourself in a precarious situation with a stalker. As such, please ensure that it’s loaded with emergency phone numbers. As well, save your close friends’ and family members’ contacts on speed dial.
The stun gun readies you for the worst-case scenario. When the stalker gets too close or becomes physically or sexually abusive, you can use the Spike Stun gun to unleash 20 million volts in their groin or neck regions. This a highly effective solution to protect yourself from stalkers because it is non-lethal (apart from about 40 minutes of immobility, no harm will come to them), it is discreet, and it’s easier to operate. UrbanSafetySolutions.com has many self defense devices to keep you safe from being victimized.
Have a safety plan in mind when you step out of the house
Just like putting on makeup or wearing the right dress, it’s advisable to have a safety plan in mind whenever you step out of the house. Whether on your way to work, school, or a party, you should have a plan to protect yourself from stalkers when they show up out of the blue.
Strategy 1: Go to a public place. If someone is following, chances are they will do you no harm when people are watching. So, to protect yourself from stalkers, navigate to a busier street or a populated park, and call a trusted friend.
Strategy 2: Go to a police station or church. You are safer among people, and police stations and churches are some of the places where stalkers and rapists may never go.
Strategy 3: Have closer access to your personal protection items. If someone has been following you for the last few minutes, you might want to check your handbag and confirm that you have fast and speedy access to your pepper spray.
The WildFire Pepper Gel comes highly recommended because it works effectively from a distance. Before the stalker gets a hold of you, you can unleash the spray in their face, give them hell and make a run for it. Unlike other pepper sprays, this model has a 1.4% concentration of Capsaicinoids, making it hotter and more painful. Whoever you spray this on, they will be momentary breathless with distorted vision.
Strategy 4: Don’t head home. If someone is following you and you head home, it’s tantamount to showing them where you leave. You can protect yourself from stalkers by going to a friend’s house when you suspect being followed. You can also head to the police station or domestic violence shelter if there is one in your location.
Travel with people
You should be able to enjoy your freedoms as a single woman or when far from your spouse and family. But when a stalker comes into play, things change. You are much safer with people.
If someone is always lurking around your home or place of work, you may want to make the trips with a close friend. When you go for the early morning run, go with a workout buddy. It would help to ensure that you are not alone and vulnerable in the crack of dawn.
If that’s a tall order, inject unpredictability into your routines. Stalkers have it easy when the women they follow do things habitually. Protect yourself from stalkers by varying your routes, shopping at different stores, and varying your daily schedules. Go for a run in the evening some days. Leave the car and call an Uber other days. Stay over at a friend’s place—do everything to make yourself unstalkable.
Be wary of the rescuer
Most stalkers like to play hero when the opportunity shows up. They may even go on to create situations that put you in desperate need of help such as a flat tire, running out of gas, or a car that doesn’t start. They then use that opportunity to get close to you.
Deep down, you will know when something is not right. You may remember bumping into the same person at work or the grocery store earlier in the day. Stay alert and have a fallback plan. Borrow from some of the strategies earlier discussed in protecting yourself from stalkers that pretend to be heroes.
Let your friends and family know that you may have a stalker
1. Public figure stalkers –Fans that may stalk you because you are famous.
2. Stranger stalkers—Random people that may meet you and start stalking you from then on
3. Acquaintance stalker— The coworker or schoolmate mate that may turn out to be the midnighter in your life
4. The intimate stalker—This is rated as the most dangerous type of stalker. Your intimate stalker is a friend or ex that makes you no longer want to associate. In 74% of the cases, it ends up in violence when you let them too close.
If you have any of these stalkers and are alert, it wouldn’t take long to realize that you are being followed. Inform your friends and family. Inform your apartment building personnel as well and provide these people with detailed descriptions or even a photo of the stalker. Ask your friends, neighbors, and family to call the police or notify you if they see the suspect at your house.
Keep your home address confidential
There is no need for that new coworker or college mate to know where you live. Keep your current home address private, and restrict it to your close circle of friends and relatives. Watch out not to let details of your place show in what you post online. You might also want to consider disabling the ‘show location’ feature on social media to protect yourself from stalkers.
You can similarly register for an address confidentiality program in your state. The latter gives you an alternative address to use for official and public records. It’s also advisable to use a post office box that is unknown to your stalker. At the same time, inform your friends and family not to disclose your address or contact information to strangers.
Invest in a home alarm system for safety at home
Despite all efforts to protect yourself from stalkers, some of these people are cunningly innovative and determined to get to you. They may follow you home and make you another victim of their heinous acts.
These stalkers could be serial killers, rapists, or exes with obsessive-compulsive or psychopathic tendencies. You must stay safe. Consider buying a Super Door Stop Alarm. This is a small and compact portable alarm device that wedges in the space between your door and the floor. It keeps the door securely bolted so you can sleep peacefully at night.
And when someone tries to push it open from the outside, the friction triggers a loud alarm that can be heard ten blocks away. Your neighbors and building security personnel will come out to see what is happening, and your stalker will have no option but to flee.
Ask school mates or coworkers to watch out for your stalker
You will be much safer if your coworkers and school mates know that you may have a stalker. Provide details or a picture of the suspect stalkers and ask them to call the police if they see them acting suspiciously around you.
Ensure that your contact information is kept safe by school mates and coworkers. Experts recommend asking the office staff or school administrator to bookmark your file for safe handling so that your information is not haphazardly shared.
Psychology Today reports that one in every four women is stalked at least once in her lifetime. If it has not happened to you, odds are it will happen soon. How safe are you?
Get the right tools and solutions to protect yourself from stalkers. The Xtreme Urban Survival Kit contains the Spike Stun Gun, WildFire Pepper Gel, and Super Door Stop Alarm for your protection at home, at work, or on the go. Invest in your safety now.
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This quest set the standard for the difficulty for this cycle. Progression style players often get stuck banging their heads against this scenario that requires players to quest hard out of the gate while also being able to kill a host of tough enemies. The encounter deck does provide players with a bit of help in the form of some objective allies. But besides that, your road through Ithilien will be tough, and many won’t make it to the end.
- Found in Heirs of Numenor Deluxe box, quest 2
- Official Difficulty: 4 (WHAT??)
- Community Difficulty: 7.7
- Encounter Sets: Into Ithilien, Southrons, Brooding Forest, Creatures of the Forest (really confusing to separate the Into Ithilien and Creatures of the Forest encounter sets thanks to their similar symbols)
- Quest cards: 4, though players will only see 3 in each playthrough
- Play if: You really want to test your deck against a scenario that requires a lot of you, you want to play with stacking the encounter deck with Rangers, you want to relive the horror of revealing a Mûmak.
- What is different about this quest?: Siege questing, Battle questing, rapid pacing, Archery, Objective Ranger allies, skipping certain stages.
- Solo or Multiplayer?: While the scenario is brutal solo, it does not get easier if players play this with a lot of decks. 4 players will make sure that a lot of characters will leave play, dealing damage to Celador. In solo, it may prove difficult since the stages will require quite a lot of progress in order to be cleared. I would suggest players do this scenario with 2 players, maybe 3.
- Can I run side-quests for this scenario?: Eh, no. This quest requires you to pass the stages as quickly as possible or face a host of enemies. I wouldn’t recommend going to side-quests as this may cause you to lose Celador, forcing you to go to the second stage. In the later stages of the game, it would be best to focus on getting out of Ithilien as fast as possible. Still, it may be worth it to complete Delay the Enemy, as this can discard the Mûmak if he is engaged with a player.
- What to look out for: Mûmakill enemies, a rapid pace of the game, both Battle and Siege quests on top of regular willpower questing, fast surges in threat.
To set up this monster of a scenario, players have to search the encounter deck for the Ranger Celador and add him to the staging area. While he is in the staging area, he will commit his stats of 2 to the quest, including Battle and Siege quests. Celador will not be under the control of any player but will be targetable for healing effects. Besides adding him to the staging area, players are also forced to search the encounter deck for a copy of Ithilien Road and make it the active location. This will provide a buffer of 4 quest points to the main stage. With Ithilien Road being the active location, the engagement cost of all enemies in the staging area will be considered to be 0. This does not get raised by any Hobbit/Ranger deck, which wouldn’t matter a lot unless players are playing at a very low threat cost right out of the gate. In order to have a couple of bodies to throw your way, the encounter deck will have to be searched for 1 copy of Southron Company per player. These enemies aren’t terrible at first glance, but since Stage 1B has the Battle keyword, each Southron Company gains +2 threat and +2 attack. This makes them formidable enemies that will have to come down if the Ithilien Road isn’t explored or swapped out of the active location slot during the first quest phase. This is where playing with 4 players will make this quest tough, as there will be 4 enemies with each 3 threat in the staging area before the first staging step. However, having so many enemies in the staging area does open up the possibility of sending Lore Faramir to the Battle quest for 6 out of the gate. He will get even more attack strength if you reveal enemies during staging, allowing you to make some progress easily. Having Wingfoot on him in a 4p game will make sure you are able to ready him consistently.
Quest stage 1: Ambush in Ithilien – 15 quest points, Battle
And so begins the first round. Remember that you will likely have to take an enemy this round in order to get its threat out of the staging area. Players will also have to focus a lot of their attack power to the quest, so you will not likely kill the enemy during the first stage. I would suggest to try and place as much progress on the quest during the first round, as that will clear the Ithilien Road and provide players with some more options during the engagement phase.
While this stage is active, players will have two options. Their decision should really be based on whether or not they have enough willpower for stage 3. If they do, then I would argue to try and keep Celador alive and progress through stage 1 as fast as humanly possible. This will discard the second stage and allow players to get some breathing space during stage 3. If players can rush the quest, they might not have to Siege quest during stage 4 either. The other option is to cut your losses and let Celador die in the staging area. This will discard stage 3 and force players to travel to stage 2 where they will be forced to Siege quest. This is the more aggressive approach, but that might fit certain players and their playstyles. I personally usually try to beat stage 1 fast in order to use the safe route to Cair Andros.
In order to keep Celador alive, I would suggest players play this scenario with as few players as possible. This will limit the number of characters leaving play, which deals damage to Celador. I do not often find myself losing the quest because I prioritize making progress. But if you should fail the quest, Celador will again take a point of damage.
Quest stage 2: Southron Counter-attack – 9 quest points, Siege
Well, for some reason Celador died, and you will be forced to withstand a lot of attacks the coming rounds. Fortunately, the stage does not require you to fetch new enemies, so if you managed to keep your board clear, it shouldn’t be a big problem. The stage will force players to take an additional X archery damage on top of any other Archery keywords on enemies. I would suggest pilling this damage on characters that will leave play at the end of the round if possible (Gandalf, Beorn, Sneak Attack allies). If this is not an option, try to spread the damage around to each character. Having enough healing in your decks will definitely be required if you keep stalling and having to deal archery damage. Warden of Healing is the easiest to include in your decks, but it might not heal enough in a 4 player game.
This stage has the Siege keyword, meaning that players will have to quest with their defence strength instead of willpower. This can be tricky, as you might be left during combat with allies that are unable to withstand enemy attacks since you committed all your higher defence stats to the quest. Some good allies to send to a Siege quest are Winged Guardian, Defender of Rammas or heroes like Boromir equipped with Gondorian Shields. There are not as many global buffs to defence strength, so Siege quests are usually more difficult than Battle or Regular quests. This stage will be more difficult as you will now also be lacking the 2 defence from Celador you had on stage 1. The Ithilien Guardians will help, but will only have 1 defence to bring to the quest.
In all, you have to make 9 progress in order to clear this quest. This might be difficult as you will have to handle some engaged enemies first, which will require some defence strength. Once you have gotten a hold of the scenario, 9 progress shouldn’t be too difficult to muster, especially if you have built your deck around the Siege keyword a little. If players have the 9 required progress to clear the stage, they advance to stage 4 instead of 3. This will likely force the players into another Siege quest unless they have managed to keep their threat low.
Quest stage 3: The Hidden Way – 12 quest points
Congratulations, Celador survived the first stage and will now join the first player alongside any other objective allies in the staging area at this point. This will be the only time that these allies can come under the control of any player, so if you reveal copies of Ithilien Guardian later in the scenario, they will just sit in the staging area and be committed to the quest. These newly obtained allies will no longer commit to the quest without the players exhausting them. They can also be exhausted to clear Overgrown Trail or be used in attacking/defending enemies.
This stage is a lot lighter on the enemies. You will no longer be forced to engage any enemies in the staging area, and you will also not be able to optionally engage an enemy. If you really want to have enemies engaged with you, Dunedain Hunter, Wait No Longer, and The Hammer-stroke can help you out. This is also the perfect time to reveal the Morgul Spider, as its When Revealed effect will not hurt players if they do not have to engage the spider. Southron Company will also become a breeze, adding only 1 threat to the staging area and attacking for 3 instead of 5.
This is the only part of the quest where players get to use their willpower to commit to the quest. Stage 4 will only grant players perhaps 2 rounds before it turns into a Siege quest. So players will have to shift their focus from their Battle quest to willpower questing. There are a couple of heroes that are great for this, chiefly Tactics Éowyn, Thorin Oakenshield, and Glorfindel.
At this point in the game, the players can try to kill any leftover enemies engaged with them. This will make combat on stage 4 a bit easier when everything in the staging area will have to come down naturally. Try to clear the 12 progress tokens fast, as the enemies will start to build up in the staging area, and your threat will start to climb up towards 35-40 around this time. Making all 12 progress will force players to immediately advance to stage 4.
Quest stage 4: Approaching Cair Andros – 15 quest points, likely Siege!
Now we have come to the final stage. No matter which way you took, stage 2 and 3 both end up with you racing towards Cair Andros. And I do mean that players will have to race. This stage will raise the threat of each player by an additional 2 at the end of each round. This is on top of the 1 threat you have to take at the end of each regular round. This can force players towards Valour (40+ threat) and will make it likely that players threat out at this stage, which is the worst way to lose the game in my opinion. This stage will also make Watcher in the Wood an even bigger threat, as players will tend to quest with a lot of characters.
If any of the players have a threat of 37 or higher, the quest turns from a regular stage into a Siege quest, counting defence instead of willpower. This may be a shock for players who have come here via stage 3 and who haven’t gotten used to Siege questing before. Players who came here from stage 2 will have a hard time to quest with willpower if everyone’s threat is below 37, though this doesn’t last long with the new threat mechanic introduced at this stage.
In order to beat the scenario, players will have to make 15 progress on this stage. I would advise to just go for it and commit as many characters as you think necessary. It may prove difficult if the staging area is clogged up with locations and enemies from the previous stages, so try to travel and engage as much as possible. It is probably the best to risk 1 turn of enemies this round to relief the staging area from its threat. Try to clear locations in the staging area if possible, as they will 3 or 4 threat to the staging area on their own.
If all goes to plan, you will be able to clear this stage in 1 turn by committing every character with willpower or defence (depending on your threat). This sprint to the finish often has a higher chance of winning the game than getting beaten to a pulp during combat if you decide to do it in 2 turns. It really depends on how many enemies have come up and how well you have dealt with that.
Once the players have made 15 progress on the stage, they immediately win the scenario. Congratulations, you have beaten a pretty difficult scenario. The next one will prove to be much more difficult though. Siege of Cair Andros is one of the top 5 hardest quests in this game… better bring your location control to that one.
The Encounter deck
- This scenario has fewer cards than previous cycles, having only 36 cards to be revealed in Normal mode, and 23 in Easy mode
- Shadow effects are very common, 78% of cards in Normal mode feature this effect and a whopping 96%(!) of cards in Easy mode. Burning Brand and Armoured Destrier will hit more often than not.
- Average threat on cards revealed is very high in this scenario, 1.9 in Normal mode and 2.2 in Easy mode
- Surge is quite common on treacheries and objectives. 8 cards have this keyword.
- Doomed is only Doomed 3 on Southron Support. There are a lot of other mechanics that will raise your threat though.
- Archery X is present on both stage 2B and the Southron Mercenaries. This will deal quite a lot of damage in a multiplayer game if you let it stack up.
The threat on cards revealed depends a little on the stage where the players are. Southron Company will get +2 if the stage has a keyword. Since most of the stages do, I have calculated their threat to be 3 for the sake of the averages above. The encounter deck is quite enemy heavy, so prepare for combat and don’t bring a control deck.
- Celador: This Gondorian Ranger will be the decisive factor on which stage you will have to face, 2 or 3. Celador has solid stats for an objective ally and will always be committed to the quest while he is in the staging area. This helps the players with 2 additional attack strength during stage 1. The players will be able to take control of Celador once they survive the first round and move to stage 3. Celador will be very vulnerable and can leave play quickly. Not only will players have to deal a damage to him if a character leaves play (Silvans/Sneak Attack do count) or if the players quest unsuccessfully, but also if treacheries like Blocking Wargs show up. Fortunately, Celador will be a viable target for any healing that targets regular allies. Try to save Celador in order to get him as an ally and avoid the Siege quest of stage 2.
- Ithilien Guardian: Celador is not the only Ranger in the forest of Ithilien. There will be 2 copies of Ithilien Guardian in the encounter deck in both modes which will help the players. Like Celador, these allies will sit in the staging area and commit to the quest. Their stats will not be great if you are facing a Siege quest, but it is still better than nothing. The real fun is to be had with their Shadow effect though. Players will get to deal 2 points of direct damage to the attacking enemy, which can even kill some enemies if you have softened them up with other direct damage. If the enemy is killed because of this, the attack is cancelled and the defender takes no damage. Ithilien Guardian will also come down under the control of the first player if he got revealed before players advance to stage 3. This will, of course, require Celador to have survived the first stage.
Sauron is gathering his forces to attack Gondor, and the fastest way for the Southrons to Mordor is through Ithilien. This makes them the chief antagonists in this scenario. But they are not alone, the Forest also has some creatures in it that would love to kill off your party. But do not think that they will be your biggest threat, the Mûmakill of Harad fulfil that role!
- Forest Bat: The latest Thalin fodder is the Forest Bat. These creature enemies have ones for all of their stats, making them the weakest enemy in the encounter deck. They are only a nuisance if players reveal the Bats and can’t damage them directly with Fresh Tracks or Expecting Mischief. When these Bats are revealed, players will have to deal 2 damage to a hero and remove that hero from the quest. You should really be bringing healing to this scenario to heal some of this damage off. In combination with Archery damage, most heroes will tend to be low on health and might not be able to take the damage. The first player can circumvent this effect by not sending any heroes to the quest, but that player would have to rely on his allies a lot. Removing that hero from the quest can also be a pain to your progress. Windfola can help to recommit that hero. The Bats are not a real threat in combat, so players would be able to handle these with Gondorian Spearmen if they brought any.
- Morgul Spider: Now this enemy is one that is particularly nasty if you have to engage it on the turn it comes into play. The Morgul Spider will gain a massive boost to its attack strength for each character that is not committed to the quest at that time. This includes any Hobbits that you would commit to the quest with Hobbit Pony. The best course of action is to make sure the Spider stays in the staging area for the rest of the round. Noiseless Movement, Ranger Spikes, and Fresh Tracks can help you with this. Because its engagement cost is relatively low, players are forced to use any of these cards in order to avoid the spider. Players can also make sure that the engaged spider is unable to attack with Feint or kill it before it attacks with Quick Strike if they can one-shot it. After the first round, the spider becomes a much more decent 4 attack enemy which may still be troubling for some players. Remember that the Spider only has 1 point of defence, so Tactics Aragorn+ a weapon + Straight Shot can also prevent the spider from attacking you.
- Haradrim Elite: These enemies are horrible, as you will be forced to handle an attack from them outside the regular combat phase. With the possibility of getting the same Haradrim Elite as a shadow card, this might even cause a player to take more than 1 attack outside the combat phase. With the Elite hitting for a base 4, chumping or undefended attacks are also unlikely. I usually try to handle these by means of direct damage. If I can defend the Elite with a Gondorian Spearman and use Swift Strike (which I love in a direct damage deck) the Haradrim Elite are destroyed, not contributing their threat to the staging area. During the regular combat phase, these enemies are quite likely to come down thanks to their low engagement cost, making them a tough opponent. Their 3 defence is quite tough to get through.
- Mûmak: There it is, the bane of many players who are trying this scenario for the first time. This massive Oliphaunt will bring 4 threat to the staging area right out of the gate. Forget about bringing traps or Conditions to put on it, as it cannot have any attachments. On top of this, if the Mûmak is engaged with you, you will probably not stand a chance against its 7 base attack. This can even be boosted to 10 if you get the Southron Mercenaries as the shadow card. Having it make additional attacks will also result in the death of a hero if you have no chumps available at the time. This beast will tear through your line-up and can make you lose Celador early. When you want to attack the Mûmak, take into account that it can only take 3 damage per turn. This includes any damage dealt outside the combat phase. This translates to having the Mûmak in play for at least 4 turns before you can defeat its hitpoint pool of 12. If you do, you don’t even get to add it to the victory display unless you play None Return. Is there nothing you can do about this horrible enemy? Not exactly, it is not immune to player card effects, which can help you a lot. It is also not unique, which opens up a couple of options. First, players could try to clear the side-quest Delay the Enemy in order to discard the Mûmak if it is engaged with you. Players can also make use of the event Revealed in Wrath. This blanks the textbox of the Mûmak, including the text where it can’t take more than 3 damage per round. Combine this with an all-out assault on the Mûmak and you will be able to dispatch it in a single turn. You can also equip a Noldor or Silvan character with 2 copies of Rivendell Blade. This lowers the defence of the Mûmak to 0, allowing players to exhaust a weapon for Straight Shot. This automatically discards the enemy and bypasses the restriction on damage per round. Luckily this enemy is a 1 off in the encounter deck and has a tendency to be a Shadow effect most of the time.
- Southron Company: These enemies will be a common sight and a right pain in the ass for many players. The Southron Company is pretty bad on its own, but if the current quest card has Siege or Battle on it, they get a boost of 2 to their threat and attack strength. Now, there is a way where you can pick a side-quest during the quest phase and make it the current quest card for that round, allowing you to negate their buff (unless your side-quest is Delay the Enemy). But players should be warned that they do not clear that stage during the round it is active. In that case, the Southron Company becomes much more manageable in terms of threat and attack strength. During stage 3 (and 4 if players have a threat below 37), where the quest is regular willpower, these enemies are good targets for engagement if you can dispose of them right away. The good news is that the Companies do not get a boost in defence so it would be pretty easy to discard them with a Straight Shot if you bring Heroes like Tactics Aragorn.
- Southron Mercenaries: These final enemies are not a huge threat during combat, but their Archery can get annoying if you leave them in the staging area for a few rounds. It is advised that you should take these guys down if you ever get the opportunity. It is also a good thing to keep in mind how many of these are still in the encounter deck, as their shadow effect can be brutal on any Harad enemy. This can make the Southron Company attack for 8 or the Mûmak for 10…
The Forest of Ithilien will be the setting for this scenario. There are only 3 types of locations in the encounter deck, so you should see all 3 in a single playthrough. With not a lot of locations in the encounter deck in general, location lock shouldn’t be an issue. Be warned though, these locations all have a pretty high threat, making it very lucrative to explore a couple in the staging area.
- Secluded Glade: A regular 3/3 location that I would advise players to travel to if they have the option. This location is not targetable for any location control events, so I would just advise you to travel to it whenever you can. This location is probably the best option for players out of all 3 locations since the other 2 can be cleared in the staging area.
- Overgrown Trail: This 4 threat location is a pretty bad reveal, as it will add a lot of threat to the staging area and will require 6 progress tokens to be explored, ruling out most location control cards. However, this Trail comes with built-in location control for any deck that runs Ranger characters. Even if players do not have any Rangers in their deck or among their heroes (remember that Doughty Ranger can give the trait to any hero), players can use the objective allies in this scenario. If the players have control over these objectives (they must be at stage 3), they can exhaust them to place 3 progress on the Overgrown Trail. I would also suggest bringing the Guardian of Ithilien player card for cheap access to location control over these locations. You can trigger the effect 2 times in a row to remove 4 threat from the staging area directly.
- Ithilien Road: You will start off with this location as the active location during setup. Its effect can cause some enemies to engage the wrong people, as some decks might not have expected to have an enemy engaged with them at turn 1. I would advise players not to travel to this location if they have the option unless they are on stage 3 or if no other enemies are in the staging area. This location will require some planning and communication with fellow players. Whatever you do, try to clear it in 1 turn if it is the active location. This will allow players to choose whether or not to engage certain enemies with a higher engagement cost than their threat. The biggest threat is, of course, the Mûmak, which normally stays in the staging area for a while. Clearing this location will prevent it from coming down before you have means to counter it.
- Blocking Wargs: This form of Necromancer’s Reach will only target questing characters and leave any other exhausted characters alone. This will mean that character who do not exhaust to quest (Light of Valinor) will also still take damage. This treachery will also target any Rangers in the staging area as they are committed to the quest. This can cause Celador to lose some hitpoints and be discarded earlier than player expected. Probably the best way to avoid taking damage on characters is to commit them after staging with Hobbit Pony and/or Late Adventurer. On top of the damage, this card will surge. This can make players discard a Minas Tirith Lampwright in order to guess the next card and potentially discarding it. If you aren’t scrying, your best bet will be to call enemy.
- Lost Companion: I like the art of this card, but couldn’t care less about this effect. Each player will have to commit at least 2 characters to the quest in order to cancel the much nastier kicker of this treachery. An untimely Lost Companion will cause players to fail the quest, raising their threat and dealing a damage to Celador as a result. Try to have every player commit at least 2 characters and have Windfola ready to recommit a character after it has been removed from the quest. You can also always cancel the effects of this treachery with a Test of Will if you have that in your hand.
- Southron Support: This card is awful and really worth the 1 resource to cancel it. Not only will players be forced to raise their threat, they also need to find 1 Harad enemy each and add it to the staging area. This will make the card surge into up to 4 enemies in a 4p game. If all Harad enemies are in play, players might even be forced to add the Mûmak to the staging area. I would advise players to pick a Southron Company if able, as they don’t make an additional attack, and don’t increase the Archery value.
- Watcher in the Wood: This art reminds me a little of Sleeping Sentry, which isn’t a good sign. This treachery will raise each players threat by the number of questing characters the group controls. In a multiplayer game, this can lead to raising your threat by 10 easily. If you go all out with questing characters on the final stage and this card turns up, many players will have crossed the 50 threat margin and are eliminated from the game. Favor of the Valar will be good to counter at least 1 copy of this. Then, if the current stage has either Battle or Siege on it, Watcher in the Wood surges. Try to cancel this treachery if you can in order to prevent a huge gain in threat during the game. You can also prevent this by committing some characters after staging as mentioned before.
Tips and Tricks
- The first round is crucial, try to power quest through the first stage so that you are able to clear the Ithilien Road. This will make the Combat phase a little easier as not all enemies will have to come down. Since the first stage is a Battle quest, I would suggest sending characters like Beorn, Quickbeam, and Tactics Eowyn to the quest. These characters will make sure to overcome the threat from the Southron Companies and any other revealed cards.
- Healing is vital for many decks to withstand the ongoing attacks and archery damage. Having Elrond on the table will be a great asset to the players, as they will be able to heal more with their Wardens of Healing. I also like the Silvan Tracker in a Silvan deck. Just pile all damage on Silvan characters and heal it off at the refresh phase. This is probably a less popular strategy as Silvans cannot rely on their bouncing in and out of play strategy.
- Unless you want Celador to die on stage 1, I wouldn’t recommend you try to chump block or bring a Silvan deck. While the locations all have a Forest trait, and that is what the Silvans like, their bouncy nature will make sure that Celador dies on the first stage, forcing players to stage 2. Since Silvans aren’t known for their defensive capabilities, they will have a hard time passing through the scenario.
- With quite some enemies having 5 or more hitpoints, Sword of Numenor might actually do some resource acceleration for you. I have had some good luck by putting the sword on my attacker and destroying some Morgul Spiders or Southron Companies with it.
- Tactics Aragorn can do some amazing work in this quest. Since many enemies only have a defence strength of 1, they are susceptible to Straight Shot if they are engaged with that player. I use this method often to make sure I discard enemies before they can attack me.
- With quite a lot of nasty treacheries, cancellation will be vital to your survival in this scenario. Some of these treacheries can be game-ending, making you have to go through this scenario again. The priorities of cancelling what treachery depends a little on what stage players are. I would argue that Southron Support should be the priority during the early game, and Watcher in the Wood during the late game.
- If you decide to play side-quests, try to go to any side-quest without the Battle or Siege keyword to cripple the Southron Company. Doing this on the first turn will turn the quest into regular willpower questing and makes it easier to deal with the Company that starts the game off in the staging area.
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The Long and Short of It
25 January 2022, 2 – 3pm GMT
Hosted by Volans (online) Register here
For 50 years, humanity has been slowly coming to terms with the reality that our economy is bounded by our ecology. Yet, with short-termism hardwired into our cultural, political and financial systems, we continue to use resources faster than nature can regenerate them – undermining our future wellbeing and prosperity.
What will it take to reverse the trend towards societal short-sightedness? What does it mean to invest for the long term? And how can we all contribute to building an economy that works within nature’s limits?
Drawing on lessons from the Climate-KIC Long-termism Deep Demonstration, this session will explore cutting edge ideas about how we can instil long-termism in our financial, economic and political systems.
Speakers to include:
- Richard Roberts & Charlene Cranny, Volans
- Jakob Thomä & Anne Schoenauer, 2° Investing Initiative
- Raj Kalia, Dark Matter Labs
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This hearty blend comforts the soul with a savory and umami sensation from tender broccoli and infused mushrooms, hugged by a creamy coconut milk base to soothe the tastebuds.
INGREDIENTS: Purified Water, Onion, Coconut Milk, Sweet Potato, Broccoli, Celery, Kale, Bok Choy, Swiss Chard, Carrot, Shiitake Mushrooms, Maitake Mushrooms, Lion’s Mane Mushrooms, Kelp, Alaria, Digitata, Agaricus Blazei Mushrooms, Reishi Mushrooms, Garlic, Ginger, Sea Salt, Black Pepper, Olive Oil (cold-pressed, unrefined), Proprietary Blend of Natural Spices
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Wonderful product number ordered several times. Staple in my freezer
I absolutely love this soup however i have an issue with the amount of saturated fat in it which adds up to 80%!
Any chance you could reduce the amount of coconut milk in it and thereby, I believe, reduce the saturated fat? Anyone with any cholesterol problem would have to stay away from this. I would be buying this regularly if not for this issue. Thank you so much you are the best!
Hello Michelle, thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts on LION’S MANE.
You bring up a good point about the saturated fat content in LION’S MANE that we would like to address. We acknowledge there is a higher level of saturated fat in coconut milk compared to milk alternatives. However, studies show consuming coconut milk has lowered “bad” LDL cholesterol and raised “good” HDL cholesterol and/or triglyceride levels. Coconut milk may also reduce inflammation, decrease stomach ulcer size, and fight viruses and bacteria. Coupled with the health benefits of the Lion’s Mane mushroom, this blend is still a nutritious go-to blend for brain and heart health.
For more information about it, here is an article from Healthline recommended by our chef: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/coconut-milk#other-benefits
Lunch seems to be the meal where I find myself slacking off the most in terms of health, these soups are the perfect fix! I love them because they can be heated up in a microwave (at work) and are incredibly portable. As someone who is into clean eating, I love being able to read and understand every single ingredient on the back. Keep up the good work!
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Building land in a village near Labin
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US-Japanese scientist Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann of Germany and Giorgio Parisi of Italy won the Nobel Physics Prize for climate models
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The winners were announced Tuesday by Goran Hansson, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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5. Mario Party
Courtesy of IGN.com
You can’t have a party without the beer, and Mario is the delivery man at the door with the keg. All of the games in the Mario Party
series revolve around mini-games that can include team-based action and free-for-alls, so your choices are limitless. “Party mode,” as it is known, gives players the ability to engage in these battles and win coins. It even lets you put a few wagers on the battles with the coins your character has, making the mini-games have some seriously high stakes. If you like betting in poker or want to simply make the game more interesting, Mario Party
lets you and your friends have some serious fun. Challenge:
This series is tailor-made for a night of drinking, and it’s pretty simple — any player that earns a “star” on a randomly placed “star space” on the game board has to make the other players chug a beer
. Believe us, it’s a thrilling method to your Mario madness.
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There are many needs which should be addressed in free agency and the draft. The three positions which should receive the most attention:
Wide receiver is the most painfully obvious need for the Ravens (yet again). With Mike Wallace no longer under contract, and Jeremy Maclin likely to be cut to free up cap space, Baltimore is in desperate need of help. Hopefully, Wallace returns next season, as he has already expressed desire to do so, and has the most chemistry with QB Joe Flacco out of the current receivers. Maybe Breshad Perriman will decide to show up next year as well, but Ozzie Newsome can’t bank on it this time around.
The ideal situation would be to re-sign Mike Wallace to a relatively cheap contract, while signing another veteran free agent receiver, and drafting one or two guys in the high to mid rounds of the draft. This is wishful thinking I know.
Hopefully, Newsome learned his lesson when he passed on JuJu Smith-Schuster in the second-round last year and watched him produce terrific results for the rival Pittsburgh Steelers. The best player available strategy is a good one, but sometimes you have to bite the bullet and draft for need. Especially when it’s been such a glaring need for so long.
It would be fantastic to sign a veteran like Jarvis Landry while drafting a player such as Calvin Ridley in the first round of the draft. Joe Flacco can only dream of having such weapons. Sadly, Landry will come with a hefty price tag most likely, and the Ravens will be strapped for cap space (as usual).
With Benjamin Watson, 37, contemplating retirement, the Ravens must find a new receiving tight end. Nick Boyle and Maxx Williams are both good blockers, but do not provide much in the passing game. Even if Watson decides to return for another year, he would have to be re-signed, and will turn 38 during the season. His replacement must be found.
Ozzie could bring in another veteran tight end in free agency, while drafting one as well. Joe Flacco works best with a reliable tight end to throw to, look to Todd Heap and Dennis Pitta as examples of this. It’s still possible that Williams could develop into the receiving threat Baltimore drafted him to be, but I wouldn’t count on it at this point. Crockett Gilmore could be re-signed, and while flashing massive potential at times, has struggled to stay healthy year in and year out. A dominant tight end can be just as important as a true number one receiver. Baltimore desperately needs one of the two.
The biggest weakness of the Ravens defense this season was their inability to cover tight ends. Everyone knew the loss of Zachary Orr would be felt, but I don’t think anyone knew just how much. Time and time again, opposing tight ends gashed the Ravens defense. They made average guys look like Rob Gronkowski. This could partly be due to C.J. Mosley playing injured for several games, but the Ravens still need more help.
The run defense suffered as well. Baltimore is in need of a two down “thumper” to pair with Mosley. A cheap veteran could be an option here, but I fully expect for Ozzie to address this in the draft. The Ravens usually have no problem finding quality linebackers, whether it’s through free agency, the draft, or an undrafted rookie. Patrick Onwuasor should continue to develop, but he most likely isn’t the long term answer next to Mosley. Bam Bradley will return from injury, so maybe he can fill the role. This is the position I’m most confident will be resolved before the 2018 season.
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On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced a six-pronged, comprehensive plan to combat COVID-19 and its variants. One prong of that plan includes expanding vaccination requirements for Medicare and Medicaid-certified facilities. This requirement is expected to apply to approximately 50,000 healthcare providers and cover a majority of healthcare workers across the country.
What Is the New Requirement?
To combat the spread of COVID-19, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is using its authority to expand the emergency regulations that require vaccinations for nursing home workers to encompass more healthcare providers and suppliers who participate in Medicare and Medicaid. As a condition for participating in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, CMS will require that staff of all Medicare and Medicaid-certified facilities be vaccinated.
Who Is Included?
The new vaccination requirement will apply to all Medicare and Medicaid-certified facilities. CMS indicated the Medicare and Medicaid-certified facilities will include the following providers:
- Hospitals (acute care, critical access hospitals, and inpatient rehabilitation facilities),
- Outpatient Facilities (ambulatory surgical centers, comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities, federally qualified health centers, and rural health clinics),
- Long-Term Care Facilities & Skilled Nursing Facilities,
- Durable Medical Equipment Suppliers
- Home Health Agencies,
- Clinical Labs, and
At this time, it is uncertain whether physician practices would fall under the new vaccination mandate.
Based on communications from the White House, we anticipate staff who must be vaccinated will include, but not be limited to, clinical staff; individuals providing services under arrangements; volunteers; and staff who are not involved in direct patient, resident, or client care.
When Will It Take Effect?
CMS is developing an Interim Final Rule with a comment period and plans to issue the proposed rule in October 2021. CMS is encouraging all certified Medicare and Medicaid facilities to begin complying with these expected regulations by urging workers who are not currently vaccinated to get vaccinated immediately. Healthcare facilities are encouraged to use all available resources, including employee education and clinics, to meet the new federal requirements.
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Dear Car Talk:
I was wondering how much traffic noise comes from engines and how much from tires on pavement? My house is near an urban expressway.
Will our neighborhood get any quieter when all vehicles are electric and there are no internal combustion engines on the road? -- Larry
Internal combustion engines make the most noise when they're working hard -- like when they're accelerating or moving a car up a hill. And they're not generally working that hard when a car is just cruising down the highway.
If you're near a flat section of highway, Larry, those cars are in high gear. That means most of their engines are turning at a modest 1,800 to 2,500 rpm. So, the bulk of the noise you're hearing is tire noise.
You can confirm this yourself. Next time you're cruising down the highway, turn off Beyonce for a moment and see what you can hear most -- the engine or the wind and road noise. It'll be the latter.
Sound energy doubles for every 10 mph or so of speed. So road noise from traffic at 70 mph is going to be a lot louder than road noise from 30 mph traffic. As you and your family can attest.
Electric cars are more likely to help with noise on slower and residential streets, where acceleration can make as much noise as tires. And they'll be particularly helpful in reducing noise when large trucks go electric. That'll help your situation, Larry. But electric drivetrains, on their own, won't solve your highway noise problem.
The good news is there are other technologies that may help. Lots of places are using rubberized asphalt to pave roads now. That's asphalt mixed with bits of old tires. Kind of a homeopathic approach. Tire vs. tire. Those roads are a lot quieter. And there are experimental road surfaces being developed that might reduce noise even more.
And in the meantime, there are noise-canceling headphones.
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GENERAL MEDICAL ULTRASOUND AT CDS
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The CDS scanning team has considerable experience in specific areas of general medical in addition to pregnancy and gynaecological ultrasound.
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Making Marketing Magic
Meet Kiley Nichols, senior demand generation manager
As a lifelong learner, Kiley Nichols is always looking for problems to solve. In her role as senior demand generation manager, Kiley tests things in a new and exciting way – a perfect fit for her driven personality. "I’m always reading and wanting to figure out new things,” she says. Kiley recently embraced the opportunity to apply agile marketing tactics - applying aspects of agile or DevOps methodology to marketing. This has meant more frequent, quick tests. With this shift, Kiley is building on new technologies and new ways of thinking through Drift certification and taking agile marketing courses. "That’s exciting to me because it means you get to learn a little bit about a lot of things and then continue learning to determine if it’s successful.”
Building on this constant state of learning, Kiley and her team are opening an exciting chapter for CloudBees. "That’s really what agile methodology is supposed to do – cultivate innovation.” With innovation as her guide post, Kiley takes the lead and challenges the status quo. “We can’t linger on what we’re doing in the present,” Kiley says. "We need to be asking, ‘How can we innovate – try something new, something different, maybe something we completely made up on our own – to get what we want?’”
Moving through marketing
Before her current position, Kiley was working in PR content marketing. "Previously, I focused on the content creation and messaging – more of the ‘words’ part of it,” she says. But, Kiley realized she wanted to move toward a more integrated marketing role. "When I moved into this new role, I got to work closely with other folks within demand generation. I’m thankful I got an early opportunity to demonstrate that I could do so many things. It certainly helped me get to where I am today.”
Now, Kiley runs demand generation for CloudBees CI – the company’s flagship product. While she says her previous content marketing job introduced her to many of her peers, she wasn’t as connected with the customer service and sales teams at CloudBees. Now, she’s establishing those relationships so she can drive effective demand generation campaigns. With BDR and sales leadership as her primary internal customer, Kiley is in regular contact with these teams so they are fully aligned to ensure what she’s producing is working for sales.
They key to those relationships? Transparency. "We have a really transparent relationship,” Kiley says. "When it comes to working through problems and providing solutions, transparency has been a saving grace.”
Fortunately, Kiley says, transparency is more than a quality shared by a few "Bees.” It’s ubiquitous among "the Hive” – especially when it comes to being open and genuine. “I remember telling everybody on day two that I was a 'lifer.’ I just loved how welcoming and inclusive everyone was. Everyone was so real.” For Kiley, seeing this reflected in-person – not just in the interview – gave her tremendous optimism from the very start.
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In 1954, four years after it was created by an American electrical engineer called Hubert Schlafly, Dwight Eisenshower became the first US president to make use of a teleprompter for a State of the Union address.
Since then, just about everyone who followed has done the same, and some with more grace than others. Barack Obama made it look utterly natural, whereas the pauses in George W Bush’s sometimes faltering delivery could make people anxious. Only Richard Nixon had no use for the device.
By now, we know Donald Trump can read from a teleprompter. And sometimes he can speak with passion and energy – a far better orator than his critics would concede.
His second address to the joint houses of Congress, and his first State of the Union, was certainly one of Trump’s better speeches yet. For one hour and twenty minutes – records show it was one of the longest – he spoke with flair and confidence, earning himself many more standing ovations than hisses and boos.
And he had some good lines, too. This was not the grey, America First brutality put together by Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller for Trump’s inauguration address that made everyone other than his hardcore supporters wince and worry.
“We want every American to know the dignity of a hard day’s work; we want every child to be safe in their home at night, and we want every citizen to be proud of this land that we love,” he said at one point.
And those fearful of Trump’s inclination to withdraw America from the world stage, may have taken heart when he declared: “As we rebuild America’s strength and confidence at home, we are also restoring our strength and standing abroad.”
But making a speech, and even sounding and looking presidential, is not enough. After a first year in office in which the world has watched as Trump has insulted allies, behaved like a petulant teenager, indulged in racist rhetoric and dog whistle politics, the bar has been set so low that everyone is ready to get excited when he sticks to the script. Blue silk tie? Tick. Expensive-looking suit? Tick. A teleprompter that is switched on? Tick.
Earlier the month, as Trump’s speech writers were tidying up those lines about struggling communities being helped by immigration policies “that focus on the best interests of American workers and American families”, he was playing politics with the lives and futures of 700,000 young people known as the Dreamers, permitted to remain in the US under an emergency order introduced by Obama.
Trump has taunted, teased and used those young people as pawns. Eventually, the White House has said he supports a path for citizenship for them, but only if he received $25bn for the border wall with Mexico.
Likewise, Trump was able to brag about three million US workers getting bonuses, but that came at the expense of one of the biggest corporate tax giveaways in history. Even many Republicans admit they cannot see how the federal government can now balance the books.
Trump can talk about investing in infrastructure – he said he wanted $1.5 trillion for a “safe, fast, reliable, and modern infrastructure” – but he has repeatedly refused to work with Democrats to build consensus on projects that would benefit everyone.
From the perspective of Republicans, Trump’s first year in office was rather positive. Neil Gorsuch was confirmed to the Supreme Court, a version of the travel ban was enacted and he eventually signed into law the tax cuts that Paul Ryan and others had been slathering over.
Yet, so much of what he did infuriated and angered people. He currently has an approval rating of around 38 per cent – a record low. In a country that was created from immigrants, many Americans cannot understand how he has done so little to build bridges and done so much to create antagonism.
There was very little to assuage those people on Tuesday night.
This year, a year in which the President and the Republicans face the test of midterm elections, Trump must be judged by his actions and deeds, rather than his words or manner. We know he can sometimes sound presidential. We know he can please his base.
He has yet to prove that he can can be the president of all Americans.
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Greater Manchester Police Chief apologises after children abused 'in plain sight'
Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins has apologised to the children abused "in plain sight" by the grooming gangs his officers failed to bring to justice.
He spoke after a damning report revealed senior Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officers and senior officials at Manchester City Council, looking after many of the victims in care, were aware but did nothing to act.
A police drive called Operation Augusta to tackle street grooming by gangs of Asian males preying on vulnerable teenage girls in Manchester was launched then abruptly closed down by senior officers in 2004.
His officers are now trying to track down paedophiles 15 years after their victims first told of the abuse.
Malcolm Newsam CBE, a renowned childcare expert, and Gary Ridgeway, a former detective superintendent with Cambridgeshire Police, authors of the report into Operation Augusta, concluded: "The authorities knew that many were being subjected to the most profound abuse and exploitation but did not protect them from the perpetrators.
"This is a depressingly familiar picture and has been seen in many other towns and cities across the country."
Mr Hopkins, who became head of the force in 2015, said: "On behalf of Greater Manchester Police, I want to apologise to all those vulnerable children who were let down in 2004 by police not thoroughly investigating the offences that had been committed against them.
"I want to say that I am personally disgusted that these children were not cared for and by the awful abuse that they suffered."
GMP has re-launched the grooming investigation, now called Operation Green Jacket, and identified 53 potential victims, 48 of them in council care at the time with "viable lines of enquiry" to investigate regarding 38 victims.
His force also joins South Yorkshire Police following the scandal in Rotherham, in being investigated by watchdogs the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over their botched street grooming investigations.
Assistant Chief Constable Mabs Hussain of GMP told the PA news agency: "The victims have been incredibly upset.
"They have been very upset about the abuse they have suffered. They are incredibly hurt by how they were let down and nobody listened to what they had to say.
"They talk about having to re-live the nightmare.
"We clearly failed these young people and our focus today is making sure they get the justice they were denied in 2004, 2005."
Mr Hussein said he expected police will bring charges against some suspects but declined to apologise directly to Maggie Oliver, the former GMP detective who turned whistleblower over Operation Augusta.
He said: "Our apology is to the victims and I'm grateful to all those individuals who have raised awareness of these horrendous offences in our communities."
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Artist Interview: Michael Buxton AKA DinoMikeby Michael Essek · Updated: May 27, 2020
Michael Buxton has!
Michael (AKA ‘DinoMike’) is a fellow UK native who has been at the online T-Shirt game for over 6 years – with bestselling designs on Threadless, TeeFury, and of course all over Redbubble and Teepublic.
Mike was kind enough to answer some questions from me – and I think there’s a lot of great value in here for both the newbie and the seasoned T-Shirt designer alike.
I’ll share some quick thoughts at the bottom of this article – where you can also find links to Michael’s stores and social media.
Q. Hi Michael! Can you tell us a little about yourself and how you got into the online t-shirt game in the first place?
So my first design job after I graduated was for a greeting card company here in the UK. After a while I’d worked my way up to a studio manager, but found that I wasn’t really doing much actual design any more, which seemed like a bit of a waste of what I originally wanted to do.
In that time I’d become really interested in t-shirt design and had a fairly worrying obsession with buying tees, so I decided to give it shot in my spare time. I started submitting to Threadless competitions, but I was absolutely awful, so gave up for a couple of years and really worked on developing my illustration skills, then came back with a bit more focus.
Q. What was your first t-shirt related success?
My first success was a submission into Design By Humans, when they were still taking exclusive designs.
This was way back in 2012 with a design called ‘Bear Essential’ which featured a large print bear with some funny type overlaid inside it.
I remember the actual email telling me it had been selected went into my junk mail folder, and I didn’t spot it for a few days, so I really thought I’d blown it! But it went on to be a good seller, which gave my confidence a huge boost and convinced me I could make a success of t-shirt design.
Q. Can you tell us about your creative process? How do you come up with ideas, and then how do go about turning them into designs?
It’s a bit of a mix really.
A lot of the time I try to play around with different puns and slogans to see what I can twist them into and other times it’s choosing subject matter I’m interested in and finding an angle that way.
I love horror films so they tend to feature quite heavily in my work, and it’s the same for animals (especially cats).
I also find it useful to keep a list on my phone for when ideas pop into my head. They’re 90% terrible, but sometimes it’s enough to spark something off in your brain later down the line.
Q. What does your usual working day look like?
I’m not very good in the mornings, so I usually start working around 10am.
If I don’t have any agency work to do, I usually have an idea chosen to work on, so I’ll spend as much time as it needs to get it finished. And then any time left I’ll usually spend uploading designs to various sites. Also, trying to remember to post stuff to social media!
Q. How many designs you do produce a month or a week? do you set targets or just go with whatever?
I try to get at least a new design finished every day.
However, if I have a project from my agency then that becomes my priority.
I do try to set out a rough schedule for things like that as I think it’s a bit more satisfying having targets to hit.
Q. You are represented by an agency. Do you have any advice for illustrators who are looking at the getting representation, and what would you say are the benefits of this?
Well when I was studying illustration at University, I really wanted to break into illustrating children’s books, and that itch never really went away. But getting into that side of illustration is almost impossible to do without an agency representing you, so that was my main reason for seeking representation. Plus it never hurts to have another source of income.
As for advice, I’d say to do your research and find an agency that seems to fit in with the work you produce, and then get in touch with a polite email with a few (under five) samples of your best work. And don’t be put off if you get a few rejections along the way.
Q. Are t-shirts your full-time thing or do you also work a day job, do freelance, or have other royalty income?
I’ve been freelancing full-time now for a couple of years, so it’s a mix of t-shirt designs, greeting cards, children’s books, even a bit of logo design.
I think variety is really important as it stops you from getting stagnant and pushes you out of your comfort zone.
Q. You design under the moniker ‘DinoMike’ – do you think it’s helpful or important for artists to have a pen-name like that? would you change it if you could start over?
I think it depends. If I had a really memorable and cool-sounding name, then I probably would have just stuck to that.
But I think having the ‘DinoMike’ moniker helps with having a consistent branding across different sites, and I definitely think it makes my designs easier to search for.
Q. You can obviously create proficiently in a variety of styles, but recently it seems you do a lot more of the ‘cute character’ type stuff. Is that a deliberate decision, or do you just prefer to work in this style?
To be honest it’s probably been drilled into me by working for a greeting card company for ten years.
Working on character stuff for cards usually means cute and appealing, so I think that’s where I default to. Also a lot of my humour designs have a slightly dark edge to them, and when it’s contrasted with a really cute style, I think it adds to the joke.
Q. Could you tell us a bit about the t-shirt sites that work out best for you in terms of royalty income?
When I first went freelance I think it was definitely Threadless that led in terms of income. I’d had a couple of really successful designs printed and had won a few competitions on there.
But things can change quite quickly in the t-shirt world and I’ve seen sites like TeePublic become increasingly popular. Tee sites can change their strategies pretty quickly, so it can be a bit of a roller coaster ride for artists sometimes.
Q. What advice would you give to someone who wants to follow in your footsteps, and successfully make money from creating original t-shirt designs? What are the most important things they should focus on?
That’s a tricky one! I’d say to try and stick to subject matter your comfortable with and have fun with what you’re trying to create.
You should always ask yourself ‘who would wear this?’ when thinking up designs. For example, I’m not the target audience for a lot of my designs, so I’m creating stuff that I think would be popular for other people.
And there’s nothing more important than practising!
Q. re: Ip infringing stuff – you have a few things that reference movies and tv shows. Are you worried about things being removed by IP holders? Do you think things are changing at all in this regard?
So this is something that I find to be a massive grey area.
Whenever I design something that references a movie or tv show, I always make sure the message of the design is commenting on the IP in a way that parodies it. I think if you’re going to use someone’s IP then you need to make it your own and not just do a lazy mash up for example. So personally I think my pop culture stuff firmly falls under Fair Use laws, however I’ve had work taken down by sites following requests from the original IP owners. A lot of the time this is simply due to having tags on the work which reference that IP.
One crazy thing that has happened to me with a couple of my designs is that I’ve been ripped off by a company that’s bought the rights to the IP I’m parodying, reproduced my design and sold it to established retailers! It happened with my ‘Always Follow Your Dreams’ and ‘Free Hugs’ designs and in both cases the design was an inferior copy. My ideas are obviously being stolen, but fighting a company that holds the rights to that IP could get quite messy, so it’s a really complex situation.
Where this goes in the future is anyone’s guess, but right now it’s super inconsistent. It would be cool if the IP owners saw the value in some of these designs and approached the artists to licence them, but I guess there’s so much stuff out there it would be almost impossible to keep track.
Q. Anything else you’d like to talk about or advice you’d like to add?
Just to say thanks for great questions! And if anyone is interested in chatting about any of the stuff I mentioned, then my Instagram is a great way to get in touch!
Thank You Michael!
Couple of big takeaways here from me;
- Designing Daily. Michael tries to produce at least a design a day, which is quite impressive when you see the quality of both his ideas and his work (lots of detail, textures etc). It just goes to show that there are no shortcuts to success – and the only surefire way to get better at something is to keep doing it, day in, day out.
- Variety. Michael doesn’t just do T-Shirts – but also does freelance work, greetings cards, logos etc. I think this is a good model to follow – as a lot of us have T-Shirt tunnel vision – and could be missing out on other product opportunities and licensing deals outside of the online Print-on-demand world. Another benefit to doing a variety of work is that you just get to change things up every now and again – and as they say, a change is as good as a rest.
- The IP Issue. As Michael says – this is still a big grey area – and his experience with the ‘Follow Your Dreams’ design goes to show there is always a degree of risk when you produce something that references the IP of someone else. As Michael points out – the ideal solution would be something that hooks up IP owners (or even retailers/manufacturers) directly with designers. We are beginning to see this with Merch Collab and other Officially Licensed Print-On-Demand programs from Redbubble, Design By Humans and others. It’s my view that this will be one of the big growth areas for POD in the next few years – and long-sighted designers would do well to think about how they can take advantage of that.
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Celebrate Space Ninjas, The Sixth Annual TennoCon Set For July 17
Another TennoCon is on the way for Warframe fans later this year. Scheduled for Saturday, July 17, the event will once again be digital due to pandemic restrictions and available to fans for free via multiple streaming services. During the event, players can expect the customary game reveals, in-game activities, and dev panels -- as well as some community content: cosplay, art, etc.
As with every TennoCon, digital or not, Digital Extremes has partnered with a charity. This year, players who purchase any of three packs ranging from $25 to $65 USD and help support the Unity Project for Relief of Homelessness. The Unity Project provides emergency shelter and other services for individuals 18 and over trying to avoid homelessness.
The packs consist of a digital pack available to players on PC and Consoles, a physical merchandise pack, and a bundle containing both. However, the digital items in the bundle are available on PC only.
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QuintLyn is a long-time lover of all things video game related will happily talk about them to anyone that will listen. She began writing about games for various hobby sites a little over ten years ago and has taken on various roles in the games community.
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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan today intervened in support of a whistle-blower lawsuit alleging that nearly 20 Chicago-area diagnostic centers paid kickbacks for patient referrals. The 23-page lawsuit, which was filed in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago by whistle-blower and MRI center owner John Donaldson under seal in 2006, alleges that 19 imaging centers defrauded patients and their insurers by overcharging them for imaging services to allow the payment of illegal kickbacks to referring physicians. No physicians have been named to date in the suit, but the attorney general alleges the doctors receiving the kickbacks did not perform any services to earn the allegedly illegal payments. Similar joint ventures between physicians and service providers have drawn fire from state and federal prosecutors in several states. And in 2004, HHS' inspector generals office issued an advisory opinion warning about the so-called "under arrangement" joint ventures.
Madigan alleged the imaging centers let doctors who refer patients for diagnostic exams bill patients and insurance companies directly for services actually provided by the imaging centers and then split the payments. Prosecutors said that the imaging centers then disguised the alleged kickback schemes through phony lease agreements. The alleged schemes began at least 18 months ago and involve thousands of fraudulent claims. Assistant Attorney General Janet Doyle said additional defendantsdoctors or other imaging centerscould be added to an amended complaint later. One of the companies named, Open Advanced MRI, operates nine centers in the Chicago area and its 12-year-old parent company, McLean, Va.-based Medical Imaging and Diagnostics, owns 15 others in four states. Medical Imaging and Diagnostics President and co-founder Rich Fried said he had not seen the lawsuit and could not yet comment. -- by Mark Taylor
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The Asbury Park City Council approved a resolution Wednesday evening allowing restaurants to allow indoor dining at 25% of the building’s capacity or 50 people, whichever is lower, beginning Monday.
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“I hope we’ll get to indoor dining sooner than later, but we’re not there yet,” he said.
A spokesman from Murphy’s office could not immediately be reached for comment on Wednesday evening.
Murphy has not outlined specific benchmarks the state has reached as he has incrementally lifted his orders in New Jersey, home to the second-most COVID-19 deaths and cases in America. Instead, he has pointed to an overall drop in the number of new cases, deaths, and hospitalizations, as well as a steady decrease in the virus’ rate of reproduction.
Chris Sheldon may be reached at [email protected].
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I’m a big fan of commercial music. Being judged on sales is the most honest way to be evaluated by others. Being reviled by most and revered by snobs is bullshit.
Pop singers are like bait. They are painted in bright alluring colours. They shimmer and sparkle in the water, right in the path of the shoals. The shoals like what they see and fight to gobble them up. Then they are gone.
Taylor Swift wants and thinks she deserves our support because someone she doesn’t care for has bought her old record company. Let’s be clear, this does not affect her current or future income in any way. That is protected by contract. She’s just put out because, despite the fact this dude helped turn her into a star, he’s now in control of her old records and that pisses her off.
Taylor earned $180million last year. Yep that’s right.more than the entire combined salaries of every single employee of BT. Just for her.
But she wants our sympathy. She doesn’t have mine.
When you start out as a creator, you do it because you have to. It’s mostly to offset torment. Churchill described creativity as ‘a way of staving off despair’.
But then you hit a crossroads. You see an opportunity to make money at it. This isn’t a right. It’s a choice.
You can carry on without it. If you’re lucky you find a patron who will feed you and clothe you. If you’re not so lucky you will need a contract with a commercial music company.
Music companies are not patrons. They are not benefactors. They give you money with the express intention of getting it back with interest. It’s a deal. And it comes with strings, just like every other job. You have to show up. you have to be nice to folks you don’t like. You have to work. you need to learn. Just like any other job.
Ok so you are not well-equipped for this. You are sensitive. You are vulnerable.
That’s the paradox.
But Taylor isn’t vulnerable, any more than Madonna is vulnerable. She’s a go-getter. She follows the money.
And now she’s annoyed that someone who helped her at the start but now pisses her off has bought her record label with her old records on it.
So she says she’s going to record them all again and sell them herself. What?
So she has so little respect for the time, the place, the care and the creativity that was put into those early records by the whole team that she reckons she can just churn them out again. Really.
And by doing this, hopefully make $360 million next year. Like she needs it.
Taylor, if you don’t respect your old boss, at least respect your own craft.
I’m thinking back to the emotion, the blood, the sweat and lots of tears that went into my work with Sade, Everything But The Girl and so many more. I’m trying to imagine reading they were all being recorded again just to make sure I didn’t earn any more money from them.
The money part would really annoy me. But the thought that underlies it – that this work was so not special, so not of it’s moment, that it can be replaced and recreated at will. That is beyond distressing.
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Just one game in and the Mustangs already are showing improvement on the court, according to Stanton coach Greg Wegner.
After a tight first half, the Mustangs stumbled in the second half Thursday as they opened the girls basketball season on the road in Dodge. The Mustangs dropped a 64-32 decision to Howells-Dodge after hanging with the Jaguars 31-22 in the first half.
“I thought we came out and played well in the first half,” Wegner said after the game. “We did a lot of good things in that first half, and I am impressed with how they played. I see a lot of improvement from last year.”
View more photos from the game here.
Sylvia Cunningham hit double figures with 10 points to lead the Mustangs. Jaedyn Ratzlaff of Howells-Dodge dropped in 14 for the Jaguars.
“We posted up better than we have in the past and had some good looks down low,” Wegner said. “Overall, I saw improvement. We just need to be more consistent in the second half. We can’t let halftime come out and bite us in the tail.”
The Mustangs (0-1) will open at home on Saturday afternoon against Tekamah-Herman (1-0).
Full stats and more comments will be in next week's Stanton Register. Purchase a subscription here.
Stanton 12 10 2 8 — 32
Howells-Dodge 19 12 9 21 — 64
Stanton: Olivia Cunningham 3, Madison Wragge 3, Bridgett Jensen 5, Kinley Pohlman 4, Arynn Spence 1, Sylvia Cunningham 10.
Howells-Dodge: Abbey Pieper 5, Morgan Gall 6, Cassie Pieper 3, Riley Pokorny 3, Janessa Schmidt 8, Brooklyn Macholan 6, Lilly Praest 4, Jaedyn Ratzlaff 14, Blair Fiala 8, Natalie Pieper 7.
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Mike rowe's dity jobs is on I think he found the dirtiest most disgusting job ever: Mikes working in a diaper service. It starts out innocently enough picking up plastic bags of dirty ones and dropping plastic bags of clean ones off . Next includes several cycles of hand counting, individual turd filled(perhaps turd filled is over the mark, Ii'm sure folks dunked the diapers in the toilet andatleast flushed the as muchas would fall off , we did,So mikehandled the mushy rubbed in "peanut butter" ones...) , diarhea streaked,aged wet, urine soaked diapers premie size to adult. Hand loaded individually into industrial washers. I couldn't begin to imagine the funk .
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Williams: NCLB Brought Good Things for Multilingual Students
As a result, the education system we see is alien to the one that most Americans experience. The things we think are important rarely matter at all to students and parents across the country.
That’s why it’s so remarkable that everyone — well-adjusted adults and education policy wonks alike — agrees that No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is broken. And they even mostly agree on how it's broken. It reduces local control in favor of federal mandates. It narrows the curriculum. Standardized testing is bad.
I've been thinking about this a lot during the latest effort to replace NCLB. And as I've been visiting schools all over the country (part of a conscious effort to avoid the aforementioned narrowness of viewpoint), I've started to realize something: NCLB is kinda working.
Here’s why: In a series of three papers we're releasing today at New America's Dual Language Learners National Work Group, my colleagues and I explore a few pieces of proof. Our reports capture a series of schools' efforts to support the linguistic and academic development of early learners who speak a non-English language at home ("dual language learners," or "DLLs").
For our research, we visited over 20 campuses in three different cities and found educators responding to NCLB's challenges and working to serve their young, multilingual students better.
On these visits, I heard some of the usual concerns about the law: Educators were often concerned about whether they could use federal funds flexibly to try new instructional models for their DLLs. They raised serious critiques of the appropriateness of certain NCLB testing rules — particularly those governing dual language learners with special needs.
But over and over, I saw proof that these educators, their schools, and their districts were responding to the law's accountability provisions and driving improvements for their DLL students.
In Portland, Oregon’s David Douglas School District, educators are redesigning their approach to instructing DLLs. David Douglas students are uniquely diverse. More than 70 languages are spoken in students’ households, which means that most elementary classrooms have at least seven or eight languages represented. Roughly four in 10 students will be formally classified as DLLs during their schooling. More than 80 percent of David Douglas families qualify for federal assistance.
These are the sorts of statistics that frequently prompt complaints about NCLB accountability. How, critics ask, are schools supposed to meet the law’s academic benchmarks in the face of these “challenges?” While it is certainly true that different student groups have different needs, and while some of those needs may be tougher for schools to meet than others, educators across David Douglas schools prefer to focus on their students’ potential.
But it’s not just a function of attitude — David Douglas recently overhauled its language support services for DLLs. Rather than pulling students out of core academic instruction to teach them English, the district is now integrating language instruction into general elementary school classrooms.
DLLs and their native English-speaking peers learn English together in a daily half-hour block focused on helping all students develop vocabulary related to academic content. They learn to talk to peers about math, literature, language, and history. And they’re getting results: David Douglas met NCLB benchmarks for DLL students’ performance last fall (only seven other Oregon districts also hit those targets).
When we interviewed Maria Adams, a coach who helps David Douglas teachers improve their language instruction, she was bullish. Adams said that she’d heard the complaints about NCLB, but told us, “It’s completely doable, and we’re not even trying as hard yet as we could be.”
Meanwhile, across the country in Washington, D.C., the Center City Public Charter Schools network had one of its campuses flagged under NCLB because it had large achievement gaps between DLLs and native English-speaking students. So educators retooled their instructional model, in ESL Manager Alicia Passante’s words, asking, “what can we create…and see the actual impact of that goes beyond just providing more (professional development) or staff or buying extra books that are going to sit on a shelf somewhere?”
They launched a new afterschool program for DLLs and began developing individualized learning plans for each multilingual student. Over the next few years, they refined the new model and expanded it to other campuses. They're still working to improve, but the network has shown substantial gains and become a example for other schools.
There’s much more to learn in our reports on David Douglas, D.C., and San Antonio. So, what’s the lesson? What do these examples have in common? On a macro level, all are investing in early education, improving their parent engagement practices, and exploring “dual-generation” strategies that support families’ and students’ success in tandem.
These are all strong, research-based strategies for supporting DLLs’ success. But they don’t mean anything until they’re implemented, and in David Douglas and Center City schools, educators explored them partly in response to pressure from NCLB’s accountability system.
Which, to my mind, is powerful evidence that the law’s besieged accountability provisions aren’t entirely flawed. In our research, we found that school and district leadership appear to be critical. When teachers, principals, superintendents, and district officials respond to NCLB’s expectations by changing how they serve kids, student achievement can improve. When they respond to these expectations by critiquing their validity … it’s not likely to improve.
Congressional staffs are reportedly holding super secret "pre-conference" negotiations now in an effort to replace No Child Left Behind. All signs indicate that the resulting bill will weaken the law's accountability provisions and give districts and states flexibility to set academic expectations without much federal pressure. My conversations with these outstanding educators suggest that this retreat would be a mistake.
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Former prime minister David Cameron netted a profit of £836,168 last year, according to new accounts filed with Companies House.
The Office of David Cameron Limited, the official name of the business which manages his media and speaking appearances, shows that the organisation also had £538,075 cash in the bank and to hand.
The accounts only cover the 12 months to April 30 last year and therefore exclude any profits made from his memoir For the Record, which was published in September.
There are hints on how the year ahead could go for the former politician’s post-Westminster career, however, with £220,319 owed to the company versus £174,549 due to creditors.
Mr Cameron is not a director of the business, according to Companies House, although he is listed as the owner.
Former political secretary Laurence Mann is the only director.
The business, which is based in North Lincolnshire near Samantha Cameron’s hometown, also employed seven staff, up from five in 2018.
It also made a property investment into a building worth £128,190, accounts said.
£120,000 per speech
Since resigning as PM following the Brexit referendum and standing down as an MP shortly after, Mr Cameron has taken several positions in the private and charity sectors.
These include chairman of the advisory board of US artificial intelligence business Afiniti, president of Alzheimer’s Research UK and chairman of the National Citizen Service’s Board of Patrons.
Following his resignation, it was reported that the former prime minister could charge as much as £120,000 per speech.
His predecessor Theresa May also appears to have picked up a sizeable Brexit dividend.
Since standing down she has earned almost £400,000 from speaking about Britain’s impending departure from the European Union.
She also received a £190,000 “signing bonus” from her US agency, £100,000 plus expenses from UBS Switzerland and £75,000 from JP Morgan Chase.
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The Harman/Eisner Artist-in-Residence first launched in July 2006, cofounded by Sidney Harman and Michael Eisner, Aspen Institute Trustee and Chair of its Committee on the Arts.
The residency’s purpose is to engage artists in promoting thoughtful and inclusive societies, bringing innovation and courage to face societal challenges.
“Marin Alsop exemplifies these ideals through her artistry, her perseverance to become the first woman to have led a major American orchestra, and through her work to support rising leaders,” said Aspen Institute Trustee Jane Harman.
In her role, Alsop will engage in discussions on key social and civic issues; concert programming; plus other activities in Aspen, Colorado, and around the US.
“I am thrilled and honored to have this year-long opportunity to join thought leaders to discuss issues that are close to my heart, with a special emphasis on gender equality and access to the arts for all children,” said Alsop in the press release.
She was the first conductor to receive a MacArthur Fellowship and was named the 2021 Classical Woman of the Year by American Public Media’s Performance Today. A new biographical film about her life, “The Conductor,” premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
Currently serving as chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony — becoming the first woman to direct an Austrian orchestra — Alsop is also Chief Conductor and curator of Chicago’s Ravinia Festival and leads the Chicago Symphony in its summer residencies.
She is music director laureate of the Baltimore Symphony, where she recently concluded a 14-year tenure as the first woman to lead a major American orchestra. She additionally founded the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship which promotes the careers of female conductors.
Previous Harman/Eisner Artists-in-Residence include Ava DuVernay, Renée Fleming, Frank Gehry, Yo-Yo Ma, Jessye Norman, Julie Taymor, and Alfre Woodard.
“Marin Alsop is an extraordinarily important figure in current American classical music and a tremendous role model for young people worldwide,” noted Eisner. Her creative and groundbreaking work does so much to spark our imagination and inspire us to be active citizens.”
“[She] is an iconic conductor whose musical achievements are matched by her values and advocacy,” added Dan Porterfield, Aspen Institute’s president and CEO. “We are excited for her upcoming participation in programming across the institute.”
Alsop’s first program discussion as artist-in-residence will take place virtually on November 2, 2021. She will be joined online by Oskar Eustis, artistic director of New York’s Public Theater and who held last year’s residency.
To register for this livestream, click here.
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There is so much to see and do in Chiang Mai but, no trip is complete if you don’t go discovering North Thailand Mountains. Take a day trip from Chiang Mai and visit Doi Inthanon. At 8415 feet tall, this is the highest point in Thailand.
That’s what we did. We knew in advance that our trip to North Thailand should include Doi Inthanon, known in the past as Doi Luang (big mountain). The actual name was given to honour King Inthawichayanon, one of the last kings of Chiang Mai. He was very concerned about nature and tries to preserve all the forests in the North of Thailand. When he died the remains were placed at Doi Luang and the mountain renamed to Doi Inthanon.
The park covers so much area and it’s a destination for both foreign and Thai tourists. The park has varied climatic and ecological areas regions so, it's home to a diverse range of animal species, including over 360 bird species.
You can find also The Inthanon Royal Project Research Station, King Bhumibol Adulyadej created the agricultural station to help eliminated opium cultivation. This contains greenhouses for growing ferns, a rhododendron garden, and flowering plants and vegetables.
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Best option to visit Doi Inthanon
When we first think on a day trip from Chiang Mai to Doi Inthanon we want something quick and efficient because we didn’t have much time to spend in here. At first, we did some research and in the end, we choose a company named Blugecko to do the tour. With our Thai sim card, we have internet everywhere in Thailand so it's easy to do some research online during our trips.
Bluegecko is a local company offering a full range of exciting day tours from Chiang Mai. They also provide custom made tours, travel services, and even bus or boat service to Laos. We choose this company because they are concerned about nature, they even have eco and community-based tourism tours.
They are very professional, always on time and always trying to do the best they can for you to have the best experience of their tours. We recommend them if you want someone competent, reliable and honest in this kind of service.
Of course, if you are going on a tour you haven't scheduled to visit everything and also don’t expect to go to every single site for example. So, it isn’t a flexible option but, Blugecko has lots of itineraries to choose from. Or even if you didn’t find any that suits you, just customize the tour.
Day trip from Chiang Mai to Doi Inthanon
We started our day trip from Chiang Mai hotel, where the company picks us in the hotel lobby. They were very punctual so, in the hour we marked they were there. On this full-day tour, Blugecko provides us with an air-con van with a driver and a tour guide, both speaking good English. Our guide Toi had a license approved by the Tourism Authority of Thailand. Our driver name was Nicky.
We then went picking other people from hotels and when we were all together, Toi gives us a brief of the program for the day.
A day trip from Chiang Mai to Doi Inthanon is approximately 1h. We had the time to know each other and also for our guide tell us about the story of Chiang Mai and Doi Inthanon. Thai people are very proud of their past, they have an immense history and they are for sure one of the greatest cultures in Southeast Asia.
First… Visit Park Waterfalls
Doi Inthanon is surrounded by many waterfalls. One of the most visited is a dual-stream waterfall, named Wachirathan. We did go to this one. It is easily reached by a parking lot and we only had to walk some steps to actually being on the waterfall site.
When we visited we walk to stairs until reaching a wooden platform to snap a good picture. This is a powerful waterfall; you will be wet at the end of the visit, even if you have raincoats as we did.
After the waterfall, we continue our trip to reach Doi Inthanon. The road was well signalized but, the driver had to be careful special because the street was all wet. We had to remember we were going up the mountain so, it takes time.
Arriving at Doi Inthanon National Park – What to see
This place is rich in things to see and do. It is almost impossible to get bored unless you don’t like nature. For nature lovers, like us, Doi Inthanon National Park is a must-go place. Doi Inthanon is also a good place if you are searching for a day trip from Chiang Mai because it isn't so far away from the city.
We had known previously that, here we can find waterfalls, temples, hiking trails, camping sites, local markets, food stalls, the National Astrology Observatory and much more. The park is huge, so we did some research to know better the entire trajectory.
This option of a day trip from Chiang Mai to Doi Inthanon is, in fact, a good solution if like us, you don’t have much time to spend. The first thing we did see when we arrived was:
The Highest Peak in Thailand
If you are heading on a day trip from Chiang Mai to Doi Inthanon, this place should be on your list. Located approximately 2565 meters above sea level, this is the so-called ‘The Roof of Thailand’.
The whole path is signalized so, we find a massive sign with the exact location; don’t forget to take a picture. We did of course! There is also a trail around this spot, very well paved, through some shaded parts of the forest. We actually didn’t have luck, it was cold and a little bit of raining in the day we went there, so we wanted to finish as quickly as we can.
You will see many small Buddhist shrines. In one of them, we threw a coin and asked for a wish, if the coin fell in the center, our wish will come true. We didn’t have luck. All trail should take you approximately 15/20 minutes to finish, like us.
At the end of the trail, we will see a little coffee shop and some souvenir shop. We recommend drinking something hot. When it is cold weather and raining it gives you the strength to continue. We just took a few minutes to drink our hot coffee surrounded by nature, as we love. Then, we kept on going until the next spot the Angkha Nature Trail.
Trekking in the Angkha Nature Trail
Angkha Nature trail is just one of the many trails you can do at Doi Inthanon. It was raining but, we actually did this trail that looks like a creepy forest all over the path. The little trek is only 360 meters long, so nice to do if you don’t have much time to spend.
Angkha Trail it is entirely on a boardwalk, with scenic views that take you through the beautiful cloud forest and some patches of rare swamp forest. It takes us 20-30 minutes to walk and it is an easy flat trail, only a few meters to the end wore sloped.
This is a magical place, home to some of the highest forest and watershed in Thailand and some of the largest species of the moss in the world. This trail was designed to people enjoy nature but, cause less impact in the vegetation around. We love it! Sustainable and eco-tourism all the way!
After this trail, we finally get the chance to see the Royal Pagodas and the surrounding gardens at the Doi Inthanon.
Royal Pagodas and the Gardens
It is easy to access this place, there’s a parking lot were everyone should leave the vehicle. From there you just have to walk a few meters until reaching the entrance to the Pagodas and the garden.
The Doi Inthanon Royal Pagodas were built to honour 60th birthday anniversary of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit. The Twin Pagodas sit on opposite peaks, facing each other and share the same design. King Pagoda is the biggest one and has a dark grey colour, the Queen Pagoda is the purple one; they are surrounded by beautiful gardens.
One curiosity about the two Pagodas is that they are known as Phra Mahathat Naphamethanidon meaning “by the strength of the land and air” and Phra Mahathat Naphaphonphumisiri meaning “being the strength of the air and the grace of the land”.
The gardens are lovely, very well maintained, with so many colourfull flowers, butterflies and bees. You can sit on the many benches around and relax as we did it. Or simply, enjoy one of the most breath-taking views of Thailand, it’s absolutely stunning, but only if the weather permitted.
They are located at 2100 meters and have access from a wide paved road, except for the last 10 km. You can reach the top of the Twin Pagodas by escalator or the stairs.
We started our visit going up until reaching the King Pagoda, the largest one, with a grey colour. Inside you can see a Buddha statue, the walls and ceiling are decorated with panels of important events in Buddhism. In the exterior, the artwork continues to flow.
The Queen Pagoda is the purple one and actually smaller. Again, inside you can see shrines, with Buddha images. It’s also possible to see lovely panels of artwork.
When we finish our visit to the Royal Pagodas it was time for eating but, on our way to the restaurant, we made a quick stop on the market.
We love local markets, it is a good opportunity to buy fresh things and help local communities. But, sometimes this type of tours forces us, tourists, to go to these places only to buy. We really don’t like that kind of propose.
To be completely honest, we like to go, talk with the local people, and know more about their lives and the products that they sell. We always end up buying something we like but, this is a complete experience. You buy because you want, not because someone is forcing it.
As soon as we arrived we try to get the best of this, some we end up talking to some local people. Most of them sell in the local market products that they have, this is the only way to sustain the family, so it very important to sell to tourists.
From delicious fresh fruits, dried fruits to veggies, you will find everything here. There were also, 2 or 3 stalls that sell clothes and jewellery. We end up buying some cashews in a little bag, too bad it was plastic. We love dried fruits so we end up eating all before arriving at the restaurant. Located on the side road, we ate delicious Thai food.
Trekking to Ban Mae Klang Luang Village
After we eating, we just had a few time to socialize. Then, we head back on the road but, not for long. A few meters away from the side road restaurant, it was located the entrance to our 2h trekking. We just can't complete a day trip from Chiang Mai without doing any trekking through the dense forest of the Doi Inthanon National Park.
Ban Mae Klang Luang standing on the hilly rice terrace is divided into 4 villages that comprise around 60 - 80 families each. This place became the settlement region of Pga-gan Yaw, a Karenic tribe from Burma. The local people dedicated their lives to work on the land, mostly in rice fields but, also they cultivated coffee. You can reach the village by trekking through the dense forest or by car. Of course, we think it is more exciting to walk on your feet and see all the beautiful scenery around you.
If you want to do the trail until reaching the village you must go with a local guide. This is mandatory, you have to pay him some fee to guide you through the forest. We actually don't know the real price, because as we going on a tour everything was included. A few minutes on the path and we realized how much the guide was needed. The trekking was absolutely stunning, deep inside the heart of the forest, in the silence of nature, with jaw opening landscaping. Trust us when we say that you will never see anything like this. If you love nature like we do and enjoy peaceful moments you must do this trekking. In one part of the trail, there was a little waterfall, we had to cross the river through a little bamboo bridge. A few meters away we had reached a big rice terrace.
One other rule to do this tour is, no trash dropping or plants teasing. Keep in mind you should wear appropriated clothes and walking shoes. Some of our colleagues on the tour had difficulty because of this so, don't risk your life. Also, bring some water with you because in some parts of the trail you don't have many shades.
When we finally reached the village we were very surprised. The view is breathtaking, the little village has some bamboo houses very unique. But, the most surprising thing was a little church in the middle of the village. We never thought to find this in a village in the mountains in Thailand. After the trail we need to relax a bit so, nothing better them a natural coffee. This is produced in the village, the coffee shophouse was a very rustic wooden pavilion. The coffee is fresh, using some rural way to process them, not the modern coffee machine we all use at home. All the coffee produced here is from Robusta species. In our home country, we consume more from Arabica species but, the coffee from Ban Mae Klang Luang village was good.
In the rainy season, the village of Ban Mae Klang Luang is magnificently covered by a thin layer of fog and the rice terraces have a beautiful green colour. This is a fantastic time to visit and appreciated the views. From late October to early November, the entire area is brightened by golden ears of rice. We visited in November, although the weather at Doi Inthanon wasn't good, in the afternoon the sun came out a little bit and it was warm when we did the trail.
Some useful tips to visit Doi Inthanon
Before we go on a day trip from Chiang Mai to Doi Inthanon we did a quick research and gather some information and useful tips. It's always important to be prepared for this kind of trip.
Use warm clothes: we recommend taking a jacket or a light jumper and long trousers if you are going on a tour. Inside the van its good, but when you step outside it will be cold. If you are doing by yourself, driving a motorbike consider taking a puff jacket, gloves, and long trousers.
Right shoes: This is very important, bring comfortable walking shoes. If you are going to do some of the trails you need appropriated shoes. But, even if you don’t want to do a trail bring nice shoes. We knew how this works so we did bring the right shoes but, in one of the trails we end up helping two girls because they didn’t bring walking shoes and almost fell from a canyon.
Food and drinks: You don’t need to take lots of food with you. The most important thing is actually a bottle of water because the food you can find almost everywhere. It’s a good idea to buy some fresh fruits in the local market. If you are going on tour, they actually give you a bottle of water and the restaurant is included in the tour package.
Bring cash: Of course, if you are going to the mountain there is no ATM there. So, bring along some cash with you. Only the necessary to buy some food and something you need.
Start early: Although the park is huge, we recommend going early if you want to make the most of your day. We think the place most crowded is the Royal Pagodas, but we still managed to enjoy everything. The park opens at 6:00 am and closes a little bit early at 4:30 pm.
Solar protection/Mosquito repellent: The park has lots of shades so you probably don’t need solar protection. But, bring it anyway, because in some trails you probably need it. We actually end up not using, but only because we had already tan and the trails we did had well shaded. You absolutely can’t skip mosquito repellent. Always remember you are in contact with nature so, expect lots and lots of mosquitos. In altitude you normally don’t see mosquito but, if you are going on trails they are there too. Sandrina has a big problem with these fellas so, we always need tons of mosquitos repellent.
Bathrooms: Don’t worry if you have a tiny bladder, there are lots of bathrooms along the park. Just search for the signs. Luckily we don’t have issues so, we end up not needing the bathroom.
Entrance fee: If you are going on tour like we did the entrance fee is included in the package. In other cases, the Doi Inthanon entrance fee is 300 Baht for an adult and 200 Baht (6 USD/5€) for a child. If you have a motorbike, there will be 20 Baht (0.60 USD/0.50€) fee. An additional fee of 40 Baht (1 USD/1€)needs to be paid to see the pagodas.
Chiang Mai is a must-go place if you are going to the North of Thailand. There are some many things to do here, as the day trip to Doi Inthanon. But, if you want a real experience in contact with amazing creatures you need to spend one day at an Ethical Elephant Sanctuary.
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Fact: it’s not a real protest until Banksy shows up and sprays something like ‘wake up sheeple, the government is BAD’ on a wall. So you can imagine that the valiant warriors of last week’s Extinction Rebellion were feeling pretty silly, fighting climate change on the streets of London day after day without even the merest whiff of spraypaint.
But we can rest easy now, because the Extinction Rebellion’s efforts have been validated. As they cleared their Marble Arch camp, a new stencilled work appeared on a wall overnight. It shows a young girl crouched next to a sapling, the words ‘From this moment despair ends and tactics begin’ scrawled alongside her, proving that the real revolution is grammatical: we’re not going to save the planet with commas, people.
Though Banksy himself has yet to confirm the piece as one of his own, the Extinction Rebellion Twitter account seems pretty damn certain. So that’s that: good news all round.
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UNPFII Session Second Week Regional Dialogues
The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues will meet with representatives of indigenous peoples and Member States from the different regions on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 April 2018. UN agencies, regional and National Human Rights Institutions and academics are also welcome to attend.
These informal and interactive dialogues will be facilitated by members of the Permanent Forum. The Forum members will provide introductory remarks and moderate the discussions.
The aim of the regional dialogues is to discuss issues of relevance in the countries of the region and identify how to sharpen the focus and impact of the Permanent Forum’s analysis and recommendations. The objectives of these dialogues include the following:
- To follow up on issues raised during the first week of the Permanent Forum session;
- To seek inputs of indigenous peoples, Member States and others on the draft report of the Permanent Forum session, particularly the context and recommendations;·
- To identify specific strategic measures that can be taken to:
- promote the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the national level;
- advance the rights of indigenous peoples at the regional and international levels;·
- To provide a space for indigenous peoples, Member States and UN system to exchange information and perspectives in an informal and constructive setting to facilitate consensus building;
- To identify specific thematic areas and/or emerging issues that the Permanent Forum may wish to focus on at future sessions.
Schedule of regional dialogues:
Tuesday 24 April
10 am – 1 pm: Arctic & Eastern Europe, Russian Federation, Central Asia and Transcaucasia⃰ (Conference Room 6)
10 am – 1 pm: Pacific (Conference Room 8)
3 pm – 6 pm: Asia (Conference Room 6)
3 pm – 6 pm: Africa (Conference Room 8)
Wednesday 25 April
10 am – 1 pm: North America (Conference Room 6)
10 am – 1 pm: South & Central America and the Caribbean (Conference Room 8)
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Anthony Fauci is a name that will come to define this generation. The 79-year-old head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was most likely preparing to wind down an already historic career having helped lead the fight against other world changing epidemics like AIDS and Ebola. But it is almost surely his work as the face in the war against the coronavirus for which he will be most remembered.
And it's increasingly obvious that the main reason Fauci will be seen as perhaps the leading hero of this pandemic is in the masterful way he has risen above politics, steered clear of the catastrophic governmental incompetence that has plagued this crisis and in how his honest, blunt and occasionally reassuring tone has helped steer our collective psyche into calmer waters.
Part of Fauci's job has been making the rounds giving interviews to a long list of media outlets. But it was an interview he gave on Tuesday that has so far best encapsulated the way his persona is bringing most Americans together, united against this terrible disease. Some highlights:
On how much he dealt with President Trump before the virus and how much he interacts with him now:
"Well, I had some interaction. And now I see him for at least an hour or more every single day ... I see him so often and for so long I almost never have to call him directly because I know that literally I'm within a few feet of talking to him if I want to anyway."
On he and Trump both being New Yorkers:
"He's an action person. I mean he likes to get things done. He doesn't want to waste a lot of time. He wants to just get right to it."
On navigating the pandemic in an era of heightened political partisanship:
"Well, I just stick very strictly to the science and the evidence base. I'm not new to this. I've been doing this now for over 30 years, starting with the HIV/AIDS issues with President [Ronald] Reagan, and I have found, and it's proven time and time again: stick with the science, stay completely out of the politics. I have no ideology. My ideology is health, public health, and science. You do that. You can make it uncomplicated. If you get involved in political rhetoric, then it gets complicated."
Fauci has regularly appeared on the Fox News Channel where they earlier were resistant to his claims about the threat of the virus. On how he reacts to an overly skeptical media and if that forces him to be political even in subtle ways:
"One of the great things about messaging is consistency. If you consistently stick with the science, sometimes you might be contradicting something that someone says and sometimes you may be agreeing with it, but as long as you're consistent with the science then you are fine."
Fauci has publicly disagreed with Trump on several occasions. Typically, that leads to someone quickly exciting the White House, either voluntarily or by direct order. But Fauci's position -- and relationship with Trump -- only seem to be getting stronger by the day. On if it's "tough" debating your boss when your boss is the commander-in-chief:
"Has it been stressful? Uh, yeah. This is a very, very stressful situation for everybody, including me."
And if he's ever worried those disagreements will cost him his job:
"Not at all. I take the tack that I will say what's true and whatever happens, happens. As a matter of fact, in fairness to him, the president has listened very carefully to what I've said. He's taken my recommendations almost invariably, and he has never really contradicted things that I have recommended to him. He listens. I mean, there's a lot out there in the press about conflict between the both of us. There's absolutely none. There really isn't."
Finally, Fauci explained what has been the biggest challenge so far. In short, other people:
"It wasn't any particular event that happened. It was just a realization a few weeks ago when the stress was overwhelming. I was getting 3,000 emails, a couple of hundred phone calls, every senator, every governor, every congressman wanted to speak to me and I was getting like two to three hours sleep. I realized then that I could not go on that way. I'm a very conscientious person. I like to answer calls. But I had to get myself used to the fact that I cannot do that. I've got to focus on what my primary responsibility is."
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Pet-Friendly Places to Dine
Bellevue offers several pet-friendly restaurants that welcome pets at their establishments, most offer outdoor or patio tables. Need help deciding where to eat? Here's a detailed listing of each pet-friendly restaurant, along with pictures and links to reviews. Remember it is always good to make an advanced reservation and be sure to specify that you are bringing your furry friend. Bone appetit!
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Missouri State University: A Promising Practice in Building Accessibility into Mainstream IT Policies
When a college or university addresses the accessibility of its information technology (IT), one of the challenges it faces is elevating the issue beyond the focus of disability-related special interests and into the realm of mainstream institutional policy. Missouri State University has risen to this challenge and has built universal access solidly into the university's website policy.
The MSU Web Policy clearly defines official versus unofficial websites and provides guidelines for each. All websites, including unofficial sites (e.g., personal and recognized/bona fide organizations), must comply with guidelines regarding copyright, usage of MSU seals and logos, and commercial activity. Official websites must additionally comply with guidelines regarding appropriate use of web space, domain names, outsourcing, privacy, registration of distributed web servers, and universal access.
The inclusion of universal access within the university's overall website policy lends credibility to accessibility issues and allows for the establishment and implementation of university-supported conformance timelines, support efforts, and enforcement mechanisms. Each of these implementation elements is described within the MSU Web Access Action Plan. According to the Action Plan, support for web accessibility is provided within the university's existing web support infrastructure, and the Action Plan specifically identifies the relevant responsibilities of the web coordinator, instructional designers, instructional technology support specialists, technical trainer, disability support coordinator, and others. The role of students in the plan is also noteworthy: Student workers are hired to review web pages for accessibility and/or participate on the Web Access Compliance Team. Student involvement is important because it instills in the future workforce an appreciation for and knowledge of technology accessibility issues.
Also, although the accessibility of MSU's computer technology is not specifically addressed within the university's other Information Technology Policies, the Web Policy includes a statement of commitment to accessibility of IT in general:
The University also makes certain that eligible students, faculty, and staff with disabilities can effectively access this web content in University environments, such as computer labs, classrooms, offices, and work environments, to the extent that it is reasonable.
For additional promising practices with respect to IT in postsecondary education, see the following AccessIT Knowledge Base articles:
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This Personalised Teapot makes the perfect gift for any occasion and can be proudly displayed in the kitchen.
This clock can be personalised with:
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The first year of Yonsei is referred to as "Outbound." This is when the Yonsei team travels to Japan during the summer to play basketball and go sightseeing in various cities.
The Yonsei teams have the opportunity to play in basketball games against teams from local schools.
Yonsei players partake in a cultural experience; past activities have involved kendo, tea ceremonies, koto, shuji (Japanese calligraphy), and more.
The Yonsei players and their families have various opportunities to go sightseeing and visit numerous well-known Japanese cities. In the past, Yonsei has visited locations such as Tokyo, Kyoto, and Hiroshima.
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Having an Aromatherapy massage is one of the most soothing and relaxing treatments that you can have!
Whether you wish to:
The effects of the essential oils together with human contact give a powerful form of therapy.
Touch is probably one of the most underrated of our senses in this day and age. As we grow older we use our sight and hearing much more than touch. How often do we really touch our family, friends and work colleagues? People who aren't touched enough can suffer emotionally, and this in turn can lead to physical ailments.
Massage is an excellent way to put the 'touch' back into our lives!
Massage is one of the oldest forms of treatment known and also one of the most important and common applications of aromatherapy. It provides a very effective way of introducing the essential oils into your body. The skin absorbs the oils and a small, but useful, amount is taken into the bloodstream during the time of the massage.
The word 'massage' dates back to the Greek word meaning 'to knead'.
It is very important to remember that an aromatherapist treats the entire person, mind, body and spirit, not just the symptoms.
In other words it promotes overall balanced good health.
There are a wide variety of massage movements and strokes, both light and quite vigorous, depending on the type of therapy. They are applied to the superficial muscles (the ones immediately beneath the skin) which benefits the physical body. The beneficial effects are also felt by the layers of deeper muscles and your internal organs.
Aromatherapy massage uses mostly relaxing, stroking movements, known as effleurage, along with some kneading and some frictions. The more energetic petrissage and percussion movements found in swedish massage are not normally used - the massage needs to be soothing! Many therapists will also include finger pressures into the treatment at various acupressure points.
Communication is very important, so before the massage there should be a thorough discussion about yourself, your lifestyle, sleeping patterns, diet, medical history, your present health and general emotional health. The more the aromatherapist knows about you, the better they will be able to help you!
It is usual in an aromatherapy massage for the therapist to choose two or three essential oils which are then blended into a carrier oil. The choice will be dependent on your general and emotional health or your particular needs.
It is important that you like the aroma of the individual oils and also the aroma of the mix.
Your massage will normally last from one to one and a half hours depending on your therapist.
You will feel so relaxed by the end, so make sure that you have arranged some quality quiet time afterwards!
So, uplift your spirits and renew your energy and vitality - have an aromatherapy massage!
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The Washington Post gave President Joe Biden its most severe fact-check score of "Four Pinocchios" for his false claim that he was "arrested" for the first time when he was a teenager at a civil rights demonstration in Delaware.
As Glenn Kessler, The Post's fact-checker pointed out in his Thursday analysis, "Biden claims yet another arrest for which there's little evidence." He noted that Biden is "not always a reliable source" with the "exaggerated" stories he tells.
The Post tweeted Kessler's fact-check, writing: "Fact Checker: Biden claims yet another arrest for which there's little evidence."
Fact Checker: Biden claims yet another arrest for which there's little evidence https://t.co/tAFsyevN0i
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 13, 2022
"I did not walk in the shoes of generations of students who walked these grounds. But I walked other grounds. Because I'm so damn old, I was there as well. You think I'm kidding, man. It seems like yesterday the first time I got arrested," Biden told the assembled audience Tuesday during his speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.
Kessler wrote it's not the first time that Biden has claimed he had been arrested.
"Previously, he has said he was arrested trying to see Nelson Mandela in South Africa (Four Pinocchios false) and for trying to enter an all-female dorm room at Ohio University (Partly False, according to USA Today). He has also suggested he was arrested for wandering onto the Senate floor as a 'star-struck kid,' but most times he has indicated he was just given a warning," the Post's fact-checker explained.
"But there's no evidence we can find that Biden was ever arrested," he added.
According to Kessler, Biden appeared to be referring to a story he has told on several occasions about a conversation with his mother in 2008 when he was thinking about whether or not to accept Barack Obama's offer to be his running mate.
In the story, Biden's mother reminds him of the time when he went to help support a black family during a protest when he was a teen. They had bought a house in town not too far from where the Biden family lived.
Kessler explained that Biden has told the story over the years with several changes, including how old he was and the protest's location.
The writer also noted Biden did not include the arrest in his autobiography even while including the same conversation with his mother.
Kessler revealed a review of several news reports did mention protests in the area during the time about a house that was bought by a black family. But after examining the evidence, the Post's fact-checker believes too many components of Biden's story simply didn't add up.
"The primary source for this story is Biden — and we've learned over the years that he is not always a reliable source. He appears to be citing his mother to enhance his civil rights credentials — which we have noted he has exaggerated before — but too many elements do not add up to give this 'arrest' more credibility than his previous claims of getting in trouble with the law," he wrote.
"The president earns Four Pinocchios," Kessler added.
Biden has been repeatedly called out for telling tall tales over the years. He had to admit in 2020 that he fabricated the story of getting arrested during his efforts to meet Nelson Mandela in South Africa during apartheid.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment from The Post.
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There has been a couple of interesting articles written by John Carney who is a Senior Editor at CNBC.com on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) – starting with Monetary Theory, Crony Capitalism and the Tea Party (December 22, 2011) and followed up with Modern Monetary Theory and Austrian Economics (December 27, 2011). I am happy that our work is penetrating in to the mainstream business and economics commentary space. It is good that John Carney has spent some time coming to terms with MMT and its departure from the failed mainstream macroeconomics. But some problems remain with his analysis. The issues he raises relate to political matters rather than the economics of MMT. In that context, MMT is neither anti- or pro-crony. But if you delve deeper and really understand the MMT macroeconomic framework then you realise that MMT is biased toward anti-crony.
John Carney notes that the US fiscal stimulus and central bank quantitative easing “both occurred without any attendant inflation or giant soaring of interest rates” and that the “so-called ‘bond vigilantes’ turned out to be mythological creatures” and “the downgrade of the U.S.’s credit rating only lead to lower interest rates”. These events were contrary to the predictions made by several prominent mainstream economists.
That should be of no surprise because the predictions were consistent with the theoretical models that students are taught in mainstream economics programs and which guide the research efforts of the majority of my profession. Clearly, the predictions were wrong – over and over again.
In this context, John Carney said that:
The school of economics that best explains this phenomenon is called “Modern Monetary Theory” or MMT. The MMT school is made up of scholars, businessmen and online advocates who have a deep understanding of the operations of the actual operational aspects of our monetary system.
They argue, quite persuasively, that our monetary system is built in such a way that our government is never revenue constrained, which is to say it can spend as much as it likes, because the government creates our money. The real constraint on government spending is price inflation, which occurs when government and private spending outpace economic output.
Which is an accurate portrayal except I would note that the real constraint on government spending is not price inflation rather than the productive capacity of the economy. Price inflation in this sense is a symptom that nominal aggregate spending is outstripping that capacity.
I would note that the “MMT school of thought” is different from the various blogs that have developed since the academic material emerged in the 1990s which draw on that conceptual material. There are many “blogs” now that are sympathetic to MMT or suggest they espouse MMT which have been derived from the early academic work that a few of us (Warren, Randy, Stephanie, Scott, Matt, myself and a few others) developed. I always agree with the contributions of the early MMT writers but often disagree with some of the statements that the blog writers outside of this group make in the blogosphere.
I consider the early MMT writers to be the MMT theorists.
John Carney also noted that:
There’s a lot more to MMT than its view of monetary operations and government funding, however. They believe the government should guarantee jobs for everyone, that the financial system tends toward crisis and corruption, that capitalist economies are not self-regulating, and that fiscal policy should be measured by its effect on the economy not on whether budgets are balanced. Some of this is fine, other parts I regard as distractions (such as the jobs guarantee).
Remember that MMT is derivative in that it draws on previous theoretical traditions – dating back to Marx, Keynes, Kalecki, Lerner, Minsky to name just a few of the intellectual influences from yesteryear.
However, the way these influences are drawn together into a comprehensive macroeconomic framework by MMT theorists is unique and distinctive. Further, it is a framework that has stood up to extreme empirical scrutiny.
We have large budget deficits relative to the norm and the central banks have expanded their balance sheets by a significant degree. We do not have inflation nor out of control interest rates. And, as predicted, the Eurozone is melting down in the face of the flawed (unworkable) design of its monetary system. All essential insights that one can derive from MMT.
The focus on price stability and the way that buffer stocks can be used is very distinctive and you will not find this in the mainstream framework. The Job Guarantee is developed within that tradition.
John Carney like most other students of MMT tend to consider the JG to be a “guarantee jobs for everyone” which he think of as one of the “distractions” to the main MMT contribution. However, that characterisation demonstrates to me that the “student” hasn’t fully embraced the buffer stock thinking that is unique in MMT.
Those who haven’t come to MMT from a solid background in macroeconomics can easily just think the JG is a tacked-on “leftist” or “social democrat” policy aimed at providing jobs to those who cannot find them. So I often get the view expressed in E-mails etc that the JG is all very nice but peripheral to the deep financial and monetary insights that MMT provides and should be culled from the writings or de-emphasised so as not to alienate the hard financial market types.
The progressives who support an income guarantee (for example, Basic Income proponents) also play down the importance of the JG (an employment guarantee).
I take John Carney’s “distraction” categorisation as fitting him into those that haven’t fully grasped the role that the JG plays in MMT.
The reality is that the JG is a central aspect of MMT because it is much more than a job creation program. It is an essential aspect of the MMT framework for full employment and price stability. And in making that point I will draw on it later to address John Carney’s major objection to MMT.
But to understand the role that the JG plays in MMT one has to grasp the concept of buffer stocks.
And then there was the job guarantee, which I immediately recognized as Minsky’s employer of last resort. I can’t remember what Warren called it but Bill called it BSE, buffer stock employment.
I had never thought of it that way, but Bill’s analogy to commodities price stabilization schemes added an important component that was missing from Minsky: use full employment to stabilize prices. With that we turned the Phillips Curve on its head: unemployment and inflation do not represent a trade-off, rather, full employment and price stability go hand in hand.
I noted that this means that the government can thus choose – of all the “steady state” unemployment-stable inflation equilibria available – one that provides a job for all when the private market fails.
For those well-versed in the history of macroeconomic thought rather than the day-to-day financial market trends, this MMT insight is crucial and relates to the need for an economy to maintain a nominal anchor (that is, maintain price stability).
As I explained in this blog – Modern monetary theory and inflation – Part 1 – that there are two broad ways to control inflation and the use of buffer stocks are involved in each:
- Unemployment buffer stocks: Under a mainstream NAIRU regime (the current orthodoxy), inflation is controlled using tight monetary and fiscal policy, which leads to a buffer stock of unemployment. This is a very costly and unreliable target for policy makers to pursue as a means for inflation proofing.
- Employment buffer stocks: The government exploits the fiscal power embodied in a fiat-currency issuing national government to introduce full employment based on an employment buffer stock approach. The Job Guarantee (JG) model which is central to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is an example of an employment buffer stock policy approach.
Full employment requires that there are enough jobs created in the economy to absorb the available labour supply. Focusing on some politically acceptable (though perhaps high) unemployment rate is incompatible with sustained full employment.
Under the neo-liberal policy regime, central banks have, increasingly, been given the responsibility by government for managing the price level. In conducting monetary policy to fulfill their major economic objectives, central banks manipulate the interest rate and attempt to manage the state of inflation expectations via aggregate demand impacts.
They now use unemployment as a policy tool rather than a policy target to discipline the inflation generating process. Where negative real effects from the operation of inflation-first monetary policy are acknowledged they are theorised to be necessary for optimal long term growth and employment and small in magnitude.
In MMT, a superior use of the labour slack necessary to generate price stability is to implement an employment program for the otherwise unemployed as an activity floor in the real sector, which both anchors the general price level to the price of employed labour of this (currently unemployed) buffer and can produce useful output with positive supply side effects.
The employment buffer stock approach (the JG) exploits the imperfect competition introduced by fiat (flexible exchange rate) currency which provides the issuing government with pricing power and frees it of nominal financial constraints.
So the JG works on the “buffer stock” principle. I first thought of this idea during my fourth year as a student at the University of Melbourne (in the late 1970s). The basis of the policy came to me during a series of lectures on the Wool Floor Price Scheme introduced by the Commonwealth Government of Australia in November 1970. The scheme was relatively simple and worked by the Government establishing a floor price for wool after hearing submissions from the Wool Council of Australia and the Australian Wool Corporation (AWC).
The Government then guaranteed that the price would not fall below that level by using the AWC to purchase stocks of wool in the auction markets if demand was low and selling it if demand was high. So by being prepared to hold “buffer wool stocks” in low demand and release it again in times of high demand the government was able to guarantee incomes for the farmers.
However, with some lateral thinking you can easily see that what the Wool Floor Price Scheme generated was “full employment” for wool! If the Government fixed the price that it was prepared to pay and then was willing to buy all the wool up to that price then you have an equivalent scheme.
This works just the same for labour resources – just unconditionally offer to buy all labour at a stated fixed wage and you create full employment.
The JG is thus a central plank in the MMT policy framework that seeks to maintain full employment with inflation control. When the level of private sector activity is such that wage-price pressures forms as the precursor to an inflationary episode, the government would manipulate fiscal and monetary policy settings (preferably fiscal policy) to reduce the level of private sector demand.
This would see labour being transferred from the inflating sector to the “fixed wage” sector and eventually this would resolve the inflation pressures. Clearly, when unemployment is high this situation will not arise.
But in general, there cannot be inflationary pressures arising from a policy that sees the Government offering a fixed wage to any labour that is unwanted by other employers. The JG involves the Government “buying labour off the bottom” rather than competing in the market for labour. By definition, the unemployed have no market price because there is no market demand for their services. So the JG just offers a wage to anyone who wants it.
In contradistinction with the NAIRU approach to price control which uses unemployed buffer stocks to discipline wage demands by workers and hence maintain inflation stability, the JG approach uses the ratio of JG employment to total employment which is called the Buffer Employment Ratio (BER) to maintain price stability.
The ratio that results in stable inflation via the redistribution of workers from the inflating private sector to the fixed price JG sector is called the Non-Accelerating-Inflation-Buffer Employment Ratio (NAIBER). It is a full employment steady state JG level, which is dependent on a range of factors including the path of the economy. Its microeconomic foundations bear no resemblance to those underpinning the neoclassical NAIRU.
It also wouldn’t be worth estimating or targetting. It would be whatever was required to fully employ labour and maintain price stability.
These insights allow us to claim that a sovereign government which faces no financial constraints can achieve continuous full employment without endangering price stability. There can be no inflationary impulses coming from buying labour at a fixed price that no-one else wants.
These insights then allow MMT to make further distinctive statements.
The problem with the current approach to fiscal policy is political. The governments think that large deficits are bad so they spend on a quantity rule – that is, allocate $x billiion – which they think is politically acceptable. It may not bear any relation to what is required to address the existing spending gap.
The better basis for the conduct of fiscal policy which is exemplified in the provision of employment guarantees is to spend on a price rule. That is, the government just has to fix the price (the JG wage) and “buy” whatever is available at that price. After all, the budget deficit is endogenous and has to be whatever it takes to get full employment.
If the business community or anyone else thinks the deficit is “too high” or that there are “too many” workers in the Job Guarantee pool – then there is a simple remedy that is available to them – they can just lift their private spending (for example, invest more in productive capacity). Then the budget deficit will shrink and the Job Guarantee pool will decline. If they hated the Job Guarantee so much they could simply employ all the workers in the pool!
But the Job Guarantee creates a safety net that is always there to cope with private sector spending fluctuations (driven in part by varying saving desires). In that sense, it is infinitely superior to using unemployment as the buffer stock to cope with the flux and uncertainty of private spending. It is almost unbelievable to me that we tolerate governments sitting idly by watching millions of people around the world being forced into unemployment for want of some funding that the government can always provide.
Further, and very importantly (in the context of today’s blog), the Job Guarantee would also overcome many of the problems that bedevil the “politicised” conduct of fiscal policy.
Which leads me back to John Carney who said:
But my biggest point of departure with the MMTers is they display a political and economic naivete when it comes to the effects of government spending. When they talk about spending it is almost always in terms of abstract aggregates, which is weird for a school of economics so focused on the specifics of monetary operations. What this means is that they miss the distortions of crony capitalism the accompanies so much government spending.
Government spending occurs through specific channels, not in aggregate abstractions. This means that certain companies and sectors of the economy benefit, and others suffer, because of government spending.
I note that John Carney lists the blogs where he learned MMT from and the list doesn’t include any of my own work. However, none of the MMT theorists (as previously defined) are politically and economically naive. I know all of them well and regularly interact with them. I consider the group to be realist in the extreme with a very good understanding of history, power elites, political machinations and the rest of it.
There is no blindness when it comes to recognising the influence of crony capitalism.
The first point to note is that while a distrust of government is reasonable given the links that exist between the financial and political elites advocating an economic framework with minimal government involvement is naive in the extreme. Whether one likes it or not, a sovereign government issues the currency and so is the centre-piece of the economic system.
If you try to design a monetary system that forced elected governments to use foreign currencies or restricts their use of their own currency you end up with the Eurozone or some derivative. Fixed exchange rates don’t help because they become the prey of speculators and force domestic policy into a subservient position.
Trying to balance government budgets always (over the cycle or whenever) is a denial of the role that the budget plays in a monetary economy and will bias the economy to the NAIRU conception (spending on a quantity rule).
So the challenge is to: (a) recognise the centrality of government; but (b) realising it is typically corrupted by the elites – currently those in the financial markets and the other crony interest groups.
MMT allows you to understand how the monetary system works whether it is being manipulated by corrupt governments who are being influenced by crony capitalists or by sound governments acting under strict democratic mandates to advance public purpose.
There is no guarantee that our governments will be of the latter persuasion and realistically they will more likely be of the former ilk.
So I advocate – outside the realm of MMT – grass roots action to reinforce the democratic connection between citizen and government. To make it harder for governments to be co-opted. For example, I would ban political funding and allocate a fixed amount of public funds to the candidates for public office to be used for electoral purposes. I would have very strict conditions placed on electoral commentary within the media etc.
All of that is outside of the domain of MMT.
But had John Carney delved into my blog (at all) or read any of my academic work he would have learned that I take a strong position about “crony capitalism”.
In the past I have advocated among other things:
1. Extensive banking reform to eliminate the power and influence of the financial market elites. Please read the following blogs – Operational design arising from modern monetary theory and Asset bubbles and the conduct of banks and Nationalising the banks – for further discussion.
2. Prosecution and outlawing of the corrupt rating agencies. Please read my blogs – Time to outlaw the credit rating agencies and Moodys and Japan – rating agency declares itself irrelevant – again – for more discussion on this point.
3. Extensive financial market reform to outlaw unproductive speculation Please read my blog – We should ban financial speculation on food prices – for more discussion on this point.
4. Revised policy frameworks to ensure there is a major redistribution of national income back to wages to reduce the reliance of consumption spending on credit growth. Please read my blog – Nationalising the banks and A radical redistribution of income undermined US entrepreneurship – for more discussion on this point.
5. Reject standard Keynesian thinking about “generalised expansion” in favour of employment buffer stocks and hence increased reliance on automatic stabilisers. Please see the blogs that the following string – Job Guarantee – yields.
6. A recognition that class still pervades economic outcomes. Please read my blog – The top-end-of-town have captured the growth – for more discussion on this point.
What has been the logic behind the ideas contained in these blogs? The logic has been to reduce the capacity of the financial market and political elites to capture government policy and skew the benefits in their favour
As John Carney says – by way of criticising what he says is MMTs spending solution to unemployment – that:
The sectors and companies that benefit are not those that bring the most or the widest prosperity but, conversely, those in which prosperity is most concentrated in the hands of a few. The spending is accompanied by regulatory privileges and barriers that also benefit the very same groups. When government spending levels and regulatory operations are high, this has a widely distortive effect on the economy that effectively impoverishes most of the population. This is basic public choice Econ 101 but the MMTers seem blind to it.
Apart from the historically inaccurate claim that high government spending within a tight regulatory environment “impoverishes most of the population” – it is impossible to argue that when output falls and unemployment rises that the problem is not an inadequacy of aggregate demand. Please read my blog – What causes mass unemployment? – for more discussion on this point.
The solution is that one or more of the three main spending sectors: (a) external sector; (b) private domestic sector; and/or (c) the government sector – have to increase their nominal spending growth.
A recession is usually associated with a prolonged decline in private spending growth which also, typically, undermines the prospects of export-led growth. That is why Keynes and others advocated public sector spending to kick-start the economy and promote positive future expectations about the prospects of sales and employment growth in the private sector.
The question is not whether the public sector should increase spending under these conditions but in what way should the fiscal intervention be constructed. That is, what sort of fiscal stimulus is required.
Typically, Post Keynesians – deriving their insights from what they think Keynes wrote – advocate generalised fiscal and monetary expansion mediated by incomes policy and controlled investment as a solution to unemployment.
They advocate a boost to public infrastructure investment which enhances the profitability of private sector investment, in addition to contributing to aggregate demand and employment.
Major construction projects run right into the backyards of the crony capitalists and tend to provide massive profits with lower employment dividends.
Further, public investment is unlikely to benefit the most disadvantaged workers in the economy. The JG is designed to explicitly provide opportunities for them. But the major problems with this sort of (indiscriminate) expansion in isolation is that it does not incorporate an explicit counter-inflation mechanism and fails to address the spatial labour market disparities.
If we only consider aggregate demand as the target then we can design capital infrastructure projects that pump purchasing power into the economy. But how can we be sure that the investment will provide jobs in failing regions? Upon what basis are the most disadvantaged workers with skills that are unlikely to match those required by new technologies going to be included in the ‘generalised expansion’? Where is the inflation anchor?
Further, environmental constraints militate against generalised Keynesian expansion. JG proponents emphasise the regional dispersion of unemployment. Higher output levels are required to increase employment, but the composition of output remains a pivotal policy issue. JG jobs would be designed to support local community development and advance environmental sustainability.
JG workers could participate in many community-based, socially beneficial activities that have intergenerational payoffs, including urban renewal projects, community and personal care, and environmental schemes such as reforestation, sand dune stabilisation, and river valley and erosion control. Most of this labour intensive work requires very little capital equipment and training. We denote this form of spatially targeted employment policy as Spatial Keynesianism, in contrast to the bluntness of orthodox Keynesian tools which fail to account for the spatial distribution of social disadvantage.
Even locally-designed but federally-funded projects do not evade the reach of the crony capitalists. That is where local citizen groups should be involved in the project design phase to ensure that community needs are advanced.
For more analysis of this issue you might like to read our report (from a 3-year study) – Creating effective local labour markets: a new framework for regional employment policy.
Among other things it outlines in considerable detail how job design and project planning can advance wider interests . Before you make any negative comments please read that Report – we have spent years thinking through all the obvious issues.
So MMT is very cognisant of these issues.
The JG also differs from a Keynesian expansion because it represents the minimum stimulus (the cost of hiring unemployed workers) required to achieve full employment rather than relying on market spending and multipliers.
Further, the JG reduces (but does not eliminate) the influence of crony capitalists who always seek to capture government policy to advance their own interests.
The the JG functions as an automatic stabiliser rather than as a discretionary program. It builds further endogeneity into the budget balance. When the economy turns down, the JG pool of workers will rise as displaced workers elect to take the guarantee. When the economy starts to improve again, the private sector merely has to offer a wage (or conditions) better than the JG wage and the JG pool will decline again.
The discretion by governments is thus reduced. A pool of projects would be agreed upon with local communities and the expansion or contraction of the scheme would be automatic. There would be no big bailouts of banks or business firms. The financial markets would be largely dealt out of the game.
The Job Guarantee is not a universal panacea. It is a safety net employment capacity that provides a nominal anchor for the macroeconomy via the fact that the government would never be competing for resources with the private sector. The private sector can bid the workers away any time they want to pay above the minimum wage (and provide reasonable working conditions). If there are inflation pressures, tighter policy settings would redistribute workers from the inflating private sector into the fixed price Job Guarantee pool and stabilise prices. That is how buffer stocks work.
The value of this approach is that the government knows exactly how much stimulus is required to achieve this “loose” full employment on a daily basis. The tap turns off when the last worker walks in the door on any day looking for a job. This provides daily feedback to the fiscal system and overcomes the uncertainty of timing and guessing the size of the stimulus.
Once the economy is at full employment – in this sense – the government can then design other stimulus measures that it deems to be politically sustainable (and which hopefully add social value) to create employment and activity elsewhere. But it always knows that if the nominal demand levels come up against the real capacity of the economy then employment will just be redistributed if policy tightening is required rather than unemployment being created.
The challenge is always to make our governments work for us rather than the elites. MMT is not naive to the capture of our governments by the latter. But what we do about it is in the political domain – the class struggle etc.
MMT does provide a full employment and price stability framework which helps reduce the change of this capture.
John Carney also thinks that “MMTers seem not to understand the politics of inflation and why government often doesn’t prevent inflation from occurring, even though it is obviously within its power to do so”. Well in the interests of time today I will leave that claim and simply assert it is spurious – see previous discussion about the JG>
He concludes his first MMT article by saying that:
… my recommendation to the MMTers is that they stop talking about spending in the abstract. Start talking about spending that leads to crony capitalism and spending that does not. Get on the side of the anti-crony, Tea Party brigades. There’s a natural friendship to be made.
Again I wonder how much MMT literature John Carney has read. I am always emphasising “employment-rich” spending. My recommendations about fiscal stimulus packages are always underscored by the need to introduce a JG as the first step and then develop public services like education, health etc. I have written about the need to eliminate the private insurance companies from health spending and the desirability of nationalising health care.
But whether there is a natural friendship with Tea Party brigades or not is a political issue rather than anything to do with MMT. You could understand MMT and still advocate some of the pernicious social and cultural attitudes that seem to be advanced by the Tea Party.
I would never advance those agendas. Nor do I consider the Tea Party provides any deep understanding of how the monetary system operates. The only question I have is why do people who will be harmed the most by the policies they advocated flock to these political movements. The answer is that they are being used by the cronies. But then John Carney doesn’t address that at all.
I will consider his second offering another day.
That is enough for today!
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When tracing the real history of appreciate back in its history, almost everything starts with the Greek philosopher Plato along with his concept of kinds. Types include common ideals, like justice, equivalence, charm and prefer, which are unattainable but are present and then become referenced because of the real business. Like, a painting can be breathtaking by referencing just the right as a type of “beauty,” however it will never feel beauty itself. In “ Symposium ” by Plato, the character of Socrates talks of the range of appreciate that can can be found, through the many shallow adore like crave, and that’s love of you, on finest form of like , platonic fancy, which loves the spirit of a person.
These days, the definition of platonic like is normally accustomed show a connection that doesn’t incorporate sex and sometimes suggests unrequited love. Its unfavorable connotation shows the high valuation of relationship in society, but not relationships. Platonic enjoy is seen as both face-to-face of and inferior incomparison to romantic enjoy. Yet based on Plato, the highest kind of love try platonic enjoy, which means that they is out there in intimate affairs, nonetheless it’s never commemorated because platonic admiration isn’t as exciting as enthusiastic, enchanting prefer. Instead of admitting the aim and often unsexy main reasons why you love individuals, it’s more fun to name the raging hormonal mental highs you go through when you like anybody “romance.”
Typically, the idea of intimate really love emerged during the fittingly known as ages of Romanticism in 19th millennium Europe, as both a rejection for the rationality of Enlightenment, but additionally as a function for the Enlightenment’s focus on the right to go after contentment. If you’ve actually ever see something from Romantic cycle , you understand it is all incredibly overstated and everyone’s behavior include running high continuously. From the enchanting time, the seed products of society’s fixation with passionate, tumultuous love comprise sowed.
Personally, it may sound terribly exhausting in my opinion, it set the scene for years and years to adhere to, as we realized this dramatic, emotional rollercoaster called romance was alluring and for that reason salable.
Modern Day Cultural Engineering
This obsession with intimate affairs isn’t simply given to all of us through tradition and mass media though; it’s ingrained inside our national plans besides. Before the Enlightenment plus the passionate age, matrimony was actually a political institution that aided people gain contacts, increase security and make certain legacy. Marrying in the interest of thoughts ended up beingn’t common before the Romantics jumped up.
Financially speaking, relationship assists populate the next generation to fill the work market and customer base. Being mindful of this, American rules and guidelines desired those who combined up, driving over 1000 laws and regulations that particularly gain married folks, including tax pauses, combined health plans and spousal public safety positive. With America’s idealized “ atomic household ” setup symbolizing the unmistakeable sign of profits for the 20th century, both the mass media landscaping and governmental associations socially engineered the United states populace to idealize romantic relationships.
You can find disadvantages of the social pressure both for those in romantic affairs and those who are single. There’s reasons why Disney motion pictures end at “happily actually after” and don’t illustrate the occasionally difficult, boring and blatantly unromantic operate that a wholesome dating connection calls for. Getting your entire emotional requirements using one person is inspired by idealistic options of “soulmates” or “the One,” and ignores the truth that matrimony , at its key, try a political organization and useful traditions. Relationship had not been originally designed to supply everything from friendship, enchanting prefer, private pleasure, to a lifelong burden of highly emotional freight. That’s work of a wholesome community of platonic company, yet people which rise into affairs frequently neglect their friendships until it’s too-late.
Singlehood and Friendships
For those who are single, they are often likely to stop their singlehood, like the condition to be solitary try for some reason worse than being taken. However solitary individuals are beginning to recognize the great benefits of living alone, not having to compromise and, first and foremost, having additional time for friends. When you don’t spend all your time with someone, there’s some independence to spreading their community of family greater.
Thousands of studies show that joy in adulthood is actually indicated by good personal relationships, without whether they are married or otherwise not. Contrary to public opinion, uncommitted men and women aren’t wallowing within loneliness all the time; quite, they spend significantly more energy cultivating their particular platonic relationships above those in interactions.
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AT Legal was established after many years of foundation work in progress.
Prior to AT Legal, I worked for small, medium and large companies. I have been actively servicing Sydney’s south west area for a number of years.
I have worked alongside some of Sydney’s best lawyers, and instructed some of the most renowned Barristers in Australia.
I run AT Legal with a firm set of principles and policies in place to ensure that my client always comes first, and that I always act in the client’s best interests.
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I have extensive experience in all Court work, including frequent appearances in all Local Courts in the Sydney metropolitan area. I have also appeared in interstate Courts, including the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Melbourne Magistrates Court, The Country Court of Victoria, Perth Magistrates Court, and the District Court of Western Australia.
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A couple of blondes are in the living room playing with some carrots. They want to find out how many they can fit inside a single pussy. When they are done, they start doing fisting. A vibrator is also turned on.
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Behind The Curtain
If you were preparing for an exam and for some stupid reason I was the subject, this page would be your handy little cheat sheet that you'd try and smuggle into the exam room.
Vital Statistics: The Creator
This is as close to a bio as you're going to get. I don't usually talk myself up too much so I wouldn't know what interesting personal tidbits I should put here. If you know something interesting about me (unlikely) or if you can think of some useful "Vital Statistics" headings that I might have an answer for, by all means send them in...
Name (if I were a Mexican citizen):Miguel Sanchez Conquistador
Nicknames:Raggy, Rocky, & Bunch.
Needless to say, I am in desperate need of a decent nickname... Suggestions welcome.
Birthday:Most years it can be found at the very end of February.
Most overused word in my vocabulary:"Oil"
Closest celebrity look-alike:In all the baby photos I've seen I look remarkably similar to Bert Newton. Proud of it too...
Favourite Dixie Chick:The fat one.
Vital Statistics: The Website
I was going to say that the website pretty much speaks for itself, but then I considered that it doesn't have a mouth and even if it did, I would still be the one who controls what it says... Anyway, below are some stats on the website and some other information for people who are interested. If there's any other stuff you'd like to see here, let me know.
Development tools used:UltraEdit handles all my code & text-editing needs.
Macromedia Flash is used for all site-design graphics (logos, gradient backgrounds, etc.).
Macromedia Fireworks is used for editing and composition of all photo-based site assets.
Pages are processed by PHP, served through Apache & hopefully delivered to Mozilla browsers.
Brief site history:» The pantsnetwork.com domain was purchased in July 2003 after it fell off the back of a truck.
» A placeholder 'coming soon' page officially launched the sites existence in early August 2003.
» October 2003 seen the first of the early site updates, probably something about Britney...
» The new news management system launched in December 2003. The archiving began. » Pixels was created in April 2004 to host some of the graphic/photography stuff I've work on.
» After 10 months of constant whinging, I finally set up this damn About page in August 2004.
Approximate percentage of the site dedicated to Britney Spears:10% to 12%, roughly 92 references.
Most common Google referral search strings:(As of August 2004...)
» "tight pants"
» "big bulges"
» "men with big bulges"
» "boys bulges"
» "girls in tight pants"
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|:: Pants Network | v0.98||© Copyright 2010 Adam Rachwal ::|
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Dreamer is a reiki charged spirit doll made especially to help with sleep and dreams. She is stuffed with herbs to help with both and symbolic charms - a dreamcatcher, a feather representing the spirits, a unicorn representing fantasy, a key opening the pathways, and a star and a moon representing the night sky.
She is available in my Etsy shop here: Dreamer Doll
I make spirit/art/voodoo dolls - whatever people want to call them these days... What I create is usually based on the traditional style of a voodoo doll with herbs, gemstones, colors, symbols, etc decorating the doll and charging it. Each doll is charged with Reiki and represents a certain spirit, god, goddess, angel, lwa, orisha, or elemental - or even abstracts like hope, peace, love, dreams... I think the thing that really sets my work apart from some others is the detailed sculpting and/or painting I add to the faces... I also feel for some reason spirits are represented with feathers - it's just something I did from the first dolls I created, some have sculpted feathers, all have feathers attached... Each doll pretty much makes it self as my hands put together the pieces. I go into each doll's creation with a plan of what I want to represent, but the rest of the way there's no telling how it will come out as I intuitively choose the parts that fit the theme...
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Historic Centre of Lima (Centro Historico de Lima)
The Plaza de Armas, also known as Plaza Mayor, is a good starting point for a walking tour of the district. The center’s most historically significant landmarks—the Lima Cathedral, the Government Palace (the presidential residence), the Archbishop's Palace, and the Palace of the Union—all cluster around the square. Nearby in Barrio Chino, Lima’s famous Chinatown, restaurants servechifa, a delicious Peruvian-Chinese hybrid cuisine. Other highlights include the Central Market and the Convent of Santo Domingo, whose tower offers a stunning view of the city.
Private and group walking and cycling tours exploring Lima’s historical center offer half-day and full-day options. Some combine visits to various city attractions such as the pre-Columbian site in Miraflores or, farther afield, the Inca settlement Pachacamac. Other tours focus specifically on art, culture, and Lima’s famously dynamic food scene.
Things to Know Before You Go
Many attractions have small entrance fees, which would be included if you are visiting as part of a larger tour.
Though the area is safe, always be careful with your possessions and avoid wearing eye-catching jewelry and accessories.
Remember sun protection and water for hydration.
How to Get There
The fastest and most direct route to the historical center is to take the Metropolitano Bus, which bypasses traffic on its very own designated lane through the city. From Barranco and Miraflores, take the line going North (Norte)—with several stops along Avenida Bolognesi—to the Jirón de la Unión stop and walk three to four blocks to the plaza.
When to Get There
The historical center is popular with tourists, so expect crowds to follow the patterns of high summer season (December to April) and important religious holidays like Easter (March or April) and Carnaval (February). Churches and museums close at 5pm every day except Monday, when they are generally closed. The plaza is particularly lovely in the evenings when warm golden lights illuminate the park and the colonial facades.
The grand Plaza Mayor is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Lima. Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro conquered the Incas here and founded the city in 1535, calling it the “City of Kings.” In celebration of the Spanish victory, he ordered the plaza constructed and completed that same year. By 1821, the tides had turned, as anticolonial rebels chose the square to declare their independence from Spain as the Republic of Peru.
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- Lima Plaza Mayor
- Municipal Palace (City Hall of Lima)
- Archbishop’s Palace of Lima
- Cathedral of Lima (Catedral de Lima)
- Presidential Palace
- Iglesia de Santo Domingo
- San Pedro Church (Iglesia de San Pedro)
- Plaza San Martin
- Sanctuary of Las Nazarenas (Iglesia de las Nazarenas)
- Lima Art Museum (Museo de Arte de Lima - MALI)
- Church and Convent of Saint Francis (Iglesia y Convento de San Francisco)
- Love Park (Parque del Amor)
- Park of the Reserve (Parque de la Reserva)
- Magic Water Circuit
- Lima Cruise Port
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The Broad is a breathtaking new LA art museum.
From the very first sight of the building draped in modern architecture, I was hooked.
The pouring of so much concrete with precision is an art to itself.
Precision guided by love produced these clean curves.
The collection was equal to the beauty of the grounds. Japanese psychedelics, full-on treasures from the NY art world, thought provoking in how I was thinking about reality, and in more ways than one.
The Broad shines as an example for how the one percent can pay back society.
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ZooCraft MOD APK game became beautiful graphics, 2d and 3d animation picture using on the game. Natural things and wild animals with pet animals used to graphics. Fantastic color combinations and natural things were complete when you started this game. Trees and flowers make a new world. Game developers special kind of magic laboratory things created. Luckily people see this game playing on immediately. Inside playing this game very interesting and the funniest moments. Much fun environment. Zoo craft game download to Google play store application. People all are enjoying full of funniest moments in the game. So download this game..
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Mentioned in this article
- ESL UK Managing Director James Dean confirmed that 30 staff from the branch have taken voluntary layoffs.
- All UK operations will now be supported by centralized teams in Poland and Germany.
- Certain former staff members will continue to work with the Weavr Consortium, a government-backed data-technology platform.
As part of a global restructuring plan, the staff of ESL UK have taken voluntary redundancy (layoffs), the regional entity’s Managing Director James Dean has confirmed. Event UK series such as the ESL Premiership will continue under the support of centralized teams in Poland and Germany.
“The ESL UK mission has always been to grow UK esports and we remain 100% committed to that cause,” said Dean in a press release. “We therefore look forward to returning on January 2nd after the Christmas break when the office will reopen when we will continue to contribute to the burgeoning UK esports scene.”
It’s not yet been confirmed if ESL One Birmingham, a Dota 2 arena event that has been running for the last two years, will return in 2020. The decision follows a statement on Dec. 3 that ESL would restructure its international entities, with Spain and France being two other branches affected. The company stated no local offices would be shut down in the process.
ESL UK will also remain a lead member in the Weavr Consortium, which is currently developing viewer-focused data apps and products. The project gathered £5.8M GBP ($7.5M USD) in funding from its members alongside a grant from the UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ICSF). Rob Black, former COO of ESL UK is one industry executive who will be continuing work on the project.
Other active firms in the UK esports space include Gfinity, a publicly-traded company that runs events around both typical esports titles as well as sports games—the latter in partnership with entities such as the Premier League and Formula One. Player1 Events, owned by retailer GAME Digital, runs the nation’s largest gaming festival, Insomnia. DreamHack, a Swedish gaming and esports event company, recently announced it would manage the official League of Legends regional competition for UK and Ireland.
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So what were the lessons learned in 2013?
- Relax or die trying.
- Focus or get lost.
- Smile, even when no one is watching.
- Calm your mind or monkeys will be your boss.
- Hug a friend. And then do it again. Repeat.
Since I lose track of my own lessons learned in 2013 from time to time, I made a desktop wallpaper for you and me. Download the picture in full size (2048 x 1365 px) if you like. I hope it is useful for you, too. Namaste 🙂
/edit: By public (an my own) request, I made an iPhone iOS7 parallax wallpaper. Yes, looks great on Android, too 😉 Click it for full size and download it for your daily reminder..
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Head Royce team.
Simon and Jonathan Andrews sailing for Alameda High School
Simon and Jonathan Andrews for Alameda High School
New span of the Bay Bridge. See regatta pics from previous years for earlier progress.
Simon between races.
Coach Mike Scott
Simon in #4.
Forrest Gay resetting the mark.
Drake and Kaila
The Golden Bear PCISA regatta is held at Clipper Cover, Treasure Island in late winter. 60 teams from SoCal and NorCal compete in two fleets.
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According to Pew Research, Christianity is the world’s largest religious group, so it’s worth knowing something about it, whether you’re a Christian or not. And if you’re interested in learning more about the Christian faith, there’s no lack of books out there. It’s hard to know where to start! I’m here to help with enough recommendations to keep you reading for a long time.
A few caveats: Christianity is a diverse tradition that comprises a variety of perspectives, and not all of the books on this list will agree with each other. There are several that I argued with quite a lot when I read them, but those that I’ve read were interesting, comforting, or challenging in the best way. Others come highly recommended from sources I respect. Not all of the books are written from a Christian perspective, and some are critical of the church, but they do provide useful insights. And I believe that most of the books on the list offer value for both believers and those who are just curious about Christian beliefs.
I am currently a member of the Episcopal church and briefly attended a theologically moderate Baptist seminary, so this list will lean heavily on those traditions. I’ve tried to include a mix of light books and more dense theological works as well as some important classics. I hope you find this helpful, and feel free to share books you recommend in the comments.
After Shock: Searching for Honest Faith When Your World Is Shaken by Kent Annan. “In the wake of a historic earthquake in the fragile country of Haiti, Kent Annan considers suffering—from the epic to the everyday—as a problem for faith.”
The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu. “Archbishop Desmond Tutu, along with his daughter, the Reverend Mpho Tutu, offer a manual on the art of forgiveness—helping us to realize that we are all capable of healing and transformation.”
Crazy Christians: A Call to Follow Jesus by Michael B. Curry. Based on a 2012 address by the current presiding bishop of the Episcopal church, this book encourages Christians to be “as crazy as the Lord.”
The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis. Drawing on Greek terms for love, Lewis explores four different forms of love—affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God— and how we express them in our lives.
Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne. “Shane Claiborne describes an authentic faith rooted in belief, action, and love, inviting us into a movement of the Spirit that begins inside each of us and extends into a broken world.”
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: Spirituality for Real Life by James Martin. A whimsical guidebook for how to use Ignatian spirituality as a guide to day-to-day life.
Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World by Henri Nouwen. An exploration of what it means to be loved by God and how that knowledge can help us throughout life.
One. Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow by Scot McKnight. “Equipping you with a new understanding of that kingdom’s radical nature, One.Life shares profound, challenging, and practical insights on how to demonstrate its reality in your life.”
The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat Up, and Burnt Out by Brennan Manning. “Brennan Manning’s now-classic meditation on grace and what it takes to access it—simple honesty—has changed thousands of lives.”
Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now by Walter Brueggemann. “In this volume, popular author Walter Brueggemann writes that the Sabbath is not simply about keeping rules but rather about becoming a whole person and restoring a whole society.”
Seeing in the Dark: Finding God’s Light in the Most Unexpected Places by Nancy Ortberg. “Highlights the often unexpected, sometimes imperceptible, yet always extraordinary means God uses to light our way through even the most painful and challenging moments in life.”
Speak: How Your Story Can Change the World by Nish Weiseth. “A book about the power of telling our own stories and hearing those of others to change hearts, build bridges, advocate for good, make disciples with grace, and proclaim God’s kingdom on Earth today.”
Spiritual Sobriety: Stumbling Back to Faith When Good Religion Goes Bad by Elizabeth Esther. “The author, who grew up in a hyper-controlling church cult, will help you find hope and rebirth in the ruins of disillusioned faith.”
What’s So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey. “Philip Yancey explores grace at street level. If grace is God’s love for the undeserving, he asks, then what does it look like in action?”
Wishful Thinking: A Seeker’s ABC by Frederick Buechner. Buechner takes a fresh look at the words Christians use to describe the faith and provides his own wry definitions.
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation by Jon Meacham. The story of how the founders of the United States viewed faith and how they built a country of religious freedom.
Christianity: A Very Short Introduction by Linda Woodhead. “Exploring the cultural and institutional dimensions of Christianity, and tracing its course over two millennia, Linda Woodhead provides a fresh, lively, and candid portrait of Christianity’s past and present.”
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmid MacCulloch. A comprehensive history of Christianity around the globe, this book is a massive work of scholarship filled with information about how the church interacts with history and culture and how it has changed over time and in different regions.
Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, Troy Jackson, and Soong-Chan Rah. “In each chapter of Forgive Us two pastors who are also academically trained historians provide accurate and compelling histories of some of the American church’s greatest shortcomings.”
The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle. “Examines history, social upheaval, and current events, showing how a new form of Christianity is rising within postmodern culture.”
A People’s History of Christianity by Diana Butler Bass. In the tradition of Howard Zinn, Diana Butler Bass presents a history of radical movements within and on the fringes of the established church.
Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels by Janet Soskice. The story of how Agnes and Margaret Smith traveled to the Middle East in the late 19th century and uncovered an early Biblical manuscript.
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan. “A fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.”
7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess by Jen Hatmaker. Haymaker describes her family’s seven-month experiment in eliminating excess in seven areas of their lives by making seven simple choices.
Adventure of Ascent: Field Notes from a Lifelong Journey by Luci Shaw. “In this book, writer-poet Luci Shaw has given us a lifetime of exquisite reflections on nature, love, death, suffering, loss, faith, doubt, creativity, curiosity, lifelong learning.”
An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor. “Taylor shares how she learned to find God beyond the church walls by embracing the sacred as a natural part of everyday life.”
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith by Kathleen Norris. Norris examines how the vocabulary of Christianity kept her at a distance when she first returned to the church after a long absence.
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It by Peter Enns. “The controversial Bible scholar and author recounts his transformative spiritual journey in which he discovered a new, more honest way to love and appreciate God’s Word.”
Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith by Monica Coleman. Coleman weaves family history and history of the Black church into her account of her personal journey to growing in faith and coming to terms with her own mental illness.
Come Be My Light by Mother Teresa. “This collection of letters she wrote to her spiritual advisors over decades, almost all of which have never been made public before, sheds light on Mother Teresa’s interior life.”
Confessions by Augustine of Hippo. In this classic work, the Bishop of Hippo recounts how he left behind a life of licentiousness to become one of Christianity’s most important theologians.
Facing East: A Pilgrim’s Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy by Frederica Mathewes-Green. “Following the framework of the Orthodox calendar—from Lent to Pascha to Nativity, from Vespers to feasts to fasts—Mathewes-Green chronicles a year in the life of her small Orthodox mission church.”
Girl Meets God: A Memoir by Lauren Winner. Winner was an Orthodox Jew when she felt drawn to Christianity and eventually converted. In this book, she walks through a church year, drawing on wisdom from both traditions.
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom and Elizabeth and John Sherrill. The story of how Corrie Ten Boom and her family helped save Jews in the Holocaust and were eventually taken to concentration camps, with Corrie the family’s only survivor.
The Irrational Season by Madeleine L’Engle. A journal of the church year, with reflections on life, church, and God.
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza. A survivor of the Rwandan genocide describes how she came to believe in God’s unconditional love and the power of prayer during the months she spent hiding from genocidal killers.
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist by Dorothy Day. An autobiography by the social activist and founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman. Poet Christian Wiman begin exploring Christianity around the same time he was diagnosed with cancer. In this meditative memoir, he considers the struggle of faith and doubt in the midst of darkness.
Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner and Saint by Nadia Bolz-Weber. “Nadia Bolz-Weber takes no prisoners as she reclaims the term ‘pastrix’ (pronounced ‘pas-triks,’ a term used by some Christians who refuse to recognize female pastors) in her messy, beautiful, prayer-and-profanity laden narrative about an unconventional life of faith.”
Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert’s Search for a Spiritual Community by Enuma Okoro. “Part Augustine, part Jane Austen with a side of Anne Lamott, Okoro attempts to reconcile her theological understanding of God’s call to community with her painful and disappointing experiences of community in churches where she often felt unseen, pigeon-holed or out of place.”
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church by Rachel Held Evans. “Using the seven sacraments as a framework, Rachel Held Evans describes how she became disenchanted with church life and then found her way back.”
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton. “The unique spiritual document of a man who withdrew from the world only after he had fully immersed himself in it.”
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong. Armstrong shares her story of joining a convent, deciding to leave, and finally discovering what she’d been seeking in the study of comparative religion.
Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion by Sara Miles. An atheist, lesbian, left-wing journalist walks into a church, takes communion, and is changed. Miles’s new-found faith drives her to open food pantries to combat physical and spiritual hunger.
Transparently: Behind the Scenes of a Good Life by Lisa Salazar. “Lisa shares the story of her journey as a transwoman and Christian; written with tenderness, humility, sensitivity and complete transparency.”
Waiting for God by Simone Weil. A collection of letters and essays in which Weil discusses her spiritual journey.
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs. A journalist spends a year trying to follow the rules laid out in the Bible while also getting to know believers from various communities that focus on literal readings of scripture.
Prayer and Devotion
Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard Foster. A description and how to manual for inward (prayer, meditation, fasting, study); outward (simplicity, solitude, submission, service); and corporate (confession, worship, guidance, celebration) spiritual disciplines.
Experiencing God Through Prayer by Jeanne Guyon. Offers a brief and simple instruction in contemplative prayer that is about being in God’s presence, rather than presenting requests to God.
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott. “Author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life.”
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence. “For nearly 300 years this unparalleled classic has given both blessing and instruction to those who can be content with nothing less than knowing God in all His majesty and feeling His loving presence throughout each simple day.”
A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor. “A rare portal into the interior life of the great writer. Not only does it map O’Connor’s singular relationship with the divine, but it shows how entwined her literary desire was with her yearning for God.”
The Sacrament of the Present Moment by Jean-Pierre de Caussade. A collection of talks and letters by the 18th-century Jesuit priest about serving God by surrendering daily to God’s will.
The Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila. “Written by a prominent sixteenth-century Spanish mystic and Carmelite nun, it forms a practical guide to prayer that embraces readers with its warmth and accessibility.”
A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor. “More than a history or travel journal, this beautiful short book is a meditation on the meaning of silence and solitude for modern life.”
America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis. “Wallis offers a prophetic and deeply personal call to action in overcoming the racism so ingrained in American society.”
Christ and Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr. “This book deals with one of the most central issues in religious discussions today – one that has been pivotal in history: to what degree should ‘the world’ and ‘the kingdom’ as revealed by Christ co-exist?”
Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart by Christena Cleveland. “With a personal touch and the trained eye of a social psychologist, Cleveland brings to bear the latest studies and research on the unseen dynamics at work that tend to separate us from others.”
Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America by Jeff Chu. “Part memoir and part investigative analysis that explores the explosive and confusing intersection of faith, politics, and sexuality in Christian America.”
Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins by Miguel A. De La Torre. “Presents a justice-based ethics that avails itself of the perspectives and experiences of those on the margins.”
Down We Go: Living Into the Wild Ways of Jesus by Kathy Escobar. “It’s based on the idea of living into the Beatitudes, and explores what it means to follow Jesus into the hard places of suffering, inequality, and injustice in order to cultivate, hope, beauty, justice, equality, generosity and healing.”
The Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew: Three Women Search for Understanding by Rayna Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner. Three mothers from three different faiths form a group to discuss their beliefs and their personal struggles with faith and life.
God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships by Matthew Vines. “Feeling the tension between his understanding of the Bible and the reality of his same-sex orientation, Vines devoted years of intensive research into what the Bible says about homosexuality.”
The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America by Ray Suarez. A look at the intersection between faith and politics in the U.S. and how people across the religious spectrum believe religion should inform government.
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman. This influential book, a favorite of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., explores the gospel’s message of hope and resistance for the poor and disenfranchised.
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women by Sarah Bessey. “This loving yet fearless book urges today’s church to move beyond man-made restrictions and fully welcome women’s diverse voices and experiences.”
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence of Belief by Francis S. Collins. The director of the National Institutes of Health and former leader of the Human Genome Project argues that faith and science are not incompatible.
More Than Serving Tea: Asian American Women on Expectations, Relationship, Leadership and Faith by Nikki Toyama and Tracey Gee (editors). “Nikki Toyama and Tracey Gee and a team of Asian American women share how God has redeemed their stories and helped them move beyond cultural and gender constraints.”
The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity by Philip Jenkins. A look at the church’s growth in the global South and what that means for the church around the world.
The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder. “Using the texts of the New Testament, Yoder critically examines the traditional portrait of Jesus as an apolitical figure and attempts to clarify the true impact of Jesus’ life, work, and teachings on his disciples’ social behavior.”
Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times by Soong Chan-Rah. “Soong-Chan Rah’s prophetic exposition of the book of Lamentations provides a biblical and theological lens for examining the church’s relationship with a suffering world.”
Red Letter Christians: A Citizen’s Guide to Faith and Politics by Tony Campolo. “Campolo examines many of the hot-button issues facing evangelicals from the perspective of Jesus’ red-letter words in the Bible.”
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know—And Doesn’t by Stephen Prothero. Describes Americans’ religious ignorance and its implications and presents some basic facts about major religious faiths.
Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women, and Queer Christians Are Reclaiming Evangelicalism by Deborah Jian Lee. “An inside look at the young, diverse, progressive Christians who are transforming the evangelical movement.”
Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony by Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon. “Discusses the nature of the church and its relationship to surrounding culture. It argues that churches should focus on developing Christian life and community rather than attempting to reform secular culture.”
Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr. A collection of King’s sermons and essays from the Civil Rights era that lay out his vision of justice as part of Christian discipleship.
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone. Explains how the meaning of the cross and the lynching tree are intertwined and considers what they mean today for both black and white America and the church.
A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutierrez. “This is the credo and seminal text of the movement which was later characterized as liberation theology. The book burst upon the scene in the early seventies, and was swiftly acknowledged as a pioneering and prophetic approach to theology which famously made an option for the poor.”
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate by Justin Lee. The founder of the Gay Christian Network shares his own experiences and calls for respect on all sides of the debate about the place of gay Christians.
Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism by Drew G.I. Hart. “Leading readers toward Jesus, Hart offers concrete practices for churches that seek solidarity with the oppressed and are committed to racial justice.”
The Violence of Love by Oscar A. Romero. “These selections from the sermons and writings of Archbishop Oscar Romero share the message of a great holy prophet of modern times.”
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. “One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus.”
Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles’ Creed by David Steindl-Rast. “Spiritual teacher and bridge-builder Brother David Steindl-Rast translates the Apostles’ Creed for today, uncovering the deeper universal truths that can be an inspiration to all people.”
The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’ Birth by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan. Two scholars delve into the nativity stories in the Bible, breaking down misconceptions and exploring what those stories mean today.
Gathering at God’s Table: The Meaning of Mission in the Feast of Faith by Katharine Jefferts Schori. “In an insightful and powerful voice, Katharine Jefferts Schori, [former] presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church, explores the meaning of mission in the context of contemporary life.”
The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction by Peter Rollins. “Introduces an incendiary approach to faith that invites us to joyfully embrace our brokenness, resolutely face our unknowing, and courageously accept the difficulties of existence.”
In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza. “This brilliant scholarly treatise succeeds in bringing to our consciousness women who played an important role in the origins of Christianity.”
Introduction to Christian Theology by Justo L. González and Zaida Maldonado Perez. “Consciously avoiding the perspective of one school of thought or confessional tradition, the authors provide the reader with a brief, broad overview of the questions and contents of theological study.”
Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation by Nyasha Junior. “Argues that womanist biblical interpretation is not simply a byproduct of feminist biblical interpretation but part of a distinctive tradition of African American women’s engagement with biblical texts.”
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell. “Addresses one of the most controversial issues of faith—hell and the afterlife—arguing, would a loving God send people to eternal torment forever?”
The Meaning of Jesus by Marcus Borg and N.T. Wright. Two theologians with different views hash out their disagreements about Jesus in a respectful dialogue about questions that both consider vitally important.
The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers. “By turns an entrancing mediation on language; a piercing commentary on the nature of art and why so much of what we read, hear, and see falls short; and a brilliant examination of the fundamental tenets of Christianity.”
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart Ehrman. A valuable introduction to textual criticism, this book explores the history of the earliest New Testament manuscripts and how and why those manuscripts were altered.
The Moral Vision of the New Testament by Richard Hays. An explanation of the ethical teachings within the New Testament and how to apply that ethical framework to contemporary social issues.
A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith by Brian McLaren. Considers how the church is evolving in its understanding of key questions regarding who God is and how Christians should engage with the world.
On the Incarnation by Athanasius. An influential classic that lays out the argument for Jesus being fully God and fully human.
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton. Chesterton presents his argument for the truth of Christianity in this classic work of apologetics.
Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church by N.T. Wright. Delves into what the Biblical writers meant when they talked about heaven and shows how many Christians today are getting it wrong.
Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages by Jaroslav Pelikan. “Takes the reader through the good book’s evolution from its earliest incarnation as oral tales to its modern existence in various iterations, translations, and languages.”
Whose Religion Is Christianity? The Gospel Beyond the West by Lamin Sanneh. “Sanneh’s engaging narrative takes the form of a self-interview in which he asks questions about the cross-cultural expansion of Christianity and provides insightful answers and meaningful predictions about the future.”
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Demands for electricity and energy to supply heat are expected to expand by 71% and 47%, respectively, for Beijing in 2020 relative to 2009. If the additional electricity and heat are supplied solely by coal as is the current situation, annual emissions of CO2 may be expected to increase by 59.6% or 99 million tons over this interval. Assessed against this business as usual (BAU) background, the present study indicates that significant reductions in emissions could be realized using wind-generated electricity to provide a source of heat, employed either with heat pumps or with electric thermal storage (ETS) devices. Relative to BAU, reductions in CO2 with heat pumps assuming 20% wind penetration could be as large as 48.5% and could be obtained at a cost for abatement of as little as $15.6 per ton of avoided CO2. Even greater reductions, 64.5%, could be realized at a wind penetration level of 40% but at a higher cost, $29.4 per ton. Costs for reduction of CO2 using ETS systems are significantly higher, reflecting the relatively low efficiency for conversion of coal to power to heat.
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September 18, 2021 by Carol Britton Meyer
Cohasset resident Erin Herman and Ryan Hilton, who lives in neighboring Hingham, are proposing to open a seasonal outdoor oyster bar and beer garden at 12 Parking Way in the heart of the downtown area.
“Our vision is to create an open, friendly space that brings people together to celebrate this special and unique community,” Herman said.
The "Split Rock" proposal is expected to go before the Select Board Oct. 19, when Hilton and Herman will request a liquor license for their proposed business, according to Hilton. Other approvals would also be required. The space is located between South Main Street and the commuter parking lot.
Herman explained how they arrived at the name. "Ryan and I wanted something that embodied Cohasset, the surrounding area, and its geography that also played into our oyster and beer garden theme," she said.
Because of the area’s rocky terrain, it's often necessary to break up rocks before building a foundation, and "split rock" is the slang term for shucking oysters, according to Herman. "We thought the name sounded cool.”
The proposed plan calls for a tap room featuring craft beer from local breweries and a raw bar together inside a custom-built shipping container crafted by a European company to accommodate both features. The venue would also feature picnic tables, festive string lights, and fire pits for cooler evenings.
An earlier proposal for a beer garden for that location by another applicant did not ultimately move forward, but this time around, Herman and Hilton are hoping for widespread community support, based on "how we think this would be a positive for downtown Cohasset and the neighboring vicinity," Hilton said.
Former applicant, Brian McLaughlin, owner of Seabird Coffee in Cohasset, is supportive of the proposal and has been helpful navigating some of the details in the approval process," according to Herman and Hilton.
The time seems right, they agree, having both spent numerous years independently living on the West Coast, where they observed concepts such as the one they're proposing for Cohasset implemented with great success.
“It would be a great way to meet other people in town and a casual place to gather with neighbors and friends to have a beer -- similar to the beer gardens in Europe, where there's one on every corner,” Hilton said. “It's an opportunity to bring your kids and to celebrate our amazing community."
The space would feature a “half-pint” section where children could play while their parents enjoy a cold beer or glass of wine and fresh oysters with other adults in an outdoor venue that is inviting and comfortable.
Hilton and Herman are partnering with a local oyster distributor out of Duxbury and plan to feature local farmers who would meet patrons and share their knowledge of the local oyster scene throughout the season.
The container bar would have running water and fully-enclosed restrooms and would feature “a lot of greenery,” Herman said.
As a new Cohasset resident, she is looking forward to having her children grow up here and often visits local playgrounds and Sandy Beach.
Hilton spends his free time building sales teams for technology startups, although he is happiest when he’s at the beach, hiking, or camping with family and friends.
The targeted opening date, contingent on the necessary approvals, is April 2022. The plan would be to operate through October, weather permitting.
For more information, visit www.splitrockcohasset.com.
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ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry Friday said that the medical hemp [Bhang] project that he launched will help the country to gain a foothold in the multi-million dollar industry globally.
Taking to Twitter to comment on the project launched a day back by Minister for Science and Technology Shibli Faraz, Fawad Chaudhry said it was him who launched the project while heading the ministry and now it has turned into a reality.
“This example of the use of modern technology in agriculture will help Pakistan to gain a foothold in multi-million dollar industry globally,” he said while congratulating the Arid University and PCSIR officials for their efforts that led to the success.
Yesterday, Federal Minister for Science and Technology Shibli Faraz said that the idea to plant bhang has remained successful as it helps in producing medicines to deal with cancer, body pain, and other illnesses.
He shared that other than the medicine industry, the bhang plant is also used extensively in the textile and paper industries. “Medicines produced from CBD [cannabis] oil could also be exported,” he said.
The minister further added that Pakistan was moving towards self-sufficiency in the yield of high-value crops and they wanted to improve the quality of crops through research in the agriculture sector.
“A seed of bhang is worth US$12 in the international market and encouraging its lawful export will help in curbing its illicit trade,” Shibli Faraz said and added that bhang plantation is 10 times more fruitful than profits from the sale of drugs.
He shared that the CBD or cannabis oil is being sold at Rs10,000 per litre in the international market. The minister said that Bhang could prove to be an alternate crop for cotton and would help the country in earning foreign exchange.
We are also planning to establish an authority to improve bhang plantation, he said, adding that foreign investors have also shown their interest in its plantation.
Source: Daily Times
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In November of 1940 the War Department, after two years of experimenting in search of a highly mobile ground reconnaissance force, selected seven national guard and two regular army cavalry regiments to be reorganized as "Horse-Mechanized Cavalry." With a new national emergency in sight, and mobilization already under way, the 102nd (Essex Troop) Cavalry was honored by being selected as one of these.
The new regiment consisted of a rifle squadron (horse), reconnaissance squadron (mechanized), a headquarters troop and service troop, the latter embodying portee equipment for the horse squadron. From a peacetime strength of about 500 men, the organization jumped to a mobilization table of some 1,500 and active recruiting was started immediately.
United States Army, World War 1939-1945, Regimental histories, 102nd Cavalry Regiment
United States Army, "102 United States Cavalry (H-MECZ) 1942" (1942). World War Regimental Histories. 65.
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Across the Charles River from Boston, connected by pedestrian bridges and the T, lies one of the most celebrated college towns in the world. Iconic Cambridge is, of course, home to Harvard University and MIT, and an historic cradle of innovation and liberal thinking. It’s also a highly walkable city of neighborhoods, striking design and myriad housing options—for those who’d rather live Boston-adjacent.
The Cambridge Real Estate Market
Like so much of the Boston area, Cambridge’s origins reach back almost 400 years. Founded by one of the original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Cambridge farmland had become prime industrial and residential real estate by the early 1800s. And by the mid 1800s, anchored by a wide industrial base, it was a city of neighborhoods that housed people at every income level.
Of course, heavy industry left Cambridge by the mid 20th century, to be replaced by today’s thriving high-tech economy. But its dense and interesting neighborhoods remain. Many homes surround Cambridge’s famous squares: Inman, Porter, Kendall, Harvard, Brattle and more, dotted with historic buildings and unique public spaces.
Busy and bustling, Cambridge today offers sought-after modern architecture, private estates, cozy single-family houses and everything in between.
Cambridge is easily one of the most interesting cities in New England. Its colleges and universities host cultural offerings from lectures to film festivals, well as the world-renowned Harvard Art Museums. It boasts great shopping, top-ranked public schools and fascinating nooks and crannies to discover.
Perennially youthful and exciting, Cambridge coffee houses and restaurants have seen everything from the 1960s folk scene to the farm-to-table movement. Meanwhile, Cambridge’s innovation economy shows no sign of slowing. It continues to lure bright young people from across the globe —as well as the engaged, liberal-minded citizens who jokingly call it “The People’s Republic of Cambridge.”
Yet for such a high-energy urban environment, Cambridge is also a haven for dog walkers, bicyclists, leaf peepers and river lovers. Bounded by Belmont, Watertown, Somerville and Arlington, alongside the serene Charles River, Cambridge offers a very different pace and flavor from its neighbor across the water.
Is Now A Good Time To Buy In Cambridge?
Cambridge is a perennially-desirable area for real estate. With its universities and high-tech incubators, its proximity to Boston, its varied architecture—and its AAA bond credit rating—Cambridge is thriving. And can be quite pricey. However, covering as it does such a widely diverse area, with its range of condos, single families and multi-families, there are always opportunities to find the perfect home in Cambridge.
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Sprint timers and stats bars and word counts, oh my! It’s a whirlwind of activity as we kick off our first week of NaNoWriMo. Our minds are fresh, the excitement is contagious, and that leftover Trick or Treat candy is coming in handy.
The greatest challenge of NaNoWriMo is keeping those word counts high, especially once we’ve run out of ideas. Today, I’m sharing one of my favorite methods for sparking new inspiration, writing prompts!
What’s a writing prompt?
Writing prompts are themes or topics that you can use to help generate new ideas when you’re having a hard time deciding what to write next. I like using them during NaNoWriMo, especially on a slow day, because they have a way of kicking the creative brain into gear.
Where do you get them?
Just about anything can become a writing prompt. You could pick things that are directly related to their project or go with something totally random and see where it takes you.
Things you might use as a writing prompt:
~favorite lyrics or a quote
~some sort of object or prop
~a photograph or piece of artwork
~emotions or sensations
~fun words or phrases
You can also find tons of writing prompts on Pinterest or use an online generator. It might be tempting to stick with things that already go with what you were planning to write, but I encourage you to challenge yourself now and then. Sometimes it’s fun to just run with something totally random and see what happens.
How do you write with prompts?
For NaNoWriMo, I recommend finding a selection prompts you’d like to use before you start writing (or prep them the night before) so that you don’t have to spend time finding a new topic.
- Start a new page with your prompt as a header.
- Set up a 15-20 minute word sprint and brainstorm how that theme might fit your work in progress.
- If any of your ideas is really speaking to you, do another short sprint and flesh it out a little further.
- Set up a new page with the next prompt and take a quick break away from the computer (make some tea, take a stretch, pet your dog) to reset your brain.
- Repeat the process until you’ve reached the end of your prompts list or once you hit your daily word count!
Does it actually work?
When it comes to creativity, it’s hard to know if something will work until you give it a try. For me, writing prompts are like a game. It keeps me engaged and interested in what I’m doing, which means I’m writing longer and still enjoying myself.
Every topic might not produce book-worthy content, but NaNoWriMo is all about discovering your story, and using prompts is a fun way to do just that! Give yourself the freedom to explore your writing, worldbuilding, characters, and their emotions in a totally different way.
If using writing prompts sounds like fun, give it a go! I’d love to know if it worked for you, and which prompts you decided to use.
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Second-Generation Services of “e-kakashi”, an IoT Farming Solution Equipped with CPS
—Trilateral Joint Development to Start in 2018—
Three members of the PS Solutions Corp. (“PS Solutions,” based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, led by Amane Kito, affiliated with SoftBank Group), CKD Corporation (“CKD,” based in Komaki, Aichi, led by Kazunori Kajimoto), and Ericsson Japan K.K. (“Ericsson Japan,” based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, led by Mikael Eriksson and Toru Nozaki), will collaborate to develop the second-generation services of “e-kakashi”, an IoT farming solution equipped with Artificial Intelligence (AI)*1 and a Cyber Physical System (CPS)*2.
PS Solutions will enhance the AI of “e-kakashi”, which the company already supplies, and add remote control features. PS Solutions will also achieve remote control and automation that are necessary for farming by applying the IoT Accelerator developed by Ericsson for improving communication and remote control features and by connecting the actuators developed by CKD.
As the first step, PS Solutions will start providing remote-controlled automated services in 2018 that include: (1) controlling the environment of horticultural facilities (plastic greenhouses) by AI, (2) mixing, diluting and spreading liquid fertilizers and (3) sprinkling (watering) paddy fields, other fields and greenhouses.
At the 4th Next Generation Agriculture Expo to be held from October 11, 2017, a booth for the second-generation “e-kakashi” services will be built to present the concept of this service.
*1 The AI of “e-kakashi” is a hybrid of rule-based inference and model-based inference that is built on expertise and scientific evidence and is complemented with machine learning.
*2 Here, the Cyber Physical System (CPS) refers to the mechanism for analyzing open data and data collected by the sensors and feed the results back to the physical actuators to control them.
■Features of the second-generation “e-kakashi”
- Equipped with AI-powered remote control features based on agricultural knowledge
The “e-kakashi”, which has a proven track record, will be equipped with AI-operated remote control features in addition to analysis and farming navigation features. AI will decide how to control the task that needs to be performed at the moment from a farming perspective, instead of using a simple logic—such as opening and closing the windows when the temperature in the facility reaches certain degrees—by making the AI learn the parameters for farming such as at what growth stage the crops are at, how high their sugar content should be, how large they should be and region-specific know-how on farming.
- Improved connectivity and openness with standard technologies
The LWM2M protocol, a technical standard, is used for the flexible connection of LWM2M-compliant sensors and actuators to “e-kakashi”. Furthermore, no additional communication equipment is needed because “e-kakashi” is equipped with IoT mobile communication* features for directly connecting to devices over a cellular network.
* It supports protocols that meet Release 13 standardized by 3GPP, an organization for establishing international standards, such as NB-IoT and Cat-M1.
- Easy to install, capable of enabling one or more device to be automatically controlled
The automatic control features exist in the cloud, thereby eliminating the need to install a separate control panel in the farming facility. In addition, actuators are available one by one and can be linked to existing devices. For example, to automate the opening and closing of a facility’s windows to regulate the temperature, it is possible to deploy only the relevant actuators and they will be automatically controlled by “e-kakashi” in the cloud. In fiscal 2018, carbon dioxide generators and heat pumps will be available.
The second-generation “e-kakashi” will accelerate the evolution of agricultural IoT environments through providing flexible connectivity with various sensors and actuators in addition to the improved features of the first generation, which was highly acclaimed as a high-end model in the agricultural IoT field for analysis, the recording and retaining of regional farming techniques, and the cultivation navigation based on plant science.
Going forward, the trilateral technical collaboration between PS Solutions, CKD and Ericsson Japan will offer various IT applications for agriculture of the future through “e-kakashi”. The launch date, details and specifications of the second-generation “e-kakashi” will be published on the official “e-kakashi” website.
Official website: https://www.e-kakashi.com/
■Companies’ roles in the development of the second-generation “e-kakashi”
PS Solutions will provide services as the “e-kakashi” project owner. The company is in charge of the research and development of the unique integration of AI and farming from perspectives of agricultural information engineering, agriculture, plant science and farming, and will continue evolving “e-kakashi” to CPS services for agriculture.
CKD will provide services and features that allow environmental control including appropriate temperature regulation for crop cultivation in the field of greenhouse horticulture, and the remote automation of mixture and dilution of liquid fertilizer by leveraging the fluid control and automation technologies the company has developed in the field of factory automation. With the fluid control and automation technologies, the company will contribute to improving crop quality and productivity as well as farmers’ work flexibility.
Ericsson Japan will contribute to the “e-kakashi” project by offering IoT Accelerator in a SaaS model to continuously provide the most advanced IoT solutions consisting of a variety of features including IoT platform services, mobility, device and data management, analysis, billing, security and portal sites.
■Overview of the 4th Next Generation Agriculture Expo
- Dates ：October 11 (Wed)–13 (Fri), 2017
10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. (13 (Fri) until 5:00 p.m.)
- Venue ： Makuhari Messe
- Event URL： http://www.agritechjapan.jp/en/tokyo/
- Product name ： “e-kakashi”
- Exhibition booth number： 40-40
- Category ： IT solution (farming support)
- Characteristics ：“Car navigation? No, it’s time to navigate agriculture.”
“e-kakashi” not only preserves and inherits expert producers’ highly accumulated farming know-how including intuition and experience, but also proposes new ways of agricultural production using environmental data and plant science. In addition, “e-kakashi” automatically achieves optimal facility control.
“e-kakashi” is an agricultural IoT solution that navigates farming. It collects from the fields environmental information including temperature, humidity, the amount of solar radiation, the temperature and water content in the soil, CO2, and EC, as well as growth information. The collected data is analyzed by the Hybrid AI, based on plant science, which helps identify important growth and obstructive factors on each stage. “e-kakashi” navigates the user to an optimal growth environment by providing information such as what risks there are now and how they should be handled.
Knowledge on farming can be recorded as “ek recipes” and shared with multiple users. “e-kakashi” thereby helps make farming, instruction and agriculture more accurate and efficient.
■PS Solutions Corp. Profile
- Headquarters ：4F, Shiodome City Center, 1-5-2 Higashi-Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-7104 JAPAN
- Chairman & CEO：Amane Kito
- Capital ：100 million yen, fully funded by SoftBank Group International GK
- URL ：https://en.pssol.co.jp/
■CKD Corporation Profile
- Head Office：250, Ouji 2-chome, Komaki, Aichi, 485-8551, Japan
- President ：Kazunori Kajimoto
- Capital ：11.016 billion yen
■Ericsson Japan K.K. Profile
- Headquarters：MOMENTO SHIODOME 2-3-17, Higashi-Shimbashi, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, 105-0021, Japan
- Presidents, Representative：Directors Mikael Eriksson, Toru Nozaki
- Capital ：320 million yen
* SoftBank, SoftBank's equivalent in Japanese and the SoftBank logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of SoftBank Group Corp. in Japan and other countries.
* PS Solutions, e-kakashi and the e-kakashi logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of PS Solutions Corp.
* Any other product, company and organization names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the relevant companies.
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Polytechnic Annual Golf Outing A Fun Day For All
The Athletic Department of Polytechnic University held its annual Golf Outing on Sunday, June 11 at the beautiful LaTourette Golf Course in Staten Island.
The bright sunny and windy day was perfect weather for all the participants. Former players, alumni, staff and supporters of the athletic program took part in the event which included a box lunch and a barbeque Dinner at the course.
Hosted by Polytechnic's Athletic Director Maureen Braziel, the event benefits the continued development of the University's athletic program. Numerous prizes were awarded at the Barbeque Dinner for a variety of golfing achievements.
The Scramble forward of team best ball allowed each foursome to play the best shot of the quartet. Team honors went to the foursome of Holly Block (Polytechnic Communications and Media Relations), Glenn Sheehan (a Polytechnic athletic booster), Elisa Linsky (Polytechnic Humanities), and Sunil Gupta (Polytechnic Continuing Education).
Second place team honors were awarded to a team of athletic boosters from the New York Stock Exchange. The foursome included Dennis McGowan, Rich Norton, Tommy Hyland and Aldo Sergi.
In third place for best team ball honors were Steve Xiao (a Polytechnic Alumnus), Marie Bermoth (NYC Transit), Ed Zambrano (alumnus) and Jim Oussani (alumnus). Each member of the team received a handsome trophy for their accomplishments.
The golf event also gave out individual honors. The Men's longest drive went to Dennis McGowan, and the Women's longest drive went to Armajean Osbourne (athletic booster). The closest to the pin winner for the men was Glenn Sheehan, and for the women Holly Block.
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Expert Thinking delivers a modern Azure data solution to a global energy provider. Working collaboratively with Riversafe (https://riversafe.co.uk/), we developed a DevSecOps security vulnerability analysis and reporting application providing our customer with a consolidated view of security vulnerabilities and risks across all in-scope applications and DevOps pipelines that enabled our customer to pro-actively reduce their threat landscape.
Our customer needed to establish a consolidated view of their security and risk position across application code and their DevOps pipelines using proprietary outputs from multiple security and code scanning tools. Specific challenges included:
- Deployment of an MVP within ten weeks onto their managed service Azure platform.
- Security was of paramount importance given the extremely sensitive nature of the data.
- Analysis of data from various COTS and bespoke DevSecOps tools required structured data to be ingested in various formats via RESTful APIs.
- The solution needed to be extensible, aligned with internal architecture strategy and supportable as new security tools are implemented, and reports defined.
Expert Thinking, working closely with RiverSafe, delivered the end-to-end solution from the ground up (MVP within 10 weeks). We led the platform architecture design, complex data modelling, engineering the solution end-to-end across platform, analytics and reporting. Key activities included:
- Architecting the Azure solution (ADLS, AAS, ADF, KeyVault, Enterprise Data Warehouse and PowerBI).
- Integrating five upstream systems, including commercially available vulnerability scanning tools (Checkmarx and BlackDuck), Azure DevOps and internally developed bespoke platforms & tooling.
- Analysed data sources and user requirements to establish a common model for the source data sets so that compound reports could be delivered based on organisation, risk, pipeline instance or other application attributes.
- Development of the application across lake, warehouse, Analysis Services and PowerBI – ADF pipelines were used to extract data from source systems via RESTful APIs into the lake and across to the data warehouse based on the defined data model.
- Implementing Azure Analysis Services cubes to feed both PowerBI (for canned reports) and to enable power users to undertake their own modelling of the datasets securely (row-level security).
- Created relevant IaC code (ARM, JSON) for application deployment into the managed service Azure platform, implementing PESTER test automation to assure build and deployment of the solution.
We successfully delivered a dynamic, powerful data platform and analytics solution that provided consolidated, informed and insightful reporting of the security and risk position across all in-scope applications and DevOps pipelines, resulting in:
- Fully integrated reporting of the CI/CD solution exposing security risks and code vulnerabilities, enabling common weaknesses in the environment or the developer community to be recognised and fixed.
- Reduced threat exposure through better quality code eliminating/reducing security vulnerabilities before deployment.
- Trend analysis of developer behaviour enabling mentoring/training to specific individuals/teams or across the organisation based on the results found.
- Better release decisions drawing on a more informed, consolidated view of the risk position.
- Post-deployment analysis across application code when a new vulnerability is discovered (e.g. open-source code) – impact analysis and prioritisation can be made.
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San Francique, Alta Garcia Street Residential Plot- FOR SALE
This perfectly flat, residential plot of land is in an upcoming development in a peaceful neighbourhood on Alta Garcia Trace in San Francique. Its location is ideally just 10 minutes from the heart of Penal making it easily accessible to schools, groceries and all amenities.
- Land Size – 10,764 sq. ft.
- No Flood Zone Area
- ALL APPROVALS
LISTED PRICE: $650K (O.N.O)
To schedule a viewing or for more info please contact:
AGENT: Alyssa Mohamed – (868)-383-8742
OFFICE: (868) 470-3232
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“You will always be their murderer,” said Sharon Rocha
Scott Peterson was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday without the possibility of parole, nearly 17 years after being sentenced to death for the murder of his wife and unborn son.
Peterson was convicted in November 2004 of killing his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son, who was to be called Connor, on Christmas Eve in 2002.
Peterson was sentenced to death in March 2005 and had remained on death row until last year, when the California Supreme Court overturned his death sentence, citing that his jury had been improperly considered for bias against the death penalty, according to court documents.
Some of Laci Peterson’s family confronted Peterson in court on Wednesday.
“Laci and Connor will always be dead and you will always be their murderer,” said his mother Sharon Rocha.
Laci Peterson, who was 27 years old and eight months pregnant, went missing on Christmas Eve in 2002. Her remains and those of her unborn son were found in San Francisco Bay four months after his disappearance.
The bodies were identified several days after their discovery. On the same day, Scott Peterson was arrested and charged. He pleaded not guilty.
Investigators later discovered that at the time of his wife’s disappearance, Peterson was having an affair with massage therapist Amber Frey. In an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer in 2003, Peterson admitted to having an affair, but denied the murders.
Peterson and his legal team claim he suffered an unfair trial based on possible jury misconduct. Lawyers for Peterson say the woman, known as Juror 7, had not disclosed her involvement in other legal proceedings, ABC News previously reported.
In court proceedings in 2000, the juror, identified in court documents as Richelle Nice, alleged that her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend “had committed acts of violence against her” and had raised fears for her. unborn child, “ABC News reported previously.
During the jury selection process, Nice told lawyers she had never been a victim of a crime or involved in a trial. In a 2017 interview with “20/20”, she said her situation never occurred to her when she completed the application.
Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo, who has inflicted resentment on Peterson, is considering separately whether he should receive a brand new trial.
Laci Peterson’s mother told ABC News “20/20” that another lawsuit would be painful, but would likely end with the same result.
“Of course having to stand trial again would be excruciating. But if that’s what it takes, I’ll be there, “Rocha said in May 2021.” And I’m sure they’ll find him guilty again. . “
Attorney Pat Harris maintained Peterson’s innocence after Wednesday’s hearing and said the judge denied Peterson’s request to speak.
“He wanted to make it clear that there was no way he could have harmed Laci and Connor,” said Harris.
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Rapid Deployment of Safety Training
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Rapid deployment of safety training plays an essential role in today’s enterprise. Safety training is widely seen as one of the highest ROI activities for virtual reality or augmented reality. We present you this recorded on-demand workshop on rapid deployment of safety training modules in VR/AR. In this recorded workshop you will learn and experience how the iQ3Connect platform enables you to expedite your training deployment and easily keep training modules updated.
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Skilled 3D environment artist, knowledgeable with modern AAA workflows. I have experience with 3DS Max, Zbrush, UE4, Substance Designer, Substance Painter, and many others. I am currently seeking a position as a prop artist or environment artist. See my website portfolio for samples of my work. I am a native English speaker, born and raised in Brisbane, Australia, and graduated from university in 2013 with a Bachelor of Interactive Entertainment, majoring in game design. For my hard work, I received the best Games Design student award. Since moving to Japan, I have studied Japanese independently, and I passed the JLPT N2 Exam in 2017. As an aspiring game artist, I regularly engage with social media for the latest news and developments in gaming. I currrently work at an English School in Tokyo. My duties include teaching in-house at major IT companies, training other instructors, writing education materials, and translation. Although I am currently living in Tokyo, I would be available for an immediate start anywhere in Japan. Please feel free to get in contact. I can be reached through Izanau, or my email [email protected], or phone call at 090 6657 1991
BtoB English Instructor Manager
日本, 东京, Shinjuku-Gyoenmae
目前受雇于该公司自从 20171213 12:00 上午
I am the main BtoB instructor at Sparta English. My current duties include translation, the creation of textbooks and lesson materials, and managing and training fellow instructors. In addition, I teach in-house at high-profile companies in the Kanto area such as BEAMS, TIS , Fujisoft, CAV, and many more.
Assistant Language Teacher
Japan Exchange and Teaching Program(me) (JET)
日本, 长崎, Shimabara
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Team teaching in a Japanese public classroom with a native Japanese English teacher. Duties include: Preparing lesson plans and materials, co-teaching, writing testing and assessment criteria, and being involved in extra-curricular clubs and activities.
Assistant Language Teacher of English
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Team teaching in a Junior high school in Gunma, for four months.
Retail Store Manager
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I was a long term part-time weekend manager at Fotofast, an independent photographic retail store based in Brisbane. My responsibilities included photographic editing and formatting, printer maintenance, customer assistance, and general retail related sales work. I also wrote the company newsletter. I started working at this company during High School and finished after I graduated from University.
Game Art Institute
Environment Art in September ~ November 2017 Environment Artist Online Boot-camp
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Studied online for 3 months at Ryan Kingslien's Game Art Institute Environment Art Bootcamp. Learned the skills and methods needed to bring an environment artist's skills up to industry standard. During the course, various game industry professionals came in to mentor us one on one. It was an invaluable experience that gave me a true idea of what the game industry expected of a new recruit.
SAE Institute Australia
Bachelor of Interactive Entertainment in Games Design Major
从 20110201 12:00 上午 直到 20140201 12:00 上午
Learned the range of skills necessary for a games designer to join the games industry including art, social studies, legal studies, and game specific topics. Over the course of the degree, I learned how to design games in a team environment and graduated as the top Games Design student of the year. I was also the Student Council Member for the Games Design Major.
20140306 12:00 上午
Best Games Design Student Award of my graduating cohort.
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Passed the Japanese Language Proficiency Test on the N2 level.
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Clothes. I have a love/hate relationship with them.
I wear them because they’re morally necessary, but I hate the guilt that accompanies when I wonder if I should look “better” in the outfit. Although I realize it is a self-imposed guilt, which is fed by the constant barrage of our over-sexed media, it has tormented me for many, many years.
My stomach, in particular, has always been my “target issue”. Some people wonder if their tush is too big, or if their hips are too wide, or if their chest is too big or small…my stomach has forever been my self-conscious region.
I remember dealing with my body image issues as an older teen and processing the fact that I would most likely be pregnant at some point in my life, and would need to accept the reality that my stomach wouldn’t be small or flat then.
Well, fast-forward some odd years into the future and behold: I am pregnant.
(Farewell to my over-worshipped waistline.)
While I was surprisingly at peace about the future of my changing body, what surprised me more was the fascinating spiritual analogy that accompanied it.
As believers, since Christ lives within us, our bodies are therefore the home of Jesus—the temple of God. Just as a developing life within a pregnant mother causes her to glow from the inside out, we also have a reason to radiate. We have a light that we should let shine, and that light is the life of Christ in us. We should not be ashamed of that light or of its temple—even though I believe we are obligated to keep our bodies in a healthy, functioning order. In the same way, our bodies should proclaim Christ’s identity rather than a culturally-obsessed person. We can radiate joy and purity, while leaving “sexy” for our spouse. (And by all means, be really sexy for them!)
So, as I slowly morph into a roly-poly, baby-making unit…I’m just gonna accept the fact that God’s temple is expanding a bit and while I might be physically waddling on the path to righteousness for awhile, spiritually He will have my heart just the same.
Anyway, keep your little light shining…and don’t hide it under a bushel of social or self-imposed lies.
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The Legacy Aeris "filled this room with a marvelous sound that was beyond anything I would have expected from a pair of home audio speakers regardless of their pedigree. The transients and dynamics were so uncannily realistic that it was nothing short of amazing."
- "Best bass of any full range speakers I have reviewed. But don’t think the Aeris’ are a one-trick pony as they may well have the best fidelity from top to bottom of any speakers I have had in my system. I could hear it all."
- "Flexible set up options for just about any environment."
- "Sound terrific at low volume levels. This is one clear trait of all the great speakers."
"Voices and other midrange elements were low distortion with natural timbres. These aspects of the midrange blended well with the light and airy treble response. And speaking of blending, the Aeris’ maintain a consistent voice through all these regions of the response
The bass was deep, clean and tuneful. The bass also lived up to its billing as having excellent stereo separation.
These tweeters are nearly indestructible with adequate amplification and have a clean, airy sound.
The mids, highs and bass were all in balance and every part was so incredibly alive from a dynamic standpoint.
I didn’t set up these speakers and you won’t have to, either. That’s because the purchase price on the Legacy Aeris speakers includes dealer installation. The dealer will come to your house, unpack the speakers, set them in place, make all the electrical connections and then optimize the Wave Launch processor to match the speakers to your room. The key benefit of the process is the stereo pair is again carefully matched just as it was at the factory."
"Legacy’s founder and chief designer, Bill Dudleston, is a real pioneer in the audio industry."
"Legacy gives you real quality, technology, innovation and value when it comes to fine high end speakers."
"The advanced room correction winnowed out most every response anomaly including any trace of floor bounce.
This provided by far the flattest response I have heard in my room...
And don’t forget that I measured less than 1% THD at 120 dB and 32 Hz!
This is the best low bass distortion reading of any full-range speaker I have ever tested...
and it just demonstrates why this system was capable of live sound pressure levels without audible strain.… one of the flattest curves I have ever measured from a full range speaker particularly when one considers it is an in-room measurement at the listening position.These speakers are also extremely flexible with the Wave Launch processor which makes them a perfect fit for just about any room. It will give you a chance to hear speakers that let the room melt away.Is it excellent? Yes. Does anybody else out there have anything quite like it? Nope.The Aeris have what may be the most advanced room correction system in the history of consumer audio."
"Music plays with a satisfying weight."
"I found that "Teaser and the Firecat" sounded new and fresh over the Aeris’ despite that I must have listened to this album 10,000 times on my Dad's Klipschorns when I was in High School.
I've always been smitten by the sound of the guitars on this album and I was pleased with the Aeris' ability to render all the dynamics and harmonics in the recording but the real story was how great the rendition of the percussion was. There are a lot of percussion parts in these songs and the Aeris’ were able to sort through them and retain a natural sense of attack and decay.
And this was where the Aeris really pulled me into the music. Gone at this point was any hint of the old audiophilia nervosa. Sure it took some time and effort for me to dial things in to my liking but now it was the purest form of musical enjoyment and the music was all I was thinking about. Most of all however was the way the Aeris handled the vocals - they were transparent and harmonically accurate."
What does all this mean?
"It means that I nominated these speakers for the Secrets 2014 Bad Ass Award. These speakers can move some serious air and they have the best bass performance I have heard from a pair of full range speakers."
"These are speakers that every audiophile should seek out for an audition."
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Hello again! I am back with my second post of the day. If you are looking for my reveal for The Studio Challenges, please scroll on down.
Today is the last Recipe Challenge at Lasting Memories. This month DT member Lauren has provided our fun recipe challenges and the last challenge is to use 3 photos, 5 or more paper strips, and tiny word stickers.
I've taken a break from scrapping the older photos of boys and decided to scrap these photos of Ada learning how to swim without her life vest this summer. She is getting so close to being able to touch the bottom of the pool and we decided to see how she did without her vest on. She quickly discovered it's a lot harder to keep herself above water without a little help from her vest! She does great with holding her breath and Pops is always right there in case she needs any help. I'm guessing that next summer just might be the summer she swims without her life vest - if her Mom allows it!
I used Bella Blvd's 'Splash Zone' for this layout. I layered up the strips behind my 3 photos and added in a few word stickers on the photos. I splattered the background with some distress oxide inks, because it is a water layout, and added a little cluster to the bottom left corner. I will add my journaling - which will basically be what I said above - now that the photo has been taken. Lately, I have messed my journaling up if I add it directly to the layout before I take the photo, so for now, it gets added after the photos are taken!
Head on over to Lasting Memories to see the beautiful layouts from the rest of the design team. I can't wait to see your take on the recipe!
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! I hope you have a great day!
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Summer is here, which means sun-kissed skin is in! Finally you can say goodbye to your pale winter look. While it is tempting to play by the pool and soak up the sun, those rays can be harmful to your delicate epidermis. It is important to practice good skincare and slather on the SPF to combat long-term skin damage, but how do you get a sun-kissed look under all that sunscreen? Here are a few tips to get the glow while ditching the tanning beds and harmful sun exposure.
First Thing’s First
Hydration is key to any skincare routine, whether you are trying to achieve a subtle glow, or simply want an overall flawless complexion. Drink those eight glasses of water a day, and be sure to use a gentle exfoliator once a week to slough off dead skin. Moisturize daily with a lotion fitted to your skin’s needs to keep dryness and excess oil at bay.
Bronzing cream or powder is a great way to make it look like you spent all week on an island, without actually having to step foot outside. Simply buff the product into places where the sun would normally hit like the tops of your cheeks and bridge of your nose, and you’ve got beautifully bronzed skin in no time. Just be sure not to go too dark with the color, as it can look muddy on fairer complexions.
Self-tanners are a must-have for achieving that deep glow, and there are a multitude to choose from. Gradual tanners are great for fair complexions because they are not too dark, and won’t stain the sheets. Regular self-tanners with guides are another option for beginners as this helps zebra-like streaks from forming all over your body.
Spray it On
Spray tanning is the quickest way to get a deeper color, and can have you going from Gwen Stefani to Jennifer Lopez in a few hours. The booth does all the work, and you can get it done on your lunch hour in a pinch. Just remember to wash off before bed, or you may wake up to an orange nightmare.
While you may not have the time to vacation in Hawaii or lay out by the beach all summer, no one will be the wiser when they see your beautiful new tan! If you do spend some time out in the sun, remember the sunblock, and visit a Dermatology Surgery Center to regularly check any skin issues.
Today’s post was written by Brooke Chaplan, a freelance writer and blogger. She lives and works out of her home in Los Lunas, New Mexico. She loves the outdoors and spends most her time hiking, biking and gardening. For more information contact Brooke via Twitter @BrookeChaplan.
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I need a free vpn that works on Ubuntu 16.04 and connects to UK. The old questions about that subject are obsolete.
I'd like to ask the question on this site, since it has a big community, definitely bigger than software recommendations.
Would my question be accepted here or will it be closed as too broad and told to ask on the other site? There is a software recommendation tag and I used to use it long ago, not sure if I can do that still or if it exists as a legacy tag.
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It’s beginning to feel a bit like ground hog day around here every morning. Compare the primary post photo in the last several posts to see why I say that.
No new cases reported in Antigua/Barbuda.
No new regulations that we know of. Although there was a local update posted that clarified that swimming around your boat and paddle boarding are allowed. Or, rather seem to be allowed.
There are twenty boats in our anchorage and that number has not changed in a week. One of the boats is about 40’ long and seems to have six kids onboard. They are obviously friends with another boat with several kids onboard and these two boats seem to be spending most of the day on the beach. We are at the extreme end of the island where virtually no locals visit, but clearly a 24 hour stay at home lockdown does not include a “go play on the beach” clause.
Each day they seem to push things a bit farther and yesterday post sunset they had a bonfire on the beach!
We are trying to mind our own business, but ignoring the rules shows no respect for the locals and could put our ability to remain here in jeopardy. We will see what they do today. It may be time to have a chat soon.
Well, the Watermaker pump issue turned out to be a quick fix. For whatever reason the pumps are required to be mounted upside down, with the electrical components at the bottom. So any water or condensation runs down the pump body until it reaches the high pressure cutoff sensor at the bottom. These sensors got wet, corroded and failed long ago and I Mcguivered a workaround which basically hotwires the pumps and ignores the pressure switches. Yesterday’s problem was that one of my “Hotwire” connections had gotten wet and failed! No problem, fixed in only a couple minutes.
Next project was cleaning the decks. Long overdue by the way. Not much interesting here other than the fact that I initially forgot to close the hatch into Kim’s cabin and ended up pouring half a bucket of water into her cabin and all over her stuff. Not a very popular move!
Our final project was a Sunday evening sunset garbage run. I’d pay a bunch of money to have video of this one.
The swells are BIG right now with sets of huge waves breaking on the beach. With the dinghy loaded full of five bags of garbage, the three of us motored down to the local beach bar which has a garbage can that we may or may not have permission to use. At first the plan was to circle the dinghy outside the break and swim the garbage in. But, that seemed like a plan destined to fail. So, I cleverly had the ladies swim in with the idea that I would come in fast during a break between waves and they would be ready to grab the dinghy and quickly pull it up the beach to safety.
Well, I thought I’d timed my approach to perfection and was on my way in when I clearly heard Deb yell “not now”. Maybe it was all those years of watching friends surf in San diego? I don’t know, she was right, but it was too late to stop. I turned to look back and what seemed like a four foot wall of water was just behind me. Oh shit! Total disaster seemed certain.
But, I got lucky and not through any skill caught the wave perfectly. Try to visualize this. That wave lifted me high in the air and I rode that sucker straight on into the beach at warp speed. Perfect landing! All good other than the fact that the boat was half full of water…
Our departure from the beach is another story. Maybe tomorrow.
Dinner onboard Bounty. Kim cooked us all some pasta with local hot peppers and a papaya salad. I was a bit worried that she might poison my meal after my mistake that afternoon but she doesn’t seem to hold a grudge. Good stuff!
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Oct. 16, 2017 16:52 BST
Ed Anthes-Washburn wants to make what is already the United States’ most valuable commercial fishing port even larger.
For the second consecutive year the director of the Port of New Bedford, Massachusetts, has submitted an application for a grant from the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program to add 600-feet of bulkhead and dredge areas that are now unusable at only three- to four-feet deep.
The changes, which would increase depths in those areas to 18- to 30-feet, would grow the number of berthing areas, allowing the port to expand from about 300 fishing vessels to more than 360. It would invite fishing companies that currently operate outside of New Bedford to make it their new base of operation or to simply offload there, and harvesters already using the port could overcome some frustrations and even grow their fleets, Anthes-Washburn told Undercurrent News.
“There are a minimum of three boats [rafted next to each other] at every dock, and in some cases there are five,” Michael Quinn, operations manager for Quinn Fisheries, said of the crowded situation in New Bedford. “When you have to climb across five boats, it takes all day to get [a boat] out.”
Quinn believes his family’s scallop fishing operation, which keeps six vessels at the port, would benefit by as much as $160,000 per year by the reduced costs and added efficiencies and revenue that could be created.
Having expanded dock space would allow Quinn Fisheries and others to bring in mobile cranes to load and unload, he said. Excess dock space also could be rented to a number of other vessel owners who are clamoring to get in.
Additionally, the changes – which also would include the expansion of roadways and connections to rail lines — would eliminate congestion and allow for direct vessel to truck and rail transfers of fresh seafood, Anthes-Washburn said.
‘It’s like getting into Harvard’
The Port of New Bedford is seeking $15 million from TIGER, which it is prepared to match with funds from the state. The deadline for applications was Monday, and Anthes-Washburn knows DOT has a pile of them.
Last year DOT chose only 40 of the 585 TIGER grant applications it received.
“It’s a very competitive process,” Anthes-Washburn said of the TIGER grant contest, comparing the chances to a graduating high school student being accepted by an elite university known to all Massachusetts residents.
“It’s like getting into Harvard,” he said.
The TIGER program has awarded $5.1 billion for capital investments in surface transportation infrastructure since it was created in 2009 by one of several anti-recession stimulus packages, according to DOT. Congress has made $500m available for such grants in the 2017 fiscal budget, on par with last year’s awards and close to the amount typically set aside.
The US Senate included the money in the $1 trillion omnibus funding bill it approved by a 79-18 vote back in May. The US House earlier had passed the bill by a 309-118 vote.
President Donald Trump has made a point of calling for spending more on infrastructure and, upon passage, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (New York) praised the funding continuation, saying TIGER was a “vital” program “that has done so much for infrastructure, road building, and highways throughout my state and throughout America.”
“[T]he dearest place to live”
To say New Bedford is a storied fishing port is an understatement.
The city now populated by 95,000 souls registered on the US fishing map way back in 1767 when it launched the colonies’ first whaling vessel, the Dartmouth. By 1847 New Bedford was the United States’ preeminent whaling port and, not longer after, it helped inspire Herman Melville to write Moby Dick. The boulevard that trucks use to haul fish from the port bears the author’s name.
“The town itself is perhaps the dearest place to live in, in all New England,” wrote Melville in his famous tale.
But today sea scallops are the name of the game in New Bedford, not whales, accounting for roughly 80% of the $322m worth of seafood (140m pounds) that came into the port in 2015, according to the most recently available data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). At the height of the season, 500,000 lbs of scallop meat will cross the docks in a single day, the city brags.
By contrast, the nation’s second-most valuable fishing port is Dutch Harbor, in Alaska, according to NOAA data. It accounted for 514m lbs of landings in 2015 — more than New Bedford – but its haul was worth far less, $218m.
Groundfish, which include cod and haddock among 19 different species, traditionally have been big, too, in New Bedford. But thanks to restrictions intended to preserve cod, in particular, these species now account for only 7% of the landings value. The port also brings in its share of lobster, Jonah crab and surf clams, Anthes-Washburn is quick to note.
And none of that counts the estimated 250mlbs of imported seafood handled by the roughly 39 processors and wholesalers in the city, including scallop giants Eastern Fisheries, which employs 250 there and keeps about 25 vessels at the port.
The other big fleet owners, according to Anthes Washburn: Oceans Fleet Fisheries berths about 22 vessels in New Bedford, including both scalloping and lobster boats; Atlantic Red Crab has six boats; Sea Watch International has five clammers; and Blue Harvest Fisheries has 15 scallopers and other boats.
Combined, the port is credited for creating 36,578 jobs in the area, including 6,225 directly employed at the port. The port itself, which maintains a budget of $2.3m, employs just 23, including 10 seasonal workers, according to Anthes-Washburn.
Though another 60 vessels would add 7m lbs of additional landings every year and 898 new and permanent jobs to that overall picture, according to an economic impact study performed for the city in 2016. It would generate $65.1m in annual wages and local consumption, spurring private investment and economic development.
The selection criteria remain fundamentally the same as previous rounds of the TIGER grants program, DOT has advised. Also, as before, each grant must be at least $5m and no greater than $25m, but available through September 2020. No state can receive more than $50m of TIGER money in any given year.
But the description of each criterion has been updated by the administration. The agency said this year that “special consideration” is to be given to projects that, among other things “promote regional connectivity, or facilitate economic growth or competitiveness.”
It’s something New Bedford’s application promises to deliver in spades.
‘[G]oing about their business’
New Bedford could use a lift following the recent scandal surrounding its biggest fishing operation.
Carlos Rafael, the so-called Codfather of New England fishing, pleaded guilty in March to deliberating misreporting more than 815,000 lbs of fish over a four-year period.
He was sentenced in late September to serve 46 months in prison and is in the midst of trying to sell his business, which includes a combined fleet of 42 vessels, to the owners of a local fishing auction for $93m.
Rafael is a major scallop harvester and his boats are estimated to account for 75% of the area’s groundfish by value.
The case has been a bothersome distraction for the port but, for the most part, New Bedford’s fishermen “are going about their business,” Anthes-Washburn said.
“There are still big questions that have to be answered,” he said. “There are people who didn’t do anything wrong and we want to make sure they don’t get wrapped up into this. It remains to be seen what happens with the permits, including the ones that weren’t implicated in anything. So, it’s a wait and see.”
It’s not the first time the Port of New Bedford has dealt with adversity.
In late August 1954, Hurricane Carol hit the city with waves of more than 14 feet, destroying more than 4,000 homes, 3,500 automobiles and 3,000 boats across Southern New England, according to the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography. It was the costliest natural disaster in US history before Hurricane Diane hit North Carolina the following year.
During a trip with Undercurrent around the New Bedford Harbor in his patrol boat, a Boston Whaler, Anthes-Washburn pointed to the large hurricane protection barrier built in 1966 at a cost of nearly $19m, it was a response to the damage caused by Carol and continues to offer much comfort to the community.
Another problem the harbor has had to contend with in recent times is the tons of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) that were dumped in the water by local manufacturers between the 1930s and 1970s. In 1998, the harbor was designated a Superfund Site by the Environmental Protection Agency, giving it the ability to dredge to remove contaminated material.
Much of the cleanup work is done. But winning the TIGER grant would allow the port to finish a final phase of this job, removing an estimated 250,000 cubic yards of PCB and heavy-metal impacted sediment that are outside EPA’s purview, Washburn said.
Once completed, private waterfront businesses would be able to “complete routine maintenance dredging of clean material on their own in a simple and affordable way,” he said.
A different political climate
It’s not unusual for ports to win DOT TIGER grants. In 2015, the US ports of Baltimore (Maryland), Newport (Virginia), Indiana (Indiana), Hueneme (California) and San Diego (California) received a combined $44.3m to boost infrastructure, roughly 9% of the total funding that year.
Four of last year’s winners also received money to fix up ports, including the Port of Everett, in Washington state, which was granted $10m to help it strengthen more than 500 feet of dock and create “a modern berth area,” according to a DOT recap of the awards.
A $5m TIGER grant given to the International Maine Terminal, in Portland, in 2009, allowed it to attract the North American headquarters of Eimskip, an Icelandic shipping company, and was the tipping point needed to attract another $45m in funds, as chronicled in a video by the American State Highways and Transportation Officials.
As for its TIGER grant application, New Bedford hopes to get a good word in Washington this time from several top lawmakers, including Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, and Rep. Bill Keating, who presides over the 9th district that includes New Bedford.
Keating has confirmed his support of the program, telling Undercurrent in an email: “The great economic advantages that would come from this new infrastructure will translate into jobs, community revitalization, local economic benefits, and a larger, reinvigorated fishing industry.”
Mark Montigny, the Democratic lawmaker who represents New Bedford in the Massachusetts Senate, wrote Transportation secretary Elaine Chao last week to ask for her support. He’s worked to secure more than $60m in state funding authorizations to help with the project, much of which is contingent on federal assistance, he noted.
Jon Mitchell, New Bedford’s mayor since 2012, can also be expected to fight for the grant. Born into a fishing family, his grandfather, Alexander Mitchell, is among the names of fishermen lost at sea inscribed at the Seaman’s Bethel, the church used as a model in Melville’s book.
“To this city, seafood is the biggest industry. This is the center of the commercial fishing industry on the East Coast,” Mitchell told Undercurrent during a visit to his office.
The political climate on Capitol Hill is a bit different than it was a year ago, as purse strings continue to tighten and the Trump administration seeks to differentiate itself from its predecessor, Anthes-Washburn observed. His new application, as a result, puts more emphasis on public private partnerships, he said.
TIGER grants have historically achieved an average co-investment of 3.6 dollars for every federal dollar spent, DOT observes on its website.
Quinn, for one, is hopeful.
“We’re the number one fishing port in the country,” he said. “We shouldn’t have to worry about dock space.”
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Organic-PLUS seeks to phase-out the use of fertilisers derived from non-organic livestock systems. Hugh Blogg from project partner the Soil Association visited Tree of Life Veganics, an organic farm free of all animal inputs; a model which is proving its resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
You can read Hugh’s account of the farm which features as an Organic-PLUS case study here. In the wider Organic-PLUS project, we are investigating the use of both vegan-organic fertility sources and alternative materials that would otherwise go to waste such as fish pond sediments in Poland and marine waste in Norway. The work on vegan-organic fertilisers focuses on plant-derived feeds that could be grown on-farm, contributing to more self sustaining farming systems. These include Russian comfrey (Symphytum x uplandicum), nettle (Urtica dioica) and legume meal which are being used to feed polytunnel tomatoes at Coventry University – updates will follow as this trial progresses over summer 2020.
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Criminal Defense & Personal Injury Attorney
Ali & Blankner
Attorney Kendell K. Ali began his career as a Prosecutor for the State Attorney’s Office in Orange County, Florida. As a prosecutor, Mr. Ali tried numerous cases in County, Circuit, and Juvenile courts.
As a Criminal Defense Attorney, Kendell Ali assisted in trial for criminal offenses ranging from home invasion robbery to first-degree murder and sexual battery. Mr. Ali has had numerous criminal jury trials throughout his career, including:
• Reckless driving
• Battery on a law enforcement officer
• Resisting arrest by a law enforcement officer with violence
• Aggravated battery/assault
• Fleeing and attempting to elude a law enforcement officer
• Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon
• Grand theft/grand theft auto
• Drug possession
• Drug dealing
• Scheme to defraud
• Dealing in stolen property
• Violation of probation
Prior to his graduation from the University of Florida College of Law, Mr. Ali was a member of the University of Florida Trial Team and a teaching assistant for the Trial Practice Program. These experiences allowed Mr. Ali to master the intricacies of effectively litigating and trying a case.
Mr. Ali has received many awards during his career including:
• AV Preeminent
• Super Lawyers Rising Star
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Courchevel is a winter playground for the rich and famous – attracting a steady influx of stars from Beyonce to Beckham. Ironically, the resort was originally planned to create jobs and skiing for the masses, but somewhere along the lines it morphed into the luxury resort of The Alps.
There are 50 five-star hotels in the whole of France and nine of them are in Courchevel. As well as top hotels, the resort now boasts three Michelin-star restaurants. The multi-level resort, complete with heated pavements, is dotted with more than 100 boutiques - you’ll find as many diamond dealers here as ski-hire shops. The tourist board does stress they offer a range of amenities for a wider clientele; it’s not all Hermès, Louis Vuitton and Valentino.
The resort consists of four ski villages: Courchevel 1300 (La Praz), Courchevel 1550, Courchevel 1650 and Courchevel 1850. While 1850 has the most high-end hotels and shops, its modern development is decidedly lacking in charm. Fans of the traditional French feel should head to Courchevel 1650.
Courchevel is a good all-round resort. Its ski area offers a good selection of runs for all levels and it is also popular with families, off-pisters and non-skiers. The resort’s 150 kilometres is enough for most, but the avid skier can buy a pass to the vast Three Valleys ski area, opening up 600 kilometres of lift-linked runs. Ski Pass for access to the vast lift-linked ski area in the world (600km).
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So, on my (now) short journey to thirty, I am exploring those ego-centered questions that drive women to do crazy things. Do I try to cheat the calendar by doubling my normal workout routine? Should I buy wrinkle cream with a high concentration of retinol…or should I just get botox like Kim Kardashian? (Just kidding!) Is my career/personal life/savings where I thought it would be (agh)? At the heart of all these superficial inquiries is the real question: Have I done well enough or, possibly, have I done well enough to own my age? Women who tell their age are queens; they have nothing to hide and rule their own dynasties. Why not be proud of a full, prosperous life if you believe that is what you have created?
My whole life I’ve always been good at most things (except ball sports – I am TERRIBLE at ball sports)…but never the best at anything. Never the best used to haunt me. In my teens, it made me feel subpar and depressed. When complaining to my mom about my plight, she once told me, “…but, J, it is very hard to be well-rounded. You need to be proud of being pretty good at most things. A lot of people don’t have that gift.” Even though I am pretty sure I rolled my eyes at the time, her sweet words freed me from a life of not feeling good enough. It allowed me to learn, early on, that moderation was a worthy goal. It taught me to appreciate people’s quirks and resist putting anyone on pedestals – or cast them downward in rank – because of strengths and weaknesses. I think when we detach our age from our ego, the number stops scaring us. Further, if we detach our ego from whatever is haunting us, our ghost loses its power.
So, I will not turn my body into a slave for my ego. I will embrace wrinkles and TRY REALLY HARD to embrace the cellulite found on my rear and my thighs. After all, my face is just starting to resemble one that has earned some stripes via laugh and furrowed-brow lines, and I can still do a mean, white-girl bootie shake. I mean, really, what else is there for which to aspire?
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When I first heard about eyelash extensions, I threw it into the bin of Things I Would Never Do, along with Vajazzling and placenta facials. But when it came time to take my author photo—which will probably serve as the definitive photo of me, Internetwise, for quite possibly the rest of my life—laying on my back for an hour and a half to have my eyelashes individually extended seemed utterly reasonable. I wanted to look my best, but still wanted to look like me; emphasizing my eyes without wearing more dramatic makeup than I’d normally wear seemed like a good way to do that. It got me thinking about eyelashes—before getting eyelash extensions, I didn’t understand their importance. I don’t know how many studies I’ve read that say that the number-one must-wear cosmetic women cite as essential is mascara. There was something there, and there has been for centuries.
- Latisse isn’t the first eyelash-growth treatment out there. A partial list of treatments used throughout history to amp up eyelash growth: white wine, mint, lavender vinegar, glycerine, “fluid extract of jaborandi” (an herb that is now used to make prescription glaucoma medicine), red vaseline, a mixture of cornflower and chervil, quinine, almond oil, kohl (personally recommended by the prophet Mohammed), Spanish fly, and myrtle extract, most of which may be applied to the lashes with “a tiny camel’s-hair paint-brush.”
- Nor are false eyelashes themselves particularly new. In 1911, an Ottawa woman filed the first patent for false eyelashes, which don’t look all that different from any strip of false eyelashes you might buy at a drugstore. (Her invention was cited in a toupee patent 43 years later, as well as numerous fake eyelash patents, so she was onto something.) D.W. Griffith is often credited with creating them in 1916, but while he did order a wigmaker to improvise a set of them while filming Intolerance, he wasn’t the first. Either way, the patent was decidedly less dramatic than the process described in a British newspaper in 1899, in which the eyelid was rubbed with cocaine, then threaded through with the client’s own hair.
- People used to clip their eyelashes. The (erroneous) idea is from the same school of thought that sees parents shaving the heads of their daughters in an effort to make the hair grow back thicker and fuller. It doesn’t work that way, but magazines from the 1890s advise that lashes be “clipped with the scissors once in every five or six weeks, which is all the treatment they require to make them long and curved” (Current Literature: A Magazine of Contemporary Record, 1896). Not that people needed the advice, for “every mother knows that she has only to clip her baby’s eyelashes while it sleeps, and continue the process during its childhood, to render them as long and luxuriant as Circassian’s” (Ballou’s Monthly Magazine, 1872). Other sources recommend eyelash trims, but for hygienic reasons; apparently 120 years ago people were getting all sorts of things wrapped up in their eyelashes. (Incidentally, this actually does happen with eyelash extensions. My lashes have been collecting detritus for weeks.)
- We’ve been darkening our eyelashes for a while. You already know about ancient Egyptians and kohl, I’m guessing. Women in parts of Asia used elderberry juice to tint their lashes, as well as ashes from cork or incense. In Europe, India ink, gum arabic, and rosewater was recommended for a black hue; light-haired women were steered toward a mixture of red wine, salt, iron sulphate, a mass of oak chemically distorted by a wash, and French brandy. Basically, anything dark would do—frankincense, resin, plain old soot if you were desperate, mixed with something to make it stick. Once petroleum jelly came along, women started using it to give the appearance of thicker, glossier lashes, but the first commercial mascaras didn’t come about until the 1860s, with Maybelline mascara—a mixture of coal and petroleum jelly, and the first mascara in the States—being developed in 1913.
- Like every other aspect of beauty, the quest for luxuriant tells a deeper story. Because human history has such a rich history of attempting to lengthen and darken the lashes, it’s tempting to say that eyelashes are one of those things that has been valued for their beauty regardless of time or place. That’s not quite true, though: In medieval and early Renaissance Europe, lashes were considered unimportant, even ugly—they detracted from the forehead, that most beautiful of features (or so said the mores of the time). Women removed their lashes and brows to give the forehead its full due.
Still, luxe lashes aren’t a new invention of the beauty industry—women and men have indeed been thickening and darkening theirs since antiquity. But one period in particular stands out here. Many of the odd potions I’ve listed above—chervil for growth, red wine for color—were concocted in late 19th century Europe. Two other crazes were sweeping Europe at the same time: Orientalism, and physiognomy. Europeans became fascinated with the East, “othering” Asian society and rendering cultural practices impossibly exotic, the people full of mystery and secrets. The beauty rites of the East (including the “near East,” or the Caucauses, hence the mention of the eyelash trimming of the Carcassians) were a perfect example of this “mystery.” It intersected perfectly withphysiognomy, the pseudoscience of reading people’s personalities through their faces. The “best-developed” fringe belonged to “the aesthetic and artistic classes”; long lashes could indicate shyness and timidity, or secretiveness, indicating that “their owner is too shy or too timid to be perfectly frank and outspoken.” Short lashes were for blunt, rude folks. They’re also “effective agents in love-making and coquetry,” which circles back to Orientalism. Women of the East were (and still are) seen as having an exotic sexuality; borrowing their eyelash hygiene was a way women of the West could borrow that appeal.
Eyelashes were particularly well-suited to physiognomy’s claims. Regardless of whether long lashes actually indicate a demure or coquettish demeanor, the fact is that if someone is peering at you through a thick fringe, you feel a sense of secretiveness: There’s a barrier there, one that separates eyes, those famous truth-tellers, from others who might discern how much truth is actually being told.
All this is to say: I don’t regret getting eyelash extensions, even as the process of getting them made me feel incredibly high-maintenance. Which is appropriate: They are high-maintenance, quite literally, in that they do require maintenance. You can’t use oil-based makeup remover; you can’t let water stream down your face; you can’t sleep on your side (my solution here was to just sleep with my head on the pillow but my face off of it). No rubbing, no tugging, and you have to separate them every day with a mascara-less mascara wand, or else they’ll get all tangled up. (Finding a down feather wound between my false eyelashes from my pillow is probably my lifetime height of Luxury Problems—indeed, perhaps my lifetime height of luxury.)
I can’t say I’ll shell out for them again; I think of myself as far too practical to do so for any reason other than having a public photo taken. But I have an easy justification in case I do decide to re-up: Eyelash extensions, in some ways, are practical. I found myself not “needing” eye makeup on most days, only wearing it to punch things up a bit. Normally I wear eyeliner and mascara every day, largely because it makes me look more like I look in my mind’s eye. But it’s not like my mind’s eye sees myself wearing eyeliner; it sees me with my eyes more emphasized, more prominent in my facial composition than they actually are. Eyelash extensions did that. (It’s also difficult to apply eyeliner when you’re working around these 9-millimeter spider legs.) Even with the maintenance, it actually saved me time in the morning, this “natural” emphasis made possible by a completely fake creation. It didn’t save me money—eyelash extensions run a little more than $100 and last around a month—but for a short-term proposition it was worth it, and if I had more disposable income I might consider getting them more regularly. Barring that, I’ll just rub my eyelids with cocaine, thread a needle with my own hair, and hope for the best.
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Someone once reflected with me in my capacity as an HR Leader that how people are treated as they leave an organization sends a message to the people who remain with it. Is that one of the reasons we have goodbye luncheons for those who resign? So that people remaining in the organization have something to look forward to? Such luncheons are not my focus though I attended one recently and commented to the exiting intern that “everyone must be happy to see her go.” Really a digression and if my sarcasm doesn’t suit you well, then I am SO SORRY (more sarcasm implied).
A Dismissal Shouldn’t Come As A Surprise
This is an apolitical call-out of a couple of situations I’ve seen recently in which people were given contrary or no information about performance then summarily terminated or removed from an organization. I’ve been around enough to know that a lot does or should go into determining how to handle what is typically a challenging situation. “Surprise” is the common reaction of most people at the point of their termination. While the surprise may not always be warranted, in these two cases it seemed to be. I challenge everyone responsible for notifying someone of their termination to be able to look themselves in the mirror and answer honestly to their reflection that:
1. The person should not be surprised because of previous feedback or other discussions.
2. Though this may be a surprise, it’s being handled in such a way as to reflect the value of the person and the integrity of the organization.
In those expectations, there IS room to protect the organization from someone’s wrongdoing, etc. There is NOT room for unfounded, shock and awe driven by fear, low-expectations, or projection of one’s own character.
The two recent scenarios of which I speak are:
– Of course James Comey’s removal from the FBI.
– The termination of one of my friend’s business contracts which was not unlike Comey’s firing.
Let’s back up from the terminations. In each of these examples, there were significant tenure, relationships, projects-in-process, and no or only positive feedback. Because they care, have invested in their work and relationships, there is a desire for transition. For closure. To make sense of the situation. Like a farmer proud of their field and wanting to finish what they start and expecting feedback about the straightness of their rows.
Providing meaningful and timely information about someone’s path, performance shortfalls or even the need to change direction is a high-integrity way to allow them to come to their own sense of transition, their role in the process and their own conclusions.
Feedback can be difficult. The payoff should be positive. Maybe they, straighten-up, change direction within or out of the organization. Short of that you can at least look yourself in the mirror and answer question one affirmatively.
The world is full of feedback from people who care! Kids in sports get feedback. My wife provides me feedback. We talk to our kids, service providers, and unseen sellers on Amazon and eBay.
“No news is good news.” Words have meaning and we all know emojis can too. I wonder if there will be a day we return to communication with pictures 🤔.
Make the effort to tell people how they are doing and what’s going on. Draw them a picture. It strikes me that people act with low integrity because they expect others to act with low integrity. Conversely, maybe if we do the right thing, others will too. If nothing else, don’t start at a point of low integrity. Start with humanity. Start with trust. Start with meaningful and authentic dialog. If the response is one of low integrity, then that’s on THEM. At least you can look in the mirror and positively answer question two and improve the likelihood of mutual understanding.A Dismissal Shouldn’t Come As A Surprise Click To Tweet
Typically, leaving someone confused leads them to look for answers. Sure the response might be low integrity but it’ll more likely be something longer satisfying to help them make sense of the situation:
– Escalation within the organization
– Outreach to peers, an attorney, or a governmental agency
– Usually a Congressional Hearing or Special Prosecutor is not one of the paths, but other hearings and prosecutors may be
Ironically, at this fork in the road, you’d prefer that they talk to you. Get it!?! – you were uncomfortable or did not care enough to have meaningful conversation with them and now that they have the ball, you’d like them to talk to you. Surprise – sometimes you get what you give!
If you are in a position to make decisions impacting the lives of others, be careful. . . CARE FILLED. 😃 👂🏽 🌾
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Local restaurant employee helps raise over $5,000 to keep 42-year-old Chinatown establishment in business.
Businesses of all sizes and varieties have been struggling throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, but perhaps no profession has been harder hit than the restaurant industry. From being forced to shut down completely, to the installation of strict rules and regulations, the financial burden has been immense. Now, with the winter months only just beginning and indoor dining still prohibited, eateries are obliged to set up curbside dining spaces in order to stay active. Unfortunately, the feat of constructing a semi-permanent safe space for patrons to enjoy meals is a costly process.
Jing Fong restaurant has a whopping 25,000 square foot interior located on 20 Elizabeth St, but bigger does not always mean better in the face of the global pandemic. After the continued rise of virus cases throughout the city, the income provided by 25% indoor capacity has been completely lost, leaving the restaurant to live on takeaway and three tables outside the premises.
Seeing her employer struggle, Claudia Leo asked her supervisor time and time again if Jing Fong could build a bigger outdoor space to accommodate more customers, but she was told that they simply could not afford the materials needed. Unwilling to watch her work family suffer, Leo made the independent choice to create a GoFundMe page in hopes of raising the assets to create an outdoor patio.
“I was so nervous about doing this, it was my first ever GoFundMe account. I shared it on my personal [social media] pages first because I was nervous about what my boss was going to think. I have been coming to [Jing Fong] since I was a kid and I just really wanted to see what I could do for the restaurant and the community,” Leo told amNewYork Metro.
Leo also expressed the assumptions the public places on them due to their size and difficulty of maintaining business in what was once a highly populated Chinatown location, an area that has seen racist rhetoric after the rise of COVID-19.
“It’s very tough. People think because we are a grand place we are rich and filled with money but the reality is we are really not. During the summer time it was better but now it’s getting cold, it’s harder. Chinatown was the first community to get hit because the virus came from China. Luckily Jing Fong didn’t face any racism toward us but we know a bunch of other restaurants who have been defaced, it is so sad. The foot traffic has disgraced tremendously. We relied a lot on tourists, we relied on people outside of Chinatown to just come out but now it is mostly locals.”
It is with these issues in mind that Leo hopes a new patio will provide diners a greater restaurant experience while also honoring those who donated to the project. A deck will be erected allowing for greater space for both the pedestrian walkway and for consumers to dine, complete with plexiglass for protection from germs and the elements. Leo plans to decorate the patio with hanging lanterns while also painting the deck herself. She says she wants to add the names of contributors with hands reaching out to a steamer of dumplings.
As of Dec. 27th, the GoFundMe page has reached its goal of $5,000 but this is just the beginning for Leo and Jing Fong. While they have purchased the materials, they still need to erect the patio. Moreover, Leo hopes that if there is money leftover after construction is complete, she can pay it forward and aid other food servers in the area.
To learn more about donating to Jing Fong’s restaurant visit: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-jing-fong-restaurant-build-a-patio
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Tobelos Blanco Rioja
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The winemaker Adriana Laucirica has crafted a beautiful white Rioja which is perfumed, peachy, and plump with just a hint of oak. 80% Viura, 10% Garnacha and a touch of Sauvignon to cleverly lift the aromatics. The wine is made in a region where winemakers have the freedom to create blended wines. Great as an aperitif before meals or spicy dishes.
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Boys & Girls Clubs History
Boys & Girls Clubs of America had its beginnings in 1860 with three women in Hartford, Connecticut - Mary Goodwin, Alice Goodwin, and Elizabeth Hammersley, Believing that boys who roamed the streets should have a positive alternativem they organized the first Club. With character development as the cornerstone of the experience, the Club focused on capturing the boys interests, improving their behavior, and increasing their personal expectations and goals. A cause was born.
The Good Will Club in Hartford, Circa 1900
Through the Years
In 1906, several Boys Clubs decided to affiliate. The Federated Boys Clubs in Boston was formed with 53 member organizations - this marked the start of a nationwide movement and our national organization.
In 1931, the Boys Club Federation of America became Boys Clubs of America.
In 1956, Boys Clubs of America celebrated its 50th anniversary, and received a U.S. Congressional Charter.
In 1988, Boys & Girls Clubs of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County (BGCAA) was founded by a group of concerned community members who felt there was a need for neighborhood youth to have a positive place to grow, learn and have fun.
To recognize the fact that girls are a part of our cause, the national organization's name was changed to Boys & Girls Clubs of America in 1990. Accordingly, Congress amended and renewed the charter.
2006 marked the Centennial year of Boys & Girls Clubs of America, as we celebrated 100 years of providing hope and opportunity to young people across the country.
At the Boys & Girls Clubs of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County, we inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
Founded in 1989 in the Bywater Community of Annapolis, we have been serving the youth of our communities by being a force for good in kids’ lives. We are nationally recognized for the high quality of our programs and comprehensive approach to serving youth. Despite our long history, we continue to find new ways to learn, grow, and innovate.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva popularity remains intact although support for his re-election has lost almost five points from February to April, according to the latest public opinion poll from the São Paulo Sensus Institute.
The poll with 2.000 interviews in 24 of the country’s 27 states during the first week of April shows President Lula’s support for a second bid falling from 42.2% in February to 37.5% in April.
Although Mr. Lula has still to announce his candidacy for a second term, his main rival from the leading opposition grouping, Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB, former São Paulo governor Geraldo Alckmin climbed from 17.4 to 20.6%.
The presidential election is scheduled for next October 1st and the Brazilian political spectrum is taking as granted that Lula da Silva will announce his candidacy sometime in the coming weeks.
The opinion poll was done following President Lula’s closest aide and Minister of Finance Antonio Palocci forced resignation involved in corruption allegations.
According to Sensus, Lula and Alckmin are followed by Anthony Garotinho, former governor of Rio do Janeiro with 15% and radical Senator Heloísa Helena from the leftist party PSOL, 4.3%.
Since no candidate is forecasted to garner 50% plus one vote in the first round, a run off is anticipated, and according to Sensus, President Lula would come ahead with 45% and Alckmin 33.2%. Last February the difference was Lula 51% and Alckmin 29.7%.
"Opinion polls remain favorable to Lula but also show the need for a run off and the difference is shrinking", said Ricardo Guedes Sensus polls coordinator.
Mr. Alckmin also improved the rejection index by falling from 39.9% in February to 33.5% in April while President Lula remained intact at 35.8%.
The poll shows that President Lula’s popularity remains stable at 53.3% as well as his administration’s performance 37.6%.
"What is surprising is president Lula’s capacity to come out unhurt and live with all the corruption claims and political scandals involving his closest aides and administration," said Mr. Guedes.
Sensus coordinator added that the current economic stability in Brazil plus subsidies distributed among the poorest segments of Brazilian society help to explain the strong support for President Lula’s administration.
Mercopress – www.mercopress.com
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