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The Canberra Times art critic Kerry-Anne Cousins said she was glad the centenary organisers had not gone for a safer option. ''I think it's a mark of the sophistication of Canberra that we can have this kind of debate,'' she said.
Jeremy Lasek, executive director of culture for the Chief Minister's directorate, said the balloon design, construction and testing was about $170,000, but other educational materials and piloting would cost extra. The Skywhale is nearly 23 metres tall and took 1880 hours of work to make. It even has its own Twitter account.
By Thursday afternoon it had sent out nearly 40 tweets.
It used more than 3500 metres of fabric and weighs 500 kilograms with fuel, a pilot and two passengers on board.
56 comments
Best hot-air balloon ever! Leaves the Darth Vader balloon for dead!
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John Western
Date and time
May 09, 2013, 10:19AM
Yes...I'm looking forward to discussing this with my kids :-) It's going to be a lot of fun.
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Nick
Date and time
May 09, 2013, 11:33PM
Im suprised its not a GWS balloon as this Labor government has already thrown millions at them already.
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Muzza
Location
Canberra
Date and time
May 09, 2013, 10:25AM
It's so dark and downright gross. Look at all the beautiful balloons flying around Canberra and they just have to make one that looks crap!
The balloons in the link you provided are fantastic!! I love the space shuttle balloon. Thank you for sharing the story : )
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Sharron
Location
Canberra
Date and time
May 09, 2013, 1:10PM
That balloon might be able to defy gravity but its eight breasts didn't.
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dusty
Date and time
May 10, 2013, 9:53AM
It is a Jabba the Hut balloon. The 'Leia as slave girl' balloon will be displayed next to it.
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Acronym
Date and time
May 09, 2013, 11:21AM
Sorry, that should have read 'the $230,000 'Leia as slave girl' ballon will be displayed next to it.'
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Acronym
Date and time
May 09, 2013, 1:55PM
It looks like a whale with breasts! I dont mind the arts, but this thing flying in the sky is nothing far from grotesque. And how much did this cost? I have a feeling this is another disaterous attempt from creative director Robyn Archer, lady take your booby whale back to Adelaide. | {
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Case study library
Henmans LLP, Finalist 2011, The Best for Fathers Award
Paternity leave is paid at enhanced rates for one week, with no qualifying period for employees. Paternity returners are able to phase back to work. This is in support of a culture which seeks to treat men and women equally, with several men at a senior level working flexibly and sharing care more or less equally with their partners. The key drive is one of promoting the idea that parents of either gender may have the same opportunities for caring for their children. | {
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This site contains the biblical research work of
James Millard Gibbs, primarily in the New Testament, published and
unpublished. It has been developed over many years of teaching in England
(Lichfield Theological College and The Queen's College, Birmingham, the latter
as a recognized lecturer of Birmingham University) and India (The United Theological
College, Bangalore), and some of it has been left in the form shared with my
students, to whom I owe much. You are welcome to use it, preferably
acknowledged.
The three most prominent areas
are chiastic structuring, the relating of NT writings to Jewish lectionary
usage, and the pervasive wise/powerful/well-born paradigm for human beings
that underlies and structures much of the NT witness to Jesus. It is
this third area that is of the greatest significance.
I am putting these materials
on the Web for two reasons: firstly, to make them more readily available,
and secondly, because their cogency, I believe, depends on primary data
rather than on trawling through masses of more recent secondary literature.
In time I intend to present
materials on individual writings such as Matthew, Mark, Luke-Acts,
John, the Johannine epistles, the letters of Paul (Romans, 1 and 2
Corinthians, Galatians, Philemon), Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians,
Jude, 2 Peter and Hebrews. There will also be studies on such subjects as
chiastic structuring, Pauline authorship, and Jewish lectionary usage in
the New Testament, with special reference to Mark, Romans, 1 Corinthians
and Galatians.
Starred items (*) are
pastoral, but based on research.
My e-mail address is
[email protected]. Comments, questions,
criticisms and suggestions will be welcome. | {
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And at the end of a long day popping to that very family friendly restaurant … Rocky Mountain Flatbread … where I can enjoy my glass of White Bear wine & a farmers market pizza and the kids can order the fav … chicken noodle soup, mac and cheese and a mozza pizza with mango!
Share what your favorite list of summer things to do is before visiting Rocky Mountain Flatbread.
The Flatbread Team is working with 90 kids at Kid Safe to convert their old tee shirts into library bags – they can also be used for shopping bags. The project is fun, quick, easy & stops millions of plastic bags ending up in our land fills and oceans – phew!
Tools and Materials
An old cotton T-shirt
Pins
Sewing machine
Medium-size bowl
Water-erasable marking pen
Scissors
T-Shirt Bag How-To
1. Turn T-shirt inside out and pin bottom of the T-shirt along the hem. Using a sewing machine, sew bottom of T-shirt closed. Flip shirt right side out and lay flat on table, making sure all seams are lined up.
2. Place medium-size bowl about half-way over the neck hole. Using a water-erasable marking pen, trace along the edge of the bowl. Cut along the outline, making sure to go through the front and back sides of the shirt, in order to create an opening for the bag that’s larger than what the neck hole allows.
3. Line up the hems on the front and back side of the sleeve and cut, making sure to go through both sides of the shirt. Repeat on the other sleeve.
Garlic scapes have arrived fresh from Kitsilano Farms in our restaurant. And Doug our Field Chef created the most delicious Spinach & Garlic Scape Pesto which I drizzled on my Basil Bocconcini Flatbread Pizza for lunch. An amazing taste! Not too garlicy and so easy to make!
Charred Spot Prawns
Place prawns in a bowl. Add paprika, toss and coat evenly. Place large frying pan (preferably cast iron) on medium high heat. Add prawns and stir-fry for four minutes. Remove from heat, place prawns in a bowl. Toss with lemon zest and parsley.
Arrange prawns evenly among 4 plates, sprinkle with more parsley if desired.
Growing Food With Sharon Hanna:
Taking a trip out to West Creek Farms in search of good, high quality organic soil
Last spring I wanted to take my Gaia ‘Growing Food In the City’ program class somewhere to see how soil was “made.” There seemed to be a real problem finding a source of organic soil for people to grow food—even amongst all kinds of people involved in programs all over the Lower Mainland. It struck me as odd that you can buy 50 million different kinds of useless things every time you turn around, but sourcing good soil seemed a mystery, even for professionals.
Years back when I worked with Odessa Bromley at her nursery in Southlands, we used a beautiful, high-quality gritty potting mix to pot up the field-grown perennials. Turns out it had come from West Creek—that’s all I knew, so I gave the place a call.
West Creek Farms in Fort Langley
So I took my class out to Fort Langley to check out West Creek Farms, which involved a beautiful drive out in the country on a sunny Sunday in May. About 30 of us showed up for a tour, led by Frederick Munn, co-owner of the company.
Those of us in love with soil and soil amendments were led swooning around the huge area, smelling the mile-high piles of bark mulch being aerated with pipes—like aged tobacco or fine Cabernet—as well as big cargo containers of organic rice hulls and other stuff in various stages of mellowing.
The experiment: Which soil mix for what veggie
West Creek Farms
Frederick and I struck up a soil-based friendship and began a conversation about trialing various soil mixes to see which grew what veggie best. For example, I’ve always had a hard time growing beets at home—so we’re going to try beets in all the mixes to see which one yields the best.
Truck driver Rob King, a jack of all trades, whipped up six raised beds, 4 feet by 12 feet. We thought we’d try three “organic” and three “conventional” types of soil mixes, and garlic seed was planted in mid-October.
Operations manager Tommy Floyd got too way enthusiastic—carried away even—and arranged to do 18 more beds for 24 in total! So there’s lots of room for growing food this year. Looks like West Creek will have a demonstration garden ready for viewing sometime this summer… Right, Frederick?
The aisles between, I said to Frederick, were way too wide: “such a waste in all that full sun.” So “we” have decided to plant lots of pumpkins and squash in those wide swaths, allowing them to run all over the place and using the lasagna garden method of building up an instant garden. It will be no problem getting the organic material for all the layers.
Frederick attended the workshop I had the pleasure of leading for landscapers last Friday, put on by the BCLNA. Not having been a grower of food up until this point, Frederick has a steep learning curve ahead of him but I think he’s up to it.
“I am very excited to launch this project as it provides an opportunity to use our experiences, skills and creativity and at the same time gain additional knowledge about soils,” he says. “Working with Sharon has been a rewarding experience and I look forward to making a contribution to the further development of organics!”
‘Frederick’s Organic Concoction’ soil mix recipe
Here’s the recipe for “Frederick’s Organic Concoction,” one of the three being trialed: | {
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Hooked Fish Feel Pain, British Scientists Say, Roiling the Waters
By ALAN COWELL
Published: May 6, 2003
TEFFONT EVIAS, England, May 4—
On the front line of a watery war, Christian Jervis-Reid braced for the fray, his only weapon a willowy wand of crafted bamboo.
Before him lay the languorous curves of the River Nadder, a slender waterway replete with trout near this old village in the county of Wiltshire, 100 miles west of London. Somewhere, at the back of his mind, were arguments that catching fish was cruel. In front of him, though, was the dimpling of the water that betrayed his prey.
He cast his line. A speckled brown trout rose to his artificial fly. After a brief tussle, the trout was captured, destined for that night's dinner table.
That bucolic moment was one that has been repeated on untold occasions since Izaak Walton, a British writer and fisher, composed ''The Compleat Angler,'' a compendium of lore in the 1650's. But Walton's assessment that ''God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling'' is now under challenge as rarely before.
Eminent scientists have concluded that, despite anglers' longstanding protestations to the contrary, fish do indeed feel pain when hooked. Animal rights activists, who have fought a stubborn campaign against the hunting of foxes, hares and stags, now say they feel encouraged in their insistence that anglers should desist from their pastime.
''While fishing might seem fun, there's a terrified animal fighting for its life at the other end of the line,'' said Dawn Carr of the European branch of the lobby group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
The Royal Society, an independent scientific research body, seems to agree with him. In one of its journals, the society published research last month by Lynne Sneddon establishing for the first time, she said, the existence of nervous system receptors in the head of fish that respond to ''damaging stimuli.''
By injecting bee venom and acetic acid into the lips of captive rainbow trout, the Royal Society said, Dr. Sneddon and other scientists at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh discovered that the fish displayed ''profound behavioral and physiological changes'' over a period of time, ''comparable to those observed in higher mammals.''
After the injections, Dr. Sneddon said, ''fish demonstrated 'rocking' motion strikingly similar to the kind of motion seen in stressed higher vertebrates like mammals, and the trout injected with acetic acid were also observed to rub their lips onto the gravel in the tank and onto the tank walls.''
''This indicates, the researchers believe, that fish can perceive pain,'' the Royal Society said in a statement, contradicting the riverbank lore of anglers drawing on earlier research by Prof. James Rose of the University of Wyoming that fish do not feel pain because their brain is incapable of that response.
Dr. Sneddon said the research did not make her anti-angling. ''I wouldn't say it was cruel as long as the angler is getting the fish out quickly, killing and eating it,'' she said. ''That outweighs the short period of discomfort for the fish.''
She did, however, seem to question the logic used by fishing types to protest her own research. ''A lot of anglers have condemned me for using bee venom,'' she said in an interview. ''If these anglers condemn me for that, they are acknowledging that fish feel pain.''
Under pressure from the dispute are the 3.8 million anglers including Mr. Jervis-Reid, a 55-year-old banker, who make fishing Britain's most popular participatory sport. They cast lures, artificial flies or baits on or below the waters to catch, and often then release, species that range from carp in ponds to mackerel at sea by way of myriad others like roach, tench, bream, dace, pike, grayling, trout and on to the aristocratic Atlantic salmon.
''When you catch a fish, you want to cause it a minimum amount of pain,'' said Mr. Jervis-Reid in a conversation before his latest capture. ''Most good anglers will be very quick about releasing it'' or dispatching it for the pot, he said.
Of course, this being Britain, there are certain connotations of class. Anglers sitting on the banks of lakes and canals casting maggots and other bait for coarse fish like roach or barbel tend to be seen as a blue-collar bunch by those who cast artificial flies for game fish, usually trout or salmon.
But if there is one thing that unites them, it's an animal rights activist. ''You won't get any distinction'' between the various disciplines, said Martin Salter, a Labor legislator who acts as the government's spokesman on angling. ''The anti-fishing lobby,'' he said, ''is a few extreme vegans. It's nothing we take seriously.''
The new research has prompted a chorus of rebuttal echoing through newspaper columns, broadcasts and barroom debate.
''When you hook a fish, the fish always will dash away into the far bank or bore away into the deepest water,'' said Rodney Coldron of the National Federation of Anglers. ''If there was any pain involved, the fish would swim toward the angler to take pressure off the line.''
In more of a scientific vein, Bruno Broughton, a scientific adviser to the pro-fishing lobby, said: ''In our brains there's a neocortex. That's the part of our brain that is associated with pain and fear. Fish don't have that. So if fish are feeling pain, how are they feeling it? With which organ?''
At the back of many anglers' minds is the fear that Britain's militant animal rights movement, which has disrupted fox hunts, threatened scientists performing experiments on animals and blocked exports of calves, may also turn on anglers as they fish.
Two years ago, militants wearing ski masks and wielding baseball bats threatened an angler in Cambridgeshire. Animal rights activists sent a nail bomb to a fish and chip shop in North Wales. Also in 2001, an activist smashed fishing poles and leapt into the murky waters of the River Trent in the English Midlands to protest an angling competition.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals placed a newspaper advertisement the same year, Ms. Carr said, showing a dog with a hook through its lip and the question, ''If you won't do it to a dog, why do it to a fish?''
Photo: Christian Jervis-Reid, 55, fishing the River Nadder in Wiltshire, England. He said most anglers want to inflict a minimum amount of pain on fish. (Photograph by Mike St. Maur Sheil/Black Star, for The New York Times) Map of England highlighting Teffont Evias: The River Nadder at Teffont Evias is replete with trout. | {
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31.7.05
Inside Job
It is traditional to begin by pointing out that there are no stories that have not been told, nor ways of retelling them that have not been tried. Still, storytellers persist, seeking the philosopher's stone even when lead type has made way for bits of silicon, and gold is a commodity more profitably extracted from seabrine. They keep piling up words, stray bits of kelp washed up on shore, into an homogenous, undifferentiated mass. For redemptive novelty, a deus ex machina is blithely injected into a thricetold tale. I've seen every hackneyed plot device, every stylistic trick in the book, every character from A to Z and beyond. The spark of life I sought in my readings was false, a glint of pyrite, a cruel trick of the light. And now, bereft of human contact, the real world seems no more than a distant memory. Rather than rereading the tomes I've been through a thousand times before, I feel compelled to relate, if I can keep my composure, how my self-imposed sequestration in the library came about.
I was destined to become a librarian. I'd always been drawn to books, novels particularly: the clarity of the language, the structures and strictures of plotting, drawing inexorably towards its preordained conclusion. The sense of order, of permanence, each volume a cosmology preserved intact. And each new book, a new universe! The idea that these could be amassed into one collection, a record of civilization -- no, surpassing civilization, the richness of its aspirations untrammeled by either the ordinariness of everyday life or the blind operation of coincidence or accident -- was beyond imagination. Limitations arose not from possibility but plausibility, and from each author's ability to convey the sense (through economy of means and the judicious choice of words) that this is not just as it should be, but as it must be.
When I first entered the library, it seemed a cathedral, with its ecclesiastical hush, the stacks lined up like organ pipes. In the middle, an altar under a sign saying "Information", which I approached as reverently as a child receiving first communion. Looking back, it's odd that when I enquired after a job rather than a title, it was almost as if I'd been expected, but I took it as a matter of course, determined as I was to inhabit this fabulous setting. I dutifully submitted an application, met first with a staff librarian and then with the library's administrator.
My eagerness must have been self-evident, for I was taken on at once as an assistant, assigned to the card catalog. The drudgery of maintaining some semblance of order in the catalog was a task reserved for neophytes, a way of paying dues, but it afforded me an opportunity to survey my new domain. The catalog provided the basis for my mental map of the stacks, laying out my new world before me like ancient maritime charts, more suggestive than literal.
The card catalog was a mess, but I was able to put things right in fairly short order. Classification by author and title was easy, but by subject was ... well, so subjective. Sometimes the decimals seemed to be assigned irrationally, and not just for those works that didn't fit neatly into a particular category. Still, I was able to handle these exceptions by virtue of my quick grasp of the system, despite the constant interruptions to redistribute check-ins to the stacks, or helping out at Information. But I had little chance to investigate the books themselves; my time was not my own, and every spare moment brought a new and onerous chore. I felt adrift in a sea of stories, chained to the mast, doomed to hear the siren song but unable to put to shore.
It became clear that I had to distinguish myself, to demonstrate some skill beyond diligence, in order to gain more responsibility for and more access to the books, and the time to make use of them. Fortunately, my efforts handling queries at Information were well-spent; queries on author and title were routine enough, but the most difficult and time-consuming were those which had neither, and were otherwise ill-formed (" ... a short book with a red cover ..."). I formulated an ambitious cross-indexing scheme to include such standard items as publisher and date of publication, as well as the size of the book and the color of its cover, and over time integrated it into the card catalog.
Though this endeavor robbed me of the little reading time I had, the scheme was wildly successful, at least at first. The administrator took notice of my initiative and accomplishment and suggested promoting me to associate in Information services. It was then that I hit upon a plan that would make reading an integral part of my duties: constructing synopses of story-lines and character sketches to further extend the card catalog. My rationale was to address that other bane of Information, the query based on what the book was about. I put this proposal before the administrator; it was granted conditionally, based on the ongoing results of this new program, and my job was transformed.
I was given the title "Head of Special Projects", even though I had no direct reports. (Though I made it appear that I was on the look-out for recruits with special promise, I was able to deflect those that were put forward.) Now I could read voraciously, spared from both the everyday tasks that were the lot of most of the staff, and the management responsibilities that weighed heavily on the rest. My new status did not bring any resentment from my coworkers, but then there was little appreciation expressed for the innovations I had instituted to make their jobs easier. It was as if I had left the staff; except for updating the existing catalog, I lost touch with the day-to-day operation of the library as I delved deeper into the texts. In fact, I made good use of the special security clearance I was granted to come and go at all hours to proceed with the new project.
I concentrated on fiction (including biography), ostensibly since this area accounted for the bulk of Information requests. I was always a fast reader, but I had to pick up the pace to keep up with the flood of new acquisitions, much less describe the library's extant collection. I honed techniques to read lightning fast, and so made considerable progress against the incoming tide. Fortunately (or so I thought at the time) most of the new publications were formulaic; I could dispatch them easily, as I could systematically predict story lines and outcomes well before the critical circumstances of the plot were fully laid out. I practically resolved the whole procedure into a taxonomy of multiple choices, ticking off the appropriate box as each new element appeared in the story. I organized these into a compendium of plot summaries, thematic abstracts, and a character registry; my output soared as I dispensed with book after book, leaving in my wake a more fully evolved and comprehensive index.
But dark clouds had begun to gather on the horizon, had I but looked up from my reading to notice. Information was being swamped by requests of progressively more ambiguous nature or quirkiness of detail. Word had gotten out that Information had the capacity to resolve them, and the new queries came in waves. Even the hits scored against the catalog were often not much help in narrowing down the possibilities, since there was so much commonality amongst them, and so many were derivative of their predecessors; the synopses were not sufficiently differentiated to distinguish between so much indistinctive matter. And as the index had grown more unwieldy, fewer of the staff were competent to use it; increasingly, I became the only one capable of navigating its intrinsic complexities.
The situation became so bad that the administrator called upon me to return to Information to devote myself exclusively to the process of handling queries. I pointed out that resolving the most problematic requests would have required the entire contents of the library to function as its own index, and that the benefits of my indexing system could not be realized unless I was given the chance to complete my work. How could the indexing, now so indispensable to Information, progress if it was deprived of its key resource? I suggested taking a subsequent pass at the synopses, to remedy the vagaries with attention to specific detail; but we were talking at cross-purposes. At any rate, I categorically refused to disengage myself from the project.
Not long after, a memorandum was circulated to the effect that the catalog project was being scrapped, and that I was now to act as a consultant to the regular Information staff, working on how best to retain those parts of the indexing scheme which had proven most useful. Recognizing that it was only a matter of time until I would be deprived of access to the texts, my only reason for being there, I carefully laid plans. Finally, I was making use of all the research I'd been compiling; it wasn't hard to assemble all the necessary materials, and before long, I was ready.
Perhaps through some oversight, my security privileges had not been suspended. After hours, when Maintenance took charge of the library (they were accustomed to seeing me work at odd hours, so my presence raised no warning flags), I checked the administrator's files, and came across what I had feared would be there: a notice of termination with my name on it, undated but ready to implement. I waited for Maintenance to check out, then triggered an alert to draw Security away from the library, leaving me the sole occupant within its confines.
I quickly locked down all of the library's entryways. I had prepared a long, rambling tract, a pastiche of radical sociopolitical motifs, conspiratorial theories and apocalyptic scenarios, but clearly making the point that the library was now in possession of a terrorist faction. Other than warning off any attempt to recapture the library, with allusions to dire consequences (backed by some indications of technical sophistication), the message made no specific demands, but instructed the authorities to await further instructions. At the end, I included a long section of gibberish, designed to appear partially encoded by some complicated cipher, but with nothing underlying it; I knew I would gain yet more time on attempted decryption. I had transferred this counterfeit manifesto on to magnetic tape, which I now posted conspicuously, like Luther's theses, at the main entry.
I proceeded to set devices in place to pass low amperage current through the locks at all the entryways, making them appear to be booby-trapped. As I'd anticipated, the first calls were coming into the library, presumably trying to establish contact with the terrorists. I disregarded them at first, buying time to shut off all of the service passageways and block all the emergency exits indicated in the blueprints from the administrator's files. When I was sure I'd totally secured the library, I answered the incoming call. I didn't say a word; after an interval of silence, I switched on a prerecorded message saying that any further contact would be initiated from within. I then cut off all communications linkages to the outside.
Unhindered now by the pretense of constructing glosses, I began to read in earnest. I read with superhuman speed, racing the clock, knowing the success of my subterfuge could not last forever. But as I ploughed through the stacks, I began to sense something was horribly wrong; as I started each new book, I found myself double-checking to ensure that I hadn't previously read it. I was struck by the sameness, the lack of originality incorporated into the texts, and by the obvious flaws that pervaded them, as if each new work was the malformed offspring of an incestuous tryst of the ones that had come before it. The selfsame plot would be exhumed countless times, repackaged in a shroud of modern trappings, or transposed to distant settings. Stock characters would be tossed into a brackish broth of overplayed themes and dubious motifs; clichés were reserved for dialogue, which was otherwise a litany of the unspeakable. Still, I managed to slog through it all.
Having dispensed with narrative prose, I moved on to philosophy, only to find it a degenerate form of fiction. The rest of the so-called social sciences were less plausible than even the worst bestseller. So I returned to fiction, to concentrate on the "great books", those universally acclaimed creations of the best minds ever to assay the human condition. Many of these books were no more than archetypes for later genres, mere canon-fodder for authors of lesser caliber. But even the core, held up as the paradigm of narrative art, resolved into little more than prosaic games with language: unresolved ambiguities, in the end meaning nothing at all; coy obscurantism transparently pretending to be enigmatic; artificial contrivances and conceits; all in all, a collection of cleverly constructed crosswords. My search for the truth underlying these fictions, my rhetorical quest, has only uncovered deeper lies.
The siege is drawing to a close. It won't be long before Security comes crashing in, but -- no matter. I have achieved my end -- I have become the library -- but in the process of absorbing this ocean of story, I've found there's precious little gold to be extracted from it. I was simply telling myself a story about the profound nature of literature, and mistaking the figurative for the literal, I believed it.
The worst of it is, that in setting down this history, rendering my tale, I realize how banal and inconsequential it is beside the works that I have found so wanting. It is as if Fate had reserved a special punishment for me, remarkable only for its ordinariness -- no, triteness. Nothing remains but to bring my tale to its logical conclusion --
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"MR CHRISTOPHER Ong is sceptical that Singaporean medal achievements in the Olympic Games will create a surge of national pride or unite the people ("What's the worth of an Olympic medal?"; last Saturday).
He concluded that the notion of national sporting accomplishments uniting the nation is overblown.
Allow me to show, with examples, how wrong he is.
If Singapore were playing against Brazil for an Olympic football gold medal, my bet is that almost every Singaporean would be watching the match on TV. The roads would be empty; every pub with a TV set would be packed; life, as we know it, would stand still while Singaporeans cheer on the Lions. And if Singapore beat Brazil... need I say more?"
"MR CHRISTOPHER Ong is sceptical that Singaporean medal achievements in the Olympic Games will create a surge of national pride or unite the people ("What's the worth of an Olympic medal?"; last Saturday).
He concluded that the notion of national sporting accomplishments uniting the nation is overblown.
Allow me to show, with examples, how wrong he is.
If Singapore were playing against Brazil for an Olympic football gold medal, my bet is that almost every Singaporean would be watching the match on TV. The roads would be empty; every pub with a TV set would be packed; life, as we know it, would stand still while Singaporeans cheer on the Lions. And if Singapore beat Brazil... need I say more?" | {
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Are you kidding? Go back there and complain. Or write to Apple. That is the most bull **** story i've ever heard. Probably just an excuse to get a friend in line, or that they can't even have a line in front of the store so they dont get in trouble.
Are you kidding? Go back there and complain. Or write to Apple. That is the most bull **** story i've ever heard. Probably just an excuse to get a friend in line, or that they can't even have a line in front of the store so they dont get in trouble.
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there were 11 in front of me -- all upgrade eligible and staying -- 5+ behind me. store had at least 60 phones. so it was legit apparently
I could see them doing this for only New Customers...since they aren't hooked. But refusing to take perfectly good money for people willing to pay the full price? Yet allowing people already hooked but eligible to get one?
at&t mgr just kicked me out of line and said at&t cannot process those NOT eligible for 199/299 pricing until tomorrow. said it was ceo rule and they cant override that or risk getting fired
WTF!?
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Override what? There's the $399 option, that doesn't need overriding, it's a normal option. Unless they were saying they might make an exception for the $199 price for you, but due to the rules, no exceptions or overrides until maybe after the launch.
Override what? There's the $399 option, that doesn't need overriding, it's a normal option. Unless they were saying they might make an exception for the $199 price for you, but due to the rules, no exceptions or overrides until maybe after the launch.
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The way I read it...override the CEO's order to not sell to ineligible customers. That is what is stopping the manager from selling to him apparently.
Kind of makes me glad I can't get mine today...since I'm an existing customer who is ineligible.
Override what? There's the $399 option, that doesn't need overriding, it's a normal option. Unless they were saying they might make an exception for the $199 price for you, but due to the rules, no exceptions or overrides until maybe after the launch.
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per my OP -- i was told you cannot do the 399/499 option until TOMORROW per ceo of at&t
Of course. They already have your money. Why would they care about fish they've already hooked when there's new ones to catch?
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The point is...according to the OP they aren't kicking people out of line if they are existing customers (ie people already hooked) who are upgrade eligible. It's not as if they are limiting it to only new customers...they aren't according what he said.
Seriously? I am in line right now. I am an existing customer but am upgrade ineligible. The employees here have been coming out every once in a while to talk to us and have not mentioned this to any of us. Is there confirmation of this somewhere? An actual memo from the AT&T CEO or perhaps confirmation of this happening to people at multiple stores? I will very disappointed if I got up at 4:00 am toady only to get turned away.
That is correct. I'm in Arlington, VA - and they definitely aren't taking ANY existing customers who are NOT eligible. In my case, I'm actually eligible for an early upgrade, and was told prior to today that I could just waltz into the store and they'd take care of my upgrade (there are special instructions in my account notes).
Today, however, the manager came out in line and was checking people's upgrade eligibility, and he said there's NO WAY to handle that today. Told me to come back tomorow for that.
That is correct. I'm in Arlington, VA - and they definitely aren't taking ANY existing customers who are NOT eligible. In my case, I'm actually eligible for an early upgrade, and was told prior to today that I could just waltz into the store and they'd take care of my upgrade (there are special instructions in my account notes).
Today, however, the manager came out in line and was checking people's upgrade eligibility, and he said there's NO WAY to handle that today. Told me to come back tomorow for that.
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Are you saying that if you're an existing customer eligible for an upgrade you can't go in todaY??!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i am about to call at&t when the CS call center opens. I leave on travel before stores open tomorrow morning and really wanted the phone before i go. AND ITS MY DAMN BIRTHDAY TODAY!
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Yeah, I called the main CS line, spoke to two different people. The first lady said I should be able to get ANY phone upgrade, the clerk just has to follow the instructions on my account. The second lady said that for the iPhone specifically, they are only handling 'upgrade eligible' people today, and she wasn't even sure what my luck would be like tomorow.
Sadly, the store out at Bailey's doesn't open till 10am tomorow, and I, too, am travelling.
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I don't know. I tell myself yes. My daughter's gelding is a big licker. It can't be salt because he will lick her over her clothing, shoulder, back, etc. I really don't know what else it could be; maybe some sort of grooming us? Isn't that a form of affection?
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Sure, they might. I certainly wouldn't give an unqualified "no." Mares lick their foals, horses do mutual grooming and scratching, this would be a natural carryover into adulthood in some horses, although obviously they don't retain licking, per se, as strongly as dogs, at least toward humans. We do a great deal to discourage any mouthy behavior with horses towards humans, so we probably suppress most of that tendency in any case.
Horses also lick their lips, the same way dogs and humans do, when they are upset or concentrating and trying to calm themselves. Watch your horse closely and you'll see this a lot when you are challenging him with new work, etc.
I think it depends on the horse? Some just want the salt, some are mouthy but have been taught not to bite, some are tasting you, some seem to do it to show affection, but that could just be me pretending like my horse loves me
Hannah licks me no matter what, I think it's more of a comfort thing for her. She adores it when people play with her mouth/tongue-favorite game is she licks my hand, I grab her tongue, she pulls it away, then licks me again. She loves it. She's also the only horse I've met that actually tries to lick my face like a dog. She's very mouthy in general, but someone in her past obviously taught her that biting is not okay.
Fifi prefers me grabbing her lip, and she'll occasionally lick me after a long sweaty ride.
Finn used to lick all the time when he was younger, now it's only with certain people, unless it's right after treats. But even with those certain people, it's more like he's tasting them...
I like mares. They remind me of myself: stubborn know it alls who only acknowledge you if you have food.Hannah B. Nana: 50% horse, 50% hippoFiona: can't decide between jumpers or napping
I think my horse licks to show affection. She is so insistent on licking my hands when we start grooming that I have to pull my gloves off and let her lick before she'll let me get on with business, and it's hard sometimes getting her in cross ties because she's following my hands around trying to lick.
She mostly licks when I first get there and not later, after we've ridden, when theoretically my hands would be more salty.
Also, I had turned her out once, she was walking away, I called out to her that I loved her. She stopped, turned around, came back to where I was at the fence and licked my hand. That's when I thought, hmmm, maybe there's something more to this . . .
Yep! My gelding has to, has to, lick my hand after getting treats, particularly peppermints. If do not have my full attention on him and let him lick too long, I sometimes feel the faint touch of his teeth on the palm of my hand. If he cannot lick a hand, he will lick the wood on his stall or even the cement on the floor.
I mostly believe it is for the salt or to tenderize before taking a chunk out of my hand! My gelding also expresses a lot of his feelings through his mouth, so maybe there is some affection there...but, probably not.
I agree with the self-comforting/relaxation theory. My gelding likes to lick my hand also, but when I walk away, he starts licking the corral panel that separates him from his donkey buddy. I don't think the panel's salty (haven't tried it). And my gelding is also mouthy in general but not a biter.
Well, mares lick their foals, and I rather doubt that it's for the salt.
My late TB licked me when I got to the barn on 9/11. This was extraordinary b/c as a rule he was NOT an affectionate horse. The horses all knew something was up, but mine sort of wrapped his neck around me and licked my arms. I think it was the only way he could think of to say "It's OK, calm down."
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I think it does in certain cases. My last horse liked to give kisses and lick my face. He also liked to stick his tongue in your mouth if you weren't careful. (SO Gross!!!) He got really good at sneak attacking people with this when he knew they didn't know better and weren't paying attention.
My first horse (a mare) would lick me for hours. She was very partial to my feet (socked) when I was trying to put my boots on. And my butt when I was grooming her. But she would also stand for half an hour licking random objects for no apparent reason.
My current horse never licks. He gives kisses and hugs (and not just for food!) The other day, we were cuddling and he was pressing his lips to mine for kisses and just randomly licked my face. It was such a shock I just stood there, so he pulled me in for a hug. He really is something else...
My gelding will lick me when I'm grooming a particularly enjoyable itchy spot. I think he knows that he's not allowed to lay his teeth on me but wants to mutually groom. That could be seen as a sign of affection (at least, I like to see it that way )
To me, it is a taste test,nd a potential predecessor to biting. Yes, I am sure those have horses that lick and never have been bit. It's personal space, to me. But I'm a grinch and don't give hand treats and if they get them, only in the buckets.
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I am not making judgements, but to those letting horses lick your face/lips etc. Please be careful. My roommante in college literally got 1/2 her nose ripped off and reconstructive surgery for years by her horse who "would never bite me, it's affection".
Unlike dogs, licking is not a characterized submissive behavior in horses. I don't think I have ever observed my horses licking each other in a field, perhaps others have. Who knows how/why it develops in some horses. Yes, it is prob very adorable but please be careful. It gave me chills reading some of your posts. *not in a snarky way* | {
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In 2015, the U.S. Federal Government increased its STEM education budget by 3.7 percent from the year before. But many classrooms could still benefit from extra funding for special projects or new equipment. Here are a few points to keep in mind while pursuing STEM grants for your classroom:
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If you can’t easily articulate the project or why you need assistance, it might be wise to spend a bit more time fine-tuning and simplifying your idea. Use active voice and uncomplicated, transparent language. Be prepared to answer any questions and have a realistic, organized budget plan. Is there research to support why this STEM grant would make a significant improvement to student learning? Bring out the data and charts to make a statement in numbers that’s hard to refute. The NEA (National Education Association) Foundation offers a writing tutorial for educators who plan to write a grant proposal.
Applying for STEM grants on a smaller scale are a good place to start. Pursue mini-grants for lower sums, such as the ones offered by the National Girls Collaborative Project, which are designed to encourage girls in their pursuit of STEM education.
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The National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education recommends ensuring that “the project personnel have the necessary expertise to accomplish the goals and objectives.” They also suggest carefully weighing the intellectual merit and broader impact of the work. Connect the project to the things you are already doing in your classroom and explain how it would enhance students’ experiences and understanding. Describe the innovative things happening in your classroom now to demonstrate your ability to implement the project you’re proposing.
3. Find common ground between your goals and the organization you’re appealing to.
Why do you believe that this organization, specifically, might be interested in funding your particular project? Put yourself in the shoes of the person reading your application. Perhaps you share a common goal of including more women or minorities in the STEM fields. Maybe you’re especially concerned about environmental destruction or global warming. Conduct as much research on the organization as you can, and try to find other projects they’ve funded in the past for clues on what typically works well in an application.
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Vinyasa yoga translated means “flow”. This style of yoga as you can imagine from the name, is a flowing style with vigorous yet fluid sequences of asana. Vinyasa teachers choreograph their classes so that each pose flows seamlessly into the next and transitions become easy and smooth.
Vinyasa yoga also works on the element of breathe and incorporates this into the flowing sequence of asana. learning to use the breathe correctly in a vinyasa practice means you will have more control and awareness of the body and its movements and you will move through the sequences with a sense of ease.
What to expect from a Vinyasa yoga class?
although each vinyasa teacher will have their own niche approach to practice and teaching, students can expect to move through a basic warm-up to prepare the joints and muscles and spine for the practice. the warm is also often used to begin the awareness of the practice, and tune into the body and breathe for the practice ahead.
Vinyasa yoga can be vigorous flow or slow flow. so depending on the class, you will taken through a lovely flowing asana sequence standing, seated and lying down, with a large focus on breathe and fluid like moments in either a slow or vigorous pace.
What Does “Go Through Your Vinyasa” Mean?
When Vinyasa is used as a noun, it describes a series of three poses that are done as part of a sun salutation sequence.
When the teacher says, “flow through your vinyasa at your own pace,” he or she: means do plank, chaturanga, and upward facing dog (or their equivalent variations) using your breath to guide you through to the next pose. If you start to get tired and this affects the quality of your poses, it’s always acceptable to skip the vinyasa and wait for the class in downward facing dog or childs pose.
Is Vinyasa Yoga for You?
Vinyasa’s appeal is in its diversity. There is no single philosophy, set of rules, or prerequisite sequence that teachers must follow, so there is a lot of room for expression of personalities and quirks to come through. This makes it essential that you find a teacher you can relate to and enjoy. If your first flow class doesn’t knock your socks off, keep trying different teachers. If you enjoy having things a little loose and unpredictable and like to keep moving, this style is surely worth a try.
The Sun Salutation
Sun salutations are an important part of any flow or vinyasa style yoga class. You may not even realize you are doing them, but many teachers use them to warm-up at the beginning of class or even base long sequences or sometime whole classes around them. If you learn this sequence, it will really help you with your self practice, since one of the biggest obstacles to doing yoga on your own is figuring out what to do when you first get on your mat. Sun salutations are one of the more obvious answer.
The Breath
The breath is an extremely important part of this sequence. Each movement from one pose to the next is always done in conjunction with either an inhale or exhale of the breath. You can control the pace of the sequence by altering the number of breaths in each pose, just make sure to always move to the next pose on the correct breath, either an inhale or an exhale.
History of the Sun Salutation
The full history of the sequence is still unknown, but it is likely that it was developed in the new era of yoga, during which time asana was influenced strongly by gymnastics along with other types of exercise.
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During last week’s legislative session in Maryland when lawmakers were pondering the idea of gay marriage, a few black lawmakers took the time to not only criticize gay marriage but also the notion of lgbt equality in general.
We’ve all heard the hurtful sayings before - “you can’t compare gay rights to black civil rights because you can hide being gay,” “gays and lesbians were never oppressed in the same manner in which blacks were oppressed,” etc., etc.
It would be an awful generalization to say that all in the African-American community have these beliefs. In Maryland many African-Americans, including Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, publicly supported marriage equality.
However, statements voiced by some Maryland lawmakers unfortunately stand out and not in a good way. In answer to these comments, I could go on about the many lives either crippled and lost at the hands of gay bashers like that of Matthew Shepard, or the wholesale genocide of lgbts by the Nazis in German, or the suicides of lgbt youth such as Tyler Clementi, or the present day usage of junk science by religious right groups to demonize the lgbt community.
But why bother. I’ve reached the point where I hate having to do it.
It’s sad how no one ever talks about how this tug of war between the African-American and lgbt community over equality can negatively affect us lgbts of color. For me personally, it’s an awful psychological rending, a forced dividing of myself into two halves which have no business separating in the first place.
And as a gay man, I especially hate it. I hate the idea of us lgbts having to put the history of our oppression on some sort of display. I hate the notion that lgbts are put on a witness stand where we have to list how many times we have been beaten, disrespected, or denied our basic humanity in order to somehow prove our “worthiness.”
It always leaves me wondering are the scars of the lgbt community deep enough? Is our humiliation painful enough? Have we shed enough blood to suit those who would judge on us on those things?
Don’t get me wrong. I am all for understanding the aesthetic differences between the African-American struggle and lgbt struggle for equality. But there comes a time when we must recognize the folly of this constant struggle over whether the two are similar.
And that time is now.
It distresses me to no end that on the subject of lgbt equality, some African-Americans are taking on the guise of those who oppress them.
Those who oppressed (and continue to oppress) African-Americans have the belief that somehow blacks are inferior and will never measure up. Therefore they figure that black people are not deserving of certain basic rights. What’s more awful is how they use the Bible to justify their discrimination.
Now, it seems that some African-Americans have told members of the lgbt community that their suffering is inferior and will never measure up. And therefore, the lgbt community are not deserving of certain basic rights. And guess what? They too use the Bible to justify their discrimination .
It’s a nasty, stupid game. And those who choose to play it should know better.
Being oppressed is not a status symbol. Being oppressed is not a mark of achievement. It should never be used as a pedestal to somehow judge whether or not a group of people are “worthy” of being treated like basic human beings.
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Sources tell us ... the agreement calls for joint legal and physical custody of twins Bob and Max. We're told Brooke will get substantially more face time with the kids than Charlie.
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The technology also gives retailers potential opportunities to engage customers, offering discounts to shoppers who post a picture on Facebook or sign up to the ecommerce website using a QR scan. “We capture someone’s digital signature, then we know what clothes they looked at on the platform: that might be a blue jumper for 25 seconds, a grey jumper for six seconds, blue jeans with both,” said O’Sullivan. “We can then get in touch and say we know you liked the jeans, they’re now on sale. That’s a much more relevant conversation that retailers can have with customers.
“We do a lot of big data mining. Everything that happens in front of our camera is mined: we can tell their age, gender, height, clothing preferences, Facebook profile, how many pictures they took, and so on. You can get granular information from the physical world, which up to now has been almost impossible to get.”
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1. Naturally, we start with the basic sugar cookie recipe. When you roll them out, instead of using a cookie cutter, use a pizza roller, or knife to cut the dough into 120 1″ squares, bake and let cool. I suggest doing this a day before decorating.
2. For the icing, you will need to make stiff meringue icing, adding water and sugar to meringue powder until it reaches a stiff consistency that you can pipe through a small round tip. Make sure to taste it first, you will know quickly if you have not added enough sugar. Separate into three bowls and dye one bowl black, cover and move to the side. For the second batch you will pick your outline color. my sister decided to outline some cookies in pink to write me a message and some in white, but you can use whatever color you like!
3. Make the same icing recipe, but with more water so that it will spread nicely between the outlines, and set aside. This is the background color so it is best left white.
4. Put the white thick outline frosting in a piping bag with a small round nozzle and carefully pipe around the edge of each cookie. This can be seen in the Bra and Panties tutorial. Let dry completely.
5. Once dry, use a larger round piping nozzle to pipe the softer icing into the middle. You may want a knife to help spread it to the edges so it completely fills in between the outline. Let dry completely.
6. Now we add the letters and values. Use the picture below to carefully hand pipe each letter and number value. I suggest using the small round piping nozzle so you can get fine detail and more easily fix/hide shaky hands or mistakes. Let the black dry completely.
7. This step is optional. If you decided to make a colored outline, carefully outline each tile you want. My sister outlined my name and a “Happy Birthday” message, outlining the blanks between words and adding a pink heart in the center as well. This is where you can get creative though and do whatever you like! (or nothing if you prefer more authentic scrabble cookies).
Et Voila! The best part is sugar cookies are better with age, especially if you are like me and eat them for breakfast dipped in your coffee. They also turn whatever area they are displayed in, into an ongoing scrabble game! Enjoy!
Going through all my old craft supplies in an effort to downsize and I found a huge collection of fabric paint!
Fabric paint and acrylic paint mixed with acrylic medium are around $1-$3 each, so it is really easy to amass a large stash quickly and I couldn’t bear throwing them away. It is a rule in my house that if you don’t use it (or know you have it) for over a year – out it goes! Being the hoarder that I am, I decided to paint shirts for a bachelorette party and hold onto the paint a little while longer.
What you need:
Fabric Paint (or Acrylic paint with Acrylic medium)
Ruler
Pencil
cardboard or card stock
paper plate
Paint brushes (I use cheap $1 isle brushes, nothing fancy)
Note: If you use acrylic without the medium mixed in the paint will be very hard and stiffen the fabric. No bueno.
1. Make sure to put paper down or to work on a surface you don’t mind getting paint on.
2. Lay your shirt out with a stiff piece of cardboard or card stock under the painting surface to prevent paint from bleeding to the other side.
3. Get out your pencil and ruler and lightly draw your design.
Note: It is very hard to get the paint to do clean fine lines on softer cottons, so remember to keep the designs bold. Don’t draw the pencil too dark because it can take a few washes to come out of the fabric (found that out the hard way). You can see below how even with lettering, I made sure to keep the strokes nice and wide.
4. This is where the paint medium comes it really handy. When you pour your paint out onto the paper plate, give it plenty of room to spread out and mix with medium. I suggest going with a 1/4 to 1/2 medium to paint ratio. The medium helps thin the paint so you can smooth out your lines and keep the paint a uniform thickness across the fabric, so if you are struggling, add more medium. For some of my older fabric paints that were a little dry and stiff i added paint medium just to get the consistency. For these I went with a lighter ratio, but it is really up to you to find a consistency you like to work with. Also, the paint dries very quickly, so I suggest working with only one color at a time.
5. To set the paint, you have to steam iron it once it is dry to the touch. I left the paper in between the layers and placed a piece of pressing cloth on top to protect the iron in case the paint was still a little wet. Put the iron on the hottest setting and make sure it has plenty of water in it so you can just steam away! Since you have to iron anyway I added a few iron on gems to this one for a little extra bling.
For the Maids of honor I ended up following a few T-shirt refashion tutorials on Pinterest. I dyed these shirts pink before starting with rit dye. It is a great way to add color cheaply. I really like this ombre tutorial as well, I didn’t find it until after this project so I might have to try it next time.
This project is so easy and perfect for a rainy day or a quick gift. It would be a great party craft for middle school or high school kids as well. Next I think I will make some hand painted outdoor cushions. I think painting on duck canvas will be a bit easier than cotton.
I hope I have inspired you to dig through your old supplies and get a little crafty!
I live on a busy downtown street with a busy alley running by my back door so I invested in pretty curtains early on. However, I am sick of not being able to open the curtains without curious walkers by staring into my house – especially because I often forget to close the curtains until AFTER I get out of the shower.
The previous tenants had used diamond pattern frosted shelf lining on one of the windows in the kitchen. It is only $8 a roll for sizable chunk but it looks old, has a sticky back which make removal an involved process and the tiny grooves make cleaning it a bit more difficult.
After a Pinterest search and a horrendous home depot experience I pulled my head out of my ass and zoomed over to McGuckin’s, my local hardware/we have everything store and discovered Etch Arts Wallpaper for windows!This will run you quite a bit more than the shelf lining, $20-$45 depending on how wide you need, but it is worth every penny. Goes on with water, no adhesive, so while its wet you can easily move your pieces into place, no worries about bubbles or wasting sheets.
This project ended up being SUPER easy – even those who consider themselves to have no crafting or artistic abilities should go for it!
I tried two different techniques for my windows, a stencil approach and a geometric shapes approach.
The stencils were really easy. I set my computer screen as bright as possible and was able to see right through and trace with pencil. I traced the utensils out on the paper side so there wouldn’t be any marks on the film, but then I didn’t want my words to be backwards so I traced those onto the film side. After cutting the pieces out with an exact-o knife, the pencil erased right off with no marks so you can go either way.
What is awesome about this, is that anything you cut out can be used on other windows, as a computer or mirror decal – What?! AWESOME!
The geometric ones I went with because I wanted to see how far I could stretch the smaller sheets (ie spend as little money as possible) – the results were less privacy than the stencil technique, but work really well in the living room where we don’t need as much privacy.
I used my clear quilting ruler again and made a ton of pieces out of the scraps.
This is where it was really helpful to get the window really wet before placing the pieces. If there was plenty of water on the window I could easily slide the small pieces into place and play with how they fit in the frame.
The end result was better than expected!
I suppose because it is my first post it is not catching up at all, but a hello to the world. Either way I have been busy and I have a lot to share.
I finally started piecing this quilt I bought fabric for back in, I don’t know, December? It took forever to cut the 16 wedges for 12 circles each. Sewing them all together I managed to cut my centers with out seam allowance and started over again. Now I’m finishing the corner pieces so my circles can become squares and then circles again. I’m a little scared to piece those, but I get 24 tries so it will look good by the end.
A quilt in progress
I am also the Maid of Honor in a wedding coming up in November, the day after Thanksgiving. The bridal shower is next month and we chose a french cooking theme, with a cooking demonstration and lots of tasty treats. I decided I really wanted to make the treats so there has been a lot of practicing going on.
The first things I made were mint french macaroons, but the recipe I used said to put the temperature at 325 F which was way too low and my macaroons fell flat and came out more like almond lace cookies. Not a bad thing, just not what I wanted.
The second batch were much better. I whisked the eggs much longer and had the oven up at 400F and it made all the difference. This time I added instant coffee and cocoa powder to the mix for a mocha flavor and they came out delicious. I still need to figure out how to make them come out flat on top, and dare I say they were TOO airy this time around.
Mocha Macaroons, second stab
Now that I am making french macaroons I find that I have way too many egg yolks left over and lets face it, the dog can’t eat them all.
So I made a cake.
I suppose it was also an excuse to eat cake and play with my new Neon food coloring, and I enjoyed it, but I don’t think I can call it a total success. It was a sponge cake, but it came out tough and I’m not totally sure what went wrong but I have a few guesses:
1. I may have beaten the yolks too long. I realized much too late in the game that the instructions were referring to beating time by hand, not by kitchen aid. oops.
2. I live over a mile above sea level and didn’t even consider changing the recipe or the temperature when I baked the cake. More and more lately I am realizing how important this is and I really need to start paying more attention.
Neon Sponge Cake
I ate the whole thing anyway, I mean who am I kidding, a little toughness didn’t totally ruin it.
Other than these projects I have a few other things in the works. I craft a lot and my medium seems to change at every whim. I was working a lot with felt, and I will certainly post some of that work as it comes to completions. I have also been working a lot with silk, taffeta and lace to make hair flowers, and last Christmas, I made 20 some flannel infinity scarfs that came out real nice.
Christmas Infinity scarfs
A few other things that are bound to come up;
I drafted my fantacy football team 2 weeks ago and thought I was prepared, but know less than I thought. I ran the Colorado Relay last weekend – 210 miles split between 10 people – it took 29 hours and we ran through the night and rain, I couldn’t walk right for two days.
I hope this was a good crash course in All Things That Are Good, and I hope to see you back soon. | {
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Vader Comic Might Explain Luke's Vow of Silence in 'Last Jedi'
Luke Skywalker’s total disconnection from everyone and everything he loved might have a new retroactive explanation. Fans know something happened before The Force Awakens that sent the beloved Jedi into hiding, but now his vow of silence might have an offical canonical name: the “Barash Vow.”
On Wednesday, a very telling scene in the latest issue of Marvel’s ongoing Darth Vader comic series made reference to an ancient Jedi text called the Barash Vow. In his quest to locate a living Jedi and rip off their lightsaber, Vader decides to find Jedi who have taken “the Barash Vow prior to the purge.” What is the Barash Vow? Vader describes it to his evil droid sidekick thusly: “Any Jedi pursing Barash has sworn to refrain from activities related to the order. Complete disengagement from anything but the Force. It is a type of penance.”
While it’s not clear yet who Vader will find has taken this vow, the particulars of the vow certainly apply to Luke Skywalker in both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. In the trailer for The Last Jedi, ancient Jedi texts were briefly glimpsed. Could these texts have described the Barash Vow? In the aftermath of Ben Solo’s betrayal of Luke and his young Jedi, perhaps the Barash felt like the perfect way for Luke to feel like he was paying some sort of penance.
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Because all the Marvel comics are technically part of the “real” Star Wars canon, the introduction of the Barash Vow doesn’t seem like a coincidence. Not to mention, the series has already broken new ground by specifically focusing on Vader’s need to find a worthy opponent and steal their lightsaber.
Without spoiling anything in the issue, it seems like Vader is getting closer to finding the perfect candidate to do just that. And when he does find this silently meditating Jedi, it may be the precursor for what Luke Skywalker decides to do over 30 years later. | {
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Four OECS Businesses Top Caribbean Tech Entrepreneurship Programme
Four young OECS entrepreneurs have placed in the top three of the Caribbean Tech Entrepreneurship Programme (CTEP), an initiative designed to help address unemployment in the Caribbean by leveraging opportunities in the Virtual Economy.
CTEP provides regionally relevant capacity-building workshops and critical mentorship support and is focused on stimulating the creation, and supporting the growth, of technology entrepreneurship in the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) 19 Borrowing Member Countries.
The virtual incubator and accelerator programme commenced its 1st cohort in January 2019, which saw selected entrepreneurs (teams) competing for cash and business support prizes.
Lisa Harding, Coordinator of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development at CDB, outlined support for sustainable growth as one of the Bank’s strategic objectives.
“ This technology focused incubator programme creates a platform for scores of entrepreneurs to develop the skills they need to advance their businesses, and to develop a range of innovative solutions for the market.
They, in turn, can be better positioned to create further employment opportunities for others as they expand their companies, and indeed contribute to the digital transformation of the Region,” Harding said.
Kwesi Roberts, Business Development Specialist at the OECS Competitive Business Unit (CBU), congratulated the OECS firms for their commendable performance in the programme and welcomed continued collaboration with the CDB to further increase the participation of OECS firms.
"The OECS CBU is delighted by the performance of the 4 young OECS entrepreneurs who secured top positions in the CTEP. We are also pleased to note that LinkUp from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, which was the winner of the OECS TEECA Caribbean Entrepreneurship Challenge, is the only OECS firm to place in the top three positions of the validation stage.
As we continue to implement virtual entrepreneurship programs in the OECS region, we look forward to supporting these startups and also supporting the Business Service Organisations who execute national programmes to strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem and foster the growth of startups within the region," Roberts added.
CTEP is being executed and managed by Orbit Innovation, using an approach comprising:
relevant and entrepreneur specific practitioner and mentorship support; and
web-based business toolkits and critical skills learning modules.
Cory Zufelt
Cory Zufelt from Grenada is the Co-founder and CEO of I’m Local, an online marketplace that connects visitors and locals with affordable on-demand experiences, activities and tours from trusted local providers.
The I’m Local network makes it easy to discover and book activities, make reservations and schedule transportation all from the mobile app or website.
The network uses game like elements to engage, motivate and reward users, to explore the real world and interact with real people. Users start off as a Tourist and work their way up to become a Local, then Local VIP and eventually a Local Celebrity, unlocking special perks, discounts and rewards along the way.
Linda Dias
Linda Dias from Montserrat is the founder of Bodio, a mobile application to serve the entertainment and hospitality industries. This application allows musicians to interact, collaborate, increase their exposure, and aims to simplify the booking process.
The app’s BoDirectory provides a registry of bands, musicians, DJ’s, lyricists, producers, event promoters and venues to make it easy for talent bookings.
The app also contains Bodio Connect, a social networking medium for musicians to create professional relationships, exchange ideas with others in the entertainment and hospitality industries, and market themselves.
Additionally, users can browse through Bodio News, a one-stop-shop for global updates in the entertainment world.
Kenna Questelles George
Kenna Questelles George from St. Vincent and the Grenadines is the co-founder of LinkUp, an Information Technology-driven startup that allows users in St. Vincent and the Grenadines to buy a product, find a service or grow their business more efficiently and conveniently.
LinkUp endeavours to stimulate growth within St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Caribbean as a whole, by placing local skilled persons and unique businesses at the fingertips of all consumers. The service also empowers businesses to acquire new customers, increase sales and reward loyalty.
Kenna is a semi-finalist in the TEECA Caribbean Entrepreneurship Challenge and will compete in the finals scheduled to be held in Martinique in June, 2019.
Chaneil Imhoff
Chaneil Imhoff from Antigua and Barbuda is the founder of Packed Grocery Delivery, an on demand grocery delivery service that allows users in Antigua and Barbuda to order top-rated products from reputable supermarkets island-wide using Packed’s web-based platforms (Mobile and Desktop Application and Website) from the comfort of their homes or offices.
With the popularity of online shopping, Packed brings that convenience closer to home.
The Caribbean Tech Entrepreneurship Programme (CTEP) is an initiative of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the World Bank Group in partnership with the Caribbean Climate Innovation Centre. It tailors support for participants according to the stage at which the entrepreneur or firm is currently operating.
CTEP addresses two main problems faced by youth: the lack of appropriate job opportunities and the lack of a regional strategy to promote entrepreneurship and innovation.
About The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is an International Organisation dedicated to economic harmonisation and integration, protection of human and legal rights, and the encouragement of good governance among independent and non-independent countries in the Eastern Caribbean. The OECS came into being on June 18th 1981, when seven Eastern Caribbean countries signed a treaty agreeing to cooperate with each other while promoting unity and solidarity among its Members. The Treaty became known as the Treaty of Basseterre, so named in honour of the capital city of St. Kitts and Nevis where it was signed. The OECS today, currently has eleven members, spread across the Eastern Caribbean comprising Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Martinique and Guadeloupe. | {
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St. Peter’s earns top marks
Last week, the staff and physicians at St. Peter’s Health in Helena received some good news.
Even at the beginning of their transition to expand and rebrand their services, one thing remains the same. St. Peter’s Health has received an A rating for patient safety from the consumer watchdog group Leapfrog. The Executive Director of Corporate Communications at St. Peter’s, Andrea Groom, said they are one of three hospitals in Montana to earn this high grade.
“They measure things like med errors, injuries, accidents and infections,” Groom said. “Saint Peter’s has been performing very highly according to national averages in those areas.”
And for the hospital it is good to receive this type of recognition.
“This kind of thing is an exemplary mark of the work we have been doing,” Groom said, “but I think that moving forward we’re really aiming to be a higher performing organization and these are the kind of things that we want to just continue to improve over the years, so that we can deliver the best possible patient care.”’
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18 Jun Outpatient Medical Detox
For many individuals the idea of detoxing is terrifying. The thought of the pain, nausea, cold sweats, dizziness and all other withdrawal symptoms deter many people from taking that first step to recovery…but not you!
No, you are ready to take on whatever symptoms come along with detoxing. You have been using long enough and you want to rid your life of being dependent on substances.
The only problem is…losing your job or taking time away from family and kids. You don’t have time to take off work for a week to go into a hospital to detox and frankly you don’t really like hospitals, to begin with.
So what other option do you have?
Outpatient Medical Detoxing is a great option. Many people don’t know this is an option to begin with, which is why we are providing you with more insight on this type of available service. We will go over what it is, how it is done, the pros and cons involved and where you can find an outpatient medical detox facility today.
What is Outpatient Medical Detox?
Outpatient Medical Detox is a form of addiction recovery. It is usually administered at the beginning of the patient’s journey to recovery. The purpose of detoxing is to bring the patients body to a state of health where the individual doesn’t have to be ingesting the drug in order to survive. Detoxing can be done in many different forms. There are both inpatient and outpatient detox centers available in today’s marketplace, however, the outpatient detoxing services seem to be more appealing to people as time goes on due to the convenience it provides.
Each detox center has their own way of performing the detox for the patient. Some facilities use behavioral tactics only, which means that the patient is detoxing without the aid of medicine. This is sometimes known as social detoxing.Some people may prefer this form of detoxing because they have an aversion to using FDA approved medicine. Most people will state they don’t want to replace one drug with another. However, studies have shown that if detoxing is done under proper medical supervision then the likelihood of an alternative form of addiction is low.
Dr. Motoi Hayashida recently completed a study on the benefits and disadvantages of outpatient medical detoxification and inpatient detoxification. During his study, he found that both forms of detox provide the patient with the means necessary to be successful. The real success of the patient depends on the patient themselves. For some people, the outpatient model proves to be beneficial because they are able to carry on their daily lives all while receiving their treatment. For those people who need more structure then the inpatient model is likely a better option. In relation to the benefits of outpatient treatment. Dr. Hayashida states:
In addition, patients who enroll in long-term outpatient rehabilitation treatment following detoxification in an outpatient setting may benefit by attending the same treatment facility for both phases of treatment. Most outpatients experience greater social support than inpatients, with the exception of outpatients in especially adverse family circumstances or job situations. Outpatients can continue to function relatively normally and maintain employment as well as family and social relationships. Compared with inpatients, those patients in outpatient treatment retain greater freedom, continue to work and maintain day-to-day activities with fewer disruptions and incur fewer treatment costs.
Really, what it comes down to is if you are willing to put in the work to maintain your detox treatment on an outpatient level. Luckily here in Utah, we at White Tree Medical provide outpatient medical detoxification to all patients who are seeking recovery from drug or alcohol addiction. Our services are entirely outpatient and have proven to be highly successful and rated among our former patients.
How is Outpatient Medical Detox administered?
Outpatient Medical Detox is done in the relativley same manner as an inpatient detox. You will be presented with a medical team (usually an M.D. or N.P will head the team) who will go over with you the treatment specific to that facility. They will be in charge of monitoring you as you go through the program and will be there to aid you every step of the way. Sometimes facilities will provide an around the clock calling system so that when you aren’t in the facility you can still contact your medical team if you have any questions.
The medications provided compose of comfort meds such as anti nausea, headache, and minor pain medication, and medication to help with sleeping. In addition to your comfort meds, you will be given a controlled substance which will aid you in overcoming your withdrawal symptoms while you detox. For opioid detoxification, this medication is usually Buprenorphine or Subutex and for alcohol, this is usually Librium.
Depending on the program you will also be provided with a treatment plan in order for you to properly monitor your progress and see how ready you are to move into a long-term treatment plan. Remember not all detox centers are the same, you will encounter variations in each facility. But the overall goal is to aid you in detoxing on an outpatient basis. Also a word of advice. Check to see if the facility is properly licensed to provide the service. If they aren’t they will most likely provide you with an inferior detox experience due to the lack of qualified medical professionals.
Our outpatient medical detox program at White Tree Medical is fully licensed and our treatment program is very robust. We are literally there for you every step of the way. After all, excellence in care is what we do.
What are the Pros and Cons of Outpatient Treatment?
As with everything there are always pros and cons. Here you will find the pros and cons from our patient feedback and our medical team here at the clinic.
PROS:
Outpatient allows the individual to maintain their current life obligations.
Cutting edge treatment modalities.
Access to both medicine and behavioral therapy.
Insurance usually covers the costs.
MUCH cheaper than residential rehab.
High success rate.
CONS:
The individual is free to go home (for some this poses a difficulty).
Less strict environment (again some people may need this).
Access to drugs/alcohol.
Access to your therapists/doctor is limited to office visits.
If you would like to learn more about other treatment options available follow this link:
Where can I find an Outpatient Detox Facility?
Unfortunately, this type of service is fairly new so researching “rehabs” in Google may not provide you the answers you are looking for. However, we have compiled a list of websites that provide outpatient medical detox here in Utah.
Remember that Outpatient Medical Detox isn’t for everyone, we aren’t advocating for outpatient or inpatient, rather we are trying to inform you of the different options out there. Please use this information and make the decision today to get the help you need. Life is much better after recovery. | {
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Gizmos games in Clovis California is trying to start some blood bowl games and tournaments. Anyone here from central California interested in playing TT. The store will be stocking GW minitures in the store as well. | {
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The Beatles and Elvis Presley. The King of Rock and Roll and the legendary Band The Beatles who were by far the most influential rock and pop act of their era. We have brought together two of Sydney’s most professional tribute acts to deliver a 3 hour cruise full of high class, high energy entertainment, all while enjoying a three course meal and the iconic sights of the Sydney Harbour!
The classic hits transcend the test of time and everyone, old or young has a favourite. Hey Jude, Jailhouse Rock, Yesterday, Suspicious Minds, All You Need Is Love, Heartbreak Hotel to name just a few!
In between the high class entertainment extravaganza, indulge in a 3 Course Meal, take in the amazing harbour views and grab yourself a photographic memory with the Opera House or Sydney Harbour Bridge as a stunning backdrop.
When The Beatles Meet Elvis Show hits the Harbour, you don’t want to miss the action. Gets your hips moving, your toes tapping and your hands clapping along in tribute to two of the greatest musical acts in rock and pop history! | {
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Concrete Scanning at Airport
GPRS’s West Palm Beach office was contacted to scan a concrete slab at the West Palm Beach International Airport ticketing area.
The contractor was installing a new conveyor system and was concerned about damaging conduits in the concrete. GPRS was able to locate and mark the location of the conduits which allowed the contractor to saw cut the area safely.
GPR delivers no radiation making it an ideal method to use in office buildings or high traffic areas such as airports, hospitals and universities. Ground Penetrating Radar is also cost effective and can keep projects on schedule by allowing real time results. | {
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Addicted: Troy Tries To Kick His Oxycontin Addiction Habit
Oxycontin Addiction on CBS; “I never said I want to grow up to be a junkie, ever,” says 22-year-old Troy. But he did, and he now he is ashamed of it.
Like tens of thousands of people around the country, he breaks the law every day, abusing a powerful painkiller called OxyContin. “If I were to go without Oxys, I’d feel violently sick,” he says. Harold Dow reports on Troy’s struggle to free himself of addiction.
Seven years ago OxyContin didn’t even exist. Today, the Drug Enforcement Administration says abuse of this legal drug is growing faster than any other prescription remedy in decades.
Purdue Pharma developed OxyContin to provide long-lasting pain relief. The drug contains a large number of narcotics, coupled with a special time-release agent to control the dosage – an innovation some call a miracle.
An OxyContin Tragedy
MTV’s Serena Altschul reports on a teen who took OxyContin once, with tragic results.
It is a miracle for many of the two million people currently taking the drug for pain, but a scourge for communities around the country where police say recreational use has created an epidemic of addiction. A recent federal investigation has linked more than 460 deaths to the drug in the last two years.
The problem started when people discovered they could defeat Oxycontin’s time-release agent by cooking it off and injecting pure narcotic.
Troy’s arms weren’t always covered with track marks. “He was a sweetheart. I mean this boy is so caring and I think it still shows even now,” says his mother, Kathy. He grew up in a stable home in Bangor, Maine, with his mother, who runs a fitness center, and his twin sister, Amanda.
He began experimenting with drugs as a teenager. In 1997, he discovered the OxyContin and became addicted.
Scott Farnum runs the Narcotic Treatment Program at the Acadia Hospital in Bangor, where admissions have jumped nine-fold in the last five years.
“Experimenting with opioids is not like experimenting with marijuana or sniffing glue or having a few beers to see what that’s like,” he says. “It causes significant neurochemical and brain structural changes in people who abuse these drugs. Once they reach that point, it’s very hard to pull back from that.”
Farnum says the problem has exploded in places like Maine because in rural, working-class areas more people suffer work-related injuries. That means more pain prescriptions and more potential for abuse.
And because OxyContin is federally approved, it doesn’t carry the social stigma of illegal opiates like heroin.
“All I can think about is when I’m going to do them. How I’m going to get ’em, how I’m going to get money to get ’em,” says Swett, who has a $300-a-day habit.
Last summer, he hit bottom and told his mom that he was an addict. It was hard to tell her. Kathy agreed to send her son to California for a radical treatment called rapid detox. It promises to cure Troy without a painful withdrawal. The cost: $9,800 [see disclaimer below], a “huge commitment,” Kathy says.
The treatment center didn’t want Troy going into withdrawal before he arrived. Troy was instructed to keep using OxyContin for the two weeks till he checked in. He usually takes 240 mg a day. His mother paid for his drugs during this time.
During the trip to California, Troy took more Oxy, to stave off withdrawal symptoms.
“He needs that drug. It makes my skin crawl, it doesn’t make me feel good. Whatever I say isn’t going to stop him,” said his sister Amanda, who went with him to California.
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BETA Shells keep your fancy camera lenses safe from harm
If you’re a professional photographer (or even an enthusiast) you know that the lenses you carry around for your fancy DSLR can cost more than the body itself. So what happens when you accidentally drop that bag carrying $1000+ worth of lenses? You panic and pray, that’s what. On the other hand, if your lenses are sealed up in these BETA Shell cases, you probably don’t have much to worry about.
These cases are designed to be completely water-tight and made from rigid polymer shells with vibration damping visco-elastic foam inside. This means that your expensive lens contained within is protected from three major causes of harm: moisture, extreme temperature and impact. With prices ranging from $54-$84, you might want to save these for your most expensive lenses. On the bright side, they do come in a variety of sizes to accommodate just about anything that you have in your bag.
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Pool of Pumpkins
October 20, 2018
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Jump in and pick your pumpkin! Join us for this annual event as we transform Adventure Bay into a floating pumpkin patch. Once you pick your pumpkin you can decorate it at one of our decorating stations and play fun carnival games. Bring the camera as you won’t want to miss this unique pumpkin experience! | {
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Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles
Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (CICS)
16-18 July 2010, University of Cambridge.
The second biennial Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium(CICS) follows the success of our inaugural proceedings held at Cambridge in 2008. The theme for CICS 2010 is Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles, which will be debated over the three days during open sessions of three twenty-five minute papers, alternating with longer keynote addresses. Selected papers will be published in a volume bearing the same title within two years of the conference. The 2008 inaugural proceedings appeared in The Medieval Chronicle, volsVI (2009) and VII (2010, forthcoming).
We invite proposals from scholars in the disciplines including but not limited to English, History, Literature, Philosophy, and Religious Studies.
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And just like that, the year is halfway over!!! June was an interesting month. I went to BookCon with @bookloverscoffee and had THE TIME OF MY LIFE!!! I should piece together a post about that, now that I think about it. 🤔 But I haven't yet, because things sort of fell apart when I got home. [...] | {
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Spotting a Flood Damaged Car
Flood damaged cars.
Most expert agree, a vehicle that has been in a flood is one to avoid buying. With massive hurricanes like Harvey in Texas, Irma in Florida, Maria in Puerto Rico, and now Nate heading for the gulf coast, we have a lot of flood damaged cars. Estimates are totaling over half a million cars have been damaged. Even if you don’t live in these states these vehicles make their way to most regions and eventually are sold to unsuspecting buyers.
When cars are “totaled” by an insurance company they are supposed to get a new title, but sometimes this isn’t communicated to buyers. The new title is called a salvage title and should be marked “salvage’ or “flood.” These cars cannot be registered for consumer use until necessary repairs are made and the vehicle is re-inspected by officials. Unfortunately rebuilt wrecks get sold with clean titles by unscrupulous sellers, so carefully review any used car you are going to purchase.
Even if the car is rebuilt the long-term effects of water can haunt buyers for the life the car. Water can ruin electronics, lubricants, and mechanical systems. It can take months or years for corrosion to find its way to the car’s vital electronics, including airbag controllers. Consumers need to carefully inspect any used car before buying it (or pay their mechanic to do it—Oxford Automotive can carefully review any used car before your purchase it). Also keep in mind that parts from the scrapped cars could well end up in yours, as in a situation where a body shop cuts corners in a collision repair by using parts from a scrapped car instead of new parts. A fender or hood that spent time immersed in fresh water might not be a problem, but a transmission that took a salt water bath could well turn up with bearing or seal failure.
Here are a few of options to start screening a car:
Carfax offers a free flood damage check: HYPERLINK “https://www.carfax.com/press/resources/flooded-cars”https://www.carfax.com/press/resources/flooded-cars, in addition to the vehicle history report they sell. Based on the flood area history from registered addresses on the car the check shows the “possibility of flood damage.”
For a free check, The National Insurance Crime Bureau offers a VINCheck, but it doesn’t use as many data sources as some of the paid providers do. You can find it here: HYPERLINK “https://www.nicb.org/theft_and_fraud_awareness/vincheck”https://www.nicb.org/theft_and_fraud_awareness/vincheck
Another free option, is to contact your insurance agent and ask if there are any insurance claims that have been paid on the vehicle (VIN number will be needed). There is a national insurance database that insurance companies have access to. Your insurance agent should be able to tell you the date of the accident/incident and how much was paid out in damages. Some insurance companies are more helpful than others when it comes to sharing this information. Another caveat is of course if the owner had a vehicle repaired at their own cost, the insurance company won’t have information about the amount paid, or possibly won’t know of the repairs at all.
We recommend a detailed inspection by a mechanic as the best protection because although history reports are a valued aid for screening, there are no guarantees with vehicle history reports that the car will be problem-free.
Here are a few tips to spot a Flood Damaged Car:
• Caked-on mud and a musty odor from the carpets. New carpets in an older vehicle may be another red flag.
• A visible water line on the lens or reflector of the headlights.
• Mud or debris trapped in difficult-to-clean places, such as gaps between panels in the trunk and under the hood.
• Rusty exposed screws under the dashboard. Unpainted metal in flood cars will show signs of rust. Especially check to see if screws have been removed or replaced around the carpet or seats
• Rubber drain plugs under the car and on the bottom of doors that have been removed. That may have been done to drain floodwater
• Search the engine compartment, often hard to clean spaces, like behind the engine will show signs of water lines or debris.
If you are going to be selling your car, and your car isn’t flood damaged but you are from an area affected by flooding, keep in mind that buyers might suspect it was damaged. You may consider having a mechanic inspect your car before you put it up for sale so that you can provide a clean bill of health to the potential buyer.
Now that you have found a reliable car to purchase, remember to stop into Oxford Automotive for your regular oil changes and to have our technicians do a review to check for any maintenance needs. Our Auto Vitals Digital Inspection, which is our paperless process, that tracts your car from drop off to completion will text or email you the vehicle condition report that provides information about what is in good condition, what needs immediate attention, and manufacturer recommended maintenance. Our report includes photos and details. Staying on top of your regular maintenance, along with keeping your car clean, will keep you safe on the road and will best protect your investment for when you are ready to sell it. | {
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AUSTRALIA Post gave real meaning to the phrase “snail mail” when a friend mailed a letter from West Bathurst post-marked March 6 and it arrived in South Bathurst, a little under four kilometres in distance as the crow flies, nearly a fortnight later on March 19. Yet on the other hand, during that same time period, we sent a parcel lunchtime one day, and it arrived in Mudgee the next morning. Inconsistency at its best.
Letter | You’ve got mail – almost two weeks later
AUSTRALIA Post gave real meaning to the phrase “snail mail” when a friend mailed a letter from West Bathurst post-marked March 6 and it arrived in South Bathurst, a little under four kilometres in distance as the crow flies, nearly a fortnight later on March 19.
Yet on the other hand, during that same time period, we sent a parcel lunchtime one day, and it arrived in Mudgee the next morning. Inconsistency at its best. | {
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Reply Button Issue Being Worked On
By Ben PopkenMarch 10, 2009
A number of users have reported that they’re having issues with the reply button not working or appearing in the comments. It popped up last week, then went away, and now it’s back again. Our tech team is on it and consider a high-priority. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. Sidenote: While we’re still on the Gawker platform, you can directly submit bugs and errors to tech at getsatisfaction.com/gawker.
@calquist: Yeah, that was my first thought….If you must reply to someone…refreshing the page until you see the “profile” link at the top seems to be the only time the reply button actually works. It took me 5 times to get to reply to you!
Yeah, that’s happening to me on Safari 4 beta on OS X. (Everyone, post your browser – as a Web developer myself, sometimes things are a lot easier when you know which browsers are experiencing the issue, although it might be all browsers?)
Browser doesn’t seem to matter. I’ve used Safari 3 Mac, Firefox 3 Mac, Firefox 3 XP, and IE XP, and none have worked. Follow the suggestion above by Gokuhouse and reload over and over until you see the “profile” link if you really need to respond to someone.
on IE,Firefox and Google Chrome i have to hit the button twice and it finally sends it off. It all started after that 1 disemvowel :( and i thought..uh-oh i guess all it took was 1 bad monday morning and a cuppa dry humor and consumerist didn’t want this 1 silly lassy anymore :( *sniff *sniff
No, IT-Chick, refreshing the page doesn’t work. SOMETMIES the reply button works, usually it doesn’t, and refreshing the page doesn’t change that. If the “profile” link is not on the page, then I know it doesn’t work. It seems to not work on almost all posts except a random one or two.
Is gawker working a sabotage? They have a profile and logout link on the right edge of the header bar and you can click the reply button just fine over there. Maybe it is time to get off their “platform”.
@pecan 3.14159265: As for me, if I can’t interact with Consumerist, I’m going to deposit all those checks sent me by Nigerian 419 scammers, sign up for extended warranties, and ask my cable company to send over their stinkiest most incompetent repairperson at some random time within the next two weeks to hook up my converter box, now that TV has gone off the air. :-)
Blah. It worked a second ago (I replied to philmin), and now it’s not. Stupid Gawker POS “platform.”
IIRC, Gawker uses Movable Type as well… you’d think they’d either switch to a more “current” blogging platform (i.e. WordPress) or just write their own (my preference!). Yeah, I guess MT is under development still, but still…
Not a problem per se, but consumerist seems to have integrated something from facebook. (namely ak.connect.facebook.com when I’m loading pages) Unfortunately, facebook is a very popular site for companies to block on their web filters. How sad ;( | {
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Music breaking barriers
Featherwolf – Featherwolf
It’s not every day that you see a math rock quintet delivering an album that’s as whacky as the more experimental duos and trios out there, but that’s just what Los Angeles’ Featherwolf have done. Their eponymous debut album cooks bands like Doom Salad and Yowie and dissolves them into something less volatile, more manageable, but that still has a lot of angles and personality. Featherwolf isn’t for the faint of heart, you definitely need to like your rock spicy and varied. It’s a great, entertaining EP, and a promising start for the band! | {
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Archaeology of the Future
Research & Visuals by Lily McFly • Culture Club
Major technological trends of the last decade have extremely accelerated global culture to the point that the future is happening to us much faster than we could ever have imagined. Aé has identified the most significant ideas in culture, lifestyle, art, music, fashion, and literature of the present that will help you to chart the future.
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
– Søren Kierkegaard
i. culture
We live in “the extreme present”
Our lives used to feel like stories; now we are increasingly dependent to a constantly refreshing stream of posts and tweets. In the book The Age of Earthquakes, today’s intellectual heroes, writer Douglas Coupland, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and editor Shumon Basar, call current historical moment “the extreme present”. While the internet is changing the structure of our brains, and technological progress modifies our world in unpredictable ways, our reality is one step ahead of the language we’ve inherited from the past. That’s why they propose a set of new words and terms to describe today’s phenomenons. Their glossary of the 21st century includes words like “Deselfing (n)”, which means “willingly diluting one’s sense of self and ego by plastering the internet with as much information as possible”, or “Time snack (v.)” meaning “often annoying moments of pseudo-leisure created by computers when they stop to save a file or to search for software updates or merely to mess with your mind.”
ii. lifestyle
With consumerism being a noticeable part of global culture, the world’s obsession with all things material costs us the Earth and human happiness. “We purchase things, not to fulfill our basic needs, but to fill some voids about our lives and make social statements about ourselves,” critic of excessive consumerism Annie Leonard explains. “It turns out our stuff isn’t making us any happier,” she argues. The problem of overconsumption brings us to the crisis of Self. And while minimalists encourage people to buy less but choose better, Japanese organizing consultant Marie Kondo offers her philosophy of decluttering. She has written four books on organizing, which have collectively sold millions of copies worldwede. The main idea of her books is keeping only those things that “spark joy” and getting rid of everything that makes you feel heavy inside. “Tidying up means confronting yourself. You come to realise what’s truly important in your life,” writes Kondo.
Buy Less. Live more
iii.art
The artwork you will never see
One of the basic purposes of art is the search for immortality and a tangible connection to the future. But some contemporary artists interpret it literally: Their art becomes an actual time-capsule with a message for the future. For instance, the Black Square XVII, created by the American artist Taryn Simon, is made from nuclear material and currently being stored at Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM). A glassy black cube of vitrified nuclear waste was fabricated in May 21, 2015, in collaboration with ROSATOM during the centenary year of the debut exhibition of Kasimir Malevich’s Black Square. It will remain there, encased in steel and concrete, until May 21, 3015, when its radioactive properties have diminished safe for human exposure and exhibition. Cast within the black square is a two-ply cylindrical steel capsule holding a letter to the future that Simon wrote. As a foreign citizen, Simon hasn’t been allowed onto Russia’s state-controlled Rosatom nuclear agency, so for both safety and security reasons she has never physically touched or seen her own work of art. Instead, she has communicated with a team of Russian nuclear physicists. And while nuclear Black Square is hidden within the soil for 1000 years, it represents the ambivalent state of distance and closeness. It exists in the present moment, but none of us will ever see it. But there’s still a chance that someone will see another work of art, aimed at future audiences. In 2015, writer/actor John Malkovich and director Robert Rodriguez created a film that will be out in November 2115. According to IMDB, “the content of this film is currently a secret, due to be revealed only when the title is released in 2115.” There are rumours that the film is nothing but a good way to promote the sponsor of this film, Louis XIII Cognac, which takes 100 years to make. While an empty void in the wall of Garage Museum awaits Black Square XVII arrival 999 years from now, and 100 Years movie is being held in a special safe with a timer, we keep guessing whether it is a beautiful art concept or just a sophisticated promotion. Time will tell.
iv. music
Last summer, Ypulse, a youth marketing and millennial research firm, surveyed 1,000 young adults, asking them about music genres and artists. It found that while millennials are passionate about music (76% within the 13- to 17-year- old bracket said they wouldn’t be able to last a week without it), 79% of 13- to 32-year-olds said their tastes didn’t fall into one specific music genre. Just 11% said that they only listened to one genre of music. “It seems,” Ypulse noted, “that millennials are a genre-less generation”. Nowadays, popular music becomes akin to fast fashion: it imitates the sound of iconic or independent bands and artists, whether it’s electronic, indie-rock, or hip-hop, appropriating, or even “neutralising” it for masses. For modern listeners, music journalists and tastemakers are no longer getting in the way. Millennials are the first generation to literally have the entirety of the world’s music at their fingertips. They’re likely to be influenced by friends, celebrities or music on commercials. Samuel Potts, Columbia Records’ head of radio, says that “online culture is inherently global, so genres that were distinct and contained to geographical locations are now cross-pollinated throughout the world. As a result, you get artists like 19-year-old Raury, who’s championed by the likes of Kanye and André 3000, and cites everyone from Bon Iver to Phil Collins as an influence.” Moreover, artists don’t want to record full-leight albums. Kevin Parker, the leader of the Australian psychedelic rock band Tame Impala says: “Right now, doing an- other album doesn’t excite me. There’s something narrow-minded about thinking an album is the only way you can put out music, especially in the world we’re in at the moment. Anything is possible. There’s so many people doing interesting things with the internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.”
A Genre-less Generation
v. fashion
Wearable tech is the new black
The speed, with which technology has been adopted by fashion, is dramatically increasing. While fashion developes faster and faster, there is something more progressive than design and style changes. And it is not about selling clothes online. It’s about innovations that alter the entire concept of clothing. Studio XO is a fashion laboratory that operates on the intersection of science, technology, fashion & music. Founded in 2011 by the pioneer of merging technology and fashion Nancy Tilbury, Studio XO has a team of hybrid experts from fashion designers to coders, engineers to materiologists. They’ve created the world’s first flying dress for Lady Gaga, the “interactive clothes” for Black Eyed Peas and the “digital mermaid bra” for Azealia Bank. Inherently, Studio XO are designers; they are interested in fashion aesthetics. But they also explore science, making fiction a science fact. At Studio XO, “digital couture” experience merge 3D printing, LED pannels, and sensors. Global giants also embrace new technologies. Adidas works on creating smart clothes for athletes that will monitor their real-time performance, tracking heartrates, respiration, movement and more. With these garments, Adidas hopes to get sportswear to another level. Wearable tech is the new black for the whole industry. Even though it is very difficult to make people change their behavior, especially with the whole new generation growing up on fast fashion, the concept of clothing is going to change.
vi. literature
Experimental interactive literature exists; it’s video games. Paradoxically, if you want to think of yourself as well-educated, or well-read, you need to engage with them. Today, video games have become not only well-designed, but also well-written. Naomi Alderman, the author and games writer, picks examples of great video games, which experiment with interesting storytelling. Her top ten includes games like Her Story, Gone Home, The Stanley Parable, and of course, the sublime Journey. Journey is an indie video game developed by That game company and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3. In Journey, the player travels in a vast desert towards a mountain in the distance. The player can discover other players and join them, but the only form of communication between the two is a musical chime. Reviewers praised it for its unique emotional experience, and have since listed it as one of the greatest games of all time. Ultimately, reading a story involves a transaction between the reader and the text. We read for pleasure, for a unique experience, and for gaining meaning. Video games allow us to interact with a story, illustrating its space and time, just like our own imagination does when reading a book. | {
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Dubai probes cause of massive New Year's Eve hotel fire
Dubai: Investigators in Dubai were working Friday to determine the cause of a spectacular fire that engulfed a 63-storey luxury hotel on New Year's Eve three hours before midnight.
The Dubai hotel fire that smoldered into 2016/ Reuters
The huge blaze at The Address Downtown hotel erupted around 9:00 pm (1700 GMT) on Thursday, sparking panic but no reports of serious injuries.
Authorities went ahead with a dazzling fireworks display at the nearby Burj Khalifa -- the world's tallest skyscraper -- despite the inferno, the latest in a series of fires in recent years to hit the buildings that make up Dubai's futuristic cityscape.
They said the fire is believed to have erupted from the outside of the building on its 20th floor before spreading along its whole facade. But the exact cause was not yet known.
Dubai government's media office issued a civil defence statement said that the process of cooling the hotel down was "ongoing" Friday afternoon.
"Security services are investigating the causes and circumstances of the fire," said the statement.
Witnesses described scenes of panic after the fire spread, with residents screaming and some fainting as they rushed to evacuate the building.
Still, authorities said only 16 people had suffered mostly minor injuries despite the presence of thousands in the area to watch the celebrations.
At least 14 people were slightly injured, one was moderately injured and one person suffered a heart attack during the evacuation, they said.
All victims have been discharged from hospital except for a pregnant women and an elderly man who were said to be "well" but were kept in "to ensure their safety," the civil defence said.
Firefighters spent the night trying to extinguish the blaze.
- 'Courageous' response
Heavy black smoke still billowed from several floors of the hotel early on Friday, an AFP photographer said, as firefighters continued to douse the building with water.
Roads leading directly to the hotel were closed but otherwise Dubai city centre appeared normal, with passers-by stopping to take pictures of the building with their mobile phones.
Many Twitter users also praised the response of fire and emergency services, pointing to the fact that there were no major injuries, though some questioned whether New Year's festivities should have gone ahead.
Emirati state minister for foreign affairs Anwar Gargash however defended the decision as "courageous" and "in favour of normal life against fear and pessimism."
"The fire will not leave its print on year 2016," he tweeted.
The government said evacuated guests were being offered alternative accommodation.
It published several videos on its Twitter feed of fireworks erupting around the iconic Burj Khalifa and said the New Year's celebration was a testimony to Dubai's "steadfast commitment to its major projects and initiatives".
- History of building blazes
A newspaper photographer who was on a 48th floor to take pictures of the fireworks when the fire erupted told AFP he had spent a harrowing 30 minutes standing on a ledge outside the building, only metres from the raging blaze.
"One hour, then that's it, I'm dead," he thought as he stood on the ledge, before eventually being saved by rescue workers.
The Address Downtown hotel, opened in May 2008 and owned by Dubai property giant Emaar's hospitality group, is the 18th tallest building in the city and the 93rd highest in the world.
A growing tourist destination, Dubai has become famed in recent years for its distinctive skyline and ambitious building projects, but has suffered from a number of spectacular fires.
In November, a massive blaze engulfed three residential blocks in central Dubai and led to services on a metro line being suspended, although no one was hurt.
In February, a huge fire gutted one of the emirate's tallest buildings, destroying luxury flats in the Torch tower and triggering an evacuation of nearby blocks in the Dubai Marina neighbourhood.
In 2012, a massive blaze gutted the 34-storey Tamweel Tower in the nearby Jumeirah Lake Towers district. It was later revealed to have been caused by a cigarette butt thrown into a bin. | {
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Pilgrimage For Redemption
Pilgrimage For Redemption
written by: Nishand Venugopal
@nvgpal79
Over 200 sloth bears are finally having a taste of freedom here in Agra Bear Rescue Facility, thanks to wildlifesos.org & government. They are trying to forget the torture they went through each day as ‘Dancing Bears’. Poached from their mothers at a very young age, suffering pierced muzzles using hot rods without any anesthesia, holes are made to put rope which is used to control them by pulling it, which leads to never-ending pain and constant infections. Their canine teeth crudely broken off for the safety of their masters. List of suffering they have endured continues but now things have changed for the bears in the facility…it’s time to take a rest and feel what is to be wild to a certain extent… Great work has also been done in rehabilitating the Kalandar community by giving skills and means for alternate sources of income so that they will not go back to this profession again and trouble those poor beasts. The best part is providing education for the young ones in this nomadic community who surely are going to reap the benefits in the future… This is my take after visiting the bear facility and here are a few photos of the beautiful beasts.. I would recommend those who are interested in Wildlife and its conservation to visit this facility. You will enjoy it… If TAJ is a monument of love then this facility is a ‘pilgrimage for redemption’. I faintly remember in my childhood looking at ‘Dancing Bears’ performance which by coincidence I came to see on the street, I never thought at that time that the bear was jumping in pain…I couldn’t do anything at the time due to ignorance but now I will spread the word to stop mistreating wild animals for fun…
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“Our work suggests that there’s something to that—there is something to their complaints,” Miriam Weber, the study’s author and a neurophysiologist at the University of Rochester, tells the network. “It might not be memory . . . but it is a cognitive process that’s related to the types of things they’re experiencing.” | {
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Climate change and Typhoon Haiyan
As the Philippines grieves, counts its dead and starts the long task of rebuilding, one of the questions looming in the air is whether man made climate change played a role in Typhoon Haiyan (aka Yolanda). There are some things we know, such as Haiyan being the strongest storm ever measured and that extreme weather can be linked to climate change. But did Haiyan cause the super typhoon or intensify it?
Here are some political, journalistic and (gasp!) the scientific voices.
Let’s start with two quotes from climate scientists (via the Guardian):
We know sea-surface temperatures are warming pretty much around the planet, so that’s a pretty direct influence of climate change on the nature of the storm.
– Professor Will Steffen, Australian National University
The current consensus is that climate change is not making the risk of hurricanes any greater, but there are physical arguments and evidence that there is a risk of more intense hurricanes.
– Professor Myles Allen, University of Oxford
So there are strong arguments for general trends in climate change regarding the intensity of storms. Allen also stresses the unpredictable nature of climate change, particularly in terms of who is most affected by it.
Perhaps the boldest statement was made by Yeb Sano, the head of the Philippines delegation at UN climate talks in Poland (via BBC News):
In solidarity with my countrymen who are struggling to find food back home, I will now commence a voluntary fasting for the climate, this means I will voluntarily refrain from eating food during this Cop, until a meaningful outcome is in sight.
What my country is going through as a result of this extreme climate event is madness, the climate crisis is madness. We can stop this madness right here in Warsaw.
On balance, many climate researchers think it is plausible to assume that tropical storm activity will rise. Some evidence exists that storm intensity has indeed increased, but it is limited to the North Atlantic, where observations are most abundant. In other places, the available evidence is not yet conclusive.
While Yeb Sano fasting for climate action in specific relation to Typhoon Haiyan may not have solid scientific backing, he has a wealth of evidence from the scientific community supporting stepping up tactics in order to leverage any kind of action regarding climate change. The Philippines is also one of the most vulnerable countries in that regard, with its capital Manila being the world’s 3rd most at risk city.
The realist in me knows that sufficient action for even mitigating climate change at the Warsaw meeting is a pipe dream, what to speak of stopping it. In a world where those with the most money make the big decisions, we can scarcely hope for the necessary changes that would mitigate climate change to occur. We are still arguing with unscientific opinions over the reality of climate change, but even if politicians all agreed openly about climate change, business interests would resist and get more puppets elected. The only answer is a completely different world system.
Greenfudge editor and London-based writer Graham Land grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC, where he was part of the local hardcore punk scene, playing in several bands. Through this musical movement he became involved in grass roots interests such as anti-racist activism, animal rights and Ecology. In 2000 he relocated to Europe, eventually earning an MA from Malmö University in Sweden. He has also lived in Japan, Ireland, Portugal and Greece.
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D.C. hopes to end poor spell at Columbus
Columbus, OH (Sports Network) - D.C. United looked poised to become a
contender after a strong showing last term, but the club's start to the new
campaign has left a lot to be desired.
United finished the 2012 regular season in second place, but a slow start this
year has seen the fabled club manage just four points from its first seven
matches.
Things won't get any easier with a trip to Crew Stadium on Saturday to face
the Columbus Crew, and D.C. head coach Ben Olsen has thrown down the gauntlet
to his side.
"Now, I'm going to hold [the players] to very, very high standards," said
Olsen. "If it's not working, we'll make changes. But I believe in the group."
D.C. has produced just four goals in its seven games, second-fewest in the
Eastern Conference. With Dwayne De Rosario missing a handful of matches
through suspension, the club's futility has fallen upon the shoulders of
striker Chris Pontius.
"I look at myself after ever game," responded Pontius when told that Olsen was
turning his focus to the team. "I am my biggest critic... I know I haven't
played up to my potential."
United comes into the match riding a five-game winless run, losing its last
four contests.
Columbus is not in the best vein of form either, though. The Crew are winless
in their last three league matches, taking just two points over that stretch.
The club's last league win came against D.C. United in a 2-1 defeat at RFK
Stadium on March 23. Crew head coach Robert Warzycha offered some insight as
to how his side can replicate the result on Saturday.
"We played very organized and we created a lot of chances," Warzycha told the
club's official website. "We were very aggressive and we have to play the same
way at home on Saturday."
Defender Josh Williams also stressed the importance of set pieces in match
that is likely to be closely contested.
"I think that was the start of us being dangerous on set pieces," Williams
said. "We had good service and I think we used the flank play a lot to start
the game. Tyson [Wahl] and I were getting forward really well. We were pretty
effective. Hopefully we can pick that back up and get a little bit more
possession on Saturday." | {
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Upregulation of fatty acid synthase (FASN), a key enzyme ofde novolipogenesis, is associated with metastasis in colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the mechanisms of regulation are unknown. Since angiogenesis is crucial for metastasis, we investigated the role of FASN in the neovascularization of CRC. The effect of FASN on tumor vasculature was studied in orthotopic CRCs, the chick embryo chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) and Matrigel plug models using immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescent staining and confocal microscopy. Cell secretion was evaluated by ELISA and antibody arrays. Proliferation, migration and tubulogenesis of endothelial cells (ECs) were assessed in CRC–EC coculture models. In this study, we found that stable knockdown of FASN decreased microvessel density in HT29 and HCT116 orthotopic CRCs and resulted in ‘normalization‘ of tumor vasculature in both orthotopic and CAM models. Furthermore, FASN regulated secretion of pro- and antiangiogenic factors, including vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A). Mechanisms associated with the antiangiogenic activity noted with knockdown of FASN included: downregulation of VEGF189, upregulation of antiangiogenic isoform VEGF165b and a decrease in expression and activity of matrix metalloproteinase-9. Furthermore, conditioned medium from FASN knockdown CRC cells inhibited activation of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 and its downstream signaling and decreased proliferation, migration and tubulogenesis of ECs as compared with control medium. Together, these results suggest that cancer cell-associated FASN regulates tumor vasculature through alteration of the profile of secreted angiogenic factors and regulation of their bioavailability. Inhibition of FASN upstream of VEGF-A and other angiogenic pathways can be a novel therapeutic strategy to prevent or inhibit metastasis in CRC. | {
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Southern Australia is being rattled by hundreds of quakes- and scientists aren’t sure why
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Southern Australia is being rattled by hundreds of quakes- and scientists aren’t sure why
theextinctionprotocol - AUSTRALIA - Scientists in Victoria are attempting to learn more about the increase in the number of earthquakes in the Gippsland region. Seismologists are describing the region as an earthquake hotspot. There were only 50 earthquakes recorded up until 2009, but since then there have been 700. The activity has been particularly high in the Strzelecki Ranges which lie between the Latrobe Valley and the Gippsland coastline. Locals have been intrigued by the tremors for years.
Gary Gibson from the University of Melbourne says the motion in Gippsland is high. “There are other spots that are active for a period of time but they’re active for a geologically short period, maybe 100,000 years or something and they go quiet. And they’ve got no long term evidence of continued motion,” he said. “Whereas the motion in Gippsland here, the rate of earthquake activity we have at the moment is high. The geology suggests that the average over the last few million years is probably even higher.” There are eight seismographs planted in the ground along fault lines meters below the surface around Gippsland to monitor the tremors. They are so sensitive that they can record the vibrations of approaching footsteps. One of them is on Neville Cliff’s beef farm. “We’ve had some good earthquakes come through here. You can hear them coming. It’s like an express train coming and the house shakes,” he said. “How many farmers got a seismograph? People tell me how many cattle they’ve got and how many acres they’ve got and I say well have you got a seismograph?”
Honors student Dan Sandiford recently finished a study on the seismic activity of areas with fractures in the rock bed, called faults. He looked at whether the activity was related to faults in the Gippsland area. “The question really is, are those faults still active? Are the earthquakes that are happening and have been recorded here in the modern era related to those faults? The study suggested that those earthquakes did happen on faults and those faults are some of the largest ones which are known in the area,” he said. Gary Gibson says it is hoped the research will have some impact on building regulations in the area. “One of the problems with living in an inactive area is firstly that your building standards don’t take serious consideration of the type of earthquake that is going to affect us,” he said. “The way you try and avoid problems with earthquakes is you don’t want buildings to collapse under any circumstances so they have to be designed to withstand it.” –ABC.net
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According to a report by Interactive Media in retail group (IMRG), 2013 will witness the global E-commerce sales figure surpass the $1.25 trillion benchmark. With developing countries increasingly adapting to changing technologies, the industry is hovering on the thresholds of further expansion. In my opinion the next big change will be when companies modify their catalogues to incorporate product categories that are more profound and critical in nature by using various visual tools available thus making E-commerce more convenient and ideal.
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Friday, December 1, 2017
Well, Jupiter in Scorpio is definitely
doing its work. Do you remember a couple
of months ago when I wrote about deep personal and social traumas coming to
light under this sign?
And now, old wounds have opened for many
women. This happened to me too, although
it’s been many, many years since I was the victim of a sexual assault. But when I wrote “me too”, memories came
pouring back, and I found myself depressed and angry. As more and more women wrote those two little words, emotions built and swept over all of us.We
stopped seeing it as our personal Waterloo, and understood – not just
intellectually, but emotionally – that it really had little to do with us as individuals.
It was the way it was back then. It was the backdrop, the wallpaper that
nobody notices because it never changes.
All women dealt with this, mostly by becoming more suspicious and more self-protective. We didn’t talk that much about it, because
there was always some shame attached to these experiences. After all, we were told over and over back
then that if men did anything to us, it’s because we “let them”. And so for men, there were rarely any
consequences to this ubiquitous form of harassment and control.
For men, rapists fulfill the same role
that the KKK does. Not all men are
rapists, just like not all white people are in the KKK. But the effect is that all women are
terrorized, just like all Black people are. It’s rare
for any young woman to feel that she is safe in this world, and that her body is entirely her own.
But currently, we are seeing some
consequences, and I hope this trend continues.
Of course, the consequences are still meager in relation to the problem. And I’m sure this is shocking to a lot of
men, who are suddenly seeing a dramatic public shift in what’s acceptable and
what isn’t. They’re forced to see these
situations through the eyes of women, and they don’t end up looking like such
studs.
But hey, Jupiter went into Scorpio, and we’ll see a lot
more of this kind of thing. It’s only
been two months, and Jupiter will be in this incisive water sign for the whole
year. This is the time to go down deep
into our psyches, and work on cleaning up the toxins that we’ve been living
with throughout our lives.
And yes, I know there will be some
backlash, but I welcome the conversations this engenders as well. Some people will feel sex itself is being
attacked, and they’ll write long blog entries to defend passion and urgency. And this will inspire other people to write
and talk about how it really works for them, and where to draw the lines in
mutually respectful ways. I expect the
S/M community to have a lot to say about all of this, since they’ve been
dealing with issues of consent and permission for years.
One thing that’s shocked me, in all of
this, was reading that men so often thought sexual contact was consensual, when
their partners experienced it as unwelcome.
Why are so many men so bad at reading their partners? That doesn’t say much for any of their sexual
experiences. But maybe this is the essential
work: that men have to recognize that women’s
realities and experiences are as valid and important as their own. And that’s the basis of equality, no matter
what subset of humans you’re looking at.
And now, this month, we have another big
change, as Saturn also moves into another sign, after two and a half years in
Sagittarius. Right around the winter
solstice, Saturn enters Capricorn, the sign it rules. Capricorn is a cardinal earth sign: pragmatic, ascetic, disciplined, formal, traditional,
responsible, and goal-oriented.
At the moment of the solstice, Saturn and
the sun will be very close together in the first degree of Capricorn, and the
first degree of a cardinal sign is especially powerful. It’s a gateway for new energy. As cardinal earth, this gateway is about a fundamentally
different relationship with the planet, with material forms, and with practical
tools for survival. We will all be
dealing with a lot more reality.
And yes, I’ve predicted an economic
downturn for Saturn’s time in Capricorn.
As I’m writing this, the Senate is debating the Tax Bill, and this would
increase the division between rich and poor in this country. It seems to me that all of us will be
tightening our belts, while the public good is distributed more and more
unevenly. Communities will have to come
together to figure out the resources for their most vulnerable members, while
most of the country’s cash reserves are tied up on foreign islands, doing nothing
useful for anyone.
How could this work out in the best way
possible? We’ve seen in the “Me too”
trend that ideas can break like waves over everyone, and change both perceptions
and outcomes. And so there are ways in
which we can reassess what is valuable to us, and what isn’t. And we may find that we can provide what we
need for each other, and that it’s better than the shiny packages advertised on
TV. We may find that we can live
comfortably in reality, solving the practical problems that come up, leaning on
each other, and in the process, build a different kind of world.
And probably, it will go both ways. There will be people in hardship, people
still fighting the old fights, in prisons and army bases. And there will be people who are able to
build. They’ll build something that
looks poor and humble right now, but will someday be remembered as the gateway
to a stronger, healthier, more equitable world.
Thursday, November 2, 2017
I was in New York City a couple of days
ago, when Sayfullo Saipov, a young Uzbek man, drove his truck into a group of
random people, mostly Argentine bikers enjoying a school reunion. In one of the world’s most international
cities, he could have hit practically anyone.
I wasn’t near the scene of the crime,
but I could feel the mood of the city shift from the cool alertness typical of
New Yorkers, to shock, and then to sadness, anger and determination. I read it on the faces of people
walking by, and especially those on bikes.
I don’t have Saipov’s birthdata, but his
age is given as 29, so he was probably born in 1988, when Saturn and Uranus were
traveling together, mostly in the fire sign Sagittarius. Saturn is the planet of respectability and
structure, while Uranus is about change and rebellion, so it’s not an easy
pairing. There’s a tension between the
desire to establish oneself solidly in society, and the equal urge to break out
and do things your own way.
Sometime in the last year, Saipov had
his Saturn return, that time when a person assesses his life, and tries to
figure out if he’s on the right path. At
this point, he was looking for a larger meaning, and there were people there to
convince him that his God would be pleased by some random bloodshed. Human sacrifice has a long history, after
all.
Saturn is currently in Sagittarius - a passionate fire sign, associated with religious and political zealotry. It’s the expansive sign of gods and
heroes. It’s about action inspired by a
greater faith. When Saturn – the planet
of responsibility - is in Sagittarius,
then to act heroically is considered a basic requirement, the price you
pay for your ticket here on earth.
Many brave people have had Saturn in
this sign. This includes some of the most
dynamic freedom fighters of our times – Emma Goldman, Gandhi, Dorothy Day, Che
Guevara, Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou, Paul Robeson, Eartha Kitt, Cesar
Chavez, Mary Daly, Martina Navratilova, and Ellen Degeneres. And Osama bin Laden was also born with Saturn
in Sagittarius, and so was Yasser Arafat. So it doesn’t really say which side
of which struggle you’re on. Just that
you believe in something greater, and are willing to throw yourself into the
fight.
Just nine days after Saturn entered this
sign in 2015, more than two thousand people died during a stampede during the
Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
These were pilgrims, people who just wanted to fulfill a religious duty,
and they didn’t intend to be the human sacrifices of the day. But Saturn doesn’t give anything without
charging heavily for it, although the price is not usually one’s life.
During Saturn’s time in Sagittarius, we’ve
had a great many terrorist attacks and suicide bombings. They’ve happened at a peace rally in Ankara, an
airport in Istanbul, a concert in Manchester, a street in Mogadishu, a gay nightclub
in Orlando, a promenade in Nice, and throughout Paris – and many more in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. People have given up their lives for that burst
of glory, and to us, it looks meaningless, because nobody was saved, nobody was
rescued, nothing changed for the better.
But for the perpetrators, it was a last-minute lunge for a glory that they
couldn’t find elsewhere.
November is Saturn’s last month in
Sagittarius, and then it will move on to the practical earth sign
Capricorn. Capricorn is the sign of the
survivor. It’s an ambitious,
goal-oriented sign, so it’s purposeful - but each step is measured, careful, and
pragmatic. It tends to be cynical,
rather than hopeful. There is no rushing
ahead. There are no frills, and nothing is wasted. Old
things are reused, and that includes old traditions and principles – and because
of that, Capricorn tends to be formal, respectable, and well-established.
Does this mean that things won’t change
as quickly while Saturn is in Capricorn? They are more likely to reel backwards a
bit. For example, Saturn was in
Capricorn when Carrie Nation started her crusade against alcohol. She had the sun in Sagittarius, so she was personally
very zealous, but her mission was essentially a negative one. We can expect some backtracking to a more
socially conservative time, although since Saturn will only be here two and a
half years, I don’t think the gay community will lose too much of the progress
we’ve made - hopefully.
Saturn was also in Capricorn when the
first Texas oil gusher was discovered, leading to a huge economic shift. Oil, as the decomposed bodies of marine animals,
is both very old and very useful, and so it’s connected to efficient Capricorn. But Capricorn is also about building blocks, so perhaps
alternate energy forms will become more practical, codified, and formalized
while Saturn is here.
Capricorn is business-oriented, and
there are a lot of savvy people who recognize the potential of future-oriented
businesses, and who will do well. But
there will also be even more people who cling to the businesses of the past,
such as coal-mining, and I expect we’ll see quite a bit of suffering around
that. Profiteers will try to hang on to
their profits, while workers try to hang on to their livelihoods, and both will
go down slowly, like frogs boiling in a pot.
Saturn was in Capricorn during the first
years of Great Depression, 1929 to 1932.
Unemployment reached millions in the US and Europe, and in Germany, the
Nazi Party took hold. They promised both
survival and a return to a glorious past, much like Trump’s message today. But it was also during this time that Gandhi
began to practice civil disobedience, the Vietnamese Communist Party was
established, and the NAACP started its anti-lynching campaign. So there were some that saw survival as a
group effort, requiring structure and organization. And these efforts, though very strenuously opposed,
eventually bore fruit.
I’m not a specialist in economics by any
means, and it’s true that there isn’t a major overturn every time that Saturn enters
Capricorn. There have been times when
the things hummed along economically, and the sign has just shown itself in a
more conservative, conformist social atmosphere. However, there is often a chilling contrast
when a planet moves from rambunctious, enthusiastic Sagittarius into lean,
hungry Capricorn. In 2008, we saw the
economy take a sudden hit when Pluto moved from Sagittarius to Capricorn.
Capricorn is also a sign of wisdom,
because it’s connected to age and experience.
The best manifestation of Saturn in Capricorn would be a populace who is
no longer fooled by the falsities of the ruling class – such as “tax reform”
that mainly benefits the rich. And if
things do get bad, the best manifestation would be a return to survival skills
of the past, and to a simpler but more satisfying way of living. We’ve already seen this trend under Pluto in Capricorn.
And do I think Saturn in Capricorn will
bring down Donald Trump? Yes,
probably. It’s a humbling sign. But do I think that will do a whole lot of
good? No, not really. At least not immediately. I think it will take another six or seven years
before we have a truly progressive political agenda.
And will the spate of suicidal zealots
slow down while Saturn is in Capricorn? Zealotry
is more conducive to violence than despair, it’s true, but some people will still
throw away their lives and the lives of random others. In a world of deprivation, a world of climate
change refugees, some people will die just to spare their families another
mouth to feed.
All we can do is stick together, and keep
working out solutions to the many practical problems that are part of our
existence here. We can work for a world
in which there are many ways to find meaning.
This means small steps, not big glorious gestures. But Saturn in Capricorn is all about small
steps. Our mission is to survive, to learn from our elders, and to keep
ourselves pointed towards the future.
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
My wife and I have just come back from vacation, from drifting in
the salty waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Now
we’re back to our usual routines, starting a new work week. And yet not quite. There’s always an inner change after
immersion in the sea. As we drift, we
loosen our bones, forget our worries, surrender everything to the rhythm of the
waves. It feels so necessary to do this
once in a while.
And now here we are, the same and yet different. And the year is also about to go through a
sea-change. On October 10, a new year begins, in astrological terms, as Jupiter
enters its new sign. For the next year –
until early November 2018 – Jupiter will be in the water sign Scorpio.
Scorpio is a water sign, but not a placid one, and so I’m not
seeing a particularly mellow year ahead.
This is the sign of deep water, and it relates to the powerful currents
that move us without our knowing: memory,
yearning, desire, resentment, hatred, ambition. These things spring from unseen caves in our
psyches, and run unimpeded, unrecognized.
Sometimes we feel the steam coming up from these underground caverns,
but we generally close them off quickly.
There be monsters in those unexplored depths.
This is a year when some of those monsters will come to light, one
way or another. For some people, this
will mean remembering traumas that they would just as soon forget, and
undergoing the work of healing. People
will become aware of horrible things that have been done, as these jagged
wounds are exposed to sunlight. There will
be clarity, acknowledgement, and perhaps even some level of forgiveness.
Social traumas will also be revealed for all to see, and this is
not a year when we can sweep all past atrocities under the rug and pretend that
we’ve always been noble and heroic. Nope.
No healing can happen without truth-telling.
And so this will be a year in which some naked, ugly truths move through
the community, and there will be plenty of people screaming foul, cringing, or
refusing to believe. And there will be
others who have their realities vindicated, at last.
For those who have had thorough early
training in projecting our fears outward (like our current president), Jupiter
in Scorpio will increase paranoia. Scorpio is a sign of excesses, and some people
will lose the battles with their demons.
There will be more murders and suicides than before, and this is a hard
thing to write when mass murder has already become such a common thing in our
world. And yes, some of this will be a
response to harder economic conditions.
But, in helping people open up to the truths within themselves,
this Jupiter sign can also help people understand each other. It’s not a particularly idealistic sign, but
rather one that focuses on emotional truths and basic survival. When you strip away pretenses, it all comes
down to an acknowledgement of our shared vulnerability in this rocky
world.
Jupiter in
Scorpio will also spawn its share of art. Scorpio is an imaginative, creative sign,
since all this emotional energy has to express itself somehow. And so it may be a year of large, dynamic,
explicit art work. Sexual themes could
be expressed quite overtly. Of course,
the public response to this will be mixed, and some people will feel justified
in responding violently to artistic visions that they don’t share.
There
will also be a stronger interest in the occult, and this will probably include a
real range of philosophies. There will
be more of us wiccans, focusing our energy on healing the earth, but also a
spate of demonologists conjuring up more mischievous forms. People will be looking for deeper sources of
power, and won’t be afraid to go through the curtains that separate different
realms of existence. And so there will
be more people haunted, mesmerized, transfixed by private ghosts, but there
will be also more folks working with elemental earth energy.
Other
people will reject the noisy materialism of the world entirely, and move
towards a state of Zen purity. Scorpio is
a sign of strong desires, and it can also manifest in the desire to completely renounce
desire. And on the other side of the
spectrum, there will be more sexual openness, as people look into themselves, stumble
over the body-hatred that poisoned so many of our ancestors, connect this to the
poisoning of the earth, and find ways to cauterize these wounds.
This
Jupiter sign gives a relentless need to understand, so it’s good for all kinds
of research. There can be breakthroughs
in medical research, biology, genealogy, chemistry, and atomic physics. It’s a time when people become obsessed with
solving mysteries. And it’s also good
for cleaning up cesspools in government, so we will probably see quite a bit of
public corruption come to light. Jupiter’s
entrance into Scorpio might see Trump impeached, or it might not, but I have no
doubt that a bunch of his henchmen will go down.
The
main contradiction in Scorpio i
s that it can be a quiet, reticent,
self-controlled sign, and it can also be one of volcanic reactions and dramatic
outbursts. Self-knowledge is key to
handling these intense energies. It’s
not a choice between repressing them or letting them explode like a grenade. It’s about becoming familiar with the salty
taste of your own tears, and the primal rhythms of your own happiness.
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
I live near a city of great museums, but
I recently drove in the other direction, to Winchester, Virginia, so I could
visit the Museum of Veiled History. It’s
a small, unassuming storefront museum, run by an old community organizer. Yes, he happens to be my brother, Larry
Yates.
Inside, a large room is divided, and tacked
to all the wall dividers are photos and artifacts, each with a story attached. There are photos of slavery’s atrocities – the
instruments of torture, the auction block.
And there are also stories of lost heroes, like Robert Milroy, the
abolitionist general who ran Winchester for a few months and helped thousands
of formerly enslaved people move north before the Secessionists came back. Of course, many heroes have remained nameless,
such as the Black soldiers who risked everything to head back south and fight
their former oppressors.
After the war, there was a brief period
in which Virginia moved towards parity. There
were fourteen African-Americans elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, almost all of whom
had been born into slavery. But there
was also a constant struggle with the white upper class people who had run
things before. And then there was the
Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1902, which took the franchise away from
all African Americans as well as most of the working-class white people. Larry calls this a “coup” since it was never
voted on, just proclaimed.
And then, as Jim Crow became entrenched,
there was Harry F. Byrd, Jr, who ran Virginia as his own personal fiefdom for
almost forty years. He was born in
Winchester, but why are there no statues of him there? Larry says he thinks it’s because the people
there are now ashamed of their native son, who orchestrated a huge, expensive, and
ultimately lost effort to maintain school segregation in Virginia.
The idea of the museum is that knowing
local history is empowering. The stories
you’re told are only half-stories, shadows of the truth, and so you have to
look beneath the veil. What would people
rather that everybody forget? And why?
Nothing happens in a vacuum. Every event is connected to the events that
came before. When we look at the
devastation in Houston, after Hurricane Harvey, we see a history of covering up
porous green spaces with cement. And so
where does the water go, when it doesn’t sink into the ground? And then there’s climate change, a series of
escalating disasters. There have always
been hurricanes, but now they’re fiercer, picking up more water, lingering
longer.
What stories are we telling
ourselves? Some are about human
resilience in the face of disaster, and it’s important to acknowledge
that. But we also need to look back, to
see the chain of cause and effect across time.
Mars just entered Virgo, and this earth
sign is the dominant influence in September, with the sun, Mercury and Venus all
spending most or some of their time here.
Virgo is about figuring out the sensible, practical solutions to the
many puzzles presented by our lives on this planet. What do we eat and drink, where do we live, what
do we use in our daily lives, and how do we manage each other?
The shadow side of Virgo is a tendency
to seek control, especially when things are unstable. And when aren’t things unstable? This planet is incredibly mutable, with
exploding mountains and sensitive weather systems. And we humans are even more changeable, with
our fidgety hands and our constant curiosity.
Control is a way of trying to maintain
the status quo, something that virtually never works. If the status quo was perfect, if everyone
was well fed and satisfied, maybe it would be possible for us all to live in a
static society. Maybe. But our actual world is one of dizzying
inequality, where some people are encouraged to gorge and others left to
starve. It’s a world in which everyone
is urged to forget what happened yesterday, and remember only what we’ve been
told to think.
As long as people are hungry, sick,
homeless, or oppressed, there is absolutely no possibility of long-term
stability. What we have is surface
control, the slick plastic look that is meant to fool some of the people, some
of the time. It’s television stability,
a representation of reality, not the real thing. And of course, here in the US, we have a
president who is an expert in television stability, who has spent all his life
working on the illusion of control.
And so what should you do with the Virgo
energy of September? The best approach
is to figure out what really works. Althea
Gibson (1927-2003), the first Black athlete to cross the color line in tennis,
had the sun, Mars and Venus in Virgo. She
said, “Being champion is all well and good, but you can’t eat a crown.” So this is the month to focus on what you can
eat, what you can use, what needs to be built.
This is the month that begins with Labor
Day, and Virgo is the sign of workers.
One of the myths of our times is the superlative value of “job creators”, people who hire other people to do
things. If these people have value, then
those who actually do the jobs have many times more. The true creators of wealth are those who get
out of bed every morning and accomplish something real.
And if you’re one of those people, if
you contribute to the everyday lives of the people around you, raise a glass to
yourself. Your name may never be known, but
you are creating the world we all live in.
History is made by all of us, day by day, moment by moment, as we figure
out how to handle our human lives, on this constantly rolling planet. Let us watch each other, see what works, and
work together.
Monday, July 31, 2017
August, a hot month in these parts, and getting hotter. Two eclipses.
Mercury retrograde. Astrologers
going nuts predicting the fall of DT. Will be or won’t he? Will his Jupiter return protect him, or will Pluto’s
square to his Jupiter topple him?
I’ve already been predicting his downfall because of the stormy aspects
at the new moon of July 23. It looks like
the Tower Card in the tarot, like a time when the mighty fall. But perhaps that loud crash was the
Republican dream of scuttling Obamacare.
And there have been a lot of big shifts since last week's new moon. DT fired his only link to the mainstream political
world, Reince Priebus. And he hired Anthony
Scaramucci, who seemed like a gangster straight out of central casting, and who
was almost immediately fired again (while I was in the middle of writing this
column).
But will DT himself fall? I’m
not as sure it will happen this month, mainly because Jupiter is handing out
some helpful aspects to him throughout August, including the trine to his sun. These are in the face of rough aspects from Saturn
and Pluto. But the Jupiter aspects do
constitute a raincoat in the midst of a shitstorm. They may give him just enough cover to survive.
Saturn’s aspects – opposing his sun and conjuncting his moon - look like they could affect his health. Neurological and digestive problems seem
likely, as well as difficulties with his extremities. But if he has some kind of health crisis and
comes through it, that could actually give him some sympathy points, at least
briefly, and it could delay the inevitable toppling.
Putin is also having a tough time astrologically these days, and there
are aspects that emphasize the link between him and DT. They are both caught in a web of change, and it
may develop slowly, but the ending will be abrupt.
Putin’s influence over DT is not all that benign. So far, DT has been well-paid for his role in
Russian money laundering, but I’m thinking that ultimately all this might cost
him more than he’s gained – not just in money, but in prestige, power, and
reputation. Putin’s Saturn (the planet
of limitation) is exactly conjunct DT’s Jupiter (the planet of expansion).
Looking at their charts together, plus current transiting planets, we
see a T-square, a dynamic, stressful configuration, in which two opposing
planets are squared by a third. Pluto in
Capricorn opposes Putin’s Uranus, and the squaring planets are Putin’s Saturn (restriction)
on top of DT’s Jupiter (advancement).
The squaring planets are the catalyst planets; they are the ones that act out the
tension.
So Putin acts it out by adding restrictions, such as the current demand
that the US embassy lay off most of its personnel. And DT acts it out by being as outrageous and
over-the-top as he can possibly be, assuming that what people mainly want is
entertainment. It does look like the
Vlad and Don Show will come crashing down sometime in the next six months, and
that clutching each other might hasten the fall for both.
The eclipses this month also give a message of dramatic change, and
this also covers the next six months, until the next eclipses in January and February
of 2018. This lunar eclipse (on August 21)
is right on DT’s ascendant, and the one on February 15 will be exactly opposite
his ascendant. So this looks to me as
though DT has just been caught up in the hand of fate, and will be carried
along by forces well beyond his control for the next six months.
One possibility is that DT’s dementia will become impossible to ignore
around that time, since that’s when Saturn in Capricorn will be forming a
T-square with his Mercury and Neptune. I
wonder who will be brave enough to say it first? After it comes out, everybody will be saying
that they’ve known it for years, just like they did with Reagan. And it’s true, some people have been writing
about this for months, analyzing word usage, finding unmistakable clues.
I wonder if people will miss the carnival clown that was DT. I’m sure late night comedians will.
Even if DT doesn’t fall all the way this month, August is still pretty
stormy. At the full moon of August 7, Mars
is still very much in the picture, so people are pushier and more
competitive. They want to win, whatever
the fight is.
With this eclipse in Aquarius/Leo, there will be some pitched battles
between the altruists and the hedonists. Is it that the altruists really care about the
state of the world, while the hedonists are completely self-centered? Or are
the altruists sanctimonious pricks who only want to lecture about how other people
aren’t living right, while the hedonists have a healthy and natural
self-regard?
This also looks like the political divide in the US, with the
tofu-eaters on one side (Aquarius) and the cooked-to-death-steak-with-ketchup
contingent on the other (Leo). Is there
no middle ground? Isn’t there a possibility of finding something healthy and
delicious? But it’s a tricky opposition,
especially because these are both fixed signs, and because there is so much ego
involved.
One of the hardest things is to figure out how to intersect with your
community (Aquarius) while still respecting the independence of others (Leo). When do you correct? When do you fight? When do you take a stand? With the south node currently in Aquarius, our
weakness often lies in the belief that we know better than others. But it doesn't work to make change from this perspective; it's like
trying to fight fire (Leo) with an air hose (Aquarius).
The lunar eclipse is followed quickly by Mercury going retrograde on
August 12. When it retrogrades, Mercury will be opposing
Neptune, and this makes things even more confusing for the first week. It may be hard to figure out what people are
saying, and what they really mean. And watch out for accidents involving the
intersection between earth and water. Watch
for floods, hurricanes, and bathtub slippage!
And then there’s the final eclipse, the one everyone’s gathering for, the
solar eclipse of August 21. This one is exciting, with the sun and moon
closely trine Uranus, and it ushers in a lunar cycle with a lot of positive
changes. Inventors, creative people, and
political activists could all get a boost.
It happens in fire signs, so it’s driven by boldness, passion, and the
desire to shine. Mars is still in the
picture, but not as close as during the July new moon, and so there aren’t as
many revolutionary factors. But an
eclipse always shows change, and an eclipse in Leo can show crowns falling off
the heads of kings.
Everybody gets their turn in the limelight. Everyone gets to strut and fret his hour on the
stage. But I’m thinking it’s almost time for a long hook to come out of the
wings and put an end to the latest act.
Thursday, July 6, 2017
Is it something weird in my
make-up? I don’t like team sports all
that much either, but there have been a couple of times in my life when I’ve
gotten into the spirit of it, hollering and waving my arms. It seemed harmless and unimportant. Is it?
I was patriotic when I was about ten
years old. I remember myself as a little
girl in a British school in Bangkok, valiantly defending my country against an
Australian girl who claimed that Americans were all a bunch of juvenile
delinquents. I really had no idea if it
was true or not, but felt I should stick up for the country where I was born,
the place that my parents always called home.
At that time in my life, national
identities were all just stuck onto us, like our names. They seemed a bit
random, although obscurely important. The
school furthered a tribal spirit by dividing us all into three teams – the Vikings,
Trojans and Spartans – and pitting us against each other in sports and theatre
and singing competitions. This was also
pretty random.
Now, fifty-five years later, I still don’t
think it matters particularly what country you come from. I have to go through
a lot of mental somersaults to conjure up a feeling that might be called
patriotic. Of course, this is a lot harder during the Trump Years than it was
during the Obama Years.
But lately I’ve been reading Margaret MacMillan’s
book about the tensions that led up to World War One, and there’s one truth
that springs out from its pages:
Patriotism kills people. In the
last hundred years, hundreds of millions of people have died from an excess of
patriotism. It wasn’t always their own
patriotism that killed them, either. Often
it was somebody else’s – a family member, a community, a voter, a
politician.
In the US, patriotism is linked with
religion; it’s seen as a sacred duty. It
figures that our national birthday is celebrated in July, since this is the
month with a Cancer theme. (The sun and Mars are currently in Cancer.) Cancer is the most tribal and emotional of
signs. It’s a sign of attachment –
mother to child, neighbor to neighbor, human to land. It’s about what belongs to you, and what
makes you feel that you belong.
I get plenty attached. Believe me, I am a master at attachment. I can’t throw away a pair of shoes without
feeling sad about it. And I hardly ever
throw out underwear; it’s way too intimate a relationship. And I’m very attached to my home, without
feeling any desire to own the house where we live. When I
think of the wider circles of my own life, I find attachment at every
level.
Attachment feels good. It’s comfortable, satisfying, and safe. But everything can be done to excess. And excess attachment can cause people to go
out and do all kinds of strange, unnatural things – like engaging in a fight to
the death with a stranger, so that other people can redraw the borders of the
country you live in. How does that even
make sense? When some young kid thrusts
a bayonet into some other young kid, and leaves him bleeding in some desolate
field, why does that lead to a bunch of unsmiling older men in stiff uniforms passing
around pieces of paper to sign?
So, no.
On a personal level, excess attachment is called stalking. And come to think of it, this country has been
exercising surveillance techniques over its citizens for years. Is that become the United States loves us so
much that it just has to track our every movement? It’s so attached that it can’t lose sight of
us for a moment?
There are other ways in which the US
goes too far with its attachments. Its
attachment to stuff, for example. There
has to be a lot of it, and we have to make more all the time, even though we
have no idea what to do with the enormous amount of waste we generate. We even get anxious if the economy is not
constantly growing.
There’s an interesting contradiction in
the US natal chart. There’s a stellium –
4 planets – in the sign of attachment, Cancer.
But the moon is in the most freedom-loving sign, Aquarius. So there’s a constant tension between the
tribal instincts of Cancer and the more objective and enlightened ideas of Aquarius.
We see this embodied in the work of the people
who wrote those first documents, back in the day when this country was a
fledgling enterprise. There were some
radical notions there – a division of powers, a separation of church and state,
a process by which laws can be changed – and these things are still helpful
today.
At the same time, those early citizens
were pretty damn possessive. They took possession
of all sorts of things that the native people considered part of the public
domain – mountains, rivers, forests. Nothing
was sacred, everything could be owned, and thus, defiled. Even people could be owned, and so millions
of human beings were stolen, shipped across the water, and completely controlled. (Or at least, complete control was attempted.) We can look back and see how sick this was,
how unnatural from every viewpoint.
But another word for excessive
attachment is addiction. We clutch at
whatever makes us feel safe, even if we squeeze it so hard that we kill
it. And it happens over and over – until
the earth shifts.
This month, the Cancer planets are
challenged by Pluto, the planet of power, as it moves through the earth sign Capricorn,
the driest and most unemotional sign in the zodiac. This echoes the only opposition in the US
natal chart, a Cancer/Capricorn opposition involving Pluto. Pluto gets at the deep stuff, the underlying
fears, resentments, desires and angers. It
pushes towards transformation.
In the history of the US, this manifests
as a repeating cycle of addictions clashing with reality. As an attachment becomes more and more
obsessive, and sicker and sicker, there comes a time when it can no longer be supported
by the population. There are always some
who resisted the hypnosis from the beginning, and these are the ones who rise
up first. The combination of an
alternate vision and a clearly toxic attachment adds up to change. But often there are those who hold on to the
old ways with their fingernails, even as the earth shakes and swallows
them.
So yes, July will hold some changes that
are in line with this evolutionary process.
It definitely won’t be over; there’s
still a long road to walk. And let’s see
what happens when the U.S. hits its Pluto return, about five years down the
road. My sense is that we’re learning
something now which we'll need to know then.
Perhaps it’s about the Resistance.
Perhaps it’s about world diplomacy. Perhaps it’s some technology that will
mitigate the effects of climate change. Perhaps
we will only be able to implement this technology if we can work together.
Whatever happens then, and wherever we
end up, there will be a lot to let go of.
Let go of fear first though.
There’s very little we’re attached to that we really need. And the sooner patriotism is thrown
overboard, the better.
Friday, June 2, 2017
It’s a pretty spring day, full of
birdsong - so clearly the birds haven’t heard about Trump’s backing out of the
Paris Climate Accord. Of course this is
just the tip of the iceberg, Titanic reference intended, since throughout his
presidency, he’s been hard at work hamstringing the EPA, rolling back regulations,
and attacking the work of scientists.
When I look at Trump’s chart today, I
see that he’s on a roll. Uranus in Aries
is trining his rising Mars in Leo, the prizefighter part of his chart, and so
he’s moving forward, boxing and shadow boxing, proving that he’s the dominant
one. No fears about the future, no
namby-pamby worries about whether his grandchildren will survive. The strong will survive, right? And the rest
can wash out to sea with the crumbling coast-lines.
When I look at Trump’s chart a month
from now, I see a very different picture.
At the end of June, Saturn will be opposing his sun, and this indicates
a crisis of confidence, or an external blow to the ego – and, as we all know,
Trump’s ego is his most vulnerable part.
It could also be a time of physical illness or injury.
And at the same time, this looks like a
tumultuous time for his job, since Pluto in Capricorn makes a series of challenging
aspects, beginning with the square to his Jupiter and the inconjunct to his Uranus. After this, it makes an inconjunct to his sun
and opposes his Saturn. It looks to me
like the gods that lifted him up are going to be laying him down flat. There are some hard lessons between now and
the end of his term – assuming he makes it that long.
Expect things to change for Trump a few
days after the coming summer solstice. All
during the lunar cycle that begins with the new moon of June 23, he’ll feel Saturn’s
opposition to his sun, a weight on his ego.
Does this mean that the Russia investigation will yield some embarrassing
fruit, perhaps involving his financial shenanigans? Will Robert Mueller be the agent of some Trump
undoing?
It’s quite possible. In the new moon chart, the sun, moon, Mercury and
Mars are all in Cancer, within 11° of each other, and they all conjunct Robert
Mueller’s Saturn. Saturn is about
wisdom, maturity, realism, and responsibility, and this puts Mueller in a
position of having to do his duty and deal with something serious. In addition, Mueller’s Saturn is right on top
of Trump’s Mercury, indicating that he’s going to sift through all the Trumpian
misinformation for the truth.
And Mueller’s Saturn gets involved in
Trump’s Mercury/Neptune square, which could be called Trump’s “liar aspect”. This
is not to say that everyone with a Mercury/Neptune square is a liar. It gives a vivid imagination, and many people
with this aspect are writers and artists, or people who have warm, fertile
relationships with the unreal. Neptune is
also about spirituality and idealism, so people with this aspect often work
hard to integrate these other ways of knowing and understanding.
However, for Trump, I’d say he lives
wholly in whatever self-serving delusion leaps into his mind. And after the summer solstice, some of those
delusions could be flayed open on the operating table, visible to everyone.
Recently a reader asked me to compare
Trump’s chart with Putin’s, to see if there were any clues there. Putin
also has a strong Mercury/Neptune aspect, a conjunction. But the main difference between them is that
Putin has a sun/Saturn conjunction. He’s
a realist, and when he shades the truth, or operates on a clandestine level, he
knows what he’s doing.
Many of the aspects between them are
quite positive, so the buddy-buddy thing is visible. They both have dominant, fiery Mars placements,
and their Mars trine each other, so they can work together on mutual goals
quite easily. This could include waging
war against a joint enemy, and both men know this as a sure way to fire up the
base.
Both have strong sun/Uranus contacts, so
they both like to be unpredictable, independent and rebellious. Both have largely airy charts, so they both live
in a world of forms rather than practical realities. Putin, with a sun/Saturn conjunction in Libra
squaring Uranus, has a strong streak of cynicism, but he also believes he is
mostly doing the right thing for his country.
But for both him and Trump, an excess of power and privilege have made
it difficult to differentiate between personal preferences and universal
good. This is how power corrupts.
Trump has no earthy planets in his
chart, so he’s especially ungrounded, hence the obvious ADD. Putin has one earthy planet – Jupiter in
Taurus – so he is more materialistic.
For Trump, I would argue that, even though everything he does seems so
mercenary, it’s all about ego. He likes
the show, the appearance, the glamor, but has little interest in sensual
experiences, lasting security, or any of the other things money can buy.
Putin’s sun conjuncts Trump’s Jupiter,
and I think this refers to the role they’ve taken in making each other (and
their friends) wealthy and successful.
In fact, Putin has four planets conjuncting Trump’s Jupiter, so I would
say he’s used personal influence (the sun), information (Mercury), and
subterfuge (Neptune) to boost Trump’s position in the world. He also has Saturn conjunct Trump’s Jupiter,
and this tends to have the opposite effect, and could mean that he restricts
Trump’s success and prestige.
So does this mean that ultimately the
association with Putin will poke a pin into Trump’s bubble? Could be. Another indication of this is Trump’s
Jupiter squaring Putin’s Uranus – which relates to Putin’s unpredictability and
eccentricity. When Uranus is involved,
things happen quickly and unexpectedly.
And this looks like it could also presage a sudden fall for Putin, eventually,
since Uranus squares all four of his Libra planets.
And so am I predicting the beginning of
the end for Trump? To make things even
ickier for him, Saturn will be conjuncting his moon between mid-July and the
end of September 2017, and this could mean depression, illness, or an even more
extreme drop in popularity. Or it could
mean a stab in the back from someone in his inner circle, like Jared
Kushner. Comparing their two charts, there
are a lot of angry aspects, so they really don’t like each other all that
much. But Trump’s sun opposing Kushner’s
Neptune shows that the latter fits smoothly into the former’s delusions.
However, Trump has one more dose of good
luck coming. He’s got his faithful Jupiter
return, making the last of three exact passes.
The first time was around the time of his electoral college win, and the
second time in April, when the House Intelligence inquiry into his misdeeds was
pretty much falling apart. The third
time will be between July 27 and August 11, so, even though this is a hard time
for him in so many ways, there could be some sort of eleventh hour rescue that
keeps him in office.
Trump has always been a plaything of
fate, never more than when he pulled off the presidential election. But this is the end of his lucky streak.
In late September and through most of
October, Saturn opposes his sun again, so even if he is able to maintain his
position, it’s a low period for his ego and basic vitality. In October, Jupiter moves into Scorpio, a
sign known for exposing scandals and secrets.
By Christmas, when Uranus squares his Saturn, you’ll probably be seeing
a lot of news stories about how the mighty have fallen. Trump sees himself as a
master of deal-making, but his final test may be negotiating his way out of
serious jail time.
And what about the country? In December 2017, Saturn moves into the
spare, ascetic, realistic sign Capricorn.
When Pluto moved into Capricorn, we experienced the Recession of 2008,
and the loss and anxiety caused by this continue today. I expect this to be exacerbated during the two
and a half years that Saturn is in Capricorn, especially as weather conditions
become more extreme, and refugees more plentiful. This will color our next election here in the
US, but it’s hard to know how people will vote when they’re coming from a place
of fear and scarcity.
We know that nature will eventually
recover from whatever humans throw at her, but will humans survive? There is some hope for us, since Saturn will
be moving into Aquarius in 2020, and Pluto into Aquarius in 2023. Pluto will spend the next couple of decades
in this sign, and it will bring both new technology – perhaps at the eleventh
hour, before humans perish – and a stronger drive towards personal
liberation. So that’s the light at the
end of the tunnel. As always, though,
the tunnel comes first.
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
“What is up with that bird?” I’m
wondering, as I listen to a long, drawn-out chittering. This isn’t birdsong. It doesn’t sound like a celebration of
spring, or an advertisement for love. It
sounds more like an urgent telegraph. Maybe
it’s calling its mate to hurry home because there’s a squirrel inching closer
to the nest.
It’s a cool day, with a light wind
blowing, and it’s reached that blessed spot – not too cold any more, not too
hot yet - where I can actually keep my office window open. So all through the day, I hear
half-understood messages from all kinds of passersby. I can guess at interpretations, but I can
never really know.
In a couple of weeks, I’ll be traveling. I’ll be one of those voices on the wind,
flitting from one place to another, as I head south, visiting friends along the
way, until I reach Womonwrites. I’ll
spend a week at the lesbian writers’ conference - visiting friends, picking up inspiration, giving
a workshop, doing readings for people, and of course, playing a little
Scrabble!
There’s a lot to do before then, I know
it, but I’m having a hard time getting my act together these days. Yes, it’s partly
because Mercury has been retrograde the last three weeks, and is just about to
turn direct again tomorrow (on May 3,
12:33 pm EDST). When Mercury changes
direction, it’s always very slow for a week or so. This gives us time to think about what’s next,
hopefully, before the pace quickens.
But it’s more than that. It’s the inconjunct between Jupiter and Neptune,
which will be with us all through May. All Neptune aspects invite contemplation. They take you away from business as
usual. Nothing routine seems all that
compelling. They invite you to back up,
to take the long view, to see everything with a cosmic perspective. Neptune dissolves the barriers.
If I want a Neptunian view from my
window, I blur my focus, and all I see is a mash-up of bright green. It’s lovely.
When I hear a bird sounding an alarm, it blends into the overall music -
the songs of other birds, the buzz of
insects, the whistle of a faraway train. It’s all one.
That’s Neptune’s message, especially as it moves through its home sign, Pisces.
Neptune is the planet of spirituality in
its purest form. This is not about laws,
not about dogma, not even about ethics.
It’s impossible to treat anyone wrong if you understand that you are
that person, and that person is you. We
all come from this state of beautiful oneness, and there’s a part of us that
always yearns for it.
In my old coven, we used to sing this
song:
We all come from the Goddess, and to her
we shall return,
Like a drop of rain flowing to the
ocean.
Hoof and horn, hoof and horn, all that
dies shall be reborn.
Corn and grain, all that falls shall
rise again.
And yet, and yet. When this lovely oneness broke into parts, when
this world of variations happened, it happened for a reason, no? We incarnated with stories, phobias, wisdom,
and attractions already in place, ready to stitch together our own little piece
of the quilt. If it was whole to start
with, what are we making?
For me, this is the central paradox of
any spiritual viewpoint. I do believe we
are making it as we go. I believe we are
creating with every dream and thought and movement, calling into being
something that never existed before. And
so my sense is that this wholeness is not a static thing, even though I understand
the contradiction. It’s whole, yet it
becomes.
So don’t be surprised this month if you
find yourself standing for a long time at a tree, gazing up, and seeing nothing
but green light. Don’t be surprised if
you’re in the middle of washing dishes, and you stop what you’re doing because
you’re amazed by water. Don’t be
surprised if time changes shape, even more than usual, and long afternoons last
a hundred years, while short nights are over in a blink.
And what is Jupiter doing in this Neptune/Jupiter
inconjunct? Jupiter is the planet of
expansion, and whenever it’s in aspect with any planet, it eggs the other one
on. So the diffuse and holistic
awareness of Neptune is exaggerated, publicized, trumpeted by Jupiter. Sometimes this is a good thing, as in the
Climate March this week. Jupiter is good
at writing placards, making speeches.
And it’s now going through Libra, so it also inclines to legal
strategies.
But although Neptune is the planet of
saintliness, of enlightenment, of all-encompassing spiritual awareness, it’s
also the planet of illusion and delusion.
And so Jupiter can exaggerate this
confusion too, while this Jupiter/Neptune inconjunct is going on. Conspiracy theorists, for example, have a
bigger and more holistic world view.
They see all the ways that the little threads come together. But are they contributing to spiritual
principles like peace and universal love?
What’s left out of this bigger world view? What remains unseen?
And none of us can see it all. We are humans, possessed of a very useful focused
vision which helps us find edible berries and avoid mastodons. We aren’t supposed to ignore the physical messages
around us, and just spend our time just contemplating eternity. We’ll be back there before we know it; it won’t be long.
This Jupiter/Neptune inconjunct is
seductive, encouraging us to take the little we know and run with it. And sometimes you have to do it, you have to
have faith in the visions that entice you, the ones that make your heart
sing. But I see it as a slow process,
and a process that all beings have to do at approximately the same time. It takes time to grow, to see more than just
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McDonald's to sell a McVegan burger in Europe
The McDonald's McVegan burger is set to launch in Sweden and Finland on December 28.
LONDON (CNNMoney) -- McDonald's is going vegan.
The fast food chain plans to start selling a McVegan burger in hundreds of restaurants across Sweden and Finland starting on December 28.
The sandwich, which has already been tested at a handful of McDonald's locations in Finland, consists of a soy patty, bun, tomato, lettuce, pickles, onion, ketchup, mustard, oil and an egg-less sandwich sauce.
"Like our other burgers, the McVegan is tasty and has a good texture," said McDonald's spokesperson Henrik Nerell.
The meatless burger, which was developed in partnership with a specialty Norwegian food company called Orkla, could help the American chain capitalize on increased demand for vegetarian and vegan foods.
McDonald's said the burger will be on its permanent menu in the two countries, a response to "more and more" people wanting to eat "plant-based food" that is better for the environment.
"As the main ingredient is plant-based, the McVegan is considered to have a smaller climate impact," McDonald's said. Livestock farming is responsible for around 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN.
Mikael Malkamaki, a 24-year-old student who tried the McVegan during its test run in Finland, said he was impressed by the taste.
"I would say it tasted like a normal, regular hamburger," said Malkamaki, who is concerned about the environmental impact of meat. "I would seriously try the McVegan again because there wasn't such a big difference between the burgers."
McDonald's isn't the only food company to jump on the vegan diet, which involves cutting out all meat, milk, eggs and animal products.
Nearly 10% of new food launches in Sweden this year were vegan items, according to research firm Mintel. That's up nearly eight-fold from 2012.
Nestle announced in September it was buying the specialty food company Sweet Earth, which makes vegan and vegetarian burritos and burgers.
"As many as 50% of consumers now are seeking more plant-based foods in their diet and 40% are open to reducing their traditional meat consumption," Paul Grimwood, CEO of Nestle USA, said at the time.
Global sales of vegan-labeled foods increased by nearly 8% last year to $12.8 billion, according to research firm Euromonitor. | {
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ONGC's $ 2 billion SPS-cum-SURF tender-III: Indian company teams up with a big global consortium
Apr 20: An Indian company has partnered up with one of the consortiums to bid for the $ 2 billion tender8The consortium has the largest number of partners and is now emerging as a favourite in the race.8The combine has GE, and two other bid players in the consortium, along with the Indian company.8Find out why it is ahead in the race8The deciding factor however will be at what price level the bids come in. The website also carries here an analysis of what should the optimum price bid be in the tender | {
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Man's attempt to mail marijuana leads to one-year sentence
Published 11:56 am, Thursday, February 8, 2018
DENVER (AP) — Prosecutors say a Colorado man has been sentenced to one year and a day in federal prison after investigators found 123 marijuana plants at his home.
According to a statement issued Thursday by U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer's office, investigators searched Mark Koenig's home in Arvada after finding that he had mailed three packages in 2015 and one package in 2016 containing marijuana.
Troyer's office says drug-detecting dogs alerted U.S. Postal Inspectors to each package and they seized between 950 grams and 1.6 kilograms of marijuana from each package. Investigators then searched Koenig's home in January 2016 and found the plants.
Troyer's office says Koenig pleaded guilty to possession of a federal controlled substance with intent to distribute in October. He was sentenced on Jan. 25. | {
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Profile: Kyle Hollingsworth - Oregon Beer Growler Magazine
"There’s an element of risk involved as there is with any impromptu performance. A note could fall flat. Things could get out of sync. But not knowing whether something could go wrong makes it all the more thrilling, and a successful execution results in a more rewarding experience." | {
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This is the question which has been perplexing many political analysts and TV anchors in the South Asian country over the past few weeks. This weekend supporters of Dr. Tahir ul Qadri, a dual Canadian nationality holder who arrived in Pakistan last month, led a march of tens of thousands (it was supposed to have been millions) from Lahore to Islamabad to stage a sit-in in order to bring about political reforms in the country. His demands include the dissolution of the Election Commission and ensuring the candidates standing for election pay taxes. He has also made a call on dissolving the assemblies and the formation of a caretaker government.
But what gives a religious scholar, particularly one who has been living in Canada for some seven years, the right to put forward such radical demands? The timing of this protest, only months before a scheduled national election, is also troubling; it risks derailing an already fragile democracy.
Certainly Qadri is a contradictory man. While he presents himself as a supporter of democracy, he was elected to parliament under the previous dictatorship of General Pervez Musharaf in 2002. A bigger question to ask is where he is getting all these funds to spend on his campaign? Since last month the city of Lahore has been flooded with Qadri posters advertising his arrival and call for change. TV advertisements have also been airing frequently. On the backs of rickshaws his photo has become the most popular advertisement staring back at all vehicle drivers. One TV station at his sit-in in Islamabad interviewed a woman who described how she had never planned to come to the protest. But after her power supply and cable TV were cut-off she decided to join the protest as she was so fed-up. A few protesters even talked about having traveled all the way from Canada and the United States to participate.
Politics and weapons have an intricate relationship in Pakistan. According to an estimate, there are around 20 million lethal weapons in Pakistan, with a population of 180 million. Pakistan is ranked seven in a list of 178 most heavily armed countries.
In Punjab, people with influence control the supply of arms. Penetration of arms in Punjab’s society is clearly reflected in the rising crime rate in the province leaving the law enforcement authorities almost helpless.
Several reports have cited this increase in the supply of weapons as the reason behind the rise of criminal gangs resulting in the loss of precious lives.
The supply is rising unchecked because dealers sell weapons without ascertaining whether the buyer holds a legal permit. In most cases, these arms dealers are also in the business of providing licenses, even if the government has banned such issuance.
Today, perhaps the only reason why Pakistan is one of the most heavily armed countries in the world is the unchecked issuance of licenses for holding arms and the provision of weapons to personnel not holding government issued permits.
In Lahore, there are more than 138 shops that have weapons worth hundreds of thousands available for sale. In recent operations, arms recovered by Punjab Police include 576 sharp edged weapons, 292,040 cartridges, 2,162 carbines, 79 grenades, 21,481 revolvers and pistols, 3,798 guns, 2,471 rifles and 755 Kalashnikovs. A total of 30,413 cases have been registered against illegal possession of weapons.
Although, the government has issued a quota of 140 arms licenses for Lahore per year, the actual permits handed out are close to 1,700.
Sources revealed that most of those running arms shops in Lahore belong from far flung areas of the country and readily meet orders of any kind within a few days by utilising their connections with high-ranking government officials.
Although the official fee for an arms permit ranges between Rs 3,000 and Rs 3,500, these dealers charge close to Rs 20,000 for providing a license, even if the government has forbidden issuance.
While talking to Pakistan Today on condition of anonymity, some of these dealers said it was not their responsibility to check if a prospective buyer held a legal permit to possess weapons. They said it was the job of government officials who were also involved in the business and who gorged money from them also. They further said that they never reported cases of fake or illegal permits to the authorities and sold their products to anyone who was interested in buying. Reporting them would hamper our business, they said.Jan Khan, an arms dealer, while talking to Pakistan Today said there were several dealers who brought in illegal weapons and sold them without any check which resulted in these arms ending up in the wrong hands. “No action has ever been taken against such elements. They commit treachery,” he stated. He said possessing arms was not necessarily a bad thing especially when used for defence and protection. “It becomes evil when it ends up in the wrong hands,” said Khan.
Khan said that interested clients could illegally obtain a foreign manufactured AK-47 for around Rs 125,000 while a locally manufactured assault rifle could easily be procured between Rs 50,000 and 80,000.
“Locally manufactured pistols are available between Rs 10,000 and Rs 15,000 while prices of foreign handguns range from Rs 100,000 to Rs 300,000. You can even get these weapons delivered to the place of your choice, no questions asked,” he said.
Rai Zafar, a resident of Lahore, said possessing arms was necessary for his family’s protection. He was against those who held arms just for exhibition or to gain respect saying that mishandling often leads to untoward incidents.
Chaudhry Aslam, another citizen, said there was a positive correlation between the rise in crime and the rise in supply of arms. “You never know when someone might pull out a gun over a small dispute. Rich or poor, one should be careful in dealing with everyone,” he said. He appealed to the government to check the increase in illegal weapons and to ensure a proper check on arms licences.
Commenting on the issue, Lahore DIG Operations Rai Tahir said it was very difficult to stop illegal arms infiltration in Pakistan because most of these weapons were being sourced from the tribal areas of the country where law enforcement is almost non-existent.
He further said that in Punjab, weapons manufacturing factories operating in civil areas must be eliminated. He called for more scrutiny at the Attock checkpost which was one of the major entry points into the province.
The DIG said police had registered more than a 1,000 cases against criminals possessing illegal weapons most of whom have been put behind bars.
A 70-year-old Swedish Christian NGO worker shot and injured in a targeted attack in Lahore on Dec 3, passed away in Sweden on Thursday.
Almby was targeted by two armed men outside her house in Lahore’s upscale Model Town locality when she was returning from her office at the Full Gospel Assemblies (FGA) in the Kot Lakhpat area.
The elderly woman, who served Pakistani Christian community for 38 years, was shot in the chest and the bullet had damaged her left lung.
She was initially taken to Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital in a critical condition where doctors removed the bullet but said her condition was critical because of excessive bleeding.
Almby was moved to Sweden in an air ambulance provided by the Swedish government a couple of days ago as there was no improvement in her condition.
The police is yet to trace her attackers and so far there has been no breakthrough in the investigation.
Sources in the FGA told Pakistan Today they suspected involvement of Islamist extremists in the killing. However, police investigators say they are investigating the case from all angles.
Almby was director at the FGA Technical Training Institute and also taught at the FGA Bible School. She was also looking after the affairs of orphanges run by the US-founded Christian charity. | {
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BMW Motorrad and Belstaff team up
Classic style from two of the best in the business
BMW Motorrad and British luxury clothing company Belstaff have a lot in common. Both companies were conceived in the 1920s, both are known for influential style and innovation, and now the two are collaborating on a special collection of biker jackets. The new "Pure Motorcycle" jackets are designed to go hand-in-hand with BMW's new R nineT anniversary roadster, and are meant to be reminiscent of Belstaff's roots.
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Depending on the model, the jackets will be made of either leather or hand-waxed cotton, both of which are durable, stylish, and functional. There are two models available for women and six for men, and prices range from around $600 to just under $1,500. That's fairly pricey, but for something as unique as one of these, which would fit perfectly with your BMW R nineT, it might just be worth it. If you're interested, keep your eyes peeled at select BMW dealerships starting in March 2014. | {
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Minnesota Vikings expect Brian Robison, rest of team to play vs. Packers
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The Vikings' Brian Robison, right, has a good chance playing Sunday as he recovers from a sprained shoulder. (Getty Images: Hannah Foslien)
Vikings defensive end Brian Robison continued his recovery from a sprained shoulder joint on Thursday, Dec. 27, and coach Leslie Frazier indicated Robison has a good chance of returning for Sunday's game against the Green Bay Packers.
Frazier said he doesn't expect any of his players to miss the game because of injury and added that Robison is moving in the right direction. He was a limited participant in practice Thursday, and while the Vikings won't have a full idea of how much his right shoulder is hurting him until they see him absorb contact Sunday, it appears likely Robison will have at least some role in the Vikings' regular-season finale, as they try to secure a playoff berth against the Packers. | {
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Oct 17, 2005 Issue #6
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The American Textile Company has introduced its Pink Pillow, a polyester-filled pillow to help fund breast-cancer research. Pink Pillows will retail for $10 at major retailers next spring. The company is also introducing a line of moisture-management products. This collection of pillow and mattress covers is made with CoolMax fabric by Invista. | {
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Celebrating Bests, Back-to-Backs, Specialties & A New Record Holder
This past week was full of excitement with several Nationals and prestigious Clusters taking place from Coast-to-Coast. With many shows awarding the Miscellaneous class, this weekend was a terrific opportunity to see the new breeds that will be assigned groups soon.
Record Breaking! The owners of GCh Promenade’s Pay It Forward are thrilled that his latest Best In Show At Camellia Capital put him at the top of the list for Field Spaniels, making him the Number One Field Spaniel of all time. Expertly piloted by Elizabeth Jordan-Nelson & bred by Jane Schildman, Gideon is owned by the late Jane Chopson, breeder Jane Schildman & Nicki Kuhn …. Nicki Kuhn offered her thoughts on Gideon’s milestone:
GCh Promenade’s Pay It Forward
Many thanks to all of you who posted congratulations to Gideon on his record breaking BIS yesterday. This has been a once in a lifetime experience. Elizabeth Jordan-Nelson is a master handler and she always presents Gideon beautifully. Congratulations to Jane Kellar Schildman for breeding this fabulous Field Spaniel. Jane Chopson would be proud and happy.
Back-to-Back Bests
GCh Woodside’s Megabucks was awarded back-to-back Best In Shows at the Perry Georgia cluster. Always handled by Lenny Brown, Megabucks is owned by Kiki Courtelis, Joyce Wilkinson, Jodi & Jason Duin. Megabucks has been creating quite a stir since he debuted in the United States with eight Bests In Shows.
I have been blessed with good dogs. It is my duty to add to our breed good temperaments, great conformation and functionality! Rocket, Prince, & Tundra are examples of that!
Scottish Terrier, GCH CH McVan’s To Russia With Love earned her first Best
GCH CH McVan’s To Russia With Love
Nationals & Specialties
Irish Water Spaniel National – we’ll be covering this National in fuller detail later in the week. Mrs. Mareth Kipp judged 102 entries in Farmington, Utah. The top IWSs were present with the number one Sporting dog, number one All-Time IWS GCh Whistlestop’s Riley on Fire winning BISS. Owned by Bethany & Tom Urban, and Gregory Siner this lovely girl is from a powerhouse litter as she and her sisters have dominated the breed since their debut. In chatting with Bethany Urban, she noted that she had never owned a show dog, never knew how to count points, “it’s been a rocket ride to be sure.” Riley or “RiRi” as she’s nicknamed retired after her win, and we expect to see her sisters carry-on her remarkable record.
GCh Whistlestop’s Riley on Fire
BCA in Indianapolis was held on May 9th with GCh Brisbane N Blue Monday’s Diamonds Are Decadent “Suri” winning BISS & Top Twenty.
GCh Brisbane N Blue Monday’s Diamonds Are Decadent
PBGV National. GCh GCH M&M’s Fear The Beard “Wilson” cleaned up at this year’s PBGV National hosted in Pennsylvania, winning the top honor of BISS, the Top 20 and awarded for the first time, The People’s Choice Award. Janice Hayes, Wilson’s handler had this to say:
As if this wasn’t already the most memorable week already…Wilson wins the first Top 20 and People’s Choice award for our breed. We cannot thank everyone enough for so many kind words and excitement for this boy! Thank you Thank you Thank You ALL!!!
Mrs. DiGiacomo’s selection for Best Miscellaneous was Miniature American Shepherd Applewood’s Pick Of the Crop. Her selection for Best Junior was Molli Jason with her Smooth Collie “Tessa”. She is the Number Two Junior for Collies this year.
On Sunday, Windham County Kennel Club hosted 770 dogs with Mr. Edward Hall awarding BIS and RBIS. His top pick was GCh Cragsmoor Good Time Charlie and RBIS was awarded to Samoyed GCh Pebblesrun Play It Again Ham. Joining them in the Ring were Sussex Spaniel GCh Kamand Tangled Up In Blue; PBGV GCh Lacey’s Deck Plate Leader; Miniature Pinscher Marlex Call Me La Lupe; Xolo GCh Bayshore Georgio Armani; Pembroke Welsh Corgi Ch Cityside Splitting The Defense.
Mrs. Tammy Jackson awarded Best Miscelleneous to Miniature American Shepherd Applewood’s Pick Of The Crop.
Ms. Robin MacFarlane awarded Danielle Meyers Best Junior with her Australian Shepherd Pinnacics She’s So Fancy.
Dr. DiNardo awarded Best Miscellaneous to Berger Picard Double D’s Hidden Assets at Purplesur. Best Junior was awarded to Elizabeth C. Tibor with her Tibetan Spaniel GCh Hi-Hope First Man On The Job For Calirose.
Mr. James Ham awarded Miniature American Shepherd Dynasty’s Triple Crown CM3 Best Miscellaneous. Best Junior was awarded to Mary Clair C Tibor with Brittany Dogwood Hollow So Be It.
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On Friday, American Boxer Club BISS was awarded to GCh Brisbane N Blue Monday’s Diamonds Are Decadent “Suri”. The other awards were: Best of Winners: Marburl And Illyrian’s Lone Ranger; Best of Opposite Sex: GCH. Shadigee’s Sequel To Legends; Select Dog: GCh. Hi-Tech The King of Sherry Shoot JP; Select Bitch: Ch. Mephisto’s Speak of The Devil. Awards of Merit: GCh. Winfall I Dream of Style; Best Veteran GCh. Katandy’s Fast Forward; GCh. Dorado’s High Hope of Essence; GCh. Cinnrhee’s One of A Kind.
On Sunday, Lancaster Kennel Club hosted 911 dogs with Mr. Richard Powell awarding BIS and RBIS. His top selection was Scottish Terrier Ch McVan’s To Russia With Love with RBIS awarded to Papillon GCh Involo The King of Pop. Joining them in the Ring were English Springer Spaniel GCh Legacy Random Titleist; Whippet GCh Sporting Fields Shameless; GCh Claircreek Impression de Matisse; Bichon Frise Ch Barberry’s Take A Chance On me; Border Collie CH Lucky For You Gangster. | {
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German construction slowed in February following January’s success
German construction slowed in February following January’s success
According to findings from the IHS Markit Germany’s purchasing managers’ index (PMI), the nation’s construction activity dropped to 52.7 last month.
This follows the success of an 82-month high reading on the index in January, reaching 59.8.
February’s drop was the lowest in 13 months, yet as it remained above neutral level (50), it continued Germany’s more than three-year continuance of growth.
“January’s spike in construction growth was helped by the unusually mild start to the year, so it was little surprise to see the sector retreat in February as winter weather conditions returned,” commented Phil Smith, IHS Markit Principle Economist. | {
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Honduran Edilberto Lanza Mejia and his family are released by Border Patrol at the McAllen bus station.
U.S. Border Patrol is overwhelmed by the numbers of children and families crossing the border with limited ability to process and hold those crossing illegally. (Johnny Hanson / Houston Chronicle)
Photo By Johnny Hanson
A group of seven people are smuggled Saturday from Mexico across the Rio Grande to Anzalduas County Park in Mission. The group from El Salvador and Honduras is made up of a mother with a 7-year-old son, another mother with a 4-year-old daughter, an 11-year-old boy and two 17-year-olds.
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A group of seven people are smuggled Saturday from Mexico across the Rio Grande to Anzalduas County Park in Mission. The group from El Salvador and Honduras is made up of a mother with a 7-year-old son, another mother with a 4-year-old daughter, an 11-year-old boy and two 17-year-olds.
McALLEN - A little before noon on Friday, a white Homeland Security bus stopped outside a public bus terminal in downtown McAllen, its doors opening to disgorge a group of about 20 immigrants from Central and South America.
A father carried a sleeping 9-month-old with curly black hair. A mother steered two toddlers toward the terminal.
"They just left us here," said Norma Navarro, from El Salvador, as the government bus pulled away from the terminal. "We have nothing."
But each person on the bus had at least one critical possession: a packet of U.S. government-issued documents ordering them to report to immigration officials within 15 days of landing at their new destination, and to appear in immigration court on a set date.
The paperwork confers no legal status, but many immigrants see it as a pass to a new life. Edilberto Lanza Mejia, a 26-year-old from Honduras holding his infant son, described it like this: "It is a permit to enter the United States."
The flow of Central and South Americans through South Texas has become an unmanageable torrent within the past month, overwhelming the Border Patrol, and the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is charged with placing thousands of unaccompanied minors who have been arrested.
"We are being overwhelmed," said U.S. Border PatrolAgent Christopher Cabrera, vice president of National Border Patrol Council Local 3307. "We have groups of 70, 80, 90 people just walking up and turning themselves in. They're finding the first agent and saying take me in and let me have my walking papers.
"If we don't get some help soon, it's going to be disastrous," he said.
Perry also asked the administration eliminate policies that he described as encouraging illegal immigration - in particular releasing immigrants from custody with notices to appear in court and reuniting youths caught alone in the country illegally with family members in the U.S.
"I ask you to take action to prevent the situation along the U.S.-Mexico border from further escalating by providing more resources to secure our porous border," Perry wrote.
Top Department of Homeland Security officials said they already have dispatched hundreds more agents to the Texas border, and are in high-level talks with other agencies about how to reduce the flow of unaccompanied children through the Rio Grande Valley.
"This situation is an example of a broken immigration system and the need to fix our legal immigration channels to allow for immigrant families, in particular children and other vulnerable populations, to reunite legally and safely," department spokeswoman Marsha Catron said in a statement.
The steep influx of children and families in particular has caused turmoil within the agency, prompting some Homeland Security officials to agitate internally for a shift.
"We're not going to interdict our way out of this problem. More arrests just mean more problems," a Homeland Security official said. "We need a policy change so we can send these families and children back home instead of turning them loose."
But the argument is not as simple as some politicians or policymakers would make it seem, immigration experts said.
The U.S. government treats immigrants caught along the Southwest border differently, based on where they are from and if they need special protections dictated by federal law or lawsuit settlement agreements.
Most adults from Mexico caught near the border are typically processed and returned to the port of entry within days. Mexican children who claim a fear of returning home or indicate they have been trafficked are put into formal removal proceedings and transferred to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Adults from countries other than Mexico generally are held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers and placed in expedited removal proceedings, which allow the government to fast-track them for flights home without a court hearing.
But when immigrants from countries other than Mexico are caught with children, it becomes more complicated. Legally, the government can detain families pending their removal, but ICE officials have only one residential family detention center, located in Reading, Penn., with a capacity of 96.
So instead of being detained, most parents with young children are typically processed by the Border Patrol and ordered to report to ICE and appear in court, and taken to bus stations and released from custody.
Flood of children
One group of immigrants poses perhaps the greatest challenge for immigration officials: youths under 18 from countries other than Mexico caught in the U.S. illegally and alone.
Because they are considered particularly vulnerable, the law requires immigration officials to hand them over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Once in ORR custody, the youths typically are housed in a sprawling network of state-licensed shelters and other facilities until the government can arrange for their release to relatives of other sponsors in the U.S. pending the outcome of their immigration cases.
Children are moving through the detention system at record pace because of the strain on the system, with about 90 percent released to a sponsor in the United States.
The flood of illegal immigration has caused major overcrowding at Border Patrol stations, severely overtaxing an agency and facilities designed to detain people for only a few hours.
Cabrera offered an example of the overcrowding: The Border Patrol station in McAllen is supposed to hold up to 270 people in the processing area. "Now you're looking at 1,000 to 1,200 there. And about 300 of them aren't even in a building. They're out in a garage."
The agency recently has resorted to sending buses full of adult Central and South American immigrants for processing to stations downriver - some all the way to Tucson, Ariz. The agency also started flights to Arizona, where illegal crossings have declined in recent years and more agents are available to help, a Homeland Security official said.
Busloads of immigrants from Central and South America caught crossing with young children are being issued notices to appear in immigration court and deposited at bus stations from South Texas to Arizona. At the McAllen bus station on Friday afternoon, government buses pulled up about every two hours.
"Where am I?" one woman asked after walking into the terminal with her immigration paperwork, a young boy in tow.
"The Border Patrol is doing a heroic job trying to address this issue, but they are overwhelmed," said Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas. "What they are doing cannot be sustained."
Arrests in the Rio Grande Valley sector have topped more than 160,000 so far this fiscal year, eclipsing the total arrests in all of last year with months to go.
Strained system
Catron said in a statement that DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson has declared a "Level IV condition of readiness" because of the strain on the system caused by the numbers of unaccompanied children caught so far this year. Catron said DHS personnel from across the country have been reassigned to help with their processing and care.
Some 400 unaccompanied youths were detained in the Rio Grande Valley in a single day this week, DHS data show.
Unaccompanied children from countries other than Mexico are supposed to be turned over to ORR within 72 hours, but they are coming into the system faster than they can be processed and released, DHS officials said. That has created a logjam of more than 2,000 unaccompanied children in Border Patrol custody in the Rio Grande Valley as of Friday. About half of them were there for more than 72 hours, the official said.
ORR's detention system is also overwhelmed. Last month, it started temporarily housing about 1,200 unaccompanied children at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. The agency also used a summer camp outside Waco to house hundreds more at a time.
Advocates said they were concerned that the strains on the system could lead to children missing out on legal orientations or screenings.
They also stressed that the children on the military base should have the same access to services as those in more permanent facilities. "There is no oversight of their conditions or their legal access," said David Walding, director of the Bernardo Kohler Center Inc., which provides legal services to unaccompanied children.
An ORR spokesman did not respond to questions about the specific services that children are being provided at the base.
Catron said federal officials are trying to figure out solutions to stem the flow and find more bed space.
"DHS and (Department of Health and Human Services) have been working closely together for some time to address the increased number of children, which has been an ongoing trend, but the tools at our disposal are limited," Catron said in the statement.
ORR officials estimate 60,000 unaccompanied children will land in their custody this year - more than nine times as many as in 2011.
Academics, advocates and government officials have struggled to pinpoint a cause for the steep influx. They cite a confluence of factors, including poverty, hopes of reuniting with relatives in the U.S. and a growing "humanitarian crisis" in Central and South America caused by destabilizing gang and cartel violence.
"I know a lot of people in Washington are asking questions about why people are coming, and what is the answer?" said Meredith Linsky, director of the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project, which provides pro bono legal assistance to asylum seekers. "I don't think anyone really has the answer, but certainly conditions in Central America are going to have to improve in order for people to continue to live there, and live a dignified life."
'It doesn't work'
Catron said DHS is expanding awareness campaigns in Central and South America, and officials are trying to underscore the fact that people caught in the U.S. - including children trying to reunite with family members - are not eligible for legal status.
Michelle Brané, director of the Migrant Rights and Justice program for the Women's Refugee Commission, said the solution is not to start detaining families. She pointed to a family detention center in Taylor that closed down years ago amid protests over the detention conditions and the ethics of locking up children for long periods of time - even with their parents.
At the McAllen bus station, Lanza said he and his wife and three children - ages 9 months, 2 and 5 - were happy to be out of Honduras, and out of Border Patrol custody. They spent five days in a cold and cramped cell, sleeping on the concrete floor, he said. The baby developed a phlegmy cough.
"We should take him to a hospital," Lanza said. "Soon."
Within hours of arriving, Lanza borrowed a cellphone in the bus terminal. His wife called her sister in North Carolina, who paid for their fare to Greenville. They had tickets for the last bus out that night, leaving at 11:30.
Lanza smiled with relief, and settled into a seat inside the bus station to wait.
Just then, another white bus with a DHS logo pulled up outside the terminal and opened its doors. | {
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A woman convicted of killing a Chihuahua by throwing it from the seventh floor of a parking garage in downtown San Francisco in February was sentenced to three years in state prison Thursday, according to prosecutors.
Wakeen “LaLa” Best was found guilty of animal cruelty, auto burglary and vandalism after a day of jury deliberation at the conclusion of a three-week trial.
Dunky the Chihuahua killed in SF (San Francisco Police Department)
“We asked for the maximum sentence because the defendant has shown no remorse whatsoever and went so far as to kill an innocent animal that got in her way while she burglarized a vehicle,” Max Szabo, a spokesman for the district attorney, said Thursday in a statement. “The behavior is despicable and she needs to be held accountable.”
Prosecutors said that Best entered the Stockton-Sutter Street Garage around 2 p.m. Feb. 10, broke into a Mercedes parked on the seventh floor and took a 4-year-old male Chihuahua named Dunky that had been left inside while his owner went to lunch.
A dashcam in the vehicle captured audio of Dunky barking, and a person saying “shut your ass up,” although it was facing the wrong direction to capture video of Best. Still, prosecutors said they found security footage placing Best at the scene.
Defense attorney Alexandra Pray argued that if Best had attempted to burglarize the Mercedes she would have taken property from the vehicle after dropping Dunky to his death, however, there was nothing missing but the dog.
Investigators identified Best as a suspect, based on surveillance videos, and arrested her the following day in the vicinity of Bush and Polk streets.
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The Cabinet is the ultimate decision-making body of the executive within the Westminster system of government in traditional constitutional theory. This interpretation was originally put across in the work of nineteenth century constitutionalists such as Walter Bagehot, who described the Cabinet as the "efficient secret" of the British political system in his book The English Constitution. The political and decision-making authority of the cabinet has been gradually reduced over the last several decades, with some claiming its role has been usurped by a "prime ministerial" government. In the modern political era, the Prime Minister releases information concerning Cabinet rank; a list detailing the seniority of all Cabinet ministers.
The Cabinet is the executive committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council,[2] a body which has legislative, judicial and executive functions, and whose large membership includes members of the Opposition. Its decisions are generally implemented either under the existing powers of individual government departments, or by Orders in Council.
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Until at least the 16th century, individual Officers of State had separate property, powers and responsibilities granted with their separate offices by Royal Command, and the Crown and the Privy Council constituted the only co-ordinating authorities. In England, phrases such as "cabinet counsel", meaning advice given in private, in a cabinet in the sense of a small room, to the monarch, occur from the late 16th century, and, given the non-standardised spelling of the day, it is often hard to distinguish whether "council" or "counsel" is meant.[3] The OED credits Francis Bacon in his Essays (1605) with the first use of "Cabinet council", where it is described as a foreign habit, of which he disapproves: "For which inconveniences, the doctrine of Italy, and practice of France, in some kings’ times, hath introduced cabinet counsels; a remedy worse than the disease".[4]Charles I began a formal "Cabinet Council" from his accession in 1625, as his Privy Council, or "private council", and the first recorded use of "cabinet" by itself for such a body comes from 1644, and is again hostile and associates the term with dubious foreign practices.[3]
Since the reign of King George I the Cabinet has been the principal executive group of British government. Both he and George II made use of the system, as both were not native English speakers, unfamiliar with British politics, and thus relied heavily on selected groups of advisers. The term "minister" came into being since the royal officers "ministered" to the sovereign. The name and institution have been adopted by most English-speaking countries, and the Council of Ministers or similar bodies of other countries are often informally referred to as cabinets.
The modern Cabinet system was set up by Prime Minister David Lloyd George during his premiership, 1916–1922, with a Cabinet Office and Secretariat, committee structures, unpublished minutes, and a clearer relationship with departmental Cabinet ministers. The formal procedures, practice and proceedings of the Cabinet remain largely unpublished.
This development grew out of the exigencies of the First World War, where faster and better co-ordinated decisions across Government were seen as a crucial part of the war effort. Decisions on mass conscription, co-ordination worldwide with other governments across international theatres, and armament production tied into a general war strategy that could be developed and overseen from an inner "War Cabinet". The country went through successive crises after the war: the 1926 United Kingdom general strike; the Great Depression of 1929–32; the rise of Bolshevism after 1917 and Fascism after 1922; the Spanish Civil War 1936 onwards; the invasion of Abyssinia 1936; the League of Nations Crisis which followed; and the re-armament and resurgence of Germany from 1933, leading into another World War. All these demanded a highly organised and centralised Government centred on the Cabinet.
Cabinet ministers, like all ministers, are appointed and may be dismissed by the monarch without notice or reason, on the advice of the Prime Minister. The allocation and transfer of responsibilities between ministers and departments is also generally at the Prime Minister's discretion. The Cabinet has always been led by the Prime Minister, whose originally unpaid office as such was traditionally described as merely primus inter pares (first among equals), but today the Prime Minister is the preeminent head of government, with the effective power to appoint and dismiss Cabinet ministers and to control the Cabinet's agenda. The extent to which the Government is collegial varies with political conditions and individual personalities.
Any change to the composition of the Cabinet involving more than one appointment is customarily referred to as a reshuffle; a routine reshuffle normally occurs every summer. The total number of ministers allowed to be paid as "Cabinet ministers" is limited by the Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975, but there may be regular attendees at Cabinet who are not paid as Cabinet ministers. The number in addition to the Prime Minister is currently 21,[5] total cabinet composition fluctuating between 21 and 23.
There are some 100 junior members of the Government who are not members of the Cabinet, including Ministers of State and Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State; and unpaid Parliamentary Private Secretaries are in practice apprentice ministers on the payroll vote. Some of them may be Privy Counsellors, or may be appointed to the Privy Council as a mark of distinction, without becoming Cabinet ministers. Equally, some junior ministers below Cabinet level may be invited to all Cabinet meetings as a matter of course. The Attorney General for England and Wales together with the chair of the governing political party, are customarily included, and other members of the Government can be invited at the Prime Minister's discretion, either regularly or ad hoc.
The Cabinet meets on a regular basis, usually weekly on a Thursday morning notionally to discuss the most important issues of government policy, and to make decisions. Despite the custom of meeting on a Thursday, after the appointment of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister the meeting day was switched to Tuesday.[8] However, when David Cameron became prime minister, he held his cabinet meetings on Thursdays again.[9] The length of meetings varies according to the style of the Prime Minister and political conditions, but today meetings can be as short as 30 minutes, which suggests announcement or ratification of decisions taken in committee, by informal groups, or in bi-lateral discussions between the Prime Minister and individual colleagues, with discussion in Cabinet itself very limited. The Prime Minister normally has a weekly audience with the Queen thereafter.
The Cabinet has numerous sub-committees which focus on particular policy areas, particularly ones which cut across several ministerial responsibilities, and therefore need coordination. These may be permanent committees or set up for a short duration to look at particular issues ("ad hoc committees"). Junior ministers are also often members of these committees, in addition to Secretaries of State. The transaction of government business through meetings of the Cabinet and its many committees is administered by a small secretariat within the Cabinet Office. Consequent Orders in Council are normally made by the Queen-in-Council with a quorum of the Privy Council, which meets monthly or ad hoc.
The Institute for Government claims that the reduced number of full Cabinet meetings signify "that the role of Cabinet as a formal decision-making body has been in decline since the war."[citation needed]. This view has been contradicted by Vernon Bogdanor, a British constitutional expert, who claims that "the Cabinet has, in fact, been strengthened by the decline in full meetings, as it allows more matters to be transferred to cabinet committees. Thus, business is done more efficiently."[10]
Most Prime Ministers have had a so-called "kitchen cabinet" consisting of their own trusted advisers who may be Cabinet members but are often non-cabinet trusted personal advisers on their own staff. In recent governments, generally from Margaret Thatcher, and especially in that of Tony Blair, it has been reported that many or even all major decisions have been made before cabinet meetings. This suggestion has been made by former ministers including Clare Short and Chris Smith, in the media, and was made clear in the Butler Review, where Blair's style of "sofa government" was censured.
These are derived from the fact the members of the cabinet are Members of Parliament, and therefore accountable to the House of which they are a member. The Queen will only appoint a Prime Minister whose Government can command the support of the House of Commons, which alone can grant supply to a Government by authorising taxes; and the House of Commons expects all ministers to be personally accountable to Parliament. In practice, Cabinet ministers will usually have a junior minister to represent their department in the House of Lords.
Cabinet collective responsibility means that members of the cabinet make major decisions collectively, and are therefore collectively responsible for the consequences of these decisions. Therefore, no minister may speak against government decisions, and if a vote of no confidence is passed in Parliament, every minister and government official drawn from Parliament is expected to resign from the executive. Cabinet ministers who disagree with major decisions are expected to resign, Robin Cook being a recent example over the decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003. The principle of collective responsibility is not impaired by the fact that decisions may be made in a cabinet committee rather than by the full cabinet.
Individual ministerial responsibility is the convention that in their capacity as head of department, a minister is personally responsible for the actions and failings of their department. Under circumstances of gross failure in their department, a minister is expected to resign (and may be forced to do so by the Prime Minister), while their civil servants remain permanent and anonymous. This is relatively rare in practice, perhaps because administrative failure is of less interest to the media than personal scandal, and less susceptible to unequivocal proof. The closest example in recent years is perhaps Estelle Morris, who resigned as Secretary of State for Education and Skills in 2002 following severe problems and inaccuracies in the marking of A-level exams. The circumstances under which this convention is followed are not possible to define strictly, and depend on many other factors. If a minister's reputation is seen to be tarnished by a personal scandal (for example when it was luridly revealed that David Mellor had an extramarital affair) they very often resign. This often follows a short period of intense media and opposition pressure for them to do so. In general, despite numerous scandals, in Britain known cases of serious corruption (e.g. acceptance of bribes) are relatively rare in comparison with many other democracies.[citation needed]
Parliamentary Questions can be tabled for ministers in either house of Parliament for either written or oral reply. These may be "planted" questions for the advantage of the Government, or antagonistic questions from the Opposition, or may genuinely seek information. Cabinet ministers must respond, either themselves or through a deputy, although the answers do not always fully answer the question. Written answers, which are usually more specific and detailed than oral questions are usually written by a civil servant. Answers to written and oral questions are published in Hansard.
Parliament cannot dismiss individual ministers (though members or a House may call for their resignation, or formally resolve to reduce their salary by a nominal amount), but the House of Commons is able to determine the fate of the entire Government. If a vote of no confidence in the Government passes, then the Queen will seek to restore confidence either by a dissolution of Parliament and the election of a new one, or by the acceptance of the resignation of her entire government.
In the United Kingdom's parliamentary system, the executive is not separate from the legislature, since Cabinet members are drawn from Parliament. Moreover, the executive tends to dominate the legislature for several reasons:
the power of the Government Whips (whose role is to ensure party members vote in accordance with the party line)
the "payroll vote" (a term which refers to the fact that members of parliament of the majority party will wish to be promoted to an executive position, and then be on the government's payroll).
collective ministerial responsibility requires members of the government to vote with the government on whipped votes, or else resign their position.
The combined effect of the Prime Minister's ability to control Cabinet by circumventing effective discussion in Cabinet and the executive's ability to dominate parliamentary proceedings places the British Prime Minister in a position of great power, that has been likened to an elective dictatorship (a phrase coined by Lord Hailsham in 1976). The relative inability of Parliament to hold the Government of the day to account is often cited by the UK media as a justification for the vigour with which they question and challenge the Government. This is often controversial as some people believe that Individual Media Corporations have had key influence upon certain components of British elections.[12]
The classic view of Cabinet Government was laid out by Walter Bagehot in The English Constitution (1867) in which he described the prime minister as the primus‐inter‐pares ("first among equals").[13] The view was questioned by Richard Crossman in The Myths of Cabinet Government (1972) and by Tony Benn. They were both members of the Labour governments of the 1960s and thought that the position of the Prime Minister had acquired more power so that Prime Ministerial Government was a more apt description.[13] Crossman stated that the increase the power of the prime minister resulted from power of centralised political parties, the development of a unified civil service, and the growth of the Prime Minister's private office and Cabinet secretariat.[14]Graham Allen (a Government Whip during Tony Blair's first government) makes the case in The Last Prime Minister: Being Honest About the UK Presidency (2003) that in fact the office of prime minister has presidential powers,[15] as did Michael Foley in The British Presidency (2000).[16] However the power that a prime minister has over his or her cabinet colleagues is directly proportional to the amount of support that they have with their political parties and this is often related to whether the party considers them to be an electoral asset or liability. Also when a party is divided into factions a Prime Minister may be forced to include other powerful party members in the Cabinet for party political cohesion. The Prime Minister's personal power is also curtailed if their party is in a power-sharing arrangement, or a formal coalition with another party (as happened in the coalition government of 2010 to 2015).[14][13][17] | {
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In Sesotho, the toilet is ntloana (or boithomelo, if you want to be uppity about it). Ntloana literally means a small house. When you gotta go, you gotta go, right? But how do you declare such an intention? How do you ask those around you to show you where thesmall house is? Nothing simpler. Remember the following language practices, however: [1.] In Sesotho you add -ng or -eng or -ing to a noun, if you want to turn the noun into "the place of + that original noun." Here are a few examples:
bolo (ball), bolong (stadium);
joala (alcohol), joaleng (bar/pub/shebeen);
leloala (mill), leloaleng (at the miller's);
lebota (wall), leboteng (on the wall);
'mele (body), 'meleng (on the body);
ntloana (toilet), ntloaneng (at/to/in the toilet);
khauta or gauta (gold), Khauteng or Gauteng (a South African province where there are gold mines);
mokhoro (Basotho hut), mokhorong (at the hut).
The second thing to remember is that [2.] Politely does it. Ke kopa ... is the formula you want to learn, and use over and over when asking for things. Say it like this: / key-coop-uh / It is the equivalent of "May I..." or "Please..." One day we will look at how you can say, "give it the f*ck to me!" But not right away, ahem.
Ke kopa metsi. May I have some water?
Ke kopa lijo. May I have some food?
Ke kopa ho ea ntloaneng. May I go to the toilet?
Ke kopa thuso. I need help.
Ke kopa pampiri. May I have some paper?
Ke kopa ho tsamaea. May I go?
Ke kopa ho shoa/ schwa /. May I die?
There is also ak'u mphe..., another polite phrase when asking for things. It is rather informal when compared to ke kopa ..., and sounds something like /AH-comb-PAIR/. AH-comb-PAIR pampiri, or "can you give me some paper?" If you learn some verbs, you can take this quite far, indeed.
You can literally ak'u anything. Toilets are often plain outhouses in the smaller villages of Lesotho (hence the name of small house, of course). In America they call them outhouses. Modern toilets with running water are a city luxury. There are no taboos that I can think of regarding toilets and toilet-going. Basotho regard toilet-going as something essential that has to be carried out, full-stop. Hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go. Here are the two phrases to remember: key-coop-uh and ah-comb-pair.
Anothing thing to remember is that the /k/ and /c/ sounds in these two phrases are exactly the same. I have made them different because I wanted to use recognisable English words for the purposes of facilitating memory. But they are the same, and are a hard /k/ sound with as little aspiration (or expiration, you know, that little air that escapes when you say /c/ in English) as possible. If you say them like the English words they are, everyone will understand you, but you'll sound like a foreigner. | {
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What Is Effective Herbal Home Remedies For Cancer?
Cancer is not just one disease but it is a group of many diseases. There are more than 100 types of cancer. Most cancers are named for where they begin. For example, breast cancer starts in the breast and lung cancer starts in the lung. The increase of cancer from one part of the body to other is known as metastasis.
Cancer harms the body when injured cells split uncontrollably to form lumps or lots of tissue called tumors. Cancer can raise and interfere with the nervous, digestive and circulatory systems, and also discharge hormones that change body function. Cancers that live in one spot and show partial growth are normally considered to be benign. According to the study only 10% of cancer deaths are caused by the prime tumors.
People are using different medication and treatment to prevent cancer. One of the best methods to prevent cancer is to use herbal home remedies. Some of the effective herbal home remedies are given below that are used for cancer:
Acerola (Malpighia glabra): It is an effective herbal home remedy used for the treatment of various diseases, including cancer. The acerola are very high in vitamin C. This fruit provide plenty of vitamin C about 80 times more than fresh orange juice.
Aloe Vera: The juice of aloe vera is used both internally for cancer of the gastro intestinal tract and is the best herbal home remedy used for healing skin cancer. It is also useful for those people who are suffering from bowel cancer.
Astragalus Root: It assists to strengthen your immune system and produces anti cancer cells in the body. It improves cell metabolism, increase protein synthesis in the liver, delaying cell ageing, stimulates immune system and reinstates adrenal cortex function. It is an effective herbal home remedy that prescribed to prevent cancers.
Broccoli: It is one of the most important vegetables suggested for those who want to evade bowel cancer. It is an effective herbal home remedy for cancer.
Cabbage: The juice of cabbage gives a strong tonic to those people who are suffering from every serious problem of the digestive system including stomach cancer.
Carrots: Raw carrots and carrot juice is an effective herbal home remedy to cure cancer. It is a tasty drink and should be taken daily.
Garlic: It is an effective home remedy to prevent cancer. In Japan garlic has revealed a flourishing degree of immunity. Garlic is an old herbal remedy for the lungs and cancer.
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The Disproportionate Placement of African Americans in Special Education: An Analysis of Ten Cities.
Herrera, Janette
Research has often indicated that African American male students are placed in special education in disproportionate numbers. Many reasons have been advanced for this disparity in placement, including placement and testing procedures, cultural differences, parent and teaching training problems, economic factors, and the failure of schools to educate them adequately. Disparities in representation of white and African American males in special education were studied in 10 cities, and the racial composition of the teaching staff was also studied. A relationship was found between the number of black male students placed in special education and the number of white teachers in the school system. The cities with the highest percentage of white teachers had the highest percentage of black students identified as "special." All the cities in the study exhibited excessive black male special education placement. It was expected that this would be worse in cities with many white teachers (white dominant) and less so in cities with many black teachers (black dominant). For the most part, this expectation was confirmed. Cities with the highest proportions of black teachers (Atlanta, Georgia and the District of Columbia) placed black males at the lowest rate. Cities with an intermediate level of black teachers placed these students at an intermediate rate. These cities included: (1) Cleveland, Ohio; (2) Miami, Florida; (3) Chicago, Illinois; (4) Houston, Texas; and (5) Detroit, Michigan. Finally, the cities with the lowest proportion of black teachers (New York, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and San Diego, California) were the least receptive to cultural, racial, and sexual differences. In these school districts, at least one out of every six black males would end up in special education. It is concluded that while dominance of the teacher racial group is an indicator of disproportionate special education placement, the influence of black administrative power, political economic empowerment, and cultural heterogeneity are important explanatory variables, as seen in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Milwaukee, and Washington, DC. (Contains 3 tables and 34 references.) (SLD) | {
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The Museum of Virginia Catholic History maintains two exhibits located in the Baptistery Gallery and Crypt & Undercroft of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. The Cathedral is located at 18 N. Laurel Street, at the intersection of Floyd Avenue (also known as Cathedral Place) and N. Laurel Street in Richmond’s Fan District. There is two-hour street parking available along Floyd Avenue. The VCU parking deck, located nearby on N. Laurel Street, provides optional parking.
Arriving from the East by Interstate 64 – Take Exit #190 for Fifth Street and Downtown/Coliseum. Turn right at the eighth traffic light, onto Main Street. Follow Main Street approximately 12 blocks (crossing Belvidere Street) to North Laurel Street. Make a left onto N. Laurel Street. The VCU parking deck will be on your right.
Arriving from the West by Interstate 64 – Interstate 64 East will merge into Interstate 95 South. Follow 64 East/95 South to exit #76B (exit for US-1/Belvidere Street). From exit ramp, make left at light onto Leigh Street. Make a right at light onto Belvidere Street. Follow Belvidere (crossing Broad Street) until you reach Main Street. Make a right on Main and follow to next light. Make a left onto N. Laurel Street. The VCU parking deck will be on your right.
Arriving from the North by Interstate 95 South – From 95 South, take exit #76B (exit for US-1/Belvidere Street) and follow directions above.
Arriving from the South by Interstate 95 North – Take Exit #74A onto Downtown Expressway, exiting at Belvidere Street. The road onto which you exit will be Canal Street. Continue on Canal, crossing Belvidere, and turn right onto Cherry Street. Follow Cherry to Cary Street. The entrance to the VCU parking deck will be on your right, at the corner of Cherry and Cary Streets. | {
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Here is a look at how the transit of planets happens for your sign in 2014 -
- Jupiter remains 4th to your natal moon in the sign of Gemini till June 18, 2014. It transits 5th to your natal moon in the sign of Cancer from June 18, 2014 till the year end. Read - What this transit of Jupiter spells for Pisces
- Saturn, the great Karmic planet remains in the sign of Libra, 8th to your natal Moon till November 1, 2014 and rolls over into the sign of Scorpio 9th to your natal Moon on November 2, 2014 and will remain there for the next 2 1/2 years. Read - What this transit of Saturn spells for Pisces
- Rahu remains in the sign of Libra till the July 12, 2014, 8th to your natal moon. It moves into the sign of Virgo on July 13, 2014, 7th to your natal Moon and remains there for the next 1 1/2 year.
- The mystical planet Ketu remains in the sign of Aries, 2nd to your natal Moon till July 12, 2014. It moves into the sign of Pisces, over your ascendant on July 13, 2014.
Saturn will be in retrograde motion from March 2, 2014 to August 8, 2014
Jupiter will be in retrograde motion from beginning of 2014 to March 6, 2014 and again from December 8, 2014 till year end.
Mars goes retrograde from March 1, 2014 and turns direct on May 20, 2014.
The year 2014 spells significant changes. It’s a transition year that indicates movements into new opportunities and new life events, provided you must have made peace with the past and laid it to rest. The first half of the year is still a time of challenges and hardships. A soft watery sign of Pisces does not do well under the influence of Ashtama Shani. You may have to really gather your wits about you and take on each new day, afresh. The key is to keep your focus on dealing with one day at a time and believing in yourself. Things turn around towards mid-year bringing positive developments and encouraging events. A lot more relief flows in during the month of November when Saturn rolls over into the sign of Scorpio. Take care to cash in on favourable time and not remain caught up in the hangover of setbacks and what has already passed by. It’s time to look up to the Sun!
Business, Work and Finances Astrology for Pisces in 2014
The first half of the year could be very frustrating time that tests your patience and questions the very idea and essence of your being. This phase may be marked by a professional low. There could be loss of job, struggle with unemployment, humiliation at the place of work or being brought to book for some reason or the other. This particular transit is tough on the fabric of the individual.
In many cases, you could be looking for a suitable opportunity, where things progress and hope shows for a bit and yet the opportunity seems to slip out of hand. Your tenacity, ethical standards and personal discipline will be tested. There may be acute shortage of funds or fear of financial distress that leads to a lot of anxiety during this time.
There is fear of not being able to keep up your commitments, of letting down loved ones, fear of loss of face. There could be loss of focus and inability to concentrate that leads to more errors. If you handle accounts or sensitive documentation, you will need to keep your complete attention in your work. You may end up paying dearly for a small error or somebody else’s error too!
Do not trust people easily, especially if the financial returns they are promising are too good to be true. Chances of being cheated of your wealth are high. There may be a property dispute or a property related deal that hangs like a sword over your neck. Repairs, renovation, relocation – your house/ immovable property related stress is likely to manifest. There is some relief flowing in from mid-year as Jupiter moves into Cancer. There may be gain of job or much sought-after transfer to a job/ favoured location/ department. There is also the likelihood of some money coming in and easing your worries to a certain extent.
You should absolutely avoid dabbling in stocks till Saturn rolls over into the sign of Scorpio (this prediction for individuals actually takes in account a lot of personal horoscope details). Students may find themselves struggling in academics for most part of the year but will find some relief and hope as the year comes to a close.
Home, Family, Relationships Astrology for Pisces in 2014
With adverse transits of two major heavyweights, the Pisces may find it extremely hard to keep a grip over the events of life and subsequently one’s emotions. It may be a phase of struggle for couples as misunderstandings, disagreements arise. You will have to handle the issues with partner/ spouse with kid gloves. The domestic environment is likely to be highly unsettled, either due to the interference of a third individual, possibly a dominating member of the extended family or due to a number of insecurities. The phase till June could be marked by extraordinary coldness in equation, almost seeming more like separateness, rather than togetherness.
Make sure that you continue sharing ideas, information and feelings with your significant other to avoid this. You will also need to keep a firm control over harsh speech to do serious damage. Personal relations will need constant work and more than that, willingness to work on it. You could end up feeling terribly lonely and uncared for and unwanted in this time. However, what you need to understand is that isolation and constant company of “SELF” is provided during this time as this transit is meant to be a time of communion with self and god. Individuals with a high spiritual quotient and faith fare much better in this phase. Right path for a testing time eases out the journey.
Health and Wellness Astrology for Pisces in 2014
Health remains a definite sore spot with constant worry and anxiety. There is sleep but it may not be restful. Stomach ulcers, digestion issues, and metabolic disorders are likely to affect your health. The Pisces individual is quite susceptible to depression and mental health aberrations and therefore needs to take adequate care on that count too. Proper exercise, diet and mediation can make a lot of difference. However, that food routine and availability of nutritious food is often obstructed in this phase.
Performance of these life
optimizing remedial measures
given below will ensure that new
opportunities come in your life
and obstacles and impending
conditions are kept in check.
Utilize timeless wisdom to forge
ahead in life with enthusiasm
and prosperity.
Wear an
Jyotish Red Coral of 4 – 5 carats in Gold/Silver as a ring in the
ring finger or set as a pendant
in the neck.
Life Potential Optimization and
Remedial measures for Pisces/Meen
in 2014
Performance of these life
optimizing remedial measures
given below will ensure that new
opportunities come in your life
and obstacles and impending
conditions are kept in check.
Utilize timeless wisdom to forge
ahead in life with enthusiasm
and prosperity.
Mantra to be chanted:
Jupiter Mantra/Guru Mantra :
OM
GRAAM GREEM GROUM SAH GURVE
NAMAH
.
This is the mantra for
planet Jupiter. Jupiter
stands for blessing and
support of elders, excellent
fortune and spirituality.
The mantra can be chanted
11,27,54 or 108 times every
morning.
Dear Pisces these dates have
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transits of the moon. Use these
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potential. On lucky dates you
can expect career developments,
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people etc. On unlucky dates you
can expect quarrels and
confrontations, health problems,
anxiety and mood swings. Go all
out on your lucky dates and keep
a low profile on negative and
unlucky dates. If a date occurs
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I spent two entire years of my life teaching my precious babies to talk. I foresee that I will spend the rest of this summer regretting it.
For the most part, I work from home so that I can be with the kids. During the school year, that works perfectly. I drop them off, come home, do a little housework, a little work-work, and I stop in the office a few times a month for meetings. The meetings, while technically work, are a win-win for me. Yes, they force me to shower and do my hair, but I also get to talk to other grown people. It’s a lifeline.
Any of you who have ever been stay-at-home parents know how crucial this is. Without interaction in the real word, we stay-at-homes often begin to revert to our sticky preschool selves. You’ve seen us at Target, slogging around in slippers and yoga pants, hair pulled up into a three-day-old bun. Remnants of last Sunday’s make-up still on skin. There is probably breast milk or mac and cheese on the T-shirt we borrowed from our husband’s drawer. But hey, we had to, because our laundry is the only laundry that doesn’t have to get done. Our kids have to be clean, us, well, not so much. When we finally get to have that lunch with an old friend we haven’t seen in a while, we start to overwhelm them with stream of consciousness chatter and questions left unanswered. Then we apologize for constantly interrupting because, as we are forced to explain, we have forgotten how to talk to other adults.
My precious Parksalot is learning how it feels, too. Cut off from his friends and teachers at school during summer break, he is forgetting how to talk to me like I’m an adult. Apparently, he thinks I am a video game-obsessed, 9-year-old.
Now, I have suffered through two agonizingly long years of Minecraft. If you don’t know what Minecraft is, either you live under a rock or your kids just haven’t gotten to it yet. Just wait. It’s sort of a building game, where users create their own worlds using materials, such as wood, lava and glass, found in the game. Park is especially fond of elaborate houses with water falls and speeding roller coasters. And pigs. Somehow livestock is involved. It is an excellent game for developing imaginations, but for reals, I don’t get it. I have watched for endless hours as he cobbled a house together, asking my advice on what materials would look best and what colors I fancied. Finally, I just started making him create some Mommy-can-dream spaces, like luxe outdoor kitchens with pools and diamond-covered seating areas. When I got desperate for ideas, I would ask him to create art for the walls of his houses.
I was thrilled when Bodacious showed an interest in Minecraft, and now she builds with a ferocity to match her brother’s. But alas, like all good things, this is coming to an end. His latest obsession is Roblox. I have no idea what Roblox is, but he talks about it to me constantly. From what I gather, it is a community gaming experience, with users creating the games, uploading them into Roblox, and then everyone can play them. He loves the home designing games and the racing games.
He is obsessed. I have talked to him, well, OK, listened with a half an ear to him, for two straight weeks. Trapped on vacation road trips, a hostage stuck in traffic or the dinner table. He is breathless when he speaks about the games, his username, his prowess. He is filled with ideas for new games, strategy ideas and critiques of lesser foes -- especially his sister. He knows all about the life history of “Builderman,” the Roblox creator. And it all comes tumbling out at once, helter skelter.
And there is a part of me that thinks I might be going ever-so-slightly insane. After a particularly long car ride with him Thursday, the drive-thru wait at Chick-fil-A and then dinner, I just couldn’t take it anymore. I must have started twitching over my half-and-half tea.
My husband looked at me and asked what was wrong. I told him I couldn’t talk about video games any more, period. I asked if this is what it was like for him when he comes home, me trying to squeeze in a day’s worth of adult contact into the few hours he has with us in the evenings. I know I just vomit all of the day’s events on him as soon as he walks in the front door. Fascinating bits about the dog’s behavior or a story I read online, haircuts I am considering or something else completely irrelevant to his existence.
To his credit, he smiled, then lied to my face.
“No, never.” Now that’s love folks. When someone just sucks in all your junk, because they know that you need to feel engaged and that you need to be validated. Even though they could not care less about the difference between ombre and balayage hair color or what salad you might bring to family dinner. They love you so much that they listen anyway.
That evening, as I was loading the dishwasher, Parksalot came into the kitchen to ask me if I had ever heard about a guy named David Baszucki, who goes by the name Builderman, in Roblox. I looked at him, all hopeful and bright-eyed. Then I took a deep, deep breath, smiled and lied to his face.
“No, never.”
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Melanie Nicholas is a full-time momma, writer and mommy blogger. She and The Hubs have two uh-mazing children, Parksalot, 8, and Bodacious, 6. You can follow her amazing adventures fighting grime and insecurity on Facebook @MelNicholas13 and at TheBathwaterBlogs.com. Her column appears in the Midland Reporter-Telegram every other week. | {
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McGregor is their only real shining light at this point. He’s the only marquee guy on the UFC’s roster everyone wants to see. Just ask the folks who saw him capture the UFC’s Lightweight title from Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205.
The failures started when UFC 200 took shape in the worst way possible. In fact, the effects are still being felt today.
Jon Jones failed a drug test from the USADA (United States Anti-Doping Agency), which resulted in his 1-year suspension from competing. He was supposed to face Daniel Cormier for the Light-Heavyweight title but was replaced by Anderson Silva. The fight was viewed as underwhelming despite Cormier playing smart and not striking with Silva.
That main event was supposed to replace McGregor/Diaz 2.. The main event wound up being Miesha Tate defending her bantamweight title against Amanda Nunes, which Nunes won decisively despite the lack of press.
All the attention went to the returning Brock Lesnar, who defeated Mark Hunt for three rounds. Later on, it was revealed Lesnar failed a drug test and resulted in his 1-year suspension from competition.
The domino effect culminated after McGregor’s victory in New York. Cormier was scheduled to face Anthony Johnson for UFC 206, but Cormier suffered a knee injury. That resulted in Max Holloway defeating Anthony Pettis in the main event for the interim featherweight title, which Pettis failed to make weight for.
This brings us to the last event of 2016. All the hype surrounded Ronda Rousey’s return, when it should’ve been focused on her opponent, current champion Amanda Nunes. Rousey’s rust showed after not fighting for 13 months.
Despite the loss, Rousey still made $3 million for the fight. Nunes made $200K, which included her knockout bonus. The story is about Rousey falling and not Nunes’ victories over both Rousey and Tate in the same year.
How can the UFC overcome this? How will the UFC rebound from their mistakes in 2016? We all know they can succeed, but how they can do it can be simple.
For starters, shift the focus to Nunes. Granted, this can backfire like it did with Holly Holm’s reign. However, the potential is ripe to take advantage of.
Speaking of the women, shift your focus to Joanna Jedrzejcyk. She is the current Women’s Strawweight Champion and loves to add more names to her impressive resume.
Another thing the UFC should do is to maintain focus on Demetrious Johnson. They centered “The Ultimate Fighter” around him, as 16 independent champions fought for a chance to challenge Johnson for his flyweight title. The tournament ended with Johnson recording his ninth straight title defense.
The bottom line is that MMA, like all other sports, is cyclical. You can replace each gear with a new one, and it can take fans on a new adventure. That’s what needs to happen for the UFC.
They can and will rebound from this. But that needs to start immediately. The sooner they embrace the changing of the guard, the better the sport becomes.
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Description: Farmers in Laos, U.S. allies during the Vietnam War, refugees in Thailand, citizens of the Western world—the stories of the Hmong who now live in America have been told in detail through books and articles and oral histories over the past severalMore...
Farmers in Laos, U.S. allies during the Vietnam War, refugees in Thailand, citizens of the Western world—the stories of the Hmong who now live in America have been told in detail through books and articles and oral histories over the past several decades. Like any immigrant group, members of the first generation may yearn for the past as they watch their children and grandchildren find their way in the dominant culture of their new home. For Hmong people born and educated in the United States, a definition of self often includes traditional practices and tight-knit family groups but also a distinctly Americanized point of view. How do Hmong Americans negotiate the expectations of these two very different cultures?In an engaging series of essays featuring a range of writing styles, leading scholars, educators, artists, and community activists explore themes of history, culture, gender, class, family, and sexual orientation, weaving their own stories into depictions of a Hmong American community where people continue to develop complex identities that are collectively shared but deeply personal as they help to redefine the multicultural America of today.Contributors: Mary Louise Buley-Meissner, Amy DeBroux, Jeremy Hein, Vincent K. Her, Don Hones, Gary Yia Lee, Song Lee, Pao Lor, Bic Ngo, Keith Quincy, Chan Vang, Hue Vang, Ka Vang, Kou Vang, May Vang, Ma Lee Xiong, Shervun Xiong, Kao Kalia Yang, Kou Yang.Vincent K. Her is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. Mary Louise Buley-Meissner is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Since 2000 they have collaborated on many projects exploring the Hmong American experience.
J. K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling was born in Gloucestershire, U. K. on July 31, 1965. She also writes fiction novels under the name of Robert Galbraith. Rowling attended Tutshill Primary and then went on to Wyedean Comprehensive where she was made Head Girl in her final year. She received a degree in French from Exeter University. She later took some teaching classes at Moray House Teacher Training College and a teacher-training course in Manchester, England. This extensive education created a perfect foundation to spark the Harry Potter series that Rowling is renowned for. After college, Rowling moved to London to work for Amnesty International, where she researched human rights abuses in Francophone Africa, and worked as a bilingual secretary. In 1992, Rowling quit office work to move to Portugal and teach English as a Second Language. There she met and married her husband, a Portuguese TV journalist. But the marriage dissolved soon after the birth of their daughter. It was after her stint teaching in Portugal that Rowling began to write the premise for Harry Potter. She returned to Britain and settled in Edinburgh to be near her sister, and attempted to at least finish her book, before looking for another teaching job. Rowling was working as a French teacher when her book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in June of 1997 and was an overnight sensation. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone won the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award, and received a Commended citation in the Carnegie Medal awards. She also received 8,000 pounds from the Scottish Arts Council, which contributed to the finishing touches on The Chamber of Secrets. Rowling continued on to win the Smarties Book Prize three years in a row, the only author ever to do so. At the Bologna Book Fair, Arthur Levine from Scholastic Books, bought the American rights to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for the unprecedented amount of $105,000.00. The book was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for it's American release, and proceeded to top the Best Seller's lists for children's and adult books. The American edition won Best of the Year in the School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Parenting Magazine and the Cooperative Children's Book Center. It was also noted as an ALA Notable Children's Book as well as Number One on the Top Ten of ALA's Best Books for Young Adults. The Harry Potter Series consists of seven books, one for each year of the main character's attendance at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. All of the books in the series have been made into successful movies. She has also written Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Rowling's first novel for an adult audience,The Casual Vacancy, was published by Little Brown in September 2012. She published two bestselling fiction novels under the name of Robert Galbraith: The Cuckoo's Calling and The Silkworm.
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Hmong American Studies: Bringing New Voices into Multicultural Studies
Identity and History
Searching for Sources of Hmong Identity in Multicultural America
Homeland Narratives and Hmong Americans in Wisconsin
From War to Resettlement: How Hmong Have Become Americans
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Forging New Paths, Confronting New Challenges: Hmong Americans in the Twenty-First Century
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The good news: I'm hoping to develop a set of psychoneurogenetic functioning DNA sequencing algorithms to figure out the appropriate genes for a personality-modifying recombinant gene transplant.
The bad news: Gene transplant technology is in its infancy, so it won't be usable for something like this until at least 10-20 years in the future. Plus, being a P, it will take me 10 years beyond that to actually finish the project.
If I had a different life I could have known you. You could be my best friend, you could be my lover. Hell, if we had different lives we could have been each other. To think, the same goes for everyone you never knew. Consider the possibilities. Too bad. We'll just have to enjoy what we got.
The good news: I'm hoping to develop a set of psychoneurogenetic functioning DNA sequencing algorithms to figure out the appropriate genes for a personality-modifying recombinant gene transplant.
The bad news: Gene transplant technology is in its infancy, so it won't be usable for something like this until at least 10-20 years in the future. Plus, being a P, it will take me 10 years beyond that to actually finish the project.
Well, you may have just become my new favorite person. I'm a graduate student with a bachelors in Biology and working on a masters in Genetics. And gene transplant/gene therapy happens to be a primary interest of mine.
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We – and when I say we, I’m talking about film critics and movie fans – were caught completely off guard a couple of years back when “21 Jump Street” made a successful transition from little screen to big screen. It got great reviews and it made lots of money. That kind of thing doesn’t happen very often to TV shows that are turned into movies. But it was smart and stupid, hip and outlandish, and as a bonus it was as action-packed as it was funny, all the while defying the conventions of your typical cop-buddy movie.So how do you follow that up? Well, if you’re co-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, you take a break from live-action craziness and make “The LEGO Movie,” which was even crazier, but featured plastic characters. Then you again team with the same two lead stars and make “21 Jump Street” all over again, but you ratchet it up a few notches, so it’s smarter and stupider and hipper and more outlandish. What about being action-packed and funny? Racheted up!“22 Jump Street” is a perfect sequel, in that it takes every element of its predecessor and makes it better. It also regularly makes fun of itself. You can be sure of that from the opening frame, which blurts out in “24”-like glory, “Previously on ‘21 Jump Street,’” then proceeds to fire off quick clips from the first film, before plopping our two undercover “high school” heroes Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) into more traditional undercover work – trying to break up a stolen exotic animals ring.Short story: They botch it, are immediately sent to their superior officer and are ordered to “go back and do what you do.” Translation: Report to Captain Dickson (Ice Cube), who’s headquartered in the former Korean church at 21 Jump Street. No, wait, hold that. HQ has moved over to the larger Vietnamese church at 22 Jump Street. But, in the words of the ever-angry Captain Dickson, “It’s the same case! Do the same thing!”No, not quite the same. They’re again assigned to mix in with a school’s population in order to find the supplier of a new designer drug, this one nicknamed why-phy, which initially makes its user very focused (good for students), then turns them into a party animal (also “good” for students). But they’ve “graduated” to a college locale rather than a high school.The film takes and provides great pleasure in making it obvious that these two guys would never pass as college students (Hill is 30, Tatum is 34), and in pointing out the differences between the two characters. Hill’s Schmidt is drawn to the campus art crowd, while Tatum’s Jenko immediately heads to the frat pack; Schmidt is smart and out of shape, but Jenko is, ummm, not so smart, and can likely play any sport, very well. As actors, Hill is naturally funny, and Tatum is self-deprecatingly hilarious.The side plots that accompany their search for the drug supplier include Jenko finding a new buddy in the football-mad Zook (Wyatt Russell), and Schmidt meeting up with a possible love interest in co-ed Maya (Amber Stevens). Nice touch: Maya’s dorm room has posters of Picasso (well, she is an art student) and Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh (who wrote the film’s score).But there’s not much time to focus on such details, as the directors keep a raucousness going, one that they made work in “21 Jump Street,” perfected in “The LEGO Movie,” and make shine in this one. Oh, there are niggling little clichés and there’s pointless mayhem in a silly car chase. But there are also spot-on scene-stealing turns by Ice Cube and by Patton Oswalt as a psychology professor, wild sight gags that comfortably mix with subtle sight gags, a great Cate Blanchett joke, an “Annie Hall” reference (think lobsters), a couple of very bizarre (and truly insane) fistfights happening simultaneously near the end, and a magical revelatory moment, in the parents weekend sequence, during which every single member of the audience will react as one – laughing, loudly.In an example of saving the best for last, please take this advice: When the movie ends, don’t jump up and go. The closing credits present viewers with such an entertaining set of conclusions, nobody watching will know who made or who was in the movie; they’ll be too busy lapping up what’s going on visually to pay attention to any names.
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A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Friday, July 21 at 12 Noon at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church for Marilyn M. Gardner, 94, who entered eternal life July 15 at the Canton Regency Retirement Center.
Marilyn was born in New York City Feb. 24, 1923 to John King and Mary A. (Kraemer) FitzGerald. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Robert V. Gardner, Sr. to whom she was married for 65 years, daughter Jill Gardner Weaver, daughter-in-law Janie Foltz Gardner, sons-in-law Joseph Plottner, J. R. Sandy and Gene Yost. She is survived by her children Sr. Joanne Gardner, HM, Bob (Bev) Gardner, Judy Gardner, Nancy Yost, Mimi (Joe) Beighley, Janet Plottner and Jack (Susie) Gardner, 14 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her sister Claire McKellogg and brothers Don (Flo Ann) FitzGerald and Bob FitzGerald, sister-in-law Carol McConnell and brother-in-law Dave Gardner, and many nieces and nephews and their families.
After her children were in school Marilyn worked in her husband's dental office as office manager for 21 years until their retirement in 1992. She then volunteered at Mercy Medical Center. She was an avid bridge player and also enjoyed euchre and poker, but her family was most important to her.
The family is most grateful to everyone at the Canton Regency Independent and Assisted Living where Marilyn was a resident for 13 years and to Crossroads Hospice and Palliative Care for their very special TLC.
Calling hours will be Thursday, July 20 from 6 - 8 pm at the Karlo-Libby Funeral Home, 5000 Everhard Road and on Friday, July 21 from 11 - 12 noon at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church.
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Remedy already working on something new
According to a number of sources as well as postings around the Internet, it would seem that Remedy, the developer of the finally released Alan Wake, is already working on something new. The company was the developer for Max Payne and the Death Rally series from back in the day.
The studio struggled to cross the finish line with the title Alan Wake, which despite some very positive reviews was not very well received by the buying public. The title has only sold about 250,000 copies since it finally arrived in July after cancellation of the PC version and numerous delays.
While no one knows what the developer might be working on, word is that the publisher is likely Microsoft. It is likely that we will not find out more till E3, but we suspect that the next title that the studio releases will have a much shorter development cycle, according to sources that we have spoken with.
As for Alan Wake, the number of actual units in gamer hands will go up this holiday season, as this title is part of the Elite holiday bundle this season. This is actually good, because after playing it ourselves, we can tell you that it is really quite a good game. We are still not sure, however, that it has lived up to all of the delays and hype that surrounded it before release. | {
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“Since the shooting in Parkland last year, I have gotten to know @AndrewPollackFL and his family, and I have been humbled to see their dedication to improving our state in honor of his daughter, Meadow,” Scott tweeted Monday. “I’m honored to have him as my guest at the #SOTU tomorrow night.”
Since the shooting in Parkland last year, I have gotten to know @AndrewPollackFL and his family, and I have been humbled to see their dedication to improving our state in honor of his daughter, Meadow. I’m honored to have him as my guest at the #SOTU tomorrow night.
“He’s become both a partner and a friend,” Scott said in a separate tweet. “I worked closely with Andy to pass the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, and I will continue to work with him and other Parkland parents to improve our schools and keep our students and teachers safe.”
He’s become both a partner and a friend. I worked closely with Andy to pass the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, and I will continue to work with him and other Parkland parents to improve our schools and keep our students and teachers safe.
Meadow Pollack was killed outside a locked women’s bathroom by shooter Nikolas Cruz, according to the report. The commission said her life, along with other students, could have been saved if they could use the “bathroom as a place of safety to avoid being shot.”
I am not doing this to get famous, I am doing this so no family ever again has to feel the way my family feels. There are no excuses! We must have proper security in every school in America! I will not stop until that is accomplished. We must #FixIt! #MeadowsMovementpic.twitter.com/Hz6v9S9vrI
Pollack was originally on the committee, but resigned June 2018 to focus on electing new Broward County Public School board members, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Scott appointed Pollack to Florida’s education board before finishing his second term as governor, The Associated Press reported. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, however, rejected Pollack along with several of Scott’s last-minute appointments.
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J's Frugal Finds
Happy Thursday everyone - only one more day and then the weekend! :) I hope you all are having a great week so far. As usual, here are my frugal finds for the week - all under $50. You can click on any of the photos for more information unless otherwise indicated. Happy shopping!
Forever 21 Polka Dot Bow Crepe Chiffon Top - $17.80This top looks really cute on the site, especially how they paired it with some skinny grey jeans (I think it would also look great with wide leg trousers) and platforms. I think I may need to go see if I can try this one on! Click HERE to view or purchase.AE Sky High Wedge Sandal - $49.50I'm anxiously awaiting spring, as I'm sure you can tell by my posting of these adorable wedges.
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In this world of celebrity culture, everyone wants the expensive, designer looks that they see on their favorite stars. I decided to start this blog to show people that you don't always have to shell out large amounts of cash to have a similar look! I hope to come as close as possible when finding these looks for less, so please be patient with the updates! Thank you, and I hope you visit often!! | {
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TCC1007 Original Contemporary Haida Argillite Carving
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TCC1007 Original Contemporary Haida Argillite Carving
Very nice workanship on this very fine example of a halibut inlaid with abalone. Carved by Neal Ryland of Haida Gwaii in 2009
Kevin Neal Ryland was born in Masset, Haida Gwaii May 5th 1968 and continues to live and work on Haida Gwaii and is from the Raven clan. He has been carving argillite since 1990, and he creates jewellery, boxes, model poles and sculptures. He learned to carve from Mike Brown and celebrated argillite carver, Christian White. | {
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017
I got just shy of 5k hits in a day, and not one troll talked about how my my comic sucked. So I consider that an Internet Win.
It got me interested in what life would be like if I was able to make a living off of just drawing comics instead of being an old IT guy. I'm going to try to expand some of my on-line presence and see if that draws more people to my comic, and ultimately to my patreon page so I can start to try to make enough money off the comic so I can draw full time.
OOh this will be a lot of work: I have a line on getting published, if only I can get that comic finished, and it's not the D&D comic I so want to draw. Just letting the nobody who follows this blog know that I'm still here.
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away... | {
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