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English Tapas
(Rough Trade)US: 3 Mar 2017
When you first hear Sleaford Mods, you might be a bit disoriented. The Nottingham duo’s electronic minimalist rap-ish rants are insulated against the uninvested listener. You need to seek it out and you must have a reason to dive into it. This self-isolation may be why it’s taken them so long to expand their fanbase. You have to understand the cultural context of their music. You have to have some stake in the subject matter to make Jason Williamson’s aggressive delivery sound like anything other than an angry, yelling, Englishman.
The sound of Sleaford Mods is predominately based around Andrew Fearn’s grimy, post-punk loops. He builds a mesmerizing, repetitive darkness that stews underneath Williamson’s fast talking or static, off-kilter singing. But English Tapas follows the expansion in sound that was established in their 2015 album Key Markets. The duo are playing more with melody and tonality, adding some complexity to the instrumentals even in ways as simple as the drums dropping out on the choruses of “Army Nights” or the snare build-ups sprinkled through “Carlton Touts”.
More or less, though, Fearn sticks to what he knows: gritty, post-punk bass played on top of hammered-out, four-on-the-floor drums ad nauseum. The simple descending bass line running over and over on top of a monotonous two-step drum beat on “Just Like We Do” is the kind of Sleaford Mods track that’s so basic the ear wants to tune it out, but that is the genius of the duo’s minimalist leanings. Regardless of the simplicity or the repetition, the elements refuse to be ignored. Little flourishes of keyboard add a hint of variety, but the unflinching consistency on tracks like “Messy Anywhere” and “Time Sands” is crazy-making and unapologetically so. Like a juggernaut trudging ever onward, unimpeded by anything in its way, Fearn’s beats slog along with eerie determination that repeats itself until you start paying attention.
Williamson matches Fearn’s relentlessness at every turn with fast-talking raps that don’t even pretend to fit into a rhythmic mold. “Snout” finds Williamson initially starting to sound like he’ll try and speak metrically, but two lines in he’s just shouting and even his double-tracked shouts for emphasis can’t keep up with his diatribe. There are internal rhymes and some arbitrary, subtle poetic form, but Williamson is more concerned with the mood and the performance than the technique. But Williamson also sings more than usual onEnglish Tapas. Sometimes his singing is tuneless and used mostly to create an odd, manic atmosphere like on “Drayton Manored”. Other times, like “I Feel So Wrong”, are earnest attempts to form a melody around Fearn’s sharp bass lines. His aggression and refusal to sound like anyone but himself are still there, but he’s trying to do something different than just shout at you.
The most distinctive characteristic of Sleaford Mods seems to be that they don’t have notions about their place in the musical world. They are 40-something weirdo’s making angry, simple music that a lot of people will see as too harsh, too odd, or too simple. But they don’t care. When Williamson’s singing drifts out of tune or he runs up to a high note he has to strain awkwardly for, he’s not bothered. He barrels through and says what he means to say. Fearn’s instrumentals don’t for one second pretend to be anything more complicated than four-bar loops that require him to press play and not much else. In “Snout” Williamson gripes about wasting money on a sweater that he doesn’t like and spews a line that seems to encapsulate the motivation behind the duo’s who-cares attitude. He says “It felt like I was trying to be trendy when I’m not!” There are no illusions in this music. If you don’t get it or you don’t have any stake in it, there’s the door. So what if it’s not perfect, so what if it’s not full of polyrhythms and tonal shifts. This music isn’t about that, it’s about being sucked in to a dense vortex of grimy drum ‘n’ bass and pissed off ranting and bobbing your head and being pissed off right along with it.
English Tapas
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Dan Kok studies journalism and music appreciation at Metropolitan State University of Denver. He has been a contributing writer at PopMatters for a year and previously maintained a semi-regular column for AltWire.net
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Byrne praised Demme for his “focus on character, his love of ordinary people, [which] made the movies something different and special.” Byrne also commended the filmmaker for his musical enthusiasm and ability to “slip a reggae artist’s song or a Haitian recording into a narrative film in ways that were often joyous and unexpected.”
The Talking Heads’ lead singer was already imagining the Stop Making Sense movie when he met Demme in the early Eighties. Since he was fan of Demme’s films, especially Handle With Care and Melvin and Howard, Byrne asked the director to collaborate, and Demme joined Talking Heads on the road.
“Jonathan’s skill was to see the show almost as a theatrical ensemble piece, in which the characters and their quirks would be introduced to the audience, and you’d get to know the band as people, each with their distinct personalities,” Byrne writes. “Jonathan was also incredibly generous during the editing and mixing. He and producer Gary Goetzman made us in the band feel included; they wanted to hear what we had to say.”
Byrne’s experience working with Demme eventually inspired him to try his own hand at directing. He helmed True Stories, a movie starring John Goodman, in 1986. He also directed the documentary Ile Aiye in 1989. Byrne continued to work with Demme as well, writing music for Something Wild and Married to the Mob.
“He often turned what would be a genre film into a very personal expression … His view of the world was open, warm, animated and energetic.”
Other artists also paid tribute to Demme on Wednesday, including the country star Kenny Chesney and Bruce Springsteen’s bandmate Stevie Van Zandt. | {
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All Rise...
Editor's Note
The Charge
Beneath the surface of small-town serenity lies a dark domain where innocents
dare not tread and unpredictability is the norm.
It is the haunting realm of Blue Velvet.
Opening Statement
David Lynch is a fascinating filmmaker because he seems entirely incapable of
producing anything mediocre. His films are either brilliant (say, The Elephant Man or Mulholland
Drive) or they suck (Dune or Wild at Heart). I can't think of a Lynch
film that I'd describe as "okay." It's like his approach is so
from-the-gut and relatively intellectually unstructured it's up in the air
whether or not all the pieces will come together; each time he makes a movie
he's shooting dice—he either wins magnificently…or craps out.
Blue Velvet is Lynch's finest work. It's as narratively coherent as
The Elephant Man, and as personal (which for Lynch means delving into his
own subconscious) as Eraserhead.
It's all the uniqueness that makes Lynch an interesting artist, in perfect
balance in a single film. If someone asked me what David Lynch is about, I'd
answer by showing him Blue Velvet.
Facts of the Case
College student Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlin, Showgirls) returns to his hometown of
Lumberton when his father collapses and must be hospitalized. While home,
Jeffrey discovers a severed human ear in a field and begins, with the help of
Sandy Williams, a local high school girl played by Laura Dern (Jurassic Park), to play amateur
detective. His gum-shoeing leads him to third-rate lounge singer Dorothy Vallens
(Isabella Rossellini, Immortal
Beloved). Jeffrey discovers that Dorothy's husband (the former owner of the
ear) and son are being held hostage by a psychopath named Frank Booth (Dennis
Hopper, Easy Rider) because
Frank's in love with Dorothy and will do anything to have her.
In the film's iconic scene, Jeffrey hides in Dorothy's closet, watching
through the slats of the door as Frank abuses and ritually rapes her while
sucking amil nitrate from an tank stashed in his leather jacket (although
Oscar-nominated for his performance in Hoosiers, shot the same year as Blue
Velvet, it was really his frightening performance as Frank Booth that began
the renaissance in Hopper's career).
Repulsed by and sexually drawn to Dorothy, sickly fascinated by the fact
some part of her actually enjoys Frank's abuse, Jeffrey soon gets in way
over his head. He's discovered by , who bristles at the boy's presence in the
singer's life, is menacing and threatening, dragging Jeffrey into his underworld
existence.
The Evidence
David Lynch is a hard nut to crack because he's more concerned with his
personal experience of the world than he is in the mechanics of narrative. At
their worst, his films tend to be so bogged down in the inner workings of his
own head that they're relatively meaningless to anyone who happens not to be
David Lynch. They're chock full of symbols that have visceral resonance but lack
the intellectual meaning that unites them with conventional models of theme and
narrative. Narrative arcs often arrive at dead ends; I'm still convinced it
wasn't until somewhere towards the middle or end of the first season of Twin
Peaks that it dawned on Lynch the audience out there in TV land were
watching because they believed he was going to tie up all the weirdnesses and
convolutions and give them narrative closure like proper TV shows always do.
That's when things got scary for him. He didn't purposely deceive anyone; he was
just being David Lynch—the weirdnesses and convolutions are what it's all
about for him.
Blue Velvet works because it so perfectly balances Lynch's
idiosyncrasies with recognizable and comfortable narrative constructs,
specifically film noir. In many ways, it moves like a conventional detective
story. Jeffrey Beaumont is our surrogate (just as, say, Sam Spade is our
surrogate in The Maltese Falcon):
we learn the facts of the case as he does. The details encountered in our
progress through the narrative, however, are anything but conventional. Images
of a severed human ear cast away in a field and teeming with ants, or a Jack
Russell terrier snapping at water coming out of the garden hose gripped by
Jeffrey's collapsed father, or Dean Stockwell (Quantum Leap) in creepy
pancake makeup and lounge-lizard clothing lip-syncing into a lamp, or the bad
cop literally dead on his feet are certainly bizarre but, within the solid
footing of noir, have the effect of adding authenticity to the
film—they're so strange and dream-like they feel true. In other
words, the noir elements of Blue Velvet give us the orientation we need
to fully experience its Lynchian peculiarities. The Lynchian peculiarities, on
the other hand, challenge our expectations of conventional noir, adding levels
of interest (and strangely, reality) to a structured and well-known form.
Jeffrey Beaumont is the linchpin (or, more accurately, Lynchpin) of the
whole film. He's not only the detective, our surrogate for the noir narrative,
but also Lynch's surrogate, the vehicle through which the director unveils his
subconscious musings. Because of this dual function and our narrative
identification with him, Jeffrey enables us to get past Lynch's solipsism and
actually connect with the film. Since Lynch is far more fascinated with
expression of the visceral than of the intellectual, the success of the film is
contingent on the success of Jeffrey as a character because it's our
identification with Jeffrey that enables Lynch to produce in us the emotional
response he's looking for. By working at Jeffrey through narrative and film
technique, Lynch manipulates our empathy with nearly the expertise of Hitchcock
(in the Siskel & Ebert review included on the disc, Gene Siskel says
Blue Velvet had the same emotional impact on him as Psycho, making him feel like
he was getting in way over his head—he's right on the money). Hitchcock
understood in a way Lynch doesn't (based on the his inability to deliver
consistently top-notch work) that once he'd gotten an audience to identify with
a particular character, he could lead (or mislead) them, manipulate them,
produce the emotional responses he wanted. When Jeffrey's spying on Dorothy
through the slats of her apartment's closet, we're voyeurs too. We see
the world through his eyes. Consequently, when psychopath Frank Booth tells
Jeffrey, "We're the same," he's saying it to us, too. Is it creepy and
chilling? Hell, yes. But it's the essence of Lynch's world: creepiness and
perversion and violence aren't aberrations; they're presence below the surface
of civilization is constant. You can explain that to someone intellectually, but
it's much more effective to make him feel it in a below-the-belt,
hard-to-articulate way.
Blue Velvet: Special Edition presents the film in a brand new
anamorphic transfer supervised by Lynch himself. It's a beautiful image
throughout, with rich colors and deep blacks (vitally important in noir, of
course). There are very minor blemishes here and there, but nothing to complain
about. I didn't own MGM's original release of Blue Velvet but gave it a
rent so I could compare image quality. As the original was also anamorphic,
there's not a great increase in quality with this new release. Overall, the
Special Edition is slightly sharper, but the colors are also slightly more
muted. Basically, it's a wash.
The new Dolby Digital 5.1 surround track is a little Lynchian joke, I think.
Although technically a 5.1 track, the surrounds are entirely inactive throughout
the film. Like refusing to allow chapter stops in some of his films, adding a
new 5.1 track that doesn't use surrounds is one of those little artsy jabs Lynch
likes to give us, and that would be fine except for the fact this is the second
release of this film on DVD and some might buy it specifically for a soundtrack
upgrade. You're not going to get it. While I'm not a fan of creating 5.1
branching where it didn't originally exist, it might have been nice in this case
to be immersed in Alan Splet's robust sound design, all the layered and creepy
ambient noise. With the exception of Lynch's little prank, the soundtrack is
solid, my only complaint being minor instances of distortion in isolated pieces
of dialogue that are probably inherent in the source recording.
What separates this release from the previous is the extras. They begin with
a new 70-minute documentary called Mysteries of Love, a high-gloss look
back at the production of the film. It's divided into seven sections that can be
accessed individually, or the entire documentary can be viewed via a play-all
option. We get recently shot talking-head interview segments with stars Kyle
MacLachlin, Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern, and Dennis Hopper, as well as
producer Fred Caruso, cinematographer Frederick Elmes, and editor Dwayne Dunham.
Lynch, either unavailable or unwilling to participate, appears only in archive
interviews that look fairly contemporary to the film (one is dated 1987). While
longer than most making-of documentaries, Mysteries of Love is still
fairly standard in terms of content (i.e. stars sitting in front of stylish
drapes talking about how they never imagined at the time that they were making a
classic, then calling Lynch a genius). If you're expecting a piece that peels
away the many layers of Blue Velvet and makes you look at the film in a
whole new light, this ain't it.
Next up is a deleted scenes montage, a series of still images of scenes cut
from Lynch's original four-hour rough-cut of the film. Major fans of Blue
Velvet have long wondered about the longer version and these stills are all
that's left—the original footage has never been found. There are a total
of ten excised scenes. Most appear to have warranted removal (e.g. there's an
entire scene of Jeffrey at college, receiving the phone call that his father is
in the hospital—it's just not necessary). Some are fascinating, though,
like "A Gift from Frank," which involves Dorothy's husband's other
ear. All in all, the photos are nicely presented, connected with smooth
dissolves that give a genuine sense of movement, and backed by
tonally-appropriate music from the soundtrack; a little gem for hardcore Lynch
fans.
The Siskel & Ebert review is next and contains only the decision
portion of the review, excluding the initial discussion. It's likely included
because the two split on their opinions and pretty fairly represent the hot/cold
reaction of most of the film-going public.
The photo gallery is divided into three sections: "Lumberton, USA"
(the most extensive), "International Posters," and the most
fascinating, "Peter Braatz Photos," a series of more artsy, mainly
black-and-white stills taken by photographer and filmmaker Peter Braatz during
the shoot.
The theatrical trailer and two TV spots round out the official supplements.
The "Collectible Booklet" has two pages of content and is neither
enlightening nor collectible so far as I can see (maybe I'll take mine on The
Antique Road Show and see how much the guy from Sotheby's says it's
worth).
There are also a few easy-to-find Easter eggs that include Elmes discussing
the difficulty of finding a robin for the film's finale, Rossellini's defense
against accusations Lynch is misogynist, and Lynch discussing his love of
McDonalds and coffee shops.
The Rebuttal Witnesses
"But Roger Ebert gave this film one star," you might be saying.
That's right. Ebert seems to have two problems with Blue Velvet:
1) The perceived incongruity between the film's dark, fetishistic side and
its ironic and humorous jabs at squeaky-clean middle-class America. The latter
detracts from the former, according to Ebert, by being silly.
2) Lynch doesn't earn the right to degrade Isabella Rossellini by showing
her nude and bruised on a front lawn with spectators gaping at her.
With respect to the first issue, I think Ebert is reading the film (and
Lynch) incorrectly. Lynch isn't being ironic in presenting tropes of idyllic
small-town America. It's not a Lynchian tendency to utilize that sort of
postmodern irony. People who know Lynch or have met him say he uses words like
"golly" and "gee" and "super" in his everyday
speech. And he's not being a smartass when he talks that way; it's simply who he
is. In the Mysteries of Love documentary, Dennis Hopper talks about how
Lynch, when discussing the script, would refer to the f-word as "that
word," but wouldn't actually say it. In other words, Lumberton isn't
Lynch's irony-laced slap in the face at Americana. As Leave It to Beaver
as it may appear, it's part of the way Lynch (honestly) views the world around
him. What makes Lynch Lynch, though, is that the other half of his worldview is
the dark, fetishistic stuff, the subconscious stuff of nightmares, the creepy
stuff. The Americana pieces of the film don't get in the way of the dark
material, rather in Lynch's world, the dark material is always part of
the Americana; the two are inextricably linked. Certainly, on a psychological
level it's disturbing that the dark material in Blue Velvet isn't
completely isolated, but exists as a sort of ghetto right next door to the
recognizable, comfortable, pretty world with which most of us are familiar. But
without that dynamic, we're let off the hook, allowed to view the whole
lollapalooza through the emotional distance irony provides.
With respect to the second issue, I'm of the opinion nearly all nudity in
film is gratuitous. The nudity in Blue Velvet, however, is one of a
handful of instances I can think of that's artistically warranted. Because of
the context and execution, Rossellini's nude scene is mainly disturbing and
upsetting (whether it's at all titillating is a matter of taste, I suppose); it
represents the complete crumbling of her humanity. In other words, it ain't fun
to watch. But should it be? In the Mysteries of Love documentary,
Rossellini tells us the scene is based on a real experience of Lynch's. As
children, he and his brother saw a battered, naked woman walking down the
street. They weren't sexually aroused—they cried; it was frightening. It
was this information that helped Rossellini play the scene the way she does.
Ebert says it disturbs him to see Rossellini so degraded, then places the locus
of blame for the scene's lack of artistic validity in Lynch's employing of
postmodern irony. But Lynch isn't being ironic. As a result, the scene simply
hits too far below the belt (note how Ebert always talks about Rossellini's
degradation, never Dorothy Vallens', as if the images are too real, too
upsetting to attach themselves merely to the character; they damage the actress
herself). The difference between Blue Velvet and a film like Larry
Clark's Bully (which Ebert gave four
stars) is that Bully's nudity is disturbing only in an
intellectual-construct sort of way: we know the characters' behavior is morally
bankrupt and, therefore, we think it's disturbing. In Blue Velvet,
thinking has little to do with it—we feel in our guts how
disturbing the images before our eyes are. It's precisely because there is no
intellectual or ironic distance between us and what we're seeing that it gets
under Ebert's skin, though he tries to argue the opposite.
Closing Statement
I highly recommend Blue Velvet; it's Lynch's best. Having said that,
if you own MGM's original release of the film, you may want to stick with it
instead of shelling out more money for the special edition. There's just not
that much here to recommend a second purchase. True, it is a brand new transfer,
and one supervised by Lynch himself, but the old transfer was already anamorphic
and pretty darn good.
The Verdict
Blue Velvet: Special Edition is acquitted of all charges. It's a disc
worthy of anyone's collection.
Due to the high quality of the 2000 MGM release, I am, however, issuing a
restraining order on those who own it. Think long and hard about the pros and
cons before coming within 100 yards of this new release. | {
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I hope you find something useful here, but my primary aim with my addons is that they be unintrusive. If an addon does nothing for you, and when it does, it should be immediately forgotten after turning it on.
So, since the last news post, both those addons got moved into their proper categories (thanks Cairenn!), so hopefully more people will see them now, which is always nice. ScudThreat had what seemed like an odd bug, which is now sorted out, which was fun. And I've sort of started on a couple of new projects but they may not go anywhere. I suppose letting people know what I'm thinking may make somebody request them though, so here goes.
ScudDrunk - Should test whether the player is drunk, and if they fail the test then it will stop them using any Guild Control powers. The idea is like a walk-the-line test, you simply need to drag a little button from one end of a line to the other without going outside the box they're contained in. Obviously it's something that can be got around, you just turn it off from the addon menu, but making it harder to drunkenly gdisband seemed like a good step. Trust me, in my guild, I'm gonna regret not getting this out sooner I know.
ScudRaidThreat - This is sort of already uploaded, though the version that is up I know has a fairly disastrous bug in it. But there's so little interest in it I couldn't really be bothered upping the fixed version until it does something a bit more marketable. It's supposed to tie ScudThreat into ScudRaid, but that also has no interest at all (unsurprisingly), so it'll probably get shelved.
ScudLayout - This started off when I couldn't find updated versions of Bartender and Pitbull that I liked. Both of them seemed to take up an absurd amount of memory, and also just plain didn't function like I'd expect. So I wrote this to move all the default blizz frames into the configuration I had my old ones set up in using those addons. It was going ok, but the Blizz frames really don't like being moved around or anything and it just started getting more like a chore than it seemed worth. So at the moment, whilst it still can move the layout around as I had it, I only use it because I put mouse-scrolling chat log functionality in it as well. I'm thinking of moving the chat log scrolling into ScudLight (alongside its minimap mousescrolling) and ditching this, or I may if I can be really bothered (unlikely) work on it and ship a configurable version. But it would be quite a bit of work, and wouldn't result in a UI that's any more useful than the default one. Just slightly different looking. So yeah, I'll probably just keep the chat log bit.
Oh, I also have an addon called ScudAdin that I wrote for a protadin friend who is always charging into combat without Righteous Fury up, it just shouts at him when he does. That's all. I could up this some time I guess, but it's such a trivial little thing and I can't really imagine many people need it.
Just thought that was all of some possible interest to some of you. And I do like posting stuff - makes me feel important .
So this week (everybody says) is bringing patch 3.0 to the live servers, which amongst far more important things, means ScudThreat, and technically ScudRune, are ready for release.
I'm sure you're all beating the rush updating all your other AddOns in preparation; I'm struggling to find ready versions for several of the ones I use . This isn't meant as scaremongering, there are very few changes coming with the patch that will break any old AddOns. But there are some useful new things being introduced that will allow new and improved versions of some. | {
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Good to see we have Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band as we wait for the hopefully good Wii Music.
Randolph the Grey said:
Although that's not actually official, I am confident that Rock Band will find its way to Wii. I respect EA for waiting until downloadable content is available on Wii. This game looks great.
Haciendo said:
Hell yes.
gray fox said:
I want this game.
WII-ARE-RABBIDS said:
Yes finaly a rock band for Wii.
embra said:
Love rock band. About time they started to make good games for a great system, keep em coming Nintendo.
Epsilon said:
Woo! Now I don't have to buy a 360 too (though a certain Bioshock is still tempting).
Quartz said:
What I can say about this is that I hate that game, but it's popular, so I'm glad it's coming to the Wii.
ToTaLgAmEr said:
That is the best ever. I was just starting to get bored of the guitar hero songs, I've almost beat it on expert already.
Master Foot said:
EA has taken the term "fashionably late" a little too seriously.
da bomb said:
Yeah.
The Hamburgler said:
Wow. Just wow. I'm going to be all over this game.
Wiipaw said:
Epsilon, I REALLY want Bioshock. Do you think they could (I'm not saying they would) port it to Wii? Maybe the water and graphics would be tuned down, but think for a second: you could beat up little girls, and actually feel like you're doing it. Awesome. Jack Thomson would love it.
TruBlu said:
I'm not excited about this game much. Wiipaw, you like beating up little girls with added realism? I hope that came out wrong.
ROB and BOB said:
Awesome. I am so happy. Normally I would be watching my friends with their xbox 360s and ps3s, now I get to play.
musicluver said:
Thank you I can't wait until it comes out.
Wii = Fun said:
Ok I'll admit this is nice, but GH3 was a let down on the Wii. I hope they don't make this a let down.
Albino said:
I really hope it's just like rock band on the other systems and you don't use the wiimote and nunchuck for drumsticks or anything like that. Other than that, this is going to be awesome, I can't wait.
Yeah said:
This is great! I enjoy the rock band demos at Best Buy. Now it will be on Wii!
t kid said:
I was hyped up about this game too but then went into instant depression when I later read that it's an exact port of the ps2 version, graphics wise and features wise. The picture might look good but live game play is just like ps2. And there will be no downloadable songs or online play. So I'm just going to wait for guitar hero 4. | {
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
60. WHAT DREAMS MAY COME (1998)
I wanted to watch something to commemorate Richard Matheson's 86th birthday and chose this film under the mistaken impression it had not resurfaced since Warner Home Video's laserdisc release. I subsequently found out that it was also available not only on DVD but on Blu-ray AND via Netflix, and that the DVD and Blu-ray editions contain an alternate ending that sounds more satisfying than the one director Vincent Ward used. Different things conspired to prevent me from writing about this film at the time I watched it, and over the last few days. Suffice to say, it's better than I remembered, being well-acted by its principals (Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Anabella Sciorra and Max von Sydow), visually imaginative and lush, and written with real spiritual and philosophic depth, but it suffers from tacking a pat, sell-out happy ending onto a far more complex premise. My appreciation of the overall effort may also have been hampered by viewing it on laserdisc under less than optimal conditions.
Agreement again Tim. I found myself wanting there a resoultion WORTHY of all that had preceded it and found myself wanting. The film lacked that needed resolution. This film shares so very much in themes, allegory and approach with POWELL & PRESSBURGER'S A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH that it's amazing the many elements in common. Do you agree?
"These are my initial thoughts about the films I watch, written shortly after I've seen them. I watch many more films than I actually write about for publication, so some of these notes will develop further into full-length reviews, but most will not. I've never before kept a record of all the films I screen in the course of a year, so I'll be numbering each new addition to the list to keep an accurate tally. My goal is to surprise myself as much as my readers." - TL | {
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MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE Teases New Song In Video From Writing Sessions
MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE Teases New Song In Video From Writing Sessions
{$inline_image}MEGADETH leader Dave Mustaine has shared a short video of drummer Dirk Verbeuren working on his parts for a new song, to be included on the band’s 16th studio album. Dave captioned the clip: “The Cheshire Cat is smiling! Enjoy a lil tease. @Megadeth @VerbeurenDirk #Album16”
This past August, Mustaine confirmed to Guitar World magazine that MEGADETH was working on material for the follow-up to 2016’s “Dystopia” album. “We have been for a few weeks now,” he said. “All the bandmembers are at home writing stuff and putting it in the same spot, keeping all the riffs centralized in one place. And anybody can access anybody’s stuff. And then once we’re done, I’ll start assembling everything.”
Asked if that means we will see new MEGADETH music in 2019, Mustaine responded: “Absolutely. For sure. A whole new record, I would say the chances are probably 95 percent. And at least one new song, I’d say it’s 100 percent. No question.”
MEGADETH‘s upcoming effort will mark the group’s first release to feature Verbeuren, who officially joined the band more than two years ago.
Dave told “Rock Talk With Mitch Lafon” back in June that some of the new MEGADETH music is turning out to be more extreme than anything the band has done in the past. “The stuff that Dirk‘s been playing along to it is scary,” he said. “We’ve never had any of those blast-beat kind of things on our music before, and some of the drumming on this is so mind-blowing. It’s making me a better guitar player again, which I love. But I never thought we were gonna be playing this fast or this aggressive again.”
“Dystopia” was MEGADETH‘s first album with guitarist Kiko Loureiro, who was previously best known for his work with ANGRA.
MEGADETH‘s first-ever Megacruise is scheduled to take place next fall. The boat will depart from Los Angeles on October 13, 2019 and visit San Diego and Ensenada, Mexico before returning to L.A. on October 18, 2019. | {
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“I am grieved at my own sophomoric actions.” – Google’s Larry Page
MOUNTAINVIEW, CA — Larry Page, co-founder and CEO of the mammoth search engine known to the world as Google, released a shocking admission and subsequent apology yesterday for placing an inappropriate subliminal message into the name of his informational superhighway.
Though everyone may be familiar with Google and what it does, not everyone is aware of its shady nomenclature.
It appears that the name “Google” was chosen simply because it contained the suggestion, “Go ogle.” And though, initially, he had gone back and forth between “Awkwardgoggles” and “Peepers” he eventually went with the former because of its subtlety.
“I am grieved at my own sophomoric actions,” revealed Page. “And I bear full responsibility for the millions and millions of oglers out there ogling both day and night, completely unaware of the message planted under the threshold of their conscious perception.”
Not surprisingly, surveys and police reports across the country have showed a steady increase in all kinds of ogling since the late nineties: random acts of ogling, drive-by ogling, ogling reality TV shows, etc.
An ogling support group praised Google’s actions but at the same time confirmed that ogling numbers have been steadily increasing over the past couple decades. They were hopeful that through this confession some of the random and creepy staring would go away.
After the official statement, Mr. Page told us privately that everyone could expect a name change in the immediate future.
Google CEO Apologizes for Inserting Creepy Subliminal Message into Search Engine was last modified: August 8th, 2015 by Jeff Boldt
Jeff Boldt is an English teacher living in China and the writer and editor of Iron E-News, a website dedicated to that ever-abiding alternate bizarro world -- at times all too closely mirroring our own. | {
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This article shows that, as to proffers of asserted expert testimony, civil defendants win their Daubert reliability challenges to plaintiffs’ proffers most of the time, and that criminal defendants virtually always lose their reliability challenges to government proffers. And, when civil defendants’ proffers are challenged by plaintiffs, those defendants usually win, but when criminal defendants’ proffers are challenged by the prosecution, the criminal defendants usually lose. The article then goes on to examine, in detail, various categories of expert proffers in criminal cases, including “syndrome evidence,” polygraph, bite mark, handwriting, modus operandi, and eyewitness weakness, to shed light on whether the system bias revealed in the statistical breakdown is illusory or real. Finally, an afterword analyzes the last year’s cases, and makes observations on apparent trends.
I revisited the above because of reading today’s post on on the Concurring Opinions blog, about “Convicting the Innocent.” There is a comment to the post by Prof. Garrett asking, “if there is a double standard in forensics concerning exculpatory versus inculpatory evidence?”
One of the unfortunate truths in criminal litigation is that trial courts frequently admit testimony from the government’s experts and exclude the defendant’s proposed expert testimony.
Prof. Garrett has written
In my book, I examined what went wrong in the first 250 DNA exonerations in the U.S. Jones was exonerated by a post-conviction DNA test. Now we know that his confession, like 40 other DNA exoneree confessions, was not just false, but likely contaminated during a botched interrogation. Now we know that 190 people had eyewitnesses misidentify them, typically due to unsound lineup procedures. Now we know that flawed forensics, in about half of the cases, contributed to a wrongful conviction. Now we know that informants, in over 50 of the cases, lied at trial.
Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong (2012).
Prof. Garrett has written about wrongful convictions. But the ongoing point and usefulness for us practitioners going forward are the resources he offers both in his book and on the web. Here is a link to the “Data and Materials” on line at the UVA website. | {
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15 Healthy Mediterranean-Style Appetizer Recipes
Cuisines of the Mediterranean region are lauded around the world for their health benefits. Fortunately for those of us living outside of the region, most of these healthy eats can be recreated in our own kitchens, no matter where they originate from.
Following a Mediterranean-style diet is associated with a reduced risk of cancer, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, and death by heart disease, according to the . The health benefits are directly tied to the cuisine’s reliance on fresh produce, fish, whole grains, and healthy fats.
By incorporating Mediterranean dishes into your diet, you can begin to reap some of these benefits too.
We rounded up the best Mediterranean-style appetizers online to make the adjustment easier.
Mediterranean orzo salad
Image source: Iowa Girl Eats
Olives, tomatoes, and herbs take center stage in this orzo salad, which would be a great alternative to pasta salad at your next gathering.
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Greek meatballs with tzatziki sauce
Tzatziki is another creamy Mediterranean sauce that’s made with yogurt, cucumber, and garlic. This recipe from Recipe Runner would be great to serve on game day.
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Batata harra
These Lebanese-style potatoes from Eating Your Mistakes are a simple and flavorful alternative to home fries or regular stovetop potatoes. The spuds are flavored with paprika, garlic, cayenne, and more.
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Labneh dip with zaatar pistachio mint olive topping
Image source: Two Purple Figs
Labneh is a traditional Middle Eastern cheese dip made from strained yogurt. This recipe from Two Purple Figs is topped with mint, pomegranate seeds, and other colorful garnishes.
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Tomato and basil bruschetta
Bruschetta is a trademark Italian appetizer. Served on crusty bread, flavors of fresh tomatoes and basil wake up the taste buds and whet the appetite. For best results use local, in-season tomatoes.
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Lebanese lentil salad
This lentil salad from Kalyn’s Kitchen combines the flavors of garlic, cumin, mint, and parsley. Like many dishes on this list, it’s low-fat, dairy, gluten free, and vegan. One thing it’s not short on? Flavor.
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Italian roasted mushrooms and veggies
Image source: Jo Cooks
Served as a side dish or appetizer, these roasted Italian vegetables are certain to be a hit. Because it’s simple to prepare and cook, this recipe from Jo Cooks would be a great addition to your next potluck.
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Artichoke, tomato, and spinach flatbread
Are you having guests over this weekend? Greet them with a glass of red and flatbreads. These easy appetizers are full of flavor and healthy to boot. They’re topped with spinach, artichokes, tomatoes, and cheeses, but feel free to get creative with your toppings.
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Roasted red pepper and artichoke tapenade
Tapenades are essentially pastes made of fresh ingredients. This recipe from Life, Love and Good Food would be excellent served on crusty bread or multigrain crackers.
The best homemade falafels
Why fry when you can bake? These falafels from Little Spice Jar go great in salads and wraps, or they can be enjoyed on their own with some tahini.
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Caprese salad skewers
Caprese salad is an amazing summer treat that uses fresh tomatoes and basil. This version from Natasha’s Kitchen puts the salad on skewers, turning it into the perfect party appetizer.
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Grilled chicken souvlaki and tzatziki sauce
Souvlaki is as Greek as it gets! This recipe from Le Crème De La Crumb pairs the skewered chicken with tzatziki — a traditional Greek sauce usually slathered onto a souvlaki or gyro pita. Ditch the carbs and use it as a dip for the meat instead.
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Bruschetta with ricotta, prosciutto, and arugula
A Red Binder serves up this alternative to the traditional tomato and basil bruschetta. Instead, crusty bread slices are topped with ricotta, prosciutto, and peppery arugula. The recipe walks you through making homemade ricotta, but we won’t tell if you decide to save some time and buy it at the store.
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Antipasto skewers
This antipasto recipe from Dinner at the Zoo features all the traditional Italian components: olives, fresh mozzarella, peppers, and salami. Feel free to get creative, however, and add ingredients that your family will enjoy the most.
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Greek zucchini fritters
Also called kolokithokeftedes, Greek zucchini fritters are much easier to make than they are to pronounce. Delicious Greek flavors like feta cheese, dill, and olive oil combine to make an appetizer you’ll have a hard time keeping stocked. | {
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What have you done with your Three-Eyed Sushi?
As you know, we have just had the update of the first episode tie-in update of season 25. This brought two new items the Three-Eyed Sushi and the Hi-glow Waste Barrels. If you have been playing since yesterday when the update arrived you should have finished or almost have finished the tasks and it adds up to a 24 hours. Many people don’t have premium items as they are a non-premium player but at the end of the update players get a little reward of the Three-Eyed Sushi. So what have you done with your Three-Eyed Sushi. Now this is going to be interesting since we have not had an update in a while that included an item only for Squidport.
As you can see below there is my Three-Eyed Sushi and I have placed it on the front entrance of my Squidport for everyone to see. It’s not decorated in a certain way but I think that’s where It will stay for now.
Looks like Edna and Willie are all ready looking forward to their first bite of sushi on Squidport, with Abe and the raven just hiding behind the item. So what have you done with your Three-Eyed Sushi. Link your images in the comment section below and they could be updated to the post? This will be really interesting to see what you have done with your Three-Eyed Sushi. Thanks again – Nathan.
Hey guys im kinda confused right now
Because its not letting me put down the three eyed sushi and yes i have got it in my inventory but whenever i put it down the shaded bit always is red instead of green even when i put it in a totaly clear space . Does anyone like now how to solve this? | {
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Jalpaiguri, March 17:Even as the supporters appeared doubtful about his ability to provide that extra push as a fugitive captain and speculated on a split in the party, KPP chief Nikhil Roy turned himself over to police today.
Roy, however, chose to describe his surrender at the office of the Jalpaiguri superintendent of police as “a willingness to interact with the police”.
Siddh Nath Gupta, the district police chief, confirmed that Roy had surrendered. “He came to my office with some Kamtapur People’s Party leaders around five in the evening. He has been arrested and will be forwarded to court tomorrow.”
Roy has been on the run since November 1999, when he was accused of being involved in the armed loot of the railway payroll shipment at Rangapani station. The surrender comes within 15 hours of chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s call to militants to give up arms and return to “a dignified life”.
Roy, who replaced Atul Roy as the KPP chief last week, said: “The police, of late, have not been allowing our supporters to attend meetings and rallies. I definitely have some duty as the party chief and so I chose to talk to them, irrespective of what the outcome may be. We have never believed in militancy.” He, however, did not say why he was underground for the past three years.
The KPP central committee would control the activities of the party in his absence, said Roy when asked how the party would operate with its leader behind the bars.
“We have many active members in our committee. Even if I am behind bars, I can help them with strategies,” he said.
The fugitive leader denied being involved with the militant Kamtapur Liberation Organisation. “I was never involved with the KLO. The cause is the same but the paths are different. The police, under the patronage of the state government, have framed charges against me to put brakes on the Kamtapuri movement,” Roy added. | {
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The versatile Reuben. You normally don't think of sandwiches in those terms, but, that's what the famous Reuben has become. You see it on almost every deli menu. Lately I've been seeing some interesting and delicious variations on the traditional version.
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This could be the year that sees chick lit stop chirping. It has been a tough period for the women's commercial fiction genre with...
This could be the year that sees chick lit stop chirping. It has been a tough period for the women's commercial fiction genre with authors new and old struggling in the recession.
Although there is no specific Nielsen BookScan category for commercial women's fiction, by comparing their most recent mass market paperback novels to their previous ones, even some of the genre's household names are seeing their sales fall (in fact around three-quarters of the Top 20 commercial women's fiction writers have seen sales of their most recent mass market paperback decline and the overall decline across the top 20 is 10%)—Marian Keyes' latest The Brightest Star in the Sky (Penguin) has sold just over 262,000 copies since February, a healthy figure, but 42% down from This Charming Man's (Penguin) similar first 29 weeks of sales in 2008, according to the TCM.
Now, it is not all doom and gloom and some authors have seen their sales rise—Transworld more than doubled sales of Sarra Manning's latest You Don't Have To Say You Love Me, after poaching her from Headline. Headline itself has increased sales for Tasmina Perry's latest, Kiss Heaven Goodbye, by around 100% following her departure from Harper.
But, unfortunately the fall-list does go on: Jill Mansell's To the Moon and Back (Headline) sold 99,249 copies in its first three months on sale, but Take a Chance on Me (Headline, June 2010) sold 137,548 copies in a similar period. Jodi Picoult's Picture Perfect (Hodder Paperback, June 2010) sold 238,832 copies in its first two months on shelves, but with Harvesting the Heart (Hodder Paperback, June 2011) sales fell by almost 50% to just 120,235 copies.
Dorothy Koomson's The Ice Cream Girls (Sphere, July 2010) sold 72,987 copies in its first three weeks, but The Woman He Loved Before (Sphere, August 2011) sold just 47,671 in the same time period, a fall of 35%. Veronica Henry has fared even worse, sales of her The Birthday Party (Orion, July 2011) are down 70% on last year's The Beach Hut.
So, what are the reasons for this decline? As the industry continues in its shift towards digital, the rise of e-book sales often counteracts any loss to print ones, but this does not seem to be the case with women's commercial fiction.
Transworld is a big player in this market, with bestselling authors such as Sophie Kinsella and Joanna Trollope on its list. Sales director Martin Higgins says: "Women's fiction has really struggled recently and many authors are significantly down across the spectrum. But that wouldn't necessarily be reflected if you looked at the e-book charts, which is mainly filled with crime and thriller titles. If you felt there was a cause and effect between e-books and the shortfall in women's fiction, well, that doesn't seem to be the case—it just seems that people aren't buying women's fiction in the volume they used to a year or 18 months ago."
He adds: "Bearing in mind current economic factors, it seems that women will probably be more likely to defer gratification and not buy a book, whereas men are probably a bit more greedy. The price of food is going up and women's fiction is predominantly sold in the supermarket sector and if the average basket spend has gone up, something has to give."
It seems Higgins is right; the BookScan data also shows that volume sales from 1st January to 13th August in the Supermarket & Mixed Multiples channel are down by 9% (in all categories)compared to the same period in 2010—falling from just over 29 million copies in 2010 to just over 26 million in 2011. Headline publishing director Marion Donaldson says: "A large proportion of the sales of chick lit authors is through the supermarkets and it's possible that budget-conscious women doing the weekly shop are denying themselves a purchase they'd have made happily a couple of years ago."
Headline publishes women's fiction authors including Perry, Adele Parks and for Donaldson there are other factors that could explain the genre's decline as well: "Readers are constantly being directed to quite a wide range of heavily publicised book club titles, whether from "The TV Book Club" or Richard and Judy. I suspect that the powerful book club promotions have encouraged and tempted some women at least to try books they might not have risked their money on in the past, particularly in the literary/commercial crossover area. A recommendation from a trusted source is incredibly powerful."
It's not just the sales of commercial women's fiction titles that are in crises however. The very name of the genre itself has recently been called into question, with W H Smith declaring that from the middle of October it will no longer use "Women's Fiction" on promotional p.o.s. material after it received complaints from two female shoppers who found the label condescending and offensive.
Isobel Akenhead, senior editor in women's fiction and digital at Hodder & Stoughton, believes the genre should be re-dubbed: "relationship fiction". She explains: "Women's fiction and chick lit has always been about how modern women deal with relationships, rather than perhaps the bigger issues that are dealt with in other types of fiction. But, I've been reading chick lit for more than half my life and in all that time I've always been astounded by the depth and complexity that exists in a great deal of women's fiction. I think the brand authors that have survived are the ones that can tap into the emotional complexity that the great writers of relationship fiction always have."
Out of range
With such a wide range of authors and titles classed under women's fiction, Akenhead says that there has been "some blurring of boundaries" within the genre. Added to this, literary/thriller-style writers such as Rosamund Lupton and Emma Donoghue have sold well with the commercial women's fiction core market. Yet Akenhead argues the genre "hasn't changed beyond recognition. There has always been some blurring, with books like Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible (Faber) and Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife (Cape), which is an interesting take on a romantic story and more literary than the chick lit end of the market, but still a novel about relationships."
The downside to this wide range is that crowded shelves ensure an even tougher job when it comes to launching a new writer. Akenhead says: "The fact is the market is tough like never before across the board and women's fiction is harder than most. It's harder than ever with débuts as supermarkets understandably don't want to take risks on someone they don't know. It's the same as them stocking a new range of ketchup, when Heinz does so well. But it is up to us, if we see a new talent that we think is fantastic and want to launch them we have to put more than just enthusiasm behind them and really gun for those slots."
So, what do readers themselves think? Lifetime fans Chloe Spooner and Leah Graham have written the blog Chicklitreviews.com since 2009. Spooner loves the genre because it "isn't just the frothy stuff people think it is, if you get a good author the book can be about a whole range of issues but it's always enjoyable. I think the genre is better than people give it credit for. The older authors bring something totally different from the Paige Toons and the Sophie Kinsellas and within the same genre there is so much range. I read the same books as my mum which shows how broad the appeal is."
For Graham however there isn't always enough range: "I'm not sure if sales figures support it, but it does seem more and more people are reading chick lit because they've realised that it's not just shoes and shopping and finding Mr Right. Yet, I don't think the market has diversified too much, if you look hard enough there are novels that are a bit different, but novels that are ‘different' to the norm tend to be shouted down and it seems all publishers want is the more ‘straight' chick lit. I just wrote in our most recent newsletter about why I'm not a fan of the fact that Cally Taylor had to re-write a lot of her new novel (Home for Christmas, Orion) because the ‘different' part, the magical element, isn't well received in the UK apparently. I think diversity is needed, but I think publishers are reluctant to take a chance on authors who write books that are a bit more quirky." | {
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Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani on Monday took potshots at Congress General Secretary (UP East) Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Highlighting the problems of poor people of Amethi, she said that Priyanka Vadra should visit Hariharpur and see the problems of the people. She also called Congress president Rahul Gandhi as ‘Laapata Sansad’ and added that Priyanka Gandhi should first ask Rahul, where Hariharpur is? The voting for Amethi is scheduled to be held on May 6 in the fifth phase of elections. | {
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Purpose-driven pay for performance
Purpose-driven pay for performance can help build a unique platform that links organization and individual employee purpose to drive overall performance, employee attraction, retention and engagement.
In 1975, “pay for performance” was introduced to the world of compensation professionals through the American Compensation Association (now WorldatWork) handbook for the first certification program that showed the then-new concept of “salary increase guide charts” that used “a performance appraisal technique and salary range position” to inform a “personnel administrator where to position guidelines for the average increases.” Hence, the merit matrix was born.
Over 40 years later, organizations continue to struggle with how to make this process more effective. Setting aside the difference between salary budgets in 1975 compared to what they are in 2019, the challenge of the pay-for-performance process living up to its name continues to plague us. As Figure 1 illustrates, a recent study by Willis Towers Watson showed that only about one-third of organizations report that base pay programs are effective at paying for performance and most are either seeking to improve these programs or scrapping them altogether.
Figure 1: Only about one-third of organizations report that base pay programs are effective at paying for performance
Most are either seeking to improve these programs or scrapping them altogether.
It may not be surprising to most that “merit pay” continues to be a challenge, but annual incentive pay doesn’t seem to fare much better than base pay programs. The same research study suggests that most employers also struggle to use incentive pay as a tool to reward performance in a highly differentiated way (See Figure 2).
20%
Organizations intend to pay top performers about 20% above target when funding levels are normal/on target.
33%
of companies pay incentives to employees who do not meet expectations
Figure 2. Research study suggests that most employers also struggle to use incentive pay as a tool to reward performance in a highly differentiated way
If organizations and compensation professionals have struggled with these programs for some time, what’s different now? With the labor market tightening, jobs and work being redefined, and the need to attract and retain not only critical talent, but diverse employee groups, examining the traditional methods of pay process and governance seems not only appropriate but necessary. And, with many organizations focusing on defining their unique employee experience and how reward programs can impact it, the time to think about pay for performance in a different way is now.
Why start with purpose?
The basis for thinking of pay for performance in a different way should start with purpose. Much has been written about organizational “purpose” of late, but none as impactful as the letter that Blackrock’s Larry Fink sent to CEOs of the firm’s investment portfolios. Fink’s message is that without purpose, no organization can achieve its full potential. In his 2019 letter to CEOs, Fink wrote:
“Companies that fulfill their purpose and responsibilities to stakeholders reap rewards over the long-term. Companies that ignore them stumble and fail. This dynamic is becoming increasingly apparent as the public holds companies to more exacting standards. And it will continue to accelerate as Millennials — who today represent 35 percent of the workforce — express new expectations of the companies they work for, buy from, and invest in.”
The current focus on purpose could not be more relevant for organizations seeking to improve the pay-for-performance process. Fink further expands on this point by stating, “Purpose is not the sole pursuit of profits, but the animating force for achieving them.” The definition of performance is broadening to consider a spectrum of stakeholders emphasizing sustained performance through thoughtful environmental (E), social (S) and governance (G) programs and policies. Shareholders are keenly interested in not only value creation, but defining and emphasizing the inputs to value creation. ESG are inputs moving to the “top of the list,” as factors not only to be considered in assessing performance, but as key inputs to driving culture and shaping purpose.
Only about
1/3
of organizations report that base pay programs are effective at paying for performance
Ultimately, what Fink is talking about is organizational performance, and ideally, the pay-for-performance process is meant to engage employees in just that. Therefore, by starting with purpose, pay-for-performance design can be grounded in a way that aligns the organization’s reason for being (i.e., corporate purpose) with an employee’s reason for being there to make it happen (i.e., individual purpose).
Providing further perspective on linking organization purpose with an employee’s individual purpose, Willis Towers Watson’s John Bremen and Amy Devylder wrote in the May 2019 edition of Workspan:
“Clearly, it is important for organizations to articulate purpose in today’s environment, as it helps create meaning, clarity and an emotional connection for employees as to why they work where they do. At the same time, most employees also have individual purposes that go beyond earning a paycheck or keeping a job. Companies have found it powerful to help talent discover and articulate their individual purpose and its connection to the organization’s purpose as a means to create greater engagement and meaning from their contributions. Through this effort, organizations are equipped to align their total rewards strategy and programs with both organizational and individual purposes.” (See “Modernizing Total Rewards to Drive Human Capital Sustainability.”)
Organizational purpose outlines why a business exists and the work-related purpose for most individuals explains their profession of choice. Connecting organization purpose and individual purpose is what Bremen and Devylder advocate for enabling organizations to have talent and performance sustainability over time, and the pay-for-performance process can — and some would argue should — be a strong driver of just that.
Driving performance with purpose
What would “purpose-driven pay for performance” look like? Ultimately, it is about the organization’s expectations for how individual employees contribute to the organization’s purpose and determining how to optimally reward for that contribution.
To do this, start by outlining all the ways you expect employees to contribute to the organization’s purpose. (See Figure 3.) What you will discover is that these expectations are multidimensional, and while each dimension is important to contributing to the organization’s purpose, rewarding for each contribution in a different way presents a unique opportunity to effectively communicate to employees how their contributions matter, thereby strengthening the connection between individual and organizational purpose.
What do we need employees to do to fulfill our purpose?
How do we expect our employees to contribute to our purpose/mission:
Be really good at their jobs by serving their immediate constituents (i.e., customers, other employees, owners, etc.) to deliver on our promise/purpose
Focus on the results (both long- and short-term) we need to achieve to sustain our market position, remain a viable organization, and continue live out our purpose
Demonstrate behaviors that exemplify our values every day and in every way. These include:
Collaborate and team effectively
Be open and inclusive to all views ensuring we get the best ideas moving forward
Act with integrity and honesty
Learn by doing and teach others no matter where you sit
Balance risk with agility with the aspiration that decisions are made a the appropriate pace to the need and circumstances
Considerations for creating purpose-driven pay for performance
1. Examine the purpose of each pay element.
How an organization defines performance expectations is multidimensional, making the connection between organizational purpose and individual purpose challenging, to say the least. To help clarify that, begin by outlining the purpose of each pay element:
Figure 3 is an example of reward program purpose definitions.
Reward Program
Purpose
Base salary
Acquire skills, experience, education in anticipation of doing a job as expected and needed to get every day work done
Annual increases to base salary
Protect initial investment in employee in anticipation of continuing to do the job as expected
Additional increases to base salary (may be promotion)
Reward the demonstration of skills and abilities that exceed expectations for the job (e.g., doing the next higher level job, often defined as “potential”)
Annual cash incentive
Link a time-based and measurable outcome to a cash award – not meant to reward sustained performance over time
Annual equity grant
Reward the demonstration of leadership skills in pursuit of longer-term measurable outcomes. Also used to reward for potential
Special recognition award
Reward for the demonstration of behaviour that is not easily measured or communicated in advance. Often given publically in order to model these behaviors to others and encourage them to be repeated (“we caught you doing something right and want you to repeat it”)
Benefits
Part of the package used in the acquisition of talent; also used to protect investment in the employee in anticipation of doing the job as expected
2. Align each reward element purpose with performance expectations.
By going through the exercise of defining the purpose of each pay element, it becomes apparent that some pay elements will better align certain performance dimensions than others. If the goal is better clarity on the connection between organizational purpose and individual purpose, it makes sense to use each pay element in a way that helps to solidify that connection. For example, asking the question “What dimension of performance should we use base pay to reward for?” brings the focus directly to the purpose of base salary, as shown in Figure 4. If the purpose of base pay is to acquire the skills, education and experience necessary to do a specific body of work (or job), then it makes sense to use base pay increases to protect that investment on an ongoing basis, as long as the expectations that the skills to do the job will continue to be met.
In fact, Willis Towers Watson research supports the notion that base pay increases will become even more focused on skills related to jobs, whether those skills are being paid at a market competitive rate and how critical those skills are to the organization’s business or purpose, rather than the achievement of individual goals, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4. Percentage of organizations where factor affects individual base pay increases to a great extent
If base pay increases are to align specifically to skill demonstration related to a job, what should incentive pay reward for? Since the purpose of base pay and base pay increases is being fulfilled, we can use variable pay to align most directly with variable performance. Annual incentive pay can reward directly for expectations you have for employees related to what you need them to do in a specific year. This not only provides focus on those shorter-term elements of performance but separates them from skill-based performance that builds on itself over time and needs to be sustained.
It can also magnify the connection between organizational and individual purpose to a degree that employees see how they directly impact the organization’s reason to exist. For example, an insurance company with a mission to “Take care of policyholders in their greatest time of need” may have an incentive plan for claims adjusters that links directly to customer service quality. Those adjusters whose individual work purpose is to provide the best quality of service to their customers and that typically also receive the highest customer service scores are rewarded directly for that — while also helping the organization deliver on their promise.
While the skills needed to do the job of claims adjuster are also in play in this example (which is already rewarded in the base pay increase), the performance expectations for this element of the employee’s efforts to serve customers may vary from year to year — and are likely expressed through their assigned customer service goals or targets — and incentive pay enables the flexibility to reward for this in the most effective way. At the same time, incentive pay communicates to the employee that this is what they need to focus on for that performance period.
3. Align with the organization's "language of performance."
Speaking of communication, it is also critical to understand how purpose-driven pay for performance will “fit in” with how the organization talks about performance. Given that it is directly linked to the organization’s purpose, you might think this would happen naturally, but that may not be the case. The first place to look is the organization’s performance management process. Most HR professionals agree that performance management and pay for performance are “two sides of the same coin,” and if that is true, then the “language of performance” should be aligned in both.
How does the organization define performance in the performance management process? Many speak of it as “the what and the how.” A review of the performance expectations defined in Figure 3 might beg the question: How do these expectations figure into “the what and the how” and how would we use them to provide more transparency on how pay is determined?
Given that greater pay transparency is also what both outside forces (such as governments) and inside forces (employees) are demanding, it is incumbent upon HR professionals to work together to determine whether the organization’s language of performance is sending the optimal messages. And, a desire for greater pay transparency regarding pay decisions appears to be on the horizon for many organizations already. (See Figure 5.)
Figure 5. Organizations planning to increase the level of transparency around pay decisions
Sustaining purpose-driven pay for performance
As organizations change, their purpose for existing also may change. But it is unlikely that organizational purpose will vary greatly over time. However, an employee’s purpose for working at an organization is likely to change, and often. Career advancement opportunities have become increasingly important in attracting and retaining key talent.
How employees may want to contribute to an organization and how that contribution can change over time is often what distinguishes the best organizations to work for from the rest because they make career advancement opportunities clear and available to their employees. And in doing so, they sustain that contribution over time more effectively than others.
What would “purpose-driven pay for performance” look like? Ultimately, it is about the organization’s expectations for how individual employees contribute to the organization’s purpose and determining how to optimally reward for that contribution.
Greater contribution may include employees who are demonstrating a higher level of skill for a different job and that is often rewarded through promotional opportunities. What if, however, an opportunity to move up a career path is not available to the employee? How should the organization reward them in order to retain those higher-level skills? This is where the alignment between the purpose of certain reward programs and how they are used to pay for performance is the focus. Going back to Figure 3, what could be added to the list that would provide managers even more tools to reward for the many dimensions of performance? Would the employee value greater learning opportunities, a rotational assignment, an executive mentor, being sent to an outside conference or industry event?
Understanding what employees value and linking it to the pay-for-performance process is definitely something organizations should consider for strengthening the link between organizational purpose and individual employee purpose. It makes the connection more personal and has greater potential for modernizing the entire pay-for-performance process.
What started in 1975 with good intentions has evolved into a pay-for-performance process that most organizations believe is not effective at rewarding for performance and contribution in 2019. The time is right to think about how this process can be changed to address the needs of an evolving organization and workforce. Purpose-driven pay for performance can help build a unique platform for addressing these needs by linking organization and individual employee purpose to drive not only overall performance, but employee attraction, retention and engagement.
This article, published in Workspan Daily, is reproduced here with the permission of WorldatWork. | {
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SNA - OPINION: Does Singapore's tough education system give locals an edge in the workforce?
Diary of A Singaporean Mind, 27 Sep 2011 Strangely, after putting our own children through such a tough education system, the govt is very happy to have foreigners from England, Australia and Phillipines take up some our best jobs. It looks like the tough education system does not give you too much of an edge when you join the workforce. Based on what was reported in WikiLeaks , the govt does not even encourage all Singaporeans to reach their full academic potential if they are able to get degrees. So what does all this energy and time spent on doing well for exams achieve for our society as a whole? For individuals it is very clear, you try to beat the others to get into better schools and later on scholarships that lead to opportunities in govt and SAF. But collectively will our society do better with such a system when it comes to differentiating oiurselves from economi... | {
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Three questions on the subject of biodiversity
By Monica Krüger, Vattenfall
Biodiversity is one of the most important environmental issues for Vattenfall, a European energy company. The company continually works to prevent or minimise negative impacts on biodiversity. Head of Environment, Helle Herk-Hansen explains why biodiversity is so important for Vattenfall and what measures it is taking to champion different species and natural habitats.
1. Why is biodiversity an important issue for Vattenfall?
“All forms of energy generation have an impact, directly or indirectly, on species and their habitats, and therefore on biodiversity. The utilisation of land and water can have an adverse effect on landscapes and their inhabitants. Energy infrastructure, such as wind turbines, can create barriers that impinge on the natural migration patterns of animals.”
“Vattenfall’s wide-ranging product portfolio is associated with a variety of potential impacts that we aim to prevent, or at least minimise, wherever we can. To achieve this aim, we have developed various approaches. Protecting nature and biodiversity is a key focus area for us and is highlighted in our environmental policy.”
“Vattenfall is involved with various organisations that focus on environmental protection and conservation, as well as research and development. For example, the company is a founding member of Business@Biodiversity Sweden, a cross-sectoral corporate network for issues relating to biodiversity and natural capital. It addresses the question of how a business can be profitable without impacting biodiversity and tries to find viable solutions.”
2. What specific measures is Vattenfall taking to maintain biodiversity?
“We employ a wide range of measures to actively champion different species and natural habitats, and measures are initiated both on land and in water. To minimise the impacts of the company’s operations on the environment and species diversity, we take biodiversity aspects into account at an early stage of project and plant planning. In doing so, we review our conventional methods and develop new, gentler techniques. One example of this is the quieter method of installing foundations for offshore wind farms – suction bucket jacket foundations – that we employ to protect sea dwellers that are particularly sensitive to noise, such as porpoises.”
“We take measures to maintain biodiversity in all of our markets. The suction bucket jacket method is used to build our offshore wind farms off the coasts of the Netherlands and the UK. In Sweden we are establishing protected conservation areas, which give flora and fauna the chance to thrive in a safe, unspoiled environment. Where impacts are impossible to prevent completely, compensation measures are implemented, for example building fish ladders to give migrating fish such as salmon and sea trout more passage opportunities. We have built one such fish ladder in Germany, close to Hamburg. In Berlin we have created ‘urban gardens’, where anyone can plant whatever they like. And beekeepers have the opportunity at various plant locations and substations to establish bee colonies.”
Wilfried Kuß and his daughter Anke have been keeping bees at Vattenfalls premises in Berlin since 2013 (photo: Vattenfall)
3. Why is Vattenfall now also committed to preserving bees?
“Bees are an indispensable part of our ecosystem. Vattenfall sites offer the ideal conditions for bees, as it is often very quiet at the power stations and the bees have enough space to find food and pollinate plants. This is why Vattenfall allows beekeepers to set up their hives at these sites. In addition to honeybees, we are active in the protection of wild bees, as these are at even greater risk of extinction than honeybees.”
“The protection of biodiversity is also a particular concern of Vattenfall Umweltstiftung, Vattenfall’s environmental foundation in Germany. The foundation has already funded the installation of multiple wild beehives, which contain breeding tubes that provide good conditions for the bees to reproduce. Two of the hives are located on the grounds of a nursery school, as the foundation supports environmental education for children in particular.”
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Recorded on this day in NYC in 1955, "Right Around the Corner" is the kind of gospel flavored R&B that laid the prep work for the soul era of the 60s. It's also my favorite dance record by my favorite vocal group of all time.
The 5 Royales began as a southern gospel group (The Royal Sons) from North Carolina in the late 1940s. Future architects of soul music at Stax as well as James Brown and Ray Charles would be hugely influenced by the group and its lead guitarist Lowman Pauling. Their role as forefathers of soul assures they will never be forgotten (I seem to remember there even being something in the Stax museum about them) but it's important for people to appreciate them for their own music, not just the music they would inspire.
So start off your day jumping and thumping and get rhythm & blues religion with the vivacious vocals of Jimmy Moore, Obadiah Carter, Otto Jeffries, Johnny Tanner and the roaring sax solo of Willis "Gator" Jackson.
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I'm excited to highlight some of my favorite records in a variety of genres (soul, R&B, classic country, rockabilly, oldies, garage rock, etc). These won't all necessarily be "dance" records per se. They will all be records that I believe deserve a special listen. I simply love good music, rare or not. Hopefully you will spend some time here and love music right along with me! Lets give this a shot!Portland Soul DJPortland Classic Country DJPortland R&B DJPortland Rock 'n' Soul DJPortland Party Producer | {
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It Was a “Namesake” Weekend at the Specialty Box Office
It Was a "Namesake" Weekend at the Specialty Box Office
Fox Searchlight‘s “The Namesake” by Mira Nair topped the specialty box office last weekend as ranked on a per screen basis with a whopping $41,425 average, while Zeitgeist‘s “Into Great Silence” placed second with an $11,566 per screen average in its second week in theaters. IFC First Take‘s “The Exterminating Angels” ranked third with $6,485 on its opening, while IFC Films‘ “Beyond the Gates (aka Shooting Dogs)” followed, also on one screen with $6,374. Rounding out the top five on the iW Box Office Table (iW BOT) was THINKFilm‘s “Avenue Montaigne,” which averaged $5,239, giving its four-week cume a total of $304,000. Top absolute dollar earners amongst the specialty offerings last week were Samuel Goldwyn/Roadside Attractions‘ “Amazing Grace” came in at just under $2.5 million on 1000 screens, while Bigger Picture‘s “The Ultimate Gift” scored nearly $1.25 million at 816 locations. [The iWBOT is based on per-theater averages reported by Rentrak Theatrical, the complete indieWIRE BOT weekly chart is available here at indieWIRE.com.] [Brian Brooks] | {
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Regal Care nursing home employees in New Haven, West Haven and Torrington prepared to strike
Published 5:38 pm, Friday, December 16, 2016
Hundreds of union employees of Regal Care nursing homes in New Haven, West Haven, Torrington and four other Connecticut communities are set to go on strike Wednesday if a contract settlement cannot be reached by then, a union spokeswoman said.
“The owner of these seven Regal homes has continued to expand the number of homes he owns but isn’t providing wage increases to workers,” Schneider said in an email.
“Workers feel the money should be invested into the homes so a high level of quality care can be provided to residents,” she said. “Low wages cause high turnover and residents lack a consistent caregiver in those situations.”
Administrators at Regal Care’s Connecticut headquarters in Waterbury were not immediately available for comment, employees said.
Messages left for administrators at that facility as well as other Regal Care facilities were not immediately returned.
The New Haven facility, when it was known as Paradigm Healthcare Center and under different ownership, was fined $63,700 by federal authorities in 2015 for a string of medical miscues that included neglecting a patient’s wound to a point where maggots were crawling out of the skin, according to a Dec. 4, 2015, story in the Hartford Courant.
The Clifton Street nursing home also failed to notify family members or legal guardians when the medical condition of residents worsened or when treatment changed, according to inspections by the state Department of Public Health, the Courant reported.
The former Paradigm Healthcare centers in New Haven, West Haven, Torrington, Waterbury and Propect were once part of the bankrupt Marathon Healthcare Group. Then East Hartford-based Paradigm Healthcare Development Co. bought the former Marathon homes out of state receivership in 2009, the Courant reported. | {
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Growing Number Missing From Georgia's Workforce
Tens of thousands of people are gone from Georgia’s workforce—one of the biggest declines in the nation. And the reason for the missing workers might be found in the state’s growth before the recession.
Before the downturn, Georgia was regarded as one of the fastest-growing states in the country. That boom was fueled by people moving-in and landing jobs in areas such as construction and the service industry. But now, the whiplash effect could be in play.
Over the past 12 months, Georgia has suffered the second-biggest loss of workers in the nation. And since December, numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show nearly 110,000 people left the state’s workforce.
University of Georgia professor and demographer Doug Bachtel says the hit to the labor pool has been hardest in rural counties:
"Those counties have continued to lose population, and what happens then—those folks in those counties move to urban and suburban Georgia, where there’s been more job opportunities, so then sometimes they’re the last hired-first fired."
Bachtel says if people missing from the workforce haven’t left the state, you may find them at a college or tech-school near you, where enrollment has spiked. | {
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Norwegians to protest Breivik, singing song he hates
Reuters Staff
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OSLO (Reuters) - Thousands of Norwegians will take to the streets of Oslo on Thursday to sing a children’s song calling for peace and fraternity, in a protest against mass killer Anders Behring Breivik who has called it Marxist brainwashing.
They plan to sing arm-in-arm a few blocks from the courthouse where Breivik is on trial for the killings of 77 people in a gun and bomb rampage last year.
“I grew up with this song and have sung it to my child,” said Lill Hjoennevaag, one of the organizers of the demonstration.
“Everybody I know feels strongly about this song and we need to take it back,” she told public broadcaster NRK.
Lillebjoern Nilsen’s “Children of the Rainbow”, a Norwegian rendition of American folk singer Pete Seeger’s 1971 “My Rainbow Race”, is a popular song in Norway.
“Breivik has used it as an example of brainwashing, but it is rather an example of the opposite,” said Christine Bar, another organizer, who launched the event on Facebook.
“We think it represents diversity, and it stands for the community we have chosen to live in, and which Breivik and similar people want to tear down,” she added.
Breivik set off a car bomb, killing eight people, then gunned down 69 people, mostly teenagers, at a youth summer camp organized by the ruling Labour Party on July 22.
In court on Friday he attacked Norway’s schools and in particular Nilsen.
“He is a good example of a Marxist who infiltrated the cultural sector; he writes music that is used to brainwash children,” Breivik said.
He admits the killings and has described his attacks in shocking detail, but pleads not guilty, claiming the right to protect Norway from multiculturalism and Muslim immigration.
He said the Labour Party was his chief target because it had promoted mass immigration, and that its youth camp was political indoctrination with the aim of brainwashing young activists.
He expressed regrets he was unable to complete his plan of beheading former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, known as the “mother of the country”, and said he had hoped to kill many more.
On Wednesday he railed at psychiatrists who diagnosed him as psychotic, saying their report contained “evil, fictional inventions”. | {
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"He [Vince Lombardi Jr.] distills the substance of the famous coach's utterances and his living example into lessons that anyone can use to become a better leader and better person...What It Takes To Be #1 is a goof read. And it may inspire you to start a process of self-discovery that could enrich your life and make you more effective at whatever you do." (Fort Worth Star-Telegram 2001-04-06)
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"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing."Vince Lombardi
Legendary coach Vince Lombardiloved by some, feared by others, but respected by allwas first and foremost a winner. His unparalleled ability to inspire greatness and mold disparate groups of individuals into dominating championship teams made Lombardi an icon both on and off the playing field. For decades, writers have attempted to capture Lombardi's compelling model of success. Until now, however, the man and his methods have remained a fascinating enigma.
In What It Takes to Be #1, the only person who could truly understand Vince Lombardi's unrelenting passion for winninghis son, Vince Lombardi Jr.reveals the bedrock principles behind his father's legendary methods. Closely examining the leadership insights of Coach Vince Lombardi through the words of his most famous speech, Vince Jr. explores the fundamental leadership qualitiescharacter, mental toughness, and integritythat Lombardi considered essential for success. He then shows how to skillfully apply those qualities, and inspire others to achieve extraordinary results.
What It Takes to Be #1 is the first personal, yet decidedly practical, exploration of Vince Lombardi's all-or-nothing approach to winning. For all business leaders, or those who aspire to leadership, it provides a blueprint for achieving Lombardi-like success in virtually any endeavor.
"I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's personal commitment to excellence and to victorywhether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you."Vince Lombardi
Leadership is one of the most sought-after, written-about and trained-for qualities in business today. And no figure so fully embodies the leadership qualities managers hope to cultivate in their professional and personal lives as the legendary Vince Lombardi, widely considered one of the greatest coaches of the modern football era.
As coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967, Coach Lombardi turned a perennial loser into a juggernaut, winning NFL titles in 1961, 1962, and 1965 in addition to Super Bowls I and II in 1966 and 1967. His uncanny ability to motivate his players, his extraordinary capacity to inspire them to test and exceed the limits of their physical and mental endurance, and his insatiable drive to succeed made him the standard against which all NFL coaches are measured.
In What It Takes to Be #1, Vince Lombardi, Jr. explores his father's successful leadership philosophy and extracts powerful lessons from it about what it takes to be an effective leader. These are lessons he learned from his close relationship with his father and refined through his many years of experience in the business world.
Taking as his jumping-off point his father's memorable 1970 speech on the critical importance of self-knowledge, character, and integrity, Vince Jr. examines each of those qualities, in turn, and offers clear guidelines on how to cultivate and apply the Lombardi leadership model both at work and in your personal life.
And, throughout What it Takes to Be #1, Vince Jr. shares inspiring personal anecdotes about the great man in action, both on the football field and off. He also reproduces many poignant quotes by and about his father, invoking the voice of Lombardi, and instilling readers with the invaluable leadership principles they need to succeed in today¿s ever-changing workplace.
Great leaders aren't born; they're made. What it Takes to Be #1 arms everyone who aspires to become a leader with powerful lessons they can put into practice immediately and will continue to resonate and grow in their hearts and minds for many years to come.
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I highly recommend this book if you are interested in any aspect of management or leadership or if you are looking for ways to refine your character and increase your personal and interpersonal effectiveness.Vince Lombardi is arguably the greatest professional football coach of all time. His 10 year coaching record was 105 wins, 35 losses, and 6 ties. His legendary Green Bay Packers played in 6 World Championship games and won 5, including the first two Super Bowls, and his post-season record of 9 wins and 1 loss is unmatched. Today, the name "Lombardi" conjures up many images in the minds of those who knew the man, knew of the man, or have heard the many myths and legends about the man. Who better to tell and analyze Vince Lombardi's story than his son, Vince Jr.?This book not only presents a balanced view of Vince Lombardi the man and coach, it also gives readers the "Lombardi Leadership Model" (self-knowledge + character + integrity = leadership) and other useful tools and insights for introspection and personal leadership development. Besides being a great biographical account of a very complex, often misunderstood, and highly successful leader in a public and highly competitive environment, this book is also a great guide to personal growth for any leader in today's chaotic environment and tomorrow's uncertain future.
Above the portals of Apollo's temple at Delphi one could find the words "Know Thyself". This injunction, as old as civilization, is the departure point for this thoughtful volume. Vince Lombardi Jr. has penned a gem of a book, a labor of love based upon the philosophies and actions of his famous father. It's about winning - through knowing yourself, building excellent character, and living with integrity. Vincent T. Lombardi is an icon. Living in Green Bay, I am reminded daily of his legacy. But this isn't just another rehashing of the Packer "glory days". Vince Jr. has applied his father's winning strategies to life, to leadership, to motivation, to building teamwork and developing winning organizations. On a personal level, the reader can apply the principles laid out in this book to developing a winning attitude, to asking the right questions to making better life decisions, to developing better focus and discipline, and to discovering your life's passion and jumping into it with enthusiasm. This is a fantastic book for students, for those trying to earn leadership positions, for successful business people looking to enhance the performance of their company, or for any intelligent person trying to improve their life and find their true way. My favorite thought from this book is "Chase perfection and settle for excellence along the way." Vince Lombardi's book will definitely get you chasing perfection, and make you want to RUN TO WIN!
To be honest,as a Hong Kong student, I didn't know who is Vince Lombardi before. Now, I am not only knowing how great he was as a football coach and I can learn something from his leadership model.First of all, the author (Vince's son) uses lots of qutoation. Well, I am so impressed. This is because using Vince own word is much more easy to understand him and his model. Also, his word is very powerful such as " Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing" and " To master ourselves before we attempt to master others." These words inspire me a lot and I can always remember his philosophy.Besides, I agree the idea of "Master Ourselves" and " Master Others". This concept is very close to Chinese thought. We have to behave ourselves, then we are able to lead others and affect others.Thirdly, this book talks about self-knowlegde in the first part. Ususally , the book would stop after telling the importance of self-knowlegde. This book gives me more, the author teaches us several ways to know ourselves.However, I am so disappointed to the summary because it doesn't included the most critical points of being a leader and what is leadership.
In this book, Vince Lombardi, Jr., masterfully connects the leadership principles of his father with the leadership demands of the 21st century. Vince, Jr. demonstrates his unique qualification to piece together core leadership qualities of Coach Lombardi in a coherent, engaging and personable style. I had always heard about the many speechs Vince Lombardi gave toward the end of his life. Vince Jr. brings "The Speech" to life through his personal and expert analysis. Although the book contains great leadership principles and theory, it goes beyond being a text book on leadership. "What it Takes To Be #1" offers personal reflections from Coach Lombardi and those who knew him best, particularly his son, on what it means to be a leader. As the director of a leadership institute for a 6,000 employee organization, I look forward to using many of Lombardi's principles in our organizational development program. I particularly appreciate Lombardi's emphasis on self-discovery and self-knowledge, the building blocks of character and integrity. In Lombardi's own words, these elements "provide the foundation of leadership." Who better to reconnect today's 21st century leaders with a legend from decades ago? Vince Jr. achieves that connection in this book. No one should be surprised: this book is a winner! | {
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This casual yet sophisticated suit demonstrates Lelong's interest in creating the sporty, functional styles he referred to as "kinetic design." These styles often alluded to the modern concepts of motion and speed, shown here in the soft, swinging pleats of the skirt and the bold, Art Deco stripes of the sweater. Elegant sportswear was essential for the typical Lelong client, who spent much of her leisure time at fashionable resorts.
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World opens up for income seekers
August’s market rout has as least one silver lining. It has made yields on income funds look more attractive than they have for years.
The prospective dividend yield on British and European shares is typically in the region of 3.5-4%. As a multiple of their earnings, stocks are priced at less than half their 20-year averages. It’s difficult not to see this as a buying opportunity.
Traditionally, income investors have stayed close to home, and for good reason. London-listed shares still pay better dividends than you find almost anywhere else, but as Artemis is keen to point out, that is changing fast. Its Global Income fund, managed by Jacob de Tusch-Lec, pays out roughly the same level of income as Adrian Frost’s better-known Artemis Income fund. Since launch in July last year it has shot into the top quartile of the Global sector.
De Tusch-Luc says the opportunities for investors are companies with dividend yields of 4-7% and payouts growing at 5-30% a year. In a snapshot of the 3,300 biggest global companies, he shows a graph on which lots of companies inhabiting that space are British, but many more are not.
“You can find Asian companies now with a clear declared dividend policy. They know that western investors like that and will give the stock a re-rating,” he says. The total value of dividends a global investor can harvest is four times the level of 10 years ago, he adds, underlining how a British-centric approach to income may soon be old hat. Of the large listed companies that yield more than 3% and increase that yield by more than 4% a year, only 10% are in Britain. (Collinson continues below)
Yield compression in every other asset class means that global equities offering a decent yield have outperformed strongly. Even after the market downturn, de Tusch-Lec’s fund is up 7% over the year, against a small decline for the average global fund.
He has not gone anywhere near global bonds for income. “Do I want to finance bankrupt governments or growth companies?” he asks. But the forces at work driving sovereign bonds to ultra-low or ultra-high levels are the same forces driving his stock selection. “We are in a macro environment. You have to take a view out there. You can pick great stocks, but if you are in the wrong country you can get killed.”
Mining stocks might be just such an area. De Tusch-Lec says he could create a portfolio of mining stocks with a yield of 10%, but he shares Frost’s concern about the sector. Instead, he is encouraged by the huge cash balances held by so many global companies. Many are aware that Apple has more cash in hand than the American government, but Apple is just at the top of a list of cash-rich mega-caps.
“If you look around the world today, the only bit that is economically healthy is the corporate sector. Wages are subdued, unemployment is high, and developed-world corporates have more cash on their balance sheets than ever before. Cash as a percentage of market cap is also close to an all-time high.”
When money starts burning a hole in a chief executive’s pocket, it usually results in a surge in investment spending (new IT kit, research facilities and so forth) or a round of acquisitions. But chief execs are also painfully aware of how little share prices have moved for a decade.
Frost chips in with this observation: “How do you make a share price go up? I wonder if we will see companies drive up valuations through distribution policy. The alternative is to just become more of a Leviathan.” He says this with a weary tone, evidently having seen too few mega-cap acquisitions pay off for investors. He’s in the camp that would happily see BP broken up as the best route to accessing capital. On balance, though, he doesn’t see that happening - and on balance, thinking of the wider interests of Britain rather than just shareholders, I’m glad it won’t.
More likely, says Frost, is that if companies can’t increase the E in EPS (earnings per share), they can shrink the S. Artemis expects more and more share buybacks. “IBM has done it for years. One company - Next - has bought back 50% of its equity,” says Frost. In that time Simon Wolfson, Next’s chief executive, has not sold a single share. “Next could be left with just one shareholder, Simon himself.”
Some cash-rich companies could even borrow cheaply and pay out the money almost instantly to shareholders, taking advantage of ultra-low financing rates. As an example, de Tusch-Lec takes Altria, whose bond financing rate is 4.7%, whereas the firm’s equity is yielding 5.6% and the stock offers a dividend growing at 7% a year.
Telecoms, though, is among his favourite sectors, with KPN of the Netherlands one of his low-turnover stocks. Banks are almost invisible in the portfolio, which has helped during the latest downturn. In particular, he thinks Latin American banks are liable to have an accident.
The portfolio is not hedged, which will make some British investors uneasy, but as Artemis points out, global companies derive their earnings from so many different areas that currency swings can largely cancel themselves out.
The argument against a global income fund is that the world is in a deflationary spiral, so bonds will be the place to be. But Artemis doesn’t buy the deflationary thesis, although it doesn’t expect rampant inflation either. More likely, in its view, is volatile inflation, an environment in which equity income should prosper.
The big risk to the global dividend bonanza is that bankrupt governments will shove corporate tax rates up. With households so indebted and fragile, they have nowhere else to go. De Tusch-Lec says that big companies have had it almost too easy, with two decades of benign tax cuts. That is likely to reverse, although it shouldn’t hit returns too hard. After all, we all know how easy it has become for companies to hide profits in low-tax domiciles overseas. | {
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Donnastag – Boys Noize [FREE DL]
It’s not too often that Boys Noize releases his own music for free, but when he does, you better make sure you snag that shit. Alex Ridha aka Boys Noize is the powerhouse behind numerous projects like Boys Noize records, it’s sister digital sub-label BNR TRAX and 1/2 of techno genius’ Handbraeks with Mr. Oizo. Boys Noize actually released this track back in 2006 as a limited edition vinyl but now Alex has taken the time to digitally remaster this track and release this banger for free! Alex said that this track was a tribute to Donna Summer’s life and work, and this is very a fitting remix/bootleg. Download this now and start dancing! | {
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I am no stranger to religious conservatives. Many members of my family wholeheartedly choose to practice and develop spiritual identities according to different religious traditions, and I’m not simply equating this mindset with going to church every Sunday. Rather, they (similar to the majority of religious conservatives) choose to use the doctrines of the Bible […] | {
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Moscow, 20 May 1998 (RFE/RL) -- The European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development is the single largest direct foreign investor in Russia, but pressure to speed up lending has lead to some blunders.
The EBRD has poured millions into the troubled truck maker KamAZ and taken an equity stake in Moscow's Tokobank, which was recently put under Central Bank administration.
Bank officials say such slip-ups come with the territory. Currently, the EBRD is the largest single direct foreign investor in the Russian economy, with more than 3.6 billion ECU ($3.2 billion) worth of projects approved by its board of directors by the end of 1997. With foreign direct investment in Russia still a paltry $10 billion since 1991, the EBRD has clearly dared to tread where the private sector wouldn't.
Bank officials said the EBRD could commit another $2 billion to Russia by the end of the century, ensuring it will remain a major player in the country's fledgling market economy.
The EBRD has been under pressure to speed up lending to Russia to overcome its early rocky years, when the bank was known more for spending lavishly on its London headquarters under former president Jacques Attali than helping the former Eastern bloc back on its feet. Now, however, its resources are being squeezed as demands grow for the EBRD to be used as a piggy bank to integrate East European countries into the European Union. Russia is expected to remain a major focus of the bank's activities, but the pace of new lending could slow down as a result.
By most accounts, the EBRD has had the greatest impact in Russia by spurring banks to begin lending to private industry, considered essential for the economy to get off the ground. It has helped drag in foreign investment and forced dozens of Russian companies and banks to become more transparent as a condition of its financing. And unlike in the more advanced East European countries, such as Hungary and Poland, the EBRD in Russia has not been accused of crowding out the private sector.
But critics say it has still failed to have a significant impact on economic reforms in Russia. As one Western investment banker who asked not to be named put it: "The EBRD should be commended for being in there with both feet. But the impact of the EBRD should be larger than the total sum of its investments. The school is very much out on that."
In many ways, the EBRD is a victim of its own hazy mandate: to make a profit while assisting in the transition to a market economy. It is criticized for investing in risky projects that fail, but it is also attacked as a conservative institution that picks only the best deals.
Its most recent high-profile flop came earlier this month when the Central Bank put Tokobank under temporary administration the day before the EBRD's annual meeting opened in Kiev. The EBRD bought 9.6 percent of Tokobank in 1994 for $35 million, but was apparently unable to influence management or stop the recent spate of rumor mongering that the bank was on the verge of failure.
Tokobank, one of Russia's top 20 banks, had been losing money for the past four years partly due to bad loans and weak management, but it is believed to be well-capitalized and financially solvent.
EBRD officials have scrambled to explain what went wrong, stressing that the Central Bank's move would be temporary. Many believe the Central Bank will not allow Tokobank to fail precisely because of the EBRD's involvement. But the case highlights the EBRD's difficulties exerting control over management in Russia's rough-and-tumble business climate.
Nowhere is this problem more acute than at KamAZ, Russia's largest truckmaker based in the autonomous republic of Tatarstan. It sank $100
million into the company under a 1995 loan agreement, following in the footsteps of many investment banks that were talking up KamAZ as the next undervalued company to take off. Now KamAZ owes some $1.2 billion to creditors, including back taxes, and has only recently restarted production after standing idle since the beginning of the year.
As Reinhard Schmoelz, director of EBRD's Russia team, put it: "In hindsight, it has not been our greatest investment. But it can turn the other way around. Russia needs a trucking industry."
Some in the Russian banking community were shocked by the EBRD's decision to do a deal with KamAZ and thought it ran counter to its
advocacy of sound banking principles. But the loan was made at a time
when the EBRD was criticized for doing too little in Russia.
A source from an international financial institution said: "There's a lot of political pressure to get the money out the door."
Bank officials say the company still has a chance to make it if it accepts outside management team. They defend the decision to invest in the truckmaker, saying it is precisely the kind of deal the EBRD should be doing.
"We certainly don't see Kamaz as a failure," said Neil Parison, the EBRD's resident representative in Moscow. "If you think about what the EBRD is supposed to do, it is to make investments the private sector isn't quite ready for. It is to take risks and help restructure industry." | {
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Rob Gronkowski to return to NFL alongside Tom Brady in Tampa
Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski react after Gronkowski scored a touchdown during the fourth quarter against the New York Jets at Gillette Stadium on October 25, 2015 in Foxboro, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
TAMPA, Fla. - Rob Gronkowski did not get to make his dramatic appearance in Tampa at Wrestlemania 36 earlier this month, but the retired Patriots star will still get a chance to hit the field at Raymond James Stadium.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have made a deal with the Patriots for Gronk to join his former quarterback on the Bucs, the NFL confirms.
Tom Brady famously signed with the Buccaneers last month. Now, as NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport first reported, Gronkowski is returning to the league to play alongside Brady.
A trade would have to be worked out for that to happen, Rapoport noted, but ESPN’s Adam Schefter says the two teams have indeed agreed to terms of a deal.
FOX’s Jay Glazer adds that Gronkowski has already taken a physical for the Buccaneers.
Gronkowski retired from the NFL in March of 2019, citing injuries, and signed on with the WWE. He was expected to play a big role at Wrestlemania in Tampa this month, but the event was moved to the WWE’s empty facility in Orlando for social distancing purposes.
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The former tight end himself told TMZ on Tuesday that he’s “not totally done” with football, despite the concussions he suffered.
Tom Brady sighted, not cited, working out in closed Tampa park
Mayor Jane Castor said a city employee spotted the Bucs' new quarterback working out in a closed city park.
Gronkowski had one year left on his contract with the Patriots at the time of his retirement. Schefter reports the trade will send Gronkowski and a seventh-round draft pick to Tampa in exchange for a fourth-round pick.
The Buccaneers already have former first-round pick OJ Howard at tight end, along with Cameron Brate. | {
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Fantasy Notes: Jays Blown Away
Okay, I get it. Toronto sweeps the defending Champion BoSox and then gets swept by an Oakland team expected to be among the AL’s weakest clubs this season. Now Toronto travels to Texas, who is off to a good start, and Baltimore, which is somehow the AL East leader. The Jays could limp home in a bit of a hole early.
It’s time to take another look at Travis Buck in AL-only leagues. He started the season in an 0-for-22 funk, but apparently all he needed to get his shit together was a dose of Toronto pitching. Buck went 7-for-16 in the three-game series, smacking six doubles, driving in four and scoring three. This kid won’t fly under the radar for long. In preseason, I predicted that Buck would sneak up on people.
Chris Denorfia is batting .400 in limited action for the A’s, but he can’t carve into Ryan Sweeney’s PT with Sweeney also hitting a robust .364. Wasn’t the A’s outfield supposed to suck? Not so far.
Are you getting as sick as I am waiting for Brandon League to develop into the top set-up man we all expected him to be? Five walks in 2 2/3 innings so far? I’d say he’ll wind up in Syracuse before he winds up in an important role in the Toronto pen. Shawn Camp, meanwhile, is looking like he’s ready to get the call if the Jays’ need relief help. He’s tossed six shutout innings through four appearances, with one save while giving up two hits and no walks and fanning nine.
Back with the A’s, Bobby Crosby is finally healthy and hitting better than he ever has so far. But we’re still waiting for that power to return, and until it does, his value will be limited. Watch him closely. That three-hit (including two doubles), three-RBI game on Wednesday could be a sign of things to come.
Is Oakland going to stick with Jack Hannahan at third while it waits for Eric Chavez to return? After a nice season opener, Hannahan is mired in a 4-for-29 skid. Donnie Murphy, back from last weekend’s finger injury, is starting Friday. It wouldn’t take much for him to overcome the underwhelming Hannahan.
After hitting in eight straight games to start the season, Kurt Suzuki is hitless in his last two, but he’s gained some decent waiver wire traction early with his performance. Don’t look for much power, but if your league counts OBP, Suzuki is definitely worthy of attention.
Emil Brown, batting .250, is about as useful as we expected. That is to say, not very much. Time to start the Carlos Gonzalez watch? I give this situation another two weeks. Assuming Brown continues his middling ways, if Gonzalez isn’t up by May 1, I’ll be very surprised.
It wasn’t pretty, but Keith Foulke proved he can still save a game when he closed it down for the finale against the Jays. He was getting the chance with Huston Street having pitched in the previous two games, but this bears watching. Once Oakland fades as expected, Street could be dealt, opening up the A’s closing duties. Foulke has looked hard to hit in the early going and he leads the AL in holds. In AL only-leagues, I’d say he’s worth picking up right away.
We’re loving what we’re seeing from Vernon Wells in the early going. Touted as a great buy-low candidate all offseason by RotoRob baseball writer Tim McLeod, Wells has been incredibly productive, as well as more patient this year. He’s driven in runs in five straight games, producing eight RBI in all over this stretch. Could we be witnessing the early stages of a career year from Toronto’s mega-rich flyhawk?
Let’s get back to that Oakland bullpen situation for a moment. With Rich Harden going down for the 57th time in his career, Joey Devine got the call from Triple-A, and he wound up earning the win in his season debut, tossing a pair of shutout frames. More importantly, he didn’t walk anyone. That’s the key for this former Brave phenom. If Devine can maintain good control, he’s a closer in waiting. Watch his role evolve over the next couple of weeks, and start to put him on your watch list if you need bullpen help, especially in AL-only leagues. | {
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If Only Bankers Had Brains
By now you have memorized those three ugly words, “subprime mortgage mess.” Get ready for three more: “credit default swap,” called CDS on Wall Street but barely known on Main Street, where it may well spread financial disease as lethal as subprime and sundry exotic mortgages. The sagacious financial expert who almost alone has warned of such looming woes for more than a decade is Frank Partnoy, professor of law at the University of San Diego.
In its simplest form, a credit default swap is essentially insurance against default or some other calamity on a debt instrument, such as a bond or a loan. For example, a bank holds a bond and wants to be sure it gets its steady interest payments and its principal when the bond matures. So the bank buys a contract from a third party — say, a hedge fund, insurance company, pension fund — which promises that the bond will be paid off in full. In return, the bank pays the third party a regular premium. The calamity for which the bank gets insurance might be bankruptcy of the bond issuer, failure to pay interest or principal, and the like. Call this bond protection.
The vehicle by which this quasi-insurance is carried out is a derivative — a financial instrument whose value is derived from some other security, such as a stock, bond, or commodity. Most derivatives are bewilderingly complex — often created by Harvard and MIT mathematics PhDs. Sometimes both the buyers and sellers of derivatives don’t understand them. After all, the essence of white-collar fraud is contrived complexity. The investment banking world is expert at creating such mares’ nests. Trouble is, the firms are often not smart enough to unravel their own self-made messes. A low-level trader cost the second-biggest French bank $7.2 billion by making trades the bank had not detected. The U.S. can’t be smug: big Wall Street houses such as Merrill Lynch and Citigroup have lost billions of dollars in mortgage-related products, and the chief executives raking in $60 million or more a year in salary had no idea what was going on.
Now some financial experts are asking if the credit default swap phenomenon is a protection racket — or a Ponzi scheme. People are wondering what happens when the third party promising protection doesn’t have the money to pay off. This could cause a chain reaction. Protection sellers could default. Protection buyers, which had wrongly assumed they were covered for calamities, would find themselves in deep doo-doo. Worrisomely, public disclosure of swap deals is very slim. There is a stark lack of information. The swaps are sold over the counter, not traded on an exchange, and are largely outside the scrutiny of regulators.
Bill Gross, managing director of Newport Beach–based PIMCO, which runs the world’s largest bond fund, recently pointed out that through use of derivatives, hidden off the balance sheet, America’s banks evade the reserve requirements that once backed up the system to prevent runs. Gross’s January report put it in stark words: “Our modern shadow banking system craftily dodges the reserve requirements of traditional institutions and promotes a chain letter, pyramid scheme of leverage [debt], based in many cases on no reserve cushion whatsoever. Financial derivates of all descriptions are involved, but credit default swaps are perhaps the most egregious offenders.” If something goes wrong in the economy — and a national recession looks increasingly likely — the banks may well not have adequate reserves. There are $45 trillion of swaps and $500 trillion of all kinds of mysterious derivatives floating around the world, often undetected.
Gross says that in the course of the coming (perhaps underway) economic woes, swaps could account for $250 billion of losses — the same as subprime mortgages. “Casualties and shipwrecks are the inevitable consequence,” says Gross.
University of San Diego law professor Partnoy sold derivatives on Wall Street for two years. In 1997, his book F.I.A.S.C.O.: Blood in the Water on Wall Street warned of coming problems with derivatives. His 2003 book, Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets, specifically zeroed in on swaps. He showed how they were critical in the Enron and WorldCom frauds. “Banks had done an estimated $10 billion of credit default swaps related to WorldCom,” wrote Partnoy. When WorldCom collapsed, the banks were owed billions in the bankruptcy, but they didn’t worry: they had sold the risk to somebody else. There were 800 swaps amounting to $8 billion of bets on Enron, wrote Partnoy. Then–Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan applauded this risk-shifting, saying it took pressure off U.S. banks. But because the swap market was “opaque and unregulated,” wrote Partnoy, “no one could be sure where the risk had gone.” Property, casualty, and reinsurance companies took hits, as did pension funds and hedge funds.
But, noted Partnoy, just as banks used derivatives to skirt reserve requirements, insurance companies used them to avoid legal rules that blocked them from taking on too much risk. Banks were dodging regulation by shifting risk to less regulated insurance companies, which were also doing illegal gambling. Because of the swap boom, the world financial system might be creating instability, not reducing it. Banks are in the best position to monitor a loan; they have access to data that the third parties don’t have. An insurance company — especially one based offshore, as so many are — can only look at public documents. It doesn’t have the inside scoop, as banks supposedly have.
Now the chickens are coming home to roost. Consider Ambac Assurance and the Municipal Bond Insurance Association (MBIA). They had done very well insuring tax-free municipal bonds. (For example, Ambac insured the San Diego ballpark bonds.) Ambac and MBIA had the highest AAA ratings — ergo, so did the municipal bonds they guaranteed. But then they got greedy. They decided to insure debt instruments that were loaded up with mortgages that turned out to be kinky. These bonds are collapsing. There is a question of whether Ambac and MBIA have the money to provide the protection they promised. The stock prices of Ambac and MBIA have dropped precipitously, oscillating on rumors. There is talk of a bailout of these companies by big banks (themselves lacking funds) or even the federal government.
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Don, we must do whatever it takes to reboot the home building and buying industries in San Diego ASAP.
X & Y, and even older workers, NEED GOOD JOBS TODAY and someone has to start doing something to make the right things happen or the San Diego economy will become a third world economy the way politicians in San Diego, Sacramento, Washington, and the corruption on Wall Street and at the Union-Tribune are sabotaging San Diego and America.
It's time to expose the Union-Tribune editorial board and corrupt politicians like Murphy and Sanders for sabotaging the San Diego economy to satisfy their "to hell with everyone else" greed. And it's time to kick every U-T politician out of office ASAP.
If X & Y won’t fight back now, they will run out of opportunities as fast as the new consumption economy is crashing and burning due to the corruption and incompetence of all our current politicians in San Diego, Sacramento and Washington.
Response to post #1: Corruption is destroying San Diego -- no argument there. But I disagree that San Diego should reboot the home building and buying industries. San Diego does not need any more residential development or more hotels. It needs to repair its dismal infrastructure. However, the real estate developers and tourist industry lead most of the politicians around by the nose -- or by the pocketbook. There are two exceptions: Frye and Aguirre. And they get slammed by the U-T for being honest. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #3: Condos are already vastly overbuilt, particularly downtown. There isn't room for more residential development, and there aren't the people to fill new homes, since population and jobs aren't growing. San Diego must work on its infrastructure. That will provide jobs. That is true of the U.S., too. The pols talk about programs to stimulate consumer spending. That's the last thing that is needed. Excessive consumer debt and spending got us into this mess. A program to rebuild roads, bridges, dams, etc. throughout the U.S. is urgently necessary and would provide jobs. Best, Don Bauder
1 - We need good paying jobs, and rebooting construction will provide a great many. Right now far too many skilled laborers are sitting around waiting for housing construction and infrastructure improvements to reboot, and that is a totally unacceptable waste of skilled labor in a time when there is a demand for their labor. BTW, it is hard working, dedicated skilled laborers who pay taxes that have been stolen by political corruption.
2 - X & Yers, and far too many others, need low cost housing today, and this demand continues to grow. Warren Buffett likes the low-cost funds, it's the trade deficit that bothers him most, and as he said yesterday the U.S. economy will "do very well over time." So let’s get people back to work who can make the right things happen for our economy and quality of life.
Don, stay focused on increasing good paying jobs and housing, things we need the most. Like McCain says “just calm down” in more ways than one. And as Buffett also said yesterday, the woes in the U.S. financial sector are "poetic justice."
MOTTO: Let’s get people back to work in good jobs building what San Diegans and Americans need to restore the American Dream and quality of life, NOW!
As for the scumbags who are destroying San Diego, it’s time to expose those who are causing the most problems such as the U-T editorial board, the U-T establishment and their political scumbag puppeticians at the top of the food chain of corruption.
Exposing destructive scumbags is the job that Don Bauder does best by cleaning out the San Diego political sewer of puppeticians like Sanders and Dumanis, corrupt judges, U-T business establishment robber barons and U-T editorial board.
It’s time to send scumbags to jail whose corruption and greed are causing San Diego’s destruction with their larceny and gross criminal negligence. Many of the most destructive scumbags are easy to recognize, they attack Aguirre and Frye.
What San Diego needs most is construction, and to eradicate the scumbags of destruction.
1. multiple occupancy dwellings and smaller homes, and
2. lower cost mortgages, then
3. they will sell once developers and politicians stop screwing San Diegans, but
4. Don Bauder has to expose the scumbags who have been screwing San Diegans and causing the housing crisis so the screwers will be sent to jail, along with corrupt politicians like Golding, Murphy and Sanders, and corrupt judges who enable the corruption to screw San Diegans, and finally
5. More jobs will be produced by dwelling and infrastructure construction so even more people can buy dwellings.
If things continue out of control getting worse because of corrupt and incompetent politicians and establishment special interests then it will be time for WPA v.21C old time Ocean Beach type cottages with less than 1000 sq ft where most families were raised in spite of small size, etc.
Time to send the corrupt to jail Don so San Diegans can afford houses and get good paying jobs again.
Go Get-'Em Don! Right now you and The Reader are the only way to make the right things happen for X & Y.
Response to post #6: OK Don, you and JV have points to emphasize. But let me emphasize one other point that really is the root cause of never-ending, out of control corruption by San Diego politicians and the Union-Tribune establishment, the fact that entire San Diego courts have been watching and doing nothing to stop the corruption from getting out of control for decades, for example:
Former San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock was found guilty of political corruption by two juries after his indictment in 1984, but the corrupt judiciary gave him a “Get Out Of Jail Free” card. This proved that Union-Tribune puppet-mayors never have to go to jail, as well as destroying the San Diego jury system.
Former San Diego Presiding Judge Greer and two of his judicial henchmen were convicted of mail fraud and racketeering conspiracy in 1996 after the entire Greer court spent a decade watching and doing nothing to stop massive judicial corruption.
Former Greer court acolyte Judge Dick Murphy became San Diego’s most corrupt Mayor in 2000 to achieve international recognition as one of the three worst mayors by Time magazine, resigned in 2005 in total disgrace after five years of extending the tradition of judicial corruption that he learned during the Greer court era. The most hellacious consequences of Murphy corruption are the hideous deaths and destruction in 2003 and 2007 Firestorms that no one seems to care about anymore.
That takes us up to today where the era of Union-Tribune corruption continues into the 21st century under their latest Puppet-Mayor Sanders who was a former police chief, which is another story.
Think maybe you and The Reader can take the expose of San Diego Union-Tribune establishment corruption from here Don? It’s way past due time to overthrow the U-T era of corruption that has devastated the future for X & Y and further generations.
Response to post #10: I respect that you have done "a lot" Don, but "more" is imperative.
The U-T establishment orchestrated vilification campaign against Aguirre has ramped up so they can perpetuate City Hall corruption against families and taxpayers of San Diego, even after they have caused excessive firestorm deaths and destruction due to their criminal fraud.
Now the U-T establishment is even running their puppet-judge Goldsmith against Aguirre to carry on the tradition of Greer court corruption.
Don, you spent three decades witnessing egregious U-T corruption in action and are the best investigative reporter in San Diego. In this election cycle, it’s more imperative than ever before for you to turn up your spotlight to expose the true depth of betrayal and destruction that the U-T establishment has perpetrated against the people of San Diego for far too many decades.
Even though the fact is that you have done “a lot” no one else is really fighting back yet, except Aguirre and he is going to going to be purged by the corrupt U-T establishment if you don’t tell the whole truth like it is to support him against the forces that are destroying San Diego.
You and Aguirre, and possibly Frye, are the only champions that can end the U-T era of corruption. So the future for your X & Y readers is in your expert hands as the only San Diego journalist in a position to make the right things happen.
Response to post #11: Yes, the U-T touts candidates who will continue the city's deeply-embedded corruption -- no argument there. It has been true for decades and hasn't changed an iota. The one good thing is that the U-T is losing readership so fast that its deleterious influence is waning noticeably. The Reader will continue to expose the entanglements among the developer and hotel industries that manipulate the politicians, and the mainstream media that let it happen. Best, Don Bauder
This column provides an excellent frame of reference for the new world they have to compete in for resources and quality of life today, and the local corruption is just putting X & Y at an even greater disadvantage.
Response to post #14:
OK Don, now how about a READER sponsored
"Keep Mike Aguirre As City Attorney To Save and Protect The Future of San Diego"
or lose it all to the corrupt U-T establishment campaign?
Response to post #17: Francis is saying all the right things. He realizes how corrupt the system now is. He realizes the stranglehold the developers have on the pols. He wants to change that. Hooray. Best, Don Bauder
You guys are right on, but I still never cease to be amazed by the San Diego U-T lemming subscriber mentality that the U-T keeps proving with the success of their deranged rant editorial power, especially when Sanders was elected in spite of the fact that Francis was the GOP candidate in last election.
As long as the U-T has any subscribers it appears that they will always be able to dominate San Diego politics by brainwashing enough lemmings to get their mayoral puppeticians elected.
Response to post #19: Be patient. Things are changing. Note the difference between the Steve Francis of the last election and Steve Francis now. He has access to polls and uses them to form his campaign approaches. The public is beginning to realize how the developers/hoteliers run the politicians. The city is run for the financial benefit of a handful of people who line the pockets of those pols, while the U-T applauds. San Diegans are figuring all this out, and the U-T is slowly dying. Best, Don Bauder
Don, I think your readers are basically the only people who are really aware of the severity of the destruction that the corrupt U-T establishment is causing. Beyond The Reader, there really doesn't appear to be much awareness or sense urgency to vote against these destructive U-T political forces.
I hope you are right about Francis, and that he will do a much better job of informing San Diegans about the needs for immediate political changes than has been done in the past.
Right now it still looks like Aguirre is in very great trouble because of the successes that U-T editorials still have with brainwashing San Diego’s lemming voter population to continue voting for U-T “Ballot Recommendations” against Aguirre and Francis without thinking.
Response to post #21: The U-T's dishonest smears have no doubt hurt Aguirre's chances. However, everybody who has professed interest in running against him is carrying a lot of baggage that has not been brought out yet. It will be, although not, certainly, in the U-T. This will get very interesting. Guaranteed. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #23: The Voice has a right to attack me or anybody else. We journalists whack others; we have to be able to take it. And that's what blogs are all about: people excoriating each other in a battle of ideas. The author of the blog is ideally one of the main targets of the blasting. Best, Don Bauder
I appreciate your humble opinion of yourself Don, but nevertheless the point I am making is that Voice has most sadly turned into Voice Of "U-T Establishment Corruption" and forfeited all right to claim to be Voice Of "San Diego" that Barbara Bry had created in the first place back in the founding days when Voice still had integrity.
After Barbara left, the new U-T sycophant Voice editorial board joined in jackboot step with the U-T editorial board to write the same deranged rants against Aguirre and anyone who dares to challenge their corrupt establishment demagoguery.
It is most hideously ironic that the Voice’s most respected columnist from an international journalism perspective is James Goldsborough who was forced to resign from the U-T by the same corrupt parochial establishment which now controls Voice.
Response to post #25: Yes, the Voice's repositioning itself as an establishment mouthpiece is most unfortunate -- for San Diego, and for the Voice's economic future. Goldsborough resigned from the U-T after owner David Copley killed a column. For me, that would not have been a reason to resign. I had had a number of columns killed, and didn't know whether David was involved or not, and didn't care. But I respect Goldsborough greatly. His columns on Iraq prior to our attacking that country were prescient indeed. Best, Don Bauder
Don, I guess what really motivates me most to fight back as aggressively as I can is that the U-T Establishment, which Goldsborough defined in one of his Voice columns by the way, is that too many San Diegans have lost their lives and are at still at unacceptable risk today because of the wholesale larceny by U-T puppeticians (e.g. Golding, Murphy, Sanders) controlled by the establishment who are enabled by too many judges to steal money from public safety funding to the extent that even police and firemen/women in Harm's Way are at unacceptable risk due to lack of resources.
And the worst part is that no one even seems to really care, much less remember the excess 2003 and 2007 firestorm deaths anymore because too much got out of control because of too few resources because of U-T Establishment larceny, and now VOU-TE (formerly VOSD) editors are goosestepping right behind U-T editors.
Don, it was in the April 27, 2005 issue of Voice of San Diego when James Goldsborough wrote a column: “San Diego: What Now?” which defines San Diego’s number one political problem that produced San Diego’s Financial Crises:
“city's power brokers --- the ‘downtown business community,’ which is euphemism for ‘Republican Party,’ and The San Diego Union-Tribune, a Republican newspaper, has corrupted city democracy.”
Don’t forget one defining hellacious consequence of U-T establishment larceny of public funds was when Mayor Murphy refused to continue leasing a helicopter just before the 2003 firestorm, a helicopter that could have prevented some of the fires from getting out of control in the Scripps Ranch and other areas, and this is just one of far too many failures by U-T puppeticians to provide enough resources for firefighters to save lives, protect themselves and property.
Since then San Diego has a lot more helicopters even though the establishment puppets CYA’d each other during the 2003 firestorms that more helicopters wouldn’t have helped. | {
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Is Sally Yates A Hero or a Villain?
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates was fired by President Donald Trump because she instructed the Justice Department lawyers not to defend Trump's Executive Order regarding travel to the U.S. by people from certain Muslim countries. She is neither a hero, nor a villain. She made an honest mistake when she instructed the entire Justice Department not to defend President Trump's wrong-headed executive order on immigration. The reasons she gave in her letter referred to matters beyond the scope of the attorney general. She criticized the order on policy grounds and said that it was not "right." She also referred to its possibly unconstitutionality and unlawful. Had she stuck to the latter two criteria she would have been on more solid ground, although perhaps wrong on the merits. But by interjecting issues of policy and directing the Justice Department not to defend any aspect of the order, she overstepped her bounds.
Former U.S. Acting Attorney General Sally Yates (left), and President Donald Trump. (Images source: Wikimedia Commons)
An Attorney General, like any citizen, has the right to disagree with a presidential order, but unless it is clear that the order is unlawful, she has no authority to order the Justice Department to refuse to enforce it. This order is multi-faceted and complex. It raises serious constitutional and legal issues that deserved nuanced and calibrated consideration from the nation's highest law officer. There are significant differences between the constitutional status of green card holders on the one hand, and potential visitors from another country who are seeking visas. Moreover, there are statutory issues in addition to constitutional ones. A blanket order to refuse to defend any part of the statute is overkill. If she strongly disagreed with the policies underlying the Order, she should have resigned in protest, and left it to others within the Justice Department to defend those parts of the Order that are legally defensible.
I, too, disagree, with the policy underlying the order, but I don't immediately assume that any policy with which I disagree is automatically unconstitutional or unlawful.
The President has considerable constitutional authority to control entry into the United States by non-citizens and non-residents. Congress, too, has some degree of control over our borders. The precise relationship between presidential and congressional power has never been defined by the Supreme Court. A more responsible Attorney General would seek to analyze these complex issues before jumping into the political fire by a blanket refusal to defend any part of the order.
In addition to failing to do her duty as Attorney General, Sally Yates handed President Trump an underserved political victory. She gave him the power to control the situation by firing her, instead of herself maintaining control by resigning in protest. It is the President who emerges from this unnecessary confrontation with the undeserved status of hero among his constituents.
I do not know Sally Yates except by reputation. She is highly regarded as a career prosecutor and public servant. My criticism of her is not personal, but rather institutional. These are dangerous and delicate times, and anyone who wants to confront the newly elected president must do so with wisdom, nuance and calibration. She played directly into his hands by responding to an overbroad order with an overbroad response. President Trump has now appointed a new acting Attorney General who will defend the order, or at least those parts of it that are legally defensible. Any individual Justice Department official who feels uncomfortable defending this controversial order should be given the freedom by the Department to decline to participate in the case. There are plenty of good lawyers in the Department who would have no hesitation standing up in the courtroom and making the best ethically permissible argument in defense of the order. I have had many experiences with Justice Department lawyers who personally disagreed with the prosecutorial decision in particular cases, but who vigorously defended the government's position.
Sally Yates did what she thought was right. In my view she was wrong. She should neither be lionized nor accused of betrayal. Nor should President Trump's critics, and I include myself among them, accuse him of doing anything even remotely close to President Nixon's infamous "Saturday night massacre." Nixon fired the very officials who were seeking to prosecute him. That constituted a personal and unethical conflict of interest. President Trump fired Yates over policy differences. It may have been unwise for him to do so, but it was clearly within his authority.
Now we will see our adversarial system at work. Excellent and dedicated lawyers will continue to bring challenges throughout the country against this ill-advised executive order. Other excellent lawyers will defend the order vigorously in court. Ultimately the issue may come to the Supreme Court (with or without a full complement of Justices). That is the way our system of checks and balances is supposed to work.
Alan M. Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus, is the author of Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law and Electile Dysfunction. A version of this article appeared in The Hill.
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Cathrine Brougham • Feb 4, 2017 at 23:05
I thought the article was a good piece of logic and a timely reminder about the difference between a personal decision or a work one. I thought it unethical to go against an executive order coming from the President as we are to respect authority (not necessarily agree with it) and it is the highest office in the land.
An Acting Attorney General is a big responsibility and Sally Yates would have had the intelligence and the experience to be in that position so it does seem to suggest that she did not think it through and this was something personal to her.
It certainly doesn't make her a villain but one would think seriously about hiring her into any top job in the future. I think she has shoot herself in the foot.
On a personal note I am impressed that President Donald Trump has at least had the gumption to try to redress some very critical problems that most of the northern part of the world is experiencing. He is trying to put plans into actions instead of the lame duck approaches that has made a great country like America almost redundant. We should be praying for this President to stay true and loyal and to have the best possible advisers around him at such a crucial time in our history.
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Howard Joffe • Feb 2, 2017 at 15:23
Sally Yates can be admired on the one hand for not being a YES-WOMAN. She erred in giving an instruction to ignore The President. She ought to have told Trump that she could not enforce his instruction and would resign as a consequence. Her position as Acting Attorney General is clear - Trump had given her a task but not a responsibility. She failed doing the task.
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Merrill Galer • Feb 2, 2017 at 11:00
Yates, like most of Obama's appointees, is an ideological political activist, who does not see her role as servant to the American people but only to promote the leftist agenda. She serves at the pleasure of the President Trump (who should have dismissed her day one) and he was legally correct in firing her.
Merrill
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linda goudsmit • Feb 2, 2017 at 07:06
Alan Dershowitz needs to retract his statement that Sally Yates made an "honest" mistake when she defied President Trump and instructed her staff not to defend his immigration order. Sally Yates is neither hero nor villain - she is an arrogant self-righteous leftover from Obama's politicized Justice Department under Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch that regularly chose to ignore the law to advance Obama's political agenda.
America is a country of laws and Barack Obama was a lawless president who politicized every government office and promoted legislating from the bench. Dershowitz discredits himself when he tries to defend the indefensible. Lawlessness is not an honest mistake - it is a strategy - the deliberate attempt to defy the rules of law and create social chaos.
Obama/Clinton were students of Saul Alinsky and Dershowitz should recognize the implementation of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals during Obama's entire 8 year tenure. Obama's sycophants consider defying the law an act of defiance or "resistance" - they pride themselves on their "courage" to resist. What they do not realize is that Obama's hope for America was to weaken America, transform it into a socialist state, and prepare it for Obama's globalist dream of one-world government.
One-world government is not the world of "social justice" that it is pitched as - it is the biggest bait-and-switch con perpetrated on the America public. One-world government is the globalist elite's sinister self-serving answer to the Malthusian problem of Earth's resources not being able to sustain the population growth. One-world government is a binary socio-political system with a small ruling elite and an enslaved population that serves them.
There is no middle class, no upward mobility, no national sovereignty, and no individual rights. One-world government is a dreamscape for the ruling elite but a dystopian nightmare for everyone else. One-world government is described in excruciating detail by Bertrand Russell in his 1952 book The Impact of Science on Society.
Donald Trump is the existential threat to one-world government because he believes in AMERICANISM not globalism. Left-wing liberals like Sally Yates who are mindlessly following Obama's ongoing message to disrupt and delegitimize Donald Trump, and left-wing liberal apologists like Dershowitz should take a pause and read Bertrand Russell. Donald Trump is not the enemy of freedom - globalism's one-world government is.
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Gary Miller • Feb 2, 2017 at 06:00
I don't understand the claim that the order is unconstitutional. When did the limitation of what the government can do to citizens get extended to non-citizens? That is a fabrication of a non-existent "right" out of whole cloth. Gorsuch is the right man to fill the vacant court seat, because liberal thinking is a destructive force on the very structure of this country.
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Russell • Feb 2, 2017 at 05:59
The President has every right to issue an order to close the borders if he deems there to be a threat. After the terrorist attacks of the last few years and the example of Muslim immigration to Europe and the self confessed intention to conquer Europe and the USA for Islam by all the Islamic leaders, Trump is not ill advised at all, the Europeans are stupid for not doing the same. Try to enter a Muslim country or an Asian country as a "refugee" and see what happens.
Alan you normally have some sound logic but have offered no sensible reason why she had any right to even object on legal grounds. The laws are already there and have just been ignored by the previous President and his minions.
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Stan Lee • Feb 2, 2017 at 03:22
It should not matter what Yates made of herself, but it does. She was a leftover from the Obama regime and given the temporary task of acting as the Attorney General She's an experienced attorney, had to know darned well what her mission should have been under her temporary designation.She decided against her federal mission, obviously to "grease the skids" for an increase of recognition in the Democrat Party and its affiliates.Insubordination to her mission got her an exit from federal employment as an attorney and she also got the recognition for her partisanship to the Democrat Party. Private practice will definitely keep her out of the soup line.
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Dajjal • Feb 2, 2017 at 03:04
Unlike Alan M. Dershowitz, I am not a lawyer. In my view, the Immigration Act of 1952 empowers President Trump to exclude classes of persons bearing inimical and subversive ideologies, including Islam.
When someone is trying to enter your home illegally with intent to harm you, locking the front door is insufficient; you must secure all points of entry.
Muslims were, prior to '01, obligated fard Kifaya, to punish us for not being Muslims. Subsequent to the invasion of Afghanistan, the obligation is fard ayn: individually binding on all Muslims regardless of age, gender or nationality. ["The Book Of Jihad", chapter on Fard and Reliance Of The Traveller" O9.1]
Barring Muslims from seven nations is necessary and insufficient. The ban must be global, permanent and retroactive to be of any real use.
All Muslims are obligated to attack us. Some will, others won't; thee is no way of determining which will before they act. National origin is irrelevant. The threat will never end so long as Muslims believe Islam. The number of enemy cmbatants already present is more than sufficient.
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Robert Towns-Wilson • Feb 2, 2017 at 02:24
As a lawyer who respects the oath of a Government sworn official, I support the removal of any official who refuses to obey and keep their responsibility to honor their oath of office.
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Elisheva • Feb 2, 2017 at 02:15
I understand former President Obama had similar executive orders and there was no opposition or comments about it. What President Trump did has been done before and never criticized. He is doing the things he promised when he campaigned. The Media are just so anti-Trump that it is ridiculous.
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Rob Manzoni • Feb 2, 2017 at 02:11
Who knows who actually wrote the memo...?
I agree that the word "betrayed" seems inappropriate, but she was also out of line writing the memo ordering the federal employees NOT to comply with the presidential decree. This was not within her power.
Disagreeing with Trump's order is one thing (her appointment interview made her honest stance quite clear), but the correct action would have been to resign, AFTER confronting the White House with her crisis of conscience; and being rebuffed.
Writing an order countermanding the presidential order was an act of defiance - even betrayal - of her position.
This whole "spontaneous" outrage and protest on such a wide scale is a clear sign of some form of central, anti-American plan by sinister forces on the "Left".
THIS - like Ms Yates' countermand of Trump's order - is the true betrayal of the country; and follows eight years of betrayal at the highest level - a truth which has yet to hit home at Real America.
The president and State Department will be shown in the near future, to have been following an agenda which future generations of honest philosophers and historians, will describe as the most outrageous anti-democratic movement in the history of the Land Of The Free...
There's a strong possibility - the probability, I believe - that Obama, both Clintons and many on the so-called "Left" will be called to answer for their deeds; and hopefully will be incarcerated, when the truth of their intentions becomes clear to the world.
This includes the Media, most of which have displayed a conscious dishonest bias, which amounts to a deliberate conspiracy against the Truth; and for which they should be made to pay in the most severe manner. The courts must investigate- and prosecute ALL instances of deliberate untruth, by those who have abused their power to persuade a largely-ignorant, trusting public...
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Don • Feb 1, 2017 at 23:40
If I remember correctly they serve at the pleasure of the president. If any cabinet member doesn't follow the will of the president he can ask for their resignation as does the acting AG.
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UNCLE VLADDI • Feb 1, 2017 at 21:41
In 2011, Obama quietly temporarily restricted all travel to the US from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen. Liberals were silent.
In 2017, Trump temporarily restricted all travel to the US from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen. Liberals went ballistic.
Yet in both cases, the presidents had full, pre-existing legal authority to restrict the entry of any and all non-citizens to the USA:
U.S. Code § 1182 - Inadmissible aliens:
(f) Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President:
"Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate."
... a law which has been on the books since at least the 1950s.
For the acting AG to refuse to enforce this law, or to appeal it's being ignored by an ignorant Obama-appointed "judge," was indeed an act of sedition.
She was acting as a villain, and as such, should obviously now be charged with insubordination and SEDITION.
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Dajjal UNCLE VLADDI • Feb 2, 2017 at 03:16
Yates's malfeasance does not meet the violence test of 18 U.S. Code § 2384 so it isn't seditious. Above and beyond that, I agree with your arguments.
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UNCLE VLADDI Dajjal • Feb 2, 2017 at 22:59
I believe treason is constitutionally currently limited to various forms of violence, but sedition is simply to undermine the government's authority. Refusing to stop bringing in potentially and even probably VIOLENT enemies (i.e: Muslims) is obviously sedition. No borders = no country.
Let's check the wording in 18 U.S. Code § 2384 itself:
"If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both."
Let's have a look at the first bit: ""If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States" (etc).
The term "Overthrow" (isn't prefaced by the word "violently") nor is "put down."
To "prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States" is prefaced by the words "by force" but does that mean "violent" force, while ignoring that it can (and in this case, was) done by "force" or, more specifically, "under color" of law?
Shouldn't any and all members of the DOJ who say "Don't enforce these laws!" be automatically presumed, in a prima-facie manner at least, guilty of attempted sedition?!
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Dajjal UNCLE VLADDI • Feb 3, 2017 at 23:41
"conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States"
The subordinate adverbial clause applies to the entire list 'cuz the list members are joined by a conjunction. Note that the clause beginns with "conspire to": Yates acted alone, there was no conspiracy.
Hers was a personal decision to be guilty of nonfeasance, abandoning an essential duty of her office.
It's advocating and endorsing treason towards a specific government. And it can be done with lies, not necessarily physical violence.
As you yourself pointed out:
Sedition = "to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States!"
18 U.S. Code § 2384 itself:
"If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both."
Not to mention"by force!" YES, so the law was written by shortsighted retards, as so many of our laws were!
Note "Treason" itself has to be "in war" - as if selling the country off to one's enemies in peacetime is A-OK!
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Dajjal UNCLE VLADDI • Feb 6, 2017 at 19:07
Since Jesus ascended, there is no perfection in this world. Our founders, being students of the Enlightenment, knew about human fallibility & foibles so they gave us a republican form of government with specified and limited powers.
They could not, in the 18th century, foresee the changes that would evolve over the next two centuries. In this system, consensus is involved: no single individual, wise or foolish, dictates the laws. The process of arriving at consensus tends towards the lowest common denominator, not towards perfection. But imperfect as it is, our system is still superior to the alternatives!
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Podargus • Feb 1, 2017 at 20:37
Why is this particular executive order "ill-advised"?I am Australian so I'm standing outside all this hullabaloo.A national government has the responsibility to control the borders. That is a responsibility to the citizens of the nation,not to those who wish to enter that nation for whatever reason.From what I've read the order doesn't go near far enough. Hopefully that will be remedied in the near future.
It has been astonishing and sometimes amusing to hear of all the hysteria surrounding the election of Donald Trump. It has been going on during the campaign and doesn't seem to have abated much. The hysteria hasn't been confined to the US. It afflicts many of the PC Pixie class here in Australia and in Europe. In many cases self interest reigns supreme.
Well, little darlings, Trump was legally elected. He has many supporters. Get over it and get on with your lives.
As for Yates,an Obama appointee and obviously out of her depth,she deserved the sack. Get over it Mr Dershowitz.
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Ray Kosanke • Feb 1, 2017 at 20:30
Nothing's been done for 8 years to stop the flow of illegals into this country from no matter where. Action was needed. To wait for a gaggle of lawyers to come up with a totally correct policy decision loaded with all the right legalese would have simply dragged on the problem. AD could have made his case without the looking-down-his-nose comments that he too disagreed with Trump.
I agree with AD's clarity on Sally Yates' action but not his expressed attitude toward Trump.
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Trev Adams Ray Kosanke • Feb 2, 2017 at 07:24
A lot of news media have trumpeted the above parable as being the "right" way to handle the refugee problem and I totally agree with them. However, they also say we should bring them into our countries to assist them. This is not what the parable says because verse 34 states,"So he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn and took care of him." Nowhere does it say, he took him into his own home and that is exactly what we have done with the refugees. Paid enormous amounts of money for their welfare and supplied for their needs. Where are the nations of the same culture, most are not to be found. Once again, humanists would see us destroy our own culture to appease Islam. Let me tell you there is no appeasing Islam, only defeating Islam.
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Christine Gideon Ray Kosanke • Feb 2, 2017 at 16:23
My thoughts exactly - I almost didn't read the article after seeing AD's "wrong-headed" adjective describing the President's ban. And I thought he laid it on a little thick nearer to the end - but the analysis helped me get a clear picture of the situation. No point in letting his other opinions rob me of that.
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Eleonora Mostert • Feb 1, 2017 at 20:22
Obama put her in office and if as you said she made a mistake and doesn't know her job she shouldn't be in that position. Trump was right to fire her. Why didn't anyone complain in any area when Obama selected his staff? Trump has the right to appoint staff.
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Craig • Feb 1, 2017 at 20:18
You disagree with this executive order, but I cannot find your reasons.
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AF • Feb 1, 2017 at 20:17
What does anyone want to bet that she'll be a Democrat candidate for some office in the future? That she'll be speaking at Democrat rallies?
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Juanita Skelton • Feb 1, 2017 at 20:09
Thank you again, Mr. Dershowitz for clarity, as painful as it may have been for your personal dislike of this policy.I approach the bar of Judge Dershowitz' "court room" with great ignorance and trepidation but nonetheless, I do approach it. I do so with great deference, but with the hope that somehow a kind of logic might intercede on my behalf, and on behalf of the 49% of Americans who approve of this order of our nation's President.I know that the wisdom of this order may at first glance seem unwise. If it were NOT true that there have been numerous instances, brought to light, that show the ability of the cowards of Islam, the terrorists, to infiltrate European open borders alongside other undocumented, innocent, immigrants, seeking refuge, THEN I would accept any criticism of this order. If it were NOT true that we, Americans, are a freedom loving people prone to secular excesses which we ensconce in terms we call "The Bill of Rights", then I too would find myself at odds with the prudence behind this order. If it were NOT true that a type of co-opting has occurred in our most famous allied European Democracies, to the extent that Sharia Courts are being established over-confident, if not liquidating some very powerful etablished norms and democratic freedoms, then I too would find fault with this order.The fact is that in order to be comfortable with this order one must face down some very hard realities that we really don't care to believe could happen here in the bastion of democratic freedom, America. How can a noble student of American law NOT understand the very threat to our laws and freedoms terrorism has caused thus far? To NOT atleast "fumble" towards attempting to protect those freedoms, with the stroke of a pen, written onto the flimsy paper of faithfulness to principles which are so easily tossed to the ground under the weight of appeasement and political correctness, is courting disaster.I beg all Americans to choose to err on the side of caution and preventative measures, than to have to mourn any more innocent deaths from extremism.
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Scott • Feb 1, 2017 at 19:36
What about when 'O' placed a 6 month ban on Iraqi applicants back in 2011? What about last month when 'O' permanently banned Cuban refugees? I don't recall anyone screaming about the constutionality of either of those executive orders. I don't recall anyone protesting at airports, I don't recall any of the Hollywood monkeys standing up for the poor Cubans. I surely don't recall the attorney general refusing to support the president in the performance of his duties when it came to national security. The twit tried to play politics with national security, and lost. Tuff, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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Jerry The Protestant Catholic Conservative • Feb 1, 2017 at 19:34
She needed to be terminated. She asked for it. Another "holdover" thinking she, and her Liberal views, are higher in authority than the President whom is also her boss.
She could have simply asked for clarification while pointing out flaws that Trump later corrected. But no, she went the No Guts No Glory route and lost big. She deserved to be fired. Time we erased the legacy, the mind set, which perverts Washington DC and state capitols. Obama was worse than Carter. Hillary would have introduced a global currency and brought about a Constitutional Convention. If she had a Democrat-Liberal controlled congress she would have requested ratification of the UN Charter on guns too. Good bye USA, good bye Canada, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. God saved all.
Yates did get one thing though. All the publicity she wanted. I'm sure some Ivy League or CA university will make room for at double or triple her former salary. Democrats & Liberals must now work 3x as hard to program the next generations.
The media will do its part too; demonizing Trump while ignoring the horrors Obama created.
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Ariel • Feb 1, 2017 at 19:29
The President's job is to protect the citizens of the US from harm. If a public servant does agree with this, she is not doing her job and she should be asked to leave her position. President Trump made the right decision.
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Mel • Feb 1, 2017 at 19:28
She is wrong! If she disagrees she should resign ! Any one who disagrees with a new boss should either discuss it in private or resign!
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Marty • Feb 1, 2017 at 19:18
Walk into you boss's office tomorrow and tell him you're not going to do what he ordered and that you told your subordinates to ignore it as well. See where it gets you.
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Jeffrey Kane • Feb 1, 2017 at 19:13
Dershowitz' mental decline is becoming ever more apparent with each new opinion he expresses. Here he absolves her of being a villain, of lacking any malevolent intent against Trump, while observing that "...she instructed the entire Justice Department not to defend President Trump's wrong-headed[sic] executive order on immigration. The reasons she gave in her letter referred to matters beyond the scope of the attorney general. She criticized the order on policy grounds and said that it was not 'right.'" He characterizes these actions as "an honest mistake." This is analogous to James Comey's list a bill of indictable particulars against Hillary Clinton and then concluding there were no grounds to bring charges against her. Of course Yates was politically motivated to subvert Trump's authority in direct violation of her responsibility. An "honest mistake" is unintentional. This was entirely intentional, and her legal career should come to an end immediately. I encourage rational people everywhere to pay no further attention to Dershowitz' opinions. Not only is his reasoning faulty; he is obviously thoroughly biased against Trump himself.
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Bob Blackthorne • Feb 1, 2017 at 19:11
Answer: NEITHER. Merely just ANOTHER brain-dead Liberal with Nirvana images wafting in her head with the hundreds of thousands of Muslim terrorists being flooded into the country. What could possible go wrong? They're SUCH sweet, loving people, right? Yeah, don't worry about all the photos posted of dozens of headless bodies on the ground were obviously PhotoShopped by anti-immigrant sickos. Oh? Stop. What? The VIDEOS of ISIS systematically cutting captives' heads off were taken as it was being done, then posted on their Websites! Uh oh......
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Donna Bethell • Feb 1, 2017 at 19:09
I generally agree with Prof. Dershowitz, except when he says that acting AG Yates was fired for a policy difference. That is incorrect. She was fired because she directed her subordinates in the DOJ not to enforce or defend the President's Executive Order. This is rank insubordination. She could have protested privately to the President and, if they could not reach an agreement, then resign and explain her reasons. Instead she tried to override the President's authority. He had no choice but to fire her.
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Sandra Girardau • Feb 1, 2017 at 18:41
In my humble opinion, Mr. Trump was right to fire her. Mr. Trump was elected to do what is best for the US. He was elected by the people and his mandate was clear as to what he intended to do.
Like Mr. Trump or not, and I personally am not that keen on him, however he is following through on his promises unlike many politicians. He needs a chance, Obama had 8 years and failed miserably.
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SteveHC • Feb 1, 2017 at 18:29
Sally Yates was neither a "hero" NOR a "villain." Actually, she simply did her job. And she was going to be replaced by Trump ANYWAY; her publicized statement(s) merely hastened his appointment of her successor.
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Phllip A Nagle • Feb 1, 2017 at 18:08
Sally Yates as acting AG was supposed help create a smooth transition between administrations. Instead she showed herself to be little more than a political hack trying to undermine the Trump administration. Let this be a warning to Mr. Trump. the Obama holdovers are not to be trusted and should be fired quickly.
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Carroll Nigg • Feb 1, 2017 at 18:05
You have to be kidding if you honestly believe that any of these folks consider themselves servants. They are elitists who get up every day and march to their ideological calling.
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Maretta Rees • Feb 1, 2017 at 17:47
She is most definitely not a hero at all. Whether she liked it or not she was now part of a different Government, one which she knew she would not stay in when things were more settled, and as such she should have obeyed the command of the President whether she liked him, or his policies, or not. She was actually very rude when she took it upon herself to correct the President. She was grand-standing making a gesture which would cause publicity and make people feel that she had done it from principle.
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Albert Reingewirtz • Feb 1, 2017 at 17:45
Dershowitz is for letting in anyone from countries infested with Islamic terror: "I, too, disagree, with the policy underlying the order..." The order to not let anyone from those countries infested with Islamic terror for the next 3 months. To this Dershowitz disagrees! Wow!
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Rob Manzoni • Feb 1, 2017 at 17:40
Who knows who actually wrote the memo...?
I agree that the word "betrayed" seems inappropriate, but she was also out of line writing the memo ordering the federal employees NOT to comply with the presidential decree. This was not within her power.
Disagreeing with Trump's order is one thing (her appointment interview made her honest stance quite clear), but the correct action would have been to resign, AFTER confronting the White House with her crisis of conscience; and being rebuffed.
Writing an order countermanding the presidential order was an act of defiance - even betrayal - of her position.
This whole "spontaneous" outrage and protest on such a wide scale is a clear sign of some form of central, anti-American plan by sinister forces on the "Left".
THIS - like Ms Yates' countermand of Trump's order - is the true betrayal of the country; and follows eight years of betrayal at the highest level - a truth which has yet to hit home at Real America.
The president and State Department will be shown in the near future, to have been following an agenda which future generations of honest philosophers and historians, will describe as the most outrageous anti-democratic movement in the history of the Land Of The Free...
There's a strong possibility - the probability, I believe - that Obama, both Clintons and many on the so-called "Left" will be called to answer for their deeds; and hopefully will be incarcerated, when the truth of their intentions becomes clear to the world.
This includes the Media, most of which have displayed a conscious dishonest bias, which amounts to a deliberate conspiracy against the Truth; and for which they should be made to pay in the most severe manner. The courts must investigate- and prosecute ALL instances of deliberate untruth, by those who have abused their power to persuade a largely-ignorant, trusting public...
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Bill • Feb 1, 2017 at 17:11
Sally Yates is a political hack trying to grandstand and show her leftist stance.
Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani physician who helped the U.S. locate Osama bin Laden, has been in jail in Pakistan since he was arrested days after the raid on bin Laden's compound in 2011. In 2013, he was granted a retrial, with a new charge that appears politically motivated: charged with murder in regard to the death, eight years earlier, of a patient he had treated. Afridi has gone on a hunger strike protest his unspeakable prison conditions -- including torture. His former lawyer, Samiullah Khan Afridi, was murdered by the Taliban in March 2015. The Obama Administration appears to have abandoned him. | {
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Youth unemployment is a problem all over Africa, except in Ethiopia
Economies riding the resource boom of the last decade are coming back down with a thud, exposing that the steep rise in GDPs that lent itself to the “Africa rising” narrative did little for the continent’s youth. The youth bulge that was supposed to energize the continent’s resurgence is increasingly looking like a threat.
A new report by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, titled Africa at a Tipping Point, reveals reams of data that paint a dire picture for the continent’s youth. The tipping point the report identifies is how quickly optimism is turning to pessimism. The report outlines how political disillusionment, an education to skills mismatch and the lure of escape via “the back way” or even terrorism are stealing the dreams of the continent’s young people.
Looking at 51 countries, the Mo Ibrahim foundation’s report found that despite growth, unemployment remained consistently high. Even in countries with differing GDP growth rates, youth unemployment remained static. In both Kenya and Sudan, for example, youth unemployment is 22%, yet in 2016 Kenya’s GDP grew at 6% while Sudan’s was nearly half, at 3.1%.
For a long while now education has been touted as the solution, but the report found a mismatch between the skills acquired and jobs available. In Tunisia and Egypt, where young people were among the most educated, youth unemployment was as high as 60%, proving that university degrees do not creat jobs
Still, there is a bright spot: Ethiopia: As others struggle to diversify their economies, Ethiopia emerges as the exception for returning to the land. Agriculture is the largest sector of Ethiopia’s economy, accounting for 80% of the workforce and contributing to 40% of the GDP, according to the report.
“This means that when Ethiopia’s GDP growth contracts from 10.2% in 2015 to 6.5% in 2016 that its youth unemployment doesn’t rocket,” Richard Murray, the foundations acting head of research told Quartz.
Ethiopia’s unemployment and youth unemployment rate have remained relatively stable in the last decade. Last year, Ethiopia’s general unemployment rate 5.7%, while its youth unemployment rate was at 8.1%. For the rest of the continent those figures were at an average of 8% and 13% respectively.
Ethiopia’s government is not without its faults, especially for its political repration of young people. Even now, the political crisis Ethiopia finds itself in is rooted land as a source of income and identity.
Despite these political complexities, policies like Agricultural Development-Led Industrialization have helped the country plow resources into developing its agricultural sector. If the policies’ success to date proves sustainable without eroding the rights of existing smallholder farmers, it would turn projected population growth into a boon, with opportunities in both the rural and urban parts of the country.
Focusing on agriculture means that Africa may be able “to feed itself in a generation,” eliminating the need for imports and aid. Given the technological innovations in technology, a new generation of farmers will be growing a very different crop to those in the past, one that is more robust and plentiful, and ultimately creates jobs.
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Res-Shurat HaDin
Fact Sheet: Debunking Shurat HaDin's Mis-Understanding of U.S. Law
As the movement to boycott Israel grows, so too have efforts to suppress it. Increasingly, Israel advocates are relying on "lawfare", the use of legal threats to intimidate and silence critics of Israel. Because the U.S. Constitution clearly protects the right to boycott to bring about political, social, and economic change, legal threats often rely on baseless claims and a weak understanding of U.S. law.
In addition to filing many lawsuits aimed at silencing criticism of Israel,[1] Shurat HaDin, an Israel-based law group, regularly threatens baseless lawsuits against individuals and entities in the U.S. that boycott Israel or are affiliated with individuals and groups that support the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) Israel.[2] Shurat HaDin's lawsuit threats generally rely on the following laws to make the claim that boycotting Israel is unlawful in the U.S.:
1. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution +
Boycotts have long played a significant role in U.S. history, and the Supreme Court has held that political and human rights boycotts are protected under the First Amendment. In the landmark civil rights case NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co.,[3] a local branch of the NAACP boycotted white merchants in Claiborne County, Mississippi to pressure elected officials to adopt racial justice measures. The merchants fought back, suing the NAACP for interference with business. Ultimately, the Supreme Court found that "the boycott clearly involved constitutionally protected activity" through which the NAACP "sought to bring about political, social, and economic change."
The Supreme Court has also held that "speech on public issues" like Israeli policies and Palestinian human rights "occupies the highest rung of the hierarchy of First Amendment values,"[4] and is entitled to special protection. The Constitution is the law of the land and overrules any federal, state, or local laws that conflict with it.
Despite Shurat HaDin's claims to the contrary, the Supreme Court has long recognized, in Claiborne and other decisions, that speech protected by the First Amendment encompasses both verbal communication as well as expressive conduct.[5] Political boycotts of Israel like the NAACP boycott in Claiborne are designed to secure governmental action to address the denial of fundamental rights, and are therefore clearly protected by the First Amendment. If any federal, state, or local law were enacted to prohibit such boycotts, it would face legal challenge and likely be ruled unconstitutional.
2. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) +
Shurat HaDin ironically cites ICERD as a supposed rationale for its legal threats. ICERD does not prohibit BDS in the U.S. because BDS is not discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin. Instead, BDS is a form of political protest targeting Israeli institutions and companies complicit in Israel's human rights abuses, towards the goal of ending discriminatory state policies. A broad range of human rights advocacy groups have accused the Israeli government of gross violations of ICERD,[6] and it is exactly those violations that the proponents of BDS protest.
3. Export Administration Act of 1979 (EAA) +
The EAA, a Congressional initiative in 1979 to counter participation in the Arab League's boycott of Israel, sanctioned corporate participation in a boycott called for by a foreign country.[7] As it only applies to boycotts initiated by foreign countries, it does not apply to boycotts responding to the 2005 call by Palestinian civil society for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights.[8] Further, the EAA does not prohibit political boycotts designed to secure government action to respect fundamental rights; nor could it, as explained above, under core First Amendment principles.
4. Ribicoff Amendment to the Tax Reform Act of 1976 (TRA) +
The TRA is a tax-penalty law that, like the EAA, was intended to counter participation in the Arab League's boycott of Israel.[9] As such, it was also drafted to apply to participation in boycotts in cooperation with a foreign country, and therefore is not applicable to the BDS movement. It does not -- and cannot -- prohibit First Amendment-protected boycotts of Israel that stem from calls initiated by Palestinian civil society.
5. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 +
Title VII prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.[10] It is an anti-discrimination statute that has no relevant application to an individual or entity voicing support for a political and human rights boycott of Israel. This statute applies to a situation in which an employer discriminates against an employee by taking adverse employment action. An individual or entity that engages in a politically-motivated boycott is not taking adverse action against its employees.
6. Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) +
Included in the TPA, which President Obama signed into law in June 2015,[11] is a provision that makes it a trade negotiating objective of the U.S. to discourage boycotts of Israel during ongoing trade negotiations with the European Union. There is nothing in the TPA that prohibits individuals or entities from boycotting Israel for its violations of international law, and the TPA does not affect the BDS movement in the US. For a more detailed analysis of the TPA, visit our FAQ here.
7. New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL) +
The NYSHRL is a comprehensive anti-discrimination law that includes a provision prohibiting boycotts based on "race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, or disability."[12] This law -- and anti-discrimination laws like it -- do not prohibit political, social, and economic boycotts of Israel for two reasons. First, these boycotts are because of Israeli human rights abuses, and not because of a "protected class" like national origin. And second, boycotts to bring about political, social, and economic change, as mentioned above, are protected by the First Amendment, and therefore cannot be prohibited by the NYSHRL. For a more detailed overview of the NYSHRL, visit our FAQ
here
.
The NLRA is a federal law that safeguards employees' rights to organize and regulates unfair labor practices.[13] The NLRA prohibits labor organizations from engaging in Òsecondary boycotts.[14] In other words, a union that represents workers at Company A cannot boycott Company B to pressure Company B into influencing Company A's actions. Such secondary boycotts are considered an unfair labor practice. The prohibition on secondary boycotts as an organizing tactic, however, has no effect on a union's right to endorse social justice movements -- like the BDS movement.
For a response to other common claims about BDS, see our FAQ: Illegality of BDS.
While legal threats against Palestine human rights activists often rely on weak legal arguments, it is important to keep in mind that meritless lawsuits are always a possibility, and that legal bullying is one of the many tactics Israel advocates use to silence Palestinian human rights activists. If you have specific concerns about legal threats and lawsuits, please contact Palestine Legal at
[email protected].
. For more information, visit
www.palestinelegal.org.
This document contains general legal information, not specific legal advice. Do not rely on these materials without first seeking the advice of an attorney regarding your particular situation and facts. Only a licensed attorney, reviewing your individual facts, may render legal advice. This information is provided as a public resource for information purposes only. Nothing in this resource should be taken to create an attorney-client relationship between you and Palestine Legal. | {
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Iran, Russia Undeterred by Slow-Go in Syria
Oktoba 21, 2015
Syrian army personnel load howitzers near the village of Morek, Syria, Oct. 7, 2015.
Rarraba
Iran, Russia Undeterred by Slow-Go in Syria
A Yada
WASHINGTON —
Forces fighting for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are struggling against rebels in the country’s northwest, despite substantial backing from Russia and Iran, according to U.S. officials. But they caution that both Russia and Tehran seem prepared to dig in and intensify their efforts.
“Pro-regime forces have had little success to date, despite a marked increase in Russian airstrikes in recent days,” a U.S. intelligence official told VOA on condition of anonymity.
Another U.S. official, who also was not authorized to discuss the Syrian offensive publicly, characterized the Russian and Iranian-backed offensive in northwest Syria as making only “incremental gains.”
“The [Syrian] opposition is definitely putting up a formidable fight in that area,” the official added.
Three weeks into a Russian air campaign over Syria, victories for pro-regime ground forces have been restricted mainly to skirmishes on the outskirts of key cities like Homs, Hama and now Aleppo. Also, the addition of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps troops to a coalition that included remnants of the Syrian army and Iranian-trained Shi’ite fighters from Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan seems to have made little difference.
Instead, analysts say, Iran has suffered a growing number of casualties, with estimates of IRGC deaths ranging from 20 to 200, including several top commanders.
“There is a change in nature and Iran seems to be much more involved and much more willing to use its own soldiers," according to Michael Horowitz, a senior analyst at the Levantine Group, a Middle East-based geopolitical consultancy.
“It is very notable that we are seeing an increase in the number of high-ranking Iranian officers that have been killed,” he said.
On Monday, Iranian state media reported the death of IRGC commander Moslem Khizab, while also noting the deaths of three other high-ranking officers the week before.
FILE - Iranian General Hossein Hamedani, killed in Syria by Islamic State fighters.
Another key Iranian commander, General Hossein Hamedani, was killed earlier this month on the outskirts of Aleppo, a loss one U.S. intelligence official described at the time as a “psychological blow” to pro-Assad forces.
“The Iranians are certainly losing a lot of very good, senior people in this fight,” said Matt McInnis, a senior analyst at the American Enterprise Institute. “They have underestimated how hard this fight is going to be.”
McInnis, who previously served in analytic and advisory roles with U.S. Central Command in Iraq, compared Iran’s experiences in Syria to the “mission creep” the U.S. experienced in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 15 years.
“Their counter-insurgency efforts are not working and they’re having to put more people in,” he said. “We could very well see more significant ground troop movement in the future.”
“Iran’s willingness to risk the deaths of multiple senior officers in Syria and Iraq is another arrow pointing to the importance Tehran attaches to these conflicts,” a U.S. counterterrorism official told VOA. “Replacing commanders is not easy.”
Still, U.S. intelligence and defense officials say all indications from Iran point to a “deepening involvement in the conflict,” with military support for the Assad regime continuing to grow.
U.S. officials warn that Russian supplies also continue to pour into Syria, both by air and sea, and that pro-regime fighters continue to mass in the areas around Aleppo.
An image taken from video purports to show explosions after airstrikes carried out by Russia's air force on what it said was an Islamic State ammunition depot in the Syrian province of Idlib, Oct. 14, 2015..
Airstrikes taking a toll
In the meantime, Russian airstrikes on rebel positions are starting to take a toll.
Commanders with Fatah Halab [Conquest of Aleppo], which brings together more than 30 rebel factions, say they are starting to take heavy casualties, including the commander of a militia that has received U.S. supplies and training.
Another Russian airstrike Monday in Latakia province killed Basil Zamo, a commander of the First Coastal Division, another of the rebel groups believed to have gotten U.S. support.
U.S. officials and analysts also caution that the number of airstrikes targeting top rebel leaders is only likely to increase, as Russia expands its use of drones and other advanced intelligence gathering techniques.
There also is concern among Western analysts and officials that a bigger push from Syrian, Iranian and other pro-Assad forces – numbering upwards of 10,000 fighters – still could be on the horizon.
The ultimate aim, they say, is wresting control of the M5 highway, which links Damascus, Homs and Aleppo, from rebel forces.
“They are really just probing the rebel defenses and seeing what’s the reaction and where the rebels are weaker,” said the Levantine Group’s Michael Horowitz. “It seems like they decided that Aleppo will be the focus of their campaign.” | {
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There are a lot of people these days willing to make money and foward industrializtion with little respect towards the enviroment and ecology. Please share stories of conservation happening in your area.
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About 45 percent, or 122 million, of these commercially harvested salmon relied on habitat managed by the U.S. Forest Service. Much of the harvest consisted of pink salmon, the most abundant of salmon found in Alaska. Don Martin, the aquatic and fish program leader for the Alaska Region, said that 95 percent of the habitat where pink salmon spawn in Southeast Alaska is on the Tongass National Forest. The work of Forest Service fish biologists contribute to the health and viability of these salmon.
“We have never been able to say, ‘We did this work, therefore, there are this many more salmon,’ ” Martin said. “What we do to contribute to the well-being of the salmon is to maintain their habitat. Science has taught us that good habitat means higher fish production, so we bank on that.”
Currently, the vast majority of the watersheds on the Chugach and Tongass national forests function very well. The region is working to restore the few watersheds that do not function well. During logging activities 40 to 60 years ago, trees were harvested right up to the edge of salmon streams. When all that wood was removed from the floodplain, eventually the logs in the creek rotted away, and there were none to replace them. This led to habitat degradation.
Fortunately, Forest Service fish biologists have been successful in restoration efforts. Martin explained that for certain-sized streams at certain gradients, logs are a key component needed to maintain the number and frequency of pools found within the stream. The salmon, particularly coho salmon, need this environmental complexity in their habitat to thrive.
“We are actually going into the streams with big equipment and finding large pieces of wood in the watershed or elsewhere, and placing them in the creeks,” Martin said. “We are building log jams and big root wads to immediately add back the complexity of the creek. We work to restore a natural cycle so that by the time that wood starts to rot out, there will be big trees next to the creek that will fall in and take its place.”
The effectiveness of watershed restoration can be seen immediately, Martin said.
“The next year after the first high water event, we can go see that there are more pools, and deeper pools. It just looks like better habitat,” he said. “The big question is whether the logs will stay in the stream long enough for the forest to grow back and begin contributing fallen logs back into the stream. That’s probably 60 or 70 years down the road.”
The region’s Fisheries and Watershed Program work with Alaska Native organizations and individuals, incorporating their cultural beliefs into the forest’s salmon and fisheries management programs. The short video below provides more information on how Forest Service involvement in a monitoring program provides salmon for people across the country as well as Haida Alaska Natives who call the forest home.
People around the world can watch the annual Alaska salmon run as they make the pilgrimage to their final spawning grounds before they die. In 2013, viewers logged more than 10,000 hours watching the Tongass National Forest’s live streaming Salmon Cam, making it the most popular Forest Service-related video on YouTube. | {
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My doctor is cutting ties after 7 years of pain management. I need advice ASAP!
I just got the news that my doctor will no longer see me after October 1st, 2009. He told me they can no longer accept Worker's Comp because it's too much paperwork and not enough money for them. I feel like I was dumped in favor of money. I wasn't given enough time to find a new doctor in time.
The problem is that he's been filling my pain med prescriptions for the entire time and I had a really hard time finding him in the first place. Before finding him, I had gone to 5 other Dr's and pain management centers and 3 of them accused me of drug seeking and the other 2 said they would take me on as a patient, but they wouldn't fill my scripts which would have been worthless.
Here's a little history just to give you an idea of my current condition.
5/10/98 I hurt my back while lifting boxes at work.
8/2000 After continuing to work after my injury I had to stop when my legs went numb and my back pain got to be so bad I couldn't stand it.
8/17/2000 I had an emergency discectomy/laminectomy of the L5/S1.
11/2000 I had an infection in the disk space that was operated on.
6/22/2001 Another back surgery - micro discectomy & biopsy
4/16/2002 3rd back surgery - Spinal fusion + cage
4/13/2006 Spinal Cord Stimulator implant
I am having trouble locating a new doctor who will even take Worker's Comp let alone fill all these medications for me. Along with all the pain I'm in constantly, now I stressed out that I won't find someone who will continue this. The meds I currently take are just keep me at baseline.. if I have to stop any of it and cut back I don't know how I'll be able to deal with it.
Does anyone have any tips on finding a new doctor that accepts Comp and have them continue where the last doctor left off? There have been so many doctors in this area that have lost their licenses revoked by the DEA. I guess I don't blame the doctors for being afraid to treat with pain meds.
Thanks for taking the time to read this,
Matt (upstate NY, USA)
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Re: My doctor is cutting ties after 7 years of pain management. I need advice ASAP!
That is disgraceful
A few thoughts (I am in Australia, so things are different here) but...
Is he refering you on to another pain specialist? Is it ethical for him to simply abandon you? Ring the state medical board and ask for help, they might atleast be able to offer you names of other pain specialists.
Can you pay cash for you visits while searching for another pain management doctor?
Do you have a family physician who will prescribe for you?
Very glad we dont have a DEA type orgainisation here overseeing prescribing of medical narcotics.
Re: My doctor is cutting ties after 7 years of pain management. I need advice ASAP!
Spoon, have you thought about going thru work comp? Make them find you a decent doctor? I'm not sure of all that you have been thru on that end but if that is the prob and your work comp is still on going... make them help you, or your case manager. Just my 2 cents. I hope u feel better, I'm not at the same level you are at, but I do understand. Truly I do. Mine is my neck and getting worse instead of better... May we both feel better someday...
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Re: My doctor is cutting ties after 7 years of pain management. I need advice ASAP!
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I feel like I was dumped in favor of money. I wasn't given enough time to find a new doctor in time.
Unfortunately, you are being dumped due to money. Whatever happened to the medical oath of "do no harm"? I'd try to get in front of this Doc ASAP and see if he could at least see you until you are properly transitioned. I would remind him that fentanyl is the strongest pain med out there and one just doesn't stop taking it. I'd make him look me in the eye and tell me that he's dropping me or say "no" to some type of continuing care.
Or, you could tell them that you'll just pay cash or bill it to regular insurance from here on out. You could do this permanently, or until you get transitioned. If you don't have insurance, you might ask him that given your long term patient history with him, could you work out some type of deal....Something reasonable so you can continue on as a patient.
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The problem is that he's been filling my pain med prescriptions for the entire time and I had a really hard time finding him in the first place. Before finding him, I had gone to 5 other Dr's and pain management centers and 3 of them accused me of drug seeking and the other 2 said they would take me on as a patient, but they wouldn't fill my scripts which would have been worthless.
All of this is the past, and I wouldn't tell too many people this, especially prospective Docs, nurses, or appointment people. Unfortunately, the field of PM is of edge right now, and you don't want to scare anyone off. You've had a good record for seven years which is a long time in PM. I'm not suggesting that you did anything improper.....There is no need to mention the other stuff....It just clouds the water. If anyone asks about your prior medical treatment, just tell them that it took you a bit of time to find a good Doc and don't give any details.
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I am having trouble locating a new doctor who will even take Worker's Comp let alone fill all these medications for me.
The problem is that workers comp has become a nightmare to deal with....Constant paperwork and updates. They do this on purpose so people get frustrated and drop off....Just like what's happening to you.
I would first get my Doc straightened away re: accepting regular insurance and / or cash until I got transitioned. Then, I would write & call my congressman, state senators, and the President. I'd copy my Doc on everything. Make the Doc look like the hero and bash workers comp and the insurance industry. It's a hot topic right now. Also, maybe your Doc will hang in there once he sees his name copied on all these letters....I doubt he'd want his name up in lights.
Take care, and I hope this all works out for you.
Regards,
Ex
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Re: My doctor is cutting ties after 7 years of pain management. I need advice ASAP!
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Spoon, have you thought about going thru work comp? Make them find you a decent doctor? I'm not sure of all that you have been thru on that end but if that is the prob and your work comp is still on going... make them help you, or your case manager. Just my 2 cents. I hope u feel better, I'm not at the same level you are at, but I do understand. Truly I do. Mine is my neck and getting worse instead of better... May we both feel better someday...
Thanks and good luck with your pain. I am still hopeful even after 11 years of pain.
Re: My doctor is cutting ties after 7 years of pain management. I need advice ASAP!
Hi Ex, thanks for the reply.
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Unfortunately, you are being dumped due to money. Whatever happened to the medical oath of "do no harm"? I'd try to get in front of this Doc ASAP and see if he could at least see you until you are properly transitioned. I would remind him that fentanyl is the strongest pain med out there and one just doesn't stop taking it. I'd make him look me in the eye and tell me that he's dropping me or say "no" to some type of continuing care.
Or, you could tell them that you'll just pay cash or bill it to regular insurance from here on out. You could do this permanently, or until you get transitioned. If you don't have insurance, you might ask him that given your long term patient history with him, could you work out some type of deal....Something reasonable so you can continue on as a patient.
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All of this is the past, and I wouldn't tell too many people this, especially prospective Docs, nurses, or appointment people. Unfortunately, the field of PM is of edge right now, and you don't want to scare anyone off. You've had a good record for seven years which is a long time in PM. I'm not suggesting that you did anything improper.....There is no need to mention the other stuff....It just clouds the water. If anyone asks about your prior medical treatment, just tell them that it took you a bit of time to find a good Doc and don't give any details.
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The problem is that workers comp has become a nightmare to deal with....Constant paperwork and updates. They do this on purpose so people get frustrated and drop off....Just like what's happening to you.
I would first get my Doc straightened away re: accepting regular insurance and / or cash until I got transitioned. Then, I would write & call my congressman, state senators, and the President. I'd copy my Doc on everything. Make the Doc look like the hero and bash workers comp and the insurance industry. It's a hot topic right now. Also, maybe your Doc will hang in there once he sees his name copied on all these letters....I doubt he'd want his name up in lights.
Take care, and I hope this all works out for you.
Regards,
Ex
He seemed like a good and helpful doctor, but I guess it's a business and they must run it as such.
When he told me the news he avoided eye contact and seemed ashamed of it. He told me it was a hard decision.
I later received an official letter from him telling me I can continue to see him for other primary care
needs, just nothing W/C related. I don't want to continue to go there for anything after being let down like this.
The trouble with continuing with him, is they won't fill any future w/c related prescriptions so that's the problem.
I do have Medicare, but they don't pay for any of my worker's comp stuff since it's already established with Traveler's W/C
Thanks for the tips. I am going to make a lot of calls on Tuesday. Tomorrow (Monday) is my birthday and I don't want to deal with any of this for at least that single day. A small gift to myself I suppose. :P
Re: My doctor is cutting ties after 7 years of pain management. I need advice ASAP!
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I could pay cash for the visits, but I was told the pharmacy wouldn't be able to put the prescriptions through my comp and those would cost me roughly $3000 a month.. which obviously I can't do.
I'm not sure I understand. If you pay "cash" for the visits...or bill them to Medicare, why can't the pharmacy bill them to WC then? A Rx is an Rx.
Also, open enrollment in Medicare starts in October, and you could switch to a plan that would cover most, if not all of those meds. I don't think there are any pre-existing clauses that I'm aware of.
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The SCS is primarily used for radiating nerve pain which (most) all
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patients, as an option whether it really makes sense or not. If they
have run out of other ideas, they push this inappropriately.
I can certainly understand why you feel this way....I would feel the exact same way. However, I'd make another appointment to see him and practically beg if I had to. Tell him that this is everything to you and you doubt that you can get transitioned to another Doc. I'd even remind him of his "do no harm" oath that he took when he became a Dr. I'd ask him point blank...."what happened to 'do no harm'?
I'd ask him that since you're such a long time established patient, could you be "grandfathered" in? Again, I would beg, plead, do whatever I had to for him to keep you on. I know it's a lot of paperwork, but you're just one patient.....And you have a very complex situation and could be seriously harmed if not accepted by anyone.
I realize that not everyone would want to take this approach, but I would pull out all the stops. Even with the graveling, all he can do is say "no." And then, he has to live with himself if he follows through....He has to be able to sleep at night knowing the decision he is making. Simply "going away" makes life easier for him, and I wouldn't. Squeaky wheel gets the oil.
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How often do you have to see him for pain management? Could he issue with repeatable prescriptions, so that you could see him every 3 months or even 6 months, and pay cash for the visit.... that would be less of a burden than paying cash for every month, and it sounds like you have a stabal history.
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Thanks for the tips. I am going to make a lot of calls on Tuesday. Tomorrow (Monday) is my birthday and I don't want to deal with any of this for at least that single day. A small gift to myself I suppose. :P
Matt
I hope you have a great birthday today. I really do not have anything to add, but did want to say that I am sorry that this is happening to you. It just seems like this is happening more and more, whether it be your situation with WC or just offices' closing down, for whatever reason. I hope everything works out and I would speak to the DR about hopefully staying with him but paying cash. I hope something can be worked out, so you do not have to start over, if you can even find a dr in your area. Good luck!!
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I had asked my doctor if I could continue with paying out of pocket or with Medicare and he told me that once his WC termintaion paperwork goes through, he will not be legally able to write prescriptions for anything worker's comp related. I don't know if he's just telling me that to avoid the extra paperwork or not.
Also, I couldn't afford to pay out of pocket since I know they charge $90/month for W/C so I assume it might be even more for a regular visit. I think that's a big reason why they are getting rid of W/C patients in the first place. They want more money. I am living on $500/month SSI (out of work for 9 years now) so even $90/month extra would put me in financial trouble.
From what I was told, if Medicare pays for the visit, then worker's comp will not pay for the medications. I checked out the Medicare Rx plan and it really doesn't help me much. I require the brand name meds for Percocet and Duragesic. Medicare only pays a majority for generics (when available).
I really don't think begging him to take me back is a good idea. Keep in mind, he was also my Primary Care doctor. I need a doctor I can trust my life with. He isn't that person anymore. I don't need a doctor that is just willing to accept my money. Maybe now I will find a doctor that can not only take over his duties, but might even do more for me than the last one. I don't know... I'm continuing to look.
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From what I was told, if Medicare pays for the visit, then worker's comp will not pay for the medications. I checked out the Medicare Rx plan and it really doesn't help me much.
That makes perfect sense....I think this information is correct. It's just a shame that he can't work out something for you, given your LT track record there.
At the very least, however, I'd ask (almost demand in a nice way) that he care for you until you are transitioned (maybe an extra month or two). He has taken the oath of "do not harm" and given the high level of fentanyl you're on, you could experience some severe problems if you don't stay on them, or are forced to WD. I would hope that he would at least give you some extended Rxs to get you through.
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Sorry if I've missed something here but are you still on workers comp? Don't they have some responsibility to make sure you still receive care? I'd be ringing them (my case manager) and explaining what's happened and asking them to find you someone asap or else they're going to have massive hospital bills when you go into wds. I would also ring every dr in my area (preferably PM) and asking if they take established (proven that you're not a seeker) workers comp patients. I'd also ask your doc to write a letter stating that you've been the perfect patient and he believes that you are at no risk of seeking and are simply looking for a PM dr. It's the least he can do for you.
Unfortunately money is a problem (and it's only getting worse for many with drugs like Actiq being taken off insurance for non cancer sufferers) so if it comes down to it you may need to get heavy with the WC company. You were injured at work so they have a responsibility to make sure that you're treated for anything WC related. This is a legal responsibility. I'd drop into my local congress/write to my senator and explain their breach of treatment and ask for help. If it gets really bad you could threaten media....
It is so unfair that you've been put in this situation. If I were you I'd do everything in my power to have my current doc (I know he's let you down) help, he needs to give you a letter to take to PM offices (better if you go in person - then you might be able to work out a small cash payment for the extra WC paperwork, or something). I'd also ask him straight up what happens when you've exhausted all your options and you can't find anyone to treat you - do you just go to hospital and explain that your doc won't treat you anymore? This wouldn't look good for him.
I live in Aus so it's a bit different - I was on WC and in the state I live in it only covers you for 9 years, pretty unfair, hey. I know what you're going through stress wise about how you're going to survive in the future. Thankfully I also had workers insurance and am counting on them (they'd better payout soon) to get me through. If you're still covered by WC then get on their backs...it's their fault that this has happened and they may possibly be able to work something out with your current doc - it'll be a lot cheaper for them if you stay with him rather than have a PM. Hopefully that alone might be enough to get them working for you rather than against you. No company wants the risk of more expense.
One more question, do you have a relationship with the PM that put in the SCS? Could you go to them for help? Just a thought.
Happy Birthday, I really wish you didn't have this stress at the moment.
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Don't they have some responsibility to make sure you still receive care? I'd be ringing them (my case manager) and explaining what's happened and asking them to find you someone asap or else they're going to have massive hospital bills when you go into wds.
This is a great idea by Jema. Since WC has all these screwy rules, I'd put the squeeze on them. Maybe they can work with your Doc for less paperwork and etc. I have a friend who is on lifetime WC for a back problem, and they were requiring monthly reports. The PM Doc finally called them and said "hey...This isn't gonna change...It's forever....All this paperwork is just costing us both time and money" and they made some type of exception for him. I'd look into this.
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I'd also ask your doc to write a letter stating that you've been the perfect patient and he believes that you are at no risk of seeking and are simply looking for a PM dr. It's the least he can do for you.
At the very least, this is what your Doc should do. If he's truly dumping you for paperwork / financial reasons, he has some obligation to get you transitioned.
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It is so unfair that you've been put in this situation. If I were you I'd do everything in my power to have my current doc (I know he's let you down) help, he needs to give you a letter to take to PM offices (better if you go in person - then you might be able to work out a small cash payment for the extra WC paperwork, or something). I'd also ask him straight up what happens when you've exhausted all your options and you can't find anyone to treat you - do you just go to hospital and explain that your doc won't treat you anymore? This wouldn't look good for him.
Another great point by Jema....Especially the part about what happens after you've exhausted all your options. I'd ask him "Hypothetically, what if I end up in the hospital from all of this or worse" and then see what he says.....
I strongly feel you have to say these things to put it all back on him....He's put you in this situation, so he needs to understand the potential consequences.
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Thanks Jema and Ex for your help.
My doctor is going to see me one last time on 9/30 to fill my scripts for October. He also said he is going to try and find someone for me to see.
I received a letter from his office saying they will not be able to see anyone other than for primary care services.. no future worker's comp will be allowed and there will be no exceptions. They are a smaller practice. Only 1 doctor and a handful of office help. I feel they already have too many patients and this is their way of weeding it out without losing the higher paying insurance carriers.
I will ask him to write a referral letter and request copies of my records as well. I have been making calls and the problem I keep encountering is many doctors are either not accepting new patients or if they are they won't accept new patients with w/c insurance.
I also contacted my local worker's compensation board to get assistance, but they aren't returning my calls.
They recently made a big mistake on my lawyer's request for a discogram test. They sat on it for 3 months and then filed it as a medical bill in need of payment which made no sense. Then I received another letter saying "The proposed decision in the W/C case was withdrawn as a result of an objection received by the Conciliation Bureau" So in short.. I don't think they are going to be much help. | {
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Speechless Testo
Testo Speechless
I find I get lost for words around you
Overwhelmed by your presence
I feel the same, I hear the words you won't say
Echo through your eyes
Nothing more for me to say
Silence understand some things
What it meant to be, will be
[Chorus:]
Sometimes it's the words we don't say that get in the way
Time will break down the walls that we've built between us
I won't ever be speechless
This feeling takes me just like a painted sky
how do I describe all these colours inside
Nothing left for me to say anyway
[Chorus:]
Sometimes it's the words we don't say that get in the way
Time will break down the walls that we've built between us
I won't ever be speechless
I wanna know you inside out
I want to know you without a doubt
And though we're shy
Would it be easier just to say goodbye
I want to learn to read your mind
I want to say the words but my tounge gets tied
And don't feel shy
Would it be easier just to say goodbye
I find I get lost for words around you
Overwhelmed by your presence
[Chorus:]
Sometimes it's the words we don't say that get in the way
Time will break down the walls that we've built between us
I won't ever be speechless | {
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barefoot
All events are true as best I can discern, names of people are pretty much all changed. Shocking how slow I am going through with this…
My re-entry back into biking close on the heels of my failed/Wildly Successful Depending How you Look at It ‘Sailing to Hawaii Expedition with Captain Lee’ (It should be registered that the boat was first owned by Mr. Larry Flint – hustler Magazine, and was bright pink=) and subsequent rescue by the Mexican Navy [another story for another time, my first sailboat ride=], was in the form of 83 mile bicycle ride with twin Ortlieb panniers on the rear Tubus rack, starting at my parents in Lancaster, PA and arriving in Baltimore, MD.
Epically fine ride, a huge chunk, I would say at least half or maybe more is possible via rail trails with BEAUTIFUL scenery and quaint everything in the small towns you pass through from time to time. Big thank you to Mt. Gretna Bikes and Mike F. for helping me with route selection!
Sweet General Store near Glen Rock, all kinds of things…. Please do “Say” hello to the shopkeeper from me, he is a most amiable guy who looked forward to seeing me again…
My re-entry back into blogging is taken in the form of being comfortably numb from a previous evening of high speed traffic dodging on my very rad bicycle aptly named – the Flying Mapache a.k.a. Mapache Volador, a.k.a. The Flying raccoon, beside my very rad Friend Tall P., and yes, moving forward, we change names and add nicknames and what not in order to maintain some privacy for those who might not want me bandying about all manner of personal introspect to everyone in the world…. where was I? Im starting with a story from two days ago, if this is confusing I am truly sorry, if you are a critic of words and how to make ones thoughts sound good, do let me know as I am not…
…yes, going to a very fine eating and drinking establishment whose name completely escapes me right now and not only meeting quite a broad mix of wonderful guys and wonderfully ninja and beautiful ladies and also a brush with a gentleman of indeterminate age and yet of determined tipsy-ness with the courage of spirits mixed with a natural distrust of what I attribute to be a bit of confidence in the air that surrounds me, at any rate, to what he referred to himself as, a “street kid”, which, in my run on sentence structure that is only salvaged from horrific writing skills, style and complete lack of prose, not even knowing what the word really means, Jose Saramago does it, so whatever.
In tribute of respect to street kids, I offer you a Shout Out courtesy of Skrillex=]
I am no longer in possession of his name, the street kid with the ragged green army jacket, an ancient and raggedly greasy looking brownish cabby hat was touched off with a dark red scarf of sorts and decidedly grungy jeans, and, a rare commodity at this bar was his Irish warrior face paint, and of course he had already done a full body flex whilst yelling Im Irish and then arging. You know, like…
“Aaaaarrrrggggghhhh”, and Im thinkin’, he really has delusions, but then, havent many of us… He seriously had face paint and was Braveheart… “Freeeeeeedom!”.
At this point, Im loving my life as it is always so very interesting, and its all from the moments, especially ones with face paint=].
He was adamant about showing me his painting, annoyingly so, and then added with the lack of respect one should show another regardless of station, we are after all all human, we all can go mad, lose or win big, fate reserves no special spots for any save the ones claimed by those who will if only try. Now once he began demanding money and threatening me, then it was time to turn on the boogie machine, but just a lil bit…
I put my right hand into a half fist with the middle knuckle held super tight and smashed the top of his table, which was to my right facing the bar and of course, THE BIG SCREEN TV, this one was yelling a basketball game at me and everyone in the bar would later approve of whatever happened in the game itself, the outcome of the rivalry, everyone that is except for our gay bartender, whom I only found out about him preferring guys over gals was due to a question I innocently asked a guy what he thought of televised sports, to which he replied, “I’m marrying your server.”
It kind of caught me off guard in a good way and that is why it is here on this page.
I forget what he said about televised sports. His now Fiancee and not my bartender but my waiter STILL refused to acknowledge the fact that I do not follow, or have ever, televised sports. I dont know why, it just is…
Anyway…
I hit the table hard enough for “Threatening dude intent on art sale’s” beer to dance a bit precariously and people at the bar either sharply look my way or casually in that obviously casual way at which point I no longer cared as I was following up my vulgar display of power [Pantera] and was now leaning over and what would happen were I to do that in the neck region of a man and besides, he doesnt even know me nor the fact Im just trying to help him tow the line for acceptable public composure so he doesnt get booted out!
Pedaling for Peace right=]
That painting was shown to a lot of people and very forcibly so, eventually he nearly broke a bottle of wine and when realizing that it didnt break, he then stowed it in his backpack, now using exposure of theft and ergo ‘blackmail’ and not physical violence, he became much more amenable and ended up being semi well liked by all and leaving with a new pack of cigarettes from one very interesting and obviously wealthy person, a beer on the house, we all got some of that action and he wasnt kicked out which is the last thing his ego needed. He never sold the painting which was of a rose and angel, though I never quite could make it out…
My reasoning for not exposing the wine theft…. It would of course suit his purposes and had enough dust on it that I didnt think it would be missed, so no point in causing a scene=] That I was keeping him calm through blackmail and threat of violence in first place, you may think to yourself, this guy is nuts to be riding for peace, but you have to understand, everyone is on a different path and looks at the world differently, there are times, where i feel i have to vulgar in my power display in order to keep the peace. If my display ever hurts another, at that point I will have failed terribly, so please dont think i would ever do more than allude to what is possible, never will I use it, further, I dont think I ever will have to, Im too much of a Chris for that to happen=]
As far as being a hypocrite, think of how many hypocrysises we suffer daily not in our best interest, all through out history, kind of Like Jefferson Signing the Declaration of Independence though he had slaves, many, many slaves…. Or The Battle of the Alamo, fought becuase the illegal US immigrants who were squatting on MEXICAN land refused to give up thier slaves, which was law in Mexico – no slaves.
You see?
But then, thats why you have me doing this, I make the hard decisions and walk/ride the narrowest line in a world where there is no reset button.
We ended up at this particular bar as it is on of the only two that Tall P. knows of that still serve him after he lost his D.L. and has yet to sally forth to claim another.
There was some commotion in the front and we found ourselves doing our best to convince a young lady that two car of lengths ahead of her is more than enough to simply pull out, I was gald she took our advice and the soft crunching, engine whine that repeated rocking the large truck behind hers with her Buick was a decidedly bad idea at the time and made her pinky swear with me that she wouldnt die or kill anyone if she actually would just stop hitting the truck behind her, but gentle hits, like 2 ton love taps asking for just a few more inches for MaMa…
——– real time while writing this ——– My friend Jackies auto air spray thingy just went off, i jump every time now thinking about the time controlled release of toxic chemicals into the air and how we live in a world where the more shallow the more coveted to the point that killing the body to avoid a bad smell is whats up!
We rode home, this time there were no accidents and thats an important part of all this biking stuff…
You can guess the rest, we got back to his place in NE Washington and I slept on my thermarest sleeping pad on the floor in the screened in back porch and rode into downtown DC this am to now stay at Jackies house and consequently a, damn, i cant remember the name for the body contour foam space thing super comfy…
Back to Pauls Thursday I think we are going to do a movie apocalypse and see Star Trek on Thursday and Superman on Friday and then Tom Petty Saturday, oh my hells bells, what a day this is shaping up to be!
But this is from yesterday… We need to go back 5 days…
To the beginning, that sounds kinda cheesy….no?
I arrived in an apartment complex on Oliver street with a super rad host named Danilee – couchsurfing.com, host, very cool if you never tried. I tell you the joy of arriving to a place 83 miles after you started that morning, very cool, and that it was done in Luna Sandals, well, thats Epic.
We immediately began by reducing edges through the power of wine, I think I did some cooking and I know we did Kung Fu and handstands at the wall for around 2 hours including practicing the sword form I learned in Nor Cal from the Escrima style of martial arts. Using my bike stand bamboo pole as the sword, which is the whole point, kickstand and dog be gone in one=]
The next day found us having a brunch with her friend who is marrying a psychiatrist from the Czech republic who is one of the foremost doctors doing research into psychedelics in a very serious way for PTSD victims and achieving huge and most remarkable success. I preface that statement with her husband as he does seem to be remarkable and thats why he got such a HOT girlfriend fiance, congrats and buena fortuna to them!
Good to know…. yes indeedy…
We then dropped her off at Dulles Int’l Aeropuerto and then promptly used our newly commandeered car, to scoot to Silver Spring.
It was a Jazz fest, i learned what party cups were and was happy to be the Designated Driver.
I got to see girls kissing – heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Makes me blush it does….
The next day we met a friend of a friend who just moved here from Lanai – Holla Hawaii!, to be the food and bev manager at 4 Seasons, and then went back to Danilee’s place to fix up her bike at a, get this, it tripped me out, a community TOOL library. I’ve never heard of a community tool library. And yet there it was and was very rad with a huge assortment of all manner of things.
It was like walking into an Amish Craftsman store decorated by a guy who obviously loved punk rock when it was hitting it’s stride in the 80’s, and we’re not going to argue over when punk was started, if you have a different date, rock n roll=] He was a totally chill dude, had some sweet tats, and some mighty fine slick hair with the coif in the front.
I got picked up by Tall P. later that afternoon, little did I know of the events that began to unfold once I stepped into the Volvo wagon of power…
We went to his place to get me settled in, I had my two panniers and the thermarest I wrote of earlier, and upon walking in to his apartment, i was blasted by the odor of ammonia, hit me like a wall, just a clearly divided space in the fabric of everything. I cannot do it justice by comparing it to being somehow akin to going from a complete and total slumber and some how somnabulistically meandering your way to very thin ice.
No, I cannot as it was much worse. It was like a part of me that had never been awake now was awakened and I found I couldn’t handle the ride…
As I began to sneeze, TP – ha! Tee pee get it…
sorry
So, he was concerned for my affliction to gatos and I assured him that it was nothing of the sort, while cat dander could evoke a sneeze, it was lost in the haze of almost palpable amonia smell. An overwhelmingly powerful blast.
We decided then I would sleep outside and I would help him get things ship shape, you see, he was in an accident, perhaps the Volvo of power, anyway, his sense of smell was rebooted and never came back online! Like I told him, “Dude, if a chic comes over, she isnt going to last long man, this is withering at best, if she sticks it out, f’ it, marry her or run away cause she’s nuts!”.
perhaps some cranio sacral…
And then off we went, riding like madmen, but at this point we had only given the Water Pipe a test run, just enough to turbo charge the ride…
Hence the ninja like cat reflexes while riding and when the Mapache Volador [my bike] is unburdened, as some of you can imagine, it takes off, I take flight and while I firmly trust and believe the guys at Mt. Gretna Bikes when they told me everything has to be replaced, somehow, I think if i look deeper, while everyhting is not in like new condition, at all, one look at this bike and you see a tried and true, extremely tested machine, one that has endured temps above 120 to below freezing, being thrown into vehicles, dragged through brush, sliding on ice, numerous impacts at speed, being hit by cars – plural, carS and stood being lost at sea for 19 days with no rust upon reentry to rockin and rollin.
The tavern we went to, bless my heart for remembering the name, SHAWS Tavern. Here is where things begin to blossom.
Im totally turned on by the bartender and yet with her extremely stylish haircut mohawk thing, slight gap which I find just right in the front teeth, she did not like guys.
Neither did her partner.
After many beers, many because they were all handcrafted and then brought keg by keg on the backs of ninjas trained in the highest reaches of the fabled Shang Ri La.
The city beyond the last horizon, it was good beer and there were many of them and once I got embroiled in being on the receiving end of some passive aggressive hating while still wanting a tip from Tall P, the vibe was very interesting. Then a met a Doctorate student in some specialty from Iran, very cool young man.
After that, I pretty much remember leaving and then things fuzz a bit, not so much because of the beer so much as what is to come.
Paul would tell me two days later that I was the cornerstone of civility and never once even dared to flirt, which even I find hard to believe, like, I let not a single smile loose in a ‘hey baby’ manner. Yeah right…
Anyway, he’s been the relatively sober upholder of accounts, so, Knight in Shining Armour for one if you please! Good to be maturing, thats for sure=]
Here is where the physical damage to me takes place. My reaction to hearing what happened put out a lot of different emotions, nearly passing out and vomiting was a clue to how bad it actually was=]
We were riding, this time very fast, in fact do you know that some of the fastest cars out there run on crazy high alcohol blends and have blistering speed, apparently so do I after imbibing, so much so that I turned one corner with such momentum that when the pedal hit the ground we both exploded up. I hit the ground and did a kind bounce roll of which I have all manner of scabs directly into a stone wall, P. said that I immediately jumped to my feet and when he asked me if i was alright I would say, …”oh, its all good, you know, round the world ride and all”, at which point I pick up my bike, fall over, get up again, get on, and manage to take two strokes before doing a wheelie right over onto my back and becoming tangled in my bike as it fell on me.
What made all of this worse was the fact that my new Osprey backpack was so very ninja. So ninja in fact that I thought nothing of doing the nights riding with a 20lb bag of kitty litter therein. Its the first bag with the straps and buckles in the right places, everything about it makes carrying weight easy, so then you find yourself cruising around with a lot more weight than normal as it just feels right….. Anyway…
When I went down, the bag added so much momentum to me hitting that i ended up getting road burn on both sides of my body as I bounced. I also now want to take a moment and commend the construction of the Osprey packs, it survived with only some minor road rash holes in the lower right side, and probably saved my back, most of it anyway.
I finally made it up after this fiasco and found I could switch immediately back to my cocksure self and now was weaving all around everything, cars, people, plants, small animals…you name it.
Mr. Darwin, we have a table for one over here on a bike…
Kids, dont try this until you are very old, have all kinds of armor plating and cars are made of cotton candy and rainbow kisses.
It is at this point Mr. P. takes us down an alley of sorts to save me from myself and yet, it is out of the pan into the fire!
You see, we have to ride on a very narrow side walk and at one point there is the brick wall and a sign on a post that you have to go between.
That it is a most precise fit indeed was to be my undoing.
Most choose to walk their bikes, now earlier, I did this at very high speed and it was all good, but, as we know, the Beer Fairy [Tom Robbins, ‘B is for Beer’], had been speaking with me and we agreed about a lot of stuff, so I tried it again.
Have you ever stubbed a toe, or toes, multiple. I have.
Many times.
There went the air freshner spray thingy again…!
So many in fact that I am a bit of a connoisseur of stubbed toes.
My speed and determination were great and while my lean calculated for the handlebars, it did not take into consideration the lower aspect of my bike and the space it inhabited and all forward momentum was placed on my right big toe when it hit the sign post.
Paul said he heard the crash and immediately came back around the corner and all he saw was the sign vibrating slightly…
I was gone.
Now, if you ever have stubbed your toe you know the pain, any children reading this, a toe stub is one of the most unpleasant things that can happen to your human body. I am not sure why as there is a lot of unpleasantness which can be ascribed to your skin suit, but this is a rare delicacy for some reason, I think the surprise factors in largely, let me know if you reach a conclusion.
I was gone and I can only assume that my body dumped every last minutia of andreline that was stored up and I simply had to go, being in the pain that I was in, that and the fact that only just before this i had wrecked epically and waived it off as a trifle and now, well, I am most gratified and thankful to my body for completely blanking out the next couple hours and retroactively blanking out time and then bringing me back nice and easy, not to mention thankfully still a mite tipsy.
So up I go. I could now continue to ride about hopelessly and absolutely aimless in my being lost with absolutely zero reason to stop pedaling as I found myself verily alive and KICKIN!.
I then felt that what the night needed was a clue, as I obviously had none what so ever.
So when I spied three young very pretty ladies hanging out on their porch with one studious looking gentleman, I felt that obviously, right, obviously, I needed to introduce myself and apparently hang out, smoke a little herb, therapeutic you understand, for the toe and now whole body bruising and have a glass or two of wine.
And copious amounts of water, afterall, I lost a lot of blood from my toe and had to get fluid back in me!
The toe, the amount of blood that came out of a stubbed toe of this magnitude is epic, like someone pulled a damn plug on the body and you are on your way out a pint a minute.
I ended up with my LUNA SANADAL being full of dried blood, my foot was dried blood and the top 1/2 inch of my toe is hanging on by a flap of skin.
ewwwwwww.
They were all cool with the crazed, lost, bloody, absolute stranger on a bike and why shouldnt they be, I mean, they are only going to Howard to be high falutin lawyers and doctors, I know I would be whatever with a watching a bloodied version of me, i would run a little bit Im guessing.
We hung out for a while, more drinks, lots of stories and then when the last of them went to bed, I was offered the chance to sleep on their porch, even given a sheet, warm nights, woulda been perfect, I didnt want them to be the only house with a dude on the porch, so I split.
2.am.
still no clue where I am, So Im just riding and next thing I find myself looking at the capitol from a near distance, in my head I believe it went something like… whoa, there’s that building. Such a pillar of thought that one.
For the next 3-6 hours, I am having trouble verifying and pinning down some key times, I rode around, in and through every angle I could lay a bead on as the streets were literally mine.
I dont know if you have ever visited our fair nations capitol, I had but remember it dimly, I only remember the girl flashing her breasts at the four of us elementary schooler’s from her dorm lodging across the way. School tour=]
if you are like me and maybe a lil bit cautious around “the Man”, then perhaps, like me you would not find this a pleasing place to while away the hours.
I now must beg to differ. You see, this bike ride is on deserted streets, and with the amount of patrol cars, marines and barricades all around, you would think it was a set from a zombie apocalypse movie, just no zombies, nobody really.
Top that off with big streets, incredibly well made, these are avenues for the capitol of the country! And when you then rest your gaze on some of the most powerful masonry work in our country, it is a sight to behold and thanks to the beauty of the whole situation, the marines and police, whom while watchful, gave out head nobs and a measured respect which made for all the better of a tour de DC!
I recommend the tour de DC while comfortably numb from 2.30-around 5.
Its a wonderful thing to be cruising on a bicycle and watching the corridors of power come to life. I saw The Lincoln Monument, George Washington Monument, it was all in scaffolding and no longer represented a phallus so much, the IRS building, Capitol Hill, White House, it was rad and the use of all those “names” now brings this blog under scrutiny… Im riding amongst all these are fortresses, amazing grand structures that invoke an other worldliness about them, a sheer break from scale in how massive they are, as though they seek to copy the zen imprint of a mountain. Again, the streets are empty of people, its a blessing for a person on a bike that loves roads.
There came at one point, where I was just riding around a city block in the downtown area near the Capitol building, it was some kind of park and the the way the streets flowed around it it was like a park in a flat surface velodrome, too complicated, the roads formed a track and there I was doing circuit riding, faster and faster with every pass, I expect that seeing as I was truly the only non paramilitary should for a mile at least, I must have been on quite a few cameras attached to lots of 3 letter companies filled wit company men.
As the sun began to rise the city came to life, it was magical in its own way, these massive blocks of stone, modern day super fortresses, slowly breathing in and out, faster and faster as the sun climbs and lattes spill and the powder of health donuts with reduced calories vanish three at a time all over town.
I rode around the “Ellipse” many, many, many times… it was just so velodramus, wat could I do? Ni modo!
At this point, having had no success in raising either Jacqueline [ignored me] or Paul [phone “dead”] from borrowed cell phones, I decided to get a hostel at Hostelling International, which was very epic indeed and the staff was super friendly, to include some of the texts to my friends like this gem:
5.30am – Chris in my lobby can you pick him up from 1009 11st NW. he also have his bike
I got a room when the day managers came in at 6, gave me a whole two days for the price of one, sweet, although I would eventually track down Jackie as I went straight to the computer and then she replied and it turns out I was only two blocks away from her place… sweet!
The clerk offered me a refund as I had only been there for 15 minutes and a vegan sub at subway, happy boy=]
Im seeing the light. Its all about truly seeing and then seizing the moment. Like our Kung Fu mantra Danilee and I tirelessly repeated, “No Hesitation!”.
As long as I fill my days with intense exercise [half of them at least, the other half for reminding myself why I push myself so hard=], speaking to others and trying to guide situations to every ones best benefit, always keeping safe kids and happy planet as a goal and making everything a potential adventure. I cannot fail to be a player in a the huge Game of Life and to be a player for “good”. none of us can fail, we simply need to become re-invigorated, to realize that the moments tat are passing you by are gone FOREVER, you cannot wait till such and such a date to do this and that, you arent even guaranteed to be alive!
All your moments are leading up to one final moment. The last moment of your life and no mater what is happening hduring your final moment, you will see all moments that have made an impact on your life to that point. It is that final moment where we send OURSELVES to heaven or hell, we regret what we did with the time given to us or we rejoice and go with a smile. Either way, it is our call, it is up to us each day to prepare for this one moment in time where we learn a big answer to a huge question.
Running on the beach a few days ago afforded me with much insight into the idea, as I see, behind running and how to be more efficient with it.
Further I was shown the more intelligent side of myself as when we got to the end of our first phase of running we were met by a military serviceman who was stationed there specifically to turn away everyone as the military was having a live fire event. It got me thinking that given the lassez faire attitude so easily and readily adopted here in Mexico, there are good odds for potentially unexploded ordinance, ergo, no more running through this particular set fo dunes for me…. The philosopher Seneca and the naturalist Darwin would be proud. But that was last week, this week, I pushed the odds and was greeted by the familiar sound of whumps and pops as they continued training this week, I decided to use the gift of adrenaline wisely, a true gift, you have almost no control over its release save through your diet and once it hits the bloodstream, you use it or lose it, there is no putting it back in the glands, as with nitrous in a car, its going out the tailpipe regardless of what you do with it.
My point is this, up till now, running was a love of mine that took a lot of energy and left me with aches and pains, the lower back, ankles, knees (remember those spots!), I did it because I loved it, now I still love it and IT CAUSES ME NO PAIN!
Please, read on….
Running…
As best I can now tell, running is a very complex controlled fall and if you use the act of falling as your source of energy, keeping the muscles engaged as part of a shock absorption and rebound unit, things become much easier and more enjoyable with the potential for longer easier runs. Imagine that, using something as it is intended and getting better results! No wonder we dont do it right! Ha! Just kidding, we have largely be trained to run as we do based on the lack of education from our parents and through the learned behavior brought on by our shoes which we will speak to later.
First, the form. The form is the key, think of your body as a machine made from a vast array of simpler machines, fulcrums, pulleys and so on. In anything form is the key isnt it, and I think that perhaps when I watch the runners in the Olympics, I am set back by how they look simply because they move with form, whereas up until now I had very little.
Lets look at over all form:
You want have your back straight, upright, shoulders relaxed, arms loose and slightly bent at the elbows. If you take a martial art, you know this, except your arms will be protecting your body and not relaxing by your sides.
The hips are the key to my inspiration. At first I didnt realize I was doing it, then I noticed it, but did my very best to let the motion be, and just keep doing its thing, and then I got it.
I was using them in a side to side motion, but really picking up my entire leg from the hip or dan tien area.
The dan tien is the area in chinese medicine/martial arts that is the seat of your power, one of my students Carlos who is a very good salsa dancer and instructor told me that his teacher taught him to move fomr this area, so we begin to see the strain that ties good movement to this area, so now we apply it to running for you!
In a nasic sense we can view the hip leg area in car terms. For me, the hip represents the cam shaft, the leg the connecting rod and the piston is the foot.
If you are not familiar with cars this will be lost on you, here is some wiki love to help you with the picture…
The movement comes from the hips, almost as though you are “sallying” back and forth.
In Baguazhang Kung Fu we have the same movement for the legs with the fixed posture walking. The entire leg is lifted from the hip and then moved forward and placed, all the time the movement coming from the hips. This is an extremely slow movement as it is a moving meditation exercise yet, the priciple applies.
Try it, try walking from your hips, of course you can allow for the leg to move from the knee and the ankle will flex, but this will happen due to you being completely relaxed in those areas, they will naturally move.
Many times we actually run in part from the musculature of the knee, I used to do this, it feels natural especially with the way shoes are made. The thick, shock absorbing soles allow you to feel better running with a heel strike.
This may feel ok due to the padding, it is in fact an incorrect use of the machinery we call the leg. I call your attention to prosthetic legs used for sports like the Olympics, where does the strike come from in the prosthetic, the front or the back?
if it made sense for the HEEL to be the point of impact, i.e., if that was the anatomically correct way to run, wouldnt it then make sense that the point of impact would be in the back and not the front as we see pictured? I use this as one example and also would like to bring your attention to the kinetic chain, this is described in detail in another article here.
Essentially, the kinetic chain is how energy travels through the body. If you move rightly, there is no problem, you use the machine as intended, move incorrectly, you begin to break down your machine at many points eventually resulting in medical problems.
The forefoot is flexible and made up of a chain of bones and muscles, made to flex, the heel is a solid extrusion of bone with a ball at the end. It is completely inflexible and if it wasnt for the thickness of your shoes, I assure you, your gait would naturally begin to take and make use of the forefoot strike.
The Forefoot Strike.
If you look at the forefoot pictured, you will see the two balls of the feet are perfectly situated to absorb impact using the network of ligaments and tendons, the small bones can absorb a lot of shock and distribute it evenly and in such a way as to dissapate said shock at each foot strike. The toes are there for a vast array of fine tuning the movements, many times they will not be put into play. In the beginning, as you learn the nuances of your new running machine, you may find that you are sore and get cramps in various parts of your feet.
With time this will pass, it is only becuase you are literally re learning how to move, as when we learn most things we become tense, your feet will especially become tense and tired very quickly during this initial stage of learning to fly.
The forefoot will come into contact with the earth and the heel will begin to collapse the foot downward as it too comes to the earth. It will never touch, only for the briefest of moments and it will not be a starting point for your forward motion. REMEMBER, you are not using your heel for anything in your new stride. It briefly graces the earth and is off again.
So how do I move forward if Im not pushing off with my heel or pushing off from the knees!?!
Youre falling. We all have heard at times, perhaps you have, thatnwalking is nothing more than controlled falling. This is totally correct, and once we start utilizing our bodies as the machines they were created to be, we will notice this effect in an almost exaggerated way. Therein lies the beauty!
So much energy is lost in running by simply using the wrong muscles to make forward propulsion, where I am suggesting you use the power of gravity from the fall coupled with a fulcruming action with every step. Your energy loss drops to a third of what you most likely have been using.
Here we are, picture this…
At the start – Your leg is essentially a machine arm that has three MAIN points of movement:
Ankle
Knee
Hips
The ankle and the knee you Do Not need to focus on except to keep them relaxed and loose. Movement will come from the hips and yes, this will feel wierd at the beginning, thats Ok, when you first learned to walk it was wierd as well, embrace the wierd.
As you pick up your foot from the hip, the knee will naturally break as it responds well to gravity and is a joint that goes back and forth, if you lift the upper leg, the lower will swing as the foot follows gravity downward.
You move forward due to your upper body being erect, spine straight, tail tucked, mass centered over your hips and slightly forward, this is how you control your speed, the more forward you lean your upper body, the more aggresive your forward motion will be.
Your hips will begin to “piston” , in other words, if a person were looking at you from the back, or I guess the front=], your hips would look like a see-saw when viewed from the side.
As you progress with your training, and do PLEASE remember to give yourself time, you will notice that you will begin to find rigid postures for your legs, i.e. That at times it will make more sense for you to use a minimal amount of energy to ensure that yournlegs are moving only at the hips and at the ankle, the knee is nearly locked and you are now operating a more advanced running machine. If this happens embrace it! I only write about it so you know that in my idea, it is totally O.K., it just took me a while to get to that point, you got there quicker… SWEET!
When striding, I find I can really kick out a jam, float over sand, even loose sand and it will feel and seem very ninja. Many times, with loose sand as that is my primary medium of late, I will hit three to four big strides, one or two small ones, two to three big ones a small one, back and forth, its such an amazing feeling to use this machine correctly.
Imagine, you have heard that we only use 10 percent of our brain right? So imagine that through learned behavior and modern technological comfort the same is happening to your body! You are literally being led to your own destruction physically. And I do not feel I wax poetic. One need only look at shoes to see whats what, as a human gets older, their shoes usually have thicker and thicker soles and padding until it looks as though they are walking in bumper cars, assuming they are even capable of doing so, many times we see walkers and even carts on people that if they took time to re use thier bodies correctly would begin to move right.
How many older generations in the very poor countries do you see with carts and walkers? Not many, why, many times, I believe, it is due to thier lack of being able to afford nice shoes, they instead must make do with flat sandals usually made from recycled tires.
The most popular shoe craze right now is the minimalist footware explosion, currently being led, again, in my humble opinion by Vibram and Luna sandals. Both of which are made of a thin, flat piece of hard rubber for the sole and minimal upper if any. In the case of Lunas, they are modeled after the Tarahumara style sandal, this is an indigenous population of Indians in Northern Mexico who are known for thier ability to run mind boggling distances. Another argument for minimalist shoe wear is the prescribed shoe wear of martial artists, yes, I am speaking about the Bruce Lee shoes. That is minimalist footwear! And now a word on the Tarahumara… Thier footwear is called Huaraches=]
The word for themselves, Rarámuri, means “runners on foot” or “those who run fast” in their native tongue according to some early ethnographers like Norwegian Carl Lumholtz, though this interpretation has not been fully agreed upon. With widely dispersed settlements, these people developed a tradition of long-distance running up to 200 miles (320 km) in one session, over a period of two days through their homeland of rough canyon country, for intervillage communication and transportation as well as to hunt.[2]
The Tarahumara also use the toe strike method of running, which is natural for barefoot running. The long-distance running tradition also has ceremonial and competitive aspects. Often, male runners kick wooden balls as they run in “foot throwing”, or rarajipari competitions, and females use a stick and hoop. The foot throwing races are relays where the balls are kicked by the runners and relayed to the next runner while teammates run ahead to the next relay point. These races can last anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days without a break.
Pre-tool humans may have used persistence hunting universally to hunt prey. Humans in excellent physical shape, given the time, can outrun quadrupeds, which slow down when fleeing over long distances and lose their ability to pant while running.
This has been thier style running implement for 300 smoe years, the only changes have been the materials used, what once was hand woven or stretched leather, is now more often than not a re-used motorcycle or similar tire.
I trust you have a bit of the idea of the look and feel so to speak of this way of running. Now I waould like to suggest some ways to make this an easier transition and suggest some good places for you to try out your new form and get positive feedback from nature.
I mainly run barefoot in two conditions, sand and grass. When my feet are super ninja I can do light to mediam gravel, but for this takes some time to build up to and has really only happened living in Hawaii.
SAND
Its absolutely fantiastic running in sand as more often than not it means there is a beach close by and I can think of no better place to stretch ones legs then by the shore. Clean air, beautiful scenery and the perfect after run cold, depending on what beach, soak for your feet!
One of the tips I can offer is that if you live in an area which has patrolled beaches, go for the tire tracks and guides. usually the sand will be firm enough, the tread pattern of the tire will provide light stimulation of the foot and the sand beneath the tread will be like a think one time use form fitting mattress for each step. There is also a stretch of sand somewhere very near and sometimes in, the edge of the surf zone. This 3-5 foot band will feel like running in a very thick, one time use, memory foam mattress and will provide you, in both cases, will provide you with valuable foot imprints. These imprints will tell you a lot about your gait, foot strike, angleation [is that a word] of your feet, the splay, basically everything. I suggest getting to the beach early so that you may have the fewest possible other footprints to muddle yours. You want to be able to focus and have quality feedback from mother nature about what you are doing. After the run, take a look at your starting tracks, your mid tracks and your finishing tracks. You are looking Sherlock Holmes style, for a forefoot strike, light heel imprint and ninja claw action from your toes on each step.
As much as possible, you want your feet to be pointing straight ahead, too much side to side splaying on the imprint indicates a lot. If you see this, focus on having your foot land straight ahead. It may take time to switch from a duck or pigeon type step, thats O.K., start now, slowly but surely and you’ll be fine.
GRASS
I love it, takes me back to the end of my second divorce when I went to Australia to be a lifeguard at my mates waterpark in Ballaratt and forget about it all. I started my trip in Surfers Paradise and found myself without running shoes. As there was a large grass footi [Australian Rules Football] directly out the back gate, I decided to just go barefoot.
My life has never been the same since. The freedom I felt that day was electric and inspirational in a way. It felt good for the first time since childhood to have a body, that may sound a bit far out, but there it is. No longer was my bag of bones a restriction, it was a blessing and I rocked it well.
Since then I have really progressed in my running and find there are many types of grass. When you start you want to go for the lush stuff if you can find it. The Bermuda, the golf course style lushness, not as short as that will negatively impact the shock absorption factor, but not so long that you are Indiana Jonesing it either.
If youre lucky you will find the type of grass that will give you the feedback we talked about earlier in relation to the sand. Remember, feedback is key so you can continually fine tune your running and always become more ninja.
As you progress, you can begin to get into tougher and tougher grasses as this will activate different points on your feet and in reality, you want your feet to be as strong as, well, as strong as humanly possible, I mean, it makes sense right!?!?!
Another way to do this and make it fun is ULTIMATE FRISBEE! I have played in both Hawaii and Singapore and both times barefoot. The Singapore one was a bit much as I was playing with pros and the grass was more of a dirt field with patches, but it was such a good sore by the time the game was done, well worth it. Make sure that you are well into your training and can already handle long runs barefoot. You will end up running back and forth so much chasing that little disc you wont realize the distance you are truly covering and could end up doing some damage.
Remember your tomatoe plant, when you are eating the tomatoes, THEN you think about playing sports barefoot!
TIME
Give yourself a truckload of it and then some. Chances are you have been pitter pattering all over for the last however long in all sorts of varying degrees of shoeness. Thick soles, high heels, shitty flip flops etc. Your gait and style of movement are more than likely wholly suited to the bumber car shoe future.
When you start, try walking for 5 to 10 minutes, three times a week. At the end of the first week, you may have some soreness. Using this as a base, AND making sure to inspect your step to ensure proper progression, gradually build your workout. Do this very slowly as it will be extremely easy to over do it at this phase in training. You will be re-activating very small, but very strong musculature, tendons, ligaments, bones will be fortifying them selves in this time, a lot will be going on.
So give it time, a great way to do this is find a medium speed growing plant, like a tomoato, plant it and as you see changes in the growth, use it as a rule for advancing your workout. Many of you havent a clue of the human timeline anylonger as it has been taking a beating with smart phne technology, internet, social media, deadlines, simply being pulled in a million directions all the time with a global system that never sleeps. The timeline of natural growth has been upset so totally that many of us now need help and guidance to re-learn if you will how to go about making the changes we say we would like to see.
Add in Genetic modification of food, plastic surgery, crash diets, weight loss in 30 days or less pills, etc. You are being bombarded on so many levels a sense of urgency that it is TRULY a serious task getting your timeline back in order. Another way to look at it is your baseline. Please read the article on baselines here.
HEALTH
Many people may never realize the true damage done by imporperly using your feet via the condition called SHOES. It is amazing what happens when yuo tinker with the kinetic chain in a seemingly easy way. Would you be surprised to find out that many ailments, knee pain, hip pain, bunyons, planatr issues, low back, back in general, shoulder, neck and even migraine headaches can be caused by using shoes. Its amazing and its a scientific reality. I strongly urge you to walk barefoot as much as possible, as we are born is how we are meant to live. The machine called your body is made, literally to work in certain ways.Through the artifice we call culture or civilization, we are doing harm to this machine on such a broad and sweeping range that it truly boggles the mind when you get into it. For now we are focusing on the feet. love them and treat them as the ninja devices they are. they are perfectly made to be what….. NINJA!
Huge ups and downs these last few days… Went for wood for a bonfire and ended up clumsily slipping on a muddy hillside and really pushing my knee to the limits. The pain was at the same level as when I had a complete dislocation in high school, and yes, i remember it well. Time may help most memories fade, but the pain from that injury is still as fresh as ever. All of that to say that the damage was pretty intense.
Which brings me to my point. 2 things, the first is barefoot training, the second is natural remedies.
I have been training extensively with the barefoot angle, to the point that I am now a proud member of the Vibram 5 finger shoe club. My legs and feet are getting a kind of denseness that I have experienced one other time in my life and that was in Hawaii about my 3rd year there, when I was barefoot nearly all the time or using my slippahz.
I truly feel that this accident would have been much worse had I not been barefoot ninjaing around. I was unable to walk for 24 hours after the injury and within 72 hours, was back on my feet, and today, day 4, I will attempt a long walk in my ninja shoes….
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We would love it if people would follow along with us and give feedback so we may make a more concise and all around program to help individuals become healthier, live freer more satisfying lives and begin to take back their own personal power so that they may have a greater impact on the people they surround themselves by. the greatest way to change the world, is to be the change you most wish to see. As natural beings we must learn to return to basics, to nature as it were. Given our current state of affairs, many of us do not know how to best take care of thier bodies, minds and even souls. Through daily practice and a pursuit of knowledge dealing with the human body and it’s myraid interactions with the mind and soul, we seek to help give a solid platform that any individual may use to begin thier personal journey towards satisfaction of the basic human question, “Why am I Here?”.
It is difficult if not impossible to answer this question if you battle daily with stress, health problems, unbridled wants and desires..
What we are doing here is doing the things we are writing and speaking about. We are not preaching a teaching without walking a walk. This would be hypocritical and on a deep level would upset the trust factor in what we write about.
We began our day with a light cleanup of the house, a clean house is a reflection of a clean mind. Your surroundings, especially your territory represent to varying degrees, your internal climate/situation. Let this sink in.
Cup of coffee with Almond Milk made in a french press, coffee was a quality kind, La Estacion from Coatepec in Veracruz
Too much coffee, not a good things, there are many interactions that occur int he body due to the concentration of caffeine in coffee. In many traditional medicines it is shunned in favor of teas. I do not mind it if it is quality, not expensive, this is not a representation always of quality when it comes to all things ingested. Go for good and as close to chemical free as possible. Coffees that are artificially de-caffeinated, or heavily processed are very bad for the body, further, the reaction from the chemical processing both with the caffeine itself in the coffee and your bodie is very hard on your body to the point that it is not recommended. You are only tearing down the walls of your palace for, at most, a 30 minute fix. HIGHLY UNWISE.
Barefoot run on the beach, Playa Municipal –
Barefoot running is precisely that. Running barefoot. The reason for this is that the human body, as will all bodies in nature, the fish, the bear, the puma, the hummingbird, the Chihuahua, all life is best suited for the environment without the thought of covering it up. You are designed to be perfect, naked. As we expand out populations, we go to places that require clothing due to the adversity it gives our bodies. Our social customs require clothes, and depending on where you are, more or less, both unwritten and law…. This applies so expressly to our feet, an area of the body so often overlooked until there is a problem, and yet, I cannot think of a more pivotal area of the body, pun intended, as it connects you to the planet you live on.
The foot is made up of a profoundly surprising number of bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerve pathways, one of the most tightly compacted bundle of tiny things int he body with such a huge effect should any one part be cut off from the rest of the picture. Usually we do this with shoes.
Shoes make the foot safer to a degree. When used CONSTANTLY, we see that a gradual degenration of mobility, flexibility, range of motion, increase in chance of injury, in finitum (etc.), occurs. This is due to the foot becoming complacent as it is overprotected and fails to function properly. key joints and motions in the foot become sloppy and weak, totally reliant on the shoe for the support it once had to provide entirely by itself. In fact, I believe that if you kept a babies feet continually covered from birth, you would cause serious trouble indeed!
The same applies to us at any age. The more our feet are cut off from true feeling, the weker they become in relation to the whole. When I speak of the whole, i refer to the kinetic chain. This is the sequence of movement in the body from point of contact throughout the whole. With the feet. You take a step, as the foot connects to the earth, every bone, muscle, ligament, nerve, tendon, activates all the way throughout the rest of the body. If they did not we would simply topple over, we couldnt move, the music of the symphony of our body would be in discord and nothing would happen. Everything must interact according to design. For istance, any mechanical device, a clock for instance, can withstand the malfunctioning of any one part, there are a few that simply cannot malfunction, just as in human bodies, for the most part, the clock, like the body can handle a certain degree or range of space in regard to functionality. BUT, ever movement away from “perfect”, results in a loss to the overall mechanism, as in the human body. The more your feet muscles/bones, etc. move away from working as designed due to getting untrained by shoes that seek to do the work of the foot and keep it continuously cushioned, the weaker teh foot gets, the more the rest of the body has to compensate for your improper gait (stride) and the greater the loss in precision. For a clock this would result in the clock running faster, slower, skipping minutes etc.
All of these minor conditions will continue to add up until the strain they place on the rest of the mechanism causes other links in the chain to begin to deteriorate as well.
Is this making sense?
This is why we jog/run/walk barefoot AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!
Todays jog was taken at a slow pace, in soft sand for roughly 3 miles. The sand was warm which is key for me on any barefoot mission, when the surface is cold, it creeps right up into your kidney area and literally drains your energy, in Chinese medicine, it eneters through the Kidney 1 point –
The Jing Well. I am sensitive to this and prefer warmth. Currently in the house I am walking barefoot which is cold, and yet i suffer it (lightly used phrase) in order to become stronger.
When running barefoot, initially you must take a lot of concentration, do not push yourself, the muscles and machinery of the foot are more than likely out of shape and the rest of the kinetic chain is usually adapted to your “Shoe” lifestyle and will therefore be out of condition as well. GO EASY ON THIS PATH. Be easy with yourself. Give tiem to literally allow your body to remember how to walk properly. Do not over analyze, BUT, stay very FOCUSED on your walking and feeling. Go through your research and figure out how you want you foot to strike the earth so that it is anatomically correct. Read, remember and practice. As time passes, walk/run/jog/hike/climb etc., greater and greater distances and times.
Many knee aches, lower back pains, shoulder and neck pains will be relieved and if enough barefoot walking is done, you will not only lose your pain, you will also start to reverse negative processes at work and begin healing. Bunions, joint issues, you will be able to avoid repetitive foot surgeries. You will strengthen your foot. Avoiding future need for surgery as you have corrected the cause of the problem and NOT the Symptom.
Also focused on was stretching in the sand. Simply getting comfortable with being sandy is for me a challenge at times. Stretching and a lot of stomach work. Your tummy is your core, your core is what keeps you balanced. It allows you to stand on one foot, to move through the world, to change the energy of air/food (earth)/water into energy, or Fire. Your container for this fire must be strong, as it is the fire of life, you must contain it in a proper container, lest you lose it unnecessarily.
Later this afternoon, we will have left overs consisting of mushroom risoto with extra mushrooms, some stir fried greens, nutritional yeast, and dulce flakes.
Letr, we will do a combination of yoga and kung fu.
Tomorrow we will do much the same. We will more than likely run in a different area, one that requires shoes, do some rock climbing, and, well, we’ll see.
We are very excited to share this with you from day one. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and dont push yourself to pain. Intense tired is O.K., as it goes away very quickly with a rest in between sets. Pain is not O.K., a tired that leaves you feeling wasted and spent, not O.K. Be NICE TO YOUR SELF! Take time, everyday, as Master Bruce Lee says, “Do more than the day before”.
Easy, start small, grow your body to be a tree of life, huge and strong, it takes time, it takes time all day everyday, focus on your posture even when you site, focus on chewing your food slowly being thankful that you have it, you must focus on EVERY aspect of your life if you want to change your life. Do you understand?
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We would love it if people would follow along with us and give feedback so we may make a more concise and all around program to help individuals become healthier, live freer more satisfying lives and begin to take back their own personal power so that they may have a greater impact on the people they surround themselves by. the greatest way to change the world, is to be the change you most wish to see. As natural beings we must learn to return to basics, to nature as it were. Given our current state of affairs, many of us do not know how to best take care of thier bodies, minds and even souls. Through daily practice and a pursuit of knowledge dealing with the human body and it’s myraid interactions with the mind and soul, we seek to help give a solid platform that any individual may use to begin thier personal journey towards satisfaction of the basic human question, “Why am I Here?”.
It is difficult if not impossible to answer this question if you battle daily with stress, health problems, unbridled wants and desires..
What we are doing here is doing the things we are writing and speaking about. We are not preaching a teaching without walking a walk. This would be hypocritical and on a deep level would upset the trust factor in what we write about.
We began our day with a light cleanup of the house, a clean house is a reflection of a clean mind. Your surroundings, especially your territory represent to varying degrees, your internal climate/situation. Let this sink in.
Cup of coffee with Almond Milk made in a french press, coffee was a quality kind, La Estacion from Coatepec in Veracruz
Too much coffee, not a good things, there are many interactions that occur int he body due to the concentration of caffeine in coffee. In many traditional medicines it is shunned in favor of teas. I do not mind it if it is quality, not expensive, this is not a representation always of quality when it comes to all things ingested. Go for good and as close to chemical free as possible. Coffees that are artificially de-caffeinated, or heavily processed are very bad for the body, further, the reaction from the chemical processing both with the caffeine itself in the coffee and your bodie is very hard on your body to the point that it is not recommended. You are only tearing down the walls of your palace for, at most, a 30 minute fix. HIGHLY UNWISE.
Barefoot run on the beach, Playa Municipal –
Barefoot running is precisely that. Running barefoot. The reason for this is that the human body, as will all bodies in nature, the fish, the bear, the puma, the hummingbird, the Chihuahua, all life is best suited for the environment without the thought of covering it up. You are designed to be perfect, naked. As we expand out populations, we go to places that require clothing due to the adversity it gives our bodies. Our social customs require clothes, and depending on where you are, more or less, both unwritten and law…. This applies so expressly to our feet, an area of the body so often overlooked until there is a problem, and yet, I cannot think of a more pivotal area of the body, pun intended, as it connects you to the planet you live on.
The foot is made up of a profoundly surprising number of bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerve pathways, one of the most tightly compacted bundle of tiny things int he body with such a huge effect should any one part be cut off from the rest of the picture. Usually we do this with shoes.
Shoes make the foot safer to a degree. When used CONSTANTLY, we see that a gradual degenration of mobility, flexibility, range of motion, increase in chance of injury, in finitum (etc.), occurs. This is due to the foot becoming complacent as it is overprotected and fails to function properly. key joints and motions in the foot become sloppy and weak, totally reliant on the shoe for the support it once had to provide entirely by itself. In fact, I believe that if you kept a babies feet continually covered from birth, you would cause serious trouble indeed!
The same applies to us at any age. The more our feet are cut off from true feeling, the weker they become in relation to the whole. When I speak of the whole, i refer to the kinetic chain. This is the sequence of movement in the body from point of contact throughout the whole. With the feet. You take a step, as the foot connects to the earth, every bone, muscle, ligament, nerve, tendon, activates all the way throughout the rest of the body. If they did not we would simply topple over, we couldnt move, the music of the symphony of our body would be in discord and nothing would happen. Everything must interact according to design. For istance, any mechanical device, a clock for instance, can withstand the malfunctioning of any one part, there are a few that simply cannot malfunction, just as in human bodies, for the most part, the clock, like the body can handle a certain degree or range of space in regard to functionality. BUT, ever movement away from “perfect”, results in a loss to the overall mechanism, as in the human body. The more your feet muscles/bones, etc. move away from working as designed due to getting untrained by shoes that seek to do the work of the foot and keep it continuously cushioned, the weaker teh foot gets, the more the rest of the body has to compensate for your improper gait (stride) and the greater the loss in precision. For a clock this would result in the clock running faster, slower, skipping minutes etc.
All of these minor conditions will continue to add up until the strain they place on the rest of the mechanism causes other links in the chain to begin to deteriorate as well.
Is this making sense?
This is why we jog/run/walk barefoot AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!
Todays jog was taken at a slow pace, in soft sand for roughly 3 miles. The sand was warm which is key for me on any barefoot mission, when the surface is cold, it creeps right up into your kidney area and literally drains your energy, in Chinese medicine, it eneters through the Kidney 1 point –
The Jing Well. I am sensitive to this and prefer warmth. Currently in the house I am walking barefoot which is cold, and yet i suffer it (lightly used phrase) in order to become stronger.
When running barefoot, initially you must take a lot of concentration, do not push yourself, the muscles and machinery of the foot are more than likely out of shape and the rest of the kinetic chain is usually adapted to your “Shoe” lifestyle and will therefore be out of condition as well. GO EASY ON THIS PATH. Be easy with yourself. Give tiem to literally allow your body to remember how to walk properly. Do not over analyze, BUT, stay very FOCUSED on your walking and feeling. Go through your research and figure out how you want you foot to strike the earth so that it is anatomically correct. Read, remember and practice. As time passes, walk/run/jog/hike/climb etc., greater and greater distances and times.
Many knee aches, lower back pains, shoulder and neck pains will be relieved and if enough barefoot walking is done, you will not only lose your pain, you will also start to reverse negative processes at work and begin healing. Bunions, joint issues, you will be able to avoid repetitive foot surgeries. You will strengthen your foot. Avoiding future need for surgery as you have corrected the cause of the problem and NOT the Symptom.
Also focused on was stretching in the sand. Simply getting comfortable with being sandy is for me a challenge at times. Stretching and a lot of stomach work. Your tummy is your core, your core is what keeps you balanced. It allows you to stand on one foot, to move through the world, to change the energy of air/food (earth)/water into energy, or Fire. Your container for this fire must be strong, as it is the fire of life, you must contain it in a proper container, lest you lose it unnecessarily.
Later this afternoon, we will have left overs consisting of mushroom risoto with extra mushrooms, some stir fried greens, nutritional yeast, and dulce flakes.
Letr, we will do a combination of yoga and kung fu.
Tomorrow we will do much the same. We will more than likely run in a different area, one that requires shoes, do some rock climbing, and, well, we’ll see.
We are very excited to share this with you from day one. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and dont push yourself to pain. Intense tired is O.K., as it goes away very quickly with a rest in between sets. Pain is not O.K., a tired that leaves you feeling wasted and spent, not O.K. Be NICE TO YOUR SELF! Take time, everyday, as Master Bruce Lee says, “Do more than the day before”.
Easy, start small, grow your body to be a tree of life, huge and strong, it takes time, it takes time all day everyday, focus on your posture even when you site, focus on chewing your food slowly being thankful that you have it, you must focus on EVERY aspect of your life if you want to change your life. Do you understand? | {
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Councillor’s criticism is misplaced
YOU published a letter from David Skinner, a Conservative councillor in Westwood Ward on Coventry City Council in which he made various criticisms of the Government and the Prime Minister in particular.
YOU published a letter from David Skinner, a Conservative councillor in Westwood Ward on Coventry City Council in which he made various criticisms of the Government and the Prime Minister in particular.
It must be rank hypocrisy on the part of Coun Skinner to criticise a Labour Government which has been prepared to invest in public spending, particularly in the areas of education, law and order, and health, and which has contributed to ensuring that a recession brought about by the abusive practices and excesses of the banking and finance sector did not turn into a full scale recession.
Coun Skinner conveniently ignores the level of borrowing that Coventry City Council has incurred over the last five years of Conservative rule.
Perhaps he can explain why it is economically prudent for the level of borrowing in Coventry to have increased by tens of millions of pounds, and yet it is inappropriate for the Government to have pursued such a course of action.
Presumably, there is one law for the Tories on Coventry City Council, and another for a Government committed to Social Justice and economic well being.
Coun Skinner suggests that the Prime Minister “....obviously exhausted and detached from reality with the Government disintegrating around him”...
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There are wings of flesh and feather, there are wings of bone and leather
There are wings of painted paper pinned to polished wooden spars
But wings of force and fire never falter, never tire
And the wings of human knowledge span the void between the stars.
Welcome to our diverse little clan
Don’t worry you’re not good enough, come grow with us
We’ll help you with your melody, we’ll catch you if you trip and fall
We’ll celebrate the art you choose to share with the world
“Filk in the Lobby” by Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff, which I can only assume is based on a true story. The songs referenced in the lyrics are Fire in the Sky by Jordin Kare and March of Cambreadth by Heather Alexander.
What would Peggy Carter do?
She’d happily fight anyone who’d gotten in her way
What would peggy carter do?
She wouldn’t listen to what the haters have to say
She would catch all of the bad guys and she’d do it looking great
Peggy Carter is my hero, and she’s why I’m here today
Generals ain’t easy to love and they’re harder to
hold
They care more about the next battle than diamonds or gold
DeathStar destroyers and Amazon Heroes
And Dora Milaje are proof
You may not understand her, an’ she might die young
But she’ll shake the world to it’s roof.
Mamas, raise all your princesses up to be Generals
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How to stand fast when they’re on the right side.
Mamas raise all your princesses up to be Generals
‘Cos they’ll take on the world and they’ll fight like a girl
To save the ones that they love
Generals take lovers who know that they go where they have to
Where the troops need them, and where the foe gathers to fight
Empires tremble when they take the field and then Fall in their moment of triumph
Cause they don’t know surrender, and if they retreat
The trap it leads into holds tight
Mamas, raise all your princesses up to be Generals
Instruct them in tactics and honor and pride
How to stand fast when they’re on the right side.
Mamas raise all your princesses up to be Generals
‘Cos they’ll take on the world and they’ll fight like a girl
To save the home that they love
Two the ocean races that of one blood remain;
A single skin encases the slayers and the slain,
But blood will blood deliver, though later comes the fee,
As every rushing river runs to one salt sea.
“One Salt Sea” by Cat Faber, inspired by the book of the same title in Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series. If you’re not familiar with the series the lyrics will sound kinda cryptic, but they’re cool enough that it’s still worth a listen.
It’s the wonders that I’m after,
even if I have to bleed,
and make very rash decisions
for the sake of what I need.
Dancing kisses on my cheek,
it’s the wonders that I seek,
and I swear I am not afraid.
“Wonders” by S. J. Tucker, which she dedicates to “all of us who dare to go on quests that we can’t see the end of.”
The finale weaves in themes from a bunch of the earlier songs, making it a great sampler of all the cool stuff in the cycle, but I really recommend giving the whole thing a listen. Along with being gorgeous, it’s a great introduction to Norse Mythology.
Scottish songwriter Alex Campbell also translated the Danish translation of “Anna Lovinda” to English; that version can also be found on Youtube. Both the Danish and the English versions are very faithful to the Bye’s Norwegian original. | {
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Moon mulls envoy to Pyongyang
If Seoul does decide to send a special envoy to the North, local analysts say the presidential Chief of Staff Im Jong-seok, Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon or National Intelligence Service (NIS) Director Suh Hoon - all of whom accompanied Moon when he received the North Korean delegation at the Blue House last Saturday - are possible options.
A unified Korean women's ice hockey team, first of its kind in the Olympic history, has won the hearts of millions on Saturday night, despite a 8-0 loss to the Sochi bronze victor Switzerland in their debut at the PyeongChang Olympic Games.
The North Korean delegation's visit to South Korea was the first trip since August 2009, when a high-level North Korean delegation attended the funeral of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, who held the first-ever inter-Korean summit with then North Korean leader late Kim Jong-il in 2000.
The meetings between North and South continue Saturday when President Moon holds a luncheon with the North Korean delegation.
The American left had its "you go girl" moment when the sinister sister of Kim Jong Un gave "deadly side eye" to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence during the Olympic games.
A senior United States government official says that Moon urged Pence to meet with the North Korean delegation, but Pence left the Olympic venue without doing so.
Ms Kim, believed to be 30, is the first in the ruling Kim family to set foot in South Korea since the two countries were separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.
A renewed feud over the issue has frayed ties even as America's two key Asian allies confront the challenge of North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes.
"All options are on the table and the United States has deployed some of our most advanced military assets to Japan and the wider region to protect our homeland and our allies and we will continue to", vowed Pence. Later, he skipped a formal dinner at which he was due to share a table with North Korea's ceremonial head of state Kim Yong Nam.
Although Kim Yo Jong ranks diplomatically lower than Kim Yong Nam, as Kim Jong Un's sister she is considered more important in North Korea. Kim Jong Il's sushi chef, Kenji Fujimoto, nicknamed them North Korea's "Prince" and "Princess" due to their upbringing and closeness to the former North Korean leader.
The Japanese Prime Minister visited South Korea for the opening ceremony of the 23rd Winter Olympics at the country's east county of PyeongChang.
It was the US that appeared to be the one left in the cold, especially after the sister of the North Korean dictator extended an invitation from her brother for Moon to visit the North.
Kim Jong-un's invitation to Moon raises prospects for the first inter-Korean summit in more than 10 years.
Up the road, however, an elderly husband and wife, each draped in the South Korean flag, denounced Moon as a "fake president".
Mercedes-AMG G63 Revealed With 577 HP
The new Mercedes-Benz S-Class facelift will be the first-ever BS-VI auto to be launched in the Indian market. Changes to the model range from the engines and powertrains to the styling and technology onboard.
Arrested Indian Mujahideen Terrorist Was Married To Nepali
Khan was radicalised and introduced to terrorism when he was studying in a school in his hometown Azamgarh, said the officer. Delhi Police claimed at least 165 people were killed and 535 injured in blasts in which Junaid was suspected to be involved.
Zidane: "I am responsible for this"
The Real maestro has netted 19 goals in his last 11 games in the competition, including in every single game this season. Paris Saint-Germain, on the other hand, will have last season's tie against Barcelona in the back of their mind.
Warriors win third straight match
They struggle in turnovers per game (#29), offensive rebounds per game (#25) and steals per game (#12). Guard Klay Thompson needs 22 points to become the 10th player in franchise history to score 10,000.
Frank Reich will take Indianapolis Colts head coaching job
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Abstract
A search is presented for standard model (SM) production of four top quarks (tt⎯⎯tt⎯⎯) in pp collisions in the lepton + jets channel. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 fb−1 recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The expected cross section for SM tt⎯⎯tt⎯⎯ production is σSMtt⎯tt⎯≈1fb . A combination of kinematic reconstruction and multivariate techniques is used to distinguish between the small signal and large background. The data are consistent with expectations of the SM, and an upper limit of 32 fb is set at a 95% confidence level on the cross section for producing four top quarks in the SM, where a limit of 32 ± 17 fb is expected.
Abstract
A search is presented for standard model (SM) production of four top quarks (tt⎯⎯tt⎯⎯) in pp collisions in the lepton + jets channel. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 fb−1 recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The expected cross section for SM tt⎯⎯tt⎯⎯ production is σSMtt⎯tt⎯≈1fb . A combination of kinematic reconstruction and multivariate techniques is used to distinguish between the small signal and large background. The data are consistent with expectations of the SM, and an upper limit of 32 fb is set at a 95% confidence level on the cross section for producing four top quarks in the SM, where a limit of 32 ± 17 fb is expected.
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In this Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, Dr. Peter Green and Rory Jones, authors of “Gluten Exposed: The Science Behind the Hype” and CDF 2016 National Conference Key Note speakers, describe the serious health risks incurred by those following a gluten-free diet for non-medical reasons. “We bake our own pastry, gluten is now Satan” reads a knowing […]
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Archive: Have you seen this woman?; Police release sketch, description of suspects in Buziak killing
Lindsay Buziak, the young real estate agent stabbed to death while showing an upscale home in Gordon Head last year, met with a couple inside the home the day she was killed, Saanich police revealed for the first time yesterday. The police are seeking help from the public to identify the pair.
Saanich police spokesman Sgt. John Price released a sketch yesterday, a year and a day after Buziak's death, of a Caucasian woman, 35 to 45 years old, with short blond hair. Police said the male suspect is believed to be Caucasian, six feet tall with dark hair.
Both were described as well-dressed, the man wearing a light- to medium-coloured jacket, and the woman possibly wearing a black designer skirt or dress patterned with thick white and red swirls.
Police arrived at the descriptions through statements from several witnesses, Price said. But he would not confirm whether the couple was seen near the house at 1702 De Sousa Pl. on the day Buziak, 24, was killed.
Buziak had been lured to the house by a female caller on Feb. 2, 2008. The caller said she was interested in million-dollar listings. They arranged a showing at 5:30 p.m. Later that day, a man called Buziak and said he would meet with her alone. She went, despite initial hesitation. She was found dead at 6:15 p.m.
Yesterday, Price would not confirm whether the people police are seeking placed the phone calls to Buziak. But he did say Saanich police have had the sketch and descriptions for months.
Asked why it was relevant now, Price said police wanted to take advantage of the resurgence of interest in the case, referring to media coverage about the anniversary of Buziak's death.
Buziak's family was recently notified of the break in the case.
"We've known that they had other evidence for a period of time but what specifically that was they don't tell us," said Buziak's uncle and family spokesman, Art Reitmayer. "There's certain things they can and can't share with us and ... we understand that. I'm sure there's other information they haven't released either."
Buziak's father, Jeff Buziak, refused to comment.
Police usually release a sketch as quickly as possible in criminal investigations, said Robert Gordon, a criminologist at Simon Fraser University. "If they have been sitting on this sketch ... there is some doubt that has to be cast over the value of the image," he said.
Gordon said the belated release of the sketch suggests two possible situations: The police don't have a suspect at all or they have an "inside track on who that was and didn't want to spoil that."
The delay doesn't necessarily decrease the likelihood of a conviction, another SFU criminologist said. "It's quite clear that as time goes by the possibility of a conviction decreases but the possibility remains nonetheless," Neil Boyd said.
"We know with DNA and with other advances and perhaps even with the release of this composite you can have convictions decades after the crime."
The Saanich police investigation is led by Insp. Rob McColl, who heads the major crime unit.
"We've done a lot of work in the last 12 months. We've amassed a great deal of information," said Price. Five full-time investigators continue to work on the case. Police have conducted 1,471 interviews, executed 30 search warrants and have had 752 tips.
Police said, for the first time yesterday, they've cleared Buziak's live-in boyfriend as a suspect. The day of the killing, Jason Zailo arrived at the crime scene around 6:15 p.m. with a friend because Buziak told him to check on her after the suspicious call. Police confirmed Zailo called 9-1-1, once from outside the house and a second time when he discovered Buziak's body on the second floor. Zailo continues to co-operate with police, Price said.
"We've never said Zailo was a suspect," he said. "Zailo was a person of interest, as would anybody be who was found at the scene of a homicide investigation."
Zailo's lawyer, Bradley Hickford, said Zailo is relieved he has finally been exonerated. "What you've got is a young man that's suffered a terrible loss. He's doing his best to deal with the grief and move on with his life."
Hickford would not say whether Zailo's business as a real estate agent has suffered over the past year because his name was not cleared earlier. Zailo did not return calls for comment.
A year is a long time to pass before clearing the name of a suspect so close to the victim, Boyd said, noting that most murders are committed by someone known to the victim. However, he said too much information released too soon can jeopardize a police investigation.
Saanich police are encouraging anyone who has information on the case to call their tip line at 250-475-4313 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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Nathaniel Gow
Biographical info
Niel Gow (1727-1807), father of the famous Gow family, lived in Inver near Dunkeld. (Glen 2, viii-xiv; Grove; Alburger; Murdoch, 41-48)
Gow's fourth son Nathaniel (1763-1831), violinist and Edinburgh publisher, was perhaps the most famous of the siblings; but his brothers William, John and Andrew also traded in music (John and Andrew in London).
Nathaniel's son, Niel Junr., lived 1795-1823. | {
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Looking at alternative computer software solutions for a variety of reasons. This includes price, computer security, virus prevention and reliability.
Here are my notes and great that if it helps you, otherwise please understand what you are doing and not follow blindly.
All works expressed are my own and does not necessarily express the products or organisations mentioned here.
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Samsung S5 Wifi not connecting automatically
Samsung S5 is a powerful Android mobile phone. In May 2015, the S5 received an update to Android 5.0 but has since had a problem with the wifi.
The smart network switch automatically switches from wifi when it gets weak, to mobile data. Usually, to save on mobile data its a good idea to turn it off. This way, even if wifi is weak it still stays on until signal is lost.
It can connect to wifi. However even after choosing smart wifi, it does not automatically reconnect when returning to the most wifi access point (AP) that it has saved the password. I say most because it can connect to open public wifi like Starbucks.
Previously, before the upgrade it was able to connect without problem.
Even resetting to factory did not help. Probably had something to do with me restoring my backup.
Here is how I got it working, clearing the S5 phone cache.
Step 1: Power off the S5
Step 2: At same time hold down following keys;
Volume up, power on/off, Home.
When it vibrates or see the galaxy start screen, release the power on/off.
Step 3: clear cache and restart
Use the volume key to select clear cache. Press the power button.
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Tabs
21 June 2017
Maruzen, founded in 1869, is one of the reference stationers in Japan. It was also a key actor in the introduction of fountain pens in this country. Maruzen imported American and British pens in the beginning of the 20th century and became the distributor of Onoto pens in Japan in 1907. By 1915, Maruzen created the brand Athena to market domestic pens made by Eisaburo Sakasai, whose factory Maruzen bought after his demise in 1937. The production of Athena pens lasted until around 1970.
Between 1970 and 1994, the brand Athena was limited to Athena Ace inks. Athena fountain pens resurrected only in 1994 by means of some Pilot OEM fountain pens.
Athena Ace Ink from mid 1960s. JPY 50 for 30 ml.
The Athena Basic Line (ABL) is another example of Pilot OEM fountain pen. It is a flat top model, made of black plastic with rhodiated accents. The nib carries an original engraving: “ATHENA / 1869 / MARUZEN / 14K-585 / < F > ”. And hidden by the section, the manufacturing date, A505; that is, May of 2005 at the Hiratsuka plant of Pilot’s.
The shape of this pen –a flat-top— initially relates to the 70th anniversary (1988) and to its close cousin Custom 72 (1990), both implementing size 10 nibs.
But the Athena Basic Line model is much closer to two contemporary models—the Custom Heritage 91, and the Custom Heritage 912 (CH912), both from 2009. The dimensions of these three models, as can be seen on the table, are slightly different. The ABL and the CH912 use the same size of nibs, size 10. However, the Maruzen model is four millimeters shorter when closed. Their caps, though, are perfectly interchangeable and share size and shape. All three pens can use the converter CON-70 (and any of the currently made Pilot converters, save the obvious exception of the CON-W).
Comparative table of the dimensions of these three close relatives: Pilot's Custom Heritage 91 and 912, and Athena Basic Line. Lengths measured in millimeters, weights in grams, prices in JPY without taxes.
On both pictures, from top to bottom, Pilot Custom Heritage 912, Athena Basic Line, and Pilot Custom Heritage 91.
The price of the Basic Line was JPY 25000, plus tax. That is JPY 5000 more expensive than the CH912, and JPY 15000 more than the Custom Heritage 91 with size 5 nib. These differences in price are common between official products and the OEM pens made for other companies.
The Athena Basic Line. The clip is engraved with the brand name: "ATHENA". The cap ring carries another engraving: "MARUZEN JAPAN Basic Line Athena".
On the nib we can read "ATHENA / 1869 / MARUZEN / 14K-585 / < F >".
In actual terms, the Maruzen model, the Athena Basic Line can be seen as a forerunner of the Custom Heritage models that would appear about four years later, in 2009 (year 91 in Pilot’s era). | {
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2010 Outdoor: Finished ninth at Liberty Twilight in the high jump... Cleared a season-best 5'1.25" in the high jump at Big South Conference Championships... Competed in the high jump at Duke Invitational... Tied for sixth at Weems Baskin and tied for ninth at CCU Invitational in the high jump with a clearance of 1.55m
2010 Indoor: Placed ninth at Big South Indoor Championships in the high jump with a clearance of 5'00.25"
2009 Outdoor: Finished seventh in high jump at the Big South Championships... Had a personal best jump of 5'7.25" at the Chanticleer Classic... Had a 5'5" mark in the high jump at the Duke Invite...
2009 Indoor: Tied for fifth in high jump at the Big South Championships... Had a season-best high jump of 5'2.25" at Clemson Tiger Invitational...
High School: Had personal bests of 5'4" in the high jump and 15'2" in the long jump her senior year... Also ran cross country junior and senior years, and turned in a personal best of 21:54 in her senior season... Played basketball freshman and sophomore years...
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5 Day Road to the Isles Coach Tour depart Glasgow
A wonderful way to explore Scotland's stunning scenery, this 5 day coach tour allows you plenty of time to expore the Scottish Highlands and the stunning Isle of Skye. The tour includes your accommodation, and runs every Monday from April to October.
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Day One - Glasgow - Inveraray - Oban
Departing first from Edinburgh we travel westwards across Scotland to reach Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city. Soon we enter the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, a natural wonder that is just waiting to be discovered. The "bonnie, bonnie banks" of Loch Lomond is a real highlight. This is Britain's largest lake and one of Scotland's loveliest. It has 30 islands, including one inhabited by a colony of wallabies!
The Argyll Forest Park is famed for it’s ancient trees, tranquil lochs and mountains. Look out for Ben Arthur, affectionately known as "The Cobbler” - it’s one of Scotland’s most popular climbs.
Soon our coach starts our ascent of the "Rest and be Thankful” mountain pass. You’ll soon realise why this road has such an unusual name when you look down on General Wade's original road that winds its way through Glen Croe all the way to the summit!
The 3rd Duke of Argyll built the "new" town of Inveraray at the head of Loch Fyne. The town sits in the shadow of his castle and, as we will discover, this pleasant town retains much of its 18th Century charm.
From Lochgilphead we enter Kilmartin Glen. This mysterious Glen has one of the most concentrated areas of prehistoric sites in Scotland including a linear cemetery – a line of burial cairns that stretch for over 2 miles. Nearby is Dunadd, a hill fort that dates from the Iron Age. Dunadd was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Dalriada so this part of Argyll has played an important part in the creation of modern Scotland!
Soon we arrive in the bustling, beautiful port of Oban, our stop for tonight. Oban is the gateway to the isles so why not take a pre-dinner stroll and admire the views over the busy harbour.
Overnight: Oban
Day Two - Oban - Glen Coe - Skye
We bid farewell to Oban and make our way to the Connel Bridge. As we cross Loch Etive look out for the Falls of Lora below.
Glen Coe is arguably Scotland's most famous Glen partly because of it's awe-inspiring beauty and, more sinisterly, because of the infamous massacre that took place here in 1692. The sad tale will be told as we make a short diversion to explore this special place for ourselves.
Fort William's glorious setting on the banks of Loch Linnhe has made it a popular tourist destination since the arrival of the steamships in the mid-1900's. The town sits in the shadow of Ben Nevis, which, at 4,406 feet, is the tallest mountain in the UK. If the weather is kind to us we should hopefully get a good view of "The Ben" as we leave the town.
Glenfinnan Viaduct
We now jump aboard the Jacobite Steam Railway Train. It’s one of the world’s greatest train journeys and will take you over the Glenfinnan Viaduct, made famous by the Harry Potter films. We’ll continue to the end of the line, Mallaig, a pretty fishing port, bustling but remote. You will have the opportunity to have an early dinner and enjoy some excellent seafood before taking a short ferry ride over the sea to Skye, where you’ll spend your second night.
Day Three - Touring the Magical Isle
After breakfast we board our coach for a wonderful day of exploration. From the little villages and gentle scenery of the southern part of the island the views will change dramatically as the Cuillin Hills come into sight. Considered by many to be amongst the finest hills in Britain the Cuillins present a vista that is simply unforgettable.
A broch is a type of fortification that only exists in Scotland and date from around 2,300 year ago. Today we’ll visit Dun Beag which sits on top of a rocky knoll. With walls that are 4 metres thick this broch offered protection to Iron-Age farmers from what kind of threat we can only just guess at.
Our next stop is at grand Dunvegan Castle *, the ancestral home of the Clan Macleod. There has been a castle on this site since the 13th Century and its treasures include the Fairy Flag, said to bring good luck to the clan in times of trouble.
Set round its natural harbour the picturesque town of Portree is the island's largest community. The name of the town means the "King's Port" following a visit by King James V in 1540. Today the pretty painted houses which surround the harbour give Portree an old fashioned appeal. During our stop there will be time to explore the town and browse the interesting shops that surround Sumerled Square.
The fishing village of Elgol lies at the end of a spectacular route through the heart of the Red Cuillin Hills. On our visit to Elgol you’ll have the chance to take a wildlife spotting cruise * and enjoy stunning views of the high peaks of the Black Cuillins.
Day Four - Kyleakin - Trotternish – Loch Ness
We'll leave the Isle of Skye and head straight to Scotland's most photographed castle, Eilean Donan* which you'll have ample time to explore. We’ll continue further north through Glen Carron and past Loch Carron towards Achnasheen. You’ll also experience the dramatic Glen Docherty which looks down towards Loch Maree, once visited by Queen Victoria and home to its very own “Nessie”: Muc-sheilche. Our lunch stop will be at Inverewe Garden*, well-known for its sub-tropical plants. You’ll also get to take in the incredible Gruinard Bay and the breath-taking Corrieshalloch Gorge and Rogie Falls, then on to your overnight stop by Loch Ness at Fort Augustus
Overnight: Fort Augustus
Day Five - Loch Ness - Culloden Moor - Glasgow
After a hearty breakfast we head off to explore mysterious Loch Ness. After a drive along the banks of this famous loch why not mount a "Nessie" spotting cruise* of your own or enjoy wonderful views of the lake from the battlements of mighty Urquhart Castle?
A short drive will take us to Inverness, the Capital of the Highlands, and then on to desolate Culloden Moor * which was the site of the last battle ever fought on British soil. The Jacobite troops of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the British Army under the command of the Duke of Cumberland clashed here in a bloody battle. The Jacobites were routed and in the aftermath Highland life changed forever. We'll make a stop so that you can discover more about the battle and its dramatic consequences.
The Cairngorm National Park is an area of stunning natural beauty, as we will discover. As we journey through the Spey Valley the Cairngorm Mountains, which rise to over 4000 feet, provide a striking backdrop.
There are fine views of Blair Castle, the seat of the Dukes of Atholl – the only man allowed to have their own private army, The Atholl Highlanders. Wild mountain vistas surround us as we descend the Drumochter Pass, the main route into the highlands since the earliest of times. We’ll make a stop in the pretty town of Pitlochry a gloriously colourful and vibrant Victorian town surrounded by the most resplendent mountain scenery in Europe. Its fame as a holiday resort dates from the 1860s and was a popular destination with Queen Victoria. We’ll spend time here so you soak up the atmosphere of this picturesque little town.The final part of our journey together takes us through the heart of Highland Perthshire. As we travel southwards past the twin villages of Dunkeld and Birnam you will discover why this part of Scotland is called "Big Tree Country”! From Perth we join the highway for the short journey to Edinburgh then Glasgow.
* Admission fees apply
Phenomenal Experience of the Highlands
Written by Howard on Saturday, 09 July 2016
We just came back from a 5 day tour of the Scottish Highlands with our driver Andrew. There were 29 of us on the trip, but Andrew made it seem as though it was a private tour. He was very informative on a wide array of topics related to history and had an intimate knowledge of each of the sites and villages we visited. His story telling made it easy to experience the historic battles in the Scottish struggle for independence.
The highlands are beautiful, very remote, and packed with historic sites and significance. The accommodations were rustic, but comfortable. Food was very good every where we went. The people were all very friendly and inviting.
The Jacobite Express train ride is an old steam engine that runs from Fort William to Mallaig, You will recognize the train and the journey from the Harry Potter films as the Hogwarts Express. Eilean Donan Castle, Urquhart Castle, and Sterling Castle are not to be missed. We also stopped at the Culloden museum which is the site of the final battle that ended the Jacobite Uprising. This was a very moving and special experience.
The five days was packed with several stops interspersed with beautiful drives through the country side with some brief stops for pictures, We had a great time and heartily recommend the tour and Andrew.
Fabulous 5 Day Tour of the Highlands
Written by Shazam on Friday, 08 July 2016
This tour was a wonderful way to experience the Highlands, including 2 nights on Skye. We absolutely loved it, and the tour does a great job of packing lots of sightseeing in and covering lots of scenery. We were given ample time at major sites to photograph and enjoy, as well as to eat in the villages and get a bit of shopping done. Additionally, the tour was greatly enhanced by our guide Andrew who is a history buff and will regale the participants with personal anecdotes as well as providing a phenomenal amount of history appropriate to whichever place the bus is passing by. This tour provides a truly excellent overview of the Highlands and is an excellent value. I heartily recommend it.
Wonderful Tour
Written by Mary & Mom on Tuesday, 12 July 2016
This is a 5 day excursion with Andrew, who is a wonderful tour guide. He is an amazing driver and tells such engaging stories about Scottish history and folklore. We all had such fun and highly recommend it to anyone wishing to see the beautiful sights in the Scottish highlands.
Trip of a Lifetime!
Written by James on Monday, 25 July 2016
We took the five day Highlands tour. I will admit to being hesitant about a bus tour before we started, but our guide Andrew quickly won me over. The trip was absolutely amazing. Andrew made every moment in the coach engaging with his wit, knowledge, and humor. He knew just went to make us laugh, and when to leave us all be.
The trip was exquisitely managed, allowing time for photo stops, bathroom breaks, and engaging history. We arrived early at many of the more traditional tourist attractions and knew how to beat the crowds. We saw beautiful vistas across the Highlands and Islands, stayed in beautiful B&B's and made great friends.
I would highly recommend the trip and Andrew in particular to anyone interested in the Highlands.
Best Tour Yet
Written by Mary on Wednesday, 27 July 2016
My husband and I just completed the 5 day Highlands (and Islands) tour with the incomparable Andrew. It exceeded every expectation I had. Not only did we get to visit historic landmarks (Glen Coe, Culloden, Urquart & Eilean Donan & Stirling castles, Bannockburn, Flora MacDonald's grave), we took in the breathtaking views on the Isle of Skye, the Great Glen, countless lochs, and spent the night and ate lunch in many quaint and idyllic towns (Portree, Oban, Fort Augustus, Pitlochry simply to name a few.)
This, by necessity, requires hours of traveling in the bus that went in the blink of an eye thanks to Andrew's engaging, entertaining, and enlightening storytelling. From history to mythology to modern day information Andrew made every bit educational and conversational. His wit, compassion, and personable attitude led to an exceptional week.
The B&B accommodations were excellent with wonderful breakfasts and comfortable rooms. A few times the bathroom/shower amenities were small, but that is to be expected in Europe. Overall I would highly recommend this company, this tour, and Andrew in particular to anyone who is interested in exploring the highlands and islands of Scotland.
Amazing five Day Tour
Written by Jenny on Friday, 12 August 2016
My mother and I went on the 5 Day Highland Experience Tour with our guide Andrew and it was truly amazing. If you can try and get Andrew as you guide, he was so knowledgeable, friendly, and prompt. He truly made the trip amazing. The tour is so worth the money and the places we stayed along the way we're great! If you want to get the most out of a few days in Scotland this is the only way to do it! Also if you go in peak season there will be more then 15 people on your tour but that is ok, the more the merrier! My only recommendation is that you do not bring more luggage than is allowed. You can store excess luggage at their offices. More luggage than the allowed amount will slow pick up and drop times.
Some Places We Will Visit
Britain's largest inland waterway, measuring 22 miles long and at certain points up to five miles wide, is Scotland's most famous (uninhabited!) loch, thanks to the Jacobite ballad about its "bonnie banks".
Our visitor guide to Oban, the main focal point in the northern part of Argyll in Scotland. A comprehensive list of information including what to see and do, self catering cottages in the area, travel information and history...
Loch Ness is world famous for the wrong reasons: the mythical watery monster than has been subject to repeated scientific investigations without success. Its fame ignores the real attractions of this huge lake framed by mountains and castles that cuts the highlands in two.
Kyleakin is a village situated on the east coast of the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. The village is along the strait of Kyle Akin opposite the northwest Scottish mainland town of Kyle of Lochalsh.
At the more scenic southern end of Loch Ness stands the village of Fort Augustus, originally set up as a garrison after the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, and headquarters of General Wade's campaign to pacify the Highlands. Today Fort Augustus is a busy little place; full of monster-hunting tourists and boats using the flight of five locks to enter or leave Loch Ness on their journey along the Caledonian Canal.
Quick travel guide on Dunkeld in Perthshire offers information travellers needed to know on Dunkeld, which includes tourist information about Dunkeld and Birnam, attractions and Self- Catering Cottages in Dunkeld. | {
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Weight Loss Mistakes Even Healthy Women Make
You snack on fruit product, tally calories and get some type exercise more days. So when you step on that scale and the needle stays put, you ponder what the hell you are doing incorrectly. Indeed, even with clean eating and excellent wellness habits, you might be committing a couple of little errors that can prompt a level and wreck your outcomes. Here’s the way to update your effectively healthy habits to at last come to your get lose weight objective.
Determine The Right Intake for You, if You Count Calories.
Just 11 percent of Americans accurately assess they are optimal everyday calorie prerequisites, as indicated by one report. Bonnie Taub-Dix, RD, a representative for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics says whatever remains of us tend to overestimate. Suppose you accept that devouring 2,000 calories for each day will permit you to achieve your objective weight, it truly takes 1,800 calories. Those additional 200 are sufficient to keep an extra 20 beats in your body.
If 1,800 calories are your maximum, split it into three 500 calorie dinners and one 300 calorie snack.
Revise Your Schedule, if You are Reliably Active.
When you spend a couple of hours running, it feels likes you have worked off a few serious weight. Regardless of pulling around those main grocery packs, you blazed just around 400 calories that are around 1/10 of a pound.
Short blasts of severe movement burn more calories and up to 36 percent more fat, as per a study distributed in the Journal of Applied Physiology. Walking through the shopping center or a park center for 60 minutes works off around 150 calories; get a move on 1 minute out of each 5 to burn more than 33 percent more calories by attempting a similar strategy if you bicycle). Swimmers can change from free-form or breaststroke to a more testing crawl each few laps or simply go somewhat speedier. Give these fast calorie burning interim workouts a try.
Eat The Exact Thing, Cut Back Your Portion, If You Pick Diet Treats.
When you need something sweet, each one of those without fat, sans sugar alternatives appear like a brilliant decision for weight loss. In any case, researchers at Cornell University found that overweight individuals who pick low-fat foods instead of the regular types eatables, on average, twice the same number of calories.
Go for sensible measures of the real thing. If you like ice cream, have a little scoop of premium. You won’t adhere to an eating routine that does exclude your top choices.
Hold Portions in Check, If You Pick Nutritious Nourishment’s.
What you put on your plate is essential, yet adhering to a healthy diet is likewise about being aware of the amount you eat. For example, your spouse has pancakes with butter and syrup for breakfast, your child snatches a donut, you choose some oats with a nice bunch of walnuts, a cut banana and a huge glass of natural blueberry juice. You might win on supplements, however with regards to calories, you are dead last. That solid sounding dinner means very nearly 700 calories, more than 33 percent of your distribution for the day.
The ideal approach to knowing you are eating an excessive amount of is to record it. Regardless of the possibility that you note it on a napkin and after that discard it. A baseball-size serving for slashed veggies and fruits, a golf ball for nuts and shredded cheese are useful. Clench hand for rice and pasta and a deck of cards for meats.
Be More Aware of Your Intake, If You Eat Snacks to Subdue Desires.
You might think you are cautious about watching what you eat, and researchers demonstrate that stolen chomps and tastes can rise a couple of hundred many calories, which can put on pounds quickly. At the point when women who ordinarily watched their portions had a meal in various circumstances, they ate 15 percent more while listening to a detective story, compared with when they ate alone and free of any diversion.
Avoid eating when your brain’s somewhere else like while on the PC, and dispense unwanted distractions such as turn off the TV, put aside the book, etc.
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
We talk about underpaid University Dons; How about the "Grossly Underpaid" Judges?
The Government appears to be stalling on the demand by the FUTA for significant pay increases, with the main reason being that if they are given a raise the rest of thee public service will demand equivalent raises.
One set of people I believe are grossly underpaid are the Judges. The lawyers on the other hand are relatively overcompensated as they feed off the hapless litigant. Sit in a court room in the Colombo District Court. The leading Counsel may charge around Rs250,000 for an appearance. His junior counsel if he has three will charge Rs30K for two and the trainee junior Rs15K for the appearance only. The Judge hearing the case earns a maximum of Rs100,000 a month. What would you prefer to be the lawyer or the judge. Is it surprising then that there are no takers the post of Judges?
The issue most often is that judges have absolutely no clue about explanation for the facts in the case, as it is not an esteemed lawyer who is in that post. Therefore it is hard to argue a case sometimes of tricky legal as well as commercial practice with someone who cannot understand. It then comes as no shock to the layperson that the case is postponed, a favorite expectation of the lawyers who charge on appearance and not on completion or satisfactory outcome. The litigant after numerous postponements is then forced to settle out of court, another win for the judge as he does not have to adjudicate, because he does not have a clue anyway.
This in practice is how the law is applied and disputes settled. In my opinion both the litigant and the defendant suffer here, the lawyers benefit immensely and the judges do not have to expose their incompetence. We then get away with having low competencies hearing the cases.
in the adversarial system, it is the job of the lawyers to make the case so that a reasonable prudent person can make a decision on the issue. The judge must listen to both sides and make a decision based on who makes the best case. In such a system, the lawyers are the most critical component.
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Nodding Syndrome (NS) is a childhood neurological disorder characterized by atonic seizures, cognitive decline, school dropout, muscle weakness, thermal dysfunction, wasting and stunted growth. There are recent published information suggesting associations between Nodding Syndrome (NS) with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) VGKC antibodies and serum leiomidin-1 antibody cross reacting with Onchocerca Volvulus (OV). These findings suggest a neuro-inflammatory cause of NS and they are important findings in the search for the cause of Nodding Syndrome. These observations perhaps provide further, the unique explanation for the association between Nodding Syndrome and Onchocerca Volvulus. Many clinical and epidemiological studies had shown a significant correlation between NS and infestation with a nematode, Onchocerca volvulus which causes a disease, Onchocerciasis, some of which when left untreated can develop visual defect ("River Blindness"). While these studies conducted in Northern Uganda and Southern Sudan indicate a statistically significant association with (OV infection (using positive skin snips), we observe that (OV is generally endemic in many parts of Sub Saharan Africa and Latin America and that to date, no NS cases have been recorded in thoseregions. This letter to the Editor is to provide additional information on the current view about the relationship between Nodding Syndrome and Onchocerca Volvulus as seen in Northern Uganda. | {
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Trial
Names
Trial
Description
This is basically an unfinished wad. I wanted to have some outside input. I plan on expanding the level and maybe adding more levels. This all depends on time and if I can figure out a good theme for my doom world. If you have any comments / flames please E-Mail me or post to alt.games.doom. This is my first attempt at creating a playable doom level, so any advice would be great :)
Read Me
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Title : Trial
Filename : TRIAL_B1.WAD
Author : Douglas K McLemore
Email Address : [email protected]
Misc. Author Info :
Description : This is basically an unfinished wad. I wanted to have
some outside input. I plan on expanding the level and
maybe adding more levels. This all depends on time and
if I can figure out a good theme for my doom world.
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post to alt.games.doom. This is my first attempt at
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Additional Credits to : Thanks to all those DOOM Gods at Id for the world's best
war, er game!!!
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Hey, “public-sector thug,” when Gov. Brown starts cutting your salary & benefits, are you going to take it?Say, why not volunteer to give a few dollars back to cut that deficit right now? Or would that be too “collectivist?”
I’ve had a couple of other comments of this sort as well. Folks like this aren’t regular readers here, or else they’d already have noticed my position on public unions: “‘Have You or Anyone Close to You Belonged to a Union?‘” I’ve never had issues with unions. It’s progressives I have issues with, and I work with these clowns. Mostly selfish and dumb, I called out some folks at my college for their pampered privilege. At one point, of course, a third of the American labor force was unionized, and millions of God-fearing workers have benefited from collective bargaining. My good friend Reliapundit commented at the post:
DD, GREETINGS!one of my gramps was a founding member of local 3 of the ibew. he was a member in good standing his whole life. 65 years in the union. marched with them every labor day. the union was good to him. but, he would have made more money if he had put his dues into an ira/401k and been in his own business. his widow would have been better off. his daughters. and his grandchildren. the unions have outlived their need in the usa. and another thing: government workers should not be allowed to unionize. fdr opposed it for good reason. walker is right. and christie, too. we need to rein in afscme and the seiu. we need to break the union-democrat party axis. the axis of taxes. we need to do it now. G-d Bless You and the USA!
The “axis of taxes.” I like that!
Anyway, this is a pretty common meme on the left, that conservatives are somehow hypocrites if they work in government but nevertheless oppose the idiotic public-sector thugs. Demon-blogger TBogg is endlessly smearing Glenn Reynolds for allegedly blogging Atlas Shrugs — “going Galt” — from the cushy confines at the University of Tennessee. No doubt hate and worthless ridicule gets these folks up in the morning. Sad.
JANESVILLE, Wis. — Rich Hahan worked at the General Motors plant here until it closed about two years ago. He moved to Detroit to take another G.M. job while his wife and children stayed here, but then the automaker cut more jobs. So Mr. Hahan, 50, found himself back in Janesville, collecting unemployment for a time, and watching as the city’s industrial base seemed to crumble away.Among the top five employers here are the county, the schools and the city. And that was enough to make Mr. Hahan, a union man from a union town, a supporter of Gov. Scott Walker’s sweeping proposal to cut the benefits and collective-bargaining rights of public workers in Wisconsin, a plan that has set off a firestorm of debate and protests at the state Capitol. He says he still believes in unions, but thinks those in the public sector lead to wasteful spending because of what he sees as lavish benefits and endless negotiations.
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Across Wisconsin, residents like Mr. Hahan have fumed in recent years as tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs have vanished, and as some of the state’s best-known corporations have pressured workers to accept benefit cuts.
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Best Of Our Valley 2014 Feature – Kinsey Schofield
You voted for more than 4,000 nominees in nearly 400 categories (equaling 1.5 million-plus views at AZFoothills.com). Now, it is time to get to know your Best of Our Valley 2014 winners. From your favorite restaurants and resorts to your choice schools and shops, Arizona Foothills Magazine presents Best of Our Valley 2014.
Known as the “Pop Culture Connoisseur,” Kinsey Schofield is a nationally recognized social media strategist and TV commentator/interviewer who can be seen gracing the small screen on The E! Channel, “Dr. Drew on Call,” “Nancy Grace,” “Jane Velez-Mitchell” and “Fox & Friends,” to name a few of her regular gigs. This well-known stylish social media maven went to great lengths to gain votes for Most Fashionable in the Valley Under 30: Women. (Perhaps you saw the Ryan Gosling masks around Scottsdale, urging you to vote for her?) Here, read about her over-the-top Best of Our Valley campaign and her fun fashion staples.
AFM: What is your day-to-day like?
KS: Today you have caught me filming a new E! series, “Worst Thing I Ever.” I woke up this a.m. and have been reading my notes on repeat. I will go in to hair and makeup, shoot and then sit in traffic. Typically, I bounce from HLN’s “Nancy Grace,” “Dr. Drew on Call” and “Jane Velez- Mitchell.” Those days are similar. I wake up and immediately start communicating with producers in Los Angeles, New York and Atlanta to craft our pop culture and social media segments. I film from either Phoenix or Los Angeles. Then I come home, and I spoon my fur children.
AFM: How did you campaign to win?
KS: I purchased hundreds of postcards announcing my nomination and requesting votes. The nominations were around Halloween, so I printed up and hid 200 Ryan Gosling face masks around Scottsdale, instructing people to vote for me. I created goody bags that I delivered to influential friends in hopes that they would tweet about it to encourage votes. The bags included prescription pill bottles full of Barbie shoes and faux diamonds with a message that read, “Help This Fashion Junkie Win Most Fashionable!” I had yard signs; I put four in my parents’ front yard at once. I would leave a postcard with heart-shape sunglasses taped to it when I had completed paying for a meal, for my waitress. I really lived in the campaign; however, I think the most important aspect of the execution was the online ambassadors. My friend, @politicsofamy, would tweet to vote for me multiple times a day. I had Nick Searcy of FX’s “Justified” tweet to vote for me, [as did] several influential individuals that had nothing to gain from my win. It was just out of the kindness of their own hearts. You can see a visual example at VoteKinsey.com.
AFM: What are some of your personal Valley faves?
KS: I love happy hour at Dominick’s Steakhouse. I’m always finding necessary and fun knick-knacks at the Garage boutique, and Dre’s Hair Salon makes me feel fabulous. I also enjoy an afternoon at O.H.S.O. with my precious pups and staycations at Hermosa Inn.
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KS: I prefer Scottsdale to Los Angeles immensely. A. Parking. B. Friends and family. Los Angeles can be lonely, but it’s full of professional opportunity, so I will always have to keep one foot over there. I’ve had a small little bungalow in Santa Monica for four years that I love and refuse to give up. My dogs love the beach! Scottsdale is convenient, full of interesting and ambitious individuals, and beautiful. Scottsdale is where I want to be. Am I more likely to meet my future husband, James Franco, in Los Angeles? Yes.
AFM: Who are your favorite designers?
KS: I don’t shop designer as much as I shop for fun and fit. I get the most compliments from the items that I find on Etsy—from my vintage- looking RUN-DMC jacket to my Madonna purse. I like wearing things that no one else in the room will be wearing. If I had to give you the name of a designer though, I would say Tina Knowles—solely due to the fact that she birthed Beyoncé.
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AFM: During a work day, what will you most likely be wearing? What about a casual day?
KS: I work in television so I like to mix a funky T-shirt like Chaser Brand with a nice Elizabeth and James blazer. I’m a sucker for black bottoms so it will always be Level 99 skinnies or BlackMilk Clothing matte leggings. Happiness is a pair of Jeffrey Campbell motorcycle boots.
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KS: My Sister’s Closet. I just found a Hervé Léger there for $200. I ran out of the store after they swiped my debit card feeling like I had just gotten away with a crime. It was exhilarating. | {
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
A Day in the Life of: A Rock of Ages Extra
When I received an email invitation to participate as an extra in the new Rock of Ages movie, I could not resist. Immediately I gathered a group of my friends and we decided we were going to rock out like it was 1983.
So, on Monday, July 18th, my two friends and I made our way to Sun Life stadium where we heard the first, of many interesting, news: no cell phones, no exceptions.
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As we made our way into the theatre, none other than Tom Cruise was singing Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” with co-stars Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta.
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Srinagar: It was a cold, cloudy morning in Srinagar with a shallow fog enveloping most parts of Kashmir today. The local weather office said that a western disturbance is likely to approach the state today with chances of light rains which will bring relief from foggy weather and cold conditions.
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"It will be a partly cloudy day in Srinagar city today and the maximum temperature is likely to hover around 12 degrees Celsius. The overnight minimum temperature in Srinagar was 5.6 degrees Celsius, which is two degrees below normal", he said.
Kargil town in the Ladakh region was the coldest in the state with minimum temperature settling at minus 5.6 degrees Celsius. Leh town of the same region remained cold at minus 3 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperatures in tourist resorts of Gulmarg and Pahalgam were minus 2.4 and 5.5 degrees respectively. | {
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LAKEWOOD — Five months ago, Lakewood senior Andre Scott found himself lying on the side of a mountain writhing in pain following an ill-fated snowboard trick. And the only thing coursing through his mind was whether or not his final track and field season had come to a pre-mature end.
Luckily for him, it hadn’t. Scott went on to have his best year in four uncertain track and field seasons. He capped it off by capturing the state title in the long jump at the Class 2A State Track and Field Championships, held May 26-28, at Mount Tahoma High School.
Scott’s winning jump measured 22-feet, 5-inches, a few inches shy of his personal best of 22-10, which he set a week earlier at districts.
“It felt great to win,” Scott said. “It is unexplainable. I had people coming up to me and congratulating me. It was surreal. I just couldn’t believe it.”
As for the spill he took on that mountain, Scott would soon learn he’d need shoulder surgery sooner or later. So far, he’s chosen later.
“My doctors tell me that there is a lot of scar tissue and that means I’d need surgery eventually to remove it,” said the 6-2, 180-pound Scott.” They told me there was a 70 percent chance of the surgery going well. At the time, I knew that if I had the surgery and it did not go well, it could have messed up my senior year. Instead I just worked hard during the season to rehab and it really didn’t affect me much. It hurts, but I can live with the pain. I’ll probably have the surgery later on. But it scares me because if it messes up my track that would really hurt … Track is my life.”
But it hasn’t exactly been an easy life for Scott. After bouncing on and off academic probation his freshman season, missing his sophomore season on the advice of his coaches and parents because of poor grades, his career didn’t really get rolling until the end of his junior season.
“It’s been a learning process for Andre both on and off the track,” coach Monica Rooney said. “This is the first year he completed an entire track season where he’s been academically eligible. He competed in nearly every meet, which is an accomplishment by itself.”
The turning point for Scott came at the district meet his junior year where he performed well enough to qualify for the state meet.
“He came close to just quitting before that meet,” Rooney said. “I could see it in him, he was done. But I convinced him to stick it out and he went on to have a great meet. That was the carrot he needed to change his path for his senior season.”
He went on to finish fourth in the triple jump and fifth in the long jump at the 2010 state meet.
“Finishing my season last year as a junior was pretty cool,” he said. “I made it to state. That was big. People said those are pretty good jumps, but for me, I felt like I could have done better. If I would have trained better and didn’t hang out with my friends so much I could have done better. I’d to learn to do the right thing.”
Aside from winning the long jump this year, Scott also placed fourth in the 200 and sixth in the 100.
Other Lakewood athletes to compete at the state meet included Chelsea Stokes, Kelsey Anderson and Skylar Cannon.
However, Stokes wasn’t supposed to be at the state meet. But, fortunately for her, a spot opened just in time.
As the first alternate, Stokes found out the night before that an injury had sidelined her counterpart who held the third and final slot.
Stokes, a senior, took advantage of her fortune and went on to place fourth in the 3,200 with a time of 11:27.15.
“I didn’t know I was going until the night before,” Stokes said. “I remember being a little scared and nervous because I didn’t know what it was going to be like. It was my first time there.”
After visiting more than 10 colleges this past season, including University of Oregon, Stokes has committed to Eastern Washington University, where she’ll continue her track career.
“I really liked their program,” she said. “I contacted their track coach and he told me they’d love for me to come out.”
Teammate Kelsey Anderson finished 12th in the 1,600-meter run with the time of 5:28.66. The week before, at the district meet, Anderson set a personal best in the event with a time of 5:12.00
“It wasn’t my best run at state,” said Anderson, who is headed to Northwest College in Kirkland. “I died early and ended up with that time. But I felt like I gave it my best, but it was just an off day.”
As for freshman Cannon, just making it to state was a victory. After taking up the javelin midway through the season, Cannon took first place in the event at district meet, and earned her way to state. She finished sixth in the javelin throw with a distance of 117-08.
“I really wasn’t expecting to be there,” she said. “I took up the javelin at the middle of the season and I really like it.”
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We regularly begin to see the heading plastic surgery gone erroneous around the gossip journals, and whilst beauty surgical procedures was the area with the loaded and famous it is actually now becoming raising extra well-liked within the mainstream Portland Board Certified Plastic Surgeon. Men and women are putting additional emphasis than ever about the way they appear and likewise becoming equally driven within their desire to attain a selected appear. This can be a change of societies consciousness and possibly largely connected with the media's appraisal of a attractiveness. The purpose of beauty medical procedures within this quest for perfection is catapulted by it really is recognition in Hollywood. The undertaking of with keeping superior amounts of plastic surgery in the usa may be the accountability of the American board of plastic surgery, with one among their most important duties getting avoidance of plastic or cosmetic medical procedures absent completely wrong mishaps.
Currently the selection of cosmetic surgical procedure to accurate modest difficulties or wind back the age clock with the facial area or human body is actually a perfectly typical solution. Although surely not the selection for everyone, for some with a potent perception of self-importance it's a terrific solution. However, it will have to be noted that even though the desired results are glamorous, that plastic surgery does have a chance with it.
Understanding the information and truth is an important component of conserving on your own getting to be a surgical treatment long gone mistaken story. Investigation has shown that one in 4 individuals can have some complication write-up surgical procedures. It may well be as delicate being an infection or it may be as significant as getting the incorrect method. The issues is often as lethal as dying for some pretty unfortunate folks.
The potential risk of beauty surgical treatment can come from many issues such as the type of anesthetic utilized for the duration of the course of action, the skill with the surgeon plus the authentic wellness on the operation receiver. All this may result in more difficulties for your patient and the results can be be high priced, time intensive, unpleasant and stressful.
The chance of getting within the obtaining conclude of the cosmetic surgery absent improper process is usually present as with any bodily intervention. Illustrations can involve the female who desires a breast enhancement along with a breast lift. If your cosmetic medical procedures goes incorrect she may finish up with larger breasts inside the very same reduced situation. If she is seriously unlucky her new breasts might not be a lot of larger than her aged kinds. And now we have all witnessed pictures of inadequately performed experience lifts that look basically horrible. Just be aware that cosmetic surgery remains to be a surgical treatment that carries surgical threats with it. This interest in surgery long gone erroneous is fueled through the celeb magazines and our desire during the mishaps.
There may be loads of desire in movie star cosmetic surgery absent improper stories. Can be from jealousy or spite folks are amused with the misfortune in the prosperous and well known. In a single way it displays that despite having the very best that cash can purchase you can not prevent all threat connected with cosmetic surgery. Plastic/cosmetic surgery can change a daily life for much better but when surgical treatment goes erroneous it can have daily life threatening problems. An infection article surgical procedures can be quite a possibly everyday living threatening complication or uncomfortable illustrations of cosmetic surgical procedures gone erroneous can incorporate unsightly scarring from breast implants.
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Now, prison regulation has progressed being one among the greatest and most complex fields of study as well as the attorneys working towards within this industry must use a broad range of eyesight and foresight. Using the raising amount of crimes remaining performed in various sections from the world, felony legal professionals are very a great deal in demand from customers. Quite possibly the most crucial aspect of getting a lawyer contains the flexibility to perform a fair trial and aid the customer to acquire the trial. A lawyer must know their responsibilities incredibly well and should be well-acquainted along with the various intriguing details with the legislation. They must manage to impose their authority and contradict the opponent by convincing the judge skillfully, hence succeeding in bringing the situation in their favor. These several traits are definitely the keys to achievement for any law firm and with regards to a prison attorney, the strength of foresight plays a serious function in dealing with a demo effectively. Not merely this, the lawyer must be very active in contemplating around the different challenges which might allow their shopper down and endeavor to offer suitable statements and evidence inside their defense. Furthermore, a criminal law firm is simply successful whenever they preserve their conscience and dignity whilst helping the consumer battle to the proper bring about.
You will find some things which must be stored in your mind just before selecting a lawyer to fight for just a prison situation. Most people are inclined to choose lawyers which have acquired a reputation for themselves by winning a number of scenarios. It's not necessarily one of the most critical matter that defines the believability of a law firm. How the attorney wishes to deal with a scenario and how the law firm chooses to existing their statement before the judge is much much more significant. The cases which the attorney has previously managed may well not be just like the just one which a consumer wishes them to handle. In the event the shopper provides a a lot extra intricate and intriguing situation to resolve, the ideal possibility is usually to decide on the one who may not be as productive since the other individuals, but has the ability to evaluate it appropriately and make out the underlying pros and negatives for the incredibly initial occasion. Having said that, the lawyer will have to be ready to consider it up with seriousness and utmost determination and might present it in a very method making sure that the different facets of the situation get accentuated along with the statements show for being impactful and distinct, as a result making it effortless for the judge to comprehend. Other than these technical concerns, the client should find the attorney trusted and liable on the very same time.
To summarize, it's not at all just mere fame which defines a legal law firm, but sensibility and correct understanding involving the consumer plus the lawyer which motivates the lawyer and allows him to handle the situation effectively.
When it comes to penis enlargement, you will find much more than simply a handful of procedures probable for increasing size of one's penis. Beside the not proposed solutions like pumps, weights, belts, surgery and related penis enlargement techniques, you will find some techniques that happen to be in fact recommendable. People are natural penis physical exercises, traction products, also known as extenders and stretchers, and Titan Gel Ervaringen .
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Integrative medicine could be the new excitement phrase for professional medical care that complements mainstream clinical treatment. It addresses the psychological, social, and non secular desires of sufferers and people when several mainstream Health professionals are scratching their heads where by to go following.
It aims to deliver details to clients about above the counter solutions and unproven health care treatment options which will effect the sickness method that they are dealing with. We often ignore that mainstream medicine continues to be called the "practice" of drugs. All consumers are distinctive on the subject of therapy and no treatment ought to be regarded as much too significantly out.
Integrative Drugs Assistance focuses on standard of living. Seasoned therapists are qualified and licensed. With talent and sensitivity, they offer fulfilling healing activities.
It brings together the self-discipline of modern science while using the knowledge of historic therapeutic. For folks living with chronic or lifestyle threatening ailment, it may completely transform the actual physical, emotional, and spiritual proportions of their lives and the households. Integrative drugs may be important to people who will not be ill but would like to increase self-awareness, boost well-being, and support reduce well being similar troubles.
In managing disease, complementary therapies are certainly not substitutes for mainstream health-related treatment and so are utilized in live performance with professional medical treatment method to aid reduce strain, cut down suffering, anxiety, manage symptoms, and market a sense of well-being.
Individuals transform to integrative medicine for most causes, but scientific tests present that almost all do so simply because they think about it being a lot more aligned with their values, beliefs, and philosophies about health and fitness and existence than the usual strictly traditional health care solution.
Quite a few people like the custom-made and personal treatment that arrives with integrative medicine's whole-person viewpoint. Other individuals consider it can be only logical to incorporate health and fitness approaches into their lives with the widest variety of tested techniques achievable. They feel an integrative tactic allows them to realize or retain the top wellness achievable. It provides the body back again to health to ensure the body along with the immune methods are strengthened via unique treatments, which include diet plan, herbs and botanicals, acupuncture, electricity medicine, and spirituality.
Clinical malpractice can be an sometimes discussed spot of medicine. Though figures point out that dependent on what location in the nation the physician methods in, as much as a person in four physicians is going to be named within a professional medical malpractice declare more than the course in their vocation. These numbers have enhanced significantly over latest years and so are now on the heart of what numerous envisage to be a wellbeing treatment disaster. Areas perceived to get high charges of medical malpractice litigation with large plaintiff awards have viewed a mass exodus of medical professionals. These locations experience the absence of all doctors, but precisely higher risk places like obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics, neurosurgery, trauma and vascular operation are regularly absent. In the long run, individual care is adversely affected in αγγειοχειρουργός . Confined providers in these useful individual treatment locations can be lethal.
Regardless of this higher level of litigation, most medical professionals obtain pretty small official instruction in health-related college or put up healthcare college about healthcare malpractice. No courses within the strategy of a health care lawsuit and no courses about the avoidance or prevention of health care malpractice. That is pretty stunning as some share of these situations are felt being preventable looking back.
A vascular surgeon would hardly ever enter a surgical treatment without the appropriate education planning and setting up along with the very same theory applies to this unfamiliar territory. Therefore, I'll offer you a number of factors regarding the conduct of healthcare malpractice litigation in the physician's point of view.
The four prongs of healthcare malpractice are needed if a case is always to be successfully experimented with. These contain obligation, breach of obligation, proximate bring about and damages. Responsibility is recognized by proving which the physician-patient romance existed. Breach of duty is founded by figuring out the common of treatment and proving that it was not achieved. Proximate lead to refers to setting up that the negligent act was answerable for the patient damages.
A short while ago it is been alternatively obvious who the WWE experienced earmarked for future greatness. The Rock, Brock Lesner, John Cena and Kurt Angle anywhere all pushed very early in there professional wrestling occupations without having the need to pay for for his or her dues. But do any of the present roster jump out within just the exact same way? Here's a quick glance in a handful of in the stars who could most likely be the subsequent principal social gathering celebrity. WWE Wrestlemania 35 Live Stream
Randy Orton.
If it wasn't for Orton's terrible perspective and behavioral challenges Randy Orton would earlier be a person between WWE's greatest puppies. His very 1st operate as winner arrived too swiftly and was a get worried selection soon after Chris Benoit's title reign failed to deliver rankings accomplishment, this also the difficulty that WWE pushed him being a lover favored but because of his arrogant attitude the lovers exactly where certainly not inclined to in addition to Orton. Every time Orton is now regarded for simply a title function because of the fact he is attained some matter foolish to place the stoppers on it.
It certainly was believed Orton would feud with Triple H at Summerslam on Triple H's return but it truly is now identified Triple H is pushing for Orton staying presented a operate as winner as he feels Orton is prepared moreover the admirers angle during the direction of John Cena will be larger if he put in just a little bit time chasing the title rather than keeping it, the difficulty is will Orton screw up ahead of that time?
Johnny Nitro
Loads of wrestling marketplace authorities have commented on Nitro boasting him to acquire the "next Shawn Michaels". His character definitely resembles Michaels in his early profession, from his cocky mindset to his when in the ring lookup although the number of "next Shawn Michaels" have there been about the several years and just how many have attained an identical heights? This reported it does seem to be WWE administration feel an magnificent offer of Johnny Nitro and if you proves he can cope with himself as ECW planet champion then his pursuing reign may be correct within the pretty top with the WWE.
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The significant inclination from the upcoming era to cell and game app has elevated enormous option which business people are beautifully tapping, along with the new match applications are introduced out there everyday.
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The profitable results usually are not mainly because the companies have recognized the huge possible, however the array of mobile game progress applications has also built the equivalent contribution. The highly developed equipment have shortened the educational curve and made the game development a breeze.
Even now, the tale is not in excess of.
The reason is for those who have occur up that has a wonderful sport application idea, and employed the very best mobile sport developers group to shape the application idea into truth, does not signify your app will score high on course viewers and leading the app keep charts. To generate the superb game application, there are many ideas, activity engines and concepts with reference to match progress that you choose to must look at.
Should you come to feel the urge to generate a wonderful sport expertise via a singular activity software, remain targeted till the tip:
(1) Be choosy for the recreation genre
Over the last 10 years, the game app market has advanced as well as vast spectrum of games of varied genres like- puzzle, frightening, casino, racing, card, training, celeb and rather far more are developed. In addition to, the game applications are made employing distinctive systems like- virtual fact and augmented actuality to introduce uniqueness during the app.
So, at first determine what is the genre with the recreation app you might be about to build and then discover the worries to deal with once the app advancement start out. Seek to establish the sport in the style which is very in need out there that inch the app closer to results. Also, it presents a rough idea of exactly how much the app will cost to you and exactly how considerably time it's going to take to marketplace the app.
It's preferable to go with a activity application that may be built-in a lot less time and reduced budget in conjunction with the usage of high-level technology to remain synced with present day players.
(2) Evaluate the app strategy uniqueness
The application strategy you might have might be unique for you, but the focus on users will also locate it equally one of a kind is unsure. Finalize the sport logic, gameplay problems and benefits during the application, after which start out examining the game application of the related niche by taking part in people online games. It can help in pinpointing what are the unique factors you've got provided during the application which exceptional value proposition could carry overnight accomplishment for the application.
Once you zero in all the components which make your application one-of-a-kind, it is time to jump onto the cell application development bandwagon.
On-field sports activities like soccer, lacrosse and observe will take a resource around the athlete's physique Dr. Roy Nissim. Athletes are predicted for being match and game-ready all the time, which might be described as a lot of pressure. For those who are anyone who plays football skillfully or perhaps enjoys the sport above the weekend, you may want to see a chiropractor. When a lot of people listen to the term "chiropractic care", they generally affiliate it with continual back again and neck agony. Having said that, there are plenty of other factors chiropractic has taken care of effectively.
Industry experts feel that 90% of all qualified soccer players seek out chiropractic care at some point inside their profession. The work of the football chiropractor is usually a mixture of diverse factors, which offers a number of rewards to the concerned athlete. With this post, we are going to speak with regard to the approaches wherein a chiropractor can improve your performance.
one. Cut down Effects of coaching
Identified athletes like Dan O'Brien and Lance Armstrong have credited their respective chiropractors for his or her physical fitness and on-field performance. Soccer is actually a demanding sport, where you need teaching and standard training to help keep up with, understand and grasp different capabilities. The comprehensive teaching can generally consider a toll on your own entire body and bring about vertebral subluxations. This is when your spinal alignment is off and may develop nerve distortion, which may impression your motor skills and overall performance. Typical chiropractic care can decrease the effects of coaching.
2. Reduction from Injuries
Soccer gamers know that accidents are usually not constantly exterior. Even a simple collision with amongst one other players to the field may cause unexpected ache, and it's sensible to hunt chiropractic treatment as early as you possibly can. Scientific studies have exposed that chiropractic adjustments may help with athletic performance and reduce widespread accidents. Chiropractic care might help in lowering the irritation in the nerve roots, which reinforces the healing course of action. Based upon your injuries, relief may be rapid.
three. Option of Drug-Free Remedy
For a football participant, you can't normally count on meds for different aches and soreness. In actual fact, drugs avoidance is greatest. In several conditions, chiropractors have aided athletes in keeping away from invasive surgeries, such as the usage of methods like ARP treatment and chilly laser treatment. Disregarding scaled-down pains can typically bring about even bigger, continual situations, which could need more health-related intervention. As opposed to ready for a little something dire to happen, visiting a chiropractor is suggested.
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All of these axioms are legitimate. Relying on the variety of particular person you will be, some ring more true when compared to the other individuals. If you despise your job, the 1st and third ring very true. When you really like your career, the next one most likely fits you. In case you are among the the handful of who've looked for, and located, solutions to generate profits Without the need of having a common or normal "job," the fourth assertion can be your mantra.
Since the career scene improvements, we do not have the posh of reliving the past. We have now to find a method to contend with what's nowadays. The financial downturn of 2008 transformed a good deal of lives. Some people's work opportunities had been dropped and can never ever return. Those that stayed used could have identified their work opportunities adjusted - most likely permanently.
If the 1st axiom rang genuine to suit your needs, and you simply lost your work, you happen to be in all probability out pounding the pavement searching for another just one. If you have located yet another 1, you are lucky. Should you be nevertheless looking three decades later, maybe a brand new technique is necessary. You could should find out what your abilities are, and discover how to parlay individuals competencies right into a organization within your own. If you have your individual enterprise, not one person can fire you, or lay you off. Nevertheless, you are able to do it to your self in case you throw in the towel on it also before long. If you need a right away money, you may should vacation resort to locating a distinctive occupation, even though it pays fewer - and many do - than you had made beforehand.
Start out Your very own Company
If you have saved nicely, invested well and ended up smart about how you've got lived - and also have shed your job -- you might now possess the luxurious of commencing a company and being with it until finally it succeeds. For those who do that properly, the second axiom could ring real to you. For those who have a company, you would far better appreciate what you do, or learn how to love it, since it will go ahead and take regimen out of your prior life. It could consume you, especially whether it is possibly wildly profitable, or maybe a authentic wrestle to keep afloat. Take into account that being in organization yourself includes much more than just accomplishing that which you do. You will need to industry yourself, and come across solutions to allow others know you are available and available for them. That may not arrive effortlessly to most, but it's essential on your achievements.
Should you be performing, and do not assume your task will ever disappear, you might want to consider to heart the fourth axiom. Go searching for any range of how to create money. For those who go into immediate providing, which happens to be probably the speediest escalating industry currently, study the various chances by way of the Direct Selling Affiliation. The DSA abides by a stringent code of ethics, and weeds out the reputable immediate sellers within the less-legitimate. For those who analysis a possibility, and also the firm is really a member from the DSA, you'll know that their practices have been carefully vetted.
You can get into immediate offering and deliver profits without the need of it interfering with what you might be carrying out now. It's a great way to prepare for that working day your manager says goodbye for you. Whether or not you are not wanting to depart whenever your employer would like you to definitely go, the additional cash flow can increase your readiness. Hardly ever believe that you may generally be capable of function in a occupation in your conditions. Try out to help make your self "retirement prepared," although you might be younger and believe you do have a great deal of good years still left.
Who knows? There's a chance you're so profitable at direct offering, you can expect to have neglected the amount you loved your old position. Remember, as well, that something great needs some effort and hard work. Starting now to make your organization can reap major rewards later. You could even have a great time carrying out it!
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Whilst most people have attended a marriage, that doesn't necessarily mean which they will know the procedure when it truly is their flip to go down the aisle chicago wedding photographers. Under is usually a phase by stage guide within the means of choosing a marriage photographer.
Phase 1: Using the services of a photographer.
This can be a daunting task even for somebody who follows a huge selection of wedding ceremony photographers weblogs. It really is recommended that you choose to retain the services of an individual in the state that you are finding married. Most wedding experts travel all over and even should they will not live while in the region you might be acquiring married they have most likely photographed there right before. Talk to them to Slender your search all the way down to five marriage photographers that you choose to genuinely like. They are often in a number of various cost brackets at this time. Get started speaking with them-choose 3 you ought to satisfy with in person. The in man or woman assembly is huge because the photographer might be with you the complete working day and you simply want someone don't just qualified in wedding ceremony images but anyone you understand you can obtain along with and wont brain owning around. After your conferences you may then pick out your photographer.
Move Two: Deciding upon a package
Ideally you spoke with the photographer with the assembly about which kind of coverage they provide, and what kind of protection you may need. Allow them to assist with this they should not provide you more than you will need, nevertheless they also should really be there to address all of the critical moments which will take place with your marriage ceremony working day. Marriage ceremony photographer usual day is 8 several hours similar to any other specialists work working day. That said usually 10 hrs of protection is required so as to start with the bridal prep and end nicely in to the reception. Your wedding day photographer ought to assist you to make your mind up if you would really like a marriage album (advised in order that your memories are secure in print and digitally) and so they ought to communicate you through when they supply you with the legal rights to the marriage ceremony photos or if they continue to keep the digital documents and many others.
Action A few: Determining how the wedding working day operates
There are two types to the photographer on marriage day... the initial just one is common, as well as the next is by using a very first search. These products are how we structure enough time necessary and routine from the working day for photos.
Classic: Photographer will occur and begin with all the aspects in the resort. Costume, sneakers, invitation, rings, bridesmaid attire, fragrance, jewelry, and bouquets. After people specifics are already photographed the wedding photographer will turn their attention to the women and their photojournalistic getting ready photographs. This is certainly wherever the marriage photographer begins to capture moments and develop the story on the working day. Once the bride is in her gown a seasoned photographer will frequently have a initial appear together with the parents-so dad and mother will come in and find out their newborn woman for your to start with time in her wedding gown. In the meantime the 2nd photographer is together with the guys and getting candid photographs of them tying their ties and just hanging out currently being adult males prior to the ceremony. Since the bride walks down the aisle on the ceremony the 2nd photographer is taking shots in the grooms expression, plus the key photographer is photographing the processional using the bridesmaids as well as bride walking down the aisle. Once the ceremony the marriage photographer will (with support in the appointed relative) obtain up the entire spouse and children for their portraits. The marriage photographer will begin with the brides side of the loved ones and crack it down until the smallest loved ones breakdown (mom and bride, dad and bride, siblings and bride) have been photographed. The wedding photographer will then transfer on to the grooms family and do the exact same detail setting up along with the largest grouping and breaking it all the way down to the smallest teams. When that is certainly finished it is the perfect time to photograph the bridal bash. An experienced wedding photographer really should be capable of get three unique posed bridal occasion pictures done in 15 minutes. From there the photographer will photograph just the team of adult men, after which just the group of ladies. Both of these groupings really should only choose 10-15 minutes along with the marriage ceremony photographer should know just how they need each individual member in the celebration or grouping to face. From there the wedding photographer will take a several portraits from the bride, then the groom, and eventually wind up (this full thing from family members to finish should acquire one hour) together with the bride and also the groom alongside one another. At this time the wedding photographer turns everybody above to the coordinator as well as the band or DJ. These are answerable for how the reception flows. The wedding photographer will photojournalistic capture the moments from this place on. Even the formalities such as the 1st dances, cake chopping, and bouquet throwing are finished in a candid fashion.
Very first Look: The wedding photographer will continue to fulfill you at hair and makeup and do the depth shots first. But following the bride is prepared the wedding photographer has scheduled the working day to make sure that you can find an hour or so in addition to a 50 % of photograph time ahead of the ceremony. It starts with a personal viewing of your bride from her parents, then the photographer has chosen an intimate place with fantastic mild for the groom to discover his bride to the first time in her dress. The marriage photographer will notify the bride as well as the groom how to wander to one another just before to ensure that they can be during the wings with their prolonged lens receiving good psychological times. After this (commonly 15 minutes) the bridal occasion will likely be gathered for your bridal bash photos, the women, as well as the gentlemen photos. This may be about half an hour. Ultimately about 45 minutes ahead of the ceremony the spouse and children are going to be photographed. The bridal celebration and bride and groom must be finished thirty minutes ahead of the ceremony with all photographs as visitors start to arrive and often the bride isn't going to wish to be wherever she can be noticed by every person. Following the ceremony the bride plus the groom will take a number of moments being husband and spouse along with the photographer may take pictures with little to no course. Then the bride as well as the groom are able to check out cocktail hour with their bridal bash and talk to all of their attendees. It really is suggested that in the regular line up of a working day there may be a receiving line so you meet your whole visitors and do not need to get it done at supper time. Within the initial seem situation you can do that at cocktail hour. Once more the reception is photojournalistic and candid based mostly for all activities.
Phase Four: What happens following the wedding day
The marriage photographer ideally discussed how they operate previously inside of a meeting or within an electronic mail. Following the marriage many wedding photographers will edit a photographers favorites set inside of numerous times and send you an e-mail at the same time as put up them for their blog/FB web-sites. In case the wedding photographer is extremely active make sure you question what their flip all-around time for most of the wedding pictures are. Often times per month is really a realistic level of time. Also chat with them regarding their approach for culling down the established of final visuals. It is vitally crucial component of a wedding photographers job to edit by and choose the ideal photos as we've got the ability to approach thousands of high-resolution photographs however it is frequently mind-boggling for you the bride to course of action by means of that numerous which happens to be why it can be essential that we've been presenting only the very best just one of each and every of your illustrations or photos we take on the marriage working day. That could be more than enough marriage photographs. Discuss with your wedding day photographer regarding how they send you the ultimate established of images is it via internet or can it be via harddisk.
Action Five: The marriage album
If applicable one particular of your final formal enterprise interactions (as ideally you will be buddies at this stage) could be the marriage album layout. Most wedding day photographers will start by making a variation in your case telling your wedding tale. Then from there you could make improvements, edit it, and excellent it to become your preferred visuals. The wedding album is always to take your audience in 10-40 years by your marriage ceremony working day, so it's typically best if you do not pick the images should you let the photographer pick out the images to work from. Then as stated it is possible to make modifications into the album. Wedding photographers are storytellers and this is where their ultimate eyesight and elegance might be genuinely witnessed. With your initial meeting with wedding day photographers you noticed their album design and ideally choose somebody whose structure aspects you appreciated and whose all round truly feel of the wedding day tale as a result of the albums you linked as well.
That could be a summary from the involvement of your marriage ceremony photographer, and the course of action wherein the wedding photographer evaluates your working day. Just about every photographer will seek out various things over a wedding day day, and every wedding ceremony photographer could have a singular type but every one of us will abide by a specialist and meticulous system for getting the marriage pics.
The word plastic is derived through the Greek term for mold or shape. Cosmetic surgery is really a term useful for operative guide or instrumental remedy. This surgical treatment is executed for functional or aesthetic reasons plastic surgeryal. There are actually mainly two principal spots of cosmetic surgery.
Reconstructive surgical procedure features microsurgery and customarily stresses on re-fixing or masking the negative outcomes of ailment, trauma or operation. It may well include the disguise of defects with flaps or maybe the going of tissue from other parts of your body to your area where reconstruction has to be completed. Breast reconstruction for all those who have gone through mastectomy, cleft lip and palate surgical procedures are frequent reconstructive surgeries. Intercourse reassignment surgical procedures for transsexual people can also be included in reconstructive surgical treatment.
Beauty or aesthetic medical procedures is generally done to be able to enhance the visible attraction and alter the unflattering characteristics. In exceptional circumstances, having said that, you can find medical causes for finishing up cosmetic surgical procedure. This contains breast reduction which has being performed because of to orthopedic difficulties.
Plastic surgery is subdivided even more. Plastic surgery education and approval with the American Board of Cosmetic surgery, involves mastery of other precise medical procedures. Craniofacial surgical procedures includes the treatment method of pediatric congenital problems, these kinds of as cleft lip and palate. Plastic surgeons receive entire schooling in hand- surgical procedures plus some trainees make a decision to even full an extra full-year hand fellowship, afterwards.
Some people are addicted to cosmetic surgical procedure which benefits in body dysmorphic problems. This disorder is on the other hand limited for the incredibly rich because of the charge of cosmetic medical procedures. Some people are so besotted with their appears to be they acquire loans for repeat strategies. Too much and recurring cosmetic surgical procedure may lead to irreversible hurt on the body composition. It truly is usually identified to be the indulgence of just the rich as such treatments are really exorbitantly priced and much further than the reach in the popular male.
If you lock your self outside of your vehicle and call for the lock choosing services of a 24 hour locksmith, you've got first-hand practical experience with one particular of your career capabilities with the locksmith. If needing a locksmith produced you late in your appointment, you almost certainly have extremely blended emotions with regards to the companies of the 24 hour locksmith. Around the one particular hand, there's aid in the event the locksmith assists to achieve access to the car, but self-condemnation for needing the lock finding companies of the locksmith in the to start with place locksmiths247.
Getting a 24 hour locksmith is often a very good vocation when being a locksmith you can aid someone by a handful of minutes of lock selecting. Nonetheless, there exists much more to staying a locksmith than lock buying. Louis XVI was an amateur locksmith less than the tutelage of the master locksmith who ultimately betrayed him
Traditionally, a locksmith was a revered artisan and a lock was a work of artwork. Lock picking was also a typical occupation, but failed to have the public's appreciation. The locksmith created while lock choosing masters challenged the generation on the locksmith. A analyze of the locksmith through record is usually a interesting peek into artistry and protection. Usually lock choosing expertise held speed with those in the locksmith.
A 24 hour locksmith these days isn't going to make locks, but performs lock finding, lock maintenance, and cleansing locks. The same old locksmith is routinely referred to as to deliver his locksmith equipment to install new locks. Despite the fact that a 24 hour locksmith inside a modest city wouldn't have plenty of to complete if he only did lock picking that can help individuals with lacking keys, the 24 hour locksmith is finest recognized for this component of his get the job done.
The 24 hour locksmith may also clear and restore damaged locks. From time to time a 24 hour locksmith is hired to accomplish a verify of the safety technique. The locksmith might attempt lock choosing to test the entrances. A 24 hour locksmith is called each time a firm replaces locks on entrance doorways. The 24 hour locksmith is named when alternative or restore do the job is required for safes or vault locks. The locksmith would be the one who checks safety systems right after a burglary, hearth or earthquake.
Normally the 1st time one particular thinks of calling a locksmith is when they're locked from their household or their motor vehicle. Though this can be actually true, locksmiths can give extra compared to said expert services. Aside from with the ability to open one's automobile or restore the door of one's dwelling, household locksmiths offer other valued companies locksmiths edinburgh 365.
Specialized Household Locksmith
Most generalized locksmiths can open up locks, develop new keys and change doorway handles in certain cases when door handles are irreparable. On the other hand, specialised locksmiths supply additional in comparison to the common services. Expert specialists provide urgent important providers, check for any signals of forcible entry, along with put in the newest locking technological innovation to safeguard the family.
Most locksmiths give unexpected emergency services while some really don't, so it's imperative that you know if your community technician offers this sort of services. This may save you the inconvenience of being outside the house which may be harmful especially for youthful men and women or those who stay on your own. For homeowners who want to make sure that their residence is secure, household locksmiths can carry out exams and appraisals to ensure that the safety is doing work.
Extra Services
Most residential locksmiths also now offer you house security program set up except for the common lock products and services. As digital locks grow to be extra very affordable and obtainable, house owners provide the selection to inquire their professionals to set up these for them. Some most up-to-date systems involve keyless protection system, keypad accessibility along with other security services. Some mechanics are also qualified with automotive locksmith products and services therefore if at any time you may need 1, it is possible to call the one you belief essentially the most without having to go and research for other locksmith firms to complete the job for yourself.
Why pick out your Household Locksmith
Amongst the reasons why one must stick with their nearby locksmith or even a household 1 would be the indisputable fact that it's much cheaper than calling 1 from another town or region. As these businesses are usually not within the place, they might cost more or request for extras which include mileage, unexpected emergency hour rate and also better service calls service fees. Considering the fact that your neighborhood locksmith lives in the region, you can get a less costly offer as no added rates could possibly be utilized.
True estate transactions normally entail a lot of documentation, negotiation, inspection, deals and some others which often can be too much to handle to the common person, especially if it is your very first time to avocat droit immobilier . Serious brokers might be of wonderful aid on the subject of a few of these issues.
On the other hand, when it comes to legalities and documentation of agreements, it is best to hire a proficient law firm to supervise this stuff carefully. They can protect your rights as a seller plus they can legally represent you in any engagements with potential potential buyers must you be unavailable.
These such legal professionals may also assure that residence titles are clear which you will discover no liens within the residence. This will likely save you on upcoming issues that will come up really should these matters not correctly reviewed and tackled or else. Inside the situation that problems come up about the dwelling, you'll be able to be held monetarily dependable for the facts that you just skipped. Wherever as if you use a lawyer, the burden is then positioned on him to make sure that everything around the home checks out for being clean up.
They'll even be liable in planning buy agreements, terms of contract and also other legal varieties that may need your signature as well as the buyer's. Relaxation certain, all bases will be lined considering the fact that a lawful intellect has managed the doc.
Probability of obtaining the favor on negotiations for phrases of arrangement are also bigger when you have a real estate law firm on your own aspect. He can provide you with sound authorized tips on instances such as counter presents which will have tax implications.
These legal professionals also participate in a vital job when closing specials, because they may handle transfer of protection deposits and insurance policy certificates. In truth, most closing happens within a lawyers' workplace. Many people are not totally proficient on each individual of the rules involved with closing a transaction. Because of this it can be important to rent a lawyer to ensure you happen to be shielded from the many likely threats which are confronted all through authentic estate transactions.
Thanks to the challenging paper will work and transaction linked to these complex engagements, sellers will often be at risk for lawsuits. Acquiring a lawyer will make sure you that these will be handled thoroughly, eliminating all of that threat and eliminating the burden off your shoulders.
The choice to pursue a vocation while in the floral sector is one that can show extremely rewarding. Florists not just make a very good residing, but can easily operate while using the greatest merchandise character has got to present. On top of that, you'll find a variety of market professions offered inside the field to these fascinated. Perhaps one among the most rewarding positions is the fact in the on the internet florist. In the following paragraphs, we are going to outline just the best way to commence your own on the web flower business enterprise sanangel.
Step 1 - Begin by setting up an internet based service provider account that may permit you to course of action credit score cards on the web. Lots of of such firms ensure it is straightforward to enroll by filling out an online software, which includes the small business identify, get in touch with information, refund coverage, checking account particulars, and the two employee ID and social stability selection.
Move 2 - Set collectively a range of arrangements and photograph them on your on the internet portfolio for likely clients to view. It truly is crucial to be meticulous in just how the arrangements appear in the pics. This is as a result of the point that customers may have only shots to count on when generating a decision about if to buy. Take into account using numerous angle photographs of every and upload them to your site.
Stage three - Outline your price ranges for each arrangement and input the data into your merchant account. Most on line merchants will present codes or graphics to place with your internet site. Basically location the code along with the corresponding product in your web page.
Move 4 - Marketing! Make your identify recognized. Take out ads on line as well as in numerous print media the caters for your buyer base. Study advertising and marketing businesses who are capable to help you in acquiring big quantities of advertisements in order to achieve the most important amount of consumers probable. While you are working an internet company, be sure you make the website facts the point of interest of the advert.
Step 5 - Don't let your orders build-up. Process all orders because they occur in. Orders really should operate as a result of your e mail box. Otherwise, be certain to set this up through your on the internet merchant. As orders are obtained, make take note on the day where the customer needs the arrangement to be gained and overnight ship them the working day ahead of. Bear in mind that the goods have rather of the shorter lifestyle span and will be handled appropriately. Get in touch having a wholesale flower provider and prepare for normal orders in an effort to cater towards your client foundation.
Boston would be the capital town of the point out of Massachusetts. Even though it is viewed as the put in which the punk style of music originated, it doesn't necessarily mean you may not obtain superior piano classes! Should you are seeking excellent Boston piano lessons, it's vital that you really know what will make a good Boston piano lessons course so you're able to gain sooner or later piano lessons dallas.
Encore Tunes Lessons in Boston offer a wide selection of piano classes, both in the ease and comfort of the dwelling or at their studio. Studio forty four on Boylston Road inside the Steinert Developing offers great piano lessons in the essentials. They may have fantastic pianos and the teachers are very well certified. In addition they permit students to observe on their pianos when necessary.
The Royal Academy for Songs and Doing Arts is another piano tutorials middle with whom you need to investigate. In addition they give non-public and team classes, even though you must give the non-public lessons priority. They also hire out tunes devices to their learners for additional exercise. A further area to get good piano classes is definitely the Shenkar Audio and Voice Studios.
Good piano classes in Boston will emphasis on particular person attention. Should the class packs a lot more than 6 students, you don't want to join it. It will be superior to go to an extremely tiny, non-public yet expensive course in which you get specific interest. Piano can be a individual knowledge, not a business 1.
A lot of piano classes in Boston claim to show you the piano overnight or within a several months. This is really not possible given that the essentials itself will get a lot of months to understand! In actual fact, just the theory may take quite a few weeks. The piano is just not a fairly easy instrument and looking through the songs itself is actually a lesson by itself. Deciphering the notes is an additional.
You furthermore mght want to make sure that the piano tutorials you join for very first teaches you or your child the classical way since the foundation. Town features a superior cultural vibe also to find very good Boston piano tutorials, you'll be able to enquire at one of the numerous new music corporations. You can find info for institutions like the Boston Symphony Orchestra can position you during the ideal way.
Very good lessons can guide you to accomplish at various occasions such as the Boston Early Music Festival or on the Citi Performing Arts Heart. The piano is just not a straightforward instrument to enjoy so if you enjoy it can, you could you should definitely get a fantastic response. It would be very good to not take the piano frivolously though the tunes it generates can produce a mild feeling or mood.
Cosmetic surgical procedure can be elective or reconstructive and when you choose to acquire this medical procedures otherwise you need to, it is best to obtain a very good surgeon who will be capable of execute the surgical procedures effectively so that you will get the outcome that you need. Several of the things that you need to seem for when on the lookout to select a plastic surgeon on your process will be the surgeon's skills, expertise and when they may have been certified within the subject of plastic surgery Los Angeles County Plastic Surgeon.
Any surgeon can carry out plastic surgery whether or not they have got not specialised in cosmetic surgery and reconstructive surgical procedures. Cosmetic medical procedures is becoming well-liked and there are actually surgeons who operate medical procedures clinics without or quite little qualification for the reason that it truly is very worthwhile organization. You might want to test the skills of one's likely surgeon to be sure which they hold the essential skills so that you can make sure that you are in fantastic palms.
A plastic surgeon ought to have absent to a faculty that is definitely recognized and graduated. They have to be accredited in cosmetic surgery and never just common surgery. Currently being a accredited plastic surgeon implies they have been through hand on training, a residency method and unique education within the area of plastic surgery. You'll find some surgeons who go on to focus on both reconstructive or plastic surgery solely. In these types of instances, they're highly experienced surgeons.
A licensed plastic surgeon has the bare minimal skills. Should you be looking for a little something extra, you might check for individuals that happen to be certified from the board of cosmetic surgery recognized as the American Board of Plastic surgery after which they become ASPS member surgeons. ASPS member plastic surgeon should have a minimum of six a long time of training and surgical knowledge in a coaching establishment and an extra 3 many years of skilled working experience. Member surgeons are envisioned to stick to the society's established of specialist and ethical benchmarks. Obtaining an individual that's licensed provides you with the boldness these are continually getting checked on by others in the health care marketplace and they're being recent on latest practices and strategies.
You are able to also appear out for qualification recognized since the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ASAPS) which happens to be certified via the American Board of Plastic surgery (ABPS) where by the member surgeons which have been qualified consider part in Continuing Health-related Education schemes, follow medical procedures in an accredited and regarded health facility and they ought to have two yrs specialist practical experience. Users must also adhere into the organization's code of ethics. The ABPS, the certifying board is approved with the American Board of Health-related Specialties so that it may be capable to certify surgeons.
Talk to for the surgeon's encounter; make certain that you choose to validate that it's the working experience in cosmetic surgical procedures rather than just generally surgical treatment. Some surgeons who moonlight as plastic surgeons may possibly say they have got one example is fifteen a long time of practical experience but plastic surgery knowledge may well only be two decades. You may also do research within the plastic surgeon; ask other patients or other professional medical specialists so that you could ensure that the surgeon's get the job done is dependable.
To be a house owner, it is your responsibility to take care of your house and maintain it making sure that it stays safe and sound and attractive to anybody who enters and sees it. While you could possibly get the job done hard to keep factors from occurring that will affect the security of one's home, you will find Damage Control 911 some things that can happen without having you in the beginning figuring out about it. A single kind of toxin that you choose to don't desire inside of of one's household is mould. It's tough to be aware of when it truly is current. The truth is, it can be often advisable have an inspection done over a yearly basis to detect it without delay, so it can be removed by a mold remediation company.
Except you have got been via it, you'll never ever certainly know how significantly obtaining this toxin in your house can impact your high-quality of dwelling. In order for you to help keep all people protected, although it's in your home, the main matter you should do is find someplace else to go until finally your property is properly cleaned up. These spores might cause well being challenges in any person that may be exposed to them. You should not imagine that because you can't see them, which they usually are not there.
You can not visualize the entire destruction that could be triggered towards your dwelling should you select to disregard your situation. Not only will you be putting the health of every person at risk, you furthermore mght increase the probability of your home getting considered unsuitable for residing. Because of this even though you don't need to leave it, the legislation can need you to do so for wellness and security reasons. When you don't desire to lose your assets due to this type of circumstance, then you definately ought to have a very mould remediation organization occur out and acquire rid in the spores to ensure your house is once once more risk-free to dwell in.
It is not the tip in the globe in case you really need to handle a spore infestation. Issues may well not be as undesirable because they appear to be. If it is caught in the beginning levels, it might be contained and taken off without leading to any problems to the home. Whether it is detected at a much afterwards phase of growth, there might be a need for many renovations after a mould remediation organization will come through. To reduce the quantity of distress you knowledge in this particular type of predicament, you'll want to make sure you have picked a fantastic mould remediation company to operate with.
Check with all around and look on line for various providers focusing on mildew removing and cleanup. Discover which firms provide the greatest popularity for his or her expert services. Examine your homeowner's coverage coverage and ensure you may have enough coverage for this kind of condition. Get hold of your insurer and learn which providers they recommend for you personally to get in touch with. The moment you might have uncovered a superb mould remediation company to work with, permit them guideline you thru the procedure and relieve your hardship.
With so many alternatives, one can get quickly overwhelmed when selecting a condominium. As a result of the rapid urbanization, lots of world-class condominiums are sprouting like mushrooms to cater towards the housing requirements of its individuals. But despite the individual types, desires, and budgets, you can undoubtedly find a apartment that should fit him. The significant matters to consider in addition to the aesthetic characteristics are the Parc Clematis showflat features.
The traits of the Parc Clematis showflat can immediately have an effect on your fulfillment and comfort so it should be supplied utmost consideration just as much when you do for design. The subsequent tend to be the top rated five issues to contemplate when selecting a great condominium:
Very good locale
With regards to Parc Clematis showflat, locale is anything. It has an effect on the current and foreseeable future price selection of the units. It is best to pick one close to big roadways and thoroughfares as well as features like schools, hospitals, markets, and also other business districts. A fast paced man or woman such as you requires the comfort of having uncomplicated access to individuals features. An ideal condo must be about five to 7-minute stroll on the MRT station which can simply carry you to critical places around the city.
Exceptional developer standing
To shield your money or investment decision, it really is important to verify the developer's monitor document. Be conscious of feasible undesirable incidents involving developer with doubtful history, because they are able to occur from time to time. In the event the developer abruptly ran from dollars, it can end the construction course of action and it will be tricky for you personally to obtain your cash back again then. You are able to examine the monitor file of the developer of the condominium through associations that happen to be founded by identified real estate property businesses.
Quicker turnover date
If you'd like a device which you can use straight away, decide on a apartment having an rapid turnover date. Occasionally, reduce month to month payments may perhaps indicate more time turnover date so think twice prior to purchasing your reservation.
Reasonable populace density
Also quite a few models for each ground may possibly end in uncomfortable cases like congested elevators and stairwells and crowded pools. Some condominium builders know how disagreeable these items could possibly be to the tenants. The ground approach of device for each floor is an example of cautiously thought-out ground spot ratio and density plan. The design need to assure less foot site visitors and shorter to zero waiting time for elevator people.
Just before an individual buys a hybrid car or truck, they generally exhibit curiosity inside the environmental pros, financial savings, and short-term rewards that hybrids are acknowledged for. A standard query that buyers check with when purchasing about for hybrid vehicles is, "Does it cost additional money to take care of a hybrid vehicle than the usual conventional gas-powered automobile and what do I've to perform to keep up a hybrid motor vehicle?" The answer is actually that frequent routine maintenance is definitely the very same for all motor vehicles which is just as vital. Typical, program servicing and minimal repairs aren't any better and no additional complex than that of a frequent car. Actually, some automobile authorities mention that the regimen servicing of the hybrid car is usually lower than that of a gasoline-fueled auto.
Quite a few hybrids feature very good Top 10 Car Battery Replacement Service In Singapore, long-lasting warranties which include their batteries. However, if something goes completely wrong while using the car's hybrid procedure after the warranty has expired, you may then be shelling out quite a bit of cash. Hybrid batteries are made to previous the believed life span on the automobile (and several do) but as with something, it isn't going to take place in all circumstances. Battery may wish to be repaired, conditioned, or maybe replaced in certain circumstances. According to Eric Evarts, senior associate auto editor at Consumer Stories, "Most hybrids have been very dependable in our survey, and several have desired battery replacements. Even when you are among the unfortunate couple, look at it this fashion: Inside the most favored hybrid layout, from Toyota, you will find pretty much no wearable parts from the transmission. Therefore if you will need to devote $1,800 on the battery right after a hundred and fifty,000 miles, you're nonetheless ahead of in which you might have been in lots of less-reliable cars and trucks that are on their second or third transmission by then."
The legitimate concern pertains to the higher up front price of a hybrid and purchasers still debate whether or not the higher gas mileage really does cut costs in the future. It is dependent on variables like how much you push, how frequently you generate, how much time you travel that specific auto, along with the price of gas in your town. Many homeowners of hybrids who have witnessed lessened battery overall performance or warnings lights appear about the vehicle's dashboard are wanting into other possibilities as an alternative to sending the applied hybrid or its battery into the junkyard. As technology evolves and hybrids become a normal portion of auto manufacturing, solutions have grown to be more accessible and a lot more very affordable.
When your hybrid battery stops executing like new, 1 decision should be to obtain a brand new battery at a dealership which can have a large selling price tag. Operating you a large number of bucks can both present you with sticker shock or be an expenditure you're ready to make. In any case, it can be a possibility. However, there are actually some house owners who ended up quoted several 1000s of pounds to get a new hybrid battery but learned that he was coated in complete through the more time, 150,000-mile warranty that relates to owners in states that stick to California emission rules. Yet another hybrid operator negotiated the value which dropped about $2000 when all was said and carried out. There might be a likelihood to discount in a few conditions. Again, another choice.
You could be preparing to market your private home or invest in a new residence. In any event, you're almost certainly seeking for any great real estate agent immobilienmakler heidelberg.
Real estate agent, Real estate property Agent - is there a change?
You can find Realtors® and there are actually real estate agents. These are typically not synonymous conditions. An actual estate agent is certified to "represent a purchaser or possibly a vendor inside of a real estate property transaction in exchange for commission."Real estate agents normally perform for your real estate broker or Real estate agent.
A Realtor is also certified and may sell real-estate as possibly an agent or maybe a broker. There are actually fully ethical real estate property brokers and Realtor®. The key change is usually that a Realtor has built an additional determination to honor the 17-article code and occupation with the property business.
The lookup and a few concerns
Hunting for the good real estate property agent means that you will be inquiring thoughts, so let us start making your listing of concerns:
Referrals: request your folks, colleagues, and family members for referrals. Most of the people who have experienced a good experience performing with an agent will gladly describe their encounter and why they really feel their agent was extraordinary.
Open up homes: heading to open up properties is really a great, non-threatening solution to fulfill estate agents. Pay attention on the agent's manners and overall look, his/her professionalism, plus the high quality of advertising substance offered within the open dwelling. Does the agent appear to be professional concerning the assets along with the local market? Is definitely the agent all set to level out the home's attributes, or does he basically disregard site visitors?
Any time you possess a frequently favorable effect of the agent, make sure to collect a company card and make notes within your observations.
References: decide to interview several brokers prior to generating a call and signing a buyer's arrangement. In the course of the job interview, inquire just about every prospect to offer referrals of new customers and connect with these referrals.
Among the questions to talk to are what have been the inquiring and providing charges in their properties, and the way extensive the home was available on the market?
Get time to search up the estate board of licensing companies to verify that the candidate is at present accredited and regardless of whether any problems or disciplinary actions have already been filed against the agent.
Practical experience: just how long has the agent been in business enterprise? You need to be seeking for the agent who carefully appreciates the regional current market during which that you are marketing or organizing to order your own home. It will require the perfect time to establish experience and market expertise. One agent endorses that any practical prospect should have at least five years' experience.
Is definitely the agent full- or part-time? You should assume, and check with for, a full time agent.
Future measures
When evaluating the skills of estate brokers, seem at their web sites and latest listings. Your upcoming agent needs to be world wide web and technologies savvy, using all present media to aid you find your best household or offer your latest 1. The agent must also have the capacity to talk reliably and regularly utilizing the form(s) of get in touch with you like - fax, cellular phone, textual content, or e-mail.
Preferably, your possible agent is fast paced although not far too occupied to effectively represent you. If you think that the candidate isn't fully commited to giving your sale or invest in complete and enthusiastic service, or is ready at hand you above to an "assistant", transfer on.
Your agent should be realistic about pricing, promoting, and representing you given that the vendor or customer."If it sounds too fantastic to be true... " can implement to estate agents and expert services, way too. Rely on your powers of observation and intuition. If you combine them using the information and facts you have got gathered from a interviews, you will be ready to come up with a well-informed choice.
If you are thinking of taking the trip of a lifetime, you should consider camping as one of your vacation ideas. It does not matter if you are thinking of hiking the Appalachian Trail or going to the local campground, the memories of your camping trip will last a life time. Use these tips to help ensure you have a safe and exciting adventure.
A good multi-purpose tool needs to be part of your camping gear. There are two kinds to bring. First is the saw/hammer/axe 3-in-1 tool to use for firewood and other chores. The other is the standard multi-purpose tool with a variety of tools on it like a can opener, tweezers, scissors, and a knife.
You might imagine that nature has an inexhaustible supply of firewood, but there might be nothing but wet wood that refuses to burn. Bring some wood and store it in an area that is not moist when you camp.
Particularly, if you have children, you need to consider what to do if you have inclement weather one day. Gather together a few supplies to have on hand in case you need to stay in your tent. Bring a board game, play doh and art supplies. Don't let your family members touch these items until it rains so that they don't lose their appeal.
A big concern with many people who go camping is the bugs. Do not get stuck in the middle of nowhere without having some sort of bug repellant. Check your surroundings before setting up camp for any wasp nests or ant hills that could cause you problems. Wear long pants and long-sleeved whenever possible and inspect yourself for ticks occasionally.
Camping is a great experience that anyone can get involved in. As you can see, camping is a great adventure that can be fun and exciting for the entire family. If you utilize these tips, you will be able to ensure a successful adventure that your whole family enjoys.
Absolutely everyone want to shed pounds, and to a lot of pace is of the essence. People today experience better about themselves if they're slimmer and more healthy don't just to become nutritious but will also to glimpse great; following all, not a soul thinks of the excess fat stomach and also a set of flabby arms as currently being a superb appear, do they? A lot of people persist with the traditional methods of diet program and work out but increasingly more are searching at the choice of lipodissolve fat-dissolving injections.
For those who are serious about Medifast Weight Loss Franchise in Minnesota looking at this selection, and that i can't tension ample that it should only be viewed as in the event you are unable to shed weight through food plan and exercising.
Weight loss clinics are sort of such as the between of these two actions, delivering added assistance for those who are scuffling with their diets and weight reduction generally speaking, ideally blocking persons from having to go down the road of lipo style treatments.
There have already been a lot of clinics pop up lately; some great, some not so excellent plus some awful.
Several are endorsed by stars, desperate to get paid a quick paycheck for very little effort, and just the foolish would choose an endorsement from just one that has not presented it freely! You must normally full an intensive history test by having an business watchdog to make sure which the clinic you might be considering is reliable as a lot of are in it for that brief buck and offer you quite minor while in the way of leads to return.
You will find many factors you have to enquire about when talking right to your selected clinic and they are:
1. Presence of competent medical professionals:
You must make sure that you will discover experienced physicians present at the clinic, who'll be able to inform you if you'll find any underlying motives to your incapacity to shed excess weight and if you will be probably to suffer from any side-effects immediately after weight-loss. When there is no Experienced health practitioner at the clinic then appear in other places.
2. Expected Time and effects:
Numerous clinics make outrageous statements of massive fat reduction realized to put it briefly periods of time. Must the clinic you are looking at using make this sort of claims then glance to get a various clinic; you will find only two techniques to achieve huge weight-loss immediately, operation and intensely harmful weightloss solutions that may cause you unwell overall health.
The level of bodyweight it is possible to safely reduce inside a short period of time differs based upon the size of your respective problem, the larger you're the safer and less complicated it is actually to shed plenty of excess weight promptly. It may be a good idea to get some information out of your physician regarding a liable monthly weight reduction target for the dimension, then use this information and facts when conversing with a clinic, whenever they state figures way over that which your doctor has stated to you personally then you certainly need to seem somewhere else.
When quite a few people just take a snack for brunch breakfast, generally select dry meals, for example biscuits, chocolate, etc. Even so, the human entire body after a night time slumber consumes big amounts of water and vitamins, early in the morning is dehydrated, and all types of inadequate secretion of digestive juice, try to eat dry food are going to be hard to swallow, also terrible for digestion and absorption of foodstuff. Moreover, if breakfast treats cannot ample nutrients on the system.
Breakfast suggestion:
Enhance the staples for example bread, this type of cereal may make human physique get sufficient carbs, and conducive to the absorption of milk. For the exact same time, the sour milk are unable to drink on an empty abdomen, tomatoes, bananas, pears and also other acidic taste of fruit and crude fiber of fruit are certainly not conducive for the morning on an empty belly.
Quite a bit of people in the time of breakfast preference of Chinese type Fried food stuff for example Fried dough sticks, Fried cake, western-style hamburger and occasional, black tea, or milk. Chinese breakfast take in Fried dough sticks, typical is actually a variety of practice, we grew up but basically for the reason that it is high temperature Fried food items, like baked wheat cake, bread, Fried dumplings, and so on have grease about the substantial facet. Fried dough sticks has a large warmth, grease is also difficult to digest, plus soya-bean milk also belong to your fatty meals, this mix of grease quantity of course exceeds bid, unfavorable use for a very long time. Specifically for ladies, long-term consumption of Fried foodstuff, system endotoxin raises, will speed up the growing older!
Breakfast suggestion:
When you examine preferred Fried dough sticks, for instance foodstuff, take in can manage the volume of moments, for instance, the moment each week, after which the working day seek to try to eat mild lunch and supper; If enjoy western breakfast, can improve the fruit or vegetable, balanced nourishment, but additionally cannot try to eat much more.
This kind of breakfast usually is quite common with women, mainly because the staple food stuff could be the major resource of warmth, and heat is slender ladies and the enemy of unwanted fat people today... So, all kinds of substantial healthy foods to try to eat, also to decrease the warmth. A lot of men and women mistakenly feel that only present warmth, staple foods and nutrition to hang never rise on the bait, actually, carbs is inside the scope of diet, but also into the human human body is quite critical, due to the fact there is not more than enough heat source, the human body will instantly release warmth decomposition.
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Vaser Liposelection Bangkok – Great Solution for Reducing Fat!
What is Vaser Liposelection?
It is combined patterns means liposuction and the Vaser. It is best surgical procedure for the patients. The high end technology with advance surgical techniques of this procedure can sculpt the patient body and eliminate unwanted fat deposits. This procedure uses ultrasonic energy to break up fat while leaving nearby tissue like nerves, blood, vessels, and connective tissue relatively intact. By the minimizing the damage to other tissue, patients report highly wanted results, involving smooth contours and low to minimal pain.
What body areas can be treated with Vaser Liposelection?
The experts have reported best success in treating all the following areas like
Abdomen
Thighs
Knees
Buttocks
Hips
Back
Arms
Male and female breast
Love handles
Chin and neck areas
Why LipoSelection? Is LipoSelection treatment different than the traditional liposuction?
LipoSelection by the VASER is new & different method to precisely & efficiently remove the unwanted fat. The alternative to harsh techniques of the traditional liposuction, and LipoSelection just by the VASER uses the state of art ultrasound technology for reshaping the body. Only LipoSelection treatment makes use of the proprietary VASER System and to first liquefy & remove fat from body that is why it gives you smooth, and predictable results. As, it is tissue selective than the traditional liposuction, and patients report very low to the minimal pain & low to the minimal swelling or bruising.
How does the LipoSelection by VASER work?
The high frequency sound energy that are emitted by VASER System that breaks up fat on the contact when leaving the surrounding tissues intact. Fragmented fat flows in wetting solution & is well extracted through suction & massage and this procedure results in the smooth, and predictable outcomes.
What body areas are treated with the LipoSelection?
The doctors have also reported good success to treat all of following areas: thighs, knees, abdomen, back, arms, buttocks, hips, love handles, male breasts, chin as well as neck areas.
How much fat is taken?
There are the limits on how much of fatty tissue that are very safely taken from body. One method to get the good idea yourself is standing and bending from waist. An amount of the “loose hanging” fat that you may very easily grab above and below waist can approximate what is removed. Keep in mind that procedure is not planned as the weight loss solution. Goal is making the slimmer silhouette and you might not see the significant amount of the weight loss, however must get pleased with slimmer new shape.
What happens during LipoSelection treatment?
First, area to get sculpted is been filled with the special saline solution, which helps numb site & shrink blood vessels (and to minimize the blood loss & reduce bruising). The solution wets & fills area to get treated, and making fat simple to break it up with VASER System’s energy. After that, small grooved probe that transmits the sound energy (and similar to one used for the cataract removal in eye), which breaks up the fat on contact, when leaving some other important tissues intact. Lastly, suction & massage of sculpted site removes emulsified fat quickly & easily. | {
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The more carefully we peer back in time, the more surprises we find. Only recently, scientists discovered that life on Earth began far earlier than we previously thought, right at the end of the fiery first chapter of our planet 4.1 billion years ago. Now, new research has revealed that the first complex skeletons evolved at least as early as 550 million years ago – 9 million years before the Cambrian Explosion, the period of ancient time complex life appeared to suddenly and rapidly evolve in. The new research was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Namacalathus hermanastes, a long-extinct, sessile marine creature, was unearthed in Namibia, found as a well-preserved fossil. It was sporting a rigid, intricate skeleton made of calcium carbonate, a common hard material that the shells of many marine animals are constructed from. It was found in a geological deposit that dates back to the Ediacaran Period, which spans 635-542 million years ago.
Around 575 million years ago, in an event known as the Avalon Explosion, a wide range of enigmatic life forms (biota) appeared for scientists to later discover as fossils. Paleontologists still aren’t sure what kind of life they are, but they were likely plant forms, algae, microbial mats, fungi or very primitive life forms called protists. Either way, they were largely passive marine life forms, notable for being the world’s first multicellular life forms.
Mysteriously, by 542 million years ago, the Ediacaran biota disappeared from the fossil record. It is perhaps no coincidence that this evaporation of life occurred simultaneously with the Cambrian Explosion, another sudden appearance of life, and one which we can trace most life around today back to. The new drove the old into extinction.
Image credit: Reconstruction of the living Namacalathus. Various features have been labelled by the researchers, but the skeletal features are – 8, inner skeletal layer; 9, internal (middle) skeletal later; 10, external outer skeletal layer. (credit: J. Sibbick).
Skeletal fossils have been found before dating back to this period of time, but none had been shown to have a complex skeleton like N. hermanastes. Dating back to around 550-541 million years ago, its skeleton was truly advanced for the time. It shielded the tiny organism's soft tissue from predatory attack using an external, folded skeletal structure – the ultrastructure – the formation of which requires a complicated array of organic grids that can produce material that can be mineralized into a shell. The ultrastructure appears to be similar to that of the molluscs and brachiopods, shelled creatures that were thought to have evolved later in the evolutionary record.
Professor Rachel Wood, of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences, who led the study, said in a statement: “We have suspected that these complex animals were present in the Ediacaran, but this study provides the first proof.”
Once again, the treasure chest of fossils at the beginning of our planet’s time has revealed a new secret: life was indeed far more complex millions of years earlier than we previously thought. | {
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During this meeting, Scouts continue to plan the Expo, plan a Movie Night for this weekend, and continue planning a camping trip.
About Meeting Worksheets
Meeting Worksheets serve as a source of suggestions to our Scouts. However, our Scouts choose, organize, and lead their own meetings, programs, and activities, and it is up to them to decide how to run their meetings. The choices provided for each portion of the meeting are examples for our Scouts if they choose to use them, with the understanding that our Scouts may make the choices that seem best to them.Â
Preparing Well in Advance of the Meeting
Have at least 50 of these on hand, but you may want to make more copies because you will need to have them at every meeting:
o North Star Scout Promiseo Scout Code o Scout Mottoo Scout Spirito Inspiration for North Star Scoutso The History of the Scout Movemento Paperwork for the Scouts to fill out, such as membership applications to joino Brochureso Team Constitution and Bylawso Parliamentary Procedureo Team Sheet (list of all local teams, where they meet, and contact info)
• Collect ample pens and pencils to bring to the meeting
Coming to the Meeting
• Be sure to bring along the American flag if the location does not have one.• Be sure to bring along all the copies and forms that you previously made.• Bring ample pens and pencils.• Bring along anything necessary for the Activity Buffet.• Bring along anything necessary for the Did and Do portion of the meeting, in which Scouts will be performing Challenges. • Be sure to bring along Frisbee, basketball, or whatever other equipment the Scouts will need to play before the meeting starts.
Scouts Arrive
• Set up the American flag.
Early Arrivals
Scouts who arrive early can help get ready or play a game. Preferably, Scouts can play outside, if weather permits, games like Frisbee or basketball. This will help them work out their energy in a constructive way before participating in the meeting.
The Meeting
This meeting must be FUN. This not school. Scouts are supposed to have FUN, and FUN is what keeps them coming back
Jump Start (approximately 1-3 minutes)
The purpose of the Jump Start portion of the meeting should be explained to the Scouts.
Jump Start serves as a way to allow Scouts to get to know each other by asking and answering some FUN questions “hot potato†style. A question is tossed out to a Scout and then they pick someone else to answer. The goal to get the Scouts participating and to come up with an answer immediately. Every question should be discussed for a total of approximately 60 seconds, allowing time to discuss 1-3 different topics. Naturally, every Scout will not speak every time.
Below are a few choices or Scouts are free to come up with this own:
What is your favorite rock band?Who is your favorite singer?If you could be any rock star for a day, who would you be?
Best of America (approximately 1-2 minutes)
The purpose of the Best of America portion of the meeting should be explained to Scouts.
Best of America allows our Scouts to talk about what they think is best about our country. Examples of what Scouts can do during this section include: tell a story, sing a song, or speak from the heart regarding what they believe is the Best of America. A different Scout presents Best of America at each meeting. A Scout volunteers at each meeting to present this section at the next meeting. When each Scout has led this portion of the meeting, start over.
Below are a few choice or Scouts are free to come up with their own:
What is your favorite part of America?Describe an experience you had which exemplifies the Best of America
Personal Hero (approximately 1-2 minutes)
The purpose of the Personal Hero portion of the meeting should be explained to the Scouts.
During this portion of the meeting a Scout’s name is drawn from a hat randomly to name someone they consider a hero and why. Afterward there is time for other Scouts to comment. After a Scout has already led this portion of the meeting, remove their name from the hat. Scouts may choose anyone they want. Popular choices include historical figures, parents, and grandparents, figures from the heritage of their faith, athletes, or mythic action heroes.
Team Time (approximately 5-10 minutes)
The purpose of the team time portion of the meeting should be explained to Scouts.
Team Time is the portion of the meeting in which Scouts discuss information or take part in activities are that are relevant to the entire team. During Team Time, Scouts plan future meetings, such as the Educator Night, and weekend activities, such as camping trips. It is also during Team Time that Scouts vote and decide via consensus whom they want to be Activity Buffet Guests at future team meetings, and Scouts volunteer to contact them. Consensus means the Scouts discuss the issue until they all agree.Â
Scouts choose which Guests they would like to invite to the Activity Buffet for the next meeting(s).
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During this meeting, Scouts continue to plan the Expo, plan a Movie Night for this weekend, and continue planning a camping trip.
Friendship Activities (Approximately 5-10 minutes)
The purpose of the friendship portion of the meeting should be explained to Scouts.
Friendship activities help our Scouts get to know each other better and help them develop the skill of fostering friendship. During this portion of the meeting, the Scouts take part in games and activities to help them get to know each other better.
Below are a few choices or Scouts are free to come with their own:
Untie-Yourself – in this game all the Scouts stand in a circle and with their left hands reach out and take someone’s hand across the circle from them. Then with their right hand, they take someone else’s hand. The Scouts then try to untie and untangle themselves without ever letting of anyone else’s hand as try to find a solution as a group.
Bingo –
Scouts make a game board from construction paper and make a grid of separate squares on it. In each square they write a random fact, for example, “Favorite color is greenâ€, or “Has a little brotherâ€; they then go around the room interviewing each other trying to fill in as many squares as possible with a Scout’s name.
Scout Spirit! (approximately 1-2 minutes)
The purpose of the Scout Spirit! portion meetings should be explained to the Scouts
The Scout Spirit! portion of meetings provides our Scouts the opportunity to understand and appreciate the guideposts they have been provided by participating in our Scout Programs. During this portion of the meeting a Scout’s name is drawn from a hat randomly to lead the other Scouts in reciting a guidepost of their Scout Program. Afterwards, the Scout who lead the others will personally comment on what those words mean to them.
The purpose of the Crew Time portion of the meeting should be explained to Scouts.
The Crew Time portion of the meeting is for Crews to get together and discuss Crew information and activities such as camping trips or which Challenges can be accomplished together. Crews during Crew Time may also play Crew-building games.
Activity Buffet (approximately 35-40 minutes)
The purpose of the Activity Buffet portion of the meeting should be explained to Scouts.
Scouts get the opportunity to acquire new skills by interacting with Guests in learning-by-doing presentations. This is the portion of the meeting where Scouts get to choose the Guests they would like to interact with.
Guests will present their learning-by-doing sessions during this period.Did and Do (approximately 10-15 minutes)
The purpose of the Did and Do portion of team meetings should be explained to Scouts.
Scouts get the opportunity to demonstrate their newly acquired skills. Scouts earn Challenges and also get bragging rights by showing what they can do. This is time of the meeting when Scouts demonstrate their Challenges and are evaluated.
Those who are on their way to achieving Challenges should be recognized.
Announcements (approximately 1-2 minutes)
Announce the next meeting and time and remind those Scouts who have been given a responsibility such as telephoning potential Guests for the Activity Buffet, or presenting the Best of America segment next time of what they should be doing. The Scouts should be reminded to write down what they need to be doing for the next meeting, as well as the time and date of the next meeting.
Clean-Up (approximately 1-2 minutes)
Your team meeting location should left exactly as you found it. Beat the Clock is a good tool for getting Scouts to clean up fast. Set a stopwatch or a watch with a second hand and time how long it takes them to clean up each time, getting them to try to better their previous time.
Closing (approximately 1-2 minutes)
The Closing portion of the meeting should be explained to Scouts.
The Closing Activity should be FUN and enjoyable. This is the grand finale and should be memorable. People remember the beginning and the end of meetings, so we want it to be FUN! The Closing should be inspirational and motivational.
Below is a choice, or Scouts are free to come up with their own:
Scouts can write an original song about friendship or the Scout Programs, set to the music of their choice.
Departure
Note to the Team Counselors:
At least one Counselor must stay until every Scout has been picked up, however everyone must be in a group of three at minimum – two adults to one Scout or two Scouts to one adult. Under no circumstances is an adult ever alone with an individual Scout (unless they are the parent or guardian of that Scout). At least one Counselor must stay either with another Counselor or with another adult to meet our youth protection standards. We know our Counselors have gone through a background check; it is inappropriate to leave a Scout with an adult who has not undergone a background check, such as a parent or guardian of another child. This is true of every meeting, program, and activity. | {
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
Sweet baby
2 comments:
Michele, I love looking at your blog. I seriously check it everyday! You are the most amazing photographer. I cannot wait for you to take pictures of Carson. We love staring at the Maternity Photos you did for us. You are truly gifted. And this little doll is just precious!
Pinkle Toes Photography
I’m a self-taught photographer and I’ve had the honor of photographing hundreds of families and babies all across Austin, Texas for more than SIX years now (wow…has it been that long?). I also teach professional lifestyle photographer workshops to photographers from all over the world.
Before we meet, you might like to know that:
I will most likely hug you when I see you. And when I leave.
I went to a technology-centered high school, but I actually wanted to be on Broadway.
This career is way better.
I have three young children and an amazing husband who does EVERYTHING to keep this household running smoothly.
If it weren’t for my husband, I would probably starve.
I’m a night owl. Don’t be surprised to get an e-mail from me at 3 a.m.
You would probably beat me at poker. I do NOT have the ability to hide my emotions and it will be quite apparent at your session.
I may seem scatter-brained at times, but that’s only because there are too many ideas bouncing around in my head.
I use bullet points like they’re going out of style. They make me feel all neat and tidy.
I get really excited when I see beautiful light or a beautiful moment between people.
I’m fun-loving and jovial, but I like to get down to business when I’m on a mission.
I get emotionally tied to every session. I have to. I couldn’t do this otherwise.
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Will tropical coral reefs be the first ecosystem to be eliminated by climate change?
Friday, December 01, 2006
Burning archangels
However hard the actual doing of it, the concept of "saving the coral reefs" is quite easy to sell. A combination of arguments centering on such things ecosystem services and human livelihoods must have been cobbled together thousands of times, and often brilliantly.
Ethical arguments, stated in no nonsense non-emotive ways, often make it into the mix as well. But cite beauty and wonder as fundamental reasons for protecting reefs and you may be taken less seriously...unless you demonstrate what that adds up to in tourist dollars. What is the marginal utility of beauty and non-instrumental abundance?
Even more "out there" would be an argument suggesting that one should allow for the possibility that the beauty of reefs could be of value to other animals.
You what?
This is not a question of sentimentality. We should keep a very clear eye on what we know about both the extraordinary capacities of other intelligent animals such as our near cousins chimps and bonobos, and their real limits. There are things that careful observation of them can help us understand about ourselves; and there are things that it cannot. Primatologists like Frans de Waal are very helpful in this regard on both the horror and the hope, and we shouldn't be too starry eyed about, for example, bonobos.
Nevertheless, to go out on a creaking limb, let us consider what is still being learned about cetacean consciousness and emotion and what, if not exterminated, it could portend.
The immediate prompt for this post is Andy Coghlan's article Brainy Whales Get Emotional which reports that spindle neurons found in whales may in some cases be better developed than they are in humans. (Spindle neurons are specialised brain cells thought to process emotions. Bodies of them occur in the parts of the human brain linked with social organisation, empathy, speech, intuition about the feelings of others and rapid "gut" reaction). The article features a remarkable picture of human and fin whale brains, indicating what may be comparable or even better development of these functions in the latter.
Apologies to Andy Coghlan and the heavy hitting cetacean biologists if they find it embarrassing that their sober research and communication prompts wild imaginings on my part. And yes, in case you this line of argument strikes you as mad, I know that while many cetaceans visit tropical waters they seldom come close to a reefs, that their eyesight and other senses are different from humans, and that it may be pushing it to suggest that there could be an "aesthetic" aspect in any way that humans recognise to their use and appreciation song, never mind anything else. (And yes, gut reactions are not always a good thing. Look at George W. Bush also here).
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"Mike", the world's first hydrogen bomb, vaporised Elugelap island and other parts of the Enewetak atoll on 1 November 1952. In the half century or so since then humans have destroyed around a quarter - some say a half - of all tropical coral reefs, which are one the world's richest and oldest ecosystems and provide vital benefits in over 100 countries. Will the rest be gone within another fifty years - or less? So what?
Please note that this blog is now pretty much 'on hold', with only occasional updates since January 2008. For notes on the Anthropocene extinction and what comes next see The Book of Barely Imagined Beings. | {
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I was brought by God’s winds to the epicenter of a democratic battle: the Argentina ballotage (runoff), the second round of an election for the presidency of the Republic between two candidates.
I landed on Sunday, November 15 in Buenos Aires, exactly at the moment of the first presidential debate in the history of Argentina. During an incredibly intense week, for the first time in my forty years I observed the effervescent passion of a nation that today can settle the future of their country through ballot boxes.
My 9-year old grandson Matan is a very serious baseball fan. I have to study the box scores carefully during the season just to keep up with him, but still he knows everything I know and more.
So it was not surprising last summer that we both took note of Yasiel Puig, a 22-year old rookie from Cuba who hit the big leagues like a bolt of lightning. When he played his first game for the Dodgers on June 3, the team was in last place in its division. Yet he quickly turned things around, getting 44 hits in his first month (including seven home runs), more than anyone since Joe DiMaggio had 48 hits in the first month of his rookie year, back in 1936.
Veteran announcer Vince Scully called Puig “the Wild Horse” because of the passion he brought to every aspect of the game, from his powerful bat to his aggressive base running to his ability to throw out runners from deep right-field without hitting the cutoff man. Manager Don Mattingly credited Puig’s infectious energy with igniting a hot streak that catapulted the Dodgers into first place in their division.
It’s hard to imagine that just a little more than a year before Puig’s astonishing arrival to the big leagues, he and a dozen others attempting to escape from Cuba in a small boat were picked by a U.S. Coast Guard cutter and held onboard for two weeks, after which they were returned to the island. It wasn’t the first time Puig had tried to escape, and it wouldn’t be the last. Less than two months later, he escaped again, this time to Mexico, at which point the Dodgers — to the disbelief of many in the baseball world — offered him a seven-year, $42 million contract. It turned out to be a steal.
The International Republican Institute (IRI) recently released the results of a survey the Institute conducted in Cuba last summer. Among the chief findings of the survey was the fact that more than three-quarters of Cubans are generally pessimistic when it comes to the leadership of the current Cuban government – they have little or no confidence that Raul Castro can solve the many everyday problems facing Cubans, including food shortages, lack of jobs and brutal high costs of (simple) living.
In fact nearly the same amount of Cubans, if given the chance tomorrow, would vote to change the Cuban political- and economic systems. Indeed, more than four-out-of-five Cubans (86 percent) support immediate economic change.
A Communist Party Congress planned for this year, where economic reform was to be the main topic of discussion, was postponed indefinitely. Meanwhile economic growth on the island, affected by the global economic crisis as well as declines in global nickel prices, slowed from 7.0 percent in 2007 to 4.3 percent in 2008 and is expected to dip to as low as 1.6 percent in 2009.
This is #1,000 post on the CIPE Development Blog. We thought that this small anniversary is a good reason for some reflection.
Since we launched the blog four years ago in December 2005, the online environment has changed significantly. Blogging for democracy and economic freedom is spreading, especially in places where traditional media is tightly controlled. What was a novelty four years ago – such as blogging in Iran or Cuba – has become accepted as a given.
Human Rights Watch released a new report on the current Castro regime in Cuba. This 123 page report, entitled “New Castro, Same Cuba” exposes Raul Castro to be just as repressive as Fidel while attempting to strengthen rather than dismantle the current system. Despite a lack of government cooperation, and citizens living in fear of telling their stories, HRW was able to gather 60 interviews from 7 of the 14 provinces in Cuba. This report shines a light on some of the biggest challenges to freedom in Cuba today.
Perhaps the most disturbing facet of this report is the more than 40 cases cited where people have been sentenced for “dangerousness” – a law that allows individuals to be arrested before they commit or plan a crime. The individuals targeted by the enforcement of this law come from a range of different professions and backgrounds. It is also considered “dangerous” to run or work for a private business that is not specifically recognized by the state, or to choose not to work for official government employment. This means that despite meager government wages, individuals do not have the opportunity to generate their own income any other way.
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In a place where freedom of speech and freedom of press are considered luxuries and not rights, Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has found a way to project her voice. In her alternative blog, Generation Y, Sánchez recounts her daily life in Havana, but is sure to include a colorful and critical analysis of the government and its policies. She herself refers to the blog as “an exercise in cowardice” because it allows her to say virtually what she is unable to say in public. Because of her uncompromising content, the Cuban government has made every effort to step in and limit her audience within Cuba. This constant struggle against the government, however, has not diluted her efforts. Since starting the blog in 2008, Sánchez has received many international commendations for her efforts, and recently was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University in New York. Not surprisingly, and also not for the first time, Yoani Sánchez was denied the right to travel outside of the country to accept this award. Undeterred, she recorded her conversation with government officials about this unjust travel prohibition and publicized that experience online as well.
On Wednesday, May 20, people around the globe will celebrate Cuba Solidarity Day. All during the month of May inside Cuba, peaceful demonstrations have been taking place by democratic opposition leaders who are wearing white bracelets with the word “CAMBIO” (“change”) inscribed and promoting the “Yo No Copero” (“I Will Not Cooperate”) campaign to speak out against the violation of human rights in Cuba.
Last week, I had the opportunity to view a new documentary film by Yesenia E. Alvarez Temoche, President of the Instituto Político para la Libertad in Peru, entitled “Cuba and the Elephants.” The film provides a harsh look at the realities of the Castro regime’s public policies and their impact on the Cuban people. Particularly jarring are the sad states of Cuban health care and education that had always been flaunted as the successes of the regime.
There is an increasing trend of opinion that opening up Cuba to trade is the right way to go. After all, decades of isolation have not worked and the regimes of the brothers Castro have found ways to coopt the embargo to extend their grip on power. In other countries like China, trade has certainly helped to bring at least some economic democracy to people in the country.
Still, we can only expect trade to work so far with a regime that has proven its brutality repeatedly over fifty years. The Associated Press recently reported that the European Union had seen no progress toward getting the Cuban government to improve its human rights record through a lifting of economic sanctions. This is a sobering realization, but one that can only demand continued resolve to figure out ways in which the Cuban people can achieve democracy. | {
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
I’m not sure when or where I started reheating leftover pizza using this stovetop method, but it’s one of my favorite kitchen shortcuts of all time. By the way, since I don’t remember learning this from anyone, I’ll assume I invented it.
So, if you’ve been actually been doing this for years, and know many others who do the same, please keep it to yourself, and just let me have my moment.
There are so many advantages to using this method. There’s no insufferable wait for an oven to preheat (10 minutes in real time is 45 minutes in “I have the munchies” time); you don’t waste all that extra energy (you’re welcome, Planet Earth); and most important of all, you get perfectly crisp crust. In fact, you’ll get a crust that’s hotter and crispier than it was when it was first served.
Of course some of you will go to the old toaster oven card, and while that does work just as fast as this method, it does not give you the same quality of crispy crust. Besides, many of us haven’t seen a toaster oven since college [insert hilarious dorm room cooking anecdote here].
Not only do I use this method for reheating day-old pizza, but also for crisping up pizza that was just delivered. Because the pie steams in the box, even the best pizzerias, with the fastest delivery systems, can’t bring you a pizza with the same texture as one fresh out of their ovens. Now, using this method, you can take care of that yourself. Enjoy!
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omg chef John, I'm always drooling over your great recipes.You have such a great taste!Congratulations man :)btw I was on facebook and I saw that Mozilla Firefox... well it's better if you see what I'm talking about.https://www.facebook.com/Firefox/posts/10150891990920022
Chef John, This is your moment in the sun! I have never used the foil cap. Brilliant. Today I am again making your Mushroom Burgers.Microve pizza is a mess in my mind. Thanks for all the months of great guidance. Best wishes, Terra in Colorado (9,700 feet in elevation.)
....trying so hard to just let you have your day as the "inventor" of this technique. I discovered this method as a teen when the power went out and I had to rely on the gas stovetop to reheat some Domino's. Regardless of when I first used this method, I must say, the foil cover blew my previous stovetop reheat technique out of the water!
So coming from a graphics person, with food secondary, that gaussian blur is like gouging my eyes out. I really love your blog. Seriously. I make my girlfriend watch your videos with me. Just, the fauxkeh.
Mmm, cold pizza, or as I was told to call it when I was kid, "toast with the works!" My girlfriend, however, is of the reheated pizza mind. She used to use the microwave, which makes me cringe. I use the oven if the need arises. I will DEFINITELY try the stove top next time.
BTW, depending on where you get your pizza, cold pizza can be worse. I have a place near me that makes a special crust that isn't very good cold, but wonderful warmed in the oven! As any pizza aficionado worth their salt knows, it's all about the crust :-)-Pyrofish
To those of you who like cold pizza, my advice is to EAT IT COLD! Obviously this post wasn't meant for you. To those of you who already do this, do your own blog if you want to take credit. I obviously didn't get enough sleep last night--I'm a tad grouchy.
jackie
PS My husband refuses to do anything but put it in a microwave. Some people are simply sick. But I still love him---go figure!
OMG. I just did this, and all I gotta say is, I'm converted. I used to use the toaster oven. I was happy with that, but this. This. This is elevated cuisine. What an excellent trick. Your crust will never be this crispy in the toaster oven, I promise. Thanks!
I should clarify that my comment was to try and bust Chef John at the pop-culture reference, which I think he's done a better job with in past videos... don't think that came across now that I've read it back.
It never crossed my mind to reheat pizza this way since I have a microwave with a grill. But I tried the pan method last night and must say that even my "unbelieving" husband was very satisfied with the results. The first piece was a bit charred but reheating the second piece I turned down the heat to medium and it came out perfectly.
I've always used this method and I honestly think that reheated pizza is waaay better than fresh pizza! If I could have my way, I'd let freshly baked pizza cool down and I would then reheat it on a frying pan on low heat, with some oil :)
Thanks Chef John. As usual, I enjoyed your video. I watch one or two when I have a few spare minutes... sometimes I learn something new, sometimes I don't but I always smile at least once during! To the people with nothing better to do than to criticize , this is a video that shows an alternative method for reheating a few slices of pizza, why all the negativity?? Relax and instead of looking for things and/or people to put down, take a few minute to learn and understand the difference between constructive and destructive criticism. Please. salt lake city alimony
OMG! Chef John that was amazing, thank-you for that technique. I live in Italy and brought home pizza last night. This afternoon I tried re-heating it on the stovetop and it was better than fresh out of the brick oven in the restaurant.
I have used this method for years and my kids thought I was crazy (husband included). THEN, one day my kid tried a piece of leftover of mine and was converted. Now, I have to wait my turn for the pan. The nerve! Jeeezzz...I should never have let him have my leftover!
Saw this blog about a week ago. Tonight I brought home a nice pizza that was soggy in the middle. I fired up the cast iron pan and in a matter of moments, I had super deluxe crispy crust. Thank you Chef John, thank you, thank you. I don't know why I never thought of it before. All these years... | {
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Suzanne Lie, Ph.D., has been a seeker since she was a child where her active “imagination” took her deep into her inner life. She continues to regularly share her experiences and Arcturian teachings on her blog, Awakening with Suzanne Lie, and she wishes to help awakening ones come out of hiding and allow the glory of their highest expression of SELF into their everyday life.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Meanwhile on Ascending Earth Part 3 -- Out Visit to the Mothership
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Meanwhile on Ascending Earth Part
3
Our Visit
to the Mothership
JASON SPEAKS:
After Sandy and made up in our bedroom, in our
bed, we fell into a deep sleep. We were lying so close to each other, with
overlapping arms and legs that we feel asleep in the same moment. As we later
discovered, we had the same dream. In the “dream” we were back on the
Mothership, but this time we sat side-by-side in the meeting room with beings
from all over the Galaxy.
The room filled with human, as well as
non-human, beings from all over the Galaxy. At the front of the room we saw the
pulsing light-form of the Arcturian. When we say Mytre and Mytria standing
beside the Arcturian we almost burst into tears. Our joint consciousness was
thinking that we were having a wonderful dream. However, when the Arcturian
seemed to be looking directly into OUR eyes, we began to wonder if, perhaps, we
actually were on the Mothership.
We did not have a chance to ponder this
possibility for the Arcturian immediately began to speak,
“Dear Ascending Ones,
“We are happy that you are able to join us on
the Mothership in your dream body. We the Arcturians have deeply connected
with, walked into, and/or merged with your consciousness. Most of you here have
spent many incarnations within our Arcturian reality and/or the Pleiadian
realities. Because of these incarnations, you have chosen to take a physical
earth vessel at this particular NOW of Gaia’s transmutation.
“You see, the Arcturians and Pleiadians have
watched over and incarnated on Gaia ever since Her earth body could support
life. Because of our timeless interactions with Earth, we have invited you all
here to assist you in remembering how to serve as our ‘portal openers.’ Before
we continue with our message we ask that you turn around inside your mind to
see your true, Lightbody Self. Your
inner Lightbody is infinitely connected with the higher expressions of your Multidimensional
SELF.
“Even though you appear to be on our
Mothership, we ask that you imagine that you are simultaneously gathered
together as a group of Lightbodies who are forming a circle around the physical
body of Gaia. Feel this circle of light as you call the higher expressions of
your Multidimensional SELF in whatever language or words you feel within your
High Heart.
“Now observe and feel your higher expressions of SELF flowing above you in a higher-dimensional
circle.Take a long, slow deep breath to
feel how your higher expression of SELF
is sending its unconditional love down through the frequencies and into your
personal consciousness. In return, you send your unconditional gratitude up through
your crown. Feel that place in-between
your physical self and your higher expressions, for that is actually where your earth vessel is living in the NOW.
“Your earth vessel is living in-between
the physical and the fifth dimension. Your resonance is no longer just physical,
but you are not yet totally resonating
to the fifth dimension. It is for this reason that we have brought you here in
your fourth-dimensional dream body. We
have brought you here to assist you to remember that you volunteered to pull in
the higher frequency of your Multidimensional SELF into your earth vessel, as
well as into the earth vessel of Gaia.
“We have brought you to our multidimensional
Mothership in your fourth-dimensional dream body. Because you are a
multidimensional being who is wearing a physical form on planet Earth, we ask
you now to anchor your dream body into your sleeping physical body. Then, once
you anchor one higher expression of your SELF into your earth vessel, an even
higher frequency expression of your Lightbody will seek to connect with you, as
well.
“It is the line-up of these different
frequencies of your SELF that make you a portal opener.You are the ones who volunteered to wear a
physical body and remember that you are more than that one earth-bound body.
You came in during different eras of Gaia’s last 70 years, but all of you came
in at the exact moment that you agreed upon before you entered your earth
vessel.
“You all made an agreement to support Gaia
with Her planetary ascension, and we have brought you here to assist you in
keeping your promise. As you feel your multidimensional energies intermingle, your
consciousness expands down into the core of Gaia. From the perspective of the
Mothership you can understand that the place in- between the
Mothership and physical Earth is the frequency of New Earth.
“Pulling this in-between energy of New
Earth into your heart, find the core of your High Heart, your Three-Fold Flame,
as you feel your connection to the YOU on ascending planet Earth, the YOU on
fifth-dimensional New Earth and the YOU on our multidimensional Mothership.
“In this manner, New Earth becomes the area in-between the YOU on our Mothership and
the YOU sleeping on 3D Earth.As you
feel this energy field, know that it is your responsibility as a portal opener to consciously perceive
all three realities, simultaneously.
“Your human brains have been trained to forget
your Multidimensional SELF, but the light you are pulling into your earth
vessel is transmuting your physical body. Hence, your body is telling you that
many changes are occurring in your self, in your children, in your
relationships, in your governments, and on your planet. As portal openers, YOU
will be anchoring all of these myriad transmutations down into the core of your
beloved Mother Gaia.
“Now, see the particular pathway that you have
created into the core of Gaia. This Inner
Pathway travels from the core of Gaia, through your physical form and into
the frequency you have identified as New Earth. As you place your consciousness
into the Core of Gaia, see how the circle of Lightbodies has moved into the core of Gaia. Join this circle
that is gathered around the Mother Crystal of Gaia.
“We ask now that each of your perceive this
crystal directly before you and reach out your right hand to touch the crystal,
while you point your left hand up toward the surface of the planet. As you
touch that beautiful Mother Crystal of Gaia with our right hand, pull that
energy in to your High Heart.
“Now allow the energy of the crystal to flow
through your High Heart, out to your left hand, which you now extend to touch
the High Heart of the Light being to your left. FEEL how your collective
consciousness is instantly expanded. Do you feel that tingle in your spine as
you feel that energy of the many Lightbodies in your circle?
“With the energy field of your combined High Hearts,
expand your Light Circle beyond the core of Gaia, beyond Her planet, though Her
atmosphere, through the fourth-dimensional Astral Plane, beyond the fifth-dimensional
New Earth, then up into our multidimensional Mothership.
“Take a moment to allow yourself to adjust to
this multidimensional energy field and know that whatever you experience within
your higher frequency SELF is real. All
the indoctrinations that we suffered your myriad physical incarnations have
told you, “If it is NOT physical, it is not real.” But you know that statement isn’t
true, because you can feel what is inside of you, and you KNOW that it is real.
“Dear portal openers please know that as you move through your next
days, weeks, months, or years that this transition will come to pass because
you have power. Each and every one of you is a leader and YOU will lead.
You will open your portals and lead others through them. Only you will know
how, when and where this shall occur.
“As leaders, you will lead according to your own
inner guidance. This guidance comes from the inner expressions of your
Multidimensional SELF, from the guidance that comes in from the molecular
structure of your body and from the guidance that comes from Gaia.
“Our beloved portal openers, we wish to tell
you that you are our Arcturian Corridor.Let us speak a moment about the Arcturian Corridor,
for different humans may have different information about it. We encourage all
of you to find a way to communicate with each other so that each of you can
share your own individual knowledge with other portal openers.
“You have all been raised in different times,
different countries, different languages and different cultures.Isn’t that beautiful?Is that not the core of Gaia to bring all the
separation into a beautiful tapestry of the ONE?You see, the Arcturian Corridor is also a
place in-between.
“Each of you is creating the energy field of our
Arcturian Corridor. In fact, as you deeply merge with Gaia you assist to anchor
the Arcturian Corridor of Ascension into the body of Gaia, while you
simultaneously open that PORTAL into the higher frequencies and dimensions.
“In this manner the “ascension train” enters
the “station.” NOW, see the huge vortex before you? This vortex
is the opening of the Arcturian corridor. It is your opening into the Corridor. How you enter this vortex is how
you enter every component of your fifth-dimensional reality.Therefore, it is important that you surrender into the vortex.As you
surrender in to the vortexyou
begin to feel a spinning all around you. Faster and faster the Corridor spins
around you.
“You are within the very core of the Corridor,
and within that core you feel the same stability as you felt in the core of
Gaia, as well as within the core of your own SELF. It is through your being
within your own core that you will transmute your physical form into your body
of light. Many of you will maintain a physical earth vessel so that you can
assist Gaia.
“Then, you will flash into your Lightbody when
you wish to visit the myriad wonderful adventures of the fifth dimension and
beyond. Beyond the limitations of time, you will return to your physical
vehicle a second before you left it. Thus, at first, it will be as if you never
left. When you enter the NOW of your/our Arcturian Corridor to go into the
higher frequencies you leave time. Thus, there is no time that has been spent in
the fifth dimension, and no physical time has been lost.
“At first these adventures will not be connected to the conscious memory
of your earth vessel, but eventually, you will begin to remember that you opened the Corridor by surrendering into the huge vortex of
change. You can enjoy the beauty
and love of whatever frequency of reality you choose to visit.
“As a portal opener, you will bring back the glory
you have experienced into your physical form and into the core of Gaia.
Whenever you go into the higher frequencies of reality, you further transmute
your self. Then, when you return, you assist to further transmute Earth by
sharing your higher frequency of light with the core of Gaia.
“This higher frequency of light that you
deposit into Earth as you return from your higher dimensional explorations will
assist Gaia to transmute faster and faster? Furthermore, every time you visits
Gaia’s core, you open a portal to bring higher light into Gaia’s Earth.
“If you can’t remember what your SELF is doing
yet, ask your body, as your body
cannot lie.Ask your higher
consciousness, as your energy field cannot lie. Don’t ask the mundane you that pay
the bills and does the dishes about what you are doing in your Lightbody, as
that expression is still lost in illusion. Therefore, send that YOU
unconditional love.
“If the only one thing that do for ascension
is to send unconditional love to Gaia and all of her beings, you are massively
contributing planetary ascension. In fact, very time you have a problem send it
unconditional
love. Then observe that issue through your Third Eye to see has it slowly
changes or instantly bursts into light.
“Every time you are sad, hurt or have an
emotion that you’re not enjoying, send your self unconditional love and
watch your problems transmute into light. Remember, YOU are a portal opener.
Therefore, you have a responsibility to keep your consciousness clear and
focused on the process of ascension.
Do not worry, for we will have these meetings
as often as you need them. We realize how difficult third dimensional reality
can be. We commend you on your magnificent contributions to Gaia and ALL Her
inhabitants. Remember there is no time or space at our frequency. Therefore, we
are always
with you.”
With that final statement, our eyes flew open
and Sandy and I simultaneously said, WOW!” Then, we both jumped out of bed and
rushed for our computers to write down everything we could remember.
3 comments:
Years ago when I started my journey I searched for the truth outside myself. As a result I joined many different doctrines and spent many hours of my life reading/ studying the bible and listening to priests. I confess that I had great experiences or better to be more precise experienced great feelings of power over others and love/fear. It was a strange learning experience, however, in doing so there was always a feeling that I was very insignificant, and that it would require great devotion and discipline in order to be accepted and approved by god/others/doctrines. An almost impossible mission because I felt that my capabilities were far below when compared to the "blessed ones". And that God "out there in heaven" would always judge and punish my actions accordingly. And that suffering was a good way to pay for my mistakes. God would forgive me and I would receive eternal life. And that I had no power to change my destiny. And the list goes on and on.... Here is the difference when I read the messages in this blog..... I'm highly intelligent, capable lovingly being, with the power to change my destiny, I'm never alone, I'm loved and protected by God (Universe, Arcturians, Pleidians, Angels, Masters, etc..) independently of my mistakes, (which serve as way to help me grow and expand my consciousness), I'm already an ascended master, an angel, a 5th dimensional being, Multidimensional, I have a light body, I'am a cell that composes the unit of the planet Earth, a light speck that composes the Universe, a vital part of the Oneness...."Thank you for reminding me again and again that I'm never alone and that God has always being within me and that I'm a very important being, always loved, protected, eternal and a keystone in the process of ascension."
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Suzanne Lie, Ph.D., has been a seeker since
she was a child where her active “imagination” took her deep into her inner
life. Suzanne first stepped onto her spiritual
path in the mid-1970s when she met her first spiritual teacher. Since then, she
has had many teachers and initiations.
Her life in the physical plane was quite “normal” as her spiritual work
provided her with the confidence to continue her educational training to obtain
a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. Her studies included personal psychotherapy and
focused on alternative methods of psychotherapy, such as hypnotherapy and
guided meditation, which gave her tools to help herself, as well as others.
In 1999, after two years of prompting from the Arcturians, she began sharing her
insights on her website, www.multidimensions.com, where her full spiritual
journey is described. “Coming out” of the spiritual closet was not easy, but fortunately,
documenting her journey and talking to others all over the world with similar
experiences allowed her to fully accept and embrace her true SELF.
Once she built a solid foundation of knowledge regarding the
journey back to the multidimensional SELF, she began writing the two volumes of
the book,Becoming ONE, People and Planet: A Manual for Personal and Planetary
Transformation.
She continues to regularly share her experiences and Arcturian teachings on her
blog, Awakening with Suzanne Lie, and she wishes to help
awakening ones come out of hiding and allow the glory of their highest
expression of SELF into their everyday life.
Explorations into the incarnation and
connection of twin flames and divine complements are detailed in her book, Visions from Venus, and her book Reconstructing Reality describes the process of awakening to past or parallel lives and incarnations.
She is excited to share her latest 5-book
series, Pleiadian Perspective on Ascension, which details the entire
process of an ascending planet designed to assist humanity with its current
transition into a higher dimension.
Recognizing the need for comprehensive
educational training and guidance in multidimensionality, she has recently developed Multidimensional
Leadership Training programs, in conjunction with the Arcturians, designed to train new leaders that will bring forth expanded,
synchronistic guidance, support, leadership, and governance in the societal
shift.
All of her initiatives remind us that through seeking, communicating with, and
integrating our true, multidimensional SELF into our physical life, we can
greatly expand our consciousness and regain latent skills that will assist us
in creating our new reality.
Suzanne is available for personal sessions
and would love to connect with and assist those ready to explore
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T-TALK: Bill would prepare island for religious tourists
The Molokai settlement where Saint Damien cared for Hansen’s disease patients would be managed by the Department of Hawaiian Homelands under a bill before the Legislature.
HONOLULU | The Molokai settlement where Saint Damien cared for Hansen’s disease patients would be managed by the Department of Hawaiian Homelands under a bill before the Legislature.State Sen. Kalani English’s proposal would transfer management of Kalaupapa Settlement from the Department of Health once there is no longer a resident patient population.The Vatican made Father Damien a saint last year for his selfless care of leprosy patients in the 19th century on the island of Molokai. The Belgian-born Roman Catholic priest died of the disease himself in 1889.English says the state should prepare for more visitors interested in the historical, cultural and religious significance of the island.Mormon church reveals plans for new Utah templeSALT LAKE CITY | The Mormon church is planning a new temple in Payson.It will be the fifteenth Utah temple for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The temple will serve about 78,000 church members.President Thomas S. Monson made the announcement Monday.Temples are sacred to Latter-day Saints and are used for religious rituals including proxy baptisms, marriage ceremonies and other rites designed to strengthen church teachings.Temples such as the one in Manhattan are reserved only for members certified by their bishops.The denomination’s meetinghouses are open to all for Sunday services and other functions.The first Mormon temple opened in 1836 in Kirtland, Ohio. Utah’s first temple opened in St. George in 1893.The denomination has purchased a site in Payson, but construction plans are not yet complete. Once built, the Payson temple will bring the total number of LDS temples operating or planned worldwide to 152. Payson is about 60 miles south of Salt Lake City.Pope decries growing ‘aversion’ to Christianity’ ROME | Pope Benedict XVI is condemning what he called “growing aversion” to the Christian faith in the world.Benedict urged Christians to invigorate efforts to spread their faith’s message despite what he described as the unfriendly climate to Christianity in parts of the world. He did not specify any particular region.“In a world marked by religious indifference and even by a growing aversion toward the Christian faith, a new, intense activity of evangelization is necessary,” the pope said.He urged Christians to overcome their differences through dialogue so that they can unite their efforts to influence debates in society on ethical issues like abortion, euthanasia and the limits of science and technology.Malaysia court lifts ban on book by Muslim womenKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia | A Malaysian court overturned a government ban on a book about Muslim women that authorities claimed was a misinterpretation of Islam and a threat to public stability.The verdict marks a rare occasion that a publisher has successfully challenged the Home Ministry’s power to block books considered inappropriate. Dozens of books have been banned in the last few years, often because they contained too much sexual content or were deemed to misrepresent Islam, Malaysia’s official religion.The Kuala Lumpur High Court ruled Monday that “Muslim Women and the Challenge of Islamic Extremism” did not pose any threat to national security, said Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, a lawyer for Sisters in Islam, the Malaysian women’s advocacy group that published the book.The verdict was announced as violence continued between Muslims and Christians amid a dispute over the use of the word “Allah” by Christians. | {
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