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Ryan Savard spent most of his life in the Lancaster, N.H., area before moving to Arizona for his senior year of high school. Soon after, he signed up for the Army, beginning his basic training on Sept. 11, 2001.
Jed Savard said the events of that day caused his brother to work harder out of determination to protect the country.
"He didn't want a desk job," Jed Savard said. "He wanted to be right in the middle of it, and he loved it."
Ryan Savard worked his way up to being a Green Beret. He was killed in action Friday during his fourth tour of duty overseas.
"I didn't believe it at first," his brother said.
Jed Savard said he and his six brothers and sisters were stunned, as was Ryan Savard's wife, who is at their home in Fort Bragg. The two have been married for nearly seven years. | {
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Fallout 4 Just Isn’t Enough
One of the problems with reading really well-crafted reviews of games before you play them is that sometimes the reviewer’s sensibilities can color your perception of the game before you even play it. I don’t quite think that’s what happened to me when I first saw George Weidman’s Super Bunnyhop’s review of Fallout 4, and then started playing the game a few days later, but my current view of the game is pretty similar to his. Or rather I should say that I mostly agree with about 9/10ths of his review and am in 100% agreement with one part in particular. I couldn’t help but repeatedly reflect on that one part throughout my 50+ hour playthrough of F4 and now it’s completely stuck in my mind as the best possible description of the game as a whole.
Weidman points out that regardless of how enjoyable F4’s core mechanics are, the basic Bethesda game framework has outstayed its welcome. Between Oblivion, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Skyrim, and numerous expansion packs for those games, I’ve put thousands of hours into the Bethesda toy boxes, and at this point I am hitting what Weidman aptly describes as “diminishing returns.” Even though Fallout 3 came out almost eight years ago and Skyrim came out three years ago, F4 barely changes anything in the Bethesda format. After my first ten or so hours into Commonwealth, I didn’t even feel like I had started a new game, I honestly felt like I was just going back to a hyper modded version of F3. While I did start to notice some of the more nuanced additions to F4 later on, the fact remains that F4 is no revolution in the Bethesda model or for open world games in general. Actually, I would even go as far as to say that it doesn’t even qualify as an evolution.
As Weidman also points out, 2015 is a year where we finally saw some legitimate advances in open world game designs. Up until this point, the gaming industry has had difficulty managing to innovate away from the once novel but now overdone Bethesda and Ubisoft models. Even the de facto originator of 3D open world level design, Rockstar, couldn’t manage to inject any interesting content into their beautifully designed environment in Grand Theft Auto V. But in 2015, the gaming industry produced Dragon Age: Inquisition, Witcher 3, and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, all of which created some interesting twists on the open world formula with successful results.
And then at the tail-end of the year, arguably the greatest AAA open world juggernaut releases its long anticipated sequel to one of the most celebrated open world games of all time… and they’ve brought almost nothing new to the table. The core gameplay is still based around exploring a large, low textured map with points of interests that mostly consist of dungeons and occasional settlements. Much of the player’s time will still consist of inventory management as he optimizes his weapons and armor. There is still a large main quest, a bunch of faction quest lines, and an assortment of hit-or-miss side quests to snack on. And of course, there is a stunning lack of polish for a modern game, not just in the form of Bethesda’s infamous glitches, but also in the general way that F4’s NPCs, quests, economy, and physics system operates.
Again, I want to reiterate that most of this content is still fun, it’s just outdated, especially now that so many other games do these gameplay elements so much better. While F4’s map size is competitively sized (F4’s map [43 mi2] seems to be a quarter larger than GTAV [31 mi2], a little bit larger than Skyrim [39 mi2], one fifth smaller than Witcher 3 [52 mi2]), its detail, graphical fidelity, and arguably art style are lacking compared to other recent open world games. The dungeon raiding, loot collecting, and gear optimizing is nearly unchanged from F3, so it’s just as shallow as ever, which coincides perfectly with the game’s even more simplified RPG mechanics which almost entirely cut out legitimate character customization. The vast majority of quests are still variations on “go there and kill a bunch of people,” and even if the main quest is an improvement over the usual Bethesda fare, it still pales in comparison compared to the narrative complexity of Witcher 3 or the scale of Dragon Age: Inquisition.
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So what new things does F4 bring to the table?
Well, the combat is better. It’s still not very good, but with snappier guns and better AI, it’s functional, which is somehow a significant improvement over Fallout 3. There’s also a massive crafting and customization system with weapons and armor, thought honestly I went the entire game without touching it because the random upgraded guns I found questing were perfectly fine. I do like the new power armor system, where it acts like a car that runs on a battery resource, instead of just being really tough armor. The game’s presentation is overall more polished with a dialogue wheel, voiced protagonist, and better voice acting across the board. The graphics received a bit of an upgrade too. And of course there’s the settlement system where you can establish safe havens throughout the Commonwealth and even perform simple maintenance tasks like providing food, water, and defense against the harsh Fallout world.
Meh.
All of the new additions are fine. They basically work. They improve the game. But cumulatively they constitute a laughably insufficient step forward for such an expensive, high profile game which spent god knows how long in development.
It’s amazing to me just how… unambitious Bethesda was with F4. Where did all of their time, money, and effort go? The world looks very similar aside from a handful of locations, so it wasn’t art design. On a graphical level F4 is as rough around the edges as F3, so they didn’t break the bank on the technicals. The scope of storytelling is probably on par with F3 and its quality is only marginally improved, so they probably didn’t hire a legion of elite writers. Everything is competent but lackluster. Proficient by last generation but insufficient by current standards. The game is comfortable, if not cozy, for Fallout and Elder Scrolls fans, but only because it brings so little innovation to the table.
I just don’t understand Bethesda’s goal with F4. What was there vision for the game? It’s hard for me to avoid a cynical interpretation of their final product and infer laziness on the developer’s part. Whatever Bethesda’s faults may be, I still generally regard them as a good developer with big ideas. But with F4 it looks like they chose the easiest design path at every available opportunity because they knew this game would be a mega hit regardless of the game’s final quality. By this point, the world of Fallout is iconic in the video game landscape. As far as video game symbolism goes, a Brotherhood of Steel soldier standing in a ruined city is probably at the level just below Mario and Sonic in the grand video game historical legacy. Bethesda obviously knew this, so either to keep development costs low, or to avoid risking critical backlash from failed experimental ideas, or both, they may have purposefully designed F4 with the most conservative outlook possible.
Or not. Of course this is just speculation and I really hope I’m wrong. I suppose Bethesda just could have legitimately failed to execute whatever grander plans it was attempting with F4. I mean, Bethesda games are absurdly massive, and I’m sure with every release they end up throwing out a lot of ideas to keep the whole game together. | {
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The Dignity of Christianity, Part 3: Ten More Ways Christianity is Better Than Secularism
Christianity is better, smarter and more dignified than humanism. Here are ten more ways:
11. Language and Grammar: It might be LOL, but language and grammar will continue to erode under secularism. Why? There is no reason to have rules of grammar if there is no rule-giver. God is the author of language and the author of clarity, not confusion. Without God, we have little need for either rules or clarity.
12. Art: Certainly there is a degree of subjectivity, but unless there is an objective standard of what is good, pleasing and lovely, then art is meaningless.   
13. Dating: The world’s model for dating: meet, have sex, break up, repeat. Biblical “dating” is loftier, safer and more thoughtful. By promoting abstinence before marriage, Christianity can save a broken heart, an “unwanted pregnancy” and disease. Which system is better?
14. Marriage: Biblical marriage is a picture of the relationship between the Creator of the Universe, Jesus, and His bride, the Church. The point of secular marriage is…well, I don’t know what the point is.
15. Parenting: Secular parenting is mostly done out of instinct and the hope of much reciprocal love. Biblical parenting is the opportunity for an adult to raise a fellow eternal soul-bearer to love the One who made them both. One system is selfish, the other transcendent.
16. Spanking: Secular spanking is typically done in anger with an eye on behavioral modification. Biblical discipline is designed to instruct a child that God protects the obedient child (Eph.6:1). Biblical discipline should also be a picture of the Gospel. One is typically violent, the other loving.
17. Work: Humanists work to make money to buy things that rust, rot and decay. Christians work to serve God by loving our neighbor, who are God’s children. One is fleeting, the other is eternal.
18. Purpose: The humanist must be satisfied with eating, drinking and being as merry as possible. The Christian does everything unto the glory of God.
19. Conscience: When one’s conscience nags, the humanist can find no relief but perhaps through self-flagellation. Christianity announces, “Forgiven!”
20. Eternity: The humanist is running a race that leads to an ever increasing fear of death. The Christian knows that when he reaches the finish line called death, true life has just begun. | {
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How do freckles develop? Freckles are caused by uneven distribution of skin pigment melanin in the skin. Freckles become more prominent when exposed to sunlight because the skin produces extra melanin in sunny conditions. The sun and sun-tanning lights emit ultraviolet (UV) rays.
After exposure to sunlight, the outer layer of the skin (the epidermis) thickens and the pigment-producing cells (the melanocytes) in the skin produce the pigment melanin at an increased rate. (This gives some protection against future sun exposure.)
People differ of course a great deal in their reaction to sunlight. To take an extreme example, there is no pigmentation in the skin of an albino because of a defect in melanin metabolism.
On the other hand, people with dark complexions are relatively less sensitive to sun exposure than fair-skinned persons. However, persons with dark skin are not entirely resistant to the effects of the sun and they, too, can become sunburned with prolonged exposure.
Persons with
blonde or red hair are especially susceptible since they tend to be the fairest
skinned. Irrespective of skin color, it is the uneven distribution of the
melanin pigment in the skin that results in freckling. A freckle is nothing more
than an unusually heavy deposit of melanin at one spot in the skin.
Freckles,
age spots and pregnancy mask have several things in common. They are formed in
sun exposed areas: face, hands, chest and back. These unwelcome brown patches
are nothing more than accumulation of skin pigment melanin which is always
produced by the skin.
The amount of melanin present determines the skin tone of an individual.
Extra
melanin is produced by the body in response to sun exposure. It absorbs UV rays
and does not allow them to penetrate deep into the skin layers as it would be
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The 1. 0 Best Genesis/Mega Drive and Top 5 Sega CD Games. Happy birthday to the Sega Genesis! Sega launched its 1. Japan under the name Mega Drive, and the rest of the world followed over the next year or so.
But amidst reliving memories of console wars gone by - - as you argue about whether or not "blast processing" was cooler than "Mode 7" or whatever - - always remember that in the end, it's all about the games. And wow, did Sega Genesis have some great games. Don't take our word for it, though! Take your own. We've compiled a list of the most beloved Sega Genesis games based on your feedback. Of course, the USgamer staff weighed in as well, but the following 1. Sega Genesis and five Sega CD games really represent your picks. Well, OK, it's more than 1.
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Sega's Genesis turns 25 today, and we're marking the occasion by celebrating the USgamer community's 10 favorite Genesis and top 5 Sega CD games. Sega Games Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社セガゲームス, Hepburn: Kabushiki gaisha Sega gēmusu?), originally short for Service Games and officially styled as. The bad boy of the original console wars, Sega bragged that the “Genesis does what Nintendon’t.” Big talk, but they backed it up with some of the most. Details on all Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Xbox games including whether the game supports multiplayer, coop, Kinect, 3D, Smartglass, and more.
After all, this is a celebration of games. The more, the merrier. And no, we didn't include 3. X games. We couldn't think of five worth including.). Not happy with your peers' picks? Cranky to see a personal favorite slighted? Let us know what should have made the cut!
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Gunstar Heroes. The easy winner, Sega's most beloved 1. U. S. - - and what a tragedy that would have been.
Created by Treasure, a group of hyper- talented programmers and designers who got fed up making sequels to NES games, Gunstar Heroes set the high- water mark for Genesis technology. Each and every stage featured an insane gimmick that by all rights should have been impossible on the system, from a punch- up on the wings of a wildly tilting airplane to the infamous Seven Force, a running stage- long boss fight against a bizarre conglomerate creature that constantly changed shapes to challenge you with new battles. In one level, there's even a board game to master. Endlessly inventive, technically dazzling, and sophisticated like no one's business, Gunstar Heroes remains the gold standard for 2. D action games. 2. Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
Nipping at Gunstar Heroes' heels was the second and - - indisputably - - best Sonic the Hedgehog game, Sonic 2. The perfect balance of substance and simplicity, Sonic 2 expanded considerably on its predecessor's arcade action, but hadn't yet become so bogged down in extra features that it sacrificed the series' essential focus on momentum and movement. The asymmetrical multiplayer design wasn't just a technical tour- de- force (the split- screen presentation is really something to behold when both players are going full guns), it also gave younger siblings a way to join in the action without crimping their more capable older brother or sister's style. Colorful, challenging, and packed with countless secrets, Sonic 2 is still the game Sonic Team should be aiming to beat even after all these years. Phantasy Star IV.
The Genesis may not have been known for its role- playing games, but the handful that it offered stood on par with anything that Super NES fans enjoyed. Phantasy Star IV brought the long- running RPG series to a rousing finale, featuring callbacks to the story explored in the first two games but greatly toning down the awkward unfriendliness of Phantasy Star II's design. Meanwhile, its manga- style cutscenes helped bring the story to life in a way that wobbling sprites alone could never have accomplished. The game was impossibly pricey for its time, but as the dozens of fans who named it as a favorite in our poll can attest, it was worth every cent. Streets of Rage 2.
Final Fight may have been the 8. Sega humbled Capcom at home with the Streets of Rage series. Well, really, it was Streets of Rage 2 that set the standard; the first and third games had some serious shortcomings. But in between Sega absolutely nailed it. Cool characters, vivid and varied settings, killer moves, and amazing music that can only be described as "aural sex" - - Streets of Rage 2 remains the best reason to walk from left to right and punch endless armies of identical- looking goons. Shining Force II. Camelot's Shining Force games, spun off from the old- school dungeon- crawler Shining in the Darkness, were basically just a big rip- off of Nintendo's Fire Emblem series.
But Shining Force had two huge advantages: One, the presentation was miles better, with bold graphics and a framing setup reminiscent of a more traditional RPG. And two, the series didn't take 1. Japan. While Nintendo- allied strategy buffs had to make do with staring at pictures of Fire Emblem and Tactics Ogre in the import sections of their favorite magazines, Sega fans enjoyed several Shining Force games.. Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master. Living proof of the old maxim "delays are temporary, mediocrity is forever," Shinobi III left fans in the lurch for a year as Sega reworked the original version of the game to uphold the series' high standards.
And they nailed it, too - - Joe Musashi's third adventure spanned a huge varieties of settings and formats, ranging from ancient Japan to bizarre futuristic sci- fi. But binding it all together were virtuosic visuals and a great soundtrack - - not to mention some fantastic boss designs.
Castlevania: Bloodlines. Perhaps the single most overlooked game in the entire Castlevania franchise, Bloodlines felt a bit like a throwback at the time, sticking more to the style of the NES games than of the more recent Super Castlevania IV and Rondo of Blood. But taken on those terms - - that is, a ripping arcade- style outing for the series - - it totally delivers. Sending players around the world to battle the undead in all sorts of famous locations, Bloodlines features two fairly different playable protagonists from the start and abandons the Belmont clan in an attempt to take the franchise into the modern era (and tie it in with Bram Stoker's Dracula). Solid fun, and don't forget the classic tunes (penned by composer Michiru Yamane in her Castlevania debut). Sonic & Knuckles.
I fudged a little bit on tallying this one, because votes were split between Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic 3 & Knuckles. But the great thing is, they're kind of the same game. Thanks to the gimmicky but cool "lock- on" cartridge concept, Sonic & Knuckles could attach to other Sonic carts and change up the experience. Admittedly, this worked best with Sonic 3 (since unlike the first two games it was designed with lock- on mods in mind), but nevertheless it's a creative enough concept to merit a mention simply for breathing new life into old, discarded games. Phantasy Star II. While nowhere near as timeless as its more beloved sequel, the second chapter in the Phantasy Star series made quite an impression on American fans - - it arrived over here somewhere between the original Dragon Quest and the first Final Fantasy. By comparison, PSII felt absolutely massive..
Time has not treated its monotonous dungeons and sometimes inscrutable gameplay kindly, but in its day nothing could compare to PSII. Toejam & Earl (tie). Groovy, weird, esoteric: You can pull a lot of words at random from thin air and chances are pretty good they'll still describe Toejam & Earl. Kind of an action game, vaguely inspired by roguelike RPGs, offering cooperative action in the days when such things seemed curiously novel, TJ& E's quirkiness of play was matched only by the bizarreness of its style. Misshapen aliens wandered around surreal landscapes, fighting mundane enemies and gathering random treasures from gift boxes.
Inexplicable, but loads of fun. Beyond Oasis (tie). If the Genesis had an answer to The Legend of Zelda, it was this gorgeous action- adventure game. Set in an Arabian Nights- inspired world and loaded with absolutely eye- popping artwork, Beyond Oasis felt a lot more no- frills than its direct competition on the Nintendo side of things, but that was no bad thing.
Plus, Dytto was kind of like Navi years before there was a Navi, yet she managed to be infinitely cooler. Monster World IV (tie). Although it didn't come to the U. S. until very late (as in, last year), Monster World IV brought the Wonder Boy series to a rousing finale.
Despite not actually starring Wonder Boy. A bold, colorful adventure with a smattering of exploration and spot- on controls, Monster World IV showed off the Genesis hardware at its best. If you haven't downloaded it for PS3 or Xbox 3. Back when he was allowed to work on games not called "Metal Gear," Hideo Kojima spent some time exploring the world of graphical adventures. Of his two projects, only Snatcher made its way overseas..
Sega CD, which means tiny quantities and high demand have pushed the aftermarket price of this classic into the stratosphere. But it's kind of worth it, as you can see Kojima's predilection for borrowing from Hollywood and his fondness for making clever use of the nature of video games all in one grand adventure that comes about as close as possible to being Blade Runner without Ridley Scott tapping you angrily on the shoulder. Yes, there's another Sonic game on this list.
What I say? Kids love their Sonic. And this adventure in particular felt wonderfully ambitious, sending Sonic hurtling backward and forward in time to affect the nature and appearance of each stage. Although there used to be some degree of controversy over the soundtrack - - it was given a "butt rock" makeover for the U. S. - - I think by and large the consensus is to get the hell over it and just enjoy the game. Lunar: The Silver Star & Lunar: Eternal Blue. These two actually placed consecutively on the list in third and fourth place, but whatever. Both games represent parts of a whole: A quaint role- playing adventure with a strong emphasis on characters followed by a sequel that explored the ramifications of the first game's outcome.
Not only did the Lunar series add some serious RPG credibility to Sega's lineup, it also gave publisher Working Designs a major breakthrough, catching fans' attention with its witty localization methodology and lavish packaging. Another winner from Working Designs, Popful Mail is an exploratory action RPG in the Zelda II vein with a decidedly humorous vibe. | {
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Stunt
Sunday Stroll Stunt: This stunt is done from a viewpoint, nearly high enough that the fall kills Ezio. Start off by poisoning a character to make the target flee (apologies that I poisoned a civilian, just trying to save time ). When the target flees you want to stay within forty meters to avoid desynchronization. You need to quickly climb up to the spot on the viewpoint before the target passes by that area. As you can see there are two different outcomes. One is a side step kill animation. The other is a stationary kill animation. One more thing to note is since Ezio is down to no health squares when he hits the ground there is a short slow motion effect.
Tripwire: Basically the same as the Sunday Stroll Stunt except the target is killed with a manually aimed hidden gun. I kill a group of guards to avoid open conflict.
Long Shot: What I like about this one is it gives me a reason to use the sprint board. Get to the area where the archer is patrolling on the platform overlooking the bonfire. Kill him and use his dead body to make the target flee, lock on and aim the hidden gun. The mission fails when you are 40-60 meters from the target. I don't know why that is, but I think it might be affected by how fast you and/or the target is moving. I get fifty five meters when I choose to shoot. I might have been able to get a little more, but the mission would usually fail and I didn't want to take any chances.
Mysterious deaths: For the first target I simply climb up behind him to poison. Luckily the guards are too far enough away to notice you. You will know if the target saw you because you will usually hear an exclamation, and it will tell you to reduce distance to target if you get too far away.
Dynamic Stunts: If I remember correctly a dynamic stunt is a stunt done on a fleeing target from a high height. I especially liked it because I had never done this before, and I heard it was the favorite assassination style of a certain person. This involves using a smoke bomb from a distance to make a fleeing target run without having to worry about desyncronizing if he gets too far away. The targets usually take predictable paths (not random) depending on where you are when you throw the smoke bomb.
Tripwires: Tripwire is basically aiming with your hidden gun and shooting when the target passes by, and since the targets take certain routes with the smoke bomb trick I decided to use the hidden gun's tripwire kill when they
come to a certain spot. But one thing I don't like about this is the fact that other characters walk through the wire before the target does. Nevertheless I did try to keep them away (just to make it more realistic) with dead bodies and poisoned people, but that didn't help much. So lets just say they saw the wire and walked over/ducked under it while the target was too busy running to notice it.
Altair92's recent videos using the smoke bomb to cause targets to flee inspired me to revisit the first mission where I noticed this effect: Stefano da Bagnone. At the time, I couldn't find any interesting to do with the fact that he ran away - Ezio doesn't have a gun yet, and Stefano did nothing more than run along a path into the distance. But I recently found a particular mission design that causes Stefano to run in circles around the monastery. This gives an opportunity for a dynamic stunt, which is my favorite type of assassination, as many of you know.
Mysterious Death
The goal of the mission is to poison the target and escape without being seen at any time (no yellow bars). The only way to do it is using hyperblend exploit because the two bodyguards of the target always follow him.
This is me killing Uberto Alberti twice in one life. this is done by doing air tackle and rapidly pressing X (Assassinate) causing it to sorta lag it making him still live.
i would like to thank Aurllcooljay for figuring out how to move him if i could not move him the Spring-Loaded stunt might have not been possible. | {
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Several political ads fall victim to "fake Morgan Freeman" scam
The voice of Morgan Freeman—which should only be employed as a stand-in for God, or to relay in a soothing, paternal manner the ugly facts of life, such as penguin deaths and prison rape—was recently knocked off for a political ad for North Carolina congressional candidate B.J. Lawson, much to the actor’s dismay. Lawson initially claimed that Freeman was the voice of his campaign on his Facebook page and website, believing that the company he’d hired, MEI Political, had, in fact, somehow convinced Freeman to put his gently authoritative tones to work for a Republican candidate in a state he’s never lived in. After Freeman became aware of the ads, he issued a statement saying, “These people are lying. I have never recorded any campaign ads for B.J. Lawson, and I do not support his candidacy.” Lawson’s opponent, in turn, gave him a lot of shit for it because—come on. Morgan Freeman? Doing your state Senate campaign ad? Come on, dude.
As a result, both parties have become embroiled in a public argument over who misled whom, with Lawson’s campaign threatening legal action against MEI for falsely promising to deliver Morgan Freeman. MEI, however, claims it only suggested it could provide a Morgan Freeman “voice double”—and in fact, it produced an e-mail saying that it would also “have the personal voice doubles for Morgan Freeman, William Shatner, Donald Sutherland, Sam Elliott, Queen Latifah, John Goodman, and Ray Romano in studio cutting ads for us.” (Wait: William Shatner, Donald Sutherland, Queen Latifah, and Ray Romano? These are voices people would trust to recommend a political candidate?) Now three other candidates have come forward to say they were also taken advantage of by “Freemangate,” claiming that the same company misled them by promising Morgan Freeman, who supposedly does it as a “favor” because he is a “friend” of MEI consultant Ben Mathis. I wish I could tell you that Ben Mathis fought the good fight, and is indeed friends with Morgan Freeman. I wish... I could tell you that. | {
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In contact with Craig Scrivner and got access to the old FTP site where I used to store stuff for classes.
Must go for my INR reading and on to Funercise class at the AAC, to Bi-Mart, and other Tuesday stops. Made it to KVC but didn’t hear the results of anything. Strange. (Heard the next morning, everything A-OK, INR and Potassium).
Went by Super 1 for my Entresto, and need to pick up tomorrow, because Dawn offered to halve half of them.
Supper: Chicken breast pieces, some boiled shrimp and enough to take to lunch tomorrow at the food bank, fried yams and yellow squash with onions, half ear of corn, and then later, strawberries for dessert.
While in town, I went to pick up Gloria, dropped off her Costco purchases, and we started at the Food Bank, for music, primarily. I signed in last as #55, and some folks missed signing in. Wow, big crowd today! I had help carrying in my “stuff,” and got a close parking space. I was presented a card and a walnut muffin with a candle and everyone in the building singing, Happy Birthday! Gloria and Dean also gave me a card.
John went to town to return rock specimens that John Lasher collected during a Tieton Andesite study. He went on to get his car filled with gasoline for his Friday trip to Mt. Rainier. We both made trips to the grocery store.
On my way to downtown Ellensburg, I stopped by Amy and Haley’s to pick up some awesome 100% cotton bandanas Amy bought for us in a craft store in Issaquah. They are perfect for what we need. John wanted one to match his bright orange work shirt and WTA hard hat – no good reason, just a fashion statement. Chuckle!
Met Jan Naragon at 11:45, for lunch at EBRG’s Thai restaurant. Marissa is the person who was so helpful prior to our arrival. I’m taking Jan and her some yellow Shiro plums.
My choice, Princess Cashew, a Chicken breast quick sautéed with cashews, baby corn, onion, mushrooms, carrots, broccoli, celery, bell pepper and special chili sauce (I chose a #1=Low on the sauce spiciness). Served with rice on the side. Marissa is an excellent waitress. I called in advance to discuss dietary restrictions, and she was more than helpful.
Dinner: Leftovers from lunch, plus shrimp (boiled), small tomatoes (John grew), and yellow plums. One big old plum (cling-less seed). I still have enough for another meal!
Latest on the fire NW of us, one of two sending smoke to our valley. It continues to grow, with some guidance by water and retardant drops. The fire agencies use the term “values”, as in, so far there has been only minimal loss of values within the perimeter. Still, it is close and of great concern for rural and small town residents. For a another story, follow this local link from our Ellensburg Daily Record News, 8-31-17 report (photo from the Swauk-Teanaway Grange included).Link
John took off for his WTA trip to Mt. Rainier at 5:15 a.m., taking along some cooled plums in the cooler for sharing with the crew at the end of the day. They really enjoyed some last week. Now this will be a different crew leader (Hannah), and perhaps some of the same crew, with others added.
What a great birthday I’m having!
First phone call after 9:00 a.m. from my 91 yr. old friend, Gloria; and she sang the entire Happy Birthday song, even adding on the “and many more.” Then about 10:00, I left for town, for the food bank (see below). I got home about 1:15, and was home not too long, before I got a nice birthday wish from New Jersey, from my friend, Elise. Then ~4:00 p.m., I had a nice call from Peggy, my sister-in-law in Parma, OH. She was going to a neighbor’s party, and was going to have a glass of wine as a toast to me.
As I was talking with her, Annie my dog barked. She seldom barks except to announce someone’s arrival in our driveway. I didn’t know until later, it was a half dozen+ Merriam turkeys. I watched them and got John’s camera for a couple of pix. We have posted better pictures and videos in the past, but I still shot a few to show John. Toms did not gave me a pretty show, one just a small shot of the start of a fan. First, they left the front yard walking, and then came back and cackled some more, got my attention, so I looked out the window in time to see 4 take flight to leave. Earlier, a few had departed walking up the driveway, and I thought they were gone. This must have been the rest of the 12 recently visiting our place. John has seen more of them than I because of his greater outside time. Sometimes the horses will alert him to the turkeys whereabouts. Horses find turkeys very interesting. Go figure.
John sent Anna Roth (WTA Hiking Content Manager) a correction for the WTA Trips site, and in subsequent e-mails a warning about our local fires. She is headed to our south – Naches music weekend.
Then she wrote: “Of course, the band we want to see is playing Friday (9/8), so we definitely want to be there in time for that. This is the band we are going to go see at Naches Chinook Fest. They’re very talented musicians and songwriters.”
I surely enjoyed the YouTube link she sent me. but I will have to be there in spirit with them. They are going for the weekend, (the write-up is at chinookfest.com ).
She also sent this link to Mark O’Connor’s , Appalachia Waltz. Mark O’Connor’s beautiful ‘Appalachia Waltz’ features, Yo-Yo Ma on cello and Edgar Meyer on bass. This is absolutely incredible, almost 7 minutes of the nicest music you will ever hear, and I thoroughly enjoyed it on my birthday! I’m sharing with the rest of my friends and relatives, via this blog. Nice b.d. present.
My other celebration today was at the Food Bank. I got there early to carry in a 5-gallon bucket with some water and a lone sunflower, several dahlias of 2 different colors (one a variegated red/orange and 2 different gladioli. My friend, Lori, there cut and arranged them, and then we had our picture taken.Lori Skov is in charge of all the food at the F.I.S.H. Food Bank; I went in on my birthday to help make sandwiches to put into bags for Saturday’s late afternoon Food Bank use. This picture we took before the noon lunch bunch came in, and before the sandwich making occurred. John says except for the wind trying to blow them over, it was a good year for blooms.The process of making peanut butter/jelly & egg salad sandwiches, and packing into paper bags with fruit, chips, & cupcakes. 35 bags in center. I wrapped sandwiches in plastic. Two others (Aloha & Ginger) made the sandwiches.
5:10 call from John at White Pass. He had to drive with lots of traffic; I was happy to hear from him that he took lots of water on the trail this time, and had no problem staying hydrated. He had more packed for the trip home. He’s going by Yakima for gasoline at Costco. I just checked on line. The price is $2.73/gal. Good move on his part, as our prices in Ellensburg are $2.85, possibly it increased here because of the long Rodeo weekend activities through Labor Day. We are staying away from town.
Here is another “trail” (Pacific Crest Trail) story in our Friday (9-1) paper, in which our friend, Jim Huckabay (formerly a Geography Prof with me at CWU), writes a Friday column about the Outdoors. Check this link:
Hams, Wildfire, 100-mi RunsLink
Supper: leftovers from yesterday, added carrots & boiled shrimp, some small tomatoes, 5 Shiro plums, and strawberries for dessert.
6:51 p.m. Phone call from John coming through the Selah Gap, will be home in 45 minutes, probably. While on the WTA trail work, he saw a big plume of smoke from the Norse Peak fire but did not snap a photo. Says there is better stuff on the web.
I received quite a number of wishes (some very cute) on Facebook. Funniest is from Julie Lind Orvald, who just celebrated her own birthday 8/28.
Indian Blanket Flower photo from David Covert was the prettiest birthday wish I received on Facebook. David said later in an email, his identification for it: “Indian Blanket Flower, Gaillardia; butterflies love this flower.”
Gaillardia
This is an excerpt from that article (I removed most of the hyperlinks in the description on line): Gaillardia /ɡeɪˈlɑːrdiə/ (common name blanket flower) is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae, native to North and South America. It was named after an M. Gaillard de Charentonneau, an 18th-century French magistrate who was a patron of botany. The common name may refer to the resemblance of the inflorescence to the brightly patterned blankets made by Native Americans. I had to look up some of the words used in the description.
John took this sunset on his way back from Mt. Rainier.With smoke in our valley from two major wildfires, our sunrises and sunsets have been dark orange (difficult to capture on our cameras without the proper filters, tripod, and remote release). We tried one of the moon at 1:45 a.m., 9-3-17, and did not succeed. It was a small bright orange circle on a black background.This is a collage of my attempt from our patio, 9-1-17, using John’s Nikon camera. Pix shot a minute apart.
We went to the Beard’s Ranch down the road 2.3 miles to attend the beginning of their 70th wedding anniversary celebration. We took them a vase with two beautiful dahlias, a box of yellow Shiro plums, and a nice anniversary card. Frank took us on a tour of the memorabilia in their house. It is rodeo but mostly Native American art based. He grew up on the Yakama Reservation, so he knows a lot of the language and has known many of the people.
I took some videos of his explanation to share. It was a historical and cultural experience in a short time. I’m glad we got their early and had his time to cover things, while the Ellensburg Rodeo parade was going on in town. I’m sure a bunch of folks will inundate the home later today.
The next photo appeared in our local newspaper yesterday:My collage of John & Frank & Charlot Beard & Nancy in front of wood carvings of Indians, John’s and my favorite of all the displays.Collage of the wall with the wood carvings in Beards’ home, and a close-up of the one on the right.
I added some of my own videos, of John’s and my walk around with Frank, describing his memories. This was a wonderful step back to the past cultural history of our region. Frank grew up on the Yakama Reservation and learned many of their customs, language, and life, participating in many facets, but mostly centered on horses.
Speaking of Ida Nason and her son, Allen Aronica, this appeared yesterday on Facebook, on the Community Connect Kittitas County group site; I will share with you: This photo was taken by the Nancy listed below, as she was walking with a cousin along the road on the east side of the fairgrounds. The path leads up Craig’s Hill, and the Yakamas ride horses down the hill to start formally the Ellensburg Rodeo & Fair events for the Labor Day Weekend.
My comment on line to the photographer: Allen Aronica is my neighbor, Ida Nason’s son, and is involved every year at the Fair. He is not a member of this FB group (Community Connect, Kittitas County), but I will capture the information and encourage him to see this link. Thank you, Nancy Kibler Bevilacqua-Madrigal, for sharing such an awesome photo.
Here’s a link to the official start of the Ellensburg Rodeo: (link spells the Yakama incorrectly), but it is correct inside:Link
Back to our tour of the Beards’ home, by Frank.
One print is visible in their living room, behind the flowers we took them for their 70th, and others are on the walls. I put into a collage below and will tell you the story of the Indian artist below. Photo quality decreases from left to right in my collage. Left is from camera and right two are snagged from my videos.Left, our dahlias block the first, with 2 more to the left; middle is on the wall of their stairs to the loft; right is their front door with more George Flett work. I thought Frank was saying “Flint”, until I looked up the artist on the Internet.
Frank showed us and talked about several of the many prints done by George Flett (died in 2013, at 66), which he and Charlot have collected over the years. Flett was an Indian artist who was part of the Spokane tribe. He was diabetic. Here he is in 2007 tracing the outline of a Prairie Chicken Dancer on a strip of ledger paper fixed on canvas at his studio in Wellpinit, WA. (I found this in his death notice in an article reported online in the Spokesman-Review).More videos to share:
Brunch: mixed nuts, plums, banana Supper: John and I went to the Cottage Cafe for a selection of 3 meals, eating some, and bringing home parts to have for dinner tomorrow night, when he gets back from Mt. Rainier. We had parts of a Cobb Salad, Black and Blue Steak Salad, and Steak & Eggs.
I took a photo of the Jolly Mountain Fire cloud of smoke behind the Cottage Cafe. I won’t publish it because there are better photos on line. I wish I had taken a photo coming up Hwy 10 of the two fires affecting our valley. Norse Peak (the fire John has had to detour around for 15 minutes to get to Sunrise at Rainier for his WTA trail work) was shooting in smoke from the Southwest and Jolly Mountain was sending its plume of smoke toward Wenatchee and Cashmere. Coming across Bristol Flats (7 miles east of Cle Elum) offered an incredible view. In addition, there was no smoke above us except higher up. The air circulation was amazing. By the time we left, the fire had settled down (as they do in the evening). Strange phenomena.
Jen Lipton lives in Roslyn; she is on the CWU Geography faculty. I have known her since she was interviewed. She is our Remote Sensing & GIS expert. We’ve offered help if she needs anything. So far they are in the “Have your things in a vehicle and be ready to go” status.
I got up to see John off at 5:15 a.m. for Mt. Rainier WTA work crew. 57°F. When dawn came it was very smoky and overcast with a red morning sun.
I found this link when logging on, and following a link on a photo. Talk about unusual! Link
Lunch: nuts and plums
Supper: leftovers from our dinner last night.
John called about 4:45 p.m., from White Pass and will call me in another hour.
Here is the latest on the Jolly Mountain Fire from KOMONEWS in Seattle. Check out the video and photo gallery. Link
Here is a collage I made from two shots, yesterday and today I got from Jen Lipton.Left, High Country Log Show & imagery of the fire at 375m/cell using VIIRS data (Thermal Infrared Heat signature). Back with the former wildfires in our area, I utilized MODIS data to keep people informed about the extent, but its resolution is 1km/cell.
Breakfast: Sausage, piece of Omelet with little tomatoes and lots of mushrooms, and with strawberries.
We’ve been in touch with friends in Roslyn who are on notice to evacuate. EVACUATION LEVEL 2 – GET READY – ISSUED FOR RONALD AND ROSLYN (9-1-17).
Last view of the fire from nighttime:Ronald and Roslyn are the soft yellow lights, Interstate-90 traffic headlights at bottom. Photo by Bill Crawford.
Here is a description from Jen Lipton: “Absolutely amazing night photo of the Fire. Lake Cle Elum is to the far left of image, Interstate 90 is the road along the bottom, the night lights of Roslyn are in the center, Cle Elum is to the right center, and Mount Stuart rises up above the smoke cloud.” | {
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Apple is reportedly in talks to boost its maps service with data from Foursquare
Apple is reported to be in “preliminary talks” with Foursquare as it explores a deal to bring the social network’s user data to its much-criticized maps service, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Talks are said to have taken place in “recent weeks” and involved Eddy Cue, who took over the management of Apple’s maps division during a recent executive reshuffle. The company is under more pressure after Google finally launched its standalone iOS maps app last week, seeing an impressive 10 million downloads in the first 48 hours.
There is no immediate suggestion of an acquisition and the Wall Street Journal hints that Apple is holding discussions with other map and content firms. That could corroborate past reports that the iPhone making is said to be talking to ‘outside mapping experts’ and ‘prodding’ mapping company TomTom NV to help it refine that data.
It’s no secret that Apple has been looking to enhance Apple Maps, which was released to largely negative reviews in September and continues to generate controversy, the most recent incident being an Australian police force warning that data errors within the service were putting travelers in “potentially life threatening positions.”
The Maps affair reportedly resulted in the Apple SVP Cue firing Richard Williamson, the manager overseeing its mapping service. Apple CEO Tim Cook took the unique step of apologizing to users directly with an open letter that encouraged them to try mapping services from Google, Nokia, Waze and others.
In the letter, Cook says that Apple is “extremely sorry for the frustration this has caused our customers and we are doing everything we can to make Maps better.” That was followed by an interview with Bloomberg in which Cook said that Apple has a “huge plan” to make its maps service even better, after admitting that it “screwed up.”
Scott Forstall, who formerly oversaw iOS development at Apple, is also rumored to have been discard as a result of the affair. The SVP was said to have been pushed out after refusing to sign the apology letter, which was eventually issued by CEO Tim Cook. Cue took charge of the maps division following Forstall’s abrupt departure, which was announced on October 29 and sees him exit in 2013. | {
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Three Chinese charged under anti-gang legislation
Three Chinese visitors have been slapped with charges under the Criminal Justice (Suppression of Criminal Organizations) Act (anti-gang legislation) according to the police.
The men were taken into custody on Wednesday and charged following investigations which resulted in the seizure of electronic devices suspected to be card readers, card writers, skimmers and other paraphernalia used in identity theft. They are 38-year-old Zhong Jianping, 37-year-old Guo Shanghai, and Zhong Fulin, also 37 years of age.
The police are reporting that over 400 credit cards—suspected to be fraudulently manufactured—were also seized, along with cash in Jamaican, United States, Chinese and European currencies amounting to approximately J$6 million.
It is believed that the three Chinese nationals have been using various means to skim information from victims’ credit and debit cards; fake cards were then produced and used to withdraw money from the accounts of several individuals at automated banking machines (ABMs). | {
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Hip little cafe located a stones throw from ocean beach, a world away from the grime of the city. This is a wonderful little coffee shop with tasty sandwhiches. Your mind goes on a musical journey; and spirit can digest the healing power of the jazz music on a Thursday night. Mr. Byrd’s instinctive scat performances are absolutely spectacular. | {
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Bob, I don't think we've been in any danger of losing our 2nd Amendment rights.
I don't consider background checks an infringement, I don't consider registering guns as an infringement, I don't think banning assault weapons is an infringement, I don't think banning armor piercing ammunition is an infringement. I would call those common sense laws.
And Patrick. . no, I'm not from Austin. I'm an outdoorsman and a gun owner. But, I see no need for uzis and banana clips.
While fully automatic assault style weapons are already under strict control the the jump from assault weapon to my duck gun is going to be next. then my hands guns then long rifles and then what ever is left. Myself, I dont want a semi auto AK-47 but I dont wish any law abiding citizen have the right to legally own one taken away. I would much rather the lowlife thug that use them to harm someone and the liberal judges that let them go free actually get put away for a long time. How about mandatory 25-50 years to any POS that uses a gun while committing a crime. Why punish law abiding responsible folks for the actions of a few.
"Communism only works in Heaven, where they don't need it, and in Hell, where they already have it" Ronald Reagan
During my quarter century as a cop, I NEVER encountered any fully automatic weapons, except those that my and various other agencies had for their SWAT teams. No legally held fully auto weapon has ever been used in a crime. The people who can legally own them are not going to do anything to jeopardize their ownership...They were regulated by the Gun control Act of 1936, so thats a record of long standing. I never encountered an armour piercing bullet on the street either.
IF you read some of the definitions of 'assualt weapons' they can cover my Ruger 10-22 or my 1100. It depends on whether some rabid anti gunner like Charlie Schumer is doing the defining.
Some of the definitions of 'armour piercing' ammo cover any bullet capable of piercing a cops soft body armour. Not only does that include military AP but some loads for my .44 S&W and most ammo for rifles used to hunt whitetails, moose, bears etc.
The use of assault weapons and AP ammo was never an issue or concern with me. I always much more worried about a punk with a .25 or an old single barrel break top popper gun that was sawed off.
I believe that if you can pass the background checks and want to own a bazooka, or machine gun or a Tiger Tank and use it for lawful purposes, thats OK with me. When the Charlie Schumers and Barbara Boxers take those away I am sure they will eventually come for my over and unders.
Hey Pat answer me this please, why is it that when the Republicans or the Democrats carry on and say they will protect your rights such as the right of free speech you all go crazy and applaud them for being such good civil libertarians but when somebody chooses to exercise that rightlike say to demonstrate at say a National Convention there called extremists or loons. The point is EVERYBODY has those rights, not just the ones you might agree with. | {
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Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, plunged nearly 75 percent in the year to date. In December 2017, bitcoin was worth nearly $20,000. Now, as 2018 draws to a close, it clocks in at less than $3,875.
Other crypto firms also are struggling to stay afloat. The price of Ethereum fell from more than $1,000 at the close of 2017 to just over $100 today. Crypto-adjacent companies, like American bitcoin mining business Gigawatt, filed for bankruptcy. The blockchain-powered social media platform Steemit recently laid off 70 percent of its staff.
As the prices of cryptocurrencies drop, mining them becomes less profitable, and investor interest wanes. Part of the reason for that decline was the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) rejection of a bitcoin, ETF, back in August. Another was lack of security in the system: Nearly a billion dollars in cryptocurrencies were stolen from exchanges in the first half of 2018 alone, according to reports.
Still, bitcoin celebrated its 10-year anniversary in 2018, demonstrating that the currency had the staying power to weather a bad year. What’s more, early investors who bought the coin at just over $100 in 2013 have seen a return that knocks investing in blue-chip companies or most indices out of the park.
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I'm much happier with the result of my latest refuel of the Honda Civic Tourer – it averaged 48mpg on the last tank.
Mind you, that includes the smooth journey we had from London to Norfolk and back again over Easter, so I'm prepared for the figure to dip when I resume my usual journeys in sticky London traffic.
The more times I fill up the Honda, the more I notice a strange quirk with this car: the fuel tank is located underneath the driver's seat, which means you can hear the fuel sloshing about underneath you as you drive.
Honda says it's positioned here to create as much internal car space as possible - and particularly for the car's so-called ‘Magic Seats’ – the rear seats with bases that flip up, cinema-style, so you can slide especially tall items across the width of the car at its highest point.
I haven't had the need to make use of these yet – and I'm not sure what I'll do with the kids if I do – but I'd love to hear from other Civic Tourer owners who have used them. Send me photo if you can, too. | {
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Judge: NC vote can be held with GOP-backed changes
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s November election can be held under a new voting law approved by Republican lawmakers, a federal judge ruled Friday. The law is considered one of the toughest in the nation and the groups challenging it say it will suppress minority voter turnout.
U.S. District Court Judge Thomas D. Schroeder denied a motion seeking to hold the November vote under old rules, saying the groups failed to show they would suffer “irreparable harm.”
“In the absence of the clear showing for preliminary relief required by the law, it is inappropriate for a federal court to enjoin a state law passed by duly-elected representatives,” wrote the judge, who was appointed to the federal bench by Republican President George W. Bush.
A coalition of groups, including the League of Women Voters and the NAACP, have filed three lawsuits challenging the more than two dozen changes to voting laws approved by the GOP-controlled state legislature in 2013.
The groups say the changes are designed to suppress turnout at the polls among minorities, the elderly and college students — blocs considered more likely to vote for Democrats.
In a weeklong hearing last month, they asked Schroeder to stop implementation of the new law until a trial to determine whether the changes violate the U.S. Constitution or the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Schroeder did deny a motion from the state seeking to have the case dismissed, setting the stage for a trial next year.
The law requires voters to present a government-issued photo ID, ends same-day registration, trims the period for early voting by a week and ends a popular high school civics program that encouraged students to register to vote in advance of their 18th birthdays.
Supporters of the measure, including GOP lawmakers and Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, said the law was needed to combat in-person voter fraud, which they said is rampant in the state despite only a handful of confirmed cases in recent years.
The groups that sued were pleased with the judge’s decision not to dismiss the entire case.
“The judge could have completely tossed this case if he felt the state’s argument had any weight,” said Allison Riggs, an attorney representing the League of Women Voters of North Carolina.
The voter ID requirement included in the new law doesn’t kick in until the next presidential election in 2016. The law specifically bars elections officials from accepting college IDs, even from state-run universities.
Studies show minority and low-income voters are also more likely to lack a driver’s license and have access to secure housing, leading to more frequent changes in addresses. Under the new law, voters will no longer be allowed to cast a provisional ballot if they show up at the wrong precinct.
Thirty-four states have passed laws requiring an ID to vote. Wisconsin and Pennsylvania’s laws were struck down earlier this year by judges who said they could be a burden to voters.
State Rep. David Lewis, R-Harnett, who shepherded the voting law through the House last summer, said it “feels good to have at least won this small fight.”
“I’m very pleased that the judge has not found a reason to impair the commonsense election law that we passed that we’ve said all along gives everyone a full opportunity to participate in the election process, while at the same time improving the real and the perceived integrity of the election system,” Lewis said.
An appeal of Schroeder’s ruling is possible, though the plaintiffs’ attorneys would have to confer with their clients before making that decision. | {
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Talk Wisdom's goal is to defend the tenets and values of Biblical Christian faith. We defend our Constitutional Republic and Charters of Freedom, especially when speaking out against destructive social and political issues. As followers of our Savior and Lord, we should boldly stand up for Jesus Christ in our present circumstances. He is our Savior, Lord, and King, and His love needs to be shed abroad in our hearts and in our world – now.
Using their Twitter account, WikiLeaks has dropped a massive election truth bomb on concerned U.S. residents and livid voters alike. According to WikiLeaks, despite the rancor and enthusiasm monopolizing the lives of most Americans this month (and for a dozen or so months prior), there is no U.S. election. It’s not real. It’s a dog-and pony show designed to give American citizens the illusion of having a choice.
As YourNewsWire reports, the WikiLeaks election stunner was catapulted onto Twitter just after WikiLeaks trounced President Barack Obama by publicly releasing a batch of his emails and in response to criticism of WikiLeaks for doing so. Indeed, WikiLeaks was accused of playing “partisan” political games and trying to influence the outcome of the current U.S. election cycle.
I don’t know much about that site so I hope and pray that this Wikileaks information is not true! However, I would not be a bit surprised if it turned out to be true. I think that President John F. Kennedy tried to warn us:
Oh my gosh! Just as so many alert Americans have suspected, the media of mass deception polls have been allegedly “skewed and narrative [driven]” in order to prop up the dying campaign of HilLIARy!
Excerpt:
(4) Americans are catching on to the fake polls:
The BSG report says “The public has lost faith in polling” because:
“Poll-driven narratives have been pushed too far, alienating most of the voting population. The use of polls as a psychological weapon has also been noticed (especially on social media). As the poll-gap narrative becomes ever more extreme, obvious visible evidence (rally-size, yard-signs, bumper-stickers, memes / social-media posts) becomes more and more obviously contradictory. Attempts at shaming outspoken poll-deniers such as Bill Mitchell on Twitter have failed in 2016 where they succeeded (Dean Chambers) in 2012. We are in uncharted territory.
Even hooks into non-philosophically compromised pro-Republican polling outfits such as FOX, Rasmussen, and Gravis have not produced substantial results.”
In other words, the phony polls are not working because the American people are not stupid — we can see that the polling data contradict the HUGE turnouts for Trump rallies compared with Hillary’s anemic rallies.
Hopefully, this means that the massive voter fraud they are planning (and, most likely have already started carrying out with mail-in ballots) will be overcome so that this election won’t be stolen by another lying, scheming, crooked Democratic candidate!
Go over and read the PDF link that Fellowship of the Minds so brilliantly salvaged where there is a discussion about the usual methods of choice to try and scare voters away are listed and [called “Non-Recommended Salvage Options”]. They surmise that such methods probably won’t work this time, so they need to consider using the “FIRESIGN” effect.
This is almost too crazy to believe…isn’t it? It’s like that mind control device developed by The Riddler in the Batman Forever movie!
With all the seriousness that is currently swirling around this election, and the fact that the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner/humorous roast is happening tonight, I thought that I would first share some of the funny comments and photos that I have encountered on blogs and websites where people are sharing their opinions about last night’s debate.
BobM001 at WND:
She looked like a “WHITE WHALE” in that outfit. “Moby Dork” TRUMP “harpooned” her sorry backside tonight.
I think the whale is much cuter….
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Warren at WND:
If Hillary was Pinocchio, she would not get within two and a half feet of the microphone. Lies, lies, and more bold faced lies! Hillary is a living breathing Medusa!
Phillip in Tx reply to Warren:
You misspelled “miles.” 🙂
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Derald Hamilton to 4Him:
But she looks great in a pants suit.
Phillip in Tx reply to Derald:
Inspired by Chairman Mao
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Mike at WND:
She dumped more pooh in Las Vegas than she did in Laurenceville, Ga.
Phillip in Tx to Mike:
“Democrat Perfume!” No wonder “the fly” landed on her face in the second debate!
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Phillip in TX:
Well, Witchary “won’t be late to any appointments!” Trump CLEANED HER CLOCK!
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I will search for more when I have time. Sometimes we need humor to get us through this highly stressful election season. However, it has been difficult to find funny quips about this election. Why? Because of the very serious issues and the positive vs. negative philosophies of the candidates. Hillary’s views are very vile! One huge example (and there are many!) causes me to be a NEVER HILLARY voter! Her belief shared last night that partial birth abortion is necessary to “save the life of the mother” is not only murderous, horrid and despicable, but is totally evil and deceitful! If the baby is killed at the back of the neck in the womb when the rest of the baby’s body is out, THAT’S INFANTICIDE!
When she used the term “mother,” it showed the egregiously evil and total hypocrisy of her beliefs! If that baby is being killed while partially in the birth canal, then the women ends up being the “mother???” of a dead baby!!!
The pro-life view makes moral sense. Choose LIFE – YOUR MOTHER DID!
Killary is the polar opposite of Trump on the life-for-babies issue, as well as most of the important and pressing issues of our time. Our nation hangs in the balance until election day. I continue to hope and pray that God will grant us mercy and save the soul of our nation!
~ Christine
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There are many political “cartoons” (more accurately, deeply ‘sad-tunes’!) that highlight exactly why HiLIARy is NOT FIT TO BE PRESIDENT!
This one is even MORE offensive…especially the language used in the beginning and the end of the video. All that is caught on tape here is just more proof that voter fraud has been happening for the last 50 years!
Have you ever felt like this election has gone to the dogs? Not only that, but we could add on the viciousness of coyote behavior, too!
On my block, most of my friendly neighborhood acquaintances happen to be dog owners like myself. We often run into each other while walking our dogs. It’s a bit strange that during our chats, none of us have brought up anything about the current political circus going on. Actually, I’m glad about this. Once the election is over, I don’t even want to know who voted for whom. It will allow me to escape any rip-roaring “debates” about it in the future.
I’m able to walk along with those neighbors who have dogs that are friendly towards mine. I lament that a wonderful neighbor of mine unfortunately owns a larger dog that my little Dachshund-Pekinese viciously barks at whenever they come down the street. I’m guessing that he might think the dog is a coyote? The dog does resemble the look of a coyote. In our neighborhood, we all do need to be careful to watch our dogs any time we let them out into the yard – especially at night. A neighbor that lives behind our back yard had her dog viciously attacked by a coyote! She had to bat the coyote away in order to rescue her little dog from the jaws of the animal. Several years ago, the same thing happened to a neighbor’s dog up the street. She pulled her dog out of the mouth of the coyote. The poor thing needed many stitches at the animal hospital.
The coyotes often travel in packs. I can often hear them in the distance because they make a lot of noise when they have captured and killed their next meal. Occasionally I have spotted a lone coyote in our front yard, so I yell at my dogs to get in the house immediately!
I was thinking today that this current election season is similar to the friendly vs. vicious dog encounters, as well as the bloody, almost deadly coyote encounters.
It can be difficult to ever have a friendly conversation between voters. It is even more difficult to keep the peace between a friendly person voting for one side, vs. a rabid supporter for the other side.
When a #Never Hillary voter is confronted by a #Never Trump voter, the media shows the vicious (and sometimes bloody) results.
In this horrible political climate, it is often quite necessary to proceed with caution when discussing this election, as well as politics in general. So many people that I talk with just want it to be over!!
My friend L and I know that our votes here in California won’t even count due to the liberal leftist tsunami of voters who will automatically vote for Hillary. We discussed writing in Mike Pence’s name for president! After all, he is a Christian, conservative, and successful governor for the state of Indiana and I personally think that he has a bright political future ahead of him! I may not live long enough to see it, but I would be proud to tell my adult children and my granddaughter that he is a man that I could support in the 2016 election.
Today, I received an email from a Christian conservative woman who is active in politics here in my town. Each election season, she sends out her picks citing that based on biblical principles and conservative values, these are the “best” choices.
Editor’s Note: Be aware of offensive language throughout video and in quotes from video.
A Democratic operative has been captured on video revealing his agents and cohorts are “starting anarchy” by creating “conflict engagement … in the lines at Trump rallies.”
The stunning statements from Scott Foval, the national field director at Americans United for Change, were captured by James O’Keefe of Project Veritas, who earlier captured comments from Democrats about how common voter fraud is.
He also got Bob Creamer, founder and partner of Democracy Partners, admitting, “I’m not suggesting we wait around, we need to start this s— right away.”
Added Foval, “It doesn’t matter what the friggin legal and ethics people say, we need to win this m—–f—–.”
And Creamer confirmed, “The campaign is fully in it.”
Project Veritas said it is working on a multi-part series that “exposes the dark secrets at the highest levels of the DNC and Clinton presidential campaign.”
Creamer founded the Democratic consulting firm Democracy Partners and is listed as a partner on the website. He is the husband of Jan Shakowsky, a congresswoman from Chicago. In 2005, he plead guilty to tax violations and bank fraud.
“Wherever Trump and Pence are going to be, we have events and we have a whole team across the country that does that both consultants and people from the Democratic Party,” Creamer told an investigator. “And the Democratic Party apparatus and the people from the campaign, the Clinton campaign and my role with the campaign, is to manage all that.”
Note: Scroll down at that link to view 2 more videos. Again, be advised that there is offensive language!
THIS BLOG HAS ABOUT 80 FOLLOWERS AND UP TO 100 READERS. IF JUST HALF OF YOU GET THIS OUT TO OTHERS WHO DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE CORRUPTION AND FRAUD, THEN YOU WILL BE DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR AMERICA! HOPEFULLY, THE PEOPLE THAT YOU REACH WILL SHARE IT TOO.
I’m reminded of that old metaphorical statement “praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.” We have to do both—pray and act. We have to pray like crazy for God to intervene in this country and break us. Incidentally, I also think if we’re going to see a spiritual change in this country, I believe it will happen through our young people.
I was with a bunch of young people yesterday and I was reminding them that all of the Great Awakenings, including the beginning of the modern mission movement, started among young people. One girl said, “I told God the answer is ‘yes.’ I don’t even know what the questions are, but whatever You want me to do, the answer is ‘yes.’” So I believe we need to pray with all of our hearts that God will do a work in our churches and especially in our youth. And while we’re all doing that, we don’t want to sit on our hands and not do the other things that we can do, such as vote, and try to have an informed vote based upon the issues that we know will really matter. So we have to praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
– Dr. David Jeremiah in BGEA Decision Magazine’s 2016 Electoral Guide
Readers may recall that in my former post entitled, Stuck In The Middle With You I had encouraged voters to order the free Decision magazine issue that presents 2016 Election information when considering our choice this November regarding, “Two Visions, Two Americas.”
If you didn’t order the magazine yet, the good news is that the Electoral guide with complete articles are now online!
This morning, I finally finished reading all of the articles. They are very informative and I think they will help readers make the best decisions regarding this upcoming election.
I suggest reading all of the articles at Billy Graham’s website. Each reader can decide which article to read first. I chose to read The Party Platforms and then the Where The Candidates Stand report. As I saw the striking differences between the Democratic vs. Republican platforms, I thought to myself that as a Christian first, wife, mother and grandmother second, Conservative third, and registered Republican last, that if I were in a swing state I would vote for Donald Trump for President. Why? Because it would be a vote against crooked HiLIARy!
The stark differences between these two candidates (especially the egregious corruption in the Democrat party that has been revealed by Wikileaks each day) makes me a Never Hillaryvoter. The criminal activity that she has been involved in (especially Benghazi), the mountain of lies she has piled up over the years, the legitimate concern about her obviously failing health (and the huge cover-up about this), and the media- of-mass-deception that is doing all that they can to avoid reporting her crimes (while so obviously backing her campaign), places an absolute conclusion in my mind that she should NEVER become president!
Being in the state of California in which the electoral college hasn’t given a victory to a Republican since Ronald Reagan in the ’80s tells me that even if I were to vote for Trump here, technically it wouldn’t really count anyway. However, would I be neglecting my Christian duty to leave my ballot choice for president blank?
Dr. David Jeremiah’s question and answer portion in the magazine was very informative; as were so many of the other articles so please take the time to read it all. I especially took to heart these portions:
Q: How should a Christian voter prioritize the issues?
A:One of the most important questions going forward is, will our people be able to live their lives and worship God in freedom, or will the Supreme Court and its decisions continue to squeeze evangelicals, so that we are forced to violate the law or violate our conscience toward God? I think that’s the biggest issue—whether we can live and worship the Lord and live according to the dictates of our conscience, or get forced into a corner of political correctness and have to make a decision of whether to go to jail or follow our faith.
Q: Living in California as you do, you’ve seen firsthand a lot of the social progressivism before the rest of the country has experienced it. What do you foresee for Gospel-minded Christians in the next four to eight years?
A: There’s both good and bad. The church has always flourished when it was under pressure. Prosperity has never been good for the church. Adversity has consistently been good for the church. The New Testament was written in a time when Rome was running rampant over Christianity and you knew who the real Christians were. They stood up and were counted. I think one of two things is going to happen: Either we’re going to see a revival of some sort, and with that a renewal of the principles upon which this country was built, or we’re going to fall into a time of great pressure on Christians.
I think this current election may have a great deal to do with which direction that goes. And I believe that apart from a spiritual renewal, a Great Awakening like the ones we’ve had in the past—during which we would return to our roots spiritually—what we’re going to face is more and more the church under the pressure of the government, more and more being pressured to conduct weddings that we will never conduct, more and more being told to say things that we can’t say.
I don’t think that means we should be discouraged as believers. The Gospel has never been more necessary than it is now. All of these things that we talk about don’t in any way impact the fact that Jesus Christ is still the answer and that salvation is still the main business of the church.
During this bizarre election season there are many so-called “news networks” (like the media-of-mass-deception’s champion – CNN, a.k.a. Clinton News Network) – that often refuse to report or even acknowledge the egregious corruption going on in HiLIARY’s political life and campaign!
Early this morning, one of the pundits over at the Fox News Channel made a great point. He stated that in the current trend of our “visual” world, the tape about Trump and his “locker room talk” gets more play and attention than the Wikileaks exposure of HiLIARy’s emails between her, Podesta, and the rest of her evil cronies – which SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS FAR MORE DAMAGING.
Let’s look at one of the latest revelations obtained via the latest Wikileaks email document dump.
“The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands some serious, serious thinking – and not just poll driven, demographically-inspired messaging.” To emphasize, Ivey admits that the left has ‘conspired’ to “produce an unaware and compliant citizenry” but that they’re not as easy to manipulate anymore and that this is a […]
We can’t even believe the polls anymore! The media of mass deception is complicit in LYING ABOUT THAT, TOO!
The Real Battle, is The Battle For Your Mind
Researchers and political analysts frequent CTH because we bring you hard, factual, and fully cited research enabling you to make up your own mind about the headlines.
What you are about to read (and see) below is a fully cited example of something we have discussed frequently, but withheld until today, so the oppositional forces cannot change strategies in their attempts to manipulate your mind.
It is now time to lay all media polling naked for you to grasp. Everything below is fully cited so you can fact-check it for yourself. However, we present this with a disclaimer: the entities exposed will industriously work to change their approach from this day forth.
What is quite interesting about the “cooked poll” post over at The Last Refuge is the FACT that it was eventually taken down at MSNBC! Why? Because people were connecting the dots about the situation and it revealed the continuing corruption and collusion between the HiLIARy campaign and the media of mass deception!
~ Christine
Excerpt:
…The Battle Really is For Your Mind
We warned overnight that revealing the structural inner works behind the closed doors of “media polls” was going to result in a necessary change in behavior by them in order for the ruse to be maintained. This reaction is what the corporate (Wall Street) media always do when they’re exposed to sunlight.
This morning MSNBC Morning Joe, discussed the poll and called it “cooked”.
However, don’t accept the self-interested positioning. Everyone sitting around that table participated in the Hillary Clinton campaign pre-launch meeting as outlined by WikiLeaks (you’ll note they never disclosed on their own).
Even a modest political follower can spot the narrative construction in timeline, against the backdrop of the relationships involved in the entire matter.
This was a timed, strategic, and fully coordinated, media political hit between NBC/Universal and Priorities USA – All the entities involved are Team Clinton.
Do not mentally allow the MSNBC Team (Joe Scarborough), professionals at gas lighting, to head obtusely toward the exits as if this is some jaw-agape shock to them. It’s not.
The issue for MSNBC (NBC/Universal) is how brutally obvious it all became –AND– people looking deeply into the financial connections between so called “media polling” and the political entities of Team Clinton.
USA –-(Ammoland.com)- Donald Trump’s gutter talk about women shows yet again that he is bad news. The problem is that Hillary Clinton is far worse.
Trump’s talk is indefensible. But Hillary Clinton’s actions as Secretary of State, carrying out the Obama administration’s foreign policies, have cost many lives in many places, including the American ambassador and others killed in Benghazi.
Women have a right to be offended by Trump’s words.
But women have suffered a far worse fate from Secretary Clinton’s and President Obama’s actions. Pulling American troops out of Iraq, despite military advice to the contrary, led to the sudden rise of ISIS and their seizing of many women and young girls as sex slaves.
A message from one of these women urged the bombing of ISIS.
She said she would rather be dead than live the life of a sex slave. Some women who tried to commit suicide and failed have been tortured for trying.
Meanwhile, President Obama tried to downplay ISIS with flippant words, by calling them the junior varsity. His half-hearted, foot-dragging military response has allowed ISIS to parade before the world as triumphant conquerors, appealing to disgruntled people in Western countries to carry out terrorist attacks in support of their cause.
That is a lot worse than some stupid and gross words by Donald Trump, which even he has had to repudiate. Make no mistake about it. Neither party has a good candidate for President. The choice is between bad and disastrous.
Are women more in danger from Trump’s words or Hillary’s actions?
Are Americans in general more in danger from Trump’s shallowness on issues or Hillary’s ruthless grabs for money and power — a track record that goes all the way back to the days when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas?
Mrs. Clinton’s own announced agenda attacks the very foundation of American Constitutional government, on which Americans’ own freedom depends.
She has already said that she will appoint Supreme Court justices who will specifically overturn a recent Supreme Court decision, “Citizens United versus FEC.”
That decision said that both corporations and labor unions have freedom of speech, including the right to contribute money toward political campaigns.
Hillary Clinton’s determination to pick judicial appointees on the basis of their willingness to overturn that decision is a more brazen extension of the political left’s other attempts to stifle the free speech of those who oppose their agenda.
Demands that various advocacy organizations reveal the names of all their donors are an obvious attempt to scare off those donors, with harassment by everyone from vandals to rioters to the Internal Revenue Service and other government bureaucrats.
Without the right to free speech, none of the other rights is safe. Government officials can get away with all sorts of abuses, if others are not free to talk about those abuses.
There long has been evidence of Hillary Clinton’s sense of entitlement – the stories of her ordering Secret Service officers to carry her bags, her unabashed demands for hundreds of thousands of dollars for speeches, her insistence on specific travel accommodations and much more.
Now there’s evidence of exactly what she thinks of the average American who works hard and pays taxes to support the Washington establishment.
Not much.
“I know she has begun to hate everyday Americans,” wrote her campaign manager, John Podesta, in an email.
Hillary for prosecution, not president! Join the sizzling campaign to put Mrs. Clinton where she really belongs
The email has surfaced in a WikiLeaks dump of Podesta’s emails. Infowars’ Paul Joseph Watson noted the email, sent by Podesta on April 19, 2015, was a discussion about what “talking points Hillary should use in framing her candidacy for president in order to get a good head start.”
“I know she has begun to hate everyday Americans, but I think we should use it once the first time she says I’m running for president because you and everyday Americans need a champion,” he wrote. “I think if she doesn’t say it once, people will notice and say we false started in Iowa.”
He noted previous emails on the topic, including one in which Clinton admitted during a Goldman Sachs speech she was “far removed” from the middle class, and yet another in which “Clinton campaign surrogate Bill Ivey talks about the need to maintain political power by producing ‘an unaware and compliant citizenry.’”
The following is an email that was sent to me after viewing the debate last night. I read this powerful essay this morning! It was written by my friend L. She has agreed to be a guest blogger here at Talk Wisdom. Opinions and comments are welcome!
~ Christine
Blog Administrator
The Debate
Chris,
I just finished watching the debate. What an embarrassment they both are. I have seen the SNL skits. They are pretty good, but they don’t even have to make up anything with Trump and Hillary. It is funny straight out of their mouths. These two are like caricatures of real people. The hair, mannerisms, cankles, and Mau jackets. Bring in the clowns.
I just can’t bring myself to vote for either of them. I don’t want a Progressive Globalist Socialist (Hillary) or a Nationalist Socialist (Trump). I sometimes think Donald Trump is just in it to destroy the Republican Party, but I know Hillary will do everything she can to destroy the Constitution, and make us a Globalist Socialist country. She wants us to be like Europe, and you can see how they are crumbling. I can’t believe what Merkel has done to Germany. She is a disaster, and a Globalist. Some say she may be a Communist, because of her past. Socialism has been tried over and over again, and it never works.
You know there is more smut to come on Donald and Hillary don’t you? They haven’t even touched on the harassment of the reporter from England or the eminent domain in Scotland. Then there is the pedophile island that Bill Clinton visited several times, more emails, secret service, and women that Hillary has destroyed and paid off. That doesn’t even touch on the some 37 mysterious deaths of people that were close to or came against the Clintons throughout their public life. A lot more despicable stuff from both of them is coming soon.
I want to travel, but honestly I don’t feel safe about going anywhere right now,
No matter who becomes president we are headed for a major economic down turn, and probably more like a depression, It is a cyclical historic event that just always happens. The Fed has been holding it off, but they can’t much longer. It is going to happen, and it could be in weeks, months or a few years. I have been reading and studying about it, and all the signs are here. They are printing money like crazy with no gold or silver backing. The housing market is in another bubble. The trade dollar is leaving the U.S., and the banks worldwide are becoming unstable. Our debt is more than it has ever been, and is rising at an unheard of rate. We will be at 20 trillion in debt at the time of the election. When Bush left office it was a little over 10 trillion. President Obama has almost doubled it. We are in a very bad spot.
I wish I could be ignorant of what has happened, and what I fear is coming, but I just can’t go back to my happy place, because too many things have fallen into place.
You add to all of this the threat from Iran, North Korea, the Middle East, and Russia, and it just feels like a disaster waiting to happen. You also have Turkey, our ally or so they say, who had a failed coup. We keep acting as if nothing is going on over there, but they are no longer a secular country. They are primarily Muslim under Erdogan, with quite a few Islamists. Erdogan has been purging any opposition to his government, and we are barely covering it. Did you know that we are in a proxy war right now with Russia? Russia actually says we are in WWIII with them, but nobody is listening.
Russia is trying to create chaos just as the Islamists are trying to do. Oddly enough both want to bring about the end of the world. Russia with Putin, and his right hand man Dugin in a kind of twisted Christian way, which is more in line with Hitler from what I have read. Then there is Al Baghdadi who has claimed he is the Caliph, and is trying to bring chaos too, for the end of the world to bring the 12th Imam here in a twisted Muslim way. It is nuts, but it is happening, and very few people are paying attention or they just don’t understand.
Clinton has close advisors that are connected to the Muslim Brotherhood who are advocates of Sharia Law, and Muslim world dominance. Then there is George Soros. He is a huge supporter of the Democratic party, and a very evil guy. He likes to destroy whole countries for fun, and sees himself as a world ruler.
Donald Trump has advisors and people working in his campaign that are Russian, and have close ties to Putin. Then there is also Steve Bannon (some say an advocate of the Alt Right) from Breitbart, and Roger Ailes (very powerful and accused of sexually harassing employees at Fox) from Fox that advise Trump, and are both the main reason he is where he is in this campaign. Having the media in your pocket always helps.
It is all such a twisted upside down mess. I feel like the American people are just pawns in this game they are all playing. It would make for a great movie, but it is sad that we are actually living this.
I would pray that God would help us, but we turned our back on Him. Then as a Nation we set it in stone with the legalization of gay marriage, and our closed eyes or saying the horrific abortion videos were edited and untrue. When you make a covenant with God as George Washington did you don’t get to choose which of God’s laws you will obey.
As the news from both presidential candidates goes from bad to worse to nightmarish to surreal (see below), I find myself grieving. There is no other way to put it. I’m not grieving as one who has no hope. But I am grieving all the same.
It is bitterly painful to see America arrive at this point, neck-deep in corruption and vulgarity, edging closer and closer, day by day, towards moral, spiritual, social and economic implosion.
We desperately need a revival, a sweeping spiritual awakening, to put us back on the right track. Will it come? I honestly do not know. I’m praying — pleading — for the Lord to give us one, and soon. I’m praying for each of the presidential and vice presidential candidates, and their families and advisors. I’m praying the Lord will supernaturally salvage this train wreck of an election and give us a surprise ending that will truly bless the entire country. Yet I’m also praying for His infinite, amazing grace and mercy if He chooses to let us proceed down this ugly path “as is.”
Unless we turn wholeheartedly to Christ our coming King and Redeemer, it could be a very dark four years indeed. But the Scriptures do offer us hope.
“If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.” (Jeremiah 18:7-10)
I have to admit that I seriously long for the Lord to set the Rapture into motion in the days or weeks ahead. Election Day would be just fine, though sooner would be better.
I am willing to preach the Gospel and teach the Word of God and make disciples and serve the poor as long as the Lord tarries, so as long as He continues to grant the grace and strength to do His will and forgiveness whenever I inevitably fall short.
But as darkness falls over America, as it is falling over so much of the world, I am growing weary. As the rich and powerful and corrupt seem to gain more riches and more power and grow more corrupt, I am growing weary. As I see injustice spreading like a cancer, and as I see so many people abandoning the faith and ignoring the Word of God and doing whatever is right in their own eyes, I am growing weary.
It is all foretold, of course. The ancient prophecies are coming to pass — all the apostasy, the corruption, the persecution and darkness that the Lord Jesus and the Apostles and the Hebrew prophets foretold about the “last days” — we’re seeing it all play out, just as the Word warned us ahead of time.
Consider just this passage and ask yourself if this doesn’t describe American culture and politics today? “But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; avoid such men as these.” (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
The worse it gets, the more I find myself saying, “Maranatha, come, Lord Jesus!”
For now, let me just say this: regardless of how grieved I am by both nominees, I am 100% committed to genuinely and faithfully praying for the Trump family, and for the Clintons, as I have been throughout this campaign. I will continue to pray that the Lord Jesus Christ shows them great mercy, that they will seek Him with all their heart, and that He will supernaturally change them and bear much good fruit in and through them.
The God of the Bible is a change agent. All through the Scriptures we see God saving, changing and redeeming broken, burdened, troubled lives, and it is breathtaking to behold. The Lord loves to change hearts and minds and mouths. He alone has the power to change lives, and I truly pray He will show His great mercy and love to the Trumps and the Clintons. Meanwhile, I have great respect for those who feel called to provide either family and either candidate sound, Biblical, spiritual counsel. Both families need true, faithful believers around them speaking the truth in love, as do we all.
Indeed, whoever wins the presidency and is raised up to lead America for the next four years, I will pray for faithfully and respectfully. This is what the Apostle Paul commands of us. Thus, I hope you and your family and friends will be faithful in praying for the next president and all the Members of Congress, too. “First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (I Timothy 2:1-4)
That said, I believe it’s important for all of us to realize just how much trouble we’re in. After killing 58 million babies, America now faces impending divine judgment. There is no way out, no way back. The blood of 58 million babies is crying out for justice and they will get it.
Only a true revival — a great, sweeping spiritual awakening — could possibly forestall such a judgment. In addition to such a great awakening, ideally the Lord will give America a leader like King Josiah, the Biblical leader who made big, bold changes to turn his nation around. Indeed, God saw Josiah’s humble heart, and his great love for the Scriptures, and his passionate commitment to help his nation make major reforms and get back on the right track, and therefore He gave Josiah much favor. Indeed, because of Josiah’s leadership, the Lord chose to forestall imminent judgement of the nation of Judah for some two decades.
Sadly, neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton nor Tim Kaine have demonstrated any of the characteristics of Josiah. But Gov. Mike Pence has. Perhaps the Lord will raise him up to provide the leadership we need at this time. I hope so. Time will tell.
In the meantime, prayer is really all we have as individual Christians at this point. Yet what more do we need? Prayer offers us a direct line to our Father in heaven, the Almighty God of the universe who could grant us a great awakening if He sovereignly chose to, or who alone can give us the grace to endure the suffering and hardships if He chooses to set His judgments into motion.
In these dark times, my friends, come what may, may you and I keep our eyes on Jesus and be “joyful in hope, patient in affliction, and faithful in prayer.” (Romans 12:12)
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Proverbs 2:2-5
"Make your ear attentive to wisdom, incline your heart to understanding; for if you cry for discernment, lift your voice for understanding; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures; then you will discern the fear of the LORD, and discover the knowledge of God"
About Christinewjc and this Talk Wisdom blog.
Married for 34 years to my wonderful husband! Two grown adult children, a wonderful son-in-law and beautiful granddaughter in whom we treasure and enjoy life.
Our family is very close and love to spend time with each other. We share a deep Christian faith, love for the Lord Jesus Christ and love for each other.
I earned a BA in education from Kean University in 1978. I have been studying the Bible for over 30 years and in 2003, upon successful completion of the course of study offered in the MA Lecture Series, earned a Christian Apologetics Certificate from Biola University.
This blog is named “Talk Wisdom” because one of the main purposes of writing here is to share the wisdom of God – the only absolute and true wisdom – that is contained within the Scriptures of the Bible. As a born-again Christian, it is my desire to heed and share Paul’s encouragement and warnings in 2 Timothy 3:1-17
2 Timothy 3:16 – All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
2 Timothy 3:17 – that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Talk Wisdom’s goal is to defend the tenets and values of Biblical Christian faith. We defend our Constitutional Republic and Charters of Freedom, especially when speaking out against destructive social and political issues. As followers of our Savior and Lord, we should boldly stand up for Jesus Christ in our present circumstances. He is our Savior, Lord, and King, and His love needs to be shed abroad in our hearts and in our world – now.
A quote to remember!
“We are to be obedient to God and that means we are to fight against sin. Talking about not judging and loving each other does not absolve us from our duty to correct and — if necessary — censure those who refuse to obey God’s laws. If this were the case, then God would have had no reason to even give us a law: He would have just said do not judge, just love and left it at that — but He did not do this. Instead, He told us to obey, and then gave us at least ten commands. If we love each other — Biblical love — then we will do everything we can to help each other keep those commands, not make it easier to break them. After all, how can we claim to love someone if we are in the process of making their path to hell easier to travel?”
~ Black3Actual from Oil For Your Lamp blog
Talk Wisdom's goal is to defend the tenets and values of Biblical Christian faith. We defend our Constitutional Republic and Charters of Freedom, especially when speaking out against destructive social and political issues. As followers of our Savior and Lord, we should boldly stand up for Jesus Christ in our present circumstances. He is our Savior, Lord, and King, and His love needs to be shed abroad in our hearts and in our world - now.
"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" - George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting - this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell
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Unheard of … a monster
A Certain Way
Jean-Claude Colin’s work on the early rules of the congregation was especially intense for three years while he was at Cerdon.
The idea was simple and clear: Mary had been present in the early Church like a mother supporting a child. And today she still continues to do this. Like a mother, she cannot bear anyone to be left out or abandoned: her work in these days is to gather all those who are on the edge of life or on the edge of the Church, and lead them to an experience of the love of God, so that what was evident in the early Church – “a group of believers united in mind and heart” (Acts 4: 32) – may be seen again in our days.
This “work of Mary” needs a group of people – a multi-branched organization of priests, religious and lay people all working together for this one goal: to gather all into the body of Christ, and to make happen again what happened in the early Church.
Colin had found scope for this right at his back-door.
In the mountain area of the Bugey, he discovered many people who had abandoned the Church, or felt they had been abandoned by the Church, as a result of the Revolution. In 1824 he and his brother and Father Declas formed a team to preach missions in the area.
The significance of the day they began was not lost on Jean-Claude’s brother. He wrote to the Bishop on October 29, 1824: “Today the little Society of Mary begins…” This ministry to the abandoned, hough it lasted only four years for him, was to be profoundly significant in shaping Colin’s Marist spirituality. He had already been touched by special insights at Cerdon. In the Bugey he experienced a second element: the mercy and compassion of God who will go to any lengths to gather those on the edge.
In 1825, the three priests at Cerdon moved to Belley,where later on Colin was asked to take over the administration of the college/seminary. This was a third significant experience. Colin could see how realistic the Marist “way” was for the broken world he lived in.
It was now time to take the plan further – to Rome. Colin had already written to the Pope in 182 and before then he had made a vow to visit the Pope.
Now it was time to present the Marist project. It was already a working reality: Marcellin Champagnat’s Brothers were increasing rapidly; Jeanne-Marie Chavoin’s Sisters had been approved by the bishop in 1823; priests were gathering together around Colin in Belley and Champagnat in Lyon; and lay groups already existed. But the vast plan he presented was something Rome had never heard of….. it was quite untenable …. “a monster.”
Father Colin in Rome – 1833
In all, Father Colin made five journeys to Rome. His first one was in 1833, when he presented the case for the Marist plan. Mayet gathered reports on Colin’s journeys to Rome from Colin himself, and from Father Victor Poupinel,who was later to play an important role in the life of the Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary.
MAYET: Father Colin, feeling urged to work for the setting up of the Society, had also vowed to dedicate himself completely to it until he could go and place his project at the feet of the Holy Father in Rome and know what the Holy See thought.
POUPINEL: In the presentation he made in Rome, he showed the Society as divided into its three distinct branches gathered under the superior, and also a third order.
COLIN: I wanted to know what Rome would think. I presented my whole plan; people had never seen anything like it…. l laugh when I think how informally, how simply I acted, l just put down in my request for approval of our confraternity of the third order that people would see at the end of time what they had seen at the beginning: one heart and one soul. Cardinal Castracane started laughing and said to me: “What do you mean? Will the whole world be Marist?” “Yes Eminence,”/ told him. “The Pope too; he is the one we want for our leader.”
POUPINEL: Cardinal Castracane was the relator; he found the plan gigantesque, monstrous, and was convinced that such a society constituted in this way could never function, so he made out his report to this effect.
COLIN: I told those Cardinals who told me it was a gigantic plan: “I have come here simply to find out whether God wishes it or not, that is all. Give me a straight yes or no; that is all I came to Rome in search of.” They didn’t know what to say when they saw this poorpriest standing in front of them, talking to them in this way.
The Mayet Memoirs
What did they say?
What Colin presented in his plan, and what Cardinal Castracane proposed to the Cardinals, may be gathered from this extract from the long report he presented on January 31, 1834.
“Father Colin from the diocese of Belley has presented a request to the Holy Father in which he outlines that from 1816, in the city of Lyon, 12 priests laid the foundations for a Society called the Society of Mary, with the idea of making it in time into a ReligiousOrder. This Society embraces three different Congregations:of priests dedicated to missions at home and abroad, and to the education of youth in seminaries and colleges; of brothers called Marists,who resemble the Brothers of the Christian schools and who are involved in the education of poor children in the villages; and finally a branch of sisters who from their convent are involved in the education of girls, and of penitent women in separate houses. Each of these so called Congregations has its own rules, its own houses, its own Superior. The Congregation of Brothers is governed by a priest with the title of Provincial; that of the Sisters has a Superior whose jurisdiction extends over all the houses of the congregation; but both the Provincial of the brothers and the Superior of the Sisters are dependent on the Superior General of the Fathers. Over and above these three Congregations, it is planned to set up a Confraternity in which people of both sexes everywhere in the world can be enrolled; these would be regarded as Tertiaries of the above Congregations, and could participate in their spiritual benefits, in dependence on the Superior General of the above named Congregations…. Father Colin has been persuaded that the plan is monstrous… and that he could not at the moment hope for any act of approval from the Holy See.”
The minutes of the meeting stated, “by unanimous vote they judged the proposed plan of the Marian Society did not fall into the category of an Institute of the Church and could not be approved under any aspect.”
Colin’s perspective
On his visit to Rome in 1833, Jean- Claude Colin wrote to one of his confreres: My stay in Rome is becoming more and more delightful. Here, the atmosphere is, in a way, pure and sanctified. Here you really do enjoy the liberty of the children of God. Religious principles are not harsh; whether in their decisions or practices, the way of heaven is comfortable and easy. They are much less rigid and punctilious than we are in France …. It’s impossible to describe the devotion that the Romans have for the Blessed Virgin. You have to be here to get some idea of it. During the whole of Advent, public novenas are made before the street shrines of the Madonna, and these prayers are accompanied by folk music, which I don’t find beautiful, and which makes a deafening noise all day. | {
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Well, the 2010 NFL Draft’s 1st Round is behind us, and, as usual, it was an exciting one. Of course, with this being one of the deepest drafts in recent memory, many questions — some fun, some serious, all good — remain.
Make the jump with us for some queries we hope you might have the answers to… | {
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Category Archives: IDiots
I’m starting this thread so that everyone’s favorite science-denying, soccer mom can get to know me. Laughably, she accused me of trolling on a thread about Dr. Behe’s mousetrap example of Irreducible Complexity. My crime?
Discussing the mousetrap example of Irreducible Complexity. I know, stupid me. In the same thread, she asked me the following questions (which are apparently appropriate on a science thread):
So….tell me about Blipey. Married? Kids? Brothers, sisters? Where did you go to college? Have any normal friends there?
So, here is the perfect thread to discuss those things; maybe she’ll drop by and ask a few questions?
This is something you don’t often get a chance to hear: an Intelligent Design supporter debating an actual scientist. Dr. PZ Myers of the University of Minnesota-Morris and author of Pharyngula (link on the sidebar) was on KKMS radio debating Dr. Simmons, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute of Seattle (the leading ID think tank). Take a listen, not a good day for Intelligent Design. I was surprised at how fairly the debate was moderated. The only thing that surprised me more was the complete lack of preparation Dr. Simmons put into being on the show.
Ah, the wonders of a news day in small town America. Michelle and I performed in Henderson, KY the last couple days and the local paper came out and did a story at our second school on Tuesday. Some of the more astute out there might also recall that there was some national political goings-on that same day. Apparently Henderson couldn’t have cared less about that. We were the lead story, A-1, above the fold in Wednesday’s paper, followed by that stuff that went on in New Hampshire (sure, they were A-1, but below the fold). Or, maybe we just take better pictures than politicians.Continue reading →
I think that one of the major obstacles in the ID / Evolution weirdness that is going on in a tiny fraction of the world’s population is that of moral turpitude. One of the loudest voices in the pro-ID movement is a soccer mom from Kansas. She goes by the name of Ftk (For the Kids). Her biggest gripe is that scientists are atheists and therefor wrong, because they have no moral code.
Well, it has finally come out that Ftk has no moral code either. In fact, as seen from the following quote which she spoke to a fellow ID supporter, her own moral compass is a little askew. We now have evidence that ID supporters themselves can be adulterers, being friendly with whomever they choose, as long as the team is together!
Yes. Dave has eplied again. I think it is interesting to note the issues he addresses and the ones he does not. Violence is a big issue for Dave, maybe someone should look in on him before he hurts someone? His latest communication in two parts. The first is about the meeting. For those of you who just want a funny look inside the mind of a true moron, read the second part about his diet, bodytype, and powerlifting abilities. GO TEXAS!!!
So. DaveScot one invited me to look him up anytime I was in Austin–ostensibly so he could kill me with a chainsaw. Why would he want to do such a thing? Well, because I disagree with him about scientific issues and that’s how science is decided–chainsaws.
Who Am I?
Just a clown and not-starving actor trying to make sense of the world from fly-over land. Currently visiting and performing for what seems like every school in North America. If you see me, offer me a piece of pie (not starving, but there's always room for pie). | {
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I have a GL1500 1998 CSC Trike. The other day, I rode for about an hour and parked it for several hours. When I went to get back on, it would not start. Everything looked like it should, but no power. I put it on trickle charge and about 36 hours later, tried it and nothing. Does anyone have any ideas why?
I suspect a little more detail on the description of the problem will help. When you say there's "nothing", do you mean there's no lights, no ignition lights, no horn, etc., or do you mean that it won't crank? Or, does it crank but not start?
If there is, indeed, absolutely nothing, I'd suspect either the battery cable connections, or the ignition switch. The latter is easy enough to check - switch it on & off about 100 times, and see what happens. If you get anything during this, then the switch is suspect.
I turned the radio down and pulled the 94 1500 into the garage after a few hour ride. Let the bike sit a couple of days before going out and discovering the dash wouldn't light up when key turned on! Trusty HFT multimeter says 4 volts, hmmmm, Attach battery tender and watch volts over the next several hours
Didnt want to jump start the bike and throw 60 amps from the compufire alt at a low charge AGM battery
Word is never let agm go dead!
Engine started on its own with 13.5 showing and batt read 14.5 immediately- indicating the alt is functioning
left it on the tender and its green dot lit now
Narrowing down the search of potential typical problem spots = I finally found the source!
Who has guessed it by now??
Turned radio DOWN- not OFF, flipped the kill switch and turned the key off far enough for headlight to go off, get off the bikeOOOOPS
Seems there is still power for the radio if you forget to turn it OFF and DONT remove the key from ignition,,maybe leave it on aux??
the radio volume was on but not enough to be heardLessons to Learn,, every-day!!
Mine took overnight on the battery tender using less than 2 amps charge rate and the other fancy stuff it does- till the green light indicating `full` came on
So far the battery seems ok, a good test ride will confirm
As long as we don't get to totally dead on the AGM style- it should be ok now
Info for those new to battery charging (not trying to talk down to anyone here = I write an acura tech forum for people who never opened the hood before)
If using a conventional wet cell battery that you can fill/top off when needed, make sure there is sufficient fluid level in each cell before chargingCenter cell got low and killed 2 batts on my shadow till I went agm for it too
Add distilled, not tap- water, but not to the upper fill mark- it will rise as it charges
leave caps sitting loosely over holes to allow venting
Top off fluid level as needed after charged, install caps, ck all connections and clean the ground wire contacts
Watch the min max lines on side of battery when filling!
If using the $5 HFT maintainer, throw it in the trash! get a real battery tender that knows to stop charging~ guess how I know
Note: Keep the battery charger unit below the level of the battery, avoids explosions in garage!
Note: even the good brands of small battery maintainer/chargers don't actually recharge a battery to full-full
A 30-60 minute ride letting the alt top off the battery is the best to finish the job
I think that I will have to replace the ignition switch. I tried it again after 48 hours and the only indication I got was a flashing clock on ACC. after about 50 on & off cycles. Still wouldn't start. Anyone know the steps to replace the switch? Also, I would like a repair manual for my Goldwing. Any ideas?
a Clymer repair book will get you thru most things.
I would start with the DIY section on this forum- its excellent Broken down by engine size!
and another Wing specific forum found using search engine will have similar diys
If stuck, go to the thread boards like this one and search, if not =post your problem!
Ign switch seems like an item found in the DIY.
Disconnect battery NEG, remove screws from ign switch surround, trace wiring to least accessible place... and find connectors!
I've been taking close up pics of bike projects with the cell phone, Flash ON, and point in the general direction of places you cant see inside the cowling or engine.
With that bright light and ability to enlarge view and move thru the pic = you can find hidden wire clips, screws, who knows
Did you ck battery voltage after all the charging?
Before the switch goes under the knife, a good battery has to be in there
You may have a bad cell in the old battery, wont take a charge and wont run the bike = shorted internally
How were the fluid levels? or is this an AGM type battery
Didn't check voltage, but will. I put a new battery in last September, the reason I thought it may be switch, after riding it just would not show anything(clock flashed, no indication on gauges, no lights, no start). Thanks for the reply, I will check the battery and find the manual you suggested.
A trickle charger is NOT what you use for charging a dead battery. You need a proper charger.
Come back with your battery Voltage. Don't jump onto something else without eliminating the first one. Don't just go jumping from item to item, and hope it fixes the problem.
Take your working car, and with it turned off, try to jump start your bike. Then come back with what happens when you do what. It could just as easily be bad connections, positive and ground, on the bike. There is no guarantee that your 1 year old battery is still good. All signs show no voltage, not a problem with your switch.
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August 2012 Issue
A summary of this month's contents.
Ultrasonic Cleaner
This is the ultimate ‘bubble bath’ for hard-to-clean or intricately-shaped parts. Unlike small consumer versions this one is designed for larger mechanical parts, ornate bric-a-brac, fabrics that cannot be machine-washed, and more besides. The rugged design uses e.g. a 2 gallon water cistern as a tank and the PIC-powered circuit generates a high voltage signal to drive an ultrasonic transducer that instigates the cleaning action.
Electrolytic Capacitor Reformer
& Tester (Part 1)
A useful item of test equipment for vintage valve radio or audio restorers, this PIC-micro based test gear can recondition many old electrolytic capacitors that have laid dormant over many years and developed high internal impedance as a result. It can work with standard voltages from 10V up to 630V and has a built-in timer and a number of features to ensure safety. The ideal way of resurrecting those vintage or hard-to-replace electrolytic capacitors.
High-Performance Microphone Pre-amplifier
If you’re struggling to get decent results using a microphone with your PC-based soundcard then this pre-amplifier could be for you! Many cheap mics. have a minimal output (say 10mV – 200mV) but audio ‘line level’ is about 775mV or higher: audio equipment can actually handler 1V r.m.s. or more, so this microphone pre-amp project will improve the response and dynamics to help you get more from your audio system.
The tiny module provides a line level output from a cheaper unbalanced or balanced microphone and has very low noise and distortion. Provides unbalanced mono output, adjustable gain and offers a bias signal for electrets microphone capsules too.
High-power reversible DC Motor Speed Controller
Here’s an awesome 12V to 32V 30 Amp d.c. motor speed controller that’s easy to build. Available in either reversible or non-reversible versions, it has a high-power MOSFET output stage and features soft start, relay switching of motor direction and PWM speed control. Just the thing for electric buggies, 12V caravan movers, electric cycles or robotics.
Raspberry Pi – read all about it!
The new Raspberry Pi is an ultra low cost introduction to a programming environment. This feature reviews the new Raspberry Pi in depth and also hints at what’s in store for EPE readers! Get in at the beginning of the next great thing to arrive in hobby home computing – checkout the Raspberry Pi now.
Jump Start
Our series dedicated to newcomers to electronics offers a solar-powered charger suitable for many mobile devices.
Interface – for PC users, an updated version of a 7-bit motor controller, now with full8-bit operation.
Net Work- the Internet column –trends in behavioural advertising, and Google Play, their new entertainment portal.
Max’s Cool Beans – ruminations on mechanical computing
Every issue of EPE is jam-packed with interesting articles, specialist advertisements, editorial, readers’ letters and lots more, so if you’re a keen hobby electronics enthusiast then EPE is bound to have something for you! | {
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Of bodies chang'd to various forms, I sing:
Ye Gods, from whom these miracles did spring,
Inspire my numbers with celestial heat;
'Till I my long laborious work complete:
And add
perpetual tenour to my rhymes,
Deduc'd from Nature's birth, to Caesar's times.
"Dregs" refers to the lowest part--like the dregs of society. Here, "dregs" doesn't seem so low, because once purged of its ponderous ("having great mass and weight and unwieldiness") parts, it can ascend to Heaven as stars.
High o'er the clouds, and empty realms of wind,
The God a clearer space for Heav'n design'd;
Where fields of light, and liquid aether flow;
Purg'd from the pondrous
dregs of Earth below.
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend
Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend,
Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes
Beholds his own hereditary skies.
From such rude principles our form began;
And earth was metamorphos'd into Man.
In this section, Ovid describes the different ages (golden, silver, bronze, iron). "Brazen" refers to the bronze age, but the example sentence suggests that the word is also being used to describe the nature of the men during that age--their warlike rage could be "unrestrained by convention or propriety" but not yet to the point of being disrespectful to the gods.
To this came next in course, the
brazen age:
A warlike offspring, prompt to bloody rage,
Not impious yet...
"Promiscuous" also means "casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior"--this would be a fitting description of Phoebus/Apollo that sets the mood for the next story. But the example sentence is using the word to describe how every plant that is green has been used to decorate the hair of both Apollo and the winners of the Pythian games.
But every green alike by Phoebus worn,
Did, with
promiscuous grace, his flowing locks adorn.
"Espouse" also means "take in marriage" but since Daphne is now a tree, Apollo can't marry her, so instead, he chooses her to be the symbol of victory, which seems odd, since he was defeated in her pursuit of her and she didn't exactly get the help she wanted. But "the grateful tree was pleas'd with what he said; And shook the shady honours of her head."
Because thou canst not be
My mistress, I
espouse thee for my tree:
Be thou the prize of honour, and renown;
The deathless poet, and the poem, crown.
Thus Argus lies in pieces, cold, and pale;
And all his hundred eyes, with all their light,
Are clos'd at once, in one perpetual night.
These Juno takes, that they no more may fail,
And spreads them in her peacock's
gaudy tail. | {
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Middle East
Anjalina Sen is a diplomat of a peculiar kind. She finds diplomatic receptions “a bit more onerous than sleeping in a bamboo hut for a week.” It makes sense, then, that she has spent her nine years in the Foreign Service so far working mostly on refugee issues.
“We do a lot of business at receptions, but the field work I do is phenomenal,” she said. “Talking to refugees about their experience, their hopes and dreams, and figuring out how to bring that up with our policy — that’s what gets me really excited. I’m often in refugee camps, so I spend a lot of time in flip flops. I don’t like wearing a suit.”
The daughter of a Canadian mother and an Indian father, Sen grew up in Brazil, Mexico and Portugal. After working on Wall Street, she made what seemed a natural career choice for someone with her cosmopolitan upbringing. Soon after joining the Foreign Service, she found herself in the middle of the now-infamous passport crisis of 2007, when new entry requirements for Americans traveling to Canada and other countries in the Western Hemisphere caused a huge flood of passport applications, overwhelming the State Department. In a very unusual move, Sen and most of her entry-level colleagues were assigned to an emergency task force to help ease the load.
“We didn’t have enough computers and had to hand-adjudicate passport applications,” she said. “But it was a great bonding experience, and I’m still really close with the people I was on that task force with…”
The Republican-led House Appropriations Committee approved on July 24 an $8 billion cut for 2014 in the roughly $50 billion current international affairs budget. That same day, the House authorized a $5 billion reduction in the defense budget of over $600 billion — the latest reminder that many Republicans, and certainly some Democrats, don’t much value diplomacy or foreign aid. Why is that the case?
As it happens, I spent most of the spring interviewing congressional staffers and analyzing their bosses’ — and their own — attitudes toward diplomacy, the Foreign Service, and the State Department for a recently released study commissioned by the American Foreign Service Association. The study — based on interviews with 28 staffers, evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, House and Senate — concluded that those attitudes have improved in the past decade, but a high level of distrust remains between Foggy Bottom and members of both parties on Capitol Hill…
Imagine the following scenario: A 29-year-old restaurant manager becomes a U.S. diplomat. Five years later, he is appointed the founding director of the Arabian Peninsula office of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), a major State Department program aimed at creating and strengthening civil society in a region vital to global stability.
Even though he is considered a good officer in general, the young diplomat has little idea how to do his new job. He speaks no Arabic and has never managed people or a budget outside a restaurant — let alone $2 million of taxpayers’ money. He has minimal knowledge of democracy promotion, institution-building, or grant-making, but he is expected to identify suitable NGOs in eight countries and award them grants to build an alternative to the authoritarian regimes across the Middle East…
Many travelers consider all their flight-planning work done once they buy a plane ticket, and they don’t think about it again until it’s time to fly. In most cases, that’s a recipe for trouble. There are many things that could go wrong and ruin your trip long before you arrive at the airport, and paying just a little attention — I call it “gardening” your reservation — and knowing how to handle those issues in advance could prevent a travel disaster.
Let’s begin with the simple things. As you may have discovered, sometimes there are no seats available for you to select at ticketing. That could be a result of overselling the cabin, or the only seats left may require an additional fee. Many fliers simply leave it at that, hoping for a seat on the departure day.
It doesn’t take much to do better than that. Whether you have no assignment or are stuck in a middle seat, chances are a decent seat will open up before your travel day, as other passengers get upgraded or cancel their reservations. All you have to do is check the seat map from time to time. Convenience and comfort are very important to me during a trip, and I don’t like to leave anything to chance. That means there are certain things I have to do to “tend” to my bookings, so that any potential issues can be resolved in advance…
As U.S. and other NATO troops continue to die in Afghanistan, one of the main questions being asked in foreign policy circles is this: How committed are Arab governments to defeating al Qaeda and the Taliban? The United Arab Emirates showed last week that fighting violent extremism is less important than its commercial airlines’ well-being.
Most governments around the world help their carriers in various ways, not only out of national pride, but because a strong airline has a positive impact on a country’s economy. One of the missions of every U.S. embassy is to promote trade and commerce that benefit American companies. That has become an organic part of modern diplomacy.
A dispute over the State Department budget has pitted the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, against a fellow Democrat and head of the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, and the Obama administration.
Mr. Conrad led an effort to slash President Obama’s $58 billion international affairs request for 2011 by $4 billion, a cut his committee approved last week. Despite protests from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and all her living predecessors, the senator stood his ground on Wednesday.
The State Department plans to create seven new senior positions to ensure that a public-diplomacy perspective is always “incorporated” in policy-making around the world, as well as to respond quickly to negative coverage of the United States in foreign media.
In an ambitious strategy that goes beyond any previous efforts to reach out to other countries, the Obama administration “seeks to become woven into the fabric of the daily lives of people” there, its top public-diplomacy official said Wednesday. “We must do a better job of listening, learn how people in other countries and cultures listen to us, understand their desires and aspirations, and provide them with information and services of value to them,” said Judith A. McHale, undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs.
Iraq may not be among Western travelers’ most desired destinations quite yet, but some of the world’s leading airlines have decided that flying to the war-ravaged country can be profitable, so they are returning there after a 20-year absence.
Although two of Europe’s major carriers — Austrian Airlines and Turkish Airlines — have been serving Iraq since 2008, their re-entry in that market was viewed as only moderately significant at the time, and none of their peers followed suit. Austrian chose Erbil, the capital of Kurdish northern Iraq, which was never nearly as violent as the rest of the country…
It’s puzzling why in the United States, one of the most lucrative travel markets in the world, the concept of airport transit hotels is so foreign. There are signs that may be changing, but current plans seem more like baby steps than bold decision-making.
A recent trip to Asia reminded me of the lack of entrepreneurial thinking exhibited by many U.S. airport operators. Readers of this column may remember my praise for terminals in Hong Kong and Singapore earlier this year. Beyond design, comfort and cleanliness, having such a time- and hassle-saving convenience as a hotel under the same roof as your departure gate…
There is rarely a single specific issue a reporter writes about that provokes huge interest from its first mention, and then continues to do so for months on end. For loyal customers of United Airlines, however, the carrier’s blocking of “award” seats made available by its partners in the global Star Alliance is not just any issue.
That was evident as soon as this column exposed the previously secret practice in September, as hundreds of members of United’s frequent-flier program, Mileage Plus, complained either to me or the airline. Although I haven’t dedicated a column to the issue since early December, I continue to receive e-mail messages about it. I also try to answer some questions in a thread on FlyerTalk… | {
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
HKS Intercooler Kit for R35 GT-R
SHH always seems to get the HKS information first. HKS are introducing a new intercooler and air guide set for the R35 GT-R. The 400mm x 260mm x 65 mm intercoolers (two) are not priced yet, but come in at 1.6 kg (3.5 lbs) lighter than the stock units. One other important part that the intercoolers include are the air guides to the intercooler. The R35 has some very important ducting in the front of the car that channels air though rather than around the important cooling components. If you have ever worked on race cars, you know how important these guides are to efficient operation of radiators, oil coolers, and intercoolers. HKS claims a lower pressure loss than the stock or a competitors intercooler, and that translates into about a 10 horsepower gain. The press release is dated January 25, 2010, so it might be a part that is at least a month or so off. | {
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QUARTERDECK | Making Could Into Something We Can Sell
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How do we, as environmental scientists, convince members of a public, who live in "today" and rightfully worry about putting food on the table, that climate issues are urgent and need immediate attention? Catastrophic events caused by natural hazards can be easier for people to act upon because of clear-cut cause and effect (earthquake ––> tsunami ––> devastation ––> economic and human consequences). It didn't take long for many countries to come together to implement better tsunami warning systems after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake and tsunami. Coastal nations also worked to educate the public about what to do in the event of a tsunami. The behavioral modification required is small, and is only used infrequently.
Ocean and climate scientists don't have such an easy cause and effect to dangle before a skeptical public. What is the best way to explain to your neighbors that the carbon dioxide they put into the atmosphere by driving SUVs and keeping houses cool during the summer could ultimately mean that they (or their children) might not be able to put fish on the dinner table in 50 years? The relationship between atmospheric carbon dioxide and the myriad changes the excess gas will bring to ocean ecosystems is complex. Our scientific writing reveals that our understanding of the relationship is far from complete. Speaking scientist to scientist, we appropriately use qualified phrases, such as in this issue of Oceanography:
"Decreased calcification could have negative impacts on marine ecosystems, with consequent effects on local marine fisheries and coastal protection from storms"
(Doney et al., p. 16).
"Decreases in marine harvests due to ocean acidification thus could result in significant economic losses"
(Cooley et al., p. 172).
"The uptake of anthropogenic CO2 by the global ocean induces fundamental changes in seawater chemistry that could have dramatic impacts on biological ecosystems in the upper ocean" (Feely et al., p. 36).
"[Ocean acidification] could result in both changes in light quantity and spectral quality that could affect fundamental carbon fixation in the sea (Balch and Utgoff, p. 146).
The article by Tans (p. 26) is the rare exception that uses definitive language: "Despite the difficulty of long-term CO2 projections, some things are clear: fossil fuel burning has driven the CO2 increases thus far, the ocean will eventually take up the largest portion of the emissions, and the enhancement of CO2 in the atmosphere and ocean will last for a very long time."
But cautious scientific language can have the unintended consequence of leaving our neighbors uncertain as to what they should care about or whether anything needs to be done immediately. How do we help them connect the dots and demonstrate a clear cause and effect when we still have so many unanswered questions? We need to prevent the "coulds" from causing the public to assume that uncertainty about the full consequences of ocean acidification means they don't need to change their behaviors now. The battleground of public opinion is far removed from the seminar room, and groups opposing action on climate change use rhetoric skillfully, regardless of whether their "facts" can be backed up by good science. As just one example, the industry-backed group "CO2 is Green" is already running television ads attacking climate change legislation with claims that "This will cost us jobs…There is no scientific evidence that CO2 is a pollutant. In fact higher CO2 levels than we have today would help Earth's ecosystems." The "CO2 is Green" Web site (http://www.co2isgreen.org) may drive us to distraction, but its clever use of language and marketing tools is undeniable.
Scientists whose life work is determining facts as accurately and cautiously as possible may cringe at engaging in combat on a seemingly unfair battlefield where truth and logic are not the only measures of success. But to have any impact on the political process, to make our skeptical public want to do something about our acidifying ocean, and to effectively fight skilled opponents, we must focus on what we know rather than what still remains unknown, hone subtle scientific conclusions into the simplest, most understandable points possible, state them with confidence, and get the word out using as many media outlets as possible. | {
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Organise your business travels with this stylishportfolio. Designed as a smaller, modern alternative to a full-size briefcase, the Pablo Porfolio features a zip around three sides, allowing the case to open out flat.It contains areplaceable A4 notepad, and internal compartments to organise your belonging, with a leather pocket for cards. It carries all your essential documents in style.
The Pablo is made by artisans in the Spanish village of Ubrique - a hub of craftsmanship renowned for quality since the 19th century - Ubrique is where many of the world’s most discerning luxury brands have their leather produced.
La Portegna’s leather is vegetable tanned with a unique blend of natural tannins and colour compounds from Spanish flowers and tree bark. The leather is then treated with Spanish olive oil to nourish, soften and to make it more robust.
This all-natural process has two benefits - it results in beautiful looking leather that develops a unique ‘patina’ over time – it quite literally gets better with age, and is unquestionably kinder to the environment, unlike the more commonly used chrome tanning processes.
Organise your business travels with this stylishportfolio. Designed as a smaller, modern alternative to a full-size briefcase, the Pablo Porfolio features a zip around three sides, allowing the case to open out flat.It contains areplaceable A4 notepad, and internal compartments to organise your belonging, with a leather pocket for cards. It carries all your essential documents in style.
The Pablo is made by artisans in the Spanish village of Ubrique - a hub of craftsmanship renowned for quality since the 19th century - Ubrique is where many of the world’s most discerning luxury brands have their leather produced.
La Portegna’s leather is vegetable tanned with a unique blend of natural tannins and colour compounds from Spanish flowers and tree bark. The leather is then treated with Spanish olive oil to nourish, soften and to make it more robust.
This all-natural process has two benefits - it results in beautiful looking leather that develops a unique ‘patina’ over time – it quite literally gets better with age, and is unquestionably kinder to the environment, unlike the more commonly used chrome tanning processes. | {
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Published byStanford Medicine
So far, the spread of HIV in China has remained at levels less than one-fifth that of Europe and the United States, but now researchers warn that discomfort over discussing sex is a major problem. According to the Chinese Ministry of Public Health, the transmission of HIV between homosexuals has risen (.pdf) from 0.3 percent before 2005 to 13.7 percent in 2011.
In a comment published online today in Nature a consortium of Chinese researchers compare attitudes toward sexuality in China today to those in Western countries a quarter of a century ago. They write:
Chinese people aren’t uncomfortable just in discussing homosexuality — sex in general is still considered extremely personal and is rarely addressed openly or directly, irrespective of orientation. This discomfort has resulted in a pervasive stigma against people with HIV, a lack of general sex education for young people and poor epidemiological data about the spread of HIV in some populations around the country.
The result is a hidden population of individuals who are afraid to seek out HIV information resources or testing and counselling centres. Poorly educated, unaware of their HIV status and under pressure to conceal their sexual encounters, these men often engage in high-risk behaviour. And once one man hiding his activity becomes infected, the disease will spread among his partners, in an ongoing cycle. It is therefore no surprise that incidence of HIV has skyrocketed in this population.
Although cases of HIV among homosexual men represent a much smaller portion of those infected, (just 13.7 percent compared to 50 percent in the U.S.) the researchers say there is cause for concern. They call for more testing and public programs as well as better social and media awareness:
Leading by example is one of the most powerful ways to combat stigma … In 2003, a man stood up during an AIDS summit with former US President Bill Clinton at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and in doing so became one of the first Chinese people to publicly reveal his HIV status. Clinton embraced the man, named Peng-fei Song, bringing him positive media attention. Song later became a strong advocate for HIV awareness and prevention. China needs to encourage more individuals affected by HIV/AIDS to step up and help to change people’s perception of the disease. | {
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Kamen, DEKA develop pump as alternative to surgery for obese
By DAVE SOLOMONNew Hampshire Union LeaderJanuary 15. 2013 10:38PMMANCHESTER - He tackled human transportation with the Segway and global water supplies with the Slingshot purification system. Now inventor Dean Kamen and his team at DEKA Research and Development are helping the world deal with obesity.
A startup company based in Pennsylvania has obtained approvals in Europe and is hoping to get FDA approval in the U.S. for the AspireAssist, a do-it-yourself stomach pump developed by DEKA in cooperation with a team of doctors and scientists who came up with the idea.
Key components of the AspireAssist are now among the more than 400 U.S. and foreign patents held by Kamen and his DEKA associates.
Ventures into health-care devices are nothing new for Kamen, who also holds patents on the widely used insulin pump. So when a group of doctors came up with an idea to help dangerously obese patients avoid bariatric surgery, they naturally turned to DEKA and its engineers based in the Manchester Millyard.
"At least two or three years ago, we were contacted by an investor who worked with a couple of doctors who recognized a clinical need to help people who are really morbidly obese," he said. "The doctors came up with this concept, and they had most of the idea described. They needed us to do the engineering, to make it safe and practical."
The result was a device built around the same type of tubing used to feed patients, only instead of putting food in, it's designed to take food out before calories can be absorbed.
The tube is implanted in the stomach, and leads to a small, low-profile port at the surface of the skin. The AspireAssist device is attached to the port about 20 minutes after a meal to remove about a third of the calories consumed, according to the company's website, which emphasizes that, "the AspireAssist is used in conjunction with a lifestyle modification program, and requires careful and comprehensive medical monitoring."
Katherine D. Crothall is president and CEO of Aspire Bariatrics, a company started last year with $11 million in venture capital and private funding, headquartered in King of Prussia, Pa. "If you look at the therapies available for morbidly obese people, they are not very attractive," she said. "Fewer than 1 percent of the morbidly obese population takes advantage of bariatric surgery in any one year."
The company is testing the market in Europe, where the first patients are already using the device.
"We have patients in Sweden and the Czech Republic," she said, "and hopefully soon in Belgium, France, Italy and maybe Finland. So it's pretty much all over Europe. It should be available in Canada some time by the middle of this year, if not sooner."
Approval by the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. is more challenging, she said, and not likely until 2014 or 2015.
Crothall pointed out that the device has been manufactured so that it can only be used under a doctor's supervision. After one month of use, the pump disables itself, and can only be reactivated by a physician. "It's configured so the patient can't go off and use it willy-nilly," she said.
The company has FDA approval for 176 patient trials at eight hospitals or universities, lasting one year with continued follow-ups. One of the trials will be conducted in Boston, at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
If the device goes into widespread use, it could prove a new source of revenue for DEKA in Manchester.
"There is an agreement between DEKA and the company," she said. "I would prefer to leave it at that."
Kamen said money from the Aspire patents would help the high school robotics competition he developed to foster education in math, science and engineering. "It'll be more money for FIRST," he said. | {
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A heat wave has taken over a good portion of the United States. We'd never suggest you sneak into a private pool to cool off, but hypothetically, if you were going to sneak into a private pool, this is how you'd do it.
Note: Sneaking into a private hotel or apartment complex or anywhere else could be considered trespassing. We're not suggesting you do it, we're just giving you examples of how you could.
Once you mark the hotel you're interested in infiltrating, it's time to get the lay of the land. Most hotels require you to give a room number to get into the pool area. Knowing what numbers the hotels use is important. Amazing Travel Concierge explains:
Occasionally you may encounter some version of a check-in desk at the entrance to the pool that asks for your room number. 99% of the time this check-in� requires nothing more than a self-reported name and a room number. All that matters in this case is that you make up a room number that conforms to the numerical code of that hotel. No one on staff ever checks that the names match the room. Usually it will be a 3 digit number, but occasionally it may be four digits. Before you attempt to make up a room number, be sure to pay attention to the signs in the lobbies and hallways directing guests to their rooms. These signs are a dead giveaway to the numerical coding that the hotel uses! For example, Rooms 301-316 to the left confirms that you will need a three-digit room code. It is important to note the number of floors in the hotel since the first digit almost always indicates the floor number.
Once your research is done it's time to make your move into the pool. Photo by Kyle Laughlin.
There are fewer opportunities to put your social engineering skills to the test better than trying…
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"Can I help you" is the all-purpose hotel-employee phrase, the bland mantra which hotel employees have been trained to repeat in virtually any situation... The wisest angle, in my humble opinion, is to always pretend "can I help you" actually means "can I help you," and respond "no, thank you." Don't let hotel employees get away with weakly implying suspicion—force them to directly accuse you, and thereby risk their jobs, if they really want a confrontation.
Show up in your pool clothes. Backpacks are a dead giveaway. Do not bring your own towel; the hotel has towels at the pool, and no guest would bring their own flowered Waikiki beach towel. Stay away from scraggly board shorts and Hollywood Boulevard T-shirts. Rooms at these places cost upwards of $1,000 a night, so dress like someone who'd be staying there. Gravitate towards whites and linens. Ask yourself, "What would George Clooney do?"
I loitered in the nearby bathroom "putting on makeup" until a pretty twentysomething tourist named Rebecca from Los Angeles came in. I explained that I was a swimming-pool-deprived New Yorker and begged her to smuggle me in.
Infiltration adds one final tip for not calling attention yourself on security cameras:
Also, when you enter a hotel, don't immediately hop on the elevator and head directly to the pool. If anyone happens to be monitoring the lobby and the pool area, they're bound to wonder why you didn't stop at your room first. Always take an indirect route.
With all that, you should be ready to hit the pool. But that doesn't mean you can start acting like you own the place. Photo by Neeta Lind.
Be Respectful and Act Like You Paid For It
Finally, once you've infiltrated the pool and you're enjoying a nice swim, it's important to remember that you still need to act like a guest. Don't go running around with beer bottles, causing a bunch of noise, or being an all-around jerk. Hop into the pool, cool off, and be polite. As with any spy mission, your main goal is to not draw attention to yourself. Don't leave any evidence behind.
The consequences might be severe for getting caught sneaking into a pool, but if it's worth it to you, doing it the right way is your best bet to stay out of trouble. Have you ever snuck into a pool and got away scot-free? Share your tips in the comments. | {
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The sharp-tongued consumer advocate and Harvard Law professor is struggling to connect with working-class swing voters, many of whom seem more comfortable with Brown and his middle-of-the-road, regular-guy persona. Her fierce criticism of Wall Street has sent some Democratic Bay State financial types scurrying into Brown’s camp, too.
It’s the tale of two Elizabeth Warrens: the conscience of the left for many conventioneers vs. the candidate in real danger of losing the Democrats’ best Senate pickup opportunity of the year. A top dog in North Carolina, an underdog in Massachusetts.
Her problems are part Brown and part her own. Warren’s portrayal of the freshman senator as a covert ideologue hasn’t stuck, thanks to his soft tone on cultural issues like abortion and gay rights, coupled with a well-executed, down-home ad campaign.
And her campaign message isn’t resonating with a good number of Democrats. She’s losing about a fifth of them to Brown, according to an Aug. 16-19 Public Policy Polling survey that had the senator up by 5 points. And more voters think she’s too liberal than believe he’s too conservative — by an 11 percent margin.
“On the Democratic side, we’re the victims of our own spin with Scott Brown. In 2009, we said, ‘You look, he’s going to be a mess, an ideologue, he’s going to be stupid.’ Well, he hasn’t been any of those things,” said Boston-based Democratic consultant Scott Ferson. “She should be 10 points up. It’s a problem.”
Bruce Percelay, a longtime Democratic donor and close friend of Sen. John Kerry, is making a rare trek across party lines to support Brown. Percelay plans to work for Kerry’s reelection in 2014 and has given tens of thousands of dollars to Reps. Ed Markey and Mike Capuano as well as the national Democratic Party. But earlier this year Percelay gave $3,250 to Brown.
“Elizabeth Warren is not someone who I can comfortably wrap my arms around,” he said. “Not everyone is willing to express it, but [Brown] is the perfect Massachusetts Republican. He’s socially moderate and fiscally conservative and not a strong ideologue. People are very comfortable with that.”
In an interview, he said he was unsettled by the controversy surrounding Warren’s claim to Cherokee heritage and her hot rhetoric on economic disparity.
“While she’s very quick to chastise the wealthy, a lot of her fundraising is coming from very wealthy people on the West Coast,” he said. “There’s a concern about how genuine she is. Conversely, Scott Brown is an extremely genuine person.” | {
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It's great to proactively manage your paid search accounts, but columnist Ted Ives makes the case for backing off a little when it comes to bid adjustments.
The AdWords advertising system utilizes an auction-like process to decide which advertisers’ ads get to show and in which order. By bidding higher or lower, you can appear at higher or lower positions — depending on what your competitors are bidding.
Account managers use many approaches for setting and tweaking bids over time, and bid optimization is one of the oldest features in the SEM software industry. Automated bidding can work great, but many account managers (particularly agencies and consultants) have neither the budget nor the inclination to pay for an additional system to help them manage their AdWords account, so often the account managers must set bids themselves, which can be a daunting task.
I recently audited a large enterprise account and saw that the account manager had been very busy making bid changes, every three days or so, for the same keyword in many cases ($2.00 –> $12.00 –> $8.00 –> $15.00). Frankly, it looked pretty crazy. This got me thinking about one of my pet peeves: the push that account managers feel to take action, any action. After all, they’re supposed to be managing the account, right?
Certainly, if an account is making money hand over fist, one of the best things you can do is… don’t touch anything! (It may seem crazy, but you’re getting paid the big bucks to make the big decisions — and doing nothing is a pretty big decision.)
I would liken this to the debate over “always be testing.” Half of your tests will do worse and degrade the performance of your account during the testing process; a client once told me, “I don’t want to do any testing this next quarter because the campaigns are performing well, and we are under particular pressure to hit our numbers right now.” This was an extremely wise business decision on her part.
How different people approach manual bidding
I’ve seen various takes on how to bid over the years. Some like the approach of going in daily, weekly or monthly and comparing performance over time to see if there’s been a change. Others simply like to examine positions, and for keywords that are showing too low, bid them up. The more sophisticated will actually examine cost per lead or Return on Ad Spend (ROAS), and adjust bids based on that — keywords with CPAs higher than the account average are bid down, and keywords with CPAs lower than the account average are bid up.
I often do a combination of all three approaches myself; keeping an eye on position, for instance, is pretty important in order to ensure volume these days, with only one to four ads showing at the top of the page.
The problem: Sparse data
If you have a keyword with 200 impressions, eight clicks and one conversion that cost you an average of $3.00/click when the account CPA is $30.00, what does that tell you about whether you’re bidding too high or too low for that keyword?
Answer: absolutely nothing. Don’t even bother calculating what CPA you just achieved; it’s not even worth your time. Basically, you have NO IDEA what is up with that keyword. (Sorry, a single conversion is not enough to tell you anything!)
From time to time, there has been talk in the industry of “real-time bidding,” where bids are automatically and constantly adjusted. This concept is, frankly, ridiculous to me; changing bids based on super-sparse data is silly. Think about it. You get a click… should you change bids now? Obviously not. One click on your ad doesn’t mean anything. A bunch of clicks, though… well, now you’re talking!
The other problem: Forgetting what the heck you did already
People who religiously adjust their bidding on a weekly basis are particularly susceptible to this. Since you’re disturbing the bids, you’re mixing data from different bid levels together. So if you examine performance over the last month, you have maybe three weeks at one bid and one week at another bid. Did you write down when and what bid change you made? Right, me neither — it’s too much of a hassle.
So often, what you’ll see is someone making bid changes, thinking they have enough data when they are really just muddying the water and making decisions based on blended costs per acquisition from two different periods without realizing it.
On top of it, there’s a tendency to jerk bids around. You change a keyword’s bid one week, then you forget and change the same keyword’s bid the next week… in the opposite direction. Or you may be making the same decision twice — bidding up, then bidding up again the next week before there’s been enough time for data to accumulate at the new level.
Two solutions: Space and time
You can get more data in two ways.
You can associate that keyword with other keywords in the same keyword space — i.e., you can analyze at the ad group level, or the campaign level, or associate the keyword with others in other ways, in order to aggregate and get more data.
Or you can simply… wait.
Account managers hate waiting; they like to tell their boss they are in there tweaking the account, making changes left and right, and so forth. It feels bad to not make bid changes. What if someone looks at the account history and sees you haven’t made any bid changes in months? Won’t it look bad?
But guess what: If you don’t have enough data for a rational decision, you shouldn’t be making changes!
How often should you be bidding?
Prepare to hear some sacrilege! If you can hold off and try to do bidding across the entire account once a month or once a quarter (or even less frequently, if possible), and you make sure you only examine data since the last time you changed bids, you’re going to have much more solid data and will make better decisions.
How often you adjust your bids depends on how many clicks and conversions you’re getting, of course. But here are my general guidelines:
E-commerce B2C
Low average selling price (ASP) products with a high conversion volume: weekly or monthly at most may be best.
High ASP/low-volume products: monthly or even quarterly.
B2B: These markets are much more stable, and quarterly is usually just fine.
A caveat is that you may find yourself in a very dynamic market requiring much more frequent bid changes (e.g., the short Medicare signup season, where bids sometimes have to be changed daily), or you may have a single competitor come in and disturb the equilibrium of certain keywords and throw everything off. For this reason, you should monitor keyword positions, and if you see a big change on a high-volume keyword, don’t be afraid to take action.
In addition to getting more data and a more reliable history to work with, there are other benefits to waiting. Instead of spending 10 minutes here and there tweaking bids, if you aggregate all that time together and really do a focused, in-depth analysis based on CPA or ROAS across all the keywords, you’re going to do a much better job of making changes to bids across the account.
Coping mechanisms while you wait
Certainly, you should be analyzing bids on a more frequent basis than monthly. Tweaking bids for the top 10 or even 20 keywords if you really can’t resist the urge (try hard!) is okay, provided there are enough clicks and conversions to justify making a change. Adding negatives and positives, and setting up and analyzing ad or landing page tests, are things you should always have going on with any account.
Additionally, you can spend your time implementing more advanced optimization techniques like dayparting, or mobile or geographic bid modifiers; go ahead and do the account some additional good while you wait. That way, you can improve performance in other ways and have plenty of “evidence of industry” for your boss or client, besides just lots of bid changes.
Water those tomatoes, but don’t flood them
Really good stewards tend to be their own worst critics. The next time you feel pressure (usually just from yourself) and are tempted to unnecessarily tweak some bids, just take a step back and realize your account may do better if you simply have patience.
Instead, put your time into analyzing your data in other ways and strategizing while you wait just a little while longer; the results of good decisions based on sufficient data will be worth the wait.
Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Staff authors are listed here. | {
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A mixed-use project envisioned as Playa Vista's downtown has been sold to a Dallas investment firm for a reported $475 million, cementing the master-planned community's rise as a residential neighborhood and technology hub.
The steep price for Runway Playa Vista — a retail, residential and office development that cost about $300 million to develop — shows what can happen when tech giants like Facebook, YouTube and Microsoft come to town.
Investors are banking on those companies luring highly educated and highly paid workers to the burgeoning community as it nears completion.
"The tenant roster is kind of a who's who of big technology and entertainment companies," said Pete Cassiano, a managing director with buyer Invesco Real Estate, which bought the project from Lincoln Property Co. and two partners. He added that the Runway "is going to be a kind of a hub for the whole area going forward."
Invesco Real Estate is an arm of Atlanta-based investment manager Invesco. It also has a stake in two other Playa Vista office projects, including one known as the Hercules Campus. It plans to hold the 14-acre Runway for the long term.
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Built on a portion of aviation mogul Howard Hughes’ old runway, the development is now home to a luxury Cinemark movie theater, a Whole Foods market, banks and restaurants. More retailers are opening soon.
Built on a portion of aviation mogul Howard Hughes’ old runway, the development is now home to a luxury Cinemark movie theater, a Whole Foods market, banks and restaurants. More retailers are opening soon. (Christina House / Christina House)
The mixed-use project, which developer Rick Caruso of the Grove once held an option on, was delayed for years by legal challenges. That was frustrating for some of the earliest residents of Playa Vista who moved in early last decade but had few of the shops and restaurants that developers had promised.
But the Runway has opened in phases over the last year. It's now home to a luxury Cinemark movie theater, a Whole Foods market, banks and restaurants. On a recent evening, residents and visitors dined on outdoor patios as classic rock played. Others sat next to fire pits along the public sidewalk.
"It's amazing," said surgeon Dean Anselmo, who was on his way home from the grocery store with his partner and her young daughter. "We can walk to everything."
More is on the way, including upscale retailer Fred Segal, which is moving from Santa Monica, as well as longtime Venice mainstay Hal's Bar & Grill.
The community was first conceived of in the late 1970s on land once controlled by aviation mogul Howard Hughes.
Summa Corp. and its affiliates — all related to the estate of Hughes — put forth plans for a development on 1,087 acres, with high-rise office buildings, thousands of residences, roadways through wetlands, a golf course and a regional shopping center.
But dogged environmental opposition delayed and shrank the project immensely, while saving a chunk of the Ballona Wetlands that once stretched all the way to present Marina del Rey and Venice. The first residents didn't move in until 2002 and when Playa Vista is finally completed — likely over the next few years — it will span just 460 acres, less than half the original proposal.
It has approvals for about 6,050 residential units and 3.2 million square feet of offices. All the offices are built or under construction, except for a portion that Google purchased in 2014 for nearly $120 million as it looks to grow beyond its Venice Binoculars Building, according to Brookfield Residential, the Playa Vista master developer.
So far, about 4,500 homes have been completed, with most of the remaining units under construction. Brookfield estimates that 9,000 people will eventually work at Playa Vista while 11,000 residents will call it home.
In late 2014, Lincoln Property sold Google 12 vacant acres zoned for 900,000 square feet of commercial space. And late last summer, Yahoo Inc. moved its Santa Monica operations into the community.
The Runway, which sits on a portion of Hughes' old runway, is the latest deal. A purchase price for the town center was not disclosed, but people familiar with the deal pegged the transaction at about $475 million.
"It's a crescendo of the development phase of Playa," said David Binswanger, senior executive vice president of Lincoln Property. "It proves that the original vision for Playa is now being completed."
Veteran real estate broker Carl Muhlstein of JLL, who was not involved in the Runway deal, said he wasn't aware of a more expensive transaction in Playa Vista. That includes a purchase early last year by Invesco of a majority stake in the creative office campus known as the Reserve, which reportedly changed hands for roughly $300 million.
Muhlstein, who handles leasing for the Reserve, said large investment firms are increasingly eyeing Playa Vista as it nears completion, realizing that there probably will never again be such a large development west of the 405 Freeway.
Binswanger said Lincoln Property and its partners, Phoenix Property Co. and Alcion Ventures, had always planned to develop and sell the project. The current economic uncertainty did not play a role in the decision, which he said was made last summer.
The heavy demand has lifted rents and home prices in Playa Vista. Asking office rents were $4.62 per square foot a month at the end of last year, up nearly 77% from the beginning of 2011, commercial real estate brokerage CBRE Group Inc. said.
The neighborhood's median home price, meanwhile, was $1.1 million last year, up 15% from 2014, according to real estate data provider CoreLogic.
"It's ignited over the last couple of years to be a real place for people to live and work," said Adrian Foley, chief operating officer of the California region for Brookfield Residential.
The Runway project includes about 220,000 square feet of retail space, 33,000 square feet of offices and 420 apartment units, some of which are perched over stores.
Although new, the project is meant to give a sense that it evolved over time. For example, there are full-grown trees and stretches of cobblestone streets.
The retail space is nearly 90% leased, while the offices are all accounted for, according to Lincoln Property, though some tenants like Hal's Bar & Grill and Cedars-Sinai have yet to move in. Half of the apartments are taken, but Binswanger said they are being scooped up fast, even though one-bedroom units are starting at $2,800 a month.
Such a ready-made community is a major reason that Hal's picked Playa Vista as a new home, said co-owner Don Novack, who closed his longtime Abbot Kinney location in April but plans to reopen soon in another spot on the hip street.
Novack is adding small plates and at least one communal table to the upcoming Playa Vista restaurant, set to open in four to five months, in a bid to appeal to the legions of young tech workers.
"We're designing a menu that fits a younger clientele, a more Yahoo, Google, YouTube tech type," he said.
Longtime Playa Vista residents, including Adam Dumper, have welcomed the arrival of more shops and restaurants to their neighborhood.
The banker said he often used to drive to Marina del Rey to do some shopping or have a bite out, but now he can stay in the master-planned community he moved to in 2004 — which Playa Vista's developers have long pitched as one of its benefits.
"It's great," the 38-year-old father of three said recently while waiting for a friend outside a burger restaurant. "It felt at times like this would never come."
A version of this article appeared in print on February 10, 2016, in the Business section of the Los Angeles Times with the headline "A tech hub rises - The mixed-use project in Playa Vista fetches steep price" —
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Residents of McKinleyville Neighborhood Put on Lockdown by Report of Armed Subject
This is a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:
On Feb. 8, 2018 at about 11:07 a.m., the Humboldt County Emergency Communications Center received a report of a possibly armed subject making general threats near the 2200 block of Cochran Rd. in McKinleyville.
The subject, later identified as 58-year-old Larry Joe Sillaway, was reported to possibly be in possession of a firearm and a knife. Deputy Sheriff’s were dispatched to the scene with a description of the subject.
Residents in the area of Cochran Rd., Landis Ct. and Underhill Ave. were notified via the county’s Emergency Alert System of the active situation and advised to stay inside for the duration of the incident.
Thanks to community members’ help, deputies were able to track Sillaway’s movement as he travelled from Cochran Rd. to Landis Ct., through a nearby wooded area to the rear of Grocery Outlet.
Officers with the California State Parks and the California Highway Patrol responded to assist deputies.
Sillaway was taken into custody without incident and was found in possession of a knife. Deputies were unable to locate a firearm. Sillaway was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of disorderly conduct while under the influence.
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office commends the many alert citizens who aided in Sillaway’s apprehension.
So, is he a resident of the neighborhood who went off his meds, or another of the rough folks who live in that very large wooded area that stretches from Azalea Avenue all the way to Central? It’s a breeding ground of crime. | {
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Astrology of 5/3-5/9: Signposts of Higher Mind
Mercury goes direct at the start of this week and once again forms a conjunction to its higher octave planet, Uranus (as it did last week, and on March 26 prior to the Mercury retrograde). Pay attention to recurring themes and messages; potentially ones of an irritating/shocking nature or maybe not; but ultimately messages that are liberating some attachment, vision, or idea, and shaking them into alignment with a truer blueprint. While Uranus does signify the unexpected from some vantage points, it also correlates with the blueprint of an individual’s or group’s innate design. It deconstructs that which as become calcified over that innate design – forms which maybe served a role in the past but now are no longer relevant. The outer planets can seem vastly impersonal because of how broad their scope is; but bridges between inner planets and outer planets like we have this week offer opportunities to personalize this depth of vision.
In highly stimulating environments and times such as ours; synchronicity and repeat-messages can have a clarifying affect upon consciousness. A gift of this Mercury-Uranus transit is the ability to synthesize the connections between vast amounts of data quickly. We may really access the internal pieces of ourselves that light up when an external signpost calls it. Be open to messages from your environment that light you up on the inside. This interaction is the joining of forces between you and Higher Mind.
May 3
Mercury in Aries stations direct: 9:33 AM PST
Mercury will be out of retrograde shadow May 20 at 6:03 PM (meaning that is when it will catch up with the degree of Taurus in originally stationed retrograde in). This Mercury in Aries at 24 degrees is sandwiched between Uranus at 25 and Eris at 23 degrees of Aries. Stationing Mercury squares Pluto in Capricorn and trines Saturn in Sagittarius.
Unexpected (Uranus) news or information (Mercury); while Uranus does seem to promise the unexpected it is not to say that Uranus’ nature is that flippant as to give reversals of what is expected. Uranian activity can be predicted, but often the events themselves happen quicker than a person has the time to connect the dots. Uranian types who can easily see the future synthesize information rapidly: what appears as a compact flash of insight can be unpacked like an accordion expanding. The revelations and disruptions that Uranus brings have a shattering or freeing effect, depending on how we receive them and what has come undone.
Information reaches us that is exciting and vitalizing (Aries) or irritating and triggering (Uranus in Aries), /both. Either way, the message is an interruption (Erisian); Mercury and Uranus’s intelligence both require some degree of agility in processing new information rather than trying to uphold the past.
Given the power of the background alignment that stationing Mercury is now highlighting, it may be relevant to check our environment and data streams (Mercury). These transits happen across all strata and layers: for example I see the t-square that Mercury is currently lighting up between Uranus, Jupiter and Pluto in this music video Pillow Talking as much as I see it in this “Surprise” (Uranus) Ted Talk with the Pope. Uranus is about holograms and matrices. It’s infinitely diverse, and there is a freedom here to choose your matrix when you can. Can you be like Mercury and be a psychopomp between matrices of reality?
Certain phenomena tends to gather around structure; and the desired change of that surface phenomena may only be addressed by shifting the structure. Given that Saturn is trining this Mercury station, it may be easier to pinpoint or discern the correlating structure which is related to a given source of dysfunction (Mercury).
Sun in Taurus sextile Neptune in Pisces: 5:51 PM PST
This sextile forms a yod with Jupiter in Libra retrograde at the apex, signifying some of these possibilities-
The Sun and Neptune both form inconjunct aspects to Jupiter. Some of the difficulties with either inconjunct in these alignments may have something to do with going to excess in pleasure or addiction where it is not actually healthy (but lights up all the pleasure centers in the brain like a pinball machine at the moment of contact) While Jupiter may go all or nothing to obtain balance, ultimately balance is going to be found through higher learning of what harmony is for us. If true harmony is a focusing agent (Jupiter in Libra), the sensuality of Sun in Taurus and hypnotic, enchanting qualities of Neptune in Pisces may be directed toward more enduring or stable choices; or the sense of appreciation, simplicity, and divinity in all things may be reflected onto the state of harmony that Jupiter in Libra represents.
Neptune inconjunct Jupiter – The disconnect between ideas of Oneness and the intricacies of tribal nuance as well as the vast difference between any two individuals. Both universal and particular concepts can exist, but for them to interact with each other requires some adjustments – such as the understanding that differences in culture are as sacred as the concept of all being One, as well as the Oneness is not an excuse to be careless in vision: it may be meant to light up the intricacy of life in all of its diverse manifestations, and not be a hegemonic way of shutting out difference by acting as though it doesn’t exist. The Oneness paradigm does also exist; making others reflectors of facets of ourselves, but sometimes these are facets of self we have never yet made contact with or integrated.
Sun in Taurus inconjunct Jupiter in Libra – the critical adjustment of self-worth that occurs in which one feels abundantly worthy and therefore enjoys the company of of others because it is an extension of one’s own positive self image (as others are other facets of the One), and because we cannot help but to project self-image onto others.
More desire for alone time to meet with one’s direct connection to Source within, or new luxuriating with solitude as it becomes a newly satisfying Oasis.
A gentleness of self that allows new experience to not simply toughen the boundary of ego, but to fertilize new life within the self-concept.
May 9
Sun in Taurus trine Pluto in Capricorn: 11:21 AM PST
An emergent connection between self-concept and self-esteem and the structure of the body and/or one’s environment; the feedback between one’s mood and how one is embodied and/or placed in environment.
Discovering the interior switchboard for one’s self-concept absent of or at the root of all external symbols; the observer (soul) who observes (phenomenon), the seer (you) who sees (your life).
The ways in which being receptive is simultaneously a fiery creative act, potentially of empowering consequence.
Mercury is associated with medicine; I associate both Mercury and Uranus with the nervous system. Aries rules the head. Additionally Uranus relates to communities of likemindedness; not all of which are clearly announced or delineated. This can relate to how tribe collects around us based off our thinking; or things such as which plant spirits we’re in interaction with. While some interpretations and possibilities of this transit could be more irritating in nature; I also could see it being a highly resonant tonic for the nerves if one chooses to engage with a mental stimulus that resonates with their higher self. Think currents and circuitry, and a smooth line of electricity running from you to your Higher Self; versus when out of alignment with that higher self, the nervous system signals pain or irritation to reflect that.
Mercury and Uranus joined three times: consider the themes of this time period, earlier in the week and the days around March 26. Now Mercury is direct again – did something emerge within you at warp speed? Maybe a couple of re-routes, but a clearer sense of destiny or direction as a result? | {
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Oasis - Dont Look Back In Anger Lyrics
Oasis
Whats The Story Morning Glory
Dont Look Back In Anger
Slip inside the eye of your mind
Don't you know you might find
A better place to play
You said that you'd once never been
All the things that you've seen
Will slowly fade away
So I start the revolution from my bed
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Step outside the summertime's in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
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So Sally can wait, she knows its too late as we're walking on by
Her soul slides away, but don't look back in anger I hear you say
Take me to the place where you go
Where nobody knows if it's night or day
Please don't put your life in the hands
Of a Rock n Roll band
Who'll throw it all away
So I start the revolution from my bed
Cos you said the brains I have went to my head
Step outside the summertime's in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
You ain't ever gonna burn my heart out
So Sally can wait, she knows its too late as we're walking on by
Her soul slides away, but don't look back in anger I hear you say
Don't look back in anger
Don't look back in anger
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Kings’ School Al Barsha is seeking an outstanding Psychology and Sociology teacher to join our young and dynamic department. The department is currently in the first year of delivering both GCSE and A-Level courses and our expectation is that the successful candidate will develop and grow with the department.
This position represents a superb opportunity for an aspiring, imaginative and inspirational teacher to join a new, ambitious and innovative team where you will be able to play a leading role in driving both the direction of the department and opportunities for innovation across the curriculum. As such we are seeking a professional who is able to not only ensure high academic standards but also who can drive wider initiatives both in and outside the confines of the classroom.
Kings’ is part of the John Hattie Visible Learning programme. This focuses on how to best enhance student achievement, linking closely to our mission statement of “The best by every child.” All teachers receive excellent and highly desirable professional development which informs our approach as a professional body.
Requirements:
A high quality degree in Psychology or Sociology as the sole or significant focus
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Experience of working overseas or with international students would be an advantage.
How to apply: Candidates are to apply directly through the TES application form.
Closing date: 31 December 2017
(The school will conduct initial interviews to early applicants via Skype and reserves the right to offer an ideal candidate the position before the closing date)
Interviews to be held in London from 15 to 21 January 2018.
Successful applicants will take up their position in mid-August 2018 and will be invited to participate in a thorough programme of induction.
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On the Hogwarts Express, there are several passenger compartments for all the students. There is also a witch with a food cart who comes around selling such culinary delights as chocolate frogs and pumpkin juice for hungry students. | {
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Israel’s preemptive action could still be entirely law enforcing, even if Iran and the Arab enemies of Israel were not in a declared condition of belligerence with the Jewish state. The customary right of anticipatory self-defense has its modern origins in the Caroline incident, which concerned the unsuccessful rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada against British rule (a rebellion that aroused sympathy and support in the American border states). Following this case, the serious threat of armed attack has generally been taken to justify militarily defensive action. In an exchange of diplomatic notes between the governments of the United States and Great Britain, then U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster outlined a framework for self-defense that did not require an actual attack. Here, military response to a threat was judged permissible so long as the danger posed was “instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation.
Some scholars today argue that anticipatory self-defense, as articulated by the Caroline, has been overridden by the specific language of Article 51 of the UN Charter. In this view, Article 51 fashions a new, and far more restrictive, statement of self-defense, one that relies on the literal qualification contained in Article 51, “if an armed attack occurs.” This interpretation ignores the fact that international law cannot compel a state to wait until it absorbs a devastating or even lethal first strike before acting to protect itself. The argument against the restrictive view of self-defense is reinforced by the apparent weaknesses of the Security Council in offering collective security against an aggressor. Moreover, both the Security Council and the General Assembly refused to censure Israel for its 1967 preemptive attack against certain Arab states, signifying implicit approval by the United Nations of Israel’s particular resort to anticipatory self-defense.
Before Israel could persuasively argue any future instances of anticipatory self-defense under international law, a strong case would have to be made that it had first sought to exhaust peaceful means of settlement. Even a broad view of the doctrine of anticipatory self-defense does not relieve a state of the obligations codified in Article 1 and in Article 2(3) of the UN Charter. Strictly speaking, of course, these obligations should not be binding upon Israel because of the condition of belligerency declared by its Arab enemies and Iran, but – as a practical matter – the global community seems generally to have ignored this condition. It follows that Israel, should it decide upon future instances of “preemption,” would be well advised to demonstrate its prior efforts at peaceful settlement.
Indeed, looking over the more than 40 years of conflict between Israel and certain Arab states, Israel itself has generally defended its resorts to military force as measures of self-help, short of war. For the most part, such defense has had the effect of shifting the burden of jurisprudential responsibility for lawful behavior from the Arab states to Israel – an unfortunate shift because it focuses blame unfairly upon the Jewish state. Furthermore, Israel has often identified its uses of military force as “reprisals,” thereby choosing a problematic concept under international law that compounds one legal mistake with another. Because under the current Charter system of international law the right of reprisal is essentially contingent upon self-defense, it would be wise for Israel – so long as it chooses to ignore or downplay the declared condition of war announced by its enemies as grounds for different legal justifications for resort to armed force – to confine its rationale of military operations to the continuing right of self-defense. This would be especially reasonable, in view of the fact that Israel now faces the threat not only of war but of genocide.
Genocide is a word with precise jurisprudential meaning. Codified at the Genocide Convention, a treaty that entered into force on January 12, 1951, it means any of a series of stipulated acts “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such….” The key to understanding and identifying genocide lies in the “intent to destroy.” Genocide can take different forms. Its victims can be transported to the gas or the gas can be brought to the victims. Either way, the effect is the same: intentional mass murder of defenseless civilian populations.
Ideally, the United States will soon recognize Israel’s precarious position and take decisive steps to reduce Iranian and other preparations for renewed aggression. Failing such steps, Israel may conclude that prompt non-nuclear preemption, as an expression of “anticipatory self defense” in international law, is the only way to protect itself. Preemption may, in fact, be the best available means of reducing the risk of regional nuclear war.
There is a lesson in all this for Israel’s enemies and her friends. The real danger to peace in the Middle East is not inter-communal conflict with the Palestinians, but war. And it is in Teheran especially – not Jerusalem – that war is being prepared. Should these preparations continue at a rate that remains ominous for essential Israeli security, Israel will almost certainly have to strike first. Should the United States seek genuine stability for the region, it will have to avoid treating Iran as a non-risk factor. Assuredly, Jerusalem cannot base its survival upon the wise ways of Washington geopolitics.
Finally, Israel’s enemies and friends must understand that there are conditions wherein Jerusalem might decide to actually use its nuclear weapons. Faced with what would be perceived as imminent destruction of the Third Temple Commonwealth, Israel’s leaders would do whatever is needed to endure, including a resort to nuclear retaliation, nuclear counter-retaliation, nuclear preemption and nuclear war fighting.
LOUIS RENE BERES (Ph.D. Princeton) is the author of many books dealing with international relations and international law. His Security Or Armageddon: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy (1986) remains an early authoritative treatment of the subject. He is Strategic and Military Affairs columnist for The Jewish Press and Chair of “Project Daniel.”
About the Author:Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) is professor of political science and international law at Purdue University and the author of many books and articles dealing with international relations and strategic studies.
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Reliving A Dying Tradition: The Rebirth Of “Igbu Ichi”
The sound of ringing bells blends with the thrumming of drums. At a corner, a man was seen beating two slit wooden drums and another jingling the rattles (oyo) in unison. Ufie music welcomes the Nwadioka, traditional tattooist to the compound of the Nwa-ichi, the man to be tattooed.
The music produced by the instruments isan important music with traditional significance played at prominent ceremonial events like festivals, chieftaincy, as well as during Igbu-Ichi.
At the edge of the proscenium-style arrangement of the venue were older men garbed in native Igbo attire all important men in the Umudioka community with a firm knowledge of Igbu Ichi. One of them is Chief Odidika Chidolue, the last man with Igbu Ichi on his face. And beside them is a picture of different marked men in Neni, all dead, except him. Igbu Ichi, is not only traditional facial marks drawn across the face from the forehead to the cheeks, it is more. Igbu-Ichi is a traditional craft with an entire cultural system around it is gradually going extinct. Done by Nwadiokas, itinerant traditional herbalists cum artists who learned the craft through years of apprenticeship. Also built around this art is a social welfare system, a dispute resolution system as well as a legal system that ensures balance in the communal society.
In the middle of the space is a mat propped up around the head region; beside it, is a small calabash with herbs and on the mat, is a plantain leaf.
The Nwa-Ichi, was brought in on the back of an Nwa-Nso. Once brought in, the proceedings started with songs. The Nwa-Ichi’s legs and arms were held by the Nwa-Nso, as it would have been when the real marks were made.
As the “cutting” was been simulated, the Nwa-Ichi’s sister kneels beside him and feeds him with dried fish. Once the process was done, he is carried on the back, out the same way he was brought.
After that ritual,the believe was that the Nwa-Ichi has now become a man and as all male members of the community can now take a traditional title.
“It is important to have this re-enactment because we believe that more people across the world need to know about Igbu-Ichi and the culture around it,” said Chiedozie Udeze of Eyisi Ebuluo Foundation, the cultural organisation behind the programme.
Two men went through the process on August 25, 2018 at the British Council: Spanish, Juan Payo, and Norwegian, Rey Brhre. While the marking was simulated, and not actually done, their partners fed them with dry fish. For Payo, the experience was thrilling as it offered him an experiential knowledge of the culture of traditional marking among Umudioka people.
“It makes me feel welcome, like a part of them,” he said that he still needs to find out whether it makes him Igbo.
After the ceremony was done, the men were donned in native Igbo attire: a stripped red cap and a wrapper with text related to Umudioka Community printed on it. They also took on Igbo names; Payo became known as Ogbu Ezi-Oha which means “to have marks to show” while Brhre became “Ogbu Ngwa Ngwa” which means “do the marks fast fast.”
At the end of the ceremony, abacha-ichi, a special vegetable-based meal was served to the guests present while music played, even as some attendees danced to the music. Beyond the art form itself, the re-enactment brought to life that sense of communality, where everyone, young and old, in a traditional African community had a role to play for the community to thrive. | {
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Apple to Reportedly Use Micro-LED in 2017's Apple Watch 3 and Later iPhone Models
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Apple has been working with LuxVue to develop new micro-LED screens
Apple was granted patents related to LuxVue and micro-LED
The company is also looking to invest in Toshiba’s chip business
Apple’s plans to replace OLED with micro-LED in 2017 Apple Watch 3 and iPhones has raised concerns in Samsung as Apple’s expected use of Samsung OLED screens for a new iPhone model this year may only be temporary.
“Apple has been working with LuxVue (which it acquired in 2014) to develop new micro-LED screen production in the two years since the technology began gaining public attention in the 2015,” Apple Indiser reported on Wednesday, citing a Business Korea report.
Apple was granted patents related to LuxVue and micro-LED, that also explains the inclusion of sensing Infrared diodes with the ability to read fingerprints on the surface of the display.
In addition to the loss of a billion dollars worth of OLED screens, Samsung and LG are also increasingly concerned that Apple will start sourcing its RAM and cameras elsewhere, too, the report noted.
Aiming to secure a stable supply of memory chips for its iPhones, Apple may invest billions of dollars to obtain a substantial stake in struggling Japanese conglomerate Toshiba’s chip business, ending nearly two decades of being among Samsung’s largest RAM customers.
Apple executives are also considering joining hands with chip manufacturer Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision, for taking a big stake in Toshiba’s semiconductor business.
Early this year, Foxconn announced that it is teaming up with Apple to set up a display-panel manufacturing facility in the US at an investment of $7 billion.
The facility could create between 30,000 and 50,000 new jobs and could include the production of TV screens in addition to smartphone displays.
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Homestead Dreams ~ Life on Apple Tree Farm
If you haven’t been following me long you may not know that along with my passion for Paris, I also have a thing for farms. It may have something to do with all those episodes of Little House on the Prairie and The Waltons I watched as a kid. Whatever the reason, there’s a part of me loves the idea of a piece of land with a garden and chickens. And a farmhouse with a real working kitchen where the family’s daily bread is baked and garden produce is “put up” for the winter.
When we bought our place eighteen years ago, Y2K was a topic of interest to many. There was widespread concern that much of what we have come to depend upon in this country would be turned upside down at the dawn of the new century, all because of a computer glitch. We now know that Y2K was a non-event but in the years leading up to it experts really weren’t sure.
Lots of people became convinced that life as we know it would disappear and we would all be forced to return to our grandparents’ ways in order to survive. Personally, I thought those fears were overstated. I felt certain that we have enough smart people in this country to figure things out and get everything up and running even if there was a collapse initially. I did think it was possible that we would experience a short period of problems, though.
This was about the time we got our first computer and I started researching how to do basic things without electricity in case the grid went down for awhile. That led to a fascinating study of the modern homesteading movement. I started printing articles about everything from food storage to raising chickens. I eventually ended up with a 3 inch binder stuffed full of information about homesteading.
We didn’t move to the country because of Y2K but I did figure that if something happened we’d be in a better position to deal with it on our 40 acres with a pond, fruit trees and room for a large garden. After the uneventful dawn of the year 2000 I continued to read homesteading books and message boards because I found the subject fascinating. I amassed a rather impressive collection of books and learned a lot. I bought a wheat grinder and Bosch mixer and began baking our bread from freshly ground wheat. I did a little bit of canning. I grew tomatoes and a few other things. After several years of begging I eventually talked David into letting me get chickens. He will tell you plainly that he is NOT a farmer and has no interest in such things. But even he had to admit that chickens were pretty low maintenance. That is, until raccoons decimated our flock, but that’s another story.
Since writing my post the other day about learning to love my home I’ve been doing a lot of thinking. Since it looks like we may be here for the long haul perhaps it’s time for me to get back to thinking of this place as a homestead of sorts again. We jokingly named it Apple Tree Farm when we bought it, despite the fact there were only a couple of apple trees and they have since died. But I could plant some more. I could plant a garden and get more chickens. I could go back to baking all of our bread. In fact, I did bake a couple of loaves earlier this week and I was reminded again of how utterly delicious homemade bread is.
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Do you have a copy of Readers Digest “Back to Basics”? I used to read it and dream of having a farm!! I just looked for my copy and can’t find it. May have to search out a used copy from Amazon!! Also, my Aunt had all the “Foxfire” books, and I read them from cover to cover!
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Manhunters: before of Green Lantern Corps creation the Guardians of the Universe created the Manhunters to bring peace in the universe. However, the Manhunters became obsessed with the act of 'hunting' criminals. Their code, "No Man Escapes The Manhunters", became more important to them than seeing justice done.
Red Lantern Corps:The Red Lantern Corps were formed by Atrocitus of the Five Inversions, one of the five survivors of the Massacre of Sector 666. Using the blood magics of the Five Inversions, Atrocitus harnessed the red spectrum of light, allowing him to empower the rage within him. The Red Lantern Ring was born out of anger and crystalized the blood of the Inversions.
Black Lantern Corps: Prophesied to engulf the universe and be an enemy to all the Corps of Light, the Black Lantern Corps is an army of the dead who have been reanimated by their black rings. Ryut, a dead world since the infamous rampage of the Manhunters, serves as the homeworld of the Black Lantern Corps. This is where their Central Power Battery is to be found, and which is fueled by the remains of the Anti-Monitor (Antimatter Universe).
Scar: The Guardian who has come to be known as "Scar" was horribly burned during the Guardian's battle with the Anti-Monitor. Infected with evil and overwhelmed by Nekron's influence, she has worked to destabilize the Green Lantern Corps from within and to limit their effectiveness in fighting the Blackest Night.
Black Hand: One of Hal Jordan's oldest foes, Black Hand has evolved from a gimmicky criminal into a sadistic madman capable of siphoning lifeforce from his victims. Reanimated after his suicide, he is now the incarnation of the Black power, and Herald of the Black Lantern Corps.
Nekron: Nekron lives his days with the dead souls who have passed away to the underworld. Nekron become the embodiment of the Black Lantern Corps, the harbringer of the Blackest Night. | {
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Nuts, the second food to watch, contain a fair amount of carbohydrate, and it’s very easy to unwittingly scarf down large quantities. Cashew nuts are among the worst carb-wise – you’ll find that they contain around 20% carbohydrate by weight. For someone following a strict keto diet with a 20 grams of carbs per day allowance, this means that consuming 100 grams (which happens in a flash!) will have filled their daily quota. Peanuts tend to be around 10-15% carbohydrate – not putting them in the clear either.
Changing the way you go about eating can make it easier to eat less without feeling deprived. It takes 15 or more minutes for your brain to get the message that you've been fed. Eating slowly will help you feel satisfied. Eating lots of vegetables and fruits can make you feel fuller. Another trick is to use smaller plates so that moderate portions do not appear too small. Changing your eating schedule, or setting one, can be helpful, especially if you tend to skip, or delay, meals and overeat later.
After clearing the tear ducts I am finally sitting down to share my successes. They come in many forms weight loss, inches lost, pain lost, and shedding emotional sadness carried for many years. I have given birth to 2 amazing kids and always stayed fit during pregnancies and post pregnancies, but my body seemed to work against me. I was spinning my wheels with workouts eating clean and getting no results which equaled a defeating dull pain and being embarrassed of who I was in my own skin. After 6 weeks of the FASTerWayToFatLoss I can honestly say I have been transformed. My mental and emotional transformation are the highiest on my list as these will continue to push me on this journey. It is a journey to be the best version of myself and provide a modeling platform for my children. One of my biggest joys is hearing my almost 2 year old asks me gym or run? When I put on my sneakers. In addition the 9lbs I have lost and most importantly 13.25 inches shed are not a bad prize. Thank you for this program that allows me to see results, live a healthy lifestyle, and even have some treats when I deserve them. I can't wait for the next chapter!
Try interval training. This type of exercise routine can help you break up your workout without actually stopping your workout session. Interval training involves you going at an easy pace for a duration of time, and then going all out. You can also adjust the duration and pauses between the cycling back and forth. This can burn more calories and potentially increase your metabolism.[16]
The rest of the meals throughout the day are fair game. You may distribute fat intake throughout the day however you prefer. You can spread it evenly among meals or eat most of it in one meal. It is recommended that you eat 10-15 grams of fat with your bedtime meal. This will be enough to slow digestion of your nighttime protein and preserve muscle tissue throughout the night while not having any effect on fat loss.
In other words? "Drinking makes you more likely to eat sh*t," Dr. Seltzer says, referring to drunk foods. At the same time, he stops short of asking patients to quit alcohol cold-turkey to lose weight. Plus, research suggests you don’t have to, as long as your intake is moderate—i.e., less than about a drink a day. "If you drink a glass of wine every night and notice you eat more afterward, eat less early to account for this," he says. "Or, if you’re drinking four glasses of wine a week, drink three instead so you’ll won’t feel such a big difference."
The study authors believe that sleep deprivation can cause your body to produce extra hunger hormones (like ghrelin) and fewer satiety hormones (like leptin). This means you’ll feel hungrier and have a harder time controlling your cravings once they hit. Most adults should aim for at least 7 to 9 hours of shuteye per night, per the National Sleep Foundation’s recommendations.
To avoid starvation the body will lower leptin levels and lower energy expenditure in an attempt to slow down the rate of fat loss. As stated before, leptin is a primary fat burning hormone, low levels of it will spell disaster for any fat loss plan. There is a way to keep leptin levels elevated though. This can be accomplished through controlled high carb days. High carb days will keep leptin levels high and the metabolism running efficiently.
Muscle tissue is a biologically active tissue, this means that it needs and uses calories just to continue being. Some studies have shown that 1 pound of muscle can burn up to 50 calories per day by simply existing. This means that if you gain 10 lbs of muscle you can eat 500 more calories per day and still lose fat. This is just one of many reasons why it is so important to preserve muscle tissue while cutting fat.
Also some research shows that the human body is primed to consume most of its calories during daylight hours. But the lifestyle is problematic for many: Because family meals and dinners with friends often are scheduled for after sunset, "people who try to stop eating after 7pm can’t do it every day for the rest of their lives," says Dr. Seltzer, who supports an alternative strategy: Eating a hearty meal at your regular dinnertime.
Setting the right goals is an important first step. Most people trying to lose weight focus on just that one goal: weight loss. However, the most productive areas to focus on are the dietary and physical activity changes that will lead to long-term weight change. Successful weight managers are those who select two or three goals at a time that are manageable.
While the Duke study found no added benefit to resistance training (aka weight or strength training) when it comes to belly fat, a 2014 study from a Harvard University team found otherwise. Twenty minutes of weights a day was linked to less of an increase in belly fat (particularly for older men). “Engaging in resistance training or, ideally, combining it with aerobic exercise could help older adults lessen abdominal fat while increasing or preserving muscle mass," said the paper’s lead author Rania Mekary.
Following two successful spinal surgeries in the last twelve months I have struggled with not only residual back pain but pain throughout my body. I was not sleeping through the night partially due to pain. Pain dictated nearly every choice I made every day. Although I was successfully managing my weight according to 'the charts', I had no energy, no vitality, no strength, and no vigor. I needed help. I am so thankful to have stumbled onto FASTerWayToFatLoss because everything has changed in 7 determined and disciplined weeks. This program has educated me on nutritional choices. I now use the right foods to fuel my body at the right times. Within five days of changing what I eat I was running sprints. I am now lifting weights, running, sleeping through the night. I am no longer a slave to pain as most of it is GONE. What remains I am successfully managing.
Also known as branch chain amino acids. BCAAs are three amino acids known as Leucine, Valine and Iso-Leucine. They help prevent muscle breakdown and can be bought as yummy flavoured powders to use in place as sports drinks. Drink them during your workout instead of water as they will help you tone up as you lose that belly and may even help in the formation of abdominal muscle.
The normal fat cell exists primarily to store energy. The body will expand the number of fat cells and the size of fat cells to accommodate excess energy from high-calorie foods. It will even go so far as to start depositing fat cells on our muscles, liver and other organs to create space to store all this extra energy from calorie-rich diets – especially when combined with a low activity lifestyle.
Break out the lemon wedges: Regular fish eaters tend to have lower levels of the hormone leptin — good because high levels of leptin have been linked to low metabolism and obesity, says Louis Aronne, M.D., an obesity specialist at the New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. Try to consume three to four servings of a fatty fish, such as salmon, tuna or mackerel, each week.
Set up a box behind you and then lower your body until your glutes touch it. Touching the box requires you to “sit back” as you squat, as if you were lowering yourself into a chair, and this action gets the glutes and hamstrings maximally involved in the lift. It also helps you to perfect your squat form. You can start with a higher box and gradually move to smaller boxes as you improve, ultimately training your body to squat below parallel with no box at all. Better still, the box squat places no strain on the knees, so even people with knee problems can attempt it safely. | {
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In Delhi’s MCD Polls the funds were managed improperly – BJP
A report submitted by BJP central to BJP president Amit Shah stating that BJP’s state leaders are under the arrest of coordination lack and self –praise. The central observers have shown the disquiet with state BJP leaders.
Also, the report talks about the funds were not managed in the proper way during the MCD election campaigning. Now the audit will be done for the bills given by BJP Delhi state to the BJP HQs.
As per the sources during the MCD campaigning, some nukkad natak were played and vendors are not paid bills of these acts.
When the reports are proving the bills are inclined to mismanagement, therefore the audit has to take place for submitted bills by the BJP state leaders. | {
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Join Mr. E. Bunny for a breakfast your child will never forget! You will dine on a special spring time breakfast, and have a chance to take a photo with Mr. E. Bunny (don’t forget your camera). The breakfast will include french toast, sausages, orange juice and coffee/hot chocolate. Get your tickets early! An adult must accompany children. After breakfast you can follow Mr. E. Bunny out to Friends Field for our annual Egg Hunt. Tickets available NOW at the Community Center & Aquatics/Fitness Center, Adults: $6, Children: $4 (2yrs. & under are free)
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After your breakfast with the Bunny. Hop on out to Friends Field for Mill Valley Parks and Recreation’s annual Egg HuntKids delight in searching for surprises left in the grass by that rascally rabbit and his friends. Mr. E. Bunny will start each hunt: 10am for ages 2 and under, and 10:15am for ages 3-4 and ages 5-8. Three separate hunts at two different times to help the morning flow smoothly. Don’t forget to look for the “golden eggs’ that hold special surprises for their finders. Thanks to the Mill Valley Seniors’ Club generous sponsorship of this event, this year the Egg Hunt will be FREE! No tickets required. Please bring a basket or bag to collect your eggs in. | {
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TORONTO – Keith Pompey and Locked on Raptors host Sean Woodley dissect the 76ers' 113-102 loss to the Toronto Raptors at Scotiabank Arena in the their crossover podcast They come to the conclusion that the Sixers must improve and upgrade the roster in order to contend for an NBA title. | {
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Cision Acquires Leading Social Media Company Falcon.io
CHICAGO, Jan. 3, 2019 / / -- Cision (NYSE: CISN) today announced it has acquired Falcon.io, a leading social media company with offices in New York, Copenhagen, Sofia, Berlin, Melbourne and Budapest. Falcon.io provides brands with insights into their global content strategy and the management of comprehensive social media marketing programs through publishing, engagement, listening, advertising and measurement.
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The addition of Falcon.io further solidifies Cision's market leadership in driving the future of earned media management, moving beyond the tactical nature of PR point solutions. While Falcon.io will continue to be offered as a stand-alone social media platform for marketers, advertisers, and customer experience professionals, it will also be integrated with the Cision Communications Cloud® to expand social media capabilities to earned media and communications professionals. Integrating Falcon.io into the Cision Comms Cloud ™ platform will enable marketing and communications professionals to fully integrate their campaigns across owned, earned and paid media.
With the addition of these social media capabilities, Cision further demonstrates its commitment to be a true, end-to-end provider of earned media management solutions.
"Falcon.io is an industry leader in Europe and fast-emerging in the U.S. for social media marketing. By adding their social marketing solutions to the Cision portfolio, we are finally allowing industry professionals to execute sophisticated social media campaigns across paid, owned, and earned media that spans the entire customer journey," said Kevin Akeroyd, Cision CEO. "Falcon.io will round out our vision for holistic earned media management that includes not only engagement on broadcast, print, and open web/mobile media channels, but social media as well."
"Social media is core to today's customer experience, with nearly 2.5 billion users. At Falcon.io, we take pride in providing world-class brands with our leading social media marketing solution," said Ulrik Bo Larsen, Falcon.io founder and CEO. "Cision's earned media management vision and leading comms technology is very synergistic to the Falcon vision of offering best in class technology to streamline an array of related social media and customer experience use cases on one strong technology platform. Together, we will provide our customers with an unparalleled, complete communications solution."
Falcon.io's social media marketing capabilities will be immediately available to Cision customers.
About Cision Cision Ltd. (NYSE: CISN) is a leading global provider of earned media software and services to public relations and marketing communications professionals. Cision's software allows users to identify key influencers, craft and distribute strategic content, and measure meaningful impact. Cision has over 4,000 employees with offices in 19 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. For more information about its award-winning products and services, including the Cision Communications Cloud®, visit www.cision.com and follow Cision on Twitter @Cision.
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Macy’s and Saks Fifth Avenue, among other chains, will be giving away free cosmetics, skin care and perfumes on Jan. 20, as part of a five-year-old settlement involving price fixing on beauty products. This giveaway stems from a February 2004 class action settlement filed on behalf of consumers who purchased cosmetics between May 1994 and July 2003.
As part of the settlement, $175 million in cosmetics will be given away, one per person in a first-come, first serve basis. Consumers will be able to choose one item per person until supplies last. Brands include Estée Lauder, Clinique, Lancome, Clarins, Guerlain, Givenchy, Chanel, Boucheron, Cody, Calvin Klein, L’Oréal and Christian Dior. Consumers are not required to show proof of purchase, though they will have to sign a certification sheet acknowledging they purchased the products.
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__________________Everyone deserves a family, and Everyone deserves to be loved, and feel loved. 2 girls in my arms, and a son forever in my heart, and a rainbow baby coming in Nov!!http://lavenderdilly.wordpress.com/
exactly. DH and I are married. we did it for ourselves. it was simple, non-religious, unexpensive and beautiful. annnddd...i dont even know where our marriage certificate is. and my wedding "ring" is a living, breathing horse. lol.
WOO!! lol. Yes! We are married at heart, and common law. We have a beautiful daughter together and our own place. We never had a wedding or got rings or anything! Who friggin cares! His mean old mom thinks you HAVE TO have a stupid piece of paper to be in love or do ANYTHING together! PFFFT! lol she can kiss my butt! We have been together 4+ years and if we say we are "married" then bygolly, we are MARRIED! Paper degrades, burns, crumples, but our love is forever!
Staying unmarried isn't a guarantee that you wiill "never go through that." But, I understand your point. Just had to say it though. Happily married with a mortgage, 3 years (5 if you count the time we werent't marriied) 2 kids later and still very much in love. Feeling lucky every day because each day is a choiceand each day, we choose each other.
Staying unmarried isn't a guarantee that you wiill "never go through that." But, I understand your point. Just had to say it though. Happily married with a mortgage, 3 years (5 if you count the time we werent't marriied) 2 kids later and still very much in love. Feeling lucky every day because each day is a choiceand each day, we choose each other.
Agree and happily married for almost 20 years with a mortgage, although I agree with overpriced wedding comments
Just want to say that everyone that gets married doesn't have a fancy expensive wedding. We went down to the courthouse to file for a marriage license, found out you could just do it then (the ceremony) so we went down in regular clothes with just our DS in his stroller and got married. It was super simple, and very inexpensive. I just wear my engagement ring as a wedding ring (I don't need or want two rings) and DH got a wedding band that is nice but wasn't too $$.
Also, not all marriages end in divorce. I've seen just as many people break up and split that weren't married as are married. It just makes it a little easier I suppose not having to actually file for divorce, etc, but once kids are in the picture a split isn't going to be any easier really.
There are certainly benefits that come with that little piece of paper. For starters, in our case, DH's health insurance is really good and I am basically just a SAHM with an enjoyable but not high paying PT job. When we have a second child, I'll go back to being a SAHM for awhile again. Private health insurance costs a fortune if you don't want insane deductables and coverage for everything. I didn't have health insurance after DS was born almost two years ago and it sucked and is nerve wracking wondering about the what if's. | {
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Your spit roasted meat will be kept whole and cooked to perfection. You need to pick it up from our premises at 14 Westbrook Ave, Takanini. It will be in a hot box and will stay hot for up to 4 hours. If you return the hot box to us, we will give you $7.00 back (the box must be in the same condition as you picked it up)
You must complete our booking form and pay a deposit to secure your order. Orders must be paid in full by Friday 22nd December 2017.
Bookings are essential and all orders must be in before Friday 22nd December 2017.
This prize is to the value of $3500.00 at the 5 Star Black Swan Lakeside Lodge Boutique Hotel which offers luxury accommodation on Lake Rotorua. It is situated on one acre of grounds and includes swimming pool and sauna facilities, a secret grotto, sandy beach and many other amazing attractions.
Any customer who books in their wedding catering with us between 1st September 2017 through to the 30th April 2018 will be in the draw. You can be located anywhere as long as it’s a booking for your wedding, you will be in to win. Imagine spending time here with your new husband or wife to relax and start making memories.
Southern Spit Roast and BBQ Catering are bringing our Delivery Packages to Hamilton. We will make any party or gathering a success with beautiful spit roasted meats, fresh salads, hot gravy and condiments. Click on the link below to see what we can offer http://southernspitroast.co.nz/delivered-menus/
Your order must be over $700.00 including GST and a delivery charge of $45.00 including GST.
Don’t forget that we offer a full catering service as well with no travel charge to the Waikato region (some conditions apply). To book with us or see more of our menu’s visit our website
We have had some amazing venue’s that our customers have been to and asked us to cater at. Finding the right venue for your ‘perfect’ wedding is different for everybody. You may want to have your ceremony in the forest which is perfect at http://www.hunuafallscamp.co.nz/
From there your guests can stay the rooms available making a weekend of your wedding. How great would that be? We can come in and set up everything to do with the catering and you can choose one of our greatwedding packages. The perfect wedding, perfect location.
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Wow! What a fantastic meal you guys put on for us! Everything was so fresh and tasty. our attendees were overwhelmed with the quality and how much there was to choose from, including your desserts. Certainly “bang for ya buck” so to speak. People were surprised at the cost per head, as the food was outstanding.
I had one conversation with a guy in which he attended a function, held by a one of New Zealands largest companies, and the price per head was double, and the food they put on was well below your standard. That in itself is a true credit to your team.
Thank you very much for catering for our event, and we will not hesitate in recommending you to anyone, along with using you again. I must also mention, dealing with you guys is t”top notch”. Nothing was a hassle, with menu choices to payment to even number changes within one week of the event. This sure made things a lot easier for the only two committee members!!
We would just like to say a huge thanks to Southern Spit BBQ for your wonderful catering at our sons wedding last Saturday 21March.
Nothing was a problem to you , driving to Morrinsville to our farm , driving your van into the paddock to the shed (wedding venue), asking for nothing as you were all self sufficient which made it so easy for us not having to
provide a kitchen for you to work out of or even the fact that you didn’t need power. A huge thanks to your two wonderful workers Carol and Shania who just set up quietly and efficiently, nothing was a problem to them.
They were so friendly and courteous and always had a smile on their face. The clean up just seemed to happen and they packed all the left overs up for us to keep plus we had no dirty dishes to wash. And lastly , the food.Well, that was awesome, we had so many comments on it . It impressed our overseas guests and just hit the right spot for all the farming quests , plus a great selection for the young ones.
I would just like to say that the meat, vegetables and salad were absolutely delicious and the service was faultless. Tusi was a one-man machine and his efforts were well above and beyond what we had expected. He is a testament to your company and everyone present commented on how efficient and lovely he was.
I’m sure we’ll be having you back again in the future – thanks again for the great night
Just to let you know how impressed we were with the spit roast you catered for us on Saturday 22 September for our son’s 21st birthday. The food and service were great and all of our guests have commented on the quality as well as quantity served and also the cleanliness of the whole operation as well as the politeness of the staff member.
The lunch today was really amazing and all of my staff enjoyed it. The meat and salads were excellent. We thank you for providing us an opportunity to enjoy our Xmas lunch. It went down really well. Your team member who delivered food and waited on us was really a lovely man. I assure you if I am still in the store I will be hiring you for a Christmas Lunch this year.
We would like to compliment you and your company on the totally professional and friendly way your staff conducted themselves at the wedding of Nicolle and Paul, held at Ceramco Park on 27th March.
We have received so many comments from guests and family on the quality and presentation of the food, and would recommend your company to anyone who is holding similar functions.
We were amazed that the two people who were handling this function, could do so in such a way that the whole presentation appeared effortless.
Our last comment would be the number of people who said how wonderful the young lady was, whilst passing round the before dinner nibbles, and also the smiling face of the young man who made everyone feel really comfortable.
Thank you once again, for making our daughters day so special, and one to remember.
Lynn and Dennis Southern.
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This is just to thank you on behalf of the Mini Car Club of Auckland for the overwhelming Spit Roast dinner that we all did enjoy at our club evening. The food was really awesome, and our guests all liked the selection. They all left with many good comments about the quantity, quality and diversity of the food dishes. You will surely be at the top of our list for our next club event.
We would like to say a sincere thanks to you and your team for the magnificent contribution you made to our Easter party.
We were really very impressed with your punctuality and the quantity and quality of the food provided. Especially flexibility in catering for more people than was originally expected was a great favour.
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Monday, May 19, 2014
Cleopatra, ambition and family networks
There is an old saying in English that "Behind every great man there is a woman ... telling him to be great". This is intended to indicate that even in patrilineal societies women have influenced history, even if history has chosen not to formally recognize them (or historians have, anyway). However, every so often a woman has also stepped into the spotlight for herself, and recognizably influenced events in a way that has brought her name down through history.
The most famous of these is probably Cleopatra (or more properly Kleopatra), the last ruler of Ancient Egypt (as Cleopatra VII). Sadly, her ambition to become Empress of the known world seems to have destroyed two successive Roman rulers (Julius Caesar and Marc Antony) as well as her own two brothers (who would have ruled in her place); and her failure seems to have lost the country of which she was queen, so that Egypt became a Roman dependency. She ruled from 51-30 BCE, and modern Egypt did not regain its independence until 1953. This was one seriously influential woman.
As noted by Schiff (2010):
She lost her kingdom once; regained it; nearly lost it again; amassed an empire; lost it all. At the height of her power she controlled virtually the entire eastern Mediterranean coast, the last great kingdom of any Egyptian ruler. For a fleeting moment she held the fate of the Western world in her hands ... Catastrophe reliably cements a reputation, and Cleopatra's end was sudden and sensational.
Her interest to us, however, is her role in a dynasty that favored incest, and thus had a "family tree" that was a hybridization network, as shown in the figure. This particular family history is rather complex. Note that Cleopatra herself had at least four liaisons, two with her brothers (who successively ruled jointly with her as Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV, respectively) and two with Romans (Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony). Later, she also ruled jointly with her son by Julius Caesar (as Ptolemy XV).
Adapted from the Too Much Information blog, based on the information at Ian Mladjov's Genealogical Tables
The Ptolemaic dynasty was founded after the death of Alexander the Great (aka Alexander III of Macedon), when his empire was divided up among his Greek generals, and in 323 BCE Egypt ended up in the hands of Ptolemy, who subsequently ruled as the pharaoh Ptolemy I from 305-282 BCE. As Dray (2012) has noted:
His daughter, Arsinoe II, would start the tradition of incest. Married off to an old King of Thrace when she was still a teenager, she was the ultimate survivor. Her life was frequently in danger and she made many narrow escapes ... At some point, Arsinoe seems to have decided that if she wanted to be safe, she couldn’t trust anyone outside her immediate family. So, she returned to Egypt and married her full brother, Ptolemy II.
Now, the Greeks didn’t have a tradition of incest in their ruling families … but the pharaohs of Egypt did. By marrying her brother, Arsinoe was able to help create a link between the new Ptolemaic dynasty and the very old traditions of the native Egyptians. It served her extremely well as she became the first female pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty, ruling not just as the wife of the king, but as a king in her own right.
Meeg (2009) suggests that:
According to tradition, incestuous marriages between the pharaohs and their sisters were common. If this was the case, it could have been done to emulate the god Osiris and his sister / wife the goddess Isis (the product of that union was Horus, the alleged ancestor of the Pharaoh), and/or to keep the sacred bloodline pure. When Alexander the Great's general Ptolemy seized control of Egypt around 323 BC, his descendants would continue the local custom of pharaonic brother-sister marriages. This practice was unknown among Greeks and Macedonians.
Indeed, Wikipedia notes:
In ancient Egypt, royal women carried the bloodlines and so it was advantageous for a pharaoh to marry his sister or half-sister; in such cases a special combination between endogamy and polygamy is found. Normally the old ruler's eldest son and daughter (who could be either siblings or half-siblings) became the new rulers. All rulers of the Ptolemaic dynasty from Ptolemy II were married to their brothers and sisters, so as to keep the Ptolemaic blood "pure" and to strengthen the line of succession. Cleopatra VII (also called Cleopatra VI) and Ptolemy XIII, who married and became co-rulers of ancient Egypt following their father's death, are the most widely known example.
Bevan (1927) continues the story [Note: he uses one number less for the Cleopatras and Ptolemies]:
Cleopatra VI found herself queen of Egypt at the age of seventeen or eighteen. By the custom of the house, and according to the will and testament of Ptolemy Auletes, the elder of her two brothers, then only nine or ten, was associated with her, as king (Ptolemy XII). They probably had, as a pair, the style of "Father-loving Gods" (Theoi Philopatores), though neither during the reign of Cleopatra with Ptolemy XII, nor during her reign, later on, with the younger brother, Ptolemy XIII (then about twelve), do the coins bear any head or name but that of the queen, and in Egyptian sepulchral inscriptions put up during the reign of Cleopatra with her younger brother (regnal years 5, 6, and 7 of Cleopatra) the regnal year of the boy-king is ignored. Ptolemy XIV was the acknowledged son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, and ruled as child king with his mother.
The involvement of royalty in consanguinity and incest is widespread. As noted by Dobbs (2010):
While virtually every culture in recorded history has held sibling or parent-child couplings taboo, royalty have been exempted in many societies, including ancient Egypt, Inca Peru, and, at times, Central Africa, Mexico, and Thailand [and also Hawaii].
Not unexpectedly, this phenomenon has received attention from modern evolutionary biologists. Conventionally, the evolutionary advantage of sexual over non-sexual reproduction is considered to be the creation of genetic diversity through heterozygosity. Inbreeding, by reducing heterozygosity, then seems to negate the advantages of sexual reproduction. So, the near universality of incest avoidance in humans has a clear genetic dimension. Indeed, as I have noted in previous blog posts this is easily demonstrated in well-known families — (i) Charles Darwin's family pedigree network, (ii) Toulouse-Lautrec: family trees and networks.
Royal incest (mostly brother-sister; less commonly father-daughter) represents the logical extreme of hypergyny. Women in stratified societies maximize [evolutionary] fitness by marrying up; the higher the status of a woman, the narrower her range of prospective husbands. This leads to a direct association between high status and inbreeding. Royal incest is a fitness maximizing strategy if the following conditions are met: polygyny, patrilineal succession, and parental control of royal succession. Under those conditions, the genetic risks of close inbreeding are more than accounted for by the production of a highly related male heir who has, himself, access to a large harem. Data from Ancient Egypt, Inca Peru, Hawaii, Thailand, Monomotapa, Bunyoro, Ankole, Buganda, Shilluk, Zande, Nyanga and Dahomey confirm hypotheses derived from the sociobiological paradigm of inclusive fitness.
Finally, to return to Cleopatra, she is usually credited with being fatally attractive due to her great beauty. However, there is no evidence that this was actually the case. Her attractiveness to men seems to have come much more from a strong personality, including determined diplomacy and an easy facility with languages. Also, her ancestors were Macedonian Greeks, rather than native Egyptians, giving her a stronger genetic and cultural tie to Europe rather than to Africa, which must have helped when trying to woo the rulers of the Roman Empire. It was this ancestry that the dynasty's consanguinity and incest were intended to protect. The Egyptian populace certainly didn't benefit from it.
Indeed, Cleopatra seems simply to have been the ultimate expression of her dynasty's heritage, as noted by Ager (2006):
royal incest, as practised by the Ptolemies, was only one of a larger set of behaviours, all of which were symbolic of power, and all of which were characterized by lavishness, immoderation, excess and the breaching of limits in general.
Interestingly, the potentially negative aspects of inbreeding seem not to have affected this dynasty — there is no convincing evidence of infertility, infant mortality or genetic defects, for example (Ager 2006). Instead, their main historical legacy has been their bizarre juxtaposition of either marrying each other or murdering each other, and sometimes both. Cleopatra's activities in this regard were no different to those of her ancestors.
References
Ager SL (2006) The power of excess: royal incest and the Ptolemaic dynasty. Anthropologica 48: 165-186.
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Greeks did have a tradition of allowing marriage between half-siblings and marriages with paternal uncle and niece were common if the niece's father had die without a son, to keep the property in the family. Also, Indo-European Carians of Asia Minor, long-time neighbours of the Greeks and partly hellenized, had a tradition of brother-sister marriage among the elite and the last ruler of the Carians had allied with Alexander the Great and bequethed her kingdom to him and was well-known as a result among the Greeks and Macedonians.
For what it's worth, the portraits of Cleo on coins of the time picture someone who looks more like the actress who played Almira Gulch in the Wizard of Oz than Liz Taylor. http://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/incitatus_coins/79/product/cleopatra_vii_philopator_queen__pharaoh_of_egypt_ae_80_drachmae_eagle_on_thunderbolt_nice_cleopatra_portrait/168908/Default.aspx | {
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Fort Drum among four locations to be studied for East Coast missile defense site
The Defense Department has named Fort Drum as one of four military installations to house a possible East Coast missile defense facility.
A 10th Mountain Division soldier trains at Fort Drum.
Credit Joanna Richards
The decision narrows the number of locations being considered from 10 to four. The Defense Department stresses that no decision has yet been made about whether the facility will actually be built.
Congressman Bill Owens says among the field of four bases selected for review, Fort Drum is well-positioned.
“I don’t think any of them have the infrastructure that Fort Drum does, in terms of being able to support the troops assigned to this facility. And I think that that’s going to be a major deciding factor,” he said.
The environmental impact study will take two years and will look at how building and operating the facility would affect land and water use, air quality, transportation, and socioeconomic aspects of the community. Sites in Michigan, Ohio and Maine will also undergo studies.
Owens says if the facility were built at Fort Drum, it would be a boon to the area’s economy.
“You’re continuing to build missions for Fort Drum. Each time you do that, I think you make the facility stronger,” he said.
Congress is pushing the Pentagon to consider building an East Coast missile defense site out of concern that Iran will develop intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Okay, I've been putting this off for months now but here it is. Here is my short story, this is the first ever short story that I have written. This is the first thing that I have written that I have been brave enough to post to the public. I am putting myself out there because I have to, well I have to eventually and someone once said "there's no time like the present." And yes I know that isn't the entire quote but oh well, here is my short story. I hope you enjoy and please be nice, my feeling are very fragile right now.
Happy Reading.
-Ashley
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The Colorado Gold Rush calls the worst kind of men to the High Country. Connivers and murderers swarm from the far reaches to stake their claims. They come seeking the Color. What some of them they discover is another color altogether.
Rex Westman is chief amongst scoundrels. He holds the Sheriff hostage. He lords over the town of Red Junction from his palatial compound, dispatching henchmen to perform his dark bidding. But this time, has he gone too far?
Yule Sherwin is a drunk. He's up at dawn cobbling together coffins. Then it's across the street to drink himself blind at the bordello. His favorite is Misty, a girl who's come of age without ever knowing life outside the whorehouse. During a midnight rendezvous, they meet a dead boy with an unholy appetite.
Terrible secrets are revealed to Yule. The End is near and only he knows it. But he's a man broken and haunted by his past -- is he up to the challenge? Can he write himself a new chapter, one where he's the hero?
Or mayhap, he'd be better served by building his own pine box -- while there's still time to do so. Continue Reading
Just as a huge financial scandal throws New Yorker, Olivia Wheeler, from wealth and success to bankruptcy and shame, struggling impoverished single-mother Rosie Dixon wins an unexpected million pounds. Good luck? Bad luck? Who can tell? Both women have more in common than they realize. While Olivia struggles to survive her humiliations, fleeing broke and homeless to London, shy unassuming Rosie discovers sudden riches arrive with their own mega-load of problems.
Can workaholic career-obsessed Olivia find a passion for something earthier and warmer than power and prestige? And can Rosie sift through envy and greed to discover true friends, true family and even true love? Two strangers who’ve never met. Yet neither realises how each is affecting the other’s destiny or the places their paths touch and fates entwine.
But will they surmount the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune?
While nursing some drinks after a terrible day at work, Tucker Candle spits out his rum and coke when a stranger across the bar turns water into wine. But did he? Or was it just an alcohol-induced trick of the light?
This stranger has a warning for Candle: skip your planned business trip tomorrow. If you go, I won’t be able to protect you any longer.
With a clear head the next morning, Candle resumes his normal life, working for a company that’s about to lay him off. That barroom huckster couldn’t have been magical, or prophetic. He was just some washed-up weirdo with a few tricks.
But when Candle comes back from his trip to find his pregnant wife missing and a dead man’s blood seeping into his bathroom floor, the washed-up weirdo’s counsel doesn’t seem so foreign now.
Cops, friends, family… Candle doesn’t trust anyone. As he searches for his wife, people around him keep turning up murdered. If he can’t find her and uncover the mystery driving the chaos, the stranger’s words might come true, after all. Continue Reading
In a medieval fantasy world where a handful of refugees from a Viking-like world now live in peace in a village of Shining Star people in the Great Turtle Lands, Greeta faces a dilemma. Although she longs to be married and have children, her sweetheart is balking. Something is wrong, and she suspects it’s because she looks nothing like any other young women. Instead of being petite and dark, Greeta is tall and pale.
For the first time in her life, Greeta is beginning to realize she has nowhere to fit in. And she could be facing a lonely life without love or a family of her own.
The appearance of a shaman in her village changes everything. The shaman insists Greeta must learn to walk in the Dreamtime because dark days approach and a key to the survival of all people in the Great Turtle Lands will be a gift that Greeta doesn’t yet know she has. Convinced she no longer belongs in her own village, Greeta leaves with the shaman.
But the travels beyond the village Greeta has always known and loved soon become perilous. She will soon learn that Dragonfly, the name given to her by the Shining Star people, is a clue to both the mysterious past she can’t remember as well as her future.
Dragonfly is Book 1 in the new epic fantasy adventure series that is also the second series set in Resa Nelson’s Dragonslayer World, a world brimming with female heroes, shapechangers, ghosts, and dragons. The Dragonfly series revolves around fantasy cultures inspired by the Norse exploration of Native America over 1000 years ago. Continue Reading | {
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Oxygen Art Centre is pleased to host resident artists prOphecy sun and Darren Fleet for the creation of Nostalgic Geography: Mama and Papa have Trains, Orchards and Mountains in their Backyard, a multi-channel AV installation exploring the history and geography of Harrop-Procter. prOphecy sun and Darren Fleet have been working collaboratively since 2009 and currently live in Nelson BC with their two children. Their shared work includes writing, curation, visual art, music and sound compositions. In their latest project to be presented at Oxygen Art Centre, they will focus on a series of fictional aerial vignettes and sound environments created with drone and smartphone technologies. This exhibition is a meditation on the relational networks of technology, economy, landscape and memory that have shifted the geography of Harrop-Procter, prOphecy sun’s parental residence.
sun and Fleet will be in residence at Oxygen from August 19th through September 5th 2019. There will be a reception for the artists on Friday September 6 at 6:00pm, before the Nelson Art Walk Gala at Hall Street Plaza. An artist talk with both artists present will take place on Saturday September 7th at 4pm. The exhibition will run from September 6 through 28th, with a closing dinner open to the public on September 27th at 5:30pm at Oxygen Art Centre, where they will prepare a meal using food harvested from their family’s farm in Harrop-Procter. During the exhibition, Oxygen Art Centre will be open to the public Wednesday – Saturday 1pm-5pm. Admission is free or by donation, and Oxygen is located at 320 Vernon street (alley entrance behind Hipperson’s Hardware).
Harrop-Procter is a rural community surrounded by historical fruit orchards, mountainous meadows and a train rail line that hugs the lakeside and rides from west to east daily. Where once paddleboats used to navigate the lake, now cars, trucks and fibre optic cables connect us together. “Yet, these historical relations remain, shaping our imaginaries with deep grooves in the senses of the land,” says sun. On the hillsides in and around Sunshine Bay, neatly parceled residential lots now cut through what was once a thriving fruit producing region. The aged trees, many of them grey, gnarled, and half broken, are buried up to their branches in tall grass, yet continue to produce apples. In Nostalgic Geography: Mama and Papa have Trains, Orchards and Mountains in their Backyard artists prOphecy sun and Darren Fleet use AV technology to reveal the complex social and economic relations that have shaped the historical orchards and surrounding landscape. An ambient soundscore composed of field recordings taken in-situ will accompany the moving imagery, amplified throughout the gallery.
ABOUT prOphecy sun & Darren FleetprOphecy sun is an interdisciplinary performance artist, feminist, movement, video and sound maker, mother and PhD Candidate at the School of Interactive Arts + Technology at Simon Fraser University. She holds a BFA and MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her practice celebrates both conscious and unconscious moments, and the vulnerable spaces of the in-between in which art and life overlap. She performs and exhibits regularly in local, national and international settings, festivals, conferences and galleries. She is also the recipient of the Governor Generals Award and the Lakehead Jurors Prize and has authored several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and journal publications.
Darren Fleet is an ex-poet from Aldergrove, schooled in the Fukovian theory of aesthetics. He is also a writer, journalist, photographer and PhD candidate and instructor at the SFU School of Communication. His interests include consumer culture, environmental discourse and the cultural politics of fossil fuels. He holds an MA in Journalism from UBC and was part of the editorial team at Adbusters magazine that launched the #occupywallstreet meme into the world. His work has been featured in numerous publications and forums including: Vice, Public, Journalists for Human Rights, UTNE Reader, Al-Jazeera, The National Observer, The Tyee, The Globe & Mail, and at the Istanbul Biennial of Art.
ABOUT Oxygen Art CentreBased in Nelson BC, Oxygen Art Centre is a rural artist-run centre that provides space and programming for artists and the public to engage in the creation, study, exhibition and performance of contemporary art in all disciplines. Oxygen Art Centre is particularly interested in work with regional relevance, interdisciplinary work and work that engages audiences in participatory processes. Oxygen’s Exhibition and Residency Program supports process-based projects that encourage experimentation and push conventional practice. Founded in 2002, Oxygen is an integral and long-standing cultural hub for artists of all disciplines and professional levels in the West Kootenays and beyond. | {
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“Love Makes Me Happy”: the Authentic Christian Example of Seraphima
This homily was given by Fr. Gabriel during the Baptismal Divine Liturgy of a very special little 6 year old named Eliana, who despite her struggles with cerebral palsy, has faithfully been showing others what an authentic love for Christ and His Church looks like. On this day, the parish also brought several catechumens into the faith, including Eliana’s parents.
We give thanks to God this morning for allowing us to open our eyes, get into our vehicles, and drive into the streets of the world in order to arrive at our experience of Heaven here in this little church in the woods. We are doubly blessed to be witnesses of the re-birth and illumination of these four new warriors for Christ: Maximos, James, Sophia, and little Eliana Seraphima who was bathed in the Divine Waters of Baptism this morning, coming out more radiant than when she went in! This little girl, being so pure, innocent, and full of joy, stands as an ultimate example for what it means to live life as a Christian.
These past few weeks there was some wonderful discussion within Eliana’s family over who her patron saint would be. Eventually, with her help, the family settled on St. Seraphim of Sarov. He is a wonderful Russian Saint who had a very famous saying which fits Eliana’s disposition perfectly: “Acquire the Spirit of Peace, and a thousand around you will be saved!”
Eliana Seraphima put this famous saying of her patron saint to life this last week when I met with the family to go over the Baptismal service and to prepare them all for their life confessions. I must admit that prior to our meeting, I was having a very difficult day. The weather was miserable and my body has still not adapted to the Michigan Weather changes and seasonal allergens. My home life had been a bit chaotic, as everyone was also under the weather. Each of us goes through days like the one I was having, where even lifting a finger is difficult—let alone trying to concentrate on the thirty different things that need to be done.
After my meeting with the family was over, we walked out to the parking lot. Little Eliana came up to me and gave me the biggest bear hug goodbye. With a very sweet voice, and a tremendous grin, she said to me, “I love you!” Her smile was infectious and I was immediately caught up in grinning ear to ear while saying, “I love you too!”Eliana then ran to the car, turned around, and with a radiance that you had to see to believe, said, “Love makes me happy!”, before giggling and getting into her car.
With one hug and a smile, and with the most important word in the human language, love, Eliana turned my entire day around. It all came from one little girl’s authentically Christian disposition to life. For those that have not gotten to know her yet, she is the sweetest little gem of an Orthodox Christian, and every time I look at her, all I am able to see is the unconditional love of Christ.
Brothers and Sisters, this love, this innocence, this radiant disposition towards our spiritual life, is the aim that we all need to have. It is this type of love that we all need to gain, because growing up, we all at some point in our lives tend to lose that innocence. We lose the radiance that we all received on day of our own Baptism.
We read in the gospel today (Luke 8:41-56) how our Lord found himself in a large crowd of people while on his way to heal Jairus’s daughter. In the midst of this sea of humanity was a woman who we hear had been hemorrhaging blood for twelve years. She was someone whose suffering could not be healed by doctors or conventual means.
In many ways, we as human beings find ourselves in the same boat as this woman. How many times have we confessed to hemorrhaging with anger or wrath towards someone or something? Some of us suffer from avarice or greed. Some have suffered for even more than twelve years with lust, gluttony, self-love, jealousy, or laziness. When we each examined ourselves closely, we begin to see that we all suffer from the uncleanliness of sin, which causes us all to lose that life of innocence, peace, and joy that we were given in the beginning.
The woman in the Gospel knew that her suffering could not be healed by conventual means so she sought another solution. In the midst of the crowd she saw the only one in this world capable of curing her. It was the same physician that we all turn to in order to correct the spiritual diseases of our own life—Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
We rejoice today as our catechumens have officially entered into the crowd with us. They have all joined this 2,000 year old family of people who strive day after day to look for ways to navigate the chaos of the world in order to simply touch the Hem of our Lord’s garment. They hoped to be healed, to become whole again, and to restore their innocence and child-like love.
Maximos, James, and Sophia…allow me to be the first to officially welcome you to your new family. You stand here this morning in the Kingdom of Heaven, surrounded not only by your newest brothers and sisters in Christ, but by all of the Saints who have come before us. They are here and everywhere throughout the world, asleep in the Lord.
Today marks the beginning of an incredible journey which lasts for eternity. Yes, there will be times when this journey is marked with difficult struggles and temptations, but I can promise you that there will be even more indescribable joys. There will be many days that you will have complete clarity and strength of faith; however, as with many things in life, there will be days when trying to maintain this sacred gift of Orthodoxy that you have received today will be difficult. In those difficult moments we are reminded of that image of the crowd surrounding Jesus in todays’ Gospel.
So often when there is a sea of people standing in a small area, it is the little ones, our children, who have the easiest time weaving in and out of feet. They have a much easier time than we do, in trying to maneuver closer to the center in order to reach Christ—who is at the center of all things. In those moments of difficulty, remember the example of the innocent one that was baptized with you today, allowing her radiance to act as a beacon of light to draw us out of the darkness of the world and into the Unending Light of the Kingdom which is to come.
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Hey, this looks yum – even more so cause we’ve got our own pork in the freezer – home-made out of last year’s recycled veg and kitchen scraps… the best kind.
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Pharmacies Ignore Pullout Order, Sell Harmful Ophthalmic Solution
Posted: June 26, 2006
Harmful Ophthalmic Solution Was Still Available In Pharmacies. Despite the announcement a month ago by the manufacturers of a highly harmful ophthalmic solution that they were recalling the product, the item is still available in pharmacies across Jeddah.
Bausch & Lomb, the manufacturers of the contact lens clearing solution ReNu with MoistureLoc, announced their decision to call back the product from markets worldwide due to a high rate of eye infection associated with it. The Saudi Ministry of Health also issued a precautionary note around the same time.
Pharmacies visited by Arab News said they were not aware of the circular or of the harm the product might cause to the eye until last week. Although many pharmacies have removed the product from their shelves, some continue to sell it.
According to a statement issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on May 15, the multinational eye care company Bausch & Lomb, which has its headquarters in Rochester, New York, decided to permanently withdraw ReNu with MoistureLoc due to data suggesting that the liquid may increase susceptibility to Fusarium Keratitis, a fungus that causes an eye infection affecting the cornea and which can lead to total blindness.
The CDC Is Investigating The Outbreak Of Fusarium Keratitis
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) is investigating the multi-state outbreak of Fusarium Keratitis that may be associated with contact lens use.
However, the risk of getting the fungus from contact lenses remains extremely low. Contact lens wearers who experience unusual redness, pain, tearing, light sensitivity, blurry vision, discharge or swelling should consult their doctor immediately. The CDCP is continuing its investigation to identify specific factors that may have placed people at risk for developing the infection, including hygiene practices, overnight usage and specific solutions used.
The Saudi Ministry of Health issued warnings in the local papers a month ago about possible infections associated with the use of ReNu with MositureLoc. Last week pharmacies began receiving a circular from the ministry ordering them to remove all ReNu brand products. They were also informed of the pullout by the distribution agent.
“I only found out about the circular a few days ago from my neighbor who is an optician,” said pharmacist Mohammed Fathi.
The optician, Osama Hussein, said many pharmacists he encountered have not read the reports in the papers nor have they received the circular. “There hasn’t been any follow-up from the ministry to check on whether the product has been removed from the shelves or whether it is still being sold,” he said.
ReNu products, especially ReNu Multiplus, are the most common brands bought by contact lens users, according to pharmacists.
Manal Ahmed, 36, has been using ReNu for the past seven years. She bought ReNu with MoistureLoc last week from a local supermarket and did not know that it was harmful and was supposed to be pulled out.
“This (Fusarium Keratitis) is a very rare type of fungus and we have not received any cases here until now,” said Dr. Ihab El-Hawary, ophthalmology consultant at El-Maghrabi Eye Center on Madinah Road. “Although it might affect contact lens wearers, especially those who use distilled water to clean their lens, it mainly affects people who work in agriculture or have low immunity due to diseases such as cancer, uncontrolled diabetes or have some kind of organ transplant,” he explained.
Even if there were some cases in the Kingdom, they might not have been reported or diagnosed correctly, said Dr. El-Hawary.
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CLEVELAND -- The Indians will have an extra pair of eyes in the batting cage next season.
Cleveland has hired Matt Quatraro to serve as the team's assistant hitting coach, MLB.com confirmed on Wednesday. The hiring of Quatraro, who will work alongside Indians hitting coach Ty Van Burkleo, has not officially been announced by the club.
Quatraro worked as the Rays' Minor League hitting coordinator over the past four seasons, following previous roles as a manager and catching instructor within Tampa Bay's farm system. During parts of seven Minor League seasons, Quatraro hit .286 with 23 home runs and 202 RBIs in 415 games after being taken by the Rays in the eighth round of the 1996 First-Year Player Draft.
The Rays made Quatraro the first of their former Minor League players to join the organization's coaching ranks.
Quatraro, who will turn 40 on Thursday, will fill a role that Luis Ortiz -- a Minor League hitting coordinator for the Indians -- held with Cleveland in September after rosters expanded. Ortiz also interviewed for the full-time position on manager Terry Francona's coaching staff.
During Van Burkleo's first year as Cleveland's hitting coach last season, the Indians finished among the top five teams in the American League in runs (745), walks (562), stolen bases (117), extra-base hits (484) and on-base percentage (.327). Cleveland ranked sixth in the league in OPS (.737) and eighth in average (.255), while setting a single-season franchise record for strikeouts (1,283). | {
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — About two and a half years ago, Composer Chris Coyle started sharing his love for music with those who don’t always get to experience its many wonders.
“It definitely changed the way I thought about being a musician, about making music,” said Coyle.
A nationally-known musician, Coyle is teaching music workshops to clients at Midwest Special Services in Eagan and Brooklyn Center. The eight-week program allows adults with disabilities to learn about music from around the world. Coyle said his music workshops are therapy based.
Chris and the students even record themselves in actual studio at MSS. He said it is amazing when they hear what they’ve created.
“Like, he knows how to record stuff and it’s so coo, like on top of each other and everything, and it’s so cool,” said student Megan Morrow.
Coyle will ultimately compose music based on his experiences with MSS clients and their art. He’s showing not only how he’s allowed them to see music differently, but how they’ve done the same for him.
“It becomes more than just writing or recording something just for the sake of it being commercial, or it being, you know, appealing to other people. You know it’s really about the experience that we’ve had together,” Coyle said.
Chris Coyle will perform the music he composes at a special concert at the MSS Center in Eagan on Sept 4. | {
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"It's horrible," said Michael Wicks, who used to drive into the Loop for work, but now takes public transportation. "We are living in a recession, yet they are nickel-and-diming the residents of Chicago."
In addition, most people the Tribune talked to did not appreciate having to hike to a parking box.
"I don't like having to get out of my car, going to the meter halfway down the block, and going back to my car," said Ron Jones, 57, as he walked back to his car Wednesday in Lincoln Park to put a parking receipt on his dashboard.
"It's inconvenient," he said.
Look: parking meter rates were going to go up. That's not the problem; it's not even a bad thing for the most part, though kudos to the reporter for pointing out that the burden is difficult for commercial drivers who have to use meters as part of their job. The problem, of course, is that a lack of political will to raise parking rates was one of the factors in the decision to privatize the meters. As Felix Salmon puts it, "the only way of baking in these price hikes was for the city government to tie its own hands — which is exactly what it did." | {
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Detectives are searching for the unidentified suspect who fatally shot Freddie Calloway, 41, during an impromptu neighborhood memorial late Friday evening in Dania Beach. Broward Sheriff Office Homicide Unit detectives are asking witnesses to come forward and help the victim’s family find justice.
At 10:30 p.m., dozens of neighbors were gathered near the 700 block of Phippen-Waiters Road when an unidentified person approached the group and shot Calloway.
The shooter was initially on foot, but detectives believe they subsequently fled in an unknown vehicle.
Calloway died at the scene. No one else was injured during the shooting.
The motive for the shooting remains unclear. The homicide investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information about this case should contact BSO Homicide Detective Phillip Reynolds at 954-321-4328 or Det. James Hayes at 954-321-4231. Anonymous tips can also be provided to Broward Crime Stoppers by calling 954-493-TIPS (8477) or online at browardcrimestoppers.org. Anonymous tips that lead to an arrest are eligible for a reward of up to $3,000. | {
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inspectable in Interface Builder, or a manually constructed NSURL. This
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style’s layers over time.
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different layer instances, will also result in an exception.
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Freebies and Savings for the DFW!
Free Flu Shots January 19, 2011
I don’t like needles to well so shots are not on my “like” list. However, I do endure them when the need comes.
This week I learned that the Dallas County is offering free flu vaccinations! No appointment is necessary. This is very important since we are just now entering into the cold winter months, and the flu will be going around now more than ever.
You can head over to the DCHHS building at 2377 N. Stemmons Freeway in Dallas until the supply is depleted. (I called on Tuesday and they still have some.) The clinic is open from 8 to 4pm.
I will be going this week!
For those of you who do not live in the DFW area, many of the local health and human service offices are offering this very same thing. Just give them a call 🙂 | {
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Volunteers needed for community policing initiative
BATON ROUGE- Volunteers are being sought to act as liaisons between members of the community and law enforcement in an effort to build trust between the two. The Community Police Ambassador Program was created by a citizen council and led by metro councilmembers Tara Wicker and Trae Welch.
"This is an opportunity for the community and the police department to come together in ways they haven't previously had the opportunity," said Wicker. "It gives them an opportunity to talk to one another, be really transparent and come together to solve those issues that we're dealing with."
Volunteer ambassadors will help citizens rectify grievances they have with law enforcement while helping citizens understand the criminal justice process. The initiative is a response to the 2016 police shooting of Alton Sterling that resulted in major protests.
Wicker said about forty people have already applied to volunteer in the program. The next recruitment meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Monday, October 30th at the Eden Park Library on Greenwell Springs Road. | {
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Telecom Companies are Going Green, but Their Version of Green will cause Illness and Death
by John P. Thomas Health Impact News
When the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) approved the use of 5-G microwave communication technology in 2016 and approved the use of microwave frequencies in the 30 Ghz range, [1], they opened the door to even higher levels of human illness and severe disability for American children and adults.
Microwave radiation such as that currently being used in cell phones, Wi-Fi routers, and smart meters has already been linked to numerous health effects.
The introduction of even more intense levels of microwave exposure at higher frequencies will push many people into life-threatening chronic illness. High frequency microwave radiation is often overlooked as a causative factor in illness, because most conventional healthcare providers, government regulators, telecom companies, and electric utilities believe microwave radiation used in communication technology is harmless. [2]
Despite the warnings being raised by scientists, well informed healthcare providers, and grassroots organizations about existing and future microwave hazards, [3, 4, 5] telecom companies are planning to implement 5G technology throughout every urban area in America. They are already testing this new generation wireless telecommunication infrastructure in Boston, Austin, Palo Alto, and Mountain View California. [6, 7]
In a January 2017 announcement, AT&T described their plan for future technology deployment. The announcement stated:
Our 5G Evolution plans will pave the way to the next-generation of higher speeds for customers. We’re not waiting until the final standards are set to lay the foundation for our evolution to 5G. We’re executing now,” said John Donovan, chief strategy officer and group president, Technology and Operations. [8] [emphasis added]
The Battle to Implement 5G has begun in California
Proposed legislation in California would permit telecom companies to erect 50,000 new microwave antennas in residential and commercial areas without municipal approval.
The 5G microwave antennas would be placed on top of existing utility poles or on public infrastructure such as schools, libraries, bus shelters, and in public parks. The placement of this equipment will be at the discretion of the telecom companies. [9, 10, 11]
Health Dangers of Microwave Radiation have been Well Documented
The symptoms of microwave radiation exposure include fatigue, headaches, heart palpitations, high pitched ringing in the ears, dizziness, disturbed sleep at night, sleepiness in daytime, moodiness, irritability, unsociability, feelings of fear, anxiety, nervous tension, mental depression, memory impairment, pain in muscles, pain in the region of the heart, and breathing difficulties, to name a few.
Inflammation (caused by excess histamine in the blood), oxidative stress, autoimmune responses, reduced blood flow to the region of the thalamus, pathologic leakage of the blood-brain barrier, and a deficit in melatonin metabolic availability have all been observed.
There is evidence that existing and new frequencies of microwave radiation are associated with cancer, heart disease, neurological dysfunction, immune system suppression, cataracts of the eyes, and sperm malformation. [12, 13]
5G Microwaves have Harmful Biological Effects
In her testimony before the California legislature, Dr. Ann Lee, M.D., indicated that there are 20,000 well established scientific studies on the bio-effects of radio frequency radiation.
She confirmed that microwave radiation such as that from the proposed 5G wireless facilities that would be deployed in California has been shown to cause neurological damage, cardiac dysfunction, reproductive harm, immune compromises, and cancer. [14]
Dr. Ronald Powell, Ph.D., expands upon these concerns. Dr. Powell received his doctorate in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 1975, and has worked for the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards on energy policy research and R&D program evaluation.
He is uniquely qualified to interpret the junction between the physics of electromagnetic fields and the biological effects these fields produce. [15]
In a letter to the FCC, Dr. Ronald Powell stated:
It would greatly extend FCC’s current policy of the mandatory irradiation of the public without adequate prior study of the potential health impact and assurance of safety. It would irradiate everyone, including the most vulnerable to harm from radio frequency radiation: pregnant women, unborn children, young children, teenagers, men of reproductive age, the elderly, the disabled, and the chronically ill. [16]
AT&T: Let Us Install Microwave Transmitter on Your Home or Lose Service
Now that more than 50% of homes are wireless, telecom companies plan to abandon copper phone lines used for their phone service and create a wireless phone system. For example, Michigan has passed a law permitting this, and AT&T is working with all 21 states in its service territory to bring this about. [17, 18, 19]
As an alternative to the wired system, telecom companies plan to install wireless microwave transmitters on homes as a method of providing traditional phone service. In the case of AT&T customers, the only way you will be able to prevent them from installing such devices on your home is to remove AT&T as your service provider. [20]
In addition, telecom companies plan to install microwave antennas on top of electrical power poles near homes and businesses, and on top of public buildings throughout every urban area and in every neighborhood.
Nina Beety described the situation in the article she wrote for StopSmartMeters.org. She is the moderator of the Wireless Radiation Alert Network and distributes her research about the harmful effects of electromagnetic fields and the dangers of smart meters on her website, SmartMeterHarm.org.
Nina Beety stated:
Spaced approximately every 10-20 homes, cell antennas will hang in one or more clusters on utility or light poles. Equipment cabinets the size of refrigerators, with cooling fans and back-up generators, will sit on sidewalks. Towers will be located in the public right of way a few feet from bedroom windows, offices, schools, hospitals and nursing homes.
Called “small cells,” there is little difference in size for many of these antennas; the chief difference is the location on utility poles versus large towers. Measurements of these cell towers recently taken in Palo Alto found high levels of radiation on the sidewalk below them — levels higher than those associated in research with breaches in the blood-brain barrier, free radical formation, DNA damage, cancer and tumors, and heart rhythm disturbances. [21]
Nina Beety is specifically describing the proposed system that would be implemented in California if the telecom companies get their way. Currently, a bill permitting the establishment of the 5G system has been passed by the California Senate. A legislative committee will be considering the bill on July 12, 2017. A rally at the State House in Sacramento is planned for July 12th. Please see the following urgent call for action and related links for the details.
Urgent Call to Action for Californians
The announcement from StopSmartMeters.org states:
The Assembly Local Government Committee voted 6-1 to approve SB 649 on Wednesday June 28th (even after hearing the below testimony). It goes next to the Communications and Conveyance Committee at 1:30pm on July 12th. People are coming from all over the state to be there on this day to speak out against SB 649, including mayors, and regular people opposed to the bill. Will you be one of them? [23]
More details about SB 649 and the rally in Sacramento can be found here.
Dr. Ann Lee, M.D., testifies about the Dangers of the Proposed 5G Network:
10-Year Old Child Testifies about how Wireless Communications Equipment Affects His Heart:
Nina Beety’s Testimony about the Proposed 5G System from the Perspective of an EMF Disabled Person:
Why do Telecom Companies Want a 5G Network? The Merging of Telecommunications with Electric Utilities
Telecom giants plan to take their 5G technology nationwide. It is part of a long-term plan to integrate telecom activities with electrical service providers. A 2015 white paper written by telecom companies, electric utilities, and technology developers published in the European Union describes their vision for the future.
As I interpret the images that these European visionaries are creating, I believe they are foreseeing a day when electrical power production and distribution will be controlled by the 5G network.
In this future vision, large-scale power production facilities will be replaced by hundreds of thousands of small power producers, which could even include personal power production in our homes from solar and wind.
Centralized Power and Control
Wireless technology allows you more control of your home, but at what cost?
The 5G system will monitor not just consumption of power, but will monitor and control the redistribution of electrical power across the entire electrical grid.
The 5G network will be the nerves and sense organs of a massive organism that has a central brain somewhere, which controls all forms of information exchange and electric utilization/production.
Electricity will be used for all aspects of household and business activities, and the 5G network and its centralized brain will control everything. [24]
In the beginning, the speed of the 5G network will be marketed to consumers and businesses who want super-fast internet service. This will allow for instant access to videos and webpages with as little as a 5-millisecond delay from the moment a start button is pressed.
Transmission speeds will be hundreds of times faster than current internet connections. It will be so fast that it will be able to instantaneously project images on the lenses of smart enabled eye glasses to create virtual reality images that blend with the environment.
People will be able to watch videos or even read email simply by looking through the lenses of their glasses. The speed will be so phenomenal that it will make available self-driving cars, which can safely drive passengers to their destinations. [25]
Ultimately, the greatest benefit of the 5G system will be for utility companies. It will give them the ability to take total control of electric production, distribution, and consumption.
Smart Meters and Smart Appliances: Your Home is no Longer Private
New Smart Meters.
The smart meters that electric utilities are now installing throughout the U.S. are the nerve endings for what will become a highly complex centrally controlled information and energy exchange system.
The 5G network will use the smart meter system (being implemented throughout the U.S.) and the new generation of smart appliances to reach into our homes and make decisions for us.
Current smart meter technology enables electric utilities to read electric meters without sending a human being to physically read the meters.
Electric providers have been quietly installing these smart meters throughout the U.S. They insist that these meters are harmless even though they broadcast intense bursts of high frequency microwave radiation several times per minute 24-hours per day every day.
Currently, smart meters record electric consumption and transmit the information to the utility company for billing and electric distribution purposes.
The bursts of microwaves are used to communicate with other smart meters in the neighborhood and with wireless routers mounted on top of electric poles. The routers send even more powerful microwave signals several thousand times per hour to the utility company.
Smart appliances such as heating/cooling equipment, washers/dryers, refrigerators/freezers, stoves/microwave ovens, dishwashers, hot water heaters, and even electric coffee makers will each be able to broadcast and receive microwave signals.
These appliances and our smart meters will constantly communicate with one another all day long and all night long – they will never stop transmitting microwave radiation.
Everything that uses electricity will be potentially monitored and controlled by the power companies.
If desired, the electric providers can even independently turn off any appliance they wish whenever they wish to conserve energy consumption. [26, 27]
The need for smart appliances will be a boon for appliance manufacturers and microwave technology producers. The fusion of 5G with the electrical grid will require everyone to buy new appliances that are smart meter enabled or have our existing appliances retrofitted with microwave transmitters.
Is it Green or Just a Way for Corporations to Make More Money and Control Our Lives?
The 5G system goes hand-in-hand with the smart meter system. Together, these systems will be used to create “smart cities.”
These cities will be blanketed in high frequency microwave radiation and will provide the means for enabling a wide variety of new technology.
It is considered to be part of the green revolution. It is part of national technology priorities that were established at the beginning of the first Obama administration. [28]
It is green, because the technology will allow utility providers to closely control energy usage and implement billing systems that will benefit those who reduce energy consumption.
During times of peak energy usage, they will be able to control our appliances and even cut off certain appliances, so that available energy can be directed to high priority uses.
Such a system would supposedly prevent the need for building additional power production facilities, thus avoiding additional fossil fuel emissions or the creation of additional nuclear waste.
It is green, because telecom companies will no longer need to maintain thousands of miles of copper phone lines and switching equipment. Even though the telecom companies will discontinue the network of copper wire, they will still be using fiber optics for some activities.
There are Serious Health Risks Beyond the 5G Hype
As exciting as a future of blended telecommunications and electrical service technology might be for corporations and some consumers, there are very serious health risks, which the FDA and corporations are ignoring.
They believe that microwave technology used for communication does not affect human health. They believe that it doesn’t matter how much microwave radiation is put into the air and what frequencies are used to transmit information.
It doesn’t matter, because the single criterion that they use to judge safety is not affected by the new 5G system.
The criterion that is of interest to regulators is heating. Does the technology cause the human body to heat up and is that heating excessive? [29]
Almost anyone who has spoken on a cell phone pressed against their ear for a long phone call will notice that their ear and even the side of their head will feel warm by the time they end the call.
This is the heating effect of microwaves. This is why iPhones come with a warning to keep the phone 15 mm away from the body. [30]
Microwave Radiation Produces Cellular Disruption Even if it is Not Felt
At the beginning of this article, I mentioned a long list of health effects, medical conditions, and chronic illnesses that are associated with microwave exposure.
I plan to look at this research in more detail in my next article. I will address the effect of microwave radiation on heart function and nerve function, and examine the reality of electromagnetic hypersensitivity, which is already disabling hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. even before the 5G network is implemented.
At this point, I want to finish up with a powerful quote from a recent article on anxiety disorders prepared by Dr. Joseph Mercola, D.O.
In part, the article mentioned microwave exposure as being a potential contributing factor for anxiety disorders. These comments offer additional evidence that the health effects of microwave exposure are profound and are being completely overlooked by regulators.
Dr. Mercola’s article stated:
Due to the pioneering work of Dr. Martin Pall, we know that voltage gated calcium channels are over 7 million times more sensitive to microwave radiation than the charged particles inside and outside our cells. This means that the safety standards for this exposure are off by a factor of 7 million.
When the EMF from the above listed devices [cellphones and cordless phones, Wi-Fi routers, baby monitors, smart meters and cellphone towers] hit your voltage gated calcium channels, nearly 1 million calcium ions per second are released into the cell, which then causes the cell to release excessive nitric oxide that then combines with superoxide to form peroxynitrate, which then forms the dangerous hydroxyl free radical that causes massive mitochondrial dysfunction.
Guess which tissues have the greatest density of voltage gated calcium channels? Your nerves and tissues, like the pacemaker in your heart and, of course, your brain. When the channels in the brain are activated, it causes a major disruption in neurotransmitter and hormonal balance that can radically increase the risk for not only anxiety and depression but arrhythmias, autism and Alzheimer’s. [31]
Final Question: Is the Technology Worth the Harm to Our Health and Loss of Privacy?
There is a very basic question that we must all consider.
Are the dreams of mega-corporations to create smart cities saturated in high frequency microwave electromagnetic fields worth the harm that this technology will create for the people who live in those cities?
In smart cities, no one will be exempt from microwave exposure. We won’t be able to opt out, because the 5G microwave system is designed to reach every space in a city.
Those who experience microwave related illness and disability will have few options. They will either stay in the smart city and stay sick or they will need to try to find a place to live in some sparsely populated off the grid location where the 5G system does not reach.
Which future do you want for America? Super-fast internet and corporate control of every aspect of your life, or good health and longevity?
About the Author
John P. Thomas is a health writer for Health Impact News. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Science in Public Health (M.S.P.H.) from the School of Public Health, Department of Health Administration, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. | {
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Tag: Kiln Building Workshop
The old train kiln’s chimney was leaning like the tower of Pisa and, in fact, Markus Boehm called it the ‘Pisa chimney’ quite often as he thought about the design for our new wood kiln at the School. The brief was: had to be able to be fired by only 1 or 2 students in a period of time that they were not exhausted plus some ash effects. The old kiln was worn out, its bricks had expanded and contracted and without mortar, it was leaking air like a sieve. The last firing that the students did with Martin Tagseth’s special workshop for the Ceramics Club took around 48 hours but the temperature was uneven with the front reading cone 8/9 and the back cold and the work oxidized. Our director, Paul Hess, had already decided it was time for a new one in the fall of 2017.
Through a series of events, the School wound up having to get a permit at the 9th hour. Kudos to Scott Shank, Andrew Sinclair, and the amazing structural engineer whose name I forget (complete apologies). They took Markus’s sketch, turned it into a detailed drawing and it was stamped by the engineer and presented to the City of Winnipeg for approval. This was May 11. Our workshop starts on June 21. We need materials! What if we didn’t get our permit? Some of the participants already had their airline tickets. I never thought of myself as too anxious a person but this was beginning to cause me to worry. There were quite a number of people holding their breath. We kept the faith. Chris Pancoe ordered the materials that Markus had specified. Some were coming from Georgia in the US. The rail strike lingered but was resolved. Whew! Everything just seemed like it might be going our way. Accommodation for the workshop participants was found at St John’s College. Now, where can you stay for $55 a night including 3 meals? [They are even making box lunches for the five of them so that they can work through the standard time and not have to leave the construction site.] The permit came the third week of May. Materials were to arrive June 18 and 19 – and they did! It all came together. The workshop participants arrived from across Canada and from Winnipeg, many current or former students of either the School of Art or the Faculty of Architecture. They are a great team. It was inspiring to watch them learn from and work with Markus yesterday. Stay posted. The logs arrive today for our firing of the kiln on Thursday the 28th. I will keep you posted on the progress.
Sadly, one of our participants is unable due to an illness in their family. So if you have been hoping to be part of this amazing workshop with Markus Boehm and missed out, now is your chance. The cost is $325. If you are coming from out of town, we have arranged accommodation and three meals per day at St John’s College for only $55. What a bargain! And their food is good, too. Best on campus most days.
Julia Nema is one of the most respected wood fire potters. She has a studio in Budapest and was recently featured in an article ‘Welcome to Budapest’. Julia has been firing her work in a Phoenix Fast Fire Kiln. She now needs to build a new kiln in an urban area, so she is joining us to learn how to build this smokeless kiln designed by Markus Boehm.
I am so pumped that she will be able to join us. You can check out her work online. Really beautiful dinnerware used by some of the finest restaurants in the Budapest. If you go to Budapest, please check out her studio. And if you are thinking about joining us for the wood kiln building workshop and firing from June 21-30, she is another reason to come. We had two cancellations so spread the word there is now another opportunity if you thought you missed out! Contact me: [email protected]
The School of Art at the University of Manitoba is hosting a Bourry box kiln building workshop with Markus Boehm from June 21-30. It will be a one cubic metre kiln and participants are asked to bring pieces for the firing. The fee is $325. Spaces are limited and are on a first come basis. Please e-mail me of your interest: [email protected]
Markus Boehm lives in Alt Gaarz, Germany where he has his studio and a sales shop and gallery. In 1989 he passed the rigorous state examinations of the GDR to receive his master potters certification. Boehm was the driving force behind the First European Wood Fire Conference in Brollin, Germany in 2010, an event that was so successful it spread to Denmark for 2014 and to France for August 2018.
The first is news of a really big event. The last two weeks of June, Master Potter Markus Boehm from Germany will be with us. For years I have been advocating for a wood kiln that was for the students, one that could be fired by a single person achieving the level of ash that would put a smile on your face without using so much wood and without having to be fired for 46 hours. Well, we are going to build it! A state of the art smokeless Bourry Box kiln that will reach cone 14 in 14 hours using only two cubic metres of hardwood logs. Honestly, you can knit a sweater while firing this kiln. Good for one person, great for a group, too. I will be putting out the call for 10 workshop participants. It will be 10 days and will include a firing. I need individuals who are keen to learn how to put German engineering into wood kiln design and who are not afraid of long days, sweating, learning a heck of a lot, and walking away with some nice wood fired pieces. Final dates and workshop costs will be forthcoming.
Bob Archambeau has been with the School of Art for 50 Years. In the late fall, the School of Art Gallery at the University of Manitoba will be holding a retrospective of Archambeau and his work. I will be curating this special exhibition and will be looking for work of Bob’s dating from 1968 to 2008 as well as historic photographs and great stories about Bob as a teacher and potter to go into the catalogue. Stay tuned as Paul Hess and I work towards finalizing dates.
Ceramics Club at the University of Manitoba will be holding their spring sale in mid-April. Watch this site for dates and times.
And two articles of mine were published. One features Joo Young Han (Grace Han), Onnghi Master and recent MFA graduate from the School and is in the latest edition of New Ceramics (Neue Keramik) and Markus Boehm: East German Master Potter Adapts to Changes since the fall of the wall in Ceramics: Art and Perception. Also, Grace Han will be featured on a short documentary by the CBC. I will try to get the dates and times it will be shown. Congratulations Grace!
Having great fun making sake cups for the Kendo Society
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On the road yet again
Graz, Austria
Guess, what, I had five hours in the train, full of the impressions of my last four days in Italy, but it was only few days since I last wrote so this will be short and painful - well, hopefully not for you...
So I left the place near Lecco by bike on Monday morning. Well, actually, Sunday I hadn't been in Italy either, because we played a floorball tournament in Switzerland (and won!). And who would have guessed - when I needed a ride home from a place in the middle of nowhere after the tournament, this time it was Italians - real Italians - who helped me out. They even took quite a long detour just to take me all the way home! So, these people actually saved the image of their country - write that down!
Well, the next day, a little bit sore but happy still, I finally left my new - now old - home in Italy. I started by biking the already known way to Bergamo and received a text message from my friend who I had planned to visit in Verona. Things changed and so instead of spreading the 300 or so kilometres of my latest bike tour out evenly over the days I had, I biked as far as I could on the first day, in order to see my friend in Verona. I made it all the way to Lago di Garda, which was quite far and quite exhausting. The positive side is that now I only had about 150 km left for the three days I still had. I took the train from there to Verona (left my bike at the station after a good look around which showed me that my lock was by far the best in the area although my bike wasn't) and let my friend show me the city - which - for a a city - is actually really, really nice. A lot of Roman and Medieval buildings are left there, and they are just part of today's city. It's almost like a living museum! The next day I took the train back to where I had left my bike and biked along the southern edge of the Garda lake towards Verona. I went for a swim in the lake, which was nice again but not as nice as the last one I had, eight months ago and quite a lot further north. And then moved on to Verona.
I was biking on the main roads all along because I don't think there are bike routes there - there might be and I just didn't know, but this way was faster for sure. Following the direction signs in Italy is easy enough, especially when you have big cities every fifty kilometres or so. The trouble is to not get on the highway (which is definitely not allowed in Italy for bicycles). But all the way from Lecco to Venezia I have seen maybe five direction boards in total that did not have a highway on it somewhere. And then you can only guess, if the city that is indicated under the highway sign is where the highway might take you, or if you could also get there without the highway. Luckily I also had my map, which helped the guessing. On the other hand, even once you are on the right road, the signs are still a source of some frustration: From where I started on the second day there was a sign indicating Verona at 60 km. Which was rather more than I had hoped it would be. Then, just a few kilometres later another sign read: Verona 46. Which made me feel a lot better, but also somewhat suspicious because the few km were maybe five or more but definitely not 14. So it came somewhat less as a surprise (but with enough frustration), when after some more km, yet another sign said: Verona 48 km. Well. Either way, I made it to Verona, I also made it through it alive and then I even managed to find the cycle path that I was told followed the river Adige starting a little bit south of Verona. And I was tired and the river was reasonably nice and so I slept there under a tree.
The next day was rather relaxed because I had all day to bike about 60 km. I knew already that close to Venice it is very difficult to find a place to sleep because there is literally nothing other than cities, industrial zones, swamps and agricultural fields. Agricultural fields are not nice but okay to sleep in in autumn when they are already harvested, but in spring they are useless as bedrooms. Which is why I had decided to stay over night at a natural park in a volcanic area just before Padova. Which was a good idea. The route I took that day did not follow the big roads but first the Adige river and then some small roads, so it was a lot more relaxed. I also happened to pass through several very nice villages with impressive castles or city walls. So it was all worth it. I could also take the luxury to sleep around noon for a few hours in the shade of a castle. I certainly don't want to complain of the sun, but I got burnt quite a bit and shade was a very rare thing in the plains I passed through so I really needed to get out of the sun for a few hours one day. Plus, the sleep was highly welcome too.
By the way, because of the lack of trees, for most of the time in the last days shopping centres have become somehow my best friends: there is shade, it's not so hot, they have free bathrooms and free drinking water, and if you want you can even buy food there. And I, for the rest of my life, I have always hated shopping centres! I still don't know, why Italy has so many of them, but I dare say, they were highly welcome this time.
Now, and there at the park, where I slept, I also met some other cyclists and had a little chat with them and so found out that there is a cycle route from where I was to Venice, which also helped for the next day. The cycle route was not the most impressive but it was better than staying on the main road for a while. I was following some canal/river all the while which had not the cleanest water but it was acceptable and after not having washed myself properly since Lago di Garda two days earlier and sweated a lot I thought that out of respect to fellow travellers on the train I should jump into that river still. Which is what I did. I tried to find a place where not too many people were in order to avoid to get too strange looks (I don't think the local population would have found the water acceptable to swim in), but couldn't find anything so private that I could have gone into the water naked (which, of course) would have increased the level of cleanness, but this way I could at least pretend that also my underwear got a little bit clean...
Then just before getting into Venice, in the only area where I really would have wanted a cycle route because the highway more or less directly gets onto the bridge to Venice and there are no other roads, there the cycle route was inexistant. Oh well, they tried. There is still some space for improvement, I must say. Then, arriving into Venice I really wished I would have booked the train from somewhere else, anywhere else, really. I suppose Venice could be a nice place but I know for sure I have no desire to go there ever again. There are some places in this world that have gotten completely ruined by tourism and Venice is probably the worst of all. Well, I made it out alive and here I am, on the train to Austria, not quite sure what to think. I have really enjoyed my time in Italy. I have come to a point where I could easily communicate with Italians, where I understood certain cultural differences, where I felt like home in that country in some ways. It is good to look back and realize how a country has treated you so well. But it hurts to leave it all behind then. With yet another completely uncertain future ahead. I wouldn't dare to complain about my life, of course, but saying good-bye to places and people you like will never be easy. I can only hope to see them all again.
Oh, and by this I would like to apologize to all the ants I accidentally transferred from the nature park to various parts of Italy and Austria. Thank you for not biting me, although I slept a whole night in your rightful home and I hope you will view this translocation as a positive adventure and not hate me too much. | {
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More than 20 people were arrested in Blenheim at the weekend for fighting and disorderly behaviour.
Marlborough area commander Inspector Simon Feltham said officers dealt with a "disturbingly large number of highly intoxicated people" on Friday and Saturday nights.
One woman required ambulance assistance when she "was so intoxicated she simply fell over and in the process injured herself and was unable to get back up", he said.
About 12.30am a 17-year-old youth was arrested after he smashed two shop windows at Lynfords and Thomas's in Blenheim town centre.
The unemployed youth was held in custody until he was sober, before being bailed to appear in the Blenheim District Court on January 7.
Mr Feltham said police were also called to Lucas St, where a large number of people were involved in a fight. He confirmed the fight involved gang members, but said it was not gang-related.
Constable Andrew Holdaway, of Blenheim, said the majority of those arrested for disorderly behaviour were held in custody until sober, before being released with a pre-charge warning.
New alcohol legislation that came into effect last week resulted in 10 people being issued with on-the-spot fines of $250 for breaching the liquor ban and using fake identification to get into bars.
"This new legislation gives us some good tools for intervening and preventing disorder," Mr Feltham said.
While Fairweathers declined to comment on the new legislation, other bar owners in town said they noticed an increased presence of police officers throughout the weekend.
Paddy Barry's Irish Pub owner Liz McElhinney said it was "business as usual" for them, while Biddy Kate's Irish Bar owner Terry Sloan said they had had no problems.
"People were definitely aware of it, but we had a pretty happy sort of weekend, the police were through a few times and they were happy with what we had going on," he said.
Mr Feltham said police would be keeping a close eye on bars and night spots as holiday season got into full swing.
"We want people to enjoy the holidays and have a good time, but we won't be tolerating drunk and disorderly behaviour," he said.
As well as giving police officers the power to issue alcohol infringement notices, the new rules meant bars nationwide had to shut their doors by 4am and could lose their licences if an intoxicated person even stepped on to their premises.
Adults could also be fined for giving alcohol to minors who were not their own children.
"What we now need to work towards is a reduction in the opening hours for licensed premises. I have no doubt that would lessen the level of alcohol-related offending," Mr Feltham said. | {
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Simon
Name: SimonAge at interview: 40Gender: Male
Background: Simon and his wife have one son aged 4. Simon also has an 18-year-old son from a previous relationship. Simon is from a white New Zealander background. He lives in a large city and is an industrial designer.
About Simon
Simon's wife experienced a number of miscarriages before and after having their son. The final miscarriage led to serious health problems for Simon's wife. She made a full recovery but after this they decided to stop trying for another child. Simon enjoys fatherhood and is very involved with caring for his son.
More about Simon
Simon and his wife lived apart for the first years of their relationship, because Simon was living in another country. When Simon moved to Australia, he wanted to enjoy time together with his wife and be 'free of responsibility'. However, his wife wanted to start a family and so they began trying to conceive.
Simon also had a child from a previous relationship, who is now 18 and lives overseas. He said he had only a 'small part' in his older son's life when he was young. Simon described his older son as a 'good kid' but has found it 'difficult' to get to know him due to missing out on the 'deep connection' that he now realises comes from raising a child.
Simon's wife experienced several miscarriages while they were trying to have a baby. Simon said it got more and more difficult to deal with the miscarriages, particularly because he and his wife felt they weren't getting any satisfactory 'answers' as to the medical cause. After the sixth miscarriage they contacted an IVF clinic. Simon's wife however became pregnant naturally, before taking the drugs prescribed by the clinic.
After their son was born, Simon's wife experienced another two miscarriages. The final miscarriage was a molar pregnancy that led to serious health problems and required Simon's wife to undergo intensive treatment. Simon is grateful that his wife has now completely recovered. She was initially keen to try for another baby, however Simon was reluctant after all they had been through. He said while he understood his wife had an 'urge' to have another baby, he was concerned about the risk to her life and health. He also feels that he would prefer not to be an 'older parent'. He said that now his wife has come to 'accept' that they won't have another baby.
Simon said he and his wife haven't talked much about how their experiences have affected them emotionally, as neither of them are 'the sort of people to open up'. He recalled they were offered counselling but chose not to take this up. Simon said his wife's fertility doctor had seemed 'genuinely concerned and capable of helping on more than just a physical health basis'. Beyond this, 'working it out for themselves' has been their approach. Simon feels that the fact that miscarriage is common makes it easier for him to accept what happened, and believes they have just been 'unlucky'.
Simon and his wife 'missed' not having family support as both their families live far away. He feels 'thankful' that he is a parent to at least one child with his wife, and described feeling 'happy' and 'at peace' to be a father of two sons.
Looking back, Simon thinks there is no 'right time' to have children. He advises not to wait too long to have a baby because he feels getting pregnant and parenting gets 'difficult' when you are older, and that parenthood is 'an experience not to be missed'. | {
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Following the breakout success of their suede LunarGrand Wingtips, Cole Haan is set to launch a run of new colorways this weekend. Featuring more traditional leather uppers, the tan colorway features darker brown polished toe and heel areas set above a red Lunarlon sole. Love them or hate them, these shoes are 100% progressive. We can’t be more excited to see Cole Haan embracing their Nike roots in such a unique way. Stay tuned for further release information on the Cole Haan LunarGrand Wingtip in Leather. | {
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Equal Pay Day April 9 has Women Seeing Red
By Leigh Elmore, resident editor for ABWA’s Women in Business Magazine
The date, April 9, indicates how far into the current year women must work to match the earnings of their male counterparts.
When the Equal Pay Act was signed into law by President Kennedy 50 years ago, in 1963, women were earning an average of 59 cents on the dollar compared to men. While women hold nearly half of today's jobs, and their earnings account for a significant portion of the household income that sustains the financial well-being of their families, they are still experiencing a gap in pay compared to men's wages for similar work. Today, women earn about 80 cents on the dollar compared to men — a gap that results in the loss of about $380,000 over a woman's career. For African-American women and Latinas, the pay gap is even greater.
Each year, National Equal Pay Day reflects how far into the current year women must work to match what men earned in the previous year. This year that day falls on Tuesday, April 9. On National Equal Pay Day, we rededicate ourselves to carrying forward the fight for true economic equality for all.
“The pay gap is real. Equal Pay Day is an unfortunate reminder of how far we have to go to reach true pay equality. The wage gap hasn't moved significantly in nearly a decade, and at this rate, we'll be marking Equal Pay Day for the next 60 years," said Linda D. Hallman, executive director of the American Association of University Women, which has published a state-by-state study of income disparity in the United States, titled The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap.
"ABWA is joining forces with the AAUW, the National Committee on Pay Equity and other women’s advocacy organizations in recognizing Tuesday, April 9, as Equal Pay Day to draw attention to women’s ongoing battle to receive the same level of compensation as men doing the same job,” says René Street, ABWA Executive Director. “We encourage all women to wear red on Tuesday as a symbol of how far women and minorities are ‘in the red’ with their pay.”
Equal Pay Day was originated by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men's and women's wages.
The wage gap costs working women and their families tens of thousands of dollars in lost wages and directly affects women's retirement security. These numbers are worse for women of color, and The Simple Truth examines racial and ethnic breakdowns. White and Asian women earn, respectively, 82 percent and 88 percent of white men's earnings. African American and Hispanic women earn much less - just 70 percent and 61 percent of what white men earn, on average, according to the report.
The current pay gap of 23 percent represents a narrowing since the 1970s, due largely to women’s progress in education and workforce participation and to men’s wages rising at a slower rate. Progress has stalled in recent years, and the pay gap does not appear likely to go away on its own, reports Christianne Corbett, a senior researcher for The Simple Truth.
Corbett noted that while a pay gap exists in nearly every occupational field, jobs traditionally associated with men tend to pay better than traditionally female jobs for the same level of skill required. And even today, women and men still tend to work in different kinds of jobs. This segregation of occupations is a major factor behind the pay gap.
While women can seek redress through the courts, Corbett said the preferred way to reach pay equality is for employers to step up and do the right thing. She said that transparency in pay scales is much more evident in the public sector than in private business. “There’s still a lot of secrecy about people’s pay rates by private employers.”
She encourages more transparency in the process for all employers, noting that the state of Minnesota requires public-sector employers to conduct a pay equity study every few years and eliminate pay disparities between female-dominated and male-dominated jobs that require comparable levels of expertise. “This allows employers to identify jobs—for example, delivery van drivers and clerk typists—that, despite being different, require similar levels of knowledge and responsibility,” Corbett says. “We’d much prefer to see employers taking this type of rational approach rather than having to defend themselves in employee-initiated lawsuits.”
So wear your red on Tuesday, April 9, and let your employer and co-workers know what’s on your mind. For more details about Equal Pay Day and the entire issue of pay inequality, explore the following Web sites:
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Early Bird Breakdown Week 16: Steelers @ Packers
Early Bird Breakdown Week 16: Steelers @ Packers Before we dive in to this week’s breakdown, we’ll take a look at last week’s game:
The Good: Matt Flynn
This game was a tale of two Flynns. In the first half Flynn looked like he did in Detroit, and that it was going to be a long and hard Sunday. Something changed in Flynn for the second half. He came out and looked like Rodgers, leading Green Bay to a franchise-tying comeback of 23 points. Flynn for the game was 26 of 39 for 299 yards, 4 touchdowns, and one interception on the day. Eddie Lacy was very good as well, giving Flynn a lot of short yardage situations, but Flynn has had a lot of ups and downs since he took the reins and deserves recognition for this performance.
The Bad: The Run Defense It seems so long ago this was such a strength for Green Bay. At one point they were the fifth ranked run defense and now they are the 25th. As good as Green Bay was in the second half, the only reason they won was because Dallas inexplicably stopped running, despite the fact that Demarco Murray was averaging 7.4 yards per carry when the game ended. In fact, Lacy had more carries in the second half than Murray even though Green Bay was trailing. Murray ran all over Green Bay for 134 yards and it would have been worse if they gave him more touches.
The Ugly: The Jekyll-Hyde Packers
Ever since Rodgers went down this team has played very schizophrenic. One quarter the team looks fine the next they are down 23 points and need a miracle comeback. Rodgers covered up a lot of holes this team had, but there are a lot of problems recently on defense and in pass protection. If the team can cut down on the mental lapses, they can continue to win with Flynn.
How I did: “31-28 Green Bay over Dallas” – I expected a close one but not because Green Bay had to claw back from a 23 point half-time deficit. It was a big win for Flynn and the Packers, keeping their divisional and playoff hopes alive.
Opponents Recap:
Last week Pittsburgh hosted their division-leading-rival the Cincinnati. Pittsburgh piled on early with a 21-0 lead through the first quarter and up 30-7 going into the fourth. Cincinnati was able to bring it back to ten but Pittsburgh controlled it throughout winning 30-20.
The Breakdown:
Packers’ Offense vs. Steelers’ Defense: First and foremost, I am sure everyone has heard but yes, Rodgers will sit this week still recovering from a broken collarbone. While not the defense of old for the Steelers, they still play good defensive football in Pittsburgh. The Steelers enter the game with the 11th rated defense overall, which is buoyed by a top-10 pass defense (rated 8th in the league, surrendering only 222.4 yards per game in the air). While historically good against the run, this year they are only 19th in that regard. This is just another lunchpail week for Eddie Lacy, who will look to get the ball early and often to open things up for Flynn. Good news for the Packers is that Pittsburgh has not been effective at getting to the quarterback overall, ranking tied for third-to-worst in that category (28 overall). While the Packers offensive line has not been great recently (Flynn has been sacked 21 times in four games versus 18 for Rodgers in eight games), the Steelers’ rush has been ineffective enough that Flynn should be given enough time to make plays.
Packers’ Defense vs. Steelers’ Offense: If Green Bay wants to get back on track against the run, this is the week to do it. While Pittsburgh has talented rookie Le’Veon Bell, the team has been unable to move the ball on the ground all season, ranking 31st in rushing gaining only 79.4 yards per game. To make up for this, they have been 11th in passing (260.9 yards per game). Ben Roethlisberger has played pretty well on the season, but the same cannot be said for the offensive line. Unlike Green Bay, which can run block well but struggles keeping a sturdy pocket, Pittsburgh cannot do either. They not only are poor at freeing holes for the running game, Roethlisberger has been sacked 40 times, which is the fourth-most in the NFL. Green Bay is fifth in sacks with 42 on the year. Green Bay should be able to pressure Roethlisberger today but will need to finish the play, either hitting him for errant throws to waiting corners or bring down the large quarterback or else it will give them the openings to make big plays against Green Bay.
The Weather Factor: It will be a winter wonderland in Green Bay this weekend. The weather will slow the game down and while both are very used to these conditions, Green Bay is better equipped with their run game than Pittsburgh is.
The Game: Flynn comes into this game with a lot of swagger after his historic comeback in Dallas. Add in the fact that he can turn around in and hand it to Lacy all day in the snow makes his situation better. Green Bay has the better pass rush and, despite recent struggles, still has the edge on offensive line, though that is not saying much. Pittsburgh will play Green Bay tough and will probably play well. The question is which Flynn shows up, first half in Dallas or second half? I am leaning towards the latter and think Green Bay gets there. Final score 27-20 Green Bay over Pitsburgh.
Fantasy Extra:
Start’em:
Eddie Lacy – with the weather slowing the pass, your best bet in this game is Lacy and frankly is the only for-sure 10 point player this week.
Sit’em:
Le’Veon Bell- as bad as Green Bay has been recently against the pass, Pittsburgh has been so bad running it they might abandon the run at the first sign of trouble.
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Library Schedule Changes April 29-30 and May 1-2
Due to the MBA exams taking place next week, the Barcelona Library Reading Room will be open on Saturday and Sunday, April 29-30, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
(Service desk will be open on Saturday, April 29 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.)
The Barcelona Library will be closed on May 1.
The Madrid Library will be closed on May 1 and 2.
Keep in mind that you have off-campus access to the IESE Library's electronic resources.
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This is how the Opera House looked for a high school graduation in the past.
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If you’ve ever wanted to get a sneak peek inside normally closed-off portions of the historic Howell Opera House, and find out more about restoring it to its former glory, an event on Oct. 18 is just the ticket.
The Livingston Arts Council will host a Venetian Masquerade from 7-9pm at the Opera House, as the group looks to shine the spotlight on how far the rejuvenation of the downtown landmark has come, and to kick off the next phase of the process.
The event, which is open to the public, will feature appetizers and drinks on the Opera House’s fully renovated lower level, with performances from local musicians and entertainers, including members of the Livingston Symphony Orchestra and the Livingston Chorale. Tours of the yet-to-be renovated upper levels of the Opera House will be available, as well as designs and artist renderings of the planned renovations.
This is how the interior of the Opera House looks at present. Photo by Richard Lim, Lim Photography
Amy Clark, marketing coordinator for the Livingston Arts Council, says the Venetian Masquerade will kick off the next phase of fundraising for the Opera House, called “Restore the Glory: Act II.” The ultimate goal, she said, is to turn the Opera House into a regional arts venue while preserving one of the most important historic structures in the area.
The Livingston Arts Council purchased the Opera House in 2000, and thanks to generous donations and grants, completed the renovation of the first level in 2006. Now, Clark says, the goal is to restore to full performing arts capacity the second and third levels, which house the original 19th century theater. When complete, the building will provide both a performing arts facility for the community, as well as space for private rentals; it will also increase the building capacity from 200 to 600 people.
Costumes are not required but encouraged at the event, and Venetian-style masks will be given to all who attend. Tickets are not required, but the minimum suggested donation is $100.
The Detroit Public Television program about the Historic Howell Opera House won three Emmy awards. The 30-minute show, “Taking the Stage: The Historic Howell Opera House,” was produced by Tina [CLICK TO READ MORE] | {
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