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Building a brick bbq in your garden is one of the best option you have, if you like to spend time with your friends, especially during the hot summer afternoons. In addition, if you are the kind of person that likes to trough a party from now and then, a brick barbeque and a large patio are the tings you need to entertain your family and friends. If we also consider that any American loves good barbecues, you should take up the plunge and build a barbeque in your backyard by yourself. Choose the right outdoor barbeque plans for your needs and budget, before starting the job by yourself.
Although a diy bbq project might seem a very complex job, we can assure you it’s just a straight forward task. Just choose the plans with lots of attention, buy proper materials and select the location according to the building codes. Even if you might think that such a small project doesn’t require a building permit, it is always better to be rather safe than sorry. Go to the local department and ask them the legal requirements regarding the construction of an outdoor brick barbeque. In most of the cases, you have to comply with a few requirements, like the depth of the foundation or the distance you have to leave from the property line.
We also recommend you to consider building a large patio to the brick barbeque. A large patio is a great place to set a table with several chairs. Plan these aspects to the littlest detail, before getting the job started. In this manner, you would be able to trough parties and to ask your friends to come by at a nice barbecue. A barbeque should also come with a nice design, as to make it one of the focus point of your backyard.
A bbq requires special maintenance, therefore you have to know what to expect before starting the project by yourself. Similarly, a wooden pergola and a patio should be cleaned regularly, using appropriate products. In addition, if you want to protect the wood from wood decay and water damage, apply several coats of paint every 3 years or so.
DIY BBQ PLANS
The construction of the diy barbeque plans shouldn’t be difficult for an amateur handyman, if you use the right plans and materials. First of all, you need to pour the concrete foundation and let it to dry out properly for 94 hours. Afterwards, you could begin laying the regular bricks into place. Therefore, you should prepare a small quantity of mortar in a rubber bucket and spread it on the foundation, using a small trowel. In order to glue the bricks together properly, you should tap them gently with a rubber mallet.
If you really want to get an unique design, you could also build a wooden shelter above the barbeque. Work with good judgement, in order to obtain a neat look and a professional job.
You need to install the metal braces into place, before the concrete dries out, as they will support the barbeque grill. Work with attention and with great care, if you want to get the job done like a pro. Nevertheless, if you don’t have enough time or expertise in the field to start such a complex project by yourself, we recommend you to buy a good diy kit. The kit comes with step by step instructions, therefore you could install the parts together easily. | <urn:uuid:51ff6aa6-5673-431e-b9a2-3746979c79ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | https://howtospecialist.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/diy-brick-berbeque-plans/ | 2016-04-30T03:16:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111592.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00204-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953984 | 701 | [
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NEED LAB SPACE? SEE THIS R & D FACILITY IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS!
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Thu Oct 26 17:40:24 EST 2000
Available- 35,500 Sq. Ft.
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35,500 S.F. facility with 8,050 S.F. office space, 14,440 S.F. pilot lab area and 7,200 S.F. lab area. 8 separate lab areas with tiled floors and separate HVAC. Ideal facility for technology or food manufacturing company with a need for specialized research and development facilities.
View one of the most interesting buildings in Northern Lake County and also the site of the highly successful Lake County Partners DCCA Day Luncheon, which was held on July 13th. The following link will take you directly to an online brochure, complete with pictures and specs of a highly specialized research and development facility Tri-State Realty is currently marketing for Hershey Foods Corp.
Please share this information with organizations, clients or colleagues involved in biomedical, biotech, food testing, laboratory testing, electronics, technical training, etc.
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The Murray Spencer FamilyUpdated September 5, 2000
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Hip-Hop is a powerful force. Its voice reaches millions and popularizes so many things on a regular basis. Rappers have been unofficial spokesmen for countless brands, products, trends, and styles over the years, and that is something that shows no signs of slowing down. On the flip side though, Hip-Hop can ruin things easily too.
In a culture that prides itself on being cool, edgy, and fresh, “out with the old and in with the new” in Hip-Hop is routine. However, sometimes rappers go overboard with things and end up doing more harm than good while trying to be hip.
Recently, Hip-Hop has ruined privacy with all the talk about Adrienne Bosh. But this is not the first or last time that Hip-Hop will ruin something.
As the saying goes, “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions;” rap is no exception. And so, AllHipHop.com made a list of 10 things that Hip-Hop ruined.
Hip-Hop Ruined Rap Collaborations
There was a time when rappers would collaborate and fans could simply enjoy the records that were made. “The Symphony,” “Flava in Ya Ear (Remix),” “The Grand Finale,” and the list goes on. But eventually the focus for discussions about collaborations became, “Who got who?” instead of “Is this a hot song?” Not to say the former can’t be a discussion point, but it shouldn’t overshadow everything. Hip-Hop is competitive enough as it is. Can’t we all show a little U.N.I.T.Y.?
Hip-Hop Ruined Happiness
Being disregarded as a rapper because of lack of ability is one thing, but being written off for not being “tough enough” is absolutely ridiculous. There’s a reason DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince won the first Rap Grammy ever. Hip-Hop has been significant in expressing struggle which is important. However, it’s also necessary to acknowledge the more pleasant things in life too because that is what makes overcoming any struggle worth it in the end.
Hip-Hop Ruined Writing Down Lyrics
Ever since it became common knowledge that Biggie didn’t write his rhymes down, countless emcees have adopted that approach. But few emcees can compose raps from memory like Biggie did and so the fact that other rappers don’t write their rhymes down is reflected in the quality of the music that’s recorded from memory. If only one of the greatest wasn’t so damn good, rappers that followed in Biggie’s footsteps could’ve helped Hip-Hop sound a lot better than it does sometimes.
Hip-Hop Ruined The Black Power Movement
In the late 80s and early 90s, there was a movement of Hip-Hoppers that were decidedly conscious. Led by the likes of Public Enemy and KRS-One, these rappers pushed the line on social commentary and pushing the race forward. Then came N.W.A, with a bunch of talk about niggas and bitches. They changed everything and while they had a few social bones in their body, it was later revealed that it was mostly Ice Cube.
Hip-Hop Ruined Intimacy Between Men And Women
Once upon a time, LL Cool J wrote a song called “I Need Love.” In 2012, 2 Chainz wrote a lovely song called “Birthday Song,” where he proclaimed all he wanted for his birthday was a “big booty hoe.” These days relationships are the equivalent to finding a spot and hanging out. 2 Chainz is only one is a milllion rappers to reduce the women to a couple of body parts. Damn it, Hip-Hop. A slow song ain’t so bad….
Tattoos are used as a reminder of something significant by way of inking the skin. But they are permanent and, in many cases, available for the world to see. While some get tattoos for more conventional reasons, rappers have been known to go left field with it and turned something special into something silly. For a few examples of such instances, see Gucci Mane’s ice cream cone face tattoo and the red stars inked on Birdman’s head.
Hip-Hop Ruined Spelling
Tell the truth…you tend to spell the word ludicrous “ludacris” like the famous rapper! Or freakin’ fabulous Fabolous. Fab, the rapper, had the nerve to spell it wrong in his first 100 songs, permanently ruing that name. But it doesn’t stop there. Rappers and Hip-Hop have consistently mutilated very reasonable words for no real reason. Back in the day, “the” was “tha” – FOR NO REASON! Tupac, the don, loved to replace “s” for “z” in just about everything (i.e. Better Dayz). We collectively took the n-word with the “er” and added an “a” – and somehow it mystically turned into a term of endearment. Nowadays, this affliction that started in the 80’s has kids texting illegible sentences in the name of youth. No, its just piss-poor spelling.
Hip-Hop Ruined Retirement
There have been many rappers over the years (Too Short, Master P, Jay-Z, just to name a few) that have said they were retiring only to return to rap within a few years after first hanging up the mic. Could retirement be a marketing tactic? Or is it just a way to fall off gracefully if the “last” album flops? Either way, a rapper has yet to return from retirement and catch a second wind that exceeds their first.
Hip-Hop Ruined Auto-Tune
When Cher used Auto-Tune for her hit “Believe” in 1998, that could have been the end of it. But with the emergence of stars like T-Pain in the late 2000s, a lot of Hip-Hop artists got in on the Auto-Tune craze. Kanye West even recorded an entire album using it. Eventually, it was run into the ground because it went from a cool effect to gimmick. Hip-hop literally hasn’t sounded the same since.
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. With that in mind, one would think that rock music ruined models more than rap. However, that isn’t the case. Supermodels Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell, among many others, have made appearances in music videos for rockers and then gone on to achieve worldwide fame and lengthy careers in the limelight. Rap video models, on the other hand, write tell-all books (Karrine Steffans), go to jail (Kat Stacks), and join the real estate industry (Melyssa Ford) after the cameras stop rolling.
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Yeah, well, rifles are pretty closely tied to politics and economies.
Shoot low, sheriff. They're riding Shetlands!
Underneath the starry flag, civilize 'em with a Krag,
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With the exception of Celery, Blue Cheese, and Walnut Salad or Sichuan/Szechwan Celery Salad, it's not often that celery takes center stage in a dish. More often, celery is lost amongst the onions and carrots that form the base of most soups and stews. As a side, it's a cooling contrast to fiery Sriracha Buffalo Wings.
Chinese celery, which seems to be even more concentrated in celery flavor, can be a bit much all on its own. Used as a garnish, it offers a nice bite to Hu Tieu Saigon (Vietnamese Clear Noodle Soup with Barbecued Pork and Shrimp). But if you're in the camp that more celery flavor is a good thing, then this Chinese Celery and Chicken Stir-Fry is just for you.
The natural sweetness of the chicken pairs well with celery so there's little else needed except a bit of oyster sauce to add some savoriness. Obviously, if you can't find Chinese celery where you are, substituting with regular celery is just fine.
Chinese Celery and Chicken Stir-Fry
For about 4 servings as a side dish, you'll need:
1 bunch Chinese celery (about 3 to 4 cups) cut into 2-inch pieces
1 boneless chicken thigh or breast, cut into 1/2-inch by 1-inch strips
1 tblsp soy sauce
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp sugar
1 tblsp Chinese oyster sauce
Chinese celery looks mostly like normal celery, but with thinner stems. It can be found in most Asian grocery stores. Cut the bunch into about 2-inch long segments. Wash and set aside.
Cut the boneless chicken thigh or breast into about 1/2-inch by 2-inch strips. Season with 1 tblsp soy sauce, 1/4 tsp salt, and 1/2 tsp sugar. Mix thoroughly.
In a pan on medium high heat, drizzle a bit of oil and add the chicken.
The chicken should cook in minutes.
When the chicken is cooked through, add the Chinese celery.
Add about 1 tblsp of oyster sauce and quickly saute until the celery is just wilted.
That's it. Plate and serve.
Other quick stir-fries:
Chinese Beef and Broccoli Stir-fry
Chinese Bok Choy Sauteed with Garlic
Chinese Red Spinach Sauteed with Fermented Bean Curd
Chinese Sauteed Lettuce with Oyster Sauce
Chinese Water Spinach Stir-fried with Garlic and Fermented Bean Curd
1 year ago today, pink roses.
2 years ago today, Chinese Mango Chicken Stir-Fry.
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Re: UTI Urinary Tract Infections
You may still have an undected bacteria at work. I usually have to gget my urine BROTH cultured (regular labs don't do it) to detect other bacteria. The first time I went through taking a standard UTI antibiotic & it didn't help, and my follow-up culture was negative/all clear, I was told that I must have Interstitial Cystitis. I wouldn't accept that, and sought out other sources of help. Look up the Cystitis Research Center & learn more!
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After being held by the U.S. Border Patrol yesterday in Texas, it looks like Lil Wayne will walk away free, according to his lawyer anyway. As we reported yesterday, Weezy and 11 people in his entourage were held after drug dogs found two stashes of weed on his tour buses. The Border Patrol says Wayne and the others were questioned and charges are pending. Lil Wayne's lawyer some people did receive citations but Lil' Wayne was not one of them.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Conservative Borough President James P. Molinaro today endorsed GOP attorney Wendy Long in the campaign against U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.).
Speaking at Borough Hall, Molinaro said that as a first-time candidate, Ms. Long "brings a fresh, new approach" to the campaign trail.
"She should make for a great candidate," he said. "She brings some great ideas."
Ms. Long has been endorsed by the state Conservative Party, and is in a three-way primary for the GOP nomination with Rep. Bob Turner and Nassau comptroller George Marangos.
Said Molinaro, "She definitely has a passion for it, the fire in the belly. She wants to do it for all the right reasons."
Molinaro said that Ms. Long would complement U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) if elected.
"She would balance it out," he said. "The state wouldn't lose. We would gain by it."
Ms. Long said that Molinaro's endorsement "gives me confidence, energy and momentum."
She called Molinaro, who has endorsed Democrats like Schumer and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, "someone to emulate."
"He is extremely independent," Ms. Long said. "He reaches across party lines. He's someone I come to for advice. There's a lot of political wisdom and practical wisdom here."
In the manner of her political idol, GOP President Ronald Reagan, Ms. Long said she would reach out to Democrats in blue-state New York in her bid to unseat Ms. Gillibrand.
She said that debt, over-taxation, high spending and too much regulation are the problems with the federal government.
"I don't think our current representation in Washington is doing enough about it," Ms. Long said. "And these issues definitely cut across party lines."
As for the GOP battle, Ms. Long said, "I feel very good about it. A big gust of wind at my back was getting the Conservative endorsement. I'm not stopping."
Molinaro said he and Ms. Long did not discuss Island issues in depth because those will not be the issues against Ms. Gillibrand.
However, Ms. Long said that she and her family members are big Staten Island Yankees baseball fans.
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I knew Woodson Young Owen b. 5 Jan 1913 d. 18 Jan 1985. He was the son of Isaac Harrison Owen and Nancy Emaline Hillhouse, who was the younger brother of Woodson Young Owen Jr. b. 14 May 1891 d. 24 Aug 1971 ,Brown Tx, of whom you speak. Both were the sons of Woodson Young Owen, Sr. b. May 1855, TN, d. Mar 1924 Mountain Home, AR. His wife was Eliza Jane Wells. She is buried at Price Place Cem. Marion, AR and he at Walker Road Cem. Mtn. Home, AR. | <urn:uuid:d3317498-04e6-444b-9b37-3c89c9d5ad9b> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.arkansas.counties.marion/888.826.1/mb.ashx | 2016-04-30T14:07:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111865.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00094-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960586 | 129 | [
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I (well my 86) recently have been blessed with Steve Sefsick's Shoodaben Engineering, two minute mod & carb jets, as well as a 7degree Performance Exhaust Cam Sprocket. I want to thank Colin Prior for wanting to install the jets and sprocket while at the national rally in Vermont. I guess she wasn't fast enough for Colin.
I have to say that it seems to have livened up the old girl a bit. She seems to run right along with a better low end. And hauling a guy my size around isn't easy on the motorcycle!
Of course I also have Steve's overflow tubes as insurance to prevent the possibility of hydro-lock. Although I had the overflow tubes on the carbs already, before Colin's COG National C10 modifications.
Whether you like to work on your own carbs or have Steve do the work. I feel the gains are well worth it. This would make a big difference if your bike runs a little rough lately (especially in the lower rpms). I understand that funds can be tight now a days. But if you can manage to scrape together the price for these mods, or better yet, for Steve to perform a carb service on your C10's carburetors. I bet you'll feel it's money well spent, once you ride your Concours afterwards. But don't ask me. Ask some of Steve's customers. I'm sure they'll chime in.
I know this sounds like a commercial. But I have no affiliation with Steve and Shoodaben Engineering other than being brothers in a great club known as Concours Owners Group. I really need to give a lot of the credit to Colin. Since Colin provided the parts and labor. I only provided the Concours. It was nice of Colin to do this for me. So after riding my C10 with these upgrades. I thought a shout out for these two guys was appropriate. Colin for the gift of the parts. And to Steve for making them in the first place!
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1956 - Fourth Test, Old Trafford
26, 27, 28, 30 & 31 July
England won by an innings & 170 runs
England 459 all out David Sheppard 113 Peter Richardson 104 Colin Cowdrey 80
Australia 84 all out Jim Laker 9-37
Australia 205 all out Colin McDonald 89 Jim Laker 10-53
England retained the Ashes with a bowling performance that is unlikely to ever be matched - let alone bettered.
Jim Laker finished the Test with astounding match figures of 19-90.
Centuries from Peter Richardson and David Sheppard helped England to a total of 459, before Laker set to work bamboozling the Australians.
The spinner took 9-37 as the visitors were skittled for 84, and when they followed on he claimed all 10 scalps to seal an innings and 170-run victory.
Peter May won a significant toss as by the end of the first day his side were 307-3, after deciding to bat, on a pitch that was already breaking up.
While the Australian spinners Richie Benaud and Ian Johnson were unable to exploit the conditions, Laker and Tony Lock made an immediate impact.
Lock claimed just the one wicket as Australia collapsed in the final session on the second day, during which Laker enjoyed a spell of seven wickets for eight runs in 22 balls.
Audio highlights from the 1956 Ashes series
After two days of poor weather during which only just over 100 minutes of play was possible, the prospects of a positive result were as bleak as the weather.
At lunch on the fifth day Australia were 112-2, but then the skies cleared and Laker made hay in the sun.
The off-spinner had given the toursits notice of his ability earlier in the summer when he took 10-88 against them in an innings for Surrey. He was set to improve on that analysis.
Australia put up more resistance than in their first innings, but as the pitch dried any hope of holding out for a draw receded as Laker captured wicket after wicket from the Stretford End.
The visitors eventually succumbed for 205 and Laker's remarkable control of length and spin not only gave him the best match figures in Tests, but also first-class cricket.
Equally amazing was the fact that Lock finished wicketless in the second innings with figures of 0-69 from 55 overs.
Did you know? Laker was the first player to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings. In the near half-century of cricket that has followed, only India's Anil Kumble has matched that feat, taking 10-74 against Pakistan in 1999.
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On the banks of the Mekong River in a place where Thailand meets Laos, a group of 25 young people gathered to take part in the Mekong Peace Journey.
It’s a fitting place for these youths to meet, as they come from all the countries of mainland Southeast Asia—Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar (Burma)—through which the river passes on its path to the South China Sea.
The Mekong is a richly diverse region that has suffered from painful conflicts in the past, leading sometimes to political distrust, cultural prejudice, and an absence of mutual understanding among peoples from different countries.
Rebuilding that understanding is at the center of the three-week peace journey, held annually in Southeast Asia.
Leang Linda was among this year’s participants. She is from Cambodia, where border conflicts with Thailand and Vietnam have in the past been used as a political tool to shift attention away from political problems within each country.
These conflicts are exacerbated by the Mekong region’s underdevelopment, political instability, and problems with labor migration and human trafficking. They have led to a sense of inferiority and superiority among states that cause additional tensions. On occasion, politicians have encouraged nationalism and hatred of neighboring countries, according to longtime observers.
But during the peace journey, while learning about peace and conflict transformation and exploring issues of diversity and conflict, Linda and her peers connected over their common roots and values. Rejecting violence and discrimination, they developed a more profound understanding of identity—one based on love, friendship, and respect for diversity.
Linda says the experience changed her in ways she never expected.
“I changed my way of thinking, prejudice, and discrimination toward Thai and Vietnamese,” she says. “I started to think, and built close relationships with them.”
A participant from Myanmar acknowledged how the peace journey affected her understanding of Thai people. “Before, I always discriminated against Thai people, as I was taught that the Thai treated Myanmar people badly,” she said. “But after I participated in this program, I no longer feel what I thought before.”
AFSC has been joining hands with this effort—technically, spiritually, and financially—since the program was first dreamed of in 2010. It was initiated by Thai Volunteer Service in collaboration with the Cambodian Working Group for Peace.
Supawadee Petrat, one of the organizers from Thailand, says the program “gives safe space for youth to express themselves, to find ways to build a common understanding, and to join forces for peace activities in the region.”
Chhit Muny, AFSC’s peace partnerships program officer, says that in addition to changing participants’ perceptions and helping them build positive relationships, the program helps them develop critical thinking skills that lead to positive peace-building activities in their communities and countries.
“Youth cannot change what happened in the past, but this program can help youth to create something better for the future,” he says.
After the program, participants plan or join peace-building efforts in their own countries, such as organizing peace networks, peace walks, and peace biking events.
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kiandranishan on Nov. 5, 2007
at 9:48AM, Dec. 20, 2008
This is a really great cover! 8D The colors are great, and the artwork too! :)
at 2:42AM, June 12, 2008
at 8:47PM, May 13, 2008
Again with snakes ... you must like snakes .... :-)
I just finished reading through another of your comics, and now I'm here ... ironic ... or something ... :-)
at 2:32PM, Nov. 15, 2007
at 2:31PM, Nov. 15, 2007
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Measuring a quagmire is mostly guesswork. But a congressional report released last Monday, June 21, on the U.S.'s supply lines in Afghanistan comes close to putting at least one number on it: the $2.16 billion we pay a year to extortion rackets to protect U.S. truck convoys. What the problem comes down to is that in paying off Afghans to protect our supply lines, we have created a vast slush fund for bribery, extortion, heroin trafficking and murder. And it's all but certain that some of the money ends up in the pockets of the Taliban. In other words, we're paying for the bullets and bombs that kill our own soldiers.
The report, titled "Warlord, Inc.: Extortion and Corruption Across the U.S. Supply Chain in Afghanistan," is well worth reading in its entirety, if for no other reason than to get a glimpse of just how little ground we control in Afghanistan. For lack of troops and an absence of Afghan government authority, we've had no choice but to outsource security for 70% of our logistic lines to Afghans we know almost nothing about. For instance, the warlord in charge of security for supply convoys between Kabul and Kandahar apparently is known by only one name. He has connections to the Karzai family, but beyond that, he's a mystery. He's never been met by an American contracting officer, and his only meeting with any American officer was in a botched drug arrest. (He denies trafficking in narcotics.) Our ignorance about this man is all the more astonishing considering that the fate of any operation to retake Kandahar depends upon him. What if, in the middle of the battle, he joins the Taliban and cuts off supplies?
What's just as amazing is that the Administration understands the problem and has done nothing to correct it. In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last December, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bluntly put it this way: "One of the major sources of funding for the Taliban is the protection money."
The other U.S. supply route into Afghanistan the independent states of ex-Soviet Central Asia isn't much more dependable. Kyrgyzstan, which leases us the Manas base that serves as a resupply hub for the Bagram air base, is teetering on the abyss. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said on Friday, June 25, that Kyrgyzstan is facing near certain disintegration. But that's not the end of it. The Kyrgyz subcontractors who supply fuel to Manas are caught up in bribery scandals, which very well could lead to our losing access to Manas when a new government rises to power and decides to seriously investigate them.
It is all the more ominous when this is put into historical context. The last general in landlocked Afghanistan to cede control of his logistics was William Elphinstone, who in January 1842 lost not only an army but also his life retreating across what should have been secure logistic lines. During the Soviet Union's 1979-89 invasion of Afghanistan, apparently absorbing Elphinstone's lesson, the Red Army made certain to provide its own troops to protect its supplies.
Another reason this congressional report is worth reading is that it gives us a glimmer of just how blind we are in Afghanistan. American military contracting officials haven't met the Afghan warlords protecting our convoys because they don't feel safe enough to get off base. Which leads to another question: If we know so little about the Afghans we outsource our supply lines to, supposedly our allies in the conflict, how much do we really know about the Taliban? When CIA Director Leon Panetta said on Sunday that a power-sharing arrangement with the Taliban is probably not going to work, he's no doubt right. But it's just good guesswork. | <urn:uuid:d134a605-80ef-40a2-93dc-3c9dbc72b7ce> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2000214,00.html | 2016-05-04T02:18:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860122268.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161522-00102-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969318 | 786 | [
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Readers respond to our Comix Issue
Comix issue vs.New Yorker Obama terrorist cover
How illustrative that your cover feature, "The (Cartoon) Elephants Come to Town" (7/9/08), coincided with the New Yorker cover satirizing how conservatives supposedly perceive Barack Obama. A cursory search of Google News for the terms "New Yorker" and "Obama" produced 1,616 news articles (excluding duplicates). Similar searches for "City Pages" and "cartoon" or "elephant" found no matches. You can ridicule Republicans all you want and—at least judging by outside media attention—literally no one cares. Meanwhile, if Democrats even think they're being made fun of, it's a national shit storm. Maybe as an experiment sometime—call it market research—you should try publishing something slightly uncomplimentary toward the left.
Scott Brady Crystal
They all draw with their left hand
I just read "The (Cartoon) Elephants Come to Town," both the in-print and online offerings. Congratulations on achieving near-uniform xenophobia and an utterly predictable editorial result.
Chris Long St. Paul
Cartoonist stereotyped Christians
While I enjoyed reading the 7/9/08 Comix Issue, Derf's cartoon "Welcome Evangelicals!!" is painted with too wide of a brush. Most religious groups have fundamentalists, a minority group of reactionaries, but this subset should not define the whole. This cartoon is not a caricature of Evangelicals, but of Evangelical Fundamentalists, and is as inaccurate as describing all Muslims by what we know of their fundamentalists or portraying all Mormons along the lines of Warren Jeffs's Fundamentalist LDS Church.
Isaac Alderman St. Paul
Give peace a chance
Senator Klobuchar's disdain for protestors is appalling, but not surprising ("Your Friendly Neighborhood War Profiteer," 7/2/08). Aren't we proud that we Minnesotans contribute to weapons that go boom? That also kill and maim innocents.
Carol Fitzmaurice Minnetonka
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The new web design is unbelievably bad! I can't find anything! Who's playing at Movies and Music tonight in Loring Park? Can't find it. What's playing at the Lagoon? Can't find it! I want to write a note to the web editor to tell them how bad the site design is. Took me 10 minutes to find it! Please, try again.
Dan via email
Applauding Alliant Tech protesters
I would like to express my profound gratitude to the antiwar protesters who put themselves on the line against munitions giant Alliant Techsystems ("Act of Civil Disobedience Ends in Multiple Arrests," citypages.com/blotter). I would also like to honor the protesters who go to Alliant headquarters week after week in an effort to derail what is truly a war machine. Alliant Techsystems (ATK) is the world's major producer of depleted uranium weapons ("high density penetrators") and other savage devices. It makes bullets, tank shells, and cluster bombs. Depleted uranium is insidious because it vaporizes and can then be inhaled or otherwise ingested, contaminating people indefinitely. Gulf War Syndrome may be one result of the use of depleted uranium. In an article titled, "Deaths from Radioactive Munitions Fired in Middle East May Exceed A-Bombing of Japan," author Sherwood Ross quotes scientist Leuren Moret as saying, "The genetic future of the Iraqi people, for the most part, is destroyed."
ATK is disingenuous when it claims to want to protect its workers, because it is needlessly exposing them to radioactivity. It will not release medical studies of the depleted uranium production workers at the facility in Arden Hills. Depleted uranium is visited upon civilians and soldiers alike. It poisons the environment far into the future. The Nuremberg Tribunal, Geneva Conventions, the Hague Regulations, and numerous other international treaties collectively require that civilians must not be harmed in wartime and that after the war there cannot be continuing destruction visited upon people or the environment. Alliant Tech is in clear, incontrovertible violation of these fundamental treaties. It must cease and desist weapons production immediately or be brought before the International Criminal Court at the Hague for war crimes.
Margaret R. Beegle Golden Valley
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Things to know, April 18
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- Audrey Snyder has the last of a three-part series today about Penn State University football coach Bill O’Brien and the demands of his job.
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A detailed, categorized calendar of events all over Seattle and Western Washington, Dec. 9-15, 2011
Santa Paws Pet Photos benefiting Seattle Humane Society
SAT Digital holiday photo of dogs with Santa, sale of pet-related holiday items, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Seattle Humane Society, 13212 S.E. Eastgate Way, Bellevue; $20 (425-373-5388 or www.seattlehumane.org/explore/events/holiday”>www.seattlehumane.org/explore/events/holiday).
Polar Bear Birthday
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SAT Bears get enrichment activity toys and treats, keeper talk, noon Saturday, Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, 5400 N. Pearl St., Tacoma; $6.25-$14.50 (253-591-5337 or www.pdza.org).
Holiday Pet Photos
SUN Holiday pet photos benefit Doney Memorial Pet Clinic free veterinary care for pets of low income- and homeless people, 2 p.m. Sunday, The Puppy Perfectors, 9629 17th Ave. S.W., Seattle; $25 (206-935-0289).
SUN Rescue Dobermans needing homes, information on the breed, holiday photos of your dog, noon Sunday, All the Best Pet Care, 1909 N.W. Market St., Seattle (206-763-6237 or www.pugetsounddoberescue.org).
Canine Christmas Extravaganza Adoption Event
SUN Meet adoptable dogs and puppies from 20 shelters and rescues, spayed/neutered, temperament tested; noon Sunday, Paws-Abilities Total Dog Center, 7338 26th St. E., Fife; optional adoption information workshop, 9:30 a.m. Sunday, $20 per family by reservation (425-698-7900 or www.pawsitivealliance.org/).
Free cat and critter adoption
THRU DEC. 31 Adoption fees waived for cats one year old and older and all small animals including rabbits, hamsters and guinea pigs, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays through Dec. 31, Seattle Humane Society, 13212 S.E. Eastgate Way, Bellevue (425-641-0080 or www.seattlehumane.org).
Chickpea Charity Holiday Party
FRI Entertainment, craft beers, wine, food, dance party, for ages 21 and older, proceeds benefit local elementary schools, 8 p.m. Friday, WithinSodo, 2916 Utah Ave. S., Seattle; $35-$40 (www.chickpeacharity.com).
Celebrations Holiday Home Tour
FRI Self-guided tour of six homes in Kirkland, proceeds benefit Assistance League of the Eastside, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday; after-party, 6-9 p.m., Sur La Table, Kirkland; $30, tickets available online, by phone and at Ravenna Gardens, Kirkland (425-556-5106 or eastside.assistanceleague.org).
SAT Sale of 10,000 cookies made by Seattle’s best bakeries and culinary schools, sold per baker’s dozen, proceeds benefit the Seattle Milk Fund, 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. or while supplies last Saturday, Macy’s, 1601 Third Ave., Seattle; $15 (206-526-7944 or seattlemilkfund.org/events/cookiefest/).
Seattle Jingle Bell Run
SUN Costume contest, 8 a.m.; Children’s 1K Run With the Elves, $10/with shirt, free without shirt, 8:20 a.m.; 5K timed run or untimed run, jog, walk, 11 a.m. Sunday; register 6:45-8:45 a.m.; proceeds benefit Arthritis Foundation, Westlake Center, 400 Pine St., Seattle; $35-$40 (seattlejinglebellrun.org).
Woodinville Artisan Craft & Wine Fair
WED Artists, appetizers and wine, benefiting Brigadoon Service Dogs, 5-9 p.m. Wednesday, The Hollywood Schoolhouse, 14810 N.E. 145th St., Woodinville; $20-$25 (425-208-2770 or www.WoodWareWine.com/id18.html).
Swansons/Carkeek Park/Golden Gardens
FRI Cascade Bicycle Club 25-mile, leisurely paced ride on streets and trails with stops at Swansons nursery, Carkeek Park and Golden Gardens, new riders welcome; steady rain cancels, 10 a.m. Friday, Gas Works Park, 2101 N. Northlake Way, Seattle (206-522-3222 or www.cascade.org).
Street Scramble at the Market
SUN On foot or by bike, visit as many of 30 locations circled on a map as you can in 90 minutes or 3 hours; competitive or casual, team or solo, 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Pike Place Market, 1501 Pike Place, Seattle; $5-$25 (206-992-8663 or www.StreetScramble.com).
Salvadorean Beach Cruise
SAT Cascade Bicycle Club 32-mile, leisurely paced ride with some hills, stop at South Seattle Community College gardens and Salvadorean Bakery Cafe, steady rain cancels, 10 a.m. Saturday, Jack Block Shoreline Park, 2130 Harbor Ave. S.W., Seattle (www.cascade.org).
Chet Gibson Memorial Cruise
FRI-SAT Parade of lighted boats (206-709-2000 or www.queencity.org); • 6 p.m. Friday, Lake Union; 7 p.m., Webster Point; 7:25 p.m., Leschi Park; 8:30 p.m., Meydenbauer Bay;
• 6 p.m. Saturday, Lake Union; 7 p.m., Webster Point; 7:40 p.m., Cozy Cove; 8:10 p.m., Kirkland; 8:40 p.m., Matthews Beach; 9 p.m., Sand Point.
Gig Harbor Yacht Club
Lighted Boat Parade
SAT Holiday-decorated boat parade around Gig Harbor Bay, 5 p.m. Saturday, Gig Harbor Town Dock (253-851-1807 or www.gigharborguide.com).
Argosy Christmas Ships
THRU DEC. 23 Decorated ship and companion boats sails to Puget Sound waterfront communities for 20-minute choir performances at each location; rides on Christmas ship or following boats available; Argosy Cruises, leaving from Seattle, Kirkland, Tacoma, Edmonds, Des Moines, Poulsbo through Dec. 23; $19-$58, by reservation (206-623-1445 or www.argosycruises.com).
This week’s performances:
• Friday: Dickens Carolers, Manchester City Park at 8:05 p.m., Olympic Sculpture Park at 9:15 p.m.;
• Saturday: Dickens Carolers; 4:10 p.m. at Pier 66, 5:15 p.m.at Seacrest Park, 8:50 p.m. at Lowman Beach, 9:40 p.m. at Alki Beach;
• Sunday: Dickens Carolers; 6 p.m. at Carkeek Park; 6:30 p.m. at Blue Ridge;
• Monday: Soundwave; 7:30 p.m. at Winslow Waterfront Beach; 8:40 p.m. at Don Aremeni Boat Ramp;
• Tuesday: Everett Chorale; 7 p.m. at Edmonds Marina; 8:20 p.m. at Richmond Beach/Saltwater Park;
• Wednesday: North Kitsap Northern Lights; 7 p.m. at Poulsbo Marina, 7:45 p.m. at Keyport, Kitsap County; 8:30 p.m. at Lemolo;
• Dec. 15: Dickens Carolers; 7 p.m. at Des Moines waterfront, 8:10 p.m. at Dash Point;
• Dec. 16: Dickens Carolers; 7:55 p.m. at Mercer Island Beach Club; 8:45 p.m. at Newport Yacht Club.
Steamer Virginia V
SAT Historic Virginia V joins Queen City Yacht Club flotilla for a cruise around Lake Union and Lake Washington, dessert buffet, cash bar, 6 p.m. Saturday, 860 Terry Ave. N., Seattle; $49-$59 (206-624-9119 or virginiav.org/events).
Lighted Boat Parade
SAT Watch the boat parade along the La Conner waterfront, Skagit County; 6:30 p.m. Saturday (360-466-4902 or www.laconnerchamber.com).
Benefit Square Dance
for Bike Works
FRI Square dance with The Tallboys to benefit Bike Works programs for youth, 7 p.m. Friday, Rainier Valley Cultural Center, 3515 S. Alaska St., Seattle; suggested donation $10-$15 at the door (www.seattlefolkfestival.com).
Big Balkan Misfit Bash for Northwest Folklife
FRI Dance to Balkan bands for ages 21 and older, 9 p.m. Friday, Columbia City Theater, 4916 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle; $10/advance, $15/at the door (www.brownpapertickets.com/event/210379).
Seattle Balkan Dancers
FRI Dance lesson, 7:30 p.m.; Balkan line dancing, partners not required, 8:30 p.m. Friday, Russian Community Center, 704 19th Ave. E., Seattle; $6-$12 (425-883-0332 or www.seattlebalkandancers.org).
Emerald City Contra Dance
FRI Beginners’ workshop, 7 p.m.; dance to live music with caller; don’t wear perfume or other scented products, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave. N., Seattle; $5-$8 (206-440-9839 or seattledance.org/contra/emerald.city.html).
Santa Tea, Kirkland
SAT Traditional tea service with visit from Santa, 1 p.m. Saturday, The Woodmark, 1200 Carillon Point, Kirkland; $20-$45 (www.thewoodmark.com).
Top 100 Wines of 2011 tasting
SAT Taste several wines from Wine Spectator magazine’s list, 1-4:30 p.m. Saturday, Arista Wine Cellars, 320 Fifth Ave. S., Edmonds (425-771-7009 or www.aristawines.com)
Salish Lodge Holiday Tea
SAT Tea, pastries, sandwiches, 2 p.m. Saturday, Salish Lodge, 6501 Railroad Ave. S.E., Snoqualmie; $15-$30 (800-272-5474 or www.salishlodge.com).
Bordeaux Winter Release
SAT-SUN Taste 2008 Bordeaux, noon-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Patterson Cellars, 19501 144th Ave. N.E., Suite D600, Woodinville; $5 tasting fee, waived with any purchase (www.pattersoncellars.com).
Chocolate Holiday Buffet
SUN Chocolate pastry treats, story time for kids, 3 p.m. Sundays in December, ART Restaurant & Lounge, 99 Union St., Seattle; $12-$20 (artrestaurantseattle.com).
Tokara Japanese Confectionery Open House
SUN Open house, 1-6 p.m.; Charaku Tea Company matcha and green teas with seasonal Japanese sweets, 1-5 p.m., $5, reservations recommended, 6208 Phinney Ave. N., Seattle (206-784-0226 or www.tokaragashi.com).
Holiday Boot Camp
at Willows Lodge
WED Class on holiday entertaining; cocktails and wine pairing, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Willows Lodge, 14580 N.E. 145th St., Woodinville; free (425-424-3900 or www.willowslodge.com).
Candlelit Labyrinth Walk
FRI Labyrinths for walking meditations, spiritual healing, prayer, walk at your own pace, 6-9 p.m. Friday, Advent Lutheran Church, 4306 132nd St. S.E., Mill Creek; free (206-200-5132 or www.adventlutheran.net/#/welcome).
East Shore Singles Lakemont Gorge Walk
SAT Singles older than 45, four-mile walk on urban trail, hiking sticks helpful for steep path, followed by optional lunch nearby, 11 a.m. Saturday, Lakemont Community Park, 5170 Village Park Drive S.E., Bellevue (206-409-9497 or www.eastshoresingles.org).
Electric Vehicle Potluck
SUN Potluck dinner and meeting for local Electric Auto Association (EAA) clubs and anyone with an interest in electric vehicles, 4-8 p.m. Sunday, Electric Transitions Development, 19802 62nd Ave S., Kent; by reservation (206-248-8079).
Kids Winter Wonderland Party
FRI Arts and crafts projects, holiday pictures, treats for ages 10 and younger, parents and grandparents welcome, 6 p.m. Friday, International District/Chinatown Community Center, 719 Eighth Ave. S., Seattle (206-233-0042).
Nativity Festival, Arlington
FRI-SUN Display of nativity scenes and Life of Christ artwork, children’s activity room, 6-9 p.m. Friday; 2-9 p.m. Saturday; 3-7 p.m. Sunday; choral concert, 7 p.m. Sunday, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 17222 43rd Ave. N.E., Arlington; free (www.arlingtonnativityfestival.org).
Leavenworth Christmas Lighting
FRI-SUN St. Nicholas arrives, 4 p.m. Friday and Dec. 16; Father Christmas, St. Nicholas and Santa Claus arrive at noon, entertainment, village- and tree-lighting ceremony, 4:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday and Dec. 17-18, Leavenworth (www.leavenworth.org).
Cookies, Crafts and Carols
at Lake Union Park
SAT Holiday activities for all ages, make cards and ornaments, decorate cookies; cider and cocoa, carols, board historic ships including steamship Virginia V, tug Arthur Foss, schooner Adventuress, noon-4 p.m. Saturday, Center for Wooden Boats, 1010 Valley St., Seattle; free (206-382-2628 or www.cwb.org/).
Photos with the Ivar’s Clam
SAT Ivar’s Dancing Clam dressed in holiday garb to pose for photos, noon-3 p.m. Saturdays through Dec. 17, Ivar’s Acres of Clams, 1001 Alaskan Way, Pier 54, Seattle; free (206-624-6852 or www.ivars.com).
Green Lake Pathway of Lights
SAT Walk the 2.8-mile path along the lake lit by luminaria, music, 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Green Lake, Seattle (206-684-0780).
Sky Nursery holiday events
SAT Radio Disney Enchanted Holiday Party, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., craft vendors, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; Sky Nursery, 18528 Aurora Ave. N., Shoreline; food bank donation suggested (206-546-4851 or www.skynursery.com).
Breakfast with Santa, Mountlake Terrace
SAT Breakfast, holiday music, Santa, 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, Mountlake Terrace High School, 21801 44th Ave. W., Mountlake Terrace; $5-$7/breakfast, $7-$10/Santa photos (www.edmonds.wednet.edu/mths/site/default.asp).
Candy Cane Lane
SAT THRU JAN. 1 Holiday decorations and music, 4-11 p.m. Saturday through Jan. 1, Northeast Park Road, off Ravenna Boulevard, Seattle; food bank donations collected.
Kirkland Community Christmas Nativity Display and Concert
SAT Display of hundreds of nativity sets, 5-9 p.m. Saturday; live nativity performance outdoors, 5:30, 6:30 and 8:15 p.m., in Spanish, 6 p.m.; concert with choirs and soloists, 7 p.m. Saturday, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Totem Lake Building, 13220 N.E. 132nd St., Kirkland; free (206-661-2057).
Santa Train, Lake Whatcom Railway
SAT Santa visits, Christmas singalong, food vendors on antique train excursion, 9:30 a.m., noon and 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Dec. 17, Lake Whatcom Railway, State Highway 9, Wickersham; $10-$20 (360-595-2218 or www.lakewhatcomrailway.com).
Drive-thru Christmas Story
SAT-SUN Ten-minute drive with thousands of lights and Nativity Story, 6-8:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Normandy Christian Church, 908 S. 200th St., Des Moines; free (206-878-4740 or www.normandychristian.org).
Festival of Lights and Mrs. Claus
SAT-SUN Light displays, meet Mrs. Claus giving children cookies, noon-3 p.m.; pony rides, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Country Village, 23732 Bothell-Everett Highway, Bothell (425-483-2250 or www.countryvillagebothell.com).
SUN Swedish Christmas program, reception with music and dancing around the Christmas tree, 5 p.m. Sunday, Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, 2400 N.W. 85th St., Seattle; free (206-783-7900).
Traditional Santa Breakfasts
SUN and DEC. 17-18 Breakfast, entertainment by The Strolling Minstrels, “The Nutcracker” excerpts, Santa visit; portion of proceeds benefits Arthritis Foundation, 9:30 a.m. Sunday and Dec. 17-18, Sheraton Seattle Hotel and Towers, Seattle; $25-$55, by reservation (206-547-1290 or www.facebook.com/santabreakfast).
Meet Santa at Heritage Park Open House
SUN Holiday music, treats, meet Santa, 1 p.m. Sunday, Heritage Cottage, 19903 Poplar Way, Lynnwood; free (425-775-4694 or alderwood.org/events.html).
Santa’s Brunch, Snohomish
SUN Photos with Santa, crafts for kids, brunch, 10 a.m. Sunday, The Golf Club at Echo Falls, 20414 121st Ave. SE, Snohomish; $14.95-$24.95 (360-668-3030 or www.echofallsgolf.com).
Christmas Tea at Browns Point
SUN Seasonal decorations, carols, cookies, music, museum tours in historic 1903 cottage, noon-4 p.m., Santa visits 2-3:30 p.m., Sunday, Browns Point Lighthouse Park, 201 Tulalip St. N.E., Tacoma; free (253-927-2536).
Snowy Days at Westfield Southcenter
DEC. 15 Mrs. Claus tells holiday favorites and helps kids create a winter craft, Santa appearance, 10 a.m. Dec. 15, Westfield Southcenter, 633 Southcenter Parkway, Tukwila; free (www.westfield.com/southcenter).
Seattle Center Winterfest
THRU DEC. 29 Winter train and village, entertainment, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily through Dec. 29, Center House (206-684-7200 or www.seattlecenter.com).
THRU JAN. 1 Seattle architecture firms and Sheraton culinary staff design, bake and build gingerbread displays inspired by the theme “Holiday Express,” open daily through Jan. 1, Sheraton Seattle Hotel and Towers, 1400 Sixth Ave., Seattle; free, donations for Northwest Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation appreciated (gingerbreadvillage.myevent.com/3/events.htm).
Wonderland Holiday Carousel
THRU JAN. 1 Holiday carousel rides, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Sundays, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Fridays through December; special hours, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 24 and 31, closed Dec. 25, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Jan. 1, Westlake Park, 401 Pine St., Seattle; $2/suggested donation benefits Downtown Seattle Association and Treehouse charity for children in foster care (www.downtownholidays.com).
Pacific Place Winter Wonderland
THRU DEC. 31 Holiday entertainment, noon-7 p.m. most days; Santa’s Wonderland daily through Dec. 24; snow performances, 6 p.m. daily, Pacific Place, Sixth Avenue and Pine Street, Seattle (206-405-2655 or www.pacificplaceseattle.com).
Teddy Bear Suite
THRU DEC. 26 Visit holiday suite filled with Teddy bears, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. daily, Fairmont Olympic Hotel, 411 University St., Seattle; free, donations for Seattle Children’s Hospital requested (206-287-4049).
THRU JAN. 1 Display of more than 50 larger-than-life illuminated toys until 10 p.m. daily through Jan. 1, Waterfront Park, Pier 57-59, Seattle (www.downtownholidays.com).
Space Needle holidays
THRU DEC. 24 Children’s craft activities, visits with Santa, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Sunday and Dec. 17-24, Observation Deck, $11-$18, ages 2 and younger free, The Space Needle, Seattle (206-905-2100 or www.spaceneedle.com).
Swansons Reindeer Festival
THRU DEC. 24 See reindeer Dasher and Blitzen, Curly the Camel, Moe the miniature donkey, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. daily, Swansons Nursery, 9701 15th Ave. N.W., Seattle (206-782-2543 or www.swansonsnursery.com).
Bellevue Magic Season Snowflake Lane
THRU DEC. 24 Simulated snowfall, live toy soldiers and winter characters, music, light show, 7 p.m. daily, Bellevue Way and Northeast Eighth Street, Bellevue (425-454-8096 or magicseason.com).
THRU DEC. 31 Winter wonderland of light displays, gift shop, 5-10 p.m., last entry 9:30 p.m. daily, Bellevue Botanical Garden, 12001 Main St., Bellevue; $5, ages 10 and younger free; free admission for all Monday-Wednesday (425-452-6844 or www.gardendlights.org).
Fantasy Christmas Doll Suite
THRU DEC. 23 Hundreds of dolls on display; 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Friday through Dec. 23; group tours available by appointment, Riverside East Retirement and Assisted Living, 10315 E. Riverside Drive, Bothell; free, donations to benefit the Moyer Foundation for children suggested (425-481-1976 or villageconcepts.com).
THRU JAN. 1 Clam Lights display nightly through Jan. 1, Gene Coulon Park, 1201 Lake Washington Blvd., Renton (www.rentonwa.gov or www.ivars.com).
Issaquah Reindeer Festival
THRU DEC. 30 Meet Santa, see his reindeer, gift shop, food, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily through Dec. 23, Cougar Mountain Zoo, 19525 S.E. 54th St., Issaquah; $10.50-$12.50 (www.cougarmountainzoo.org).
Festival of Poinsettias
THRU DEC. 23 Poinsettias in 25 varieties, 14-foot poinsettia tree, holiday music and Santa visits on weekends, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. daily, Molbak’s nursery, 13625 N.E. 175th St., Woodinville (425-483-5000 or www.molbaks.com).
THRU DEC. 17 Northwest Railway Museum and Snoqualmie Valley Railroad’s train excursion to visit Santa Claus at the Snoqualmie Depot, with music, cookies, small gift for each child, hourly 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday-Sunday and Dec. 17; 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Dec. 16; departs from North Bend depot, 205 McClellan St., North Bend; $20; advance purchase recommended (425-888-3030 or www.trainmuseum.org).
THRU JAN. 1 Lights and light sculptures of animals and local landmarks, music, aquarium, camel rides, carousel, scuba-diving Santa, 5-8 p.m. Friday through Jan. 1 (closed Dec. 24), Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, 5400 N. Pearl St., Tacoma; $7-$8.25, ages 2 and younger free (253-404-3822 or www.pdza.org/zoolights).
The Lights of Christmas
THRU DEC. 28 1 million lights, music, theater, pony rides, petting farm, train rides, food, 5-10 p.m. Friday through Sunday and Dec. 15-23, 26-28; Warm Beach Christian Camps & Conference Center, Stanwood; $9-$15 (800-228-6724 or www.warmbeach.com/index.php/lights-of-christmas).
Christmas Tree Association
ONGOING Tree farms in Snohomish, King, Pierce, Thurston and Kitsap counties, information online and in brochure available at public libraries and other locations (www.PSCTA.org).
Pacific Northwest Christmas Tree Association
ONGOING Tree farms in Washington and Oregon, information online and in brochure available at public libraries, AAA offices and other locations (www.nwchristmastrees.org).
Christmas tree permits,
Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
ONGOING Permits available to cut a Christmas tree in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest; $10-$20, cash only at most locations (www.fs.usda.gov/mbs);
• Outdoor Recreation Information Center, REI, 222 Yale Ave. N., Seattle (206-470-4060)
• REI, 3000 184th St. S.W., Lynnwood (425-640-6200)
• North Bend ranger station, 902 S.E. North Bend Way, North Bend (425-888-1421)
• Enumclaw ranger station, 450 Roosevelt Ave. E., Enumclaw (360-825-6585)
• Skykomish ranger station, 74920 N.E. Stevens Pass Highway, Skykomish (360-677-2414)
• Verlot Public Service Center, 33515 Mountain Loop Highway, Granite Falls (360-691-7791)
• Darrington ranger station, 1405 Emens Ave. N., Darrington (360-436-1155)
• Glacier Public Service Center, Mt. Baker Highway 542, Glacier (360-599-2714)
• Sedro-Woolley ranger station, 810 State Route 20, Sedro-Woolley (360-856-5700, ext. 515)
Christmas tree permits, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
ONGOING Permits available to cut one tree per family; get permits at ranger stations and businesses in Cle Elum, Ellensburg, Leavenworth, Wenatchee, Chelan, Winthrop; $15 (www.fs.usda.gov/okawen).
“The Rum Diary” and “The Guard”
It’s new at the Crest Cinema. Also there: “Dolphin Tale,” “The Big Year,” “50/50” and “The Help” ($3).
“The Big Year, “50/50” and “The Three Musketeers”
They’re new at the Admiral Theater in West Seattle. Also there: “The Help” ($5.75).
“Charlotte Rampling: The Look”
It’s new at the Varsity Theatre. Also there: “El Bulli: Cooking in Progress” and “Midnight in Paris.” All seats on Tuesday are $7.
“Santa Claus Conquers the Martians”
It’s the midnight movie at the Egyptian Friday and Saturday. All seats are $8.25.
“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part One”
It continues at the Big Picture Seattle. The 3:30 p.m. shows Saturday-Sunday are $7.
“Scrooged” and “Bad Santa”
They’re new at the Central Cinema in Seattle. All shows $6-$8.
“Cowboys & Aliens”
It’s new at the Tin Theater in Burien this week. All shows $7-$8.
“Midnight in Paris,” “Paranormal Activity 3,” “The Rum Diary” and “What’s Your Number?”
They’re new at the Gateway in Federal Way. Also there: “50/50,” “Dolphin Tale 3D,” “Dream House.” The Three Musketeers,” “The Help,” “The Lion King 3D” and “The Smurfs 3D” ($2, all seats on Tuesdays $1).
Art Attack Teen Night Out
FRI Entertainment by Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Garfield Drum Line, Mak Fai Lion Dancers, tours led by teens and local artists, art-making activities, open to all high-school teens, ID required, 7 p.m. Friday, Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., Seattle; free (www.seattleartmuseum.org).
Festivals of Light
THRU JAN. 5 Each week in December features different winter traditions around the world; Santa Lucia through Dec. 15; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, The Children’s Museum, Seattle Center House, Seattle; $6.50-$7.50 (206-441-1768 or thechildrensmuseum.org).
Future of Flight exhibit opening
SAT Opening day of new temporary exhibit exploring developments in the commercial spaceflight industry, with planetarium shows, family activities, films, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, half-price admission for each visitor with at least one nonperishable food bank donation; also, “Salute to the USO: A History of Service” with songs, vintage uniforms, comedy, oral history, 2 p.m. Saturday and Dec. 17; Museum of Flight, 9404 E. Marginal Way S., Seattle; regular admission $9-$16 (206-764-5720 or www.museumofflight.org).
Holiday Films at EMP
SAT “Batteries Not Included,” 1 p.m. Saturday; “A Jetson Christmas Carol,” 3 p.m. Saturday; “The Muppet Christmas Carol,” 1 p.m. Dec. 17; “A Muppet Christmas: Letter to Santa,” 2:30 p.m. Dec. 17; Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum, 325 Fifth Ave. N., Seattle; $5, or free with museum admission (206-770-2700 or www.empmuseum.org).
State Capital Museum
Historic Holiday Celebration
SAT Petting zoo, Santa, cookie decorating, arts and crafts in the historic mansion, pony rides and hayrides on the grounds, noon Saturday, Washington State Capital Museum, 211 W. 21st Ave., Olympia; $7/person or $25/family (360-753-2580 or www.washingtonhistory.org/wscm).
SAT-SUN See Santa diving in the Window on Washington exhibit, noon and 3 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays through Dec. 18, Seattle Aquarium, 1483 Alaskan Way, Pier 59, Seattle; $12-$19 (206-386-4300 or www.seattleaquarium.org).
North Pole Party
— Gingerbread Village
SAT-SUN Kids design a sweet candy brick for gingerbread house and create a holiday swag; story time, Santa visits, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Imagine Children’s Museum, 1502 Wall St., Everett; $7.95 (425-258-1006 or www.ImagineCM.org).
Duwamish Christmas Concert
— Teaching of the First People
SUN Native artist and storyteller shares stories, song and dance; hot cocoa and cookies, 2 p.m. Sunday, Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center, 4705 W. Marginal Way S.W., Seattle; $5-$10 (206-431-1582 or www.duwamishtribe.org).
Jingle Bell-evue Blvd.
SUN Performances by the Snowflake Lane toy-soldier drum line, snack bar, craft stations, 4 p.m. Sunday, Bellevue Arts Museum, 510 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue; free (425-519-0770 or www.bellevuearts.org).
THRU JAN. 14 Holiday exhibit of puppets that were displayed in Frederick & Nelson department store windows during several holiday seasons in the 1950s and ’60s, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesdays-Saturdays, Aurora Valentinetti Puppet Museum, 257 Fourth St., Bremerton; free, donations appreciated (360-373-2992 or ectandpuppets).
at the Gaches Mansion
THRU DEC. 30 Historic 1891 mansion decorated for the holidays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesdays-Sundays; vintage records played on a 1911 Victor Electrola Talking Machine, 3-5 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 S. Second St., La Conner; $7 (360-466-4288 or www.laconnerquilts.com).
FRI Carnival games, songs, crafts, 6 p.m. Friday, Ravenna-Eckstein Community Center, 6535 Ravenna Ave. N.E., Seattle; $1 (206-684-7534 or www.seattle.gov/parks).
Winter Wonderland Fiesta
SAT Children’s winter themed arts and crafts, spiced cider and hot cocoa, make winter bird feeders, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Seward Park Audubon Center, 5902 Lake Washington Boulevard S., Seattle; free (206-652-2444 or sewardpark.audubon.org).
SAT Horse-drawn wagon ride around the park, hourly 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays through Dec. 24, Seward Park Audubon Center, Seattle; $15 (206-652-2444 or www.brownpapertickets.com/profile/17346).
Accessible Birding Tour
SAT Eastside Audubon leads leisurely paced birding tour on paved pathways for people in wheelchairs or who walk slowly, 9 a.m. Saturday, Juanita Bay Park, 2201 Market St., Kirkland (425-637-0892 or www.eastsideaudubon.org).
Seahurst Nighttime Beach Walk
SAT Guided exploration of the beach at low tide, bring a flashlight, 7 p.m. Saturday, Seahurst Park, Southwest 136th Street and 13th Avenue Southwest, Burien; $5, preregister (360-754-9177, Ext. 160, or pugetsound.org).
Hood Canal Pier sealife exploration
SAT Watch from the dock with naturalists as sea creatures are drawn to submerged lights, for ages 8 and older, bring a flashlight, 8 p.m. Saturday, Hood Canal Marina, 5101 E. State Route 106, Union; $10, reservations required (360-754-9177, Ext. 160, or pugetsound.org).
Holiday Concert by Breath of Aire
FRI Holiday musical celebration, 7 p.m. Friday, Bastyr University, 14500 Juanita Drive N.E., Kenmore; free (425-823-1300 or www.bastyr.edu/).
“The Music Project” Holiday Concert
FRI Northshore Wranglers holiday extravaganza, 7 p.m. Friday, Northshore Senior Center, 10201 E. Riverside Drive, Bothell; free, donations appreciated (425-488-4821 or www.northshorewranglers.org).
“It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play”
FRI-SAT The story of George Bailey, told as a 1940s radio broadcast, 7 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, East Eastridge Church, 24205 S.E. Issaquah Fall City Road, Issaquah; free, ticket required (425-270-6300 or www.eastridgetoday.com).
“Santa Claus and the Martians”
FRI-SAT Stage adaptation of the 1964 film, 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday at the Carnegie Library, 105 Cedar St., Snohomish; free, donations accepted (www.snohomishtheaterproject.org).
Concert for Kids
SAT Season for Singing singalong with Nancy Stewart for ages 4-12, 11 a.m. Saturday, Northgate Community Center, 10510 Fifth Ave. N.E., Seattle; free (www.hallerlakearts.org).
Seattle Mandolin Orchestra
SAT Concert of Christmas and Hanukkah music from around the world, 2 p.m. Saturday, Ballard Library, 5614 22nd Ave. N.W., Seattle (206-684-4089 or www.spl.org).
Cascade Brass Quintet
SAT Holiday concert, 2 p.m. Saturday, Kirkland Library, 308 Kirkland Ave., Kirkland (425-822-2459 or www.kcls.org).
Northwest Ballet Holiday Recital
SAT Ballet of the season, 1 p.m. Saturday, Third Place Commons, 17171 Bothell Way N.E., Lake Forest Park; free (206-366-3302 or www.thirdplacecommons.org).
SAT Holiday-themed magic show for ages 5 and older, 2 p.m. Saturday, Algona-Pacific Library, 255 Ellingson Road, Pacific (253-833-3554 or www.kcls.org).
Journey through the Season of Rock
SAT The Not-Its music for families and kids ages 2 and older, 2 p.m. Saturday, North Bend Library, 115 E. Fourth St., North Bend (425-888-0554 or www.kcls.org).
Dr. Noize Live! Benefit Concert
SUN Interactive music concert for kids of all ages, all proceeds benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, The Vera Project, Northwest Rooms, Seattle Center, Seattle; $12 (www.doctornoize.com).
Puget Brass Holiday Spectacular
SUN Holiday concert by British style brass band, 2 p.m. Sunday, Redmond Library, 15990 N.E. 85th St., Redmond (425-885-1861 or www.kcls.org).
Renton City Concert Band
SUN Holiday music by the 60-member band, 2 p.m. Sunday, Ikea Performing Arts Center, 400 S. Second St., Renton; $7-$10 tickets available at Renton Community Center or at the door (425-430-6700).
12 Minutes Max
SUN-MON Short performances of contemporary works-in-process by local performers, 7 p.m. Sunday-Monday, On the Boards, 100 W. Roy St., Seattle; $8 (206-217-9888 or www.ontheboards.org).
DEC. 15 Theater Schmeater stages Craig Lucas’ comedy about a woman who discovers her husband has hired a hit man to kill her, 8 p.m. Dec. 15, Theater Schmeater, 1500 Summit Ave., Seattle; pay-what-you-can (206-423-5801 or www.schmeater.org).
SAT One-mile fun run/walk, 9 a.m. Saturday, 5K road race/walk, 9:30 a.m., kids dashes, benefits Go Run! organization for girls; registration opens 7:30 a.m., Bainbridge Performing Arts Center, 200 Madison Ave. N., Bainbridge Island; $5-$25 (206-842-5720 or www.gorunhavefun.org).
Gifts & Greens Galore
FRI-SAT Holiday decorations, including wreaths, swags and fresh-cut greens, nature-themed gifts for all ages, live seasonal music, 3-7 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, kids craft activities Saturday, Santa visits 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Graham Visitors Center, Washington Park Arboretum, 2300 Arboretum Drive E., Seattle (206-325-4510 or www.arboretumfoundation.org/).
Black Dog Forge Open House and Holiday Sale
FRI-SUN See the forge, sale of hand-forged gifts, 5-9 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday, Black Dog Forge in conjunction with Object Gallery, 2316 Second Ave., Seattle (206-443-9413 or blackdogforge.com).
South Whidbey Holiday Galleria
FRI-SUN Artists of South Whidbey, paintings, prints, cards, reception 5-7 p.m. Friday; show 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Clinton Progressive Hall, 6411 Central Ave., Clinton (www.artworkswhidbey.com).
Highland Park Holiday Bazaar
SAT 25 vendors, raffle, bake sale, lunch available, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Highland Park Elementary School, 1012 S.W. Trenton St., Seattle (highlandparkes.seattleschools.org/).
I Heart Indie Holidays
SAT Arts and crafts by 42 local artists, a portion of the proceeds benefits Boys & Girls Club Keystone Program, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Wallingford Boys & Girls Club, 1310 N. 45th St., Seattle (www.facebook.com/events/207591379303588/).
Seattle Shores Sweet Adelines Holiday Bazaar
SAT Crafts, bake sale, used books, jewelry, household items, performances by the Chorus, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday, Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Church, 14724 First Ave. N.E., Shoreline (seattleshores.org).
Designer Disaster/Supply Sale Show
SAT Handcrafted and commercial items, cash or checks only, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Local 302 Union Hall, 18701 120th Ave. N.E., Bothell (206-412-2633).
Holiday Bazaar, Monroe
SAT Craft and bake sale, lunch available, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, East County Senior Center, 276 Sky River Parkway, Monroe (360-794-6359 or www.eastcountyseniorcenter.org).
Alternative Gift Fair
SUN Gifts from around the world from 35 fair-trade and nonprofit organizations, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday, Plymouth Congregational Church, 1217 Sixth Ave., Seattle (206-725-1469 or www.plymouthchurchseattle.org).
The North American Post’s
Japanese Holiday Art Sale
SUN Arts and crafts including Japanese traditional and contemporary art by local artists, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Nagomi Tea House, 519 Sixth Avenue South, Seattle (206-623-0100).
Bellevue Friends of the Library Book Sale
SUN Proceeds benefit the library, 1 p.m. Sunday, Lake Hills Library, 15590 Lake Hills Blvd., Bellevue (425-747-3350 or www.kcls.org).
Indoor Farmers Market
SUN Produce, crafts, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; music by Milner Family Fiddles, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Dickens Carolers, 2-3 p.m. Sunday, Third Place Commons, 17171 Bothell Way N.E., Lake Forest Park (206-366-3302 or www.thirdplacecommons.org).
Seward Park Clay Studio
Holiday Show and Sale
THRU DEC. 24 Ceramic works by 50 artists, noon-7 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays, Seward Park Clay Studio, 5900 Lake Washington Blvd. S., Seattle (206-722-6342 or www.sewardparkart.org).
Holiday and Seconds Sale
Thru DEC. 22 Seconds, close-outs and holiday art-glass sale, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily through Dec. 22, Jones Glassworks, 900 N. 34th St., Seattle (206-632-3604 or jonesglassworks.com).
Seattle Center Winterfest
THRU JAN. 1 Winterfest Ice Rink, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sundays-Thursdays (closes 4 p.m. Dec. 24, closed Dec. 25), Fisher Pavilion, Seattle Center; $7/adults, $5/ages 6-12, $2/ages 5 and younger, includes skate rental; cash only (206-684-7200 or www.seattlecenter.com).
Holiday Ice Rink, Cal Anderson Park
THRU DEC. 24 Covered outdoor ice skating with music, holiday decorations, concessions, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. daily through Dec. 24, Cal Anderson Park, 1635 11th Ave., Seattle; $12/adults, $6/ages 8 and younger, per hour, with or without skate rental (www.capitolhillicerink.com).
Bellevue Magic Season Ice Arena
THRU JAN. 8 Open-air ice skating, shelter for all-weather skating, hours vary through Jan. 11, including 3-11 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday; 3-9 p.m. Monday; 3-7 p.m. Tuesday; 1-9 p.m. Wednesday; 3-9 p.m. Dec. 15, 3-11 p.m. Dec. 16; skating for people with young children in strollers only, 2-3 p.m. Dec. 15, Bellevue Downtown Park, 10201 N.E. Fourth St., Bellevue; $10 includes skate rental; Free Skate Mondays with Bank of America debit or credit card or pass from downtown Bellevue banking center (425-453-1223 or magicseason.com).
Snowshoes.com Get Going! Workshop
DEC. 15 For novice or intermediate snowshoeing, choose the right snowshoe, where to find trails and events near you, 7 p.m. Dec. 15, REI, 222 Yale Ave. N., Seattle; free (206-223-1944 or www.rei.com/event/30151/session/37549).
Avalanche Awareness Clinic
DEC. 15 Information for winter recreationists of all levels, 6 p.m. Dec. 15, evo, 122 N.W. 36th St., Seattle; free (www.mountainmadness.com).
Ranger-Guided Snowshoe Walks
DEC. 17-JAN. 1 Moderately strenuous 1.5-mile guided snowshoe walks for ages 8 and older, snowshoes provided or bring your own, 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. daily Dec. 17 through Jan. 1, then Saturdays, Sundays and holidays through April 1; sign up one hour before each walk; Mount Rainier Visitor Center, Ashford; $15/park entry fee; $4 donation suggested for; all vehicles required to carry tire chains (360-569-2211 or www.nps.gov/mora/).
Historian Richard White
FRI White discusses his book “Railroaded: The Transcontinental and the Making of Modern America,” 7 p.m. Friday, Seattle Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave., Seattle (206-386-4636 or www.spl.org).
International Human Rights Day
SAT Speaker Marie Hilao-Enriquez, chairwoman of the Philippines-based human rights coalition Karapatan, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Filipino Community Center, 5740 Martin Luther King Jr. Way S., Seattle; $5-$20 (pusoseattle.wordpress.com).
Remembrance Ceremony — Light a Light for our Children
SUN Providence Hospice invites any families whose child has died to participate in an International Day of Remembrance ceremony, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Providence Hospice of Seattle, 425 Pontius Ave. N., Suite 300, Seattle; free (206-320-4000 ).
“Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness”
TUE Documentary film and community discussion on intolerance and hate crimes against immigrants, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Mountlake Terrace Library, 23300 58th Ave. W., Mountlake Terrace (www.sno-isle.org/).
DEC. 15 Author David Volk reads from “A Cheap Bastard’s Guide to Seattle,” 7 p.m. Dec. 15, White Center Library, 11220 16th S.W., Seattle (206-243-0233 or www.kcls.org).
Seattle Architecture Foundation
FRI-SAT Tours from Seattle Architecture Foundation offices, 1333 Fifth Ave., Rainier Square Atrium, Seattle, unless noted otherwise; $15-$25 (800-838-3006 or www.seattlearchitecture.org);
• Design Details, including Smith Tower Observation Deck where tour ends, 10 a.m. Friday;
• Art Deco, 10 a.m. Saturday;
• Architecture Greatest Hits, 10 a.m. Dec. 15;
• Architecture 101, 10 a.m. Dec. 16.
Santa’s Lights tour
SAT Metro Employee Historic Vehicle Association 3-hour tour of Seattle Christmas lights from aboard a fleet of King County Metro historic transit buses; Santa visit, 7 p.m. Saturday, from Second Avenue South and South Main Street, Seattle; $5/no Metro tickets or passes accepted (206-684-1816 or www.mehva.org).
Snow Train To Leavenworth’s Lighting Festival
SAT Rail tour to Leavenworth, Saturday and Dec. 17 from King Street Station, Edmonds Station, or Everett Station; $149 (206-935-6848 or www.alkitours.com).
Vashon Island Art Studio Tour
SAT-SUN More than 40 studios open, with fiber art, glass, jewelry, wood, candles, pottery, mosaic, photography, sculpture, prints, paintings, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Vashon Island; free maps available online and at local businesses (206-463-6691 or www.VashonIslandArtStudioTour.com).
Holiday Lights Tour
THRU Dec. 23 Tour lights of downtown Seattle, the waterfront, Pioneer Square on 40-minute land-only Duck ride; first tours depart 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 5 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays through Dec. 23, Westlake Park, 401 Pine St., Seattle; $1-$15, reservations recommended (206-441-3825 or www.ridetheducksofseattle.com).
the Back Door
SAT Venice, Florence and Rome, 10 a.m. Saturday, Edmonds Theater, 415 Main St., Edmonds; free, reservations required (425-771-8303, ext. 298 or www.ricksteves.com).
at Lake Sammamish
SAT Washington State Parks and Mountains to Sound Greenway park restoration project to remove invasive plants and plant trees, no experience necessary, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, all or half day, Lake Sammamish State Park, preregistration required (206-812-0122 or mtsgreenway.org).
Gingerbread House Workshops
FRI-SAT Make a gingerbread creation, 6-8 p.m. Friday; 12:30-2 p.m. and 2:30-4 p.m. Saturday, Bellevue Hilton, Bellevue; $35-$40, preregister, space limited (425-637-8100 or www.kidsquestmuseum.org).
Auto Leaks Class
SAT Cars inspected, how to fix leaks to keep oil and other automotive fluids out of Puget Sound, 9 a.m. Dec. 10, South Seattle Community College, Seattle; free, preregister (206-386-9746).
Fundraising: From A to Z
SAT Building donor base, planning innovative events, grant writing and attracting corporate sponsors, 10 a.m. Saturday, 2100 Building, 2100 24th Ave. S., Seattle; $75 (425-653-1575 or www.o2joyent.com/workshops).
SAT Learn to use NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and hypnosis to enhance business and personal success, banish holiday stress, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Mindworks Hypnosis, 1601 114th Ave. N.E., Suite 103, Bellevue; $69-$97 (425-564-8608 or www.seattlenlptraining.com).
— Tealight Ornament
SAT Make an ornament, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Ben Franklin Crafts & Frame Shop, 21121 Highway 410, Bonney Lake; $3 (253-862-6822 or www.bfranklincrafts.com/BonneyLEvents.html).
Holiday Photo & Garden Photo Frames
SAT Make a garden photo frame to give as a gift, photographer on hand to take a picture of each child for their frame, 11 a.m. Saturday, The Plant Farm, 15022 Twin Lakes Ave. N.E., Marysville (360-652-3351 or www.theplantfarm.com/kidsclub.htm).
Introduction to genealogy
SUN Introductory workshop by Eastside Genealogy Society, 2 p.m. Sunday, Issaquah Library, 10 W. Sunset Way, Issaquah (425-392-5430 or www.kcls.org).
Knitting with Milly Workshop & Potluck
SUN Bring knitting projects you need help with, 11 a.m. Sunday, Ben Franklin Crafts & Frame Shop, 21121 Highway 410, Bonney Lake; $20, preregister (253-862-6822 or www.bfranklincrafts.com/BonneyLEvents.html).
Winter crafts for children
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Inspiring people to get excited about their food
Fertile Ground is a small, organic farm offering a bounty of vegetable goodness! If fresh, local & organic food gets you excited we’ll probably get along. We LOVE seeing people get excited about their food. We produce vegetables and eggs at our farm, and offer pastured meats and cut flowers through our partners. Our farm is located on the west side of Waterloo, between Columbia Forest neighbourhood and the town of St. Agatha. Join our CSA for weekly on-farm or Kitchener pickups. | <urn:uuid:0317b5dc-962e-41e7-93ea-06bfdc77058f> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://fertilegroundcsa.com/ | 2016-05-06T16:47:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461861848830.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428164408-00110-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964212 | 114 | [
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The arched chambers around a sahn or courtyard within a mosque. The term might also refer to a students apartment within.
Who are we?
Tour Egypt aims to offer the ultimate Egyptian adventure and intimate knowledge about the country. We offer this unique experience in two ways, the first one is by organizing a tour and coming to Egypt for a visit, whether alone or in a group, and living it firsthand. The second way to experience Egypt is from the comfort of your own home: online. | <urn:uuid:0b4ba8f4-60a3-4342-b639-31e3329831a0> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.touregypt.net/Riwaq.htm | 2016-05-06T16:55:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461861848830.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428164408-00110-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953088 | 101 | [
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Fort Laramie was established as a U.S. Army frontier outpost
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... like you can wear, but these great decorated (thing the Chicago cows) large cowboy boots throughout the area. It became a game for us to see how many boots we could find and take pictures with.
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Custardy Bread Pudding
Yield: 3 to 4 servings
This comes from my dear cousin, Ruth Perkins Wilson (1926-2003). She was living in North Berwick, Maine when she gave this recipe to me in 1987. I have sweet memories of Ruthie every time I make this pudding. It is delicious, and has a very custardy texture.
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- 2 cups bread, cut into cubes
- 2 cups milk
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- raisins if desired
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- pinch of salt
Instructions:Place bread cubes in a 1 1/2-quart
buttered baking dish. In a saucepan, scald milk; let cool. In a bowl, beat eggs well; add scalded milk, sugar, salt, raisins (if desired), and vanilla.
Pour mixture onto bread cubes and combine lightly. Fill a second, larger baking dish with an inch or two of water, and place bread mixture dish inside.
Bake in a 350-degree oven for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a tableknife inserted into the
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This Website is the home page for the Northeast District of the Connecticut Junior Soccer Association (CJSA). The Northeast District is the umbrella organization that arranges recreational- and competition-level leagues for about 20 independent district soccer clubs, and this site is designed to support the administration of those leagues.
Parents looking for soccer club information, please see our Links page.
Spring 2016 Is On
Good luck this spring. D3 and D4 teams please report your scores..
2015 District Champions
Congratulations to the following division champions for fall, 2015:
So, these things will be discussed by the Northeast District over the winter break, and clubs are urged to attend these meetings. As well, these issues will be discussed and likely voted on at the CJSA AGM. So, clubs should read up on these changes so they can discuss the issues from a position of understanding.
These changes are to be implemented beginning 2016 as a best practice and 2017 as a requirement.
Concussion Information Posted
See the Soccer Links page for CDC and U.S. Youth Soccer information on concussion for youth sports.
Use This Website To
This Website is designed to be used by Northeast District soccer clubs (and coaches of their teams) to report competition-travel team scores and for administrative purposes, such as providing forms and rules of competition. If you are a parent looking for a club, please see our Links page. Please use our Contact Us page if you have questions.
Report your scores: All division 3 and 4 competition travel teams must report all their league match scores. Home teams, away teams, winning teams, losing teams, and every age group must report. See score reporting here.
Get documents and forms: Open or download district and CJSA forms, including the rules of play, which are modified to meet district goals for the good of soccer. Find documents and forms here.
Score Reporting Tips
Please read the following tips for reporting your scores:
Verify your match number using the schedule posted on this Website – the schedule provided at the scheduling meeting is a draft and might not be accurate for all teams
All comp teams (D3/D4) must report each and every league match
The winning, losing, home, and away teams must all report
A match is assigned a match number – you must use that number to report
Do not make up match numbers
A match is assigned to a specific weekend – if the match is not played by the time the assigned weekend has ended, report a postponement
If a match is postponed, both the teams involved must report the postponement
If a match is played early, just report the match using the match number
If a match is not played by the weekend it is scheduled, report a postponement AND report the match when it is played
Use the "Report Scores" link to the left to report your scores
Report scores by Monday 10pm following the weekend the match is scheduled on the master schedule
Finally: reach out to your club for help reporting scores!
Do Not Submit Late Match Reports Unless...
If the standings have been updated and the list of no-reports has been sent to clubs, do not submit your match report UNLESS neither team reported on the match in question.
If neither team reported on the match in question, the match will be listed as not reported in the standings PDF. In this case, we need a late report to know what happened to the match.
Scores that are submitted late but are not needed just add to the number of emails and slew of data, and they cause more work with no benefit. So, if your opponent reported the match and you did not before the standings were updated, then don't submit anything late, just be on time with the next report.
Listen to This Muppet: Respect
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My first searches on the web were using yahoo while it was still at a stanford.edu sub-domain. It quickly grew, got its own domain and started adding on more and more "features" that made investors feel something was happening and made most users feel annoyed. The page became so cluttered, they were trying to be so many things -- and putting all of them on the home page, crowding out the search features.
Then my world changed, in 1997 I stumbled on a new search engine called Google. It was clean -- a big empty page with a few links and it was clear that being a search engine was the primary focus. The results were really impressive also, it seemed to always return relevant items.
Over time, google has grown to be the giant behemoth of the internet. Gmail; advertising programs for website owners; website analytics/user tracking; translation; shopping; everything under the sun seems to have a link to google these days. At least they have kept the primary interface clean and about searching. As they have grown to own so much of the data on the internet, I have grown more and more leery of giving them all my data.
A few new search engines came to my attention recently. While lacking the game changing impact of yahoo and google's launch, they each have some interesting features that make them worth some attention.
First in the list is Scroogle. Scroogle is just a layer between you and google. The results are taken from google. The difference is that by standing between you and google, they prevent google from tracking your searches; they keep google from associating your searches with the other data they already have about you. This is a good thing, but it's still google.
Next on the list is StartPage. Startpage promotes itself as the search engine that is most concerned about and respectful of your privacy. They claim to collect no data about people using their search engine. The results are pretty good too.
The most innovative on the list is Blekko. The first thing that caught my eye is the option of sorting the results by relevancy or by date of the content. This is huge! Google does not give users control over sorting results, they are sure that their machine knows what you want.
Bleckko also introduces an interesting way of adding parameters to searches. If you want to restrict your search to one domain only, a topical group, or basically anything, you use what they call SlashTags. Enter a term in the field and click search and you get the full set of results, add in /flicker and you limit the results to flicker. They have some interesting pre-created slash tags such as /politicalblogs, /technology and /techblogs among many others. If you create an account, you can make your own slashtags which can then be used by other Blekko users (add in slashtag /ericfg/radref and you'll only get results from the Radical Reference website). I was impressed with the quality of the results as well. | <urn:uuid:56899bd3-4a58-466e-bcf5-d22791e3c7ae> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://freeasinkittens.com/taxonomy/term/23 | 2016-04-30T20:39:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860112727.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161512-00206-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968746 | 627 | [
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I just wanted to share that I'm so excited and proud of my husband...the newly published author! His book, Monsters do not know Tae Kwon Do is scheduled to release on October 29th.
He wrote this book originally as a bedtime story for my twin daugthers. They were having a fear of monsters at the time, so he wrote them this confidence boosting story to help them sleep at night. We sent it in to a publisher on a whim, and they loved it! My girls are the main characters in the story (we sent in a digital picture, and they changed them into cartoon form). They are so excited to be on people's bookshelves, and help other children stand up to their own fears.
He does have a facebook fanpage, and we would love the support if you would mind "liking" it. The link for the page is: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Monsters-Do-Not-Know-Tae-Kwon-Do/1383837761832308.
Also, just an insider tip that he is planning on offering FREE shipping starting tomorrow night through the release date.
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Play any type of Game at Y8.com. The biggest Game Collection to play free online. Flash, Unity 3D, Html5, Android, Java and Shockwave.
I wouldn't have thought Little Red could reinvent herself but this game brings up the fantasy character in a totally new light and girls...this Little Red punks! She still has the original red clothes on but now she's in punk style. Play the "Punk Hood" dress up game, discover the new Little Red Ridding Hood and try to put together a new punk look for her choosing the outfit and accessories you like best of all to dress her up really nicely! Enjoy!
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This post is for the gazillion Google hits I got on my old blog for people searching for “Krispy Kreme Donut Cakes”.
So This? Is my wedding cake. Yes. It’s made out of Krispy Kreme Donuts. Yes. A Krispy Kreme Donut Wedding Cake. The outer layer are powdered donuts to give the “white” appearance, but all the inner ones? Glazed, Baby. Because those? Are like bits of heaven, in the form of little rings. Most importantly? People talked about it all night long and they are STILL talking about it.
See? I wasn’t about to spend 800 plus dollars on a cake I wouldn’t eat, because I don’t eat cake. I mean – I eat cake – but I prefer various other desserts. LIKE DONUTS. (Is a donut a dessert? Let’s pretend it is.) I stumbled upon something somewhere that referenced a wedding cake made out of stacked Krispy Kremes. This sounded like a dream “cake” to me. So? I made one myself.
ALL total? It took about 30 minutes to make and cost about 100 dollars, stand and all. I bought the tiers for the stand at Michael’s and bought the cake topper at Wal-Mart. I just ordered enough donuts to stack on the tiers and asked them to send me a bag of powdered sugar to sprinkle around the outside since I new the sugar would come off the donuts as I stacked them.
Finally? The I went to the Target bakery and asked for 50 froze icing flowers in lavender. I used a butter knife to slide them off the sheet and onto my cake tiers to add a sort of decoration so it wasn’t just donuts. Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
It was the perfect solution for our tight-budget and unique wedding. It is also very cool to be able to say that I had a donut cake at my wedding. In case you were wondering the real motivation.
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183 F2d 997 Trotter v. Trotter
183 F.2d 997
87 U.S.App.D.C. 213
United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.
Argued May 23, 1950.
Decided July 17, 1950.
Mr. Harry J. Harth, Washington, D.C., with whom Mr. Earl H. Davis, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellant.
Mr. William E. McCollam, Washington, D.C., with whom Mr. Harry J. Ahern, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellee.
Before EDGERTON, WILBUR K. MILLER, and PROCTOR, Circuit judges.
Appellant was granted a divorce from appellee. Although appellee had prayed for custody of their minor child and allowance for its support, the decree was silent as to both. However, the child remained in the care of appellee, with regular payments by appellant for its support. Several years later, upon discontinuance of such payments, appellee, in the same suit, filed a motion for custody and support for the child. This was opposed. Pending final hearing the court, upon consideration of counter-affidavits, ordered periodic payments for the child. Appellant defaulted and the court entered judgment for accumulated arrearages. From that judgment appellant appealed. He attacks the authority of the court to enter the judgment upon the ground that its jurisdiction concerning the child lapsed upon entry of the divorce decree with no reservation as to the child's custody or maintenance.
We disagree with this contention. The continuing jurisdiction of a court of equity in such circumstances to deal with the custody and maintenance of a minor child is well established. See Elkins v. Elkins, 1924, 55 App.D.C. 9, 299 F. 690; Emrich v. McNeil, 1942, 75 U.S.App.D.C. 307, 126 F.2d 841, 146 A.L.R. 1146. | <urn:uuid:17355049-26e1-45ea-8a6a-9a87f017eed9> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://openjurist.org/183/f2d/997 | 2016-05-04T08:22:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860122533.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161522-00214-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946377 | 445 | [
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Former Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz has turned his back on acting to concentrate on a career as a professional Champ Car driver.
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Race spokeswoman Sherry Perez says, “He’s (Muniz) had such success as an actor at such a young age and now it’s almost like he’s starting over again…as a race car driver.”
The child star is sporting a new Mohawk haircut as he attempts to be taken seriously as a member of the Jensen MotorSport team.
Muniz raced for Jensen MotorSport in the 2006 Formula BMW USA series.
The Long Beach Grand Prix has happy memories for Muniz–he won the Toyota Pro/Celebrity race at the three-day event in 2005.
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For the third year the DCPHP, DCjQuery, and WordPress DC meetups are excited to host the #OSSBBQ at Fathom Creative. Join us for a summer celebration of our favorite things: open source, BBQ, and friends! June 18 from 6:00pm till 8:30pm upstairs at Fathom Creative. Unfortunately there is no elevator for the one flight of stairs.
We are still looking for sponsors. If you are interested in sponsoring, please contact us at [masked]
If you are vegan/vegetarian, please let us know when you RSVP.
The event is cross-posted on the other two meetups, so please only RSVP for ONE unless you plan on being extra awesome. RSVPs will be checked at the door. | <urn:uuid:e0703d02-e893-4368-99ca-14081b9a0bd5> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.meetup.com/wordpressdc/events/122858462/ | 2016-05-06T23:25:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461864121714.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428172201-00000-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931212 | 180 | [
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- Eat & Exercise Your Way to Better Breasts Find out how your diet and workout routine can impact the way your breasts look in this the October issue of New Beauty Magazine featuring holistic nutritionist Heather Wilson. Read more » | <urn:uuid:4f8478d9-24ad-429b-8b5e-c4541c1693a6> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | https://www.eastwestessentials.com/ | 2016-05-06T22:30:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461864121714.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428172201-00000-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.8587 | 244 | [
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Simpson University hosts open house for continuing and graduate studies
For Immediate Release
The free event, inside the gymnasium at 2211 College View Drive in northeast Redding, will include campus tours, food and beverages, a financial aid overview, and the opportunity to speak with professors, alumni and staff.
The application fee will be waived for any attendees who apply to one of Simpson University’s programs.
In addition to its traditional four-year majors, Simpson University also offers a degree-completion program designed for working adults (School of Adult Studies, ASPIRE) and several graduate degrees through its School of Graduate Professional Studies, School of Education, and Tozer Seminary.
For more information and to RSVP, visit simpsonu.edu/openhouse.
Simpson University is a Christian university offering undergraduate, graduate, and teaching credential programs. Academic programs include ASPIRE, a degree-completion program geared toward working adults in the north state. Simpson’s newest programs include degrees in nursing, biology, outdoor leadership, and master’s degrees in counseling psychology and organizational leadership. For more information, or to arrange a campus visit, call 1-888-9-SIMPSON or visit simpsonu.edu.
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The Complete Video Collection: The David Lee Roth Years (Apocalypse Sound AS 154)
Total Running Time 3 hours 30 minutes
This new release by Apocalypse Sound gathers together footage spanning almost 20 years of David Lee Roth’s work both solo and with Van Halen. It is a broad overview of a man who is not just one of rocks greatest front men but is also a filmmaker of talent and great humor. While the quality of some of the footage is merely average, AS have given done an excellent job of gathering rare material that must be considered essential to all fans of Van Halen and David Lee Roth but also the casual fan who needs a little VH in their collection. Packaging is the simple yet effective tri fold with live shots of Van Halen, DVD menu is simple and easily navigated. Since Van Halen has not given us anything but a primarily Van Hagar best of video collection this is one hell of way to get a look at one of the greatest bands of our time.
1974-1984 Van Halen Promo Clips
You Really Got Me, Runnin’ With The Devil, Jamie’s Cryin’. Full color promo videos done for the first Van Halen record, they start with a brief introduction of still shots of the individual band members while Eruption plays. There is no premise of the videos, just lip syncing on a concert stage, no audience, and hamming it up for the cameras. First thing that hits you is the visual presence of the band, while just releasing their first record the band already has the chops needed to play large arenas. Video and sound quality are excellent.
Dance The Night Away, You’re No Good, Bottoms Up. A quick flash of the classic VH logo gives way to scenes of the band arriving via limousine at the venue, some backstage action with band giving us a big hello barber shot quartet style. Full color live in concert, this time with an audience with live sound, multi camera angles, the works for 1979. Great footage of the band, almost dramatic at the beginning of Your No Good, dry ice fog covering stage. Only real issue with the footage, and I am being picky here, is sometimes the video and audio is slightly off. Colorful stage gear, a lot of bright suspenders and high energy, great clips, complete with after show footage while the credits appear on the screen. Video and sound quality are excellent.
Here About It Later, So This Is Love, Unchained: Skip 1980 and we begin with Eddie playing the intro beneath the pulsating VH logo starts the next batch of videos done to promote the 1981 Fair Warning record. These are the first Van Halen videos I remember seeing on MTV all done live in concert, first thing that you think is damn, big stage, big crowds no suspenders and a party atmosphere. After a quick Jack Daniels break Dave references an Oakland scarf as the opening strains of So This Is Love plays, obviously a California crowd. Video and sound quality are excellent.
(Oh) Pretty Woman The first of the Van Halen videos done with a premise, at least I think there’s one and if memory serves me I think it was banned for content. The band kind of portrays a hard rock Village people in this, Michael as a samurai, Alex as Tarzan, Eddie as a cowboy and Dave as Napoleon. Midget henchmen have kidnapped the “Pretty Woman” who is later to be revealed as a man. Classic video with Excellent picture and sound quality.
Jump, Jump (Promo version 2), Panama, Hot For Teacher, L.A. Is My Lady: The promos everybody know and love, set the tone for the 1984 album and raised the bar in video making. The first Jump promo is intertwined with Dave talking about the Synthesizers in Jump and the world tour to follow. L.A. Is My Lady is Dave and Eddie walking out some doors, getting mobbed by fans getting into a limo and putting on a video of Frank Sinatra. Spin kicks in the air, Jack Daniel’s Bass, chicks in bikinis, and Waldo, who could ask for more. Video and sound quality are excellent.
1985 – 1994 David Lee Roth Promo Clips
California Girls, Just A Gigolo, Yankee Rose, Goin Crazy, Loco Del Calor!, That’s Life, Just Like Paradise, Stand Up, A Lil’ Ain’t Enough, Tell The Truth, Sensible Shoes, She’s My Machine, Night Life, Shoo Bop: So begins Dave TV, all Dave, all the time. California Girls picks up right where Hot For Teacher left off, except minus the school. Gigolo is a hilarious spoof on popular videos of the time. The Eat Em Smile promos continue in the same vein, Loco Del Calor is the Spanish version of Goin Crazy. By A Lil’ Aint Enough Dave’s hair is thinning and his popularity is slipping. The videos are less inventive but Dave still hgas the eyes for great looking women. Having not seen the majority of the clips after the Skyscraper era it is an interesting insight into the diversity of Dave’s career after Van Halen, Shoo Bop is most interesting, almost pop culture with Dave’s platinum blonde hair. Video and sound quality are excellent.
Van Halen Extra Footage
You Really Got Me/ Interview (Japanese TV 1978) Lip sync footage with a hilarious interview. Video quality is slightly blurry sound quality is excellent.
Pretty Woman (San Remo Festival, Italy, RAI TV 1982) Lip sync footage inter cut with live crowd shots, Video quality is slightly blurry sound quality is excellent.
Mean Street (Discoring, Italy, RAI TV 1981) Lip sync footage for a small TV crowd. Video quality is slightly blurry sound quality is excellent.
Jump (Schuler Experess Report On Monsters Of Rock, Zeppelin Field, Nurnburg, Germany 1984) Crowd footage intermixed with audience interviews while a Motley Crue song plays followed by live footage of Van Halen playing a fragment of Jump. Video and sound quality are Very good/ Excellent.
Aint Talkin Bout Love (MTV Lost Weekend Outakes, Detroit, Pontiac Silverdome, April 5, 1984) Onstage and backstage footage of the lucky winner getting a cake slammed in his face and VH playing before a huge indoor crowd. Video and sound quality are very good.
Countdown Special (Countdown Veronica, The Netherlands 1981) Dave on the streets of Amsterdam asking to people on the street if they know Van Halen, eventually finding the band and interviewing them on a double Decker bus. Video and sound quality are very good.
You Really Got Me/ And The Cradle Will Rock (ZDF Rock Pop Germany, June 21, 1980) Finally some 1980 footage, its lip sync TV show footage taped in front of a small audience, Dave in a crazy spandex that goes up to his ribs with suspenders, ATCWR is from the same show but the video quality is not as good as TRGM, this time Dave has added white fuzzy boots to his outfit. Good to very good video and excellent audio.
Loss Of Control (WAFC Promo Video, Australia 1980) Excellent promo, Dave in the same outfit as the previous footage but add a doctors coat and the rest of the band in medical scrubs, oh yeah there’s a nurse intertwined also. Video quality is very good, slightly dark and sound quality is excellent.
Unchained (Music Box, ZDF, Germany, 1981) Lip sync performance on what looks to be Germany’s version of American Bandstand. Video and sound quality are very good.
I’ll Wait (Ear Say TV BBC, UK. 1984) A video that does not even have VH in it, just a photographer and a pretty decent looking chick, video and sound quality are very good.
Hot For Teacher ( BBC Old Grey Whistle Test, Donnington Monsters of Rock Report, August 18, 1984) Live footage from the press pit in front of the stage, video quality and sound are very good.
Runnin With The Devil, Pretty Woman, You Really Got Me, Happy Trails (US Festival May 29, 1983. Italian RAI 3 Broadcast Version) Video and sound quality are very good.
David Lee Roth Extra Footage
David Lee Roth Interview (Late night with David Letterman January 1985) Dave being interviewed before the VH breakup to support his first solo record. Video and sound quality are very good.
Baker Street, Your Ass Is Mine A.K.A. Flex (Again), Mean Street (Acoustic jazz version), We Got A Good Thing Going (Club Dave Version), We Got A Good Thing Going (Final version) Unreleased videos from a unreleased album, Your Ass Is Mine is crazy, midgets, hot chicks, pregnant women, and cops, and Dave, song has a almost techno feel. We Got A Good Thing Going is like Your Ass Is Mine, something about Dave with the platinum blonde hair just isn’t right, more midgets and chicks. Video quality is very good, sound is excellent.If you liked this review, buy me a cup of joe. (Suggested: $3 a shot or $7.5 for a double) | <urn:uuid:4f76506e-9867-436b-9593-9ca73e2fe195> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.collectorsmusicreviews.com/dvd/van-halen-the-complete-video-collection-the-david-lee-roth-years-apocalypse-sound-as-154/ | 2016-05-01T06:12:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860114285.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161514-00096-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901965 | 1,952 | [
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Support for sleep out 'exceptional'
Published 11/12/2013 | 05:20
THE generosity of Dundalk people shone through once again this week when a group of local people staged a 'sleep out' in aid of the Simon Community.
The volunteers braved the December chill to take part in a 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. sit out on Friday night. And according to the group, 'the response from local people was exceptional.'
'We really could not believe it to be honest,' said Evelyn Ryan. 'Not only were people donating as much as they could to our collection buckets, they also came along to bring us food and blankets.'
Indeed one woman, who drove up and got out of her car in her pyjama's dropped a €50 note into their collection.
'That was amazing, along with the response from people who were on a night out around town. Once people heard it was in aid of the Simon Community, they were really anxious to give as much as they could.'
And when some of the volunteers went along to a nearby take away for a burger, they even found the cost of their food being covered by other customers.
'We were really touched by that, and the donations by Tony's in Park Street who sent over pizzas to us during the night.'
Others drove up to deliver soup and sandwiches to the group, and cars tooted in support of their efforts.
'We honestly can't thank local people enough for all their support. Although we don't have a total yet of what was raised, it was an amazing response.'
The 'sleep out' was part of a national series of events taking place around the country on the same night.
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Spyware that can be installed onto mobile phones is becoming an increasingly popular purchase, especially among parents who want to monitor their children’s phone usage, and employers who wish to track how their employees are using their company issue handsets.
Blackberry Ghost Spy Software is one of the most popular examples of such spyware, especially given the brands’ popularity and that Blackberry handsets are used as company phones by many businesses around the world. Blackberry handsets are also a popular purchase for parents buying a phone for their kids, owing to the fact that Blackberry Messenger (BBM) can be a cheaper messaging solution than traditional SMS messages, depending on the tariff and payment plan taken out.
Buying and installing this specific spy software comes at a cost exceeding £150, which is more than a lot of Blackberry handsets cost. At that price, you’d expect to be getting an all-singing, all-dancing monitoring solution that will put your mind at rest.
Is that the case?
Whether you are a parent or a business user, you really need to think hard before buying this product, as it doesn’t offer a great deal more than what you can get from a phone bill in terms of data monitoring and use.
Yes, there are options for monitoring BBM, which doesn’t appear on a bill, and the ability to monitor e-mails sent and received will be beneficial to business owners who suspect their employees are using their business account for personal reasons, or potentially misrepresenting the company.
Unfortunately, that’s about it, as even the most neurotic boss surely isn’t going to worry about whether or not someone takes a quick call from their other half on their business mobile in an emergency? Additional features such as calendar and contact list monitoring are also available, but we’re left wondering whether they’re necessary.
While the GPS features make it a useful purchase for parents, other products on the market can achieve this aim at a cheaper price than spyware for phones, and apart from BBM usage, any parent can easily view their child’s activity or ask to see their handset to review its content anyway.
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I found many of my Upper Silesian ancestral family members' Catholic church records --baptisms, marriages, and deaths in the curia of the Archdiocese of Katowice. The custodian of the archive records there is a very capable and helpful gentleman, Dr. Wojciech Schaffer, who communicates in both Polish and English. For a little less than $20.00 per document, he will render magnificent official transcriptions of requested church documents of baptism, marriage, or death. The archived records are from medieval times to about the World War II era. More contemporary Catholic church records are maintained by the parishes where the events were officiated. | <urn:uuid:3d9113f5-7c4f-43c6-a94c-44a52c45a33b> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.ceeurope.poland.slaskie/671.1.1.1/mb.ashx | 2016-05-04T18:38:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860123840.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161523-00104-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949171 | 137 | [
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MIDDLE ISLAND, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — A resident of a group home in Middle Island is dead after a confrontation with police, authorities said.
According to Suffolk County police, “multiple officers” were treated for various injuries during the struggle Wednesday night at Maryhaven Center of Hope.
Police were called to the group home at about 8:15 p.m., when Maryhaven employees requested the resident, Dainell Simmons, 29, be transported to Stony Brook University Hospital for a psychiatric emergency.
Workers said Simmons became “uncontrollable and violent,” police said.
Officers used a Taser and pepper spray during the confrontation and at some point became unresponsive.
He later died at a hospital. An autopsy is planned.
Maryhaven runs group homes in several locations. It expressed condolences in a statement, but did not comment further.
A spokeswoman for a state agency that regulates group homes did not immediately comment.
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College Honors Ben Franklin Technology Partners
Pennsylvania College of Technology salutes the Ben Franklin Technology Partners program for the funding support it has provided to the College and its Plastics Manufacturing Center over nearly two decades.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania, based in State College, and Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania, based in Bethlehem, have provided approximately $1 million worth of funding for equipment, faculty and staff for the College’s Plastics degree programs and the Plastics Manufacturing Center over the past 18 years.
Representatives of the centers were honored during a June 30 ceremony held at the College’s Le Jeune Chef restaurant on the main campus in Williamsport.
The relationship between Penn College and Ben Franklin Technology Partners began in 1986, when industry representatives approached the College about conducting a feasibility study for a degree program in plastics technology to provide area employers with a well-trained workforce.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania and Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania funded the feasibility study, as well as the initial program curriculum.
In 1993, industry asked for additional assistance. The College had been successful in implementing the degree program and producing qualified workers, but there still was a need to provide consulting and product-development services, as well as training for existing plastics-industry workers.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania agreed to provide start-up funding to staff the Plastics Manufacturing Center, which would work with industry and the College’s Plastics program to perform the services industry was requesting. The PMC opened in 1994 with nine charter-member companies.
By 2000, Pennsylvania’s plastics industry had expanded to include several rotomolding companies that had additional workforce and technology needs. Penn College requested funding assistance from both Ben Franklin Technology Partners centers for equipment and curriculum, and once again the centers responded this time providing funding for a Rotational Molding Center of Excellence.
“This award is an excellent example of what can be accomplished when industry, government and education partners combine resources to satisfy the needs of the region,” said Penn College President Dr. Davie Jane Gilmour. “Penn College shares the common vision of these organizations and feels privileged to work with them toward increasing the workforce and economic-development infrastructure.”
Accepting awards from the College were Dr. Vic Russo, president and chief executive officer of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania; and R. Chadwick Paul Jr., chief executive officer of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
“The contributions of the Ben Franklin Technology Partners in creating the infrastructure at Penn College have been invaluable,” said Larry L. Michael, associate dean for technology transfer. “Without the Ben Franklin investment, Penn College would not have been able to provide the curriculum, equipment, workforce training or product-development services at the level requested by industry.”
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More on email account controversy
Shelly Moore didn't violate campaign rules by using her Ellsworth High School account to send emails, claims a Democratic Party spokesperson. But the Menomonie man who entered the race only to delay the final recall election says Moore "willfully and knowingly broke campaign law" and should withdraw her candidacy.
Last Wednesday the Republican Party of Wisconsin filed a complaint with the state's Government Accountability Board, accusing Moore of knowingly violating state law by using taxpayer-funded resources for political activity.
Moore, an Ellsworth High School teacher and WEAC union leader, is challenging incumbent Sheila Harsdorf in the 10th Senate District recall election. Isaac Weix, who ran in other elections as a Republican, filed this time as a Democrat to force a primary election in July.
Weix, an Elmwood businessman who until now has avoided talking to the press about his own candidacy, called a reporter Thursday to ask to comment on the email allegations.
"Using government assets for a political campaigning is serious," said Weix. "This problem will not go away or be swept under the rug. If (Moore) wins the primary her legal problems will not go away."
The GOP says several "overtly political" emails were turned over to Republicans following an open records request into Moore's school district email account. According to copies provided by the GOP, in one exchange late morning Thursday, March 10, Moore wrote, "We're not supposed to use school email, but since all of our rights are being taken away, I don't frankly care."
Many of email exchanges discuss the progress of the recall effort and one, from a person whose name is blacked out in the copy provided to the press, congratulates Moore for being "either The Candidate or WEAC's candidate of choice."
In an email sent at 9:32 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 16, Moore wrote, "Fellow Dems - As most of you know, Governor Walker's 'budget' goes far beyond finances and strip(s) public workers of their right to negotiate working conditions and wages. A teachers group is organizing this rally to demonstrate to Senator Harsdorf the area's disapproval." The email also included details of a rally to be held that night.
The Wisconsin Public Purpose Doctrine prohibits the use of government resources for any non-public purpose, and political candidates are prohibited under state law from unlawfully accepting anything of value for campaign purposes.
The Ellsworth School District's ethics policy also prohibits staff from using public property for "partisan political or religious purposes."
In a press release, Wisconsin Republican Party Executive Director Stephan Thompson said it's unacceptable to "thumb your nose at state law" to build a campaign. The GOP also questions whether Moore could be a credible senator, saying, "If she feels she is above the laws of this state she certainly has no business having a hand in creating them."
"The emails reveal a clear picture of a highly partisan union organizer seizing an opportunity to jump-start a political career, all while on the taxpayers' dime," said Thompson. "True leaders aren't inspired by anger, and they don't excuse themselves from following the law."
State Democrats responded for Moore, saying the recall effort didn't exist in March and April when the emails were written.
"Shelly Moore was absolutely not campaigning with taxpayer dollars. No campaign even existed when these emails were sent," said Gillian Morris, press secretary for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin in an emailed statement.
"This is nothing more than a political stunt intended to distract voters from how vulnerable Sheila Harsdorf is," Morris continued. "Voters are rejecting her radical, divisive policies that raise taxes on middle class and working families. That's why 23,000 people signed petitions to recall her. She needs to stop playing politics and start listening to the people of her district."
In another issue related to this campaign, Harsdorf is being criticized for accepting donations from political action committees now after she attacked a former opponent, Allison Page, for accepting PAC money in a previous campaign.
"Unfortunately, the evidence that Allison Page has rejected an issues-based campaign in favor of one backed and funded by Madison special interests and party machines is becoming clear," said Harsdorf in a 2008 campaign statement.
That same press release said Harsdorf had gotten nearly 90% of her contributions from residents of western Wisconsin "and does not accept special interest PAC contributions."
This recall campaign is a completely different ballgame, said Nathan Duerkop, a spokesman for Harsdorf.
"We are dealing with a deluge of special interest money coming in on (Moore's) side," he said. "When you have situations where national activists are being bused in from the Netroots conference (an activist conference held June 16-19 in Minneapolis) to campaign against Sheila, it's like no campaign we've seen before." | <urn:uuid:8a9d4033-684c-4d80-89b5-a06263e2121f> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/content/more-email-account-controversy | 2016-05-04T19:15:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860123840.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161523-00104-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968901 | 1,006 | [
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Citroen ZX, Peugeot 405 SRI or Volvo 240GLE?
Posted 06 August 2006 - 03:41 PM
I am currently driving a japanese Nissan, thinking of switching to a
continental car in future but would be a first time for me to drive a
I had in mind:
i) Volvo 240GLE Fuel-Injection
ii) Citroen ZX Auto 1.9 or 2.0, not sure which model would the gurus here
iii) Peugeot 405 SRI Auto
What do I want in a car:
i) Realiable, easy to find spare parts
ii) Good fuel consumption, might consider diesel units if repair is not
Here is my initial comments:
Pros: Spacious, solid and large.
Cons: Drinker and maybe modest performer? I heard that it does RM
0.15/KM to RM 0.20KM. No offense
Peugeot 405 SRI Auto
Pros: It`s a french, and it`s cheap for a used unit. Comfortable (as
Cons: Is it more "unrealiable" than Citroen? I`ve search through Peugeot
forums and seems to be more major problems than Citroen. Correct me if I
were to be wrong.
Seems need to fork out RM 1-2K initially to get it to tip top condition
Pros: Quite stylish and cheap for a used unit
Cons: I`ve yet to find one.Hope its a realiable, easy to repair and has
good fuel consumption.
Posted 06 August 2006 - 10:57 PM
If you insist on a conti car..get the solid Mercedes W123. Can be had for
like Rm10k only nowadays. Spare parts way lower cost than any of the
other 3 cars...and far more reliable.
Posted 07 August 2006 - 12:19 AM
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From Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia.
| It's Absol-utely a Bad Omen/VS Absol
It's Absol-utely a Bad Omen/VS Absol or Disaster Premonition (Japanese: VS アブソル VS Absol or わざわいの予兆 Catastrophe Premonition) is the 218th round of the Pokémon Adventures manga.
As Ruby looks into the crowd, the announcer names him the winner of the Beauty Contest. Ruby is too distracted at the sight of Wally in the crowd to move until Gabby and Ty inform him that he has to enter the Tough and Smart Contests. Later, Ruby has succeeded in beating all of the Contests, but he continues to look for Wally in the crowd of people.
He discovers Wally entering a bus, and has Feefee freeze the door to stop the crowd from entering it. He grabs Wally out of the crowd, only to find that the person he had seen was only a girl named Wanda that resembles Wally. Later, they introduce each other in Gabby and Ty's Hoenn TV car. Wanda reveals that Wally had already move again to a different location with a better hospital to better recuperate, much to Ruby's disappointment.
Suddenly, a news report comes on the television revealing that an accident happened at the Rusturf Tunnel. As they drive toward the tunnel, an Absol passes them by, causing Ruby to shudder before he calls it beautiful. Ruby decides to look it up in the Pokédex and finds that it only appears where disasters appear.
They arrive to see people panicking about the cave-in. One of the people revealed to have gone missing is Riley, Wanda's boyfriend. Wanda immediately panics and drives into the cave to search for him. As they search, Ty sees the Absol watching over them and mistakes it for causing the cave-in. Gabby tries to calm Wanda down as she tries to rip the boulders caused by the cave-in out. Although she believes that there is no way to move the rocks, Ruby calls out Mumu to help them.
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After sharing my memories of the day of 9/11, I wanted to be sure to record what I never want to forget about living the next few months in a post-9/11 world.
I never want to forget being hesitant to go see the musical "Mamma Mia!"
in Boston the following night, how it felt wrong to go out and enjoy
yourself. I never want to forget the cast coming out and talking about
their similar hesitation and ending with a rousing rendition of God
I never want to forget my dad and I staying
home for the first New England Patriots game when the NFL started
playing again - it was against the New York Jets and the symbolism of
the Patriots vs. the Jets with the potential for a terrorist attack was
not lost on us - and feeling sheepish afterwards when everything was ok.
I never want to forget bursting with patriotism and American
pride, covering my car with whatever patriotic sticker or American flag I
could get my hands on. I never want to forget driving the lake by my
house with Lisa, Amanda, Chris and Ryan, blasting "Proud to be an
American" and Whitney Houston's version of the "National Anthem,"
stopping at any policeman, fireman, or military man we saw to say,
"Thank you for serving our country!"
I never want to
forget our school holding an assembly in the following days featuring
speeches by state Rep. Brad Jones, and others, and worrying that people
like my leftist teacher Mr. Ryan might turn it into a lovey-dovey
peacefest, so I volunteered to give a speech. I've already forgotten
what my speech said, but I never want to forget that my opening lines
were: "Does anyone have any personal connections to the victims of
9/11? The truth is we all do. We are all Americans."
never want to forget how the world changed on that day, how
insignificant it felt to be going to high school and college, how I
wanted to quit school and do something meaningful like become an army
nurse. I never want to forget taking California schools off my list -
if there was another terrorist attack, I didn't want to be cut off from
my family for days, I needed to be close enough to drive home in an
I never want to forget the spirit of unity and patriotism that swept the
country and left us with such hope for the future, and the sadness as
it faded over the weeks and months and years, seeing fewer and fewer
flags, watching the media get less and less patriotic - even talking
"quagmire" within days of our assault on Afghanistan.
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Alexander I of Scotland
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander I of Scotland (c. 1078 - 23 April 1124) was the son of Malcolm Canmore and Saint Margaret of Scotland. He became the King of Scotland in 1107. In the same year, he married Sybilla, who was an illegitimate daughter of Henry I of England. | <urn:uuid:cd964044-7409-468b-88ce-b80e50d7aa85> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Scotland | 2016-05-01T13:50:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860116173.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161516-00208-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9689 | 72 | [
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May 10, 2014 1:23:16 AM
STARKVILLE -- For Gabe Jackson the autumn wind will now be a Raider.
Jackson, a former Mississippi State offensive guard, was selected by the Oakland Raiders with the 81st overall pick in the third round of the 2014 NFL Draft Friday night.
"Gabe is a big, powerful young man," Oakland Raiders Director of Player Personnel Joey Clinkscales said. "He gives the physicality that we're looking for in the run game, he's athletic enough in the pass game to move. We're excited to have Gabe."
Jackson, a native of Liberty, Miss., is the first Bulldog offensive lineman to be picked in the NFL Draft since Derek Sherrod went to the Green Bay Packers in the 2011 first round. Jackson started all 52 games of his MSU career and did not allow a sack in his senior season. He was a first-team All-America selection by Walter Camp and USA Today.
"I am thankful to be an Oakland Raider," said Jackson via the school's release. "I am mentally ready for the next level. I am not going to let anyone outwork me. I thank all of our coaches and fans for all of the support the last four years."
Jackson, a 336-pound guard, has been listed on several analysts mock drafts as a potential selection anywhere from late in the first round to early in the third round of the process.
"Gabe Jackson is a physical interior offensive lineman that played just guard at Mississippi State," NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock said about the pick. "A lot of people think he is best in a phone booth meaning he's strong, tough and better in a man scheme than a zone scheme."
Jackson started all 52 games of his MSU career and is likely to allow the school to boast a fourth straight year with an NFL Draft selection under head coach Dan Mullen, including three last season when Darius Slay, Johnthan Banks and Josh Boyd were picked.
"Gabe was a four-year starter, a big-time player, and I am proud of him," Mullen said in the university release. "He's first-round talent. He led the nation's toughest conference in career starts. He will have a long, successful career."
The Raiders moved down 14 spots before taking Jackson with the 81st overall pick. Oakland also added a fourth-round pick from Miami in the deal, 116th overall. The Raiders have overhauled their offensive line this offseason, signing tackle Donald Penn and guards Austin Howard and Kevin Boothe.
"I like the pick of Gabe Jackson. He is a mauler who some scouts thought had second-round ability," CBS Sports NFL analyst Pete Prisco said of the Jackson pick. "Nice hit by the Raiders."
Earlier in the day, Oakland Oakland took Fresno State quarterback Derek Carr in the second round after adding pass rusher Khalil Mack from University of Buffalo in the first round of the draft on Thursday.
"I think he could come in and play pretty early for anybody," Clinkscales said. "He's a powerful, physical young man. When you're building a guard, physically, that's what they look like. Once he gets on the field and competes with the other guys, then we'll see how that turns out. I am pretty confident that Gabe will come in and compete and be tough and be exactly what we expect him to be."
All of the Dispatch MSU Sports Blog readers: feel free to follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/matthewcstevens for up-to-date Mississippi State coverage.
2. Good times roll for Market Street music ENTERTAINMENT
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Federal lawmakers simply cannot resist tinkering with the tax code. By one estimate, more than 500 tax law changes were made last year alone.
Many of the 2008 changes were made, not surprisingly, in connection with the slowing economy in general and the housing crisis in particular. But many tax-law tweaks last year also were in areas that seem to get constant attention on Capitol Hill.
Such revisions of existing laws often leave taxpayers feeling like characters in an IRS version of the movie "Groundhog Day," each year facing essentially the same tax challenges. The good news is that such "tax script" revisions are at least somewhat familiar. The better news is that these rewrites, as well as some totally new tax laws, offer ways to trim tax bills and provide a happier ending to your 2008 tax-filing circumstances.
Several tax code changes will affect 2008 returns. Some are new. Some are revisions of long-standing laws. A few are holdovers of earlier changes. And a couple might affect your tax planning for 2009.
2008 tax law changes
- Rebate Recovery Credit
- First-time homebuyer's credit
- Standard property tax deduction
- Surviving spouse home sale exclusion
- Housing tax-break holdovers
- AMT inflation adjustments
- Zero capital gains
- Kiddie tax toughened
- Required retirement distributions
- Expired tax breaks extended
1. Rebate Recovery CreditIn 2001, George W. Bush began his first term as U.S. president with tax legislation that offered millions of taxpayers a rebate. The 43rd president closed out his second term last year with another tax measure that distributed millions of tax rebate checks.
Bush's tax legacy continues this filing season. Last year's economic stimulus payments, or rebates as they were popularly called, actually were credits against 2008 income. And some people may be able to cash in on the rebates this filing season by claiming the Recovery Rebate Credit.
This new credit, available only on 2008 returns, could help filers who last year did not receive the maximum credit of up to $600 for single taxpayers, $1,200 for married couples filing jointly. Changed tax circumstances, such as a new child in the family, also could get you a bit more rebate money on your 2008 return.
The Recovery Rebate Credit can be claimed on all three versions of the 1040. You'll need to know how much you received last year in order to calculate what you're eligible for now.
2. First-time homebuyer creditThe dismal housing market prompted lawmakers to create several new tax breaks.
Thanks to the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, some first-time homebuyers can claim a credit of 10 percent of the home's purchase price, up to a maximum of $7,500. You could qualify as a first-time buyer if you have not owned a home in the three years prior to the qualifying purchase.
There are, however, some limitations. The credit phases out for higher-income taxpayers. It is available only for primary homes purchased between April 9, 2008, and June 30, 2009. And it's not a true credit. The tax break must be paid back, without interest, in equal payments over 15 years. Congress is considering expanding this first-time homebuyer credit. | <urn:uuid:87fcb766-7607-40af-80b0-6b42daf4d74c> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.bankrate.com/finance/money-guides/10-new-tax-laws-to-know-1.aspx | 2016-05-04T23:21:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860125524.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161525-00216-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969857 | 679 | [
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April 16, 2014
One of my biggest spring break projects to tackle during our 2 week “vacation”, is to clean up the craft cabinet. What was once a hyper-organized collection of beautiful supplies and tools, has since become a tangled mess of hoarded craft projects and things I don’t need. So I’ve been going drawer by drawer, shelf by shelf, and getting rid of the things I don’t need, and dreaming up projects of items I could most certainly still get some use out of. That’s where my watercolor palette and gold confetti dust comes into play. I love both so much, and yet they just sit in the drawer, all lonely. So since I hadn’t yet decorated for Easter, I came up with a project to get some use out of some of my favorite, but very lonely craft items. I also love this Easter craft project because the kids can definitely get involved in it.
To make some last minute disco gold confetti Easter art, here’s what you’ll need my friends.
Watercolor paper (make sure it’s nice and thick, this is the pad I use, which I love)
Water color brush & brush for Mod Podge
Gold confetti (you could also use gold glitter if you have it. The point is to use what you’ve got, and make it disco sparkle)
Begin by making some pretty watercolor art, in whichever color pattern your heart desires. Watercolors are very easy to work with if you’re just making abstract pretty art, and you can read how to work with the medium in this post. I created a color gradation from pinks to blues, but get creative and do whatcha like. Let dry completely. Draw a graphic shape in pencil, and don’t worry about making it perfect or having to sort of re-correct your work. The glitter confetti will cover it up once all is said and done. The key here though is to create large shapes and pictures, nothing intricate like a flower, which Taylor tried to do and it just came out like a big blob. Then fill in with a light, but not faint, layer of Mod Podge. And then sprinkle sprinkle sprinkle. Once you’ve filled in your shape, apply very light pressure to adhere the big chunks of confetti to the Mod Podge, and then shake off. You may have to use yuor finger to gently push away some of the larger edge pieces of confetti that may be obstructing your view of what the actual shape is, but no biggie. Your shape will quickly show itself and be very happy. To make the large wooden bunny, I simply took a leftover piece of plywood from the Cricut event, and applied the same exact concept as above, except instead of using watercolors, I used acrylic paint. I made sure not to apply the paint too thickly though, to create more of a weathered look. Before I knew it, I was shaking that confetti on all sorts of things. Plastic eggs. The dog. Hayden. It got crazier than Studio 56 in here. I even started creating other pieces of artwork to hang around the house (the heart preview is for another project), and I just love how they come out. They pick up so much light throughout the day, and especially at night, and definitely add a festive touch to the room. | <urn:uuid:493251b5-1069-4cb1-a061-90b721cc4599> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.fortheloveof.net/gold-confetti-easter-art/ | 2016-05-04T23:08:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860125524.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161525-00216-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959262 | 717 | [
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STATE OF WISCONSIN
TAX APPEALS COMMISSION
JEFFREY E. DAVIS
1137 Madison Street
Waukesha, WI 53188
WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
P.O. Box 8933
Madison, WI 53708
|DOCKET NO. 98-I-67
DECISION AND ORDER
MARK E. MUSOLF, CHAIRPERSON:
This matter was heard at Waukesha on July 29, 1998. Both parties filed post-hearing briefs. The petitioner represents himself. Attorney Lili Best Crane represented the respondent.
Having considered the entire record, the Commission hereby finds, concludes, and orders as follows:
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. Under date of December 4, 1995, respondent sent to petitioner, Jeffrey E. Davis, a Notice of Amount Due in the amount of $7,092.89, including tax, interest, penalty, and late fee, with respect to calendar years 1992 and 1993, which is the period under review.(1) The respondent's Office Audit Worksheet stated, among other things, that "The allocation of Schedule C net profit from taxpayer to spouse as reported will not be allowed."
2. By letter dated February 2, 1995, petitioner petitioned respondent for redetermination of the assessment, which was denied in a Notice of Action letter dated January 26, 1998 and received by petitioner on January 28, 1998.
3. On March 25, 1998, petitioner timely filed a petition for review with this commission.
4. Petitioner and Deborah Zydowicz ("Deborah") were married and resided together during 1992 and 1993. They were divorced November 1, 1994. Deborah was a homemaker and did not work outside their home in 1992. During 1993, she earned adjusted gross income of $2,534.17.
5. During 1992 and 1993, petitioner's principal business was furniture refinishing/woodwork repair. This business was a sole proprietor-ship in petitioner's name. Deborah assisted petitioner in maintaining the books and records of his business. She had no formal accounting experience or training, but she prepared monthly records of income and expenses during the period under review, except for December 1993. Her records included cumulative monthly receipt totals through August 1993 and an annual receipt total for 1992, which included a $12,122 pension distribution received from Armin Koch Furniture.
6. Deborah made bank deposits and wrote checks to pay business expenses, including sales taxes. She also wrote checks to herself from the business account, presumably for personal and household expenses. She paid all the household bills. Using figures compiled by Deborah, petitioner prepared their tax returns for the years prior to the period under review and his separate returns for 1992 and 1993.
7. In 1992, the net profit from petitioner's business was $31,904; in 1993, it was $51,579.
8. All of the income petitioner and Deborah received in 1992 and 1993 was marital property income. They did not timely file Wisconsin income tax returns for those years because they didn't have the money to pay the taxes due.
9. The parties separated in January 1994 when petitioner moved out of the marital residence, where most of the business records for 1992 and 1993 were located. Deborah remained there until April 1994, when petitioner returned and she moved out, taking some of the parties' financial records with her. These records, which included Deborah's Forms W-2 for 1993, were not returned to petitioner until May 1995, after which he used them to prepare his 1992 and 1993 separate income tax returns.
10. Petitioner did not file extensions for filing his 1992 and 1993 income tax returns, either with the Internal Revenue Service or the respondent. The unextended due date for petitioner's 1992 Wisconsin income tax return was April 15, 1993, and the unextended due date for his 1993 Wisconsin income tax return was April 15, 1994.
11. After petitioner and Deborah separated in 1994, they were unable to agree on filing a joint income tax return for either 1992 or 1993.
12. By letter dated September 15, 1995, petitioner notified Deborah that he had filed his income tax returns for 1992 and 1993 with the Internal Revenue Service. In the letter he advised her she would need to file her own tax returns for those years, and he enclosed copies of his returns and Deborah's 1993 Forms W-2.
13. Petitioner filed his 1992 and 1993 Wisconsin income tax returns with respondent on or about November 6, 1995, checking the box "married filing separate return." On those returns, he subtracted one-half of their marital property income as allocable to Deborah, including half of his Schedule C net profit and half of the $12,122 pension distribution from Armin Koch Furniture. However, he reported 100% of the allowable self-employment tax and claimed 100% of the allowable self-employed health insurance deduction and 100% of the marital itemized deductions.
14. Deborah did not file her 1992 and 1993 income tax returns with respondent until November of 1996. She reported no income for 1992, referring to herself as an "innocent spouse," and citing to the terms of her divorce from petitioner. For 1993, the only income she reported was the $2,534.17 of wages that had been reported to her on Forms W-2, even though she knew petitioner had reported half of those wages on his separate 1993 return as his share of marital property income.
15. Petitioner's final divorce decree, dated November 1, 1994, which incorporated his and Deborah's Marital Settlement Agreement and amendments made at their divorce trial, provides in relevant part as follows:
Each party shall be solely responsible for his or her own individual tax liabilities. Any tax refund received by the parties for the 1993 tax year shall be divided equally between the parties.(2)
The respondent [Jeffrey Davis] is awarded his business known as the Furniture Doctor including all assets and liabilities with regard to this business and the petitioner [Deborah Zydowicz] is divested of any interest thereon.(3)
The parties shall equally share any tax liability for 1993.(4)
16. A Revision of Divorce Judgment, approved by court order dated December 13, 1995, provided in relevant part as follows:
The respondent [Jeffrey Davis] shall continue to remain liable to accurately report income earned while the partners were married and shall continue to be liable for the payment of all taxes, interest and penalties due to the State of Wisconsin and the Internal Revenue Service and shall hold the petitioner [Deborah Zydowicz] harmless of any such debts.
17. A subsequent court order in the divorce case, dated December 2, 1996, provides in relevant part as follows:
The Revision of Divorce Judgment ... does not alter the responsibility of petitioner [Deborah Zydowicz] and respondent [Jeffrey Davis], as between the parties, to pay their respective share of the 1992 and 1993 Federal and State income tax liability. [T]he obligation of petitioner [Deborah Zydowicz] and respondent [Jeffrey Davis] to pay their respective share is set forth in the Judgment of Divorce entered herein.
71.10 General provisions.
* * *
(6m) RETURNS OF FORMERLY MARRIED AND REMARRIED PERSONS.
(a) A formerly married or remarried person filing a return for a period during which the person was married may be relieved of liability for the tax, interest, penalties, fees, additions to tax and additional assessments under this chapter for unreported marital property income from that period as if the person were a spouse under section 66(c) of the internal revenue code. The department may not apply ch. 766 in assessing the former spouse of the person with respect to marital property income that the former spouse did not report if that former spouse failed to notify the taxpayer's spouse about the amount and nature of the income before the due date, including extensions, for filing the return for the taxable year during which the income was derived. The department shall include all of that marital property income in the gross income of the former spouse and exclude all of that marital property income from the gross income of the person.
Internal Revenue Code
Sec. 66 [1986 Code].
* * *
(c) SPOUSE RELIEVED OF LIABILITY IN CERTAIN OTHER CASES.-- Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, if--
(1) an individual does not file a joint return for any taxable year,
(2) such individual does not include in gross income for such taxable year an item of community income properly includible therein which, in accordance with the rules contained in section 879(a), would be treated as the income of the other spouse,
(3) the individual establishes that he or she did not know of, and had no reason to know of, such item of community income, and
(4) taking into account all facts and circumstances, it is inequitable to include such item of community income in such individual's gross income, then, for purposes of this title, such item of community income shall be included in the gross income of the other spouse (and not in the gross income of the individual)....
ISSUES AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
1. Did the petitioner fail to notify his then-spouse about the amount and nature of marital property income the petitioner did not report to respondent, so that the respondent may not apply Chapter 766 in assessing petitioner on such income for 1992 and 1993? The Commission concludes that notification by the statutory deadline in Wis. Stat. § 71.10(6m) was not required for 1992. For 1993, we conclude that petitioner failed to notify his former spouse Deborah of his Schedule C business net income within the meaning of Wis. Stat. § 71.10(6m), and that the income-splitting provisions of Chapter 766 may not be applied by respondent in assessing petitioner for 1993 with respect to that income and related interest and penalties.
2. What is petitioner's liability to respondent for 1992 and 1993 Wisconsin income taxes under the terms of his divorce from his former wife Deborah? The Commission concludes that, although under petitioner's divorce decree as amended, he is liable for one-half of his and Deborah's tax liabilities for 1992 and 1993, the respondent is bound by § 71.10(6m), not the divorce decree, in assessing the petitioner.
Applicability of § 71.10(6m)(5)
Wisconsin Statute § 71.10(6m) contains two provisions. The first provides that a former spouse filing a separate return may be relieved of liability with regard to unreported marital property income in the manner specified for spouses in § 66(c) of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 66(c)(3) specifies that a taxpayer must establish that he or she did not know of and had no reason to know of such item of community income(6) in order to be relieved of reporting it. This provision was designed to relieve an innocent spouse who was unaware of the community income that he or she did not report. Petitioner is obviously not eligible for relief under this provision because he was fully aware of all of his and Deborah's marital property income.
The second provision of § 71.10(6m) prohibits respondent from applying the income-splitting provisions of the marital property law in assessing a former spouse (petitioner) where he didn't notify his former spouse (Deborah) of the income before the due date of the return for the year it was reportable.
Respondent maintains that it properly assessed petitioner for all of the marital property income for both 1992 and 1993, including Deborah's share, because he did not notify her of the amount of that income until September 1995, well beyond the due dates for those returns. Petitioner insists that Deborah knew the amount and nature of the income because she helped keep the books for the business that produced it and knew the amount of income.
Notice of 1992 Income
The due date of the 1992 tax return was April 15, 1993, when petitioner and Deborah were married and living together. They were financial partners at that time and had been for all of 1992. The business was petitioner's, but Deborah did extensive bookkeeping, made bank deposits, and paid business expenses. She wrote checks to herself from the business account, presumably for her personal and household use. She paid all the household bills and kept the household records. Both Deborah and petitioner were equally responsible for timely filing the 1992 tax return and paying the taxes but, as petitioner testified, "we didn't have the money to pay 'em and just blew it off."
Although petitioner didn't formally notify Deborah of her share of their marital income by April 15, 1993, there was no reason for him to do so. They were married at the time and knew of the income, but they still decided not to timely file a return. Knowledge of their marital income was not an issue until after they separated in 1994 and were at odds over taxes during their divorce proceedings. Even after they separated, Deborah had all of the 1992 records in her possession while she remained in the parties' home from January through early April of 1994. Had she cared to file at that time, all of the records were available to her and she could have done so. Neither she nor petitioner was an innocent spouse with respect to the requisite knowledge for filing a timely1992 income tax return.
Under these circumstances, we conclude that the statutory notice deadline in § 71.10(6m) does not apply, and that petitioner gave proper notice to Deborah in September 1995 of his separate filing, including the amounts he reported as income (and deductions). This conclusion is reinforced by the Legislative Council Committee Supplemental Notes Relating to 1985 Acts 29 and 37, which included § 71.10(6)(b):
If one spouse, particularly a spouse with sole management and control powers, fails to notify the other spouse in a timely fashion of the amount and nature of any income associated with marital property or survivorship marital property, the special committee concluded that it is unfair to hold the uninformed spouse liable for the taxes associated with the income and that the spouse who has knowledge should be held liable.
(Emphasis supplied.) We agree. Here, both Deborah and petitioner shared the management and control of their marital finances until they separated in 1994. Neither was "uninformed" on April 15, 1994.
Notice of 1993 Income
The due date of the 1993 tax return was April 15, 1994. This was after petitioner and Deborah had separated but while she still had in her possession her own W-2 forms as well as some of the household financial records petitioner would have needed to prepare the return.
Just as they were for 1992, petitioner and Deborah were married financial partners during all but the final month of 1993, when petitioner did all of the business bookkeeping. However, Deborah had all of the 1993 business and household records in her possession in their home after petitioner moved out in early 1994 and until a few weeks before the 1993 tax filing deadline of April 15, 1994. She could have filed a timely separate return from the records in her possession, although she was likely preoccupied with the separation and impending divorce.
However, because the parties were separated for a period immediately prior to the filing deadline, Deborah was without complete information at that critical time as to petitioner's Schedule C business net income. We therefore conclude that § 71.10(6m) applies with respect to that income. Because petitioner did not notify Deborah before the deadline in § 71.10(6m), respondent properly assessed him for all of the 1993 Schedule C income.
Liability Under Petitioner's Divorce Judgment
The divorce judgment makes petitioner and Deborah each responsible for "his or her own individual tax liabilities." Although a 1995 "Revision" of the judgment suggests otherwise,(7) the sharing language in the original judgment was reaffirmed in a court order in 1996.(8)
With respect to 1992, petitioner and Deborah had no "individual tax liabilities" as such because they were married and subject to Chapter 766. Under Chapter 766, tax liabilities -- like other obligations -- are shared equally because they were presumably incurred in the interest of the marriage and are payable from marital property, which includes all income and other assets. Wis. Stats. §§ 766.55(1)(9) and (2)(b);(10) and 766.31(4).(11) This did not change simply because they later filed separate returns for 1992.
With respect to liability for 1993 taxes, the divorce judgment is unambiguous: both petitioner and Deborah are to equally share "any" tax liability. Under this provision, petitioner would be responsible for one-half of his and Deborah's total combined tax liability to respondent. However, because respondent is prohibited by § 71.10(6m) from splitting petitioner's Schedule C net income in assessing him, the effect is that petitioner's statutory liability produces a result at odds with the equal sharing mandated in the divorce judgment. This dichotomy is not a matter to be resolved by the respondent or the Commission; it can only be addressed by the divorce court. Our only authority is to resolve the dispute between petitioner and respondent.
The respondent's assessment against petitioner is modified in accordance with the Conclusions of Law and Opinion set forth above, and is affirmed as modified.
Dated at Madison, Wisconsin, this 30th day of April, 1999.
WISCONSIN TAX APPEALS COMMISSION
Mark E. Musolf, Chairperson
Don M. Millis, Commissioner
Thomas M. Boykoff, Commissioner
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Multi Screw Neck Joint
The Neck Joint is a very special and mostly totally neglected sound influencing element. It is responsible for the dynamic and speed (Attack) of the bass and also for the string amplitude power consumption (Sustain).
After comparing different constructions (identical wood from the same tree), I developed my "Multi screw Bolt-on Neck Joint". I always use the maximum possible amount of screw per available area.
If you compare this connection physically, you will identify a much faster attack, longer Sustain and a different mid-frequency-range of the instrument.
If you compare this connection acoustically, you will recognize a better dynamic, a faster response and a greater presence within your band.
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Dr Stamatopoulou is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Computer Science Department since 2007. She holds a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield (under the South-East European Research Centre Doctoral scheme).
Dr Stamatopoulou is a member of the Intelligence, Modelling & Computation (IMC) Research Group of the department and a member of the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society. Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence in Education but mainly lie in the area of formal modelling. She is currently involved in investigating ways of using formal methods and paradigms for the purpose of modelling the behaviour of individual agents that constitute multi-agent systems of a dynamic structure, with particular emphasis to biologically-inspired systems composed of reactive agents. | <urn:uuid:7b6afe51-4b58-4df4-9db7-af4979acb95c> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://athtech.gr/professors/%CE%B4%CF%81-%CE%B9%CF%89%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%85/ | 2017-05-22T17:15:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463605485.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170522171016-20170522191016-00117.warc.gz | en | 0.934446 | 167 | [
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One hundred planes will converge on Nhill Aerodrome on Saturday for a Nhill Aviation Heritage Centre Fly-in.
The centre's president Rob Lynch said warplanes would be exhibited and a plane from the Royal Australian Air Force Roulettes would put on a show at 2pm.
"People can expect a full day of entertainment for the young and the old," he said.
"There will be plane activities for most the day, a book launch, vintage cars and children's activities."
Mr Lynch said money raised by the fly-in would help restore an Avro Anson aeroplane used during the Second World War.
"We've already raised well over $20,000 but need to raise at least $40,000 more for the restoration of the plane," he said.
Nhill Aviation Heritage Centre board member John Deckert said people could also learn about the history of the RAAF training base in Nhill.
"When England entered the Second World War, Germany had such superior air power that English pilots suffered great losses and more pilots and crew had to be trained," he said.
The base, which could house 2000 people, was one of 34 across Australia.
"We didn't train pilots but about 10,000 navigators, bombers and ground crew were trained at the Nhill base," he said.
Mr Lynch said he hoped the Avro Anson would be fully restored by 2019, which would mark the centenary of the first plane landing at Nhill.
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January Prism Recommended Read Awards. Authors, you may use the following graphic in conjunction with any title appearing on the monthly list, indefinitely.
These are chosen by us, the reviewers of Prism Book Alliance®. It is a way to recognize those authors whose work sticks with us. Those who go above and beyond.
So without further ado… Congratulations to January Prism Recommended Reads.
- A Seditious Affair (Society Of Gentlemen #2) by K.J. Charles
- Backlash by Jack L Pyke
- Bowl Full of Cherries by Raine O’Tierney
- Caregiver by Rick R. Reed
- Inversion Point by Jenn Burke and Kelly Jensen
- Lord Mouse by Mason Thomas
- Painful Lessons by SC Wynne
- Passing Through by Jay Northcote
- Stealing Innocents by Lisa Henry (Writing as Cari Waites)
- The Biker’s Dom by Sean Michael
- The Borders War by SA McAuley
- The Falls by Jon Garcia, Marty Beaudet
- The Imperfection of Swans by Brandon Witt
- The Music of the Spheres by Chase Potter
- The Sidhe (The Heart of All Worlds, #1) by Charlotte Ashe
- Tied to Trouble by Megan Ericsson
- Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
- Touched by Starlight by Linda North
- Unquiet by Melanie Hansen
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Friday, March 04, 2005
Mouthbreathing Foreign Drug Fiends
I've been invited back to the Polish club on Saturday night. I've already declined. Although I had a good time, I have more compelling reasons for choosing the alternative.
After my former roomie's performance last Saturday he was accosted as he left the bathroom. A few Poles lurking near the exit grabbed him by the shoulders and spun him around to face them. "Hey Mr. DJ! We DJs too, we play the music!" They grabbed his tie, tightened it, (a little too much, according to him) and finally readjusted his collar. Naturally he smiled, nodded, and scurried away as quickly as possible.
I had a distinctly weirder experience during my bathroom visit about twenty minutes later. I walked into the bathroom expecting to void my bladder in silence and comfort. Little did I know, but I was an unsuspecting participant in some deviant scheme. One mouthbreather was standing near the sinks. He began coughing, clearing his throat, and stamping his foot as soon as I entered. I noticed another fellow who appeared to be drinking from the middle urinal. I was not distressed by this unsanitary behavior. The drinker quickly hawked some loogies and spit them as loudly as possible into the urinal. He then craned his head to peek at me before shooting more gobs into the porcelain. He was obviously concerned that I might be watching him.
Contrary to my vivid descriptions, I was not. Most of the above was gleaned from auditory evidence and peripheral vision.
It was plain to me that they'd been taking turns snorting rails from the top of the wall potty. I had no desire to give them trouble, but I had to pee. They were using the middle of three urinals. So I walked past and chose the rightmost. I was enjoying a leisurely piss when a hand clamped upon my left shoulder. A face hovered within inches of my ear, breathing raggedly and speaking loudly in Polish. I mumbled incoherently, unable to speak any sense. I kept pissing.
He said something else. It was time for me to respond. "I no speak-a the Polish." I hoped that would suffice. It did not. Was he looking down at my tinkling genitals? I flexed my shoulder and craned my head. He backed up. Thankfully.
The two of them began glancing at each other, mumbling and wringing their fists. Obviously searching for the right word. Finally the snorter's eyes lit up and he pointed at me. He exclaimed "Security! Security?"
"No, no." I was finished. I shook, tucked, and zipped. They laughed uproariously and patted me on the back. I smiled and said, "Yes! The fun." I quickly rinsed my hands and returned to my table. The former roomie was still talking about the weird Polish tie straightening experience. I trumped the hell out of him.
This Saturday I will attend a birthday party instead. 7:04 AM - Bottle Rocket Fire Alarm
Piwo Jasne Pelne Okocimskie
Grimace's Appropriate Name
Gnats, Rashes, and Malaria
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Wearing two-piece black suit, the 'Ghost Rider' actor hits the red carpet of his latest thriller's special screening at the Toronto International Film Festival joined by director Joel Schumacher.
Nicolas Cage looked dapper when he arrived at the premiere of "Trespass" on Wednesday night, September 14. The actor who plays Kyle Johnson in the Joel Schumacher-directed movie donned black suit with a matching tie for the special screening event that took place at the 36th Annual Toronto International Film Festival.
Upon his arrival on the red carpet at the Roy Thomson Hall, Cage was joined by Schumacher. The 72-year-old director also oozed masculinity in a traditional two-piece suit. Unlike Cage though, he opted not to wear a tie. Along with his star, the filmmaker struck a pose for the cameramen and signed autographs for the fans.
Written by Karl Gajdusek, "Trespass" follows a couple who are taken hostage by extortionists, while a cycle of betrayal and deception emerges in the pressured conditions. It sees Cage starring opposite Nicole Kidman, who takes on the role of his on-screen wife Sarah, with Jordana Spiro, Cam Gigandet and Ben Mendelsohn among the cast ensemble.
During a recent press conference for the movie, Cage shared his real life home invasion, recalling the moment he found a naked man wearing his leather jacket and eating a Fudgesicle in front of his bed. "I know it sounds funny, but it was horrifying," so the 47-year-old actor told reporters at the time.
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At a vote in Singapore next week the slightest of margins may decide which city will host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has said he expects a margin of as few as five of the approximately 115 votes to determine the host city.
Rogge said that the candidate cities of Paris, London, Madrid, Moscow and New York make up the most impressive list of prospective host cities the committee has ever had to choose from at this point in the selection process. He added they are all very capable of hosting the games.
Sentiment is that this vote will be similar to the one which determined Sydney would host the 2000 games. Sydney won that decision by two votes over Beijing, which later won the vote to host the 2008 games.
Once the voting process begins, one city will drop out during each round of voting until a candidate city receives an overall majority of the committee's votes.
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TOO HOT TO HANDLE
Former Miami Dolphin Zack Chasteen had a short pro career, but he's got a long memory. When his old gridiron pal Monk DeVane asks him to help beef up security at Libido, an X-rated Jamaican resort, Zack agrees. But he soon regrets it when he finds the resort owner quite literally on the hot seatsitting on a bomb that will detonate if he so much as twitches a muscle…
Things get even more explosive at the adult playground of Libido, where tourists indulge in sun and plenty of bawdy fun. From Montego Bay to the island's back country, Zack Chasteen descends into Jamaica's heart of darkness and its bloody political scene, bringing along his inscrutable sidekick Boggy, a Taino Indian shaman. With bullets flying and people dying, Zack must seek out the truth and settle some scores before his own life goes boom.
"Advertised as a year-round summer read, this is exactly that, thanks to smart, polished prose; an affable narrator; swift, straightforward plotting in bite-size chapters; and a fun, exotic setting."
Morris's zany sophomore effort features another Jamaican-set crime drama narrated by former Miami linebacker Zack Chasteen, last seen in Bahamarama, the author's rollicking debut. A football halftime party to which Zack has been invited by old Miami Dolphins teammate Monk DeVane is marred by a bomb scare targeted at Monk's white Jamaican boss, Darcy Whitehall, a tycoon of adult-themed resorts. Whitehall thinks that his personal security might improve with Zack on the Libido Resorts payroll, so Zack temporarily bids adieu to British girlfriend Barbara and heads to Jamaica to play bodyguard. Upon his arrival, a violent explosion kills Monk, and it's up to Zack to wade through a bevy of suspects, most of whom are dueling political factions, because in Jamaica "everything is politics." Could the guilty party be Whitehall's slimy, money-laundering associate, Freddie Arzghanian, or possibly Nanny's People United, an aggressive political action group bent on keeping Whitehall's son, Alan, a proponent of shady land developments, from getting elected in a local parliamentary election? Blame shifts and the mystery smoothly unravels itself while both Zack and Barbara (in Berlin with a "Trumpish" entertainment entrepreneur) wrestle with temptation but remain refreshingly monogamous. The tropical backdrop and Zack's wisecracking commentary make for another crackling whodunit for Morris. Agent, Joe Veltre at Artists Literary Group. (Oct.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information. | <urn:uuid:c6620f67-310c-442e-8a2a-95e5fcc8505f> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://www.cheaptextbooks.org/9780312997489 | 2017-05-23T17:03:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607648.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523163634-20170523183634-00449.warc.gz | en | 0.931099 | 550 | [
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JDAIDET AL-FADL, Syria, April 21 (UPI) -- Government forces killed at least 80 people in a Syrian town and arrested those who tried to bury the dead, Syrian opposition activists said Sunday.
The residents of Jdaidet al-Fadl, which is south of Damascus, and activists said the soldiers waged a three-day campaign during which they and loyalist militias burned houses, arrested men, killed the injured and took over the field hospitals, The New York Times reported from Beirut, Lebanon.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that uses a network of contacts in Syria to track the conflict, said the victims included 71 men -- 19 of whom were rebel fighters -- three children and six women.
Residents said the death count was much higher, and the Observatory said the total could reach 250. It would, however, be hard to identify and count the victims because the fighting hadn't stopped and because many bodies had been disfigured.
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When I thought I was done talking about churros, I was wrong! Zero 1 Hotel in Quartier des Spectacles just opened a new bar called Z Tapas Lounge where they will be serving CHURROS!!! Like I mentionned on my previous post about Churros, I will definitely check this place out because I’ve been craving this thing since forever!
Thanks @514Eats for sharing your tweet and this delicious picture on your Twitter account!
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This picture makes you hungry? We can go together, Let me know! I will definitely write a post once I get the chance to visit the new Z Tapas Lounge!
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Welcome back to all our readers, we have some great news and pictures for you this week, so let’s get started.
You may remember a few weeks ago we told you about Douglas MacIntyre and how he was going to take part in the Edinburgh Marathon to help raise funds for Down’s Syndrome Scotland. Well Douglas has now completed this challenge and he has provided us with a wee update.
“I would like to thank everyone at Stow who donated to my Just Giving page. I ran the Edinburgh Marathon on Sunday (27th May), which was the 1st time I’d attempted a marathon,… I have to put it down to turning 50 and mid-life crisis!!!
I ran the marathon in 4 hours and 36 minutes,… I’d like to thank everyone who offered advice (especially about jelly beans). Due to Sunday being the hottest day of the year, my water consumption was considerable (with the inevitable consequences), but the training and advice I received throughout the past 8 months was invaluable. My just-giving page is still open, I’m fund-raising for Down’s Syndrome Scotland, any donations would be gratefully received – http://www.justgiving.com/Douglas-MacIntyre – Thanks again”
Congratulations to Douglas on successfully completing this challenge and thanks to him for providing us with a couple of great pictures of him and his daughter, Matilda (see gallery below).
Now for some Pantrepreneur Challenge news from Archie Dickson. At last; THE PANTS ARE HERE. Please check out the video and vote on the Facebook page and support the students who are involved in the fantastic ‘Pants to Poverty’ project. We need as many hits as possible. Our Students are competing against another 14 colleges across the UK, and we are the only Scottish representative. A lot of work and effort has been put into this by the guys and all they need you to do now is:
- Visit the links attached & watch the video
- Vote on the Facebook link
- BUY a pair of the pants
Please tell your family and friends, we really need your support for the guys and to help the farmers in India. You can buy these direct from me in the Staff room on the 2nd floor and we will be setting up a stall in the foyer of the college, or send me an email registering your interest. We have a range of styles, colours and sizes, so there will be something for everyone.
The next two weeks are crucial to our sales drive. If our students sell the most pants they will be selected to present their business plan and sales strategy to a panel of entrepreneurs with the chance to go to India to see for themselves how the money they have raised will make a real difference to people’s lives.
Next up this week is a Recruitment Fayre announcement from Amey. Are you interested in a career in Civil Engineering? Or interested in becoming a trainee technician, gain new skills as you study for a degree and earn as you learn? If you are, then Amey are looking for applicants who have enthusiasm, fresh ideas and a keen appetite to learn and develop. In exchange, you will experience challenges and work with great people from a diverse range of backgrounds. If you are interested then go along to an Open Day Event in the Eurocentral, Precision House, McNeil Drive, Motherwell, ML1 4UR on Monday the 18th of June from 4pm to 7pm. Remember to take along your CV.
Last week we had Health MOTs at Stow and this week we had a Health Fayre, which Ron Dillin has been kind enough to tell us about. This week saw the Health Fayre taking place at both Stow City and Stow West, promoting a healthy lifestyle to staff and students. John Briody and the catering team provided fresh fruit and vegetables which were a big hit with staff and students…and not a pie or deep fried Mars bar in sight!
Our friends from GAMH offered advice on mental health and wellbeing, and there were leaflets and advice on sexual health, drug and alcohol awareness and stopping smoking. Thanks to all the staff who came along.
In other health news, the Mental Health Awareness quiz was won by Paula Porteous of Finance – well done Paula and a big thanks you to all those who took part.
Finally for this week some news from Lisa-Jane Rattray about the Teddy Bear’s Adventure some of our students were involved in. The Teddy Bears Adventure is an annual event that Stow have been doing for 6 years now, this year it took place on the 2nd of May. NQ Musical Theatre and NQ Actors perform mini children’s fairytales around Strathclyde Park and over 4,000 children come to see the performances. This year we raised £43,000 for St Andrews Hospice. If the pictures (above) are anything to go by it looked like a lot of fun.
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The W995 feels sturdy in your hand, and the brushed aluminium fascia coupled with a matt plastic back lends the phone a solid, attractive look.
The touch-screen is the best we have seen so far from Sony Ericsson and the camera is easy to take pictures with. However, the Media Go arena is time consuming due to the phone lacking DivX and Xvid support.
The 3.5mm audio jack is a very welcome addition, and to finally find a phone with a good music player AND a decent camera is a real coup.
The Media Go software is probably the W995's biggest letdown, but the eight-megapixel camera is up there with the best and the music player's not too shabby either.
Battery life was average.
Review by Sunetra Chakravati,12/12/2011 3:55:40 PM
Look and feel
Ease of use
3.5mm audio jack, excellent audio quality, effective equalisers and integrated BBC iPlayer
Converting videos is slow at 30 minutes or more, no DivX/Xvid video support, screen doesn't support widescreen format, image stabiliser is ineffective, and video recording is limited to WQVGA
Finally, a mobile phone manufacturer has paired an excellent music player with a camera that doesn't suck. After years of the Cyber-shot and Walkman lines existing as separate entities, Sony Ericsson has finally taken a top-notch music phone and slotted in a high-grade lens, and added eight megapixels, auto-focus and an LED flash to boot. Is the W995 the closest to perfection yet, or are we still searching for that perfect combination of camera, music player and phone?
When reading the spec list you'd be forgiven for thinking the W995 has the dimensions of a brick, but Sony Ericsson has done a handsome job of keeping everything trim, smooth, and infinitely sleek with the W995. At 97x49x15mm, it's no bigger than your average slider phone, and with a brushed aluminium face, and a tough, matt plastic back, the W995 feels sturdy and solid in your hand.
The user interface (UI) is yet another refinement to the Sony Ericsson menu system, complete with pleasing icons and bouncing animations, as well as being intuitive in its design. Though the 262,000 colour, TFT screen is one of the best we've seen on a Sony Ericsson, it is disappointing for a flagship model, especially when put against the new AMOLED screens that are starting to appear on high-end LG and Samsung media-centric handsets. The refresh rate when you move to a new menu seems slow, and the screen's fade attribute is of the 'see and stutter' kind, as opposed to fading smoothly.
The W995 is one of the most feature-heavy handsets we've seen in a long time. Dual-band HSDPA, Walkman player 4.0, eight-megapixel camera with auto-focus, face recognition, image and video stabiliser and geo-tagging, DLNA-certified Wi-Fi, A-GPS, an 8GB MemoryStick Micro - the list goes on.
Perhaps the most important addition is Media Go, a program for Microsoft
Windows users that acts as a hub connecting the W995 (other enabled handsets will soon include the Sony Ercisson Satio and Aino smartphones) to your home PC network. The software allows you to rip audio CDs, convert existing music to MP3 or MP4 format, view and transfer pictures and videos taken with your phone and - here's the big one - convert existing videos to a format suitable for your phone. This means you can stream them to your handset via Wi-Fi or 3G whenever the mood takes you. Sony Ericsson has also promised access to full movie downloads from the PlayNow arena at 'some point in the future'. However, the relatively small 2.6-inch screen makes this a rather moot feature.
The W995 inherits the Walkman 4.0 music player with shake control and SensMe, the first a rather gimmicky feature, the latter a playlist creator based on the 'mood' of the songs in your music collection. Sound quality is excellent, and the supplied earphones are top-notch. Perhaps the most exciting thing about music on the W995 is that it is the first Sony Ericsson phone to come with a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, meaning you don't just have to use the proprietary Sony ones included in the box. The device also comes equipped with a set of stereo speakers, located at the top and bottom of the handset, while the supplied stand also sports a pair of (slightly) better sounding tweeters.
The Sony Ericsson C905 may have proved just how good camera phones have become, but the W995's camera falls short in some areas. Firstly, image quality is merely adequate, as a high megapixel count does not equate to superior image quality. The camera's image processor over-sharpens images, giving them a slightly fake quality, and noise is apparent once you upload your photos to a PC and view them on a monitor. We're also still without ISO controls, something we missed on the Cyber-shot C905 as well. The W995 includes an LED flash, and, despite its downfalls, taking photos on the W995 is painless, and the controls are well designed.
For all its promises, Media Go is one area that is another letdown. You have to re-encode most videos to run on the phone, which takes around 45 minutes for a standard 90 minute film. You can't just throw a Divx or Xvid video at it, which is annoying because practically all videos are encoded in those two formats. Clearly, re-encoding your entire video collection just to watch them on a screen smaller than a credit card is not an attractive prospect. Secondly, the W995's screen doesn't have the widescreen aspect ratio that most videos have, meaning most films are going to look a little squashed.
As a Walkman phone, the W995 is a step towards making Sony Ericsson handsets as easy to use as an iPhone and iTunes. There is potential in Media Go, but in reality we faced a few difficulties setting up. It's close, but until Sony Ericsson realises that a hybrid Cybershot-Walkman phone need not cannibalise sales in either market segment, we're all suffering from this gap in the market. | <urn:uuid:ad9db16d-1c7b-409e-bf84-10fcdcadeda9> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.mobilechoiceuk.com/phone-review/Sony-Ericsson/W995/430 | 2017-05-28T01:12:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463609404.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170528004908-20170528024908-00352.warc.gz | en | 0.952139 | 1,352 | [
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James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
11:25 A.M. EDT
MR. GIBBS: Good after -- or good morning, I should say. Sorry, I'm used to doing this in the afternoon. Before we get started with our regularly scheduled programming, Jared Bernstein and Melody Barnes are here to discuss the report that released this morning on the jobs saved in the recovery plan by teachers. So I'm going to turn it over to Jared and Melody.
DR. BERNSTEIN: Hello. Preliminary reviews of recipient reporting data from state governments on educational spending through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act -- the Recovery Act -- show that at least 250,000 educational jobs have been saved or created thus far. Now, as I noted, these are preliminary data based off of reviews through the recipient reporting process.
As many of you probably know from some reports at the end of last week, we're engaged in what is clearly the most transparent and accountable treatment of a government program that really has ever I think been seen heretofore. These are recipient data coming in from the states, from Democrats and Republicans. It's truly a bipartisan report on the progress that the Recovery Act is making so far.
Now, before I turn the podium over to Melody to talk about the substance of the report, let me just say a word or two about how this recipient reporting fits into the larger context of jobs reported as created or saved.
These are direct jobs. Now, I think I've spoken to this group before about this point. Direct jobs are jobs that are directly created and funded through spending in the Recovery Act -- in this case, for example, think about a job of an educator saved because a state budget would have had to undergo cuts that would have enforced a layoff. That layoff has been avoided in these cases through Recovery Act spending.
Direct jobs are only part of the story. Indirect jobs occur when that teacher who otherwise would have been laid off goes shopping and is able to spend income earnings that she otherwise wouldn't have had. That creates more economic activity. The point is that these 250,000 jobs, preliminary reporting on these jobs saved or created, are a subset even of this part of the Recovery Act.
The law requires -- the Recovery Act requires that this more detailed reporting from recipients is made on about a third of the spending; it's about $276 billion of the $787 billion act. That's about $150 billion that's already been put to work through September 30, and subject to reporting this quarter. Now, the recipients are only asked to report the direct job impact, as I noted.
Let me finish off by just talking about how this maps onto the other work that, for example, our Council of Economic Advisers have done generating the estimate that we've saved or created about a million jobs so far. That estimate includes both direct and indirect jobs, and it includes not just a subset of the spending that has to be reported on through recipients, but the full set of Recovery Act activities that are out there in the field creating economic activity so far.
So just to be clear -- preliminary recipient data that's coming in to the independent Recovery Accountability -- the RAT Board -- Recovery Accountability and Transparency -- preliminary data coming into the board from recipients shows 250,000 education jobs saved or created. This is a subset of the 1 million jobs saved or created thus far through the act, leaving us solidly on track to accomplish our stated goal of saving or creating 3.5 million jobs by later next year.
I'll turn this over to Melody. Thank you.
MS. BARNES: Good morning, everyone. When we first started working on the Recovery Act last winter, we had two objectives in mind when it came to education. And the first one was to provide stability to state budgets and to prevent massive layoffs, while at the same time, trying to prevent a turn-back of the clock when it came to educational attainment for children and for adults; and secondly, to also try and use those funds to stimulate education reform.
We know that when it comes to education, particularly in the K through 12 context, that state dollars are very important. They account for about 90 percent of spending for education, and they account for about 40 percent of spending when it comes to higher education. And what we were getting back from states at that time was potentially devastating. We were hearing about 31 states that were predicting that they weren't going to be able to meet their budget in 2008-2009, and about 48 states that were predicting, looking forward, that they weren't going to be able to meet their budgets for 2009-2010.
What we know from the information we've received thus far is that the Recovery Act restored about 9 percent of the K through 12 dollars in California, Alabama, Indiana, and Oregon; about 12 percent of those dollars in Florida, Wisconsin, and South Carolina; and 23 percent of those dollars in Illinois. The implication is that we have been able to avert, for the reasons that Jared described, massive layoffs in -- and also created some jobs for pre-kindergarten, K through 12, and higher education -- both when we're looking at colleges and community colleges.
And the significant overall for education is something that -- or the impact on education has been significant. About $39.8 billion have gone through -- for K through 12 education, early ed and higher ed, and 73 percent of those dollars have already been obligated. And what we know when we start to look around the country is that we've been able to save about 4,000 jobs in New York City, for example; 242 jobs were saved in Indianapolis, Illinois -- Indiana -- sorry about that. Sounds like I need to go back through K through 12. (Laughter.) About 1,944 jobs were saved in Miami-Dade County, Florida; and 7 percent of the teaching staff in Scotts Bluff, Nebraska -- even though the number is small, when you think about 7 percent of their staff was able to be preserved.
It also means that we were able to avert massive class expansion, class size expansion, something that we've been concerned about in the educational context for quite some time; and also to provide needed services when it comes to math and literacy in those instances.
I'll close just by touching on reform. As I said, in addition to stabilizing the economy and preventing layoffs, we also wanted to attach reform to those dollars, to start to move the clock forward. And we included four assurances from the beginning in our state fiscal stabilization fund all the way through the Race to the Top dollars and the innovation and school improvement grant dollars that we're starting to put in place going forward.
So, for example, when it comes to standards and assessments, making sure that kids are college-ready and career-ready, in St. Paul, Minnesota, they were able to work on literacy and math interventions. For teacher effectiveness in Corpus Christi, Texas, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, they're able to focus on teacher training. And then also help for low-performing schools, Lafeyette, Indiana, for example, they were able to extend the school day, and in fact the school year, for two of the most struggling schools.
We're also able to provide more information for teachers as well as parents so that they could track student progress and that would inform their instruction. And then as I said, the Race to the Top and that pool of dollars and the innovation fund are two ways that we're even trying to push the ball forward even further and go down the field when it comes to education reform.
So I'll leave it with that.
MR. GIBBS: Chuck.
Q: Can you discuss new -- how many of these 250,000 jobs were new jobs that -- in the education field that were offerings that public school systems didn't have before, and how many of these were just about saving -- preventing layoffs?
DR. BERNSTEIN: We don't have a breakdown that would separate jobs saved or jobs created. What we know from the recipient reporting are state governments talking to school administrators who are telling them, as instructed by OMB, that in the absence of these funds they would have had to, for example, lay off teachers who now are in the classroom -- that's a job saved. Beyond that, when there's a new hire, they're obviously reporting that, as well, but those are not broken out separately.
Q: I understand that, but Melody was just talking about -- you were talking about some of these new programs that you guys were funding as sort of a way to push reform. So you must have some idea of the chunk of new positions, not necessarily -- new positions that were created out of this, no?
MS. BARNES: Well, what states have been telling us, that they have been able to put some of these new programs in place. As Jared said, we don't have the breakdown, but what we are aware of is the impact that we're having on education. So by extending the school day that may mean that they were able to keep teachers on board who are able to provide those services, or able to hire teachers.
In the early education, one of the things that's covered is Early Head Start as well as Head Start. And we wanted to make sure that we weren't ramping up too fast and too far in terms of stimulus dollars, but at the same time to make sure that children at the very beginning of their educational experience were going to have access to those kinds of programs.
MR. GIBBS: But just to reiterate, I mean, obviously we've talked about this, but we understand just with the sheer size of these numbers what educational systems throughout the country would be experiencing --
Q: Use the mic, please.
MR. GIBBS: I'm sorry. The magnitude of this number demonstrates what we would be dealing with without the help of the recovery plan in ensuring that these teachers were in the classroom.
Q: Okay, well, take Miami-Dade. So how many -- you talked a specific number of jobs. How many of those were new positions in Miami-Dade versus saved --
MR. GIBBS: Well, again, I think they said they don't --
Q: But you do have some number?
MR. GIBBS: Well, based on these reports -- again, they're the direct reporting jobs -- but understanding again that I think it's fair to say that a lot of these jobs were -- and we've seen these stories throughout the country -- states that faced tremendous budget pressures, not unlike the federal government, based on the dramatic downturn in our economy, led to having to take some serious action to fill that hole in to some degree and ensure that when these schools opened they didn't open to, quite frankly, as Melody said, class sizes that were much, much bigger. And we know, too, that the problem would be exponentially bigger if it weren't the case.
DR. BERNSTEIN: And, Chuck, I can add one thing, is if you -- I can add one thing. The recipient reports tell us a few facts. They tell us the allocations. They tell us the jobs saved or created, and we can't separate those. The state governments themselves have often released some numbers that are more in the spirit of what you're asking about. So, for example, if memory serves, California had a press release wherein they said we saved over 60,000 teacher jobs. And that's them telling you from their records, stuff that they have in those records that we don't have in the recipient reporting.
MR. GIBBS: Jake.
Q: So these 250,000, these are auditable jobs? These are directly created, all of them?
DR. BERNSTEIN: Directly created and I'm not exactly sure what you mean by auditable, but I think what you mean is that these are directly reported from recipients.
I want to stress that those of us who have been Keynesian economists throughout our lifetimes have never contemplated this level of transparency in a government stimulus program. We've never seen anything like this, where recipients are telling you precisely how taxpayer dollars are at work preserving and creating jobs. And I think it's particularly germane in the education sector from the perspective that Melody Barnes was talking about -- teachers, students, parents are walking into classrooms that would been twice as large in the absence of these funds.
Q: That's the other point -- I'm sorry, if I could just -- these are teachers? This is -- none of these 250,000 are employees of the Department of Education or anything else?
DR. BERNSTEIN: None of them are employed -- well, they're not employees of the U.S. Department of Education, but they're not just teachers. They're education jobs. So there could be --
MS. BARNES: Support staff.
DR. BERNSTEIN: Yes, do you want to speak to that?
MS. BARNES: We're talking teachers, support personnel, the same thing in the higher education context. But these are people who are teaching students or working in the support of teaching students are the operations of the educational facilities.
Q: Do you know how many are teachers versus how many are secretaries or people who work for the local boards of education?
MS. BARNES: I don't know that we have that breakdown.
Q: Jared, you said that this tells you precisely how federal tax dollars are being used to save or create jobs. Can you tell us precisely how many federal dollars per job?
DR. BERNSTEIN: No, we cannot at this point tell federal dollars per job, for a couple of reasons. One is that it's kind of the nature of the timing of the thing. We're getting data in in September and that includes, for example, summer months when teachers are typically not working -- not all of them, some of them are, and some of the support staff are, some of them aren't. So it's difficult at this point to report actual dollars per job.
We'll know more about that as we get closer to the endgame in terms of this recipient reporting. We should be able to get that number out when we have more data.
It's also the case, by the way, that some of these dollars don't pay -- are not directly going into labor costs. Some of them may be spent on technology, on building materials, on school materials. So it would be a mistake to take this, divide it -- to take the expenditures, divide them by the number of jobs and think you have cost per job. That would result in a cost per job that was too high.
Q: Are these all full-time jobs, or are some of them part-time equivalents that --
DR. BERNSTEIN: No, these are all FTEs -- full-time equivalent positions. Two part-time jobs would count as one full.
Q: Okay. So within the 250,000 jobs you could have a couple summer employments that you guys stacked together and then got to the 250?
DR. BERNSTEIN: Not that we stacked together, but that the recipients -- recipients were asked to report full-time equivalent jobs. So they would have combined them that way.
Q: But the 250,000 does include some temporary summer employment?
DR. BERNSTEIN: The 250,000 definitely includes temporary employment. But remember, if there are two part-time -- two half-time jobs, they're not reported as two jobs, they're reported as one full-time equivalent job.
Q: When you're talking about how much money has been spent per job, I thought it required $92,000 to create one job here.
DR. BERNSTEIN: Okay, this is a good question and it's one that kind of takes us from recipient reporting world to the modeling that the Council of Economic Advisers has done that I spoke about in my opening statement. In that exercise, we look at the full expenditures thus far from the act -- not just this subset that we're reporting on today, not just -- which is the education spending; not the subset that we were talking about toward the end of last week, which was the federal contracting for private sector employment through federal contracts. The $92,000 per job looks at the full spending, looks at direct and indirect jobs. These are, again, just direct jobs.
So it ends up a much larger universe than the recipient reporting jobs we're talking about today.
Q: Since this is all based on recipient reporting, are you confident, have you verified these numbers, that these numbers are real in terms of these jobs?
DR. BERNSTEIN: I can speak to that. Yes, we're confident that the 250,000 jobs saved or created through the education spending is a good, solid number coming in from recipient reports. The Recovery Board, the Recovery Accountability Transparency Board will have a full accounting including the actual reports that you can point and click to and see them for yourself by October 30th, I believe. And in fact, they have some of the reports I was discussing at the end of last week on the federal contracts to private sector employers, those are up there right now. And you can go in and look and see those actual jobs.
So, yes, we're very confident in the quality of these data.
MR. GIBBS: And remember, this is -- these are reporting requirements that were instituted within the Recovery Act as signed into law. And the board that Jared and Melody have talked about is an independent board that solicits and reviews such data.
DR. BERNSTEIN: And let me just add one point; very confident in the quality -- these are preliminary data that we have gone through with great care to emphasize particularly -- to try to bolster particularly the type of confidence you were referring to and I was alluding to.
Q: Dr. Bernstein, following up on something that Vice President -- a comment that Vice President Biden made in the event about green jobs a little while ago, he said that there are a number of people in this country still suffering in an economic depression. How many people would you put in that category?
DR. BERNSTEIN: I don't have any kind of an accurate count. I'm sure -- I think the Vice President was expressing the very accurate view that in an economy with over 15 million people unemployed, there's a lot of folks out there that are facing deep economic struggles. Many of our economic actions, our interventions, whether it's housing, financial markets, certainly the Recovery Act as we're talking about today, along with actions of the Fed, have certainly helped to pull the economy back from the brink, such that the macro-economy is in a much better place than it was.
But until we start bringing down the unemployment rate, until we start chipping away at those millions of unemployed people, until we start providing them with the jobs, the wages, the incomes, the hope, the opportunity that the Vice President had in his mind when he was referring to that dynamic, our work is far from done.
Q: You talked about how you're on track for the 1 million total, direct and indirect. But this is only direct, and this is a subset of it, so can you make it apples and apples, and say the 250,000 plus whatever indirect -- I mean, how much of a subset is it?
DR. BERNSTEIN: I think the best way to do that would be -- and by the way, just to be clear, 1 million saved or created through September of this year, and 3.5 million we believe will be saved or created by the last quarter of next year.
I think the answer to your question really is the 1 million that the Council of Economic Advisers reported on in their September 10th report. I refer you to that report, because that does capture direct and indirect, and it captures the full spate. Now, if you're asking me -- which I kind of think you are -- take that 200,000 and multiply that up to take count of the multiplier effects, yes, that we have not done.
Q: So it's a subset of the 1 million? You don't really know how big of a subset this is because --
DR. BERNSTEIN: Correct.
Q: -- it's not just 250,000? It would be more because of indirect jobs, right?
DR. BERNSTEIN: Right. I can tell you that 250,000 is a quarter of a million.
Q: I'm trying to make it apples and apples.
DR. BERNSTEIN: No, we don't have a multiplier that takes you from that number to that number -- that direct plus indirect.
Q: You've emphasized several times that this is preliminary data, and you used another term -- "endgame." This is a little bit confusing. Are you saying that this number will grow by the time we reach the endgame? And when is the endgame?
DR. BERNSTEIN: Sorry, I don't mean to be confusing. There are a lot of numbers and a lot of timing issues here. I'm not sure precisely the context I used the word "endgame," but what I believe I was talking about was by the time the Recovery Act is between 70 and 80 percent spent out -- that's sometime around the 4th quarter of next year -- and at that point, we believe we'll have saved or created 3.5 million jobs.
Now, the other sort of speaking -- when these preliminary data become no longer preliminary, and when they're posted on recovery.gov -- that's the Web site of the independent recovery board -- that's October 30th, and so that's when these preliminary data are no longer preliminary.
Q: Does preliminary also mean that you don't have the complete data so you're projecting based on what you have already? Or does it mean you have all the complete data, but you haven't had time to put it up --
DR. BERNSTEIN: It means the latter.
Q: Thank you, Robert. A question for either Jared or Melody. When this money, the federal dollars from the Reinvestment and Recovery Act, run out, will it then be up to the states to come up with the revenue to keep these jobs in operation?
MS. BARNES: That's something that we were quite cognizant of when we were putting the Recovery Act together. We wanted to make sure that we were stimulating the economy, and at the same time, that we would be able to sustain the increases that were on track. I mean, all of this, remember, is to be put in the context of the economy starting to come back, for states to be able to support these jobs and to support the increases that have been put on the table. So the idea was to provide that shot, as I also mentioned, to start to provide and to incentivize the kinds of reforms that we wanted to see moving forward, but not to fall off a cliff when the two-year period was over.
Q: So it's an unfunded mandate, then? (Laughter.)
MS. BARNES: No.
MR. GIBBS: Understand, again, these were jobs -- when you save a job, that's what 50 states and others have determined were the teacher jobs that they needed in these classrooms. And I'm happy to have human events editorialize for extending the very positive aspects of jobs saved and created as part of the recovery funding.
We'll take one more from Mike, and then let these guys go back to work.
Q: As you may be aware, Washington, D.C., recently let go 200-plus teachers. Is that a sign that Washington, D.C.'s school system is in that much of a financial hole that they couldn't be saved through the Recovery Act? And we've heard from a couple teachers perhaps suggesting that they were told by the chancellor that the money couldn't be used for salaries, it had to be used for one-time expenditures. So are the rules different for D.C.?
MS. BARNES: No, I think Washington, D.C., as we've all been reading, they have been making decisions based on a range of different factors. But these dollars were intended to go out and to provide the kind of support nationwide that would allow the kind of recovery that we're -- or stability that we've been talking about today, the creation or the saving of jobs, in addition to the appropriate kind of educational environment for students, to make sure that our kids weren't sliding backwards as we were also trying to bring the economy back.
MR. GIBBS: And, Mike, as we've talked about, look, we've never described in here the recovery plan as something that was going to match job for job, or dollar for dollar. We understand, as I've talked about, there's roughly a $2 trillion gap in economic output over a two-year period of time. This plan, the recovery plan obviously covers a little less than $800 billion of that $2 trillion.
So as much as you would love to see none of this, obviously states, as I've said, because of experiencing the same dramatic economic downturn that the federal government is, has had to make budget choices.
I have no announcements that I can remember, so we'll just start from there.
Q: On Afghanistan, it looks increasingly likely that there is going to have to be a runoff election. What is the -- A, just what is the White House reaction to that? And more importantly, how does it affect the sort of timing and calculation that's going on into the war strategy --
MR. GIBBS: Well, let me give a broad answer here, because obviously the assessment that was done and the review that the President asked to happen was something that we understood would take in many ways an election into account -- the first election conducted by the Afghans. And I would obviously point you to comments that were made this weekend about the responsibility that all Afghans are going to have in both putting forward and -- putting forward a government that is viewed as, in the eyes of both, importantly, the Afghan people as well as the international community, as truly legitimate.
Q: Well, that's partly why I'm asking that, because the calculation that you can't make a decision without understanding whether you have a credible partner or not -- obviously this poll -- these developments feed into that. So do you need for all these to play out before you could make a decision?
MR. GIBBS: Well, look, again, we've -- in some ways, understanding that we've had a sizeable troop commitment there and this isn't in some ways a new problem -- in other words, we've got a sizeable force there now and regardless of additional resource requests or grants by the Commander-in-Chief, we're still going to have a sizeable force there that is going to need a credible partner.
I think that's why the onus is clearly on this to be legitimate in the eyes of the Afghan people, because there's nobody involved in this process in this building or another -- in the Pentagon or in the State Department or quite frankly I think any credible person in this country would make a case that all the troops in the world will not solve a problem without a partner that is there ultimately to help. It's not just a military problem -- there's a civilian and economic development side of this.
But also taking into account the military aspect of it, we've -- the object eventually, obviously, is to train Afghan national -- an Afghan national security force, army, and police, in order to ultimately transfer control to someone. So this is a complicated process and one that we're going to be watching.
Q: It sounds like what you're saying is, no, you don't really need for this to play out to its bitter end before you could make a decision.
MR. GIBBS: In some ways it's hard to -- I don't want to get ahead of the process in terms of important decisions that Afghan leaders are going to have make over the next several days about how to step forward, understanding that none of this is going to work without credible partners. We certainly understand that in this entire process.
Q: A couple questions on Iran. Iran said that it would not hesitate to enrich uranium to a higher level if no deal is reached in the talks in Vienna that start today to get -- that would get a third country to do that enrichment. Is there any concern that this is -- this defiant tone will complicate or pose an obstacle to the talks? They've already ruled out France as one of those countries --
MR. GIBBS: Well, look, I'm not sure I'm going to spend a lot of time on pre-talk posturing. I think it's -- I think the actions of the Iranians within the scope of the actual talks will speak volumes to whether or not they're going to live up to their responsibilities. The important thing here is that in this technical meeting the Iranians have an opportunity, again, to demonstrate for the world what the purpose of a nuclear program is. Our object is to get a sizable amount of low-enriched uranium out of the country of Iran, making the world more secure.
Q: And one other on that. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the administration is encouraging Arab oil-producing countries to boost their oil supplies to China so that China would be less reliant on Iranian supplies -- the hope then being that China would be more cooperative on any push -- U.S. push for new sanctions, should that be decided.
MR. GIBBS: I'd have to look at NSC for guidance on that, and I don't have that.
Q: Following up on Jennifer's question, what is the administration doing in terms of putting pressure on Hamid Karzai, if in fact the U.N.-led audit says we need to take another look at this election?
MR. GIBBS: Look, let me -- I don't want to characterize -- first and foremost, this is -- nothing is going to be imposed by us or anybody else that will ultimately be seen as legitimate without the legitimation of those leaders, right? So obviously our Ambassador Karl Eikenberry is -- has been very involved in all aspects of the civilian situation on the ground. He has been a big player in the meetings that the President has had on this subject and is very engaged with all of the parties in order to create a situation that, again, can be seen as legitimate -- most importantly, legitimate by the Afghan people.
Q: Well, what if Karzai doesn't cooperate?
MR. GIBBS: Well, it's -- I'm not going to get too far down the hypothetical highway.
Q: If Karzai refuses to participate in a runoff, as he's signaled and -- he has signaled this, this is not a hypothetical -- and refuses to engage in any sort of unity government, will he be seen as a credible leader?
MR. GIBBS: Well, again, I don't -- I'm going to let not just words speak, but I think ultimately actions are going to have to speak in many cases louder than words. I'm not going to get ahead of this process. Obviously determinations are going to be made by the ECC, by the IEC, and then it's going to be incredibly important, Jake, for the world to see that Afghan leaders are willing to make this process legitimate, and that's the process that we're encouraging.
Q: The IEC is refusing to accept the ECC's results.
MR. GIBBS: Right. And I think it's now up to the Afghans to make this legitimate.
Q: Will President Obama -- will he get involved? Will he go ahead and approach Karzai if necessary?
MR. GIBBS: Well, I'm not going to get ahead of that. Again, we've got one of the best in the business right now on the ground and have been -- has been for a long time in Karl Eikenberry, who is working through obviously a delicate but extremely important situation as it relates to our posture in Afghanistan.
Q: Can I just ask a question on health care? During the campaign President Obama often talked about the importance of not -- this is a quote -- "not negotiating behind closed doors, but bringing all parties together and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN." Do you think President Obama and those who are negotiating health care right now are living up to that promise?
MR. GIBBS: Well, Jake, I think I've seen a number of clips from footage from the very beginning of meetings that were held, some of which were aired on C-SPAN, as a health care proposal was developed, understanding that their merging of two committee bills is just one step along a long process. And I think the American people have gotten quite a bit of news coverage on this topic.
Q: But you're talking about the health care forum you guys had here?
MR. GIBBS: Yes.
Q: But that was, what, March or April?
MR. GIBBS: The beginning of the process of putting together health care reform.
Q: But since then there have been significant negotiations both on Capitol Hill -- you have White House representatives on Capitol Hill right now. You have deals that were cut with Big Pharma, with the hospitals, with the doctors. Do you think that that has upheld his promise of transparency?
MR. GIBBS: I do think the administration has been transparent. I think the process, again, is ongoing. Trust me, I'd love to declare that the process is over -- it's not. It's ongoing and I think transparency will be continued.
Q: Two things. First on Sudan, how does the administration justify working more closely with someone who is charged by the International Criminal Court with crimes against humanity and war crimes and whose nation is on the state sponsor of terrorism list?
MR. GIBBS: Well, Chip, I take a bit of an issue with your characterization of this. There are hefty sanctions in place against Sudan. The President in his statement today mentioned that. There are -- this is a comprehensive policy that will not just deal with one aspect of the process, but will deal with both the humanitarian crisis that we face in Darfur as well as continuing the progress toward a comprehensive North-South peace agreement.
Our policy includes pressure on the Sudanese government and incentives. And if the government doesn't act in a way that helps bring about this comprehensive strategy, sanctions can be ratcheted up, pressure can be added. If they do take steps to address components of this, there are incentives.
Q: But we will be working more closely with somebody the President believes committed genocide, will we not?
MR. GIBBS: And the President still believes that. But what we're trying to do is seek a comprehensive solution to this problem that, again, addresses both the humanitarian crisis that has happened and is ongoing in Darfur as well as a comprehensive peace between the North and the South.
Q: On another topic, Somali rebels claim that they've shot down a U.S. drone. Do you know anything about that?
MR. GIBBS: I don't have any information on that, but I can see if there is any information on that.
Q: Following up on the various Afghanistan questions, specifically the Karzai campaign is calling the election commission "foreign interference." Do you -- is that helpful rhetoric right now coming from the Karzai campaign officials?
MR. GIBBS: I think it has been obvious and apparent to the world that allegations of fraud had to be investigated. We have said that repeatedly through this process, believe that all votes should be counted, those that were submitted fraudulently should be thrown out. We're certainly supportive and I think everyone in the international community is supportive of getting a process that's legitimate. I think it's now up to the Afghans to demonstrate that they're -- they believe in that legitimacy, as well.
Q: Is that rhetoric helpful or unhelpful?
MR. GIBBS: I don't think it's -- I don't think in any way it comports with what's going on on the ground.
Q: On health care, I know you don't want to negotiate here, but do you guys want to see the public -- some form of the public option in the initial Senate bill that hits the floor, or are you willing to wait for it to be a debate on amendments?
MR. GIBBS: I, shockingly, don't have a lot new on this, Chuck. We want to see legislation that goes throughout this process that ensures choice and competition.
Q: But there's a big difference between the public option being in the initial bill that hits the Senate floor, that gets amendmented -- you know, when they start debating --
MR. GIBBS: Is that a word?
Q: Pardon my -- I don't know. (Laughter.) Wait a minute, you made up a word earlier. What was it?
Q: "Legitimation", yes, so we're all about --
Q: I didn't make that up.
Q: No, no, that's what I mean. (Laughter.) No, you did. I'm just saying we're all --
MR. GIBBS: Awkward after we just announced 250,000 teachers -- (laughter.) Go ahead, I'm sorry.
Q: But there's a big difference between the public option being in the merged bill and not in the merged bill. Do you guys -- obviously you have a position on this, and this goes to the whole transparency question that Jake asked.
MR. GIBBS: Look, Chuck, I think what's important for all of this process and for the end of this process is ensuring that at the end of this is we have in insurance markets the ability for people to have choice and competition. Obviously the merging process continues, and I don't have anything new on that.
Q: It just seems to me that you have a lot of supporters who are spending a lot of money on the public option, advertising about it and all these things. They'd like to hear something from you guys about whether you want it or not, and if we want it in the final Senate bill or not.
MR. GIBBS: And I think the President was pretty clear in front of Congress on this, and we'll evaluate proposals as they happen to see whether they meet choice or competition.
Q: In the current financial news cycle of last week and this week, there's a lot of focus on the dollar. You see headlines, traders are bearish on the dollar, gold is rising, the dollar is weaker -- and yet the administration keeps on saying that they have a strong dollar policy. I'm wondering if you could give us one or two examples.
MR. GIBBS: Well, I am going to point you over to Treasury who deals with this, and not get into trouble on this question.
Q: On the medical marijuana policy, as you probably know, 14 states allow the medical use of marijuana now. This policy that the Justice Department is enacting now, is that -- should that be taken as a signal that the administration would like more states to allow this?
MR. GIBBS: Look, I'm not going to get into what states should do. This is -- the memo that was sent out today to U.S. attorneys simply adds guidelines to a decision that Attorney General Holder talked about in mid-March, and has been administration policy since the beginning of this administration in January.
Q: And course the President talked about it a lot during the campaign, or several times during the campaign, it came up. How much did -- how much was he involved directly in this?
MR. GIBBS: Well, look, this is, as you mentioned, something I think he was asked about at town meetings in 2007. It was his policy and has been since the beginning of his term the policy of this administration.
Q: Does he know someone -- does he know people besides those he might have encountered during the campaign --
MR. GIBBS: Not that I'm aware of. Not that I'm aware of.
Q: We heard some strong language from -- you know, on the Sunday shows about Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. Has there been any private conversations? In the interest of transparency, has the White House spoken to those banks about what they're doing with their bonuses, about where they're putting their profits?
MR. GIBBS: I don't know the answer to who has talked to whom on this, Hans. Let me reiterate, though, what has been said and, as you said, was said on the Sunday shows. The American people went to extraordinary lengths a little more than a year ago to ensure that our financial system didn't collapse. They have borne great responsibility in doing so. And I would simply reiterate what you heard senior administration officials yesterday -- that there are equal responsibilities on the other side of this not to go back to the type of behavior that got us into this mess; to ensure that what the taxpayers have done is met by the banks with increase lending to small businesses and others that need access to much needed capital.
And I think most importantly we are involved now in a debate about what the regulatory landscape is going to look, going forward, to ensure that we never repeat again what happened last September. And I think it is the actions of many banks, in working actively against consumer protections, is not what the American people expected or expect out of these institutions.
Q: But again -- on back to the lending aspect, is there anything you guys can do to force them to lend, other than kind of jawboning for public --
MR. GIBBS: Well, I think, look, there are obviously constraints in the law. And just in terms of executive compensation, as we've said before, we're not -- we don't want to be in the business of deciding executive compensation. I think people know excessive when they see it. I think the President, as you mentioned, has extremely strong views on this topic, on the topic of lending. And I think we hope that the actions of the bank will be demonstrative.
Q: But that's my question. Is it more than just hope? I mean, Axelrod said bonuses are offensive; more offensive is that they're not lending. Is there anything that you feel is in your power that you can do?
MR. GIBBS: I can certainly check additionally with the economic team. But this is not hope, this is more. This is -- the reason it's asked is -- the reason you're asking is because you and others have taken notice of both their behavior and the consequences of it.
Q: We know that hundreds of banks are on the FDIC watch list. Their reserve fund is way too low. There are concerns about commercial real estate loans in the years to come. And there's also pressure on the banks to basically acknowledge their losses and make their balance sheets right. So is there a little bit of a -- are they caught in the middle, if you will, between the White House saying you should lend more, and the regulators saying, maybe you shouldn't lend more?
MR. GIBBS: Well, look, I don't think anybody would suggest that we return to lending to consumers or anybody else that doesn't have the wherewithal to borrow and ultimately pay back the money. But nobody in this administration is suggesting that.
I think the administration is simply suggesting that with the responsibility borne by the taxpayer, responsibility is also borne by those recipients and others that were beneficiaries of the type of assistance that allowed those banks to continue, even though they had made record profits off of tremendously bad decision-making.
This is not something that's going to be solved overnight, and the President and his team will continue to watch over it to ensure that lending is taking place and that as we move forward we'll get some rules on the road, and won't let this be repeated again.
Q: Can you talk a little bit about what the Afghanistan -- what the delay does to your war council meetings? Are there more? Are you going to add more to the schedule now?
MR. GIBBS: I don't have -- what we'll -- I think they're working this week on some additional stuff that won't include the full meetings, because we have Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen on travel this week, which makes some of those meetings harder. But the review continues, and as I said last week, this is a decision that will be made in the coming weeks. So obviously work continues at many levels to get this done.
Q: Let me turn to politics for a second. Now that we have a date on the calendar for the President to campaign for Creigh Deeds, can you talk about what he sees his prospects as being? Does he see any chance of his doing better in the polls than he has been? And in all the three elections, I guess, that are taking place --
MR. GIBBS: Should I judge the power of The Washington Post editorial board's -- (laughter.) Look, I'm not going to get into the political prognostication game. Obviously I think the President believes, if you look at the Democrats that he's been supportive of that are on the ballot, that they have plans and proposals that move their states and their districts forward in a way that comports with his vision. And I think -- I anticipate we'll do quite well in November.
Q: Robert, I wanted to ask you about Iran. We've heard different public statements from the Russians in the last few weeks about whether they'll be amenable to sanctions against Iran if these talks in Vienna don't come up with anything. You saw what Medvedev said when he was standing next to President Obama at the U.N., and then last week the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov seemed to indicate that they weren't going to be going ahead -- that Russia didn't support sanctions. Who do you listen to? Who do -- do you guys think that --
MR. GIBBS: I tend to listen to the guy who was sitting next to the President. I think Medvedev was quite clear and I think we believe the actions of the P5-plus-1 in the meetings that are, as you mentioned, currently going on in Vienna, and others, are important to getting a comprehensive solution to a problem that is of concern to the entire international community.
Q: Robert, tomorrow in New York is the President going to visit the Joint Terrorism Task Force?
MR. GIBBS: I believe that was on the schedule when I came out here, but I will double-check to make sure it's on it when I go back.
Q: Can I assume that this has to do with the investigation that's ongoing?
MR. GIBBS: Well, I think it's -- as the President did when he went to the National Counterterrorism Center, this is an ongoing thing. The professionalism of those that keep a watch over our country the President thinks is something we should continually log and he looks forward to visiting with, as he did NCTC, as well as he had a phone call with a number of the Joint Task Force folks in recent weeks.
Q: Just trying to get -- put the jobs -- education jobs thing in context in my own head. The metric of jobs saved or created has been debated pretty hotly in the last several months, which I think you would agree -- I mean, we've gone back and forth in this room. The announcement today --
MR. GIBBS: I haven't, but go ahead.
Q: Maybe it was just Jared, I don't know. But it seems like today's announcement is an attempt on your guys' part to bolster that metric because the education jobs are some of the most solid of those sorts of saved or created. There's a lot less graspable examples of the jobs saved or created.
MR. GIBBS: I'm not sure I would agree with the premise of the last part. I think a teacher that was teaching kids last year and wasn't going to be teaching kids this year is a pretty easy example to understand. I think that's the case if your company was going to lay you off because of a downturn in output in producing components for clean energy jobs. This is data that the bill requires be reported to an independent board, and I think it demonstrates that actions had to be taken to help bolster state and local governments on jobs that obviously go to -- directly to building and strengthening our economic foundation to create jobs for the future. It would be short-sighted in an economic recovery to watch 250,000 educators walk out of school buildings even as we were trying to train a workforce for tomorrow.
Q: On a separate topic -- on your guys' doubling down in your attacks on FOX News, there was one comment by Axelrod yesterday where he said that FOX is a network that is trying to make money -- something to that effect. Does the White House think that FOX --
MR. GIBBS: I don't think that's news.
Q: Well, I mean, does the White House --
MR. GIBBS: I assume all of you are trying to make money, but maybe I --
Q: Well, he was putting it in a --
MR. GIBBS: -- I misinterpreted your otherwise altruistic ventures. (Laughter.)
Q: But he was putting it in a context that made it sound like that was evidence of them not being a news organization. And I just wanted to --
MR. GIBBS: Well, look, I don't think David would tell you that all of you aren't in the business of making money. I would say sometimes programming can be tilted toward accentuating those profits.
Q: Could I follow up, Robert, on Sudan? Two things. The President in his statement said that he would sign the emergency declaration later this week. Why the gap between the time he announced it and the time he signs it? Does that suggest some deadline, that there's some -- a few days for the Sudan to respond?
MR. GIBBS: I will check and see what scheduling prevented that from -- or whether that's to be read into something more.
Q: You talk about incentives. What incentives is the administration offering?
MR. GIBBS: I'm sorry?
Q: What incentives are you offering? What's the carrot?
MR. GIBBS: Let me -- again, let me point you to the State Department briefing, which is much more -- has a much more detailed layout of that, of some of these aspects as well as -- look, I think some of this is going to be decided in negotiations as we seek incentives and pressure.
Q: Robert, does the White House believe that it would be possible to hold a runoff election in Afghanistan on such short notice that would produce a legitimate government, given the constraints of the weather, the fact that many of the people officiating would be the same people that officiated in the first election?
MR. GIBBS: Stephen, I think that if the ultimate outcome is that -- and again, I hesitate to get too far ahead of this. I don't know what the timing is, but I think that the international community and the Afghans all have equities in ensuring legitimacy to the outcome of this process. Whether or not that happens in the next few weeks I think will bear watching as we go forward.
Q: Can I just follow? Robert, as far as this election is concerned, the longer it's taking, don't you think people are losing interest and also it's going to hurt the international community's war on terrorism in Afghanistan? And also, several months ago people were trusting in President Karzai and now they have lost the trust. Does President have a trust and faith in President Karzai?
MR. GIBBS: We are obviously continuing to deal with the government of Afghanistan. We don't have a candidate in this election. The Afghans have to pick their leaders. And we have to ensure that whatever leaders are chosen are capable of assisting, as they will need to, in a policy that makes their country more secure. I don't think delay -- again, we've got a sizeable force on the ground and continue to implement a policy that the President announced in March.
Q: It's my big chance here. (Laughter.)
MR. GIBBS: You should borrow his microphone.
Q: Yes, I know. I might do the two questions routine, too. Tomorrow's fundraiser in New York, are you expecting Wall Street executives to be in attendance?
MR. GIBBS: I would point you to the DNC to -- it's a DNC fundraiser and they probably have better attendance figures.
Q: Assuming they are, there are some present, will the President -- would he use the opportunity to make the same kind of remarks the officials are making?
MR. GIBBS: Look, the President won't hesitate whether or not they're there to reiterate the responsibility that Wall Street and everybody in the financial industry has to ensure that the type of behavior that got us into the problems that we faced a year -- little more than a year ago are never repeated.
Q: Assuming then that these Wall Street executives are present, and I think there's some reporting that they may be, is there anything unseemly about the President going to a $30,000 --
MR. GIBBS: I don't have a roster as to who is going to be there and, again, I'd point you to DNC.
I got to get Sam since I went to Alabama this weekend to watch his Kentucky team beat my team and I should have called on him earlier because -- I'm going to face up to it, I'm just -- trust me, I sat in 43-degree weather and watched it, so it's even easier now.
Q: -- since 1966. (Laughter.)
MR. GIBBS: We discussed that late into the night.
Q: I wanted to ask about Senator Conrad's meeting here today. The senator yesterday reaffirmed his support for a health insurance co-op. Is the President trying to change his mind today, or is he trying to get more information about this co-op?
MR. GIBBS: Well, look, I think the meeting will span a number of different topics. Senator Conrad obviously -- on the Budget Committee, is important to the process of putting together a budget for the next fiscal year, as well as an important player on health care reform. I think both of those topics will be discussed, and I'm sure the President will ask him about his ideas for ensuring choice and competition.
Q: Is the President aware of the Republicans on Capitol Hill that are calling for an investigation, saying that there have been Muslim spies planted as interns on Capitol Hill, and obviously they have not produced any proof of this, but this has been an issue that's gaining some traction on the Republican side --
MR. GIBBS: I have not heard the President talk about this, nor have I discussed it with him.
Q: -- White House at all?
MR. GIBBS: I have not heard anybody here talking about it.
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|Overcoming the Contradictions of Liberal Democracy: Sociobiology and Social Engineering
I would like to [begin to] tackle a fundamental problem of political philosophy: popular sovereignty and individual freedom are often at loggerheads, which endanger the survival of both. This is especially noticeable in Europe at present, where the recent crisis has brought to light previously hidden flaws in the Welfare State, to the confusion and dismay of voters and politicians. And all around the world the sudden check in growth has revived the self-destructive hostility towards globalization. These are muddy and perhaps dangerous waters to explore, but let me take the plunge.
“Liberal democracy suffers from a deep contradiction: people are discontent with our societies while they expect and demand boundless improvement from their progress.”
Democracy is an unstable system that often does disservice to individual liberty. With this stark assertion I want to pose two problems that have been with the friends of democracy from the very earliest times—going back to the Athenian followers of Pericles when traduced by Plato, to Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill when concerned with the enlargement of the franchise, down to Friedrich Hayek and James Buchanan when proposing remedies for the demagoguery of our day. The first is that government of the people, by the people, for the people has more than once been on the point of perishing from the Earth. The second is that democracy, though the political corollary of individualism, has in practice often tyrannized the individual. One explanation for the recurring instability and frequent oppressiveness of democratic politics is that they are due to the natural attrition of human arrangements. A better answer is that they are the consequence of systematic flaws in our political systems. Democracy as practiced is flawed. Democratic life is beset by paradox. These imperfections must be brought into the open and remedied if we want liberal democracy to survive.
Let me give two samples of the confusion and contradiction that beset present day political life: the crisis of Welfare and the denial of capitalist growth.
The failure of the Welfare State
The financial crisis that started in 2007 is perceived in Europe as the writing on the wall for the original idea of the Welfare State. Financing pensions, health, and education on egalitarian lines is now seen as a system of social service with all the wrong incentives: demand runs wild, quality of service deteriorates and taxpayers groan under their weight.
The trouble is that a majority of voters seem to want a Welfare State that they now know is unsustainable. For many years they were content to sell their birthright for a mess of potage but suddenly they now fear they will go hungry: their pensions are being cut, the queues before the hospitals grow longer, and an increasing number of their young go uneducated.
These troubles do not affect Europeans only. In the United States, public opinion is divided regarding the unstoppable growth of Government debt. The need to reduce the deficit of the Federal Treasury is widely acknowledged, though there is disagreement about the speed of the consolidation. There is even a plan in the United States to extend entitlements along the lines of the failed European experiment. This does not stop a majority from wanting to put new debt-financed programs in train, be they as expensive as so-called Obamacare. When the minority tries to resist lifting the debt ceiling to fund such new entitlements, the Federal Government is able to bring public opinion on its side by showing that new debt is needed to cover ordinary expenses such as military pensions or civil servants salaries: the world turned upside down.
People love to hate the market
The hostility to the market, always present in democratic politics, has become acute with the 2007-2011 financial crisis. How acute can be gauged by the general denial of the positive effects of globalization on poverty. The commonplace assertion is that the expansion of capitalism is making the poor poorer and the rich richer all around the world. This is contrary to fact. If poverty is defined in absolute terms as the state of people living below a certain threshold of consumption, then the story of globalization in the last thirty years is astoundingly positive. In an academic article crowning a long effort to measure world poverty, Xavier Sala-i-Martin, with the help of Maxim Pinkovskiy (2009)1 , shows that, if the poverty threshold is defined as living below $1 a day, “the total number of poor thus defined has fallen from 403 million in 1970 to 152 million in 2006″—a reduction of 251 million poor in thirty-six years. The same trend is revealed for higher thresholds of poverty. That figure is especially telling since the data have been observed in the midst of a growing world population, which should have led to an increase in the number of poor. It cannot be a mere coincidence that those years have been marked by a steady expansion of international trade and foreign direct investment, in other words, by increasing globalization.2 Time has proved Milton and Rose Friedman right when in Capitalism and Freedom (1962, 2002) they pointed at capitalism to explain the prosperity of the free part of the world. Globalization is the spread of liberty and the story of economic freedom is one of falling poverty and inequality, together with a marked progress in welfare.
Despite these observable facts, intellectual opinion and political belief go the other way. Religious leaders, intellectual elites and ordinary people ceaselessly denounce the worsening state of the poor and root for political intervention to control the free market, precisely the institution that makes for the reduction of poverty and the increase in wellbeing.
Why such deliberate blindness to the benefits of economic freedom enjoyed by growing numbers around the world? Again it seems that this is more than a passing fad or a mere coincidence. It shows that liberal democracy suffers from a deep contradiction: people are discontent with our societies while they expect and demand boundless improvement from their progress.
The politics of market control
This contradiction between opinion and behavior often turn democrats into collectivists, because it fosters mistrust of trade, rejection of competition, fear of price changes, aversion to new wealth, in short, general suspicion of the free market. This leads to democracy being proposed as a system to control spontaneous social change politically, rather than as a system to transmit individual choices. When later voters notice the corruption implicit in political log-rolling or in the sharing out of “pork” this view of democracy leads to, they pine for more republican politics where politicians look for the common good, whatever that may be.
Economic competition is based on free agreements for mutual gain; politics (and politically governed markets) are about extracting rents. I shall have something to say later in [subsequent] columns about the fundamental distinction between the positive-sum games of the free market and the negative-sum games of rent seeking, a distinction that ordinary voters find difficult to make.
Four paradoxes of modern democracy
Ailments such as those evidenced in the above two examples are no accident or mere coincidence. Their causes may be concealed but they still bear witness to deep contradictions in democratic life and practice.
There are many sources of paradox in our democracies. I will turn my attention to four, which I want to deal with in this and the next few essays.
- The first one is that the ideals of individualism and citizenship may be discounted as not fully in harmony with our human nature; in fact, they may be rejected as not natural at all.
- The democratic vote may result in communal decisions that nobody wants, as coming at the expense of personal preferences; the nation, though the natural venue for popular sovereignty, may often be the source of stifling tribalism.
- Thirdly, the confusion of wealth with freedom and poverty with serfdom will tempt many to portray formal liberties as an in-egalitarian sham.
- And last, money, which Hayek saw as ‘one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man’, repeatedly suffers from financial disorders that endanger liberty, as the crises of the 1930s and the first decade of the present century show.
The paradox of the liar
It is my view that these four contradictions are not incurable. They are in the character of semantic loops one encounters in ordinary discourse and in computer programs. These loops can be solved by separating planes of meaning, so that self-reference is avoided. One of the oldest is the “paradox of the Liar”, which runs thus:
“Epimenides the Cretan says that all Cretans are liars.”
Many authors solve this contradiction by separating levels of propositions, even visibly with inverted commas, thus:
“Epimenides, the Cretan says: ‘all Cretans are liars’.”
This sentence is true if in fact Epimenides said as much, whether he was contradicting himself or not.
Each of these four paradoxes of democratic life suffers from a self-reference that has to be cut so that they escape the vicious circle that afflicts them. This is done by moving the discourse to a “meta-plane.” Let me explain this perhaps obscure expression taken from the discussion of semantic paradoxes at the beginning of the 20th century.3 The solution just proposed for the Liar paradox consists in separating the miscreant proposition into two parts: one within the single marks, couched in what is technically called the “object language;” and the rest expressed in what is called the “meta-language.” The meta-language sentence passes judgment on the object sentence and by excluding self-reference avoids the paradox.
The four paradoxes of liberal democracy that I want to discuss in these columns belong to the same class of semantic paradoxes as that of the Liar.
- If the modern economy is seen as unnatural or irrational because it breaks with tradition or has not been politically designed, then it will be rejected as undemocratic, though it is the result of the free actions of innumerable individuals.
- If whatever the majority decides is right then majoritarian democracy can vote itself out of existence.
- If liberal democracy is based on the principle that all men are equal, then the free market, based on the principle of free individual choice, will be rejected as leading to undemocratic inequality.
- If by democratic decision money starts to be issued in excess, then its role as a symbol of value may be fundamentally undermined.
Semantic paradoxes are not mere logical curios. They often become “existential,” in that they embody a shocking or absurd trait of reality. Living with such paradoxes becomes unbearable. Solving them becomes a way to approach the truth. Hence, the very evolution of social life leads to habits or institutions appearing on a meta-plane that help societies escape such vicious circles.
The object of this column and the next ones is to sketch ways to free democratic life of deformities such as the ones listed here. The object is to make democracy more amicable to individual freedom. I shall explore solutions to the four paradoxes based on creating or cultivating meta-planes of meaning to solve deadly contradictions, along the following lines.
- Our personal instincts as to what is natural should not lead us to disallow unpredictable social evolution on a higher plane because its results feel artificial.
- People who use their democratic rights to destroy liberal democracy should not necessarily be given full leeway but be made to abide by the higher rules of a Constitution.
- The equality demanded by democrats should be limited to equality before the law by a meta-rule.
- Money creation should be anchored by some well-grounded meta-rule so that credit does not grow excessively by feeding on itself.
I shall note in the conclusion of these essays that ladders onto higher planes allowing democracies to escape from vicious circles tend to develop spontaneously with economic growth and cultural progress. With the passage of time, institutional fire-walls tend to appear that break the loops of democratic life. History shows that people can learn to be democratic in ways that are not inimical to personal freedom.
I. THE ERRORS OF BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING
Freud on culture as unnatural repression
Late in life, Sigmund Freud published one of his most striking essays, Civilization and its Discontents.4 I am not the only one to have felt when reading this work that Freud was still under the impression of the cruelty of World War I and the harshness of its aftermath when thus taking stock of human culture in 1930. The legend has it that, when sailing into New York for the first time in 1909 he turned to Jung at his side and said, “They don’t realize that we are bringing the plague.”5 The plague was the spreading of the belief that civilized repression was to be exorcised if mankind would be rid of its unhappiness. Was he perhaps ruing the day when he let loose the devils of the libido and blamed repression for the neuroses of mankind?
Man’s discontent goes deep, says Freud. Humans are perpetually faced with the omnipotence of destiny and the futility of their own striving. In childhood they crucially depend on others and are naturally open to the religious impulse. Their anguish is prolonged in adult years by the unavoidable presence of three sources of human suffering: the supremacy of Nature, the decay of our own body, and deficient human relations in the family, society and the state. The latter are especially painful since we devised those institutions, he says, for our happiness, welfare and protection. Freud was thus questioning even the benefits of arrangements purposely devised by thinking men.
All this, however, does not explain “the strange hostility of so many men against culture”. For Freud, a second cause could be found in our disappointment with the technical advances of the age.
In the course of the last generations, humanity has realized extraordinary progress in the natural sciences and their technical applications. [… ] Man is justly proud of such conquests but has begun to suspect that these recently acquired powers [… ] have not made him happier.
Freud coined a cruel expression to describe the continuous dissatisfaction of humans despite extraordinary increases in the power of technology:
“Man, so to speak, has come to be a god with artificial limbs, magnificent enough [… when he dons] his prostheses but these do not grow from his body and sometimes cause him considerable distress.”
A god with prostheses! Such was the second step in his diagnosis of man’s hostility towards culture.
Freud wanted to go deeper, however, in his explanation of the discontents of civilization. The third and more fundamental cause was that man’s sexuality and aggressive instincts were savage and violent and had to be repressed for social life to be possible.
Whoever remembers the horrors of the great migrations, the invasions of the Huns, of the moguls under Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, the conquest of Jerusalem by the pious crusaders, and even the cruelties of the last World War must humbly accept the reality [of human aggressiveness].
The necessary repression gave rise to the neurosis of civilized man, who often relieved it by reverting to blind participation in communal life. The aggressive tendencies of mankind could be channeled in defense of the tribe. These small groups had
… the very appreciable advantage of permitting the satisfaction of instinct through the hostility against outsiders [… ] thus easing the cohesion of the members of the community.
Echoes of Thomas Hobbes in his extoling of social repression: man was freest before culture, but this natural liberty “had no value because the individual was barely capable of defending it”, was Freud’s conclusion. It went in the same direction as Hobbes: free institutions were not in harmony with man’s primordial nature.
Hayek’s three sources of sociability
The Freudian idea that the institutions of the free society inevitably clashed with the true nature of man was subtly changed by Hayek. The text to be read and reread in this regard is his pithy “Epilogue” to Law, Legislation and Liberty,6 titled “The three sources of human values” (1982). It is there Hayek rejected the general view that human institutions were either of biological or of rational origin.
“Culture is neither natural nor artificial, neither genetically transmitted nor rationally designed. [… ] The structures formed by traditional human practices are neither natural in the strict sense of being genetically determined, nor artificial in the sense of being the product of intelligent design.” (Hayek, page 155)
First, he did accept that “man has been civilized much against his wishes” and that there was discontent in our civilization due to a feeling of helplessness of individual men and women to control the forces that shape their lives.
Secondly, he did not rest content with Freud’s classification of the sources of civilized discontent into neurotic repression and technical artifice. Even in closed societies of a primitive kind there was control and invention, but these were accepted and welcomed. There was another source of discontent that was felt as impersonal and often sinister. The institutions of civilized life evolved spontaneously through purblind competition. They were opaque and even incomprehensible to the individual.
These new rules were not supported by the awareness that they were more effective. We have never defined our economic system. We were not intelligent enough for that. We have stumbled into it has carried us to unforeseen heights and given rise to ambitions which may yet lead us to destroy it. (page 164)
Thirdly, Hayek did not deplore the emergence of rules that disciplined human nature, much to the contrary: “Freedom was made possible by the gradual evolution of the discipline of civilization which is at the same time the discipline of freedom” (page 163). This is what led Hayek to say that “the morals which maintain the open society do not serve to gratify human emotions” (page 160). The reason why many institutions of the modern world are misunderstood or indeed rejected by modern man is that indeed they are not ‘natural’, nor are they ‘rational’ in the sense of being consciously devised for a defined purpose.
One must remember that one of the reasons why Hayek wrote this Epilogue was to correct “the errors of sociobiology.” For Hayek, that school was mistaken in believing that the customs and the institutions of human beings could be ‘reduced’ to their genetic nature, that is to say, biologically deconstructed. Also, one must not forget that the purpose of Volume I of Law, Legislation, and Liberty, titled “Rules and Order” was to reject what he called ‘constructivism,’ the belief that it was rational and possible to design institutions from scratch as if they were the artificial limbs Freud so tellingly described. In sum, the principle on which Hayek based his analysis of institutions was that encapsulated in Adam Ferguson’s famous phrase that “nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.”7
All this means that humans do not fully understand the nature and effects of the institutions of civilized life and that attempts to order them from top to bottom are nugatory. The evolution of the economic order in the progress of our civilization goes very much against the grain of the customs and beliefs of the tribal life we have only partially outgrown. Neither does it conform to the demands of Cartesian logic.
[… F]rom the toleration of bartering with the outsider, the recognition of delimited private property, especially in land, the enforcement of contractual obligations, the competition with fellow craftsmen in the same trade, the variability of initially customary prices, the lending of money, particularly at interest, were all initially infringements of customary rules. (page 161)
We live in anguish (or discontent, as Freud would have said) because the rules which “maintain the open society do not serve to gratify human emotions”.
The basic tools of civilization—language, morals, law, and money—are the result of spontaneous growth and not of design, and of the last two organized power has got hold and thoroughly corrupted them. (page 163)
Popper and the abstract society 8
All this Karl Popper had stressed many years before. When discussing Plato’s reactionary philosophy in his The Open Society and its Enemies (1945, 1957) he came to the, for him, surprising conclusion that Plato was right in saying that the ancient Greeks “were suffering under a severe strain, and that strain was due to the social revolution which had begun with the rise of democracy and individualism.” (1957, page 171). Life in the tribe accords better with our inherited traits. When society moves away from functioning like an organism the result can be unsettling.
An open society may become, by degrees, what I should like to term an “abstract society.” [… ] We could conceive of a society in which men practically never meet face to face—in which all business is conducted by individuals in isolation who communicate by typed letters or telegrams, and who go about in closed motor-cars.
True, Popper had added that relationships, which in a closed society were set by accident of birth or place in social hierarchy, changed in an open society to becoming personal objects of choice. But, as Popper concluded:
“[A]lthough society has become abstract, the biological make-up of man has not changed much; men have social needs which they cannot satisfy in an abstract society.” (pages 174-175)
The moral rejection of efficient markets
The instinctive rejection of the ethics of the Open Society has an unexpected effect: it leads ordinary people to fret against the conclusions of economics even when they are well established and tested. This makes the life of the classical economist a frustrating experience. Our science of economics seems to oppose the fond beliefs and moral principles of ordinary people, so that markets go unloved and suffer continuous interference.
In a recent clear-sighted essay, Clark and Lee9 underline the fact that the conclusions of economic analysis are often rejected out of hand because of the ethics seen to sustain it. The political economy of the market, whether right or wrong in its factual conclusions and predictions, is felt to be downright immoral by many. It is said to be based on greed, to be devoid of human feelings, even to undermine the very morality of hard work and self-disciplined calculation that made its success. These misguided beliefs are nourished by the clash between ordinary morality and the impersonal ethics of the market, or what Clark and Lee call ‘mundane morality’, as distinguished from ‘magnanimous morality’. The latter —
“… can best be defined in terms of helping others in ways that satisfy three characteristics—helping intentionally, doing so at a personal sacrifice, and providing the help to identifiable beneficiaries.” (Clark and Lee, page 3)
Mundane morality, on the other hand, while being essential for the existence of society, is much less attractive to ordinary people and in fact often not recognized as morality at all. This is because, contrary to magnanimous morality, it has three characteristics that contrast with the three set out above: it is self-interested, profitable for both sides, and dispersed anonymously.
Now we can see why mundane morality is seen under such an unfavourable light by people who do not recognize that it has much more general and beneficent effects in society than personal magnanimity. In sum:
“[i]t is much easier to understand the persistent criticism of markets, and of the invisible hand justification for them, once the strong emotional attachment to magnanimous morality is considered.” (pages 7-8)
Moving to a meta-plane
As I said when setting out the first paradox to be considered in liberal democracy, it is a dangerous mistake to limit oneself to holding that the rules of social life must be either natural or rational. This will make the habits and institutions of the modern economy look artificial because designed by nobody and that situations resulting from the free decisions of individuals will be rejected as undemocratic.
The best way to free society from this vicious circle is to place the basic tools of civilization—language, morals, law, and money—on a higher plane, as we did with the propositions of the meta-language in the Liar’s paradox. They must not be seen as part of the object language and therefore to be judged according to the rules of our biological makeup. They may be corrected and reformed by reason but very carefully since our reason is itself the result of culture and can with difficulty understand the byways of spontaneous evolution.
In sum, our personal instincts as to what is natural should not lead us to disallow unpredictable social evolution on a higher plane because its results feel artificial, and we should wield the instrument of our reason with some care and diffidence.
- Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin: “Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income”. Working Paper 15433, October 2009, National Bureau of Economic Research. Other measures of poverty show a similar degree of reduction. They also find that various measures of global inequality have declined substantially and measures of global welfare increased.
Of course, there is more than a single cause to such progress, the main additional one being medical advances, but there is no need here to underline the reciprocal relation between freedom and scientific progress.
These reflections have been inspired by the articles on “Paradoxes”, the “Liar paradox” and “Meta-languages” in J. Ferrater Mora (1982): Diccionario de filosof¡a, vol.3. Alianza Editorial, Madrid.
I am using the 1979 Spanish translation in vol. XXI of Freud’s Collected Works, published by Amorrortu Ediciones, Buenos Aires, pages 89-104.
The source given in the Wikipedia article on Sigmund Freud is Jacoby, Russell (2009-09-21). “Freud’s Visit to Clark University.” The Chronicle Review. (Retrieved 25 October 2013).
Friedrich A. Hayek, Law, Legislation, and Liberty Volume 3: The Political Order of a Free People. The University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Adam Ferguson: An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767). Available online at the Online Library of Liberty.
The matter of this and the next paragraph I have expounded in more detail in my chapter titled “Happiness is not within the Government’s remit: The philosophical flaw in happiness economics” of the book edited by Philip Booth: … and the Pursuit of Happiness. Institute of Economic Affairs (London): 2012.
Clark, J.R. and Lee, Dwight R. (2011): “Markets and Morality”. The Cato Journal, vol. 31, no. 1 (Winter), pages 1-25.
For more on Friedrich Hayek’s writings, including his Law, Legislation and Liberty, see the EconTalk podcast episode Boudreaux on Reading Hayek.
*Pedro Schwartz is Professor Extraordinary in the Department of Economics at the University San Pablo CEU in Madrid, where he teaches the History of Economic Thought and directs the Centre for Political Economy and Regulation. A member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Spain, Schwartz is a frequent contributor to European press and radio on the current financial and corporate scene. Schwartz is the author of two previous books, La economía explicada a Zapatero y a sus sucesores and En Busca de Montesquieu: la democracia en peligro, and he has a book forthcoming in English, Democratic Capitalism: Progress and Paradox. | <urn:uuid:3c273e62-f99a-4f9d-8bba-d20775c7f658> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://gospelbbq.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/socio-biology-and-social-engineering/ | 2017-05-28T00:54:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463609404.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170528004908-20170528024908-00352.warc.gz | en | 0.957138 | 5,811 | [
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14 June 2006
Kaliningrad specialist surfaces
Hmm. I've got slightly mixed feelings about this one now.
Yesterday I got an email, which rather put me on the spot because it precisely hit the Achilles' heel in my business model.
The main revenue stream for Travel-lists.co.uk is from review fees - if you think your site should be listed, you have to pay us to evaluate it. But the site 'mission' is to be an authoritative directory of all the best companies and organisations in their field, and nothing turns me on more than finding really good little specialist travel companies that I can tell our visitors about. (Especially if they are comparatively unknown. In a way that justifies the site. The search engines are useless in this respect. It is the very reason why I created Travel-Lists in the first place). So Travel-Lists.co.uk is not built from submissions. The vast majority of listings are hunted and found by me.
Despite explaining on the site that we only take site suggestions formally (through the review fee system) I get a continuous trickle of "hi there" emails bypassing the system. Ninety-five percent of them look as if they 'might possibly' be interesting and are dumped in a holding file which I rummage around in from time to time (about once every three months), but every now and then I get one which IS interesting. And that leaves me in a difficult position - torn between the need to earn a living (in which case I should ignore it and stick it in the dump folder. Maybe they'll get the message or get tired of waiting and pay to get reviewed) and the delightful urge to tell all our visitors about this amazing little company we've just discovered.
The email I got yesterday from Sally Chambers of Baltics and Beyond (with some genuine queries about being listed in Travel-Lists) was definitely one of those. There are quite a few UK tour operators who feature the Baltic States, but not many who specialise in activities and discoveries away from the capital cities, and I'm only aware of one other operator that takes travellers to the forgotten Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad. So there was no contest. The urge to tell readers won hands down and I immediately phoned Sally to find out a bit more.
This morning, when I had finished updating the relevant lists on the site, I opened my emails... and that nice feeling dissipated. Travmedia, a leading travel industry press distribution service, is circulating a press release from Sally about the launch of Baltics and Beyond to all the travel journalists in the UK. Baltics and Beyond has not so much gently 'surfaced' as performed a full, out-of-the-water, Samu-the-killer-whale-style body breach! Suddenly my sense of exclusivity has been wiped out.
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Belle Taine LakeHubbard County, Minnesota
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Belle Taine Lake is located in Hubbard County, Minnesota. This lake is 1,442 acres in size. It is approximately 56 feet deep at its deepest point. Anglers can expect to catch a variety of fish including Bluegill, Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Smallmouth Bass and Walleye.
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Archiving Cane (2012) – Installation
7 to 16 December, 2012
The Substation Gallery, Singapore
“In privileging an understanding of performance as a refusal to remain, do we ignore other ways of knowing, other modes of remembering, that might be situated precisely in the ways in which performance remains, but remains differently?” – Rebecca Schneider, Archives Performance Remains
On 1 January 1994, Singaporean artist Josef Ng performed Brother Cane, a performance that triggered a ten-year restriction for the licensing and funding of performance art in Singapore. On 19 February 2012, Loo Zihan presented six accounts of Josef Ng’s performance in a performance titled Cane at The Substation Theatre. Archiving Cane is an installation and durational performance that consolidates and present performance remains and documentation from the re-enactments of Josef Ng’s work by Loo Zihan.
The exhibition space includes 12 selected performance remains from various interpretations and reenactments of Josef Ng's performances. The artist was present throughout the duration of the exhibition to provide context on the significance and function of each object displayed. Visitors were encouraged to interact with these performance remains.
The exhibition also included a resource library, where documents from Zihan's research of periphery events around Cane were displayed, this included programmes, newspaper articles, academic theses, critical writing and license application forms among others. Access was also made available to a Facebook page which details in chronology digital documents and online articles referring to Zihan's re-enactment and Josef Ng's performance.
Archiving Cane was given a Restricted (21) rating by the Media Development Authority of Singapore and it was a requirement by the licensing authority to inspect and verify that all visitors were above the age of 21. The artist decided to choreograph this gesture of inspection into an integral part of the exhibition experience.
All visitors were given an edition folio of critical texts assembled on site and the folio of each edition was personalised with a photocopy of the visitor's identification card. A copy of each visitor's identification (with sensitive personal information redacted) was included as part of the display in the gallery space with their consent. Over the duration of the exhibition, this display grew to serve as a record of attendees, transforming this licensing requirement into part of the artwork. | <urn:uuid:cc8a8163-64f6-4b9a-bcef-27ca0de4fde2> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.loozihan.com/archiving-cane-2012/ | 2017-05-29T07:31:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612036.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529072631-20170529092631-00160.warc.gz | en | 0.960529 | 487 | [
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Callie has always been a hard worker. She has always moved quickly up the ranks with any organization she has worked with and has always been the employee that is used as an example (and not in a bad way). Wanna learn how to do something, and do it right? Go to Callie. Need someone to put together a great training about…who cares? Ask Callie. Want a supervisor that always has your best interest at heart, and will help you in any way that they can? Callie is the one. She has always had a great rapport with anyone that she has ever worked with. She’s one of those people that can (for lack of a better word) “alter” herself to fit the person that she is speaking with so that she can connect with them on a different level. And people LOVE her! I mean, absolutely ADORE her! Her old manager friends and even her old boss still keep in touch with her regularly. There was a point in time when different child care companies had her name on their tongues and were FIGHTING to have her joint their company. I mean, she was a freaking diamond director. That means that even after staff was paid, bills were paid, and things for the school were taken care of, she STILL made them over 1 million dollars in revenue! Only 12 directors in 1200 schools INTERNATIONALLY achieved that. My wife is BOMB yo! And hot…also very, very hot!
The 16 months that she was home were really rewarding because she got to stay home with the boys and care for them and be a kick ass SAHM, but she always mentioned that she felt like something was missing, but she didn’t know what that something was, until she scored a pretty awesome position as an Instructional Specialist for a really great child care company. This center is run by the same people who started 2 other international Ivy League Day Care companies, because they wanted to give a really great education to children from impoverished/at risk communities and give them the same start and opportunities as kids in more affluent communities. And also because learning starts REALLY early, and lots of the children that are at these centers wouldn’t otherwise have the opportunity. It’s really an incredible program! I dig it! After her 2nd full week of work, she realized what it was that was missing. It was acknowledgment, praise for a job well done, and working together with a team to get things done.
She currently has 4 schools that she “manages”. She works in the classrooms monitoring teachers and doing observations. Afterwards, she talks to the teachers and praises the HELL outta them for all of the amazing things that they are doing with the kids and in the classroom, how they are communicating, about the content of the lesson, about the children’s reactions, etc. Then, she gives them some pointers and helps them to be the best teachers that they can be. These teachers (who also grew up in these communities) don’t necessarily do well with criticism, even if it IS constructive, but for whatever reason, the absolutely ADORE Callie. She loves turning classrooms around and building “community” within the schools that she is working in. In fact, she had a huge ACS walk through (these schools are heavily monitored by ACS [Administration of Children’s Services] and DSS [Department of Social Services] because they provide the funding) and she managed to get a few teachers to come in to move furniture and get her schools in tip top shape for the visit ON A SATURDAY! I couldn’t believe it!
Does she miss being home? Of course she does! She is particularly guilty about not being able to give Austin the same amount of time as she did the boys, but with a family of 6 living in a pretty pricey suburb outside of NYC, it’s just not feasible or affordable to have one working mom, even more so since our savings account is starting to dwindle and we have completely and totally outgrown our tiny ass 3 bedroom apartment, so house hunting has officially begun. And the combined 6 figure income is freaking SWEET! But also she is so happy at this new job and she loves what she does, and being useful, and in a small (but still super huge way!) changing the community and the lives of the people who live in it. Because really, the only way to make these “at risk” communities get a little less “risky”, if you will, is to educate the youth, and she is doing just that! Seeing her this happy after the last 5 years of hell at her old company is such a nice change.
Speaking of the old company, I think I may have mentioned that we filed a discrimination case against them with HRC and, we won! We totally won! Callie was able to prove that he company discriminated against her based on sex and pregnancy and we freaking won! It took 8 months, but no matter what they said, Callie always countered with proof. Loads and loads of proof. I mean seriously, Callie got written up 2 weeks AFTER she told them she was pregnant with twins for 3 years worth of infractions. But 2 weeks BEFORE she told them, she had received and email from her supervisors supervisor basically saying how amazing she was! They claimed that they got rid of her because she wasn’t meeting the impossible task of enrolling 3 new students a month, which in this economy is CRAY! So she looked up enrollment rates in our county and it turns out that for how poorly every district in our county was doing, Callie was actually KILLING it with enrollment and retention even though it wasn’t where the company wanted her to be. But who cares about them! They suck big sweaty ones, but they’re paying us a nice amount of cash since they decided to settle. Enough to get a little down payment on a new home when we are good and ready (I’m freaking ready! Callie is on the fence!). This was the push we needed to get us out of our apartment and into a home, and also…on a week long vacation in July with 4 kids! | <urn:uuid:d7c38547-3384-488b-9d97-8bc639ccbedb> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | https://thechroniclesofanonbellymama.wordpress.com/2016/05/06/callie-and-her-new-job/ | 2017-05-29T07:47:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612036.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529072631-20170529092631-00160.warc.gz | en | 0.987852 | 1,285 | [
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Salary survey published
Businesses are remaining & lsquo;cautious’ is the major headline from this year’s local salary survey.
But that’s no cause for alarm after a long period of uncertainty characterised by artificial peaks and prominent troughs in pay, according to experts at Anne Corder Recruitment.
The agency produces the Peterborough Local Market Survey in partnership with specialist reward consultants PayData Ltd.
While only 10% of participants revealed they had frozen pay this year compared to 25% in 2012, the overall average rise in salaries within the past 12 months stayed the same at 2.5 per cent.
“The results suggest that the plateau hinted at last year is here to stay, or at least for the next few months,” said ACR recruitment partner Karen Dykes. “Throughout 2012 and 2013 there has been a further levelling out of salary increments following an uncertain period for many different industries. Nevertheless, staff continue to be rewarded for hard work and loyalty within the constraints of their company’s budget.”
The biggest winners according to this year’s figures have been accounts and stores, warehouse and production workers who have notched up rises of around three per cent. Support functions have shown their first increase for a number of years, with HR Officers and Marketing Assistants on the receiving end of substantially higher pay rises than in recent years. At the other end of the spectrum, customer service and call centre figures have dropped by 1.5 per cent.
“Some of these differences are accounted for by the shift in the survey sample. We have some businesses taking part for the first time,” added Karen. “Overall however, there is nothing within the results that is causing either alarm or delight.”
The Salary Survey is now in its 16th year and is recognised as a key tool for companies keen to remain competitive in the local recruitment market.
To help that process, an interim report was introduced earlier this year, which also indicated cautious optimism across the Greater Peterborough area.
PayData’s director Tim Kellett, said, “Both sets of survey results show that we are very much in a period of slow recovery. Headline 2013 employer base pay increases in the Peterborough area have been comparable to our national pay database, indicating that most wage settlements are still struggling to keep up with price inflation.
“Participant feedback also indicates that there are still some roles that local employers struggle to recruit into, particularly digital media and more senior positions. Salary pressures are a likely reason for this gap in the local market.”
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Belarus.........1 (Ryzhevich 30)
England........6 (J.Scott 1, Williams 6,25,86, Sanderson 43, White 90)
A Fara Williams hat-trick kept England on course to qualify for Euro 2009, as they saw off Belarus with ease to take a crucial three points from their visit to Minsk.
England were ahead after just 30 seconds as Jill Scott arrived at the near post to power home Rachel Yankey's fine delivery from the left flank.
It was a lightning start for the Three Lions as they looked to sign off for the summer in style, with Fara Williams lofting a delightful pass out to the left wing Yankey which she in turn delivered onto the head of Everton's Jill Scott.
It was the perfect start as the visitors controlled possession and looked to break in numbers, and it wasn't long before it was 2-0 as Fara Williams drove a terrific free-kick into the top corner.
Jill Scott drove at the heart of the Belarus defence before being felled 25 yards from goal. Kelly Smith stood over the ball, but Williams hit the ball with the outside of her right foot and Novikova was once again stranded on her line.
After losing two early goals, and already suffering a 6-1 defeat at the hands of Spain just a week ago, Belarus were keen to limit the damage and packed their defence to prevent another heavy defeat.
Halfway through the first period and it was 3-0, with Fara Williams getting on the scoresheet again - with another cracking effort from 25 yards out.
This time it was in open play as Casey Stoney and Rachel Yankey built an attack before feeding Williams in space through the middle. Williams drove forward and was given the chance to shoot as Belarus backed off, her effort flying into the top corner.
Just five minutes later and Belarus had a somewhat fortunate route back into the contest as their captain, Natalya Ryzhevich lofted a deep cross that deceived Siobhan Chamberlain in the England goal and dropped in the top corner.
It was a warning for England as they sought to run away with the game, but just on the stroke of half time Lianne Sanderson restored the three-goal advantage with a calmly taken finish inside the six yard box.
The second half was more difficult as heavy rain and hailstones made for tough conditions, and Belarus edged ever further towards their own goal. Birthday girl Lindsay Johnson came on, as did Everton teammate Jody Handley and Birmingham's Laura Bassett.
Williams completed her hat-trick with another terrific effort from distance, before captain Faye White got on the scoresheet again, heading home from a terrific cross from Arsenal teammate Rachel Yankey.
England, five points clear at the top of group one, now have just two remaining qualifiers in their bid to qualify for the European Championship in Finland next year, taking on Czech Republic on 28 September and Spain four days later. Both games are away from home. (www.TheFA.com)
Belarus: Sviatlana Novikava, Oksana Shpak, Alesia Baranova (sub Sviatlana Znaidzionova 77mins), Volha Novikava, Natalya Ryzhevich, Irina Kozeeva, Maryna Lis (sub Tatsiana Kiose 68mins), Svetlana Astasheva (sub Volha Manzhuk 61mins), Elena Shevtsova, Alina Vasilyeva, Nina Akhvymuk. Subs not used: Ina Batsianouskaya, Volha Radzko, Alena Buzinova, Sviatlana Ryzhova.
England: Siobhan Chamberlain, Alex Scott (sub Lindsay Johnson 45mins), Casey Stoney, Jill Scott, Faye White, Anita Asante, Karen Carney (sub Jody Handley 45mins), Fara Williams, Lianne Sanderson, Kelly Smith (sub Laura Bassett 59mins), Rachel Yankey. Subs not used: Rachel Brown, Sue Smith, Mary Phillip, Rachel Unitt.
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Last Thursday, my gym was putting on a free running nutrition clinic. The speaker was Mary Coordt. She really knows her running. She is a coach, a nutrition consultant and a four times Olympic trails qualifier. She's super fast! She has also won the Napa Marathon four times. She talked about a lot of stuff I already knew, but I also learned a lot!
Who ever registered and attended the clinic, got a free entry into a local 10 mile race in a week! I've been training for it and am ready!
The clinic was held on the gyms basketball courts. There were a lot of slides and Mary kept it very entertaining. The hour flew by! This picture was taken before all the people arrived (it wasn't empty).
Some of the points that she discussed were:
Searching good information online. Most websites ending in .org or .edu are usually the best info. This is a really good site to check out. So much info here!
Sugar: On average, people should only take in 6-9 tablespoons of sugar a day. Most Americans take in 30 tablespoons a day. I know I take in more than 6-9 tablespoons. I love my sweets!
If you wait about 20 minutes, once you finish a meal, you can tell if you're really hungry still. Some people (I know I'm one of them), have dessert right after dinner, instead of waiting to see if they really need (aka: still hungry for it) it.
Iron: necessary for using energy. It's odd, if you don't have enough iron, you may be fatigued. But, if you have too much, you may be fatigued. I guess it's always a good hing not to self diagnose. You should see a doctor if you think you may have any iron deficiency. Most women only take in 24% of their daily iron. As for men, hey take 224% of their daily iron intake. Strange.
Up to 81% of high endurance athletes have GI problems. I'm, not by any means, an endurance athlete, but I do get GI problems when I go for long runs. Mary suggests that in taking very small amounts of water (or liquid) at a time, will help your GI when it's time to take in a larger amount (when you're thirsty). There have been many ideas going around saying that if you're thirsty, you're already dehydrated. Mary suggests just to drink when you're thirsty, because that's when you need it.
Post workout: Water is water. No need to hype it up with additional vitamins. The water that comes from your tap is just fine (or you can buy bottle if you prefer). After a long workout, you should take in some type of carb within 10 minutes and some protein (40g carbs & 10g protein) within 30 minutes after your high intensity workout. Chocolate milk if the perfect ratio. PB & bread or a smoothie is a good choice too.
When it comes to what to take in, it's all about what works for you. I know that I can't drink sports drinks while running and can only take in small amounts of water at a time. I announced on Twitter that I was eating a hard boiled egg before my long run time last week. Some people were shocked about that. I've never had a problem with eggs before a high intensity workout (knock on wood). Everyones stomachs are different. What works for me, may not work for you (and vice versa). Most of the time, as long as I have my compression shorts and socks and a glass of chocolate milk, I'm pretty good the next day.
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ARLINGTON -- The Rangers are still interested in Mariners pitcher Cliff Lee. They know they have the Minor League talent to make a trade but also realize that, given their ownership situation, the financial challenges will be tough to overcome.
So right now the Rangers are more concerned about getting their own pitchers healthy rather than getting excited about what other starting pitchers that might be available as the Trade Deadline approaches.
"We're very focused on improving the rotation internally right now," Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said Monday. "From a health standpoint we've got a couple of guys that we'd like to get back after the All-Star break. A lot depends on how both proceed this week."
Rich Harden, 3-3 with a 5.68 ERA in 13 starts, is on the disabled list with a strained lower back muscle and is scheduled to throw live batting practice tomorrow. He could be ready for a medical rehabilitation assignment at some point later this week or early next week. That could put him in a position to rejoin the rotation.
Derek Holland, 2-1 with a 4.19 ERA in five outings, is on the disabled list because of inflammation in his left shoulder but also has been dealing with a sprained right knee. He is in the long-toss stage of his throwing program but could be close to throwing live batting practice at some point this week. He too could be close to going out on a medical rehabilitation assignment next week.
Both could be options for the rotation after the All-Star break and before the Trade Deadline. Right now the Rangers are trying to get by with Omar Beltre as their fifth starter, but are also concerned about Scott Feldman, who is 5-8 with a 5.51 ERA.
"We're always keeping our finger on the pulse of the trade market," Daniels said. "But if we can get Derek and Rich back, that goes a long way to addressing that issue. I'd like to see Rich when he's healthy and right now he reports he's feeling good."
Holland's shoulder is not considered a problem. The knee has been what's holding him back lately.
"Right now the soreness is mostly out of his knee and he's throwing the ball well," Daniels said.
Lee and Houston's Roy Oswalt have been the most prominently mentioned candidates to be traded before the Deadline. Lee is still at the top of the Rangers' list. Others who could be moved before the Deadline include Ricky Nolasco of the Marlins, Kevin Millwood of the Orioles and Dan Haren of the D-backs. | <urn:uuid:2a814526-f660-42c9-96e6-719389314470> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://m.mlb.com/news/article/11963114 | 2017-05-27T01:02:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608726.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170527001952-20170527021952-00008.warc.gz | en | 0.977041 | 527 | [
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When you think about emergency water, most likely you think about acquisition, purification, and filtering processes. I know that I do. What is missing from this equation, though, is testing. Can we assume the water coming out of the kitchen faucet is safe to drink? And what about well water or home filtered water? Wouldn’t you like to know about the lead, bacteria, pesticide, iron, and copper content of your water?
These questions lead me to the topic for today: testing your drinking water using a home test kit.
Truth be told, I have had a kit from Test Assured sitting in my office for a couple of months but shame on me. I procrastinated using the kit because I assumed the testing process would be complicated and time-consuming. Guess what? Testing my tap water was easy and fun plus, at the end, I was confident my water was safe to drink.
My guess is that you, too, would also like to test your water, and to support that, Test Assured is sponsoring a giveaway for three of their complete water analysis test kits. The beauty of these kits is that they are all inclusive – all you need is a about a half cup of water, and you are good to go. Not only that, the kit can be used to test municipal water, well water, or water from a private water company owned by a community or co-op.
Follow along as I share some highlights of the testing process.
How to Use a Kit to Test Drinking Water
I started with a half cup of tap water in a Pyrex cup. This was enough water to perform all of the tests. Showing you a cup of water was kind of boring so here you see me pouring water into one of the included test containers. As I mentioned, everything you need to perform all of the tests is included in the kit. This includes the testing vessels.
For one of the tests, you use a pipette to transfer a couple of droppers full of water to the testing vessel.
The various tests come in tightly sealed foil packets so you might also want to have a scissors handy. Each packet is well marked with the type of test and can easily be cross referenced to the instruction card.
The instruction cards double as keys to the test results. The exception is the bacteria test which takes 48 hours to “cook”. Your water passes the bacteria test if it turns purple.
Yay! I passed!
All in all, I was extremely satisfied with the test kit and plan to keep a spare with my emergency supplies. Following a disaster, it seems prudent to re-test. Note that my kit included an expiration date of 11/2018 which is a shelf-life of 2+ years which is decent enough.
A few other points.
The tests are easy to administer and gives you results within 10 minutes for every test included, except bacteria which takes 48 hours for full results. The test kit includes all of the following water tests.
- Lead Test
- Bacteria Test
- Pesticide Test
- Nitrates & Nitrites
- Chlorine Level
- pH Levels Check
The tests are manufactured in the United States.
The Test Assured website has a detailed discussion of the various contaminants that are tested using this kit. When you go to the site, you will find the topic “Water Contaminants” on the menu bar. After clicking that, you will find a discussion of each, including health concerns and various ways to eliminate the contaminant from your water.
Test kits are available online via their website as well as Amazon.com.
This is the part you have been waiting for, right? There will be 3 winners, each receiving a complete water analysis kit just like the one I used.
To enter the giveaway, you need to utilize the Rafflecopter form below. Select one or more of the options after signing in using your email account or Facebook, the choice is yours. The best way to start is by clicking on “Free Entry for Everyone”. After that, each option you select represents an additional entry. There are a number of different options so pick and choose or select them all.
The deadline is 6:00 PM Pacific next Tuesday with the winner notified by email and announced on the Rafflecopter in the article. Please note that the winner must claim their prize within 48 hours or an alternate will be selected.
Note: Due to Customs requirements, this giveaway is only open to those with a mailing address in the United States.
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With all giveaways, winners are notified by email and have 48 hours to claim their prize or an alternate will be selected. Once selected, the names of winners are also displayed in the Rafflecopter on the original giveaway article. This usually happens on the Friday following the end of the giveaway.
This week I have been listening to the webinar talks that are part of Essential Oils Revolution2. They have been of extremely high quality and are free. One of the best parts of the series is they are non-brand specific which means the information can be applied to your favorite high-quality essential oil brand.
EO Revolution 2 runs through August 29th but if you missed out on the first week, no worries. Sunday, August 29th is “Encore Day” and you will have an opportunity to listen to a replay of any or all of the topics. You do, however, need to register.
Here is a link: 2016 EO Revolution 2
This week Spark Naturals is featuring special pricing on a bundle that includes the Health and Wellness Kit plus a bottle of Fractionated Coconut Oil. The price with my discount code BACKDOORSURVIVAL is $69.52. That works out to less than $7 per oil (including pricey Frankincense, normally $24.99) plus your carrier oil. The discount ends up at a whopping 33% plus shipping is free.
If you are not interested in the FCO, in honor of this interview with Valerie, the Health and Wellness Kit alone has also been discounted 25% when using my code.
My favorite talk was on day one. The title was “Debunking the Most Common (and Dangerous!) Myths” by Robert Pappas, PhD. If you only have time to listen to a single talk, let it be this one.
The Final Word
The water in my home flows through the tap via a small, locally owned water company. For years we would receive quarterly reports indicating our water fell below EPA standards for drinking water. Once a carbon filtering system was installed at the plant, the reports turned the corner and became positive.
Regardless of the reports and my own personal testing, I still filter all drinking and cooking water through my Royal Berkey. Having the Berkey is like having a backup plan. Still, not everyone can afford a Berkey or other filtering system for day to day use. II t simply makes sense to have the ability to test your water yourself, and now that I know how easy it is, I recommend doing so annually.
Enjoy your next adventure through common sense and thoughtful preparation!
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This at-home kit contains tests for Lead, Bacteria, Pesticide, Iron, Copper, Alkalinity, pH, Hardness, Chlorine, Nitrates and Nitrites. A cinch to use plus it is made in the USA and 100% guaranteed. Works with well water as well as water from your municipal of community water system.
Bargain Bin: Here are some additional water-related items that I own and can recommend.
Ultimate 55 Gallon Water Barrel Combo: As of this writing, this combo is less than $%100 which is a great deal. Everyone should have at least one. Remember, if storing in your garage or on pavers, place the filled barrel on a wooden platform and not directly on the concrete.
The Prepper’s Water Survival Guide: You can survive up to three weeks without food, but only three days without water. When catastrophe strikes, having enough water can spell the difference between life and death. This book offers a step-by-step plan with straightforward information you can easily follow. Written by my friend Daisy Luther, I recommended the book for everyone’s survival library!
No Rinse Cleansing & Deodorizing Bathing Wipes: One wipe is more than enough for a complete “bath”. These are a good backup when traditional showers are not available such as the week or weeks following a disaster. Also good for the sick room as well as camping, boating, hiking and such. Here is my review.
Fluidmaster 400CR Toilet Fill Valve and Flapper Repair Kit: Speaking of water, this is one of those items you don’t think of stockpiling but believe me, we now have a couple in reserve for emergency purposes. Why fuss with adjusting a tank valve when you can replace the whole thing for less than $12 and 10 minutes of your time?
AquaPod: Have you considered storing water in your bathtub? The AquaPod is a bladder that you can use in your bathtub to store water if you know that a storm, flood, or hurricane is brewing. (I call these “disruptive events”.)
LifeStraw Personal Water Filter: The LifeStraw is considered the most advanced, compact, ultra light personal water filter available. It contains no chemicals or iodinated resin, no batteries and no moving parts to break or wear out. It weighs only 2oz. making it perfect for the prepper. For more information, see my LifeStraw review.
Potable Aqua Water Treatment Tablets: Potable Aqua Water Purification Tablets make questionable water bacteriologically suitable to drink. Easy to use and the water is ready to drink in 30 minutes. One 50 tablet bottle treats 25 quarts of water.
DryTec Calcium Hypochlorite, 1-Pound: This is 68% Calcium Hypochlorite. As of this writing, the price is under $10 with free shipping. I purchased Ultima Pool Shock which is 73% Calcium Hypochlorite. For more information, read How to Use Pool Shock to Purify Water.
Black Berkey Primer Gizmo – Less than $20: Okay, that is my name for it. This device makes back-flushing a Black Berkey Filter a cinch. Following a disaster, when you are depending on your filters for clean water, you may not have running water. If you have a Berkey, you are going to want one of these inexpensive devices. For more information, see The Survival Buzz #160: Maintaining Black Berkey Filters.
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Justin had his first appointment today at noon with the pulmonology/scleroderma specialist. We liked him a lot. He had received all Justin's information...but he asked us to tell his story in our own words. As we were telling him...he stopped us so he could go to his office and get a picture of his family. He too has 3 little boys...under the age of 6...one of them has downs. He said..."wow, God definitely brought us together!"
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Um....YEAH HE DID!!
So he ordered a ton of tests and said he would talk to us after we went to the next appointments.
We went to the next appointment (same building just different floor) and two doctors met us there. One Rhematologist and one Scleroderma/Polymyositis/Overlap Syndrome Specialist.
After a few moments of questions...all 3 doctors stood over Justin spouting off medical stuff...for what seemed like forever. They pretty much spoke completely in acronym.
They are concerned with his nailfold capillaries and the way his skin looked.
His muscle weakness is very alarming.
They were all very happy with Dr. F in San Antonio. They were pleased with how aggressive he had been with his treatment. They were very concerned that these treatments had not helped.
They decided he needed to be admitted. They said nothing with his diagnosis was straightforward. They said he was "very complicated". They said they wanted this daddy to get better...but they needed more answers.
We spent a few hours doing tests. He got a CAT scan and Echo and more blood work.
So now we are here...admitted into the Cleveland Clinic Hospital. He has to share a room and bathroom. There is only a small space for me to sit...like a classroom chair. I do not think guests are encouraged to stay long :(
I can say that I am for sure the saddest I have ever been in my life. Is saddest a word?
Either way...I am. And I have dealt with some pretty sad stuff.
Today's Jesus Calling was pretty legit. I very much recommend that you get this book...and read it EVERY day. Go back to the day of June 18th...that is when miracles started happening at our house. Lots of miracles are happening all around us each moment....just the fact the we are here and able to be in the very best care. The most wonderful family that got us here and that is continuing to pray for us. Our kids are taken care of (although I already miss them so so much)...our friends are busy praying and planning...our God is so big. So crazy mighty.
It is great that Justin will have around the clock care...it is great that they are being very proactive in getting to the bottom of this...but I will not lie and say that this is what we hoped for.
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CornerStone Barbell is the newest elite fitness facility in south Wichita. Easily accessible from the turnpike, we are open Monday – Friday from 6am – 8pm and Saturdays from 9am – 12noon.
We have classes geared to meet all personal fitness goals with highly skilled and educated trainers leading every class.
Kids are welcome to come and play in the kid’s area, members can relax in the lounge.
Classes, open gym, and personal training all available.
Hours of Operation
- Monday – Friday: (6am 7am)-(10am 8pm)
- Saturday: 9am – 12noon
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Many business owners try to ignore social media in their practices and attempt to grow their businesses without it. If you are wondering if you should participate in social media, you should watch this video by the experts at Foster Web Marketing.
We often get asked by doctors and lawyers if they need to participate in social media. You are probably watching this video because you are contemplating the same question. Social media is critical to the growth of your business and to your success. In today’s society, social media is everything. When you ask people where they found information or received a referral, they will most likely tell you they went to Facebook or Twitter. Even Google is placing social search results at the top of the page in Google+ accounts. What does this tell us? It is important to be social because social searches matter.
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Welcome Biodroga Skin Care to Bella Reina Spa! It’s with amazing results and rigorous testing that our team of estheticians have approved this new skin care line.
Testing began in August, 2016 for the skin care line to become a mainstay at Bella Reina Spa. Assisted by Jennifer Bley, master trainer and lead esthetician in the USA, the Biodroga Grande and Glow started slowly to achieve “stardom status”.
Over the months of testing, clients experienced various versions while the team worked to get the “recipe” perfected. Two areas of focus included creating a facial sensory experience for clients and a facial that excelled with results. One of the main reasons for choosing Biodroga is their rigorous scientific testing of ingredients by outside testing facilities. Each product is tested for improvement in wrinkles, fine lines and pigmentation.
Background on Biodroga Skin Care
Biodroga was developed in the late 1950’s in Baden-Baden, Germany. Baden-Baden is a “spa” town on the edge of the Black Forest in northwestern Germany. It’s development marked the first time that skin conditions were addressed by specific products. Over the years, the line has been on the forefront of technology and ingredients. Working with European scientists and Nobel Peace Prize technology, the skin care line is famous for pushing the envelope on key ingredients and absorption into the skin.
The line is only available in a very select group of spas in the U.S.A.. Bella Reina Spa was approved as the second spa in Florida to offer the line.
The two BIODROGA Skin Care Facial Treatments are described as follows:
GRANDE: Consider this the double-up for all facial steps. Why do it once when doing it twice makes the skin even more plump and silky soft. Think more cleansing, more exfoliation, more masking, more treatment.
Bottom Line: Expect over the top plump, luminous skin.
GLOW: If you are opting for a Standard Spa Facial and your skin need a healthy glow, you might opt for the GLOW. Deeply hydrating, it leaves your skin youthful and totally refreshed.
Bottom Line: When you want to look your best, expect a healthy glow.
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People are often surprised to find out they may be eligible for funding through a third party payer, such as WCB or Veterans Affairs. Many extended benefits programs also contribute to the cost of hearing aids. See our Funding and Financing Section for more information.
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Two members of an international cartel that imported $1.5m of methamphetamine have had their appeals thrown out.
David Ikenna Obiaga was found guilty of importing and possessing meth for supply after a lengthy trial last year with several other offenders, and sentenced to 15 years 10 months jail.
Nancy Leefe was convicted on only the latter charge and imprisoned for 9 years.
On November 11, 2013, police were alerted to the group's activities when 69-year-old Trevor Miranda was stopped by Customs at Auckland Airport and found to be carrying the large consignment of P on return from Papua New Guinea.
He agreed to help police nab those behind the operation and was later acquitted of importing and possessing a class-A drug.
Following one botched handover of the luggage containing the valuable drug, on November 21 Mr Miranda finally passed on the bags, which landed in the hands of Obiaga via Leefe.
Obiaga's next task was to deliver the drugs to those further up the chain of command - to Hyacinth Damus Ochibulu, Ugochukwa Kingsley Okpara and Nnamdi Augustine Iwu.
The Crown pegged 36-year-old Iwu as the "prime mover" in the New Zealand branch of the cartel, with 27-year-old Okpara acting as his "right-hand man".
The plan was for Obiaga to conceal the bags under some bushes in the Air New Zealand cargo car park near the airport for the others to retrieve.
But three days later when they came to pick them up, there was nothing inside the bags because it had been removed hours earlier by police.
Obiaga appealed his conviction and sentence last month, claiming he had been let down by his lawyers.
But the Court of Appeal described the defendant as "not an easy client" and said his counsel had done all they could.
The judges even said he was "fortunate" to avoid a minimum-period of imprisonment.
Leefe appealed on a different basis.
During its deliberation, the jury asked to review a recorded interview. While it was being shown, the foreperson excused himself for ill-health and returned to the jury room where he was later found collapsed on the floor having suffered a "heart incident".
One of the jurors was a nurse and began CPR. She was soon joined by the police officer in charge of the case before the man was rushed to hospital.
"It was apparent that the efforts of the officer in charge and the nurse had probably saved the foreperson's life," the court said.
Defence lawyers at the time applied to have the trial aborted but, after interviewing jurors individually, Justice Susan Thomas opted to finish the trial.
The Court of Appeal found no reason to deviate from that decision and Leefe's appeal against conviction was denied.
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The story of UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre has been told and re-told by countless others, but the book about his life, written from his own perspective and bracketed by words from five people in his family and inner circle, portrays him in a completely different way. He’s a fighter who also happens to be a philosopher.
The Way Of The Fight, which was written during his rehabilitation from his major knee surgery in December 2011 that kept him out of action until his return almost a year later, is more about his way to conquer everyday fears that we all face and turn them into self-empowerment.
Fear is probably the dominant theme because he faced it early in his life. From the age of nine and continuing for three years until he was finally left alone, he regularly faced physical brutality from bullies. And yet he says the bullying actually helped him become a stronger person because he found a way to fight back – both literally and figuratively.
It is interesting that he talks about a time when he had a fight in school and won, breaking one of the arms of his opponent, which left him feeling ashamed because he thought others would look down upon him for what he had done. But it became just the opposite: he went from being an outcast to someone popular. He considered it b.s. and says the incident changed the way he viewed the world.
In his struggles to make sense of it all, he immersed himself in MMA training, which began when he started taking karate at age seven and escalated into other forms of combat. His focus became clearer: he wanted to become an MMA world champion and began a process to make it happen, notably late in his teenage years when he identified someone whom he felt could help him reach his goal.
Kristof Midoux, whom he refers to as his mentor/sensei, is portrayed as a larger than life figure in stature and importance. An MMA fighter who owned and operated a gym in Montreal, Midoux tested St-Pierre’s physical and mental endurance because he realized his potential to become a world champion, and his young protégé refused to back down from situations that may have forced others to quit.
What Midoux and others of importance to St-Pierre did is shape his mind as much as his body, in essence making him a multi-dimensional person. In fact, St-Pierre readily admits there are two sides to his personality: one that is not pleasant to be around as he nears a fight and assumes a darker side, and another which is fairly easygoing.
What is interesting about St-Pierre is how he views himself as a martial artist more than a mixed martial artist, even if he has multiple skill levels, because to him it is more about respect than sport. It is the reason he salutes each of his opponents before the fight begins.
“By stepping into the octagon, my adversary completes me,” he writes. “He makes my life possible. He becomes a part of my existence. To disrespect him is to disrespect myself. Thanks to him I become a better man. Thanks to his presence, I am a true martial artist.”
If you find that hard to believe, specifically in view of how Nick Diaz totally disrespected him, calling him a coward by using the knee injury to duck out of his fight at UFC 137, well, it’s worth noting Diaz is barely mentioned in the book. Perhaps that will come if he decides to add another chapter.
St-Pierre says trash talking is not a part of martial arts, hence he refrains from it, but he says he understands why fighters do it to psychologically help themselves and says some of it is amusing.
St-Pierre sees the world as a “knowledge hardware store” and every day he is just walking through the aisles, each of which has keys to open a different door.
Knowledge is power and this is what St-Pierre reinforces again and again like a jab.
He references the lessons he’s learned from some of his fights, notably the defeats. He lost the UFC welterweight belt in his first title defence, stopped by Matt Serra, who came into the fight as an 11-1 underdog. St-Pierre says he became emotionally unhinged by a shot to the back of the head and lost all his composure en route to the defeat by a technical knockout. He carried the loss with him for several months, which a friend told him was like carrying a brick every day that becomes increasingly heavier. His friend told him to get a brick, write Serra’s name on it and carry it with him from the time he awoke until he went to bed. He gradually was able to put Serra behind him because of trash talking by his next opponent, Josh Koscheck. When he was finally ready, St-Pierre drove to a bridge and threw the brick into the water where nobody would find it.
“And with it went the demon of Matt Serra,” he writes. “It felt really good. It was total deliverance. And it was immediate.”
He beat Koscheck, then beat Hughes and then Serra and is undefeated in his last 11 fights, defending his belt a record eight times.
There is a lot to learn from this book, and surely this is what St-Pierre has intended. He is a champion who has taken his life experiences and crafted them with some interesting thoughts. There are some humourous stories, but they get weighted down by the force of his many messages and analogies, such as the difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches. Dinosaurs, with which he‘s had a life-long interest, ruled the earth with their size but didn’t survive because they couldn’t adapt, while cockroaches are survival machines capable of living for a week with their heads cut off. St-Pierre’s purpose in making the analogy is to say it applies to fighting and probably any other sport because it’s not always the strong that survive – it takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. Some of those qualities are needed to work your way through this book.
He makes reference to Aristotle, Socrates, Martin Gray and Zen Buddhism and their influences on his life, while also touching upon the edicts and principles of martial arts gurus such as Bruce Lee and Miyamoto Musashi. St-Pierre’s world is a collage of themes that are complex. The angles from which he makes points about key themes pertaining to life are much like the angles he uses to deliver a punch, kick or takedown. There is a purpose to everything for St-Pierre because of his desire to keep moving forward in his goal to become a better fighter and a better human being.
But many of his ideas can be extrapolated to use as everyday learning tools.
“Progress, I’ve learned, comes from openness,” he writes at the end.
If you’re looking for a chronological blow-by-blow account of his career, this is not the book for you.
“My goal here is to write the greatest book ever written, including these words about fear,” he writes. “It doesn’t make any difference that this happens to be the first book I’ve ever written. What matters is the spirit in which it’s being being written – and, quite, simply, that it’s being written. The purpose is to become the best writer in my category (yes, page for page and pound for pound). I’m just not sure what the category is yet, and I’m not sure I should care.”
In its simplest form, this is another way for St-Pierre to build his brand, which he’s been able to do quite well with his entourage. He has been referred as the No. 1 attraction in the UFC and this helps to explain it, albeit from a subjective point of view. St-Pierre may be full of himself and his ideas, but it’s what he believes and it has worked well for him. You cannot argue with his success. | <urn:uuid:f52eb33f-f9d7-46b2-b9f1-6c789ab5c793> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.sportsnet.ca/mma/ufc/dinosaurs-and-cockroaches-in-the-words-of-gsp/ | 2017-05-29T11:26:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612283.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529111205-20170529131205-00136.warc.gz | en | 0.989547 | 1,698 | [
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We’re proud to introduce the WordPress Component Library: a collection of front-end components constructed with WordPress and accessibility at the forefront.
Many of the HTML and CSS components we build for our clients are structurally similar, particularly for prolific features like menus, search forms, posts, and blogrolls. A common starting point offers efficiencies to our clients while simultaneously raising the bar on polish and compliance with standards like accessibility. In evaluating existing libraries, we found that the industry was missing a good, open source project built with WordPress’s often opinionated markup (e.g. menus) and basic layout structure in mind.
Since accessibility is a top priority for many of our clients, and critical to our mission to make the web a better place, each component in the library is WCAG 2.0 accessible. We think that this project will help engineers and clients who value accessibility, but may struggle to budget for it, achieve a higher standard with little-to-no added cost.
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This BMW2000S coupé was parked in Queens Gate, London for about a year during the 1970s, bearing this unexplained plate. Next to it was an Austin Mini with similar plates, which I didn’t photograph, it seems! Once I saw the driver and he claimed that the cars were from Burundi – but I have never believed it…. What do YOU think?
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Is it possible to take photos with a phone in studio? Yes, it is. Almost no post-processing done to this one.
The biggest issue I found so far is how different photos display on Samsung compared to Mac or iPhone. Completely different saturation and brightness.
I will need to get used to that.
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Got clued in to this brilliant revelation by Steve Rubel on how most of us are still living in the Jurassic Age when it comes to staying constantly connected via a myriad of digital tools and networks. Yep, that’s right, according to the chart below (courtesy of Nortel), only 16% of us are truly hyperconnected and about 48% are either passively online or hardly at all.
This shows that despite what some of the pundits say, we are still living largely in an old-fashioned, traditional media oriented, physically based world.
One needs to still do some good ol’ “First Life” marketing over and above creating all those snazzy social media marketing strategies, hopping from platform to platform, podcast to podcast, network to network.
In the words of Steve Rubel himself:
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Hotel Au Bois Jolit Mont Tremblant, Located in the heart of the Laurentians, this welcoming log cabin is perfectly situated close to many outdoor attractions and is only a few minutes from the famous Mont-Tremblant. The area surrounding Au Bois Jolit is filled with endless recreational activities. Guests can enjoy top-rated ski trails, experience dog sledding, discover scenic hiking paths or fishing only minutes from the hotel. With help from the friendly and knowledgeable staff at the Au Bois, who can help arrange excursions, dinner reservations and more, along with cozy accommodations, every stay is sure to be memorable. (Hotel Au Bois Jolit Mont Tremblant hotels booking). | <urn:uuid:05b4e66b-1c4d-4fa1-8748-a838874d6b26> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.hoteldirect.com/place/hotel-au-bois-jolit-mont-tremblant/ | 2017-05-22T23:21:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607242.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170522230356-20170523010356-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.913698 | 161 | [
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The guide examines William Dalrymple's debut as a photographer with a soon-to-launch book
Two years ago, after the release of his book Return Of A King, William Dalrymple embarked on a journey to seek new stories. He travelled extensively in Iran, Afghanistan, Ladakh and Central Asia, writing articles as usual and while at it, capturing moments he came across with his Samsung Note.
Images from The Writer's Eye by William Dalrymple, published by HarperCollins India
These photos were not just part of the writer's note to jog his memory and extract nuances when he would settle down to write. It was the return of an artistic expression that had been subdued for decades with writing becoming his artistic outlet and career.
“I have taken photographs since I was first given a tiny Kodak for my seventh birthday, but when I was 15, I was left some money by a relative, and so, I spent it on a fabulous Contax 35mm SLR with a pin-sharp Carl Zeiss T* lens,” recalls Dalrymple over the phonelines from Delhi. This marked the beginning of his journey as a photographer, which he would later abandon. “For the next five years, I spent much of my time in the school dark room, emerging after hours, stinking of fixer, with water-logged hands, and developer splashed all over my clothes, but clutching a precious sheaf of 10x8 prints,” he reveals.
In fact, he was led into journalism while writing a review of a show of British photographer, Fay Godwin, for his student paper at Cambridge. Like Godwin, Dalrymple, too, has liking for the black and white medium. “I always preferred black and white, partly because it allowed me to develop and edit my prints; but mainly because black and white seemed like a much more daring and exciting world, full of artistic possibilities,” he says. And now, in a world bombarded with coloured photographs, black and white, he feels, “stands out from the mass of coloured chaos.” But curiously, he does use the instrument greatly responsible for this chaos as his tool — a cell phone.
Shoot at sight
“The best moments for a photograph emerge when you are least prepared. With a phone, you almost never miss a shot. To add to that, it gives you a sort of inconspicuous quality; you can sneak in and out without your subject becoming aware, like when you are carrying a bulky SLR. Increasingly, it is becoming an extension of the eye,” he says.
He points out that there are limitations of the device, like one cannot take more wide-angle shots with it. “But if the image is a success, no one can attribute it to fancy equipment,” he says.
In a note, he writes “...sometimes, with luck, a photograph can reveal a different side to a writer's character and vision to the one revealed in their texts.” Selections of the photos that have been shared also throw up surprises. One can instantly relate to Dalrymple and architecture — tombs and towers — but some of the photos, true to his words, show a different side of his persona — his interest in skies scattered with birds and dark clouds bulging down on a solitary dog.
“I spend a lot of time walking and trekking, and these images are from such long walks. I would be pleased if it surprises people who look at them,” he signs off.
Curated by writer and Sensorium Festival co-founder, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, The Writer’s Eye opens at Sunaparanta: Goa Centre for the Arts on March 18 in Goa, Vadehra Art Gallery on March 29 in Delhi and the Grosvenor Gallery in London in June | <urn:uuid:547f5d17-ca70-46c0-9323-aa13a0045319> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.mid-day.com/articles/in-black-and-white/17017186 | 2017-05-22T23:45:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607242.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170522230356-20170523010356-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.976144 | 816 | [
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Their cars ride low. But just like us, their love of cars is sky high.
Since 1977, Lowrider has been the largest supporter of the lowrider industry and its enthusiasts by promoting lowriding as a positive automotive lifestyle.
Today Lowrider continues to be the driving force behind the industry’s growth as well as the leading authority in the industry trends. The Lowrider Network’s dedication to the lowrider industry has earned itself the dominant position it holds among its industry and non-industry competitors.
Shell Lubricants and Quaker State are proud to work with the Lowrider Network to create a new series called “Roll Model” aimed at celebrating leaders within the lowrider community from all walks of life.
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Thanks for calling in .
Hope that your week is progressing well .
Just made a card this afternoon ..
I printed from Man About Town CD , Kraftyhands . Using SU card stock for base , Natural Ivory .
Two reasons for this ..
1, the inside of stepper card would not be stark white and more in keeping with vintage feel .
2, All images printed out flat not gloss which is again more vintage in style .
I really enjoy creating masculine cards
I like stepper cards too .
Have been going through my craft CDs to choose some card kits for next week . Love doing that but OH BOY does time fly .
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