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The City of Atlanta and Fulton County Recreation Authority (“The Authority”) ensures residents and visitors have the very best in sports and recreation facilities. Whether it is basketball games or concerts at Philips Arena, baseball games or the circus at Turner Field, exotic animals at Zoo Atlanta, golf at John A. White Park, or youth and family activities at the city and county parks, our venues have it all. |
By Gerald Hausman
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Once in a great while you find a book of such unusual merit, it sets you on edge to read it, and you wonder how it was done, how it happened.
I am speaking of Darden Smith’s The Habit of Noticing: Using Creativity to Make a Life (and a Living). It is a collection of wise and wonderful poetry, interviews with known and unknown artists, evanescent moments, transcendental seconds spent with trees, streets, matchbooks, small mites of wonder and massive buildings that look like the prow of a ship (the Flatiron building, for example).
This is a lovely hardbound book of insights that could change your life for the better. Darden Smith, the author, is a healer and a visual artist. His songwriting retreats for veterans helps them in ways that cannot be explained.
Darden Smith teaches by showing, singing, and using his life’s work as an example of how to train yourself to look outside yourself. He shows us how to see the world as it really is. His method of teaching in the book is both poetry, conversation, and imagery.
It’s a collection of common things that suddenly leap forth, breaking away from the mundane into the world of the supernatural. A cigarette pack, a woman walking in a Paris morning, a lane of trees disappearing into a horizon line of the imagination.
The power of the images in this finely designed and printed volume could surprise and please anyone with eyes. It is what I call a “lookbook”, something that begs to be seen again and again.
I also highly recommend the audio book. Smith’s voice, guitar and finely composed music will enchant as it entertains. But always, with the things that he does, it stays with you. It gets into your heart.
How rare it is that an artist is a songwriter, a singer, a sketch artist, a deep thinker, a spontaneous man with a genius for communicating on almost any level with other members of the human race. Maybe this is why Darden Smith is booked on stage in cities across the U.S. and in Europe.
Here is a sample of what you will find in The Habit of Noticing:
Joe Ely is the only person I know
Who ran off and joined an actual circus.
Talk to him about that time even now
And his eyes light up.
Few of us can go that far.
But look around.
Find your own circus.
That place,
That gang
That draws
You slowly, slowly out
Onto your own
Highwire.
The book is full of funny, thoughtful, surprising photographs, line drawings, and poems. As well as off-the-cuff interviews packed with wisdom. You will see dozens of photographs of people you have known, grown up with, admired, laughed at, laughed with, and enjoyed on so many different levels. You will see them as they really are. Just people. But – and here is the twist – each one has something to say about how creativity helped to fashion a life and a living.
I have never seen a book like this.
Neither have you.
(Darden Smith photo credit: Michael O'Brien)
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Gerald Hausman is the author of Not Since Mark Twain - Stories and a regular contributor to Stay Thirsty Magazine. |
I want to share why I’m grateful I got cancer. Let’s face it. These are not words you would ever expect to see in the same sentence. But here I am, about to tell you why I’m grateful I was diagnosed and went through cancer treatment.
When life gives you super-sour lemons, you have to do your best to add the right amount of sugar to make your lemonade sweet! This is how I choose to face the adversities I’m presented in life.
Focusing on what we can’t control during our hard times gets us nowhere. However, if we control our mindset and seek out all the things for which we can be grateful, we’ve overcome a big part of the battle.
This is why I want to talk about cancer’s shining light, and what it’s brought into my life.
I’m grateful for cancer is because it allowed me to reconnect with old friends who came out of the woodwork. While cancer “scared” a few people away, it was also the catalyst to bring back into my life special people with whom I hadn’t spoken in, what felt like, forever. This was MAJOR for me. One of the people who came out of the woodwork (Hi Christine!) was an essential part of my healing. She would sleep over on chemo nights, lounge with me on the couch, and braid my hair for the very last time before it fell out. Christine, of course, is not the only one who reappeared in my life, but she’s a very solid example of an old friend who showed up when I needed her. Because of this, and because of cancer, I am much closer to these heroes who I now consider lifelong friends.
I’m grateful for cancer because it made me new friends. I always use the term “the worst club with the best people.” Cancer has offered me the opportunity to befriend so many people in the same situation as me, especially other young adults. Some of my best friends today, I met because of cancer.
I’m grateful for cancer because I’m practically a doctor now. Not only do I understand lymphoma pretty well, but I’m quite the smarty-pants when it comes to other illnesses and symptoms thanks to all the time I spent at the doctor’s office. I was the patient who researched everything her doctor told her. I never just listened to what he said without understanding it. My doctor did an amazing job of really explaining everything to me. I have post-cancer long-term side effects that are different than just cancer. This experience has made me understand medical terms, and the way food and diet affect our health. I’m practically a doctor now!
I’m grateful for cancer because I’m able to help other people. I’ve always been the type of gal who wanted to make a difference in people’s lives. Before I was diagnosed with cancer, I participated in philanthropy events and would volunteer with organizations that help people with special needs. This felt so indirect, though. Once I was diagnosed, I was able to directly help people going through the same thing that I was, and I had a platform to do it with!
I’m grateful for cancer because it reminded me to stay humble. Not everyone you meet is dealing with cancer, but everyone you meet is surely fighting some battle — whether it’s a small battle to you or World War II to them. Having cancer taught me to remember that whoever I encounter may be struggling with something themselves. I’m now very cautious, and always think twice about the words and tone I use when engaging with people I don’t know.
I’m grateful for cancer because it challenged me to love myself. Before cancer I obviously thought I had flaws, and was not 100 percent happy with my appearance. Well, let me tell you… once your appearances are snatched away from you, you really learn how to love yourself in the most raw form, and appreciate all those flaws you hated before. I’ve learned to love myself at each and every stage of this process. I got to know myself on a deeper level than I ever would have, had I not been diagnosed. I met my insides (literally… there were a lot of PET scans and CT scans), I met parts of myself I didn’t know were there, and most importantly, I met ME.
I also got to see that my hair looks good at, almost, any length! So that’s a bonus.
I’m grateful for cancer because I found what my true mission in life is. Although being a special education teacher is extremely rewarding, I’ve learned — thanks to the nurse coordinator at my cancer center — that I need an auditorium, not a classroom. I am so grateful for the opportunity at a second chance of discovering who I am, and what my life plan entails. I want to use this experience to help and motivate others, the same way cancer did for me. My mission makes me so excited that I could cry.
I’m grateful for cancer because there will always be bad days, but there will always be good days. No doubt, some days are going to be rough, especially with cancer. And having cancer was a great reminder that our days are unpredictable. Having cancer reminded me that it will all pass — the good days too — so take advantage! Soak in your emotions and be grateful for your breath, or lack thereof (thank you, Bleomycin). Be grateful for the cherished moments you got to spend with your loved ones today. Be grateful your eyes are working well enough to read this article. Be grateful the sun is shining. Be grateful the rain is falling.
Be thankful.
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Hi my name is Julie i have t cell lymphoma…
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Monday Night Football Pick – Chiefs @ Packers
The Kansas City Chiefs (1-1) face off against the Green Bay Packers (2-0) at Lambeau Field this week. The NFL’s fifth-leading rusher, Jamaal Charles (182 yards, 1 TD) will be the focal point of this matchup. It will begin Monday, Sep 28 at 8:30 p.m. ET and can be seen on ESPN.
Green Bay beat Seattle 27-17 last week. Randall Cobb had a big game in the win, registering eight catches for 116 yards. Aaron Rodgers also had a big day, contributing 249 yards and two TDs through the air. Kansas City didn’t have the same success as Green Bay, getting beat by Denver 31-24. Jamaal Charles had an outstanding performance on the ground for the Chiefs, rushing for 125 yards and one TD on 21 carries.
The Packers, a six-point favorite, will be looking to keep home-field advantage when Kansas City visits. The Over/Under (O/U) for the matchup is 48 points.
Heading into Week 3 of league action, the Packers are unbeaten with a 2-0 record Straight Up (SU) and Against The Spread (ATS). Green Bay has a tight pass defense, allowing a completion percentage of 56.1%. One of the keys to the game will be if the Packers can take advantage of the turnover-prone Chiefs, who rank 26th in the league in turnovers with 2.5 per game. Green Bay finishes games strong, averaging a league-best 12.5 points in the fourth quarter.
Across the field, the Chiefs have 1-1 SU and ATS records this season. The Packers have struggled to stop their opponents’ running games. The Chiefs will look to find weaknesses in a run defense that ranks 31st in the NFL with 154 rushing yards allowed per game. Special teams is an area of weakness for the Packers, giving up 87.5 return yards per game.
Predictions: SU Winner – KC, ATS Winner – KC, O/U – Over
Notes
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Kansas City’s last 7 games on the road.
Kansas City is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing Green Bay.
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Kansas City’s last 5 games when playing Green Bay.
Green Bay is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home.
Green Bay is 1-6 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Kansas City.
Each team is 1-0 SU when leading at halftime this season.
When it comes to passing this season, Green Bay is rated higher on both sides of the ball. Its 21st-ranked passing attack will face the 23rd-ranked pass defense of Kansas City, while its 12th-ranked pass defense will look to limit the 25th-ranked passing game of the Chiefs.
Kansas City has allowed 25.5 points per game this year, which is ranked only 24th in the league. Green Bay has put up 29.0 points per contest this year and is ranked fifth overall. |
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Avoid Expensive Repairs By Hiring A Pro For The Following Bathroom Remodeling Projects
Remodeling your bathroom can be a great preventive measure when you haven't had any work done in a long time and are concerned about the chance of repair work being needed later. Instead of being worried about the condition of some of the features in your bathroom or tackling all the projects on your own, there are some things that should be left to a professional to make sure that the installation is done correctly.
To avoid expensive repairs later on and to make sure that remodeling is done correctly, hire a professional for the following projects in your bathroom.
Replacing the Toilet
Replacing the toilet with a newer model can allow you to save a lot more water at home as well as make sure that the toilet is working as efficiently as possible. This way, you can make sure that your bathroom is more affordable regarding the utilities. Dual flush toilets can be a much more effective way to use water in your bathroom since you can adjust how much water is being used with each flush.
Before going forward with removing and replacing your current toilet, hiring a professional can make sure that the work is done without any mistakes.
Installing New Flooring
While installing new flooring may be possible in other rooms of your home on your own, it may not be an option for the bathroom due to the presence of moisture. Since you don't want mildew and other damage to be a problem in the bathroom, you want to make sure that the installation of the bathroom floor is done by a professional. They can make sure that the grout and other details are installed correctly.
Adding New Lighting
One project that can drastically change the way your bathroom looks is new lighting installation. Due to the number of issues that can arise regarding the wiring for the electrical work in your bathroom, it's a job better left to an electrician so that you don't run into issues that could been prevented with professional help.
Working on remodeling your bathroom doesn't need to be expensive or a stressful endeavor when you know which projects can be handled alone and what you should hire a professional for. With the above projects in mind, you will have a much easier time figuring out what kind of remodeling you should have done that will make the biggest difference in your bathroom and help to avoid mistakes that can be pricey to repair after settling in.
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Crypto 2004, the 24th Annual Crypto Conference, was sponsored by the Int- national Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy and the Computer Science Department of the University of California at Santa Barbara. The program committee accepted 33 papers for presentation at the conf- ence. These were selected from a total of 211 submissions. Each paper received at least three independent reviews. The selection process included a Web-based discussion phase, and a one-day program committee meeting at New York U- versity. These proceedings include updated versions of the 33 accepted papers. The authors had a few weeks to revise them, aided by comments from the reviewers. However, the revisions were not subjected to any editorial review. Theconferenceprogramincludedtwoinvitedlectures.VictorShoup'sinvited talk was a survey on chosen ciphertext security in public-key encryption. Susan Landau's invited talk was entitled "Security, Liberty, and Electronic Commu- cations". Her extended abstract is included in these proceedings. We continued the tradition of a Rump Session, chaired by Stuart Haber. Those presentations (always short, often serious) are not included here.
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Now, as a manly man with all burps and hairy bits and that, I am obviously a fan of beer, which is relatively low in alcohol content and is primarily a thirst-quenching beverage for those of us who are allergic to water. I did once have a beer which contained 12% alcohol (called 'Deathshead' I think) and was seen as a right of passage at a certain beer festival nearby. Absolutely disgusting it was. I'm quite happy with the sub - 5.5% concoctions in general, although it has been bought to my attention that beer has something called 'calories' in it, which scientists suggest might be responsible for some weight gain in beer drinking chaps throughout the world. I have therefore been informed I must limit my beer intake or face the wrath of a female who doesn't want a big fat husband.
Bloody scientists - messing with things they shouldn't oughta.
Happily, I am also partial to whisky, as well as whiskey. Now I'm older I can afford some better quality stuff than the tea-coloured own-brand meths I was forced to consume in my earlier years, quality liquids such as glorious single malts or some nice imported Yank stuff. The problem with this is that it goes down far too easily, and before you know it you're bouncing off the walls as you try and climb the suddenly complicated stairs to bed.
Note how I've only mentioned the rufty-tufty, robustly male-orientated drinks so far? That's to demonstrate that I am, in fact, a rufty-tufty, robust male with a healthy interest in ladies and steak, possibly to be found, moustachioed and sitting in a pub with a full bottle of Gentleman Jack's, smoking a cigar so big that it has to be delivered by lumberjacks.
All of this is true, apart from the cigar bit, what with the smoking ban and everything. And the moustache.
So, it is something of a humbling experience to demonstrate my current favourite drink is this:
Oh yes.
A drink that would be accepted with a smile by ladies everywhere, except perhaps Saudi Arabia. You might notice that I was unable to resist sampling it even to take a photo of it unmolested. I was slurping away like a vulture with a rotting zebra kidney before thinking it might make a blog entry so you'll have to make do with this one.
Or might I suggest nipping off and making your own. Of course, if you're underage you might want to get an adult to make it for you.
I'm technically underage but who's arresting me?
I have yet to try a hot chocolate with alcohol in it, or an Irish coffee. I will try one when I next get the chance to go out.
My favorite drink is a margarita or anything else citrusy. I also like Jack and Coke, as well as just vodka mixes. I like only certain brands of beer. San Miguel's and Stella Artois mainly. I never get fat from food or beer, so I'm enjoying my youth so far.
Michael.
Not a big rum consumer, I have had Irish Coffee though, and to tell you the truth, it tastes horrible with out all the 'fixings' (tons of sugar and whipped cream) Coffee of course is fine black and bitter (another story) I am not sure if the brand of whiskey is all that important, Jamison seems to be in most of the recipes I may take a try at this new one hot chocolate and rum, thanks
I do not drink (anymore) except for the occasional gin and tonic. I am particular about the gin, it must be any gin that is on sale. I am also picky about the tonic, generic brand only. I find that with the proper amount of gin in the glass, the rest is soon unimportant. The reason I do not drink (anymore) is that a nosy doctor found some enzyme in my liver slightly elevated above normal. This led to questions about my drinking habits. It took visits to several doctors before I found an honest one in a bar who told me not to concern myself with the quacks.
Before I quit drinking, way back in my youth, I was partial to any beverage that had any alcohol whatsoever in it. But I exercised great restraint in only drinking on weekends or any other day I had off.
But I don't drink now (anymore) except for those occasional gin and tonics.
Since I'm not a beer drinker, I have nothing to offer on that subject. When I'm out celebrating with family (friends), I'll have a Glen Livet; which is by far, the best alcoholic drink I've tasted.
underOvr
~Thanks
Michael - quite good taste for one so young, although regarding the fat bit - give it time.
Neo - It's worh it, honest.
Douglas - that's a very Englishy tipple, the old G&T. Aren;t you an ex-naval chap though - not noted for their tee-totality!
UnderOvr - Can't argue with the Glen Livet!
Jenny - you're welcome. Hope things work out for you and welcome to the blog.
Knowing the calories and carbs in a few beers is great...but how about knowing the nutritional values of 2,000 worldwide beers, including Weight Watchers POINTS?
I ran across this over at Barnes & Noble
Is that your book?
Respect on the research!
Yes it is...
In the US, the recommended serving size for beer is 12 ounces, as reflected in the book. There are many more UK beers in the book plus imports that are common in your area. WW = Weight Watchers
Miller Genuine Draft
(UK) 12 oz 13.14 carbs 142 calories 04.70 abv WW POINTS 3
Smithwick’s (UK)
Bottle 12 oz 07.10 carbs 128 calories 04.50 abv 2 WW POINTS
Draught 12 oz 07.10 cabrs 128 calories 04.50 abv WW POINTS 2
LOL @ drunks are alcoholics who have more fun...
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I get tired of human beings putting human life above all else, without any thought to nature or even the ecosystems in which they belong. The only reason why Barbara's solution seems harsh is because of because of our narcissism - how we believe human life is so much more important than anything else.
We have done everything in our power to promote and preserve the existence of humans above all else. Human death rates matter more to us than those of whales. The ability to continue our own lives, at all costs, matters more to us than the destruction of countless species.
And the possibility of drug-addicted children being born and having a good life for some reason means we should make sure that these children are born?
Even in the wild a mother animal will leave a runt or deformed baby in the cold to die. Everything isn't always perfect, kind, or sunny. There is a dark side to life, there is pain and there is death. It's ridiculous of us to continue to pretend the darker things don't or shouldn't exist. And it's especially ridiculous to believe that giving drug addicted women the opportunity to avoid getting pregnant is in any way, shape, or form a crime.
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Yes, I'm sure the odds are not actually as positive as all the children Barbara Harris adopted, but that doesn't mean therefore her solution is best. It is surprising how everyone is saying the program is good just because most children will not reach the kind of success Destiny and her siblings did--way to just assume the world as it is is static and unchangeable. How about instead of putting $ into this project maybe funneling it into programs that contribute toward rehab programs for addicts, or programs that more generally work to alleviate poverty, which is so often correlated with drug-use? People who said "this isn't a race thing" may perhaps be right that it's not only about race, but it is absolutely about a disgusting classism that underlies Barbara's attempts to "help" all of these babies. It's pretty telling, I think, that Barbara Harris's first response to this one woman having so many babies was to want to pay to have her sterilized, not to want to pay to help her through a rehab program.
BM Blink from Boston had a rather off-hand comment that suggested this is a minor concern, when it's actually the central problem here: "If you want to be ultra PC, perhaps I would take sterilization off the table..." and later, "If there is concern about potentially singling-out drug-addicts' vulnerabilities, why not just extend the offer to all women?" Only it is not ultra PC to take sterilization off the table, and these changes are not mere afterthoughts. This would be a great program if, first, sterilization were at least de-emphasized and if, more importantly, the focus on just drug-addicted women was eliminated. Give all women access to free birth control (and sure, sterilization if that's what they want, but only if the program is for everyone). Then it would look just a lot like what the ACA has tried to do (only sadly still doesn't achieve for women who don't have access to health insurance). I am ALL for free birth control for all. Just not targeted birth control or sterilization for a select few women deemed to be "unfit" to procreate in our society. Honestly, what a disgusting attitude.
Point being: You don't have to be remotely pro-life to find Barbara Harris's program eugenicist and a poor cover for classist attitudes about those "unfit" to procreate.
I find it fascinating that I came to the comments to see if other people were as disturbed by the Barbara Harris segment as I was, and I soon found that they were--but for completely different reasons from the problems I had with it.
I actually liked at first that the show moved to critique Barbara Harris's program, but Jad and Robert went about that critique in ALL of the wrong ways. As everyone noted, those questions had a really a pro-life inflection to them, so even by the end I found myself disappointed that the show did not really follow up on the most important potential critique of Project Prevention. That is the critique we heard from Linda, who quoted Barbara Harris comparing these women to breeding dogs.
The problem with Barbara Harris's program isn't what the interviewers suggested, that babies that could have been born won't be born--it's that she has singled out a specific, often poverty-entrenched group of people to offer birth control or sterilization to. To say this doesn't reek of eugenics is simply wrong. These women, as someone noted above, are often in vulnerable positions--economically and socially, as well as quite possibly potential or past victims of sexual assault. To offer a "choice" of sterilization or birth control is not really to offer a choice at all, especially if, for instance, the $ Harris offers is a one-time fee that will either cover one permanent sterilization or only be enough for one 5-7 year IUD. Think about it, if you can only have $300 once, and your desire is not to have children and not to have to worry about them indefinitely (but you don't really know you want to be sterilized), this program effectively encourages the sterilization option. In other words, a choice is not exactly a choice when you are in an economic, social, and personal situation that essentially removes most options. Even worse, though, is the targeting of this specific group of women. Her attitude with this program reeks of classism; as Julie Anderson from UNC Chapel Hill said above, "How dare Barbara compare ANY human being to a dog. Reproductive rights should not be dictated by the perceived value of the birth mother." Indeed, how dare she, and who is she to determine whether other women should or should not be reproducing?
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I love your radio show, but this one concluded on a sour note for me. Your 'conclusion' or way of thinking at the end of this piece about Barbara Harris and Destiny was severely wrong-headed. It is not rational to base your opinion of the right or wrong of offering money for sterilization based on the contemplatoin of what if Destiny didn't exist. You cannot miss a person who never existed. Furthermore... as a person who fosters dogs, I can't imagine ever thinking along the lines of "we should not be spaying and neutering dogs, because think of all the wonderful dogs we've been privileged to foster and adopt to loving homes that wouldn't have been born. Get a grip. On the other hand, I DO have a problem with offering money as incentive to be sterilized. That does make it a class issue.
I liked this one. But most importantly... the segment on Barbara Harris and what she started.
I'm not for or against it. I think it's a great idea in that she's offering these women a way that they CHOOSE to take: Become sterilized to prevent the birth of unwanted children. They can't afford to get contraception with their addiction, they can't afford to care for the child or don't want them, and often times these children end up stuck in the foster system because they have developmental problems. Not every mother and/or father want to take a chance on a child who starts off crippled from the start. But at the same time... She's perpetuating a stereotype. These women who are responsible enough to take the money and the operations they could have eventually sobered up and actually wanted a child but now can't have one. Though there's the option of the temporary sterilization...
This is one of those issues where I say... I think more women would take contraception if it were made free. Heck, Clinics hand out condoms for free to men. Why isn't there free birth control?
But the biggest problem in all of these ideas? Humans. Some women just.. they don't care. Evne if you pay them to get sterilized, if you give them free options to avoid giving birth, they just do not care enough to take those options or look for them. They'd rather suffer childbirth every year than compromise every once in a while or once for money. And this isn't an issue that... well I don't think it can be fixed.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
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Does anyone know the name of the song between segments two and three? I have heard this piece before but different versions. What is the name of the original composition of this piece and what is the information on this “Radiolab” version of the composition.
I'm actually surprised that this show generated so many negative comments--I found every segment really thought-provoking and well-balanced. Keep up the good work, RadioLab.
I was frustrated by the piece about Barbara Harris. I felt that the story went beyond simply talking about whether or not drug addicted women should not have children to whether or not any woman should choose to stop having or not have any children. Am I myself denying the chance at life to dozens of children by using contraception, even though I am married and have a stable home life? I'm sure that these unborn children would turn out fine as well, or least 7 out of 8 of them probably would, which, as this show suggests, are pretty good odds. I think that in order for this story to have been complete, a study would have needed to be done on children who were born to drug addicted parents and, rather than being put up for adoption from the moment of their birth as all of these children were in this story, spent years living with their birth families or bouncing around in foster care while their birth parents were in and out of jail for drug offences. Then calculate the odds. Barbara Harris is not rounding up women and forcing them to stop having children. They are all choosing to accept her help. And they can choose non-permanent forms of contraception, so they are not being forcibly sterilized. There are other organizations that offer drug counseling and treatment, and Mrs. Harris' program offers prevention at the ground level.
i am a foster parent of three kids from a family of 7 sibs that have been in care. drama, trauma, pain... bouncing around, violence aggression.
check out the STATISTICS on what happens to kids who are taken, who become wards of the state. 2% graduate from college. teen parents, incarceration, homelessness, unemployment - the adult outcomes are not so rosy. your fantasy that destiny's family (6 of 7 in college) is representative of what happens in high poverty, drug involved, cps involve families is absurd.
if $250 can prevent the birth of a child who has a high chance of ending up in the system, its a bargain for mom and the baby. the women who take the money are not being forced to use birth control, they have human agency to have a baby or to use birth control. the women who use birth control can have a baby later, once they have gotten stable. you should offer the money to the daddies as well, cause it takes two to procreate.
i love my kids, i hope they all get it together, we are working to make that happen, but let me assure you, this has been a tough road to walk for all of us, and my kids are lucky to end up with a person like me. Many kids in foster care struggle. foster parenting is not easy peazy. check out the numbers, my dear radio lab friends. foster care is great evidence for the importance of both nurture. kids need stable, loving families to thrive in adulthood.
The segment on Barbara Harris was well done and nuanced. Certainly, there are morally ambiguous aspects to Barbara's campaign for listeners wherever they fall on the spectrum of the Life debate. But If there's a slippery slope to Barbara's arguments, to keep with the metaphor, why not think about the moral plunge and rocks below as as full access to abortion at any trimester. It makes the debate over a private citizen or organization paying drug-addicted women to use birth control or even become sterilized seem incredibly trite.
Let's get back to science-themed shows and stop poking around in moral territory where your compass is wildly spinning.
Hi, does anybody know where can I find transcript for this?
First of all, I loved the story about Barbara Harris, but I think you may have missed a opportunity to question if she was taking a choice away from women or giving them a choice. In a population, where women are extremely vulnerable to sexual assault and prostitution the option to have sustained birth control might be a dream come true. Working on mother baby units, it is very easy to see that it is not only the babies that are scared by drug addiction and separation, but also the mothers. They will carry those wounds and guilt with them for the rest of their lives. This could be the very reason you could not find anyone who regretted their decision.
I haven't been able to listen to Radiolab in a while, so I am just now catching up. When did you guys become so overly sensitive and spineless? I can't imagine how Barbara's project could be interpreted negatively. She is not forcibly sterilizing women. She is paying women in terrible situations to voluntarily choose to be responsible. How dare she ask addicts to stop producing crack babies? Are you kidding? Luckily there are great people willing to take care of these kids, but that doesn't mean these women ought to keep up the supply of abused and abandoned children.
After the Project Prevention segment, I wondered whether any women were involved with this story in its several stages: men reporting and editing a story about women's access to contraceptives.
Did none of the male staff remember last year's awful debates about the mandated coverage of contraceptives in connection with the Affordable Care Act and the accusation of Planned Parenthood's misuse of federal funding? (Perhaps the sound proofing of your studios shut out these debates...) As regards the question of whether access to contraceptives is the first step towards the full implementation of eugenics, how about a bit more awareness of recent US history? This issue is of course discussed in scholarship on Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. But see also the reaction of African American activists to the Roe v Wade decision, when some in the black community pointed out that after the legalization of abortion federal social services tried to talk poor black women into abortions as a matter of social policy (in terms of an artistic response, see the 1970s movie "Bush Mama").
After 18 years sobriety I have seen many more failures than the success in todays story. Addiction is genetic and often is accompanied by mental illness of some degree, functional or not. The young womans " ooops" child is a predictable result of her addictive pre disposition to questionable behaviour. Ive watched them come in the rooms and go out- many of these people wreak havoc in sobriety. Statisticaly most addicts die drunk, you have the ocassionable success story. Addiction is passed on geneticaly and your show saw only afew positive examples- the majority are not positive. Im not Dr Goerblles(sp) but if payment worked, keep it up- Ill send her some money
When i was a young man playing fur elise i felt in my heart that the speed i was given was very very slow. The story and the tempo i was taught never fit.
on one side there was a deep reflection on what he felt in that moment.. but on the other side.. i felt like he actually tried to capture the fury and rapid retreat of that moment.
Just heard the Barbara Harris segment today (3/3). I was disappointed that the hosts accept the emotionally-charged view that Harris's $200 grants are in any way similar to eugenics, and accept the comparison of her to Hitler. There is nothing compulsory about Barbara's promotion of birth control; nobody is forcing the women to pay any attention to her. Having children is not always the right choice for everybody at every time. The fact that her feedback is entirely positive and grateful shows that the women who do choose to accept her help are glad it was available, and I think they should be respected. Comparing Harris to Hitler because she supports birth control is inaccurate, illogical, and inappropriate; a "scientific" show like yours should have pointed this out rather than accepting that point of view.
I have been trying to like Radiolab for a long time, but in too many cases I find that sound effects and heavy production take the place of solid information and reflection. Please stop and take a look at what you're doing.
I love this series. However, you didn't prove that licking was a changed behavior. It could simply be that some rats had a gene and the others did not. The only way to convincingly show that the environment affected the young is to take an infant from the rats known not to be lickers and put it in the nest with 'lickers' and see if it picks up the behavior.
Thanks for all your work
I liked this episode so much that I listened to it the second time as a podcast since I was distracted during the broadcast. As usual, excellent work by Radio Lab team who delivered turned an otherwise boring content into a thought provoking insightful discussion. In one hour, you delivered what otherwise would be three or four thick and hard to read books.
Destiny's story is a bright spot but such outcomes are exceptions, i.e. outliers statisitcally speaking. How many of us want us, our kids and our grandkids to pay for the social, medical, and criminal costs of the unwanted births.
Barbara Harris deserves a noble peac prize as her initiative is saving so many from a miserable quality of life and also saving our kids from bearing their burdon in an already overcrowded world. Let's take this iniative to India, China, and other developing countries where population has over-run the natural resources.
The people who are against the work of Barbara Harris should all adopt or foster harmed/neglected children. Their theories will fly out the window when they are confronted with the cold hard truth of pre-natal and neonatal chemical and emotional harms. The impact of rotten brain wiring of neglected and drug addicted babies is long lasting and intergenerational. Barbara Harris knows what she is talking about because of her courageous personal efforts. Everyone else is opining.
Love the content of this show - today listening to evolution discussion and it's fascinating. However, I find it highly irritating that the voice shifts from one person to another constantly. Do we not have enough focus to allow a single person to say a whole sentence at a time? Maybe it would be better for me to read a transcript.
(Long time listener, first time caller...)
I left the show unsettled by the coverage of Project Prevention. Obviously people are very passionate about this extremely complex issue ....
but it seemed like Jad and Robert were so terrified of being labeled "anti-life" or racist, they went way overboard on the "slippery slopping into Hitlerville" anxiety and emotional handwringing.
It's not about a "class of people" not be allowed to procreate. Class implies economic bracket and its not about poverty. No one is rounding up people under certain annual incomes and marching them into sterilization camps. It's not about race. As, the hosts pointed out, more caucasians have used the program. It's about offering people another option.
To those who say its not fair because their judgement is impaired by drugs, this is the same judgement they would be using to raise the children. It's the same judgement they used to conceive unwanted children again and again. If you respect their judgement to do both those things, why not do this?
Why do women have the "right" to keep dropping off injured infants at the hospital every year, without facing criminal abuse charges? Personally, I think after the 1st time they should be given IUD until they complete rehab program. BUT Project Prevention isn't advocating that. They are just offering the option, for which many of the women have expressed gratitude.
It's fine to discuss this topic, but Radiolab, lay off the preaching. I feel like I just listened to Pat Robertson.
No one thinks your racists. It's ok. It's ok dudes.
Its ironic that the same program that argues the pervasive influence of genetics and how its remains the leaning indicator of future circumstances, get all sentimental and judgmental when the story shifts to a woman who is doing the best she can (that we as a society can do) to prevent children from being victims of genetic doom. Referencing Hitler in the process, a cheap shot! It’s our romanticism that will ultimately lead to our extinction as a species.
I must add my voice to the chorus of discontent with the Barbara Harris piece.
The one thing I could not get over, listening to four New Yorkers agonize over the "ethical dilemma" of Barbara's charity is this:
You think that Barbara isn't showing women with drug problems enough respect as human beings because she is offering them $200 and birth control? What is it that makes our reporters and our counter-point so very uncomfortable with this situation? Is it that women with drug problems are being empowered (yes, with money) to make this choice for themselves? Sounds to me that despite all this self-proclaimed agony over respecting drug addicts as human beings, all four voices of discomfort really just think that drug-addicted women are not capable of making good choices about their own bodies and their own families. It comes off as extremely insulting and hypocritical.
Despite the clear biased reporting, dear Barbara Harris shines through as being pragmatically helpful and the most compassionate, respectful person in the story -- for both babies AND women in tough situations. I plan to donate to her cause.
As a pediatrican at a community health center, I was disgusted by poorly done story about Barbara and her foster children. Like many others this is my first time commenting. I admonish Jad and Robert to keep a scientific perspective and to not simplify a truly complex issue. It would have been better for this story not to have run. I would like them to retract the story or at least to a follow up to amend it.
I agree with other listeners that Jad and Robert came off as anti-birth control during the piece on Barbara Harris. If Jad and Robert are anti-birth control, I think they should have stated that during this piece. In addition, do Jad and Robert use birth control? (From the number of children they have, I would guess so.) If so, are they having existential crises about the children they didn't have? That would have been an interesting question for this show, seeing the questions they asked Destiny.
You would love to learn about the study of epigenetics. It is a relatively new science (maybe under 20 years), but addresses everything you were talking about in this show.
Love the show!!!
So upset with the handling of the Barbara Harris interview. I was having my doubts on Radiolab after the Yellow Rain episode, and now I'm really doubting the quality of this show and the integrity of its producers/interviewers. This show has so much potential, yet poor interview questions and biased reporting is really bringing it down. Maybe time for new hosts/young blood?
On the toads, rats, etc. A few years ago there was an in-depth program regarding human development from conception through old age. Do not remember the name of the program or what channel. However there was evidence that, besides the touch and breastfeeding exchanges that boost bonding and help determine whether a child thrives, there is an unseen biological exchange occurring. When a mother holds her infant there is an exchange of molecules that not only provides immunity cells but also helps both mother and infant "know" one another. Like a honing device. It is worth looking into. I just half-heartedly gave it a try, but I could not locate the study or the television program. It would be very interesting to somehow develop a study that took advantage of the data from both the rat study and the bonding study.
I'm surprised to see so many negative comments here about the story on Barbara Harris. What bothers me is that so many people who have commented have suggested that Robert, Jad, and/or the producer of the story took "a side." I'll have to go back and listen to the segment again, but I didn't feel that way. I get the feeling that many of those leaving comments are overreaching after hearing some viewpoints that differ, even implicitly, from their own.
I'll admit that I think that that "six out of seven" bit should have been "balanced" by some more discussion of the typical lives of children born into addiction, but still...
Anyway, I actually jumped on here to comment about an erroneous date that was given in the story on (non) Lamarckian evolution. At 11:24, the interviewee says that Paul Kammerer went to England and promoted his work in 1923. Problem is, the same story says that this happened before World War I. I don't know how the actual timing worked out, but this really confused me!
Also, according to at least one story I found (), "Eventually, a naturally occurring specimen with nuptial pads was found, demonstrating that midwife toads do have the potential to develop them."
Lastly, just because Jad and Robert don't mention every single aspect of a scientific study, it doesn't mean that the scientist(s) who did the study didn't have a control group, etc. Radiolab does quite a good job avoiding "junk science," and we should give them at least a little slack..
I am a huge fan of Radiolab and commenting here for the first time.
I was quite shocked by the producer's thoughts at the end of the piece on Barbara Harris: he asks whether it is better to be born in bad condition rather than not born at all. This simply is one the main arguments of pro-life lobbies against abortion and even against contraception. You can't ask this kind of question unless you think that women have no right to choose whether they want (and are in the conditions they judge to be right) to have a child.
(Sorry if redundant, I haven't had time to read all comments.)
Your work is amazing, so cleverly constructed, the perfect platform for critical thinking.
By the way, way to stimulate some excellent discussion! Mission accomplished, I say!
Dear Jad -- please stop using the phrase "evolved for." It's insultingly teleological ;--)
Best,
Pete
It seems like a positive feedback mechanism between people who want a lot of children and people who want 1 or none is coming if not in this generation, then in the next. So far as people who's lifestyles are not socially acceptable being paid to not procreate so much, it just seems to be common sense to encourage this. Technology even exists now so that if a person were to get their life into a better more socially acceptable relationship then they could still have a child by saving their eggs or sperm. We need to develop a broad workable definitions to lifestyle. The problem is the social judgements people make about different lifestyles and their goodness or badness. It's something we all need to talk about more.
As much as I've enjoyed Radiolab in the past, this was the first episode that prompted me to sign up here and leave a comment. I was shocked that the heart-wrenching story about Barbara Harris's work was turned into a ridiculous attempt at "balance" by essentially aligning birth control with abortion. Under this logic, the world would be a much better place if I'd started having kids as soon as I was able. As a 32-year old female, I'd have been able to have birthed possibly more than 15 kids out into the world by now, considering what must be the overwhelming abundance of saintly adoptive parents out there to embrace them. My grandmother had her last child at 45, and if I stopped there that's at least another 10 babies that my body could potentially put out there. From the perspective of this show, approximately 7/8ths of these would achieve the college experience to some degree, assuming that all of them wound up with parents like Destiny did, which seems incredibly unlikely. I imagine that the increased exposure will do more good than harm to Ms. Harris's cause, but to purposefully play the provocateur with such misplaced pseudo-reasoning is doing your listeners and those Ms. Harris can help all a serious disservice.
Additionally, as someone who counsels mothers and mothers-to-be about nutrition, I think the show would have benefited greatly from skipping over a lot of the fluff that amounted to nothing regarding epigenetics. The incredible truth is that the genes you can turn off and on, thanks greatly to nutrition, will massively influence how your child is constructed. After one generation of consuming processed food, human bone structure almost literally caves in. Why not focus on how the study of epigenetics over the last decade has helped us realize that we actually CAN do so much, in merely one generation, for how our kids develop (or don't), and potentially influence your large audience in such a way as to vastly improve their quality of life?
you guys need to up your game. the gap between hour long shows is way too long.
Like so many others, I decided to comment for the first time, based on my reaction to the Barbara Harris story. Because so many others have already described why Barbara's work is valuable to the community, I'll skip that part. (I WILL quickly say that I promptly made a donation to her organization, Project Prevention, and you should too, if you feel like me!) The reason I feel disgruntled by Radiolab's coverage of this story is because it was wildly remiss of facts. The guys obviously do a lot of research for each story. They couldn't throw in a single national fact about the outcome of crack babies? How many become involved with crime in later years? How many don't make it to the foster care system and end up in the poverty cycle with their mother? Radiolab took a case study of one drug-addicted mother's children, in one foster care system, in one city, and that was supposed to be enough information for the listener. My thought is that the real facts would have shown why Barbara's work is invaluable. It just seemed like shoddy reporting, and it changed my opinion on the quality of this program. It felt like expressing personal bias was more important to Radiolab than conveying facts.
I found the comments on the "Barbara" episode to be much more interesting than the episode itself. Planned Parenthood offers waivers to men to get vasectomies... maybe Radiolab can air an episode accusing Planned Parenthood of eugenics and comparing them to Hitler for this. "Hitler thought Jews had given up their rights to be parents," must be about the most sickening line I've heard in awhile. A small difference here: Hitler killed six million people in an ethnic cleansing campaign; Barbara paid 4000 women with severe and chronic drug issues to voluntarily get an IUD or tubal ligation to prevent their having kids they couldn't deal with. I know the subtleties of such differences are beyond the grasp of most so-called pro-lifers, but I would hope people supposedly devoted to science and reason might think twice before uncritically airing such drivel.
Kat
Don't get me wrong, I'm not doubting epigenetics and the relevance to inheritance. I've studied a little bit of biology in my day. In fact I think the genome is still light years more complicated than people are giving it credit for. My guess is we've just scratched the surface. I was just pontificating on whether the explanation of a starvation bottleneck could explain future generation sturdiness from a Darwinian standpoint.
I enjoyed the episode until the "Every Sperm is Sacred" ending.
@jmcastelli and ktarter Check out epigenetics:
Great show, guys, as always.
New to the comments, but I see ktartar echoing my thoughts about the genetics. I was wondering what evidence there is that this was imprinting and not just that the toughest, most genetically robust males didn't die during famine and therefore reproduced, Darwinian style. There would be ways to study this I think (like is the same true for girls who survived the famine and their offspring? If not, it's better evidence for the imprinting because eggs are present from birth) but I would have liked this obvious counter argument addressed in the show. That said, once again, great show.
Almost every time I look up one of your episodes I see people asking about the music. Would you consider by default, posting the music that is played with your pieces? This also seems only fair to the artist who get sampled! What is the last bit of music that plays for this episode? Sounds likes xylophone. Is there a place where music credits are posted and I'm just missing it? Thanks!
Interesting show, as always. I actually created a profile just to leave my first-ever comment.
Jad and Robert - where is the usual skepticism? Genes and DNA mutating by environmental variables. Really? Sounds to me more like survival of the fittest sperm cells in starving 9-12 years boys rather than dna transformation.
As for the licking rats, I will hold my ground that is a learned behavior. More data is needed to convince me that this is a genetic transformation. How about this: take the generation of pups who were licked and prevent them from licking their offspring. Then observe the behavior of the third generation.
C'mon guys, you can do better. Still, an interesting show and I remain a fan.
I think it is very unfortunate that Barbara's family's story was the only one profiled. I have a lot of personal experience with the foster system, the mental health system, and the effects on families due to drug abuse. Most of these abandoned children grow up unloved and unwanted, with long-term psychological damage even if they are able to otherwise be productive members of society. I think the worst part of this story was how college was used as a measure of health, happiness, and development. Many absolutely miserable people go to college, just as many happy and healthy people do not. Destiny seems like a very exceptional young woman who should feel very proud of her accomplishments, and she should not be used as an example of the norm, by any means.
I think one important missing element was more information on the drug addicts who have sought Barbara's help. Many people who are dependant on drugs are that way because of low feelings of self worth and depression. Imagine how much worse that must be when you feel like you have no control over your own reproduction, whether that is due to inability to keep medical appointments, unavailable cash, the difficult laws of your state, or what-have-you. I think it's very unfortunate that the show didn't go to the effort to look more into the reasons why Barbara's clients might be signing up for her services, and if they found it "difficult to believe" that there have been no regretful clients, why didn't they try harder to find some?
I am another avid fan who is driven to post for the first time. I'm midway through the last segment, so maybe I'll be upset about that later.
Second segment: My concern is the obvious error, noted elsewhere, that the 9-12-year old boys who survived would be stronger than average (starved grandpas), so comparing them with a cohort where all survived (stuffed grandpas) is plain wrong. The problem is that this error kind of destroys the whole segment. If it was just a little side thing, who cares, but it was your main point, and why it was supposedly creepy or disturbing.
Jad and Robert, did you not realize this, or was it for story effect? Usually you guys play a little fast and loose with science for the story effect, which is 100% OK with me, but this is a bit much.
Overall I love the show and would not post this if I didn't.
What If There Was No Destiny?."
Guys, great show overall, but the segment on Sweden was far too uncritical. Survivorship bias and multiple testing could easily explain this result. If harsh years meant that some children died, then the ones who survived would on average have better genes. You would see the children then do better, but it wasn't because anything changed in the genes, it was because the weakest were removed from the population.
More importantly, any time a scattershot study turns up in a small subgroup of the population (e.g. boys 9-12 years old) you need to be cautious of multiple testing. Did they test the effect when boys were 6-9 years old? 12-15 years old? What about girls? When you perform multiple tests, it is a lot hard to interpret what you've found. Here's a comic example:
As an economist who works on household survey data, it is next to impossible that you could accurately identify a true effect of the size discussed on your podcast with a population of 99 individuals (which is the sample in the Swedish study). Great story, but the science holds no water.
@Mari O. from CT
"Wondering why Barbara's project only offers money to drug addicted women not to have children but doesn't offer it to drug addicted men also?" -- presumably because men don't have babies.
I'd recommend that Jad, Robert, and producer Pat Walters check out the excellent website Logical Fallacies, yourlogicalfallacyis.com, so that they can learn about the problems inherent in making judgments based on a sample size of one.
I couldn't put my finger on what bothered me about the segment with Barbara and children of drug addicted women. Another commenter here identified it: the negative reaction to what she's doing has shades of pro-life thinking. In fact, the narrator, interviewer said things that sounded eerily like those who try to talk women out of having abortions.
The problem with that kind of thinking is those same folks are rarely around to help these desperate women raise their children into normal,healthy, functioning adults. They apparently think it's some kind of miracle that will happen on its own.
Meanwhile, the Barbaras of the world walk the walk. They see the whole thing for exactly what it is. They know the odds and the statistics of what happens to most children born into that situation.
And for the record, drug mom or not, the foster care system itself is rife with abuse. These children are one of the most vulnerable groups in society and sadly there are predators out there who use the system to get to these kids. I have cousins who grew up in foster care. It's a crapshoot, believe me.
In my mind having a child while on/or addicted to drugs is child abuse! If these women were beating the head of their child with a pillow instead (awful gut wrenching youtube video), there would be public outrage and groups would sweep in and take those children, no complaints. I can't figure out if people are most upset at the idea of sterilization, which non addicted adults have done all the time; or the fact that these people are being given money as an incentive?
There was an implication that if you gave a drug addict money she'd run out and use it on drugs, well if that's the type of cycle she's in then it just seems more reasonable that she should not be able to get pregnant "by accident." No one is forcing them and they have a choice on what type of birth control they would be utilizing, is it really feasible that a drug addict remembers to take her pills if they don't get her high? Not unless you can make them addictive.
I was puzzled by the sweeping generalization that completed this episode. Going to college does not equal turning out ok. I mentor two foster youth, both of whom have been in college, and neither are ok. Getting access to higher education does not in any way make up for the pain these people have endured because of the poor decisions of their 'parents'. One of my kids comes from a mother who has had 14 children, all of them now in the foster care system. She was born with STD's and crack cocaine in her system. She has suffered her entire life with reactive detachment disorder, abusive foster care situations, and a complete lack of soft skills (things like knowing how to talk with others, read body language, be professional, etc). So yes, she may in fact be a college graduate, but that has almost nothing to do with her state of well being in this world.
I'm so in agreement with the folks here who are pointing out the complete difference between eugenics and what the woman paying women to use birth control has done for these would-be-mothers who are also addicts. Women use birth control every day. To have such a heart-wrenching approach to this story is so odd to me. This woman is not providing abortions. That would be different. I am so glad others are on the same page about this. I felt the report was poorly handled in that there was all this talk of destined people who will never be. Perhaps they weren't destined to be. Perhaps there is no destiny. We can simply not be sad for every egg a woman produces that doesn't become fertilized. There are so many babies to love already. To be saddened that someone who is not taking care of themselves has not brought into the world a life that they will likely also not take care of is illogical.
I am so disappointed that the segment on birth control/sterilization for drug abusing mothers concluded with the concept that the example of Destiny is somehow proof that children do not suffer greatly from drug abuse while in the womb. This is not eugenics or racism. It is a simple if inelegant way of reducing a severe form of child abuse. I would much rather err on the side of innocent children.
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This is directed to Jad: I have been catching up on old episodes of the show. There was a show about Morality, I think,in which you said that you would kill your child for the greater good. (ex. MASH episode where woman kills her baby to save everyone from the enemy) I am wondering, now that you have children, what is your answer?
First, this is not in any way, shape or form eugenics. Women do not have to choose sterilization to participate in the program - they can get an IUD. Later, if they stop using drugs or even if they don't, they can have it removed and have a child.
Second, there is an assumption that the women are having the procedures only to get the money. That assumption is an insult. Presumably Barbara is also paying for the procedure - is there any other way for these women to obtain long-term, reliable birth control for free? Rather than assuming that these women are giving up their reproductive rights because they are so addled that they don't care about anything more than getting the $200 and getting high, isn't it also possible that they are making this choice in a moment of clarity? That the program allows them to make a choice that they would make if they could afford it, so that they would not to have to worry about pregnancy in terrible circumstance that is likely to harm their child?
Finally, it is terrific that seven of the eight known children in this story turned out so well; I would argue however, that the fact that their mom gave them all up immediately put them in a better position than most children born this way. Would Destinee be the wonderful person she is today if her birth mom had tried to keep her?
Project Prevention is disgusting; eugenics is alive and well in the United States. How dare Barbara compare ANY human being to a dog. Reproductive rights should not be dictated by the perceived value of the birth mother. Further, providing money to drug-addicted individuals, regardless of their reproductive potential, is never a solution.
Additionally, this segment demonstrates that children whose parents abuse drugs during pregnancy can grow up to be high-functioning and successful. Destiny proves that comprehensive healthcare treatment after birth and a loving and supportive family environment play vital roles in the development of these children. Her adoptive mother attempts to prevent these children like Destiny from being born in the first place.
Finally, I would like to know how Barbara can judge the decisions of these potential mothers who are addicted to drugs, and pressure these individuals to take birth control, when her own daughter has an "oops baby?" Maybe you should preach the values of safe sex and postponing parenthood with your own children, not with the members of society that you view as inferior.
Great podcast! Wondering why Barbara's project only offers money to drug addicted women not to have children but doesn't offer it to drug addicted men also?
The song at the 40 min mark is 'Primo' by Takagi Masakatsu.
Looks like I'm another in the chorus of lovers of RadioLab who were equally fascinated and saddened by this episode. As usual, the topics were thought provoking, but the science was sketchy. And the last episode was better suited for This American Life than RadioLab.
I've never heard of Barbara's project, but I back her position 100%. I never understand the fascination with hypothetical lives--sure every chance meeting of sperm and egg could hold the salvation of humankind--or it's destruction; but is this the argument you were going for? The 7/8 conclusion based on the good fortune and genes that Destiny and her siblings had to overcame a drug-riddled beginning of life--was just bizzare. If you want to sell people that drug addicted babies born to addicted mothers turn out just fine in 87.5% of time, you'll need better evidence than this. I don't think you don't have a Fox News or CNBC audience here.
That said, I appreciate the disclosure of the relationship of one of Barbara's fiercest critics to Robert. Perhaps this influenced the puzzling conclusion Jad came to at the end.
One last thought..why would Jad be shocked that not one of the women who VOLUNTEERED for birth control while drug addicted regretted that decision? As a woman, and a mother, I'd theorize that may be because no sane mother would want to bring a child into the world that she can't care for. Raising a child is hard work--why would you want to take this on while high? I have incredible respect for Barbara's open heart--I don't think I could do what she has done in taking in fragile children. Bless her and all of her children!
A huge Coincidence? On Nov 19, I submitted a R01 grant application for my PhD comps on quasi-lamarckian transmission of event (PTSD) induced acquired traits through sperm epialleles to subsequent generations!!!
I too am a Radiolab fan. The Inheritance episode was generally in line with the quality of other RL podcasts, except the tone of much of the section on Barbara Harris's program to provide birth control options to drug addicted women. The suggestion was clear from many of the voices that she was somehow discriminating against these women, and the the children who were born in such disadvantaged circumstances, and it was indeed immoral to offer money as an incentive for changing their behavior. While not discussed, it was clear to me, that the same people taking this high ground against Barbara, would be the first in line to drive those same women to Planned Parenthood to obtain a free abortion and hold their hand through the procedure, and feel that they were incredibly supportive and moral in doing so. Remarkable lack of perspective.
Another avid Radiolab fanatic and I'm tired of going through the comments voting up the problems with the last segment, so I'll just say it.
The issue at hand (success of children later in life born to drug addicted mothers) needs to be addressed statistically.
The only statistic intoned was the "7 out of 8" reference.
That's not science, folks. You argued against incredibly compelling large numbers with anecdote. I know you need to have human narrative to make the story compelling, but that human narrative should probably be in the direction of the evidence.
Would you consider giving the emotion pulpit to climate change deniers or creationists while ignoring science? As far as I can determine, that's what happened here.
Such a problem.
What troubles me listening to this is the "all or nothing Darwinisum". Has it not been proven substantially enough that, while all other things being "true", that evolution is not an act of randomness at all? When one considers the math in the probability of developing as we have out of random changes we would still be waiting on eyes let alone leaving the sea or walking at all.
The fact that we can't consciously change our own "genes" doesn't mean that they cannot change. Sure we can debate the semantics of what constitutes a genetic change but the fact is that there is little if anything random at work. If so has it been long enough for someone to give birth to a hot fudge sunday?
I consider myself pro-life, but I am not opposed to the use of birth control. I was surprised by the final segment and agree with other comments about the inane question of Destiny's existence. By this argument we should all, including you, Jad, have as many children as possible. To say at two or three children that our family is complete means that there are eight or nine other people who won't exist. Is that really the argument you were trying to make?
I agree with Alex; I'd love to find out about the music at about the 40 minute mark.
Jad wishes he could change his children's genetic sequence, and worries they are held back by their genes. But in reality genetics only dictate so much, and environment plays a large role in development. The idea that someone is the sum of their genetic sequence is a bizarre and frankly old fashioned idea. Epigenetics is nothing new, and most hormones and many other cell signals work by modifying "genetics" in order to create more or less of a protein. Twins, with the same genetic sequence, are different people. In medicine, most diseases have absolutely no proven genetic cause. As someone who has received years of formal training in genetics, genomics, and systems biology it was interesting to hear these fields simplified and sensationalized.
Does anyone know the song that is playing in the background @40m28s? I have been trying to find this song for sooooo long. It goes like this: "dee dah doe dah dee doe dew dah dah." Its a very beautiful song, sung by a female singer with a strong voice.
I love RadioLab and am a contributor, but felt that the final segment of this episode was an astonishingly naive misstep on many levels. If the producers had spent an hour or two interviewing case workers from a state agency involved in child protective services and foster care, I believe they would have come away with quite a different view. Barbara's program offers women who's lives have spun out of control an incentive and opportunity to make the same decisions about family planning that women in more stable circumstances make.
Spectacualr episode. I blogged about the topic in three different languages already. What a great episode.
It's great that 7 of those 8 kids did well in the end, but the foster system is an incredibly tough situation for any kid. This isn't because of the quality of foster families - while there are some abuses, most foster families are people trying their best to go above and beyond in helping our neediest. But it is tough, and it's hard enough for while, male, able-bodied children to find permanent homes. For children born with physical or mental problems from drug-addicted mothers, or special emotional needs from being raised by addicted parents, it's so much harder, not only to find a permanent home but to find qualified and able foster parents.
At first the idea that we should prevent more children harmed by drugs to be born sounds cruel - it sounds the same as exterminating them after birth. But it's not. No more than someone deciding they're not financially able to provide for a child who goes on birth control is similar to the extermination of children of the poor. Mourning the non-existence of hypothetical children is absurd. Following such a line of thought, all birth control would be banned. People would be morally obliged to have as many children as possible, as early as possible. This seems silly, like a slippery slope, but if one is seriously concerned about the plight of children never conceived by drug addicts, this seems to be the line to be drawn from it.
Really unscientific pro-life drivel in that last story. I think between this ep and the way you treated the hmong family in that other one you've lost a devoted listener. Who HAS contributed and attended an event.
Go back to your roots of actually being about science
Another good show guys, and no complaints from me about the last segment. I thought it provided some thought provoking arguments from both sides - and for those complaining that there was emotion in it - well...of course there was. Good grief, this is life. But this wasn't the reason for my comments.
I really enjoyed the piece about the mid-wife toads, and the mystery about if it was indeed a hoax or not. I was curious if anyone ever tried to duplicate the experiment. It seems to me that if it was legit that similar results could be achieved a second time...also just a side note, but at one point in the story you said that a reptile expert was brought in to look at the specimen - all well and good, but toads are amphibians...
Love the show - I rarely can listen on the radio, but I download the podcasts and listen. Always interesting!
This episode was amazing like all the other episodes. It gave me multiple mind orgasms. Thank you radio lab for makes us high on knowledge.
For the second story, they could have proposed "caloric restriction" as a possible mechanism of why starving grandparents might produce healthy grandchildren.
In regards to the last story about birth control to drug addicted mothers. There were so many sides to this story that were not touched upon. This was just one person who was able to afford children and adopted them. There are people who hav foster farms where they foster children just for money, there are addict mothers who keep their children and give them a terrible life by whoring them out to strangers or just neglecting and abusing them. There are also people who just need a bit of a chance to get clean and $200 and the chance to not get pregnant for awhile can change their lives. That story made it sound like she was giving out abortions. I worked in a homeless shelter and a womens shelter for many years and I have an addict in my family and have talked to her children and the horrors that I have heard would tear your heart apart. All that woman is doing is giving someone a choice that they may not have had.
Yes, the music would be great! Especially the bell sond at 41:07. It's amazing, I would like to listen to the whole thing. It cuts off just when it starts to get good. :/
Can you guys please give me the music credits for all the in between stories parts. I really enjoyed it. Thanks you.
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I liked the inheritance show. I see my immediate question has been raised already by Amy and Drew. Did you try swapping the offspring? That is, take the babies from mothers that lick a lot and swap them with the offspring from ones that do not lick?.... Do the offspring really follow their adopted mothers? Seems the obvious test, and without it the theory has not much merit.
cheers
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I have listened to every episode of radio lab and I love the program, but I was really disappointed this time around. I felt that the entire episode threw science and logic out the window in favor of emotion. If the maternal nature of rats is genetic, then what is so surprising about children inheriting it from their Mothers? Why does any one think that the licking is the cause, rather than the effect of the DNA being passed down? I felt that the episode focused on the philosophical idea that nurture could change nature instead of scientific theory. I was also bothered by the handling of Barbra's story. The cast came to the conclusion that the majority of foster children come out of the system just fine by looking at just one family with a sample size of eight people. That is unacceptable and unprofessional in my opinion. I really hope this will not become the norm for the show!
Hi,
\I wanted to speak up, as an adoptive foster parent. My son was born drug addicted and as a result has cerebral palsy. He is a wonderful kid and can walk and talk, but he will always struggle mightily in life, and has cost the system hundreds of thousands in medical costs, therapies, etc. His birth mom has had many other children, some of whom have medical issues as a result of her drug use and some of whom are healthy. The overwhelming majority of children in foster care in the country are there for drug-associated reasons, and the costs, both emotionally and financially are astronomical. Hundreds of thousands of kids are abused, neglected, born drug addicted, or abandoned because of their parents' drug use. I too struggle with the program discussed on the show, and I am not sure where I come down on it. However I think it's a little bit simplistic to look at the success of Destiny and her sisters and say the odds are good. The odds for any child, even without drug addiction, who grows up in foster care are really bad. The attachment issues and resulting emotional damage can be overwhelming for the child.
Thanks for your show.
I noticed a SERIOUS issue about your comments regarding chimerism.
The issue has to do with reproduction:
Despite the fact that a chimera has two sets of DNA, there is still only one set per cell. Therefore, when a chimeric organism reproduces, the offspring will only inherit one type of DNA from the chimeric parent.
In the "geep" example, if the ovaries (or part of the ovaries) that produces the initial ovum is sheep, than the offspring can only be a sheep. If the ovum has goat dna, it can only be a goat.
Chimeric mother...what about chimeric fathers?
Her situation may be uncommon, but it probably happens just as often in men as it does women.
^ This would make for some very interesting Jerry Springer episodes!
You were talking as if there were lives that were "missed". That is goofy! They just never had a beginning. They never were. There are plenty of others. There is no shortage!
Wow. I've listened to every single RadioLab podcast, and am an avid fan but have never felt the need to comment until now. I was totally shocked and disappointed to hear RadioLab take a definitive stance AGAINST Barbara's program to pay drug addicted moms to use birth control with the sentimental argument of "look, her kids came out great". Seriously guys? Barbara is obviously an exceptional human being that went above and beyond to take care of someone's ELSE'S kids. You barely talked about all of the challenges that she probably had raising those drug-affected kids. It wasn't her responsibility, but she took it on. The fact is, every crack-addicted sperm, egg, or embryo does NOT deserve a name. Not to mention, those women CHOOSE to do drugs and they CHOOSE to take the money to get sterilized or get on b.c. No one is forcing them! This has PRO-LIFE written all over it and I'm honestly appalled. Check yourself RadioLab!
thanks to radio-lab for your lastest pod cast on drug addicted women, luckly l have 3 grown kids who thk god are here.
Re: paying women to stop having addicted children.
I fully support Barbara. Why? My mother was a wonderful person - when she was sober. That became rarer and rarer. Meanwhile, she had 4 -FOUR -additional children, and she couldn't remember who the fathers were because of blackouts. They were ALL given up for adoption. I personally saw my mother wake up every day, go out to the kitchen, light up a cigarette and crack open three beers, downing them in the time it took to smoke her first cigarette. By the end of the day, she was staggering, unable to walk a straight line or speak a complete sentence. Her routine never changed despite my lectures, pleading, begging, crying, yelling, bribing - all the while she was pregnant. All of those babies were sick and deformed.
What is the use of moral arguments against this kind of behavior? My mother had a statue of Jesus on that kitchen table, and she'd cry miserably staring at it from about 9:00 pm until she went to bed. My dad never kicked her out of the house -he had his own problems - but he had a full time job and health coverage. She could have gone to a rehabilitation center ANY time. After the 3rd one that was not my dad's, he finally learned of tubal ligation, and forced the procedure to be done. Later, we discovered the doctor cut a ligament. By then, she had one more.
She died at age 53, when I was 29. My dad died two years later. I was very sad, and grieved, but I also was deeply relieved. My brother and I received two letters from adoption agencies from two of these half-brothers wanting information. One was obviously disturbed and while we sent medical information, we did not want a meeting. The other seemed fine, married, two children, good job. We met, but there was nothing there to build a relationship. We've never heard from the others.
I wish life was simple and people were rigidly and easily definable as good or bad, but they are not. But if people want to be as morally responsible as possible, they should be thinking more of the suffering of the addicted babies and less of the addicted mother. The addicted baby shakes, and cries pathetically, and cannot be comforted. It cannot sleep or eat. It's in agony for a long time, with no ability to understand why from its first breath life HURTS for weeks. If its lucky, life will be great after, but we all know that being mentally challenged in school is hell, that being facially abnormal is hell, that having constant medical crisises is financially and emotionally debilitating. if you can prevent it in the first place, everyone would be in less pain.
@1:03.06 - I was editing "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" by Taylor Swift for musicnotes.com when Destiny's daughter takes the mic. Too weird.
I really admire what Radiolab does - in particular the way it really engages the listener in stories whose subject matter is often treated in a very dry, matter of fact way elsewhere. However, I found this episode very frustrating and hard to listen to.
The earlier segments, reporting on research, all failed to explain how they eliminated the ideas of simple Darwinian heredity - even the Swedish data report didn't really cover the fact that in famine years, kids who survived could already have the genetic advantages that their offspring exhibit, and that those who didn't, simply died.
The segment about the drug-affected children was, to my mind, overly driven by sentimentality. If your goal in that was to provoke thought and discussion, then it has succeeded, but I think a more balanced piece could have achieved that just as well. As a journalist or scientist - as an outsider to the story - incredulity at the feelings and opinions of those who are deeply involved serves neither the story or the audience.
At least it was thought-provoking, though!
I have also been moved to comment, mainly by Jad's remark about the 7 of 8.
I realise that Radiolab is an editorial style podcast, and I can cope with hearing opinions that differ from my own.
However, it is first and foremost a science podcast. I hope that Jad would recognise that a sample size of 8 is far too small to draw any conclusion whatsoever.
In a positive light it looks like a simple emotional response to an otherwise depressing situation (8 crack babies)
But in a negative light it comes across as thinly veiled special pleading that undermines Radiolab's scientific credibility and apartisan nature - which are its strengths.
Finally, even if we accept a sample size of 8 it only has a bearing on the efficacy of care, and says nothing about the number of drug addicted babies that never make it that far.
Another vote for Team Barbara. RadioLab, this one left me so confused that I felt compelled to comment.
What was the issue against Barbara's program? Was it some of the language she slipped into during some of her more hostile interviews?
I have a friend who was born a crack baby, and who has a lot of painful medical problems because of it. He truly wishes that something (birth control, abstinence) had prevented his mother from getting pregnant with him. It's not about wishing that he didn't exist; just that she was able to WAIT until she was clean before bringing him into existence. He makes his life work, but the quality could be much better.
Like so many arguments against the anti-abortion movement, rallying against this birth control option/incentive is pro-BIRTH, not pro-life. Quality of life does matter.
Please do a segment on overpopulation and climate change. The Chinese are right. Cruel as it seems, for life on earth, including humans, to survive we must cut our numbers at least in half. Cover species extinction with birders in Central Park. Watch Werner Herzog's film, Encounters at the End of the World. About scientists in Antarctica. They build a shrine in ice for aliens to see what was on earth before we destroyed it.
Addicted to RadioLab. I also wanted to comment on the last topic:
I was a truly surprised by the interviewer's stance against Barbara's program. If you want to be ultra PC, perhaps I would take sterilization off the table... but offering an incentive to take birth control seems extremely compassionate to me - to the women, and to any potential children. The money seems more symbolic than anything ($200 does not go far) because it is placing these women in control over at least part of their future. There are most certainly drug-addicted who would like to be taking birth-control anyway, but can't afford the cost of pills with their habit. The program is ultimately empowering to anyone who has CHOOSEN to be in it.
If there is concern about potentially singling-out drug-addicts' vulnerabilities, why not just extend the offer to all women? (You know this would be a hit on campuses.) For women who know that they don't want to get pregnant in the immediate future anyway, it seems like a win-win, for the women and for society. There is so much debate in our society about the right to get an abortion - why make it difficult for women who just want to avoid getting pregnant in the first place...?
1 of 8? These are peoples' lives. I'm sure none of her children are proud of their birth mother or really happy that they had to be put up for adoption. 7 out of 8 made their lives work but its still gambling the lives and livelihoods of newborns.
Excellent show gentlemen (and ladies in the background...). This is one of the best yet: all the science, personal stories, and a touch of philosophizing.
And here's another vote in favor of Barbara's offer! even if the children are all healthy, the mother's cannot take care of them and thus the system of fostering and others must step in and there are risks there. It's a fair and open offer. She might get some of my money--
I must echo Amy above. Did they take the rats from one mother and put them with the other? Without doing that and determining that the babies of non-licking mothers become licking mothers when moved to the other cage, there is no control. Maybe the details are omitted from the radio story, but if the experiment was exactly as described then the results are worthless.
I'm glad that some of what I'm about to say is is being brought up here already, but I'd like to add another voice to the further discussion of the last segment.
Most important point - Barbara is not forcibly sterilizing all women who use drugs, and if she's said anything in the past that would make it seem like she'd like to, I don't think she can be blamed for being "pissed" about the situation she has seen very first hand. Barbara is offering these women an incentive to consider and access to control over their reproductive choices. This is ALWAYS a good thing. She is also offering them several options of birth control, including completely reversible, totally safe, no-maintenance methods. There is no eugenics in giving women greater access to that choice.
2nd Point - Asking if someone would choose not to be born because of the circumstances of their birth is a stupid and unanswerable hypothetical question. It happened, it's over, it wasn't your decision to begin with. It's corollary is asking a parent who had a child unexpectedly if they wish their child hadn't been born, except in this case, it IS their decision to begin with. Once you are a parent you could never look into your child's eyes and say you wish they never existed, but does that mean that we should fulfill the potential life of each of our egg and sperm cells because we'd love them if they turned into our child? No, we usually make choices to have that child at a time that we can be responsible for them. If we aren't making those choices we should be, and we should make those choices even more available to those who are most likely to not be able to be responsible. That's what Barbara's doing. At the end of the day, it should ultimately be the decision of each individual. It's way too personal and intrinsic to what we are for anyone else to make that decision for us, but the options should be as available as possible.
3rd Point - 7 out of 8? Those are the odds you're going to broadcast? I didn't do any exhaustive research, but I don't think you'll find that small sample size is representative of the larger population of kids in foster care, let alone those who are burdened with drug addiction problems at birth. You aren't telling the whole story at all, here. It's bad reporting, and it's bad science.
Jad, Robert, I love your show, but I think this particular piece was a miss. In an episode about the control we have over what we pass to our kids, it seems like you finished by presenting an emotionally driven and unreasoned argument that leans towards saying we shouldn't have control over when we have kids. I'm all for episodes that get me thinking and looking at different perspectives, this just made me mad at all the gaps in logic and fact.
Great show! These last few episodes of Radiolab have been dope.
Radiolab consistently blows my mind. So what happened here? The horror and disdain for Barbara Harris' programs sounded like a secular version of Monty Python's "every sperm is sacred" song, projecting on to Harris a number of liberal pseudoconcerns that had no real merit. Is she forcing women to do anything? No, they are entirely free to choose a birth control option that she offers or walk away. Harris may not provide the comprehensive prenatal care mentioned above for drug users, but she offers them something nonetheless that allows them some semblance of control over their reproductive systems.
The message and even tone of her critics (and even Jad and Robert) amounted to a near dismissal of all birth control to me, the sanctity of life trumping all other concerns.
Master piece of both Zimmer and radio lab ! congratulations
Great episode, as usual. I just want to mention that you might want to preface the episode (or particular segments) when there's mention of sex in the discussion. I play the shows for my 8 year old nephew and the last thing I need is him asking me what it means for frogs to be having sex in the pond. This American Life does this whenever the subject is mentioned.
This podcast is flawed in a way that surprises me. The studies you mention with rodents are useless unless you control for heredity. It is not enough to study the mice who are tenderly cared for by their mother as opposed to those not licked enough and announce the differences shows the advantage of a good environment. You must do the same study taking the offspring of the caring mouse and putting it with an uncaring mother and vice versa. Otherwise the caretaking genes are in effect in the offspring and you cannot say their lack of neuroticism is solely due to environment. This kind of error is rife in psychological studies. There are abundant twin studies as well as studies of adopted children which show that neuroticism is entirely heritable no matter the environment.
Excellent podcast, as always.
Please excuse me for bringing this up, but the last segment practically begs for it to be mentioned. I found it surprising that Radiolab seemed to give emotional weight to pro-life arguments in the segment "What if there was no Destiny?" Especially in the segments where Pat feels conflicted about the morality of preventing hypothetical children from being conceived, and how he finds it almost inconceivable to imagine that Destiny wouldn't change her stance when faced with the fact that she wouldn't have existed if her birth mother had stopped having children. Even Jad and Robert, at the end, seemed to give credibility to not preventing childbirth when they mused about the "seven out of eight" figure. Of course, it's up to the listener to decide what they think about the subject... but you don't often hear something that is this sympathetic to pro-life that isn't in the conservative religious right.
You might say that this last segment had nothing to do with abortion, but where do we draw the line between women choosing to not conceive children and women choosing to not carry their child to term? Most of the arguments for Barbara can be made for abortion rights, and most of the arguments against Barbara can be made against abortion.
Another masterpiece. Radiolab just gets better and better.
Team Barbara! I don't think that eugenics argument holds water. Most slippery slope arguments don't.
Once again, a spectacualr and enlightening episode! I feel conflicted about Barbara's quest as well, but I also deeply respect the fact that she took action. However, I do think that the issue of "destiny" is sort of a slippery subject. - Cheers
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I’m a glutton for punishment. Apparently, the editor-in-chief of this humble website knows this; I’m often assigned the more frustrating, retro games to review. So, it came as no surprise that our review code for Battle Princess Madelyn graced my inbox.
I read about Battle Princess Madelyn when it launched on Kickstarter back in 2017. It initially caught my eye with the graphics looking a lot like Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts. Huge boss battles and what seemed to be difficult 16-bit 2D platforming brought back memories of almost crushing my SNES controller in frustration. As I mentioned before, I’m a glutton for punishment. Meaning, I filed it away as a game to watch out for; our hands-on preview helped in that regard. Fast-forward a year and a half later and I’m diving into Madelyn’s world.
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This is because there are no lists. Once you’ve talked to someone (say, in a nearby town) about a quest, they never repeat it. You’ll have to remember what was asked of you. Making matters worse is the absence of a quest list. Not only did I have to remember where I was supposed to go and what I was supposed to do, I had to also had to guess the number of active quests; did this level have two side quests or one? I ended up backtracking a lot looking for clues.
Actually, I was backtracking regardless if I was doing a side quest or not. This is because certain levels required an item or an objective to be completed before they were unlocked. The same thing goes for abilities. I was shocked to learn that Madelyn didn’t start with a double jump as it had to be earned through play. I just wanted to jump head first into the action – give me my zombies and monsters with double jump and different weapons from the get-go. This set up doesn’t work like it did in Metroid – or maybe it does, and I’ve just grown out of these mechanics – making the story mode a less rewarding experience. Thankfully, there’s an arcade mode.
Arcade Mode is where the meat and potatoes are/what I’ve been looking for. The basic gameplay is similar. She’ll still battle monsters in side-scrolling 2D levels, deal with tough bosses, and so on. That said, the levels are streamlined and Madelyn has all of her abilities from the start. It isn’t easier than the story mode (it’s actually harder). It’s not as unforgiving as the Capcom titles though. For instance, Fritzy will collect orbs throughout the game, filling a bar at the top of the screen. By depleting these reserves, players will be able to respawn where they died instead of at the beginning of a level. It won’t keep them from becoming frustrated after multiple deaths, but it does help in balancing out the game’s difficulty curve.
You can tell Causal Bit Games really developed Madelyn as a love letter to Capcom’s Ghost’s ‘n Goblins series, especially Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts. The art style is bright and colorful, with separate and distinct themes for every level. The boss battles are brutal, yet fun. The action is familiar and refreshing. The chiptunes stay in your brain, and the controls are tight. It’s what a 2D side scrolling platformer should be. Lack of a time attack mode or an ability to select levels after completing them would have been some icing on the cake. Hopefully, Causal will add those things in a future patch.
Battle Princess Madelyn isn’t perfect. The story mode was a good attempt at a narrative based type of game. It was unnecessarily confusing and tedious in design though. The arcade mode is phenomenal as it absolutely hits that brutal gameplay that fans longed for. Although I have yet to reach the end credits (that last level is absolute torture), I have a feeling I’ll be returning to Madelyn’s world for some time to come.
Gameplay:
8
The controls are tight and responsive, the platforming and monster bashing is fun - basically, If you're fan of games like Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts, you'll like Battle Princess Madelyn.
Graphics:
9
The background and foreground effects look 16-bit, but I guess technically would be considered 32-bit graphics due to the added detail. Hand drawn pixel art is definitely noticed and appreciated.
Sound:
8
Two modes of soundtrack, orchestral and arcade, give a little bit of range in choice. Regardless of what you choose, the music is catchy and sounds relate to the action on screen.
Replay Value:
7
Although the arcade mode is excellent and saves the game, the story mode lacks direction and is plagued with roadblocks.
Final Score:
8 |
Jobs Day For Mayoral Candidates
Labor Day offered the Mayor’s race an obvious theme.
From this point on, the mayoral candidates will be desperately seeking attention in the three-week sprint to the preliminary election. Today being Labor Day, three of them came out with big, bold, new, multi-point proposals on jobs:
–Felix Arroyo unveiled his Pathways out of Poverty plan, which combines plans for better jobs and education.
–Dan Conley gave a speech and released a Better Jobs Now plan (not available online yet), promising to close the racial employment gap. [Update: it’s now online.]
–Charlotte Golar Richie released a jobs plan that she says will create more than 30,000 new jobs in Boston during her first term.
We’ll see how all that gets played in tomorrow’s papers — or if they all get superceded by Marty Walsh’s speech at the Greater Boston Labor Day breakfast, in which he asserted both his pride as a “son of labor,” but also his willingness to stand up to unions as mayor. |
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WALLA WALLA — Last month’s storms have eased drought worries, but Washington state’s drought committee is still meeting just in case.
Heavy snowfalls that started in early February have bulked up snowpacks across the state. According to the Natural Resources Conservation Service, snowpack levels today ranged from 14 percent above normal in the Lower Snake River to 81 percent of normal in the Olympics, a far cry from the low readings on Groundhog Day that worried forecasters.
Measurements for the Walla Walla River snowpack showed it at 86 percent of normal with year-to-date precipitation at 96 percent of normal.
The snowpack conditions and overall dry winter weather prompted activation of the state’s Water Supply Availability Committee, which held its first meeting on Feb. 6 to begin discussions of runoff conditions and possible relief measures.
Committee members are drawn from state and federal agencies that monitor water supply conditions in Washington and decide if a drought declaration should be recommended to the governor.
Despite the encouraging snowpack conditions, it is too early for the water supply committee to “stand down,” Ecology spokesman Dan Partridge said. The committee is to meet again Friday.
“(The committee) is continuing its work since projections show Washington must receive 200 percent of average snowfall by the end of March to get back to normal water supply,” Partridge said last week.
Under state law, if the governor directs the director of the state Department of Ecology to declare a drought, the state can provide loans and grants to water users like irrigators, well owners and operators of small water systems who are experiencing hardships.
Andy Porter can be reached at [email protected] or 526-8318.
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I grew up with six brothers and learned baking skills from my mother.
As you can see it is difficult to find a picture that shows all of us. For more on our large family check here.
No, I was not the princess in case you were wondering.
My brothers were the perfect public for my baking excursions. They ate whatever I made. It was good practice with a captive audience. I started with children’s size baking pans but soon graduated to be able to feed everybody.
One of them loved to eat raw cake dough and bribed me to make double batches. Can you guess who?
The picky one is now a gourmet cook and a famous art curator. Back then he only ate egg whites and french fries.
The one still in my mother’s belly loves German hazelnut cake to this day. Our mother was German so I learned a lot of German recipes. I practiced reading with Dr.Oetkers’s baking cook book.
We are quite an eclectic bunch, and that is not an exaggeration, but what we all have in common is a sweet tooth and a love for Pão de Queijo, which is to this day also our father’s favorite.
Do you have siblings? How have they influenced your life?
Monika |
Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds
All the activities organized for World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) are united by a common theme, which this year is "Their Future is our Future – A Healthy Planet for Migratory Birds and People".
A new Arabic version of the Agreement text and its annexes as amended by the 6th session of the Meeting of the Parties in November 2015 was kindly provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in its capacity as Depositary of the Agreement.
A special volume of Ambio, the journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, has been recently published containing 14 articles based on material presented at the Gram Slot Conference on “Goose Management: Challenges 2015” held from 27 to 29 October 2015 in Denmark.
From 15 to 20 January 2017, the Technical Support Unit (TSU) for the AEWA African Initiative along with the Directorate for Wildlife Conservation and Protected Areas of Chad (DCFAP), Zakouma National Park and with the support of a volunteer ornithologist from the Tour du Valat have jointly carried out the first waterbird census at the Bahr Aouk and Salamat floodplains Ramsar Site.
The 12th Meeting of the AEWA Standing Committee was held from 31 January to 1 February, hosted by the French Ministry of Environment, Energy and Sea at its premises in La Défense, Paris.
World Wetlands Day, celebrated on 2 February is a global annual celebration of the vital socio-environmental role of wetlands and the anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands (1971) in the Iranian city of Ramsar.
A multi-stakeholder consultation workshop took place in Yaoundé from 7 – 8 December 2016, with the aim of re-invigorating the national process for the accession of Cameroon to AEWA.
The AEWA Lesser White-fronted Goose Working Group is pleased to announce the completion of a new report which features the outcomes of an international expedition carried out in Kazakhstan in September-October 2016 with the goal to obtain up-to-date estimates for the Western main Lesser White-fronted Goose (Anser erythropus) population, as well as for the global population of Red-breasted Geese (Branta ruficollis).
Ushering in a new era for the conservation and sustainable use of goose populations within the African-Eurasian flyways, Range States and observer organisations came together in Kristianstad, Sweden on the 14-16 December for the 1st Meeting of the AEWA European Goose Management International Working Group hosted by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
A waterbird conservation project in Guinea was successfully implemented by BirdLife International, in collaboration with the Government of Guinea and other national partners, in the framework of the AEWA Small Grants Fund (SGF).
Gabon has completed a project aiming to enhance technical and operational capacity to support the survey and monitoring of migratory waterbirds and their habitats in the country.
The Mediterranean waterbirds network was launched in 2011 by the Tour du Valat research centre for the conservation of Mediterranean wetlands (TdV) and the French Agency for Wildlife and Hunting Management (ONCFS) in order to improve and strengthen the International Waterbird Census (IWC) in the Mediterranean, with a special focus on North Africa.
Tourism is an important source of income for many countries. Nature-related tourism is a world-wide phenomenon that is expanding rapidly. |
In Partnership with Arts on the Green
Special Presentation
One Day — Two Performances ONLY!
Boston Blackie Radio Plays
Created by Jack Boyle
Thursday, April 27
1 & 8pm at the Arts Barn
Tickets: $20 (general)/$12 (youth 14 and under)
Group Rate for 10+: $18
Return to the glory days of radio when plays were performed live in front of a studio audience. To be presented The Fur Trade and The TV Poisoning two short mystery plays featuring Boston Blackie, a former jewel thief and safecracker turned good guy. Boston Blackie spawned 14 feature films from 1941—1949 and a radio series (1945—1950) with over 300 broadcast dates.
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California state Senator Leland Yee appears to be headed to federal prison for several years, according to this story in the San Jose Mercury News. In his plea agreement to avoid an August trial, he conceded that he used his bids for San Francisco mayor and California secretary of state) as “racketeering enterprises to extort bribes for his cash-starved campaigns.”
It’s hard to say what makes the story most bizarre, but we’d nominate this component: Once called “California Senate’s Top Gun-Control Advocate,” he has confirmed his involvement in an illegal arms import deal theoretically involving Filipino Islamists. We say theoretically because it’s hard to sort out who were FBI undercover agents, and who weren’t.
Apparently, firearms that generate campaign cash are all well and good with Dr. Yee (doctorate in Child Psychology); firearms—at least in California—for self-defense or recreation, not so much.
Necessity is the mother of invention. That was certainly the case for Carrie Lightfoot who, as a new shooter in 2012, found precious few resources for females. Information for women was sorely lacking and so were firearm accessories.
Lightfoot saw that as a challenge, and soon thereafter founded The Well Armed Woman. The organization aims to educate, equip and empower woman gun owners. Today, there are 222 Well Armed Woman chapters in 49 states.
An even greater sign of success may be Lightfoot’s inclusion on the 100 Most Influential Pro-Gun Rights Advocates list. The powerhouse lineup includes heavyweights like Wayne LaPierre, Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Oliver North and Chuck Norris. Lightfoot checks in at number 81. “To me it means that people are listening and that women are listening,” Lightfoot said. And thanks to Lightfoot, new female shooters today now have the resources they need at the ready.
Fareed Zakaria has cultivated a reputation as a moderate commentator, but in a recent op-ed for the Washington Post, he came out swinging with a radical attack on America’s Second Amendment rights. His tactics weren’t really any different from your typical Piers Morgan rant or Bloomberg-sanctioned screed—parroting biased CDC reports, trashing a few GOP candidates along the way—but one of his claims stands out for the sheer audacity of its ignorance.
According to Zakaria, in 2008 the Supreme Court “broke with 200 years of precedent” and “invented” an individual right to bear arms. This idea is so wrong-headed, so easy to refute by actually examining federal precedent, that not many have dared to make it so far. But there’s no need to take our word on it: Actual experts on Second Amendment law—of whom Zakaria is not one—have covered the topic for us in detail.
A Redford Township, Mich., man who wanted a television from Santa decided he wasn’t willing to wait until Christmas. Early Friday morning, 79-year-old retiree Ron Henrick, who plays Santa every year, awoke to find his neighbor, 25-year-old Conrad Monroe, stealing his TV. He grabbed his 12-ga. shotgun, only to find that the 5’10”, 220-lb. man had spotted a weapon of his own—Henrick’s stationary bike. Before Henrick could shoot, Monroe “grabbed [the bike] and threw it at me … I [closed the door] and it tore up everything. Lucky I did that, because it probably would have killed me.”
Monroe got the TV—but his attempt to get at Henrick’s 1933 Plymouth was what put him on this Santa’s “naughty list.” If the thief returns for the car, Henrick warned, “He’s a dead man.”
Police believe Monroe—who was charged with home invasion—may also have stolen two TVs from a nearby house |
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L&T’s AM Naik Joins Hands with Tatas to Set Up Cancer Hospital
AM Naik, Group Chairman of engineering major Larsen & Toubro (L&T), has joined hands with the Tata Trusts to set up a specialty cancer hospital at Navsari in Gujarat. While the Nirali Memorial Medical Trust (NMMT), a public charitable trust founded by Naik to carry out philanthropic activities in medical care, will set up the hospital, the Tata Trusts will manage operations of the facility. NMMT and Tata Trusts signed an agreement to this effect in the presence of Naik and Ratan Tata, said a press release. The proposed hospital at Navsari, the birthplace of Naik and Tata group founder Jamsetji Tata, is targeted at needy sections of society in their fight against cancer and the hospital will be built on land long associated with the Tata group. The comprehensive cancer care hospital will have advance cancer treating facilities that range from clinical pathology, high-end linear accelerator, histopathology, biochemistry, USG, digital X-Ray and mammography to CT simulators, Brachytherapy OPDs as well as operation theatres. The upcoming center will also be part of the network of cancer centers being established by the Tata Trusts across the country.
Named in the memory of Nirali, granddaughter of Naik who passed away due to cancer at the age of two, NMMT was set up by the Naik family to help cancer patients, especially those who do not have access to quality treatment. NMMT already runs the Nirali Memorial Radiation Center in Surat and provides modern medical facilities at Kharel Hospital in Gujarat The Trust has also setting up a AM Naik Charitable Health Center at Powai that focuses on providing access to quality medical care to local communities of Mumbai at affordable prices. Along with NMMT, Naik also runs the Naik Charitable Trust (NCT), focused on providing quality education services to the underprivileged sections of the society. The 76-year-old Naik, now in a non-executive role at L&T, had pledged over 75 percent of his wealth for charity. On September 7, 2016, data compiled by BloombergQuint had estimated Naik to be worth ₹403 crore, the value of equity and stock options, excluding the total remuneration he receives as the director of L&T. Naik was paid ₹38.04 crore as retirement benefits last year, which included encashment of accumulated past service leave of ₹32.21 crore. He had sold some shares in L&T in a series of transactions worth near ₹72 crore in March 2014. – Business Today |
for the club, helping the team finish in 3rd position in Division One.
TBH Ladies @ Blaydon
Senior Ladies results can be found here.
In the Senior Men’s event, victory was brought home thanks to Sparrow Morley, Domonic Munnelly, David Beech, James Dunce, Chris Graham and Douglas Tickner, who all finished inside the Top 30. But I’m sure the six counters will agree that today’s success wouldn’t have been possible without the strong performances from the rest of the TBH team who packed out the field. Congratulations to all the lads.
Senior Men’s results can be found here.
Leodhais in action.
The day kicked off with the junior races, and representing the club were Leodhais MacPherson (right) in the U13 Boys, Jane Harland in the U13 Girls and Niamh Hall in the U15 Girls. Well done young un’s.
Many thanks to all the race officials and volunteers for putting on a great event.
All results can be found here.
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Well done everybody, from first to last, from junior to old crustachean (to quote Rooney) you all did very well.
Have to say Louise Rodgers that is the most succinct reply to a thread above with “My” or has the meter gone out in Sunny Seaham
Yep the power goes off after 9pm in seaham.I’m crap with technology,ha.better with horses and running :-D
My first cc and I loved it.So much harder than road races but I”ll work on it! Made to feel so welcome and the team spirit is amazing.See you all at the next one.x
Canny run that like Louise…..flying mate
Come on the Mackems!!
Where were ya?? I missed my stalker,haha. I didn’t mention the footie as I wanted everyone to like me
Well done guys and gals, an excellent result.
The TBH Ladies were 3rd, not 4th. The results need amending. On our way to glory…Mind you, that club, Morpeth look good, they could push us all the way. Let’s build on this comrades. All the way to the top! |
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City Council 4/4/2007 – Recap
4/5/2007 Recap:
Funny thing last night. Nine
ordinances resolutions were read without public comment. The Council was astonished, and believed that was the first time in a long while since it happened. Considering the sparse crowd that showed up, it was no surprise.
Recap:
Southwest Redevelopment Vote Postponed
The vote on the widely derided Southwest Redevelopment Plan was put off until the next regular Council Meeting on April 18th. Council members were told that the Planning Board hearing on the plan was “Standing Room Only” and went until nearly midnight Tuesday. The Council is awaiting comments and recommendations from the Planning Board before they move forward with their Second Reading, Public Hearing, and Final Vote. Although, according to 411 reader “estevens”, it may be the May 2nd Council Meeting: “According to the city’s website, the next planning board meeting is on May 1, followed by the City Council meeting on May 2. That sounds to me like the vote could take place before the election.”
4th Ward Flooding Talk
Some are calling it the “Dawn Zimmer Effect.” Even before voters in the 4th Ward have the chance to pick between her, Chris Campos, and two other opponents in the May 8th Elections, issues that Zimmer and the Southwest Parks Coalition have brought to the forefront were once again topics of discussion. Zimmer has been calling attention to the long ignored flooding problem that 6-year Council Veteran Campos was telling people was “a thing of the past” before recent rainstorms proved him wrong. In response to the Zimmer’s call for action on flooding, the Council heard from Community Development Director Fred Bado about potential solutions.
Bado cited memos going back to June of 2006 that suggest projects that could possibly alleviate the problems. Bado says the North Hudson Sewerage Authority needs to build 5 pump stations with ejectors and outflow lines. New Jersey Transit also needs to build new outflow lines to the Hudson River to replace lines that have been under the rail yards for several decades. Bado said there is an engineering report, but never described a timetable for actually fixing the problems. He also suggested any new construction in the Southwest should include an effort to raise buildings and the streets above sea level. Others said that could cause more problems for buildings in lower lying areas, such as Harrison Court.
More Eminent Domain Ahead?
Before the City Council took a vote to rescind the Ordinance that would have allowed the Mayor to borrow $10 Million for land acquistion, the issue of eminent domain returned. The City apparently lost the open bid for the “Mercury Site” to developer and 3rd Ward Council Candidate Frank “Pupie” Raia. His five million dollar bid trumped the City’s bid for the property. Now Councilman Ruben Ramos wants to take the property from Raia via eminent domain.
Campos agreed with Ramos that this is a good idea, and again said he wants to take Dr. Zaklama’s 4th Ward properties by eminent domain as well. Last summer Ramos, Campos, and Terry Labruno where the only Council Members to vote yes on Mayor Roberts’ plan to take buildings that house businesses at 10th and Grand so Ursa/Tarragon could tear them down and build more condos.
916 Garden – See You In September
Months ago when the Council approved the nearly two million dollar contract with Unitronics to fix the automated garage, Parking Utility Director John Corea predicted an April 1st ribbon cutting ceremony to welcome customers back to the facility. On April 4th Corea told the Council there are now only 30 vehicles in the facility, and he doesn’t expect to reach maximum occupancy before August or September.
Almost FY 2008, Still No 2007 Budget
With less than 3 months to go until the end of the Fiscal Year, there is still no official adopted budget in place for the City of Hoboken. The council was told the final budget is being held up by the state. Once the Department of Community Affairs signs off on it the Council will be able to vote, possibly at the April 18th meeting.
And the #1 Issue of the Night: PEDICABS!
Most of the Council’s time last night was spent debating whether or not to allow pedicabs to roam the streets of Hoboken. For what seemed like over an hour there was a heated debate over whether pedicabs were a great idea to add to Hoboken life or a potential plague of locusts designed to bring all traffic in the Mile Square City to a screeching halt. Councilwoman Terry Labruno is a big proponent of the idea. By the end of the night she was the only proponent. The Council took the unusual step of
passing an impromptu resolution calling on the administration to not issue any licenses for pedicabs, even though no such license yet exists. If you have an hour of your life to kill, watch this tedious debate on Cablevision Channel 78 sometime over the next two weeks. I can’t bear to go through the “Blow-by-Blow” again.
Speaking of Pedicabs, here’s an interesting article about some drunk driver bashing the skull of a Pedicab rider in California six months ago. Could never happen in Hoboken, right?
And Speaking of “Blow-by-Blow…”
City Clerk Jimmy Farina attended the meeting without his boxing gloves. There was a $350 bill from “Hoboken Glass” among the items among the $737,366.42 in “Unclassified Claims”, but as Councilman Russo pointed out, it was apparently not the bill for the conference room table glass Farina broke while attempting to rearrange the face of Mayor David Roberts last week.
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Here is a link posted earlier today on Hoboken 411 if you would like to view the last 2 council meetings.url=
[quote comment=”20096″]If you have cable tune in CH 78 they are rebroadcasting it several times a day.
Again thanks to Beth Mason for pushing them into puting it on the air. Look for the part where Mr. Campos takes credit.
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When did Campos take credit for CH78? I missed that part, do you remember where exactly or where about?
If you have cable tune in CH 78 they are rebroadcasting it several times a day.
Again thanks to Beth Mason for pushing them into puting it on the air. Look for the part where Mr. Campos takes credit.
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Did Not See The Council Meeting As Of Yet. Any Information That Can Be Given To Me Would Be Appreciated.
Reason Being, Did Anyone On The Council Give Instructions To Remove Homeless Peoples Gear, Clothes, Etc. Today Randy Vargas Push Cart Was Thrown Into The Garbage. His Personal Poperty Was Usually Packed Neatly By St Peter & Paul Community Center. A City Director, A Secretary & 2 Laborers Tried To Recover His Possessions
In The Garbage But No Results. Randy Lost All Memento’s Of Foxy. Trying To Ascertain If This Could Have Been Avoided. Thanks, Hobokensteve
Not exactly. The u – “oo” is not drawn out – as in poo-pee, but not quite as short as in puppy. Sort of in between, but closer to puppy. It takes skill and practice to pronounce properly. |
Several years ago on the world’s highest profile motoring show, Jeremy Clarkson called hydrogen fuel cell cars the future of personal transport.
Instead of petrol they, these motors would use hydrogen, the most common element in the universe. Instead of pollution, all they would emit is water. It was the utopian future of motoring.
But here we are a few years down the road with no sign of them. In this blog, we dig down into the topic and ask: Dear Jezza, where are our hydrogen cars?
What are hydrogen fuel cell cars?
Hydrogen fuel cell cars are, essentially, electric cars. They have a battery, which powers the wheels via an electric motor. So far so similar.
However, unlike electric cars, which require charged from an external source, hydrogen fuel cell cars can power their batteries themselves using a hydrogen fuel cell.
The fuel cells works like this:
That looks pretty complicated — and it probably is! — but the basic premise is this. Hydrogen (from the fuel tank) and oxygen (from the air) go into the cell, the hydrogen dumps an electron into the battery and joins up with the oxygen to create water. The battery then powers the engine and off you go.
The cool thing about hydrogen cars is that they work while you’re driving. So, instead of driving for 150 miles, stopping to recharge and then driving for another 150 miles, you can keep on driving, stopping only when you need to top up the hydrogen fuel tank.
But the biggest benefit to hydrogen fuel cell cars is what comes out the exhaust pipe — water.
Instead of belching clouds of blue smoke into the face of a nearby pedestrian, the only emission from these cars is a light sprinkling of water.
Where’s the catch?
It’s easy to get caught up in the hydrogen hype bubble and convince yourself that the technology is the answer to all the world’s problems — but it’s not all plain sailing.
There are two key stumbling blocks for hydrogen cars:
Infrastructure
There are only a handful of hydrogen refuelling stations dotted across the UK with very few more planned.
Cost
The average cost of a hydrogen fuel cell car is £55,000 with only two models available.
Two pretty huge problems. Let’s start with the infrastructure.
Let’s say you want to drive from London to Inverness in your brand new Toyota Mirai. It’s probably not the most common commute in the UK but it’s a drive that you might have to make.
Leaving London the fuel stations fly by — Bedford, Coventry, Nottingham and Sheffield. However, after Sheffield they dry up quickly. Once you get back on the M1, the next station is in Aberdeen, some 385 miles away.
Since your Toyota Mirai only has a total range of around 312 miles, you’ll probably end up stranded somewhere between Edinburgh and Dundee.
Okay, okay, okay. I know this is a super extreme example and that few people will ever make it but it does demonstrate how spotty the infrastructure is.
Poor infrastructure, say hydrogen supporters, will be rectified by fuel companies in the future. As more people buy hydrogen cars, companies will invest in more fuelling stations across the UK. That’s just how it works.
But who is going to buy a car that you can’t refuel anywhere and that can’t drive between Scotland and England? And if people don’t buy hydrogen cars in their vast quantities, why would for-profit companies plough millions of pounds of investment into hydrogen infrastructure?
It’s a Catch-22.
Second, price. The Toyota Mirai, one of only two commercially available hydrogen fuel cell cars, costs an estimated £60,000. That’s a lot of money.
Yes, it won World Green Car of the Year from World Car Awards and the Technology Award from What Car? but it’s up against some exceedingly serious competition.
A Mercedes CLS, Porsche Cayman and Jaguar F-Type all cost around £10,000 less and all look, sound and drive far better.
Again, supporters will say that the price will come down as demand goes up but that relies on early adopters driving uptake of the new tech. I’m simply not sure that that will ever happen.
On top of that, there’s issues with storage (hydrogen needs to be stored at huge pressures to be practically useful as a fuel), safety (remember the Hindenburg?) and development costs (Toyota spent 23 years developing its first production car).
Hasn’t electric already won?
Ignoring the infrastructure and financial speed bumps, the slowdown in hydrogen technology could have a simpler answer: electric vehicles.
Tesla, supported by increasing investment from established manufacturers, has already made electric cars a commercial reality. If you want a green car right now, you buy electric not hydrogen. It’s not a planned utopia, either. It’s here right now.
Last year Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, blasted hydrogen fuel cells, calling them “extremely silly” and that gives you a good idea of the general feeling for hydrogen tech. |
Gerardo Contino
Gerardo Contino, "El Abogado de la Salsa” and former lead singer of the Cuban mega-group NG La Banda, invigorated the TEDMED 2014 audience with timba – progressive, raucous style of salsa.
“Los Habañeros, features an elite lineup of some of New York’s most highly regarded musicians in Latin music and beyond.” — Timba.com
ABOUT GERARDO
Gritty, witty, and streetwise, the Havana-born Gerardo Contino, “El Abogado de la Salsa,” sings timba—a progressive, raucous style of salsa. This former lead singer of the Cuban mega-group NG La Banda has broken out on his own with a new band and an explosive performing style. Gerardo Contino y Los Habañeros released their debut album in 2013 to critical acclaim, bringing their high-energy party on tours throughout the US, Europe, and Latin America. When not on stage, he is an entertainment lawyer in New York City and performs at the bedside of sick patients with Musicians on Call.
JUST FOR FUN
If you were immortal for a day, what would you do?
Walk to as many poor places that I can and show my music and my art there.
Who had the most influence over your current work?
My mother...she was the first fair listener that I had when I was nine years old. It was a hard time in my country (Cuba); we had a lot of blackouts, sometimes for 16 hours at a time. During those long nights, I sang for hours to my mom. She is my big inspiration today because she supported, encouraged, and listened to me.
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There are 9 recognised power quality problems. Here we look at what they are and how we can protect against them.
Summary of Power Quality Problems and the Solutions
If we pigeon hole our UPS into their designations we have VIX Series, VIS Series, VFI Series and TX Series:
Key:
Why Probably and Probably Not?
Take a Blackout – why is the VIX series a Probably? This is because when running on inverter to protect against the blackout, the VIX does not output a pure sine wave but rather a square wave. This is fine for some systems but not all.
For transients and noise, it depends on the level and mode. In general terms VI technology allows what’s on the input through to the output but there may be a degree of filtration on this which can help. However VFI technology works by converting AC to DC and then back to AC which will remove any noise or transients from the output. However, typically VFI technology has a common Neutral between input and output. This means any noise or transient that effect Neutral to Ground will pass through, generally unimpeded. This is not a cause for concern in the majority of cases, but where it is, the TX series will provide protection against this. |
3. The Factors of Authentication
The ways in which someone may be authenticated fall into three categories, based on what are known as the factors of authentication: something you know, have or are. These factors, and how they may be compromised, are described in Table 1 below.
Table 1 – Descriptions of the factors of authentication
Note that authentication methods based on personal information
suffer from a number of problems:
- There is not much information that can be used and it is either:
- static and cannot be changed (as with the mother’s maiden name of a person), or
- needs to be kept up to date by the customer (for example, if a customer uses their pet’s name, then this may change and must be updated by the customer).
- The value of such information for authentication is degraded as more organisations collect it.
- The information can often be easily discovered by an attacker through research or observation.
Note also that agencies that collect, use and disclose personal information must ensure that what they do complies with the Privacy Act 1993 [7]. This Guidance does not consider authentication keys based on collections of personal information further.
Multi-factor authentication and security: a first look
Multi-factor authentication is defined as the combined use of more than one of the factors of authentication from Table 1. As there are three factors of authentication, there are three possibilities:
- Single-factor authentication – This uses only one of the three factors of authentication. An example is a password (something you know).
- Two-factor authentication – This uses two of the three factors of authentication. Accessing your account through an ATM is based on two factors of authentication: the PIN (something you know) and the ATM card (something you have).
- Three-factor authentication – This uses all three of the factors of authentication. For example, to access a secure site you might need to pass a guard who checks your face against a stored image (something you are), swipe an access card (something you have), and enter a four-digit code (something you know).
Multi-factor authentication is either two-factor or three-factor. Note that using two types of the same factor is not multi-factor authentication. For example, a password and personal information are both what you know, so using them together would still be single-factor authentication.
The strength of authentication keys can vary even within a factor category. Mother’s maiden name, a four-digit code and a random eight-character alphanumeric password are all examples of authentication keys based on what you know, but they each provide different protection against discovery attacks. Consequently, the security of the authentication process is affected by the actual solution used. However, it is generally held that multi-factor authentication improves security. In general, for the examples above:
- To use the password, you need to find out the password.
- To use the ATM card, you need to find out the PIN and steal or copy the ATM card.
- To get into the secure building, you need to steal or copy an access card, find out the access code and have the guard accept your face against one of those on their system.
So the amount of work for an attacker generally increases with the number of factors of authentication used. However, it could be the case that the security of a three-factor authentication method is comparable to, or even worse than, a single-factor method. With the secure site example, maybe the guard can be bribed, new access cards are easy to obtain, and the initial access code is always four zeros. Nevertheless, there is certainly more scope for improving security with multi-factor authentication as compared to single-factor authentication – it comes down to ensuring that the potential strength for an implementation is actually achieved.
Another issue is that the factors of authentication relied upon can change. This is the case when someone writes down his or her password. The password changes from being something you know to something you have. In this case it may be easier to find than to guess the password. This problem typically occurs with systems that force people to use randomly generated passwords. Random passwords are hard to remember, so people tend to write them down and keep them near their computer for convenience. A password might be found by searching the area around a computer, whereas security for the system probably assumes an attacker has to guess a random password. So when the factors relied upon change, the vulnerabilities of the system (and hence the potential attacks against it) do too.
As discussed above, actual implementations will vary in the protection they provide. Other weaknesses, not related to the authentication process, also need to be addressed. These weaknesses may arise out of such things as poor design, lack of security culture, or simple human error. Consider the secure site example: if there is a back door (for example, a fire escape exit) that can be used for entry, the attacker may be able to bypass all authentication checks. In this case it would not matter that you had a diligent guard, a well-controlled access card system and good access code practices. In fact, the authentication system will amount to worse than nothing if there are other ways in, because of the false sense of security it gives.[ Previous ] [ Next ] |
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The relationship between horology and sports is characterized by a rich history and deep roots, yet innovations in sport watches continue to take place today. Originally, the sports world required timepieces that could accurately time events like racing and diving. Increasingly niche sport watches began to emerge, considering more specific complications such as the split-second chronograph which is perfect for calculating precise lap time. Regardless of how many advances are made, one characteristic remains vital for these watches — durability. Sport watches endure extreme stress due to movement, impact, vibrations, and other factors that are inevitable while engaging in a game or event, so these pieces must be crafted to play, and designed to last. Discover the peculiar, yet fascinating world of niche sport watches by reading this article, and learn how different sports have sought to tackle particular timekeeping complexities with luxury watch brands like Paneraiand Tag Heuer.
In an effort to support the sporting industry while increasing their own exposure and brand recognition, luxury watch brands have been sponsoring events, athletes, and league for decades. In fact, Omega has been the timekeeping partner of The Olympic Games since 1932, and today, they design prestigious sport watches like the Seamaster and Speedmaster. Other high-caliber brands like Rolex have strong reputations for manufacturing robust and versatile sport watches. With ties to the infamous Daytona racetrack, the Rolex Daytona was designed in 1963 to meet the demands of professional racers, and the brand continues to celebrate its tie to the world of motor sport as the global partner and official timepiece of Formula 1. The brand’s durable cases help seal timepieces against the elements, supporting a supreme line up of sport watches in their Professional Collection that are beloved by collectors including the Submariner,GMT-Master II, and Explorer. Likewise, luxury brands from Richard Mille to Grand Seiko join the ranks in designing extraordinary sport watches with the RM11-03 and Grand Seiko Sport.
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- 2012 Kawasaki Ninja 650 [Details]
- Kawasaki Ninja 650R India [Ride Review]
- Kawasaki Ninja 650R launched in India [Specs, Price, Photos]
- Its Official, Kawaski Ninja 650R to be launched soon [April 2011]
- Garware Motors launch Hyosung GT650R and ST7 in India [2011 Price]
- Unforgettable date with the Kawasaki Ninja 250R [Review]
- Honda CBR250R Vs. Kawasaki Ninja 250R [by Motorcycle USA]
- India might get the KTM 200 Duke..!! Not the 125 Duke
- Dummies Guide to International Motorcycle Categories
- It's Official, Hyosung GT650R & ST7 in India..!!
- New Honda CBR 150R, India bound?
- Bring this one to India: Honda CBR 150R [Photos/Tech Specs]
- Garware Motors to bring Hyosung GT650 to India..!!
- KTM 125 Duke, Official Specifications & Photos
- KTM 125 Streetbike officially named as KTM 125 Duke!!
- KTM 125, Photo/Video of the Road Version
- Expect KTM models (being called as X-Street) in India by mid 2011
- Suzuki launches GSX-R 1000 and Bandit 1250S in India
- Kawasaki formally re-enters India as "India Kawasaki Motors"
- Indians have unadventurous taste. Part 2: Adventure Touring and Sports Touring Motorcycles
- Indians have unadventurous taste. Part 1: Dual Purpose & Supermoto Motorcycles
- Harley Davidson bookings to start on 20'th April, across 5 cities
- What is a "Superbike"? What is a "Super Sports" bike?
- Vivek Oberoi gets a Ducati 1098
- Ducati in India [Dealership Address + Models + Price]
- Auto Expo 2010 Coverage: Harley Davidson Launches 12 models for India (Priced between 7-35 lakhs)
- Auto Expo 2010 Coverage: Suzuki Motorcycles India
- Suzuki Launches its Big Bad Hayabusa and the Intruder M1800R in India Today..!!
- Why 125 cc bikes are Popular in Europe.. Will Kinetic bring the 125 cc Cagiva bikes to India..??
- Pakistan losing its youth to Wheelies..!!
- KTM bikes for India.. Coming soon to Bajaj Probiking showrooms [RC8 Wallpaper]
- Yamaha launches the R1 and MT-01 in India [R1 & MT-01 Wallpaper]
- 30 BHP, 250 cc, Twin Cylinder Bikes are for Ladies..!!
- I’d rather ride a 250-400 cc slowly through a pothole, than “Day Dream” of riding the R1 on the Golden Quadrilateral..!!
- 2008 Kawasaki Ninja 250R..!! Bring this one to India please.
- Chinese Copies of the Bajaj Pulsar..!!
- plans to launch its 150 C.C by 2008
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- Road to the Indonesian Two Wheeler Industry
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Writing quality content that’s SEO friendly requires a shift in thinking away from search engines to the people who use them. Commit these tips to memory before writing another blog post or landing page.
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In the heady days before Google’s massive update to the content arm of its algorithm, named for its central architect Navneet Panda, writing for SEO was easy. Online factories and their legions of copywriters churned out thousands of keyword repetitive “articles” designed to rank well for targeted keywords. The strategy, in large part, worked. Quality content, as far as Google and other search engines knew it, centered around the prevalence of keywords on pages that matched searcher queries.
It didn’t matter if a website’s content helped searchers. It didn’t matter if the content was little more than 300 words of mishmash keywords and exclamation points. This so-called SEO friendly content ranked well and, with a few high authority backlinks, became near-permanent fixtures on the first page of Google. When Panda was released into the wild in February 2011, its sweeping changes wiped these low-quality websites and their landing pages from the index almost overnight.
Why did Google work to change the content landscape with Panda? Because the tech giant wanted to focus on serving results that better addressed what its users wanted when they opened up their Chrome browser to search. That aim required them to get better at understanding the semantic relationships between words, including the searcher intent and context behind searcher queries.
For example: Did the user type ‘best lunch near me’ into their search box? The algorithm could use multiple information sources, including geo-targeting, browsing behavior, and device used, to find the best results to answer the user’s query. It wasn’t enough for landing pages and blog posts to repeat keywords to rank well. In fact, stuffing them into body copy just to try to rank higher could result in a costly penalty. To earn prominent placement in the era of semantic search, content needed to do exactly what Google was doing — focus on real people.
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People are the most important part of any industry, online or otherwise. Focus on them. |
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On Saturday, the Los Angeles Clippers (16-13 SU, 13-16 ATS) will travel to Oklahoma City to meet the Thunder (8-19 SU, 16-11 ATS) at the Paycom Center. Will the Clippers return to the win column after having their four-game win streak snapped on Wednesday? Or will the Thunder bounce back from a buzzer beating loss […]
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A growing online fan base dubbed the “Maylennials” is flooding the internet with memes and pictures praising Theresa May as a role model and fashion icon.
Blogs and Instagram accounts dedicated to the Prime Minister’s fashion choices and understated political style have been gaining popularity online in the run-up to the General Election.
The “Maylennials” – a small group made up primarily of young women - has been likened to “the Milifandom” associated with former Labour leader Ed Miliband which emerged in the run up to the last election.
A handful of the women behind the accounts and blogs identify as "May supporters" - but stop short of backing Tory policies.
An Instagram account named “It’s Gonna Be T May” – a pun on the famous NSYNC song “It’s Gonna Be Me” shared a series of photographs of the Tory party leader, 60, hitting the campaign trail, out walking with her husband Philip and meeting the Queen.
The page, which has about 100 followers describes itself as a “Theresa May appreciation account” complete with the hashtag #TM4PM”.
One post shows a photo of Mrs May raising her hands in the air after giving a speech with the caption: “Today is the day! Keep Calm and vote for the #Conservatives at the local elections.”
Another popular account named “Theresa May Style”, which has 600 followers, is dedicated to updating followers on the PM’s fashion choices and features daily posts detailing the make of her clothes and shoes.
Laura Dunn, 28, who works in communications and digital media, told the Standard she set up the Instagram account in July 2016 after Mrs May became the Prime Minister.
Ms Dunn, from Wales, who also founded the blog Political Style, said: “I think Maylennials is quite a fun term and fits for many of 18 to 30 year olds who seem to be fans of Theresa May and her fashion sense.
“It’s a perfect fit for the social media generation and Instagram fans. It’s another route to encourage political discussion and make politics accessible for individuals who might not necessarily be interested in policy and party position.
“I admire Theresa May as she is a strong leader, unafraid to take a risk in her politics and her fashion. I think she is inspiring women at all stages of their careers and professions to embrace their personality with their workwear, and be unafraid to admit that they can be clever and like clothes.”
BuzzFeed News spoke to the creator of the “It’s Gonna Be T May” account, a 20-year-old British woman now living in America, who said she admired Mrs May’s “ability to get the job done while still being able to loosen up at times".
She added: “I’m mostly interested in TM and she’s the reason I tolerate the Tories, although I hold views considered to be progressive by most of the Conservative party in the UK.”
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Column #1,187
Blacks Begin Discussing the "M" Word
WASHINGTON - Bill Cosby shocked the
black establishment in a speech on the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs.
Board of Education decision that sparked the
desegregation of America. The Presidents of the NAACP and of Howard
University undoubtedly expected Cosby, who has given millions to such causes
- to praise their "leadership."
He did not. Rather, he praised the giants of the civil
rights era, and contrasted them with today's "lower economic people who are
not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids $500 sneakers for what??"
He rejected the threadbare charges of discrimination:
"We cannot blame white people."
"People putting their clothes on backward. Isn't that
sign of something gone wrong?...People with the hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that
a sign of something, or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up?
...She has her dress all the way up to the...and got all types of needles
going through her body. What part of Africa did this come from? We are
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about Africa.
"They're standing on the corner and they can't speak
English. I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you ain't,'
'Where you is.' ...and I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk and I
heard the father talk. Everybody knows it's important to speak English
except these knuckleheads."
Even a week later, Cosby's blistering comments about
black parenting were keeping the phone lines lit up into radio show host Joe
Madison. Hamil Harris of The Washington Post, reported that Madison
himself was conflicted about Cosby's remarks.
While he thinks Cosby "touched on some truths about the
black community's failure to take responsibility for high school dropout
rates, unwed mothers and young men in prison," Madison said, "Cosby
went overboard when he absolved white America and the government of any
responsibility for the ills of the poor black community."
By contrast, Colbert King, a black Washington Post
columnist who won the Pulitzer Prize this year, recalled that when he was
growing up, black America was less violent and for a reason. "Time was you
could leave your doors unlocked. Your mother could walk to church meetings
at night without a male escort. A child didn't have to fear strangers. And
no boy would think of robbing a helpless old man.
"Time was we had something called families," King
wrote. ."
King then uttered the "M" word: "Here's another
post-Brown truth: The lowest marriage rate of any group belongs to African
Americans. Nearly 70 percent of our children have unmarried moms, and
an equal percentage - one source put it at 80 percent - will grow up without
the presence of their dads."
However, millions of black Americans have made
it. Their English is perfect. There are more African-Americans in
Washington's suburbs than in the city.
What's more stunning - and is widely unknown -
is that married blacks have achieved virtual economic parity with married
whites. In 1999, black couples with both spouses working, earned $60,439.
Compare that with similar white couples who earned $61,878.
The problem, of course, is that black marriage rates
have plunged. As recently as 1970, two-thirds of African-American adults
were married, compared to only a third today.
"White discrimination has nothing to do with this
self-inflicted wound," I wrote on the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther
King's "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
"Here is a cause for the next generation of civil
rights activists and African-American religious leaders."
Easy for me to say as a white guy. What's
encouraging is that black leaders like Bill Cosby and Colbert King are
speaking truth and beginning to mention the "M" word.
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we.I see good reason to support this general assessment of science and its limits. In biology, my hope is that very soon, the speculative efforts of Jeremy English and Simon Conway Morris will begin to poke through the exceedingly tiresome and now boring evolution vs. God debates. Their speculations will, I think, confirm Darwinism as well as the other physical laws that contain and contextualize Darwinian mechanisms that (as we already know) favour species' survival and reproduction. However, I'd be willing to bet that when it comes to the specifics of genomic science (for instance), we will see amazing discoveries that provide us with evidence that further empirical discoveries will continue to be made and are important as such. More discipline-specific discoveries in science. More interdisciplinary insights into the limits of science. Both and...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Stephen Barr Reviews Gingerich
In this fine review of Owen Gingerich's new book, God's Planet, Stephen Barr ends with a rather tantalizing summary of the state of science. Contrary to the science-knows-no-limits crowd that populates the neurosciences in particular, Barr ends with this interesting aside:
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Saturday, May 9, 2015
Professors at Work
This article in the NYT today makes an essential point about what we professors do, or at least what we are supposed to be doing. I think mentorship is the elephant in the room, the necessary thing - in addition to teaching and research - that is being ignored at our own peril, as well as the students' peril.
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Christie’s Honor Roll:
- 2016 ECAC Division III Women’s Soccer Championship All-Tournament Team
As a sophomore (2017) (Game-by-Game Statistics):
- Appeared in 16 of 18 games for the Mustangs, making 13 starts at forward
- Third on the team in points with seven, on two goals and three assists
- Second on the teams in shots with 22, with 12 on goal
- Scored goals against Hood (10/10) and Lycoming (10/21)
- Fired a season-high six shots and dished out an assist at Shenandoah (9/20)
- Helped the team to nine wins, including six shutouts
As a freshman (2016) (Game-by-Game Statistics):
- Appeared in 16 of 19 games for the Mustangs, making seven starts
- Second on the team with 12 points off of six goals
- Led the team with three game winning goals
- Totaled two goals in victories over Hood (10/4) and Chatham (11/12)
- Helped the team to seven victories, including three shutout wins
- Recorded 17 shots, nine on goal
BEFORE STEVENSON/PERSONAL:
- Played at North East High School (Grad. 2016)
- Also played basketball for North East
- Nursing major
- Has one brother, Tristan, and two sisters, Haley and Danielle
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Market Review: December 30, 2020
Closing Recap
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Equity Market Recap
· U.S. stocks fell short of their record highs Tuesday, spending most of the day in positive territory though pared gains into the close as investors position portfolios into year-end. The rollout of coronavirus vaccines and recent signing of a new $900B virus relief aid bill have helped bolstered investors’ expectations for the economy into 2021 with big gains today in materials, energy, and industrials, though technology remains the market leader this year (Nasdaq up around 43% YTD). While markets have been on a straight rise since the November Presidential election, elevated levels of Covid-19 infections, the emergence of a rapidly spreading variant of the virus, economic data showing the rebound is slowing, soaring valuations, record high margin debt and the back-and-forth in Washington over the size of stimulus checks has tempered some of that optimism. In politics, Georgia is holding runoff elections for both U.S. Senate seats on Jan. 5, and the outcome will determine control of the Senate (Republicans currently hold the majority at 50-48).
· IPO market a record year as companies raised $167.2 billion through 454 offerings on U.S. exchanges this year through Dec. 24, compared with the previous full-year record of $107.9 billion at the height of the dot-com boom in 1999, according to Dealogic. There was $67.3 billion raised in the fourth quarter, roughly six times the total for the first three months of the year. The IPO market got a boost from a surprising surge in special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, empty vehicles that raise money through listings and then look for businesses to merge with. Nearly half of all fundraising in the IPO market was for SPACs, and the total raised through SPACs this year is almost six times as much as the vehicles raised in 2019, the previous record-setting year – WSJ
· European stocks ended a five-day winning streak as investors locked in recent gains, although positive vaccine and Brexit trends pointed to a stronger 2021 for regional markets. The pan-European STOXX-600 edged 0.3% lower, still staying close to a 10-month high (down about 3% this year). German shares ended a shortened session about 0.3% lower, in their last trading day this year, but added more than 3% in 2020.
Economic Data
· Chicago PMI for December rises to 59.5 vs. 56.0 consensus and 58.2 prior. New orders slipped two points in December as demand eased, while production ticked up 1.1 points as business activity picked up. Order backlogs rose for the second consecutive month in December, by 3.6 points compared with the previous month. Employment saw the largest gain in December and rose to a one-year high but is still in contraction territory.
· November advance international goods trade balance widened to (-$84.82B) vs. -$82.0B consensus and -$80.4B prior (revised); Advance Retail Inventories rose +0.7% in November to $616.9B vs. +0.8% prior, while Advance Wholesale Inventories fell -0.1% to $649B vs. +0.6% estimate and +0.9% prior
· Pending Home Sales Index fell -2.6% in November vs. est. decline of -0.3%, marking the third straight month of declines, following four months of extended gains and reaching in August the highest level in the historical series. Pending home sales were up 16.4% in November compared with the same month a year earlier
Commodities, Treasuries and Currencies
· Oil prices add to moderate gains, rising 0.83% to $48.40 a barrel after the EIA reports a bullish decline in US crude-oil inventories, and another weekly move higher in gasoline demand. The EIA said U.S. stockpiles of crude fell by -6.1M barrels in the latest week versus forecasts for just a -2.5M-barrel decline. Gold prices rise 0.6% to settle at $1,893.40 an ounce as the U.S. dollar touched a new year low of 89.55 earlier (lowest level since April 2018) as investors continue to put money to work in riskier assets. Gold prices have held up very well this year despite the surge in stocks and both monetary and fiscal stimulus. Bitcoin prices reached another record high as speculators add to the recent momentum with prices topping $28,900, up as much as 8% today. Treasury yields have barely moved over the last few weeks despite stocks making new highs this week, as the 10-year yield remains in the 0.9%-0.95% range.
Sector News Breakdown
Consumer
· Retailers; Guggenheim raised price tgts on several names as KSS tgt raised to $45 from $40, RVLV raised to $35 from $28, CPRI raised to $48 from $28, KTB raised to $46 from $40, LEVI raised to $24 from $20, and TPR raised to $35 from $27 and NKE named best apparel deal for 2021; in Consumer Staples; MKC purchased 100% of the shares of FONA International, LLC and certain of its affiliates, a privately held company for $710 million in cash; CALM tgt cut to $47 from $55 at Stephens saying weak foodservice demand has been impacting industry pricing dynamics
Energy
· Energy stock movers: weekly inventory data was mostly bullish as the API reported last night that U.S. crude inventories fell 4.8 million barrels last week, saw a 718,000 barrel drop in gasoline inventories and a 1.88-million-barrel fall in distillate stocks. This morning, the EIA said weekly crude inventories fell -6.1M barrels vs. -2.6M consensus, gasoline fell -1.2M barrels vs. +1.7M consensus and Distillates rose +3.1M barrels vs. +0.5M consensus. Oil also gained ground on the back of a weaker dollar, a decline in U.S. crude oil inventories and as Britain approved another coronavirus vaccine, but both benchmarks remains on track to end the year about 20% lower. Energy stocks were among the top gainers in the S&P 500 on the day.
Financials
· Financial news: FTIV rises as Boutique investment bank Perella Weinberg Partners agrees to go public through a merger with FTIV, backed by banking entrepreneur Betsy Cohen, in a deal valued at $975M; VNO was upgraded to Buy from Hold with $42 tgt at Argus noting shares are down 44% year-to-date due to the pandemic, and in our view offer a favorable entry point; MA tgt raised to $397 from $384 at Stephens as they expect cross border sentiment to improve by the beginning of next year
Healthcare
· Pharma movers; AZN rises after announcing that its COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for emergency supply in the U.K., with the first doses being released today so that vaccinations may begin early in the New Year; PLX reports positive results from final analysis of its late-stage study of PRX-102, its experimental treatment for Fabry Disease; EBS and Mount Sinai Health System announced the start of a clinical program to evaluate whether a therapy could help protect individuals following exposure to Covid-19; ALT begins multinational phase 2 clinical trial of heptcelltm, a novel immunotherapeutic for the treatment of chronic hepatitis b
· Biotech movers; OSMT plunges after saying the U.S. FDA declined to approve its arbaclofen ER tablets to treat spasticity in multiple sclerosis patients; REGN announced encouraging initial data from covid-19 antibody cocktail trial in hospitalized patients on low-flow oxygen; first antibody therapy to demonstrate anti-viral effect in patients hospitalized with covid-19; MRNA said it will offer its new Covid-19 vaccine to its own employees, contractors and board members; INCY said it agreed to collaborate with privately held clinical-stage biotech company Cellenkos Inc. in the treatment of myelofibrosis, a rare, chronic blood cancer
· Healthcare services and providers; ACHC reached an agreement to sell its U.K. operations to Waterland Private Equity for about 1.078 billion pounds ($1.47 billion) as expects net proceeds of about $1.350 billion net of transaction costs and the settlement of currency hedging liabilities; FMS said it plans to begin administering the intravenous treatments nationwide this week at facilities dedicated to handling COVID-19 patients or during shifts set up for only those patients; PDCO slid after Piper said that DSO Heartland Dental selected one of Patterson’s competitors as its primary distribution partner effective April 1, 2021
Industrials & Materials
· Metals, Materials, Industrial & Machinery; CAT named top 2021 idea at Baird as sees setup like 2010, 2017 where stock outperformed by 50%; FDX tgt raised to $305 from $270 at Argus and raising EPS estimates for this year and next; big day for metals which saw broad-based strength on the day as FCX, X, AA among gainers in aluminum, copper, and steel spaces
Technology, Media & Telecom
· Tech movers: JD said its board authorizes the company to explore feasibility of potential spin-off of JD Cloud & AI business to JD Digits, in which co owns a significant minority stake; MVIS slips after entering into a $13M At-the-Market (ATM) equity offering agreement; MODN announced John Ederer as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer, which comes nearly 3 months after the surprise departure of then CFO David Barter; FUBO shares fall a 5th day ahead of lock-up expiry today, short call for Kerrisdale Capital as well as recent cautious sell-side related research calls (Lightshed and Hedgeye)
· Semiconductors outperform after recent underperformance as the Philly Semi index (SOX) came into the day down six of the last 7 days, pulling back from recent record highs (note NVDA and AMD among the best performing S&P components this year). Reuters noted a global chip shortage threatens production of laptops, smartphones and more. Makers of cars and electronic devices from TVs to smartphones are sounding alarm bells about a global shortage of chips, which is causing manufacturing delays as consumer demand bounces back
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Gaze upon my 29-inch-long, seven-pound speckled trout (aka spotted sea trout), caught in Lemon Bay, FL.
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Wow, that’s some fish! I don’t really know what my favorite tasting fish is, which is a bit strange. Hm. Need to think on that.
Trout Meuniere is my favorite dish of ’em all. Throw some sautéed crabmeat on top and I’m in heaven.
It’s a close race between meuniere and amandine, but I think a case can be made for pecans in browned butter, too.
Meah dats a bid fish yeah. That is truly bigger than I have ever caught before. Good job! My vote is for a little tanned butter and crushed toasted sesame sticks.
It was a big fish…Capt Van’s pastor ate it for Sunday dinner.
That fish was big, but I seem to remember a few big snooks, and one other large, inedibile fish on that trip. You definitely had the biggest trout.
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Please include me in this drawing. I loved the book & would enjoy hearing this audio version---especially since my cousin told me she's not giving my copy back any time soon :) Thanks to you & Audible for the generous offer! reneeasmith61 [at] yahoo [dot] com
I love both The Winter Sea and The Firebird, and now I can't wait to listen to the audiobooks as well. It sure takes talent and hard work on the narrator's part to transform a great book into an exceptional performance.
I just finished reading the book and completely loved it. I would be glad to have a copy for my Audible library
Thank you so much for the giveaway! I've loved audiobooks for my drive to work and I think this would be a wonderful book to listen to :)
The Winter Sea is one of my all-time favorite books. I'm reading The Rose Garden right now. Can't wait to get to Firebird. I'd love to do it on audio.
Thanks for showing us a little behind-the-scenes of the audio books. I've never really thought about the need for talent to consult with the author before. That is really cool. And as someone who has dreams of her books being made into audio books, it's also very comforting!
Lovely versions!
Very exciting to read (and now, listen) to your books!
I am new to your books but have now finished (& really enjoyed) both The Winter Sea and The Rose Garden. Thank you for the lovely stories and now for the insight into the recording of their audio-book versions!
Love, love, love your books! Just started Firebird and was so excited to learn that you have tied The Winter Sea and Shadowy Horses into this book! Your creativity astonishes me! Thanks for keeping me so emotionally invested in your stories. :)
Love your books - thanks for the audio giveaway.
Mariana was my first experience with your wonderful tales. From the first page I was hooked. I have since read the Rose Garden and the Winter Sea, and am about to start Shadowy Horses. Although I've read them on my Kindle I plan on purchasing 'real' books as well to add to my collection of those books I treasure the most. I would also love to experience one of your stories read aloud.
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I have read The Firebird twice and have read The Winter Sea countless times. I love these characters and would so love to win the audio version of The Firebird. Just love that story. Also loved The Shadowy Horses and am so glad that Robbie is a main character in The Firebird. Have loved reading all of your books, Susanna.
I enjoy reading what goes into making an audiobook, especially when the characters and times are as varied as they are in your novels. You really put those narrators through the ringer (and they love you for it, no doubt)! I just purchased all five of your books on Sunday - I blazed through "Mariana" and am now reading "The Rose Garden".
I don't think I realized ALL that went into the recording of a book. Hope the voices sound as good as the ones in my head!
I have so much respect for those who can replicate various accents - and I imagine that the many Scottish dialects are not easy! It seems to me that it is not easy to create a realistic audiobook of complex, multi-accented books like yours - I am in awe of those who can correctly perform various accents and who can create wonderful audio versions of fantastic books.
I think it goes without saying that I love your books! I wouldn't have visited your blog or come to your presentation and signing in Houston if I were not a huge fan!
I have not had the pleasure of hearing any of your books on audio (other than the excerpts that you've provided) - and, I would love to have a copy of the audio version of The Firebird to add to my library!
it's an honor to be able to "listen to a story" - thanks for all the hard work that goes into them !!
Amazing what goes into the audio recordings of the books. Since my commute to work as increased, listening has definitely helped pass the time (and my "road rage" lol). But nothing is like a real book. love love your books!!
I would love to win a copy of the audio version of your book "The Firebird". So much work goes into the making of a book in this manner. I am one of your biggest fans and have just about read all of your books....but they are so intriguing and I have read some more than once. It would be exciting to have your book to "hear". I would listen to mine (if I win a copy) and then donate it to our local library for so many others to enjoy. Thank you for your stories ....... I enjoy them so very much. Wishing you well. Charlotte Kosa :D
The narrators who can build the pirate ship of voices really bring books to life in audio recordings. I've heard great things about Firebird, and would love to opportunity to win a copy of the audio.
Ahh, Katie Kellgren is one of my favorite narrator's. Would love to win this book, thanks for the contest.
Hi Judy, and congratulations! You're one of the three winners of the giveaway. Please email me at susanna(underscore)kearsley(at)yahoo(dot)ca and I'll send you the redemption code for your audiobook.
Best,
Susanna
Wow, I guess I never gave much thought to what the narrators do to prepare. Thanks so much for the blog post and the opportunity to win a copy of "Firebird".
This has made me see the audio narrators in a totally different light. I've listened to Davina Porter numerous times and an totally fascinated and amazed by her abilities with male/female, age, heritage, etc.
I have read The Winter Sea too many times to count and I am now in my second reading of Firebird and never really gave the complications of their accents much thought, but your descriptions above make me all the more eager to hear them!!
Thank you for the opportunity to win this!!
Donna
Interesting post!
I am a new reader of your books. You recently came to one of the libraries in Fredericksburg, VA and although I wasn't able to make it to the event I have since read all of your books, but never listened to one. It would be a real treat to listen to Firebird on audio book!
Awesome! I just heard about your books and heard the soundbites. I hope I get to read them soon!
I'm a big fan and enjoy your books so much. After my husband lost his site I now have him enjoying them in audio. Keep it up aways waiting for the next one.
I'm in awe of audiobook narrators who go above and beyond simply "reading" the book. It makes the listening experience a true joy.
Loved reading both Winter Sea and Firebird, bet it would be even better in audio with all the accents! I've got Rose Garden up on my reading list next, looking forward to it immensely :)
I just finished The Winter Sea and I loved it! that is the first Susanna Kearsley book I have read. I then decided to find her and like her on facebook so I can see what other awesome books she has written! Now I found this site, where maybe, just maybe I could win a free copy of Firebird!!! EEEEE, that would be soooo exciting :)
I would LOVE to hear the Audible version of The Firebird. Fabulous book.
I'm an audiobook fanatic and Katherine Kellgren is my favorite narrator! I'd love to win a copy of The Firebird!
Hi Tiffany, and congratulations! You're one of the three winners of the giveaway. Please email me at susanna(underscore)kearsley
at)yahoo(dot)ca and I'll send you the redemption code for your audiobook.
Best,
Susanna
I love Katherine Kellgren's voice and would love to hear the firebird. please enter me in the contest. thanks
I'm always on the lookout for good listens for my commute. It would be fun to win.
I love audio-books and your description of the process makes me appreciate both author and narrator even more.
The Firebird is my favorite novel of yours so far, and I enjoy listening to audio books. There's just something soothing to me in being read to. I'd love to win a copy but will have to check it out no matter what!
I LOVE ALL Your novels!! We are reading Mariana this moth for my bookclub this month! I can't wait to share you with them. I know they will be hooked!! Firebird was wonderful and I loved how your incorporated characters from The Winter Sea AND Shadowy Horses. Made it even more real. Love your books!
I enjoyed the book and would love to hear the audiobook.
I've read all three books at least three times! There's always something new to be discovered during each re-read. I listen to audio books when I'm at the gym and when I'm driving, so winning one of yours would make me very, very happy!
I'm reading the Firebird right now! Thanks for the opportunity to win the audio book. And thank you for taking us back to Eyemouth and Cruden Bay and Rob! I might have teared up a little when Rob took Nicola to his parents' house and we got an update on Jeannie and the Sentinel. And when Nicola mentioned the horses. Thank you for your books, period.
Love, love, love your books, Susanna! I adore your creative meld of magic, romance, history, and family! Keep up the great work! :)
I'd love a chance to win The Firebird in audio (love Rob all grown up!). I listen to far more audio books than I do music, these days. Susanna is one of my favorite authors.
This sounds like a wonderful process, discussing the characters and their voices and getting it just right. What a treat it would be to hear this story come to life on audio. I just finished The Firebird and thought it was exquisite - just beautiful. And I learn something new with each of your books.
Awesome blog about the process of audiobooks. I listen to audiobooks all the time and have been for years. Audiobooks have come a long way. The Firebird is a great book, I read when it came out in the UK. (Order my copy from over seas, had to wait to 2 weeks for shipping but well worth it) can't wait to listen to the book.
You are my favorite author :) I love all your books in general and I love many authors but I don't own all their books like I own yours, haha. I wrote this on your facebook a while back but The Firebird just stole my heart. The Winter Sea has always been my favorite but everything that left a sorrowful crook in my heart from what life denied Sophia and John... I about died with surprise, when you twisted fate to bring them back together in honestly the strange and wonderful way life really kind of works. And I'm not often jealous of book characters but Nicola found herself a good one, lol! But we all knew in the Shadowy Horses that Rob was going to grow up to be a good one :) I'm so excited about The Firebird being on audio! I'm a kindergarten teacher and don't have a lot of time to read during the school week, so I binge read in large amounts! ;) It's going to be wonderful to be able to listen to it on the way to work or back home! Thank you again for your stories and sharing your worlds and characters/friends with us :)
I love your books! I own all of them and re read them many times... I even named my daughter after Sophia! I would love a chance to win this audio book!
Thank goodness for Kindle Daily Deals! I bought The Shadowy Horses when it was featured on Amazon, and I am so glad I did! Since then I have devoured The Winter Sea and The Firebird. I'm now in the middle of The Rose Garden. Next in line is Mariana, and I just purchased Named of the Dragon from the UK! I can't wait to get my greedy little hands on A Desperate Fortune. I can't stop! I'm addicted!
Dear Susanna:
Only days ago I completed Mariana, and thus completed my "Summer of Susanna" reading all of your books. It began, harmlessly enough, back in June when I discovered "The Winter Sea". It's been a whirlwind of reading, ending with the perfectly lovely Mariana.
I have also begun listening to "The Winter Sea" on audio, and it is a lovely bedtime story.
It would be a great pleasure to listen to "The Firebird"....
Hi Lianne, and congratulations! You're one of the three winners of the giveaway. Please email me at susanna(underscore)kearsley
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Best,
Susanna
Just finished a reread of The Shadowy Horses so I could get acquainted with Robbie again. Now ready to dive into The Firebird!
All three of these audio books are just beautiful. I keep checking to see if you have any more Audible releases. |
WWII was a very hard fought battle. The pacific war in the 1940(s) was a hard fought battle. Casualties on both sides were high. The weapon at hand, the atomic bomb was on the U.S. side. Losing so many lives was what brought the U.S. to want to end the war. It was on August 6th 1945 that the U.S. would drop the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan and force the Japan into a immediate, unconditional surrender. However, the Japanese debated over what to do. In the meantime, the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb 3 days later over the city of Nagasaki Japan.
On August 14, 1945, Japanese Emperor Hirohito cabled the U.S. to surrender, and agreed to the terms of the Potsdam Declaration.
On August 15, 1945, news of the surrender was announced to the world. World War II was finally over. Hostilities ended. On September 2, 1945, the Japanese formally surrendered aboard the U.S. battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. President Truman declared this to be V-J Day.
I hadn't thought about the historical events anniversary dates. I would like to visit Pearl Harbor.
would be cool I believe but then I think it might be a bit sad
Thanks for this very timely reminder!
WW I & II were tragic parts of our human history. War is never an answer to solving problems between nations, and it is my prayer that all nations will continue to find better alternatives to war. |
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Through the eyes of Hunter Duncan, life is a culmination of past pleasantries and earnest emotions mused through a pocket full of songs.
A Columbia, South Carolina native transplanted to Nashville, Duncan’s project, Yosef, paints his tracks with an introspective loneliness, narrating the life of this singer-songwriter. Drawing from the influences of musical pioneers Nirvana and Ryan Adams, Yosef reflects on the modern soul’s relationships with faith, drinking, and love to reveal the complicated realities of the human experience.
Yosef started his musical roots with his first album Run Wild, a formation of identity through broken-hearted ballads. Eventually retreating to the acoustic guitar as his canvas, Yosef began writing a series of intimate songs, ultimately developing into his limited run release, Learn To Endure. Since then, he has played countless shows across the country, performing at festivals and your local dive haunts.
“Clever conversations, that’s what songwriting is to me. I’ve never been able to say what I want to say immediately and it always takes time, but songwriting is my chance to shout the comebacks I never had, and say the things I wanted to say but never did.” said Hunter Duncan.
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If you’re shopping for a weekend jetsetter this year, read on for The Blonde Banana’s holiday gift guide for travelers.
The weekend traveler is a unique breed. We’re willing to sacrifice sleep and pay a premium to see the world on short trips, yet we want to maximize every getaway with luxurious touches and once-in-a-lifetime experiences. We want to be prepared on the go, to be comfortable in-flight and to bring a taste of foreign adventures with us when we return home.
Cashmere Cozy Travel Set, $205 // Anyone else constantly freezing on plane and bus rides? Say no thanks to the icky airline blanket and pack your own five star sleeping experience, even when flying coach. This super soft cashmere blanket and eye mask set is compact and lightweight; perfect for stashing in your carryon for overnight journeys.
Cities by Rooftop 2015 Calendar, $24 // Travel addicts are always thinking about the next trip. Give them the gift of travel inspiration in 2015 with this charming calendar that offers a bird’s eye view of cities from Paris to Rio. Handcrafted by a Florida-based stationary boutique, each design is hand painted before being reproduced in the studio.
Cork Globe, $190 // Let them show off all the places they’ve been with this cork globe, which can be decorated with pushpins to represent countries and cities visited. The perfect desk accessory for wanderers-at-heart who are stuck in the office all week long.
Private Jet Luggage Tag, $7 // An easy explanation for the next time your jetsetter is caught in coach class by someone they know. This luggage tag from Flight 001, one of my favorite travel accessory brands, is a great stocking stuffer.
Bananagrams, $12 // How do you make friends on the go? Whip out this addictive Scrabble-like game. A fun and wallet-friendly gift idea for the solo traveler.
Glove.ly Cozy Lined Touchscreen Gloves, $30 // Don’t miss the opportunity to snap photos and share your travels with friends and family back home just because it’s too freezing to take out your phone. I’ll be packing these tech-friendly gloves for my February weekend in Norway; they’re extremely warm and I love how a magnet holds them together when you take them off. Nothing’s worse than losing one glove!
Smartphone Attachable Lens-Style Camera, $398 // An accessory that turns your smartphone into a DSLR-like quality camera is worth the splurge. Leave your bulky equipment at home and pack this miniature option in your carry-on. It attaches to your phone and lets you shoot images through the phone’s screen, allowing you to wirelessly save them to your device and share on social media.
Short PJ Set, $98 // Weekend travelers are OK with budget accommodations, but there’s nothing better than a nice hotel room. Order room service and sleep late in these cute and comfy shorty knit pajamas from Eberjey.
Explore More Pouch, $18 // When in doubt, every frequent flier can always use another zipper pouch for organizational purposes. They’re an easy and stylish way to pack everything from jewelry and cords to make up and travel documents.
And that wraps up the 2014 gift guide for travelers who love weekend getaways and short vacations. Follow the board on Pinterest, as I’ll be adding my travel gift guide finds daily throughout the month for additional shopping inspiration. What’s on your holiday wish list this year?
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I adore that cork globe, too bad it’s too rich for my blood
The Bananagrams game is a win as well.
Bananagrams! We actually are travelling for 10 months and it’s always with us. Great for those mega long trains or hostels. We are travelling with carry-ons so I had to give up two pairs of socks for it to fit in my bag but so worth it.
Plus I need that cork globe.
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BC: In Loving Memory | Romeo F. Laise Dec 2, 1929 - June 8, 2006 | Eternal rest, grant unto him, Oh Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul... through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
FC: Family Memories | 2004 - 2009
1: Dearest Mother, This memory album was created especially for you with much love in November 2009, to be my gift to you for Christmas 2009. The chronology for the display of these photos is from most recently taken in 2009, then going back in time to 2004. I thought that would be a different approach to viewing photographic memories, and I hope you find it interesting. I would have done more, but most of my photos from earlier than 2004 were not digital as of the time of this compilation. Also because of the amount of time it took to create this would have meant it would not be ready for you by Christmas! My hope is that it will bring joy to you each time you open it and peruse these pages, but I also know it will bring a few tears too, especially the back cover. But those tears should be of joy, since we know your beloved husband, my father, is in God's Kingdom in eternal bliss, where we will one day all be reunited, if the Good Lord desires it! God bless and keep you forever, my wonderful mother! You have been an amazing source of inspiration to me in your practice of the Catholic faith, and I thank God to the depth of my soul that He gave you to me as my mother. With Abundant Love & Gratitude,
2: Gifts from Grandma Laise for Kathryn's 18th Birthday; the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes was Doris Lefebvre's (Rita's mother), who bought it at age 14 in 1921!
3: Ryan, Jim, Kathryn, Rita, Matthew & Paulette at Dayton Place Dining Hall | 2009 | Grandma Rita Laise with eldest grandchild, Ryan White
5: October 2009 Siblings Reunite! | Rita Laise & Roger Lefebvre with son Roger AND Frank, Jim & Paulette (White) Laise
6: Bolognese Pasta Dinner At Paulette's Oct 25, 2009 (pasta made by Frank) | Those present were Frank & Jim Laise, Paulette White & her 4 kids, Roger & Roger Lefebvre
7: COLORADO RAILROAD MUSEUM Golden, CO - Oct 24, 2009 | Roger Lefebvre - Railroad Aficionado | Frank Laise, Paulette, Kathryn & Matthew White, & Roger Lefebvre & son, Roger ventured here
8: Jim Laise's 56th b'day at the Brosseau's June 6, 2009 | Kathryn M. White - Senior Photo Eaglecrest High School - Sept 2009 | Matthew White turns 12! April 12, 2009
9: Easter at Grandma Laise's April 12, 2009
10: Christmas Eve 2008 at the Brosseau's | Top: Jen & Bob, Denine & Natalie Center: Dan, Paulette & Matthew White Bottom: Jamison, Matthew & Dan
11: Rita & Jim Laise at Paulette's on Christmas Day 2008 | Paulette White & Rita Laise at the Amechi Italiani Dinner on 12-12-2008 | Bob Turra dancing with wife, Holly
12: John & Angel Spaccarelli & sons, John & Victor - Thanksgiving 2008 at the Walsh's home in Hopewell Junction, NY
13: Thanksgiving 2008 (coincided with Kathryn's 17th birthday) | Ryan gave Grandma Laise a nice massage | Kathryn read her tribute to Grandma & other family members
14: Luau at Dayton Place August 2008 | Rita & Jim Laise, Paulette, Ryan, Daniel, Kathryn & Matthew White
15: Ryan White's 24th Birthday July 2008
16: Congratulations Grads! | Jessica Laise Carroll College Helena, MT MAY 2007 Received a Degree in Nursing, & soon after earned her designation as an "RN" & became employed with Children's Hospital in Seattle, WA
17: Daniel White Eaglecrest High School & Matthew White 5th Grade Continuation Sunrise Elementary JUNE 2008
18: Denver International Airport May 2008 Frank was on a layover from Seattle headed to Kansas City on business
19: At Mimi's Cafe February 2008 celebrating Rita Laise's 77th Birthday | At Tuscany Valley Restaurant Easter March 2008 Rita & Jim Laise, Paulette, Ryan, Daniel, Kathryn & Matthew White
20: Chris Allen & Ryan White at Senor Ric's Restaurant | Daniel White at Grandma Laise's | 2007
21: 2007 At Dayton Place | Daniel, Matthew, Ryan & Kathryn at home that evening
22: Daniel White as "Mario the Chef" & at the Olive Garden on his 17th birthday - OCT 2007; At Aspen Ranch in the Rocky Mountains - Dec 2007 | <-- Daniel with Dixie
23: Ryan Anthony White became a Marine at MCRD-San Diego March 2006 Home on leave April 2006
24: Thanksgiving 2005 | Rita Laise & Mary Martin - June 2006 | Lou & Elaine Berardi Manchester, NJ
25: Angel Spaccarelli's visit to CO - Sept 2005 & Dinner at the Brosseau's - Aug 2005 Romeo, Rita & Jim Laise, Paulette White, Bob & Jen Brosseau | Angel's homemade pizza!
26: Top: Wendy, Frank, Chris & Jessica Laise Right: Paulette White & Children: Ryan, Daniel, Kathryn & Matthew November 2004
27: Left: Romeo & Rita Laise with their six grandchildren: Ryan White, Jessica & Chris Laise, Daniel, Kathryn & Matthew White (listed oldest - youngest) | Right: Romeo & Rita Laise with their three children: Frank & Jim Laise, & Paulette White | Love
28: Early July 2004 Roger & Theresa visit Rita & family in Denver, CO at the Embassy Suites | Late July 2004 Romeo Laise returned from Italy & dined with Rita, Jim & Paulette at Mimi's Cafe in Aurora
29: Late July 2004 Romeo & Rita Laise visited Paulette, Ryan, Daniel, Kathryn & Matthew White in Aurora, CO | Ages of people on this page at time of photos: Romeo - 74, Rita - 73, Paulette - 47, Ryan - 19, Daniel - 13, Kathryn - 12, & Matthew - 7 |
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Bill calls for end of state ABC storesPublished 11:24am Saturday, February 2, 2013
By David Goodwin, Outlook Staff Writer
Should the sale of alcohol be a concern of state government? That’s the question state Sen. Arthur Orr would like answered in the next session, as he works to trim expenses out of the general fund budget.
Orr (R-Decatur) said he’ll present a bill in the regular session that would privatize the state’s 231 liquor-peddling ABC Stores, putting licenses to fill that role to a bid process.
“It’s an option,” Orr said.
The question, he said is “should the state be in the retail alcohol sales business in the 21st century?”
“Is that truly a state function?” he asked. “Enforcement obviously is. Taxation is. But there are hundreds of private retailers in the marketplace. Why is the state competing with them?”
Orr said the key is to work out a system where the enforcement and taxation functions are accomplished without interruption, but the overhead of staffing the hundreds of individual stores is shifted to the private sector.
Orr said it’s hard to pin down a specific cost-savings, but the state fiscal office study found a potential savings of around $45 million.
Sen. Tom Whatley, (R-Auburn) said he wanted to learn more about the proposed bill.
“Any time we can save the taxpayers of Alabama money and continue to grow the economy, that is what we want to do,” Whatley said.
There have been concerns in past years that privatizing the stores would lead to an increase of underage drinking. Orr said he’s still discussing the specific language to target such concerns, admitting the move might require the ABC Board to “ratchet it up” to be sure underage drinkers can’t take advantage of the privatized system.
As for the 600-plus employees who staff the retail liquor outlets, Orr said they would get preference for other jobs in state government. There was also a chance, he said, of giving preference to private bidders who hire the former state-employed ABC clerks.
“We want to do all we can to mitigate the impact on state employees working at the retail level,” Orr said.
Orr said he’s still waiting for the precise savings projections and discussing concerns with his colleagues.
“We’re very close to having a draft finalized,” Orr said. “We need to make sure the dollars are significant enough to make it attractive for the general fund, and be sure we’ve addressed all the concerns so there aren’t any unintended consequences.”
The 2013 regular session begins Feb. 5.
Goodwin is the political editor for The Wetumpka Herald.
I don’t think the “State stores” compete with the private stores. People have a choice as to where they get their liquor. ABC Stores are the cheapest option. The private stores get their liquor from ABC and then mark up the price. Mr Orr needs to get the facts before he runs his mouth! |
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Growing from Strength to Strength: the Ruteng women PAR group tackles COVID-19
As you weave through the rolling landscape of Eastern Indonesia, up along mountain ridges, past lines of banana trees, clusters of coffee plants and cattle wandering alongside busy roads, you’ll eventually arrive at Ruteng. It is here, that something wonderful is happening, it is here that you will find the Ruteng Women’s Group, a dedicated group of marginalised women working with their communities to promote safe, accessible and inclusive Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).
"It is very important for women to be a part of water, sanitation, and hygiene activities," says Krispina, a leading member of the Ruteng women’s group, "We are the ones responsible for our households, but also for influencing our families and communities on changing behaviour."
These women formed the group after stepping forward to join the women Participatory Action Research (PAR) group, an initiative delivered under the Plan International's ‘WASH and Beyond –Transforming Lives in Eastern Indonesia’ project, supported by the Australian Government, through Water for Women.
They had always been passionate about the health and safety of their families and their communities, and this PAR group gave them the confidence and voice to do something about it.
Their positive influence on the community resonated so greatly that the local government took steps to make them members of the regional STBM (‘Total Sanitation’ including sanitation and hygiene) team. The Camat (local district leader) even gave the women the use of his car to work with the broader community on WASH related issues to ensure they could reach as many people as possible.
The challenge of COVID-19 has given the Ruteng Women’s Group even more purpose in their work, they found creative and engaging ways to tell their stories of the impacts of COVID-19 to their communities. They began by writing songs and taking photographs. In considering their next steps, they decided it was important to learn more about hygiene practices that would reduce the spread of COVID-19 and undertook online training provided by Yayasan Plan International Indonesia on handwashing and wearing protective gear such as face masks.
By combining their love of singing and dancing and their new found knowledge around COVID-19 prevention, the women created a song about handwashing and facemask wearing and recorded it as a way to amplify their message and help it reach the broader community through online social media channels.
This is a wonderful example coming out of Indonesia of what happens when women are given a voice and the opportunity to contribute to the health and wellbeing of their community. Thank you to Plan International and the Ruteng Women’s Group for working hard on COVID-19 preparedness and response in your communities and beyond!
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In Indonesia, our partners Plan International and Yayasan Plan International are on the front line of the COVID-19 response.
Plan have have adapted their WASH activities to respond to COVID-19 by focusing on strong behaviour change tools and approaches to raise awareness across their project communities, whilst maintaining their focus on gender and social inclusion.
This has involved a mix of direct hygiene promotion within communities as well as broader health and prevention communications through radio and social media campaigns, such as this fantastic animation. These efforts have helped Plan reach an estimated 43,000 people with important hygiene and prevention messaging.
Plan has also been supporting women and people with disabilities to adapt their work and businesses to meet the new demands brought about by COVID-19 for protective clothing such as fabric face masks. |
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Clean coal: Firm claims world's first commercially viable, zero-carbon power plant is 'game changer.'
A revolutionary technique to capture carbon emissions from coal-fired power stations has been shown to work on a commercially viable basis for the first time, the company behind it has claimed. Government -- would be a "game-changer".
While carbon-capture-and-storage systems have been tested on power stations, they have remained too expensive to make economic sense.
But a 10-megawatt power station in Chennai, India, is currently using CCSL's system to generate electricity on a commercial basis while capturing some 97 per cent of its carbon emissions, the firm's chief executive Aniruddha Sharma told The Independent. And he said it could run at 100 per cent.
The World Coal Association said the news was "genuinely very exciting", adding it was one of a number of developments in the field that could see the widespread adoption of carbon capture in about 10 years.
The issue hit the headlines over the weekend when Donald Trump predicted coal would "last for 1,000 years in this country", because of "a thing called clean coal", during the second US presidential debate.
CCSL says it developed a new solvent that makes the carbon capture process up to 66 per cent cheaper than traditional methods, costing $30 per tonne of carbon compared to $60 to $90.
Speaking to The Independent from India, Mr Sharma admitted some had doubted their method could work so well.
"There was some scepticism, but I hope this plant in Chennai will allay any concerns," he said.
"I think slowly people are gaining confidence and trust that, yes, this is possible and this is happening now.
"This is a project that is completely commercial -- there's no Government grant, there's no subsidy. We got a bank loan.
"Clean coal is absolutely competitive with any form of renewable energy out there. At $30, I would say clean coal would be much cheaper than any other renewable forms of electricity.
"There is no doubt that clean coal is definitely going to play a very important role for UK and US energy power generation and elsewhere."
While the Chennai plant is relatively small, Mr Sharma said it would be possible to use their technique on large power stations that make significant contributions to the national grid.
"We can absolutely scale up the tech. We can go all the way to 1,000MW," he said.
Next month they plan to start taking people from the industry around the plant, with Mr Sharma saying: "Seeing is believing.
"Our technology is just making it easier for people to say 'yes, it works'."
While carbon capture has been associated with storing carbon -- for example by returning it to coal mines -- the material taken out of the Chennai plants emissions is made into soda ash, then sold to make a range of products from detergents to glass.
Asked about Mr Trump's endorsement of clean coal, Mr Sharma declined to comment.
The solvent was the brainchild of Prateek Bumb, CCSL's chief technology officer and co-founder.
"Our technology is certainly real. It is proven at scale and can significantly reduce the cost of carbon capture," he said.
"Moving to success with clean coal means finding an economic way to use the captured carbon dioxide or store it.
"By continuing to improve the economics of capture we hope to play our part in making carbon dioxide a cost-effective feedstock for many industrial processes, as we have shown in this project in India."
Mr Sharma said their firm had been created "out of a university dorm room with a vision we would be able to bring the cost of carbon capture down to a point where it makes commercial sense".
He suggested Mr Bumb was a candidate for a Nobel Prize, given the apparent significance of the new solvent.
"I absolutely would like it to happen. He definitely should get it -- that's the dream," Mr Sharma said.
Benjamin Sporton, chief executive of the World Coal Association, said carbon-capture-and-storage was "an absolutely critical part of the climate mitigation portfolio".
"The work his company has done -- this particular project is up and running -- is genuinely very exciting," he said.
"It certainly does provide potential for the future. It's one of many developments in the carbon capture field that we are beginning to see."
However he expected it would take up to 10 years before carbon capture was widely used.
"We're talking in the next decade or so before we start to see a lot of these plants coming into play," Mr Sporton said.
The UK Government is currently consulting on plans announced last year to stop using "unabated coal" by 2025.
It set up a four-year, £1bn competition for firms to develop a viable system of carbon-capture-and-storage, but then controversially scrapped the prize just six months before it was due to pay out.
Mr Sporton suggested carbon capture could take off over the next decade, but might not do so in the UK.
"What I'd like to see from the UK Government is some policy towards CCS," he said.
"We had the decision last year to abandon the CCS competition. That was disappointing because that was a good opportunity to start seriously progressing CCS in the UK.
"If we are going to see CCS take off in the UK, we need some Government direction and some policies.
"As to whether or not we'll see a coal-fired CCS plant in the UK in the next 10 years, I'm not sure."
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A collection of 9,000 bottles of whisky goes for more than £3m, a spate of boozy thefts, and Tequila slammers with caustic soda. It’s a wild ride of a Nightcap this week.
Well, another Burns Night has been and gone. We hope you thoroughly enjoyed the annual celebration of whisky, haggis, and the man himself. We certainly did. Particularly because our humble blog was delighted to announce the winner of our Burns Night poetry competition 2022, who faced stiff opposition from nearly 300 entries.
That is loads of people. The Spartans held over 100,000 Persians with that number. Thank you very much to all who entered and congratulations to our top three. To see their entries you can click on the blog link, or watch this fantastic video featuring top Scot and master distiller Brendan McCarron who reading the winning entry aloud.
Elsewhere, we got all excited about Lochlea doing whisky bits for the first time, the revival of Scottish rye, the Moscow Mule, and the loveliness of liqueurs. There were also some MoM exclusive whiskies to shout about, as well as a look back at what you wanted most from us in 2021 and what makes Ron Abuelo so interesting.
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Whisky buff sells 9,000 bottle collection for £3.3m
History has been made this week after the largest whisky collection in the world to come to auction was sold. Whisky Auctioneer helped record-breaker Pat move over 9,000 bottles across 23 auctions, with the final auction on 22 November 2021 bringing the total raised to a whopping £3,360,000. It took over 12 months to auction the collection, which featured over 5,000 Scotch single malts, more than 1,000 blended whiskies, over 600 American whiskies, and hundreds of often-overlooked grain whiskies and independent bottlings. Pat, who bought his first whiskies based on the recommendation of a colleague, said that building a collection was never the original goal, he just wanted to try everything. “There were so many releases, distilleries and countries to explore. When I reached over 2,000 bottles, I decided to create a collection that represented the full picture of whisky”. That picture includes non-age statements, blends, world whiskies, and some classic old and rare examples, like headline sales Brora 1972 Rare Malts 22 Year Old, that sold for £20,500, and a Glenfarclas 1952 Family Cask #1712 / Release I that fetched £18,000. He added that selling the collection was a “deeply emotional process” and that his incredible journey has “culminated in a fitting finale with these bottles entered back into the market so other people can enjoy them”. And he can enjoy £3.3m. We wonder what he’ll spend the money on. Does anyone know if he likes whisky? We’ve got loads…
£66,000 of gin and whisky stolen & Aberlour Distillery robbed
But not every large collection of booze has a happy ending, as a recent story from Glasgow proves. Police Scotland say two men have stolen a haul of alcohol worth about £66,000 from a compound in Glasgow. The men broke into the base near Cambuslang at about 21:45 on Saturday and brought in an HGV, connected a trailer full of booze, and left the scene along Cambuslang Road. It’s thought they’ll look to sell the goods on, so the police have warned against buying alcohol at a discounted price, and urged anyone who knows who is responsible to contact them via the non-emergency line. Detective Inspector Stuart Gillies added: “If you are offered alcohol at a discounted price, you would be wise to suspect it has been stolen”. You’ve been told. PLUS, there was also robbery at Aberlour Distillery sometime between 22 December and 5 January. Thieves broke into the visitor shop and made off with whisky bottles worth thousands from a batch that has yet to be sold stolen, which should make them easier to trace. This news comes shortly after a similar raid occurred at Tullibardine Distillery in Perthshire, where eight bottles of whisky worth an eye-watering £10,000 were stolen. What on earth is going on? Can people please stop nicking lovely booze!
Maker’s Mark is B Corp Certified
Maker’s Mark has earned B Corporation Certification, making it the largest distillery in the world to achieve the distinction. The brand has joined more than 4,000 certified corporations globally (including Sipsmith Gin and Bruichladdich) by meeting certain standards of social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability across the five categories of the B Impact Assessment: community, customers, environment, governance, and workers. The distillery boasts a wealth of sustainable, ethical, and philanthropic initiatives, including the establishment of a natural water sanctuary, the world’s largest repository of American White Oak trees for research purposes, and an onsite recycling program. The distillery also uses regenerative farming practices, while investing millions of dollars in the hospitality industry, local Kentucky causes, and the arts, for example being a principal partner to The LEE Initiative, which aims to address issues of equality and diversity in the restaurant industry. “Since 1953, my grandparents instilled a sense of responsibility here at Maker’s Mark that started with the way we make our bourbon and extended to the way we impact the lives of our teams, our customers, our communities, and our shared environment,” said Rob Samuels, 8th-generation whisky maker and grandson of the Maker’s Mark founders. “That commitment to a higher purpose continues to live on.”
Eden Mill Distillery sold to private equity firm Inverleith
In 2012 Tony Kelly and Paul Miller founded a Scottish distillery called Eden Mill, which you’ll probably be familiar with from its cracking gin range including Hop and its Love range as well as the odd limited edition single malt whisky. Now, a decade on, a deal has been struck for a majority stake in the company by private equity firm Inverleith. The new owner, which has not disclosed the purchase price, said the investment would allow Eden Mill to expand distribution in the UK and abroad and plan to build a new distillery on the Eden Campus at St Andrews University. It will include a visitor centre, shop, and restaurant and provide more production capacity as Eden Mill’s current distillery in St Andrews, is working to full capacity. Miller will continue to lead the business, heading a new senior executive team, even though a newly-formed board of directors will be put in place. The managing director said Inverleith LLP, which has invested in premium drinks before (notably as a former majority stakeholder The Scotch Malt Whisky Society), was “the right partner to drive and support the next and most significant stage of the Eden Mill journey”.
Tequila slammers with caustic soda are a bad idea
Four customers at London bar Tiger Tiger got the shock of a lifetime when the salt they were using for their Tequila slammers turned out to be caustic soda. The incident which occurred last month came to light in a news story this week in the Guardian. Helpfully the newspaper explained the shooter to its readers: “A shot of tequila is made into a slammer by licking salt first and then sucking a lime or lemon after.” Well, that’s cleared that one up! Caustic soda, aka sodium hydroxide, as its name suggests is a corrosive alkali used in cleaning products so not good for you at all. According to one report, the customers in question were vomiting and bleeding from the mouth. A bystander told the papers: “A group of four women and a man necked the Tequilas and used salt and lemon to soften the taste, then began to retch. One girl keeled over. Despite music blaring, everyone knew something was wrong. There was panic. People thought it was some kind of terrorist incident. It took a long time to establish what happened.” Thankfully though four customers were taken to hospital, none was in a serious condition. The police are not treating the incident as suspicious but it does beg the question, how could this disastrous mix-up have happened? Seeing as the bar has an extraordinary 1.6 out of 5 on Google reviews, it might be worth avoiding Tiger Tiger altogether.
Home cocktailing here to stay, says data company
During the many lockdowns, we were subjected to here in Britain, many of us turned our hands at home bartending to pass the time and get our weekly (or daily, we’re not going to judge) cocktail fix. At Master of Malt sales of vermouth, fortified wines and liqueurs skyrocketed, and we’re not the only ones who saw this trend. On the back of Diageo posting a 16% rise in sales Carmen Bryan, consumer analyst at GlobalData has weighed with her two pennies worth. According to GlobalData’s Q4 2021 survey, 29% of people like to drink spirits at home with 38% of the younger generations, 25-44-year-olds, “reporting that they were spending medium-to-high amounts on spirits.” Despite the opening up of many economies around the world, she thinks that making cocktails at home is here to stay: “Although bars and restaurants are reopening, providing an added sales channel for alcohol manufacturers such as Diageo, many people have invested time and money over the last few years to transform their homes into private havens away from the ongoing political, social and economic troubles. And with ongoing financial pressures remaining a concern for more than 60%*** of people globally, many will likely opt to stay in with a glass of Gordons and save dining out for celebratory occasions.” Is she right? Well, for the sake of Britain’s bars and pubs let’s hope not.
Champagne sales popping globally
They’ll be popping a few corks in Epernay this week as, after a difficult year, global Champagne sales came roaring back in 2021, according to figures published in the Drinks Business. A total 322 million bottles were shipped in 2021. That’s 31.8% up on 245 million sold in 2020 and a tidy 8.2% up on 2019’s sales of 297.5 million. We’re still waiting for the country by country breakdown but it was export that drove the growth. Global sales were nearly 180 million, up 15.3% on 2019, which was already a record year for exports. Sadly, the French are letting the side down somewhat. Sales are up 25.3% on 2020 to nearly 142 million bottles but still down on 2019’s figures. The domestic market has been in terminal decline since a high of around 185 million bottles sold in 2010. Furthermore, the French are drinking less of big brands and more of the cheaper wines made by co-operatives. When the more detailed figures are released, it will be interesting to see where Champagne’s biggest export market, the UK, fits into all this. Champagne sales are usually a good guide to the health of the hospitality business and confidence in the general economy.
And finally… Boris-bashing brew anyone?
In a victory for lovers of alliteration, British brewer Beartown unveils Boris-bashing beer. The Cheshire-based indie’s beer is called The Perfect 10 and pokes fun at the United Kingdom’s beleaguered prime minister. The packaging is a homage to top rave outfit Altern-8 who were famous for wearing hazmat suits and face masks. Have a little listen here. Ah the early ‘90s, what a time to be alive! But back to the beer. According to the brewery it’s “a comic reminder of the strange times we live in, with the constant Covid-related drama showing no sign of slowing down, plus an increase in the government hosting cheese and wine meetings.” Perfect 10, which is available from Beartown’s website, joins other satirical beers like Brewdog’s Barnard Castle Eye Test. And talking of Brewdog, did anyone see the documentary about the beleaguered brewpunks? Seems like Boris isn’t the only one with problems. |
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Amirouche has also used his work to minimize traffic congestion. In 2002, UIC and the University of California at Berkeley were awarded $300,000 to investigate dedicated routes for automated vehicles, a solution for clearing Chicago’s congested roads. Amirouche conducted UIC’s portion of the yearlong study, including running an automated bus circulator system to serve the Chicago loop and examining freight interchanges using automated trucks to transfer containers between connections.
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In addition to his work at UIC, Amirouche recently founded his own company, Ortho Sensing Technology. Years of research in orthopedic biomechanics and his work with the College of Medicine orthopedics department have proven to be a successful combination for Amirouche. In 2004, his company received more than $500,000 from Depuy Orthopedics, a Johnson & Johnson Division, to develop a wireless total knee repair device for balancing of the soft tissue during arthroplasty. |
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Bored of the usual new year parties and want to try something different? You can go for a rental yacht in that case. New year parties on a yacht have become increasingly famous as it lets you spend time with your near and dear ones without sharing the space with others. This might not be the case in restaurants or other public places that may be teeming with people on New Year’s Eve. Thus, a yacht New Year party can help you ring in the new year in style, yet secluded from crowded places.
Iftar Parties
Though Iftar yacht parties are rare, you can definitely consider it. While most prefer celebrating Eid and hosting Iftar parties at home, a yacht Iftar party can be exciting. Watch the moon shine brightly above the sparkling blue waters as you sail on your yacht. You must instruct the staff to stack the yacht’s kitchen with overflowing snacks and drinks. You must also ensure you set a specific menu for your guests. Additionally, look into the decorations and make sure your yacht looks vibrant.
Birthday Parties
Are you planning your kid’s birthday party? Hosting the party all by yourself and attending the kids individually can be a challenging task. How do you keep them engaged? Have you planned exciting games? You can get rid of all the hassle by hosting a yacht birthday party. The staff takes care of all the requirements and ensures tons of exciting yet safe activities for your kid and their friends. Additionally, hosting a yacht birthday party is already exciting for the children, and you need not do much to keep them engaged.
Conclusion
There are several kinds of parties you can host while availing yacht rental service in Dubai. You must book a yacht according to the nature of your party and the number of guests. Remember, the number of guests determines the size of your yacht. If you plan to host a party on a rental yacht, make sure you make the bookings in advance as yacht parties are pretty popular and tend to remain booked during the peak seasons. |
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Nasty letter circulates after recall election
West Bend resident fears for family after getting letter
The call for healing may take some time in West Bend after the recent recall election.
At least one letter is circulating asking recall supporters to "crawl back under a rock and leave the state."
A man WISN 12 News spoke with, who asked to be identified only as "Bill" out of fear of retaliation, said he received a nasty letter after the recall.
"My grandfather's brother lost his life today, on D-Day in World War II, so just to give us that right in freedom," Bill said.
Bill said he is a former GOP supporter who voted to recall Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday.
"It's over with, let's move on, let's enjoy the weather, let's really mend those fences now," Bill said.
It's a message the governor spoke about during his victory speech Tuesday night, but it appears someone didn't get the memo.
The note Bill received is now in the hands of West Bend police. It says, in part, "If there were any justice every idiot who signed a recall petition would be sent a bill for $25 to cover the cost of this stupid recall."
It continues by saying, "It will be enough if you just crawl back under the rock you slithered out from and never see the light of day again."
Bill said he has concern for his family's safety and has more concerns about the healing process in Wisconsin.
"My son used a very good analogy, (he said) it's becoming like the Hatfield and McCoys, and I'd really like to see (us) come back together, because you know, the sign is going to go away and we all have to learn to work together and become one once again," Bill said.
West Bend police said four other homeowners have come forward with the same letter to file a report. |
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