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Alannah is offering 5 copies of Crossing Lines (bk 3) or Last Call (bk 2) (winner’s choice- bk 1 in the series Savin’ Me is free) and a grand prize of a complete box set of the books in print. Rafflecopter Link is at the bottom of the post. Good luck! The world’s best-stocked toy drawer can only take a gal so far. Bored with her current assortment of vibrating, plastic pieces, Sam Wallace decides to add a new sex toy to her collection: Kevin Mazze. The sexy Italian is more than happy to help her live out her long-held sexual fantasies, and trusting him with her body is easy. Trusting him with her heart, however, is not… especially when he commits an unforgiveable sin. Please be advised, “Crossing Lines” contains adult language and adult situations and is not suitable for young readers. Sam had never seen such a magnificent house, and while fascinated with the site layout, construction, and landscaping, she was intimidated by the enormity. “Who lives here?” “Cynthia and Max Holden own the property,” Kevin said, easing her onto one of the poolside chaise loungers. “Max is currently indisposed, so Cynthia needs help keeping up with everything. Since I split my time between Myrtle Beach and Riverside, I don’t need anything bigger than the guesthouse. When their daughter, Callie, moved out, I moved in. The arrangement works well—” Spencer and Michy burst through the open front door with towels in hand. “Can we go swimming now, Uncle Kevin?” “Yep.” She gave Michy her stern-mother face, which Michy returned with an I’m-too-freaking-adorable-to-ever-get-into-trouble grin. “No splashing.” She had no idea what he’d been thinking while carrying her to the backyard, but when he stopped and his hot, hungry eyes devoured her mouth, she nearly orgasmed on the spot. The sexual energy rolling off him had been a powerful shock, paralyzing her lungs. Trapped in his gaze, she couldn’t do anything but hold her breath and prepare for his onslaught. She didn’t know if he held back because of the kids, or because he wanted to be a gentleman and not move too fast. Whatever the reason, she hoped they passed that particular roadblock soon, because the real Kevin, in person and on fire, was a million times better than any fantasy. Knowing he was attracted was the encouragement she needed to move forward with her plan to lure and seduce. “I might get in a little later, sweetie.” Right now, I’m going to sit here and work on my diabolical plan. The words had barely left her mouth when Michy tossed the towel at her and chirped, “Okay,” then turned and ran full-throttle into the pool. Spencer dropped his glasses on top of his towel and ran after her. Kevin’s laugh was deep and throaty. “Yeah, she’s real torn up.” He picked up Spencer’s towel and glasses and set them on the chair before turning toward the house. “I’m gonna grab a beer. Would you like soda, beer,”—he grinned broadly—“whiskey to kill the pain?” “Wow, you’re really going to be my cabana boy.” She wasn’t sure, but she might’ve accidentally sighed out loud. “I’m not much of a whiskey girl. The beer sounds great, but I better stick with water. Do you have any ibuprofen?” Several minutes later, he returned with a bottle of pain reliever and a soft-sided cooler. He unzipped the top, set a Budweiser on the ground at his feet, and grabbed a bottle of water. Holding it out to her, he said, “Sure you don’t want something stronger?” She lives in the coastal region of North Carolina with her husband, who also happens to be her best friend and biggest fan. They have two sons, a dog, a cat and an outrageous number of ducks and geese that inhabit the pond on their farm. She loves chatting and making new friends, so visit her on the web at www.alannahlynne.com/or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/authoralannahlynne The winner of the ebook for this contest is Angela Love!!! Angela – I’ll send you an email in just a moment to find out which book you want. Thanks, everone, for commenting and spending a part of your day with me here. Harlie, thanks so much for letting me visit with you on your blog!!! Alannah is a new author to me, but I really liked this excerpt and am looking forward to checking out this series! Thanks! Haven’t had a chance to try out the book yet but will as soon as I get done with my current read. Thanks again for the free book and the giveaway. I thought the excerpt was really good! I can’t wait to get to know more about Kevin and Sam…the kids seem really cute too!…Thanks for the giveaway Hi Maria!! Thanks for commenting! I’m glad you enjoyed the excerpt! The 2nd snippet is up at http://www.romancebookcraze.blogspot.com/2013/02/alannah-lynne-excerpt-tour-day-2.html. More chances to win, too!! 🙂 Cute excerpt. I have not been following along. I need to look up the first book. I’m very excited that its free. Hi Lori! Thanks for commenting! I’m glad you’re grabbing yourself a copy of “Savin’ Me!” I’d love to see you at the other stops along the way! Hi Mary!! Thanks for commenting! I’m glad you enjoyed the post. The 2nd part is up now at http://www.romancebookcraze.blogspot.com/2013/02/alannah-lynne-excerpt-tour-day-2.html. Thank you so much for visiting with me!! If you all haven’t started reading the Heat Wave series, make sure you do, the first one is FREE too…they are awesome stories! I would love to read this series. It sounds really good. I love the excerpt. Thanks for the giveaway. Thanks Victoria!! Grab a copy of “Savin’ Me (Book #1 in the Heat Wave series) while it’s free (the links are listed above). And join me tomorrow at http://www.romancebookcraze.blogspot.com/ to read the 2nd part of this excerpt – and for another chance to win! 🙂 Alright! 😀 Thank you!!! There are so many worse things people could say about me! LOL Thanks for commenting! Thank you to everyone who came out today. Alannah, I have downloaded Savin’ Me and can’t wait to get started on it. Great!! I’d love to hear from you after you have a chance to read it. Thank you so much for allowing me to visit with you and your readers again!! This is a new series for me. I have downloaded the first book, but have not had a chance to read it yet. It does sound really good though 🙂 Hi June! It’s nice to meet you. I’d love to hear from you after you’ve had a chance to read “Savin’ Me!” Hi alds! Don’t forget to follow along tomorrow for the next part of this scene as well as another chance to win!! And grab a copy of “Savin’ Me” while it’s free (it’ll be going off free at the end of this month). 🙂 This is a new author and series for me. I loved the excerpt and loved. Picked up the free book and on my next TBR list to read. I love finding new authors and especially love reading series. Thanks for the chance to win. I soo want to win this giveaway! 🙂 When Kevin gives Sam ‘the look’ at the pool…I can’t wait to read the rest Hi Sasha! I’m glad you liked the excerpt. Visit with me tomorrow at http://www.romancebookcraze.blogspot.com/ to read the next page! 🙂 By the time we get to Friday, you’ll have had a chance to read this whole scene. I love this lady!!! Always a sweetheart and I love her books I definitely recommend her when talking because she is just that cool!!!! Aw, thank you for the kind words!! *sniff* That means a lot to me. Thanks for commenting! Good luck in the contest! {{hugs}} Hi Katha! It’s nice to meet you. “Savin’ Me” is free right now, so grab a copy and give it a try. Tomorrow, I’ll be at http://www.romancebookcraze.blogspot.com/ so you can stop by there and read the next part of this scene. By Friday, I’ll have posted the entire chapter, so that’ll give you another chance to see if you like my writing. Hi Tammy!! Wow, I need to either write faster or ya’ll need to read slower! 😀 In all seriousness, though, it’s an honor to know that you want the next book. That means a lot to me… and it’ll be what gets me into the chair and hands on the keyboard, making it happen!! Thank you! {{hugs}} Hi parisfanca! Don’t forget to stop by http://www.romancebookcraze.blogspot.com/ tomorrow to read the next page and comment for another chance to win either the digital book or the complete signed set!!

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Irandhir Santos was born on August 22, 1978 in Limoeiro, Pernambuco, Brazil as Irandhir Gleriston Santos Pinto. He is an actor, known for Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010), Velho Chico (2016) and Tatuagem (2013). See full bio » During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while ... See full summary » Paris is Burning! Under the Iron Fist of Robespierre hundreds are executed, by the swift and bloodstained guillotine. Through these acts of injustice a new heroism is born - The League of The Scarlet Pimpernel. The poor, downtrodden (beautiful, of course) "dutiful" daughter in a London society family falls for a barrister, disguises herself, and takes a job as governess to his son. Adapted from ... See full summary » London fop Percy Blakeney is also secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who, in a variety of disguises, makes repeated daring trips to France to save aristocrats from Madame Guillotine. His unknowing wife is also French, and she finds that her brother has been arrested by the Republic to try and get her to find out who "that damned elusive Pimpernel" really is. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26} Blakeney and the Prince of Wales are seen at a boxing match in which the combatants are in a structure similar to a modern 'square' ring. This form of the ring was not used until around 1838. See more » To date, I've seen three "Scarlet Pimpernels" from three different eras, but the more I see this one, the more I appreciate it for the economical little masterpiece that it is. Three years ago, when I reviewed Powell & Pressburger's "Elusive Pimpernel", I dismissed its predecessor as a 'dated period piece' remarkable only for Leslie Howard's performance; watching it again now I'd hedge no bets in saying that it excels above its successor in almost every way. From the very beginning, long before the hero appears, it's evident that we are in for a treat. The reason? Above all, the script. Necessary establishing information -- the Pimpernel's name and fame, the Revolution, the state of the Blakeneys' marriage -- is conveyed quickly and naturally in a few pertinent phrases here and there, without any need for static exposition. A vein of wry humour runs through almost every scene, from the Prince's opening conviction that all the excesses of the Terror can be explained away by Johnny Foreigner's lack of sporting spirit -- "why, if it weren't for fox-hunting and pheasant-shooting, we might be cruel too!" -- to Sir Percy's sleepy quip when his wife implores him to rise above trivialities for once ("Can't rise above anything longer than three syllables, m'dear -- never could") and the cheerful double meaning of his disguised assurances to a Frenchman reviling 'perfidious Albion': ''It won't take *us* long to cross the Channel, eh boys?'' But wordplay is also used to poignant effect, as when he tells Marguerite, estranged from her husband but bedazzled by the romantic image of the unknown Scarlet Pimpernel, "For all you know, he's a married man deeply in love with his wife..." If the script is witty, humane and on occasion impassioned, it owes a great deal also to the nuanced delivery of the cast. Nigel Bruce far outshines his bumbling Watson of later years in the pat of the pompous and preening but not entirely stupid Prince-Regent-to-be; Raymond Massey's Chauvelin is intelligent as well as menacing, despite an accent that strays periodically and disconcertingly across the Atlantic from France, plus the necessary abridgement of the plot for cinematic purposes; Merle Oberon, no raving beauty to today's taste, provides all the resourcefulness and heartbreak one could ask for, playing proud, neglected Marguerite -- one can easily credit her as Orczy's 'cleverest woman in Europe'. But casting Leslie Howard in the dual title role was a simple stroke of genius. His tall figure and bony beak of a face serve perfectly both as the languid Sir Percy, setting off a series of immaculately-fitting 'unmentionables', and as the commanding, quick-thinking Pimpernel; and the scene in which he drops from one persona to the other almost in mid-sentence upon the entry of the irate Colonel Winterbottom is a joy to watch. He is absolutely convincing as the "spineless, brainless and useless" fop, and yet he can shade intelligence and feeling back into his features at the drop of a hat in unconcealed moments that never let the audience forget the man behind the mask. His scenes with Merle Oberon as Marguerite are joint masterpieces of brittle drawing-room comedy with an undertow of unhappiness that convinces us of the former passion between them, alluded to but never shown. Blakeney, of course, gets all the best lines, and Leslie Howard makes the most of them, mocking with exquisite insolence in his guise as licensed fool. But perhaps the third factor that really makes this film is the richness of those background moments when the starring characters are not there. The secure pomp of England epitomised in the opening shots of the changing of the guard; the revolutionary barber stropping his blade with eagerness at the thought of aristocrats' throats; the 'tricoteuses' beneath the guillotine, counting off heads with busily-clicking needles; and the instants of screen time that establish each of the 'aristos' awaiting execution -- tiny, non-speaking parts -- as individuals in their own right. The script is intelligent, succinct and sparkling with understatement. The actors' faces speak as eloquently in the pauses as in any silent drama. The black-and-white photography is sumptuous, from the lavish ballroom scenes to the grimy "Lion D'Or" in Boulogne. And Leslie Howard is endlessly watchable in an ever-changing portrayal of leashed strength in masquerade. The only caveats I'd make are concerning the soundtrack quality -- I suspect the prints I've heard have been damaged -- and the final brief epilogue scene, which despite the gentle wordplay falls, to me, a little flat. In all other respects this would be the "Scarlet Pimpernel" I'd recommend: every time. This is probably the closest that Lynch has come to doing full-on homage to someone like Ingmar Bergman, via Gifford's script, by ding very simply shot but emotionally complex character work. It could even be just a play it's that stripped down (though not altogether detached from Lynch's peccadillo's). Crispin Glover plays a small-town guy who stays in the same hotel room from the other two shorts with his love, played by Alicia Witt, who's sort of slow and affected mind-wise, but has a lot to say about Chinese fish and seeing things like their future children. Witt has a look like the classic Bergman actresses, and the dialog even goes further than Bergman, maybe back to Ibsen, in capturing the tense but always powerfully human tradition of characters who are disconnected from one another, but wanting to be close as possible, through revelations in behavior and stark details. Glover, in a rare instance, plays a guy who is the straight character (straight as possible anyway). In the Barry Lyndon-esquire candle-lit lighting, Lynch makes this all so spare that it seems like the farthest thing removed from an quagmire like Inland Empire. But in its own way, Lynch is experimenting just as much in getting inside the nature of a character's psychology, and it's refreshing to see him let the actors find their own beats in the performances. I watched this movie just because Danielle Harris is in it. I wasn't very impressed with the first one, because acting was terrible and the whole movie didn't have the right "groove". So I didn't expect very much from this one. But I was pleasantly surprised. The acting was on a much higher level, the script is well written and it opens many questions, which hopefully will be answered in the next one. The killings are technically better made and the whole movie has that intense feeling. So this is one o the best slasher movies made in the last few years and I'm now waiting to see what will they do in the next one. At the end I want to apologize the makers for not seeing the movie in theater. I had to download it because I'm from a country where horror genre isn't very popular for our distributors.

Previous posts in this series have been about the generation that created Star Trek. This post suggests what Star Trek's first audience brought to it, through a kind of personal catalog of the 1950s until 1966... In the very early morning we watch the snow. It’s not outside, most of the time. Flecks of it scatter in grainy grays across the television screen, accompanied by a loud even whisper, a constant shshshshsh, like the rush of unvaried water. On the floor in front of the television, munching cinnamon toast, sleepy-eyed and expectant, gazing into nothing but the snow. Then when it suddenly appears, staring at its mysterious symbols, anxious to catch the exact moment that it will be replaced by what we are truly waiting for: Saturday morning. Off/on and volume knob, station-changing knob to click from WDTV channel 3 to WJAC channel 6. Little knobs in the middle for clearing the picture, and also for making lines go up and down fast or bend across slow--not supposed to play with these (but do sometimes.) At last it starts--with cartoons—beginning with faded, jumpy ones with caricatures of old movie stars and a band leader that kept asking, Is everybody happy? Betty Boop, Out of the Inkwell,Woody Woodpecker, and forward to Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. (We didn't know we were seeing the history of animation, from the 1920s on...) Bowls of corn flakes and Little Rascals, maybe Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin. Old western movies, also faded and jumpy, Tex Ritter, Johnny Mack Brown, Lash LaRue, singing cowboys, galloping chases through the dark. Or boys on elephants in the murky jungle. Dick Tracy fools the bad guy with a hidden gun, Flash Gordon conquers the universe. Captain Midnight--at first just a guy in a leather flying cap introducing old movies, then a series—the Silver Dart, Secret Squadron, SQ1 to SQ2, Icabod Mudd (“with two ds.”) Johnny Jupiter, about beings from Jupiter who suddenly appear on a hidden TV screen to an innocent earthling. They think human society is pretty strange—the first alien perspective. It gets moved to a different channel with snowy picture and sound fading in and out, replaced by a surf of noise... as distant as Jupiter itself. School overflows with kids, crowded classrooms. We hear adults talking about building new bigger schools, and some of us soon go to one, or more. TV after supper: Captain Video and his Video Rangers, "return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear..." "Look! up in the sky—it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Superman... fighting for truth, justice and the American Way!”. “Da-vy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier. "Hey Wild Bill—wait for me!" Watch Mr. Wizard, Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, the Cisco Kid, the Range-Rider. In my room Hopalong Cassidy six guns and toy chest, Roy Rogers bedspread, Davy Crockett socks (and coonskin cap, of course) and one Christmas, my own cardboard spaceship. Passing by the TV, I see gray men in a hazy gray room talking, mother’s anxious eyes watching. "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last..." (The 1954 Army-Joseph McCarthy hearings were one of the first to receive gavel-to gavel TV coverage.) Films through a projector at school, about the atomic bomb with Bert the Turtle, “duck and cover” when you see the flash! Practice jumping under the bolted down desk in the classroom, air raid drills filing down the dim stairs to the edge of the basement darkness. Movies at the theatre in Youngwood with older kids from down the street at Grandma’s: Snow White, Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan. Admission is a dime. Saturday afternoon movies with neighborhood pals at the Manos and Strand movie palaces uptown, 24 cartoons, serials or comedy shorts, newsreel, double feature. Fueled with popcorn, licorice, Milk Duds, Good & Plenty, Dots, Spearmint Leaves, malted milk balls, along with apples and sandwiches brought from home, to watch: All day in the cool mysterious darkness of the movies is 25 cents, popcorn is 15 cents, and candy from the luminous lobby counter or the vending machines up the wide silent carpeted stairs to the vast restrooms, a nickel or a dime. Climbing trees, making bows and arrows, digging foxholes, catching lightning bugs. Across the yards and fields, around the houses, in the trees and paths of the little wood across the road, down along the questionable creek, playing out the stories, the adventures, the heroes we all saw on TV and the movies. Before TV there were books-- The Little Engine That Could, Little Toot, all the illustrated rhymes and stories in the blue volumes of My Book House. Saturday trips to the movies begin to include a side trip to the children’s room of the public library. The first book I took out: The Spaceship Under the Apple Tree. After that a torrent: Hardy Boys mysteries, books on Annapolis and West Point, sea stories, sports books by Joe Archibald and John R. Tunis (The Kid Comes Back) along with Space Cadet (and anything by Robert Heinlein), Islands in the Sky (and anything with the Winston Science Fiction logo.) When my parents drive down to take me home after a summer month with my cousins in Maryland, my aunt gives me a tin of her homemade cookies for the trip back—and a cardboard box of my uncle’s science fiction pulp magazines, which I read for the entire drive to western Pennsylvania. Alone in my dark room in the carapace of light from my study lamp over my desk, where I was supposed to be doing my homework, I interrupt the story I was writing (“The Desert Menace”) to record in my brown school notebook: "The Russians, Conquerors of Space. Oct.4, 1957. I have just heard some news which will affect my whole future. Russia has just successfully launched the first man-made satellite into space…How did the Russians do it? Out of their own ingenuity? Did they get information from a spy in America? A traitor? All the work our scientists and top brains did, what for? Will the Russians take advantage of this and use it to start a war?" Now channel 3 was channel 2 (KDKA) and there were two new stations we could get, channel 4 (WTAE) and 11 (WIIC) as well as educational television on channel 13 (WQED) though our reception for 13 was usually bad. Colds, flu, measles (twice), mumps, chicken pox...days in bed with comic books bought at half price, half the cover torn off: old Captain Marvels, Swat Malone, the Little Wise Guys, as well as newer Superman and Batman. Classics Illustrated: From the Earth to the Moon, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds. Errands to the neighborhood store for bread (20 cents a loaf) milk (a quarter for a quart) and penny candy with the change. First paper route, frigid fingers, first encounters with small tarpaper covered houses and people who can’t pay (42 cents a week.) Stops for a hot chocolate, a Milky Way or a Hershey’s; or in summer an ice cream sandwich, dreamsicle, a root beer or a Vernors. Not much profit left over. Now, besides baseball (Pittsburgh Pirates, Bob Prince and Jim Woods announcing, “you can kiss it goodbye!” “a bloop and a blast!” “We had ‘em all the way!”) out of the radio poured rock & roll. Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers, Little Richard, the Shirelles. Summer and after school hanging out and fooling around at the soda fountain counters and ice cream places in town. Vanilla cokes, ice cream cones (each a nickel), skyscraper cone or Klondike bar at Isaly’s, splurge on a butterscotch sundae (25 cents) or a banana split (30 cents.) Nothing like the malt shops on TV though. Maz homers, Pirates win the World Series! Youth for Kennedy, campaigning in the rain, whooping it up in the election day parade. Up almost all night with Huntley and Brinkley, sleep through the morning until I wake to Jack and Jackie, “now my wife and I prepare for a new administration—and for a new baby.” Snow in the darkness outside the moving shelter of the bus, making its slow way through the clogged streets to the Washington bus station. Staying with cousins never met before, freezing along Constitution Ave. for the Inaugural Parade, seeing the sights the next day, first bowl of clam chowder. On Sunday, the right church, the right time, and the out-of-body moment: shaking the hand of the new President of the United States. High school, football games, girls. Somewhere beyond the sea, the way you look tonight. Newspaper staff, forensics and debate (argument, evidence, rhetoric, logic.) JFK: TV press conference wit, the Peace Corps, physical fitness and fifty-mile hikes, touch football and sailing in Hyannisport. America is young. As high school newspaper editor, I print a photo of Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom and John Glenn—first three Americans in space—with an excited story on Glenn’s three-orbit flight. Send copies to these three astronauts—get a letter from Shepard and a note from Grissom with the clipping returned. Affronted at first, until I notice that there’s a signature under each figure in the photo: Grissom not only signed it, but got Shepard and Glenn to sign it, too. Chosen as an usher for President Kennedy’s speech in Pittsburgh, told how to identify Secret Service and to report anything suspicious. Watching the crowd as much as the President. Days later his face on TV announcing that U.S. had observed Soviet offensive nuclear missiles in Cuba, the demand that they be removed, and the naval quarantine to prevent delivery of more. Changing classes, into an empty classroom to see on the blackboard someone had drawn in white chalk a large mushroom cloud. Bent over a radio in the newspaper staff room as lunch hour ended, as the ships neared each other but the Soviet ships stopped, confrontation avoided, for now. Reprimanded for being late to next class. The Defenders, The Law and Mr. Jones. Howard K. Smith: News and Comment. This Land is Your Land, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Blowin in the Wind. Train to Washington, bathed in heat, sunlight and wonder, with a quarter of a million dazzled souls marching together for jobs and freedom, We Shall Overcome. Outside running track for gym class, almost forgetting the principal’s announcement over the p.a. about the shooting in Dallas. But walking up the stairs from the locker room, guys coming down: he didn’t make it. President Kennedy is dead. On the floor in front of the constant television coverage for three days, as if it would change what happened. One break to help dad drape the Singer store window in black crepe, Main Street silent in the cold, every store closed, with every storefront window draped in black. I see accused assassin Oswald on TV being moved through the parking garage, startled to see a gun—but no, it’s a microphone. Seconds later, sound of the shot, and the chaos. Oswald is dead. I've seen a man shot to death on live TV. Away to college in the midwest. Terrible football team but lots of fascinating girls. New worlds of literature, theatre, films. The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Band of Outsiders. Hamlet, The Skin of Our Teeth. A Hard Day’s Night. After months of increasing, alarming rhetoric, President Johnson escalates the war in Vietnam in early 1965, sends American ground troops, begins bombing North Vietnam and saturation bombing within South Vietnam, as a general vows to “bomb them into the Stone Age.” By the end of the year, troops there number 200,000. Teach-ins on the war and all aspects of Indochina history and geopolitics, economics and ethics, first by our faculty, then visiting professors touring campuses. I become the first student on campus to oppose the war in a public debate. We—the young men of our generation—will be called in the draft to fight this war, possibly to die. Catch-22 becomes the book we carry. The society around us doesn’t want to hear about it, goes its merry way: Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, Gidget, Peyton Place. 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For the first five years of Make:, we ran a column in the magazine called “MakeShift,” written by Lee David Zlotoff, creator of the iconic TV show MacGyver. As with the show, where science and engineering improvisation were a central theme, each installment of “MakeShift” presented a sticky situation and then challenged our readers to submit “makeshift” solutions. Challenges included such conundrums as dealing with a viral outbreak on a plane, surviving a zombie attack, what to do with a time bomb discovered in an underground parking garage, and how to communicate with the outside world during a high school lockdown. Lee, Make: staffer Bill Lidwell (who edited the challenges), and all of us at the magazine were constantly blown away by the cleverness and intelligence of the responses. People really got into it. In looking over these columns, we decided that we wanted to bring them back to share with the current Make: readership. In the columns and summary articles, Lee and Bill talked about a MacGyver-worthy measure of intelligence that they called MQ (for “MakeShift Quotient”). MQ is one’s ability to use knowledge of science and engineering, combined with some chewing gum and bailing wire, to fashion workable solutions to problems on the fly. We hope these “MakeShift” columns will go a long way toward increasing your MQ. Starting today, we’ll be re-running the “MakeShift” columns every Wednesday. The scenario/challenges and the submitted solutions and winners are here all presented together. But don’t hesitate to challenge yourself. Read the scenario, challenge, and supply list first. Spend some time thinking through possible solutions before you move on to the analysis and commentary sections. As was done in the original postings, we have included the full texts of the submitted solutions (linked at the bottom of this page) so that you can go as deep as you want. There’s a lot of information in these articles. If you just want to skip to the winning solutions, scroll down to the Summary section. -Gareth Branwyn After a relaxing night of camping in the deep woods, you return to your car to find that it will not start. The battery is dead. “Someone” left the parking lights on overnight. You are 50 miles from the nearest road and have limited food and water. You try to call for help, but your cellphone is out of power and out of range. Snowy weather is scheduled to set in by late evening. The situation is serious. Create a makeshift solution to recharge the battery and start the car. Tools and materials at your disposal include the objects on the supply list below (as well as the car and its components). You have 10 hours. By the way, the car has an automatic transmission–push-starting won’t work. The first MakeShift gauntlet was thrown down to take the measure of Make: readers–an intractable conundrum to separate the intellectual and creative wheat from the chaff: a dead car battery in the middle of nowhere; an eight-hour time limit before deadly weather sets in; nothing but your wits, camping gear, and left-over snacks to solve the problem. The result? Make: readers answered the challenge with audacity and vigor. Solutions ranging from rocket-propelled flywheels to potato chip-and-penny voltaic piles were submitted. What follows is an analysis of the “dead car battery” problem peppered by ideas and commentary from the most lucid of reader contributions. In the end, however, there can be only two winners per issue — readers who submitted the most creative and plausible solutions. These MakeShift Masters and their problem-solving booty are announced at the bottom of this page. Since there were so many excellent submissions, I have also taken the liberty of declaring some honorable mentions, too. No booty for you, but some formal acknowledgement for your exceptional work. Winning entries and honorable mentions are presented in their entirety (links below) for the edification of all. For those of you who undertook the MakeShift challenge without success, fret not. Unlike the various forms of IQs, EQs, and GQs that are said to be all but unalterable, the very special brand of genius that I hereby brand MQ (for MakeShift Quotient) is unquestionably advanced through the study of science and engineering and through exercises of creativity and problem solving. You can begin developing your MQ by studying the analysis that follows. Explore and evaluate the highly varied and innovative ideas submitted by fellow Make: readers. Read through this, and think about it, and you will soon be thinking like a MakeShift Master. There are two basic approaches to this challenge: (1) solve the problem in a way that has nothing to do with the obvious parameters of the problem, and (2) start the vehicle by recharging the battery. A number of readers opted for the non-obvious approach. For example, a contributor on the Make: site suggested the following: …review your supplies, take what’s needed and get out of there fast, before the snow, a 50-mile walk should take about 4 hours. No dice. As I replied in the comment, a fast walker can average 3 mph–carrying supplies over rough terrain, maybe 2 mph. Short of being professional athletes, a fit, average couple would be lucky to make it halfway before nightfall (and that’s assuming they don’t get lost or injured along the way). With bad weather setting in, the decision to hike it out could be their last. People die trying to hike their way out of trouble all the time. A far better plan would be to build a fire and wait for help… or, figure out a way to restart the vehicle. The survival considerations/tradeoffs of how supplies are used (and possibly wasted) were raised by a number of readers. For example, C. Holdredge offered the following admonishment in this regard (I should note that he then went on to provide a very strong solution to the problem!): In the scenario presented, spending time trying to start the car is REAL DUMB. The subject has two kinds of shelter, a handy forest for fuel, half a dozen ways to start a fire, and will shortly have a source for extensive fresh water. Anyone qualified to be in the woods at all should be able to survive for weeks under these circumstances, awaiting rescue. In the real world, the subject would be much wiser to spend the time stockpiling dry wood, starting a fire, pitching a tent, seeing to their visibility from the air, etc. Fuss with the car to avoid boredom while waiting for the rangers or CAP to find you and haul out. The general concern is valid. If efforts to restart the car consume precious food and water resources and then fail, you could be in trouble. That said, a large supply of frozen water will be falling from the sky in a few hours. Food is a consideration, but you have plenty and can survive for weeks on light rations. So, while economy of resources should factor in the equation, spending days/weeks in the forest unnecessarily is riskier than not applying yourself and your resources to getting the car restarted–especially if you have the wits and wherewithal to do so. Last but not least in the non-obvious category are submissions proposing the possibility of push-starting the vehicle. P. Stewart wrote: You guys stated that “By the way, the car has an automatic transmission–push-starting won’t work.” This isn’t necessarily true. Virtually ALL automatics from the 1930s through the 70s had two oil pumps and could be push started. All that is required for a push start on these older models is a little speed to build up oil pressure. Mercedes-Benz automatics used to have a secondary oil pump driven by the output shaft. I believe they even advertised with this fact into the 70s–you could push start the vehicle when you had a flat battery while this was not possible with most vehicles. Nowadays, with the single pump on the input shaft, there’s no pressure to work the clutches unless the engine’s turning. The fact that push starting may well be an option for older vehicles with automatic transmissions is a good MQ point to know. Thanks to Stewart and others for raising it. Unfortunately, the challenge as it appeared on the website did not include the picture of the late-model Volvo SUV that was in the mook, which cannot be push started. What can I say–subscribers have an edge! So, assuming it is not reasonable to hike your way out or push-start the vehicle, and assuming you are comfortable doing something more than collecting wood and waiting for the rangers, let’s look at approach #2: starting the vehicle by recharging the battery. Before we begin reviewing reader responses using this approach, it will be useful to briefly review how batteries work. (NOTE: The electrochemistry of lead-acid batteries is complex. What follows is a simplified “need to know” overview for this challenge.) So, recharging the battery involves either finding a way to stimulate the electrolyte, or finding a way to feed electricity back into the battery. Readers had interesting ideas on both counts. Pour some cola into the battery. Start the car after a few minutes. Of course, you’ll have to replace the battery because you’ve destroyed it, but at least you’ll be alive. Other proposed additives included saliva, potato chip brine, and hydrogen peroxide. Three disadvantages of this basic approach: (1) though the theory is sound, it generally won’t work in practice for a variety of reasons (e.g., getting the proportions right), (2) if you try it and it doesn’t work, you have likely ruined your battery and eliminated any other opportunity of getting the vehicle started, and (3) several proposed additives run a real risk of blowing up the battery. There is, however, one additive that avoids these disadvantages, as A. Seubert testified: …Put two tablets [of aspirin] in each battery cell and wait no more than 1 hour (the acetylsalicylic acid combines with the sulfuric acid to get off one more charge.) You can pry the cell covers off with a screwdriver even on most maintenance-free batteries… Then the car will start right up (based on actual experience). As bizarre as this sounds, aspirin will often work depending on the degree of discharge of the battery. It is a reasonably safe approach and usually good for one more engine turn. Be warned that adding aspirin will shorten the battery life, as the aspirin will react with the sulfuric acid to form acetic acid. Good for a boost, but bad for the innards of the battery. Assuming you add no more than a couple of aspirins per cell, it shouldn’t cause significant damage nor preclude additional efforts if it fails to work. So there is at least one safe, viable way to have a reasonable shot at getting the vehicle restarted by stimulating the electrolyte. J. O’Brien took this approach further, however, factoring in some key details that could be the difference between success and failure: Since it’s cold out, the last thing we want to do is get the battery and engine warm and certainly not let it get any cooler. Using the sterno stove, heat water in the empty cola cans and pour warmed water over the battery and engine. Cola has yielded mixed results removing corrosion from battery terminals, but it is certainly better than nothing. Ensuring clean contacts will maximize energy transfer in the circuit. Topping off the water, if it is low, certainly won’t hurt. Warming the battery and engine is a good move if it is very cold. Cold temperatures dramatically reduce the efficiency of the battery, as much as 50% when the ambient temperature is 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Cold temperatures also thicken engine oil, increasing the current required to crank the engine. Carefully pouring warm water over the battery and engine is among the safest ways of warming things up–certainly safer than warming the battery and engine over a fire. Enough about stimulating electrolytes. In terms of feeding electrical current back into the battery, two basic approaches were offered: (1) create a new battery to trickle charge the car battery, and (2) develop a means of using the vehicle’s alternator to charge the battery. In case you don’t know, voltage (measured in volts) is the force that pushes electrons from one electrode to the other. Current (measured in amps) is the rate of flow of electrons between the electrodes. By way of analogy, imagine you are at a batting cage. The force the pitching machine uses to pitch the ball is like the force pushing electrons (voltage). The number of balls pitched per unit time is like the number of electrons moving between two points per unit time (current). The force pushing electrons is a function of the different reactivities of the electrodes in the electrolyte. The current is a function of this reactivity and the surface area of the electrodes. Since a lot of current is required to start an engine, the electrodes are made into thin plates to maximize the surface area available to donate and receive electrons. The more surface area, the more current. With this out of the way, let’s look at some of the battery ideas submitted. M. DuPont proposed creating a battery using a potato chip/lime/soda electrolyte and electrodes made of aluminum cans and the copper clips from the jumper cables. Her diagram is as colorful as the procedure proposed to create it: Use the knife to carefully cut the top of water bottle off, so that the top is just wide enough to slide in two soda cans, standing side by side. Make sure you keep as much water in the container as you can. Finely crush up the remaining potato chips in their bag, and dump them into the water bottle. Stir with a screwdriver. Drink one can of cola, and pour a second can of cola into the water bottle. Don’t mind if it overflows. Then use the knife (or its file, or a rock) to scrape at least half the paint off the two cans. Carefully widen the openings on the tops of the two empty soda cans, so that the cans can be firmly clipped together, back to back, with the jumper cable. Clip ’em together with the BLACK jumper cable. Go into the car and turn off or unplug every accessory: radio, fan, heater, headlights (duh), interior lights, and anything plugged in to charge (cell phone, for example). Also, turn the ignition to OFF and pocket the keys. This is so nothing sucks up the power when you try to start ‘er later. Using the knife (or file, or rock), scrape any gunk/corrosion off the car battery terminals. Do NOT touch any part of the car while doing this, and, stand on two folded-over, DRY sleeping bags to further insulate yourself from accidentally grounding out the car battery and jolting yourself. Just because it can’t start your car DOES NOT MEAN it can’t stop your heart. Be careful. Dip the other end of the red jumper cable into the water bottle. Position it so that it is dipped into the bottle, fully submerged, but not going very far below the surface of the water. You can notch the water bottle to accept the cable, if that helps keep it hanging in place. The idea of creating a battery like this to recharge the car battery is sound enough (and if this battery didn’t work, you could always drink the electrolyte!). The question is whether a makeshift battery can generate sufficient voltage and current to trickle charge the car battery in eight hours? Voltage–no doubt. Current–questionable. S. Cahill addressed the current issue in his wet cell solution: The [4] wet cells themselves will not deliver enough instantaneous current to start the car, so they must be used to recharge the car battery over several hours. The car battery can then be used to deliver the “cold cranking” amps to start the car (hopefully) for a few seconds. We must develop enough potential to “reduce” lead sulfate back into lead and lead peroxide, which is the reaction that powers the car battery. The six cells of the lead-acid cell need a total potential in excess of 6*2.12 V, or 12.72 V in order to recharge. These types of batteries could only generate milliamps of current. However, if they can generate sufficient voltage over a long enough period of time, the battery will recharge. As Cahill notes, it will take about 13 volts to overcome the internal resistance of the battery. So, the viability of this approach really depends on the level of discharge of the battery and the amount of time you have to recharge the battery. If the car battery is not too discharged, the ambient temperature is not too cold, and the makeshift battery is able to generate 13+ volts for 8+ hours–could work! A different battery configuration worth considering–known as a voltaic pile–was proposed by N. Kondrick: …Get your water and cut a corner off the jug and trim it down so it’s big enough to fit all your copper [from jumper cables], aluminum [from cola cans], and cloth as well as some liquid and still be able to hold some liquid. Now stack all the copper, aluminum, and cloth together in a copper/cloth/aluminum pattern–make sure there is no bridging of metals across the cloth and no bridging of the cloth. Use a couple of adhesive bandages to attach one end of each wire to the ends of the stack (red wire to the copper end, black wire to the aluminum end). Stick the whole stack into your plastic container (the corner from the water jug). You’ll probably want to do it sideways so you can more easily cover it all with liquid. In this voltaic pile, each aluminum/cloth/copper layer forms a cell. The proposed voltaic pile is essentially eight cells in series. The copper and aluminum layers are the electrodes, and the juice-soaked cloth is the electrolyte. Since these cells are in a series configuration, their voltage adds up and their current is constant. It is doubtful that a voltaic pile of this length could generate the required voltage, though the pile could be extended using different coins and other materials scavenged from the supplies. Current would be nominal, but you should be able to get a few volts out of it. Hook enough of them together and you have a shot, assuming you have enough time. Creating batteries to recharge the car battery makes use of chemical energy. Another approach would be to use mechanical energy to recharge the battery. P. Salkie summarized the “eureka moment” and the problem of this approach nicely: …let’s think of one of the most reliable, efficient, proven, general-purpose converters of chemical energy to electrical energy ever to exist on this planet–the internal combustion engine attached to some sort of generator! And you were even smart enough to bring an internal combustion engine along _with_ you! Total Genius! Oh yeah. That’s the problem, isn’t it–can’t start the damned thing. So, let’s think of one of the other most reliable, efficient, yadayada converters–you. Yes, you (and the person who’s looking daggers at you) are reliable, efficient converters of organic food compounds to mechanical energy. So, eat that fruit, drink some cola, and let’s get down to work! First, we’ll need to come up with some way of generating electricity from mechanical energy. Fortunately, you packed along a generator system with you on the trip! What? Didn’t see that on the equipment list? Well, it’s there all right–the car is guaranteed to have an alternator. It is conveniently attached to a voltage regulation system (which ensures we don’t overcook the battery or blow up the radio) and it’s even already wired in for us! All we have to do is turn it. A lot. A whole hell of a lot. Just an amazing amount of lot. As Salkie points out, the alternator is sitting right there waiting to be used. The key problem in using the alternator is figuring out a way to spin it fast enough to generate the energy required to recharge the battery. A little bit about modern alternators: alternators generate electricity by spinning one charged copper coil (called a “rotor” or “field coil”) inside another stationary copper coil (called a “stator”). The electromagnetic field created by the spinning field coil extends to the stator, and pulls electrons around the stator coil–voilá: electricity. Since there are no magnets in an alternator, you need some starting current to generate an initial magnetic field in the field coil. This starting current can come from the car battery or some other external power source. Once the field coil is generating a magnetic field, you then need to spin it at a minimum rate of around 1,000+ RPM or nada–2,000 RPM to recharge at the optimal 14 volts. The total voltage coming out of the alternator is a function of the strength of the magnetic field and the speed of rotation. A variety of solutions were proposed to make this happen. R. Bohn offered one innovative way of addressing this problem: After several hours check the battery by turning on the headlights. They should shine brightly when the battery is charged. Turn them back off! Re-attach the small belt wheel to the alternator. Return the alternator, the large belt wheel and the belt to the engine. Using the spare tire as a flywheel is an excellent way of getting the most turns per unit time for the least amount of energy. If you could maintain a spin rate of one revolution per second (i.e., 60 RPM) with a 30″ spare tire, you could roughly generate 1,800 RPMs. Impressive. Unfortunately, the field coil was never charged in this solution, so no electricity would be generated. No comment regarding the banana! J. Gasbarro caught the field coil detail and even made plans for a backup power source: Apply field current. Connect the free wire from the lamp [extracted from the trunk and connected to the alternator] to the battery. If you’re lucky, the lamp will light, indicating that you have current in the field coil of the alternator. Lead acid batteries will often recover some of their charge after they have been deeply discharged if they are just left to sit for a while. Warming them helps. If the lamp does not light, then you have to go to your backup field current source, which is the depleted cellphone battery. The cellphone is smart enough that it will not discharge the battery below about 3V. So there should be enough charge left to power the alternator field current for a few seconds (see About the Alternator section). Use the adhesive bandages to tape wires onto the cellphone battery as necessary. Finally, S. Curl proposed a way of getting to the core of the alternator RPM problem that would make MacGyver proud: Using the provided tools, I remove the car’s alternator and wedge it into the side of the bumper where the shaft can protrude….If the wires won’t reach, I extend them with the jumpers. I then mount the spare onto the alternator with a combination of wire lashes from the jumper cables and a clever adhesive paste of mashed fruit supplemented with adhesive bandages. More of this paste and the bandages are employed to affix the two road flares to the tire. My mate, meanwhile, has been carving the apples to create rocket nozzles which are now crammed onto the flares and lengths of gauze “fuse” attached. By hand, the wheel is spun as quickly as possible, and at that moment of peak velocity, the fuses are lit and the rockets fire. The added boost offers peak generation of energy, which is then applied to starting the car, and away we go!! And that’s why I’m a sculptor and not a mechanic! Since this entry is such a tough act to follow, I’ll take it as my cue to close. Here are my summary thoughts on the challenge. Aspirin is the simplest solution. If it works, you are out of the jam in 30 minutes, no muss no fuss. If it doesn’t work, then Plan B. I am skeptical about the feasibility of creating a battery to trickle charge the car battery given the time and conditions. Even if you have an uncanny grasp of electrochemistry (which some of you clearly do!), getting the electrolytic proportions right and everything hooked up in a rough environment is no trivial task. A lot can go wrong, and there just isn’t a lot of time to tinker. Therefore, the best Plan B is the alternator. Turn the alternator fast enough and it will recharge the battery. If the car doesn’t start, turn it some more. Relatively simple and reliable. The only risk of this approach is accidentally damaging the alternator or belts in the process–so be careful! General factors to consider for all solutions: effects of temperature on the battery and engine, quality of the connections in the car battery circuit, water levels in the battery, acidic strength of electrolyte, minimum RPMs required to generate V/C from alternator, implementation time required by the approach, ability to test progress and tune your approach, simplicity, ability to back-out or try alternative approaches if you fail, consumption of resources needed for survival, contingency plans, and safety. I would like to thank everyone who submitted solutions to the MakeShift 01 challenge. There were many excellent submissions, and selecting two winners from the batch was no easy task. For future reference, the level of detail provided in the submissions played a major role in the selection process. So, as your high school teacher used to say, “Show your work!” Winners receive a one-of-a-kind Make: t-shirt to celebrate and show off your unique brand of genius; and the ultimate MakeShift Master tool–the SWISSMEMORY USB Victorinox 512MB–equally useful for hiking and hacking. With these awards and your frighteningly high MQs, we at Make: expect great things. Go forth and solve the world’s problems! Congratulations to the two inaugural MakeShift Masters and the Honorable Mentions (applause…accolades…bowing). All showed an impressive ability to think creatively, apply both theoretical and practical knowledge, and communicate their solutions in a fun and effective manner. I encourage all readers to study these winning entries; it will improve your respective MQs and prepare you for the next MakeShift challenge. Until then, happy making! The artists winning the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place awards in the 29th Sunday Times Watercolour Competition have been announced - and Kathryn Maple who won in 2014 has won again. the competition aims to celebrate and reward excellence and originality in the medium of watercolour. read more about the competition - the call for entries and selected artists - in my earlier blog posts which are referenced at the end of this post. My annual blog posts go back to 2008. visit the exhibition in London, Cheltenham and Guildford in the next four months - information about venues at the end of the post. At the end of this post I discuss whether this watercolour competition can still lay claim to the notion that it is the largest and most prestigious showcase of contemporary watercolour painting in the UK. It certainly has the most valuable prizes for watercolour (apart from the Turner Medal) - but does it have the most paintings? I've done a count and have the answer.... “… always been interested in interior/exterior places - and parts of India really feel like a green house waiting to explode. Sandy Shoes looks at the filtered shapes and vibrant colours I experienced in the Vypin Islands.” Vibrant is not a word which one always associates with watercolours and for that reason it has even more impact. However over and above vibrant, it continues to demonstrate Kathryn Maples predilection and talent for identifying and painting patterns in her surroundings. She's excellent at recording a place so that you have a real sense of what it's like while at the same time translating it onto paper with her own particular sense of what is aesthetically pleasing - and that very definitely includes the scope for various methods of mark-making. I said in 2014 that her work reminded me of Doig and I've not changed my mind - which suggests great things for her future career. With a practice firmly rooted in drawing, Maple is obsessed with the possibilities of mark making and image-making. Her works combine areas of fine detail with those of minimalism, creating tapestries of paint and line that appear compact yet broadly simplistic. She holds a particular focus on areas in her surroundings that are in some way forgotten or neglected. Often, these scenes depict buildings surrounded and permeated by nature – trees thrusting upwards behind wrought iron fences, dense foliage almost merging into brickwork. Profile on Beers London Gallery (Works on Paper exhibition) Education: BA in Fine Art Print Making at The University of Brighton followed by Postgraduate 'Drawing Year' Programme at the Royal Drawing School Residencies: India 2014/2015, Dumfries House (January 2014) and The Muse Gallery (January- June 2012) Competitions: Won Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2014; selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize and Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Website: http://kathrynmaple.com/ - do take a look at the watercolours and her paintings sketches and paintings of India Gallery - none listed on her website - although she is exhibiting internationally in group shows. Somebody out there ought to be making her an offer she can't refuse! You'll also be able to see a painting of hers in "In England we Dream of Gardens" - an Art For Youth Event at the Mall Galleries 12th-15th September 2016 Read more about her painting which won two years ago in my post Kathryn Maple wins Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2014. Last time I met her she was just about to depart on her trip to India... Categories art, art competition, artists, exhibition, mall galleries, open exhibition, painters, painting, paintings, Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, watercolour, watercolour paintings Come October there will be a new artwork in the Whitechapel Gallery in London which expands on the statement created by the Guerrilla Girls - "It's even worse in Europe" - within the original 1986/7 collection of posters. The contention at the time was that nobody needed any explanation about what was worse in Europe given the main topic of Guerrilla Girl activity! The Whitechapel Gallery has commissioned the Guerrilla Girls to create a new artwork as part of an archive display at the Gallery. Following their 1986 poster which states "It’s Even Worse in Europe", the new work will present the results of fresh research based on questionnaires sent to over 400 European museum directors in 2016, including the Whitechapel Gallery. “With this project, we wanted to pose the question ‘Are museums today presenting a diverse history of contemporary art or the history of money and power?’ Our research into this will be presented at Whitechapel Gallery this fall.” address relating to the representation of artists in recent exhibitions who are female, gender nonconforming or from Africa, Asia, South Asia and South America. include a broad range of research and production materials which throw light on how the group works. The Guerrilla Girls will give a special public presentation at the Whitechapel Gallery about their 31 years of activist work on 1 October. Artist Talk: Guerrilla Girls on Saturday 1st October, 3pm | £9.50/£7.50 conc - The Guerrilla Girls will present a lecture illustrating their work over the past 31 years, and the work that still needs to be done. Curator's Tour on Thursday 8th December, 6.30pm | Free - Co-curator Nayia Yiakoumaki leads a guided tour exploring the Guerrilla Girls’ exhibition. The Guerrilla Girls will also lead a week-long major public project at Tate Modern (4-9 Oct.), as part of Tate Exchange (which opens at the end of September). We undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair. The Guerrilla Girls, a group of anonymous, feminist activists was founded in 1985. Each member takes the name of a dead woman artist as a pseudonym and in public their identities are hidden under gorilla masks. Using facts, humour and fake fur, they produce posters, banners, stickers, billboards, projections and other public projects that expose sexism, racism and corruption in art, film, politics and the culture at large. The idea of the Gorilla masks was that it always keeps the focus off the individuals involved and on the messages they want to promote.

How reserves, slack and simple rules of thumb help us deal with radical uncertainty. Why the next financial crisis is unlikely to be like the last one. Like many of you, I took a high school physics class that included an exercise in plotting the course of the earth around the sun using Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. It was one of the few instances I recall using math in high school to solve something useful. What my physics teacher neglected to mention was that while a student can plot the course of one planet around the sun and determine where it is at any point in time, once two or more planets are added, even the greatest scientists in history, such as Isaac Newton, were unable to determine where three planets would be in the future based on their current position and velocity. In his book, “The End of Theory: Financial Crisis, the Failure of Economics and the Sweep of Human Interaction,” Richard Bookstaber writes, “The three-body problem illustrates how easy it is to run into computational irreducibility…It seems it cannot be solved analytically. There is no apparent shortcut, no mathematical equation that can tell you the trajectory. In general, if you want to know where the planets will end up down the road, you have to ride along with them as they trace their paths, either in practice or simulation.” What is amazing about that is there isn’t any randomness when it comes to planetary motion. The relevant variables are the planets’ masses, the distance between them and their velocity. Yet, scientists have only discovered sixteen special cases, most of them using supercomputers, where the planets’ motion fits a pattern that allows for their future positioning to be accurately predicted. Most of the time as Bookstaber points outs, “If you start the three planets on a course, they will follow complex and apparently random trajectories that finally end with one of the planets escaping the gravitational pull of the others.” William Stanley Jevons, an English economist and logician, was one of the first academics in the mid nineteenth century to apply mathematical shortcuts to understand the economy. Despite his efforts, he also recognized there was a problem in using math when it came to the human interactions that drive the economy. He wrote, “If we are to apply scientific method to morals, we must have a calculus of moral effects, a kind of physical astronomy investigating mutual perturbations of individuals. But as astronomers have not fully solved the problem of three gravitating bodies, where shall we have a solution of the problem of three moral bodies?” Humans are changeable. They learn, grow and make decisions based on emotion and context—how they feel given what is going on in their lives at any given moment. Economic models are based on logic and require humans to act in consistent ways from one person to the next and from one time period to the next because that is what is required for the mathematics to work. Bookstaber writes, “It is a deeply held conviction within economics that our world can be reduced to models that are founded on the solid ground of axioms, plumbed by deductive logic into rigorous, universal mathematical structures.” “Economists think they have things figured out, but our economic behavior is so complex, our interactions are so profound that there is no mathematical shortcut for determining how they will evolve.” “The only way to know what the results of these interactions will be is to trace out the path over time: we essentially must live out our lives to see where they will go. There is no formula that allows us to fast-forward to find out what the result will be. The world cannot be solved; it has to be lived.” When it comes to the economy, financial markets and our own lives, there is no way to know or accurately predict what is going to happen one, three or five years from now. Bookstaber writes, “Fundamentally, we don’t know where we are going, and we don’t know who we will be when we get there…If we change with our experiences, and if we cannot anticipate those experiences or how they will change us, if we must live out life in order to know it, then a central underpinning of economics is ripped away.” Bookstaber describes this unknowing as radical uncertainty. The world is full of surprises; outcomes and events that we didn’t anticipate. That means having some emergency savings and cash. It means not becoming too illiquid or overly aggressive in our investing. Bookstaber writes, “During a crisis what matters is not relative value, the subtleties of relative expected earnings or constrictions in the supply chain. What matters is liquidity and risk. People dump risky and illiquid assets, and there is a flight to quality (toward assets that are liquid and less risky).” Holding cash and perhaps even some long-term bonds provides a margin of safety to both protect against crisis and to be in the position to take advantage of opportunities that arise. Quite recently, big names like Google, Facebook and Experian were forced into the unenviable position of admitting data breaches that possibly compromised the accounts of their clientele. Add on the fact that there were thousands of data breaches last year and it quickly becomes evident that people everywhere should be proactive by setting up their accounts in preparation for being hacked. The most vital step to this is in creating stronger passwords. Passwords that can be easily guessed, use the name, birthdays, or wedding anniversary of the user are certainly worthless. Nor should a single password be used for logging into everything under the sun. If remembering lots of different passwords is hard, it might be best to make use of a top-flight password manager. The next step involves thoroughly checking personal bank statements and credit reports for things that are out of order. If anything seen hints at the fraudulent activity, contact your bank or creditor at the speed of light. Next, it is recommended to freeze credit reports at any of the 3 chief credit bureaus in existence: Experian, Equifax and Transunion. That way, no one can get a credit report on your account without your approval. Unfreezing these is easy, as you will be issued a unique PIN or password beforehand. If there are accounts that feature two-factor authentication, this provision must be turned on, as it provides an extra layer of security. As well, beware of calls, emails and texts from people who claim to be staffs of the brokerage, bank, etc whose services you enjoy. These fellas might be armed with such personal information as your Social Security Number, sound all professional and inform you that your PIN or password needs changing. This is however invariably a scam, a well-worn one that you should not fall for. If you actually get a text that requires action, call the bank concerned and speak to the actual staff. Should you get a call, hang up and call the bank back, no matter what. More, if you were to get calls from someone claiming to be from a governmental agency such as the IRS and threatening you with fines and jail times for some infraction, ignore it, as the objective is to panic, scam and fleece you. Moreover, keep in mind that personal information such as Social Security Numbers is not to be disclosed to every Tom, Dick and Harry who asks for it. If such personal information is required and you feel unsure of the necessity, in the absence of a proven need do not provide it. Last but not least, set reminders to ensure that you check your credit reports quarterly from now on. It might also be worth it to subscribe to a credit monitoring service. Overall, be sure to act as if your service or account will be hacked sooner or later. To lessen the risks of this, make use of strong passwords, give your personal information only to those truly deserving of it, and set up two-factor authentication in accounts that permit it. As well, keep a sharp lookout on third-party sites like top bingo sites that require your financial data. The above information is brought to you by one of the top bingo sites which houses a fantastic collection of slot games with amazing graphics and themes that can be played anytime and anywhere. Even though a determination, revised determination, decision, or revised decision has become final, it may be reopened and revised by the Social Security field office, reviewing office, ALJ, or Appeals Council within certain time limitations and under certain conditions. See §2016. We may decide to reopen a determination or decision on our own or as the result of receiving a written request from a claimant, eligible spouse, or representative payee. The decision to reopen or not to reopen is not an initial determination and is not subject to appeal. After such 12-month period but within two years from the date of notice of the initial determination if there is "good cause" for reopening it. "Good cause" may exist when: Note: "Good cause" does not exist where the only basis for reopening the determination or decision is a change of legal interpretation or administrative ruling on which the determination or decision was based. At any time if it was obtained by fraud, or an unintentional act that results in fraud, by the claimant or some other person. Since 12th November, I had started to say sell Natural gas… Look my last article: click here [Post Unlocked] Natural gas now at the very crucial position. We will see buying pressure in short time. But before start uptrend, it should touch 178.5 level. Soon crude palm oil will start downside rally. But it’s risky that’s why I do not recommend starting selling from this Monday.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 30 Ohio State women’s swimming team resumes its dual meet season Saturday and Sunday after what will have been a 20-day break from competition for the holiday season. Coach Bill Dorenkott’s team will travel to Toledo for a dual meet Saturday against the Rockets at 1 p.m. at the UT Student Rec Center Pool. The Buckeyes will return home following the meet to host Wright State in a double dual meet with the men’s team at 1 p.m. at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. The meet against Toledo will be broadcast on a tape delay basis by Buckeye Cable Sports Network. Re-broadcast times are still to be determined. Visit the BCSN Web site this weekend here for more details. Ohio State, victorious in its last competition at the three-day Chesapeake Energy Elite Pro-Am in Oklahoma City, Okla., Dec. 18-20, carries a 2-0 dual meet record into the weekend competition with dual meet wins over Kenyon and Cleveland State in November. The team’s 2009 slate also includes a runner-up finish at its own, six-team Ohio State Invitational and a fifth-place finish at the strong, six-team Purdue Invite. Toledo, checking in at No. 47 in the latest CSCAA poll, is off to one of its best starts in program history with an 8-1 record. Ohio State swam to a 181.5-118.5 win in Columbus in the 2007-08 season, the last meeting between the two schools in the pool. 24 Hours Later… Just 24 hours after the Buckeyes swim at Toledo, the team will host Wright State at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. The Raiders are 6-3 on the season and will be competing for the first time since Dec. 12 when they defeated the University of Tampa 184.5-77.5 in Tampa, Fla. Only Two Duals, but Lots of Racing Ohio State has competed in only two dual meets so far but its swimmers have raced 22 times when one includes the three, three-day invitational meets in November and December and intrasquad scrimmages. “The dual meet total is probably one of the lowest in the NCAA while the number of sessions swum is probably near the top,” Ohio State coach Bill Dorenkott said. Here is Why Dorenkott explained why he set his team’s schedule to include fewer dual meets and more of the invitational, championship-format meets this year: “The thought with three invitational-type meets in the fall was twofold: One, we as a team and staff needed a better sense of our strengths and weaknesses; and two, we have focused on becoming a better ‘racing’ team.” The Buckeyes are Nationally Ranked Ohio State is nationally ranked. The team’s showing through the first half of the season has gotten the attention of the Collegiate Swim Coaches Association of America, which ranks Ohio State No. 30 nationally in its second of four dual meet polls for the season. Last Time Out…Last Year In its last competitive competition outside of practices, Ohio State won the 40-team Chesapeake Energy Elite Pro-Am Dec. 18-20 in Oklahoma City, Okla. The Buckeyes came away with five relay wins and six more individual wins in the Olympic Festival Pool on the campus of Oklahoma City Community College to secure the victory. Junior Samantha Cheverton swam to a win in the 100 butterfly and was part of four relay wins to lead the Buckeye efforts against collegiate swimmers as well as elite club team members from around the country. Junior Katelyn Brix took first in the 200 individual medley and senior Colleen Schweitzer won the 200 breaststroke. Freshman Emily Creran swam to a victory in the 200 backstroke and another freshman, Shannon Draves picked up a win in the 200 butterfly and another in the 50 butterfly. Cheverton had four runner-up finishes: 200 free, 500 free and 200 fly. Other second-place efforts were swam by Catherine Eitel (100 breaststroke), Shannon Draves (100 fly), Lockhart (400 IM), Detro (50, 100 and 200 free), Megan Alexander (200 breaststroke), Lauren Massey 100 back) and Kimberly Bowman (50 fly). Good Grades Coach Bill Dorenkott was most proud with the efforts of his team in the classroom during the fall quarter. Eighty-percent of the team earned a grade point average of 3.0 or above with 13 student-athletes soaring above the 3.50 GPA. Two academic stars – senior Megan Alexander and freshman Lauren Massey – recorded perfect, 4.0 GPAs. “Our academic success is not an accident,” Dorenkott said. “The previous coaching staff did an awesome job of attracting individuals who believe strongly in the value of a college education. In addition, we are blessed at The Ohio State University with an athletic department that provides the resources for success. When you put highly motivated students in a competitive environment with unlimited opportunities the results will speak for themselves. “We have found a strong correlation between academic success and athletic success in our program. Show me a young person who achieves to their potential in the classroom and there is a pretty good chance they are reaching their potential in the pool as well.” Fast Times…So Far Samantha Cheverton, who leads the team with seven individual wins so far this season (two wins in the 100 and 200 freestyle and 100 butterfly, respectively, and one in the 200 fly), has the fastest time in the Big Ten Conference – so far – in the 200 free at 1:47.62. Cheverton has a Big Ten Top 5 time in the 200 backstroke (1:59.40) and her time of 4:46.38 in the 500 free is sixth-best league-wise. Up Next Ohio State travels to East Lansing, Mich., Jan. 22 for a dual meet against Michigan State, and then turns right around and returns to Columbus for a dual meet against Michigan Jan. 23 at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. The attached pdf includes the team’s 2009-10 results, fastest times, Top 5 times in each event, a listing of individual wins so far and a team roster.

The Government of Sri Lanka must show that it will address the legitamate grievances of the Tamils and the Tamil Tigers must re-enter the negotiating process, renounce terrorism and violence, said Co-Chairs of the Tokyo Donor Conference. Colombo must immediately prevent groups based in its territory from carrying out violence and acts of terrorism. It must protect the rights and security of Tamils, ensure violators are prosecuted and must show that it is ready to make the dramatic political changes to bring about a new system of governance. The international community will support such steps; failure to take such steps will diminish international support, said the strong worded statement. Japan convened this meeting, three years after the original Tokyo Conference on Reconstruction and Development of Sri Lanka, to decide whether the Co-Chairs, namely the European Union, Japan, US and Norway, can usefully help further in addressing Sri Lanka’s crisis when the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE do not seem to be able to prevent the sliding back into violence. The Co-Chairs call on both parties to take immediate steps to reverse the deteriorating situation and put the country back on the road to peace. The LTTE must re-enter the negotiating process. It must renounce terrorism and violence. It must show that it is willing to make the political compromises needed for a political solution within a united Sri Lanka. This solution should include democratic rights of all peoples of Sri Lanka. The international community will respond favourably to such actions; failure to do so will lead to deeper isolation of the LTTE. The Government must show that it will address the legitimate grievances of the Tamils. It must immediately prevent groups based in its territory from carrying out violence and acts of terrorism. It must protect the rights and security of Tamils throughout the country and ensure violators are prosecuted. It must show that it is ready to make the dramatic political changes to bring about a new system of governance which will enhance the rights of all Sri Lankans, including the Muslims. The international community will support such steps; failure to take such steps will diminish international support. The Co-Chairs recognize that both parties have responsibilities which they have failed to deliver upon, including the commitments made at their meeting in Geneva in February 2006. The LTTE is responsible for numerous terrorist attacks. The Government has failed to prevent attacks of armed groups, including Karuna and violent elements of EPDP. The violence that has resulted is no longer confined to the parties to the conflict but has spilled over to ruin or end the lives of innocent civilians. This has led to a breakdown of law and order and the terrorization of the affected population. Abuses of human rights have been assessed recently by the UN and others. The Co-Chairs call on all parties to respect human rights and pursue human rights’ abuses. This situation is not sustainable and the country will continue its slide into greater conflict unless the two protagonists cease all violence and resolve their differences through peaceful negotiation. While the situation gives cause for grave concern, the Co-Chairs concluded that the ingredients for a peaceful settlement remain present. The majority in Sri Lanka still seek peace. All Co-Chairs renewed their commitment to do all possible to help Sri Lanka in a manner that promotes peace and to support the current Norwegian-facilitated peace effort. Other countries and organizations share this view and wish to support the Co-Chairs’ effort. To this end, the Co-Chairs will explore interest for allocating tasks to other groups of countries to improve the efficiency of work within the areas defined by the participants in the Tokyo Conference three years ago. The Tamil and Muslim peoples of Sri Lanka have justified and substantial grievances that have not yet been adequately addressed. The Co-Chairs encourage the Government of the Sri Lanka to further develop concrete policies for addressing the grievances of minorities and for building mutual confidence between different communities. The Co-Chairs and the international community will support the Government’s efforts towards implementing such policies. However, three years of work since the original Tokyo Conference shows the international community can only support but cannot deliver peace. Peace can only be delivered by Sri Lankans themselves. The Co-Chairs’ role can be meaningful only where those parties want to help themselves in bringing peace with commitment and honesty. Both parties have agreed to the basic principles of any future peace during the successful period of negotiation in 2002-2003. The parties should recommit to these principles set down in the Ceasefire Agreement, the decisions from the six rounds of talks, and the meeting in Geneva in February 2006. In this context, the Co-Chairs will support any solution agreed by the parties that safeguards the territorial integrity of Sri Lanka, assures protection and fulfils the legitimate aspirations of the Tamil people and indeed of the Muslim people, guarantees democracy and human rights, and is acceptable to all communities. Norway has prepared a number of initiatives for the parties to return to talks, which will be issued shortly. The Co-Chairs endorsed these initiatives. The solutions to the problem cannot be brought through conflict – the history of Sri Lanka shows that war is not winnable for either side and simply causes immense suffering to the citizens. Finding solutions requires political commitment, imagination and spirit of compromise and the responsibility for this lies solely with the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE. The Co-Chairs reiterate their support for the important role of Norway as facilitator to the peace process and the ceasefire monitoring activities of Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) in an increasingly difficult situation. At the same time, it is necessary to examine how to strengthen the role of SLMM. The Co-chairs note that over $ 3,400 million has been provided by donors based on Tokyo pledges and tsunami funds, and more than 20% of that assistance has been allocated to the North and East including LTTE controlled area. Such assistance has contributed to improving the livelihood of people in Sri Lanka. As long as the commitment to the Ceasefire Agreement by both parties is proven by way of their actions, the international community will continue its assistance in addition to humanitarian aid. As improvement of health, education and development is important as confidence-building measures, the Co-Chairs could also provide funding to support the efforts to meet these critical needs. The Co-Chairs reaffirm that a continuous and positive involvement of the UN, Red Cross, and civil society, including the NGOs, in the peace process is vital. However, there has been increasing criticism of and even open attacks against these actors lately. The Co-Chairs condemn absolutely these attacks. The Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE should ensure their protection so their positive work for Sri Lanka can continue. The Co-Chairs will follow up closely the findings of the agencies involved in monitoring human rights, such as the UN and SLMM. Three years ago at the original Tokyo Conference, the international community was requested to support the peace process. The key elements to this process were the facilitation by Norway, the monitoring role of the SLMM, the Co-Chairs and substantial aid flows from a multitude of donors. The international community remains committed to its supporting role agreed three years ago but it turns to the government and LTTE to deliver on their side of the bargain if war is to be avoided. Mr. Yasushi Akashi, representative of Government of Japan to Sri Lanka is to visit Sri Lanka on 15 October Sunday and will spend five days, a press release issued by Embassy of Japan in Colombo said Wednesday. Mr Akashi is expected to hold talks with the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers to promote the on-going peace efforts, the press release added. Mr. Yasushi Akashi, Representative of the Government of Japan for Peace-building, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in Sri Lanka, will visit Sri Lanka from Sunday 15th October to Friday 20th October 2006. Considering the current situation in Sri Lanka where both the Government and the LTTE are in the process of making final preparations to hold direct talks on the 28th and 29th of October, Mr. Akashi is scheduled to meet officials of the Sri Lankan Government and the leaders of the LTTE with a view to enhancing this constructive effort and will also exchange views on the peace process and its future with leaders of political parties, international organizations and others. This is Mr. Akashi’s 13th visit to Sri Lanka since he was appointed as the Representative of the Government of Japan for Peace-building, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in Sri Lanka. 4. Sealed and plat flashlight tail which ensures its waterproof performance as well as its tail standing function. 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Saturday, December 1, 2007 , Posted by Christopher Byrne at 4:55 PM, under Colin Cowherd, ESPN, ESPN Radio, National Football League, NFL, Sean Taylor Atlanta, GA (Dev 1, 2007) - Apparently, as much as people have blasted Colin Cowherd (including this publication), it seems he may have been right in how he characterized the shooting and subsequent death of Washington Redskin Safety Sean Taylor. Even though the police in Miami are calling the incident a random act, a source close to the National Football League told "Eye on Sports Media" today that it was, in fact, retribution for an earlier incident. So somewhere in there is the truth, and hopefully it will come out as this story unfolds. For now, while Colin Cowherd's sense of timing may have been off, it sounds like he was spot on in his commentary and reporting. But will the National Football League come forward with the information they know? 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Each pack had one invasion dragon, and one PC dragon, the two that share the same primary color, and a few land to assure you could reasonably play 3 colors without having to fill the cube with an overabundance of mana fixing. each pack came with one of each possible karo (you could only run three, obv) a command tower, and a reflecting pool. seemed to work out well, and there was still a good bit of mana fixing in the cube itself. Most people liked the general packs, since there was a strong feeling of balance, and you were only forced to play one color based on what you got. To keep things in balance, however, there were zero 3 color cards in the cube, since they would have been useable by only one person each. My commander cube became a commander realms box. Drafting 6 packs just seemed to take too long for my play group. Now we have 5 piles/libraries (each color). We draft commanders still. Then you can draw from which ever pile you have the color access to. Gold/ colorless get randomly distributed in each pile( A rug card could go in any of the 3 piles and a colorless in any of the 5). If you get a card you can not play due to color restriction you may exile it and draw a new card. That's kind of awesome...I will DEFINATLEY suggest this to my group the next time Experttextpert pulls out the commander cube. Drafting takes forever! Like the idea, will try it out. With my group is goes fast once you get the color identity down. The first couple packs are difficult and then it goes real quick for the next 4, but that is also a reason we didn't go 7 packs (which was our original thought). Just so everyone knows this list isn't updated, you got to go to my site in order to see if (at least until I want to put the card code in here all over again. Philosophically for Cube, do you like putting in all the cool cards/bombs or a bunch of jank so that you can see what people will do with it? Depends, I started the cube off with a jank theme limiting it only to commons and uncommons with some of the worst Commanders ever printed. However the multi-player aspect of it and the fact that the closest things to board wipes were Pestilence and Pyrohemia, the games took forever. It started with the philosophy that people would have these armies for their generals to command and cards like Serra Angel would be bombs, I know Minion of the Wastes was huge in the beginning, but the games were taking 5+ hours. So I started to include rares and mythics into the cube and it escalated because my group just has more fun with the bomby type of cards. I like to have a balance between Bomby McBombertons and the cards that combo well with the Commanders for cool effects. I went out of my way to ensure that are no infinite combos but the escalation of force continues until someone just wins. I wanted more game winners than answers for game winners so that the game can't last forever or just stagnate. The group I generally play with likes to have fun games but not fun 6-hour games. We've found that 4-hours for draft, and 2-3 games of EDH are appropriate for an afternoon and anything longer than that just starts seeming like drudgery. My friend has a normal cube for 1-on-1 games and his are just powerful cards and abuse, playing it reminds me of my childhood as the red-headed stepchild. I know his philosophy was "Epic plays for epic fun." Also if people think a certain card is better in a limited multiplayer setting than one of the cards that isn't in here please let me know. Or if there are changes that you suggest, etc. The main changes in black were the removal of most of the combat discard creatures and the addition of the extort creatures. Also Dismember was cut for Ultimate Price as there are lots and lots of mono-colored creatures in this cube. It was hard fought but Deadeye Navigator had to be cut because I don't allow infinite combos in my cube and well he led to a couple (even though they were four card combos). I also wanted to cheapen up blue creatures a little so that they have more mana for instants and abilities. Added: Luminate Primordial, Syndic of Tithes, Knight of Obligation, Blind Obedience, Basilica Guards, Sanctum Gargoyle. I just removed cards that people weren't playing to add in the extort creatures and add a artifact recursion card. Matron was good with a butt ton of tokens and combat steps and such but no one was using him, I'm much more confident that people will use these cards. I like the repeatable aspect of the 5AF rather than the conditional aspect of the Volley, and you can always unload your tokens from the fire at instant speed. Fling was for the big guys like Malignus or Scourge of Grier Reach but no one was using it so it got cut. While an 8/8 flying lifelink for 5 is really good, it was also conditional and semi-difficult to cast. I like the options of Merciless Eviction more than the conditional state of the DoP. Anyways I am always interested in opinions on why certain cards and not others or suggestions for cards. Sever the Bloodline for Oubliette, here it is an upgrade from an exile effect for an exile effect. Oubliette was good with Zur but Sever the Bloodline is more universal as it still exiles (important vs. indestructible creatures), answers swaths of tokens, and has flashback. Dark Hatchling for Abyssal Specter, Abyssal was a relic of when black cared about discard, but in a multiplayer game discard is much less effective so murder was the case that they chose. While the jump from 4 to 6 is a bigger jump than normal turn 6 is really when creatures need to start dying. 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I consider land ramp a much more valuable use especially with green and green has a lot of resources that are good with the graveyard but Genesis is just a bomb. Naturalize for Algae Gharial, green has lots of artifact and enchantment removal and doesn't really need this card and a big honey comb with shroud is never a bad thing. Adamaro, First to Desire vs Firewing Phoenix, Adamaro is a good 6/6 or 7/7 on turn three, but that's all he is and red is transitioning (slower than I would like) over to a number of repeatable/recurrable cards that should give red the longevity that it needs. Braid of Fire vs Sandstorm Eidolon, Braid of Fire was too slow and the recurrable creature every time you cast your Commander or another multi-color creature was a good option. Burning Palm Efreet vs Aladdin, Aladdin is so underrated and with the increase in artifact creatures his ability to steal them was more powerful than the Efreet's ability to clear the skies. Archon of Justice vs Springjack Shepherd, another exit the battlefield effect being removed. The Shepherd should do some work with overrun cards, or just Marshal's Anthem and Elesh Norn. Knight of Meadowgrain vs Soul's Attendant, one less mana and a lot more life gain. The Knight is good but double white is also harder to cast. Mistmoon Griffin vs Mass Calcify, another exit the battlefield effect being removed. Calcify seems good at being a mostly one sided wrath. I've been playing my Commander cube for a few years now. The cards change frequently, but I have settled on a few practices and extra rules that make the format fun for me and my group. Most of them can be adopted independently of each other. Maybe one or more would work for your group. My cube is 628 cards. That's 72 cards each in the WUBRG, artifact, multicolored, and land categories, plus 52 commanders (3 per dyad, 2 per triad, and 2 5-color). We draft a pack of 6 commanders first. 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Listen to what they are really saying, not just their responses to surveys, but what they tell you when they do business with your company. Your most precious asset, no matter what business you have, is your existing customers. You expended considerable effort to entice these companies to do business with you. So why not intensely focus on their behaviour as they do business with you? Rather than comb through the endless data about them, talk to them, humanise your approach. Too many companies squander the treasure that is real customer feedback. The solution is systematically measuring the customer’s human voice and integrating it into a culture of continuous feedback. Customer-experience metrics have proliferated over the past decade, and chances are that your business relies heavily on one or more of them. But many companies struggle with metrics. For some, the problem is a disconnect between the metric and business performance; for others, it’s a loss of confidence among front-line workers when the metrics do not seem to explain big swings in customer satisfaction. Further, in some companies, there is confusion about whether transactional or relational measures matter more, and, in others, a simple lack of results from too much focus on one top-line metric. McKinsey director Alex Singla illustrates how a typical institution has multiple chances to build customer satisfaction. Learn more: http://www.mckinsey.com… Loyal customers may represent no more than 20 percent of your customer base, but make up more that 50 percent of your sales. You need to be communicating with these customers on a regular basis. These people are the ones who can and should influence your marketing decisions. Nothing will make a loyal customer feel better than soliciting their input and showing them how much you value it. 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Today's cars and trucks are more powerful than ever. The vehicles on this list of Most Powerful Coupes for 2006 may not get the best gas mileage, but they do deliver on horsepower. KDC Theatre is nearly 80 years old. Times have changed, and the way in which we’re governed doesn’t fully comply with the rules for associations like ours. As a result, at this year’s Christmas Quiz – 7 December 2017 at the Hoop & Grapes, Farringdon, we shall be holding an Extraordinary General Meeting to decide on becoming a charitable organisation. The first step to becoming a charity is to agree a new constitution. The old one-page constitution isn’t robust enough for the Charity Commission. Join us from 7.30pm on Thursday 7 December for fun, festivities and the opportunity to decide on the future of KDC Theatre. More details to follow… Lucy is a Graphic Designer by day and a performer by night/weekends/days off. She has enjoyed creating drama from the ripe age of 4, and has been involved in various productions from devised pieces to straight up classics ever since. Most recently you will have found her at Bestival festival as part of an improvisation troop tasked with increasing the peace amongst festival goers; mostly achieved through immersive games and storytelling. She enjoys dancing to disco and making cheese sandwiches. David is a Scottish actor living in London. David has played lead and supporting roles in over 30 stage shows across the UK. Last year David was Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray at The Space Theatre before taking the production to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and in January next year David will be The Creature in Tower Theatre’s Frankenstein. This is David’s first KDC Theatre show and thanks all the cast/crew for putting up with him. Melissa trained and worked as an Actor in New Zealand before moving to London in 2013. Melissa’s most recent credits have been in the commercial world for brands such as First Direct Bank, GiffGaff and Aldi. You can often find Melissa at the National Theatre bookshop devouring new plays! She has a strong interest in new writing, musical theatre & devised work. BU21 is Melissa’s first show with KDC! This is Keir’s fifth production with KDC. Having somewhat exacerbated a family feud as Tybalt in Romeo & Juliet, he then attempted to keep his head, Rudyard Kipling style, as Dr Cardin in The Children’s Hour and then vehemently express a vision of anti-E.U.topia as The Terrorist in There Has Possibly Been An Incident and most recently hamming up his Tony Soprano vernacular to its upmost as Sal in Den Of Thieves. Alongside his stage work, Keir’s on-screen credits include the feature films City Rats and Shaun Of The Dead and acclaimed shorts Honeymoon, The Outcasts and Green Means Stop. Not forgetting TV Shows including Channel 4’s Teachers and Messiah and the usual rounds of The Bill (R.I.P.), Holby City and Casualty amongst others. Keir is proud of the fact that Charlie Brooker once called him the biggest c**t in advertising for a truly appalling Coke Zero commercial. Previous to this, the most amount of times Keir had written ‘Keir’ in any singular piece of writing was four. So he is proud to have taken the opportunity to beat this record… comfortably. Keir knows this bio will be cut. After moving to London in 2013, Lene Kqiku has pursued her dream of becoming the UK’s premiere Finnish/Albanian actress. With this, her first performance at KDC, she is already well on the way. After studying with a range of acting schools, she has begun working on a number of short film projects, including the upcoming sci-fi Opus one, drama Brexit and psychological horror thriller Carcera. With a passion for drama, both on and off the stage, she can often be found performing in the streets, bus depots and strangers’ weddings. BU21 is Jess’s first show with KDC. Jess works in an office day-to-day but loves to perform in her free time. She hasn’t featured in a show for over 2 years, since she performed Horizon in the Soho theatre, using her time instead to take up new hobbies, such as pole fitness and bouldering. She is now excited to get back on the stage. Congratulations to ensemble cast for Otherworldly, which will be performed at The Rosemary Branch, Shoreditch, 21 – 25 November. Congratulations to the cast of BU21, the show will be performed at Barons Court Theatre 28 November – 2 December. Tags: frosty, snowmen, snowman, winter, bears, harvest bears, fall, pumpkins, autumn, fall, seasonal, summer, seahorse, mermaids Want it delivered between Nov 20 and Nov 22? Order within 1 hr 34 mins and choose Express Delivery at checkout. Well, 'tis the season, again. And no, I don't mean Christmas and the holidays. 'Tis the season for vaccinations and vaccine propaganda. The Ottawa Public Health authority has been demanding proof from parents that their children have been vaccinated. Read more.

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The first time I used it was amazingly moisturizing, but after that it's not as amazing anymore. But the good thing is that it's not too sticky , I would repurchase it. We are looking for a committed Assistant Studio Director with strong leadership skills to join our team. Are you sophisticated, professional, and committed to providing excellent customer service? Can you work well with others and lead our company to maximum heights? Then come join our growing family of lash stylists at Amazing Lash Studio! The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of... and over 2 million other books are available for Amazon Kindle . Learn more In this fascinating new account of our origins, leading archaeologist Timothy Taylor proposes a new way of thinking about human evolution through our relationship with objects. Drawing on the latest fossil evidence, Taylor argues that at each step of our species' development, humans made choices that caused us to assume greater control of our evolution. Our appropriation of objects allowed us to walk upright, lose our body hair, and grow significantly larger brains. As we push the frontiers of scientific technology, creating prosthetics, intelligent implants, and artificially modified genes, we continue a process that started in the prehistoric past, when we first began to extend our powers through objects. Weaving together lively discussions of major discoveries of human skeletons and artifacts with a reexamination of Darwin's theory of evolution, Taylor takes us on an exciting and challenging journey that begins to answer the fundamental question about our existence: what makes humans unique, and what does that mean for our future? 'Taylor is an engaging and entertaining writer...this is a stimulating book...' - Engineering and Technology A new take on the evolutionary story as archaeological evidence unravels the great mystery of why human evolution defies the principles of natural selection This book presents the hypothesis that tools had and have critical impacts on the evolution of humanity: "instead of our becoming intelligent enough to invent things, the things actually allowed us to evolve into intelligent human beings (page 57)," going even further to claim that "Technology is at least as critical to our identity as out soft tissues" (page 189). Going beyond accepted theories of genetic and cultural coevolution, the author proposed revisions of Darwin's theories so as to recognize tools into a main shaper of the human species, with technology having a dynamics of its own, up to claiming that "Things rule us" (page 160). He makes a strong case about the crucial importance of tools in shaping human evolution. Indeed, we might do well to stop using the term genetic-cultural coevolution and think instead in terms of genetic-cultural synergetic interaction. But there are two main missing links in his argumentation. First of all, the book does not present any reasonable conjectures on the processes producing the results he describes. Thus, on the critical example of infant-carrying slings he says that they were "an essential tool" (page 122) because of the need to carry infants for long distances "So the pressure to make this discovery....is huge...It becomes conceivable that the first bestoke and standardized stone tools...were made in order to obtain the materials for... the simple fabrication process for basic slings" (page 123). Maybe this is conceivable, but "being conceivable" is a far cry from "being likely" even if we accept abduction as a reasonable logic of discovery. The second missing link concerns the mental bases of advanced technologies, which are not a continuation of stone-age technologies but depend on science and its philosophical underpinnings. In other words, the author neglects non-material dimensions of culture which became critical both for the shapes of human societies and their impacts on evolution and for the advancements of technologies and their impacts on culture and humanity. Therefore, it is hard to avoid the impression that too large a dose of materialistic determinism hides in parts of the author's approach. For sure the author ignores the real possibility that the future-impacting powers of emerging technologies outrun the mental capacities of humanity to control these powers and prevent the demise of the human species as a result of misuses of technologies. In other words, the likelihood of increasingly dangerous gaps between the evolution of tools and the evolution of human intelligence, including both moral and cognitive capacities, is not taken up in the book. Instead the mood of the book is unwarrantedly optimistic about the future of humanity ignoring dismal scenarios that may result from the very views on the role of tools in human evolution which he proposes. Thus, the possible need to impose limitations on the invention and uses of technologies seems to be beyond the books horizons. This book argues convincingly that the invention of tools allowed humans to develop in the way they did, so that an increasingly weak creature came to dominate the earth. We cannot survive without our technology, and it may be that we never could. The more we use tools, the more our abilities diminish, and the more reliant upon them we become. Sound incredible? You will not be disappointed in finding out how and why because this book is packed with amazing insights and amusing tales. I particularly enjoyed The 7000 calory lunch! Taylor argues that it was the technology that defined humans and challenges the Darwinian notion by suggesting humanity is the 'survival of the weakest'. Clever, funny, and very accessible. 4.0 out of 5 starsA thought provoking book on how technology was the drive for the evolution of human intelligence Timothy Taylor has written a most thought provoking book following on from and in line with the recent publication by Richard Wrangham: Catching Fire how cooking made us human. The central thesis is that the evolution of humans has been dominated by the ability to adopt technology which compared to other species amounts to an artificial selection. Through technology the laws of nature are supplanted by the will of humans. He develops the concept that we did not evolve to use technology because of our superior intelligence but it was technology itself that was the evolutionary pull which we responded to and adapted by evolving our intelligence. This pull selected out the trend/evolution to higher intelligence. Examples are given which the author concludes launched humans on the technology/evolutionary line some 2.6 Million years ago. These include the making of hunting implements and cooking to become more efficient in the use of food which resulted in more energy becoming available to support the evolution of larger more intelligent brains. In addition, he highlights the less appreciated technology developed to support immature infants by adapting energy efficient means for carrying them such as slings and rucksacks. While the discovery of stone implements which define the technology developed for hunting; arrow heads, axes and implements for cleaving and slicing carcasses, the technology of carry infants would not have been preserved i.e. archeologically invisible. An illustration on how dependant we are on technology is succinctly given by how far we have lost direct contact with the raw source of our food which is termed "visceral insulation." Getting back to nature is not an option for us as we have never lived with nature. A common theme of the book is how humans evolved the large head in response to the technology pull. Since ever increasing brains could not pass through the restricted size of the pelvis of the erect posture humans, human brains had to mature outside the womb. Through technology, humans developed the means to support immature infants and effectively became artificial marsupials. Taylor stresses that technology is as least as critical to us as our soft tissues and that we are formed not by raw nature, but by the continually emerging world of technology and that artificial intelligence is human intelligence. We have to face our destiny as the first non-biologically evolving species. The book is very thought provoking in that if any one of us spent some time musing on how our lives are so dependent on technology our artificiality becomes immediately evident. Hence there is lots of scope to reconsider the more linear Darwinian thinking of survival of the fittest since through adapting technology we became less fit. For example the bone structures of early humanoids are much more robust than those of today. Taylor gives a number of convincing examples of his central thesis but one was left with wanting more evidence to push home such thought provoking themes. If anything the author digresses somewhat both philosophically and through narrating his personal experiences. This tends to hinder the reader from evolving his or her summery of the main message. Never the less one is sure that many other works will follow on from this ground breaking account of the artificial ape. On further reflection I feel that it may not have been intelligence that was brought by technology but curiosity- how to make things better. Maybe a book could be written about the evolution of curiosity which although not absent in other species is a key driver in homo sapiens. Cool Camping Coast: A hand-picked selection of exceptional campsites less than a mile from the sea Paperback – 8 May 2018 In recognition of the nation's love for the Great British coastline, 2018 sees the launch of a brand new guidebook - Cool Camping: Coast - the latest title in the best-selling Cool Camping series. Featuring 66 of the best independent campsites along Britain's coast, plus 20 seaside glamping locations for those in need of a bit more luxury, this colourful new guide offers the perfect inspiration for any holiday by the sea. Exciting recommendations include a National Trust-owned farm overlooking the best surf spot in Wales, a Scottish getaway where you can swoosh onto the beach via a children's slide and a mountain-foot meadow in Snowdonia with panoramic views of Anglesey, the Great Orme and Puffin Island. Every single campsite featured is less than one mile from the coast and each gets the full Cool Camping treatment - brought to life with entertaining, insightful reviews and dazzling colour photographs. Each entry is also accompanied by handy practical information such as on-site facilities, off-site entertainment, the nearest good pub and all-important directions to help you find the way. For this brand new title, additional chapters also include a collection of suggested glamping alternatives for those in need of extra comfort - from eco-escapes in Cornwall to treehouses overlooking the North Sea - along with beach game ideas for families and informative tips on where to hire campervans and how to find great coastal campsites abroad. So whether you plan to spend your day sea kayaking around craggy cliffs, cooking freshly picked mussels over a campfire or learning to surf within a beachball's throw of your tent, Cool Camping: Coast is the perfect guide to help you plan your trip. This item:Cool Camping Coast: A hand-picked selection of exceptional campsites less than a mile from the sea by Andrew Day;Martin Dunford;David Jones;Jonathan… Paperback £10.27 Really looks good but is actually rather annoying. Many of the sites are tents only. Not great if you have a very camper. It’s stupid to include so many of these. I got excited about the site only to find it’s not for anything but tents. It’s difficult to Navigate without any symbols and maps. by Geeta S. Iyengar (Author), Rita Keller (Author), Kerstine Keller (Author), foreword by B. K. S. Iyengar (Author), Domink Ketz (Illustrator) & 2 more With its superb provenance, encyclopaedic coverage, meticulous allopathic medical vetting, and more than 400 illustration-packed pages, Iyengar Yoga for Motherhood will become the must-have guide for every yoga instructor, mother-to-be, and new mum who wants to continue her practice. Lavishly produced, and with a fresh contemporary look that s easy to follow, it s broken up into trimesters with thorough explanations of what you can do and when, shown in 350 detailed photographs. Each spread features extensive instructions and hints, notes on the position s positive effects and contraindications, and advice on checking yourself for proper form and technique - a hallmark of the Iyengar style of yoga. This item:Iyengar Yoga for Motherhood: Safe Practice for Expectant and New Mothers by Geeta S. Iyengar Hardcover £25.34 With its superb provenance, encyclopedic coverage, meticulous allopathic medical vetting, and more than 400 illustration-packed pages, "Iyengar Yoga for Motherhood" will become the must-have guide for every yoga instructor, mother-to-be, and new mum who wants to continue her practice. Lavishly produced, and with a fresh contemporary look that's easy to follow, it's broken up into trimesters with thorough explanations of what you can do and when, shown in 350 detailed photographs. Each spread features extensive instructions and hints, notes on the position's positive effects and contraindications, and advice on "checking yourself" for proper form and technique - a hallmark of the Iyengar style of yoga. Add to this a huge section on nutrition (with recipes), along with invaluable information on female physiology, and the result is a manual that no "yoga mother" should pass up! Author Geeta Iyengar is the distinguished student and daughter of Mr. B.K.S. Iyengar, one of the most respected leaders in the yoga world. As a Iyengar yoga practitioner and teacher, I think that this book is invaluable. It does use a great many props (as does Iyengar yoga in general) so may appear a little daunting for first time Yoginis or those new to Iyengar yoga. However, it is based on so much superb knowledge and information from the Iyengar family that it is hard to fault. It is well presented with different sections for the three trimesters of pregnancy and also with separate guidance for beginners and advanced students. For me, this is the reference book for those serious about their pregnancy yoga. Having just started yoga during my pregnancy this book it an excellent companion to going to a class or as an informative book to dip into. It suits beginners and advanced practitioners with asanas, sequences, guidance on movements for particularly pregnancy conditions as well as holistic advice. I have other pregnancy yoga books but this one is by far the best! Enjoy. this amazing book got me through my pregnancy easily and my delivery was relatively fast too! also interesting reading material at the end. This is a great reference book for anyone teaching pregnant ladies or who is one themselves. It deals with the 3 trimesters and goes posture by posture so you understand the reasons why certain postures and good and certain ones really not good when at the different stages of pregnancy. I did notice a couple of minor inconsistencies but using common sense it is obvious what the author intended. 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Baton Route, the capital of Louisiana and a center for business, welcomes visitors with its low-key version of traditional Southern hospitality. From your perch at the Hotel Indigo Baton Rouge Downtown, the city’s charms are within easy reach. Harvest to global table is the jam at Cocha, a softly lit downtown restaurant with influences from South America to Louisiana. Small shareable plates include crawfish pot pie, fried soft shell crabs with caper vinaigrette and salmon crudo with passion fruit. If you prefer your seafood raw, stroll toTsunami Sushi, the rooftop sushi restaurant at the Shaw Center for the Arts. Enjoy river views while munching on the likes of fried oysters with wasabi tartar sauce and the Ragin’ Cajun roll made with panko-crusted fried alligator and avocado. As gastro pubs go, Driftwood Cask and Barrel is top of the list. A quick walk from the hotel, this low key spot offers an inventive craft cocktail menu and a habit-forming array of sandwiches (try the grilled pimento cheese) and bowls, of which the red fish and grits is a standout. For something a little lighter, head to Sadaf’s Café for a palate-cleansing lunch of Greek and Lebanese specialties. Must-try items include the classics like tabouli, hummus, chicken schwarma salad and the fatoush salad made with fresh tomatoes, cucumbers and feta cheese. At Mansurs on the Boulevard, a white tablecloth eatery that’s a 10-minute-ride from the hotel, Creole cuisine gets a contemporary spin. Chef Chris Motto’s creative menu includes some of the best char-grilled oysters in town and a bevy of seafood dishes, along with an award-winning wine list. Kick up your heels at Boudreaux and Thibodaux’s, a music venue/eatery smack dab in the middle of downtown. From cover bands to country, this friendly spot offers something for everyone. Check out the patio when the weather is fine. DJs spinning old school R&B, Zydeco and Southern soul along with local bands set a lively scene at Ruffins Downtown Daiquiri Lounge. There’s always something going on, from karaoke to ladies night and a smokin’ hot barbecue out on the street. All kinds of shows—including classical concerts, flamenco and country—touch down at the Manship Theater in the Shaw Center for the Arts. There’s also a series of family shows and improv comedy specials. The Shaw Center is also a hub for visual art. The eclectic multipurpose venue offers gallery shows along with the LSU Museum of Art, home to the largest collection of Newcomb pottery in the U.S. Entrance to the museum is free on the first Sunday of the month. While at the Shaw, The Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Exhibition Galleryis a must-see. The contemporary space, which offers free admission, spotlights artists from around the country in thought-provoking shows. Science shakes hands with the fine arts at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum, which is housed in the former Illinois Central Railroad Station. Pop up exhibitions cover such topics as the story of food and photography, while the permanent collection features some 4,000 pieces of American and European art—including works by Louisiana artists. Audio guides are included with the free tour of The Old State Capitol, a striking Gothic castle that sits on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi. The National Historic Landmark, which has withstood Civil War, fire and political scandal, was named the state’s capital in 1847. Governor Huey “Kingfish” Long led the charge to build the current Louisiana State Capitol, once touted as the tallest state capitol in the nation. The 34-story Art Deco building includes a viewing area for super vistas. Be sure to look up in the building’s Memorial Hall, where 30-foot high frescos tell the story of the state’s history. Wander north of the hotel and just east of State Capitol Park to discover Spanish Town, a colorful neighborhood known for its pink flamingo mascot. You can stroll along narrow streets lush with banana trees and crepe myrtles and discover this artsy, diverse pocket of downtown notable for American craftsman, Greek Revival and late Victorian architecture. As some may have read, the head came back from the shop with its valve springs upside down. After repairing and installing she continues to "miss." Compression values are: 145, 90, 115, 120, 140, 130, 130, & 125. Wet testing the 90 value jumped to 110. Gonna install new rings at the 90, 115, & 120 pistons. Thought I'd post this to see if any other info came from the forum. Thanks. Do them all and get it over with. I've NEVER heard of anyone doing a ring job and not doing all cylinders, unless your in the middle of the Sudan, surrounded by al-Shabaab, 300 miles from the nearest station and you only have 3 sets of piston rings. Don't chinse out. If you are doing rings, you'll be doing rod bearings as well as I can just about guarantee you that you won't have much oil pressure after disassembling and reassembling. It makes little to no sense to strip the heads back off (they will likely need resurfacing again as they may well have warped enough during the little run-time it has on it after the headjob) and remove the rod/piston assembly without also replacing everything that wasn't replaced during the headjob. I have probably sold 10-15 sets of standard sized rod bearings to folks who have called me back shortly thereafter for oversize bearings. The main journals don't seem to wear that badly, but the rods are almost always at least 0.015" under. When I tore apart the bottom end on my D1 with 250k mi, all rod journals were less than 0.01" under - so I put back stock-size shells. 35kmi later, the engine is whisper-quiet. Typically you're only fitting oversized bearings if you had to get the crank turned due to a nick or gouge. For mine, I just had the crank polished and used STD bearings. Easy enough to put a micrometer on the crank journals and decide for yourself before ordering bearings You're compression numbers are low all around. Should be 180. I would also bore gage the cylinders, measure the pistons, and compare against data in the overhaul manual. Just putting in new rings is a kind of shot in the dark and a lot of work to be guessing on. DH control panel is custom made, built from teh groud up by DH for DH. It’s a bit different from the feel of Cpanel - but woks so much better. Check it out on: http://www.dreamhost.com/panel/ quite allright - don’t worry about it. It’s part of what the forum is for. It’s a cool thing DH has going here - a community of customers - and it’s totaly un-controled. You can say positive or negative about DH and it’s all good. (just no insults or cussing, that sort of stuff) I like their panel, but it can be slow at times. I’ve used DH, CPanel/WHM, and Plesk. I like DH & CPanel, both of which have their strong points, but didn’t like Plesk (at least not version 6, which is the one I used). We have been experiencing errors with the web panel all day. The "Temporarily Unavailable…sorry for the…we update our databases.” message has popped up several dozen times today. Is this common for DH? I have also experienced the WP lagging at times but never like this. :@ Are you referring to the user name on the server? If so go to the web panel (when it is working), under the “mail” tab then “passwords”. You will see the list of the assigned user names (ex: m0143499) and the corresponding name that you assigned to it. Ya, that’s what I was looking for. Was just wondering if there was a faster way to get it, other than the mail tab . I did eventually get it though. Thanks! What I do is look at the sticky note on the wall of my cubicle where I wrote down the accursed machine-generated name.

Witness the first full London performance since the 19th century of Hubert Parry’s stunning oratorio Judith at this concert under the baton of William Vann. The oratorio, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry’s first, was premiered in Birmingham in August 1888 and was an instant success, consolidating his reputation as a composer of large-scale orchestral and choral writing. It is a work of persistent quality, vigorous choruses and dramatic solo roles, which also contains the melody that later, under the name ‘Repton’, became the famous hymn ‘Dear Lord and Father of Mankind’. Yet it has been largely forgotten, and neglected for the best part of a century. Interest in this captivating tale of the deeds of one of the most famed of biblical characters has been building since its 2015 Canadian premiere. Conducted by William Vann, founder of the London English Song Festival and Director of Music at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the London Mozart Players, Crouch End Festival Chorus and a host of top-ranking soloists will revive the work and give it its first full performance in London since 1889. This is an important event in the modern revival of Parry’s music, and neglected English masterpieces in general. The King Of The New Wave Leemo widely known as the Ladies man, now as Up Nepa king who recently drop his debut single titled UP NEPA is back again with UP NEPA 2.0 where he features two heavy weight SKIIBII and HARRYSONG. LEEMO is definately here to stay. Visuals coming your way soon. This song Up Nepa,is a debut single of the year and it’s set to have gained a lot of airplay all over the country and beyond. Skye has lots of factory upgrades and after-market improvements including zero-speed stabilizers, Plex movie server, Furuno TZT package, KVH satellite TV, central monitoring, AIS receiver & transmitter, electric folding Bimini top, and a converter enabling her to plug into shore power in the Bahamas, Caribbean, and Med. Three years of the five-year MAN engine warranty still remains. This is a Certified Pre-Owned Yacht, which means that she appears and functions like a new yacht, and all of the following are included: Syrian War Report – July 6, 2018: Syrian Army Retakes Multiple Points On Border With Jordan 4.8421052631579 out of 5 based on 19 ratings. 19 user reviews. The military operation of government forces in southern Syria was once again resumed after the Damascus government and local militants groups had failed to reach any kind of fully-fledged reconciliation agreement that would allow to settle the situation in the area via a peaceful way. On July 5, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the Tiger Forces and their allies liberated the town of Saida and the nearby abandoned air defense base in the province of Daraa. Additionally, the SAA advanced along the border with Jordan liberating over 10 villages between the border points of 71 and 79. According to pro-government sources, the SAA faced a little resistance during their operation along the border. Russian troops were spotted there. The operation is also supported by the Russian Aerospace Forces. Nonetheless, the number of airstrikes is limited. Currently, government forces are developing their operation in the direction of the Nassib border crossing. Clashes between Turkish-backed militants, reportedly members of Ahrar al-Sharqiyah, and government troops have taken place in the village of Tadef in the province of Aleppo. Turkish-backed forces captured some positions, but were forced to withdraw from them later. According to pro-government sources, the withdrawal was ordered by the Turkish military to de-escalated the situation. Such incidents show the real sentiments among the so-called moderate opposition groups backed by Turkey and limitations of Ankara’s control of these groups. The ISIS-linked news agency Amaq claimed that on July 4 ISIS fighters had ambushed a convoy of the US-led coalition in the village of Namliyah in the eastern part of Deir Ezzor province. According to Amaq, ISIS employed 18 IEDs against the convoy killing four US troops. Other sources say that only two US servicemen were killed. The US-led coalition has not commented on these reports so far. Meanwhile, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have captured the villages of Madinah and Qabr Taha from ISIS in the southern part of Hasakah province. The SDF is continuing it operation in the direction of the Tuwaymin area. I guess we can say jordon is on board with ending the war. Also seems russia is advancing hand in hand with the saa but no iranian linked militias? I find that interesting. The primacy of the syrian state over the militias. Is syria preparing to abandon their iranian allies? Seems to me if they put you on a bus and ship you to Idlib, the place you are leaving is not your home! You fight to the death for your home, you take the bus to get back home. So where did all these Moderate Rebels come from? Bigger question, how do you forgive or trust neighbors that cause such an invasion of your country? Given the history what makes you think you are not next? There was no honor in how Ghaddafi died, but at least he was not a traitor to his neighbors! How does one climb out of bed from an Israeli US butt fucking and hold his head up as an honorable deal maker? You sell out to the devil and you become another devil. I would rather die an honorable Palestinian than live as a rich Saudi.

A coalition of more than 65 activists have caused the city to halt $500,000 in renovations on the 124-year-old Weccacoe playground in Queens Village after the discovery of an historic cemetery unearthed the remains of more than 5,000 African Americans. Joining in the fight is the Church of the Advocate, located on 18th Street several blocks from Main Campus, which has hosted weekly meetings of the Friends of Bethel Burying Ground, who support preserving the graveyard. The Friends of Bethel Burying Ground has asked the city to replace a nearly 200-year-old, six-inch water main located at the beginning of the burial ground that has the potential to wash out the graves located underneath if broken. The activists have also asked the city to dismantle a small building housing urinals that have been determined to be right above the graves, schedule an engineering study, replace the fencing around the perimeter of the burial ground and work with the coalition to commemorate the African Americans buried there. “The fact that the City of Philadelphia has had to be persuaded to secure this valuable and significant historic site, as it would any other in Philadelphia County, is telling,” said Joseph Certaine, the leader of Friends of Bethel Burying Ground. “At the Bethel Burying Ground, the remains of the interred lay just inches below the surface. We don’t want any further desecration of these graves.” The Rev. Renee McKenzie-Hayward, vicar to the Church of the Advocate, said the city should take the burial ground more seriously. “From our perspective we say our ancestors are buried in this and so this is sacred ground and we just want it to be treated in that kind of way.” The Bethel Burial ground became one of the first privately owned African-American cemeteries when it was purchased by the trustees of the Mother Bethel Church in 1810 for $1,600 as a third of an acre of land outside the city limits to be used as a cemetery. At the time, blacks were not allowed to be buried in cemeteries with whites. The property was active until 1864 when Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner reported the cemetery was “not credible to us as a church.” The trustees of Mother Bethel later sold the cemetery to the city for $10,000 in 1889, when it was turned into Philadelphia’s first ‘pocket park’ for children. “If there were revolutionary soldiers buried here that they didn’t know about, if there were white Union Civil War heroes buried here, would you walk over them?” said Terry Buckalew, an independent historian who specializes in 19th century Philadelphia African-American history. Buckalew discovered the cemetery eight years ago while working on a documentary about civil rights activist Octavius Catto. After searching through cemetery return records, Buckalew was able to find information on 2,500 individuals buried there. In 2013 the site was recognized as a historical marker and archeologists were able to conduct three investigations last summer confirming the remains through coffins, grave shafts and bodies. More than two-thirds of the remains were identified as children who died of typhoid fever and tuberculosis. The remaining bodies were identified as many African-American leaders and pioneers that created one of the first free black communities in the United States, including Emilia Brown, Ignatius Beck and the Laws family. “I’m for respecting anyone who has died and been buried in this area but I also think that one of the ways to celebrate what’s happened here is to let the children enjoy the space,” said Linda Scheffield, a resident on the 400 block of Catharine Street for 12 years, “I mean, this has been 100 years. There’s no one left down there to be bothered by the water drainage.” Councilman Mark Squilla, whose 1st District includes the Weccacoe playground, said a study will be completed shortly on whether or not to abandon the six inch pipe or determine if the Philadelphia Water Department can replace it. The burial ground takes up one third of the site and stretches from the entrance of Queen Street to the alleyways in Laurence Street. “This debate about desecration, that’s out of our hands, we’re only saying our playground work doesn’t overlap the cemetery,” Duncan Spencer, the chairman of the Friends of Weccacoe Playground said. “Whether there’s traction to the argument that children shouldn’t be playing above it I don’t know.” A community conversation about the future of the burial site will be hosted by Mayor Nutter’s administration on May 5 at 6:30 p.m. at the African American Museum of Philadelphia on Seventh and Arch streets. Previous PostPeople working there are super friendly, helping and enthusiastic Next PostTenerife Diving Academy we absolutely loved it

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Click on a cross country skiing trail below to find trail descriptions, trail maps, photos, and reviews. Dadar Puducherry Chalukya Express (via Yesvantpur) (11005) departs from Pune Jn station (PUNE) at 01:05 and arrives Harihar station (HRR) at 14:43 taking a total of 13 hrs 38 mints to cover the distance of 689 kms. Sharavati Express (11035) departs from Pune Jn station (PUNE) at 01:05 and arrives Harihar station (HRR) at 14:43 taking a total of 13 hrs 38 mints to cover the distance of 689 kms. Ajmer Mysuru Express (16209) departs from Pune Jn station (PUNE) at 04:20 and arrives Harihar station (HRR) at 19:33 taking a total of 15 hrs 13 mints to cover the distance of 689 kms. Fare for trains from Pune to Harihar is Rs 2410 in First AC (1A), Rs 995 in Third AC (3A), Rs 1425 in Second AC (2A) and Rs 365 in Sleeper (SL) in general quota. Tatkal ticket fare and premium tatkal fare in this route starts from Rs 1310 in Third AC (3A), Rs 1845 in Second AC (2A) and Rs 465 in Sleeper (SL). Humsafar trains are long distance superfast trains that traverses overnight journeys. This is a new concept by the Indian Railways. Some Humsafar trains also run for more than 24 hours. Keeping in mind the middle class travellers, Humsafar was launched last year by the Former Railway Minister Mr. Suresh Prabhu. It has only Third AC class coach and have optional meal service. This train follows dynamic pricing meaning fare increases as the seat availability decreases. However, these trains hold lesser priority than Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains. Humsafar trains are equipped with modern day amenities and enhanced safety features. There are CCTV cameras fitted in every coach of Humsafar trains and there are charging points for each berth. One can also see current running speed of train on the LEDs fitted above doors. These trains are characterized by beautiful graffiti paint with vibrant sky blue color on outer surface of coaches. 1 humsafar train runs from Pune to Harihar - Shri Ganganagar Tiruchchirappalli Humsafar Express (22497). Pune to Harihar Shri Ganganagar Tiruchchirappalli Humsafar Express (22497) departs from Pune Jn station (PUNE) at 07:50 and arrives Harihar station (HRR) at 21:48 . Pune to Harihar humsafar fare is Rs.1725 in Third AC for this train. Pune to Harihar Sharavati Express (11035) departs from Pune Jn station (PUNE) at 01:05 and arrives Harihar station (HRR) at 14:43 . Pune to Harihar train fare is Rs.995 in Third AC, Rs.1425 in Second AC and Rs.365 in Sleeper for this train. Pune to Harihar Dadar Puducherry Chalukya Express (via Yesvantpur) (11005) departs from Pune Jn station (PUNE) at 01:05 and arrives Harihar station (HRR) at 14:43 . Pune to Harihar train fare is Rs.995 in Third AC, Rs.1425 in Second AC and Rs.365 in Sleeper for this train. Pune to Harihar Ajmer Mysuru Express (16209) departs from Pune Jn station (PUNE) at 04:20 and arrives Harihar station (HRR) at 19:33 . Pune to Harihar train fare is Rs.2410 in First AC, Rs.995 in Third AC, Rs.1425 in Second AC and Rs.365 in Sleeper for this train. The fastest train from Pune to Harihar is Hazrat Nizamuddin Mysuru Swarna Jayanti SF Express (12782) which travels a distance of 690 kms in just 13 hrs 3 mints. The slowest train from Pune to Harihar is Jodhpur KSR Bengaluru Express (via Davanagere) (16507) which travels a distance of 690 kms in 15 hrs 14 mints. The most punctual train from Pune to Harihar is Dadar Puducherry Chalukya Express (via Yesvantpur) (11005) which reaches Harihar with an average delay of just 12 mints. The most delayed train from Pune to Harihar is Shri Ganganagar Tiruchchirappalli Humsafar Express (22497) which reaches Harihar with an average delay of over 1 hrs 4 mints. "Recapture the romance and atmosphere of a bygone era in a relaxed and elegant fashion."The Rovos Rail Train has three lounge areas and a dining area. The lounges consist of a non-smoking lounge car (which accommodates 26 guests), and a non-smoking 42-seat dining car. If the number of guests on the train exceeds 42, then both dining cars are used, as this allows the entire complement of guests to eat all meals at the same time. Then there is the smoking lounge, with the Observation Car (which accommodates 32 guests) at the tail. Old Coaches were stripped and refurbished to create comfortable non-smoking lounge cars, which are placed in the middle of the trains (and are usually ahead of the dining cars). Deep sofas and wingback chairs make for an extremely comfortable Lounge. The lounge cars also house a small, discreet gift shop. As with all the service cars the lounges are air-conditioned, but the windows can be opened in order to take in the sights, sounds and scents of Africa. As with the rest of the rolling stock, the Observation Cars have an interesting history. They were originally A-28 dining cars built to drawings by Mr W Day. Rovos Rail then gained permission from South African Railways to run the Observation Cars at the back of the trains, which allowed for both the enlargement of the windows and the construction of the unique open-air balconies.The Observation Car has proved to be a great success. The Club Car area was brought about by demolishing the end suite in one of the deluxe carriages. This was done in order to host the smokers on the train in a public area; and also as an overflow facility to the adjoining Observation Car. As the Club Car has a glass passage wall, guests can comfortably watch the scenery on both sides of the train. It has a lot if the "Same" features so I'm not completely lost... but enough differences that its going to take me a while to regain my comfort level. PSP has been around that long? Didn't realize it as I have been using it too for awhile and also just got PSP Ultimate 2018. Seems to be quicker than the previous versions though. Ha, I still use it too. I keep reloading the same old version on any new machine I spin up, just I don't have any new learning curves Trouble with most (ALL?) software packages is that the best readable manual doesn't get released until the next version of the software is hitting the market ....mind you the less than generous upgrade deals (or total lack of!) make keeping old and familiar versions installed an easy option? What I've found nowadays is that 1) If there is a manual, it's either imbedded in the software, or you have to go to the manufacturer site and download a copy. No more hardcopies in boxed apps. or 2) You can go and purchase a manual from a publisher (usually better, but can be costly, such as IBEX, Dummies, etc.). Most of the time I've gotten the software manufacturer's manual, it leaves much to be desired. Most electronics are getting this way too. Just bought a new microwave, downloaded the manual, and it looks like it was written by a 1st grader, leaving it up to me to figure out how to use the features. I can't remember exactly how I found it, but a lot of the 'legacy' commands are still available, but are hidden. Example, I used "manual color correction" quite a bit, and it disappeared from the standard menus, but I was able to find it and customize the "Adjust" menu to include it. Of course, I'm on ProX5 and haven't upgraded so this may not still be true, but it's worth investigating. hehe... for example: it took some sleuthing to figure out how to enter non-hex (but rather, decimal) RGB values... it was not quickly obvious that would be under sliders I have X9 and I am still struggling to learn it. I had to go download 3 updates for it one of them allowed me to set it up like Paint Shop Pro 7 which made me much happier. It's a huge learning curve for me and I am slowly getting over it and making it around the curve. Oh any luck with the DT&I font Pete? That is going to be the last coil car to make up has i have no DT&I logo I have the one for the locomotives just not the cars. In progress... I had a really old DTI font that I pulled from my site ages ago due to it being pretty low quality.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | Research, Economic Research, Small Banks, Small Business Loans, Bank Lending Total business loans under $1 million held by small U.S. banks continue to dwindle. Disproportionate negative growth at financially weak small banks has been an important factor in this decline. Loan volumes at strong small banks actually grew in 2011. The finding supports the view that supply conditions, not just tepid demand for credit, have affected bank lending to small businesses. Total business loans under $1 million held by small U.S. banks are shrinking. Although dollar volumes fell at a slower pace in the four quarters that ended in June 2012 than over the previous year, the persistent decrease remains a concern. A previous Economic Letter (Laderman and Gillan 2011) presented data suggesting that trends in aggregate nonperforming asset ratios for business loans under $1 million held by small banks may be related to trends in the growth of those loans. This Letter shows the relationship between growth in business loans of this size and the lender’s overall financial condition. Financially weak small banks, though they are in the minority, have accounted for most of this loan shrinkage. In fact, business loans under $1 million at strong small banks actually grew in 2011. By a rough estimate, about one in seven small businesses uses credit from a small bank, defined as a bank with assets under $1 billion. According to the 2003 Survey of Small Business Finances, the most recent survey in this series (Mach and Wolken 2006), about 40% of small businesses use bank credit in the form of credit lines or loans, excluding credit card loans. Data from regulatory financial statements known as Call Reports indicate that small banks hold about 41% of all bank non-credit card business loans and lines under $1 million. Most loans of this amount probably go to small businesses. Of course, some credit to small businesses takes the form of loans or lines over $1 million. Large banks are more likely to provide credit in such amounts. These estimates may understate the importance of small bank credit for the economy. Relatively young businesses generate a large share of new jobs. Small banks may have a comparative advantage over large banks in lending to such businesses. Newly established businesses may have few assets or assets that are difficult to value as collateral. Lender underwriting and monitoring may have to rely heavily on information about the creditworthiness of the business owners—their “character,” skills, and other personal attributes. Small banks may be able to analyze and use this kind of subjective information more effectively than large banks because fewer layers of management are involved in lending decisions. Such a comparative advantage may mean that a small business that obtains credit from a small bank may not easily find financing at a large bank if its current bank curtails lending, especially in an environment of economic uncertainty, when creditworthiness may be particularly hard to judge. Indeed, business loans under $1 million at large banks have been declining too. Thus, if the supply of credit from small banks diminishes, the economy may suffer. New businesses that want to hire workers may not be able to do so. And employees of existing small businesses, who represent more than half of private-sector workers, could lose their jobs or have their hours cut back. Of course, the recent shrinkage of loans under $1 million at small banks appears to be at least partially due to falling demand for such loans, not just falling supply. The National Federation of Independent Business reports that about 25% of the small businesses it surveys cite poor sales as their main business problem. In contrast, only 8% report that they can’t get all the credit they need (Dunkelberg and Wade 2011). In addition, if the pace of loan write-downs has increased, then declines in the stock of outstanding loans overstate the drop-off in new lending. Finally, the decline in outstanding business loans under $1 million at small banks is due in part to acquisitions of such banks by larger institutions. Still, aggregate business loans under $1 million are dwindling even among small banks that operated continuously throughout the study period. A previous Economic Letter (Laderman and Gillan 2011) explored possible links between recent trends in the estimated aggregate nonperforming ratios of business loans under $1 million at small banks and trends in the growth of the total outstanding value of such loans at these institutions. Here I relate business loan growth to a bank’s overall financial health. Supervisors judge bank financial health by taking into account capital adequacy, asset quality, management quality, earnings, liquidity, and sensitivity to market risk. Each bank is assigned a rating from 1 for the strongest to 5 for the weakest. Banks rated 1 or 2 are classified here as strong, and those rated 3, 4, or 5 as weak. The sample is the 5,453 U.S. banks with assets under $1 billion in the second quarter of 2008 that did not combine with another bank and were still operating in the fourth quarter of 2011. Not surprisingly, the financial condition of these banks deteriorated from the second quarter of 2008 to the second quarter of 2009, the last year of the recent recession. Figure 1 shows that, over that period, the proportion of weak banks increased to about 21% from about 10%. Between the end of the recession and the fourth quarter of 2010, the beginning of my most recent loan growth sample period, the proportion of weak banks further increased to about 31%. Business loans under $1 million are categorized as commercial and industrial (C&I) or commercial real estate (CRE) if they are secured by real property. Persistent deterioration in the performance of CRE loans under $1 million at small banks (see Laderman and Gillan 2011) probably contributed to the increasing proportion of weak banks. In aggregate, CRE loans make up about 60% of the dollar volume of business loans under $1 million at small banks. The importance of CRE lending is highlighted in an in-depth study of a small group of community banks in the eastern United States, which found that one of the most important indicators associated with an individual bank maintaining a strong financial rating between 2007 and 2010 was a relatively low ratio of CRE loans to total loans (Brastow et al. 2012). However, the intensity of CRE lending was not the only factor cited. For example, community banks that stayed strong also tended to depend less on non-core deposit funding. These consistently healthy banks also said they took great care and spent significant time underwriting loans and monitoring credit quality. Panels A and B of Figure 2 break down aggregate growth of C&I and CRE loans under $1 million at small banks according to supervisory rating for three time periods: the four quarters ending in the second quarter of 2009; the four quarters ending in the second quarter of 2010; and the full calendar year 2011. The lengths and directions of each of the bars in the two panels depend on the numbers and sizes of the banks in each rating group, as well as individual bank loan growth rates. The aggregate growth rate is the sum of the percentage points represented by each of the five bars in a given time period. For example, in 2011, rating groups 1 through 5 contributed 0.6, 1.1, –1.8, –1.2, and –0.6 percentage points respectively to the overall decline of 1.9% in C&I loans under $1 million (see panel A). The evidence shows that, during the financial crisis and into the recovery, both C&I loans and CRE loans under $1 million shrank at weak small banks. In addition, for C&I loans in all three time periods displayed and for CRE loans in the two most recent time periods, the shrinkage of loans in these categories was disproportionately large at weak small banks. For example, about a third of small banks were in weak financial condition at the end of 2010. But, as a group, these banks accounted for more than the total decline of C&I and CRE loans under $1 million during 2011. At strong small banks, C&I and CRE loans under $1 million actually grew in 2011. Demand for C&I loans under $1 million may be picking up. The growth of these loans at strong banks in the most recent study period marks a change from the period between the second quarter of 2009 and the second quarter of 2010. In this earlier period, even strong banks contributed to an overall decline in C&I loans under $1 million. Even excluding banks that were downgraded to weak between the second quarter of 2009 and the fourth quarter of 2010, strong small banks contributed to the 2009-to-2010 decline in C&I loans under $1 million. Subdued demand for C&I loans may have pulled down even strong bank loan volumes in the earlier period. Their increase in the later period may signal some rejuvenation. However, even if demand for C&I loans under $1 million at small banks is gaining some traction, supply constraints among the weak banks may be impeding loan growth. Whether we soon see net growth in C&I loans under $1 million at small banks will depend on the balance between demand and supply factors. Meanwhile, panel B of Figure 2 shows continuous deceleration in the growth of CRE loans under $1 million at strong small banks from the first through the third periods. The falloff likely is related to persistent weakness in the real estate sector. Small bank portfolios of business loans under $1 million are shrinking. 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We made MoDist practical through three techniques: an execution engine to simulate consistent, deterministic executions and failures; a virtual clock mechanism to avoid false positives and false negatives; and a state exploration framework to incorporate heuristics for efficient error detection. We implemented MoDist on Windows and applied it to three well-tested distributed systems: Berkeley DB, a widely used open source database; MPS, a deployed Paxos implementation; and PacificA, a primary-backup replication protocol implementation. MoDist found 35 bugs in total. Most importantly, it found protocol-level bugs (i.e., flaws in the core distributed protocols) in every system checked: 10 in total, including 2 in Berkeley DB, 2 in MPS, and 6 in PacificA. Storage systems such as file systems, databases, and RAID systems have a simple, basic contract: you give them data, they do not lose or corrupt it. Often they store the only copy, making its irrevocable loss almost arbitrarily bad. Unfortunately, their code is exceptionally hard to get right, since it must correctly recover from any crash at any program point, no matter how their state was smeared across volatile and persistent memory. This paper describes eXplode , a system that makes it easy to systematically check real storage systems for errors. It takes user-written, potentially system-specific checkers and uses them to drive a storage system into tricky corner cases, including crash recovery errors. eXplode uses a novel adaptation of ideas from model checking, a comprehensive, heavy-weight formal verification technique, that makes its checking more systematic (and hopefully more effective) than a pure testing approach while being just as lightweight. eXplode is effective. It found serious bugs in a broad range of real storage systems (without requiring source code): three version control systems, Berkeley DB, an NFS implementation, ten file systems, a RAID system, and the popular VMware GSX virtual machine. We found bugs in every system we checked, 36 bugs in total, typically with little effort. This paper shows how to use model checking to find serious errors in file systems. Model checking is a formal verification technique tuned for finding corner-case errors by comprehensively exploring the state spaces defined by a system. File systems have two dynamics that make them attractive for such an approach. First, their errors are some of the most serious, since they can destroy persistent data and lead to unrecoverable corruption. Second, traditional testing needs an impractical, exponential number of test cases to check that the system will recover if it crashes at any point during execution. Model checking employs a variety of state-reducing techniques that allow it to explore such vast state spaces efficiently. We built a system, FiSC, for model checking file systems. We applied it to four widely-used, heavily-tested file systems: ext3, JFS, ReiserFS and XFS. We found serious bugs in all of them, 33 in total. Most have led to patches within a day of diagnosis. For each file system, FiSC found demonstrable events leading to the unrecoverable destruction of metadata and entire directories, including the file system root directory “/”. We built a system, FiSC, for model checking file systems. We applied it to three widely-used, heavily-tested file systems: ext3, JFS, and ReiserFS. We found serious bugs in all of them, 32 in total. Most have led to patches within a day of diagnosis. For each file system, FiSC found demonstrable events leading to the unrecoverable destruction of metadata and entire directories, including the file system root directory “/”. For instructions to compile, build, and use eXplode, Please refer to the README file in the top-level directory after you uncompress the explode tar ball. The eXplode distribution contains a generic model checker that can be applied to other systems. For details, please refer to the README file under directory mcl. Real systems are difficult to get right because they must correctly handle a practically infinite number of rare events. For example, file systems must correctly recover from all possible crashes; distributed systems must ensure consistency and liveness despite of a large variety of rare events, such as machine crashes, network partition, message delays, and message loss. The complexity to handle these rare events often leads to corner-case errors that are difficult to test, and once detected in the field, impossible to reproduce.

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Yesterday was the first printmaking class at Interlochen. There are four adult students, and it is the inaugural class in the Mallory-Towsley building, a purpose-built facility for the Interlochen College of Creative Arts. It's quite incredible, the facilities they have here: light, airy classrooms, overhead projectors where you can just plug in your laptop to a wall socket and off you go. We did contact monoprints in the first class, both black and white and multi-colour. The print displayed above is a black and white contact monoprint by some student whose name I think is Patty McNair or something. A contact monoprint is so-called because you roll a think layer of ink on a clear sheet of acetate, place paper over the inked plate, and start drawing. When you lift the paper up, you see that the ink has transferred wherever the paper came into contact with the layer of ink. Along the road that runs beside the Interlochen campus, banners hang from posts placed about 100 metres apart, each one bearing the slogan ‘Art Lives Here.’ Every time we pass them, Patty says: ‘Who’s Art? And where does he live?’ Of course, it doesn’t really refer to someone called Arthur – unless that person were Arturo Toscanini, perhaps. Because even though Interlochen has a great creative writing program and fine art program, and stunning purpose-made buildings to match, music is still King here. As I go out for my morning walk (briskly, 3 pound weight in each hand, Olympic-style weird-wiggle-walk, approximately 4-5 mph) I see the high-school kids emerging from the cabins in the woods and sloping off to their summer camp music programs. When I pass some of the campus buildings, I can hear even at 8 am the sound of a young pianist practising two-handed scales at lightning speed, someone in the percussion building banging a glockenspiel, a clear soprano voice singing a heart-stoppi… This week's Meditation is on a recent survey of the work of Kara Walker, an African-American artist who mainly makes gigantic murals from cut silhouettes. When you meet Tom Robinson (www.tomrobinsonartist.com), it's like encountering a natural force in its untamed state. There's a warmth and friendliness coupled with a barely-contained energy, which is evident in the many activities that he has been involved with in Chicago, and nationally, for more than 30 years. He is an artist and sculptor who has designed furniture, created many public art projects, and was instrumental in setting up the Chicago Art Open, an annual showcase for the work of Chicago's vibrant and eclectic art scene. I met Tom in his huge new studio and gallery space on the opening night of the show 'Drawing Attention'. Philip: You work in a variety of media. Do you see common threads or themes when you move between drawing, painting, sculpture, and constructions? Tom: I work in series and am very procedural, so each piece of work starts independently of the other. I would like to believe each medium eventually peaks into one thing. So yesterday was the final meeting of the Interlochen Journal and Sketchbook class. We gave them a lot of time to draw and write: Patty and I gave a craft presentation during which we got all the people attending the conference to try some drawing and quick writing. Then we had put up pictures on the walls of the room where we held our class, and laid out our participants' journal/sketchbooks in an impromptu exhibition for all conference attendees to look at and envy: Four days is a short length of time, but it certainly produces intensity; and if it isn't enough time to finish a piece of writing, we at least got all of our students started on some truly interesting pieces of memoir and fiction. This Writers' Retreat is growing year by year, and I would recommend that you come along next time if you were thinking about it this year. Yesterday during the Journal+Sketchbook class, we got the participants to do blind contour drawings of stuff we set up for them in the Great Room. Things such as grapes, crumpled up paper bags, bottles: And once again, after some initial bewilderment about what they were asked to do (''What! Draw without looking at the page? Draw without lifting the pen from the paper?'), they all produced highly expressive and interesting drawings, as you will see in the following slideshow: After they draw for half an hour, Patty leads them into a writing exercise. I always show the drawings from these classes, even though this is really aimed at writers - but writers quite rightly don't want their first rough drafts reproduced on someone's blog. So you'll just have to take my word for it when I tell you that the act of moving from drawing and back to the writing often produces new directions in things they're already writing, or starts for completely new material. I gues… Tuesday afternoon was the annual Writers' Retreat Hike and Write. Program co-ordinator Anne-Marie organises a trip to the Sleeping Bear Dunes shoreline, which overlooks the vastness of Lake Michigan. The idea is that people hike through a forest and up a hill, emerging at the top of the dune. After a short walk along the crest of the dune (which rises to about 200 feet at points), people get the time to sit looking out at the lake in the sunshine, and either write in their journals, continue writing they've already started, or do some drawing: It was a scorching mid-summer day, which wasn't so great for my pale Anglo-Irish skin. But it was worth frying in the open air for the chance to look out at the lake from my perch up on the sand dune. On the way back we all visited a local chocolatier called Mimi Wheeler, who makes hand made chocolates from cocoa pods she imports from South America. The choccies are filled with wild ingredients like beetroot, hot chilli peppers, and … I'm at the Interlochen Arts Academy in northern Michigan for the next two weeks. Patty and I have just done our first day teaching the Journal and Sketchbook class to a group of five adults, and it went really well. There are 40 people here for the week. 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That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the draft turns into the sketch and the sketch into the painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought." When I was in Chattanooga last weekend, I visited a number of artists' studios on the south side, an area that has been transformed in recent years by the arrival of painters, sculptors, glass artists, furniture makers, and other creative people. The two artists who impressed me the most were painter Janet Chenoweth and sculptor Roger Halligan, who have a building near Main Street that combines a large workshop and studio area at the back with a beautiful gallery area at the front. They were kind enough to agree to a joint interview, and I began by asking them to talk about their work. Philip: Jan, your work has an interesting balance between 2-D elements such as texture, colour, and drawing, and 3-D elements such as jars, found objects, … Ten years. That's the entire span of Vincent Van Gogh's life as an artist. I've been dipping into a selection of his letters again, and I had forgotten the following sobering facts: in the Spring of 1880, he decided he wanted to become an artist; by July 1890, he was dead. The selection of his letters is illustrated with lots of his drawings and sketches. His earliest efforts were really not that good. The best you can say about them is that they are direct and earnest. But his progress in drawing mirrors his phenomenal progress in painting. In ten short years, he went from drawing like this: Only ten years. Just think what you were doing ten years ago. Feel how it seems so close by, so recent. A lot can happen in a decade, of course, but it's still not that long a piece of a human life. Yet Van Gogh accomplished so much during that short career. “Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.”—Michelangelo. This is my first full blog entry after my trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee. I was there to take photos for a travel article that Patty was researching. We were hosted by a superb PR company called Geiger & Associates, who organise press trips to places such as Chattanooga in order to introduce journalists to as much of a particular town as possible in three or four days. For example, on our first full day there, our itinerary was: visit to the Moon Pie factory (a hallowed biscuit/cookie maker); a tour of the aquarium (otters! penguins! more fish than one person could ever eat!); a boat trip up the Tennessee River gorge; a tour of the Delta Queen riverboat; a stroll around the artisans and artists area of Bluff View; dinner; then a walk deep underground in the caves below Lookout Mountain. I also took the opportunity a few days later to visit Chattanooga's Main Street Arts District, and later I will post… In the Centre for Newfoundland Studies at the QEII library, Thursday from 7:30-9pm, with my colleague and New Ontologies book series co-editor Sean McGrath: The Centre for Newfoundland Studies (7:30-9:00 pm) will celebrate The Legend of Job, a collaboration between artists Gerry Squires and Boyd Warren Chubbs. The speakers will be Professor Sean McGrath (Philosophy), Esther Squires, and Boyd Warren Chubbs. Dr. McGrath will talk about the philosophical context of the work. Esther Squires will read the foreword (written by her father) and talk about some of the images from The Legend of Job. Boyd Warren Chubbs will speak about the evolution of the project especially in terms of the manuscript design. The Legend of Job, illustrated by Gerry Squires and lettered by Boyd Chubbs, is an iteration of the Book of Job that takes many of its design elements from the medieval manuscript tradition. The event will be hosted by Patrick Warner, Special Collections Librarian for the Queen Elizabeth II Library. This looks quite of interest. Alas, I’ll miss it since I’ll be at SPEP, but anyone in the area should come to check it out.

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Be sure the viewer knows what it is they’re supposed to be seeing. Since you are not using a paper background that usually gives a LEGO MOC a nice frame and uncluttered look, make sure there’s not too much stuff everywhere (unless it’s part of the effect, as in this scene by .Bricko), and that the focus point is obvious, as in the example below by Bruceywan. Perhaps the nicest thing about building LEGO scenes is the huge potential for variety. A scene can be something from an existing movie, like this one by BMW_Indy (notice the clever way depth was achieved using mirrors). Or here is a relaxing little windowsill herb-garden scene by cmaddison. Check out all the clever ways common LEGO elements are used! So far, we’ve focused on minifigure sized LEGO scenes, but they can easily be geared to a different scale. As a general rule, building micro (smaller than minifigure size) is a bit more challenging. 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I am putting myself out there and rising to the challenge of making a homemade sweet or savoury treat for the Irish Atlantic Salt crew each week throughout Lent. This week, I was inspired by another food blogger’s recipe for what can only be described as a little piece of heaven! Dermie O’ Sullivan writes the brilliant blog, Gas Mark Seven (@Gas_mark_seven) and has an eye for quality ingredients. Dermie’s appreciation for artisan products is refreshing and his remarkable zeal for food comes to life in his fabulous recipes. Dermie’s recipe for Double Chocolate Salted Brownies caught my eye recently and I confidently included it on my ever increasing ‘To Do’ list. Things at Irish Atlantic Salt are hectic at the moment, we have so much going on and the crew are up to high dough! Correct me if I’m wrong, but the obvious solution to stress is chocolate, right? I must say, the sea salt flakes in these brownies worked so well. 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I started in 2012, and have been full time since September 2015. The smart answer would be that digital marketing is marketing for people who don’t do marketing. The serious answer is that it is about getting your message across all the different channels that are available to you. Absolutely. Yes, things have changed a lot in this time. You have to keep up with the changing trends. SEO (search engine optimisation) has changed. I’ve always said you need to not be over-focussed on gaming the SEO, rather better to do things properly. This is now understood more widely. It is still important to keep up to date with the search engine algorithms, Google and the others, to understand why they are changing, but even better is to create good content, and distribute it effectively and to the right target audience. With the emergence of social media, you now specialise into specific aspects depending on your audience. Areas like PPC (pay per click) and SEO are now separate, and content marketing too. Therefore it is important to focus and specialise on which areas are most relevant to you. Though digital marketing segmented into these different areas, it is also important to have a good overview of how all of them work and how they can help to achieve your goals. Most of the digital marketing we teach is about inbound marketing in some form or other. We tie it all into web 2.0, and explain how it is not about broadcasting messaging out, rather the goal is to get the end-user involved, to get them advocating the value of the product/brand you are trying to promote. Lots are now working in startup roles. The Digital Skills Academy works with many industry partners, getting great real-world experience, consequently, they often go on to work for them afterwards. My students have gone on to be social activists, bloggers, copywriters, digital marketing managers while other graduates are have become the head of digital at various companies internationally. Our students work in groups and, much like ‘The Apprentice’, the teams have a specific role to complete for industry partners. To achieve this they don’t have to be down the road to supply a service. Many of our students are based all around Ireland, and even further afield now with the new international BSc (Honours) Degree in Digital Technology, Design and Innovation programme. One of our industry partners is in Australia. This is a good learning experience for the students, the challenge of working remotely, and with clients on different time zones. It’s been possible to do virtual meetings for about 8 years, but it is so much easier now. The improvement in the technology has facilitated this. It’s not about flamboyance, it’s about logical thinking and data analysis. The geeks will get the job done. You do need to create good content, but you also need to know why you are creating it, and what the business purpose is. Designers also need to understand that as well as making something look good, it must also work and serve the overall goal. Yes, I agree. In the future people will look back and ask why we distinguished between online and offline. Soon it won’t be like this, online has as much relevance for your marketing strategy. However, it is not just about online. Amazon has opened up a shop in California to have a physical presence. This shows that even for online companies they understand there is a value to have a physical presence too, people still do business with people. It might sound unoriginal but content will still always be vital. Written content, video, imagery, sound, these are still what people want, and will remain important. Mobile is now finally big and will only grow and grow now that there is the bandwidth to deliver the content that people want. Analytics is really important too, it is about the data. It is really important to know what you’re doing. It’s not been widely celebrated yet, it’s not been seen as exciting, but since 2002 the companies that have grown were those who were using their data analytics to gain competitive insights. I recommend Linkedin to our students for their business profile and to make useful contacts. Twitter, can be very beneficial, especially for the writers and content creators. It offers a huge engine for contacts with great potential for getting work. It can be a social mistake if you tweet inappropriately, but used for business it is a great tool. Facebook, has a lot going for it, but it needs to decide if they are social network or business. We discuss with our students how to better understand their settings to manage what is and is not publically viewable. We do, and we show students how to set up google alerts for your own name. To see what’s coming up. It’s always interesting to see what comes up too, to check to see what is being said about you. It also helps our students to see how online pr works I’m still very interested in everything to do with online – search. Rand Fishkin, Matt Cutts are great. I also get my news from Linkedin, mostly geared to search, the Hubspot blog also has great articles. AR (augmented reality) / VR (virtual reality) – how soon will this be widely used in digital marketing? The increased bandwidth is now making it much more possible. This will be the big influence on what is possible. There are games available right now, using AR, doing advertising, with ingame tools and equipment. It’s marketing in an online environment, not marketing as such, but branding. You will see a lot more of this coming. We all like games, and games will drive us to do things online. Mobile apps are bringing a blurring of the line between digital marketing and the physical world. You are seeing some virtual products advertised on tv, again demonstrating how the lines are crossing between digital marketing and marketing. It’s important to understand that marketing will be about talking about products and making sure this conversation takes place across many channels. It doesn’t make sense not to have a cross channel strategy now. Some companies don’t want to go mobile because they don’t realise their users will try and view it via mobile. Those companies that are in that space will reap the benefits.

So you are still selling goods in your shop but you don’t have many people coming in to buy. How can you increase the number of people who purchase goods from your shop? The answer is advertising. We see advertising everywhere. We even buy clothes that advertise the company that manufactured the clothes. This is the case in every nation that uses a physical object money (POM). Those who have products to sell want every possible customer to know that these products are available, where, and when. A customer will not come to buy unless he knows there is something to buy. You cannot take your shop to the customer (we will assume this, although some tradesmen in the past did exactly that) so you must somehow get word to the potential customers. You also have competition from the shop across the street. Both shops sell similar items. So you need to convince the customers that your shop has better products or less expensive products than that other shop. Otherwise customers might buy there instead of at your shop. You send messages to customers in a variety of ways. The messages provide information but it is a special kind of information. It is information that persuades, whatever else it does. It probably provides information, perhaps a few laughs, perhaps it has something that catches the eye, and it may even set a tone of comfort, style, success, or whatever. This is a special kind of communication. This kind of communication is what we call advertising. It is a product of POM, really. Now let’s say that you have the same shop but in an economy which has a money which is not a POM. In this hypothetical economy, money simply appears in one’s account when it is earned and ceases to exist when it is used to buy things. So Joe works hard and does good things and $100 appears in Joe’s account. If Joe had done bad things no money would have appeared there. If Joe had worked less hard and produced less net benefit for the people in his community, he would have had less money appear in his account. So you would like to have Joe buy things in your shop. By selling items to Joe you will be doing something good for Joe and for your community because you will be rewarding Joe for the work he did. Therefore, you will have money appear in your account. Joe enters your shop and buys an item. The money Joe spends does not get transferred to you because when Joe or anyone else spends money that particular money merely ceases to exist. The money that appears in your account for selling to Joe is not the money that Joe spent. But what do you or Joe care? You are gaining money and Joe is buying things he wants to have. Joe doesn’t care what happens to the money he spends and you don’t care how money happens to appear in your account so long as you are confident that the money that appears there will be at least a reflection of how much net benefit you have provided others. In other words, if you get paid for the value of your work, you don’t care how it happens. So to get Joe and others like him to come to your shop you want to advertise. So you go to the newspaper and ask them to put the message you have prepared in their paper. They look at the message and say they will be happy to put in the location and hours of business of your shop. They will be happy to include accurate descriptions of your stock. But they will not be willing to include those very subjective and obviously exaggerated claims about how good your stock is. They also refuse to print the picture of the barely dressed young woman holding an item from your shop. 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The chocolate colour member of the auk family – a cousin to the more maverick razorbill and the ever so clumsy looking puffin – returns to those rocky pinnacles to lay an egg even without bothering building a nest. The conical shape of the bluish stained egg somewhat prevents (or limits) a fall in the ocean… To stand at the very top of the headland allows you to converse with feathers and exchange glances at close range. That’s exactly what I did today with a few avian friends. “Johnathan” – not Seagull! – …Seagulls do NOT exist! “My Johnathan” happens to be the very affectionate name I once gave to fulmars, (the miniature version and very distant relative of the Southern Hemisphere based albatross) as I began to make my acquaintance with them on a more professional basis when wardening on and around this “belfry”, Sumburgh Head, now some nine years ago. I came to appreciate a world as real as it could be, not that bubble we, humans, have built around ourselves. A very raw, somewhat “harsh”, “tough” world in which the very concept of natural evolution as well as Darwinian concept of “survival of the fittest”… Here, you really witness life and death as it happens live. Prey and predator live side by side, as wanted by nature to regulate itself. Many folk perceive predators, such as bonxies (aka great skua, as pictured on the right) as a pest… What those same folk forget to understand (or ignore) is that they have a very disctinctive function around bird colonies: they clean them of sick/injured birds, hence preventing epidemics on cliffs… Every creature has a function on Earth, otherwise, it simply does NOT exist. The island has already begun to display a palette of colours all around. Now with June approaching, thrift (or sea pinks) have added to the myriad of petals around the headland, as well as on road verges and in ditches. The island is shining in sheer splendour. Walking around the edge of my world full of birds never ceases to amaze the eye and heart. Night has turned blue. The wind may still rage outside my window as I type, however, Beltane done and dusted, now we are sliding to summer. Temperature do not appear to go higher, and yet, blue now stretches well beyond nine (p.m. GMT). Cloudscapes fashion in exquisite shapes without shame… The other night, I saw two hounds above my head playing in blue. Aerial dream, as blackbird began to share its elaborate recital. Summer has come to the island. The more I look to ground level, the more colours and signs of life meet the iris. It’s like a hymn or an anthem the world wishes to share with us. Explosive red of the campion – intimate bath of a skylark… And when plovers act as vigils, we know nesting is taking place. That plethora of wild flowers begin to show: campion, sea pinks, kidney vetch, bird’s foot trefoil, cuckoo flower… Spring squill, marsh marigold, primrose and common mouse ear to name a few. I think Van Gogh would have loved my boreal meadows after Beltane. The light may not be Provençal, however, colours dare to explode in cool blue! And when I look in the garden, my avian friends shine among daisies and bluebells, as they delight my Saturday morning! Our librarians are devoted to share the power of the print, recorded voice or fiddler’s bid and endeavour to devour miles across islands to reach out to communities separated by roaring tides. So, here and there, we come to gather and air pages or a song… Inside the walls of Ringan’s Church at the Hillhead, we are blessed by such dynamic team! Our librarians have a passion to share might of the spoken word and provides writings with a home, where we belong in all seasons… Thank you, Fiona, for such evening – thank you, dear Shetland Library, for harbouring so many treasures and a home! Shetland Library I love Northmavine. It’s wild, rugged, shaped by fire, time and tempests… Timed in granite, basalt and salt. A trip to the Eshaness Peninsula, NW of the island, feels like a reunion with your true self. To stand to the edge of the cliffs, without fear of staring at the world with your heart wide open, reinstates your humility. Eshaness is a magic place. There is no other word for it. It holds many secrets, dormant inside the many crystals molten rocks once solidified by a mystic jewel designer… On Beltane Eve (30 April), we came and found more than we thought. We’ve always known of da peerie folk who roam at night and snatch fiddlers for reveling inside their homes deep inside earth… The miniature cast of the much more famous Scandinavian trolls, trows, as they’re known, only bring mischief around roads, crofts and our world. However, those supernatural creatures have their own Achilles heel: sunlight petrifies them at once and the faintest ray from our star turns them into rock… Now, I wonder.

Awesome hand actuated and metered injector. It comes with plastic tubing and your choice of needle sizes Great for injecting all of your bbq meats large to small. August 6, 2012 — According to 2 recent studies, two thirds of children admitted to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) may be deficient in vitamin D, which may make them vulnerable to more severe illness. The studies were published online August 6 in Pediatrics. The first study was conducted by Kate Madden, MD, an assistant in critical care medicine in the Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston and the Department of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, and colleagues. Dr. Madden and coauthors analyzed the vitamin D levels of 511 severely or critically ill children who were admitted to the PICU from November 2009 to November 2010 to determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in severely ill children and determine factors that influence admission 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25(OH)D) levels. Vitamin D deficiency is common in critically ill adults and is associated with sepsis and more severe critical illness, but the associations between vitamin D deficiency and pediatric critical illness have not yet been determined. The children had 25(OH)D levels analyzed on blood that was taken as soon after PICU admission as possible, either by drawing fresh blood or by testing leftover plasma that was refrigerated in the hospital laboratory. Severity of illness was determined within the first 24 hours by using the Pediatric Risk of Mortality III score. The median 25(OH)D level of the children studied was 22.5 ng/mL (interquartile range [IQR], 16.4 – 31.3 ng/mL), 71.2% of the patients had insufficient 25 (OH)D ( A total of 13 (2.5%) children died during hospitalization, and the median 25(OH)D level was 19.4 ng/mL (IQR, 16.6 – 31.4 ng/mL). Serum 25(OH)D levels were considerably lower in the 51 children who had severe septic shock but were not associated with the primary reason for PICU admission. Patients with lower respiratory tract infection had the same median 25(OH)D levels (22.5 ng/mL) as patients without. Almost half (46.6%; n = 238) of the patients were admitted with life-threatening infections, and 25(OH)D levels were not lower in this group unless they had septic shock (n = 51, 10.0%; median 25(OH)D level, 19.2 ng/mL [IQR, 12.6 – 24.8 ng/mL]; P = .0008). In multinomial logistic regression analysis, lower admission 25(OH)D levels were associated with higher illness severity on the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment cardiovascular (CV-SOFA) tool, with a 5 ng/mL decrease in 25(OH)D corresponding to a 1.13-fold increase in odds of placing in the next higher category of CV-SOFA score (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.01 – 1.27; P = .03). This relationship continued after adjusting for severe septic shock (OR, 1.16; 95% CI, 1.02 – 1.31; P = .02). Multivariate analysis found a correlation between age and race and vitamin D deficiency, with school-age children and those with dark skin being more likely to have low 25(OH)D levels. “We hypothesize that higher 25(OH)D levels may decrease the severity of critical illness brought on by an overwhelming insult such as infection or injury,” the authors write. “Given the high rate of vitamin D deficiency in critically ill children and the essential role of vitamin D in healthy bone development, we recommend screening critically ill children with risk factors for vitamin D deficiency and identifying effective repletion strategies,” the authors write. The second study was conducted by J. Dayre McNally, MD, PhD, a pediatric intensivist in the Department of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and an associate investigator at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues. The researchers conducted a secondary analysis of data collected during a prospective cohort study from 2005 to 2008 in 7 tertiary-care PICUs in Canada (Adrenal Insufficiency in Pediatric Critical Illness Study [AIP]). For this study, data from only 6 centers were studied, as 1 center declined permission. The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency (25(OH)D2 plus 25(OH)D3 < 50 nmol/L) among the children was 69% (95% CI, 64% – 74%). Another 23% (95% CI, 19% – 28%) had a concentration between 50 and 75 nmol/L. Lower mean 25(OH)D levels were found in patients requiring catecholamine infusion (45 ± 19 nmol/L vs 38.5 ± 16 nmol/L; P = .006) and more than 40 mL/kg fluid bolus on the day of PICU admission (44.7 ± 19.6 nmol/L vs 34.5 ± 18.5 nmol/L; P = .001). Patients who were mechanically ventilated had lower 25(OH)D levels compared with patients who did not require mechanical ventilation (47.2 ± 19.9 nmol/L vs 41.7 ± 19.1 nmol/L; P = .02). 25(OH)D levels were significantly lower in patients with at least 1 hypocalcemic episode compared with patients with normal or minimally reduced calcium levels (51.0 ± 20.6 nmol/L vs 36.6 ± 15.9 nmol/L; P = .001). The researchers found no significant relationship between 25(OH)D levels and serum albumin (Spearman correlation coefficient, −0.08; P = .48). There was a moderate association between albumin and preexisting illness (Spearman correlation coefficient, 0.57; P < .001). Multivariate regression analysis showed that a 25(OH)D level less than 50 nmol/L was independently associated with a PICU stay of an additional 1.92 days (95% CI, 0.2 – 3.7; P = .03) and an increasing illness severity, as measured by the Pediatric Risk of Mortality tool. Steven A. Abrams, MD, a professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and an attending physician in the Section of Neonatology at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, and Jorge A. Coss-Bu, MD, an associate professor in the Section of Critical Care Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and an attending physician at Texas Children’s Hospital, commented on the studies in an accompanying editorial. These data support programs and interventions aimed at preventing vitamin D deficiency, they write, adding that, “at a minimum, comprehensive efforts to ensure that children receive at least the recommended intake of vitamin D (400 IU/day for infants, 600 IU/day for children aged > 1 year) should be developed and emphasized.” They continue, “[T]hese studies move forward and to the front concerns regarding vitamin D status in critically ill children. 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Although most cropland was operated by farms with less than 600 crop acres in the early 1980s, today most cropland is on farms with at least 1,100 acres, says Farm Size and the Organization of U.S. Crop Farming, a new report from USDA Economic Research Service (ERS). Long-term shifts in farm size have been accompanied by greater specialization. Technology also plays an important role in driving increases in farm size. A program being offered by Cornell Cooperative Extension, American Farmland Trust, and AgFlex is helping 35 family farmers on Long Island reduce their use of nitrogen fertilizers on sweet corn and potato crops. Last year's participants in the program were able to cut fertilizer use by an average of 20% while sustaining farm productivity. The farmers are enrolled in the BMP Challenge, an innovative program that eliminates financial risk as a barrier to farmers' adoption of conservation practices. A team of Michigan State University Extension educators from the Upper Peninsula conducted a project to explore what makes beginning farmers successful. The project sought a better understanding of how farming has impacted newer operators in the areas of economics, family relationships, community involvement, and general lifestyle. One of the most common observations was the enthusiasm farmers have about their businesses and how much they love the lifestyle of farming. A full report on the study is available online. The latest version of the Web Soil Survey was recently launched by USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The application provides free soils information along with soil maps, properties, and interpretations aimed at helping with land use decisions. The new version includes improved map appearance, increased Area of Interest acreage, and upgraded options for changing map properties. Web Soil Survey is now online 24 hours a day. Americans are increasingly installing wind turbines near their homes, farms, and businesses, according to The 2012 Market Report on Wind Technologies in Distributed Applications, a new report by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. About a third of all U.S. wind turbines installed in 2012 were distributed, representing about 3,800 turbines that can generate a combined 175 megawatts. A project at Appalachian State University will use bio volatilization (BV) to convert biomass to biofuel and biochar economically. BV converts biomass into biochar, pyrolosis oil, fuel gas, and heat. The biochar can be used as a soil additive and waste energy will be used to heat the university's bioshelter/greenhouse. The researchers' goals are to provide a sustainable energy source and a potential revenue stream for farmers. Northeast SARE offers Partnership Grants for agricultural service providers—extension staff, nonprofits, consultants, state departments of agriculture, and others working in the agricultural community—who want to conduct on-farm demonstrations, research, marketing, and other projects with farmers as active cooperators. Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is offering Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin matching grants of up to $50,000. Proposals will be accepted from individuals, groups, businesses, and organizations involved in Wisconsin agriculture, food processing, food distribution, food warehousing, retail food establishments, or agricultural tourism sites. Eligible expenses for grant-funded projects include operating expenses, real estate, and equipment. The NRCS State Office in Missouri is offering cooperative agreements and grants up to $120,000 to promote public awareness and implementation of Farm Bill activities. Projects may include workshops, conferences, and training that will help educate Missouri's farm community, private landowners, conservation organizations, cooperating agencies, and general citizenry. The National Farm Viability Conference is geared towards professionals in farm and food business planning, financial planning, agricultural financing, farmland conservation, agricultural market development, and food hub management. The conference is an opportunity to network, develop new knowledge and skills, and visit farms and value-added processing facilities. The gates and barns of 31 farms certified Appalachian Grown will be open to the public in this tour. Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project's self-guided driving tour is a chance to learn how food grows, taste farm-fresh treats, hang out with farm animals, and meet the community's food producers. In this afternoon field day, explore how Radiance Dairy "harvests" alternative energy with a 40-kW wind turbine, solar-thermal water heater, solar-powered pumping system for livestock watering, and a geothermal heating and cooling system. What is the nutritional value of King Ranch bluestem for cattle? My grass-fed stocker steers don't seem to like it. Is shredding it a good idea?

​Another court in Egypt convicts president overthrown in July 2013 military coup - A Socialist in Canada On June 18, an Egyptian court delivered harsh sentences to President Mohamed Morsi and six co-defendants in an ‘espionage’ trial where the accused faced charges of sharing information with a foreign power, the Gulf State monarchy of Qatar. Enclosed is an Agence France presse news report on the sentencings. Morsi was given a life sentence for “leading an unlawful organization” and “stealing state documents” related to national security during the period in which he was the elected president of the country. The “unlawful organization” in question is the Muslim Brotherhood political movement, which won the legislative and the presidential elections in Egypt in 2012. President Morsi and the Egytian Parliament were overthrown in a military coup on July 3, 2013. Since then, he has been put on trial at least three times. In separate trials in 2015, he was sentenced to life in prison and to death. In all of his trials, Morsi has spoken defiantly to his accusers and has urged his supporters to continue to peacefully protest against the trampling of democracy by Egypt’s military rulers. My extensive writings on the 2013 coup in Egypt and its aftermath can be accessed here. The coup was a major blow to social justice struggles in Egypt and throughout the Middle East, including the historic struggle of the Palestinian people for a homeland. The Egypt coup has contributed greatly to the escalation of U.S.-led ‘regime change’ violence and chaos in Syria and elsewhere in the region. The coup by Egypt’s military received solid backing by the big imperialist countries in Europe and North America. For a time, support to the coup by Canada and Australia was an embarrassment to the governments of those two countries because among the many journalists jailed by the coup regime were Australian Peter Greste and Egyptian-born Canadian Mohammed Fahmy. They were arrested in December 2013 and only released by presidential decrees (in June 2014 and September 2015, respectively) thanks to international campaigning. There are eerie parallels to the July 2013 military coup in Egypt and the coup in Ukraine eight months later. In both cases, elected presidents were overthrown. Elected legislatures were emasculated. Large protest movements in the streets of Cairo and Kyiv were giving voice to serious grievances about social and economic inequalities in each country. But the right wing and extreme-right wing in Egypt and Ukraine, along with the ‘deep state’ apparatuses of the two countries, successfully manipulated and hijacked the goals of the street protests. (Regarding Egypt, see: ‘The Revolution That Wasn’t‘, by Hugh Roberts in the London Review of Books, Sept 12, 2013. Regarding Ukraine, see the extensive documentation on the website The New Cold War; Ukraine and beyond.) Sections of the political left in Egypt and in Ukraine were deeply disoriented by events, downplaying the gravity of the right-wing political offensive and the threat of a coup against the elected governments of each country. In both case, progressive opinion internationally, including among so-called leftists and Marxists, was deeply disoriented or worse, providing little assistance to the pro-democracy fighters who were facing down a violent and deadly enemy. With respect to Egypt, see a selection of my commentaries on the stances by some on the international left: On June 18, an Egyptian court sentenced ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi to life in prison in an espionage trial in which six of his co-defendants were handed death penalties. Morsi has been sentenced to death in a separate trial. He was Egypt’s first democratically elected president but the army overthrew him in 2013 and cracked down on his supporters. He was given life in prison Saturday for leading an unlawful organisation and 15 years for having “stolen secret documents concerning state security,” his lawyer said. Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud told AFP that Morsi was acquitted of having supplied classified documents to Qatar, one of his main backers. The six co-defendants sentenced to death for helping to pass secret documents to Qatar include three journalists tried in absentia. Two are from Qatar-based TV channel Al-Jazeera. The media network denounced the verdict as an attack of free press. Al-Jazeera “denounces, condemns, and entirely rejects the verdict,” a statement said. The verdict is “unjust and politicised” and “part of the ruthless campaign against freedom of speech and expression, in order to muzzle the voice of free press.” Qatar’s government also rejected the verdict, saying it was “unfounded, goes against truth and contains misleading claims” that are contrary to Doha’s policies. “The charge of espionage for Qatar against a former president and media men is surprising and unacceptable,” added Ahmed Al Rumaihi, director of information at the foreign ministry. Morsi came to power [1] after the 2011 revolution that toppled longtime strongman Hosni Mubarak. But after just over one year in office, he was overthrown and detained by then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is now Egypt’s president. Courts have since sentenced hundreds of Islamists to death, including other Muslim Brotherhood leaders, though many have appealed and been granted new trials. Hundreds of Morsi supporters were killed during protests following his ouster.[2] Thousands of others were detained in a crackdown that was later expanded to include leftist and liberal dissidents. The Muslim Brotherhood has been blacklisted as a terrorist group. Jihadists who have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State group intensified their attacks following Morsi’s overthrow, killing hundreds of Egyptian policemen and soldiers, mainly in the north of the Sinai Peninsula.[3] The jihadists say the attacks are in retaliation for the crackdown on Brotherhood supporters. Two of the journalists sentenced to death, Ibrahim Mohamed Hilal and Jordanian citizen Alaa Omar Mohamed Sablan, worked for Al-Jazeera. The third has been named as Asmaa Mohamed al-Khatib, a female reporter with pro-Muslim Brotherhood news outlet Rassd. The three others handed the death penalty, who were present during the trial, are documentary producer Ahmed Ali Abdo, EgyptAir cabin crew member Mohamed Adel Kilani, and university teaching assistant Ahmed Ismail Thabet, said the prosecution. The death sentences were sent to the mufti — Egypt’s official interpreter of Islamic law — as his opinion is legally required on death sentences although it is not binding. Rights group Amnesty International criticised the trial outcome as “appalling” and called for the death sentences to be overturned and for the “ludicrous charges” against the journalists to be dropped. “Egypt’s broken and utterly corrupted justice system is now little more than a handy tool for the authorities’ repression of any vestiges of opposition or criticism,” said Magdalena Mughrabi-Talhami, Amnesty’s deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa. The defendants can appeal the rulings before the court of cassation, and those tried in absentia can seek a retrial if they turn themselves in. Egypt has cracked down on Al-Jazeera and imprisoned three of its journalists in Cairo, including Australian Peter Greste and Canadian Mohamed Fahmy, before releasing them by presidential decree. Mostefa Souag, the acting director general of Al-Jazeera Media Network, said all sentences issued against the channel’s journalists since Morsi’s ouster were “legally baseless”. Morsi has already received sentences in several other separate trials. In 2015, a court sentenced him to death in connection with prison breaks and attacks on police stations during the 2011 uprising. He is appealing that verdict. He has also been sentenced to life in prison for “espionage” on behalf of Iran and other countries, as well as militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah. Another court sentenced him to 20 years in prison for clashes that erupted outside his presidential palace in December 2012 between his supporters and opponents, killing up to 10 people. The clashes broke out after Morsi issued a decree placing his decisions above judicial review. Millions took to the streets demanding his resignation before the military intervened to remove him on July 3, 2013. [1] President Mohamed Morsi was elected as president of Egypt in a two-round election in May then June of 2012. [2] The AFP figure of “hundreds” killed following the July 2013 coup in Egypt is grossly understated. On one infamous date alone, August 14, 2013, several thousand people are estimated to have died when Egypt’s police and army attacked peaceful anti-coup protesters in the Nahda and Rabaa Al-Adawiyya squares in the city of Cairo. [3] There has been a long-standing struggle by the Bedouin people of the Sinai Peninsula to end Egypt’s harsh rule over the region. The AFP news report above is retroactively writing history when it ascribes the Bedouin struggle to ‘jihadists’ and ‘ISIS’.

Did you know July 2016 marks Beatrix Potter’s 150th birthday! We are big fans of her work so it felt only right to celebrate it with a VERY special exclusive personalised (of course!) book. He would've stayed longer, but the camp books up in the dead of winter, and R. and I weren't going to pony up for more than the minimum stay, before we determined whether our cab-hailing, museum-frequenting kid did well in the wild. Or the water. (The thing that first caught my eye about this place was the fact that the kids swam twice a day, every day.) We wanted something out in the country, where he could swim and tramp through the woods—an old timey, totally unplugged camp experience, the kind of place where "indoors" means a covered porch. He was five, we couldn't very well send him to the woods of Northern New England armed with some stationery, a can of bug spray, and two dozen pairs of underpants with his name scrawled inside the waistbands. "It's a reverse commute," R. and I assured ourselves. "There are three adults on the bus. He'll be fine." Making the bus meant leaving the house with a lot of gear, as well as a camp nurse approved lunch, no later than 7:10 a.m. In a few short days after school ended, the Grape had become accustomed to sleeping until almost nine. I had to drag his sleeping body out of the bunk every morning. It was a lot like trying to haul a fifty pound suitcase from an overhead bin, while standing on a ladder. We would run, frantic, through the park and up the street and past the laundromat, exactly like the folks in the Mo Willems picture book Knuffle Bunny, only with a greater degree of urgency, because if we missed the bus, I'd be in for hours of driving, and part of the point of this exercise was to secure a block of time to finish my third novel. When the dad who caught him mid-fall suggested I hang a counterweight on his front, I decided to nix the sweatshirt and sweatpants. One of the moms at the bus stop told me that was very good. She explained that her kid wore his wet bathing suit all day, because he didn't want to change clothes. This particular child was signed up for eight weeks. I saw a lot of Desitin in their future. On the third day, the Grape wore his swimsuit home, having lost three full changes of clothes, who knows where. My repeated inquiries as to the location of his clothes and other swimsuit were met with an indignant, "It's not a cubby. It's a crate!" As if that was somehow the crux of the matter. I think that was the same day he earned an award in tennis, and I didn't believe him, because his school P.E. teachers claim he possesses zero hand-eye coordination. Moments after he convinced me of its probable existence, the Grape discovered the tennis award had gone missing on the afternoon bus. I had to call the camp and have the person in charge assure the Grape that he would be reunited with his ten-cent pin major achievement award. I know, I know. They need to learn to deal with disappointment, but maybe not at the same moment I'm about to receive foreign house guests. While I had the director of the little kids' section on the phone, I asked if the camp might launch a search for the Grape's three sets of lost clothes. They sent him home on day four bearing two huge plastic bags, full of the belongings of other children in his group (an assortment including a wet towel, a thermos, and a pair of brand new shoes). The camp issued a shirt to be worn the first day. The Grape wanted to wear it every morning, because he was so thrilled and proud to be going to camp. Who wouldn't be? The place was a slice of kid heaven. He learned to swim (HURRAY!). He made new friends. He went boating. He climbed a rock wall. He even caught a fish. The Grape with his "lucky" rod and a perch (?). I suspect the campers have been catching and releasing the same fish for years. So I washed the shirt every night, and promised to sign him up for next year, even though the 7:15 to 4:30 absence every day had started to feel really long (to me—he was fine). He'll be a year older. By then I'm hopeful he'll remember that the flap belongs on the front of the underwear. We were either on the beach in Rhode Island, or in the woods behind our house, or at my mother's family's cabin, near Lake Saimaa in Finland. It was rustic. There was (and still is) an outhouse involved, and a well, where we kept things like milk cold in a bucket at the end of a long rope, because nobody wanted to mess with a gas refrigerator. We foraged for berries and mushrooms, and out grandfather set traps for lake fish, because that's what good Finns do in the summer. The road to the cabin featured boulders and compact car sized pits. If we had too many people piled into the car, a 1970 Skoda, it would get stuck. So my brother and I (and any visiting children past toddling age) were kicked out to navigate the last mile or two on foot. "Beware of moose! And poisonous vipers!"my grandmother would admonish, as we clomped away in our rubber boots, stamped "Made by Nokia in Finland" on the insides. My brother and I ran semi-wild, our feet always dirty, and our bodies always smelling faintly of pond water or salt or Noxzema, or some combination thereof. Many days, our swimsuits never dried. Sure, being a city kid has its perks. He can hail a cab, and he handily navigates the neighborhood at rush hour on his bike. He's been to the symphony and various museums. He frequents playgrounds that would've blown my mind when I was his age, when I was easily impressed by a single swing hung from a tree limb. He can explain how to get from Point A to Point B on the subway, even if it involves changing lines. He sees and hears a diverse range of people every day. Except it wasn't. These trees were in evenly spaced planting squares, and our feet were on the pavement. I hit the Internet and signed my city boy up for the campiest day camp I could find within a semi-reasonable driving radius of our home. I wanted the Grape to swim, and go boating, and tramp through the woods, and hang out outdoors all day, as far from a screen or a classroom as practicable. We went to an open house. It poured that day. The Grape wailed in the backseat that I was the meanest mother ever, and he could not believe I was doing this to him. "How can you just send me away with strangers in the middle of nowhere? What kind of mother are you?" R. and I reassured him that we signed him up for the minimum time, two weeks. He could do anything for two weeks. Nine days, really. The Grape turned his gaze towards the heavens, or at least at the roof of the car, as if wondering how he received such clueless twits for parents. We pulled into the camp. The Grape saw the beach and the boats and the rock wall and the tidy rows of tents. A little girl in our group asked the guide, a college age counselor, "Why is that pile of rocks over there?" Or were we? It was twenty miles away. There was a bus to contend with, and we didn't have the most stellar experience with school buses last fall. There were so many belongings to organize, and the Grape's backpack nearly outweighed him. I didn't sleep a wink the night before his first day. What if he got bullied on the bus? Was he too little? Were we crazy to ship him so far away? What if he lost his lunch? What if he didn't make any friends? "Yes. They would be out of business if they drowned people's kids. Now go the f--- to sleep. You need to get up and make the nut-free lunch in two hours." You guys know I don't do many interviews. In the nearly two years the show has been on, this is by far my favorite guest. Dave has a unique perspective on life and politics. He's a guy who's trying to do the right thing for the right reasons. Regardless of your opinion of his positions, I think you're going to find a man with a desire to throw off the worst parts of our society and focus on what brings us together rather than what tears us apart. Today, Jeff Edwards shares how he manages a team of mismatched aircrafts and pilots into great looking formation flybys. Y ou can get a good view of how these pilots have to fly in the image above (by the way, there’s Lynn O’Donnell in “Tootsie”). Below you can see that low wing with its flaps down trying not to overshoot the team. These images are really fascinating to look at trying to see all of the different planes and different sizes that fly in these formations. It’s late in the afternoon and you have a few friends over to enjoy a hot cup of tea and some juicy gossip. Everyone sits around the small table in your drawing room and you pour each guest a piping hot cup of the aromatic drink. In between sentences, you each savor small sips of your beverages, enjoying every aspect: the flavor, the warmth, the gently wafting steam filled with tempting aromas. Every so often someone reaches out to grab one of the small sandwiches or delicate cakes that sit on the table. The conversation drifts from Mr. Havisham’s new haircut to Mrs. Gentry’s new job to the exciting news about Mrs. Cutter’s eldest who has recently gotten engaged. Everyone is having a good time and the sweet sounds of friendly laughter echo through the house. You finish your first cup and reach for the teapot to pour a second, only to find that it has gone cold. This same thing would have happened to Anna Russell when she became the duchess of Bedford in 1839. Dinner wasn’t typically served until 8 o’clock so the duchess started taking a light afternoon meal consisting of a pot of tea, and cakes, sandwiches, or scones with cream and jam. Once she began inviting her friends, afternoon tea quickly became popular. For more on Anna Russell and the history of afternoon tea, see our blog post about her here. Anna discovered that the joys of friendly conversation can make the time slip away and, before she knew it, her pots of tea were cold. While iced tea is a tasty treat in the hot summer months, it is best enjoyed while sitting on the porch after a long day’s work. Afternoon tea is all about warmth so cold tea will not do. It’s not clear who invented it, but it wasn’t long after the Duchess of Bedford popularized taking tea in the afternoon that tea cozies started appearing. 1867 brought the first documented use of the tea cozy in Britain. A tea cozy is, quite simply, a cloth cover for a teapot that helps insulate it and keep its contents warm. Often handmade, these serve both a practical purpose and a stylish one. The Victorian penchant for embellishing every item they could meant that many tea cozies were elaborately embroidered and the patterning was as much a selling point as their usefulness. The practice of afternoon tea spread to North America rapidly and it brought the tea cozy with it. Our wide selection of tea cozies are all made in the USA, usually in a poly-cotton blend, and insulated to help keep your pot hot. The tea cozies are available in three sizes: a Traditional that fits 4-8 cup sized teapots, a Hug-A-Pot style for 6-8 cup teapots and a Mini style for the 2-4 cup sized teapots. We offer many patterns so you’re sure to find one to match your decor. The next time you’re sitting around a plate of cakes and sandwiches with your friends, be confident that your second cup of tea won’t be a cold one and your pot looks as stylish as it possibly can. The conviviality of sharing a pot of tea does much to strengthen friendship, done either in the British style or one of the Asian traditions. What a lovely article. I love my afternoon tea with my friends…but alas with everyone working, it becomes more difficult. Thanks for the warm , sweet reminder.

The media has focused heavily on the presumed negative effects of light on sleep but light is essential for a healthy sleep-wake system. Understanding whether technology is disruptive or helpful is important for understanding how to best help your clients with comorbid insomnia. Additionally, what about apps or web-based CBT programs: What is the evidence? What are the benefits and drawbacks? This Institute will teach you CBT-I for the 21st century, tackling technology and delivery questions while teaching how to effectively treat insomnia. The format for the Institute will be didactic instruction, experiential exercises, demonstrations, and clinical handouts from a leader in the field in case formulation and the cognitive behavioral treatment of comorbidly occurring insomnia. Describe how one can explain to clients the positive effects of light in treating insomnia and fatigue; Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental health problems plaguing emerging adults (EAs), with social anxiety disorder (SAD) being especially prominent (Auerbach et al., 2016). SAD in adolescence persists into young adulthood and often becomes comorbid with depression and substance abuse. Although CBT and medication are effective treatments for anxiety in youth (Walkup, et al., 2008), nearly half of effectively treated youth relapse (Ginsburg et al., 2014). Consequently, engaging in college or the workforce and establishing long-term romantic and social outlets is hampered by ongoing anxiety that solidifies extended dependence on family and impedes independent functioning. We developed the Launching Emerging Adults Program (LEAP) model, combining both group and individual CBT for anxiety with developmentally informed interventions aimed at decreasing parent accommodation and improving age-appropriate family relationships. Although CBT is the gold-standard treatment for SAD (APA Clinical Practice Guidelines, 2011), exposure therapy is not used enough (Deacon & Farrell, 2013). Barriers to using exposure therapy include difficulty of creating exposures in the clinic (Kendall, et al, 2012), negative beliefs held about exposures, and therapist focus on outcome instead of protocol; the exposures that are completed are often diminished in intensity. This Institute presents the benefits of enhancing exposures to include in vivo, contextually rich experiences typical of the real world for EAs, with a focus on how to make use of available technologies. Dr. Albano and her team, collaborating with a technology startup Headset Health, are implementing novel virtual reality exposures for the EA population. Dr. Bennett, working with HealthRythms, is utilizing passive sensing assessment technology to measure behavioral and physical manifestations of anxiety disorders in day-to-day life. We will present our model and program components, and explain how to enhance exposures. Outcome data, case examples, an video present ation will be presented. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how to treat EAs, as well as the ability to use salient contextual clues and technology to enhance treatment. Describe the tasks of development necessary for adolescents and young adults to attain independence; Strategize with attendees for addressing parental overinvolvement and adolescent dependency, including family communication and problem-solving strategies that are conducted during transition sessions; Develop, with other attendees, realistic, developmentally appropriate exposures to enhance the ecological validity of treatment and help emerging adults reduce or develop tolerance for anxiety; Develop an initial bank of exposure activities involving age-appropriate situations and challenges to engage the young adult patient. Failures in self-control are often posited to characterize many of the personal and social problems afflicting modern civilization. Yet, too much self-control or overcontrol has been shown to be equally problematic and highly associated with difficult-to-treat disorders such as anorexia nervosa, chronic depression, autism spectrum disorders, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. Individuals characterized by excessive self-control can be difficult to identify because they are expert at not appearing deviant on the outside (in public). Their hyper-detailed, focused brain tends to see mistakes everywhere (including in themselves) and they compulsively work harder than most others in order to achieve long-term goals or prevent future problems from occurring. They have too much of a good thing and suffer (quietly) as a consequence. The aim of this Institute is to provide an overview of a manualized transdiagnostic treatment for disorders of overcontrol known as Radically Open-Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT). RO-DBT is supported by 20+ years of translational research, including two NIMH-funded randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with refractory depression, two open-trials targeting adult anorexia nervosa, one nonrandomized trial targeting treatment-resistant overcontrolled adults, and one multicenter RCT targeting overcontrol in refractory depression (http://www.reframed.org.uk). Interventions are informed by a neurobiosocial theory linking current brain-behavioral science to the development of close social bonds and altruistic behaviors. Participants will learn novel strategies designed to assess overcontrolled problems, enhance self-enquiry, relax inhibitory control via activation of differing neural substrates, repair alliance ruptures, and increase social connectedness using slides, handouts, video clips, and role-plays. Explain the neurobiosocial theory underlying RO-DBT and link this to new skills designed to activate a neural substrate linked to social-safety; Differentiate between alliance ruptures and disguised demands and the differing treatment approaches used in RO-DBT to manage them and describe how to use novel nonverbal social-signaling and heat-on/heat-off strategies to enhance client engagement; Describe how to integrate new RO mindfulness skills involving the cultivation of healthy self-doubt and skills linked to RO self-enquiry and outing oneself; Describe how to apply novel nonverbal social-signaling and heat-on/heat-off strategies to enhance client engagement. Individuals with clinical anxiety and fear comprise a large proportion of many therapists' caseloads. Although exposure therapy is highly effective for anxiety and fear-related problems, many individuals fail to benefit during exposure or experience a return of fear at some point after treatment ends. New directions in the field of exposure therapy focus on an inhibitory learning model of fear extinction as derived from research on learning and memory. This model gives rise to specific techniques for implementing exposure that can optimize short- and long-term gains. Collectively, strategies derived from the inhibitory learning approach emphasize fear tolerance, as opposed to fear habituation, for protecting against return of fear. Moreover, they involve introducing desirable difficulties into exposure sessions by challenging patients to better consolidate and generalize learning via novel therapeutic strategies in order to foster a more desirable outcome (i.e., long-term maintenance). This Institute aims to help clinicians understand and apply this model and its strategies to optimize exposure therapy. The inhibitory learning model will be described and distinguished from traditional approaches to exposure; furthermore, a range of strategies to optimize inhibitory learning will be introduced and illustrated in detail. Strategies include how to maximize fear tolerance, track exposure progress using indices other than subjective units of discomfort (SUDS), introduce variability into exposure to decontextualize extinction learning, combine fear cues, and effectively use cognitive therapy techniques during exposure sessions to consolidate learning. The Institute will be interactive and include numerous case examples, video demonstrations, and experiential exercises. Distinguish the inhibitory learning approach to exposure from the traditional emotional processing approach; Explain how to foster fear tolerance during exposure, as opposed to relying solely on fear reduction and habituation; Describe how to select methods of tracking therapeutic progress during exposure therapy, other than (or in addition to) SUDS; Explain how to implement cognitive therapy during exposure sessions in ways that promote extinction via inhibitory learning. Evidence-Based Assessment and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder and Mood Dysregulation in Youth and Early Adulthood Mood dysregulation is one of the biggest problems in childhood, and it often worsens in adolescence and early adulthood. Yet there has been much uncertainty about how to conceptualize these problems diagnostically. DSM-5 added a new diagnosis, creating another label, but without an evidence base about course or treatment. Fortunately, there has been a surge of evidence about the validity of carefully diagnosed mood disorders in youth, along with better evidence-based tools for assessment and treatment. This Institute discusses key assessment and therapy issues, including: how bipolar and other mood disorders manifest clinically, presentation similarities and differences in children versus adults, how to use self-report and parent-report measures to aid diagnosis and treatment, and specific treatment strategies. We summarize the available biological interventions, emphasizing what nonprescribing clinicians need to know about these treatments. We then concentrate on how to implement therapeutic techniques used in individual-family and multifamily psychoeducational psychotherapy (PEP), one of the most promising evidence-based approaches to managing mood dysregulation in youth. This program will utilize lecture format, case presentations, demonstrations, role-plays, and question-and-answer periods. Often challenging conventional wisdom, the Institute presents new evidence from NIMH grants that can be applied immediately in practice. Describe the use of evidence-based assessment methods that aid in differential diagnosis and measuring treatment response; Recognize which symptoms and risk factors are helpful in recognizing bipolar disorder, and which may be red herrings" that are common to other conditions; Explain how to adapt specific therapeutic techniques to treat youth with bipolar disorder and other mood dysregulation; Identify how to apply specific therapeutic techniques to address family concerns about mood dysregulation and treatment; " Explain how to integrate a conceptual model for working within systems-of-care into your practice with cases dealing with mood dysregulation. This Institute includes a refresher on Motivational Interviewing (MI) approaches and skills, an update on recent definitional and conceptual changes to MI, and a focus on integrating MI with CBT in practice. Conceptual bases for this integration will be provided, with a specific focus on various ways in which both these evidence-based approaches can be utilized, including: (a) MI as a prelude to CBT; (b) Motivational Interactions throughout the course of CBT; (c) using MI to introduce, implement, and continue challenging aspects of CBT (e.g., exposure treatment); and (d) employing MI to consolidate CBT gains, to promote relapse prevention, and to maintain behavior change. Designed for professionals and trainees with prior experience using MI, this Institute will cover intermediate and advanced methods to assist clients with behavior change, by developing and practicing of new skills. Using demonstrations, role-play, film, and clinical case examples from the presenters' diverse practices, the application of new methods to increase and sustain client motivation in CBT will be discussed. Practice in evoking change talk (in contrast to sustain talk and avoidance) in sessions will be covered, along with applying MI at critical junctures in CBT. This Institute offers the expertise of two experienced trainers in MI and CBT, both of whom offer trainings in MI on a yearly basis. The session will involve experiential components in which participants work with one another in dyads and groups, and with trainers, to polish skills in a comfortable, interactive, supportive, and enjoyable learning environment. Deonte how to apply key MI processes to increase client motivation for behavior change within ongoing CBT treatments; Behavioral Activation (BA) is a brief treatment for depression that emphasizes the importance of activation and overcoming avoidance as a way to manage and recover from depression. Over the course of the last several years, Behavioral Activation Therapy has proven to be as effective as CBT and medication management in the treatment of moderately to severely depressed adults. More recently, this treatment approach has been increasingly used and studied in youth with depressive disorders. In the treatment of youth with depressive disorders, BA can be used in two different ways: as a stand-alone treatment and as a component in modular approaches to care. In this Institute, participants will be introduced to the BA model. The key strategies used in BA (e.g., mood monitoring, guided activation, goal setting, overcoming avoidance) related to helping adolescents increase activity and maximize reward in their lives will be introduced. Implementation of these strategies will be modeled via training videos and role-plays and participants will have the opportunity to practice these strategies and debrief their use with the facilitators. Time will also be devoted to conversation/discussion between participants and presenters about using this structured treatment in a flexible fashion based on individualized case conceptualization and with adolescents with co-occurring problems. Explain how BA may be extended to address concerns in youth presenting with challenges other than depression. Working with couples is not at all like working with individuals. However, relatively few of us receive specialized training in working with couples. Despite that, the highest demand for therapy is from couples seeking help with their relationships. Additionally, most couples come to therapy after a long period of significant distress, as a last-ditch effort to save their relationship, and sometimes therapy is just too little, too late. In short, currently the resources simply do not exist to reach and effectively serve the relationship health needs of the nations' couples. If we are to begin to treat relationship health as a public health issue, then we need to significantly increase the number of therapists who are trained to provide preventative and early intervention care. The Relationship Health Checkup is the relationship health equivalent of our annual physical health or biannual dental checkup and is meant to have the broad public health effect in terms of helping couples to maintain strong, vibrant, healthy, sexy relationships for a lifetime. The Relationship Health Checkup uses technology to increase the reach of a fast and powerful prevention and early intervention for couples. The Relationship Health Checkup is also a fast and easy protocol for all levels of therapists to learn, and provides therapists who do not specialize in treating couples with an empirically supported, effective, and fun skill set for providing couples with a profoundly rich experience in just two sessions. In this Institute, participants will learn the fundamentals of conducting a Relationship Checkup, utilizing techniques from Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. Participants will learn about the unique challenges of working with couples, the structure and protocol of the Checkup, and the technological opportunities for effectively serving the broadest range of couples in need. Practice the application of strategies for building intimacy bridges between partners through hands on practice of (a) celebrating partners strengths, (b) identifying soft emotions beneath anger, (c) uncovering understandable reasons for each perspective;

Sheep shearer Emily Chamelin of Westminster works on a sheep at Bill and Pat Swann's farm in Clarksville, MD on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. (Jen Rynda / BSMG) Watching Emily Chamelin outmaneuver a wriggling sheep as she shears its woolly coat – deftly dodging swift kicks at the whirring electric clippers in her hand as the animal lies on its back – it's clear who's in charge. As an award-winning professional sheep shearer who travels the world to work and compete, she has come a long way since she was given her first ewe at age 15. Seventeen years after her heartfelt essay won her a heritage wool sheep of her own to raise and show, Chamelin will join in celebrating the Youth Conservationist Program's 20th anniversary at the 43rd annual Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival set for May 7 and 8. The program introduces aspiring shepherds to the idea of conserving rare sheep breeds, which are donated by breeders across the country. Ewes will be awarded to 15 youths from various states in a special ceremony on Sunday, followed by a reunion of donors and past recipients. Sheep shearer Emily Chamelin of Westminster works on a sheep at Bill and Pat Swann's farm in Clarksville, MD on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. The festival is hosted by the Maryland Sheep Breeders Association and is expected to attract 50,000 visitors from around the world to the Howard County Fairgrounds in West Friendship this year, organizers say. Chamelin will also give a shearing demonstration on both days of the festival, an event that festival chairwoman Gwen Handler describes as "one of our most popular because Emily is so good at what she does and her enthusiasm is infectious." Now 32, Chamelin said being entrusted with a rare sheep breed as a teen really ramped up her interest. "The Youth Conservationist Program gets young kids really excited about farming and developing bloodlines," said Chamelin, who was given a Leicester longwool at the 1999 festival by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, which raises the rare English breed. "Getting that ewe was my stepping stone into raising sheep," she said, a desire she attributes to teenage rebellion after working with dairy goats and cows on her family's Westminster farm. Chamelin owned Leicester longwools for eight years and now owns Cheviots, which are raised for her by her parents, Martin and Ruth Chamelin. "Breeders have females they want to pass on to continue their legacy, but the price tags on those sheep can exclude kids from raising them," she said, making the program that connects breeders with deserving youths a win-win situation for everyone. Elaine Ashcraft, an Ohio farmer and 4-H adviser who serves as program coordinator, said she works with breeders to send animals to youths in states as far away as Maine, Georgia and Missouri. "We want to encourage young people to get involved in agriculture – that's the bottom line," she said. Chamelin is one of the program's rare youth recipients who has gone on to carve out a career in the sheep industry, she said. "Most young people don't stay in agriculture," Ashcraft said, "but if they do, the hope is that these rare breeds may become a priority for them." Chamelin has traveled all over the country and as far away as New Zealand and Ireland to take part in competitions and accept jobs, building a career on her innate passion for sheep and shearing. "Something about the wool as it comes off the sheep is so beautiful," she observed, adding her personal record for shearing is 236 sheep in one day. Handler – who raises Leicester longwools, horses, chickens and dogs at her family's farm in Westminster – said Chamelin's contributions to agriculture are huge. "She's the poster child for the Youth Conservationist Program, which is so important because they are caretakers of endangered breeds," she said, "and she's an ambassador to the sheep industry." The Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival at the Howard County Fairgrounds in West Friendship on Saturday, May 3. (Jen Rynda/Baltimore Sun Media Group video) Lee Langstaff, president of the Maryland Sheep Breeders Association, said Chamelin was recently appointed to the American Sheep Industry Association Wool Council, an honor not regularly bestowed in the Eastern region of the United States. "This is big deal since most of the industry is in the West and we were very eager to increase representation, not only from Maryland, but from the East," said Langstaff, who nominated Chamelin, calling her "energetic and forward-thinking." Chamelin will team up to demonstrate shearing techniques at the festival with Kristen Rosser, of Philadelphia, one of her former apprentices. They'll take turns shearing and giving a presentation that will cover a general discussion of sheep, wool and sheep handling. "Most of the people in the audience are seeing this for the first time and we try to make it fun for everyone," Chamelin said. "I love an interactive crowd." They usually want to know, among other things, if shearing hurts sheep (it doesn't), and why it's necessary (sheep are bred to not shed their wool, so shearing must be done once or twice a year for their health), she said. Chamelin said she learned to shear the same year she got her ewe, but only after talking her way into a class at the Maryland Sheep Shearing School, which has a minimum age of 16. "I annoyed them enough that they let me come," she said, despite only being 15 at the time. "It turned out that I was good at it. The school asked afterward if they could refer people [in need of a shearer] to me." "Women are not very common in this industry; only five percent of shearers worldwide are women," she said. But as more farms are transitioning to ownership by women, the number of female shearers is also rising, she said. "People want you to relate to their animals. You are dealing with their babies, and you need to handle them with kid gloves," she said. "Women are often viewed as more nurturing and having a more personal approach." Bill Swann, who co-owns Swann Farm in Highland with wife Pat, first hired Chamelin four years ago to shear their 14 sheep and has had her back each spring. "We've had different shearers over the years, but Emily is by far the best – not only for her shearing skills, but for her attitude and friendliness," said Swann, who lives on the farm off Route 108 that his parents started in 1950. "She also has a wealth of information about sheep, aesthetically and health-wise, and is always willing to share it," he said. Chamelin said she's grateful to the Youth Conservationist Program for helping to nudge her in the right direction. "I've led a bizarre and eclectic life," she said. "I've followed my whims, and I've never looked back." The 43rd Annual Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival will be held May 7 and 8 at the Howard County Fairgrounds, 2210 Fairgrounds Road, West Friendship, with over 250 vendors and 40-plus workshops. No dogs allowed. Festival chairperson Gwen Handler says "all events are popular," but recommends the Parade of Sheep Breeds, at 12:30 p.m. Sunday and the Farmers Market, which is back for its second year and offers meat-cutting demonstrations and lamb tasting. Information: sheepandwool.org..

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I am new to this, although I have been reading some of your posts since I found this site a couple of weeks ago. My difficult child, Kyle, is 16 and is driving us insane. His problems started when he started school and he has been evaluated and diagnosed several times. The school psychiatrist had him down as "behaviorly impaired" when he was in the the 2nd grade. Since then, he has been diagnosed with ODD and ADHD. I absolutely agree with the ODD diagnosis, but I am not convinced of the ADHD and neither are any of his past teachers. None of them could believe that he had ADHD and they all say he doesn't act like any of the students they have had in the past that had ADHD. But, on the advice of the psychologists, we have tried him on adderol, once when he was in the 3rd grade and then again this past June, when we had him evaluated again. When he was in the 3rd grade, the adderol did nothing for him and more recently, it made his behavior about 10 times worse than it was before. So, I brought him to a psychiatrist, and he put him on Stratera. Again, doesn't do anything but give him a stomach ache. Then, my difficult child, refused to keep taking it. Said that if anybody needed to be medicated, it was me and that I only wanted to make myself look good by making him take the medication. I'm straying here I know, but thought I needed to give a little back ground info. Anyway, over the years, Kyle's IEPs have gone from one thing to another. It's like they can't decide what to do with him, so they are making stuff up. First he was getting help for language arts and reading, then it went to giving him help for behavioral issues. Then it went back to language arts. Just as suddenly, they switched gears again to math being his problem. I've tried to tell them countless times that he doesn't really have a problem academically, that his problem is that he doesn't want to do any work period. On to what my questions are. Kyle was expelled from school last fall for bringing a knife to school. Of course, he claims he forgot it was in his pocket and didn't bring it on purpose. He was living with my mom and stepdad at the time because his relationship with my husband had deteriorated so much at the time. When he got the initial suspension, my mother called me up and said to come and get him because they had, had enough. So I went up to Maine Thanksgiving weekend and brought him to Virginia to live with us. I was totally honest with the school here in VA and told them he had the 10 day suspension and why. They said that since their policy was an automatic 365 day expulsion for bringing a weapon to school, that they had to get his previous school's recommendation. The school in Maine recommended the expulsion and that's what they were going to do and that I could appeal to the school board to not to expell him at their next meeting. Which, of course I did. They upheld the expulsion. The next thing I know, the assistant superintendent calls and says that they will be providing tutoring services at home because Kyle has an IEP. At this point, I suspected something weird was going on, so I went searching on line to find out what services they were required to provide to a Special Education student that was expelled. That is when I discovered, to my dismay that he shouldn't have been expelled at all, according to the Parent's Handbook for Special Education Rights. To make a long story short, I went to see a lawyer about what could be done about getting him back into regular school. Basically I was told that it would be a $5000 retainer with no guarantee that he would get back in. The school board meeting was the first or second week of December 2006. I had to fight with them to provide the tutoring that they had promised. The tutoring did not begin until June 14th. They did the entire ninth grade language arts curriculum in 7 days at an average of 45 minutes per day. Did geography in about the same amount of time. She managed to stretch algebra out a little longer as she has had several days she couldn't come and vacations. They will be finishing algebra on Thursday this week. That gives them 8 days to do the Earth Science curriculum, as the tutor never comes on Friday's. In February, we met to do the new IEP. I asked about the expulsion then and was told by he assistant principal that the school board's decision was final and nothing could be done. I pointed out that a manifestation meeting had never been done etc. The assistant principal got on the phone with the assistant superintendant and they said that we gave up our right to due process by taking him out of the school in Maine. I pointed out that I wasn't a resident in Maine and couldn't make them do anything, and that my mother didn't even know what the due process was at the time because she was never informed of her rights. My fear at this point is that they will stop tutoring him again once school starts up because they don't have anyone available. The issue was that my husband and I work and don't get home until around 6PM and they didn't have anyone that could come that late and they wouldn't send someone if there was not a parent present. I told the assistant principal that we couldn't quit our jobs so that we could be there. His response to me was "....as parents, we all need to make sacrifices sometimes." Again, I was stunned. I don't think I even had a response for that one. So, what do I do from here? Incidently, we were going to take $5000 out of our savings and hire the lawyer. I told my difficult child, that we were willing to spend all that money to get him back into school but if he messed it up and got himself in trouble "accidently" again, he would have to pay back every dime of it. His response to me was, "don't bother then." Any advice anyone can give me will truly be appreciated. Thanks! Please take a look at your post. It needs to have paragraph breaks to be readable. Also, please go to the MY Stuff section and prepare a signature. You may include as much or as little information as you wish and feel comfortable disclosing, but it helps us keep the members' situations straight. See mine as an example. You might not want to use your son's name, especially given his age. I called my ex-difficult child MrNo for years in place of his name. Many people use nicknames, other use difficult child#1, difficult child#2--if they have more than one child with problems. It's your call, but this is a public site. Hi! Have you had a neuropsychologist done on him? I ask because ODD and ADHD are kind of like biproducts of something else. For quite a while they were listing my difficult child 1 with those two, but in reality he has Aspergers syndrome. The finer the diagnosis, the better you can pin them down on his IEP... I'm in VA as well and have not been impressed with the efforts for needed accommodations. They fare well on education, then get sued over and over by parents of kids with special needs. Feel free to personal message me and depending on where you're located, maybe I can at least tell you waht I've tried so far. Hi there. Thanks for the responses. What exactly is a neuropsychologist? difficult child has been evaluated several times, but they pretty much keep wanting to focus on the educational side of things, despite what I say. I keep telling them that he doesn't really have a problem academically, other than the fact that he refuses to do homework etc. He flunked the 7th grade because he wouldn't participate in class or do his homework and they "administratively" placed him in the 8th grade anyway. This was because his test averages were all As and Bs. Plus, the teachers were supposed to be checking his planner everyday to make sure his assignments were written down etc. and they only did it about 10% of the time. He did great in the 8th grade because we moved to get him into a different school and they actually followed through with communicating with us, so his homework was completed everyday. When I found out I was being transferred from Maine to Virginia for my job, we decided to let difficult child stay up in Maine with his grandparents. He was doing so well there in school and he and husband were having more and more issues. At the time, it seemed the best solution. It didn't take long for my parents to figure out that difficult child had fooled them. He had them convinced that we were abusing him, more husband than me. He went to live with them in May and by October my mother was calling me and saying that if he didn't straighten out by Christmas, that I would have to come get him. Of course, he didn't make it that far because he was suspended in Nov. for the knife issue. Before I totally strayed, the point I was trying to make is that I really don't think difficult child has a learning disability or ADHD. He is super smart and when he does put in just a little effort, he excels in any subject. What I guess scares me is that if he was 18, he could very easily be given a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder. I keep trying to tell the psychologists that it's his behavior I'm concerned about at this point but they keep minimizing the behavioral issues and focus on the educational aspect that isn't really an issue. IDEA is the Federal law pertinent to Special Education and IEPs. All States must adhere to the minimum requirements of IDEA. Based on what you've written, your school district has several non-compliant issues they wouldn't want to have to answer to the Feds about if you were to file a formal complaint. It sounds as if he's presently on homebound, and his IEP is not being implemented. Homebound is typically short-term for students that, for instance, have to be out of school due to recovering from surgery, etc. One of the primary things you need to be aware of is that as the parent, you are a full member of the IEP Committee. As such, you can call an IEP meeting at any time. Another "biggie" is stop talking. Always correspond with-the sd in writing using Certified Mail. Follow up any conversations with-Letters of Understanding. Why? Because he said/she said will get you no where in the event you have to file a complaint at the sd, state or federal level. Leave a paper trail. This practice can go a long way in circumventing sd's that are intent on side-stepping the law or manipulating parents. Calling an IEP meeting is how you go about getting him back into school. How do you do that? Write a letter; send it certified mail. You mention that your son has been given extra help with language and math. School districts don't do these things without need. What I'd like you to know is that learning disabilities are tricky. I'd caution you to not dismiss the possibility out-of-hand -- most particularly with-ADHD being involved. LDs with ADHD are very common. See https://web.archive.org/web/2006123...ng.org/pdfs/2200_7-barktran.pdf?date=11-14-00. I'd also recommend that you request (in writing, via CM) that the school district do a complete reevaluation on your son. Things change over time -- it's hard to design a good IEP when you don't know the specific needs of the student. Letters of Understanding https://web.archive.org/web/20091023080702/http://geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/1580/letters.html Parent Attachment to IEP -- never attend an IEP meeting without one. This will tell you why and there's a link to the attachment. Hi! Our Dept. of Ed did some testing and found our son (difficult child 1) was "profoundly intelligent". After hearing about neuropsychs on this board, I got him in to see a neuropsychologist. They tested him every way from Sunday and interviewed me so intensly that for a while I started to feel like the worst mom in the world because I really couldn't remember all of the milestones (walking, talking, potty training, etc) for all 3 kids (I had 3 in less than 3 years - I couldn't remember my NAME by then!). They are now scheduling testing for read/write disorders for our oldest. He's brilliant, but hates to read and writes like a 4 year old, can't remember his spelling words at all. I brought a hand-written note with me to show them, and this prompted them to order add'l testing. You can usually get a neuropsychologist evaluation done at a childrens hospital or a research facility (we have one that is a research facility for all mental/ neurological illness). It usually takes a month-6weeks to get in, but it was worth the wait! Your SD is not following the law. Students in Sp Ed can be staffed to an alternative setting but non-existent tutpring does not meet their legal obligaton. Be careful about attorneys. in my opinion a good Sp Ed att'y could win this easily but an attorney who is not an expert in Sp Ed law is not much help at all. It's pretty easy to win when the SD is in such flagrant violation of Federal law. Thanks, I will check into getting a neuropsychologist evaluation. I am also checking into getting him back into counceling. At this point he's refusing to take any medications and I think I will have another fight on my hands as far as getting him to go for counceling. Pretty much has the attitude that all the professionals are just out there to make a buck and of course, I'm just trying to make myself look good. So, I can't really "make" him do anything. I can't even drag him to his room when he refuses to go, he's 6'-1" and 180lbs. All the lawyers, at least on line, that I could find in this area that deal with Special Education cases, work for agencies that help low income families. We're not low income, but we don't have any extra money floating around either. The one lawyer that I found that didn't work for an agency, was the one that wanted the $5000 retainer and did not seem to know Special Education law any better than I do. That's why she needed the retainer, to pay for her research. Besides, if I had an extra $5k kicking around, I'd hire a tutor or put him in a private school until he could go back. I've left several messages for the ombudsman at the state level, trying to get info and she has not returned any of my calls. I almost hate to rock the boat at this point. I am finally getting at least something out of them. If they keep up with the tutoring once the new school year starts up, I think he'll be ok. He'll have to make up the electives, but he'll have been working on the core classes. My husband is building our house so isn't working right now, so he can be there whenever they want to send someone. No more excuses for them. The problem is, I won't know if they are going to follow through until school starts up. Then if they don't follow through, I am sure they will use every stall tactic possible to drag things out until he can go back to school at the end of November. A good Child Advocate may be an alternative to an attorney. They are sometimes difficult to locate, but a helpful resource is http://www.yellowpagesforkids.com . There were a few sights out there and here's the best part of advocates: they don't cost AND they're up on the info. for respite, services (speech, Occupational Therapist (OT), pt, behavioral, counceling, sometimes teen clubs, etc.). They really do work hard for you and are totally aware of your rights as well as a child/teens rights when it comes to an education. Most are federally or state funded, so there's no cost involved. I would have given you some links, but I have no idea what part of Virginia that you're in!

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Henry Ford demonstrates the strength of his car “grown” from a combination of hemp and other annual crops, and designed to run on hemp fuel, by smashing it with a crowbar. (Popular Mechanics, 1941) I must admit, when I first read about Henry Ford’s automobile made solely from hemp products the first image that popped into my head was of Cheech & Chong’s van made of marijuana (complete with Thai sticks for bumpers) from the 1978 movie titled “Up in Smoke.” Strangely, my life was never quite the same after that movie came out. But that’s a whole ‘nuther story. lol (more about Henry Ford’s hemp car later) A new theory has been posited about the origin of the prohibition of hemp in America. Like many other people, I had always subscribed to the conventional theory that it was the dirty deeds of turn of the [20th] century oligarchs like William Randolf Hearst and the DuPont family who were mainly (or at least financially) responsible for the demise of the hemp industry — due to the threat hemp posed to their respective commodity empires — i.e., lumber and paper, and textiles and chemicals. (link to DuPont company history here) The history of the hemp plant and it’s truncated industry in the United States has been long and storied. Hemp’s nearly limitless industrial versatility was once widely thought to be America’s new economic engine for growth. In fact, the magazine Popular Mechanics even dubbed the hemp plant, America’s “New Billion Dollar Crop” in a cover story from an issue back in 1938. Hmm, I wonder what that billion dollar crop would be worth in today’s standard, factoring in, of course, innovation, financial investments, and a steady progression of applicable technological advances since the early 20th Century. So, basically (and illogically, imo) hemp prohibition came about in the U.S. despite the plant’s well-documented eco-friendly, versatility; its wide availability, and its relatively simple, inexpensive growth and production processes. Go figure. For farmers, an alternative to taking land out of production and destroying “surplus” commodities would have been to plant crops they could market profitably. Thanks to advances in chemistry, there was at this time a rising “chemurgy” movement that Morgenthau, a farm expert, would certainly have known about. Chemurgy involves growing crops not for food but for transformation into various industrial products—plastics, coatings, thread, etc. As Dave West puts it, chemurgy is based on “the idea that anything you can make from a hydrocarbon you can make from a carbohydrate… Rayon from plants instead of nylon from petroleum.” Henry Ford was a leading proponent of chemurgy. Ford had his workers build a car out of hemp-based products and arranged for a promotional photo of himself, in an overcoat and hat, bashing the rear fender with a sledgehammer to show how strong the material was. (my emphasis) During the FDR administration, in 1937, a racist, Harry Anslinger, was the longtime commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. He was widely considered the prime mover behind marijuana prohibition. But during the congressional debate on the subject, Anslinger was just one witness in a strange show trial. He testified that marijuana induces homicidal mania and so forth, but it was not Anslinger who designed the complicated prohibitive-tax strategy. That maneuver was thought up by the Treasury Department’s top lawyer, Herman Oliphant. Nor was Anslinger called back to refute William Woodward of the American Medical Association, who argued that a federal prohibition was uncalled for. Note: it’s important to explain the reason I called Anslinger a racist. He was infamous for his misguided disgusting and bigoted quotes of the era. Why FDR ever picked this guy is beyond me. But they are what they are. And he was what he was. “Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men,” said Anslinger. “The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is the effect it has on the degenerative races.” To make sure no one missed his point, Anslinger went on to offer a profile of the average marijuana toker. “Most are Negroes, Hispanics. Filipinos and entertainers. Their satanic music, jazz and swing, result from smoking marijuana. This marijuana makes White women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others.” As it turns out, it was Congressman Fred Vinson of Kentucky who dealt with Woodward, subjecting him to a snide, relentless grilling. In the transcript of the hearing, Vinson comes across as an effective prosecutor committed to getting the prohibitive-tax bill enacted, while Anslinger seems like a carnival pitch man—yowza, yowza, yowza. Both men were carrying water for the Treasury Department, which had drafted the prohibition bill and was asking Congress to impose it on the nation.When the final curtain fell in my imaginary drama, the actual villain seemed to be Vinson, not Anslinger. As I was mulling over the implications, Dave West referred me to his eye-opening essay, “Low, Dishonest Decade,” published in 1999. West, who has a PhD in plant breeding and genetics, spent most of his career as a geneticist/breeder of “corporate maize” (his term). He pioneered the application of molecular markers incrop breeding. In his essay, West argues that Anslinger did not push through federal legislation to enact prohibition with backing from Hearst, DuPont and Andrew Mellon. (the DuPont’s banker, Republican Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1933, and the man who appointed Anslinger to run the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1930) A conspiracy involving Hearst, Du Pont and Mellon was posited by Jack Herer, the man who in the 1980s discovered the suppressed history of hemp, its multiple uses and its economic potential. Herer shared his findings in a collage of documentation called The Emperor Wears no Clothes. Herer’s admirers should be open-minded about West’s take on the federal prohibition. Herer’s revelations and accomplishments are of an order of magnitude that won’t be reduced if his theory of three rich Republicans masterminding prohibition doesn’t pan out. Alternatively, West suggests a leadership role in the prohibition of hemp for Henry Morgenthau, Jr., FDR’s secretary of the Treasury from 1934 to 1945. (After FDR died, Harry Truman replaced Morgenthau with the above-mentioned Fred Vinson.) Morgenthau was well aware of the Nazi threat and the strong isolationist sentiment that could keep the administration from intervening on behalf of European Jews. He was tracking the expanding network of Nazi front groups in this country, and the German-American Bund. There were German-American hemp farmers in contact with Henry Ford, a leading anti-Semite. Morgenthau must have suspected they were associated with the Bund and wanted to keep tabs on them. As secretary of the treasury, Morgenthau was in charge of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which had law-enforcement and domestic-surveillance capabilities. Its commissioner, Harry Anslinger, was an ambitious bureaucrat out to maximize his agency’s power. West’s theory is that Morgenthau orchestrated the federal prohibition and that Anslinger’s railing against marijuana was part of the play. It is logical that the head honcho called the shots. In an interview in 1970, Anslinger himself told David Musto that Morgenthau wanted the ban in response to pressure from law enforcement in several states. But Morgenthau never wanted those reasons to become public information. The Treasury Department oversaw the entire process, according to the transcript of a congressional hearing on prohibition. In a paper on the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act that ran in the Archives of General Psychiatry (and was reprinted by Tod Mikuriya in Marijuana Medical Papers), Musto wrote, “The hearings before the House were held in late April and early May. They were curious events. The Treasury’s presentation to Congress has been adequately described many times, although no retelling has equaled reading the original transcript.” Herbert Levy’s 2010 biography of Morgenthau Henry Morgenthau, Jr.: The Remarkable Life of FDR’s Secretary of the Treasury by Herbert Levy (Skyhorse Publishing, 2010) seems to indicate at least indirect support for West’s hypothesis regarding Morgenthau as the prime motivator behind the federal ban on hemp and marijuana that stills stands to this day. To me, this is sheer madness. Hemp (and all its byproducts) has the potential to be the biggest driver of a boom economy we’ve seen in this country in decades, if not centuries. Every aspect of its versatility is far superior to the corresponding alternatives were using now. Industrialized, together, — hemp and its intoxicating cousin marijuana — could improve our lives in many, many ways, potentially creating millions of jobs as well. Please, there’s much more to the story @ Alternet – Who Orchestrated the Prohibition of Marijuana? Originally posted at Daily Kos Interesting – as far as I know, a 100 years ago hemp was commercially grown in most states; the prevailing Constitutional legal scholars said the government could not prohibit drugs per se, so the early laws controlling drugs were tax laws. Utah was the first state to pass a law against Pot – 1915, a tax law and very clearly it was racist in focus. “Because Mexicans and those negro jazz muscians from New Orleans smoke it.” I love the irony – the New Orleans Jazz now play in Salt Lake City. During prohibition bootleg booze was expensive; many turned to pot as drug of choice after work. FDR expected to reap large tax revenues from booze when prohibition was ended in 1933. It didn’t happen. People had discovered pot – cheap, plentiful and no hangover. As noted, FDR used Anslinger in a campaign to get people off pot and back on booze. The opinion was that booze could be regulated because it was manufacturer whereas pot as simply a plant, could not be controller. The 1937 LaGuardia (Marijuana Tax) Act was the first law under the public health statutes that passed a law BEFORE negative consequences had been found. Congress was sure smoking weed was bad for you, it was only a matter of time before they could prove it. In the meantime, Congress subsidized the tobacco industry. Iowa was the last state to legally grow commercial hemp – 1961. Check the economics of North Dakota and Manitoba Canada – US side struggles – Canadian side grows hemp. Paper, fabric, eye drops, to name a few. It could be said, hemp is evidence that god loves us and wants us to be happy. Theme for a Big Green Van, (AKA “Lost Due To Incompetence”) by Yesca. (studio musicians including guitar legend Waddy Wachtel) And a smoking cover version from a guitarist who uncannily channels Jimi Hendrix and Carlos Santana: David Leon Riley was stopped for driving with expired registration tags and arrested after a search of his car revealed concealed and loaded firearms. Upon his arrest, the officer seized and searched the contents of Riley’s cell phone. At the station, a detective also browsed through Riley’s cell phone. Based upon the information found on his phone, Riley was connected to an earlier shooting and charged with firing at an occupied vehicle, assault with a semi-automatic firearm and attempted murder. Riley moved to suppress the evidence obtained from his cell phone. Brima Wurie was arrested after officers observed Wurie make an apparent drug sale from his car. At the station, the officers seized Wurie’s flip phone and found a phone number that they traced to Wurie’s apartment. The officers secured a search warrant for the apartment and found drugs and firearms. Wurie moved to suppress the evidence obtained from the search of his apartment arguing the evidence “was the fruit of an unconstitutional search of his phone.” When the police seizes a cell phone from an individual who is under arrest, may an officer conduct a warrantless search of the information on the phone? In a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, (Riley v. California (June 25, 2014) No. 13-132 and No. 13-212 573 U.S. ___), the court holds a warrant is required before searching the digital contents of a cell phone seized incident to an arrest. The court also recognizes that in exceptional circumstances the warrant requirement may be waived if the “warrantless search is objectively reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.” Warrantless searches exist only in exceptional circumstances where the need for effective law enforcement overrides an individual’s privacy rights. A warrantless search during an arrest is considered reasonable to protect the officer’s safety, prevent the arrestee’s escape or destruction of evidence. The U.S. Supreme Court states that the digital contents of a cell phone cannot be used as a weapon to harm the officer or to help the arrestee escape. Also, once the officer secures the cell phone, there is no real danger of the evidence being destroyed. Therefore, the court concludes that generally a warrant is required to search cell phones. Due to the severe drought and lack of surface water in California, groundwater is providing about 60% of the state’s water supply. Unregulated groundwater usage has resulted in further depletion of our aquifers. Another problem is that over-pumping is sinking lands which in turn can damage roads, canals and other structures. As a result, Governor Jerry Brown signed three new laws to regulate groundwater withdrawals. These laws, Senate Bill No. 1168, No. 1319, and Assembly Bill No. 1739, require local agencies to manage their groundwater supplies. Local agencies in fast-depleting basins must develop a sustainability plan for managing wells and pumping. However, if they fail to act, then the California Water Resources Control Board can intervene. Read the full article here.

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End of content United StatesHewlett Packard Enterprise International CorporateCorporateAccessibilityCareersContact UsCorporate ResponsibilityEventsHewlett Packard LabsInvestor RelationsLeadershipNewsroomSitemapPartnersPartnersFind a PartnerPartner I am also able to backup up all of our servers except for one to Disk using Dataprotector 6.0 and datadomain.Here is the error I am getting with the one server.[Normal] Community Data Protector Practitioners Forum CommunityCategoryBoardUsers turn on suggestions Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches Maybe the ports that DP needs to use are already taken up?Remember that 5555 is for comms between the Cell Manager and the client only, your problem seems to be comms Data Protector - Server / Client under Firewall/DMZ - Media Agent port setup Collapse X Collapse Posts Latest Activity Search Page of 1 Filter Time All Time Today Last Week Last I've done nothing on the log files and the error just suddenly came out and kept for a week already.[Critical] From: [email protected] "madgn02d.newcos.com [/ORACLE/archd/TST16]" Time: 4/12/2011 10:45:57 AM Cannot connect to I can see in the progress screen that it has gone through the process of determining the full size of the disk it will be backing up, but then it can't cannot connect media agent error 10060.Does anybody knows something about that ? Community Data Protector Practitioners Forum CommunityCategoryBoardUsers turn on suggestions Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches This page was generated at 23:53. Jansen Trusted Contributor [Founder] Options Mark as New Bookmark Subscribe Subscribe to RSS Feed Highlight Print Email to a Friend Report Inappropriate Content ‎05-30-2011 11:02 PM ‎05-30-2011 11:02 PM Re: Cannot All rights reserved. All are completing full and incremental without any issue. 0 Kudos Reply The opinions expressed above are the personal opinions of the authors, not of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. I have been able to backup up all of my servers to tape without any problems. If not, then just turn off teh firewall, this should resolve the problemIf you need to have the firewall running, you need to establish a firewall rule to allow a certain Tags: firewall View All (1) 0 Kudos Reply Pankaj K gupta Frequent Advisor Options Mark as New Bookmark Subscribe Subscribe to RSS Feed Highlight Print Email to a Friend Report Inappropriate But recently one of the drives has been failing with an error message of:Cannot connect to Media Agent on system xxxxx, port 57804 (IPC Cannot Connect System error: [10061 Connection refused) However the actual dataflow is done on a lot of other dynamically assigned ports for that session in the highend range like 10000 and above.. 0 Kudos Reply Jan Soska Honored i can run test backups on this system selecting portions from each of the 4 disks, and it always completes just fine. I see them all over the place, the walking dead. 0 Kudos Reply The opinions expressed above are the personal opinions of the authors, not of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The cell manager is a win2k box, the tape hardware is an HP MSL6060 with four LTO3s and two fibre HBAs. If not, the problem is related somewhere else. Controldata is exchanged on this port to the CM and back. Are you able to connect to the MA using 5555 (telnet 5555).Best regardsDaniel -----------Please assign Kudos - How to assign... 0 Kudos Reply rahman007 Advisor Options Mark as New That's not living,it's dying. Showing results for Search instead for Do you mean Menu Categories Solutions IT Transformation Internet of Things Topics Big Data Cloud Security Infrastructure Strategy and Technology Products Cloud Integrated Systems Networking By using this site, you accept the Terms of Use and Rules of Participation. End of content United StatesHewlett Packard Enterprise International CorporateCorporateAccessibilityCareersContact UsCorporate ResponsibilityEventsHewlett Packard LabsInvestor RelationsLeadershipNewsroomSitemapPartnersPartnersFind a PartnerPartner This usually results from trying to connect to a service that is inactive on the foreign hostâ that is, one with no server application running. Also, if you still have your DP 5.5 Admin Guide (I'll never throw mine away), you can review Chapter 13, which explains it in much more detail. Showing results for Search instead for Do you mean Menu Categories Solutions IT Transformation Internet of Things Topics Big Data Cloud Security Infrastructure Strategy and Technology Products Cloud Integrated Systems Networking dear gurus...please advice.. :) 0 Kudos Reply All Forum Topics Previous Topic Next Topic 10 REPLIES Eblyn Solis Honored Contributor [Founder] Options Mark as New Bookmark Subscribe Subscribe to RSS Feed Especially on Linux you often forget that it also has a Firewall in place by default.Make sure you have the same OB2PORTRANGE set up on all involved Systems (CM, MA, DA) the client is in a DMZ zone and port 5555 is open to and from the DP is there any other port required for communication. [Critical] From: [email protected] "D:" Time: 10-May-11 would seem that it might have been a timeout issue that would then cause Data Protector to throw the agent error. 0 Kudos Reply Mandosa Regular Advisor Options Mark as New run a daily backup with error below. As was previously mentioned, port 5555 is used for the systems involved (Cell Manager, Disk Agent, Media Agent) to establish communication, but, after that Data Protector used Dynamic Port Allocation to The others drives backup without issue.Also, i tried creating a new test job to backup this disk, and it worked fine. Working... once again, the other three disks on this system backup just fine. 0 Kudos Reply Mandosa Regular Advisor Options Mark as New Bookmark Subscribe Subscribe to RSS Feed Highlight Print Email Showing results for Search instead for Do you mean Menu Categories Solutions IT Transformation Internet of Things Topics Big Data Cloud Security Infrastructure Strategy and Technology Products Cloud Integrated Systems Networking December 2014 at 20:28 Hi Bernd, it does not matter which browser you use. The support experience has remained the same. Error reappeared for another line in the media.txt file. 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They were born within a day of each other and despite living an hour apart, they are close thanks to face-time and frequent visits. It helps also that Helen’s mom, Josie, and I were raised in an extended family so we grew up as sisters. Ironically, Josie and I are completely different. I am a social butterfly; she likes to keep her circle small, mostly just family. I love being in the kitchen cooking, she loves to clean…as in vacuuming HER ENTIRE HOUSE multiple times daily! I love to entertain, she loathes it! She has cancer, I do not. And therein lies the biggest difference between us. I knew Josie’s treatments would prevent her from planning anything for Helen so I offered to take care of the birthday celebration months ago. Not only was she relieved to have it off her plate, she seems to have used the birthday as her milestone. Josie scheduled her chemo treatments and surgeries hoping that the recovery time would allow her to attend Helen’s birthday party. 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When Asha asked what she wanted, she said “a rainbow cake with raindrops and clouds and both chocolate and vanilla flavors.” I heard the conversation and wondered how the Minions would merge with the rainbows but Asha responded, “That’s exactly what I wanted too!” Voila, cake plans made and I was so touched and proud of Asha at that moment. We were all a bit anxious with Josie insisting she would be well enough to join the party. After her HIPEC surgery she was in the hospital for a couple of weeks, home for a few days and then back to the hospital. I really did not think she would be healthy enough to travel an hour to my home from Richmond to come to the birthday party. But sure enough, she made it. It was thrilling to see her out of a hospital gown and in regular clothes. We agreed not to talk about her weight loss and to keep the talk happy and light and focused on the girls. It was a better than expected day. We limited our gathering to just family and a couple of friends, small enough to keep worries of a compromised immune system at bay. It was a really good birthday and a memorable day. Josie was determined to be there and she was there. She worries now about the cancer coming back but we’re going to put that thought away and try to enjoy the day to day of life with these girls. Screw cancer, we have lives to lead and children to raise! Josie and I with the girls as infants The girls in matching sweaters knitted by Helen's very talented grandmother Last summer Josie was diagnosed with Appendiceal cancer. Three chemotherapy treatments and two major surgeries later, her body is minus an appendix, gall bladder, uterus, ovaries, ovarian cysts, part of her diaphragm, omentum, stomach lining and spleen. After her first surgery, which was basically a hysterectomy and appendix removal, she told me that there was a silver lining; she went in at 125 pounds and came out 114 pounds. We laughed then, not knowing that the weight loss would become an increasing concern over time. It’s a horrible and daily struggle, this disease. But she continues to impress me with her courage and determination and today, in this moment, she is cancer-free! We’ve all been “stuck” home now for 3 days. I have to confess, I like it. We stocked up on all the food items we need before the storm hit. I have a large cake I can prep for which is fun in the early mornings. I really need to get my house organized and my husband is much better spatially so he can help because he's here. I love knowing my kids are close by and I have several projects we can work on together. Quality time with our family of four...priceless! For me anyway...my husband has been worried about power, the fish in our pond (which is no longer even visible) and how we’ll plow the driveway. As I sit here Monday morning after 3 days home, here is what I’ve accomplished: I started organizing in the basement, making piles…for my niece, for the cleaning lady who is pregnant, for my new friend who wants toys for her little boy, to keep for kids who come over to play, those I want to keep for my kids, to sell, Goodwill…so many piles. My husband has a different system, put everything in a trash bag and take it to Goodwill. I hate that system knowing that so many people I know can benefit from the toys, so many of which were passed down to me. When Asha told me her classmate Illy shops at “Goodwills” I wondered how to just give Illy some toys…another pile maybe? I got tired after an hour and moved upstairs to organize the pantry. In the midst of those two areas, I searched on Pinterest for the best way to organize Legos and wine bottles…two areas, which are taking up too much space in their respective areas. Currently my entire pantry is sitting on the counter top waiting to be reorganized. Playing in the snow became the priority yesterday and it was a rare opportunity to get out and really try to build a snowman. Asha and I got to the middle of the snowman and then she wanted to come in for hot chocolate. I needed no convincing! The “satellite” part of my cake is drying along with some decorations Asha made for her birthday cake later in the month. The fact that I stocked up on Valentine’s cards last year is a plus, because I’m frugal and everything is so inexpensive after the holiday that you can buy a bunch of designs and give away what they don’t use. As I suspected, Rohan picked the dragon cards and Asha picked the cupcakes. Perfect…done! My husband…and kids always request some baked good or the other when we are home together for an extended period. I made him a chocolate cake with butter cream, I made Rohan apple turnovers with the apple pie filling I froze when my friend Eva went to an orchard in the fall and gave us a huge bucket of apples. It’s my last bag is the freezer and I’m happy to see it go! We baked fresh chocolate chip cookies to share with the kids sledding up and down the street. But my foodie husband and I took it further: spaghetti squash with onion and mushrooms made with a touch of balsamic, cauliflower soup with a recipe I love from Cook’s Illustrated Magazine, warm macaroni and cheese with béchamel sauce (with tomatoes for us and without for the kids), fresh baked pizzas with dough my mom made right before the storm, frittatas, rice with home-made yoghurt and dal (a traditional Indian soup). Oh it was such fun to experiment in the kitchen on Saturday as the snow fell. My husband and I remembered the five years we were married before the kids were born when we would try cooking all kinds of different foods. He said he had forgotten how much he enjoyed cooking. I do have to confess…I kind of dislike making cakes “for fun” anymore. I’d rather make something else…savory dishes, custards, soufflés, cookies, macaroons, brownies, pies…anything really. But I relished watching my family eat the warm chocolate cake out of the oven, barely patient enough to wait for the icing to be made. However, there were plenty of moments I chose not to share on Facebook. The kids arguing incessantly. Whose turn is it on the iPad? Who gets to pick a TV show? I almost lost it when I realized how little they would “choose” to play with their toys given the option with screens. I threatened to get rid of all the toys in the house; they responded by carefully making piles to give away and keep. Asha was so upset about me yelling, she wrote me notes to let me know… They wanted constant interaction and attention…Asha with the book she was writing, a pretty impressive feat for a 5-year old so I was happy to help with that….even if she did need help spelling every single word for a story she came up with on her own. She wanted to ‘bind’ the book in blue covers. Rohan spent time reading his Pokémon book as though he was studying for a test and playing with his light sabers, trying to engage all of us in battles. He also watched the Star Wars movies with his dad while Asha and I worked on crafts. After watching ‘Return of the Jedi,’ he’ll be going to see ‘The Force Awakens’ with Ashoka. I looked at the two books I had kept for the blizzard, longing to start at least one...but that is not going to happen anytime soon…The Orphan Train and The Book Thief will have to wait until the kids are back in school. When we could finally leave the house on Sunday, we spent time down the street at our ‘bus stop’ where there is a house is on a huge hill. The couple that recently moved are wonderfully generous when it comes to having kids around. There were so many kids sledding, snowboarding and tubing down the hill. The fire pit came out later in the day as did the wine and beer. Neighbors were out in full force, glad to breathe the fresh air and socialize after being cooped up for a couple of days. We had a neighbor snow blow our entire driveway,and myparents had someone do the same. How fortunate to live in such kind-spirited neighborhood. My mom has trouble staying home so I’m glad she has been forced to do it for a few days. When she calls daily, she talks about making samosas, parathas and organizing her house. We are far more alike then I care to admit. She face-timed us so they could talk with the kids, they want to hear about their reaction to the snow. I would think they would be glad to have a break from the kids (and us) but not so. Oh the adoration of grandparents! When the kids were in bed, we binge-watched Narcos, a show my husband just found out about, chronicling the life of Pablo Escobar. It's not for the faint of heart but a real life soap opera which rings true to home since we have many friends who are affiliated with the DEA. I more enjoyed other favorite shows: Homeland, The Good Wife and Blacklist. But to give my hubby company, I can watch almost anything with my computer on my lap (thank you Facebook and Pinterest)! I love snow days…to which my husband added, They're fun once a winter but that’s enough. I disagree…I can’t wait for the next one! People ask me all the time, when do you have time to bake? Well I don't have time so I make time at the cost of too many other things, mostly taking care of myself (i.e. going to the gym!). I start my day around 5 am mostly because I enjoy the solitude and quiet of the morning. I begin by checking emails until my coffee kicks in and then I begin decorating cookies and cakes. I love that time, when I can completely focus in the mornings. If I have huge orders, I'm often up at 4 am but 5 am is my natural time to awake. It's not ideal, especially when I should probably work out, organize my week, pay more attention to appointments that are listed on my huge whiteboard calendar but I tend to get lost, especially during busy weeks. Last week was not one I considered busy and I missed a well check appointment for my son; SO unacceptable and not typical but it did happen! Apparently the doctor's office left a message, when I checked the voice mail, I heard it at the end of the 18 messages I played back. I used to pride myself on my organization skills but now I feel like an absent-minded artist, constantly thinking of my next cookie design and cake creation. I've tried explaining it to my husband. He wanted me to cut back until our daughter started kindergarten, now he thinks I should just take a 6-month hiatus. He is also my biggest cheerleader. He boasts about "his wife" making the cakes when he overhears compliments, he shows pictures of cakes and cookies to strangers which is so embarrassing. It reminds me of people who share baby picture upon baby picture, the first couple are nice but after that, they are all the same! I certainly don't accept every order I get. I prefer not to do sheet cakes. I mean come on, Costco makes an awesome sheet cake, I really can't beat it. The appeal for me is in the artistry and creativity so I try to limit my orders to those involving something you can't really get at a store. I really love it and if I just figure out how to manage my time better, life will be perfect. It's not that hard to experience an entire day going by and realizing I am still in my yoga pants which was necessary for the workout I never had. I start the day with such good intention, quiet and creative early, then complete focus on the kids from 7 until the bus arrives and then cleaning up the morning mess, making beds, throwing in laundry, paying bills, sketching cake and cookie quotes, uploading my latest creations and waiting until it's just a little bit sunnier to go on a walk. By the time I take a break, it's almost noon and I have just enough time to shower before lunch and volunteering. I volunteer a day for each child, I go to all the parties and field trips at school and that pretty much determines my activities for a couple of days of the week. Plus, I have parents who live close by, several extended family members in the vicinity and those obligations take up some of my time as well. On one day of the week, I find myself making a Costco/Wegman's run; everyone has to dedicate time for that right? By 3 pm each day, I finish whatever I’m doing so I can pick up Asha. A half hour later, whilst she’s still snacking, I walk to get Rohan off the bus unless my husband is working from home, he loves bus duty (and I love that he loves it J). If I work when Asha is home, she sits next to me with her own decorating tools. The days fly by and there never seems to be enough time for anything. But it does make you feel like a bit of a loser especially when I recall my niece, Neema, who used to babysit a set of twins when she was a college student in Washington, DC. She told me how she would show up and the mom immediately wanted her to take the kids out, to the zoo or somewhere, anywhere so she could work at home. Neema enjoyed the babysitting but she found it mortifying and slovenly that the mom would always be in her workout clothes hours later. According to my lovely college-going niece, "the least she could do is take a shower and get herself together." Well of course, but it's quite possible that she did take a shower and then put on the workout clothes...probably not, but it is possible. And then Neema probably doesn't know that the day literally flies by...especially when you are trying to find time to bake! Each year my friends Danny and Scott host a Christmas party with a different theme. For a couple of years, the theme was Cookies and Champagne. When I asked Scott, of the 30 or so varieties of cookies he made, which seemed to be most popular, the most obvious was at the top of the list, chocolate chip cookies! I use a few different recipes when I make chocolate chip cookies. My husband likes them with sea salt, my daughter likes them gooey and fat and my son likes them warm…never mind the recipe, they have to be warm. This recipe fits most needs and it’s easy to recreate in your kitchen. It’s posted from the All Recipes website and it’s wonderful! I’d love to hear how your family enjoys it. I hope you find time to bake this holiday season! Here we are, almost three months into kindergarten and I was waiting to write a post because it was going to have to entail much progress from the first week of school. Well…I have to admit, progress has been slower than I hoped. I’m not sure why? My daughter was so easy in preschool and we’ve always thought of her as a little more social then her brother (wrong!). But he had a hard time in kindergarten and she is having the same experience. The main complaint appears to be the long days. At a recent gathering of friends from various states, I discovered that amongst us, Virginia is the only state mandating full-day kindergarten. Some other states have a half-day with an option to pay additional fees for full day school. I wish that was the case for us. Asha is happy once she is at school but getting there has been a continuous struggle. The bus is my son’s favorite way to get to school but she refuses to get on it at all. So…we walk Rohan to the bus stop after which we go home and leave to take Asha to school. I know…you think I should just throw her on the bus crying…well judge all you want…but I didn’t Feberize and I’m doing this either. It’s not all bad; there has been some progress. We don’t have to walk her into school, she’ll get out in car line. We still walk in to pick her up. And, she appears to be doing very well in school. She gets on ‘purple’ daily and she is the helper in the mornings who organizes the folders. She has told me that she and her friend Willow are the only two students who consistently behave, follow all the rules and consequently “get on purple.” After five purples, you get to pick a prize. In true Asha fashion, her first few prizes were picked out specifically for her brother. She was more excited to give them to him then she was to get something for herself. But several prizes later, she is getting herself little presents as well. Asha still says her favorite part of the day is when she sees me at pick up. She insists that she doesn’t play with anyone at recess. She does not want me to pack lunch because the cafeteria is too loud and the lunch ladies are mean so it’s not conducive to eating. This makes me sad because my food-loving daughter ate pasta, cheese sandwiches and even rice on occasion at preschool on the few days she stayed for lunch. She used to bring herself a little bottle of ketchup to flavor her sandwiches. As I re-read this, I recall that she stopped going to preschool optional lunch bunch midway through the year. Her attendance was sporadic and realizing it was her last year at home, I was more lax then I was with my son. I got some new ketchup bottles and of course now, she wants none of it. Now she’ll have a yogurt drink and bring everything else home because “it’s not fun” to eat at school. That makes me sad. It also makes me sad when she tells me that she plays by herself at recess. My niece Sophia, who is the same age as Asha and goes to kindergarten in Richmond, says the same thing about playing by herself at recess and not having a friend with whom to play. They are both social girls so I don’t understand where this comes from unless it’s overwhelming to see so many kids out playing at once. Or perhaps it's the noise level. My daughter used to frequently fall asleep in the summer after a busy day. She no longer naps but she gets cranky and tired and I think the adjustment to school is a priority so we’ve canceled all extracurricular activities. She wants to be home as much as possible, insisting that on her birthday, unlike her brother, she’s going to choose to stay home and not go anywhere. She seems even more anxious to be with her dad or me at all times. I accompanied her class to a farm for a recent fall field trip. Several kids asked her to sit with them but she just wanted to sit and hang out with me. I’m not going to lie, I love being around her all the time too but I worry that she needs to be more independent…even just a little! She was upset about a recent birthday party for kids because she wanted one of us to be there. I didn’t even want to feign how excited we were for the two hours both of them would be at the party. I can get used to the no-parent party invites…it seems that with kindergarten, a whole new set of rules is emerging. I’m adjusting, but my five-year old…well it’s a work in progress! P.S. The second field trip to a play, Click Clack Moo was too full for parents but it was only half a day. She had a great time and her first words to me were, "Mom, there were three bad words in the play: flip, what the quack and stupid." How did she know those were bad words, because other kids told her! She repeated that to her dad and her brother...perhaps the excitement of learning three bad words kept her distracted, I'm not sure but nonetheless, a solo field trip was a good step towards independence! OMG…my son scored his first goal at the first game I did not attend on Halloween morning. I hope the person whose Harry Potter wedding cake I was working on appreciates the sacrifice that they’ll never know I made! I wanted to finish the cake so I could take the kids trick or treating in the evening, so I decided to forego the game. Mom guilt never ends does it? Fortunately, my friend Natalie captured every moment and I was elated, on cloud nine. His dad and sister saw the ball slide into the goal and Rohan’s face registered complete disbelief. Afterwards, he called all the interested people in his life to tell them the good news, after which he down played it and said it was only exciting when it happened. Nonetheless it was just the boost he needed to get back into the game about which he wasn’t so excited as a newbie. In general soccer was an adjustment to our already busy life. The week started looking like too much for the calendar especially since my kids turn into pumpkins and are fed, bathed and in bed by 8 pm. Thus, coming off the bus was one big rush and I started picking him up at school. By the second practice, Asha was too tired from school to go to practice. She literally stood in the middle of the soccer field and refused to move…anywhere, including off the field. At her first game, she whined and cried and refused to play. Kindergarten was proving to be a big enough adjustment and I really didn’t have the energy to expend to “force” her to like soccer, which ironically she did but the timing seems off. So I withdrew her and she continued to go to Rohan’s games with me. As long as she had a snack and a parent, she was good to go. Rohan was a trooper, he is the least experienced on his team but he enjoys the game, the camaraderie and the practice. The games have given him a completely different outlook on sport. When he was “too tired” to go to a game on a Monday night, we talked about how he had to be there for the team. He went and he ended up having a great time talking about their win. Weekday games seem toughest for him with school. When he was again hesitant to go on a dreary weekday evening, he perked up seeing his friend William at the door offering a ride. For my ordinarily solitary son, I’m thrilled at the social interactions the game has bestowed upon him. He still prefers Tae Kwon Do and I suspect that will be something he continues for years, but soccer…well it’s been good on so many fronts! Being a soccer mom has been an education for me as well. I really look forward to the time I spend with friends on the field. It’s relaxing to sit outside, cheer on the kids and catch up with the other moms on what’s happening in their lives. Elaine, Natalie, Mimi, Betsi…all present in the name of sport…not so bad! When Ashoka is in town, he joins us. The first time I saw him, he was sitting on a chair, which I had no idea we owned. Apparently blanket sitting is not his thing! He also learned what I’ve told him for years…you don’t peel apples, the peel contains the best part, not to mention the nutrition. When he took time peeling apples to cut and serve as a snack at a game, the boys were baffled by why anyone would peel the apple. It was both hilarious and vindicating to see his confusion at why they didn’t appreciate his efforts and their confusion at why in the world would you bother to peel apples? Autumn is a beautiful especially here in Virginia. When the air started getting crisp, Elaine bought a thermos of hot chocolate for the team. Rohan is still talking about how nice that was…it’s all wholesome fun. Well except at the game last week when the kids from the other team were purposely kicking the ball out and they kept tripping our kids. Some of those soccer dads were a sight to behold. They were rabid in their coaching…both off and on the field. It’s an “under 8” team for goodness sake! It was entertaining until they scoffed at kids from my team. The natural urge to protect, another quality I learned about being a soccer mom. My son does not want to play again unless he has the same team and especially the same coach. Being a soccer mom was such an education this time around, imagine how wonderful it will be going in experienced next time! Oh well…one can hope! P. S. I have to add that I wrote this post before he had scored his first goal and since I wrote it my son scored his second goal. He has become more confident on the field and he was over the moon to get a trophy, his first ever. He asked me to make cookies for his team, which despite one of my busiest baking weekends, I did…with pleasure! It has been such a joy to watch his entire attitude towards the game change and progress in just a few weeks. Unlike his thoughts from a few weeks ago, he has now decided that he most definitely wants to sign up for spring soccer! Moms of the world...we're in the kitchen all the time so why not make it fun...RIGHT?! After working in the field of higher education for over a decade, I decided to stay home. Being here is wonderful (sometimes!). BUT, I love the invaluable (read crazy but good) moments with my children. One thing I miss about work is having a creative outlet. Decorating cakes and cookies gives me that focus for my creativity. It's therapeutic to work on cakes, cookies and the like. As you will understand, with two young children, lots of therapy is necessary! Hence I've been baking more and more....and in my blog I'll be sharing my culinary adventures with you with a side serving of raising my two kids! For pictures and information about my confections, please visit my site at www.ameetabakes.com It is time for John Boehner to pull out his pen, gather a group of attorneys and file another lawsuit against Obama for violation of the law. As has been reported, Obama violated the law when he failed to notify Congress of the exchange of 5 Taliban prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay for one army deserter, Bowe Bergdahl. Not surprisingly, the GAO found that the Anti-Deficiency Act was also violated when $988,000 was spent on the exchange using funds that were "beyond those available through appropriations." Boehner's suit against Obama involves the latter's overreach in usurping power through executive order. As has been stated by Boehner in the past, "I disagree with impeachment." Establishment Republicans have also indicated, "Impeachment is off the table." So, there is definitive proof through the GAO investigation that Obama has violated the law, despite what excuses he gave for doing so. Of course, Obama is good at violating the law; he has done it in the past to resounding silence from the legislative body. But, the legislative body is no longer silent, as Boehner and Republicans push on with their lawsuit to "make" the president adhere to the Constitution. Obama responds with "So, sue me" and "you're suing me for doing my job... really?" Unconcerned, Obama vacations in Martha's Vineyard stopping his golf game to comment on the beheading of an American journalist. Many individuals calling themselves conservatives, patriots and supporters of the Constitution have backed this unconstitutional lawsuit, instead of supporting and upholding the remedy of impeachment contained in the Constitution for an out of control executive. Excuses abound from these individuals and elected officials alike on why impeachment cannot be forthcoming. Everyone agrees Obama has violated the law and needs to be held accountable for all of his illegal, unconstitutional, criminal actions – no doubt about it. There is a parting of the ways when it comes to the "lawful" manner in which to deal with the criminal in chief. The Constitution provides for the remedy of impeachment; it does not provide for a "lawsuit." But, beginning today, August 23, 2014, groups and organizations across the country are banding together for what is being called, National Impeach Obama Week. According to their website, this will be a nine-day protest with scheduled events taking place in all 50 states and Washington, DC. Many events are being held at state capitols and major city town halls; however, the site recommends not driving long distances to protest, instead protesting where you are. The groups suggest writing your elected representatives to demand impeachment, conviction and removal from office. Participating groups and supporters include Impeach Obama Now Coalition, Stand for Liberty, One Nation Under Fraud, Texas Patriots Unite, and Tea Party Patriots of Brookhaven. These groups represent varying political views, but they all agree that Obama "must be exposed and removed from office, not that we necessarily agree on all issues or reasons to impeach." Regardless of their differing views on the reasons and issues to impeach Obama, these groups have set those aside to come together in a common goal – calling for the lawful remedy under the Constitution to deal with an out-of-control, criminal, lawless president. Of course, this group is not without criticism and the website provides further insight into their actions. For those who say we are hurting the Republican Party, we are not doing this for the purpose of supporting the Republican party. We are doing it to support the Constitution and the Law. If our supporting of the Constitution hurts the Republican Party, then so be it. These groups are not bickering about what is impeachable. They are declaring that Obama is a criminal and a traitor deserving removal from office for the following list of reasons -Governing by dictatorial fiat with lawless executive orders targeting Amnesty, Obamacare, gun regulation, etc.; -Blatantly lying to the American People about the Benghazi attack, Obamacare, etc. for political reasons; -Encouraging massive numbers of illegal aliens to enter the US for his own perverse political reasons; -Overall radical and subversive anti-American background, which is confirmed by his actions in office. Of course, there are many other violations that could be added, but these are the ones the varied groups agree warrant the impeachment of Obama. The site indicates this is a volunteer, non-partisan effort, citing that many supporters of the impeachment of Obama are also independents, leftists, Democrats and other non-conservative groups. The websites slogan states it all, "Because it's not just bad government, but subversion and treason." Individuals are welcome to organize their own protests in their local areas and post to the website, citing that no previous experience in organizing is required. Protest tips can be found here. The site even provides downloadable images that can be used while protesting. It can take time to build momentum leading to large protests in support of the Constitution and the remedy of impeachment. Recognizing this, the group intends to schedule another mass protest near the mid-term elections. Right now, the US federal government is operating as though there is very little of the Constitution remaining that governs this country. Continued support for unconstitutional remedies, regardless of party affiliation, is a detriment to maintaining the Supreme Law of the Land. Those who do support unconstitutional remedies are assisting the establishment and the left in undermining the Constitution and the rule of law. Varied groups, who do not agree on all issues or reasons for impeachment, have come together, placing aside their petty differences, to demand, in unison, support for the Constitution by the legislative body of these United States. The Constitutional remedy for an out-of-control executive is impeachment. There is no other. Even some Democrats and leftists are seeing this, so why are some "conservatives" having issues with it? Pseudo-conservatives and others who continue to support the unconstitutional lawsuit are not helping and, in fact, are assisting with the undermining of the Constitution and usurpation of the law by the federal government. Our Constitution has been trashed and used like toilet paper because Americans have allowed it, and continue to allow it, by supporting unconstitutional measures, laws and government based on whatever notion is being fed to them at the time. America, it is time to stop. In fact, it is past time to stop. Citizens of this country need to support the Constitution in its entirety. Show your support for the Constitution and its remedy. If you are unwilling to support the Supreme Law of the Land, the Constitution of the United States of America, then what are you willing to support, as it certainly is not the law? It was a wicked show tonight in ACK – Kuwait! Thanks ever so much for everyone who came. Stay tuned for more pictures to come! Add Rs. 1000 in your Amazon Gift card Balance only spending Rs. 950. Top-up of Amazon.in Gift Card Balance, get Rs. 50 off on Rs. 1000, 100 off on 2000, 150 off on 3000. Use code TOPUP5GC . Offer valid from 1st Sept 2016 till 30th Sept 2016. 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Tonya Leigh summarized the experience of wearing lingerie on her website, writing: "Investing in beautiful lingerie is about a lifelong love affair for yourself." That&apos;s the reason plenty of women buy lingerie in the first place. "Doing something like putting on lingerie is just a way for me to respect my body and treat it with love. Who says when you dress up it has to be for someone?" Laura, a 20-something living in the San Francisco area, told Mic. "I just like standing in front of the mirror and saying, &apos;Hey, I look good today.&apos; Lingerie helps me do that." Similarly, Lynn, who is in her 20s and living in the Los Angeles area, says she sees lingerie as a secret just for her. "It&apos;s like a superman suit underneath your normal clothes," Lynn told Mic. "I&apos;m the only one who knows the secret of how sexy I look, and I love it." That empowering feeling of self-love is rooted in science. Wearing clothes that make you feel beautiful has been shown to have real cognitive effects. A 2012 study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology found that clothing influences psychological processes, giving certain items the power to change how the wearer acted. Another study, from 2007, found that clothing affected an individual&apos;s self-perception, including how competent, trustworthy or creative they felt. While the studies focused on work attire, the power of "embodied cognition" rings true: What we wear impacts how we view ourselves, which means sexy lingerie has the potential to make a woman feel more attractive, turned-on and confident. Choosing lingerie for yourself lets you define what&apos;s sexy. Choosing lingerie for yourself means recognizing and embracing your own tastes, not a partner&apos;s. Chelsea Summers wrote for Adult Mag that while she does wear more classic lingerie pieces on dates with men, her favorite lingerie is totally different. Instead of the lacy pieces one typically imagines, she likes bright colors, neoprene fabric and patterns not typically thought to fit straight men&apos;s most basic tastes. "Each set is something I chose for me because it&apos;s badass and so am I. ... Underneath it all, these little bits of fabric and fancy, of boning and lace, sing paeans about a woman&apos;s relationship with herself," Summers said. Most importantly, choosing your own vision of sexiness means confidently abandoning the body standards that society equates with sex appeal. Feeling beautiful in lingerie isn&apos;t about having the body of a Victoria&apos;s Secret model; it&apos;s about making the body you have feel as beautiful as you want. That&apos;s why brands like Curvy Girl Lingerie, a plus-size intimates brand, exist. "All women are sexy and beautiful, and all women deserve to have clothes that give them that confidence," Curvy Girl Lingerie founder Chrystal Bougon wrote. Which is why lingerie is one of the best gifts women can give themselves — on Valentine&apos;s Day and the other 364 days a year. The DeLorean DMC-12, the car famously converted into a time machine in the Back to the Future franchise, is re-entering production after three and a half decades. Timing of the announcement is just about perfect: On Oct. 21, 2015, film geeks celebrated Back to the Future Day — the exact date to which Marty McFly traveled in the second installment. The Texas-based DeLorean Motor Company is restarting production of the sports car and has enough supplies to produce approximately 300 new DeLoreans at its facility, reports KPRC. The company hopes to begin producing new DeLoreans by early 2017 at a price of about $100,000. Restored models currently sell for $45,000 to 55,000. The Verge reported the new DeLoreans will pack between 300 and 400 horsepower, an upgrade from the original model&apos;s "rather pokey" 130 horsepower engine — which means you&apos;ll hit that 88 mph mark in no time. (Unless you&apos;re, ya know, chicken.) The new cars will likely be in hot demand thanks to the originals&apos; fame and rarity. Only 9,000 were ever produced. But when the car was made in the early 1980s, it was plagued with production problems, including poor build quality and acceleration. The DeLorean company closed shop in 1982 when its founder, John DeLorean, was charged with attempting to sell 220 pounds of cocaine as part of a plot to save the business. He was ultimately acquitted, but the damage to the company was already done. News of the DeLorean&apos;s revival comes hot on the heels of another announcement relevant to fans of Back to the Future&apos;s retro-tech aesthetics. In December, ARCA Space Corporation released videos purporting to show the world&apos;s first commercially available hoverboard (though, like the DeLorean, it looks expensive and impractical). An earlier version of this story said that Marty McFly traveled to Oct. 21, 2015, in the first installment of the Back to the Future film series. Marty made that trip in the second installment, Back to the Future II. Also, this story previously said that DeLorean Motor Company planned to sell new and refurbished DeLoreans by 2017. Refurbished models are currently on the market, and the company plans to begin selling new vehicles by 2017. Back in January, CVS Pharmacy announced that it would be creating new standards to highlight the unaltered in-store, campaign, social media and website imagery it produces, joining companies like Aerie, Lonely and ModCloth that have also promised to leave models’ freckles, scars, stretch marks and wrinkles on proud display. “As a woman, mother and president of a retail business whose customers predominantly are women, I realize we have a responsibility to think about the messages we send to the customers we reach each day,” Helena Foulkes, the former president of CVS Pharmacy, said in a press release at the time. Today we got to see what that really looks like. In a campaign called “Beauty in Real Life,” each image features the company’s so-called “CVS Beauty Mark” that reads “Beauty Unaltered” to announce to the world that the image hasn’t been materially augmented in any way, meaning that CVS has not altered or changed the model’s shape, size, proportion, skin or eye color, or enhanced or altered lines, wrinkles or other individual characteristics. “We want beauty imagery to be something our customers can relate to — something that makes them feel better about themselves and never not good enough,” Norman de Greve, the senior vice president and chief marketing officer of CVS Health, said in an email. “As a result, we’ve been continuously working with beauty industry experts, brand partners and customers to better define our standards for what ‘materially altered’ means and these are the first images we’ve produced to reflect our commitment to transparency in beauty.” Recently, unedited images have been proven to benefit certain companies, including Aerie, which saw a huge uptick in sales after announcing that it would halt the editing of any of its models. “There’s been a shift in what consumers want to see when it comes to beauty — especially amongst Gen Z and Millennials,” de Greve said. “We wanted to introduce a campaign that uses beauty to make women feel good about themselves by empowering them to feel comfortable and confident in their own skin. Beauty should be fun — it’s not about conforming, it’s about real life, and that’s the message we wanted to share through this campaign.”

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To start this off, Nata’s Café was a great place. Great brownies, free Wi-Fi to study with, good coffee & tea, and overall a very nice place to gather for the residents of Peterborough as well as Trent and Fleming academics alike. I would describe it as comfortable, cozy, and most times warm with the aromas of baked goods and freshly brewed coffee. I was personally devastated when the store closed suddenly. A fire ravaged a section of buildings in the Peterborough downtown in November of last year, resulting in the closure of Nata’s for some time. However the opening of Cork & Bean has arrived, the new and hopefully improved face of Nata’s. Cork & Bean is an interesting visual mix of industrial metalwork, white and black contrast, and the comforting wood patterns from the last location. The floor is paneled with distressed metal, the only lighting is that of sparsely hung lightbulbs of all shapes and sizes, the tabletops and accents of the space are made completely of reclaimed barn boards; it essentially screams dimly-lit minimalism. The interesting thing about this location compared to the previous one is that there are upper and lower level spaces that are connected by stairways to the entrance level. The new space admittedly boasts more seating than the last location (though there is no outdoor seating like before) and is much more spread out from the front of the store to the back. To the untrained eye, this space is wonderfully decorated and laid out. My eyes are just that: untrained. I needed an opinion from somebody who would give a better view on just how good the new space is for all that wish to enter and enjoy the premises. I looked upon a local voice of accessibility advocacy and two-time cancer survivor, Tessa Smith. She is currently an ambassador for the Terry Fox Foundation as well as SickKids, and regularly voices her opinions in the Peterborough Examiner. Tessa, with her expertise of accessible spaces, and I with my nosy nature and journalistic aspirations, we embarked on our journey of pointing out a plethora of problems with Cork & Bean. Let us begin with the entrance itself. The door is large enough for able-bodied people to get through, but it is not very welcoming for wheelchair users, mobility aid users, parents and baby strollers, or amputees. The door has no accessibility button. Simply entering the store is already difficult for many people with the simple exclusion of door motorization. This leads us to the second problem with the space: the seating. Yes, I must agree, there is technically enough space for a wheelchair or stroller to maneuver around the space (though with some difficulty). However, the entrance level is as far as some people would be able to go. Out of six two-person tables, only one table had standard-height chairs. The rest of the tables on the entrance-level are bar stool-type chairs with backrests. Those with mobility impairments, issues with balance, or even chronic joint pain would have problems situating themselves on these chairs. The third problem with the new café’s space is that it is separated into three different parts, connected by dark-coloured steps with lack of traction. The upper and lower seating areas are only accessible by those who can manage to ascend and descend stairs with next to no traction as well as no visual cues that one step ends and another begins. Steps leading to both the lower and upper levels are made of reclaimed barn boards. During winter or on rainy days, the steps may be slippery and even more dangerous for those that have issues with vision or are spatially challenged in new situations. There is an effective solution to this small problem: it is visibility and traction tape on the edges of steps. This simple investment could make the space easier for a lot of people. The stairs themselves are a barrier to those with mobility issues. While there is a door at the back, the back alley is not accessible to all people (the ground is gravel and not well-kept) and is not technically an actual entrance for the store. The stairs are not only a barrier to another seating area as they isolate one of the most important aspects of any establishment: the restrooms. Found on the lowest level, they require descending a set of steps that are not ideal in their design as we’ve already mentioned. There are three restrooms separate from each other and though they are small in nature and not welcoming to those with mobility aids, they are not gendered. They are welcoming to those that are part of the LGBTQ+ community, but they are not welcoming to those who can’t get to them. Tessa and I also discussed the lighting, mentioning that there were quite a few spaces that were not well-lit enough (especially the stairs), and how we doubted the space would be maneuverable later in the night, especially when it gets darker earlier during these winter months. There was also a concern that some people may find the unfiltered light somewhat harsh or annoying, as the lightbulbs of the store have no lampshades or diffusers of any sort. We also noted that there was no visual indication of when the ramp leading into the café ends, and the entrance-level of the store begins, making it even harder for those that are spatially challenged. The drink menu board of Cork & Bean is much different than that of Nata’s Café, as it is written in white chalk on the chalkboard wall behind the cash. The previous menu had been partially permanently printed on boards behind the cash. The menus for sandwiches and other food items is found on tables, laminated sheets containing line after line of extremely small and thin lettering on a black background. I have 20/20 vision myself, and even I had trouble reading this menu. Although Tessa and I found a lot of examples of inaccessibility with the newly-renovated space of Cork & Bean, most of the problems are small issues that can somewhat be easily resolved. I look forward to seeing some beneficial changes to the store, in order to welcome more people into the space. With changes such as these, the new face of Nata’s can thrive in Peterborough’s bustling downtown.

Looking to sell your car in Elkton Florida 32033 but don’t know what your best options are? Are you tired of trying to sell your car using traditional methods with little or no results at all? The hardest part about selling your automobile is that if you try to do it on your own you have to hassle with trying to advertise the car, take calls from buyers, and have people test drive the automobile. When selling your automobile in Elkton Florida 32033 , there are a few different options you should be aware of as listed above so you can get the most money for your car. John Kessel’s The Moon and the Other is very much a work of social science fiction, with all the pros and cons that go with that label. At times it is reminiscent of Heinlein, with characters having influential roles in Lunar politics, giving speeches, and lecturing one another on political ideology. However, Kessel does not share much of Heinlein’s ideology and spends much more time developing his characters. The final product is a story with depth and a contemporary topic: gender inequality. The novel centers around the Society of the Cousins, a matriarchal society that limits men’s rights. Their parental and voting rights are severely restricted or nonexistent. A growing reform movement within the Society desires to change these oppressive policies. Mira is a reformer and loner who uses video graffiti to express reformist views. Alongside her is Carey, a star athlete and heart throb that is held up as the ideal example of all that is male. He enjoys all the pleasures of celebrity while being a part-time subversive on the side. Then there is Erno, a former member of the matriarchal society, exiled and now living as an indigent. These three and a host of other characters play pivotal roles in the debate that has the Society in turmoil and neighboring Lunar cities contemplating intervention. Great care was taken in crafting the Society down to the minute details of their cultural norms as well as the construction of their domed habitat. The world-building is very broad, including both hard technologies and softer sciences like sociology, anthropology, and political science. The setting is both impressive and persuasive in its design, exceeding many other novels in the breadth of knowledge needed to build it. While strong world-building is usually a virtue, it requires a lot of exposition. It is a lot for the reader to absorb and unfortunately makes the first 80-100 pages very difficult. There are dozens of named people, places, and things thrown at the reader. It added to the page count as well. The more I understood the world, the easier it became to read and the novel flowed much better, but it takes some time. The Society of Cousins is a reversal of the patriarchal western societies of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The political, religious, and cultural leadership are almost exclusively women. While unequal, the Society is not abusive towards its lesser sex, recognizing certain basic human rights as a minimum. Men are given plenty of freedom in their personal lives, and younger citizens are encouraged to explore their sexuality giving an outlet for their hormonal surges. This is done to mitigate the elements of masculinity that the Society sees as the cause of violence and social upheaval. Given minimal responsibility and a permissive attitude towards sex, the majority of men accept their inferior role. Some thrive, finding ways to make contributions to the Society. Some join the reform movement hoping to gain equal rights, in particular men’s suffrage. The other Lunar cities welcome reform, since most give full or greater rights to men in their own societies. They see the political activism surrounding the issue as a pretext to intervene in Society affairs. Naturally, the Society responds by limiting interaction and trade to avoid foreign meddling. It was a little surprising to see a plot that tends to support the respect of national sovereignty over human rights. It may be an indirect criticism of Bush’s interventionist foreign policy suggesting reform is more effective and virtuous when it comes from within. Unfortunately, the reform movement failed in their efforts to change the Society. At the same time, the conservative faction within the society is not depicted as villainous. There is almost an inherent credibility given to their position, despite the blatant injustice of their ways. It is suggested that the other Lunar cities are gender equal as a legal matter although perhaps not culturally. It is only the Society of Cousins that has explicit gender inequality as a matter of law and culture. As such, there is no comparison. The Society resembles a utopia in some chapters but is a dystopia. Despite the obvious political differences, there were notable similarities between the Society and its Lunar neighbors like Persepolis. One simply chose one set of genitals over the other. There are hierarchies built on socioeconomic status in both, and notable income inequality. In addition, sexual promiscuity is common in both. Amestris, a citizen of Persepolis, has one meaningless sexual encounter after another and maintains her youthful beauty and health through enhancements. Her sex life and the sex lives of the other characters, like Mira and Carey, is carefully described and laid before the readers. It is as if the whole moon has adopted a hookup culture then tried to place some nominal values to try and give some structure. Although the political controversy is at the center, the novel spends a great deal of time on the personal lives of each character. Mira is an anonymous activist known as Looker, a sort of Banksy of the Moon. She likes expressing herself but prefers being left out of the spotlight due to her introverted nature. Her mentor, Hypatia, encourages her to become more active and visible but she resists. Her relationship with Carey is casual, with both rejecting the idea it could be something more. She likes being alone and he can have any woman he wants. His life changes when he realizes he wants more, not from Mira but from the Society. He wants custody of his son Val. In the Society, children are always raised by mothers, aunts, etc. with the father possessing limited parental rights. The other key relationship in the novel is not casual but is equally unromantic. Erno is poor and directionless in the beginning but Amestris sees something in him, a chance to piss off Daddy. She proposes they marry and start a business using his skills as a bioengineer and her extensive list of contacts in Persepolis. She has her specialist, he doesn’t have to live on the street. It is a marriage built on mutual interest not love, similar to Mira and Carey, they slowly realize they have genuine romantic feelings for one another. With such casual attitudes towards sex, the characters seem to struggle recognize love. When they come to realize their feelings, they are reluctant to share them in fear of freaking out their partner. This premise has shown up in romantic comedies such as No Strings Attached and Friends with Benefits. It is an interesting change from the previously popular “boy finds way to win over his dream girl” premise of older romantic comedies and coming-of-age movies. A number of personal conflicts and family drama are depicted, as well as am espionage subplot that has nothing to do with sex. These other plots gradually displace the discourse on gender, eventually usurping it outright. For a novel that has a social justice cause at its center to deviate so dramatically was jarring and took away from the final two acts. It felt as if some of the events early in the novel were of no consequence in the end. The characters of The Moon and the Other are crafted with the same care and detail as the world around them, something that isn’t that common in science fiction. Their struggles and insightful internal monologues were compelling, giving some very distinct and varying points of view. It is unfortunate that the personal dramas and gender inequality theme were sidelined in the end. Overall, there is a lot to like in this book and it was well-worth picking up. I would recommend it for those who love social science fiction and are prepared to soldier through some difficult parts. This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged colonization, coming-of-age, dystopian, gender discrimination, gender identity, inequality, Politics, utopian. Bookmark the permalink.

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Includes wildlife viewing, cruising, shore walks, optional kayaking at the outer islands. 4: Scenic al fresco picnic and beer tasting at Saturna Island. Cruising Boundary Pass, with possible wildlife viewing. Gulf Islands Brewery beer tasting tour. Dinner aboard with Salt Spring Island feast. Anchorage: Salt Spring Island. All beers sampled are superb micro-brews, and have included pale, Scottish and brown ales, wheat beers, lagers, porters, stouts, alt beer, kolsch, bock and a few goodies thrown in. Each beer is different in character as the local brewmasters put their stamp on them. This beer tasting tour is joined by BC’s brew historian and beer expert. A beer tasting tour with a twist. This combination beer tour, cultural history adventure and small ship cruise explores B.C.’s rich and colourful craft brewing scene — a hotbed of the renaissance in North American brewing. With a respected brewing historian as your guide, you’ll learn about the tasting, food pairing, brewing techniques of 50 top BC craft beers, as well as fascinating social history of the past 150 years in brewing here. Aboard the classic tugboat Swell, you’ll cruise the southern Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island region of British Columbia, Canada, going ashore frequently for tastings, nature walks and wildlife viewing. You’ll get a sense of how BC’s large-scale nature is reflected in the culture of the place and even in the region’s beer. Watercolour painting of the alderman and deputy in charge of Cheap Ward by Hugh Alley. Image courtesy of the Folger Digital Image Collection. NExt adioyning is Cheape Warde, and taketh name of the Market there kept, called Weſt Cheping, this warde alſo beginneth in the Eaſt, on the courſe of Walbrooke, in Buckles Bury, and runneth up on both the ſides to the great Conduit in Cheape. Alſo on the ſouth ſide of Buckles Berie, a lane turning up by S. Sithes Church, and by S. Pancrates church through Needlers lane, on the north ſide thereof, and then through a peece of Sopars lane, on both ſides uppe to Chepe, be all of Chepe ward. Then to begin again in the eaſt upon the ſaid courſe of Walbrook, is S. Mildreds church in the Poultrie, on the north ſide, and ouer againſt the ſaid church gate, on the ſouth to paſſe up al that hie ſtreet called the Poultrie, to the great conduit in Chepe, and then Chepe it ſelf, which beginneth by the eaſt end of the ſaide Conduit, and ſtretcheth up to the north eaſt corner of Bowlane, on the ſouth ſide, and to the Standard on the north ſide, and thus far to the weſt is of Cheape ward. On the ſouth ſide of this high ſtreet is no lane turning ſouth out of this ward, more the ſome ſmall portion of Sopars lane, whereof I haue before written. But on the north ſide of this high ſtreete is Conyhope lane, about one quarter of Olde Iury lane on the weſt ſide, and on the Eaſt ſide, almoſt as much to the ſigne of the Angell. Then is Ironmongers lane, all wholy on both ſides, and from the North end thereof through Catton ſtreete. Weſt to the North ende of S. Lawrence lane, & ſome 4. houſes weſt beyond the ſame on that ſide, and ouer againſt Ironmongers lane end on the North ſide of Catton ſtreete up by the Guildhal, and S. Lawrence church in the Iurie is altogether of Chepe ward. Then againe in Chepe more toward the weſt is of S. Laurence lane before named, which is all wholie of this warde and laſt of all is Hony lane, and uppe to the ſtandarde on that North ſide of Chepe, and ſo ſtand the bounds of Chepe ward. Soper Lane was located in the Cordwainers Street Ward just west of Walbrook and south of Cheapside. Soper Lane was home to many of the soap makers and shoemakers of the city (Stow 1:251). 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Every couple weeks she will get a good size sliver of nail try to break off or split down toward her paw. None of them have been too severe, and none of them have slowed her down in the slightest. However, despite trimming them down fairly often in an attempt to prevent it, think just the sheer amount of speed they run and redirect with makes it easy for them to catch their nails on a piece of root or rock and break it. Thank you for the news of Molly. Sorry to hear you have some splintering going on with her nails. Good nail care is complex and sometimes hard to manage. Here are some general thoughts—not just for you. We hope something here helps. Nail and Skin are areas you might notice if something is lacking in the diet. We recommend a grain-free diet combined with the NuVet Supplement. There are products meant to protect the pads and nourish the nails. One of these is called Musher’s Secret. You might consider adding a teaspoon of coconut oil to the food once a day. It is excellent for the skin and nails. You could rub some into their paws as well. Make sure the nail clipper is high quality and sharp. A nail grinder is an option; however, there is a learning curve. A well-groomed nail is a must. You can take the Weimaraner to a groomer or your vet office to have a professional trim the nails. He loves to be right in the mix of things, no matter what’s going on. In the picture with him sitting next to his water bowl, he just finished his meal and is begging for more. He knows his meal times and even now will still stand by his empty bowl, just looking at you like, ‘you’re making dinner, it’s dinner time, where’s my dinner too?’ Lol! He absolutely loves the boys and they love him too! There was the usual dominance battle in the beginning but he has learned his place and now will play very well with them and (mostly) listen to what they say. Bentley has had excellent health, so a huge thank you for setting him up for wellness when he was a pup! 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She might round out a bit. If she stayed well toned, you might not see any change. Oh–congratulations on the job.

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Once you’ve decided to capitalize on some of the many benefits offered by accumulators for the hydraulic system you’re designing, the question becomes, should you go with a piston or a bladder design? Surprisingly, for the greatest percentage of applications, it doesn’t matter. However, a bladder is preferable in certain types of applications, whereas a piston type is preferable in others. Because of their cylindrical construction, piston type accumulators can be made in larger sizes than their bladder counterparts. Piston types can also handle higher flow rates and wider temperature extremes. Piston accumulators consist of a cylindrical body, sealed by a gas cap and charging valve at the gas end, and a hydraulic cap at the hydraulic end. A lightweight piston separates the gas side of the accumulator from the hydraulic side. This design offers high efficiency and flexibility in most applications due to a very wide range of sizes. Application advantages include: Bladder accumulators feature a non-pleated, flexible rubber bladder housed within a steel shell. The open end of the bladder is attached to the pre-charging valve at the gas end of the shell. A poppet valve prevents the bladder from extruding through the hydraulic port. Compression ratios differ among bladder and piston accumulators. In a bladder accumulator, the compression ratio can be no greater than 4:1. Yet for a piston accumulator it can be 10:1. The difference is that beyond a 4:1 ratio, the bladder will crush itself to the point of damage. Higher pressures simply moves the piston further along the along the accumulator’s bore, rather than pushing it against the inner surface of the accumulator shell. As such, a major reason to choose a piston over a bladder accumulator is when compression ratio will exceed 4:1. If compression ratio will not exceed 4:1, either type of accumulator should suffice. High flow rates — The majority of bladder accumulators have a capacity of 2½ to 15 gal, with a maximum flow rate of 220 gpm. Anything greater than that can potentially damage the bladder. Piston accumulators can accommodate flow rates at a comparable size to a bladder unit up to 818 gpm. The maximum velocity for accumulator’s piston is 120-in./sec. All piston flow rates are based on piston speeds of 120 in./sec. If a system requires a flow rate in excess of 220 gpm, the only option is a piston unit. Extreme low or high temperatures — Bladders are made of rubber and designed to work much like a balloon. The bladders are made of rubber compounds to meet different operational temperature requirements from –40° F to 250° F. Piston units, depending on the type of seal used, have an application temperature range of –45° F to 320° F. If an application requires a temperature below –40° F, or higher than 250° F, a piston unit is the only choice. Gradual failure — Bladder failures are sudden and allow the stored nitrogen gas to enter the system. When using a bladder accumulator, you must account for the potential of the gas precharge being expelled into the hydraulic system. The question to ask is, “Where will the gas go, and what consequences will result?” Piston accumulators, because of their small seal, fail gradually. Thus, even when the unit fails, the migration of gas from the gas side to the fluid side is slow. If a system cannot tolerate the potential of an immediate and rapid infusion of gas, then you must use a piston accumulator. Unlimited size — Piston accumulators capacities can range from 5 in.3 to more than 100 gal. However, bladder accumulator sizes were set by the industry many years ago. For example, no size exists between a 5- and 10-gal unit. Nor is there an option between a 2½- or a 5-gal unit. If your system only requires a 3-gal accumulator, industry standards require you to specify a 5-gal bladder accumulator. Piston accumulators, on the other hand, can be produced in any size. Large-bore piston accumulators are widely used in applications involving a tremendous amount of energy, and piston accumulators can be designed for working pressures in excess of 10,000 psi. Parker’s piston accumulator bores range from 1½ to 25 in. A position sensor can be incorporated into piston accumulators with bores 4 in. and larger to determine the location of the piston. Knowing the piston location within the operational cycle allows a programmable controller to determine if the precharge is correct. Loss of gas pressure will immediately produce a signal that the piston is not positioned where it should be. Sensors cannot be added to bladder accumulators. The only way to check precharge in a bladder unit is to physically make a gauge reading while there is no system pressure. Dithering — If a system exhibits a dither, bladder accumulators are the correct choice. Such conditions can cause a piston to cycle rapidly back and forth in a distance less than its seal width, which causes heat build-up and subsequent lack of lubrication, which may lead to seal wear and ultimate failure. Bladder type accumulators hold advantages over their piston type counterparts. Bladder types are lighter weight for a given size, and they are not affected by systems with dithering. Also, they do not exhibit the stick-slip operation inherent to piston types. Immediate failure — Some applications might be best served if you know that your accumulator has failed, but you don’t want a gradual piston failure or the cost of a sensor. In such instances, specify a bladder accumulator. You will know if it fails, and you can make a quick and easy bladder replacement. No piston breakaway — Piston accumulators share the same attribute as a cylinder: when sitting for an extended period of time, the piston will establish a set position. When this happens, it takes more pressure to move the piston than is behind it. For example, a piston accumulator may have a 1000-psi precharge, but to move a set piston may require 1010 psi. For high-pressure applications, such a small difference is not important. But, if you have a low-pressure application in the 130- to 150-psi range, a 10-psi breakaway is significant as a percentage of full pressure. If this is a concern for a low-pressure application, it’s best to specify a bladder accumulator. Maintenance, downtime, and contamination tolerance — If contamination, such as wear particles, get into a bladder accumulator, it is easy to clean. It’s also easy to install a new bladder, if necessary. However, if contamination gets into a piston accumulator and scores the bore deep enough, the accumulator is no longer serviceable. So a bladder accumulator could be specified for piece of mind and ease of repair. Lighter weight — By design, bladder accumulators are lighter than piston accumulators are. For example: a 15-gal piston accumulator rated at 3000 psi weighs about 500 lb. A bladder accumulator of equal rating weighs 300 lb. When machine weight is important, and all other specifications are met, use a bladder accumulator.

Shirk it up: Long lost S’pore film premieres at Sundance after 26 years, gets good reviews (UPDATE: And wins directing award) The film was called Shirkers and was shot in Singapore in 1992. It was written by Sandi Tan, who also acted in the lead role. What was originally conceived as a road movie is now a documentary about why the film was never released. The Guardian gave it five stars, calling it “a magical documentary about an unrealised film project that celebrates the power of youth and friendship”. “Shirkers” has the handmade delicacy of a scrapbook come to life, blending ample footage from the original production with candid modern-day interviews and photography. Equal parts travelogue and archival rescue mission, the ensuing drama becomes a microcosm of broader themes. The Hollywood Reporter called it “An alluring mystery spun from the joys and perils of collaboration” and said: The film is also a fascinating rebel's-eye view of an authoritarian culture. Under Singapore's single-party regime, the country was a safe but boring place for a teenager in the '80s. Chewing gum was banned and, as Tan's voiceover narration notes, with a lingering sense of insurgency, family and the state were "in your face." LA Times called it “a smart, idiosyncratic, one of a kind examination of the vicissitudes of cinema, and of life”. Before she moved to California, where she now lives, she was a movie reviewer for The Straits Times for a while. But back in 1994, when I was the editor of a magazine called Man Life & Style, I hired her to write an article for me. So to commemorate the film’s long overdue premiere, here is that 24-year-old article, which now serves as a prelude of sorts to the documentary: UPDATE: Sandi won the Directing Award for Shirkers in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance on 27 January 2018 Tan, who is out of breath and animated behind the podium: “I wish I had something to read but I guess I have to improvise. 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Burn! “At least 30 posts by these young social media users have popped up since December last year, asking viewers to visit the Budget website to learn more about the Budget, or to share their feedback with government feedback unit Reach on its website and at its physical ‘listening posts’ this month.” Ohhh, so it’s not to promote the Budget per se, but to get younger Singaporeans to participate in the Budget process. Now I understand. The reason I’ve never heard of them is probably the same reason MOF chose them — I’m not one of the younger Singaporeans MOF wants to reach. Was there a TV commercial? I don’t know. Millennials aren’t the only ones who stopped watching television on television, if you know what I mean. Ironically, it’s the debate over the effectiveness of MOF using influencers to promote the Budget that made an old fart like me aware that the Government wants feedback for the Budget. So whatever amount MOF paid the “influencers”, the ministry certainly got its money’s worth in terms of publicity. Singer Aisyah Aziz covered Symphony by Clean Bandit featuring Zara Larsson, but she was so pitchy that homeviewers probably wished someone covered her with a blanket instead. Even though the weather is wet and gloomy, university students are wearing slippers, shorts and T-shirts to class, much to the disapproval of at least one Straits Times forum letter writer. “We do not see our MPs and ministers wearing slippers, shorts and T-shirts in Parliament,” said the letter writer. Who knows? Perhaps Mediacorp edited the parliamentary videos with certain bits removed so that we do not see our MPs and ministers wearing slippers, shorts and T-shirts in Parliament. MP for Tampines GRC Baey Yam Keng could be wearing Crocs to Parliament House, but Channel NewsAsia’s video server did not render the video of his footwear properly. Still, let us usher in the new year with optimism and sunshine smiles despite an MRT breakdown between the Tanah Merah and Changi Airport stations on the first work day of the new year. We need to be in good spirits to tackle the pressing and longer term challenges for Singapore besides faulty trains and glitchy video servers. The current Queen of Caldecott Hill, Zoe Tay, will be celebrating her 50th birthday (or ZT50 for short) on Wednesday. Yes, the Mediacorp actress had a birthday party last week at Suntec City (to which I wasn’t invited), but her birthday is actually on Jan 10. Like SG50, ZT50 is not just a one-day affair. All that’s missing is a new Dick Lee song that everyone hates because it’s not as good as (and can never be as good as) Home. In five short years, Tay will be eligible to withdraw from CPF. Not that I think she is over the hill — even if that hill is Caldecott. Tay has been the Queen of Caldecott Hill for so long that there is no Caldecott Hill any more. Actually, Caldecott Hill is still there, but Mediacorp completed its move to Buona Vista last year. So technically, Tay is now the Queen of Buona Vista, which, admittedly, doesn’t quite have the same ring. Buona Vista is also home to many other organisations, such as the Ministry of Education and shipping company NOL, which may have their own queens with claims to the Buona Vista crown. But then the new Mediacorp chief executive officer, Ms Tham Loke Kheng, might have something to say about that. To avoid such complications (and icky sibling sex scenes), let’s just stick to Queen of Caldecott Hill for now. The bad news is that just as Deputy Prime Ministers Teo Chee Hean and Tharman Shanmugaratnam don’t seem to be in the running to be Singapore’s next prime minister, DQ Wong (who will be turning 47 later this month) appears unlikely to be the next Queen. Maybe someone younger, like bad driver Rui “Do you know who I am?” En or one-time NTUC Income shill Rebecca “I’m retiring, I’m not retiring” Lim? Remember when she acted as Mrs Lee Kuan Yew in The LKY Musical in 2015? That was after she played a supporting role to another politician in real life. At this rate, Au is likelier to be the next Prime Minister of Singapore than the next Queen of Caldecott Hill. Perhaps there can only be one Queen of Caldecott Hill. The title will probably die with Tay since it’s obsolete anyway. This is my wish for the new year — a Singapore in good hands, a Singapore where cover singers can hit the high notes in a Clean Bandit song.

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Ofatumumab is a novel Immunoglobulin 1ĸ ( IgG1ĸ) lytic monoclonal antibody (mAb) that specifically binds to the human Cluster of Differentiation 20 (CD20) antigen of which expression is restricted to B lymphocytes from the pre-B cell stage to the plasmacytoid immunoblast stage only. A recent trial with an anti-CD20 mAb (rituximab) demonstrated that targeting B-cells reduces the number of gadolinium-enhancing (GdE) T1 lesions and the relapse rate in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). Ofatumumab has been shown to be both well tolerated and efficacious in several indications, including a small, placebo-controlled trial in RRMS using an intravenous (IV) formulation. This double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study will investigate the safety and efficacy of a subcutaneous formulation of ofatumumab in the treatment of subjects with RRMS. The primary objective of the study is to investigate the efficacy as assessed by magnetic resonance imaging. Other objectives will include evaluation of tolerability/safety, dose-response relationship, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, exposure-response, as well as other clinical endpoints. The cumulative number of new GdE T1 lesion at Week 12 were analyzed from screening based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans at Weeks 4, 8, and 12. The outcome measure was analyzed using an Emax model adjusting for the presence/absence of GdE lesions on the Screening MRI and assuming the number of new lesions followed a negative binomial distribution. Dose was fitted as a continuous variable. The number of scans contributing to the cumulative number of lesions was fitted as an offset. Estimates of the rate of cumulative number of new GdE lesions per scan at Week 12 were determined from the model. The all evaluable scans (AES) dataset was used which included all evaluable on-treatment MRI scans for each participant analysed. The cumulative number of new GdE T1 lesion at Week 24 were analyzed from screen based on MRI brain scans at Weeks 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24. Anticipating an underlying negative binomial distribution with a log-link function, adjusted for treatment and presence/absence of GdE lesions on the Screening MRI. Treatment group was fitted as a categorical variable. The number of scans contributing to the cumulative number of lesions was fitted as an offset. Estimates of the rate of cumulative number of new GdE T1 lesions per scan at Week 24 were determined from the model. The AES dataset was used which included all evaluable on-treatment MRI scans for each participant analyzed. Change From Baseline in Brain Volume at Week 24 and Week 48 [ Time Frame: Baseline (Week 0), Week 24 and Week 48 ] Brain volume is a measure of brain size determined by a MRI scan. Baseline is defined as the par. last available assessment prior to initiation of the IP (i.e. Screening). Change from Baseline was calculated by subtracting the Baseline value from the post-Baseline value. The cumulative number of persistent GdE T1 lesions at Week 12 were analyzed from screen based on MRI scans at Weeks 4, 8, and 12. The AES dataset was used which included all evaluable on-treatment MRI scans for each par. analyzed. The cumulative number of all (new plus persistent) GdE T1 lesion at Week 12 were analyzed from screen based on MRI brain scans at Weeks 4, 8 and 12. Anticipating an underlying negative binomial distribution with a log-link function, adjusted for treatment and presence/absence of GdE lesions on the Screening MRI. Treatment group was fitted as a categorical variable. The number of scans contributing to the cumulative number of lesions was fitted as an offset. Estimates of the rate of cumulative number of all (new plus persistent) GdE T1 lesions per scan at Week 12 were determined from the model. The AES dataset was used which included all evaluable on-treatment MRI scans for each par. analyzed. Lesion volume is a measure of lesion size determined by a MRI brain scan. The cumulative volume of new GdE T1 lesions at Week 12 were analyzed from screen based on MRI brain scans at Weeks 4, 8 and 12. Anticipating an underlying negative binomial distribution with a log-link function, adjusted for treatment and presence/absence of GdE lesions on the Screening MRI. Treatment group was fitted as a categorical variable. The number of scans contributing to the cumulative volume of lesions was fitted as an offset. Estimates of the rate of cumulative volume of new GdE T1 lesions per scan at Week 12 were determined from the model. The AES dataset was used which included all evaluable on-treatment MRI scans for each par. analyzed. Total Volume of All (New and Persistent) GdE Brain Lesions on T1-weighted MRI at Week 12 [ Time Frame: Week 12 ] Lesion volume is a measure of lesion size determined by a MRI brain scan. The cumulative volume of all (new and persistent) GdE T1 lesions at Week 12 were analyzed from screen based on MRI brain scans at Weeks 4, 8 and 12. The endpoint was analyzed using a generalized linear model assuming an underlying negative binomial distribution with a log-link function, adjusted for treatment and presence/absence of GdE lesions on the Screening MRI. Treatment group was fitted as a categorical variable. The number of scans contributing to the cumulative volume of lesions was fitted as an offset. Estimates of the rate of cumulative volume of all (new and persistent) GdE T1 lesions per scan at Week 12 were determined from the model. The AES dataset was used which included all evaluable on-treatment MRI scans for each par. analyzed. The cumulative number of new and newly enlarging GdE T2 lesions (NET2L) at Week 12 were analyzed from screen based on MRI brain scans at Weeks 4, 8 and 12. The endpoint was analyzed using a generalized linear model assuming an underlying negative binomial distribution with a log-link function, adjusted for treatment and presence/absence of GdE lesions on the Screening MRI. Treatment group was fitted as a categorical variable. The number of scans contributing to the cumulative number of lesions was fitted as an offset. Estimates of the rate of cumulative number of NET2L per scan at Week 12 were determined from the model. The AES dataset was used which included all evaluable on-treatment MRI scans for each par. analyzed. Lesion volume is a measure of lesion size determined by a MRI brain scan. T2 lesions, are indicative of brain myelin content.The cumulative volume of new and/or newly enlarging T2 lesions at Week 12 were analyzed from screen based on MRI brain scans at Weeks 4, 8, and 12. The AES dataset was used which included all evaluable on-treatment MRI scans for each par. Cumulative Number of New T1 Hypointense Lesions at Week 24 and Week 48 [ Time Frame: Week 24 and Week 48 ] The cumulative number of new T1 hypointense lesions at week 24 were analyzed from screen based on MRI brain scans at Weeks 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24. The AES dataset was used which included all evaluable on-treatment MRI scans for each par. Cumulative Volume of New T1 Hypointense Lesions at Week 24 and Week 48 [ Time Frame: Baseline, Week 24 and Week 48 ] Lesion volume is a measure of lesion size determined by a MRI brain scan. Baseline is defined as the participant's last available assessment prior to initiation of IP. Change from Baseline was calculated by subtracting the Baseline value from the post-Baseline value. The AES dataset was used which included all evaluable on-treatment MRI scans for each par. Definite diagnosis of MS according to the 2010 revisions of the McDonald diagnostic criteria for MS [Polman, 2011]. Subjects must have a relapsing-remitting course of disease with at least one of the following prior to screening: At least one relapse in the previous 2 years, with a GdE brain lesion on an MRI scan in the past year. Neurologically stable with no evidence of relapse for at least 30 days prior to start of Screening and during the Screening Phase (subjects who relapse during the screening Phase can be re-screened, once the relapse has resolved). Of childbearing potential and NOT pregnant or nursing, has a negative serum pregnancy test at screening, and agrees to one of the following: Complete abstinence from intercourse for the period from consent into the study until 6 months after the last dose of investigational product; or, Consistent and correct use of one of the following acceptable methods of birth control for the period from consent into the study until 6 months after the last dose of investigational product: A female is considered "Non-childbearing potential" if she is status-post hysterectomy, status-post surgical removal of both ovaries, has current, documented tubal ligation, or is postmenopausal and >2 years without menses. Female subjects who are post-menopausal <2 years must be confirmed menopausal by Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and estradiol levels. A female is considered "childbearing potential" if she has functional ovaries, ducts, and uterus with no impairment that would cause sterility. This includes women with oligomenorrhea (even severe), and women who are perimenopausal or who have just begun to menstruate. French subjects: In France, a subject will be eligible for inclusion in this study only if either affiliated to, or a beneficiary of, a social security category. Unable to undergo MRI scans (e.g. due to pacemaker, severe claustrophobia, hypersensitivity to contrast media, or who lack adequate peripheral venous access). Subjects whom experience a relapse during the Screening Phase. These subjects may be eligible for re-screening after consultation with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). History of clinically significant Central Nervous System (CNS) trauma (e.g. traumatic brain injury, cerebral contusion, spinal cord compression) or a history or presence of myelopathy due to spinal cord compression by disk or vertebral disease. Any lymphocyte-depleting therapies, including, but not limited to: cladribine, anti-Cluster of Differentiation 4 (CD4), total body irradiation, or bone marrow transplantation Any immunosuppressive agents, including, but not limited to: mitoxantrone, azathioprine, cyclosporine, cyclophosphamide, or tacrolimus Significant concurrent, uncontrolled medical condition including, but not limited to, cardiac, renal, hepatic, hematological, gastrointestinal, endocrine, immunodeficiency syndrome, pulmonary, cerebral, psychiatric, or neurological disease which in the opinion of the investigator could affect the subject's safety, impair the subject's reliable participation in the trial, impair the evaluation of endpoints, or necessitate the use of medication not allowed by this protocol. History of severe, clinically significant CNS trauma (e.g. cerebral contusion, spinal cord compression) or a history or presence of myelopathy due to spinal cord compression by disk or vertebral disease. Positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) screening for John Cunningham (JC) Virus as measured by plasma John Cunningham Virus (JCV) DNA. Positive serology for Hepatitis B (HB) defined as a positive test for HBsAg. In addition, if negative for HBsAg but HBcAb positive (regardless of HBsAb status), a HB DNA test will be performed and if positive the subject will be excluded. Subjects known or suspected of not being able to comply with a trial protocol (e.g. due to alcoholism, drug dependency or psychological disorder). A documented history of attempted suicide over the 6 months prior to the screening visit, presents with suicidal ideation of type 4 or 5 on the C-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (SSRS) at the Screening visit, OR if in the investigator's judgment, the subject is at risk for a suicide attempt. Use of an investigational drug or other experimental therapy for a condition other than MS within 4 weeks, 5 pharmacokinetic half lives or duration of biological effect (whichever is longer) prior to screening. Any prior use of an investigational drug or other experimental therapy for MS at any time should be discussed with the GSK Medical Monitor. Current participation in any other interventional clinical trial. Participation in a non-interventional trial requires approval of the protocol by the GSK Medical Monitor French subjects: the French subject has participated in any study using an investigational drug during the previous 30 days Olaparib and Ramucirumab in Treating Patients With Metastatic or Locally Recurrent Gastric or Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer That Cannot Be Removed by Surgery This pilot phase I/II trial studies the side effects and best dose of olaparib when given together with ramucirumab and how well they work in treating patients with gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer that has spread to other places in the body, has come back, or cannot be removed by surgery. Olaparib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Monoclonal antibodies, such as ramucirumab, may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Giving olaparib and ramucirumab may work better in treating patients with gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer. To determine the safe dose of olaparib with ramucirumab, but not to exceed olaparib dose of 300 mg twice daily (tablet formulation). (Phase I) II. To determine the efficacy of olaparib plus ramucirumab as measured by the objective response rates (ORR) stratified by BROCA-HR biomarker status. (Phase II). III. To evaluate the association between findings from BROCA-HR panel and signature 3 results with response to therapy. To create a PDX model to study deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) repair in gastric tumors treated with PARP inhibitors (PARPi) from both pre-treatment biopsy and repeat biopsy after 16 weeks of treatment. Patients receive olaparib orally (PO) twice daily (BID) on days 1-14 and ramucirumab intravenously (IV) over 60 minutes on day 1. Courses repeat every 14 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 4 weeks and then every 3-6 weeks thereafter. The patient must have histologically confirmed, gastric carcinoma, including gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma (patients with adenocarcinoma of the distal esophagus are eligible if the primary tumor involves the GEJ) The patient must have measurable disease by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version (v)1.1 The patient must have experienced disease progression during or within 4 months after the last dose of chemotherapy for metastatic disease, during or within 6 months after the last dose of adjuvant chemotherapy, or have been intolerant of previous chemotherapy The patient must have experienced disease progression or intolerance as outlined above after treatment with 1 or more prior chemotherapies All previous treatments are acceptable as long as they did not contain bevacizumab,ramucirumab or PARP inhibitors Elevation in tumor markers without radiographic evidence of disease progression is not satisfactory for progression on previous treatment Hemoglobin ≥ 10 g/dL with no blood transfusions (packed red blood cells and platelet transfusions) in the past 28 days, within 28 days prior to administration of study treatment Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1.5 109/L, within 28 days prior to administration of study treatment No features suggestive of MDS/AML on peripheral blood smear or bone marrow biopsy, if clinically indicated, within 28 days prior to administration of study treatment Total bilirubin =< 1.5 x the institutional upper limit of normal (ULN), within 28 days prior to administration of study treatment Calculated serum creatinine clearance >= 60 mL/min/1.73 m2, within 28 days prior to administration of study treatment Proteinuria with urinary protein is =< 1+ on dipstick or routine urinalysis, or a 24-hour urine collection for protein < 1000 mg of protein in 24 hours, within 28 days prior to administration of study treatment Coagulation parameters (international normalized ratio [INR], activated partial thromboplastin time [aPTT]) =< 1.25 x institutional limits, except where a lupus anti-coagulant has been confirmed or the patient is on warfarin; patients on full dose anticoagulation must be on a stable dose for at least 14 days. If receiving warfarin,the patient must have an INR =< 3.0 without any evidence of active bleeding within 14 days prior to first dose of study treatment or a pathologic condition that carries a high risk of bleeding (tumor involvement with major blood vessels or varicies), within 28 days prior to administration of study treatment Postmenopausal or evidence of non-childbearing status for women of childbearing potential a negative urine or serum pregnancy test within 28 days of study treatment and confirmed prior to treatment on day 1; postmenopausal is defined as: Women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception including hormonal, barrier, or abstinence; contraception must be started prior to study enrollment; female patients of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days prior to treatment; should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately; both men and women treated or enrolled on this protocol must also agree to use adequate contraception prior to the study, for the duration of the study participation, and for 3 months after completion of olaparib and ramucirumab administration; male patients and their partners, who are sexually active and of childbearing potential, must agree to the use of two highly effective forms of contraception in combination, throughout the period of taking study treatment and for 3 months after last dose of study drug(s) to prevent pregnancy in a partner The patient must be willing to undergo repeat biopsy at week 16 (for the first 20 patients in the phase 2 part of the study) Patients must be able to tolerate oral medications by mouth, and not have a gastrointestinal illness that would preclude absorption of olaparib Adequately controlled blood pressure (BP) < 140 mmHg (systolic) and < 90 mmHg(diastolic) taken in the clinic setting by a medical professional within 2 weeks prior to starting study; patients with hypertension may be managed with up to a maximum of 3 antihypertensive medications; a cardiologist or blood pressure specialist must evaluate patients who are on 3 antihypertensive medications within 4 weeks of enrollment Patients who have the following risk factors are considered to be at increased risk for cardiac toxicity and must have documented left ventricular ejection fraction(LVEF) by echocardiogram greater than institution's lower limit of normal (or 55% if threshold for normal not otherwise specified by institutional guidelines) obtained within 3 months History of myocardial infarction within 12 months (patients with history of myocardial infarction within 6 months are excluded) Patients with untreated brain metastases are excluded from this clinical trial because of their poor prognosis and because they often develop progressive neurologic dysfunction that would confound the evaluation of neurologic and other adverse events;a scan to confirm the absence of brain metastases is not required; the patient can receive a stable dose of corticosteroids before and during the study as long as these were started at least 4 weeks prior to treatment; patients with spinal cord compression are also excluded unless considered to have received definitive treatment for this and evidence of clinically stable disease for 28 days Patients who have not recovered from adverse events due to prior anti-cancer therapy(i.e., have residual toxicities > Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events(CTCAE) grade 1 or baseline, with the exception of alopecia) The patient has experienced any grade 3-4 gastrointestinal bleeding within 3 months prior to randomization The patient has experienced any arterial thrombotic events, including but not limited to myocardial infarction, transient ischemic attack, cerebrovascular accident, or unstable angina, within 6 months prior to enrollment The patient has an ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure,unstable angina pectoris, symptomatic or poorly controlled cardiac arrhythmia,uncontrolled thrombotic or hemorrhagic disorder, or any other serious uncontrolled medical disorder in the opinion of the investigator The patient has an ongoing or active psychiatric illness or social situation that would limited compliance with study requirements Clinically significant peripheral vascular disease or vascular disease (abdominal aortic aneurysm > 5 cm) or aortic dissection; if known history of abdominal aortic aneurysm with >= 4 cm in diameter, all of the following must be met The patient has uncontrolled or poorly controlled hypertension despite standard medical management as defined in this protocol Major surgery within 28 days of starting study treatment and patients must have recovered from any effects of any major surgery An open biopsy, non-healing wound, ulcer or significant traumatic injury within 28 days prior to starting treatment (percutaneous, endobronchial, and endoscopic biopsies are allowed) The patient has received chemotherapy, radiotherapy (except for palliative reasons),immunotherapy, or targeted therapy for gastric cancer within 3 weeks of study treatment The patient has received prior therapy with bevacizumab, ramucirumab or any PARP inhibitor, including olaparib Patients must not have evidence of coagulopathy or bleeding diathesis; therapeutic anticoagulation for prior thromboembolic events is permitted; the clinical indication for therapeutic anticoagulation must be clearly documented prior to enrollment and must be discussed with the principal investigator (PI); patients on greater than or equal to 2 anti-thrombotic agents, including but not limited to anti-platelet agents(nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs [NSAIDS]/aspirin, clopidogrel), heparin, low molecular weight heparin, warfarin and a direct thrombin inhibitor will be excluded The patient has elective or planned major surgery to be performed during the course of the clinical trial History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to olaparib and ramucirumab Patients with a known history of hepatitis B (defined as hepatitis B surface antigen[HBsAg] reactive) or known active hepatitis C virus (defined as detectable hepatitis C virus [HCV] ribonucleic acid [RNA]) infection; Note: no testing for hepatitis B and hepatitis C is required unless mandated by local health authority The patient has a concurrent active malignancy other than treated non-melanoma skin cancers or in situ neoplasm; a patient with a prior history of malignancy is eligible,provided that they have been free of disease for >= 5 years Patients may not have had a prior allogeneic bone marrow transplant or double umbilical cord blood transplantation (dUCBT) Patients may not have features suggestive of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) or acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) on peripheral blood smear or bone marrow biopsy, if clinically indicated Patients may not have current signs and/or symptoms of bowel obstruction within 1 month prior to starting study drugs, except if it was a temporary incident (improved within < 24 hours [hr] with medical management) Participants receiving any medications or substances that are strong inhibitors or inducers of CYP3A4/5 are ineligible; 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Daniel keyes was born in brooklyn, new york, in 1927 at the age of 17, keyes joined the us maritime service and worked as a ship’s purser. Flowers for algernon by david rogersbased on the novel by daniel keyes product code: f21000 full-length play drama cast size: 8 to 10m, 9 to 17w rights and availability this title can be licensed and sold throughout the world please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. Flowers for algernon is a book that engages readers to imagine and feel all of those emotions the book is formatted as a compilation of progress reports written by the main character, charlie gordon, to monitor his intellectual and psychological growth. Flowers for algernon by daniel keyes - review ‘flowers for algernon is a book that says to you: “i want you to question everything you know”’ lucypevensie. Flowers for algernon is written in daily progress reports by charlie and because charlie could not read nor write well, you will find that the beginning of this book is full of grammatical and spelling errors. The novel version of flowers for algernon was the high point of daniel keyes’s career, and it remains by far his most popular and most acclaimed work, having been consistently in print for nearly forty years. Charly, the 1968 film version of flowers for algernon starring cliff robertson photograph: everett collection sad news, this morning: the author daniel keyes has died, aged 86 , his us publisher. A summary of symbols in daniel keyes's flowers for algernon learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of flowers for algernon and what it means perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans. Kirkus review for lovers of science fiction, this story, in its original short story form was always a special kind of tour de force, a classic to be given to people you were trying to convert to the genre. My review of flowers for algernon by daniel keyes, the tale of charlie gordon with an iq of 68 who undergoes an operation to make himself more intelligent. Amazon review daniel keyes wrote little sf but is highly regarded for one classic, flowers for algernonas a 1959 novella it won a hugo award the 1966 novel-length expansion won a nebula. Flowers for algernon is a character study of one man, charlie gordoncharlie is a 32-year-old developmentally disabled man who has the opportunity to undergo a surgical procedure that will dramatically increase his mental capabilities. Flowers for algernon is the story of charlie gordon, a 30-odd year old man with the mental capacity of a little child growing up, all charlie had ever wanted was to become smart and have friends growing up, all charlie had ever wanted was to become smart and have friends. Flowers for algernon that maybe they will still use me i said miss kinnian never gave me tests like that one only spelling and reading they said miss kinnian told that i was her bestist pupil in the adult nite scool becaus i tryed the hardist and i reely daniel keyes 'rt. Flowers for algernon by daniel keyes by daniel keyes plus-circle add review comment reviews flowers for algernon remains a thought provoking examination of the human cognitive and emotional condition it is pleasant to know that cogito ergo sum exists for creatures of a wide intelligence quotient. Free download or read online flowers for algernon pdf (epub) book the first edition of this novel was published in 1959, and was written by daniel keyes the book was published in multiple languages including english language, consists of 311 pages and is available in mass market paperback format. Review of “flowers for algernon” by daniel keyes posted on 04/02/2018 by rhapsodyinbooks this story was first published in a shorter form in the april 1959 issue of “the magazine of fantasy & science fiction” and was expanded into a novel in 1966. At first “flowers for algernon” was written as a short science fiction story in 1959its author, an american writer daniel keyes, received one of science fiction’s highest honors, the hugo award, for the best story that year. Author: daniel keyes series: standalone genre: classic release date: march, 1966 book length: 311 pages publisher: mariner books review: 4/5 goodreads synopsis: the story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. At first, charlie is no smarter than he used to be, as he continues to lose maze races to a mouse named algernon who also underwent the surgery however, over time, charlie's intelligence improves. Flowers for algernon is a great book that immerses you in the life of someone who has all of those disabilities in flowers for algernon , our brilliant author daniel keyes takes us on an ambitious walk through a disabled persons shoes, all the while trying to incorporate them into everyday society. Flower for algernon by daniel keyes publisher: mariner books genre: contemporary and young adult release date: 1966 pages: 311 with more than five million copies sold, flowers for algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. Review: flowers for algernon posted on june 12, 2017 updated on june 12, 2017 book review 4 out of 5 stars to flowers for algernon, a classic novella written in 1966 by daniel keyes, often read in high school as standard curriculum in americaa few shorter versions of the story exist, as well as film or tv adaptions for those who want to compare the literary art with the visual. Flowers for algernon by daniel keyes is a touching story about a man named charlie who is chosen for an experiment that offers him the opportunity to become “smart”, his deepest wish in life the novel brings up several important themes and questions, including the ethics of human. Name _____ date _____ flowers for algernon, by daniel keyes - 2 - ©2004abcteachcom vocabulary these words can be defined using context clues from the story or from a dictionary. She boss is a panel discussion as well as a networking event, bringing together successful and aspiring entrepreneurial women this is an event produced by a team event management students at humber college. This panel discussion and open house hosted by the city of boston's greenovate team will discuss the challenges boston will face as a result of climate change, including sea level rise, coastal storms, temperature changes, and more intense rain and snow. 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Congressional funding cuts enacted through the Continuing Appropriations Act of 2011, which was signed into law April 15 by President Obama, will result in the federal government taking control of approximately $8 million in funding that would have been administered directly by Texas. The changes will also lead to the creation of a new bureaucracy to oversee some programs currently run at the state level. The new budget affects programs paid for by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). This news comes as an abrupt and surprising change to previous policy. We are seeing greater centralization of power in Washington, D.C. at a time when we need to be decentralizing and devolving power to the states, which have a much better understanding of the specific training needs of local communities. Removing this flexibility from the states is exactly the wrong approach. 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I told them, ‘I understand that cuts in overall funding may need to be made. Just give the money back to the states instead of to DC bureaucrats.’ The message was well received by all whom I met with at the time but now we’re getting just the opposite response. I am urging President Obama and the Department of Labor to reverse course and let local officials choose where tax dollars will be most effective. The local service delivery approach is the model on which all state’s workforce services are provided to the public, and is based on the idea that local communities know how to best serve the employment needs of their citizens.

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The path of Sentient Fitness refers to exercises that focus on personal evolution. Instead of “development” toward some ideal, we focus on the destruction of the illusionary inhibitors present in our life. Focusing on the health and wellness of the 3 bodies (mental, emotional and physical), sentient fitness promotes the unification of man with soul. This practice is for those who also thrive in the same direction, growing in love and compassion. Good health and a well fit body is a by-product of Sentient Fitness. Anyone can begin Sentient Fitness by simply engaging the 5 Focuses given below. It may be of profit to know that practicing sentient fitness is a response to goodwill, and is safe and open to all. The essential aspects of Sentient Fitness are sensible in nature for a healthier, liberating life. These components are called “Focuses”. These are not the only areas that one may engage; they’re simply the areas we see to be substantial of this practice. The information below is a simple, brief description of the five areas of focus that touch on the meaning and implication of each area into daily life. The information presented can help propel the reader in the necessary direction however it is the responsibility of every aspirant to excavate and discover the deeper truth on their own. ; The refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument. This is a practice that is applied to the whole of our life. By not resisting what life presents us, we allow ourselves to enter into a stream that flows toward harmony, unfoldment and liberation. This is the path of the soul which allows one to revisit all the areas in their life that may have been left broken or incomplete. At the same time the individual is faced with challenges and experiences that bring minor and major awakenings. In short, non- resistance can be viewed as the movement of absorbing into the whole, your greater self. This practice correlates with all of the bodies dealing with the mind and thought, the astral/emotional body with its feelings and pleasures, and the temptations of the physical body. This can be done anywhere at any time. It can be most fruitful in quiet areas and during meditation. As mentioned above, this is more of a movement in how we live and the choices we make. Anything that is presented before us in our day to day life we choose to go into and give it our time and consideration. Conflict breeds harmony, is universal law. Conflict is the beginning tensions of an eventual unification. The two surfaces blend together, unifying to create harmony. Lifting weights and other resistance training are analogous. The Action of practicing resistance in turn, strengthens and multiplies this energy. Body weight training, calisthenics, parkour, yoga and other forms of exercise are good promoters of non-resistance. They’re also healthier and less destructive to your bones and joints. Healing is both short term and long term. Some of our healing may begin with physical health transitioning, then to relationships and experiences. To begin the process of healing ourselves consciously we may begin with what we can control, our physical bodies. By beginning to eat more plant based, organic foods and eliminating the use of some of the products we use on a day to day basis, we begin to purify the cells of our body while causing less harm to our environment. This promotes the healing of the individual as well as the environment. When opportunity presents itself we will have the chance to heal greater parts of our life aside from the physical body. This opportunity may be with an old friend, family member or maybe a crippling fear. There isn’t a human on the planet that doesn’t have some quarrel or bitterness with one of their loved ones or someone maybe they don’t even know. As Plato said “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” This is a truth for all of humanity. What we don’t see is that grudges, negative thoughts and emotions, are all things. These things are heavy and pull us down, literally. Forgiveness is the releasing of these thoughts and emotions. Forgiveness is the destruction of the wall that separates and disconnects. Through forgiveness we stimulate the energies love, which brings about an uplifting of our consciousness and the energy of our bodies. The process of purification is one that eventually leads us back to the pure one, the Soul. An impure life is one that reflects chaos, negative emotions, confusion, stress, fear, and so on. When we purify our bodies and lives, we bring us to a state of existence where all of the above seize to exist more and more. Granted, there will still be conflicts, danger and discord in the world around us, however within us, all of this will make sense and will have a different effect upon us. In order to truly begin the process of purification, we must first realize we are impure and the major areas of our impurities. An impure physical body is the reflection of an impure emotional and mental body. By understanding the effects of our actions and decisions, coupled with the desire to do and be better, we take action in beginning the process of purifying our mental body by beginning to change the quality of our thoughts. Understanding is essential to ascension in life and integrating ourselves with that which is around us. Changing the way we eat is essential for purification and has more to do with replacing the current cells of the body with healthier cells, whose quality reflects Mother Nature opposed to cells that are far from Mother Nature, such as the ones fed by processed, lifeless foods. This same process of purification must also be applied to not only our relationships with others but our relationships with our selves. Grudges, hate, resentment, fear of, bitterness, all of these are expressions on the emotional plan of impurities. As in any space, unneeded waste that has yet to be removed eventually builds up and creates an uncomfortable, congested environment. This is equivalent to the toxic feelings and negative thoughts built up in our heads and our hearts. With a healthy diet, physical exercise can be more moderate and less intense. Physical exercise does not have to focus primarily on the physical body. By challenging ourselves and experimenting with different forms of exercise, we challenge the mind and break our dependence on habit and close mindedness. Spiritual practices can refer to actions or activities that affect internally what can be reflected physically. Spiritual work has to do with stimulating those mediums (such as the glands/ centers) to bring about synthesis with the soul and its energy. Consider dealing with matters of the soul and awakening certain faculties or senses that were once previously dormant. The qualities of love, compassion and selflessness must be interjected whole heartedly. These virtues alone are the qualities of Soul and by exercising these qualities we continuously synthesize and blend with our greater whole. Transmuting our lower nature of greed, anger and selfishness to their counterparts of our higher nature, we come into a realm of new experience, one of harmony and higher living. This is done by integrating our opposites. This is the Law of Magnetism, which is best inferred through the old proverbs “as a man thinketh so is he” and “energy follows thought”. The evening reflection is when we take time out to reflect on our day. They say a story is told from beginning to end but it is best understood backwards. Our evening reflection is our conscious effort to understand the events of our day, observing our actions, inactions, feelings, thoughts and all that has transpired. We would like to give warning to those aspirants looking to take part in any spiritual practice. Practicing spiritual works in a healthy, fruitful manner has to do with contacting the energies of the soul and raising the vibration of the individual. The selfish desire to acquire power for personal use or to channel some deity is unhealthy and unwise. Practices that promote such outcomes can be damaging to the nervous system as well as other glands and we do not advise it. The practices suggested above allow a man/woman to be receptive to the energy of the soul, allowing the soul, which is truly the one that steers all life on earth, to properly guide the individual. The material world is a reflection of the inner worlds, which mean all things in manifestation must be considered. The need for education in society is fundamental in all the kingdoms of nature. Learning, experience and experimentation are necessary for the absorption and expansion of beings. The educational institutions in manifestation are a direct reflection of necessary need. In order to function and live a fulfilling life in any society, some form of education or learning is mandatory. This is so with animals, plants and even minerals. Learning and experience work hand in hand. To understand the spiritual world one must begin to learn about the spiritual world. Likewise, by taking part in spiritual experiences, one receives first-hand knowledge of the spiritual world. Study and education along spiritual lines normally fall under the category of occult study or esotericism, having to do with that which is unseen or hidden. However books on physiology, science and religious books and writings can also be effective. The work we do applies to the areas in our lives where we wish to render our time and service. For some, work goes hand in hand with education, for others it is creative and for a majority it’s primarily a means to make money. This is an area of life where it may be most difficult to live with purpose while still financing your daily living. Yet this is also the challenge. Volunteering is a good way to serve and giveback, creating an atmosphere of abundance through magnetism. Art, music, writing and other means of expression are beneficial in communicating your soul impulses. The energy we use to work a 9-5 job is the energy of the soul and it is wasted if it is never used. Create. Express. Communicate. Serve. Throughout the day we are provided ample opportunities to apply different qualities we wish to strengthen, for example, listening to a friend about trouble occurring in their life, helping someone with their groceries or telling the truth about something that might cause conflict.

Paramount and DreamWorks are holding the date of June 26, 2009, for “Transformers 2,” with Michael Bay expected to return to direct the sequel. Despite the tensions between them, DreamWorks and Par have plenty of incentive to move forward with the next installment in the budding franchise. “Transformers,” starring Shia LaBeouf and based on the toy robot line, has grossed nearly $700 million worldwide, giving DreamWorks its first live-action franchise. Even if Spielberg and Geffen exit their deal at Par, as they have threatened to do, the “Transformers” property stays at the Melrose lot, as do all other DreamWorks projects. “Transformers” was a passion project for Spielberg, with DreamWorks developing the project and taking the creative lead after partnering with Paramount (that was before Par bought DreamWorks). Spielberg, who took an exec producer credit on “Transformers,” was closely involved with the film, including bringing Bay aboard to direct and LaBeouf to star. He’s expected to be involved in the sequel. Bay has not yet inked a deal to helm the follow-up but is in the final stages of negotiation. With Bay’s involvement, LaBeouf is expected to return as well. LaBeouf stars alongside Harrison Ford in Spielberg’s upcoming “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” which opens May 22. DreamWorks and Par are hoping to at least begin production on the “Transformers” sequel before a possible strike even if they have to finish after it. Fox Searchlight has decided to move up the upcoming release of “The Savages,” starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney, from Dec. 26 to Nov. 30. In its old date, the film would have gone up against Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood,” starring Daniel Day-Lewis. In its new slot, “Savages” will open in its limited run against Woody Allen’s “Cassandra’s Dream,” among other titles. Looking to 2008, 20th Century Fox has decided to make sci-fi actioner “The Day the Earth Stood Still” a Christmas release and open the Keanu Reeves starrer on Dec. 12 instead of during the summer. Fox had dated the pic for May 9, but the movie, which hasn’t yet begun lensing, wouldn’t have been ready. In addition, Fox has three other summer pics. Paramount and DreamWorks are holding the date of June 26, 2009, for “Transformers 2,” with Michael Bay expected to return to direct the sequel. Despite the tensions between them, DreamWorks and Par have plenty of incentive to move forward with the next installment in the budding franchise. “Transformers,” starring Shia LaBeouf and based on the […] Bourdos should see his atmospheric, well-acted period piece appeal to older, art-savvy moviegoers everywhere. An arthritis-plagued father and his war-wounded son are both beguiled by beauty in “Renoir.” This lushly shot stroll through the twilight days of the impressionist painter Auguste and the early formative years of his filmmaking offspring, Jean, reps the strongest and most conventional feature to date from Gallic helmer Gilles Bourdos (“Afterwards”). Again teaming up with ace Taiwanese lenser Mark Lee Ping-bing and composer Alexandre Desplat, Bourdos should see his atmospheric, well-acted period piece appeal to older, art-savvy moviegoers everywhere. Samuel Goldwyn Films picked up U.S. rights in Cannes. “A Sight for Sore Eyes,” Bourdos’ helming debut, was a French take on a Ruth Rendell mystery, while his sophomore effort, the English-language thriller “Afterwards,” was based on a French novel. Despite the stories’ literary origins, however, Bourdos’ freewheeling adaptations flirted with narrative illogic and featured standoffish protags that left more traditionally minded auds cold. All the more surprising then, that “Renoir,” again based on a literary work, is a traditional, old-fashioned, picture with a gentle, observational quality unlike anything Bourdos has attempted. This change can be at least partly attributed to co-screenwriter Jerome Tonnerre, who helped pen mainstream hits such as “The Women on the 6th Floor” and “My Best Friend,” and who’s credited here alongside Bourdos and his regular scribe, Michel Spinosa. Their elegant script is drawn from a novelized biography by photog and d.p. Jacques Renoir, the great-grandson of Pierre-Auguste and the grandson of Jean’s actor brother, Pierre. Pic is set on the French Riviera in 1915, where the verdant and paradisiacal Renoir estate offers shelter from the horrors of WWI. Auguste (Michel Bouquet, “The Last Mitterand”), already in his 70s, has just become a widower and is worried sick about his two sons at the front. Despite the deformation of his hands by rheumatoid arthritis, he still paints daily and looks after his youngest son, the mischievous Coco (Thomas Doret, “The Kid With a Bike”), though he’s aided by a large female staff at home. Catalyst of the story is the arrival of Andree (Crista Theret), a sprightly girl with flaming red hair and porcelain skin who becomes Renoir’s new muse and who also catches the eye of Auguste’s second son, Jean (Vincent Rottiers), who has been sent home to convalesce after a serious injury. It is Andree who stimulates Jean’s interest in cinema (she would later marry him and star in his first silents as Catherine Hessling). Seemingly without any narrative agenda aside from simply observing the characters, the film meanders through the daily lives of the reunited father and son and the stunning female newcomer who personifies their deep familial bonds and shared appreciation of beauty. There is no major drama here save the encroaching end of one great artist and the birth of another, but Bourdos and his fellow screenwriters have translated something so monumental into a succession of such small domestic tableaux in which the Renoirs are seen as people first and artists second. Though the apparently calculating Andree remains something of an outline, this seems appropriate given that both Renoirs objectify her more than they actually engage with her. And Theret’s luminous perf, opposite those of vet Bouquet and the equally strong Rottiers, makes clear why the men take an immediate shine to her. Technically, this is Bourdos’ most ambitious film yet. Regular d.p. Lee, shooting mostly outdoors, works with shifting flecks of sunlight and color, achieving the live-action equivalent of one of Renoir’s impressionist canvases while keeping things grounded in a believable reality. Alexandre Desplat’s string-driven score adds a dash of energy that keeps the occasionally lingering images from becoming too pastoral or the pacing too languid. Production and costume designs are also top-drawer. An arthritis-plagued father and his war-wounded son are both beguiled by beauty in “Renoir.” This lushly shot stroll through the twilight days of the impressionist painter Auguste and the early formative years of his filmmaking offspring, Jean, reps the strongest and most conventional feature to date from Gallic helmer Gilles Bourdos (“Afterwards”). Again teaming up […] Amy Schumer's critically-acclaimed "Inside Amy Schumer" got a fourth-season nod from Comedy Central ‘Inside Amy Schumer’: Comedy Central Renews Comedy for Fourth Season – Variety Comedy Central is giving a fourth-season nod to “Inside Amy Schumer,” just as the third season of the much-lauded program gets underway and its creator is getting more publicity for her coming film “Trainwreck,” directed by Judd Apatow. Schumer disclosed the pick up while making an appearance on “The Late Show with David Letterman” on CBS early Tuesday morning Eastern time. “I just found out” before coming out to speak with Letterman, she told the host. The third season of “Inside Amy Schumer” premieres Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. Eastern and Pacific with the first of ten all-new episodes. “Inside Amy Schumer” has gained noticed not only for its comedy but the ways in which Schumer, her writers and her cast offer telling comment on sex and relationships. The series has been nomimated for an Emmy and has won a Peabody Award. The show is made up of scripted vignettes, stand-up comedy, and man-on-the-street interviews. The series was created by Schumer and Daniel Powell. Both executive produce along with Jessi Klein, the head writer. Tony Hernandez and Steve Ast also serve as executive producers, while Kim Caramele and Kevin Kane are producers. Comedy Central is giving a fourth-season nod to “Inside Amy Schumer,” just as the third season of the much-lauded program gets underway and its creator is getting more publicity for her coming film “Trainwreck,” directed by Judd Apatow. Schumer disclosed the pick up while making an appearance on “The Late Show with David Letterman” on […] “Warcraft” racked up a massive $156 million over its first five days in China, setting a new record for the biggest debut for a foreign release in the country’s history. It’s good news for Legendary and Universal, the backers of the $160 million video game adaptation. “Warcraft” bombed during its stateside premiere this weekend, eking out a $24.4 million debut. “Warcraft’s” performance in China flew past the high-water mark set for a foreign release in 2015 with “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Despite the tepid response from stateside crowds, “Warcraft” is shaping up to be a box office hit. It’s a sign of the importance of foreign audiences. China is widely expected to pass the United States as the world’s largest market for film by 2017. Foreign crowds have helped rescue troubled pictures in the past, with Asian markets, in particular, reviving the fortunes of films such as “Terminator: Genisys” and “Pacific Rim” after they bombed domestically. “At some point you’re going to have a hugely budgeted film from a North American company that forgoes a North American release,” predicted Jeff Bock, an analyst with Exhibitor Relations. “There are going to be more films that appeal just to that part of the world, the same way there are U.S. films that do no business in the rest of the world.” “Warcraft” had a lot of elements that accounted for its success in China. Not only is the game, “World of Warcraft,” hugely popular in the country, but Legendary, the film’s producer is owned by Dalian Wanda, one of the countries largest entertainment companies. The film is doing well in other foreign territories. Its global total now stands at $286.1 million and there are 14 more territories left to open over the next two months. 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WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev and challenger Igor Mikhalkin are good friends but on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York they plan to ‘beat the crap out of each other’. Speaking at Wednesday’s press conference ‘Krusher’ and Mikhalkin greeted each other with hugs and chatted for a while but the champion was very clear that their friendship will be put aside when they step into the ring on Saturday night. “We’ve known each other for a long time since the amateurs and we are friends but that doesn’t mean we aren’t going to try to beat the crap out of each other on Saturday night. This is sport,” said Kovalev Mikhalkin, for his part, is ‘very excited to fight’: "I trained very good and I feel very good. I know Kovalev and he will try the same style he always does - he will come and try to knock me out and I am prepared for that." "I’m very excited to fight at Madison Square Garden; it is like a dream come true and I promise to give the fans a good fight because I know there are many Russians that live in the area and many of them will be coming to the fight." There's none of today's airport hassle when flying yesterday's biplanes, now taking flight from the Air Zoo. In 1929, when the D-25 biplane first took to the skies, so many people lined up for their first, possibly only, flight experience that the pilots took them up into the air for only a minute or two, usually for a dollar per person. The tiny open-cockpit planes were built from wood, the wings made out of spruce, and the body of the plane from cotton and linen over a wooden frame. In the 1990s, Waldo Wright’s Flying Service, long-time partner of the Air Zoo, 6151 Portage Road in Portage, refurbished a couple of the biplanes and brought the New Standard D-25 to Portage to relive the days of barnstorming. The biplane that today takes passengers into the skies over Portage is one of eight such biplanes remaining from the 62 originally built. Cotton and linen have been replaced with sturdier Dacron polyester. And Waldo Wright’s Flying Service, traveling to various museums in the country, has grown into America’s largest vintage biplane ride company. "The D-25 was built to take up to four passengers up into the air," says the flight service owner and chief pilot Ron Lock. Before that, he says, the first planes would hold only one or two passengers. The term "barnstorming" came from stunt pilots who traveled across the country performing tricks in the air—in a kind of flying circus—to show how safe and sturdy planes could be. Charles Lindbergh was one of those Roaring Twenties barnstormers, gaining fame in later years for the first airplane flight to cross the ocean. "We’ve taken more than 60,000 people flying since we first began 15 years ago," says Jill Manka, operations manager for Waldo Wright’s Flying Service. "It’s a multi-sensory experience, and there’s no age limit. We’ve taken people up as young as 3 weeks, as old as 99 years. And we can take people up who have mild disabilities." The Air Zoo is offering the vintage biplane rides through September, weather permitting, seven days per week. A 15-minute ride on the 1929 New Standard D-25 costs $69.95 plus tax and fuel surcharge per passenger, up to four passengers per flight, two person minimum. Helmets and goggles are provided. A 1942 Boeing Stearman is also available for 30-minute hands-on flights at $229 plus tax and fuel surcharge. Pointing to the 1942 Boeing Stearman, Lock says: "It’s how 18-year-old World War II cadets learned how to fly combat missions. We give two-minute lessons here and then let people fly." Freshly minted pilots must be at least 10 years old and more than 5 feet tall. An experienced pilot with dual controls accompanies the new pilot. "We bring the fun back to flying," says Lock. "Airliners take you from point A to point B, but the vintage biplanes are about more than transit. You can feel the wind in your face, smell the exhaust from the plane, see the world below at a slow and easy 75 miles per hour, at about 800 to 1,000 feet above the ground. We do a few lazy turns, about a 45-degree angle turn, and you can put your hands outside the cockpit and take photos or shoot a video." As a boy, Lock had dreamed of being a commercial pilot, but as the boy grew up into a man, 6’10" tall, he found he was too tall to fly airliners. He found his place in the vintage biplanes, and he has flown thousands of hours since. He recently flew the vintage biplane 13 hours over two days from Florida to Michigan, enjoying travel through time as much as travel through air with a birds-eye view. "I get a kick out of seeing people’s reaction to their first flight." Lock smiles. "If at first they might be a little fearful, they come back with a big smile on their faces, with a memory to last a lifetime. Flying is supposed to be fun. There’s no baggage handler here, no TSA agent." The first passenger of the day climbs up on the wing of the vintage biplane, up and over into the cockpit with its leather seats, and slips her goggles over her eyes. Sitting at back, Lock starts the engine, and the propellers up front begin to whir and circle, impossibly slow. Yesterday meets today, as commercial airliners out of the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport next door race down the runway and soar up into the clouds, quickly a distant dot and fading contrail, while the D-25 waits patiently at the runway turn. In minutes, all the commercial airliner passenger sees is a receding horizon and a flight attendant explaining emergency procedures. In the D-25, the passenger feels the breeze pick up in her face, a loose strand of wind-blown hair tickle her cheek, a slant of sun cross her goggled eyes, a whiff of exhaust tickle her nostrils, and gradually, ever so slowly, the tiny plane begins to ride on the breeze. The yellow spruce wings waggle in the wind a bit, and the ground below becomes a patchwork quilt of green tree tops and freshly plowed fields. The city of Kalamazoo rises on the distant horizon. A small, deep blue lake below reflects a cloud or two, but the sky is otherwise clear and open in all direction, invitingly blue. A quick glance over the shoulder reveals the pilot. But for his mirrored sunglasses, reflecting one grin back at the other, it almost seems a scene from a time long ago. For a moment, the spirit of Lindbergh seems close. A few of the original 62 biplanes became crop-dusters, were used in the military or other service organizations, but quite a few flew moonshine from secret place to secret place during the Prohibition and were eventually destroyed. At the Air Zoo this summer, a bit of aviation history survives and takes wing, creating new memories. Zinta Aistars is creative director for Z Word, LLC, and correspondent for WMUK 102.1 FM Arts and More program. She lives on a farm in Hopkins.

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What are the character qualities of Jacob, Joseph, and Joseph's brothers that can be seen in Genesis 42:1-38? 1 When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why do you keep looking at each other? 2 Listen," he went on, "I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there ...Read More... God and Abraham have come a long way together. At age seventy-five Abraham left Haran, and at age one hundred he finally had Isaac. But he had seventy-five more years in which to walk with the Lord and raise the child of promise (Genesis 25:7). What has twenty-five years of wandering ...Read More... God sovereignly excluded Ishmael and his descendants from His covenant people. However, how did God treat the people He set aside (Genesis 21:12-21)? Genesis 21:12-21 12 But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah ...Read More... The ten righteous people of Genesis 18:32 shrank to three pathetic ones by Genesis 19:30. Why did God save Lot and his daughters (Genesis 19:29)? Genesis 19:29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew ...Read More... What good qualities of Noah can we observe in Genesis 6:9-8:20? It is interesting that if we look at Genesis 6:8, we are told that Noah found favor or “grace” in the eyes of the LORD. Grace isn’t something that is earned; it is something that is given. Noah is righteous ...Read More... How did Noah display the trait of “holy fear” (Genesis 6:9-8:20)? Interesting that in the beginning of this passage, we are told that Noah was a “just man.” Then we are told that the earth was corrupt; men were corrupt, all flesh, everything was corrupt; and as a result ...Read More... Question: Hebrews 11:7 also commends Noah’s “holy fear.” What is holy fear? Hebrews 11:7(New King James Version/NKJV) -- By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned ...Read More... Hebrews 11:7 commends Noah for his “faith.” From Hebrews 11:1, 7 and Genesis 6:9-8:20, record all the ways Noah showed faith in God. Hebrews 11:1, 7 1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen….. 7 By faith Noah, ...Read More... With the advancement of technologies, the taxi services in the country have come of age and each and every domain are being influenced which could mean that the taxi booking and dispatch system have also evolved. Visible in the taxi booking and dispatch systems, and the development of in car devices are the advancements which have been made. To further expound this, the ease of use, through the presence of Applications on the phone such as the iPhone and android apps, has been augmented. Coming under the category of private hire vehicles are 69{d4a277bd84e1314169d476bc2269af8cb4e46ef5e94f9c52b6bf8302007e6909} of all licensed vehicles in the country according to government statistics. Striving to improve the services they provide in such a scenario and also trying to attract more consumers are taxi booking and dispatch systems along with iPhone & Android Apps. Taxi rentals, o provide a sense of comfort and convenience to the passengers, are facilitated by the taxi booking and dispatch systems. The in car devices available can be easily connected by the users through the use of iPhone & Android Apps. To add to the long list of benefits of taxi rentals, parking hassles can be crossed of your lists and the fact that taxi is made available at timings throughout the day adds to your charm. If booked in advance, online cab services offer a certain percentage of discounts which in turn can result to you saving money when traveling by a cab availed through a cab booking and dispatch system. The users, especially those users who access the system using iPhone & Android apps, are offered a lot of discounts and special offers. Another important factor is the amount of time that a person saves when they book a cab online since the user does not have to stand and wait in line to get a cab. In exchange of the old fashioned grabbing of taxis, they use navigation services to connect to the in car devices in the cabs, which help locate and connect the user to the nearest available taxi service through the iPhone & Android apps. Through the in car devices, the online services ensure that the service providers as well as the users are in loop about all the information necessary which in turn improves the level of safety and security of the people using the taxi. Keeping the Taxi booking and dispatch services updated about the location of the taxi and can keep a check on the same are the uses of these in car devices. Therefore, leading to a boost in the taxi services available to the customers is the advancement in technologies.The taxi booking and dispatch system is making the journey more convenient and stress free, not only for the users but for cab service providers as well, because of this.

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It's no secret that most mainstream porn is created with a very specific audience in mind — namely, straight men. As a result, a huge amount of porn found under the "lesbian" category isn't necessarily made for actual lesbians, or by them. A new YouTube video released by lesbian YouTuber Arielle Scarcella capitalizes on this fact; titled "Lesbians Guess: Straight Girls or Gay Girls in P*rn," the video features — you guessed it — lesbians watching various porn videos and trying to guess the sexuality of the women starring in them based off how they have sex with their partners. Some of them make immediate, sweeping judgments saying things like, "The blonde girl is straight for sure," or, "She kissed it, that's a gay thing to do"; other times, they describe the women as "iffy" or "probably curious." In fact, there appear to be an awful lot of do's and don'ts required to convincingly perform lesbian sex in porn. The "rules" of being a convincing lesbian in porn according to the video require performers to: Visibly look like you're into having sex with your female partners, be into kissing her vagina, be visibly appreciative, put your hair in a ponytail so you don't get lady fluids all over it, finger other ladies with consistency, and have good form. Some red flags and causes for judgement include French fisting, looking like they're acting, unusual or particularly large-looking toys, or poorly executed fingering. But it can sometimes be entertaining to watch one group of people attempt to identify another group of people based off of nothing more than a video — while it's true that a lot of porn intended to depict lesbian sex stars straight women and is created for a straight gaze — Scarcella's video also drives home this very important point: Sex acts shouldn't actually be considered a marker for sexuality. In fact, Scarcella says it herself at the end of the video: "How we express our sexuality has nothing to do with our sexual orientation .... How can we know how someone identifies based on how they act in bed?" We can't — and that's the whole point. We're not the ones who get to decide how someone else identifies. I myself as a queer woman have fallen victim to adhering to this kind of narrative. Often when I go out and my friends ask me to identify whether another girl is gay, I — not unlike the girls in Scarcella's video — make sweeping judgements like, "Oh, her nails are long — she can't possibly be gay," or, "A gay girl wouldn't be caught dead in that outfit." I and many other women who like women have also made bold claims about how other girls have sex, saying this like, "Scissoring totally doesn't exist," or, "Lesbians don't like anal." While statements like this may have statistical or numerical value, they cannot be used to categorize the behaviors, sexual or otherwise, of all lesbians. These kinds of narratives undermine female sexuality and the complexities behind each and every identity, and perpetuate harmful stereotypes that can isolate lesbian, bisexual, and other non-hetero women, making them believe there's something wrong with them or that they're not normal. The issue also, in this case, becomes one of feminism. We're essentially policing these women and deciding what they can do with their bodies to fit a particular mold. Why should I get to decide what makes someone else a lesbian? Why should anyone get to decide someone's identity based on her body or her choices? There's no such thing as a "real lesbian." The phrase itself reminds me of a campaign I used to see a lot when I was younger describing "real men." One specific visual that stands out in my mind is one that read, "Real men give up one-night stands for a woman they can't live without." While the sentiment to find a woman you love a lot is nice, it pushes a certain socially constructed, moral code or agenda onto men. Can gay men not be real men? Can men opposed to marriage not be real men? Can men in consenting non-monogomous relationships not be real men? So, then, in a similar vein can lesbians who have anal not be real lesbians? Or can women who have a lot of sex not be real women? It's time to start moving on as societies and individuals from harmful generalizations. We need to start understanding that identity, sexuality, and sex and complicated, non-binary things. Besides, stereotypes are so yesterday. Sisterhood is forever, right? So it's almost a sweet twist of irony the Delta Sigma Theta sorority handbooks held up the Houston airport after they sparked a security threat, and the wait went on seemingly forever. Cute! It wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for the sheer number of people involved. Close to 13,000 DST sisters trickled into the Houston airport after their 52nd conference July 23 through 29 wrapped, and each sister was awarded one of these commemorative memory books so they'd remember, like I said, that sisterhood is forever. Well, the TSA begs to differ. Or at least they eyeballed the deluge of these books and immediately grew suspicious of their actual intent — which, to be real, is kinda fair. It's like a yearbook for grown-ups. Also, I don't know if these girls know it just yet, but they're probably gonna move at least once or twice in the next year, forcing them to reevaluate and likely loathe all the media they collected in their lives, these books included. In helpful, specific clarification airport spokesperson Bill Begley explained, "At the convention there were items they were given, which they had packed in their bags. As they were going through a check in process prompted a secondary search by the TSA."​ Looks like the long lost missing eighth book in the Harry Potter series, IMO. But what do I know? Not the cost of sisterhood, at least. After they both appeared with their own solo covers of Cosmo, I thought Kim K and her younger sister were a lot alike, but then, Kourtney Kardashian channeled Khloé in her latest outfit, and now I’m just like “Wait a second.” Because now Khlo and Kourt seem to be twinning. You’re making it difficult for me to keep up with you, you guys. Although, I can’t blame Kourtney for using her younger sister as her inspiration. Nobody wears a pair of jeans quite like she does, you know? Kourtney wore jeans with a fitted top tucked into them and looked a lot like her little sis. Although, according to her, she was missing the [insert peach emoji here], which I can only assume means butt. When it comes to Khloé’s backside, she’s got it going on, so I understand where Kourtney’s coming from on that one. Of the sisters, I would say that Khloé’s got the most minimalistic style, often wearing jeans or simple (yet amazing) bodycon dresses and skirts. The look totally works for her, so I can see why she’s a source of simplistic style inspo. I must say that Kourtney really nailed her sister’s style with her Khloé-esque ensemble, so props to her. I’m glad that she can admit when her sisters inspire her because I think we can all relate to wanting to copy their styles, right? In Sony Pictures' new Robert Zemeckis-directed biographical drama The Walk , Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as the legendary high-wire walker Philippe Petit — who is, as I'm sure you know, best known for his 1974 stunt that involved him attaching a steel wire between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center... and then walking across it. About 1350 feet in the air. And then living to tell the tale. (No, I'm not joking.) The film, which follows Petit as he pulls off his historic stunt (what he calls "le coup") delves deep into how exactly he pulled it off — as well as just who he received much-needed help from. Along with his girlfriend Annie (portrayed brilliantly by French-Canadian actress Charlotte Le Bon), Petit recruits a group of French and American accomplices to help him pull off his coup — two of whom were portrayed by actors Ben Schwartz (of Parks and Recreation fame) and James Badge Dale. Of course, working on a film as high intensity as this one is no easy feat — but, as Schwartz and Dale themselves divulged to Bustle, working on a film that covers such a historic moment in popular culture was an unparalleled experience. Of their involvement in the film, Schwartz and Dale had nothing but kind words for not only the content, but also the real-life Petit — who closely worked with producers during production to ensure that the film was as true to his own experiences as can be. "Philippe was on set, he was hanging out on set... he's such an amazing guy," Dale tells Bustle of Petit. Working with him, they say, was an inspirational experience, because Petit is "always creating" new art and working on different projects. The Walk hits theaters nationwide on Oct. 9. Check out Schwartz and Dale talking more about their experiences working on the film below: I love the idea of crock pots. Besides winning the lottery or getting a new puppy on Christmas, what could be better than having a meal ready when you return home from work? Unfortunately, in my experience, crock pot meals are usually different variations of soggy meat and potatoes. So, I scoured the Internet for eight slow-cooker recipes that will put those vats of wet meat to shame. There's hot chocolate! And hummus! And chicken enchilada soup! You're welcome. Sugarpill Cosmetics are known for their vegan and cruelty free makeup formulas as well as their super pigmented lip colors. The Sugarpill Pretty Poison lipsticks are the brand's latest collection of solid matte shades, and they're swoonworthy to say the least. So when can we get our hands on these intensely colored lipsticks in their signature super cute pill packaging? According to Sugarpill Cosmetic’s Instagram, the Pretty Poison lipsticks will be available for purchase on the company's website as soon as Nov. 14. From the company that brought you donut-scented lipstick, Sugarpill is debuting six new solid lip colors so noteworthy that beauty lover and cosmetics maven Kat Von D shared them via her Instagram page. She captioned the photo of her new lipsticks, "But like seriously, how fucking cute are these new @sugarpill lipsticks?! 💘💊💄 *and they're #vegan and #crueltyfree too! 🐰 #prettypoison." The matte lipsticks are set to retail for $20 a piece or $120 for all six colors, keeping them on-par with the prices of many competitive lip shades. According to the video above (the first ever for the brand's new YouTube channel), Sugarpill's lipsticks are a “non-drying matte formula with pigmented one swipe coverage.” Judging by the video, the formula really does look great with only one swipe. Fingers crossed that we can get our hands on these pretty popsicle hued lipsticks before they sell out. Until they go on sale on Nov. 14, all we can do is swoon. If you haven't gotten your fill of former Bachelor stars dancing, don't worry because Josh Murray says he'd be up for being on Dancing With the Stars — not that he's been asked. However, now that he's put the positive vibes out there, I'm sure he can expect a call from ABC any day now. "I don't know if I could dance that well, but I would do it," Andi Dorfman's ex told E! News. "It would be fun. I love having fun!" Murray got an up close and personal look at the show last Monday when he and Whitney Bischoff attended to watch Chris Soules dance, and it seems he liked what he saw. But Murray isn't the only member of the Bachelor family who would be great to watch on stage. The dancing show has a long history of inviting past Bachelor members to join the competition. Over the years Trista Sutter, Melissa Rycroft, Jake Pavelka, Sean Lowe, and now Chris Soules have participated. And, while not all of them have had success, they've all been fairly entertaining to watch. I'm all for Josh Murray joining DWTS, but I think the dancing show should consider these former contestants as well. You can never have too much Bachelor! On her season with Juan Pablo we learned what a terrible dancer Andi was. She deserves a chance to redeem herself. I bet, with the right amount of practice, she could go far. If Chris Soules can do it, anyone can. We saw a little bit of her dance moves when Chris Soules stole her away for that private concert date, and she wasn't bad. What if the whole double Bachelorette thing doesn't work out for her, and the house picks Kaitlyn to continue as the only Bachelorette? DWTS would be a nice distraction from that. A slot on the show was actually offered to Robertson after she and Ben Flajnik got engaged. But Robertson writes in her book, I Didn't Come Here to Make Friends, that Flajnik told her if she did the show their relationship would be over. Now that they've broken up anyway, she deserves that second chance. She was the bubbliest member of Juan Pablo's season, and just a delight to watch in general. Does she have dancing skills? I don't even care. Just give me more Free Spirit. She was the runner-up on Chris Soules' season and won a lot of people over with her sweet demeanor. I feel like the Becca we saw on The Bachelor was very withdrawn until later in the season, so I'd love to see her come out of her shell a little more. A dancing show could be the perfect way to make that happen. DWTS is just an excellent way for America to still get to watch this sweet, smartly dressed man every Monday. Do we need more reason than that? Sure, Arie's in a happy relationship, but just because he can't do a dating show doesn't mean he can't go on a dancing show! I don't know if he has moves, but I'm still willing to bet he could bring some fire to the dance floor. I wasn't a huge fan of Ashley I. on The Bachelor. She seemed pretty mean-spirited. But once I saw her on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as a normal person, I realized she was actually pretty cool. I'd love to see her be able to share that cool side with the world by doing something like DWTS. Petition for Ashley S. to be on every reality show ever because she keeps it real, and she's hilarious. With all of Mark Zuckerberg's grand plans to save the world, it'd be pretty awkward if Facebook met the same fate as MySpace. And that might just happen: a new research report by asset-management firm Piper Jaffray indicates that, for teens, Facebook is so last year. Twitter has officially overtaken Facebook as the most important social-networking site to adolescents, and Instagram is steadily creeping up on both. Handily, Facebook owns Instagram, but Zuck will still wince when he reads teens' cavalier accounts of Facebook being a thing of the past: "If you make a Twitter and an Instagram, then you'll just kind of forget about Facebook," said one 14-year-old. Zuckerberg admitted in September that Facebook was no longer a "cool" product, but maintained that it was still a popular one — according to Business Insider, Facebook won't release statistics, but anonymous execs claim that adolescents use Facebook more than they say. In a talk at the Atlantic, Zuck laughed off fears that Facebook would lose its "cool" factor: People assume that we’re trying to be cool. It’s never been my goal. I’m the least cool person there is! We’re almost 10 years old so we’re definitely not a niche thing any more so that kind of angle for coolness is done for us. But everybody knows that if there's one demographic deeply concerned with what is and isn't "cool," it's teens. Seriously: the Facebook drops in the Piper Jaffray graph are sharper than cliff faces. Piper Jaffray releases a report on the social-networking habits of American teenagers four times a year, and the latest marks the 26th report. For the last 25, Facebook had beaten all its competitors. In July, Zuckerberg assured investors that Facebook monopolized the social-networking arena for American teenagers. Since advertisers have their pick of sites to choose from when it comes to targeted ads, it's in Zuck's interest to pretend nothing's wrong — but last week, Facebook unexpectedly rolled out a change to teens' privacy policy. The change allowed teenagers to share their posts with "Public," which they couldn't do before. The move was widely seen as an attempt to sweeten up advertisers — if teens are sharing all their personal information, advertisers can better target ads at them — who, let's remember, have the entire rest of the Internet to pick from when it comes to teens. So this might not be quite so coincidental, or aiming to promote social activism, as Facebook put it. Thankfully, it seems the scary reports about Joni Mitchell's medical condition may not be quite so bad after all. On Monday, TMZ reported that legendary singer Joni Mitchell was unconscious and unresponsive in the hospital, with "no immediate prospects of getting better," — a report that came several weeks after TMZ first reported that Mitchell was rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital. Though TMZ's reports claimed that Mitchell's condition was bleak, Mitchell's reps have a different comment — and, thankfully, it's a much better one. According to a statement from Mitchell's personal website, posted by Mitchell's representative Leslie Morris, Mitchell is not in a coma, and is expected to make a full recovery. The statement, in full: Contrary to rumors circulating on the Internet today, Joni is not in a coma. Joni is still in the hospital - but she comprehends, she’s alert, and she has her full senses. A full recovery is expected. The document obtained by a certain media outlet simply gives her longtime friend Leslie Morris the authority - in the absence of 24-hour doctor care - to make care decisions for Joni once she leaves the hospital. As we all know, Joni is a strong-willed woman and is nowhere near giving up the fight. Please continue to keep Joni in your thoughts. You may add your well wishes for her at the website WeLoveYouJoni.com. This is, of course, amazing news for family, friends, and fans of the legendary singer. Mitchell's music has given the world so much that to hear she could be in such a dire situation was truly heartbreaking. Mitchell first rose to fame in the late '60s as a folk artist and a singer-songwriter who solidified her place amongst the other musicians of the Woodstock generation. Her music spoke for itself with haunting lyrics, which were often hopeful, tragic, and deeply introspective all at the same time. But while Mitchell wasn't always an optimist on love, her music did feature some important words of wisdom. There's a reason why putting on a Mitchell album makes you feel a bevy of emotions — there's meaning behind those words. Here are some of Mitchell's most important lyrics on life and love that illustrate just what an iconic artist she is — think of it as a celebration of this amazing news. Describes: When you are on the verge of falling in love with the person who refuses to be tied down to anything or anyone. "I've looked at love from both sides now/From give and take and still somehow/It's love's illusion I recall/I really don't know love at all" — "Both Sides, Now" Describes: When you spend hours analyzing your last relationship post-breakup. Some things are meant to be accepted, not understood. "I got a bird that whistles/I got a bird that's singin'/If I don't have you darlin'/Birds don't mean nothin'" — "A Bird That Whistles (Corrina, Corrina)" "When love makes a fool of me/After the rush when you come back down/You're always disappointed/Nothing seems to keep you high" — "Woman Of Heart And Mind" Describes: When the person you love (or loved) now feels like a part of your soul, for better or for worse. "If your head says forget it/But your heart is still smokin'/Call me at the station/The lines are open" — "You Turn Me On I'm A Radio" Oh, Kim and Kanye. Ever the prime example of having so much money that you don't know what to do with it. Maybe I'm being a little bitter upon hearing that Kanye West sent Kim Kardashian a few thousand white roses to her hotel room and also surprised her at dinner with a string quartet playing Sam Smith songs for Mother's Day. Meanwhile, trying to get a single flower from a dude you're dating in NYC is like the most covert and impossible operation known to man — but I digress. West and Kardashian are obviously no strangers to luxury and extravagance, and many of their gift choices for each other support this fact. But extravagance doesn't always mean spending tons of money, my friends. Kanye West does indeed have a flare for the unique and unpredictable, so sometimes his choices veer a little left of conventional gifts for your boo. Kardashian likes to keep things more traditional, but she definitely never skimps on pure lavishness because anything goes when it comes to her husband and her daughter, North. So, in celebration of one of the most over-the-top celebrity couples, I rounded up some of the most ridiculous gifts that West and Kardashian have given to each other, because since they've got the means, they really go for it. For Kardashian's 34th birthday, West commissioned a world renowned artist to paint a $10,000 Hermes purse, Jackson Pollack style. Actually, no. West invited their daughter North to go to town and create a little masterpiece. What ever happened to construction paper? Kardashian told Us Magazine, "I had thought it was this new artist who had painted this purse... [But] it was my daughter. It was amazing." Remember that time West ranted, "I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period." He was referring to his hero Steve Jobs, so for his birthday in 2013, Kardashian decided to give West two computer mice autographed by Jobs and Apple co-creator Steve Wozniak. Oh yeah, and they also got to meet Wozniak in person. Rumors circulated last year that West bought ten Burger King franchises so his girl could expand her empire even further, because who doesn't love french fries? West himself owns a few Fatburger chains in Chicago, so maybe we've got a new family business in the future. In 2012, Kardashian bought her then-boyfriend a rare $750,000 Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 for his birthday. I don't know what any of that means but I know it's expensive, it looks like a Batmobile, and I'm gonna go cry now. Kanye West is really into defacing Hermes bags. As a Christmas gift, the rapper gifted his wife a Birkin bag worth an insane amount of money. But not just any Birkin bag would do for him. He hired contemporary George Condo to paint on the purse and the result was rather terrifying if you ask me. Whatever floats your boat, I guess. In 2012, Kardashian was off to Miami to film her reality show, Kourtney and Kim Take Miami, and West surprised her with a beautiful white kitten named Mercy. The teacup Persian didn't stay with Kardashian long — she discovered she was allergic and gave the cat to her assistant, but little Mercy died of a virus at only four months old. :( Sometimes the simple things really make the most impact. For his 37th birthday, Kardashian got her hands on a My Monopoly board, which wasn't even out in stores yet. She customized the board completely, and replaced the classic Park Avenue and Broadway spaces with locations near and dear to the couple. We know that West got his girl thousands of roses this year for Mother's Day, but he kicked off the tradition on Mother's Day last year. He surprised Kardashian with a wall of roses, peonies, and hydrangeas and it was really, really beautiful. Every year, New York's theatre elite collect at the Tony Awards to honor the many actors, producers, and directors that make Broadway shows possible. This year's Broadway season was exceptional, including such hits as The Elephant Man (starring Bradley Cooper) and Gigi (starring Vanessa Hudgens). However, the Tony Awards have never been known for its exceptional fashion choices. It's even been criticized by the editor-in-chief of Vogue and queen of fashion herself, Anna Wintour, for not being fashionable enough — which is why she stepped in to lend the show a helping hand this year. With the help of Wintour's styling ability, Vogueand KCD helped create this year's red carpet looks. The results were, naturally, amazing. The red carpet began with hosts Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming, who brought their A-game in terms of both talent and fashion. Zac Posen and Oscar de la Renta were all over the carpet tonight. White and metallics were also a huge trend. But those who stood out the most with less conventional dresses really stole the show. Between Vanessa Hudgens' floral Naeem Khan gown to Kendall Jenner's coral sequined Calvin Klein dress, the red carpet at the Tony Awards came alive for the first time in a long time. Here are some of the highlights from tonight's gorgeous looks! Matthew Lewis knows a thing or two about friendship — and not just from playing his Harry Potter character. Of course, when the actor was portraying Neville Longbottom, he showed the ultimate sign of bravery by standing up for his friends in the face of pure evil, but it is worth mentioning that in real life, Matthew Lewis places quite a high value on his friends, as well. The 25-year-old has spoken about how the friends that he made long before he starred in the Potter films have helped keep him grounded in the midst of skyrocketing to international fame. He has also talked about being on a great terms with the cast mates who starred alongside him in the wildly popular movie series. It seems like he not only appreciates the camaraderie of the people around him, but also the deep connection that comes from knowing someone for a very long time or on a much stronger level. We've already explored the reasons why Lewis is celeb crush worthy for reasons other than being, well, hot. So here are some of the best quotes he's said about friendship. If these don't convince you, nothing will! "The one thing I insist on if I’m asked to do something is: Can I bring a mate? So, if I’m in New York doing an interview with USA Today or whatever, it’s nice to be able to look across the room and see my mate Nick from Otley. It keeps me on the ground," he said in an interview with The Telegraph. As to the Telegraph: "I was so lucky: I know a few of the other [Harry Potter stars] had problems [as far as their fame affecting their lives at school]. In the early years, I kept to myself, though I had friends from before Potter, and I’m still friends with them today. They’ve helped me keep my feet on the ground," he said. "In the last film, shooting the big courtyard scene with Ralph Fiennes and Jason Isaacs and all the other guys it was just on a level. That’s not to say I’m on a level with Ralph Fiennes because I’m not, but it felt as if we were all mates doing a job together," he continued. "It's not something that I'm desperate to get away from in such a way that I can't work with any of them. I'd love to — Dan, in particular. I think Dan is such a committed actor. He works so hard and so tirelessly that you can't help but be inspired when you're around him on a film set. I'd love to work with Dan again," he said in a Radio Times interview. "And, I just don't see any reason, just because people know who you are, that you have to be any different. And I think if I was, my friends would let me know. And I'm glad about that," he said in an on-set interview during the Half-Blood Prince. "None of them get jealous or anything like that. And it's just a close group of friends I've got back home that they just deal with it. And the fact that they can have a laugh with it is great and all that," he said in the same Half-Blood Prince interview. On Once Upon A Time, characters are constantly coming and going according to what the story of the moment calls for, so it's best not to get too attached to anyone outside the main cast. It's hard, however, when you see potential squandered, as is the case with Michael Socha, otherwise known as Will Scarlet, one of Robin Hood's infamous Merry Men. Of course, we first saw him on the short-lived Once spin-off Once Upon A Time In Wonderland , where he helped Alice find her True Love and also mourned the loss of his own in Anastasia. When he joined Once, it was a welcome sight, and he was even given regular status for Season 4... only for Will Scarlet to no longer be part of the main cast in Season 5. It's not completely bad news. Socha will still be around to reprise his role as Will come fall, but in a much more diminished capacity. For anyone who watched last season, you'll probably wonder how much more diminished Will's presence can be before he disappears entirely. The character was criminally underused last year, serving merely as a prop for the whole Rumpel and Belle saga. Will developed a romantic relationship with Belle after she kicked Rumpel to the curb (or, you know, over the Storybrooke town line), a move that created a lot of potential for two underserved residents of the town. Only it didn't really turn out that way: Rumpel came back and used Will to get Belle's heart back, and then Belle unceremoniously dumped Will when Rumpel seemed to be dying (not that Will knows that yet). Obviously things didn't turn out as the writers had planned. If Will Scarlet was intended simply as a pawn to get Rumpel and Belle back together, there was no reason to ever make him a regular. He certainly didn't get the amount of airtime that position would suggest. Of course, it's understandable that developing Will fell by the wayside, given that there were much bigger matters at hand, like the Author trying to destroy everything to let the villains win, Gold nearly dying, Emma becoming the Dark One... you get the drift. Will's little dalliance with a heartbroken Belle — who, let's be honest, had no business rushing into anything else, well, pretty much ever, let alone right away. What else could we realistically expect to happen? In the end, we didn't really get to know Will enough to miss him all that much, but his demotion is worth noting, given that we may soon find ourselves in a similar situation when it comes to Zelena (Rebecca Mader) and Robin (Sean Maguire), both of whom were promoted to series regulars for Season 5 earlier this month. The difference here is that both characters have far more of a chance of sticking around than Will ever did, given their ties to Regina, one of the biggest — and certainly one of the main — characters on the show. They're going to need a little TLC if they don't want to meet the same fate as Socha, but I guess only time will tell. I’ve been glued to my TV set ever since The Cry premiered on the Beeb. If you haven’t been watching the show, it's nail-biting domestic noir based on the Helen FitzGerald novel of the same name, which follows the heart-breaking and tense relationship of Alistair (played by Ewen Leslie) and Joanna (Jenna Coleman), after their baby son Noah disappears. However, now that the four-part series is drawing to an end, I’m been looking for my next big thriller. So, I’ve hunted down some books like The Cry by Helen FitzGerald to read after the show wraps up on Oct. 21 because let’s face it, there’s going to be Jenna Coleman-shaped hole in our lives at the end of the month. From the best-selling crime thrillers of the year to older stalwarts that sit nicely in the genre, I’ve pulled together a list of books you should definitely read if you’re obsessed with the show. Given that we’ll have to wait an entire week for the next episode of The Cry, hopefully one of these will tide you over until we find out what really happened to baby Noah. If you haven't read the FitzGerald book, seriously, do it now. But if you have, check these books out. They are just tense and equally as dramatic if you're looking for your next fix of on-the-edge-of-your-seat literature. You're welcome. Can’t get enough of FitzGerald’s tense prose and conspiracy thrillers? It’s worth picking up one of her more recent novels in that case. Viral is a story that revolves around a girl named Su Oliphant-Brotheridge, whose graduation trip to Magaluf goes horribly wrong when she falls victim of revenge porn, and the footage goes viral. Once news of it hits home and more specifically her mother Ruth, a court judge, Ruth decides to seek out justice against those who took advantage of Su and the novel quickly teeters into revenge fantasy territory. Gripping and cleverly realised, fingers crossed this book also gets a BBC series order. Another domestic thriller on the cards, Our House came out earlier this year and it’s a story you won’t stop thinking about. When strangers suddenly move into Fiona Lawson’s family home and insist that they’ve bought it fair and square, Fiona finds that her estranged husband Bram has suddenly disappeared and made off with their two sons. As with The Cry, there’s a big focus on uncovering the mystery behind his actions and it plays with a non-linear storyline; flashing back and forth throughout time to shed greater light on what transpires in the book. With interweaving storylines, Bram’s past indiscretions change everything for the family as Fiona uncovers his secrets one by one. People went wild for Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train when her thrilling novel and the subsequent Emily Blunt film adaptation came out. Her most recent book Into The Water more than cements her position as one of the world’s most exciting crime novelists, centred this time around a town where a woman named Nel has apparently jumped to her death. However, her sister Jules knows better, especially as her sister was terrified of the Drowning Pool where she passed away and it's her job to force the truth to light. While it’s not as mind-boggling as The Girl on the Train, Into the Water is still a fantastic page-turning thriller that uncovers the seedy underbelly of a town full of apparent do-gooders. This book is one you’ll definitely have seen on the stands recently, as it was one of the summer’s biggest best-sellers. Written by Celeste Ng, the author behind the compelling novel Everything I Never Told You, this family drama centres around a mysterious fire which has claimed the Richardsons’ home in a sleepy American suburb. As with The Cry, tensions over children lie at the heart of the novel as the Richardsons begin to fight with their tenant and the town’s resident black sheep Mia Warren over a fierce custody battle. It’s a brutally honest and sometimes devastating depiction of motherhood in all its fury and unending love. Never mind the title, this psychological thriller is a real page-turner. A master of the domestic noir genre, Her Husband’s Lover is a fantastic example of the form and begins with a tragic car accident which takes the life of Louisa’s husband Sam, as well as their children. After Louise tries to move on with her life and sell her home, Sam’s lover Sophie gets involved and things take a dark and potentially bloody turn as she screams for revenge. Like The Cry, you begin to yo-yo between feeling bad or completely hating the main characters as the story hurtles towards its ferocious ending. And of course to wrap this list up, you can relive Joanna and Alistair's nightmare with the book that started it all. Although Helen FitzGerald's crime thrillers are generally quite solid, this novel was the one that skyrocketed to fame and resulted in the four-part BBC series I'm now obsessed with. If you simply just can't wait till the show's finale, you can read ahead with the original book: however just steel yourself for the fact that it's pretty bleak. 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No one's certain of the whereabouts of Julian Assange although an article from AFP suggests he may leave the country. Julian's been up on charges of rape and sexual this and sexual that - all it would seem because of condoms. Or so the story's been told. And in a strange move, superfeminist Claes Borgström was called in to represent the plaintiffs - and this even before the preliminary investigation was complete? Who is this Claes Borgström anyway? And who is paying his bills? These are questions often heard in the blogosphere. It's fairly certain Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilén are not paying Claes Borgström's bills. He's much too expensive for them. Claes Borgström shares a law firm with former minister of justice Thomas Bodström - the one who finagled with the White House to bust The Pirate Bay, the one who just the other day wrote an op-ed for the social democrat Aftonbladet where he called for even more expansive definitions of rape. The social democrats recently defended the European Data Retention Directive on the grounds that it helps them 'catch more rapists'. And Claes Borgström was the social democrats' minister for equality in the previous cabinet. Borgström's appearance gives a bit away. He's a confrontational type. Not the 007 type of charmer of a Björn Hurtig or the wise sage of a Leif Silbersky. This one has an aggressive agenda. But his words? Ah - as advisor numero uno to current social democrat party boss Mona Sahlin (she won her position because the social democrats didn't allow men to candidate for it - really) on matters of equality, he certainly has a lot of words. Some of his words caught the attention of Maria Ludvigsson at Newsmill when he spoke at last year's politics bash in Almedalen. Ludvigsson (who's seen things like this before in Norway) gets the word - hold onto your seats. Former equality ombudsman Claes Borgström has been working for a while as Mona Sahlin's equality politics theoretician. To succeed as a former something with the classic challenge of renovating the old, he's been given special resources and the renovation is in full swing. At any rate, he told everyone the secret cause of the current world financial meltdown. In the case of the banks and financial institutions that lend out more than they have with no collateral, it's about all the women who weren't involved. At a seminar on 'equality politics' organised by the social democrats, Claes Borgström started things off by deftly drawing the startling conclusion that the financial crisis was caused by a lack of women sitting on corporate boards. Oh yeah, he said, with women running the show for the banks and financial institutions, there'd never have been a crisis. It was even more startling that no one in the SRO room stirred or uttered a word of protest. Borgström seemed to think the lack of reaction was a bit strange, so he followed up the first bomb with a second. Borgström's craze for women in the financial sector and their extraordinary sex-specific ability to steer clear of danger and crises reminds me of conversations I had when studying in Lund. There was always some young man at every event who wanted to garner attention (and maybe approval) by using the Borgström claim that 'The World Would Be A More Peaceful And Better Place If Only More (Or Preferably Only) Women Ruled'™. The obvious retort? 'I agree! The world *would* be better a better place with more Maggie Thatchers!' The new social democrat equality platform (that of Claes Borgström of course) can thus be summarised as follows: because the female sex possesses such extraordinary capabilities, more women should be sitting on corporate boards. And by insisting on quotas to Swedish corporate boards, we shall save the world from both crisis and misery. So there you have it: the current world recession is caused not by the collapse of Fanny Mae, Freddie Mac, and too many banking institutions blindly trusting them but by men oppressing women. This is what you're up against if you stay, Jules. A society where black has been ruled to be white and vice versa, an Alice i Underlandet nightmare where nothing is common sense or follows logic, where everyone talks jabberwocky and chants mantras that nobody understands. Microsoft and their security vassals must be scared shitless. Bill was going to release his Windows Se7en in the Duck Pond on 22 October and fully expected Apple to release their own Snow Leopard a few weeks earlier in September - not enough to build any significant momentum. Then Apple go and pull the rug out from under him by releasing at the end of August. And the worst of it? Snow Leopard's getting rave reviews. And in the two months until Windows Se7en hits the planet harder than A(H1N1) swine flu a lot of damage is going be done to Bill's crumbling empire. And it's not just Bill sweating in his crack. The entire plugin Windows security cottage industry - those most noble of hard drug peddlers - are perspiring profusely in theirs. It must be bloody Niagara Falls back there. Already two days after Intego were dragged to the guillotine they're back again - and they're picking up woodwork resident rodents like - George Hulme? Who the F is George Hulme? Exactly. George Hulme writes 205 word essays and invites everyone to visit him on Twitter to catch up on the latest in security and technology. Thanks but no thanks. We'll be out hunting wild buffalo for the weekend. But thanks for the offer. Maybe next year. Sophos are out too - with what is possibly the most ridiculous clip ever seen at YouTube. The point: their antivirus is faster than Apple's new Anti-Stupidity™? So you can catch dirty trick trojans half a millisecond faster than Apple can? Wow. But can they also catch bigger trojans like their own Sophos Antivirus Trojan Win32.SophosBullshit.X? For that's a trojan too: it sneaks onto systems and corrupts workflows and makes life miserable and expensive for you with no accruing benefits whatsoever. Wise men say you should never wrestle a pig. The reason is simple and straightforward: whilst you might have a practical reason for wrestling, don't count on the pig having one. Pigs love to wrestle. It's their raison d'etre. And because they wrestle for the pure joy of wrestling, they'll wrestle you win or lose and they'll never give up. It's almost like pigs understand intuitively how annoying they can be. As if your frustration with them gives them an inner perverse satisfaction. But don't worry too much about it - it's never a good thing to worry too much about pigs (except their diseases). Just keep in mind that you and the pig enter into that wrestling match on widely disparate premises. This is something which Apple is very fake with. They say in there commercials that Macs don't get Malware (Virus's) but macs have always been open to virus' - just hackers didnt aim at macs because of the limited market share. As Mac fanboys have claimed that they are secure and don't ever get them. Because of the way Macs are. That's the demographic they're targeting. Admittedly one doesn't find people of that caliber outside the Microsoft Duck Pond so they can come as a shock. But they're out there - and they love pigs. Today's meagre offerings not only go farther and are more shameless than those of four days ago - they also expose their perpetrators as dumber than even the most cynical could unreasonably expect. Or how about posting an article with a URL containing non-ASCII pretty quotes? It takes someone dramatically unfamiliar with the Internet and computer technology in general to use such feeble tools and to not understand the exigencies of what's going on. And yet that's precisely what the clowns at Intego did. Their followup to their most recent fiasco is to provide a side by side comparison of Apple's Anti-Stupidity™ with their own antivirus trojan. Do they really not get it? That save for classics like windowspczone and MKCLLNS nobody really cares? Whatever. George Hulme (of InformationWeak) immediately picked up the link up in his latest Tolstoyesque 205 word essay. The task must have worn him out, having to think that deep and work that hard for so long. Here's George's website BTW. He hasn't had time to do much with it yet - he's too busy writing sophisticated articles on security on the Internets and it's only been just over three years - and he still has to find someone who knows how to code the HTMLs. In the meantime - try the spam links! 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Windoze users have to subscribe to multiple antivirus products to have even a sporting chance: statistically these antivirus products - peddled by the clowns mentioned above - can find at most about 60% of the crap hiding on a Windows system. This FUD campaign - and the responses to it - are not about 'PC versus Mac'. Apple might use that tack in their fabulous 'Get a Mac' ads but the campaign's about so much more: it's about Windows versus literally anything else. Windows users can't conceive of a platform that doesn't need antivirus. They can't conceive of a platform that stops black hats from infecting their systems in the first place. The only thing they know is Windows. The Windows lusers like windowspczone and MKCLLNS will rush to purchase Windows Se7en for over $300, beef up their security again for hundreds more with layers of kevlar, rocket launchers, bazookas, and ground to air missiles, and then kid themselves they're OK. Let them - you get the last laugh as always. 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Sycamore Canyon is just a bunch of fun. It is by no means a difficult ride. The north end of the canyon has the highest elevation so any trail heading south is mostly a gradual downhill. The northeast corner of the canyon is known as Martha's Grove and it has a really nice rolling single track running right through the middle of it. The valley runs north and south and so do most of the trails. Sooner or later all the trails run together so it is hard to get lost in the canyon. There is a more advanced trail known as the Crestline or East Ridge trail depending on who you are talking to. There is also an area just north of the canyon known as "Tip-Top" which adds some bonus mileage and elevation. Directions: There are three main parking options. The man trailhead is located at the north end of the canyon and medina is located at the south end. I have not used the HWY 67 option yet. MAIN TRAILHEAD - From I-15 exit at Poway Rd. Take Poway Rd. to Garden Rd. Take Garden Rd. East to Sycamore Canyon Rd. Take Sycamore Canyon Rd. south to the parking lot at the end of the road. MEDINA - NOTE: This trailhead location has changed since a fence went up in August of 2005 after some of the residents complained about trail user noise at the trailhead. From 805S or I15S take 52 East. Exit Mast BLVD. Turn left on Mast. After about 2 miles you will pass a school on your right, just after the school and within sight of the Medina traffic light, turn right into a dirt parking lot. The trailhead is across Mast Blvd from the parking lot. There is a trail that makes its way over towards the orginall trailhead heading west.. HWY 67 - There is also parking off of HWY 67 but I have not used it yet. Check with the San Diego Mountain Biking Website for their directions. Ride Report from FEB 6th 2002: This was an afternoon hooky ride from the office. We blazed out of the office at lunchtime and headed for the trailhead at the north end of the canyon. It was exceptionally warm for a February day even by San Diego standards. From the parking we took a single track off to left of the parking lot as look down fire road that goes down into the canyon. The single track at this point was mostly scrub. This single track eventually took us down to an area called Martha's Grove. This is the area known as Martha's Grove. It was nice and shady here. There was a trail that headed west as well as one that headed south. We took took the trail that headed south. After cruising down the some more single track we were dumped out onto a fire road. From here we went left and climbed a hill. The fire road end a T-intersection just past the top of the hill. We went left (North) from there and continued climbing on a fire road. The climb provided some pretty nice views of the canyon below. After climbing the fire road, Mike (who had not ridden here in some years) discovered that some of the "honey" trails were now gone due to development so we decided to some trail exploration to the west. (We were not northeast of the trailhead.) After some "trail and error" we ended up back at the trailhead. From there we took the main fire road down into the canyon and cruised down past the ranch house. We eventually went around a fence and continued south for a few miles before we turned around. On the way back we went along some single track that runs along the bottom of the west ridge. To the left is Mike Roach working a climb along the west ridge in February 2002. To the right is Michael Paul and Keith Ross working up the same climb in December 2004. Eventually the single track dumped us back on the main fire road north of the ranch house. It was getting close to quitting time back at the office so we took the main fire road back to the trailhead were a nice brewsky was waiting for us. My kinda day of work! December 2004 - The canyon is recovering well from the 2003 fires with plenty of green grass covering the ground. You will certainly have plenty of views now as most of the trees are gone. The Martha's Grove trail now show some exposure that I really had not appreciated before. There has been some extensive work on the trail to control erosion but it sanitized much of the trail. Tip Top is a "bonus" section we typically do in conjunction with Sycamore Canyon. Once we get to the north end of the canyon at the top of Martha's Grove we leave the park on the paved road and hang a right on a dirt road maybe 150 yards of the road. About 2/10ths of mile up the dirt road you come to a gate. Go across the horse crossing and continue up hill as the dirt road is now in the "fire road" category now. At the first intersection, hang a left and continue uphill. You next turn will be a Y junction. Go to the right (you will be coming down from the left on your way back). From here we take the old fireroad uphill where it will dwindle down to a single track. You will eventually come up to a ridge top where you come to a T-junction with another singletrack. There is plenty of exploring to do up here, but we typically hang a right and follow the single track for a ways and then catch the first singletrack to the left and work our way back down the ridge. I'll try to get some better direction up once I do some more exploring in that area. The huge amounts of rain that Southern California has received during the winter of 2004 and 2005 has helped to speed up the rebirth of this place. These pictures do a very poor job of capturing the pure beauty of this place in this magically time of the year. It is amazing to see what the power of flowing water can do to reshape the trails in such a relatively short amount of time Yesterday, I decided to hit up the SDMBA advocacy meeting. The meeting did not start until 7pm and since I work in San Diego and live in North County what to with all that time between work and the meeting. Ah yes, the ole standby….go for a ride. The destination was Spring Canyon just north of the 52. This canyon is eventually going to be annexed into Mission Trails and link Sycamore Canyon/Goodan Ranch to Mission Trails but right now it is well “social” in nature. These trails have been for decades and it is such a poorly guarded secret that most of the public has no idea it is not a fully endorsed trail system. More often than not people assume it is part of Mission Trails Regional Park. The same folks also think these are by far the best trails “in” Mission Trails. Okay enough with the history and issues, this is nice place to ride on real “Preserve Quality” trails, aka singletrack. I decided to take the single speed out today, and while it is generally a good choice for out here, there was one hill that put a beat down on me for a bit. It is all good, as I need the beat down. The return trip back to the trailhead was an all gradually downhill affair that was a bunch of swooping fun. There was enough turns that I only spun out on the singlespeed in a few sections. I’m no racer so it was just set back and enjoy the cruise through those sections. Good stuff. While I could not stay for the entire SDMBA meeting (Had to pick Will up from Hockey practice) it was a good meeting with lots of exciting things brewing in SD County. We have multiple cities interesting in MTB Skills Progression Parks, corporate sponsors getting more involved, and the IMBA trail crew coming out this coming weekend. Lots more stuff as well so stay tuned to tby signing up for the thier free Trailnews letter. On a more painful sidenote, after the meeting, I became aware that I have gotten into some Poison Oak on a “scouting expedition” the day before. Yeah!! At the time of this typing, I’ve got the stuff in a bad way and I’m down with the full regime of Zenfel and the various other products for dealing with the stuff. Not so good times, but hey it sometimes is the price you pay when looking for hidden trail gems. Oh…Almost forgot, I saw two rattlesnakes on this ride and managed to get an picture of one of them. It is only March and I have already seen more snakes that I have in an entire year before. Author MTBBillPosted on March 19, 2009 Categories Advocacy/Trailwork, San DiegoTags Mission Trails, MTRP, Oak Canyon, Poison Oak, Spring Canyon, SycamoreLeave a comment on A quick spin at Spring Canyon Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. 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For the third year, Asian Private Banker has conducted the deepest and widest survey of fund selectors at the private banks to identify which asset managers have achieved excellence throughout 2015, both in terms of performance, and also with pre and post-sale servicing of the private banks. We are honoured and thankful to the 36 key decision makers within fund selection and distribution operations across the 28 private banks who participated in this poll. Congratulations to the winners of the Asian Private Banker Asset Management Awards for Excellence 2016. Asian Private Banker’s Asset Management Awards for Excellence is an opportunity for the asset management industry to gain recognition from leaders in the field of private banking and wealth management. The selection of winners is driven purely by votes submitted by key decision makers of fund selection operations from private banks in Asia, which collectively represent client assets exceeding US$1.5 trillion. Given the vast and diverse needs of various private banks based on their clientele, existing infrastructure and overall business strategy, we extend the depth of our scope to better understand what factors led to subsequent nominations of winners. We request our respondents to nominate winners based on four core factors: investment performance, business performance, service and support and, brand. The single-most objective component of the fund selection and sales process, investment performance is an absolute prerequisite for selecting any single fund product. Be it traditional metrics or otherwise, asset managers’ performance are judged on a 1-year or 3-year period. As private banks continue to mature into an advisory role in an uncertain market and a regulatory environment unconducive to brokerage business, recurring income will play an increasingly vital role in profitability. But recurrence, by definition, requires continuity and, effectively, consistency. From a business perspective, a viable product is not one that simply captivates investors in hot streaks but ideally one that can weather the storm.Business performance should not be valued merely by absolutes in asset inflows and fee generation. Certain products will inevitably serve a purpose with a limited window of opportunity while others are designed to last for a generation and beyond, impacting the nature of asset flows. Given the heavy resources required to on-board, market, sell and manage such products, cost-benefit ratios must be considered. Few private banks can lay claim to truly being a one-stop shop. Large, integrated, global financial institutions may be backed by a resource centre of diverse personnel at the beck and call of relationship managers who have the slightest question about a market, asset class or product, but this is not a reality shared by all. In turn, product providers that wish to distinguish themselves can fill the gap. Be it convenient access to portfolio managers or timely dissemination of research reports, post-sales support is essential to a private bank that simply does not have the scale to cover the entire investment universe. There are very few scenarios worse than having no answer to a question from a client. Funds distribution through private banks is a highly competitive space that truly requires visibility. At the level of the end-client, even though mass marketing is often a retail exercise, there is value in the comfort it offers investors at the high net worth level. At the level of the gatekeeper, visibility does not mean just an online ad or a billboard in the subway. Be it media conferences, self-hosted summits, or industry seminars, it is essential for asset managers not only to be effective marketers but also to showcase their thought leadership and business insights, where appropriate. The age of record-low interest rates is reaching its end. As investors prepare for a series of rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve in the coming months, the need to plan ahead and build flexibility and diversification into portfolios has rarely been as pressing. Incoming hikes, combined with unprecedented global political volatility, have seen a compelling new case for Asian short duration bonds emerge, according to long-time specialists AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM). The Asian short duration bond market is underpinned by fundamental strength, relative value, diversification, and earnings visibility, according to Jim Veneau, AXA IM’s head of fixed income Asia and manager of the firm’s Asian Short Duration Bonds strategy. “One of the benefits of short duration credit is reduced exposure to the business cycle and better cash flow visibility,” he explained, adding that the approach allows for higher conviction bets further along the credit curve to seek a higher yield. And at a time when investments are increasingly vulnerable to external shock, Asian short duration bonds with a targeted final maturity of less than five years offer investors a number of significant advantages, according to AXA IM: RESILIENCE TO RATE-RISE: They are less sensitive than full maturity bonds to interest rate movements RISK-ADJUSTED EDGE: They tend to deliver better risk-adjusted returns than investing in a full maturity bond portfolio because they are less sensitive to rate and credit spread movements EXPOSURE TO UPSIDE DOWNSIDE MITIGATION: The short duration approach focusing on high conviction credit while limiting high volatility long duration bonds may allow participate in the upside of a market but limit the downside NATURAL LIQUIDITY: They have a natural positive liquidity because bonds are constantly maturing, allowing cash to be strategically reinvested at higher interest rates The investment approach is particularly timely as rate rises in the US, UK, and Europe contrast with the limited volatility of the past year in markets such as China, India, and Indonesia, where central banks have injected liquidity to keep markets stable as middle classes expand exponentially. “Overall, short duration bonds offer potential better risk-adjusted returns than a full maturity bond portfolio, particularly at a time when interest rates will rise,” Veneau said. 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Naturally, it was sunday and I didn’t do much, while still having a cold and lying on the couch, with a whole chicken simmering in chicken stock in my la creuset pot, while we were proudly watching the Rugby World cup. It was an experience that was memorable. The first time we watch our country play the rugby world cup and we’re sitting in London. Just the two of us, and one chicken. I wish I could say Wales were playing chicken, but hey, they played hard! I think this is why I believe, that maybe, just maybe if SA had some home made chicken pie, they might have scored another try! Yes, and then maybe we could have won with more than just one point! Well, you cant have everything. At least the spirit was there, and a home made chicken pie that could take both our colds away. This lovely and soothing chicken pie, added by the excitement from the world cup made our sunday memorable. We were just like tweedle doo and tweedle dum sitting on the couch together with our little plates of food ;-p Enough with the pity party, I know you will enjoy this chicken pie and maybe while you enjoy it, maybe then, our team will score another try!! Bring to boil the chicken stock, with the chicken in a saucepan, until the meat falls off the bone. Allow to cool and remove the chicken from the bones, shred slightly with your hands and discard the skin and bones. Make sure there aren’t any fine bones between the chicken. Reserve the chicken stock, you can always freeze it and use it in future for chicken soup. Add the oil to a frying pan and add your onion. Fry for about 10 minutes. Now add your mushrooms. Cook until brown, but still firm and add your chicken and white wine. Mix through and allow to simmer for 5 minutes. Add 2 cups of the reserved chicken stock and allow to simmer for another 10 minutes, mixing every now and then. While this is simmering, take some flour and sprinkle over your work surface. Now roll out your pastry. Place one part in the bottom, in a greased bowl/ tray. Now, mix through the crushed crackers in your chicken filling. Take your chicken-pie filling and scoop it in the dish. Cover with the remaining pastry. I made 2 little hearts from extra pieces of pastry, it adds a little love ;-p Brush with your beaten egg. Remove from the oven and allow to cool. Serve with some veggies or salad, or if you were feeling as worn out and ill, nothing ;-p Just the good ‘ol chicken pie! Almost like the movie, but in this case, I wish I could throw some people in the face with unlimited meatballs covered in tomato sauce! However, it would be a totalwaste, especially if you take into account how tasty they are! After a very frustrating day, I started feeling sorry for myself because I have been eating salads and soups, excercising like a maniac and dealing with total, egotistical morons at work. Usually, I would treat myself to a very tasty warm meal, especially since our London sun has done a disappearing act on us again. Emotional eating much?! I have a countdown for my visit to SA at the end of the year, but now it seems I have a countdown on the scale as well. Pity the weight doesn’t go as fast as the days ;-p So, after much contemplation, I decided that since we currently have our freezer overflowing with mince, I have to make meatballs. Not just any meatballs, I have to think of a new recipe. They are from lean protein after all, so how can I go wrong . However; I want a creamy tomato sauce with it, not the strong, acidic sauce. I have the normal soya cream that I always use, and hey, soya is extra protein is it not? You know, as long as your mind thinks one thing, your stomach and body will the think the same ;-p Well, that is what I keep telling myself! So I will create a Flavour your mince with salt and pepper. Now, sprinkle in your sesame seeds and cumin. Mix it through. and start rolling some meatballs, about the size of a golf ball, or actually whatever size you like! 🙂 Add your olive oil to a hot pan. Start cooking your meatballs. As they are halfway, add your garlic and your tomato puree and shake your meatballs about in the pan so that it can roll around in the puree. Cook for another 5 minutes. Add your spinach and cover the lid for 5 minutes. Now, add your cream and allow to simmer until cooked, which should be another 10 minutes. I plan on serving this with a quinoa and barley type of rice mixture. Very healthy. Probably tastes like nothing, but hey, with a lovely, creamy tomato sauce like the one with the meatballs, you won’t even notice. So to everyone that felt like throwing hot meatballs at someone today, while you are enjoying your dinner, just imagine throwing them with it, and your food will be even yummier!

Human Resources teams are always looking to drive employee engagement, but many overlook the role office design can play in boosting company morale. We sat down with Ben Steen from Namely’s own People Team to learn ten office design ideas that can increase employee engagement. Ben recently joined the Namely team as the Workplace and Facilities Manager. Since starting, the Namely office has undergone a variety of changes. Mouthwash has appeared in the restrooms, and organized supply boxes in the conference rooms now hold a variety of pens and markers. These are just two modest office improvements that Ben has made, and people are already taking notice. Prior to Namely, Ben served as a Facilities Manager for Amazon, opening their fashion photography studio in Brooklyn, and then he learned the ropes of process-driven facilities management at a New York City law firm. At Namely, his experience fuels his vision for how an office should contribute to employee productivity and happiness. Ben and his team make sure that our offices are both accessible and supportive to every member on the team. In Ben’s view, “a workspace should be a clean, safe, open, and collaborative environment with warm lighting, clear signage, well designed breakout spaces, places to focus, and places to have fun.” Without further ado, here are Ben’s top ten office design ideas to make your workspace more productive and engaging: Our workdays are usually filled with an onslaught of digital communication. Keeping a physical message board in the office can give employees a brief relief from the digital vortex. At Namely, we use a letterboard to welcome new hires and post inspirational quotes. By displaying your message board in a prominent location and consistently updating the message, employees will take notice, and check it regularly. It’s a great way to keep employees informed using the physical office space. You can make a workspace more interactive with a simple can of paint. Many of our office walls are painted with chalkboard and whiteboard paint. This allows employees to communicate and brainstorm throughout the office. With just a fresh coat of paint, you can encourage your employees to work through complex challenges or simply share positive messages and kudos using the physical space around them. When you think “company culture,” you probably don’t think about restrooms. However, at Namely we’ve found that there are simple ways to spruce up the restrooms to make employees feel more comfortable. Adding mouthwash, reed diffusers, and even music is a simple way to improve the overall quality of office life. Encourage employee wellness by optimizing your space to support their health initiatives. Namely offers weekly in-office yoga classes, showers for employees who bike or run to work, and storage areas with bike racks. Whether it’s cleaning out an old closet to make room for bikes or setting aside space for workout classes, you can create a workspace that contributes to an active employee lifestyle–with minimal effort. Offer employees the ability to work where they’d like. Be it in a private nook in the library, on an exercise ball, or at a standing desk, you’ll find Namely employees working in a variety of spots. Everybody works differently and if you give employees the option to change up their workspace, you can facilitate a better and more productive office environment. Show employees you appreciate their hard work by celebrating anniversaries. At Namely, we bring in number balloons that represent how many years an employee has been with the company. By recognizing their achievements, you can make employees feel appreciated and excited about each year they spend with the company. It’s an easy way to let the employee and those around them know the employee is a valued member of the team. Make it easy for busy employees to participate in the charity initiatives they care about. We put out boxes for can drives, clothing drives, or set up penny wars fundraisers for local charities. Display these initiatives in a common, high-traffic spot to encourage company-wide participation. This shows your employees that you care about the causes that are important to them. Employees are most engaged when they have meaningful relationships with their peers. It can be hard to maintain personal relationships from a desk, nose in laptop, so it’s important to invest in common areas for employees to congregate. High-traffic spots like kitchens, for example, are a great place to add tables, ping pong, and snacks to make it more inviting. Incorporating natural elements into the office design can make for a warmer and more pleasant atmosphere. Think beyond gray cubicles and white walls–which tend to make an office feel cold. The Namely office is designed to be a bright environment, with fresh flowers at the front desk, plants in common spaces, and big windows that bring the space to life. For most employees, the best part of the workplace is the people. At Namely, whether it’s bagel Monday, afternoon yoga, or an in-office happy hour, employees love the opportunity to come together and socialize. Give your employees the chance to use the office beyond their desks, and in the process, create a more engaged work environment. More than 100 Members of Congress are cosponsors of the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (H.R. 4647). Check the list below to see if your Representative is one of them. If … The species of skunk that literally stands on its front paws when threatened is quickly vanishing from its historic range across our central, eastern, and southern states. Known to be … On tiny whirring wings, hummingbirds may fly thousands of miles north to nest, crossing open waters or high mountains. 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Any doubts over whether the X12000 can really deliver a 4K picture evaporate on setting eyes on its sumptuously detailed and crisp reproduction of Ultra HD Blu-rays such as Lucy and The Revenant. Even Sony’s excellent native 4K projectors don’t do such a pristine job of handling Ultra HD Blu-rays – so it goes without saying that there’s just no comparison between the 4K performance of the X12000 and rival ‘pseudo’ 4K projectors. As well as looking spectacular, the X12000’s gorgeous resolution means that you can push its images much larger than normal, without them starting to look rough or soft. In addition, the image’s resolution and clarity is enhanced by the X12000’s impressive freedom from the fizzing noise that usually accompanies single-chip DLP projection. Even dark scenes look clean and smooth, with the only noise on show generally being natural grain. Also impressive is the X12000’s outstanding colour handling. In Cinema mode colours look especially exquisite, combining consistently natural, balanced tones with seldom-seen levels of tonal subtlety. They deliver flawless blends and stunningly credible skin tones that are free of blocking or ‘patching’ artefacts. I’m not sure if the extreme resolution is helping to unlock the colour finesse or vice versa, but the two talents together are a match made in heaven. Switching to the DCI-P3 setting actually sees the colour performance become better for some sequences; there’s more richness and a genuine sense of extra colour range. However, the results are inconsistent, leaving some sequences looking too yellow, and some skin tones a little peaky. In the end, this scene-by-scene inconsistency was enough to persuade me to stick with the straight Cinema mode. The X12000 makes its premium nature felt with its brightness, too. In Normal lamp mode pictures look far more dynamic and bold than even the 2200 lumens of claimed light output would have led me to expect. Highlights include direct sunlight searing off your screen with levels of intensity that look almost HDR-like at times. The brightness – in conjunction, I suspect, with the X12000’s advanced gamma controls – also enables it to reproduce exceptional amounts of shadow detail in dark scenes. Once again, this helps to keep the sense of 4K clarity consistent; it isn’t only something you appreciate during bright moments. The X12000’s brightness helps it deliver a better picture in rooms containing ambient light than most home cinema projectors, and joins with the exceptional resolution in making it more able than rivals to drive a really big screen. In fact, the brightness is so effective that I couldn’t help but think the X12000 might have been better placed than, say, JVC’s darker D-ILA projectors, to delivering a convincing projected HDR experience. While the X12000 has definitely convinced me that 4K DLP projection is something home cinema fans should be excited about, the sheen is taken off a bit by a few non-4K problems. First, black level performance isn’t that great. Yes, it’s good at reproducing details in dark areas, but the overall tone of those areas is rather grey and ‘milky’ – more so than on some of BenQ’s far cheaper Full HD projectors. There are no options available in the projector’s controls that solve this issue, making the lack of any adjustable dynamic contrast/iris controls feel puzzling. I can only assume that BenQ couldn’t get them to work properly with some aspect of the X12000’s light engine. Another big issue with the X12000 is the rainbow effect. This single-chip DLP issue sees stripes of pure red, green and blue flitting over stand-out bright parts of the picture, especially if you move your eyes around the image. Even though I don’t consider myself particularly susceptible to seeing rainbowing, I found it a fairly routine distraction on the X12000. Especially since the striping appears even over bright scenes, rather than being limited to bright elements of otherwise dark scenes, as is usually the case. Using the projector’s low lamp output reduces the impact of rainbowing to some extent, but it doesn’t fully solve the problem. The X12000 also struggles a little with motion. There’s enough judder with 24p sources to cause camera pans to look quite distracting and low on detail, especially in the context of the 4K glories so evident with relatively static footage. Meanwhile, while watching 50/60Hz 4K content such as the Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk Ultra HD Blu-ray, the picture suffers with fairly stark image striping and fizzing over pronounced details such as strong facial features or the edges of sharply contrasting objects. This noise crops up both during camera pans and over fast-moving objects within the frame. Making sure the resolution booster circuit in the CinemaMaster processing system is turned off improves judder somewhat, but the ‘CTI’ and ‘LTI’ features had no obvious impact. As mentioned earlier, while I’m not usually a fan of motion processing on projectors, this is one instance when I found myself wishing BenQ had provided something for me to at least experiment. While the X12000 delivers a spectacularly detailed picture with 4K footage, it isn’t a particularly brilliant upscaler of HD sources. On the upside, it suppresses source noise quite effectively while adding four times as many pixels to the image. However, the resulting pictures look much softer than both the X12000’s native 4K images and upscaled HD images on most other good 4K displays. The softness is such, in fact, that some large-scale shots almost look out of focus in the mid- and far distance. One last issue with the X12000 is that at around 60ms with all the video processing turned off, its input lag (the time it takes to render image data) is a little high for gaming. It’s a pity, too, that BenQ hasn’t included a Game picture preset. If you want to see the cleanest, most detailed 4K pictures yet delivered by a projector then the X12000 is the projector for you. Its brightness also makes it an excellent choice for cinema rooms you can’t completely black-out, or for keeping images bright on big screens. However, it’s a pity that the X12000 doesn’t support Ultra HD Blu-ray’s HDR capabilities. And it’s certainly a shame that the joy of seeing 4K used so effectively is undermined by a mixture of rainbow effect, motion and black level concerns that you don’t get with Sony’s 4K projectors. In fact, given the nature of some of its issues, I can’t help but wonder is BenQ’s cheaper W11000 4K projector, with its more conventional lamp system, might actually turn out to be a stronger performer overall. I’ll try to get hold of a model in the coming weeks. As a first demonstration of the 4K potential of DLP projection technology, the X12000 is a resounding success. However, in other areas there are reminders that the X12000 is simply a starting point for 4K DLP – and, as such, may have taken its spirit of experimentation a step too far. Father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest at the time of the ministry and the crucifixion of Jesus and during the persecution of the disciples a little later. He held a high position among the Jews, and was a leading factor in these persecutions (Luke 3:2; John 18: 13-24; Acts 4:6). Meta. A very influential religious thought of the intellect, that is given over to rites and ceremonies--the outer letter of the word, or form of religion, without the inner spiritual Truth. The Bible history of Annas shows how a merely formal religion will persecute and attempt to kill the inner Christ Spirit and all that pertains to it. A purely intellectual understanding and practice of religion cannot comprehend the deep inspirations of the heart and the loving, forgiving informality and nonresistance of the inner Spirit of truth. Formal religion, apart from the real spirit, is that in man which, when he asks bread, will give him a stone. There is nothing in it truly to satisfy the soul.

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Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. —Isaiah 55:1-2 Paul is often difficult. For example, his teaching on head coverings in 1 Corinthians 11 has been frequently interpreted and applied, or pointedly not applied, in a very reactionary manner. Some Christians see something in the text about a head covering and go on to think how much women with doilies on top would stand out and be d by our current culture, and still further, that if the world would it, then it must be good. Another group looks at the situation and thinks that, well, the world would that, therefore, we probably shouldn't apply that passage; it had to have been a cultural thing. Best not to ask too many questions; best for all concerned. The passage in question is 1 Corinthians 11:2-16. In the course of his discussion, Paul makes it clear three times that his teaching is not confined, or defined, by a particular culture. The context of the head covering issue is the relationship between God, Christ, man and woman in v. 3, which does not change from culture to culture. He goes on to appeal to "nature itself" in v. 14 and explains that none of the churches of God differ on this teaching (v. 16). So whether this passage applies to us or not is therefore not really the question. It is very clear that what ever principle Paul is teaching about head coverings applies to us. A question does remain, however. How is the passage to be understood? Once the principle of head coverings has been accepted, the next question to be answered is, "what is a head covering?" The simple and clear answer of this passage is that it is hair. "...if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him" (v. 14), because his head is uncovered (v.4). "But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering" (v. 15). The reason for the covering is that the relationship between a man and a woman reflects the relationship between Christ and His church. This teaching is explained more in depth in Ephesians 5, but we may notice here how the 1 Cor. 11 passage begins with a reference to how Christ is the head of man, man is the head of woman, and God is the head of Christ (v. 3). The doctrine of headship is, not surprisingly, related to Paul's doctrine of hair. In Ephesians 5, Paul discusses the creation ordinance of a man and a woman coming together, and then says: "This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church" (v. 32). The mystery of marriage is a reflection of Christ and His church. This understanding is emphasized from a different angle here in 1 Corinthians 11. "For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man" (v. 7). Here we learn that in the area of head coverings, the male is to reflect God's relationship to mankind, while the female is to reflect mankind's relationship with God. This does not set up a "spiritual worthiness" pecking order. It is simply a reflection of the order of creation. In the first chapter of Genesis, the creation of mankind is described for us. "So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He made him; male and female He created them" (v. 27). Both man and woman are created in God's image, and both together are described as man. So in 1 Corinthians 11, Paul is not teaching that men are deities and women are mortals; we are both created in God's image. Men, however, analogically reflect God's authority in the marriage, and women analogically reflect mankind's submission to Him. Thus, in a very important way, women are the representatives of men. This understanding of headship is crucial to this passage. When a man and a woman come together they are picture of Christ and His church; therefore, they reflect this in an outward sign, which is the way they wear their hair. Long hair on a woman is a sign that she is in submission. Short hair on a man is a sign that he is leading. These two together are a picture to the outside world of Christ and His church. A man, of course, is also in submission to the authorities over him, but that is not the relationship depicted here. A common question then asked is, "what about the Nazaritic vow?" One of the features of a Nazaritic vow was that the man did not cut his hair (Num. 6:5-6). Given the principle already described, we could reason that this is simply a special situation where a man reflects another relationship, which is his submission to God. But in this special situation, long hair means the same thing--submission. Another difficulty that comes up is the understanding of v. 6. "For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered." A shaved head on a woman was a sign that the woman was a temple , a common practice in Corinth. The temple to Aphrodite in that city was staffed with a thousand such s. A difficulty with this reply arises when one notices that being uncovered and being shaved signify the same thing. Yet, being uncovered doesn't necessarily mean that the woman is already shaved, or else there would be no need for Paul's ironic order to go all the way and shave her head. Being uncovered therefore cannot just mean not having long hair. This problem is often used by Christians who believe that their women should be wearing a cloth or a shawl while praying. Their point is that this passage teaches that a woman's long hair is a sign to show us that women need an additional covering--her shawl, a napkin or whatever. A woman who then prays without her additional covering should then have her primary covering (her hair) removed (shaved). However, the Bible gives a better explanation elsewhere of another understanding of what it is for a woman to be uncovered. Numbers 5 describes the bitter water ceremony, which is a test for women charged with ery. The process begins with the priest uncovering the woman's head (v. 18). This refers to the woman's hair being let down. Women at that time customarily wore their hair either up, or, if it was down, tied behind the head. When a woman's head was uncovered it meant that the hair was unloosed and disheveled, which was taken as a sign to the world that the woman was not in submission to her husband. The principle here is that a woman can wear her hair down and loose in such a way that it signifies that she is in rebellion. This principle is also very dear in ancient Greek literature. Commonly, whenever the women rebel against their husbands, especially when their rebellion involved demonic worship, there were continual references in classical literature to their hair being let loose and wild. This principle was dear in ancient Israel, classical Greece, during Paul's life, and, not surprisingly, is still evident today. The current grunge movement is an obvious example. When a woman wears her hair down in front of her face and leaves it unkempt, or has her head shaved, the whole world knows that she is saying that she is in rebellion. Both styles seem to say the same thing. When a man has short hair, we say he is "clean cut". This carries the connotation of a nice, responsible, young man. Whether he truly is responsible or is an Eddy Haskel is really not the question. The question is what does his hair say about him? In the same way, whether the woman is truly in rebellion or not is not the question. Frequently the is a sweet , not at all in rebellion, but that is not what her hair is saying about her. So the principle taught is that a man ought to have short hair that reflects his leadership. The woman ought to have long hair done nicely in a way that reflects her submission. Her hair is a glory to her (v. 15). Invariably, after reaching this conclusion someone asks, "How long is long, and how short is short?" Well, it is interesting that people don't usually have a difficult time distinguishing between these two outside the context of this passage. Whatever youhave previously called short hair, is probably what is short hair, and likewise with long. In examining this passage closely, however, it is interesting to note that Paul does not spend time addressing this question. He doesn't give any length requirements in inches or cubits. We do not have here a Pauline "dress code." The problem he is addressing is masculinity and femininity reflected in hair length and style, and what someone's hair says about that particular person. In this sense, this passage definitely reflects cultural practices, because hair style is a cultural category. Culture may determine variations in the length of long hair, or variations in the length of short hair. However, if a culture is the outward manifestation of a society's beliefs, if culture is religion externalized, then the culture of those that believe in the gospel should look radically different from the unbelieving cultures. And in 1 Corinthians 11, Paul is telling us of one way that God has prescribed for His people to look different. Our religion reaches our hair. shouldn't apply that passage; it had to have been a cultural thing. Best not to ask too many questions; best for all concerned. The passage in question is 1 Corinthians 11:2-16. In the course of his discussion, Paul makes it clear three times that his teaching is not confined, or defined, by a particular culture. The context of the head covering issue is the relationship between God, Christ, man and woman in v. 3, which does not change from culture to culture. He goes on to appeal to "nature itself" in v. 14 and explains that none of the churches of God differ on this teaching (v. 16). So whether this passage applies to us or not is therefore not really the question. It is very clear that what ever principle Paul is teaching about head coverings applies to us. A question does remain, however. nvariably, after reaching this conclusion someone asks, "How long is long, and how short is short?" Well, it is interesting that people don't usually have a difficult time distinguishing between these two outside the context of this passage. Whatever youhave previously called short hair, is probably what is short hair, and likewise with long. And in 1 Corinthians 11, Paul is telling us of one way that God has prescribed for His people to look different. Our religion reaches our hair. May I ask simply a few questions? Do you believe that a woman, based on your interesting interpretation, ought to wear her hair ‘up’ in public worship? I suspect that having got rid of cloth coverings by your interpretation - which was the historic position of the Church - you really don't care whether women cover in the sense you claim this passage speaks of. Just saying that they ought not to have it in a 'wild' manner will not do. A nice neat style, not too short, not down in front of the face, etc all fall short of what you say Paul is referring to. I don’t see Paul saying, ‘when I say uncovered I mean what some say is referred to in Numbers [though they do not get that from the Numbers passage itself, which I would have thought, based on other Scriptures, meant a vial.] namely, letting the hair hang down rather than gathered up, and thus you in public worship must do likewise, that is - for you in your day - don’t let your women have very short or extremely untidy hair.’ I also suspect that these general principles for women’s hair would not be enforced to much – especially since it would be very subjective debates that would take place. Furthermore, since this is an additional requirement for public worship does that mean that outside worship a woman can have wild hair-styles as long as it is ‘long[ish]’? This would be strange since gathered-up hair – or your ‘tidy’ - is a mark of submission to her husband or father. Is she allowed to abandon the visible sign of submission? Indeed, if gathered-up hair is a sign of submission generally as your interpretation claims it to be, how does it become an additional covering to show specific male leadership in the public worship of God. In other words, either she can abandon this sign of general submission in daily life – thus bearing a bad testimony before the world – and put it on for public worship as you say Paul commands, or, she can always have this sign of submission and thus have no additional sign to place on for public worship. Paul is speaking of an additional sign, more than the creation sign of long hair; gathered-up hair can not be the sign he refers to since it is a general sign, and not something that is put on for public worship and taken off again afterwards. I think the fact that men are told to have uncovered heads in public worship – but not outside – also spoils your novel theory. I have not time to get into this debate with you any further just now, though if you wish to debate hair as a covering come to my site and David Silversides may give you a response. May I just also mention one more thing sincerely without trying to be offensive? I would have had more ease in understanding your position if your post was not as filled as it was with spelling mistakes and typing errors. I know how easy it is to miss such errors, but the number in this post made it very difficult to entirely follow your argumentation. You may no doubt find many errors of this kind on my site, though I labour to correct all such before publishing. I should perhaps also note that I am sure you desire to follow the teaching of this passage as all of Scripture, but my point is that your interpretation has a built-in-looseness to it that encourages at least the virtual ignoring of it. And as I said to enforce it in any manner would be extremely difficult due to each persons idea of what is 'wild' and what is not. Nor do I see how this causes Christians to stand out to the world, since the requirement is only for times of public worship. May I suggest a reconsideration of this interpretation? Can I also invite you to read Mr. Silversides’ series looking at the Historic practice of the Church, which by looking at how worthies of the past viewed this passage will also give a good defense of my position. Mr. Silversides also deals a little with the passage directly himself, both in the posts themselves and some of the comments. http://puritanismtoday.wordpress.com/2006/05/31/is-headcovering-biblical-1/ or, via my profile. G.M., The spelling mistakes and typing errors are more likely the fault of some sort of hyperactive filter Pastor Lawyer has installed (and it is he, not Mr. Merkle, who posted this, though the latter wrote it). This filter blocks words like prostitute and, it would seem, ridicule from escaping the confines of the computer to wreak mischief upon the world. As a side effect, it makes for challenging reading. I have similar objections: How do we know that "Women at that time customarily wore their hair either up, or, if it was down, tied behind the head" and that uncovering in Numbers 5 means letting down? Why does the church seem to have been of one mind about the need for additional covering until the last few decades or so? And why do we seem to have first let the culture drive our decision to go without an additional covering, and then suddenly found ways to explain away the need of it? (I'm not accusing Mr. Merkle individually of being dishonest about this, but I find it awfully suspicious in general.) Why the seeming attention to the issue of headcovering in worship as opposed to everyday life unless St. Paul had something different in mind? And my perennial question about this passage: What's so glorious about hair, anyway? I wear an additional covering because, despite Mr. Merkle's fine arguments, that still seems the plainest reading of the passage to me. (And besides, I own a fabulous snood collection, and whatever else would I do with them?) But please, someone shoot me if I ever start thinking that the covering is The Main Thing. Before anything else I like the look of your blog, though I have not read much yet. I usually get some idea of the theology of a blog by the list of links! Sorry for not understanding who wrote the post. And also for not guessing that it was more than just a little careless editing - though some just type and publish without editing when it comes to blogging and commenting. I was trying to think of a way of stating some of the objections you have raised but had to leave them due to time restraints. The others about first throwing off the practice due to feminism and then inventing ingenious interpretations is spot on - though this is general and does not personally apply to every objector to additional head covering. While the subject is important, you are right, it is not the main thing. However I think that an attitude goes with the abandoning of the practice that often affects the home, society and the Church - I mean when the sign of submission goes in worship, often the submission goes, in part at least, in general. Would you agree? "...when the sign of submission goes in worship, often the submission goes, in part at least, in general. Would you agree?" I can only go by my observations on that one, so I really don't have enough evidence to agree. But I would have to say that I believe the focus should be on restoring the biblical ordering of the sexes in the church an in the family rather than directly on restoring the sign. Also, as I've told a few women here and there, headcovering is, by and large, not a women's issue. A wife is to be about the business of submitting to her husband, and this is just one area where she needs to seek and accept his direction. Some of the most godly, submissive wives I know do not cover. I'm sure they would if their husbands wanted them to do so. I have one friend who really wanted to cover, and her husband said no, and she argued with him for ages before it finally occurred to her that she was being an idiot and knocked it off. I'm single, so I made the decision on my own, but I've counseled other single women to chat with their elders about it. And as soon as headcovering becomes a contentious issue in the body of Christ, we've all gone off the rails. Wives should submit to their own husbands. Husbands should tend the gardens of their own families. Everybody should mind his own business. I think it unwise for congregations or denominations to set hard and fast rules on issues such as this (though shepherds should unabashedly preach their understanding of scriptural teaching on the matter). There is good thinking to be found on both sides, and it's not worth disrupting the peace over an issue that can be left to individual consciences without devastating consequences. First I should say that many - usually non-reformed - churches that practice additional headcovering neither know why they cover, nor, exemplify submission. And, conversely many who do not cover in this way know why they don't, and do exemplify submission. My point was that often the sign was, and is being, abandoned due to a general change in the attitudes of women, or more particularly due to the men who fear offending them. (Just as an aside modern men generally have become useless wimps how have abdicated most of their God-given responsibilities. And I perhaps do not differ as much as I would like to, or even as much as I think I do.) When it is restored in Reformed churches, as it was in mine, it is due to a desire to recover both the purity of worship, and the glorious role of women in the church and family. Perhaps it would be more correct to say that the general submission begins to go, and the sign often follows. Thus the abandonment of the sign is a sign, and the recovery of it is often a sign. And thus it should have some importance placed upon it. I agree that the husband is responsible to God for his wife not covering. But I believe that she is also responsible; and because she is not to obey her husband when he asks her to sin, she must obey God and cover in public worship. I would be interested to know how many men believe it sinful for a woman to wear an additional covering; because if they do not believe it to be so, then they should not try to stop her from doing what she believes to be right. But then many men are more feministic than their wives, and are thus greatly incensed at Paul's teaching. Since covering is an issue of public worship I believe it falls under the regulative principle of worship, and so is a matter for the church and not just personal conscience. It is also an offence to Christian men, and thus a woman who does not believe it to be a sin to conform - as I believe few do - ought to do so for her brothers in Christ, and the peace of the church. And if they have husbands, then they ought to tell them to do so. Remember, Paul says it is a sign of rebellion against male leadership in public worship, and thus the order of God's Church and God himself. Unlike many other sins, this is by its very nature public and contentious; let those who refuse to conform ask if it is worth such consequences to display their 'freedom'. They of course should also consider that the plainest sense of the passage, and the weight of Church history is thoroughly against their interpretation. This, or rather, the host of novel explanations of this passage have followed, and sit snug with, rebellion in the Church, not reformation. However it is not a just reason for causing a schism in a church as the Ulster Free Presbyterians and some fundamentalists hold. G.M., thank you for the graciousness of your conversation. I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on a couple points, though. "...because she is not to obey her husband when he asks her to sin, she must obey God and cover in public worship." It is a fundamental rule of hermeneutics that clearer passages must be used to interpret less clear passages, and not the other way around. Scripture is repeatedly clear about a wife's call to submit to her husband. We have numerous passages exhorting her to do so, which no one but the most dishonest of readers disputes. With regard to many other sins -- murder, blasphemy, adultery, gossip and so on -- we likewise have a multitude of clear scriptural teaching. But with regard to headcovering, we have only the one passage -- 1 Corinthians 11 -- which is hardly crystal clear. While a woman may and must disobey her husband if he directs her to a clear infraction of God's law ("I'm sorry, dear, but I must decline to rob the bank for you"), she may not discard the clear command to submit in favor of the much vaguer directive to cover. If the Lord's gracious providence ever does include marriage for me, and my husband believes there is no need for a woman to cover, and prefers that I not do so, I will leave my snoods and scarves in their drawer with the clearest of consciences, trusting that God honors my obedience to my husband as the higher obedience to Him. "Since covering is an issue of public worship I believe it falls under the regulative principle of worship, and so is a matter for the church and not just personal conscience." First, as I am not, nor ever shall be, a ruler in Christ's church, I offer these thoughts with trepidation, but they are my sincere and strong beliefs. I hope that Pastor Lawyer will at some point join the conversation and offer his views, as well. If the shepherds of the church have strong convictions about headcovering, they should certainly teach those convictions. But an an issue such as this, on which faithful Christians with a high esteem for Scripture hold differing views, I believe it would be foolish for a session of elders to attempt to enforce a standard with regard to headcovering -- either in favor or in opposition to the practice. At least under our current circumstances, with many faithful Christians on either side of the issue, the thought of excommunicating anyone over such a matter is abhorrent to me. And when we discuss whether or not a church should require something, let's make no mistake that we are talking about whether or not someone should be cut off from Christ's body for failure to adhere to the requirement. With regard to headcoverings, perish the thought! I suppose we are unlikely to come to full agreement since I believe the passage to be both crystal clear and enough to make it part of the desired reformation of the church. Because I believe this I can not agree that a wife should not cover because her husband asks her to. It is simply sin, and she must never obey a call to sin. But don't misunderstand me I have a high view of the husbands authority, and I do think she ought only to disobey when she is fully convinced that to obey would mean her committing a transgression of God’s law. (This of course means that a woman should only marry a man she has confidence will lead her in paths of righteousness – though evidently not infallibly. It is obvious that this also causes me to differ on how local elders should handle refusal to conform. I think that a lady - or her husband - who wishes to be contentious by removing the sign should find another congregation where such is not offensive. I think however that she and her husband, if she has one, should be reasoned with from the scriptures privately before any decision is made on either side. If someone persisted in non-covering, and refused to attend somewhere that did not feel offence at such – and remember refused to conform for the peace of the church – and had been counseled over a period of time on the issue, they would be guilty of obstinate rebelliousness, unteachableness, and failure to act in a peaceful fashion. It would be this that would bring discipline and not differing on the interpretation of Corinthians chapter eleven as such. In my congregation one may worship without headcovering, but they can not partake of the Lord’s table while they remain in open rebellion. There are few symbols in the simple pattern of New Testament public worship, but such as there are must be important. The elders are responsible to keep the Worship of God pure and entire, thus they may not change the symbols of the Lord’s Supper or Baptism; and they may not treat this one as unimportant either. Like the, essentially, one command for women to keep silence in the church of God this one is clear and plain. Unlike many issues that can privately be differed on - that is from the church officers and standards - this one is public by its very nature. It thus causes continued public offence to the saints, to God who says how he is to be worshiped, and to the angels who love to see redeemed men glorify God in obeying his commands (See 1st Corinthians 11). I likewise appreciate the gracious nature of your responses. If I come across at all in a manner other than humble and gracious please accept my apology; I certainly do not mean to do so.

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Sumatra (Sumatera in Bahasa Indonesia) is the world's six largest island, with an area of 473,481 square km and a population of around 50 million. The Bukit Barisan mountains, stretching parallel to the island's western coast, contain several active volcanoes. Sumatra is located on the "Pacific Rim of Fire", a seismic active zone. The Lake Toba eruption (between 75,500 and 67,500 BP) is regarded one of the most destructive volcanic eruptions in history. The tsunami of 2004 had its epicenter in the Indian Ocean just west of Sumatra and caused severe damage, especially in and near Aceh. Sumatra once was connected to the Asian mainland; and because of changes in the sea level, then at times was an island, at times connected to Java, the Malay Peninsula and even Borneo. As late as 17,000 BC, such a connection still was the case [Cribb]. The island consists of diverse ecozones : the eastern coastal lands, the central highlands, the western coast. Throughout most of its history, Sumatra was divided into a number of polities; only under Dutch colonial rule, after the conquest of Aceh in 1903/1908 was the island politically united. Humans arrived on Sumatra "long before it became an island" [Crossroads p.32]. Paleolithic and Mesolithic stone tools have been found at a number of places. The Neolithic (farming) is believed to have arrived with Austronesian settlers [2000-500 BCE, Crossroads p.32]; the usage of metal tools began some time after 500 BCE. A Sanskrit text of the Ramayana from the third century BCE refers to a gold-rich island or region called Suvarnadvipa. In later sources, this term was used specifically for Sumatra [Crossroads]. During the first millennium, Sumatra did export gold and forest products. The oldest known polity on Sumatra was Kantoli (S. Sumatra), c.500 CE. Vaishnavite Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism early on competed for influence. From the 7th century to 1290, the maritime Empire of Srivijaya (Palembang is believed to have been the capital) controlled much of Srivijaya (except parts of the west coast). Srivijaya was a center of Buddhist studies. A number of stone inscriptions in Kawi script scattered over Sumatra refer to Srivijaya. In the 1025, Srivijaya was raided and briefly controled by the South Indian Chola Dynasty. The capital of Srivijaya seems to have moved from Palembang to Jambi. Marco Polo in 1292 visited Samudra Pasai (northern Sumatra, which he called Java minor); his account reports nearby Ferlec (= Perlac) already having been Muslim. When Ibn Battuta visited Samudra Pasai in 1345, it was already a Muslim polity ruled by a Sultan and it had been since at least 1326, as attested by a local gravestone [Crossroads]. Visitors from the 13th to the 16th century also attest a great difference in lifestyle, as well as animosity, between peoples living on the coast and those dwelling in the interior. 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Credit: Wikimedia Commons. “All I can do is voice my tremendous admiration for the determination of the Trump administration to move forward with moving the embassy.” (February 26, 2018 / JNS) After much speculation over when U.S. President Donald Trump would make good on his campaign promise, the United States announced on Feb. 23 that it will move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May. U.S. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert released a statement saying, “In May, the United States plans to open a new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. The opening will coincide with Israel’s 70th anniversary. … We are excited about taking this historic step, and look forward with anticipation to the May opening.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked President Trump during Sunday’s cabinet meeting. “This is a great moment for the citizens of Israel, and this is an historic moment for the State of Israel,” he said. “This will have significant and historic long-range implications. On behalf of the entire government and people, I would like to thank President Trump for both his leadership and his friendship. President Trump, you are a great friend of the State of Israel, and we all thank you.” America’s announcement in December that it officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and that it planned to move its embassy to Jerusalem sent shockwaves around the world. The news caused joy or dismay, depending on who was asked. Longtime Israeli diplomat Dore Gold, who most recently served as Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is now president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, told JNS: “All I can do is voice my tremendous admiration for the determination of the Trump administration to move forward with moving the embassy.” “In some respects,” added Gold, “this is a continuation of the U.S. policy from the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act, which was supported by both parties but never implemented. Trump is acting to move forward on something that he had promised.” While there are voices that claim that the Arab world will react negatively, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro disagrees. “Arab governments and the Arab public have other items higher on their agenda,” he told JNS. “It’s not that they don’t care about the Palestinian issue or Jerusalem. Many Arab governments see Israel as a strategic partner, and many of these Arab states seek a positive relationship with President Trump. I’m not surprised there hasn’t been a strong reaction in the Arab world, and I don’t think there will be one in May either.” Gold agreed that Arab states would not view the move as negatively as some would expect, and that there are a number of aspects to keep in mind. He believes Trump’s decision is important for domestically and internationally; it shows he can keep his word. Gold also explained that for Arab states that rely on “the wings of the American eagle for security,” seeing a U.S. president stand strong, even if it is for Israel, means that he will stand strong for them as well. Asked if he thought other countries would follow suit in recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving their embassies there, he noted: “Keep in mind that the U.S. was the first country to recognize Israel—within minutes—after it announced independence in 1948. After the U.S. recognized Israel, other countries followed. So I think it’s likely, yes.” The embassy move is perceived by many as a setback to the prospect for peace. Shapiro is convinced that the embassy most certainly should move, as long as it is accompanied by, and included within, a broader framework that advances the peace process toward a two-state solution. According to Shapiro, “evidently, the administration wanted to choose a symbolic date. The bigger question is not will the embassy move, which it should, but will the administration take the opportunity to describe the move in the broader context of the peace plan?” That plan is being spearheaded by Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and special representative for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt. Former U.S. ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in January 2017. Credit: Mark Neiman/GPO. Shapiro said he hopes the Trump administration will not make the same mistake in May that it made in December when, he said, it should have reassured the Palestinians by placing the move in a broader context of the peace process. “It is important to bear in mind that this is a sensitive subject for the Palestinians,” he said. “Ultimately,” said Shapiro, “this is really just completing the process that the Trump administration began in December.” Professor Efraim Inbar, president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, told JNS that he believes the embassy move would be “a historic justice.” He noted that “it is an important step in normalizing the status of Jerusalem,” and agreed with Gold that “other countries will follow the American example.” Referring to the angry Palestinian reaction in December and Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas’s speech in the United Nations last week, Inbar stated: “The Palestinians cannot ignore America. They are making a mistake in adopting this position. After all, Trump left the issues of borders to negotiation. Going against the U.S. president is never wise.” Skeptics have voiced concern over the timing of the move and questioned whether this is the ideal moment for the United States to make such a controversial statement. “I am definitely in favor of moving the embassy, and once the decision has been made, there is no reason not to implement it immediately,” said Shapiro. “It could have been done in December.” Select shaft length: 8mm (5/16") 5mm 6mm (1/4") 7mm 9mm 10mm (3/8") 12mm (1/2") 14mm (9/16") 16mm (5/8") 18mm (3/4")

Originally intending to be an actor, Keith Fraase fell in love with behind-the-camera work while at the University of Texas at Austin. Then he thought he wanted to be a cinematographer, but eventually fell into an apprentice editor job with Sandra Adair, ACE, to replace a friend who was leaving that position on Elvis and Annabelle (2007). From Adair, he learned a work ethic, a sense of a film family and a love of editing that would serve him well after she later referred him to director Terrence Malick. Malick’s productions are known for their relentless pace, with multiple editors collaborating on any given film. Fraase originally interviewed to apprentice on the iconoclastic filmmaker’s The Tree of Life (2011), but heard nothing back. It would be two years before the film finally moved out of pre-production and Fraase, who had been editing corporate work in the meantime, finally got the call for the job; he was credited as “artistic consultant” on the film. Ultimately, Fraase became lead editor on Malick’s next film, To the Wonder (2012), and stayed with him for seven years. The director’s style of filmmaking, and the vast amount of footage it encompasses, also proved a perfect training ground for Fraase’s first documentary project, Amir Bar-Lev’s Grateful Dead film, Long Strange Trip (2017). Eager to work on a more classically styled film, Fraase jumped at the chance when college friends who had written the script for the upcoming Chappaquiddick approached him to meet its director, John Curran. The feature film, which opens April 6 through Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures, depicts the scandal that eventually ended the presidential prospects of Democratic Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy (Jason Clarke), after he drove his car off a bridge, killing its passenger — an aspiring political strategist and Kennedy insider, Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara). Chappaquiddick, named for the island where the accident took place, presents the logistical truth of the actual events, but focuses on Kennedy, his disastrous decisions and his position within his unique and powerful family. Fraase’s challenge was to maintain empathy for Kennedy as the senator makes unforgivable choices. It was an obvious challenge to be sure, but — emerging from the stylistic difficulties of Terrence Malick’s films, and from a documentary that could have gone in any number of directions — one that proved far more complicated than the editor had anticipated, as he told CineMontage in an interview in January that also covers his work with Malick. CineMontage: Chappaquiddick seems a radical departure for you, both stylistically and process-wise. Both the screenplay and camera moves are specifically designed. Keith Fraase: It’s actually why I took the job. Chappaquiddick was a chance to try something that was more classical. I naively went into it thinking it was going to be a walk in the park, because I had worked on stylistically more adventurous films. But just because a script is fantastically written doesn’t mean it’s going to play fantastically when it’s all put together, or that people will perceive the film’s events in a certain way. When I was reading the script, my feelings toward Ted Kennedy’s character changed from scene to scene — between utter disgust to a sort of empathy for the shadow he lived under, cast by his brothers and his father. Sometimes I was rooting for him, sometimes I wasn’t. KF: It was tricky. The character makes some big mistakes. What is it like to live your life in the shadow of JFK and Bobby Kennedy? It presents a fascinating character, and even more so because it’s real. When I first spoke to John [Curran], I wanted to make sure we never condemned Ted fully, but rather felt empathy for him — not sympathy, but empathy for his position — while also understanding that the things that he did were questionable at best, and horrific at worst. KF: The big thing that we worked on was performance choices. There were certain lines that read beautifully on the page, but when Ted’s character would say them, they would just make you wince with utter disgust for him. After test screenings, we tried to shave away as many of those as possible, to make the character someone you could at least follow through the film and not make you want to walk out of the theatre. Many moments from our first cut were too specific when, as much as possible, we wanted to make what happened the night of the accident a question. It’s not known for sure whether Mary Jo was alive for hours afterwards; she could have died on impact or by drowning in the car. We wanted to say, “This could be happening.” Basically, there’s a moment in the movie where there’s an intercut between Ted doing his nightly routine and Mary Jo in the car. That montage was created to express that this could be happening in Ted’s mind, the thinking of that. Now whether that comes across to the audience, I’m not sure. But we tried to stress the mysteries of that night, and not make a definite choice. KF: There was a scene that occurs after the accident, where Ted and his friends Joe Gargan [Ed Helms] and Paul Markham [Jim Gaffigan] go back to the bridge. Joe and Paul are diving into the water, trying to save Mary Jo, but they are unable to, and Ted says they need to get back. There’s a whole scene that takes place after that in which they’re arguing about what to do. After the first test screening, I thought, “No matter what, this is the scene; it’s gonna stay in the movie because it has hints and is very exciting. But we ultimately ended up cutting that scene from the film because we realized from subsequent test audiences involving 100 people each that things were occurring in the scene that were swaying the needle too much in one direction in terms of how they viewed Ted’s character — and they were never able to get back and feel for him after that point. That totally came from those two screenings. We realized that scene was a linchpin that opened up a dam for us. CM: What is your responsibility when telling a historical story like this one — about people who did or might still exist? KF: I had the luxury as the editor to focus solely on story. It was more John’s job to be aware of the fault lines. I felt it was my job to say, “This is the story that we’re telling. This is how best to achieve that goal.” If too many of us in the editing room are confined by other considerations, we’re going to keep ourselves from experimenting in a way that will produce the most interesting results. But I’ve now worked on two documentaries [including an episode of the Dirty Money series, which became available on Netflix in January] and it’s weird talking about people as characters when they’re real. All of the films I’ve worked on with Terry were in some way autobiographical; Tree of Life deals with the death of his brother, and To the Wonder deals with his second wife. I was very conscious of the fact that when I’m talking about characters who do bad things, sometimes I’m talking to the person who did those bad things. For any film, I try to have love and empathy for every character, whether good or bad. If you maintain that empathy for those characters, then you never have to worry about treading lightly because you really do care about them. I care about everyone in Chappaquiddick. Even if I think that their decisions were wrong, I don’t think that they’re terrible people for making wrong decisions. I just think that they were mistaken. KF: When The Tree of Life was finally ready to go, I was called to interview with Terry. To be honest, I hadn’t seen any of his films and wasn’t aware of his importance to cinema, so I wasn’t awestruck and we were able to have a nice conversation. When he interviews you, he likes to talk about where you’re from. I’m from Houston, which he knows really well. It wasn’t a chat about film; he was interested in me as a person. KF: Terry had always planned to do a movie in tandem with Tree of Life, which eventually became Voyage of Time [2016]; the creation section of Tree of Life would expand to be a 40-minute IMAX movie, released simultaneously. Because the producers had no one else available, I was asked to be assistant editor on it. I of course jumped at that, but really didn’t have the experience for it. But I was brought into a room to sit at a table of 10 people, including Terry, the producers and a visual effects supervisor who had worked on The Matrix and Batman Begins — heavy-hitters. They started asking me about workflow and process. I had no answers for anybody. I basically told them I would check on it and get back to them. It’s the most embarrassing moment of my career. But for whatever reason, they didn’t fire me. KF: An editor was supposed to be hired, but Terry was involved in cutting Tree, and they never got around to it. So, I just started cutting footage. I guess I was ballsy enough back then to grab Terry and pull him into a room to see what I had been doing. He was impressed enough that he started working with me. We ended up having a really good rapport. Part of what I did on Voyage then became the creation sequence in Tree. I worked on Voyage for about two and a half years [ultimately sharing editing credit with Rehman Nizar Ali], then became the lead editor on his next film, To the Wonder. KF: Terry has a very strict dogma, which I learned on Tree. There are exceptions to every rule, but he believes films should be fluid, so he’s always looking for the camera to keep moving, and always wants the actor to move. He wants deep focus as much as possible; he thinks selective focus doesn’t feel real — that it’s the filmmaker placing his own intention on the viewer, when you should be allowed to look around the frame as you please. The screen should be like looking into a window. Before To the Wonder was shot, we had a lot of conversations. It’s a really different process. KF: I don’t put together a rough cut, show it to the director and then have 10 weeks to deliver a final. It’s much more like a documentary. I make selects in a different way than I would for a narrative film, where there are actually takes. Instead, I’m making selects for behavior. I’m looking for interesting things that the actors do. It doesn’t have to include all the lines of the scene. Terry isn’t shooting scenes of a script; he’s giving situations to the actors for them to improvise, and is interested in what surprises him. So I’m just looking for moments of life that don’t feel like a line delivery. That takes a while to figure out with Terry. If I go through a scene and it wasn’t successful because nothing moves me, I might not select anything. For Terry’s films, I’d make three different cuts of each scene, trying to use all of the footage that I had selected from however many hours they shot, to see the different ways a scene could go. We called that “triangulation.” By the time I’m on that third cut, and I’ve used all my main line selects, I’m usually working with scraps of things. I’ll end up making something that I wouldn’t have otherwise intended to make. And sometimes that can produce interesting and surprising results. KF: I think we ultimately had five for To the Wonder. We divide up the movie, differently for each film. We didn’t know exactly how they were all going to fit together. We’ll sit down, all three editors, and spend about a week looking at the different scenes and moving them around in the timeline, trying to find a structure that makes some sort of sense. This is all before Terry gets into the cutting room. The first assembly we did of To the Wonder was nine or 10 hours long. We find the few kernels that are actually igniting and that we think we can make something from. Then we choose a representative cutout of the three cuts we would have made, and Terry comes in. He goes through every scene, every cut. It’s also incredibly frustrating because he is a phenomenal editor in his own right, but he refuses to learn Avid. He basically knows three buttons. He’ll say, “Just do something like this,” press those three buttons and do something amazing. I would beg him to let me teach him Avid but he refused to do it. I think he likes not having the power himself. KF: Terry is all about letting go of intention. He feels his job is not to create, but rather to recognize and select. When something happens, he’ll say, “That I can recognize as strong. We need to hold on to that.” Accidents are like the universe saying, “Hey, this should go here.” I think that’s why he likes to sit back as much as possible. Then we’re not locked when we mix. We mix, and cut, mix and cut four or five times. He wants the soundscape to be part of the creative process. KF: It’s incredibly exhausting. I don’t think I could do it now. We dedicated a lot of our lives to the edit room. I think Terry really believes in overcoming struggle to create something. He likes the feeling that we’re under attack — that we’re racing against the clock, against money running out, or against financiers who want to take the movie away from us. He found a way of expressing himself, and he keeps trying to go down that path. I think for him to continue his journey, it’s good for him to keep changing his crew. Terry’s a kind and wonderful person, and he’s a good friend. And I do think he needs young people who are willing to go the distance with him, who have the stamina to keep going. KF: I was terrified about starting A Long Strange Trip because I had felt that I had never done a documentary. Voyage of Time was technically a documentary, but it’s kind of its own thing. Although this was working with a lot of interview material and voiceover, which Terry used a lot, as well. There was an infinite amount of archival footage, which I had also dealt with before. I was also used to trying to find the story in the images. Sometimes with a narrative film, the story is already mapped out. With documentaries and with Terry’s films, you have to dig deep and find where the narrative is in each image or each sequence. So I ended up being a fantastic fit, and I had a blast. KF: When I came on board, another editor had already been cutting for eight or nine months. At the time it was only going to be like a two-hour movie. They had a rough sort of idea of where the movie was going to go. I was brought on to help finish it. We did end up expanding the film. I helped flesh out the themes and we spent several weeks just doing that, trying to figure out where we wanted the story to go in terms of the themes and the ideas. The only thing I can say that was unique about this process was that we sort of fine-cut as we went along, instead of just doing a very quick, rough edit. Of course, we would go back and change things. But we had the ability to breathe in the editing room, to take our time and really craft something that was layered and nuanced on the first pass. The mass layoffs offer a glimpse of the surging pressure the company is facing to keep up with the ambitious goals Musk has set. Factory workers say they’re being pushed to ramp up work even as their co-workers are being pushed out the door. …

A brief one page review of Superman’s origin–everyone on a distant planet died except for the surviving baby who grew up on Earth to become Superman. Superman delivers a murderess to the governor, there’s some horseplay but no one dies by Superman’s hand. Clark Kent and Lois Lane are reporters for the the DAILY STAR newspaper in an unnamed city working for an unnamed editor. Joe Shuster models the skyscrapers of Superman’s city after the skyline of Toronto from his youth and the name of the newspaper is taken from the TORONTO DAILY STAR, for which Shuster used to work as a paper boy. Lois is abducted, the Action Ace stops the car and shakes out everyone (apparently Superman saves Lois first), they all dash off except for Butch who is hung from a telephone pole, no one dies. Superman investigates political corruption and leaps in the air with the slick lobbyist Alex Greer–no one dies. This first adventure illustrates how Siegel often has Superman follow the links from one bad guy to the next–this has the effect of diminishing the importance of any one villain. The Man of Steel rescues Lois from a firing squad, Superman throws a torturer into a grove of trees (no indication whether he survives). This is the one story where a strong case could be made that Superman may have killed people–either in the scenes shown or behind the scenes where he’s a soldier on the battlefield with Norvell. But it’s pure conjecture to say that he kills anyone, since no actual deaths are shown. Attention all American youth!–a promo ad appears at the bottom of the last page of this adventure for Acquiring Super-Strength in the next issue, although this doesn’t actually appear until ACTION COMICS No. 4. Superman only appears in costume in one panel. For the bulk of the story Kent is disguised as a miner. Clark saves the lives of many trapped miners. The owner of the mine, Blakely, and his rich friends are trapped in the mine until Kent finally rescues them. This is another story where Superman gives a corrupt person a life lesson to make them change their ways–just as he did with Norvell in the previous issue and as he does in the next issue with Burke. Hey Fellers!–on the bottom of the last page, a teaser (probably created by Vin Sullivan) for the Cartoon Contest on the back inside cover. Clark disguises himself to look like Tommy Burke, college football player. Most of the story Superman does not appear in costume. Acquiring Super-Strength–a feature on how to build up your super-powers appears at the bottom of the last page for this adventure. This the first real classic Superman story as it uses many of the conventional features: teaming Lois and Clark on a newspaper story, but showing their rivalry; requiring the Champion of the Oppressed to battle a disaster that threatens a mass of people; forcing the Man of Steel to rescue Lois which inspires her love for the Man of Tomorrow. First appearance of a bow-tie wearing office boy who could be Jimmy Olsen–this unnamed office boy shows up in subsequent stories. The adventure is an early self parody from Siegel and Shuster that predicts Superman’s merchandising which will soon become a deluge, to the benefit of many who had no part in the Man of Steel’s success. Acquiring Super-Strength–a feature on how to build up your strength appears at the bottom of the last page for this adventure (this one is for super-vision). Clark is teased by his co-worker Curly. This may have inspired the character of Steve Lombard, who did the same thing in the ‘70s, ‘80s and a few adventures later. The story gives Siegel and Shuster a chance to show off what their Man of Steel can do. The circus is a frequent theme through Superman’s history and is a metaphor for Superman’s popularity as entertainment. Acquiring Super-Strength–a feature on how to build up your strength appears at the bottom of the last page for this adventure. The Action Ace tries out his high-wire act on three juveniles, but they like it. This shows that Superman’s threats to human life should not be taken too seriously. The Champion of the Oppressed lays waste to the tenements in the slums so the city will be forced to build new housing for the poor. The first in a number of adventures where Superman attempts urban reform through destructive action. This story picks up from events in adventure 8: the police put out a warrant for Superman’s arrest after he has destroyed the slums. famous first words: Krypton, a distant planet so far advanced in evolution that it bears a civilization of super men The first full telling of Superman’s origins on Krypton–the events in this continuity will provide material for other Superman origin stories to follow. This adventure highlights the paradoxical nature of the Clark Kent persona: he is both a heroic journalist and a cowardly reporter. Superman prevents the suicide of ex-heavy-weight champion Larry Trent and then assumes Larry’s identity. Another story where the Champion of the Oppressed makes it his responsibilty to teach a life lesson to an individual. Superman poses as Homer Ramsey and sets up a scheme to bankrupt two shysters who are running an oil well scam. The million dollars that Clark amasses in this story will be put to good use in adventure 17 (ACTION COMICS No. 15). An oil worker places a call to the con men, Meek and Bronson, in Cleveland, which suggests that Superman’s city is supposed to be Cleveland. A short sequence that embellishes on elements from adventure 1 (ACTION COMICS No. 1) and 1A (SUPERMAN No. 1). Lois is sent back to working on the lovelorn desk, after Clark scores his exclusive on the comeback of Larry Trent, which fuels Lane’s anger with Kent; her efforts to get off the lovelorn column and back to the front page is a running theme in the continuities. Superman really goes wild in this one as he goes after speeding, reckless, hit-and-skip and drunk drivers–as well as auto dealers, auto factories, the police and the city. The Man of Steel destroys many motor vehicles and harasses citizens, to impose his will and force his ethic on all. The last panel at the end of this adventure promotes the first appearance of the Bat-Man in DETECTIVE COMICS No. 27. *Note: This was an ashcan comic produced to secure the trademark; interior contents unknown at this time. A watchman shoots at Superman but loses his balance and falls from the construction site–the Man of Steel catches the falling man, but his heart gives out from the stress of the fall. Lois and Clark take several hours by train to travel to New York for the opening of the World’s Fair. This comic was available at the New York World’s Fair in 1939 and its popularity inspired a second issue for 1940. Superman Day was held at the fair on July 3rd, 1940, with a public appearance by Superman (an unknown actor in costume). The Champion of the Oppressed loses his grip on the racketeer in mid-leap when the racketeer attacks him with a knife, the racketeer falls to his death but Superman manages to save himself. The first appearance of the Ultra-Humanite–later simply styled as Ultra–apparently unable to walk, he’s alway in a chair. He is balding but has some hair at the back. A flunky dies when his throat is pierced by a piece of a sawblade that broke on the Man of Steel’s head. The Action Ace crashes into the propeller of the plane carrying Ultra and two of his flunkies, sending the plane crashing to Earth. This is the clearest case of Superman committing murder–however, as Ultra survives (see adventure 16 in ACTION COMICS No. 14), it can’t really be murder. Don’t know about the other flunkies as their fate is never made clear–so it’s possible that the Champion of the Oppressed didn’t really kill anyone in this adventure. With the emergence of Ultra, Siegel establishes one main villain as the architect of all the evils in an adventure. This gets away from Siegel’s tendency to line up several bad guys like dominoes in a story, with no central intelligence behind all of the wrong-doing. cover art: Joe Shuster, with additional design work from Lee O’Meallia–adapted from the splash panel for ACTION COMICS No. 10 (adventure 10) *This issue was not numbered nor cover-dated and may have been intended as a one-shot. There were two other print runs which came out in ’39 after the original May 18th release–the only difference being in the house ad at the back of the book. While Vin Sullivan was credited as editor, M. C. Gaines also worked as an editor on this book asking Siegel and Shuster for additional new material. The bulk of this adventure is the same as that in ACTION COMICS No. 1, which itself had been cut down from the original comic strip that Shuster had illustrated. Additional panels: the elderly Kents find the rocket, adopt the baby, raise Clark–Mrs. Kent’s first name is given as Mary. Additional panels: the grown Clark, now with his full powers, at the Kents’grave–missing is the original sequence that gives an explanation for his powers (an expanded explanation appears elsewhere in the issue). adventure 2 (reprint): when reprinted, an ad for the newspaper strip appears at the bottom of the last page for this adventure, taking the place of the promo for Acquiring Super-Strength. The Opportunity of a Life Time!–two page promotional ad with application coupon for readers to become charter members of the Supermen of America. Sergeant Blake with the riot squad waits outside the elevator, on the bottom floor of an office building, for Superman to emerge; but the sergeant is made a fool when Clark Kent steps out of the elevator instead. house ad for ACTION COMICS No. 14–first printing reads: On sale June 2nd; second and third printing reads: Now on sale. The Ultra-Humanite appears to have been killed though Superman’s efforts; however, adventure 20 (ACTION COMICS No. 20) shows that he survived by using a parachute (no word about his flunkies). This is the first yarn that illustrates how well Lane and Kent work together as an investigative team. Siegel’s script is genuinely emotional given the abuse suffered by the children, which we unfortunately know to be all too common in real life. Superman raises two million dollars to save Kidstown–he has one million from ACTIONS COMICS NO. 11 (adventure 11), so he only needs another mill, which eventually leads Clark Kent on a high seas adventure. Jerry Siegel is in top form with yet another memorable classic from the early days. This continuity provides many wonderful scenes. At the start of this epic yarn, Lois Lane makes an effort with Clark Kent, inviting him to her place, but he steps out on her–later when he returns, she kicks him out! The Man of Steel tosses two subariners in the sea, but their possible death is made irrelevant when the captain blows up the whole sub and everyone on it, including our hero. Princess Tania falls in love with Superman and attempts to seduce him, but he rejects her for the sake of his mission. The first use of Metropolis for Superman’s city in the comic book–previously used in the daily strip. The Ultra-Humanite is called “Ultra” throughout this story and this is the name used in all following adventures. Clark uses his x-ray eyes and super-sensitive ears to spy on reporter Gene Powers and Senator Hastings. The Man of Tomorrow sends an air-ship plunging to Earth–presumably with the pilot still on board (although he could have parachuted to safety). Ultra threatens to kill Superman with a giant gun but it explodes in Ultra’s face, presumably killing him. 1A is a special intro Sunday that appeared in different papers as they picked up the feature–famous first words: Far from Earth rotated the planet Krypton. The DAILY PLANET name is used in the Sunday for December 3rd–it was already in use in the dailies as of November 13th. This continuity uses the same initial set up as in the text story for SUPERMAN No. 2 (adventure 19). The Man of Steel states that he doesn’t know where he comes from when questioned by Lois Lane–or is he just being coy with Lois? Lois is stil trying to get off the lovelorn column and back on the front page–yet her exposé is pushed off the front page by War in Europe. Some art on this continuity (and the next) looks distinctly different from work that’s been identified as Paul Cassidy or Dennis Neville embellsihing Joe Shuster. I am guessing it’s Wayne Boring assisting Joe Shuster. Whitney Ellsworth is editor of record for this issue, taking over from Vincent Sullivan on this title; however, all the stories are reprints so Ellsworth’s influence is in little evidence here. adventure 5 (reprint): Extra–the teaser at the end of this adventure has been altered to promote membership in and prizes from the Supermen of America. The penultimate Ultra yarn, this is by far the best. With most of the Ultra stories, Jerry Siegel delays the revelation of the mastermind, but readers could not possibly have been prepared for this turn events, which is still shocking. This is a short continuity that sets up events for the next continuity which falls outside the mandate of this checklist. Whitney Ellsworth takes over as editor from Vincent Sullivan; however as this story builds on events from the previous issue, it’s likely the adventure was already in the pipeline before Ellsworth came on board as editor. 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You even have the opportunity to hold a game-used bat by a player from your favorite team, or an MLB legend like Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron. Highly recommend. Took the factory tour. Website says they run everyday but it doesn’t mention they run on a skeleton crew. I only saw 3 people actually working. I think it would be better during the week. Also the guy managing the section where you can hold a famous players bat was very rude and I could tell he really didn’t want to be there. Dear helenware - We appreciate you visiting the museum, as well as providing us with your feedback. We are disappointed to hear about your experience. During factory tours, visitors see every step of bat production. Peak production does occur during the weekdays, however a portion of our staff works in the factory on the weekends to not only continue production, but to also demonstrate the bat-making process for our guests. We apologize for the interaction you had with one of our team members. We hate to hear that you had this kind of experience and will be following up with our staff to share your feedback as part of their development. We would be more than happy to provide you with some free passes to visit the factory and museum again during the week. You can contact me at [email protected]. We hope to see you again! Excellent and very informative, things you would have never thought made the bats special to each and every player. They are truly set up for the success of the player. Grandaughter 13 really enjoyed it, she's getting into more sports these days and it let her see how much goes into making the sport work for the players. It is a nice museum, there is a lot to see, and experience. If you are a baseball fan, boy or girl, man or woman, you will appreciate the work that has gone into this museum, both for the exhibits and also the fun you can have as well, looking at how they make bats, how these bats differ in quality and the bats they have on display that were owned and commissioned by the most famous players. A great experience for all ages, and well priced too. We were lucky to go on a day it only cost $5. I wouldn’t want to pay full price for my ticket. Tour was quick and boring. Very generic. HS kids that like baseball enjoyed, but others did not. Gift shop expensive. You do get free souvenir mini bat. Dear Coacheli - Thank you so much for your feedback and visiting the museum. We regret to hear that your tour through our factory was not memorable. We will be sharing this feedback with our team. At the moment, we are in the process of updating our museum. First will be our factory tour, followed by the main gallery. We would be more than happy to provide you with some free passes to visit the factory and museum once the renovations are complete. You can contact me at [email protected]. We hope to see you again! Loved this museum and factory tour. Highly recommend it, especially for baseball fans. I suggest ordering a ticket online and picking the time you want to tour. Great interactive exhibits and outstanding factory tour. Went on a Saturday and there were people working in the factory so we got to see the entire process. Don’t normally rate gift shops but this one is worth visiting. The giant bat outside the factory is quite a sight as well. This was my second trip to the bat factory. Was there several years age with two of our older children and now with our youngest two. They really enjoyed the factory tour and the museum. Getting a chance to hold a bat that had been used by Babe Ruth will be something they will always remember. Great food and service. Had chicken, fish, sausage and kraut, ham and salads on multiple visits. Waiter was prompt, friendly and helpful. Food and wine were excellent and all for a reasonable price! This was our second or third visit to Kaysersberg, but the first this restaurant. We very much liked it. Its outside seating is delightful and the service was very good. My wife had an excellent Flammkuchen (carte flambé) -- given the fact that EVERY restaurant in Kaysersberg (and the rest of the Alsace) offers this dish, this is high praise. I had rognons (kidneys): I know, that's not everyone's dish (including not my wife's), but it is a great French specialty and for those, who like it, this restaurant does a very, very nice job. We highly recommend it. The restaurant choice in Kayserberg is quite daunting. A number of the usual suspects specialising in Alsace cuisine and then some very upmarket options. This place was real find. It has tables outside but we ended up inside on a slightly cool evening. A small space but more net retaining as a result. It is run by the chef and one waiter. Both very friendly and service was not a problem. Our meal was well-paced and very good quality. Worth going and probably worth booking during high season. Arrived at this auberge later in the evening for a drink only but after seeing the menu couldn’t resist the temptation to eat. Delicious food and lovely wine from the local region. We had a great experience. The service and food were both very good. Great option quality price wise in Kaysersberg. The Villa is located on the outskirts of the traditional village of Santa Fe in General Luna,The Philippines showcasing this true paradise which many compare more beautiful than both Boracay and Cebu beaches. It has palm fringed white sand beaches, coral reefs, turquoise waters and world famous Surf breaks of Siargao like Cloud 9, Rock Island and Stimpys Island just to name a few within minutes from your doorstep, everything you need is easily accessible within minutes by boat. Spend your days sunbathing, fishing, island hoping in boat, surfing, scuba diving or relax with a traditional massage. By night you can take in the breathtaking sunsets and enjoy a romantic moonlight dinner on the pier or go and experience the many restaurants and nightlife that General Luna has to offer. The choice is yours and only yours. I was on Siargao for 5 days before booking this place for the last 5 days of my 10 days trip. We had another place rented for the last 5 days but found out it was a party place and we weren’t into that. So...More John we are advertised on a map showing where we are and it says the location village Santa Fe which is a 20 minute ride out of GL. Its wet season now we get many storms and only 1 flight was cancelled. In Siargao sometimes...More

Sam Kois hasn’t been active on Medium yet. Check back later to see their stories, claps, and highlights. On one hand, you say you dont want to be bound by the “heteronormative” framework that somehow binds you as a gay man… while on the other, you seem to refuse to understand that you dont have to be. Like, never. Look, here’s the thing: yes, I go to the gym. Pretty regularly. I enjoy the sheer physical activity of lifting weights, whether it’s bench pressing twice my own body mass or doing an intense set of fifty bicep curls. I do it because I like it, not because it makes me feel like a straight guy. I’m well past the age for dating, so it’s not like I run there every day in the hopes of getting laid over the weekend. No, I’m not on Grindr. The whole hook-up scene is a bit too frail and shallow for my taste. Because my sexual tastes run towards edge play, I like to know a bit more about my potential partners than a few measurements and a headless torso shot. I also know that I’m well past the desirable age for something like that, so I leave it to those who find it, for lack of a better word, useful. Yes, I see the “no Asians, no this, no that” nonsense on there when a friend hauls it up for our amusement while waiting for dinner to be served. But frankly, (1) it doesnt seem as wildly rampant as we keep hearing (which could be more a question of geography than anything else) and (2) why would I bother with someone like that anyway? We keep layering all these expectations on a place whose sole purpose is sexual fantasy. You dont go to Grindr for a LTR. You go there to get off. And if you’re so hardwired that only a specific type will do it for you, then it’s probably best for everyone involved to say so at the outset so there are no hurt feelings. But to expect everyone to say “yes” to you is a bit presumptuous, sorry, especially for a site like this. Not everyone likes blonds as their sexual partners, because they have this fantasy of some dark-haired Greek yelling SPARTA! while plugging their ass. Not everyone likes blue eyes in their sexual partners because they find it too “innocent”. And yes not everyone likes Asians as sexual partners. It happens. I’m sure that even you have those things that get you hot when you wander off into Sexual Fantasy Land, and you have those things that dont. Are they just as shallow as the guys who write “no Asians” on their profile? That, I’m afraid, is really up to you. Or, to put it another frame of reference, while I may have many women friends, that doesnt mean I should feel obligated in fucking them. I have zero interest in them. None. Nada. Does this make me a terrible gay man? If it doesnt, then why do we dump on people who, for the purposes of just getting off, have said, “Look, this doesnt do anything for me”? I’m sorry, but a lot of this comes down to mindset: you can either look at these ads and say “OMG I’m such a victim” or you can say “Whatever, dude. Your loss.” The latter gets you a lot further in life, trust me. Finally, your rather telling statement about feeling like you have to come out every time you mention your boyfriend. Bud, seriously, get over that one right now. If people around you are suddenly uncomfortable with your mentioning your boyfriend, that’s not your problem. It’s theirs. There’s nothing “heteronormative” about that. It’s just what it is. Dont feed into their anxiety with more of your own. Just live an authentic life and let them worry about their own inauthentic ones. You know the old Japanese story about the two monks on a silent pilgrimage? They get to a river, and here’s this beautiful geisha, afraid to cross because she doesnt want to get her expensive silks wet. 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At the present time there is a lively debate within the nuclear community concerning the relevance of quark degrees of freedom in understanding nuclear structure. We outline the key issues and review the impressive progress made recently within the framework of the quark-meson coupling model. In particular, we explain in quite general terms how the modification of the internal structure of hadrons in-medium leads naturally to three- and four-body forces, or equivalently, to density dependent effective interactions. abstractNote = {At the present time there is a lively debate within the nuclear community concerning the relevance of quark degrees of freedom in understanding nuclear structure. We outline the key issues and review the impressive progress made recently within the framework of the quark-meson coupling model. In particular, we explain in quite general terms how the modification of the internal structure of hadrons in-medium leads naturally to three- and four-body forces, or equivalently, to density dependent effective interactions.}, There is a measure of debate within the nuclear community concerning the relevance of quark degrees of freedom in understanding nuclear structure. We briefly outline some of the key issues and review the impressive progress made recently within the framework of the quark-meson coupling model. In particular, we explain in quite general terms how the modification of the internal structure of hadrons in-medium leads naturally to three- and four-body forces, or equivalently to density dependent effective interactions. Elucidation of geodynamic, geochemical, and shock induced processes is limited by challenges to accurately determine molecular fluid equations of state (EOS). High pressure liquid state reactions of carbon species underlie physiochemical mechanisms such as differentiation of planetary interiors, deep carbon sequestration, propellant deflagration, and shock chemistry. In this proceedings paper we introduce a versatile photoacoustic technique developed to measure accurate and precise speeds of sound (SoS) of high pressure molecular fluids and fluid mixtures. SoS of an intermediate boron oxide, HBO{sub 2} are measured up to 0.5 GPa along the 277 C isotherm. A polarized exponential-6 interatomic potential form, parameterizedmore » using our SoS data, enables EOS determinations and corresponding semi-empirical evaluations of >2000 C thermodynamic states including energy release from bororganic formulations. Our thermochemical model propitiously predicts boronated hydrocarbon shock Hugoniot results.« less Using Fabry-Perot interferometry techniques, we have determined the early time rate of energy release from detonating PETN and TNT explosives filled with 5 to 20 wt % of either 5 {mu}m or 18 {mu}m spherical aluminum with the detonation products, and calculate the extent of reaction at 1--3 {mu}s after the detonation. All of the metal in PETN formulations filled with 5 wt % and 10 wt % of either 5 {mu}m or 18 {mu}m aluminum reacted within 1.5 {mu}s, resulting in an increase of 18--22% in energy compared to pure PETN. For TNT formulations, between 5 to 10 wtmore » % aluminum reacts completely with the same timeframe. A reactive flow hydrodynamic code model based on the Zeldovich-von Neumann-Doring (ZND) description of the reaction zone and subsequent reaction product expansion (Taylor wave) is used to address the reaction rate of the aluminum particles with detonation product gases. The detonation product JWL equation of state is derived from that of pure PETN using a parametric normalization methodology.« less An equation of state is computed for a plasma of one flavor quarks interacting through some phenomenological potential, in the Hartree approximation, at zero temperature. Assuming that the confining potential is scalar and color-independent, it is shown that the quarks undergo a first-order mass phase transition. In addition, due to the way screening is introduced, all the thermodynamic quantities computed are independent of the actual shape of the interquark potential. This equation of state is then generalized to a potential with scalar and vector components, Fock corrections are discussed and the case of a several quark flavor plasma is studied.more » 19 refs., 2 figs.« less CO2 Isotherms Measured on Moisture-Equilbrated Argonne Premium Coals at 550C and 15 Mpa (Conference) | OSTI.GOV OSTI.GOV Conference: CO2 Isotherms Measured on Moisture-Equilbrated Argonne Premium Coals at 550C and 15 Mpa Sorption isotherms, which describe the coal’s gas storage capacity, are important for estimating the carbon sequestration potential of coal seams. The DOE-NETL initiated a second inter-laboratory isotherm comparison of coals where CO2 sorption isotherms were collected on moisture-equilibrated coals at temperatures and pressures relevant to CO2 sequestration. Each laboratory used the same coal samples and followed the same general procedure; however, each laboratory used their own apparatus and isotherm measurement technique. This study investigated the inter-laboratory reproducibility of carbon dioxide isotherm measurements on moisture-equilibrated Argonne premium coal samples (Pocahontas #3, Illinois #6, and Beulah Zap). Six independent laboratories provided isotherm data on the three moisture-equilibrated coal samples at 55oC and pressures up to 15 MPa. Agreement among the laboratories was good up to 8 MPa. At the higher pressures, the data among the laboratories diverged significantly for two of the laboratories and coincided reasonably well for four of the laboratories. This work provides guidance for estimating the reproducibility that might be expected when comparing published sorption isotherms on moisture-equilibrated coals from different laboratories. Goodman, A L. CO2 Isotherms Measured on Moisture-Equilbrated Argonne Premium Coals at 550C and 15 Mpa. United States. abstractNote = {Sorption isotherms, which describe the coal’s gas storage capacity, are important for estimating the carbon sequestration potential of coal seams. The DOE-NETL initiated a second inter-laboratory isotherm comparison of coals where CO2 sorption isotherms were collected on moisture-equilibrated coals at temperatures and pressures relevant to CO2 sequestration. Each laboratory used the same coal samples and followed the same general procedure; however, each laboratory used their own apparatus and isotherm measurement technique. This study investigated the inter-laboratory reproducibility of carbon dioxide isotherm measurements on moisture-equilibrated Argonne premium coal samples (Pocahontas #3, Illinois #6, and Beulah Zap). Six independent laboratories provided isotherm data on the three moisture-equilibrated coal samples at 55oC and pressures up to 15 MPa. Agreement among the laboratories was good up to 8 MPa. At the higher pressures, the data among the laboratories diverged significantly for two of the laboratories and coincided reasonably well for four of the laboratories. This work provides guidance for estimating the reproducibility that might be expected when comparing published sorption isotherms on moisture-equilibrated coals from different laboratories.}, Molecular X-ray scattering measured from two of the Argonne premium coals as a tool for studying polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in coals X-ray scattering techniques were used to gain a better understanding of the structural characteristics of the polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in coals. Carbon-carbon distances obtained from Radial Distribution Functions and Pair Correlation Functions agreed well with model distances. Two different calculations of n[sub cc], the average number of nearest neighbor carbons per carbon atom, gave comparable values. For the higher ranked coal an average value of 2.3 was calculated while for the lower carbon content coal, a value of 2.2 was obtained. These values were in the range expected for a substance composed of both aromatic and aliphatic linkages. Separation ofmore » the contributions from aromatic and aliphatic carbon-carbon distances to the first and second peaks in the Pair Correlation Functions showed the higher aromatic content of the higher ranked, higher carbon content coal. Comparison of the experimental data for the coals to model compounds using the Debye Equation showed that the maxima and minima of the experimental curves compared quite well, although the magnitudes did not.« less A recent general model of coal pyrolysis proposed by the authors' research group has as one of its assumptions that the kinetics of primary product evolution are rank-insensitive. This assumption was tested by a thorough examination of data from experiments where only coal type was varied as well as data from similar experiments in the literature. The conclusion was that, with few exceptions, the kinetic rate constants show little variation with rank. However, this conclusion remains controversial. The Argonne premium samples provide an opportunity to further test this assumption with a set of coals that was designed to cover amore » wide range of coal types. A slow, constant heating rate experiment was used, which is the most sensitive to rate variations. A second controversial area is the importance of heating rate on the volatile product yield and distribution. Evidence has been presented which suggests no intrinsic effect of heating rate on pyrolysis yields and other studies have indicated the converse to be true. However, often these studies have been done under sufficiently different experimental conditions that direct comparisons are difficult. Work has indicated a role for heating rate on tar yields for bituminous coals and on tar molecular weight distributions for lignites. The authors plan to extend this work to the Argonne coals in order to better establish these trends. The current paper is concerned primarily with pyrolysis of the Argonne coals under slow heating conditions in a unique TG-FTIR instrument developed in this laboratory. Results from slow heating rate pyrolysis into a FIMS apparatus are also presented.« less Infrared spectroscopy is a well-established method of coal characterization. Aspects of coal structure such as functional groups and hydrogen-bonding and changes in structure during pyrolysis and oxidation have been described through infrared analysis and related to macromolecular processes. In particular, Painter et al, have proposed an FTIR procedure for a fairly exhaustive analysis of coal functional groups. Many of these suggestions are incorporated into the present study for the development of a functional group analysis data base for a set of standard coals. Each of the two sampling methods employed here diffuse reflectance infrared (DRIFT) and KBr pellets, have advantagesmore » and drawbacks in coal analysis. DRIFT suffers from a lower signal-to-noise ratio, but is very sensitive to some infrared bands which do not appear well in transmission spectra. DRIFT is especially useful because coal can be sampled without an interfering matrix, which is important in determinations of OH and water content. KBr pellets, on the other hand, offer the advantages of a high signal-to-noise ratio and better control over sample concentration for quantitative work. The strengths of both methods have been exploited in this study.« less The establishment of the Argonne Premium Sample Bank will allow more meaningful comparisons to be made between pyrolysis studies from different laboratories. This sample bank also provides a good suite of coals for examining rank dependent phenomena, such as the kinetics of primary gas evolution. A recent ''general'' model of coal pyrolysis proposed by our research group has as one of its assumptions that the kinetics of primary product evolution are rank-insensitive. This assumption was tested by a thorough examination of our data from experiments where only coal type was varied as well as data from similar experiments in themore » literature. The conclusion was that, with few exceptions, the kinetic rate constants for individual species evolved from coals pyrolyzed under the same conditions show little variation with rank. However, this conclusion remains controversial. The Argonne premium samples provide an opportunity to further test this assumption with a set of coals that was designed to cover a wide range of coal types. A slow, constant heating rate experiment was used, which is the most sensitive to rate variations. The authors' own work has indicated a role for heating rate on tar yields for bituminous coals and on tar molecular weight distributions for lignites. The authors plan to extend this work to the Argonne coals in order to better establish these trends. The current paper is concerned primarily with pyrolysis of the Argonne coals under slow heating conditions in a unique TG-FTIR instrument developed in the authors' laboratory. Results from slow heating rate pyrolysis into a FIMS apparatus are also presented. Experiments have also been done under rapid heating conditions.« less The objective of this study is to provide detailed information on the types of nitrogen compounds in coals as a function of rank and age. Desorption high resolution mass spectrometry is being used to examine both whole coals and their pyridine extracts. The authors have shown that nitrogen compounds tend to have larger ring numbers compared to all other aromatic clusters. Now they have found that in low rank coals, such as the subbituminous Wyodak-Anderson, the majority of nitrogen containing compounds have one or more oxygens. The most abundant group of molecules have a nitrogen plus two oxygens and anmore » average ring size of four to five. They have evidence that many of these molecules may be derived from alkaloids. In the higher rank coals, the average ring size increases to seven for the medium volatile Upper Freeport coal. These multiple ring nitrogen compounds play an important role in coal processing and in NO{sub x} production and elimination in combustion.« less We have linked the structural and dynamic properties in aqueous solution of amphiphilic charged diblock copolymers poly(butyl acrylate)-b-poly(acrylic acid), PBA-b-PAA, synthesized by controlled radical polymerization, with the physico-chemical characteristics of the samples. Despite product imperfections, the samples self-assemble in melt and aqueous solutions as predicted by monodisperse microphase separation theory. However, the PBA core are abnormally large; the swelling of PBA cores is not due to AA (the Flory parameter ?PBA/PAA, determined at 0.25, means strong segregation), but to h-PBA homopolymers (content determined by liquid chromatography at the point of exclusion and adsorption transition, LC-PEAT). Beside the dominant population of micelles detected by scattering experiments, capillary electrophoresis CE analysis permitted detection of two other populations, one of h-PAA, and the other of free PBA-b-PAA chains, that have very short PBA blocks and never self-assemble. Despite the presence of these free unimers, the self-assembly in solution was found out of equilibrium: the aggregation state is history dependant and no unimer exchange between micelles occurs over months (time-evolution SANS). The high PBA/water interfacial tension, measured at 20 mN/m, prohibits unimer exchange between micelles. PBA-b-PAA solution systems are neither at thermal equilibrium nor completely frozen systems: internal fractionation of individual aggregates can occur. title = {Chemical Analysis and Aqueous Solution Properties of Charged Amphiphilic Block Copolymers PBA-b-PAA Synthesized by MADIX}, author = {Jacquin,M. and Muller, P. and Talingting-Pabalan, R. and Cottet, H. and Berret, J. and Futterer, T. and Theodoly, O.}, abstractNote = {We have linked the structural and dynamic properties in aqueous solution of amphiphilic charged diblock copolymers poly(butyl acrylate)-b-poly(acrylic acid), PBA-b-PAA, synthesized by controlled radical polymerization, with the physico-chemical characteristics of the samples. Despite product imperfections, the samples self-assemble in melt and aqueous solutions as predicted by monodisperse microphase separation theory. However, the PBA core are abnormally large; the swelling of PBA cores is not due to AA (the Flory parameter ?PBA/PAA, determined at 0.25, means strong segregation), but to h-PBA homopolymers (content determined by liquid chromatography at the point of exclusion and adsorption transition, LC-PEAT). Beside the dominant population of micelles detected by scattering experiments, capillary electrophoresis CE analysis permitted detection of two other populations, one of h-PAA, and the other of free PBA-b-PAA chains, that have very short PBA blocks and never self-assemble. Despite the presence of these free unimers, the self-assembly in solution was found out of equilibrium: the aggregation state is history dependant and no unimer exchange between micelles occurs over months (time-evolution SANS). The high PBA/water interfacial tension, measured at 20 mN/m, prohibits unimer exchange between micelles. PBA-b-PAA solution systems are neither at thermal equilibrium nor completely frozen systems: internal fractionation of individual aggregates can occur.}, The interactions of surfactants sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), trimethyltetradecylammonium bromide (TTAB), and Triton X-100 with amphiphilic copolymers of acrylamide and dimethyldodecyl(2-acrylamidoethyl)ammonium bromide (DAMAB) have been investigated in aqueous solutions. The rheological properties of a copolymer/surfactant system are affected by both the microstructure of the copolymer and the nature of the surfactant. Addition of the nonionic surfactant, Triton X-100, resulted in a large increase in the reduced viscosity for the microblocky copolymers with 5 mol % DAMAB, while a radon copolymer with the same composition exhibited a collapsed conformation in the presence of the cationic surfactant, TTAB. A strong viscosity enhancementmore » was observed when SDS was added to the solution of a copolymer containing 0.32 mol % DAMAB. Evidence of mixed micelles formed by surfactant molecules and the hydrophobic groups of the copolymers was obtained utilizing surface tension, pyrene probe fluorescence, and viscometry.« less Surfaces of novel block copolymers with amphiphilic side chains were studied for their ability to influence the adhesion of marine organisms. The surface-active polymer, obtained by grafting fluorinated molecules with hydrophobic and hydrophilic blocks to a block copolymer precursor, showed interesting bioadhesion properties. Two different algal species, one of which adhered strongly to hydrophobic surfaces, and the other, to hydrophilic surfaces, showed notably weak adhesion to the amphiphilic surfaces. Both organisms are known to secrete adhesive macromolecules, with apparently different wetting characteristics, to attach to underwater surfaces. The ability of the amphiphilic surface to undergo an environment-dependent transformation in surfacemore » chemistry when in contact with the extracellular polymeric substances is a possible reason for its antifouling nature. Near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (NEXAFS) was used, in a new approach based on angle-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), to determine the variation in chemical composition within the top few nanometers of the surface and also to study the surface segregation of the amphiphilic block. A mathematical model to extract depth-profile information from the normalized NEXAFS partial electron yield is developed.« less Syntheses of amphiphilic diblock copolymers containing a conjugated block and their self-assembling properties. Core–Shell Structure and Aggregation Number of Micelles Composed of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers and Amphiphilic Heterografted Polymer Brushes Determined by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering A large group of functional nanomaterials employed in biomedical applications, including targeted drug delivery, relies on amphiphilic polymers to encapsulate therapeutic payloads via self-assembly processes. Knowledge of the micelle structures will provide critical insights into design of polymeric drug delivery systems. Core–shell micelles composed of linear diblock copolymers poly(ethylene glycol)-b-poly(caprolactone) (PEG-b-PCL), poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(lactic acid) (PEG-b-PLA), as well as a heterografted brush consisting of a poly(glycidyl methacrylate) backbone with PEG and PLA branches (PGMA-g-PEG/PLA) were characterized by dynamic light scattering (DLS) and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) measurements to gain structural information regarding the particle morphology, core–shell size, and aggregation number. Themore » structural information at this quasi-equilibrium state can also be used as a reference when studying the kinetics of polymer micellization.« less

Fort Collins, CO - Environmental nonprofit organization, Trees, Water & People (TWP) has been awarded the prestigious “Best in America” Seal of Excellence from Independent Charities of America (ICA). The seal is given only to members of ICA who meet the highest standards of public accountability, program effectiveness, and cost effectiveness. Of the 1 million charities operating in the United States, only five percent meet these expectations, and fewer than two thousand charities have been awarded the exclusive seal. Trees, Water & People is dedicated to improving people’s lives by helping communities to protect, conserve and maintain the natural resources upon which their long-term well-being depends. They develop and manage continuing reforestation, watershed protection, renewable energy, appropriate technology, and environmental education programs in Latin America and the American West. TWP’s conservation efforts have been recognized locally, nationally, and internationally. TWP won an Ashden Award in 2005 for their work with ADHESA in Honduras, developing the Justa stove to reduce reduce wood consumption and air pollution from smoke. Labels: Ashden Awards, justa stove, renewable energy, stove, sustainable energy, trees water and people, twp, wood stove Ashland Community and Technical College recognized the 2012-13 scholarship recipients and donors at the annual Scholarship Reception on October 9. The reception, held at the Highlands Museum and Discovery Center in Ashland, honored 147 students, some of whom received more than one scholarship, and more than thirty donors. A total of $243,000 in scholarships was awarded, according to Dr. Kay Adkins, ACTC President and CEO I congratulate the students who have earned these scholarships, and I thank the donors who made the scholarships possible, Dr. Adkins said. For some students, these scholarships make the difference between going to college and not being able to go to college. Our donors, through their generosity, literally make dreams come true. Some of this years scholarships were established by organizations, including American Legion Clarence Fields Post 76, Fifth Third Bank, Kelley Galloway amp; Company PSC, Kentucky Power, Vicky Barouxis Jenkins P.E.O. Chapter AJ, Vanhoose/Big Sandy Foundation and YWCA. My parents believed in the value of education, and they wanted to help others with college the same way that they had been helped, said Carol Kelley, daughter of Harold and Ruie Kelley. My father established the scholarship fund many years ago, and I am pleased that it continues to provide financial support to ACTC students seeking a better life. State-wide scholarships awarded this fall were the John T. Smith, KCTCS Commonwealth, KCTCS President's, Kentucky Colonels and KCTCS Workforce Development scholarships. ACTC institutional scholarships included the Partners in Progress, Pre-Engineering, Talent Grant and Vending scholarships. For information on establishing ACTC scholarships through the Community and Technical College Foundation of Ashland, Inc., ACTCs fund-raising arm, contact Frank Salisbury, ACTC Director of Advancement. Im thankful for this scholarship, said Sarah Robbins, a Catlettsburg resident and 2012 Boyd County High School graduate who plans to go into Elementary Education. It will help me complete a degree at ACTC that I can transfer to the University of Kentucky. She received a Commonwealth of Kentucky Scholarship which is awarded to recent high school graduates who were valedictorians, salutatorians or in the top 10% of their graduating class. It makes you feel good to be recognized for your academic efforts, said Michael R. McNatt, a Catlettsburg resident in the Computers and Information Technology Program. The scholarship will take some of the financial burden of going back to school. McNatt decided to change fields after working for several years in the construction industry. My brother was successful in his business but always regretted not going to college. I didnt want to have those same regrets, and I thought this was the chance to get into a field I will really enjoy. He plans to transfer into a university computer program with the goal of becoming a video game designer. The need to protect children is a universal obligation that is embraced by The Asia Foundation in its work and is explicitly required by some donors. Children who experience exploitation and abuse are less likely to fully participate in their own development, education and well-being, and more likely to suffer mental health issues, reduced educational outcomes and drug and alcohol abuse. The Asia Foundation staff and partners who come into contact with children during delivery of programs are in a position of trust and authority, and should avoid actions or conduct which may constitute poor practice or potentially abusive behavior. While The Asia Foundation has limited programming that provides direct support for implementation with children, we are committed to child protection as set forth in the following policy. The Asia Foundation hosted the 8th annual author workshop of the Asian Approaches to Development Cooperation (AADC) dialogue series. Organized jointly with the Korea Development Institute, the AADC brings together development experts and government officials to address how Asian countries’ engagement in development and South-South cooperation is ch… Read more The Nepal Peace Monitor: Annual Review 2017 report prepared by the Collective Campaign for Peace, presents data collected by the Nepal Peace Monitoring Project and is an effort to contribute to human rights and peace in Nepal by monitoring conflict and the nature of those occurrences. It provides a comprehensive overview of incidents documented thr… Read more Community-based mediation is a proven alternative or complementary mechanism for resolving conflict and ensuring equal access to justice in countries that face a combination of capacity, time and cost, and social and cultural constraints that limit public access to formal legal services. In Asia, mediated dispute resolution has facilitated access t… Read more This week, Alistair Burt, the Minister of State for the Middle East at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, UK, announced Smart Peace, a new four-year program which will deliver innovative conflict resolution programming. The Smart Peace program combines the expertise of consortium members to address the challenges of building sustainable peace i… Read more The Asia Foundation is leading a series of programs to encourage stronger relations between Thailand and the United States. Thailand is America’s oldest friend and ally in Asia, a connection dating to the presidency of James Monroe. However, bilateral relations have been under strain in recent years with the growing influence of China and the chall… Read more The Manila Bulletin reports on a Peace Caravan in Marawi in the Southern Philippines. Members of The Asia Foundation volunteered in the “Duyon Ramahdan, Alang sa Kalilnaw” in Marawi City. The 10-day event, which was held from June 6th to the 15th, was organized by the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP). The Asia Foundat… Read more Despite rapid economic growth, conflict has persisted in many parts of Asia. Peacebuilding efforts have often focused on the role that Western nations or multilateral bodies can play in supporting statebuilding to build peace. South-South cooperation emphasizes supporting peacebuilding efforts in partner countries by drawing on a country’s own relevant experience. The Asia Foundation is a longstanding partner working in Mindanao in support of peace. The Foundation cooperates with all stakeholders in search of peace, including the Philippine government, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the Moro National Liberation Front, and a range of civil society partners across Mindanao. The Foundation supports national… Read more Three and a half years after the withdrawal of the UN peacekeeping mission from Timor-Leste, The Asia Foundation’s new survey on community police perceptions finds that Timorese people are optimistic about the security situation in their country, feelings of insecurity are at their lowest levels in a decade, and there is greater trust in the police… Read more Late last month, a group of young peace advocates sponsored “Piece of Peace,” or POP, an art contest at a public elementary school in the town of Patikul in Sulu, Southern Philippines. The event attracted young artists from the area who showcased their talents… The new set of post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals includes for the first time a target that specifically sets out to promote peaceful and inclusive societies, marking an increase in awareness that peace and security is critical for sustainable development. On August 13, the Philippine polling organization Social Weather Stations (SWS) observed its 30th anniversary with the publication of Filipino Public Opinion on the Bangsamoro Basic Law and the Mamasapano Incident. The report is based on the results of nationwide surveys in March and June, and a February survey in Mindanao, supported by The Asia Foundation. It was an admirable effort. On March 7, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), understaffed with just four commissioners left after the retirement of Chairman Sixto Brillantes, held a symbolic special satellite voter registration of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) members and their families…. January 22 marks the deadline for a new constitution in Nepal, as committed to by all political parties participating in the 2013 Constituent Assembly (CA) elections. But on Tuesday of this week, thousands of police were deployed and schools and shops were shut down in the capital… Conflict-affected areas of Mindanao in the southern Philippines form a complex, unpredictable, and highly dynamic environment that makes development programming very challenging against a backdrop of general urgency. Over the last 15 years, The Asia Foundation has been engaged in Mindanao… Development assistance is founded on countless theories about how foreign taxpayers’ money can be harnessed to instigate and catalyze economic and social development and provide humanitarian benefits abroad. Basic arguments for how positive change can be achieved… Research has transformed medicine, agriculture, and sanitation, and has helped lift many millions out of poverty. Most of the extremely poor people in the world now live in states suffering from conflict. Scholars have studied wars for millennia, but are usually concentrated on how to win them. There is a difficult tension in the evidence-seeking agenda: on the one hand, donors seek short-term, project-related outcomes to support claims about their impact on a grand scale in a society; on the other hand, society-level impact does not seem measurable… As we prepare for the long-awaited March 27 signing in Manila between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro, one of the striking things of the peace process… Since 2001, The Asia Foundation has worked intensively in the development and implementation of facilitated, interest-based mediation and is currently a recognized leader in community mediation in Nepal. The Foundation promotes community mediation as a means to improve access to justice at the local level and establish a culture of conflict resolut… Read more As the focus of building peace in Mindanao shifts from negotiating details to the actual implementation of agreements between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), The Asia Foundation has been asked by both parties to join the five-person Third Party Monitoring Team (TPMT). The Asia Foundation’s new study, “The Contested Corners of Asia,” highlights the growing importance of conflicts that occur within rather than between countries. In recent years, subnational conflicts between national governments and local rebel groups… Aceh – Indonesia’s western-most province which endured three decades of a secessionist civil war that left at least 15,000 dead – is frequently cited as the best recent example in Asia of a successful peace process. However, eight years after the Helsinki accord brought an end to the conflict, new forms of localized violence are now emerging. The Asia Foundation just launched a major new study on development and subnational conflict in Asia. “The Contested Corners of Asia” argues that subnational conflict is the most widespread, deadly, and enduring form of conflict in Asia, and that increasing development and expanding state capacity do not make these conflicts any easier to resolve. A product of a three-year research effort, the study involved nearly 100 researchers, leading subnational conflict experts… When we hear about the current slow pace of negotiations between the government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, we can lose sight of the many concrete achievements made over the years. As peacemakers on both sides of the negotiating table try to learn lessons from past peace efforts… In a study I wrote a number of years ago, I quoted a peace activist in Mindanao lamenting the lack of success in ending the war between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). He was speaking in the wake of President Estrada’s 2000 “all-out war” offensive that overran fixed positions of the MILF. One of the world’s most prominent experts in Afghan art, Mr. Omara Khan Masoudi, director of the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul, was in San Francisco recently on a two-week exchange at the Asian Art Museum as an Asia Foundation Brayton Wilbur, Jr. Fellow in Asian Art. Karl Eikenberry, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and Asia Foundation trustee, wrote in an op-ed in the Financial Times that, “Afghanistan’s future is of course uncertain. Lower levels of international support will inevitably place stress on its security forces, depress the economy… Mindanao dominates the headlines in the Philippines this week for several reasons. There is the horrific aftermath of Typhoon Pablo (known internationally as Bopha), which slammed into an area of the island that typically does not get hit by storms. On a lighter note, but one that also riveted the nation, hometown boxer Manny Pacquiao (from General Santos City in Mindanao) was knocked out this past weekend in a surprise, convincing defeat – leading to speculation about whether his sterling career is on the wane. On October 19, The Asia Foundation held the Manila launch of the book, Dynamics of Gender and Conflict in Mindanao, written by conflict experts Rufa Guiam and Leslie Dwyer. It has been an exciting and emotional 10 days for the peace process between the Philippine government and the country’s largest rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which looks to end 40 years of conflict that has left a reported 150,000 dead and devastated the economy. A fortnight ago I blogged about the energy for peace I found at two very different events in Mindanao. We might now ask: what is the origin of that energy, and of the general surge toward a peace agreement? At first glance, this may seem to have an obvious answer, since it is clear from citizen surveys… For the first time in my life, I am visiting London. Everybody tells me how unusual is the glorious weather we’re enjoying, and that my infatuation with the city might not be as strong if the weather were more normal – gloomy and wet – but I plan to take these first impressions as fixed. In March 2012, a few weeks before Thai New Year which is celebrated every April, a series of explosions rocked a district of Thailand’s Songkla province popular with tourists, and a business district in Yala province. Nearly 1,500 participants from local communities, government agencies, and the armed forces gathered in late May 2012 for a Peace Festival in Thailand’s conflict-affected Deep South. The Peace Festival is the culmination… Nearly 1,500 participants from local communities, government agencies, and the armed forces gathered in late May 2012 for a Peace Festival in Thailand’s conflict-affected Deep South. The Peace Festival is the culmination of a 2-year dialogue initiative launched by The Asia Foundation and local Thai partners. They gathered in the seaside community o… Read more Burma (also known as Myanmar) may be on the verge of a dramatic expansion of international assistance. After last month’s parliamentary by-elections, there is likely to be more support for easing sanctions and increasing foreign assistance to the country to support the changes underway. North Korea’s failed rocket launch accomplished the rarest of feats. The regime managed to simultaneously outrage the world and embarrass itself at the same time. Unfortunately, this increases the likelihood that Pyongyang will undertake a nuclear test… Peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Kuala Lumpur last week featured chocolates on Valentine’s Day. It was a light moment in talks characterized by the Malaysian facilitator as “sincere but tough.” As the next scheduled meeting in March approaches… Since Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war ended in 2009, we’re now witnessing the beginning of reconstruction in the country’s battered North and East. The government is rapidly investing in roads, rail, ports, and telecommunications that help connect marginalized communities with the vibrant, growing capital of Colombo. Just yesterday, on November 15 in Kabul and Washington, D.C., The Asia Foundation released the results of its 2011 Survey of the Afghan People. The annual Survey of the Afghan People is the most comprehensive and credible nationwide poll of public opinion on topics related to national mood, governance, security, and development in Afghanistan. In 2011, the survey polled over 6,300 respondents from all 34 provinces of Afghanistan. Religious leaders received the highest vote of confidence and optimism of the Afghan people among local governance institutions, according to The Asia Foundation’s 2011 Survey of the Afghan People. Seventy percent of respondents say that there should be regular consultation with religious leaders about problems in their area, while 74 percent rank religious leaders… Last week, Nepal’s political parties reached agreement on the future of 19,602 Maoist ex-combatants, breaking years of political log jam. In Asia spoke with Asia Foundation Nepal country representative, George Varughese… Over the past 90 days, the peace process between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has been through the best of times and the worst of times. At the beginning of August, President Noynoy Aquino met… On September 20, former president and head of Afghanistan’s peace process, Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani, received an urgent call while in Dubai: Taliban leaders were ready to talk peace, he was told, and he rushed back to his home in Kabul. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s controversial off-the-cuff remarks made earlier this month on the influence of conservative Islamic groups on the Bangladesh polity, led the Indian government to announce immediately – quite contrary to diplomatic practice – his much-awaited visit to Dhaka on September 6-7. Thailand’s political landscape throughout much of the 20th century was populated by numerous regional or personality-based parties, and characterized by weak coalition governments. Alliances and coalitions were made and broken easily, as parties sought the best deal for their constituents and members. Contrary to the predictions made by the plethora of political pundits watching Thailand’s elections that the Democrats would have difficulty holding their five current seats in Thailand’s Deep South, the Democrats instead ran away with nine out of 11 constituent seats. At a polling station in Chiang Mai province, election officials were busy counting votes just moments after the polls closed for Thailand’s July 3 general election. As counting continued, each ballot was placed aside in a pile, visible to the large crowd observing. Having served as a short-term international observer for the general election in Thailand earlier this month on July 3, I unfortunately became somewhat of an expert in the dark arts of vote buying. As one of 60 observers from the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) deployed around the country… On May 28, 2011, Nepal’s Constituent Assembly (CA) will end its tenure, for the second time, without having completed even a first draft of the constitution. In the lead-up to the deadline, a strike by ethnic and indigenous groups nearly shut down the nation’s capital Kathmandu late last month… Over the last months, the world has watched as uprisings and revolutions have spread across the streets and squares of the Arab world. In Egypt, entire families – mothers, wives, daughters, grandmothers, showed remarkable courage in standing shoulder-to-shoulder with their brothers, sons, and fathers… Earlier this month, the World Bank released its 2011 World Bank Development Report, “Conflict, Security and Development.” This highly ambitious report intends to challenge conventional wisdom and propose a new strategy for the international community to help countries emerge from war, long-running violent conflict, entrenched criminality, and fragility. In my view, the report has accomplished this goal, and in so doing, may change the way we work with fragile states and conflict-affected regions. Since Thailand’s color politics began pitting the People’s Alliance for Democracy’s (PAD) “Yellow-Shirt” movement against the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship’s (UDD) “Red-Shirt” movement, political watchers have insisted that the Thai people are bitterly divided in their loyalties to rival political factions. The view holds that an old-guard elite preference for guided democracy has collided with a populist call from marginalized farmers and wage earners to return Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to power. In 1947, Winston Churchill said “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all others that have been tried.” When Churchill made this remark, Thailand was in the throes of developing a strong dictatorial state headed by the military. But after six decades of impressive economic advancement and social mobility… After nearly eight months without leadership, Nepal’s parliament has elected Jhala Nath Khanal prime minister. In Asia interviewed Asia Foundation Deputy Country Representative in Kathmandu Sagar Prasai about what this news means for the peace process and what lies ahead. Read the interview. A general nervousness around the exit last week of the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN), which monitored Nepal’s struggling peace process since 2007, was evident in political commentaries as early as last November. Perhaps because political pundits expect more from politicians than most of us do, most commentators were hoping that Nepal’s political parties would defy their history of brinkmanship… Often, when the prospect of peace is moving forward at the national level, citizens continue to experience the impacts of conflict, particularly at the local level. This is very much the case in Nepal today – emerging from nearly a decade-long open civil war – as the Constituent Assembly struggles toward a peace process at the national level. These… Read more During last year’s presidential election, Hamid Karzai promised to call a jirga to promote peace and reconciliation for Afghanistan’s future. After two postponements, the peace jirga finally took place in early June with 1,700 delegates gathering in Kabul. Some in the Afghan and international press have criticized the results, but the primary goal… Read more The National Parliament of Timor-Leste officially launches a chapter of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians against Corruption (GOPAC). The establishment of a GOPAC chapter in Timor-Leste, arose in part due to a resolution from the anti-corruption conference held on April 21-22, 2010. The conference brought together members of parliament, a… Read more Around midnight on May 28, 2010, Nepali lawmakers took a stunning last-minute emergency action that served to keep hopes for a democratic constitutional republic and a stable nation alive in Nepal: by an overwhelming majority the Eighth Amendment Bill to the interim constitution to extend the Constituent Assembly’s tenure by one year was passed. Of… Read more On May 28, 2010, three major political parties of Nepal, including the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), signed a three-point agreement pushing the deadline for promulgating a new constitution to May 28, 2011. Without that amendment, the Assembly’s constitutional tenure would have ended without having produced even a first draft of the new constit… Read more The Jakarta Globe features an article about a documentary premiere on the state of Aceh, which served as the centerpiece of a night of discussions about the province and its efforts to rebuild. The Asia Foundation’s Senior Director for Indonesia Programs Sandra Hamid was mentioned for attending the event. Read the full article: “Aceh’s Uneasy Peace… Read more A news brief in The Jakarta Post about Indonesia’s democratic progress features coverage of a book launch for Problems of Democratization in Indonesia: Elections, Institutions and Society, co-written by The Asia Foundation’s Director for Gender and Women’s Participation in Indonesia Hana Satriyo. Read the full article: “Expert praises democratic pr… Read more On election day in the Philippines, The Commission on Elections declared a poll failure in several towns in Lanao del Sur, among them the municipality of Bayang, where a peace covenant signing among local candidates took place in February 2010 to pledge support for the conduct of honest and peaceful elections in the area. While the peace convention… Read more Among the most prominent rido (clan conflict) reconciliations facilitated by The Asia Foundation’s partners in the Philippines is the celebrated resolution to the feud between the Imam and the Macapeges clans. In the small municipality of Matanog in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), the former mayor (Macapeges) and his political riva… Read more In an Agence France-Presse wire story discussing further investigations in the sinking of South Korea’s warship, which confirms the presence of traces of high explosives found on the wreckage, The Asia Foundation’s Center for U.S.-Korea Policy Director Scott Snyder is quoted. Read the full article: “S.Korea: high explosive traces on ship wreckage.” Twenty members of the National Police and over 500 citizens of Bidau-Santana sucos (village) in Dili, Timor-Leste took part in an ancient ceremony, called Tara Bandu, to establish a community-wide agreement for security. The ceremony was presided over by the President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, Jose Ramos Horta, General Commander of… Read more On Nov. 23, 2009, the incident now widely known as the “Maguindanao Massacre,” left 57 unarmed civilians dead. The enormous media attention to this gruesome incident and the resulting local and international public outrage ensured swift action from authorities to arrest and put to trial the suspects in the killing. Amid fears of a looming rido (cla… Read more The May 2010 national and local elections will claim many firsts: the first nationwide automated elections in the Philippines and in Asia, and also the most expensive election in the country’s electoral history. Strange bedfellows share the same stage in campaign sorties (Leftist leaders who were detained by former President Marcos share the same S… Read more In a Los Angeles Times article about North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s trip to China, reportedly in search of funding support, The Asia Foundation’s Center for U.S.-Korea Policy Director Scott Snyder is quoted on the possible motive behind the visit. Read the full article: “North Korean leader in China seeking cash, clout.” Following preliminary evidence from investigations suggesting that a North Korean torpedo caused the sinking of South Korea’s naval ship, World Politics Review interviews The Asia Foundation’s Center for U.S.-Korea Policy Director Scott Snyder on the potential significance for both South and North Korea. Read the full article: “News Spotlight: Sout… Read more In a Philippine Information Agency article about the launch of a Quick Reaction Team related to extra-legal killings and enforced disappearances in Palo, Philippines, The Asia Foundation is credited with sponsoring the program along with the Ateneo Human Rights Center. Read the full article: “Palo hosts launching of Leyte team vs extra-legal killin… Read more Below is an excerpt from Mr. Torres’ chapter “Letting A Thousand Flowers Bloom: Clan Conflicts and their Management” in the newly-published Challenges to Human Security in Complex Situations: The Case of Conflict in the Southern Philippines. Life with rido is being a prisoner in your house. A person without rido can go anywhere. A person with rido… Read more Special to In Asia A constable, his uniform freshly pressed, sits elbow to elbow with more than a dozen local residents in a loud, airless office in Pussellawa, a high-altitude hamlet nestled among the tea plantations of central Sri Lanka’s diverse Kandy district. “We’re limited,” he says. “The area we have to cover is big. We don’t have enough veh… Read more In an article on The Diplomat about South Korea’s rise as a military power and its presence in Afghanistan, The Asia Foundation’s Center for U.S.-Korea Policy Director Scott Snyder is quoted on sensitivities surrounding South Korea’s deployment of troops to Afghanistan. Read the full article: “South Korea’s Secret War.” The bloody, 25-year armed conflict in Sri Lanka is over, but in small, hardscrabble towns like Pussellawa – a high-altitude hamlet in central Sri Lanka – a legacy of rigid, aggressive, inherited policing tactics is preventing police and residents from collaborating to fight a surge in crime. Read more about this in our blog. The Asia Foundation is… Read more In a Huffington Post blog piece about Afghan President Karzai’s May visit to Washington, D.C., and the influential role Afghan ministers play in decision making, The Asia Foundation is recommended as an organization that the State Department should connect the ministers with during their visit in order to raise their visibility with the American pu… Read more In a Sun Star (Philippines) article about the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s pessimism that a breakthrough could be achieved during the latest rounds of peace talks with the Philippine government in Kuala Lumpur, The Asia Foundation’s role as an International Contact Group member is mentioned. Read the full article: “MILF sees no breakthrough in t… Read more Asia Foundation and Australian Agency for International Development Enter Strategic Partnership to Address Challenges in Conflict-Affected and Fragile Regions As the international community searches for new ways to deliver aid and assistance in places affected by conflict and state fragility, the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and The Asia Foundation have formed a strategic partnership to enhance current approaches and explore new methods for supporting development, building pea… Read more The Asia Foundation announced today it will begin repairs on the Lama-e-Shaheed Girls’ School in Kabul—a school with an enrollment of over 4,500 students from kindergarten through 12th grade. With funding from the Janet Ketcham Foundation, The Asia Foundation will make critical improvements on the school building, which was severely damaged during… Read more In a Huffington Post blog post about what would happen to Afghanistan and its citizens if troops were pulled out of the country, The Asia Foundation’s Afghan poll findings about cell phone usage are cited. Read the full article: “Afghanistan: Fallen Soldier’s Mother Asks the Right Question.” In a feature in The Economist detailing the current unrest in Thailand, as well as fears surrounding the royal succession, The Asia Foundation’s 2009 Thailand survey findings are cited. Read the full article: “Thailand’s succession: As father fades, his children fight.” In a Bernama (Malaysia) article about the ongoing peace talks between the Philippine Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), The Asia Foundation’s Country Representative in the Philippines Steven Rood is quoted. Read the full article: “Good Sign For Mindanao Peace.” Radio Australia interviews The Asia Foundation’s Country Representative in the Philippines Steven Rood on the latest setback in peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front with MILF’s rejection of a power sharing proposal put forward by the government. Listen to the interview or read the full transcript: “Philippines ce… Read more Foreign Affairs featured an online article about the status of the renewed peace talks between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. The Asia Foundation’s role on the International Contact Group is mentioned. Read the full article: “Letter From Manila: How to Talk to a MILF.” Radio Australia interviews The Asia Foundation’s Country Representative in the Philippines Steven Rood on the ongoing peace talks between the Philippine government and MILF held at a meeting in Kuala Lumpur. Listen to the interview: “Philippines talks with separatists.” The Asia Foundation’s Country Representative in Indonesia Robin Bush is quoted in a Financial Times article about Indonesia’s strategy for tackling terrorism and Islamic radicalism. Read the full article: “Indonesia’s tactical change pays off.” On a program on KQED’s The Forum with Michael Krasny about the massacre in Mindanao, The Asia Foundation’s Country Representative in the Philippines Steve Rood was a guest. Listen to the program: “Philippines Massacre.” In a New York Times article about the kidnapping on Monday by armed men of a group of 40 people in Mindanao that resulted in at least 21 killed, The Asia Foundation’s Country Representative in the Philippines Steve Rood is quoted on the violence. Read the full article: “21 Filipinos Are Reported Dead in Election Violence.” The Asia Foundation’s office in the Philippines announced it has accepted an invitation from the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to join the newly-formed International Contact Group (ICG). The ICG, agreed upon September 15, is tasked with supporting the next stage of peace negotiation… Read more PBS’ Worldfocus features excerpts from the June 17 In Asia post “In Pakistan: Homeless in their Homeland” by The Asia Foundation’s Senior Program Officer in Pakistan Nadia Tariq Ali. Read the blog post: “Pakistan offensive nears end; refugee crisis just beginning.” In a New York Times article about the Sri Lankan government’s defeat of the Tamil Tigers that ended the over 25 year-long civil war there, The Asia Foundation’s country representative in Sri Lanka Nilan Fernando is quoted. Read the full article: “War’s End in Sri Lanka: Bloody Family Triumph.” In a Voice of America article about the recent protests in Thailand, Tim Meisburger, The Asia Foundation’s Regional Director for Elections and Political Processes, talks about the increased political participation leading to strengthened democracy in Thailand. Read the full article, “Thailand’s Protesters Highlight Rifts, Political Participation.” In response to the situation in Thailand, John Brandon, The Asia Foundation’s Director, International Relations and Associate Director, Washington, D.C., was quoted in a Channel News Asia article about the U.S.’s response to the unrest in Thailand. Read the full article, “US joins other nations in condemning violence in Thailand.” Tim Meisburger’s April 8 In Asia post “Whither Democracy in Thailand?” is excerpted by PBS’s Worldfocus website in a long feature about the situation in Thailand. Meisburger is The Asia Foundation’s Regional Director for Elections and Political Processes. Read the full Worldfocus story, “Escalating political violence in Thailand shuts down summit.” Karl Inderfurth, a member of The Asia Foundation’s Board of Trustees, was published in the New York Times in an op-ed offering a strategy for Afghanistan to become a permanently neutral state via a multilateral process. Read the full op-ed “Ultimate Exit Strategy”. James Klein, The Asia Foundation’s Country Representative in Thailand, has been quoted in the Christian Science Monitor on the protests shutting down Bangkok’s airports. Read the full story “Airport clash grounds Thailand.” The Asia Foundation is supporting next week’s “International Workshop on Autonomy and Armed Separatism in South and Southeast Asia” to be held in Singapore. The Foundation’s Steven Rood, Country Representative, Philippines and Pacific Island Nations Regional Advisor for Local Governance, and Thomas Parks, Regional Director for Conflict and Governan… Read more The Asia Foundation Announces Settlement of Imam-Macapeges RidoFor over six years, the families of Kahir Macapeges and Nasser Imam have engaged in a notoriously bloody war that has left nine relatives and two bystanders dead and 13 wounded. In the small municipality of Matanog in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), the former mayor and… Read more The Asia Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to Asia’s development since 1954, and The McConnell Foundation are entering a new phase of a program to provide community mediation services across 12 districts in Nepal, a country coming out of a decade of insurgent rebellion. The absence of effective courts and the breakdown of traditional me… Read more Book Will Enhance Dialogue and Understanding between Communities and Government Mindanao, home to a majority of the country’s Muslims, is a region suffering from poor infrastructure, high poverty, and violence that has claimed the lives of more than 120,000 in the last three decades. At a ceremony held today at the Intercontinental Hotel Manila, Th… Read more Report Written by Former United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Jeffrey Lunstead Today, The Asia Foundation launched The United States’ Role in Sri Lanka’s Peace Process, a study that analyzes the United States’ involvement in Sri Lanka’s peace process from 2002-2006. The report, released amidst renewed fighting in Sri Lanka’s civil conflict, was… Read more The Asia Foundation to Manage the Coalition for Constituent Assembly Support in Nepal The Asia Foundation, the premier non-profit international organization devoted to peace and development in Asia since 1954, announced today its assistance to a groundbreaking, 18-month program to ensure that all Nepali citizens are informed and equipped to partici… Read more Study Designed to Advance International Community’s Impact in Sri Lanka during Critical Time Yesterday in Washington, The Asia Foundation and the World Bank convened Sri Lankan senior policy makers, conflict experts and members of the diplomatic community to introduce the study, Aid, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka, which analyzes the confl… Read more

During Tuesday’s presidential news conference, Jonathan Karl of ABC News asked the president if he still had “the juice” to get the rest of his agenda through Congress. It was a funny exchange, but also a telling one, less about this president’s ability to maneuver and push policy than about media organizations that are forever looking beyond the moment, so much so that they do little justice to — and demonstrate a marvelous vacuity about — the present. Too many people want to skip — or write off — the second term of this presidency and begin covering the contenders for the next one. O.K., if that’s the way you want it, let’s take a glance at that lot of unbridled ambition and hapless long shots. Get your fill. Then maybe we can get back to talking honestly about the true encumbrances to Obama’s agenda. The president’s issue is not so much his unwillingness to coax or threaten or sweet talk or browbeat. It’s the compromise-resistant form of conservatism in this country that has fed on Obama’s very existence: an illogical, immutable opposition to him. In short, Obama leads an army amassed against him. But, so that we can get this out of our system, here’s a look at the distant 2016 presidential race, the never-ending campaigning and invariably incorrect prognosticating. The likely candidates are in full maneuver mode and the media are hanging on it. No sooner had the Republican Party released its autopsy of why Mitt Romney lost than a slew of Republican upstarts began stampeding over the campaign’s corpse. Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana — who chided his party for being the “stupid party” after the November election — has seen his poll numbers plummet, in part because of his failed, stupid plan to replace the state’s income tax with a higher sales tax. A Southern Media and Opinion Research poll released in March showed that his approval rating had dropped to 38 percent, down from 51 percent in September. Jindal is now even less popular than President Obama in Louisiana, and Obama lost that state by 18 percentage points. The Washington Post reported this week that the F.B.I. was looking into the relationship between the Republican governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell — “Governor Vaginal Probe” (remember that ultrasound bill he supported?) —and an executive who “gave more than $100,000 in political contributions and thousands of dollars more in gifts to McDonnell’s family.” There was Senator Rand Paul’s disastrous speech at Howard University, where he sought to overlook decades of Republican Party hostility to African-Americans, subtly shift his own positions and educate students about a history they already knew all too well. Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey may be the Republicans’ best hope, but it’s not clear that he could even get the nomination: he’s so disliked by the G.O.P. base that he wasn’t even invited to speak at CPAC. One of the biggest laughs during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday came when the host, Conan O’Brien, joked: “I’d like to acknowledge that earlier this evening, there was some confusion with the seating chart. For a moment, someone accidentally sat Governor Chris Christie with the Republicans. That was awkward, and I apologize.” Jeb Bush’s own mother threw him under the campaign bus last week, saying of a possible run by the former governor of Florida, “We’ve had enough Bushes." National Review reported Wednesday that Senator Ted Cruz “is considering a presidential run, according to his friends and confidants.” Enough said. This, of course, leaves Senator Marco Rubio. The problem is that he’s relatively unknown by most Americans. A February Fox News poll found that while 25 percent of respondents said that they thought he would make a good president, 33 percent said that they had never heard of him. Still, because he is Hispanic, the party may believe that he will up their support among that much needed voting bloc. But an April Wall Street Journal/Telemundo survey found that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s approval rating among Hispanics was nearly three times higher than Rubio’s. Clinton is still being coy about whether she can resist the gravitational pull of the most powerful job known to man — or woman — and the history she would make if she won. Last week, the Democratic governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley, announced while visiting Jerusalem that he might consider a run for president. He told reporters, “I plan for the latter half of this year to dedicate some more thought time — reflection time — to the question of whether or not I would run in 2016.” And The Times reported this week that the Democratic governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, who just passed a sweeping gun-control law, would be penning a memoir. We all know that memoirs by rising-star politicians are just 60,000-word résumés for the next job. There you have it, many of the big names at least. (I’m sure you have others.) Now, any of these potentials could straighten things out — make up their minds or clean up their messes — before the next election. There’s time for them. But there’s also time for President Obama. The second term of the Obama administration isn’t over, it’s just beginning. There are three and a half years left, for Pete’s sake. The hapless and the hopeful for 2016 will take care of themselves. In an effort to curb addiction, specialists are looking beyond opiates to treat chronic pain. Shane Savage, an injured military veteran, stopped taking pain medicine and is seeking other ways to cope.Published On May 10, 2014 CreditCreditErich Schlegel for The New York Times On Sept. 3, 2010, the armored truck he was commanding near Kandahar, Afghanistan, was blown apart by a roadside bomb. His head hit the ceiling so hard that his helmet cracked. His left foot was pinned against the dashboard, crushing 24 bones. Sergeant Savage came home eight days later, at age 27, with the signature injuries of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan: severe concussion, post-traumatic stress and chronic pain. Doctors at Fort Hood in Killeen, Tex., did what doctors across the nation do for millions of ordinary Americans: They prescribed powerful narcotic painkillers. What followed was a familiar arc of abuse and dependence and despair. At one point, Sergeant Savage was so desperate that he went into the bathroom and began swallowing narcotic tablets. He would have died had his wife, Hilary, not burst through the door. Today Sergeant Savage has survived, even prevailed, through grit, his family and a radical experiment in managing pain without narcotics. When off-duty, he pulls on cowboy boots and plays with his children, does charity work and, as part of a therapy program, rides horses. The only medication he takes for pain is Celebrex, a non-narcotic drug. “You have to find alternative ways to get out and do stuff to stay active, to get your brain off the thought process of ‘I’m in pain,’ ” said Sergeant Savage, whose ears push out from under a Texas A&M baseball cap. The story of Sergeant Savage illuminates an effort by experts inside and outside the military to change how chronic, or long-term, pain is treated. By some estimates, tens of millions of Americans suffer from chronic pain, and the use of opioids — drugs like hydrocodone, methadone and oxycodone (the active ingredient in painkillers like OxyContin) — to treat such conditions has soared over the last decade. This opioid boom was a result of a synchronized drumbeat sounded by pharmaceutical companies, pain experts and others who argued that the drugs could defeat pain with little risk of addiction. Insurers embraced opioids as a seemingly effective and relatively inexpensive solution to a complex problem that often involves psychological and emotional issues. In recent years, sales of opioids have flattened because of their role in 16,000 overdose deaths annually in the United States, cases that often involve abuse of the drugs. But a growing number of specialists have sharply reduced or stopped their prescription of opioids for another reason: their belief that the drugs have led doctors to focus on the wrong goal in treating chronic pain. Opioids blunt a patient’s discomfort for a time. But the drugs can become a barrier to improving how well a patient functions physically and socially, goals that appear crucial in combating chronic pain, many experts say. As a result, specialists are returning to strategies that were popular before the opioid era, like physical therapy, behavior modification and psychological counseling. Others are exploring alternative treatments like acupuncture and yoga. Sgt. Shane Savage, seriously injured in Afghanistan four years ago, now participates in a horse-riding therapy program, one part of an experiment in managing pain without narcotics.CreditErich Schlegel for The New York Times Many pain programs now use non-opioid drugs, including ones developed for conditions like epilepsy, that are also effective in relieving pain. “We have to change the paradigm and the culture,” said Dr. Karen H. Seal, who specializes in pain treatment at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco and has studied the use of opioids and other drugs in combat veterans. These days, the biggest changes are taking place inside the military and the Department of Veterans Affairs, organizations that have drawn criticism from lawmakers and others for overprescribing opioids and other powerful medications. Physicians in those organizations have more leeway than other doctors to use alternative treatments because insurers do not govern their decisions. Five years ago, approximately 80 percent of the injured soldiers treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington were prescribed opioids. That figure has since plummeted to 10 percent, and many patients are benefiting from the change, said Dr. Christopher Spevak, a pain specialist there. “As we decrease the amount of opioids, their healing and recovery has gotten much quicker,” Dr. Spevak said. The implications go far beyond the military because most patients at Walter Reed in recent years have not been suffering from serious battlefield injuries but from problems many civilians face, like back injuries. As long as a decade ago, some drug industry researchers questioned the value of opioids in the treatment of chronic pain even as drug producers promoted their widespread use, emails reviewed by The New York Times show. “The important issue in the treatment of chronic pain is recognizing patients with chronic and acute pain are different and require different approaches,” Dr. David Hewitt, who was then the medical director of Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, a division of Johnson & Johnson, wrote in 2003 to an academic researcher. “Employing a drug alone is unlikely to lead to a successful outcome.” Asked about the email, Dr. Hewitt, who later moved to Merck, declined to comment through a company spokeswoman. All Shane Savage wanted was to be a soldier. He joined the Marines in June 2001, a day after graduating from high school in Olive, Okla. He stood 6-foot-5, had six-pack abs and was ready for adventure. After the Sept. 11 attacks, his engineering unit was sent to Iraq, where he served three tours before being honorably discharged in 2005. Nine months later, he wanted back in. “I missed the uniform,” Sergeant Savage recalled. “I missed the brotherhood, the camaraderie, getting to go places and do cool stuff.” To keep his rank, he enlisted in the Army and went back to Iraq in 2007 for a fourth tour. Then, in 2010, he was deployed again, this time to Afghanistan. He soon asked for a transfer from a construction detail to one closer to the action and was reassigned to lead a unit clearing roadside bombs. Once Sergeant Savage was back at Fort Hood, doctors put him on an array of medications; at one point, he was taking 12 different drugs, Hilary Savage recalled. “They put him on anything and everything,” she said. “They had him on pain blockers and narcotics, antidepressants, Concerta for A.D.H.D. They had him on stuff for tremors. Like, I mean, you name it, we had it in our cabinet.” A month after Sergeant Savage’s return, he and his wife went to pick up their daughters, Jada, 13, and Ameliea, 11, from a neighbor’s house. On the way, they ran into the young daughters of the Fort Hood soldier who had been killed by a roadside bomb shortly after taking Sergeant Savage’s place in Afghanistan. “They just kind of peered into Shane’s soul, and Shane kind of turned into a completely different person,” Hilary Savage said. For two days, Sergeant Savage sat in his home and cried. Then he reached for a handful of pain pills and tried to end his life. After a few weeks in a psychiatric hospital, he no longer felt suicidal, but his pain and other problems persisted. He tried a program at Fort Hood in which soldiers suffering from trauma learned tai chi, yoga and other relaxation techniques. But he was not ready to change. “I was very naïve,” Sergeant Savage said. Today, most doctors remain focused on treating physical pain, which is just one symptom of chronic pain, experts say. And as a result, they also often “chase” pain, increasing opioid dosages as lower amounts become ineffective, exposing patients to more side effects. “It becomes a vicious cycle,” said Roger Fillingim, a pain researcher at the University of Florida and a past president of the American Pain Society, a professional medical group. A 2008 study by the Mayo Clinic found that patients who were weaned off opioids and put through a non-drug-based program experienced less pain than while on opioids and also significantly improved in function. Other studies have had similar findings. In some cases, insurers will pay for such treatments, but the practice is not widespread because there are few standards to judge their value, said Dr. Jeffrey Livovich, a medical director at Aetna. Dr. Edward Covington, the director of the Neurological Center for Pain at the Cleveland Clinic, said he believed that companies like Aetna had another incentive not to pay: Programs like his are initially more expensive than opioids, and insurers are loath to invest in patients when they do not know if they will be their customers next year. Whatever the case, physicians treating soldiers or veterans are free of insurance industry dictates. And a growing number of doctors are largely abandoning opioids for the same reason that Dr. Hewitt, the former Ortho-McNeil medical director, suggested a decade ago: The drugs do not seem to help many with chronic pain. “I think that the more appropriate use of opioids is in the acute pain setting and the surgical setting,” said Dr. Seal, the expert in San Francisco. “I am not convinced that opioids are any better than non-opioids” for chronic pain, she said. For three years, Sergeant Savage struggled to navigate through a drugged fog. Surgeons repeatedly tried to fuse the smashed bones in his foot, using metal screws and bone grafts, but each procedure eventually failed. There were periods when he limited his use of opioids, but after each operation, he started again. By last spring, he was taking over 300 milligrams of morphine daily, a very high amount. As his dosage increased, he became more lethargic and detached. “He would just zone out on something, and he’d start looking at the computer or whatever” for hours, Hilary Savage recalled. “The next thing he knew, we were getting ready to go to bed.” Dr. Karen Seal, center, met with other members of a patient care team at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco.CreditPeter DaSilva for The New York Times Sergeant Savage’s relatives tried to intervene, but nothing worked. Then, last summer, his older daughter, Jada, confronted him. She said she could no longer bear the person he had become. That night, Sergeant Shane decided to wean himself off opioids and other powerful drugs. Soon, he and his wife were hunting for pills to throw away. “I had some in my Jeep,” Hilary Savage said. “I had some in his car or his truck. I had some in my bedroom.” “The pain medication, it might make me feel great and golden, you know, in here,” he said, pointing to his chest. “But it didn’t do anything for me.” His pain continued, however, and last fall he started to consider another option: having his foot amputated. Around that time, he also heard about a V.A. hospital in Tampa, Fla., that ran a multidisciplinary pain treatment program. He arrived there in September. Some patients were much older than him, and many in the program had been on opioids for decades. Their pain and the drugs had left them housebound, disabled or addicted. Despite feeling like the odd man out, Sergeant Savage threw himself into the program, which ran three weeks. When his first attempt to make a Western-style belt in a crafts class failed because his hands were shaking too much to control the stamping tools, he didn’t give up. He got a new leather strip and tried again. Jennifer Murphy, a psychologist working in the Tampa program, said doctors are often too quick to dole out pain pills rather than to take advantage of alternative treatments. “What may be easy in the moment may not be the right thing, now or down the road,” she said. Two months later, Sergeant Savage and his family visited a horse arena not far from Fort Hood. It was a cool November evening, and he looked far better than he had in Tampa. He was calmer, and his tremors, while not gone, were less frequent. He had left the Tampa program with mixed feelings. He wished that there had been more people his age in the program and wondered why the Army didn’t run similar programs for soldiers who wanted to be able to work after they left the service. Once back home, he began his own recovery plan, one that involved volunteering with groups that helped soldiers dealing with pain and trauma — work that he had done previously. But now, having found ways to cope with his pain without narcotics, he was able to throw himself into that work with new energy. Dr. Christopher Spevak says many people are benefiting from a shift away from opioids to treat pain.CreditDrew Angerer for The New York Times That night at the horse arena, he took part in a therapy program in which horses are used to help injured soldiers regain their sense of self-control and trust. He also volunteered for a group that ran off-road Jeep excursions for veterans and for another organization that rescued wild mustangs from federal lands for adoption. “They can sense your emotions and feelings,” he said, patting a mustang. “If you are tense, they are going to be tense. If you are anxious, they are going to be anxious. Especially, if you are in pain, they are going to sense you are in pain as well.” In recent years, insurers have started cracking down on doctors who overprescribe narcotics. But it is not clear when, or if, they will embrace alternative pain treatments. Critics of the military and the Department of Veterans Affairs say the pace of change in those organizations has been too slow. At bases like Fort Hood, soldiers like Sergeant Savage can spend years heavily medicated while awaiting a medical discharge, Ms. Savage said. “I call it purgatory — you are not in heaven, and you are not in hell,” she said. “I can go in there and I can immediately spot people that are on narcotics or on drugs.” Changing how doctors practice is not easy, but experts like Dr. Spevak and Dr. Seal are trying to push alternatives to opioids further down the chain of treatment so that patients will get them more quickly after an injury. Dr. Spevak, for example, said he expected this year to give 130 lectures about such techniques to military doctors working worldwide. In January, Sergeant Savage underwent another operation to reconstruct his foot. He took narcotic painkillers for only a few days, and initially the procedure appeared to have stabilized his foot and reduced his pain. Then, that procedure also failed. Now, after four years of struggle, Sergeant Savage plans to undergo an amputation of part of his left leg, from the midcalf down. He’ll use a prosthetic device in place of the missing limb. His commanders at Fort Hood recently nominated him for an honor known as the Meritorious Service Medal in recognition of his volunteer work. He expects to leave the Army by the end of this year or in early 2015. Once that happens, he said, he hopes to find a job that will allow him to spend most of his time outdoors, such as running a therapy program for other veterans. Sergeant Savage expects that even after the amputation, pain will be his companion wherever he goes. But he believes he can deal with it. “Am I the person that I was four years ago? No. Will I ever be? No. Will I ever be able to run down the street and chase my girls? I really don’t know,” he said. “But you know what? I can get a bike and I can ride with them.” A version of this article appears in print on , on Page BU1 of the New York edition with the headline: A Soldier’s War on Pain. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe President Trump has narrowed his Supreme Court list. Not surprisingly, the names on it will hearten conservatives and anger liberals. Three names are getting the most attention: ■ Neil Gorsuch. Scotusblog notes he has much in common with Antonin Scalia, whose death created the vacancy last year. Like Scalia, Gorsuch is an “exceptionally clear and routinely entertaining” writer. He is also extremely conservative — “one of the judiciary’s leading spokespeople” for hobbling “progressive labor and environmental regulations,” according to Ian Millhiser of ThinkProgress. Vox, on the other hand, sees Gorsuch as more sympathetic to criminal defendants than many conservatives. ■ William Pryor, a former attorney general of Alabama and aggressive opponent of abortion and homosexual rights. Pryor is the highest profile of the possibilities, with Senate Democrats initially blocking his 2003 nomination to the federal bench. He is also a protégé of Jeff Sessions, Trump’s choice for attorney general. But Pryor has more recently signaled some support for transgender rights, which may be why some observers believe his chances have slipped a bit. ■ Thomas Hardiman, a first-generation college graduate who drove a taxi to help pay for Georgetown law school. “Hardiman is a solid, although hardly knee-jerk, conservative who was active in Republican politics before joining the federal bench,” Amy Howe of Scotusblog writes, “and his jurisprudence as a Supreme Court justice likely would be closer to another justice who hails from the 3rd Circuit: Justice Samuel Alito.” Whomever Trump chooses, don’t forget that Senate Republicans stole this seat from the president who rightly should have filled it. Democrats probably can’t prevent Trump from filling the seat, but they also should not forget the theft — and look for ways to get even in the future. Harsh as that may sound, it’s also fair. The Times's David E. Sanger discusses Pyongyang's apparently successful attempt to put a satellite into orbit, the timing of which caught the United States by surprise. The cockroach on the wall next to the nightstand. Being woken up by the young child doing jumping jacks in the room above us in the morning. The maid banging on the door next to ours and yelling "housekeeping" five times before entering the room just after 9am and then banging the vaccuum cleaner repeatedly into the common wall when check out is not until 11am. The person in the McDonalds drive thru at 1am with the booming stereo so loud that it vibrated our second story room windows. The mini fridge that ran the Whole time we were in the room and never once stopped humming or turned off. The air conditioning unit that was so loud that it sounded like a helicopter outside so we just ended up sweating and sticking to the sheets while the thermostat indicated 78 degrees in the room. 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"We have a lot to do and this single speed sign marks a commitment to follow through and continue to make progress. "This Māori speed sign sets a precedent although there is a similar sign in the Rotoiti community, Hemo Rd is the first main reo speed sign at a Rotorua entrance way, which we will need to build on." NZTA Bay of Plenty transport system manager Rob Campbell said the sign showed what could happen when groups worked together. "The transport agency respects and values the importance of te reo Māori as one of our country's official languages, and we are working with local councils to incorporate bilingual road signage while achieving safety outcomes. "We are looking forward to continuing to work with the Rotorua Lakes Council and Te Tatau o Te Arawa on their plans to recognise te reo Māori in Rotorua." A number of events have been organised by the community for Te Wiki o te reo Māori including a language expo, lectures and a parade. Babyetta was born on Father's Day, and is Baby's 13th calf and fifth consecutive heifer calf. Farm owner Dave Hunger says mother and daughter are both doing well. " Babyetta is doing well, tucked up in a warm dry shed. Baby is finding this bad weather a bit of a trial. I will consider making this her last calf and just keep her as pet after this season." Baby is one of Stratford's most famous, and most loved, cows who was the star attraction of the now closed Fernbrooke Farm Amusement Farm / Park. Visitors used to enjoy petting, milking and even sitting on Baby, and while the amusement farm is now closed to the public, she has still has a loyal following online. The weaker New Zealand dollar is boosting New Zealand commodity prices in local terms, ASB senior rural economist Nathan Penny says. "For us, the fall in the dollar means we can now reconfirm our 2018-19 milk price forecast at $6.50 a kg/ms." Dairy auction prices had fallen about 9% in the past three months and had led the ASB to put its forecast "under review". However, it was anticipated the weaker New Zealand dollar was enough to offset the fall in dairy auction prices. As China was the largest export market for most New Zealand commodities, further yuan weakness — in the absence of commensurate weakness in the kiwi — posed a risk to the commodity price outlook, he said. BNZ senior economist Doug Steel said New Zealand exports were "firmly higher" than a year ago through a mixture of volume expansion and higher prices. Horticulture continued to be a strong performer. All three components in New Zealand's case — wine, apple and kiwifruit — were showing positive trends. Wine exports in the year to June were 2% higher than a year earlier, driven more by volume than price changes. Apple exports continued to perform strongly, building on success in recent years, Mr Steel said. Export values had pushed to a record high and well through the $700 million mark in the year to June — up 6% on a year ago. Generally buoyant prices, combined with increasing volumes of new varieties earning premium prices, were underpinning value growth. Further growth was expected, initially as the remainder of the bumper 2018 crop was sold and, over time, as the industry headed towards $1 billion in exports on expanding planted areas and as more trees came into production. Sheepmeat exports had lifted in the past 18 months, and were up more than a quarter in the past year alone, he said. In the coming year, sheepmeat export values were expected to be similar to the past year as higher average pricing offset forecast lower volumes, Mr Steel said. Lower volume was expected in the coming 12 to 18 months on an assumption lamb numbers this spring would be down 4% on last year along with the possibility of more ewe lamb retentions. The latter was mainly a case of reducing elevated inventory of coarse wool rather than stronger underlying demand. Prices were well down during the year.

Having the right procedures in place to deal with the management of patients (and in some cases their relatives) who are abusive, aggressive or threatening is more important than ever. Assaults on NHS staff for 2009/2010 amounted to 56,718 (1). This is clearly of huge concern both from the perspective of those individual staff members personally attacked whilst carrying out their jobs, but also in terms of the time and money which is being diverted from the delivery of healthcare. From railway operators to housing associations, the term "zero tolerance" is often used to describe the approach to be taken with those who are violent or aggressive to staff. However, coming up with the appropriate response to deal with aggressive patients can be difficult for NHS providers, in light of the fact that zero tolerance can mean a withdrawal of treatment and in some cases, the behaviour itself can be the result of a clinical condition which they are trying to treat. In October 2011 the Health Service Ombudsman published a report: Listening and Learning: the Ombudsman’s complaint handling by the NHS in 2010-2011. The report highlighted the growing number of complaints arising from decisions by GPs to remove patients from their practice lists. Of all complaints received about GPs from the Ombudsman, 21% related to patient removals, a rise of 6% the previous year. The appropriate way in which to deal with patients who display aggressive behaviour is of course not limited to GP practices. There is also concern that at times GP’s seek to remove patients from their lists when in fact those individuals are vulnerable adults. They may not have in fact met the appropriate thresholds and there has not been an escalation plan or multi- agency working to manage the adult who may be demonstrating challenging behaviours for a variety of reasons, some medical. There is a real variance of the use of the Violent Patient Scheme across the regions. There are also some misunderstandings, for instance that the whole family including the children must go on the scheme if an adult of the family is placed on that scheme. NHS bodies should already have systems in place for reporting, investigating, and managing violence against staff. These policies should incorporate appropriate escalation policies, processes for reviewing decisions taken and complaints policies. The policies should incorporate relevant guidance, such as that issued by the NHS Security Management Service (SMS), who are responsible for tackling violence against NHS staff. They have issued guidance on placing a violent patient indicator on the electronic records of those who have previously assaulted NHS staff (2). This alerts staff to the possibility of violence in the future so that precautions can be taken. One of the benefits of the marker scheme is the sharing of information. Individuals can often go to different providers of NHS Care and the marker scheme allows information to be shared, including with those who don’t have access to the electronic marker scheme. There is specific guidance on the way in which the decision making process for placing a marker should be dealt with, including a process for reviewing the decision so that the process can be objective and transparent. This is important because, as the report from the Ombudsman shows, there are likely to be complaints by individuals about the use of the marker scheme. It is also important to ensure that on seeing a marker, staff know what they should do. The position becomes more complicated when a patient’s aggressive behaviour may be linked to their clinical condition, medication or treatment. There may still be options for action to be taken in respect of their violent behaviour, but if they lack the capacity to understand their actions then this will be more difficult. It is important to ensure that a mental capacity assessment is carried out in relation to violence and aggression. Training on issues such as early intervention, the appropriate use of restraint and physical interventions will also be key. In the case of mental disorder reference should be made to the Code of Practice for the Mental Health Act 1983. This sets out guidance on the assessment, identification and management of violent behaviour. Also, consideration should be given to proportionate management of the patient. Can arrangements such as therapeutic contracts be of help? In some cases decisions around the management of aggressive behaviour need to be multi-agency based to best understand the reasons behind the patient’s behaviour and that the response and actions required to manage this are proportionate in all the circumstances. This will hopefully avoid patients, who may be vulnerable, being subject to draconian measures. When NHS providers say they have a zero tolerance approach to abuse of staff, the reality is more complex. This is because the sanctions as well as criminal prosecutions and injunctions, can include hospital exclusions and withdrawal of treatment. The way in which policies and procedures are implemented are important; not just to avoid complaints and further problems by patients who are unhappy with the way in which these matters are handled, but also to ensure the most effective methods are used to try to halt the unacceptable levels of assaults against staff. As November comes rolling in, the malls will play Christmas songs and commercials on TV get increasingly emotional and family-oriented. This is your cue – the holidays are fast approaching, and pretty soon you’re going to find yourself scrambling to buy presents for each and every one of your friends and family. The problem? You’ve run out of cash! As November comes rolling in, the malls will only play Christmas songs and commercials on TV get increasingly emotional and family-oriented. This is your cue – the holidays are fast approaching, and pretty soon you’re going to find yourself scrambling to buy presents for each and every one of your friends and family. The problem? You’ve run out of cash! Christmas is the season of giving, yet, it’s a little difficult to get into the holiday spirit when there isn’t much left for you to give. To avoid this problem, you’ve got to make sure that November is all about your pre-holiday season prepping. Follow these simple tips on saving and planning for the upcoming holidays and you’ll be sure to have a little left to get everyone something nice for Christmas. Knowing what you spend on and how much you do is essential for making sure you don’t overspend. It’s also a great way to assess whether you can cut down on unnecessary spendings, or if you can find better alternatives to expensive purchases. Tracking your finances should be done all year round, and ideally at least once a week. The old school way is to collect your receipts and keep a list of the things you buy on a daily basis, then go over all of your spendings in a notebook or a spreadsheet at the end of the week. If this is too tedious for you, you can always download one of many apps available today, which help you track daily and weekly expenses, and even categorize them neatly into ‘food,’ ‘fuel,’ ‘gifts,’ ‘eating out,’ etc. Many of us have that trait of thinking twice before throwing something out. “Sayang, eh.” we’ll say to ourselves before stuffing a sweater we never use all the way in the back of our closet. While it’s great that we try to avoid throwing away something that’s perfectly useful, it’s also still sayang if we never get to use the item anyway. Give your home a once over and set aside some of the things that you never or rarely use. Now, allot three boxes for your stuff – things you want to throw away, things you want to donate, and things you want to sell. Throw away the stuff that’s of little or no value, or stuff that’s pretty much falling apart. Donate stuff that can be used or recycled by the less fortunate, but make sure they’re not old enough that they might as well belong in the ‘throw away’ box. Lastly, put up a garage sale or better yet, put up an ad online for some of the stuff that are still in good condition. You’ll be surprised by how much money you can make on stuff you’ve been neglecting all this time! Similar to your regular budget where you allot a certain amount of your earnings to your essentials, a seasonal budget helps you figure out exactly how much money you’re going to need and spend over the holidays. The simplest way to do this is to make a spreadsheet. Have a budget for Christmas gifts, noche buena food and Christmas party potluck contributions, Christmas decors, donations to your Church and solicitors, aguinaldo’s for all your apo’s and inaanak’s, and even bonuses for your household help. Having even just a ballpark figure of just how much you’ll be spending over the holidays helps you be able to do the next tip, which is… When you’re setting aside the money to put into your savings account, allot a portion of those savings to your holiday expenses budget. This tip is actually best done at the beginning of the year, so that you have enough savings by December to not have to worry about putting a strain on your finances. But don’t worry, you’ll still be able to save a bit even if you start in November, especially if you take the other tips to heart. By tracking your expenses, you evaluate in which areas you tend to overspend and which areas can be given an even lower budget to make room for more savings. 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To make sure that you do not miss any of my upcoming articles and tutorials, do make sure to subscribe to my newsletter. The application form is situated on the right hand column, scrolling up the page. Also, if you enjoyed reading this article, please do me a favor by sharing it socially. You will find the share buttons below. Thanks very much. After reading this article, you will know how to place free ads online successfully. If you have any tips on the subject we would love to hear from you. And, if you have any questions, please use the box below and I will respond as soon as possible. If you enjoyed this article please share it socially and leave a comment below, I will highly appreciate it! Thanks so much for visiting my website and for your comment on my “How To Place Free Ads Online” article John. I am glad that you liked it and I look forward to seeing you here again soon. Hmm…I never thought about placing free ads before, much less know about the existence of such sites. 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Baking the eggs provides all of the convenience of a hard boiled egg with out the three concerns listed above. Method One on left above. Preheat your oven to 350F. Place the eggs into cupcake tins. Place tins in the oven and bake for 20-30 minutes depending on oven. Method Two on the right above. Preheat your oven to 350F. Coat a cupcake tin with non stick cooking spray. Crack the eggs and drop one egg per cupcake spot. Place tin in oven and bake for 20-30 minutes again depending on oven. This method eliminate problem three, having to peel the eggs. Italian sausage, onions, and peppers. In this recipe left over grilled Italian sausage was re-purposed. Slice the sausage, peppers, and onion. Place onions and peppers in sauce pan with the olive oil. Sautee until the onions are browned. Add sausage (remember it is already cooked in this case so you only need to warm it up.) Satuee under low heat. Add cheese. Dunzo! Sliced roast beef and egg muffin. With a little imagination you can come up with great portable egg sandwiches like this. Left over roast beef sliced thin. Toasted, whole grain English muffin and scrambled eggs. Combine and you have a portable high protein meal. Slice left ove r beef thin. Place in frying pan and warm up on low heat. Remember the beef is already cooked so we are just heating it up here. Scramble the eggs…not going to explain this as I am assuming most can scramble eggs. Toast the English muffins. Mix egg, UMP, and almond milk in a bowl or blender bottle. Split the English muffins. Pour mix in a bowl and dip the muffin halves in it. Be sure to coat both sides. Put butter in a frying pan…or use non stick cooking spray. Cook the muffins like you would French toast. They are done when they are starting to get crispy. Unboring Peanut Butter and Jelly Protein shake. This is even better than the PB and J you ate as a kid. This protein shake takes moments to make and is HUGE and the yum scale. 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In the two I have had the chance to work with hundreds, possibly thousands. Most have used “Eat by Color” to lose weight or get in better shape. A few dozen are Division One college or professional athletes in need of maximum recovery from workouts use a version of “Eat by Color” to do so. Then there are the club athletes that travel. These athletes often play more than one sport and are on a travel team for a club. Constantly on the go is the norm for them. I remember the first club athlete I worked with. She played volleyball for her high school and for a traveling club. “Hi I need help my daughter is in high school and is going to play college volleyball. I have no idea what she should be eating.” I pushed the cynic in me back, and asked mom when they could come in for a meeting. Mom and daughter stopped by a few days later. When they walked in my first thought was yep that girl is going to play college volleyball. She was every bit of 6’4”, only a sophomore. I taught both how to BE PREPARED regardless of schedule, small meals, snacks, portable meals, and how to eat at any restaurant. Even when her day looked like: workout, school, school practice, then off to club she was prepared to make the best food decisions and had plenty of food and healthy snacks packed for the day. Today this young lady plays Division I volleyball. Recently I was contacted by some highly motivated parents putting a traveling baseball team together. They asked if we could train the entire team in Athletic Republic and if I could help them with nutrition. Yes and Yes. The 13U Sycamore Sultans train in Athletic Republic. The entire team. Way cool! More cool, they are not just training but using “Eat by Color” to maximize recovery from their workouts. No dieting just a bunch of 13 year old baseball players making better food decisions. The grind on athletes is brutal; it gets worse when not eating right. These kids are eating right, and the combination of first class Athletic Republic training and “Eat by Color” nutrition will be something to watch on the ball field in the coming months. The Sultans will be the team that does NOT hit the fast food place come tournament time. Taking things full circle (I take no credit for that line as I stole it from a group of Sultan’s parents), the Sultan’s have inspired their families. Many of the families have joined FitWorkz and are exercising when the team is training. I see the son go and train with his team, mom, dad and sister go exercise in Fitworkz. Going a step further entire families are now making better food decisions with “Eat by Color.” “Some of us parents car pool to get the kids here. I was shocked to hear the 13 year old boys talking about food and eating better to be a better athlete. A couple of these kids used to be picky eaters.” If a 13 year old travel baseball team can lead, inspire and set the example for their families, what can you do? When are you going to do it?

It’s the first day of rehearsals and everyone is gathered for our very first read/sing-through of the script. Selina Cartmell, the director, leans over to me and whispers “what a company…”. And she’s right. Assembled around the table is an extraordinary group of performers, musicians and movers. As we listen to them work their way through the script, a thought strikes me – the show doesn’t sound at all like I was expecting. I’m based in New York most of the time, and I have become quite used to a “Broadway sound”, the type of voice that American performers are encouraged to develop – often technically brilliant but quite uniform. Listening to our performers, I realise how satisfying it is to hear this show in their voices. Different colours emerge and there’s already a kind of emotional depth to the singing that is extremely exciting. Selina is keen for this production to be driven by the stories of the characters and their words, not just the music and the spectacle. It’s going to be a treat to watch this company of performers bring the show to life in the intimate setting of the Gate – this won’t just be the glitz and glamour of Broadway, but also something rawer, more urgent. ASSASSINS follows the (sometimes intersecting) stories of nine real successful and would-be assassins of US presidents. It’s a journey through the history of the United States and events that shook the world – some familiar, some forgotten. Our early rehearsals have involved the actors delving into research about the real assassins that they are going to embody onstage. There’s been plenty of discussion about these figures and the impact that they all had. Something has become very clear – if we just represent them as pure villains then there will be very little point to the production. Both humorous and chillingly provocative, Sondheim asks the audience to encounter these assassins as ordinary people. He takes us beyond their mugshots to try and understand what made them pick up a gun and take a fateful action. As we start to work on scenes, it’s fascinating to see how we all begin to find aspects of these characters that we agree with; arguments they make which sometimes seem entirely reasonable. Partly this is the necessary process of actors finding humanity in their characters, but it’s also something deeper – a subversion of the image of these assassins as simply one-dimensional monsters. Maybe this is the genius of this musical – in trying to find the human side of these assassins, Sondheim shows us how thin the line can be between an ordinary person with convictions and an extremist blinded by their beliefs. And more than twenty-five years after this show was written, perhaps that’s something worth trying to understand more than ever… 1931 Ford Tudor For Sale from our Houston Showroom. This Burgundy/Tan Tudor is powered by a 350 V8 engine with a 2 Speed Automatic transmission. 1931 Ford Tudor For Sale from our Houston Showroom. This Candy Brandywine/Tan Tudor is powered by a 327 CID V8 engine with a 3-Speed Automatic transmission. not really is all about love and caring for each other. but sometime looks can matter but it depends on your heart and if u like the way the person is and if so looks shouldnt matter Looks definitely dont matter. what i have found in my years of dating and loving ppl is that sometimes the less attractive people are the sweetest and also, once you fall in love with someone you se past the looks and in the end they are the most beautiful person. Trust me i know. I've also found that in my years of dating and loving that some of the prettiest, sexiest ppl have the nastiest, ugliest attitudes and that makes them an ugly person in general. i usually would agree that looks dont matter...but you usually don't meet someone with a blindfold on you have to be attracted somehow...physical looks dont matter after a conversation but they are what hooks you first, ESPECIALLY on a website like this. :P Ye u are all right and Ye usually when people come on websites like this or tagged etc you will look at peoples looks, if you think they look nice u will add them..... But some people I knw don't like me because I'm not like hot lol well than you use what you have, its not all about looks someone could be amazingly good looking and have no confidence or swagger than its kinda of a dull conversation. i think thats THE WORSE looks catch your attention, but they are not what keeps you there. To this date, I have dated many people, but only two would be considered good looking. you see a person by their eyes and heart. if you can see through their eyes and into their heart, they are the most gorgeous being in your world honestly for me, a little bit. Like, I at least want them to be able to take care of themselves obviously. Personality means a lot more than looks or at least to me it does. I'll agree with Quinn though that we should take some care of our appearance. Looks will catch your attention. But so can a loud personality... but that usually takes a bit more. when I first met my partner in class, he was a scruffy, scrawny looking kid wearing glasses, a hoodie, torn jeans, sneakers and a frat shirt. he doesn't care much for his appearance [he was bullied as a child for looking effeminate], he's the sweetest, most patient and caring person I know. I think he was a woman in his last life. In my opinion, looks don't matter at all. I just wish I could find some people who agree. Living in a small town in the bible belt, it is really hard for me to find someone who can tolerate my appearance. People around here don't really care for girls who have blue hair! @Jena sounds like you wouldn't be out of place in my sorority. Some days I feel Sarah, Callie and I are the only ones who haven't done some crazy cut or color. I have always gone for personality...some of the people ive dated havent been the best looking but they have great personalities and ive dated some more attractive people but they didnt seem to treat me as well... so it just shows personality is sometimes the better answer...and I think blue hair is coll Jena, I love people who are bit different, my auntie always dies her hair bright pink...its awsome!! x For me, if i can get both, why not. Not to forget, looks is subjective, it's depend on the eye of beholder. Appearance is what matters, the way they dress, do their hair, things like that. That catches your attention and tells you a bit of who they are. i dont think looks matter. they might be the most good looking person but be a right dickhead underneath, when someone who isnt much to look at will treat you like a princess xxx Everyone will obv have their own views And opinions on looks and personality and what they go for and I try my hardest no. To judge people... I always talk to people before judging them... X

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Since he first suggested the therapy in fall of in 2013, the procedure has actually increased from relative obscurity to turned into one of the best commodities on the diet plan and physical exercise market in Barranquilla Colombia. Finally look at the HCA content. It should be at the very least 60 %. If it’s lower than that you will certainly be battling to view considerable results. In the research study they made use of FIFTY % HCA Garcinia Cambogia extract. The HCA, as in Hydroxycitric Acid, is the part that in fact aids you drop weight. This is the substance which tells your brain to feel fuller and rather than storing the fat deposits, to begin burning it. I‘ve been trying and testing lots of Garcinia Cambogia products. however the one which offered me the best results was Pure Garcinia Cambogia. It’s the most effective alternative online. The manufacturer of Pure Garcinia Cambogia prides itself on giving the finest item at a cost effective price. Pure Garcinia Cambogia is a pure product and ONE HUNDRED % natural. It also contains 60 % HCA. It is the greatest rated item among them all. Just what are you awaiting? Do you wish to fall a few gown dimensions quickly? Pure Garcinia Cambogia is the remedy for you. Utilized in several recipes– including curry– the fruit can be found in Africa, India, and the Far East and has actually been revealed to add to healthy red blood cells, to name a few things. Additionally, the higher HCA material of the fruit, when correctly removed, could additionally give a nutritional boost. The marketplace today is flooded with items which are laboratory-tested and refined, which is all well and good, but also for some, especially those with a sight of medication and fitness which is a lot more alternative and green in attributes, this can be off-putting. As such, the fact that Dr. Oz recommends garcinia cambogia could be considereded as both an indication of and a reaction to the growth in the all-natural motion in nutritional and nutrition circles. As an extract from a fruit, garcinia cambogia is as natural as it acquires, and could therefore both assistance you lose weight and stay with a natural or green diet regimen and way of life. In addition to every one of this, garcinia cambogia extract is a reliable fat buster. The supplement, appropriately prepared, is able to metabolize cells in such a way concerning aid burn off excess fat cells. Additionally, the supplement comes close to dieting from a different angle, working outing as a diet supplement. Garcinia cambogia working outs as a hunger suppressant, implying that you’ll manage to feel full while eating less. Obviously, this could verify to be an immense advantage when looking to efficiently begin a diet program. There’s no doubt in my mind that the most well-liked weight loss tool in Santander Colombia today is Garcinia Cambogia. It has actually been in the general public’s perspective for a year approximately. Last autumn Dr. Oz offered it to be among the most recent cutting edge searchings for in the field of weight loss. Since then, garcinia’s road to fame began. After a year the world went crazy and now you see it anywhere. Everybody in Santander Colombia is discussing it. Celebs have admitted to utilizing it to enhance their weight loss efforts. The short answer is no. Because of its appeal opportunist, deceitful folks in Santander Colombia try to make a fast profit on the unsuspecting public. There have been a lot of suppliers closed down due to the fact that they were marketing artificial garcinia items. I definitely hope you have not fallen for their techniques. There are a few ways to figure out if the pills that you are considering acquiring are worth the cash or otherwise. First of all you have to inspect the country origins. I directly stay away from products made in Asia. The manufacturing and safety and security atmosphere is a joke. I much instead pay a bit more if I recognize that the garcinia that I’m getting was made in an FDA-approved research laboratory. Following you have to look at the elements listing. The best way for scams artist to cut edges is by including fillers and binders into the mix, and naturally excluding the vital stuff that aids you lose weight. Additionally, fillers and binders could have serious side effects. Just what you have to recognize is that throughout the medical test the doctors made use of Pure Garcinia Cambogia and the volunteers took care of to slim down without any kind of side effects whatsoever. This is why it is important to just take pure and quality products in Santander Colombia. Whether you’re a long-time viewer, somebody who just delicately turns in, and even if you haven’t ever seen his program, possibilities are you‘ve familiarized by this point that Dr. Oz recommends garcinia cambogia. Considering that he first recommended the therapy in fall of in 2013, the therapy has increased from family member obscurity to become one of the hottest products on the diet regimen and physical exercise market in Santander Colombia. Finally look at the HCA material. It must go to least 60 %. If it’s less than that you will certainly be having a hard time to view substantial results. In the research they used 50 % HCA Garcinia Cambogia extract. The HCA, as in Hydroxycitric Acid, is the component that really assists you slim down. This is the substance which informs your brain to feel fuller and as opposed to saving the fat, to start burning it. Even Dr. Oz highlighted on his show that you should take pure products. If you discover the video clip you could see it for yourself. I have actually been trying and testing lots of Garcinia Cambogia products. yet the one which provided me the very best results was Pure Garcinia Cambogia. It’s the best option online. The manufacturer of Pure Garcinia Cambogia prides itself on giving the best product at a cost effective price. Pure Garcinia Cambogia is a pure item and 100 % natural. It additionally includes 60 % HCA. It is the greatest ranked item amongst them all. Just what are you awaiting? Do you intend to go down a couple of gown sizes easily? Pure Garcinia Cambogia is the solution for you. Made use of in several dishes– including curry– the fruit can be discovered in Africa, India, and the Far East and has been revealed to contribute to healthy red cell, to name a few points. In addition, the higher HCA content of the fruit, when correctly drawn out, could additionally provide a nutritional improve. The marketplace today is flooded with products which are laboratory-tested and refined, which is all well and good, but also for some, especially those with a sight of medicine and fitness which is much more holistic and green in nature, this can be off-putting. Thus, the reality that Dr. Oz suggests garcinia cambogia might be viewed as both an indicator of and a response to the growth in the natural movement in dietary and nourishment circles. As an extract from a fruit, garcinia cambogia is as all-natural as it obtains, and can therefore both help you slim down and stay with a natural or green diet regimen and way of living. In addition to all this, garcinia cambogia extract is a reliable fat buster. The supplement, effectively ready, is able to metabolize cells in such a way about aid burn excess fat deposits cells. Additionally, the supplement comes close to dieting from a different vantage point, working as a diet supplement. Garcinia cambogia functions as a hunger suppressant, suggesting that you’ll manage to feel full while eating much less. Obviously, this could show to be a tremendous benefit when looking to successfully begin a diet program.

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The Hight Street retailer, which has a rich coastal heritage, will stock Oceanographic Magazine from launch. For every magazine sold, £2 will be donated to ocean conservation charities. “Crew Clothing’s coastal heritage makes it the ideal High Street home for Oceanographic Magazine,” said Oceanographic editor Will Harrison. “We’re delighted to be associating ourselves with such a well-regarded brand, particularly one that has always maintained a close connection with the sea. “With £2 from every sale in Crew stores donated to ocean conservation initiatives, Crew’s customers can feel good about their purchase – both for the donation they have made to the pursuit of improved ocean health and the great read that awaits them when they get home.” The opportunity to collaborate with an exciting and ethically-focussed magazine was an opportunity Crew Clothing Company felt they couldn’t miss, according to Naomi Parry, Head of Marketing for the company. “It’s exciting to be part of a project that’s aiming to reconnect people with our ocean, something that has always been important to us as a company,” she said. “The spotlight is on the ocean perhaps more than ever before and we’re delighted to be contributing to the fight by fundraising through our stores.” Ocoee Health Care Center is committed to meeting the accessibility standards known as Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 AA. These have been adopted by W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium, as part of its Web Accessibility Initiative. Orange County’s 11th Metrolink station could open in April, a few months after the facility was supposed to launch. The price tag of the project, which began in December 2005, has risen to $10.7 million because of added features. The plan includes bus-passenger facilities, 300 parking spaces, a passenger overpass with elevators, a platform on each side of the track and video surveillance. More than 500 people daily are expected to use the station, which is at Lakenoll Drive and Dale Street. It will be the closest one to the Los Angeles County border. Stephen Wagner is understandably nervous and excited as tournament director for the Mark Christopher Charity Classic. The event on Oct.4-7 is the next stop on the Nationwide Tour after this week’s Boise Open, so Wagner is busy with preparations, including the construction of 40 sky boxes at Empire Lakes Golf Course in Rancho Cucamonga. Not only is the tournament one of the few PGA Tour-run events in Southern California, Wagner wants it to look its best because the Golf Channel will begin its coverage at 6:30 p.m. for all four days, meaning it will follow the broadcast of the PGA Tour’s Valero Open and perhaps gain some carry-over viewers. The event has grown incrementally since its inception in 2003. The purse has been raised to $520,000 from $475,000 last year, with the winner’s share $94,500 up from $81,000. The Boise Open gained publicity when it invited 16-year-old pro Tadd Fujikawa to its event, but Wagner doesn’t know if he will do something similar with the two remaining sponsor exemptions. If not, he hopes to have something unfold similar to last year when area product Kevin Na of Diamond Bar used the event as springboard back to the PGA Tour. Na won’t be back to defend his title because it conflicts with the Valero Open, and Wagner knows that’s the only drawback to the Nationwide circuit. Guy Schmidt of Fullerton and Owen Hanson of Los Alamitos advanced at last Saturday’s district qualifier in Mesquite, Nev. Both had 424-yard drives at Palms Golf Club. Phil Karmelich and Gary Miller of Anaheim qualified in the Super Senior Division and Bill Mammarella of Anaheim advanced in the Grand Champions Division. The 16-player field for the Target World Challenge will be announced Monday. The Tiger Woods-hosted event is Dec.13-16 at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks. •Rich Tolly of Laguna Hills won the SCGA Senior Amateur Championship on Tuesday. Tolly shot rounds of 74-73 at Hacienda Golf Club and won a four-man three-hole playoff. California Gov. Jerry Brown speaks before signing AB 155, a bill that requires Amazon.com and other Internet retailers to collect sales taxes starting next year, at a news conference in San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 23, 2011. Jerry Brown, California’s 73-year-old governor, has been showing signs lately of becoming a grumpy old man. In comments to reporters, in speeches and in bill veto messages, Brown has complained about the quantity (too much) and quality (too little) of legislation reaching his desk, about the intransigence of Republicans on taxes and about the influence that anti-tax groups wield on those Republicans. • The Legislature generated less than half as many bills this year as it routinely did during Brown’s first governorship three-plus decades ago. • While many of today’s bills are merely half-baked notions, symbols and trivia, so were many of those during his first stint, including some he sponsored. • Yes, Republicans are generally more conservative today than they were in the 1970s and thus more opposed to raising taxes, but the Democrats are also markedly more liberal and less willing to make permanent spending cuts or reduce the “wall of debt.” • While those anti-tax zealots to whom Brown refers do have heavy influence on Republicans, their clout is no more paralytic than what public employee unions wield on Democrats, as Brown discovered when he tried to fashion a bipartisan budget deal. • Brown would have known all of this if he had been paying attention to the Capitol’s evolution during his 28-year absence from the Governor’s Office, but apparently he wasn’t – too preoccupied with his Quixotic campaigns for president and being a left wing radio talk show host, one presumes. Brown’s pitch to voters last year was that he could break the Capitol’s gridlock on the budget and other issues – most of which date from his previous governorship, incidentally – because he was an experienced politician who had been there and done that. He implied that his predecessor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, failed to change the Capitol’s moribund ways because he was an inexperienced outsider and that electing Republican Meg Whitman would have been another adventure in impotent amateurism. Brown, however, has been no more successful, at least so far, than Schwarzenegger, which provides more proof – as if we needed it – that changing the name on the governor’s suite doesn’t truly change anything. We have a systemically dysfunctional state government. Until it is changed – radically – to align it with our 21st century reality, it will not and cannot deal effectively with California’s major issues. Instead of whining, Brown should lead on empowering those we elect to make decisions and then, importantly, holding them accountable. Schwarzenegger at least tried to make reforms. If Brown really wants a legacy for the history books, he would revive that crusade.