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For Love & Lemons stripe double split maxi skirt, borrowed Reformation top, Nasty Gal spiked headband, black velvet platforms, vintage chain belt, oversized round sunnies, vintage silver bangles, eBay evil eye bracelet/ring, H&M silver cuff, DIY vintage spiked wrap bracelet, Beginning Boutique cage ring, vintage leather backpack and random rings
So this time around I was able to experience Brooklyn life and I must say it's a lot calmer than the city. Like the other day we walked the bridge to Manhattan and it was pure chaos as soon as we stepped off...people and cabs everywhere! After shopping my favorite trendy slut stores in Soho, I was dying to get back.
Well today's my last day in the BK and it's bittersweet. I've made a lot of connections and met some pretty cool people. I'm already planning a trip back, lol!
How's everybody else' Summer?
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You look stunning - great post xo <3
I'm do in love with your outfit and I want to steal it!
This is SO amazing! What awesome pictures! I love it all! Especially the head band and the skirt!
- Keyta x
I really like this! Stripes on your skirt mach to nails, great!
This is SO amazing! What awesome pictures! I love it all! Especially the head band and the skirt!
- Keyta x
This is SO amazing! What awesome pictures! I love it all! Especially the head band and the skirt!
- Keyta x
Ow man, you rock soo much!! I love your style
You look hotttt! Xx
awesome! love this skirt!
Love this maxi skirt
Kiss kiss.*Jo
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This skirt is adorable! I'm also in the process of making a DIY like your headband! x
That skirt is so sick. Amazing.
love it! skirt is just perfect, looks stunning with cropped top xx
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LOVE THIS,
your such an inspiration to me
you are beautiful!!! really enjoy your style. rock on!
girl you better werk
FLAWLESS, Jessica :)
Summer for me seems to be going too fast! Its like "stop and smell the daisy's" but no time for that, haha!
xx
Love the shoes and skirt! Gorgeous as always. I stayed in Brooklyn when i was in NYC and LOVED it! So good to be able to go back to the chill side. X
i just bought this skirt too! cant wait to wear it:)
and u look awesome as usual!
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I love brooklyn! And this outfit is amazing!
Looks great, even though I hate you for owning such an awesome belt ^^
Love your skirt, this look is fantastic on you.
Amazing outfit. So in love with the skirt.
LOVE! you're style is amazing! **
I lovee that skirt and that headband , you look HOT!
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That skirt is just so brilliant! Love it :) And summer? Pah, in England all we're getting is rain :( boo.
love love LOVE!!! You always look so cool!
I literally live down the street! So cool to see you in my 'hood! Glad you enjoyed BK!!
YASS. BROOKLYN IN DA HAUSS. Well BK is my second home. The Bronx will always ne my first.
Anywho... You lookin type cute. Slits and spikes. What's not to like?
xx Jacqueline
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Im in love with your skirt.
Amazing outfit!
I really like your maxi skirt!!
amazing! love you style aesthetic x
Oi, te vi no lookbook vc é mt linda (:
beijos beijos
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This look is absolutely amazing so fab! Love every single piece! Xx
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Clemente was born Nov. 23, 1927 to Jose Dayrit and Manuela Caligagan in Angeles City, Philippines. He was a member of the Philippines Command and the United States Army. He came from the Philippines to Clovis in 1998 and worked as a chef and a karate instructor. Clemente enjoyed drawing, painting, raising birds, singing and teaching karate.
Survivors include his wife, Luz G. Dayrit of Chaska MN. Four daughters, Josie (Victor) David of Clovis, Myrna (Filemon) Cuizon of the Philippines, Daisy Walter of Chaska MN, and Jeana (Richard) Miller of Warner Robins GA. Two sons, Enrique (Janet) Dayrit and Edsel (Leticia) Dayrit both of Chaska MN. One sister, Natvidad Garcia of the Philippines. 18 Grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents Jose and Manuela and a brother Mauro Dayrit.
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Posted: Fri 07 Dec 2012, 18:13
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Hi Repip,
Thanks again for the information, and taking the time to hand-copy it. (Yes, it would be hard to guess which of the many icons was for the text editor when the icons and their text captions were corrupt.
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I am glad to hear that the icons have been restored.
The information you supplied shows that the file /etc/DISTRO_SPECS contains this line:
Code:
DISTRO_ARCHDIR=''
I think that is the problem. It should be:
Code:
DISTRO_ARCHDIR='i386-linux-gnu'
If you would like the boring details of what this "386-linux-gnu" stuff is about, read this quotation. If not, feel free to skip over it. (Since you are a Windows user, and new to linux, I'll first mention that the libraries I am talking about are usually Linux "shared object" (.so) files, which are similar to Windows "dynamic linked library" (.dll) files.)
In another thread, I wrote:
Debian and distros descended from Debian, such as Ubuntu, support "multiarch", which allows a library to have, for instance, both an Intel 32-bit build and an AMD (or Intel) 64-bit build installed on the same PC. (That is one example -- many other architectures are supported.) To do this, Debian and friends will sometimes put libraries built for the 32-bit Intel architecture ("i386") in /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ or /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ instead of the usual /lib/ or /usr/lib/, respectively.
Other distros may handle this differently.
Currently, Puppy continues to use the standard /lib/ and /usr/lib/ directories. For compatibility with Ubuntu packages, Precise Puppy has symlinks from /lib/i386-linux-gnu and /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu to /lib/ and /usr/lib/, respectively.
The problem you have run into is that sometimes when installing a .deb package from a Debian or Ubuntu repository, those symlinks get overwritten, so some needed libraries are not where they are expected to be.
The Puppy Package Manager (PPM) in Precise 5.4.2 has code that moves the newly installed library files to their correct Puppy location and restores the symlinks. But that code depends upon DISTRO_ARCHDIR being set with the proper value, which -- for reasons I don't know -- it is not.
(Some of the commands I gave in my previous post were copied from that code, so when you executed them you were doing manually what would have been done automatically if DISTRO_ARCHDIR had been set properly.)
(I hope I'm not boring you with needless details. I'm being even more long-winded than usual here since you said that your were "really keen to learn a little about Puppy", but perhaps you were thinking of things other than all this nuts & bolts stuff.
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Repip wrote:
It really is a simple quick exercise to completely reload Puppy anyway so I am willing to try anything at this point.
I am glad that you are so willing and able to experiment.
If you are happy to have your icons back again, and ready to move on to other things, feel free to do so. But if you would like to try something else related to this problem, consider trying this:
1. Assuming that you are now able to find a text editor, use it to open /etc/DISTRO_SPECS.
2. Look for the line that begins with "DISTRO_ARCHDIR" -- it will be the same as the line in the first Code box earlier in this post.
3. Change it by adding
i386-linux-gnu
between the single quotation marks, so that it looks like the second Code box in this post.
4. Save the file.
5. Now try installing VLC Player again, and see if it installs without messing up your icons again.
If it works, it may save you from seeing your icons go crazy again when you install some future Ubuntu package. If it doesn't work, well . . . you get the fun of installing Puppy again!
Good luck.
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Posted: Mon 10 Dec 2012, 02:45
Post subject: Weird Graphical Glitching after installing Precise Puppy
Subject description: Restore VLC Player
Hi npierce
Have successfully restored VLC Player with that code you gave me, all systems go now in that area anyway ... hopefully it was a help to you guys.
Thankyou for all your help , I assure you I will need much more in the near future... trying to get a Canon PIXMA IP1000 going ... bit of a challenge, however I will read some info 1st and then request HELP !
regards for now
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Posted: Mon 10 Dec 2012, 11:17
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Hi Repip,
You're welcome.
Repip wrote:
Have successfully restored VLC Player with that code you gave me, all systems go now in that area anyway ...
That is good to hear.
Repip wrote:
... hopefully it was a help to you guys.
Yes, it was. Your reports made it clear that the code that was supposed to fix the problem wasn't executing, and your report of
DISTRO_ARCHDIR=' '
showed us why.
Barry has implemented a fix for the problem, which will be included in his next Service Pack for Precise.
See my bug report at
and Barry's blog entry:
DISTRO_ARCHDIR variable not set
Thanks for your help in tracking this down.: 12 (0.0109s) ][ GZIP on ]
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Here we are again, with me trying to introduce something to you that you may not have ever heard of. It's another weird one as well I'm afraid! When I first listened to this record more than a year ago, I literally couldn't, for reasons that will become apparent later. Now however, on return, I find my musical ears matured, and decided to try and review it. Sleigh Bells are a noise pop duo hailing from Brooklyn, with Derek E. Miller, former guitarist for metalcore band Poison the Well, joining with Alexis Krauss, who previously worked with teen pop band Rubyblue. That collaboration is a strange one, but they manage to pull it off with a messy flourish. They don't make the two different styles merge together, but rather create a new identity with influences from both. That makes for very original music though, let me tell you. The soft and the harsh side by side creates a shattered, crazy world, where things seep and blend into each other. Sprout flavoured lollipops. Flowery death metal bands. Imagine the chaos, and squash that into a record.
This isn't for everyone, and in their very specific and at times abrasive sound, they're restricting themselves from people. Whether this is a good thing or not, I don't know. I myself can't listen to this for a very long time without a headache, which turns the appeal right down, but I appreciate the attempt to create something completely unseen, by me at least. Some songs aren't bad, but others, queue 'Tell 'Em', are relentless, and the mixture of high vocals, lower throbbing bass and chugging guitar, all lathered in reverb, isn't that enjoyable. The rhythm and beats present on every track however, are very addictive and pulse-quickening, which seems to be Sleigh Bells default setting. So, half marks from me.
'Kids' electronic whirrs set off another flurry of vocals overlaying vocals, but the sampled schoolgirl voices are a nice touch of variety to the album. It's an asylum of fun and disregard for rules, but the mixture doesn't do it for me, I'm afraid. The only track I think I could listen to more than twice is 'Rill Rill', with it's acoustic twang and instrumentation more suited to Krauss' higher vocal range. The lyrics flow and although repetitive, this works when paired with the very repetitive backing. 'Straight A's' however? Ewww. The muffled bass buffets your ears, drowning out the vocals in the noisiest track I've heard in a long while. The singing on 'A/B Machines' are backed by nice electronic guitars, but then it all descends into headache-inducing chaos. Again.
I think I'd better get my opinion across better than I actually have. I appreciate this album, a lot. I appreciate the messiness, loosely tied with the strings of rhythm and repetition. I appreciate the effort to create something different to nearly everything else out there, and I appreciate the instrumentation and careful production. Having said all that, I can listen to it, which is more than I could a year ago, but I simply don't enjoy it. The noise is too much. I would have preferred for the band to keep the very loud, fast, pounding noise to one or two tracks, with perhaps a slightly toned down approach for the rest. Even though this would have probably lost them their edge over other, less original artists, it would have certainly been better than the almost constant musical bombardment I had to endure here, for just over half an hour. It doesn't sound long, and relatively, it isn't. It does however, grate on your nerves a little when you can't hear yourself think. Like I said before, if you think you'll enjoy this, go ahead, but 'Treats' definitely isn't for everybody. Criticise my lacking musical palette, but it's my opinion at the end of the day!
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Genelia D'Souza, whose first brush with the small screen came with "Big Switch" in 2009, is set for her TV comeback. She will play a mentor on UTV Stars' "The Chosen One". Genelia, who tied the knot with actor Riteish Deshmukh in February, is already …read more
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Dostana 2 is finally on tracks
After much speculation about the rift between director Tarun Mansukhani and producer Karan Johar, Dostana 2 is finally gearing upto to have a Muhurat at the end of this year. Dostana released in the year 2008 with a warm response from the audience. In …read more
Abhishek celebrates dad’s National Award …
Actor Abhishek Bachchan says he feels like a “proud father” after his dad, megastar Amitabh Bachchan bagged the National Award for best actor for “Paa” Wednesday, and broke into the signature monkey dance from the movie. In the film, Big B played a …read more
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Sajid Khan fixes his superstars
Sajid Khan, who is now attracting enough attention for his newly launched talk show 'SAJID'S SUPERSTARS' is gearing up to taste success in film making for the second time. After the success of his debut film as a director 'Hey Babyy', Sajid has finally
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Karunanidhi says, Jayalalithaa Is Fooling People
DMK chief M Karunanidhi today hit out at archrival and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa for blaming his party’s rule for the bad health of the state PSUs, indicating the new government has “nothing” to claim for itself on the projects front, including power generation.
Recalling the budget speech made by Finance Minister O Pannseerselvam in August after the AIADMK stormed to power, Karunanidhi said the former had mentioned Tamil Nadu was in the forefront in E-Governance, SMEs and manufacturing sector besides betting on power generation projects.
“It was mentioned that new power generation projects would yield 3,280 mw of power in 2011-12. This refers to the projects taken up during the DMK regime and not in the (then) three-month old AIADMK rule,” he said in a statement here.
The AIADMK government had, on Nov 17, announced a steep hike on the prices of milk and bus fares. Jayalalithaa had also indicated the power tariff would also go up in the wake of mounting losses suffered by the state-run power supplier.
Jayalalithaa had yesterday defended the price hikes, saying the “the painful decision” had been taken to save the PSUs—Aavin and state transport corporations, which were left in “bad health” by the previous DMK government.
She also dismissed as a “bag of lies” Karunanidhi’s earlier statement that despite officials’ request, he had not allowed rise in prices of milk and bus fares. “He is only pretending to speak for the people. They are aware of his crocodile tears,” she added.
Karunanidhi wondered if it was “just” on the part of Jayalalithaa to issue statements blaming the DMK government.
“They had also promised to slowly do away with power cuts after improving the situation. But the situation today is that power cut has been increased from two to five hours (in rural areas),” he said.
“No new power generation projects have been started. And she blames me for shedding crocodile tears. But people won’t be fooled by all this,” Karunanidhi said.
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6/20 Extra bases
Some highlights from Sunday’s 12-1 win over the Angels:
* Carlos Zambrano threw a season-high seven innings. He picked up his first win at Wrigley since July 12, 2009. He also had two hits and one RBI. He now has 61 career RBIs, second among active pitchers behind Livan Hernandez (74). He has hit safely in his last three starts.
* Jeff Baker had two hits and was batting .367 in his last 10 games.
* Derrek Lee had a season-high four RBIs. … Andrew Cashner has yet to allow a run to score in seven appearances. … Alfonso Soriano had his first multi-hit game since May 23, a span of 20 games. …Ryan Theriot’s infield hit in the second ended an 0-for-12 skid. … The 18 hits by the Cubs matched a season high.
– Carrie Muskat
good new sports blog here…check it out!
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5/2 LaHair’s streak
Bryan LaHair homered to lead off the second inning Wednesday night, and now has reached base safely in 20 straight games. The last Cubs first baseman with a longer streak was Derrek Lee who did so in 21 straight games in 2009. LaHair has six homers, more than half of the Cubs’ total 10. It’s 87 degrees at Great American Ball Park. There could be more.
– Carrie Muskat
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Cherokee students and Sequoyah voice students of Barbara McAlister, a dramatic mezzo-soprano, will be presented in a recital on at 7 p.m. today in the Sequoyah High School Chapel in Tahlequah.
Students are from Tahlequah, Muskogee and Fort Gibson areas. The pianist is Holly Stocks. The event is presented by the Tsa la gi Cultural Center.
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The major attention at Christmas is the thought of giving and getting.
Why is not more thought and planning given to selecting gifts which honor that “Birthday Boy,” Jesus? This person gave a supreme gift unmatched by any earthly gifts no matter the amount.
Consider the business known as Sears Department store and their gift in support of our military personnel for years. As long as the war has lasted, Sears hasn’t withdrawn from their commitment to their employees who serve in the military. Sears holds their jobs open and available, paying the difference in salaries and maintaining all benefits, including medical insurance and bonus programs.
Bill Thorn, Sears Customer Care official, verified this employee commitment, saying, “Sears regards service to our country as one of the greatest sacrifices our military men and women can make.” Could we each buy at least one thing at Sears this Christmas and throughout the year as well? Be sure to find a manager to tell them why we are there so the company gets the feedback it deserves.
As you open your pocketbooks for assisting with donations for Christmas or the next natural disaster, ask how much of the donation ever makes it to the needy ones.
Remember that the American Red Cross president-CEO got a salary for 2011 of $951,957 and expenses. The United Way president receives $675,000 base salary and numerous expense benefits. UNICEF CEO receives $1.9 million annually, plus all expenses and a Rolls Royce; less than 5 cents per donated dollar goes to the cause. The Salvation Army Commissioner’s annual salary is $13,000 plus housing for managing this $2 billion organization so that 96 percent of donated dollars goes to their causes.
Remember that the national commanders of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, Vietnam Veterans Association and the Military Order of Purple Hearts — all receive zero salary so that your donations all go to their respective causes to help veterans and their families and youth.
May our donations this year say a resounding “Happy Birthday, Jesus.”
CATHERINE WHITE
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WhenKatzComes, on 07 May 2012 - 05:43 AM, said:
I'm sure if you talk real nice to Six, he will make you one as well.
Six, I seen you used a different Marauder than my original pic, could you not get that one unstretch?
I dont want to be a pain in the ***, but I prefer the Maruader I found cause it has a gritty appearence. I like that art style, but if its too much to deal with I'll roll with what you have done.
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Suppliers of high-power transistors continue to improve on processing and packaging as new devices show improvements in power density, linearity, and efficiency.
Transistor developers continue to push for higher power levels from a single die or package, but not to the exclusion of other performance parameters. Especially for commercial communications applications, device designers now emphasize improved linearity and efficiency so that amplifier designers can create smaller and lighter units for mobile radios and compact base stations. What follows is a sampling of recent developments in RF and microwave power transistors.
Several device announcements were made at the recent IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Symposium (MTT-S, June 10-12, Philadelphia, PA), including the launch of several high-voltage high-frequency (HF) MOSFET devices by Advanced Power Technology RF (). Both are nominally intended for HF amplifiers and RF plasma generators at frequencies from 1.5 to 30 MHz. The ARF465A/B, for example, dissipates as much as 250 W power and generates as much as 125 W output power when operating with a +300-VDC supply. The larger model ARF1505 dissipates as much as 1500 W power and generates output levels to 750 W CW from a +300-VDC supply. The rugged design features a power density of 700 W/in.2
At the show, the company also announced two new lateral-diffused MOS (LDMOS) transistors for pulsed avionics and radar applications, the 110-W peak-power model 1011LD110 and the 200-W peak-power model 1011LD200. The +32-VDC transistors offer gain levels of 13 and 12 dB, respectively, over the 1030-to-1090-MHz Identify Friend or Foe (IFF) avionics band.
Advanced Semiconductor () features a wide range of CW and pulsed RF power transistors, including a wide range for DME/TACAN avionics applications from 1025 to 1150 MHz. Several devices with internal input and output matching networks offer output-power levels of 250 W and more, including the 400-W model AVD400 and the 500-W model AVD500. These +50-VDC parts both feature minimum efficiency of 40 percent with respective gains of 6.5 and 5.6 dB.
Philips Semiconductors () is a long-time supplier of high-power transistors, and features several RF bipolar models for TACAN and JTIDS avionics applications (roughly 960 to 1215 MHz), including the models MX0912B251Y and the MX0912B351Y. The former features 275 W of pulsed output power while the latter produces 375 W of pulsed output power. Both devices yield 7.5-dB gain at 45-percent efficiency.
Another veteran device supplier, M/A-COM (Tyco Electronics), offers both power bipolar and MOSFET devices for a wide range of applications, including the model PH1090-700B bipolar transistor for pulsed avionics applications. The gold-metalized, ceramic-packaged device delivers 700 W of pulsed (32-µs pulses at a 2-percent duty cycle) output power from 1030 to 1090 MHz. The +65-VDC device features 7.5-dB power gain with 50-percent collector efficiency.
Additional high-power silicon transistor suppliers include Polyfet RF Devices () and Point Nine Technologies (). Polyfet's model SR401 is a +28-VDC push-pull transistor capable of 300 W output power at 175 MHz. The transistor features 13 dB gain and 55-percent efficiency.
Point Nine's model C203, one of the company's line of TetraFET devices, is usable to 1 GHz. The silicon DMOS device employs gold metalization to gain 100 W output power from a +28-VDC supply. The rugged transistor achieves 10 dB gain with 40-percent drain efficiency. Another of the company's TetraFETs, the model D1027, provides 200 W output power at frequencies from DC to 300 MHz. The +28-VDC transistor generates 17 dB gain with 50-percent efficiency.
"Plastic" was the key word at the Motorola () booth during the show, as the company unveiled several plastic-packaged MOSFETs, including the MRF5S9101MR1 which is designed for applications to 1 GHz. The device yields 105 W 1-dB-compression CW output power at 960 MHz with 16.5 dB gain and 56-percent efficiency. Capable of operating at +26 or +28 VDC, the device is well suited for GSM base-station applications, with error-vector-magnitude (EVM) performance of 3 percent.
STMicroelectronics () is developing a new family of +100-VDC high-power VHF/UHF MOSFETs. The new process utilizes enhanced raised-gate technology for feedback capacitance reduction and optimized deep body doping to improve load mismatch tolerance. Proprietary techniques result in increased breakdown voltages and reduced parasitic capacitance, with a 6-dB increase in power gain compared to standard +50-VDC devices. The transistors employ thermally enhanced nonpedestal packaging and will be available in 150-W (model SD3931-10) and 300-W (model SD3933) single-ended configurations as well as a dual 300-W (model SD3932) configuration. The devices are currently being evaluated in a variety of applications, including plasma generators and magnetic-resonance-imaging (MRI) systems.
At somewhat higher frequencies, Mitsubishi Semiconductors () announced the availability of a pair of internally matched GaAs FET devices for Ku-band very-small-aperture-terminal (VSAT) satellite-communications applications. The model MGFK41A4045 delivers 12 W output power in the 14.0-to-4.5-GHz VSAT band while the model MGFK44A4045 produces 24 W output power from 14.0 to 14.5 GHz.
Also serving satellite-communications applications, the TIM5964-90SL GaAs FET from Toshiba America Electronic Components () promises 90 W (+49.5 dBm) output power from 5.9 to 6.4 GHz. The internally matched C-band transistor helps amplifier designers reduce the number of parts in their designs by replacing several lower-power devices. The transistor features 7 dB typical gain with 30-percent typical power-added efficiency (PAE) and a third-order intermodulation distortion (IMD) of typically −40 dBc.
The use of internal impedance matching allows Excelics Semiconductor () to provide as much as 8 W output power at VSAT frequencies. For example, the company's models EIA1415A-8P and EIA1415B-8P are internally matched GaAs FETs with 6 and 8 dB gain, respectively, from 14.0 to 15.35 GHz; both devices yield 8 W output power over that range. The devices are rated for PAE of 20 percent and third-order intercept point of +46 dBm.
Another supplier with an extensive lineup of internally matched devices, Fujitsu Compound Semiconductor (wwwfcsi.fujitsu.com), offers numerous C-band devices include the model FLM3742-25F. Designed for +10-VDC supplies, the transistor achieves +44.5-dBm output power with 10.5 dB typical gain and 41-percent efficiency from 3.7 to 4.2 GHz.
California Eastern Laboratories () offers the NE650103M power GaAs FET for L- and S-band applications through 2.7 GHz. Ideal for PCS and wireless-local-loop (WLL) applications, the device operates from a +10-VDC supply with 10 W (+40 dBm) output power and 42-percent typical efficiency. The power gain is typically 11 dB at 2.7 GHz.
Several power-transistor processes that have yet to gain wide acceptance among amplifier designers include those based on silicon-carbide (SiC) and gallium-nitride (GaN) substrates. For the former, Cree () has offered several versions of a 10-W device for several years. Now available as model CRF-24010, the device is usable to 2.7 GHz with at least 10 W output power and 15 dB gain.
Because of the high-power potential of materials such as SiC and GaN, large defense contractors such as BAE Systems () and Northrop Grumman Corp. () have made major investments in device development. More details will be available at the upcoming Third Annual Military Electronics Show (, Baltimore, MD, September 16-17, 2003).
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RESCUED CHAIRS are handpainted, whimsical chairs that have been rescued from yard sales, auctions, flea markets, and old barns.
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Decorative, whimsical tassels! Adds the finishing touch to any hutch, table, dresser, lamps, and more!
Here I'm showing a few different styles
These make fabulous gifts for that hard to shop for decor diva on your holiday gift list!
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Ceramic pottery with a whimsical flair, hand painted by ME
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Warm autumn colors with feathered owls and touch of sparkle
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Penguin ornament, ribbon, upholstery fring, feather boa trim, acrylic snowflake, candlestick cup
affixed black bullion fringe to candlestic cup, added layers of ribbon, once satisified with layers of ribbon, affixed to bottom of acrylic ice cube (penguin ornament, added feather boa trim and changed the ribbon holder
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I'm a stay at home mom and feel so blessed to be able to be home with the kids!! My second love is painting children's decor. Above you'll see some samples of some of my favorite items for boys's and girl's rooms nurseries playroom and bathrooms.My twin sister also paints children's decor! Please be sure and visit her website too! for visiting!Laurenlauren@beitesori.com
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Chicago
Sunday, April 8, 2012 8:19:36 PM
In which all we do is eat or talk about eating - I'm not hungry for nothing...
A few of us around him pointed out that actually, he'd been to Tulsa, Orlando, San Antonio, Narramata and one other place which I don't remember now. He looked sourly at us, and with tears brimming, snapped at us, "They don't count! It's not even international, and besides they were work or family trips and everyone knows they're not real trips. It's not fair, I've not been travelling in YEARS!"
As it happened, I was heading out to Chicago for a few days for a meeting, so he sneaked into my baggage and I saw him climbing out of my bag just as I was heading to the hotel lobby to look for dinner.
"Ah there you are", he beamed graciously as if he'd been kept waiting by me, "it's just about time for a little snack isn't it? And that was the start of a week's worth of eating rich, fatty and fried foods. Prosciutto with a fig glaze and caramelized onion on crisp flat bread was what I had.
You see, DWE and ML had been contemptuous of the choice of hotel - JW Marriott - and had sent us a little video to warn us about the chambermaids. We had scoffed at him, only to be woken up by a huge banging on our door in the early morning and shrieks of "Maid service!" We turned them away, and they were obviously not happy with the rejection.
In the evening after a long day at the conference, I was chivvied into two coats, my scarf and hat by
1) raiding the room fridge and 2) opening the half bottle of wine in the room. However, he thought better of it when he saw the prices for option 1, and realised that the hotel had used full BC liquor pricing for the half-bottle. In fact, for option 1, the items in the fridge were placed on sensitive pads which had a sixty second delay if items were removed, after which time the exorbitant charges were placed on the room tab.
I told
Oh yes. Fried chicken. One thigh, one drumstick and a breast the size of Dolly Parton's coated in cornflakes then deep fried. Macaroni and cheese (an entree in its own right) for a side. Nary a vegetable in sight. Fries too. And of course for
Then back to the hotel where there was a game - Kentucky and Kansas - the finale to March Madness, and of course more wine was had to celebrate the win by Kentucky (or was it Kansas?). I had tea instead. That night, the wine must have gone to
Anyway, back to Ted Baker Chicago - I wanted a pair of slacks to go with the perfect jacket for me -
yooperprof # Monday, April 9, 2012 3:01:37 AM
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Department of Philosophy
Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
South Hall 5631
Telephone: (805) 893-3122
Undergraduate e-mail: ug_advisor@philosophy.ucsb.edu
Graduate e-mail: grad_advisor@ philosophy.ucsb.edu
Website:
Department Chair: Matthew Hanser
Philosophy deals with the kinds of questions that engage all reflective people, but which seemingly cannot be dealt with by any of the empirical sciences: Is everything material? Is human behavior determined or is free choice possible? Are there objective standards for deciding what is right and wrong, or is morality merely a subjective matter, a matter of individuals’ feelings? Is there a moral obligation to obey the law? Can we justify our claims to know anything? Can we objectively distinguish rational from irrational beliefs? How does language relate to the world?
The study of philosophy encourages rigorous and disciplined habits of mind. Because the major in philosophy emphasizes and enhances analytical skills, it is useful for the large number of careers that require these skills or as general humanistic training at the undergraduate level. Two concentrations within the major accommodate differences in student needs and interests and reflect the two central concerns of philosophy. (1) The Core Philosophy concentration is designed for students who seek thorough training in philosophy, either as a way of acquiring reasoning and analytical skills and mastering a discipline at the undergraduate level or as preparation for graduate study. (2) The Ethics and Public Policy concentration focuses on moral and legal problems confronting the community and on the responsibilities of various professions. It is intended for a wide variety of students, including those who plan careers in law, the public sector, or medicine.
Students with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy who are interested in pursuing a California Teaching Credential should contact the credential advisor in the Graduate School of Education as soon as possible.
Undeclared students should consult with the department undergraduate advisor. Two faculty advisors and one staff advisor in the department have authority on matters such as substitutions and exceptions. The Information Sheet for Undergraduate Philosophy Majors is available in the department office; a list of courses to be offered each quarter, with specific descriptions and required texts, is available in the office and on the website before registration at:.
Prizes and Awards
Each included in the commencement program.
Senior Honors Program
Students who meet either of the following requirements may apply to join the Philosophy Department honors program:
Students are urged to apply as early as possible so that a meaningful honors curriculum can be developed at an early stage of their work in the major. Students in the honors program are expected to meet quarterly with the undergraduate advisor to discuss their progress and to plan their subsequent coursework in philosophy; in order to remain in the honors program, students are normally expected to maintain a 3.5 GPA in philosophy.
In order to graduate with distinction in philosophy, the following requirements must be met:
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Discover home-style hospitality and convenient access to local attractions while staying at this Scott City, Kansas hotel. Whether traveling to the far west of Kansas for business or pleasure, the BEST WESTERN El-Quartelejo Inn & Suites guarantees a great night's sleep for an affordable price. Each well-appointed guest room and suite at this Scott City hotel offers cable satellite television and complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access. Start off the morning with a complimentary full breakfast before taking a dip in the indoor heated swimming pool or relaxing in the hot tub. This Scott County hotel also features an exercise facility, guest laundry and full business services. Enjoy an afternoon of outdoor fun at the Lake Scott State Park offering boating, fishing, hiking and picnicking. The El-Quartelejo Museum, just one mile away, offers a unique look at Scott County's history. Traveling on business? The BEST WESTERN El-Quartelejo Inn & Suites is close to several corporate locations including HRC Feedyard Inc, Wheatland Electrical and the Fairleigh Corporation. Scott City is also home to a variety of events throughout the year including the Whimmy Diddle Craft Show, rodeos, the city fair and golf tournaments. The friendly, helpful staff at the BEST WESTERN El-Quartelejo Inn & Suites is ready to ensure a fun-filled memorable stay in Scott City, Kansas. Make a reservation today and save!
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Ok, So what is it?
When you go to Google today, you will see something other than “Google” at the top of the page. What is it? I’ll give you three guesses:
1. Cristie Alley’s Diet plan.
2. The asphalt surface of 8th Ave. in Bozeman Montana.
3. A caricature of Donald Trumps Hair.
Actually it’s a celebration of Rudolf Hertz’s 155th Birthday today! Mr. Hertz was the German physicist who, according to Wikipedia, “clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory.” Say what? He also invented the comb over….Ok not really. You can read more by clicking on the Google Hertz (Hz) WAVE.
Happy Birthday Rudy!
Rudolf Hertz
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East African Cables is a public quoted company and a leading manufacturer of electrical cables and conductors and distributor of data and telecommunication cables and accessories for the East and Central Africa region. We wish to recruit qualified, self-driven and result-oriented individuals to fill the following positions:-
COMMERCIAL MANAGER: - CM/HR/10/08
Reporting to the CEO, the Commercial Manager will be responsible for formulating and implementing marketing, sales and customer relations strategies in order to increase the organization's market share by:
- Developing, negotiating and nurturing strategic partnerships to enhance the company's competitive position.
- Formulating sales, PR and marketing plans and strategies to develop market share and sales revenue.
- Steering market research and intelligence for product and market development
- Developing both local and export markets & ensuring high level of company visibility in the market.
- Implementing and sustaining quality management systems based on ISO standards
- Preparing department budget and ensuring they are adhered to.
- Setting targets for staff in the department and assessing their performance to ensure targets are achieved.
- Ensuring all round management and development of human resources in the
- department
- Energetic "can do" attitude to work with ability to motivate co-workers
- A Bachelor's degree in a business related field preferably business administration/sales and marketing. An MBA is an added advantage. A Postgraduate diploma in Marketing (CIM) or Business Management & Administration
- 10 years relevant working experience, three of which must be at a senior management level preferably in a manufacturing environment. Experience in an electrical field will be an added advantage
- The ideal candidate must possess strong analytical, management and negotiation skills coupled with good communication, report writing, excellent interpersonal skills and proficiency in MS Office Suite.
- The applicant must display a proven record of strategy formulation and results.
- He/She should preferably be a member of a professional body.
Reporting to the CEO, the Security Officer will be responsible for developing and implementing security policies and procedures within the group companies. His/Her overall responsibility will therefore be protection and detection of crime, investigations, overseeing and directing all aspects of security.
Key responsibilities will include:-
- Develop and implement security policies, procedures, and enforce compliance
- Orient all staff on security procedures and conduct security awareness programs
- Plan, coordinate and direct activities relating to asset movement
- Monitor, analyze and implement security risk assessment
- Investigate all security incidences and liaise with other security agencies on the same. These include thefts, frauds and any form of security breach
- Develop and recommend new procedures and approaches to loss prevention based on reports of incidents, and other relevant information
- Prepare monthly reports on security
- Carryout continuous appraisals on matters of investigations and security and provide advice to the CEO
- A University graduate or equivalent qualification.
- A background from the discipline forces with proven knowledge of crime or fraud detection
- At least 10 years experience in security management and law enforcement procedures
- A Certificate of good conduct and letter of discharge from previous employer.
- Must be computer literate
- Age 40 - 45 years
- The ideal candidate must possess strong analytical and problem solving skills, excellent interpersonal, communication and managerial skills, ability to work odd/irregular hours.
Human Resource Manager
East African Cables Ltd
P.O Box 18243 00500
Nairobi
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How “rare” is the slave boys’ photo
A story has been circulating over the last few days about a photo of two “slave” boys, one supposedly named John, found during an estate sale in North Carolina.
The buyer was the collector Keya Morgan, whom I had not heard of before, but apparently is pretty well-known among collectors (especially for sale of the Marilyn Monroe sex tapes two years ago). According to the Associated Press story, he paid $30,000 for an album of photos of John and others (experts attributed the photo to the studio of renowned Civil War photographer Mathew Brady) and $20,000 for a bill of sale for John (from 1854).
Art historians think it’s a rare photograph of Civil War-era slave children from the 1860s. The photos and document were found at a moving sale in Charlotte in April, according to the story.
The photo presents the children and their lives in all its misery – etched in their faces and in the dusty tattered clothes they are wearing.
Practically everyone reprinted the AP story, except for blogger Kate Marcus at Before It’s News who found the same photo sold as a stereo-view card for $163 on eBay. The blogger questioned the rarity of the photo. (Stereo view card above was taken from the eBay auction site. Click on it for a fuller view.)
I also found a copy of the stereo-view card in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery, attributed to J.N. (Jerome Nelson) Wilson, who was a Savannah, Ga., photographer.
Intrigued, I decided to do some digging on my own and emailed the eBay seller. I was curious about how he/she had come across the card. He wrote back: He is a part-time Ebay seller from Connecticut with 25 years experience as an antiques and collectibles collector and estate-liquidator. He asked that I not identify him.
I’ll let him tell the story (with some minor editing):
“Since my forced retirement, I’ve had to sell off the things I’ve collected over the years (a lot of which I haven’t seen for years). One of the lots I decided to sell recently was a bag of stereo view cards and a desk top viewer I had acquired many years ago at a Wethersfield, Conn., estate sale. I sorted the cards by subject and listed them on eBay.
One of the lots of cards was a set by J.N. Wilson of Savannah, Ga., (all of the cards in the lot had ‘Photographed and Published by: J.N. Wilson’ with a Savannah address) typeset on the back. There were six views of ‘Bonaventure’ (a former plantation near Savannah). These had typeset descriptions of the plantation and the depicted view. There were two cards with handwritten descriptions titled ‘Pine Trees’ and ‘Entrance to the Park.’ (At right is a photo of the back of the New York Library stereo view card.)
Then there were the four cards titled ‘Plantation Life.’ Three had this typeset on the back of the card with a handwritten picture title. They were titled:
1. ‘Cotton Field’ (a view of a Black family standing in a cotton field with baskets of picked cotton).
2. ‘Cotton Field’ (a view of two young boys standing in a cotton field with a basket of picked cotton between them).
3. ‘Rory’s Cabin’ (a view of a family standing and sitting in front of their cabin).
4. This had a typeset title on a strip of white paper glued to the back of the card: ‘Plantation Life: Happy Little Nigs’ (this was a view of two young boys sitting on a board on a wood barrel in what looks like a sugar cane field).
This last card is identical to the ‘Brady’ card found in North Carolina with the exception that the stereo card is a wider view showing more background and the ends of the board they’re sitting on (the image would have been cropped to fit the CDV).
Here is what I know about stereo cards. They are taken with a ‘stereo camera.’ That is a camera with two lenses set about three inches apart. It takes a … picture with both lenses creating a double image. The images are of slightly different angles which when viewed through a stereo viewer creates a ’3-D’ image. The camera sees the same way our eyes see – two images when combined create perspective or depth. If you take a stereo photo of a single photo, you end up with a flat image on the photo (no 3-D effect). The only way to end up with a true stereo view is to take a stereo photo from life.
All of the J.N. Wilson cards were true stereo images (I viewed them all several times through my viewer). This means that the stereo card of those two young boys could only have been made from a live sitting.
I am convinced that all of the cards were photographed by Wilson in Georgia. I have found out that his work is known to collectors and that he operated a lucrative photography business in Savannah starting in the 1870′s.
Sugar cane was never grown in North Carolina (From Sherry: In my Google search, I found that some sugar cane was grown in coastal North Carolina but it apparently was not grown in large quantities on plantations). It was a major crop along the Georgia seaboard with several large plantations on the mainland and the outlying islands.
When I saw the North Carolina card I immediately thought about what I knew about Mathew Brady. I know that Brady did not do stereo views. I know that Brady had a reputation of commandeering other photographers’ work he liked and republishing it under his name. I know his business was faltering in the 1870′s and he published any good image he found as his own.
I was shocked to see that several ‘experts’ had authenticated the card as a Brady produced war image. Every good photography historian is intimately familiar with Brady’s catalog of work and his personal history. They should also be familiar with Wilson’s (good Southern photographers were quiet rare and the exceptions have been thoroughly studied).
How can a ‘rare, uncirculated, unpublished’ photograph of 1860′s slave children by Brady (or his associate - Timothy H. O’Sullivan) be the subject of a stereo view card by Wilson? The Brady attribution just doesn’t add up. (Photo at left from Morgan’s LincolnImages.com was circulated on the web as the one found in North Carolina.)
There needs to be a comparison made of the North Carolina card with the stereo card. I believe that the results will show that the Brady card is a reprint of half of the Wilson card (each side of the stereo card will be slightly different). This will prove that the North Carolina card is not of slave children from the 1860′s but a photograph of two poor boys from Savannah taken in the 1870′s. Still of great interest but not of the significance given it.’
I also did some more Google digging of my own on Wilson and Brady.
Wilson was born in New York in 1827 and arrived in Savannah in 1865. He was a well-known photographer in Savannah for more than 30 years, and marketed himself tremendously in the local newspaper. He produced stereo views of Bonaventure Cemetery and other sites in the city, steamers in Florida, black chimney sweeps in Savannah, Fort Pulaski in Georgia, the Green House in Macon, Ga., rice fields, orange groves, camp scenes, fishing parties and more. His works are in the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
Brady is renowned for his photographs of the Civil War and portraits of Abraham Lincoln and practically all of the other presidents. He also photographed J.H. Rainey, the first African American member of the House of Representatives. His portraits are in many collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musee d’Orsay in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art.
As his eyesight failed, Brady sent out teams of photographers to capture the war, according to several websites. He also purchased photos from other photographers and stamped them “Photograph by Brady,” without giving many of them credit – to the rancor of those photographers. A photo of the Lakota Chief Red Cloud was taken by Brady photographer Alexander Gardner in 1872 at the studio.
Despite what the experts said, I also found photos from the Civil War era of slave children, including this one by O’Sullivan and this one from Virginia.
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Fantastic article, Sherry! I’m so happy that more people are being made aware of this incredible story.
- Kate Marcus
That’s very interesting. Thanks Sherry.
Great article, I am J N Wilson’s great granddaughter and have been collecting stereoviews of his for a few years now, and was the bidder that got outbid with one second left on the ebay collection with this card in it.
Then a few days later saw the article in the paper about the sale of the cdv. and knew that it was J N’s stereoview. In past searches of J N, I had seen this card in the New York Public Library collection. Thanks for the info……
Thanks for writing, Tina, and for providing additional information. This has been a very interesting story, and I was very happy to find out more about your great-grandfather through my Google search.
Excellent & fasinating research Sherry. As a former B&W lab tech in Washington, DC I was given a box full of late 1870′s – early 1900′s glass negatives to clean, preserve & contact print. Your article brings back the thrill of handling history. Thanks for your historical due diligence.
Thanks, Bruce. Those stereo-view cards (and the wooden viewers) & negatives come up at auction often and I always bid on them. Unfortunately, there are other bidders who want them just as much as I do, and they always outbid me. I figure I’ll get lucky at some point and win one of those bids.
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wow. i have to say, i am impressed. from ramshackle seaside event to slick sunny extravaganza, The Loerie Awards finally grew into all its potential this time round. i think one’s experience of the awards depends on a number of factors, including where you’re staying, who you’re with, etc. This year we stayed slap bang in the middle of Margate in the flats about the Rondevoux Mall, which made access to shops, the beach and ceremony exceptionally easy, and thus we had a great weekend. the weather in Margate was sheer perfection – not muggy, very sunny and the water was warm and swimmable, so i managed to fit in a mini seaside holiday in the off-time. the rest of the time was spent catching up with people i haven’t seen in ages, which is a large part of what makes going so much fun. here are some of my pics, i will add a few more later. oh, and here’s the link to the saturday winners and the sunday winners.
before we left, we made a whole bunch of enlarged Jason faces. Jason works with us in client service, and in his spare time he is a paramedic and a bit of a dork. we like to make fun of the fact that he never doesn't pull a blue steel face in photos. we also like to make fun of his 'Safety First' policy.
We even got Jason to stop freaking out long enough to embrace his faces in a totem pole formation.
We made the Mugg & Bean waiters quite nervous.
Digital won a whole bunch of awards on Saturday night, which made people say things like "We really need to get into digital,". Hmm. Rather late than never, I guess.
I was really impressed by the various screens on the stage. A vast improvement from just 2 screens with a barely legible powerpoint presentation on it. This actually looked good, and you could see the work, which is what we were there for, after all.
More stage prettiness.
Arguably the biggest awards (Television Grand Prix) went to King James for the Allan Gray ad, "Beautiful". I think they deserved it.
This is an action shot I managed to capture during our Friday night braai in Margate. At some point someone threw breadrolls, which resulted in a fully fledged food fight. Here we have a precious shot of the tomatoes landing on Michael's head.
Me and Jean, who is now a designer at Grid.
Christian, Brandt and me. Thunda.com was everywhere, capturing the memories you'd rather not have.
Rei and Mark on the beach, where we found respite from the loud and bad house music at BackLine.
Looking a little sunburnt, I found Jen lurking at the back of Backline.
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Between conversation and a glass of white wine, my muse alias Monchéri inspired me these notebooks this week end. As you know I love my dear Andalusia but a little trip to Venezia or Corsica wouldn't be too unpleasant, would it? Alas...alas...not in the near future...So in the mean time, we can still write down our dreams....
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What great dream notebooks....you know what they say...write it down, focus on it...and it may well come true!
Great destinations! Now, where did I leave my passport? :-). Cracking post.
Greetings from London.
Oh, I would love to visit Venezia again! These are lovely!
Great idea! Oh to be in Venice right now....
Hello Lala, as much as you wish it and visualize what you want it will surely be materialized for you. A lovely "mapa de los deseos".
Te dejo un abrazo y mis deseos que tus sueños se hagan realidad.
María Cecilia
So lovely... I went to Venezia ages ago... I would love to go back with my darling Sebastian!
Now that's a lovely dream :D
The notebooks are exquisite!
Venice is such a dirty girl, I LOVE her but Oh MY she is in dire need of a deep pore cleanse...
Your journal covers are very nice- inspiring me to get out my duffle bag and truck on down to the sunshine somewhere.
Oh how totally sweet, I love them. You will get there soon no doubt.
xoxo
They are so good. you gave me an idea for my new year cards :))
Linda a raison, maintenant il faut y penser très fort !! je suis sure que cela va inspirer mon chéri
Beautiful dreams Lala, xv.
i have never been to this place.. but now i really want to come there....
And yes i liked Vicky Christina Barcelona .. it was a good movie esp the location was superb... very exotic..
and Johnny Depp is always in my heart, its oly the other side of my heart is free and so the crush list keeps changing :)
have a gr8 week :)
You're very talented, and yes it is a great idea to write down your dreams.
ALWAYS make time for your dreams!
So difficult to do ... . but, so important.
And
when there's such a beautiful book to wrap them in ... . .
all the more important.
Jjjj
A little trip to Venice sounds divine :-)
I love your dream book. Very nicely done. xoxo
Your dreamy blue books take me away!
I just love the color, it could carry you away to wonderful dreamland and prose to write!
Nathalie
got to have our dreams Lala... without them we're doomed to mediocrity. Lovely work ;-)
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LL Cool J performs "Mama Said Knock You Out" on Feb. 18 at a Las Vegas gala celebrating Muhammad Ali's 70th birthday. (Ethan Miller, Getty Images for Keep Memory Alive)
“I’m gonna knock you out” is no idle threat coming from LL Cool J.
The chorus of his 1991 single “Mama Said Knock You Out” proved true to life this morning for a man suspected of breaking into the rapper and actor’s home in Studio City.
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Lula “Mae” Hupp, 63, of Racine, Ohio, died Sunday, December 9, 2012, at the Pleasant Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Point Pleasant, West Virginia..
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Starting to feel alot like Halloween…
October 13, 2010 | Filed Under Family | Leave a Comment
Yep the decorations are out and the pumpkins are on the doorstep. Still deciding if I will be carving them or maybe making some faces with Vinyl? Hmmm…
I love these Vintage Actions by Pioneer Woman.
The weather is freakishly warm and it is so weird especially since we had such a cold summer. But there is no doubt in my mind fall is in the air…it is just so peaceful with the wind blowing in the leaves.
Happy Hauntings!
Gordons Bay – My Hometown
September 28, 2010 | Filed Under Family | 2 Comments
With the recent Challenge at DSA for the Established Designer Contest I had to create a kit that showcases my home town. Well although I do live in Napa, CA and it is very beautiful here my heart still yearns for home – Gordons Bay. Also most of my family also lives there so there is more than enough reasons for me to miss it so much!
So I decided to share some pictures of the Town and Surroundings. These were the last photos I took before we left in 2008…so very Nostalgic to me.
Chrismari is ready for the beach…sunglasses in hand!
View towards the Naval Base and Old Harbor. Simons Town is far in the distance.
View Towards the Old Town and Shopping Center…lots of Restaurants and Shell Shops. Great place to go for a stroll.
Harbor Island in the Distance.
Footprints…aaah I so miss these moments!
Park Bench overlooking the sea.
More of the old town…
Kitty and the Penguins…look how tiny she was here! Only 3 years old…man oh man, where has the time gone?
View from the Main Beach…if you look closely you will see ‘Moeder Maria’ i.e. Mother Maria. It is the back of Table Mountain aptly named after Jan Van Riebeeck our founding father’s wife.
Beautiful NG Church..lots of Weddings are held here in these scenic surroundings.
Last one of the old town and the Majestic Hottentots Holland Mountains in the background.
Need I say more? I hope you enjoyed these pictures. It did my heart good to share it. Thank you for stopping by!
Sleep Oh Glorious Sleep
September 16, 2010 | Filed Under Christian, Family, Kitty | 3 Comments
Christian is a sleeper…anywhere and everywhere is a comfy spot to just catch a few minutes of shut eye.
Just yesterday he had 3 different spots, first on the floor – not very comfortable so he crawled onto the lazyboy. Now he was in prime position with his face all smooshed up and those baby lips begging for a kiss from Mommy.
I love his little bum bum sticking out like that! Aaawhhh!
And lastly onto his favorite position which looks so much more comfy to me too!
I love this so much…he is so like his Mommy, I just wish I could curl up next to him and nap! But how will I ever take photos?
Chrismari not wanting to be outdone ‘posed’ for me, pretending to be asleep.
lol! Not for long this little busybody of mine was up and running around before I could even put the camera away. She loves to play with her Strawberry Shortcake dolls and is telling me that this year she wants to dress up as Strawberry Shortcake (again!) for Halloween. Hmmm…already wondering about what we will do this year. I saw Target had some great costumes for only $20 – need to do a Target trip soon.
Cellphones and Keys are the BEST TOYS EVER! I think they win the award for BEST TOY found around the house each year. But really dont you just think this little man is so cute looking like a big boy with his phone?
I have been having so much fun editing these photos…although they are not the greatest (most of them are blurry) I used the Pioneer Woman’s Actions (Thanks Nicole for the suggestion!) for these photos and I just love the darling effects! Thanks for looking!
Eek! And I totally forgot to add look what is growing in my garden…
Yay I am so excited after months nagging DH I want Heirloom Tomatoes (They are soooo Divine!) we found a plant and just as it was sprouting some really cute tomatoes Chrismari picked it for her fruit salad. I just hope she stays away from this one!
The Christmas Countdown…
November 20, 2009 | Filed Under Family, Scrapbooking | 2 Comments
Oh yes it has officially started…Christmas time is almost upon us!
I want to do some Photo CD’s to send to my family back home, just a recap of our year and brainstormed this template. You can print it out and use the lines version to create a card out of scrapbooking paper or you can do it on your computer. You can get the template HERE
So I used Jolly by Golly by Cosmo Cricket to make these cards. Isn’t that snow man the cutest? I just traced the original snow man onto some cardstock and pop dotted him on the card. I had the perfect brads to do the eyes but they were bronze so I used a permanent marker to color them in. I am very happy with the results!
Oh and I just loved the cute remark at the bottom of the paper strips and used it for my cards! Its is so adorable!
I am currently without a camera since a certain sweetie pie ‘accidentally’ broke it! lol! But I have a Christmas House and a Christmas Planner to share…so hopefully next week I will have some pretty pictures for you!
Lastly I will leave you with the ‘before’ shots…of our planned (but due to circumstances i.e. a broken camera
lol…I know I know!) Christmas Shoot. I am crossing my fingers we will have some really good Christmas Photo’s as soon as the mail man has been here! Ha ha! I cannot wait…a very early Christmas present for me!
my sweeties! TFL!
This is why I enjoy Scrapbooking so much…
June 16, 2009 | Filed Under Christian, Family, Kitty, Scrapbooking | 1 Comment
Isn’t this just such a pleasant way to spend an afternoon? Love my DS insiting on sitting on my arm (he loves the ribbons!)
Not the best photos but it so captures the warm and fuzzies I get!
Enjoy those special moments!
Toe maak ons wors…
June 15, 2009 | Filed Under Christiaan, Family, Recipes | 1 Comment
We made our very first batch of ‘Boerewors’ today. It is a pure beef sausage regarded as an everyday staple back home in South Africa. Trust me if you have carnivore in the house (like I do…it is something that will be missed!).
So onto the recipe and how easy it actually is to prepare:
Ouma Hessie se Boerewors
- 3 kg Beef (We used Chuck and Brisket)
- 500g Pork Fat
- 50 ml Whole Coriander
- 150 ml Brown Vinegar (Substitute with Red wine Vinegar)
- 150 ml Worcestershire
- 25 ml Salt
- 5 ml Fresh Crushed Black Pepper
- 9 g Sausage Casings
Dry Roast the Coriander in a frying pan (do not spray or add oil) until it turns a light brown. Crush the spices with a mortar and pestle.
Cut the meat into pieces to fit into your meat grinder. Coarsely grind it together.
In a flat large container mix all the ingredients together making sure the meat is very well mixed with the spices, vinegar and worcestershire sauce.
Clean the Sausage Casings by running water through them.
Fit your sausage making tube to your grinder and feed the meat mixture into a sausage casing.
Look at DH…he sure does enjoy these!
It is preferable to let it stand overnight but if you cannot wait to test it out put it on the grill and enjoy!
perfect on the grill or even as a weeknight dinner with some good old mashed potatoes or even some ‘Pap en Sheba’.
Hope you try this one out!
2nd Hand find and a Frame!
May 20, 2009 | Filed Under Family, Hybrid, Scrapbooking | 2 Comments
Well hello again! I just wanted to share my awesome find this weekend. We went out for some breakfast and came back with this…
Finally after more than a year I have furniture in every room in the house…that was probably the hardest thing for me not having all the stuff I have gotten used too, I know I cannot complain we are so blessed. And I think waiting actually paid off. We got this set for $ 500 which is a lot but it is an 8 seater with the extensions, a special cover to protect the table and 2 bookcases. Not really my color but I must say even though it still looks bare I think after I jump in and add some pretty curtains and a nice table runner and some more photos along the fireplace it will look quite snazzy!
Also I have been so busy the past few weeks with some hybrid goodies…but this is such a sweet and fast project that is a sure fire winner! I know that once you have made one you will be hooked! lol! Literally!
See more details on The Hybrid Chick Blog…
Happy Easter
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We did not do much, Chris just came back from Washington and was tired – he had such fun helping Chrismari with her eggs. It was the first time we did the dyed eggs. It is sad to think a year ago we were still in South Africa and the Kids hid easter eggs together…Chrismari did believe there was a Easter Bunny this year! Gotta love their imagination!
My Boy and Me…
Our Family…
Dad and his brood…
TFL!
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we get older, it becomes more and more important to take good care of our health. Seniors can stay healthy, energetic, and active for many years by establishing and maintaining healthy lifestyle habits.
Eating the right food in the right amounts is fundamental to your health. It is also a joy to eat a variety of healthy foods, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and lean meats. You do not have to eat foods you dislike, and you do not even need to skip snacks when you crave them. The key is making healthy choices and balancing occasional splurges with more moderate eating. It is important to be thoughtful about how you eat, to know what foods are good for you, and to plan the types of foods you will buy and eat on a regular basis.
The wise senior enjoys regular moderate activity. Regular exercise can give you more energy, help you sleep better, improve your mood, boost memory and concentration, and reduce your risk of developing chronic health conditions. There are many ways to exercise. The key is to find activities that you enjoy. Starting slow is okay, particularly if you have not exercised in a long time. In a short time, you may find that exercising is one of your greatest pleasures. Exercise is particularly important for seniors, because without it, our muscles atrophy and we lose mobility.
Maintaining a healthy weight and refraining from smoking are also foundations of a healthy lifestyle.
If you eat well, exercise every day, maintain a healthy weight, and do not smoke, you will feel good, have fewer health problems, live longer, and enjoy a better quality of life.
Eating well
Often, our appetites change as we get older. You may find yourself skipping meals or not paying as much attention to what you eat. But in our senior years, it is particularly important to eat well. If we fail to nourish ourselves properly, we will lose energy much more quickly and our health may suffer. For example, if we do not eat enough of the right minerals such as calcium, our bones will lose strength and we may develop osteoporosis. As seniors, we should carefully plan a healthy diet that we can enjoy and stick to.
Staying physically active
Regular exercise is something everyone should do throughout their lifetime. Exercise will help you stay healthy and maintain the best possible quality of life. Exercise is particularly important for seniors, because without it, our muscles atrophy and we lose mobility. No one is "too old" to exercise. You should not strain or push yourself too hard, but especially if you have been sedentary for a long time, it is important to start moving. Even a little bit of exercise can greatly improve your health.
Maintaining a healthy weight
As you get older, you may notice changes in your appetite and weight. Maintaining a healthy weight is important for healthy aging. To stay healthy and manage your weight, make regular exercise and healthy eating a part of your routine. Being underweight, overweight, or obese can negatively affect your overall health.
Aim for regular physical activity each week. It is never too late to start being active. Walking and tai chi are great forms of exercise for seniors. Start slowly, pace yourself, and build up over time.
Aim for eating at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables each day to manage your weight and to decrease your risk of diabetes, cancer, coronary heart disease, and many other conditions.
Quitting tobacco
Longtime smokers can benefit from quitting at any age. Quitting tobacco is one of the best things you can do for your health. Your body will become healthier within days after quitting.
Kaiser Permanente offers a range of quitting tobacco classes and programs free to members. Call or visit your local Health Education Department or browse this website for more.
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Texas Woman Gives Birth To Two Sets Of Identical Twins
Call it twins times two. A Texas woman gives birth to two sets of identical twin boys in a Houston hospital. Tressa Montalvo says the pregnancy was a lot better than what she expected.
The 36-year-old mom delivered the four brothers via c-section at Women's Hospital of Texas on Valentine's Day. She says she didn't use fertility drugs and the hospital says such an event is a one in 70 million chance. Montalvo gave birth to Ace and Blaine first, with Cash and Dylan coming into the world a minute later. She and her husband Manuel also admit they still want a girl.
The boys names start with A, B, C and D. If they have a girl, maybe her name will start with an E ?!?
Source: Metro Networks
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Day #2 of 25
Imagine the time and place – Biblical times; a man and woman are promised in marriage. Back then, there was handfasting – a couple was handfasted for 1 year but did not consummate the marriage until that year was up. This allowed a couple to get to know each other and to prepare themselves for living together.
Imagine yourself as Joseph. You are male, you have pride, you are preparing your home for your wife, for when she leaves her father’s house and comes into yours. Your wife is a virgin, as is expected in those times. Possibly, even you are a virgin. You expect that she will become yours, that you will be the only one to hold her, to care for her, to father her children. You are an honorable man and you expect your wife to be honorable in return. Then you learn the truth – she is pregnant. You have honored her and not lain with her before the appointed time, but she is pregnant. The child is not yours. What a blow you receive!
I am amazed that despite all this, Joseph still cared enough for her that even though he could have her now – not after she dishonored herself and him – but nevertheless, he chose to make sure she was not disgraced by this. He would put her aside, yes, but he would do so quietly. Then God sent his angel with a message for Joseph.
I wouldn’t be overly shocked if Joseph had thought this message to be ridiculous! A baby, born of a so-called virgin, by the Holy Spirit???!!! Nevertheless, thank God, Joseph received that message from the Lord and believed it! Instead of putting her aside he took her into his home and further honored her by not laying with her until after Jesus was born. He gave the child his name and his heritage. He named the child and raised him as his son.
It’s interesting, this example. Many families today are “blended” – a blend of the wife’s and husband’s children from previous relationships. This example, right here, is a big hint to those father’s raising children not of their blood. If Joseph could take in Mary’s child and raise him as his own, then what stops men from doing the same with the children they encounter in their lives today? All right, yes, this was the Messiah we’re talking about – pretty special kid – and Joseph did receive a message from the Lord’s angel – and how many of us get that nowadays – but a child is a child, Messiah or not. Each child has the capacity to change the world. Maybe they won’t die for the world’s sins, but they can cure cancer, find a way to feed billions, save the life of their father. What will be different in your life if you, as a step-father (or step-mother) choose not to love that child as your own? What will be different in your life if you do?
Thank you Lord Jesus,
for the fulfillment of your promises and our salvation in the form of Yourself, walking on this earth, in fleshly form. Though I cannot, at this moment, think of a request You have made of me recently that I find ridiculous, should I remember one, help me to leap in with both feet. Even if the request isn’t ridiculous (to my mind), help me to follow all of your requests.
Thank You,
Amen.
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- High Plains Rain.31 of an inch
- Potter Sheriff Election ResultsThe Potter County Sheriff's race is down to two candidates.
- Eldorado Children May Come to AmarilloLocal agencies ready to open doors.
- CRP MeetingsThe U.S. Department of Agriculture held a meeting this afternoon to decide on proposed changes to haying and grazing on Conservation Reserve Program land.
- International College Students Visit ElementaryAssignment Education
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- Water Permit GrantedPampa landowners voice their concerned opinions about the oil company Petco drilling with fresh water from the Ogallala Aquifer. ...
- More than 100 Chihuahuas FoundMore than 100 chihuahuas were found in a Perryton home.
- I.D. Theft VictimsMan caught with all sorts of paperwork.
- New Emergency Care at NorthwestNorthwest Texas Healthcare System announced today a new company is taking over their Emergency Care.
- Firefighters Battling Grass FireOfficials Say No Structures Are Being Threatened
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Mass Shooting Reported At Lone Star College in Houston
Breaking news: Multiple people reportedly shot at Lone Star college in Houston.
TV station KPRC is reporting that multiple people were shot shortly after noon at the campus in North Harris County. The campus is on lockdown and students have been advised to take shelter in a safe place.
Watch live video feed from KPRC:
View more videos at:.
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Peter and I haven’t been to Nobu IN YEARS, but we used to love going to Matsuhisa (also in the Nobu family) on dates when we first met. As a matter of fact, it was in Matsuhisa’s dining room where my sweet husband proposed to me back in 1994.
While reading a recent issue of Bon Appetit magazine, I was pleasantly surprised to read that Nobu (in Los Angeles) was on a list of America’s Top 10 Sushi Spots.
Bon Ap’s Andrew Knowlton wrote:
“Twenty-two years after he launched a raw-fish revolution with his restaurant Matsuhisa, pioneering chef Nobu returns to America’s capital of sushi and opens another branch of his empire. Expect all the trademarks—Hollywood A-listers, cutting-edge design, and signature dishes, including yellowtail sashimi with jalapeño, black cod with miso, and rock shrimp tempura with butter ponzu.”
We had a wonderful evening rediscovering why we fell in love with Nobu’s food (way back when), and also reminisced about those precious date nights too!
Nobu sign (in front), Shishito Peppers and Edam
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There’s something inherently sexy about raw fish on a plate. I don’t know what it is, but it gets me every time.
Please tell me Peter punched a TMZ photographer.
The paps were going to punch me because I took photos of their faces. It was funny because I was already in the car and one said “TMZ does NOT take this lightly”. It’s a GREAT photo too… he’s just giving me the dirtiest look, but I don’t need the headache (by posting it)!
Peter “black bar’d” them for me! Just like TMZ!!
Wait a minute… the TMZ guys don’t like having people harass them by taking pictures of them??
Hilarious right? I’m a fan of the show, but these guys were sort of SCARY.
Peter “black bar’d” them for me! Just like TMZ!! LOL
A night out in L.A. just isn’t complete without a paparazzi sighting! Your dinner looks fabulous. I’ve been to Nobu in Vegas and NYC, but have yet to go to our local branch. Someday soon hopefully!
The Miso Glazed Black Cod looks so delicious.
This Matsuhisa’s dining room must be real special for you guys if Peter proposed to you there. How Beautiful and romantic!
xo
Where else would we get engaged but at a RESTAURANT? LOL! X
Nobu looks excellent! I would love to eat there when I go to LA next time.
Nobu’s is awesome, they get everything right, every time. Awesome about having the proposal there!
Question: what do the shishito peppers taste like?
I loved the grilled shishito peppers. Not as spicy as I thought they would be, and a little bit sweet!
I just went for the first time. I hate to admit how truly delicious I thought it was-but there is actually something utterly scrumptious to the hype. I have been dreaming of the whitefish tiradito and the ginger crusted scallops I had
I love that I can live vicariously through you. At the moment we are living in the middle of nowhere, we are making the best of it, but exciting it is not. You are a great story teller and have fun no matter where you are, I love that!
When I am in town I will definitely be asking you for recommendations!
Kristen, When you’re in town we have to go eat TOGETHER!
And thank you for your kind words. I really appreciate it!
Great post. The food looks incredible as it only can at Nobu – like another reader I have been to the Vegas Nobu but not L.A. Love that it was your proposal resto! Makes total sense. Those peppers look ones we ate in Barcelona – I may have to ask you more about them. And your tangle with the paps! Luv it!!
I want to make those Shishito peppers at home. I bet I can find them at 99 Ranch!
It all looks great but the Rock Shrimp Tempura with the spicy aioli looks fantastic!
So was it worthy of the Top 10 list?
Well…. I haven’t been here YET!
Well what are you waiting for?!?
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Mizuno Wave Universe Review Update @MizunoRunning
Seven weeks since I wrote the last review on my Mizuno Wave Universe (WU) last. Now over 210 miles on WU4 and 190 miles on WU3, they are still going strong! Since many people are looking for a shoe review on WU and they seem to be concerned about its durability, I thought of writing a quick update. I mostly run on pavement (concrete or asphalt), so below should be representative of its durability as many people wear racing flat on pavement (right?), rather than strictly on track or soft trail. I’ve been running in WU4 on dry days and in WU3 in rainy days.
At 210 miles, my WU4s are showing some tear and wear at the outside of the mid-foot: The black rubber-ish material you see in the picture on the left. I don’t know how many more miles are left in the material until mid-sole starts showing. The same deterioration is found on my other shoe; however, the same material on the front and inside still looks as good as new – almost.
The outsole is still securely and tightly glued to the upper, and shows no sign of coming apart. This is the case all around the shoe. The same goes for WU3 I put through some wet weather, as well as washing machine and manual washing. One thing I noticed was I got a wet foot when I accidentally step on a mushy grass. As a result, I got a big blister exactly where the outsole is wearing out. I don’t know if the water came through the thinning outsole or the opening in the middle of outsole (I don’t know what it is called).
The orange thermal plastic that runs from heel to midfoot shows a little bit of damage as well, but nowhere near as bad as the outside of the midfoot. I guess I am not a serious heel-striker. This thermal plastic material is pretty springy, so it is supposed to help when I am pushing off and moving forward.
Overall, the shoes are still in a great shape. Except for picking up dirt stain, there is no functional damages in the upper. My feet are pretty wide, but they adjusted to the width of my feet and hug my feet every time I lace up. I am not showing WU3 but their upper does not have any damages, except it shows the dirt and stains much more due to its color.
I will write another update in additional 100 miles or so.
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Welcome Assistant Principals!
This group is specifically for those serving the AP role in a high school or middle school, and allows you to ask questions directly to other APs.
Assistant Principal Central - Wendy Bridges
Assistant Principal Eastern - Matt Shanafelt
Assistant Principal Western - Brad Lusk
Welcome to Summer! What are you up to - what projects or tasks are you involved with? Or is it just a nice break for you? We're at the MASSP Conference at Mackinac Island - always learning!
Does anyone want to meet at the Conference to talk about alternative education issues?
Kind of late to suggest this, but...
I will be at the conference in Mount Pleasant on October 4th, 5th and 6th. Is anyone interested in meeting there as a group (or individually) to discuss alternative education issues? If so, please email me and we can arrange to meet.
Ken Willison, Alternative Education Liaison to MASSP;
President of Michigan Alternative Education Organization (MAEO)
Middle School Science Fair
I have a teacher in my building who wants to organize a 7th grade science fair for the first time. Does your middle school have a science fair? If so, I was hoping to have my teacher connect with your science teachers who sponsor/organize your science fair.
Please email me if you can help!
Thanks,
David Simpson
Derby Middle School
Birmingham Public Schools
248-203-5007
ds16bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us
Do you have an exam exemption policy at your school?
We have had a policy in place for several years that rewards good attendance (with a few other stipulations). They can exempt one exam of their choice if they qualify. I'm wondering if this is allowed under the new graduation requirements?
Recommendations for professional development/teacher training for Connected Math.
I am looking for well qualified training for my 6th grade and 7th grade teachers for the Connected Math series. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Who among us has alternative education responsibilities or interests?
Please help MASSP's new alternative education liaison, Ken Willison, gain a clearer understanding of who among us has alternative education responsibilities or interests. If you have any duties in your district related to alternative education ... or if you just have a strong interest in alternative education issues ... please let Ken know who you are. If you prefer not to post to the internet, please feel free to send an email to him at ken.willison@staff.spartaschools.org
Also, if you haven't done so already … why not join the new Alternative Education group? While not much has been posted there yet, we hope to get the ball rolling soon and would love to have all interested parties participate.
Thanks.
Student Age Limitations?
At what age can we stop educating a regular education student that lives in the district? What does the law state?
Any H. S. have experience with Title I Targeted Assistance planning?
Moving to Title I Targeted Assistance program in order to receive more funding to develop intervention classes/programs to help struggling students in mathematics and ELA. Looking for high schools who have successfully navigated the Title I application and have implemented an intervention structure to help reach at-risk students.
Cell Phones as Instructional Tools
I am currently working with a company to develop and pilot a new program for teachers that would allow them to utilize student cell phones to aid in instruction. Our program would primarily use the phone's text messaging feature. Some functions of the program would include student surveys, quizzes and tests, real-time brainstorming, and picture and video galleries. It would be web-based so schools would simply pay a subscription fee and get a log-in. We are thinking about purchasing some pay-as-you-go cell phones for students to use who do not have text messaging service on their phones.
What do you see as the pros and cons of a program like this? I'm curious to get your feedback.
9th Grade Center?
Does anyone currently operate and have success with a "school within a school" model specifically for the 9th grade population? If so, I would like to possibly arrange a visit to your school.
Thank you,
Scott Kapla
skapla@scslakeview-k12.com
Lakeview High School
Are you a Class A High School that requires students to have Student ID Cards?
Midland's school improvement team is looking for information from other Class A schools regarding school identification cards (or name tags) for students. We would like to know how many schools use them, in what capacity they are used, and consequences for not having them.
Senior class trip
Do you still offer senior class trips and what are the guidelines for the trip.
PLAN & EXPLORE Testing
Good morning,
I am looking for data that supports implementing the EXPLORE test in 8th/9th grade and the PLAN test in 10th grade. If possible, I am also looking at the cost of the two programs as it relates to their actual impact on ACT test scores.
Thank you,
Scott Kapla
Lakeview High School
skapla@scslakeview-k12.com
Personal Finance Course
I am in the process of putting together information to add a course to our curriculum. Curious to find out what others are using or doing for "Personal Finance" and what area is it located. (Economics or Business)
Looking forward to responses.
Perry Wilson
Student Clubs
Does anybody have a form they use for teachers to request new student clubs?
Thanks!
David Simpson
Derby Middle School
HYBRID SCHEDULE (80/90 min. & 45/55 min. Classes)
I am looking for schools who may currently run a hybrid schedule. We currently run a block/semester schedule but are looking to alternatives.
Particularly, I am looking for schools who may run 80-90 minute classes for either a semester or a year long. At the same time, I am looking for classes within the same schedule that run for 45-55 minutes for either a semester or for the entire year.
If you currently run a hybrid schedule combining block classes and 45-55 minute classes, I would appreciate the time to speak/meet with you to discuss the intricacies of how you schedule students and what type of program you use to do it.
We are exploring new avenues in terms of serving our student population. Any information would be a tremendous help.
Has anyone purchased a cell phone jammer for your school so that students can not use their cell phones in school?
One of our teachers heard about this device on Channel 1. We want to know if anyone is currently using this device and if so, how is it working?
plagiarism
I know it is becoming in issue with cutting and pasting off of the internet, so my staff and I are looking for some good language to put into our student's handbook regarding plagiarism. If you have something out there that has been working for you, and you are willing to share, it would be most appreciated.
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How Important Is It To Follow Your Passion When Creating A Business?
Do what you love . . .
. . . And as Marsha Sinetar says, “the money will follow.”
Her book is a classic on finding what floats your boat and making a living from that. What if you don’t know what you love? That’s a problem. But not an insurmountable one.
In a story called “The Kiss of Death Marketing” in an issue of an affiliate marketing magazine, the number 1 “kiss of death” is, “Assuming that if you do what you love, the money will follow.” It goes on to say, “Steer clear of gurus who tell you to follow your passions.”
Good thing I’m not a guru, because if there’s no passion driving us toward our goals, what’s the point?
Fredric Lehrman, a prosperity guru, addresses this question in a unique and playful way with what he calls Prosperity Scrabble. To explain it, I’ll give you my own experience.
In 1997, when I was at a career crossroads, I wanted to identify my “right livelihood.” What was in me that would feed my soul? After listening to Prosperity Consciousness, I found a tool to figure it out.
Lehrman recommends doing this as a game with other people. We used this as an assignment in our guy group to report on our experience.
Here are the steps:
- Cut up pieces of paper into approximately one-inch squares
- Write down something you really enjoy doing on each one. This could include mundane things like watching TV. But be thorough and don’t censor your thoughts
- Turn them over so you can’t read them, mix them up and pull out two
- Take item 1 and item 2, seemingly unrelated, and try to envision a business from combining them
If you find a combination that clicks, he says, ask yourself if you’re willing to do it until you make $100. When I was doing this process, two items came to the top:
- Motorcycle riding
- Travel journalism – writing and photography
Pondering those items, and a life-long desire to travel the U.S. by motorcycle, I came up with my all-time favorite business plan. I shopped it all over Atlanta for a year and came very close to getting a major corporation to fund the entire year of travel. Now, years later, because of technology improvements and because of what I’ve learned about doing business online, I don’t need a corporate sponsor.
It’s still a major goal of creating a successful business on the Internet is to take this trip and make the project a reality.
We haven’t yet taken the trip, but we’re getting closer. Prosperity scrabble helped me realize what was important and how to feed my soul.
The rest of this module is about choosing niches in your passion areas (or otherwise) that are worth doing. Pay close attention to these technques.
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Why Your Mindset Is What It Is…And What You Can Do About It!
In 1998, I went on my first and only blind date.
I had been resisting it for 3 months, but the mutual friend who set up the date was persistent, to say the least.
Blind dates! How . . . Pitiful! Is this what my life had come to? I was so judgmental about the whole concept, but the truth was that my resistance was because this woman sounded like someone I could easily be interested in.
The last thing I wanted was a serious relationship. I had been married (didn’t work out so well) and swore I’d never do it again!
I walked into a little outdoor café for the 1-hour pre-arranged cup of coffee with the obligatory hard-stop. Of course, I had created another appointment to make sure I had an excuse to leave. And there sat a beautiful, intelligent and very direct 40-year old woman.
The conversation was quick.
“Are you Charlsa?” She nodded, “You’re David?” I nodded and took a seat across from her.
After the briefest awkward pause, she looked at me and blurted out, “So, what’s your story?”
I cracked up. I loved her directness. And ended up loving her.
As my wife would say, “What’s your story?”
That really is the purpose of this entire course. We want to tell our stories, convince people to buy our products and create a community around both. Whether you’re a writer, a business person, an athletic trainer, a hobbyist, a realtor, or someone who wants to escape the life you’ve built so far, you’ve got to have a story. And that story is your experience. It’s your wisdom.
It’s an asset!
Introductions are in order.
Hi, I’m David Perdew.
But you know that already. I have a long and checkered history. If you want the resume version, I’ll post it later. But the bullets are:
- Born: New Castle, IN., 1952, in a loving but flawed working class family (aren’t they all?)
- Lived there till I was 18 when I joined the Air Force
- Married when I was 19
- Three children (all over 30 — Good Lord, how did I get so old!)
- Graduated from Indiana University in Journalism in 1978
- Divorced 1984
- Worked in the newspaper business as a photo editor, magazine editor and copy editor until 1989. Left the Atlanta Journal & Constitution in 1989 as Director of Photography
- Started my stock photography agency in 1989
- Married again in 1990
- Sold stock agency in 1995
- Divorced again in 1996
- Changed careers to information technology in 1996 as a programmer
- Became a project manager / consultant in 1997
- Sold my car and bought a 1997 Harley Davidson in 1997 as my only mode of transportation for two years
- Married again in 1998
- Spent 20 years as a successful independent corporate consultant
Ok, there’s my life boiled down to 16 facts — but that’s only part of my story.
Here’s my story
A big part of my story is about money. It’s the measure of success in this country. I was sucked into that vortex for years. The larger my checkbook balance, the better I felt. If it was close to (or God forbid – below) zero, I went into a depression. Not because I had money problems, but because my self-worth was tied directly to the number of zeros following the number 1. It was insane.
And it finally took me the only place it could – all the way to the bottom. The bullet that says “Divorced again in 1996” is directly tied to that bottom. My beliefs about money were driving my life.
My mindset was my biggest struggle. That’s why I think it SO important to focus on our mindset from the start. We’ll attack those beliefs – mine and yours – in a later section today.
Here’s the blessing in that crash: There’s an unexpected freedom at the bottom.
It becomes a reference point never to be forgotten for the rest of your life. It becomes a touchstone for gratitude. When times are rough, I tell myself, “Whew, I’m so grateful I’m not there any longer.” And I know that I never have to go back. But I also know that no matter how difficult things get, I can survive.
That’s a great discovery! Much of the fear that drove my life lessened, if not disappeared. Fear of loss, fear of not being enough, fear of disappointing others – all became my reality, no longer imagined. I experienced loss, not being enough and truly disappointed many others. And there’s such freedom in knowing that from the bottom you can only go up!
The greater gift is knowing that you get to choose your bottom. You don’t have to be penniless and homeless like I had become. You can say that from today forward, I’ll go no lower. I accept responsibility for my life.
The key to an incredible mindset – and business – is personal responsibility!
My life is a pure gift that has continually improved since 1995. Astounding things have happened. Great miracles and wonderful opportunities. Sounds like I’ve got it licked now? Not by a long shot, but I do have a perspective on my life that is huge and that I’m very comfortable with.
I haven’t had a real paycheck since 1989.
A paycheck is a trap. It makes you think the world will protect and save you. Nothing could be further from the truth. As Joe Vitale says in The Attractor Factor (go ahead and buy the book – I’ll reference it a gazillion times):
“The hardest concept for most people to grasp is that they are the sole reason they are experiencing whatever they have in their lives. They are totally responsible.”
Whew! He didn’t say partially responsible. He didn’t say one of the reasons. Don’t look around. He’s talking to you. He said you are responsible for whatever you have in your life.
Yes but . . .
Stop right there. This is a key concept. That’s what every bottom-dweller learns, or they stay on the bottom.
I am responsible for changing my life.
No one else is.
And I can only change one life – mine. Not my wife’s, my son’s, my parents’ or my boss’s. Changing my life is my business. It’s my job and it’s my only job.
MyNAMS training is built around this concept. Memorize it! Cut it out and put it on your refrigerator.
This web business stuff is not easy. It’s simple. But not easy.
Don’t let anyone kid you. Without persistence, nothing will happen. This is a business and must be treated like a new business. That’s what the entire MyNAMS Step-by-Step training is all about: Helping you move from beginner to advanced online business person.
We’ll be thorough, sometimes too thorough. The structure of this course is such that you can attack any topic at anytime, but we really encourage you to go through it methodically from start to finish.
Now, tell me who you are
Go to the forums and introduce yourself if you haven’t already. If you’ve given us the facts, we want more.
- What do you do?
- Who do you love?
- What’s important to you?
- Where do you live? (Not looking for a street address, just a part of the world
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- What do you want from this course?
I loved reading your story. I relate to it so much. Firstly, thank you for taking my call a few weeks ago. The fact that I could call you directly and you answered… wow, I can’t tell you how cool that was. As we discussed, I wanted to join MyNAMS.com, but needed some direction. I was also hoping to get the lifetime membership I missed out on… doesn’t hurt to ask, right? Well, I joined MN and signed up to a bunch of free things and started getting emails… tons of emails. I was completely overwhelmed! I can’t tell how excited I am about the Dashboard. It’s exactly what I need… an easy-to-navigate step-by-step course. Thank you soooo much!
I too am a journalist, now working as a consultant. Specifically, I was a magazine editor who had a very successful career. But I found myself longing to do more, be an entrepreneur, which lead me to an awful experience that became my bottom. Once I extricated myself for the situation, and took back my life, I entered a year-long journey of self discovery that lead me to launch my blog. I’m clear that everything that happens in life is a lesson, whether it be a good or hurtful experience. As difficult as it was to go through the fire, today I live an more grounded and grateful life. My income is 25% of what it used to be but I’m 100% happier. I’m having fun not taking life too seriously and appreciate every moment of every day. All of which has lead me to launching. My blog has enriched my relationship with my mother… and my waistline. I’m excited about taking it to the next level. Thank you for being part of my journey. Angela Lawrence
Angela – thanks for telling us your background. These are amazing times we live in
I’ve been out of journalism – officially – since 1989, but I really believe all those skills are absolutely crucial to doing what we do online today. I think you’ve got a big advantage having that in your history. And I loved talking to you about your partnership with your mother on your site. Great concept…Look forward to seeing you in Atlanta at the workshop (if you can make it…)
Just finished reading your story. Amazingly, much like mine.
Made me cry.
I guess I’ve found the right place
Love it.
Glad you found us Bonnie… Didn’t know it was such a touching story, but I just tell it like I see it
I’m a blessed man.
I relate to alot of your story and look forward to one day meeting face to face and maybe breaking a little bread with you. Not this February workshop but the next. I’m making it one of my goal’s.
I won’t post my personal travails here because they are very personal and hurtful to some extent. A lot of stuff that I am still working through with the help of my shrink. I am almost 70 years old and it was not until recently that I found the courage to get the help I needed. I was raised in a culture where men stand on their own, even if they haven’t the feet to do so, if you get my drift.
Just like with NAMS, I had not had the sense to get help with my marketing. Instead I kept banging my head against the wall all by myself, following WSO’s and other products I could afford. What a waste of time and effort! I could be so far ahead of where I am and not be in the situations I find myself in now.
Oh well, can’t change history, I’ll just have to deal with my issues the best I can and keep moving forward, no matter what. At least now I’m feeling a little more confident of my future outcome.
I first joined NAMS on Nov 1 but due to some unexpected medical issues I had not had the chance to get into any of the material here. Now that I’m here I can’t believe the volume of material on this site. I am really looking forward to begin making some progress now that I am a member here. Thanks for having the HEART to create such a place.
Thanks, Alex
Alex – you’re very welcome and I hope you dig in as much as you can.
About our travails in life: I always say it takes what it takes to get us where we are. And sometimes that’s a lot of stumbles along the way. Like you’ve discovered, the best way to avoid most of that is to ask for help! And that’s a really hard thing for those of us in our “mature” state…
Welcome again.
David
Hi David,
Thank you for taking the time to create this page and for telling your story. I can relate in many ways. But here’s just a few …
I’m currently studying copywriting with Karon Thackston. Originally I was a nuclear med tech for 35 years. I love nature and the outdoors, used to bike and run for charities. And since I was in three radiology modalities, photography has always been part of my life with extra courses in college.
I’ve had several painful life experiences, but in the last few years I’ve been able to take the charge off the emotional side effects … and switch off the bad thoughts in the process. Earlier in my life, that type of help wasn’t available. What was available didn’t help. Like you, my belief is that we are definitely in charge of what happens in our own lives. It was just the “how to change it” that had me stuck. I love Dr. Joe, and also Centerpointe. Knowing something mentally and then actually believing it and acting on it are two different things … and trusting the Guidance we receive every day.
What’s important to me is to leave my affairs in order and that means making money now. I wanted what I call a “retirement career” using my writing skills productively, so I went back to college and took journalism. After another decade of life stuff including a family tragedy, I’m starting again.
I keep reminding God that I’m not Methuselah, and he keeps giving me opportunities and blessings with incentives to just keep on keepin’ on … hence, I was directed to NAMS via Karon.
I live in the midwest with a shelter dog and a 32-year old parrot adapting to ever-changing weather conditions–which is why I do my focus work late at night … for now. What I need from this course is exactly what you offer: structure and direction. But you offer so much more. I’ m flabbergasted (is that a real word?). Anyway, I’m grateful for all of it.
Blessings,
Patricia
P.S. I look forward to meeting you and the terrific NAMS team (have read some blogs) in near future.
Thanks Patricia. I’m with you on the retirement career
But I don’t feel very retired these days… Of course, I’ve got a couple more years before I want to fully retire – whatever that means – anyway…
WOW! What an eye opener.
Glad you liked it Dino
We try to keep your eyes open all the time…
Wow we are the same age, guess there is hope for me to make it in the internet world. Just finished reading and am looking forward to devouring all of the NAMS training.
Bill
Hi! I am just beginning my journey up from the bottom and am so excited to be here and learning from somone like you. Reading your story was so very inspitiational. I, too have found all the bumps in the road and knew that there had to be a better way.
I have a wonderful friend that gifted me with my membership to MyNAMS and I am now finding that it is the gift that keeps on giving.
My journey is now looking like quite an adventure. Thank you!
Not as excited as we are to have you here. New people who have a goal and drive to execute it are the lifeblood of our program. And frankly, the most fun. Watching people succeed is awesome. Make sure you go to the forum and introduce yourself. You’ll find lots of folks there who will help.
I spent a good part of a year studying programs and building a website. So many pieces to the puzzle and so many products that don’t deliver or are to hard to understand. I stepped away from the whole thing for the good part of another year after blogging my heart out and marketing and getting few results… Here I am again. Ready to get it done because I want this!!
Great post – I’m excited to meet everyone.
David, I am touched by this post and your sharing so much of yourself. I’m embarrassed to say that I’m only just digging into these Dashboard modules (on the plane en route to NAMS). So much of my entrepreneurial experience in the last three years has been backwards. I got excited about social media long before I had anything to promote or sell. I’ve learned so much from so many people, but it’s time for me to put it all together. Let the new leg of my journey begin.
Personally, in the spirit of sharing, I have been so, so fortunate in my life and marriage – John and I celebrated out 40th in October and he’s still the person I’d rather be with than anyone in the world. We have two amazing grown children who are not only happily married and employed, but doing things that make a difference in the world.
I trained to be an anatomist but took another route as wife, mother, and community activist. No regrets there. But now that the kids are out of the nest, and my retired husband is good at staying busy on his own, I have an entrepreneurial itch I haven’t scratched yet. At this stage in my life, I’m not looking to be rich and famous, but I should would like to earn enough to pay for a fabulous vacation every year.
Should I have posted all this in the forum? If so, let me know and I’ll copy and paste.
I work in construction. A decent living, stay busy, bring home a paycheck weekly. Not exactly head over heels inspired by that, nor as physically capable as I once was, so I have been exploring options.
Affiliate marketing seemed to hit all of my personal criteria buttons for a viable “retirement career” , but until now I have been stumble-bumbling along, as a green newbie. Thanks to Kaya Singer for introducing me to NAMS and you, David.
Now, I have to say, your excellent website seems a bit overwhelming , so I can see myself struggling a bit to stay focused, but it certainly has me chomping at the bit to actually see RESULTS from my efforts.
I’m ready to dive in!
Excellent Jeff – you’re only scratching the surface of this site. But I’m so glad that you’re digging in here with this series. You’ll see a bunch of tools, training and community opportunities to help you when you need it. Thanks for being here.
I’ve been a member since October, but I’m just now really getting started. My youngest was born with medical disabilities but it was December of 2011 before we learned that my oldest has a few medical challenges herself. I spent the months of November and December of 2012 (1 year later) getting her prepared for surgery (Christmas eve, of course!) and getting myself prepared for the $16,000 medication expense (not including the anesthesiologist, surgeon, hospital, etc). I lost my job at the beginning of December, but it took me until February to make the decision (no regrets) to pursue my passion (working for myself, traveling with my daughters), and until now to get back to MyNAMS. I’m sorry I missed the February session (no babysitter), but can’t (currently) afford the August one – unless I get my butt in gear and get to making things happen.
I’m disappointed that I’m starting 5 months after I joined, but it is what it is – and the BEST thing I can do is move forward, and not look back.
Here goes…
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Beethoven – Für Elise (fur Elise, piano solo)
Published: 807 days ago
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Beethoven – Für Elise:
Nice performance, I love it!!!
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Tucked into a beautiful isolated north-south valley, on the western slope of the Coast range of southern Oregon, with a clear, clean river named Middle Creek running through, is our farm. 27 acres of lush pasture and 100 year old conifer forest, barns, and a home surrounded by productive and established orchard and gardens, the land sits a mile or so below a narrows in the canyon, where tall rock walls like sentinels stand above the road and river that head up east into what old timber is left in this part of these blue-green mountains that face the sea. To the west the hills rise and fall a couple of times before the mainstem Coquille river winds it’s way lazily to the surf some 25 miles distant. A winding, scenic 20 minute drive takes you to the old town and county seat of Coquille, and another 20 minutes lands you in the second largest port on the Oregon coast, the city of Coos Bay.
Weather here is mostly wet for the months of December-March, with temperatures ranging from the 30′s to 50′s, occasionally dipping into the 20′s…occasionally snowing…then, through April and May the rains begin to taper and the sunny spells increase to remind us of the amazing summer to come. As seems to be the case is most shorter summer climates, life seems to take on a certain urgency of beauty and celebration of itself. With the mercury hovering in the 80′s to 90′s commonly during the long lazy afternoons, the swimming hole is a welcome respite. Fall can stretch out into sweet, ripe days and lingering warm, scented evenings..with crisp, starry nights when the Milky Way is like a bright brushstroke of glitter across a deep blue-black sky. When the winter rains return they are a welcome relief to the dry land and ensure the continuing cycle of fertility and fecundity.
Since I moved my young family here in 1983, this place has been farmed organically. Raising Llamas, goats, ducks and chickens, as well as the occasional turkeys, has been an on-going part of farm life and death here. By amending and composting the clay-rich earth, along with ample spring and river water and long summer days, we have sustainably raised bumper crop after bumper crop of delicious vegetables and fruits over these many seasons. Greens and herbs are grown in the greenhouse nearly year round, and the garden starts are also seeded and raised there starting with the tomatoes and peppers in February. The lath house is where the starts are “hardened off” before their risky transplant to the cool spring soil..and exposure to the lurking late frosts. As the soil warms, an eager horde of various starts join direct seedings to fill the nearly half acre veggie garden with a continuously changing show of color and form that finishes with bounty and memories..filling the pantry, food storage room, freezers and happy bellies. Apples, pears, plums, peaches, cherries, and figs join in a steady flow of fruits to fill dehydraters, cider press, wine crocks and canning jars. Berries both wild and gardened, and grapes join in as harvest moons wax large.
This land has a very long history of bounty and human involvement, in fact, thousands of years. Every time I come across a primitive tool, or implement, while working this soil, I am reminded of the earlier stewards here. They harvested, used fire to manage, and met here to scrape hides, harvest Salmon, swap stories and genes. They took good care of their world here as it took good care of them. As was the case in most all of this western land, the coming of the whites marked the ending of an era..and a gradual, then gaining momentum, destructive change took place. As the most recent steward on this bit of paradise, I have considered it my inheritance to speak for all the inhabitants of this sacred place..and hold in my hearts eye a healing..a return to the ancient rhythms that created the real wealth that was here..for all.
When I first drove down what was then the driveway, through the woods and out onto the lower pasture here, I turned to my wife and said ”This is it!” ..and it has been, since that mid-summer day. By 1990 we had undertaken a major remodel of the shack that was on the site…concluding with the addition of the dance/recording studio building. The timber-framed barn and equipment shed went up in that same period, and much garden expansion, fencing, treeplanting and landscaping was happening along with the construction. Though I divorced in 1996, with the help of the next strong women in my life, by ’05 the cobblestone walks and patios and rock-walled perennial flower gardens and orchard had been established around the house, and a bed and breakfast recording studio was open for business. Many musicians have enjoyed the creative, serene and natural atmosphere of the place..many family, friends and neighbors have enjoyed the place for it’s beauty and relaxation..and for great parties and events.
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Three Arrested in Rockford Stabbing
By: Alex de Leon
Updated: July 13, 2012
Tywanna West, 47, Shawanna Hurt, 21, and Clayton Parr, 40, have all been charged with aggravated battery and mob action. West is also charged with two counts of attempted first degree murder.
Police say the group was fighting with the 38 year-old victim on the 1000 block of Garfield Avenue, that's when police say the victim was stabbed.
All three suspects are due in court Monday.
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Anyone who tells children that God – literally – created the world in seven days 6,000 years ago is guilty of perverting education.
This article originally appeared on the Independent / by Susan Elkin
The truth – and education should be above all else a search for truth – is that the world, and the flora and fauna in it, including homo sapiens, evolved over millions of years.
But of course, whatever the founders of the Exemplar Academy in Newark soon to open as a state-authorised school might think, the divisions between the two points of view are not quite as cut and dried as that.
There is, for example, more than one sort of truth. There is factual, scientific truth and there are deeper, metaphysical truths.
For example, I don’t for a moment believe that Adam and Eve were ever a physically living people and neither, for the record, do any of the committed Christians I know. But there is a great deal of ‘truth’ in their human fallibility and curiosity. In a sense the Adam and Eve story is a novel, and like all the best novels it is full of insights and truths.
Intelligent, responsible adults working with children teach them the science and then, if they wish, explain that the creation stories – and every religion has one – originated as man’s way of explaining truths he ( or she) didn’t fully understand. It actually makes quite an interesting education project to explore and compare those stories and see what a lot they have in common.
And as for God. Well, he was man’s name for the almost unimaginable force which drove (drives) the process of evolution and change – a personification. So, if you want a religious approach, the science and the creation myth complement each other. You don’t have to argue the literal and pretty absurd case for an old man in the sky striding about making decisions for and about human beings.
Good educators – parents, teachers and others – ensure that children learn to think and reason for themselves. They don’t thrust propaganda and bigotry at them or withhold facts and information.
A friend of mine taught for a while in a tiny school run by Plymouth Brethren. She had to teach Shakespeare’s play Henry V so that the students could take GCSE English Literature. She was not allowed to mention sex in any context and the word ‘god’ had been blanked out of the text every time it appeared which wrought havoc with both sense and verse.
One student, a girl aged 15 (yes,15), was very puzzled about why the women were in danger at Harfleur. ‘I can see that the soldiers would want to kill the men’ she said. ‘But what on earth did they want with the women and girls?’ It seems little short of scandalous to me that anyone in 21st century Britain is raising children in such dangerous ignorance. Bigotry has a great deal to answer for.
I am not a religious believer or church goer. But I am a great admirer of much of what is in The Bible and other religious texts. They contain fine poetry, a great deal of human truth in many of the stories and an encapsulation of the cultures they sprang from and influenced – all of which I want children and young people to be led to think about. We can all learn a lot from them.
But we must never indoctrinate or permit our institutions to use indoctrination techniques. The Department for Education, as my colleague Richard Garner reported in the Independent last week is trying to make a slippery and unconvincing distinction between a school which has a ‘faith ethos’ and a ‘faith school’ .
Call it what you like but the school in question is founded by blinkered creationists who don’t see education as a free unending journey. Does anyone really believe that it will restrict itself to pedalling its distorted truths (lies?) in RE lessons?
Real Education is about open-ended questioning and challenging the mind. It also involves encouraging the learners eventually to move way beyond their teachers so that each generation explores new ground. Blinkered, limited, propagandist, religious thinking attempts to hold back or stop that process.
Brainwashing is a form of child abuse. It should have no place in any place of learning. /sources: article; image (Mattias Jordan Carson);.
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. “Truth springs from argument amongst friends.” by David Hume.
Here here! Great article; it’s crazy that in 2012 our children are still having draconian morality tales presented to them as fact, in the name of ‘education’.
Let faith schools teach by all means, but don’t force everyone to have to swallow the same dogma.
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It's downright hazardous how quickly this summer seems to be slipping past. Work has been keeping me fairly busy and I can never seem to satisfy my appetite for exploring Washington's trails. I'm making steady daily progress on my 1000 mile challenge but feel like I'm playing a serious game of catch up with the others. If I can keep my weekly average between 25 and 30 miles during the warmer months here in Washington, I should be able to complete the trip on time. Unless I take a wrong turn and go over a cliff like the unfortunate fellow on the sign.
I've got a couple of great trails I wanted to share this week using an online mapping tool that I'm just learning about. It seems to have a few technical kinks and isn't always super intuitive, but it's one of the better ways I've found to share trip details (at least until I break down and design my own online mapping tool that is). As always, I've also got downloadable PDF maps that you can simply print and go.
Rattlesnake Mtn Trail - 9.02 Miles
This was a great trail I hiked two weeks ago, conveniently located off I-90 at exit 32. You'll gain a significant amount of elevation in the first 1.6 miles along this high traffic section of the trail. Most hikers get winded on their climb to Rattlesnake Ledge and go no further but the 2.4 miles of trail along the northwestern ridgeline provides a surprising degree of solitude. On clear days you'll have unmatched views of Mt. Si, North Bend, and Chester Morse Lake to the southeast.
Noble Knob Trail – 7.1 Miles
I had been eyeing this ridgeline trail that borders the Norse Peak Wilderness ever since the snows let up in mid-April. I’m sure the rangers at the Enumclaw Station were wearied by my almost daily calls to find out if the road had been opened to get to the Corral Pass trailhead. With my wife, new hiking partner (Adrian), and five kids under the age of eight in tow, I was finally able to venture up to check it out this last weekend. Two of the kids actually made it the full distance out to Noble Knob and back (7.1 Miles). What can I say, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6)
A Word of Caution: The trickiest part of getting to Corral Pass and the trailhead is NFD 7174. There are several sections that are extremely steep, narrow, and rocky. You'll want to be in a vehicle with sufficient horsepower and road clearance in order to make it up. Be very careful when passing other vehicles moving in the opposite direction. We actually saw a small Honda Civic that was being plucked from a dangerous embankment by a heavy duty tow truck while we were up there. The owners had the look of terror on their faces as we carefully moved past them.
Looks like some great hikes...the color of the water in the first one is amazing.
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I must have my own space! I must have my own time! On Sunday morning with several Masses to celebrate and sermons to preach, the last thing I need is to be rushed, without having the leisure to loosen my limbs and tune into God -after the heavy drowsiness of a good night's sleep.
And so it happened that on one Sunday morning both my usually reliable 'body clock' and my alarm clock failed to awaken me. Neither did the Holy Spirit or any of my Guardian Angels. Far be it from me to suggest that they were sleeping at their posts.
The time came when two worthy parishioners were pounding on my door and calling my name. Much was their relief to find that I was still half alive in a distant drowsy fashion. They told me I was already late and that there was no need to stampede myself into action.
In the twilight world of semi-consciousness I groped my way to the car. As I made my drowsy way down the aisle of the church I heard a small boy whisper, "Mummy, Father's still asleep!" True! True! True! With my head aching at the effort of trying to become devotional, and, harder still, to sound coherent, I would not be surprised if many in the congregation thought I was talking in my sleep as well as sleep walking.
One of today's worn out cliches is people talking about their having got their act together, at long last and after so much effort...not without moments of elation and heart-break. To reach the peak and remain at the top is an enviable achievement.
But then I pause. What if God saw it fitting for my personal formation that I should never feel totally secure, never utterly self-confident? What if throughout my life it were needful for me to be continually aware of my creaturely fragility? Then, surely if ever anything that I attempted were to"come off" just as I intended, instinctively I would say, "Thank you God, for bringing me through."
For me it simply is not true that practice makes perfect. Having been Fr. Reliable for so many years is no guarantee that I will wake up at a given time on any given Sunday. I've heard it said of some priests that they have preached so many sermons they could do it in their sleep.
Come to think of it, I remember a time when I was surging through my sermon when it seemed as though there were a power-cut in my brain. For a while my brain went blank. When I returned to the real world I wondered where I was and what I was doing. What could I do but ask an altar server what was going on? Politely he told me he thought I was preaching. Obviously I had failed to make much of an impact on him.
What to do but to tell the congregation God had shut me down for a moment, and this I took to be an indication that He wanted me to shut up. Since no one protested I suggested we recite the Creed together. This certainly restored my wavering self-confidence.
My personal experience tells me that at the very time when I'm doing something important for God, He allows me to have a "power failure" and a "black out" in my preaching. He even allows my inner being to be in a state of flux. He's teaching me never to think in terms of my performance or my personal achievement. Mine is to be the instability of a jelly and the insecurity of walking on shifting sands.
I and the People of God are to be made to realize and accept what God has to offer: Preachers and Ministers who are no better and no worse than, "earthenware pots holding a priceless treasure, so that the immensity of the power is God's and not our own,"
2 Cor. 4. 7).
It's somewhat unnerving not to know what God is liable to let happen to me once I set about doing something for Him! For the elite this may mean martyrdom. For the likes of me it may come down to a fuzzy head or loose bowels! Such is my spirituality of encountering and serving the Divine, mywaygodsway. This I must learn to live with, and, I fancy, so must you!
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United States Court of Federal Claims.
LUMMI TRIBE OF THE LUMMI RESERVATION, Lummi Nation Housing Authority, Fort Peck Housing Authority, Fort Berthold Housing Authority, and Hopi Tribal Housing Authority, Plaintiffs,
v.
The UNITED STATES, Defendant.
No. 08–848C.
Aug. 21, 2012.
SUPPLEMENTARY OPINION
*1 This case arises under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self–Determination Act of 1996 (“NAHASDA” or “the statute”), as amended, 25 U.S.C. §§ 4101–4212 (2006). Plaintiffs sue here to recover grant funds originally paid to them under that statute, but later recaptured by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD” or “the agency”) when HUD determined that the allocation formula on which the grants had been based had been misapplied. Defendant has moved to dismiss count two of plaintiffs' second amended complaint—a count alleging that HUD's recapture of grant funds without conducting a compliance hearing constituted an illegal exaction—on the ground that the recapture was lawfully accomplished despite the absence of such a hearing.FN1 The court heard oral argument on June 19, 2012. Because we conclude that HUD failed to follow the applicable procedures in recapturing plaintiffs' grant funds, defendant's motion to dismiss is denied.
FN1. In an earlier round of litigation in this case, defendant moved to dismiss plaintiffs' entire complaint, arguing, inter alia, that: (i) NAHASDA is not a money-mandating statute and therefore does not confer jurisdiction on this court; (ii) the Anti–Deficiency Act, 31 U.S.C. § 1341(a)(1)(A), precludes this court from awarding the relief sought; and (iii) plaintiffs' claims are barred by the statute of limitations, 28 U.S.C. § 2501. In an opinion issued on August 4, 2011, we rejected defendant's first two arguments, ruling that NAHASDA is indeed a money-mandating statute whose implementing regulations may be challenged by plaintiffs in this court, and that the Anti–Deficiency Act does not prevent the court from awarding the requested relief (a conclusion that was later confirmed by the Federal Circuit in Samish Indian Nation v. United States, 657 F.3d 1330, 1339 (Fed.Cir.2011)). Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation v. United States, 99 Fed. Cl. 584, 597, 605 (2011). We accepted defendant's third argument, however, and accordingly dismissed plaintiffs' claims for grant funds relating to fiscal years 1998 through 2002 as having accrued more than six years before plaintiffs' November 26, 2008, filing of suit in this court and thus as barred by the statute of limitations. Id. at 607. We additionally dismissed that aspect of plaintiffs' complaint—count two—challenging HUD's recapture of grant funds without conducting a compliance hearing, on the ground that any failure to do so was not prejudicial. Id. at 599.
Plaintiffs moved for reconsideration of the court's decision. Following a hearing on the matter, the court issued an order on September 29, 2011, vacating that portion of our August 4, 2011, decision dismissing plaintiffs' second claim for relief (the claim challenging HUD's recapture of grant funds in the absence of a compliance hearing). Pursuant to the court's order, plaintiffs filed a second amended complaint on October 28, 2011, containing a revised second claim for relief in which they again challenge HUD's recapture of grant funds without conducting a compliance hearing. That revised second claim for relief is the subject of defendant's current motion to dismiss.
FACTS FN2
FN2. We limit our discussion to those facts relevant to plaintiffs' revised second claim for relief; a more comprehensive recitation of the facts can be found in our earlier decision. Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation v. United States, 99 Fed. Cl. 584, 587–90 (2011).
The statute at issue in this case, NAHASDA, directs the Secretary of HUD to provide annual grants to Indian tribes or tribal housing authorities in support of their need for affordable housing. The distribution of these funds is accomplished through a formula, set forth at 24 C.F.R. §§ 1000.301–1000.340, that determines the amount each grant recipient is to receive based in part on the recipient's Formula Current Assisted Stock (“FCAS”)—the inventory of rental units and lease-to-own units owned by the recipient as of September 30, 1997, the effective date of NAHASDA.
Plaintiffs have received NAHASDA grants annually since 1998. In 2001, however, HUD's Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) performed a nationwide audit of the NAHASDA program. The resulting report concluded that HUD had improperly administered the grant program by failing to exclude from the grant calculation housing units that no longer qualified as FCAS under the relevant regulations. In particular, the report criticized HUD for failing to enforce 24 C.F.R. § 1000.318, a regulation specifying that housing units are to be excluded from FCAS “when the Indian tribe ... no longer has the legal right to own, operate, or maintain the unit” so long as such units are conveyed “as soon as practicable after a unit becomes eligible for conveyance.” The OIG recommended that HUD audit all housing units included in the allocation formula, remove ineligible units, recover funding from grant recipients that had received overpayments based on ineligible FCAS, and reallocate the recovery to other NAHASDA grant recipients that had been underfunded.
*2 HUD accordingly notified a number of Indian tribes and tribal housing authorities (including all of the plaintiffs in this action) that the agency intended to recover overpaid grant funds from them. Toward this end, HUD provided plaintiffs with the applicable regulations, the guidelines explaining those regulations, and a list of the specific housing units that HUD regarded as ineligible for grant purposes. HUD additionally invited plaintiffs to review HUD's data and to supply any information that would establish the continuing eligibility of the challenged units as qualifying housing stock. HUD did not, however, conduct formal hearings on this issue.
HUD ultimately determined that since November 26, 2002,FN3 the Lummi Tribe had received $863,236 in overpayments, the Fort Berthold Housing Authority had received $249,689 in overpayments, and the Hopi Tribal Housing Authority had received $964,699 in overpayments as a result of the inclusion of ineligible FCAS in the allocation formula.FN4 Of these amounts, HUD has recaptured the entire overpayment from the Hopi Tribal Housing Authority and all but $14,029 from the Lummi Tribe and $125,399 from the Fort Berthold Housing Authority, through the offset of overpayments against underpayments and through the reduction of subsequent years' grants. Recovery of the outstanding overpayments has been identified as on hold pending the outcome of this litigation.
FN3. Pursuant to our earlier ruling on the statute of limitations, claims arising from overpayments recaptured more than six years before the November 26, 2008, filing of plaintiffs' complaint in this court are out of time.
FN4. In addition to the overpayments received by plaintiffs, HUD determined that the misapplication of the grant allocation formula had also resulted in certain underpayments to plaintiffs, specifically an underpayment of $102,312 to the Lummi Tribe, $91,921 to the Fort Berthold Housing Authority, and $381,868 to the Hopi Tribal Housing Authority. These amounts were later offset against outstanding overpayments.
DISCUSSION
I.
In count two of their second amended complaint, plaintiffs assert that HUD's recapture of overpaid grant funds through the reduction of subsequent years' grants was accomplished without legal authority and therefore amounts to an illegal exaction. Aerolineas Argentinas v. United States, 77 F.3d 1564, 1572–73 (Fed.Cir.1996) (recognizing that an illegal exaction claim may be heard in this court where a plaintiff alleges that it “ ‘paid money over to the Government, directly or in effect, and seeks return of all or part of that sum’ that ‘was improperly paid, exacted, or taken from the claimant in contravention of the Constitution, a statute, or a regulation’ ”) (quoting Eastport S.S. Corp. v. United States, 372 F.2d 1002, 1007 (Ct.Cl.1967)). Plaintiffs maintain that the exaction at issue was the direct result of a misapplication of law—specifically HUD's failure to abide by the terms of NAHASDA in recapturing plaintiffs' grant funds—and that the remedy for such violation is a return of the money unlawfully exacted. Pennoni v. United States, 79 Fed. Cl. 552, 561 (2007). Defendant has moved to dismiss count two on the ground that HUD acted properly in recapturing those funds. At the heart of defendant's motion, then, is a single question: Is HUD permitted to recover grant funds through an administrative offset, without following the procedures set forth in NAHASDA, once those grant funds have been disbursed and expended on affordable housing activities?
In plaintiffs' view, the answer is no. Plaintiffs argue that Title IV of NAHASDA, 25 U.S.C. §§ 4161–4168, provides a comprehensive and exclusive scheme for the administration of grant funds and that Congress, by setting forth the remedies available to HUD under this title, expressed its intention to bar all other remedies. Alexander v. Sandoval, 532 U.S. 275, 290 (2001) (observing that “[t]he express provision of one method of enforcing a substantive rule suggests that Congress intended to preclude others”); Transamerica Mortg. Advisors, Inc. v. Lewis, 444 U.S. 11, 19 (1979) (recognizing that “[i]t is an elemental canon of statutory construction that where a statute expressly provides a particular remedy or remedies, a court must be chary of reading others into it.”); American Bus Ass'n v. Slater, 231 F.3d 1, 4 (D.C.Cir.2000) (concluding that a statute's enumerated remedies reveal Congress's unambiguous intent that such remedies be exclusive). In particular, plaintiffs maintain that NAHASDA authorizes HUD to recapture an overpayment of grant funds in one of only two ways: either by reducing payments to a grant recipient as indicated in Section 401 of NAHASDA (codified at 25 U.S.C. § 4161), or by adjusting the amount of a grant as indicated in Section 405 of NAHASDA (codified at 25 U.S.C. § 4165). Plaintiffs maintain, however, that under either section, HUD is required to satisfy the notice and hearing provisions of 24 C.F.R. § § 1000.532 and 1000.540, and may recover grant funds only if the agency determines that a grant recipient has failed to comply substantially with some provision of NAHASDA and has not already expended the grant funds on affordable housing activities in accordance with the statute. Absent the satisfaction of these conditions—which the parties agree did not occur here—plaintiffs contend that HUD's recovery of grant funds is devoid of legal authority and therefore amounts to an illegal exaction.
*3 Plaintiffs' argument begins with Section 401 of NAHASDA, a provision that, by the terms of its title, sets forth HUD's “Remedies for noncompliance.” Section 401(a) provides in relevant part as follows:
Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section [involving substantial noncompliance resulting from the technical incapacity of a grant recipient],;....
25 U.S.C. § 4161(a). Although the statute does not define when noncompliance is substantial, HUD has done so in NAHASDA's implementing regulations as follows:
HUD will review the circumstances of each noncompliance with NAHASDA and the regulations on a case-by-case basis to determine if the noncompliance is substantial. This review is a two step process. First, there must be a noncompliance with NAHASDA or these regulations. Second, the noncompliance must be substantial. A noncompliance is substantial if:
(a) The noncompliance has a material effect on the recipient meeting its major goals and objectives as described in its Indian Housing Plan;
(b) The noncompliance represents a material pattern or practice of activities constituting willful noncompliance with a particular provision of NAHASDA or the regulations, even if a single instance of noncompliance would not be substantial;
(c) The noncompliance involves the obligation or expenditure of a material amount of the NAHASDA funds budgeted by the recipient for a material activity; or
(d) The noncompliance places the housing program at substantial risk of fraud, waste or abuse.
In plaintiffs' view, HUD may not take action under Section 401 until it finds, on the basis of a hearing, that a grant recipient has failed to comply substantially with some provision of NAHASDA or its regulations, in this case with 24 C.F.R. § 1000.318 (the regulation outlining the appropriate treatment of FCAS). In addition, plaintiffs read Section 401 as limiting the recovery of grant funds to “the amount of such payments that were not expended in accordance with this chapter.” That limitation, plaintiffs argue, prohibits HUD from recapturing grant funds that have been expended on eligible, affordable housing activities, defined in Section 202 of NAHASDA as activities “to develop, operate, maintain, or support affordable housing for rental or homeownership, or to provide housing services with respect to affordable housing.” 25 U.S.C. § 4132. Plaintiffs thus maintain that HUD's recapture of their grant funds was not authorized under Section 401 because HUD: (1) failed to provide them with an opportunity for a hearing; (2) made no finding that they had “failed to comply substantially” with 24 C.F.R. § 1000.318 (or any other provision of NAHASDA); and (3) recaptured, through the offset of subsequent years' grants, payments that had already been spent “in accordance with” NAHASDA.
*4 Nor, plaintiffs argue, did HUD satisfy the terms of Section 405, the only other NAHASDA provision addressing the adjustment of grant funds. Section 405, titled “Review and audit by Secretary,” authorizes HUD to conduct reviews and audits to determine whether a grant recipient is carrying out eligible activities in a timely manner and in compliance with its housing plan. 25 U.S.C. § 4165. Section 405 sets out the remedies HUD may pursue following such an audit as follows:.
25 U.S.C. § 4165(d).
Plaintiffs point out, however, that HUD's authority to adjust grants under Section 405 is “[s]ubject to section 4161(a),” a phrase plaintiffs interpret as imposing the same requirements found in Section 401—specifically the notice, hearing, and substantial noncompliance requirements—as a precondition to action under Section 405. Just as with Section 401, in other words, plaintiffs read Section 405 as authorizing HUD to adjust grant amounts only after the agency has provided a grant recipient with notice and the opportunity for a hearing and has found the recipient to be in substantial noncompliance with NAHASDA.
The adjustment of grants under Section 405 is further limited, plaintiffs argue, by 24 C.F.R. § 1000.532, a regulation promulgated as part of the first negotiated rulemaking following the enactment of NAHASDA. 63 Fed.Reg. 12334, 12371 (Mar. 12, 1998). That regulation, in plaintiffs' view, requires HUD to provide the opportunity for a hearing whenever the agency adjusts a grant amount after an audit under Section 405 and explicitly prohibits the recapture of NAHASDA funds that have been expended on affordable housing activities. Section 1000.532, titled “What are the adjustments HUD makes to a recipient's future year's grant amount under section 405 of NAHASDA?,” reads in relevant part as follows:
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FN5. 24 C.F.R. § 1000.540, a regulation cited by plaintiffs in support of their claim, in turn directs HUD to employ the hearing procedures set forth in 24 C.F.R. Part 26 when conducting a hearing under NAHASDA. See, e.g., 24 C.F.R. § 26.2 (requiring an Administrative Law Judge to serve as the hearing officer); 24 C.F.R. § 26.46 (anticipating the calling of witnesses). That regulation, however, sets forth the procedures to be followed if a hearing is required, but does not address the question of when a hearing is required in the first instance.
Plaintiffs thus argue that HUD, whether acting under Section 401 or Section 405,FN6 must provide a grant recipient with notice and the opportunity for a hearing, and may adjust grant funds only if the agency has determined that the grant recipient is in substantial noncompliance with NAHASDA and, even then, only if the funds to be recaptured were misspent by the grant recipient, i.e., “not expended in accordance with” NAHASDA.FN7 Sections 401 and 405, in other words, do not allow HUD to recapture NAHASDA funds that are improvidently allocated by HUD, but spent by a grant recipient in accordance with the statute. Actions taken outside of this framework, plaintiffs maintain, go beyond HUD's delegated authority and consequently amount to an illegal exaction.
FN6. Plaintiffs indicated at oral argument that they believe that Section 405 is the applicable section in this case because HUD acted pursuant to an audit conducted at the direction of HUD's Office of Inspector General to determine whether grant recipients had included ineligible housing units in the information they had provided to HUD. The question of whether HUD should have proceeded under Section 401 or Section 405, however, does not alter plaintiffs' analysis, given plaintiffs' position that Section 405 contains the same notice, hearing, and substantial noncompliance requirements as Section 401. Under either section, plaintiffs maintain, HUD failed to meet the criteria for retroactively adjusting plaintiffs' grant funds.
FN7. The record at present contains no evidence as to whether the grant funds in question were “expended in accordance with” NAHASDA; such an issue, plaintiffs maintain, is precisely one that would have been addressed in a hearing conducted under Section 401 or 405.
Defendant, for its part, rejects plaintiffs' characterization of their claim. In defendant's view, the misallocation of grant funds is not an issue of a grant recipient's compliance with NAHASDA that should be addressed under Title IV (Sections 401 and 405), but rather of HUD's own failure to comply with the statute, specifically with the agency's obligation to pay grant recipients in accordance with the formula established by negotiated rulemaking as set forth in Title III, 25 U.S.C. § 4151.FN8 HUD's recovery of grant overpayments, in other words, was an action the agency took to address HUD's own noncompliance with NAHASDA, and accordingly involved none of the enforcement provisions set out in Sections 401 and 405.
FN8. 25 U.S.C. § 4151, titled “Annual allocation,” provides as follows:.
Indeed, defendant maintains that Sections 401 and 405 do not, by their terms, apply in the instant case at all. In defendant's view, Section 401 is directed toward one specific situation: where a grant recipient has engaged in substantial noncompliance with NAHASDA. Defendant argues, however, that the action that gave rise to the overpayments here—the inclusion of ineligible FCAS in the allocation formula in violation of 24 C.F.R. § 1000.318—is not considered a compliance issue, but is treated instead as a data error.FN9 In other words, defendant argues, plaintiffs are not believed to be in substantial noncompliance with NAHASDA and their case therefore does not fall within the notice and hearing requirements of Section 401.FN10
FN9. Defendant's position is consistent with the approach HUD took in recovering the overpaid grant funds. The record indicates that HUD considered the inclusion of ineligible FCAS to be analogous to a data error and therefore used as its guide the challenge and appeal procedures set forth in 24 C.F.R. § 1000.336 (dealing with data errors) in recovering the overpaid grant funds. Notably, 24 C.F.R. § 1000.336 was later amended through a four-year, consensus rulemaking process to include FCAS challenges as an issue to be addressed under that regulation. 72 Fed.Reg. 20018, 20025–26 (Apr. 20, 2007); 24 C.F.R. § 1000.336(a)(4) ( “An Indian tribe, [Tribally Designated Housing Entity], or HUD may challenge data used in the [Indian Housing Block Grant] Formula and HUD formula determinations regarding: ... (4) Formula Current Assisted Stock (FCAS)....)
FN10. Plaintiffs do not contend that they were in substantial noncompliance with NAHASDA or its regulations; rather, they take the position that grant funds may not be adjusted retroactively under NAHASDA in the absence of substantial noncompliance.
Similarly, defendant interprets Section 405 as applying only to: (1) audits under chapter 75 of title 31 of the United States Code (examining issues such as whether the financial statements of the audited entity have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles); and (2) reviews and audits by HUD to determine whether the grant recipient has carried out eligible activities, has a continuing capacity to carry out eligible activities in a timely manner, and is in compliance with the Indian housing plan submitted pursuant to 25 U.S.C. § 4112. In defendant's view, however, HUD has not performed a review or audit that meets either criterion, making Section 405—and its accompanying regulation, 24 C.F.R. § 1000.532—inapplicable to this dispute.
*6 Nor, defendant argues, are plaintiffs correct that Section 405 contains the same notice, hearing, and substantial noncompliance requirements as Section 401. In defendant's view, Section 405's introductory phrase “[s]ubject to section 4161(a)” does not—as plaintiffs contend—import Section 401's requirements into Section 405, but rather excludes from the scope of Section 405 cases that fall under Section 401, i.e., cases involving substantial noncompliance. Defendant thus maintains that the Secretary of HUD may exercise discretionary authority under Section 405 except in situations where HUD finds substantial noncompliance under Section 401 (thereby requiring notice, the opportunity for a hearing, and mandatory enforcement by HUD).
Given this interpretation of NAHASDA and its accompanying regulations, defendant maintains that the statute simply does not reach the situation now before us: the agency's correction of a grant-funding error to recover overpayments improvidently made by HUD. Defendant instead sees HUD as having exercised what defendant describes as the government's “inherent authority” to recover sums erroneously paid—a common law right, defendant maintains, that exists irrespective of any limitations on recapture contained in NAHASDA or its implementing regulations.
In defendant's view, HUD, like all government agencies, has an inherent authority recognized by the Supreme Court to recover funds that the agency has “wrongfully, erroneously, or illegally paid.” United States v. Wurts, 303 U.S. 414, 415 (1938). Further, defendant maintains that “[n]o statute is necessary to authorize the United States to sue in such a case. The right to sue is independent of statute.” Id. (quoting United States v. Bank of the Metropolis, 40 U.S. 377, 401 (1841)). Such authority is based upon “the principle that parties receiving moneys illegally paid by a public officer are liable ex aequo et bono [i.e., in justice and fairness] to refund them.” Barrett Ref. Corp. v. United States, 242 F.3d 1055, 1064 (Fed.Cir.2001) (quoting Wisconsin Cent. R.R. Co. v. United States, 164 U.S. 190, 212 (1896)). Nor, defendant contends, must HUD file suit to establish the illegality of the payment, but may instead offset the debt administratively from amounts otherwise owed to the debtor. United States v. Munsey Trust Co., 332 U.S. 234, 239 (1947) (recognizing that “[t]he government has the same right ‘which belongs to every creditor, to apply the unappropriated moneys of his debtor, in his hands, in extinguishment of the debts due to him.’ ”) (quoting Gratiot v. United States, 40 U.S. 336, 370 (1841)). Defendant thus argues that HUD's administrative offset of grant funds was a lawful exercise of the agency's common law right—one that exists wholly outside the parameters of NAHASDA.
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We cannot accept defendant's argument. Although defendant insists that Sections 401 and 405 of NAHASDA do not govern HUD's actions in this case and that HUD at no time implemented a sanction thereunder, we read Section 405 as addressing the situation at hand. Section 405, titled “Review and audit by Secretary,” provides in relevant part as follows:
*7 An entity designated by an Indian tribe as a housing entity shall be treated, for purposes of chapter 75 of Title 31, as a non-Federal entity that is subject to the audit requirements that apply to non-Federal entities under that chapter.
In addition to any audit or review under subsection (a) of this section, to the extent the Secretary determines such action to be appropriate, the Secretary may conduct an audit or review of a recipient in order to—
(A) determine whether the recipient—
(i) has carried out—
(I) eligible activities in a timely manner; and
(II) eligible activities and certification in accordance with this chapter and other applicable law;
(ii) has a continuing capacity to carry out eligible activities in a timely manner; and (iii) is in compliance with the Indian housing plan of the recipient; and
(B) verify the accuracy of information contained in any performance report submitted by the recipient under section 4164 of this title.
As indicated above, defendant reads this section as applying only to a narrow category of reviews and audits conducted by HUD. We, however, read Section 405 as conferring broad authority on the Secretary to review a grant recipient's performance under NAHASDA, including monitoring a grant recipient's compliance with its Indian housing plan and verifying the accuracy of the recipient's performance reports—the two primary program documents submitted by a grant recipient. 25 U.S.C. § 4165(b)(1)(A)(iii), (B). In the instant case, HUD acted pursuant to an audit conducted at the direction of HUD's Office of Inspector General to determine whether ineligible housing had been included in the allocation formula. Such a review, we believe, comes within Section 405's broad mandate to ensure that the grant program is being conducted in accordance with NAHASDA. See, e.g., 25 U.S.C. § 4165(b)(1)(A)(i)(II) (authorizing review “to determine whether the recipient has carried out eligible activities ... in accordance with this chapter”).FN11 In addition, HUD ultimately characterized as ineligible for grant purposes housing units that plaintiffs contend should properly have been included as FCAS, a dispute that should have been the subject of a hearing and not the object of unilateral resolution by HUD.
FN11. Indeed, the distinction defendant draws between actions purportedly taken under Title III to ensure HUD's compliance with NAHASDA and actions taken under Title IV to ensure a grant recipient's compliance with NAHASDA is an artificial one that is not borne out by NAHASDA's implementing regulations. The regulations make clear that the grant recipient, the grant beneficiary, and HUD all share responsibility for monitoring activities under NAHASDA. 24 C.F.R. § 1000.501. In particular, a grant recipient “is responsible for monitoring grant activities, ensuring compliance with applicable Federal requirements and monitoring performance goals under the [Indian Housing Plan]”; “for preparing at least annually ... a performance report covering the assessment of program progress and goal attainment under the [Indian Housing Plan]”; and for conducting “an evaluation of the recipient's performance in accordance with performance objectives and measures.” 24 C.F.R. § 1000.502(a). HUD is charged under this same regulation with reviewing the recipient as set forth in § 1000.520, a regulation that calls for HUD's review of each grant recipient's performance, at least annually, to determine whether the recipient has met the same standards identified in Section 405 ( i.e., has carried out its eligible activities in a timely manner and in accordance with the requirements and the primary objective of NAHASDA and with other applicable laws; has a continuing capacity to carry out those activities in a timely manner; has complied with the Indian Housing Plan; and has submitted accurate performance reports). 24 C.F.R. § 1000.502(c). HUD may, in conducting this review, consider a wide array of information, including reports prepared by the recipient, records maintained by the recipient, and any other reliable relevant information which relates to the performance measures under 24 C.F.R. § 1000.524. We therefore do not construe Title IV remedies as directed exclusively toward grant recipient compliance; rather we see HUD and grant recipients working together under Title IV and its accompanying regulations to ensure the success of the NAHASDA program.
That defendant reads this section too narrowly is evidenced by NAHASDA's implementing regulations. Those regulations, as originally proposed,FN12 directed that a grant recipient indicate the number of units removed from its FCAS inventory in the recipient's Annual Performance Report—a report whose accuracy Section 405 review is designed to ensure. 25 U.S.C. § 4165(b)(1)(B) (authorizing review to “verify the accuracy of information contained in any performance report”). Because of timing considerations, however, the final version of the implementing regulations specified that such information should instead be included in a grant recipient's Formula Response Form. 63 Fed.Reg. 12364–65 (Mar. 12, 1998) (setting forth final rule 24 C.F.R. § 1000.302, which defines a Formula Response Form as “the form recipients use to report changes to their Formula Current Assisted stock, formula area, and other formula related information before each year's formula allocation”). As explained in the committee notes accompanying the final rule:
FN12. 24 C.F.R. § 1000.334, as originally proposed, provided in full as follows:).
*8 The Committee added a definition of “Formula Response Form” to reflect the changes made elsewhere in the rule. The proposed rule would have required data for the formula to be included in the [Indian Housing Plan]. However, because the data is needed before the [Indian Housing Plan] submission date, the Committee decided to require formula data to be submitted on a separate form.
63 Fed.Reg. 12341–42; see also 24 C.F.R. § 1000.315 (2007) (clarifying that the Formula Response Form is the only mechanism a recipient may use to report changes to the number of FCAS).
The fact that FCAS information is included in a separate form due to administrative necessity does not, in our view, take the review of FCAS outside the purview of Section 405. Indeed, a later regulation specified that “[r]eview of FCAS will be accomplished by HUD as a component of A–133 audits, routine monitoring, FCAS target monitoring, or other reviews.” 24 C.F.R. § 1000.319(d) (2007). Given this framework, we think it evident that HUD's audit of plaintiffs' FCAS counts, conducted at the direction of the OIG, falls squarely within the agency's authority under Section 405.FN13
FN13. HUD revised its regulations in 2007 to specify that if a grant recipient receives an overpayment of funds because it fails to report FCAS changes on the Formula Response Form in a timely manner, the recipient must repay the funds within five fiscal years. 24 C.F .R. § 1000.319(b). In addition, Congress amended Section 401 the following year to indicate that a failure to report FCAS correctly does not, in itself, constitute substantial noncompliance. Native American Housing Assistance and Self–Determination Reauthorization Act of 2008, Pub.L. No. 110–411, 122 Stat. 4319 (2008) (codified at 25 U.S.C. § 4161(a)(2)) (specifying that “[t]he failure of a recipient to comply with the requirements of section 4152(b)(1) of this title regarding the reporting of low-income dwelling units shall not, in itself, be considered to be substantial noncompliance for purposes of this subchapter.”). Neither of these developments, however, means that FCAS issues that come to light as the result of an audit fall outside of Section 405. And while Section 1000.319's requirement that grant recipients repay overpaid grant funds within five years arguably conflicts with Section 1000.532's prohibition on the recapture of grant amounts already expended on affordable housing activities, the new regulation was not yet in place when plaintiffs' grant funds were recaptured, and thus, the reconciliation of these provisions must await another day.
Because we conclude that Section 405 applies in the instant case, we further conclude that HUD was not free to disregard the requirements of that section in favor of a common law remedy with no apparent rules or limitations.FN14 Resort to federal common law is appropriate only when a statute does not speak to an issue. City of Milwaukee v. Illinois and Michigan, 451 U.S. 304, 319 n.14 (1981) (recognizing that “federal courts create federal common law only as a necessary expedient when problems requiring federal answers are not addressed by federal statutory law”). But where, as here, Congress has spoken to the question, HUD may not circumvent that statutory scheme. American Elec. Power Co. v. Connecticut, ––– U.S. ––––, 131 S.Ct. 2527, 2537 (2011) (“[W]hen Congress addresses a question previously governed by a decision rested on federal common law the need for such an unusual exercise of law-making by federal courts disappears.”) (quoting City of Milwaukee, 451 U.S. at 314). In the present case, we believe Section 405—and not federal common law—governs the situation at hand.
FN14. Because we conclude that Section 405 is applicable in the present case, we need not reach the issue of whether a common law right to recover money erroneously paid, through administrative offset, exists in situations not covered by the statute (as, for instance, where the agency makes a unilateral mistake by erroneously inserting an additional digit into a payment amount) or whether, as plaintiffs maintain, NAHASDA displaces any such right “through the establishment of a comprehensive regulatory program supervised by an expert administrative agency.” City of Milwaukee v. Illinois and Michigan, 451 U.S. 304, 317 (1981). We observe, however, that the cases plaintiffs cite for the proposition that courts should read the enumeration of remedies in a statute as precluding other remedies— see, e.g., Alexander, 532 U.S. at 290; Transamerica Mortg., 444 U.S. at 19; American Bus, 231 F.3d at 4—do not involve the displacement of a preexisting common law right. We therefore do not accept the contention that NAHASDA's enumeration of certain remedies necessarily precludes the exercise of an additional, common law remedy in all circumstances. Rather, “[t]he test for whether congressional legislation excludes the declaration of federal common law is simply whether the statute speaks directly to the question at issue.” American Elec. Power Co. v. Connecticut, ––– U.S. ––––, 131 S.Ct. 2527, 2537 (2011); Mobil Oil Corp. v. Higginbotham, 436 U.S. 618, 625 (1978).
The decision in City of Kansas City v. United States Dep't of Housing and Urban Dev., 861 F.2d 739, 743 (D.C.Cir.1988), is instructive on this point. In discussing the importance of the procedural requirements set forth in the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (“CDBG”), 42 U.S.C. § 5304(d) (1982 & Supp. IV 1986)—an act whose enforcement provisions contain essentially the same language as NAHASDA's Sections 401 and 405—the court observed that such protections play “a critical role” in the statutory scheme because they “ensure that a city legally entitled to an annual CDBG grant will not be precipitously deprived of funding pursuant to arbitrary action by HUD.” Id. at 744 (internal quotation omitted). Of particular relevance to the instant case, the court pointed out that “[i]n most cases, Congress has been silent on the question of a grantee's procedural rights when an agency decides to terminate some or all of its federal grant. When, as in this case, Congress has not been silent, a court has a special obligation to ensure that the agency does not end-run the clear procedural protections which Congress provided.” Id. at 745 (internal quotation and citation omitted). The court continued as follows:
*9 The Secretary cannot ignore the notice and hearing provisions of section 111 [the section corresponding to NAHASDA's Section 401] simply because he prefers the more informal procedures of section 104(d) [the section corresponding to NAHASDA's Section 405]. HUD's own report admits that HUD has used section 104 in order to “avoid[ ] the more detailed and rigorous procedural standards of Section 111 .” This application of the statute plainly violates congressional intent. As we have previously noted, “[w]hen a statute dictates that parties receive notice and a hearing ... the provision of those basic procedural rights is not left to be decided by administrative ‘flexibility’ or ‘discretion.’ “ In the district court's words, section 111 would be a “nullity” if the Secretary could avoid it whenever he chose, as he has for fourteen years, by using section 104(d) instead.
We cannot, however, accept plaintiffs' assertion that Section 405's introductory phrase “[s]ubject to section 4161(a)” imports the substantial noncompliance provision of Section 401 into actions taken under Section 405. Rather, we read this language as indicating that compliance issues must be addressed under Section 401 and not under Section 405. In other words, defendant is correct that the phrase “[s]ubject to section 4161(a)” excludes the scope of Section 401 from Section 405. Shell Oil Co. v. Manley Oil Corp ., 124 F.2d 714, 716 (7th Cir.1941) (observing that “[t]he words ‘subject to,’ used in their ordinary sense, mean ‘subordinate to,’ ‘subservient to’ or ‘limited by.’ ”).
Such a conclusion follows from the structure of the statute itself. Section 401, by the terms of its title, deals with “Remedies for noncompliance.” That section provides for nondiscretionary action by the Secretary (“the Secretary shall ...”), procedural safeguards, and the explicit requirement that the agency make a finding of noncompliance before imposing the section's drastic sanctions (including a termination of all grant funding and the removal of a grant recipient from the program). 25 U.S.C. § 4161. Section 405, by contrast, allows for discretionary enforcement authority pursuant to specific reviews. 25 U.S.C. § 4165. What distinguishes the two statutory sections, in other words, is the culpability of the grant recipient, the discretion of the Secretary, and the nature and severity of the sanctions imposed. It would make no sense for both sections to operate only where the grant recipient is in substantial noncompliance. Otherwise, the more lenient standards of Section 405 would swallow up Section 401.FN15
FN15. Congress added the introductory phrase “[s]ubject to section 4161(a)” to the statute in 2000 as part of an amendment to Section 405. Pub.L. No. 106–568, 114 Stat. 2868 (2000); Pub.L. No. 106–569, 114 Stat. 2944 (2000). As originally enacted in 1996, the enforcement provision of Section 405 read, prior to codification, as follows:.
Despite our conclusion that Section 405 does not incorporate a substantial noncompliance requirement by reference to Section 401, we nevertheless observe that Section 405 contains its own hearing requirement, set forth in the regulations. 24 C.F.R. § 1000.532 requires HUD to provide the opportunity for a hearing whenever the agency adjusts a grant amount after an audit under Section 405 and explicitly prohibits the recapture of NAHASDA funds that have already been expended on affordable housing activities. Providing plaintiffs with the opportunity for a hearing in this case before adjusting their grant amounts was therefore something HUD was required—but failed—to do.
*10 Recognizing that HUD must comply with the statutory and regulatory regime in providing hearings before reducing grant amounts is consistent with the legislative history of NAHASDA and its implementing regulations. From the outset, both the NAHASDA program and the promulgation of the rules implementing that program were designed to be collaborative. In Section 106(b)(2) of NAHASDA, for instance, Congress directed HUD to develop NAHASDA's implementing regulations with active tribal participation by using the procedures of the Negotiated Rulemaking Act of 1990, as amended, 5 U.S.C. §§ 561–570. 62 Fed.Reg. 35718 (July 2, 1997). Pursuant to this direction, the Secretary of HUD established the Native American Housing Assistance and Self–Determination Negotiated Rulemaking Committee—made up of 48 Indian tribes, ten HUD representatives, and three individuals from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service—to negotiate and develop proposed rules implementing NAHASDA. At the recommendation of tribal leaders, the committee agreed to operate based on consensus rulemaking,FN16 and HUD committed to using, to the maximum extent feasible consistent with its legal obligations, all consensus decisions as the basis for the proposed rules. Id. at 35719.
FN16. The protocols adopted by the committee defined “consensus” as “general agreement demonstrated by the absence of expressed disagreement by a Committee member in regards to a particular issue.” 62 Fed.Reg. 35719.
During the first round of rulemaking in 1997, HUD took the position that the agency was permitted to recapture grant funds under Section 405 without providing prior notice and the opportunity for hearing and accordingly drafted a proposed rule that provided for neither. Id. at 35746 (proposed Section 1000.528). Tribal reaction to HUD's proposed rule, however, was unanimously hostile. 63 Fed.Reg. 12334, 12347 (Mar. 12, 1998). As a result, the final rule stated that “HUD will [in cases brought under Section 405] ... provide the recipient with a hearing identical to that afforded recipients under section 401(a) of NAHASDA.” Id.FN17 Two conclusions thus appear evident from the legislative record: first, that Congress intended active involvement by the Indian tribes in the promulgation of NAHASDA's implementing regulations and second, that the tribes perceived hearings as an important part of their procedural rights.
FN17. As explained more fully in the Federal Register, the proposed rule implementing Section 405(c), as drafted by HUD, “did not provide notice and an opportunity for hearing.” Id. The Federal Register continues as follows:.
Requiring HUD to observe this additional level of procedural protection makes sense since the NAHASDA program is designed to protect the Indians. 25 U.S.C. § 4101 sets forth congressional findings regarding NAHASDA. In particular, Congress found that “there exists a unique relationship between the Government of the United States and the governments of Indian tribes” (Section 4101(2)); that “the United States has undertaken a unique trust responsibility to protect and support Indian tribes and Indian people” (Section 4101(3)); that “the need for affordable homes in safe and healthy environments on Indian reservations ... is acute” (Section 4101(6)); and that “providing affordable homes in safe and healthy environments is an essential element in the special role of the United States in helping Indian tribes and their members to improve their housing conditions and socioeconomic status” (Section 4101(5)). See also 24 C.F.R. § 1000.2 (directing that these congressional findings be used as the guiding principles in the implementation of NAHASDA). Reducing a present year's grant to recover past funds misallocated by HUD (but spent correctly by the tribe) contravenes these goals. See, e.g., Bell v. New Jersey, 461 U.S. 773, 783 n.8 (1983) (recognizing that the beneficiaries of grant funds suffer where a reduction in grant funds to remedy past deficiencies leads to a corresponding reduction in program services).
*11 In conclusion, we read Section 405 as governing HUD's actions and thus as precluding HUD from exercising any common law right the agency might otherwise possess under circumstances not directly addressed by the statute. We further read that section as applying only in cases that do not involve a grant recipient's substantial noncompliance with NAHASDA (which would fall instead under Section 401). In addition, we construe Section 405's implementing regulations as requiring the Secretary to provide notice and the opportunity for a hearing before making an adjustment to a recipient's grant amounts and as preventing the Secretary from recapturing grant amounts already expended on affordable housing activities. To conclude otherwise would allow HUD to deny grant recipients the protections Congress has afforded them when faced with a reduction in their grant funding, would further allow the agency to circumvent a process put into place by consensus rulemaking at the direction of Congress, and would lead to the anomalous result that a grant recipient in substantial noncompliance with NAHASDA would receive greater procedural protections before experiencing a recapture of their grant funds than recipients in full compliance (a target for recapture through a fault of HUD's rather than their own). We are unwilling to endorse such an unsatisfactory result.
CONCLUSION
For the reasons set forth above, defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiffs' second claim for relief is DENIED.
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Some people are intimidated by the thought of an entire month’s worth of cooking in one day.
Or they get paid weekly or biweekly and their food budget doesn’t allow an entire month’s work of grocery shopping at one time.
If that is the case, freezer cooking can still work for you.
Here are some ideas that may help in starting out.
1.) You don’t have to cook for an entire month on your first time. You can ease into it. Start with cooking a double batch of whatever you are making for a week and freeze the extra. In one week, you will have a weeks worth of food saved up. If you do it every week for a month, you’d be able to take a month off. Or pick a few days when you can double your meal and store what you can.
2.) You could mini batch cook for a week or two instead of a whole month. Pick a day once a week where you will dedicate a few hours to cooking large batches of meals to stock your freezer.
3.) Maybe you don’t mind cooking dinners each night but breakfasts are very difficult because of a busy morning schedule. Choose a few meals you could have for breakfast and spend a day making a week’s worth or more.
4.) Or jump right in and enjoy the benefits of less waste, more time, and home-cooked meals for a whole month or more.
I chose to suffer for one very long day and reap the benefits of taking a full month off. If I am completely honest, the full day of cooking is beyond exhausting, almost like being in labor, but it’s true that as soon as the freezer is stocked you forget the pain involved and are focused on the blessing. After a month or so goes by you are ready to do it all over again.
There are many ways to go about freezer cooking. If you are fairly happy with the current recipes you are using you can simply tweak them to accommodate freezing.
A few notes on what freezes well.
- Most baked goods freeze very well. I’ve done breakfast muffins, breads, rolls, etc. and large batches of homemade granola. You can also make blueberry waffles or pancakes made with whole grains and freeze them to be popped in the toaster just like store-bought waffles but without all the chemicals and preservatives.
- You can pre-freeze fruit and yogurt for breakfast with your granola or for easy smoothies. I slice bananas, berries, or peaches into chunks and put in muffin tins. Then spoon yogurt,( I prefer Greek for the extra creaminess) over each cup almost to the top. Tap the muffin tin on the counter to let the yogurt settle. Then pop it in the freezer until it’s completely frozen. Remove tray and pop each cup out with a fork and freeze in freezer bags. You can do individual or gallon sized bags. They won’t freeze into one large clump as long as you put them in right away and they don’t have time to defrost. You can pull them out the night before or grab and go, it will defrost rather quickly if they are in muffin sized amounts. If you’re going to use them in a smoothie, they can go directly into the blender.
- We like to BBQ in the summer months so I’ll get a cut of meat, make a marinade, cut up veggies and freeze the uncooked cut and marinade in a Ziploc freezer bag. It can be taken out a day or two in advance, placed in a bowl and defrosted in the fridge. In the time it takes to defrost, the marinade will soak in and it’s ready for the grill. Whip up a salad or steam some veggies and it’s a simple meal.
- Assembled casseroles freeze really well. Do all the precooking ahead of time for any meats involved. Then assemble the casserole up to the point you would normally bake, and freeze instead. When defrosted, it is ready to pop in the oven. You could do lasagna, rice chicken casseroles with spinach or brocoli, stuffed french toast, enchiladas and more. I have not had much success with frozen pasta, as it often gets mushy when defrosted and recooked. Lasagna noodles do well but I suggest making sauces and boiling the water for fresh pasta on the day you will eat it. Orzo is the other exception, but make sure to cook it al dente as it will have more time to cook when you are reheating it.
- We also like to have a few staple meals that can be made into anything. Spaghetti sauces with seasonal veggies or meatballs can be made in huge batches and eaten with many different noodles. Fish packets wrapped in foil to stick in the oven, crockpot, or grill can be eaten with fresh veggies or made into fish tacos. Layered pans with Mexican rice, cheese, taco meat, bell peppers, onions , and pinto or black beans made in bulk in the slow cooker can be defrosted and cooked into tacos, burritos, enchiladas, baked potato toppings, quesadillas, mixed with eggs for a mexican omelet, or eaten alone.
- Soups and stews are my favorite for winter. Although, I love potato soups, they don’t usually freeze well. Potatoes are very hard to freeze as they typically taste overly starchy or too watery when cooked. I make a few big batches in the crock pot starting at the beginning of the day and pour them out into a super large cake pan to help them cool faster so they can be stored in Ziplocs and frozen. Then I start the next batch of soup. I usually make at least three soups with three meals each so I end up with 9 days of soup in a month.
Ok, so next comes the planning part where you make your master lists. Tune in for the next post where I’ll share some of my super top-secret recipes, my favorite links and menu planning tools, and ideas for how to shop, plan, and cook your way to free evenings for a month.
Great tips! I have done a little freezer cooking on my own, mostly just doubling whatever I’m making that day. I like your idea of the layered mexican rice. I may have to try that next.
I have used the no-boil noodles in my freezer lasagna and that seems to work good. Looking forward to the next post, as always!
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A contemporary echo: Mei Dhwani
- Satish Suri, Bangalore
September 13, 2011
Contemporary Dance seems to have come of age, which was clearly evident in the resounding echo of appreciation from the packed hall in Bangalore on 4th August, when Attakalari Centre for Movement Arts presented their new production Mei Dhwani, the title being derived by linking the Tamil and Sanskrit words (mei meaning body and Dhwani meaning echo).
Mei Dhwani subtly alludes to “Echoes of the body.” Metamorphically, the three elements fire, water and earth are symbolized through props. The synergy of the male and female energy, fire acts as a metaphor for male energy and its inherent destructive power and water the ever flowing life stream representing the female energy. The metallic pots used in the production suggest the unfathomable feminine infinity contrasted against the phallic cylindrical oil lamps.
This inspired production portrays individuals who are captives of circumstance and history. The narrative begins with Jayachandran Palazhy seated on a pot signifying the unity of body and spirit, as the dancers move into the stage using the language of movement of both Bharatanatyam and Kalaraipayyatu to conjure the sensorial narrative that traverses universal predicaments. The pots used by the female dancers held in hand and rolled over the body through the skillful use of movements of the hands and legs create an individual narrative that oscillates between suspended realms of body and soul. The male dancers enter with metallic cylinders, symbolizing male energy. The awakening through the background tune “Hosh me aaa” as the lighted oil lamps are placed on the cylinders. The artists all dressed in white, capturing fragility and turmoil. The landscape soon changes to the artists’ costumes which sport a purple colour signifying preparation of the body. The tempo increases as the battle of fury wages within, resonating the collective memory of emotions ending finally with all the artists lying down on the floor and the spotlight focuses once again on Jayachandran sitting on the pot in the opposite corner of the stage from where he had started at the beginning of the show, traversing the imagined landscape and returning to the central theme of unity of mind body and spirit.
The dancers, three female and four male, energetic and vibrant, along with Jayachandran played their roles to perfection. Excellent production values enriched the performance. The creative choreography of Jayachandran, the artistic and creative director of the company, the subtle and evocative lighting by Thomas Dotzler creating the ritualized arena, the vibrant soundscape provided by the Israeli composer and sound artist duo of Patrick Sebag and Yotam Agam, and the costumes designed by Himanshu and Sonali of Hidden Harmony with additional costume design by Asha and Samantha of Elan Design Studio complimented the aesthetic values of the production.
Contemporary Dance generally suffers from repetitive movements which hang heavy on the audience attention and this narrative did no better. It would have been more impactful if the duration in any way could have been reduced..
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- Name: One Thousand Years of Death (千年殺し, Sennen Goroshi)
- Type: E-rank, Offensive, Short range (0-5m)[1]
- Users: Kakashi Hatake, Naruto Uzumaki
- Debut (Anime): Naruto Episode 4
- Debut (Manga): Chapter 5
A very simple technique with an over-dramatic name, One Thousand Years of Death is little more than inserting one's index and middle fingers (similar to the Tiger hand seal) into the opponent's rectum, causing constipation, pain and/or embarrassment. It has no effect on unconscious targets. Characters that see the jutsu react oddly (Temari blushes, Pakkun questions if it's really a jutsu, exploding tag, it can be a lethal technique. The aforementioned variant has only been used by Naruto.
Trivia
- This jutsu's full name is "Hidden Leaf Village Secret Finger Technique: Thousand Years of Death" (木ノ葉隠れ秘伝・体術の奥義・千年殺し, Konohagakure Hiden: Taijutsu no Ōugi: modeled after the Kancho, a Japanese prank of common usage among children. When Kakashi first performed it, it might have been a simple kancho with a jutsu-like name, which Naruto would believe to be a real jutsu, eventually leading to its usage in real combat.
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Hashirama SenjuTalk362
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Hash.[10] Hashirama died shortly after the founding of Konoha in one of the many wars that were raging during this revolutionary era, but not before passing on the title of Hokage to Tobirama.[11].[12][13] His strength was so greatly respected by the shinobi world that both Tobi (while under the guise of being Madara Uchiha) and Madara himself claimed Hashirama was the one person whom they most admired and detested.[12][14].[17].[18].[19] The fact that he could use medical ninjutsu demonstrates that Hashirama likely had excellent chakra control.[13]. Even those who obtained this power through unorthodox means, such as Yamato, stated that his use of Wood Release was much weaker in terms of raw power.[20] He could create clones of himself, massive forests, or create gigantic flowering trees which were able to put targets to sleep. In an instant, he could shape the entire battlefield for his own uses.
Along with his kekkei genkai, Orochimaru also coveted Hashirama's unique ability to control tailed beasts.[21] Of all his considerable talents, it was this ability in particular that made Hashirama unparalleled in the shinobi world, so much so that he is regarded as one of the few people capable of completely controlling a tailed beast.[22] At one time, he had many of the beasts in his possession.[9] This ability was greatly amplified by his crystal necklace, which Yamato suggested that he required to control even Naruto's partial lapses into tailed forms.[23][24]
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Legacy
Because of the heritage of the Senju — who are said to be direct descendants of the Sage of the Six Paths — and the kekkei genkai that Hashirama possessed, his DNA became highly coveted. During the battle at the Valley of the End where Madara Uchiha was thought to have died, the latter took the opportunity to collect his DNA, integrate it into his body, and allow him access to the Wood Release kekkei genkai.[26]
Some time after Hashirama's death, Orochimaru experimented with Hashirama's DNA. Desiring Hashirama's unique abilities, Orochimaru exhumed the First's body and infused sixty child test subjects with DNA harvested from his remains, hoping that one would prove able to use Wood Release. Only Yamato survived the process.[27]
Danzō Shimura's right arm had also been infused with Hashirama's DNA through a similar experiment with Orochimaru, in the hopes of controlling the powers of the Nine-Tails, as well as to increase his physical energy to maintain the ten Sharingan embedded on his right arm as well as use the technique Kotoamatsukami within a relatively short span of time compared to the decade it would've taken on its own.[28] Those cells also allowed him to use Izanagi for extended periods.
With some of the cells taken from Hashirama, Madara created White Zetsu, though his Wood Release is stated to be not as powerful as Hashirama's. Madara also implanted Hashirama's cells into Obito's body which allowed him to use the perfected Izanagi. He also had the cells 'planted' at his headquarters from which grew a massive flowering tree which has a mindless clone of Hashirama coming out of its base. It also supports the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and, having gradually been fed amounts of the tailed beast chakra, among its roots, seems to have helped produce a legion of 100,000 White Zetsu clones for Tobi's army against the Allied Shinobi Forces' numbers of about 80,000.[29]
Part of the legacy that Hashirama has also left behind is known as the Will of Fire, a belief held by all the members of Konohagakure. Tobi frequently mentions or remembers Hashirama, his musing over his sworn enemy tends to range from both utter contempt to a begrudging respect and admiration. Tobi does admit that Hashirama was the only person whom he respected of the Senju clan and claims that Naruto Uzumaki has inherited Hashirama's Will of Fire while Sasuke Uchiha has inherited the hatred of his clan.[30].[31] However, in flashbacks, no such scar is visible.[32][33]!"[10]
- "Whenever you live, there will always be war."[34]
- (As quoted by Kakashi) "Those who stray from the path of justice have no courage, but under the wing of a strong leader, cowardice cannot survive."[35]
- (To Kurama) "Nine-Tails, your power is too great. I cannot let you roam free any longer!"[36] 10.0 10.1 Naruto chapter 123, page 14
- ↑ First Databook, page 116
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Naruto chapter 398, page 17
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Naruto chapter 576, page 15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 576, pages 13-16
- ↑ Naruto chapter 575, pages 3-5
- ↑ Naruto chapter 589, pages 6-7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 122, page 14
- ↑ Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations OVA
- ↑ Naruto chapter 578, pages 6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 297, page 9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 291, page 15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 458, page 3
- ↑ Naruto chapter 296, page 15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 297, pages 8-9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 123, pages 11-12
- ↑ Naruto chapter 561, pages 8-9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 291, pages 14-15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 550, page 12
- ↑ Naruto chapter 512, pages 10-14
- ↑ Naruto chapter 462, pages 14-17
- ↑ Naruto chapter 1, page 4
- ↑ Naruto chapter 239, page 1
- ↑ Naruto chapter 399, page 8
- ↑ Naruto chapter 118, page 5
- ↑ Naruto chapter 21, page 18
- ↑ Naruto chapter 568, page 8
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start saying anything i have a few points to prove my veiws so please don't be hasty read through before commenting,its not that much.
first of all naruto never anticipated that the five kages would lose to edo madara,am i right so he used a considerable amount of both his and the kyubi's chakra trying to defeat tobi,beliving that the five kages will succeed just as itachi succeeded but he was wrong wasn't he,madara is just too strong plus he has infinate amount of chakra since he's an edo zombie and he can fight for like forever.and now he is done with them and has come to aid obito whom they havn't even defeated yet
gai and kakashi too are all exausted since immediately after finishing the 7 edo sword men of the mist they went ahead to join naruto whitout any rest and they have used considerable amount of chakra too in the current fight with obito and now madara is there so they dont stand a chance.
my last point is that the jubi is getting revived once it is fully revived even though it not complete it will still have a devastating power that would be very difficult to estinguish(defeat).
but all is not lost since we dont know what the creep and the brat are up to yet,and also all the other allied shinobi forces are heading to aid them but personally i dont think no. will makeany diffrence with the edo madara,but who knows something unexpected might happen after all it naruto that we are talking about.
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red bar nuff said.?
people are soo harsh ( In NB, people enjoy putting others down ).
Anyway, yes this is something everyone already knew.
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Welcome to the AotW #80: Home Sweet Home Contest!
The theme this week is a bit more touchy-feely and pertains to the broad concept of Home Sweet Home. What is Home? Is it where we were born or is it where we found happiness? Is it a house or rather our family or even our friends? Is it the memories of our childhood? Play with the theme as much as you like and have fun with:: Later
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Username: Chatte
Album's Style: An album that presents Romanian old houses where we all used to spend our childhood in. An album that remembers to us that even though we grow-up, there's still a child inside us that, when it ages, wants to get back there, to his home, sweet home where our grandparents used to make our lives a fairy tale. Black & White.
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Album's Style: Signs in the House
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Album's Style: The Warmth of Home trough Black and White Pictures
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Album's Style: Family,Relationship and Life. things that turn a mare building into a Home
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Closed to be graded.
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Mangekyō SharinganTalk0
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The Mangekyō Sharingan has the ability to control the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox,, though how Kakashi.
Mangekyō Sharingan Variations
Echo Uchiha.
Kasai Uchiha
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Alex Uchiha
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Shobi UchihaShobi was finally able to awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan when he killed Tetsui Uchiha.
Kenchi Ravenclaw
Being distant relatives of uchiha's ravenclaw's also posses mangekeyou which can be activated only if they kill some one very close to them and possess the same blood they do after killing they absorb the person and hence activate mangekeyou sharingan.Kenchi's mangekeyou sharing has the shape of six spiraling tomoe's his mangekeyou grants him the ability to use Tsukuyomi and kamui instead of amaterasu.However he has a limit to use of Mangekyō Sharingan he can use tsukuyomi four times and kamui three times a day.It looks the same as echo uchiha's Mangekyō but it's normal red in color.like itachi kenchi has specialized in Tsukuyomi also it is shown he has some technique's which are related to amatersu but it is not revealed wheather he can use amaterasu or not.
Ryun Uchiha
Ryun awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan after witnessing his brother's sacrifice at the hands of Danzō Shimura, as a peace offering to Kumogakure. Ryun's Mangekyō takes on the appearance of a three-pronged windmill.
Curiously, the first technique that awakened in Ryun's Mangekyō Sharingan was Susanoo, which he displayed moments after he obtained the eyes; in a fit of rage over the loss of his brother. While Itachi Uchiha was a master of Sharingan genjutsu, namely Tsukuyomi, Sasuke was a master of Amaterasu, Tobi and Kakashi were masters of their Mangekyō's space-time properties and Madarawas a master of Susanoo, Ryun has proved himself to be a master of Susanoo (like is ancestor) to a degree far beyond any other Sharingan user. Other than its ability to partially manifest to fit the situation, Ryun's Susanoo can be kept activated longer, because it drains his chakra less substantially due to his mastery of it. Ryun's incomplete version forms the spirit with skeletal muscles for attacking. He is also able to combine the technique with Amaterasu to further increase his defensive power by making it impossible to touch Susanoo without being ignited. Ryun's incomplete version has a more Pharaoh-like appearance, it has a very round head, with a box-like design around it's eyes and nose area, it also has a short spike-like protrusion coming from the bottom of it's chin, similar to a Pharaoh's mask. It wields a chakra spear in its right hand capable of easily shattering stone pillars. His incomplete version once looked similar in form to a fox, complete with ten tail-like protrusions. After being enraged by Ibitsu's story of Danzō, who had killed his brother as an apparent peace offering to another nation, Ryun's Susanoo changed into the more common, humanoid form, and later, after the formation of Tsukiakari, he is able to produce a fully manifested Susanoo, complete with flesh and armor. Susanoo may feed on it's user's emotions to become stronger. Ryun and Sasuke's versions of Susanoo was overall shown to change it's weapons accordingly.
Later on, in his battle with Kurisu Taizen, after both an onlooking Seireitou, and Kurisu had taunted him with his brother's death, his Susanoo made a change. The sword like arrow transformed into a spirit weapon, the Tonbogiri (蜻蛉切, Dragonfly cutting spear), which is an elongated spear, made of chakra, that instantly cuts in two anything that the blade touches. During the same fight, he also awakens his defensive spirit weapon, the Wanyūdō (輪入道, Wheel Monk). It is a circular shield, similar in some aspects to the Yata's Mirror, however a skull forms in it's center. The shield itself is strong enough to endure large scale physical damage, but the skull has the ability to suck in and absorb ninjutsu that comes near the shield, making it a truly powerful defense. In it's most recent appearance, it has been shown capable of gaining it's final layer of armor, making it appear like a yamabushi, and gaining the Yasakani no Magatama (八尺瓊曲玉, Benevolence Beads of Imperial Ascension) is a golden necklace worn around the Susano'o neck, and completes Susano'o power. This necklace is also seen in Seireitou's version. The powers of the necklace are yet unknown.
The second ability he displayed was Amaterasu. Whenever entering a battle in which his Mangekyō has to be used, Ryun will often use Amaterasu as a "starting technique". While he can use Sasuke's advanced blaze nature, he cannot use it with as much skill, only being able to produce a "Shield of Black Flames". He has shown skill enough with Amaterasu to quench the so-called "extinguishable black flames". Amaterasu and Susanoo both seem to strain his eyes more than his other Mangekyō techniques.
The third technique he is capable of using is the Sharingan genjutsu, Tsukuyomi. Ryun's version seems to be nowhere near Itachi's level, though it surpasses Sasuke's level, in that he can use it without a foe noticing and can somewhat warp a person's perception of time itself. Of all his Mangekyō techniques, he uses Tsukuyomi the least. He only seems to use it when he is certain that genjutsu will work on a foe, and usually uses his other genjutsu to test this out.
Taiga Uchiha
Taiga, on his first mission as a jonin team leader, lost his two genin teammates on said mission. The sadness of their final words caused his Mangekyō Sharingan to awaken. It's appearance is largely unknown, as anyone who gazed upon it met an untimely end and was unable to speak of it.
With his right eye, he discovered he could cast Amaterasu, which causes black flames to ignite whatever his eye gazes upon. With his left eye, he discovered he could cast Kyanseru, a power unique to his eyes, that seals away an opponent's chakra network for a set time. With both eyes, he discovered he could cast Susanoo, which is a physical manifestation of his chakra that allows him to create a armor around himself.
Engetsu Uchiha
Engetsu's Mangekyō Sharingan was awoken upon his being forcefully banished from Konoha, the immense feeling of loss and grief causing his Sharingan to evolve as he was hurled headlong into anguish. Something was sparked deep within the young man causing his Amaterasu to surge forth, setting the surrounding forest alight with black flames until Engetsu collapsed from exhaustion.
Amaterasu was the first of the three techniques to awaken within Engetsu's left eye, followed by Tsukuyomi within his right, Susanoo requiring the use of both eyes to activate, and his own unique technique Gekkō no Yurameku being used from either eye.
Tenjai Uchiha
Tenjai's Mangekyō Sharingan consists of a black triangle over a red background and a red hole in the center. The vertexes of the triangle touches the black rim of the iris design.
Tora Uchiha
Tora's Mangekyō Sharingan, that developed only a few days after Ryun's own Mangekyō Sharingan, took the appearance of a pinwheel, in a similar form to Itachi Uchiha's with three black dots on the edge of each side of the pinwheel, and three red dots outside the pinwheel itself. Tora's Mangekyō Sharingan is one of two, the other's being Sasuke Uchiha's, with a black background and a red design, rather than the typical black design and red background.
Hajimoto Uchiha
Hajimoto's mangekyo sharingan developed after his sensei was killed right in front of him by a band of rogue ninja in the land of waves on a routine mission. It has three tomoe floating on the sides and a slightly sideways triangle with a swirl design at each end of the triangle, it has the normal red background with a black design for the tomoe and triangle.
The first techniques to awaken in his mangekyo was Tsukuyomi and seigyoki because of his affinity to genjutsu, he first used it when his sensei was killed on the three ninja responsible for his death to break their minds so they could never harm anyone else in their lives. the seigyoki is the special ability that his sharingan had but enhanced to where he can control up to four people within 10 meters of him but it drains half of his chakra and if overused death.
The second technique was amatarasu which is one of his least used techniques because of his mastery of genjutsu and the fact that he swore to only use it in case of emergencys or if he had no other options at his disposal.
The last and final technique he acquired with the mangekyo sharingan was susanoo, he only learned this technique on accident and hasen't fully mastered it yet but he can summon the rib cage and and one arm to protect himself in case of a surprise attack or extra protection from high level ninjutsu. unlike most susanoo which are usually red or purple Hajimoto's susanoo is a dark blue color as of yet it's weapons and full appearance are unknown to hajimoto.
Tatsu Uchiha
Tatsu Uchiha was the Third Uchiha to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan with out killing his Best-friend. How he developed this is still unclear. With his Mangekyō Sharingan, Tatsu can use a space–time ninjutsu called Mizuchi which allows him to generate massive vibrations, or shock waves, which can travel though virtually any medium, including the ground, the seafloor, or even in the air. if He. It is a dreadful technique that, with skilled use and enough chakra, can easily devastate an Entire Village with ease.
Tatsu became one of the few to awaken Susanoo, as a result of awakening Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi in both eyes. He also gained the ability to create and control darkness and its unique property of gravity, a feat which no other Uchiha can Do without the aid of the Dark Release.
Keiku Uchiha
Keiku awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan after recieving the eyes of his deceases brother, Renji Uchiha. Soon after recieving his eyes, Keiku trained day and night to prefect is Mangekyo, and weekks later awakened Susanoo, as a result of awakening Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi in both eyes. His is also able to cast Amaterasu with his left and right eye and control them with their opposites and even with the same eye. He also awakened several other techniques, which have yet to be revealed.
Sayotsu Uzumaki
Sayotsu tried to train as hard as he could to gain mangekyo but he was not able to do so,Sayotsu awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan during the fourth world war when his entire team was killed and his own sensei died infront of his eyes protecting him.he Mangekyō Sharingan is awakened through the trauma experienced from the death of the person closest to the Sharingan user. Sayotsu's mangekeyoSayotsu's Mangekyou Sharingan Sayotsu's Mangekyō takes an unique for it has three sides which resembles shuriken while three other line running parallel and turning at the end resembling hockey sticks. Sayotsu's Mangekyō allows him to use three unique techniques called Kangiten,Mayhem Havoc and storm flame.
Sayot can use kamui,Kamui grants Sayotsu the use of three distinct abilities: teleportation and the third one creates a space-time barrier in the form of a swirling void that sucks any target he focuses his eye on to another dimension and also bring them back; even transporting them to a new location.,though he preferred not to use it but he is skilled with it.Originally, Sayotsu lacked proper control to accurately hit his target. His skill and aim later improved greatly, able to successfully warp small, fast-moving, or multiple targets in rapid succession as seen against Yasuki.His finesse allows him to safely warp chakra-based techniques, like the Rasengan, or even shadow clones without disrupting them, at such speed that Raido himself was fooled into believing Sayotsu failed and dispelled the technique instead. While originally demonstrating only long-range use, Sayotsu is also able to use Kamui at a short-range. With this new proficiency, Sayotsu is also able to teleport himself at will.
Also during the match with Yasuki he demonstrated the usage of Amaterasu though he hardly uses it,he is pretty good with the jutsu.
Aichi Goron
Aichi Goron activated her Mangekyō Sharingan after supposedly killing her lover Gen Nakaido in mortal combat. Having lost the last person she considered worth living for became the catalyst for awakening her new dōjutsu. Aichi's Mangekyō Sharingan takes on the form of a thick ring cut into three symmetrical pieces with three circles on the outer edge of each section. Thanks of this ascension in skill, Aichi became able to copy techniques without her special genjutsu The Uchiha DNA in her body also became used to her own DNA and melded together more successfully, allowing her to control her dōjutsu completely.
Though it is currently unknown if she can use Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, or Susanoo yet, Aichi has displayed various new abilities. In her left eye she has used the genjutsu known as Shinjiro, in which the target is taken into a red and gray mental world and is bombared with a powerful wall of energy that damages them in real life from the inside. In her right eye is the ninjutsu Inryōkukami, in which she can increase the gravitational pull around her instantly. Its intensity starts at 'Ichi', where the target is merely unable to take a step, to 'Go', where a black hole is created and eats away at the surrounding area rapidly.
Mangekyō Sharingan Forms
Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan
Main article: Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan Over time, use of the Mangekyō Sharingan's techniques deteriorates the user's eyesight to the point of blindness. Only by taking and transplanting the.
Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan Forms
Sharingan, MS, and EMS Art Credit
Credit for Keiku Uchiha's Mangekyo Sharingan and Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan goes to zjohn4.
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Cumberland University is exploring the possibility of leaving the Mid-South Conference in all sports except football to rejoin the TranSouth Conference.
Cumberland, located in Lebanon, and Lambuth University in Jackson left the TranSouth in 1995 to join the Mid-South Conference in all sports because the conference offered football, which the TranSouth did not and still does not. Both conferences are members of the NAIA.
At the time, in order to be accepted into the Mid-South, the two schools had to join the league in all sports. However, since that time, the Mid-South has admitted non-football playing Lindsey-Wilson and admitted Belhaven as a football-only member.
Cumberland athletics director Paul Peck admitted the Bulldogs
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Flying under the radar for most of the basketball season, the Hunters Lane Warriors are poised to place a significant feather in their cap.
Having clinched the District 12-AAA boys regular season championship two weeks ago, the Warriors can cap a perfect district season with a win over McGavock on Friday (Senior Night) at home. They won at McGavock 60-42 four weeks ago.
Hunters Lane is ranked No. 6 in this week’s Associated Press Class AAA poll and is 23-2 overall (11-0 in district play) after an off night Tuesday. The Warriors average 60 points a game and many of their victories are by a comfortable margin.
They have won 13 straight since a loss to No. 5 Clarksville Northeast on Dec. 20. Their only other loss was by one point, 61-60, to Hillsboro back on Nov. 21.
“From a standpoint of the won-lost record, it’s right up there [with some of our best teams],” 11th-year coach Anthony Sewell said. “But it’s hard to compare teams. This is certainly a very good one.”
A win over McGavock will give the Warriors additional momentum heading into the district tournament, which opens next week at Antioch High.
Hunters Lane is looking for a breakthrough to the state tournament.
The last time it advanced to that point was 2006. Last year, the Warriors lost in the region semifinals to host Brentwood High and they fell one step short in 2010 with a heartbreaking defeat to Beech in sectionals.
Veteran leadership is a hallmark of this year’s team.
Senior point guard Billy Hughes leads the attack with 17.1 points and 3.3 assists per game. Howard Cliff, the other starting guard, also is a senior. The rest of the starting lineup consists of seniors Stephen Daniel and Antonio Head and DeVardo Odum, a junior.
Forward Isaac Harris recently returned to action after he sustained a broken wrist early on and added depth as he has continued to round into shape.
“We have a lot of guys who are good leaders,” Sewell said. “What I like is they play with a great amount of intensity, hustle, play hard, get a lot of loose balls.”
As for the regular season finale, Sewell said, “McGavock is a team which always plays us tough. They play hard, and I’m expecting a tough game.”
The top two finishers in the district get byes into the tournament semifinals. That qualifies Hunters Lane for region regardless and means it has to play just two district tournament contests.
• State Swimming: The Tennessee Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association (TISCA) state meet is Friday and Saturday at Caulkins Pool at Centennial Sportsplex.
Baylor was the runaway winner in both the boys and girls divisions in last year’s state meet at Knoxville. Montgomery Bell Academy (boys) and Harpeth Hall (girls) were runners-up.
MBA senior Maclin Davis is the defending champion in both the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke. The Southern Cal-bound Big Red swimmer set a state record with a 47.14 in the butterfly and is taking aim at the national private school record of 47.08.
• Slight change: Last week, the TSSAA made slight adjustments to the state basketball tournament championships at MTSU for girls (March 7-10) and boys (March 14-17).
The Class AA tournament will be played the first day in both girls (March 7) and boys (March 14), followed by the Class AAA quarterfinal games, then the Class A quarterfinal games.
Previously, Class A has opened the tourney, followed by AA and AAA.
• District meeting: A pairings meeting for coaches in District 11-AAA will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at Franklin High, site of the tournament which opens next week.
• Hall of Fame Tennis: The Tennessee Tennis Association has announced that Fran Chandler of Jackson and Pat Guerry of Chattanooga, former prep stars at Jackson Central-Merry and Chattanooga Baylor, respectively, have been inducted into the TTA Hall of Fame. Both competed in numerous Nashville tournaments.
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Escoffery began exhibiting as a fine artist around the mid-1940s alongside other important artists of her generation such as Ralph Campbell, Albert Huie and Carl Abrahams, maintaining an active presence on the Jamaican art scene until shortly before her death. Her early work consisted of landscapes and genre paintings, many of which were inspired by themes of community life in Brown’s Town, for example as depicted in the Old Woman (1955). From the 1960s onwards, she also produced paintings that have been described as ‘surrealist’. This is interesting, since the early nineteenth century movement of Surrealism was primarily a literary one in which writers sought creative and artistic freedom in their works via explorations of the sub-conscious mind. In fact it was her involvement in literature and art history that fueled her conceptual development as an artist. In describing her relationship with writing and painting, she stated:
… in order to do that, I’d better borrow T.S. Elliot’s ideas about the composition of a poem…One starts with certain strong ‘floating feelings’ which are then expressed by sifting the images to which they spontaneously attach themselves…although craft and media are different, I myself…start from the same basic feeling and the images, the visual ones, are the same too.
The scene depicted in the triptych Gateway (1965) qualifies as genre, in terms of the activities of the characters depicted. However, the otherworldly glow of the yellow sky adds an element of surrealism or rather magic realism to the entire scene. Many of her later works were abstracted, such as the epic, five-panel paintings like Mirage (1987), with its rippling layered patterns and floating abstract shapes, imply a conscious attempt at constructing visual context as an almost dream-like scenario in which fragments of thoughts can be ordered and identified. The concept of the ‘dream’ is further illustrated and narrated through iconography historically attached to Judaic social and religious history, which was part of Escoffery’s heritage.
Gloria Escoffery has received many accolades for her contribution to the development of fine arts in Jamaica. She was made Officer of the Order of Distinction in 1977 for services in the field of Art by the Jamaican Government and later in 1985, she received the Silver Musgrave from the Institute of Jamaica. She was also inducted into the Caribbean Hall of Fame in 2001. Escoffery passed away at her home in Brown’s Town in 2002.
This post was compiled by Monique Barnett-Davidson, Curatorial Assistant, NGJ
Bibliography
Artist’s file – Gloria Escoffery, Education Department, National Gallery of Jamaica
Boxer, David and Veerle Poupeye, Modern Jamaican Art, Kingston: Ian Randle. 1998
Escoffery, Gloria, Loggerhead, Kingston: Sandberry Press, 1988
Jamaica Journal: Vol. 5, Issue 1 , 1974
She was such a great person and a friend to me i had the priviliged of knowing my neighbour she taugh me a lot about life thank to her god bless her soul.
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Next Event is June 15, 2013!
NTYDTTRD was founded in Jan 2012 to promote firearms safety and education, as well as family bonding through participation in an exciting and fun sport. Our inaugural event was held Jun 9, 2012, with 37 ranges in 15 states participating. It took thousands of volunteers, sponsors and supporters but it was worth it to see the smiles on the faces of the kids and the parents.
We started with a focus on Daughters and an opportunity for Dad’s to take their girls to the range and quickly evolved into Sons and Moms, too! The name hasn.
NTYDTTRD, Inc is the founding organization behind the event and we are a non-profit entity. We truly appreciate every donation, no matter how big or small, and we make every effort to stretch our limited funds as far as possible. If you can help, please consider clicking the Donate Here button on the side of this screen, or contacting us directly about mailing a check or an in-kind donation. We are not yet certified by the IRS as a 501c3, as we have not met the donation threshold but we will be filing for status as soon as possible. Please understand that it can take 9-12 months for the IRS to adjudicate the filing, and we will notify all donors of any status change when it occurs. In the interim, we are starting to plan for next year and really need your support to get us going.
We learned a lot from our first event and can’t wait to implement some of the changes going forward. One thing that will not change is the focus on SAFETY as the number 1 goal, and FUN a close second. We will continue to ask host ranges to agree to provide extra instructors and Safety Officers for their events.
We would also like to welcome Laura Carson to the Board of Directors. She brings a wealth of knowledge and skills in education and child development and will be instrumental in helping to plan and structure events in the future.
National Take Your Daughter to the Range Day, Inc
Thank you all for your support and … Safe Shooting!
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The blog turned 3 years old (it’s just a toddler!) on January 15th, and I’d say it’s not too late to celebrate. Three years ago, I was a petrified first year doctoral student, sitting in the back of my first year doctoral seminar, feeling alone, out of place, young, and in many ways voiceless. I had left the warm safety of my Stanford community, a community where I was surrounded by Native students, a community where I was known and accepted, where I felt that I had support for Native issues and there was always someone wiser, or more experienced I could call upon when a question or issue arose. I arrived in a cold–literally and figuratively–and isolated space where I suddenly was (and still am) the only Native student in my program. I suddenly had no one else to turn to when a questionable comment was made in class or when I encountered classmates at my elite institution who had never met a Native person in their lives. Those experiences, coupled with the fact that I was several years younger than my classmates and the only student in my cohort without a masters degree, left me silent and scared. I often wondered if I had made the right choice in going to graduate school, and this resulted in that my first year, I said–truly–three comments in class. Ever.
It was in this space that the blog was born. I had always felt passionate about representations of Native peoples, but approached it from more of an art and museum context. I interned at museums all throughout undergrad, and did my senior paper on contemporary Indian art that challenged stereotypes and questioned how outside western forces were shaping what constituted “authentic Indian art.” I think this interest came, and still stems, from the fact that I never saw myself, my friends, or my family reflected in images of “Nativeness.” Most of the images of Native people I saw represented people in some mythical past, or as a one-sided stereotype, not the vibrant, diverse community I knew. After a trip to Urban Outfitters right across the square from my school, I felt like something clicked. I felt invisible as a Native person, because the only images my classmates and colleagues ever saw of Native people were the false stereotypes in fashion, advertising, and hollywood. To them, even subconsciously, Indians were flat commodities to be bought and sold, whether as a fake dreamcatcher, beef jerky, or a mascot, not real, living, contemporary people. So I decided to write about it.
Writing the blog gave me a voice. In my semi-anonymous space on the internet, I was free to question, be angry, and fight back–things I struggled to do in “real life.” I watched my notoriety and influence grow online, while in my day-to-day I was still the silent girl in the back of the classroom. Even today, many, if not most, of my classmates don’t know what I do outside our campus. My alter-ego of “Adrienne K.” is (or tries to be) a fierce warrior, though sometimes I feel the real-life Adrienne doesn’t always match up.
Thinking back to those first early posts, where I still didn’t have the proper language to push back on the stereotypes, where I was still learning to use my voice and perspective, it’s incredible to see how far we’ve come. I say we, because I would be nowhere without the community that has developed around Native Approps. The daily emails, the tweets, the facebook posts, and the comments, it is the community that keeps me going and writing. I’ve learned so much from my readers, because I acknowledge that I am still no expert in this field. Through a happy confluence of factors, somehow I’ve emerged as a voice and an activist, but this blog has been a process of learning for me as much as it has been for you. I stand on the shoulders of those who have been in this fight for decades, and I am forever indebted and grateful to the work of the strong women and men who have laid the groundwork for me to be here today. I, by no stretch of the imagination, am the first Native person to write and care about how we are represented, I just have picked up and joined in what has been going on for generations.
For those reasons, the “fame” part of the blog has never been something I’ve been comfortable with. I didn’t start writing with some dreams of grandeur, and I still am super awkward when folks I meet in real life mention they read the blog. Actually, I’m just pretty awkward generally. All I am is a big nerd who found an outlet for that nerdiness, I swear. I reiterate again and again that I don’t claim to speak for all of Indian Country, that I just speak for my experience, which is one of several million perspectives that could be represented here. I think that’s one of the hardest things I’ve been learning to navigate–the tension between wanting to be heard, but not wanting to be seen as the only voice on Indian issues.
In the past three years we’ve covered a lot of ground. We’ve discussed young costumed non-Native powwow-goers, broke the story for the Navajo Nation Urban Outfitters lawsuit, talked about Halloween costumes, mascots, and random appropriations in-between. I caused a big stir by discussing my opinions of “Love in the Time of Blood Quantum,” one that’s left a lasting legacy of the now (in)famous term “unicorn” amongst my friends and acquaintances (though it may be time for an update on that post…). There was the (ongoing) Tonto fiasco, Victoria’s Secret, and Paul Frank. But the post that continues to be the biggest hit is my anti-hipster headdress manifesto, re-posted, linked, and reblogged all over the internet.
I would have never dreamed that I’d be on monthly conference calls with Paul Frank assisting in a Native artist collaboration, that I would have been a guest on a Al Jazeera or Native America Calling, interviewed Adam Beach, been interviewed by E! online, CNN, or any of the other “mainstream” outlets I’ve been privileged to chat with. I’ve been invited to speak at universities and conferences all over the country, where I’ve met incredible new friends and colleagues. I’ve gained technology skills, taught myself (basic) coding, learned the ins and outs of wordpress, learned how to manage social media platforms, how to build and cultivate a caring community, and curate content. I think it has taught me more about writing and refining my ideas than grad school ever could alone.
I’m listing this all off to remind myself how amazing it’s been, because admittedly it’s also been hard. I can’t separate the journey of the blog from my journey of grad school, and both have been fraught with tears over identity attacks, feelings of inadequacy, lack of confidence in myself and my ideas, and far too many moments where I thought it would be so much easier to stop everything and try and return to and salvage my previous life back in California.
As for what the future of Native Appropriations will hold, I have some grand plans and big ideas, but I also have to graduate. Since the blog is not exactly a cash cow, I also am balancing taking courses, multiple jobs as a teaching assistant, being an editor at an academic journal, doing my dissertation research, applying for funding for this and next year, and writing my qualifying paper and dissertation proposal. Any of which could be a full time job. But I somehow continue to find time, and will continue to find time, because I care deeply about this work and find so much strength and joy in the real change we are making for Native peoples.
What I hope for the future is that we can continue to learn together, that I can offer my ideas and perspectives as a starting point, but that the conversation will grow outward and not stay within the confines of the blog. I hope that my dedication to this world can bleed into my academic life, where the 1900+ words I’ve written here are more than I’ve written for my qualifying paper in months. Writing on the blog, strangely enough, is freeing. Despite the fact that thousands of people read my intimate thoughts online, and are not shy about sharing their hate for me and my opinions, it doesn’t scare me. What scares me is my dissertation committee, the classmates to whom I felt inferior, and the ivy-covered world I live in. Internet trolls? Bring it. The Committee on Degrees? Excuse me, I’m going back to bed.
For the daily fear that I live in of not being good enough in my academic life, I sometimes forget to celebrate the joy and accomplishments this world has brought. Native Appropriations has given me confidence and a voice when I felt marginalized and silenced in my everyday life. It has connected me on a deeper level to my own identity, and forced me to defend who I am and what I care about, making me stronger and braver. I’ve become an activist and a writer, when I only sought out to share images of what we are not.
I feel that we are on the edge of something big as Indigenous Peoples. If the Idle No More movement is any indication, we are ready to rise up and be seen and heard, not content to be silenced any longer. I know that I’m ready, and feel confident that I am ready to be a part of, or help to create, whatever comes next. Pushing back on Native representations is just the beginning. Our rights, lands, women, and cultures have been violated for far too long, and I know the time is now for things to change.
So thank you for joining me on this journey–for reading, commenting, emailing, and discussing. For spreading these issues to your family, friends, and colleagues, and making cultural appropriation an issue worthy of discussion and change. For making it to the end of this behemoth of a post. Here’s to the next three years and beyond.
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Thank you to everyone who entered my logo design contest at 99designs.com! And, thank you to everyone who gave me their input on the designs I was considering!
Here is the design I have chosen…I hope you like it!
NativeRemix.com is a multimedia arts + culture news site for Indigenous youth of the U.S. and Canada that is currently in development. The site will feature work created by artistic Native talent from all parts of Indian Country with a focus on the younger, Indigenous audience.
We are currently looking for writers/bloggers as well as Native artists (musicians, singers, DJs, dancers, painters, photographers, videographers, fashion designers, etc.) who would like to be featured on our site. We also welcome advertisers who are interested in reaching our target audience.
If you, or someone you know, would like to be a part of NativeRemix.com, please send an e-mail to: editor@NativeRemix.com!
Please sign up for updates on our launch date at NativeRemix.com, follow us on Twitter @TheNativeRemix, and “like” us on Facebook: NativeRemix!
Thank you again to everyone for your support thus far!
Have a wonderful weekend,
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This group is for responsible, law-abiding, seasoned firearms owners who enjoy shooting for fun and/or sport...from small arms 9mm pistols up to the .50 cal Beowulf, .223/5.56 NATO, .308/7.62 NATO, 300 blackout, SOCOM assault rifles, etc..., as well as any NFA/ATF registered class 3 firearm (suppressors, full-auto, sbr's, etc). While you do not need to be an expert in firearms...this group is NOT for people who are novices to shooting and have no previous firearms experience. A Virginia CCW perm …
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The Great Cholesterol Myth
Last year, cardiologist Stephen Sinatra and I came together to write a book, The Great Cholesterol Myth: Why Lowering Cholesterol Won’t Prevent Heart Disease and the Statin-Free Plan That Will. We believe that a weird mixture, and sugar. These are things we can actually do something about with food, supplements, and lifestyle changes, none of which have the costs or break with conventional thinking for a minute, consider the following study, just one of the many we discuss in the book.
The Lyon Diet-Heart Study
In the 1990s, French researchers decided to run an experiment known as the Lyon Diet-Heart Study to test the effect of different diets on heart disease.
They took two groups of men who had every imaginable risk factors, vegetables, and monounsaturated fat like olive oil. even more inflammation which creates more oxidative damage in a vicious cycle that eventually results in plaque and an increased risk for heart disease. If there was no inflammation, there would be no plaque.
The other two major promoters of heart disease are stress and sugar. Stress releases hormones which harm the artery walls and increase blood pressure. (Stress may be the explanation for why 40 percent of atherosclerotic patients literally tiny hormone factories, spitting out inflammatory cytokines and increasing overall inflammation and arterial damage.
The following is my seven-point program for reducing the risk of heart disease. Note that lowering cholesterol isn’t on it. (Note also that managing stress is.) Pay attention to these seven action items, and you just may find that you don’t need to worry quite so much about cholesterol after all.
Jonny’s 7-point program to reduce the risk of heart disease
1. Eat an anti-inflammatory diet.
2. Reduce grains, starches, sugar, and omega-6s.
3. Manage your stress.
4. Exercise.
5. Drink only in moderation.
6. Don’t smoke.
7. Supplement with antioxidants, vitamin C, coenzyme Q10, omega-3s.
Speaking of supplements …
Ask your typical mainstream doctor about nutritional supplements and the first thing you’re likely to hear is this: “There’s no good research showing they work.” I have heard this refrain time and time again when I discuss nutritional medicine with my more conservative colleagues.
It’s not true.
You or your doctor can go online to the National Institute of Medicine’s library, pubmed.com, and put into the search box virtually any vitamin or herb you can think of. Depending on what you choose, hundreds to thousands of citations will pop up. So the problem isn’t an absence of research.
The problem is twofold. One, the conventional training of medical doctors in this country is highly biased toward pharmaceuticals. And two, like that can help keep people healthy.
Many supplements are particularly important for heart health. Here’s a short guide to the most important ones. If you’re not taking these, perhaps you should be.
Omega -3s: the wellness molecule
Omega-3s are among the most anti-inflammatory substances on the planet and should be part of everyone’s heart-healthy supplement program.
Coenzyme Q10: fuel for the heart
Coenzyme Q10 is needed to make cellular energy, and: the energy maker
D-Ribose is a five-carbon sugar and is one of the components of ATP, the energy molecule the body uses to power all activities. Without D-ribose, there is no ATP. Without ATP, there is no energy.
L-Carnitine: the energy transport system: the great relaxer
Magnesium lowers blood pressure, helps control blood sugar, and relaxes the lining of the blood vessels. Magnesium also inhibits platelet aggregation, which is helpful in preventing the development of clots. Almost all dietary surveys show that Americans aren’t getting nearly enough magnesium.
Pantethine: your secret weapon
Pantethine is a metabolically active (and somewhat more expensive) form of vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid). Pantethine reduces the oxidation of LDL. No fewer than twenty-eight clinical trials in humans have shown that pantethine produces significant positive changes in triglycerides, LDL cholesterol, and HDL cholesterol.
Vitamin C: powerful antioxidant
Vitamin C is one of the most powerful antioxidants in the world, and because heart disease is initiated by damage caused by free radicals (oxidative damage), any help you can get in the antioxidant department is a good thing indeed.
And it’s not just theoretical: a large 2011 study in the American Heart Journal found that the lower the level of vitamin C in the blood, the higher the risk for heart failure.
Curcumin: the new superstar of supplements
This extract from the Indian spice turmeric has multiple benefits, not the least of which is that it’s highly anti-inflammatory., and it’s available in supplements like Terry Naturally.. Not a bad résumé!
It’s both a strong antioxidant and a strong anti-inflammatory, inhibiting a number of inflammatory enzymes that can contribute to heart disease. The recommended dose is at least 250 mg a day of trans-resveratrol, the active component of resveratrol. Read labels carefully: many won’t tell you how much resveratrol is of the trans- variety. One brand I particularly like is Reserverage, which comes in two strengths and provides either 250 mg or 500 mg of the trans- form in every capsule.
Cocoa flavanols: nitric oxide booster
Plant chemicals in cocoa known as flavanols help the body synthesize a compound called nitric oxide, which is critical for healthy blood flow and healthy blood pressure. Nitric oxide also improves platelet function, making your blood less sticky. It also makes the lining of the arteries less attractive for white blood cells to attach to and stick around. You can get these heart-healthy flavanols in dark chocolate containing at least 60 percent cocoa. One manufacturer, CocoaWell, provides cocoa flavanols in several excellent formulas, including one that incorporates 100 mg of coenzyme Q10.
The bottom line
Lowering cholesterol and lowering the risk of heart disease are very far from the same thing.
The latter is important.
The former is almost irrelevant.
Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS, also known as “The Rogue Nutritionist”, is a board-certified nutritionist and the best-selling author of 13 books on health including The 150 Healthiest Foods On Earth and Living Low Carb. This article is adapted from his latest book, The Great Cholesterol Myth, co-written with cardiologist Stephen Sinatra, MD.
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Tie-down event lifts Bates to all-around title
By Quentin Jodie
Navajo Times
WINDOW ROCK, September 13, 2012
(Special to the Times – Donovan Quintero)
SECOND FROM TOP: Fort Defiance, Ariz, breakaway roper Serena Dahozy slams the brakes after getting her calf roped on Sunday at the 66th annual Navajo Nation Fair Rodeo in Window Rock. Dahozy posted a 3.2 second run.
THIRD FROM TOP: Saddle bronc rider Cody Roy Hendren of Albuquerque failed to mark out his draw during the short round of the 66th annual Navajo Nation Fair Rodeo in Window Rock.
M ichael Bates is a top-notch steer wrestler.
That was pretty much a given before this year's Navajo Nation Fair as the 23 year-old Mexican Springs N.M. cowboy earned national qualifications for both the high school and collegiate ranks.
His tie-down roping skills, on the other hand, have been a work in progress.
But he knew that if he could get three good draws in that event, he would have a chance.
Turns out, his performance was nothing short of brilliant as he won the average race in both of his events. And to that end, he was named the men's all-around champion on Sunday afternoon during the 66th annual Navajo Nation Fair.
"I had a pretty good day," said Bates, who pocketed a grand total of $8,846.52. "Everything just clicked for me.
By virtue of finishing on top, Bates will be competing in the 8th annual International Indian Finals Rodeo this weekend in the steer wrestling and tie-down event. The first performance will start on Friday night inside Tingley Coliseum as all the average winners will take park of this grand event.
Prior to this year, Bates said he never gotten close to winning the all-around title here at the NNF, but after he tied up his calf in the short round with an 11.5 second run it became apparent that he had cinched up that title.
"This is my best finish ever," he said. Before this year "I made it as far as the second round in the calf roping, but I just wanted to make a couple good runs today and have the all-around fall where it should."
In his signature event, he tied with Ganado steer wrestler Garrison Begay for second place in the short round with a 4.9 run.
With that he won the average with a 14.3 effort on three heads and netted $3760.22.
"In the first round I drew a very good steer," Bates said. "The second steer was fast and I knew he was going to run and in the short round, I felt like I had a chance."
Behind three solid runs, Tyron Tsosie nabbed second place honor with an 18.1 aggregate. The Crownpoint bull dogger won the short round in 4.5 seconds and after it was all said and done he took home $2,300.36.
Begay, meanwhile, finished third in the average with an 18.7 and cleared $1,452.64. He finished ahead of Mike Holyan (22.8), Myron Lee (23.8) and Kyle Dennison (24.1).
In the final four showdown, Begay won an additional $2,000 as he turned his steer in 4.2 seconds.
"I already knew that I drew a good steer," the Greasewood Springs cowboy said. "I figured I would throw him with a three, but I was a four on him and I'll take that."
Bates finished a close second with a 4.8 while Tsosie turned in a 5.3 run and Holyan posted a no time.
Just like the steer wrestling, Bates won the tie-down event in similar fashion.
After coming back as the second-high call back, he turned in a sizzling run of 11.5 seconds in the championship round and placed fourth.
"I just had to go out there and make sure I got him wrapped," Bates said of his short round draw.
Bates finished his three-run average in 33.4 seconds, which paid him a grand $3,086.30.
Ft. Defiance cowboy Roderick Tso won the short round with a 8.6 and placed fifth in the average with a 37.2 run on three heads.
Kenny Glasses finished second in the average and lost the title by two-tenths of a second with a 33.6 aggregate. But the Rough Rock, Ariz., cowboy claimed the final four with a 9.9 effort and netted $4,334.29 with two grand coming in the showdown.
"I was just trying to be consistent," Glasses said. "The last calf I drew in the short round, it gave me problems so I tried to make the most of it on my final calf."
Despite losing the title by the slimmest margin, Glasses said he was real pleased with his finish.
"It seems like I've been struggling the last two rodeos," he said. "They were pretty big rodeos, but this is not too bad at all. I'll go at again next year."
Third place honors in the average went to Mike Holyan (36.1) as he finished ahead of uncle Ed Holyan (36.9) while Leroy Etsitty rounded out the top six with a 38.0 effort.
In the team roping, Aaron Tsinigine and Victor Begay capped a perfect week by winning both the average title and the final four showdown. As a token, both competitors are scheduled to make an appearance at this year's IIFR finals.
The pair stretched their short round draw in 4.3 seconds for top honors and finished the average race in 15.2 seconds, which was 1.1 seconds better than the effort turned in by Chris Begay and O.J. Williams.
"My header did a really good job," Begay said. "He's a good header and you know after our first draw we started to heat things up. After that I was just having fun."
At press time, the results for the second round were not available, but for three rounds of roping the Tsinigine and Begay pair won a whopping $6,202.13, which included two grand in the final four series.
In that round they recorded a 4.2 run while Chuck Sells and OJ Williams posted a 5.2 run. The team of Tedson Yazzie/Clarence Yazzie and the Chris Begay/OJ Williams pair both posted no times.
With an 18.7 run on three head, the Yazzie pair finished third in the average race ahead of the Sells and Williams pair who posted a 19.5 run. In fifth place Jason Yazzie and Wacey Brady nabbed fifth place honors.
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2008/09 Memphis Grizzlies Payroll: $44 million
2008/09 Estimated Salary Cap: $58 million
Roughly $14 million under cap
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The Good:
The Bad:
The Future:
Free Throw:
The Grizzlies didn’t improve their win total of 22 from last season, but let’s give them a break; they were in the toughest division in the NBA and their best player was traded for peanuts. Despite the doom and gloom, there are still some bright spots on this Memphis team.
Take Rudy Gay, for example. Gay defined the term “breakout season” by filling up a box score like few players in the league can; 20.2 points, 6.2 rebounds, 1.4 steals, 1.0 block, 46% shooting and a respectable 35% from downtown. Suddenly, the Shane Battier trade looks a lot better. Memphis has found one of their cornerstones and he is still under his rookie contract for two more seasons. If he can prove this year wasn’t a fluke, Gay will be an All-Star very soon.
Although he was surrounded by trade rumors this year, the Grizzlies managed to hang on to Mike Miller and he continued to shoot the lights out. With stellar percentages like 50% from the field and 43% from long range, Miller has solidified himself as one of the best shooters in the game. As a plus, he also averaged a career-high 6.7 rebounds. At $9 million for next season and $9.75 million the year after, Miller earns his contract very well. Even a franchise as inept as Memphis recognizes a good shooter when they see one.
Speaking of inept, how about that Pau Gasol trade! When a deal is so lopsided that other teams in the league publically protest it, you know it must not be good. Sure, they got Kwame Brown’s $9 million expiring contract, but where is the player for your future? The Wolves got Al Jefferson and the Nets got Devin Harris, so where is the player for the Grizzlies’? Javaris Crittenton isn’t even the third best point guard on the team and may not be part of their future plans. The draft pick Memphis got might as well be in the second round and the pick in 2010 probably won’t be much better. There simply wasn’t enough there to warrant trading a player of Pau Gasol’s caliber (unless his brother, Marc Gasol, turns out to be Pau’s clone).
Can we get some lottery love for Memphis one of these years? In 2003, they missed out on LeBron and had to give up their pick. Last year, they had the best chance to land Oden or Durant, but wound up picking fourth. This year, they had a pretty good shot at Beasley or Rose, but they drop a spot to pick five. I think this round of bad luck is due to rotten Karma left over from the Gasol trade.
The bad news doesn’t end there. Darko Milicic is the second highest paid player on the team and his mediocre averages of 7.2 points and 6.1 rebounds don’t quite live up to the monetary expectations. Milicic is owed $14.5 million over the next two years. How does a seven-foot post player only shoot 43.8% from the field? Maybe he can take a page out of Rudy Gay’s book and finally have that breakout season we’ve all been waiting for.
Jason Collins and Brian Cardinal add up to one big wad of wasted cap space. Not that the Grizzlies really need it at this point, but it would be nice not having to pay $12.5 million to those two so they can wait at the end of the bench for their garbage minutes. The team will also owe Cardinal $6.75 million after next season. Yikes.
One positive about the Gasol trade was that it definitely opened up a lot of salary cap space for the Grizzlies. The question is, will they use it? All that cap space doesn’t mean diddly if it’s not used to sign better players. That doesn’t mean you go out and overpay for someone like Antawn Jamison. The money must be used wisely. Look no further than Brian Cardinal for a lesson in poor spending.
There is hope here. Gay and Miller are an excellent 2-3 scoring combo. With Mike Conley, Kyle Lowry, and Juan Carlos Navarro, the Grizzlies are loaded with young point guards. One of them should rise to the top and be the clear starter. The biggest need for Memphis lies in the post. The crop of free-agent big men will probably be light this summer, so the team will look to the draft for help. Unfortunately for Grizzlies fans the team appears to be targeting Kevin Love with the 5th overall selection. And while Love should be an instant contributor, his upside is questionable, and taking him at five is an enormous reach.
During the first eight years of the franchise, they never won more than 28 games. Over the next three seasons, they won between 45 and 50 games. Then, in the past two seasons, they won just 22 each time. There is no steady rise or slow decline for the Grizzles, it’s boom or bust.
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With that amount under the cap, I wonder what they might be attempting to do? Perhaps making a run to bring one of the great players who will become free agents in the next off-season. Hopefully, they can make something happen and make a run at getting into the postseason sometime in the future. Ha ha. I gotta say, that's a large sum of money....what are they gonna do with it?
The Grizzlies suck look for another 22 win season lol...
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Just a handful of youngsters have made it into the next stage (Top 16) of Eurolegue competition. We will continue to take a look at those who did with their respective teams, in our weekly report.
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Los Angeles Lakers are a legendary, heavily bannered team, and with that honor comes the special distinction of having fans from all around the world; this entails no matter where the Lakers go for games — if it be Denver, Portland, Chicago — there are going to be Lakers fans in the crowd.
Lakers fans often times come across as entitled beings, and have a rough start doesn’t suit well with them; and one fan was extremly annoyed after the Utah Jazz-Los Angeles Lakers game Wednesday night via.
This guy isn’t the example of every Laker fan, in fact, most won’t resort to spraying you with pepper spray, that’s not to say they aren’t annoying.
I have said this before, if you are a fan of the visiting team, you HAVE to expect trash talk. It happens at EVERY game I have ever attended, but there’s a difference from throwing verbal barbs and doing something this idiotic.
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Florida's political scene is like a poop fight at the monkey house. No wonder a simple thing like counting votes is a huge ordeal for them.
When it is all said and done, the good news is that President Obama took Florida! Well done!
It's almost as if they tried to deter voting. Reduce early voting days by nearly half for a presidential election???
If at first you don't succeed try, try again. In Florida's case, they won't stop until they get it right, that is, to completely drown out democracy and make the election go the way that they want it to go......in their state at least.
Florida is a good state because even if their state government tries to cheat the voters out of their right to vote, the repubs still lose. They cheated Bush into office and look what that did for our country, you would think, after awhile, even they would learn!!
The red counties are where all the r e t a r d s with tatoos and missing teeth live.
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It will take a constitutional ammendment to get partisan hands off of the voting process. All eligible voters should be registered automatically, and the list constantly updated. Voting should be mandatory with a $100 fee for not voting. This fee will pay for the whole process easily at current voting rates, with the remainder going solely to reduce the national debt.
The only snafu is the sore loser complex!
A voting taxation? Not voting is in itself a type of vote. Making it mandatory would be foolish. We shouldn't be forcing people to vote if their political views do not align with one of the candidates.
Did any of you notice that Florida got in a part of the voting law that allows the people to look and compare signatures and if they don't look the same they can be thrown out. Now after 40 years my signature looks nothing like it did when I first voted. Of course, I want to point out that back then it was called a literacy test and was still allowed in the South only until the Supreme Court ruling, outlawing it! Now we have gotten it in the North. Totally Un-Constitutional. I refuse to sign and use an X. It is legal !
Florida is the home base of Rush Limbaugh, self-hating homosexual Matt Drudge, and a summer home for the kooky Ann Coulter. Hmmm, why is this a surprise? Load up all the senior citizens in the nursing homes and lets go vote-- Florida state Motto.
What happened to the Republican mantra "Less Government" It looks like the republicans got over involved in the voting process and Fu<&ed it up.
Yup, the people who are yelling smaller are making it bigger.
Don't forget Mike Huckebee now lives in a $3 million dollar mansion he had built in Destin ,FL. I lived in Pensacola 2009 - 2011, never in my life have I met so many racists & homophobes as I did in the FL panhandle (lower Alabama is what they call the panhandle), they are still pissed about the Civil War !
Sounds to me like the republicans were trying to make it difficult for the democrats to vote. Cutting early voting time, limited of voting places, Wording out the ballet so it takes longer to vote.
Republicans have shown themselves to be the slime of the country in so many ways. Oh, yea, blocking anything they can to make the president look bad for the last couple of years no matter what the cost to the economy, but that was their agenda.
So nice to see they got spanked.
Raise your swords up high.
"a poop fight at the monkey house", but those are the best and most fun fights there are :P.
What else do you expect from the penis of America. We even have a dick for a governor that stole billions from a program designed to help people in need. I am impressed that Florida will go to Obama, not to mention the nation. It was close, hopefully is will be a good thing.
Republicans control Florida so what else can we expect. They do not want to let any one other than republicans to win. I drove around my city and found long lines in the minority sections and ease of voting and short lines in Repub areas in cold weather. I watched one line for over an hour in a minority area and not one person got out of line in frustration. Congradulations to all of those who stood for the right wings crap got out and voteed and showed them we cannot let you buy elections. You are the true American.
I have to wonder about this part of the story:
Why not do like we do in the USVI, and I think some mainland states do the same...close the damned schools on election day and use them as the polling locations. After all, the taxpayers are paying for those public facilities.
UnitesStates1776, you're a third class moron.
I had to vote a provisional ballot here because when I went to vote my name was not on the list. I registered about two years ago the same day, same place, same time as my wife. My wife is registered as a Republican; I'm not. She had no problem voting. Since Florida still hasn't counted the ballots, I doubt they've even looked at mine. I feel cheated.
By the way Florida Republicans, the joke's on you: My wife voted straight Democratic.
Another red state turning blue.
God bless America.
The Supervisor of Elections for Miami-Dade is NOT a Republican. Actually, the counties where things have been most messed up in the past have been primarily ran by democrats.
S FL counties were given an extra day, where other counties in FL were not.
The polls in Miami-Dade officially finally closed at 1:30AM (according to S FL news). The local news showed pictures of a polling station at 8:00PM after closing and then showed another at 11:00PM. The news video supposedly made at 11 showed more people in line waiting than at 8:00. Someone was also supposedly collecting paper ballots outside and telling people they would submit the ballots for the persons but not checking names against the list. All stories being talked about in S FL but not getting much national attention.
I'm just thankful that the Nation wasn't dependent on FL as that might had brought the spotlight on the irregularities and deciding the winner may have been even worse than the whole Bush v. Gore mess.
Florida, where all the rich F^CK's retire, gee, imagine that!
Thanks Mike for pointing out some facts. Miami-Dade is a huge Democrat controlled area.
It's hard to believe that a state that's governed by a super-smart, free- market loving, ace businessman can't seem to run something as simple as an election. Of course, in fairness, Florida has only had 12 years to come to grips with the debacle of 2000.
If I didn't know better, I might think that Rick Scott was the kind of guy who would defraud the government and engage in voter suppression.
I'm a Democrat but what is funny is my best friends are Republicans GO FIGURE, oh by the way they did not vote, they were mad that their party was trying to kill Obama-care, I think that may have been why Romney lost ... Oh well ....
Next time have two separate voting sheets, one for the president vote and one for constitutional changes, then they can take their jolly time counting the second one.
They can't figure out the rules of the road so why should we expect them to actually be able to fill out a ballot. Bet they know the lottery system though.
UnitedStates1776 said: "The red counties are where all the r e t a r d s with tatoos and missing teeth live."
The blue ones are where all of the illegal and dead Democrats live.
Florida once again shows how inadequate and inept they are at anything .Nice place to visit but almost as whacked as California. I say lets just skip Florida. Wait we have already done that.
So...by Saturday, for sure?
Jeb, I thought we knew ya!
as a floridian for 11 yrs., i can't even argue with any negative comment here. this entire state is so screwed up on so many levels, it's not even worth putting up with for the weather; florida is a perfect example of "it's a nice place to visit but i wouldn't want to live there".
"Amen" brother Celt Amen!
Also the insects and the alligators
Interesting that GOP strategists think Jeb Bush should run next time around. Now, what could possibly go wrong in Florida in 2016? Get it the fvck together 'cause we don't elect presidents from third world countries either!
1. Give Florida back to Spain. Problems solved.
2. Make Puerto Rico a state. The flag stays the same. No changes needed.
Let Spain deal with them. Payback for taking the "Black Swan" sunken treasure money.
Born and raised in Florida and I even have to go WTF?????
Common Sense from above: "It almost looks like they were trying to deter voting" .... I know your intentons were good but that is one of the most naive comments I've seen here ..... OF COURSE Republicans were trying to "deter" voting by minorities and middle class common folk, this was total manipulation by making it harder to vote.
The Florida Election apparatus needs to be investigated and brought up on charges of tampering with the federal election process, and those officials found guilty banned from ever over seeing any election again. The Federal Justice System should look into filing a Federal Suit to take the right of Florida to operate Federal Elections in the future.
politics as usual for republicans, did u really think they would go away quietly?
What made me rethink was in hearing the majority of the elderly voted republican. The republicans made it clear their social security and medicare would be safe from cuts if they were over 55, so they decided to toss the rest of us under the bus.
Florida and Arizona have become cess pools of Republican corruption and incompetence. Why any clear thinking American can continue to support the Republican Party baffles me............
The GOP is not only a crimnal organization it's also a contagious disease that must be eradicated.
What an embarrassment. I remember when the United States was a "shining city on the hill", a beacon for democracies around the world to follow. Now, thanks to our collective incompetence, as typified in the dysfunctional banana republic of Florida when it comes to running elections, we are not only a laughing stock; but we fuel the mockery of what we now laughingly claim as our own values in which our Jihadist enemies revel.
well, it took so long to bus in all the illegals to vote, then they couldn't read the ballot, then they couldn't count the ballots...but hey, YOU wanted them!!
Since Obama is ahead in the count in Florida, I wonder if the Supreme Court would have stepped in and handed the election to Obama like they did for Bush if Florida were needed to win the presidency? I'd bet not.
@ FedupwithFed
Either you're a very sore loser or talking out of your anal canal. Florida requires a photo ID and/or a signature voter registration card issued by the board of elections to vote. The problem with voting this time was the number of issues on the ballot that required 12 pages and the small number of voting booths that could not handle the number of voters. On top of that Rick Scott would not extend the voting days and even tried to reduce the number of hours the polls were open. Thankfully none of that worked because people of both parties insisted they be allowed to vote.
What gets me is that Florida has a population of 19 million. California has a population of almost 38 million. Polls closed here in California at 8pm and within 15 mins we knew who won. I know we ain't no poster child for perfect state but damn, Florida, how do you f*ck things up that badly?
I might also add that the presidency had already been decided before the last person voted election night so the poll workers packed up and went home to count the votes later.
@Chris
Unless my memory fails me, Obama was declared the winner of California the minute the polls were closed before any votes were counted.
Amazing that some many people are totally ignorant about the fact that the ONLY counties in Florida that are having problems with voting are DEMOCRATIC counties. That is true for every presidential election since BUSH/GORE. Those are the facts.
Larry, I LIVE in Florida and I was a poll watcher....I SAW what was happening!
so who is talking out of their ass???
@ FedupwithFed - If you are a poll watch as you claim, (since nobody would ever lie on a blog to bolster non-existent credentials) you are personally responsible for allowing these alleged illegal immigrants to vote.
It's far more likely that you're a simpering redneck bigot that nobody takes seriously and who cannot fathom the fact that these assorted brown peoples are better educated, better people and better Americans than you are yourself.
anti trust
It's interesting that there are accessibility issues. Seems Florida has had some stricter codes on accessibility than many states for quite some time.
Fed up
You think you have problems? In the Polling places republican poll watchers were kicked out of in Pennsylvania and Ohio end up with 99% and 100% of votes for Obama.
You probably really loved the UN observer's comment of "Why don't you have a requirement for voter photo ID's.
We are officially a banana republic.
We have to get RICK SCOTT OUT OF OFFICE!
So basically it amounts to Florida and Gov. Rick Scott did everything in their power to suppress Democratic votes (e.g., reducing early voting days, reducing polling locations, voter ID to prevent non-existant voter fraud, etc.) and all it did was galvanize Democratic voters to show up in droves, wait in long lines, cast absentee ballots, and give the state of Florida and it's 29 electoral votes to President Obama while simultaneously making Florida the laughing stock of the democratic world...
Congrats Gov. Scott, a resounding victory if I do say so myself...
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This is total bull@!$%# I might add. Illegals cannot vote, lie more Fed...
Fedupwithfed. if you where correct, which you are not, that would mean that immigrants who can't speak English are still smarter then republicans. think about your statements lol
That's the wonderful thing about electronic voting. Not like it mattered but California was overwhelmingly Dem. Romney had zero chance of collecting Cali's electoral, which is why he spent almost no time campaigning here.
As for the Presidency being decided before the last votes were in. Of course it was. The Electoral count was already over 270 for Obama with several blue states yet to submit. At that point it was a forgone conclusion.
Once Florida gets it's head out of it's ass, it's 29 EV's will most likely go to Obama as well. Giving him 332 in the end. There was no way in hell Romney would have won. That was obvious to pretty much everyone even without those last few state results.
Though the 2nd best thing that night was watching Rove make an idiot out of himself.
It is not that the counties having trouble are democratic counties it is that they have the largest number of voters and the largest visability. Some voters here in Florida were screaming voter surpression for months. Starting with ID's which requried original birth, wedding, and SS card documents, plus $25. That's $50 for a couple to vote. Poll tax? Gov. Rick Scott, a former G. W. Bush business partner, would not allow additional voting days or hours, even after one poll had to be closed for a bomb squad to explode to packages. Scott, who was CEO of HCA hospital company which had the largest Medicare fraud payment in history, was not even charged. Of course, Scott's former business partner was the sitting President Bush. The Republican legislature put these regulations this year to take the heat off of 2016, when Jeb Bush will be considered for President.
This was not not just two counties. The RNC hired a consulting firm which got its hand in the ballot box, and fired them in Florida, (they had used this firm in all the swing states). The only hope for Florida to have an honest election in 2016 is to get a democratic swing in the legislature in the next election. They have taken the mentality that winning is not everything it is the ONLY thing. It seems to be just a fun game for the Republicans in Florida.
Ok, So, I was reading some of the comments on how our ancesters came here illegally and the rightful one's to be here are the Native Americans. Well, if we sit and think about it. Even the Native American's are here illegally, because if the history books stand correct we all came from apes in Africa. They came to North America from a land bridge. So, I quess we should all start packing our bags and head back to Africa. This is about legally becoming an American. Our ancesters that came here in a boat had to wait in line for days just to get a number identifying who they are and get degrating physicals in front of hundreds even thousands of others. They didnt just get off the boat and make a mad dash for the hills then feel entitled to get money from our country just because they are illegally here. No one said they couldnt come back, they can when they follow the rules and become an American legally.
George PaulJohn,
Are you serious? Asking Fedupwithfed to think is a little extreme. Wouldn't you say?
I've lived in Florida for 42 years. I don't want to hear how Dade county's election problems are caused by Democrats. All of Florida's notorious election problems are caused by Republican dirty tricks. Dade County especially, because they are the Democratic stronghold in Florida.
Early voting in my county of Manatee was a very bad joke. One poll opened in the entire County with 3 or 4 hour lines every single day. If ever there was a cause for discouraging citizen participation, I can think of nothing more effective. All of this because of Republican efforts of sabotage in Tallahassee.
Florida election 2000 seemed to be an anomaly. This repeat 12 years later proves it is deliberate. Washington must pass a law allowing the feds to take over elections in any state proven unable to provide this fundamental exercise in Democracy.
Frankly the poles should open at 6:00 AM on the first Monday of November, closing at 11:00 PM, and maintain those hours every day through the following Sunday. Seven days of voting and expanded hours. Voting hours and days should be the same in EVERY state, also. It is too important to have so narrow a window, just a few hours on one day.
There are many variables preventing people from getting there on one specific day; illness, unexpected travel for work, family death, etc. If people had a week we would have far greater participation in our system.
No matter your political views, the one thing I believe we should agree upon is that we need to be allowed to cast our vote and be part of the democratic process.
Voting in a Presidential election in the United States? Easy as wrapping ones legs around ones head, then walking a few miles on ones ass. The people of Zimbabwe have to be laughing their asses off. Wanna vote? Anyone? No! Not you! You don't look like you'd vote like I wish you to! You're a phony! No? Prove to me you're not! Gwaddamn republicans!
In Ohio, Husted tried the same things. It was part of the Republican agenda to get votes thrown out. Fortunately, a federal judge has called Husted and his cronies to the mat, and is demanding an explanation. A federal judge had previously denied Husted obstructionist agenda, and then Husted tried another end run the Friday night (at 7 p.m.) before the elections the following Tuesday. This behavior was so blatant that it staggers my imagination. Truly, these acts of desperation reveal the true face of the Republican party.
lol... a must watch for those observing florida voting process!
1. Rick Scott did everything he could to suppress the vote. It still amazes me that some of the idiots in my community actually voted for someone who took the 5th 75 times in the biggest Medicare Medicaid fraud case up until that time, his company settled on a $1,700,000,000 dollar fine and he was forced to resign. I asked someone I know how he could vote for him knowing about the fraud case, his answer was "they're all crooks", yeah so wouldn't you want to vote for the crook smart enough to not get caught.
2.These 11 constitutional amendments were very awkwardly worded so you really had to take your time with them, Should do your research before you go the polls. Ultimately almost all were an attempt at a power grab by the tea party, and a few were against the us constitution, that would have never been legal, and 1 would have allowed public funds for religious use with no accountability.
3. All the hold up is in Miami Dade county AKA the Banana Republic. All the other counties were done and counted on time.
Guess you people do not realize who populates FL & AZ??
Retirees from the Northeast & Mid-West.
In FL , they are the largest contingent of the voting community.
FL born voters constitute roughly 8% of the electorate.
So, If you live in the NE or Mid-West , and think FL's screwed up??
Look in the mirror , and look at the cause.
One has to wonder if officials have deliberately muddled the process. If Florida had been the deciding vote in this past election, how easy would it have been to manipulate the outcome?
As the article implies very strongly, the Republicans in Florida, who had control
of the governor's office, the legislature, and the chief of elections office,
did almost everything they could do, and blatantly so, to discourage Democrats
from voting. I agree.
In Pennsylvania, the legislature passed legislation shortly before the elections
requiring photo IDs along with substantial and unnecessary restrictions. One of
the Republican leaders publicly bragged about how that legislation would enable
the Republicans to win in Pennsylvania. A Republican judge finally stopped
enforcement for this election, but refused to stop those same officials from
continuing to publicly advertise the photo ID program, which allegedly continued
to confuse and intimidate many voters.
Those same Republican leaders hypocritically claimed the rationale for the photo ID was to prevent voter fraud. There is an expression, "It takes one to know
one."
When I voted (in PA), a sheet asking for the photo ID was on the table. I ignored it, but I wondered how many people could have been intimidated or confused by it, especially if they were a Democrat and the person behind the table was a Republican, especially if they were at home deciding whether to make the effort to go vote or not. That is not Democracy. It made me ashamed to be a Republican.
It is time for our legislators and law enforcement officials to do their jobs by
putting a stop to these flagrant abuses of Democracy.
I'll be changing soon to be an Independent.
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2012
I did that in 1969, life and at that time in OH, we were called GDI's...this will probably get me in trouble with the Code, but the full expression then was "those god damned independents." There were many general elections where I voted ONLY on ballot issues, and of course that is all that I could vote for in primaries...if there were any ballot issues. Here in the US Virgin Islands, we have an option on our ballots...NO VOTE (similar to Nevada's NONE OF THE ABOVE.) That has been my vote since 2000, when I realized that we had that option on our voting machines. And I encourage others to cast the same vote if there is no one that they feel comfortable really voting for.
Here in Nevada We had to show our ID and sign so the signature could be verified, and this was at a Mexican Learning center.
We also had to show ID and sign in Florida. Voting at the polls as a regular, registered voter was easy. But we must vote Rick Scott out of office at our first opportunity! Even his supporters now wonder WTF they were thinking.
What a disorganized, crooked madhouse!
If this operation were a normal business, those responsible for the whole mess would have been fired days ago.
Take action and do something NOW about this criminality, Floridians! (And don't just sit back and wait for your next opportunity to "vote" for different people in charge, since this obviously isn't a very workable or reliable solution for you there!)
Don't fool yourself that a vote for a third party, or none of the above is a real vote. No one cares about protest votes. Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan or Johnson just took votes from one or other of the two who could win. Sometimes, like McCain's mother said, "You just have to hold your nose and vote". Sometimes, there are issues that make you disagree strongly with a person that is in the general direction that you want. The other person may want, however, to go the other way. There are total overall differences. Stand up and make a choice, not a snarky NO choice.
I live in rural (always red) Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was a state that passed, then temporarily stopped, voter ID laws. My mother was born on a Native American reservation and has no registered birth certificate. She is 80 years old and a registered Democrat who has voted in every election since she came of age including the last mid-term elections.
About a year ago she decided it was time to give up driving so, not thinking of the consequences, cut up her license. When the ID law came into effect I sent for a duplicate license for her; this was five weeks prior to the election, because she could not get a 'voter ID card' without her birth certificate. (her original license did not expire for another year and a half). The duplicate did not arrive and, even though the ID law was put on hold, I wanted her to have the ID. I called and called and every time I was told that it was "in the process".
The day of the election it still had not arrived. I drove her to the poll and, when we went in, there was a sign on the door stating that positive ID was required to vote. We ignored it and went to the desk. My mom's name and all of her information was in the ledger but there was a typed notation on her signature line that read: "Inactive" and instructed the poll worker to get positive ID.
After three of the other people in the polling place positively identified my mom (the town is only 4,500 people and we all know each other) the worker finally allowed her to vote. Mom's duplicate license came ... on Wednesday ... the day AFTER the election.
Voter suppression is real. Voting is one of the few rights left to us that allows us to have a say in the workings of our government. No matter the party affiliation, the one thing we should ALL agree upon is that our government does not have the right to stop us from casting our vote nor should they be allowed to make it difficult for the citizens.
I live in Florida and Governor Scott is a joke he caused this mess and refuses to admit it. I can't wait to vote his dumb ass out!
"and a state Republicans did win in 2010 – giving control of the legislature, the governor’s office and the choice of chief elections official to the Republicans"
Allowing one party or another to choose who the state election officials will be is pure lunacy. Not Party should control any aspect of a states election process without some sort of oversight from the other parties involved, and I don't just mean dems and repubs, all parties should have a hand in the election process.
Ali Baba Scott and his 40 thieves run Florida. They wanted to put the fix on for Karl Rove. Well,it didn't work. The President won without Florida (Floridah) The big money got the rug pulled out from under them. Lies,Lies,and Lies cost them the election. The worse was Lying to "Ohio voters" Motor city can tell a flim flam man 5 miles away. The smiling salesman, you know when his mouth moves he's lying.
Notice how once again,the majority of the Red counties are in rural areas of Florida. Along the metropolitan Gold Coast, solid Blue. The only major city that went Red was Jacksonville, but that's almost in Georgia. It would seem that the Romney misinformation campaign worked in the rural areas. Smarter city dwellers weren't fooled.
If you pull up a map of where people on food stamps live, it's all the Republican counties. Yeah, they hate people depending on the government, except for themselves.
That's actually a national trend. Even in blood red Texas the urban areas of Dallas and Houston are predominantly blue.
I live in Minnesota, where the red and blue are reversed. most of rural minnesota is Republican, except the poorest northern counties, who are all on government assistance. It's the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro that drives the consistently democratic presidential electoral votes.
Oh my God, what a bunch of BS you idiots are posting. The crazy thing is, your fellow liberals on here are too stupid to even realize it. The heavily populated areas in Florida went for Obama because they are full of blacks, Hispanics, and retired Jews from New York. @DaveHarris, you are particularly stupid if you think the red counties are the ones that rely on government assistance more than the ghettos in the very blue Dade county.
I'm so happy you are enjoying this. When those people knock on your door you can serve them "Watermellon".
I might point out that the blue areas on the Florida map is where the colleges and universities are located. Young students went for Obama as well as women. Hum, does that mean that the highly educated are liberal and tend to vote Democrat or does it mean that whiny old white men won't vote for a black man? Just saying.
After all it was the Republicans that wanted to raise the interest on student loans and deny women of their rights.
it's so hard for me to believe that after almost fifty years since the civil rights movement, people are still making these racist comments, still afraid of the dark and still making comments about water melon. The racist hates that Obama is president because it reminds them that the majority of America is no longer racist. But so many lag behind. if it where up to me, id give republicans half the country and build a wall across america. let all the repubs move south, and all the dems move north. then peace at last.
Well, the haters are really saying, "I'm not much, but at least I'm not_______________. You can fill in the blank with black, gay, fat, hispanic, short, a llibertard, et al. They still are "not much". but they get comfort a putting down others. That's is all these poor people will ever have in their lives since they will never accomplish or have anything. They need our pity.
Similar in TX, Checkered Demon.
Austin, San Antonio, El Paso, most of Houston and Dallas (and most counties bordering Mexico) are blue here. Yet famers and ranches have seen more aide and benefits under the current administration, including benefits for having wind turbines on their land. Guess those with the oil rigs (also all over rural Tx) won out this time instead though.
It's a good thing the country wasn't depending on Florida to decide this. After our Medicare-defrauding governor tried to make it as hard for people to vote as possible, and wasted lots of their time, they still voted for Obama. Big surprise. He'll be surprised in 2014 when he loses his re-election.
"Governor" Rick Scott -- and I use the term "governor" very loosely here -- shouldn't even bother running for re-election. He and the Republicans around here are more of a realistic threat to democracy than even the Soviets were in their heyday.
Rick Scott got a get out of jail free card. He should be in jail for Medicaid fraud. A tight rope walk with lawyers and judges got him off,but he is still as croaked as a tree branch. Tried to stack the State Supreme Court judges by having them removed for nothing . Smart voters stopped it. He's more dangerous than Allen West,the US congress mental moron. Last we heard,he was asking for a recount. I was hoping the Army would put him under the jail. "He can't handle the truth" Please take away his Colt 1911 ,45cal.
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Rick Scott is avoiding prosecution by archaic rules of privilege afforded the Governorship. Here in Florida he cannot even be recalled.
2014, when he is voted out, it's not too late to put him in prison where he belongs.
The only revenge is to vote in Democrat's. That will toast him up.
I still don't understand why Florida voted for a proven Republican crook while accusing Democrats of being crooked. Rick Scott's company had to pay money back for Medicare fraud yet the people of Florida voted for him unless that election was stolen too.
Two words: Katherine Harris.
Rick Scott was basically a Tea Party candidate back when the TP was feeling high and mighty. How his supporters could overlook his company's Medicare fraud is an absolute mystery to me. I can hardly wait until 2014 to vote him out and get a decent governor in office. I would take Jeb Bush back--Scott is that bad!
McManus, you are completely wrong. FYI, the day of the election it was teacher's planning day, therefore there were no classes on Miami Dade county schools.
What do you think, that the people of Florida and the rest of the nation are idiots who will believe the pathetic lies the officials are offering? All stupid excuses. They had plenty of time, after all we had an election in August to change Mayor in MDC... also, they could have simply check with the registered voters in advance what was their language preference (for those who don't know, in MDC is mandatory to post signs in English/Spanish/Creole), and adjust the software that printed the ballot to print only on the language of preference, thus reducing the time to read the draconian ballot they gave the citizens of MDC.
I wish the officials had the decency of taking responsibility for their errors instead of blaming on someone else. Lack of planning, or done on purpose to hinder the voter's ability to cast their ballot? I voted early, and on the Department of Elections headquarters there were only 2 computers and one printer.
Do you expect Poll worker and the dept of elections in MDC have any
thought process! Logic wasn't on the test.
Yes. This was done by one party like in Ohio where officials were fired for allowing better practices and not trying to starve the vote! Politics should not be involved in the voting process period. No other major democratic country allows parties to choose election officials!!!!! We need to do the same including redistricting!
Banana Republic, Republicans running the ship.
Chavez is laughing himself sick. He offered Karl Rove his wizbag of tricks but it didn't work here. He forgot to say"Give them gas at 30 cents a gal like I do"
Karl only snickered.
So simpleton your for gerrymandering that;s the only way you Republicans can win elections. Just like you did with winning the House that's the ONLY way you guys can win!
Our election procedures need a full blown overhaul. The system was fine in 1800's but now with all the resources we have and all the voters the overhaul is no only necessary it is critical ---
It should be like a national lottery. They get results within minutes.
how about, all Americans get a lottery ticket, they pick the numbers, and who ever wins becomes the president. same with other offices. then no more party politics. lol
And campaign funding: How about that anyone can donate to "campaign funding", but it all goes into one big pot, then gets taxed so that 50% of it goes to help pay off the national debt, then the remainder gets split down the middle and handed to each candidate and that's what they've got to operate on, period. If someone then wants to donate ads, cars, etc. directly, they too would have to pay 50% of the value in tax towards the deficit.
Just a thought.
Said Secretary of State Ken "How-Can-We-Marginalize-You" Detzner: ... ."
Here's an idea, Ken: Stop whining about the job you announced to Floridians you wanted and would be competent at [which, arguably, you are incompetent at], and do something we generally call WORK.
The story needs to get its facts straight. Florida changed early voting from 14 calendar days prior to the election to 10 calendar days prior. This meant a reduction from 10 voting days to 8 voting days--not from 14 to 8 as stated by the story. This was the third election this year that this has occurred--the Jan Presidential Primary, the Aug Primary, and then the Nov General election. Why this has mystified and challenged any voter, I can't say. But it has been well publicized all year.
I heard that next election they are going to have more days to vote, more polling places, and much better voting machines, the only problem is only republicans will be on the ballot, what's up with that!!!
The Presidential Primary was only a Republican election - not a Democratic or Independent election - thus only 35% were impacted
Oscar you also forgot that they made the ballot 11 pages long. all of which has to be sent by fax when yo vote it took an average of 30 minutes to cast a single vote. Now why would make the ballot 11 pages long instead of using a condensed version like every state with a Democrat for a Govener in the country
It is exactly what the republicans did, slow the process down, make it difficult, less days to vots, less places to vote, all to keep people (democrats) from voting. Well that sure did bite them in the a$$ because now Florida didn't even count in the election and Romney lost Florida when eventually it does finish its counting process. A relative told me of no parking where they voted and police issuing tickets to voters parking on the street outside polling place. This was in Miami Dade county.
This was true about parking. Many dropped people off and called by cell to pick them up. 5 hrs later,still waiting. The people read the whole ballot. They had sample ballots they could have done at home. Well it's Floridah,right!
How can it be more difficult for dems than for rep? Seems everyone votes in the same place.
I bet the people in Palm Springs don't vote in the same place as the people in Miami. Get a clue!
I would think that any Republican that had to wait in line for 9 hours would have decided to vote Democrat by the time they got their ballot....
That's funny. But in my heavily Republican small town, there was no wait at all. No lines! I could have been out of there in five minutes if I hadn't had to do a provisional ballot (comment #1.18).
That would seem to be the whole point. In Republican counties, access was much easier than in Democratic ones. Thanks for illustrating this so well.
THANK GOD Florida didn't decide the vote in this election.
Al Gore wasn't so lucky. If he were President all this debt could have been diverted. We would not have lost all those GI's and Karl Rove would have gone to jail.
Amen Brother JB Amen!
And the Bushwacher would have been in some long deserted ranch in T-E-X-A-S!
I would think that any Republican that had waited in line for nine hours would have changed his/her vote to Democrat by the time they got the ballot...
We need national, non partisan supervision of elections with a mandate to ensure equal access and smooth running-that means early voting, easy registration, same day registration, etc. We need laws that prevent last minute voter purges, and ID laws. No state should be allowed to impose any new regulations until they can prove they have provided the necessary ID to all registered voters.
I would be happy to see a non partisan group like The League of Women Voters funded and tasked to oversee our elections.
Some would see this done by govt, but you can't keep the politics out of it-the GOP would absolutely try to take advantage of any opportunity to keep voters out of the voting booth.
Our voting situation is a national scandal-about the worst we have. This has been going on for years-we have been embarassed in election after election, and still, nothing is done.
Congress does have the power to place regulations on Congressional voting. If that's not enough, then we need a Constitutional Ammendment to protect our voting rights.
We are not free if we cannot vote. No one should have to stand in line all day to exercise this right. No eligible voter should be refused the right to vote because they don't have the right ID.
One solution is to issue a national ID, but we have never been a papers please country.
No party should be allowed to game the system to deprive voters of their rights.
What we really need is honest politicians (maybe an oxymoron). Here in Washington State, a Republican presided honorably and fairly over the election process for many years. Of course, the national Republican Party repudiated him because he refused to be corrupted by the party.
Romney won the Confederacy, what's up with that!!!
Google LBJ and the voting rights act. He predicted that his signing of the act would lose the South for the Democratic Party for at least our lifetime.
So far, he has been proven 100% right.
Voting can be a simple process if that is the desired outcome. In Florida they could extend early voting and absentee voting which would give them plenty of time to reconcile signatures. Of course the operative word is desire a simple process!!
The Republican Legislature tried to supress the vote by reducing early voting by half and adding idiotic ballot initiatives; clearly voters got upset by the attempt and went to the polls in greater numbers. Stop Tampering with Voters Rights
Why Florida still uses paper ballots and voting machines that have to be alignned properly with the vote cards is far beyond me.
My county has 11or 12 thousand people in it and we can afford electronic voting machines with a paper backup. If there are screwups I'm not aware of any. In fact, I don't think anywhere in my state has the idiocy to use paper ballots. Even absentee voting, unless done by mail, is on an electronic voting maching.
Get with it Florida.
As for Jacksonville going red, it's probably my idiot brother that cost the Democrats as his was probably the last vote counted.
Screw electronic voting machines. I know you said "with a paper back-up", but that just emphasizes the point that electronic voting machines can be hacked. You don't think Florida would do that?
I've said it before.
We need to implement secure electronic voting via the internet.
While it may seem remarkable to you and me, not everyone has access to the Internet. Yet.
@ Steve,
There is no such thing as secure Internet. Electronic voting with paper print out is the best thing, that way there will always be a hard copy of all votes.
We use paper ballots, a pencil and an optical scanner here in California. The dumber the system the better.
As a recently retired IT security specialist, I would really like to see how you would be able to "securely" vote over the internet. If you can, then you'd be worth millions to many companies. My guess is you're just naive.
"Secure" and "via the internet" don't belong in the same sentence, please.
It would have to be a combination of sources. US Mail. Biometrics (@MDV?). With modern technology, it can be achieved.
How many of you do online banking and are comfortable enough given that level of security? It's only your life savings, after all. Should be part of a national ID system. If you expect people who "look like illegals" to instantly provide proof of citizenship, is there a better way? It's inevitable that it will happen.
3thirty3 IT security I left to the pros as a valuable resource in my means to an end as an embedded control engineer. Like I said above, the inet would have to be just a component.
We need to enfranchise ALL Americans. EVERYBODY needs to vote.
These people act as though this state, Florida, is the only state in the entire country to have the problems of locations, absentee ballots, early voting etc, etc... After the ridiculous travesty of 2000, a true joke in voting history, you would think they could have gone on a field trip to one of the other 49 states that actually got it right!! I can't believe that the state organization (?!) or the federal system would allow this to continue! The rest of the country looks on with disdain and incredulity - its 2012, you haven't had a chance to get it right yet???
This is what happens in a Banana Republic governed by a known crook voted in office by a gullible electorate who, were it not for Miami, Palm, Broward and Orange counties, could easily pass for a bunch of ignorant geechees. When they had a chance at better options these dumba$$es chose Scott and nincompoops like Alan West. Don't expect improvement in future election cycles. Stupidity tends toward a longer half-life in tropical climates!
To be fair to the people of Florida, Governor Rick Scott (the man whom you are referencing as "a known crook") does have an approval rating that is forever hoving in the low 40's or upper 30's. So it's not like Floridians are completely clueless.
But he got voted in anyway!
My fellow Floridians also elected that do-nothing idiot token-"hispanic" Marco Rubio.
f--- this state
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Jason Kipnis went 3-for-4 with a three-run homer, a walk and three runs scored in the Indians' 10-4 drubbing of the Phillies on Wednesday.
Kipnis has six homers since April 29 after going without one in his first 15 games. He's hitting .288 with 15 runs scored and 17 RBI in his last 16 games.
Corey Kluber surrendered three runs in six innings Wednesday in a victory over the Phillies.
So, it turns out that Kluber is pretty good when he doesn't walk anyone or allow homers. He's put up zeroes in both categories in both of his wins this year, but he's walked six and allowed three homers in his two losses. Of course, this is true of every pitcher. Kluber just has less margin for error than most.
Michael Bourn is not in Wednesday's lineup against the Phillies.
The hot-hitting Michael Brantley is also getting the day off. Drew Stubbs is starting in center field while Ryan Raburn plays left.
Scott Kazmir was knocked around for four runs on six hits and two walks over five innings in Tuesday's loss to the Phillies.
Kevin Frandsen took Kazmir deep in the first inning, and Domonic Brown provided the knockout blow with a longball to lead off the sixth. The lefty hit a pair of batters and threw 96 pitches in the five-plus innings. The outing takes a little helium out of the Kazmir balloon, but he was still sitting comfortably around 93-94 mph and remains intriguing in fantasy leagues. He'll try to bounce back next week against the Mariners.
Indians manager Terry Francona said Mark Reynolds "will get the majority of the time at third" base following the demotion of Lonnie Chisenhall.
Reynolds is making his third straight start at the position Tuesday since Chisenhall's demotion. He offers below average defense at the hot corner, but with the way he's swinging the bat, the Indians don't really care. Having Reynolds at third should ultimately mostly help Ryan Raburn and Jason Giambi get more playing time. Mike Aviles will also see some starts at the hot corner
Brett Myers (elbow) threw around 45 pitches Tuesday in a bullpen session at Citizens Bank Park.
Myers could be cleared to make a rehab start this weekend if he wakes up Wednesday with no abnormal discomfort. The right-hander has been on the disabled list since April 21 with a mild tear of the UCL in his elbow. The Indians could ask him to make multiple rehab starts..
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Denny Hamlin led the first Happy Hour practice for the Sprint Unlimited at Daytona International Speedway.
His lap of 196.053 mph in the No. 11 Toyota was the quickest of the 12 cars out on the track for this session. No. 22 Joey Logano, No. 16 Greg Biffle, No. 29 Kevin Harvick and No. 43 Aric Almirola were the rest of the top 5 on the speed chart. Jimmie Johnson (No. 48) was the slowest. Hamlin also had the best 10 lap average speed (194.500 mph) of the five cars that ran at least 10 consecutive laps in this final Sprint Unlimited practice.
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Rural jobless numbers climb back to 10 percent
After an April in which North Carolina's rural jobless numbers finally clicked below 10 percent, May's unemployment rate crept back into the double digits.
According to the N.C. Employment Security Commission, 219,721 people in the 85 rural counties were unemployed in May. Roughly the same number were unemployed in urban counties, but the percentage of unemployed rural people was higher: 10 percent vs. 8.9 percent.
In April, rural unemployment was measured at 9.8 percent, the first time it had been below 10 percent since December 2008. Statewide unemployment in May increased slightly to 9.4 percent.
The federal government sees no immediate economic light at the end of this years-long tunnel. In a recent report from the Federal Reserve, regulators reported tepid retail sales, mixed manufacturing numbers and a modest growth in lending throughout our region, which includes the Carolinas and Virginia.
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Even as the overall trends are beginning to improve — North Carolina's rural employment grew by 28,440 in the first five months of 2012 — there are still 47 rural counties still have unemployment rates of more than 10 percent and 12 with unemployment over 12 percent.
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Ricky Gary has the hardest job in college football. Everyday for the last two weeks, the 5'9", 175-pound redshirt senor cornerback has gone up against 6'5", 225-pound wide receiver Jonathan Baldwin, a potential All-American and Biletnikoff Award candidate. And Gary wouldn't trade it for the world. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial
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JoJo Kemp has a busy month with trips to three schools including on to Tennessee and an unofficial visit to South Florida on his schedule. As for the Vols, Kemp is still learning more about them and liked what he heard last when when the Vol staff visited the Florida tailbac ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial
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dedicated in 1881, was destroyed by fire in February 1905. Construction of this
building, the oldest church in town still at its original site, began in September 1905 and
was completed in July 1907 at a cost of $15,000, including the furniture and organ. The
bell now in use survived the 1905 fire.
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Nebraska State Historical Society
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Tough Challenges Test Creativity
Rolling Razor commissioned Nectar to develop a unique multi-directional shaver head and new grip handle to produce the closest, fastest shave possible, accessing hard to reach areas like head, body, and face, allowing the user to be in total control to avoid skin pulls and cuts familiar to users of traditional stick razors.
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- Nectar supplied prototypes, competitive analysis, field research, refined mechanical layouts, human factor studies, and configuration.
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- Nectar also provided base design and packaging, competitive analysis, in-store field research, graphic design, and human factors studies.
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Nectar helped revolutionize the art of shaving with 21st century design innovation, including a unique rolling grip handle, dual shaving heads, and curved triple convex blade cartridges that help eliminate irritation, nicks, cuts, and razor bumps.
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If you could ask the Fourth Congressional District candidates one question, what would it be?
Democrat Joe Kennedy III and Republican Sean Bielat will join Patch this week for two separate live text chats with readers.
Bielat will be taking questions in a live chat on Needham Patch on Thursday, Oct. 11 at noon, and Kennedy will be chatting with voters via Patch on Friday, Oct. 12 at 1 p.m.
Now is your chance to ask these potential Congressmen what they think about health care reform, job creation, military spending and more.
The live chats will run for 45 minutes to an hour. To submit a question, come back to Needham Patch on Oct. 11 at noon and Oct. 12 at 1 p.m., click on the live chat, enter your name, and you will be able to ask your questions immediately.
If you can't make the live chats, leave your questions in the comments section below this article, and we'll do our best to add them to the questions queue. We will publish the live chat transcript immediately and a recap first thing Friday morning.
Questions submitted will be subject to moderator approval. No vulgar or libelous comments will be allowed. Because we expect a high volume of questions for the chat session, we will keep the questions issue-related and not repetitive.
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Last week, we had some fairly large disruptions to the financial systems of America and the global economy. With the major events of Europe surrounding the debt crisis of Greece, the ramifications were felt around the world (welcome to the global integrated economy). The result was on Thursday a major drop in the stock markets including a one-thousand point drop in a matter of minutes on the Dow. While the markets recovered slightly, this is hardly a sign of stability.
The event is an important one even as the media and financial “experts” downplay its significance. The reality is that the markets are a house of cards. In fact, the entire global economy is a house of cards. We have seen hard evidence of this in recent years with the financial crash in 2008 and events like a 1,000 point Dow move just last week. While these events are papered over with freshly printed currency and government bailouts, the structural issues remain underneath the surface.
As such, I’m losing faith in the “systems” that we rely on. Specifically, I’m losing faith in the financial systems and even the stock market. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs announces that they did not have a single day of trading losses in the last 63 days. Yes, 63 out of 63 profitable trading days last quarter. Can you say, “rigged’?
If and when the system comes crashing down as many of us predict, an entire generation of Americans will be crushed. Over the last 30+ years, Americans have become way too connected to the financial markets. Wall St. and their partners in Washington D.C. have convinced a generation of Americans that the only way to have any sort of retirement or financial security is to be invested fully at all times in the U.S. stock market. While Americans see their savings and funds go up and down with volatility, there is always a consistent winner: Wall St and their constant fees that are generated regardless of performance.
The dependence on the stock market is one of many dependencies that have been cemented over the recent decades. Dependence on government, welfare, corporate America, pensions, stocks, etc. have together replaced self-reliance and self directed financial security.
If the system collapses under its own weight, the result will be ugly. Not only will people’s savings be wiped out, but they will demand answers or demand someone’s head. I’d hate to be a wealthy Wall St. exec at this point in time.
It’s important to take action now. Don’t be fully invested in the stock market. Have some of your wealth in real assets: precious metals, consumer products, other things that have real value. I’m not saying you should abandon all paper assets, but understand the volatility (just look at last Thursday’s Dow chart).
In the meantime, if you want to stay invested in stocks to some extent, I’d say you can afford to be patient before you buy more stocks. Wait for the next crash. Then, deploy your funds into well-run, well-established companies that pay a nice dividend. Think stocks like Philip Morris Int’l (PM), Wal-Mart (WMT), McDonalds (MCD). Then continue to collect dividends, pool your cash, and wait for the next crash. Rinse. Repeat.
Good luck and don’t trust the markets to act like pure markets. They are manipulated and corrupt. Be extremely careful with any trading or investing you do, and make sure you do your own research before acting upon anything mentioned here.
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VERY wise, indeed. Your guardian angel must be whispering in your ear. No, really, I’m serious. Do you realize how many people out there are still blindly listening to their fiancial manager that tell you things like “you can’t time the market”. Yeah, thats the same guy I told, only July 7th to get all of my money out into guaranteed accounts. He talked me out of it saying that risk is better because I’d make more money. Well, now, I’m about $40,000 down and he’s on my sh*t list! Of course, he lost his fanny too, so, now, when I told him about the second crash thats coming (seems I was about 6 months early), he’s already pulled his stuff. I guess hindsight is 20/20, huh? Of course I’m pretty well diversified but my real investment is the food, fuel and firearms plus a little silver.
When the blades start slinging the rest will be singing the blues.
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I have on order a Leisure Line 220K boiler for my home. I've been doing lots of reading on this site for how other people hook up their boilers. I am certainly not a plumbing expert by any means, but I have some thougts and observations.
I understand there are various multi-boiler designs. For the most part, people are going with Series, Parallel, and Primary Secondary loop designs (people are mistakenly calling this parallel) when integrating dual boilers in their homes. Series makes sense for keeping both boilers warm, but it may have some inefficiencies as far as a second boiler being warm all the time. It also provides a single point of failure. Parallel seems to be the most efficient, in my opinion, however you could potentially introduce leaks or corrosion as you have a cold boiler. Primary Secondary is a neat, high tech design, however I think it is overkill and inefficient for a home design. Especially if you have multiple 80 Watt circulators running when you only need one in a residential heating system. I'm also thinking in terms of being able to run your system on UPS or generator when you have no power. If you have a call for heat on 4 zones, 5 circulators running, that's 400 watts of power. It also has a cold boiler. These are my observations, and I welcome anyone to counter my thoughts.
I currently have 8 zones in my house. One zone is for a Boiler Mate, one zone (although it is deactive) is for the basement, three zones for the first floor, two zones for the second, and one zone in the attic. The house is 3300 SQ Feet. There is already a recent Burham oil burner in the house and I want to add a Lesuire Line 220K as a second boiler.
My plan is to go with a Hybrid Series design that I came up with. It is a series design which will use the LL 220K to warm the Oil Boiler, however it will utilize 4 3-way valves to allow me to isolate each boiler. It will have a single circulator that sits on the return side. Expansion tank and air purge will sit on the supply side. Please see the below drafts I came up with on my current and dual boiler design.
Current Design
Proposed Design
Obviously these designs are missing some valves and I missed the expansion tank.. I would consider a parallel system, but is it a real concern about a cold boiler leaking (mine doesn't today when it is cold) and is there any damage that could occur to the boiler in terms of corrosion from it sitting for years full of water but cold? Does anyone have any thoughts or comments?
Miner Greg
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Sunday, May 19, 10:30am - "Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story of Courage in the Holocaust". San Francisco Bay Area author Marty Brounstein will discuss his book Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story of Courage in the Holocaust. It is a remarkable true story of interfaith compassion, courage, and rescue, involving a Christian couple in the Netherlands who saved the lives of at least two dozen Jews during World War II and the Holocaust.
Monday, May 20, 7:30-9:00pm, Rabbi Harry Manhoff, The Jewish origins of Christianity. Part 3 of this 3 part program. Question? Email cnsadultprograms@netivotshalom.org . To register, email office@netivotshalom.org . $30, no one turned away due to lack of funds.
Tuesday, May 21, 7:30pm - Dr. Andy David, Consul General of Israel speaks at Congregation Beth El. His focus will be on his local/regional activities, including his major objectives, challenges, support he is looking for from the local Jewish community and outreach efforts on college campuses. Free, but RSVP required. Click here for details.
Friday-Sunday, May 24-26, Netivot Shalom Retreat at Camp Newman, Registration is now open for our 5th bi-annual retreat, "It Takes a Schtetl." The retreat will be May 24-26 (Memorial Day weekend) in beautiful Camp Newman. Our scholar in residence, Dr. Eddy Portnoy, will be lecturing on the unknown and unusual aspects of Yiddish culture, including "A bisele geshikhte: A Brief History of Yiddish," "Oy, a skandal! Sensationalism in the Yiddish Press," and "Tragicomedy in Pictures: Cartoons of the Yiddish Press." Join us to learn from him and Rabbis Bochner, Creditor and Kelman for a weekend of fun, learning and relaxation. Click here for Retreat Registration Form.
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With a newspaper in Kentucky reporting that Nebraska graduate assistant coach Vince Marrow is leaving to take a fulltime position with the Wildcats' program, HuskerOnline.com contacted Woodland Hills (Calif.) Pierce C.C. tight end Beau Sandland to get his thoughts on the situation. This is a crucial period for the four-star tight end prospect as he will be making his college announcement a week from today. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now for a FREE Trial
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At least 30% of people in the Americas suffer from hypertension, or high blood pressure, for which excessive dietary salt is the main risk factor. For 1 of 3 people who have hypertension, cutting sodium intake can reduce their blood pressure to normal levels. Reducing dietary salt could also prevent an estimated 25% of heart attacks and strokes worldwide.
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This Web site includes some links that can be consulted to access the basic tools required to achieve the objectives of sufficiency, safety, and suitability of blood used in transfusions.
The National Anemia Action Council (NAAC) created the Anemia & Blood Donation tutorial for deferred blood donors and the health professionals who educate them about low blood counts and anemia. Read on to learn about the possible causes of a low blood count, potential treatments and the importance of communicating a low blood count to your doctor.
Let's Change Blood Donation in the Americas. The Voluntary Donation Forum, in the framework of the Sixth Annual Congress of the Mexican Association of Transfusion Medicine, in the city of Monterrey Nuevo León, Mexico, September 2008
The Let's make a difference: Recruitment of unpaid volunteer blood donors manual is designed for self-teaching and as reference material. Its aim is to contribute ideas and suggestions that can be introduced in order to achieve a true change in their own work environment.
This section supplements that material, offering specific examples of how these proposals can be implemented, encouraging cooperation and partnerships between blood services from throughout the world.
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