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Nearly a decade ago, California policymakers, facing a frightening future of shriveling snow packs and rising seas, created the nation’s most aggressive program to combat global warming.
The 2006 law mandated broad reductions of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Now, as the deadline approaches, Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic lawmakers are intensifying their efforts. They are crafting emissions-reduction targets for 2030 and 2050 that will be far more difficult to meet. One bill seeks to slash petroleum use in vehicles to levels not seen since Lyndon Johnson’s presidency.
Yet as the debate continues, a number of questions remain unanswered. Among them: Will other states or nations follow California in pursuing deep emissions cuts? Will California be able to meet the new targets, and if so, how? What are the total costs and benefits of the programs? How much will the price of gasoline and electricity increase?
Here’s some of what we do know:
- The state has emerged as a global leader in fighting climate change, despite producing only about one percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. It has created a dizzying array of programs to cut pollution, from reducing the carbon content of motor fuels to capping emissions at large factories.
- The 2006 law, Assembly Bill 32, established a goal of cutting the state’s greenhouse gas emission to 1990 levels by 2020. To meet that goal, emissions need to fall by six percent between 2013 (the latest year for which figures are available) and 2020. Brown and other political leaders expect that to happen. However, emissions have fallen only slightly since 2009, when the recession ended.
- An executive order issued by Brown this spring would reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. That will be much harder to achieve. Over the 10 years leading up to Brown’s deadline, emissions must fall up to seven times as fast as during the preceding decade. And emissions would have to fall another 40 percentage points by 2050 if a bill currently before the Assembly passes.
- Cutting emissions brings costs. To date, consumers in the state have seen an estimated three to five percent rise in electricity rates, and are paying about an extra dime per gallon of gasoline, due to specific climate-related programs. Going forward, a study by a San Francisco consulting group found that deep emissions cuts by 2030 could carry costs of up to $23 billion yearly. That figure could go higher by 2050, according to the group, which did not tally the health benefits of cleaner air or the climate benefits of lower emissions.
- Despite the pioneering policies, emissions have fallen more slowly in the state than in the rest of the nation. Greenhouse gas emissions in California dropped by 7 percent from their peak in 2004 to 2013, compared to 9 percent nationwide over the same period. Reducing emissions is harder here because the state’s economy is already relatively energy-frugal.
When AB 32 passed, establishing the nation’s first broad plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, environmentalists hoped the action would touch off a revolution. The target established by the law was ambitious, especially considering the continuing population and economic growth. It built on an earlier groundbreaking bill to reduce the greenhouse gases in car exhaust.
“We realized under AB 32 and the car bill, we’re not just talking about polar bears and arctic ice caps but this was real impacts to California,” said Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, an author of both bills. Melting mountain snows, rising seas, and poor health resulting from warmer temperatures — all resonated with Californians, she said.
At a signing ceremony for AB 32 on San Francisco’s Treasure Island, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger predicted that major nations like Mexico, Brazil, China and India would join the fight against climate change. So would the federal government.
“Trust me,” Schwarzenegger said to applause, as international flags fluttered behind him in the breeze. “I am convinced of that, that this will happen, because nothing is more important than protecting our planet.”
Change did not come as swiftly as Pavley and Schwarzenegger had hoped. Democrats and some Republicans in Congress tried to pass a bill that would cap greenhouse gas emissions nationally, but it failed. Pavley’s effort to clean up cars’ tailpipes did eventually become the basis of a national policy. But federal rules on climate change still lack the breadth of California’s. Nations like China and Brazil have also moved slowly, at least until recently.
But the state has forged ahead, still hoping to sow inspiration beyond its borders. To stop climate change, the whole world — not just California — must participate. As Brown travels to the Vatican this week and to a major United Nations climate change summit in Paris in December, he will surely argue that if one of the world’s largest economies can slash emissions, others can too.
A kaleidoscope of programs has arisen to accelerate California’s shift to a clean economy. The broadest and perhaps most controversial of these is a cap-and-trade policy, which subjects the state’s most-polluting companies to a cap on their greenhouse gas emissions and allows them to trade credits to pollute. The California Chamber of Commerce has challenged the legality of a key feature of the program. The state has prevailed so far, but the lawsuit is working its way through an appeal.
Other policies for cutting greenhouse gas emissions include a requirement for most electricity providers to get 33 percent of their energy from renewable source, such as wind farms and solar arrays by 2020, and a low-carbon fuel standard that requires producers of fuels like gasoline and diesel to make their products 10 percent less carbon-intensive by 2020.
Many other programs also exist, including goals making buildings more energy efficient, increasing the number of electric vehicles and maximizing the use of public transportation.
These rules, arcane and complex, remain largely invisible to Californians. But they result in slightly increased prices, notably at the gas pump, where economists say the cap-and-trade program has added roughly a dime to each gallon since the beginning of this year. Electric bills are also rising. The state’s Public Utilities Commission estimates that electric power rates have increased by three to five percent due to the renewable energy requirements.
“I wish we could mark on a nice spreadsheet the incremental cost for every regulation,” said Tupper Hull, vice-president of the Western States Petroleum Association.
It is difficult to find companies that have left the state specifically because of climate policies, as opposed to California’s broad basket of regulations. But industry groups and their advocates predict this will happen in the future, as policies grow stricter.
“Energy cost in the state will necessarily rise, and that will create challenges for retaining employment,” said Robert Wyman, Jr., a Los Angeles-based partner at the firm Latham & Watkins, who represents many business clients. He argues that California’s system of interlocking policies has made compliance more expensive than it would be under a single, market-oriented system, like cap-and-trade.
California officials do not know how much their climate rules have cost or saved. The Air Resources Board, the state regulatory body that oversees the greenhouse gas reductions, stated in a key document last year that the law’s impact on economic growth remains unknown. Some years earlier, a knot of studies estimated that California’s gross state product could see anywhere from a 1 percent gain to a 2.2 percent decline as a result of AB 32. The models differed in their assumptions, such as how they forecast the pace of technological change.
Proponents of AB 32 say that in addition to cleaning the air, the law has contributed to a vibrant clean-energy industry that is innovating with startling speed. A survey released in December by the Advanced Energy Economy Institute, an environmental organization co-founded by the billionaire and clean-energy activist Tom Steyer, found that employment in the state’s clean-energy sectors like solar and wind, along with nuclear and natural gas electricity generation, rose by five percent over the prior year. Another recent study, funded by the environmental innovation nonprofit Next 10, argues that using less gasoline (as electric and hybrid cars make possible) should free up spending and create jobs.
Mary Nichols, chair of the Air Resources Board, noted in an interview that jobs and investment are increasing in California. “We look at that happening at the same time that the cap and trade program has been in effect and we say, “‘What’s the problem?’” she said.
The long-term future of California’s greenhouse gas programs lies in two bills that have passed the state Senate and are being evaluated this summer by the Assembly.
Senate Bill 350 aims at three pieces of the energy puzzle — petroleum, electricity and buildings. It seeks to cut petroleum use in motor vehicles by 50 percent (a very difficult target, analysts agree), boost electric utilities’ reliance on renewable energy to 50 percent, and double the energy efficiency in buildings – all by the year 2030.
Senate Bill 32 would require the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by mid-century. It would codify into law an executive order issued by Schwarzenegger, a step that helps ensure that the goal is binding. The long-term targets are drawn from international climate science: If large nations cut their emissions that sharply, scientists believe it can limit the world’s warming.
What programs California will use to meet these tougher targets remains uncertain, though Democratic political leaders stress that they will bring more green jobs to the state and reduce unhealthy air pollution.
“Unless we do something, our economy will be severely damaged,” said state Senate leader Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, who co-authored SB 350. “The public health of our children will be severely impaired.”
An illuminating view came from a study this spring by Energy and Environmental Economics (E3), a San Francisco-based consulting group hired by the state to evaluate future greenhouse gas reductions. To reduce emissions by 26 to 38 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 — a level not quite as ambitious as the 40 percent reduction recently ordered by Brown — the group forecast a range of results, from savings of $8 billion to costs of $23 billion per year. (E3’s projections are in 2012 dollars.) A cut of 33 percent by 2030 could cost about $50 per Californian per year, the study found.
To meet those future goals, the model incorporated some technologies only minimally in use today, such as increased reliance on renewable diesel, according to Amber Mahone, director of climate policy analysis at E3. It also assumed that new or expanded regulations would be needed. For example, the analysis factored in more capture of the potent greenhouse gas methane from manure at California’s dairy farms, a sector that, for now, largely falls outside mandatory regulations.
The impact of reaching the tougher targets of slashing greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels, the E3 study found, could range from a savings of around $15 billion to costs of almost $100 billion yearly, under a scenario in which emissions fall at a steady rate. This projection is highly uncertain, Mahone emphasized.
On the human level, modeling by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, an analysis firm, found that the cap-and-trade program could raise gasoline prices by 22 cents a gallon by 2025, though there is an outside chance of prices increasing by as much as 50 cents a gallon, according to Colleen Regan, a senior analyst with the firm for North American power and environmental markets. However, Californians should need less gas as cars become more fuel-efficient or electric.
Many of these numbers are hazy predictions. What is clear is that meeting long-term targets will be difficult.
In the words of a state plan on climate change released last year, “Progressing toward California’s long-term climate goals will require that greenhouse gas reduction rates be significantly accelerated.”
Not only must the emissions reductions come faster in the future, but the reductions may also be harder. That is evident already. California has not been able to bring down its greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as the nation in recent years, as a comparison between state and federal inventories shows. Indeed, the data hint at difficulties ahead. Gasoline sales are ticking up. Emissions have been largely flat since falling steeply in 2008-9 as the recession hit, though state officials and outside analysts expect that future reductions, brought about by programs just starting to have an impact, will be sufficient to meet or exceed the 2020 goals.
“On greenhouse gas emissions, California has always been an A student,” said Ashley Lawson, a senior carbon analyst at Thomson Reuters. “So to perform any better, you have to work really, really hard to go from an A to an A plus.” The rest of the country, which is replacing coal-fired power plants with less-polluting natural gas plants, “was able to go from a C to a B, with almost no effort at all,” she said.
Critics like the Chamber of Commerce say that the drastic emissions measures planned for the future could harm the economy and take away jobs. Supporters counter that past sky-is-falling projections have not come to pass, and that technological innovation is speeding up.
When Schwarzenegger signed AB 32, above the howls of industry groups, electric cars had barely begun to hit the roadways, and a rooftop’s worth of solar panels cost more than a year at a private college. Prices have fallen rapidly since then, and California is getting cleaner.
The question for the future is whether it can get clean enough.
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Dressipi moves into offering a multi-channel solution for fashion retailers
Ahead of presenting at the Retail Bulletin Omni-channel Summit 2015 on February 4 in London Sarah McVittie, co-founder of Dressipi – that creates a rich data-driven picture of individual shoppers centred on their personal and fashion attributes, revealed how the company is moving on from its solution only being used by retailers when their customers shop online and is to test it on iPads in-store.
“We’ve done the online piece and now we’re testing the in-store experience. We’ve joined the dots, having taken time to get the core technology in place,” she says, adding that Dressipi is working with retailers on a clientelling app that will be on iPads in seven stores. A further roll-out across other stores will then be considered.
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Future developments on the app will involve proposing the top 10 items in-store for that particular customer. And once fully tested the app will be usable unassisted in-store.
The value of the recommendations is based on the thorough “concrete” data Dressipi accumulates on each shopper through its Fashion Footprint. McVittie says this consists of attitude and sizing data on the customer along with their lifestyle preferences.
Working with its retail clients Dressipi then compliments this information with 50 points of data on the each individual garment and adds in the customers’ purchase history as well as any feedback they have given on goods bought.
This rich data is able to drive great insights that she says deliver undisputable double-digit revenue increases and uplifts in average basket values for retailers. However, McVittie admits that many fashion retailers’ infrastructures mean they are not yet able to fully maximise the value Dressipi can add to their operations.
“We can give them the insight and they say it’s lovely but they cannot do much with it as they’ve not got the data teams to run it. They recognise the value of the data and insights and they want to deal with it but it is [being held back by] their own issues,” she says, suggesting that at the moment many retailers are focused on dealing with the challenges around fulfilment.
But McVittie believes things are changing and cites the likes of its client Shop Direct as a retailer that “gets data and has a great team” who will be at the forefront of using data delivered by the like of Dressipi.
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This Legacy Duathlon starts back in North Salt Lake. This race is a multisport race like a triathlon without a swim portion. Triathletes love the race in that it allows them to test out their bikes and legs this early season as well as first-time triathletes who love to do a race without the swim. Fast, Flat and straight.
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NOTE: All meetings will take place at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
All registrations received after Friday, May 31, 2019
, will be processed upon check-in during registration hours at the conference. Attendees who mail or fax registrations and do not receive an email confirmation letter should bring a copy of their registration form and payment information with them. Rosters will be printed and shipped several weeks in advance of the conference dates. A final roster of attendees will be available after the conference concludes. For further information, contact Christine Montgomery
by email or at 703.797.2558.
Accredited Airport Executives:
This course is worth 24 credits in the AAAE Continuing Airport Management Education Unit (CEU) program.
If you require any special assistance to participate or have special dietary requirements, email firstname.lastname@example.org
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4.79 / 5 based on 49,152 Reviews
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- "I love there shoes, last year for christmas i got some nike running shoes they are cute and when i wear them it feels like im not even wearing shoes there great." in 736 reviews
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- "I just love this brand I have bought so many nike things I just love there clothes and shoes they are just very comfortable it might be a little expensive but worth buying there things really last a very long time so I would recommend to buy for Nike. " in 180 reviews
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My oldest daughter wear a women's size 12. Thank you Nike for making that size! They are nice looking with beautiful colors. Plus, they are affordable. Many shoes in her size are priced crazy and horrible clown looking colors. I have to.ordr them online since most shoes don't carry shoes this size. They also last for 6 months or less. She loves to play basketball.
Such a cute brand!!! I love Nike wear for the GYM always comfy and makes me feel great at the gym! I like the fabric- helps wick out sweat instead of keeping it locked into the clothes! I also love Nike shoes! Super comfy and last a long time! The shoes aren't just super stylish but actually great for working out in!
I'm not even going to lie, I am a nike snob. I love all of their stuff and just can't bring myself to really branch out to other brands. I own a couple things from other brands but I find myself always reaching back to Nike. Their shoes are amazing and I love that they have them for so many other things and it's easy to figure out of this shoes is good for running, training or both. The ONLY complaint I have about Nike is that they're sooooooo pricey. Workout capris for $160? Why?!
I really love Nike shoes. It is personally my favorite brand of shoes. The only downfall would have to be that these shoe sizes run a bit small. So be aware of that when purchasing them. It's normally half a size smaller. I really like the variety that is has. The new Nike air, gotta be their best invention yet. Especially the memory foam slippers, it feels like your walking on clouds. I highly recommend this brand of shoes to anyone and everyone. It really is a winner. Go NIKE :)
I LOVE Nike shoe and things! They have great quality is all that you unwed to know. It's comfortable. Sometimes you can also get stuff on sale at stores. The shoes come in thousands of designs that are made to fit you. Some times there are headbands, soccer all, football, and clothes that are made from Nike. But I would recommend this to others.
Nike leggings are my favorite. They are very breathable and last for a long time. They also aren't super pricey, they are mid priced. I will definitely continue to shop at nike!
I like nike, great quality clothes and shoes for all kinds of sports. You're definitely buying the name brand with some items, that's why it can be expensive. I buy my training/running shoes from Nike all the time. They last long, durable through different terrains, breathable, and comfy. Definitely read the reviews, to determine if it's really worth it or not.
I only buy Nike sneakers.. I love Nike clothes to . They are comfy and the quality is awesome..my favorite brand of Nike sneakers are the air max..I have 4 pairs of them..you can get good deals at outlet stores or in regular stores when they are having sales..I love all there products and would recommend the air max sneakers for walking or running..
I have these in the exact color as the picture. I purchased them for running and weight training. I ended up using them more for weight training because every time I ran with them on my shin splits would really bother me, and I would be in excruciating pain. I would not recommend for a runner, but they will make your outfit look cute at the gym.
I recently purchased a pair of tennis shoes from a local store to wear to work. They were mostly affordable and very great quality. I would have to say they are very comfortable!
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What is your favorite Nike shoe?
What does everyone think about Nike. Good or bad? I workout and was wondering about it
Are Nike shoes worth how much they cost?
Who else loves the brand ?
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We put MISSHA, Aprilskin and Sparks to the test. How did they fare?
It's time we get in on the latest unicorn hair colour trend.
If you were just trying it out for fun, you don't want to break the bank OR risk having a bad decision that will haunt you for years.
The solution: temporary hair dyes! We experimented with some crazy hair colours. Best part? With prices ranging from $8.50 to $19.90, they’re all wallet-friendly.
Sounds too good to be true? Read on!
Note: The dyes did not come with bleach and we only used what was provided in the package.
1. MISSHA 7 Days Colouring Hair Treatment
Promises to last for: Seven days
Jordan Chia, 20, Student
I tried "Cherry Red", and was hoping for the colour to be very bright and nice.
BEFORE: I HAVE NATURAL BLACK HAIR, AND HAVE NEVER DYED MY HAIR.
This is great for first-timers who have not tried self-dyeing before; the dye went onto my hair easily, and only a small amount was needed. I managed to cover all my hair in about 15 minutes!
One pack was more than sufficient for me, and the packaging also helps in the ease of squeezing out the dye.
AFTER: WHERE'S THE CHERRY RED???
The results weren't what I expected; the red wasn't very obvious unless it was under the sun and it fades each time I showered. But surprisingly, my hair became soft and smooth!
THE RED TINGE MANAGED TO STAY FOR OVER A WEEK!
As I had virgin hair, maybe it was more difficult for the colour to be absorbed.
Overall rating: 3/5
2. Sparks Long-lasting Bright Hair Colour
Promises to last for: Verrrry long (it's semi-permanent)
Lau Ai Xuan, 22, Content producer
I was quite excited to try out "Purple Passion" because this was a colour I wanted for the longest time ever!
BEFORE: I HAVE MEDIUM LENGTH BLACK HAIR, WITH SOME BROWN FROM A PREVIOUS DYE JOB.
I had to dye my hair twice, because the first time I mixed the dye with conditioner (as per some YouTube tutorials), and that affected the results – my hair did not change colour. Thankfully, I only dyed my ends so one tube was more than enough!
So the second try, I followed the instructions on the box strictly, which was to apply dye directly on clean and dry hair.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER: THE COLOUR SHOWED UP QUITE WELL!
It didn't turn out as vibrant as it was supposed to (#darkhairproblems), but I do like how understated the colour is – it's also highly visible under the sun! I did end up with frizzier hair though.
A WEEK LATER, THE COLOUR IS STILL GOING STRONG.
Also, the purple dye bleeds A LOT. My shirt collar and bag straps were stained purple, and even my fingers and nails came away purple whenever I touched my hair. This lasted for about four days.
Overall rating: 3.5/5
3. Aprilskin Turn-up Colour Treatment
Promises to last for: 2 weeks
Janice Chua, 22, Student
I tried the "Green Blue" (cyan) shade, hoping to see a big change in my hair! After all, the colour is only supposed to last for a short while, so I didn't mind trying a striking colour.
BEFORE: I HAD SHORT BLACK HAIR WITH BROWN ENDS.
Compared to normal hair dyes, the Aprilskin dye was not runny, so it was difficult to apply it evenly on my hair. I used the entire tube in hopes of getting a vibrant colour. Thankfully, the dye smelt nice and left my hair feeling really smooth!
AFTER: MY HAIR ENDS WERE TINTED GREEN, BUT THE REST OF THE HEAD REMAIN OTHERWISE UNCHANGED.
I was expecting a dark green or blue colour on my whole head, but all I got was a tinge of green on the ends of my hair, so I was a bit disappointed. In less than a week, there was no more evidence that I had dyed my hair.
Overall rating: 2/5
Even though our hair colour didn't change drastically, we think the temporary hair dye trend is still worth a shot! It's fun to do with friends, and also a great way to change up your style. Since we all had dark hair, the colour payoff was not too obvious, so we recommend you to start by bleaching your hair. It will definitely help!
Want to try out the dyes? You're in luck. We have a special offer only for Youth.SG readers! Use the promo code above when you sign up with Shopee to enjoy $7 off your total bill. Terms and conditions apply. Time to shop!
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- Mighty Mac
- Sir Topham Hatt
- Cranky (does not speak)
- Edward (cameo; passing Neville while he's pulling some coaches)
- Percy (cameo; seen at the beginning)
- Skarloey (cameo; seen at the Blue Mountain Quarry)
- Rheneas (cameo; seen at the Blue Mountain Quarry)
- Peter Sam (cameo; seen at the Blue Mountain Quarry)
- Rusty (cameo; seen at the Blue Mountain Quarry)
- Freddie (cameo; seen at the Blue Mountain Quarry)
- Duke (cameo; seen at the Blue Mountain Quarry)
- Luke (came; seen at the Blue Mountain Quarry)
- Rob Rackstraw as James and Workman 2
- Steven Kynman as Porter
- Stephen Mangan as Neville
- Keith Wickham as Salty, Sir Topham Hatt and Workman 1
- Matthew Lillard as Mighty
- Breckin Meyer as Mac
- Christopher Ragland as the Troublesome Trucks
- Tim Whitnall as Neville's Driver
- Teresa Gallagher as the Lady with the Big Hat
Narrator: Neville is a small black tender engine with a square body who likes to puff along anywhere and everywhere. One day, Sir Topham Hatt came to see him.
Sir Topham Hatt: Neville, the flagpole at Dryaw Airport is old and about to break. You must collect a new from the Docks right away.
Neville: Yes sir.
Narrator: On the way to the docks, Neville had to collect some empty trucks and take them to the docks for another engine's train. He had nearly reached the docks when the trucks saw a chance for a tease.
Troublesome Trucks: On, on, on!
Neville: Stop it, you trucks, I can't stop.
Narrator: Too late, Cranky was just loading the flagpole onto a flatbed in front on Neville, and at this point, the pole was right in front of Neville's face. Neville tried to brake, but he bumped into the flatbed and knocked the flagpole right off Cranky's hook. The flagpole disappeared under Neville's wheels with a crunch.
Neville: Oh, look what you've made me do, you silly trucks!
Truck 1: Not our fault, you silly great engine.
Salty: You trucks should be ashamed of yourself. You spoilt the chance of a run on a nice little job.
Neville's Driver: Sir Topham Hatt won't be pleased when he finds out what happened.
Narrator: And indeed he wasn't.
Sir Topham Hatt: This is a disaster. The airfield will not look the same without its flagpole.
Narrator: Neville felt very foolish. He knew it was all the trucks' fault. But he felt so bad he couldn't say a word. Later Neville had to deliver passengers to the stations.
Neville: I wish I hadn't broken the flagpole then I wouldn't be in this mess. Maybe if I find a new one to replace it... Yes, that's what I'll do, right away in fact!
Narrator: Neville however didn't know the passengers had overheard him, and without noticing Neville didn't stop at any of the stations, much to the passengers' annoyance.
The Lady with the Big Hat: This is ridiculous. I should have got off ages ago.
Narrator: Later when Neville got back to his shed, Sir Topham Hatt was there waiting for him.
Sir Topham Hatt: The passengers have complained to me and the stationmasters that you made them miss their stops.
Neville: But sir...
Sir Topham Hatt: No buts Neville. Although I will give you a chance to think about your wrong doings, so you will collect trucks of stone from the Blue Mountain Quarry. That should take your mind of whatever you were thinking today.
Narrator: When Neville reached the Blue Moutain Quarry the next day to pick up his train, he saw Mighty Mac with a load of slate.
Mac: Hello Neville.
Mighty: What's up mate?
Neville: I had a little accident at the Docks yesterday, and I really wish I could do someting to put it right.
Mighty: Well sometimes, Neville, the thing you're looking is where you wouldn't think to look.
Mac: Quite right Mighty.
Neville: Look where I wouldn't think to look? That's it. Thanks for the tip Mighty Mac. That's just the idea I've been looking for all this time.
Narrator: So after Neville had delivered his train, he went to look in places he wouldn't think to look. He then saw James who was collecting metal pipes from the Ironworks.
James: Hello Neville. You seem to be looking for something.
Neville: I am James. And after seeing you metal pipes, I think that's just what I need. Yes, thank you!
Narrator: Neville hurried back to find Sir Topham Hatt and tell him the solution he had in mind.
Neville: Sir, sir!
Sir Topham Hatt: Yes Neville.
Neville: I now know what to do about the flagpole replacement.
Narrator: And he told the workmen that they could make an metal flagpole at the ironworks for Dryaw.
Sir Topham Hatt: Good idea Neville, that would be nice and sturdy.
Workman 1: We'll get started on it right away.
Workman 2: Thanks for the idea Neville.
Narrator: Half an hour later Neville came back to collect the freshly painted flagpole and take it to Dryaw. When he got there it was put up immediately. Then the windsock was put on top of it.
Neville: That's the best flagpole I've ever seen.
Narrator: And his driver couldn't agree more.
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Micah 61 Hear ye now what Jehovah says: Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. 2 Hear, O ye mountains, Jehovah's controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the earth, for Jehovah has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel. 3 O my people, what have I done to thee? And in what have I wearied thee? Testify against me. 4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage. And I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him. Remember from Shittim to Gilgal, that ye may know the righteous acts of Jehovah. 6 With what shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7 Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what does Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God? 9 The voice of Jehovah cries to the city, and the man of wisdom will see thy name. Hear ye the rod, and who has appointed it. 10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights? 12 For the rich men of it are full of violence, and the inhabitants of it have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. 13 Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound, I have made thee desolate because of thy sins. 14 Thou shall eat, but not be satisfied, and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee. And thou shall put away, but shall not save, and that which thou save I will give up to the sword. 15 Thou shall sow, but shall not reap, thou shall tread the olives, but shall not anoint thee with oil, and the vintage, but shall not drink the wine. 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels, that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing. And ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
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A few weeks ago, The Economist reported on an academic study in America that uncovers what would seem to be blindingly obvious to everyone with even a passive interest in politics – that corporates and the rich get their desired policies implemented much more than the average person on the street.
What really piqued my attention however was not the ‘no shit Sherlock’ nature of the study, but the chiding comment at the end of the article about ‘populism’.
Apparently populism is a threat, and specifically The Economist notes, a threat to the financial sector and the economy. Long-time readers of the Economist such as myself must note this frequent assertion in much of its coverage.
‘Pop-ulism’: Implementing the policies that the average person on the street would like.
One can only surmise that the Economist thinks populism is negative, as opposed to say the current situation where presidential candidates must parade before lunatic billionaires in Las Vegas for money as if they were part of some kind of Lovely Girls competition. The stance is darkly amusing I must say – Yes, the real problem with our democracies has been that our politicians have actually been listening too much to the people!
Fundamentally the discussion about the merits of populism goes to something so much deeper about history and politics than what the Economist ever ventures.
There are those that see populism and implementing the will of the people as the defining characteristic of human progress over the past 300 years.
And then there are those that make arguments for why populism is a ‘bad’ thing.
Basically they boil down to:
- “Mob rule” and in particular to imposition of the majority’s will on the minority.
- The ignorance/stupidity of the average man on the street: If the polling in one of the world’s leading democracies is anything to go by, are citizens capable of being entrusted with serious policy questions?
- That the people cannot be trusted to make clear headed long term decisions which may involve some deal of short term pain.
Do these arguments stack up? The second argument about ignorance makes the assumption that there is someone out there who ‘knows better’ and deserves to be in charge. While the third argument is nowadays usually used by some people in the context of proposing to make massive cuts in pensions/healthcare/education, whilst usually these same people also asking for quid pro quo tax cuts.
The first argument is the one we should all really be paying attention to though. Its the most direct argument based on class interest you will ever hear from a conservative in a public setting: What’s good for everyone isn’t necessarily what’s good for me.
So you can see why these are the main justifications elites use to take power from the people and hand it to ‘technocratic’ bodies like central banks, supranational bodies like the EU Commission or judicial/arbitration bodies like the courts. The slow transfer of power from institutions capable of implementing populism like democratically elected government to these outfits has been a hallmark of the later 20th century.
The most ostentatious act in this tale is modern day Thailand where anti-democratic forces have such constituency among the establishment that their supporters openly call for rule by arbitration and want to banish democracy altogether. Thailand may not exactly strike most readers as a particularly liberal place but at least commentators don’t fall back on the lazy neo-colonial canard that it just simply “isn’t ready for democracy”.
Thailand is basically an acid test – where a commentator or media outlet stands on this issue tells you all you need to know about their politics as I’m about to explain.
Without being too churlish, Thailand is the natural end game to those that hate populism.
What I’m going to propose here is something that goes to the bottom of my political philosophy…democracy is an inherently left wing political system of organisation.
Its literally giving power to the people. To the average man on the street.
And that’s why conservative elites that sit on the American supreme court, or in the European Commission’s chambers or on the streets of Bangkok hate it. They can’t stand giving power to the people directly because it would leave open the possibility that the people would one day wake up from their brainwashing and exploitation and vote for something in their interest.
Why do you think the Supreme Court in America would like to equate money with speech?
Answer: To amplify the economic power of conservative elites to influence the outcomes of elections.
Why does the EU centralise most of it actual power in the most undemocratic body of its structure – the EU Commission?
Answer: Because the European elites that set it up and perpetuate it know that ramming down a neo-liberal agenda through democratically elected institutions like the Council and Parliament would go nowhere due to popular resistance.
Why do Yellow Shirt Protesters want to hand power to an unelected People’s Council?
I think you get the idea.
Since the French Revolution, the advent of a historical movement to hand more power to the people that we now recognise as ‘democracy’ has coincided with a direct decline of influence of conservative elites (in those days the monarchs, aristocrats, and the church etc.). Therefore there has always been a fundamental antagonism between democracy as a concept and conservatism. People forget where we get the terms ‘left wing’ and ‘right wing’ is not from political talk-shows but the physical position of those that sat in the Estates General supporting or opposing democracy following the revolution.
As the Enlightenment wore on of course, and as further time went by conservatives developed novel strategies for managing this fundamental antagonism between their class interest and those of the average man on the street.
The first was simply to crush populism with brute force. But this failed because this divided the classes into clear battle lines and merely hastened class conciousness in the ‘average man’.
Conservatives then turned to stoking the fires of nationalism and distracting the ‘average man’ from demanding political change at home and focusing on an ‘enemy’ abroad. Unfortunately for them wars couldn’t possibly go on long enough to distract people. Even the unique Orwellian solution by American conservative elites to promote a ‘Cold War’ that could put the country in a constant state of nationalistic right wing fever faced an ignominious end with the Vietnam War as the American public lost faith in the enterprise.
Which brings us back to the solution that we see from conservatives today – to stealthily transfer power to unelected bodies and institutions whilst maintaining control of such things in the shadows.
Eventually this strategy too will fail.
You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
So don’t be fooled – conservatives would rather not act in the shadows. In fact its a symptom of their diminution that they must do so in the Western world. If our beloved conservative elites thought they could get away with imposing their will by brute force and eliminating democracy like they do in Latin America, the Middle East or Asia, they would not hesitate.
Let us therefore treasure our democracies fellow populists. Wherever you may be. As long as conservatives even have to pay lip service to them, we have some power. But someday the conservatives will run out of ideas and again resort to brute force as in Thailand, and when they do I hope you dear reader will be on the right side of history.
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The Mishna on today’s daf focuses on the role of an arev – someone who agrees to guarantee a loan. According to the Mishna, although the arev agreed to be responsible for the loan, nevertheless the lender cannot collect from him without first trying to collect from the borrower. In a case where the lender states clearly at the time of the loan that he wants to collect from either one of them, then he has the right to do so. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel disagrees, ruling that in any case the lender must first collect from the borrower.
According to the conclusion of the Gemara, even the Tanna Kamma agrees that under ordinary circumstances when the borrower has the means to pay the loan, the lender cannot collect from the arev. The Gemara explains that the only disagreement between the Tanna Kamma and Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel is in the case of a kablan, that is, someone who says “give him a loan and I will pay you back.”
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In the pantheon of action stars that perhaps should not have become action stars, a few names come to mind. Judge Reinhold. Steve Guttenberg. Jay Leno. Steven Seagal. Now we can proudly add to that storied list Anna Nicole Smith, who was the obvious choice to stand in for Bruce Willis in a classic 90’s Die Hard knockoff (or “DieHardInA” movie - see our review for Sudden Death to see a comprehensive list). Of course, usually a DieHardInA movie takes the Die Hard template and moves it to a certain location, like a water treatment plant or a hockey game. Here, it’s Die Hard in a...building. How they ever got the idea to put this plotline in a skyscraper, we’ll never be able to figure out. But that’s the issue: this is really just standard fare, with only the novelty of the Anna Nicole stunt casting to set it apart. So it really doesn’t matter that the action was moved from a skyscraper to a skyscraper (as if we, as viewers, were having trouble understanding that, they felt the need to call the movie Skyscraper). It wasn’t the location that needed to be changed, it’s the star. Instead of a water treatment plant, they got Anna Nicole.
Anyone who is familiar with PM will recognize their hallmarks here: well-done blow-ups, plenty of gun-shooting, rocket launchers (this time with “rocket vision”), an exploding helicopter, and a familiar cast and crew of regulars such as Raymond Martino and fan-favorite Malibu (AKA Deron McBee). McBee looks so feminine here, when he fights Anna Nicole, it’s kind of hard to tell who’s who. Perhaps that’s why they made his long, flowing mane brown instead of its usual blonde, as one of the sole means of differentiation. He and his other main terrorist partner certainly dress for success: rather than wearing fatigues or something like that, they wear leather pants and man-blouses.
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So while it was the 90’s - the era of pagers - computer graphics in the movie really do resemble Pong. We know it was low-budget, but come on. We think the Zitex Corporation (is this where they create zits?) can probably do better. But the bottom line is, we all know why we’re here. For the freakish novelty of Anna Nicole Smith in a PM action movie. If that’s something you think you can handle, by all means, take a ride on Heliscort (who comes up with these names?) and have some fun with the so-bad-it’s-goodness.
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The National Botanical Conservatory Mascarin awaits visitors on Saturday, July 27, and Sunday, July 28, so it can share the benefits of living on Reunion Island.
The program for these two days will focus on creation through workshops and decorative crafts, food via demonstration and tasting of local products, and finally well-being with the production of massage oil and essential oil.
• Workshop vegetal decoration: composition potpourri, garlands and plant decorations. 7 people max. Reservations required. Ti Zardin Association.
• Ecopot Workshop: making pot gardening in banana leaves and other plants. 7 people max. Reservations required. Initiatives Kartier Association with Ms. Grondin.
• Sale of crafts related to the art of weaving (pandanus, coconut, etc.). Initiatives Kartier Association with Ms. Grondin.
• Sale of ivory jewelry and plant seeds and vegetables. Ti Zardin Association.
• Free demonstration of insect hotels.
• Scavenger Hunt to the heart of Mascarin. Free game for children from 6 years.
• Resting in the shade of palm trees to enjoy its benefits: better productivity, concentration, mood, physical and mental health.
• Walk with confidence through the plant collections, listening to nature.
• Demonstration and initiation garden square and raised garden.
• Free workshop multiplication old-style vegetables. Lebreton Family.
• Free workshop multiplication of spices. Vincent Mussard.
• Tasting old-style vegetables. Lebreton Family.
• Sale of carris in the cafeteria of the conservatory.
• Sale of old-style vegetables. Lebreton Family.
• Sale of spices. Vincent Mussard.
• Sale and tasting of bee products (pollen, propolis, honey). Benoit Giraudet.
• Sale of bee products.
• Sales of local tea.
• Sale of essential oils.
• Workshop discovery of essential oils, free workshop massage oil/manufacturing.
• Demonstration of processing local tea. Ms. Ginger.
• Tasting tea.
• Demonstration of production of essential oils (small still). Mr. Dijoux and Mr. Dorseuil.
TIME BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND THE ACADEMY
• Distribution of records on vegetables and herbs.
• Distribution of cards recipes with old-style vegetables.
• Distribution of old-style vegetables seeds.
• Distribution of plans for planters, insect hotels, garden square.
The distribution is free and will be based on quantities available.
If you buy a ticket for Saturday, July 27, you will be entitled to one free entry on Sunday, July 28!
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Northern Isles representatives Alistair Carmichael MP, Liam McArthur MSP, and Tavish Scott MSP today held talks with the CCA to discuss concerns surrounding plans by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) for the future of air traffic provision in the region.
The talks followed representations they made earlier in the week to HIAL's Managing Director, Inglis Lyon, concerning the cost and deliverability of the technology proposed in HIAL’s plans to move to remote air traffic control.
In attendance for the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) was Rob Lewis, Manager for Air Traffic Management, and Will Nathan, Parliamentary Liaison Officer.
In a joint statement following the meeting, the Northern Isles representatives said:
“We are grateful to the CAA for their time and found the discussion extremely helpful.
“The CAA were able to confirm that HIAL’s plans to move to a more centralised system of remote towards across the Highlands & Islands could only proceed with CAA approval. This will only happen if HIAL manage to satisfy the CAA’s safety requirements.
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“Meantime, the risk is that issues HIAL says it has with recruitment and retention of locally based air traffic control staff become more difficult. This is something HIAL must look to address.”
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Michael Owen again showed his quality yesterday by getting the all important first goal with a nice finish from another wonderful through ball by Argentine Jonas Gutierrez.
Michael Owen – after scoring Newcastle’s vital first goal yesterday
It looks like this week is contract signing week at Newcastle United and we expect Nicky Butt, Steve Harper and Shola Ameobi to sign new contracts at the club.
Of course the big one is with Michael Owen, and we understand that meeting will take place with Michael and his agents tomorrow, at which Newcastle’s new contract offer will be made known to him.
Whether he will accept the bid or wait until January to see what else comes up, we have no idea, but we’d like him to commit himself to the Tyneside club.
We’re running a new poll on our home page asking whether you think he will sign a new contract for Newcastle. Notice it’s not what you want him to do, but what you think he will do. While you’re in the poll corner make sure you let us have your votes on the other active polls – thanks.
There’s also a new petition being launched to try to keep Michael at the club, so if you want to sign it here it is.
Other players’ contracts that run out in the summer are those of Claudio Cacapa, David Edgar and Mark Viduka, and we don’t expect Newcastle to offer new contracts to the first two.
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Detached Home Statistics for June 2012Anyone looking at this month's average price of over one million dollars for a detached house in White
Rock would assume that the White Rock South Surrey real estate market is still firmly in favour of the
sellers. But is that really the case?
The statistics above compare prices and volume of sales and listings for detached houses. The table offers
percentage differences compared to the previous month as well as the same month in the previous year.
Looking at the average price, we see an increase of 14.3% over last year and 5.5% over May. The median
price is also up significantly over last year and 3.4% up over May. Only when we look at the numbers
for the Benchmark Price do we see a different pattern, with a modest 5.9% increase over last June and a
slight decrease of 0.1% compared to May 2012. If you were to check the numbers in my previous quarterly
report, you would again notice that June’s average and median prices are higher. However, same cannot be
said when comparing the benchmark prices for March and June.
Although none of the methods for comparing prices is perfect, the benchmark price is least likely to be
skewed by few unusual very high or very low sale prices as is often the case with the average sales price.
The median price is susceptible to unusually high or low numbers of sales occurring in a particular
segment of the market, as might happen when the government introduces a particularly first time buyer
programme leading to a run on entry level homes. The benchmark price tries to compare the selling price
of properties with the same characteristics and thus is more likely to give a more accurate idea of where
prices are going since it is less apt to be skewed by any of the factors aforementioned.
Looking at year to date numbers for our area, we have had 583 detached sales in the first half of 2012
42.9% less than last year’s total of 1004. Houses are selling at about 95% of their listed price compared to
over 97% last year. They are taking 51 days on average to sell, 10 more than last year, and there are 35%
more listings available for a buyer to choose from. Obviously numbers like this would not give cause for a
run-up in prices so I have to conclude that the benchmark price is a better indication of the current price
Townhouse and apartment sales are almost even with last year’s six month total and prices haven’t
experienced as much fluctuation as detached has. Regardless, with significant increases in inventory for
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Most health research publications may seem like legitimate science; filled with experiment design descriptions, esoteric terms and a statistic here and there. However, with the recent retraction of the paper on weight loss and green coffee bean – a product that Dr. Oz touted on his show – there is a haze of skepticism and mistrust of some scientific studies among both the public and some health care professionals. How could something like this be published in a field as rigorous and objective as science? Most of the blame is on bias. In this case, bias is defined as a systematic error that was introduced into testing or sampling by encouraging or selecting one answer or outcome over others. While there may be hundreds of different types of research bias, some of them are more common than others. Understanding research bias better can help the general public combat “bad science” and pseudoscience if they know what to look for when reading health articles and studies.
Sampling Bias: If a cola company wants to prove its soda is more popular than root beer or any other type of non-cola sodas, it would most likely pick a sample population of people who already like and drink colas regularly and get them involved in a study. This is an example of sample bias, when a group or number of people are favored over other groups. Oftentimes, sample bias is unintentional, yet its outcome is very similar to the situation when sample populations are cherry-picked to support or refute a hypothesis. An example of unintentional sample bias is telephone marketing, where a group of pollsters call people about their opinions on a topic. This system may be biased toward those who do not have a phone or those with cell phones that have a different area code than their area of residence.
Other characteristics of sampling bias include a very small number of test subjects, favoritism (e.g. race, gender, age, education), geography and language barriers. Thus, a weight-loss study among 20 overweight, male college sophomores in UCSD who speak only English does not reflect the rest of the population in the U.S. or the world.
Experiment Design Bias: In genuine scientific research, the object of the game is to refute a given hypothesis, not to “prove” that it is true. Therefore, the experimental setup would be designed to see if the hypothesis is false. Even if the sample population has the least amount of bias, the research can still be heavily biased with its design. Dr. Kevin Mullane and Dr. Mike Williams, two of the editors of Elsevier Journal, wrote in an editorial that design bias includes attempting to prove a hypothesis is true, the “lack of the consideration of the null hypothesis,” reliance on a single piece of data, and a lack of a double-blind and randomized selection.
A common example are studies that lack a control group which does not receive an intervention or receives a dummy treatment (commonly known as a placebo). Without a control, it would be difficult to determine if confounding factors affected the outcome or not.
WEIRD Science: Most of the sample population of many research papers tend to be WEIRD people: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (the last word refers to democracy in general, not the Democratic Party). In a paper published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences in 2010, Canadian psychologists Joseph Henrich, Steven Hein and Ara Norazayan from the University of British Columbia stated that the WEIRD population that is common in published research does not represent the majority of the human species. When psychological and sociological factors, such as spatial perception, moral reasoning, cooperation, fairness, and visual perception are examined cross-culturally, the WEIRD population tends to be composed of outliers. According to the authors, there are no visible a priori grounds for making a claim that a specific behavioral phenomenon is universal based on samples from a single subpopulation of individuals.
Taking one or more research papers with a predominant WEIRD population, which is also a type of sampling bias, do not always justify that a claim or hypothesis to be true or false for everyone. Of course, this can also be said about research that take a small sample population from a non-WEIRD population.
Publication Bias: Perhaps the king of all research bias may be publication bias, a vital consideration in what to look for when reading health studies and articles. No matter how least biased the research is, even if it is Carl-Sagan-approved, publication bias acts as a gatekeeper on what gets published or what does not. This makes even some scientists scratch their heads as they sometimes have trouble figuring out which are junk sciences or not.
To combat publication bias, Jeffrey Beall, a research librarian at the University of Colorado in Denver, created and launched a website (Scholarly Open Access) that lists what he called “predatory open-access journals.” So far, there are 477 predatory journals listed in 2014. Beall estimates that there could be as many as 4,000 bogus journals.
“Honestly, it is very difficult for a non-scientist to determine whether a given study suffers from any sort of bias,” said research communication specialist Molly Gregas, Ph.D., in an online interview with Guardian Liberty Voice. “And researchers and scientists themselves face this problem when looking at research in an area or subfield different from their own.”
Non-scientists still have some tools in their belt to combat bias-heavy research. “Looking at the journal where the study is published can be helpful,” Gregas explained. “How long has the journal been publishing? What is its impact factor? What other similar studies or papers by other researchers in this field have been published in this journal? Looking at Beall’s list is a good place to eliminate the most suspect sources, and clearly there is a difference in the quality of research and review between the New England Journal of Medicine and Joe’s Heart Disease blog, but the vast area in between can be difficult for the non-expert to navigate.”
Other questions that Gregas suggest readers ask are: Who is citing the study? Is it a marketing company or a medical news article? Do they Does the study or article provide links to the actual study or enough information to find the actual study (name of journal, title of article, author names, etc) or do they just say “a study shows that…”?
“A marketing scheme, supplement company, or MLM seller will claim ‘clinical studies have proven’ but then will not be able to produce those studies or provide additional details and/or they might claim that the studies are proprietary which can’t be reviewed because of ‘trade secrets’,” Gregas added.
It is almost impossible to eliminate any kind of bias in scientific research, but this does not mean that science is less reliable or more faulty. However, recognizing research bias when reading any health study or article can help everyone make better decisions. Science still has a lot to clean up, and in order to make any progress in health research, such biases need to be reduced almost to a crumb on a plate.
By Nick Ng
Plastic Reconstruction Surgery
University of Texas
Interview with Molly Gregas, Ph.D.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Scholarly Open Access 1
Scholarly Open Access 2
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Elsewhere at El Rey, the food is fresh enough but flat-footed. Chef Bryce Palmer, also executive chef for Irish pub Malt & Mash – El Rey’s sister restaurant housed in the same historic Ochsner building – came over from Crawdad’s, another Shults venture. Palmer previously worked at Biba, Grange and the Golden Bear, restaurants any chef would want on his or her résumé. But Palmer’s talents are more obvious in the creative, well-seasoned bar grub at Malt & Mash than at El Rey, where the food is still in search of flavor dimension.
The fish in El Rey’s blackened-rockfish taco tasted mostly of salt, and the “spicy” element was undetectable in its spicy peanut shrimp taco.
Mole sauce can be one of the most compelling elements on a Mexican food menu, with its notes of chocolate and different spices. El Rey’s rojo mole beef taco, featuring meat slow-braised in a chipotle cinnamon sauce, shows the complexity of an Instagram supermodel.
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Palmer and crew show some finesse with the Meatless Marvel taco, a lively yet soothing blend of black beans, roasted peppers and sweet potato stewed in habanero sauce. A crisp yucca-root chip atop the taco adds earthy taste and textural variance.
The pork in the smoked carnitas nachos is tender but offers little flavor beyond the smoke. Yet that smoke overabundance did little to curtail our enjoyment of the nachos, the thing to order at El Rey. They hold a wonderfully tangy cheese sauce made from browned butter, serrano peppers, cream, Oaxaca, cheddar and Monterey Jack cheeses and brightness-adding juice from Palmer’s house-pickled onions.
It’s hard to believe these nachos, which come in an order big enough for three, carry the same $12 price tag as the Caesar, which, brown lettuce aside, offered few hints of anchovy or other distinctive flavors in its dressing.
El Rey’s pricing is curiously inconsistent. Some prices, like $12 for that Caesar salad and $7 for overly thick, borderline-burnt chips and three so-so salsas (they are not gratis here), seem outrageous. Others, like $4-$4.95 for each street taco, merely seem too high. Yet the cocktails we tried were a reasonable $7-$8.
Those drinks outshone the food, with El Rey offering several margarita options that balance sweetness and tang (especially the “skinny margarita”). Two of our favorite El Rey cocktails are made with whiskey but evoke margarita tartness: The Black Cadillac, with Jack Daniels, blackberry jam and lemon juice, and the Border Town, with Old Forester bourbon, Campari, agave and citrus juices, taste like something Orson Welles might have sipped while making “Touch of Evil.”
There also was treasure to be found, during the dessert course, beneath the aforementioned light dusting of ice crystals, on El Rey’s choco taco. Similar conditions had never stopped me from eating ice cream out of my mom’s freezer, so I dug in. My arctic explorer’s heart soared when I tasted Palmer’s masterful use of sweetness-offsetting salt in the batter of the waffle-cone foundation and the dark chocolate sauce covering scoops of Gunther’s ice cream.
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Such displays of skill suggest the food will improve at El Rey as the restaurant matures. It will need to, once the 700 block of K Street fills with other nightlife options. Right now, El Rey and Malt & Mash are the only new restaurants on the block.
On a game night, the 4,800-square-feet El Rey, which holds about 200 people at a time, can serve 4,000 tacos. And not just to bros wolfing them down alongside tequila shots.
On the nights we visited, before a CSU Sacramento vs. UC Davis/Cal vs. San Diego State doubleheader, and a Kings game, those bros, clad in NBA and college team sweatshirts, composed 15 percent of diners. But their whoops, which bounced off El Rey’s wood floors and stone and brick walls, accounted for 25-30 percent of the noise in a restaurant where everyone eventually must raise their voices to be heard by their dinner companions.
The rest of the crowd consisted primarily of middle-aged guys in pairs or with their senior fathers, and lots of couples in their 30s or early 40s, some with kids. You know: People who can afford tickets to Golden 1 Center events.
On the Kings game night, I watched people enter the restaurant from my cozy perch in one of El Rey’s raised banquettes. The colorful vinyl seating vies with the restaurant’s many TVs to be the interior’s most vibrant element.
Though the crowd was diverse, their facial expressions, as they entered the restaurant from the street and took in all the stimuli while scanning the place for a rare empty seat, showed a similar arc. Most started with a flash of anxiety (this is what we’re doing?) and ended with tight-smiled resignation.
To turn these obvious game-night first-timers into repeat visitors, El Rey might want to smooth out its service. Our server on one visit started out great but disappeared for at least 20 minutes as the place filled up. Though her absence likely is more reflective of staffing issues than her job performance, a lag is a lag.
Two people have a good shot at a pleasant dining experience at El Rey on a game night, for less than $40, if they arrive early enough to grab a good seat and order the nachos and two cocktails or beers.
But there’s also the option of eating at El Rey’s immediate neighbor, the Golden 1 Center. Though it is more expensive to eat and drink there, the food is generally better than El Rey’s. And given El Rey’s noise levels, crowds and hard, backless bar stools, the comfort level might be similar. Even in the arena seats without cupholders.
723 K St., Sacramento. 916-400-4170, www.elreyonk.com
Hours: 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. daily. Hours can vary depending on events at nearby Golden 1 Center.
Beverage options: Full bar, with 35 tequilas and an array of margarita options. Eight beers on draft, including Track 7. Short list of sparkling, red and white wines.
Vegetarian friendly: Yes
Gluten-free options: Yes
Noise levels: Exceptionally high
Ambiance: Before the crowd rushes in on a game night at nearby Golden 1 Center, the place looks lovely, with its many rustic wood touches and vibrantly colored banquettes. But the bar stools are uncomfortable, as are noise levels once the place fills up.
The 3-month-old restaurant’s food and service are not there yet.
The food is better at the nearby arena, and at El Rey’s sister restaurant, the Irish pub Malt & Mash, with which it shares an executive chef. El Rey’s food generally lacks flavor dimension, though there are highlights, like the nachos and Meatless Marvel taco.
The service staff showed ingenuity and knowledge, but our server was missing for a long stretch after the place became busy just before a game at Golden 1.
The $12 Caesar salad is outrageously overpriced, and $4-$4.95 for a single street taco and $7 for chips and three so-so salsas is too much. But the $12 nachos are a deal.
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Lung cancer is the most common malignant tumor in hunan,and smoking is the first cause.The lung carcinogenesis is related to gene mutation,so its important to study the cell reaction to smoking and tumor generation in gene level.
cDNA microarray was used to screen out smoking related lung cancer genes，and the result was checked by RT-PCR. Inhibitor and activator was used to control the gene expression. TG2 expression level were detected by Western-blot and enzyme activity test,and flow cytometry was used to analyze cell apoptosis ,cell proliferation and cell cycle in malignant transformation of bronchial epithelial cells induced by cigarette smoking.
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TG2 expression was down regulated in malignant transformed bronchial epithelial cells and cells exposed to cigarette smoking.TG2 expression and activitie change affect cell apoptosis,cell prolifiction and cell cycle.TG2 may affect cell malignant transformation through the regulation of these events.
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A protein-packed peanut butter snack that's delicious and nutritious! Try this natural protein ball for a quick and healthy on-the-go snack. Contains electrolytes, B-complex vitamins, and 15 grams of protein. Great for pre- or post-workout!
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So I posted on facebook last night to see if anyone was interested in seeing our weekly meal plan – even if it didn’t include recipes and there was lots of interest! So here is the first one!
So a few words about my eating – I have a husband that loves to eat meat – so I always include meat in our dinner meals – I really enjoy chicken and seafood but red meat and pork I could always pass on (and often do!) I typically eat pretty plant based for my breakfast/lunch and snacks. We don’t often plan for dinner on Saturday or Sunday – we usually either throw something (think soup/stews) together or go out for dinner either at friends houses or restaurants or we plan last minute and make a big dinner like Newfoundland Jiggs Dinner or my husband cooks!! (which I love!)
Breakfasts – for breakfast I often have toast with avocado, nooch and sea salt; sugar free cereal with fresh fruit and sees/nuts and almond milk; eggs and toast; coconut yogurt with berries and seeds; scrambled eggs with veggies; leftovers from dinner; green smoothies; rice or wasa crackers with nut butters and dates – you get the idea… Mom’s muffins are one of my favorites!
Lunch – lunch is often the veggie left overs from dinner; or a snack plate that’s full of veggies, hummus, crackers, fruit; salad rolls are another favorite with peanut butter sauce; stir-fried veggies; quinoa salad etc.
Snacks – dates stuffed with nut/seed butter; kale chips; tortillas chips with salsa/guac, energy balls; apples or celery with nut butter; fruit & nut trail mix; banana with peanut butter and sunflower seeds; larabars; smoothies.
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The annual celebration showcased the different backgrounds of students and the school’s mix of cultures, languages, dress and foods.
Board of management chairman Peter Laurence said it was a day students looked forward to with great anticipation and demonstrated the respect students had for other cultures.
‘It was a day to be truly proud of the college’s cultural heritage and diversity,’ he said.
The day began with a parade of nations, during which flags representing the home countries of students enrolled at the school were carried.
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Landmark occasion for defender despite cup defeat
Jordan Mustoe scored the first senior goal of his career on Tuesday night, whilst making his debut for Morecambe in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy against Preston North End.
Cheered on by Latics team-mates Callum McManaman, Adam Buxton and Jamie McCormack at the Globe Arena, the 21-year-old started the game and opened the scoring after 20 minutes, pouncing on a loose ball inside the area and poking into the back of the net, before being substituted in the 83rd minute.
The landmark in his career was to be overshadowed however as Preston went on to win the game 4-2 and progress to the third round of the northern section.
Meanwhile elsewhere on loan, Lee Nicholls continues to impress at Northampton Town having made 12 appearances and kept five clean sheets so far during his time at the Sixfields Stadium. He and the Cobblers prepare to face Exeter at home in the npower League Two on Saturday.
21-year-old Rob Kiernan made his third appearance for Burton Albion at the weekend, again playing the full 90 minutes in a 0-0 draw with Morecambe. The Brewers take on Bristol Rovers at the Pirelli Stadium this weekend.
Finally, Nouha Dicko is again excelling in his second loan spell at Blackpool. The French winger has so far scored three goals in nine appearances for the Tangerines, his latest a spectacular overhead kick winner against Hull City in the Championship. Ian Holloway’s side are away this weekend to face Burnley at Turf Moor.
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You will love the quality of this charcoal gray and mint Aztec baby boy coming home outfit! Add a mint hat for the perfect newborn photos! This set also makes a very unique and one of a kind baby shower gift!
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Blogging is writing. It is not the-big-important writing, not the-stall-you-in-your-tracks writing, nor is it unimportant. I have learnt that to maintain a blog, I have to pay attention to words and ideas and then to act. Whatever blogging goals that I have, private and announced, the call of the blog needs to be answered. I find that when the key board has been silent for too long, a blog post is a simple way to start writing again. Writing something has the magic to call more projects to mind. And fingers to keyboard, the process begins.
Blogging leads to writing. There’s a sort of sweep the floor, put away the dishes clearing that happens with blogging. One little random idea is executed with each blog. This frees the mind to find another random idea, or to circle back to the larger project that waits.
Blogging is more than writing practice. Blogging is a commitment to that writing practice. There is a point when something that you choose to do, becomes more than a choice. It has become a habit. I am not the only person who has found that blogging is one step on the road to being a dedicated writer.
Blogging is important to my writing. I’ve circled this lesson before, but if I set blogging aside, for whatever reason, then it eventually stalls my word flow. It might not be logical, but the blog has to be on list of tasks. It is good for the writer.
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Night two was a blast! Morgan and I strolled on our street for pre show pictures as per the usual, and we hit great lighting and warm weather! Charleston weather is all over the place right now but we keep catching some gorgeous days. Craving humidity, I can’t wait to see my hair in a few weeks time. Jokes over here, I am genuinely terrified. I am worried about my hair and the future of One Direction. I am assuming you heard the news? I am currently listening to some One Direction and my heart is temporarily wounded. Mildly juvenile but I do not care. I am missing Fashion Week and still recovering with loads of sleep! Okay so back to night 4, Morgan and I expensively ubered our way to Marion Square and arrived with enough time for a few more snaps. Morgan’s romper was quite popular! She found it at Willy Jay’s on King! The night was great and we were a big fan of the shows. My apologies for the weird timing of these posts, school has been in the way! It’s cool though, because I am in college so I might as well spend some time trying to graduate eventually.
The Ensemble: As a blonde, I think blush is always a promising option. I really like the color, especially for tops because it is a calm and flattering color for my complexion. I found this Rebecca Minkoff top at Finicky Filly on King Street. Finicky currently is rolling in delicate spring options. I also tried this one in white, and I was smitten with the structure! A few weeks back I found this killer skirt from Sam’s Closet on Wentworth. It is so easy and the layered look is on trend right now. THE SHOES! I am loving these babies. I am still breaking them in however, and I am covered in Hello Kitty bandaids. Fashion is pain. Shoes on King, is my favorite shoe spot. Truly. It really is. If you are down for quality shoes, I highly recommend it. These heels are Jeffrey Campbell and they are pretty ballin. Everyone has been loving them. Once again with a touch of the 70s feel and a modern twist. (I currently have not found them online, but I am working on it!) The clutch is really a wallet, and found at Aldo. I loved the colors and I was looking for something easy. My phone did fall out of it though and I had to get a new screen, so there’s that. Aside from that mishap I was happy with the way it looked but I don’t think I will use it to function as a clutch again. The look was completed with my Karen Walker sunnies and Theodosia jewels that I pulled for the night!
Gwynn’s of Mount Pleasant- luxe and bombshell models
Rock the Runway Model Competition– precious pretty faces and long legs
Emerging Designer: Workman Velasco by Daniel Velasco and Ryan Workman
Emerging Designer: Crespo by Casey Crespo
Emerging Designer: Whittington Design by Sydney Smith
Emerging Designer: Sara Ellis Clark by Sara Ellis Clark
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Featured Designer: Todd Snyder New York
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The church calls me to my best self, the Eden self, the person God created me to be. In church I shed my old skin, shuffle off the hurtful and ugly like cicada husks hiding with the dust bunnies under the pews.
I wriggle off that judgment that doesn’t fit anymore, or that idea of God that ended up being way too small, and I’m given something else. A second chance. Some grace which I may or may not find amazing at the time. It’s like I take off the burlap sack and get to put on a cashmere robe. And then someone hands me a cookie and a cup of fair trade coffee.
Church, and worship in particular, shapes me. It forms the pattern of my days: quiet reflection, expressions of gratitude, responding to challenges and teachings, spontaneous song. People in need and people in joy.
I haven’t been at church for a month but I have been with church and in church. More cards than I can count. More prayers than I know of. Books and magazines. Food, food, and more food. People who take me out for a walk. People who tell me not to worry about it. People who say they miss me.
I miss them, and I miss worship, which for me is the core of church. On a usual Sunday when it’s time I zip up my robe and adjust my stole and get the microphone clipped on. We pastors say a prayer together, and I pick up my papers and we head down the stairs and make our way through the sanctuary to the back.
And then the acolytes’ wicks are lit, and we start down the aisle. We sit down and while the prelude finishes, I look out at the congregation, at the church. There they are, the saints and sinners, my sisters and brothers and friends. There they are, the sick, the grieving, the joyous, the angry, the wondering, the frazzled, the bored. There they are, the sinews and ligaments and bones and muscles and cells of the body of Christ. There they are, the church, surrounded by stained glass and pews and unbelievable music all of which adorn the church but aren’t church. The people are church.
In the next hour we sing and pray and listen and speak. Hopefully we laugh. Often at least one person cries. And when we leave after the benediction and postlude, and make our way home after a cup of tea or a meeting or lunch with the usual crowd, we take church to the streets, to our homes and work places and schools and the neighborhood. We present the pattern to the world: reflection, gratitude, response, song; hope. Church doesn’t need a building, though that makes it convenient. Church needs people who are willing to say something about God and something about living as human beings and then figuring out the rest together.
We the church don’t always get it right but when we do, it’s pretty incredible. Life-giving and life-saving. Amen and amen.
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Seeta Clinic is an Anesthesiology Clinic in Kolathur, Chennai. The clinic is visited by doctors like Dr. S.Thulasi . The timings of Seeta Clinic are: Mon-Sat: 20:00-22:00. Some of the services provided by the Clinic are: Pharmacy,Sonologist,General Medical Consultation,Anesthesia and Consultation etc. Click on map to find directions to reach Seeta Clinic.
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Slayer Orchestrate Bloody Prison Riot in ‘Repentless’ Video
After an intense buildup and the promise of a blood-drenched music video, Slayer have finally unleashed their clip for "Repentless." The video prominently features Machete madman Danny Trejo as one of many prisoners let loose in a prison while Slayer rip their thrashing track out in the yard.
Slayer unleashed their Repentless album today, 14 years to the day after God Hates Us All hit shelves in 2001. It's the perfect time to introduce a video for the album's title track, and in typical Slayer fashion, violence is top priority.
“We’re telling the story that we’ve always told about society and how humans treat each other,” Tom Araya tells Rolling Stone in the video. “It can get pretty violent. It can get pretty stupid. But that’s OK. That’s human nature.” "I'm probably the most excited I've been for a video that we've ever done," adds guitarist Kerry King.
"Repentless" is about four minutes long, so fitting in an entire prison riot interspersed with footage of Slayer jamming calls for density. To put it simply, lots of people die. LOTS of people. Prisoners, guards; no one in the prison is safe. The prisoners even storm Slayer themselves while they jam "Repentless" out in the Los Angeles heat.
Watch Slayer's video for "Repentless" above and be sure to grab a copy of the band's 11th studio album, out today.
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The summer is close here in Miami and the sun is shining, the ocean is so refreshing! WifeBucket takes you on a trip around the world, visiting famous nudist beaches and showing you all the hot beach sex which happens there! Amateur nudists and beach sex pics from WifeBucket
This hot blonde wife went on the nudist beach and let the inner cuckoldress take control. When the hormones started raging under the hot sun, she started looking for a cure and found it right next two her – two guys salivating at her sweaty body. It wouldn’t take long before they moved closer and got their cocks handled in a double handjob-blowjob which ended with them spraying cum all over her tits and face.
This is what happens when your shameless mature wife goes to the nudist beach with her equally-slutty girlfriends. She may get really drunk on the hot sun and the rum cocktails and decide to tease all the strangers by fingering her wet pussy so that everyone has a 1st-row view. Get more of this mature slut’s beach sex pics at WifeBucket! This blog shows some of the best beach voyeur photos available on the internet. No posed shots, just people caught nude from all over the world.
Mary-Jane’s first nudist beach was a memorable experience. She got a bit of sunburn (look how pale she is!), felt really, really horny, and had probably the best sex in her life. Just look at this photo and see how horny the wife is and how much she wants to fuck on this secluded nudist beach.
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Today seems to be the official handjob-on-the-nudist-beach day because here we have another hot MILF wife (duh!) suffocating the one-eyed snake in public. You see, the nudist beach liberates not just your body but also your mind – you feel wild and uninhibited from society’s stupid rules – so, when you feel like fucking, you do it right there.
This lucky guy is not only getting a blowjob on the nudist beach but, fuck, look at the view! He can switch between enjoying the scenery and looking his hot wife in the eyes while she slurps on his fat cock. It all ended pretty quickly and with a nice mouthful but the video (albeit short) is very sexy and exciting.
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There are some secluded nudist beaches where not having sex is considered to be bad manners. Fortunately, this young couple (newly-weds, too) is very polite and well-behaved and it didn’t take long for this hottie to start riding her well-hung groom like a real cowgirl. Come to WifeBucket for more amateur couples having sex on beaches!
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How to Get a Younger Looking Neck
Many people pay attention to the youthful appearance of their face, but the neck is another area that is suitable for a variety of procedures that can reduce the signs of aging. When the face and neck are addressed together, the result is an overall more youthful appearance and improved profile. Rather than strategically concealing an aging neck with high neck clothing, scarves, and other apparel choices, patients might find more confidence by rejuvenating this area.
The neck is prone to multiple issues as we age. As the skin on this area of the body is thinner than on many others, sun damage is more apparent and also more difficult to repair. UV exposure and the aging process itself can lead to a loss of collagen, which reduces the elasticity of skin and causes it to sag.
While micodermabrasion is commonly used for the face, it also can be used on the neck area. This procedure involves removing the top layers of the skin, which becomes smoother as it heals. Gentler than regular dermabrasion, this treatment is associated with a shorter recovery time and can minimize irregularities on the surface of the skin.
Laser Skin Tightening
If the neck area is sagging, a laser tightening procedure can stimulate the growth of new collagen, which will cause skin to become firmer over a period of 90 to 180 days. Unlike laser resurfacing, which destroys layers of skin and initiates the process of new skin growth in its place, a tightening procedure does not destroy skin and is more suited to this delicate area of the body.
For more extensive skin sagging, a neck lift is a surgical option that can produce dramatic results. It is effective for tightening jowls and loose skin under the chin. Your surgeon will make an incision in front of the ear lobe that extends behind the ear to the lower scalp. The skin will be raised, and the underlying muscle and tissue will be tightened. A certain amount of skin may be removed, and then the skin will be repositioned and sutured into place. General anesthesia is administered as part of the procedure.
Following a neck lift, you will be bandaged, and a drainage tube may be inserted. Dressings and tubes are usually removed 1 to 2 days after surgery. Your surgeon will prescribe pain medication and will recommend cold compresses and to help reduce swelling. It also is recommended to keep the head elevated and to avoid activity during the initial healing period.
In comparison to other treatment options, a neck lift is major surgery and comes with associated risks such as infection, numbness, and scarring. Recovery usually takes two to four weeks, and scars may not appear until some time has passed. Follow-up care with your surgeon is important so that he or she can monitor how well you are healing.
While a neck lift can reduce the signs of aging dramatically, it is not effective for reversing the effects of UV exposure or rejuvenating the skin surface. In consultation with your physician, you can determine whether to incorporate other treatments into your overall plan for achieving a more youthful neck.
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Mike and I switch off on what we call, around here, “the early shift.” That is to say that we take turns getting up — usually at the blindingly early hour of six AM — with our daughter Myra-Jean. One day it’s me; the next day it’s Mike. Then me, then Mike, and so on. It’s a pretty good system. No one dies of fatigue, at least. Of course we’d both choose sleeping in every day, if we could, but someone’s got to get up with our bright-eyed, bushy-tailed offspring. And the early shift has its own rewards, once you get past the fatigue. (Which you do, with time, activity, and enough caffeine to rouse a small mid-western city.) It has a sameness which is comforting: we read books, we make breakfast, we play games. But there’s variety, too. You never know exactly what you’re going to get. MJ herself isn’t the only element that changes. Books fall in and out of favor. So do breakfasts. And so, of course, do the games.
Lately there’s been a lot of “seashore” played around here. This involves bringing several animals, some cloth napkins, and an umbrella into the utility room. Everything gets spread out on the floor, whereupon we sit down and stare contentedly at “the waves,” (located somewhere in the vicinity of the ironing board). MJ does some “swimming;” I stick my toe in, but I’m not big on the ocean. I don’t know what precipitated the popularity of this game — possibly a “Ladybug Girl” book involving the beach — but I do know that it will come and go like so many others. I will miss it when it’s gone. So I enjoy it now. Even when the floor is hard, the “beach” depressingly cluttered, and the “water” unseasonably cold.
The other activity of choice recently has been playing with legos. Oh, these’ve been a popular play element in our household for ages, but they haven’t, until the last few weeks, been an integral part of our morning ritual. I think the addition of a birdfeeder to the tree outside has given MJ extra incentive to gravitate to the living room. Since that’s where the legos are, that’s what gets pulled out. So we’ve been doing a lot of legos. Which means we’ve been building a lot of cities.
This morning we built “Eagle Rock City.” Which is to say Myra-Jean built (and named) it. I mostly drank tea, uttered encouraging phrases, (“good wall!”), and glared at a squirrel on our feeder.
Once Myra-Jean had gotten a good part of her city constructed she moved some animals in. Also her “red belly,” (a blanket), which has never had its own domicile before. Doesn’t it look happy to be off the streets? Rumor has it it’s moved in with Easter Bunny, but one can’t be sure. Whatever the situation, cow looks as if she’d know the truth.
When the legos were used up MJ still wanted to build, so we decided to pull out the plain wooden blocks. With these she grew more careless, strewing them about with little thought or care. The result was what can only be described as urban sprawl. For shame!
I tried to talk to her about overdevelopment, slumlords, the perils of squatters. She wasn’t moved. To the contrary, she insisted on continuing to build. More! Uglier! Faster! Great. She’s my own little Westfield, in elelphant pajamas.
Then again, she did, at least, offer to build a library — I think as a conciliatory gesture. Unfortunately the structure was never finished. Why am I not surprised?
Moments after, MJ decided she wanted a “new city.” She destroyed the old one completely — a toddler Christian sacking a toy Constantinople. Animals were unhoused, blankets thrown asunder, books destroyed. Keening and wailing — imaginary, of course — resounded throughout the land. Or at least our living room.
As for MJ? She went into the kitchen to eat a crusher, got distracted, and never returned.
This, I guess, is what happens when you raise a child in Los Angeles. Or when you read too many histories of the Crusades. Or both. Perhaps I need to buy Myra-Jean some Lincoln Logs and try to get her back to her roots. And maybe I should read something more contemporary. A biography of Frank Gehry, perhaps?
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Despite the notion that the annual SuperLiga tournament is a time for MLS players to get a short break in the middle of a long season, Fire coach Denis Hamlett came into Saturday's opening match with a competitive attitude.
"We're trying to win SuperLiga," Hamlett said before the game. "We're taking it seriously. Our mind-set is that we want to win, so we're going to start off with the right attitude and right mentality and try and get three points from the first game."
The Fire was able to do that, defeating Mexican team San Luis 1-0 at Toyota Park.
"It was a good win," forward Brian McBride said. "We were solid for a good 75 minutes, and then we got our goal. [Goalkeeper Jon Busch] came up with some big saves on some opportunities."
McBride scored the lone goal in the 69th minute when he smashed a Cuauhtemoc Blanco pass into the top corner of the net from 18 yards out.
"It was a great finish," Hamlett said of McBride's blast. "Credit [Blanco], though. He chased the guy down and makes a good play out of that."
The Fire, in first place in SuperLiga's Group B, ended a three game losing streak with the victory.
"It helps us a lot," defender Gonzalo Segares said. "They've been three tough losses, but we did great today and [the result] shows that we have a good team."
The Fire's next SuperLiga game is Tuesday against MLS leader Chivas USA at Toyota Park.
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In Grade 5, instructional time should focus on three critical areas: (1) developing fluency with addition and subtraction of fractions, and developing understanding of the multiplication of fractions and of division of fractions in limited cases (unit fractions divided by whole numbers and whole numbers divided by unit fractions); (2) extending division to 2-digit divisors, integrating decimal fractions into the place value system and developing understanding of operations with decimals to hundredths, and developing fluency with whole number and decimal operations; and (3) developing understanding of volume.
- Students apply their understanding of fractions and fraction models to represent the addition and subtraction of fractions with unlike denominators as equivalent calculations with like denominators. They develop fluency in calculating sums and differences of fractions, and make reasonable estimates of them. Students also use the meaning of fractions, of multiplication and division, and the relationship between multiplication and division to understand and explain why the procedures for multiplying and dividing fractions make sense. (Note: this is limited to the case of dividing unit fractions by whole numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions.)
- Students develop understanding of why division procedures work based on the meaning of base-ten numerals and properties of operations. They finalize fluency with multi-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They apply their understandings of models for decimals, decimal notation, and properties of operations to add and subtract decimals to hundredths. They develop fluency in these computations, and make reasonable estimates of their results. Students use the relationship between decimals and fractions, as well as the relationship between finite decimals and whole numbers (i.e., a finite decimal multiplied by an appropriate power of 10 is a whole number), to understand and explain why the procedures for multiplying and dividing finite decimals make sense. They compute products and quotients of decimals to hundredths efficiently and accurately.
- Students recognize volume as an attribute of three-dimensional space. They understand that volume can be measured by finding the total number of same-size units of volume required to fill the space without gaps or overlaps. They understand that a 1-unit by 1-unit by 1-unit cube is the standard unit for measuring volume. They select appropriate units, strategies, and tools for solving problems that involve estimating and measuring volume. They decompose three-dimensional shapes and find volumes of right rectangular prisms by viewing them as decomposed into layers of arrays of cubes. They measure necessary attributes of shapes in order to determine volumes to solve real world and mathematical problems.
Grade 5 Overview
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Write and interpret numerical expressions.
- Analyze patterns and relationships.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
- Understand the place value system.
- Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths.
Number and Operations—Fractions
- Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions.
- Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
Measurement and Data
- Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system.
- Represent and interpret data.
- Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and to addition.
- Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
- Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
- Model with mathematics.
- Use appropriate tools strategically.
- Attend to precision.
- Look for and make use of structure.
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
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I'll remind everyone as the date approaches. Oddly enough, tax season starts for us now. I know for most, it's still months away.
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Real Estate Drones
The definition of drone is: make a continuous low humming sound. Also known as UAV: unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAS, unmanned aerial systems, or RPAS: remotely piloted aerial systems. Drones are also called flying robots. Real estate drones are used for a specific purpose.
The popularity of real estate drones has grown exponentially over the last 5-6 years. Drones are often used recreationally, and they also have commercial uses. Drones are also utilized in military applications.
Drones are used in situations where it is too risky, difficult, or cost prohibitive to use flights utilizing pilots. Drones either have a preprogrammed flight path, or are controlled from the ground by pilots.
They return critical information to people quickly, which can make an enormous difference in situations that require fast responses.
Drones can be as large as a commercial passenger jet, or as small as a football. Drones cannot be operated by a civilian beyond the line of sight, and above 400 feet for any commercial reason unless permission has been granted by the FAA, Federal Aviation Administration.
In order to become a commercial drone operator, you need to file a petition to section 333 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012. It takes approximately 120 days for this process to complete.
Once you get an exemption number from section 333, you have to register the drone with the FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, and obtain a Civil Certificate of Waiver or Authorization for each blanket airspace you intend to operate in. Once you receive this certification, you can apply for full airspace.
The last step is to obtain your FAA Airman certificate for recreational, private, or sport pilot. In order to operate a sUAS, an individual must obtain a remote pilot certificate with a sUAS rating from the FAA.
On June 21, 2016, the ‘Small Unmanned Aircraft Rule’ was issued by the FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, and went into effect on August 29, 2016.
This ruling permits the operation of sUAS for commercial purposes, as long as the operator has complied with the other requirements. The complete text of this rule can be found on the FAA website.
In order to receive a remote pilot certificate with a sUAS rating you will need to meet eligibility requirements as follows:
- Be 16 years old or older
- Be able to read, write, and understand the English language
- Be in mental and physical condition that allows for safe operation of the sUAS
- Pass an initial aeronautical knowledge test
An initial remote pilot certificate with sUAS rating will cost approximately $150 US Dollars. A remote pilot certificate holder is required to pass a test every 24 months.
The three goals that the FAA has as paramount for drone regulation is privacy, safety, and national security. Liability is also an issue that must be addressed. The noise that some drones can make is also a cause for concern, and could also potentially be regulated.
Drones can fly in difficult, unsafe environments, and for long periods of time. Drones have many uses, such as military, insurance, weather related monitoring, telecommunications, security, police work, fire fighting, and many other applications.
The FAA started accepting applications for commercial drone operations in May, 2014. Of the first 1000 applicants, over one third were for purposes of real estate. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, is a trade group that monitors the drone industry.
One specific commercial area that drones are very popular is in the field of real estate. The photographic capabilities of drones are a perfect fit for the picture dependent real estate industry. Drone photography has seen a steady growth in real estate, and this trend is likely to continue.
The use of drones in real estate marketing saw a significant increase in 2016. According to industry stats, homes/properties with aerial images in their listings sold 68% faster than homes with just standard images.
Many real estate professionals jumped on this trend, using photos and videos taken with drones to catch buyers’ attention, and gain a competitive edge.
Conventional photography of buildings, and structures is often very difficult, unsafe and/or inadequate due to their location, height, size, or condition.
Drone technology will enable the real estate photographer to take photos quickly, safely, and at low cost, that would otherwise be dangerous, expensive, or too difficult to capture.
Drone photography/videos can illuminate many aspects of a property for sale, such as: property surveys and maps, what the walk to school for the kids will be, the homes location as it relates to shopping, hotels, highways, parks, public transportation, and other amenities.
Not to mention, the surrounding neighborhood, construction in the area, and aerial pictures and views of the property itself.
But drones aren’t just great for enhancing real estate listings.
Drones are also highly valuable to real estate appraisers. Appraisals of property, especially those properties where topography, forestation, and power lines are a consideration, allow for more professional, and thorough reports to lenders, which provide assurances that the property they are lending on, is as described.
Home inspectors will also benefit from the use of drones in the process of their home inspections. Drones provide a level of safety for inspecting areas that would otherwise pose physical risk such as roofs, chimneys, gutters, siding, antennas, satellites, electrical, plumbing, and anything else that may be high up, or in an unstable area.
They can then provide their customers with high-quality photos of any damage that might have been missed during a traditional inspection.
Inspectors can even stream video on a tablet or smartphone to show customers the condition of their roof and other hard-to-reach areas of their home.
Drones can also reach more remote areas that may be difficult to get to even with a 4 wheel drive vehicle, or an all terrain vehicle. They are also much more cost effective than leasing a plane or helicopter, as well as much more versatile.
Some tough terrain makes it near impossible to find utility lines, pipelines, and make one aware of possible dangers like wildlife, rock or mud slides, or potential avalanche in the high country.
Drones can also be programmed to monitor small to large properties against trespassers, hunters, squatters, etc. without having to leave the comfort of home or an office.
Real estate drones can be equipped with cameras, computers, audio, and video. For real estate agents, drones can provide a view or tour of their listings that a conventional camera or video can’t.
Drones are particularly effective for properties by a lake or a beach, and also for properties that sit on a large lot or acreage. Drones can also provide a special client experience on the inside of homes.
Some of the negatives or drawbacks with real estate drones are:
- Cost: although costs are decreasing as drones popularity increases, the price of a good quality drone can be prohibitive for some people. There may also be costs incurred to store your drone, and for occasional repairs, and maintenance.
- Training, and licensing: to obtain necessary training, and licensing, can be time consuming, inconvenient, and has added costs.
- Liability: to operate a commercial drone, there are potential risks, and insurance coverage will be needed to protect against accidents, and potential lawsuits.
Real estate drones provide an opportunity for agents and investors to provide a higher value of service to their clients, and offer a more enjoyable shopping experience.
Commercial drones can range in price from around $100 USD for a small training type drone, to tens of thousands of dollars, depending on many factors, like size, what it’s made of, and on board technology.
Real estate drones are really multi purpose drones. So, whatever reason you want or need a drone for, or even if you want a toy drone for your kids, there are now many different drones on the market for you to choose.
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Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and Memory Loss Treatment in New Port Richey, FL
Occasionally forgetting things is just a normal fact of life. It's even somewhat expected that we'll lose portions of our memory as we age. Aside from these natural phenomena, a significant loss of memory could be a serious condition that should not be ignored.
Signs of Memory Loss
Whether you've been forgetting things that happened in the near or distant past, there are several habits that you should be aware of if your memory lapses are becoming more frequent:
- Asking people to repeat the same question to you over and over
- Mixing up or completely forgetting basic words as you speak
- Constantly misplacing items
- Getting lost often
- Having trouble learning new things
- Experiencing dramatic changes in your mood
Causes of Memory Loss
In some cases, the cause of your memory loss could be a single factor, and once it's identified, the problem might completely go away. Often times, memory lapses are a result of hormone imbalance, especially in the thyroid and adrenal glands. Imbalanced hormones can cause or lead to memory loss in a number of ways, including hypothyroidism
Some of the other causes of memory loss include:
- Lack of sleep
- Alcohol, tobacco, or recreational drug use
- Poor nutrition
- Head injury
Memory Loss Diagnosis
During a consultation your doctor may cover topics such as how long you've been experiencing your memory loss, and how soon your forgetfulness became apparent.
With the information you provide, an experienced memory loss doctor will likely proceed with a physical and neurological exam to identify any health factors that may be impairing your memory. These exams are usually accompanied by a blood or urine screening to test for conditions such as a vitamin deficiency or thyroid disease. In some cases, your doctor may also order an imaging test such as a CAT scan or MRI to get a closer look at your brain and nerve tissues.
Memory Loss Treatment
Using bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) is an effective way to deal with memory loss. BHRT can provide a memory boost by replenishing your body's thyroid and adrenal glands with hormones that are chemically identical to those your body naturally produces.
Additionally, memory loss can be treated with:
- Lifestyle changes
- Nutritional counseling
- Over-the-counter and prescription medications
- Vitamins and supplements
These treatments can help bolster your memory and improve your quality of life.
Reclaim Your Memory
BHRT and traditional medication can both help your memory. If you're worried about memory loss and aging, please call (813) 435-5828 or contact Evolution online.
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Hutch is an advisor to the Flexible Equity strategy. Previously, Hutch served as a portfolio manager for Flexible Equity. Prior to joining the firm, he was the chief investment officer and portfolio manager for Alex. Brown Investment Management. Hutch also held a portfolio manager and research analyst position with T. Rowe Price Associates, Legg Mason and Wachovia Bank.
- The University of Virginia (Phi Beta Kappa), BA (1982)
- Board Member, KIPP Baltimore
- Board Member, Maryland 400
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I have been busy painting away at the Death Guard, and revisiting the Old World in Total War Warhammer 1 and 2.
But I am glad to have finished one unit. Here it is.
I am very pleased with how they turned out. Not so much with the yellow plasma OSL, but they are painted and I will not touch them again till it is all done.
I have bought everything for my Death Guard, except Mortarion. So when I get him, I will have 2000pts straight up. Though for once, I am only planning on getting 2000pts, and no more for the Death Guard.
Next up is a Plague Surgeon, which should be an easy elite to paint, and I do want to tackle my Blight Lord Terminators, as I am happy with the slight conversions I have done on them.
Still haven't had my second game with the DG, but hoping that once work dies down, it will happen.
I also have on the way, the new Necromunda. I am super pumped for it, so I will add my progress on that when it arrives.
As always, thanks for looking.
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Found this on the Friendly Atheist blog, it’s up on the new student blog branch of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
I think our forefathers knew what they were doing when they came up with that one. Its getting about time to de-religion our government, and bring a clear separation back.
The other day I was driving past a McDonald’s on the way to get dinner with Michele, my niece Sarah and her husband Dan, and I wondered how many chicken McNuggets you could haul out of there if you had them fill a 5 Gallon bucket.
Well, after dropping them off at home later that night, Sarah texts me this:
“1134 chicken McNuggets in 5 Gallons.”
I hope she didn’t take a bucket in there to figure that out.
So that’s 113 10 piece orders and 1 4 pc. Having not been to a McDonald’s as far back as my memory works, I have no idea what that would cost. A quick check online tells me its $3.39 for the 10 pc order, and $1 for 4 pc. So we’re talking around $384.07. For FIVE GALLONS OF FRIED CHICKEN BITS.
I have to stop, thinking of this further will make me ill. You think they would be able to fill that order with the nuggets they have on hand? Scary thing is, I am sure it would be no problem.
Quite a while ago, two architectural office back in my past, I worked on drawings for a house up in Brentwood. While working on the project, I found out that they could only build the new house once they had settled on what to do with the old house. Seems there was an old Neutra house sitting there on the site, and the owners wanted to build a new, much larger one in its place. While they were working on getting their new house designed, the Neutra house got listed on the Historical Register, making it impossible to demolish. This sort of threw a monkey wrench into their plans. There was a solution however, it could be moved! Only, doing so is not so simple. And so it sat.
Well, I only worked on the project briefly, and as it got held up in all kinds of local, county, and historic preservation shenanigans, I moved on to work on other things. Eventually, I left that office and went on to work in a couple of other offices. Totally forgot about that little Neutra.
Now today, upon browsing the LA Times website, I see that the Maxwell House (as the old Neutra house was originally called) is on the move! Seems the owners found a buyer for the house, and eventually (its been about six years) got everything worked out in order to relocate it. LA Times has a great article with a photo essay showing part of the move, and the house in its original condition. Not a classic example of Neutra, but a sweet little place anyway.
I wish I had been on top of it, as I would have loved to go document the move.. but alas, I am not really in touch with those folks anymore.
Moral of the story. Don’t try to tear down a Neutra. It’ll cost you six years off your life. Now if only the folks in Gettysburg would get the message.
While changing my user name I found three Jeremy Quinns on flickr.. these are a selection of photos from them. Click on them to be taken to their photostream.
One didn’t have any public photos so I used two from one of the other guys.
Hello to all y’all Jeremy Quinns out there!
You can now find me on flickr as JeremyJQuinn
So there’s interventionist art, and there’s interventionist sociology. Both require some guts.
(Just for the record, the chimney joke quoted in the article cracked me up.)
I just got these samples back today from the fabricator, they are a portion of a privacy screen panel that I designed at PMA. The dot pattern is based on the overlapping, rotated halftone grids of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black dots used in offset printing. The pattern is likely going to be integrated into a reception desk, but in aluminum rather than the white plastic we did the test in.
Looking at it now, it reminds me of a synthesis of lace and bullet holes.
I just posted the Circles Necklace I made last year for Michele to wear at our wedding. There are two versions of it, this is the solid one and she ended up wearing the other one which I still need to photograph. It’s laser cut from sheet silver.
I really like these improvised ink well/pen holders by Kelly Marklove shown at Dezeen. They look like they are just begging to be used and made all inky.
Seen at Overheard in the Office today (yes, I read it daily.)
“Office lady on phone to son: I don’t know, I think we have it on tape… on tape. Video tape. No, not DVD, video tape. It’s black and rectangular, and you put it in the VCR to watch movies. The VCR?… It’s… look, just wait till I get home, okay?”
Word to obsolete media!
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120 AFFORDABLE APARTMENTS. GENEVA.
Architects: meier + associés architectes Burckhardt + partner
Photos by: Jean-Michel Landecy
Typology: Collective housing
Location: 17-29 route de Meyrin, Genève
This project integrates a large apartment building into the wider context of a cantonal urbanisation plan. However, the building seeks its own rules of composition – derived from the location – to create its own autonomy and identity.
Surrounded by newly planted trees, the building has a visually pleated effect created by undulating bands of subtly coloured concrete on the walls. The balcony parapets and inset glass façade together create an «organic» rhythm that emulates the foliage of the trees.
Movement around the building is by means of naturally lit stairwells, situated on the front façade: a location that lends dignity to this communal and social space. The project uses rational typologies that accommodate the building’s perfect north-south orientation and built- up surroundings. These typologies are inspired by local layout styles, which historically consist of a central communal core around which are placed two traversing apartments and one apartment that is mono-oriented to the south.
The interior of each apartment consists of an entrance hall leading into a living area extending through the full depth of the building, from garden to street. Depending on the size of the apartment, the bedrooms are either north- or south-facing. The living rooms of all apartments open onto the broad balcony-terrace.
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If you consider an artist’s works in chronological sequence (bibliography as well as discography) certain landmarks blot out their neighbors. In the case of Coleman Hawkins, there’s BODY AND SOUL, then the Hampton Victor date, then his big band — leading up to the small-group sessions of 1943-44 for Signature, Keynote, Savoy, and more.
The Varsity Seven sides — full of delights — recorded in December 1939 and January 1940 — haven’t received the admiration they deserve. Hawkins’ admiring biographer, the diligent John Chilton, calls them “a pastiche of Dixieland.” I disagree.
The Varsity label (please note the transparent pseudonyms for Hawkins and Carter) was run by Eli Oberstein, and it never seems to have been entirely out in the open. I don’t know that Oberstein was the equal of Herman Lubinsky of Savoy, but Eli seems to have been ingenious in his dealings. I believe the masters of these and other sessions were bought by Savoy, and thus the trail to licit reissues is complex. Were they Victor sessions, they would have been available straightforwardly for decades now, including “official” CD issue.
Another side-note is that the session — one or both? — was co-produced by Leonard Feather and Warren Scholl, which may account for a Feather composition being there. I knew two sides from this date because my Long Island friend Tom Piazza played them for me, forty-plus years ago: SHAKE IT AND BREAK IT and A PRETTY GIRL IS LIKE A MELODY. I don’t know where each of the musicians was working in 1939-40, whether Fifty-Second Street or Cafe Society or uptown, but they come together to create great jazz. Cheerful Jeanne Burns (known for work with Adrian Rollini and Wingy Manone) is a liability, but we’ve all heard less polished singers. Here’s the information for the first session.
Benny Carter, trumpet, alto saxophone; Danny Polo, clarinet; Coleman Hawkins, tenor saxophone; Joe Sullivan, piano; Ulysses Livingston, guitar, vocal; Artie Bernstein, string bass; George Wettling, drums; Jeanne Burns, vocal. New York, December 14, 1939.
IT’S TIGHT LIKE THAT (Burns, vocal). The first two choruses — bless Sullivan and Wettling, who are bringing Jimmy Ryan’s to a record date or doing the Commodore? — are flawless. Ms. Burns has pitch trouble, but I concentrate on Sullivan behind her. Polo and Livingston (the latter sounding much like a sweet Teddy Bunn) aren’t derailed by the young lady, and then Hawkins charges in, “I’m back from Europe, and let me remind you who is still King!” My idea of perfection is of course subjective, but the instrumental portions of this recording stand up with any other of this period:
EASY RIDER (Burns, Livingston, vocal). Hawkins starts off rhapsodically, and is then relieved by Polo, whose sound in itself is an aural landscape, no matter how simple his phrases. (In this, he reminds me of poets Joe Marsala, Raymond Burke, and Edmond Hall.) Ms. Burns Is much more at ease at this tempo and in this range, and her unusual mixture of Mae West and Mildred Bailey is her most successful vocal. Livingston’s vaudeville couplets are harmlessly archaic counterpoint, leading in to an ensemble where Carter and Polo take up most of the space, leaving Hawkins little to do. One must admire the lovely drumming of Wettling — and how beautifully Artie Shapiro’s bass comes through — before the consciously “old-timey” ending:
SCRATCH MY BACK is the one Leonard Feather composition, and a charming one, revisited by Dan Barrett a few years ago. I can’t figure out the changes beneath the melody — an experienced friend / musician says the first strain is similar to YOU TOOK ADVANTAGE OF ME. I love the opening ensemble, and Shapiro’s deep notes behind Polo, then Sullivan’s rollicking solo chorus, where Wettling is having a wonderful time — and the passage where Sullivan abstracts the melody for great dramatic effect. Then — what’s this? — a glorious alto solo by “Billy Carton” (heir to the cardboard box fortune) punctuated by a Livingston blues-pastoral. Everyone steps aside for Hawkins, and a recap of the theme with Livingston adding sweet arpeggiated chords. No complaints here:
SAVE IT PRETTY MAMA (Burns, vocal). Aside from the ending, I don’t think of this as “Dixieland”: rather a series of splendid improvisations from Carter, Sullivan, and two choruses from Hawkins — over a gently propulsive and balanced rhythm section. I find Burns’ version of Mildred Bailey’s upper-register-vibrato jarring, but I was listening to Polo, murmuring sweet limpid asides, and the rhythm section while she sang:
Fast forward to January 15, 1940: the same personnel except Big Joe Turner replaces Burns, an improvement.
And in his honor, they began with HOW LONG, HOW LONG BLUES. In the opening ensemble, Hawkins is nearly submerged (could this have been what irritated Chilton?) which leads into a lovely chorus by Polo — with plain-spoken rhythm section work. Then, Big Joe, in glowing voice, supported by a very powerful Sullivan, with lovely ensemble encouragements. It almost seems as if Hawkins has been waiting his chance, and he takes it eloquently, before Big Joe and the band return. At 2:23, apparently Turner has momentarily forgotten the lyric couplet or has gotten distracted. A fine improvised ensemble closes off the record, with a Wettling accent. This side seems slightly under-rehearsed, but the looseness adds to its charm:
SHAKE IT AND BREAK IT has always been a favorite, and this vocal version is a prize. If there’s a sound more engaging than this rhythm section following Sullivan, I have yet to hear it. Big Joe sounds positively exuberant (in touch with the lyrics); Polo and Livingston keep the forward motion going , and everyone is even more gleeful for Joe’s second chorus (“rub it all over the wall”) before particularly hot choruses by Carter and Hawkins follow, leading to jamming (with Wettling happily prominent) to end the record. If this is “Dixieland,” I want many more sides:
A PRETTY GIRL IS LIKE A MELODY was not a song much utilized for jam session recordings, but to have it here is a pleasure. I wonder if Oberstein said, “No more blues, fellows! Let’s have a hot one!” as Big Joe left the studio. Or it just seemed like a melodic yet under-played Berlin song, taken a little quicker than I imagine it was done in the Ziegfeld Follies. A very simple — even cliched — vamp led by Livingston starts things off before Polo takes the lead — which surprisingly turns into an ensemble passage, then a wonderfully quirky Sullivan solo AND Hawkins leaping into his chorus with the zeal of a great athlete (powerful playing from Shapiro, Livingston, and Wettling) — then a magnificent Carter solo and a romping ensemble close. This is one of the most successful sides of the eight:
And, finally, POM POM, a Carter original which might be a phrase from one of his solos scored for small band, with a particularly light scoring: I would have thought the opening 16 was scored for alto, clarinet, and tenor, but for the speed with which Carter plays trumpet on the bridge. Polo’s chorus is so tenderly levitating that if you, hearing his work on this session, don’t want to hear more, then I have failed. Hawkins is energized in his two-chorus solo, reminding me of the trio records he made in 1937, especially in his powerful second chorus — but Carter is as elegant a mountain-climber as I can imagine (with a distinct similarity to Joe Thomas or Bill Coleman of this period); another piece of swing lace-weaving from Livingston, and the record gracefully winds down — simultaneously hot and gentle. Is that a recording engineer’s “fade” or simply everyone getting softer? I don’t know, but it’s very sweet:
These aren’t flawless records. Some of them might have benefited from a second take. But they are uplifting examples of the stars willing to come in and play two dates for what I imagine was scale. All in a day’s work — and how glorious the results are.
May your happiness increase!
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“Vaginal seeding” is growing in popularity because it’s thought that babies born through Cesarean-section miss out on certain “helpful” vaginal microbes that might shield the infant from asthma, allergies and immune disorders.
“Vaginal seeding has become a rising trend for patients,” noted Dr. Jennifer Wu, an ob/gyn at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. “Patients read about the benefits of a vaginal delivery and hope to replicate these benefits with vaginal seeding.”
As explained by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), it’s thought that contact with healthy vaginal bacteria helps stimulate the infant immune system, prevents the growth of dangerous bacteria and regulates the gut. That contact doesn’t happen for babies born via C-section, however, so in vaginal seeding, a cotton swab with vaginal fluids from the mother is used to transfer vaginal bacteria to a newborn.
But in a statement issued Oct. 24, ACOG – the nation’s largest ob/gyn organization – said the procedure is not recommended because the known risks outweigh any potential benefits. “Due to the lack of sufficient data, the very real risks [of vaginal seeding] outweigh the potential benefits,” Dr. Christopher Zahn, ACOG’s vice president of practice activities, said in a college news release. “By swabbing an infant’s mouth, nose or skin with vaginal fluid after birth, the mother could potentially, and unknowingly, pass on disease-causing bacteria or viruses,” he explained.
Wu agreed. “There are very real risks attached to this practice,” she said. “Certain viruses, such as group B step and herpes, can cause serious illnesses such as meningitis in newborns.”
And Zahn stressed that there’s a much safer way for a new mom to transfer her helpful bacteria to her newborn: Breast-feeding. “Breast-feeding for the first six months is the best way to overcome the lack of exposure to maternal vaginal flora at birth,” Zahn said. “The bacteria present in breast mild and on the nipple is sufficient for natural colonization or seeding of the gut. There may be some initial difference in the gut [microbes] of infants based on mode of delivery, but research has shown that difference disappears after about six months,” he added.
It seems to me that the ACOG is overlooking the obvious – if you avoid the C-section, vaginal delivery makes this argument mute.
The rate of C-section in the United States in 2013 was 32.7%, roughly a third of all deliveries. The World Health Organization (WHO) states the “medical necessary” C-sections account for no more than 10% of all deliveries.
Physicians like C-sections because they are scheduled rather than spontaneous and generate significantly more income. On average, the cost of a C-section is 50% higher than a natural birth.
I also question the concerns raised about possible infection. Studies on women with known herpes infections failed to find one case of transmission to the newborn, although herpes antibodies were frequently found in both cord and neonatal blood samples. It appears that the mother’s immune system protects the child from most vaginal infections.
It’s not just “thought that contact with healthy vaginal bacteria helps stimulate the infant immune system, prevents the growth of dangerous bacteria and regulates the gut.” There are many evidence based studies that prove that inoculation of healthy bacteria during vaginal delivery improves many aspects of health, including long term morbidity and mortality.
The Bottom Line:
The take away from this study is reduce the rate of C-section from a third of all births to 10% where it belongs. Then devise a study that looks at the risk of infection for vaginal swabs as has been done with vaginal deliveries. This will solve the “lack of data” claim and recommendations for or against vaginal seeding can be evidence based.
Source: October 25, 2017 National Institutes of Health
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So I'm working on a swimwear collection. I spent a good bit of time doing research and collecting visuals and prints. How could i not be inspired by Pantone's color of the year? I'm obsessed with green! And I think we're all longing for a calming escape from the noise. As my wallet is void of greenery at the moment, I'm opting for a vacation through design. I think I'm going to have a lot of fun with this What do you think?
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I have been reading the Run to Win website for over a year. Blaine, the author, focuses on running news and ways to improve your personal training. Most of the time it deals with running itself, but he also covers great information for cross training.
Recently he posted about what to do when dogs chase you. He also gives book reviews somewhat regularly. When he gave away a copy of Coast to Coast a year and a half ago is when I started keeping up with the site. I did not win the book, but consequently bought it and wrote a review of it myself.
Check out Run to Win for the latest track and distance running news as well as great information to keep you on the road doing what you enjoy.
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DJ Arafat, a singer from Ivory Coast with a huge following in francophone Africa, has died after a road accident in Abidjan, the state broadcaster RTI has said.
“Death of artist DJ Arafat … today at 8am as a result of a road accident overnight,” the broadcaster tweeted on Monday. According to messages and pictures circulating on social media, he had been driving a motorbike and smashed into a car.
Critically injured, the singer, 33, was taken to an Abidjan hospital, where he later died.
“We are all in shock,” Ickx Fontaine, an Ivorian producer and specialist in hip-hop told Maybach Media. He was a real singer and a drummer … he gave a new breath of life to coupe-decale.”
Later on Monday, around 1,000 fans gathered in front of the hospital in Abidjan’s Cocody suburb where the singer died, weeping and chanting, “Arafat cannot die”.
Born in Abidjan in 1986, the artist, whose real name is Ange Didier Huon, had a massive audience in French-speaking western and central African countries.
He issued 11 albums, mainly of “coupe-decale” – a dance music form combining rapid percussion, choppy rhythms with hip hop-style vocals.
DJ Arafat’s fame expanded to Europe and the United States, thanks in part to sports stars who made some of the genre’s dance steps popular. He Arafat was named “Best Artist of the Year” at the Ivorian “Coupe-decale” Awards in 2016 and 2017.
He was born in the music world. His mother was a well-known singer and his father a prominent sound engineer, according to a music manager. He started as a DJ in Yopougon, one of Abidjan’s night-life districts.
“He had a natural charisma,” said Ozone, a hip hop producer and television host. “He will remain a force for Ivorian and African music.”
Ivorian Culture Minister Maurice Kouakou Bandaman expressed his condolences and said a tribute would be held to honour the musician.
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ABOUT DIY MISS CUPCAKE XL
DIY Miss Cupcake XL is a hollow rotocast vinyl toy, scaled up to 5 Inches [12.7cm] Tall. Made in Mexico w/ Box printed in the USA.
Already in Pre-Production, DIY Miss Cupcake XL will be Officially Launched at Designer Con 2018 Nov 16th-18th. Just in time for 2019 to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Miss Cupcake in Toy form. This Kickstarter is your chance to get advance copies of this Platform Toy before anyone else, and months ahead of time!
Olive47 is a street artist/muralist/print maker born in Chattanooga TN sometime in the 70’s. She is a world traveler who recently moved back to Los Angeles after 9 years living in London, and Atlanta.
In Addition to numerous Art Shows, her color-filled nature-scapes can be seen in numerous street art blogs, publications, and even an appearance in Stranger Things season 2!
ABOUT DISCORDIA MERCHANDISING
Discordia Merchandising is a Verified Manufacturer on Trampt.com The Designer Toy Network Find our Manufacturer Profile HERE: LINK
We have developed Exclusive Colorways of other companies toys, then our own line of Artist Series Enamel Pins, and now we make DIY Art Toys: DIY Spray Can Vinyl Toy, DIY BOXCAT by Rato Kim & DIY BOXCAT Black.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF KICKSTARTER
Just like our First, Second, and Third DIY Toy Kickstarter pre-orders, Discordia Merchandising has already taken care of all preliminary expenses.
We are not asking you to chip in on our Development, Design, Model, Prototype, or Molding expenses. We already got those costs out of the way and refuse to pass those costs onto our Supporters. We wouldn't expect the public to Support a project we haven't made an equal investment in ourselves. That's just how we work at Discordia Merchandising.
A NOTE ABOUT THE REBOOT: We reset this project for several reasons. We had some crazy competition with a god father of the Designer Toy Scene making a comeback after a decade long hiatus and launching a Kickstarter during our original launch of DIY Miss Cupcake XL. That was just bad luck. We also cut loose a lot of the extras that pushed our Goal level much higher than it needed to be.
THE CUSTOM TOY ART SHOW
Custom Toy Artists! We will be hosting all our DIY platforms in one big Custom Toy Show at our Designer Con Booth! Deck out any of our DIY Toys, including DIY Miss Cupcake XL, DIY BOXCAT, and DIY Spray Can. Email to Apply: firstname.lastname@example.org
NOTE: All Three DIY Platforms are now available through this Kickstarter. Look for the "A CUPCAKE, A SPRAY CAN, and A BOXCAT" Reward!
$1500 Raised - We will provide ALL Rewards with one Issue of Clutter Magazine.
$3000 Raised - We will provide ALL Rewards with a Miss Cupcake Mini-Print signed by Olive47.
$6000 Raised - We commission a 12 foot tall Inflatable Miss Cupcake and present it at DCon2018. Then give it to Olive47 to do as she pleases with it.
$1,000,000 Raised - We will take all the money, run away, buy an Island, set up the sovereign nation of 'Creatopia'. You will then all receive a personal invitation to live there.
As is always the case with a Kickstarter, if you want to see these Stretch Goals happen, SHARE This Project!
At Discordia Merchandising we have always favored the cute things from the world of Designer Toys for our storefront Discordia Culture Shop. Miss Cupcake has always been a favorite of collectors, and children love her too. Of course they do, who doesn't like cupcakes?
Pre-Order your DIY Miss Cupcake XL, and Share this Project across social media.
With Respect and Gratitude,
Starr, Gavriel and Olive47,
Own a Designer Toy Store? Wholesale Bundles are Available for Retailers. OR! Commission an Exclusive Colorway for your shop. All Pantones are on the table. See Rewards for 50 or 100 unit packages.
GLOW IN THE DARK EXCLUSIVE
The Kickstarter Exclusive DIY Miss Cupcake XL GLOW in the Dark version is Limited to only 50 Rewards. NOTE: Since this is an add-on item more or less than 50 will be made, so Edition Numbers will be determined by Orders Placed.
Risks and challenges
Here is where we list any possible reasons why this project could be delayed.
Grey Nano Goo
Again, we already completely worked out all the details. We have all the prototyping, design, and development stages out of the way, and the product is already being molded during the course of this Kickstarter. So aside from Postal Delays, and Holidays, we don't foresee any issues staying on schedule.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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Below the term “ARCHITECT” from the Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.
I placed this term (and I am still working on placing each and every of the close to 1000 terms of the Devils Dictionary) on a separate page that you can easily share in your social networks.
But this is only on part of the story: Feel free to comment on the terms, to shed lights about persons mentioned, to write your own definition – now that more 100 years have gone by since the publishing of the Devil’s Dictionary. If you have images that could contribute to this common adventure – please get in contact with me via email – email@example.com.
ARCHITECT, n. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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Newcastle v Chelsea Betting Tips
Newcastle United seem to be a club in constant crisis. In recent years, this has been on the pitch which has seen the Magpies drop into the Championship on several occasions, although the team are currently in the top flight after landing tenth place last term.
It would be a fantastic achievement to emulate that finish this time around, with Rafael Benitez at loggerheads with owner Mike Ashley as always. The latter would love to sell the club over the next twelve months and certainly doesn’t have a long-term vision as a result.
Benitez is on a lucrative contract which means the Spaniard is unlikely to walk, although it becomes increasingly tough to challenge in the top flight and this could be a difficult game for a Newcastle team who were beaten 2-1 at home to Tottenham on the opening day.
Chelsea laid down a marker when winning 3-0 at Huddersfield in their first match and will come into the clash at St James’ Park after being battle-hardened by a clash against Arsenal in a London derby.
Eden Hazard could yet prove to be the PFA Player of the Year this season considering that the Belgium looks set to occupy an advanced position for the Blues this term, while N’Golo Kante has never played further forward and will sit in front of Jorginho.
Maurizio Sarri looks set to field a four-man defence including David Luiz and Antonio Rudiger as a strong central defensive pairing and there’s the expensive Kepa between the sticks.
Newcastle will attempt to tame their opponents and might make it to half-time on level terms, although the Magpies could be stretched over time and we’re happy to get with Chelsea to get the job done come the final whistle.
Draw HT Chelsea FT @ 4.80 with BetVictor
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Experience the thrilling era of the space race.
Deep dive into the Apollo 11 mission that put the first man on the moon.
Explore the awe-inspiring sights of our solar system.
Which purrfect find is your favorite? 😻 #internationalcatday
If you get a chance to try on #ElvisPresley's jacket, you take it! #antiquesroadshow #behindthescenes
🔈Sound On 🔈Check out this bonus footage of an appraiser jam session from Vintage Memphis!
"I'm so glad that somebody finally convinced you to buy it."
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Courtney Howard is a LAFCA, OFCS and AWFJ member, as well as a Rotten Tomatometer-approved film critic. Her work has been published on Variety, She Knows and Awards Circuit.
Courtney Howard // Film Critic
The compelling new documentary DYING LAUGHING takes a look at the brave souls who put themselves in the harsh stage spotlight night after night in the attempt to make us chuckle. The life of a stand-up comic is one that’s filled with hecklers, heartbreak, but also hope for society’s betterment as the key to success can be found in laughter. Directors Lloyd Stanton and Paul Toogood have examined the craft of rocking a rhyme in THE ART OF RAP, and they utilize a similar technique to get to the heart of what makes stand-up comedians tick.
I spoke with the affable directors by phone recently about everything from showing different aspects of the fine art of stand-up comedy, to the insights they learned about the craft, to continuing on the conversation as a television series.
There are a lot of movies about the art of standup and the people who do it. What made you think you could explore this in a different way?
Paul Toogood: One of the things that became clear from all the interviews we had done was to not look at other’s documentaries before making a film because it’s easy to copy things or be influenced by things.
We made a lot of programming about the creative process – primarily through music about the world’s famous songwriters and our epic film about the art of rap. We were looking for a subject whereby there were parallels in terms of a strong sense of there are certain art forms that are not afforded the praise they deserve. We felt that rap music was one of them and stand-up comedy is another. Typically the great practitioners make it look so easy that the actual act of standing up in front of an audience and speaking is terrifying to most of us mere mortals. To have a compelling narrative and credible material which you’re constantly having to refresh seems to be the most noble and incredible thing. We felt they deserved a closer look. So that was our motivation.
Certainly right from the get-go, through our interviews, from people like Jerry Seinfeld, that this is something that looks easy, but even people like Jerry Seinfeld find it impossibly difficult the first time they try to do it. In many respects it’s an incredibly inspirational story which speaks to lots of things people try in their lives – things that are initially difficult that you never thing you’ll be able to do it and you keep learning and finally you get there.
Lloyd Stanton: Even though we were massive fans of comedians, [we realized] how important what they do is. How they can talk about things that really get under the skin of all our lives. That’s something because it’s masked in laughter, there’s some great truth in there. They are some of the last philosophers.
There’s that line about how this is poetry – I had never thought of this as that before, but it’s completely true.
Paul Toogood: One of the great things that happens when you’re doing something as insane as what we tried to bite off – which is essentially conduct a census from a moment in time. It’s a huge amount of people – 150 practitioners. What emerges is a series of patterns and themes and people hit similar marks. Very often these people have never met each other. That’s how we were able to hit this narrative style where it was in conversation somebody says something and their point is backed up and progressed by the next person. After awhile, we got the sense that people talk about their truths. Generally speaking, it’s only when you really start talking the truth on stage, it’s when you start getting somewhere. It takes about ten years to get to this point. That’s an extraordinary amount of time to devote to something before you really get anywhere. That’s why we see a level of devotion in stand-up comedy fans. They really feel this guy understands something really big and important, which even scratched at the meaning of life – dare I say it.
As you mentioned, you reached out to many comics. I assume one person started the ball rolling. Or was this a group effort to get your interviewees?
Paul Toogood:We started off talking to our dear old friend John Thomson in the UK, who has a background in stand-up, but is really more famous as an actor. He kept talking to us how some of the funniest stories he’s ever heard were from doing stand-up nights and people discussing the worst things that have ever happened to them. We looked at the idea of doing a piece about bombing, but we felt that was a bit linear and singular. It wouldn’t really do the story justice, although those parts are very funny and compelling. The way we work having made lots of films about brilliant creatives, we put together a show reel and say, “These are the kind of things we do.” The artist sees these things – that they always come out looking good – that this is in praise of the art and in praise of the individual. We would then get together a number of our friends who were stand-up comedians who would come on board and help us bring four or five key cast.
After awhile, there’s a tipping point and also some people who ignored you the first time round get back to you because so-and-so is doing in. Once you get an Amy Schumer or a Jerry Seinfeld, everyone who ignored you figures it’s a good idea to be in the film. So you just keep going. The lovely thing about it is somebody who is completely unknown could pounce in the same way a big A-list star. There are a number of people who really stand out, who perhaps aren’t known to a big audience. Tiffany Haddish, who’s about to be a big star as an actress, is honest and truthful and compelling in what she tells us that you can’t help leaving the theater and thinking about her. Royale Watkins is stunningly open and honest in our interview, which brings me a level of interest to him. One guy ran up to us and said, ‘I can’t believe I’m next to Jerry Lewis in your movie!’ That’s a wonderful surprise.
When did you know you had enough people to carry this? It seems like this could go on and on.
Lloyd Stanton: We were shooting the very last interview on the last day we locked the edit. There was people and information coming in all throughout the process. We filmed for 18 months and edited for several months. During that, we were still picking up people we wanted to get. We could’ve gone on indefinitely until there was a lock on. Now we have this opportunity to make a ten-part television series so the process will go on again.
Paul Toogood: We haven’t stopped, basically.
Lloyd Stanton: We were left with this incredible archives – 120 plus interviews that are a minimum of an hour. You haven’t used everything you’ve shot. It’s a strange thing. So we’re now in production on the spin-off television series which will allow us to open up some of these themes – particularly the life lessons that comedians can teach us. We will be including new stand-up comedy pieces in the series.
Is the TV series airing in the UK only? Or will I be able to see it in the States?
Lloyd Stanton: No. It’s quite US-centric really. But it will be for international distribution. It’ll probably turn up on a premium POD platform. It’s an independent production like all of ours.
Paul Toogood: We consciously chose, while we were working on the film, to not have stand-up performances in it so you’d really concentrate on who the people were and what they were about and the work that went into it. With the series, we now get to pervert that so you get to see those comedians now through the writing process, writing something, going on to stage – whether it’s still a work in development or new material. It’s a slightly different, next stage to the film.
Lloyd Stanton: It’ll be like a day in the life of that person – examining how they choose their material, how they develop, how they write it, and how they try it out. We might see them successfully using that material in front of a large audience.
DYING LAUGHING is in theaters and available via VOD/ iTunes on February 24. For a list of theaters, go here.
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Chris joined PLG in January 2018 after several years with a large firm headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. His practice focuses primarily on commercial real estate transactions, where he represents developers, national retailers, businesses, lenders and borrowers. In addition, Chris has experience representing healthcare systems in leasing and acquisition/sale matters and national wireless telecommunications companies in transactions involving leasing and deployment matters throughout the mid-Atlantic.
Prior to entering private practice, Chris clerked for the Honorable Herbert C. Gill, Jr. of the 12th Judicial Circuit of Virginia, which includes the County of Chesterfield and City of Colonial Heights.
Chris lives in Midlothian with his wife, Emily, and their two dogs, Magnolia and Woodford. When out of the office, Chris enjoys playing golf, fishing, hunting, and rooting on the Hampden-Sydney Tigers.
T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond
Richmond, VA – J.D., 2011
Hampden-Sydney, VA – B.A., 2006
Awards & Recognitions
University of Richmond Law Review
President’s Scholarship, Hampden-Sydney College
Virginia State Bar
Virginia Bar Association
Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce
Urban Land Institute (ULI)
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Spurred on by the relative success of my jeans (I’ve hardly taken them off!) I decided to try out a few alterations.
The jeans are a bit high in the waist, and although I like the wider leg, I’d like to try narrowing them slightly for another option. There’s no denim left in my stash so I opted to make some casual trousers in the same style as the jeans. I had some nice blue cotton drill (gifted to me in quite a haul) from my good friend LadyP, so I decided on that. But first, I had to look at the pattern…
I’d feared doing the crotch rise adjustment before as it sounded tricky, or like it could create more problems. And I suppose I’ve been guilty of rushing the paper bit so I can get onto the fabric bit.
I find it difficult to see what adjustments need making without making the garment up (and I’m usually far too impatient to make a toile!) I am getting a little better at transferring those adjustments back to the pattern. I am starting to realise, however, that my ‘method’ does result in half a wardrobe of ‘Clothing-With-A-Catch’…
- Wide legged trousers that can only be worn with big boots.
- T shirts that show flesh when reaching up.
- ‘Decorative’ shirt collars – i.e. look good but won’t do up!
- Having to wear baggy tops over high waisted trousers
I think it’s definitely time to start toile-ing.
Anyway, back to the pattern. I put my jeans on and conservatively estimated that I needed a -2cm adjustment. This also felt like it could go all the way round as the back was a bit high too. Mercy. Just a straight line adjustment.
- Front pocket lining
- Fly extention
- Back pocket
So I picked a spot that gave me a horizontal line which didn’t interfere with the scoop of my pocket or my back yoke. I marked out 2cm and folded away.
I also measured in 1cm from each side at the bottom of each leg and re drew a line to join up at the lower thigh area. Bringing the hem circumfrence in by 4cm on each leg.
I didn’t make them button fly. I take back what I said before about button fly being easier. The thing I found easier about it was not having the zip in the way so I could get the stitching neater. Now that I have had a few goes at sewing the fly without a zip, it has helped me to keep control when there is a zip.
I saw THIS VIDEO on twitter from @thriftystitcher (on using twin thread for top stitching) too late for my last pair. So even though I was only using black thread on blue fabric (not so much contrast!) I thought I’d give it a go on these. It’s my ‘Heart-monitor-initials’ design again. I really like the technique and will be trying it on all the visible stitching on my next pair of jeans.
Overall, I’m really happy with the alterations. My new trousers fit much better for it. And I got to wear them out last night to see Glen Close in Sunset Boulevard at the London Coliseum!
Notes to self:
- More time spent on the pattern means less ill-fitting clothes.
- Take another 1cm from rise, maybe just at the front next time.
- Taper legs 1.5cm each side to mid thigh.
- Maybe keep back pockets same size and lower them a bit
- Don’t ‘sew-up-the-tube’ on narrow legs!
- Flat-Felling is not a crime
Until next time, happy sewing!
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See a knife you really want, but can’t shell out the cash all at once?
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For more details, visit here.
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Release : 1985-07-14
Genre : Drama
Cast : Chiranjeevi, Radhika Sarathkumar, Bhanupriya, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Prabhakar, Allu Ramalingaiah
Jwala is action drama based movie in which, Chiranjeevi played dual roles in this movie as brothers Raju (chiru) and Yuvaraj (chiru) are brothers and sons of SP Chakravarthi. Sarvothama Rao and his son are indulged in smuggling and other illegal activities.During an attempt to catch their sumggled goods, one of their main henchmen is shot dead by Chakravarthi. Sarvottama rao plans to take revenge on chakravarti by trapping his son. Yuvaraj is already in love with with Bhanupriya. Meanwhile, Raju saves an innocent girl Janaki (radhika), from the clutches of those smugglers and marries her.Sarvothama Rao kills Basawaraj and traps Raju into this murder. Raju, unable to prove his innocence, is sentenced to death. Chakravarthi tries to prove his son
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We are proud to use Vegetable oil based inks
Mojoprint uses vegetable oil based printing inks. We choose vegetable oil based inks (derived from soy, palm and other vegetable oils) as the environmentally friendly, sustainable alternative to traditional petroleum based printing inks.
What happened to Soy Ink and the Soy Ink seal?
As of 2010, 70% of printing inks used in Japan were indeed soy oil based inks and usage of the "Printed with Soy Ink" logo mark widespread. With this logo/seal due to be abolished however, coupled with the volatile market price of the soy bean and the need for an alternative raw-material, The Japan Printing Ink Makers Association have introduced vegetable oil inks as an alternative environmentally friendly printing ink.
Recycled vegetable oils are considered a more viable, sustainable raw material for ink production than 100% soy-oil based inks and are derived from recyclable soy oil, rice bran oil, linseed oil, paulownia wood oil, coconut oil and palm tree oil. With these new inks replacing soy inks industry-wide, we are now obliged to use the new Vegetable Oil Ink logo mark too.
Can I use the vegetable oil ink logo on my own flyers?
Absolutely! You may use the logo on any materials printed with Mojoprint but please understand that we accept no claims or responsibility arising from its improper use.
You can download an .eps version of the Vegetable Oil Ink logo here (note: usage guidelines included but in Japanese only)
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Tales of Gothic Romance - Charlton Comics' "The Night on Fog Island"
Happy Halloween! In between those knocks on the door from trick-or-treaters, pop a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup and settle in with "The Night on Fog Island" from Haunted Love #9 (May 1975)! This beautifully illustrated story by Charlton great, Enrique Nieto (with a stunning painted cover by Don Newton) is sure to send a chill up your spine!
As a special treat (because isn't Halloween all about treats, really?) I've included all six pages of the story. Enjoy and have a spookily romantic evening!
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Week from 10 to 16 June 2019
Stock indices continued to gain ground around the globe though investors remain cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting scheduled on 18-19 June. Optimism is fueled by the prospect of interest rate cuts this year but there is little expectation of a first move next week. Volatility eased again (CBOE VIX index down 6.26%) as the Trump administration stepped back from an immediate imposition of tariffs on Mexico and retail sales data in May showed a pick-up in consumer spending. Furthermore, Beijing decided to ease restrictions on local governments’ borrowing to boost infrastructure investment.
Asian markets took the lead (Shanghai Composite and Nikkei up 1.92% and 1.11% respectively) despite massive and historic street protests in Hong-Kong against a proposed extradition bill that has stoked fears of expanding control from China. Wall Street’s major indices edged up (S&P500: +0.47%, DJIA: +0.41%, Nasdaq: +0.70%) and the same was true for Europe, though to a lesser extent (MSCI EMU: +0.14%, FTSE100: +0.19%).
Most sectors finished the week into positive territory. Consumer discretionary was the best performer (+2.44%) followed by utilities (+1.18% – once again defensive sectors fared well), communication services (+1.12%) and information technology (+1.07%).
Going against the trend, industrials (-0.43%) and energy (-0.51%) lagged the market. In this regard, it is worth noting that oil prices fell to five-month lows (WTI down -2.74% at $52.51 a barrel) despite their end-of-week rebound after suspected attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman. All the evidence suggests that high U.S. crude inventories and a bleak demand outlook are dragging down prices.
The 10-year U.S. Treasuries yield was unchanged at 2.09% like the German Bund at -0.26%. The 3-month U.S. T-bill dipped slightly from 2.28% to 2.20%, its lowest level since September 2018. Emerging debt and high-yield bonds moved up 0.94% and 0.24% (in the U.S.) respectively.
Lastly, gold was still near 14-month highs at around $1,340/oz.
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Renewable electricity production, from sources such as wind power and solar power, is sometimes criticized for being variable or intermittent, but is not true for concentrated solar, geothermal and biofuels, that have continuity. In any case, the International Energy Agency has stated that deployment of renewable technologies usually increases the diversity of electricity sources and, through local generation, contributes to the flexibility of the system and its resistance to central shocks.
Compact Linear Fresnel Reflectors are CSP-plants which use many thin mirror strips instead of parabolic mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto two tubes with working fluid. This has the advantage that flat mirrors can be used which are much cheaper than parabolic mirrors, and that more reflectors can be placed in the same amount of space, allowing more of the available sunlight to be used. Concentrating linear fresnel reflectors can be used in either large or more compact plants.
A Wind Turbine Generator is what makes your electricity by converting mechanical energy into electrical energy. Lets be clear here, they do not create energy or produce more electrical energy than the amount of mechanical energy being used to spin the rotor blades. The greater the “load”, or electrical demand placed on the generator, the more mechanical force is required to turn the rotor. This is why generators come in different sizes and produce differing amounts of electricity.
However, it has been found that high emissions are associated only with shallow reservoirs in warm (tropical) locales, and recent innovations in hydropower turbine technology are enabling efficient development of low-impact run-of-the-river hydroelectricity projects. Generally speaking, hydroelectric plants produce much lower life-cycle emissions than other types of generation. Hydroelectric power, which underwent extensive development during growth of electrification in the 19th and 20th centuries, is experiencing resurgence of development in the 21st century. The areas of greatest hydroelectric growth are the booming economies of Asia. China is the development leader; however, other Asian nations are installing hydropower at a rapid pace. This growth is driven by much increased energy costs—especially for imported energy—and widespread desires for more domestically produced, clean, renewable, and economical generation.
Alternatively, SRECs allow for a market mechanism to set the price of the solar generated electricity subsity. In this mechanism, a renewable energy production or consumption target is set, and the utility (more technically the Load Serving Entity) is obliged to purchase renewable energy or face a fine (Alternative Compliance Payment or ACP). The producer is credited for an SREC for every 1,000 kWh of electricity produced. If the utility buys this SREC and retires it, they avoid paying the ACP. In principle this system delivers the cheapest renewable energy, since the all solar facilities are eligible and can be installed in the most economic locations. Uncertainties about the future value of SRECs have led to long-term SREC contract markets to give clarity to their prices and allow solar developers to pre-sell and hedge their credits.
Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), indirectly using concentrated solar power, or a combination. Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. Photovoltaic cells convert light into an electric current using the photovoltaic effect.
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One did not stress total ignorance of a subject if one were in total ignorance of it.
captivating quotations from movies, television, literature and people - curated by actual geeks.
And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor’s pocket? No, it’s not as easy as that. If that were all, I’d say that ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren’t. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
He loved the wheel of a car as he loved his desk in the office of the Banner: both gave him the same sense of a dangerous monster let loose under the expert direction of his fingers.
A thing is not high if one can reach it; it is not great if one can reason about it; it is not deep if one can see its bottom.
There was a time when you wouldn’t have admitted that there was anything you couldn’t get.
We are all brothers under the skin-and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Yesterday I rang my mobile phone provider to bleat something about ‘when am I out of my contract, please sir?’
The stern reply was not yet, but you could talk to someone to see what we could do, yada, yada, yada; blah, blah, blah.
I couldn’t be bothered with it, so I just muttered something about wanting shot of the Crapberry, thanks anyway, and hung up. My main beef with said item is it sticks on ‘O’ or ‘+’ and often times it is a battle to get something out there not full of ooooooooooooooooo s or ++++++++++++++++++ s. Plus it freezes. A lot. Oh and the camera is terrible.
Within an hour, I had an email from RIM, the makers of the Crapberry (apt manufacturers name, I think), imploring me to consider upgrading to the new SuperCrackCrapBerry.
Well, they did for me anyway. At first, I was full of cynicism. Oh a green hill, and, oh, a hymn *shudders*. Then Kenneth Branagh doing Isambard Kingdom Brunel, whilst quoting Shakespeare, in a top hat and ‘scary facial whiskers’ (to quote my daughter) bothered my sensibilities somewhat and the grubby working classes, well worked… until, the five Olympic rings were forged before my eyes and raised above the stadium and then, you might say, we were all on the same page. That sentence took some writing. Not unlike the time (cubed) it took for me to catch up with the vision.
There’s no need for me to catalogue what came next is there? All I want to say really, is this. The time passed awfully quickly and when Muhammad Ali faltered onto the stage I cried.
I didn’t cry a little, I cried a lot. I have mentioned Ali on here before, mainly as a beautiful individual and a lyrical gangster. The night before the opening ceremony I had coincidentally waved his photo biography at a small audience and extolled his many qualities, lest they troubled to forget.
Then last night, as if by magic, there he was. He looks so different from his prime. It’s more than age, it’s the ravages of the cruel neurological disease that is Parkinson’s, a disease that afflicted my grandfather. Last night, I had to look and look again to be sure, ‘Is that Muhammad Ali?’ And then, when Ali moved to touch the Olympic flag, suddenly, time and space collapsed and so did I. In that Olympic moment I was a child again, watching Ali in black and white on the portable tv, listening to his patter and his press conferences. I was reading him, occasionally writing about or quoting him, over a lifetime. I was the age I am now, waving his picture to strangers and I was all I can ever try to be, somehow incredibly knowing shared humanity, connected through all our wondrous possibilities.
I am nothing to Muhammad Ali, and he is nothing and no-one and everything and everyone to me. How much easier for a man of his age, and frailty to stay at home out of the public’s gaze, than fly to London for a late night gig. But despite the disease, the age, the infirmity and confusion, he is the same as he ever was, because he was there. There, still fighting his battle, on the world stage. And to me, that is the Greatest Ever Inspiration any of us could wish for.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
The Olympic torch came through our town a few weeks ago. It was a wet day; the children were allowed time off school to see this once in a lifetime event with their families. I took my two girls, who were distinctly underwhelmed; in fact they spent a lot of time moaning.
It doesn’t matter though, they saw it and the youngest took the photograph of the torch bearer as she had the best view. I haven’t parented outside the 21st century so I can’t compare the job with that of my parents, or theirs, but I suspect every generation faces its own unique challenges, as well as some in common. I believe as parents, all that you can do, is provide the opportunity for them and let them make of it what they will.
I wrote this to myself as a reminder, for when things get tough, as they always do.
You cannot have all of it
Use your wisdom
Let go of something, or something will let go of you.
At least if you take the former option you have the choice
Take photographs. You cannot have too many.
Whatever you hope to remember you will most assuredly forget
Do one thing at a time – you will get less done, better
If you’re in the room, be in the room
Make time to leave the room. Alone
Listen with your heart
Don’t live just in your head
Get in your body – it’s missed you
Guilt is the most pointless construct, until you commit a crime. If you are legal, ditch the guilt
Our best is all we have to give
Sometimes we think our best is not good enough – even then it is all we have to give
Give what you can
Take as little as you need
Stick your tongue out in the snow
Kick off your shoes
Take a walk in the rain
Wear holes in your socks
Let the light in
But know when to draw the blinds
Accept imperfection, it is your friend
Look them in the eye
Gaze into your soul
Mostly, stay hungry, stay foolish (via Steve Jobs)
Discover your purpose,
And pass the torch on
This year we’ve been up against it in the garden. First we had no water, and then we had too much, so I’ve not gone overboard with the annuals and gone for some low maintenance kitsch to inject some colour instead.
I reckon I could run my laptop off this windmill, if only knew how. Finding out how? It’s on my bucket list.
I might be giving a talk later, I’ll be taking my mate the butterfly to help me illustrate a point. I hope he’s been rehearsing ‘cos I haven’t; how do you rehearse what is already in your heart?
‘Oh yes, he’s fit enough.’
‘Is he doing it properly? He’s not is he?’
‘Oh yes, well… he’s just relaxed.’
‘He needs a straight back?’
‘Well, mmmm. Michael Johnson ran with a straight back and he did alright.’
I think, Michael Johnson ran like a duck but when you break world records it doesn’t matter what you look like.
‘Oh no, he’s not fit enough.’
‘No, he’s not fit enough at all.’
‘It’s good though, this physical exercise. Too much studiousness is bad for the boy.’
‘Is he doing it properly? She’s doing it properly isn’t she?’
‘He needs to watch what the others are doing.’
‘Look he’s not watching.’
The studious boy, who looks like he is running into a wind tunnel, comes over to the edge of the track and weeps.
An elite athlete sticks his head through the fence and throws up.
The man, who was once hit by a train, completes his lap.
Right, wrong, none of it is ever easy.
Doing my annual King Canute impression. Aggregate score so far: Sea 42 – Me 0.
Unfair, as it always has the home advantage #time&tide
Cardiff University sewed kittens eyes shut in taxpayer funded experiments http://ow.ly/cs562 Like virtually all vivisection – pointless
Resisting the strong urge to tell the rest of the beach to sit down and SHUT UP.
Bet King C didn’t have to put up with sunseeking plebs.
Realise I am turning into my mother. I love her, but still, oh dear #notready
There is some eye-watering gusset action down here. Girls, check your rear view before leaving home, I beg you #southend
Lovers’ tiff. Man wearing sweater on head – she’s conducting face to face argument and tel con simultaneously. Multi-tasking emotions
She’s off phone, employing finger pointing tactic. He’s shouting, sweater still on head.
Bit early. #chill
‘It’s Southend – no-one cares. No-one is going to check you out’ #shockhorror #southend #Icare
‘Where’s the sea? Where’s the sea?’ ‘I’ll take you for a walk to find the water…’
Chelsea FC beach towel, Harrods carrier bag, deckchair hire, still arguing. Still wearing his sweater as a yashmak. Still #dre
‘You have to wait 20 minutes for your food to go down.’
Do you? Oh dear, I’ve been doing the wrong thing my whole life.
Illegal spaniel on the beach alert. Tut.
Stuck here now until the argument ends or the tide comes in, whichever is sooner.
Sweater removed from head: argument over. All smiles. Yay. Says he can’t swim.
Tide’s close enough now to see its line of scum. Doesn’t seem to put people off going in. Parents bawling at their kids behind me.
The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort
Argument man wears his black woollen socks in the sea.
Wet socks, caked in sand = interesting look
Wearing socks in the sea, now that’s an adventure.
Sea 42 – Me 1
Tide turns in my favour, for now. Another adventure.
Whenever I pass this marine skeleton along Paglesham Creek, I always wonder what it was.
I took this photo ages ago, back in the winter, but it resonates with me now because recently, as I have said, my brain just won’t work. My mind has been like a rusting hulk, run aground and of an unknown provenance. Now, I don’t want to jinx it, but it feels like the tide might have come in overnight and perhaps we are, once again, afloat. Perhaps…
I feed this animal about 4 times a day – I can never get a covering on his ribs. He always seems in good form though *touch wood*
He’s the third dog I’ve had; I’d like another smaller one. A walk’s not the same without a dog.
I didn’t take this photo – it was taken on a Samsung S2 mobile phone. Not bad at all.
This blog has been a longtime critic of the government, mainly because they don’t seem to have a clue what they are doing. And when they do have a reasonable idea, they put in ridiculously short time limits to see results, so that they can claim the credit in time for the next election (I am thinking of the Work Programme and the pilot programmes for reducing re-offending here, where funding is dependent on outcomes, but also set within unrealistic time frames, equivalent to the lifespan of a flea).
Their one idea for the economy, the notorious Plan A, is dead in the water. It’s greatest proponent George Osborne is on the missing list, and he seems to have taken even deeper cover since the IMF wagged their finger at him yesterday. On all previous known form, he’ll take about five days to think about what he’s going to say next and since he’s not due an annual Mansion House speech for another year, it might be even longer. Then there’s Michael Gove’s new phonics based ‘reading’ test (actually an exercise in decoding sounds) which is failing competent children who read for understanding and meaning. Incidentally, Mr Gove, trying to teach the latter to adults is a tough gig, whereas the sounds – well those are child’s play… As for Theresa and Jeremy and Dave et al – well would you? Knowing what you know now? Dave’s autumn cabinet reshuffle is going to have to introduce Willy Wonka himself to to turn this thing around.
I suppose they were banking on the Jubilee and the Olympic summer saving their collective bacon and bringing back the feelgood factor to the populace (also on the missing list, probably in George Osborne’s back pocket), but the Gulf jetstream, the bus drivers, train drivers and Border Agency staff, not forgetting G4S, had their own ideas about that. Don’t get me wrong, I hope the Olympics goes off well, for the sake of the athletes and for the rest of us that have had to pay for the effing thing (just don’t think about Greece ok?). On the other hand, I can’t help but have a few reservations (still don’t think about Greece). Arguing about surface to air missiles on the roof, when god knows how many G4S uniforms have gone AWOL? It’s really not cool. I have a fantastic colleague at work, she’s from Hull and she’s a no-nonsense Northern lass who produces spot-on stuff, including colour-coded spreadsheets for everything. She’d have organised the Olympics, on budget, on time, with security, no problem. I think if she’d been in charge you might have even been able to get in wearing a Pepsi t-shirt…
And that’s my problem with the government, right there, in a nutshell. My colleague is operating well within her comfort zone, she has a lot more to offer, in fact. The government are collectively suffering from the Peter Principle – where employees rise to their level of incompetence. And the problem for us is that it’s not just one of them, it’s bloody well all of them. They are too young, too arrogant, insufficiently wise and lacking in substance to do the job properly. The facts are that they can barely run this country. Sadly, the default setting of desperate clinging on to power will probably see the coalition stagger on to the next election; the Lib Dems will be finished after that and the Tories will hopefully be chased back into their historical blue lands. I for one, cannot wait. And I’m hoping that Miliband et al have the sense to learn from the mistakes of others before they inevitably start making their own, as we all do.
In the meantime, whilst we suffer the horrors of the British summer, the mish mash of the coalition’s blue and yellow colour combo and also those pretty disgusting Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville , I would really like to have Spitting Image back on Sunday night.
That would really cheer me up.
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Unless otherwise stated, all lecture series below are free and open to the public, and will be held on the 3rd Monday of each month at 7:00 pm. Most lectures last an hour, and you are welcome to stay for socializing and light refreshments for half an hour following the presentation.
Lectures are held at the AAWA location at 4844 Jackson Road, Suite 100, Ann Arbor, MI. (Located in the Jackson Square Plaza, parking in front of the building.) Landmark: There is a cell phone tower on the north-west side of Jackson Road, next door to Jackson Square Plaza. See MapMon, Sep 16, 2019, 7pm - Robert Perrish
Robert Perrish is an award-winning designer, sculptor and painter whose love of nature is evident in everything he creates. This was first expressed through wildlife painting and sculpture, and has since evolved into painting landscapes, portraits and still life.
Robert worked in the commercial art field in illustration and design for 30 years. A life long resident of Michigan, he has lived with his family in Livonia for the past 34 years. He has traveled extensively throughout the United States and abroad, capturing as much as he can on canvas along the way.
Plein air painting has become a regular habit and has helped his studio work as well. He is one of the co-founders of Michigan Plein Air Painters and paints with them on a regular basis, as well as traveling out of state for other painting opportunities.
Awards include Michigan Wildlife Artist of the Year, Ducks Unlimited Artist of the year, as well as DU Carver of the Year 3 times, 16 Best-of-Shows in national and world carving competitions. His artwork and sculptures have appeared on National magazines, calendars, books, limited edition prints and various art galleries.
Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 7pm - Durwood Coffey
Durwood Coffey’s distinguished 30-plus year career as an illustrator included such clients as the Big Three automakers, Anheuser-Busch, Detroit Edison, Marvel Comics and Sesame Street. However, it’s the work created outside of the job for weekend art fairs and now in retirement that most excites the Westland, Michigan artist.
His brilliantly colored pieces reflect a unique creative process that starts with a sketch and ends with a vibrant painting of his favorite subjects: fish, frogs, insects, wolves, snow leopards and all manner of wildlife.
Durwood is a member of the “SAA” Society of Animal Artists, a who’s who list of the best wildlife artists in the world. His images are sold on a global scale. He recently created paintings for “Running for Home,” a book about the wolves coming back to Yellowstone Park and the impact on the environment.
Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 7pm - Sophie Grillet
Sophie Grillet studied at the Central St Martins School of Art in London and graduated from the University of Brighton. While in the UK, she was a cartoonist for books, magazines and national newspapers, such as The Guardian, The Observer and the London Evening Standard.
Sophie currently lives and works in Ann Arbor, MI. Her media preferences are: painting in oils and accrylics; sculpture in stone, metal and clay; drawing in pastels; and photography. Much of Sophie's work is abstract, but it is always about something, often with interesting titles. She enjoys experimenting with all kinds of media from aluminum to yarn.
Being insatiably curious, Sophie attempts to integrate her interests in art, social justice, science, and math. Her work reflects on the tragedy of our love of natural beauty and our haste to destroy it.
She is the organizer for Westside Art Hop, a twice-yearly local art walk in Ann Arbor, MI, and the Zone5 Art Show & Sale in Plymouth, MI.
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Summer skincare: 8 beauty tips for glowing skin
It's a fact: our skin changes in summer and unfortunately, for the most part, it's not for the better (we're looking at you pigmentation, wrinkles and sunburn...) The warmest months call for a seasonal update to your beauty bag. Check out our tips for managing the sun and heat with hardworking products for face and body.
Plump, hydrated skin is the best summer accessory so give it a big drink with a dose of hyaluronic acid. This superstar ingredient is naturally occurring in our bodies and is a magnet for moisture, so when applied to skin makes it look soft, dewy, nourished and radiant. It works on all skin types and delivers essential, gentle hydration when skin most needs it. These two options cover the both spendy and savey options. NIVEA Urban Skin Defence +48h Moisture Boost Day Cream, $12.99 and Ultraceuticals Ultra B2 Hydrating Serum, $105
Sunscreen is essential every day (not just in summer) to protect us from damaging and aging UVA and UVB rays – which are even beamed out in blue light from our devices! The feel of it can put lots of people off though, which is where Nivea’s new Shine Control formulation comes in. It contains antioxidants that mattify skin so it won’t feel greasy, so it’s perfect worn everyday alone or under makeup. Nivea Sun UV Face Shine Control SPF50, $13.99
Mask the problem
Long days under the blazing sun can leave skin feeling tight and parched, so applying a thick layer of a deeply hydrating face mask is a pampering and practical treat. A line extension of the popular Rosewater Hydration range, Natio’s Deep Hydration Face Mask,$23.50, mask infuses skin with vital nutrients when applied in a thick layer and left for at least 10 minutes.
A lightweight tint is often all you need on your face in warmer weather for an evened-out complexion and healthy glow. BB cream is a great option for good hydration and antioxidant and pollution protection, plus Garnier’s latest version, Skin Active Naturals BB Cream, $17.49, contains 90% natural origin ingredients.
The beauty supplement business is positively booming – it makes so much sense to treat all the skin all over your body, not just your face, especially in summer. Marine collagen is a renowned ingredient for supporting beauty from the inside out, helping to restore and protect skin that’s lost its tone and texture over time. We love homegrown options Go Healthy Go Beautiful Skin Collagen Support, $49.90 and re.skin, $169.95.
The glow up
When in doubt, get glowing! For special nights out and summer soirees, apply a body lotion with a subtle shimmer, like Linden Leaves Gold Body Lotion, $64. Light reflecting pigments make limbs appear longer and will always look fabulous in photos.
As we all know, or really should by now, the only safe tan is a fake one and there are a veritable plethora of shades, formulations and finishes to choose from these days. Top tips: Always exfoliate and remove hair the day prior and use a mitt for the best streak-free application. We’re loving these two new additions for the beauty counter this summer so far, St Tropez Purity Bronzing Water Mousse, $59.95 and Bondi Sands Liquid Gold Foam, $29.99.
Go for a poppy lip. Classic red mixed with vibrant orange creates the perfect modern summer shade. Look for a high shine formula with intense pigment and good moisturisation like DB Longwear Lipstick in Orange Poppy, $11.99.
bh loves: Nivea Sun UV Face Shine Control SPF50, $13.99, Bondi Sands Liquid Gold Foam, $27.99, Go Healthy Go Beautiful Skin Collagen Support, $29.90, NIVEA Urban Skin Defence +48h Moisture Boost Day Cream, $12.99, Linden Leaves Gold Body Lotion, $64, DB Longwear Lipstick in Orange Poppy, $11.99, re.skin, $169.95, Ultraceuticals Ultra B2 Hydrating Serum, $105, Natio Deep Hydration Face Mask,$23.50 Garnier Skin Active Naturals BB Cream, $17.49, St Tropez Purity Bronzing Water Mousse, $59.95
Main image: Michael Rooke for Fashion Quarterly Issue 1, 2019
Do you have a beauty product you swear by during summer?
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2006 doesn’t seem to long ago to me. But maybe that’s just my age. We were peaking out then with home prices escalating so fast and loans so easy to get that EVERYONE were buying homes. Some buying several homes. Over the next few years we did several hundred short sales for people. Now, ten years later prices are up again. I can’t believe my last tax assessment.
So are we head for another crash? I don’t think so. Here are some reasons why: 1. Ten years ago builders were building spec houses like nuts. They are not now and haven’t been. 2. Home prices over the past 50 years have appreciated about 3% per year. Obviously not in a straight line. Like all markets there are ups and downs. But the 10 years since the crash has allowed for a more normal appreciation level to return. 3. While 10 years ago many buyers were over leveraged. They borrowed too much and had little equity. That has changed. 4. There are not a lot of existing homes on the market. 5. Young adults have become renters. They continue to be very slow to buy.
Home ownership is one of the most important wealth builders. Buying a home more than you can afford is not a good idea. But buying a home that you live in for years is going to bring you many benefits that will help you attain wealth. If you are a young family with a stable job that you expect to have for years this might be the time to start looking. Log in and set up a search. Let’s start looking at some homes.
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Our family to yours, always.
Our vast, rich tapestry of history is strengthened only by our dedication to our customers, and to one another. We are a family at Northgate, rich in tradition, heritage, and in a commitment to authenticity; we are warriors of flavor, champions of inspiration and innovation, and protectors of the kitchen and your family’s table.
We’re more than a grocery store. We are a family.
One comprised of employees, of customers, of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, cousins, and grandparents. And we are also a home. We are a crossroads of culture and tradition, with the new and undiscovered.
Our employees’ dynamic cultures merge here with the desires of our customers to create one of the most welcoming and thriving companies to work for.
Our kitchen is life. It is centuries of tradition that go into each and every one of our daily prepared meals. We’ve journeyed our homeland for the most blissful, soulful, inspiring recipes, and have brought an entire country’s worth all under one roof, prepared daily, for you and your table.
Northgate Market follows its shoppers to Riverside in former Tyler Toys R Us
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The Brooklyn Heights Association (BHA) is responding with concern and cautious optimism to the Brooklyn Public Library’s (BPL) selection of Hudson Companies/Marvel Architects for redevelopment of the Brooklyn Heights Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.
We believe that the project, as outlined in the original Request for Proposals (RFP), has the potential to make a significant contribution — if the developers and BPL trustees will take the time to re-evaluate their design, and engage in an open process with the broader library and civic center community.
The current design gives no indication that the building houses an important civic institution — the 21st century descendant of the legendary Carnegie Libraries. Instead, what we are seeing is a clunky condominium sitting atop generic retail space. We want to see a distinctive and welcoming public building that provides a graceful transition from the civic buildings on Cadman Plaza to the residences of Brooklyn Heights — a library that is a visual gateway to the neighborhood.
Moreover, the project can and should address broader community priorities. The decision to assign considerable square footage to an exclusive private school gymnasium does not reflect the inclusive mission of our public library system. Community or public school space is called for in lieu of a private school gym.
Our optimism stems from the knowledge that these two firms are local businesses whose partners are well acquainted with our neighborhood: Jonathan Marvel has the ability to design a new building which truly addresses the complexities of this project on such an important site. Hudson Companies has an established track record for project completion — including affordable housing components.
We are pleased by Hudson/Marvel’s commitment to provide interim service during construction of the new library, which was a clear requirement in the RFP. The off-site affordable housing, which must be within Community District 2 boundaries, will allow for a less bulky building on this constricted site. It is an important BPL condition that the condominium certificate of occupancy be tied to the completion of the affordable housing component.
BPL trustees have said, “This is the beginning.” That is indeed true in the sense that the city’s public land use review process (ULURP) has not yet begun. Going forward, we expect our Brooklyn Heights Association members and all library neighbors and users to comment constructively towards the goal of housing a light-filled, welcoming library, in an exceptionally well designed new building. We’ll need everyone’s help to get us there.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of 2002
By: Glenn BurnSilver
Out with one year and in with the next. The music, of course carries across time. 2002 can be broken down into three simple categories: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly releases of the past year. (And yes, there was even an excellent Ennio Morricone remix album, Morricone RMX, that included numerous mixes of Clint Eastwood movie soundtracks.) So, let's get the bad and ugly out of the way first this time so we can close 2002 with pleasant musical memories.
The Bad: Surprisingly, Eric Clapton's One More Car, One More Rider (Reprise) is little more than an uninspired live album from his last tour. There are a few great solos from this former guitar God, but otherwise nothing to write home about. Chris Isaak suffers the fate of repetition on Always Got Tonight (Reprise). The title track incorporates a heavy modern funk layer and rock power cords over that ever-present twang -- the albums highlight. Otherwise, Isaak's formula is too tried and true, but unlike his first albums when his "sound" felt fresh and new and he was willing to experiment more, this one comes across a little stale around the edges. The debut self-titled album by the Sahara Hotnights (Jetset) represents little more than an attempt to cash in on the current "rough and raw-sound" re-popularized by The Strokes. This four-piece girl band attempts to be The Runaways for the new millennium, but even with black leather jackets and tough attitudes, can't pack the punch. Want the real thing? Try The Donnas.
The Ugly: The seriously awful releases last year, owed more to overblown image and wasteful media attention (in such trashy fashion magazines as Rolling Stone) as more of a successful guiding force than actually musical quality. Of course, the is no need to belabor the sad contributions from J. Lo, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera. 'Nuff said!
The Good: There was certainly plenty in 2002, but the best of the lot included:
Solomon Burke's Don't Give Up On Me (Fat Possum). Burke, a top rock 'n' soul performer in the 60s, makes a glorious comeback with an album that exudes a fiery brand of gospel-tinged soul shot straight from the, well, soul. The songs, originally done by others (including Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and Brian Wilson) receive glorious makeovers as Burke's baritone breathes new zest into each number. Gospel singers the Blind Boys of Alabama guest on the uplifting spiritual "None Of Us Are Free," adding even more gospel zeal along with stunning vocal harmonies that are nothing short of inspirational and revelatory. Don't Give Up On Me is a showcase of what soul music really is, raw, powerful and feverish in sweat, heart and desire.
With every album The Flaming Lips have progressively reached for new heights and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Warner Brothers) is this year's masterpiece. If it wasn't the Lips, an album like Yoshimi -- the central character who must battle evil robots set on world domination - coming from some other band would have been a tossed aside like a stray lounge/easy listening album trying to hard to masquerade as a trippy rock album, which in some ways it is. And that is where the difference is most relevant. Only for the Lips can this succeed, backed by years of following an internal and slightly skewed musical vision that has once again created a masterpiece of sound and heartfelt emotion amongst a backdrop of unlimited musical imagination.
A positive note for musical crossover experimentation, the Tin Hat Trio reach the furthest with a blend of avant country swing jazz with old world, Eastern European leanings and new world Americana romps on The Rodeo Eroded (Ropadope). At times the music conjures up images back porch southern hill country tales of woe and lament - slow and melancholy - but packing an emotional wallop that only a mournful viola can bring out. Imagine, if you will, songs that seem to float in outer space like some twisted twangy-jazz version of the Twilight Zone and it won't be surprising this album is unparallel and mysterious in a way that is too compelling to ignore.
An uncompromising mixture of styles and overall creative experimentation propels Cornershop's Handcream For A Generation (Beggars Group) with all the moves and grooves, shakes and pops, toasts and hymns of a modern disco, rock, techno, soul, jazz, reggae, dub, power-pop, hip-hop and Indian raga-inspired masterpiece. Whoa! It is all there in a manner of controlled mayhem that works to perfection under Singh's guidance. "Lesson's Learned from Rock I to Rocky III" may just be one of the best songs of 2002. Handcream bounces around in the head until you just have to play it again--and again.
Unlike Wilco's previous efforts, the country twang and pedal-steel wail is much more subdued and in many cases barley discernable altogether. Instead, Yankee Foxtrot Hotel (Nonesuch) finds front man Jeff Tweedy pushing the musical envelope once again, albeit in a new direction beyond the somehow defined alt-country limitations. Where does it say the songs have to be whiney and mellow to the point of sleepiness? Guitars feedback and distort, Rolling Stone "ooo ooh's" reverberate in the mix, sampled sounds come and go, horns and piano appear in the most unexpected places with an occasional psychedelic excursion thrown in. YFH feels more like a vintage rock album that has been updated and reworked into something fresh and accessible for a modern generation of listeners searching for something extraordinarily different.
One of the best jazz releases in 2002, Vietnam: the aftermath (Justin Time) finds violinist and composer Billy Bang reaching into his heart to musically extract the nightmares and demons he has carried inside since his days as a soldier in Vietnam. Bang takes lush Southeast Asian harmonies and carefully sets them against jazz formats that run the gamut from traditional to abstract to classical, dabbling as well with rock and blues textures. The music conjures up sad images, tension filled moments, disturbing experiences and the horrors of combat on a tortured walk through a mysterious jungle landscape; one that is full of dangerous surprises.
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ATLANTA, Nov. 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In response to the strong global demand for specialty Biogums products, CP Kelco announced today its plans to invest in building capabilities and expanding production capacity.
As a leading global producer and innovator of hydrocolloid solutions, CP Kelco is reinforcing its commitment to three Biogums product lines – gellan gum, specialty xanthan gum and diutan gum – through these key operational initiatives:
- Adding gellan gum production capabilities in the company’s Wulian, China facility to support growth in the Asia Pacific region;
- Expanding the overall capacity of the Wulian, China facility to support growth across all three specialty Biogums product lines; and
- Expanding the recently added gellan gum production capacity in the company’s Okmulgee, Oklahoma, USA facility.
In addition to the planned investments in new production capabilities and capacity, CP Kelco is equally committed to ensuring its Biogums products meet the high standards of quality and food safety established for all industry segments it serves. “As regulatory requirements related to our products increase, CP Kelco will continually invest in operational and innovative developments to help ensure we can meet or exceed our customers’ expectations,” said Didier Viala, president of CP Kelco.
CP Kelco’s fermentation-derived Biogums products provide stabilization, texture, suspension and viscosity in a wide variety of food, beverage, personal care, household care, pharmaceutical and industrial products and applications. Since introducing these Biogums products to the industry over the last three decades, CP Kelco continues to focus on enabling its customers’ success and addressing the evolving, dynamic needs of the global market.
About CP Kelco
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, CP Kelco is a leading producer of specialty hydrocolloids with offices and facilities across the globe. Featuring an extensive range of hydrocolloid solutions and serving over 100 countries, CP Kelco leverages its capabilities to bring concepts and ideas to real-world products in a broad range of applications. The company’s specialty ingredients touch a wide variety of consumer and household products and industrial applications, tailored to meet the needs of regional consumers. Key product lines are Gellan Gum, Pectin, Carrageenan, Xanthan Gum, Diutan Gum, Refined Locust Bean Gum, Carboxymethyl Cellulose and Microparticulated Whey Protein Concentrate, as well as other unique biopolymers. Visit www.cpkelco.com for more information.
CONTACT: Michele Cacdac-Jones Director of Global Communications Office: +1 678 247 7149 michele.cacdac-jones@cpkelco.
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Decentralisation is a means to improve access to services and engage citizens and community representatives in public affairs and decision-making. We suggest reforms and best practice in order to strenghten the local political capacity.
Various aspects of decentralisation are integrated in most of our assignments, and we provide the following expertise to policy development and strategy implementation:
- Programming of support to decentralisation
- Designing of decentralisation policies and implementation plans
- Defining stakeholders and pin-pointing the relevant sequence of roll-out in the implementation of strategies
- Supporting to the design and management of critical reforms
SKL International’s decentralisation reform services are specified through a close cooperation with our clients, often donors, ministries, and local or regional authority associations. The clients’ requests vary from supporting the development of comprehensive policies to implementation plans and roll-outs for beneficiaries and donors.
By piloting certain reforms, we also strive to build good practice upon which to base a concept for roll-out on a wider regional and/or national level. Pilot reforms can for example relate to the instalment of key roles and functions, procedures and processes that increase local decision-making and improve service delivery.
Searching for the Tunisian way
In the Tunisia Local Governance Pilot Project, SKL International has partnered with the National Federation of Tunisian Cities (FNVT). The project aims to provide immediate exposure and analysis to Tunisian local actors in order to help them define and advocate for the most optimal system of regional and local government. The tasks in this project include forming a working group on decentralization, providing regional consultations and a detailed study to outline options for territorial reform, and to transfer competencies to future local government units.
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20 Traits Of An Extremely Sarcastic Girlfriend
Dating a sarcastic girl is not as bad as it sounds. Sarcasm might sometimes feel like an offence, but in fact, it’s more complicated than that. Sarcastic people are not mean; they just share their own unique kind of humor.
Here are 20 things you need to know about your sarcastic girlfriend:
1. She is not easily offended.
One of the best traits of a sarcastic girl is that she doesn’t take words so seriously. She understands when something is a joke and she’s not hypersensitive with everything she hears. You can say almost whatever you want in front of her – at least whatever you would discuss with your best friend!
2. She knows how to have fun.
The fact that she has a good sense of humor allows this girl to have fun the best way she can. You’ll never be bored when you’re around her, she can always find a way to keep you both excited.
3. She has a unique way of showing her affection.
Sarcastic girls won’t tell you “I love you”, at least not so fast. You need to wait for her to be truly assured that you’re the one for her. However, a sarcastic girl can show you her affection in… sarcastic ways.
4. She likes messing with you in a good way.
Don’t take things too seriously. She likes being sarcastic, because that’s who she really is. She doesn’t mean to offend you or upset you. It’s her way of sharing her thoughts and her feelings.
5. She’s really honest.
She will always tell you what she thinks, no matter what. That can be good, but it can also be painful sometimes. The thing is that you will never need to be suspicious or jealous. She values honesty more than anything.
6. She values personality more than appearance.
Sarcasm is a sign of a really great personality. This girl is really smart, like all people with a good sense of humour. That’s why she likes hanging out with intelligent people. And if she thinks appearance is not the most important thing in a relationship… well, that’s a trait.
7. Sarcasm is a way to defend herself.
Being sarcastic doesn’t mean she’s untouchable. She has her weaknesses too. Maybe that’s what she tries to hide by being ironic most of the time. She needs to trust you completely to show you her insecurities, but then you’ll love her even more.
8. She can be really shy.
You might think that’s she’s a totally extroverted person, but the truth is that she becomes easily shy. Try to meet her to your friends or even your parents and you’ll find out. When she values someone, she starts feeling insecure. So don’t forget to make her feel comfortable – she’s a human being with human feelings too!
9. She doesn’t flirt like the other girls.
A sarcastic girl loves flirting by laughing at the other person or by completely ignoring them! It sounds a little immature and maybe it is, but you have to admit that it’s also playful and sweet.
10. She is spontaneous.
She likes living every moment of her life without thinking too much. She likes making fast decisions, having a good time and making weird jokes. That’s who she is and probably that’s why you love her.
11. But she sometimes wishes she could think before she speaks.
There are things we all wish we didn’t say. Imagine how a sarcastic person feels about such things. They say mean things all the time, without even meaning them. But if you don’t know them, you can easily hate them because of that.
12. She will occasionally say something incredibly honest, but you won’t realize it because you’ll think she’s being sarcastic.
Then, she will feel pretty foolish for putting herself out there.
13. She does get hurt easily, but she never admits it.
You’ll rarely see her cry. She likes to hide her tears, because she doesn’t enjoy seeming vulnerable. You need to start understanding her reactions so that you’ll comfort her when she gets hurt. It’s really hard for her to admit it!
14. She’s really proud.
That can be a bad thing because she rarely admits she’s mistaken about something. When she realize she said something wrong, she stops talking and she looks really angry. She’s basically angry with herself.
15. She doesn’t really know how to make a move.
She truly doesn’t know how to give you the signal that she likes you/loves you/cares about you/wants to apologize. She’s just hoping you will see through her sarcasm and see she’s basically dying for you to notice her.
16. She can see right through you.
Understanding other people’s state of mind and emotions are related to her ability to understand sarcasm. If she is responding with a sarcastic remark to your excuse, then she probably doesn’t believe you. So you’d better watch out!
17. She is an introvert.
That’s because she finds meeting new people exhausting! She has to be nice and friendly, until she knows them well enough to unveil her true self.
18. She likes dating smart people.
You are not the type to keep quite at her nonsensical comments and more often than not, provide some extremely witty comebacks of your own.
19. She can somehow insult you whilst making you laugh.
You don’t even realize until after, but by then her humor has won your forgiveness. That’s why she’s adorable.
20. She doesn’t have a lot of friends.
But it’s not because people hate her sarcasm. It’s actually because she likes choosing the right people to be by her side. She also believes that the less, the better. So if you’re her boyfriend, you’re a lucky guy. And remember: she chose you!
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Cuesta: The Premier Web Developer for the Education Industry
Cuesta is different from most Web development companies. We come to the Web and Internet "platforms" with a background steeped in education, computer science and user-interface design. As educational software developers, we are known throughout the industry as experts in Websites for education publishers and vendors. We are proud of our reputation as the education industry's premier Web developer.
We regularly attend education conferences and networking events such as EdNet and AEP/AAP. We are early adopters of the LRMI (Learning Resource Metadata Initiative) and are prepared to implement technologies for our clients that will allow them to take advantage of tagging systems when the time is right. Because of our advanced database technologies, our clients will be able to implement these features with relative ease, unlike many publishers who will have to start from scratch.
Cuesta can also provide freelance services such as proofreading, catalog copy, content editing and social media marketing. We offer development of lessons/activities for textbook and supplemental book publishers. Experienced with both print and Web-based materials, our staff is composed of seasoned professionals who are well connected in the education publishing and ed-tech communities. Some of us even venture into the classroom as substitute teachers from time to timein order to refresh our memories about what a teacher's day is really like, and to take a closer look at school purchasing requirements.
Cuesta's Web Marketing Services: What We Can Do For You
Client History: CDW's GetEdFunding - GetEdFunding.com CDW-G, together with its marketing consultant, came to Cuesta with an idea about how it could make the lives of educators easier while seeking funding opportunities.
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There are no words that could take away the heartbreak and profound grief of a parent who just found out that their child has died as the result of a horrific crime. I won’t even pretend to comprehend that the depth of this kind of grief. However, I do know that collectively people can help with healing by giving the family words and actions of comfort and to not forget their child.
I recently received this information and I pass it on to those who read this blog. It is the address to the SANDY HOOK School where cards are being received and will be disseminated to the families of the fallen and the staff.
Here is the address and thank you.
PO Box 783
Sandy Hook, CT 06482
Attention: Chief William Halstead
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This very large eagle catches fish or sea birds with a low, slow approach, dropping its feet into the water to snatch the prey and then taking it to shore. These eagles were persecuted to extinction by 1918, but in 1975 a release programme was started on Rùm in Scotland. The population in Scotland is now around 60 breeding pairs, with over 200 adult birds. Since eagles readily feed on carrion, they get blamed for killing animals they are unlikely to kill. The financial benefit to Scotland from tourists coming to photograph these stunning birds is approximately £5 million a year.
The merlin, which belongs to the falcon family, is the smallest UK raptor and can be found during the spring and summer on the uplands, nesting on the ground underneath heather. A specialist bird-catcher, it feeds its young on larks and meadow pipits in the summer. Females are brown, as are juveniles, while adult males have a blue-grey back. Once the autumn arrives, these birds move to lowlands, in a partial migration, for the winter. Since merlins are fast, agile and small, they are not commonly seen, but energetic young make a spectacular ringing flight after larks.
Larger than the merlin, this little falcon migrates to the UK from Africa in the spring to breed. With its long, sickle-shaped wings, it resembles a giant swift and is incredibly nimble in flight. Feeding on dragonflies and other insects, the hobby is often seen near large bodies of water. It nests using abandoned crows’ nests, and during the breeding season it hunts for swallows and swifts to feed its young. Once the young are able to fly and can hunt for themselves, hobbies migrate with the swallows back to Africa.
By the 1970s, the common (or Eurasian) buzzard was rare in the UK other than in the far west. Since then, however, there has been a huge increase thanks to more nesting areas and to rabbits surviving myxomatosis, and buzzards are now breeding in every county. Buzzards are usually seen on fi ne days soaring and calling, with a mewing cry, or sitting on poles, on fences by roads or on the ground, particularly when ploughed in the winter. They scavenge roadkill, which can cause them traffic injuries, or feed on insects on the ground. There is enormous colour variation in this species, from almost all cream to very dark brown.
The golden eagle prefers remote moorlands and mountains in Scotland, usually nesting on cliff ledges. It soars over the Highlands, catching rabbits, hares and birds with its very powerful feet. It also consumes carrion, in some areas being reliant on dead animals during the winter. Golden eagles pair for life. Of the two eggs that the female lays, one chick rarely survives, the other fl edging at about three-and-a-half months. Juveniles have a mottled white and brown tail with a black band, which turns brown over the years. The golden feathers that give this eagle its name are on the head and the neck.
Once the UK’s most common raptor, observed hovering by roads and motorways, this falcon has seen a decrease of 40 per cent over the past two decades. A key reason for the decline is the lack of sufficient nest sites and suitable grasslands for hunting. Kestrels are characterised by a beautiful chestnut-red colour over their bodies. The female has a red tail with bars, while the adult male has a grey head and grey tail with a black band at its tip. These birds are best known for hunting mice and voles by hovering, often descending in stages to drop on their prey.
This aggressive, forest-dwelling hunter was probably extinct as a breeder until the middle of the 20th century. Its wing shape allows it to twist and turn through trees, and its long legs and powerful feet are well suited to hunting birds and mammals up to the size of a hare, with a short, often surprise attack. Adults are grey and white, with fi ne horizontal bars on the breast, while juveniles are brown, with vertical brown stripes. Goshawks build large stick nests and lay up to four eggs. The parents are vocal in the spring, when they can sometimes be seen soaring high in good weather.
This little hawk is most commonly seen in gardens catching small birds. Its defining features are very long, thin legs and yellow eyes. Males are tiny in comparison to females. Both hunt birds, but females can take birds up to the size of a pigeon. The sparrowhawk is often blamed, wrongly, for the demise of small birds, while in fact it is cats, cars, windows and pesticides that are responsible. Sparrowhawks build a stick nest and rear up to five young. The young grow swiftly and become independent by the age of 14 weeks, although onlyabout a third survive their first year.
By 1903, red kites had been persecuted close to extinction, with the last few remaining in the mountains of Wales, when a farmer started to feed them. Now, with four feeding stations, there are 900 pairs in Wales. There have been very successful translocation programmes in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, so kites are now seen soaring together in many places. Long wings, a long, forked tail and red colour make the red kite easy to identify. These birds are mainly scavengers, feeding on roadkill and animal remains. They have small feet for their body size, which limits the prey they can catch.
Brought to low numbers by pesticides in the middle of the 20th century, the peregrine has recovered dramatically. Many peregrines are now urban birds, nesting on cathedrals, other tall buildings and bridges. Probably the fastest living creature, the peregrine hunts birds up to the size of large gulls, almost always on the wing. It has a short tail and long, pointed wings. The juveniles are brown, while the adults have a grey-blue back. In the UK, these birds are sedentary, but peregrines in other areas can be migratory, and they are the most widely spread raptors worldwide.
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Man Buys Daily Nation Ad-Space to Pen This Request to Sonko
A Nairobi resident, Philip Sagoti, on Wednesday, bought an ad-space on Daily Nation and penned a letter requesting Nairobi Governor, Mike Mbuvi Sonko, to offer him a job.
In the letter, Sagoti stated that he was a university graduate with over 15 years of experience in public service.
"Hon. Sonko I have reached out to you openly because I am not sure if my earlier communication did reach you. I also know that you cherish openness and transparency.
"I am driven by a strong conviction that I could make a significant contribution to your efforts to improve Nairobi city," Sigoi wrote.
He also vowed that he would meet the expectations of the Nairobi residents if he was accorded the opportunity.
"I look forward to your consideration to make me part of the leadership in Nairobi county," he concluded.
The Nairobi Deputy Governor seat was left vacant after January 2018, after Polycarp Igathe resigned.
Igathe claimed that he had failed to earn the governor's trust in driving the administration and management duties of the county.
In April 2019, when the Nairobi Governor was summoned by the Senate to explain why he did not have a deputy, he divulged that it was a non-issue.
“You cannot abuse your powers and compel me to appoint a DG. I cannot say the steps unless you senators pass the County Government Bill and it's accepted by the president. Until then I will not,” he told the Senate Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations.
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Subsets and Splits
Topic Frequency in Train Set
Counts the frequency of each topic in the dataset, providing a basic understanding of topic distribution.