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DUEL AT DIABLO is a 1966 western starring James Garner and Sidney Poitier and based on the novel APACHE RISING by Marvin H. Albert, who co-wrote the screenplay. Directed by Ralph Nelson, I didn’t recognize the name until I’d seen some of the other films he’d directed(Lillies of The Field, Charly, Requiem For A Heavyweight, and Soldier Blue among others). A supporting cast includes Dennis Weaver and Bibi Andersson.
Jess Remsberg(Garner) is headed toward Fort Creel, sent for by his friend Lt. Scotty McAllister, former sergeant with vision of General down the road, when he comes across an army scout tortured to death by the Apache. At the same time, he spots a woman(Andersson) on a horse as it collapses who is being followed by a couple of Indians. When he rescues her, she tells him shes come from Fort Creel and he takes her back, much against her will. Her husband is Willard Grange(Weaver), a freighter in the town by the Fort.
Ellen Grange is not welcomed back by any of the townspeople they pass or her husband. Turns out she’d been recently returned after a year’s captivity of the Apaches when she’d been rescued. Her husband was more concerned with the horse she’d stolen to leave.
We learn why he’d been summoned when McAllister shows him a scalp with a bell tied into it. It had come from his Commanche wife, who’d been murdered and scalped. He’d quit scouting to go looking for her murderer. The lieutenant had gotten it from the Marshall, a gunman, of the town by another fort. He was either the one who killed his wife or knew who did.
Remsberg is convinced to scout for McAllister, who’s got to lead a troop of green soldiers to deliver ammunition and powder, as well as horses, to the other fort. The area between the two forts is filled with Apaches broken off the reservation and on the warpath. Sidney Poitier is a former army sergeant, now horse dealer, who’d sold the horses to the army. He’s forced to go along as the deal was contracted to be for saddle broke horses and he hadn’t had time to break but half before they have to move out. If he wants the rest of his money, he has to go along and work on them on the trip.
Weaver wants to deliver supplies to the other fort as well and gets the Fort Creel commander to let him accompany the troops, much against McAllister’s wishes.
As they are leaving, Garner learns Ellen Grange had run off again, stealing another horse. He’d rescued her a second time the night before when four townies had caught her trying to steal a horse and were intent on “getting what she’d given them Indians for a year,” returning her to her home. I had an idea of why she’d been so hard to return to the Apaches and was proved right. Think on it.
Garner is scouting and looking for Apaches when he finds them trooping along, full village with women and children, including Ellen, reports back. The troops are outnumbered by fighting men two to one and their opponents are not green, then goes out once more. He finds where they set up a new village, at a watering hole, with all warriors but a few gone. There he rescues Ellen- and her baby, the grandson of the chief, Chata, heading back for the troops.
They had been ambushed by the Indians and were pinned down, chuck wagon and extra water destroyed, half the men dead, a number of others seriously wounded. Garner reports the only water holes between them and their destination is one twenty miles away, where the Apache village is situated, and Diablo Canyon, only a half mile away, but the only way in and out is where Chata has most of the band located.
That’s when McAllister comes up with a desperate plan. When darkness falls, the troops set out with the wagons at a hard run. Garner, Poitier, and a couple of men stay behind under the cover of darkness. Chata won’t be in any hurry to catch them as they are pulling heavy wagons. They are to go but a short distance, then turn as though heading toward the water hole where the village is set up. When they draw the Apaches away, Garner, Poitier, and the others are to secure Diablo Canyon, taking care of any Indians left to guard it, then Garner is to take off for the fort for reinforcements. Then the troops switch and make a fast run for Diablo and hope they can hold out.
Garner is pursued by two Indians and hsi canteen has been holed by a stray bullet.
Does he get to the fort? Do the troops arrive in time? Does Garner find the man who killed his wife?
Watch the movie and find out.
I have seen this one. Your post brought back most of the details.
One of the things I love about this film is a jaunty little jazz score by Neal Hefti that somehow really complements the film.
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I’m still on vacation, enjoying not having deadlines or my future looming over my head, but I do want to take a break from my cocktails-and-home-cooking existence to say a quick something about the season we now find ourselves in.
Right now, I’m writing this from a chair in my mother’s house in West Hartford, Connecticut, which is pretty much exactly the bourgeois white peoplesville you think it is. I just took a 20 minute trip to pick up groceries, and everywhere there were people out shopping, because it is Black Friday, one of the ultimate consumerist holidays, where Americans move as one to go spend money on useless shit for Christmas, because the norms of our society have told them that is what they are supposed to do.
This post isn’t necessarily about Black Friday, or how awful it is. You already know all about that. I want to say a quick something about who is out there making sure you can buy your widgets and iThings.
Think about the last thing you bought at a store, or the last time you ate out or got a coffee. Do you remember the person who rang your order up? What they looked like? What their name was? What, if anything, you talked about? Do you remember anything about them whatsoever, other than that they facilitated your consumption?
Today, and even yesterday, thousands of workers are on the job, away from their families, denied any sort of holiday break whatsoever because there are millions of you who feel the primeval urge to get deals and buy things. Many of them are on strike today because they know that enough is enough.And they’re not just striking because of today. They’re striking because worker’s rights in our country are not-so-slowly being eradicated. Things that used to be guaranteed, like health insurance and other benefits are becoming things of the past.
In the restaurant industry, it is even worse. The people who are cooking and serving your food are working for some of the lowest wages in America, for which they pull insane hours with absolute no benefits, guaranteed vacations, or anything to lessen the burden. People working the line kill themselves for you, for strangers, not for a necessity, but because you decided that day you didn’t want to cook, or that you wanted to spend a bit of extra money to dress up and be seen at that new hot spot, to brag to your friends that you went there. And the kitchen staff carries on, at great personal cost, usually with no recognition whatsoever. The front of the house, the waiters and bartenders, have probably been on their feet for six or seven hours straight by the time you see them, making less than minimum wage, dependent on tips to survive.
Remember this whenever you go out to eat, or to a shop to buy clothes or groceries or whatever. The person helping you out, answering your silly questions, are having bad days. They are working their asses off for your pleasure, and that day they’ve probably sweated and bled more to do it than you ever have in your life. Check yourself, don’t get pissy that the place you’re eating doesn’t have exactly what you want, don’t make absurd demands on sales staff. You’re not helping. You’re being an asshole, and you need to stop.
Additionally, regarding the cashiers who annoy you with small talk and other seemingly inane queries…they have to do that. “Secret Shopper” programs make being fired for not talking to you a very real threat; the various companies want them to ask you those questions.
I wasn’t referring to employees asking inane questions. I was referring to customers asking them.
How would you like to see this problem solved on a national level? Or to whatever degree beyond your reader base and immediate social circles? Do you think spreading an idea of individual social consciousness will do the trick?
To be honest, I don’t exactly know. Any struggle like this, one where we are working against ingrained social attitudes, requires a lot of time and a lot of effort. Treating service staff better is a small thing, but it starts to go a long way. The more people who see cooks, waiters, busboys, shop clerks, etc. as people, the more people who will know about their working conditions and want to do something.
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What's good, young ho? You about it?
Got a loft right now, you're excited
You excited?
from The Weeknd – Loft Music Lyrics on Rap Genius
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On to the next one. He already sees the potential in another pretty young impressionable thing, seeing the excitement in her face when he tells her about his loft.
To help improve the meaning of these lyrics, visit "Loft Music" by The Weeknd Lyrics and leave a comment on the lyrics box
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Divided Supreme Court upholds DNA swabbing
The Supreme Court didn’t announce a decision on affirmative action on Monday, but it did rule on a major privacy issue involving DNA tests and arrests.
At issue in the ruling Monday was if taking DNA samples from a person in custody, without a warrant, was an unconstitutional "search."
The Fourth Amendment guarantees a person’s right against unreasonable searches.
Link: Read the court’s decision
Kennedy in the court’s majority opinion.
The dissenters included the unusual combination of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, and three liberals: Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
"The court's assertion that DNA is being taken, not to solve crimes, but to identify those in the state's custody, taxes the credulity of the credulous,” said Scalia. “And the court's comparison of Maryland's DNA searches to other techniques, such as fingerprinting, can seem apt only to those who know no more than today's opinion has chosen to tell them about how those DNA searches actually work."
“Make no mistake about it: because of today’s decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason,” Scalia said.
The decision in Maryland v. King upheld the rape conviction of Alonzo King. When King was arrested for an alleged assault in 2009, a DNA sample was taken under Maryland law that identified him as a suspect in an unsolved rape from 2003.
About 28 states and the federal government allow taking DNA swabs after arrests.
The Maryland Court of Appeals had reversed King’s rape conviction, saying it was illegal for officers to take King’s DNA sample without approval from a judge.
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Dr. Dre said it best 'a bitch is a bitch'
from Game – 240 bars Lyrics on Rap Genius
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The lyric "Dr. Dre said it best 'a bitch is a bitch'" from "240 bars" by Game has not yet been explained. To explain these lyrics, visit "240 bars" by Game Lyrics , highlight the lyrics, and click 'explain'
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Starbucks Announces Price Hikes On Drinks & Packaged Coffee ProductsStarbucks Announces Price Hikes On Drinks & Packaged Coffee Products
Blaming a drought in Brazil, the country with that soccer thing going on, Starbucks is hitching cafe prices by less than 1%, while ground and whole-bean coffees at retails stores will go up by about 8% on average, a company spokesman told Bloomberg.
Medium and large-sized brewed coffee will cost about $0.10 to $0.15 more in most U.S. cafes starting June 24, with small and large-sized lattes and mochas adding $0.15 to $0.20 in places. Food and iced-coffee frappuccino drinks are safe.
Then on July 21, the suggested retail price for a 12-ounce bag of Starbucks branded coffee will go to $9.99 from $8.99. Staying the same price: Keurig K-Cup, Via instant coffee and Seattle’s Best coffee.
“We consider many different factors when we make pricing decisions including competitive dynamics and including changes to our overall cost structure,” the spokesman said, telling Businessweek that the price increases have nothing to do with the company’s recent education initiative.
He adds that “this pricing adjustment is in no way related to the education announcement we made earlier this week.”
Starbucks Raises Prices as Arabica Coffee Costs Increase [Bloomberg]
Starbucks Says Upcoming Price Increase ‘Is in No Way Related to’ Tuition Program [Businessweek]
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If I’m an island then will you brave the waters and sail home to me?– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
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sawthesuns: madamtoluene: WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY IN SPANISH Wait I finally got to watch this. It’s just a thousand times funnier in spanish ohgodwhy. I started laughing so fucking hard before I even pressed play because I actually watched this episode in spanish while I was in Venezuela
seriously though if I close my eyes for more than 30 seconds I’m gone.
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Anonymous asked: I think you're absolutely gorgeous.
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in case you were wondering why I haven't been on...
my internet was down at home. but now we’ve got internet. shit’s dope. gonna watch game of thrones tonight, wsaddududuppdpspsppspspssp
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Well here’s one Cub fan that is breathing a sigh of relief! I bleed blue through and through, and can take somewhat of a breather as Mr. Tom Ricketts took the bid as the favored bidder from the Tribune Company. Mr. Ricketts bid the small sum of $900 million for the team!
Wow! He and his family built their empire in, of all places, Omaha Neb.! They amassed a fortune by having a discount brokerage firm. At this point Mr. Ricketts and his firm must still get the a-okay from the baseball owners and of course, they need to secure the financing in the absolute worse money market of all time. With my fan fingers crossed; I’m hoping that the deal goes through. Why? Ultimately because he is a fan first! He’s actually a Cub fan and lived for some time across the street from the famous ballpark; Wrigley Field! And cites his many ventures out in the bleechers; where the utmost hard-core fan (and the drunkest)prefers to sit! It was rumored that he may have proposed to his wife there too! Fabulous! What more could a true Cub fan want?
Of course a cub fan wants a ticket to the ship! We don’t want to, but our beloved Cub team needs to go to the World Series and continue to build on a tradition of team players that have the same desire. Hopefully, by opening day of this new year of baseball play, the team will have a new owner and the new baseball team will sieze the coveted title of the best !
Good Luck Mr. Ricketts, good luck Cubs and good luck fans this year could be the year!
Just my thoughts, just my opinions, and always in a conversationalTone.
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May 2009 sees the opening of Manta at SeaWorld Orlando – a world-first combined coaster and marine-life attraction that captures the speed, power and grace of the mysterious manta ray.
A cutting edge marriage of steel and sea, Manta will immerse visitors in a mesmerising underwater universe with close-up views of rays and colourful sea creatures, before 'flying' riders facedown in giant manta ray shaped carriages. Visitors will soar through the air and skim across water, flying at speeds approaching 60mph, heights up to 140ft and through four inversions.
Non-riders will also be able to experience Manta, through memorable face-to-fin encounters within a 7-acre, uniquely SeaWorld marine experience. Thousands of fish and over 300 rays from five different species will float past floor-to-ceiling windows with fluidity and grace in a view new to SeaWorld.
Manta is being created with Bolliger & Mabillard, the renowned creators of Air at Alton Towers, SheiKra at Busch Gardens Tampa and Kraken at SeaWorld Orlando.
Other unforgettable experiences at SeaWorld include up-close animal encounters, world-class attractions and awe-inspiring performances that immerse guests in the mysteries of the sea.
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Serve: 12-13 Paratha
Time: 20 Minutes
Filling:
2 Cup Cabbage shredded
1 Cup green peas
1 small onion chopped
6-7 green chilies
2-3 tsp coriander finely chopped
4-5 curry leaves
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp Garam masala
2-3 garlic cloves
1 tsp oil
salt to taste
Dough:
2 Cup whole wheat flour
1/2 Cup all purpose flour(optional)
1 tsp oil
water
salt to taste
Method:
For dough:
1. Mix flour, salt, oil in deep flat vessel.
2. Add water little at a time, knead well to get soft dough.
3. Keep aside at least for 30-40 min, keep it covered.
For Cabbage Filling:
1. Wash shredded cabbage in hot water to remove its strong smell (optional).
2. Blend onion, green chilies, curry leaves, coriander leaves, garlic cloves to smooth paste.
3. Heat oil in non-stick pan, add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, onion, garlic, chili paste and saute well.
5. Add shredded cabbage, green peas, garam masala powder, salt and mix well.
6. Cook for 4-5 mins. Smash each peas with flat end stapula.
7. Let it cool for 4-5 Minutes.
Making Paratha:
1. Make 1 small boll of dough each at one time.
2. Roll a slice of dough to a small circular shape. Put small ball of cooked cabbage cabbage stuffing ball can depend on your choice, as per thickness of parathas.
4. You can use leftover cabbage subji to make such parathas or any other dry subji can be used.
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Here are the slides used by D.A. Horton during his session on Authority at the MANUP2012 Conference & Concert Finale.
By Shai Linne
Shai Linne recently gave a lecture at Capitol Hill Baptist Church on Christianity and the Arts.
By Anthony Carter
There is no more noble pursuit or grand discovery than is the pursuit and discovery of the knowledge of God.
One of the most effective ways you can minister to your pastor is to pray for him.
Here is the daily reading bible plan as found in the ESV Study Bible.
By Francis Chan
Excerpts taken from Francis Chan's book "Crazy Love" regarding Lukewarm people.
How can I have a biblical view on productivity?
By Tim Keller
Tim Keller on the Centrality of the Gospel.
Here is a study on the Holy Spirit.
Here is a curriculum on Biblical Interpretation.
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Cosmos country has become a streaky bunch since the reboot era has arrived. As such, every week that the Cosmos play we ask ourselves, what streak are we keeping alive today? Cosmos country has enjoyed a pretty crazy streak of beautiful weather for home games dating back to 8/3/13 of last year when they played their first home match against the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers. It has never rained for a home match. The weather this Saturday calls for rain, will we keep that streak alive?
On the field, the New York Cosmos have gone 14 matches in NASL play since the last time they suffered defeat against the Carolina Railhawks, Ironically enough, it rained that day in Carolina pretty bad and the Cosmos dropped that match 3-0.
Speaking of shutouts, that brings to light another streak that is currently in the works for the boys in green. The Cosmos have gone four straight matches without giving up a goal dating back to 2013. Once again there is irony with this streak as well as the last team that managed to score a goal was this Saturday’s opponent, the San Antonio Scorpions. In that match, the Cosmos would win by a score of 2-1. Funny thing too, the Scorpions scored their lone goal in the third minute when Tomasz Zahorski managed to get one by Kyle Reynish. The rest of the match was dominated defensively by the NY Cosmos. Zahorski will be back and ready to play the NY Cosmos in hopes of scoring again. Another player to watch on the San Antonio Scorpions will be tough guy Julius James (#3 if you want to harass him). James sat out the Scorpions last match against the Silverbacks in which the Scorpions won 2-1, as a result of picking up a red card in the season opener against Minnesota United FC. After getting kicked in the head during a play by Tiago Calvano of Minnesota, James retaliated by shoving Calvano down and standing over him and taunting him. He’s hungry to get back on the pitch and play the defending NASL champions.
Not to back down from a challenge from James or any other player on the Scorpions, the New York Cosmos are locked and focused on one thing – the Spring NASL title. In a short NASL season, letting those teams at their heels gain an upperhand is not an option for the NY Cosmos. Minnesota United FC is also 2-0 on the season coming into this weekend’s action and will be matching up with FC Edmonton Saturday night at 8pm. Here are the other matches in the NASL for week 3:
All matches are on Saturday 4/26-
Carolina Railhawks at Ottawa Fury – 3:00pm
Indy Eleven at Ft. Lauderdale Stikers – 7:30pm
Atlanta Silverbacks at Tampa Bay Rowdies – 7:30pm
Don’t’ forget to visit “Fan Fest” prior to each Cosmos home match starting at 5pm. Don’t have children and fan fest is not your thing? No problem- make sure to check out the tailgate thrown by the Supporters Groups, the Borough boys and the Cross Island Crew also starting at 5pm in the parking lot behind Social Kitchen.
Finally this week’s promotion will be for the first 1,500 kids attending Saturday’s match. They will each take home a mini 2013 Championship pennant like the one pictured below. Come on out and supports your 2013 NASL champs – the New York Cosmos!
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6. Your taxi driver knows where to eat breakfast more than you do.
Swap this out for tuk-tuk driver, songthaew driver or rickshaw driver, where appropriate. When I go to a new place, I find the eldest cab driver possible and ask him where he ate breakfast.
And perhaps the best tip of all:
8. Oranges are the perfect public transportation snack.
I started bringing a bag of oranges with me for long bus rides, primarily because they quench thirst and smell delicious. I quickly learned that many Thai and Burmese busgoers sniff the peels to stave off nausea, and that kids love oranges. Really: kids LOVE oranges. So for those who want to bring something for the bus ride but rightfully worry about giving sweets to kids, oranges are your friend..
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SO I really wanted to try these new lip stains that seem to be popping up everywhere – BUT there are so many of these brightly colored magic markers out there all claiming to do the same thing that I don’t know where to start! Or should I say I didn’t know where to start, until I came across this article on Nylon (nylonmag.com). Thank you Nylon for narrowing down my options! In the end I chose to go with Revlon’s Just Bitten Lip Stain & Balm in Passion. I chose this particular stain because it comes with a balm. Living in Winnipeg in the winter is no easy feat & with temperatures dropping well below zero every day, my lips need all the moisture they can get.
Although I normally wear a more subtle hue I LOVE this bright color & the stain really stained! I can apply it in the morning & when I get home from work it hasn’t faded or needed any re-application no matter how many Starbucks lattes I drink! I give this one a two thumbs up!!
Photo taken by Jason Herlick
TIP: Exfoliate & lightly moisturize your lips before applying for a flawless finish :)
Are you going to try a lip stain? Let me know – I’d love to know what you chose! To read the full article on Nylon click HERE.
OMG what a totally awesome picture,, nice color for a “stain”. you and Jay work so well together with this blog !!!
Ok Miss Perfect Complexion! Not fair!!!
awe :) your too sweet! thnx hun!
Those eyes! How did you do that?? You have to show me…
Loving that color stain on you.
thnx!!
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Arabic Guide for Enunciation (AGE) System
Dr. Ahmed Hammam, Professor of Arabic enunciation at the University of Al-Azher, Cairo, Egypt , and Professor Mahmoud Elsayess at the University of Phoenix, have combined their expertise to design and implement a system for teaching correct Arabic enunciation through the study of only 39 sound-syllable lessons. This easy to use software system, Arabic Enunciation Guide, enables students of Arabic to master the precise enunciation of Arabic letters and words with different vowels (Tashkeel). ReadVerse's proprietary software tools can help students build a large, learned Arabic vocabulary and accelerate and enhance the overall Arabic language learning process.
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We want your experience with County Line Nurseries to always be as easy and efficient as possible. That is why we would like to introduce everyone to our quote builder. Simply complete the form below with your information, the job information, and the quantities and sizes of plant material you need. You can even make comments on each item (i.e. “Needs to be high branched for street tree project). You can also build your quote by visiting our catalog and finding your material that way. We hope you enjoy our new feature and as always we are happy to field any questions or concerns you may have.
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What Is Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial intelligence has long been a pipe dream of scientists and science fiction writers. In reality, though, we are nowhere near the practical application of artificial intelligence. True artificial intelligence implies a conscious machine with subjective experiences and thoughts; self-aware, sentient (with the ability to feel) and the capacity for wisdom (sapience).
Apple’s Siri voice-activated personal assistant and Google’s search algorithms are examples of the current state of artificial intelligence. Neither acts on its own nor perceives intentions. You can have a conversation with Siri by interacting with a collection of pre-loaded answers, but there is no intelligence behind it. Siri merely uses a set of rules to select the most appropriate canned answer to your question.
Siri and Google search are examples of what is called “weak artificial intelligence” - or machine intelligence not intended to match the capabilities of human beings. A weak AI engine could recognize characters, play chess or drive a car. But a machine performing intelligent actions is not necessarily acting intelligently. There is a difference between a smart machine (one that can take various inputs and act accordingly) and one that has its own cognitive capabilities. A smartphone can know many things about its surroundings, but does it know to call Mom when your fiance dumps you?
Strong AI lies on the other end of the spectrum. Strong AI presupposes that a machine can match or exceed the intelligence of a human. It can think on its own and perform intelligent calculations as well or better than a human could. Strong AI, as defined by engineering researchers and philosophers, does not currently exist. To find strong AI you need to turn to the science fiction realm of The Terminator, The Matrix or Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot.
How Artificial Intelligence Works
AI combines the theoretical with the philosophical before even getting into the nuts and bolts of how it can be achieved. How do you quantify the theoretical capabilities of a sentient computer when one does not yet exist? To even think about achieving artificial intelligence, one must first answer a very old and still very confusing question: exactly what is intelligence?
Humans consider themselves intelligent because they have the capacity to make sense of the world through a series of brain functions. The human mind integrates many different kinds of sensory information and performs computations to create assertions and judgments.
Take a look at the person closest to you. What do you see?
In your mind you see Dick or Jane - because your brain tells you that the person is Dick or Jane. What you are actually seeing is a variety of agents and individual components that your mind associates with Dick or Jane. Your brain makes instant, complicated computations that define what you see - and then more calculations to decide how to react to that object, perhaps to communicate with it. The neural network that is the human brain works in a complicated web to determine the world around it.
In the realm of artificial intelligence, the classic way to determine intelligent behavior is via the Turing test. Developed by early AI pioneer Alan Turing, the Turing test is designed to see if a machine’s capability for intelligent behavior makes it indistinguishable from that of a human: If you were having a conversation with an entity behind a curtain, could you tell if it was a machine or a human?
The Turing Test may not be the final arbiter of determining whether or not a machine has achieved true strong AI. But it is a good starting point. For instance, if you were talking with a Chatbot, would you think that it is human just because it responds to you with an emotional reply? Or could it merely be responding using a recognition engine, analyzing keywords and phrases?
AI's Potential Impact
Artificial intelligence's many flavors make it devilishly hard to describe what we are looking for. The top of the ladder, the pinnacle of AI, would be sentient computers complete with feelings, emotions and wisdom - just like humans. Let's not get into whether we should create such systems (in science fiction, true AI seldom turns out well) and focus on the research now being done and where it might lead.
As noted, weak AI systems are already paying dividends in Siri, Google, high performance computers with advanced pattern recognition, and many other applications. AI improvements will make these functions smarter, more cognitive and more contextually aware. Consider the pinnacle of weak AI the self-driving car.
AI can also help solve higher functions. Neural networks can help achieve greater depths of data mining to understand huge sets of numbers (for instance, subatomic structures colliding at high speeds). We can give computers human-like vision, and the ability to make complex decisions based on what they see.
Or maybe we'll just build a sub-class of robot slaves to do everything for us while we bask in our own glory. Really, why not?
The AI Challenge
The challenge of creating machine-based, sentient life could not be more profound. But if we reduce intelligence to multi-layered recognition and reaction to a series of inputs, a road map to AI becomes somewhat clearer.
A human brain operates like a like a network, a series of nodes that work together to create intelligent behavior. This neural network is the nuts and bolts of what makes human intelligence. The next goal for artificial intelligence is to create a similar neural network. We may not have the capability to create true strong AI right now, but the building blocks are becoming available.
Think of intelligence as matter of sensors sending information back to a central processor, which then makes judgments. For humans, our sensors are our eyes, ears, fingers, skin, nose, tongue, etc. Those sensors send information back to our brain to inform our perceptions.
A machine can have a variety of sensors as well. A smartphone can see (it has a camera), determine light and proximity, know where it is (GPS), accept input from apps and software, and connect to external information on the Internet or a database through Wi-Fi and cellular technology. These capabilities, loosely described as “agents,” inform the machine.
The next step is to combine these agents to a central system, a “brain,” that can make determinations based on them. Past a certain point, this is not a matter of silicon computer chips, but rather one of software. The central system needs to be able to calculate between the agents to create meaning and action.
Limited examples of these types of actions are already available. The next step for researchers is to advance both the capabilities of the sensors as well as the ability of the software to recognize, react and make determinations on its own.
Unfortunately, that does not get us all the way to true strong artificial intelligence. We can make machines smarter, a lot smarter. But that does not mean we can actually make them intelligent. There is a yawning gap between making a machine understand its surroundings and act upon them - and actual sentience, sapience and self-awareness. As yet, there is no clearly defined understanding of what software or hardware would be needed to accomplish that feat.
This is not an all or nothing proposition. Strong AI, in one form or another, is a likely possibility. Computer vision, neural nets, data mining, machine learning and input, more responsive sensors, predictive analysis, pattern recognition and advanced software to make it all think coherently will all play a role in creating stages of artificial intelligence.
When Will AI Be Ready?
Very rarely will I say this in a Futurist Cheat Sheet but… maybe never. Not in the way it's imagined in science fiction, anyway..
Further Information On AI
- John R. Searle – “Minds, Brains, And Programs” (PDF) (1980)
- Blue Brain Project (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
- iProgrammer – Overview of Articial Intelligence
- Ray Kurzweil – “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence” (2000)
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Previous Futurist Cheat Sheets
- Internet of Things
- Quantum Computing
- Holographic Displays
- Human Augmentation
- Biometric Authentication
Image courtesy of Shutterstock.
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Posted on September 2, 2016, in Send a Smile 4 Kids and tagged Carte Belle Design Paper, Copic Markers, Distress Inks, Doodle Pantry Digital Image, My Favorite Things Die. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
OH….this is fabulous!!! You captured this great image with your coloring. Laurie at Doodle Pantry does a great job too, but love your personal touch. I’ve been so far behind in commenting, but I’ve been visiting your blog posts.
Wonderful colouring and great layout.
Aw, this is a most lovely scarecrow and you’ve colored him up so well, Great layout, too – love the background paper and the banner.
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A good friend of mine, a chief strategy officer at a Fortune 100 company, has shared with me before the frustration of the amount of data the company has accumulated, but has not utilized in order to gather learnings and set a strategy. This has led to underutilized space, lack of space efficiency, and missed collaboration opportunities based on culture environments. The lack of collaboration may have also caused global innovation issues as well.
As I was perusing through my favorite read, The Harvard Business Review, an article entitled, “The Data Scientist: the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century,” caught my attention. In our work with corporate services clients, we’ve found the data frustration to be quite prevalent. Corporations often have their data stored and organized in certain silos, but is never analyzed to tell a story in order to direct a company into deeper innovation, strategic direction or long-term planning.
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One particular case study I found most interesting was based on the company LinkedIn. Jonathan Goldman, a Ph.D. in physics, was hired by LinkedIn to analyze its data and the 8 million accounts they had acquired by 2006. LinkedIn users were not connecting by utilizing the site to search for existing members to make a connection and beyond. “Goldman was one of those people who could coax treasure out of messy, unstructured data,” HBR reported. “He began to test what would happen if you presented users with names of people they hadn’t yet connected with but seemed likely to know-for example, people who had shared their tenures at schools and workplaces.”
Data Scientists are needed in every industry. We are a global marketplace full of information overload, with very little knowledge on how to manipulate the data into a format for strategic growth, innovation, and operational excellence. As we continue to dialogue with corporate executives in need of corporate services within their real estate portfolio; we are finding the expertise of a data scientist would serve our clients well and allow the corporate services teams to make more informed suggestions in order for the client to make a more informed decision.
As the HBR says, “The dominant trait among data scientists is an intense curiosity-a desire to go beneath the surface of a problem, find the questions at its heart, and distill them into a very clear set of hypotheses that can be tested.”
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I hear this question a lot, from those not immersed in the world of scrapbooking. And I know when I first started scrapping, the word confused the heck out of me, too. Crop is a verb… you crop your pictures, cutting them down to a smaller size, right? But somehow crop also became a noun. I don’t know how this happened, but I guess it’s as good a word as any!
So, a crop is basically when scrapbookers pack up everything but the kitchen sink, get together, and scrapbook! It’s pretty simple. Many scrapbook stores have planned “all-day crops,” that might be held from 9am to 6pm… or something like that. My very favorite kind of crop is what used to be referred to more commonly as a “retreat.” A weekend scrapbooking retreat… or crop… is a bunch of women (not being sexist, but in 10 years I’ve never seen a male scrapbooker at a crop!) who get away from home for a few blessed days and spend the weekend talking, laughing, having a great time… and scrapbooking a little, too!
When I first started scrapping and would go to crops, my husband was puzzled. He didn’t understand why we had to scrapbook in groups… because, really, it’s kind of a solitary activity! Other people are NOT required to do this. But one of my favorite things about this hobby is the people I’ve met, the friends I’ve made because of it. And spending a weekend with them is always something I look forward to! Plus, being surrounded by people who are doing the same thing, who have great ideas, is inspirational. And we share supplies/tools, etc.
Scrapbooking can be done alone, but it’s so much more fun when you’re surrounded by other scrapping peeps!
Last weekend, I went to a weekend crop at the Cozy Crop House, near Lancaster, PA. There, I met up with some old scrapping friends and made some new ones. It was such a fun weekend… a great break from reality… and the weekend absolutely FLEW by!! (Packing to go home is always the worst part of a crop!!)
Here is the crop room at the Cozy Crop House… where all of the creating takes place… full of all of our “stuff.”
Scrapbooking does require A LOT of stuff. And it’s always interesting packing and unpacking and seeing what everyone else has. I always feel like I pack way too much, but I’m usually the one with the least when we get there!!
Here was my little scrap area:
It’s also nice when you go to a crop and there’s a store set up! I was impressed with the inventory at the Cozy Crop store… did not expect it to be so nice, honestly. They had all kinds of goodies in there, and it was conveniently located just in the back of the crop room. I spent a bit of time browsing around in there when my creativity left the building!
The Cozy Crop was a lot of fun. All of the other weekend retreats I’ve been to have been at big hotels… where 200 people set up their scrap areas in a huge ballroom. I like that environment, too, but this really was “cozier.” The house was nice, and the environment was so relaxed. I also loved that it was a smaller group… there were 12 of us at the Cozy Crop last weekend. A really nice number because you can spend time talking, catching up, or getting to know one another. When you’re in a ballroom with 199 other people, that doesn’t happen as much… you tend to stick to your little group of friends, anyway. So it seems kinda silly to be there with sooo many people.
So, that’s a crop… in a nutshell! I’m already looking forward to my next one!
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LG seems to be saying to all the other religions of the world – “Fuck You”. But it might placate the Taliban: “If you do not give up watching televisions, you will face violence”. A listing of the Qur’an’s verses about jihad.
Gs PDP division, said in the release.
Muslims can read, listen to Quran on LG television – International Herald Tribune.
24 thoughts on “LG embeds Quran, jihad passages, in big screen tv’s”…
…and those jihad verses are still called jihad…
but we’re not arguing whether it’s free market or not…so how about you show us the stats that indicate Muslims have more disposable income per capita across the world than other religions..or better yet show us all the requests from Muslims for 42 and 50 inch television screens w/ the Qur’an embedded…then we’ll retract our supposition
God forbid there is any mistranslation or depiction of Muhammid on those tv’s…LG will be under the sword
///A listing of the Qur’an’s verses about jihad.///
……..and those jihad verses are still called jihad…
Let’s not be coy. . In countries such as Britain and America, their people. America has so many islamists in every sector. The nation has capitulated to islamisation.” “We have sent you forth to all mankind” (Q. 34:28). If non-Muslims submit to conversion or subjugation, this call (da’wa) can be pursued peacefully. If they do not, Muslims are obliged to wage war .
Quo Vadis, America?
This is so funny. Arselifters won’t be watching much TV if the jihhadis had their way so why even bother.
Well, here we go again!
It’s time to boycott all LG products. Then we will see how supply and demand work. There’s more law abiding U.S. citizens in America than sceaming jihads. This is just another method of Jihad and joins right in with terrorists, foul cries of racisism, frivolous lawsuits and imposing the minority will on the rest of us. (These sets will sell good in Islamaville, NY but not in the huts, caves and slums in the muslim world.) There are so many forms of Jihad inching in on our daily lives. This is about Jihad not supply and demand. This just prooves that islam is a cult and not a religion. It should be outlawed!
Bible 1John2:22 clearly defines the antichrist as the one who denies the
Father and the Son; and Islam/Mohammad/Muslims clearly fit that definition. They not just deny but condemn those who believe in the Father
and the Son and that is all christians. Therefore, I believe that it is the resposibility of all christians and their leaders to expose Islam/Mo/Muslims.
Jesus and Moses and their teachings have nothing to do with Islam, stories
about them and other Bible personalities are in Quran just to legitimize Islam/Mohammad/Muslims and their arab alla or allah. Islam is false and a
cult of theDeviltheSatantheAntichristtheDemon.
Junaid Afeef Says:
September 17, 2008 at 7:09…
Because Islam is an ideology of hate. That is how.
Think about it…..
Should also include the Bible and then at least the Muslims can see how much better and different it is from the Koran. Then they may know Abraham and Mohammad do not speak to the same God.
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Enough appeasement please. Enough is enough. The more you allow, the more they demand. No man escapes when freedom fails.The best men rot in filthy jails While those who cried ‘Appease, appease!’ Are hung by those they tried to please”.~~ Horace Mann
What about all the devout Christian/Catholic/Jewish/ Americans who have been watching TV for years now? No, we are still forced to pick up and physically our holy scriptures still. Where is the customer appreciation in that LG?
Very interesting..and creepy…Well, until I can read my Bible on TV, LG won’t see a dime from me. Sad, sad world this has become.
Dammit I meant:
‘No, we are still forced to pick up and physically read our holy scriptures still.’
LG’s marketing strategy is both good news and bad news.
Good because Islam acknowledges the one true God, but bad because His revealed nature is subject to political distortions rooted in history — in the Islamic tradition, Jesus is simply a teacher of righteousness.
The Christian view is that Jesus Christ IS the righteousness (and power) of God.
*sniff sniff* I apologize for your ignorance. Keep crying about the spread of Islam. It might just creep into your heart…pretty soon
Islam has set itself up as the sworn enemy of everything else.
It spreads by the sword and gun, not because it “creeps into your heart”, unless that heart is already misanthropic, of course.
Islam creeps into societies… not hearts.
Oh… btw… just knowing how superstition works…
These TVs are Qu’rans if they have the Qu’ran inscribed into them. If these TVs also show the Playboy and Disney Channel, the owner of the TV can be beheaded for desecrating the Qbook.
Assuming, of course, that everyone involved has had Islam creep into their hearts…
It could be really difficult to savagely execute someone for something petty like this if you don’t have Islam creeping in your heart.
The Qu’ran part of the TV has to be removeable or the TV is the Qu’ran.
Exactly our point Mr. Denali…
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LG is a Korean brand and the sad fact is that Korea, along with Japan, doesn’t know jack shit about Islam, Jihad, or Sharia and thus, continue to placate the Mohammedans in business–and soon, in cultural aspects as well. They know nothing, but they are going to learn eventually, though. Like the Israelis learned. Just like Europe is learning. Just like Africa is learning. Just like America is learning.
“Good because Islam acknowledges the one true God,”
Oh please. Don’t even go there. Just don’t.
LG spokesman Kim Jik-soo said that the 42-inch TV retails for $1,376 in Dubai, while the 50-inch one sells for $2,160 there.
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The Great Kale Drought of 2012
What a fantastic Saturday!
I woke up, ate this pre workout snack…(half of a thin bun warmed up with a smear of White Chocolate Wonderful natural pb)
And then headed out to another fantastic yoga class!! I really love yoga…I love it more and more each week!
Once home and showered up I made myself a magical bowl of breakfast!
Greek yogurt (plain because the supermarket was all out of honey greek yogurt!), raw oats, thawed mixed berries and cocao nibs!! Delicious!
Jeff and I lounged around and watched The Sopranos this morning and then it was time for lunch!
I had another “My only desire in this world is comfort food” moment and I conjured this up in my mind…And then in my kitchen within about 5 minutes
Tuna melt anyone?? YES PLEASE!!!
With a slice of gouda melted on top!
A closeup!
I only ate 1 of these…My eyes were bigger than my stomach! Leftovers here I come!
After lunch my husband and I continued our hunt for KALE!! Last night we went grocery shopping and we went to 3, YES 3 supermarkets without being about to find it!
Isn’t it my luck?
It’s the SPOTLIGHT food I pick for January and I can’t find it anywhere!
But two grocery stores later, I found it!!
And I paid about 3 times as usual for it!! It was worth it though
After we were home I made a lasagna while Jefferson watched NFL.
Supper was…YOU GUESSED IT! Roasted veggie infused whole wheat turkey lasagna!
And kale chips! Recipe/tutorial to come!
You wouldn’t think the two went together but in my house they do!
In THIS batch of lasagna there is a HUGE butternut squash, a zucchini and a portabella mushroom! AND Jeff absolutely raved about it! It was out of this world if I do say so myself
AND dessert! I was feeling extra frisky today so I made a frozen fruit soft serve (banana and mixed berry) topped with coconut butter and cocao nibs!
Jeff is getting 5 (yes 5) teeth pulled next Friday (4 of them are wisdom teeth) and so this weekend I was going to try making him a milkshake made with REAL FRUIT because, well, he’s going to be on a liquid diet and, milkshakes make everyone feel better right??
Jeff slurped down 2 whole cups of REAL STRAWBERRIES, vanilla frozen yogurt, vanilla SOY MILK and Vega Vanilla Almondilla protein powder! I put the protein powder in because I wanted to know how it would taste next weekend. Jeff likely won’t be eating much for the first few days and he has already requested milkshakes…I want the milkshakes to be as nutritious as possible though!
Well now I am going to watch some more Sopranos!
Thanks for taking the time to read on a Saturday!
Kate
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What a great eats day!
The yogurt bowl looks AMAZING! And that dessert? Yes please
It was a great eats day. I have been big time jonesing for yogurt bowls lately. Now I’m all out of yogurt! Jeepers!
Your breakfast looks amazing! Actually..ALL your eats look amazing!
Well thanks Shannon! They were pretty yummy
oh dear i am so jealous of that kale! since i moved back to austria i havent been able to find any! no kale no kale chips.. i am deprived!!! haha your meals look super tasty!
I am so sad for you!!! I don’t know what I would do!! I would send you some if it would stay fresh
Your breakfast looks just delicious! And I love love love gouda cheese as well!
I’m sorry to hear that Jeff has to get teeth pulled, but I’m sure a nice cold homemade ‘milkshake’ will do just the trick! My favorite ‘milkshake’ is a peanut butter cup..a frozen banana, milk or almond milk, a scoop of cocoa powder, and a tablespoon of peanut butter!
Thank you! I love the crunch and deep flavour cocao nibs provide!
Well the milkshake was a hit! And as far as I am concerned,being that he’s a guy who NEVER eats any fruit, eating 2 cups of it in this milkshake makes me so happy. I’m happy to make these for him when he’s in pain.
I am going to try out your milkshake soon! That sounds AWESOME!
Other than the tuna melt (I DESPISE fish), it all looks delish as usual…and kudos to you for only eating half…nice self discipline there! Hahaha…I love the kale hunt, and the idea of picturing you and and your hubby traipsing all over town for it…glad you finally found it though!
Hope all the teeth removal goes well…just as long as he’s smarter than me and doesn’t accidentally plan family pictures the day after (true story)! I remember eating special-ordered DQ Blizzards (no chunks) and lots of soup.
I’ve been really focusing on stopping when I don’t feel hungry anymore…And eating when I do feel hungry. It’s that whole “Intuitive eating” thing. Easier said than done!
Jeff was not the happiest camper being dragged to grocery stores for “lettuce”.
I can’t believe you booked photos after getting teeth pulled!!! When I got my 4 wisdoms out, my face was black and blue and I had chipmunk cheeks for 2 days!
Love the tuna melt! It looks so good especially with the gouda cheese on it!
The milkshake look so good and I’m sure Jeff would love some after he gets his teeth pulls.
It really was awesome!
I love onions in tuna salad…Though my breath isn’t the greatest thereafter
Thanks! I think he will be “milking” his injury just so I will make him these next weekend…Endlessly! BUT like I said, milkshakes make everyone feel better, especially after surgery!
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Soybean Inoculation: When, Where, and Why
Soybean Inoculation: When, Where, and Why
April 3, 2015
In an effort to ensure profitable production on the estimated 5.1 million acres of soybeans in 2015, Nebraska farmers are scrutinizing inputs and really focusing on profit. Using products/inputs that may increase yields 2 bushels per acre might have been profitable when soybeans were $14.40 per bushel in 2012, in the soil air to ammonia occurs through the symbiotic relationship between soybeans and the Bradyrhizobium species, a bacteria within the nodules of soybean roots. The soybeans get needed nitrogen and the bacteria get some carbohydrates in return. This process provides soybean plants 46%-74% of what they need; the remaining amount is taken up from the soil (Salvagiotti 2008). A 70 bushel per acre soybean crop will take up roughly 330 lb N/acre in the aboveground portion of the plant, roughly equivalent to the nitrogen demand of a 245 bushel per acre corn crop.
Your soybean field likely fits into one of three situations:
- No previous history of soybeans.
- It has been more than three to five years since soybeans were grown or soybeans have been grown in rotation every two to three years, but an environmental factor may have negatively impacted survival of bacteria.
- Soybeans have been grown in the rotation every two or three years and environmental conditions have been good.
In situations where soybeans have never been grown, yield responses of 49 bushels per acre have been measured in Nebraska (Elmore 1984). However, more modest yield increases of 1 to 10 bushels per acre are expected. This is largely dependent on the nitrogen supply from soils and the relative increase in nitrogen fixation. For example, a 2009 Iowa study reported inoculation increased soybean yield 2 bushels per acre on land coming out of pasture (Ruiz Diaz 2009) our bacteria. High soil pH and salinity also decrease nodulation, nitrogen fixation, and survival of these bacteria.
- Floods and droughts. Fields flooded for more than one week decrease nitrogen three to five four years of alfalfa. The probability of a yield response in fields with a recent history of soybeans is extremely low. An eight-year study (2000-2008) testing 51 inoculant products in 73 experiments conducted in Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota, and Nebraska resulted in average yield response of 0 bu/ac (De Bruin 2008).)
References
De Bruin, J.L., P Pedersen, S.P. Conley, J.M. Gaska, S.L. Naeve, J.E. Kurle, R.W. Elmore, L.J. Giesler, and L.J. Abendroth. 2008. Probability of Yield Response to Inoculants in Fields with a History of Soybean. Crop Science 50:265-272. ()
Ruiz Diaz, D.A., P. Pedersen, and J.E. Sawyer. 2009. Soybean Response to Inoculation and Nitrogen Following Long-Term Grass Pasture. Crop Science 49:1058-1062. Crop Science 49:1058-1062. ()
Duzan, H.M., X. Zhou, A. Souleimanov, and D.L. Smith. 2004. Perception of Bradyrhizobium japonicum Nod factor by soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.[ root hair abiotic stress conditions. Journal of Experimental Botany 55:402: 2641-2646. ()
Elmore, R.W. 1984. Soybean Inoculation: When is it Necessary? NebGuide G84-737. ()
Furseth, B.J., S.P. Conley, and J.M. Ane. 2011. Soybean Response to Rhizobia on Previously Flooded Site in Southern Wisconsin. Agronomy Journal 103:573-576. ()
Shiro, S., S. Matsuura, Rina Saiki, G.C. Sigue, A. Yamamoto, Y. Umehara, M. Hayashi, and Y. Saeki. 2013. Genetic Diversity and Geographical Distribution of Indigenous Soybean-Nodulating Bradyrhizobia in the United States. Applied and Environmental Biology. 79:12:3610-3618. ()
Salvagiotti, F., K.G. Cassman. J.E. Specht, D.T. Walters, A. Weiss, and A. Dobermann. 2008. Nitrogen uptake fixation and response to fertilizer N in soybeans: A review. Field Crops Research 108:1-13. ()
Wilson, J. 2014. Returning Crop Production to Flooded Soils Following the 2011 Missouri River Flood. Nebraska Extension.
Nathan Mueller, Cropping Systems and Ag Technologies Extension Educator
Roger Elmore, Extension Cropping System Specialist and Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute Fellow
Charles Shapiro, Extension Soils Specialist
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Hello.
I’m Indonesian. My MBTI type is ENFP. Toronto.
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Such a good chunk of time is spent searching. I don’t even know what I’m searching for, I just know that there are gaping holes in me and that this search may be endless. Maybe everyone thinks we’re alone in this but we’re connected in every way. Obvious ways, subtle ways, we are. Everyone knows that and yet we love to turn a blind eye against it. What’s so bad about admitting that loneliness is an integral part of you? Why do we always want to be loved, and even more, loved by the wrong person?
It’s okay, it’s alright.
We’re all tiny pieces of a mosaic. Someone shook up the pieces and our purpose is to find ourselves back.
Even so, it’s okay if you don’t. Sometimes all you need is yourself.
But I’m here. And I’ll listen, I promise I will.
I’m Prish. It’s nice to meet you. I’ll stick around.
P.S: I don’t claim ownership of any photos I post unless it’s tagged otherwise. Sometimes I can’t find the source of a picture but if I wrongly posted a photo, please tell me!
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Complete 8 rounds of each of the following:
Tabata Push Jerk 115/75
Tabata Double Under
Tabata Deadlift 115/75
Tabata Situp
Record total reps of each moment.
Spring Cleaning
We are clearing out our current t-shirt inventory. All in stock t-shirt s (women’s small and medium t-shirts) are $10. In addition, the “Lost and Found” box is getting out of hand. Please take a moment to sort through and see if any of it’s content belong to you. Or call first dibs on abandoned items. Anything left in the box by next Friday will be donated.
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Free Market Clintonism, RIP
The death of the free trade Democrat
Hillary.
Oh, it's not that strange. Clinton's (very commendable) support of NAFTA was the strange thing. A majority of Dems voted against it.),[6]).[7].
I heard somebody say once that a leopard can't change its spots.
Strip Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan of their electoral votes until they update their industries.
Problem solved..
Run left for the nomination, run to the center for the election. I fervently hope Hillary and Obama both know better.
My preferred outcome: Obama as president, with Senate and House going to the Republicans..
WTF is an orange line?
Weigel is rewriting history.
Even as Bill Clinton was pushing for NAFTA, he was talking about coming back and reforming it to include the very same labor and environmental standards that its "opponents" are now calling for.".
Well, that proves I'm not "inside the beltway" because I didn't know what the hell that was..
Joe, do you think its really wise for Obama to be talking about unilaterally withdrawing from an international treaty if Canada and Mexico don't do what we want?
Why, that sounds like something George W. Bush would do!
We should get out of NAFTA until our environmental and labor protections catch up to Canada's..
I just thought he was for improving America's image in the world, and alienating our two neighbors doesn't exactly sound like a good start to that.".
Indiana is not "in play". The last time Indiana swung democratic in a presidential election was 1964.?
I recall publicly rescinding my support of Paul after the Immigration commercial and pointing out the use of 'wetback' stereotypes in it raising my ire.
I recall a number of libertarians doing that, too, alan.
I guess you weren't agreeing with that bit of the comment you agreed with - and good on ya for it!.
excuse me, that's Raimondo. All I had to do was flip a page mark to get the correct spelling, but being the lazy bastard that I am . . ..
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Jesus babs.
One - Punctuation can be a wonderful thing. Practice.
Two - NAFTA is a problem because...? Seriously. Some farmers in GA might disagree. Ask a few.?
The Orange Line terminates near George Mason University. The libertarians there were pretty unwowed by Ron Paul.
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And, 14% of their (former) workers live in the U.S.
But, that, that's just a coinkydink.
What's a coincidence? Nearly free benefits they won't get living/working in Mexico? No matter how well an economy is improving, most people will go for the benefits..
But, you know, they do send money (capital) they make here to Mexico that is then used as an investment there to improve their economy further.
I know with your economically ignorant, self-congratulatory think that thats a BAD thing, but its.
(which, fwiw, i'm a fan.
The Clinton and Obama economic recovery plan: Blame Canada!
Be careful what they wish for. We just might get it.
"It occurs to me, reading these comments,..."
It occurs to me that if your comment reflects what you got from reading these comments, that you need to finish school. Then when you're grown up and have developed reading comprehension, you can try again..
"Tranzis". Clever. I've never heard that term before.
Short for "transnational progressive", the current nom de bullshit of neo-Marxists who want the UN to intervene in the internal affairs of actual countries..
kryhb
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My first episode of sustained Tachycardia in 1991 sent me to the ER and routine chest x-rays discovered a tumor in my chest near my heart. I was soon diagnosed with Stage IIa HL.
In 1996, I had another episode of sustained Tachycardia that sent me to the ER again.
In 1999 the Tachycardia became so frequent, I needed to be placed on beta-blockers to help calm my heart down.
In 2002 my ECG's were saying I had a couple of heart attacks.
A Cardiologist told me I "probably" had an extra electrical pathway that could be burned out, but as long as I could be treated with the medicine, the procedure was not necessary.
In 2004, I was living in the U.K. and my beta blockers were not cutting it any more. The NHS in the UK is a wonderful service. The set me up to have my heart's electrical system mapped out and then remove the extra electrical pathway that was suppossedly causing all the trouble.
In 2005, when i was having the procedure done two perplexing things happened...
1. At 35 years old, the Doctor basically told me I had the arteries of an old man! They put these little leads into an artery in your groin and feed them up into your heart, while you are fully awake and feeling them moving around in your body (totally wierd) and when he got close to my heart, the leads wouldn't go any further... thud... thud... and he had to pull them out and start over with the smaller ones they use for old people with hardened arteries.
2. When he finally mapped my electrical system... no extra pathway.
His conclusion was the cancer or the radiation had messed up the electrical system in my heart causing atrial tachycardia. He said it was too complicated to fix.
In 2007 I saw an oncologist for the first time in many years and asked her about the Tachycardia, she felt the HL was the source of my problem.
Now, at 39 I take three heart medications. I get out of breath really easy and my ankles are starting to swell.
Any suggestions???
Can anyone relate???
I recently saw a doctor at a Long Term Survivors clinic. He said that 100% of Hodgkins patients have a rapid heart rate from the rads/and or chemo. I had rads 20 yrs ago for Hodgkins and ABVD in 1994 for a recurrence. Currently, I have the start of heart valve problems w/calcifications. My heart is somewhat "stiff" too. I will be going for additional tests (in addition to the echos, stress echos, ekgs and tee that I get done routinely) to further access the damage from treatment. My heart rate is always high and doc says we can not lower it by exercise as others can do. I will have a specialized carotid artery test. TCarotids are a "window" to see what is going on in our heart arteries. If calcification or hardening is seen in these larger arteries, they same will be happening around the heart. The heart arteries are much smaller though. This means that any blockages will be much larger by percentage near the heart. IE, a 50% block in the neck may translate to a 90% blockage by the heart.
Have you checked out the discussion board for long term survivors on this site? You'll find posts about heart issues there. Also, acor.org has a mailing list for long term survivors that is a wealth of information from and for people like you and me.
Best wishes to you,
Cathy
I had non hodgkins lymphoma way back 20 years ago and had regular chemo (CHOP treatments) and localized rads to my groin area where the lump was found on my inner left leg. Just less than 2 years later the nhl came back and I opted for a bone marrow transplant and total body rads - autologus transplant meaning they used my marrow not a donors.
Anywho i noticed my heart skipping beats during the first treatment session but they said it was 'normal'. Didn't feel right to me but what did I know then. Anywho come to the bone marrow transplant and after all the treatments are over I have congestive heart failutre and now have atrial fib which is basically an irregular beat but it's so severe at times that I nearly faint. I have been rushed to hospitals many times for this and once admitted to our Heart Institute here where they put me on different meds - I am on 3 now for this and by the way now also have a pacemaker too that had to be put in 6 years ago on emergency admittance - nearly died that time.
I seem to be pretty well regulated now but it won't last, these things get worse. I was told that this damage to my heart was no doubt due to adriamyacin induced cardiomyopathy which means damage from the chemo drug adriamycin. Of course no one can prove that for sure but I had no heart isssues before all the treatments and know how it went for me with it all.
I have never been able to return to work due to this disability as it can be severe out of the blue as well as roughly 7 other side effects from the treatments. For some transplants can carry a big price to pay for longevity but hey I'm not complaining. It's a beautiful day here and I am here to enjoy it. The side effects do get me down once in awhile but that's normal.
All the best. I think you are talking about ablation of the pathrways, I will probably need that at some point but let's wait til they refine that surgery a bit more - carries major risks right now.
My cardiologist (electrophysiologist for the arythmia) told me last year that they are coming out with a new drug for atrial fib, the first new one for this in a long time, I wonder if it's out yet and how they are finding it as to the success rate. Anyone know?
Take care.
Bluerose
I've suffered with a fast and irregular heart beat since i was pregnant 13 yrs ago.
I have been to my dr on numerous occaisions when the palpitations got bad but by the time they give you an appointment and wire me up to ECG,the palps have stopped!
I also suffer with gastro reflux and that causes chest pain. It was only when i went to see a different doc for a repeat prescription of my Lanzoprazole (for the acid) that she questioned my chest pains.
After asking me lots of questions,she told me she was reffering me to a cardiologist.
I broke down in tears in her office but they were tears of joy that someone was actually doing something about my pains and palp's.
I had to go and have another ECG first.Iy showed nothing.
Then i had to wear a 7-day monitor and everytime i got palps of funny heartbeat i had to press a button so it recorded it. I showed nothing.
Finally i had an EKO and at the end of it,the doc went and got someone else to come in and check it. When i got the results about 2 wks later,my doc said the letter said "nothing significant found". What the heck does nothing SIGNIFICANT mean???
I asked the cardiologist previously if the mantle radiation i recieved could cause me heart problems and he said no! What hope have i got of being taken seriously and kept an eye on if the cardio' doesn't even believe the rads can do damage??
I really worry as i still get palps/rapid and strange heartbeat.Here in the uk,we cant just go to a cardio and ask to be checked out as our medical care is NHS and not private.If i could afford it i would go private for a thorough heart check.
I am fighting NHL. After I completed my chemo trmt (RCHOP and RICE), I developed an irregular heart beat. One beat would skip. I was given a series of test: stress test, EKG, Ecocardigram, the monitor, and you name it. The test all came back with the same results as you did m-star, "no significant.....bla bla blah). I was freaking out! It sounded like my heartbeat would get stuck after the third beat. I was in a panic.
Even thought they didn't find anything wrong with my heart, they did put me on a beta blocker: Metropolo. This decreased my blood pressure (which was already low). Over a period of months, the irregularity disappeared.
I was then taken off the medication. I have been off the meds for 1 1/2 years. I have not needed any medications. As a matter of fact, I saw my cardiologist today. She says my heart sounds great...the best she's heard all day. My heart is running well at 100%.
As a wise long time survivor shared with me: Some times these irregularities are temporary.
We have been wondering where you were in the chatroom on the new site we are all meeting on. Did you get my message about it? This is the site where we chat now that CSN in down indefinitely, come and chat with us, all the regulars are there and some new people too. The site is:
We meet in The General Cancer Chat Lobby there.
I know that you said it isn't easy to get a second opinion in the U.K. but you have to find a way. It's unacceptable to have symptoms blown off like that. Did you have chemo in your treatments too, I forget? One of the chemo drugs I had years back damaged my heart and while you had arythmias since you were very young any other treatments could have compounded the issues so it needs to be looked at again. Keep pushing for a second opinion somehow m-star.
I went to a rheumatologist for all my aches and pains that can be quite severe last year and the results were that it was probably all 'due to the stress of the bone marrow transplant I had 18 years ago'. He diagnosed stress for 18 years ago was causing my aches and pains. Give me a break. I fought to see another rheumatologist who did extensive testing - like a dozen and one extra tests and sent me to other specialists as well and the results came back - definite osteoarthritis in 4 places (extreme in 2 of them) and fibromyalgia and possible bursitis in one hip. So you see how different specialists can be. If I had stopped at the first rheumatologist I would be in the looney bin by now thinking it was all in my head. The second rheum. told me 'it's definitely not all in your head' what joyful words those were in validation alone. I mean it sucks I have those two medical issues but at least someone took me seriously and did the testing. The first one sent me for one blood test and that was it. Idiot.
Please push for a second opinion. Love, Bluerose. Hope you get to the new chat site.
P.S. On that new chatsite there are scheduled meetings with radiation and chemo specialists anyone can attend plus a world class oncologist, come and talk with them about your issues too. Later kiddo, we miss you.
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Sequester Cuts Will Steal Your Meat, Ground Your Air Force, Make Women Shut Down Their Small Businesses
Whitehouse.govThe Senate Appropriations Committee has helpfully
collated all of the executive branch's official Sequester Hysteria
into one
hilarious document of bureaucratic pants-wetting. Let's watch
how politicians and bureaucrats are spending your tax money to
scare the bejeebus out of you about the consequences of not
spending more of your tax money for this one year! Here's a
fraction of some of the many dire consequences alleged:
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack:
A nationwide shutdown of meat and poultry plants.
Deputy Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank:
The Department's International Trade Administration (ITA) would be forced, under sequestration, to reduce its support for America's exporters, trimming assistance to U.S. businesses looking to increase their exports and expand operations into foreign markets by nearly $15 million.
Defense Secretary Vice Chair Richard Selby Leon Panetta:
The Air Force will be forced to cut flying hours and Weapon system maintenance. Most Air Force flying units (especially later deploying units) Will be below acceptable readiness standards by the end of FY 2013. [...]
If these unfortunate events occur, We will have to take more drastic and irreversible actions.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan:
The sequester would also likely require the Department to furlough many of its own employees for multiple days. This would significantly harm the Department's ability to prevent fraud, Waste, and abuse in these very large, complex student financial assistance programs. Furloughing employees would also hurt all the Department's other activities, including making grant awards on a timely basis..
Whitehouse.govSmall
Business Administration Administrator Karen Mills:
SBA's nationwide counseling network of 68 district offices, nearly 900 Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs), 110 Women's Business Centers (WBCs) and 350 chapters of SCORE, would all lose significant funding due to sequestration.
So very much more at the link; please go spelunking for favorites & leave 'em in the comments!
To elaborate on a previous point: If it's true that the Pentagon cannot do basic freaking maintenance on its air fleet after a 70 percent increase in spending so far this young century, then that is the real scandal. As for a big chunk of the other stuff, I'm fairly confident that small businesses will continue small businessing even if the federal government only operates, I dunno, 800 Small Business Development.
Boy, I'm glad I built that bomb shelter out back! The world's gonna end!
You didn't build that!
And you won't be able to if sequestration hits.
Duncan says: if you cut our funding, we won't be able to prevent waste, fraud and abuse!
Now THAT's a classic.
I guess it never occurred to him that not handing out the dough would *really* cut waste and fraud.
Or, they could cancel a few high-speed rail projects and cover the whole thing in one fell swoop.
They could cut all green energy programs and stop all farm subsidies, which would then release us from our direct payments to foreign countries due to our losses in the WTO courts because of our unfair agricultural subsidies.
It's a fascinating cascading effect of spending reductions.
But who would help the poor wittle famiwy farmwers?
The immbizzible hand of the free markut!
It sounds so simple to say that the feds could easily cut their budgets by some percentage by merely cutting out unnecessary programs. The problem is this: show me one single government administrator who would admit that a single penny of their budget goes to unnecessary programs. In fact, show me one single government administrator who would admit that doubling or tripling their budget would result in a single penny going to an unnecessary program.
Remember always, the primary purpose of any system is to perpetuate itself regardless of its' stated purpose. The purpose of government is not to govern, it is to grow. Cutting even a single penny is obviously a disastrous failure to achieve their primary purpose.
Spot on.
Why would you ask the administrator of a program whether his or her program is useful? Why would you ask anyone in the executive branch such a question? It's not up to them to decide usefulness.
Sounds like the Obama is doing some serious prioritization to ensure that sequester will make Americans as miserable as possible.
that's who he has been all along. Shared misery; hey, is there a name for that?
I think it starts with a C and ends in an M...
Cum hahahahaha
DOE will stop guarding nuclear weapons before they stop the green energy gravy train. Chu is really trying to take the Pauli Krugnuts price for worst Nobel Prize winner ever.
Chu actually did some science once upon a time.
Obama's Nobel, OTOH ...
Worst winner, not least deserving. Krugman once did some actual economics too.
Obama has to be close to the top of the list for least deserving, though.
I can't imagine anyone having won for less than he did. He was awarded because of his "potential" if I remember right.
I wonder if come 2017 they'll then hand him a medal for participation, as well.!
As much as many people around here dislike that movie, I thought it was great.
Apparently MO and BO skipped it on their movie night at the White House.
BO was probably just confused that they didn't drone the guy with the knives.
Hah! Just showed this movie to a leftist acquaintance who literally matched with Jill Stein and the Green Party on that political test that was going around during the election. Don't know if she took anything from it though.
^^^This is why I dont filter Tulpa
Of couse, he seems to be opposing law and order now.
Norsefire didn't follow the rule of law.
England Prevails
Hmm, the message I'm getting from this melodrama is that the federal govt has its tendrils in far too many places in the US economy. Nobody panics over McDonalds cutting 1% of its expenditures.
Yeah, and Wal*Mart and the Kochtopus are the ones that exert unreasonable control over the US society.
Nobody refers to it as a cut when McDonald's expands its expenditures by 3% while redirecting a mere 1% to purchasing fish instead of beef, either.
$1 Fish Fillets -- I'ma gonna make em pay.
Had one for lunch. Damn, could use another.
"The Air Force will be forced to cut flying hours and Weapon system maintenance. Most Air Force flying units (especially later deploying units) Will be below acceptable readiness standards by the end of FY 2013."
Bullshit alert.
Ok, I suppose they could cut flying hours as one way of reducing costs, fuel is pretty expensive and jets tend to consume a ton of it.
However reduced Flying hours would reduce the need for maintenance which is done on a by the usage hour, and that combined with the fact that 95% of the cost of maintenance being a sunk cost (Salaries being paid the the airmen doing the maintenance, their tools, and the parts & supplies which have already been purchased) I fail to see how you could actually achieve any short term savings on the maintenance front through any means other than flying the planes less frequently.
That said the idea that the Air Force couldn't cut it's budget by 1% anywhere but through cutting regular flight operations is a joke, just cancel this years Red Flag exercise and you'd get pretty damn close to the amount you need to save (although there would be a ton of mid level officers and NCO's pissed at losing their annual free trip to Vegas)
I'll bet charging green fees at the base golf course would go a long ways to getting maintenance back where it should be.
Maintenance is not always done on a usage basis, particularly large depot work which is based upon calendar time. We (AF) are cutting depot inductions significantly for the rest of this fiscal year. You make a good point about the sunk costs, but the major commands do "pay for" these inductions and are cutting them to achieve the 18% target reduction in flying hour program and weapons system sustainment. You may be right that some portion of it is a shell game since we're essentially paying ourselves for this work; I just highly doubt your 95% wag.
Oh, and Red Flag is on the chopping block, along w/ essentially all other exercises, air shows, routing training, etc.
Well remember, in that 95% number I was including the parts.
It's not like they run down the the Goodyear store and buy a new tire everytime one needs to be replaced, they already have a large stock of tires purchased in wharehouses or ready for delivery on demand from the vendor. Given enough time of course those stocks would be depleted but replacing the tire basically costs the Air Force nothing right now
True, but comsumables like tires aren't what is going to be grounding jets, it's the PDMs themselves that will go overdue. That and the reduced flying hours (pilot proficiency) combine to impact the readiness levels.
It's about time that the men and women in our military realize that the mismanagement of our military forces is just as bad an abuse as Obama phones. We feed and formation about 50,000 troops a year for NATO based upon a treaty created to stop the USSR.
Newsflash! The USSR fell. Russia is a capitalism mecca at this moment. Stop wasting billions of our dollars funded into European economies. The NATO treaty should be abandoned. 50,000 troops, facilities and their families belong here, at home. Let those guys handle airport security and get rid of the fat oafs with the TSA. Cut an agency completely and let those families be close to home and spend our tax dollars HERE with us.
And while your at it. Stop making aircraft carriers. We don't need them. They spend a billion dollars a month for each carrier group. What a waste. This is to say nothing of all embassies that serve no purpose in every corner of the globe.
Trust me, I'm conflicted on this as a born-again libertarian working in the Pentagon, I see the thrash that folks are going through trying to figure out how to trim 18% (more like 30+% when compressed in remaining half of year). From this vantage point they are not "cuts" (reductions in future growth), but actual cuts that need to be figured out.
You gotta also realize, we're not still in Europe because of Russia. There's more to it than that. Not to say I don't think we should have the overseas presence we do, but you've oversimplified the problem. Same goes w/ the carriers, we don't make them just because. We organize/train/equip to meet certain requirements that start w/ National Strategy and works downwards. Ideally, you'd change the requirement before adjusting the resources. Unfortunately, we are now in the territory where the resources are driving the requirements.
If we take these breathless claims at face value, we can make a couple of clear conclusions:
1. Government is so big, so powerful, so ever-present in our daily lives, that we literally wouldn't survive in a temporary budget snafu.
2. If we DO survive, then we can really begin to question the value of that big government... what exactly is it really doing for us?
If we DO survive, then we can really begin to question the value of that big government... what exactly is it really doing for us?
Why start now? The only people who will are the people who already are.
When I speak of "we", I'm speaking of everyone outside of this tiny group of 22 regulars on Hit & Run, AKA Libertarian America.
It's a nice thought, but it will never catch on. It's like asking what exactly goes into hot dogs.
But, what about my roof? I don't want it to start leaking with the Federal Roof Inspectors not on the job!
Indeed, one wonders how BO plans to cut spending in the unspecified future, as he continually says he wants to do, when the slightest reduction brings about Armageddon.
Targeted cuts. Not the wild, crazed, hack and slash, run and gun cuts that the sequester represents.
Or, more accurately, Obama believes in cutting the budget in general, just not situationally.
God that line works with everything.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan:
This would significantly harm the Department's ability to
preventcommit fraud, Waste, and abuse in these very large, complex student financial assistance programs.
Fixed. I didn't know that Waste got its own sub-secretary.
Dude, it's got its own President!
BRING IT.
Sooo... They'll have to stick their noses into my business marginally less than they did previously?
The Horror! The Horror!
No, they won't. You'll just have to wait longer for somebody to do it from time to time.
And you won't be able to conduct your business until they do. It's the perfect scam. They can make you hurt at will, even if they are sitting at home on furlough.
I like meat, but if the sequester happening means that in the government's tantrum it'll stop all meat processing, I'll happily eat beans as I watch people begin to hate the government more and more.
I hope that the sequestration makes people realize how little value government adds to the world. I fear that government regulations will prevent this from being apparent. People will think that the meat isn't available because the government can't inspect it, rather than realizing the meat isn't available because the government insists on inspecting it.
IF YOU ALLOW THE SEQUESTER TO HAPPEN ALL YOUR FOODS WILL BE HORSE MEAT
I could live with that.
Looks like deer season will be starting a little early. Now if only I could find some ammo for my AR-15...
It's good to see that Obama's crack team of TOP MEN is so capable of making smart executive decisions about what to fund and what to cut. That reminds me of a campaign promise made by a young, idealistic Senator Obama. He wouldn't make sweeping, stupid cuts, but rather precision cuts, akin to those of a surgeon with a scalpel. I guess when Obama thinks surgeon, he's thinking of the guy who bled you to get the "bad humours" out.
Or the Civil War era surgeon who delayed treatment until your leg got gangrene and then insisted on cutting it off.
Sequestration turned me into a Newt.
Their tears are yummy and sweet.
Yeah, right up until you walk down to your mailbox to pick up your government cheque, and you're attacked by zombies before you can get there.
Because everone knows the National Drug Intelligence Center is the only thing holding back the zombie hordes.
Are you doubting the very thin thread that holds this nation together?
Sound and fury.
Pinkwashing is apparently a thing.
Israel has put an effort into selling the point that they're the only gay-friendly state in the middle east. They are legitimately gay friendly, but I think they sell it so hard to win the hearts and minds of American and European liberals.
Unfortunately many (not all) gay rights groups are invested in a holistic lefty agenda and the generic lefty Palestine/Israel stance trumps the gay rights specific stance.
'Sequester Cuts Will Steal Your Meat,'
Already have a full freezer, bought a quarter beef in January and helped butcher it myself.
'Ground Your Air Force,'
Owning a fighter jet is not a constitutionally protected right and anyone that has one is a murderous baby killing monster. (or so I've heard)
'Make Women Shut Down Their Small Businesses'
Hookers are small business? Does this mean that they stop charging or that they stay off the street?
Call me when the politicians paychecks start bouncing, then I'll celebrate.
THE SEQUESTER WILL =
GROUND YOUR MEAT
STEAL YOUR AIR FORCE
FORCE HOOKERS TO GO CORPORATE
....
THE SEQUESTER IS THE END OF ALL YOU KNOW
I thought they were supposed to be giving us reasons to be AGAINST cutting spending....
No shit, that's what they do?
Can we please just take Chu out behind the barn and shoot him?
Can we please just take Chu out behind the barn and shoot him?
Prosecutable.
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More Rutter's Stores Heat Up With High-End Coffee Bar
YORK, Pa. -- Always looking to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to the next "must have" program in the convenience channel, Rutter's Farm Stores began testing a high-end coffee bar in two of its convenience stores in September.
The retailer decided to launch the program in only two stores initially so it could see how the program functioned, develop procedures and processes for it, make any corrections to recipes, and test the touchscreen ordering system to make sure it worked the way the company intended, Jerry Weiner, Rutter's vice president of foodservice, told CSNews Online.
Fast forward six months, and the York, Pa.-based company has added the ramped-up coffee program to 33 of its 57 c-stores. Some of those locations were incorporated just this month.
"The [two] stores were in test for approximately three weeks to get all those things stabilized," Weiner explained. "We expanded the test to another nine stores and, as of December, we decided to expand it to an additional 22 stores. The last of those 22 stores just went live in [in early April]."
Rutter's chose which stores would feature the new program based on space. The coffee bar, he said, takes up slightly more than 8 feet of counter and under-counter space. "This just wasn't available in every location," Weiner noted. "We put it everywhere it would fit."
Moving forward, Rutter's will include the high-end coffee bar in all remodels and ground-up construction. The offering includes typical hot specialty beverages -- lattes, cappuccinos, espressos and Americanos. It also has a cold beverage lineup of iced lattes, frappes and smoothies.
Similar to Rutter's fresh food program, the coffee bar allows customers to add different flavorings, syrups, sauces and toppings to both hot and iced beverages. The beverages sell for a fixed price and personalization is free with the exception of an additional shot of espresso.
"The [touch]screen gives everybody an opportunity to personalize their beverages just as they do in personalizing the food offer," Weiner said.
Why this ramped-up program? The time was right, according to the foodservice vice president.
"We are always looking for the next thing to add to our program. Our hot [food] program is doing extremely well, so it just seemed natural to move into this venue," he explained. "Customers are into this. They are using it almost like a treat -- an afternoon treat, an evening treat. You think coffee and you always think of a morning business and the [breakfast] daypart. That may be true for the hot beverages, but the iced beverages are really an afternoon treat."
As for customer response, Weiner said so far, so good. He hopes the buzz continues as the weather begins to warm up.
"We have only had it during the winter months, which for this particular beverage is the opposite curve, but it has been well received," he stated. "We are very pleased, and looking forward to the spring."
Weiner is not divulging what's next for Rutter's foodservice, but he said the company is always thinking of ways to provide the best offerings to its customers.
"I am always excited when we have a new program," he said. "We do a lot of new product introductions, but whenever we get to add a new program, that's always an exciting time for me."
For more on how c-store retailers are elevating foodservice, look in the May issue of Convenience Store News.
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The FTC and Net Neutrality
The debate over network neutrality further intensified as the Federal Trade Commission held a two-day workshop this week on whether to regulate the way U.S. phone and cable handle the transmission of Internet data as it crosses their networks. Network neutrality would prohibit Internet service providers such as Verizon and Comcast from charging companies like Google, eBay and Sony–which seek to use the Web to provide content-rich, bandwidth intensive applications–higher fees to boost the quality and reliability their services are likely to require. Over the course of the two-day workshop, many net neutrality advocates conceded that some degree of prioritization and QoS will be required as Internet services evolve. This represented major progress in the debate. Only a few months ago net neutrality fans were insisting there would never be any rightful role for management and prioritization in the transport layer–where the service provider fall. I'll let slide the fact that this shift coincides with a recent statement by Google, standard bearer for the net neutrality movement, that expressed true concern that the surging amount of video crossing the Internet endangers efficient operation and quality. I'd rather credit the work of AEI scholars Robert Hahn and Robert Litan in documenting the long history of debate within the Internet community about the "end-to-end principle" as well as this rather pointed blog post at the Progress & Freedom Foundation about how applications and content providers have long been using discriminatory server networks available from companies such as Akamai.
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Dodge gets to flex its muscle for the premier of the latest Fast and Furious sequel; “Furious 7” which comes to theaters April 3rd. Like the previous car-centric movies, this latest installment will feature an adrenaline packed lineup of new and classic cars including the 707hp Charger Hellcat SRT and Viper GTS. None of these cars will eclipse the two stars of the show however; the muscular candy red 2015 Dodge Charger and the venerable green and black 2015 Dodge Challenger R/T.
These two street-screamers will be seen driven by Hollywood superstars, dropping from airplanes, swerving through hails of bullets, and sprinting through so many adrenaline-pumping chases you’ll be reaching for a seatbelt. Per Dodge and Universal Pictures agreement, both cars will be featured in commercials for the movie and a special companion section of the Dodge website is available for stats on the actual Furious 7 Challenger and Chargers used in the movie as well as the various characters who appear on screen.
Dodge has been a regular in the series since the first movie in 2001, mostly showcasing its vintage muscle cars driven by Vin Diesel. See the movie and then head over to Cumberland Chrysler Center to check out the film’s biggest stars; the 2015 Charger the Dodge Challenger.
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New York City on a budget
I've decided to save money and forego choosing one of the many Brazilian processes in favor of a short cut. I can't afford Devachan and wondered if anyone has had a great 3b-3c-4a stylist who gave them an exceptional cut in the $50-$80 range (with our without special promo)? Thanks for any suggestions!
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Thanks so much Sparkly! It's a bit of a schlep for me but I always like visiting Williamsburg.
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/2 C old fashioned oatmeal, 1/4 C low fat cottage cheese, 2 eggs, dash of vanilla extract, cinnamon & nutmeg. Process in blender until smooth. Cook on griddle
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What a great day, or is it. I come in late to work due to cold medicine that helped me oversleep. I step into the office and find out that the server is down, so access to any jobs of any sort is off limits. I luckily have field work to do, but it has decided to rain the rest of the day which cuts that option off.
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Texas Twist Blog Stop – Sept 1, 2014
Texas Twist Blog Tour Starts Today
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Nationality: British
Age (on 01.01.07): 21
Date of Birth: 11.09.85
Hometown: Wrexham
2007
2nd Tour of Pendle - Premier Calendar Series
8th Stage 3 - Tour of Britain (2.1)
60th Overall - Tour of Britain (2.1)
2006
3rd Overall - Tour of the South
4th Stage 1 - Tour of the South
7th Stage 4 - Tour of Britain
11th Clitheroe Grand Prix - National Circuit Series
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“Ok just breathe, and calm down! Follow me, we’ll be home in no time.”, Tasneem told me as we continued walking, trying to stay away from being near the trees. I tried keeping a small distance between us so that if one of us got struck, the other wouldn’t get struck too. Tasneem looked at me trailing along behind her and just shook her head and threw her hands up in the air as if to say she gives up on me.
It wasn’t easy to keep calm at all with the strong howling wind gushing in our faces making it hard to breathe, and the lightning bolts that looked so dramatically close by. Not to mention the sharp loud crack of thunder that turned into long low rumbles. It literally made my hairs stand, which frightened me even more upon remembering Mr.Hutsan’s words, “If lightning is about to strike you or strike near you, your hair may stand or you may feel a tingling in your skin. If you detect any of these signals, assume the lightning crouch immediately.”
Feeling tingling in my tummy as if it were knotting, I didn’t want to take a chance. I squat down with my feet together, tucked my head to my chest and between my knees and covered my ears with my hands, keeping my arms close to my body, just like how we had practiced in school. I can still recall Mr.Hutsan’s warning, “Do not lie flat on the ground, because this gives the lightning a larger target. The lightning crouch is a difficult position to hold and it doesn’t guarantee your safety, but it makes it easier for a lightning strike to flow over your body rather than through vital organs, so you may be able to sustain a smaller injury from it.”
“Nusaybah! What are you doing?! You’re in the middle of the road! Get up! A car could knock you!”, Tasneem yelled through the wind when she looked back and didn’t see me following her.
“Yeah! If the lightning doesn’t kill me first!”, I yelled back, my head still between my knees. She pushed her way back through the strong winds to get back to where I was. “Tas, Sit like this! Mr.Hutsan said it increases your chances of survival!”, I told her. “Nusi get up!”, she tried pulling me. “I don’t want to die Nemo.”, I looked at her with fear and desperation in my eyes. I don’t think I had ever been more scared in my life.
Tasneem squat down next to me in order to give me some sort of support. “You know… I know a better way than Mr.Hutsan’s lightning crouch.”, she spoke with her head between her legs. “Yeah? What is it?”
“Well… Instead of fearing the thunder and lightening, find comfort in the One who is The Creator of that thunder. There’s a Hadith in Tirmihdi, where there is a Dua that Our beloved Prophet (S.A.W) used to recite when he heard thunder.”
That’s what I loved about Tasneem. She knew exactly how to make me look beyond the problems of this world, making me see things from a divinely perspective in a way that is so comforting. “You want to repeat it after me?”, she asked me.
She has this motherly thing about her that makes you feel better almost immediately. I guess that was one of the qualities that made her such an excellent teacher. All the kids loved her.
اللهم لا تَقْتُلْنا بِغَضَبِك وَلا تُهْلِكْنا بِعدابِك وعافِنا قَبْلَ دلِك
Allahumma la taqtulna bi ghadhabik wa la tuhlikna bi ‘adhabik, wa ‘afina qabla dhalik
She made me repeat after her like she does with her madressah children. “And do you know what it means?”, she asked, I shook my head. “It means, O Allah! do not kill us through your anger, and do not destroy us through your punishment. Save us before your punishment.” she translated, making me feel so much better.
“So shall we go now?”, she asked me. I agreed and got up, following Tasneem as we made our way to my house. I made a silent Dua for her as we silently walked in a hurry, and I thanked Allah for blessing me with such a wonderful friend.
As soon as we got inside, I let out a HUGE sigh of relief. “Alhumdulilah!”, Tasneem said, reminding me to thank Allah for bringing us home safely. Mum came towards us waving the phone in her hand, “Why haven’t you answered your phone?! I’ve been going crazy here worrying if you girls were alright!”
“Woah Mum! You know lightning can travel through phone lines right? You’re carrying a potentially dangerous weapon right now.”, I said, slowly backing away from her. Mum looked at the phone and then quickly put it back on the hatch on the wall. “There’s no use of you having a phone if we can’t ever reach you on it!”, Mum was ticked off.
“I’m sorry Mum. My battery was dead and we were more worried about getting home safely.”, I told her apologetically.
“If you came home when you said you would, you wouldn’t have had to run through the storm.”, Mum scolded.
“Maaf Aunty Hasina. Actually, it was my fault. I held her up without realising that it was about to…”, A loud crack of thunder interrupted Tasneem and distracted Mum.
“Girls quick! Help me pull out all the plugs. I was so stressed about you’ll, I didn’t get to do it beforehand.”, Mum ordered.
“No Mum! It’s too late now. You could kill yourself. The thunder is already cracking less than a second after the lightning flashes, which means it must be very close. Just leave it now.”, I told her. She looked at me like I was out of my mind, but she listened to me.
Tasneem and I ran upstairs with a packet of chips and some juice to wait until the storm was over. I pulled my bed away from the concrete wall and plopped myself on it. Tasneem joined me. We stayed away from the windows, but watched from afar how the rain began pouring down. “With all the drought going on, this rain was much needed. Alhumdulilah”, Tasneem said.
I looked at Tasneem and smiled as if we were both thinking the same thing at the same time. We began reading the Dua when it’s raining like how Tasneem’s class children read it- loud and dragged along in a monotone.
اَللهُم إني أسْألُكَ خيرَها وَخَيْرَ ما فِيها وَخيرَ ما أُرْسِلَتْ به، وَأعُودُ بِكَ مِنْ شَرها وَشر ما فيها وشر ما أُرْسِلَتْ به
Allahumma inni as-aluka khairaha wa khaira ma fiha wa khaira ma ursilat bihi, wa a’uzhubika min sharriha wa sharri ma fiha wa sharri ma ursilat bihi
“And what does it mean?”, Tasneem asked as if she were in class.
“O Allah! I beseech thee for the good of it, the good in it, the good that it brings, and I seek refuge in you from its evil, the evil that’s in it and the evil that comes with it.”, we both said in sync, dragging each word out. Laughter just overcome us as we sat there, thinking about those cutie pies.
“You know Nusi… It’s related in Adu Dawud that the Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: ‘Two will not be rejected, Supplication when the Adhan (call of prayer) is being called, and at the time of the rain’. So why not take advantage and ask Allah for one GOOD looking husband?” She asked, crunching on a chip and trying not to laugh. She was purposefully teasing me about the latest suitor that landed on my doorstep. The guy had this gigantic mole on his nose and he had no manners whatsoever. He even did the worst thing a guy could ever do when trying to impress someone, he SCRATCHED! Yes… Down there. It was disgusting. Me pretending to be squint in order to scare him off didn’t put him off at all, in fact, it only made things worse.
“Gosh Nemo! I can’t believe my parents even entertained those people. But anyway… On a serious note, I do wish to have a husband who is nice looking, but not TOO nice. The last time I had a good looking guy in my life, he ended up in another girls house.”, I told her honestly.
“Sayfullah right?”
“Hmm…”, I felt a little pinch on my heart for a second when she said his name.
“You never really told me why you two split.” Tasneem said, hinting for me to fill her in.
“I’d rather not talk about it. You tell me what you are going to make Dua for.”, I tried diverting her attention.
“For you to tell me your story. Please please PLEASSSEEEE!”, she pleaded, obviously not changing her mind about wanting to know. I raised an eyebrow to question her childish behaviour.
“Oh cum’on Nusi, please?! It’s raining, the most perfect weather for storytelling. Pleeeeease?!”
That was Tasneem’s one flaw, she wanted to know EVERYTHING! I put up with it because I loved her for all the other qualities she possessed.
“Ok fine!”, I looked at her while she wiggled her butt to get comfy. I had to bring back memories that I wished I had forgotten, but perhaps sharing it with someone would make it easier to get over.
**Flashback**
I had been so hurt about Sayfullah not telling me the truth about his life, that it was taking me quite some time to convince myself that it was ok and that he was a changed man. Many times I thought of giving him a chance to explain, but the thought of him being with another woman made me sick to the core.
One day, Dad came to me with a weird look on his face as if he was sorry about something. “Sweetheart… I need to talk to you.”, he said. “Sure…”, I told him, confused as to what was going on.
“What is it Daddy?”, I looked at him, searching for answers.
“Nusaybah, Nazeem just phoned me.”, he replied, looking down at me like he was trying to put his words in order before saying his next sentence. He sat down next to me, “It’s about Sayfullah.”
My heart started racing. The thought that he could’ve hurt himself because of me, crossed my mind, making me immediately regret not letting him talk to me so that he could tell me his side of the story. What if my stubbornness costed him his life?! I looked at Dad, desperately hoping that it wasn’t what I thought it was.
“Nusaybah he was telling the truth. He was innocent. Nazeem even had his story checked out.”, he told me. He went on the explain how uncle Nazeem was sent a video from an anonymous source and how Sayfullah really didn’t know about anything until a few days before he came for the proposal.
My heart sank.
I couldn’t believe I didn’t believe him. How was he ever going to forgive me?!
When Dad was done, he told me that he would give me some time to think about things and assured me that whatever I wanted was ok with him.
I needed to speak to Sayf. I grabbed my phone. “Shit, shit, shit!”, I mumbled as i scrambled to look for the charger. My battery was dead and it took forever to start up again!
As soon as it had some life, I opened Sayf’s chat tab to type out a message to him, to let him know how sorry I was. As I typed out the message in a hurry and pressed send, waiting for the tick to pop up to show that the message was delivered, the network kicked in and I received a whole lot of messages from him all at once.
I scrolled up to see what he had to say. I went numb as I read further.
Sayf: I’m not going to put up with this anymore. If you hide from our problems now, how will you manage bigger problems after marriage?
Sayf: I thought I was the only one who is wrong. I beat myself up about it everyday but one day, after talking to someone I realised that I’m not only to blame.
He sent me a few screen grabs of a chat he had with ‘APA Fatima’, where she says she thinks he was making a mistake by wanting to marry me. He sent me their whole conversation and then sent a final message.
Sayf: I can’t change the past but I have changed as a person. But you still need to change if this is ever going to work out. Because I can’t keep begging you to forgive me every time there is a bump on the road.
When I was done reading his messages, I was angrier than I’ve ever been! How dare he?! And how dare she?!
I got a new message from him saying that he was glad that I came to my senses and asked when we could go ahead with the wedding plans. Little did he know what was coming his way next!
Me: scratch that last message I sent you. It was a mistake. I sent it before I read your loving conversation with ‘APA Fatima’.
Me: Who the hell does she think she is?! If she’s an apa, she should know that sticking her nose in other people’s business is wrong, leave alone chatting to non-mahrams!
Sayf: She was just trying to help.
Me: Don’t you dare defend her! In your whole chat with her, you didn’t defend me not even once against her. Even when she told you that marrying me will be a mistake.
Sayf: I’m not defending her, but she has a point Saybah.
Me: Don’t EVER call me that again!
Sayf: Stop it now. Com’on, this isn’t necessary. Just a minute ago you were ready to forgive me and move on and now you’re fighting with me all over again.
Me: Yeah, before I found out that every time we have a problem, you’ll go running to your APA Fatima.
Sayf: I just wanted to find out from someone neutral what they thought about it. I wanted to know if I was being unreasonable.
Me: So you went to her?! By the way this apa chats, it doesn’t even seem like she is elderly. So who is this? Your apa’s daughter? Or her granddaughter? Huh?!
Sayf: Ok… I’m sorry Nusaybah. It won’t happen again, please forgive me. Let’s forget about everything now.
I demanded to speak to this apa of his so that I could have my say. He said he had deleted her but I didn’t buy it. I knew he was just trying to shield her from my lashing. I threatened that if he didn’t let me speak to her, I would have his mother tell me who she is.
He finally broke.
Sayf: You know what Nusaybah. I want you to know that I really have changed. I don’t want to start our marriage off with a lie. So I’m going to come clean with you.
Sayf: Apa Fatima isn’t really an Apa. It was just a friend on my contact list. I changed the name and sent it to you because I thought you’d respect it if it came from someone of islamic authority of some sort.
Me: WHO – IS – SHE?
Sayf: That’s not important. The point is that I came clean, I apologised and I’m willing to move on if you are.
After demanding several times to know who she was, Sayfullah finally gave in.
Sayf: Naseerah
I felt like I couldn’t breathe for a while.
Me: Naseerah??? You told me she deleted you after you told her about me.
Sayf: She did… But then she reinvited after she heard what happened. She just wanted to find out if I was ok.
Me: Are you that blind?! Can’t you see how desperate she is for you?! I want to speak to her.
Sayf: Stop it Nusaybah, she was just concerned. Let’s just leave her out of this.
Me: I swear, if you defend her one more time…
Sayf: I’m not! I just want to move on… With you!
Me: I want her number… NOW!
Sayf: Nusaybah drop it.
Me: I’m not going to ask again.
Sayf: Nusaybah stop being so stubborn. She didn’t do anything wrong.
Me: That’s it! If that witch is so perfect then go and marry her! I’m sick of you! I don’t want to be your wife if I come after all the other women in your life, including that prostitute you spent the night with!
Sayf: You know what… I think I’ll just do that. After all, she does have all the qualities I want in a woman, and she is beautiful too. You on the other hand are not worth any man’s time and I’ve certainly wasted too much of my life on you. You’re full of shit and you’re ungrateful and always wanting to be the man. Good luck finding a man who’s willing to be your wife! My patience has certainly run out.
**End Of Flashback**
“And with that, I blocked him and that was it. The end for us.”, I told Tasneem.
“So howcome you still wear his bracelet?”, she asked curiously. “I guess I use it as motivation to find the perfect husband. I told myself that the day I do, I will have my rich, good looking, amazing husband take it off my hand in front of him and throw it at his face.”, I joked.
Another sharp thunder crack startled us both, snapping us out of story mode. “That was the loudest one yet.”, Tasneem said. “Aha, and the rain doesn’t look like it’s going to stop anytime soon either. I guess you’re sleeping here tonight.”, I excitedly told her.
She looked at the window, and whispered a little Dua under her breath.
اللهم صَيبًا نافِعا
Allahumma sayyiban nafi’a
Translation:
O Allah! let it be a beneficial downpour.
(Sahih Bukhari, hadith: 1032)
I looked down at my bracelet and made a silent Dua to Allah to bless me with an understanding and loving husband who is close to Allah. I know in my heart that I too was to blame for what happened with Sayfullah and that’s why I try spending my time being a better practicing Muslim. I feel like if I find my way to Allah and continue practicing, I will find a companion of a similar character.
Truth is, this bracelet taunts me. It reminds me of Sayfullah cursing me from ever finding a good husband. I keep it to remind me to never give my heart away so easily ever again. I hope to someday take it off when I find the man I wish to give my heart to fully and completely… After marriage In-Sha-Allah.
Nusaybah
>>>Letting go of the past, repenting and moving on. I guess Nusaybah is still on the last stage… But she’s getting there.
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Let’s continue the sunnah of the Messenger (S.A.W) and try and learn these Duas for rain and thunder In-Sha-Allah
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Offering a free e-book is a really good way to add value to your website or blog. But how do you get all that content in one publication without months of work and planning?
Easy: by using your blog.
A week ago I finished ghost writing my first e-book. I was initially a little daunted by the idea, but as I got going with the writing process, it struck me how similar writing an e-book is writing a batch of blogs for a client.
Freelance blogging is a daily task for me, so there’s no reason why I shouldn’t write more e-books using the same techniques – and even the same content.
Funnily enough, the excellent Social Media Examiner website just posted an excellent blog about turning your content into a real book. It’s something I can think about doing myself, but I’ll also pass on this link to clients so they can get more value from their blogs and articles. There are some really good motivational tips in this piece as well.
If you need an e-book writer, don’t hesitate to send us an email. I’m looking forward to writing my next e-book!
5 Ways to Go From Blogger to Published Book Author (Social Media Examiner)
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Hillary Clinton: Class President of a Failed Generation..
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The Setup
For this reading I will be using the I-X of Coins. These cards deal with all things related to money.
To select that card that represents my relationship with money we will add up the letters in the first and last name. A = 1 Z = 26 and all in between as you might presume.
I am going to do both my married and maiden names to get a full picture.
Karin Reece
11+1+18+9+14 = 53 = 8
18+5+5+3+5 = 36 = 9
8+9 = 17 = 8
Karin Gallacher
11+1+18+9+14 = 53 = 8
7+1+12+12+1+3+8+5+18 = 67 = 13 = 4
8+4 = 12 = 3
The Answer
VIII Coins: Your money will come from the mastering of a profession, which will provide you a nice living. You spend your life perfecting your craft and will be rewarded for it. You do well with money and could make the making of money your craft.
III Coins: Your money will likely originate from others but you work very hard for it. You may be involved in a field where you require creative funding to finance your pursuits. This could include grants, stipends, freelancing or income from your family or patron of some sort. You contribute greatly to those who fund you and they are happy to do it.
The Cards
VIII of Coins
My Take: This card brings up imagery of a clock maker. A mad works on an intricate piece of machinery, carefully adding each piece in its place. There are shelves of books in the background indicating someone well studies. This card makes me think of mastery of a craft.
The Card: This card involves labor intensive projects requiring slow and steady work. This is not time for hasty decisions or quick movements. Buckle down and do the work. The plans on the table indicate that he is not yet an expert in his field. He should look to the books behind him and his tarot deck for guidance.
III of Coins
My Take: The man in this picture appears to be blowing glass. He is an artisan and a free spirit.
The Card: This man has mastered his craft. The creation of art from raw materials.
Reading Analysis
This reading makes some sense I guess. I am a kept woman after all (hee hee). No really, although I have had a traditional career (or at least the start of one), it was never where my heart lie. I have always known that I would spend my life learning and continuing to master some skill. At this point what that is just appears to be illusive. I have always wanted to get my PhD and become a professor. I also love Yoga and think often about teaching, talk about a lifetime of mastering. Now, i just need to learn to get over my self doubt long enough to pick something, maybe neither of these are it, but something, I just need to find it and then commit. Whoo, scary.
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Sens. Dodd and Lieberman at Capitol Hill press conference by Sarah Beth Yoder
Nov. 19 2008
WASHINGTON-Connecticut’s congressional delegation is officially blue.
The state’s senators and House members warmly welcomed Rep.-elect Jim Himes of the 4th District to Capitol Hill Wednesday. His election victory two weeks ago rendered them a Democrats-only club.
In a press conference colored by hugs and handshakes, schmoozing and self-deprecating quips, the lawmakers presented themselves as a “united team” ready to tackle the state’s economic challenges.
“With a united Democratic congressional delegation,” Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, said, “we now have the ability to help deliver the change American people deserve and need.”
The conference was also a “welcome back” of sorts for Sen. Joe Lieberman, as his colleague Sen. Chris Dodd put it. Lieberman was reelected in 2006 as an independent after losing in the Democratic primary and now identifies himself as an independent Democrat. But he angered Democrats by aggressively campaigning for Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain.
Lieberman thanked Dodd for helping dissuade Senate Democrats from stripping him of his prestigious Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee chairmanship.
“Look, this last couple of weeks, and the whole post-election period, hasn’t been an easy one,” Lieberman said,. “It meant everything to me to have [Dodd] not just standing by my side but advocating on my behalf.”
Lieberman noted that Himes is joining an exceptionally powerful Connecticut team. Dodd chairs the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and Reps. John Larson, 1st District, and Rose DeLauro, 3rd District, have leadership positions in the House.
Still, there was a healthy dose of self-deprecating humor all around. Lieberman referred to himself as a “lowly junior senator,” and DeLauro, the dean of the Connecticut House delegation as its longest-serving member, deferred to Dodd, saying, “I know where I stand.”
When Larson, mentioned that Dodd and Lieberman were former presidential candidates, Dodd quipped, “Not very successful ones- though combined we may have made it.”
Courtney, who won a second term earlier this month, said after the event that he had some personal advice for the incoming freshman. He urged Himes, a father of two young children, not to forsake his family when he’s in the district.
“Your staff would like to have you going full blast every minute when you’re home,” Courtney said. “But you just want to make sure you got somebody to go home to.”
Himes, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker who defeated 11-term representative Chris Shays to capture the state’s 4th district earlier this month, will take office in January.
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Larry E. Baker, 57, of Lubbock died May 14, 2012. Services are pending with Griffin Mortuary.
Aleene Boler, 97, of Abernathy died May 13, 2012, in Lubbock. Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at the First Baptist Church in Abernathy. Abell Funeral Home and Flower Shop in Abernathy.
Freda Grace York Greenfield, 86, of Belton, formerly of Coahoma, died May 12, 2012. Services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Nalley-Pickle and Welch Rosewood Chapel. Nalley-Pickle and Welch Funeral Home and Crematory of Big Spring.
Juanita Jenkins, 93, of Lubbock died May 13, 2012. Services will be 2 p.m. Friday at Calvary Baptist Church. LakeRidge Chapel and Memorial Designers.
Lana Tillman Lujan, 70, of Post died May 13, 2012, at Golden Plains Care Center. Services will be 9:30 a.m. (MST) Thursday in the funeral home chapel. Steed-Todd Funeral Home and Crematory of Clovis, N.M.
Services for Rev. Jerry Martin, 64, of Spring will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Addison Funeral Home in Spring.
Regina K. Murray, 44, of Lubbock died May 14, 2012, at Covenant Medical Center. Services are pending with Griffin Mortuary.
Gregoria Navarrete, 94, of Hart died May 14, 2012, in Plainview. Services are pending with Bartley Funeral Home of Plainview.
Wilmer Richards, 87, of Scurry County died May 12, 2012, in Snyder. Services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Victory Baptist Church. Wright Colonial Funeral Home of Snyder.
Guadalupe Rios, 82, of Ralls died May 12, 2012, at the Ralls Nursing Home. Services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Michael’s Catholic Church. Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
Aurora Robles, 88, died May 14, 2012. Services are pending with Hammons Funeral Home of Littlefield.
Janet Wagnon, 99, of Muleshoe died May 13, 2012. Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday at the First United Methodist Church in Muleshoe. Ellis Funeral Home of Muleshoe.
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Top Photo Credit: B. Brown
All work and no play makes Boxer
die before the windmill is finished.
Or something.
Next week should be decent:
- The annual Best Affordable Outerwear feature should have you covered. Literally.
- A how-to-wear-it for a pair of shoes some might shun. Good news is they cost just north of $100.
- Seeing if a certain trend has gone too far.
- An attempt to identify some of the fat worth cutting in men’s style.
- Back to the mailbag
As always, head to Dappered Threads to get any fixes you may want but aren’t getting here today on the main site.
Anyway… it’s too quiet around here. So…
Great, I can’t get my Dappered fix for the day, now what am I supposed to do? Guess I’ll try drugs. *15 minutes later*
that hurt my ears
I second that notion Erick. I wake up every morning and have jitters till I see Joe’s posts for the day.
I’m excited for this post… “The annual Best Affordable Outerwear feature should have you covered.” As I need a new car coat, pea coat and trench coat because I donated my old ones this spring (they were almost 10yrs old).
So does this mean that Sophia Vergara has replaced Christina Hendrickson as the unofficial Friday-off mascot? Say it ain’t so, Joe!
Looks like a decent outlook for next week, but how about bringing back the Shannon reviews?
Nice reference. Unfortunately I had to follow the link to know what you were talking about as it’s been too long since I read it. Well done.
I’d like submit my Vergara vote now, thank you. Even with the yelling.
Did my comment get deleted? lol
Looks like DISQUS ate it because of the link (approved now). That Bond peacoat does get a mention, and there are a couple others that are much more affordable in the round-up. Looking forward to seeing what the readers have to say in the comments since they’re always full of great suggestions. One place to look for a great peacoat that’s durable as all getout for cheap: Army/Navy surplus stores. Might even want to check there first.
Thanks Joe. I thought I did something wrong by posting a link lol. Unfortunately there aren’t any Army/Navy surplus stores around me and I don’t trust buying one online with trying it on first.
Yeah I am really excited for this post as I’ve been looking for coats since Spring 😀
Uniqlo e-commerce opening?
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I’ll start with a funny Dave Chappelle video on studying white people:
Now for the serious bit…
Whiteness as Personified Oppression
What is Whiteness?
Douglass Massey in his work Categorically Unequal argued that the root of any racial stratification system is in its ability to categorize and rank human beings. Without categorization a society cannot build the social or physical barriers that create inequality or oppression. As social scientists this means that we must not only understand the stratification systems themselves but we need to understand the genesis and functioning of the categories that are used to construct the stratification systems. With this perspective in mind, whiteness and white people become an important social object to study in our effort to understand race and racism.
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“Legend has it the word ‘fiasco’ was first used to describe commedia dell’arte performances that went horribly (and hilariously) wrong.” So says the website for Fiasco Theater as it explains the genesis of the company’s name. It’s interesting, though, not only to learn of the term’s history, but also to consider the irony of its being employed to describe the young company for whom everything seems to be going…um, horribly right?
On the basis of a mere five productions over just a few years, the company has achieved glowing reviews and strong buzz. And it has yet to make a misstep. Each production it has rolled out has been greeted warmly. They are batting one thousand.
And they have chosen Washington and the venerable Folger Theatre to premiere their latest production, The Two Gentlemen of Verona. They will follow its run with a shorter run of Cymbeline, the production that put the company on the map. Their run of Cymbeline at Theatre for a New Audience (the buzziest Off-Broadway company focusing on Shakespeare) was followed by a six-month commercial run at Barrow Street Theatre. Since they’ve only done five productions, that gives us the chance to see 40% of their oeuvre. So I guess we’re batting .400.
I spoke with Noah Brody and Jessie Austrian, two of the founders and leaders of the company, who are also two of the actors in the current production and one of its directors (Austrian). Did I mention that the productions are usually co-directed by two of the actors who are also in the play? The Two Gentlemen of Verona is unusual for them in that one of the co-directors (Ben Steinfeld) is not in the cast.
In response to a question about exactly when Fiasco was formed, I learned that “there is internal difference on when it happened.” The founders were all from the first three graduating classes (2005-7) of the Brown/Trinity MFA Program in Acting and Directing at Brown University. Some of them began teaching together around 2006-7; they worked together on the first production using the Fiasco name in 2007-8; they incorporated as a 501(c)3 under the name in 2009 and set up the structure of three co-Artistic Directors plus three Company Members.
That first production was a different iteration of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, one of Shakespeare’s earliest and less-performed comedies. (Interestingly, the last time Folger did a production of that play, it was also with a small cast. In Aaron Posner’s 2004 production, four actors played the two sets of lovers, while three actors — Kate Eastwood Norris, Holly Twyford, and Lucy Newman-Williams — played everyone else.) That first Fiasco Two Gentlemen of Verona was a much bigger affair, with a cast of fully eight actors. It had a running time of 80 minutes and was performed in a studio in New York City.
What drew them to this play? “The character breakdown,” which allowed them to use four men and four women, each with a “nice, meaty track to work on.” (Brody and Austrian frequently used the word “track” to refer to the path of each actor in these productions that require most of them to play multiple roles.) Austrian added that “Noah had the best dog” and The Two Gentlemen of Verona has a part for a dog. The dog was cast as Crab. Sadly, that actor is not part of the current tour, having shuffled off this mortal coil at the ripe old age of 16, I believe they said. A human, Zachary Fine, is currently doing Crab duties at the Folger.
One of the reasons The Two Gentlemen of Verona isn’t done as much as other comedies in the canon is that the lead behaves badly when he attempts to force himself on the woman he loves just before the play’s happy ending. We talked a little before the controversy surrounding The Game of Thrones flared up, putting dramatic representations of rape under a microscope. However, Austrian and Brody focused on a couple of interesting aspects of that plot twist. First, they stressed the genuine quality of the character’s repentance. “The apology is true, genuine, as opposed to a pro forma apology, a fake, politicized, forced apology,” Brody said. Then they spoke of the opportunity it allows for the other characters to forgive the transgression. “Because Proteus actually feels repentance, what is there to say but to forgive? It becomes easy to forgive.”
The other interesting thing they pointed out regarding the speed with which the characters and plot move on to the happy ending is that it is “in keeping with the rest of the play. The characters are instantly falling in love. That spontaneous, protean nature of passion is at the heart of the play.” So it also makes sense, in that context, that the characters are quick to repent and quick to forgive.
Cymbeline, they said, was chosen in a manner similar to The Two Gentlemen of Verona. “I was dying to play Imogen,” Austrian said. They pointed to other qualities in the play that attracted the troupe. “It’s filled with event, it’s epic in nature, chock full of events. It lends itself to ensemble playing. The doubling allowed strong thematic resonance. The characters are frequently mistaking what they see.” Also, for all of us, on-stage and in the audience, “You never know where you are in your story,” and the play makes that abundantly clear. They pointed to an instance in the play when a character thinks he is on top of the world right before he loses his life and another instance of a character who is in extremis but who ends the play in a much happier place.
I asked if the Cymbeline production is something they have in their back pocket, able to be easily pulled out and done anytime, anywhere, or if they are going to need to re-discover it during rehearsals. “It’s been two years since we did it last. The other night, we ran lines on the spur of the moment. That experience was hilarious and humbling.” Both laughed at the memory before adding something fascinating. It is amazing “how strongly imprinted the performances” of the other actors are on the two. As a result, both said they remember other lines better than their own. That said, and the challenge of “incorporating the columns” at the Folger into the staging aside, they pointed out that they’ve done Cymbeline four times and each time it’s been “better, richer, easier in the positive sense, more fully embodied. We hear new things.”
We talked about the experience of directing a play while also acting in it; in fact, co-directing a play with another actor. They both spoke of challenges and rewards, and more than once used the word “generosity” in describing the attitude of the other actors as the key to the success of the model. “It’s really, really hard to negotiate. It’s challenging, but also enriching. It can be hard to give feedback and hard to hear it. When not to say something can be as important as when to say it.
“Ultimately, though, the ensemble feels much more ownership. The director leads a conversation and makes conceptual decisions, but we make the play as an ensemble.” Austrian noted that, although a director standing out front and separate from the cast is the norm now, in the scope of theatre history, it’s a fairly new model. And a great advantage for Fiasco is that, after opening, “the director doesn’t go away.” Brody added about the current production that “it’s a good thing that Jessie is inside it and staying with it.”
In between Cymbeline and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, the company ventured away from the Bard and took a similar approach (minimal design, small cast) to something completely different. They tackled a work about giants, among other things, by the giant of contemporary American musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim. Their production of Into the Woods got great reviews at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, and they will take it next to the Old Globe in San Diego before a run Off-Broadway under the auspices of New York’s Roundabout Theater Company. They told me that Sondheim and co-writer James Lapine have seen the production and are “strong supporters” of the Fiasco take on it.
What else is ahead for Fiasco? Beyond the upcoming runs of Into the Woods, they had no definite plans that they could share, but spoke about wanting to do another Shakespeare production in the 2015-16 season, their desire to create an original piece as an ensemble, and the prospect of adapting literature, perhaps an American classic, to the stage. “We’ll always do Shakespeare, but we won’t only do Shakespeare,” Brody said, after which Austrian added that it would be fun to do a play that involved “couches and sinks.”
The search for the next challenge will involve “finding what we’re passionate about doing and what lends itself” to the Fiasco approach, which, they stressed, is “what’s the best way to tell this story.” Which means that, if and when they tackle a play that’s an American classic, they may not approach it the way they have Shakespeare and (now) Sondheim. “There’s not a set of rules that we would apply to any play. We will listen to each play and perhaps create a new set of aesthetic criteria.” In some cases, it could be decided not to do the casting of actors in multiple roles, a practice for which they have become known.
On the “devised piece” front, they have recently been through a two-week lab at Sundance Institute, during which they explored “tiny, inchoate seeds of ideas and began to investigate ways to work” toward the creation of something new. They took as a starting point folk tales, although they told me that the composer Michael John LaChiusa pronounced their themes more narrowly as “night and losers who win.” (The piece will include original music, which I guess is why LaChuisa was involved with them during that lab experience.)
Another group getting buzz around the country is Bedlam Theatre, which brought its four-actor rep of Hamlet and Saint Joan to Olney Theatre Center before an acclaimed run in New York. Not that two companies doing small-cast classics define a trend, but what about this coincidence? The two called Fiasco “the inheritors of a tradition, Fiasco didn’t invent it.” After stressing that “Bedlam and Fiasco do different things,” they allowed as how they hope they are “part of a trend that puts the text front and center, that takes an ensemble approach,” that requires an actor involved to be “a total theatre artist” who is involved in the “total responsibility of the production. If things are moving in that direction, we are thrilled.” They also pointed out that Fiasco and Bedlam both have connections to Providence’s Trinity Repertory Company and that both were deeply influenced by Adrian Hall, the long-time Artistic Director of Trinity Rep.
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Back to the name Fiasco. I ended by asking for a memorable incident when a performance went horribly wrong, and Brody accommodated by telling me of an entrance he made as Posthumus in Cymbeline. He is supposed to say, “I am Posthumus, that killed thy daughter,” referring to Imogen, Posthumus’ wife. Instead, he entered and proclaimed, “I am Imogen!” After Brody pronounced this his “greatest destruction of a line,” Austrian spoke of how “regularly, a moment that is not quite right can open the door to a better show — if you acknowledge it and use it as a springboard to a better scene, if you risk flopping at something.” Brody concurred, adding that they have “no assumptions about what theatre is supposed to be other than actors and an audience living in a room and breathing the same air.”
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DCTS review of The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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The Santa Fe New Mexican posted a review so I thought I'd share some bits of another's viewpoint of the show:
- "Mirabal has created a poetic and thought-provoking show with co-writers Stephen Parks and Nelson Zink."
- "He [me] is dressed in cargo pants, high-top sneakers, and a Doors t-shirt." [heehee]
- "The monologue is part history lesson and part drama, but it is not a diatribe."
- "Mirabal is an engaging performer who combines song, dance, prayer, and humor into a script that jumps around in time. A hallucinatory episode describing an encounter with Jim Morrison of The Doors may tip a little heavily into Taos hippie mythology, but as Mirabal points out, 'The seekers helped keep things alive.'" [Yep, it's true.]
There's lots more and you can read the full review here.
Or. . .
Better yet, you can come see it in person. Performances will be held from August 16 - September 4 at the Lodge at Santa Fe. For more information, please contact Danette Lovato at 505.242.8355 or purchase tickets here.
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Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
The usurped writer/director is surprisingly calm about the whole affair, perhaps due to time having scabbed over the wounds. He gives viewers access to the amazing pre-production art and storyboards he’d commissioned, on-set photos of the brief time he’d had in the director’s chair and airs his view on some of the disasters that befall the production.
The doc shifts focus for a long time after the middle section, becoming more like a DVD extra about the making of the actual Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) film that did eventually get made with a new director.
There's no guarantee that Stanley's would've been better, but given how visually spellbinding his past films were it sure as hell would've been a lot more interesting to look at and very likely more thought-provoking.
3½ Hollywood hyenas out of 5
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Watched this first thing this morning because I woke up about 2 hours before my alarm went off.
Decent for the first half and like you said it turns into a DVD extra.
Didn't know Stanley came back in disguise after disappearing. XD A nutter!
I always like the film no matter how bad it was. It struck some sort of chord with me and always stuck around.
'Twas my intro to David Thewlis and I've followed him ever since.
Severin are releasing a blu of Dust Devil sometime later this year. I'm excited for that.
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Long time readers of The Tales have followed the trials and tribulations of CJ the Dog. If you haven’t, the Cliff Notes version is that CJ doesn’t like getting his hair cut. He also doesn’t like the mailman or anyone else that walks, bikes, or drives past our house. And he doesn’t like anyone touching any of his stuff. Stripes reference. But I digress.
So for various reasons, we made our way to an appointment with Groomer #7 on Monday. Groomer #7 is a nice lady who does dog grooming in her home.
In less than five seconds of meeting this nice lady, CJ tried to bite her. Keep in mind, we were in her house. Undeterred, she asked if I would pick him up and hand him to her. In my mind I thought, “Please don’t bite me. Please don’t bite me.” I figured that would look really bad if he bit me, and thus harm our chances of a haircut.
But then some divine intervention took over, and as CJ wiggled around in her arms, he had a look in his eyes that he finally realized we were running out of dog groomers in the phone book. And with that, they descended the stairs and she told me to come back in two hours.
The longest two hours of my life. Except for the time I sat through “Joe Vs. the Volcano.”
Anyways, when I picked him up Groomer #7 said he had been a perfect little gentleman and said we could come back in three months.
As God is my witness, I tipped that woman more than I’ve ever tipped my own hair groomers. But to my credit, I’ve never tried to bite any of them.
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Title
Evaluating the Efficiency of Treatment Comparison in Crossover Design by Allocating Subjects Based On Ranked Auxiliary Variable
Term of Award
Summer 2016
Degree Name
Doctor of Public Health in Biostatistics (Dr.P.H.)
Document Type and Release Option
Dissertation (restricted to Georgia Southern)
Other
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Department
Department of Biostatistics (COPH)
Committee Chair
Hani Samawi
Committee Member 1
Robert Vogel
Committee Member 2
Jingjing Yin
Committee Member 3
Daniel Linder
Abstract
“Randomized control design is the gold standard” in the design of experiments which focus on treatment comparisons in health related fields. The validity of statistical inference depends heavily on proper randomization processes. Several approaches for treatment allocation have been studied to ensure the validity of statistical inference, such as complete randomization, stratification, block randomization and minimization. However, even with proper randomization, we could have unbalanced characteristics of subjects among treatment groups. In addition, for those studies on chronic disease, crossover designs using Latin squares provide a solution in the experimental design stage to balance the characteristics of subjects among the treatment groups. In this dissertation, we introduce a method based on ranked auxiliary variables for treatment allocation, which is inspired by ranked set sampling (RSS), for crossover designs using Latin squares. We also evaluate the improvement in efficiency of the proposed method. Our simulation study reveals that the proposed method provides a more powerful test compared to simple randomization under equivalent sample sizes. This will translate to a reduction in the number of replicates needed in the crossover design using Latin squares.
Recommended Citation
Huang, Yisong, "Evaluating the Efficiency of Treatment Comparison in Crossover Design by Allocating Subjects Based On Ranked Auxiliary Variable" (2016). Electronic Theses & Dissertations. 1450.
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With companies being drawn to image-centric networks more than ever as a way to reach new, younger audiences, Instagram is the perfect place to promote your business right now.
Instagram boasts 200 million users and an average of 60 million photos being uploaded per day, it’s one of the most popular social media platforms after Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
The hotel industry is particularly suited to a platform like Instagram because of its ability to offer a taste of what customers can expect before they visit. I went on a journey through Instagram to see how the hotel industry was holding up on the popular, image sharing platform. I’ve taken various metrics into account including how many people they are following, how often they post, the quality of images among others.
I started with about 20 UK Instagram hotel accounts that caught my eye and then checked out all their pictures to weed out the weaker competition. Here’s my top ten list of UK Instagram Hotel Accounts in descending order.
Number 10. The Kensington Hotel, London
(177 posts, 254 followers, 221 following)
This hotel marks the first of my top ten with a decent number of posts, followers and fans. Many of their 177 posts are not of the hotel and it’s good to have a mix of content. However, The Kensington Hotel could maximise the potential of the platform by including more of what’s on offer inside the hotel as well as what is on offer in London. With a good base already, even just a few more pictures of a selection of the rooms and facilities they offer and this could be one of the better hotel Instagram accounts.
Number 9. Hotel 41, London
(22 posts, 57 followers, 17 following)
I really love the pictures from this hotel; they are using filters well and the composition is quite artistic. Unfortunately, they just didn’t have enough of them! Also with a low amount of followers I really couldn’t justify putting them any higher up the list. However, there is real potential here for them to post great pictures more frequently and get more followers on board.
Number 8. Brown’s Hotel, London
(39 posts, 233 followers, 188 following)
This hotel has plenty of followers and has done a great job of returning the favour but again the variety of pictures leaves you wanting, as well as the lack of use of the many filters on offer. This is, however, an iconic hotel and I am sure that there are plenty of picturesque scenes that we are yet to see.
Number 7. Loch Ness Lodge, Drumnadrochit
(67 posts, 34 followers, 33 following)
This is one of the first hotels in the list really making the most of the filters and border designs that Instagram provides. Although most of these pictures are of the local countryside which definitely sells the prospect of going on holiday to Loch Ness, again, a few more of the hotel would be welcomed.
Number 6. Chewton Glen Hotel & Spa, New Milton
(114 posts, 201 followers, 10 following)
This is where the competition gets serious. There are plenty of great shots highlighting the beauty of this hotel in the countryside. Its only let down is its failure to follow more people. With its number of posts and followers they really should be interacting with and following more users.
Number 5. Stoke Park Country Club, Spa & Hotel, Stoke Poges
(131 posts, 348 followers, 82 following)
This hotel had some of my favourite pictures out of the bunch, with arguably the best picture of all the hotels I looked at (top left). It also used the full range of Instagram filters most effectively. This is a very photogenic hotel which makes taking beautiful pictures easier and the only reason they are not ranked higher is due to the lack of photography of the inside of the hotel, which is hugely important to potential customers checking out your Instagram account.
Number 4. Coworth Park, Ascot
(219 posts, 918 followers, 298 following)
It was a tough call between 4th and 5th as both hotels have quality photos of the surrounding area of the hotels. Coworth Park nabbed 4th place purely down to its stats; this account scored the highest number of followers, following and posts of the top 10 hotels.
Number 3. The Magdalen Chapter, Exeter
(305 posts, 378 followers, 180 following)
A great example of a well-managed, engaging hotel Instagram account; The Magdalen Chapter has some great photos making the most of the filters as well as showing plenty of the inside and outside of the hotel to give their healthy number of followers an insight into exactly what is on offer from this hotel and the surrounding area. This hotel also does a great job of updating its account with regular photos of events going on within the hotel.
Number 2. Hotel Indigo Glasgow, Glasgow
(52 posts, 99 followers, 16 following)
Although there are a low number of posts, followers and following they have not wasted a single image by repeating themselves and this is why they are in the top 2. Not only can potential customers see exactly what to expect from this hotel but the creativity in each of the photos shows next level commitment. Customers come along knowing they will get comfortable rooms, stylish public areas and cocktails! This hotel clearly has a well thought out strategy in place and is sure to continue to grow their followers slowly but steadily.
Number 1. Lime Wood Hotel, New Forest
(312 posts, 797 followers, 40 following)
With the second highest amount of followers and the highest posts of the top 10 this hotel has it all. A great looking venue features in beautiful photos with an excellent use of the filters and a variety of different compositions. This hotel has put real effort into making the most of its Instagram account by posting pictures of its food, facilities and rooms. It also has some great pictures of the building itself and some lovely scenic shots. By consistently posting quality, engaging photos regularly, they are likely to be a familiar and enjoyable feature in followers feeds.
There are still a lot of hotels out there not using Instagram as their main social media platform. However the platform presents a viable way of checking out your holiday destination or even as a tool to choose your destination so hotels should at least include Instagram within their overall social media mix to avoid missing out. These 10 hotels provide a great example to others looking to get started.
It’s important to remember that Instagram and other social sharing platforms are perfect search platforms for event managers and other potential clients in need of venues for functions and events such as weddings, birthday parties, charity events and even business meetings too. If you’d like help building an Instagram following, check out our Quick Guide to Instagram Success here >
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Ecotourism & Adventure
Natural thrills abound in Acapulco’s lagoons, beaches and rivers.
Acapulco’s natural beauty has always been a huge part of its appeal. This is one cosmopolitan destination offering visitors’ easy-to-access communion with the environment.
Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn filmed some of the scenes in their 1951 Oscar-winning film, The African Queen at the Coyuca Lagoon.
Coyuca Lagoon is a prime spot for ecotourists. It’s located just outside the city, directly across from palm-lined Pie de la Cuesta beach. Coyuca Lagoon is a natural fresh water sanctuary containing exotic birds, including white herons, pelicans, marabous and storks. It’s easy to book one of the half-day ecological boat tours that allow you to experience the lagoon. You can also choose a more active way to enjoy the day, with options for waterskiing, fishing, swimming and horseback riding. There’s even a natural mud bath for an invigorating skin treatment. You’ll find a number of restaurants and even a couple of modest hotels if you can’t pull yourself away at the end of the day.
The fresh water Tres Palos Lagoon is located between Puerto Marques and the Acapulco International Airport. The island-studded and water-lily covered lagoon is home to diverse species of birds, which use the sheltering mangroves to safely build their nests. During your boat ride you’ll have a chance to glimpse many variations of egrets and herons, as well as such unusual specimens as the Black Vulture Cormorant and Great Kiskadee. There’s also the option for horseback riding, and for catching a meal at one of the seafood restaurants on nearby Barra Vieja beach.
In 2011, during a four-month period, around 30,000 baby olive ridley sea turtles were released by members of the sea turtle camp at Hermosa Beach in Acapulco.
La Roqueta Island is an ecological reserve in a federally protected area. It’s easily reached via a 30-minute boat ride from Caleta Beach in the Traditional Zone. The word “reserve’ is a bit misleading – this is also a place to have fun, with options for snorkeling, diving, hiking or enjoying a fun day at the beach, which is especially popular with locals on the weekends. A main attraction is the glass-bottom boat ride that ventures around the island, affording passengers a look at one of Acapulco’s most stirring sights, the submerged statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe statue. There’s also a trio of restaurants on the island, serving up some ultra-fresh seafood.
A variety of sea turtle release programs afford a wonderful way to memorialize your vacation in Acapulco. Each year, the beaches of Acapulco become home to thousands of mature Golfina Sea Turtles as they arrive from great distances to lay their eggs. Beginning in July, several hotels (including the Grand Mayan Acapulco Resort, The Fairmont Acapulco Princess and The Fairmont Pierre Marques hotels) offer programs to protect the endangered turtles from the dangers and predators their hatchlings may face as thousands of baby turtles emerge to begin their voyage to the sea. Joining one of these release programs may be one of your most enduring Acapulco experiences.
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Tito Ortiz Arrested For Assaulting Jenna Jameson (VIDEO)
UFC fighter Tito Ortiz was arrested for felony domestic violence this morning at the Huntington Beach home he shares with Jenna Jameson. Cops handcuffed Ortiz and removed him from the home after responding to a 9:53 a.m. 911 call and discovering Jenna with “visible injuries.” Jenna, a former porn star and glamor model, left the... »
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Cut Rite Onions LLC v. Sardilli Produce & Dairy Co. Inc et al
Plaintiff: Cut Rite Onions LLC
Defendant: Jason M. Sardilli, Sardilli Produce & Dairy Co., Inc, Don N. Sardilli and Devin N. Sardilli
Case Number: 3:2013cv00300
Filed: March 5, 2013
Court: Connecticut District Court
Office: New Haven Office
County: XX US, Outside State
Presiding Judge: Janet C. Hall?
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Deciding to purchase property in a college town and rent it out is a great way to maximize your rental investment. Many adults, who are unable to find work, have decided to go back to school to enhance their education. The Department of Education predicts that college enrollment will rise by more than 15 percent [...]
When renting out your home you may come across tenants at some point that are not the easiest to handle. But the problem may not necessarily be with the tenants. You as the landlord or your property management company may not have may the renting experience the best it could be for those tenants. If [...]
Approving the right tenant for your rental property is probably the most important step taken in order to ensure you have a smooth rental experience. Property management companies know exactly what to look for in applicants and what the warning signs are for applicants who may be problem tenants. Below are three warning signs to [...]
There are times when you have already signed a lease with your tenants and at some point during the tenancy they may have a friend or boyfriend/girlfriend that may want to have start living at your rental property. The tenants required to notify you as the landlord or property management company that they would like [...]
The [...]
Whether you are renting or buying a home, the main thing to consider is the cost of the mortgage or rent to ensure you can afford the place you will be living in. When it comes to renting there are questions you should ask yourself to ensure you are able to find a rental property [...]
If you are a rental property owner and have decided to have a property management company rent out your property for you they may or may not provide you the tenant’s contact information depending on the situation. Property management companies have reasons for doing so in each situation and we will provide you some insight [...]
If your home has a pool and you have decided to rent it out, with it comes a lot of liability. Renting out your home with a pool however, can be a great selling point. The first thing to make sure you have to cover yourself is to have a landlord’s insurance policy. Another thing [...]
If you own a rental property that is currently vacant, the safety of the property should be high concern for you. Now ideally your hope is that the rental property will not be vacant for long, however if you are unable to find a renter for your property for 2-3 months, you want to make [...]
Showing your rental property to prospective tenants can be very time consuming if you are constantly having to deal with prospective renters not showing up to appointments. It would be nice if every person that was interested in your property showed up to every appointment; however that is generally not the case and can waste [...]
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AER Advisors Inc et al v. FMR LLC et al
Plaintiff: AER Advisors Inc, William J. Deutsch and Peter E. Deutsch
Defendant: Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC
Mediator: Thomas E. Scott
Case Number: 1:2017cv12214
Filed: November 9, 2017
Court: Massachusetts District Court
Office: Boston Office
County: XX US, Outside State
Presiding Judge: Patti B. Saris?
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Father: Earl Richard Neville XVI of Warwick Born: November 22, 1428 Married: Unknown Died: April 14, 1471 in Barnet
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Mother: Lady Anne Beauchamp of Warwick Born: September 1426 in Caversham Died: September 20, 1492
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Children: 1. Lady Isabel Neville of Warwick (b.9/5/1451) 2. Lady Anne Neville of Warwick (b.6/11/1456)
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Kirk et al v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation et al
Plaintiff: Edward V. Kirk and Wilma Kirk
Defendant: Trane U.S., Inc., Kentile Floors, Inc., Jenkins Valves, Inc., Ingersoll-Rand Company, IMO Industries, Inc., General Electric Company, Gardner Denver, Inc., FMC Corporation, Empire-Ace Insulation Mfg. Corp., Air & Liquid Systems Corporation, CBS Corporation, Crane Co., Warren Pumps, LLC, Weinman Pump & Supply Co. and Yarway Corporation
Case Number: 1:2012cv07930
Filed: October 24, 2012
Court: New York Southern District Court
Office: Foley Square Office
County: Nassau
Presiding Judge: Katherine B. Forrest?
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Question: My car wont start :-(
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I feel like you may have some wiring issue related to the switch that tells what gear your lever is in. Either a connector that is not fully seated or a pinched wire from the transmission installation. Recheck the installation and all the switches and wiring first.
ReplyBrickell Motors, December 20, 2010, 08:16Enthusiast
You might also like to start by adjusting the Neutral Switch.
Answer #2Brickell Motors (see my shops), December 20, 2010, 08:33Enthusiast
You might also like to start by adjusting the Neutral Switch
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Managing the location of Solr data
Manage where the Solr data files are saved on the server.
Data that is added to a DSE Search node is locally indexed in the Cassandra node. Data changes to one node also apply to the other node. Like Cassandra data files, DSE Search has its own indexing files. You can control where the Search indexing data files are saved on the server. By default, the Solr data is saved in cassandra_data_dir/solr.data, or as specified by the
dse.solr.data.dirsystem property.
Note: The <dataDir> parameter in the solrconfig.xml file is not supported.
Procedure
- Shut down the search node.
- Move the solr.data directory to the new location.
- Specify the location:
- Start the node.
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The location change is permanent when set in dse.yaml. The command-line argument must be used consistently or DSE reverts to the default data directory.
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In an increasingly advanced education system, the need for information orservices to students is increasing, then every educational institution must adjust to thedevelopment of existing technology, so it will have a good system.
The recording system of payment or call the SPP Payment Information System isan important part of the internal systems of an institution, it is most needed to helpfacilitate the decision making process or the process of academic and administrativeneeds of educational institutions. Computerized system will automate the manual systemthat had been wont to do, in a system for recording payments to computerize spp, namelyby changing how data is processed in the books or records into a database that is easilyaccessible by fast. Data processing system includes a problem recording manually untilthe complex integrated electronic systems.
So the presence of a computerized payment system capable of providing sppconvenience in data processing administration in SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Wonosobo.
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A Quick Overview of the NA Regional Qualifier
The Regional Qualifier or the Gauntlet starts on August 29 to determine who is going to worlds. Gravity, Could 9, Team Impulse, and Team Liquid are all taking place in the Regional Qualifier for North America. Dignitas had the least points so they are unable to play for a chance at worlds. Each of these teams have their strengths and weaknesses that could bring them to that worlds spot however some significantly more likely than others. GV and TIP both look weak, there is hope for C9, and TL is the clear favorite.
Overview
I’m going to start with the team I think will get knocked out first and that team is Gravity. In my opinion GV is being completely overrated. They do have a unique bruiser mid style to them and their players are mechanically good but it won’t be enough. GV has some of the worst lane swaps I have ever seen. If you go back and look at their swaps against Team SoloMid in the playoffs they were always behind when it came to taking their towers. Dyrus would be in lane before Hauntzer and would get the gold lead and just become a split push threat because they would leave the tower up or they just couldn’t knock it down fast enough. This was also a cause of questionable decision making as well Move would prioritize buffs over the towers. Their champion pools are brought into question because in playoffs they just played around the same few champions and barely adapted to different ones when absolutely forced. They ran Shen and Tristana in three of their four games and only got one with them. Then you see the fact that they play Could 9 that has a strong shot caller in Hai. It is really hard to see this team get past C9 when they have so many problems.
Now we move onto Cloud 9 that has the potential to do well in the Regional Qualifier. Cloud 9 did not participate in playoffs but they had enough points from the previous split to get a chance in the qualifier. Their two biggest strengths are their experience and their shot caller Hai. Lemonnation, Balls, Sneaky, and Hai all have international experience and a lot of best of series experience that give them an edge of over the other teams since teams like Gravity and Impulse have so little. Hai is also one of these best callers in League of Legends and you take that compared to other teams that suffer from poor communication and miscommunication Hai just looks so valuable. Incarnation is still fresh blood in best of series but I think the rest of team can help him out and put up a fight. They have also had a lot of time to practice which makes me think they could pull out some surprises.
Team Impulse in playoffs had multiple problems. Impact has been relegated to tank tops and Apollo is being thrown into the one carry role. TIP just keeps creating compositions where Apollo gets put on hyper carries and they aren’t working out. Gate’s champion pool can also be brought into question since he seems to default to Lulu a lot which ends up forcing these one carry compositions for TIP. TIP also places little wards which causes people to get caught out in their games which end up with scenarios where Apollo has to rely on his Hawk Shot for vision. Their positioning also comes into question where they tend to cluster for area of effect damage, Apollo being on the opposite side of the front line, and players engaging fights before their teammates are close enough to follow up. These types of positioning and engage problems show so much failure in communication. However one of their strengths is their ability to finds early leads. Impact, Rush, and Adrian are all very skilled players but the problem is when they find their leads they have trouble pushing it. In the third place match against Team Liquid they would find gold leads but were unable break down 2nd tier towers or find fights so TL just waited out the game until Fenix and Piglet had items. TIP just struggles so much in a best of 5 that it really hard to see how they would win a series over a more experienced team like Cloud 9 but they can more than likely still beat Gravity.
Last but not least we have Team Liquid which is the team most would expect to win in the qualifier. TL’s players are mechanically strong with big champion pools but they have their own weaknesses. TL’s biggest struggle is being consistent in their games and series. When TL is doing well they look really good but they also look just as bad when they aren’t playing well. They push their leads hard to win games and aren’t afraid to just straight up force fights to push their lead but they sometimes over reach with their lead and end up giving back gold to the enemy. The same thing even appears in their shot calling where they think they found good fights or picks but they end up over forcing fighting sometimes because someone gets caught out or they think they can burst someone before back up shows up. Positioning also follows a similar role where Piglet sometimes gets caught like when he walked back into the dragon pit because he saw Impacts teleport and then TL gets aced trying to save Piglet. Then you have times where Piglet is in front of his team and he just chunks out Gate’s Lulu before a fight even break out which gives TL a team fight win. TL is just so inconsistent with everything they do and it is so frustrating to watch. Taking how inconsistent TL is and combine it with the fact they are a more emotional team and it just adds to the variables of this team. There is something about this team that makes it hard to tell if they are good or bad and you wonder which TL will show up for the qualifier.
Predictions
I doubt Gravity has had enough time to fix their problems so I have a hard time seeing them winning against Cloud 9. Hai’s shot calling will give them edge over GV. I expect Hai to be able to abuse GV’s extremely poor lane swaps to give C9 the advantage in their games.
Then for C9 vs Impulse it could go either way but I’m going to say it will be in favor of C9. TIP struggles with pushing their lead and really poor communication which leads me to believe C9 can take this series as well for reasons similar to the Gravity match. I value Hai shot calling a lot because most team in North America seem to suffer from communication issues so it is hard to not see Hai’s shot calling as a big advantage.
Finally C9 vs Team Liquid itself I will put in favor of TL. I already put a lot of faith into the C9 team and they have been historically done well against TL in best of series. I think a lot of this match is up to TL and which version of them shows up. TL needs the version of themselves that is willing to make plays, position well, and push advantages to win the game to show up in this qualifier. If that version does not show up C9 could very well win this series with better communication and rotations. If it is TIP to face TL I don’t see TIP winning they just can’t seem to beat TL in a best of 5.
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Individual differences in the ability to execute cognitive processes must ultimately be underpinned by differences in neural functioning. Over the past decade, research on the relation between higher-level cognition and brain function has characterized thinking as the functioning of a largescale cortical network, schematically depicted in Figure 1 as a set of cortical centers connected by communications pathways.
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Investment firm takes ownership of League team M19
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Russia's most famous League of Legends team has received an investment which could very well eclipse that of any other organization in the region.
Strongbow Investments, an investment firm primarily focusing on agriculture and real estate development, now owns the Russian League team M19. Strongbow has provided the team with substantial assets—including a training facility in the shape of Manor Nikolsky, an estate outside of Moscow with an estimated value of $22 million, Yahoo Esports reports—in order to turn the organization into a contender on the international esports stage.
Consisting entirely of the roster that competed as Albus NoX Luna at the 2016 League World Championship, M19 is now well on its way to becoming the largest League organization in the LoL Continental League, which acts as the primary competition in the Russian-speaking region.
This isn't the first multi-million dollar investment to take place in Russian esports, however. In Oct. 2015, ESForce Holdings, the holding company of Russia's richest man Alisher Usmanov, allegedly invested more than $100 million in Virtus Pro.
The M19 roster reached international acclaim at the 2016 League World Championship, following their success against international heavyweights CLG and RoX Tigers in the tournament's group stage. Scoring victories against both teams, the Russian roster was eliminated by eventual semifinalists H2K, but not before they made history as the most successful team from a wildcard region.
H/T Yahoo Esports
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A Methodology for Assessing Eco-Efficiency in Logistics Networks
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For over a year, Salon B bibliocafé, a café/library/art gallery on St. Laurent Blvd. in Montreal served as my home office away from home. Though the concept behind that particular café is deserving of a separate post (the café is located above, and affiliated with, a funeral home– yessir, and a very chi chi one at that), what I liked about it was the fact that you could stay for hours without being shooed out or stared down, the music (sometimes Cirque du Soleil, sometimes Nancy Sinatra duets), and the little piece of chocolate or candy that accompanied my cappuccinos. Maybe I was missing the larger point of this controversial café’s raison d’être but to me it was simply a great place to work, with big windows, delicious paninis, and very friendly staff. Free wireless access was the icing on the cake.
Since acquiring a laptop last year, wireless is no longer the icing; very often, it’s the cake. I’ve added Internet access to the mental list of must-haves—proximity to home, good cappuccinos, a relaxed atmosphere and so forth—that help me to choose one coffee shop over another. By ‘Internet access’ I mean free access, of course. Sorry, Starbucks/Second Cup.
Unfortunately, getting coffee and free wifi in Toronto has proven surprisingly difficult. Maybe I’m not looking in the right places. But in the downtown-centre/west core, say Annex-to-Queen-West, I have found very few spots of which I would gladly become a regular. Lots of otherwise great cafés don’t offer wireless (though occasionally one can pick up stray signals). I have also come across several locales that advertise free internet access, but that in various ways make it inconvenient or uncomfortable to actually use it.
In contrast, Montreal is bursting with free hotspots. My impression is that providing free wifi is seen (correctly, in my view and given my personal habits) as a way to draw customers in, even if they do stay a little longer than owners would like. The Île Sans Fil project has done a lot to encourage downtown establishments (including Salon B) to offer free wireless access on their premises. Java U on St.-Denis and Café République on ave. Bernard are just two locales that even provide customers with a way of accessing the Internet without laptops—iGotcha Media‘s ‘webpads,’ ad-sponsored touchscreen units great for checking email and such. (A full list of Montreal locations offering these webpads is available here.)
Montreal boasts 147 Île Sans Fil spots and 61 iGotcha webpad locations. That’s far more free access points than we appear to have in Toronto, which we all know is the bigger city. (A list of 39 free wifi hotspots is provided here by Wireless Toronto, a non-profit group that works to improve wireless access as a community-building initiative. A total of 85 hotspots are listed in this directory, some of which require a credit card for use.)
I can only guess that this situation stems from T.O. café owners’ reluctance to risk having their unique atmosphere sabotaged by hordes of poor students buying a tea and staying 5 hours glued to their computer screens, taking up space. An understandable fear, but to those who still think along these lines, I would offer as a counter-example Montreal’s Le Dépanneur Café, located in Mile End. At this gorgeous café where live music, kitschy decor and bottled soda are the norm, ethernet Internet access is offered for three laptops in the back on a first come, first serve basis. It’s the perfect mix of providing customers with the access they want and need and maintaining the unique ambiance of the café which is the reason Dépanneur is so popular in the first place. Why couldn’t such a concept work in Toronto?
Perhaps the apparent lack of wifi-friendly cafés in our city versus in Montreal is more indicative of the centralization of free wireless efforts in that city than of any particular ill will on the part of Toronto café owners. And on the plus side, it does seem that more T.O. establishments offer free wireless of their own accord rather than through companies like iGotcha, which is praise-worthy in that it is also more often advertising-free.
My next post won’t be so ‘Montreal rocks, T.O. stinks’. Despite the duds, my search for wifi-friendly cafés in downtown Toronto did yield a few gems. I’ll have reviews of these and some wifi-less but still neat coffee shops I stumbled upon over the past few weeks. Stay tuned—their identities revealed in Caffeine & Wireless, Post #2.
In Montreal:
- Salon B bibliocafé | 4231, boulevard St.-Laurent
- Java U | 4065, rue St.-Denis & other locations in Montreal
- Café République | 1051, rue Bernard & other locations in Montreal
- Le Dépanneur Café | 206, rue Bernard
There are some great places to grab free wireless around the city. You mention Wireless Toronto, and I’m a huge fan of their service: they even have a hotspot on the rooftop garden of 401 Richmond! I also strongly recommed the Linux Caffe: good wireless, great people. When I get back in town, we’ll go wireless hotspot hunting, okay? In the meantime, I mention a few other places on my “Working Away From Home” post:
i have to agree that the # of free wifi cafes in toronto is disappointing. it’s much lower than one might expect for a city this large and this high-tech. yes, there are good spots, but really, i expected more when i moved here…
*waves at vasta*
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David R. Lindberg
Many ecological studies begin with the premise that modern-day communities represent fully integrated settings that evolved synchronously. This approach circumvents consideration of the temporal and spatial histories of the constituent organisms, their probable historical interactions, and how a system may have changed through time. A study of 20 kelp forests finds age and assembly differences between the northern and southern hemispheres. In the northern hemisphere, predators are oldest in warm temperate waters and herbivores are the youngest lineages originating after the kelp at all latitudes. The sea otter is the youngest component in North Pacific kelp forests. In the southern hemisphere, most herbivores and predators are substantially older than the kelp; the herbivores are the oldest lineages and have low latitude ancestry. Kelp forests in the North Atlantic show patterns similar to the North Pacific; probably due to recent migrations. This study shows that not all kelp forests have the same evolutionary trajectories and that region-specific models will be necessary to accurately estimate and predict impacts associated with climate change.
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NJPW/CMLL “NJPW PRESENTS CMLL FANTASTICA MANIA 2012”, 21/01/12
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1,950 Fans – Super No Vacancy
TAKA Michinoku & Taichi defeated Danshoku Dino & Maximo when Taichi pinned Taichi with a Horizontal Cradle (8:04).
One year after teaming together, Danshoku Dino returned to New Japan to team up with the pink mohawked Luchador Maximo once again for the New Japan & CMLL co-production of “FANTASTICA MANIA”. Before their match with TAKA Michinoku & Taichi even began, Dino tried to kiss Milano Collection AT at the commentator’s table. Milano avoided Dino by dragging another commentator in his place for the kiss. Even though Dino and Maximo got along fabulously and recieved chants of “Maxi-Dino” from the fans, their efforts could not defeat TAKA & Taichi. Dino & Maximo let bygones be bygones and both kissed the referee at the same time after the match. Dino then chased Taichi into the locker room.
DDT “SWEET DREAMS! 2012”, 29/01/2012
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
0. Dark Match: Gorgeous Matsuno & Rion Mizuki Vs DJ Nira & Shota
1. Sanshiro Takagi & Takao Soma Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Hoshitango
2. 3 Way Tag Match: Masa Takanashi & Daisuke Sasaki Vs Hikaru Sato & Michael Nakazawa Vs Shigehiro Irie & Poison JULIE Sawada
3. Yasu Urano, Antonio Honda & Keita Yano Vs Makoto Oishi, Akito & Hiroshi Fukuda (w/ Hikari Minami)
4. Keisuke Ishii Vs Yuji Hino
5. Kenny Omega Vs HARASHIMA
6. KO-D Openweight Title: KUDO (c) Vs Danshoku Dino
Danshoku Dino last held the KO-D Openweight Title in 2005. It was his only KO-D Title reign and since then he has had around six shots at the belt. KUDO will break the record for most KO-D Title defences if he defeats Dino.
DDT “TRULY ULTRA SUPER BAZOOKA!”, 11/02/2012
Nagoya Arsenal Hall
1. KO-D Tag Team Title: Yasu Urano & Yuji Hino (c) Vs Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie
The former champs get their rematch with Crying Wolf. Unsurprisingly, no one has been able to match the strength of Yuji Hino so far. Will Keisuke Ishii have discovered a fatal flaw to exploit after his Korakuen Hall match with Hino?
UNION “UNION PRO WRESTLING IN OSAKA”, 12/02/2012
Osaka Minami Move On Arena
1. Ken Ohka & Mio Shirai Vs Black Buffalo & Tigers Mask
2. Shuji Ishikawa & Shigehiro Irie Vs El Generico & Hiroshi Fukuda
3. DDT Extreme Title: Isami Kodaka (c) Vs Sexxxy Eddy
Mio Shirai & Ken Ohka sent out a challenge to face any team for this show. Black Buffalo & Tigers Mask from Osaka Pro answered the call.
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Summer of Scuzz mixtape
Here’s a scrappy pile of tracks we compiled courtesy of some local surf, new wave, punk, folk, and distorto-90s influenced bands from Canada’s epicentres of music (Toronto to Montreal to Halifax to Vancouver). True, there are other Can-Con mixtapes out there, but this one is decidedly less granola and a little more crude oil.... »
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Consultancy Services
Consultancy Services
Independent consultancy includes the following examples.
Vehicle and Engine Test Facilities: engine installation, dyno installation and selection, cell ventilation, fuel systems (diesel, gasoline, LPG, high and low pressure gas), heat/cooling systems, project management of upgrades or new test cells, specification of new facilities.
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2. Channel ideas from clients to ReSource Pro.
3. Provide feedback on RSP initiatives and offerings.
4. Identify benchmarks for measuring operational excellence.
5. Standardize best practices, share with clients.
6. Help ReSource Pro onboard and integrate new clients.
7. Find ways to reduce duplication of work in insurance industry.
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To many in the IT industry, the introduction of application lifecycle management (ALM) as a central discipline in software development ten years ago was seen as nothing short of revolutionary. As "a set of disciplines that together govern the process of turning business ideas into software (Wikipedia)," ALM promised a fully integrated and comprehensive solution that could support an entire development project. As a result, development teams would see much of the burden of the complex development process eliminated, providing a more productive and collaborative environment.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS Thursday, October 5th, 2017 – Day 3 WELCOME TO STUDENT TEACHERS FROM UPEI WHO ARE WITH US THIS WEEK!! TRANSFER BUSES – Just a reminder to EWS students transferring at Bluefield, please be sure to travel on your assigned …
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market has expanded its offering of baked goods and desserts. The retailer has introduced more than 60 new products including new varieties of bagels, scones, cookies, breads, pies, cupcakes, and pastries. The new products include several seasonal flavored, gluten free and organic options and like all fresh&easy brand products, contain no artificial colors or flavors, high-fructose corn syrup, or added trans fats, according to the company.
Josiah Huelle, Fresh & Easy’s dessert development chef, created the new dessert items. Chef Josiah joined the Fresh & Easy team in January, bringing years of experience as a pastry chef for a variety of resorts including St. Regis Monarch Beach and St. Regis Princeville.
“My baking philosophy has always been to keep things simple and let the ingredients speak for themselves. And that’s what we did with these new desserts,” said Chef Josiah. “I’m excited that our customers can now enjoy these naturally flavorful, high-quality and affordable treats. We worked hard to create delicious and innovative products that our customers will love.”
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GREETINGS.
It is about time we got started, late as usual.
There was going to be a brief explanation of THE PLAN for Edit Club, but given the low chance of us sticking to what little we had in the way of planning, why bother?
We are some friends. We are going to make edits for ourselves, and for you, and post them when they are done. While we will probably lean heavily towards disco, there are no rules as to genre. Collaboration with each other is likely as well!
The ideal is one edit every month or so from each of our contributors, but the chances of everyone sticking to that the entire time are small. We’ll see how it goes.
But in the coming hours/days/lunar cycles, expect things from the likes of:
Sparkletone
Only Children
OCD Automatic
Kid Color
Le Principle
And probably some other people that we know, like or stalk on the internet.
While you’re waiting on that stuff, enjoy this classic (read: old) edit done by the de-facto President of Edit Club, Todd Terje.
Stevie Wonder – Superstition (Todd Terje Edit)
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This is a depiction of a St. John's Water Dog with long hair. Most breed historians discount the long haired variety of this particular breed, but this variety played an important role in the development of the wavy-coated retriever, the ancestral variety for both golden retriever and the flat-coat.
The wavy-coated retriever is an important early retriever breed. It is the ancestral variety to both the golden retriever and the flat-coat, and it is an important out-cross to the Labrador retriever.
The wavy-coat descends from the St. John’s Water Dog, which may have had long-haired dogs in its type. This breed is credited with being ancestral to all retrievers, except the curly-coat, which was in development before this breed from the island of Newfoundland (the island part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador) was imported to Britain. (The curly probably was crossed with this dog at some point, however). The wavy-coat was developed when the word retriever described a function rather than a breed. Any dog that picked up shot game could be a retriever. Collies, setters, pointers, land spaniels, and water spaniels were all probably used as retrievers and cross-bred. The St. John’s Water dog just happened to be a very good retriever dog, and it became the ur dog from which all retrievers eventually were developed.
The early retrievers looked something like this:
At the top is a cross between a water spaniel and a St.John's Water dog; From left to right: a cross between a water spaniel and setter, and two crosses between a setter and a St. John's Water Dog.
This picture comes from a bookby a British officer named William Nelson Hutchinson called Dog Breaking: The Most Expeditious, Certain, and Easy Methods, an early encyclopedia of training hunting dogs of all types. The dogs at the bottom are typical of early wavy-coats, while the dog at the top is probably a good clue about how the curly-coated retriever developed once the St. John’s Water Dog was imported. In the original, where I have put the word “St. John’s Water Dog,” the author had the word “Newfoundland.” I changed it because at the time the words were interchangeable, but today, Newfoundland dog is a large mastiff type dog derived from this breed and bred from the late eigthteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century as a fad family pet. The modern dog called the Newfoundland has many genetic problems, which came from overbreeding as a much larger dog. It has a gentle temperament, but it lacks most of its original working instincts. This should be a warning to all retriever lovers, especially those who like the working instincts and healthy bodies of working retrievers. The same thing is happening to our dogs.
The wavy-coat began as a St. John’s Water Dog and setter cross. Something like this:
This dog is listed as a setter/retriever cross. It's probably a cross between a short-haired St. John's Water Dog and a setter. It is typical of early wavy-coats.
These dogs became rather popular among the shooting estates. The short-haired St. Johns Water Dogs that existed in Newfoundland at that time were held by very few people in England. The short-haired variety was more common in Newfoundland at the time, because the long-haired variety tended to get bogged down in ice. Short-haired dogs can swim faster. However, most British gentry had wavy-coats derived from the long-haired dogs of this type and setter crosses. It would make sense, then, that the Newfoundland fishermen were more likely to export long-haired puppies from their Water Dog litters. However, the short-haired variety did make to England, and were used extensively in the development of the Labrador.
The wavy-coat’s other important ancestor was the setter. However, at this time, there were more breeds of setter than the three that exist right now. Welsh black setters were common on shooting estates, and they were certainly used in the Wavy-coated cross. Another variety existed called the Featherstone Castle setter in Scotland that produced yellow and light red setters that were probably also used in the development of the Tweed water spaniel. Gordon setters were in development here, too, and solid red gordon setters were not unknown. All of these, along with the Irish setters (solid red and red and white weren’t separate breeds) and English setters (of all strains), were crossed with the St. John’s water dog. As a result of crossing with setters, genes for yellow and red were introduced into the wavy-coat.
During most of the nineteenth century, black retrievers were the preferred color. Blacks were supposedly easier to train. Yellow or red puppies were culled or drowned.
One reddish colored wavy coat was born to the Earl of Chichester in 1864. Instead of being killed, he was given in lieu of a debt to a cobbler at Brighton. The cobbler had no real use for a working retriever, but he kept him as a pet. Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks happened upon this dog and offered to buy him from the cobbler in 1865. Marjoribanks was a Liberal MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed and had a large shooting estate in Inverness-shire called “Guisachan.” Marjoribanks’s title was 1st Baron Tweedmouth, and that man would start the first strain of yellow wavy-coats, which would effect the devlopment of the wavy-coated breed and, later, the flat-coated breed, as well.
This concludes Golden Retriever History II. I will begin with the actual development of the golden retriever from that reddish wavy-coat named “Nous,” which means wisdom.
I truly find this is a great interesting subject. Never looked over this subject in this way. If you are going to write some more articles about this subject, I definitely will be back in the near future!
We have a wonderful reddish wavy-coat. She seems to have excellent hunting/retrieving skills even though she has never been beyond our street except for walks in the neighborhood and spends most of the time in our large backyard or in the house. The minute my husband pulls out the bb gun she goes nuts;stands right by him, looks in the direction of where the gun is pointed and then takes off in the direction of the fallen animal (usually a rat) the second the gun has been fired. She is as sweet and smart as can be and is so easily trained. She definitely prefers people to other dogs. I would love to get another wavy coat when this one passes.
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I didn’t know what to make of Justin when I walked in their offices for the first time, nice enough guy confident etc, but if you’ve been here in Spain long enough you know how first impressions can quickly be expensive and disappointing.
I explained my reservations to Justin and and that his quote was high. He explained that if that’s the way I feel but I can leave and go elsewhere with no hard feelings. But to remember that I´ll still want that web presence no matter what and be just as suspicious talking to the next firm, then the next and the next.
So he said why not save time write a cheque to 123 Marbella right now, put a bit of trust in us, and once we´ve taken your money and disappointed you in the highest possible way, with a hopeless effort of a web site, then at least we´ll have fulfilled your expectations and you ll be able to put the horrible experience behind you and move on to the next web company!
I thought, he does make a point doesn’t he? ok why not? and handed over a cheque.
I´m grateful to Justin now because he and Craig have done a great site that so far that has produced results and both Craig and Justin are still just as obtainable by phone and generous with their time long after they were paid.
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I first became intrigued by this ad because I had not heard of what is essentially an 8-track drum machine. For those of you too young to know what an 8-track is, I recommend you read this Wikipedia page.
As I did more research, I became even more intrigued with the parent company, Sound Sales Inc., and got caught up in the rather sad story involving what has been described as 'the accidental loss' of the well-known Mellotron name by the original manufacturer, Mellotronics.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Lets start at the beginning...
While scanning old issues of Contemporary Keyboard magazine the other day, I noticed that Powerhouse 8-Track Rhythm Unit ads had been showing up quite regularly as far back as December 1976. Then, as illustrated in this full page ad, the new disco and hustle tapes apparently became available. Nice. I really had no choice but to blog about this. :o)
As I looked through later issues of CK for more research material, I noticed that Sound Sales Inc. seemed to suddenly stop advertising the Powerhouse in early 1978, only to pop up again around May 1978 with a 1/3 page ad that exclaimed 'Mellotron - now made in the USA! A division of Sound Sales Inc'.
Turns out that Sound Sales Inc. was a company that serviced Mellotrons in the US, and they essentially ended up with the Mellotron inventory and the rights to the Mellotron name after the complicated collapse of the original makers of the Mellotron and the resulting 'liquidation blunder'.
You can check out the full history of the Mellotron at Mellotron.com.
Although the ad does a fair bit to explain how the Powerhouse functions, there is unfortunately not much information available online.
The Audio Playground Synthesizer Museum is looking for one for their collection, and most of the other references are in relation to IK Multimedia's SampleTron virtual instrument which includes samples of the unit in it's collection. The site also has a grainy color photo of the Powerhouse, along with pictures of all the instruments from the *tron family. There is also some audio samples from the software - maybe some of the drum sounds are from the Powerhouse. And no, I didn't get paid to include those links. :o)
If anyone knows more about the Powerhouse, don't be a stranger - please comment!
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The Bandmaster Powerhouse was originally designed and manufactured by G.R. International Ltd. in Perth, Scotland.
G.R. International was owned by two brothers - Robin & Tony Twine - who were both musicians and played in the 'Tayside Big Band'.
The main item G.R. International designed and manufactured were cassette tape recorders which went into the 'state of the art' consumer Hi-Fi of the era - the music centre!! (remember them?)
I worked for the firm in the mid 1970's and yes, I did a bit of the design work on this particular unit. I left the firm in 1977.
The 8-track mechanism was one sourced from Japan - as used in BSR 8-track players of the time (G.R. International had the contract to manufacture the pre-amp boards for BSR as I remember - they were so cheaply manufactured that it was more cost effective to scap the completed boards than to repair then if they didn't pass testing)
The Bandmaster worked fairly well - until you tried to change the tempo. If you tried to stray too far from the tempo the drums had been recorded at (allegedly by a top London session man) the change in pitch of the drums became increasingly unbelievable and unusable.
The unit came supplied with a footswitch to perform various functions.
I'll rattle the old grey cells for a while and see if I can remember anything else.
We are about to list on Ebay a working Powerhouse unit with a complete set of magazines. A short video was also recorded live this morning and will be up on Youtube. I really thank you for all the research published here and hope you don't mind we "borow" it to distribute with the item, since ther is almost no units sold recently or much information online that we could find. This Powerhouse is part of The Pando colelction of keyboards and will go on Ebay starting today. Regards. Fernando.
Oh. Here is the link to the auction of this fantastic instrument. The Powerhouse Rhythm Unit. We uploaded a short video with the machine working. Enjoy!
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BACKGROUND
Researchers estimate that 19.6 percent of seniors hospitalized were readmitted within 30 days of discharge, in part due to the failure to adequately attend to the care transition at discharge.
Nurses have long asked how the transition from hospital to home might be handled differently. One of the first was Mary D. Naylor, PhD, RN, FAAN, a Marian S. Ware professor in gerontology at the University of Pennsylvania, who pioneered the design of a transitional care model that uses APRNs to coordinate care for high-risk older adults within and across health care settings.
The model has been shown to reduce re-admissions through 12 months following hospital discharge, improve patients’ quality of life, and save money. Another model, developed by Eric Coleman, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and head of the Division of Health Care Policy and Research at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, uses RNs and has also produced impressive results.
But what about all the frail elders who do not qualify for nursing level care after hospital discharge? This is where Community Based Care Transitions Programs come to the foreground of at home care.
Community Based At Home Care Programs
Several ideas are in play around the country that are worthy of serious consideration and support. Each is a way that adult children of elders and elders themselves not only need to be aware of, but to get involved in right now to make sure these systems flourish just in case they need one of them themselves.
The oldest Community Based Care program is called the Green House project. It was created by Bill Thomas, MD. The Wall Street Journal named the geriatrician as one of the top ten Americans shaping aging, Thomas wants traditional nursing homes dead and gone.
The homes are on campuses that house up to12 people, each with his/her own bedroom and bath. Every Green House is designed to look and feel like a real home. They have open living areas where residents gather for meals and social activities. Costs are equivalent to assisted living or nursing home fees without the institutionalized feeling of facilities built over the past 40 years. The Green House idea is now 20 years old and exists or is in development in 32 states.
The second idea allows neighborhood community members help take care of their frail neighbors. Examples of these second type of community based care transition programs include The Village Movement and SRAction , Sweet Relief Community Action program. Both are grassroots, primarily volunteer driven efforts that support the concept that frail elders can to live, grow and flourish as they live in homes, rather than being warehoused in nursing institutions.
Armed with the fact that 27 million adults will end up in long term institutions by 2050 unless alternatives are made available, SRAction was organized and serves as the field service component of The Sweet Relief Grants program. SRAction was created to help support elders who live alone by enlisting their neighbors to pitch in and give a hand. The strategy is to take younger people (adults, not kids) who live in neighborhoods where frail elders live and train them to help provide non-medical care to their frail neighbors. Ideally, these younger people will avail themselves of the education so important to their helpful efforts proving successful rather than stressful.
SRAction is supported by CertifiedCare.org (the caregiver certification company) through their grants fund which is funded by proceeds from program sales. CertifiedCare offers the education and certification program for Senior Care Auditors (SCAs) who make the filed work possible. These Certified Senior Care Auditors are skilled in providing assistance to seniors who live alone and also provide reports to social service providers, children or loved ones who use SCAs to check on independent elders, when they cannot.
The grants component of the SRAction program involves grants to frail elders who: 1) Live alone; 2) Provide proof of economic and physical need; 3) Are not able to access community resources due to geographic location. This program was established 5 years ago with grants having been made in the last 3 years. Elders do not have to be post release from a hospital to receive help.
The Village Movement is 10 year old idea started in Beacon Hill, MA 10 years ago, the village is a grassroots, member driven organization that allows elders to help take care of others as others help them. Membership in the flagship Beacon Hill Village is open to people age 50 and over who live in Beacon Hill, Back Bay, North End, South End and surrounding neighborhoods in New Jersey.
Today there are more than 125 villages with more in the planning stages throughout the US. Every Village has students offering computer skills. Adults who drive provide rides to doctors and other services to those who are no longer able to get around on their own. Volunteers are critical to offer companionship, checking on those who live alone, even making sure some take medicines properly.
Senior Care Auditors and qualified volunteers are critical for these community based movements to thrive.
Six hospitals in the CNJCTP region utilize both RNs and social workers as health coaches to teach self-care strategies to high-risk, chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries. The social workers attend to socioeconomic needs that may lead beneficiaries to return to the hospital. The RNs focus on beneficiaries’ symptoms and health care needs, including medication management.
“The collaboration of nurses, certified caregivers and social workers has been an essential approach to addressing all the needs of each patient”
says Marie Perillo, RN, BSN, director of the New Jersey program and director of care coordination at the Visiting Nurse Association Health Group.
Within one to three days after discharge, a coach conducts a home visit and then checks in weekly by phone for 30 days. One week after discharge, the coach helps the beneficiary get to an initial, follow-up appointment with a primary care provider.
Since August 2013, more than 2,000 patients have received care through CNJCTP. Perillo says the program is on track to meet the CMS goal for reducing hospital re-admissions.
Anyone who has ever been involved in a successful community movement knows they often start as revolutions to what currently exists. They also are often created as grassroots movements that take hold and grow. Taking care of our elderly with respect and love surely must be a value as critical to Americans as childhood education and clean drinking water. Community based at home care programs allow for people of all ages to get involved and make sure life will be what each of us wants when we are old ourselves.
We would like to hear your thoughts and ideas on these aging concepts. Please write us about your experience or feelings about these or other programs in our community!
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Perry Mason was a classic that always left you wonder, Who did it? Love those old shows. Another one you might like that’s on Retrovision is Please Murder Me with Raymond Burr. It’s an early movie that may have been the inspiration for Perry Mason and gotten Burr the lead role.
I love Perry Mason I watch him two times a day
Perry Mason has played every day at noon on channel 12 here in Portland for my whole life.
They play all 300+ episodes in order, so by the time you got to next year, you forgot.
It’s all just sort of a Mason blur.
But I did remember one of the cases Perry Mason lost.
The Case of the Terrified typist (CBS)
Wow! Kevin makes me want to move to Portland. I love Perry Mason-every one of the characters, the plots, the pace of the show-everything. I’ve seen all of them on the CBS site, and long for more. I’m actually grateful to the companies whose commercials make the show available (except for Phoenix U which gets me in trouble by blaring the volume and waking up the house when I’m getting my PM in the PM fix.)
Well,it’s the wee hours of the morning and I turn on Perry Mason because reruns of PM are the best “comfort food” around. What do Ifind? His picture is gone from Retrovision. I press the link anyway. It connects to CBS but the first season is now gone. It’s as though they read my comment and said, “To heck with the fans!” Instead of more we get less! I almost never comment on any site. Now I do and look what happens. Remind me never to applaud again!
Things rotate everywhere. I count 13 episodes you can watch. Is the cup half empty or half full?
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Is... is there a shovel on the wall ?! why? ... why? a shovel, really?!
ANDY! I told you not to show anyone what my room looked like!
The big ass club is amusing, to be sure. Still, I think the snake would be my main concern!
Well it has the word 'sex' in it. Meanwhile, second from the end on that bottom shelf, next to the.. earmuff.. things... Is that a batarang?!
Am I nuts or do I see a wrench hanging too? o.O
I spot a antenna and a.. Bat, Shuriken?
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The following was published in the Northeast Sun, the journal of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association in 2003, the year I served as the chair of NESEA’s Building Energy Conference
LESSONS LEARNED FROM TWO DECADES AROUND NESEA
As the chair of the committee that organized this year’s Building Energy Conference, I have had a wonderful opportunity to interact with many NESEA members. While immersed in preparations for the conference, I spent considerable time thinking about NESEA and about what we NESEA members all have in common. I want to share some of my thoughts with you.
The Idealism and Practicality of NESEA
NESEA, if nothing else, is an idealistic organization. But we NESEA members are generally also very practical. We work on real solutions. At our core, what we all share is great dreams. We want to change the world. At our conferences, we try to cross-fertilize ideas across a range of professions that are all critical to creating a sustainable future.
Most of the success I have enjoyed over twenty years owning and helping businesses can be directly traced to ideas and opportunities developed though my connections in NESEA. More important than business success, I have been able to develop personal friendships through NESEA with many truly brilliant leaders of the kind of world we are all hoping to create.
I put a lot of time into volunteering for NESEA. But I make this effort selfishly. I believe that the way we best help ourselves is to make real and measurable contributions to the world. Investing time in NESEA is one of the most important investments I make for my business and myself.
For those of you who are new to NESEA or who haven’t been active, I encourage you to engage yourself. The people you will meet at NESEA gatherings could become the most important people in your life.
Lessons Learned
I want to share a few of the most important lessons I’ve learned through my involvement with NESEA since 1979.
For years, Marc Rosenbaum, of Energysmiths has been admonishing us to focus our attention and financial resources on those things that are fundamental and would be most expensive and difficult to change later, like the foundations of buildings we build. There is a simple wisdom in that advice which too many people easily forget while chasing the latest flashy new “green” fad of the moment.
Jamie Wolf of Wolfworks, Inc. has been a huge guiding force behind NESEA. He reminds us to stay focused on what really matters by telling us: “I don’t want to be a green builder. I want to be a good builder.”
Tedd Benson, of Benson Woodworking Company, has long advocated building more rationally, arguing that the tangle of structure, skin, and systems typically found in most conventional buildings fundamentally diminishes the potential for quality, durability, and long term value. When I asked Tedd to share the theories of disentangled open building systems at the Building Energy 2003 Conference, he responded that he doesn’t spend much energy advocating and theorizing any more. Instead he focuses on actually building projects that are tangible and real.
It may be time that we, as advocates of environmental sustainability, start to disentangle the often grandiose mixes of technological, political, economic, and business solutions that have too often emerged as easy answers, but which may in fact hinder the healthy development of the more fundamental solutions we advocate. Rather than all the grandiose schemes, instead we should focus on the very real work of actually building a sustainable society, one good project at a time.
Joe Lstiburek, a principal in Building Science Corporation, has been the best teacher that many of us have had in our effort to improve our practice in the building arena. He has often encouraged us not to be afraid to change as we learn, with his unembarrassed admonitions to alter practices he earlier advocated, but later found could be improved. At the end of a great treatise on green building on their website, Joe and his partner, Betsy Pettit, suggest that fundamental to good building practice is respect for a critical lesson that few architects or builders ever even consider as they focus on less important issues. “A green architect or builder must be a student of science first; great buildings will follow.”
John Abrams of South Mountain Company has had an amazing ability to create wonderful successes when he smiles his broad smile, speaks the truth bluntly, and helps empower other people to find the courage to break the rules that get in the way of doing good work. He is successful because he usually is right and he is not afraid of breaking the silly rules that hinder most of us from doing the right thing.
In his keynote address at one of the best NESEA conferences ever, the inspiring writer and entrepreneur Paul Hawken started the conference by telling us boldly that: “Business is the most powerful force on the planet.”
I’ll share a premise of my own for you. I believe that none of the solutions we advocate can be sustainable until they become profitable as business ventures. The real work we have in front of us is the practical effort of making environmentally sustainable projects profitable rather than the abstract idealized concerns many people get wrapped up in. The challenges we face are neither as glamorous nor as daunting as many presume. The fundamental solutions to the problems we aspire to address demand clarity, honesty, a little courage, and a lot of hard work. Those are the keys to a sustainable future.
Changing Paradigms
It is important that we keep an open mind about our vision of the future and be willing to listen to those who question our assumptions. We should at least try to understand those whose world views are shaped by different realities than those we perceive. Without at least understanding and trying to answer the concerns of skeptics, we will never be able to actually create a sustainable future.
In an amazing 1997 essay on creating change entitled “Places To Intervene In A System,” Donella Meadows described the various ways we can intervene in any kind of system. She organized these intervention points in a hierarchy based on their power to impact change. She suggested that if we want to influence change in an especially powerful way, we must influence “the mindset or paradigm out of which the goals, rules, feedback structure arise.” She went on to say that “people who manage to intervene in systems at the level of paradigm hit a leverage point that totally transforms systems.”
Then at the end of this incredible essay, Donella wrote: “To be truthful and complete, I have to add this kicker. The highest leverage of all is to keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, to realize that no paradigm is true, that even the one that sweetly shapes one’s comfortable worldview is a tremendously limited understanding of an immense and amazing universe.”
Many of us who consider ourselves environmentalists are absolutely wedded to certain paradigms, like the presumed value of certain renewable energy technologies, unquestioned understandings of the problems of pollution and climate change, and concern about a breach of Malthusian limits. Some environmentalists profess to embrace paradigms that I believe are humanly irreconcilable, presuming a fundamental conflict between the economy and the environment or between business and nature or between humanity and other forms of life. Surely our visions of a sustainable future need to reflect a deep regard for the hopes and dreams of the other people who share the planet with us and who will follow when we are gone.
As an optimist, there are several paradigms that I find compelling. Human ingenuity is undeniably remarkable. Historically, opportunity and hope have proven to be far more lasting and influential human motivators than fear. The possibility of peace, freedom, hope, and prosperity for all humanity seems greater than ever before with low-cost access to information and communication, and the clean, plentiful non-polluting energy resources of the emerging renewable-hydrogen economy.
Remembering Brian Smeltz
I want to end these musings by remembering and honoring a remarkable man that I was privileged to work with briefly at Benson Woodworking Company.
Brian Smeltz was trained as a graphic artist and was extremely talented in that arena. He was also a mechanic, a woodworker, an amazing illustrator, a brilliant photographer, one of the best architectural designers I have ever known, a talented and effective construction manager, a senior partner in an inspiring business, a great father, an active participant in his church and his local community, a volleyball player, and a great friend to a lot of people. Brian worked hard and he played hard.
Brian died recently, just before finishing construction of the manufacturing facility that he designed and built to house the company he had dedicated his career to. I went to the ceremony at which the most beautiful and environmentally friendly industrial facility I have seen was dedicated to the man who created it.
Brian didn’t talk much about theories. He was too busy working and creating inspiring realities on the ground. When I remember him, mostly what I remember is the great smile he always seemed to wear. Brian’s rich life should be a model for all of us. Teamwork, honesty, skill, focus, dedication, fun and hard work. These are the attributes that will create the future we desire.
Just Go Do It
The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association has always strived to be at the cutting edge where theory and real work come together to create the future. It’s not often easy, clean, neat, or perfect. We’re not always right. As John teaches us, we have to smile as we master our fears and take some chances. Like Joe, no matter how good we may already be at our work, it’s critical that we constantly adapt and improve as we learn. As Jamie reminds us, we have to focus on the real essence of what we are about, rather than the rhetoric. As Brian taught us so well by his example, the best way to create a great future is to just go do it.
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When Leland & Crystal Payton’s 300 plus page book, “Damming the Osage: the conflicted story of Lake of the Ozarks and Truman Reservoir” arrived, the sheer weight of the book was impressive.
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Van Buren, MO – During the fall and winter of 1862, the Union Army, consisting of 8,000 men under the command of John Davidson, left their post at Patterson, Missouri, to slowly make their way toward Northern Arkansas. Their movement was part of the Federal winter campaign to discourage Confederate raiding and bushwhacking in [...]
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Long ago a large cave on the Meramec River bore the name Saltpeter Cave. It’s likely that the cave, and its contents so important to frontiersmen were discovered by early French explorers, perhaps as early as 1698, as they traversed the Meramec River valley looking first for gold, then silver, but finally being [...]
The Missouri Fox Trotting Highway is scheduled to be dedicated Saturday, Sept. 8, at 5 p.m. at the Missouri Fox Trotting Horse Breed Association in Ava, Mo.
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A reenactment of an old-time Ozark tie raft float will take place on the Current River near Doniphan on Saturday, Sept. 1.
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Prime Minister Theresa May warned members of parliament that Britain could be faced with a Brexit “cliff edge” if they failed to back her EU repeal bill, as reports suggested momentum was growing within her party to unseat her.
With British lawmakers readying for their first full parliamentary debate on the legislation that will sever the country’s ties with the European Union, the minister responsible for overseeing the divorce proceedings admitted on Sunday that some payments would continue to Brussels after Britain left.
May failed to win a clear mandate at a snap election in June and only has a slim majority in parliament that rests on an agreement with a smaller party. She remains vulnerable if pro-European MPs in her Conservative party team up with other parties to vote down legislation or support amendments.
In Thursday’s debate, the main opposition Labour Party is planning to propose several changes to the repeal bill with a view to keeping Britain in the single market and customs union during a Brexit transition period after 2019, according to The Times.
On Saturday, May’s deputy advised Conservative MPs against doing anything that would increase Labour’s chances of returning to power, while May said the bill was the best way to ensure a successful Brexit.
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But in a move that would irk many Eurosceptics, the Sunday Times said May was preparing to pay a Brexit divorce bill of up to 50 billion pounds ($65 billion) to the EU. A spokeswoman at May’s office told Reuters the report, which cited an unnamed source “is simply not true.”
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Britain’s chief Brexit negotiator, David Davis, also dismissed the 50 billion figure.
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May tried last week to douse speculation over her leadership by saying she wanted to continue as prime minister beyond the next parliamentary election, not due until 2022, dismissing expectations she would quit as early as 2019.
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What do you give a man or woman who already has motorcycling? That can be more difficult than it sounds. The clothes we wear, the tools we use and the stuff we do is highly specialized, subject to elaborate technical requirements as well as style and taste. Here’s 43 gifts, priced from under $20 to nearly $1,000, all guaranteed not to disappoint.
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Riding Photos
Popular destination roads like The Snake in Malibu or The Tail of the Dragon in the Appalachian Mountains have their very own photographers that spend every weekend snapping pics of virtually every rider that comes through, uploading them to the Internet, then selling you digital copies or prints. Every trackday has the same.
Recently, I’ve surprised a few people I’ve helped nurture into better riding with prints from the experience. They have yet to fail at drawing a speechless smile.
The two big ones in SoCal are Victory Jon and RockStore Photos, then there’s KillBoy on the Dragon. Check out their indexes after going riding with a friend or pull up dates from when they last hit those roads. Any pharmacy can knock out 8×10 prints of any digital photo in like 15 minutes. An affordable, personal gift that will excite anyone.
Butler Motorcycle Maps
Assembled by bikers for bikers, these maps highlight the best roads and the best pit stops. Back Country Discovery Routes can be used to easily plan epic adventures. Useful for any rider.
A neat little stocking stuffer from Portland’s coolest café-cum-bike shop. It includes a beanie, a beer koozie and a wood-handled pocket knife. For the dirty hipster.
Howard Leight Earplugs
These are hands down the absolute quietest, most comfortable earplugs you can buy. A box of 200 will last a biker and his buddies (they’ll steal them constantly) at least a year. Each pair is individually wrapped to keep them clean and dry. Due to wind noise, sound levels inside helmets can top 120dB at 85mph. Not only will ‘plugs prevent hearing loss, but can reduce fatigue on longer rides too. For everyone.
$25-50
Aerostich Silk Scarf
On first blush, a silk scarf may seem a bit poofy for a badass biker. But, these things are just amazing. Tuck it into the collar of your jacket or leathers and it’ll keep you warm when its cold or, wet it down, and it’ll keep you cool when it’s hot. Packs down to nothing for easy stowing and it’ll really improve your quality of life while riding. Not just for dandies, the café crowd, adventure riders and anyone doing distance will appreciate it too. Buy it in white and it’ll develop a rugged patina with time.
Aerostich Lightweight Portable Bag
One of those wonderful little products that will leave you wondering how you got by without it. Packs down into its own container that’s about the size of a pack of cigarettes so it’ll fit in a jacket pocket or under a seat. Then, the next time you need to stop and pick something up while out riding, you wont’ be left without a means to carry stuff. I’ve carried as much as a gallon of milk and a six-pack of beer in the year I’ve been using it without tears or visible signs of wear. For everyone.
An imminently versatile insulating wrapping that allows you to keep drinks cold or food hot while heading out riding or camping. Makes it easy to strap a six-pack or some lunch to your bike. For anyone that uses their bike to go camping or does stuff in the outdoors.
Deus T-Shirts
Neat t-shirts that manage to capture the spirit of riding in a not overly testosterone-fueled way. For anyone that doesn’t have a “No Fear” neck tattoo.
Motion Pro 7-Piece T-Handle Socket Set
These will make accessing the bolts on any Japanese bike soooooo much easier. Most garage mechanics lack specialized tools like these, which is a shame, they make working on bikes a pleasure. For anyone that rides a foreign bike.
Deth Killers T-Shirts
Stylish, high-quality t-shirts from Bushwick’s baddest indie fashion label. The giftee should probably be under the age of 40 and live somewhere with tall buildings and electric lights.
Brixton Donez Work Shirt
A rugged, heavyweight flannel work shirt that just seems to go perfect with a leather jacket or while wrenching. For everyone.
Do you have a loved one that goes wandering into the wilderness? The Spot communicates with GPS satellites, allowing them not only to call for help in a real emergency, but can upload location data at regular intervals and allow them to send pre-programmed messages to let you know they’re ok too. Huge piece of mind for any adventurer.
SOG Powerlock Multitool
Anyone that does anything needs a solid multitool. This one’s my favorite. The pliers pivot on gears, compounding the leverage you put in to provide additional gripping power. That’s great when things are wet, slipper or rusty. All the tools are user serviceable, replaceable and customizable too. For anyone.
See See iPhone Wallet
A neat leather wallet that doubles as a notepad and wallet, protecting your phone and holding your stuff in a slim package. See See’s a really cool little café/bike shop in Portland, so you can’t go wrong giving anything with its logo attached and this is a good crossover from general purpose gadget to bike style.
4Sevens Quark AA² R5 Flashlight
LED technology is revolutionizing flashlights. This isn’t the trickest or brightest out there, but it’s still many times brighter than a traditional MagLite, you’ll never need to replace the bulb and it’s capable of running continuously for up to 30 days on two standard, universally available AA batteries. For anyone.
Icon Turnbuckle Gloves
Part of Icon’s classy new 1000 collection, these are stylish, understated, high quality shorty gloves that move beyond casual riding thanks to D3O knuckle protectors. For anyone.
These are amazing to look at and feel great to wear. A perfect accompaniment to an old Café Racer or a cruiser.
Aerostich Touchscreen Elkskin Ropers
A modern update on a timeless classic, metallic threads in the fingers enable the use of touch screen devices. The Ropers don’t include modern impact protection, but they’re still a favorite among touring and city riders, who value the classic style, comfort and versatility.
Xena XX6 Disc Lock
Adding a motion sensor alarm to a disc lock creates a killer security device. Perfect for anyone that ever has to park in a city, you’ll be giving the gift of getting to keep your motorcycle.
$100-250
Alpinestars Winter Tech Performance Suit
This little onesie performs a couple important functions. First, the one-piece design eliminates both drafts and bunching/riding up under riding gear. It also makes slipping into and out of a riding suit an absolute breeze. Designed to fit very tightly, it also provides a compression function, keeping you comfy on long rides. Works equally well under leathers or a textile winter suit, this can add much-needed warmth on chilly rides or serve as the basis of a seriously capable winter ensemble. For anyone that complains of the cold.
Deth Killers Asphalt-Resistant Jeans
A seriously stylish pair of jeans designed and made in the USA. Made from a denim weave that’s 16 percent Kevlar, they’re much stronger than your average pair of Levis. This offers some abrasion protection in a crash, but mostly just makes them stand up to the rigors of an active life much better. You probably want to give them to someone that’s not fat and appreciates clothes that fit well.
Spyderco ParaMilitary 2
In my opinion, this is the best folding knife out there. The shape of the S30V stainless steel blade is perfect for a multitude of tasks, it’s got a full-flat grind for easy slicing and batoning, the compression lock is fast and strong and the skeletonized steel liners make the whole thing very rugged. I’ve used mine to split logs, cook food and even pull it out at restaurants to cut up my food. Just can’t stand a dull knife. Anyone that does anything outdoors appreciates a good knife.
Or, if you’re really getting outside, you want a knife that will never, ever break. With a .25-inch thick blade, the ESEE-5 is probably the most indestructible knife out there. Designed so emergency responders can pound it through a windshield or even a car door and made from 1095, high carbon steel, you’re not going to chip it cutting down a tree and it’s easy to sharpen in the field. Overkill, but the best kind. Give any guy one of these and instantly make all his friends jealous.
This has rapidly become the favorite motorcycle trip tent in my arsenal. Slightly oversized, it can sleep two in a pinch (you’d better really like each other), but that extra room is mostly just useful for keeping all your gear out of the weather with enough space left to stretch out. Mine’s stood up to torrential rain and 65mph winds with no ill-effects. Great value for money, but a bit large and heavy if you’re backpacking. For anyone that camps beside their motorcycle.
One of the best deals in motorcycling, the Airmada is fairly light, very comfy and has probably the best ventilation of any helmet out there. The Stack schemes are the best graphics out there too. Long oval headshape, so it’ll work for anyone that wears an Arai RX-7 or Bell Star.
Bell Custom 500 Helmet
With some great, great paint schemes and a very low-profile shell for a DOT-approved helmet, this is probably the neatest looking open-face helmet out there. Order one of the bright colors or fancy paint schemes, this helmets all about making riding fun. Even safety Nazis wouldn’t mind having one of these in their arsenal for those occasional jaunts through open roads in the middle of nowhere.
Icon Elsinore Boots
Good looking, comfortable, seriously protective boots. They work equally well under (baggy) jeans as they do with leather riding pants or off-road gear and work in all environments thanks to a strong, grippy sole, solid toe and heel boxes, integrated ankle protectors and a large shin plate. For anyone.
Sena SMH-10 Bluetooth Headset
These link up with your phone, enabling you to take calls or listen to music with your helmet on. They also work great for bike-to-bike or rider-to-pillion comms while riding. The speakers are suitably loud and the mic very clear. Better bass reproduction and a little higher volume wouldn’t hurt, but these are still pretty much the best option out there. For anyone that likes music or talking to people.
Unlike every other backpack brand on the market, the Kriega has been specifically designed to shift loads off the shoulders and instead carry them through the wearer’s chest and hips. That leaves your arms free to control the bike and drastically improves long-distance comfort. Quality is lifetime and every single design feature is seriously clever. The R-35 is the original and biggest Kriega pack (I’ve used mine for trips, grocery shopping and, well, everything, everyday for over 4 years), but anything in their range will do. Absolutely anyone that rides a bike will have their lives improved by getting a Kriega. If you give one gift, give this one.
$250-500
It’s not a Kriega, but with style like this, that’s not a problem. The roll-top design is made from heavyweight waxed cotton secured by a thick seatbelt strap. The bottom is reinforced with thick leather. Inside, there’s padded sleeves capable of accepting a laptop as large as 15” or something as small and slim as an iPad or Kindle. Stylish city riders will love this one.
A Trackday
The most fun you can have on a sportsbike, track days are also a great place to advance skill levels, so you’re giving something that’s both fun and practical. There’s tons of operators, just Google “motorcycle track day” and the name of your nearest track. Anyone that loves going fast will really like this gift.
Our favorite ADV helmet is light, distinctive and versatile. Works equally well on dirt or the street, so it’s a great gift for anyone that enjoys riding both and wants to look like a stormtrooper. Long oval headshape.
Nexx XR1R Carbon
The lightest full-face performance helmet you can buy also has the largest field of vision. Made in Portugal, this is a new brand that’s largely unknown but is seriously shaking up the helmet marketplace with strong innovation. Anyone that dressed up in a leather onesie on the weekends would kill for one of these.
RSD Ronin Jacket
Each panel on Roland’s flagship jacket wears, breaks in and ages differently, creating a totally personal look. The best leather jacket design since the Schott Café Racer is utterly timeless. Make sure you order the optional body armor and back protector too. Anyone and it looks as good off the bike as on.
RedVerz Series II Expedition Tent
A little ridiculous, but then sometimes the best gifts are. This one-man tent includes a garage area so you cuddle your bike at night, out of the rain. ADV riders with tons of room or people that like going to bike rallies will probably like this one.
Dainese Café Boots
Streetwear looks, real riding protection. Dainese adds a strong sole, thick plastic toe and heal boxes, a gear shift protector and ankle impact protection to the classic boot formula. For city folk that like to look good.
Alpinestars Supertech R
There’s no sport rider out there that wouldn’t benefit from an upgrade to the Supertech R. I’ve had several large crashes or impacts in mine and haven’t harmed so much as an ingrown toenail or callous. That protection comes from a Daytona-style inner bootie that controls ankle movement and a rugged outer that deals with impacts and abrasion. For enthusiasts of fast riding.
GoPro Hero3
Indulge the inner narcissist in everyone by giving them the ability to shoot 1080p HD video of their riding exploits. The Hero3 is more rugged, longer lasting and higher quality, plus it’ll sync with your computer via WiFi, enabling easy downloads. Just be prepared to sit through the 21st century equivalent of the old travel slide show, you’ll never look as fast on video as you remember riding. For everyone.
$500-1,000
No-Mar Classic Tire Changer
“It is awesome,” writes our friend Chuck. “Seriously seriously awesome. We’ve done three sets of tires already. Couldn’t be easier, even when manhandling a relatively stiff sidewall like the BattleAx BT-23 GT. Best $645 we’ve spent — a friend and I went in 50-50 on one. Seriously — get one.”
Currently the fanciest helmet out there, unwrapping one of these on Christmas morning will result in wet pants, guaranteed. Developed by F1 champ Michael Schumacher, the SR1 makes advances in weight, aerodynamics, ventilation and fit. For any serious sport rider with a long oval head shape.
Icon 1000 Chapter Jacket
The first jacket to ever take full advantage of D3O armor, the Chapter is cut to fit without bulk or obstruction. Then figuring in the buttery soft leather, this thing fits like a second skin right from the off. Anyone will like one of these, just be aware that the black version is a little flashy with all those red zips. We recommend the brown or grey.
The last word in practical motorcycle attire, you zip a roadcrafter on over your street clothes (in like 15 seconds) and are instantly protected against crashes and the weather. As an added bonus, you can wear a business suit underneath it without that getting wrinkled. If you want to give the absolute best, this is it. A myriad of custom options allows you to have it built bespoke for the intended wearer and, if it needs adjustment, they’ll handle that without hassle. This will absolutely improve the life of any rider, but ones naturally inclined to wear full protection will appreciate it most.
The best leather jackets, bar none. So thick and tough it’ll take them years to break in, you’re giving a gift that will last a lifetime and adapt itself so well to its wearer that it becomes a fundamental part of their personality. Once you wear a Vanson, you’ll feel naked in anything less. I wear an AR2 retrofitted with Alpinestars BioArmor, the Cobra includes protection as standard.
What gift ideas have worked for you in the past? What are you hoping to get this year?
A note on helmet fit: with motorcycle helmets, fit is the single most important factor. It’s not just a question of size, every person has their own unique head shape and helmets, too, come in a variety of shapes to suit. If it a helmet doesn’t fit properly, it will be less safe and less comfortable. We recommend ordering helmets through a retailer like RevZilla, which offers a no-hassle, no-cost return policy which, if you’re ordering now, will extend until after Christmas. If a helmet doesn’t fit properly, exchange it for one that does.
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