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These gingerbread cupcakes were a hit! I made them for a birthday party and everybody loved them. I have to say, I was amazed by how incredibly delicious they turned out. I'm not the biggest fan of cupcakes (I'm of the opinion that frosting is highly overrated) so I don't make them that often, which made this recipe a bit of an experiment. But it was definitely a succesful one!
The molasses are the big winner in this recipe, I think. Of course, they're quite integral to gingerbread cookies and thus to gingerbread cupcakes, but I'm in awe with just how much extra depth the molasses bring to the flavour. The ginger also definitely comes through, which I love, and it makes sure the cupcakes don't taste too sweet.
Then in comes the frosting; it's a cream cheese frosting and it's incredibly soft and smooth. The dash of cinnamon adds that extra little something and makes these cupcakes fingerlicking good. I mean, I don't want to blow my own trumpet too much, but I'm pretty darn proud of these!
Those tiny little cookies on top are a Dutch 'delicacy'. They're tiny speculaas cookies (similar to gingerbread) which are generally eaten on sandwiches (I know – but it's delicious!). I actually wanted to use Christmas sprinkles, but couldn't find them, so these were a makeshift solution. It looks pretty cute, though, I think!


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We use keywords when prospecting on social media sites and when searching for information on potential clients. When we go online to search for anything, we ask questions of our favorite search engines. The search engine uses the words in our requests to search out those same words on websites so we can be properly directed.
A keyword is defined as: an informative word used in an information retrieval system to indicate the content of a document.
I think it's time we adopt a keyword approach to prospecting…only with the words we hear people speak. We use them effectively when searching for leads online. Why not use the same strategy during conversations? [Read more…]

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text: A powerful and emotive novel about the involvement of a International Corp dynamiter named Robert Jordan in the Spanish Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War. My footsteps have crossed Hemingway's in many places, Montana, Idaho, Valencia and so I felt a special connection with this novel. A profile in passion, loss, trust and betrayal Hemingway does an amazing job with maintaining suspense in the novel. I enjoyed the theme of how open we are to life when we realize that our time is limited. That in three days we can love a lifetime, confide trust and forge alliances that we aren't normally open to was inspiring to me. Most interesting was Hemingway's free form prose during Robert and Maria's passionate scenes together. He piles adjectives upon adjectives like a train piles box cars when it derails, impossible to look away, a complete breakdown, but very real and very Hemingway.


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Ehwa Woman's University is considered the #1 woman's university in Korea. Its new architecture named ECC designed by Dominique Perrault is a new signature of the school. Shops, libraries and meeting rooms are located in this large underground structure. If you visit the front door of the campus, you will see lots of fancy shops, cafes and boys who are waiting for their girlfriends or begging for new loves. :) There is a flower shop named Yeppi Flower Shop near the front door and this has been popular for a long time probably due to boys who try to impress their current or prospected girlfriends.
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Squash and agricultural export volumes, highest on record since 2013
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- Created: 31 January 2018
Agricultural Exports Volume October 2017
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|Total volumes (tonnes)
The agricultural exports volume reached a new high level in October 2017, a total of 3,586.3 tonnes mainly driven by the favourable squash harvesting season. This was an increase by 2,360.0 tonnes over the month, which almost tripled the volumes recorded last month. Total squash export was the main contributor, increasing by 2,326.6 tonnes to a total of 2,865.2 tonnes in October 2017. This was due mainly to higher export of Tongan squash with a total of 2,753.5 tonnes. In addition, exports of Butternut and Butterkin squash increased over the month. This was the highest in total squash export on record since October 2013 with 2,823.5 tonnes. Other crops which contributed to the rise included all taro categories (giant (kape), swamp, and taro tarua), watermelon, breadfruit and plaintain. However, these offset the decline in volume of exported yam, cassava, brown coconut, kava-Tonga, papaya and few other crops over the month. Although the volume of exported kava-Tonga products fell, the proceeds increased by $0.04 million. According to liaison with kava growers, this was due to the higher price of kava-Tonga overseas.
Over the month, New Zealand remained Tonga's largest agricultural export customer at 857,746.7 tonnes, followed by Australia and the United States. The squash was exported mainly to Korea and Japan.
Furthermore, $2.1 million receipts from squash exports contributed to the rise in agricultural proceeds in October 2017 to a total of $2.41 million. Additionally, approximately a $0.2 million of proceeds were received from exported root crops, followed by the proceeds from export of vanilla and others including kava-Tonga.
Over the year, the total agricultural export volume rose by 347.3 tonnes (2.9%), supported by better harvest of root crops which included cassava and giant taro, yam and watermelon seasons. These offset the decline in the export volume of brown and green coconuts, kava-Tonga, vanilla, sweet potato and export of squash mostly the Tongan and Butternut squash over the year. The continuous support from the Government's Development Loan scheme also supported the growth in the agricultural sector. Despite the fall in loans for agricultural sector in year ended terms, loans to agriculture remained the highest share in the Government's Development Loan. The annual agricultural export receipts also rose by $3.2 million (37.8%) to $11.5 million. The higher export receipts were for squash and crops (root crops and traditional crops), supported by the strengthening of the Japanese Yen, US dollar and NZ dollar against the Tongan Pa'anga.
On the outlook, the squash season will end in February and contribute to a fall in the overall agricultural export volumes in the near term and this is evident in the latest actual data available from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Forests and Fisheries. The Reserve Bank continues to expect that the agricultural sector will continue to grow; supported by continuous support of the Government Development Loans scheme, the stable and competitive Tongan Pa'anga against the currencies of its major trading partners, and the projected favourable weather conditions and growers' confidence may contribute to increase agricultural exports. However, uncertainties of the weather pose a significant risk to the outlook on the agricultural sector.
|Agricultural Exports Volumes - October 2017
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Watching George Clooney strategize his way through security lineups in Up in the Air, it occured to me that a lifestyle which includes logging frequent flyer miles yields some serious packing wisdom and rituals. Here are a few of my most resourceful tips for packing well.
Tip 1: Choose a suitcase with a colour or pattern that stands out. If you do travel with generic black luggage, you'll want to distinguish it. Stick adhesive fluorescent labels -- the kind cyclists wear -- on the bag's exterior. It's effective and you can buy them at sports shops. I recently had a pilot stop me in the airport because he loved the idea.
Tip 2: Make travel easy by keeping toiletries and hair tools in ready-to-go bags. I save room in my suitcase by strategic packing. For instance, my shoes are filled with underwear, t-shirts and socks. I can pack 12 velcro-rollers in the space of four by putting smaller-sized rollers inside larger ones.
Tip 3: Travel with Ziploc bags. I once purchased olive oil in the south of France and came home with a marinated wardrobe. I use the zippered bags to hold sunscreen, toothpaste, wet bathing suits and any item that might leak during transport. Oh yes... and wine.
Visit Dabble Magazine for more packing tips.


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Fearless Finds: Cotten's Downtown
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If you read our post about The Rocket Drive Inn in Jennings, Louisiana, then you know that WE LOVE CHEESEBURGERS!! So, when my husband suggested we check out the newest location of Cotten's for the blog, we hurried on over. Cotten's Famous Hamburgers is known for its location on Oak Park Boulevard, but since November


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1. Implementation of the IFRS - Modification of the accounting and analytic
The impacts on management accounts of the reorganization decided in 2004 and
effective in 2005, as well as the impacts of the changeover to IFRS, have been
described by Rembert von LOWIS, Group Chief Financial Officer. The main impacts
are summarized below.
Summary of main IFRS impacts
The first time adoption of the IFRS as of January 1, 2004 (except IAS
32, IAS 39 and IFRS 4) leads to an increase by EUR 1,651 million of the group
shareholder's equity (capital and reserves), from EUR 9,790 million under the
previous standards to EUR 11,441 million under the new standards. This increase
stems from (pre-tax impacts):
Q1 2004 financial results of the group and of its various business lines
under the new referentials were compared to those established under the previous
This comparison underlines that, for the period concerned, whilst the structure
of the income statement differs quite substantially, the net income under IFRS
is only slightly above the one accounted for using the previous standards. Nevertheless
the first quarter 2004 is not representative of the entire year, as certain
expenses are incurred in the second part of the year, and besides IAS 32 &39
and IFRS 4 are not applied in 2004.
The impact of the first application of the IAS 32, IAS 39 and IFRS 4 standards
on January 1, 2005 has been analyzed and more precisely, the classification
of portfolios and the accounting treatment of derivatives in hedge relationships.
The Dexia group has chosen to apply the European Portfolio Hedge ("carve
out") regarding the hedging of its interest risk exposure. This option
allows Dexia to appropriately reflect its current sound asset and liability
management in the accounts, with a limited impact in terms of volatility of
earnings and reserves. However, the changeover to the new standards will cause
accounting volatility related to some activities (in Credit enhancement business
and parts of Treasury and Financial Markets) either because those activities
use derivatives which will be recognized at fair value with adjustments accounted
for in the income statement (such as the Credit Default Swaps insured by FSA),
or because they use derivatives for hedging purposes, with fair value adjustments
recorded in the reserves.
2. New calculation method of Economic Capital
The Dexia group has undertaken to reform its methodology to calculate economic
capital. It did so in view of the forthcoming introduction of new standards
under Basel II, and so as to take the "pillar 2" prescriptions into
account. The reform concerns three main aspects: i) the changeover from the
scenario-based method to a more statistical method; ii) the consideration of
all natures of risk for banking and insurance activities (credit risk, market
risk, exchange risk, operational risk, behavioural risk, …); and finally
iii) the raising of the confidence interval to 99.97%, corresponding the AA/Aa2
criteria of rating agencies, which is the group's objective. The economic capital
was calculated with this new method on the situation at June 30, 2004; it reaches
EUR 8.7 billion and is thus materially below the regulatory capital on the same
date (EUR 10,9 billion as Tier One ratio, and EUR 12,1 billion as total capital
ratio, under current regulatory capital standards).
3. Present situation and prospects for the group's core business: Public/Project
Finance and Credit Enhancement
Part of the investor day consists in presentations of Jacques GUERBER, member
of the Management Board of Dexia, and Chief executive of the business line;
Robert COCHRAN, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Financial Security
Assurance (FSA) and Bruno DELETRE, Managing Director of Dexia Crédit
Business results and FSA financial results, disclosed on February 9th, were
discussed. Guidelines and strategies were developed concerning, among other,
the enlargement of the range of products and service, the diversification in
terms of types of customers, and the current and future development of new operations.
4. Performance and financial objectives of the group in the mid-term
Pierre RICHARD, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Management Board
of Dexia, started by talking about the year 2004. He then explained the main
financial objectives of the group for 2007.
Earning growth expectations maintained for 2004
2004 was an excellent year for Dexia in terms of commercial activity as well
as of earning growth, which was predicted early in the year. The expected high
double-digit growth year on year is therefore confirmed both for the underlying
earnings and for total earnings (i.e. including nonrecurring items). The group
also completed its share buy-back objective for the year by reinvesting about
EUR 700 million, representing 4% of the existing shares -which are to be cancelled
upon decision of the next annual general shareholders meeting - and will carry
on its share buy back program in 2005.
The main hypotheses and contents of the 2007 plan, presented to the Board of
Directors on February 3rd, have been described at the investor day. The main
financial objectives are: i) an annual average growth of the earnings per share
above 10%; ii) a growth of the dividend per share of at least 10% every year;
iii) bring the cost/income ratio down to about 52.5% in 2007, and iv) achieve
return on equity of 16.5% in 2007.
Pierre RICHARD declared:
"The main objective of our plan is the creation of value. The three
years to come will be dedicated to the achievement of this goal but also to
the preparation of our long-term future, by detecting future growth levers,
while being conscious of our shareholder's increasing requirements in terms
of efficient use of our capital.
Our priorities lie in the growth of the revenues of our business lines -,
based on a targeted and bold commercial development -, on the careful management
of costs and the search of synergies within the group.
Dexia benefits from an excellent visibility on its revenue and results.
This stems directly from the nature itself of Dexia's activities. This fundamental
characteristic of Dexia, and its structural ability to generate wealth, gives
us the capacity, as was the case in 2004, to finance our organic development,
deliver a robust and growing dividend, and make value creating investments."
The documents presented at the Investor Day are accessible on
the website: www.dexia.com.


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You have purchased your dream watch and your coin collection spans the world. But what can you do to keep your collectibles safe?
What is the use of a stamp you will not lick, Bordeaux you will not drink, or coins you will not spend? For a serious collector, owning an "Inverted Jenny" stamp, a bottle of Château Lafite or a Flowing Hair dollar makes life a little sweeter and the future a little brighter. Whether you choose to buy collectibles as an investment or purely as a passion project, you will want to safeguard your collection through proper care and adequate insurance coverage as it grows in size and value.
Collective coverage
As opposed to amassing seashells or shot glasses from your latest vacation, valuable collectibles that make up a portion of your net worth are called "passion investments," a relatively new asset class. A basic homeowners insurance policy typically does not provide enough coverage for these valuables, so you will need a separate policy to protect your collectibles.
Depending on the nature of your collection, it might be prudent to itemize or "schedule" each item on your policy. Another option to discuss with your insurance broker is blanket coverage, which includes all your collectibles with a per-item claim limit.
"Since collections are usually in flux as you acquire and sell items, you need to have a system for tracking and valuing collectibles to keep your coverage current," says Mary Planek, a Northern Trust Wealth Advisor.
With collection management software or a detailed inventory including photos and appraisals, you can keep all documentation current; you will need it to support an insurance claim and to justify your asking price should you decide to sell.
As any longtime "Antiques Roadshow" viewer knows, market fluctuations affect the value of certain types of collectibles — sometimes wildly so. A certified appraiser should assess most valuable collectibles every three to five years for insurance purposes, and some call for more frequent appraisals to keep up with market trends.
Quality care
How you store, display and maintain your collectibles can affect your insurance rate. For example, keeping your loose diamond collection in a bank safe deposit box instead of a home safe can help reduce the overall risk of theft or damage. The lower the risk, the lower your premiums may be.
Proper storage and upkeep of your treasured possessions not only preserves them but may also be an insurance requirement. For example, rare wines, stamps, classic cars, artwork and antiques all have special storage necessities. While it is important to take care of your collectibles, overly handling or polishing items like coins may actually decrease their value. A collectible's condition determines its value and many numismatists look for an item's "tone," or signs of natural aging.
"Depending on an item's value, getting underwritten may be a process to make sure certain conditions are met," says Frank Bond, a Northern Trust Wealth Advisor. "If an insurer sees that your $50 million Monet is hanging above the fireplace, they will point out that it is in harm's way."
Methodological curation
According to Bond, many collectors simply enjoy their collections and do not care all that much about appreciation. Others collect as an investment and expect a return — a calculated yet considerable risk that Bond describes as "informed speculation."
If you want to maximize your collection's value as a whole, either as an investment or a point of pride, take a curatorial approach. Simply buying what appeals to you is a legitimate guiding principle, but world-class collections generally have a theme or unifying characteristic. Instead of random brooches, collect pieces within the Art Nouveau movement. Instead of lithography, collect pieces by Works Progress Administration printmakers.
Collections by nature are idiosyncratic and highly specialized, so it is hard to predict whether a curated yet quirky collection — Mark Twain juvenilia or recovered Great Lakes shipwreck artifacts, for example — will find a buyer. Through no fault of the collector, specialized collections require specialized investors. "Many collections unfortunately are not marketable," says Planek.
Future considerations
You may spend years collecting the most sought-after baseball cards only to have your beneficiaries unload them at a garage sale. Your themed art collection could be divvied up or your Birkin bag donated to Goodwill. Ultimately, what becomes of your collection is up to you, and preparing a detailed and documented plan for your collectibles can help ensure that your "Inverted Jenny" stamp will not be used to mail a letter.
"In wills, it is very common to reference a side document that lists personal property and whom you want those items to go to," Planek says. "If you bequeath an item or a collection to an individual, there cannot be too many strings attached." However, it is different if you make arrangements to leave it to an organization such as a museum, which can be legally bound to keep a collection intact.
As part of your wealth transfer and tax management planning, you can fund a trust to pay for your collection's continued upkeep and perhaps qualify for a charitable tax deduction.
Whether you have a world-class collection or a single, high-value collectible, your passion items are a part of your financial portfolio and personal net worth. Seashells and shot glasses aside, if something is worth collecting, it is worth protecting.


text: The mobile Virtual-Reality experience isn't exactly elegant for the most part, with the Google Cardboard being just a cardboard box with a few lenses. With that sort of technology, you wouldn't expect mobile VR to be useful, or even popular, but the promise of virtual-reality has been such that it has been able to transcend the barriers of technology and has managed to be fun even on the Cardboard, and has proven to be popular among consumers. Continue reading Report: Samsung is making a controller for the Gear VR


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If you are looking for a speaker for an upcoming event, below is a list of topics Linda Oien has addressed at a variety of speaking engagements. For a list of current suggestions or to discuss customized topics, contact businessPATHS today.
- A Passion for Leadership
- Change and Transition
- Charting and Navigating the Course
- Did You Know…What's Happening in Business Today
- Follow Your Passion
- Get Everyone in the Boat Rowing the Same Direction!
- Is Customer Service Enough?
- Leadership and Employee Engagement
- Make Things Happen…Lead More
- "power10" LEADERSHIP: How to Engage People and Get Results
- Public Relations: The Value Added Role
- Tapping Into Our Most Valuable Asset
- Association of Professional Mortgage Women
- American Society of Training and Development
- Aurora Northwest Rotary Club
- CEO Mastermind Groups
- Eastern Washington University MBA Alumni
- Executive Women International
- Gonzaga University – Organizational Leadership Class
- GSV Chamber Luncheon Series
- GSV Chamber Power Women's Summit
- Leadership Connections
- National Association of Women's Business Owners
- North Idaho College – Leadership Class
- Public Relations Society of America
- Spokane City Forum
- Valley Rotary Club
- Washington Association of Landscape Professionals
- Whitworth University – Adult Degree Program Students
- Women's Council of Realtors
Sample Introductory Videos
Linda Oien
Consultant, speaker and author of
"power10" LEADERSHIP: How to Engage People and Get Results.
She spent more than twenty years in corporate America and two decades consulting with executives and leadership teams in the private, public and non-profit sectors. Her commitment to advancing leadership has resulted in developing individuals and positioning teams and organizations for success. Now, she's devoted to writing and teaching people how to lead at a higher level, actively engage their employees in the business and focus on outcomes that matter.
Linda's book "power10" LEADERSHIP is a practical guide designed with the busy manager and leader in mind. Her time-tested approach and practical tools show people how to become the leader they want to be. Keep it on top of your desk and refer to it often. Follow her advice and use the many tools she's added to your leadership tool kit.


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Hi interwebz and TypeScript users.
Just wanted to share this small idea/snippet I found on the web (the main reason to write this post was to let you skip my errors so you don't have to find what to suffix after $(SolutionDir) and let tsc be happy with what VS is calling).
For example here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12926830/typescript-compiling-as-a-single-js-file
So, if you are using TypeScript and if you are wondering : "maybe I could stitch my 2-3-4 files together, that are used together in one .js file" , well that is of course possible.
Like this :
Make a post-build event, for each combined file you need to make one separate entry like this (with some sample project name and folder name here) :
tsc –out "$(SolutionDir)WebApplication1\TypeScript\Merged\two.js" "$(SolutionDir)WebApplication1\TypeScript\file1.ts" "$(SolutionDir)WebApplication1\TypeScript\file2.ts" –removeComments
Side note : Without specifying whole folder also after –out, tsc will output the combined file to bin, which is something you don't want I presume.
And yes, you will also see errors if they happen in VS output window.
Another and maybe better take/steps would be to minify this combined .js or use Bundling and Minification built into .NET, but this is just another no code approach/tweak.
I forgot to tell you about thing TypeScript added in later releases and that is , you can merge all JavaScript code to a single file in project properties here :
However, I was not able to find any way to fine tweak and bind specific .ts files together so you can choose what you want in your project maybe event without any post build event. The path where VS stores the combined file is from the root of the project.
AD2: If you are using features from EcmaScript 5 in your TypeScript, than you need to pass also -t "ES5" parameter to the tsc, because otherwise build will fail. Small side note here, that 'ES5' doesn't work, as they claim in help in the command line from tsc.exe itself.
AD3: You also should not forget to remove comments with –removeComments , since I presume you need this approach to minimize file size.
AD4: If you are extending some class in one of your file, you have to include this .ts file in the input files as well. (You will get exception that compiler cant find symbol – the class you inherit from, so you will know 🙂 )


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Our Customers
Essentially a George Dyke customer is any one who requires a metal component. Typically these component requirements are for hardwearing, heavy duty applications.
Consequently typical markets serviced are:
Truck & Commercial Vehicles: Here George Dyke components are typically used across a wide range of steering and suspension parts and fifth wheel components to both mainstream production and heavy duty commercial vehicles.
Petro-Chemical: Pipeline fittings and associated products.
Construction: For scaffolding, breaker tools and heavy duty earth moving equipment.
Mechanical Handling: Within drive mechanisms, mast fittings and cylinder components.
Agriculture: Predominantly earth wearing parts and drive chain parts.
Transport: Within engineering items and body equipment across marine, rail, air and road transport parts.
Mining: On conveyor systems that carry raw materials through the initial cleaning and sorting process.
Utilities: On pumping and control equipment.
Manufacturing: In terms of major manufacturing production equipment and domestic "white goods" items.
Ministry of Defence:Parts for body fittings and fixings.
Quick Links
Get in Touch
George Dyke Limited
Imperial Works
Heath Road
West Midlands
Telephone: 0121 526 7138
Facsimile: 0121 568 8956


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ACA new WeatherSTEM – more than weather
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Aucilla Christian Academy jumped at the opportunity to host Jefferson County's first WeatherSTEM station on their campus. The installation was completed this past week. WeatherSTEM gives educators access to many activities and lessons that support science, technology, engineering and mathematics, in addition to providing the current weather information in the county, including the forecast for the week. "I will use the recorded data from our own ACA WeatherSTEM unit to show correlations between scientific data and mathematical concepts that are taught in our elementary school," said Jennifer Falk, a 4th and 5th grade teacher at ACA. "We can identify clouds through the Sky Video recordings, find the mean, mode, median and range of data of rainfall, make critical assessments of daily weather to make predictions for upcoming weather, learn to read weather maps, acquire a better understanding of tides and discuss changes in climate. The potential for learning and making connections to our community is boundless…one might say that the sky's the limit!" Michele Tharpe, an ACA secondary science teacher, is ecstatic about having the WeatherSTEM on campus. "Not only is it a wonderful educational tool," said Tharpe, "it's something everyone can use, in most every county in Florida. I love how it brings our communities together and tells us what the weather is like in other areas before we travel." ACA Principal Richard Finlayson particularly likes both the educational and student safety aspects the device provides. "From a safety standpoint, it's invaluable," said Finlayson. "The WeatherSTEM will tell us how close lighting strikes are and will send information directly to our athletic director's email. This will further help us safeguard our students and our visitors, particularly when they are playing or attending athletic events outdoors." Visit the WeatherSTEM website for more information at Jefferson.weatherstem.com/aca. For live weather information, call (850) 999-5751 or text "aca."


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Art Direction and co-creation of the titles for the short film 'Gin and Dry'. More information available at: ginanddry.com
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Titles for Cherry Tree Lane
Opening titles and end roller created for the urban thriller 'Cherry Tree Lane'. Created in After Effects with animated vector brush with the vine growth treatment. More info on the capture site.


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Bill Murray Net Worth
- TheRichest
- Richest Comedians
Source of Wealth:Comedy, Acting
Birth Place:Wilmette, Illinois, U.S.
Marital Status:Married Jennifer Butler (m. 1997–2008), Margaret Kelly (m. 1981–1996)
Full Name:William James "Bill" Murray
Date of Birth:September 21, 1950
Occupation:Comedian, Actor
Children:Homer Murray, Luke Murray, Cooper Murray, Jackson Murray, Cal Murray, Lincoln Murray
About William James "Bill" Murray
The actor-comedian Bill Murray has an estimated net worth of $140 million. Murray came into the spotlight through NBC's Saturday Night Live. The show exposed his quirky, yet funny character, it led the way to a successful career that he still holds today.
Born in Wilmette, Illinois, in 1950 on the 21st of September, Murray began his path towards success by joining The Second City, a comedy group which relied on improvisation, based in Chicago. He got the attention of the Saturday Night Live producers and landed a job there, which ultimately won him an Emmy award.
Since then, he's well-known for his roles in comedies like Caddyshack, Ghost Busters and Groundhog Day. These were movies which had great success with the general public, yet did little to impress critics. However, the actor moved on quickly and got into the critics' graces once he landed an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his role in Lost in Translation. Since then, he played in other movies like Broken Flowers, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Moonrise Kingdom.
The below financial data is gathered and compiled by TheRichest analysts team to give you a better understanding of Bill Murray Net Worth by breaking down the most relevant financial events such as yearly salaries, contracts, earn outs, endorsements, stock ownership and much more.


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Last night, I was sitting in a community church hall in Glebe which resembled a rather large lounge room. Lots of sofas, armchairs and an odd assortment of chairs and coffee tables. There were 110 of us, all there to experience the magic of Mark Wilkinson performing live.
This was my second time seeing Mark perform. The first time was a few months ago in a tiny basement club near Kings Cross during a two week holiday. Due to a lack of funds, I decided to have a "staycation", a holiday at home playing tourist in my own city. One thing I had decided to do was to discover a new artist. Some unkind friends tell me that I already have too many CDs (I do) and don't need anymore (not true). I have quite a few friends who are eternally stuck in the past when it comes to music. They often make sweeping statements about modern music being rubbish which irritates me no end. There is still plenty of great music being created by great artists and I still get a kick out of discovering a new artist.
So, who was it to be? I quickly dismissed sites like Ticketek and Ticketmaster and found myself at Moshtix scouring the list of artists performing in Sydney during those two weeks. It felt a bit like drawing up a shortlist of job applicants to interview. Mark's write-up caught my eye with words like "fiercely independent" and "soulful voice". I checked a couple of clips on YouTube, liked what I heard and booked a ticket. I certainly wasn't disappointed. It was an amazing show and I was instantly a big fan.
Last night was the same. There is something refreshing about a guy with just a guitar, simply singing and playing amazing music. And the voice. Mark really does have an amazing voice. Soulful doesn't really describe it completely. Mark's voice is one of those voices that grabs you by the balls and by the heart and drags you along for the ride. I really could listen to Mark's voice all night long. I had quite a few emotional moments last night thanks to that voice. I kept thinking this is what music is meant to be about.
Another appealing thing about Mark is that he hasn't succumbed to showbiz. He really comes across as a really down to earth guy, someone you could quite easily have a few beers and lots of laughs with.
Mark released his debut album "Truth Came Running" earlier this year, one of my favourite albums of the year. A great collection of acoustic soul. It is available through his website and on iTunes internationally as are his EPs. Here are a selection of songs.
The first single from the album was "All I Ever Wanted" and it has a great clip filmed in South Africa. I want a t-shirt with "I'm Alive" on it. 🙂
A favourite song of mine that is on the album. "Should've Been".
Mark has that knack with cover versions of totally owning the song. This is the OneRepublic song "Secrets" that is on Mark's latest EP "Sweet White Lies".
For more information, check the following links:


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It must have been an evening in October. With all due haste I hurried through a maze of fences and cranes which made reaching the platforms of Rotterdam Central Station into a challenge. While I smoked a quick cigarette I noticed I was treated to a clear blue sky above an idyllic white beach. The bright sun would have been mercilessly if not for that one coincidental palm tree that provided some shade. A tropical beach, lost in a dark and cold construction pit made me wonder.
A loss on the one hand is a gap in the market on the other, eagerly picked up by entrepreneurs. Nature, on which I address myself with this project, has thus become one of the best-selling products.
The original and uncontrollable character of nature does not fit our man-made environment, it would disrupt our design rather than beautify. It's getting cleared to make way for our own design and restrained as much as possible. Yet man seems to have an innate desire for 'nature' and wants to have her as close as possible. In our houses, in the bedroom, at the office, even in the toilet.
The answer comes in a cultivated and controlled version of what we see as nature, a simulation such as a zoo, artificial representations in the form of artificial plants and animals and flat representations such as posters and sticker wallpaper. All so we can enjoy 'nature' undisturbed but in fact enjoy culture, the idea of 'nature' seized by man and stripped of its essential character.
But to what extent does this interpretation fulfill the substantial need, does it bring us closer to the real loss or is it a placebo. Will future generations still know what nature actually implies or will they position the association that comes from our cultivated nature above true nature. The fact that 'nature' lies so well in the market, says more about the loss than about the quality of our substitutions.
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Interviews in Fandom
A 24-page, one-shot fanzine published in December 1992 by Dorothy M. Kurtz.
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The Buzz: Koreana to reopen under new owners
The Buzz: Preview of coming attractions. Appleton will gain ramen, pizza, wine, smoothies and more before the end of 2017. (Maureen Wallenfang/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin) Wochit
Koreana is returning under new owners, Kou and Janey Lee.
The Korean and sushi restaurant at 201 W. Northland Ave. in Appleton closed in July under its prior family owners, the Kim family.
The Kim family is now working with the Lees to bring the restaurant back to life.
The idea to revive the restaurant started with Bob Rossi, a Newmark Grubb Pfefferle real estate agent who represented the building's owner.
"I gave a proposal to the Kim family. I said there's too much value in the name, the brand and the recipes. They agreed to that and let me find the buyer," Rossi said.
He and colleague John Roberts brokered the deal, which includes the Kim family coming back to help out for the first few months to insure a smooth transition.
The Lees are currently waiting for permits and inspections.They're negotiating with the former sushi chef as well as several other sushi chefs from the coasts.
Koreana's reopening date has not been set, but they hope it will be in December.
Kou Lee is an accomplished chef who knew how to cook rice four different ways by the age of six.
But here, he says he'll defer to the family.
"It's a beautiful restaurant, and mom (Moon Hee Kwon) and her daughters did a really good job running the restaurant and connecting with the community," he said. "Out of respect for the family, we're not going to change much.
"We're trying to learn the discipline and everything they did over the years to make it so successful. We want to learn from them. We come with our cups empty."
Related (archive): The Buzz: Koreana to close early


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Holderness, NH 03245
Come by Land or by Water! Open every day at 11:30am
Basshole Pub: Sunday thru Thursday 11:30-9:30 · Friday & Saturday 11:30-10:00
Like a hilltop hideaway, Walter's Basin Restaurant sits beside the serene beauty of Little Squam Lake. Join us for the most beautiful view in all the lakes region of New Hampshire.
Fresh Maine Lobster Salad to Grilled Flat Iron Pork Tenderloin, Walter's menu includes a wide variety of entrees to please any taste.
Our goal is to make sure you have the best dining experience in the lakes region. How are we doing? Please fill out online comment card.
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The Start of the Season
During the holiday season call us to see if we are open and if lessons are available.
Consider Making a Gift
Blue Ridge Adaptive Snow Sports (BRASS) raises our own funding to operate our extensive snow sports program for people with disabilities at Liberty Mountain Resort. Your donations help us use leverage the power that comes from learning a snow sport; from learning to play on the snow! We rely on your generosity and encourage you to consider making a donation during the month of December.
BRASS is a non-profit 501(c)3 and your donation is tax deductible.
Blue Ridge Adaptive Snow Sports, Inc. (BRASS) believes skiing and snowboarding empower us! BRASS is led and run by volunteers dedicated to creating opportunities for people with disabilities to enjoy freedom of movement and the outdoors.


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- Wyoming, United States
The Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District in Yellowstone National Park comprises the administrative center for the park. It is composed of two major parts: Fort Yellowstone, the military administrative center for the park in the years immediately following its founding as the World's first national park, and now a National Historic Landmark, and a concessions district which provides food, shopping, services and lodging for park visitors.
Fort Yellowstone is a carefully ordered district of substantial buildings that clearly indicate their military origins. The Army managed the park from its establishment in 1872 to the founding of the National Park Service in 1904. The park today is administered from a former army building, now the Albright Visitor Center.
The concessions district contrasts with the military district, with a less formal arrangement and style and includes the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel and Dining Room, a gas station and retail stores. The residential area includes houses designed by architect Robert Reamer.
The district is directly adjacent to the Mammoth Hot Springs thermal area, and is itself built on an ancient travertine terrace. The Grand Loop Road Historic District runs through the Mammoth district, and the North Entrance Road Historic District adjoins just to the north.
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يعرف لاجئ تحولت لي عامل حجز لفرقة شعبية النيبالية
Getting to know refugees brought me back from being the teacher into being the learner.
I am a cultural anthropology professor and my job is to teach about culture and cross-cultural communication. I am also an amateur storyteller, a parent of a college student, and a fan of the folk music of singer-songwriters Amos Lee and Ryan Montbleau. I have traveled quite a bit and lived abroad and people in the world have been so kind and generous to me for the past three decades of my life. When I was a Peace Corps volunteer, people much poorer than me gave me rides, taught me, fed me, and showered me with thoughtful and strange gifts beyond my wildest imagination. In efforts to help me with my fieldwork, countless people have endured my many probing, naive, and personal questions.
In my role as a volunteer at a local community center (Midtown Utica Community Center) ومنذ 2014, my understanding of refugee experiences has grown, along with my perspective on the many ways there are to help and welcome them.
I am in awe of refugees who are able to simply get up in the morning, nevermind build their new lives so gracefully.
I met Tek Monger during a training for interpreters at the local refugee center in 2011. I was training to be a Thai and Lao interpreter, and Tek was training to be a Nepali interpreter. I had just returned from a trip to Nepal, where I had seen a newspaper article that there were 400 Nepalis living in my small Central New York city (يوتيكا). I was so intrigued by that idea, and had been driving around town looking for people in traditional Nepali topi hats or sarongs, to no avail. Our town is very diverse, with refugees making up almost ¼ of our population, so there are many refugees from Burma, تايلاند, كمبوديا, لاوس, and Vietnam around. But this was the first I had heard of Nepalis. As it turned out, they were actually some of the 100,000 Bhutanese refugees who were ethnic Nepali but had been expelled from Bhutan in 1992 and had been relatively forgotten in eastern Nepal until they started to be resettled in about 2008.
Tek Monger was the first one who told me that he had been living in a refugee camp in Nepal for 18 السنوات. I was stunned. I had never heard of this group of refugees nor the concept that anyone could be stuck in a camp for almost two decades. Now I know that this is relatively common.
Tek is kind, funny, and has the best smile in the world. He is a dealer at a casino. He is good with electronics and photography and is wise beyond his close to 30 السنوات. He cares deeply about his family and his community. As we got to know each other, Tek told me about his life and his community. We tried not to be obnoxious about our budding friendship during the 40-hour training, but honestly we spent every free (and borrowed) minute talking about the Bhutanese experience. I quickly got to know his extended family, حول 75 الشعب. I was brought into the fold as "Kath Sister," and was invited to everything from birthdays and weddings to baby naming ceremonies to ceremonies by the three shamans in town, known in Nepal as jumping doctors. I brought the kids trick-or-treating with me, and invited them to library storytime and dance classes. Tek's extended family enveloped me with attention, text messages, and samosas.
Tek spoke often of his struggles in the camps and how playing music with his friends had made them all feel a little bit better.
Tek and his friends decided to start a small folk band and dance troupe that at its peak had 75 أعضاء. We performed approximately 10 times per year, at music festivals, museums, الكليات, والمدارس. The band and dancers slowed down on the performing a few years ago due to a variety of complicated factors and Tek's move to another state, but I will always have the sweet memories of those times. I especially loved practicing in unfinished basements with bare lightbulbs as the only light, and hearing songs on the harmonium for the first time that they had been playing since childhood.
I have a newfound sense of patience and an intuitive sense of how Nepalis understand time, which is very different from my own. Also I feel proud. I so often found myself on stage introducing them, and felt so inspired by them. My heart soared at the opportunities to share their culture with people who hadn't spent all the hours I had getting to know that. I still love going back and watching the videos of our performances.
على سبيل المثال, this was one from 2012 at the SUNY Polytechnic Institute.
Getting to know Tek and his community showed me first hand how our refugee policy is inadequate. We accept refugees but we (as a society) are not always equipped to give them what they need for a fair shot at a new and successful life. They receive help for 90 days but that is not enough for some families, who have been through so much trauma and struggle already. From Tek, I gained so much respect for the role of younger people (20-30 yrs old) in saving and helping their culture, and preserving their traditions.
وأخيراً, I learned what it means to help people. There are many ways to help, and different people feel comfortable doing different things. I felt fulfilled when I started pitching in at a community center and listening to the refugees themselves every day about what they needed the most.
I know this lifestyle doesn't fit everyone, and that's fine. The hardest thing for me to deal with is when people stand in the way of other people trying to help refugees. There are people and agencies who could change lives for the better with a few phone calls, but they don't want to get involved or don't take the time to assess what is needed. Some people even talk about refugees like they are not worthy of living lives of dignity. "At least it's better than where they lived in Nepal." Or, "They should find a relative to translate that form." My purpose in life these days is to take the time and then make the calls, give the rides, save the photos, and celebrate the stories.
The story of how I got to know refugees in Utica is also told in this TEDx Utica talk from 2014:
تكريما "اليوم العالمي للاجئين" 2017, USAHello هو جمع قصص عن كيفيه اللاجئين جعل حياتنا أفضل.
USAHello يعتقد ان الوافدين الجدد جعل بلدنا مكانا أفضل. إعادة توطين اللاجئين ليست مجرد شيء معنوية أو أخلاقية للقيام – فهي تستفيد منا ومجتمعاتنا المحلية، فضلا عن. هذه القصص من الأفراد في جميع أنحاء البلد إظهار كيفية معرفة, التدريس, العمل مع, ولعل الأهم من ذلك, يجري مع الأصدقاء, اللاجئين قد تحسنت حياة الأمريكيين.


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4-star Cope-Fitzpatrick to visit Colorado this weekend
Tight end Jalen Cope-Fitzpatrick, one of the four four-star recruits considering Colorado that I blogged about Monday, will make his official visit Friday, according to Buffscoop.com.
Out of Whitney High in Rocklin, Calif., Cope-Fitzpatrick is ranked as the No. 7 tight end in the nation by Rival.com. He committed to Southern California in June but has been in contact with Colorado, Oregon and UCLA. Second-year coach Jon Embree does not have a commitment from a four-star recruit yet.
Buffscoop.com listed three other players who will join Cope-Fitzpatrick on the visit. One is three-star cornerback Jeffrey Hall of St. Charles Catholic High in La Place, La. Colorado's competition is Tulane, North Texas and Louisiana-Monroe but his stock is rising since intercepting nine passes his senior year.
Three-star safety Chris Solomon led West Covina (Calif.) High to the CIF title and is also considering Washington State, Oregon State, Washington and Boise State. The other is two-star running back Davien Payne of Citrus Hill High in Perris, Calif., who has already committed to the Buffaloes.


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Gold Rate Today Falls To Its lowest level in 5 years
Gold prices fell to their lowest level in five years on Friday with exposure to pressure from a stronger dollar and expectations of an increase in US interest rates this year and with the purchase of China's less-than-expected amount of the precious metal over the past six years …
-ourgem Chinese statement about reducing reserves of gold and influence it almost directly However, in another statement noted that he is still working on the procurement process, taking advantage of the current low prices
Gold prices fell today to the lowest level in five years at $ 1085 and soon came back to settle above the level of 1100 due to acquisitions and any condensed it will be linked to the last drop causes "strongly US dollar and gains" on the impact of US interest rate hike news.
Previously, we noted that the winning level between 1100 and 1200 are considered areas of purchasing long the investor-term and with low current prices and expectations about landing more or stability we recommend the investor to divide the procurement process on taking advantage of these prices payments and any impairment is coming to him that was done on the raw and alloys caliber 24 only
But surely the rackets will be exploited to the sale and purchase of Forex's customers contrary to him, taking advantage of the movement of the dollar ..
The price of platinum fell for immediate sale 1.4% to $ 991 an ounce, the lowest level since February 2009 before recovering somewhat to $ 994.25.
Among other precious metals palladium dropped 2.5 percent to 613.47 dollars an ounce, the lowest level since November November 2012. Silver fell 0.9 percent to $ 14.84 an ounce.
The dollar index rose to its highest level since April, supported by strong jobs data in the United States while world stock markets fell after the company results have been disappointing.


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Known for taking his cabinet colleagues to task for dismal performances, Modi observed that ambitious projects, which were gathering dust for well over a decade, were completed by Gadkari in a brief span of 15 months.
In corridors of power, it is believed that Gadkari has indeed taken the otherwise insignificant departments of transport and shipping by storm and has made the entire bureaucracy more accountable.
An administrator par excellence, Gadkari has set a target of constructing 15-km road per day and reviews it on a daily basis. To ensure clean and transparent administration, Gadkari has set a new system so that there is no scope of charges of corruption or irregularities against him.
Each and every proposal, irrespective of the cost, is personally brought to the notice of the PM and is later submitted before the cabinet for approval. Now, the Gadkari effect is seen all over, as most cabinet members are following him, particularly when it comes to approval of new projects.


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Hilton Head Savannah and Beaufort Fly and Light Tackle
Posted by Capt. Scott Wagner on August 26, 2012 at 07:37 am
I have been so ate up with tarpon as of late I have been slack on getting pics of reds in the mix. Tarpon are easy way to ruin a mans life, once you get that fish stuck on the end of a fly rod it's soooo hard to get jacked about anything else that swims. Besides the Man, the reds have been really playing the game, and it's only getting better with the days getting shorter and few cool nights.Not just a fly fishing charters service, love to get spin guys out sight casting reds, tarpon and Jacks
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When the starting gun fires for Sunday's London Marathon, thousands of runners will take a deep breath, and make one last private plea for their day to end in victory.
Among them will be cancer sufferer Kirste Snellgrove, who ran the 26.2 miles last April, four weeks after undergoing chemotherapy. The policewoman from Essex was diagnosed with breast cancer five years ago at the age of 35. Since then, she has run 15 marathons. She ran last year's event after learning the disease had spread to her lungs. On Sunday, she will run again.
Since finishing last year's race, Miss Snellgrove has undergone further surgery, chemotherapy and drug treatment. The possibility of not running the 30th London event never entered her mind.
"When I was diagnosed with cancer, the first thing I asked my consultant was: 'Can I still run?'" says Ms Snellgrove. "The consultant said 'Yes, but no marathons.' I had other ideas."
After winning her doctor over, she returned to the sport. "I underestimated how important running was to me," she says.
"When I was diagnosed with cancer, I realised I needed it. It keeps me sane and gives me strength for the fight." Running bolsters her mental resilience. "I can banish the thoughts about cancer."
She has not asked her doctors what her long-term prognosis is, instead focusing on raising funds for breast cancer charities, and for her local hospital in Southend.
"I don't ask and they don't say. I have accepted my lot, but I want to do what I can with my life," she says. She will be raising money for the charity Breast Cancer Campaign (www.justgiving.com/TeamSnellgrove)
Miss Snellgrove is one of four on the shortlist for this year's Jane Tomlinson Inspiration Award, organised by Runner's World magazine in memory of the Yorkshirewoman who raised almost £2million for charity.
Also nominated is Major Phil Packer, who lost the use of his legs and is now a paraplegic after a rocket attack in Iraq in 2008. The soldier took 13 days to complete the London course last year, just a month after he started to walk again using crutches. This year, the 37-year-old hopes to cross the line in 26 hours, raising funds for Help for Heroes (www.justgiving.com/philsmillion)
Major Packer has also skydived with the Red Devils and rowed across the English Channel.
Why, when their physical health has been threatened, do some people subject their bodies to such endurance feats? Andy Barton, who provides mental coaching to athletes, says this forms a response to feelings of powerlessness sparked by such a crisis. "People often choose to do something like a marathon not just to build strength, but to reassert control over a body they perceive as having failed them," he says.
For others, a marathon is the last thing they want to do. "People can go one of two ways," says Barton. "Some will feel frightened to do anything that increases the risks. Others decide to embark on a major challenge."
That was the experience of Hayley Martin, from Cheshire, after she suffered a heart attack last August aged 39. Ten days after being discharged from hospital, she took part in a 10k race against medical advice, still wearing her NHS identity band.
Although scans have shown that half of her heart is now made up of scar tissue, and doctors have cautioned against strenuous exercise, she is determined to run on Sunday, in aid of the deaf and blind charity Sense (www.virginmoneygiving.com/hayleyjanemartin-1)
Having battled with anxiety since she was a teenager, Miss Martin had found in running a way to cope with stress. "I felt if I gave up running, it would set me on a different road, living my life in fear of every heartbeat. I am an all-or-nothing sort of person, and in the end, if it is a choice between giving up and taking a risk, I'd rather die trying."
It is the sort of mantra that concerns Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation. The cardiologist worries most about the average unhealthy Brit who decides to take on a major challenge. One in three people who have had a heart attack never suffer a warning symptom, he points out, and the stresses of an endurance event can provide a lethal trigger.
"A lot of people sign up to a marathon and treat it as a one-off, when they would be better off doing half an hour's exercise every day."
For many, the psychological boost of the marathon is the ultimate prize. Ian Curry, 29, suffered a mental breakdown in 2005 when he was working as a City lawyer. Medication caused major weight gain. He signed up for last year's London Marathon in an attempt to lose four stone. The weight fell off – but the benefits for his mental health came as "a really great surprise".
Mr Curry says: "After a stressful day, I can get out on the streets and after 15 minutes my mind has cleared." As a result, his medication has been reduced and he hopes to come off it altogether. The solicitor from north London is raising money for the mental health charity Mind (ukvirginmoneygiving.com/IanCurry).
Endurance events can set many lives back on track, says Mind spokesperson Bridget O'Connell. "If your life feels out of control, a clear goal and a set of milestones can really help to turn things around," she says.
"Exercise can improve your mental resilience and boost your mood, and completing the marathon boosts your confidence. It adds up to a great prescription for health."
- Laura Donnelly will be running Sunday's marathon in aid of Mind. To donate, go to www.justgiving.com/Laura-Donnellylondonmarathon


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In autumn I always buy roasted chestnuts on the street, but I bake only rarely at home, although the recipe is very simple.
1. Heat the oven to 200Celsius or Gas 6.
2. Cut a cross into the top of each nut into the top of the flesh. Put in a roasting tin and bake until the skins open and the insides are tender about 30 minutes.
3. Peel away the skin and eat.


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Google Acknowledges That Verizon Owns Your Internet
Unless the government steps in, we'll see what the wireless carriers want us to see.
Google's deal with Verizon to give up on wireless net neutrality shows that the phone carriers want to have an absolute lock over the way the mobile Internet will run. And unless the government steps in, they'll run it for their benefit, not yours.
There's a ton of commentary on the Net about the Google/Verizon position on net neutrality, but let's just focus on wireless: basically, the two companies said that the wireless Internet is what carriers say it is. Carriers should be free to speed up, slow down or block any traffic they want. Implied in that, floating in its penumbra, is the desired right to lock phones, block applications, or install un-deletable bloatware on your phone.
This is a far cry from the utopian dream Google's Erick Tseng described to me back in January. The Google Nexus One Android phone, he said, was the beginning of a new era for U.S. wireless. You'd soon be able to get a Nexus One from any carrier, he said, and even switch them between carriers. Google would provide a retail channel to challenge the carriers. (For more on this see my column, "Nexus One: Google's First Step?") Android was freedom!
That was nonsense. Google realized it was more profitable to play along with the wireless carriers than annoy them, so they never really marketed the Nexus One and only sold a handful of phones. The announced Sprint and Verizon versions of the phones never appeared, and Google killed the whole project after less than a year. Meanwhile, Android is becoming every wireless carrier's operating system of choice for smartphones, largely because of its flexibility in creating completely carrier-customized phones. Tseng has left the company, and there will be no Nexus Two.
The wireless industry likes to say there's plenty of competition out there, and the four big players are cutthroat on some things - for instance, they're building 3G and 4G networks like maniacs. Problems arise when they start agreeing on things that aren't customer-friendly and acting like a cartel. As a consumer, I see that danger in fees for "preferential access" to their networks.
The Myth of the Unlocked iPhone
Yes, the Copyright Office recently said that you can unlock or jailbreak your phone, but that's a smokescreen, because the Copyright Office didn't say carriers have to support those phones. You could find yourself with a happily unlocked phone that no carrier will activate.
Once again, the specter of the iPhone floats in the air here, but in a slightly different way than it did in December 2009 when I said that "Google is not the messiah." Way back in 2007 when Apple introduced the iPhone, pundits speculated that Apple might start their own wireless carrier to show the industry how things should be done. They didn't - they signed a perfectly conventional contract with AT&T.
Yeah, yeah, sure, Google (or Apple) could have entered into a wholesale contract with a 3G provider to offer service under their own name, but don't fault them for not doing that. No wireless reseller has made money in U.S., because the spectrum-owning carriers structure the contracts to prevent wholesale customers from skimming off their most profitable users.
Because there are no requirements for reasonably-priced 3G roaming or wholesale contracts, companies like Apple, Google, and my "10 Small Carriers With Great Phones" can't jump into the national scene and challenge the big boys, and the big boys like it that way.
The biggest threat to the major wireless carriers' business models comes from mid-sized spectrum owners like Cricket, who last week declared a $55/month smartphone service plan. Since Cricket owns their own network, they're not beholden to the bigger guys. But even Cricket is now potentially in danger; to go national, they signed a wholesale agreement with Sprint that could potentially let Sprint turn the screws on them down the road.
Cricket is a renegade on pricing, but they stick with the party line in terms of freedom. They control your access to the Internet. Like all wireless carriers, they say they're doing that to protect their network from predatory users who might download more than Cricket is comfortable with. I don't want to single out Cricket, of course - everyone does this.
There are reasonable traffic concerns involved. Carriers seem to be spreading the idea that their networks are horribly fragile, gossamer things ready to collapse at any minute under the load of desperate Internet users. That's why Verizon overpriced the Microsoft Kin into oblivion and why AT&T has been lowering their data caps.
I think that after six years I can tell the difference between greed and fear, and the whole data-cap thing looks like fear. They're not price-gouging as much as they're just trying to keep their pathetically overburdened networks from collapsing. It's a sad statement about the inability of these companies to provide the Internet capacity Americans demand.
But there's a world of differences between purely traffic-related restrictions and content or hardware-related ones. The Google/Verizon proposal reserves to Verizon the right to define what gets to be seen on the Internet, who we can see it through, and for how much. If we want any kind of wireless freedom, we can't look to the carriers; the FCC has to step in.
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It's not quite back to school time yet, but that's the first thought that came to my head when asked to participate in Skirting the Issue. I'd love to have every child walk into school on that first day feeling special.
Add a sweater or a long sleeve knit shirt, and this skirt looks great in the fall too.
|I bought a plain white sweater at the resell shop and added a layer of knit fabric to the front of the sweater.
Now, how to make this skirt.
1. First, cut a rectangle piece of fabric with a width that is twice the child's waist. (For the cotton poplin zebra fabric, I used the entire width of fabric which was a bit wider. For the mustache knit fabric, I used 3 times the waist.) The length of the rectangle is from the child's waist to just above the knee plus 3 inches for the hem and 1 1/2 inches for the elastic casing at the waist.
2. Next. cut a piece of 6 inch fusible light weight or medium weight interfacing the width of the fabric. ( For the knit fabric, I used a knit interfacing.) Apply with an iron to the bottom of the skirt. Turn the bottom edge under one-fourth inch and stitch it down to finish the edge.
WHY THE INTERFACING??? This is the area where all the buttonholes will be made and 2 layers of fabric plus two layers of interfacing will make sewing the buttonholes easier, support the weight of the ribbon when it is threaded through the buttonholes, and provide some extra "pouf power."
3. Next, I made the casing for the elastic waistband across the top.
Finish the edge by turning under the fabric one-fourth inch and stitching. Then, knowing I was going to use a 3/4 inch elastic, I turned down the casing another 1 1/4 inch and sewed right next to the hem edge. At the top of the casing, I sewed a 1/2 inch line of stitching to finish the top edge with that "Paperbag Look."
So you can see from this photo that I have finished both edges of my rectangle.
4. One inch from the bottom of the skirt, I made a series of Paired Buttonholes to thread the different ribbons through at the bottom of the skirt.
There is NO MATH involved in deciding where
the buttonholes will be placed
... JUST Divide By Folding
|The arrows show the placement of the buttonholes in the hem area.
The pins indicate where the mid-space between the two buttonholes is located. Each set of buttonhole pairs are around 5 inches apart.
Then, I made a template with a post-it note to stick at the edge of the hem to mark where the finished set of two buttonholes will go.
No more measuring and they will all be the same!
5. The length of your buttonhole is determined by the width of the ribbon you want to use in your skirt. I used 1 1/2 inches long. Use "Fray Check" to seal the buttonholes and the ribbon ends before cutting them open. Cut buttonholes.
6. Thread the waist elastic through the casing and secure with a pin. Sew the side seam with a 1/2 inch seam, sewing through the elastic and all the way to the top of the skirt.
*NOTE TO SEWER: When I sewed the knit skirt, I added extra seam allowance area. The knit fabric "curled" and I wanted to place pins on both sides of the seam to sew a straight seam. This made the process easy-peasy. Zig-zag on the inside of the seam, and trim.
7. Thread the ribbon through the buttonholes, cut the ends diagonally through the fray check soaked area and tie into a bow.
On this photo, I wanted to show you that I didn't tie a bow for the Fifth Grader because I thought it looked more appropriate for her age.
8. Smile, it looks fabulous doesn't it, and so will yours. Leave me a comment about how your skirt turned out...I'll be waiting to hear from you. If you have any questions, post your questions in the comment section. Remember all kids are different, but they all want to feel special, so join the movement and make a skirt for someone. Giving to others feels better than I can describe.


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Today we purchased our tickets to Italy.
Like, "we're leaving in three short weeks," purchased our tickets.
Like, "all our belongings are being shipped over the Atlantic Ocean this week," purchased our tickets.
We are finally moving. Wow, that feels good to write.
As many of you know, our journey has been long. Very long. Who'd have thought our journey would take us through places like San Diego and Atlanta? Who'd have thought we'd have over 70 ministry partners from every corner of the country and even parts of the globe? Who'd have thought we'd be re-routed from Spain to Italy? Who'd have thought it would have taken so long?
Spoiler Alert – we sure didn't.
A few weeks ago I received a little message from our good friends in Spain reminding us just how long this journey has been. He sent a copy of one of the first messages we had ever sent to him and his family as we were exploring mission organizations like CRM and ministry in Europe.
That message was dated 9-7-11.
Hey Deric, Thanks for your message…sorry it took me so long to get back to you, for some reason I can only see your message on my phone, not on my computer…but I digress. It is true we are very interested in missional community living and CRM. Both my wife and I are looking to serve overseas in some capacity and are exploring opportunities right now. We both feel like God is moving us toward cross cultural ministry but really are praying and seeking God as to what that is supposed to look like. I think Jenifer and I are certainly interested in Spain, learning Spanish, etc. However, at this point obviously we know very little as to what you are doing out there and would love to know more. I would love to talk with you more and see what God is doing over there and what your vision for ministry in Malaga looks like. Thanks again for contacting me! Blessings, Jeff
As we reflect back on our journey toward cross cultural ministry I can't help but think of a simple prayer we prayed almost 6 years ago as we sensed God moving us toward this type of ministry. As we sat in our apartment in Tacoma, Washington, we simply prayed, "God, wherever you lead us next, and whatever you lead us into, may we look back at the journey and only be able to point to you and what you've done. May it be your work from start to finish."
Now, as we stand just three short weeks away from our move, we look back upon the past 5, almost 6 years, and say – "God did it."
Our journey has been long. It has not been easy, but it's been one of the most life shaping, transformative seasons of our lives. And we are grateful. We look ahead with great anticipation; more trusting than ever before of His faithful and sometimes painfully slow work to sustain us and carry us as we follow Him.
The wait's been worth it. Thank you for waiting with us.
God did it.


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Fewer posts this week I'm afraid! Tough week. Hopefully I'll have some ideas sorted out for next week!
I found an awesome usage of word building today: branĉido = sprout/shoot
- Branĉo = branch
- -id suffix means "offspring of <root>", "born of <root>".
- Pronounced "branch-ID-o"
Now, there is a word "ŝoso" (pronounced "SHO-so", quite pretty itself), which means "sprout/shoot". But I like the logic of "branĉido"!
The "-id" suffix can also be used metaphorically. There is a another constructed language called "Ido" based off of Esperanto, short for "Esperantido", offspring of Esperanto! 🙂


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September 11, 2017:
We are pleased to report all of our client's and staff weathered the storm well. Therapeutic sessions were able to continue and everyone has coped very well. We plan on moving the clients tomorrow, September 12, 2017 after breakfast and expect them to load the buses and depart between noon and 2pm. Clients will be allowed a safety call to family members to update them on their status when they arrive back at their permanent location.
September 7, 2017:
The top priority of Executive Recovery Center is to guarantee the safety, well-being, and comfort of all patients at our facility. The recent activity of Hurricane Irma (and the possibility of Hurricane Jose) making landfall this weekend, has caused us to take the necessary steps to ensure that every patient has been safely evacuated from our coastal locations. We have temporarily suspended admissions and the current participants in our treatment programs have been relocated to accommodations in Central Florida. To maintain the integrity of our program and continuity of care, our facility staff will remain with and provide treatment services to our patients throughout this process. Our focus will continue to be on addiction treatment and the safety of our patients. After the facility and area has been deemed safe for return, all patients will be transferred back to our facility to continue treatment.
We thank you for your understanding and are proud to work together with our partners to protect every patient as well as deliver continued treatment services despite the circumstances. Please call 855-223-6171 if you have any questions.


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This award winning pub wanted a web site that portrayed their reputation as a traditional pub with lovely home cooked food, great entertainment and atmosphere. We designed the logo and the banner taking inspiration from the external sign on the pub and chose complimenting colours for the rest of the design. The web site is the go to place to find out about events and also the current menu.
Razor Solutions specialise in the design and development of websites, and our client references are testimony to exceptional customer service and our ability to consistently deliver to budget, and on time.


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Interesting, and a bit funny--third world toilets
Hi all;
I give you permission to laugh a lot as you look at these pictures. This is the type of toilet used in wealthier homes and in public toilets in India, Asia and the middle east. You don't use toilet paper, you use water to wash off.
when you get there, keep clicking "next" (top right) to see instructions on how they use their toilet.
I just had to share it with you because my husband just bought 5 "Normal" toilets for the home he lives in. They feel pretty luxurious now. When we had Asian exchange students in our home, one time my parents accidentally walked into the bathroom and found a man squatting over the toilet with his feet on the toilet seat. She left quickly and didn't understand what she had just seen until today when I showed her how he used the toilet in his own country.
The picture in that link is the most luxurious bathroom I have ever seen of all the pictures I have seen of those types of bathroom/toilets. Most are very dirty with water on the floor so your clothes get wet and you pee on your clothes as you squat over the hole to pee. Most don't have water pipes, or hand held showers like this, just a bucket of water and you don't use toilet paper, you wash with water.They actually consider OUR way quite filthy, because we don't wash our bottom after using the toilet. They have a saying "never make love to someone who uses a western toilet unless they shower first."
So this is what my husband deals with. You always remove your pants first so you can squat, so it takes them longer to use the bathroom than us.


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1. Is this site for everyone?
– Hell yeah!!!
2. Can I submit my own article for publishing?
– Yes as long as it's original and you agree that the webmaster can make any 'grammar' corrections without altering the meaning. Email to send to is firstname.lastname@example.com.
3. How do I report any abuse about copyright infringement of my work or art?
4. Do I need to be worried about expressing my candid opinions on here?
– No no…as long as you dont end up disrespecting other users and acting like a 2year old.
5. Can I share this site with friends and family?
– ~wide grin~….YYYYeeessssss!!!! 🙂
6. Can I send advertisements of major entertainment and charity events (organised by Africans the world over) for publishing?
– Yes…but only these two categories for now. Of course, the team will review every submission to meet our accepted standards before publishing. Hopefully as KASA gets bigger we will allow most advertisements! And the onus lies on you to share the links to your ads on Facebook and other social networking sites.


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Craghoppers NosiLife Adventure Short Sleeved Shirt, Soft Khaki Combo
A stylish addition to our travel collection, this cleverly designed new shirt is packed with tech for effortless hot-climate adventures. Easy to pack – and even easier to care for, it's lightweight and cool against the skin, with permanent protection against biting insects – thanks to NosiLife.
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After a lengthy wait my article "Participatory art within, against and beyond financialization: Benign pessimism, tactical parasitics and the encrypted common" has been published by the journal Cultural Studies. It features the work of the artists Axel Stockburger, Robin Hood Minor Asset Management and Cassie Thornton. Also, the Yippies.
You can download a copy here.
Here is an abstract (please note, below is the correct abstract – the one featured in on the Taylor and Franics website and on the PDF still hasn't been corrected):
This essay examines three critical artists who orchestrate participatory spectacles and experiences as a means of challenging neoliberal financialization, an overarching paradigm and process that is reshaping economics, politics, society and culture. Critical art, I argue, can offer us a particularly insightful vantage point on these transformations. This is not, as it is usually supposed, because art has some lofty transcendental perspective above society; rather, it is precisely because art is already so deeply integrated into finance and financialization. Not coincidentally, "participation" appears as a keyword for the restructuring of both art and finance today, which I argue is key to understanding the challenges, limits and potentials of even avowedly critical participatory art, with lessons for cultural production more broadly. In order to analyse and draw broader lessons from the three artworks in question, I identify each with a strategic paradigm: benign pessimism, tactical parasitism and the encrypted common. These strategies, I argue, emerge within, against and beyond financialization and can help complicate our approach to its complex cultural politics.
One of the funny aspects of this article, and academic publishing in general, is how long things can take to emerge in print. This piece was inspired by a trip to California in the fall of 2014 to (among other things) participate in a workshop at University of Southern California in LA and to visit the Bay Area, where I was reacquainted with and co-facilitated a workshop on debt with the artist Cassie Thornton. Her work inspired this piece, and she is one of the featured artists. As this article made its slow way through many the academic publishing plumbing my admiration for Cassie (and I guess hers for me) grew to such a point that, in early 2017 we were left with no choice but to wed. Take that for what you will; I make no claims to "objectivity" when it comes to her work, or to any work for that matter.


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1) Geometry Dash Lite
Geometry Dash Lite is a free and endless runner game with a focus on rhythm. The graphics and gameplay are simple in nature, but the game is satisfying to play. It requires perfect timing but because the levels always play out in the same way, it never feels unfair – it's just a case of needing to learn the level. It's highly addictive and highly recommended. It is an offline game so you can play it without internet.
2) Mini Warriors
Mini Warriors is a deep game that requires strategic thinking. In this game, you're the commander of an army who must lead an army of troops into battle against evil forces. These battles are often epic thanks to the number of troops that are actually displayed in the game. you will often need to zoom out to see them all, it has an online multi-player mode, there is plenty to enjoy in the main campaign, which can be played offline. You can connect to your friends and play it
Shadow Fight 2 is a nail-biting mix of classical Fighting and RPG. This game lets you equip countless lethal weapons and rare armour sets, and features dozens of lifelike-animated Martial Arts techniques! As the thrilling Fantasy storyline unfolds, you will fight numerous unique enemies and defeat evil demon bosses. Has good interface and unique characters.
4) Asphalt 8: Airborne
One of the great innovation by gameloft.
Asphalt 8: Airborne is our favorite racing game on mobile . It skips all pretensions of realism and provides an over-the-top, high-octane game with all the fixings. Players can play their way through the career mode, unlock new rides, upgrade the ones they have, or take the competition online in staggered or live multiplayer. The usual race modes are there, plus a new 'Infected' one where players have to tag other racers before succumbing to an explosive virus.The incredibly polished graphics and outstanding soundtrack make Asphalt 8 an adrenaline trip you won't soon forget. Has good looking cars
5) Angry Birds Space
Developer Rovio has done quite a lot of aggressive whoring of the Angry Birds franchise, but this space-based fork of the simplistic physics game series is really worth a try. For one, it introduces some new play concepts, with the planet-based levels requiring different tactics, plus the puzzles generally need a bit more of a thoughtful approach than the chuck-it-and-see of the originals. Included great graphics and features and pretty interference
6). Badland
Has a bit of an 'indie' vibe about it this one, with Badland offering a weird, dark and gloomy world, in which you fly about in control of a… blob thing. Your blob gets bigger and smaller, splits into loads of mini clones, and generally baffles you about what might lie around the next corner. We like a bit of a surprise, and this is full of them. I has nice ui design and addictive.
7) Stick Cricket
It is a simple little game that reduces cricket to its core values – you just smash every ball as hard as you can. There's no worrying about field positioning, just a bat and a ball coming at you very quickly. Initially it seems impossible to do anything other than make a complete mess of things and having your little man smashed upside-down, but it soon clicks. Characters looks pretty enough to enjoy the game.
8) Fruit ninja
The original juicy fruit-slicing action game enjoyed by millions of players around the world, with squishy, splatty and satisfying fruit carnage! Become the ultimate bringer of sweet, tasty destruction with every slash.
With more strategy, depth and fruity explosions, there's never been a better time to play Fruit Ninja. Unsheath your sword and check out what's new in the game that started it all. This game is very much addictive
9) Dead trigger 2
Dead Trigger 2 is a free-movement shooter; rather than the on-rails gameplay typical of mobile zombie shooters, the player controls the character's movement like a typical console or PC FPS. The game features two dramatically different control paradigms; with the default controls, the player merely aims at zombies – his or her weapons will fire automatically when a zombie is underneath the crosshair. The advanced control scheme functions like the first game – the player presses a button to fire the weapon, and an additional button lets the player aim down the weapon's sights for greater accuracy.
The player has a limited amount of health that is refreshed at the start of each mission. The player loses health when hit by zombies or by certain environmental hazards. The player can regain health by taking healing pills or getting a health powerup from a special zombie.
Enemies come in two flavors, standard zombies and special zombies.
10) clash of clans
It is an old game but still leads ahead because it cannot be hacked
The fastest rising game in Android is Clash of Clans. This game is all about strategy and combat. Build up your village and lead them to prosperity and victory right n your Android or ios device. This game lets you pillage and destroy other villages, taking over lands and making your village the best there is in the land. You can even join forces with other players and fight other players as well. This game features 15 units, various levels of upgrades, campaign mode and more. You can also take revenge who attacked you when you are offline!!!


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The fashion brand is expected to collapse into administration tomorrow, as it becomes the latest in a string of high street casualties.
The store offers gift cards of different values, which can be redeemed in-store and online. Customers were being urged to spend their vouchers while Republic was still trading.
Martin Lewis, founder of consumer website moneysavingexpert.com, said: "I would say, go into store and spend them right now.
"You are far better off to have goods in your hands than a promisory note from a company that's in trouble, because if they go into administration they are within their right to say the vouchers are worthless."
If customers have a gift voucher and the issuing company goes into administration, they are effectively left holding a useless piece of paper as the administrators are under no obligation to honour the vouchers.
Voucher holders' money is not protected if a company goes bust. Instead, they will be classed as creditors and must line up with everyone else owed money by the failed company.
Citizens Advice tells customers to spends store credit or gift vouchers while the trader is still trading. "If you don't do this you'll have to try claiming their value back from the administrators and may not get anything," their website said.
Republic, which has 121 stores and employs about 1,000 people, would add to the list of job losses from retail casualties this year, including HMV, Jessops and Blockbuster.
Private equity firm TPG bought the fashion brand in June 2010 in a deal worth around £300 million, with the founders understood to have retained a significant stake.
The group has lined up Ernst & Young to handle the administration, according to reports.
E&Y and Republic declined to comment.
A Which? spokeswoman said: "With the increasing number of high street retailers going bust, consumers need to be aware of their rights particularly regarding gift vouchers.
"If a store goes into administration it may refuse to accept gift vouchers, though this situation may change. If they do refuse and you need to make a claim, write to the administrators with proof of your vouchers. Unfortunately there is no guarantee that you will get the full value back, and a claim could take some time for the administrators to process.
"It is also worth remembering that if you've bought an item costing more than £100 on a credit card and the supplier goes bust, you can claim a refund by writing to the credit company with details of your claim."


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We are a social club for motorcyclists over the age of 40. We are the largest organisation of this kind in Australia.
Membership of the Club is open to any person, subject to the National Committee approval, who has attained the age of 40 years and who holds a current motorcycle licence. Additionally, the spouse or regular partner of a member, who has also attained the age of 40 years may also be admitted as a member upon application.
There is only one kind of membership, full individual membership. Any type of bike is welcome.
Meeting place for all rides is the South Grafton Bus Interchange. See ride calendar for times. Contact Reg Hampson 0408431542.
Social get-together held on the last Friday each month, 6:30pm Grafton - contact Reg for details. All welcome.


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I've not followed the governor race, but from the way the long knives are out for our attorney general ("Baltimore City Power Rankings," Mobtown Beat, Oct. 30), it's clear Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler must be doing something right. The teen-party story has amazingly grown legs-it's now national news. I watched the morning talk shows while on vacation, and the hosts just couldn't get enough. Their sanctimonious "holier-than-thou" attitudes were repugnant.
Just because Gansler failed to break up a party in Delaware where underage drinking might have taken place, he is now mired in scandal along with likes of former D.C. mayor Marion Barry and former President Bill Clinton. One letter-writer to The Sun even compared his so-called "lapse of judgment" with the murder of Yeardley Love. What's gotten into the Maryland water supply!
Now City Paper has jumped aboard the "Get Gansler Express" by accusing him of being "stupid and sexist." When a woman pointed out she would have called the police if her daughter had been at that infamous party, Gansler wisely is reported to have said, "It also has to do with whether you have a boy or girl." How is this sexist?
Let me point out that girls get pregnant, boys do not!
Rosalind Heid
OK, I'll be the first person to admit that Doug Gansler is no angel. He is, after all, a human being, and we are all hard-wired to make mistakes.
To my knowledge, he has never murdered anyone, has never owned meth labs, and has never raped children.
I am beginning to smell a rat in Annapolis. Who is leaking this information to the press/media? Will the hypocrite come out frombehind the curtain of secrecy and identify himself or herself? Could our lieutenant governor-"Casper the Friendly Ghost," aka Anthony Brown-be the culprit? Has he taken a page from Governor Martin "My Favorite Martian" O'Malley and bathed himself in Teflon?
Our state has had a long and storied lineage of greed, the egocentric accrual of power, and good old-fashioned corruption. Is it any wonder that we, as Marylanders, perceive our politicians (and political aspirants) as being more lowly than that mound of pigeon shit on the ledge outside our offices?
Come forth, ye leaking taxable bag of pigeon poop, and identify your hypocritical self.
Patrick R. Lynch
Simple Majority
I have to take time to correct the misconceptions of C.D Wilmer, expressed in his recent letter to
City Paper
("Rankled Rankings," The Mail, Oct. 30).
There has never, in the entirety of American history, been a requirement for any legislation to have 61 votes to pass. Indeed, with the exception of five original exceptions and two later exceptions, legislation has only required a simple majority vote to pass into law in America.
Those original exceptions were: overriding a presidential veto, ratifying a treaty,to convict after impeachment, expelling a member of the House or Senate (a two-thirds vote of the body doing the expulsion), and passing a constitutional amendment.
Later amendments created two-thirds majorities required for restoring the abilities of Confederate traitors to serve in government and for approving the removal of president after a declaration of disability by the vice president and the cabinet if the president challenges said declaration.
All other legislation requires a simple majority to pass.
The filibuster rule, a Senate rule not directly part of the U.S. Constitution and which can be abolished at any time, requires a 60-vote majority to invoke cloture and essentially end debate on a bill and bring it to a vote. This subsequent vote only requires a simple majority to pass.
Now, I loath parliamentary chicanery as much as the next American, but one can hardly call Harry Reid's decision to play by long-established rules, agreed to by both parties, a "flim flam," as Wilmer does.
As for the crack against unions, I cannot help but note that every Super Bowl and World Series championship team in recent history has been fully unionized. The Screen Actors Guild and other such unions represent the creative class. This seems to argue against Wilmer's thesis that "unions exist to stifle creativity and promote mediocrity."
Matthew Hood
A Hack by Any Other Name
I was quite amazed that you wasted a whole page giving free publicity to what is nothing more than new way to hack ("Need a Lyft?," Mobtown Beat, Oct. 30). Instead of standing on the street wiggling your hand, you can have them come to your door. How nice. It's illegal here.
Call any insurance agent. Ask them what they would do if they had proof you were hauling people for money. They would cancel you in a heartbeat.
"Relaxed demeanor"-wow, you were starstruck. That guy is an accomplished liar. "Fist bump"-you have to be kidding me. Sit in the front, so you don't look like a taxi customer, mimic friendship.
Are you really that naive? The money is a gift-what crap. It's hacking, plain and simple. We can see for some reason you are anti-taxicab. Just out of curiosity, when is the last time you were even in a cab, if ever?
If you are going make ads, don't pretend it's a news piece. The
City Paper
should be paid for ad space.
Steve Hickman
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