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How have you been going with the challenge activities?
Have you:
- Created an avatar and uploaded it to your blog as a blog avatar and a user avatar? dashboard>settings>blog avatar – make sure blog avatar widget is in your sidebar first. dashboard>user> your avatar
- Created your About Me page and post – if the page doesn't appear along the navigation bar in your theme, you will need to add the pages widget to your sidebar. Some themes have widgets at the bottom others you have to click the three lines near the top of screen.
- Left some great comments on other student blogs – why not visit some mentioned on the sidebar of my blog here? Perhaps you could write a post telling me who you visited, the comment you left and why you chose that post to comment on.
- Written some posts including images with attribution
- Created a jigsaw puzzle to embed on your blog – instructions on my previous post
Complete the five activities above before starting on the next lot of activities in the student blogging challenge. These relate to the topic of school and will be published tomorrow (Sunday) During this week, I will be writing a How to post about using polls and surveys on your blog. This might be helpful for this week's challenge activities.
Remember to leave me a comment here telling me which activities you have finished so I can mark them off on the work completed spreadsheet.


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The whole farm season came and went and I never managed to post a single blog. I've been mentally kicking myself in the pants for years now, to no avail. There is just so much to document, and with each passing day I grapple with the fleeting sense of lost opportunity to share. A long stint of writer's block? Maybe. One thing is for certain. There has been a whole lot more doing than "planning on doing". Time is of the essence... when it's available!
It's hard to believe that in just one year we got married, moved out of state, rapidly transitioned to (mostly) off-grid homesteading and started a new farm operation on unfamiliar soil. Now, winter has arrived in Wisconsin, after the longest, warmest – and possibly wettest - growing season on record. We were recently blanketed with nearly 14 inches of fluffy, powdery snow. It has turned the farm and surrounding woods into a positively magical landscape, sparkling white hot in the bright sunlight, glowing blue in the full moonlight, playing with all of the light, casting shadows and softening shapes. It takes intention to even think about farming, presently. The cabin has become a cozy den, flickering with the warmth of candles and the ever-whispering draw of the chimney from the wood stove. And now, a simple, lightless Christmas Tree stands in the corner, a glimpse of snowy shiitake logs visible over its shoulder through the frosted window. Greenery and ribbons and shining spheres add cheerful splash to window sills and tables. The smell of wood smoke permeates everything. I have never felt so much at HOME.
This morning I sit down to finally write. I feel blessed to even have time to write. The summer is so demanding to the farmer and the homesteader, alike. We have become both at once. Endless lists of chores lurk onerously, tacked to a wall or cork board, peeking from some pile of paperwork or another, wedged in a notebook or crumpled in a pocket. And yet, they give me purpose. The lists are not empty, soulless demands made by a greedy employer or burnt out manager at a dead-end job. They are a moving, organic process, literally a function of survival. Nearly everything on these lists are about sustaining daily life on the farm and in our household. Hauling water, hauling wood; watering plants, harvesting vegetables, collecting eggs, preserving the bounty; feeding and watering the chickens, cats, the dog; making sure the baby chicks are warm enough, the house is warm enough, we are warm enough. Ultimately, it's about the basic needs for life: Food, Water and Shelter. We are just doing it the "hard" way. For me, it's the only way. I truly love waking up each morning, ready to tackle the needs of the day; slowing down and being a part of each process, connected to the Earth, respondent to the weather. Because… on the other side of those chore lists… is everything that feeds my soul.
This morning as I finally sit down to write, breakfast has already been made, dishes done, wood stacked in the house and my husband is out the door and off to work. It's not even 10 degrees outside yet, but I am cozy with a cup of wild raspberry leaf tea steaming within arm's reach. The sun is warming my back and melting the frost from the south facing windows. One of our very own organic, free-range chickens is aromatically stewing in the big pot on the wood stove. Plans for a venison pot pie linger on the horizon of the day's tasks, Christmas cards wait to be sent and my cross-country skis lean kittywampus with a big question mark hovering over them. The hard work of the warm season is finally paying off and the quiet peace of the holiday season feels tangible in new way. Now I truly understand where all of these traditions come from. It makes perfect sense from this perspective. It feels right. I'm looking forward to continuing this journey.

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TCAA is led by a Board of Directors consisting of CAI members and also industry leaders who are not members of CAI. Board members come from throughout the state and represent the various interest groups. The Board's focus is on legislative agenda, policy making and legislator/stakeholder relations. The Board also acts as liaisons to the various CAI Chapters throughout the state and other related organizations.


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After nearly a quarter century, the paradox of "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters" remains that even though director Paul Schrader went out of his way to make the controversial biopic in Japanese with a Japanese crew using Japanese techniques, the film has still never been released there. At the same time, Schrader's approach made the enigmatic figure all the more foreign to Western audiences (critics, however, delighted in Schrader's hyper-intellectualization of his subject and curious puzzlebox structure), and it's only now, with all the bells and whistles of a Criterion release, that mainstream viewers have sufficient context to appreciate this beautiful, yet flawed film.
This is the "Pulp Fiction" for arthouse snobs, an ambitious, fragmented narrative oozing with nods to Japanese helmers like Ozu and Mizoguchi as well as overt homages to Euro works such as "The Conformist" and "Performance" — a postmodern pastiche released the same year Tarantino landed his first video clerk job. But the great irony of Schrader's style is that Yukio Mishima was among Japan's most Western-minded writers, a deeply image-conscious artist who would have likely been flattered by a more traditionally Hollywood treatment. As Mishima's career progressed, he became increasingly preoccupied with his public persona, transforming his own life into a form of performance art through photography and film, notoriously culminating in an act of seppuku enacted before rolling newsreel cameras.
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Though Schrader may be conscious of Japanese traditions in a way few American audiences are (a perspective enhanced by the participation of his expat brother, Leonard, and Leonard's Japanese wife, Chieko), his primary interest in Mishima is through the lens of the author's suicidal "affliction." As he explains in a new commentary (recorded shortly after his brother's death), following "Taxi Driver," Schrader was criticized for "writing down to this character, of using an illiterate to express my suicidal neuroses on."
But for all "Mishima's" superficial Japonism, Schrader imposes a fundamentally Western view upon his subject — namely, that of the 20th-century psychoanalyst. Like a dutiful Freudian, he glimpses into Mishima's motherless childhood and schoolyard humiliations for clues, weighs the author's homosexual and sado-masochistic tendencies as supporting evidence and arrives at the conclusion that Mishima, like Travis Bickle, was the suicidal type (albeit for different reasons).
The same could be said about thousands of young Japanese soldiers who gave their lives for their emperor in World War II. Especially intriguing in Mishima's case, the author expressed a career-long interest in mortality, first writing about it, then posing in a series of photographs depicting "the male in death" (including his famous recreation of the martyrdom of St. Sebastian) and eventually staging it onscreen in his short film "Patriotism" (a valuable artifact in its own right, also censored in Japan and available separately from Criterion, which reveals Mishima's natural magnetism, a facet muted in Ken Ogata's later portrayal).
Where suicide is marked by shame in the West, honor and, sometimes, glory traditionally accompany the act in Japan, a cultural contradiction Schrader grapples with throughout the film: He wants to understand whatever "pathology" drove Mishima to take his own life, even as he admires a man who made the ultimate sacrifice for his art (and also for his radical politics). "The reason why his life is really worthy of examination is he realized fairly early on that the role of the writer in the new media age, meaning television, was also the role of a personality," Schrader explains. "If you turn your own body into the canvas in which you enact a public media death, how do you take the idea of performance art any farther than that."
Structurally, "Mishima" is as ambitious a biopic as they come, giving even Todd Haynes' recent "I'm Not There" a run for its money. In Schrader's view, Mishima was also prone to a schizophrenic identity, reflected in the way the writer kept his social circles apart. But instead of casting multiple actors, Schrader examines Mishima through the lens of his work, staging three of his novels as stylized theatrical pieces within the film (all the more breathtaking for Eiko Ishioka's production design). He intercuts these with scenes of Mishima's past (rendered in traditional black and white) and present, depicting his final day with the documentary-like style of Costa-Gavras.
As the commentary progresses, Schrader distances himself from a strictly psychological approach, engaging with a more poetic interpretation of his subject. In the film's first three chapters, we see Mishima's progression through three stages, from aesthete (or writer/artist) to bodybuilder to militarist. Rationally speaking, each stage was critical to his final performance: For all his preoccupation with beauty, without the transformation through weightlifting, Mishima would not have achieved his goal of leaving an exquisite corpse (to die old or scrawny would be a shameful alternative to taking his life at his physical peak).
Given the complexity of Mishima's character, it's no wonder his widow withdrew her support from the production. In a separate audio interview, co-scenarist Chieko Schrader explains how they originally courted Madame Mishima's permission: She flaunted Japanese custom and called his widow directly, stressing that she would receive no better offer than a film produced by George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola to be directed by "Taxi Driver's" Schrader. To their surprise, she acquiesced, giving them permission she had already denied to the likes of Japanese directors Akira Kurosawa and Nagisa Oshima.
According to her wishes, Schrader agreed not to fabricate any words or events not explicitly documented from Mishima's life. Hoping to focus the scope of their portrait in a duly reverential way, she denied them access to his openly homoerotic novel "Forbidden Colors" and the semi-autobiographical "Confessions of a Mask," but Schrader still found sufficient support for the more sensitive aspects of Mishima's personality that interested him. And so it happened that Schrader allowed his hands to be tied by the conventions of a society that ultimately rejected his interpretation of their conflicted national hero — a shame given the sheer aesthetic and intellectual beauty of his endeavor.


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Install Asus Transformer TF300 Jelly Bean Firmware on Transformer Infinity TF700
Last month, we brought you the news of Jelly Bean rolling out to the Asus Transformer TF300T. In response, there was a loud outcry from users of Transformer Infinity for not getting Jelly Bean on their higher-end device before or with the more budget-friendly TF300. Guess what? The TF300 Jelly Bean firmware fully works on the TF700 as well.
Almost all the features are working except for changing screen brightness, though that can be accomplished with third-party apps. Also, the DPI is set to 160 and changing it in build.prop seems to do nothing at the moment.
Installing the TF300 firmware to the TF700 requires you to perform a few additional steps. However, they are simple enough for anyone to follow—no hacking required. XDA Forum Member MysticMgcn has written detailed installation guides for rooted and unrooted devices, with locked or unlocked bootloaders, and stock or custom recoveries.
You will lose root and bootloader unlock by installing the ROM. However, the bootloader can easily be unlocked and the device can be rooted after the update using the instructions provided.
You can download the ROM and install it using the instructions provided at the forum thread.
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Store Manager for Magento v.126.96.36.1997 – SMTP, Magento 2.1.6, Custom Options Autoimport, Configurable Product Generator
Great news for Magento store owners!
New version of Store Manager for Magento (Standard, Professional and Enterprise Edition) renewed with some features and enhancements has just rolled out.
Detailed release notes for v.22.214.171.1245 can be accessed from the list below.
- SMTP support has been added. Now it is possible to perform the following actions from Store Manager for Magento:
- send e-mails from customer grid, order grid, abandoned carts section, general/custom reports sections;
- configure e-mail templates, outgoing e-mails;
- set up e-mail notifications informing about scheduled tasks accomplishment;
- schedule abandoned cart, general/custom report emails.
- Store Manager is compatible with Magento CE v.2.1.6. The application can be used to handle stores, based on this version of shopping cart.
- Magento 2 configurable product generator has been improved.
- The options, responsible for image assign to associated simple products, have been added. When generating associated products, you can:
- Apply unique images by attribute to each SKU
- Apply single set of images to all SKUs
- Apply parent images to all SKUs
- Skip image uploading at this time
- URL rewrite did not work for the new products created via cloning option in Store Manager. If URL key of cloned product was substituted with the new URL key, still the old URL key displayed in browser. The issue has been resolved in this version of Store Manager.
- Previously special symbols (e.g Ä, Ü) were exported incorrectly in the process of configurable products export via Store Manager. This inconvenience has been fixed in current version of the application.
- Incorrect backend_module value was specified for attributes of multiselect input type on Magento versions 1.9.3.x if these attributes were created via Store Manager. The issue has been fixed and now appropriate backend_model is assigned to the attributes.
- Attributes with incorrect entity types will be detected in the process of product import and skipped respectively. Store Manager will display the message notifying about improper entity type of this attribute.
- 0 value for attributes of "Price" type can now be removed through Store Manager.
- Formerly if product with different prices per website was added in POS, default website value was displayed. Now this issue has been fixed and correct price for specific website is shown.
- Previously price type was specified incorrectly for bundle products converted from simple products in Store Manager for Magento. The issue has been fixed in this version of the application.
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- Images of associated products do not load after configurable product is generated in Store Manager if Magento Store Manager Connector is used to access Magento database.
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December 2003 I was standing on a scale, wearing nothing but a paper gown, about to go into surgery. Again. I looked down and saw something that freaked me out. 322lbs. WHAT? Man, that's one heavy paper gown….
I was going into surgery for a hernia repair. Repairing the incision site from the LAST hernia repair a couple years before. I was, literally, "busting at the seams". I had reached maximum capacity for this body and it was starting to show.
January 2003 my mother passed away. 55. Massive heart attack. She was morbidly obese, diabetic, and it killed her.
June 2001 my father passed away. 55. Cancer. Was it the Agent Orange? Was it smoking? Either way, gone too soon.
My parents never met their second grandchild. They barely got to know the first. How utterly unfair is that?
I HAD TO MAKE A CHANGE. How much freakin' clearer does it need to be for me to finally get the message? I'm an over educated idiot.
Yup, that's all it takes. The decision to do it. Period. No excuses.
There is never a good time. There is only now.
You have to decide and commit to making the change you need or else you will fail. Failure cannot be an option. Share your decision with everyone. Get your family to support you. Get your friends to support you. Get professionals to support you. Get whatever help you need because… this is the plan and failure is NOT an option.
I've been as low as 218. I will get to 200-205, which will put me at a very healthy functional weight and body fat percentage. It's still a work in progress. After Ironman in June, I've gained almost 10 pounds back. It happens. Time to refocus though.
today's not a good time. I'm really busy. Too bad. Today. Now. Not later.
DEC 2003: 322lbs ~56% Body Fat
June 2011: ~220lbs ~19% Body Fat
Net Change? Net Loss of 139lbs of FAT and Gain of 37lbs Muscle.
Dec 2011: ~230lbs ~23% Body Fat
I've had my ups and downs… it is not magic. It is hard work! The body wants to keep the weight and will fight tooth and nail to get it back.
2012 – 2014- drifted between 230-245lbs but then started moving toward
2015 low – 230s
2016 – bad year… recovering from (2) 140.6 races in one year and then diagnosed with labrel tear in hip, then surgery and out of action for 6mo… up to 250s.
2017 – Kept drifting… recovery taking much longer than expected – 264! OH NO! Time for a change! Currently back to 249 as of October.
2018 – Target back into the 230's
If I can hit these body fat/weight goals, I will be maintaining the same muscle bulk while decreasing my overall weight which improves overall health. The less weight you carry around, the easier it is on your body.


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Waistcoats & Weaponry is my favorite of the Finishing School series thus far! If you are just toying with the idea of reading these books you better just stop second guessing and dive in. Gail Carriger is so much fun. I've enjoyed every single book she's written. Even when I… Read more »
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ALIVE was an interesting book that took some getting used to at first. It's a young adult novel that starts out reading on a middle grade level because all of the characters have the minds and maturity levels of 12 year olds in 19 year old bodies. It made for… Read more »
Audiobook Review: The Conquering Dark by Clay and Susan Griffith
What a ride! The Conquering Dark concludes the Crown and Key trilogy and it was an action packed adventure with a fabulous cast of characters. The big baddie in this one was a bit out there and definitely packed a much bigger punch then the previous two books (though admitted… Read more »
Audiobook Review: Silver in the Blood by Jessica Day George
Silver in the Blood was such an enjoyable book. Admittedly it was a bit slow moving at time as there are many parts where it is just the girls traveling or going about their routines while traveling abroad but I think I liked it despite that because of the way… Read more »
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Flex was an instant hit with me. Obsessions that turn you into a magic mancer based on your obsession!? – How cool is that? Turns out not so cool for the mancers because all the things they do come with a nasty blowback that tends to destroy the things they… Read more »
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Master of Plagues was just as enjoyable as the first book Darkwalker and luckily I seriously believe either book would work well as a stand alone novel. Where as Darkwalker had a much more paranormal flavor to it, Master of Plagues did not. There was a touch of "other" to… Read more »
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Small but effectiveAll being said, I think the little chroma is a great addition to any collection; even though it is a single speed, it can be quite a bit of fun. It's great for anywhere, the bath or shower, the bedroom, or where ever your heart desires. If you can afford this luxury toy, get it. You won't be disappointed.
Small, lightweight, and powerful. Can be used with any lube, waterproof.
Only one speed, no storage included, could have included a small pouch or something.
The little chroma has quickly become my favorite in the arsenal of sex toys my girlfriend and I own. Its small size and quiet but powerful motor make it perfect for play, even with a home full of guests. I use it to vibrate my girlfriend's clit while we have sex. We even have gotten more adventurous and inserted it into her anus during intercourse; its slim size made it an easy fit, and it felt great for the both of us. For couples or just by yourself, the little chroma is sure to please.
Material / Texture
The little chroma is an all metal vibrator. It has a nice smooth surface and lubes up well. A benefit of it being metal is that you can warm it up or cool it down just running it under water for a bit. The surface is super easy to clean; just be sure to screw the cap all the way down if you are cleaning it in the sink. I noticed others asking if the toy contained nickel; upon receiving the toy, I read the instructions thoroughly and found that it does, in fact, contain small amounts, just to inform people who might have allergies.
Design / Shape / Size
The design of the little chroma is simple; no flashy curves or little things coming out of the sides here, which makes this toy discreet and easy to hide, in a way. If put in a drawer or purse, it wouldn't stick out easily, though with its small size it would be extremely easy to hide, if need be.
Functions / Performance / Controls
There is one speed and one setting on this vibrator, and though it doesn't sound like much for the price, the toy performs well. It is not overly powerful, or underpowered, even; it's a very good speed, and though it is constant, it isn't annoying at all. The controls to turn it on are simple; just screw the end cap in, and remember to screw it in all the way. I recently spoke with some people who said the little chroma was noisy. Well, it might be when the cap isn't all the way in, but when properly turned on, the unit is near silent. The chroma is completely waterproof and can be a lot of fun in the tub or shower, again, as long as the cap is screwed all the way in.
Care and Maintenance
Cleanup and maintenance of the little chroma is easy. I remove the battery, screw the cap all the way in, and use a mild dish soap in the sink to clean it, and then use a soft towel to dry it off. One of the most unique features of this toy is that the motor is replaceable. If it ever dies, buy a new one; they are a fraction of the cost of a new toy, which is always a good thing when buying high quality sex toys. I wouldn't recommend throwing the chroma in a bag with other metal objects or anything that might scratch the surface. Find a small pouch or cloth to wrap it in for storage.
The packaging is simple. It's a small, slide out box with a cut out for the toy inside, and the instructions lay on top of the toy. I wouldn't use the box for storage; its slightly annoying to take the toy out of, and there's next to no protection if something were to fall on top of it. The outside of the box, however, does look nice with a picture of the toy and a few descriptions of it.
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Great review! Glad you both enjoy it.
Great review! I want to try this one.
Wow, this is pricey. Not sure if I'd pay that much for this particular toy
Thanks for the review. I agree with Twisted Finger, it seems kinda expensive for what you get.
I'd like to try this one.
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Apocalypse Against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism
The year 167 b.c.e. marked the beginning of a period of intense persecution for the people of Judea, as Seleucid emperor Antiochus IV Epiphanes attempted—forcibly and brutally—to eradicate traditional Jewish religious practices. In this book, Portier-Young reconstructs the historical events and key players in this traumatic episode in Jewish history and provides a sophisticated treatment of resistance in early Judaism.
Building on a solid contextual foundation, Portier-Young argues that the first Jewish apocalypses emerged as a literature of resistance to Hellenistic imperial rule. She makes a sturdy case for this argument by examining three extant apocalypses, giving careful attention to the interplay between social theory, history, textual studies, and theological analysis. In particular, Portier-Young contends, the book of Daniel, the Apocalypse of Weeks, and the Book of Dreams were written to supply an oppressed people with a potent antidote to the destructive propaganda of the empire—renewing their faith in the God of the covenant and answering state terror with radical visions of hope.


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County IT Director Mike Culp Named to Governor's Cost Cutting Task Force
Group Includes Leading Experts from Local Government, State Government and Private Sector
Governor Bob McConnell is establishing an Operational Review Task Force to look for cost cutting best practices in Virginia's operational costs. This Task Force was formed as a result of a recommendation by the Commission and will be chaired by Special Advisor to the Commission Bill Leighty, chief of staff to former Governors Mark Warner and Tim Kaine. The Task Force will evaluate 12 areas of government to identify potential savings in operational costs and recommend strategies for realizing those savings. County Information Technology Director Mike Culp has been appointed to the Operational Review of the Commonwealth's Usage of Phones and Data group to represent local government.
Each of the 12 Task Force teams includes a representative from local government, state government, the private sector and agency staff. Similar reviews were done during the previous administration. In addition to considering new recommendations for reducing operational costs, this Task Force will follow up on the efficacy and implementation of previously recommended strategies.
Bill Leighty, Chairman of the Task Force, remarked, "These reviews will offer strategies to realize savings in operational costs that apply to agencies throughout state government. Our Task Force includes representatives from state government, local government and the private sector. Their breadth of experience will reveal best practices and solutions that will only improve Virginia's standing as the nation's 'Best Managed State'."
"We are very pleased that Albemarle IT Director Mike Culp will be part of this very important operational review task force and appreciate that the County's work in cost cutting best practices has been recognized at the state level as demonstrated by his appointment to the Task Force," said County Executive Bob Tucker.
The Task Force will complete its work no later than Friday, November 12th. Chairman Leighty will then present the report and recommendations to the Governor's Commission on Government Reform and Restructuring at its next meeting. The recommendations will be considered for inclusion in a report from the Commission, due on December 1st.
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Best of Two Worlds: The 2016 Sonata at your Morristown Hyundai Dealer
Motorists who are mindful of the environment actively seek vehicles that have a lighter carbon footprint. Hybrid cars usually fit that description, and the 2016 Sonata midsize sedan is one such viable ride. A Hyundai dealership near Morristown, TN such as Grayson Hyundai can hook you up with such a fine hybrid. Power and Whirrs Hybrid cars need to dish out decent power through internal combustion and a quiet electric motor to augment that power. The 2016 Sonata Hybrid offers just that via the two-liter Theta Turbo four-cylinder engine rated at 154 horsepower and torque of 140 pounds per foot, which is then mated to a standard six-speed automatic transmission.
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Whose President Was He?
Barack Obama brushed aside the critics who hated him for his skin color—but failed to see the racial confrontation they foretold.
"If I spent all my time thinking about it, I'd be paralyzed," Barack Obama told me. "And frankly, the voters would justifiably say, 'I need somebody who's focused on giving me a job, not whether his feelings are hurt.'"
We were sitting in the Oval Office in the summer of 2010, and I had asked the president about the persistence, since the early days of his 2008 campaign, of viciously racist attacks against him. Millions of ordinary white citizens and right-wing critics didn't cotton to our first black president's chutzpah in capturing the highest office in the land—and they have been unleashing venom ever since. Signs at early protests spoke volumes: "Obama's Plan: White Slavery" and "The American Taxpayers Are the Jews for Obama's Ovens." Some played on racist stereotypes: "Obama: What You Talkin' About, Willis? Spend My Money." Others tagged him "Traitor to the Constitution" and "Sambo," or played on his ancestral homeland: "Ken-ya Trust Obama?"
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This last message was, of course, a hallmark of the birthers, who formalized racist attacks into a movement by claiming that Obama, despite his Hawaiian birth certificate, was born in Kenya—or that he was really a citizen of Indonesia, or that he had dual British and American citizenship at birth. The sick attempt to paint Obama as un-American—a closet socialist, a secret Muslim and a hater of democracy, no less—didn't stop there, echoing over the years in the feverish rantings of figures like Dinesh D'Souza, who claimed Obama was motivated by "an inherited rage" against American wealth and power from his anti-colonialist Kenyan father. On TV, Glenn Beck asserted that Obama had "a deep-seated hatred for white people," while Rush Limbaugh spewed a steady stream of invective on his radio show, from playing a song dubbed "Barack the Magic Negro" to claiming that Obama wanted Americans to get Ebola as payback for slavery. The most infamous birther, Donald Trump, questioned, without basis, not just Obama's birth certificate, but his college transcript and whether he had truly deserved a spot at Harvard Law School.
Through it all, Obama played it cool. "I don't remember any other president who was challenged about where he was born despite having a birth certificate," he told me, but he refused to dwell on the issue. In our interview, as at numerous other times during his presidency, he brushed aside these comments as unenlightened prattle, having just as much to do with ideological difference as racial animus. To the extent that these insults were racialized—and there's no doubt they were—Obama deflected them through humor. During a 2012 appearance on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, Obama got off a droll one-liner when asked about the clash with Trump. "This all dates back to when we were growing up together in Kenya," the president deadpanned. "When we finally moved to America, I thought it'd be over."
It wasn't over. But Obama, while always acknowledging that racism is deeply rooted in our culture, has, for most of his presidency, avoided addressing the plague of race ("I wouldn't call myself a victim," he told me, and others) and instead highlighted the progress the country has made. For black Americans especially, that message was encouraging—but it also turned out to be devastatingly shortsighted.
As Obama nears the end of his presidency, it's now clear his response to these racist haters was both admirable and flawed. He refused to pity himself—but failed, as did so many of us, to read the anti-Obama signs and songs and social media outbursts as symptoms of the persistence of swirling racist currents in American society. He insisted on celebrating advancements for African-Americans like him, but in so doing delayed the acknowledgment of what was festering: a revived siege of race hate that would sweep the country. Obama's racial optimism—some might say delusion, enhanced by musings in the mainstream that America had entered a post-racial era after his election—denied the president the motivation, the will, even the occasion, to address enduring racism. But racism endured nonetheless, erupting violently once again in the killings of Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis and the Emanuel Nine in Charleston and, more ominously, in the flurry of deaths of unarmed black citizens at the hands of mostly white police.
I believe it was the blowback Obama received when, just months after his inauguration, he controversially claimed police had "acted stupidly" in arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. for disorderly conduct outside his own home, that nailed shut for the president the coffin of honest racial engagement. And it was curious, and hurtful, that Obama responded at times to the criticism by scolding black folk in public for making excuses he said were holding them back.
Perhaps these were acts of self-defense by the president, perhaps not. Whatever the reasons, the president's racial reticence highlighted a submerged civil war in black America about how blackness is best engaged in public. Obama surely signifies blackness—he was and is our first black president, and wears that title proudly. But he has not tangled meaningfully with the political responses to the explicit expression of that backlash: his racist haters and the dark cultural current they occupy. Maybe Obama really was personally unaffected by their insults. But the bottom line is that vulnerable blacks like Martin, Davis and the Emanuel Nine ended up dead as victims of the same kind of racist hatred. How did Obama and the rest of us miss—or ignore—all the signs that this might happen?
Obama's election came with unique historic and symbolic importance, bestowing on him both the honor and burden of choosing how to wear his race. This was nothing new for him. In his memoir Dreams from My Father, Obama recalls as an adolescent scolding a black friend for his failure to read Malcolm X's autobiography. "I don't need no books to tell me how to be black," the friend snapped. "I decided to keep my own counsel after that," Obama writes, "learning to disguise my feverish mood." At various points ever since, Obama seems to have been forced—or chosen—to disguise expressions of his race, even though there are many more moods to blackness than the feverish one from which he shrank.
All of these kinds of blackness are, of course, not mutually exclusive, and abundantly elastic and malleable. But they are worth enumerating to understand the broader tension that Obama plays into: the long-running debate, and often battle, over versions of blackness in America. There is the symbolic blackness that the president perfectly embodies. By this I mean the representative sort, in which his blackness is the blackness of the masses; his lean body carries the weight of the race, and the words of James Baldwin meet those of pioneering scholar Anna Julia Cooper: To paraphrase Cooper, when and where a black figure like Obama enters, black folk automatically enter with him, as he bears what Baldwin termed the "burden of representation." Like other symbolic blacks before him, Obama has no choice in the matter—one fittingly symbolized in nonnegotiable terms of existence that are nearly Cartesian: he is, therefore we are.
There is, too, substitute blackness, in which luminaries like Michelle Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder supply the blackness—the resonant cultural tropes, the signifying gestures, the explicit mention of race in context—that a figure like Obama, bound on all sides by demands and constraints, can barely acknowledge, much less embrace. Historical contingency and political necessity meld to determine Obama's role, versus that of substitute blacks, when it comes to speaking about race: he can't, but they can.
Then there is surplus blackness, which is too much blackness for many outside the race, and some inside it. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are some noted examples, figures whose blackness is never in question, even if the use and force of it depends on the situation at hand or the need of the group at the moment. If substitute blackness is a conditional stand-in for blackness, surplus blackness is the display of blackness—in fact, blackness as display. The nearly exclusive imperative of surplus blackness is to stand up for black folk in public, whether after a police killing of an innocent black or a neighbor-to-neighbor murder or a cry for racial justice in the courts. Obama's symbolic blackness also sometimes takes up the cause of black folk, but more often judges them. When it comes to defending black people: he won't, but they will.
Finally, there is subversive blackness, glimpsed most recently in the activism of Black Lives Matter, where the meanings of blackness compete and collide, where blackness is at once self-subverting and self-regenerating. Subversive blackness glances sideways at symbolic, substitute and surplus blackness, preferring, instead, to grasp what's been left out of the official narratives of blackness and to fill in the blanks. It is perhaps summed up in Kanye West's credo, "Everything I'm not made me everything I am," which nicely captures the irreverence that Obama spurns but subversive blackness embraces: he isn't, but they are.


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Winner: Best Independent Market, Best Take Out
Top 3 Finish: Best Gourmet/Specialty Food
From the outside Apple Market looks like your typical mom and pop grocery.
But once inside, you'll quickly find that it's much more.
"We have executive chefs in our grocery store the same capabilities that a lot of luxury hotels have," says owner David Apple. "We have homemade dishes, salads and desserts that we are able to produce under supervision of a skilled chef.
"There are more than 20 people in the deli operation to help make that high-quality food."
This year the market takes home the BOC awards for Best Take Out and Best Independent Market.Apple says it shows that his store is providing great products at a great value.
"We're honored and very proud of our staff," he says. "And we're committed to continuing the same course that we're on."
Winner: Best New Retail Shop, Best Place to Buy Wine
What does it mean for Aragon Wine Market owner Charlotte Gordon to win two BOC awards?
"I have worked very hard at the wine store on a daily basis to make it exactly what I hoped it would become: a comfortable, nice place to buy quality wine."
Gordon says she worked six months to develop a business plan to ensure she would have the foundation to make the business a success and be able to provide wine from all over the world.
Winner: Best Commercial Real Estate Agency, Best Rising Leader- Justin Beck
There is no shortage of real estate agents in the Pensacola area. That's why Justin Beck of Beck Property Company says it's such an honor for his company win the Best Commercial Real Estate Agency award.
"It's a huge honor for us," he says. "It absolutely without a doubt falls back on our people as an organization."
Beck is also the winner of the Best Rising Leader award, which he says is a "very cool responsibility."
"It's a surprise," he says. "I saw the other people nominated and it's an honest surprise."
Winner: Best Boutique
Top 3 Finish: Best New Retail Shop
Newcomer Belle Ame Handmade Bath and Body is this year's BOC winner for Best Boutique. The boutique has made an impact by offering handmade bath products with the finest ingredients.
Winner: Best Jeweler Overall
Top 3 Finishes: Best Place to Buy Engagement Ring, Best Unique Jewelry
This year marks the 25th anniversary for Bere Jewelers in Pensacola-a year in which IN voters named it the Best Jeweler Overall.
"To be thought of that way is pretty cool," says owner Barry Cole. "We started as just a small jeweler that sort of catered to a lot of custom work and we've kind of evolved over the years."
Bere offers large selection of jewelry, including engagement rings.
"We do a huge engagement ring business-a lot of military business here," he says. "We also do a ton of stuff for the community. It's why I think we have had such a great year, even in these bad economic times.
"We've been blessed to have been able to wrap our arms around the community."
Winner: Best Bridal Store
According to The Bridal Loft owner Brenda Carraway, the bridal business is built on creating a dependable reputation.
"It becomes a referral business," she says. "If you mess up, they will tell the world. You definitely have to know everything about the business."
Being voted Best Bridal Store is something Carraway says is the greatest honor because it is the brides who are voting.
"That's my goal," she says. "It's very exciting to have our brides believe in us and give us business."
Winner: Best Residential Real Estate Agency
Top 3 Finish: Best Commercial Real Estate Agency
Why is Coldwell Banker the Best Residential Real Estate Agency in the area?
According to Director of Marketing Connie Lewis, her company's success is a reflection of great agents who provide great customer satisfaction.
"It mirrors the exceptional customer satisfaction our agents get day in and day out," Lewis says with pride.
"It's all about the agents. We're nothing without the agents."
Winner: Best Cigar Shop
With three different lounges and a backyard patio, it's no wonder area smokers lover to hang out at Cordova Cigars.
"We have a domino lounge, a TV lounge and a patio outback where we have a lot of events," says manager Tom Morton.
For the past three years, Cordova Cigars has won over IN cigar aficionados. You have to admire owner Robbie Morton's style. He opened the Ninth Avenue location with a bang, hosting cigar celebrity Ernesto Padilla, whose cigar brands include the new Padilla Signature 1932.
Cordova Cigars offers a selection of over 700 fine cigars including some that are very hard to find, and will special order a brand for customers if they don't have it.
Besides its comfortable, luxurious smoking areas, Cordova Cigars offers large selection of tobacco accessories, including premium lighters and cigar cutters, pipes, pipe tobacco and pipe accessories
Winner: Best Store for Musical Instruments
For the sixth consecutive year, the Best Store for Musical Instruments is Dollarhide's Music & Sound. The business provides everything from pianos to saxophones and offers rentals for grade school bands.
Winner: Best Skin Care
Skin care has become a very important topic in the past decade, with products and treatments becoming more readily available than ever before.
To be a successful in the skin care industry generally takes a great level of respect and a reputation for quality
"The Best of the Coast award just proves the fact that Dr. Welch is on top of his game and he's the best of the best and the patrons feel so as well," says Kim Grant, Director of Corporate Marketing at the Medical Center Clinic. "He provides quality, compassion, knowledge and experience.
"I think the people who voted for him also understand that in addition to his credentials he is someone who gives back to the community and is a person who is entrenched here."
Winner: Best Bank
Gulf Coast Community Bank is this year's Best Bank for the second consecutive year.
"It's all about the people who work here, particularly the people out front and how people are treated on the phone," says bank president Buzz Ritchie. "A lot of effort goes into paying attention to public."
Ritchie says his company prides itself in directly speaking with its customers.
"When you call our bank for help you are talking to a human being," he says. "We are not a 1-800 machine."
Winner: Best Hotel
This full-service hotel on the Gulf of Mexico has won this category for four consecutive years. Hotel guests enjoy the heated indoor pool, large free-form heated outdoor pool with its Latitudes Beach Bar, whirlpool and exercise room-all the while enjoying a breathtaking view of the Gulf.
It may be time to sneak away for a couple nights. Just tell your boss that you're at a conference.
Winner: Best Tattoo/Piercing Shop
Its slogan is "Make art NOT money!" IN readers choose Hula Moon year after year because Hula Moon definitely does art. When you've made the serious commitment to permanently mark your body, Hula Moon should be your choice.
Winner: Best Local Photography Studio
Patsy Brown Photography specializes in weddings and approaches them with a unique blend of romance and photojournalism. And yes, each of her photos is worth a thousand words.
Winner: Best Pharmacy
Pensacola Apothecary is the area's only full service, PCAB Accredited compounding pharmacy. It specializes in preparing customized medications for patients as well as offering pharmaceutical grade vitamins and supplements.
Compounding pharmacies differ from retail ones in that their approach to medicine is customized to each patient rather than a one size fits all, dispensing only approach. It's this attention to the individual needs of its customers that won this award.
Winner: Best Pilates
For Pilates Core Training owner Barbara Bruni, being recognized as the best means she and her staff have reached their goal of raising the bar for Pilates instruction in the area.
"Our goal has always been to responsibly represent Pilates in its highest form in Pensacola and to continually raise the bar," she says. "Our instructors stay current with the latest information in the mindbody field of fitness, wellness and rehab principles.
"Our clients mean the world to us and are as passionate about how Pilates makes them feel and look as we are. It is very rewarding to have your passion become your career and grateful to be recognized for it as well."
Winner: Best Tanning Salon
Although Planet Beach Contemp Spa has established itself as the premier tanning facilityin the area.
Established as a company in 1985, Planet Beach now has locations in 380 locations in the U.S. and Canada.
For the second year in a row, it was been awarded BOC Best Tanning Salon for our area.
"Planet Beach offers convenient, affordable and self-automated spa and UV treatments to help customers achieve total skincare, wellness and stress relief goals while offering high quality skincare and holistic nutrition products," says Monica Cone, local franchise owner.
Winner: Best Antiques
For the third year in a row, Poor Richard's Antiques on 9th Avenue has been voted BOC winner for Best Antiques.
"We have excellent customers and we have very unusual pieces that you won't find just anywhere," says manager Barry Riley. "It's a high-end place with a lot of European specialty items.
"We are thankful to our customers for recognizing us as the best."
Winner: Best Athletic Store
Running Wild prides itself as a place to help runners and athletes perform at their maximum capacity.
Owner Paul Epstein says the Best Athletic Store award reflects that athletic vision and commitment that his store has been known for.
"We have a commitment to our customers' goals," he says. "We're interested in helping them achieve fitness goals instead of just selling stuff.
"We try to be the hub of endurance exercise in terms of proper equipment and proper training."
Winner: Best Hospital
Top 3 Finish: Best Place to Work
Sacred Heart Hospital is proud to be chosen the Best Hospital in Northwest Florida by the readers of the IN for the fourth year in a row, as well as being named as the area's top ranked hospital for overall quality by the National Research Corporation (NRC) for the past 14 years. Sacred Heart has also been named as the NRC Consumer Choice award-winner for Best Doctors and Best Nurses.
Sacred Heart Hospital has 458 beds, including the region's only dedicated Women's and Children's Hospital, a Regional Heart and Vascular Institute, a Level II Trauma Center, a comprehensive Cancer Center, a Surgical Weight Loss Center, and a Regional Joint Replacement Center.
Winner: Best New Car Dealership
Pensacola native Sandy Sansing has become an icon with his TV ads showing him perched atop an elephant and in support of various youth sports teams from the area. Sansing "owns" this category with six consecutive wins.
IN readers believe "Sandy Sansing Can!" when it comes to offering a good deal on a new car. All his dealerships are staffed with professionals ready to make your car purchase as painless as possible.
Skin Beauty Boutique
WINNER: Best Beauty Products
A Best of the Coast newcomer, Skin offers cosmetics and skin care products exclusive to the Pensacola market. Our readers have finally found a fresh alternative to mall cosmetics counters.
Winner: Best Massage, Best Day Spa, Best Salon for Waxing Services
Top 3 Finishes: Best Skin Care, Best Nail Salon, Best Beauty Products
Still Waters Medical Spa considers winning Best Massage, Day Spa and Salon For Waxing Services indications of just how well they've been doing as a business.
"This is a great gauge for us to see how well we are serving our customers and the community," says owner Jeff Aanestad. "We have already had quite a few new customers who have called for information and appointments thanks to these awards."
This is the fourth year Still Waters has won the Best Day Spa, something Aanestad attributes to the extra effort his group puts forth be the best.
"It takes attention to detail, searching for and keeping the best providers of care and service in the industry, as well as getting to know our customers so that we can better serve their needs," he says.
Winner: Best Hair Salon
Style Downtown won in one of the most contested Best of the Coast categories, Best Hair Salon. The salon prides itself on being unique and having friendly and creative stylists.
Winner: Best Consignment/Vintage Clothing
What is Suellen's secret for being the Best Consignment/Vintage Clothing shop on the coast?
"It takes great customers and great consigners to give us the winning edge I guess," says owner Suellen Troup. "My customers and consigners I really consider the best."
The store describes itself as being a "fresh, feminine resale environment" that provides name brand products at great prices and provides consigners with 40 percent resale.
Winner: Best Unique Jewelry
Top 3 Finishes: Best Boutique, Best Fashion Accessories
Susan Campbell says her jewelry store offers customers something different that they can't get anywhere else.
That may be why BOC voters have once again voted the store Best Unique Jewelry in Pensacola.
"It's the third year we have won, which is fantastic," says Campbell. "I think we offer a unique jewelry experience for this community, which sets us apart from other jewelers.
"It works well because we have 15 or 16 designers that we represent in our gallery, so we have a lot of diversity in our line."


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Yesterday Natasha Varner of First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies published a Q&A with me on their blog about BEYOND THE MESAS. In this post I discuss a number of topics, including my reasons for starting a blog and advice for new bloggers. I'm honored by this opportunity, and very grateful to First Peoples for their willingness to feature BEYOND THE MESAS on their website. Here's the link to the post: http://www.firstpeoplesnewdirections.org/blog/?p=5754
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First Peoples blog features Q&A on BEYOND THE MESASPublished September 20, 2012 Beyond the Mesas blog , First Peoples , Hopi scholarship Leave a Comment
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Two years of bloggingPublished December 28, 2011 Beyond the Mesas blog 4 Comments
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When I started beyondthemesas.com in November 2009, I told myself that I would blog for six months. After that, I would reevaluate whether I wanted to continue.
More than two years later, the blog has received 31,612 "hits" and 180 comments. While some bloggers receive this many hits in one week (or one day), I am grateful to know that a handful of people find beyondthemesas.com useful and perhaps even interesting.
At the very least, the blog provides an alternative to the many bizarre websites out there on the Hopi.
The most popular posts continue to be on Hopi runners and photography. This year, the posts on the Hopi and Navajo water rights issue received a lot of attention.
Many thanks to people back home and those beyond the mesas who dropped by this past year to read my blog. I look forward to another productive year of blogging in 2012.
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"I'm learning about Hopi"Published December 20, 2011 Beyond the Mesas blog 4 Comments
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A few weeks ago I heard the words "If so, please consider…" coming from my living room. I looked around the corner, and to my surprise, I saw my oldest daughter sitting with my lPad on her lap. My blog was open on the screen. When I asked what she was doing, she simply replied, "I'm learning about Hopi."


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The availability of rural residential land in the popular Aldavilla area is becoming scarce.
The advantages of this 1.322ha (3.26 acre) property includes being located in a popular, long established area and includes a large shed/stable (approximately 110 square metres).
Having the shed/stable is perfect if you are thinking horses or you may need space for storage in the short term, that is before you build your dream home.


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- GB milking herd projected to grow27 September 2017
Milk production looks set to continue rising into next spring based on the projected growth in the size of the milking herd. Based on the average retention rate of cows in the different age groups, and the number of youngstock currently available, the milking herd has the potential to reach 1.8 million heads by April 2018. This is an increase of 38,000 heads (2.1%) from April 2017, with the slight decrease in 4-6 year olds offset by rising numbers of cows in the 2-4 year and 6+ year groupings.
- British consumers drinking more butterfat26 September 2017
Over the last two years, consumption of skimmed milk in Britain has been falling, with whole milk back in favour with consumers. According to Kantar Worldpanel, skimmed milk consumption for the 52 weeks ending 16 July 2017 was 7.4% lower than the same period in 2015. Other low-fat milks also saw a decline, while whole milk sales rose by 7.2%.
- Dairy prospects in the global marketplace post-Brexit26 September 2017
Global dairy exports are expected to increase by 22% by 2026, on the back of a growing middle class, according to OECD-FAO projections. As the table below shows, the largest rise in absolute terms is set to come from the EU, with a 37% increase of 715 thousand tonnes. This accounts for 41% of the projected growth in exports.
- Devil is in the detail: Calf to calving events to demonstrate significant on farm impact25 September 2017
Two upcoming Calf to Calving events to be held in Glasgow and Aberdeen will highlight how key changes to farm management can improve the bottom line.
- New £1m partnership to address knowledge gaps in soil biology25 September 2017
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) and the British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO) have announced an ambitious new research partnership to develop practical soil biology management guidance.
- The varying profiles from block calving herds20 September 2017
As part of our new approach on optimal dairy systems, we have looked at the differing milk production profiles of spring and autumn block herds to help farmers understand one impact of operating a block calving system. It is the variation in timing of the block, as well as the combination of spring and autumn block herds, that can provide a relatively flat profile overall from a milk pool. This allows farmers to deliver what their milk buyer desires, while still having the flexibility to run the system that is optimal to them.
- Aging stocks of SMP20 September 2017
EU prices for skim milk powder (SMP) ranged between €1,650 and €1,815/tonne in August, but dipped below the intervention rate of €1,698/tonne in the first week of September in some markets. This is likely in response to the impending closure of the intervention programme at the end of the month. There remains over 350k tonnes of skim milk powder to be sold, despite the Commission holding 12 tenders.
- Milking herd stable but young stock down20 September 2017
The total GB dairy herd is 1.2% smaller in July 2017 than July 2016, which follows similar reporting of year-on-year contractions in April and January this year. Although the total herd size is down, the milking herd is now at a very similar level to July 2016, halting the year-on-year declines recorded in January and April.
- Reduced herd weighs on production20 September 2017
GB milk production has been running slightly ahead of last year in recent months. However, overall production for the year so far is still slightly behind 2016. By using a combination of data from BCMS, Kingshay and Defra, AHDB is able to look at the key drivers that underlie overall milk volumes.
- Calculating the energy needs of calves20 September 2017
A new calculator will help farmers work out the amount of energy needed by calves from their milk replacer to ensure good regular weight gain.


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Saturday Food and Drink Specials
November 16
An event every week that begins at 3:00 am on Saturday, repeating indefinitely
I've scoured the internet, called restaurants, checked many webpages, asked all of you, and put together a curated list of great food and drink specials. A lot of this wouldn't be possible without you the readers. If you see something I'm missing or is out of date, please e-mail me or comment below.
Food Specials
Dudley's Irish Pub, 8550 W 21st
99 cent tacos (minimum order of 2)
Kids Dining Specials
HuHot Mongolian Grill, 2035 N. Rock Road
Kids under the age of 3 eat for free (Offered daily)
IHOP, Only Wichita locations
One free kids meal with purchase of an adult meal from 4 – 10pm. The deal is good for children ages 10 and under
Exceptions are the 3505 N. Rock Road and 11855 E Kellogg Dr location. (Offered Tuesday and Wednesday)
Kababs, 3101 N Rock Road
Free kids buffet for ages 8 and under (Offered daily)
Passage to India, 6100 E 21st N
Free kids buffet for ages 4 and under (Offered daily)
Talliano's, 408 N. Baltimore Ave (Derby, KS)
Kids under the age of 3 eat for free (Offered daily)
Zaytun Mediterranean Bistro, 2020 N Woodlawn
Kids under the age of 4 eat for free (Offered daily)
Drink Specials
Cholita's Mexican Restaurant, 8987 W Central
$3 drinks all day
Sumo Japanese Grill, 11233 E 13th St N
1/2 price sake all day (G Joy & Nanbu Binjin not included)
$4 sake bombs
Happy Hour Specials
Aloft Wichita, 3642 N Oliver Road
$3 wells, $2 off domestic crafts and $1 off craft beers from 4pm – 7pm (Offered daily)
Barron's Bar & Grill, 2508 S Oliver
Domestic bottles are $2 after 10pm (Offered daily)
Emerson Biggins East, 2120 N Woodlawn
$1 wells and $3 Corona bottles from 10pm – close (Offered Thursday – Saturday)
Funky Monkey Shaved Ice 21+, 701 E Douglas
1/2 price alcoholic shaved ice from 2pm – 4pm (Offered daily)
$2 off double shots of alcohol from 6pm – 8pm (Offered daily)
Greystone Steak & Seafood, 9719 E 21st St N
1/2 price martinis and wine by the glass from 4pm – 6pm & 9pm – close (Offered daily)
Little Busters Sports Bar, 457 N Baltimore Ave
1/2 apps and drinks from 3pm – 6pm (Offered daily)
Lola's Bistro, 2146 Collective Ln Ste 102
Appetizers $2 off menu pricing from 3:30pm – 6:30pm (Offered daily)
$5 select cocktails, $1 off select draft beers, $6 wines by the glass from 3:30pm – 6:30pm (Offered daily)
Newport Grill, 1900 N Rock Road
$1 oysters from lunch until 6pm (Offered Monday – Saturday)
Oak & Pie, 2244 N. Greenwich Road
$2 domestic bottles. $4 keg wine, and 1/2 price martinis from 3pm – 6pm (Offered daily)
Shamrock Lounge, 1724 W Douglas
$2 Miller High Lifes, Pabst Blue Ribbons and well drinks from 4pm – 7pm (Offered daily)
Sonic, multiple locations
1/2 price on drinks and slushes from 2pm – 4pm (Offered daily)
1/2 price shakes, floats and ice cream slushes after 8pm (Offered daily)
Twelve Restaurant and Bar, 12111 W Maple Street
$3 house liquors, $2 domestics, $3 drafts, $1 off bar bites from 3pm – 6pm (Offered Monday – Saturday)
Whiskey Dicks, 801 S. Seneca St
1/2 price appetizers and drinks from 3pm – 6pm (Offered daily)
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Old Haul Road in Pescadero Creek County Park, and the lower portion of the Skyline to the Sea Trail in Big Basin State Park are two easy flat roads perfect for families or casual mountain bikers. Ladybugs often over winter in large clusters at the end (for bikes) of the Skyline to the Sea Trail, and it's just a short hike to a waterfall.
Some of the best mountain biking can be found at Big Basin State Park. California's first State Park was set aside in 1902 to preserve the magnificent redwood groves found there. Gazos Creek Road runs all the way to the beach. The park has several campgrounds, including bike-assessable trail camps. Not far away is Wilder Ranch State Park, now connected to trails at the University of California at Santa Cruz by the recent addition of the Gray Whale Ranch land. Great mountain biking with lots of singletrack available to bicyclists.
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Invasive Species Art Contest
www.wildlife.ca.gov/conservation/invasives .
Sponsored by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's (CDFW) Invasive Species Program as part of the 2017 California Invasive Species Action Week, June 3-11, the California Invasive Species Art Contest is open students grade 2 to 12, with this year's theme being "Don't Let it Loose."
The art should feature an invasive species that could be released into California's waterways, parks and wild lands, and feature a message similar to, but not limited by, the following,
- Releasing invasive species into the wild can harm the environment and California's native plants and animals
- Description(s) of one or more species that are commonly released into waters, parks or wild lands
- Explanations or illustrations showing other ways to rehome unwanted pets or plants
Winners will receive awards in addition to having their posters displayed on the CDFW's Invasive Species Action Week webpage. Submissions are open till May 5, 2017.
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Grand Launches of new Spooky Men CD Stop Scratching It
Yes, they're back again. Not content with their nakedly political intervention into Australia's current electoral deliberations through the blutacking on to YouTube of their rendition of Vote the Bastards Out, live from Conway Hall, London, the hirsute ones are throwing caution to the wind and announcing the Grand Launches of their new CD Stop Scratching It - a richer, darker, more complex, and some would say smellier concoction than the first. It explores an ever-widening world of spooky antecedents, including the modern man as glorious mythical hero tripping over lego first thing in the morning, a young man's tender empathy with a lightpole, the perils of leaving your nurse whilst at the zoo, the howling glory of marching with 80,000 Visigoths across the tundra, and the fact that our brains are like sieves ...this album involved the death of no mastodons, but the spooky men will never be the same again . . .
The launches will be magnificent events, bristling with epic grandeur. The Spooky Men will arrive blushing with the kind of ruddy glory that accompanies a triumphant tour of the UK, and the evenings will also feature some delicate morsels of female aural titillation that will set the spookies off just nicely, like pearls before swine.
The Grand Launches of Stop Scratching It will be magnificent events, bristling with epic grandeur.
SYDNEY (with Kaya)
Fri 7 Dec, 8pm
The Great Hall
Sydney (Spooky) Boy's High School
cnr Anzac Pde and Cleveland St
$18/$14 + booking fee in advance, $20/$16 at door
Tickets available from moshtix
PENRITH (with Kate Rowe)
Sun 9 Dec, 3pm
Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre
597 High Street, Penrith
$20/$15, bookings Ph (02) 4723 7600
Concession price available for all groups of 10 or more, all direct descendants of Tamarlane the Magnificent, and anyone carrying a genuine low Bb Krummhorn from the Swiss foothills.
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Summary: The author begins by asking: Why does Handel's Water Music and The Beatles' 'Here Comes The Sun' sound happy, while Albinoni's Adagio and 'Eleanor Rigby' sound sad?
Is it because the first two are in major keys while the last two are in minor keys?
Are the emotional associations of major and minor intrinsic to the notes themselves? Or are they culturally imposed?
Neuroscientist Daniel Bowling and his colleagues at
In 1959, musicologist Deryck Cooke states in his book, The Language of Music, that the idea that the minor key is intrinsically anguished while the major is joyful is so deeply ingrained in Western listeners that many have deemed this to be a natural principle of music. He also pointed out that musicians throughout the ages throughout the ages have used minor keys for vocal music with an explicitly sad content, and major keys for happy lyrics. But he failed to acknowledge that this might simply be a matter of cultural convention rather than an innate property of the music.
In Bowling and colleagues' study, although it is assumed that the ratios of frequencies sounded simultaneously in speech can be compared with the ratios of frequencies sounded sequentially in music, there are other pitfalls in the study that cannot be avoided (mentioned below) and thus their conclusions are left open to question.
1. Major-type frequency ratios dominate the spectra of both excited and subdued speech, but merely less so in the latter case
2. Some cultures (including Europe before the Renaissance and the Ancient Greeks) don't link minor keys to sadness.
Reflections: After our fascinating discussion in class several weeks ago regarding music and emotions in music, I began my quest to find out more on this subject. Although I started off with great appreciation for this article, by the time I had finished it my conclusions were the same as I had drawn at the end of our class: the majority of the kinds of emotions we draw from music are based on our own cultural conventions. One would be hard-pressed to find a method of determining what kind of music evokes specific emotions because the emotions that are experienced are specific to each individual. This may be an obvious point to make, but as a performer it is enlightening to be reminded that the emotions we evoke with our music are not necessarily 'universal'; despite the characteristics that are shared across cultural boundaries, every performance should be and will be experienced in a different way depending on the individual's own cultural associations, their musical background and any other factors that would change their emotional outlook on music.


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Fall fashion will get your blood pumping with the color trend of oxblood. This deep red hue embodies hints of brown, making it more demure and versatile than traditional red. Whether it's an oxblood handbag, pair of earrings or shoes, this color is a fall staple.
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Mini shoulder bag in Bordeaux patent leather
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The new Punch-Out!! is probably one of my favorite Wii games ever, and it makes me happy to know other people seem to be digging it too. Leave it to a toy customizer to take things one step further and create toys fromn the game. Collectable Kid's Little Mac from Punch-Out!! will definitely turn heads -- he's got the look nailed, right down to the blue highlights in Mac's hair!
Since I don't have a MySpace account, I cannot tell you if Collectable Kid will take orders for this figure or if this was a one shot, but if you do click the link on his name above and you can check it out. I have to admit this is pretty cool. Now if I could get him to make me a Soda Popinski figure so I could methodically torture and then destroy it....
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|Posted: October 21, 2008
Researchers discover new class of graphene-based electrodes
|(Nanowerk News) Graphene is the latest nanoscale form of carbon to be discovered and it is currently the hottest topic in condensed matter physics and materials science due to its novel electronic properties. An important feature of graphene, which has not been exploited so far, has been its edges, where interesting electrocatalytic properties and sites for functionalization can develop.
|Graphene itself does not occur naturally and it is extremely difficult to synthesize, manipulate and process in ways that allow it to be integrated into devices on large scales. Therefore it is desirable to develop reliable and large scale production of graphene for practical applications.
|Researchers at the University of Ulster (Dr P.Papakonstantinou and Dr N. Shang) have developed new strategies to exploit the efficient growth, electrocatalytic properties and high surface area of graphene sheets. To do that they have integrated a large number of vertical graphene sheets into a platform, where rich edge planes/defects terminate on the surface, using a one-step microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition approach. Using this platform they successfully demonstrated their fast electron transfer, excellent electrocatalytic and biosensing properties for the first time.
|High-purity multilayer graphene nanoflake films are efficiently grown on Si by a simple method without use of catalysts. They are made of interlaced highly graphitized, abundant knife-edge nanoflakes with a 2-3 nm thick edge and have a preferentially vertical orientation. They demonstrate well resolved simultaneous discrimination of dopamine, ascorbic acid and uric acid much better than glassy carbon electrode.
|Their work has appeared in the Journal of Advanced Functional Materials ("Catalyst-Free Efficient Growth, Orientation and Biosensing Properties of Multilayer Graphene Nanoflake Films with Sharp Edge Planes").
|Dopamine (DA) is a neurotransmitter that plays a very important role in the central nervous, renal, hormonal and cardiovascular systems. Changes in the concentration of DA are closely linked to human's health status and therefore are important to detect. When traditional electrodes are employed, the dopamine response is obscured by coexisting ascorbic acid (AA) and uric acid (UA) resulting in rather poor selectivity and sensitivity. However, the present graphene platform is able to identify and sense DA with high sensitivity.
|The remarkable electrocatalytic and sensitive sensing properties are mainly due to the unique electronic structure of graphene, its rich edge defects and large surface area. In contrast to the multi-step fabrication procedures of other electrodes, the fabrication of the graphene platform is a simple, efficient one-step CVD process without time-consuming elaborate modification and/or functionalization procedures, which commonly lead to unstable and non-reproducible performance.
|This work has created a new class of graphene based electrodes for a wide range of applications in the electroanalytical, biosensing, energy storage/conversion sectors and could essentially compete their vertically aligned carbon nanotubes counterparts.
|Source: University of Ulster
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