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Buying your first home is a milestone moment — and for many millennials, parents are naturally involved in the process. Not only can parents provide financial guidance and wisdom gleaned from their own home-buying experiences, but a growing number also help their children finance the purchase.
One recent study found 23 percent of millennial buyers cited a gift from a relative or friend — typically a parent — as a source of their down payment. For parents who want to support their children's homeownership aspirations, the key is knowing your options for providing assistance — and tapping expert outside advice when you need it.
Help with money and more
As a parent, one of the best ways you can assist your child during the home-buying process is simply by sharing hard-won financial and real estate advice drawn from your own experiences. The market may have changed since you purchased your first home, but many of the lessons you learned through purchasing and owning that abode remain timeless — and can provide a vital perspective, clarity and set of criteria that can help guide a process your child may find a bit overwhelming.
Of course, money helps as well: A parent can act as a guarantor on the child's first mortgage*, so that you are responsible for the loan's repayment in the event that their child is unable to fund his or her mortgage payments. If you are a guarantor, your name isn't on the title of the home and the debt may not be considered to be your own — making less of an impact on your personal finances so long as your child makes on-time home payments.
Another way you can offer financial support is to arrange a deferred interest loan for the home's down payment from your own funds.* These loans are unique in that the child doesn't need to repay the principal and interest until he or she sells the home. Given that many first-time homebuyers are focused on making their mortgage payment, this can be very helpful. Finally, parents can fund the down payment entirely or become a co-borrower on the child's first mortgage.
Keep taxes and other ramifications in mind
You want to help your children. That's a given. But you also want to be sure that the assistance you provide doesn't adversely affect your own financial situation. If you choose to gift money for a down payment in 2017, the IRS may impose tax on gifts of over $14,000 per person; this means you and your spouse may be able to gift your child a total of $28,000 in a calendar year tax-free.**
Also check with your lender to find out if your child's loan of choice places any restrictions on gifted down payments — some conventional loans allow down payments to be gifted but only if the borrower is putting down at least 5 percent from their own funds.
If you plan to be a co-borrower, consider your own debt-to-income ratio. As a co-borrower, you'll take on the debt from your child's mortgage, even if he or she is paying the bills, which could prevent you from obtaining other loans or financing options in the future.
Take advantage of experts
While your child can benefit from your advice and guidance, consider bringing in experts to outline the details of loan products, review tax ramifications or even evaluate your — or your child's — personal finances.
Look for a lender willing take the time to explain the various loan options and borrowing processes to your child, even if you already know the drill from your own experience. It's important that your child has an opportunity to raise his or her own concerns and ask questions. In some cases, you may want to facilitate a conversation with your child and their lender to ensure that everyone is on the same page.
Buying a first home is an exciting life moment. By supporting your child throughout the process, you'll help make an important milestone even more special.


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UAE Man-in-the-Middle Attack Against SSL
Who are these certificate authorities? At the beginning of Web history, there were only a handful of companies, like Verisign, Equifax, and Thawte, that made near-monopoly profits from being the only providers trusted by Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. But over time, browsers have trusted more and more organizations to verify Web sites. Safari and Firefox now trust more than 60 separate certificate authorities by default. Microsoft's software trusts more than 100 private and government institutions.
Disturbingly, some of these trusted certificate authorities have decided to delegate their powers to yet more organizations, which aren't tracked or audited by browser companies. By scouring the Net for certificates, security researchers have uncovered more than 600 groups who, through such delegation, are now also automatically trusted by most browsers, including the Department of Homeland Security, Google, and Ford Motorsand a UAE mobile phone company called Etisalat.
In 2005, a company called CyberTrust—which has since been purchased by Verizon—gave Etisalat, the government-connected mobile company in the UAE, the right to verify that a site is valid. Here's why this is trouble: Since browsers now automatically trust Etisalat to confirm a site's identity, the company has the potential ability to fake a secure connection to any site Etisalat subscribers might visit using a man-in-the-middle scheme.
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Style? What Style? Also...Repurposing on the Homestead...
Many have a little quiz thing so you can *identify your style*.
I think I am hopeless.
I seem to have a Modern, Rustic, Victorian style, with a touch of Baroque tossed in for good measure. Plus a "Shabby-Chic" edge. And throw in something Asian while you are at it.
I'd give one of those t.v. show decorators a heart attack!
I guess my style is *Eclectic*, for lack of a better term.
When we move we will be taking very little of the furniture we now have. The majority of it is worn out beyond hope of repair.
More than likely, I will be hitting thrift shops, Craigslist and yard sales to furnish our new home.
And making slipcovers. Lots and lots of slipcovers! I can ALWAYS find fabric I like!
The nice thing about having multiple slipcovers for your furniture is that you can switch around your style easily. Make sure you have different accent pillows to toss in the mix, and it's all good!
While I will be looking for sturdy furniture with *good bones*, as they say, we will NOT be skimping on appliances!
I have already picked out our refrigerator and freezer (two SEPARATE appliances) and the Darlin' Man has agreed to the two stoves we will be getting. One will be gas (probably propane) and the other will be a wood cook stove. Still arguing a bit over brands and styles. We have a few months yet, so we'll get that worked out, I'm sure, by the time we get up North.
While browsing web sites looking for furniture, I also wandered through some farm supply sites.
I realized that I have very little official "farm equipment".
For milking my goats, I have a dishpan and some hand towels (for cleaning udders before milking), some stainless steel mixing bowls (to milk into) and I use various deep pots to put the milk in after straining, depending on whether I am making cheese or cajeta.
For feeding, I have an old enamelware 1 quart bowl that I put the goat's treats in to munch as they are milked.
For the other critters, I have a mix of old Tupperware, a battered old roaster, several plastic ice cream containers and a Folgers coffee container. These are used for feeding and watering.
Rag-tag collection of farm implements, aren't they?
But they do the job and the majority of them were free...discards from neighbors.
The animals don't seem to mind, anyway!
Don't know if I'll put out too much money to buy *official* equipment. Maybe a few things after we move...like a nice hay rack to feed hay to the goats.
But maybe I could build one out of stuff laying around...hmmmmmm...we'll have to see.
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I LOVE looking at "real" farm'ish equipment at the stores....then spy the price tag and tell myself we're doing just fine with our plastic vinegar jug feed scoop, old 1/2 gallon pyres measuring "cup" for milking, 5-gallon plastic buckets for water containers, etc. Can't wait to see you're new kitchen equipment though. We've got a Pioneer Made wood cook stove....but it's still sitting downstairs awaiting our future outdoor kitchen.ReplyDelete
I do believe you and I have the same decorating style!! And it sounds like you'd fit right into a homestead in the Thirties. I think repurposing is totally acceptable and a lot more "green" than spending a whole lot of money for the "right" equipment. Keep up the good work!ReplyDelete
Just for the record, "eclectic" is considered a legitimate style. (Sort of like my blog subjects.)ReplyDelete
Because of a couple of rude people that left comments that included links to porn pages and such, I have been forced to start moderating comments again.


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Pavel nets early to earn Reading win
Reading 1 (Pogrebnyak 5)
West Ham 0
An early Pavel Pogrebnyak strike secured the Royals a gutsy three points against West Ham United.
A bold and brave defensive performance denied the Hammers a breakthrough, while the Royals had a number of chances to add to Pavel's fifth minute goal.
The Russian took advantage of a mistake by Hammers defender James Collins – and coolly slotted home to crucially give the Royals an early lead.
The lively Jimmy Kebe linked up well with the Russian to create more chances, while at the other end Adam Federici performed admirably to keep the Hammers at bay.
Pogrebnyak had a goal disallowed for offside in the second half before a Jem Karacan was cruely denied a stunning strike by the underside of the crossbar.
The Royals defended heroically to close the game out – and reap three priceless Premier League points.
Reading: Federici; Gunter, Harte, Mariappa, Pearce; Karacan, Leigertwood, Kebe (Hal Robson-Kanu 75), McAnuff; Guthrie (Hunt 66); Pogrebnyak.
Subs not used: Taylor, Cummings, Morrison, Tabb, Le Fondre.
Booked: Pogrebnyak, Pearce, Harte.
West Ham: Jaaskelainen; Reid, Tomkins, O'Brien, Collins; Nolan, Jarvis, Taylor (Collison 55), Noble (Maiga 80), O'Neil (Vaz Te 68); Cole.
Subs not used: Spiegel, Spence, Demel, Diarra.
Booked: Noble, Nolan, Tomkins, Collins.
Attendance: 24,138
Referee: Mr M Oliver
First Half
Rivalries were renewed from last season as the Hammers arrived at a raucous but rain-soaked Madejski Stadium – and it took less than five minutes for the atmosphere to explode.
Lone striker Pavel Pogrebnyak misjudged Ian Harte's floated pass, but shadowing defender James Collins fatally miskicked the bouncing ball – leaving the Russian striker clear through on goal to slot past Hammers goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen.
The enraptured Royals had to be on their guard to deal with a couple of dangerous Hammers crosses – before the vivacious Jimmy Kebe linked up fantastically with Pogrebnyak to go close on two occasions.
Adam Federici, fresh from his clean sheet against Swansea, was called into action mid-way through the first half - and did magnificently well to tip over a close range header.
Feds did well to gather a well-placed Kevin Nolan effort but the Royals defended superbly to go into the break with a one-goal advantage.
Second Half
Like they did at the start of the first 45, the Royals had the ball in the net. But this time, Mikele Leigertwood's perfectly threaded ball and another cool Pogrebnyak finish would count for nothing, as the striker was marginally offside.
The Royals had their hearts in their mouth when Carlton Cole got something onto a cross from the left, but his effort thankfully flew over the bar.
But Reading reacted - pushing forward at every opportunity and forced the issue again when Jem Karacan raced forward, but the Turk's lofted ball just evaded Pogrebnyak.
The encounter threatened to turn into a feisty one – but the Royals let their football do the talking, and came tantalisingly close to a second.
Soon after Federici palmed Jack Collison's cross away, Reading marched up the other end – with Karacan unleashing a thunderous effort that Jaasskelainen somehow got a finger to, before it agonisingly cannoned back off the bar.
With ten minutes to play, the Royals were hanging on. Right back Chris Gunter came to the Royals rescue with a heroic clearance wide of the goal, before substitute Ricardo Vaz Te missed a sitter as he headed wide.
Reading, though, could have sealed the win when a number of Royals broke forward on West Ham's goal – but the final ball just wouldn't come off and the Hammers survived.
The Royals defended like heroes and professionally saw out the game – notching a second successive clean sheet and, more importantly, earning three valuable points to the delight of the deafening Madejski faithful.


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I arrived at the airport this morning to see a couple of Tweets letting me know that the finalists for the Whole Foods Budget Recipe Challenge had been selected. I was very excited and thought I'd check my mailbox first because the contest registration documentation stated that finalists would be notified mid-September. Logic told me that if an announcement was posted that the finalists were selected that probably meant mail was probably waiting in their boxes.
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text: The Mosin Nagant is bolt action rifle developed in 1890 after the Russo-Turkish War, and it has been used as service rifle for Russian Empire during the Russo-Japanese War and WWI. Since this rifle was urgently needed by the Empire, hence the Empire has asked the factory in France and US for mass production. After the October Revolution in Russia, The Soviet captured lots of Mosin Nagant Rifle and used during the civil war. In 1930, there was an advanced type Mosin Nagant was developed and named M1891/30 Rifle. It was the most popular Mosin Nagant in the world and used by Soviet Army during WWII but stopped production in 1948 since the design was getting old. However it has been used in some countries like Turkey, former East Germany and even showed up in Korean War in 1950s and the Vietnam War.Mosin Nagant has become a collectable rifle for the collectors and also a very popular choice for shooting sport in civil market, and also it served as Sniper Rifle in Russian Reserve forces. Also it has showed up in WWII moives and also some video games like Call of Duty and Metal Gear Solid 3.Features:Realistic outlook for the M1891/30 Mosin Nagant Rifle.Metal Muzzle with front ring sight.Plastic Dummy Bayonet is included and can install on the muzzle.Metal dummy cleaning rod.Real Wood body frame.Metal Adjustable Rear Sight with Full marking.Adjustable hopup system.Air-cocking system with full length bolt carrier is installed.Loaded 15 rounds BB Ballet in the loading chamber (load under the chamber)Ready to go for 350 – 380 FPS without modification.Specifications:Length: 1235mm, 1600mm (with bayonet)Barrel Length: ~670mmShooting Mode: Semi autoSystem: Air-cocking bolt actionWeight (g): 2880 (gun only), 4600 (with box)Magazine Capacity: 15 rdsMaterial: Metal, Wood and plasticBullet type: 6mm BBPower (Muzzle Velocity): 350 – 380 FPSManufacturer: Red Fire


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Let me put this in a different light though, so that negative feelings don't hang around for too long.
If you paint a landscape, you can highlight the shapes or the colors or the zones of light or the zones of shadow, right?
And guess what?
It is still the same landscape!
The image we paint is ALWAYS an approximation of reality.
No matter how skilled you are, what you paint is still and inexact attempt to describe what truly is.
Different people will see different tings depending on the filter of their mind, their past experience, skills or emotional state.
So... With your relationship, it is EXACTLY the same: you can describe his actions from a place of shadow, imagining that everything he did was a silent conspiracy to make you unhappy and miserable.
You can as well believe that he had some hidden agenda and wanted to use you as a stepping stone to get what he wanted.
He might have been after you for sex, money, gifts or emotional support in a difficult period.
The thing is that, this type of description usually leaves aside a whole aspect of your relationship made of true feelings, deep emotions and a real connection between two human beings.
In most cases this is REAL too!
This was YOUR relationship and describing an ugly picture of the truth actually takes away the value of what you truly shared with him.
Now, of course, you don't have to overglorify a past relationship.
You can look at it in a neutral way and accept the fact that there was good and bad.
In most cases, people do "use" each other when they are in a relationships. Yes! I agree.
First, it goes BOTH ways!
Second, "Using" is not exactly the term that describes best what really goes on between two human beings who share love.
I would go for terms like: sharing, enjoying, loving, caring, fighting, evolving, progressing, etc.
If you still feel that he really used you, then learn from it and identify exactly where you have been naive about him.
Don't see it as a mistake.
Simply see it as a learning experience and don't fall into that specific trap again next time you are confronted with the same type of situation.
Here are typical relationship traps where you might give too much and not get back enough:
- You give him a pile of money for studies, or starting his own business.
- You support him a lot with his life dreams but get back nothing.
- You give up friends and social life because he is very jealous and gives you a hard time when you are not with him.
- You introduce him to a whole network of people and he ends up cheating on you with one of them.
- You go out of your way to be with him - You move to another city or country and give up your roots, job and social connections.
- You resign from a successful career or give up a promissing business idea because he does not support it.
There are many more examples of course, but the key idea here is that, YES! You can shift your destiny line or sacrifice a big part of your personal and emotional foundation to invest it into your relationship.
Once you do that, you might realize that it is not working and it was like a trap.
You end up lost not knowing which direction to go.
If this is your experience, here is what you can do:
- Go back to the situation you were in before you met him.
- Realize that in fact he freed you from a life that maybe was not too exciting and that you did in fact learn a lot while with him.
- You understand much better the male psyche and you are armed with new tools for your future relationships.
- Yes, he used you, but sex was great! You had a great time together.
You have many more possible answers your can fill in of course.
After reading these words, if you feel that a key question still stays unanswered, you know where to find me, right?
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This Reed pattern was inspired by the coastal dune salt marsh reeds in Ipswich, MA. This Sweetgum designed fabric is hand screen printed at a historic printing mill in Rhode Island.
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How the Bookies See it
- Winner: Manchester United 3/5, Draw 3/1, Watford 9/2 - Sky Bet
- First Goalscorer: Zlatan Ibrahimovic 3/1, Wayne Rooney 5/1, Marcus Rashford 11/2 - Paddy Power
- Correct Score: Manchester United 1-0 13/2, Manchester United 2-0 7/1, Draw 1-1 15/2 - BetVictor
- Watford were handed a tough start in their second season back in the Premier League. The Hornets picked up just a solitary point from their opening three games, but did manage to find the net once in each game. A stunning come-from-behind win away at West Ham finally gave Walter Mazzarri his first victory in English football and lifted his side into the top half of the table.
- Manchester United looked comfortable in their opening two games, but struggled to break down Hull City at the KCOM Stadium, relying on a last-gasp goal from Marcus Rashford to maintain their 100-percent start. Arch-rivals Manchester City ended the Red Devils' unbeaten run and inflicted a rare home defeat on Jose Mourinho in a game where United looked second-best throughout.
Sports.net's view
Watford were amongst those tipped for relegation at the start of the season, but if they are able to produce the kind of display they did against West Ham, the haunting draft that emanates from the Premier League trapdoor shouldn't bother them too much. The Hornets hit four goals at the London Stadium and have netted at least once in their previous three matches, including goals against Arsenal and Chelsea. Bet365 are offering odds of 4/6 that Watford will prevent Manchester United from keeping a clean sheet, while a win for the home side and both teams to score looks tempting at 11/1.
The Hornet's biggest threat in front of goal comes from the strike force of Odion Ighalo and captain Troy Deeney. The duo notched 28 of Watford's 40 goals last season, and both strikers are already off the mark in this campaign. Both men are 9/1 with William Hill to break the deadlock in this game, while Sky Bet are offering odds of 3/1 on a goal at any time. Current fantasy football favourite Etienne Capoue could also be worth keeping an eye on, as the former Spurs midfielder looks to add to his impressive three-goal haul this term.
Manchester United enter this game as favourites and should be well-rested given manager Jose Mourinho's decision to leave a number of first team stars at home for their Europa League defeat at Feyenoord on Thursday night. Expect Zlatan Ibrahimovic to carve out a number of chances, while Wayne Rooney could also feature heavily, despite recent calls for United's captain to be dropped from the starting XI. England's striker-turned-midfielder is 19/10 with William Hill to hit the target anytime and inspire his team to the win, while his Swedish teammate is a shorter 7/5 to score anytime and produce the same outcome.
The Red Devils are able to boast a mightily impressive record against Watford, winning every meeting with the Hornets since 1987. The same fixture last season produced a 2-1 victory for the Manchester side and punters can get odds of 8/1 on the same result happening this time around. However, for those who think this will be a much more lively affair, why not bet on the game to feature more than 4.5 goals - 6/1 with BetVictor.
- Sports.net's top tip: Etienne Capoue to score anytime - 14/1 with BetVictor
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This video, the first featuring New York in the People Shaped Travel series from www.expedia.co.uk , takes you on a safari tour of the Big Apple's bustling cocktail scene, hosted by master mixologist and author of The Craft of Cocktail, Dale DeGroff. With whistle stops in edgy SOHO and iconic saloon P J Clarke's, of Mad Men fame, learn where New Yorkers go for the best drinks in town.


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Copper Chimney
A standout in a neighborhood crowded with Indian restaurants, this discreet establishment packs in the midtown Manhattan lunch crowd. On a banquet table along the wall, steaming copper cauldrons hold specialties from both North and South India, including the Goa specialty chicken xacuti (succulent morsels of chicken with chile, vinegar, and whole spices) and the Punjabi chana pindi (chickpeas stewed in an onion, tomato, and pomegranate seed sauce). Waiters rapidly replenish dishes and bring piping baskets of naan to the table.
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I think about time a lot. A colleague recently told me that they think I have an internal clock that is always ticking, and relentlessly pressures me to respond. In many ways this is both a blessing and a curse. Whether this is good or bad, is a topic for another time. The reality however, … Continue reading 12 Ways to Save Time at Work
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Life Lessons from Emma: Fun vs First
Each Wednesday we take my daughter Emma to an Awana club at a church near were we live. She plays games, sings songs and learns Bible stories with other kids between the ages of 4 and 14. Each year, on the final night of the season, the club hosts a wooden slot car competition. A … Continue reading Life Lessons from Emma: Fun vs First
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Several of my friends have gotten involved with a type of endurance running race called Ragnar Relays. A Ragnar is a 24 hour relay race where 6-12 of runners work together to complete a 200 mile race. They take turns running 6-7 miles individually while their teammates pile in a vehicle and drive to the next … Continue reading Road Map to Success: Choose the Challenge Overtime
One Grip Higher: Simple Steps to Start Your Day Right
I recently came across this fantastic list of 14 things you should do at the start of every day... I was inspired as I read the list. Some of these things I do daily. Others I definitely need to work on. Where ever you are on the journey to becoming highly effective, you will find … Continue reading One Grip Higher: Simple Steps to Start Your Day Right
Competencies for Success
I recently came across this list of essential competences for leaders. It was shared with me by my boss, Shaun Nelms. It comes from the research on what it takes to effectively turn around a school or school system. I thought it was incredibly clear and worth passing along. Driving for Results — the turnaround … Continue reading Competencies for Success
How Bad Do You Want It?
An incredible speech by Speech by Eric Thomas (AKA The Hip Hop Preacher) with video clips of a football player working out. This video is inspirational, challenging and a bit scary… most people settle for mediocrity because they don't want to make the sacrifices required to achieve their full potential.


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- Cafe Society (2016)
With another comedy that solidifies Woody Allen's fascination with the early twentieth century, we get to learn about the passing time and the changes it brings – with a well-balanced and witty film that sparks like the diamonds worn by socialites in the golden era of Hollywood. Read Cafe Society review below!
Bobby leaves New York to try life in Hollywood. Everything seems to fall into place slowly: his uncle introduces him to everybody worth knowing in the film business, and he starts romancing with his relative's beautiful secretary Vonnie. Out of the blue, a series of clues leaves Bobby heartbroken and with a need to return to the Bronx – but his Los Angeles adventure, that involved a love triangle and meeting those who made it in Hollywood have turned his world inside out forever.
The story is as charming and glamourous as any old Hollywood tale can be: beautiful people strolling through stylish mansions, the elite making deals and sharing gossip during huge parties – you suddenly start thinking back to Allen's Midnight in Paris, where he introduced us to artistic bohemia, paying a tribute to one of the European capitals. Café Society has that too: from the witty story, filled with pseudo-philosophical remarks from Bobby's family ("You should live every day as if it was your last, and one day you will be right!") and situational humour, to carefully chosen details, costumes looking like they've been lost in a time loop and delivered just in time for Allen to make his new film, and shots of locations which are an homage to the West Coast.
The plot is all about unexpected changes that life brings, and the timing that is very often painfully unfavourable. We're served a story of growing up and see the changes in the main characters as we assist them on the way between Hollywood and New York: even if they become what they don't really want to be, and become trapped in environments they don't like with people they don't truly care about, they seem to be unable to fight fate that dictated the way for them. Allen constantly makes us ask, "Will they? Or will they not?" – and we're often startled by the answer that the film brings.
Such a story can be only possible with outstanding acting – and the cast really fulfils all the expectations; those who are still suffering a cinematic hangover caused by Eisenberg-Stewart team last year in American Ultra will have their time to recover and fast-forward to their good times together again. Firstly, Jesse Eisenberg as Bobby sets the bar pretty high: his boyish charm at the beginning transformed into a confidence of a grown-up man is delivered powerfully, with vitality and irresistible appeal. Kristen Stewart is also convincing as Vonnie: the leading lady grows from a totally relaxed girl who dislikes crème de la crème of Hollywood and sees through its superficiality to a seasoned member of the upper crust, namedropping and boasting about the activities she engaged in recently. Stunning and slender Blake Lively makes an appearance which is somewhat of a cameo rather than a major part, taking us back to her appearance on the silver screen in Age of Adaline and bringing mixed feelings. However, special congratulations should be delivered to Jeannie Berlin, Ken Stott and Sari Lennick: their comedy bits are delightful, with quotable bits of life wisdom delivered in a way your mother would do it (no pun intended!).
With a touch of humour and the magnetism of one of the most beautiful eras in the modern history, Café Society is a positive, tongue-in-cheek story which doesn't try too hard with morals and lessons to learn – but leaves you with a few afterthoughts anyway.


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The Konstantin cutterhead is used to join the narrow edges of panel materials as quietly as possible. It consists of a basic body made of lightweight metal and can be supplied for all popular edgebanding machines. However, what makes Konstantin really stand out is that the tool's diameter does not change when knives are replaced, which means users no longer have to waste time adjusting their jointing machines. Visitors to LIGNA 2017 can discover how Konstantin's optimum cutter fit ensures the diamond knives can be replaced on site and even interchanged.
The diamond knives feature an impressively long service life and can also be resharpened several times over. All this makes Konstantin the perfect fit for the do-it-yourself trend, particularly since users can replace knives themselves without the need for an assembly jig. Furthermore, the high repeat accuracy during knife replacement means the diamond tool never needs sending away. Other key advantages are that the knives can be interchanged between co-rotating and counter-rotating jointing cutters as required and that cutterheads with a large cutting width can be used so that more heavily used knives from a higher position can be swapped with those in a lower position.


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Northwestern online student awarded leadership scholarship
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Northwestern College online graduate student Amanda Winslow of West Des Moines is one of just two individuals awarded a 2016 Leadership Fellowship Scholarship from the Iowa Association for the Education of Young Children (Iowa AEYC).
The Iowa AEYC is dedicated to the development of leadership within early childhood care and the field of early childhood education. The organization's fellowship awards selected participants $4,000 to develop their leadership skills through graduate programs or attendance at state or national professional development opportunities. In turn, they are expected to provide leadership to the early childhood field throughout the state.
Winslow is pursuing a Master of Education degree in early childhood through Northwestern College Graduate Studies & Adult Learning. She has 11 years of experience in early childhood education, including her current roles as an early childhood education program consultant for Shared Visions, which offers preschool programs for high-risk children in 51 counties, and as a member of the Early Childhood Iowa State Technical Assistance Team. Winslow will present a workshop on the NAEYC Code of Ethics at the Iowa AEYC Fall Institute.
"I believe strongly in building relationships with others to work collaboratively with a common goal to improve early care and education for young learners," says Winslow. With an expected graduation of fall 2017, Winslow plans to use her new degree to advocate for high-quality education and care for young children.


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- Why be anything other than good? Why do anything other than love? ~Johnathan Dahl
- To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. ~Mary Oliver
- Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420
- You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull (b.1976, U.S. geologist), "Tuition," 1999
- What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
- Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
- Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau
- Remember, if you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke
- Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
- If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn
- In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. ~Liz Armbruster, on rbrault.blogspot.com
- See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII
- Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros, November 2009 winner of The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Twitter
- Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
- If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison
- Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown
- Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949
- Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht
- Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox
- Laziness will cause you pain. ~Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense
- [O]wning your burdens is half the battle. ~From the television show Scrubs
- Think not because the chrysalis struggles that it is in need of you. Oh! I pray you, stay your eager hands, lest you despoil its silver wings. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), My Little Book of Prayer, 1904
- Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo
- We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ~William James
- You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman
- In understanding freedom one understands also what discipline is…. Freedom and discipline go together, they are not two separate things…. Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or an ideology; it means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what is'. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti, "Freedom," The Impossible Question, 1970 July 19th
- Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~Frank Herbert (1920–1986), Dune Chronicles
- The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~Plato
- Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel
- Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
- I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Frances Willard
- One neglect makes ten regrets. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Seven Seventy Seven Sensations, 1897
- A refusal to face reality allows it to stab you in the back. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer, http://www.lumpenbangenpiano.com
- Always when judgingWho people are,
Remember to footnote
The words "So far."
~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
- God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr
- A day is Eternity's seed, and we are its Gardeners. ~Erika Harris, empathicwriter.com
- People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
- The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament," Idylls of the King
- The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive. ~Jeanne LaMont, MD
- I saw that he was dying. All the strength had left him. And I said Moe, "What will I do without you?" And he gathered up all the energy he could and he said, "Take the love you have for me and spread it around. In love spread around, there beauty is found." ~Shirley L. Hyman, Ph.D. (1913–2016), from 2014 video produced by Brandon Stanton for Humans of New York, http://www.humansofnewyork.com
- I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"
- If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
- Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. ~Samuel Butler
- Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt
- Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
- Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
- I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it…. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
- Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard
- On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation." ~Confucian Analects
- The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson
- Every man ought to be above his position in the sense of being more than his position. To be king and nothing more, judge and nothing more, tallowe-handler and nothing more, is to allow the accident to swallow up the essence, and prove a miserable failure when measured by the true standard of human worth. A wise man would scorn to be like the tower of Pisa, leaning everlastingly one way; and as each special occupation has its own tendencies to narrowness, exclusiveness, and misconception, one continuous object of education should be to give scope and elbow-room in other directions. When governments, or societies, with imperial rescripts, acts of parliament, or conventionalities, hedge men round with directions and prohibitions, we rejoice in the brave spirits who manfully do what they are told not to do; and part of everybody's education should be a training to resist the slavery by which custom is always trying to enthral the world. ~Henry James Slack (1818–1896), The Philosophy of Progress in Human Affairs, "Chapter XIII: Education," 1860
- 1. Don't be afraid to say No.
2. Don't be afraid to say Yes.
~Dr. SunWolf, 2017 January 8th tweet, professorsunwolf.com
- What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson
- To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ~John W. Gardner
- Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean—
so get yourself a little loving
in between.
~Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
- There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams
- Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White
- Young men, be masters of yourselves. The world needs you. ~James E. Shepard (1875–1947), quoted in Mitchell Davis, One Hundred Choice Quotations by Prominent Men and Women of the Negro Race, 1917
- Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
- If you don't understand the cause of the problem — your solution will become part of it. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer, http://www.lumpenbangenpiano.com
- Begin, not from an imaginary past, to which you can never go back; not from an imaginary future which you have not reached. Begin from the present, with all its treasury of good—ay, and with all its treasury of evil. And, keeping the pathway unbroken from the past to the future, lead on to life, to larger life… upward, upward. ~Lyman Abbott, "Out of the Past," sermon preached in Appleton Chapel, Harvard College, Sunday evening, March 26, 1899
- All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment;
action for the common good in the present moment;
and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way.
~Marcus Aurelius (121–180 A.D.), Meditations, IX:6, a new translation by Stephen Hanselman, in The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman, 2016
- Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb
- One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~Odell Shepard
- Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
- You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. ~Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
- All things by immortal power,
Near or far,
To each other are linkèd are,
That thou canst not stir a flower
Without troubling of a star…
~Francis Thompson (1859–1907), "The Mistress of Vision," c.1897
- The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. ~Charles Du Bos, Approximations, 1922, translated from French (Thanks, Lorianne!)
- The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair or not, they just get on with it. ~Andrew Matthews
- Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment…
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all — to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
~William Shakespeare, Hamlet [I, 3, Polonius] [Love this about Polonius, by Francesco Lo Piccolo: "While he is a blowhard, and he does spout aphorisms that were, even in the sixteenth century, clichés, his clichés constitute sound advice and his observations prove themselves prophetic." He is also described as self-assured, cynical, self-centered, a flatterer, long-winded, sly, devious, false, shrewd, immoral, a sermoniser, meddling, political, arrogant, despicable, vain, hypocritical, manipulative, verbose, insincere, self-absorbed, a windbag, and a rambler of wisdom. —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]
- Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. ~Edward Abbey
- The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. ~Marie Dubsky, Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916), translated by Mrs Annis Lee Wister, 1882
- Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- B hopeful, B happy, B cheerful, B kind,
B busy of body, B modest of mind,
B earnest, B truthful, B firm and B fair…
B watchful, B ready, B open, B frank,
B manly to all men, whatever B their rank;
B just and B generous, B honest, B wise…
B temperate, B steadfast, to anger B slow.
B thoughtful, B thankful, whate'er may B tide…
B pleasant, B patient, B fervent to all,
B best if you can, but B humble withal.
B prompt and B dutiful, still B polite;
B reverent, B quiet, and B sure and B right…
B grateful, B cautious of those who B tray.
B tender, B loving, B good and B nign,
B loved thou shalt B, and all else B thine.
~"A Swarm of Bees," The British Bee Journal, and Bee Keeper's Adviser, 1882 February 1st
- Let your strongest muscle be the will. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Seven Seventy Seven Sensations, 1897
- There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. ~Alexander Woollcott
- If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. ~Robert
Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
- [T]ime you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ~Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married, 1912 (Thanks, Garson O'Toole of quoteinvestigator.com!)
- It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. ~Albert Einstein
- …Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none…
~William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
- Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe. ~Author Unknown
- Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. ~Charles Dickens
- Ever ask yourself what you would do if you had tomorrow to live over again? ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
- If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. ~Dag Hammarskjold
- History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today. ~Harold MacMillan
- We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
- When you start treating people like people, they become people. ~Paul Vitale
- Be kind to your shadow. ~Rebecca Lawless
- I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older. But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do. ~From the television show Scrubs
- Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. ~Bernard Baruch, 1946
- The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future. ~Shiloh Morrison
- So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
- If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
- Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count Time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
~Philip James Bailey (1816–1902)
- Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved. ~Barbara Johnson
- You do not have the right to quit trying. (The universe wobbles when you do.) You have the right to quit Toxic People. (They're contagious.) ~Dr. SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com
- Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
- Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
- In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
- Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911
- Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ~Dandemis
- The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. ~William James
- Whatever you are, try to be a good one. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
- It's better to fight for something than against something. ~Author Unknown
- The day will happen whether or not you get up. ~John Ciardi
- Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature. ~Morihei Ueshiba
- Nature gave men two ends — one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ~George R. Kirkpatrick
- One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. ~Oscar Wilde
- Strength will grow from the heart, blossom as results, and wither in others' hearts as seeds. ~Mikhael Dominico, September 2010 winner of The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Twitter
- To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
- Facts and figures are not the whole story. ~Terri Guillemets, "Âme et les yeux," 1998
- When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. ~N. Smith
- Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
- Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. ~Pema Chödrön
- Life isn't fair, at least on the micro level. Deal with it. But don't deal with it by making it more unfair to others. ~David C. Hill, ***Dave Does the Blog (hill-kleerup.org/blog)
- If you must choose between a falsehood and a rudeness, choose the rudeness; if the choice lies between a falsehood and cruelty, choose the falsehood. ~Marie Dubsky, Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916), translated by Mrs Annis Lee Wister, 1882
- Ruts are not made by the wheels of Destiny, but by the cart of Care… ~Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander (c.1890–1953), "The One-Way Mind," in The New Zealand Railways Magazine, 1931 June 1st
- If I make of myself nothing, I shall expect not more than nothing's proper place and portion. ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), My Little Book of Life, 1912
- When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
- An important corollary to the Golden Rule is to leave others be as you would have them leave you be. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
- If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
- No useful man has time to go back and rub out his unfortunate foot prints. ~Author unknown, from Dallas-Galveston News, c.1894
- You live and let live. And eventually, that becomes enough. ~Author Unknown
- Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
- When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- It's illegal to bore people. ~Mo Siegel [I saw this quote in 2003 on a sign at Celestial Seasonings in Boulder, Colorado. Siegel is one of the company's founders. —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]
- A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis…. I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis. ~E.B. White (1899–1985)
- Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown
- There is great power in letting go, and there is great freedom in moving on. ~Author Unknown
- Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. ~Author Unknown
- All philosophy in two words, — sustain and abstain. ~Epictetus
- Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
- Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. ~Janis Joplin
- Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants. ~Edward Steichen
- Beware of letting your comforts become means of pain; nor make yourself miserable for the sake of being happy. ~William Benton Clulow, Horæ Otiosæ, 1833, and Aphorisms and Reflections, 1843
- Life is like riding a bicycle; we can keep from falling if we keep moving. Only a few trick-riders can stand still and not tumble. ~Author Unknown, c.1922
- Wake up, do your best, sleep, repeat. ~Thingsweforget.blogspot.com, #660
- Work hard, enrobe yourself in velvet hope, and rule your world! ~Terri Guillemets
- The biggest problem in the world
Could have been solved when it was small.
~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu
- In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~Albert Schweitzer
- What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
- Don't look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams. ~Michael Beckwith
- Strength will carry you through no matter how deep the valley… surrender to your strength. ~Gunda Fijnje-Nolan, September 2010 entry to The Quote Garden create your own quote contest on Twitter
- The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything. ~Bill Murray
- The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obedience to the heart. ~William Butler Yeats
- The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail. ~Ramakrishna


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Fans of Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise and Before Sunset have spent nine long years yearning to see the next chapter of Celine and Jesse's story — and this spring, the wait will finally be over.
Statistical research firm Exhibitor Relations revealed via Twitter yesterday that Linklater's Before Midnight will hit theaters in New York and Los Angeles on May 24. That date was confirmed by the movie's Facebook page. Like the first two films in the series, Midnight stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as a pair of photogenic lovers. It premiered at Sundance in January and will play at Austin's South by Southwest Film Festival next month as well.
Exhibitor Relations also announced release dates for two more high-profile auteur projects: Pedro Almodóvar's I'm So Excited (Los amantes pasajeros), starring Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, and Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, starring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, and Louis C.K., among others. I'm So Excited comes to New York and L.A. June 28; Blue Jasmine appears in those same cities July 26.
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Passionate Nomads
Passionate Nomads, by Argentinian writer María Rosa Lojo, comes to us from Aliform Publishing in a riveting translation from its Spanish original by Brett Alan Sanders. And before I get into the book's details, allow me to first make a quick and rather bold statement: if these roughly 250 pages of prose lack anything, it's proper marketing and getting word about it out there. Consider this an executive order, if you will, to dig deep into your pockets and buy a copy.
Behind the publishing of Passionate Nomads is also a passionate story. Sanders received a grant to translate the book, but due to external circumstances had to make a rather dramatic decision and in the end used the grant to actually publish the book. Now, if that's not passionate enough for you, I don't know what is. Ursula K. Le Guin blurbed the book and wrote:
" Passionate Nomads is a most extraordinary addition to the literature of the New World . . . Lojo evokes a profound fantasy of the real—not a rewriting of history, but an imaginative recall and understanding of what has been forgotten, cannot be remembered, and yet must be remembered."
The story of Merlin the Magician, his protégé Rosaura dos Carballos, and a modernized, Argentine version of Baron von Münchausen in the character of Lucio Victorio Mansilla melts genres and poetics, leaving you enchanted. Lucio escaped Heaven. Yes, you read right: he was bored and disappointed (no wonder, as his particular Heaven was filled with stage props) and felt like there was a lot to be done "downstairs." He got the basics right. Indeed, before he knows it, a line of disgruntled characters—from former lovers to tribal chiefs of Ranquel Indians, some in the flesh, some in spirit—hold meetings with Lucio to explain a thing or two to our hero:
He came to make us sign the peace treaty that afterward no Christian chief respected. He knew and he didn't say. He wrote a book where he portrays us as he thought to see us, and they gave him prizes for that long story and even across the sea they found out about our lives and customs and many gringos must have laughed about what we learned from our parents and they from theirs back to the first days.
There are others too. Rosaura, a daughter of a noble fairy and a common practical joker, goblin, and vagabond— trasnos —and Merlin, the famous magician who in the 20th century does just as well as in medieval times—managing his real estate and navigating the new reality:
As usual, the ancient Scottish blood that circulates through Merlin's no less ancient veins guided him with blind instinct to attaining the best financial bargain with that first enemy of the soul invented by bored theologians: the World, which is driven by the mercenary law of gold.
We hear Lucio's voice through his letters:
Friend Santiago: It has been more than a hundred years since, with winged pen, I set about writing you those letters that became so famous and dealt with my audacious visit to the Ranquel Indians. If at the time I counted on your envying my trip—I tried, in the friendliest fashion, to rile you—I'd rather not even imagine what you would feel now were you to find out where I am, and in what sort of company.
We also get Rosaura's voice through her manuscript, which recounts the entire trip; and Merlin's, who chimes in whenever (and however) he feels like it. The author is masterful with her language, her use of different voices, and this rare art of fluid transitions—a painless back-and-forth jaunt from one engaging narrator to another. You don't feel deprived, you don't think, "Shit, just when it was getting interesting I have to deal with this guy's problems for the next 30 pages." No, Passionate Nomads feels good all the way. I'm sure there's a more literary way to put it, but to me it felt like a time when you're listening to a really good story—let's say by the fire, and let's say that this fire is located somewhere in the Argentinian Pampas where the icy, crisp air and the dry, low brush are all painted with nice, pastel-colored strokes and just the right amount of detail. That's how it felt to me.
I don't speak Spanish, so I read only Sanders's translation. His rendition of Rojo's novel comes to life, the dialogues flow, but feel a little alien, too. There's no doubt we hear voices from a different land, different time, and often a different dimension. It's detailed—Sanders made sure to save what should be saved in the original. So, if you care to indulge in a little metaphor with me, we—the readers of translations, literary vagabonds, or trasnos —get exactly what we're striving for: a variety, something distant brought a little closer, an alien conceit showed and explained a little bit by our learned friend.
Passionate Nomads is also, to some extent, a historical novel. Sanders made sure all of us ignorant fellows will learn something about Argentina, its people, and its history. He has provided readers with extensive endnotes, and I like to have them, so I praise them. Just as much as I admire Sanders's ear for dialogue, I appreciate the hard work put into the research for those endnotes. They're not too detailed, and in my mind, give the right amount of background for all that happens in the book.
An adventure story, comical and full of spunk, but also nostalgic and reflective— Passionate Nomads is all of that. But aside from the plot, it's simply beautifully written and translated.
An insatiable sorrow rises in my throat, no longer for myself but for those I loved so much and who kept dying, for the imperfect and turbulent world that I nevertheless loved and that died with them and with me, for the grand, pure words we all take upon ourselves to bury when our life exhausts and corrupts them.


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So today I will present silkroad.lt project, the server which was created long time ago, back in 2014.
It wasn't famous, however i posted thread here, it got flamed.
So yeah, let's get started.
Why it's worth to play silkroad.lt?
Our project was alive over 1 year without any stops, we are always keeping our server alive for players.
Even there was low player count!
We have 3 powerful hosts with double game servers running.
No corruption (hard to believe nowadays).
Perfect rates to play. We have set medium rates for our server(most of you would say low but they are re-balanced), to keep server interesting .
We don't see the reason, why we should have high rates.
Players are forgetting things like Quests, Uniques at lower lvls for exp (not just for server messages), and other important functions.
Half of silkroad is useless with high rates.
Small things, like great community is important for us!
Only 1 of 4 chars will get start items and this means only first one of all 4 will get it!
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More about us well what i can say almost standard server which is based on idea about original 100cap,ohh yeah! Anyway small changes are made job rate is perfect i might say,low gold rates,medium exp and drop so main gold source is jobbing!
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Two recent columns by yours truly about the use of Tasers by police brought passionate responses from readers on both sides of the issue. The most passionate were readers who interpreted the columns as blanket slams of the police force, as if criticizing the apparent over-use of Tasers amounted to being "a cop hater." By that same thought process, if I criticize the New York Yankees management for not acquiring good pitchers, then I must be a baseball hater. Frankly, there's not much anyone can do for that kind of logic dysfunction, so I won't bother.
I exchanged e-mails with several readers who were concerned about whether our police are employing Tasers as a tool of convenience rather than a last resort before using a gun. Those readers wanted more information. I recommend an article that ran in the Canadian magazine Tyee, and which is reprinted today by Alternet. In the article, a journalist wants to be Tased by the Royal Canadian police; they agree, but then are overruled by supervisors in the Department of Justice. The bottom line, according to the police, was that "we really don't fully understand and know the risks." The author concludes, "Trouble is, nobody fully knows the risks, and until we do, the controversies surrounding this weapon are bound to continue."
There are still many doubts about the safety of Tasers, and so much more to learn from ongoing research. To say the least, tasers are controversial weapons and are becoming more controversial all the time as injuries, deaths, misuse and lawsuits pile up. Add to that the cold hard fact that more than 300 people in North America have died after being tasered since the weapon was introduced in 1999, and my proposal seems relatively mild. So, I still suggest that the city of Charlotte should stop the use of Tasers by police until more definitive research is concluded about the weapon's full effects and possible complications. This proposal seems far more reasonable, to my way of thinking, than continuing the use of a weapon that has "accidentally" killed so many people.


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It's time for another "Ask the Editor" post today. A big thank you to everyone who sent in their questions – it's great to have the chance to help you out with your Mac-related queries and quibbles.
Some of the topics covered this week include digital asset management software, finding a solution to stay on top of what's added to the Mac App Store each day, keeping your Mac running smoothly, and the dilemma of whether you need to regularly shut down.
Read on for plenty of handy Mac knowledge, and I hope you'll find most of it useful for your own situation as well!
Is there a simple way to find out which new apps have been added daily to the App Store?
– Regina
There sure is! Although I couldn't find an RSS feed for Mac App Store additions (maybe someone can share this in the comments, if it exists…), you should check out a website called AppShopper. They added a new section for the Mac App Store just over a week ago, which gives you plenty of options for taking a look at the latest changes and additions to the database.
It's actually an incredibly useful system, and makes it easy to stay on top of what's new, and any offers/discounts that are currently available. Hope you find it fits the bill!
Is it true that I can (almost) never shut down my Mac and just put it to sleep? Is it safe?
– Lorenzo Peña Álvarez
Absolutely. There's no real need to shut down your computer, unless you aren't going to be using it for an extended period of time. This won't cause any damage to your Mac – it's designed to happily move between sleep and wake states, and performs regular maintenance automatically without the need to restart.
If you find that your Mac is behaving oddly for some reason, logging out and back in again often fixes the issue – there's no need to perform a full restart.
The only thing you may want to consider is how to handle your notebook in order to maintain battery life for as long as possible. Apple offers plenty of advice on this topic, which is interesting reading if you'd like to extend the life of your battery as far as possible.
I'm looking for the best utilities to keep the Mac running smoothly. It's starting to become a little sluggish after two years!
– Nick Tyson
Although we often expect our Mac to be invincible, it does need a little spring cleaning from time to time. Rather than repeat myself here, I'd point you in the direction of a post we published around a year ago: Cleaning Up Your Mac for the New Year.
In it I discuss how to scour your hard drive and delete cumbersome files, cleanly delete unwanted applications, empty various system caches and logs, speed up browsing, and keep things minimal.
Hopefully this will contain plenty of tips to point you in the right direction. In terms of an application to help you out with the whole process, take a look at either MacKeeper or CleanMyMac, both of which might fit the bill!
Are there any well-designed, inexpensive digital asset management apps for Mac?
– Manon Michel
I've cut your question down a little to save screen-estate here, but it's worth mentioning that you mentioned having tried both Extensis Portfolio and DevonThink for this task already (with the former being a little too expensive, and the latter becoming unwieldy with large collections).
I'm actually a big fan of DevonThink, but only have a library of around 5GB. I can't vouch for whether it struggles with particularly large libraries. There are couple of other options that might be worth exploring:
- Yojimbo – Similar to DevonThink but with a slightly more appealing interface, Yojimbo could work well. It's priced at a very reasonable $38.99.
- Canto – Supposedly, this is "the perfect standalone central media repository to efficiently catalog, organize and reuse any type of digital file." It might be worth investigating, but comes in at a price of several hundred dollars.
- FotoStation – A pro solution, for managing media files. It's seriously pricey, at €489, but you can download a trial to see if it works for you!
- Cumulus – Another fairly advanced, multi-platform system that requires a central server.
- Lightroom – Although not exactly a digital asset management app (and not something that would fit your file type requirements), other people may find this a viable solution.
Alternatively, you could use the simpler solution provided by Adobe – Adobe Bridge. This integrates nicely with the rest of the Adobe suite, and would work with all the file formats you mentioned (JPEG, PNG, AI, PSD, and EPS). It's bundled with pretty much any Creative Suite purchase, so won't break the bank.
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It's a difficult time for everyone trying to make it on their own two feet in any sort of business at the moment. The market in every direction is flooded. You have to stand out.
But one area that's certainly having a very tough time (more so than it already was) is start up artists and designers.
How do you get your work seen and get fans, traction as an artist? In an age where almost everything visual is expected to be given away free online it's pretty tough to get out there without risking your work being knicked or used in ways you are not happy about.
I remember working with photographers who had seen their pictures on T-Shirts in Camden Market, also people who had sent artwork and ideas to large brands only to hear nothing, yet see their ideas play out on those brands shelves months later. Just recently a really cool custom pin/badge creator found their designs being sold under a different name by a large brand. This is not cool.
You HAVE to get your work out there. That's obvious. And you HAVE to put some trust in the people out there not to steal or rip off your idea. You won't get anywhere if you keep all your thoughts and creations hidden away on your hard drive.
And sadly you HAVE to be prepared for the potential of your work being used/copied.
So the logical step is to speak out, shame the people (so long as you are sure of course) that steal or rip off your work. Promote them to your following if you find them - get it out there and talk about it.
And brands and companies that are guilty - think about it - would you not rather collaborate and work with these talented people rather than be underhand? How much further it could go if you worked together and could use the source of the creativity rather than a copy?
We have a project in the making that will aim to help tackle this problem for the creative start ups and artists coming up the ladder.
Stay tuned!
In the mean time this is a great podcast from Artsy that takes a look at some of these problems in more depth :


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Engaging with clients from project initiation to completion, our dedicated team are able to craft suitable schemes that meet the specific technical needs of iconic venues and landmarks. Using leading sound, lighting and AV equipment for every installation, we ensure that expectations are met and regularly surpassed.
Working to the highest standards required in this environment, we have provided our professional practice to an assortment of places of interest including Cardiff's iconic Pierhead. The Grade One listed building, which is owned by the National Assembly for Wales, benefitted from a projection system designed to display video material onto six retractable electric screens, as well as striking lighting and intuitive control solutions.
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Visit Chandra's website, Etsy site, or on Facebook. Her name on Instagram is "boardtoart".
Grand Haven resident Chandra Jennings concentrates on the expressions of her scratchboard pieces, believing the look in the eyes of her subjects creates the connection with viewers. All of her work is rendered directly into a hardboard panel covered in white clay and black ink. Etching removes the black ink and leaves the white image shown. Periodically, the white clay is tinted with colored india ink and then rescratched to add texture to the piece.
Chandra prefers to depict wildlife in her images, particularly owls. She has found it very important to concentrate on rendering the species as accurately as possible, staying true to her naturalist interests. Her work continues to evolve and grow, sometimes proportionally. Her largest piece was made in 2016 for Grand Haven Artwalk, where her piece "What the Little Birdies Told Me" won first place for the People's Choice Drawing category.


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TGIF: Wrapping up the first week of 2012 edition
It's finally Friday!
The first official week of 2012 has to be deemed an eventful one, especially around Rider Nation.
It started with loads of rumours about the Riders' 2012 coaching staff and most turned out to be true. The offensive staff was introduced on Tuesday and Thursday the defensive staff was revealed. The special teams co-ordinator has yet to be officially announced, but it's expected that Craig Dickenson will return in 2012. His contract runs through next season and the Riders are looking at extending it.
Here's a list of Corey Chamblin's staff and the respective ages of each member:
Head coach: Corey Chamblin, 34.
Offensive co-ordinator/running backs coach: Bob Dyce, 46.
Receivers coach: Jason Tucker, 35.
Running-game co-ordinator/offensive line coach: Kris Sweet, 38.
Quarterbacks coach: Khari Jones, 40.
Defensive co-ordinator: Richie Hall, 51.
Linebackers coach and assistant to the head coach: Alex Smith, 68.
Defensive backs: Barron Miles, 40.
Defensive line: Mike Walker, 53.
Special teams co-ordinator: Craig Dickenson, 40.
It's a good mix of youth and experience, which is what Chamblin was looking for in his first group of head coaches.
There isn't much on the Riders' front today. The special teams are to be announced next week. I talked with Jones at great length today about coming to Regina as the quarterbacks coach. He told me that he was essentially free agent after his contract ran out on in December with the Tiger-Cats, so he was looking for work. He is looking forward to working with Darian Durant and is quite aware of the pressure that comes with being the face of a franchise. More on that and Jones's thoughts on the Riders will be online later and available in Saturdays' paper for those of you still like the feel of newsprint in the morning.
There has been some confusion about Smith's expanded role with the Riders. He is the linebackers coach and the assistant to the head coach, not assistant head coach. Smith will assist Chamblin in dealing with the league office, scheduling, travel and those kind of things. Chamblin feels that Smith's experience of 15 years with the Riders was too valuable to waste. Good move by Chamblin to tap Smith's knowledge of the league.
Another interesting point about the staff is Dyce, Smith, Hall, Miles and Chamblin all have experience in the player personnel aspect of the game. CFL staffs are so small that each coach needs that, but the aforementioned five have all been through those roles with their team. That should help with the off-season decisions.
Here's Chamblin's philosophy for the off-season:
"We want to win the off-season,'' Chamblin said. "That's coaches doing all the things that they need to do and being diligent. We want to win the off-season to help us win the season.''
That's it. Time to get pounding, after all it's Friday.
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- Mix together all ingredients except for cheese in fondue pot. (I try to add the wine just before the cheese - putting it in with just the milk can cause weird curdling.) Heat over LOW (use the stove if you are using a Sterno fondue pot). When warm, gradually add cheese, stirring until melted.
- Cut the bread so that there is crust on every piece - stays on the fork better and you are less likely to lose the bread into the cheese!
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