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The solution seemed simple: city staff show judge Gregory Pollack a copy of the original building permit it issued to fast-food chain Jack in the Box for an overhaul of a North Park restaurant, and the four-year-long court case would vanish. The Jack in the Box drive-thru at 2959 Upas Street would remain in operation, attorneys for the city would no longer need to dedicate time and city resources — on top of the hundreds of hours already spent — and litigious neighbors could go about their lives knowing that the rules were followed.
But four years after a group of North Park residents sued the city and Jack in the Box for what they claim was an end-run around city zoning laws, the likelihood a permit will be produced is remote. Conversely, a May 2016 decision by a California appellate court to send the case back to superior court for a trial means the likelihood of a protracted legal battle is high.
In 2012, the Reader reported on Jack in the Box's proposal to remodel a 1960s-era drive-thru restaurant located at the busy intersection of Upas and 30th streets in North Park, seven blocks from Morley Field. But the company ran into obstacles from residents and new zoning laws.
The intersection is at the boundary of North Park's bustling business district and high-priced residential homes. (Within a five-block radius, recent home prices ranged from $649,000 for a condo to $840,000 for a 1400-square-foot, three-bedroom; a four-bedroom, 2700-square-foot house was listed for $1.29 million.)
Residents hoped to see a balance between commericial and residential interests when the city adopted new zoning regulations in 2000. Those regulations prohibited certain commercial uses, including drive-thru restaurants. The Jack in the Box, however, was exempt from the rules. It had been built before the new regulations were adopted.
Still, the regulations posed problems for Jack in the Box executives. The restaurant, over 50 years old, needed an update. But in order to keep the drive-thru, executives and architects had to abide by city laws. Among them were prohibitions against demolishing any exterior walls, increasing the footprint of the building, or undertaking any renovation that cost greater than 50 percent of the existing restaurant's value. But that didn't prevent Jack in the Box from proposing to demolish the old restaurant and build a slightly larger one in its place. In January 2011, the North Park Planning Group rejected the plan. San Diego planning commissioners followed suit, ultimately killing the proposal.
The company wouldn't be boxed in by city regulations. In 2013, Jack in the Box applied for a renovation permit, a ministerial permit obtained at the city's Development Services Department counter, allowing executives to forego obtaining the planning commission's approval. Residents worried city staff would capitulate to Jack in the Box executives.
On May 2, 2013, city staff issued a building permit to allow for a remodel of the current structure.
In an effort to assuage residents' fears, Jack in the Box construction manager Mike Hogenboom penned a letter to then–North Park planning chair Vicki Granowitz, assuring the group that the company would abide by the rules.
"We are not demolishing any of the exterior walls," Hogenboom wrote in the letter to Granowitz.
During the following weeks, crews leveled the restaurant. No walls were left standing. Residents contacted then–mayor Bob Filner to complain about the violations and the broken promises. On July 3, 2013, then–interim director of the Development Services Department Tom Tomlinson wrote to the city attorney's office seeking guidance on whether the city could put a stop to the project.
"The applicant is currently out of compliance with the issued permit due to the partial demolition of two walls that were not identified on the approved plans," Tomlinson wrote. "Note that many members of the community have strongly voiced their opposition to the project. The applicant has shown a flagrant disregard for the welfare of the community and the integrity of the permitting process."
But promises from Filner's office were as empty as those from Jack in the Box's construction manager. Left on their own, residents filed a lawsuit against Jack in the Box and the city in August 2013. In their complaint, the attorney for the residents, Cory Briggs, argued that the city had amended the May 2 permit in July 2013 to allow for "extensive demolition of interior and exterior walls and roof structure…."
The complaint, however, was submitted 102 days after staff had issued the May 2 permit, 12 days after the 90-day statute of limitations in challenging building decisions had expired. The city argued the statute of limitations invalidated the lawsuit. San Diego Superior Court judge Ronald Prager agreed. Residents then filed an appeal to the court's ruling, stating that misrepresentations made by Jack in the Box — as well as promises from San Diego's mayor — prevented them from filing sooner. The appellate court sided with the residents, remitting the case back to superior court for a trial.
From May 2016 to January 2017, attorney Briggs has asked for copies of the original permit. The city and Jack in the Box, however, have ignored his requests and provided only the expanded version.
In the coming months, however, city staff and Jack in the Box executives will be forced to testify and explain why — if the original permit called for "extensive demolition" — the director of Development Services wrote a letter stating the company was not in compliance with the permit.
"It strains credulity to think that nobody at the city, nobody at Jack in the Box headquarters, and nobody on Jack in the Box's construction team has a copy of the permit anywhere. Jack in the Box's construction manager stated in writing that there would be no exterior demolition. So there's only one reason why the city and Jack in the Box would be fighting so hard to prevent knowledgeable officials from being ordered by the judge to produce a true and complete copy of the permit, instead of substitutes, under penalty of perjury: the permit conflicts with the lies the city and Jack in the Box have been telling the judge."
Spokesperson for the city attorney's office, Gerry Braun, did not respond to a request for comment as to whether the city has turned over the original permit. Media relations staff for Jack in the Box also did not respond.
More from SDReader
- More stories by Dorian Hargrove
- North Park Jack in the Box court case surprise — Sept. 25, 2017
- Jack in the Box headed to court over North Park "remodel" — May 24, 2016
- Jacked by the Box — April 2, 2015
- Burger chain gang heads to court — Jan. 20, 2015
- Decision in Sherman Heights Walmart case could spell trouble for opponents of North Park Jack in the Box — Aug. 18, 2013
Anyone at the city who was involved in this fiasco should be fired. Jack in the Box should be required to tear down the structure and, if they want to rebuild, file for a permit.
@ Cory Wixom: If you truly live "right next to" Jack in the Box, as you state and have "been going there for 25 years", yet contend it "literally looks exactly the same as before", it's hard to imagine how you missed the demolition and construction of the new restaurant. Simply compare the photographs included in Dorian's article - sorry, but you can't just simply paint a second story level to the elevation. Perhaps you were out of town during the months long construction, and missed the photographs of the site documenting the old building completely torn down?
Cory Briggs is not "driving the lawsuit", residents are. And what "costs the city millions of dollars" is the city itself by not obeying its own laws. Briggs wins lawsuits, the city pays for breaking the law. Not sure how that makes him a con artist...? All the city has to do is start following its own laws, they don't get to pick and choose which laws to follow nor who they allow to bend or ignore those laws. A level playing field for all. What a concept! With that, Briggs wouldn't have those lawsuits to file, and those millions could be used to fill all those 'Dean Spanos triggered potholes'.
@AlexClarke: The idea of requiring JIB to tear down the structure is enticing, and although there's a faction who would like to see Jack gone altogether, the lawsuit's focus is the drive through, in violation of city zoning laws. Stay if you want, Jack, this was never about your restaurant. Make it a walk-up window, a ride-your-bike-up window, whatever, just get rid of the illegal drive through and ease the traffic impacts to this residential neighborhood.
It is clear to me that JIB is trying to bury this lawsuit and the CITY is happy to help them since both Parties are hiding from the Lawsuit. Having attended most if not all of the meetings, where JIB people told everyone that they would not tear down any exterior walls, only to see them gone in a single day, makes me mad especially since the JIB Construction people were laughing at all the locals that watched them demo it!
This is a clear case of a Big Corp. thumbing its nose at residents that were supportive of the JIB remodel IF IT DID NOT CHANGE THE EXTERIOR IN ANY WAY!
JIB will lose the appeal because not only did they (and the City) not follow the rules but then they tried to make it appear that it was the residents that were in the wrong.
BTW: Think what you will about Cory Briggs but he took our case when other lawyers were too scared of their reputation with the City to help defend us from the JIB Corp.
@Cory Wixom, Newsflash! What you believe has no bearing on the truth.
Read Dorian's article again and focus on the part about city laws including 'prohibitions against demolishing any exterior walls, increasing the footprint of the building, or undertaking any renovation that cost greater than 50 percent of the existing restaurant's value.' Jack in the Box violated all three, there is undeniable proof of this, Repeatedly making nonsensical statements that nothing was changed, and the structure looks exactly the same as before does not automatically make them true. Read the lawsuit, it contains the evidence-- except for that pesky original permit, which the city won't provide. Why? Because a permit issued on the date claimed, allowing the scope of work that was performed doesn't exist. And that opens the door for our lawsuit, whether or not you agree with it, and whether or not you like the attorney handling it.
And although it's evident you dislike Cory Briggs, but stop and think logically about your statements: " Cory Briggs driving the lawsuit...it's BS and he's gonna do his best to suck the city dry", "con man Briggs", "a scam artist that says he's trying to help people but costs the city millions of dollars", and best if all: "Cory Briggs cost the city millions for OTHER lawsuits. He makes a living out of it." Hate him if you want to, but the lawsuits he wins against the city (and he doesn't win them all) is quite simply because the city is wrong. If the city doesn't like being "sucked dry", then how about they stop setting themselves up for it?
I usually don't continue trying to make somebody see the logic or truth in something when it's obvious they've dug their heels in the sand and won't consider anything other than their set in stone beliefs. I'm afraid I've exceeded that limit here. Believe what you want, I'm done sparring with you.
Who eats that "food" anyway?
Apparently a lot of people. JIB just built a new "Box" in La Mesa at Lake Murray Blvd & Dallas. It replaced (yet to be torn down) one of the original structures. If nobody ate their "food" they would not be building or replacing or "remodeling".


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CrossFits offer several popular exercise regimes. They've become so popular because they offer quick intensive workout sessions that you can be done within about 20 minutes or so. This is great for people who are often too busy to dedicate much more on workouts. While CrossFits are generally known for their heavy duty workouts like the barbells and several different kinds of dumbbell exercises using various Crossfit equipment, there is another one which can be performed with hardly any types of equipment at your own home and offers an optimal burn out session with which you can lose about 14 calories per minute. This is the Cindy WOD. But don't be fooled by the name, it might sound easy, and the basic principles are, but it requires you to be tough as nails and gets your heart palpitating at 88% more than the average heart rate.
The Cindy WOD comprises three primary workouts done in quick circuits — 5 Pull-ups, 10 Push-ups, and 15 air squats. However, you don't do it just once. You have to repeat them in quick succession without breaks for as many sets as possible in 20 minutes. You don't need to take rests in between because each of these exercises hits a completely different muscle group and so while you perform the other exercises, your previous muscle groups can regain their strength, thus allowing you to go at it in full force. This wouldn't be possible if you were to perform two exercises which hit the same muscle group consecutively — like the push-ups and a bench press.
CrossFit Cindy WOD Tips and Strategy
The following are some Cindy WOD Tips and Strategies that can be followed to make it as effective as possible.
Pull-Ups – For Back Muscles
These are done to exercise the back muscles. You need to hang from a bar overhead and then squeeze your chest upwards till you can feel your shoulder blades contracting. Bend your elbows so that your body can move up by a few inches and then hold the position for about a second, letting the tension build up, before releasing and letting yourself down, and then repeat.
Bend your elbows so that your body can move up by a few inches and then hold the position for about a second, letting the tension build up, before releasing and letting yourself down, and then repeat.
Push-Ups – For Chest Muscles
These are done to exercise the chest muscles and pump up your chest. This is one of the most commonly used and effective exercises out there. However, you have to be extremely mindful of the correct posture as otherwise, you might spend more energy for little returns.
Try bracing your core, and get your body to be firm and lateral, your spine shouldn't be curled nor should your hip jut out upwards. Then squeeze the glutes, grip the floor with your arms shoulder length apart, and then push yourself towards the floor until your chest is almost touching it, and then push yourself away, and repeat.
Air Squats – For Lower Body Muscles
These are extremely dynamic exercises, and require a lot of flexibility of movements. You need to make use of your ankles, knees hips and back to perform these and as such the posture is key. To perform this correctly you need to first stand with your feet apart, toes pointed out and arms loose by your sides.
Your chest needs to be pumped up and pushed outwards so that your shoulder blades come closer together. Then make as if you were about to sit out, extend your arms ahead of yourself, bend down with your hips jutting backward and your knees just over your feet. Then, keeping your torso firm and upright, lower yourself further till you've gone down as far as possible. Then push yourself back up into the initial position, and repeat.
The Cindy WOD workout is really the ideal workout for anyone and everyone, regardless of whether you're just a beginner or you're a pro athlete or are into heavy workouts. This is because these three exercises hit all the major muscle groups in your body and because of their intensive nature you continue losing calories even after you're done, once your body is cooling down. While beginners should keep to the basics of these exercises, the pros can increase the difficulty by wearing weighted vests to add resistance, or they can use an incline for the push-ups to boost up the difficulty and any number of other means can be applied to perform these activities with varying degrees of difficulty.
So let us know down in the comments whether these Cindy WOD exercises work for you, or if you have any variations to these that you'd like to suggest, let us know, we'd love to hear from you.

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November 14, 2018, 9:53 pmOtto Porter Jr.F, Washington Wizards
Otto Porter Jr. scored 15 points with four rebounds and three assists on 7-of-11 shooting in a win over the Cavs on Wednesday.
He has been disappointing this season as he has been playing well below his ADP. He played 26 minutes in this one and added two steals in that time as well. His backup, Kelly Oubre Jr., had eight points and seven rebounds on 3-of-12 shooting in 18 minutes. Porter Jr. is still a buy-low option, but do not expect consistent early-round value even if he gets his act together.
Fantasy News
December 11, 2019, 7:52 pmErsan IlyasovaPF, Milwaukee Bucks
Ersan Ilyasova is moving into the starting five in Wednesday night's game against the Pelicans.
Ilyasova could make for a decent DFS flier for some threes and scoring.
Source: Milwaukee Bucks on Twitter
December 11, 2019, 7:44 pmKyle AndersonSF, Memphis Grizzlies
Kyle Anderson (right heel soreness) will play on Wednesday against the Suns after being listed as probable.
Anderson has had some fantasy value in the past, but don't add him unless he strings several productive games in a row.
Source: Grizzlies PR on Twitter
December 11, 2019, 7:42 pmBrandon ClarkePF, Memphis Grizzlies
Brandon Clarke, who was listed as probable for Wednesday's game against the Suns, is indeed playing.
Considering Clarke was initially listed as "week-to-week" this is excellent news. Breathe a sigh of relief and get him back in all your lineups.
Source: Grizzlies PR on Twitter
December 11, 2019, 7:26 pmJeff TeaguePG, Minnesota Timberwolves
Jeff Teague will suit up for Wednesday's tilt vs. the Jazz after being listed as questionable with an ankle injury.
Teague will likely continue to be the primary playmaker off the bench for the Wolves as Jarrett Culver has taken the starting role. Teague is currently producing top 86/106 per-game value in 8/9 cat leagues.
Source: Jon Krawczynski on Twitter
December 11, 2019, 7:14 pmMalik MonkSG, Charlotte Hornets
Malik Monk will not play in Wednesday's game vs. the Nets due to a finger injury.
Monk was previously listed as a game-time decision before this most recent news. With Monk joining Nicolas Batum as unavailable, Dwayne Bacon has a real chance to enter the rotation while Cody Martin and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist could also see more minutes. Bacon makes for an intriguing low-cost DFS play.
Source: Hornets PR on Twitter
December 11, 2019, 6:32 pmMalik MonkSG, Charlotte Hornets
Malik Monk (finger discomfort) will be a game-time decision for Wednesday's matchup against the Nets.
Monk could see additional opportunity in Wednesday's contest if he is able to play as the Hornets will be without Nicolas Batum (left hand). If Monk ends up sitting out, Dwayne Bacon, Cody Martin and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist could all be intriguing low-cost DFS plays. Bacon has the most fantasy-friendly game out of the three.
Source: Hornets PR on Twitter
December 11, 2019, 6:27 pmIman ShumpertSG, Brooklyn Nets
Iman Shumpert has been upgraded to available for Wednesday's contest vs. the Hornets.
Since signing with the Nets in early November, Shumpert has been averaging 18.8 minutes off the bench and hasn't provided value for fantasy leagues outside of perhaps 30-team leagues.
Source: Brian Lewis on Twitter
December 11, 2019, 6:23 pmKeita Bates-DiopSF, Minnesota Timberwolves
Keita Bates-Diop (illness) will not play in Wednesday's matchup against the Jazz.
With Bates-Diop ruled out, Treveon Graham and Josh Okogie could see additional opportunity.
Source: Wolves PR on Twitter
December 11, 2019, 6:18 pmNicolas BatumSG, Charlotte Hornets
Nicolas Batum will not face the Nets on Wednesday due to discomfort in his left hand.
Batum has been averaging 21.9 minutes per game but is averaging a career-low 3.3 field goal attempts per game. His usage so far this year is also a career-low (9.5). With Batum ruled out, Malik Monk (game-time decision) could see more minutes if he ends up playing. Dwayne Bacon would also see some minutes.
Source: Hornets PR on Twitter
December 11, 2019, 6:12 pmCaris LeVertPG-SG, Brooklyn Nets
Malika Andrews of ESPN is reporting that Levert (right thumb surgery) is on schedule for the initial 4-6 week timetable and has resumed on-court work but has yet to be cleared for contact.
The Nets are without both Levert and Kyrie Irving (shoulder), but both are ramping up their activity. Neither have been cleared for contact yet, so this is a situation to continue to monitor for those who have either of them on fantasy rosters.
Source: Malika Andrews on Twitter


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The Beatles: how many of their album covers can you identify?
The Beatles were in the news this week after fan Jim Irsay shelled out $2.1m (£1.4m) on the last piece of his project to reunite the Beatles piece by piece – Ringo Starr's drum kit.
"Finally, after 45 years, the Beatles are together again," he said on Friday night after picking up Starr's 1963 Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl drum kit, which now joins instruments played by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison in Mr Irsay's collection.
This week also marked the 50th anniversary of the release of Rubber Soul.
And separately, the Telegraph's Rhiannon Williams has called for The Beatles to drop their resistance to web streaming services, noting that they're the last, biggest band to resist their music being available to play on channels such as Spotify and Apple Music:
The Beatles split up in 1970, and only two of the original four are still living. This isn't about making money and it's not about dragging their legacy through the dirt, it's about preserving and making their amazing songs as easily accessible as possible to an increasingly fickle and distracted audience and steer them away from torrent sites.
Amid all this Beatles talk, our minds turn to the Fab Four's iconic sleeve art.
Can you correctly identify a Beatles album looking at just a small detail from the cover?
For a bit of extra help, we've added in the first line sung on each album. There are 10 questions to answer - let us know how you do by tweeting your results.


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LONDON — The Walt Disney Company offered to buy Sky News on Tuesday — but not because the British news channel is core to Disney's business.
Instead, the offer is meant to help Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox buy full control of Sky News's parent company, the broadcaster Sky, a deal that has languished amid concern here in Britain that Mr. Murdoch could assume too much control over the country's media.
Disney has a stake in the outcome of that transaction. It agreed late last year to buy the bulk of Fox's assets — including Mr. Murdoch's international broadcasting operations, of which Sky is a part — for $52.4 billion. And it is competing against Comcast, the American cable giant that plans to make its own bid for control of Sky.
Since unveiling the 21st Century Fox bid in 2016 for the 61 percent of Sky that it did not already own, Mr. Murdoch has faced sharp questions over whether he would oversee too much of the media in Britain. His existing properties, including the newspapers The Sun and The Times of London, reach a third of British consumers. And he took fire for the phone-hacking scandal that led to the closing of The News of the World, the first newspaper that he acquired in Britain. (That controversy forced him to back off an earlier bid for full control of Sky.)
Britain's competition regulator, known as the C.M.A., provisionally rejected Fox's bid this year as "not in the public interest."
Enter Disney, which has a smaller presence in British media and carries no such historical baggage.
Much of its decision to propose buying Sky News lies in a desire to eventually own Sky, which has 23 million customers and holds lucrative broadcast rights to the English Premier League and other professional soccer leagues. Robert A. Iger, the American media giant's chief executive, has called the broadcaster "a real crown jewel."
Disney said that it would hold on to Sky News even if Fox's bid for Sky fell apart and that it would "sustain the operating capital of Sky News and maintain its editorial independence."
Fox unveiled an alternative proposal as well: completely separating Sky News from its parent company, giving the news provider its own board of directors and agreeing to fund it for 15 years.
"We believe that the enhanced firewall remedies we proposed to safeguard the editorial independence of Sky News addressed comprehensively and constructively the C.M.A.'s provisional concerns," Fox said in a statement.
And Sky added in its own statement, "Sky believes that both of these remedy proposals comprehensively address any plurality concerns the C.M.A. may have, and would guarantee the long-term future of Sky News and its ongoing editorial independence."
Shares in Sky were up 2 percent, at 1,320 pence, on Tuesday's news.
The competition regulator is expected to offer its recommendation on Fox's bid for Sky by May 1. A final decision on the transaction by Matt Hancock, Britain's culture secretary, is expected on June 13.


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When Canonical's "Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life", Mark Shuttleworth, announced the new branding of Ubuntu, many asked him if there is going to be new branding for other Ubuntu-derivatives like Kubuntu. Shuttleworth replied that there will be new brandings and that the designers at Canonical are working on that.
Now, a part of the new branding for Kubuntu 10.04 and Lubuntu 10.04 has emerged with the release of the new plymouth themes for both of them. Sadly, the new theme has not come in Xubuntu 10.04 yet.
The new plymouth themes in both Kubuntu and Lubuntu are identical in design to that of Ubuntu. The only difference is the logo and the color.
Here are the new plymouth themes for Kubuntu and Lubuntu:
The Kubuntu plymouth theme is not final. As part of the new branding, new logos are being designed for Kubuntu. When the new logos are available, the logo that is used in the plymouth theme right now will be replaced by the new logo.
The some decisions of the Canonical design team regarding the Ubuntu branding did not go down very well with certain sections of the Ubuntu community. When the news of the new Kubuntu branding emerged, certain sections of the community has already started raising concerns if the design team will make those same decisions for Kubuntu as well.


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BUFFALO — A Buffalo Bills prospective ownership group that includes rocker Jon Bon Jovi has conducted a feasibility study into buying the NFL franchise and building a stadium in Toronto, a person close to the situation said.
BUFFALO — A Buffalo Bills prospective ownership group that includes rocker Jon Bon Jovi has conducted a feasibility study into buying the NFL franchise and building a stadium in Toronto, a person close to the situation said.
The study identified at least three potential stadium sites, two in Toronto, including one on the waterfront, and another in the suburb of Mississauga, the person told The Associated Press on Thursday. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because Bon Jovi and his partners, Larry Tanenbaum and the Rogers family, have not publicly revealed details of their plans to purchase the team.
Andy Bergmann, responsible for overseeing the Bon Jovi group's stadium plans, confirmed Thursday in an email to the AP that his company has conducted stadium studies, "but nothing related to any specific site."
"We have undertaken engineering and design studies," wrote Bergmann, co-founder of Toronto-based Wessex Capital Partners, a growth equity investment firm that specializes in architecture, design and engineering services. "All of our work has been about a generic site and whether it was more rural or urban. We are aware of potential sites in the western NY and southern Ontario region, and are in fact meeting with two Buffalo area developers next week.
"No feasibility studies have been undertaken on any site to date."
EDMOND, Okla. — Suspended Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Justin Blackmon has been arrested in Oklahoma on a complaint of marijuana possession.
Blackmon, a former standout at Oklahoma State, was arrested Wednesday evening in the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond. Police say they noticed his sedan go around stopped traffic in an attempt to get into a turn lane.
Police spokeswoman Jenny Monroe says an officer detected a "heavy smell of marijuana" coming from the car, and that Blackmon admitted he had smoked "a blunt" while driving and had another in his vehicle.
Blackmon was arrested and booked into the Edmond jail, where he posted $657 bond.
MANKATO, Minn. — Minnesota Vikings special teams coordinator Mike Priefer says he "went way below the bar" with his homophobic remark in front of players that led to his looming three-game suspension.
The Vikings reported to training camp Thursday, and Priefer reiterated his apology for the anti-gay comment he made nearly two years ago to agitate then-punter Chris Kluwe. The words led to a six-month investigation commissioned by the Vikings in response to Kluwe's complaint, and the punishment for Priefer was announced last week.
An unsatisfied Kluwe vowed a lawsuit, but his attorney has held off on filing it while continuing to talk with the team's lawyer.
Priefer says he's sorry for the negative publicity he brought and the insensitivity he showed. He'll serve his suspension at the start of the regular season.
OXNARD, Calif. — Dallas linebacker Rolando McClain missed the start of training camp to return to Alabama for trial on charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said McClain returned to his home state Wednesday, and the team was hopeful he would get back from Decatur, Alabama, in time for the third day of camp workouts Saturday.
McClain's trial was set for Friday after a judge rejected a delay. McClain traveled with the team from Dallas to Oxnard, California, on Tuesday.
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — On the eve of training camp, the Atlanta Falcons have agreed to terms on a new contract with receiver Roddy White.
The Falcons announced the four-year extension Thursday. Terms haven't been released.
White holds the team records for career receptions (685) and yards receiving (9,436). But he battled ankle and hamstring injuries last season, missing three games and ending his streak of 133 in a row.


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Hey all! I promised my barre classes I would do a video for them so they can still do a barre workout at home while I am away. Really I'm just posting here so it's easy for them to find it! But if you've never done barre before and you're curious…check it out!
By the way, if you choose to follow along, I am not responsible or liable for any injury you may incur while performing this workout, so please use common sense to help you avoid injury and, if you need to, consult a doctor before beginning any new exercise routine.


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Recently two people expressed different opinions on the value of customize. I hope that this email helps create more understanding. A lot of people seem to find customize irksome. I very much appreciate the work that went into it and the philosophy behind it, but I admit that I, too, don't use it (except for faces because I don't know how to do those otherwise). Here are some extemporaneous ideas for possible ways to improve it. These are just my impressions and some of them might be incorrect. I might have missed a few things. However, I hope that they are useful. :) - the customizable entries should stand out. but some are in a special face while others are not. help text and docstrings look the same as the entries. a special face, perhaps red, used for all customizable entries and not used for anything else, would help. - help text does not take into account window-width. it should fill according to window-width minus a fixed amount. this should also optionally occur for docstring text, ideally trying to notice, filladapt-style, when there is a table, a list, or code. - it is not easy to navigate with the keyboard. n and p get stuck on values, then you have to manually go to the next widget. - too many keystrokes to try various settings (e.g. try various faces). - perhaps something like orgstruct minor mode could be used to organize the customize buffer so that users do not have to learn a special way of interacting. - a more flexible infrastructure for customize-changed, which also works for large packages that do not come with emacs, might be nice. - the difference between "undo edits" and "reset to saved" is not clear. rewording would help. - it is not clear how to .emacs -ize custom code. simple for variables, less so for faces. also not clear when to do so, in the case of faces. for example, will a restart of emacs be necessary? - having the entries in custom-set-variables and custom-set-faces include the (useless for it but useful for the user) setq or set-face (or whatever it is) would make it easy to cut and paste from the custom section to your own .emacs. - it is not easy to hide and unhide. a key would be easier than buttons. - have help text tell you how. - trees should be easier to fold and unfold, perhaps with a key. - a command for next and previous (perhaps redefining n and p) which also optionally hides and unhides everything as you navigate, would also help. - it seems to say changed outside of customized even when it is not. have not tracked this down. comment perhaps. - choosing numbers to choose the state requires a translation step. selecting by letter would be less cognitively burdensome. Again these are just possibilities for improving the (imo) good start that is customize. -- For personal gain, myalgic encephalomyelitis denialists are knowingly causing further suffering and death by grossly corrupting science. Do you care about the world? http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/What_Is_ME_What_Is_CFS.htm
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Come meet an astonishing array of incredible organisms that produce light on land and in the world's oceans. From fields of flickering fireflies to deep-sea channels filled with ghostly jellyfish and more, you'll explore the many amazing realms where scientists continue to discover bizarre and beautiful bioluminescent species.
Take a look some of the world's most magical and mysterious creatures that glow in the dark!
Eastern and southern North America
Bioluminescence on land appears in unexpected places. The luminescent glow of mushrooms is often called foxfire, a term coined by early settlers.
This species of bioluminescent mushroom grows in clumps on logs, stumps, and trunks of deciduous trees, especially beech, oak, and birch.
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Central and southeastern U.S.
A firefly—actually not a fly at all, but a beetle—emits light from a tiny organ called a lantern, located on the underside of its abdomen. A biochemical reaction takes place here within specialized cells called photocytes.
In the presence of oxygen, luciferin (meaning "light-bearer") is acted on by another type of chemical, an enzyme known as luciferase. This process takes place in all organisms that generate their own light.
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Instead of generating their own light, many organisms glow through a process called fluorescence. Note the appearance of this scorpion in daylight versus ultraviolet light, which brings out the vivid neon coloring.
Fluorescence involves special pigments that containing molecules that transform light rather than create it—in other words, they take in light of one color, then send it out again in another.
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The brilliant glow of fluorescent corals like these has been a source of wonder since it was first caught on camera around 50 years ago. Bloody Bay Wall, with its spectacular display of corals, drops down 1,000 feet.
Fluorescent molecules within these corals may serve as sunscreen, providing protection by filtering out harmful ultraviolet rays. Many corals glow around the mouth and tentacles, and might also use their light to attract prey.
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Pacific Ocean
When this jellyfish is poked or jostled, spots on its rim light up like an emerald necklace. Its mysterious glow is a combination of bioluminescence and fluorescence. Inside its miniature light organs, a chemical reaction makes blue bioluminescent light, and a fluorescent molecule turns the blue light to green.
Scientists have learned to make use of this green fluorescent protein (GFP), which they use to literally illuminate and map biological processes in humans and other animals.
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Coastal waters of Southeast Asia
Some animals that glow in the dark don't have their own light-making chemicals. Instead, they form a partnership with bioluminescent bacteria that emit light in exchange for nutrients and shelter.
A male Golden Ponyfish uses muscular shutters to control the light made inside his special bacteria-filled organs. To disguise himself from predators, he glows along his belly, matching the light filtering down from above. And at times, he turns off his belly light and flashes his sidelights to attract a mate.
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North Atlantic Ocean
In the deep ocean, most animals are bioluminescent, but only one animal is known to bioluminesce in two ways. The female Anglerfish possesses a modified fin spine topped with a lure that pulses with bacterial light, while her chin sports tendrils filled with light-producing chemicals.
Having sunk his teeth into her side, a typically tiny male Anglerfish will stick to her for life. This helps ensure that her eggs will be fertilized; in the lonely depths of the ocean, it's not easy to find a mate.
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The innovations that Steve Jobs's creativity and determination have brought into this millennium abound. His recent death at 56 called to mind his 2005 speech when he said, "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life."1
He said that since age 17 he'd resolved to live every day as if it were his last, and energized by that thought he provided creative answers to many of our technological needs.
Yet, according to Steve, when he was 13, the church failed to give him answers he needed, and he chose to walk away from Christianity. According to Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's biography (which was to have been titled iSteve), Steve's parents were
not fervent about their faith [but] wanted him to have a religious upbringing, so they took him to the Lutheran church most Sundays. That came to an end when he was thirteen. In July 1968 Life magazine published a shocking cover showing a pair of starving children in Biafra. Jobs took it to Sunday school and confronted the church's pastor. . . . "Does God know about this and what's going to happen to those children?" [The pastor answered,] "Steve, I know you don't understand, but yes, God knows about that." Jobs announced that he didn't want to have anything to do with worshipping such a God, and he never went back to church.2
According to the biography's description, the Steve Jobs "tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values."
According to the biography's description, the Steve Jobs "tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values."3 It describes him as the "ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination."4 He has given the world much. But the failure of religion to give him the Bible's answers to his questions robbed him by closing his eyes to the greatest gift available to him.
While we enjoy the legacy of innovations5 Steve Jobs has left us, we Christians should be mindful of the warning his experience as a thirteen year old has also left. Like so many described in the chapter titled "Sunday School Syndrome" in AiG's book Already Gone, Steve did not get the answers to the questions troubling his heart and so walked away from God.
We obviously do not know what Steve Jobs would have decided if he'd been given the answers the Bible provides about death and suffering. God created a perfect world where people could have lived forever with no death and no suffering. Yet Adam and Eve decided to make their own rules and reject their Creator's authority and love. Their disobedience brought death and suffering into the world. All of creation was cursed because of their sin, and all of us display the same sinful nature they did. God didn't start the suffering, but He stepped into this world as Jesus Christ to experience the fullness of it, to pay the price for man's sin, and to make a way to put an end to death.
We wish Steve had been given this answer. Later he expressed admiration for "living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it."6 Jesus Christ loved children. And Jesus died to put an end to death and suffering. If Steve had been introduced to the Creator in such a way as to understand where suffering came from and then gotten to know the Jesus of the Bible, perhaps he'd have made a different decision.
God expects us all to study the Bible's answers to questions people like young Steve Jobs asked that Sunday. 1 Peter 3:15 exhorts us to always be prepared to give answers. We never know when the person we're talking to—child, teenager, or adult—is asking the crucial question, the question that is the last straw for him, the question that can direct his mind to consider the claims of Jesus Christ and the salvation He offers or that can turn him away forever. Our answers need to be powerful, genuine, loving, and—above all—biblical.
Further Reading
- Why Does God's Creation Include Death and Suffering?
- Why Do God's Children Suffer?
- Evil at God's Hand
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Hey folks! I recently finished these repurposed sewing machine racks that are now wine caddies. I created a series of eight different ones. I didn't think I would ever find a use for these racks off of vintage sewing machine tables, but finally a lightbulb went off. They can also be used to hold barbecue/grill tools, picnic supplies and just about anything else slender enough that could use some storage in any room!
Some have old license plates, some with metal screen, some with bottle openers too! Some even have vintage wooden tennis racquets on the side. I custom cut several wood pieces on the outside and also on the inside panels to keep bottles from hitting each other.
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The World Bank gave Paul Wolfowitz a second chance. He squandered it, and his resignation has left the institution in turmoil.
The World Bank gave Paul Wolfowitz a second chance. He squandered it, and his resignation has left the institution in turmoil.
The U.S. Justice Department is in even more disarray - its credibility and competence in question.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales needs to join Wolfowitz by making his exit. President Bush has helped Gonzales save face by steadily defending him in public. It's time for Gonzales to return the favor by showing some leadership and resigning for everyone's good.
Gonzales needs to leave so the damage done to the status and credibility of this important, supposedly impartial agency can be repaired.
Wolfowitz and Gonzales have failed to recognize that their stubbornness and poor management have been as much a problem as any allegations about malfeasance or impropriety.
They need to enter a 12-step humility clinic for hypocrisy and arrogance. They're their own worst enemies.
Wolfowitz, a neocon professor while helping craft the Bush administration's badly flawed Iraq invasion plan, left the White House two years ago when he wasn't moved up to become secretary of defense or national security adviser.
Bush supported his switch to the World Bank, where he proclaimed he would weed out cronyism and corruption abroad.
However, Wolfowitz, who arranged a $60,000 pay raise for his girlfriend when she was forced to change jobs after his arrival, resigned Thursday and officially leaves his position June 30.
The World Bank has been staggered by the scandal.
Gonzales still is the country's attorney general, but he is plagued by a similar competence and credibility gap.
The nation's top law enforcement official continues to look indecisive, disorganized, forgetful and manipulative following Capitol Hill hearings and unfolding revelations of questionable conduct.
The Justice Department is struggling to regroup from the scandal surrounding politically motivated firings of eight U.S. attorneys and a glaring leadership breakdown obvious to almost everyone in Washington except Gonzales and Bush.
American taxpayers simply deserve government officials who are more competent and qualified to do their jobs than this.
Contrary to the six-year pattern of the Bush administration, admitting mistakes and acknowledging failure aren't signs of weakness. Level-headed, common-sense apologies actually can signal strength and provide reassurance.
Too many politicians and public officials are too arrogant and stubborn to acknowledge this.
When you preach righteousness and law and order, though, you'd better walk the walk. When you don't, be prepared for a well-deserved overdose of public wrath.
Wolfowitz and Gonzales forgot - or never learned - a simple lesson: It's OK every now and then to be humble and do the right thing.


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Date: 21 August 2014
Event: Workshop on Roll-out Implementation of Communication and Awareness Raising related to Climate Change Adaptation and Prevention of Natural Disasters in School
First of all, I am very pleased to join the Ministry of Education and Training again today in welcoming all of you participating at the two sites National University and Vinh University. I would like to extend warmest congratulations to MOET on the roll-out implementation of the MOET approved Project on Communication and Awareness Raising on Climate Change Adaptation and Prevention of Natural Disasters. While I am happy to speak on behalf of UNICEF, at the same time I am doing so on behalf of our co-lead agency Save the Children and development partners with whom we work so closely through the Coordination Group on Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Climate Change.
With the strong Disaster Risk Management agenda in Viet Nam, it is critically important to have a strong education sector response. We are happy to see over the last years the Ministry of Education and Training under strong leadership of Vice Minister Quy and now Vice Minister Hung has stepped up with foundational responses around strategic planning and particularly institutional capacity development with a strengthened MOET Steering Committee, the MOET led education cluster coordination mechanism, and on-going operationalization of the MOET Action Plan for Disaster Risk Management, all in solid alignment with the recently approved Law on Prevention of Natural Disasters, national priorities and national programmes such as the Community based Disaster Risk Management Programme (CBDRM) as per Decision 1002.
This year has marked special milestones related to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change in education. This is the third important event I have the honour to participate with the MOET related to DRR and Climate Change (I am sure there have been many more). The last two were on the curriculum framework which I believe represented major foundational steps to introduce DRR and CC knowledge and skills to children through the education system. This time as we discuss communication and awareness raising, UNICEF sees this as a great connection and complementarity with other important work led by the Ministry of Education and Training for example, curriculum development, assessment and management system prior to, during and after disasters which is under way with lots of momentum, as well as the safe school framework which is being initiated.
I would like to mention 3 proposals to the provinces, as you proceed with the implementation of this approved project, and MOET in its guidance and oversight:
(1) ensure synergy with work around curriculum, safe school to leverage impact for children, bringing it all within the holistic provincial Action Plan which many of your provinces have developed to implement MOET Action Plan. At the same time please enhance linkages with other initiatives under way in your provinces through the national CBDRM/1002 programme, and other donor-supported programmes.
(2) on communication messages, I have been a lot discussions around prevention of natural disasters, to align with the semantics of the Law on Prevention of Natural Disasters, I would like to suggest as you unpack this work please expand the messages to capture broader and related concepts such as risks and hazards, vulnerability, risk reduction and resilience building. This is crucial to ensure children and young people are well equipped with the right and adequate knowledge and skills through your communication work. This well aligns with international definitions and practices. At the same time, it is very important to remind ourselves that children and young people are not just to be protected but are change agents who engage with peers and others and lead in disaster risk reduction efforts, and modelling climate smart and environmentally friendly behaviours.
(3) on communication methodologies, there is a unique opportunity to be innovative and please maximise innovation, even going for unprecedented and ground breaking methods to enrich DRR and CC education, maybe methods that are not yet used in the lesson plans in curriculum but may be appropriate for school-wide, outside of class activities, and communication activities engaging parents. Many of these methodologies will maximise children's engagement and their roles in driving change and in finding solutions for climate change adaptation.
With the broad range of partners here with very rich experience and expertise, I strong believe we can all contribute to this exciting communication work particularly in shaping communication messages and methods. So we are at your call!
UNICEF believes in the critical importance of disaster risk reduction and climate change education, in enhancing the education sector's preparedness, timely and quality response to impact of disasters, emergencies, and climate change. This is to ensure the child's rights to safety, education and development is fully realised. Such commitment includes ensuring (1) children, teachers and schools are best equipped and prepared for emergencies and disasters, (2) education is least disrupted in times of emergencies, and (3) quality schooling is maintained, including for children affected by disasters and climate change. At the same time, we believe in children's participation in creating a safety culture and their leadership to take actions, not just for the present but also for the future development of the country.
UNICEF is proud to work with the Ministry of Education and Training, Save the Children, our sister UN agencies, and all development partners to contribute to the education sector response to disasters and climate change, which we firmly believe is part and parcel to the sector's pursuit of quality education for all children in Viet Nam, to meet national and international commitments such as the National Goal for Education for All, the Millennium Development Goal for education, the goals set out in the Education Development Strategy till 2020.
Lastly, many special thanks to Vice Minister Hung for his strong leadership for this important work on DRM and CC, and the MOET, National University and Vinh University for organising this important event. I wish for great success for the workshop and look forward to continued partnerships with all of you.
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- Opening Remarks By Mr. Jesper Moller, UNICEF Deputy Representative at the Launch of UNICEF's Children Rights and Business Principles
- Opening Remarks by Mr. Youssouf Abdel-Jelil, UNICEF Representative at the launch of UNICEF's State of the World's Children Report 2015 – Reimagine the Future: Innovation for Every Child
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Made for #screensaverjam in Amulet. My first foray into Lua really, so a lot of messing around.
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An NYC event filled with fun, sport, information, and of course, dogs. Sound like a dream come true? It is. Well, luckily for you, there's still time to get tickets to AKC Meet the Breeds presented by Purina® Pro Plan®. This event takes place Saturday, February 11th at Piers 92 and 94.
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Sometimes, though not commonly, you come across a story that just grips you from the second that you read it, and intrigues you long after you've finished it. This article is going to be one of those. This was not written for the upcoming 'Diabolical Confusions: Volume 1' book, but rather, due to it's original nature of spawning from the internet, it seemed a fitting place to be drafted specifically for the website. Some fans wanted some new and unique content, and at the time of writing, I couldn't think of a better story. It fits right in here, as it contains elements of a haunting, malevolent spirits, paranormal activity, highly religious undertones, an accursed item, and lots and lots of witness verification. As a matter of fact, this story is so damned intriguing that it is the basis for Sam Raimi's newest horror project, "The Possession", released in August, 2012, starring Kyra Sedgwick and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. This story has been around for a while – 2004 and earlier, actually – and even I remember coming across this listing "back in the day". Only recently did I discover that it was the inspiration for the above-referenced movie, and here is everything I know about it. (more…)
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The movie "The Exorcist" was based on a true story from 1949. A boy was diagnosed as being possessed by the devil, and the Roman Catholic Church believed this enough to assign multiple exorcists to this case. A supposed total of 26 people have been said to have witnessed the horrible things that happened during these exorcisms, and it was apparently so terrifying to those who were involved that books were written about it, and movies were made.It is considered today as one of the scariest movies ever made, and so many stories borrow and steal directly from this story that it is hard to see where one begins and another ends. (more…)


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- TITLE: God Defines Miracles
By Leola Ogle
There's also a large shiny metal tub for scrubbing hands before entering NICU.
We gather at the appointed time, but the surgeon is late. We pace, glance at our watches, make light-hearted attempts at mundane conversations. Staff gather behind the glass wall conversing, words we can't hear, they cast compassionate glances in our direction.
Through the glass doors, the first incubator you encounter is Angel's. This is her second surgery in her short month of life. During pregnancy, tests revealed my daughter's baby had Down Syndrome and a defective heart. Termination of the pregnancy had been hinted, but not blatantly recommended.
Abortion wasn't an option. This baby was never viewed as anything but a gift from God.
Down Syndrome is the least concern for my granddaughter, Angel. Her heart condition is more severe than anticipated. She's also undergone surgery for a blocked intestine. Her tiny body retained fluid, causing her to bloat. She looks pitiful!
The month filled with anguish and prayers as Angel's condition deteriorated. Medication hasn't worked. Surgery has been scheduled to insert an intravenous access to start dialysis. It's a last attempt to save her life. We've been told the risk is high for Angel in her fragile condition. We choose the procedure, desperate to keep her with us.
Because she's so fragile, she can't be moved for surgery. Surgery will be performed in NICU. Less critical babies are moved to other rooms. Parents whisk past us, unable to meet our eyes.
A young doctor enters the room, smiles, shakes hands, introduces himself. He's the dialysis specialist. He's upbeat, positive, optimistic. We watch as he examines Angel, studies her chart. He doesn't seem as optimistic as he exits the area.
A nurse steps in to tell us the surgeon has been delayed in another surgery. Her eyes are kind, her voice gentle as she asks if she can get us anything.
Concern mingled with sadness fills the atmosphere. We all cope differently. Some mumble prayers, some softly weep, others make nonsensical remarks and jokes, some hug and cling. We are family! We care.
The surgeon arrives in hospital scrubs, a mask dangling around his neck. His exhaustion is evident. "Who are the parents?" he asks, his eyes sweeping over us.
"We are." Geoff and Denise say.
"Do you have other children?" He appears detached, lost in thought. An odd question, we think.
"I have four, he has five. Angel's our baby together." Denise's voice is full of emotion.
"My suggestion is to go home, love your children. Your baby's been through too much. This procedure is too risky with no guarantee of success. Think about it. Sometimes the most merciful thing is to just let them go." His words cut deep.
I cringe, biting my lip. I want to scream, cry or both. Geoff and Denise look around the room, their eyes begging for answers or merely support.
There's no discussion, for it has all been discussed and decided before we arrived. "If there's a slim chance it'll help Angel, we have to at least try. If we don't, we'll always wonder." Denise and Geoff speak together, their hands clasp in unity.
The surgeon's sigh resonates in the stillness. "I promise I'll do my best."
We move as one entity as close to the glass doors as possible. Preparations made, the surgeon begins, surrounded by nurses we've come to know and love. Was it minutes? Hours? Periodically eyes look up to meet ours with sadness and compassion. A collective shudder moves through us as bloody gauze drops to the floor.
Finally the surgeon stands erect, drops his mask and looks in our direction. We hold our breath as he removes his blood covered gloves.
He steps through the door, his weary eyes full of tender compassion. He embraces Geoff and Denise, his head shaking in sorrow. "I'm so, so sorry. I couldn't get a vein. I tried several times. I tried."
Angel's fragile heart had enough. God defines miracles. For Angel, it was going home to heaven.
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Home prices could plunge up to 40 percent in Florida.
NEW YORK - When Domenico Colombo saw that his monthly mortgage payment was about to balloon by 30 percent, he had a clear picture of how bad it could get.
His payment was scheduled to surge by an extra $1,500 in December. With his daughter headed to college next fall and tuition to be paid, he feared ending up like so many neighbors in Fort Lauderdale who defaulted on their mortgages and whose homes are now in foreclosure and sporting "For Sale'' signs.
Colombo did manage to renegotiate a new fixed interest rate loan with his bank, and now believes he'll be OK - but the future is less certain for the rest of us.
In the months ahead, millions of other adjustable-rate mortgages like Colombo's will reset, giving them a higher interest rate as required by the loan agreements and leaving many homeowners unable to make their payments. Soaring mortgage default rates this year already have shaken major financial institutions and the fallout from more of them, some experts say, could spread from those already battered banks into the general economy.
The worst-case scenario is anyone's guess, but some believe it could become very bad.
"We haven't faced a downturn like this since the Depression,'' said Bill Gross, chief investment officer of PIMCO, the world's biggest bond fund. He's not suggesting anything like those terrible times - but, as an expert on the global credit crisis, he speaks with authority.
"Its effect on consumption, its effect on future lending attitudes, could bring us close to the zero line in terms of economic growth,'' he said. "It does keep me up at night.''
Some 2 million homeowners hold $600 billion of subprime adjustable-rate mortgage loans, known as ARMs, that are due to reset at higher amounts during the next eight months. Subprime loans are those made to people with poor credit. Not all these mortgages are in trouble, but homeowners who default or fall behind on payments could cause an economic shock of a type never seen before.
Some of the nation's leading economic minds lay out a scenario that is frightening. Not only would the next wave of the mortgage crisis force people out of their homes, it might also spiral throughout the economy.
The already severe housing slump would be exacerbated by even more empty homes on the market, causing prices to plunge by up to 40 percent in once-hot real estate spots such as California, Nevada and Florida. Builders like Chicago's Neumann Homes, which filed for bankruptcy protection this month, could go under. The top 10 global banks, which repackage loans into exotic securities such as collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, could suffer far greater write-offs than the $75 billion already taken this year.
Massive job losses would curtail consumer spending that makes up two-thirds of the economy. The Labor Department estimates almost 100,000 financial services jobs related to credit and lending in the U.S. have already been lost, from local bank loan officers to traders dealing in mortgage-backed securities. Thousands of Americans who work in the housing industry could find themselves on the dole. And there's no telling how that would affect car dealers, retailers and others dependent on consumer paychecks.
Based on historical models, zero growth in the U.S. gross domestic product would take the current unemployment rate to 6.4 percent. That would wipe out about 3 million jobs from the economy, according to the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute.
By comparison, in the last big downturn between 2001-03 some 2 million jobs were lost, according to the Labor Department. The dot-com bust early this decade decimated the technology sector, while the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks hurt the transportation and allied industries. Economists said the country was officially in recession from March to November of 2001, but the aftermath stretched to 2003.
There is increasing evidence that another downturn has begun. Borrowers who took out loans in the first six months of this year are already falling behind on their payments faster than those who took out loans in 2006, according to a report from Arlington, Va.-based investment bank Friedman, Billings Ramsey.
That's making it even harder for would-be buyers to get new mortgages - a frightening prospect for home builders with projects going begging on the market, and for homeowners desperate to unload property to avoid defaulting on their loans.
Meanwhile, the number of U.S. homes in foreclosure is expected to keep soaring after more than doubling during the third quarter from a year earlier, to 446,726 homes nationwide, according to Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac Inc.


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We arrived at our Sydney apartment fairly late… (due to a combination of factors… flight was delayed by an hour . . . . .had to wait for hire car, re-put (it should be a word!) the 2 car seats in properly, pick up the keys from a random letter box 5km from our apartment…oh and all this with a 2hr time difference) but the kids had eaten on the plane & so that was helpful!
We were on the 6th floor – which was nice & it felt open on the balcony whereas the lower ones could have shared a bottle of Shiraz with their opposite neighbour without too much trouble! Adam was less appreciative of 6 floors when the lifts stopped working as he was bringing our bags in….. 😫up 6 flights of stairs! The apartment, however, was lovely. Light, open and modern and in the very trendy, apparently, neighbourhood of Pyrmont and Darling Harbour.
Unfortunately the forecast for the whole week we were in Sydney was rain.... so although we were shattered…. when the next day dawned reasonably bright… we thought we better seize the moment and go for a wander. Then after a general mooch near our apartment around Darling Harbour – we thought we should try & see Sydney Opera House etc before rain descended… G requested her 'magic pushchair' (The pockitt stroller that we carry in the basket under F's pushchair). Just a 20ish minute walk later – and Adam and I are looking at Sydney Opera house... . it doesn't look quite so impressive in the gloom, both G & F are asleep, the sky is grey, we are hungry and tired. We weren't exactly feeling the joy…. I guess that's the danger of feeling you HAVE to see something. We set off back to the apartment & to grab some lunch nearby … a very tasty big mushroom & cheese burger 🍔 suddenly made the world a much happier place!!
That afternoon Adam had to take the rental car back (after realising passenger side headlight & indicator wasn't working) – they swapped the car over to a different one as it was going to take 2 hours to change the light! Still, it meant a bit of a drive for Adam.
On the Saturday our Sydney experience improved greatly – we went to visit Matt & Raewyn who I met years ago when I was in China…. between us we now have 3 babies & a dog… so things are a little different – less booze, less sleep, more herding. 😂
The weather forecasts remained poor each day… and as each day dawned we didn't know what to do. Although during our week in Sydney we had several showers – it was nothing like the downfall predicted! We even made it to Manly . .
. . via the ferry which was fantastic as we could catch it from Darling Harbour – a 5 minute stroll from our place. This time we got to see Sydney (and the Opera House) at its glorious best – from the water – in the sunshine! Manly was wonderful, a real getaway from the city and the sun was so strong we found ourselves having to look for shade!
What rain?!?
The following day we started to really appreciate the Pyrmont area and why its locals seem to love it so much, we found a local playground Pirrama Park – where Adam was entertained building dams in the sand and G played a bit too 😂😂 What's more the cafe next to the park – Zebra Lounge – was unexpectedly fantastic & F enjoyed sharing my Haloumi, pea & mint fritters! We were recommended the Powerhouse museum by several people… it sounded great…. but we wimped out. It's one thing to have a free museum trip ruined by a stroppy toddler (see Wellington, NZ post) – it's another to spend $40 on the privilege!!
In amongst all of this… we decided we need to nudge F in to some better sleep patterns (as since he started teething in Kaikoura – he's been up roughly every 2 hours most nights 😫) So during our time is Sydney we had 3 tough nights of persuading F that night time wasn't feeding time….. and on the 4th night he slept 11pm – 6am…. hallelujah 🎉 (reality check – he has since decided his time to get up is between 5am and 6am – but this is a massive step forward!!)
We feel like we've caught up with ourselves a little after nearly a week in Sydney… We got used to being in a big city again, Adam got to meet up with some work colleagues … and we gradually felt more & more at home… and loved the area we were in. But now, just as we were settling in to Sydney life, it's time to get on our way… we have a week to drive to Melbourne!


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This is Andy's second album for Esoteric and follows on from a similar stylistic viewpoint which "Signal to Noise" hinted at. There is an obvious Pink Floyd feel here, not surprising giving his connection with that band and David Gilmour as engineer and producer. However, I think on this latest album he is making strides to develop his own particular, individual sound. The songs are all connected by a singular concept of water and that gives the overall album a cohesion, with Andy's lush production and loose, languid guitar playing evoking a singular, dreamy, hazy voyage throughout. I am reminded of Robert Wyatt's "Rock Bottom" which similarly evoked a dreamy, aquatic soundscape. The unhurried nature of the album enables the melodies to slowly evolve and a few listens are required for the songs to truly give up their riches. It's great to hear the unmistakeable sqawling sax of ex-VdGG David Jackson (no relation) on the epic Drownings, adding another sonic element to the proceedings.
This is an unusual, but impressive album. It sounds great as expected, not only on the CD but especially the hi-res stereo on the accompanying DVD which also has a surround mix which I am sure makes for an even more immersive, watery experience!


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Sunday, 26 August 2012
Fish on a plate #1
Thanks for your kind comments everyone!
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Just wonderful, as usualReplyDelete
I don't always leave comments, but I always love seeing your drawings. You are so talented!ReplyDelete
It's lovely, but I can imagine the real thing would smell a bit in the heat. Looking forward to seeing some more!ReplyDelete
wow! Wonderful colors!ReplyDelete
I like your fish very much! It's a fun and well-executed painting! You are so creative! I also love the blueberry cheesecake down there... you made it look so luscious!ReplyDelete
This is lovely. I like the balance of a touch of pink in the background as well as composition of the fish.ReplyDelete
Wonderful sketch. You rendered this image so well and accurately!ReplyDelete
The blue plate really makes the top fish POP off the page.ReplyDelete
Incredibly realistic. Youur painting style is superb.ReplyDelete
Love the shine from their scales. Beautiful colors and composition. Thanks for sharing it.ReplyDelete
It's so beautiful, and the level of detail on the plate is amazing! nancyReplyDelete


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Following the accession of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said in 1970 a large number of expatriates arrived in Oman to work on various Government projects. Three of these, Hamish Donald, Brian Fawcett and Tony Jenkins contacted a number of individuals they thought may be interested in their beloved rugby and on July 26th 1971 The Muscat Rugby Football Club was founded.
The constitution drawn up by the six man committee was adopted on August 9th 1971 and His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said accepted to be Patron of the Club. The first site was chosen for the club in Wattayah and four telegraph poles with metal pipes served as goal posts. The original gold and blue strip was replaced in 1977 when permission was given to play in Omans national colours of red, green and white.
Five matches were played in the 1971-72 season and the need for a clubhouse was recognised. With much generous assistance, work began at the end of 1972 and continued on and off for fifteen months. The first International Sevens tournament held on March 1st/2nd 1973 was made particularly memorable as H.M. Sultan Qaboos bin Said arrived to watch the final with Muscat 'A' losing to Dubai ' A' 6-22. The new clubhouse was opened at 1974 Sevens with Abu Dhabi 'A' defeating Muscat 'A' 10-0.
In 1985 the Club was asked to move from Wattayah and found its new home at Al Khuwair, the first clubhouse at the site consisted of portacabins donated by a local building contractor and these served the members well over the following nine years before they were destroyed by fire in February 1995. The playing field of sand and gravel was carved out of a major sand dune, not a surface you would wish to be tackled hard on.
Perhaps the highlight of the clubs achievements has been the three Dubai Sevens crowns, 1981, 1982 and 1991. On the occasion of the 1981 and 1982 victories, the Club represented the AGRFU in the Hong Kong Sevens, coming up against opposition of the calibre of the Barbarians.
In 1996 the club celebrated its 25th Anniversary, on the occasion an International 10's tournament was held with teams from Wales – Swansea RFC, New Zealand – Northcote RFC and The Quality Street Gang from England. QSG proved to be to strong for a young Swansea team in the final.
On 16 November 1997 we finally moved into our new clubhouse. This new facility could not have been built, without the help of many local contractors who gave generously of their time and materials. With the opening of this new facility Muscat RFC entered a new era.
Continuing in this tradition, in 2006 the Club has started the long awaited conversion of the sand field to a grass pitch. The first match on the green turf was against Abu Dhabi on 10th Nov 2006.
Despite the club closure in late 2007, the club continued to play rugby, Muscat were runner's up in the last two years in the Gulf Plate competition, both times losing out to Dubai dragons in the final. In addition the 2nd team were narrowly defeated in the Shield Final at the Dubai 7's 2008.
Muscat returned to winning ways in the 2011-2012 season by winning the Gulf Conference Cup after defeating Al Ain on their home turf. MRFC managed to repeat this feat in the 2016-17 season by once again winning the Gulf Conference Cup.


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It's still a Norv Turner team, make no mistake, but in spite of that, the AFC West championship now lies in San Diego's hands. Or Denver's, depending on your point of view. If the Chargers best Denver on Sunday, then a record of 8-8 is good enough for home-field advantage in the first round of playoffs. A San Diego win means you could say the Chargers had a good year, and that means somewhere in this great land Marty Schottenheimer is kicking his dog.
Eli Manning had a good 2008. He was transformed from kid brother and second-tier quarterback to Super Bowl Big Guy. He led the Giants to the 2007 playoffs as a wild card, then won three games in a row (on the road), then beat the heretofore undefeated New England Patriots in Super Bowl 42. This made a great many people — good people, productive people, sports-minded people — very happy.
And he might do it again. Sunday's 34-28 win over Carolina gives the Giants a first-round bye and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.
While we're here, we might as well look around.
Tennessee (13-2) has won the AFC South and a first-round bye. The Titans earned home-field advantage throughout the playoffs after a 31-14 thumping of Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh (11-4) took the beating, liked it, and won the AFC North plus a first-round bye.
Indianapolis (11-4) has a wild-card ticket and a number-five seed. Nothing new there.
The AFC East goes down to the last week. The Jets blew a big one when they lost to Seattle on Sunday. Puts them at 9-6. New England and Miami are 10-5. The Jets can still win their division if they prevail over Miami on Sunday and Buffalo stops New England. This happens and Bret Favre is beloved geezer. More likely, it doesn't happen and Favre is just another guy who stayed too long at the feeding trough.
New England wins the AFC East if they beat Buffalo and Miami loses. Not great odds, but better than the Jets. If Miami beats the Jets, it's an away game for them, then they win the division and reaffirm life's cardinal rule: arrogant bastards finish first.
Who else could I be talking about but Bill Parcells? He retired from football for the third time in January 2007. Was back in the saddle by December. Parcells makes Favre look like a virgin bride. After toying with Atlanta owner Arthur Blank, publicly humiliating the former Handy Dan Hardware regional manager, Parcells accepted the I'm-the-Big-Dog job in Miami and proceeded to turn that team — a team that won one game in 2007 — into the AFC East leader going into the last week of play. Bill Parcells is nothing if not a disloyal employee, but the man knows how to rehab a football team.
If Baltimore (10-5) beats Jacksonville, the club is in the postseason as a wild card. No one west of Maryland cares.
Arizona (8-7) is champion of the NFC West and has a shot at going into the playoffs with an 8-8 record if they can pull off a defeat against Seattle. Here's hoping.
The Carolina Panthers (11-4) are in the postseason, would enter as NFC South victor holding a first-round bye if they win at New Orleans or Atlanta beats St. Louis, which is probable. Atlanta will be playing for real; they'll get a first-round bye if they beat the Rams. As it stands now, the Falcons (10-5) have a wild-card ticket.
The NFC North is complicated by the fact that Green Bay plays Chicago on Monday night and I am writing this at 4:00 a.m. Monday morning and you will read this by teatime on Thursday. If Chicago loses the Monday-night game, Minnesota wins the NFC North. Or, if Minnesota beats the Giants next Sunday, they'll win the division.
But, Chicago still has a shot, thanks to the improbable Week 16 trifecta. To wit: Atlanta, San Diego, and Washington won. The Bears need to beat Green Bay and Houston, and there's no reason why they shouldn't. If Minnesota loses to the Giants on Sunday, Chicago will be NFC North division champs.
Now, then, you can forget pretty much everything I've written…in fact, forget everything the sportswriting industry has spit out since Sunday. The last weekend of the NFL season is a nightmare for bettors. Those teams that have clinched their postseason slots will be pulling their starters by the end of the first quarter. Games will be played by backups, making it impossible to set a decent line or predict who will win what. Buyer beware.
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- The NFL in 60 Seconds — Sept. 29, 2010
- Waiting on a Storyline — Jan. 20, 2010
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