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The army holds a particular place in our hearts, with a history so rich and storied that it has impressed traditional novels, epic films and entire communities built around war reenactments, so it is not surprising that Militaria collectors develop in number yearly. We work with a number of area military museums, have helped them with their donation appraisals, as well as help with setup and identification of their exhibits. Luckily, U.S. army MREs only have packed" and inspection" dates – so yes, even a ten year old case of MREs is guaranteed to be delivered before the clearly marked expiration date. Analysis of the examined military development tools should yield measurements for three prime-priority options, three of the options most-desired by customers of development gear. These auctions are done at state, federal & native ranges and are supposed to vacant the storehouse of military surplus and sell them at a really cheaper charge. This sale will contain 650 a number of army collectables including a 200 lot part of specially chosen Cap Badges, fabric badges and many others.
The VOLUNTARY TERMINATION of on-line auctions is hereby requested by the Office of Operational Rations, Protection Supply Heart Philadelphia, Defense Logistics Agency, Department of Defense. Therefore it is likely that you would get a better deal at authorities auctions than at a financial institution public sale. But, before deleting my authentic put up, I assumed concerning the variety of frock coats that had been bought and questioned about military choices around uniform style during this era. The makers of navy building equipment admire the range of situations during which their equipment must perform. Marlows is the sister firm of Bosleys Army Auctioneers of Marlow and was founded by the Partners Sally & Steven Bosley in 2005.
Try the Authorities Army Surplus Public sale which is a one among a sort auction the place anyone and everybody can get an opportunity to bid and get the Army vehicle of their selection. Judging by the way everybody was speaking, I could inform that the web web site where the auctions had been posted was fairly handy. I've seemed round for auctions and seized automobile giveaways in my area, but I couldn't ever find any.
There could be no single skilled on all of the extensive fields of navy collectables however Bosleys are most lucky to be able to call on its army of consultants, many thought of to be the main authority of their particular specialist area. Have a look at the Authorities Military Surplus Auction coupons which can be found at Goodshop. After Littlefield's death in 2009, his family donated the collection to the Collings Basis, which plans to use the money to construct a army vehicle museum at its headquarters in Stow, Massachusetts. Such are the vagaries of the monthly public auction of military surplus at Fort Meade.
Once you wish to cope with military vehicles on the market you must master the fundamentals of the armed forces vehicles before you go for the purchase. The cash that the police department or other our bodies make out of government auctions is then used for coaching or other functions. Be sure you have the garage space, as a result of these trucks are long and huge – roughly 5-6 inches wider than full-dimension pickup trucks like the Ford F-a hundred and fifty and Chevrolet Silverado. This makes me assume that eBay did, certainly, refuse to outright ban a majority of these auctions.


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THE world's biggest photograph sharing site is staggering starting with one calamity then onto the next. Only days after both of Instagram's organizers surrendered from Facebook, and just a single day after another manager was delegated to the organization, the site and its application smashed for over 60 minutes.
People were prevented from posting pictures of their breakfast on Wednesday after Instagram went down for about an hour from 8am.
Several cities, including London, San Francisco and Singapore, reported an outage. Its app displayed the Instagram name and icons at the bottom but the rest of the page was blank with a message saying "couldn't refresh feed".
Reports of the blackout started to rise soon after 5pm AEST from Australia, Japan, India, America, the UK, and Europe, as indicated by Aussie Outages.
The organization's site shown only a "5xx Server Error" message, and the application told clients, "We're sad, yet something turned out badly".
The worldwide blackout is probably going to have hindered its in excess of one billion dynamic month to month clients and in excess of 500 million individuals who get to the site day by day.
It additionally comes even from a pessimistic standpoint time for the organization, which just yesterday declared Facebook representative Adam Mosseri would lead it.
His arrangement pursued the twofold abdication of organizers Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom on September 25, after reports of conflicts with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the course of the organization and their waning specialist.
Instagram clients overflowed Twitter to grumble about the blackout this evening, with most just checking if their record was influenced or it was a bigger issue. Facebook and Instagram still can't seem to uncover the explanation for the blackout.

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Leadtek Sets New Standard For High Resolution Multi-Display Imaging and Visualization
Leadtek Quadro FX 600 PCI Enables Multiple Board Combinations Powering Interactive Visualization of Vast Amounts of Data
[ Taipei , Taiwan / Tokyo , Japan / Shanghai , China / Fremont , C.A. / Netherlands — April 23 rd , 2004 ]
Leadtek Research Inc. and NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today introduced the Leadtek Quadro® FX 600 PCI, a professional 3D graphics solution that extends a user's workspace by up to eight high-resolution, digital flat panels powered by one NVIDIA-based PC workstation.¹ Armed with all Leadtek Quadro FX features such as stereo 3D viewing, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 600 PCI powers interactive visual "roaming" of huge data sets such as downloads of satellite imagery via a 256MB frame buffer. Ideal for driving applications in markets including geospatial and medical imaging, this PCI implementation can also serve as an advanced graphics console in servers.
"The Leadtek Quadro FX 600 PCI is a scalable, cost-effective graphics board that helps solve complex scientific and technical challenges facing the intelligence and medical communities," said Sarang Ghatpande, senior analyst at DH Brown. "By breaking through barriers set by the limits of legacy technology, this new graphics product allows cartographers, radiologists, or any user with PCI-based workstations or servers to interactively visualize vast amounts of data using multiple high resolution displays without sacrificing performance."
New features and benefits of the Leadtek Quadro FX 600 PCI solution include:
The Leadtek Quadro FX 600 PCI features the industry's only true 128-bit floating-point graphics pipeline providing images with millions of colors in a broad dynamic range, stunning visual quality, and the highest degree of accuracy. Industry-leading 12 bits of sub pixel precision eliminates rasterization anomalies. Full support for OpenGL® 1.5 and Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmability as well as high level shading languages enables professionals to build sophisticated real-time shaders for simulating a virtually unlimited range of physical characteristics and surface properties.
In addition, NVIDIA offers one of the broadest professional application certification programs in the industry. Like all Leadtek graphics solutions, the Leadtek Quadro FX 600 PCI uses the NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture, a set of backward-and-forward, top-to-bottom compatible graphics drivers that optimize application performance, stability, and reliability.
Available in late April, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 600 PCI will be sold by Leadtek (Asia/Pacific), as well as value-added resellers and system builders.
NVIDIA's Quadro partner in the Asia Pacific region is Leadtek (excluding Japan ). For more information, please go to http://www.leadtek.com.tw.
¹ When using four Leadtek Quadro FX PCI boards in the same system.
² When pairing one or more Leadtek Quadro FX 600 PCI boards with an Leadtek Quadro FX AGP 8X solution from the following list: Leadtek Quadro4 980XGL, Leadtek Quadro FX 700, Leadtek Quadro FX 1100. Leadtek Quadro FX 3000, or Leadtek Quadro FX 3000G.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation is a market leader in visual computing technology dedicated to creating products that enhance the interactive experience on consumer and professional computing platforms. Its graphics and communications processors have broad market reach and are incorporated into a wide variety of computing platforms, including consumer digital-media PCs, enterprise PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems, notebook PCs, military navigation systems, and video game consoles. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara , California and employs more than 1,800 people worldwide. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.nvidia.com.
About Leadtek Research Inc.
Founded in 1986, Leadtek Research, Inc. is a research and development company, which specializes in the design and manufacturing of a wide range of high performance graphics, video and motherboard solutions. With a wide range of products from 3D Graphics, Multimedia, Motherboards, platforms for Video Conferencing, Video Surveillance, GPS Navigation, and Wireless Communication. Leadtek has its sights set on providing Total Systems and Total Solutions for entry level and professional users alike in 2002. Leadtek has always been focused on intensive R&D, and its ISO9001 manufacturing facility has been recognized as an industry quality leader. Leadtek's R&D efforts are channelled towards user satisfaction while at the same time keeping customer profitability in mind. Leadtek is committed to a win-win strategy of identifying and meeting the needs of its users, thereby sharing a mutual success with its customers.


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Japan Nabs Record for Oldest Living Person
A 115-year-old Japanese man won the title as the oldest living person on Monday, and is just days away from breaking another longevity record.
Jiroemon Kimura, who lives in Kyoto prefecture, became the oldest living person after the passing of Dina Manfredini, an Italian immigrant to the U.S., on Monday. Mr. Kimura had also previously held the record for oldest living man since April 2011. Once December is over, he'll become the oldest man ever.


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Have you ever heard of "the chocolate bag piper"?
If you live in the NYC area then you might've seen or already got word of an astonishing man by the name of Sylvester L. Harris. Not only is he "the chocolate bag piper" but he is also my incredible grandfather.
So… who is "the chocolate bagpiper" and how did he come about?
The Chocolate BagPiper is Sylvester L. Harris, a 75 year old, African American, Brooklyn based blues player who grew to become a successful bagpiper. At the tender age of 10 years old, Mr. Harris developed a fascination for bagpipes. It all began when a show hosted a writing contest and the grand prize was a bagpipe. Despite the fact that he didn't enter the contest, his obsession for bagpipes continued to grow.
Throughout school, Mr. Harris learned how to play a considerable number of different musical instruments. Such as the guitar, piano, saxophone, trombone, clarinet, Bruegel, snare drum, the bass, and the list goes on and on. He's a very talented individual.
At the age of 60, Mr. Harris finally learned to play the bag pipe. The International Union of Operating Engineers local 94 – 94A – 94B Pipes & Drums band, a gifted team full of Irish guys, taught Harris how to play. (They do offer free lessons for all of those who are seeking to learn. So if you're interested please feel free to get in touch with them at: http://www.local94.com).
Mr. Harris tours all over the United States to perform at a variety of events. These functions may range from Baby Showers and birthdays to memorials and funerals. He also plays at the St. Patrick 's Day parade in New York City almost every year. He is such a beautiful and talented player. You would've never guessed that he has only been playing for 15 years. It really is such a natural talent for him. When ever he is not on road, he is spending time with his extremely large family.
Who would've imagined that at 75 years old, Mr. Harris would be such a successful bagpipe player? Especially since he got started at such a late age. Mr. Harris is living proof that it is never too late to fulfill your goals. It is never too late to pursue your dreams. His story is truly inspirational.
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It's time again for a single page sketch at Stick It Down! This is a fun sketch-so get those chevrons out! ;)
Here is my take on the sketch. I used paper from Craft Smith. I love this vintage (but not too vintage) paper pack. I love paper packs more each time I use them. LOL! More poor piles of single papers are starting to gather dust. I better do something in 2015! ;)
For the chevrons I used my Heidi Swapp stencil and inked on Stampin' Up's Garden Green ink.
Here is a closer look at the title. These letters are from Art Warehouse. But they come in strips so you have to cut the individual letter out. At first I didn't want to-but it's not so bad. :)
I have had this bling tree from Making Memories for ever! Yay! I used it! (Do you ever feel that way-like scrapbooking success!)
Here is the sketch. So dust of your piles of paper because we can't wait to see what you create! :)
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I've been working on a new font the past few days, it's going to be yet another geometric font, this time it'll have tall letters, serifs and a fairly rigid composition.
The majuscules, minuscules and numbers are pretty much done, but I'm having a bit of trouble getting started with the non-alphanumeric characters. As always, the ampersand and the at sign remain to be the most difficult of the special characters, I'm considering borrowing some from my earlier high stress font "High Society".


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I have given the chimney where the cooker sits an undercoat of gesso after filling in some gaps with polyfiller and sanding. It will need a few more coats of gesso and some more sanding yet but I think I prefer the white to the cream colour. I think I am going to repaint all the kitchen furniture white, perhaps with blue accents. I have used the same tile wallpaper to back the chimney and have inserted a brick floor in the chimney using a bit of plastic brick sheet I found in my stash.
I was going to do up the cooker but then remembered I had one the same size in my stash so I replaced it with that. I can do up the other cooker another day for another project.
Anyway, here are a few pictures:
The kitchen as it was.
The chimney and cooker as they were.
The tile wallpaper added to the bottom half of the walls.
The new cooker in the renovated kitchen.
The cooker inset in the chimney with tile backing.
The brick floor of the chimney.
The kitchen.
I really want to replace that light shade but I'm not sure how I am going to do that yet as everything is wired and glued in. I'm sure I'll come up with some solution.
Lots of gesso-ing and sanding for me this week while I work on the rest of the kitchen furniture.
I hope you are having/have had a great weekend.


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OK so in addition to buying Starcraft II I have gotten back into World of Warcraft. But I am doing so with a twist! A roleplaying twist, to be precise.
No, I'm not going to go on an RP server and game there. I've tried that before, it just didn't work.
But what I do intend to do is play the game as if I was a character playing the game. Roleplay a character playing WoW! Like, for example, play as Gumshoe from Pheonix Wright, who rolled up a Tauren character.
I know some people on my flist also play WoW, so I was wondering if any of you would like to join me in my silly RP shenanigans!


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Things In The Atlantic That Make Me Want To Guzzle AntifreezeComments
Amazingly, the Atlantic has managed to find someone to lavishly praise the massive critical and commercial fiasco Don't Back Down From Spouting Union-Busting Nonsense. Did they just hire Rex Reed or some other critic with horrible taste that could explain this extraordinarily unpersuasive (and unusually lengthy) review? Hmmmm…
Disclosure: I work for TNTP, a non-profit organization that promotes equal access to effective teachers among poor and minority students
TNTP is a non-profit organization and was founded by Michelle Rhee in 1997.
I think we have an answer! But at least the Atlantic disclosed this when it chose to print this propaganda, right?
The original version of this post failed to disclose the author's position at TNTP.
Ah. I think we've reached the point where further commentary is superfluous.
Elsewhere, Stuart Taylor has taken time out from researching Sonia Sotomayor's Deeply Troubling undergraduate letters to the editor to write his latest anti-affirmative action screed. Maybe next month they'll give him space to further discuss how the "color-blind Constitution" is consistent with racial profiling.


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A new issue of the Journal of Language Evolution has just appeared, including a paper by Peeter Tinits, Jonas Nölle, and myself on the influence of usage context on the emergence of overspecification. (It has actually been published online already a couple of weeks ago, and an earlier version of it was included in last year's Evolang proceedings.) Some of the volunteers who participated in our experiment have actually been recruited via Replicated Typo – thanks to everyone who helped us out! Without you, this study wouldn't have been possible.
I hope that I'll find time to write a bit more about this paper in the near future, especially about its development, which might itself qualify as an interesting example of cultural evolution. Even though the paper just reports on a tiny experimental case study, adressing a fairly specific phenomenon, we discovered, in the process of writing, that each of the three authors had quite different ideas of how language works, which made the write-up process much more challenging than expected (but arguably also more interesting).
For now, however, I'll just link to the paper and quote our abstract:
This article investigates the influence of contextual pressures on the evolution of overspecification, i.e. the degree to which communicatively irrelevant meaning dimensions are specified, in an iterated learning setup. To this end, we combine two lines of research: In artificial language learning studies, it has been shown that (miniature) languages adapt to their contexts of use. In experimental pragmatics, it has been shown that referential overspecification in natural language is more likely to occur in contexts in which the communicatively relevant feature dimensions are harder to discern. We test whether similar functional pressures can promote the cumulative growth of referential overspecification in iterated artificial language learning. Participants were trained on an artificial language which they then used to refer to objects. The output of each participant was used as input for the next participant. The initial language was designed such that it did not show any overspecification, but it allowed for overspecification to emerge in 16 out of 32 usage contexts. Between conditions, we manipulated the referential context in which the target items appear, so that the relative visuospatial complexity of the scene would make the communicatively relevant feature dimensions more difficult to discern in one of them. The artificial languages became overspecified more quickly and to a significantly higher degree in this condition, indicating that the trend toward overspecification was stronger in these contexts, as suggested by experimental pragmatics research. These results add further support to the hypothesis that linguistic conventions can be partly determined by usage context and shows that experimental pragmatics can be fruitfully combined with artificial language learning to offer valuable insights into the mechanisms involved in the evolution of linguistic phenomena.
In addition to our article, there's also a number of other papers in the new JoLE issue that are well worth a read, including another Iterated Learning paper by Clay Beckner, Janet Pierrehumbert, and Jennifer Hay, who have conducted a follow-up on the seminal Kirby, Cornish & Smith (2008) study. Apart from presenting highly relevant findings, they also make some very interesting methodological points.


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"Establish effective community action to manage land degradation and assist the move to more sustainable resource uses in the Bengworden and Meerlieu area".
The Bengworden Landcare Group formed in 1989 and the group area covers 16,606 hectares. This area encompasses Bengworden, Meerlieu, Hollands Landing and Goon Nure. The group is situated approximately 25 km south west of the City of Bairnsdale.
The group has a membership base of 23 families, all of which are considered primary producers; their main source of income is derived from farming.
Currently, the main focus of the group is educating members in sustainable farming to increase knowledge in this area and allow members to address land degradation issues.
Contact: East Gippsland Landcare Network Support Staff
Phone: 03 5152 0600
Fax: 5152 6865
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You are Jehovah-Nissi, our Banner. You've captured our hearts and set them on fire. We are stuck on You – forever. May our lives be a living recommendation to others of the new life that we have in You.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits. ~ Psalm 103:2 – NKJV
We've met with You, the holy, living, almighty God, and there's no way we're keeping that to ourselves. Teach us to war like Joshua, to pour out our worship like Mary, and to dance unashamed like David.
We're not keeping this quiet, not on your life. Just like the psalmist who wrote, "I believed it, so I said it," we say what we believe. And what we believe is that the One who raised up the Master Jesus will just as certainly raise us up with you, alive. Every detail works to your advantage and to God's glory: more and more grace, more and more people, more and more praise!
II Corithians 4:13-15, The Message
Your plan doesn't need our help; still it consumes us. Your love compels us. All around the globe, the faithful serve You in oppressive or thief-threatening circumstances.
So we're not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us. There's far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can't see now will last forever.
II Corinthians 4:16-19, The Message
We thank You that we can reach hearts with a click of a button and an investment of our time. We thank you for calling us forward to speak, to teach, to listen, and to serve others for such an awesome time as this.
If you keep quiet at a time like this God will deliver the Jews from some other source, but you and your relatives will die: what's more, who can say but that God has brought you into the palace for just such a time as this?
Esther 4:14, TLB
Bless our community here and Your body around the world. Unite and strengthen our hearts with passion, persuasion, and purity that honors You and the eternal message of hope. Lord, we give You thanks in and for all things. To You be the glory, the honor, and praise.
Happy Thanksgiving. We're thankful for you.
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Atlas Shrugged (Part 1)Made in: USALanguage: EnglishDirector: Paul JohanssonStarring: Taylor Schilling, Grant Bowler, Matthew Marsden, Michael Lerner, Graham Beckel, Edi Gathegi, Jon Polito, Jsu GarciaYear: 2011
Synopsis: Based on the world renowned novel by Ayn Rand, this film version takes place in the year 2016. Massive increases in government power have intruded into the private sector, and only corporations in favor with corrupt, power hungry politicians are allowed to prosper.
As a result, the nation is thrown into economic turmoil as increases in burdensome regulations prevent business people from getting anything done. As the airline industry dramatically recedes, trains once again become the dominant form of intercontinental transit.
With economic troubles mounting, the government seeks greater control by asserting a collectivist attitude while painting productive (and therefore wealthy) individuals as villains.
Enter the story's heroine, Dagny Taggart (Taylor Schilling). Part owner of Taggart Transcontinental, she's one of the country's last and most successful business owners. Her brother James (Matthew Marsden), on the other hand, has taken a different route to prosperity.
By forming a close alliance with Wesley Mouch (Michael Lerner), the nation's economic czar, James has only succeeded through political favors and by influencing his Washington pals to pass competition-stifling legislation.
James Taggart, however, is incompetent as a businessman and lacks the ability to make important decisions.
After a damaged track derails one of the Taggart freight trains, an accident that costs millions, Dagny is determined to save her company. She enlists the help of Henry "Hank" Rearden (Grant Bowler), an industrialist who has invented a special metal that is lighter, stronger, and more durable than any existing form of steel.
Recognizing that Rearden's success is an existential threat to their power, James Taggart and his allies seek numerous ways to discredit the new metal and to turn public opinion against him. They even go so far as to pass more anti-competitive legislation.
Undeterred, Dagny and Rearden proceed with their plan to replace hundreds of miles of damaged track in order to restore not only Taggart Transcontinental, but a vital commerce route that the country depends upon.
All the while, the nation's few remaining industrialists begin vanishing after encountering the enigmatic John Galt (Paul Johansson).
The Good: Director Paul Johansson deserves credit for trying to tackle such a huge project. The filmmakers definitely understand the main themes of Atlas Shrugged, and it's apparent that they're doing their best to remain true to Ayn Rand's philosophy.
The casting isn't bad, and Taylor Schilling does a decent job of bringing Dagny Taggart to life. She pretty much fits the description of the character from the novel, and plays well off of the rest of the cast.
With an extremely low budget (a little more than 6 million dollars), Johansson and crew stretched their dollar in creative ways.But with all that being said...
The Bad: ...strictly as a narrative film, Atlas Shrugged falls short. Really short.
For one thing, the story is way too rushed. Important plot points happen very quickly, and we never get much of a chance to know the characters or their backgrounds. Extremely important characters from the novel are watered down to having just a few lines (if they're even shown), and the mystery behind John Galt lacks emotional punch.
Another huge problem is that this film version of Atlas Shrugged relies too much on the hope that the viewers are already familiar with the book. The case for individualism and rational self-interest against collectivism (which is one of the story's central themes) is more effectively made in the trailer than in the whole movie.
Who would like this film: Atlas Shrugged is for you if you're a huge fan of the novel and have strong libertarian leanings. But even then, you're not missing much by sitting the movie out. And I'm afraid the film's overall presentation won't win Ayn Rand any new admirers.
The story's message is relevant to the present economic mess, and the book is eerily prophetic (despite being written in the 1950s). But again, none of that really comes through in the big-screen version.
As a libertarian myself, I agree with much of what Rand writes about, but this film doesn't do the philosopher justice. If you're interested in libertarianism or Ayn Rand, then I suggest you read the novel, even if it is longer than the average phone book.
(2 out of 4 stars)
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Joe Yang
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama— With a growing international reputation and art shows in a New York gallery, artist Amy Pleasant hasn't lost sight of her Birmingham roots.
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"We all have the same goal, in a way," Pleasant said. "When I moved in there, they wanted to support and I was able to do so much work. When they had to renovate that space rent it out, Cecil (Whitmire) found another home for me."
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"It wasn't that long ago that these blocks were completely abandoned," she recalled of the downtown area. "I would work late at night and there wasn't a car on the street — no one. It's great to see downtown changing and things going on. A lot of good people are trying to do something here. That's what Pete and I are trying to do with Fuel and Lumber."
The name stems from a establishment in Schulte's hometown in Iowa, where the family of jazz great Bix Beiderbecke owned Davenport Fuel and Lumber.
"We thought it would be a great name for something like this," Pleasant said. "It's he and I — I'm Fuel, he's Lumber. I'm a little bit hyper and he's more of a slow burn."
It may also be a good location to stage a Rapid Fire, an image-sharing initiative Pleasant started early in 2013.
"Rapid Fire is an image-sharing gathering where people come to show either what they do or what inspires them to do it — to create a tighter community, to get to know each other a little more, and reach out," she said. "Since January 2013 it has been so amazing to meet people in all of these different fields."
The next Rapid Fire event takes place on Friday, Sept. 5, at 7 p.m. in UAB's Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts. Invited are participants from a wide range of arts disciplines, including Birmingham Museum of Art curator Wassan Al-Khudhairi, UAB's Doug Barrett, Lisa Tamiris Becker, Elisabeth Pellathy and Cliff Simon, artist and curator Dan Bynum, and former BMA curator Ellen Elsas.
"I wanted to create community interaction with creative people, and this has been a new step."
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I don't mind carrying a handsaw up there (no chainsaws or axes, too much fire danger) and clearing the way, but I don't want to take away from the rustic nature of the trail if anyone out there would find it offensive.
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I'm okay with it either way. I enjoy that kind of work, but I also appreciate the fact that this trail has a special personality all it's own.
It seems like it would be nice, especially for those brave souls (who are much tougher than me, I might add) who carry packs up with them not to have to crawl through the tree and get stuck and scraped up, but again, I open this up for discussion to make sure it's okay with everyone.


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[i] Garry D. Bruton, Kay Keels, Christopher L: Shook, Downsizing the Firm: Answering the Strategic Question, Academy of Management Executive 1996, Vol. 10, No2, pp- 38-45
[ii] E.g. Firns, I., Travaglione, A. and O'Neill, G. (2006), Absenteeism in times of rapid organizational change. Strategic Change, 15: 113–128. doi: 10.1002/jsc.757
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Winding down my career as an ER physician, I went to Nicaragua in 2013 to teach medical English to the med students in Puerto Cabezas. Our plans changed when the medical director of the school could not obtain funding so I was forced to look for other sources of income in Managua first, then San Juan del Sur, our adopted home. While in SJdS I published three eBooks on Amazon: "How to Think Like a Doctor," "Cómo Pensar Como un Doctor," and "Barefoot Doctors." I wrote all three with the intention of bringing quality medical knowledge and practice to underserved areas of the world.
My "mission" was cut short over the Thanksgiving weekend that year when I was mugged five times that Thursday and Friday night. The first two weren't so bad but by the fifth mugging I was left for dead. Why would any sane gringo be out after dark in a large Central American city? I was trying to find my son Ben, who (as I later found out) was being hidden by the American embassy there. Find the full story in my new book, "My Worst Thanksgiving Ever."


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On 12th June 2018, Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU)'s Kolkata District Committee organized Young Workers' Convention with the aim of bringing together blue and grey collar employees on a common platform to share their problems, exchange opinion and formulate an understanding to find a way out. This is a report about the convention:
"… you", shouted Vikram into his cellphone, abusing the private cab driver and cancelling his ride. The driver had been unable to locate him accurately and had called up to seek some cooperation regarding the direction. Already being late to meet his girlfriend after having put in a 12 hours work shift, Vikram was stranded outside his office at the IT park on the outskirts of the city. The next ride would charge him more than the usual amount as cancellation fee. This further added on to his frustration.
How often do we come across such a situation in our lives everyday? "We" refers to the English educated urban middle class, also fashionably referred to as the Gen Y. Aged mostly between 21 and 35, the new generation of "millennial voters". All forms of political and electoral promises – from an advertisement of soap to acchedin jingles are targeted at this particular socio economics group. For "their own betterment/benefit", as they say. However, delving deeper into the picture one would find a completely different ballgame.
India shunned its declared 'socialist' goals and embarked on the path of economic liberalization almost 3 decades back. Post 1991, ours has been a fully neoliberal economy running on 3 principles – liberalization, globalization and privatization. This 3 tier model opened up the domestic economy to the world market under pressures from international and Indian big capital. Deregulation and delicensing of several major sectors like defense and telecommunication that were under state monopoly happened subsequently, followed by disinvestment of sick public sector units. Private foreign investment was encouraged. With successive governments pursuing aggressive neoliberal policies, the autonomy of the state has been diminishing. The gap between the rich and the poor, haves and the have-nots has only increased as a consequence. Growth has slowed down in the long run, after 1996, accompanied by inflation, diminishing of rupee value as well as stagnancy in people's purchasing power. But the most noted reform that has come about is the transformation of the national economy from a manufacturing oriented one to a service based platform.
The neoliberal service based economy has given rise to a wide range of professions, unconventional in nature. Permanent jobs based on fixed salary have started ceasing to exist and are being rapidly replaced by commission or target based ones. This is what the market terms as "incentives to perform well". In simple words, maximization of profit. Labour intensive technologies are fast making way for capital intensive ones. Artificial intelligence technologies, robotics, automation processes have cemented their place in heavy industries like car manufacturing, electrical goods, etc.
On one hand the IT industry is employing job aspirants en masse without any fixed working hours while on the other hand 2 and a half decades of neoliberalism has produced professions like app delivery boys, medical sales representatives, event girls, blood collectors at pathology clinics, coaching centre training staff, private cab operators, toto drivers, sales personnel in shopping malls, etc. This process has been phenomenal and bloomed across the country like mushrooms even in tier-II cities. Biking around the cities for 24 hours, they neither have job security nor social security. Leading a normal life for this new crop of people is a far cry. While IT executives are paid well, companies make them work at a stretch for 12-15 hours creating a disbalance in their routine. Those working as salespersons in shopping malls for large brands like Big Bazaar and Spencers aren't allowed to sit during their 10 hour shift of duty on the pretext that that would humiliate potential customers. In return, the salary provided is so meagre that wanting to buy any of the products one is selling is a distant dream. Another kind of workers, the delivery boys, who can afford to sit on their bikes race through the town in rush hours delivering food from restaurants and parcels from e-commerce sites, within a stipulated time, failing which money gets deducted from their accounts. Filling up their own stomachs burning with hunger midway is not on the itinerary. Then there are many who are "self-employed", a veiled form of disguised unemployment facilitated by the lack of proper jobs: freelance content writers to copy editors, call center employees to contractual labourers, transport workers, hairdressers, make up artists, film technicians, beauty parlour salon staff, security guards, mobile and computer repairing mechanics etc. These workers have no secure future. Even government jobs have become quasi permanent ones today with the entry of contractual designations.
A large section of the youth don't realize or fail to foresee the strings attached to their jobs. Changing jobs frequently, spending money, developing a consumeristic attitude, keeping faith in globalization to "live life king size", are the order of the day.
On 12th June 2018, Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU)'s Kolkata District Committee organized Young Workers' Convention with the aim of bringing together such blue and grey collar employees on a common platform to share their problems, exchange opinion and formulate an understanding to find a way out. Two weeks prior to the convention, social media was abuzz with the event receiving critical to positive responses. Transcending traditional forms of resistance, CITU reached out to this section of the youth via social media. This was complemented by mass leafleting around the city as well as respective unions reaching out to their members in their respective sectors. Most workers in both organized and unorganized sectors are young.
The convention also found coverage in the mainstream media.
"The delivery boys work for over 10 to 12 hours, they pay the fuel for their transport, and if they can't reach the destination on time, they are unable to earn even Rs 300-400 per day. Sometimes it is even less. If they object, they instantly lose the job. They are unaware of their rights and social securities," said Debanjan Chakrabarti, general secretary of the CITU Kolkata district committee and one of the secretaries of the organization in the state.
IT sector employees were also targeted. "For some reason, the employees of IT sector don't understand our arguments. But we need to find out the reason behind this disconnect. Why don't they want to be involved in trade union? There must be discussion," Chakrabarti added.
The Bengal Story wrote: "By bringing together employees – with salaries varying from Rs 6,000 to Rs 1 lakh or more per month, the CITU is trying to reach out to sectors in which it has never had supporters traditionally.
A food delivery boy, on condition of anonymity, said he had seen a post on Facebook appealing to workers in his sector, and "found it interesting that it was talking about us." "No one talks about our rights," he said. And so he has decided to join the meet."
Speaking to The Telegraph, Chakrabarti added further, "This is an attempt to eliminate the generation gap in the trade union movement and to strengthen it by responding to what is most relevant now."
How are the youth perceiving phenomena like automation, robotization which have led to the loss of jobs of even highly skilled engineers at their workplace, what alternative they have in mind, would also form part of the discussions.
At the convention, around 200 youth participated, braving the heavy rains to be present on time. Tales and experiences narrated were vast, varied and worth listening to. While 17 year old Suman Majhi (name changed) studying in class 12 has to work as a shoe delivery boy amidst tight schedules in order to afford higher education, a well qualified architect from Jadavpur University, Arjun (named changed) works on a 10 hour shift without job security at a paltry wage of Rs 12000 with no provident fund, ESI or gratuity provisions. Public perception views him as an architect/junior engineer, but only he knows that he is nothing more than a manual labourer staying up all night to receive international calls.
Shabnam (named changed), on the other hand pursued her studies in Microbiology with distinction but was forced to change streams due to lack of jobs in the said area in the state. Now she is an event girl (working with an event management company) working till late hours at night. Safety issues, family pressure, gender angle, lack of social security benefits were some of the pressing matters, she underscored.
Rahul (named changed) has to fund his college education by working as a part time delivery guy for Flipkart. His work starts in the wee hours of dawn and continues till late afternoon. There is no fixed salary, only delivery based pay-offs. Even fuel cost for bike has to be paid by him. This was nothing short of slavery for him.
British firm Kingfisher has been awarded the account, data balance and IT services upkeeping tasks of British company BNU. As labour is fairly costly in England, Kingfisher has, in turn, outsourced this job to India based TCS. Ever since TCS employee Arunima (name changed) has been shouldered with this responsibility, her life has gone haywire. As her work relates to a different continent, culture and timezone, she is deprived of all sorts of homely benefits. Work hours are, according to English standard time, receiving phone calls and replying to emails throughout the night, being subject to workplace harassment by superiors for even a slight delay in replying. These are her working conditions. Durga Puja, Eid or even Indian Independence Day, provide no relief since Indian holidays are not recognized by her foreign counterparts. Today, she suffers from sleep paralysis.
This is not just Arunima's story but that of countless other individuals of her age group who work under inhuman conditions and suffer from depression.
Private school teachers in the city and state also happen to be living in a state of plight. Bihanga Dut highlighted the fact that at well below market rates of Rs 5-6000 per month, private school teachers have to work for 8 hours or more and are also expected to discharge clerical staff duties. There is absolutely no job guarantee.
At the convention, young workers from different ends of the spectrum interacted with each other. The physiotherapist met the shopping mall staff. While the former earns around 100-250 bucks per hour and spends most of the time on conveyance travelling from one patient's household to another, the latter works on a 12 hour shift without a minute to spare for rest. While the physio is dependent on his rapport with influential doctors for recommendation and earning his bread, the salesman has no holidays and job security at work.
Through this convention, CITU had proposed to form a nucleus to organize workers in these sectors in the coming days. The convention was also intended to provide legal awareness and support enabling the youth to end such unfair labour and discriminatory practices imposed upon them by the system. At the end, while offering concluding remarks, Debanjan Chakrabarti thanked all those who had made the event a successful and meaningful exercise, by joining their fellow workers from IT, Banking, Electricity, Insurance and other ancilliary industries. The young workers were informed about the various labour laws enacted and prevalent in the country, which they could take recourse to. Payment of Wages Act 1936, Minimum Wages Act 1948, Employees Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 1952, Maternity Benefit Act 1961, Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act 2008, are among the many that were spoken of.
CITU Kolkata pledged to support and stand by the youth in their struggle for livelihood and basic rights. Workers registered their names, contact information and when asked about the need for a strong union, more such small decentralized conventions and interactive platforms, all responded by a great show of hands and loud cries.
The mainstream media, unsurprisingly, commented that the Left was attempting to shun its old traditional methods of strikes, lockdowns, gheraos and other forms of militant trade unionism in order to break into the youth votebank which had rejected it in successive elections of late. Hence, such an initiative. This is far from the truth and a blatant distortion of facts. As mentioned earlier, this convention was conceived to form a way out of the claustrophobic system that today's youth is entrapped in. No election was ever part of the agenda. One of a similar kind was organized by the CPI(M)'s IT branch back in March in Bangalore, which discussed various problems faced by young workers in India's IT capital. Prof. C P Chandrashekhar of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) who addressed the gathering had mentioned "the challenges facing the young workers and the country today arise out of the toxic mix of deep communalism with fascist features and deep economic crisis caused by transition to neo-liberal economic model.'' Chandrashekhar pooh-poohed the claims of "synchronised economic recovery" made by the IMF and the "fastest growing Indian economy' by the NDA government." Economic inequality, job insecurity and lack of basic rights were the other issues discussed: "The convention raised concern over the safety and security of young workers working in India's IT capital, especially women and night shift workers. Owing to the ever-pervasive covetousness of the capitalist, the workers are forced to stay late night to fulfil impossible project deadlines yet their employers fail pitifully to ensure their safety. The Young Workers Convention called for enforcement of strict safety guidelines to ensure safety and security of the workers."
It is never possible for the ruling classes sitting in their privileged positions to understand the conditions of the toiling masses, leave alone empathizing with them. Only alternative is to provide for an organized united class struggle led by the Left democratic forces.
"El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido- (The people united will never be defeated)!"
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The Bengal Story, 8 June 2018
The Telegraph, 20 June 2018
Desh Hitaishee, 22 June 2018
Ritaj Gupta is a youth activist and currently studying digital humanities at Jadavpur University


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Talitha kum Thailand
Year of foundation: 2012
In 2005 UISG organized the first workshop on Counter Human Trafficking at Pastoral Center of Diocesan Bangkok, there were about 12 Congregations attended. At that time Sr. Francoise Jiranonda was the chair person of The Conference of Women Superior of Thailand and Laos (CMRSWTL). In July 2007 , Sr. Kanlaya Trisopa, SHB. as a delegate from The Conference of Women Superiors of Thailand and Laos, to participated in the follow up of UISG and IOM in Bohol Island , Philippines. At that time the APWRATH Networks was organized.In 2008, three delegates comprising of (1) Sr. Francoise,SPC, (2) Sr. Kanlaya, SHB, and (3) Sr. Anurak,RGS. Participated in the UISG workshop in Rome.In 2009, June two delegates comprising of Sr.Sutisa Utalun, RGS. and Sr.Puangpaga Rachathon,SISM. participated in UISG meting in Rome.In 2010, The Conference sent Sr. Kanlaya Trisopa to join a seminar in Johanesbourg, South Africa, in order to prepare the campaign for Countering Human Trafficking during the FIFA World Cup 2010 together with the Networks of UISG members from different part of the world.In 2011, September 17-19, APWRATH by Sr. Folyn Catungal, OSA together with The Conference of Women Superiors of Thailand and Laos by Sr. Kanlaya and some volunteers organized the seminar on the topic of "Women and Men Religious of Thailand joining together Against Human Trafficking" at Redemptorist Center, Pataya, Thailand. Sr. Folyn Catungal,OSA. sponsored the budget for 40 participants from different Congregations and Lay Volunteers from different Church organizations. At the end of this seminar all participants agreed to establish a commission to do the ministry of Countering Human Trafficking. The Commission consisted of Men and Women Religious including Lay volunteers. An informal election took place after the seminar, the list below show the elected committee members of Talitha Kum Thailand.The Committee was officially approved by The Conference of Women Major Superior of Thailand and Laos in December 2011.3 February 2012. The first meeting of "Talitha Kum, Thailand," the new organization which was approved by the Conference of Major Religious Superiors of Women of Thailand and Laos, (CMRSWTL) was held on.In 2013, December Talitha Kum Asia Conference was organized by UISG Rome in Thailand. Together with every participants Talitha Kum Thailand accepted the policy statement formulated by the conference: "We, Talitha Kum Southeast Asia, AMRAT and ACRATH, a network of consecrated persons against human trafficking, commit ourselves to become messengers of hope and protagonists of change, and dedicate ourselves to stop the de-humanizing slavery of our sisters, brothers and children; Inspired and encouraged by His Holiness, we continue on the path of service to the poorest and most marginalized of our brothers and sisters, in solidarity and assistance, with Christian compassion, acceptance, understanding and kindness". In 2015, July "The Association of Major Superiors Men and Women of Thailand" has accepted Talitha Kum Thailand as one mission belong to a branch of their Union. Now 26 Congregations has joined the networks.
- The role of the committee is as common as other network that is to coordinate , facilitate and support the work of the members. - Talitha Kum Thailand has agreed to meet twice a year and to present the activity report to the Association of Major Superiors of Religious Men and Women of Thailand. - We have used contemporary offices in different Congregations.


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The East River Ferry is a fun and easy way to get to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A more relaxing experience than taking the subway, the boat ride offers scenic views of the NYC skyline, plenty of seating in the inside cabin, and an outside upper deck where you can let your hair flow in the breeze. The trip from Manhattan takes about 15 minutes and has departure points in Midtown (East 34th Street) or Downtown (Pier 11/Wall Street, near the South Street Seaport). More information on the ferry and a route map can be found on our Getting Around page.
Once you step off the ferry in Williamsburg, you don't have to walk very far to get a taste of what makes this neighborhood so hot. Here are our favorite places to go that are close to the North Williamsburg ferry landing.
Restaurants and Bars
Fabbrica Restaurant and Bar: Sleek Italian restaurant and bar, steps from the Ferry stop. See my review. (40 North 6th St., at Kent Ave.; 718-218-7045; Website: fabbricanyc.com.)
Grand Ferry Tavern: Casual bar with a vintage, speakeasy style specializing in fine cocktails, raw bar, and dressed-up pub food. Great for brunch. (229 Kent Ave.; 718-782-8500; Website: grandferrynyc.com.)
Odd Fellows Ice Cream Co.: Friendly, family-run ice cream parlor with retro appeal and homemade ice cream, sorbet, cotton candy, and old-fashioned sodas. (175 Kent Ave., between N. 3rd and N. 4th Sts., 347-599-0556; Website: oddfellowsnyc.com)
The Camlin: Newly-opened wine bar with an impressive wine list, creative menu of small plates, and upscale, modern decor. (175 Kent Ave..; 718-384-4100; Website: thecamlin-ny.com)
Toby's Estate: Trendy cafe with delicious coffee, modern, gallery-inspired decor, and a people-watching hot spot. See my review. (125 North 6th St., between Berry Ave. and Bedford Ave.; 347-457-6160; Website: tobysestate.com)
Cafe Mogador: Moroccan and Mediterranean cuisine with a french flair and modern updates. Head to the large, covered back patio with a resort-like feel, complete with palm trees. Popular for brunch. Vegetarian friendly. (133 Wythe Ave., between North 7th and North 8th Sts.; 718-486-9222; Website: cafemogador.com.)
Kent Ale House: Lively neighborhood bar with a pub-style menu, good selection of craft beer, and outdoor seating. Close to the ferry and the Kent Avenue outdoor markets, Smorgasburg and Brooklyn Flea. Good for sports- and people-watching. (51 Kent Ave.; 347-227-8624; Website: kentalehouse.com.)
Outdoor Markets and Special Events
Smorgasburg: (Saturdays Apr 2.–Nov.) Popular street food festival for foodies. Great waterfront setting and fun people-watching. See my review. (90 Kent Ave., East River State Park, next to N. Williamsburg ferry landing, where the waterfront meets North 7th St., Website: smorgasburg.com.)
Northside Music Festival (June 6-12) Performances from over 400 bands and innovative speakers, various venues, northsidefestival.com.
Brooklyn Brewery Tours: Brewery tour and craft beer tasting from the famous local label. (79 North 11th St., between Wythe Ave. and Berry St., 718-486-7422; Website: brooklynbrewery.com.)
Music Venues and Entertainment
|Brooklyn Bowl
Music Hall of Williamsburg: Top-notch concert hall with exceptional sound system and steady stream of the biggest names in indie music. See my review. (66 North 6th St., between Kent Ave. and Wythe Ave.; 718-486-5400; Website: http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com.)
Brooklyn Bowl: Unique entertainment space where you can bowl and see live bands. See my review. (61 Wythe Ave, between North 11th and 12th Sts, Williamsburg, Brooklyn; 718-963-3369; Website: http://www.brooklynbowl.com.)
Rough Trade NYC: Outpost of London's indie music superstore pleasing nostaglic audiophiles with racks of vinyl records, CDs, and extras like cd-listening stations, indie mags, and music merch. The complex also houses a cafe and hosts an excellent showcase of hot indie bands. (64 North 9th St., between Kent Ave. and Wythe Ave.; 718-388-4111; concert calendar: roughtradenyc.com)
|A&G Merch
Jane's Closet: Welcoming boutique with charming sundresses and other on-trend girly clothes. (60 North 6th St., between Kent Ave. and Wythe Ave.; Website: http://www.janescloset.com.)
Cadet: Small shop with hipster-prep menswear. (46 North 6th St., between Kent Ave. and Wythe Ave.; 718-715-1695; Website: http://www.cadetusa.com.)
A&G Merch: Modern and whimsical furniture and housewares. See my review. (111 North 6th St., near Berry St.; 718-388-1779; Website: http://aandgmerch.com.)
|Artists & Fleas
Artists and Fleas: (weekends only) Large indoor market of flea market treasures and hand-crafted items. See my review. (70 North 7th Street, between Kent Ave. and Wythe Ave; Website: http://www.artistsandfleas.com.)
American Apparel: Hipster outfitter mega-chain with hearty supply of leggings, skinny jeans, and all matter of unisex and unitard fashion. (104 North 6th St., between Wythe Ave. and Berry St.; 718-218-0002; Website: http://www.americanapparel.net.)
The Mini Mall at 240 Kent Ave.: Collection of shops with Brooklyn flair, selling clothing, housewares, beauty and wellness products. Also on hand, refreshments from healthy juices to decadent cupcakes. See my review. (240 Kent Ave., at North 1st St.; Website: https://www.facebook.com/theshopsat240kentave.)
Photos: from top, East River Ferry landing; Toby's Estate by specialoperations; Fabbrica; Smorgasburg by Matthew Hurst; Waterfront Concert by Brian Pennington; Brooklyn Bowl; A&G Merch; Artists and Fleas.


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Mississippi River Dinner Jazz Cruise
Step on board and cruise with us into the night where the sleepless activity of America's busiest port buzzes. The sounds of a lively jazz band fill the air as you enjoy a lavish Creole buffet in elegantly appointed dining rooms.
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Historical River Cruise
View the French Quarter, the Port of New Orleans, and Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve and be entertained by a historian narrator with a detailed description of New Orleans landmarks, history, vessel information, and river lore.
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Jean Lafitte Louisiana Swamp Tours
Jean Lafitte Swamp and Airboat Tours explore Louisiana's back country along its meandering bayous abundant with wildlife and exotic plant life. Journey with us by boat, Cajun-style, through the Louisiana's swamplands, with our Swamp Boat and/or Airboat.
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Cajun Holiday Tea with Papa Noel
Come pass a good time aboard the Paddlewheeler Creole Queen with Papa Noel, Mrs. Noel, Gaston the Gator and other jolly Cajun characters during this enchanting family festivity. Enjoy a classic holiday tea with tempting treats, storytelling, face painting, magic tricks, children's activities and merriment while cruising the mighty Mississippi. Come hold a real live alligator and, as lagniappe, each child gets a special present. Seating is limited, so make your reservations early!
Christmas in New Orleans Cruise
Spend an enchanting Christmas Eve on the Creole Queen! Enjoy unparalleled views of the city from our elegant, garland-adorned dining rooms or from the open air of our upper deck. Have a true Christmas New Orleans style experience!
New Year's Eve Fireworks Cruise
Celebrate New Year's Eve in New Orleans aboard the Paddlewheeler Creole Queen! Ring in the New Year with a front row seat to the fireworks extravaganza over the Mississippi River. Enjoy a late-night buffet of New Orleans favorites and call-brand drinks at the open bar. Dance your way into a new year as the DJ plays all the hits and toast the New Year with Champagne and festive party favors.


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How Often Should I Change My A/C Filter?
You change the oil in your car. You wash it. You keep up the maintenance. You do those things, because they'll keep the car running longer. You should be doing the same sort of things for your air conditioner. So, have you ever asked yourself, "How often should I change my A/C filter?"
If you did, and couldn't find an answer, we're here to help.
So…How Often Should I Change My A/C Filter?
The quickest answer is, "It depends." Which is, as answers go, pretty unsatisfying.
Before we go more in depth on that, let's discuss what exactly the air filter does for your air conditioner.
Your air conditioner sucks air out of your house, drags the heat out of it, blow that now much cooler air back into your house, and spits the heat outside. It's a basic cycle we've perfected over the last hundred years or so. The problem with that cycle is air impurity. You can't often see it with the naked eye, but air is rarely empty. There's bacteria, dust, pollen, mold spores, plant debris, and all sort of other gunk rolling around in the atmosphere. When your air conditioner pulls the air into the system that junk comes along.
These pollutants then do one of two things. They either get caught on the coils or spewed back into the house with the now cooled air. Neither is good.
Dirty Coils = Operating Inefficiency
The heat transfer coils inside your air conditioner are critical. They need to be able to transfer heat efficiently and cleanly. Any dirt, dust, or debris that builds up on those coils will affect how effectively your air conditioner runs. The more dirt, the lower the efficiency. If you run dirty cools for long enough, then you are headed for a mechanical breakdown, my friend.
And those are never cheap.
The a/c filter's main job is to protect your coils. Fewer foreign particles making it through the filter means less build up on your coil, and that is a very good thing. Of course, you still don't know how often you should change your a/c filter, so let's hit that next.
2 Weeks Minimum, 3 Months Maximum
Some people should change their coils every 2 weeks to a month. Others can get by with doing it every 2 or 3 months. How do you know where you fit?
It's not that hard to figure out. If you have a lot of people or pets living in your house, you're going to need to change the filter more regularly. If you're a single person who works long hours and travels a lot for business, you can get by changing the filter more frequently.
There is a good rule of thumb you can use to judge though. Take out a filter you've been using for a while. Can you see through the mesh? No? Change it. If it's not that dirty, it can go a little longer.
But, hey, don't just take our word for it. Insurance company Allstate would also like for you to change your a/c filter on a more regular basis.
Of course, you can trust them.
They're an insurance company.


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Despite the protracted controversy that trailed its passage by the House of Assembly, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Monday assented to a bill legalising cremation of bodies in the state.
He also signed into law, two other bills seeking to establish Ibile Oil and Gas Corporation as well as Christian and Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, both of which he said were designed to add values to the state and its residents.
The governor signed the bills into law at a ceremony at the State House, Alausa, attended by the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeola Ipaye, his Energy and Mineral Resources counterpart, Mr. Taofik Tijani, and other members of the State Executive Council.
Before signing the bill into law, the governor explained that cremation was voluntary, adding that its enactment showed how the concept of globalisation had taken its roots in the state.
The governor commended members of the state House of Assembly for responding to global yearnings, thereby noting that their enthusiasm in passing the law also showed that cremation "is the best way to go".
On the laws establishing Ibile Oil and Gas Company and regulating the Christian and Muslims Pilgrims' Welfare Board, Fashola said though the state had laws enacted in the 80s to regulate the activities of the two boards, the state government decided to harmonise the amendments done on the laws over time to make them uniform and effective.
Speaking extensively on the cremation law, the attorney-general said it allowed only voluntary cremation, adding: "It allows for voluntary cremation, whereby a person may signify interest to be cremated when he dies or a deceased's family members who must attain the age of 18 years can decide to have the corpse cremated."
According to Ipaye, the law also empowers the state government to cremate unclaimed corpses in its mortuaries after a period of time.
"If the owners of the corpses also failed to show up to collect the ashes after a 14-day notice, it will be disposed by the state government subject to the consent and approval of the commissioner for health," he added.
He explained that section 2 of the Act stipulates that no cremation may take place except in a crematorium established by the Ministry of Health or by any other body upon the recommendation of the authority and approval by the commissioner for health.
Section 6 of the law also stipulates the guidelines to getting permission to cremate and lists those who could apply for permission to cremate to include a child or children of the deceased; a close relative of the deceased; an undertaker and an agent/legal representative.
He said Section 10 of the law states that the cremator in charge of a crematorium must not dispose of the ashes remaining after a cremation except in accordance with any reasonable written instructions of the applicant.
Ipaye affirmed that the cremator in charge may bury the ashes in a burial ground if, "within one year after the cremation, the applicant does not give reasonable written instructions for the disposal of the ashes".
The state assembly had passed the bill into law in December last year amid criticisms from groups and individuals who argued that the law is a violation of the people's cultural and religious beliefs.
The bill, which is a private member bill, was initiated by the Chairman, House Committee on Health Services, Suuru Avoseh, a member representing Badagry Constituency 2 at the assembly.


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Ternera a la Llanera -- Wherefore Art Thou?
|Photo courtesy of http://blog.shankbone.org/
The above photo was taken at a Lower East Side of Manhattan street fair, sometime in the past. I don't know which fair. I don't know when. All I know is I want to be at that fair and I want one of those grills.
According to Wikipedia the guy in the picture is preparing "Ternera a la Llanera," a dish from the Colombian marshlands. From what I've found on the web, thank you Chrome's instant translation service, Ternera a la Llanera is the cooking of an entire veal. Now, it they're cooking an entire veal on the streets of NYC - I NEED to be there!
Here's the process....
Preparation of Veal llanera or "Mammon" is itself a party, this will kill a calf of approximately one year. The most important preparation are the cuts. There are four classics that are the bear, the eels, rays and the heron.
The bear is the part that covers the neck, throat, jaw and tongue, cut from top to bottom, so that will be taking down the dam.
The Shakers are breast meat, which are extruded in long strips.
The line includes the hindquarters, which, cut from the top (legs), including the tail, and part of the thighs. Cut trying to maintain a round shape with the tail like a bay.
The Heron is only the udder.
The cuts were made by cutting the extra skin, wrap the meat with it are exposed. Strips are sewn with the same skin, so that the meat is completely covered in the oven. Once LSTA and only seasoned with salt (including the head) is roasted in clay and brick oven at medium temperature (250 ° C) for 8 to 12 hours.
One way to know when the beef is ready, when the lips, head, shrink, giving it a cheerful expression.
Where this at? Someone, please tell me!
Labels: barbecue, barbeque, bbq, Colombia, Colombian food, griling, new york, street fair, street food, veal, whole animal


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Location: Manang on Annapurna Circuit, Nepal (28° 40' 0 N 84° 1' 0 E)
Date: 9 April 2000; 7.15am
Camera: Canon EOS 500N (analogue) on slides and scanned
Manang is a popular stop for acclimatisation on the Annapurna Circuit because at 3,540m, it is just high enough to allow the body to get used to higher attitude. It also has some spectacular scenery of giant peaks, a glacier lake and the Marshyangdi River flowing in the valley. On any day, one will see many porters leaving early in the morning carrying the packs of their clients. Peculiar to Nepal and Tibet, the porters find it easier to "carry" heavy packs by putting the weight on their forehead, by a naamlo (forehead carrying strap). Life as a porter is hard- they only earned a couple of $ per day; the lucky ones will get some tips from the trekking clients at the end of the trip. I have never used a porter on my trekking in Nepal but I observed that it is extremely easy to engage porters from the villages at the head of treks such as Annapurna and/or Khumbu. There is really no need to go through middlemen to engage porters on your behalf from Kathmandu or Pokhara; not only no need but not recommended as most of the money you pay will go to the middlemen instead of rewarding the porters directly.


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That might seem a daft question, after all the answer is obvious – everyone! However, do we really believe that? Or do we have categories of people who we feel are beyond the gospel, people who are too hardened to respond to the grace of Christ? People we have given up on? What about people we might feel uncomfortable being with?
In Luke 14:12-24 Jesus told a parable to encourage us to believe that the gospel is for everyone who will hear it. He describes a great banquet, which a man throws for his invited guests. At the last minute the guests start making excuses and fail to turn up. The master is angry to be rejected in this way and sends his servants out into the streets to literally bring everyone they can find, the poor and crippled and blind and lame in to enjoy the feast which has been prepared. If his respectable friends won't come, then he will fill the banquet with the outcasts of society.
I don't think Jesus is saying we should give up on friends and family who have responded negatively to our efforts to share the good news of Jesus with them. Rather I think he is encouraging us to widen our circle and reach out to people who we might not naturally reach out to. The gospel is not only for people like us, or for people who like us, or even (dare I say it?) only people we like. The gospel really is for everyone! Will you rise to the challenge and pray for opportunities to share God's love with anyone who will receive it? Are you willing to step out of your comfort zone for the love of Jesus?
This blog post featured in the November 2012 edition of Lifelines


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Ben and I had a brief argument about breaking down "Thriller" for this scary month of October… Very well might, but for now – let's mull over this selection I definitely do NOT phuck with! The Earth Song is mad eery, fam! Let's start with the spaced out minor keys. Right there, you're already ominous for no phuckin reason. Then, he adds the organs and harp strings being strummed by the fingers of the invisible dark hand of the free market killing Michael's sunrise and rain.
"Did you ever stop to notice all the children dying of war?" NOPE… sorry, Michael. The hand is invisible, and it covers its eyes so all that stuff is invisible to it. It's all of us…killing all of our children… and the rain, and the sunrise, and the dead elephants in that video. HOLY $HIT, that's a phucked up video, Michael!
The most messed up part is when the Earth has had enough, and blows back. HARD! The invisible hand of the market is badass and coddles badasses like Donald Trump, but it's no match for mother nature's fury – especially if she has blood coming out of her "wherever".
Afterall, the earth will survive US. WE ain't $hit. The Earth has seen far worse times and things than our invisible hand. There was that one time a big assteroid crashed into the Earth, and kinda killed every breathing thing in it. Know who survived that? EARTH. Then there
was that giant were SEVERAL Ice Age (s), where every breathing thing was frozen… Guess who else survived that? EARTH AGAIN. EARTH is a rider. Earth will be fine. Will we? Maybe that's what scared Michael. Maybe that's some scary $hit to consider…naaaah. We'll be fine! I'm jus blowin smoke..into the OZONE LAYER!
What up, Great Barrier Reef? Everything cool? Catchin a deadly wave?