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Amtrak said Tuesday it will install video cameras inside locomotive cabs to record the actions of train engineers, a move that follows a deadly derailment earlier this month in which investigators are searching for clues to the train engineer's actions before the crash.
The engineer, Brendan Bostian, suffered a head injury in the accident and has told investigators he can't remember what happened. Northeast Regional train 188 accelerated to a speed of 106 miles per hour in the last minute before entering a curve where it derailed. The speed limit for the curve is 50 mph. The crash left eight people dead and about 200 injured.
The train was equipped with a "black box" data recorder and an outward-facing camera focused on the track ahead, but neither of those devices reveals what was happening inside the cab.
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The National Transportation Safety Board has been recommending that the Federal Railroad Administration require passenger and freight train cabs to have audio recorders since the late 1990s. They revised that recommendation five years ago to include inward-facing sound and video recorders.
Railroad administration officials say they support use of the cameras. In the past year, the agency has told the NTSB that it intends to propose regulations requiring the cameras. However, no regulations have been proposed and it typically takes federal agencies many months, if not years, to move from proposals to final regulations.
Cameras will first be installed in 70 new Amtrak locomotives that will power all Northeast Regional and long-distance trains between Washington, New York and Boston, as well as Keystone Service between New York, Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Joseph Boardman, the railroad's president and CEO, told reporters in a telephone briefing that about 38 of the locomotives will be equipped with the cameras before the end of the year, and the rest by sometime this spring.
Amtrak is developing a plan for installation of cameras in the rest of its locomotive fleet, including Acela Express locomotives, but no time table has been set for those installations. The railroad has about 300 locomotives nationwide.
Tuesday night, a spokesperon for local attorney Robert J. Mongeluzzi, released a statement regarding Amtrak's plan:
Although we approve of Amtrak's belated decision to install a video camera inside the cab of the locomotive, the question remains, "Why wasn't this done much earlier?" The National Transportation Safety Board recommended the exact same safety feature five years ago and Amtrak did not install it. Amtrak also had automatic train control for southbound trains but not northbound trains, until after the accident. Amtrak has Positive Train Control on a significant portion of its system, but not at the accident site. Amtrak shouldn't wait until immediately after a mass disaster to install life-saving equipment. Their utter failure to implement all three of these safety features well before the Train 188 disaster calls into question Amtrak's leadership, including its role leading up to this tragedy.


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I have a south African Microbus that came with 2.5L 5 Cylinder Audi Engine(Petrol). I am currently in the process of rebuilding the engine since it has over 200000kms on it. It was starting to blow smoke and have low oil pressure. I presume the bearings etc had run their course. I do however have a question in regard to parts replacement. I have currently purchased every imaginable part for this engine in order to have a complete engine rebuild offering many more years of service. However , all that is left is the oil pump. My question is , is there any replacement interval for the oil pumps in these engines? Should i bother replacing it now that i am rebuilding the engine or should i leave it alone since some claim it lasts as long as the engine(a lifetime).
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1. We cry A LOT in this house.
A few years ago, the wind swirled the air like a crazy late September hurricane. In the car-rider line at school, I opened the door to let my daughter out and her science review sheet flew into the oncoming traffic. I tried to catch the flying paper, but the wind won…and it was quickly out of eyesight. She knew the material–we studied every night for at least a week. But, my oldest daughter possesses a strong attachment to THINGS. To most EVERY thing. She cares DEEPLY and she cries INTENSELY. She cries for the homeless. She cries for orphans. She cries for shelter animals. She cries when people cheat. She cries when something breaks. And yes…she cries for review sheets…for 25 minutes…sobbing…in the school parking lot…completely devastated.
We cry a lot.
My youngest daughter, LOVES Elvis Presley and of course, she understands that he died years ago. However, after watching a 4 hour documentary that ended with footage of his casket, my daughter was inconsolable. Hyperventilating. Crying out in pure pain and sorrow. That session lasted a few hours.
Did I mention we cry a lot in this house?
I can think of at least 213 overly emotional stories. The day my husband sold his car. The day my oldest daughter learned she was too young to get married. The time she sobbed because she didn't know about the permits needed to build an orphanage. A dead butterfly on the driveway…
Moments like this happen every day. Several times a day.
I cry, too. My children require a SUPER MOM…there is NO down time and I worry about my inability to meet their unique needs. I am ordinary. I am tired.
This extreme parenting is sometimes just too overwhelming.
Please understand…our house is NOT a sad house. My girls are just intense. Emotionally intense. They FEEL things and experience life on a plane of intensity unfamiliar to my ordinary emotions. It's just the way it is.
2. We still nap.
A big shocker to most outsiders is that my 12 year old desperately needs a daily nap and my life semi-revolves around that schedule as if she was still 3 months old. That child barely sleeps at night. Her mind races and spins and dances and wreaks havoc all over this family. A mid-day nap is an essential part of her survival and ability to function. On the weekends and during summer vacation, BOTH girls take naps. Active brains need rest.
3. We are on a time limit.
With all her 5 senses, my youngest absorbs and filters up to 200% more information than the average person. I assume my other daughter falls somewhere on that spectrum as well. That's a lot of stimuli. If we are in a visually stimulating, academically engaging environment, time is ALWAYS ticking. They can only take in so much before the migraines begin. One daughter gets overwhelmed. The other gets grouchy. AND, they shut down. Time to go home!
A challenging environment with crowds, loud noises, weird smells, or extreme temperatures causes severe anxiety. I try to stay ahead of the meltdowns and some days, I successfully read the signals. Other days, I fall victim to the chaos and suffer the consequences right along with my daughters.
4. We are lonely.
My girls do not receive many birthday party invites. There are no playdates. No sleepovers. No phone calls from friends. And yes, my daughters still play.
At this moment in time, my daughters PREFER to play with each other. I think they feel more at ease and can be themselves without feeling odd or weird or different.
I am lonely, too. There are very few people I can honestly talk to without sounding boastful. Negative judgements, strong opinions and criticisms come next. Everyone gets a fraction, a small segment of the truth. And, my social calendar belongs to my children. Their needs come first.
5. School and academics are NOT always easy.
It is an assumption (an incorrect one) that gifted children need very little to be successful in school. Though my 12-year-old once powered through four years of math in 6 months and began her college career at age 10, she struggles to remember to capitalize the first letter of a sentence. For real.
My 14-year-old won the public school (when she was 8) and homeschool spelling bee and read on a post college level at age 6, but failed the district reading benchmark test back in the day because her concrete mind can not process inferences or assumptions. She DOES NOT understand sarcasm, joking or teasing. She is a black and white thinker. Right or wrong. When it comes to reading comprehension, if the answer is not stated in the reading passage, she is utterly LOST.
This brings me to the evil lurking behind a profoundly gifted label: It is called Asynchronous Development. And, I HATE it.
Asynchrony is the state of not being synchronized. (Who came up with THAT definition?)
Essentially, it presents itself as uneven development in gifted kids. Hence, the need to homeschool. We constantly remind ourselves (and others) that just because my daughters are advanced academically, it DOES NOT mean they are years ahead socially or emotionally…and certainly not physically. My youngest daughter is a 75 year old man trapped in a 12 year old girl's body.
Asynchrony is confusing and frustrating and challenging. Both girls suffer and excel at the hands of their asynchronous development. It makes traditional schooling and most learning situations (and social interactions) very difficult.
If given the opportunity, especially if presented on a particularly challenging day, I would probably change all of this…if I could. IF I could pick and choose WHICH aspects stayed and which ones disappeared, I would jump at the chance to lessen the burden for my daughters. YES I WOULD–in a heartbeat!
BUT, the over excitabilities and asynchronous development are part of a package deal. They all go hand-in-hand with the profoundly gifted diagnosis. I don't get to pick and choose…and neither do my girls. It is part of who they are and my job is to teach them how to manage and cope with ALL aspects of their abilities.
We choose to embrace the positive AND the negative, for without one there is NO balance or appreciation for the other.
It IS what makes them extraordinary.
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We all have had one of those days: your hair isn't doing what you want and your skin decided to become sensitive overnight. Yes, an off-day sucks. But you can still feel beautiful in those days! Here are 5 tips, keep reading!
1. Make a list!
This might sound lame, but make a list with the things you like about yourself. Maybe you have beautiful big blue eyes, a gorgeous smile or a cute nose. If you can't come up with anything: ask family and friends and you'd be surprised about what they have to say. If you have an 'ughh' day, just keep this list in mind.
3. Do fun stuff
On our off-days, all we want to do is hide in our fluffy pajamas and stay in bed. Don't! Work your most fashionable outfit and go out with friends, this way you beat your insecurity and have an amazing day while doing so! And even better: your friend will be there to make you feel better with compliments, that's what friends are for <3
3. Beauty comes from within
Everyone has their own qualities, inside AND out. That's something very important to help you realise that looks aren't everything. Cliché but true: beauty comes from within. Think about what makes you a beautiful person, and you will shine brighter on the outside.
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From a beautiful lingerie set to a pair of funny socks. Wear something for YOU. Give yourself the attention you deserve and you will feel instantly more special and beautiful.
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Lots of Love,
P.s. If you liked this blog, make sure to also read How I learned to love my body
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Church, I have a bad case of the I can't help it!
I have to admit that I did not want to be a preacher or pastor. As a matter of fact I vowed that I would not be as my father was a pastor and that was not the life I wanted for myself. I did not want that life for myself or my family. A life of neglect of family needs and a time spent together because of ministry needs, and abuse by the hands of people who you care for and minister to. A life of being under paid and overworked. No, I did not want that kind of life.
I said that I would not do it even when it was prophesied that I would be a preacher at a young age and as a teenager. I knew there was a call on my life when I was eighteen years old. It was made clear to me that I was being enticed by God into the ministry. But at eighteen, this was not something I truly was interested in pursuing.
I did not want to undergo the ridicule of my peers and the jeers that would come as a result of my not being a part of the "In crowd," a community I had participated in during my years in high school.
I did not want to become a laughingstock as a result of my denying the pleasures of life that were just starting to become available to me as a young man. I said no...........not now!
But you have enticed me O lord, and I was enticed. I was enticed when I would speak out against racism during the civil rights era. I was being enticed as I revolted and became a member of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panthers and served under the leadership of Fred Hampton. I was enticed when I refused induction into the military as a conscientious objector and was granted that status while serving in the US Army.
I say I was enticed, because God was preparing me for what was yet to happen in my life. For the call that was upon me even before my birth. Yes, just like the prophet Jeremiah, I hear the words of God saying, "I have called you while you were still in your mother's womb."
Everything I have done and experienced has been a sort of shaping by God to become who God has called, ordered and ordained to become. I must be the preacher to speak to the issues that other preachers might not address, just because that is who God has called me to be and become.
And so it is with our message today.
Every time I open the newspaper or turn on the news I hear of some violent crime that has happened in our country. If the Church's lobby isn't greater than the National Rifle Association's lobby, then we are a pitiful people.
I feel the call-even the mandate from God-to address this issue while being presented with this national forum to share this message. It's nothing that I have not shared as I travel the country speaking at various congregations and to small groups. But now is the time and opportunity to bring this prophetic word to the nation and the people of God called the Church.
You see, I again, like the prophet Jeremiah, have the dual call of being a priest and a prophet. I too, like Jeremiah, have been called from the belly of my mother and the loins of my father to become formed into this preacher, reluctant though I may be who will declare "thus says the Lord."
I too am living in a generation where there is destruction and violence all around, and it seems that those who could do something about it and should do something, and are empowered to do something seem to want to do nothing.
Why is it that the United States of America has one of the highest murder rates in the world at the hands of its citizens? Why do we have more people in prisons that any other country in the world as well? Why is it that there is no place that is safe from violent crime, especially as a result of gun violence?
Why is it that, not only our homes and public streets, but shopping malls, schools, colleges, even churches, have become places where people have no problem with perpetrating violence upon others, often the innocent. Why is it that the church refuses to address this epidemic? In New Orleans this week there were eight murders. In Chicago, eight murders of school-age children. In New York, Los Angeles, even Green Bay, Wisconsin. The fact is there is no place that is safe! All around me I cry "violence and destruction."
We have the numbers to come out against this crime against God and humanity, but we don't have the vision or the will. I say that we don't have the will because if we did have the will, we would be about the business of addressing the problem. I say this because I have a bad case of the I can't help it.
What is even more troubling is that we have more compassion for animals than we do for human beings. If there were as many dogs shot in this country in one week as there has been humans, there would be an outcry from every corner of this country. There would be a federal investigation as we found was the case with Atlanta's football quarterback. Michael Vick was sentenced to federal prison for promoting dog fighting. The media's calling for an investigation of a New Orleans' police officer who shot and killed a dog owned by a doctor while investigating a crime. The dog was charging at the policeman, and the officer felt threatened, so he shot and killed the dog. There is no inquiry or call from the media or the public to investigate the eight murders committed in seven days in this city, nor is there any such call for investigation in Chicago where the eight school children were murdered or in Detroit or Philadelphia or any of the other cities in this nation.
We, again, have the numbers to come out against this powerful gun lobby of the NRA and to get these weapons out of the hands of our children. But the reason the church can't overcome the lobby of the NRA is because many of our members are also members of the NRA. God has placed this matter so very strongly in my spirit that even though I may not want to speak to this issue, I find that I must. As the prophet says, "If I say I will not mention him or speak anymore in his name, then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in and I cannot."
There was a song we sang in the church where I grew up that said, "I said I wasn't going to tell nobody, but I couldn't keep it to myself. I must tell you, whether you hear or not, whether you listen or not, or whether you respond or not, I must tell you because a charge to keep I have, a God to glorify, a never dying soul to save, and fit it for the sky, to serve this present age is my calling to fulfill. Let me all my powers engage and do my Master's will."
Yes, Church, I have a bad case of the can't help its.
Let us pray.
Most gracious and merciful God, God of our weary years and God of our silent tears, thou who has led us thus far on our way, we come before you beseeching you that you would empower us with the spirit of God with your spirit that we might take on the challenges of eradicating handguns and violence within our cities and our communities and indeed in our nation. We ask that you might empower us that we might bring glory to your holy name. Through Jesus Christ our Lord and risen Savior, in whose precious name we pray. Amen.


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Hh is for Hippo!
First we painted the letter H gray. Then the kids were given gray rectangles and needed to cut them into two oval for the hippos head. They cut ears from the gray scraps and toes from a white piece of scrap paper. We glued on some wiggle eyes and used a black marker for the nose. This guy might be my favorite letter we created!
Ii is for Ice Cream!
We painted the letter I brown to be the cone. Then the kids were able to choose any "flavor" for their scoop and cut it out and glue it on. Pretty simple.
Jj is for Jelly Fish!
We painted the letter with jell-o (if you've never painted with jell-o you have to try it...it smells delightful as it dries). To paint with jell-o simply paint the paper with water and pinch some dry jell-o powder to sprinkle it over the paper. It will stick to the paper as it dries. Then we cut a half circle for the top of the jelly fish and glued it on. Next we glued on yarn as tentacles...there is some really fun yarn out there for this part that I fully intend to get my hands on for next year!
Kk is for Kangaroo!
We painted our letter K brown and then the kids were given rectangles to cut into the other parts of the kanagoo. Then they glued on an eye and drew on a mouth with a marker. Next year I need to figure out how to add a tail :)
Ll is for Lion!
This one was also quite fun to create. First we painted the L yellow. Next we cut and glued on some yellow yarn to be the lions mane. The final step was to add some wiggle eyes and a mouth!
Mm is for Mouse!
For this letter the children needed to cut two circles from squares for the mouse's ears. After they glued those on then they glued on the whiskers and wiggle eyes.
Nn is for Nest!
This project worked on some great fine motor skills. The children tore a brown piece of construction paper and layered the torn pieces in the v portion of the letter N. We talked about how sometimes you can find nests in the letters that make up store names outside. Then the children glued on a die-cut bird (next year we might attempt making our own birds).
Oo is for Owl!
Okay, I really love this guy too! We painted the letter O gray with sponges. I pre-cut the feet, the beak, and the ears for the kids. Then the kids cut their own eyes....which turned out SO cute!
I can't wait to show you the rest of our letters!!


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Today's newsletter is filled with a bunch of fun stuff, including a tasty treat at the end.
1 big thing: U.S. startup makes chips in Minnesota
In 2017, with funding from a Minnesota private equity firm, a small startup called SkyWater Technology bought a chip foundry from Cypress Semiconductor in hopes of sparking a resurgence in U.S. chipmaking. Now, with the government pining for more homegrown tech manufacturing, that bet is starting to pay off.
"We're kind of in the right place at the right time."— Thomas Sonderman, president, SkyWater Technology
Driving the news: SkyWater has a deal with MIT and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to commercialize a new kind of chip-making technology. The approach combines traditional silicon with carbon nanotubes to produce a three-dimensional structure.
Why it matters: No one is going to suddenly start making iPhones in the U.S., but chip production is one area of tech manufacturing that still has roots in the U.S. The key is finding new uses so that work doesn't just fade out like other tech manufacturing.
The basics: SkyWater has about 500 employees cranking out about 10,000 chip wafers per month at the Bloomington facility in Minnesota. The company positions itself as somewhere between factories like TSMC and GlobalFoundries and research facilities like Sandia National Labs.
The 14-acre facility, with its 80,000-square-foot cleanroom, uses an older generation of manufacturing with thicker wiring and smaller wafers, but this has benefits that commercial fabs don't — namely the freedom to experiment with new ideas and manufacturing processes. About one-sixth of the facility is devoted to developing new techniques.
History lesson: The facility began life 30 years ago and was initially owned by Control Data, which mostly did government work including top-secret projects. It was sold to Cypress Semiconductor in the early 1990s.
Even after the sale to SkyWater, Cypress remains the facility's largest customer, though Sonderman says about a third of its work is for other customers, with plans to grow that market over time.
Yes, but: There are other U.S. chip factories, but all the "pure-play" contract manufacturers are foreign-owned, such as Israeli-owned Tower Jazz, Belgian-owned Xfab and UAE-controlled GlobalFoundries. (Intel has a number of chipmaking factories in the U.S. While many are for its own use, it also does some foundry work.)
2. You might want to auto-delete your tweets
There's a growing school of thought that people should delete their old tweets and use technology to automatically delete future posts after a short period of time.
Case in point: In an article for Wired, my former CNET colleague Emily Dreyfuss explained why she was deleting her old tweets and made the case for others to adopt the practice.
The bottom line: Prominent figures in industries like Hollywood, sports, and even media increasingly find themselves embroiled in controversies over old tweets that are racist, sexist or homophobic coming back to haunt them.
What they're saying: "Increasingly, old tweets are being used as ammunition to get their owners fired or ruin their reputation by people with an ax to grind," Dreyfuss writes.
As my colleague Kia Kokalitcheva notes, this is especially effective in part because Twitter doesn't always include the context in which a tweet was sent.
- Social media services, like Twitter, don't provide much context for individual posts, including the larger conversation they belong to and the intended audience.
Yes, but: I generally go for a different approach: Think twice before you tweet. I actually have that emblazoned on a T-shirt (not to mention burnt into my skull by Axios editor-in-chief Nicholas Johnston.)
My thought bubble: Yes, your old racist, sexist and homophobic tweets can be used against you. So maybe don't tweet those things in the first place.
- That said, Kia's point on lack of context is an important one. I try to imagine what someone would think if a particular tweet was the only thing of mine they read. And, even still, having tweeted 61,500 times, I can only imagine there is something that would look bad years later, particularly out of context.
Read more from Kia's story here.
3. Dems want review of face recognition tech
A group of Democratic lawmakers want the Government Accountability Office to look at how companies and law enforcement agencies use facial recognition technologies, Axios' David McCabe and Kaveh Waddell report.
Why it matters: Both Amazon and Microsoft have invited the government to lay out its views on the proper use of facial recognition technology.
The details: In a letter sent to the GAO on Monday, top House Judiciary Committee Democrat Jerrold Nadler and Sens. Ron Wyden, Chris Coons, Ed Markey and Cory Booker asked the agency to look into a range of questions about facial recognition technology:
- They asked the GAO to examine which law enforcement agencies use the technology, how they use it and what protections are in place to govern its use — as well as the market for data associated the technology.
- The lawmakers suggest the agency buy facial recognition products to evaluate them with an eye toward "whether commercial entities selling facial recognition adequately audit use of their technology to ensure that use is not unlawful, inconsistent with terms of service, or otherwise raise privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties concerns."
- "Given the recent advances in commercial facial recognition technology — and its expanded use by state, local, and federal law enforcement, particularly the FBI and Immigration and Customs and Enforcement — we ask that you investigate and evaluate the facial recognition industry and its government use," the lawmakers wrote.
Go deeper: David and Kaveh have more here.
4. Why we should teach AI to think like a toddler
Artificial intelligence powers modern conveniences like smart assistants and spam filters, and it fosters new developments in business, industry and the military.
But while today's AI can solve complex problems, it's still far from approximating human intelligence. Some researchers say that to get there, we should start by teaching computers to think like toddlers.
Watch more in this animated tutorial from the fabulous Axios video team.
5. Take Note
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- Apple reports earnings after the close.
Trading Places
- Music entrepreneur Troy Carter, who once managed Lady Gaga, is leaving his post as global head of creator services at Spotify.
- Google promoted general counsel Kent Walker to the broader role of SVP of global affairs, adding policy, trust and safety to his legal duties.
- The Center for Democracy and Technology has hired Elizabeth Laird as a senior fellow, leading its student privacy project. Laird was previously a as deputy assistant superintendent at the Washington, D.C., education authority.
- Samsung earnings fell short of expectations amid weakness in its smartphone business, per Bloomberg.
- T-Mobile US signed a $3.5 billion deal with Nokia for 5G networking gear, Engadget reports. While it's said to be the largest such deal to date, expect all the world's carriers to spend big on 5G networking gear, with most of the money going to Huawei, Nokia and Ericsson, as well as Samsung's network gear unit. (The big U.S. carriers won't be getting their gear from Huawei due to existing government rules).
- Uber said it is going to halt work on self-driving trucks in order to focus its autonomy efforts on cars, according to TechCrunch.
- Google added a VR-optimized version of its Chrome browser to its Daydream virtual reality platform, per VentureBeat. Meanwhile, the Verge writes Google's YouTube website now supports vertical video, without adding big black bars to the side.
- Axios' Sara Fischer and Dan Primack scooped this morning that Yahoo Finance is launching a full-day live video streaming network by the end of the year.
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I am an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department at Portland State University. My research interests include past hunter-gatherer societies, human ecodynamics, evolutionary theory, ceramic technologies, applied archaeology, and archaeology of the Arctic, Subarctic and Pacific Northwest. Cross-cutting these interests is a long-term commitment to community engagement and collaborative research in all aspects of my work.
I am currently involved in a multi-institution effort to bring together members of the Arctic social science and indigenous communities to reassess the goals, potentials, and needs of these diverse communities and Arctic social sciences research within the context of a rapidly changing circumpolar North. You can read more about the Arctic Horizons project, and participate virtually, on our webpage.
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest inspired my interest in archaeology, as did family connections to northern Canada. I received my undergraduate degree from Western Washington University and my graduate degrees from the University of Washington. Over the years I have worked in a variety of settings (e.g. tribal, federal, private) in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado and the Russian Far East (my CV).
I use this website to share publications, courses and other teaching related information, as well as current research. Take a look over here if you are a prospective student. Over on the blog page, I enjoy posting about day to day research activities and archaeological topics that catch my interest.


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I am going to the Daytona 500 this year! I cannot wait. I haven't been in about a decade. Don't get me wrong I watch it every year on the telly, but nothing compares to the live action of the cars as they drive by. I can't wait to feel the shaking of the cars as they round the corner and the smell of beer in the air. It feeds my soul.
I may go early and camp out….not sure. I can only take about 2 days of beer, smoked sausage and hot sun. I want to bring my wife but know that she can only take a few hours of the NASCAR atmosphere before turning into a complaining machine so maybe I will call Bill and we can make it a man trip. Road trip.
Tickets are ranging from $65 to $680 depending on where you sit. I think the best tickets are at the back stretch. I know that's weird but that's where I like to sit. The good news is those seats are cheap and there are usually a great deal of bumper bumping going on in the back stretch. So, the action is close up…but after 4 beers, who cares.


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Happy Friday everyone!
I just want to say that this week has been the slowest week ever.
In other news... I know this gingham ruffle-sleeve top has made many appearances in my wardrobe lately, but it's because of how flattering and comfortable it is. I brought it with me to my trip to NYC and thought it was fitting for a stroll through Central Park.
Thanks for stopping by!
P.S. Remember when I mentioned this on Snapchat? HAHA. I can't believe I walked all the way through Central Park with half-zipped booties! AH! How embarrassing.


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Govt called on to look at super tax breaks
The government should address the tax concessions afforded to superannuation as it looks to nationwide tax reform, according to one advocacy group.
Speaking to SMSF Adviser, Mark Chapman, taxation products and services manager at Taxpayers Australia, said tax reform is necessary on a national scale and has been "for quite a few years".
Mr Chapman stressed the importance of addressing the entire tax system rather than just areas that might be "politically expedient" to look at.
The GST in particular should be re-examined, Mr Chapman said, noting the equivalent tax in other jurisdictions sits at approximately 20 per cent.
"The people who would potentially be hit by that the most are those at the lower end of the income spectrum, so I think we also need to look at superannuation tax breaks to determine whether they are currently too generous for those on higher incomes," he said.
Taxpayers Australia's superannuation products and services manager, Reece Agland, has previously told SMSF Adviser the "excessively generous" deductions in superannuation available to the wealthy are unsustainable and need to be considered in any genuine tax reform process.
"While most of us will need superannuation to provide for our retirement, the wealthy do not. Without it they would still be able to make adequate preparations for their retirement years," Mr Agland said.
Mr Chapman also said negative gearing needs to be looked at to determine whether the tax relief afforded to property investors are too generous.
"There's no economic rationale, there's no housing market rationale, which should allow people to be able to use those sorts of tax losses quite as generously as they are now," Mr Chapman said.
"There is a group of taxpayers typically at the top end of the income spectrum who are being excessively advantaged by the use of those reliefs.
"That's causing I think all sorts of impacts down the line in terms of where the housing market is structured [and] the ability of first-time home buyers to get into the market."


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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store (ナミヤ雑貨店の奇蹟 | 解忧杂货店) Movie Review | by tiffanyyong.com
Recommended Audience: Fans of Ryosuke Yamada, Toshiyuki Nishida, Nijiro Murakami, Kanichiro, Rico Narumi, Mugi Kadowaki, Kento Hayashi, Masato Hagiwara, Machiko Ono, Ryuichi Hiroki and Japanese movie fans
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store (ナミヤ雑貨店の奇蹟 | 解忧杂货店) Movie Synopsis
Three delinquents run into an old house to hide from the wrongdoing they committed in the middle of the night. The house was once a general good store long ago where people could leave letters in the mailbox to seek advice for anything that were troubling them. Although the store was supposed to have been shut down, the entrance of these delinquents mysteriously triggers the mailbox to connect the past and the present – the letters from the past begins slipping through the mail slot. Are these letters from the past, crossing time to reach them? Although the three are bewildered by what is transpiring, they write responses to the letters, standing in for Yuji Namiya, the owner of the store at the time when the letters were written. The secret of the general store gradually comes to light, as well as a connection to a certain orphanage. The three individuals, who have never seriously considered anyone else's problems their whole lives, find themselves connected to these strangers. Will this general store, which has helped so many troubled people decide their path, cause a miracle one last time?
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store (ナミヤ雑貨店の奇蹟 | 解忧杂货店) Viewer Rating: 4.25/5 ****
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store (ナミヤ雑貨店の奇蹟 | 解忧杂货店) Movie Review:
Peps Goh: From the writer of 'Suspect X', whom i had thought must have a brillant mind, with this film, proves that he is also really emotionally intelligent. The Miracles of the Namiya General Store is a poignant piece, a collection of several touching stories woven smoothly together via the miracle of the letter slot. I hadn't expected too much of it initially having entered the theatre with only a glance of the synopsis.
Peps Goh: What i had thought might have been another half baked reiteration of 'The Lake House', turned out to be a contemplative narrative touched with hope and promise that better days will come. It had somehow vaguely reminded me of the 2005 Korean hit, 'Saedeu Mubi' (새드무비). And while "The Miracles of the Namiya General Store" failed to make me weep my face full of snot, it did instead gently left a tear in the corner of my eye and a box of hope in my chest.
Peps Goh: The cinematic style the director/dop had chosen is a double edged sword. The slow and barely-moving almost static shots that held long to slow notes was a tasteful complementation to the plot.
Although to some it may be perceived as boring and in our modern society of deficit attention span, it may lose some audiences in the first 20 minutes. (Confession: I was nodding off from the hypnotic quiet voice) Personally, i loved it. I thought it gave the actors the opportunity to immerse into the scene with minimal distraction, and the blocking of their performance on screen drew our viewing eyes around the composition masterfully. And as a result also made it easier for me to empathise with them, following their every beat and emotions flicker across their performance.
Tiffany Yong: Peps' right about the immersive acting and story-telling. While I am guilty of dozing off in the cinema, I had no problems understanding the character motivations and even be touched by the individual characters in each of the 5 stories. Of course, to nitpick, the three delinquents played by Ryosuke Yamada as Atsuya, Nijiro Murakami as Shota Kobayashi and Kanichiro as Kohei had some moments when I thought that their reaction is a tad too over the top, but Ryosuke Yamada redeemed himself at the end with his multi-layered performance, showcasing a multitude of conflicting emotions within a single take.
Peps Goh: They had also very admirably gone for an extremely minimalistic sound design. Its a tough thing to do. Most films these days opt to use obvious musical sound cues to invoke audience emotions. (Eg. Here's a blaring note, "BWWHHAA" feel scared. Now here's a funky jazz, you may giggle here. Classical piano now, please cry here.)
And without the aid of that. They had conveyed the complex play of emotions across the writing to the screen. That, is some solid film-making.
Tiffany Yong: Honestly, I was surprised how the words from Yuji Namiya (Toshiyuki Nishida) hit me, especially when he said that he wish to know how the advice he had provided helped the advice-seekers. The satisfaction and happiness he get when he received the letters from future reminded me why I continued blogging despite it not being a lucrative 'work'. It was the notion that whatever I've written, had helped the silent and unknown readers out in the world wide web, one way or another. I hope to be a Namiya for whoever's out there seeking for some sort of advice, and hopefully, they will pay it forward.
This is truly a introspective film that people in our times needs, it is a breathe of fresh air amidst the violence, action and drama that we all need.
Do You Know?
The 2012 Japanese novel written by Keigo Higashino won the 7th Chūōkōron Prize. It has had sales of more than 1.6 million copies in China. The best-selling author has penned such sensations as the thrillers "The Devotion of Suspect X" and "Journey Under the Midnight Sun.
Kanichiro is Sato Koichi's son and this marks his first time filming for a movie
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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store (ナミヤ雑貨店の奇蹟 | 解忧杂货店) is out in cinemas on 5 October 2017.
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*Disclosure: Invitation from Clover Films. No monetary compensation was received for the movie review.
Epiphany: / ɪˈpɪf(ə)ni,ɛˈpɪf(ə)ni / noun / A moment of sudden and great revelation.
Duplet: / ˈdjuːplɪt / noun / 2 electrons working together, forming a bond between atoms.
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14 Responses to The Miracles of the Namiya General Store (ナミヤ雑貨店の奇蹟) Movie Review
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This looks like another really awesome movie that I haven't heard of but would totally love to watch!
The movie looks really interesting. They should have more movies like this in the states.
Your country seem to have some really awesome movies. Too bad they aren't shown in the US.
I've never watched any Japanese movie ever ! But this sounds quite intriguing from your review!
Great review! I love watching foreign and subtitled movies. I love how you end up engrossed and forget you are even reading!
Great review. I will have to check this out..Right up my alley!
Great review. I am not a huge fan of Japanese movie. But is seems so interesting. I will definitely check this out.
You are always widening my cinematic knowledge. I have yet another movie added to my list thanks to you.
I like the story. If it has english subtitles I will have to watch it lol.
Okay, you've got me with this one. I LOVE the sound of it, especially the emotional side of the letters and that maybe they were written by children, or strangers looking for help. I am actually writing this one down, I love the concept of it!
I love Japanese movies, tv shows and anime. This is just enough mystery for me to want to check out. Going on my list. Maybe it will be on Netflix. Thanks.
This sounds like my kind of movie. I need to check it out.
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Forced Abortion at 7 Months
Poor Feng Jiamei! 7 months pregnant when 5 men from the Chinese authorities held her down, with a pillow over her head, and aborted her baby with injections through her belly into the baby's head. It took 2 days of pain before the dead baby evacuated.
The world never stops finding ways to sicken me. I share some of these tragic stories with you in the hope that controversy and horror force you to overcome your human fallibility to hide and instead look more into these subjects so that you have a real opinion.
I've yet to make a steadfast opinion on abortion and a woman's right to choose. I hold no religion so it's awareness that counts. That time limit for evacuation isn't clear but if it's in the green zone and prevents a mother's life being destroyed, or the child inheriting a life of suffering or being unwanted, i tend to understand. And none of us in the West can understand the challenges that China, with its 1.3 billion people face. Hell, even here in Africa, i can't help but think that many secretly wish that there was population control amongst the poor BUT –
– if the photo above is proven to be true, the story of poor Feng Jiamei isn't something that i could remotely understand. It's so abhorrent that i'll never find dark enough words to express my disgust and hate for those that would torture a woman like this!
UPDATE – 27 June 2012: Specifics are vague but the head of that clinic has supposedly being fired and employees received demerits. Feng Jiamei will received some compensation. Her husband is in hiding after harassment by local government officials.


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