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Currambine 2.34km
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Burns 4.06km
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Whitfords Tavern 5.93km
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Hillarys 6.04km
10th Light Horse Memorial 6.08km
Dead end Rd 6.13km
Wangara 6.3km
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Whitford Beach 6.49km
Della's Dairy Farm (ruins) 7.01km
Banksia Grove 7.29km
Lake Adams 7.35km
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Clarkson 7.49km
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Mindarie 7.91km
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Little Coogee Flat 8.04km
Cherokee Village Mobile Home & Tourist Park 8.06km
Marmion Marine Park 8.2km
Indigo Hair Salon 8.37km
Badgerup Lake 8.42km
Neerabup National Park 8.42km
Puma Neerabup 8.43km
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Little Coogee Swamp 9.06km
Little Dundarbar Swamp 9.48km
Kingsway Tourist & Caravan Park 9.49km
Quinns Rocks 9.61km
Sorrento Beach 9.64km
Sorrento Apartments Quality Inn 9.7km
Merriwa 9.86km
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Archive for August 4th, 2012
Barack Obama's Real Biological and Ideological Father and Mentor Was Frank Marshall Davis–Communist Party Member–Is Obama A Communist Agent of Influence Mole?–Who is your daddy?–Videos
legend (cover) – The complete cover story developed for an operative.
Obama Real Biological & Ideological Father & Mentor
Communist Frank Marshall Davis
Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception
Dreams from My Real Father: Director Joel Gilbert at National Press Club, Washington DC
Dreams From My Real Father: The Intimate Ann Dunham – Frank Marshall Davis Relationship
Filmmaker Joel Gilbert: Obama's Real Father Exposed!
OBAMA's REAL FATHER is Frank Marshall Davis !!!
Was Obama's Real Daddy Running a Sex Club in Hawaii?
Fox News' Kimberly Guilfoyle & Sean Hannity Rip Obama Not Releasing Records
Obama's REAL Dad (The Marxist) 1/3 Dreams From My REAL Father (Frank Marshall Davis)
Obama's REAL Dad (The Marxist) 2/3 Dreams From My REAL Father (Frank Marshall Davis)
Obama's REAL Dad (The Marxist) 3/3 Dreams From My REAL Father (Frank Marshall Davis)
Frank Marshall Davis Mentors Obama As A Child
Barack Obama 1995 Interview on Dreams From My Father Part 1
Barack Obama 1995 Interview on Dreams of My Father Part 2
Frank Marshall Davis Interview
bill ayers tom ayers frank marshall davis and slogan FORWARD
HOW TO PROVE THAT OBAMA'S FATHER IS FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS, via Fair Use Act material
Levin: Who Is Obama; Frank Marshall Davis Purged; Communist Ties
Who is the REAL Barack Obama?
Spooks (MI5) – Setting Up a Legend
Barack Obama's Hidden Past – With Bill Whittle (Part 1)
Barack Obama's Hidden Past – With Bill Whittle (Part 2)
Barack Obama's Hidden Past – With Bill Whittle (Part 3)
Who is the REAL Barack Obama?
"…This is an extraordinary fact based expose of the fairy tale story "sold" to the American public about Barack Obama and those who have surrounded and influenced him since childhood. Do you know ANYONE who believes the things Obama believes or would do the things Obama has done? What is most disturbingis the extent to which the mainstream media has been complicit in keeping these facts from the American public. …"
Paul Kengor (1 of 3)
"…Professor Paul Kengor, author of the sensational book, Dupes, speaks on how communists have manipulated progressives and why Barack Obama's relationship with Communist Party USA member Frank Marshall Davis is so important. Kengor credits America's Survival, Inc. for telling the truth about Obama's communist mentor and obtaining Davis's 600-page FBI file."
Paul Kengor (2 of 3)
Paul Kengor (3 of 3)
WATCH The Communist author Paul Kengor w/ Glenn Beck on the Radio Frank Marshall Davis Obama
Dr. Drew on Young Obama's Marxism – 1 of 6
Dr. Drew on Young Obama's Marxism – 2 of 6
Dr. Drew on Young Obama's Marxism – 3 of 6
Dr. Drew on Young Obama's Marxism – 4 of 6
Dr. Drew on Young Obama's Marxism – 5 of 6
Dr. Drew on Young Obama's Marxism – 6 of 6
Paul Kengor & Glenn Beck "The Communist" on GBTV Frank Marshall
Glenn Beck talks to Dr. Paul Kengor about his Book "The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor."
In his memoir, Barack Obama omits the full name of his mentor, simply calling him "Frank." Now, the truth is out: Never has a figure as deeply troubling and controversial as Frank Marshall Davis had such an impact on the development of an American president.
Although other radical influences on Obama, from Jeremiah Wright to Bill Ayers, have been scrutinized, the public knows little about Davis, a card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA, cited by the Associated Press as an "important influence" on Obama, one whom he "looked to" not merely for "advice on living" but as a "father" figure.
While the Left has willingly dismissed Davis (with good reason), here are the indisputable, eye-opening facts: Frank Marshall Davis was a pro-Soviet, pro–Red China communist. His Communist Party USA card number, revealed in FBI files, was CP #47544. He was a prototype of the loyal Soviet patriot, so radical that the FBI placed him on the federal government's Security Index. In the early 1950s, Davis opposed U.S. attempts to slow Stalin and Mao. He favored Red Army takeovers of Central and Eastern Europe, and communist control in Korea and Vietnam. Dutifully serving the cause, he edited and wrote for communist newspapers in both Chicago and Honolulu, courting contributors who were Soviet agents. In the 1970s, amid this dangerous political theater, Frank Marshall Davis came into Barack Obama's life.
Aided by access to explosive declassified FBI files, Soviet archives, and Davis's original newspaper columns, Paul Kengor explores how Obama sought out Davis and how Davis found in Obama an impressionable young man, one susceptible to Davis's worldview that opposed American policy and traditional values while praising communist regimes. Kengor sees remnants of this worldview in Obama's early life and even, ultimately, his presidency.
Kengor charts with definitive accuracy the progression of Davis's communist ideas from Chicago to Hawaii. He explores how certain elements of the Obama administration's agenda reflect Davis's columns advocating wealth redistribution, government stimulus for "public works projects," taxpayer-funding of universal health care, and nationalizing General Motors. Davis's writings excoriated the "tentacles of big business," blasted Wall Street and "greedy" millionaires, lambasted GOP tax cuts that "spare the rich," attacked "excess profits" and oil companies, and perceived the Catholic Church as an obstacle to his vision for the state—all the while echoing Davis's often repeated mantra for transformational and fundamental "change."
And yet, The Communist is not unsympathetic to Davis, revealing him as something of a victim, an African- American who suffered devastating racial persecution in the Jim Crow era, steering this justly angered young man on a misguided political track. That Davis supported violent and heartless communist regimes over his own country is impossible to defend. That he was a source of inspiration to President Barack Obama is impossible to ignore.
Is Obama working to fulfill the dreams of Frank Marshall Davis? That question has been impossible to answer, since Davis's writings and relationship with Obama have either been deliberately obscured or dismissed as irrelevant. With Paul Kengor's The Communist, Americans can finally weigh the evidence and decide for themselves. (Amazon.com)
Who's Your Daddy! Strawberry Fields Forever
Was Communist Mentor Intimate With Obama's Mother?
By Dr. Jerome Corsi
"…Did Barack Obama's mother pose nude for communist poet and journalist Frank Marshall Davis?
Did Obama build his political career on a fairy tale that his father was a Kenyan who grew up herding goats?
Was Obama's goal in writing his autobiography, "Dreams from My Father," to misdirect Americans away from a deeply disturbing family background and a Marxist political foundation?
These are questions filmmaker Joel Gilbert poses in the full-length documentary "Dreams from My Real Father," which argues Frank Marshall Davis is the president's biological father, not the Kenyan Barack Obama.
Gilbert reports he has recently discovered racy photos in vintage fetish and bondage magazines of Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, that he believes were taken by Davis. The photos, he says, bolster his belief that Dunham had an intimate relationship with Davis.
Gilbert has given WND a preview of a new "Breaking News" page on his documentary's website titled "The Intimate Ann Dunham-Frank Marshall Davis Relationship." On the page, he presents a video that shows some of the 30-plus pin-up photographs he believes Davis took of Obama's young mother and other models in his home at 2994 Kalihi Street in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Frank Marshall Davis, pornographer
In 1968, Greenleaf Classics in San Diego published a pornographic novel titled "Sex Rebel Black: Memoirs of a Gash Gourmet," authored by "Bob Greene," a pen name Davis later admitted was his own.
In the sex novel that Davis claimed was autobiographical, he describes a swinging lifestyle in which he and his wife had sex numerous times with an underage girl named "Anne," a figure very suggestive of Obama's mother.
As Gilbert documents, Davis was a semi-professional photographer for more than 30 years, beginning when he lived in Chicago. His specialty was taking nude photographs of female models that he called "horizontal cameos."
In a collection of Davis poems published in a book titled "Black Moods," compiled by his biographer, University of Kansas English Professor John Edgar Tidwell, are 37 written "portraits" grouped in a section subtitled "Horizontal Cameos." Each poem is dedicated to a different woman identified only by her first name. The second poem is dedicated to "Anne" and reads as follows:
In the gangling hours
Thin, adolescent hours
Before night runs softly
Away into the west
Anne rises wearily From her tired bed
And sleeps
Sitting in a chair.
In the three nude photographs initially discovered on the Internet in 2008, the young naked model is shown in a living room setting. She is posing in or around a chair, with a Christmas tree and a 1950s Hi-Fi with various jazz vinyl record albums in the background. .."
Background Articles and Videos
Glenn Beck's Reaction to Obama's "Income Inequality" Speech in Osawatomie, Kansas
Jeremiah Wright on Obama – GBTV
Obama's Records Are Missing & Why He is Causing a Media Blackout- FULL LENGTH REPORT
Obama's Real History – The "Lost" Years
Witness – Obama was a Foreign Student
EMERGENCY; Warning to All U.S.A. Citizens – Obama and Ayers
The Real Story of the Weathermen – ties to the Cuban DGI
Obama's terrorist connections – William Ayers
Weather Underground Announces Fall Offensive
Bringing Down America by Larry Grathwohl
Terrorist Bill Ayers says: I did Black Hat SEO with Obama!
Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Rashid Khalidi
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn interviewed on Democracy Now! (1 of 5)
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn interviewed on Democracy Now! (2 of 5)
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn interviewed on Democracy Now! (3 of 5)
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn interviewed on Democracy Now! (4 of 5)
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn interviewed on Democracy Now! (5 of 5)
Public Enemy – Bill Ayres in Hollywood
Barack Obama Friends – Part 1 – Bill Ayers & Bernadine Dohrn, Weatherman, Weather Underground
Barack Obama Friends Sean Hannity Special
Larry Grathwohl on Ayers' plan for American re-education camps and the need to kill millions
Fox News "Hannity" Interview on Courting Disaster 1/22/10
BBC Spy Ep. 1 Into the Unknown
BBC Spy Ep. 2 Open Your Eyes
BBC Spy Ep. 3 Under Cover (Better Quality)
BBC Spy Ep. 4 The Confidence of Strangers (Better Quality)
BBC Spy Ep. 5 Too Close for Comfort (Better Quality)
BBC Spy Ep. 6 Safe as Houses (Better Quality)
BBC Spy Ep. 7 Crossing the Line (Better Quality)
BBC Spy Ep. 8 The Enemy Within
BBC Spy Ep. 9 Out in the Cold
BBC Spy Ep. 10 End Game
Nuclear Secrets – Part 1 – The Spy from Moscow
Nuclear Secrets – Part 2 – Superspy
Nuclear Secrets – Part 3 – SuperBomb
Nuclear Secrets 4 of 5 Vanunu and the Bomb
Nuclear Secrets 5 of 5 The Terror Trader
KGB: Still Alive to tell the Tale
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Obama caught on hot mic saying "After My Election I Have More Flexibility"
The Bigger Picture Part 3: Russian Spy Ring Busted the Day After Hell Burger Date in CIA Virginia
The Bigger Picture Part 6 : The US and Russia are Swapping Spys, Court Process for Show
Anna Chapman the Caught Russian Spy Enjoys Spotlight
Frank Marshall Davis
"…Frank Marshall Davis (December 31, 1905 – July 26, 1987) was an American journalist, poet, and political and labor movement activist.
He began his career writing for African American newspapers in Chicago. He moved to Atlanta where he became the editor of the paper he turned into the Atlanta Daily World before moving back to Chicago. During this time, he was outspoken about political and social issues. His poetry work was sponsored by the WPA.
In the late 1940s, he moved to Honolulu where he ran a small business. He also became involved in local labor issues where his actions were tracked by the FBI.
Davis died in 1987 in Hawaii.
Early life
Beginning at age 17, Davis attended Friends University (1923) and later Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University) (1924–27, 1929) but didn't graduate. When Davis entered Kansas State, there were 25 other African-American students enrolled there.[1] He studied industrial journalism. He began to write poems as the result of a class assignment and was encouraged to continue writing poetry by an English literature instructor.[1] Frank pledged Phi Beta Sigma fraternity in 1925.
In 1927, Davis moved to Chicago, where he worked variously for the Chicago Evening Bulletin, the Chicago Whip and the Gary American, all African-American newspapers.[2][3] He also wrote free-lance articles and short stories for African-American magazines. It was also during this time that Davis began a serious effort to write poetry, including his first long poem, entitled Chicago's Congo, Sonata for an Orchestra.
In 1931, he moved to Atlanta to become an editor of a semiweekly paper. Davis transformed the Atlanta Daily World[4] into a daily newspaper within two years of taking the job as the paper's managing editor in 1931. Under Davis's leadership the Atlanta Daily World became the nation's first successful black daily.
In the pages of the paper, Davis articulated an agenda of social realism (social justice), which included appeals for racial justice in politics and economics, as well as legal justice. Davis became interested in the Communist party in 1931 during the famous Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon cases[citation needed] and championed black activism to compensate for social ills not remedied by the larger white society. In the early 1930s, he warned against blacks accepting the Depression-era remedies being pushed by communists[citation needed] but by 1936 Davis was listed as a contributing editor to the Spokesman, the official organ of the Youth Section of the National Negro Congress, which the government had declared a Communist front organization.[citation needed]
He continued to write and publish poems, which came to the attention of Frances Norton Manning, who introduced Davis to Norman Forge. Forge's Black Cat Press brought out Davis's first book, Black Man's Verse, in the summer of 1935.
In 1935, Davis moved back to Chicago to take the position of managing editor of the Associated Negro Press,[5] a news service for black newspapers, which had begun in 1919. Eventually, Davis was named executive editor for the ANP. He held the position until 1947.
During the Depression, Davis participated in the federal Works Progress Administration Writers' Project. In 1937, he received a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship.[6]
While in Chicago, Davis also started a photography club, worked for numerous political parties, and participated in the League of American Writers. With the encouragement of authors such as Richard Wright and Margaret Walker, Davis published in 1948 his most ambitious collection of poems, entitled 47th Street: Poems, which chronicles the varied life on Chicago's South Side.
Davis used his newspaper platform to call for integration of the sports world, and he began to engage himself with community organizing efforts, starting a Chicago labor newspaper, The Star, toward the end of World War II. In 1947, the Spokane Daily Chronicle called the paper "a red weekly" saying that it "has most of the markings of a Communist front publication."[7] The Chicago Star had a goal to "promote a policy of cooperation and unity between Russia and the United States"[8] seeking to "[avoid] the red-baiting tendencies of the mainstream press."[9]
In 1945, he taught one of the first jazz history courses in the United States, at the Abraham Lincoln School[10] in Chicago.
In 1948, Davis and his second wife, who had married in 1946, moved to Honolulu, Hawaii. It is frequently reported that the move was at the suggestion of Davis's friend Paul Robeson who praised its multiracial culture,[11], although in a in a 1974 interview with Black World/Negro Digest, Davis states that the move was because of a magazine article his wife had read.[12]During this time Hawaii was going through a non-violent revolution between colored labor workers and the white elite known as the Democratic Revolution. There, Davis operated a small wholesale paper business, Oahu Papers, which burned in March 1951. In 1959, he started another similar firm, the Paradise Paper Company.
Davis also wrote a weekly column, called "Frank-ly Speaking", for the Honolulu Record, a labor paper published by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) headed by Harry Bridges.[13] Davis' first column noted he was a member of the national executive board of the Civil Rights Congress,[14][citation needed] The paper had been founded in 1948 by Koji Ariyoshi , and closed in 1958. Davis's early columns covered labor issues, but he broadened his scope to write about cultural and political issues, especially racism. He also included the history of blues and jazz in his columns.
While in Hawaii, Davis broadened from a Black Power philosophy to include what Dinesh D'Sousa calls "a wider currents of oppression and subjugation."[11] He became one of the first promoters of the concept of a "raceless" society based on his belief that race as a biological or social construct was illogical and a fallicy.[15]
Davis published little poetry between 1948 and his final volume, Awakening, and Other Poems, published in 1978.
Later years
Davis authored a hard core pornographic novel, which was published in 1968 under a pseudonym. The book, titled Sex Rebel: Black, was written under the pseudonym "Bob Greene,"[16] and was published by William Hamling's Greenleaf Publishing Company.
Davis visited Howard University in Washington, D.C., to give a poetry reading in 1973, marking the first time he had seen the U.S. mainland in 25 years. His work began to appear in anthologies. Livin' the Blues: Memories of a Black Journalist and Poet (1992), Black Moods: Collected Poems (2002), and Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press (2007) were published posthumously.
Analysis of his literary work
Davis said he was captivated early on by "the new revolutionary style called free verse. Sonnets and, in fact, all rhyme held little interest for" him.[1] Davis claimed his "greatest single influence" was the poetry of Carl Sandburg "because of his hard, muscular poetry."[1]
During the middle of the 20th century, Davis set forth a radical vision that challenged the status quo. His commentary on race relations, music, literature, and American culture was precise, impassioned, and engaged. At the height of World War II, Davis questioned the nature of America's potential postwar relations and what they meant for African Americans and the nation. His work challenged the usefulness of race as a social construct, and he eventually disavowed the idea of race altogether.
In his reviews on music, he argued that blues and jazz were responses to social conditions and served as weapons of racial integration. His book reviews complemented his radical vision by commenting on how literature reshapes one's understanding of the world. Even his travel writings on Hawaii called for cultural pluralism and tolerance for racial and economic difference.
Legacy of political activism
Kathryn Waddell Takara has made this evaluation of Davis's political legacy.
"No significant African American community existed in Hawai`i to provide Davis with emotional and moral support, and an expanded audience and market for his writing. Also, because he was still concerned with the issues of freedom, racism, and equality, he lacked widespread multi cultural support.One can only imagine Davis's frustrations at his inability to become a successful writer in Hawaii after his promising beginnings in Atlanta and Chicago. He rarely complained, but he must have felt incomplete if not bitter when he found dignity but not freedom to develop his potential and lead the distinguished life to which he was accustomed. Considering the controversial subject matter of Davis' writing, it is little wonder that some whites looked askance at his presence in the islands. He worked quietly, he wrote even when he no longer published his writings, and he talked with those who came to visit him–always seeking to present the truth of his vision, confident that social justice and human dignity would finally prevail. Indeed, despite his radical rhetoric, Davis was optimistic that good relations between ethnic groups could and would lead to a better world.
It can be argued that Davis escaped defeat like a trickster, playing dead only to arise later and win the race, although the politics of defeat were all around him. If society seemed to defeat him by denying him financial rewards, publication, and status, he continued to write prolifically. He stood by his principle that the only way to achieve social equality was to acknowledge and discuss publicly the racial and ethnic dynamics in all their complexity situated in an unjust society. He provided a bold, defiant model for writers to hold onto their convictions and articulate them."[17]
Personal life
In 1946, Davis married Helen Canfield, a white Chicago socialite, who was 19 years his junior. They divorced in 1970, and Helen died in May 1998 in Honolulu.[18] The couple had four daughters named Lynn, Beth, Jeanne and Jill and a son named Mark.
Davis was an avid photographer, and inspired Richard Wright's interest in the hobby.[19]
Davis died in 1987, in Honolulu, of a heart attack, at the age of 81. Most sources list the date of his death as 26 July. However, the Social Security Death Index gives 15 July 1987 as his date of death, as does his college fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma.[20]
Davis and Barack Obama
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In his memoir Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama wrote about "Frank", a friend of his grandfather's. "Frank" told Obama that he and Stanley (Obama's maternal grandfather) both had grown up only 50 miles apart, near Wichita, although they did not meet until Hawaii. He described the way race relations were back then, including Jim Crow, and his view that there had been little progress since then. As Obama remembered, "It made me smile, thinking back on Frank and his old Black Power, dashiki self. In some ways he was as incurable as my mother, as certain in his faith, living in the same sixties time warp that Hawaii had created."[21] Obama also remembered Frank later in life when he took a job in South Chicago as a community organizer and took some time one day to visit the areas where Frank had lived and wrote in his book, "I imagined Frank in a baggy suit and wide lapels, standing in front of the old Regal Theatre, waiting to see Duke or Ella emerge from a gig." [22]
The London Telegraph headlined that Davis, an "alleged communist" was an "early influence" on the young Obama.[16] Jerome Corsi also made controversial allegations of the influence of Davis in his book The Obama Nation.[23] A rebuttal released by Obama's presidential campaign, entitled Unfit for Publication, confirmed that "Frank" was Frank Marshall Davis, but disputes those claims about the nature of their relationship.[24]
Selected works
- Black Man's Verse; Black Cat, (Chicago, IL), 1935.
- I Am the American Negro, Black Cat, (Chicago, IL), 1937, ISBN 978-0-8369-8920-5
- Through Sepia Eyes; Black Cat, (Chicago, IL), 1938.
- 47th Street: Poems; Decker (Prairie City, IL), 1948.
- Black Man's Verse; Black Cat (Skokie, IL), 1961.
- Sex Rebel: Black (Memoirs of a Gash Gourmet), (written under pseudonym "Bob Greene"); Greenleaf Publishing Company (Evanston, IL), 1968.
- Jazz Interludes: Seven Musical Poems; Black Cat (Skokie, IL), 1977.
- Awakening and Other Poems; Black Cat (Skokie, IL), 1978.
- Livin' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet, ed. John Edgar Tidwell; University of Wisconsin Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-299-13500-3
- Black Moods: Collected Poems, ed. John Edgar Tidwell; University of Illinois Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-252-02738-3
- Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press, ed. by John Edgar Tidwell; University Press of Mississippi, 2007. ISBN 1-57806-921-1; ISBN 978-1-57806-921-7
Further reading
- Black Literature Criticism,Gale (Detroit), 1992.
- Davis, Frank Marshall, I Am the American Negro,Black Cat, 1937.
- Davis, Frank Marshall, Livin' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet,University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 51: Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940,Gale, 1987.
- Selected Black American Authors: An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography,G. K. Hall (Boston), 1977.
Wagner, Jean. Black Poets of the United States: From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes, University of Illinois Press (Champaign, IL), 1973.
- Biographical and guides
- Takara, Kathryn Waddell Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix (A Critical Biography)
- The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor. Mercury Ink, 2012. ISBN 978-1451698091
- Online writings
- blog compiled from editorials Frank Marshall Davishad written for the Honolulu Record from the Center for Labor Education & Research, University of Hawaii- West Oahu


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The garden Suite is a large (160m2) garden apartment and comes with three double beds and a double sofa bed so can sleep up to eight guests.
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The Grand Suite sleeps up to four guests and has a floor area of 55 m.² with one bedroom and a sofa bed.
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Madrid, Barcelona, Pamplona, Zaragoza, Tenerife, Valladolid, Gijón, Santiago de Compostela, Segovia…to name a few of the previous locations! This year, however, it was Caldes de Montbui's turn, a small town 45km away from Barcelona. Agile Open Space 2018 gathered almost 200 fans of Agile methodologies in one place – all of whom were eager to learn and apply their latest findings from day-to-day.
Three representatives from MOBGEN | Accenture Interactive's project management department were present there this year. We would like to summarise our experience and hand out a big 'thank you' to all of this years' sponsors who made this event possible – especially to Agile, Spain, an association committed to Agile with the aim to promote the use of Agile methodologies in Spanish companes, research centers and universities by sharing knowledge and experience.
Open Space
What is the Agile Open Space event? We can easily sum up Open Space as an innovative way of running simultaneous meetings that are collectively focused on a global theme. Each day, the agenda is decided by the participants and the event as a whole is driven by four simple principles:
- All attendees are the right attendees: the participants who attend a specific meeting are the correct demographic, simply because they cared enough to attend in the first place.
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened: this principle tells the attendees to pay attention to the details of the event, in the moment, instead of worrying about what could possibly happen.
- When it starts, is the right time: clarifies the lack of any given schedule or structure, the time when a session starts is always the right one.
- When it's over, it's over: encourages the participants not to waste time, but to move on to something else as soon as the previous discussion ends.
In addition, there remains only one rule that attendees must follow in addition to those four principles outlined above. This is known as the 'Law of Two Feet'. If, at any time during a meeting, someone is in a situation where he/she is neither learning nor contributing, they are solely responsible to use their two feet and go to another place where he/she may learn and contribute. We think this rule is simply awesome!
When looking back at the event itself, before the whirlwind of meetings began, the marketplace played a key role in the fruition of the event itself. The marketplace is set up to allow anyone who cares about a specific topic or discussion, to step in and explain to everybody listening why it is a good idea and to give the others the opportunity to attend. They do so by simply posting the opportunity on the Agenda Wall and setting up a series of sessions. When all of the pitches are concluded, a facilitator invites people to sign up for what they are interested in, meaning that every attendee takes responsibility for their own schedules. This was easily one of our favourite dimensions of the event as it allowed us to really get the most out of these few days, on a personal and professional level.
Each session held at the event only needs one time-keeper, one note-taker and a circle of chairs to go ahead with their session. In the event that a lot of people turn up to a session, they will set up more than one circle of chairs. It is as simple and brilliant as that. The Open Space also 'ends when it ends', although it usually does fit into a schedule of some sort – when a retrospective begins to take place, you know the end is near as the teams begin to collect feedback from everybody and you reflect upon the past few days as a collective.
This year, the event organizers used the occasion to promote the names of seven remarkable women who have made an impact in IT, by naming the open spaces and buildings within the marketplace. Those names were: Ada Lovelace, Evelyn Berezin, Margaret Hamilton, Katherine Johnson, Hedy Lamarr, Grace Murry Hopper and Dorothy Vaughan.
As you can see, a huge variety of related Agile topics were discussed during the two days we spent at the event. These topics were explored with a lot of passion and an open mindset. Amongst these topics were; design thinking, Scrum practices, Agile games, Kanban flows, output vs outcome, Montecarlo simulation, resistance to change…and many more. However, in the rest of this article we will focus on two popular concepts that interest us deeply and are being used more and more in recent months: Scrum PLoP and LEGO® Serious Play.
Scrum PLoP
PLoP stands for Pattern Languages of Programs. The meaning of Scrum PLoP is that it builds a set of patterns and anti-patterns which are created through experience, community and the insights of its founders and inventors. The goal of this is to build a list of items which can be reviewed each year and shared within Agile communities, in order for Scrum practitioners to apply them within their own organisation. In addition, the existence of this list allows your team members and other users to submit a new pattern, at any time, and present it to the public on a broad scale.
Some interesting patterns, although not widely used, enable the pair programming technique as a result of the well-known learning pyramid – most people only remember approximately 10% of what they read in textbooks, but statistics show that most retain approximately 90% of what they learn through others. Three other interesting pattern techniques are Yesterday's Weather, which uses the previous Sprint's velocity as an indicator, Swarming, where the development team has the final say over the ordering of Sprint backlog items, and selecting a Chief Product Owner. However, recurrent anti-patterns are also worth a mention, as we often experience recurrent issues such as those in daily stand up meetings: length, loss of focus, punctuality, wrong use of reporting, or even, when the Product Owner often makes the mistake of adopting a dictator role – which is not appreciated by the team and not valuable for meeting goals.
LEGO® Serious Play
A picture is worth a thousand words. So, what about a 3D model built with LEGO® elements? This method is a facilitated thinking, communication and problem solving technique used by individuals, teams and organisations, that enables participants to be led through a series of questions and eventually, to build their own 3D models. These serve as basis for group discussion, allowing participants to share their knowledge with likeminded individuals.
Furthermore, if someone asks you a question and you answer verbally, it has been proven that you activate your short- and long-term memory. This represents approximately 13% of your brain. However, when you start to build your answer with your hands, around 80% of your brain is activated. This clearly shows how LEGO® Serious Play can impact your work, as the method takes advantage of this fact, allowing participants to use their imagination in order to delve deeper into a topic or goal. This is also said to trigger personal aspirations and goals, alongside professional development.
When participating in such activities, each person builds their own 3D model in response to a clear question that has been posed by a facilitator. Participants will then work with a set of LEGO® elements, designed to inspire story-making for easy sharing with the rest of the team. The facilitator and participants will then solidify and discuss key insights, asking for clarification questions of the models if needed. We think this approach to learning and development is absolutely awesome, and really enjoyed seeing this used in person!
AOS 2018, we had a blast. We learnt a lot, connected with a bunch of likeminded individuals (many of whom work in the same field) and much more. If we had to pick some key words to summarise our experience, they would have to be: curiosity, knowledge, ideas, experiences, opinions, fun, contacts, perspective, doubts, synergies and dreams. We are already looking forward to joining the next one, and we think others should do the same if the opportunity presents itself to you! You are sure to learn how to be more Agile in the perfect environment!
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One in eight people in the UK (6.5 million) are currently combining paid work with unpaid caring responsibilities. Article from Zara Ross, Chief Executive at Ben.
Two thirds of these people work full time, and one third part time. This means that in any organisation employing 100 people, there are likely to be at least 12 carers. By 2037, it is predicted that there will be 9 million carers in the country (1). A total of 625,000 people suffer with mental and physical ill health as a direct consequence of the stress and physical demands of caring (2). Therefore, we felt it was important to offer some insights to employers about supporting employees who are also carers.
Carers are a diverse group of people because every caring situation is different in nature. Carers can be adults caring for other adults, parents caring for their ill or disabled children or young carers under the age of 18 caring for a loved one. Anyone could be a carer (or become a carer) because people of all ages and circumstances have caring needs and people of any age can be disabled – or become disabled. There are a variety of different caring situations, from children with ADHD and young adults caring for parents with addictions, right through to elderly relatives who have a physical disability or illness, like Alzheimer's or dementia.
Some carers see themselves as a wife or husband, mother or father, partner, grandparent, child, friend or neighbour, rather than a "carer". There are situations with multiple carers as part of a family or community network. The nature of these caring relationships means that care includes emotional, as well as physical support. Additionally, because of the nature of the illness and relationship, a care-giver may not be recognised as such by the person they are providing care to.
The demands on a carer:
Some carers are not willing to share information about their caring responsibilities with their employer, since they worry that their commitment to their job will be questioned. Caring for someone can be physically exhausting and emotionally stressful, and often results in carers feeling unsupported, isolated and alone. These feelings can impact on a person's overall health and wellbeing, particularly their mental health, which is likely to have a knock-on effect on their ability to work.
The stresses of full time work and then going home to be a carer can take its toll, so carers need regular respite to stay in good health. Carers may have to get up through the night to care for someone, which can make them physically tired and drained during working hours.
Benefits of supporting an employee who is a carer:
There are many benefits to supporting an employee who is also a care-giver. Good, hard-working employees are an asset to a company so retaining these people will bring multiple business benefits.
By ensuring you look after your employees in this way can improve workplace morale and reduce stress and sickness absence. Showing that you are a flexible, caring employer is also good for the reputation of your business and can also attract staff, as well as retaining existing staff. You can find out more about the business case for supporting carers in the workplace on the Carer Positive website.
How to help someone who is a carer:
Carers are being increasingly recognised as providing a valuable service, so it's important to understand what help is out there to support your colleague in their caring role. Here is some guidance to help you support them:
Listen and let them talk about their situation, being sympathetic and understanding. Understand your employee's individual needs – every situation is different. Focus on empathy in order to understand how it feels to be in the carer's position and mitigate feelings of isolation. Foster an open and inclusive culture where employees feel supported and empowered to respond to situations as they need to.
Offer flexible working patterns. By law an employee can now request flexible working and they can submit one request per year. Enable them to take emergency leave (at short notice) when needed. Offer training for managers and supervisors so that they understand the demands that working carers experience and are aware of the support available to them.
(1) and (2) Carers UK 2015: https://www.carersuk.org/news-and-campaigns/press-releases/facts-and-figures
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Vested CEO Daniel P. Simon reported from the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, interviewing attendees whose technology sits at the nexus of consumer technology and financial services.
Blockchain companies were heavily represented at this year's CES, and the show hosted the first blockchain panel in its history on Jan. 5. The technology has certainly come a long way since it began to make headlines in 2011.
"Financial services will end up being just simply software," said Caitlin Long, chairperson and president of Symbiont, an enterprise blockchain platform. Referring to the blockchain as "a new form of database technology," she added that blockchain "will replace the traditional SQL and Oracle database back-ends of a lot of IT infrastructure that exist today."
Digital currency specifically, and the blockchain generally, unquestionably has a role in the future of consumer finance. We're very bullish on the technology and look forward to seeing what innovation comes from blockchain startups and established institutions moving forward.


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The Canyon and the Gulf
7th September 2010
Loaded up with just enough diving equipment, two cameras and our emergency equipment 'just in case', we drive off through Dahab 2010, an emerging Mecca for Red sea diving in our JEEP Just Enough Essential Parts.
Goats blanket themselves across the road, potholes crunch already destroyed suspension on the side road and car horns resound all around as we drive across the sea of 'Desert wind' strewn plastic bottles, bags and the goat's staple diet of cardboard boxes. An occasional camel blocks one lane of the 60 degree Tarmacadum and casually chews as we drive around it, oblivious to all, aware of everything.
The road takes us though the Dahab suburbs of increasingly Bedhouin existences, mind numbing heat and increasingly stunning coastline of turquoise and sand. The hotels and dive centres dwindle as we travel through Sinai desert to the heavily manned checkpoints and onto our destination - The Canyon.
The Canyon is one of the most beautiful dive sites in the world and as such attracts a constant stream of world tourists. A lot of divers. So many divers, but not so many American or Israeli!
The procession constantly streams into the water in buddy pairs, the whole debacle only missing one tall man with a long white beard and a huge wooden boat - after all this is the Red Sea.
Russian Divers, are the majority this morning, with their big metal sticks and gloves so they can handle, poke and touch things. Things that are meant to be left untouched by man and left untouched as dictated by local law.
Such beautiful things reveal themselves as we float at a few metres over and around the small coral ridges to see strange streams of diver's bubbles rising from the apparent sea bed. We glide through the curtain of bubbles and descend deeply into a canyon passage choked with varying degrees of incompetent tourists, flapping and floundering, gliding and hovering in unison in the narrow passage that makes up this underwater nirvana. At 30m we leave the masses behind into a silent wonder, the fish enquire as for the first divers, why we are there. We, however, need no explanation and revel in the joy of it all.
Climbing out of the depths and resurfacing at a mere 10 metres we are greeted by spectrums of colour and entire reference book listings of fish.
Our photographic expedition, one of the slowest of all time, drifts at a sea slug's pace... Not much goes unmissed, the baby octopus that carefully hid himself from the Russian probes sneaks a view and our gentle glide encourages all manner of curious fish to come look see who see sensitive tourists are... Every colour imaginable reveals itself as do the baby clams, urchins and bottom dwelling camouflaged creatures of the sand. It's a labyrinth of intricate detail and ecosystem complexity the creation of which leaves us in awe and uncertain as to our God and just how all this came to be.
Trance like, breathing calmly, slowly and in rhythm with the gentle current we emerge to the hectic hurly burly of the global visitors, transient and confused.
The gulf that separates us, the differences between those in tune with their world and those who merely see it as a list of rushed snapshots was all here to see today - at the Canyon in the Gulf.


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Sims 4 Studio for Mac 18.104.22.168 (Apple Blossom) - Open Beta Aug 15, 2016 21:09:05 GMT -5 fuyaya, jwofles, and 187 more like this
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Sims 4 Studio for Mac (Apple Blossom)
New in 22.214.171.124: Updated for the Discover University EP
New in 18.104.22.168: Updated for the Discover University EP
This is a versatile tool for making custom content for Sims 4, editing existing .packages, and batch-fixing and merging your Sims 4 custom content.
New in version 220.127.116.11
We have added support for the game packs Strangerville and Island Living. More features that were available only in Windows are available on Mac now such as Build Mode items, My CC, and the slot editor for objects. There is also better support for dark mode, and the option to change the background color of the 3D preview.
Umbrella used in the above picture was made by Giulietta Sims (Feyona)
Some caveats should be noted before downloading this version of Sims 4 Studio. First, this tool is the first Mac custom content tool for Sims 4, and it is a beta tool. What that means is that it is going to have bugs until it is being used by a community of Mac users who let us know when they run into an issue that needs work. No one on this team regularly uses a Mac so improvement of this tool will require some effort on the part of the Mac Studio community. If running into a bug while using an app bothers you, do not download this tool. Second, Sims 4 Studio for Mac was coded as a hobby in spare time, and it was not made by professional Apple developers. That means it's going to have bugs. If it bothers you to run into a bug while using an app, do not download this tool. Third, this tool was made in an effort to open Sims 4 modding to the Mac users in our community. It is offered in the spirit of sharing. Please keep this in mind when reporting bugs. Fourth, this version of Studio requires Mac OS (El Capitan) 10.11 or above and it will never run on any OSX earlier than this one.
The interface for Sims 4 Studio for Mac is much like that of the Windows version, although there are some minor differences. Please feel welcome to check out the Windows version tutorials. If you run into differences that hamper your progress, post in the tutorial thread for help or open a thread in the Creator Help section.
The interface for Sims 4 Studio for Mac is much like that of the Windows version, although there are some minor differences. Please feel welcome to check out the Windows version tutorials. If you run into differences that hamper your progress, post in the tutorial thread for help or open a thread in the Creator Help section.
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Change Log:
[Batch Fixes]
+ Added a batch fix that fixes showers that will not place after the "Discover University" patch.
[Game Packs]
+ Added support for Discover University
[Game Packs}
+ Added support for Realm of Magic
+ Added support for Spell tuning (Realm of Magic)
+ Updated tag list for Realm of Magic
[Game Packs]
+ Added support for Moschino stuff pack
+ Added an editor for XML resources to the Warehouse and the tuning id on tuning resources.
[Batch Fixes]
+ Added a batch fix "Allow cc for mermaids" that adds the Mermaid tag to CAS items and the Swimwear category (for hairs, beards, etc. so they are available to mermaid form).
+ Added a batch fix "Fix cc bathtubs (Island Adventures)"
+ Batch fixes no longer remove items from the mods folder that it fails to process
+ All wall heights are exported/imported with batch import options once again.
+ Fixed an issue that caused auto-generated wall thumbnails to be stretched.
+ Fixed crashes that could occur while batch importing.
+ Fixed a bug that caused the rig/slot editor to not show updated values in the bone list
+ Changing the body type/apply to all will now set the Additional Texture Space for all swatches.
+ Fixed a bug that caused deleted CAS swatches to not also delete the associated thumbnail.
[Game File Cruiser]
+ Improved startup time and memory consumption of the Game File Cruiser
+ Prevent some smaller popups from appearing as tabs in Mojave.
+ Updated the Skintone resource
+ Matrix/quaternion/vector values can now be viewed and edited in the Warehouse.
+ Fixed a bug that caused the copy and delete button to not work when editing a list in the Warehouse.
+ Added German language fixes by standardheld and tinapapst
+ Added Swedish language fixes by frxyasims
[My CC]
+ Fixed the instant crash when opening My CC.
[Game Packs]
+ Added support for the Island Living expansion pack.
[New Features]
+ Added the My CC feature to manage custom content.
+ Added a slot editor (rig/slots tab).
+ Added the option to create new foundations.
+ Added the option to create new floors.
+ Added missing pet textures so they are visible in the model viewer.
+ Added acne and scar body types to the Studio tab.
+ Hair meshes that use transparency show a more accurate preview in the model viewer.
+ Fixed several crashes that could occur when editing resources in the Warehouse.
+ Fixed an issue where the application would crash if it encountered an unreadable resource.
+ Updated the Style resource for the latest patch.
+ Added the option to change the background color of the model viewer.
+ Updated tags to the latest patch.
+ Made several UI changes to accommodate dark mode (Mac OS Mojave)
+ Fixed an issue that prevented Studio from seeing Blender/The Sims 4 if they aren't directly in the Applications folder.
+ Enable Blender 2.79
+ Fixed layout issues with the Roof and Terrain Studio UI
+ Fixed an issue that caused the mesh level of detail to not switch correctly (causing failed import/exports of different LODs).
+ Fixed an issue that caused the texture to not update the preview after importing a new one.
+ Model viewer will show both sides of a mesh (for things like plants).
[Game Packs]
+ Added support for StrangerVille Game Pack
+ Added support for custom tags with 32 bit values.
+ Added a way to edit an unknown value in the Cutout Info Table resource.
+ Object swatches with duplicate variant ids will be skipped when creating a recolor.
+ Umbrella overrides will not include extra tuning to be included as a custom umbrella.
+ Fixed an issue that occurred when editing a mesh that caused the normal map to stop working.
+ Added support for walls, terrain paint and roofs.
+ Added the updo tag.
+ Added the Extract Tuning option to the Tools menu.
+ Fixed an error when saving the Region Description resource.
+ Updated tag list with the latest patch.
+ Updated shader list with the latest patch.
Creator Help:
If you have questions about how to use the tool or the project you are creating post here.
- The Sims 4 Studio: Andrew, Orangemittens
- Graphic Design: Helaene, Yecats
- Studio Moderators:Annabluu, Bakie, Brujah, deathpoke1qa, Feyona, fufu508, inabadromance, LaraCroftFan, mathcope, mauvemorn, MisterS, monas, SamanthaGump, UntraditionalNerd, Zelrish
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Reply to THIS THREAD with bug reports associated with this build. In order for us to easily troubleshoot encountered bugs, please provide as much of the following as possible:
- Repro Steps (What exact steps did you take in order to encounter the issue?)
- Expected Behavior (What did you think was going to happen?)
- Actual Behavior (What really happened?)
- Applicable Screenshots (Pictures always help!)
- Package Used (We understand if this is too sensitive to post on the forum. Packages can be PM'd to Andrew, OrangeMittens or a Moderator.)
Additional Notes:
To modify meshes or animations, you will need to have Blender 2.78 installed. Blender 2.70 will continue to work with Studio as it has in previous versions, but no other Blender versions will work with Studio.
Blender 2.78:
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As Meghan wrote yesterday (and we all can agree), the incessant whining against geeks, women, women who are geeks, and so on is douchey and hurts the entire geek community.
I'm fed up to here (about a mile above my head) with whining.
This is the only kind of Geek Wine I want in my life
What is this? It is Alamo Drafthouse's Inconceivable Cab, part of their The Bottle of Wits collection in celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Princess Bride. Also available, As You Wish White.
Maybe served in a Doctor Who Masters Fob Watch inspired wineglass:
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The next Youth Quilting session will begin on Wednesday, January 9, 2019 and run for approximately 12 weeks to the end of March. Youth ages 10 -18 are invited to join us for a fun opportunity to learn the art of quilting. Cost is $15 for the session per student, or $10 per student if more than one family member joins. If you have not already paid your Youth Membership Dues through June 20, 2019, then an additional $10 per student is required. Students who have been in any classes since July 1, 2018 have already paid their Membership Dues and do not need to pay again at this time.
Please contact me as soon as possible if you are interested in signing your child(ren) up as class size is limited and spots are filled on a first paid basis.
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Producers targeting the liquids-rich stacked pay zones in the emerging Central Northern Oklahoma Woodford (CNOW) play have a new gathering and processing system coming their way.
Tall Oak Midstream LLC said Wednesday it plans to build a system to serve producers targeting the Mississippian Lime, Woodford Shale and Cleveland formations.
The Tall Oak CNOW system is to be anchored by a long-term acreage dedication from American Energy-Woodford LLC (AEW), an affiliate of American Energy Partners LP (AEPLP). The dedication spans an area of about one million acres that covers all previously undedicated acreage in Payne County and portions of Creek, Logan, Lincoln, Noble and Pawnee counties in Oklahoma. AEW contributed its existing 60 miles of gathering lines in exchange for a minority interest in the new system. The producer has an option to increase its nonoperating interest to up to 50% in the system.
AEPLP, which was formed by former Chesapeake Energy Corp. CEO Aubrey McClendon, is credited with naming the CNOW play (see Shale Daily, April 11). It is seen by producers there -- such as Devon Energy Corp., Newfield Exploration Co., Continental Resources Inc., SandRidge Energy Inc. and Gastar Inc. -- as holding much promise. The CNOW formation also is known as the "STACK," the name coined by Newfield Exploration Co., and Continental's "SCOOP," the South Central Oklahoma Oil Province (see Shale Daily, Feb. 25).
"It's a very exciting time to be working in the Midcontinent," said Tall Oak CEO Ryan Lewellyn. "Drilling and production schedules continue to climb, and the long-term outlook for the CNOW play is very positive. We are excited about this opportunity and focused on providing AEW and other producers in the area a near-term solution with reliable access to multiple markets."
The initial CNOW system is to include a 250-mile, low-pressure gathering system with multiple compression sites and a cryogenic processing plant in Payne County. The plant, known as Battle Ridge, is expected to be in service in December with an initial capacity of 75 MMcf/d. It would include nitrogen rejection capabilities.
"The Battle Ridge facility is large enough to accommodate planned expansions, which are expected to bring processing capacity to 300 MMcf/d as customer demand increases," said Tall Oak's Carlos Evans, chief commercial officer.
The CNOW system would provide direct access to downstream markets such as Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline and Enable Gas Transmission for residue gas.


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According to a report by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), more than 89,000 people were admitted to emergency rooms for trampoline-related injuries in 2004. Another study by the Hasbro Children's Hospital in Rhode Island found that trampoline injuries have nearly doubled in a decade, of which three percent were serious enough to require hospitalization, and 91 percent occurred in a home environment.
With regard to accidents at home, Gary Smith, the American Academy of Pediatrics' Chairman of the Committee on Injury pointed out that parents view trampolines as toys for their children without recognizing the danger involved. He cautioned that "the trade-off between the potential for exercise and injury ... doesn't merit the risk involved".
While fractures and dislocations continue to be the predominant reason for trampoline-related injury hospitalization, more cuts and lacerations are being seen in those who need to be hospitalized. More serious injuries include those to the spinal cord and even death. Most injuries are due to collisions by multiple jumpers, landing improperly, falling or jumping off the trampoline, and falling on the trampoline's springs or frame.
To help prevent trampoline injuries in your home:
- Allow only one person on the trampoline at a time
- Always supervise children who use a trampoline
- Do not allow children less than six years of age to use a full-size trampoline
- Do not use a ladder because it provides unsupervised access by small children
- Do not attempt or allow somersaults - landing on the neck or head can cause paralysis
- Make sure the trampoline has shock-absorbing pads that completely cover its frame, springs, and hooks
- Place the trampoline away from trees, structures, and other play areas
- Consider a trampoline enclosure to help prevent falls off of the trampoline
"One person at a time on the trampoline is the big one, and that's probably the one that's most ignored... If that rule alone was followed, it would be a dramatic improvement in the safety of your backyard trampoline" said Arch Adams, president of Fun Spot Trampolines.
It is precisely this danger that is the subject of a current lawsuit that could be headed to the Ohio Supreme Court. The plaintiff originally argued that she was not aware that more than one person jumping on a trampoline could change a trampoline's surface from flexible to inflexible and create a "double bounce" such as one she claims propelled her out of control. While the plaintiff's brother jumped in the middle of a trampoline, the plaintiff, who was near the edge of the trampoline, fell on her back, broke her neck, and suffered a crushed spinal cord, rendering her a quadriplegic.
The county court had decided for the defendants, the homeowners and the trampoline's manufacturer, based on the legal doctrine of "open and obvious." The appellate court then reversed the decision arguing that the dangers presented by multiple people and excess weight on a trampoline are not widely known to most people who use them. Trampoline manufacturers and enthusiasts eagerly await the final outcome of this important case.
If you or a loved one has been injured as the result of a trampoline accident, you or your loved one may be entitled to compensation. We urge you to consult with an experienced personal injury attorney who can evaluate the merits of your case.


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Reading this article, you will learn:
SAP payments are critical to standard business operations, and the automated reconciliation of payments is key to efficient processing and catching fraudulent payments. When payments are made from an SAP system, a unique identifier to the payment needs to be passed to the bank as the transaction reference with payment. This transaction reference is then passed back to the company in the electronic bank statement, and should be used in the automatic bank reconciliation of payments. This should be done for all payments across banks and countries. The framework mentioned in this article describes where and how changes to the Payment Medium Workbench (PMW) payments can be made.
This article is the third of three that detail enhancing the SAP standard payment processing functionality with custom development. The preceding articles were specific to SAP's Bank Communication Management module. The enhancement mentioned here is specific to Payment Medium Workbench (PMW) payments and is not dependent on SAP's Bank Communication Management module.
As mentioned in "SAP Bank Communication Management: What You Need to Know," the payment methods used for payments routed to SAP Bank Communication Management should be defined as PMW payments. In this article, we assume the format of the payment file is an MT101 file, though the information about events mentioned here applies to other PMW file formats as well. An event is an ABAP function module.
For our example, we add the payment document number in the :21: tag of the MT101 file. The :21: tag in a SWIFT MT101 payment file is the transaction reference. The bank sends the information passed with the payment back to the customer in the electronic bank statement. The document number is then used for electronic bank statement clearing in the SAP system.
The SAP function modules that build the header level, transaction level, and footer or trailer records for an MT101 file are shown in Table 1.
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text: Page Content A joint research group of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the University of Turku, led by Professor Johanna Ivaska, has discovered a mechanism lung cancer cells use when spreading into the body to form metastases. The study has been published in Science Signaling on 30th June 2009. In cooperation with the University of Heidelberg, they have also found a factor controlling the spreading of several different cancer types. The common feature in both findings is that they explain the lethal ability of cancer cells to "start running" and spread from the original tumour to other parts of the body. Cancer is lethal because of its ability to spread into the body to form metastases. Previously, it was thought that spreading cancer cells lose the factors that bind them to other cells of the tumour, and this enables the cells to detach and migrate within the body. Videos made by the research group's PhD student Saara Tuomi on migrating lung cancer cells revealed to the group that the cells move using their adhesion receptors in a manner that was previously unknown. The new finding of the research group reveals that cancer cells are able to change in such a manner that a factor that previously assisted them in staying in place starts to assist the cells' adhesion receptors and is thus the precondition needed by the cells to migrate. The group found evidence suggesting that the tumours of lung cancer patients who died because of metastases had cells that started moving using this previously unknown mechanism. The finding opens new opportunities for the development of medicine because the migration mechanism is not vital for normal cells. The research results have been published on 30 June 2009 in the cellular biology journal Science Signaling, daughter journal of the top scientific journal Science. The research group led by Professor Johanna Ivaska found in cooperation with researchers of the University of Heidelberg a new factor that controls the appearance of cancer cell adhesion receptors in several cancer types. The new protein has been named SCAI. The name means a cancer invasion inhibitor. The research shows that many cancers are able to eliminate the suppressing factor. This result is the cancer adding the number of its adhesion receptors on the surface of the cells and starting effective spreading. Thus, the fact that the suppressing factor is eliminated makes it possible for the cancer to spread. The research results were published in May 2009 in top scientific journal Nature Cell Biology. When combined, these findings increase the understanding of how cancer spreads and may influence future trends in cancer research. Figure: A cancer cell starting to run, detaching itself from the rest of the tumour (High resolution) Video: Video shows how lung cancer cells move in a cell culture dish. Similar movement is allegedly a prerequisite for the spreading of the cancer also in human organism. Joint research group of VTT and the University of Turku have found a mechanism that regulates the ability of these cells to move as seen in the video. On the grounds of the findings cancer cells can now be treated to prevent the movement. (The video is in .mov-format, which requires e.g. QuickTime-player) Publications: Tuomi, S., Mai, A., Nevo, J., Öhman, T.J., Gahmberg, C.G., Parker, P.J. and Ivaska, J. (2009) PKCe regulation of an a5 integrin-ZO-1 complex controls lamellae formation in migrating cancer cells. Sci. Signal. 2, ra32 (2009). Brandt DT, Baarlink C, Kitzing TM, Kremmer E, Ivaska J, Nollau P, Grosse R. (2009) SCAI acts as a suppressor of cancer cell invasion through the transcriptional control of b1-integrin. Nat Cell Biol. 2009 May; 11(5): 557-68.


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- Real estate counsel to Fortune 150 global manufacturing corporation, providing representation in real estate dispositions and acquisitions throughout the United States and in Mexico and Canada, and in industrial, warehouse and office leasing, construction projects and real estate aspects of corporate acquisitions and dispositions.
- Representation of hospitals and health systems in Illinois, Wisconsin, New York, New Jersey and Montana in matters ranging from development of medical office buildings, medical office leasing, construction and real estate dispositions and acquisitions.
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I can't do it. I can't do it! I can't buy my eight-year-old daughter a bikini. Or even a tankini. I do not want to see her exposed midriff!
I see other little girls at the pool wearing bikinis. They look cute. My mom friends let their girls wear bikinis and tankinis. I'm not judging.
But there we were in Target looking at the swimwear selection. She was begging for a bikini, and I kept looking at her and looking at the swimwear, and looking at her.
"Nope. Not happening," I said, and picked out eight super-cute one-piece swimsuits.
I'm that mom. The mom who won't let her girl wear heels even though Suri Cruise has changed little girls' footwear selections until she gets old enough to just have her Playboy cover and be done with it. I'm the mom who pulled her daughter out of a dance academy after seeing the nine-year-olds dressed like Katy Perry at the recital. The mom who won't let her daughter get even a tankini.
I told Beloved about my decision when I got home. He paled beneath his tan. "I can't take it," he said. "No way is she wearing a bikini."
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The final stop on our summer road trip was Epernay, situated in the Champagne region of France. Good for both quaffing Champagne and for taking your Facebook check-in up a notch.
Now between you and me, I don't have to cast my mind back all that far to remember summers gone by when I didn't make it on any summer holiday, due to having no chuffer to go with me (those summers when all your friends are whisked away by their fellas to get engaged in far off places while you mull over at what point between Gin and an androgynous dress code did you go wrong?)
My point is I'm making up for lost time and summer in Champagne isn't a bad place to start.
We stayed at an Air BnB centrally located and only a short walk from the Avenue De Champagne. I won't link the AirBnB because although it was in a great location, it was a little tired and not somewhere I'd book again. If only I'd known that Moet has a hotel!
The Avenue De Champagne is the main focus of the town and home to champagne houses including Moët & Chandon, Pol Roger and Perrier. With light paving stones and perfectly trimmed privets it's just as you'd imagine it to be, but do be prepared for the courtyards and champagne bars that are dotted along it to close by 8pm.
On the bright side just get there a little earlier and declare it a somewhat sophisticated Leo Sayer.
Once you pick which Champagne tour to take be mindful that the tour itself won't include a stroll through the vineyards as I'd expected. The vineyards are situated miles away from the houses which makes sense really when you think about it. A short drive though will take to you to the vineyards for beautiful views and a chance to appreciate the full champagne making process from the very start to the end.
The tours meanwhile will take you through the cellars and the grand house while the dedication to and the process of making fine Champagne is explained, and finished with a tasting. It's chilly in the cellars so don't forget your jacket.
For 38 euros each we took the Moët & Chandon cellar tour and sampled two vintage champagnes.
We also drove to nearby Reims and for 20 euros each took the Pommery tour with one glass of champagne to taste. We did have to book and return later in the day at Pommery until the English speaking tour took place so do check ahead before you arrive.
Did you know that:
*There are three types of grape that are used to make Champagne: pinot noir, chardonnay and pinot meunier
*Vintage champagne means that the grapes from that year were of such good quality that no wine from any other year is mixed with them
*Dom Perginon, a pioneer of wine making techniques around 1670 was a blind monk. His lack of sight meant that his sense of smell and taste were heightened as a result
*Veuve means widow. Hence Veueve Cliquout, a widow after being married for only seven years and only allowed to take over the house as a female under the status of widow
*Champagne should be stored in the dark and at an angle
*Saving that bottle of fizz for a special occasion? Don't bother. Unlike wine, Champagne doesn't get better with age. By the time it hits the shelves the ageing process has already taken place and it's ready to be drunk... Great news!
Put Epernay on your visit list, but I'd suggest two days at the most. Have your fill of Moët & Chandon and then head north to Hautevillers and pay a visit to the chapel where Dom Pérignon is buried.
I have this thing for visiting chapels while we travel. I'll pay the 2 euros to light a candle with the ask that my family and loved ones are kept safe. There's probably a selfish element in there somewhere, trecking across Europe lighting candles for my own lot. I'm basically asking for nothing to upset me and ruin my holiday.
For a short while a candle flickered in the resting place of Dom Perignon. May my family be safe and never run short of Champagne.
Thank you so much for reading. I experienced only moderate to severe pining for France when I chose which photos to include in this post. Hope you enjoyed reading it.
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Overnight the winds were clearly unsettled… most of the time there was nothing and sometimes there is 35-40 knots and heavy showers.
Of course with such wind conditions - 40 knots with heavy shower - it is easy to crack the main sail, to break battens, to damage the traveller or worse to dismast. So, most of the sailors will just let the wind blow in the shroud and try to sail between the squalls. The only problem is that out of the heavy shower's zones there is no wind at all, as LE BLEVEC is unfortunately experiencing at the moment. Yesterday evening there were 20 sailors in a distance of 150 miles and 11 in a distance of 100 miles. It is hard to tell who will be the first to escape from this pack… LE BLEVEC is still leading the fleet but the race is changing so fast at the moment.
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The maps yesterday afternoon, showed the fleet's head was right in the middle of Atlantic. Eight hundred miles from African coasts on their left and 800 miles from the Nordeste Brazilian beaches on their right. The next archipelago on their way will be Sao Pedro and Sao Paulo. Unknown archipelago constituted by five main islands as Belmonte, Challenger, Cabral, Nordeste and numerous submarines rocs. Other interesting detail about Sao Pedro and Sao Paulo: the archipelago highest point culminates at 18 meters … So better not count on tired eyes to locate it but instead rely on the GPS.
The two series leaders continue their battle. Hervé PIVETEAU leads now with a little more than 4 miles advance on Stéphane LE DIRAISON. The debate is interesting behind these two sailors; Henrik MASEKOWITZ (Beija Mar) is the sailor the most east followed by Matthieu SANNIÉ (Orange Mini). On the west side we find Gérard MARIN JULIA (L'Escala - Cn Llanca) and David KRIZEK (Atlantik FT). That should be interesting to observe if MASEKOWITZ and SANNIÉ's option will be rewarded. SANNIÉ might rub out his 70 miles delay if he succeeds to accumulate enough speed during the next few days.
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How on earth did I end up working in a luxury theater's kitchen after 20-plus years as an attorney? This is not a follow-your-dream story, although it does have a happy ending.
I graduated as a political science and music major. With an unclear idea of my future, I attended law school. It was parent approved and a chance to enjoy my 20s in New York City. In 1985, there was (and still is!) a glut of lawyers, which made finding a job a challenge. But, my mother was an immigration attorney, and she had just opened her own office. Also, Ronald Reagan's new Immigration Reform and Control Act was giving amnesty to undocumented immigrants, so my mother was busy and needed help. That's how I ended up in the immigration field.
After 9/11, things changed drastically. The U.S. government was slamming immigration doors shut. In 2005, business began to slow down and there was talk of closing our office. I started to look for other jobs in the legal field; however, I was not trained as an expert in anything other than immigration law. In 2009, with the economy crashing, we were forced to close our office. For almost four years, I tried to run a small office in New York, but the expense was a drain. Then one day, I saw it: a sign that said, "Coming Soon to Brookfield Place – The Institute of Culinary Education." Ding, ding, ding!
I started culinary school in March 2015. It changed my life. I lost 25 pounds, I became happy again, I fell in love — with the chefs, with my young classmates, with the kitchen, with the pressure and the creation and the food! I nearly died keeping up with the 20-year-olds, but I did it, and graduated with honors in January 2016. My externship was at the five-star Peninsula Hotel on Fifth Avenue; after three months there, I was ready to find a job. And there are jobs — tons and tons of jobs, in wonderful, interesting, renowned, fancy kitchens in corporations, restaurants, and hotels.
After a brief stint at Café Conde Nast in the Freedom Tower, I was recruited by the iPic Gold Class Entertainment Group to help open up its new theater and restaurant at South Street Seaport NYC. In the past three months, I completed a grueling training program that included hands-on instruction from five-star chef Sherry Yard, opened a new theater venue with a restaurant called the Tuck Room, and survived 10-day work weeks through the holiday season. I am currently a line cook on both the garde manger and pastry stations. And yes, I'm living the dream.
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Jessa Hinton: What is your take, or your perception, on this whole Instagram social media perfect girl image versus real life? Dr. Frank Stile: It's really interesting. I get to see more images on social media, specifically Instagram, every day as part of my practice, because my new patients and repeat patients, or established patients, use Instagram to show me examples of what they consider to be either ideal results, their goals, or results that they like. What I've noticed over the last few years is that the concept of what a good result is, is becoming very distorted. It's almost gotten to the point where aesthetic principles of what is beautiful has been really, really distorted and changed in a way that is unattractive. Some patients believe that bigger is better, period. We saw that in the 80s with breast enhancement surgery, where patients got huge implants. You saw the implants getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and then now, my patients that were in their 20s back then are now in their 40s and 50s, and these big breasts just do not serve them in their present lifestyle. I believe the same thing is going to happen for gluteal enhancement, you know, butt enlargement surgery, where it was big, it's gotten bigger, and now it's gotten to the point where proportionally and aesthetically, the proportions are just not appropriate for many of these women's frames. What these patients do not either understand, refuse to accept, refuse to understand is that this is a living graft, especially when you do it with fat. So when you gain weight in the future, that will continue to get bigger. I think you're going to see some very shocking things in the next 10 or 15 years that are the unwanted after effects or side effects of this procedure. Personally, I won't do it. Just- Jessa Hinton: So, if I give you a check right now to get my butt done- Dr. Frank Stile: It's not going to happen. Jessa Hinton: ... you won't do it? Dr. Frank Stile: It's not going to happen. Yup. Jessa Hinton: Really? And yet most doctors will do it. Dr. Frank Stile: Well, I don't know if most is the appropriate word, but I think that many doctors just want to make patients happy, and they want to meet their expectations, but yet, as part of who we are is, we're responsible for educating our patients and making sure they put patients' best interests first. The hardest thing sometimes is to tell a patient, "No." Jessa Hinton: Of course. Dr. Frank Stile: And you're doing the patient a favor by telling them, "No." What a patient wants today is not what they're going to want five years from now. It's important to really have these discussions with patients, that you know, "You're in your 20s, you're in your 30s. The life you're leading today is not going to be the life you're leading when you're in your 40s and 50s," et cetera. If a doctor does a procedure that's going to somehow limit a patient's ability to exercise, their choices with respect to clothing, it's going to interfere with their credibility in the professional world, if that's a concern for patients, you're not doing your patients a service.
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I've just spent a few days on the Gold Coast at the 2015 ProBlogger training event.
Although I'd checked to see if there were any miniature shops close to the venue, I realised that I probably wouldn't have time to see anything more than the inside of the conference centre and my room (I was right).
So imagine my surprise when the miniatures started finding me, even before the first session started!
Olympus was running a #SpectacularStories contest, and were giving away miniature cameras. Alas, more like 1:6 scale that 1:12, but a miniature is a miniature, right?
And then at lunchtime, I spotted these trays under some of the cakes:
And instantly thought 'miniature sink!' Which got me haunting the tables with to find any more that had been discarded. On the hunt I also discovered taller containers which had contained jelly: perfect for re purposing into large modern planters...
Monday, August 17, 2015
A conference, miniature-eyesed
2 comments :
- Mad For Mod said...
These are awesome! I would have scooped up all I could!
- 6:20 am, August 18, 2015
- H. Bean said...
They'll make such great sinks! I look forward to seeing what you make with it.
- 8:45 am, September 01, 2015
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