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Fun fact: The first-ever mascara was invented in the 1830s, made of a mix of coal dust and petroleum jelly. Since then, we've seen all the trends: strip false eyelashes, individual extensions, and prescription and over the counter lash-enhancing serums (which have recently taken some heat for its potential side effects, including changing one's eye colour and causing fat loss around the eye). It could be why we're going back to the basics.
Over the past few years, the most popular "lash-lift trick" on TikTok is, yes, petroleum jelly. The hack involves curling your lashes and applying Aquaphor Healing Ointment in lieu of mascara. Now, with our history lesson, we know that people have been using this trick for hundreds of years, but what is Aquaphor actually doing to the eyelashes? Is it making your lashes grow longer — as some people on TikTok suggest — or is it just making them look longer? When it comes to eyelash health, is petroleum jelly better than mascara? We asked optometrist and eye specialist, Jennifer Tsai, O.D., to weigh in.
Does Aquaphor make your eyelashes grow?
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The short answer is no. "Applying Aquaphor or any other petroleum-based ointment directly to your eyelashes is not a proven method for making them longer or thicker," explains Dr Tsai. "Aquaphor is typically used as a skin protectant and [ointment] and is not specifically formulated for promoting lash growth. It doesn't contain peptides or bimatoprost," a drug shown to promote lash growth, which we'll get into. If you're using Aquaphor on your eyelashes, it's acting as an eyelash conditioner. "It can help moisturize dry brittle hair," Dr Tsai explains. But it doesn't impact the growth of the eyelashes.
Which ingredients have clinical evidence to support eyelash growth?
If we're talking about ingredients that verifiably promote lash growth, we're moving into medication territory. Bimatoprost (also known as prostaglandin analogs) is the class of drugs found in prescription eyelash-growth serums like Latisse, which has been clinically proven to stimulate longer, thicker and darker lashes. It works. We know because bimatoprost was originally formulated for glaucoma patients, to treat lower intraocular pressure. However, when it was discovered that extreme lash growth was a side effect of using this topical medication, it became commercialised.
Of course, Latisse is a prescription medication for a reason: It can cause side effects and it's not for everyone. For example, for someone who loses their hair, eyelashes and eyebrows as a result of chemotherapy, Latisse may be prescribed following the treatment to help promote the regrowth of lashes. But for someone with healthy lashes, looking for extra length and thickness, a prescription medication is probably not the answer. Always talk to your doctor before you decide to go down the prescription route.
Beyond prescriptions, there's biotin. "While not as potent as prescriptions, biotin contributes to healthier lashes and may support growth," offers Dr Tsai. In a supplement form, biotin could give you visible lash growth. However, it also might not. "From what researchers know about the internal path of ingestible supplements, the body often funnels the nutrients where they are most needed," dermatologist Marnie Nussbaum, M.D. tells Refinery29. "That may be the skin, hair or nails, but it could also be internal functional organs, which may not show direct physical results." Everyone is different.
Are there natural alternatives for eyelash growth?
There are eyelash-growth serums out there that don't contain bimatoprost or prostaglandin analogs but instead contain ingredients that help condition the lashes you already have while stimulating new growth. Some, like petroleum jelly, are borrowed from skincare, including peptides and panthenol. "Peptides are known to enhance lash follicle health and stimulate growth," explains Dr. Tsai. "Panthenol, or provitamin B5, moisturizes and improves lash condition, making them appear longer and thicker." There's anecdotal evidence that some natural extracts may be effective for lash growth as well. "Botanical extracts like green tea, ginseng, and grape seed nourish follicles, potentially promoting lash growth," says Dr Tsai.
You'll find peptides and panthenol in The Ordinary Multi-Peptide Lash and Brow Serum, £12.40, (which we tested and loved). Uklash Eyelash Serum, £38, contains biotin peptide, vitamin B5 and green tea extract for lash growth and conditioning. There are natural plant extracts, red clover and mung bean, in the Vegamour GRO Lash Serum.
If you've used an Aquaphor ointment on your lashes, you may find other oils effective for conditioning. Dr Tsai notes castor oil, coconut oil, and vitamin E oil can help condition and nourish the lashes. "These help support protection and condition your lashes but there's no proof that they cause hair growth," Dr Tsai caveats. Like with the petroleum jelly hack, you want to keep these away from your eyeballs and the oil glands around your eyes.
How can I grow my eyelashes?
The easiest way to grow your eyelashes are going to be the most basic: Treat your lashes with TLC so they stay healthy. Dr Tsai recommends removing all of your mascara before you go to bed. "A lash-friendly removal is a double cleanse for your lashes with oil based cleanser first," says Dr Tsai. This is important because some mascaras contain alcohol and can dry out your lashes causing them to "break off onto your pillow," Dr Tsai says. "Speaking of pillows, consider a silk pillowcase or less lash-compromising friction."
While wearing mascara is generally okay for lash health, Dr Tsai recommends limiting the use of false eyelashes or eyelash extensions. "Adhesives may weaken lashes and cause breakage," Dr Tsai explains. Like your hair and scalp, your lashes can benefit from dry brushing with a clean, dry spoolie. "Regularly brushing out your eyelashes [helps] distribute natural oils," explains Dr Tsai.
Finally, Dr Tsai offers that a diet rich in protein, iron, and biotin will benefit lash health. Of course, talk to your doctor — or optometrist — before trying anything new or off-label. Remember, our eyes are sensitive and sometimes doing less is going to deliver the longest, healthiest results.
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Since my home system seems to be at a level where only silly money would substantially improve it I have been putting money into headphones etc and mobile listening.
I'm also traveling a fair bit and have been trying to find comfy IEMs but it seems one ear canal in particular is narrow and oddly shaped and even the smallest/softest tips aren't great, leaving a choice of either a poor seal and loss of performance or an uncomfortable fit.
So I have just received my custom Jerry Hardy Audio 13hv2 Pro from the Custom IEM Co.
Great process from moulds taken by my local audiologist to plenty of advice choosing a model. Some brands and models are clearly aimed more at musicians and apparently have specific sound signatures but these seem very nicely balanced with a fairly rich and dynamic sound. Lots of nicely resolved detail. They actually have a little device on the cable to adjust the bass which I have tweaked to my personal sweet spot. I'd place their performance a good step above my Grado GR10e and they sound really classy plugged into my main system and headphone amp. Most important they fit perfectly and really disappear into the ear. Result.
If you can find comfy fit from off-the-shelf IEMs you probably won't go down this route but if not I can recommend the process. You can have some wacky colours and designs if you want too!

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SKIPTON'S fixture with West Park Leeds was unfortunately postponed at the weekend.
The pitch was deemed unplayable following the adverse weather conditions during the week and it has been re-arranged for this coming Saturday.
Skipton will be looking to make it two wins on the bounce.
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Braunwyn Windham-Burke Spotted With Sugar Baby Girlfriend
Braunwyn Windham-Burke declared herself gay in early December. Her new girlfriend Kris raised some eyebrows as her husband Sean met her and she hangs with them in the house. Now, Braunwyn got spotted with her new girlfriend at the beach. Real Housewives of Orange County fans can't believe how young Kris looks.
Braunwyn Windham-Burke steps out with girlfriend Kris
We reported that Braunwyn and Sean seem very open with their marriage. At one stage, Sean moved out of the house. But then he returned. And, he seemingly harbors no hard feelings that his wife indulges herself with another woman. Many Real Housewives of Orange County fans cheered her as she finally came out and found herself. Plus, many people praise her for addressing her alcohol addiction.
While many people think Braunwyn Windham-Burke brought an incredible amount of drama to the Bravo show for a newcomer, others love her. Well now that she went to the beach and walked hand in hand with Kris, a lot of fans reacted with shock. It turns out that Kris looks young enough to be her own daughter. The Bravo Housewives account on Instagram popped up a photo of them together.
RHOC fans express disappointment in the Bravo star
The post that Bravo Housewives shared came with the caption, "Braunwyn spotted with her girlfriend, Kris! #RHOC 🍊." Many fans reacted badly. Here's what some of them said about Braunwyn Windham-Burke:
- "Go home and take care of your 7 children, this is heartbreaking!"
- "Ugh. She's so desperate for attention."
- "👀 those are my actual eyes that fell from the back of my head from rolling too hard."
- "he's a sad desperate lady, I feel bad that she chooses a show over the life SHE created!"
- "Thought I read she was working on her marriage! She needs help! She's all over the place."
Many other critics of Braunwyn Windham-Burke talked about how her girlfriend Kris looks as young as her own son. People reported that she said that Sean "knows the girl I'm dating." Well, she wasn't wrong when she described Kris as a girl, and not a woman, it seems.
Kris looks very young, Bravo fans think she's a sugar baby
One fan sounded quite shocked. They commented, "Is her girlfriend 13??" And in the replies, a lot of people voiced similar thoughts. One of them noted, "is anyone concerned that her gf is like 11!" 😊" Then, someone suggested they thought initially, that the RHOC star stepped out "with her son."
More than one follower felt that Braunwyn Windham-Burke became a "sugar mama" or even sugar "grandma" to her new sugar baby lover.
Meanwhile, other fans simply slammed Braunwyn for messing with the lives of her own kids. What are your thoughts on how young Kris looks? Sound off in the comments below.
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- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 stick unsalted butter, melted
- 6 tblsp. all-purpose flour
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 1 ounce bourbon
- 1 cup pecans
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate morsels
- Bourbon Cream
- ½ pint heavy whipping cream
- ¼ cup Bourbon Whiskey
- ¼ cup powdered sugar
- In large mixing bowl, combine sugar and flour.
- Add melted butter and stir until combined.
- Add eggs, bourbon, and stir until fully incorporated.
- Fold in pecans and chocolate chips.
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Eric Lippert of Fabulous Adventures In Coding has posted a series on CPS tranformation and different control flow abstractions. Good stuff — recommended reading for translating the crazy stuff I talk about into 'normal' code.
- Continuation Passing Style Revisited, Part One.
- Continuation Passing Style Revisited Part Two: Handwaving about control flow.
- Continuation Passing Style Revisited Part Three: Musings about coroutines.
- Continuation Passing Style Revisited Part Four: Turning yourself inside out.
- Continuation Passing Style Revisited Part Five: CPS and Asynchrony.
I bet part 2 will cover exception handling. That, or call/cc, then EH in part 3. We'll see 🙂
Update (10/22): Yay, I was right, EH is up next. He also writes "Next time: handwaving about coroutines". I'm sure call/cc will be in part 3.
Update (10/25): Part 3 is up — skips call/cc (makes sense, as Eric it talking about writing CPS explicitly) moving straight to one application of CPS: coroutines. Ominiously ends with "Next time: if Continuation Passing Style is so awesome then why don't we all use this technique every day?" Presumably he will be talking about the specific implementation technique he's chosen, as various runtime environments (usually Scheme implementations) *do* use CPS for compilation all the time, and a few do so with no ill effect.
Update (10/27): Part 4 and 5 are up. Part 4 notes that CPS is generally *hard* to understand for most folks, but that CPS is ultimately general purpose, making for quick implementation of a wide variety of programming language control flow constructs.
Part 5 further talks about the explicit use of CPS in designing asynchronous programming APIs. I'm somewhat disappointed that Eric skips over the CPS to model for loops, instead resorting to a state machine like the C# compiler uses when compiling iterator syntax. It's a fine implementation technique, but it seems like a missed opportunity to me, and it would have avoided the "definite assignment problem" he mentioned. And lastly, while the invocation of the continuation was straightforward in CPS, a lot of synchronization work has been glossed over in 'SetContinuation' — the continuation may not always be ready by the time that 'AsyncFetch' goes to invoke it. This seems unnecessarily wasteful, as the caller always knows the continuation they're about to set — the caller code is simplified only by reordering, at the expense of runtime cost and added complexity in AsyncFetch.
I think the switch to use 'SetContinuation/GetResults' is done too early. It makes it easier to connect his example to .Net's Task Parallel Library, but now there isn't a single example in direct CPS style that demonstrates asynchrony.
I'm only so critical of Part 5 as I think Eric Lippert has done quite well in the rest of this series. To be balanced, many programmers will find the state machine model easier to read. As a CPS topic, I find Part 5 lacking; It shines as an explaination of asynchrony in .Net. It a very good piece, but is an ugly duckling in a CPS series.
Again, I appreciate his work here. Please take the time to give this series a read.


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Escape to the Country's Jonnie Irwin has spoken about how he feels 'blessed' after returning from a much-needed family break in the sun to celebrate his 50th. The TV star who is battling terminal cancer has been on a trip to Spain with wife Jessica and three young sons.
And fans had been worried about Jonnie as he had just been discharged from hospital just before after he was admitted with stabbing pains in his side and jaundice. Nevertheless Jonnie decided he wasn't going to 'play by the rules' and still decided to go on the trip.
Now he is back safely and revealed that he feels 'blessed' after going away. Taking to Instagram Jonnie, originally from Leicestershire and now living in the north east, said: "Back to the cold after a few days in the sun for my birthday. Big thanks for the generous hospitality given to us by @wyndhamcostadelsol . It was the ideal location for us all and the hot tub in our garden was a massive hit! I reckon we got the last bit of warm weather so feeling blessed."
Jonnie who has cancer in his brain, lungs and liver, held his 50th party earlier this year - because he didn't feel like he was probably going to make it. He said in an interview last week that it felt like a 'complete triumph' to still be here and at one point had been given two weeks to live.
However he is still having ups and downs health wise and has regular treatment. He said: "I feel really privileged to be able to celebrate my birthday looking at blue skies and with sand between my toes. I had an early birthday party at the start of the year because I didn't think I'd make it.
"It was like being at my own wake; lots of fun, lots of dancing. But here I am. I view it as a complete triumph." Fans were pleased to see his new post which showed some holiday snaps - including one of his sons playing with an 'interesting' new remote controlled toy - which had been given by friend and A Place in the Sun host Jasmine Harman who said: "Glad to see the remote controlled poop is a hit!!!. "
Jean Monahan said: "Looks like a fantastic trip for you all. Love the Poo at the end - keeping the boys amused." Burston Deborah said: "You are one amazing man who deserves the best in life you."
Greyhoundsandpaws added: "Enjoy the sunshine while it lasts. All the best for you and your family. Love from Australia ." Jilly Camera said: "Looks like it has done the trick you look well but family and sunshine is the best tonic."
Before the break despite having the setback he proclaimed he wasn't going to 'play by the rules' and having left hospital was still going on the break with his family. Jonnie said: "Well, I woke up this morning feeling a bit better, and I'm still slightly jaundiced, but I'm about to jump on a flight to southern Spain. I did clear with my oncologist. He said: 'Well, there are hospitals in Spain', and in fairness, you don't play by the rules anyway. But my thoughts are that's probably part of my success so far. So fingers crossed my liver continues to get a bit better. And me and my family, we wake up tomorrow morning to blue skies in southern Spain."
Jonnie, who runs his own business finding people homes abroad and also appears on the BBC 's Morning Live and Escape to the Country, says he still has hope he can beat his illness.


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The Charlotte News
Thursday, June 24, 1948
Site Ed. Note: The
front page
reports that the Russians had cut electrical power to the Western sectors of Berlin fed by the Soviet sector plants, though later restored, and had also halted all freight and food shipments into the city from the West. Power was expected to be cut again later in the evening. Only hospitals and other medical facilities were spared. Water service was disrupted in the French zone. General Lucius Clay, military governor of the American zone, declared, however, that no action by the Russians short of war would cause the Americans to abandon Berlin. He said that American zone water and power to the Russian sector of the city would not be interrupted. The American plants could furnish about half the necessary power for the American zone.
In response to the Russian move, the British halted shipments of coal and steel into the Russian zone from the Ruhr. The Americans suspended interzonal trade with the Russians.
Berlin saw the return of a warlike atmosphere with steel-helmeted American soldiers in armored cars patrolling the American zone.
In Warsaw, Russia and seven of its satellites had been reported to have concluded a plan to form Eastern Germany, in response to the six-nation plan to form a separate government in Western Germany, albeit inviting the Russians to join in that pact.
Seven candidates had been placed in nomination at the GOP convention in Philadelphia the previous night, over a period of nearly seven hours, as demonstrations for each candidate kept delegates up until 3:00 a.m., when the last of the demonstrations concluded for General MacArthur in a nearly empty hall. By then, it looked like a "semi-nudist convention meeting in the wreckage of a hurricane."
During the morning session this date, the first ballot showed Governor Dewey with 434 votes, 114 short of the 548 majority needed to nominate. His supporters believed that he would win by the fourth ballot at the latest. Most of the favorite son states, as Michigan and California, remained, for the nonce, loyal to their favorite sons. Senator Taft received 234 votes, Governor Stassen, 157, Senator Vandenberg, 62, and Governor Warren, 59.
Several switches to Governor Dewey for the second ballot were expected.
General Eisenhower agreed with reporters that he was better off at Columbia in New York than at the GOP convention, given the late hours they were keeping.
The President had not yet signed the draft legislation passed by Congress on the previous Saturday, but he was expected to do so by the deadline of July 5.
Soft coal operators were said to be ready to sign a new contract with the UMW, providing a dollar per day wage increase and doubling the pension fund assessment paid by the operators per ton of coal mined. The new wage would provide $14.05 for eight hours of work at $1.756 per hour.
You can buy yourself a new dollar Cadillac every day with those additional wages. But that could be sinful.
In Whitefield, Oklahoma, 300 persons were evacuated as flood waters of the Canadian River bore down on them. Nine had been drowned and 3,000 made homeless in other areas of the state. At Hydro, the hardest hit community, nineteen inches of rain had fallen, causing flash flooding.
Guess that's why they called it Hydro.
In York, S.C., the coroner's jury hearing was to take place on the following Monday night to determine how the young businessman, whose body was found in a creek inside a wooden crate with a bullet through his back, met his death and who was responsible for the killing, provided they could determine such responsibility.
In Gaston County, authorities were comparing the handwriting of a purported suicide note of the woman who had been discovered still alive by her husband and his brother in their home, shot six times, lying beside her dead six-year old daughter, shot eight times. The mother was expected to live. The note said that the author did not want the little girl to have to live as the rest of them.
Members of the Charlotte Life Saving and First Aid Crew sought to bring an iron lung to the city from Roanoke, Va., to save an eight-month old baby thought to be suffering from polio.
On the
editorial page
"So GOP Makes Everybody Happy"
finds bewilderment at the Grand Ole Party platform but nothing as compared to the varied record of the 80th Congress, acting in the Senate contrary to the actions of the House, especially in terms of foreign policy. In the final hours before recess on Saturday, the Senate had to exert a mighty effort to get the House to pass ERP without its previously passed major cuts, and also to pass the draft legislation. But the differences went back to the beginning of the Congress in 1947, with Taft-Hartley, as the Senate had to brake the House from passing a more restrictive measure. Fiscal policy had also been a point of division, along with other areas, such as Federal aid to education.
The House was the center of GOP reaction and the Senate, the leader of progressivism. But the margarine bill to eliminate its discriminatory tax was buried in the Senate after passing the House, which had traditionally pigeonholed it in committee.
The lesson appeared that the Republicans were for everything and against everything at once. The Congress thus made the President appear as an amateur at the game of trying to be all things to all people.
An American Slight to UN"
finds the Swiss hopes to have the U.N. headquarters established in Geneva to have been bolstered by the fact that the Congress adjourned without passing the measure to allow a 65 million dollar loan to build the facility in New York on the land donated by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
The Arabs believed that Zionists were pressing too hard for the headquarters to be in New York. Russia might exploit the broken promise by the U.S.
It was to be hoped that the loan might be approved in a special session following the conventions.
Youth Watches the Old Heads"
tells of the GOP being watched by younger voters, many of whom had served during the war. They did not want another war and were fed up with inflation, but understood that the convention would have little impact on either issue. Nevertheless, they listened with rapt attention and had a healthy skepticism.
The recitation of support for housing, pensions, and the G.I. Bill would not win them over. They were not after gifts, but wanted to make their own way.
They would also pay close attention to the Democrats. Neither party could expect to win their support with conventional promises.
A piece from the
Greensboro Daily News
, titled "Spiritual Formula for Peace", tells of a speaker before the Carolina Institute of International Relations having indicated that the spiritual peace pattern put forth by the late Mahatma Gandhi had prevailed in India for the previous year following the partition and independence of the previous summer.
Such was not the case, observes the piece, in Europe, where no spiritual considerations were in play, only power politics.
In recent months, spiritual force had been coming to the fore to effect peace, led by the Baptists, Friends, and Methodists, calling for constructive relations with conflicting nations.
Sam Dawson
of the Associated Press tells of business getting most of what it wanted out of the Congress but not all. Taft-Hartley was their greatest gain, but many believed industry-wide collective bargaining should have been imposed as part of it. Income taxes were cut, wartime controls were eliminated, and the minimum wage was not raised.
Governmental intrusion to business, as subsidies for slum clearance and public housing, was blocked for the most part, but the Congress had rejected subsidies for non-ferrous mines and the margarine tax was not repealed.
Despite favoring economy, the Congress passed the highest budget in history, nearly what the President had sought. Yet, much of it would benefit business, as ERP, the 70-group expanded Air Force, and the rearmament program generally.
Congress had hiked the postal rates but froze Social Security taxes at one percent and refused the President's request to expand coverage.
Mr. Dawson cites several other items passed or blocked which benefited business or of which, in some cases, was difficult yet to determine the effect, such as the one-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act.
Drew Pearson
, in Philadelphia, tells the story of how longtime National Committeewoman Mrs. Dudley Hay got the boot from her position through finagling by Michigan's leaders in the party, reflecting adversely on Senator Vandenberg.
Two Michigan gamblers, Danny Sullivan and Lincoln Fitzgerald, had been indicted and then skipped out to Reno where they established the Nevada Club. Efforts to extradite them failed, until Mrs. Hay appealed to Senator Malone of Nevada, who prevailed on Senator Vail Pittman, and the two were finally extradited. But it had ended Mrs. Hay's continued position as a National Committeewoman, the effort at which had been led by a former president of the Detroit Automobile Dealers and a major supporter of Senator Vandenberg. The supporter had collected funds from the dealers for the GOP campaign chest while it was claimed that they were not paying sales taxes to Michigan. The Michigan Attorney General claimed that not having their books audited was pursuant to a political deal in exchange for the contributions.
Another backer of Senator Vandenberg was a big-shot Grand Rapids gambler, who had been indicted but never convicted. The gambler had traveled with the Senator to the convention on the train and was snug as a joiner with him.
All the pickpockets and loiterers in Philadelphia had been rounded up by the police in advance of the convention and thrown in the pokey for 90 days.
Governor Warren's supporters plied delegates with orange juice. Senator Taft's people gave away free neckties. Mr. Stassen's supporters also gave away free neckties, but added to them Wisconsin cheese, notwithstanding that he was from Minnesota. When the cheese ran out, they switched to iced tea, with California lemons afloat to woo Governor Warren. Senator Vandenberg's supporters gave away red and gold ribbons, inscribed, "The bells tolls two," in cryptic reference to the Lloyds of London convention of tolling its bell twice whenever one of their underwritten ships completed a voyage safely—better than being
. Several of the delegates complained of the obscure nature of the reference.
Maybe he was insured by Lloyds.
Marquis Childs
, in Philadelphia, finds that the problem with the process of selecting presidential nominees was not the circus atmosphere pervading the convention floor but rather smoke-filled rooms where deals were made in the shade, thus hogtying the presidential candidate before he even got out of the gate, giving him a "crippling handicap" in the horse race fate.
He takes an actual case, with the names changed to protect the wealthy from the need to file suit, in which a rich couple had, during the Elephant's lean years, helped to finance the party, going to local meetings and state and national conventions to grease the skids. Now, that the party was poised to achieve victory, the rich couple wanted their share of the spoils, a desire to be Ambassador to Britain being held fondly by the husband, failing which would cause his wife to cry out "from Nome to Miami". As the husband controlled the state delegation from which he derived, the candidate's manager reached him first and promised him his prize upon delivering the delegate vote before the candidate's eyes. He would be bound for the Court of St. James.
That was true in the old days but in postwar times, the Ambassador to Britain had to be skilled, not just wealthy. Nevertheless, in an open convention of the type the GOP was having in 1948, such deals were proceeding apace. While it might not wind up hurting the nation in its diplomatic representation in London, other such deals might compromise grace through hastily made deals without securing promises on policy in good taste.
Senator Vandenberg had persistently refused to have floor managers brokering such deals for him and it had hampered his chances, while strengthening his potential White House, which he did not fancy. "But that fact is not likely to impress the dealers in this frenetic Philadelphia game."
Doris Fleeson
, in Philadelphia, tells of a publisher pointing to a photograph of Senator and Mrs. Vandenberg sitting on a park bench, in the vein of Bernard Baruch, and saying that you could sit in a park and the squirrels would gather but not the delegates—suggesting, perhaps, an
somewhere along the line with
. Senator Vandenberg had just come from delivering several delegates from Michigan to Governor Dewey after they believed they had spotted the bandwagon on which to jump.
Governor Dewey's opponents were grasping for straws at this point, even while still proclaiming their theoretical chance to win. But Harold Stassen, for the first time, looked tired, while Senator Taft continued to exhibit his normal mien. Governor Warren was waiting for the convention to decide the issue before committing the California delegation. He had arranged for suspending the rules so that actress
Irene Dunne
could second his nomination.
The Dewey people continued with pad and pencils tabulating the delegate count in his corner. Governor Dwight Green, eager to join the card in second place, had promised support from Illinois, but it turned out that, with the objection of Robert McCormick, he could not deliver many delegates and so was cut adrift by the Dewey camp. Mr. Dewey was courting the Indiana delegation, led by House Majority Leader Charles Halleck, who welcomed the attention. He promised the Cabinet post of Secretary of Defense to Senator Edward Martin, Pennsylvania's favorite son candidate, and in consequence had secured that state's delegates. Massachusetts, behind Speaker Joe Martin, was laying claim to the post of Attorney General.
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Following his joyous travels through Germany and Switzerland in the summer and fall of 1764, Boswell spent the next year travelling first through Italy and then on to the mysterious island of Corsica.
This volume covers his journey, including his tumultuous companionship through some of the journey with the young Lord Montstuart, the beginning of his friendship with the controversial politician-in-exile John Wilkes, his meeting with the Jacobite circle in Rome including Andrew Lumisden, secretary to the Young Pretender, and his affair with an older married woman, Girolama Piccolomini. Also included is his journey to Corsica and his meeting with the rebel commander, later to become a friend and guest at Boswell's wedding in 1769, Pasquale Paoli. The volume concludes with Boswell's journey home through France, his return to London and also includes his final correspondence with Rousseau.
The source material for Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica and France, includes Boswell's journal covering most of the journey, various memoranda and notes, some "Reflections Written in Siena", a few Ten-Lines-a-Day Verses, Boswell's expense accounts and upwards of 210 letters sent or received by Boswell between January 1, 1765, and February 23, 1766, as well as a few letters of a later date.
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Food cravings happen to the best of us. You're sitting around, minding your own business, only to be hit with a hankering for something sweet or salty.
Or maybe you're driving to work and thoughts of juicy burgers cross your mind. It's the definition of distracting!
Why do they happen, anyway?
Sometimes, it's based on emotion. Sugar actually increases beta-endorphins, the same brain chemical that's released during exercise.
It literally creates a pleasurable high that brings on cravings. Stress and exhaustion also increase appetite hormones, explaining why the two are associated with poor food choices.
And then there are times when you simply don't feel satisfied after eating. In this case, blame the actual food. Some nutrients increase fullness, while others have the opposite effect.
Instead of letting food cravings plague your mind, follow these tips.
Your health and waistline depend on it.1 2 3 4
1. Avoid Artificial Sweeteners
Artificial sweeteners seem like a smart way to cure a craving. They're much sweeter than sugar, so you won't have to use much. Aspartame (like Equal) is 180 times stronger, while sucralose (like Splenda) is 600 times sweeter.5 You'd think it be enough to hush a sweet tooth.
Unfortunately, they don't activate the same taste pathways as real sugar, so your craving is never taken care of. It just grows and grows, making you want even more sweets. Reach for naturally sweet foods instead. For example, add dates to a smoothie or honey to waffles.6
2. Eat Fiber
Because fiber isn't digested by the body, it increases fullness and satiety, making way for improved appetite control and less intense cravings. It's a major reason why whole grains are good for you.
The daily recommendation is 20 to 30 grams, even though most Americans only get 15 grams on the daily. Only 5% of the country eats enough fiber.
To up your intake, add fruits, veggies, whole grains, legumes, and nuts to your meals. Drink lots of water and slowly increase fiber intake to prevent constipation.7
3. Eat Lean Protein
Protein is another nutrient that increases fullness. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shares that it raises leptin, the "satiety hormone" that controls appetite. Essentially, it tells the central nervous system, "Hey, you're not hungry anymore." The type of protein obviously matters. Red meat is a top source, but the calories and saturated fat negate any benefits. Better choices include skinless chicken, lean turkey, and seafood, along with beans and nuts.8 9
4. Drink Water
Yes, it might be that simple. Dehydration lowers your liver's glucose stores, and therefore, your blood glucose. This can easily show up as hunger! It also explains why dieters drink water before a meal to curb their appetite. So grab a glass of H2O first.
If you're actually hungry, the feeling won't go away after sipping water.10
5. Don't Skip Meals
Ignoring true hunger is the worst thing you can do. Skipping a meal only lets it build up, resulting in a ravenous stomach. You'll have a craving for anything and everything, and what's worse is that smart food choices will go out the window.
It's especially dangerous if you skip breakfast, the meal that replenishes glucose stores after a night of rest. In fact, according to a 2016 study in the journal Nutrients, skipping breakfast is connected to weight gain and poor glucose control. It really is the most important meal of the day.
To avoid ditching meals, make time for meal prep. It'll be a lifesaver during the morning rush and busy weeks. Carry a healthy snack at all times, such as homemade granola bars or bananas.11
6. Manage Stress
Don't forget that stress has a strong link with emotional eating and food cravings. It specifically increases levels of ghrelin, the "hunger hormone." Plus, according to a 2011 study in the Journal of Obesity, stress disrupts your ability to tell hunger and emotion apart.12 13
Make stress relief a priority. Self-care is a must, and it doesn't need to take all day! For instance, a few minutes of meditation to promote mindfulness, a state of mind that reduces food cravings.14
7. Get Enough Rest
As mentioned earlier, exhaustion also increases ghrelin. It's basically fuel for fat and sweet cravings. What more if you're stressed and tired?15 Adequate sleep should also be a priority. Aim for 7 to 8 hours each night.16 17


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This fantastic optical illusion was painted on a house in County Wexford by a local artist called Yohan.
The illusion, which makes it look as though balloons are pouring out of holes in the side of the house, was painted for an upcoming party that Yohan was having (the holes are a part of the illusion as well; lest you were fooled by its realism).
While speaking to Wexford Hub, the artist explained that the house in question is situated beside his family home in County Wexford and that he thought it would be cool to make it look as though it had been filled up with balloons. He also mentioned how he would have painted the internal design of the house had he not run out of time.
If you're interested in taking a look at some of Yohan's other work, you can check out his tumblr blog here or his Facebook page here.


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In the Chandal district of Manipur it is hard to get caught up in the world's busyness. While I saw a couple of mobile advertisements, there was nothing resembling an internet caf?, use of computers, or a sense of being in a hurry. Given electricity's irregularity and reliance on generators powered by expensive fuel, it was hard to imagine that anyone was willing to live their lives based on modern technology.
I find myself caught in the wonder of simply living. As I walked through the fields soaking up the silence, only the occasional sound of a cow's bell imposes an artificial sound. Everything else had a natural flow. Life ebbs and continues, girls and boys flirted innocently with each other, and adults talked about memories and the passage of time. Life has a completeness and balance that I often find missing.
Spiritually I often find society's expectations conflict with the story in the young Christian church. Even as Jesus was leaving, "He told them, 'You don't get to know the time. Timing is the Father's business. What you'll get is the Holy Spirit. And when the Holy Spirit comes on you, you will be able to be my witnesses in Jerusalem, all over Judea and Samaria, even to the ends of the world.'" (Acts 1.7, 8) The witness he spoke of was and is grounded in living the "stuff" of God. Walking with compassion, talking with mercy, and acting with a true sense of community is never as easy as it seems, yet it is at the heart of what is means to truly be alive and a follower of God's.
Today finds me talking on a satellite phone with those I work with. I miss their company and friendship. I am in debt for their gift of giving me time to attend to family matters. I know that their lives are more difficult because of my absence. I hope that I can give back the gifts Manipur has giving me; a sense of being, living, and learning from the beauty present with each day.
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Good luck to Mike Wright as he ventures onto the carpet in the great white north, for surely he will need it. This Jays offense is basically leaving nothing but a trail of shattered bodies in their wake. It is Wright's turn to stand before that menace tonight. There will probably be many homers.
One piece of good news is that Adam Jones is back in the lineup, although he is serving as the DH rather than playing on whatever sad excuse for a playing surface they have up there. Well, hopefully that's good news that Jones is playing. We don't really know. If he's only in the lineup because the Orioles are desperate to get him in there and he's still kind of hurting, maybe that's not actually good news. No one can see the future.
Every division series is crucial, but this weekend's against Toronto feels extra crucial because if the Orioles come out of it with a couple of wins, it'll still feel like they are hot and that they are doing well. If they lose two out of three or get swept, then they will have fallen back from the notion that they're right in the picture with the rest of the top AL East teams.
Also, the Orioles have basically blown against the Jays this year, so it would be nice if they could kind of right the ship a bit. They're 3-6 against the Jays with a -14 run differential. The Jays have averaged nearly seven runs per game when playing the Orioles. Like I said at the start - good luck, Mike Wright.


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Globalisation : Hobson's choice
As in most other developing countries, scepticism of Bretton Woods institutions runs deep in Nepal. And for a good reason. Economic reforms initiated in 1980's and 1990's under the one-size-fits-all framework of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), instead of helping poor Nepalis overcome their pitiable existence, only succeeded in pushing them deeper into the mires of poverty.
Trade barriers were torn down overnight, and privatisation became the new mantra of policymakers. The government was forced to maintain unrealistically low fiscal deficits, the bête noir of IMF mandarins. In an agriculture-based economy, fertiliser subsidies for poor farmers were cut, but the much more 'expensive' task of building extensive road networks to help them market their produce wiped off national agenda. The 'reforms' had shattered a fledgling economy.
In Globalisation And Its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz narrates similar tales of exploitation of poor countries by the global financial custodians in IMF, WB and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Stiglitz, former Chief Economist at the World Bank and winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001, illustrates the perils of unregulated liberalisation and hasty dismantling of safety nets for those at the bottom rung of economic ladder in developing countries.
According to Stiglitz, IMF policy prescriptions for the third-world are more the fruits of narrow mindsets of a handful of international bureaucrats cherry-picked by the industrialised nations to serve their own vested interests. The developing countries, still the 'white man's burden' for the West, have no say in who gets to formulate the policies that have a direct bearing on the day to day lives of their people.
The author finds it astonishing — and not a little unfair — that a sole IMF country representative who deals exclusively with the central bank governor and other high-powered ministers and rarely, if ever, visits remote areas where the heart of the problems that bedevil third-world countries lie, has the wherewithal not only to obstruct the flow of IMF-WB assistance but also influence the lending decisions of all foreign donors.
Stiglitz attributes flawed fiscal policies of IMF with causing and, after the fact, exacerbating the Asian market crash in 1997, pushing back by years the incremental gains of countries like Thailand and South Korea that had chosen to heed the 'expert' advice. On the other hand, China and Malaysia, which decided to ignore standard IMF prescription (privatisation, low inflation and budgetary surplus) managed to wade through the turbulent times in the region without many hassles.
Such stories of misery caused by flawed policies of global financial institutions are testament to the fact that economic assistance divorced from humane concerns only helps make the rich richer, while exacerbating the plight of the poor. Stiglitz advocates for a more humane approach to international development. For starters, why
not make the assistance recipient-driven rather than being dictated to by the donors? Let individual countries decide for themselves which areas they want to more investment in.
That the rich countries
fail to see the win-win bargain of such an approach for both the developed and developing countries is a sad irony of modern international financial order.


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So I'm trying KDE Plasma again, I hear 5.26 has many great improvements and the last time I ran KDE for more than a day was in 2014. I mainly run Gnome and Phosh and Sway on my devices and I feel like I don't use KDE enough for the amount of times I complain about it.
So I decided to put postmarketOS Plasma Desktop on my PineBook Pro. Mainly because one of my issues with KDE has been performance. I know that Gnome runs on the edge of smooth on this hardware so it's easy to compare if KDE will be slower or faster for me there. Testing on faster hardware would only hide performance issues.
So I installed Plasma with the postmarketOS installer on the Pinebook Pro, I don't have an nvme drive in this device, just running it from the stock 64GB eMMC module.
The only installation issue I had was the disk not resizing on first boot to fill the full eMMMC size, but that's a postmarketOS bug I need to fix, not a KDE issue.
So that continues me writing the rest of this blog post from my Plasma installation :)
First use
My issue with KDE Mostly is that it has many papercuts that I just don't have to deal with in the Gnome ecosystem. I don't want to make this sound like a big hate post on KDE so here's some good things about it first:
- I like how the default theme looks in light and dark mode, I'll probably will swap out the cursor theme since it doesn't really fit but the rest looks nice and consistent
- The notification system is quite an improvement. Gnome has the annoying tendency to pop up the notification right at the place where I'm working: the top center of the screen. If I get a few chat messages I have to manually click a few stacked notifications away unless I want to wait a few minutes for them to time out. The KDE notifications pop up in the bottom right corner and move out of the way, also the visual timeout indicator is great to have.
- I like the set of stock wallpapers in Plasma a lot.
- The default application launcher looks way more polished than I remember. Also I'm always happy when application launchers just pop up when you tap the meta key, which is still not a feature in all desktop environments.
- That lockscreen fade in animation is nice
- The performance has improved quite a lot. I feel like the performance of Plasma on this hardware was absolutely painful a year back when I ran it to get some photos and now it feels quite smooth in mosts places.
Not everything is perfect but I'm quite pleased with how this is running. I know a lot of KDE is about everything being customizable, but the thing I like with Gnome is that it's already setup the way I want out of the box. Well mostly... For some reason on every desktop I install I have to re-add the ctrl+alt+t keybind to open a terminal. If I remember correctly this was a thing in older Ubuntu installations and nobody ships this keybind anymore.
Now for the papercuts I hit in the first hour:
- The application launcher is slow to pop up. Feels like this should just always be there. But I have the feeling that a lot of animations have a half second delay before they start animating.
- The terminal has way too many buttons and toolbars by default, luckily easy to remove again.
- meta+up doesn't fullscreen the application, it moves it to the upper half of the screen instead. All the other environments I use fullscreen using this keyboard combination.
- partitionmanager doesn't seem to have a function for "extend partition in all the free space after it", instead I have to calculate the new size. Not sure if this counts as an KDE issue or third party applications though :)
- My wifi does not reconnect on reboot for me, but I believe this is a postmarketOS bug.
- The large "peek at desktop" button in the taskbar is pretty useless and way too big for its function. Windows at least made that only 5px wide.
- Performance of Firefox on Plasma seems a bit worse than when running it on Gnome (with wayland)
- The screenshot utility is quite clunky compared to what I'm used to in Gnome. I can only select what to screenshot after the fact it seems. It's quite good as far as screenshot UIs go but not perfect yet.
- The single-click-to-activate in Dolpin, I'd rather double click on items
- Also the active control blue border around the file list in Dolphin. It does not really need to be there and it makes the interface so much more messy. It shows there's focus on the filebrowser widget, but what does that mean? You either have focus on a file in it and that should have the highlight or you don't and then the widget should not have focus.
After some more use
One of the things I had not used yet is Discover, I'm used to installing packages using the command line. I barely use Gnome Software, when I do it's mostly because the flatpak commandline utility is a mess to use. I tried some packagemanagement using Discover and ran into a few pros and cons. This is not only on the KDE side ofcourse because this heavily integrates with postmarketOS specific things.
The main thing I noticed is that Discover is faster than Gnome Software, it's not even close. The speed at which Discover search works makes it actually a realistic option compared to launching a terminal. There's a few paper cuts too ofcourse. If the internet is down and you launch Discover it will show a notification for every repository configured in apk, which is 3 notifications on stock postmarketOS edge.
This notification is almost completely meaningless, It says transferring not what it's transferring and shows no actual progress.
If the internet is up it works pretty smoothly though. The only thing I miss in the rest of the UI is the "Launch" button that's present in Gnome Software to start the software you just installed instead of going through the app launcher.
Since Plasma is supposedly very customizable, I've been going through the settings to make it work closer to the way I want.
First thing is fixing up some hardware configuration. The touchpad on the Pinebook Pro does not have separate buttons so tap-to-click needs to be enabled, and more importantly, two-finger-tap to right click. The touchpad configuration is nicely set-up in the settings utility in Plasma, this was an easy change to do.
Changing the window management behavior for the meta+up shortcut was also pretty simple, I only was slightly confused by the shortcuts settings a bit because unchecking the checkbox below "Default shortcut" makes it not respond to my custom shortcut. But leaving the default enabled is fine sincec I would never hit meta+PgUp on a laptop keyboard by accident.
Changing up the cursor theme has been proven to be the most annoying. The options for this by default is Breeze and Breeze-light. Which is not what I want, and not what I want in white. This means it's down to the button I always dislike in these environments, the user content browser.
The one in this case is no exception. User content is a huge mess. Names mean nothing, screenshots are mostly useless, it's hard to find some "normal" things beside all the really weird options. Usually the service that hosts the data is also pretty unreliable. After 3 search queries I started to get this error window that immediately reappears when I close it with the button while also showing it has sucessfully fetched the results of the query behind it anyway.
After installing some cursor themes I found that the rendering of anything that's not Breeze is just bad. The preview in the settings window look fine but when I actually apply my configuration the cursor is way smaller. It also only applies when hovering over the window decoration, I still get the old cursor theme on the window itself any any newly launched windows. Deleting the currently active cursor theme also crashes the settings application.
I gave up on this when I remembered that icon themes are standardized. So I installed the adwaita-icon-theme
package from Alpine Linux and then I got the option for the adwaita cursor theme. After a reboot the new cursor was consistently applied.
Other customisation things I wanted to try is the general system theming. There's quite a bit of different theming settings available. The first one I messed with is the "Application style"
By default the theme is set to Breeze, I switched it to Fusion because it has actual old school 3D controls like GTK used to have until they decided that custom options are forbidden on libadwaita-enabled applications. Maybe I like this theme because it's closest to old-school clearlooks :)
Changing this theme also fixes the blue border focus weirdness in Dolphin.
For the GTK apps I use there's a seperate settings page.
For GTK there's no preview thumbnails and the settings are very incomplete. With the default Breeze settings the GTK apps integrate more into the general theming of Plasma, with Default it will let the apps use Adwaita. With the Emacs theme... it also just uses Adwaita. The option I'm missing here though is the dark variant of Adwaita. After installing the gnome-themes-extra package I have the Adwaita Dark theme available that I wanted.
I think making GTK look like Breeze is nice from a technical standpoint but by doing that the app will not look like a proper Plasma application, it will just look like it has the same colors and widgets but it will still follow the Gnome HIG, not the Plasma one. Also changing the widget theme to Fusion like I did will not change that for the Breeze GTK theme ofcourse so that introduces more inconsistency. I'd rather have the GTK apps look the way it was intended instead of half-following the Plasma styles.
Finding more workarounds
After some use I have found workarounds for some of my bigger issues. The wifi connection issue can be solved by setting the connection profile to "All users" makes auto-connecting on startup work again.
The annoying widgets I did not want in various places could be removed with the customisation features of Plasma, so not really a workaround but really intended functionality :D
The only large issue I have left is the performance of the application launcher, I'm pretty sure that won't be an easy fix.
I've been running Plasma for a bit now on the Pinebook Pro and I think I will leave it on. It fulfills it's purpose of being the frame around my terminal windows and the browser and hits most of the performance goals I have for this hardware.


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Operational Resilience: The Regulator is Knocking…
In recent weeks we have seen the FCA start to reach out to Enhanced Firms for copies of their Operational Resilience Self-Assessment document, along with evidence of Senior Management and Board engagement. Are you ready for their call?
In-scope firms are now well into the three year transition period which kicked off on 1 April 2022. During this time the FCA expect firms to invest in their operations to improve the Operational Resilience of their Important Business Services (IBS), ensuring they fall within Board approved tolerance thresholds in severe but plausible stress events. These improvement plans make real the FCA's and PRA's Operational Resilience requirements, in what has been described as one of the most important of the regulator's objectives. The regulators simply did not expect firms to be fully compliant at the end of March last year and see implementing improvements as key to success.
So How are Firms Looking to Improve their Operational Resilience?
1) Vendor Engagement: Effective vendor engagement is crucial. During the initial implementation period a number of firms found that key vendors were reluctant to engage beyond simple Q&A's, making this a key focus area for the transition period. Greater dialogue is required on topics such as 4th/5th party dependencies and recovery plans. In the PRA's recent Discussion Paper, CTPs (critical third parties) have been identified as posing a risk to wider financial stability and are the focus of proposed supervisory measures. One such measure is a 'range of tools' for testing the resilience of material services that CTPs provide to firms, which will support engagement. Alpha recently discussed this topic in an article on Critical Third Parties to the UK Financial Sector.
2) Resilience Culture: Communicating the regulator's aims to Group Boards and embedding resilience culture effectively has been a challenge. As reported by the BCI, 17% of survey respondents suggested that there was no need for an operational resilience programme as they already had a BCP/DR plan in place. Engagement and education are key. Firms are using part of the transition period to continue the required knowledge sharing Reference BCI, 2022. We have also seen Core firms – not directly in scope of the regulation – look to apply its principles to support rolling out more effective resilience regimes.
3) Disaster Recovery Plans: IBS scenario testing has revealed gaps in firms' Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans. These have not been challenged to the same level of rigor as posed by the new Operational Resilience regime and plugging these gaps are high priority items.
4) Cyber Security: a topic almost universally acknowledged as a key concern. Firms, particularly those in scope for the EBA's DORA requirements (Digital Operational Resilience Act), will be paying close attention to their local cyber resilience frameworks to address 'any reasonably identifiable IT risks'. Key IT estate management will cover tools (systems/protocols), the IT supply chain and exit strategies. Of note, DORA also applies to third party IT service providers, which goes one step further in the value chain than the FCA's equivalent. Reference IT Pro, 2022
General opinion from firms is that the FCA left requirements deliberately vague. Whilst this has allowed for some flexibility during implementation, it also raises the risk of divergent and / or non-compliant approaches. Industry focus groups have highlighted the usefulness of peer-group collaboration for improvement plans validation, as well as engagement with independent advisors.
There is more expected from the regulators to improve Operational Resilience; whilst the 'initial push' is complete, many firms are yet to work resilience arrangements into their OpModels as the 'new normal'. Questions persist for both Enhanced and Core scope firms, with the potential expansion to CPTs likely to require ongoing impact assessments and consideration for some time. Now that the FCA are reviewing firms' plans, you should be prepared for further FCA guidance in the coming months and we'd be happy to discuss how you can be ready.
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What do the next 15-18 months look like for the broker channel? According to United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) CEO Mat Ishbia, who rallied brokers at the Association of Independent Mortgage Experts (AIME) Fuse conference in Las Vegas on Saturday, the next year and a half will be a proving ground that will level set the market for brokers, and only some will come out winners.
In an interview with HousingWire after his presentation, Ishbia provided more context to his comments, especially on UWM's aggressive pricing strategy and its impact on mortgage lenders' decision to leave the wholesale channel.
UWM in June launched the 'Game On' pricing initiative, slashing prices across all loans by 50 to 100 basis points.
"Game On pricing has no impact on where people exit the market. Their business model was not good, they're not committed to the broker channel, and that's fine," Ishbia said.
He added: "The broker community is stronger than ever. So, it's got nothing to do with that. That's just the business model that isn't in a great position. And so they make those decisions."
The wholesale space, like other channels, has been affected by surging mortgage rates and shrinking origination volumes. But stronger competition has made rivals exit or plan to exit the channel to focus on more profitable business divisions.
On the list are rivals such as loanDepot, Mountain West Financial, AmeriSave, Point Mortgage Corporation, Stearns Wholesale (owned by Guaranteed Rate) and Finance of America's forward wholesale business.
The latest victim is American Neighborhood Mortgage Acceptance Company LLC (doing business as AnnieMac). The company posted on its website last week, "As a result of worsening market conditions, it has made the difficult decision to cease wholesale operations effective October 31, 2022. "The company suspended new loan submissions at 5:00 PM EST on September 27, but it will honor all existing policies and procedures.
Market share
According to Ishbia, lenders leaving the space have no impact on his forecast for the wholesale channel to achieve 33% market share by 2026. AIME estimates that the wholesale channel currently has 23% market share.
Meanwhile, an Inside Mortgage Finance's (IMF) analysis of first-lien mortgage originations shows the broker channel accounted for just under 15% marketshare from April to June, with retail at 61% and correspondent at 25%. The data shows that brokers originated $94 billion in the second quarter, down 16% from the first quarter.
"All those lenders have no impact on it (marketshare) at all," Ishbia said. "As long as you have lenders out there, brokers are fine. These lenders have zero impact on the brokerage, and we will hit all those goals."
During his session at the AIME event, Ishbia said that his "Game On" pricing strategy is an investment that will continue moving forward amid its mindset to grow its business.
"It's not designed for competitors to like me," he said. "I'm not trying to survive, I'm trying to thrive."
Ishbia also unveiled three initiatives during his presentation, including an alternative to the traditional lender title process, called TRAC. The other two initiatives are UClose 3.0, a platform that will allow brokers to choose from three closing options, and Safe Check, a soft-pull credit check to get an appraisal waiver pre-check before submitting their loan without initiating trigger leads to brokers' competitors.


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SEMP Authentication and Authorization
SEMP v2 supports a number of security features for authentication and access control:
These features are discussed in the sections that follow.
Authentication is required for all requests.
Basic Authentication
SEMP uses management usernames and passwords for HTTP Basic authentication.
To use basic authentication:
Format the credentials as
. For examplesolly:super_otter_123
. -
Base-64 encode the formatted credentials. In this example, the result is
Include the encoded result in the HTTP Authorization header:
For example, a request using these credentials could be:
curl --location 'http://192.168.133.81:8080/SEMP/v2/monitor/msgVpns/msgVPN1/queues?select=accessType%2Cdurable' \ --header 'Authorization: Basic c29sbHk6c3VwZXJfb3R0ZXJfMTIz'
GET /SEMP/v2/monitor/msgVpns/msgVPN1/queues?select=accessType,durable HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.133.81:8080 Authorization: Basic c29sbHk6c3VwZXJfb3R0ZXJfMTIz Cookie: Session=viyDrD0kRXgTGcqQkC4wLWeTqKEZwoEajuGdEdVEdj0
If authentication is successful, a session is created and the broker returns a cookie containing a session token.
SEMP supports both HTTP and HTTPS connections.
OAuth Authentication
To authenticate using OAuth, a SEMP client must include one or more OAuth tokens in the HTTP Authorization header as a bearer token. The bearer token in the Authorization header must be provided on every request.
In general, the iss
claim in the ID token (for OpenID Connect) or access token (for OAuth 2.0), if present, is used by the event broker to identify which OAuth profile to use.
A specific OAuth profile can also be selected by adding ~base64(<issuer>)~ to the beginning of the bearer token. Base64 padding should not be used. For example, to use an OAuth profile called solace
that has an issuer of https://www.solace.com
with an access token:
Bearer ~aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc29sYWNlLmNvbQ~<access_token>
If a profile cannot be identified from the iss
claim in the token, and no issuer prefix is provided in the Authorization header, the default profile is used.
Single token
In most case, a single OAuth token is used for authentication. The following format is used to pass a single token in the authentication header: Authorization: Bearer <token>
Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6ImYwdDZrMUVyWVNXeDdCSmRzNHVkOU8wa2wzcEFxOHVTV3RTdnJHVTJaRmkiLCJ0eXAiOiJKV1QifQ.eyJhdWQiOiJTa2MxSmpsLyIsImVtYWlsIjoic29sbHlAZXhhbXBsZS5jb20iLCJleHAiOjE2MzY2NTA0MjMsImdyb3VwcyI6WyJPdHRlcnMiLCJNYW1tYWxzIl0sImlhdCI6MTYzNjY0NjgyMywiaXNzIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9teS1vYXV0aC1wcm92aWRlci5leGFtcGxlLmNvbSIsInN1YiI6IlJpaEJDQmszIn0.oIo9gDbjx3qW3Rg-IiKw4B67KIcJ6_l7dTdlI5inwI9lH84moyG_GM0cN1yFnjVioVjUN7h5Ok5ubHW2BaSaSifC1JjpDzFB55bHSA8ygjZaEtCWXCFDUbs-8yN6BWr7jhKbJ6Iffg285Sm5C2H4rXkBC4Z50bu5k2-hK8OVkF5hi0amOl7-K0S6UtiFkqPaGtru5JHhOJ6m8b7tIfB3YYwIT1xGtkqr_4AfQO3tFziUJFXtZ7-dRMlqQhsS2nO_kA18Aa_5RNyAdRx-HGq3W_DMcxlNj1E3VURrLhLx6s-mxAZSTpwIXWv_KTUblUjAc7gp-sYZFwrXdbDhx-4B3A
Multiple tokens
When an OpenID Connect provider issues both an ID token and an access token together, the ID token may contain a reduced number of claims. In such cases, the event broker may require both the ID token and the corresponding access token—authenticating the user through the ID token, and using the access token to retrieve additional claims from the OpenID Connect Userinfo endpoint for the username or group information. The following format is used to pass multiple tokens in the authentication header: Authorization: Bearer <id-token>/<access-token>
Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6ImYwdDZrMUVyWVNXeDdCSmRzNHVkOU8wa2wzcEFxOHVTV3RTdnJHVTJaRmkiLCJ0eXAiOiJKV1QifQ.eyJhdF9oYXNoIjoiMG5CUGZPUm5uX0l0Z2RTTUNsR2dHUSIsImF1ZCI6IktpQWVIMWtuIiwiZXhwIjoxNjM2NjUwNzYyLCJpYXQiOjE2MzY2NDcxNjIsImlzcyI6Imh0dHBzOi8vbXktb2F1dGgtcHJvdmlkZXIuZXhhbXBsZS5jb20iLCJzdWIiOiJPMjlWTmtvKyJ9.ZMQge6iyjmduO4IY0TaBB3ynqX1NeAmiMfYqZdsPn4bFSs9A0J7aAsc_iuJQcOQrZjEtv-3OXhrAsulTcmLYFCHUTlhWR5oA1eC0cbK1d3gYDeSFo6YUrxlGM9cRYQbr_0fG6VbRc5ivRyowAqmursnk5TVbje4H_Jpug2qnZVrYspZkixqlIkZN6nEbT2Uxzqypvo1o5y1H19uq1t5SF8KKsA9Y22Pgq88mpGg8U27Ov_CY0NKGh_U5KMRVrlQ1X84E0SmpJSWosM9L5Gy7nYGuGhvVGH91eGwxh24L0lpy6HcQkCS7wCiLseVntWcIvu5BUo4mMPCqvQDmg47I7A/zOvubUTO7ig+u2+2NWAibm2U5Tg/pKE4JcwTCwM+qNw=
SEMP Sessions
When a client makes its first SEMPv2 request, it must supply a username and password using HTTP Basic authentication, or an OAuth token or tokens using HTTP Bearer authentication.
When HTTP Basic authentication is used, the broker returns a cookie containing a session key. The client can omit the username and password from subsequent requests, because the broker now uses the session cookie for authentication instead. When the session expires or is deleted, the client must provide the username and password again, and the broker creates a new session.
There are a limited number of session slots available on the broker. The broker returns 529 No SEMP Session Available
if it is not able to allocate a session.
If certain attributes—such as a user's password—are changed, the broker automatically deletes the affected sessions. However, changes in external user configuration data stored on a RADIUS or LDAP server do not trigger the broker to delete the associated session(s), therefore you must do this manually, if required.
The session is deleted if:
- the client logs out
- the session times out due to inactivity
- the session reaches its maximum lifetime
- the client's user credentials are altered on the broker. This includes password updates, username changes, and user deletion. It does not include access level changes. If the user credentials change, the event broker deletes all sessions for that user.
- the broker's
configuration changes (for example, from Radius to LDAP, or from one LDAP profile to another). If theauth-type
configuration changes, the event broker deletes all sessions. - an admin user deletes the client's session(s) via SEMPv2 or the CLI
- the broker restarts
When the session terminates for any reason, the associated token immediately becomes invalid and cannot be used again. The client must authenticate again to create a new session cookie.
A client can retrieve its current session information using the /about/user
endpoint and delete its own session using the /about/user/logout
endpoint. A client with appropriate permissions can also manage all sessions using the /sessions
Sessions are not created when authenticating with an OAuth token or tokens using HTTP Bearer authentication. If a session cookie is provided, it is ignored.
For information about configuring sessions, see Managing SEMP Sessions.
Sessions are also used by Broker Manager. For details, see Broker Manager Sessions.
Role-Based Access Control
SEMP supports role-based access control. When executing commands against an event broker, the SEMP user will be authenticated as an event broker management user (equivalent to a CLI user) and receive the access level and scope assigned to that management user. The following is a brief summary of role-based access control on event brokers. For more details refer to Management & Shell Users, which provides full details of the rules and how they work together to provide access control.
There are two command scopes supported on the event broker:
- Global
- Message VPN
There are four user access levels in the event broker:
- none
- read-only
- read-write
- admin
Each attribute of a SEMP Resource is assigned a minimum access scope and user access level.
A management user is then assigned access levels for both the global level and for one or more message VPNs. This forms the management user's role-based access control. For example:
- A system-wide event broker administrator would be assigned a global access level of admin, which allows that user to read and modify any attribute of any resource in the API, whether it is a global-scoped or Message VPN-scoped attribute.
- A Message VPN administrator would be assigned a global access level of none and a message VPN access level of read-write for the Message VPN the administrator is responsible for.
There are many more examples of how you can effectively use the scope and access level for different types of users. For more examples see the Solace documentation referenced above.
In general, in the SEMP API all resources under /msgVpns/<msgVpnName>/...
are part of the Message VPN scope. All other top-level resources form part of the global scope. The /msgVpns/<msgVpnName>
is one resource where the scope of attributes is mixed. Some attributes require global scope and some require Message VPN-level scope. In all cases, the SEMP API Reference makes it clear which scope and access level is required for each SEMP resource.
The PUT method respects attribute scope levels, and updates every attribute in a resource. Attributes that are not specified in the body of a PUT request are reset to their default values. However, if a user does not have sufficient role based access scope to modify an attribute, then the attribute will not be returned to its default value. In effect, some more powerful user has chosen a different default and the attribute is ignored, but the PUT request will still be successful. This makes the SEMP API useable by SEMP users with global scope and message VPN scope with consistent behavior.


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How do you feel about talking to your friends and family about your career? Are you regretting the career move you made during the Great Resignation and know your cousins will say "I told you so"? Did you join the Gig Economy and are unsure how your uncle is going to react when he finds out?
No matter what your career choices are, discussing them with others can cause stress and anxiety. We understand these issues and want to help you feel less stressed when having career conversations with your loved ones. Here are some tips that can help you.
Prepare in advance. Advance preparation can always help to ease feelings of anxiety, and it's no different when talking about your career. Think about any concerns or red flags that others may bring up in conversation and decide how you will handle those. Imagine the worst thing that could happen when you discuss your career with your friends and family. The reality generally isn't as bad as what we imagine.
Set boundaries. Decide what and how much you are willing to share with others and set boundaries for yourself. Keep in mind that boundaries are not to control what other people say, but to change how you handle those comments. For example, are you a lot happier now that you switched jobs? Has your health improved? You may decide to share how your career change is helping you. On the other hand, if you are regretting your recent career move, you may decide to express that briefly, but then shift the conversation to what you are doing to move forward. For example, you could say "Dave, I have realized that this job isn't the best fit for me. But I have a few leads and I hope to find a new position soon. In fact, I recently spoke with…"
Respect differences of opinion. Your uncle may not agree with your moving to the Gig Economy and losing out on the job perks you had previously, and that is OK! He doesn't have to agree. Remember that we all have different ideas about what an ideal job and career look like. Realizing and respecting that can go a long way to easing feelings of tension during a career conversation. For example, "Uncle Frank, I know we have different visions about what a successful career looks like. You sure have made a success of yours. I hope to do the same on my new career path. I know there is some risk, but doing something new is always risky, and I have prepared for that. I hope that you can be happy for me."
We hope these tips will help you feel more at ease when talking about your career with friends and family. Need more help? Schedule a free consult today.


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IN 1958 Cadillac unveiled the Biarritz name for their line of Eldorado Convertibles. Throughout the subsequent years, the design became more dramatic, eventually reaching the iconic 1959 with huge tail fins and rocket-age lights.
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The Dakota Red car offered here has been part of its owner's prominent collection for several years, during which time it has been well-maintained. The parade boot cover for the convertible top has been repainted the correct color, and during the course of a full service, which was performed in December 2014, the car was fitted with all-new brake wheel cylinders, mistakes in an earlier wiring job were correctly repaired, and a new fuel tank was installed. The result is a car that not only looks terrific but also runs and operates equally well. Auction Source: 2015 Amelia Island by RM Sotheby's
1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible – sold for $170,000 Triple Black concours quality Elroadro Biarritz Convertible. Three year restoration on a rust free original sheet metal example. 364/325 HP engine. Automatic transmission. Dual quads with Batwing air cleaner. New canvas top and parade boot. Sabre wheels. Auction Source: Monterey 2014 by Mecum Auctions
1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz 5762025132 – sold for $77,000 The ultimate in '50s style and design. Optional air conditioning, Autronic Eye, and gold grille. Desirable dual four-barrel carburetors and factory bat-wing air cleaner. Excellent Eldorado for weekend cruises. Auction Source: 2014 Motor City Auction by RM
1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible – sold for $165,000 This beautiful example has benefited from a thorough frame-off restoration that was completed in late 2012. The list of work executed includes a complete engine and transmission tear down and rebuild, along with a driveline overhaul. Additionally, the Cadillac has received a complete brake system refurbishment, all new suspension components, a new hydraulic pump and cylinder and hoses, and a new fuel tank, sending unit, and fuel lines. Auction Source: 2013 St. John's Auction
1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible – sold for $156,750
Presented in its original, period exterior finish of Starlight Silver Metallic with a brilliant red leather interior and black vinyl soft top, this Eldorado has hardly been driven since leaving the Jenkins shop, with only test and sorting mileage covered. The distinctive finned Turbine wheels have been freshly refinished, and all the chrome and bright trim has been restored or refinished to a high level. The interior is new, with expertly done upholstery and the extensive bright trim finished to a high level. Under the hood the distinctive 'bat wing' air cleaner, underneath which sit dual four-barrel carburetors, dominates the view. Both the engine and transmission, original to the car, have been rebuilt, and a new exhaust system has been fitted. Auction Source: Amelia Island 2012 by RM Auctions
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This beautiful Dakota Red 1957 Cadillac Biarritz convertible is one of only 1,800 built. Originally a Southern California car, it has every option available, including rare factory air conditioning and the desirable fiberglass parade boot. With just 1,000 miles since its body-off restoration, it boasts Cadillac's powerful dual-quad 365/325 HP engine complete with a "batwing" air cleaner, while beneath the White soft top is a typically lush matching Red interior highlighted by quality Jenkins Buffalo grain leather upholstery. New bumpers, a gold anodized grill and classic wide Whitewalls complete this rare vintage Biarritz. Auction Source: 2011 Monterey Daytime Auction by Mecum