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[A]ccompanying [the integration of African Americans into "the upper echelons and leadership of American society, public life and national identity"] has been the near complete isolation of blacks from the private life of the white majority. Recent modest improvements notwithstanding, blacks, including the middle class, are nearly as segregated today as they were in DuBois's day....So, according to Patterson, it is up to the black middle class to change its ways. Whether they are reading TimesSelect is another matter. I assume the people who get TimesSelect are already living in middle class white neighborhoods. Patterson is encouraging complacency on their part. That doesn't mean he's not right, though.
The celebrated tipping-point theory of Thomas Schelling, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, has long appeared to offer a pessimistic answer to the puzzle. It holds that even where a majority of whites favor having black neighbors, the all-white preference of just a few will always rapidly escalate into total segregation.
However, the economist William Easterly, after examining data on segregation over the past three decades, has demonstrated conclusively that Schelling's theory is groundless in regard to race. In the vast majority of neighborhoods studied, Easterly found no pattern of acceleration of white decline, no evidence of a sudden, extreme exodus at the fabled tipping point, but instead a steady, almost constant decline in the proportion of whites from one decade to the next. Moreover, the typical neighborhoods that did change from being predominantly white to predominantly black in this period still had a significant proportion of whites living in them.
So why does segregation persist? The evidence seems clear that, in sharp contrast with the past, the major cause is that blacks generally prefer to live in neighborhoods that are at least 40 percent black. Blacks mention ethnic pride and white hostility as their main reasons for not moving to white neighborhoods. But studies like Mary Pattillo-McCoy's ethnography of middle-class black ghettos show that the disadvantages, especially for youth, far outweigh the psychic gains.
It would be naïve to discount persisting white racism, but other minorities, like Jews, have faced a similar dilemma and opted, with good reasons, for integration. The Jewish-American experience also shows that identity and integration are not incompatible, and that when the middle class moves, others follow. If America is ever to solve the second part of DuBois's color problem, it will be on the shoulders of the black middle class.
(Here's an article of his from last March about "the tragic disconnection of millions of black youths from the American mainstream.")


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Oct. 26, 2015
Kaye Beach
The conversation surrounding the supposed impending enforcement of the federal REAL ID Act is so muddled that it is virtually impossible for anyone to develop an informed opinion on the matter. I am trying to help by providing documentation that will put to rest a few of the elementary aspects of REAL ID so that, hopefully, we can have a productive discussion about the matter.
To my mind, there is a few things about this federal law that we should understand before making a decision about whether or not our state should commit to it. For instance, we need to understand that REAL ID is a biometric ID and what the implications of moving the population en mass to this form of identification are. Many seem to be confused about the difference between biometric ID and RFID so I want to write a post about that. We should also be aware that REAL ID requires the linking of our state databases and the is also an open ended aspect of the Act that we need to consider. There is much more to the REAL ID ACT but these are the items that come to my mind most immediately.
In my last post I addressed only one issue – are our Oklahoma state drivers licenses and ID cards biometric ID's? The answer is YES and you can take a look at the some of the sources of that information here.
In this short post, I am only going to address one subject as well.
REAL ID is BIOMETRIC ID
The Federal REAL ID Act of 2005 REQUIRES that a digital facial image be captured from each driver's license and ID card applicant.
These images must to be captured conformant to an international biometric format standard enabling the use of facial recognition technology and global information sharing.
The National Conference of State Legislatures is a trusted policy think tank that advises state legislators about a variety of policy matters. In 2014 the NCSL did a policy brief on REAL ID. Here is what they say:
A digital facial image is required by the REAL ID Act.
Link: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy_pia_realid_1.pdf
Buried in a pile of REAL ID rules is a notation that mentions a bit of technical information regarding the digital facial images that are required by the Act that reveals that the image is collected as biometric data (as opposed to just a simple photograph)
And more from the Department of Homeland Security on how this biometric data is intended to be used.
Link: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy_pia_realid_1.pdf
These are just a few sources that verify that REAL ID is indeed a biometric ID but in the spirit of trying to keep things simple, I am trying to provide just just enough information to put the question to rest.
Here is a one page PDF of this info in case you would like a copy of these sources.
Now we know that our current ID cards and driver's licenses are biometric ID's and that the federal REAL ID is also a biometric ID.
My next posts will cover the difference between RFID and Biometric ID and some of the implications of biomtric identification and what the difference is between having a state level biomertric ID vs. a federal one.


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apbrad needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 24 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
Hoping to have a quick contest for this 33 year old furniture store featuring new and consigned goods including furniture, art, jewelry and books. See the logo for general design concept. The feel should be Tuscan.
ocfinefurnishings.com is the web address for the business On Consignment
Old or new we have it for you
Desired Color Scheme:
see logo and browns, burgundys
Desired Style:
classy, elegant
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
The logo to use is found on the contest entry by: irawansatu
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[ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida http://2008.ruleml.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadlines are approaching: June 2 Proceedings published by Springer LNCS Submission Site is open: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008 PRESS RELEASE: http://www.targetwire.com/vpo/rm/ Sponsoring opportunities: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ===================================================================== Co-located with: The 11th International Business Rules Forum http://www.businessrulesforum.com ===================================================================== Sponsored by: Silver level: Model Systems Bronze level: STI Innsbruck, ruleCore, JBoss ===================================================================== In Co-operation with: AAAI, W3C, BPM-Forum, Business Rules Forum , ECCAI, OASIS, OMG, European Business Rules Conference, Belgium Business Rules Forum, MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, ACM, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research Society, IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society IEEE SMCS TC on Intelligent Internet Systems IEEE SMCS TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems IEEE Computer Society TC on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems ===================================================================== Media Partners: Springer LNCS, MoDo Marketing ===================================================================== Call for Papers Collocated with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, the 2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) is the second symposium (after last year's highly successful RuleML-2007 - http://2007.ruleml.org/) devoted to work on practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi- Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications. 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From amounts made available under section 7241 of this title to carry out this subpart, the Secretary shall make an incentive payment for each fiscal year to each public elementary school that provides to students attending such school a program designed to lead to communicative competency in a foreign language.
The Secretary shall determine the amount of the incentive payment under subsection (a) of this section for each public elementary school for each fiscal year on the basis of the number of students participating in a program described in such subsection at such school for such year compared to the total number of such students at all such schools in the United States for such year.
The Secretary shall consider a program to be designed to lead to communicative competency in a foreign language if such program is comparable to a program that provides not less than 45 minutes of instruction in a foreign language for not fewer than 4 days per week throughout an academic year.
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9. Seasickness and Health at Seaby Paul Motter
How to avoid seasickness and the fabled "cruise ship virus" aboard cruise ships.
This will be a short section because the claims of "cruise ship viruses" are vastly over-stated. Here is why this happens. Norovirus, which has been dubbed the "cruise ship disease," is not the cruise ship disease at all. This particular virus is everywhere and is second to only the common cold in terms of prevalence in the American public.
Unfortunately, a very good intention by the cruise industry turned into a public relations nightmare. Norovirus is not a "reportable disease" according to the Nation Center for Disease Control (CDC). An example of a reportable disease is Legionnaires Disease, where an outbreak can be fatal. However, in a gesture of goodwill the cruise industry volunteered to report outbreaks of Norovirus to the CDC so the center could help the cruise lines control outbreaks when they happen.
The CDC only gets involved with Noro on cruise ships because ships are a closed environment. The CDC would love to be able to control Noro in other settings where it is common; senior living centers, grade schools, etc. But those places have people coming and going so there is just no way to stop the disease, and so they don't even ask those places to report it.
Because cruise ships report Noro, outbreaks get into the news and hence it has been named the "cruise ship disease." But in fact cruise ships only get Noro when someone brings it onboard, usually from a place where the virus is already rampant on land. In 2010 the city of London had half a million cases of Noro and they had to close down most city hospital emergency rooms. But they don't call it the "London disease." In fact, many news reports about that incident still called it the "cruise ship disease."
How to Avoid Norovirus
The average Noro outbreak on a cruise ship only affects less than 5% of the passengers, but it is a pretty violent virus, with vomiting and diarrhea as the most common symptoms lasting for about 48 hours, so you want to avoid it. Here is a cruise ship secret:
You can tell when there has been an outbreak of at least 2% of the passengers when you start seeing the following procedures in place:
Passengers are no longer allowed to share food service utensils; everything will be served to you by a crewmember. You will also see people scrubbing common areas with banisters such as stairways and elevators. When you see these things, put yourself into "Noro-protection mode."
The virus can live on surfaces for several days. It is introduced into your system when you pick up virus particles and rub your eyes, nose or mouth. It is a very powerful virus; the common cold requires victims to ingest as many as 10,000 particles while Noro only needs 10 to 100 particles to spread.
Neither soap nor alcohol will kill Noro but you should still wash your hands very frequently! This can dislodge the virus from your hands - getting rid of it before you introduce it onto your system. The trick is to wash and rinse thoroughly and then dry your hands with an absorbent, disposable paper towel. Be very careful what you touch, and if you must touch surfaces then do not touch your face until you have a chance to wash your hands.
One more thing - during the cruise embarkation process you are given a form asking if you have experienced any symptoms of illness in the preceding 48 hours. Important: if you admit to having any symptoms you can be denied your cruise immediately. They may tell you that they will have a nurse come and look at you before your cruise is denied, but that is not guaranteed or written in writing.
If you admit to being sick do not expect to be given a physical before you are denied your cruise. Yes, it sounds harsh, but I have had people contact me who checked the form because they had symptoms previously, but they actually felt fine at the time. However, Norovirus can live in a host for up to 2 days after symptoms pass and the cruise lines can use that fact to deny you your cruise. You have been warned - how you respond is up to you.
Sea Sickness
Many first time cruisers are more afraid of sea sickness than anything, and it can be a horrible experience, but it is fully preventable, and prevention is the key word. There are many ways to control and prevent seasickness which we will discuss, but let's get to the main matters first.
First of all - sea sickness can be in the mind. The people who do not get sea sick have usually not really noticed they are on a moving ship. Meanwhile, I have also seen first-timers on ships think they are seasick when they probably really are not because the ship is not moving that much.
Timing is Important
The only reason people get sea sick is because they wait too long to react to the first signs. If you get a good preventative medicine in your system before Mal De Mer begins it will not take hold, but once it starts it is too late to introduce the medicine. Let me explain why.
The medicine I recommend first is meclizine. That is the generic name, and it is sold as Bonine or Dramamine 24-hour formula (this is different from the original Dramamine, also still available today) or as various store brand names.
The key is to take the meclizine before you get sick, otherwise your body may not be able to absorb it. Do not swallow the pill; the directions say to let it melt under your tongue. If you swallow it after you are already nauseated you won't absorb the medicine. Take it at the first signs of sea sickness; these can be a vague tired feeling, a headache and light-headedness.
Other things will help keep seasickness at bay, but only under mild conditions. If you are caught in a real storm at sea and you start to feel unwell take the medicine. I realize some people just do not like pills, but you have to know that there is no natural preventative for seasickness as effective as meclizine. Had there been, it would be well-known after literally thousands of years of sailing history.
Some other partial preventatives include real ginger, wristbands with pressure points, sour apple and various homeopathic (tobaccum) formulae. But these only work up to a point, and if they stop working you had better hope it is not too late to take your meclizine. Also, you can take meclizine under the tongue and it will absorb, but once sea sickness has started the effect of the medicine will lessened. Always think "prevention" and not "cure" where sea sickness is concerned.
There are other effective medicines. The Scopolamine patch is popular. It was taken off the market in the early 2000s but apparently reformulated and reintroduced. If you are very sick and suffering there is an injectible formula a doctor can give you in the ship's infirmary, but you will have to pay a fee to get it. Size of the ship is also big factor. Small "boats" move much more than big cruise ships. Anything below 30,000-tons may be too small for susceptible people, while ships as big as 150,000-tons will hardly sway perceptibly.
Cabin location is also extremely important. Think of a ship as a teeter totter; the most stable area is halfway between the bow (front) and the stern (back), and on the lowest deck possible. The front moves more than the stern due to the forward motion of the ship going into waves.
Important: I am not a doctor. You can buy meclizine over the counter at a drug store, but anything you ingest can interfere with other medications or your personal health conditions. So, you must consult your personal physician before taking any medicine, even organic.


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Voices of both those convinced that China will eclipse the United States as a global economic and military power and those who are confident of continued US leadership are getting louder. Much of this debate focuses on the size of the Chinese economy relative to the US economy or issues of military might.
But what matters for global leadership is innovation, which is not only the key driver of per capita income growth but also ultimately the main determinant of military and diplomatic leadership. It was the US that proved after Pearl Harbor how a prosperous economy can rapidly increase its military power and preparedness when push comes to shove.
So the right question to ask is not who will be the military leader of the next century, but who will be the technological leader. The answer must be: most probably the US – but only if it can clean up its act.
The odds favor the US not only because it is technologically more advanced and innovative than China at the moment, with an income per capita more than six times that of China. They do so also because innovation ultimately depends on a country's institutions.
Inclusive political institutions distribute political power equally in society and constrain how that power can be exercised. They tend to underpin inclusive economic institutions, which encourage innovation and investment and provide a level playing field so that the talents of a broad cross-section of society can be best deployed.
Despite all of the challenges that they are facing, US institutions are broadly inclusive, and thus more conducive to innovation. Despite all of the resources that China is pouring into science and technology at the moment, its political institutions are extractive, and as such, unless overhauled and revolutionized soon, they will be an impediment to innovation.
China may continue to grow in the near term, but this is growth under extractive institutions – mostly relying on politically connected businesses and technological transfer and catch-up. The next stage of economic growth – generating genuine innovation – will be much more difficult unless China's political institutions change to create an environment that rewards the challenging of established interests, technologies, firms, and authority.
We have a historical precedent for this type of growth and how it runs out of steam: the Soviet Union. After the Bolsheviks took over the highly inefficient agricultural economy from the Tsarist regime and started to use the power of the state to move people and resources into industry, the Soviet Union grew at then-unparalleled rates, achieving an average annual growth rate of over 6 percent between 1928 and 1960.
Though there was much enthusiasm about Soviet growth – as there is now about China's growth machine – it couldn't and didn't last. By the 1970s, the Soviets had produced almost all the growth that could be derived from moving people from agriculture into industry, and despite various incentives and bonuses, and even harsh punishments for failure, they could not generate innovation. The Soviet economy stagnated and then totally collapsed.
China has more potential than the Soviet Union. Its growth has not come simply by government fiat, but also because it has reformed its economic institutions, providing incentives to farmers and some firms (though having government connections still helps enormously, and challenging powerful firms can land you in jail or worse). China also had more technological catching up to do than the Soviet Union.
But this potential will come to an end as well unless China radically transforms its institutions. This requires not only obvious steps such as introducing an independent judiciary, independent media, and more secure property rights for businesses, but truly inclusive political institutions. This necessitates a fundamental political opening so that political power is more equally distributed and can underpin economic institutions. This, in turn, will create a level playing field and encourage and fully reward all sorts of innovation – especially the disruptive kind.
The threat for the US is exactly the flip side of the opportunity for China. US inclusive institutions are in decline, and the danger that the US could follow other societies in history – such as the Venetian Republic in the 13th century – that have seen their inclusive institutions dismantled and their economic success undermined is a real one.
US society has been undergoing profound changes over the last four decades. The huge rise in economic inequality, brought to the headlines partly by the Occupy Wall Street movement, is both an important aspect of these changes and also a warning sign. The problem is that economic inequality often comes bundled with political inequality. Those with great wealth and easy access to the politicians will inevitably try to increase their political power at the expense of the rest of society. This sort of hijacking of politics is a surefire way of undermining inclusive political institutions, and is already under way in the US.
There is also a vicious circle here: Economic inequality is increasing political inequality, and those increasing their political power will use this to tilt the playing field further and gain a greater economic advantage. This will not only take the form of getting more tax breaks and government subsidies for their businesses, but also by blocking more innovative rivals and, directly or indirectly, undermining the opportunities that the rest of society has for acquiring skills, taking risks, and innovating.
Ultimately, however, the reason to believe that it will be the US, not China, leading the world in innovation and technology for many, many more decades is the resilience of US inclusive institutions. We have been here before, and we have rebounded. Things were much worse during the Gilded Age both in terms of economic inequality and in terms of how totally and unscrupulously the wealthy elite, the so-called robber barons, had come to dominate politics.
Yet the robber barons did not prevail. The US political system was also able to tackle the problem of Southern segregation and black disenfranchisement, which, if anything, looked even more insurmountable. All of this was made possible because Americans stood up and fought for political equality, and the US political system was open enough to allow them to do so. We are optimistic that this time it will not be different.
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson are the co-authors of "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty."
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Hi everyone! I'm Cara from CaraQuilts and I'm back with a fun Valentine's Day project for you! It only uses 1 layer cake and some yardage to make a 60″ x 64″ quilt! This quilt is the perfect size to snuggle under on the couch with your sweetie! It isn't very hard and you can make it up in a weekend! As always, please read through the directions before starting and if you have any questions, you can message me over on my blog; I love hearing from you!
1 Giddy layer cake
2 x 1/4 yd of light prints, or 1/2 yd of one print/solid.
1/2 yard Essential Dots Moss
1/2 yd inner border
1 yard outer border
4 yards backing
Large Clover Heart yo-yo maker
(Buttons- do not add button if quilt is going to a child under 3!)
There are 4 different pieced blocks for this quilt and a bunch of 4 1/2″ plain blocks.
The layer cake has plenty of fabric for the coloured pieces but you need to decide how scrappy you want the pieced heart to be. You can cut all of a few layer squares, or a little of most of them; It's up to you. Just make sure you have the required amount of each patch. I've included how many layer cake squares it will take to get the right number of patches.
To get the most out of your layer cake, I recommend cutting the larger patches first. You'll be able to get some of the smaller pieces from what's left over.
Remember if you want to add garnishes, you need (1) 5″ square per yo-yo heart.
(28) 2 1/8 white squares, cut once on the diagonal (requires 1 3/4 layer cake squares)
(68) 2 1/2″ colour squares (requires 4 1/4 layer cake squares)
(32) 4 1/8″ white squares (requires 2 layer cake squares)
(4) 3 3/4″ white squares (requires 3/4 layer cake squares)
(8) 2 1/2 x 4 1/2″ colour strips (requires 1 layer cake squares)
(8) 1 3/4″x 4 1/2″ white strips (requires 1 layer cake squares)
(74) 4 1/2″ white squares. (requires 18 1/2 layer cake squares, but cut mostly from your light yardage)
(12) 1/4″ x 4 1/2″ green strips ( 2- 1 1/4″ x WOF strips)
(46) 1 1/2″ x 7″ green strips ( 8- 1 1/2″ x WOF strips)
Block A – 14 total, 4″ finished
Take (1) 2 1/2″ square and stitch one of the 2 1/8″ triangles to each side. They will not go all the way to the edge. It's not suppossed to. Repeat so you have two of these units. Lay your ruler along the edge and cut of the extra bit from the 2 1/2″ square. Take (1) of the 1 1/2″ x 7″ greens strips and stitch to the triangle unit. Stitch the other triangle unit to the other side. Press towards the triangle units. Trim the block to 4 1/2″
Block B– 8 total, 4″ finished
Stitch (1) 1 7/8″ x 4 1/2″ white strip to (1) 2 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ coloured strip. Stitch (1) 1 1/4 x 4 1/2″ green strip to the the white strip. Press the entire unit to the coloured strip. Repeat so you have 8 blocks.
Block C– 32 total, 4″ finished
Take (1) 4 1/8″ white square and stitch (1) 2 1/2″ coloured square to one corner using the stitch and flip method. Press the square open. Cut away the excess layers. Cut the entire unit in half on the diagonal, DO NOT CUT THROUGH THE TRIANGLE. Take (1) 1 1/2″ green strip and stitch the triangle units you just created to each side. Press. Trim to 4 1/2″. Repeat so that you have 32 blocks.
Block D – 4 total, 4″ finished
Take (1) 3 3/4″ white square, and stitch a 2 1/2″ square to one corner, using the stitch and flip method. Press and cut away the excess layers. Repeat on the other corner. Stitch (1) 1 1/4″ x 4 1/2″ green strip to the top of the unit. Press to the white.
Using the layout below, stitch the blocks into rows and then stitch the rows together. Make sure that you press the rows in opposite directions so the seams "snap" together when you sew them.
Measure your top well. Cut (5) 2 1/2″ x WOF. Cut (1) of the strips into quarters, about 11″. Using stitch and flip stitch the short piece to one end of each of the (4) uncut strips. Press. Stitch a strip to each side of the top and press towards the strips. Stitch strips to the top and bottom. Press towards the strips.
Cut (6) 5 1/2″ x WOF strips for your outer border. From (1) strip, cut (2) 8″ strips. Cut the remainder in half. Each should measure about 13 1/2." Using the stitch and flip method, attach (1) of the shorter strips to one end of each of the full strips.
Stitch the shorter (2) strips to the sides of the quilt. Press toward the center. Attach the remaining two strips to the top and bottom and press towards the center.
Baste, Quilt and Bind! For quilting, I did a meander with heart "leaves" in the border and center of the quilt. I quilted feathers going in opposite directions around the outside and through the pieced heart.
Follow the manufacturer's directions and create however many heart yo-yos you would like. Stitch a cute button to the yo-yo and then stitch the whole unit to the quilt. I just scattered them through out randomly!
DO NOT ADD BUTTONS IF GOING TO A CHILD UNDER 3!! They are a choking hazard.
Viola! One fun Valentine's Day quilt!
I'd love to see yours if you make one! E-mail me over on my blog or post on the Moda Bake Shop flickr group!!
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I was sent two Rodial slimming products to help me get into shape before my holiday (my so far non-existent holiday, might I add).
The two products target my big problem area – my tummy! Whilst not humungous, it's certainly padded and could do with some serious flattening (weird – when I was 4 stone lighter I still thought I had a podgy stomach. Goes to show you're never happy…)
First off is Rodial's coveted tummy tuck gel.
This is supposed to make a difference in 2 months (or 8 weeks) reducing your tummy area by 2 cms. Fig extract and neuropeptides break down fatty cells and boost metabolism. Will it work? Well I am testing it and I will let you know!
So far so good – the clear thick gel is moisturising and has made my skin feel lovely and firmer. I am only a few days in though…
There's no tingling or allergic reactions either. It's expensive at £100 for 125ml so let's see if it can shrink me down!
Next up is the Rodial Tummy Tuck Sticks…
These are sachets of powder which you mix with water to create a drink, which you have after your main meal in the evening.
You get 14 sticks and the course is therefore for 2 weeks.
This is a dietary supplement which helps digestion and reduces bloating; the tummy tuck stick helps flatten the tummy and waist through slimming, natural ingredients.
This contains Pineapple and Papaya, Fennel Seeds and Green Clay.
Now, I am Chinese so I have been trained in the art of drinking foul tasting herbal teas, but I must admit, this drink too my by surprise when I mixed it up! It's the appearance (bright yellow) and the weird texture that got me:
What you see in there IS the fennel and chunks of papaya and pineapple! Rodial weren't lying about their ingredients!
What it tastes like is a combination of pineapple and coconut. It's quite lumpy and weird – I suggest down it in one, it's not too hard to drink but it's not a leisurely beverage either. Also you don't need to mix it with too much water, so it's not so bad!
This pack is £48 for 14 sticks, so once again it's pricey but I will let you know what the result it!
I am trying to calorie count and do some exercise in the next 4 weeks too so hopefully the result will be decent!
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The latest charge in a string of Oldham County cases against falsified school enrollment was filed Friday.
James Elliot, who lives near Ky. 146 and Factory Lane, is charged with falsely enrolling his child in South Oldham High School.
Dan Orman, Assistant Superintendent of Student Services, said his office tried repeatedly to reach Elliot and even sent home a letter with the child.
In fact, it was the student who provided the correct address to school administrators.
"Kids are usually the most honest players in these residency cases," Orman said. He described the student as a "great kid" that the district hates to lose.
"I hope dad makes the decision to actually move back into Oldham County," he added.
Elliot is charged with theft by deception for $1,229 — the cost to send his child to school for 66 days.
When parents are charged with theft by deception for false enrollment, the school district calcultates the cost at $18.63 per day.
Local tax costs for each student amount to $3,260.89 per year, Orman said, and is divided by the 175 days in a school year to come up with the daily cost.
Two additional parents, Dawne Grigsby and Cheryl McGuire, are scheduled for arraignment on Wednesday.
According to the school district, Grigsby owes the district $1,751 and McGuire $4,135.
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Picture yourself waking to the warmth of sunshine slanting through your window, then enjoying the sound of gently crashing waves as you take your morning coffee out on your beachfront terrace.
Fortunately, putting yourself in this idyllic setting doesn't have to break the bank. There are affordable beach resorts all over the world—from Florida to Greece—where a night's stay doesn't cost much more than dinner and wine with friends at your favorite local restaurant. Every year, Travel + Leisure staff scours the globe to find great, inexpensive coastal resorts; none of the properties on our list costs more than $250 a night (and some cost much less).
Slideshow: Best affordable beach resorts
Most of this year's best affordable beach resorts are just what we envision when we daydream about holidays in the sun. At the Anacaona Boutique Hotel on Anguilla, for example, waiters deliver rum punch right to your beach chaise beside the clear turquoise waters of Meads Bay. And at the romantic Tambor Tropical, on Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula, you and your sweetie can retire to a private mahogany-and-teak villa after a day of snorkeling and sea kayaking.
Of course, you don't have to leave the U.S. to find a great affordable beach resort. The 94-room Costa d'Este Beach Resort is a window into 1950s Florida, with Art Deco–style furnishings and elegant rattan furniture. With a night's stay just $139, you can afford to shell out for the spa's signature Hot Lava Shell massage (taken beachside, of course).Video: Spring break escapes near and far (on this page)
If you're looking for an affordable beach resort that's not quite the traditional palm-shaded retreats you see in Corona beer advertisements, we have you covered there too. At the Tott Hotel Visby, for example, set on the Swedish island of Gotland, the starkly modern, glass-walled rooms and villas overlook the (often bracingly cold) Baltic Sea. And at The Beach House, a colonial-chic mansion perched on Newfoundland's blustery Avalon Peninsula, you'll spot migrating humpback whales rather than tropical fish.
So no matter when—or where—you're planning on traveling, this is the list to check out if an affordable beach resort is on this year's itinerary.
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Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can. Jack Antonoff
"Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.
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"No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey" ― Shinde Sweety, Arjun: Without a Doubt
"I am a writer. I live a thousand different lives in a thousand different places, in a galaxy of black and white words. Lend me your imagination, reader, and let me show you new places, new people, and fantastic worlds, in all the myriad colors of your mind.
" ― Christine Stobbe
Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games. Zayn Malik
Producing noteworthy black and white photographs often involves more than just converting a color photo to grayscale. An understanding of which scene would work better in black and white than color is crucial. Taking control of the tone during the conversion process is equally important.
"What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions—? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes — the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or, spin it another way, sometimes you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right?" ― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
"Its not easy taking your own advice, accepting what you don't like hearing, & seeing the grey amongst the black & white." ― April Mae Monterrosa
"I work in color sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white – I like the abstraction of it." – Mary Ellen Mark "In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books.
You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'… many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.
" – Ralph Gibson "Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships." – Ansel Adams "I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white.
Color is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart." – Kim Hunter
Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white – dramatic. You have to be strong. Catherine Zeta-Jones
"Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white." ― Anthony T. Hincks
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Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. Robert Frank
Just simple things – I like black and white, monochrome; I like suits. Vanessa Kirby
"Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion." ― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
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Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? Ridley Scott
In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray. Paul Dano
"Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.
" – Walker Evans "In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can use your experiences, your knowledge, and your fantasy, to put colors into black and white.
" – Anders Petersen "One sees differently with color photography than black-and-white… in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.
" – Ansel Adams "In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.
" – Martin Parr
"For grey matter, there is no black and white. If you think in black and white, then you do not use enough brain functions." ― Petek Kabakci
Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. Doris Lessing
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white. Rebecca Solnit
"A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which one is gonna hit you on the head, you'll choose the feather every single time." ― Andrew Klavan, The Truth of the Matter
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. Joel Sternfeld
I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong. Joe Wurzelbacher
"A zebra will never see the funny side of things because he is always thinking in black & white." ― Anthony T. Hincks
"Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world." ― Caleb Reese
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Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it. Pilou Asbaek
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.
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"It's because I know that life is really black and white that I miss my life of colors." ― Anthony T. Hincks
In this post, we have put together some inspirational quotes on black and white photography by noted photographers and artists. We hope they inspire you to create your own beautiful B&W photographs!
"This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others." ― Werley Nortreus
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"Loo, life is black and white. You don't know what's good for you, because you don't see the black and white! You don't see where the black lines end and where the white lines begin! You're going to grow up to be no good if you keep on that way.
It's impractical. I only have one child, and I won't have her growing up to be impractical. I can't think of a worse thing to be than impractical!" ― C. JoyBell C., Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948
I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do. Benicio Del Toro
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"The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all." ― Vikrmn, 10 Alone
"I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so." ― Michael Palin, Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections. Kriti Sanon
"You have a consistent character yourself and you wish all the facts of life to be consistent, but they never are. For instance you despise public service because you want work always to correspond to its aims, and that never happens.
You also want the activity of each separate man to have an aim, and love and family life always to coincide––and that doesn't happen either. All the variety, charm and beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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"Color is everything, black and white is more." – Dominic Rouse "Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world." – Joel Sternfeld "One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state.
Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty… absolute certainty." – Paul Outerbridge "I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black." – Henri Mattise
There's so much grey to every story – nothing is so black and white. Lisa Ling
Life isn't always black and white. You're not always sure you're right. At least I'm not. Brad Paisley
It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide. Greg Rusedski
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"If you look beyond the lies, then you will see the truth.Remember: Just because it's black and white, doesn't automatically make it a zebra." ― Anthony T. Hincks
"The first draft is black and white. Editing gives the story color." ― E.J. Hill
The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones.
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"WHETHER IT'S A CHILD'S TOY OR A NATION'S OIL, IT'S ALL THE SAME, the Red Rider said. YOU FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU WANT. AGGRESSION. IT'S THE SPICE OF LIFE. War was right: people had to fight for what they wanted.
Or maybe balance, as Famine has said — strength matched with temperance. No, she thought. Not balance, Control. IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT CONTROL, War agreed merrily. [as in the meaning of why wars happen]" ― Jackie Kessler, Rage
"My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white." – Monty Python "Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with color film.
I'd venture to say that about two thirds of his pictures would be ruined and the remainder unaffected, neither spoiled nor improved. And perhaps one in a thousand enhanced." – Philip Jones Griffiths "Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white… to highlight that contrast.
" – Leonard Nimoy "There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery." – Stefan Kanfer
I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart. Kim Hunter
"Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially true. All smells are sucked clean from the air, leaving only a harsh, icy crispness. Colours are stripped away, leaving a stark white landscape, a sky which stays black at night and gray in the day, a world of only three shades.
Stay outside too long, and your hands will get so cold that they'll go numb and turn red, like the claws of a lobster. During a whiteout, even sight itself is reduced to nothingness." ― Rebecca McNutt, Listen is Silent, or The Usurer
Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games. Zayn Malik
"Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answer was yes, then I knew that I would always be wrong, because I could never do it. Then how could one live in a world in which one's mind and perceptions meant nothing and authority and tradition meant everything? There were no answers.
" ― Richard Wright, Black Boy
"Don't ever let the light of your soul dim, even if the world seems black and white." ― Tilicia Haridat
The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
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"When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!" ― Ted Grant
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?' John Wayne
"When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right.
Some things are categorized as black and some things are categorized as white. But most things in the world aren't either! Most things in the world aren't black, aren't white, aren't wrong, aren't right, but most of everything is just different.
And now I know that there's nothing wrong with different, and that we can let things be different, we don't have to try and make them black or white, we can just let them be grey. And when I was a child, I thought that God was the God who only saw black and white.
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PANAMA CITY � Two men were arrested in connection with recent vehicle burglaries in Panama City and surrounding areas Friday night.
PANAMA CITY � Two men were arrested in connection with recent vehicle burglaries in Panama City and surrounding areas Friday night.
Lakane T. Brown, 18, and Ervin J. Brown, 26, were indentified and detained by patrolling Panama City Police officers in the parking lot of Glen Cove Nursing Center around midnight Friday.
Citizens had called the police around 10:30 p.m. on Friday after seeing a suspicious red Dodge Neon exit the parking lot of Sterling House, a local nursing facility, Panama City Police said in a press release.
Through the investigation, identification of the suspects, and evidence collected, detectives were able to obtain and serve a search warrant at a residence on Main Avenue in Panama City, where one of the suspects lives.
Detectives were able to recover property from the search belonging to numerous burglary victims.
The investigation showed the suspects recently traveled from Alabama to Panama City, and they were burglarizing vehicles along the way until they were detained, police said.
Both suspects are charged with 10 counts of burglary and one count of armed burglary. The suspects were booked into the Bay County jail.
The investigation is ongoing and additional charges will be filled, police said. Surrounding law enforcement agencies may also have additional criminal charges in reference to the arrests.
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The Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall establish a program to enter into contracts with qualified health professionals under which such health professionals agree to conduct clinical research, in consideration of the Federal Government agreeing to repay, for each year of service conducting such research, not more than $35,000 of the principal and interest of the educational loans of such health professionals.
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COURTHOUSE - A Philadelphia man identified as the leader of an organization that stole power tools from Home Depot stores throughout the region and recruited homeless people to return them in exchange for gift cards pleaded guilty Tuesday and was sentenced for his role in the scheme.
Rasheed Iman, 58, of the 2700 block of North Garnet Street, pleaded guilty to one count of receiving stolen property and criminal conspiracy. Other charges including corrupt organizations, retail theft and another count of criminal conspiracy were dropped as a part of the plea agreement. Judge Gary Silow sentenced Iman to 11 1/2 to 23 months in prison. He will serve also three years of probation when he is released.
An investigation began on Dec. 10, 2013, when West Norriton police were called to the Home Depot at 600 block of South Trooper Road for a report of a robbery. A Home Depot employee said five or six men came into the store together and loaded two shopping carts with power tools. One employee was pepper-sprayed when he tried to stop the men from leaving without paying. The suspects then loaded the tools into a blue-green minivan and fled the parking lot. Police found pieces of a broken tail light at the scene from the mini-van and believed the van may have slid on ice.
The affidavit of probable cause does not identify the man who pepper-sprayed the employee.
West Norriton police were investigating the theft when they learned of several other, similar thefts in Philadelphia and New Jersey as well as Montgomery and Delaware counties. Police learned that people at the Sunday Breakfast Shelter in Philadelphia were being recruited to commit the robberies.
On Dec. 12, four men entered a Home Depot in Ridley Township, stole several power tools and escaped in a minivan, which police chased until it crashed in Philadelphia. Three men were arrested.
Police learned from the Philadelphia arrests that the items stolen were being returned at different Home Depots in exchange for gift cards. One of the items stolen from the Home Depot in West Norriton was taken to a Philadelphia store in exchange for a gift card. A Michael Anderson was arrested and said he was offered $20 by an unknown man at the Sunday Breakfast Shelter to make a return at Home Depot.
On Jan. 9, 2014, Gregory Chester, Alvin Butler, Herman Westcott and William Dougherty went back to the West Norriton Home Depot, where they allegedly stole thousands of dollars in merchandise. Chester was arrested shortly after the theft.
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On the same day, Butler and Chester were bailed out of Montgomery County Correctional Facility, and police learned a man named Rasheed arranged bail for the two men. Police would later identify 'Rasheed' as Iman. The affidavit of probable cause does not identify 'Edie'.
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No, not that Brandon Marshall.
On Tuesday, the Broncos announced that they moved linebacker Brandon Marshall — of the same name as the former Broncos receiver — off their practice squad and onto the 53-man roster. Marshall takes the spot vacated by linebacker Von Miller, whom the team placed on injured reserve Tuesday.
Miller tore the ACL in his right knee in the first quarter of Denver's game Sunday against the Houston Texans.
An MRI on Monday confirmed the injury, and Miller will miss the rest of the season as he recovers from his surgery, which has not yet taken place.
Marshall played in five games as a rookie for the Jacksonville Jaguars after being selected in the fifth round of the 2012 draft. He spent the first 16 weeks of this season on the Broncos' practice squad.
The team signed second-year receiver Nathan Palmer to its practice squad to fill Marshall's position.
Palmer spent most of this season on the Miami Dolphins' practice squad and played in five games for the Indianapolis Colts in 2012.
In eight regular-season games this season — Sunday would have been his ninth, but he lasted only a quarter — Miller logged five sacks, well off pace of the 18½ he had last season, when he also made the AFC's Pro Bowl team. He spent the first six games of this season serving a suspension. Linebacker Nate Irving likely will absorb the bulk of Miller's playing time.
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