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Newhouse Announces Winners in 10th annual Mirror Awards Competition
Winners in the 10th annual Mirror Awards competition honoring excellence in media industry reporting were announced at a ceremony in New York City, hosted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor '97 emceed the event.
The winners, chosen by a group of journalists and journalism educators, are:
Best Single Article—Traditional/Legacy Media:
Peter Elkind, "Inside the Hack of the Century" (PDF)—Fortune
Best Single Article—Digital Media:
Celeste LeCompte, "Automation in the Newsroom"—Nieman Reports
Best Single Story—Radio, Television, Cable or Online Broadcast Media:
Matthew Billy, "I Want My MTV"—Between the Liner Notes
Best Profile:
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, "Anchorman: The Legend of Don Lemon"—GQ
Best Commentary:
Frank Rich, "A Dumb Job"—New York magazine
John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting:
Jonathan Mahler, "What Do We Really Know About Osama bin Laden's Death?"—The New York Times Magazine
In addition, the Newhouse School honored Turner president David Levy '84 with the Fred Dressler Leadership Award and Emblematic Group CEO Nonny de la Peña with the i-3 award for impact, innovation and influence. Levy's award was presented by Marv Albert '63, sportscaster with TNT and CBS, while de la Peña's award was presented by Christine Cattano, executive producer at Framestore VR Studio.
Luncheon co-chairs were Nomi Miron Bergman, president of Bright House Networks LLC; David Watson, executive vice president and COO of Comcast Cable; and Dana Zimmer '92, president of distribution for Tribune Media.
The Mirror Awards are the most important awards for recognizing excellence in media industry reporting. Established by the Newhouse School in 2006, the awards honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public's benefit.
Photos from the event will be posted at http://mirrorawards.com. For more information, contact Wendy Loughlin at 315.412.4522 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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They say the trick to wooing a Dagestani girl is compliment her on her fur and make sure she has a nice muzzle, collar and chain. If that's true, then UFC star lightweight Khabib Nurmagomedov is totally a boss when it comes to the women in his home country.
Yesterday, the 155 pounder no one wants to fight posted this to his Instagram with the pretty much indecipherable caption, "Met my friend from childhood and my best sparing partner ever, and now my hunting belt started." But language barrier be damned! It's clear that when it comes to love and affection, the dude and his woman are extremely happy together.


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The Annual Meeting is a perfect place for residents, post-doctoral fellows and students to present research, meet with colleagues, network and learn the latest in research, products and services. In fact, the Annual Meeting's largest attendance category is the Resident/Post-doctoral Fellow/Student category, with 500 attending annually.
The SID welcomes exhibitors from all facets of dermatology related industry. Whether your business is pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, medical equipment, publications, products and services, or beyond, exhibiting at the SID Annual Meeting will facilitate interaction with an international audience of physicians and basic scientists engaged in skin research.
About the SID
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Copa America 2016 has entered the final phase. Now the top four teams in the tournament will fight for their place in the final. Let's find out the possibilities in the match between USA and Argentina.
The USA does not have a rich history in soccer, unlike its Copa America counterparts like Argentina, Brazil or Mexico. However, this tournament is evidence how far the team has progressed over the last few decades.
The USA defeated Ecuador in a dramatic quarter-final match. Both teams saw red cards. Ecuador saw its coach Gustavo Quinteros getting ejected in the final moments. However, the result of the match meant the USA reached the semi-finals at the Copa America 2016, the first time since 1995.
Also Read: Copa America 2016: Brazil vs Peru
With a legendary man like Jurgen Klinsmann as its coach, the host country plans to reach the final for the first time. This is the fourth time the team is a part of the tournament. ""This was a huge step forward tonight," the NY Times quoted Klinsmann as saying.
Check out the standings for the #Copa100 #GoldenBoot presented by @POWERADE: https://t.co/OkU10oHhcS pic.twitter.com/7HqnPE4kzt
— Copa América 2016 (@CA2016) June 17, 2016
Argentina has been in a sublime form, thanks to an inspiring leadership from Lionel Messi. After a hat-trick earlier, Messi scored again in the quarterfinal against Venezuela. He touched Gabriel Batistuta's record for the national team.
"For us to be back in another semi-final of a big tournament like this one is a great achievement for these players," the BBC quoted Messi as saying. "I'm happy for what it means and it's nice to be next to 'Batigol' [Batistuta], but for me the most important thing is the result."
Even though USA promises to give competition to Messi's men, it is hardly a match for Argentina's brilliance. Argentina will win it 4-1.
Also Read: Copa America 2016: Messi to Destroy Panama (Prediction)
Where to Watch
The match is going to take place on June 22 11:00 am (Sydney time). It will be played at NRG Stadium in Houston. You can watch the Copa America 2016 match live online on Sony Liv. It will also be available live on Sony ESPN.


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(another paper from my Aesthetic and Philosophical Foundations in Systematic Musicology)
The first of the readings is in fact two readings grouped together, both from Theodor Adorno's book Introduction to the Sociology of Music. The initial reading, "Types of Musical Conduct," involves Adorno categorizing each type of listener of music, totaling eight categories. Adorno essentially ranks types of listeners based on how they pay attention to music's structure, in turn how skilled they are with regards to music knowledge. He begins with the "expert (4)," and ranks listeners in decreasing aptitude until reaching the listener who is apathetic. Adorno describes this listener as having an attitude that "coincides with an excessively, one might even say pathologically realistic mentality (17)." Adorno goes on to state that each listening group possesses flaws and is not a perfect example by any means. He concludes the chapter by stating that his goal of the aforementioned categories is not to "disparage (18)" those who belong to them, but rather put a "humane face (18)" on the discourse between all of these individuals. The hope is that, through this, musical thought will be furthered.
The second reading, and third chapter, "Function" describes Theodor Adorno's view that popular music, and music as it functions in western society, deludes the listener of the joy and truth they seek. Such statements like "music as a social function is akin to a 'rip-off,' a fraudulent promise of happiness …even in regressing to the unconscious, functional music grants a mere ersatz satisfaction to the target of its appeal(45)," expounds this idea. It seems as though Adorno held to the ideology shown by Plato in his Allegory of the Cave, but instead of shadows on a wall the delusion is empty music. Adorno's main attack throughout the chapter, however, is directed at popular music, as he believes consumer music to be truly stealing the musical experience from the listener. His ultimate goal with such critique is to create a musical atmosphere that "can use music to learn how…wherever possible in the realm of music disciplines, to work for a competent and cognitive relation to music in place of ideological consumption…and to a music that would be different (54)."
The next reading is by Susan McClary and it is entitled Paradigm Dissonances: Music Theories, Cultural Studies, Feminist Criticism. This text attempts to offer a proverbial olive branch to the factions of the "Feminism versus Music Theory" argument. This peace-offering is manifested in the form of cultural studies, or so McClary claims. McClary goes on to state that she believes cultural studies to bridge the gap due to its lack of a "single methodology (70)." She further continues her argument by pointing to the fact that, either with feminism or music scholarship, there has been a subsequent turn to cultural studies' research. She cites George Bizet's Carmen as well as absolute music of Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert to illustrate this fact. For Bizet's opera, the portrayal of women as licentious and manipulative is shown to be the reason for research among feminists. In the case of music theorists, Bizet demonstrates an engaging score with soaring melody and intricate harmony. The cultural aspect in which the two disciplines meet in this opera is the fact that Bizet's opera had and continues to have an "ability to engage and galvanize heterogeneous audiences (75)." With regards to the genre of absolute music, the reasons for research are not as obviously presented (for feminists namely). With a lack of libretto, it may seem impossible to find gender roles in instrumental music, but the truth is that there are numerous writings which contain such techniques as the "feminine cadence (a cadence that occurs on a weak beat)." With regards to absolute music and music theoreticians, the link is, unlike with feminists, quite obvious. The composers like Beethoven and Mozart created music with a progression in the theory (namely melody and harmony) of the past (namely breaking down the rules of counterpoint and expanding the ideas of instrumentation), in turn expanding on an already rich history in European instrumental music. The cultural studies dynamic that unites the two disciplines in Absolute Music is, McClary argues, how the culture of Europe at the time of these composers interpreted the pieces. The only way to accurately conduct this research is to turn cultural studies' body of research to find the desired answers. McClary concludes the paper by stating her desire for "a future in which theorists, students of culture,and feminist critics can all collaborate in the greater understanding of music (79)." She believes that there is a paradigm shift occurring within music due to the unrest between feminism and music theory. If the disciplines cease being resistant to change, McClary concludes, there will be a new era in music research.
The next paper is by Lawrence Kramer, entitled The Musicology of the Future. This paper addresses musicology's current resistance to accept postmodern thought-processes. Kramer notes that this ideological strife is quite similar to the objections music scholarship had for the inclusion of language in the study of musicology. The reason behind such objections were that "language is denied access to music, it cannot represent musical reality; music is the very means by which the epistemological limits of language that would-be omnivore, are set (8)." The greater idea within this argument is the belief of music scholars that music is self-contained, therefore there is no need to consider other entities besides music in research. This directly contrasts with post-modern thought which does not hold to the idea that any experience is self-contained. Kramer goes on to mention Mozart's Divertimento for String Trio, K. 563, and analyzes it according to both autonomous and postmodern theories. He concludes that, once considering both concepts, that the performance of the work strongly determines the understanding of Divertimento. Furthermore, the work "intimates that the artistic and social distancing of the body is fictive at best, fictitious at worst-something resembling what would later come to be called a defense mechanism (13)." All of this considered, Kramer is clearly demonstrating that musicology's belief in musical autonomy is not a logical path to continue studying. The only way to truly understand a work of music is to include social factors, the individuals involved, and every other source that exists outside of a supposed "autonomy." Kramer concludes the paper by reiterating such a belief, stating "Faced with the question, Where is the music? a postmodernist musicology would-will-reply that wherever it may be, we can only get to it by getting beyond it (18)."
The final paper Hermeneutics, Adorno, and the New Musicology, written by Roger W.H. Savage, is in a way a continuation of the topics discussed in the previous reading. Here, Savage seeks to explore the evolution of musicology's focus in thought, and what factors are influencing said thought. Savage opens the paper by discussing how postmodern thought and Theodor Adorno's theories are linked. The specific ideas Savage draws on are the fact that Adorno attempted to maintain music's self-containment, but ultimately failed to recognize that his separating of music from social factors created a massive problem. The main issue, or "impasse" as Savage describes it, "calls for a hermeneutics of musical works (230)." Postmodern critique, as has been stated before, moves music criticism past the boundaries of self-containment and introduces social, textual, and other factors into criticism. Savage continues by exploring absolute music's long list of researchers, from Hermann Kretzschmar (who held that analysis of the aesthetic of absolute music was of utmost importance, to Susan McClary's view that melody and song structure should be viewed through a social narrative. The purpose of this is to show how many scholars are in favor of leaving the autonomy of music behind and expanding their research to consider more than the notes on the page. Savage goes on to further show how Adorno's desire to separate music from outside factors is paradoxical, and furthermore how postmodern critiques also are inaccurate in their representation of music. Savage specifically states that these "failures (238)" require "a different response to music's abstraction from its life contexts (238)." He concludes that such oversights on both sides of the postmodern vs. autonomy argument allow for a new venture in musicological research. Savage states that "the vistas this adventure opens transect boundaries dividing music theory, historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and cultural studies (239)." The three major areas this will happen, as is stated in the paper, is 1) a further expansion of the definition of ideology, namely relating to musical aesthetics, 2) the creation of a history of works that considers specific cultural factors not known before, and 3) re-examining the truth of a respective work, in turn leading to a deeper reality never seen before in musicological research.


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LONDON (Reuters) - The prospect of years of so-called 'low-flation' has become so ingrained in western financial markets this year that even a hint of creeping prices could deliver quite a shock.
One of the investment surprises of 2014 so far has been the rebound in government bonds as equities and emerging markets wobbled and Ukraine-related geopolitics conjured up a safety bid in core debt holdings such as U.S. Treasuries and German bunds.
The move wrongfooted many. Historically expensive government bonds, with record low yields, had been labelled 'toxic' by some strategists as they eyed recovering economies, waning systemic threats and a renewed appetite for equity.
But the big driving force this year has been subdued or even evaporating headline inflation that has sustained or even enhanced inflation-adjusted returns on fixed income securities, even as the recovery of underlying economies continued apace.
As euro zone inflation sank below 1 percent, European government bonds across the core and periphery of the bloc pushed higher and were then supercharged by signals from the European Central Bank it might cut interest rates or even embark on some form of asset purchase scheme as soon as next month.
Take Ireland as an example.
Economists at Brown Brothers Harriman point out that annual inflation fell to just 0.4 percent last month from a peak of 2.6 percent in August 2012. That's a decline some 80 basis points bigger than the 140 bp drop in Ireland's 10-year bond yield over the same period - leaving real yields higher than two years ago.
"As fast as bond yields have been falling, so too has inflation, meaning that real yields have maintained their value," said Tanguy Le Saout, Head of European Fixed Income, Pioneer Investments.
Despite more brisk underlying recoveries, U.S. and British inflation rates too have fallen below or remained well under the stated or notional 2 percent central bank targets.
For many, this inflation story is no fluke and frames the world economic and investment outlook for years to come.
The latest 3-5 year outlook sketched by the world's biggest bond manager Pimco tweaked the firm's long-standing 'New Normal' view of slow growth and low returns into a 'New Neutral' period of "exceedingly low" official interest rates over time.
The gist, and one that echoes former U.S. Treasury chief Larry Summers' idea of 'secular stagnation', is that official interest rates will not return to pre-crisis norms in a way that financial markets still assume they will over the coming years.
Zero percent neutral real policy rates for many developed and even some emerging countries will be the investment outcome.
"If the future resembles those neutral policy rates, then the investment implications are striking," Pimco's Bill Gross told clients. "Low returns yet less downside risk than investors currently expect; an end to bull markets as we've known them, but no perceptible growling from bears."
The view catches the zeitgeist of 2014 so far, even if you might expect a bond-friendly view from a bond fund manager that had investors pull $82 billion from its funds since last June.
But after a torrid 2013, all bond categories have rallied.
Year-to-date returns on everything from 10-year U.S. Treasuries to German bunds, global high-grade and junk corporate debt or even hard currency emerging market bonds are between 4 and 7 percent. Italian government bonds are up 10 percent.
And all outperformed the 3.4 percent gain on the S&P500 of leading Wall St stocks.
So is inflation really as dead as that appears to suggest?
There's certainly been no sign of the galloping price rises that some feared would be stoked by successive bouts of money printing. Still substantial slack in labour markets and spare capacity in economies at large suggests little pressure by way of wage inflation.
But with bonds priced for such extraordinarily low inflation for years to come, the risk is then just a return to normal.
And with U.S. consumer price inflation expected to have topped 2 percent last month for the first time in 18 months, there's more than a murmur to worry buoyant bonds.
State Street's proprietary PriceStats survey of U.S. online prices also shows inflation at a brisk monthly clip of 0.35 percent in May. "The weakness of Q1 GDP will cast doubt over the strength of the recovery, but online retailers do not seem to have such doubts," it said. "Their pricing remains consistent with solid demand conditions."
A debate about the speed of wage rises is also heating up.
Barclays economist Dean Maki said growth in U.S. average hourly earnings for production and non-supervisory workers rose 2.3 percent in the year to April, up from a trough of 1.3 percent in October and at a level in prior cycles that equated to a jobless rate of 5.4 percent - not the current 6.3 percent.
And in Europe too, the inflation swoon could well have run its course. Pioneer's Le Saout said inflation forecasts for the remainder of 2014 show slow rises towards 1 percent and above and core inflation is already at that level.
"Inflation is low but has probably rock-bottomed," said Marion Le Morhedec, senior portfolio manager at AXA Investment Managers.
Editing by Mark Trevelyan


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Use the New Year to Get Organized
The holidays are behind you. The guests are gone or perhaps you have returned from visiting family and friends out of town. Now it is time to get your get your home and life back in order as you begin the New Year. Check out these helpful tips from members of our organizing team…
1. It's a new year – the best time to get your papers and to-do lists organized and manageable. Consider using a paper tickler system to stay on top off all you have to do and manage for 2009. In a file box or drawer, hang a file for each month January thru December. Also hang a file for each day of the month 1 thru 31. From now on when you go through your mail and incoming papers, after sorting out the junk and unwanted materials for the trash or recycle bin, organize the remaining items that require action on your part into this system. Look at you calendar to decide when you can get these items accomplished and put them into that day. Can't do it this month? Place it in the file of a month when you can. Have tickets for future shows or directions to an upcoming wedding? These items can go into the correct month and date as well. This way you never lose items you need when you need them and you are reminded of what needs to get done each day and each month.
2. Scan that Christmas artwork! The holidays are over and as we remove those kindergarten ornaments from the tree, our first instinct is to treasure them forever and add them to the ever expanding memorabilia box. Sc an the artwork or take digital photos of your darling holding his/her masterpiece and store it on a flash drive. Years from now you can create a "Holidays Past" disk and relive those memories on a slide show presentation.
3. Follow these steps when putting away your holiday decorations:
– Take time to donate old or unused decorations and throw out or repair broken ones.
– Reorganize decorations into nice storage boxes-clear boxes are best.
– Buy medium-sized containers that are easy to lift and manage without help. This is especially helpful when decorations are stored in the attic or garage and no one is around to help you get them out.
– Regroup decorations into categories such as greenery, ornaments, miscellaneous decorative, holiday table setting, etc.
– Finally, label all containers and store in one location.
This will be helpful next year when you are ready to start decorating and don't want to pull out all 10 containers at once!


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The Berkshires Calendar for May 6
Berkshire Museum: "BerkshireNow: Stephen Dietemann, reception and panel discussion. 5 to 8 p.m. Work of architect Dietemann, along with that of three photographers who have documented his work as an architect, Jonathan Hankin, Peter Peirce, and Paul Puiia. Free. 39 South St., Pittsfield.
BINGO! Gallery: Opening reception for "Trois Visages de Fleurs — Three Faces of Flowers." 5 p.m. Music and refreshments. Shire City Sanctuary, 40 Melville St., Pittsfield.
Cinco de Mayo Dinner: Featuring chicken enchiladas. 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tickets: $12; children 12 and younger, $6. Takeouts available. Information: 442-3525. Zion Lutheran Church, 74 First St., Pittsfield.
Confluence: Opening reception. 5 to 7 p.m.; ribbon-cutting ceremony shortly before. Debut show will consist of work by five women photographers: Sue Hartman, Jeanette Eckert, Stacy Birch, Nicki Steel, and Ann Floriani. Historic E.J. Bullock Building, Main Street, Readsboro, Vt.
First Fridays Artswalk: 15 art shows, work by 40 regional artists, opening 5 to 8 p.m. downtown. Live music. Pittsfield. Artswalk After Party, 8 to 10 p.m., Whitney Center for the Arts. FirstFridaysArtswalk.com.
Lichtenstein Center for the Arts: Opening for annual Art in Our Schools show, highlighting students at Pittsfield Public Schools. 5 to 8p.m. Students, grades 6-12, from Reid and Herberg Middle Schools, Taconic and Pittsfield High schools and Hillcrest Educational Center showcase their best work in the show. Free. 28 Renne Ave., Pittsfield.
Norman Rockwell Museum: "Meet Rockwell's Models," 2:30 p.m. Find out what it was like to pose for America's favorite illustrator from Rockwell's own models, who share their personal experiences. Included with admission, members free. 9 Glendale Road (Route 183), Stockbridge.
1Berkshire: BerkChique! used clothing sale. First-dibs shopping party. 5:30 to 8 p.m. Hors d'oeuvres, cocktails, goodie bags. Tickets: 1berkshire.com/calendar/berkchique or at the door. Stationery Factory, 63 Flansburg Ave., Dalton, Mass.
Bingo: Every Friday, includes raffles, prizes, food, doors open at 5 p.m., games begin at 6:30 p.m., St. Mary's School, Orchard Street, Lee, 413-243-1079.
Meditation Group: Open to all faiths, sit in silence in the sanctuary to enjoy teachings and meditative practices, 9 to 9:30 a.m., Congregation Beth Israel, 53 Lois St., North Adams, 413-663-5830.
Pembury Bridge Club: ACBL-sponsored duplicate bridge, open game at 12:30 p.m., South Congregational Church, 110 South St., Pittsfield; Peter Samsel, 413-655-2416.
Pittsfield Sangha: "Buddhism & the 12 Steps," 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., by donation, George Crane Center, 81 Linden St., Pittsfield. Information: 413-358-2626.
Planetarium Show: Williams College astronomy students host free shows from the high-precision Zeiss Skymaster ZKP3/B opto-mechanical planetarium projector at 8 p.m., Milham Planetarium, Old Hopkins Observatory at Williams College, Williamstown. Reservations recommended: Michele Rech at 413-597-2188. Others admitted as space permits. Large groups should call for special appointments.
Sheffield Historical Society: "Traditional Methods of Meat Smoking," a demonstration by Tony Carlotto. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Free. Dan Raymond House, 159 Main St., Sheffield, Mass. (Park at the Town Hall parking lot.)
Spring Luncheons: Soup, sandwich, dessert and beverage. 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p,m, Cost: $8. All welcome. Takeouts available, 413-499-0866. First United Methodist Church, 55 Fenn St. , Pittsfield.
Votre Soiree: Social ballroom dance. Beginning at 7 p.m. Featuring the band, Champagne Jam. Admission: $10 per person. Light refreshments. Information: 413-329-3324. Polish Falcon Hall, 32 BelAir Ave., Pittsfield.
Williams College: CoDa. 8 p.m. Three new works created by directors Erica Dankmeyer and Janine Parker. Tickets: $3; 413-597-2425. '62 Center for Theatre and Dance, 1000 Main St., Williamstown.
Darrow School: 2016 Darrow School Narrative Film Festival, featuring a series of films written, produced, directed, and starring Darrow students. 7:30 p.m. Q&A with the cast and crew of the films. Free. 10 Darrow Road, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Little Cinema: "The Animation Show of Shows," program of 11 films. Screenings at 4 and 7 p.m. Tickets: $8. Information: berkshiremuseum.org or 413-443-7171. Berkshire Museum, 39 South St. Pittsfield.
Old Chatham Quaker Meeting: "The Armor of Light." Potluck at 6 p.m.; film at 7 p.m. Old Chatham Quaker Meetinghouse, 539 County Route 13, Old Chatham, N.Y.
Health and Fitness
Berkshire Family YMCA — Northern Berkshire Branch: SilverSneakers Circuit. 7 to 8 a.m. Safe, heart-healthy and gentle on the joints. Must be at least 60 years old. Visit the Y at to receive two free passes to SilverSneakers classes. Information: 413-499-7650 x111. 22 Brickyard Court, North Adams.
Easy Exercise: Easy exercise class offered by Kim Conley, certified instructor, $5 donation, 9 to 10 a.m. at St. Ann Parish Center, Lenox.
Gentle Yoga: Yoga for Arthritis, Injuries and Anti-Aging. Instructor Sonya Boesse will lead classes that include centering, breath work, guided movement therapy, stretching, strengthening, balancing, meditation and deep relaxation. All ages and levels welcome. 10-11 a.m. at Sweetwood of Williamstown, 1611 Cold Spring Road, Williamstown, 413-458-8371.
Kids' Stuff
Adams Free Library: Interactive storytime featuring classic children's tales and new favorites. 10 a.m. For preschoolers and their caregivers. Songs, rhymes, stories, fingerplays and crafts. Free. Information: 413-743-8345, ext. 103. 92 Park St., Adams.
Adams Youth Center: Play & Learn Group for young children and their families. Art and movement activities, educational toys and themes. Circle time and snack. 10-11 a.m. East Street, Adams.
Berkshire Family YMCA: Kids' Night Out. 6-8:30 p.m. An evening of games, sports, pool time (bring a swimsuit) and pizza. Open to youth and teens, ages 7 to 14 years. Cost: $5. Financial assistance is available. Information: 413-499-7650 or at email@example.com. Berkshire Family YMCA's Northern Berkshire branch, 22 Brickyard Court, North Adams, and at the Pittsfield branch, 292 North St.
Berkshire Museum: "WeeMuse Adventures," songs, stories, scavenger hunts, play time for ages 18 months to 3 years, 11 to 11:30 a.m., free with museum admission. Spark!Lab Astronomy Week — Space Day. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Included with regular museum admission. 39 South St., Pittsfield.
Berkshire South Regional Community Center: "Skip & Dip," program of CHP Family Services/S. Berk. Kids, 10 a.m. to noon, 15 Crissey Road, Great Barrington.
CHP Family Services/S. Berk. Kids: "English/Spanish Discussion Group," 8:15 to 9:15 a.m.; "Early Intervention Group," 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., sign-up required at 413-644-0104; "Art & Nature," 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., CHP Family Services Building, 442 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington.
Lenox Library: Toddler story time for children ages 18 months to 3, program features stories, songs and fingerplays, 10:30 to 11 a.m., Youth Department, 18 Main St., Lenox. Information: 413-637-0197, Ext. 105.
Mason Library: Sing-a-long Playgroup, program of CHP Family Services/S. Berk. Kids, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., 231 Main St., Great Barrington.
Ramsdell Library: Storytime for Tots (baby and toddler), 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Information: 413-274-3738. 1087 Main St., Housatonic.
WordXWord: Youth Poetry Festival, "Outspoken." Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7. Workshops, team & individual poetry slam, open mics and more. Open to poets aged 13 to 23. Information and schedule: OutspokenYouth.com. Pittsfield.
Hevreh of Southern Berkshire: Knosh & Knowledge — Cantor Robert Scherr, Jewish chaplain for Williams College, "Jerusalem: One City, Two Cultures, Three Faiths, Many Narratives." 10:45 a.m., followed by lunch. Admission: $11, includes lunch; program only $5. Advance reservations required, 413-442-4360, ext. 10 or email email@example.com. 270 State Road, Great Barrington.
Pittsfield Grange: "Organic Gardening for Everyone" with naturalist and landscaper John Root. 7 p.m. Free. Perennials for sale after program. Information: $13-442-8592. Masonic Temple (entrance is in the rear), 116 South St., Pittsfield.
Eclipse Mill: Five authors from the artists/residence complex will present a reading and book launch. 8 p.m. The event features recent work by Charles Giuliano, Astrid Hiemer, Vin Jensen (Ien Nivens), Roman Jones and Sarah Sutro. Free. In the gallery at the mill, 243 Union St., North Adams.
Claire Teague Senior Center: "It's Lili's Story" with violinist Lili Harvitt. 10 a.m. Story of her life as a young Jewish child during the Holocaust when she was hidden from the Nazis by a Dutch family. Special performance by Harvitt on violin accompanied by cello during lunch. Reserve a space for lunch: 413-528-4881. 917 Main St., Great Barrington.
Congregation Ahavath Sholom: "I Have a Little Dreidel," tribute to Jewish American music. Guest speakers: Dr. Tamar Gordon and Dr. Myron Gordon. 5:30 p.m. Information: 413-528-4197 15 North St., Great Barrington.
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center: Concert by rock singer-songwriter John Hiatt. 8 p.m. Tickets: $30 to $70; mahaiwe.org or 413-528-0100. 14 Castle St., Great Barrington.
New Lebanon Library: Linda Worster in concert. 6:30 p.m. Folk covers and original tunes. Information: 518-794-8844 550. State Route 20, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Williams College: Gef Fisher '18, guitar, 4 p.m., Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall. Concert featuring works of Brouwer, Bach, Dowland and Isaac Albeniz, including Asturias, Tango and Sevilla. Chamber Choir, Concert Choir and Williams Percussion Ensemble, 8 p.m. Chapin Hall. Both venues on Chapin Hall Drive, Williamstown.
Bartholomew's Cobble: Spring Wildflower Festival. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tour guides will leave from the visitors center three times during day. Cost: Member $5; non-member $10. Bonfire on Hurlburt's Hill, 8 to 10 p.m. Trustees member: $5; nonmember: $10. Registration recommended. Information or to register for a program: 413-298-3239, ext. 3013 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. 105 Weatogue Road, Sheffield.
Naumkeag: The Hills are Alive: Public Garden Day, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Help replant the hillside behind the soon-to-be-restored greenhouse. Free. Information and to sign: thetrustees.org/volunteer or 413-298-3239, ext. 3008 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Prospect Hill Road, Stockbridge.
Springside Greenhouse Group: Plant sale. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Annuals, hanging baskets, container gardens, birdhouses, herbs, vegetable plants, succulents. Rain or shine. Springside Park, 874 North St., Pittsfield.
Hubbard Hall: "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. 8 p.m. Tickets: $25 adults, $10 students; 518-677-2495 or hubbardhall.org. 25 E. Main St., Cambridge, N.Y.
THEatre COmpany: "From Door to Door" by James Sherman. 7 p.m. Information and reservations: 413-854-4400. Lauren Clark Fine Arts Gallery, 25 Railroad St., Great Barrington.
Williams College: "Waxworks." 7:30 p.m. An exploration of the tales we're told, the heroes and villains we create, and the life of an extraordinary artist who developed the first world-wide entertainment brand. Tickets: $3; 413-597-2425. '62 Center for Theatre and Dance, 1000 Main St., Williamstown.
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Beets are romantic, right? Red. Sweet. One of the world's most nutritious foods. What says, "I Love You", more than a beet?
I think beet cake is especially suitable for my Valentine, a man crazy about root vegetables. The guy eats half a pound of raw carrots a day. His eyes light up when he spots parsnips in the produce aisle. He speaks in loving tones about sweet potatoes, yams and rutabagas. Even turnips make him misty-eyed. Thanksgiving dinner at our house is a veritable symphony of things that grow in the dirt. So, a chocolate beet cake? Yeah, baby.
But how does it taste, you ask?? I'm not going to lie to you. This is not a sugary, rich, death-by-chocolate kind of cake. This is a delicately sweet, moist, fudgy, life-by-chocolate kind of cake. It doesn't leave me craving sugar and I don't miss the rich frosting it doesn't have. And it's pretty, like an au natural Red Velvet cake.
As someone who has made and eaten her share of decadent cakes full of butter and sugar, I can tell you I was very happy with this hippie-sounding beet cake. In fact, I've eaten two of them in the the last two weeks. I especially liked it cold from the fridge
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What are index funds?
Index funds are a type of mutual fund that attempt to closely track a specific grouping of the market. There are many types of index funds, but they are commonly known for their low costs, inherent diversification, and better-than-average returns over the long term. Index funds are the driving force behind the philosophy of passive investing, which attempts to build wealth slowly over time with little oversight. Index funds are one of the best tools the average investor has for building and growing a portfolio.
Index Funds as an Investment Type
Mutual funds are a collection of investments that are sold as a group rather than individually. Index funds are a specialized mutual fund that focus on a specific market index. The stock and bond markets can be broken up in countless ways, but the most common ways have a particular index that tracks how the same group of stocks or bonds performs over time. For example, the S&P 500 is a commonly known index that tracks the largest companies on the stock exchange. The goal of an index fund is to try to purchase a representative group of stocks or bonds that will perform as closely to an index as possible. Index funds are different from individual stocks or bonds because they are comprised of many stocks or bonds and typically have a theme or sector that tie them together. Index funds can be bought and sold on the markets like individual stocks in the form of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) or can be purchased from groups such as Vanguard or Fidelity.
History of Index Funds
Index funds are largely attributed to the research done by John Bogle, who later formed the Vanguard Group.


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A Scented Candle Inspired by the Aurora Borealis
From hygge experts Skandinavisk for the upcoming AW16 collection
Spreading the uniquely Scandinavian warmth of "hygge" via elegant scented candles, Skandinavisk has an exceptionally striking new design for their AW16 collection that caught our eye. Named "Nordlys" (Danish and Norwegian for the Northern Lights), it's inspired by one of nature's greatest paintings in the sky that the Arctic Region gets to witness. "With Nordlys, the ambition was to create a fragrance truly indefinable but with intense color and freshness—just like the Aurora," co-founder Shaun Russell tells CH. "It also obliged us to reinterpret our existing design approach by overlapping color, and exploding our pattern into stars in the sky. We also use a colored wax for the first time, so the effect should be something altogether new—even if it in no way can ever truly replicate the actual Aurora."
This ethereal light will soon join the rest of Skandinavisk's collection of cozy candles (check out their other scents inspired by fjords, midsummer campfires and more) in their webshop.
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$390M Fannie Mae Financing Spat Survives Bid To Toss
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Hi all,
I have a new problem using my car (hyundai i30) bluetooth for calls (in/ougoingt).
when I make or receive calls I can't be heard on the BTspeaker even though I can hear the person I am talking to on the carspeakers (with the BT), so I know the BT is working OK. I have tried another phone using the same device and it doesnt have the same problem, so obviously the issue is to do with the G2 and not the BT itself (or the car's installed microphone).
also, Uptill now I have talked on the phone using the car's BT with no problem at all. I have tried unsuccessfully to find a setting that maybe interferes with this but have not found anything! I have no idea what changed...


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About four years ago (2010) I started getting pictures in my head about drastic changes to the coastlines of the United States. Long ago, I had seen maps drawn by the US Navy of predicted 'Earth changes'. Also like many of you, I remembered back in the 1950s reading those Earth change predictions by Edgar Casey. But what I am seeing now is very different than what Casey predicted. After a first go of my prediction map, I looked on the Internet in vain for any maps that looked similar to my own drawings. I spent two years improving the maps - focusing on the USA and Central America and asking why and how. In 2011, I re-made the maps filling in both one dot at a time using a dowsing pendulum for yes or no. In this process, I was 'told' what areas of the map to work on. To me, this seems to be a type of channeling, but I do not really know channeling. In 2014 I showed my USA and Central America map to some friends, then posted it on Project Avalon and also on my web site at http://www.light.ec. People asked me how this could come about. The supposed disturbances do not 'line up' with known fault lines or tectonic plate edges. If you compare, you will see there are many significant differences with my and with Casey's predictions and with other maps such as the US Navy maps. Not sure what I was really looking for, be it criticism, explanation, acceptance or rejection, I got it all. My maps show the new coastlines as they will be in mid 2020 after things settle down. I plan to stay away from the coast in early 2015.
The year is 2020. Much of the world has changed. In the first few months, the Earth was racked with huge earthquakes. Many coastal cities were awash with large tsunami. Many volcanic eruptions have coated the land and filled the air with ash. People had the time to leave the flooding lands, abandoning their homes and livelihood behind. Few lives were lost due to the land sinking, mainly those who refused to accept the changes. Yet many lives are now changed, forever. Major portions of land have been lost forever to the oceans accompanied with much sorrow and grief. Many cities dear to the human race are now gone, lost under the seas. This has happened before. A huge, new continent completely surrounding the major Hawaiian Islands has risen out of the Pacific Ocean. Some may think of it as the lost continent of Mu (or Lemuria) rising again. These changes have been extremely rapid in geologic terms - changes considered impossible in all textbooks. Considering the turmoil that the Earth and its residents have gone through the past dozen years, the land is now strangely calm and devoid of earthquakes.
Nations are gearing up to fight over this new prize.
Click on the map above or here to enlarge. The larger map has many detailed inserts. (Base map by Google.com)
The USA mainland is nearly split in two parts. The entire state of Louisiana is submerged. The Missouri river through the state of Missouri has become a sea-level passage creating an island out of what is left of Missouri and Arkansas. Much of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska is gone. Also many cities are inundated. Gone are Houston, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Kansas City KS, Omaha, and Pensacola. Many Mississippi river towns, including parts of St Louis are permanently flooded. The state of Alaska loses major Western and Southern portions. This includes Nome, Anchorage, Seward. The Aleutian Islands are gone. All of the lost land will remain lost for the foreseeable future. Oddly, the Hawaiian Islands are now surrounded by new land. It is a huge, newly formed continent extending West from NW USA and across the Pacific Ocean.
Curiously, newly formed land now extends East and South from Florida into the Caribbean islands and beyond to South America. For Central America, nearly all of the Yucatan Peninsula and huge portions of Honduras and Nicaragua are lost. Panama is split in two by a strait nearly 200 miles wide. Panama City is surviving. Most Caribbean islands have gained huge new land, but by surrounding and connecting the islands, the newly exposed land places in jeopardy their identity as separate island nations. As people and nations become settled in their new situation, this new land will be fought over. The Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea are closed to the Atlantic Ocean, but open to the Pacific via the newly created Strait of Panama.
The significant Earth change in South America is the huge new land extending East from Venezuela. This new land will also become a fought-over military prize. The city pf Caracas is now land bound.
The Gulf Stream has been cut off from the Gulf of Mexico, it's largest source of heat. The scope of changes in Europe is staggering. The Netherlands is gone. England is now joined to the continent. Major portions of France are submerged. Worse, the Gulf Stream which has supplied Europe with warmth for millennia is now greatly diminished. Israel and Jordan are gone with the exception of some highlands. What is left of Japan, devastated in 2018, is now connected to mainland Asia with uncertain consequences. There is huge, new land stretching across the Pacific Ocean. It is a new continent.
You must understand my part in this. This story is so unbelievable that I waited years before sharing it. My sources are entities in the light. They send me information via meditation and channeling. I write down what I am given, confirm each sentence more than once by dowsing. So my sources are spiritual and not of this Earth. I wrote this after periods of channeling, but before I published this, I let it sit while having asked many times for confirmation from several other-world sources. In meditation, I was told that the potentials of this Earth change occurrence are large and are irreversible. I still hope that that last sentence is in error. Every few weeks I ask and get the same answer.
Look deep inside your heart and find the truth for yourself. Or, you can simply wait a few years and see for yourself.
If you are a conspiracy nut, then read about a terrible, new weapon being developed by the USA military. [Redacted by me for the security of my family and myself. Sorry, but I have been warned to remove the link by many, both those who walk this Earth and those who do not.]


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KY>TX James Saunders & Nancy Jane Hardin
This couple was my g-g-g grandparents. They left Kentucky and moved to (I believe) Missouri, Iowa and then Fannin County, Texas. Any and all information about this family and their genealogy would be greatly appreciated. Here's what I know about them and their 15 children.
James Saunders, husband
b. 24 Jan 1805 in Frankfort, Franklin Co. KY
m. 28 Jan 1830 in ""
d. 30 Jan 1867 in Fannin Co.? Texas
buried: Old Pilot Grove Cem. Grayson Co. TX
Nancy Jane Hardin or Jane Hardin, wife
b. 6 June 1814 in KY?
d. 26 Aug 1899 in Fannin Co.? Texas
buried: Old Pilot Grove Cem. Grayson Co. TX
The following are their children:
1. James Saunders; James William Saunders
b. 8 Nov1830 in Iowa? or Il?
d. 3 April 1831 in Iowa? or Il?
buried: ?
2. John Saunders; John Edward Saunders
b. 7 Dec 1831 in Missouri
d. after 1900, possibly in Idaho
buried: Idaho?
3. William Saunders; William Bartlett Saunders
b. 2 Nov 1833 in Missouri
d. April 1899 in Placerville, Idaho
buried: Placerville, Idaho
4. Anne Eliza Saunders; Anliza Saunders
b. 30 June 1835 in Henry Co.? Iowa
m. 1st: date unknown to man with surname of Freeman; supposedly killed in Civil War
m. 2nd: 1865 to Wiley Kelly Garrett in TX
d. 24 Nov 1875 in Collin Co.? TX
buried: Old Pilot Grove Cem, Grayson Co. TX
5. James Saunders; James Pittman Saunders
b. 7 June 1837 in Iowa
d. 8 March 1865 near Cairo, IL, possibly a Civil War related death
6. Sarah Saunders; Sarah Jane Saunders
b. 30 June 1838
d. ?? Not sure if she died 1 Aug 1839 or lived much longer
7. Mary Saunders; Mary Frances Saunders
b. 30 Nov. 1839
d. 1911
8. Daniel Saunders; middle name: Brainard/Brainerd/Braward??
b. 29 June 1841 in Iowa
d. 10 Nov 1901
buried: Old Pilot Grove Cem. Grayson Co. TX
9. Henry Saunders; Claybourn Saunders; Henry Claybourn? or Claybourn Henry??
b. 24 Mar 1843 in Iowa
m. 9 Aug 1875 to a Josephine Daniel or a Tennessee Josephine Daniel
10. Clark Saunders; Clark Hardin Saunders
b. 17 Jan 1845 in Iowa
m. date unknown; married Julia Daniel
11. Harrison Saunders; Harrison Taylor Saunders
b. 29 Sept 1846 in Iowa
m. 1st: 25 July 1865 to Eugenia Carter
m. 2nd: to Nancy Jane Diggs
d. 29 Sept. 1923 in Knippa, Uvalde Co. TX
12. Isadora Saunders; Isadora "Dora" Jane Saunders
b. 9 July 1849 in Iowa
m. to Thomas Jefferson Looney
13. Charles Saunders; Charles Richard Saunders
b. 11 Mar 1851 in Iowa
m. 2 Sept 1874 to Amanda Ball; Amanda Zuela Ball
d. 24 July 1889 in Fannin Co? TX
14. Oliver Saunders; Oliver Perry Saunders
b. 17 May 1853 in Fannin Co.? TX
15. Amanda Saunders; Amanda Caroline Saunders
b. 9 Mar 1855 in Fannin Co? TX
m. 20 Feb 1877 to A.H. Moreland or Moland


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BLT Brushcetta
Melinda Stern
who doesn't love brushcetta? and with bacon? yum!
- 1/2 pkg
- bacon, chopped
- 1
- french bread loaf
- 3
- avocados
- 1
- lemon, juiced, divided
- salt and pepper
- 1 clove
- garlic, large, mashed into paste
- 2 pt
- tomato, chopped
- 4 sprig(s)
- tarragon, chopped
- 1 1/2 c
- basil, chopped
- 3 Tbsp
- olive oil, extra virgin
How to Make BLT Brushcetta
- 1Preheat grill or broiler.
- 2Preheat a large skillet over medium-low heat. Add bacon and cook until crispy. Drain on a paper towel-lined plate and reserve.
- 3Slice the bread into slices about an inch thick. Char them on both sides on the grill or under the broiler. Remove and reserve.
- 4In a medium-size mixing bowl, mash up the avocado with the juice of half a lemon, salt, pepper and mashed garlic then spread some avocado mash onto each piece of sliced charred bread.
- 5In another mixing bowl, mix up the chopped tomatoes with the tarragon, basil, salt, pepper, reserved bacon, juice of the remaining half lemon and some EVOO. Top each of the avocado smeared bread slices with some of the tomato, bacon and herb mixture.
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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Anthony Robbins
We all have a brief window of opportunity in the vast continuum of time to leave an impression on the world. All of us must decide what we intend to do with this. Earl Nightingale has said "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal." Each of us are the sum of the moments and experiences in our lives. With this in mind, are you driven to rise above the normality, monotony, and mediocrity to achieve something greater? Can you live with no regrets taking advantage of every moment, and creating opportunities to continually align yourself toward a definite purpose? What is it that makes you successful and fulfilled?
It is important to think about this as it becomes the very foundation and catalyst for the actions taken to achieve any goal – the motivation behind us. We all yearn to improve the state of our lives in one way or another. What one must understand is that success is of a deliberate and intentional nature. It begins with a belief and a faith that something is indeed within the grasp of your reality. Any doubt, fear or excuse must be cast aside as they only serve to distract and obstruct. Let go of your external locus of control and realize you in fact have the power to influence your own life and success. When looking at the habits of successful people in history, there are common attributes they all share. Among them include a vision for what they want, a carefully thought out plan to achieve it, an established routine for the effective use of their time, and a drive for continuous improvement. This, along with a strong work ethic and an unwavering faith, their ideas transmute to reality. There are many ways to move toward a goal. Each individual will have their own unique path and tools to accomplish this, but there exists a real-life application that demonstrates and utilizes the very same principles of success that you may not have thought of – fitness.
The benefits of fitness and exercise are well documented. To look and feel better through the improvement of health and body image is often a good motivation to start working out. However, it is ironic that even though there is a multi-billion dollar fitness industry, the obesity epidemic continues to increase worldwide. I would like to suggest an alternative motivation to begin fitness that lends itself to multiple lifelong benefits. Use fitness as a tool to align yourself toward your overall purpose and impending success. Transmute the external physical improvement to an all-encompassing mind, body, and spirit transformation that influences every aspect of life. Realize its transcendent potential as it demands the development of a mind-body connection to develop a stronger, more evolved individual. Through fitness you can cultivate a sense of value and self-respect allowing yourself to be more open and engaging to the ideas and people around you. In short, your body will become a physical manifestation of your character.
The pain and struggle felt in the gym is a perfect metaphor for life and the journey toward success that deserves more emphasis. Many approach pain and struggle as something to be feared and avoided. In the gym, pain is essential for growth and improvement. Your new body is forged beginning with a belief and a vision of where you want to be. Then, through pain, sweat, and exhaustion your goal is realized following a well-planned and properly executed routine. It is here that the ideals and principles of fitness overlap in your life and challenge yourself to achieve new goals. You must push through hardship to come out a stronger, more enlightened individual, even if it results in failure. Failure is temporary and necessary. For as the muscles tear and fatigue and are repaired to meet the new demand, your mental fortitude in times of stress and adversity will experience the same. You reach goals in the gym with every rep having the definite purpose of constantly redefining yourself. Lift your fear and anxiety; Use it as a catalyst for change. Pull yourself up off the ground with the weight of the world that constantly tries to hold you in place. Lift it up through the belief, faith, and drive and pull your way up closer to your success. If at any point you find yourself at a stand-still, employ new methods to keep moving forward.
The mind and body adapt over time to the information it brings in, therefore, you must expose it to more challenging stimuli to induce further growth. And, if left neglected and unused, the muscle will atrophy. Similarly, your purpose and potential that can be shared with the world will do the same if you allow yourself to settle for less than you know you are capable or be paralyzed by fear. Look for solutions to continually follow your purpose, embrace the pain along the way, and live at the edge of your comfort zone. As Bruce Lee has said, "There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
I want to propose a call to action to let go of short-term, superficial fixes to fulfillment and adopt fitness as a tool toward a long-term solution. Experience how the mind and body can be used synergistically to accomplish and overcome life's goals and challenges by creating the foundational mindset and mental clarity to make this a reality. Understand that in the gym, as in life, your ultimate success or failure comes down to your own personal responsibility and the result reveals your true character. Go out into the world with an attitude of gratitude and humility always seeking truth. Use what gifts have been given to you to impact your world and fuel yourself from the motivation that comes for your core beliefs and values. Allow your ego to die and become the strength to lift up others when called upon. Look beyond creating a memory for an instantaneous moment in time only seeing a shadow of the person you once were and dreaming of what could have been. Create something others will remember for you and constantly be inspired because of you. Create a legacy.
About Jason Munger
Jason Munger was born in St.Petersburg, Florida but spent most of his childhood in North Carolina. He then attended the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and graduated with the highest honors in Mechanical Engineering.
During his time in college Munger fell into some bad habits and became overweight and unhappy with himself. Munger made a vow to "live life more fully and confidently while always striving to do the most good for himself and others."
Jason now works at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California collaborating on projects such as components for the International Space Station and a new technology that will help us measure the Earth's gravitational field with unprecedented accuracy.
Motivated, curious and diligent, Jason Munger is constantly improving his quality of life through fitness, exploration, and sharing knowledge which drives him towards an undoubtedly positive future.
Connect with Jason on Instagram @jmunger3
Bio Written by Adria Kelly for Tinsel Tokyo


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The first of 20 F-22 Raptor fighter jets that will be based at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam touched down recently, bringing with it the start of a new chapter in Hawaii Air National Guard fighter history reaching back to 1946. The Territory of Hawaii Air National Guard was established that year, a year ahead of the official creation of the U.S. Air Force, officials said.
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He comes to the back door, Opa Voskamp, like they all do.
Never up the cobblestone walk to the front door, there off the porch, with its wreath and welcome mat, but to the back door off the garage, the one which purposely has no walkway at all from the laneway to the doorknob, and walk into the tossed shoes, the dropped bats and balls and shovels and gloves, in through the mudroom. In through my laundry, my piles, my underwear and crusted socks.
I try to smile. He tries not to look.
His own wife smelled of bleach their fifty one years of marriage. She met her sons at the back door with fresh clothes and a hamper, ready to take clothes smelling of sweat, cows, straw directly to the washing machine. You could bounce quarters off the stacks of linens in her closet. She lived for the kingdom; she didn't home educate their nine children. I do, our six. I always seem to forget this minor detail. Does he?
I try to smile. It's weak. I catch him looking at wrinkled jeans waiting the folding.
We hug long and I love this man, hunched frame, and I just close my eyes to the trail of papers and books across the counters, and he pats my back, takes a chair, mine, and I move to the other end of the table, serve the bowl of salad, pass the bread, the pork chops, and the children chatter, the men talk.
"You got that grain dryer wired this week, did you?" Opa asks between the mouthfuls, over children laughter.
"Yes, that's finished up," Farmer Husband pours water into his stainless steel cup, his Dad's too. "And we got that aeration floor laid out in the grain bin at the other farm too."
"You get a lot done in a week, don't you?" Father smiles at Son, glints my way, and I warm with the gratitude, and Son shrugs his shoulders, smiles in thanks for the affirmation of a Father. "Well I guess we just try everyday."
Try everyday. I do. Really, I do. I laugh, shake my head. Who would know it, looking around here most days?
I get up to fill the pitcher at the tap, sapling child needing rewatering. Test the temperature with the fingers, then fill. Who can see the spelling lessons? The breakfast made this morning? The next chapter of The Yearling read, the last child rocked early in the morning, the prayers whispered middle of the morning? I try in a week and a lot may get done, but the right things? Like water through fingers…
I water this grove of children. The water pours and think how I want a crumbless, smudgeless, spotless house, a house with empty laundry baskets, empty sinks, empty garbage cans, with floors like mirrors and mirrors like water, and a pantry lined neat like books in the study and pies lining the counter like sweet children all in a row. I want the (seeming) perfection all day that only happens at night when the whirl slows to a still and the six children sleep, their books and their legos, their papers and their creations, all finding their resting places too. I want a father-in-law who walks in mid-spin and sees what I have done with a day, with a week, and smiles his satisfaction.
I want things seen.
These can be idols.
This, I am learning.
Again, again I return to the story of Abba Paul, that desert monk who wove baskets and prayers.
While other monks lived close enough to cities to sell their handiwork in the markets, Abba Paul lived such a distance that the cost of transportation would exceed any profits from selling the baskets. Nonetheless, each day he collected palm fronds and worked as faithfully as if basket making were his primary means of support.
And come the end of the year, when his cave overflowed with long months of toil, he took torch to the work of his hands and the flames devoured and rose higher and cackled long into the night. Then, come morning, the heat died away, satiated. And Abba Paul stood in the long quiet and the wind blew away the ashes of all his work.
Abba Paul had nothing to show for the work. Product made papery ash.
Too often, mostly, sadly, I want product, others to see product, so yes, they can see: I have worth. Stinking idols. This, I think this is why I struggle to stop to pray at fixed times throughout the run of a day. If I stop doing, will I have merit? Will I still exist if I stop the producing?
How do I forget that I actually exist more, fully, wholly, when I do that which I was made for? Worship. Communion. Prayer, hidden and intangible, it is the day's true product, it's ultimate purpose.
So Abba Paul knew. The product is secondary…. Perhaps even pointless. It's the prayers, the relationship, the love while doing the work, that hold the meaning, the merit.
The process of prayer is the real product.
That process may not be seen when walking in the back door.
Only the eyes of a stilled, seeking heart can observe things not visible.
"Are there any more potatoes?" A young son grins, lifts his empty plate, hopeful. I pile his happiness high, scoop out the last of the mashed spuds. Morning's work complete and gladly gone.
The bowl's empty.
I stack the dirty plates and children joke and I catch Tall Girl's eyes, mouth for her to pass out the Bibles and she smiles and nods.
Again, today, I must: Slay the idol of the seen.
Today, a thousand times again today, I will: preach the truth to this soul prone to wander. I will seek the affirming smile of Father.
"Unseen. Things Unseen. Invest in Things Unseen."
The dishes pile on the counter and we sit, read Scripture, take the hand beside us, and we pray.
….pray to your Father,
who is unseen.
~Mt. 6:6
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
~ 2 Cor. 4:18
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Okayyyyyy so it's absolutely no secret that I'm slightly obsessed with rose gold, from makeup to homeware, stationary or shoes – I just adore the colour and have a collection of rose gold goods steadily growing! In a few months I'm moving back into my dads house (it's currently being renovated) so I'm currently pinning hard for some inspiration but I'm thinking of decorating my room charcoal grey and rose gold *inserts heart in eyes emoji!
Whilst looking for some new homeware and stationary I came across some amazing rose gold pieces and decided to put together my top 30 items (all under £30!) for you in case you're looking to pick up a few pieces! I'm obsessed with the Kate Spade Stationary, Charlotte Tilbury packaging and this super cute ASOS Cuff Bracelet for just £6! – SOZ to your bank account and all that!…
(I have linked all of the items below – or you can scroll over them and the retailer & price will appear, click on the item if you're looking to buy and it will take you straight to the page!)
French Connection Epoxy Cuff – £26
French Connection Epoxy Tube Ring
French Connection Eproxy Necklace – £26
Charlotte Tilbury K.I.S.S.I.N.G Lipstick in 'Bitch Perfect' – £23
Charlotte Tilbury Cream Eyeshadow in 'Marie Antoinette' – £22
Kate Spade Little Gold Notebook – £17.95
Kate Spade Rose Gold Tape Dispenser – £25.95
Anthropologie Rose Gold iPhone Sleeve – £22
Kate Spade Let's Chill Together Drinks Cozy – £14.95
Kate Spade Freedom Books Flowers Notebook – £27.95
ASOS Chained & Able Medalion Necklace – £18
Warehouse Oversized Rose Gold Hair Clip
Kate Spade Polka Dot File Folders – £16.95
Kate Spade 'A Stroke Of Genius' Pencil Cup – £27.95
ASOS Leather Look Rose Gold Skirt – £30
ASOS Rose Gold Mismatch Drop Earrings – £12
Kate Spade Rose Gold Bow Paper Clips – £12.95
Happy Plugs Rose Gold Phone Case – £19.99
Orelia Metallic Feather Tattoos – £5
Topshop 5 Years Of Beauty Nails in 'Adrenalin' – £6
Whistles Rose Gold & Marble Earrings – £25
Missguided Woven Slip On Pumps – £16
Missguided Barely There Heels – £25
Whistles Geometric Drop Earrings – £25
ASOS Rose Gold & Red Watch – £18
ASOS Embellished Pointed Flats – £25
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Ohio State Police officials say 22-year-old Jessica M. Cremeans, was taken into custody on Saturday after she was pulled over U.S. 33. Authorities discovered that Cremeans possessed over 130 Oxycodone pills. Cremeans had three people in her car at the time of the traffic stop, two of whom were underage.
According to ABC6, Cremeans was traveling back from Michigan, where investigator believe she illegally purchased the pills and had three people in her car at the time of the traffic stop, two of whom were underage.
The Athens County Sheriff's Office reported that a long-term probe by the Major Crimes and Interdiction Unit had uncovered Cremeans was dealing the pills around Athens County area.
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I serendipitously found a thrift store today on my way to pick up cheesecakes for a friend. Peeking my head through the window, I knew I couldn't pass it by without taking a quick stop in.
That's when I saw it.
I fell madly in love with an antique bicycle displayed in the store. It was $10, but the money will go to a counseling center so I felt a little less guilty about my purchase.
Since I am a big fan of bicycles and cycling, I knew I had to get it.
Here it is:
Isn't it cute? Okay maybe not as cute as this. But it's a close second.
Technically, I didn't create anything. But I'm thinking this beauty might get a coat of fresh white or aqua paint one day.
Plus, I think it's so inspiring. Looking at it is bound to inspire me to create.
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I just found out that the watercolour version of my "Owl & Key" was accepted as a
"Finished Project" article in the upcoming December issue of "The Coloring Studio"
Which means that not only will my coloring page for the Owl & Key will be in the magazine
but my finished piece will be feature alongside an article I have to write on my process of making it.
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C-SPAN: Marathon Arguments in Health Care Case Beg for Cameras
Every time the nation gets buzzing about a major Supreme Court case, open-government advocates, news outlets and anyone else who takes exception to SCOTUS exceptionalism ratchet up the campaign for cameras in the high courtroom. Law Blog supports such efforts.
The exceptionalism bit is from the National Law Journal's Tony Mauro, a longtime advocate for cameras in the courtroom. In this timely piece, Mauro writes that the Supreme Court is depriving the public of an "educational feast" with its ban on cameras.
Unlike almost every other public institution in the United States, it has been able to maintain such a ban to this day, ignoring the successive winds of change brought by radio, television and the Internet.
That defiant stance is born of fear of change, nostalgia, a self-interested desire for anonymity, but most of all exceptionalism: the Court's view of itself as a unique institution that can and should resist the demands of the information age.
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|Control of attitude chaotic satellite by fuzzy sliding mode under disturbance external
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|A chaotic system has complex dynamical behaviors, such as depending sensitivity on tiny variation of initial conditions, having bounded trajectories in the phase space. For this reason, it is often necessary to design control mechanism that will force a system to exhibit a dynamics, even when intrinsically chaotic. It is important to control and eliminate chaos in the attitude satellite system. This paper is devoted to study the problem of controlling chaos in chaotic satellite system. This paper proposed a fuzzy sliding mod controller method for the stability to chaotic satellite. on the other hand, The aim of this article is to use the fuzzy sliding mode control technique based on the Lyapunov stability theory to study the control behavior of the attitude chaotic satellite. The proposed controller ensures that, attitude satellite system to move the point of unstable equilibrium. The simulation results indicate that the proposed control scheme can suppress the chaos of satellite system, and track the reference signal successfully even under the uncertainty.
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What is your favorite quote? I will start withA loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow
To succeed at anything you've got to do something. - Tonja Neal
So Cute!
Be different.
The recent rumors of my death have been highly exaggerated! Mark Twain
"Ta panta rhei." (Everything flows) - Heraclitus
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye." - Miss Piggy
"And my soul has been psychedelicized" - The Chambers Brothers
"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." - Frederick Douglass
I ain't no minority. I'm part of the human race." - Jim VanDenAkker
"Our scientific power has out run our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men" - Martin Luther King Jr.
"I have begun to live, I think, since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul."
"Yet across the gulf of space, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded our planet with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their plans against us." - H.G.Wells War of the Worlds
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Luke Skywalker: "I don't believe it."Yoda: "That is why you will fail."
Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.Carl Sandburg
Do everything with Style & Some smile
"I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds and everything is holy, even me." John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath
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VC investors rely heavily on referrals, but what should a non US startup do when looking to raise funding in Silicon Valley? I found a question on Quora that relates to European startups, but found that some of the advice may be very relevant to Israeli startups as well. How best can European startups land VC funding in the US / Sillicon Valley?
Jussi Laakkonen, CEO & founder of Applifie, summarized it well:
We recently raised our seed round at Applifier and it was led by a silicon valley seed fund MHS Capital, whose general partner is Mark Sugarman.
My key takeaways from talking to roughly 40 institutional investors in the valley about investing to an European startup are:
- Traction cures all ills. If you can really demonstrate up and to the right path and consistently deliver on your promises, the funding will find you.
- It's not a dot, it's a line. I stole this from Mark Suster (http://www.bothsidesofthetable.c…), i.e., one meeting is not enough. Especially as a foreigner, everybody will need time to get to know you.
- Warm intros are a must. It's likely that the investors don't know you, so try and find warm intros from people in your network.
- Get locals as your advisors. They will help you with access and build social proof, but only do it if they can also add actual business value and advice beyond just getting to meet investors.
- Get ready to move over. You will have to do the "Israeli model" (e.g. R&D in your home country, HQ in US with the CEO moving over). Talk with your spouse, and be real about it – can you really move over? If not, raise locally.
- Do the corporate flip. If you are in the very early stages with your company and there are no major reasons (e.g. tax, R&D incentives, what not) to keep your company as a non-US entity, then you should consider a corporate flip i.e., create a new Delaware corporation that will own all the shares of your local company. Consult a tax attorney first, because this may have significant personal and corporate tax liabilities.
- Reduce the perceived hassle that comes from foreign investment. If you are asking investors to invest into a foreign entity, get legal and tax experts to prepare the memos for them about the tax impact on their fund, governance of foreign corporation etc. You need to show that it is not really that much harder / difficult than an US entity (which it typically true for an European startup).
- Read Venture Hacks (http://venturehacks.com/). And then read it again. See if you can get on AngelList (http://angel.co/). They also do foreign companies.
- Practice pitching. It doesn't come naturally to many European founders. God knows I've struggled with it. Pitch to your advisors, to US entrepreneurs, to your colleagues, wife, what not. You only have one chance at a first impression.
Get your deck to 10 slides and then throw it away. Not literally, but one big surprise to me was that in the 40 odd investor meetings I had, I managed to open the deck probably only 5-10 times. You will need to be able to tell your story verbally without any visual aids. Simplify, practice.
Is relocation to the US a must-have for funding? Several entrepreneurs tend to agree with that. For example, in response to "How do I raise funds in Silicon Valley for a European-based startup?" Eyal S. Goldwerger, Chief Executive Officer at TargetSpot said:
Relocate the founder/CEO to silicon valley first. And if you don't have US business activity, then get a beta customer for initial footprint. You are then "certified" for local capital raising and will get over hump. If you just travel in, don't attempt it, it will be an expensive waste of energy/time/cost that will get you polite meetings but no engagement. good luck!
Massimo Sgrelli, Entrepreneur, angel investor, computer programmer, agrees with Eyal's suggestion:
The best way to attract Silicon Valley investors to your non-US startup is to split your operations keeping R&D in your own country, while moving business and marketing heads in the Valley (and potentially the founders too). That means you are practically creating your US startup, and it needs $ 100,000 of investments at least. I'm actually studying this mechanism for Italian start-ups, but I can say it should generally work for many other countries too. R&D outside SV is normally cheaper, so it helps you keeping your burn rate low. On the other side I'm sure that every entrepreneur "must look for his Wall Street" and if it's Silicon Valley, he must move the company HQ there.
And what do the investors think? In answer to the question Do Silicon Valley Angels invest in startups overseas? Jeff Clavier, Seed stage investor in 90+ consumer internet startups, said:
We all have a different approach to non Silicon Valley opportunities. When we (seed stage funds or angels) invest, it is always through a syndicate involving multiple investors and behind a lead – the lead is negotiating the terms of the deal with founders and is "first in line" for supporting the team post-investment.
Over the past couple of years, I have been investing in New-York (7) and Boulder (4), where a number of strong leads and great firms are able to provide support for our companies (recruitment, mentoring, etc).
Investing abroad is even more tricky: to the issue of strong leads and supporting the companies, you are adding legal, tax, audit challenges. How do you review documents in non-english languages, where structures can be quite different from what we are used to in the US? At the very least, you want to have a US C-Corp somewhere in the corporate structure to invest into in order to simplify the latter. But establishing the equivalence between C Corp and the local legal entity (so that owning shares in one is equivalent to owning shares in the other) is a pain in the ass.
That being said, there are plenty of opportunities in developing markets like Russia and China, and people who are bold enough to take that level of risk will certainly have access to more a larger number of potential homeruns than we have in the US. These investments are out of the charter I agreed with my investors, so I am staying away from them.
Some startups are more interested in mentorship and network than they are in money. The question How do I get funding and mentorship for my startup from Silicon Valley angels and VC's if I live outside of the USA?
- Apply to TechStars or Y Combinator. Both take international companies, and if you get in, they will provide you a fantastic network of SV angels and VCs (Doug Ludlow, CEO, useHipster.com)
- Start with a short (a few weeks) trip to SV and attend all the tech events there. Network and talk to people. Don't push it too much to get access to top angels and VC's right away, it will take time. Better to start with contacts with other entrepreneurs and founders, hopefully those that have already been funded, and approach angels and VC's through them ( Jüri Kaljundi, Have raised angel & VC financing)
- http://www.founderinstitute.com/ is another great one to apply. They take international Founders. I'm from India and lucky to be part of the Winter Silicon Valley 2010 session. (Brajeshwar Oinam, Entrepreneur)
With all this said, don't give up on European (or Israeli) VCs so quickly. They can be more approachable than US-based VCs. I liked Octopus Ventures' Alliot Cole answer to the question "What is the best way to get in touch with European VCs and angels for seed funding?"
At www.octopusventures.com we review every plan we receive, but if you wish to do more:
*Call us. We always pick up the phone! Seriously, we purposefully do not have voicemail in the building, so we are supremely accessible.
*Come to our Open Office – each Wednesday, every Wednesday. No screening, no agenda, 30 minutes 1-2-1 with one of the team. Email firstname.lastname@example.com to book a space in advance.
*Use your network #1: do you know someone who we may know and respect (eg. someone who works at one of our porfolio companies)?
*Use your network #2: approach a corporate financier who advised a company we recently partnered. They may be able to give you the introduction you require. Check out the press releases for who advised who and when.
*Use your network #3: do you know someone who recently got funding? They will know better than most who to approach and how – having just gone through the process and may be able to give you a personal introduction.
*Meet us out of the office: we try to use PlanCast as efficiently as possible – you can follow us there: http://plancast.com/alliott :: http://plancast.com/octopusventures
*Reach out to one of the team on Twitter @alliott ; @hakesl ; @octopusventures
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- 3/4 tsp white truffle oil
- Bring stock to simmer in large saucepan. Reduce heat to low and cover to keep warm. Melt 3 tbl butter in heavy large saucepan over medium high heat. Add shallots and garlic and saute until translucent, about 2 minutes. Reduce heat to medium. Add rice and rosemary; stir 1 minute. Add wine and simmer until wine is absorbed, about 2 minutes. Add 1/2 cup stock; simmer until absorbed; stirring frequently. Add remaining stock 1/2 cup at a time, allowing stock to be absorbed before adding more and stirring frequently until rice is just tender,; about 25 minutes. Stir in remaining 1 tbl butter. Mix in cheese and truffles. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Drizzle with truffle oil, if desired, and serve immediately.
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Large trucks coming out of the area where the
World Trade Towers stood
He had somehow attached all these flags
to his scooter.
{Even the ones above his head.}
He made me smile & I asked to take his picture.
That we can hold on to hope.
I can't imagine how ... almost sacred that must have been to go to NYC so soon after. Even flying for the first time after 9/11 was difficult. My emotions are poignant on this anniversary.ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh! That must have been heartbreaking to see, firsthand! My sister was in NYC several years later and said that everyone around Ground Zero was still very solemn and many were in tears.
May God never take his hand off our country!
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I can't believe you were there just a month later. We watched a program about it with our kids yesterday because we wanted them to know about what happened. To see the events through my 7-year-olds eyes reminded me again just how unfathomable it was.
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A travelogue chronicling Contiki's "Egypt & The Nile" tour. Each episode focuses on a different region of Egypt: Cairo, Aswan, Abu Simbel, Luxor, and Hurghada.
To work with Contiki is to truly define collaboration. The quality of their tours is unparalleled, and they allow me the freedom to tell the story in whatever way I feel. It's been a very successful partnership – the engagement on these videos is great, and in many cases, leads to more bookings.
This series in particular was not only well-received by potential travellers, but by Egyptian locals, who were happy to see their country portrayed in a positive light. I had a great time on this trip and would not hesitate to come back again.
5 episodes posted on 'gunnarolla', 3 videos produced exclusively for Contiki's social channels, and supporting Instagram posts.
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20secs: First Bank take a cheeky look into what the family dinner of the future might look like.
DINNER time in 2014.
Your sister is flicking through Instagram, your dad is telling you how he has discovered Google+ and your mum is telling everyone to "turn their damn phones off". If you think the conversation has been destroyed by technology, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Enter Google Glass. You can instantly hashtag your food, you are swatting pop-up ads as you try to eat and everyone is muttering to themselves.
Family time has collapsed into a tech mess. This commercial by FirstBank makes a mockery of wearable tech and the life we need to be prepared to live.
Here's a snippet of the life possibly coming to a home near you soon.


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Club Lotto
Lotto Results 02 May 2017. Numbers drawn 5, 14, 16, 29. No jackpot winner. Two match 3 winners, Sinead Nea & Kathleen Shaw. Promoter's prize, Jimmy's. Lotto Results 08 May 2017. Numbers drawn 9, 10, 23, 30. No jackpot winner. One match 3 winners, Peggy Dunne. Promoter's prize, Rose McKeogh. Next's weeks jackpot €3,400. Lotto tickets can be purchased in all the local shops and pubs or from any member of the committee. The committee of Raharney Hurling Club would like to thank all patrons for their continued support.
Mix & Match Lotto Draw
Our first draw took place on Saturday 06th May. Numbers drawn based on National Lottery main draw 2, 3, 7, 17, 21, 22, & 28. There was 1 player matching 5 numbers and 23 players matching 4 numbers. Our second draw took place on Saturday 13th May. Numbers drawn based on National Lottery main draw 4, 16, 19, 33, 39, 43, & 47. In the lead matching 6 numbers are Sean Mallon, Olive Carey & Stephen Reid with 22 people matching 5 numbers. All results from the draw are on our Facebook page and will be available following the draw each Saturday night. The club would like to thank everyone who supported the draw.
Underage Hurling
Our under 14 team had a good win over Longford Development squad. Our under 12 teams will play Brownstown and Clonkill on Wednesday 17th May with both games away.
Adult Hurling
In the Division 1 league Raharney were beaten by Lough Lene Gaels by a point last Friday evening in Joristown. In the junior championship Raharney were beaten by Clonkill by 5 points and will play Delvin in our next game.
Congratulations to Eamon Cunneen who won the Feile skills competition. Eamon will now represent Westmeath at the All Ireland skills competition in June, best wishes to Eamon. Congratulations to Raharney camogie under 14 team also won the Feile final recently,they will now represent Westmeath at the National Feile Finals in Kilkenny. Also congratulations to Westmeath senior hurlers on their good win over Meath.
Get Well Wishes
Best wishes to Pat "Setter" Mullen we hope you are back on track soon.
Walking Track
The club would like to remind all walkers to ensure they have their membership payed before using the Walking Track. Walking track membership for the year is €20 and can be paid at Weirs shop Raharney or to any member of the committee.


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Designing Outside the Box
While the older homes throughout Toronto have been known for their character and interest, houses going up in the suburban areas seem to have a certain sameness. To get an inside look into why single-family home design has become so homogenous over the years, we spoke with Bole Cirovic of Modular Home Additions. There are three primary reasons behind the homogeneity of Ontario's suburban neighbourhoods: The desire to fit in, municipal regulations, and resale value. (more…)
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Wash Instruction: Machine wash and Dry
Size - Twin:62*86"; Weight:3.57 lbs; Filling:29oz
Size - Full/Queen: 86*86"; Weight: 4.93lbs; Filling:40oz
Size - King:102*86"; Weight:5.84 lbs; Filling:47oz