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I like to cook for my family and I really like prepping their meals for the week. However, there are some situations that prompt you to grab a cheap meal for your family. I always keep in mind my weekly grocery budget. When you're on a budget you have to be creative by figuring out how to eat out and stick to your budget.
When I make my grocery list, I like to include at least 1 meal that my family can pick up at a restaurant. Our grocery budget is $120 per week which includes occasionally eating out. There is nothing wrong with including a takeout meal within your budget that you family will enjoy.
You should always be mindful of the best cheap restaurants that work within your family budget.
Reasons Why You May Need to Eat Out
- Sickness: when you are sick you might not have the energy to cook or prep meals.
- Late night: When you kids are involved in afterschool activities or you have unexpected office hours for the day, it can put a damper on your cooking for that particular day.
- Longer Than Expected Commutes: Somedays you will run into delay traffic due to accidents or construction work.
- Special Occasions: You may have a birthday or a specific holiday you would like to celebrate with your family.
- Other Family Members are sick: Sometimes you have to take care of others and you find yourself burnt out to the point where you don't feel like cooking.
- Family Emergency: Life happens right? We all run into situations where things happen that are out of our control and we must react quickly. In this type of situation, you may be forced to make a decision to grab a bite to eat on the go.
When you have to make the choice to grab takeout for your family you want meal options that don't crush your budget.
You might find that some of these meals' options are not the healthiest choice for your family. However, eating out should be limited and not done every day when you are trying to stick to a budget.
This comprehensive list will show you how to eat and stick to your budget.
Here is a list of 9 Cheap restaurants that will help you feed your family without breaking the bank.
Steak and Shake
Guess what you can get a made-to-order meal for under $4? Did you know that Steak and Shake has meal choices for your whole family for under $4 each?
The $4 for four items menu at Steak n Shake includes:
- Original Double 'n Cheese Steak burger 'n Fries
- Single Bacon Cheese Steak burger™
- Triple Steak burger™
- Chicken Fingers
All meals come with fries, an additional side, and a cookie.
Plus, they have other great deals for your family such as:
- Kids Eat Free on Weekends (Saturday and Sunday at participating locations, with $9 spent on adult meals)
- Half Price Happy Hour weekdays from 2-5 (All drinks and shakes are ½ prices, including)
- Pick 2 for $3 Value Meal (you can pick from All-American Steakburger, Buffalo Ranch Steakburger, Steak Frank, Grilled Cheese and Fries)
See Steak and Shake current promotions and coupons here.
If you are in the mood for a sandwich look no further than Subway for great sub deals. You can choose the sub of the day and pay only $3.50 for the 6' sub or go all the way with a footlong sub that cost only $6.00.
Subway specials are a great way to save money on your lunch or dinner. They also have daily specials where value subs are only 4.99 every day. You can head home and add your favorite chips and drink from your pantry to save even more money.
Here is the current list of subs that you can choose if you would like to take advantage of the $3.50 or $6.00 deal.
- Monday – Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki
- Tuesday – Oven Roasted Chicken
- Wednesday – Turkey Breast
- Thursday – Italian B.M.T
- Friday – Tuna
- Saturday – Black Forest Ham
- Sunday – Meatball Marinara
See Subway current promotions and coupons here.
Are you craving Mexican food tonight? Well you are in luck because you can order the Fiesta Pack which easily serves five people for 29.99.
The Fiesta pack includes rice, protein, beans, salsa, and all the toppings you want.
You can select Mexican rice or brown rice for your rice option. Then you have a selection from three different beans such as black, pinto or refried beans. There is a nice selection of toppings you can pick which has seven different house-made salsas and a nice selection of fresh toppings.
This pack will last my family for two days.
Why wait? You can click here to order Salsarita's online.
Pasta and Provisions
If your family love Italian food, then you can order Pasta and Provisions. They offer prepared food that will easily serve a family of 3. Their food options change seasonally but can range from Italian dishes such as chicken piccata, baked ziti, chicken parmesan, and chicken marsala.
easily serve a family of 3. Their food options change seasonally but can range from Italian dishes such as chicken piccata, baked ziti, chicken parmesan, and chicken marsala.
Their meals vary in size and cost. You can expect to pay between 8.95 and 10.95. However, if you like lasagna with meat, spinach, or vegetable they offer an option that serves 3-4 or 9-12 people.
The prices will vary between 9.95 and 30.95.
See Pasta and Provision current promotions and coupons here.
Kentucky Fried Chicken
If you like fried chicken this is another great place to order a quick meal on-the-go. We love to grab KFC $5.00 fill up. KFC gives you five different meal options that you can select.
If you love pot pie I would urge you to get this meal deal a try. The only option we have not tried is the famous bowl. The bowl is a little different for our taste buds.
Our favorite options are the crispy colonel sandwich and the drumstick and thigh.
Here is the list of options you can choose from:
- Crispy colonel sandwich, wedges, cookie, and a medium drink
- Drumstick and thigh, mashed potatoes, biscuit, cookie and a medium drink
- Chicken breast, mashed potatoes, biscuit, cookie and a medium drink
- Pot pie, cookie and a medium drink
- Famous bowl, cookie and a medium drink
See Kentucky Fried Chicken current promotions and coupons here.
I love to go through the drive through and see that fast food places still have dollar menus. However, when my family is in the mood for quick fast food, we like to grab the Wendy's 4 for $4.00 bundle deal. You can't go wrong with this cheap meal deal for your family.
You can choose from eight different entrees, a drink, small fry and chicken nuggets all for the wonderful price of $4.00.
The entrees you can choose are the double stack burger, crispy chicken sandwich, grilled go-wrap Jr., Jr. bacon cheeseburger, crispy chicken BLT, Jr. cheeseburger, spicy go wrap and Jr. cheeseburger deluxe.
There are so many great options to select with this bundle deal that it makes it a great choice for families on-the-go. Three bundle deals can normally stretch into lunch and dinner for my family.
See Wendy's current promotions and coupons here.
Sometimes, once every two or three months we order take-out pizza. We love to use Domino's long-standing special which is the Pick 2 or more items for 5.99 each. Domino's gives you a nice variety to choose from.
You can choose from a medium 2-Topping pizza, bread twists, salad, marbled cookie brownie, oven baked sandwich, stuff cheesy bread, 8-piece boneless chicken or pasta. We normally stick to three medium pizza which will last for 3 meals.
This is a perfect option when you have invited guests and you're not in the mood to cook. We normally put together the ingredients to make a toss salad which makes a great addition to pizza night.
- 3 Medium pizza: 5.99 each
- Head of Lettuce: .89 cents
- Cucumber: .50 cents
- Tomato: .79 cents
- Dressing: 1.50
See Domino's current promotions and coupons here.
If you love breakfast, you can find some of the best food and best prices at Biscuitville. They are a fresh southern fast food restaurant that mainly serve breakfast food with a limited lunch menu.
They have limited hours between 6:00am and 2:00pm. They have the best biscuits that are freshly made every fifteen minutes.
In addition, to biscuits you can find breakfast platters, home style sides and sweets. My family normally get the breakfast platter which includes a meat of your choice, 2eggs, biscuit and a side (grits, gravy, or hash brown).
This platter costs $3.99 and it's very fulfilling.
- 3 breakfast platters: 3.99
See Biscuitville current promotions and coupons here.
Koyoto Hibachi Express
If you love hibachi food this is a great option to buy to serve a family with 4-5 people. They offer a wonderful family meal that comes with teriyaki chicken (or another meat option), sautéed vegetables, fried rice, and a variety of sauces.
You can also choose from soup or salad. The price for this meal is 18.99. We normally have leftovers after dinner, and we will eat this meal the next day for lunch.


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Local and international collaboration in urban humanitarian responses: Perspectives from the Philippines, Colombia and South Sudan
Traditionally, the humanitarian sector has responded to emergencies in rural contexts; however an increasing number of urban crises has necessitated a re-evaluation of standard procedures. The urban setting poses unique challenges, which are best met through close collaboration with local actors who understand the context. However, policy and practice of how to bridge local and international actors lack a systematic approach. This study explores the urban-specific challenges to local and international collaboration. Recommendations to improve partnerships include giving directly to local agencies, rather than subcontracting them, and advocating a holistic approach, in line with local humanitarian or developmental agendas. These recommendations have emerged from case studies involving interviews with local stakeholders carried out in three distinct urban contexts, each with a different type of disaster experience: Tacloban, Ormoc and Palo in the Philippines, following natural disasters, in particular Typhoon Haiyan; Medellín in Colombia, following ongoing conflict and displacement; and Juba in South Sudan, following conflict, violence and civil war. A companion piece analyses each of these case studies in more detail.

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This has been a great day!
I got great sleep last night.
It's day 8 with no 5 hour energy. My energy levels are beginning to increase.
I got up at 4 to do my daily routine (Chronological Bible reading, prayers, read the book of Colossians, and Psalm 143). Then I met some guys at the beach to do some fishing. I got in the kayak and into the water. It was relaxing to be able to enjoy Gods creation.
I did a hundred push-ups in the sand. That was tough. Then I came home and walked and ran outside for about an hour! I even threw in a little hill work.
It's only 1:10pm! There's so much time left in the day. Fantastic!
As I was outside I was thinking about how grateful I am that I can do these kinds of things. Fitness is not merely about how much you can bench press, squat, or if you a six pack!
It's also about enjoying life. It's about getting outside and moving. It's about being able to do multiple things and still having something left in the tank.
It's about being able to enjoy life!
So stay fit…
So you can enjoy your family…
So you can enjoy your time off…
So you can enjoy life!


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Howdy Dolls!
Hope you are doing great!
Wearing foundation can enhance your appearance. Since a foundation acts as a base for the rest of your makeup thus it's very important to use a foundation which not only matches your skin tone but evens out your skin color and adds radiance to your complexion. Isn't it? So, today's review is going to be Maybelline Fit Me Matte and Poreless Foundation which was launched in India last year. Read on to know more….
Product Description:
Fit Me Matte + Poreless from Maybelline New York goes beyond skin tone matching to fit the unique texture issues of normal to oily skin for the ultimate natural skin fit. While some foundations can exaggerate pores and oily skin, only the FitMe Matte+ pore-minimizing foundation contains genius blurring micro-powders that erase pores and absorb oil for a naturally matte and poreless-looking finish.
How to apply: Apply foundation onto skin and blend with fingertips or an applicator and blend.
Aqua / Water / Eau, Cyclohexasiloxane, Nylon-12, Isododecane, Alcohol Denat, Cyclopentasiloxane, Peg-10 Dimethicone, Cetyl Peg/Ppg-10/1, Dimethicone. Peg-20, Polyglyceryl-4 Isostearate, Disteardimonium, Hectoritephenoxyethanol, Magnesium Sulfate Disodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Hdi/Trimethylol Hexyllactone Crosspolymer, Titanium Dioxide, Methylparaben, Acrylates Copolymer, Tocopherol, Butylparaben, Aluminum Hydroxide, Alumina, Silica, Glycerin [+/- May Contain Ci 77891 / Titanium Dioxide,Ci 77491, Ci 77492, Ci 77499 / Iron Oxides] F.I.L. D166390/3
Price: Rs. 525/- for 30 ml
SHELF LIFE: 30 Months from Manufacturing Date
Buy it here: Nykaa, Amazon.com
My Experience with Maybelline New York Fit Me Matte + Poreless Foundation, shade-310 Sun Beige:
Maybelline New York Fit Me Matte + Poreless Foundation comes in a thick glass bottle with a black screw lid. Though it doesn't come with a pump dispenser yet I didn't find it difficult to carry or difficult to use. But yes, since it has a wide spout, thus sometimes you might end up getting more than required so you have to be bit careful when you are pouring it out. Further, The packaging has the necessary details including the shade name and ingredient list etc.
Shade – Presently there are 6 shades available in India:
115 Ivory
This is the lightest shade which will suit beauties with extremely fair skin tone. This shade is perfect for MAC NW20-25
128 Warm Nude Beige
This is another light shade with a pale yellow undertone, perfect for fair skin beauties. I think you are between NC30-35 in MAC then this will suit you very well.
230 Natural Buff
This shade has bit orange undertone, which would go with fair to medium complexion. This will suit MAC NC35-37 skin tone beauties.
310 Sun Beige
This is my shade, and perfect for my NC 42 (medium skin tone). If you are between NC 40-42 then this is a right shade for you.
322 Warm Honey
It is slightly in a (deep) warm undertone which will suit medium to dusky skin tones i.e. MAC NC42-44.
330 Toffee Caramel
This is the deepest shade from this range, which will suit the duskier complexion beauties. I think it will suit beauties with NC 45 complexion.
Texture & Formula:
Maybelline Fit Me Matte + Poreless Foundation has a slightly thick texture but It feels velvety and smooth. I have normal skin tone and this foundation blends effortlessly like a dream into the skin. If you have a dry skin then moisturize your face well before wearing this. The formula feels very lightweight. Since it has a matte finish yet it doesn't creases or looks dry or feels cakey. I usually use my Beauty Blender to apply this as well as my fingers to blend it out and both ways, the formula blends easily and even out your skin very well.
Staying power:
It stays put on my face for almost 7-8 hours easily. It didn't get patchy or rub off in between. as per it claims It really keeps my face shine free. It mattifies my face but at the same time, it doesn't make my skin even dry. Even it stays for really long in hot summer Moreover, it keeps your skin oil free all day long. Make sure to powder to set it if you have an oily skin! This way, it will keep your skin at bay with the oil and it will provide matte finish all day long.
It gives medium coverage with a matte finish. To be very honest I wasn't expecting much from this foundation. I got it for Rs. 394 during the sale from Nykaa. But I am surprised that it hides imperfections such as pigmentation, blemishes pretty well. It evens outs the skin and feels like there is anything on your skin
Pros of Maybelline Fit Me Matte + Poreless Foundation, shade – 310 Sun Beige
- Affordable
- Velvety and smooth in texture.
- A little goes a long way
- Mattifies and refines pores.
- Blends extremely well on the skin even with fingers too.
- Weightless foundation.
- Doesn't feel sticky on the skin.
- Leaves a natural, seamless finish.
- Doesn't dry out my skin.
- it does not make the face look cakey.
- Perfect for everyday wear especially for summer.
- Gives medium coverage.
- Dermatologist and allergy tested.
- Non-comedogenic.
- Its Oil-free thus doesn't clog pores.
- Didn't break me out.
- There are many shades to choose from.
- Mattifying liquid formula ideal for normal/combination to oily skin.
Cons of Maybelline Fit me Matte + Poreless Foundation, shade – 310 Sun Beige
- About the poreless claim, it doesn't help much if you have large pores.
MAB Recommendation:
Overall Maybelline Fit Me Matte + Poreless Foundation is true to what the company claims it to be. It's a perfect shade, lightweight, long-wearing matte foundation for every day. It really hides the pores and imperfections well and gives a velvety smooth finish. I am pleasantly surprised by how this foundation fits my skin tone and texture exactly!! Plus the price makes it even better. Definitely, a must have beauty product.
Certainly my new favorite after M.A.C! <3 <3
Highly recommended!
Rating: 5/5 :* :* :* :* :*
Have you tried Maybelline Fit Me Matte + Poreless Foundation range yet? Please share your experience with me.
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For politics fans, it's easy to get caught up in fun Electoral College scenarios — ones in which small states make a big difference or in which the House of Representatives has to decide the election. The alternative — endlessly repeating that "Florida is important; Ohio is important" — can get tiresome. That said, Ohio is important, and Florida is super important.
Florida has a 19 percent chance of providing the decisive vote in the Electoral College according to our polls-only forecast. It's the most likely "tipping-point state," in FiveThirtyEight parlance. That's up from 16 percent just two weeks ago. There's only one other state with a better than 10 percent chance of casting the decisive electoral vote: Pennsylvania, at 12 percent.
Florida tends to be a crucial battleground state in presidential elections (more on this in a moment), but it's become even more pivotal in recent weeks in the race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Clinton has improved her position nationally and in Florida, but she's made a bit more progress in the Sunshine State, moving it closer to the national average. Clinton leads by about 3 percentage points nationally and by about 1 point in Florida. That's made it more plausible that Clinton could hold onto Florida while losing some light-blue states.
Let's say, for example, that on Election Day, Clinton underperforms with white voters without college degrees even more so than she is doing now. Her support would collapse in the Midwest, and her troubles in Maine would likely bleed over into New Hampshire. But Florida is more diverse, with one of the largest groups of Latino voters of any battleground state and a sizable African-American population. So, in this scenario, the nonwhite vote in Florida might allow Clinton to hold onto the state even if she were to lose Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio and Wisconsin.
And that's a winning map:
If Clinton wins Florida, Michigan and New Hampshire, she can afford to lose Pennsylvania, where she's held a lead even as she's trailed Trump in next-door Ohio.
Indeed, winning Florida opens up so many electoral paths for Clinton that it's probably a must-win for Trump. If he loses Florida, Trump wins the presidency only 5 percent of the time according to our polls-only forecast. (Clinton, on the other hand, wins the election 33 percent of the time without a victory in Florida.) Considering that Clinton has led in every post-debate survey in Florida and has a small lead there in our polls-only forecast, you can understand why Clinton is currently a favorite to win the election.
Florida has two basic things going for it that make it so pivotal. The first, as I mentioned, is how closely the state mirrors the national vote. It's about 2 or 3 percentage points more Republican-leaning than the country at the moment. Nevada and Wisconsin are about as equally close to the national margin, and the only states closer are Colorado (the current tipping-point state according to our forecasts), New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. Considering that the election is a little more than a month away and the inherent error in any forecast, it's possible that the vote margin in Florida ends up as close or closer as in these other states.
The other factor that makes Florida important is its large population. None of the states listed in the previous paragraph besides Florida has more than 20 electoral votes. Florida has 29. It's possible, therefore, for a candidate to lose smaller swing states and make up for those losses by winning in Florida.
No single state guarantees victory. The notion of a "must-win" state tends to be overplayed — instead, the states tend to move in concert, and the winner of the national popular vote almost always wins in the Electoral College. But Florida is about as close to an all-important state as we're likely to see.


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Alive and kicking
The Alma Product Working Group is thrilled to be representing and working for an active community of Alma users. PWG members have facilitated a number of regional user 'meetings', sometimes in person and sometimes virtually.
We continue to work closely with Ex Libris by nominating 'advisors' for different topical groups, such as the community zone. The coordinator, deputy coordinator and ELUNA and IGeLU Steering Committee liaisons have monthly calls with Alma product managers to discuss potential collaborative projects, issues raised via ALMA-L and future functionality.
New activities
In the past several months the Alma PWG and the Steering Committees successfully negotiated a process to begin collection of Alma enhancement ideas (more news on this at the PWG meeting at IGeLU).
A licensing focus group, led by Janet Morrow, Northeastern University (US), was formed in the spring. Licensing functionality recommendations from this group will be submitted to the PWG prior to the IGeLU meeting.
There are people involved
Diane Baden, Boston College (US), retired from her position at BC and the Alma PWG this summer. She was a very active member in our group. We miss her!
We asked Kevin Kidd, also from Boston College, to join the PWG as member and liaison to the Interoperability interest group.
Ann Miller, University of Oregon (US) and member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, also joined the group to provide the group with a network zone perspective.
We continue to look for potential members from non-English speaking countries.
Betsy Friesen, Alma Product Working Group Coordinator


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Just when you thought that 10-megapixel point-and-shoot you got was the hot stuff, in comes Aperio and its 1 trillion-pixel image. Aperio normally works with medical imaging, which requires extreme detail and precision in pictures to detect ailments in the body. The 4GB size limit on the TIFF file-format was too small for these gents, so they went ahead and created BigTIFF and cast it into the public domain for everyone to use.
This first image taken with BigTIFF is of breast tissue. An image of this size obviously takes up a lot of storage, but how much? Try 143GB. Yup. You can't even put this thing on an 80GB iPod to cart around with you. Very cool stuff. I'm sure this will benefit the medical world for years to come and improve porn immensely.
First 1 trillion-pixel image [News.com]


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Harry Potter and the Incredibly Conservative Aristocratic Children's Club
The richly imaginative details of J.K. Rowling's fictive world, it must be admitted, are pleasurable. The hot-rod brooms, the flowing robes and flying cars, the goth Heaven of the sullen Slytherins, the snake language and the magic wands enclosing phoenix feathers or unicorn hairs, the metamorphic potions, the leaping or fizzing sweets! All these have been fully and lovingly realized in the Warner Brothers movie adaptations of the Harry Potter books, including the most recent, which is a fine-looking but completely incoherent mess with a morally bankrupt and politically repugnant story at its core.
No expense has been spared, naturally; Warner Brothers has seen $5.7 billion out of these movies in theatrical revenue, so far. The visual imagination of director David Yates (he has helmed Harry Potter 5 through 8) is kind of pedestrian but there are some lovely set pieces, notably an animated vignette that is just so beautiful and interesting. The movie was bound to be entertaining, a spectacle, provided you don't look too closely at what's being said.
The multitude of sins committed in Rowling's imaginative but horrible story can be roughly divided into three classes: ethical or pedagogical, literary and political.
Some years ago I was driving a carful of kids to some practice or party, and from the crowded back seat I heard one breathlessly ask the others, "When you were little," (they were maybe twelve at the time), "did you think you were going to get a letter from Hogwarts?"
Giggles arose in the car, some lofty and some sounding a little embarrassed; a couple of the kids admitted that they had in fact fantasized about receiving such an invitation. (When you are chosen to attend Hogwarts, the public school for wizards attended by Harry Potter, an owl shows up with a letter informing you that you are one of the lucky ones.) This concept of "chosenness" has always put me off the Potter books because it seems so harmful for kids, even though I am a lifelong SF/fantasy fan (a genre where this crops up frequently, to be sure).
In the world of Harry Potter, rules are for the little people. The "wisest" adult, headmaster Albus Dumbledore, showers magical gifts and indulgences on his favorites and lets them break every rule because they are so special, better than all others. How come they are so much better? Well, the general awesomeness and favoriteness of Harry Potter and his friends is mostly arbitrary, the result of the chosenness itself, rather than of effort or application. Harry Potter is just naturally fantastic at flying around on a broom and conjuring illuminated stags up out of his soul and things, Hermione Granger is just naturally the most brilliant student Hogwarts has ever seen, and so on. Ron Weasley, the impoverished aristocrat, is a Sancho Panza-like figure whose rough common sense is meant to keep Harry on the straight and narrow; his noble blood is his "chosen" quality, and marks him, too, as an unimpeachable Establishment figure.
Which brings us to the disconnect between reality and appearances regarding the nonconformity that Rowling so hamfistedly praises at every turn. Harry Potter and his friends, far from being renegades, are in fact slavishly obedient to the all-powerful, omniscient, do-no-wrong Dumbledore. And why not, when he provides them in advance with every rare and fabulous magical gewgaw and hint they will ever need in order to extricate themselves from whatever peril they may find themselves in.
Rowling's adherence to the old English principle of blood-nobility — that weird but deeply held superstition that has caused countless English protagonists to discover that unbeknownst to them, they were peers of the realm all along — is in stark contrast to the biggest conflict depicted in the Potter stories, the blood purity conflict. The bad guys, Voldemort and crew, are race purists, anti-Muggle (meaning anti-human), which is to say that they are against any magical Muggles or intermingling of Muggle blood ("Mudblood") and wizard blood. Yet Rowling's heroes are all noblemen, with the exception of one: Harry Potter learns in the old-fashioned surprise way that his father was a fabulously rich wizard, and his godfather is a rich aristocrat, too; Ron Weasley is a nobleman of the purest blood, though poor. The sole pure-Muggle wizard of any consequence at all in these books is Hermione, the author's personal projection of herself (there are two other minor pure-Muggle wizards, boys, both of whom are bumped off). So this story can be read pretty effectively as an explanation of why J.K. Rowling should be allowed to hang around with the nobility (she is smart, is why).
Maybe, incidentally, the reason no other woman as smart as Hermione appears in the books is that J.K. Rowling, like the Turk, can bear no sister near the throne. Her volcanic ego burns down everything in its path. Where the Twilight books are works produced from and for a state of sexual yearning and frustration, Rowling's "wizarding world" is a fantasy place created for the benefit of Hermione Granger, for her infinite sagacity, foresightedness and teacher's-pet-hood to be rewarded at every turn.
In any case it is a horrible thing to be teaching children, that you have to be "chosen"; that the highest places in this world are gained by celestial fiat, rather than by working out how to get there yourself and then busting tail until you succeed. If the "special" and "chosen" and "gifted" automatically receive all the honors there are, then what would be the point of working hard to achieve anything? So it is really terrible to hear these twelve-year-old kids so smitten with the idea that fulfillment would literally fly to them out of the sky, via owl.
Rowling is a self-avowed liberal who gave a million pounds to the Labour Party in 2008, but her values are Tory through and through. In her books it is the hoary old white guys who run everything; women are popped in here and there for liberal flavor. The tokenism is unbelievable.
Rowling named her first child after Jessica Mitford, the lefty Mitford sister (as opposed to the Nazi-sympathizing ones). Rowling often says she read Mitford's Hons and Rebels at age fourteen, and that it affected her profoundly; this book in fact provides a perfect illustration of Rowling's political disconnect, because Jessica Mitford was the daughter of the second Baron Redesdale, a "terrific Hon," as the Mitfords would have said. She was a super-blue-blood with rebelliously liberal views. It's exactly this privileged, elitist compassion-from-on-high that Rowling admires and has consistently depicted in the Potter books. But the liberal values, the openmindedness, the diversity, are all fake.
I am no fan of Ann Althouse, but I had to admit to a shudder of recognition when I read her criticism of liberals last week:
What is liberal about this attitude toward other people? You wallow in self-love, and what is it you love yourself for? For wanting to shower benefits on people… that you have nothing but contempt for.
This may not be such a very good description of liberals in general but it is an excellent description of J.K. Rowling. In the "touching" climactic scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the house-elf Dobby has been "liberated" by, and now sacrifices himself to save, Harry Potter & co. The house-elves as depicted in the movies are horrifyingly pathetic, small, cringing, grateful; the sad, brave little creature Dobby literally expires with the name of Harry Potter on his lips. It's like freedom is the gift of the chosen ones to bestow, and those thus benefited can die of gratitude and be "properly buried," which really, there is this long burial scene complete with Harry Potter and shovel. It's a perfect illustration of the "liberal condescension" that conservatives are always yodeling about, and it made my hair stand on end.
So don't think about that! Think instead of the strapping young buck Rupert Grint, a fine young actor who manages to rise above the tawdry, maudlin script, or even more, of Helena Bonham-Carter as the queen of the goths, Bellatrix Lestrange, whose gorgeous performance had me totally rooting for the bad guys, as usual. She's always got a magic wand or a knife at someone's throat, that girl. Alan Rickman as Severus Snape, too, is as seductive as ever. Just to hear his voice for me is easily worth the price of a movie ticket; really he could read the phone book aloud, for all I care.
The most conservative element of Harry Potter's world is that it is a materialist paradise, full of costly and rare magical artifacts, invisibility cloaks and piles of "wizard gold" at Gringott's Bank. Things, that you can make toys out of, things that you can worship and desire and buy. There's nothing in this story of alleged iconoclasts and rebels that would present the slightest challenge to the establishment. That's why the story dovetails so easily into a series of Hollywood blockbusters.
The Rowling story of the Single Welfare Mom Who Made Good is not exactly accurate, either; her background is solidly middle class, her dad was a Rolls-Royce engineer, she read French and classics at Exeter, and the father of her first child (whom she divorced, rather than the other way around) was a Portuguese TV personality.
So this good liberal's face is absolutely the face of the corpocracy. The number of lawsuits brought all over the world by Rowling and Warner Brothers against practically anybody who would dare to slap the Potter moniker on so much as a work of fanfic would curl your hair. Well, finally she allowed this one guy to write a fanfic novel, after having threatened to sue, perhaps because she knew she wouldn't have won. If it were up to J.K. Rowling, I think Jean Rhys would have been thrown in jail for daring to write Wide Sargasso Sea. Which is fanfic, too, come to that.
In the best-known and most terrible of these lawsuits, the proud liberal Rowling saw fit to sue a fan who'd devoted years of his life to making an online encyclopedia about her books. I don't believe I'll ever cry again over the plight of an alleged copyright violator but you never know, I guess. Steve Vander Ark wept openly himself when he testified at the trial, and even though Rowling personally sued him, he later wrote on the blog part of the Harry Potter Lexicon — just like a house-elf! — that he was "still Jo's man, through and through." It just breaks your heart, the integrity and gentleness of this man, the love he bears these wretched books, the way he was so wrongly disgraced. A shorter version of Vander Ark's book finally did see the light of day, in 2009.
On the literary side, suffice it to say that Rowling is ferociously dull and long-winded, that there is no suspense, that she kills people off (nobody Chosen, though) simply in order to show how serious things have become; magical artifacts are produced, used once for the specific purpose for which they were invented and then never seen again; the bad guys, whose actual aims are hopelessly opaque, have got the immemorial bad-guy cluelessness regarding the element of surprise, they let one opportunity after another to bump off our heroes slip past them, etc. Christopher Hitchens's 2007 review in the New York Times is generous, but pretty searing, too. ("The repeated tactic of deus ex machina (without a deus) has a deplorable effect on both the plot and the dialogue. The need for Rowling to play catch-up with her many convolutions infects her characters as well.")
Anybody should write whatever he or she pleases, of course, and there's no doubt that Rowling did something right in creating her fictional world of Quidditch and faux-Latin magical incantations, if only because so many people love it so dearly. But if you have a young Harry Potter fan in your orbit, you might steer him or her toward Philip Pullman, whose Dark Materials trilogy is genuine in every way that Harry Potter is false; a fully realized work of fantasy to rival Tolkien in its wisdom, inventiveness and questioning. Because Pullman's novels really do threaten the establishment view of religion and institutionalized coercion, because they are really subversive in the manner in which Harry Potter pretends to be, the Hollywood establishment chickened out completely and made a perfect hash of the first Pullman movie. Tom Stoppard, who'd adapted the original screenplay, was dumped by director Chris Weitz (of American Pie fame), who preferred to write his own. Hollywood is, unfortunately, an absolute tool of the corpocracy, and will never be equal to any story that presents a legitimate threat to conventionality or to materialist values.
Maria Bustillos is the author of Dorkismo: The Macho of the Dork and Act Like a Gentleman, Think Like a Woman.


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Cops: Repeat DWI offender leads police on high-speed chase through Riverhead
An allegedly drunk Riverhead man, who had been convicted of DWI before, led State Police on a high-speed chase through the area before crashing his car into a fence and tree Wednesday night, according to authorities.
A State Trooper found the blue Audi driven by Christopher Anstett, 39, stuck in a snowbank after an accident was reported on Flanders Road in Flanders about 11 a.m. The trooper activated his emergency lights as Mr. Anstett attempted to maneuver his car out of the snow. After Mr. Anstett freed his car, then sped past the trooper, leading him on a high-speed chase through the Riverhead area.
Mr. Anstett was unable to safely negotiate around the intersection of Duane Street and Sweezey Avenue in Riverhead and crashed his car into a fence and small tree.
Mr. Anstett fled the scene on foot, but was found a short time later on Marcy Avenue in Riverhead, the same block where he lives. He was charged with felony DWI due to a prior conviction, third-degree unlawful fleeing from police and several traffic violations. He is scheduled to appear in Riverhead Town Justice Court today.


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Thursday, December 2, 2010
The Invisible Artist: Irvin Kershner 1923-2010
Irvin Kershner though did have the chops to do his job whether he's fully recognized for it or not. Outside of The Empire Strikes Back, most of his pictures went largely unnoticed by most critics and moviegoers making him something of an invisible artist. When he died, it drew scant notice largely because his films never inspired anything close to a cult of cinephiles studying his body of work. Perhaps because he let content determine both the style and tone of his pictures, Irvin Kershner's key strength was for allowing the process of discovery to clearly define his sensibility, thus leaving him outside the current trends and fashions of audiences and critics alike. But he was one of our most unassuming talents, a peerless craftsman who left us pondering "the landscape of the human face" rather than the face of the man behind the camera.
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Rediscovering Ginninderra:
Mr Alexander ('Alec') Shumack
Born: 1882; Died: 1956; Married: Amy [Smith]
Alexander was the sixth child born to Peter ('Big Pete') Shumack and his second wife Elizabeth [neé Williams], in 1882. This second marriage added eleven children to the two borne by his first wife Elizabeth Jane [Gillespie]. Alexander married Amy Adeline Smith in 1908 –'a quiet but pretty wedding'. They left for their future home at Round Hill that evening. Their first child Edna was born the following year, followed by Dulcie (1911), Stanley and Dorothy (1914 – twins) and Joan (1920). Stanley was killed in WWII (1943) – 'educated at Weetangera Public School and prior to his enlistment worked with his father on the farm'. In 1917 he took up the rural lease of 'Springvale' where he spent the rest of his days.
The 'Weetangera correspondent' of the Queanbeyan Age recorded in 1924 that 'George and Alex Shumack have joined the ranks of motorists having recently purchased motor vehicles. (George was then living 'next door' at Rosebud Apiary). A year later the correspondent reported that 'a new residence is being erected for Mr Alex Shumack and it is expected that work will be completed in a short space of time'. Although his father farmed in north Canberra Alex was connected with the Weetangera district most of his life, a well-known grazier, member of the ACT Rural Lessees Association, and a member of one of the district's oldest families. He died at his home aged 73 in 1956, and was survived by his wife Amy and four (?) daughters.
'Alec leased Springvale, Weetangera, from the Government after it was resumed from Richard Shumack's son Samuel. Wises NSW Directory of 1936 indicates that he held 1,832 acres and ran 2006 sheep at that time. He was a big tall man with the typical Shumack build, who could be difficult to get along with as he had a tendency to behave like 'the lord and master of all he surveyed' as one descendant puts it. His wife Amy [Smith : 1884-1960] was a lovely gentle and sincere lady.
In their early years on the property Alec would go away shearing for months at a time to earn the money to make ends meet. He went on a pushbike and would ride as far as Bourke. During dry times he would ride along the bed of the Darling River because, he said, 'It was good going'.
To some of his relatives Alec became known as the 'King of Round Hill' because he had fought and defeated two of his neighbours when important matters need to be settled. On one of those occasions, George Shumack's son Will wanted to remove the trees which his uncle Sam had planted many years previously along the fence-line of Springvale and Rosebud Apiary. Alec defended the trees with his fists, but he slipped over, and Will, taking advantage, started to belt into him. 'B'dad, I got on top of him and was dealing it out to him' said Alec, when George came down through the orchard carrying a whip, saying 'Let him up, Let him up', then the women arrived on the scene and things got a bit excited for a while. But Will didn't cut down the boundary trees, and they are still there, though the buildings are long gone, and the property is covered by suburban homes, a school, etc.
The other occasion on which Alec Sprang into action to defend the property was when his southern side neighbour fenced well into Alec's block, saying it was too difficult to put up a fence along the pegged line. Alec disagreed with that assessment of the situation and his version of what happened next was 'He made a rush at me and I gave him a bit of a poke in the guts and he fell in the creek'.
There was a big room at Springvale which used to be Sam Shumack's library, but was later divided into two rooms. That room was used for dances held at the house. Alec could play the violin, but wouldn't play for visitors, so an Edison phonograph was used. When the property was being broken up, nobody in the family really wanted the phonograph, so Bert Vest gave it to Blundell's farmhouse museum as an item for public display. It now seems to have disappeared. Like the founder of Springvale, Alec loved to read, and had quite a good library himself.
Executors of his estate were Donald Robert Tully of Weetangera and Hector Ian Hamilton of Canberra, graziers. His only listed asset was unsold wool, and the beneficiaries were his widow and four daughters, all being of Canberra except for Joan who was of Sydney'.
[extract from White, p.270]
White E. A Shumack family c.1668 – 1992 & connected families. Author published, Sydney, 1993


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Jackson State may have fallen just short in the SWAC Tournament, but they still have more games to play. JSU beat Sam Houston State 81-77 in the first round of the College Insider Tournament (CIT) after going to overtime.
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//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js The win was Jackson State's first in the postseason since 1993. That team, led by Lindsey Hunter, beat UConn 90-88 before falling to Southwest Missouri State. JSU improved to 20-14 on the season. They now wait to see who they'll play in the second round, as there is no set bracket for the game.
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Learning the traditional art of colouring fabrics is enabling many women in rural Bikaner to add an additional source of household income in an area where patriarchy makes it difficult for them to do so.
Pawan Kanwar, a 17-year-old girl living in a remote village in Rajasthan, has proved that age or education is not a bar if one decides to walk in a particular direction regardless of limitations and barriers. Pawan, who has studied up to the tenth standard, had never stepped out of Nosariya village in Bikaner district but still tried to improve the lives of many women by providing them basic literacy.
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Pawan is the second child of her parents. Her father Kishore Singh Shekhawat is a farmer. To make ends meet, her elder brother has migrated to Surat in Gujarat to earn a living. Pawan's younger sister studies in class 8 and her mother looks after the cattle.
Nosariya's people
The population of Nosariya is about 500 where 80% are Shekhawats. Hailing originally from Amber and Jaipur, Shekhawat is a sub-clan of Kachwaha Rajputs found mainly in Rajasthan. The remaining population of the village consists of Dalits, who remain neglected by the majority. Most of the people earn a livelihood by selling dairy products to nearby villages. Most households have men who have migrated to cities in search of work.
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In Nosariya, high school education for girls is considered more than enough. Boys complete their schooling and move out for work, leaving behind their families with almost negligible options for livelihoods. In case a girl wants to study further or work, she is not allowed to move out unless she is married. Married ones can, however, move out of the village with their respective husbands but lack of education won't get them work.
Thanks to Pawan, many people in her village are letting their daughters study and develop handicraft skills through the limited resources available in Nosariya. This initiative of Pawan has opened gates for women's empowerment in the village.
"They had the skill which needed to be groomed."
Walking up to every individual's door step and begging them to come to the day care center seems to be worth it now," Pawan told VillageSquare.in.
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Tie and dye has quite a colorful history in the textile industry of India. It is amongst the oldest traditions of Rajasthan that is still in practice. As the name suggests, the art involves tying and dyeing of fabrics into various colors to bring out various patterns out of which Leherriya (wave) and Bandhej are the most common. Jodhpur and Sikar, are, known for its biggest commercial markets.
Not only Nosariya has experienced the winds of change due to this art form but the nearby villages are also following the same track for an improved livelihood. Napasar, Sri Dungargarh, Parvati Talai are some of those villages where similar trainings are ongoing.
The number of earning females has recently risen from zero to 30 in the village and urge of finding employment has brought over 300 women and girls to the different day care centers of nearby villages for the trainings. Seeing this new source of income, women who claimed to have no skills other than doing household chore are now convinced to attend the trainings organised in their villages. These skill development trainings are introducing women to their own artistic side like never before, making them self-confident, and most importantly, preparing them to earn from it.
A trainee, Baby Kanwar had to walk 5 km under the hot sun of summer to reach the training center. 40-year-old Baby would come to attend the training at Nosariya in order to learn the technique of tying. She said she always wanted to learn this but wasn't allowed to move out of her village. When she came to know of the workshop near her village, she decided to join. Baby got an A grade for her performance in the training and is working on her first order already.
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All this has been possible because of Urmul, a Bikaner-based NGO. This skill development training was conducted in Nosariya under the income growth program of the organization. By conducting the 15-day tie and dye training workshop under the supervision of professional trainers, Urmul not only helped the women be self-employed but also gave their art a platform of exposure.
Trial and success
With every passing day, there is a rise in the number of women trainees as larger numbers of women realize that this could be a viable means of earning from home. For some, the first challenge was to get permission from their in-laws to gather at the day care center for the training, which further got converted into their support and appreciation. "Earlier my father-in-law and husband didn't want me to go to the training center but seeing our work they were equally excited," Jwala Kanwar told VillageSquare.in. "They were happy when I got my first remuneration."
Icharaj Kanwar, a 43-year-old woman who lives with her two daughters and husband, said that she had never been a part of any such training before where she could explore and discover her abilities. "I've been doing only household all my age. Now that I have learnt this art, it has become another source of income," said Icharaj, who also sells buttermilk and ghee. Icharaj excels in tying fabric in multiple patterns.
Of late this art has become the bread and butter of many families in the village. Women who earlier had no source of income other than selling milk products, are now getting small orders for making tie and dye dupattas and sarees, which earns them a little income. "I had never imagined that I could earn money on my own. It feels incredible when your hard work pays," Santosh Kanwar, one of the women, told VillageSquare.in.
Revival of a traditional handicraft
Revival of the traditional handicraft of the desert is bringing women into the foreground. At the same time, they are earning without moving out from their houses. This small move by women towards their own development will bring an unexpected change in the village as well as their future generations.
The new experience has already started boosting the confidence among the artisans. They now feel more responsible towards their work. "If we talk about gender equality, we are equally responsible to earn for our families, not only our men," said 30-year-old Manju Daak.
Jigyasa Mishra is a writer based out of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
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I've already gone on about how you won't have any money for the first 30 years after graduating college due to the unforgivable, sky-high loans doled out by your local money-hungry, business-minded university. That's all for that. If I haven't made a mark by now as to why you shouldn't go to college, then I'll help you go into heavy debt if that's what you want. (Here you go; here's another one)
Your Wallet Is Tired Of You Not Feeding It
That 30-year period after school where you'll be working as a slave to our US government to pay back your student loans will set you up for a hard life, one I don't think you want. One other thing will not be in your favor…your wallet will try and bite you in the ass because it's pissed at you!
We pay everyone else before we put any money into our own wallets. How f*cked is that? Before we can even see our own money we've worked so hard for, it's been subtracted to the point that we may not be able to buy our own groceries or even patron the new, $100 million X-Men movie. FML!
Here's an example: The average person in America makes $38,500 per year. After a 40% tax rape (f*ck you Uncle Sam), we are left with $23,100. If you have a cheap mortgage of around $950, that comes to $11,400 for the year. So we are left now with $11,700. I'm assuming we don't ride the bus to work and you have car insurance, at which I'll price those at $300 for the care payment and $100 for the insurance. That's another $4,800. Now we are down to $6,900 and still going. You might say, "Whew, I still have some money left over to live on". True, but not much. If we divide that $6,900 by 12, we are left with $575 per month…BUT YOU HAVEN'T EATEN YET.
Most family's can spend half of $575 in a week on food for the family, and if we've got a newborn, forget about it. So how do we survive if the funds run dry and there's too much month left at the end of the money? Credit. Again, we've completely neglected to feed our wallet, and now it's furious! How would you feel if you didn't eat month after month? Super-pissed! It's a good clue you should not use credit when they are calling you every night saying, "F*ck food for your family, pay us!"
You'll notice in my example, there is no money left over to pay your student loans back. We are paying student debt off with credit cards (which some have stopped allowing us to do), thus, we are only trading one debt for another. (Hint: we can discharge credit card debt in a bankruptcy whereas we cannot in regards to a student loan.)
Your wallet should be your favorite pet. It want to wag it's flaps, lick your face, and pay for your unmentionables. That's hard to do when you never, ever put anything in it. This sickening metaphor is another manner of saying we should be paying ourselves first. Anytime we get some cash, a predetermined amount should be put aside for us in savings or an investment. If this is not possible, tell the phone company to f*ck off, and do it anyway!
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The last place I thought I'd find all-you-can-drink Coronas was an Indian restaurant on Wolfe Road. But then again, Sankranti, Sunnyvale's super-popular South Indian buffet, is home to no shortage of surprises.
For starters, it's located in an almost-abandoned strip mall right next door to a mixed-martial arts gym. Not even a little next-door muscle will stop people from learning about one of the South Bay's new foodie secrets. I knew I'd arrived at the right place when I saw a mass of people waiting to be seated inside the nondescript interior, comprised of a couple dozen tables and a few flat screen TVs showing the latest in Bollywood.
Once I was seated, the server handed me a large pitcher of water and a basket of freshly baked naan and invited me to help myself to Sankranti's vegetarian and non-vegetarian lunchtime buffet, comprised of nearly two dozen different dishes—plus desserts—for an absurd $12.50 per person. This also includes all the beer one can drink in addition to unlimited wine, masala chai and mango lassi. The latter helps cool off the palate in between plates of very spicy house specialties.
Sankranti serves food thali-style, focusing on a variety of dishes that can be served side by side with chutneys, raita and fresh slices of red onion and lime. While the menu changes every day, some signature dishes—such as the grilled chicken tikka kabob, creamy butter chicken cooked in a tomato sauce or the Nellore fish pulusu, a tangy and spicy fish curry flavored with tamarind—remain on the menu on a rotating basis. I started off by loading my plate with Sankranti's vegetarian dishes, including the mirchi bhajji, deep fried whole chilies topped with chopped onion and chutney, and beerakaya pappu, a South Indian dal (or lentil soup) that paired nicely with rice and raita.
Sankranti also serves a number of biryani and rice dishes, but the standouts were the tamarind rice and vegetable pulao, both loaded with fresh curry leaves and spices. The latter also included onions, saffron, coriander and ghee—a winning combination with baingan bharta, a South Indian eggplant dish similar to baba ghanoush but far more flavorful. Seasoned with onion, tomato, ginger and fresh herbs, it was a nice change from the many cream-based sauces and curries that Sankranti specializes in but become overwhelming when side by side.
After three and a half trips to the buffet bar, it was time for dessert. Sankranti serves both shahi kheer, pistachio rice pudding and gulab jamun, a traditional deep fried pastry coated in a saccharine, sticky rose- and cardamom-infused syrup.
One dessert I'd never tried—and had to Google when I got home—was saggubiyam payasam, a tapioca pudding sweetened with jaggery and topped with cashews, raisins and cardamom. The texture and flavor were both excellent, and I enjoyed two small bowls with my chai tea to finish off an eventful weekend lunch.
Mexican beer may seem an unlikely pairing with spicy Indian food, but it's an excellent combination as far as I'm concerned. While Sankranti's buffet is definitely the crown jewel of the menu, specific items can also be ordered a la carte for both lunch and dinner. Keep in mind that dinner buffet prices bump up to $13.99 and $14.99 per person for the vegetarian or non-vegetarian buffet Friday through Sunday, respectively. Come for lunch on a weekday and score an all-you-can-eat veg or non-veg buffet for a cool $7.50 per person.
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UCSB Grad Student Sets NY Subway Record
"I have now had a personal history with every subway station in New York," said Stefan Karpinski after finishing a 24-hour odyssey of the city's convoluted railway system on December 29, 2006. Twenty-four hours, 54 minutes, and 3 seconds, to be exact. This time allows the six riders claim the Guinness World Record for the fastest transit stopping at all stations in the New York subway system. The previous record-holder, Kevin Foster, made the trip in 26 hours, 21 minutes, and 8 seconds.
Karpinski, a doctoral student in computer science at UCSB, is one of six members of the team submitting their extensive documentation to the Guinness Book of World Records. They was brought together by classmate Bill Amarosa, described by Karpinski as obsessed by the subway system. The team attended high school together in Manhattan, at St. Regis, and rode the subway to school, sporting events, social occasions, and to visit each other. Even in high school Amarosa displayed an encyclopedic knowledge of the subway system. "We used to be awestruck in when Bill would be able to randomly name the seventh stop on a particular route; but that was child's play, we later realized," Karpinski recounted. "On the challenge ride, Bill kept us entertained with a steady output of subway trivia and history." Karpinski related that Amarosa could name everything from the exact length of the subway cars (60.2 feet), which cars deviated from the norm, and why a subway platform was wider in a specific station. He knew the history, architectural details, and names of designers for many of the stations.
In high school, Amarosa talked about challenging the world record for a subway transit. He even put in a stint working for the Metropolitan Transit Authority. At St. Regis's 10-year high school reunion, which took place June, 2006, people asked Amarosa about his subway-riding dream. This initiated the December event. Amarosa, Karpinski, Andrew Weir, Brian Brockmeyer, Jason Laska, and Michael Boyle all entered the subway on Thursday, December 28, in Queens' Rockaway Park.
Before stepping on the subway car in Queens, hundreds of hours of planning took place over several months. Eschewing computer algorithms in favor of taking advantage of Amarosa's nuanced knowledge, paper and pencils were used to map routes through the system's 660 miles and 468 stations. They planned to traverse all the stations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens. (The fifth borough, Staten Island, is not connected to the rest of the New York subway system.) While many details of their plan are on their Web site (subwaytransitchallenge.com), they kept the exact route secret.
Their intentional design included some flexibility, to accommodate last minute changes or on-the-route service issues. During the ride, minor interruptions were the only snags, after two riders (Karpinski and Weir) arrived late to Rockaway Park, due to service interruptions on their way. Even so, timetables were subject to human variation, particularly in the middle of the night, when train conductors are less concerned with starting exactly on time. "We watched conductors moseying down the stairs, already three minutes late," Karpinski said. On the road to a world record, three minutes can be significant. Those were the gambles, Karpinski said. "If we had gotten 23 hours in and were stuck on a train for an hour, it would have messed up our plans." After all, if everything ran perfectly, it wouldn't be much of a challenge.
One challenge Karpinski anticipated before the trip was boredom. Twenty-four hours riding the subway is a long time to be stuck underground. But this was not the case. They had to keep extensive documentation to convince Guinness, including a detailed time log and witness signatures. Additionally, Amarosa spouted off trivia and Boyle updated their Web site when they had a wireless signal. They took pictures and shot video, enjoyed phenomenal company, chatted with subway riders, and made mad dashes through stations. At 3 a.m., Karpinski remembers looking over at Weir and exclaiming, "I never thought I would be having so much fun."
They became minor celebrities on the ride. A Daily News article appeared Friday morning, while they were still riding the subway, leading to more than one subway rider looking up from a newspaper and recognizing them. On some trains, the conductor would announce to the other riders that they were witnessing a historic occasion.
Not all fun and games, serious issues like bathroom breaks were carefully calculated and adhered to. Only five scheduled breaks meant there were as many as seven hours between relief stops. In order to make this work, neither caffeine nor alcohol was consumed on the ride. An estimated half-hour queue at the Times Square station was deemed unacceptable; fortunately the next station's bathroom was available.
The more than 24 hours on the ride were spent completely within the subway system. Although the Guinness rules do allow for riders to walk from one station to another, that "seemed unsporting," according to Karpinski. Because they never exited the system, they only needed one fare-two dollars-to traverse the entire distance of the four boroughs. There were stretches of this distance, and even trains, these veteran riders had not ridden before the challenge. Karpinski and two other riders were self-described G train virgins. The G runs from the Bronx to Brooklyn, hence it is a route most Manhattanites seldom have the chance to ride. The six saw a lot of New York outside of Manhattan, as what seemed like an unfathomable 18-hours of the trip involved completing stops in Brooklyn and Queens.
Even with that 18 hours, they still finished the entire route in record time, ending at 4:37 p.m. at the 241 Station in The Bronx. They were met by friends, family, and reporters with congratulations. While some of the guys went home to sleep, others headed out to the afterparty to enjoy their hours in the spotlight. Karpinski took a break from the subway for a day or so, and was then back in the old routine to celebrate New Year's. He continued to ride while still on break from the UCSB schedule. Even after the 24-hour voluntary confinement, he feels the subway represents freedom. "I was struck by the freedom granted to me when I started using the subway." It's six hundred miles of freedom with which the six riders now have a new personal relationship.


text: 888 Holdings in Nevada In a sitting of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, approximately 2 hours were spent looking into the background of 888 Holdings, the European online gaming operator, who is looking to obtain a Nevada interactive gaming license. After the recommendation that 888 Holdings, a Gibraltar based company be approved as the states 20th interactive license, the 3 control board members spent about 5 minutes on discussions for Treasure Island's request for holding the states 21st interactive license. A.G. Burnett, the Control board chairman told Attorney for Treasure Island, Frank Schreck, that he did not have any questions, unless the attorney want him to make some up. Shawn Reid, a board member read the license conditions in to the public record faster than the approval of the approval of Treasure Island. The Nevada based website for online poker will be a turnkey operation and 888 Holdings will be handling the technical side of the business. They will make use of the Treasure Island logo as well as images for the creation of he poker room. Attorney Schreck said that Treasure Island hopes to just collect the money. After the hearing, several observers said that the entry of 888 Holdings into Nevada's into the business of online poker could be a game changer. 888 holdings partnered with Caesars Entertainment during 2011 in a legal European business of online gaming. They have viewed Nevada as being one of he top growth initiatives in the year 2013. 888 Holdings together with Caesars operates the World Series of Poker websites that are in several European markets. The company also operates its own online gaming operations which are based in many different contries and they have also been in business for over a decade. Brian Mattingley, CEO of 888 Holdings told the control board that their first order of the business, if they were granted a license, would be the launch of a website for World Series Poker in Nevada, in partnership with Caesars Entertainment. Caesars Interactive Entertainment won the approval of the Nevada gaming regulators in 2012. 888 Holdings will be providing the online poker technology to WMS Industries the slot machine maker, and will be running the Treasure Island website. A,G, Burnett has said that he is impressed with the status of the corporate applicants, and he finds that these applicants are suitable for a Nevada License. The Gaming Commission in Nevada will be taking up the favourite recommendations of the control board for Treasure Island and 888, on the 21sat March in Las Vegas. Mr Mattingley said that 888 is looking at the expansion of business opportunities in Spain at the same time improving sports book, casino and the social gaming platforms. Aviad Kobrin, Chief Financial Officer of 888 told the control board that 888 Holdings total revenues for 2012 were $375 million and that it represented a 23% compound growth from 2003, and that the poker revenues has increased 31%. Gil White, Attorney for 888 said that before the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of October 2006. was signed, the company had accepted wagers from customers in America. Attorney White said that the company had been advised that it was unlawful to offer non-sports betting to customers in the USA. Once President George W Bush signed the Act, 888 Holdings then blocked access to all its websites from American gamblers within 24 hours. Attorney White also said that 888 Holdings complies with all of the provisions that are enacted within the Assembly Bill 114, the New Interactive law in Nevada, which precludes online gaming companies from obtaining a licence in Nevada if it accepted wagers after 2006 from Americans. Play Now


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Plains of Abraham
In July 1759, General Wolfe was hesitant: he had developed several landing plans that were never carried out. At the end of the month, the Beauport Flats nevertheless remained his favourite target. Besides, on July 9, he had already set up camp on the east bank of the Montmorency River. From this location he was able to observe, and especially bombard, French positions. However, this time it was to be a large-scale operation.
The plan consisted in landing his troops at Beauport near Montmorency in order to capture a French redoubt and reinforce it so as to draw Montcalm out of his entrenchment. Now, at the beginning of the operation, on July 31, what the general himself could see from a transport ship, all the while under French battery fire, was that the coveted redoubt was located much closer to French lines that had been suggested by the observations made from the Île d'Orléans. He realized that, even if he captured it, he could not hold it for very long. As soon as the operation started, it was doomed to fail. What was there to do? Cancel everything? Such a decision would no doubt undermine the morale of the troops, who were expecting a battle. Likewise, his credibility and his authority were at risk of being questioned98.
On the French side, seeing the movements of the British troops, Montcalm ordered that a general alarm be sounded at around 12:00 noon. Everyone had to go back to their stations in the trenches between the St. Charles and Montmorency rivers.