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As construction projects in the U.S. began skyrocketing over the last few years, so have the number of accidents and deaths on job sites.
A recent New York Times editorial brought the problem of job site safety into sharp relief noting that the city had seen 31 construction-related fatalities in a two-year period.
Meanwhile, in Boston, a spate of construction-related fires showed that its not just laborers, but projects themselves are at risk from poor site management.
Well, Pillar Technologies has raised $2.75 million in seed funding to bring new monitoring tools to the construction world and reduce risks on the job.
The New York-based company, a former graduate of TechCrunch's CES Hardware Battlefield 2017 is the latest tech startup working to bring technology to the construction business — one of the industries most resistant to the kind of on-the-job improvements that technology can provide through better monitoring and management tools.
General contractors and insurers are using Pillar data management to monitor sites and predict when failures might occur. The technology is also something of an early warning system for things like water leaks, freezes, fire and mold outbreaks.
Ever since the U.S. managed to climb out of the giant economic hole it created for itself (and the world) with the real estate bust of 2008, construction in the country has been on a tear.
A Forbes article from 2016 noted that roughly $100 billion in new construction starts were planned or implemented in 2015 in just five U.S. cities.
Pillar is already working in eight states with construction companies on 15 job sites, according to the company's chief executive and co-founder Alex Schwarzkopf.
Deployments of Pillar's technology typically last from six to eighteen months in the period between when a building is wrapped with an envelope and when a project is actually completed in what's called the "fit-out" period.
"The technology is really designed to monitor the environment," Schwarzkopf says. "It's for the health of the work force [and] the health of the project."
While it can't ensure that workers take the required safety precautions on job sites, it can measure the environment on those sites and let construction workers know when environmental conditions are unsafe.
That alone is a big plus for contractors and laborers, Schwarzkopf said. Measuring things like air particulates and chemicals can let workers know when they're being exposed to potentially harmful levels of the stuff and help ensure that they take proper precautions.
The company's current batch of sensor-packed boxes are being used to monitor things like temperature, pressure, humidity, smoke and dust, but it's not hard to imagine the company eventually installing low-cost cameras to provide monitoring for on-the-job safety that could avoid accidents like the kind that were responsible for so many deaths in New York.
It'd also be a boon to the insurers whose job it is to worry about construction site safety and project management — and whose venture arms are providing some of the financing for Pillar.
Funding for the company's latest round came from XL Innovate, Hyperplane VC, and Techstars Ventures, according to a statement from the company. Pillar says it will use the money to expand its workforce and scale manufacturing.
As a result of the financing, Martha Notaras, a partner at XL Innovate — the investment arm of the global insurance firm XL Catlin — will take a seat on the company's board of directors.
"By bringing industrial-grade sensors to construction sites, Pillar can offer more accurate risk management to general contractors and potential policy optimization to insurance providers to better protect sites from damage," said Martha Notaras, in a statement. "Gathering and analyzing key environmental data can help predict and prevent major issues while allowing insurers and their clients to reduce losses over the long run."


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Illinois black conservative leader Dr. Eric Wallace is the publisher of Freedom Journal's Magazine, has previously served on the Republican National Committee's and the Illinois Republican Party's Outreach Committee. Over the years, he also has run for Congress in Illinois' 2nd Congressional District, state senate and lieutenant governor. Friday morning, Dr. Wallace endorsed Republican candidate Mike Huckabee for President.
In a world that has many challenges, both foreign and domestic, I believe our next president should be a person who has been tried and tested politically, morally grounded and Constitutionally sound. I believe former Gov. Mike Huckabee meets these criteria.
Tried and Tested Politically
What I mean by this criterion is that with all the dangers from ISIS (Daesh), Russia and China we need someone who is not a novice. Don't get me wrong anyone applying for the job of President will on some level experience on the job training, especially as it relates to foreign policy. However, we now have a president with very little experience, which has lead to some disastrous unintended consequences. So, I believe we need someone who has the moral fortitude, experience and backbone to not shrink back in a time of confronting our adversaries.
Gov. Huckabee has faced down and won against one of the most vicious, morally challenged, and ruthless political machines in the USA—the Clintons. As Governor of Arkansas he battled Hillary, Bill, and the democratic establishment controlling the state. He has had to work with a state legislature controlled by Democrats to get things done. It's under these conditions that he served as Gov. of Arkansas from 1996-2007. You can examine his record of accomplishments here. The question we need to ask ourselves, is whom do we want facing down our foreign adversaries when "push comes to shove"? Huckabee has been tried and tested in his dealings with the Clintons and the democrat party of Arkansas. He has worked with those who disagree with him on policy, yet made strides implementing conservative ideas. The same temperament and experience will come in handy as the next president has to navigate turbulent foreign policy defending our friends and standing resolute against our enemies.
Morally Grounded
As an ordained minster myself, and a biblical scholar, I appreciate his background as an ordained minister who has entered the political arena. I believe that makes him less susceptible to the corruption in Washington D.C. I also think that it puts him in good company with the founding fathers who were minister's of the gospel or at least men of faith. As John Adams said, "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." To promote a "moral and religious" people it might be helpful if we had someone in the White House that actually believed and demonstrated these ideas with the courage of his convictions. Robert Winthrop, Speaker of the U. S. House said, "Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet."
I believe Gov. Huckabee is a man controlled by the a power within him, the Word of God animated by the Spirit of God. Proverbs 14:34 says, "Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people." We need a president who understands this and lives out his faith before us all.
Constitutionally sound
Our next president needs to be able to follow the United States Constitution. I truly believe Gov. Huckabee understands that this country is run by the rule of law, which distinguishes three bodies of government. The Legislative branch writes legislation not the courts. Nor, does the executive branch create law by executive fiat. There is a system of "checks and balances" that maintains stability that makes our country great. Gov. Huckabee has made it clear that he disagrees with the Supreme Court's legislating from the bench maintaining Obamacare and creating same sex marriage without constitutional authority. His social conservatism is unrivaled understanding that our social norms should not be undone by the courts or the president.
However, there is another area of constitutional understanding that he brings to the table that has gotten very little notoriety. His support of the Fair Tax or consumption tax. The founding fathers spoke about this in the Federalist Papers. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay wrote short essays defending the constitution to help with its ratification in the New York convention. Hamilton refers to a consumption tax in Federalist paper #21. He talks about the federal government raising revenue and doing so fairly. He states, "It is a signal advantage of taxes on articles of consumption, that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit; which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end proposed, that is, an extension of the revenue….If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds."
In other words the consumption tax helps keep taxation low because if the tax is too high people will purchase less of the product and therefore less tax revenue will be collected. Hence, there is a built in balance with a consumption tax. The founding fathers understood this having been over taxed by the British whom they vanquished.
Huckabee supports a consumption tax that would bring economic prosperity to our nation that is especially vital now like at no other time before. To start with, the Fair Tax doesn't care how much money you make. It doesn't tax labor, income, productivity, savings or investment. It taxes consumption. The amount of tax paid is based on the amount of money you spend on products and services. This helps the poor in several ways: 1) They get to keep all their earnings; with no money deducted for federal taxes. 2) Under the Fair Tax, the poor pay no net taxes. 3) The cost of hiring new employees is reduced because businesses aren't required to pay FICA. Thus, the cost for doing business is reduced for both the "Mom and Pop" store, as well as the "Big box" chains. 4) Easy compliance for everyone makes doing business more profitable and thus stimulates the economy. 5) Capital gains taxes are abolished, which brings home corporate money hiding overseas, which in the long run boosts the economy.
The Fair Tax also increases incentive to work for everyone. No longer will "Uncle Sam" unduly hold your money. Your earnings can work for you in savings and investments without worrying about capital gains taxes. Both poor and rich will be dealt with fairly. Prosperity will lift everyone's standard of living. While it won't ensure economic parity—it will increase opportunity and economic viability, which is what we really want. It will increase the incentive for the poor to move from poverty to prosperity. It will increase hiring, savings, investments, and more; and will with it, harness the earning potential and productivity of every American from the richest to the poorest. The dis-incentivizing of taxes on wealth creation will disappear opening the door to economic empowerment for all. One last thing, IT GETS RID OF THE IRS. There are already two bills in congress H.R. 25 for the House and S.B. 155 in the Senate.
Although a consumption tax is not in the Constitution, it was supported by its signers as evidenced in the Federalist papers.
In Conclusion
I am aware that there are a number of good candidates running for the GOP presidential nomination. This endorsement is not to disparage any of them. This article is to proclaim that one man stands head and shoulders above the rest if you're comparing apples to apples. I'd hate to see conservatives, in general and the Christian conservatives, in particular, run after candidates who have not proven themselves in the past. Or as a party, do what the Democrats did in 2008 and run after the promise of "hope and change" that nobody really every received. It's time, instead, to pay close attention to whom we want to lead the free world. We need to remember that popular opinion and bloviating does not make for good parameters in picking a president.
I also understand that the polls have others in the lead, but I'm not one who follows the crowd. I hope your aren't either. I am reminded of when Israel was trying to pick a new King after Saul. The Prophet Samuel went to the house of Jesse and began to call forward the elder brothers of David. Then God spoke to Samuel, "…Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart." (1 Samuel 16:7) Our prayer should be, 'Lord help us select our next president by his/her heart.' I believe I have seen the heart of Mike Huckabee. I see a man who loves the Lord, his family and his country. He is ready to lead the free world. I see a person who has been tried and tested politically, morally grounded and Constitutionally sound. That's why I'm endorsing Mike Huckabee for President of the United States.

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We know you've seen it, those soul searching eyes of Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales staring back at you when you visit a Wiki page. Was it enough to make you donate? Probably not. However, it looks like Wikipedia is really feeling the financial crunch, as it's now resorting to emailing people who have previously donated to ask for more money.
It's respectable as Wikipedia has always been and appears to always plan to be advert free. As Jimmy Wales says himself, it's a "temple of the mind." However, it appears it's becoming unsustainable. The advertisements have been up for well over a month now, and they're getting desperate. Perhaps the internet isn't going to be thankful for Wikipedia until they actually disappear because they can't afford to run anymore.
In the email, Wales points out that Wikipedia is the 5th most popular website and servers over 470 million unique users every month. Impressive. Not only that, they run with just 95 staff and a measly 679 servers, which is an impressive feat in itself considering we can't remember the last time Wikipedia was actually offline.
"If everyone reading this donated $5, we would only have to fundraise for one day a year." Perhaps it's time we all got out our wallets and helped support these guys, before its too late.
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Did Peter Weber's Ex-Girlfriend Predict His 'Bachelor' Finale?
As a new season of 'The Bachelor' begins, Peter Weber comes to the show with some baggage. Here are the ex-girlfriends he dated before the show.
It's here: the 24th season of The Bachelor, starring the newest heartthrob, Pilot Pete. Peter Weber's coming to the season looking for love after his heart-wrenching appearance on The Bachelorette.
But, clearly, Peter is also coming to the season with some baggage. And no, we don't mean that as another overused pilot joke (har har) — host Chris Harrison even said it himself that Pete "needed a therapist," so there'll be a lot of drama to unpack this season.
Something we're sure we'll see him grapple with on-screen: his exes. While we know that he's not going to end the season engaged, we're hoping he'll move past his problems and find a happily ever after. But before we find out who Peter picks to be his co-pilot (pun intended this time), let's talk about his ex-girlfriends.
He's definitely not over Hannah Brown.
If your heart is still breaking over Hannah sending Peter home on The Bachelorette, expect more of it this season, because she makes an appearance. We know there's absolutely no way she could join the house this season since she was filming Dancing With the Stars at the same time, but we also know that Peter asked her if she would.
Either that was a cruel attempt to get back at her for sending him home, or Peter still has a lot of feelings for Hannah. Honestly, either option is possible at this point. Expect this to cause a lot of tension between the contestants this season.
Ex Calee Lutes claims they were dating while he auditioned for The Bachelorette.
Apparently Jed wasn't the only man on Hannah's season with a girl back home. Partway through the season, model Calee Lutes alleged that she and Peter had dated until he dumped her suddenly for what she could only assume was his Bachelorette audition. She says that while they had been planning to spend New Year's Eve together and had a trip to Costa Rica booked for March, he broke up with her two days before Christmas, according to ET.
She was completely confused, convinced there was another girl, until the list of contestants for Hannah's season were released and she saw Peter's name.
"He wasn't upfront. He never said a word about the show even though he knows I watch it," she told the outlet. "When I found out about the show, I texted him and told him that he owed me an explanation, but I never heard a word back. That's the most shocking part of all."
Peter claimed that that wasn't the case, and said that he ended the relationship because he was ready for it to move faster than she was.
"The show had absolutely nothing to do with me ending that relationship," he told ET.
Calee also revealed that watching her ex-boyfriend throughout Hannah's season made it clear that he was in it for the wrong reasons.
"I know he's not ready to settle down, so I think it would be a huge mistake if he were to be the Bachelor," she said before his season was announced. Considering this season's ending is clearly unconventional, Calee may have been right.
Peter Weber has a mystery ex-girlfriend.
Now, we can't confirm whether or not this is actually an ex of Peter's, but he's got a few photos with a woman on Instagram that definitely make it look like the two are more than a little friendly with each other.
The handle tagged in all of these photos is @lhuesgen, and the photos date back to 2014. It's possible that this is another of Peter's exes — one he ended on a better note with, considering the photos of the two of them are still up. If so, she's been quiet about Pete's rise to fame.


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OSHA revises worker training hours
OSHA has reduced the number of hours a worker may train in a single day.
The agency's policy on the Outreach Training Program now directs OSHA trainers to limit class times to 7.5 hours per day. This means a 10-hour program will be required to span at least two days, and a 30-hour program at least four.
The change comes amid concerns that students would sit in class up to 13 hours a day, which could lead to students becoming mentally fatigued and missing "essential" safety and health training, according to an OSHA press release. Prior to the Oct. 27 announcement, no limitations on training hours existed for a single day.
The policy change is effective immediately.
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Volume 36, Number 4, July/August 2002
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Two-scale FEM for homogenization problems
Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH-Zentrum,
CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland. firstname.lastname@example.com.
Revised: 8 April 2002
The convergence of a two-scale FEM for elliptic problems in divergence form with coefficients and geometries oscillating at length scale ε << 1 is analyzed. Full elliptic regularity independent of ε is shown when the solution is viewed as mapping from the slow into the fast scale. Two-scale FE spaces which are able to resolve the ε scale of the solution with work independent of ε and without analytical homogenization are introduced. Robust in ε error estimates for the two-scale FE spaces are proved. Numerical experiments confirm the theoretical analysis.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 65N30
Key words: Homogenization / two-scale regularity / Finite Element Method (FEM) / two-scale FEM.
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Free of charge and open to all, the Heart Circle was the centerpiece of Hay's teachings over the last decades of his life and remains a central principle of the Radical Faerie community. Hay learned the circle process from his years in San Juan Pueblo, Colorado, and used it to build community, to govern through consensus and to discover our true essence as "a separate people whose time has come". Everyone is invited to participate in the Heart Circle by speaking "from the heart" as the talisman, or talking stick, is passed around the circle. Speaking is not mandatory.
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Anne Davis Cinnamon Rose
Sweet, feminine and all business, like Marysville's notorious Madame, this blend of Cassia Cinnamon & Rose Petals will surprise and delight with its aromatics and flavor. Use in any dessert that relies on the flavor of Cinnamon.
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Ceylon – the true Cinnamon, scientifically speaking – has a mellow, citrusy flavor and a woodsy, floral aroma. more subtle with less bite than Cassia. Hailed for health benefits and considered more precious than gold in ancient Egypt.
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Our single-source organically grown Saigon Cassia comes direct from the mountains of the Yen Bai region of Vietnam. This Cinnamon really packs a punch, with a sweet, peppery aroma and an intense flavor profile.
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Repairs to the London Bridge were said to be partially paid for by taxes and tolls placed on Anise Seed by King Edward in 1305. In folklore, Anise is believed to stave off nightmares when placed near the bed.
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Sweet, feminine and all business, like Marysville's notorious Madame, this blend of Cinnamon & Rose Petals will surprise and delight with its aromatics and flavor. Use in any dessert that relies on a strong flavor of Cinnamon. Use in same proportions as with any other Cinnamon.
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The ultimate expression of an American classic, our Apple Pie Spice features a blend of two different species of Cinnamon, freshly-milled Chinese Ginger, and prized Vanilla Beans. This blend delivers the tangy sweetness and aromatics of a kitchen from a distant past brought forward in memories with the first smell.
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Native to Southeast Asia, Bitter Orange, also called Andalusia Orange, is commonly used in bitters, marmalades, and in baking due to its strong citrus aroma and slightly bitter flavor.
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These dried flowers are pH indicators, steeping into a delicious blue tisane that will transform into a purple or pink color when you add some form of citric acid (traditionally, lemon juice). They can also be used to naturally color rice or noodles, and are a particularly fun botanical to use in crafting cocktails.
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Part of the ginger family, Cardamom means grains of paradise. Historically, Cardamom has been used to flavor foods, as an ingredient in perfumes, and even for medicinal purposes.
Known for its sweet and spicy taste, Cardamom seed is used equally in sweet dishes such as breads and cakes and in savory dishes such as meats and curries. Use in baked goods, sprinkle on oatmeal, ice cream, or iced melon, and add to curry. Cardamom has a sharp aroma and distinctive flavor that can be compared to anise or eucalyptus. For a Middle Eastern treat, sprinkle in your coffee.
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Our blend of Cassia Cinnamons, the Baker's Blend is both stronger and sweeter than traditional cinnamon, but not as overpowering as pure Saigon Cassia. Use in same proportions as with any other Cinnamon.
Cinnamon ~ Ceylon$5.00 – $28.35
Ceylon – the true Cinnamon, scientifically speaking – has a mellow, citrusy flavor & a woodsy, floral aroma; more subtle with less of a bite than Cassia. Hailed for health benefits & considered more precious than gold in ancient Egypt.
Perfect for dishes with few competing flavors, such as custards, puddings, baked fruits and whipped cream, or simply sprinkled on oatmeal, yogurt or toast. Use also in sauces and curries, and add to lamb and vegetable dishes.
Available whole in 5″ quills (approx 3 per package) or milled.
Cinnamon ~ Indonesian Cassia$5.00 – $21.60
The Greek poet, Sappho, referenced Cassia in 7th century B.C. Though not the "true" Cinnamon, Cassia (also called Chinese Cinnamon) is often sold as Cinnamon in the U.S., where it's preferred for its strong, spicy and lingering flavor.
Use in both sweet and strong savory dishes: candies, baked goods, meats, preserves, curries, and hot beverages. Cassia, with its intense aromatic qualities and taste, is the popular choice for Cinnamon Rolls.
Available whole in 6-inch quills (3 sticks per package) or milled to a powder.
Cinnamon ~ Saigon Cassia$8.00 – $27.00
Saigon Cinnamon (aka Vietnamese Cinnamon) is the strongest and sweetest species of Cinnamon available. Ours is freshly milled from organically grown bark to get the most intense flavor possible. Holds up to Vietnamese Pho and full-flavor meats; makes a great addition to yogurt; or ratchet up your baking with this powerful, nearly hot cinnamon flavor.
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Cloves$9.25 – $25.00
Despite attempts at clove monopolies, by the 18th century cloves were grown in many places including Brazil, Tanzania, and Madagascar. The whole Clove looks much like a nail, hence its French namesake, "clou" (nail).
Use in pastries, puddings, cooked fruits, and cakes, or sprinkle on oatmeal for a treat. Also yummy in stews and vegetables. Pairs well with nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger.


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Coan who blesses guides my words.
Bitter days of battle, and weary nights of mourning. Together they drained our spirit.
Elf broke his sword on shield of Man.
Man dulled his axe on armor of Elf.
Each bitter day, each mourning night, years upon years.
Coan who blesses guides my words.
Endless battle, stretching from the first of all dawns,
The feud of kings whose names had faded
From memories
And the pages of the oldest books.
Coan who blesses guides my words.
When swords met for a thousand thousandth time
Caetano, Elf King, Lord of the High Rock
met Adam, King of Men
In the ruins of Funchal, the city that had been beautiful.
Coan who blesses guides my words.
Terrible was the combat.
Steel met steel with the roar of lightning breaking earth
Here Caetano lunged, there Adam struck his blade away
Here Adam swung his sword, there Caetano brought up his shield.
Coan who blesses guides my words.
Weary, in body and in heart, Caetano
Let his blade fall
And there Adam struck with burning sword
A mortal wound that brought the proud King down
Coan who blesses guides my words.
When he saw blood flow
From the dying heart of his enemy
Adam, victor, King of Men
Threw away his crownèd helm and wept
Coan who blesses guides my words.
That burning sword, Gold-Drinker, Slayer of Elves
Slipped from Adam's tired hand.
As Caetano died, broken king,
Then too did the flame of battle in Adam's heart.
He took up his sword again, but not to strike. In the cloak of his defeated foe, King Adam
Bound up his worn and bloodied weapon. He left the field of battle, alone
Neither Elf nor Man laid hands on him.
He went to Abelida, daughter of Caetano, now Queen of the High Rock
He knelt at her feet and offered the now-nameless sword, wrapped in her father's cloak
"I offer you this sword, that brought death to your father.
No longer is it Gold-Drinker, Slayer of Elves
Let it be instead an instrument of peace, a mourning sword
And let a pact be placed upon it.
Let there be an end to this ceaseless death."
Coan who blesses guides my words.
- Excerpt from the anonymous work Iz Lhiha cu'Cadoé, The History of the Elves
A sword, a sword, a shining sword
Axe with double blades that gleam
Spear with wicked point that thirsts.
Put them aside! Throw away your arms
Put them down, man, and let them rust
Sing instead, sing with me instead
A sword that rent and tore and broke
Has healed us all
Has healed a world that bled.
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Sunday, October 8, 2017
Sierra Morning
I started this painting a couple of years ago, but I put it on the dog pile to recycle. Today I dug it out and reworked it. The location is in the Gem Lakes area in the Eastern Sierra, at Chickenfoot Lake. It is a view that has been painted many times. I may still decide that it belongs on the dog pile or that I'll rework it again, but for now I'll leave it be. 18x12", Oil on Linen.
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I've got a news flash! Did you know there's more than one Tooth Fairy?
Yes, friends and neighbors, there are. It occurred to me many moons ago, but I've found that there is a large section of our population that remains unaware.
When I was little, we had a cute little Tooth Fairy. Not that we ever saw her, but she had to be little. She -never- woke us up. We always put our teeth under our pillow and were rewarded with a quarter for each and every one. We got up in the morning, reached under the pillow, and had -money-. We were RICH and PROUD of that gap in our teeth.
When I had kids, we ended up with an old, clumsy Tooth Fairy. Wouldn't you know it? It took a while to find out about her skills, or lack thereof. Not sure we would have moved to that area had we known, but alas, there we were and we were stuck with her.
I think it was on rare occasion our Tooth Fairy managed to sneak a tooth out and leave money. She just couldn't seem to do it. I guess her hands were too big, or her wings too loud, but she couldn't make the swap without waking a little head.
It took a few years, but we finally came up the -perfect- solution! Teeth were placed on the windowsill. Sometimes it took a day or two, her vision wasn't that great either, but eventually there -would- be a tooth replaced by money on the windowsill. She was discriminating in her payoff, too! If there was a cavity in a tooth, the best you could expect was a dime. Generally, most teeth were worth fifty cents, but as those molars came out (without a cavity) she'd leave a whole dollar! Those molars could buy a Match Box car!
I don't know what age the Tooth Fairy quits coming, regardless of the area you live in, but she does quit visiting. We finally get to the point where -we- must have the darned things taken out and -we- pay for it, not her. To add insult to injury, just when we need it most, she doesn't subsidize the replacements.
My grandmother's teeth were replaced decades ago. They look nice, too. No more worries about the Tooth Fairy. My evening routine with my grandmother has always been "Nighty night. Sleepy tight, and don't let those bed-bugs bite. If they do you BITE THEM BACK!"
I reminded her that her teeth were in a jar in the bathroom, so I'd just take care of biting those bed bugs for both of us. While I can.
A jack of all trades, Ms. Tuggle has been a Covington resident since the late 70's. She's been a K-Mart cashier, cabinet builder, vet tech, office manager for a beef cattle ranch and water well company (where she was able to hold benefits for D.A.R.E. and Scouts), a court reporter, business manager, assistant at a private investigation firm, legal assistant, convenience store clerk, landscaper and elementary school substitute teacher. Her greatest pleasure is being a wife, mother and grandmother. Her stories are all real, and all names will be withheld to protect the innocent, and also maybe the guilty, depending on the crime & the Statute of Limitations.
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Business Trends
Tips To Automate Business for Fast Growth and Maximum Efficiency
Business automation essentially refers to the use of technology to execute recurring tasks in a business where manual effort can be substituted. As you get acquainted with your business, you will soon realize, or may have realized that some tasks happen on the daily. Yes, some are so simple that engaging in them every day wastes time and money! Well, you ought to change that pattern. Let's take you through some tips to do so in a bid to make your business more efficient and hasten growth.
- Find repetitive tasks
For starters, repetitive tasks hinder growth, and you will need to find where they are in your business. A menial task, such as sending individual confirmation emails to thousands of contacts, will not push you beyond your limits. On the contrary, it takes up a lot of time per day and keeps you on the same spot month after month. So, why not automate and move on to areas that promote growth? Business automation eliminates redundancies and helps you to save time and resources. If you are operating on a small-scale level, you may identify the patterns quickly. However, if you have a large team, you will have to inspect operations in individual departments perhaps with the help of an expert. Here, you ought to define the nature of the problem, the effects, and what you are anticipating.
- Use SAP Business One
We get it; you want to join the list of top business achievers instantly. However, when automation is done drastically, it can lead to resistance from the team and, eventually, failure. So, start small. A perfect example is to use a tool like SAP business, which acts as a solution for all business needs. It helps you to gain control over your business by providing real-time data about all departments such as customer relationships, financials, inventory, sales, and project management. In the end, you will be able to make decisions that are backed up by data and drive the company forward.
- Create automation tools
Knowing where the problem lies is the first step in preparing for growth. However, you need to know what your options are where business efficiency and growth are concerned. Depending on the areas that you would like to improve on, there are options to help you fix the issues. For instance, if your concern is on online tasks, then a web design agency can help you craft tailored automation tools for your business. Yes, you can create custom tools if you can't find them in the market.
- Create a culture that accommodates automation
Even when jobs become boring, many people are reluctant to accept automated services for fear of losing jobs. On many occasions, employees would rather deal with the buzz-killers than be out of jobs. But that's not entirely true; automation does not eliminate physical work. It shifts attention to other areas that are equally important for improving business efficiency and growth.
Therefore, as you weigh your options, educate employees about the benefits of automation in their careers. Build trust that the transition will benefit them and offer training. This way, you will improve the acceptance rate and get the intended results.
- Learn from others
Although automation is meant to improve business efficiency and growth rate, some companies still fail, mainly because of poor planning. To reap the intended benefits, learn from others who have followed similar paths. Perform thorough research to learn about the immediate and long-term changes after the automation of activities in particular areas. For example, did the company fire some employees? Did it hire other IT experts and educators for a smooth transition? How did customers respond? How did the sales change? Once you have acquired this knowledge, you will know when and how you can implement the changes.
- Automate the entire process
Assuming that you have introduced the concept of automation to your team and showed them some results, now it is time for the full-blown operation. But, ensure the team is confident about the changes so they can set the right image to the public. Educate them about the process and how their roles will follow a different perspective. This approach of starting small and upgrading reduces financial input and human errors.
Final remarks,
Businesses that are experiencing massive growth are continually ditching manual tasks. But, as you ponder on automating, align the strategies with your business needs. Automation will significantly increase the efficiency, accuracy, and speed of processes involved and will greatly save you time and energy.


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#SixteenCheesecakes ~ Banana Cream Cheesecake
Last year Camilla at Culinary Adventures with Camilla rallied some blogging friends to help her celebrate her 15th wedding anniversary. She was only looking for fifteen cheesecake recipes. But we posted waaaaaay more than #FifteenCheesecakes. Last year I made a Classic Cheesecake with Strawberry Sauce!
It was such a hit and we all had so much fun that she decided to see if she could get enthusiasm for another round of cheesecakes. Yep. This is an encore performance by some of her favorite foodie bloggers.
This Banana Cream Cheesecake is really fun and delicious - and I am going to be making it again, very soon, and with a few changes to see how it comes out. When I made this, I used a large package of banana cream pudding, prepped, and used half of that because I didn't have a small box, but I think maybe my "half" was more than a 3.4 ounce package would have been. We liked having more filling so I will probably do it that way again next time. Also, we thought it could have used a second package of cream cheese, but since I didn't make it that way this time I am leaving the instructions as I made it. We also are going to try to booze it up a little next time - and maybe soak the banana slices in some Banana Liquer, and throw in a TBS or so to the whipped cream and / or filling mixture. I'm pretty excited to give it a try again with this changes! I have a couple other desserts I'm working on for Easter weekend, so once the sugar settles from those kitchen adventures I'll have to give this one another go.
I used a pie plate for this cheesecake - so I guess that makes it a "pake". Whatever you want to call it - it was creamy, fluffy, and delicious!
Happy anniversary Cam!! Thanks for letting us join you to celebrate today. :)
Banana Cream Cheesecake adapted from Six Sisters Stuff
Pie Crust
1 ¾ cups of graham cracker crumbs
¼ cup of sugar
½ cup of butter, melted
1 pkg (8-oz) cream cheese, softened to room temp
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup heavy whipping cream, whipped to almost stiff peaks with 1 TBS powdered sugar
3 - 4 bananas, sliced
1 ¾ cups cold milk
1 package (3.4 ounces) instant banana cream pudding mix
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a 9" round baking pan combine the graham cracker crumbs with 1/4 cup sugar and stir in butter. Press the crumb mixture onto the bottom and up the sides of the pan. Bake in the preheated oven for 5-7 minutes and set aside to cool while you prep the filling.
- In a small bowl, whisk milk and pudding mix until combined. Let stand for 2 minutes in the refrigerator.
- In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Beat in the prepared pudding until mixture is smooth. Fold in half of the prepared whipped cream. Mixture should be fluffy.
- Arrange half of the banana slices along the bottom of the crust and pour on half of the cream cheese mixture. Layer the remaining banana slices and top with the last of the cream cheese mixture. Gently spread the remaining whipped cream on top.
- Refrigerate for 2 hours, or until set.
- When you're ready to serve, you can top with a few extra fresh slices of banana if desired.


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A new wave of Kurt Cobain licensed products is about to flood the collectible market. A visit to the National Entertainment Collectables Association's web site, necaonline.com, revealed numerous new items featuring the likeness of the deceased grunge pioneer. Among the items are a lunchbox, a keychain that doubles as a small liquor flask, a wallet, a wristband, dog tags and two seven-inch action figures (one with an electric guitar and one from Nirvana's Unplugged performance, complete with tattered librarian sweater, music stand and Martin acoustic guitar).
Cobain's image was licensed to NECA by his widow, singer Courtney Love, who also sold a 25 percent stake in her husband's song catalog last year for $50 million.
The value of the Nirvana catalog sale put Cobain ahead of Elvis Presley on Forbes magazine's 2006 list of the top-earning dead celebrities. The magazine also reported that the licensing of dead celebrities was nearly a quarter-billion dollar business last year.
Love's manager, Peter Asher, insisted that none of Nirvana's songs will be used for anything that Cobain would have opposed, explaining, "We believe if we say yes to the right things, we can do both—make money and do the right thing for the catalog."
Love recently protested the unauthorized use of her husband's image in a British ad campaign for Dr. Martens boots, after which Dr. Martens CEO David Suddens issued this apology: "We are really, really, really sorry. We do think that it is offensive. We made a mistake. My message to Courtney Love is: This is something we shouldn't have been doing."
See the Cobain Dr. Martens ad here.
In other Cobain news, the Seattle-based record label Barsuk announced that they will be releasing the soundtrack to the motion picture Kurt Cobain About a Son on September 11, 2007. The film is told in Cobain's voice from audiotaped interviews conducted by journalist Michael Azerrad for his book Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana. The movie will feature the Azerrad interviews and combine them with a score written by Northwest musician and producer Steve Fisk, who produced Nirvana's Blew EP, and Ben Gibbard, lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service.
The soundtrack will also feature the music of more than 20 artists who had an impact on Cobain during his life, ranging from childhood favorites Arlo Guthrie and Queen Bad Brains and Big Black, to legendary rockers Iggy Pop, David Bowie and R.E.M. The soundtrack will not contain the music of Cobain or Nirvana, though it will include audio excerpts of Cobain speaking.


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Cadet Spotlight: Meet Fitstagrammer Darcy Gallagher
Everyone is on their own fitness journey, and Darcy Gallagher '19 hopes to encourage others on their journeys through her health and fitness Instagram, @dgallfitness. There she posts daily workout videos and write-ups of her workouts, along with nutritional information on healthy meals and snacks, recommendations for skin and hair care products, trendy healthy restaurants, fitness class suggestions, workout apparel, motivational quotes, and playlists for specific workouts.
"I made this account for people like me, who don't belong to a gym, have little time to squeeze in an effective 10-45 minute workout, and who don't have the money to pay $19.99 a month for workout apps and programs," Gallagher said.
She said she has always been very athletic, playing soccer, lacrosse, basketball, and tennis and swimming. Although she stayed in shape, she "wanted to be doing something more." This sparked her interest in the online fitness community.
"I started working out more my freshman year of high school and got more involved in maintaining my fitness into my sophomore year. By the start of my junior year, I started focusing on diet and ramping up the intensity of my workouts — making them more challenging and consistent. It wasn't until the end of my junior year that I began to feel confident in creating different types of workouts." This led her to create her account in June 2018, which currently has almost 200 active followers.
Gallagher said she hopes to use her account to inspire. She has reached a "broad audience, from friends and family to fitness trainers and executives at athletic clothing and food brands. Many of the people who follow my account have told me it has helped them start or stick to a fitness routine. Others have talked about how helpful it is to have easy recipes for healthy snacks," she said.
What has inspired her the most about running her account is the community she has discovered. "This type of industry is very competitive, but it also resembles a family. I feel that you can reach out to anyone in the fitness/health and wellness community and receive support and positive feedback. It's something really unique." She has even made new friendships with personal trainers who have reached out to her. To Gallagher, "their kind encouragement has meant a lot."
Running @dgallfitness is rewarding, yet also challenging due to the time and effort it requires. "It takes a lot of work coming up with workouts, filming them or writing them up, making healthy foods and finding the nutritional benefits from each ingredient, creating music playlists, going to fitness classes, finding new workout apparel, and above all editing everything to make it look aesthetically pleasing." Nevertheless, she loves doing it. "It's fun to keep it going and exciting when I have the possibility to expand it and reach more people."
Gallagher hopes that SJC students will check out her account for free workouts and advice on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. "It's for everyone: you don't have to be a gym junkie or star athlete, you can have no prior knowledge of fitness and health. If I were to say something to students hesitating to adopt this lifestyle, it would be to keep an open mind. Even if you're new to it, just try it out and see if you like it. It can only benefit you."


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I wish you all a very happy and healthy 2018.
I am working on several pages at the same time , one is the Fallschirmjäger helmets page which you can already view. I am also working on an article about the Champagne runes fraud for which I'm digging through 13 years of forum topics and I am planning to make
a page on helmet paint colors.
Several sweet helmets have been added to the website recently , this is an ongoing process so make sure to check back often.
I will also post a lot number database update in 2018 very soon.
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130. Building the Bridge
A number of years ago I went to Mariondale Center to assist their resident storyteller in leading the St. Francis of Assisi celebration day. I took three sets of Tinkertoys and we divided them into four sets—not necessarily equally because everyone has different resources. We divided the 50 or 60 people into four groups and each group had two tables, separated by two to three feet.
They were instructed that they needed to build a bridge with their set of Tinkertoys from one table to the other. It had to have a little bit of lift to it. It couldn't be just Tinkertoys stuck together and laid across the chasm. They were to put their Tinkertoys in the middle of one table and look at them (not touching them) and plan as a group for ten minutes how they would build their bridge. Then they were given ten minutes to actually build the bridge, but during that ten minutes they could not speak to each other. And it happened. The four groups created four distinctive wonderful bridges. It was not competitive—they were just each told to create a beautiful, imaginative bridge. And they did it.
In the time afterwards as we all talked about the process they shared that they had made some amazing discoveries: it paid to listen to each other; good ideas came from different people; each of them got nervous at different places in the process; they could work together; they didn't need language; they didn't have time to argue and disagree.


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Solihull with some interesting facts
Solihull is a large town with a population of 214,909 believed to have been founded between 1170 and 1180 by the Limesi family who are Lords of the Manor of Ulverlei. The town was designed as geometric plots of land along the wide high street laid out in a grid pattern of streets rather than developing piecemeal in order to attract craftsmen and traders. Gaining its name in the 11th Century, the town's name comes from the position of its parish church which was on a soily hill which turned to a sticky mud in wet weather.
Situated 7.5 miles south east of Birmingham, the 2013 uSwitch Quality of Life Index named Solihull the "best place to live" in the United Kingdom after finding that residents enjoyed higher incomes, better employment rates and higher life expectancy.
The correct pronunciation of Solihull is with a long "o" (as in sown) not with a short "o" (as in sold). A variation to the pronunciation was Silhill, hence Silhillian as the name given to local residents.
Famous people born in the area include award-winning television presenter Richard Hammond. He is most famous for his work on the popular show, Top Gear but has more recently presented a two-part documentary for Sky 1 called 'Richard Hammond's Jungle Quest'.
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In this article I discuss the importance, where possible of having a wedding disco meeting with your DJ. There are many benefits of meeting your DJ well before your big day.
It's Free!
I do not charge for wedding consultation meetings providing it takes place in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire or North Essex. If you live further afield, we can take advantage of using Skype. For example, I recently did a wedding near Newmarket where the Bride and Groom lived in New Zealand. We held our meeting on Skype.
Presently, 70% of couples have a meeting. This has increased from 25% only 3 years ago.
Why Have a Meeting?
The wedding disco meeting is an opportunity for me and the couple to meet and discuss their special day in more detail. Phone calls are fine, but they never cover all of the questions. It also enables the couple to form as rapport with the DJ.
Remember, your wedding DJ will be running your evening, communicating to you and your guests. You need to be 100% happy that he/she will provide you with what you really want.
You are not obligated to book me at the meeting.
I find that the meeting lets the couple freely discuss their day as well as allowing me to advise them on various areas using the benefit of my vast experience.
Areas such as timings, music, first dance, colour scheme, mood lighting and early setups may be discussed. It also allows me to share ideas, photos of previous weddings. For example, recently at a meeting a bride wanted a particular colour of mood lighting. I was able to find an exact photo of an earlier wedding with the same colour scheme. The bride was delighted!
Where does the Meeting Take Place?
Usually, at the wedding venue or the home of the bride and groom. Clients are also welcome to visit me at my office.
If you are planning a marquee wedding reception, it's helpful to hold the holding at the location of the where the marquee will be. This is because I can still get a good idea of space and site access. I can also advise on whether an early set up is an option to consider.
A Recent Example
I met John & Claire in Bramerton Norfolk in October 2019 to discuss their 2020 wedding reception. It's a beautiful riverside setting. They have exclusive use of the venue for their wedding.
We discussed timings, music, access to the function area, and colour schemes. Claire was delighted that the mood lighting would match their colour scheme. An early set up was discussed. My advice was that it wasn't necessary for this wedding, saving the bride and groom money. Space was limited in the main area for the disco, so I will adapt the disco to fit into the room, allowing ample space for dancing.
In summary, a wedding disco meeting is a fantastic planning opportunity for your special day. Every meeting which I have attended has been immensely helpful for all everyone.


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Tetranex is proud to sponsor the Alberta Tech Alliance Association (ATAA) through their 2019 FIRST Robotics Competitions. The ATAA is the not-for-profit organization that supports two community robotics teams – SWAT bots (#5015) and Alberta Tech Alliance (#4334). These teams work out of a build space located in Northland Mall and host a group of 54 students from grade 9 – 12 who are interested in growing their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) skills. As community teams, students from across Calgary are welcome and the program is run by a team of 24 committed volunteers and even more parents.
This year the game is called Destination Deep Space, in celebration of the 50 year anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. Game reveal was January 5th and the students had to complete their robots by midnight February 19, 2019.
We were excited to have the opportunity to check out their Sponsorship Open House at their Northland Village Mall build space. This permanent build space allows the teams to mock up key components of the playing field and extensively test their robots prior to the competitions.
Their competitions this season are as follows:
- Victoria – Canadian Pacific Regional, March 6 – 9 (ATA #4334)
- Calgary – Canadian Rockies Regional, April 3 – 6 (ATA #4334, SWATbots #5015)
Best of luck to both teams and we look forward to cheering you on from the stands at the Canadian Rockies Regional.


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Hotel ibis Strasbourg Centre Petite France is situated in Strasbourg's Petite France quarter, just 450 metres from Strasbourg Train Station. The air-conditioned hotel offers free Wi-Fi internet access and an on-site bar.
ibis Centre Petite France, 3 stars : 98 rooms
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Hotel ibis Strasbourg Centre Petite France is in Strasbourg's Petite France area, just a quarter mile from the Strasbourg Train Station. The air-conditioned hotel provides free Wi-Fi internet access and an on-site bar.
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Hemet - San Jacinto
I lived in Hemet for more than a decade, beginning in 1990, when I went to work for the Ramona Pageant. It's a nice enough town, sharing the San Jacinto Valley with its sister city, San Jacinto, and several other smaller communities. I never planned to stay, but I couldn't help putting down historical roots.
--Phil Brigandi
Francisco Estudillo
Some writers are too quick to throw around superlatives. Especially when they write history. Everything has to be the first or the last or the biggest or even the smallest. Well here's a superlative I think I can prove -- the Estudillo Mansion at Seventh and Main in San Jacinto is the most significant historical building in the Valley.
The Estudillo family first marches in to the history of the Valley in 1835, when José Antonio Estudillo was appointed the administrator of the ex-mission San Luis Rey. In 1842 he secured part of the old mission lands for himself, when the Mexican government granted him the 35,500 acre Rancho San Jacinto Viejo. Two years later his youngest son, Francisco Estudillo, was born in San Diego.
After José Estudillo died in 1852 the rancho passed to his widow and children. Francisco settled on the rancho in the late 1860s, and built an adobe home at Guachapa, about a quarter mile south of where the Mansion now stands.
About the time Francisco Estudillo moved to the Valley, the family began selling off some of the rancho to both American and Mexican settlers. With more and more people moving to the valley, the little community of San Jacinto began to develop. In 1870 Francisco became San Jacinto's first Postmaster. In 1872 he was Judge of the Plains for this district, overseeing the rodeos and settling disputes between ranchers.
Land sales continued into the 1880s, but Francisco held on to several thousand acres. He raised cattle and horses and did some farming with water brought down from the San Jacinto River. He must have been successful. On April 23, 1885 the San Diego Union reported:
Francisco Estudillo "is now commencing the erection of an elegant brick dwelling at a cost of $5,000. Contract let to Bacon & Ashenfelter. Estudillo is an old resident and one of the original owners of the San Jacinto grant, and it is fitting that he should have one of the finest residences."
Things were just beginning to pick up in the Valley as Estudillo finished his fine new, two-story brick home. In the fall of 1886 he sold 3,000 acres to the original Hemet Valley Water Company. In 1887 he sold the rest of his property -- 1,100 acres just west of the town of San Jacinto -- to a group of developers who formed the Estudillo Land & Water Company. He did retain the six-acre triangle of land where his home stands, however.
Flush from the sale, Estudillo moved to Los Angeles, but in 1889 he returned to the Valley and had the Mansion refurbished. The San Jacinto Register called the result "palatial" and noted that "on all sides are evidences of luxury, wealth and harmony."
Free to pursue civic activities, Estudillo became first a school trustee, then mayor of San Jacinto, and then finally served as the Mission Indian Agent for all of Southern California. He left his Mansion in the Valley shortly after 1900, and died in Los Angeles in 1922.
The Mansion went through several owners, and went to seed somewhat until San Jacinto grocer Louis Miller bought the place in 1928 and restored it to its former glory. Later owners also loved the old place, and cared for it on into the 1990s.
But unfortunately, the building was damaged in the 1992 Landers Earthquake, and was in danger of being lost. Then Riverside County agreed to purchase the building and the six acres around it. Later it was transferred to the City of San Jacinto. Now the earthquake damage has been repaired, the San Jacinto Museum has moved to a new building on the grounds, and plans are being made to open the mansion to the public.
How Old is San Jacinto High School?
Just how old is San Jacinto High School? Well, there's a simple answer, and a not-so-simple answer.
The simple answer is this: San Jacinto High School held its first classes on October 1, 1894, and held its first commencement on June 23, 1896.
But by 1894, there had already been a high school in San Jacinto for two full years -- that's where the not-so-simple part comes in.
In 1891, a new state law was passed which allowed local elementary school districts to join together to form a joint "union" high school district. So that August, the San Jacinto, South San Jacinto, Harmony, and Diamond school districts voted to form what became known as the Hemet Union High School District. At their first meeting, the new trustees voted to put the new school in Hemet -- even though Hemet was not yet even big enough to have its own elementary school district.
Naturally, this decision didn't go over real well in San Jacinto, and the battle lines were quickly drawn. At least two lawsuits followed, and it took another year before the Hemet Union High School finally opened its doors. When it did (on September 19, 1892), it was in downtown San Jacinto! The high school spent two years there; at the start of the 1893-94 school year there were 22 students (half of them from San Jacinto).
San Jacinto may have won the battle, but they lost the war. The high school district still favored the south side of the San Jacinto Valley, especially after the addition of the new Florida (Valle Vista) district in 1892 and the Hemet district in 1893. Each district got one vote on the high school board, so in 1894, when the trustees finally approved plans to build a permanent high school, they put it in Hemet. The new building opened for classes in September, 1894, and was used until 1910.
So San Jacinto decided to start all over again. In August, 1894, the residents voted to establish their own high school, just for San Jacinto. It opened (as previously noted) on October 1st, with 15 students in attendance. But there was no graduating class that first year. Even two of the three members of the Class of '95 were from San Jacinto, they opted to finish their schooling in Hemet, with the students and teachers they'd started with. So it was not until 1896 that San Jacinto High had its first graduation.
So that's the long and the short of it. Hemet High School is two years older than San Jacinto High -- even though it spent those two years in San Jacinto. And San Jacinto had a high school in 1892 -- but they weren't able to keep it.
Splitting hairs? Perhaps. But the truth is the truth, and it's not up to historians (or anybody else) to change it.
A Very Methodist Valley
The Methodist Church, with its circuit riders and lay preachers, was always prominent on the American Frontier. The same was true during the frontier years here in the San Jacinto Valley.
When the old Rancho San Jacinto Viejo was partitioned in 1882 over 15,000 acres here were acquired by the San Jacinto Land Association, which founded the town of "New" San Jacinto in 1883. All of the officers of the Land Association were Methodist ministers or active laymen. They saw to it that the first church in San Jacinto was a Methodist one.
On September 23, 1883 Rev. D. Allen Crowell preached his first sermon in the Valley, and in August, 1884 he officially organized the San Jacinto Methodist Episcopal Church. It was the first church founded in the Valley. Their first sanctuary was dedicated in 1886, and the congregation is still active today.
In 1886 another townsite called Winchester was laid out southwest of the Valley. Once again, the founders were all Methodists. It even shows in their choice of street names -- Wesley, Asbury, Simpson, Willard, etc. All were prominent Methodist leaders or temperance advocates.
Actually, the Methodist church had gotten there before Winchester. In 1884-85 Rev. T.B. Palmer was appointed to a circuit of "San Jacinto and Rockhouse". Rockhouse was an earlier name for the Winchester area. Just how much Rev. Palmer got out there is unclear, but in 1887 Winchester got its own Methodist minister and built its first church. Not only is the Winchester United Methodist Church still active today, but they still worship in their original sanctuary.
Meanwhile, some of the founders of the San Jacinto Land Association started a new company, the Fairview Land & Water Co. In 1886 they laid out a town they called Florida in the southeast part of the Valley. A few years later (when they found the government would not authorize a post office with the confusing name of Florida, California) the town was renamed Valle Vista.
In 1888 Rev. Irving R. Lovejoy of the San Jacinto church organized the Florida Methodist Episcopal Church. The Florida church never grew large enough to have its own full time minister, but it was served for many years by ministers from the San Jacinto, Winchester, and Hemet Methodist churches. Finally from 1912-15 Rev. W.E. Mills, an old Quaker minister, filled the pulpit. When he retired, no one could be found to take his place, and the church finally folded. That August, an accidental fire completely destroyed the old church.
Methodist ministers continued to serve where needed around the Valley on into the 1930s, and though Methodist churches were never founded there, they sometimes held services in Ethanac (Romoland), Diamond Valley, and Sage.
Hemet was not founded by Methodists, but had a Methodist Church almost from the beginning (1894). At one time, it was one of the largest Methodist congregations in Southern California.
"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary... ." - Jessamyn West, The Woman Said Yes (1976)
(c) Phil Brigandi


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I couldn't help but notice that over the past few weeks the Empire has become extremely silly—so silly that I believe it deserves the title of the World's Silliest Empire. One could claim that it has been silly before, but recent developments seem to signal a quantum leap in its silliness level.
The first bit of extreme silliness surfaced when Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, the head of the United States Central Command, told a Senate panel that only a very small number of Syrian fighters trained by the United States remained in the fight—perhaps as few as five. The tab for training and equipping them was $500 million. That's $100 million per fighter, but that's OK, because it's all good as long as the military contractors are getting paid. Things got even sillier when it later turned out that even these few fighters got car-jacked by ISIS/al Qaeda in Syria (whatever they are currently calling themselves) and got their vehicles and weapons taken away from them.
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Mars Attacks!
But it was Putin's speech that laid out the Empire's silliness for all to see when he scolded the US for making a bloody mess of the Middle East with its ham-handed interventions. The oft-repeated quote is "Do you understand what you have done?" but that's not quite right. The Russian «Вы хоть понимаете теперь, чего вы натворили?» can be more accurately translated as "How can you even now fail to understand what a mess you have made?" Words matter: this is not how one talks to a superpower before an assembly of the world's leaders; this is how one scolds a stupid and wayward child. In the eyes of the whole world, this made the Empire look rather silly.
What happened next is that Russia announced the start of its bombing campaign against all manner of terrorists in Syria (and perhaps Iraq too; the Iraqi request is in Putin's in-box). What's notable about this bombing campaign is that it is entirely legal. The legitimate, elected government of Syria asked Russia for help; the campaign was approved by the Russian legislature. On the other hand, the bombing campaign that the US has been conducting in Syria is entirely illegal. There are exactly two ways to legally bomb the territory of another country: 1. an invitation from that country's government and 2. a UN Security Council resolution. The US has not obtained either of them.
Why is this important? Because the UN, with its Security Council, was instituted to prevent war, by making it difficult for nations to engage each other militarily without all sorts of international economic and political repercussions. After World War II it was thought that wars are rather nasty and that something should be done to prevent them. But the US feels that this is rather unnecessary. When a Russian correspondent (Gayane Chichakyan from RT) asked the White House press secretary under what legal authority the US was bombing Syria, he at first pretended to not understand the question, then babbled incoherently, looking rather silly. You see, the US likes to fight wars (or rather, its military contractors like to fight wars, because that's how they make money, and they happen to own a big piece of the US government). But the US can't win any wars, and that makes its entire war effort rather silly (in a murderous sort of way).
In spite of American recalcitrance, the UN does in fact prevent wars. Recently it prevented the US from mounting a "limited strike against the Assad regime in response to the brazen use of chemical weapons" (or so said Obama during his UN speech). This was helped by a deft bit of Russian diplomacy, in the course of which Syria voluntarily gave up its chemical weapons stockpiles. Undeterred by diplomacy, the US squeezed off a couple of cruise missiles in the general direction of Syria, but the Russians promptly shot them out of the sky, triggering a major rethink at the Pentagon and, of course, making the US look rather silly.
But once you make a fool of yourself, why stop? Indeed, Obama shows no intention of stopping. Just about the entire audience at the UN General Assembly knew that the Syrian government's chemical attack on its own people never happened. The chemicals were provided by the Saudis and were unwittingly used by the Syrian rebels on themselves. Lying, when everybody knows that you are lying, and knows that you know that you are lying: what could possibly be sillier?
Ok, how about continuously prattling on about "freedom and democracy"—in the Middle East, after throwing the whole region into chaos through their brain-dead interventions? The only voice of reason in the US seems to be that of Donald Trump, who recently declared that the Middle East was more stable under Saddam Hussein, Moammar Khaddafi and Bashar al Assad. Indeed it was. The fact that the only non-silly politician left in the US is Trump—that bloviating moneybag—sets a rather high bar for silliness for the country as a whole.
Prattling on about "freedom and democracy" in the Middle East is also silly because the entire region is tribal—has been tribal for a few thousand years, and will be tribal for a few thousand more. In each locale, some tribe is on top. If the idea is to carve it up into sovereign territorial units (none of which qualifies as a nation, because each one ends up being multinational) then each territorial unit ends up being ruled by some tribe while others grumble. Blunder in and exploit their grumbling to bring about "regime change"—and the whole place invariably burns down.
A case in point is Israel: it's got the top dog tribe—the Jews, and they can shoot or bomb anybody else with impunity. It is considered "democratic" because the Jews get to vote, which is very nice for the Jews. The Alawites in Syria get to vote too—and vote for Bashar al Assad—so why isn't that good enough? Because of American hypocrisy and double standards.
It's like that right down the line. Saudi Arabia is owned by one tribe—the House of Saud, and everybody else is disenfranchised. Iraq used to be run by the Sunnis from Saddam Hussein's tribe, but the Americans dislodged them, and now what remains of it is ruled by the Shia from the south of the country while the Sunnis ran off and joined ISIS. This can all seem like super-simple stuff, but not for the Americans, because it runs counter to their ideology, which dictates that the world must be remade in America's image. And so they keep trying to do this (or keep pretending to be trying, because results don't matter as long as their military contractors get paid) and don't seem to care one bit that this is making them look very silly.
And so the typical pattern has been this: the US bombs a country to smithereens, mounts a ground invasion, sets up a puppet regime and, promptly or not so promptly, pulls out. The puppet regime falls apart, and then you have either ungovernable chaos or some new, especially nasty form of dictatorship, or a little of each: a failed state, like Libya, and Yemen, and much of Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. It doesn't much matter that this is the result (as long as the military contractors are getting paid) because America's motto seems to be "Look Silly and Carry On." Wreck a country—and it's on to the next bombing campaign.
But this is where it all gets meta-silly: in Syria they can't even achieve that. The Americans have been bombing ISIS for a year now; meanwhile, ISIS has gotten stronger and occupied more territory. But they haven't gotten around to overthrowing Assad; instead, the ISIS boys have been busy prancing around the desert in black head rags and white basketball shoes taking selfies, blowing up archaeological sites, enslaving women and beheading anyone they don't like.
But now it appears that the Russians have achieved in five days of bombing what the Americans couldn't in a year and the ISIS boys are running away to Jordan; others want to go to Germany and ask for asylum. This has made the Americans upset, because, you see, the Russians were bombing "their" terrorists—the ones the Americans recruited, armed and trained... and then bombed? I know, silly—but true. The Russians will have none of that, because their approach is, if it looks like a terrorist and quacks like a terrorist, then it is a terrorist, so let's bomb it.
But it is understandable that this approach is unpopular with the Americans: here they were carefully pumping the place full of weapons and equipment, and bombing carefully around the edges so as not to blow up any of it, and the Russians just blunder in and blow it all up! The Saudis are absolutely livid, because it was they who paid for much of it. Plus the terrorists are their own Wahhabi-Takfiri brethren—the ones who like to declare various other Muslims that they don't happen to like to be infidels, in direct violation of their own Sharia law. Does that remind you of anyone? Anyone silly?
But it doesn't appear that the US can do anything to stop the Russians, or the Chinese who also want to get a piece of ISIS to stuff and mount, or the Iranians and the Hezbollah fighters who are ready to march in and mop up what remains of ISIS once the bombing missions destroy all the war materiel it has amassed. And so it's time for Americans to start an information war by accusing the Russians of causing civilian casualties.
Of course, being Americans, they have to prosecute this information war in the silliest way possible. First, you trot out your claims of civilian casualties before the Russians fly a single sortie. Oops! Then you stuff the social media with fake pictures of wounded children produced beforehand by performers in white helmets paid for by George Soros. And then, when asked for evidence, you refuse to provide any.
So far so good, but let's get even sillier. Immediately after screaming loudly about Russians causing civilian casualties, the Americans blow up a hospital in Afghanistan that was run by Médecins sans Frontières, in spite of being informed of its location both before and during the bombing. "Don't kill civilians... like this!" Could it get any sillier than that? Of course it can: the US can start blatantly, nakedly lying about the event: "There were Taleban fighters hiding in that hospital!"—no, there weren't; "The Afghans told us to bomb that hospital!"—no, they didn't. Bombing that hospital was an actual war crime—so says the UN. Are are the Russians now going to listen to criticism from war criminals? Don't be silly!
It's really hard to tell, but anything seems possible now. For example, the US no longer seems to have a foreign policy: the White House says one thing, the State Department another, the Pentagon a third, Samantha Power at the UN pursues a foreign policy of her own using Twitter, and Senator John McCain wants to arm Syrian rebels to shoot down Russian planes. (All five of them? John, don't be silly!) In response to all this confusion, America's political puppets in the European Union are starting to twitch uncontrollably and go off-script, because the nerve center in Washington is no longer sending them clear signals.
How is this all going to end? Well, since we are all just being silly, let me make a humble suggestion: the US should bomb everything inside the Beltway in Washington, plus a few counties in Virginia. That should significantly degrade the country's capability for being extremely silly. And if that doesn't work—so what? After all, it is clear that results don't matter. As long as the military contractors are getting paid, it's all good.


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