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Toronto– With elections in five Indian states days away, a large number of NRIs from Canada have landed in India to garner votes for their favourite political parties.
However, Vancouver-based NRI and chef Siddharth Choudhary is joining the poll fray with the idea of preparing report cards of elected leaders.
"I am on mission report card to India. It is a very small effort and I have created platform to allow people to prepare report cards of elected representatives so that they can be held accountable. It is called Swarnimbharat and it will be run by the World Democracy Index which is a registered non-profit in Canada," said Choudhary, who runs an award-winning restaurant in Vancouver.
"People from Vancouver and Toronto and other Canadian cities have gone to India to support their favourite parties, but I want to support the people in India by creating this platform so that they can subject their elected leaders to scrutiny on an on-going basis. Voters' duty doesn't end with the casting of vote," he said.
Choudhary said his "platform will be like Trip Advisor or Yelp for Indian politics."
"As an NRI, I may be far away from India, but Indian politicians do impacts us also. Indian politicians don't know accountability because people don't ask questions, like we do here in Canada."
"In the upcoming state elections, voters won't know how many promises made during the last election were fulfilled by parties and politicians seeking their votes now," he said.
Choudhary said his Canadian initiative will empower people with a robust database so that they can keep track of political promises.
Considering that there are 543 elected MPs and over 4,000 members of state assemblies in India, he said that with inputs from people, his digital platform would generate thousands of indexed and easily searchable web pages on elected representatives.
"Our objective is to create the most comprehensive data-driven, citizen-powered political report cards on elected leaders in India and thus promote accountability," said Choudhary. (IANS)


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No standing around on this week's show, we need to keep the crowd in motion…
Bryan and Patrick are back from their trip to comic con with plenty of highlights, some lessons learned, anecdotes, tips, ideas, and plans for next time.
It's been a while since we had a chance to catch up on what's in the theaters, so we also spin some yarns about Harry Potter 7 pt 2, Captain America, and what we should expect from one of next summer's can't-miss blockbusters, The Amazing Spider-Man.
Personally, I'm planning to hold off on Captain America until it's available for rent. But how is that going to go down now that Netflix is jacking up the prices in a month?
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Watchmaker Daniel Navarro, located in Barcelona, runs blogs in Spanish and in English showing pictures of his restoration work on vintage watches. Spanish retailers and Swiss watch companies regularly call upon his services when they no longer have the necessary parts to restore a vintage timepiece.
Mr. Navarro has a network of craftsement that allows him to take care of all aspects of repair and restoration and there is a bilingual Website where he can be contacted for enquiries.
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I've wanted to be a lawyer since fifth grade. That was the moment when I made up my mind that I didn't want to be an artist, an actress, a graphic designer or a psychologist like I had wanted to be before. I wanted to be a lawyer, like my uncle, my aunt and my grandfather from my father's side. I didn't want to be an engineer like my parents, despite their constant nagging and nudging me down that path. But then I watched movies such as "Bridge of Spies," "Erin Brockovich" and "Loving." I saw how real people battled with law to enact justice in the world. I saw the power of the Constitution and how its interpretations can change lives so drastically. I have always wanted to be a part of that.
Being on the pre-law track has certainly shaped all aspects of my studies. I'm considering political economy as an intended major; I have taken classes centered around the legal or history field and have attempted to join various clubs that are law-oriented or help with skills that are heavily used in legal studies. I even considered joining a pre-law fraternity, but that's something for another semester. With regards to all of my academic activities, I always think about whether they will help further my quest to be a lawyer. I even tend to do this in "fun" clubs and activities, but I try to ignore this voice for those aspects.
Being pre-anything doesn't completely dominate over absolutely everything, but with graduate school in mind, your one goal is to do whatever it takes to get there. For pre-law in particular, a high GPA and LSAT score are absolutely necessary as the admissions process is very numbers-driven. I'm only a freshman here at UC Berkeley, but I've felt the need to already map out my future. I always thought there was one set path for a pre-professional undergraduate degree and that my life would finally have some proper direction. I was wrong. There are so many paths down which a student here can go, even while being on a pre-professional track.
I've never really considered myself "pre-law;" however, I'd always just think of it as me wanting to go to law school at some point in the future. I never really wanted to put a label on myself as "pre-something," and I'm not quite sure why. Maybe it's because I don't want to be seen as a student who only looks to the future (which ironically, I am). There's something about being on the pre-professional track that gives you a bad reputation as someone who only cares about getting ahead in life and having a career, not so much smelling the roses and enjoying life as they pass through it.
My dream, of course, would be to attend Yale Law School. At this point, I don't know if I'll make it, just like four years ago when I didn't know if I'd make it into one of the top colleges in the nation and world. For now, this is my plan, my end goal for my education. But things may change in the future. One of my close family friends, who is a UC Berkeley alumna and lawyer in San Francisco, expressed to me how during her senior year, when it was time to apply to law schools, she had massive waves of doubt and almost didn't end up applying at all. All I could think about at that point was how someone who has worked toward something for four years could suddenly no longer want it anymore.
This is a fear that lingers in my mind and probably will for the next four years. It is likely a fear that lingers in the minds of many pre-professional students at many different universities. What if, after spending $160,000 on my undergraduate tuition and another $50,000 on my first year of law school, I don't want to be a lawyer anymore? Then what? Right now, I'm putting all my energy and hard work into going to law school. If it doesn't work out, I don't quite have anything to fall back on, but I'm taking the risk nonetheless.
There will always be uncertainty on the pre-professional track. One minute, you have your future all planned out, and the next, you decide you don't want that future anymore. Even now, I've had many people tell me that if I want to practice law, I better know exactly why I want to do it and exactly what I'm getting into. For now, I have a strong gravitation towards the legal field, but that could definitely change in the future, whether near or far.


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The fourth annual Food Logistics' Champions: Rock Stars of the Supply Chain award recognizes the industry's most influential for their hard work, vision an leadership in shaping the global food supply chain. The champions represent different industry segments and individuals who spearheaded partnerships among growers, packers, processors, retailers and logistics providers. They exemplify the best traits of leadership. Food Logistics invites readers to congratulate the champions.
To view the complete list of award recipients, download here.
Gene Averill
Founder and CEO, Avercast
Gene Averill gained invaluable experience in the logistics and supply chain industry while managing the operations of 150 warehouses for the Defense Logistics Agency as a lieutenant colonel for the United States Marine Corps. While in the Marine Corps, Averill studied under IBM, where he developed a supply chain software tool for the military. In his success, Averill was then able to write a new software and create Demand Solutions, a company that was recognized world-wide. After leaving Demand Solutions, Averill founded Avercast, revolutionizing the industry with an upgraded forecasting engine containing 205 forecasting algorithms. Averill's forecasting and demand planning solutions are currently used by more than 10,000 supply chain professionals. Household name brands have relied on Averill's methodologies for inventory planning and seek out his expertise for supply chain optimization.
Richard "Dick" Corbett
Partner, Port Logistics Refrigerated Services
Over the course of his career, Dick Corbett has worked for the Kennedy administration, as a real estate investor and developer in New York City, and helped contribute to Florida's economic development, agriculture and K-12 education systems. Through these various employment changes, he has continued to demonstrate his leadership and has been recognized as a strategic thinker. Today, Corbett is committed to improving the quality of life and the economic vitality for Florida citizens by helping finance a new on-dock, cold storage facility at Port Tampa Bay. Exporters and importers will be able to take advantage of a faster, fresher and more economical supply chain by not having to route their cargo to more distant ports, saving them from costly truck hauls and delays. The flexibility, cost-savings and services provided are game changing in for Flordia's food logistics network, proving Corbett to be a Food Logistics Champion.
Jason Dick
President, Dick Cold Storage
Dick Cold Storage is a family business spanning four generations. Since growing up with the business, Jason Dick has worked in every single position within the company. This experience has allowed him to adapt to changing market conditions and position Dick Cold Storage as a major player in the Columbus cold storage landscape.
His experience in the cold storage and warehousing fields has been critical for the Canadian-based English Bay's success in America. Thanks to Dick's takeover of order processing, storage and shipping to English Bay customers, the company was able to expand in the United States.
Currently, Dick is setting up expanding Dick Cold Storage's raw material and pastry expansion divisions.
Frank Dreischarf
Vice President of Supply Chain Solutions, R2 Logistics
Frank Dreischarf started with R2 Logistics in 2017 when he filled the role of vice president of supply chain solutions, bringing with him 20-plus years of distribution and supply chain experience. He has held high-level positions with companies such as The Scotts Company, where he was responsible for logistics strategy and execution supporting $2.8 billion in annual revenues and a $200 million transportation budget across four business units.
In his current role, Dreischarf is responsible for developing and managing R2's multi-modal and supply chain service offerings. His expertise is fundamental in assisting customers such as Anheuser Busch, U.S. Foods and North Bay Produce.
Dreischarf believes logistics is a relationship based business and the foundation for any successful relationship is integrity and trust. In his own words, "that means doing what you say you will do, always seeking to find and add value, and to treat others as you want to be treated."
W. Michael Jarrett
President, Jarrett Logistics Systems
W. Michael Jarrett is known for his entrepreneurial achievements as the co-founder of six highly successful companies in Ohio. His latest venture Jarrett Logistics Systems was founded in 1999 based on Jarrett's extensive background in transportation management. Jarrett brings 30 years of experience in designing and implementing transportation services in the 3PL industry, making operations better, faster and more efficient. Of note, he led the implementation of a solution for a large food company that desired to manage their LTL carrier on-time delivery performance to the same delivery standards they held for their Full TL carriers. Jarrett developed a plan that his team executed, along with the carrier partners, that the company has been able to maintain for nearly eight years. Jarrett views business ethics, employee character and operational efficiency as the keys to success for Jarrett Logistics Systems.
Stanton Kaye
President, Infratab Inc.
Stanton Kaye has created a system by which items of varying spoilage rate can be monitored for freshness, yielding item-specific freshness information at a very low cost. With more than 30 years of experience in the space, he holds four patents in perishable shelf life, using crystal and gel chemical diffusion and controlled electronic corrosion to emulate a perishable's spoilage characteristics. The concepts in these patents provided the foundation for the future innovations that form the basis of the freshness technology of Infratab's Freshtime tags. Infratab's Freshtime tags provide uninterrupted shelf time temperature and freshness monitoring for pennies per item, allowing full value compensation to the seller and maximum enjoyment by the buyer. The consequences of this level of monitoring are subtle but meaningful to small and large businesses and innovative farmers. Kaye believes that if he is able to grade food more accurately, there is an ability to feed the world. Prior to Infratab, Stanton, as vice president of marketing/international at Quarterdeck, is credited with taking a system utility and turning it into the highest volume retail software product next to Windows. Stanton's unique approach to European sales and support using T-1 communications between Ireland, Quarterdeck's European offices and its Santa Monica headquarters resulted in special recognition to Quarterdeck from the Irish government for having created the foundation of the customer telephone support industry in Ireland. In addition, Kaye is an independent filmmaker and winner of numerous awards including the United Nations Award for New Ways and Means of Communication and Director's Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival. Stanton is an American Film Institute Fellow.
Eduardo Kerbel
Postharvest Technologies Business Manager, Carrier Transicold
Eduardo Kerbel has 31 experienced years in the produce industry, with expert world-wide knowledge in consulting and educational services.
He has contributed in disseminating awareness, knowledge and know-how through presentations, seminars and lectures. Kerbel's knowledge covers various areas of postharvest handling and technology to various groups like growers, shipping lines, logistics personnel, supply chain personnel, warehouse and cold storage personnel, agro-chemical personnel, and store/supermarket operators.
Eduardo spends a lot of time trying to bring awareness and improve communications among all players of the cold and supply chains on the importance of following proper handling practices, maintaining proper temperature, humidity and ethylene control practices. Kerbel knows that communication is important to maintain fresh produce quality and condition, as well as keeping postharvest losses to a minimum.
Bill Loftis
Senior Director, Integrated Solutions, Transportation Insight
Bill Loftis brings a holistic approach to supply chain assessment for grocery, food and beverage and consumer packaged goods companies. He is driven by efforts to align client supply chain capabilities with their business objectives. By contributing to Transportation Insight's supply chain point of view for grocery retail, he has managed to cost effectively maintain inventory and serve individual consumer unit demand, all while buying large truckload quantities. Loftis designs solutions that help clients gain control of inbound logistics by focusing on three key elements: achieving inbound control, enabling vendor compliance and providing actionable business intelligence. He leverages his expertise in solution design to help clients' business performance through a method that covers all supply chain processes. Because of this, Loftis helped a $3 billion regional supermarket chain implement a Transportation Insight fleet optimization project, saving them millions of dollars without compromising service. Loftis has consulted many companies on network design, transportation procurement and analytic supported improvement solutions, becoming an industry thought leader and advocate of the value of shared networks.
Roland Ornelas
Chief Commercial Officer, National DCP LLC
Serving as the chief commercial officer, Roland Ornelas has the strategic oversight of the relationship with NDCP's customers, partners and supplies to effectively support the company's supply chain and program management functions. With more than 25 years in the industry, Ornelas has played an integral role in transforming NDCP's supply chain capabilities and maximizing cost savings. His keen ability to connect ideas and diverse, multi-functional groups has transformed the strategic sourcing, procurement and supply chain capabilities of major brands including, Dunkin' Donuts, Wyndham Worldwide, O'Charley's Inc., Carlson Companies, McDonalds, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC. Ornelas is passionate about sharing his knowledge and has delivered popular presentations at industry events. From his humble beginnings as a first-generation immigrant, Ornelas believes in giving back. He aims to bring out the best in his teams through on-going coaching, mentorship, recognition and education. A strong proponent of culture, team building activities include community service activities at the Atlanta Community Food Bank and fundraising for the Jimmy Fund (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute). In 2017, his team raised $800,000 for cancer research, bringing the cumulative total to $13 million.
Dave Reba
Director of Consumables Sales, Barcoding Inc.
Dave Reba has a proven track record in developing and executing strategies that result in significant market share growth, enhanced profitability and improved customer satisfaction over his 25 year career. He uses his knowledge and industry experience to create a more accurate, efficient and connected supply chain. At Barcoding Inc., Reba leads a team of experts in helping customers overcome challenges and gain competitive edges with the latest technologies. He is able to provide the expertise, materials and label design solutions that enable the food and beverage industry to provide better and fresher products to consumers. Reba continues to strive in assisting food sector companies in designing labels that not only meet regulations, but also communicate vital safety, health and nutritional information to consumers. His extensive RFID experience enables him to support customers in adopting and optimizing evolving track-and-trace technology. By helping his customers embrace new labelling and tagging technology, they will be able to track and monitor an item throughout its entire lifecycle, ensuring the consumer is provided with a safe and fresh product.
Peter Shin
Director of Pre-sales for North America, Quintiq
Peter Shin has over 10 years of experience in operations research, with a focus on delivering value through technology, business process and change management. Industry leaders in freight, postal, energy, manufacturing, consumables, and finance have all benefited from the initiatives managed under Shin's guidance. The wide variety of industries, business drivers and challenges tackled by Shin make him the right fit. He believes that technological advancements are just around the corner and that they will elevate the industry to be faster and more efficient. Shin says the companies who will succeed through this evolution of technology will be those who adequately address all three pillars equally: fast, efficient and safe.
His recent initiatives include advising some of the largest U.S. players in protein, dried foods and wine production, as well as enabling logistics improvements for retail grocery and temperature sensitive food distribution.
Bernard Tremblay
Director, Miebach Consulting, North America
With over 20 years in the industry, Tremblay says he has learned that "working in the supply chain is never finished; there is continuously something to be improved." His extensive experience with international food and beverage supply chains include clients such as Walmart, Makro Wholesalers, Brazil Foods, Danone, Coca Cola, Givaudan, PepsiCo, P&G, Unilever, McCain, ABI InBev and Mondelez. Tremblay has been working with supply chains before they were a concept to many companies. He has pushed numerous companies over the years to become proactively oriented in their approach to their supply chain. He has been effective in leading executives to understand how establishing supply chains as a key concept within their operation has the ability to make a positive impact on multiple functional areas within the company. Tremblay's consumer goods expertise spans local, regional and now even global supply chains.
J.P. Wiggins
Co-founder and Vice President of Logistics, 3Gtms
J.P. Wiggins has been instrumental in driving transportation management innovations throughout his entire career. Prior to his role at 3Gtms, Wiggins was the solution principal at SAP, focusing on transportation, warehouse and event management offerings in North America. He also directed industry marketing for the company's transportation and logistics business unit. This experience provided him a deep understanding of how to manage transportation within the complexities of the food industry. At 3Gtms, Wiggins has helped drive a product roadmap that emphasizes tracking and visibility of freight movements. He has assisted multiple 3Gtms' food customers in improving traceability efforts throughout their supply chain, and has been a driver of enhanced integration capabilities within the 3G-TM product to support data visibility and retention. In addition, Wiggins regularly serves on panels and sessions at industry events to share his insight from a technological point of view and to ensure that he is understanding the latest challenges and concerns from a range of organizations within the industry.
Steven Williams
Director of Operations, Universal Chain Inc.
With more than 16 years of operations and management experience, Steven Williams is the "go to" person to lead and drive high risk initiatives, turn around struggling departments and utilize outside of the box thinking. Williams has led several projects that have improved efficiency, reputation and enhanced overall market position within the freight handling and logistics support industry, including taking lead on Universal Chain's PayLump project. Williams knew and understood that data and financial analytics help drive a company toward success, but he also knew that the industry wasn't welcoming of that information until now. With that knowledge, William helped launch the development of a modern proprietary software platform that captures over 60 real-time data points, and tracks the unloading process from start to finish. PayLump offers real-time bill calculations that result in extremely high accuracy of charges being billed to the client, taking the human element of error out of the equation. In addition, Williams structured PayLump so that it can be implemented in any operation at any location, driving this project to heights unrealized and not achievable by anyone one else. Recently, he helped launch a new line in the software called PayLump Carrier. It extends the transparency of delivery data and provides another source to compare and contrast data, to insure integrity and consistency between unloaders and drivers.


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Galen Rupp refused to talk to the media after coming up short in his bid for an unprecedented 9th 10,000m USATF title.
Rupp blew through the mixed zone without stopping, but then had to go back to get his bag. So he passed the media to get his bag and then on the way out.
He didn't stop for questions and USATF staffer Amanda Brooks walked up to him and said, "They really want to go talk to you."
Rupp shook his head and exited to his manager Ricky Simms.
You don't win 8 USATF titles in a row without having a fierce competitive streak.
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Thermoset 3-D printer
Large-scale thermoset 3-D printer. Large-scale thermoset 3-D printer. This is located in Knoxville, Tenn. Project managed by the Advanced Manufacturing Office in DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Bob Vanderhoff, President and CEO of Magnum Venus Products, mentions, "Thanks to this innovation, research and development managers will be able to prototype and bring products to market faster. He also includes, "Procurement departments will enjoy shortened lead time on crucial molds – allowing for rapid deployment. This was made possible through ORNL slicing software that allows the integration of multivariate print process parameters."


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Why Christians should read some old books: here are 5 gems
I have wrestled some time with the problem of modern Christian books. I love trees and I hate to see them go to waste – cut down and placed on the altar of modernity, and especially modern books.
Please hear me out: there are some fine modern Christian books. I really enjoyed our esteemed and gentle editor Mark Woods, Does the Bible Really say That? And I am not trying to butter him up, honest. Alister McGrath is wonderful. And there are many others.
But one day while in a large evangelical church I visited the bookshop and was strangely overcome with gloom. All these books. Churned out. And how many are really worth the paper? Now you could put this down to me having a bad day. But perhaps there is a nugget of truth here. I could say a great deal more, and perhaps will do in future. But for me many modern Christian books seem spun-out. They would have made a good article or pamphlet but elongated to book length they tend to pick up a good deal of flab, or pretension. I am naming no names.
C S Lewis was onto the same thing. In Christianity in the Dock he says:
Now this seems to me topsy-turvy. Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old. And I would give him this advice precisely because he is an amateur and therefore much less protected than the expert against the dangers of an exclusive contemporary diet. A new book is still on its trial and the amateur is not in a position to judge it. It has to be tested against the great body of Christian thought down the ages, and all its hidden implications (often unsuspected by the author himself) have to be brought to light.
So what 5 old-books would I choose, and what about you?
G K Chesterton's Orthodoxy is a rambling, beautiful, disastrous masterpiece. Like all his books he dictated it. But unlike the rest he was just getting over a nervous breakdown following a family rift. That nervous energy flows though this book and it is as good a defence of the faith as you will ever read – but written with flourish and delight in words. (Something so much of our leaden modern book diet lacks.)
St Benedict's Prayer Book is a little gem. It has been my Morning Prayer partner now for 6 years. It is a simple set of morning and evening prayers and then some classic ancient prayers for different occasions. It simply has never let me down and on those mornings when I am struggling to know what to pray and how to pray it I just go back to the ancient words.
Frank Boreham's The Heavenly Octave is beautiful. It is a poetic, folksy unpacking of the beatitudes and for my money the best thing ever written on them. It happens to be one of Ravi Zacharias' favourite books and is so obscure that perhaps we are the only two people still reading it. It's chapter on Blessed are the Righteous, is one of the most lucid and uplifting things I have read about our Lord's precious words.
CS Lewis's Weight of Glory presents the thesis that there is no such thing as an ordinary person. It is not a book, but was Lewis' lone sermon. The sheer beauty of Lewis mind is a thing of wonder. And the piece is pliable and fresh and is guaranteed to make you think about the beauty and wonder of God's creation. For my money Lewis was a way better essayist and sermon writer than novelist.
And just to be topical go out and buy Martin Luther's Christmas Book. It is a collection of 30 excerpts from Luther's Christmas sermons. It counters the idea that Luther was all about salvation and not about caring for those in need and it is a shoe-in for any Christmas talk of sermon.
So my friends, what do you think? Can I tempt you to read a few old books? If you are a Christian publisher can I ask you to save some trees?
Steve Morris is the parish priest of St Cuthbert's North Wembley. Before being a priest he was a writer and ran a brand agency. In the 1980s he tried to become a pop star. Follow him on Twitter @SteveMorris214


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Mazatlan Comedy Club
Once a month, from November to March, Playa Mazatlan Beach Hotel and Gaudet Productions presents a hilarious night of Clean Stand-Up Comedy in the state of the art, Salon Venado.
We feature some of the best English speaking comics in the business and all of them have appeared on prime time tv and performed at some of the most famous comedy clubs/festivals in the world.
There's no other show like it in MAZATLAN! We're very proud to bring you first-class entertainment and service and like our slogan says, "We'll Make You Laugh!".
Get your Tickets!
Tickets for all shows are $700 pesos (cash only). They go on sale October 1st in the reservation area with Ms. Ana Argentina Ramos.
To reserve:
Online email Ana at email@example.com
To reserve by Whatsapp: +52 (669) 158-0328
Call from outside of Mexico: +52 (669) 989 0555 ext. 31
Reservation area (inside the hotel) with Miss Ana Argentina Ramos. Service schedule: Monday to Friday: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm | Saturday: 9:00 – 11:00 am
From 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Show starts at 7:00 pm
Mike Siegel!
Mike Siegel is a professional stand-up comedian, TV host and actor. For nine years, he could be seen nationally every week hosting TBS network's TBS Movie EXTRA, and has hosted numerous network shows including HGTV's If Walls Could Talk and What You Get For the Money; and The Next GAC Star on GAC.
Along with numerous appearances as panelist on E! network's hit show Chelsea Lately, Mike has performed stand-up comedy on many television shows, including Last Comic Standing (NBC), The Late Late Show (CBS), Late Friday (NBC), Comedy Showcase with Louie Anderson (NBC), Stand-up, Stand-up (Comedy Central), and Friday Night (NBC).
Website: http://www.funnymike.com/info
Murray Valeriano!
Murray Valeriano has toured the country performing in clubs and theaters, either headlining or opening for some of comedy's heavy hitters, David Spade, Kevin Pollack, Cristela Alonzo, Brad Garret and the late, Robert Schimmel. Murray has been seen on Comedy Central, NBC and FUELTV.
For three years he co-hosted "Off the Cuff" with Bill Engvall, Gary Brightwell and Murray Valeriano on Sirius/XM channel 97. As an award winning writer, Murray has written for the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Bill Engvall's Here's Your Sign Awards Battlebots and Ridiculousness to name a few.
Website: http://www.murrayvaleriano.com/
Maureen Langan!
Maureen Langan is an award-winning journalist turned stand-up comic and radio talk show host. Her quick wit and honest rants on life's absurdities make her a hit at clubs, theaters, and festivals across the U.S, Canada, Europe and So. Africa.
Whether lambasting celebrities, satirizing news, or joking about her father, a New York City sanitation worker, and her Irish immigrant mother, it's her genuine connection with audiences that make her standout.
Maureen's solo show Daughter of a Garbageman has been called "brilliant" and a "one-woman tour de force." Daughter of a Garbageman was chosen Top Three Solo Shows Bay Area.
Website: https://maureenlangan.com/
Bobby Tessel!
Bobby Tessel is one of only a few comics to appear on both,The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and The Late Show with David Letterman. What does that mean? Not much really, but he's done it, have you?
Tessel's first time on stage was to a packed house at the Funnybone Comedy Club in Cincinnati, and he destroyed the room. Since that night, he hasn't looked back. "I love stand-up," Tessel says. "I love putting words in a sequence that no one in the entire world has ever thought of in order to get a desired response; laughter. I think that's cool."
Website: Youtube
Jeff Capri!
Jeff Capri, described as "Energetically laid back", is one of the top second-generation comics working today. Jeff has sparkling takes on pop-culture, clean-edged biographical/political twists and a silly pun or three. Jeff's observational comedic palette takes a different direction than his father's classic Catskill style. The Los Angeles Times calls him: "…consistently fun, spontaneous, smart and witty."
Jeff's ongoing comedy trek has enabled him to work alongside many respected entertainers, including Ellen DeGeneres, Rodney Dangerfield, Joy Behar, and Bill Burr. Jeff also stars in the acclaimed comedy documentary I Am Battle Comic. (Available on Amazon Prime & iTunes.)
Website: https://www.jeffcapri.com/
Julie Kidd!
Julie Kidd is the producer and host of the fantastically entertaining "Funniest Housewives". She is the host on 'Giggle Gab" airing on KDOC TV and was crowned Hilarious Housewife on ABC's The View. Her comedy writing has been featured in Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest and Modern Mom Magazine as well as numerous comedy books including, Comedy Thesaurus, She's So Funny, Mom This Jokes for You, and Loves Funny That Way.
Website: www.FunniestHousewives.com
Corny Rempel!
Corny Rempel is an award winning Elvis Tribute artist and Comedian who has performed across North America for 18 years. He has also played to packed houses across Canada, United States and Mexico. Corny is a morning radio host/DJ in Steinbach Manitoba. He also does voicing for cartoons, websites, movies and video games. (And yes, that's his real name!)
Corny is featured in a documentary called "That Mennonite Joke" which has been picked up by Bravo. Recently Corny has also been performing as Johnny Cash and has even sung with Johnny Cash's sister Joanne Cash Yates. Corny Plays Elvis like no one else. His facial expressions and gestures are uncanny and his voice is a dead ringer. The thing that makes his show unique is Corny's humorous twist. He loves entertaining and it shows in his non-stop, highly energized, hilarious performances!
Website: www.cornyentertainment.com
Michael Mancini!
Michael Mancini is a 30 year veteran of comedy and has been a police officer for over 15 years. He's performed for comedy clubs and law enforcement agencies all over the US and Canada. Winner of the "World's Funniest Cop" title from 2003 – 2005, hosted by Jay Leno, Michael brings humor into all aspects of life when dealing with law enforcement from traffic stops, foot pursuits to arrests. His show is high energy and action packed, so put on your seat belt and hold on because if he hits the brakes, the airbag will knock you out!
Website: http://worldsfunniestcop.com/
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Do you look at bouquets of red roses and calculate when they'll go limp? Do you think chocolates should come in boxes shaped like aortas and ventricles? Do you want to tell conversation hearts to shut up? If the relentless sentimentality of February brings out the antiromantic in you, we invite you to the more realistic side of our archives. For every moving portrait of a long and happy union (see Bùi Ngọc Tấn's "Endless Universe"), there are half a dozen of love gone wrong. Here are just a few examples of tainted love from around the world to get you in (or out of) the mood this month:
"I only know how you felt. Because what you felt when he turned you down was how I felt whenever I looked at you."
Jeon Sam-hye's futuristic "Genesis," translated from Korean by Anton Hur, tracks a banished astronaut-in-training's yearning for the unwitting object of her affection.
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Since 2010 young Roma and non-Roma come together every year to commemorate the anniversary of 2 August – the Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. International groups of young people have learned about the Holocaust and antigypsyism and human rights today.
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We pay tribute to our hero and friend Raymond Gurême, who died in May 2020. In a few days he would have celebrated his 95th birthday. Raymond was always at the center of the Dikh He Na Bister Commemoration meetings. Urging us to continue his fight, and to live freely and joyfully.
On 2 August, we commemorate the last 4,300 Sinti and Roma in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, who were murdered by the SS on that night in 1944 despite their fierce resistance. In memory of all 500,000 Sinti and Roma murdered in Nazi-occupied Europe, the European Parliament declared this date the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma in 2015.
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Iranpanah, N, Mohammadzadeh, M and Taylor, CC (2011) A comparison of block and semi-parametric bootstrap methods for variance estimation in spatial statistics. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 55 (1). 578 - 587 . ISSN 0167-9473
Efron (1979) introduced the bootstrap method for independent data but it cannot be easily applied to spatial data because of their dependency. For spatial data that are correlated in terms of their locations in the underlying space the moving block bootstrap method is usually used to estimate the precision measures of the estimators. The precision of the moving block bootstrap estimators is related to the block size which is difficult to select. In the moving block bootstrap method also the variance estimator is underestimated. In this paper, first the semi-parametric bootstrap is used to estimate the precision measures of estimators in spatial data analysis. In the semi-parametric bootstrap method, we use the estimation of the spatial correlation structure. Then, we compare the semi-parametric bootstrap with a moving block bootstrap for variance estimation of estimators in a simulation study. Finally, we use the semi-parametric bootstrap to analyze the coal-ash data.
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- a vagabond, such as were driven to beg about the country after the dissolution of the monasteries.—_See_ BESS O' BEDLAM, _infra_. They are well described under the title of _Bedlam Beggars_.—_Shakspeare's K. Lear_, ii. 3. "And these, what name or title e'er they bear, Jarkman, or Patrico, Cranke, or Clapper-dudgeon, Frater, or ABRAM-MAN; I speak to all That stand in fair election for the title Of king of beggars."—_Beaumont and Fletcher's Begg. Bush._ II. 1. It appears to have been the practice in former days to allow certain inmates of Bethlehem Hospital to have fixed days "to go begging:" hence impostors were said to "SHAM ABRAHAM" (the Abraham Ward in Bedlam having for its inmates these mendicant lunatics) when they pretended they were licensed beggars in behalf of the hospital.
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Shenmue 3 is delayed again as publisher Deep Silver says that the company needed the extra time to enhance the quality of the game even further, and they will launch the product in the best possible timeframe sometime in 2019.
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The Cleveland State Vikings (16-4, 6-2) took care of business Friday evening, overcoming some sloppy play to shoot their way past UW-Green Bay 78-68.
Senior guard Trevon Harmon led the way for Cleveland State with 19 points and four rebounds, which included making four of nine three-point shots. Harmon was one of four Vikings to score in double figures with Anton Grady adding a double-double off the bench with 10 points and 13 rebounds.
Green Bay (7-11, 3-5) also had four players in double figures, led by sophomore guard Kam Cerroni who scored all 15 of his points by making five of eight shots from behind the three-point line.
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Ardbeg invites smoky malt fans to join together in a day of rumbustious revelry
Celebrate Islay's rich history of carnivals with a flamboyant Caribbean twist. Join in the festivities at around the UK for Ardbeg Day 2019
Published Date: 25th February 2019
Every year, on Ardbeg Day – the last Saturday of Islay's Festival of Music and Malt, whisky fans gather to celebrate all things Ardbeg. For 2019, Ardbeg is preparing to close out the Feis Ile like never before. In a spectacular Caribbean twist, Ardbeggians everywhere are invited to swap their flat caps for elaborate headdresses as Ardbeg Day embraces a dash of carnival colour.
This year, the Distillery is resurrecting the island's carnival traditions. In an Islay time gone by on the last day of the Feis Ile Festival, locals transformed everything from tractors to tricycles into magnificent floats. If it had wheels, they decorated it. Honking and tooting its way through Port Ellen and eventually to Ardbeg, this typically Islay cavalcade of colour represents a long-standing love for festivity on the island.
Ardbeg Day will be held on Saturday, 1st June 2019. Inspired by Islay's rich history of carnivals, Ardbeg will release Ardbeg Drum – a limited edition bottling imbued with the ultimate influence of carnival spirit, rum. In a first for the Distillery, Ardbeg have taken Ardbeg single malt from ex-Bourbon casks and rested it awhile in ex-rum casks from the Americas to coax out tropical tastes.
Distillery Manager Mickey Heads said: "The Ardbeg Day Carnival is about embracing all things tropical. From music and dance to food and fashion, we're all set to revel in both culture and character. And we're delighted to introduce Ardbeg Drum – a celebration of all of the mixed up, mashed up influences that make Ardbeg, Ardbeg.
"In Ardbeg Drum, a multitude of complex flavours parade across the palate – fragrant pine resin and woodsmoke dance alongside ripe banana and pineapple. Then lavender, liquorice and vanilla strut into a long, smoky finish."
"Preparations are well underway, but orchestrating a bash this breathtaking is no mean feat. The finer details are yet to be revealed, but rest assured, the Ardbeg Day Carnival 2019 will be a spectacle you won't soon forget…"
Like all Ardbeg Days, the carnival crowds won't just be gathering on Islay. Ardbeggians the world over will join in the rumbustious revelry as Ardbeg Drum is introduced in a flourish of confetti and streamers. Smoky malt lovers should remember that The Ardbeg Day Carnival is open to everybody, so feel free to grab some friends and enjoy the spectacle en masse.
The Committee bottling of Ardbeg Drum will go on sale on 5th March, RRP: £94, exclusively available to purchase only by Committee Members, who will receive a link to purchase their own special bottle. The main Ardbeg Drum bottling will be released just ahead of Ardbeg Day.ss
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Chickpea Fesenjan is an Iranian stew from Gilan province, Iran. It is part of the of the dinner table on Shaba Yalda when families get together to celebrate the longest night of the year and the beginning of winter. It has a distinctive grainy sour taste as it is flavoured with ground walnuts and pomegranate paste. It is traditionally made with poultry ie either duck or chicken. Here I have made a vegan version using chickpeas to replace the meat. I couldn't find pomegranate paste so I had to settle for pomegranate juice instead.
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1) First process the baked/roasted walnuts to a fine meal. Set aside.
2) Take a medium sized pot and heat the olive oil. Fry the yellow onion. Season with salt and pepper. Cook for around 5 minutes until the onions are soft and translucent.
3) Now add the chickpeas, veg broth, walnut meal, pomegranate juice, brown sugar, turmeric powder and cinnamon powder. Stir to combine and bring to a boil,
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Anonymous brought up an interesting point, that when I compared the Hebrew Charter School Center's (HCSC) Broadway fundraiser to my school's PTO collecting boxtops, I was leaving out the fact that often Education Foundations raise far more money for districts than PTOs or PTAs.
Point well taken.
So it made sense to look at how Education Foundation giving stacks up to the likes of the HCSC.
As I was doing some research for my response to Anonymous' comment I realized there were lots of links I wanted to add, so here is the comment and my response as a post instead.
AnonymousMay 2, 2013 at 6:29 PM
Darcie, really?
It seems to me that that the Hebrew Language people may have learned from Highland Park what a good fundraiser theater can be: This past year the Highland Park Education Foundation hosted an evnet using its Broadway connections to raise money when they featured Amy Herzog at the Italian Bistro.
The Highland Park Education Foundation has boasted over the years raising thousands of dollars for the Highland Park Public schools, and I would think that the Highland Park Education Foundation folks would love to leverage other famous HPHS grads like Sam Hoffman, Willie Garson and Soterios Johnson. So while the Matilda fundraiser may have been a bit more sucessful, Highland Park is hardly limited to boxtops.
And while the Highland Park Education Foundation may have not been sucessful raising big money for the Highland Park public schools, other public school supporters have been very effective in raising very large sums:
The Princeton Education Foundation has boasted giving their district $113,000 this past school year.
The Rumson Education Foundation boasts having raised $15 Million since its inception for their school district.
The Somerset Hills Education Foundation just raised over $100,000 at their chiili cook off.
The Summit(NJ) Education Foundation just raised $150,000 at their Casino night fundraiser. And the foundation boasts giving their public school districts $342,000.00 in grants in 2012.
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Ah, I love it when Anonymous posters make a point to call me out by name.
Really, I do.
Anonymous, I can't speak for Rumson, Princeton, Summit or Somerset Hills. Those districts have nothing to do with my district, or Hatikvah.
But I do appreciate your point that often Education Foundation fundraisers pull in more money than PTO, PTA or parent driven fund raisers, and I ignored that.
So lets compare the Highland Park Education Foundation (HPEF) and the Amy Herzog fundraiser you mention with the HCSC and the Afternoon at the Theater fundraiser I wrote about and see if you have a valid point when you claim that "other public school supporters have been very effective in raising very large sums."
Amy Herzog is an HP alum, and is now a successful, albeit still off-Broadway, playwright. She came back to her home town and gave a talk at a local restaurant. I forget the ticket price for the event, but I can assure you it was far less than the $50,000 some of New York's wealthiest families paid to see a private showing of a Tony Award nominated Broadway production of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
According to their website, in the last two years the HPEF has awarded a little more than $25,000 in grants. That's two years worth of work to raise HALF of the $50,000 some folks shelled out for just 12 of the 1460 seats at the Shubert Theater.
According to HCSC's 990, in 2010 alone Hatikvah received $248,596, and that DOES NOT include the $142,000 that was given to their after school programs.
So Anonymous, your attempt to equate a home town girl done good helping to raise a little bit of money at a local bistro and the HCSCs ability to commandeer an entire performance of a hit Broadway musical kind of falls flat.
I'm kind of intrigued now, so let's explore this idea a little further. Above I said I wouldn't address the other Education Foundations you mentioned, but doing so may in fact be interesting. The towns you list are some of the wealthiest in the state, so I wonder how they stack up against the giving power of the HCSC?
NJ Monthly says Rumson is number five in NJ's Top 20 Towns, so let's use them as our test case. Their Education Foundation has raised a whopping 1.5 M since it's inception 17 years ago. (In your comment you erroneously state it was 15 M - I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that this was an honest mistake.)
That sounds like a lot of money, right?
Except according to that same 990, HCSC gave out 1.2 M in 2010 alone and had 4M in total assets.
And let's take this comparison just one step further. Rumson has about 1,000 students and Hatikvah has around 200.
If Rumson schools get about $90,000 per year from their Education Foundation, that breaks down to approximately $90 a student.
We've already established that Hatikvah got almost $400,000 in 2010 for their charter and after school programs.
That's $2,000 per student.
Anonymous, while you may have a point that Education Foundations raise more money than the bake sales, book fairs and box tops I wrote about in my original post, they're not exactly raking in the "very large sums" you indicated. Even Education Foundations in New Jersey's wealthiest towns fall FAR short of the giving power of billionaire backed foundations like HCSC.
So yes, REALLY Anonymous.
Traditional public schools can not match the private money that flows into charter schools backed by hedge fund billionaires.
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I have a white Maltese who had red tear stains around her eyes. I read that adding ACV to her diet would help. I put about 1/4 tsp in her food and also add to her water. I notice a considerable difference and helps maintain her face cleaner.
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We have a 4 yr.old male maltese and he has very bad tearing/staining from his eyes. I have given him filtered water and/or distilled water since he was a puppy but it has not seemed to help. I never give him tap water. This is in reply to the posts about the filtered water. Does anyone have a similar experience? This has been a problem for 4 years. Thanks!
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We have tried Apple Cider Vinegar in our dogs drinking water but that didn't work for tear staining.. We have had them drinking bottled water for some time now but the staining remains.
We are very interested in the post where Apple Cider Vinegar, Coconut Oil and Raw Garlic were added to the Dog's daily meals which eliminated tear staining.
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wow - this is interesting. i have a female rat that has had irritated eyes off an on. at first i was using tap water in her water bottle and then had switched to bottled water. her eyes had not been bothering her. the other day i put tap water in her bottle again and just noticed the eye problem again. i have since changed the water back to bottled!!! wow! thanks!
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My friend Sam from Marietta, GA called me the other day to tell me about his 2 year old dog, a bishon frise, who had ongoing discharge from her eyes, causing her white fur to turn dark brown (as is common with that breed). Apparently they started putting their extra bottled water in the dog's water bowl instead of tap water. Within a few days they noticed that she was no longer having a discharge from her eyes. Another 2 weeks of bottled water and the fur around her eyes was back to its beautiful white. To make sure it was really the bottled water curing her of this issue, Sam switched back to tap water. Immediately the dog started having the same goopy discharge from her eyes. We think it's either chlorine or fluoride in the tap water causing the problem, perhaps both.
My maltese puppy Haru began having bad tearing and stains at about 6 weeks, he also had brown ear dirt. I read on the net that ear infections and tear stains were related, anyway I got stuff from the vet to clean the ears and ear mite stuff from the pet store. Although the ear cleared up the tearing was still there. Then I read on the net about ACV and green beans. I add a tiny bit to his water every day and mix green beans (about 4beans) into his meals htrough a mixer. I think ACV definitely cleared his alkaline system, especially since before he left a very slimyness to his bowl.
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I used Vinegar (with the mother) in the water for poodle tear stains. It did not work. I put half a tea spoon in the bowl of water for a 10 pounds poodle for about 3 months. The tear stains are as bad as when I started. I clean his face every day.
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Hydrogen Peroxide and Vinegar cured old age, milky, cloudy eye, discharge from my dog's eyes. My mom's terrier is 15 years old and acts old and beaten. Two days ago I gave him a bath and used glycerin soap to clean out the large amount of purple discharge that he has been getting daily for years. After towel drying him I sprayed his spine with hydrogen peroxide and then with cider vinegar. I also sprayed a fatty tumor. The tumor is still there but there has been no eye discharge for two days, also he acts like he did 3 years ago. The milky, cloudy eye is back to normal. He tried to take another animal's food and hasn't done that in years. He still has stiff joints but was galloping in the house.
remedy for excess dog tearing stains : My dog had horrible tear stains. I tried cleaning his face everyday; it would not come out.So I just gave up on washing his face. I started adding apple cider vinegar, extra virgin coconut oil, and crushed raw garlic to each of his meals. I originally did this so he could lose weight, and help prevent fleas. He is losing weight slowly. Plus the tear stains that were stuck on his entire face are 90% gone. buddy loves the way it makes his food taste. I just small amounts of the three remedies and mix well in his food.
I have two tiny toy poodles and both would get the tear stained eyes. The little white one always had problems with itchy skin too. So I began about a year ago adding apple cider vinegar to their drinking water. They haven't had either of these problems since.
A word of caution, vinegar can remove the enamel from their teeth, the same as it does for people. I have always added 1/8th teaspoon of baking soda to one-teaspoon vinegar before I add it to their water. Let the vinegar/baking soda mix sit until the fizz stops then add it to the water.
I could have missed it but I didn't see anyone saying they were doing that mix. We don't want to fix one problem while causing another.


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AEW World Champion Chris Jericho has challenged Hiroshi Tanahashi to a match at NJPW's biggest event of 2020, Wrestle Kingdom 14.
Jericho appeared at NJPW Power Struggle via video earlier tonight.
"January 5th at Tokyo Dome, The Painmaker versus The Ace, it's going to be a classic match," Jericho said.
"It's also going to be your last match."
NJPW has yet to make the match official, but Tanahashi appeared interested. The Ace said he had no other plans for the Tokyo Dome, with NJPW commentator Chris Charlton inferring: "That sounds like a yes to me!"
Wrestle Kingdom 14 will be held over two nights, January 4 and 5, next year.
Kazuchika Okada and Kota Ibushi headline January 4 in a match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. No other matches have been confirmed.
Chris Jericho last appeared at NJPW Dominion in June in an IWGP Heavyweight Championship bout against Okada.
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Lupin III Part V Episode 16 Review
Episode 16, "Let's Talk About First Loves"
Synopsis: Martial law descends on Padar, where the High Priest plans to marry Princess Dolma to become the legitimate ruler, but is fought by the king's loyalists. While the king, with the help of Shake Hands, rallies support, a disguised Lupin and Ami catch up to the underhanded usurper. Will they be able to stop the wedding? And what last move does the CIA have in this? It's more palace politics in Padar in this story's conclusion!


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Saturday 12 March 2011
The Bunny Boiler - Chapter 7
"Aha," I look down at the half eaten fishcakes on my plate and push them around with my fork.
"I thought you'd have more to say, that's all,"
Oh, darling! I have plenty to say, trust me. This is just the calm before the storm.
"I want you to come with me,"
"Are you even listening to me?"
"Of course,"
"Then say something," Jamie's hand reaches out across the table and faintly touches mine. He furrows his dark eyebrows, and with a look of worry asks, "What are you thinking?"
My eyes fling about the room for some form of inspiration, because he's not ready yet for what I'm actually thinking. I spot a woman with nautical shoes.
"I want a boat,"
"Nothing big. Just something to go up and down the Thames in on a Sunday morning,"
"Not a barge though. I don't like crouching,"
He starts looking around the tables next to us as if checking if anyone else has spotted my abrupt insanity.
"And they're always a funny green colour,"
"Yes. But let's go back to what we were originally talking ab-"
"Maybe a yacht. I quite like the idea of over-sized sunglasses and a beach hat whilst sunbathing. They did a few fashion pages of that look in last month's Elle,"
"You want a yacht?"
"Where would you put it?"
"I live near the Thames,"
"I can see a bit of the river from my bedroom window. I'll just keep an eye on the yacht every now and again,"
"OK," he takes another mouthful of his food, and I wonder whether now is the best time for my wrath to show.
No, I'll let it simmer for a bit longer.
I look up at him from my swig of Diet Coke and throw him a bitterly sweet smile.
I knew he was going to drop a bombshell on me as soon as he mentioned going out to a nice restaurant. Jamie was hardly that guy when we were first dating - let alone now that it's been six months. But I let all these negative thoughts sit at the back of my mind, ignoring the niggling feeling, desperately hoping that I'd be wrong and tonight would just be a regular night out.
"When are you buying this boat then?" he asks.
I see him nod slowly with a faint smile on his face.
"From where?"
"I see. And with what money?"
"My money," I say really quickly, sensing the mocking tone in his voice.
"You're being silly,"
"It's not like I'm buying a cruise ship!"
"Yes, you're right. It all makes perfect sense now," he raises an eyebrow at me and turns his head away.
I think it's time to let it all out, don't you!
"So, you've decided to go to uni in Edinburgh?" I cross my arms and legs and lean back on the chair, waiting for him to answer.
"Isn't that also where Kate is going?" I ask, averting my eyes away from him. I hear a loud sigh as he leans on the table.
"That shouldn't matter," he says softly. "I've asked you to come with me,"
"Firstly, it matters greatly. And secondly, I can't just drop the life I've planned just because you've changed your plan so last minute,"
"I only found out recently I'd been accepted. I can't turn down that opportunity. And this has nothing to do with Kate. She's over me now. She's with Giles, remember?"
Of course I remember. That relationship was all part of me and Mikey's plan, but unfortunately it never really worked. Despite the fact that Kate is no longer single, you'd be a fool not to realise that she's still madly in love with Jamie. Those longing looks as he walks past are still apparent, and even though she smiles at me now when I see her, I can tell that inside she's thinking, "Why don't you just spontaneously combust?"
"Would you be comfortable if my ex went to the same university as me?" I ask him, trying to make my point.
He sneers a little as he thinks about this, "I don't think I'd care,"
"Really?" I begin. "You'd be comfortable with the fact that on nights out drinking, he'll always be around? That he'd be the one comforting me when I'm missing you, or the one I go to when I don't do so well in an exam?"
Jamie looks at the floor before flicking his eyes at me. "I'd be absolutely fine with that," he forces through gritted teeth.
"You'd be absolutely fine knowing this guy is still in love with your girlfriend and would do anything to get her back?"
"OK!" he says a little too loudly. We pause the argument for a bit until all the heads of strangers avert back to minding their own business. "I hate that thought. It makes me physically sick," he says, throwing down his napkin as if he's about to storm out. "But I love you, Ella. I trust you completely. And I like to think you trust me too,"
"Of course I trust you," I say. "But I don't trust her!"
He nods his head as if understanding. It's that thing all guys do - they pretend to sympathise with your feelings, but in reality they won't change their plans, no matter how much it hurts you.
"We talked about this, Jamie. You were supposed to go to Royal Holloway so you'd be near Surrey uni," I tell him as if pleading for him to change his mind. "And I've seen maps. Scotland is like another country,"
He lets his head hang and rubs the back of his neck. "I've asked you to come with me," he finally says.
"NO!" I snap. "I won't re-route my life to suit you!"
"Well, you still have time to think about it," he says, leaning back on his chair.
"I'm not coming to Edinburgh, Jamie,"
"FINE!" I snap again and get up to leave the restaurant, furiously searching my phone for Mikey's number.
The blue Ford Focus pulls up along the pavement, one wheel on the kerb.
"Get in," Mikey mouths from the car, so I rise from the edge of the wall I'm sitting on and wipe the tears from my cheeks. I climb in, throwing the fluffy cushion sitting comfortably in the front seat, in the back.
"What on earth is this?" I say, looking at the lilac fluff with confusion.
"My mum put it in here," he defends.
"OK," I say, unconvinced.
"So you just walked out without paying?" he asks me as the car starts moving.
"Yes, but I don't feel guilty because I need the money,"
"What for?"
"I'm buying a boat tomorrow,"
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Haaa I've had a similar conversation so many times with boys. I hate that I get a bit bunny boiler-y when it comes to ex's but I think that's a natural thing... also it's usually because if they chose you over her there's always going to be some residual fear that it might go back the other way. Nowadays if I ever feel the BB coming on I back away and realize that it's just the crazy coming out and I need the space to get back to the ground!ReplyDelete
london girl up north
Haha! Some good advice there. I think there's a bunny boiler lurking in all of us - we just need to keep her under wraps :)
loved this.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the comment :).
Helen, X
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It means a lot xx
- Anonymous13 May 2011 at 23:49
Haha I know, and when they pretend that they wouldn't care if you saw your ex every day... hmmm likely.ReplyDelete
Awesome, can't wait for more.
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Urban Acrobatics: A Circus and Graffiti Spectacular
A series of workshops, discussions, and performances around the shared history and aesthetics of circus and graffiti art. All events are free and open to the public.
Wednesday 4 September 2013, 6:30–8:30 p.m.
Interrogating Shared Histories: Publicity, Movement, & Spectacle in NYC Circus & Graffiti
Location: NoMAA Gallery, 178 Bennett Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10040
Panelists: Caitlin Bruce, David Carlyon, Carlos Dominguez Martinez/FEEGZ, TATU XMEN, & Polly Solomon
Reception to follow.
Thursday 5 September, 6–9 p.m.
Introduction to Circus & Graffiti Art
Location: Word-Up!, 2113 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
Back to Back Artist-to-Artist Workshops: (1) Tagging Workshop led by E67 Fly I.D., Clark Fly I.D., 6-7:20 p.m. (2) Circus Workshop led by Polly Solomon, 7:40–9 p.m.
Friday 6 September, 12:15–5:30 p.m.
Location: Word-Up!, 2113 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
Youth-focused workshops: (1) Tagging Workshops led by TATU XMEN and GOONS, 12:15-1:45 p.m. (2) Circus Workshop led by Polly Solomon, 2:15-3:45 p.m. (3) Discussion and improvisation time, 4-5:30 p.m.
Saturday 7 September, 12–4 p.m.
Location: Morris-Jumel Mansion, 65 Jumel Terrace, New York, NY.
Rain location: Word-Up!, 2113 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
Preparation for Sunday performance with GOONS, 12-4 p.m.
Sunday 8 September, 3–5 p.m.
Urban Acrobatics Inaugural Performance
Location: Morris-Jumel Mansion, 65 Jumel Terrace, New York, NY
Come see live painting and circus arts combine! Staged at the front grounds of MJM. Materials will be available for arts and crafts. Preliminary line-up of circus and graffiti artists (more to come): E67 Fly I.D., Clark Fly I.D, GOONS, FEEGZ, Polly Solomon.
This programming is made possible by: Funding from Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, partnerships and the generous donation of space at NoMAA, Word Up! and the Morris Jumel Mansion, and the New York City Parks Department Equipment and sound production by Moose Hall Theater Company/Inwood Shakespeare Festival; paint from Critical Massive. A special thanks to Sandra García-Betancourt, Carol Ward, Catherine Bruce, Ted Minos, Veronica, Gio and our artists and performers, and the volunteers from Word Up.
Please direct any questions to Caitlin Bruce and Polly Solomon at
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- Never use alcohol-based cleaning products, because it will dissolve the hard wax oil.
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- Wipe up spills immediately with a lightly dampened cloth, and then follow up with a Regal Hardwoods recommended cleaning product.
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Guide: Using WOCA
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After Dinner Coffee Set Midwinter Riverside Forest Green Leaves Pot 4 Cups And Saucers 1960s
This is a wonderful retro coffee or tall teapot set made by Midwinter, England in the Riverside pattern in the 1950-1960s consisting of a coffee pot and 4 demitasse sized after dinner cup and saucers.
The coffee set was designed by John Russell and is in the very moderne, retro mid century Fashion shape with avocado green lid, a streamlined shape and is part of the Stylecraft line.
The coffee pot measures 7.75 inches high by 7.5 inches long by 4.5 inches wide.
The stylish and elegant coffe pot or tall tea pot is in very good +++ used condition with a tiny base chip that doesn't show until the pot is lifted and some crazing which is normal for Midwinter's glaze at this time. There is a line in the photo, but it is a strat decorator's paint line, NOT a crack or flaw.
The retro square shaped cups and saucers each measure 2.25 inches high and hold the after dinner cup size of 4-5 ounces, and the saucers are 4.75 inches square. There is one tiny glaze chip on a cup handle as seen in the photo.
Midwinter was acquired by Wedgwood in the late 1960s, after this set was made.
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New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) The Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) on Friday called for a ban on the "triple talaq" divorce system, saying it was un-Islamic and outlawed in several Muslim countries.
"The Quran gives rights to Muslim women during marriage and does not recognise triple talaq," the group said in a resolution passed at its ninth annual convention here.
"Yet, this evil practice prevails in India. It should be banned like several Muslim countries (have done)," it added.
At the same time, the gathering rejected the idea of an Uniform Civil Code and called upon the government to initiate urgent measures towards reforms in Muslim personal law.
A BMMA statement quoted co-founder Noorjehan Safia Niaz as saying how India urgently needed a codified Muslim personal law based on the Quranic principles of justice and equality.
Zakia Soman, another co-founder, spoke about how an Uniform Civil Code was not the answer to Muslim womens' quest for justice.
This can happen only by reform in Muslim personal law where matters such as age of marriage, divorce and polygamy can be regulated, she said.
"The panel agreed that the patriarchal elements in the community had blocked any reform move for too long and this must change."
The convention was attended by some 500 Muslim women and men from different states.
On the occasion, a report titled "No More Talaq, Talaq, Talaq: Muslim Women Call for a Ban on an UnIslamic Practice" was released.
Authored by Niaz and Soman, it carries case studies of 117 Muslim women who have been victims of "triple talaq".
The case studies were gathered from Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, West Bengal and Karnataka.
In his foreword to the report, National Minorities Commission's former chief Tahir Mahmood said the report read like a horror story "and reveals what havoc a gross misuse of the noble Islamic law on divorce as a whole is playing in the society".


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Martin – Lester Frank, 87 of Middlefield, passed away peacefully on Sunday June 17, 2018, in Queens General Hospital, Liverpool.
Born in South Brookfield, Queens County, he was the son of the late Maxwell and Sarah (Holloway) Martin.
Lester started his working career working in the woods cutting firewood. He did the river run in Kapuskasing clearing log jams, worked for Ontario Northland Railroad installing telegram cables and helped build the road from Liverpool to Caledonia. By the age of 21, Lester was enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and was trained at Camp Borden in Ontario as an aero engine technician and later as an instructor. He served on the crash crew in Lahr, Germany and did patrol across the Atlantic Ocean in the Argus. He retired from the air force with the rank of Master Warrant Officer in 1977 after 26 years service. At the time of his retirement, Lester was superintendent of the Engine Bay at CFB Greenwood. After his retirement, Lester took up upholstery repair and worked for Smith Furniture and Appliances for a time until he started his own business; Martin's Upholstery in Liverpool along with his wife Norma. They ran the business for 23 years. Lester will be remembered as a gentle, soft spoken man who always put others first. He was very community minded and was instrumental in getting grants to fix the community church and cemetery which went on to win the Rural Beautification Award.
He is survived by sons, Laurie (Anne), of Bridgewater; Steven (Brenda), of Pleasantfield; grandchildren Alicia, Alex, Ryan and Sarah and great grandchildren Christopher, Georgia and Owen. His brothers Eugene of Kingston and Francis (Theresa) of Ontario.
He was predeceased by his loving wife, Norma; his sister Mildred Lyttle and his brothers Maxwell and George.
Cremation has taken place under the direction of Chandlers' Funeral Home, Liverpool. A private family service will be held at a later date. No flowers, donations may be made to heart and Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia. To share memories or condolences, please visit www.chandlersfuneral.com
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