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This is Noah (and Chloe). He just got married to my stepdaughter, Chloe. Just this one little fact will speak volumes about him - he had nineteen Groomsmen at their wedding. They live down in Boston and he has one of the coolest jobs working with Downeast Cider - Handcrafted cider - "The way cider should be".
When asked to tell his story in three sentences on the Downeast Cider website, here's what Noah wrote: "Born and raised in Maine, for some reason could not get enough of the bitter cold/black flies and went to college there as well. After bumbling around the Tech space with my head in the "cloud" I decided to try my hand in cider. It seems fitting as my middle name is Harvest and I grew up in Appleton."
This was one of the more challenging portraits I've done. Lighting, paper, subjects, and even photographing it. I fought it the whole way through. I think the original looks better. But you'll have to come to the Portrait Project show to see for yourself. The show opens November 6th from 5-8pm. You can even meet Noah and Chloe in person. If your lucky, he may even bring a few cans of cider for you to try.
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Number 524, June 21, 2009
Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise
When I was a kid racism was an easy issue to understand. Members of the "majority" enjoyed more wealth, power, privileges, and status than members of the "minority (ies)." Force, either officially sanctioned or at least officially ignored, was used to keep members of the minority groups in their place. Majority and minority were expected to live in segregation. Minority members who got uppity were beaten back into place or even killed. Majority members who got too friendly with minority members were sanctioned.
The Holocaust and lynchings in the Southern and Midwestern US made people aware that his was wrong. Seeing the promise of equal opportunity and equal reward for equal accomplishment broken made people realize that racism was wrong. Seeing how racism excused the creation of goon squads to keep minority members in line, then be sicced on trouble making majority members made people realize that racism was wrong.
And so in the US we began to dismantle state support of racism and to destroy the power base of those who used racism to rule their parts of the country. To quote Genesis "And it was good."
Unfortunately politicians got involved. Quotas and reverse discrimination became tactics in the fight against racism, and even if they were ever valid (and no I will not get drawn into arguments if they were ever valid responses to racism) they were used too long, to where they became the new racism. Somehow all conservatives were slapped with the racist label. And it was not so good.
And now a new nadir has been achieved. Any member of an ethnic minority who does not support the liberal agenda or expresses support for conservative or libertarian goals is labeled as a traitor to his race and a racist.
And racism goes from being a fascist tool to being a socialist tool to keep us in our place, thus proving the adage "Plus le change, plus le mime merde." And merde tre fatigue I must add.

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Earlier this month, my husband and I visited Eltham Palace at Greenwich, London. The house is a beautiful 1930's Art Deco mansion attached to a medieval hall.
This was the home of millionaires Stephen and Virginia Courtauld.
For me the most stunning part of the house was the Art Deco entrance hall.
We started our tour of the house upstairs. The first room was a guest room, complete with wall clock so you didn't miss the cocktails served in the entrance hall!
Virginia Courtauld's bedroom
and opulent bathroom.
Stephen Courtauld's bedroom and bathroom.
They had a pet ring-tailed lemur, called Jonggy, who had the run of the house.
Virginia's nephews lived with them. They had adjoining rooms with the only shower in the house ... cold water only!
We then walked out onto the minstrels' gallery, looking over the great hall. The gallery was added by the Courtaulds.
The great hall was once part of a medieval palace.
Next we went back downstairs.
The dining room.
The drawing room.
The boudoir.
The library.
Down in the basement.
Before going into the garden we walked through the great hall.
First we walked around the outside of the house.
And that was the end of our time at this lovely house.
So it's goodbye from me ...
... and goodbye from him! :)


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On January 26th, 2011 Turkish-New Mexican Friendship Reception was held at La Fonda Plaza in Santa Fe by the Turquoise Council of Americans and Eurasians and the Raindrop Turkish House Albuquerque.
State Senators, House of Representatives, Legislators and other officials in New Mexico and six Congressmen from Turkey were the guests of the night. Dianna J. Duran- Secretary of State, James B. Lewis- State Treasurer, Gary King, Attorney General, Hector H. Balderas- State Auditor, Timothy Jennings- Senate Pro Tempore, Steven Neville- State Senator, Gerald Ortiz y Pino- State Senator, Rick Miera- State Representative, Joseph Cervantes- State Representative, Zachary Cook- State Representative, James R.J. Strickler- State Representative were host committee. Turkish Parliamentarians Abdullah Caliskan, Emin Nedim Ozturk, Fatma Sahin, Mehmet Sahin, Murat Mercan, Murat Yildirim were among the guests of the night.
The aim of the event was to promote continuing good relationship and create an opportunity to further enrich cultural understanding by bringing together the leaders of New Mexico State and the members from Turkish parliament.
Event started with the welcoming remarks by James B. Lewis- State Treasurer, Gary King, Attorney and Timothy Jennings- Senate Pro Tempore. After welcoming speeches, President of TCAE, Kemal Oksuz made opening remarks and evaluated the night as an opportunity to improve relations between Turkey and New Mexico. The keynote speech was made by Frank Yates who is reverend of St. Andrew Presbyterian Church and at the same time faculty at UNM. He mentioned about his visit to Turkey and shared his thoughts and impressions.
Murat Mercan- Chairman of Foreign Relations Committee in Turkish Parliament made a speech emphasizing the close relations between Turkey and the United States and importance of events organized by Turkish Americans, in strengthening friendly relations between two governments.
After the speeches, the night was followed by enjoying food and Turkish baklava. During the reception water marbling (Ebru) and calligraphy were performed. Attendees also enjoyed Turkish art exhibition.
(January 26, 2011 Santa Fe, NM)
Raindrop Turkish House – Albuquerque in collaboration with IID organized the First Annual Dialog and Friendship Dinner on November 16th, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. in Embassy Suites Hotel in Albuquerque, NM. Around 120 distinguished guests including representatives from different walks of life such as local media, elected officials, clergy, and leader of the communities, senators, state representatives, business people, and artists were present at the dinner and shared their tables with one another.
The Honorable Chief Justice, Charles Daniels was the key note speaker. New Mexico Senators Bill Payne and Tim Keller and Representative Rick Miera were the Host Committee.
The program started with the reception and the welcoming speech of Raindrop Turkish House, IID – Albuquerque Representatives and was followed with dinner. The MC was Rob Raucci from KUNM who invited Fr. Tom Jackson, Pastor, Aquinas Newman Center for the opening Invocation.
The next speaker was the president of IID, Dr. Alp Arslandogan. He gave his speech regarding the importance of interfaith dialog in terms of world's peace. The key note speaker, Chief Justice, Charles Daniels mentioned about his experience during a visit to the country of Turkey. The closing pray was performed by Rev. Joanne Burns from Unity Spiritual Center.
Audience enjoyed the live instrumental music ("Madame Winter"- name of the music group) while dinner is served and having the information about activities- future plans of Raindrop Turkish House.Â
(November 18, 2010 Albuquerque, NM)


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Do some basic research before going to the restaurant. Spanish cuisine consists of thousands of recipes and dishes. Some foods, however, are considered traditional and staples, such as paella, a saffron rice dish often made with shellfish; gazpacho, a chilled tomato soup; and various types of shellfish and other seafood. Familiarizing yourself with the ingredients and relative healthiness of various dishes in advance will make selecting a healthy dish at the restaurant much easier.2
Stick with dishes that are made primarily with vegetables and seafood, rather than the various cheeses, sausages and other calorie-dense foods that go into many Spanish dishes. For example, suquet is a traditional type of Spanish fish stew made with mussels, fish and other seafood. Another popular Spanish dish is hake fillets in a green salsa. Vegetable options include vegetarian paella and grilled vegetables.3
Ask your server If you are unsure about what ingredients are in a particular dish. You can even mention that you are interested in ordering something light and ask for a recommendation.4
Restrict your meal to your main dish. Don't overindulge in tempting appetizers or deserts, which are often loaded with fat, sugar and calories. Additionally, avoid eating too much of the fillers that often accompany a main dish. Rice and breads are common sides in Spanish cuisine, and they may be made with large amounts of butter or other fatty ingredients to add flavor. Stay away from these and you will avoid a lot of calories while still being able to enjoy your main course.


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Zappi's Cycling Club has a superb summer challenge for all riders!
Zappi's love to be stylish, and the classic Italian races like the Tour of Lombardia is our inspiration. Next year's Gran Fondo willl form part of a Zappi cycling festival – a month long celebration of cycling sportives, cyclo-cross and hill climbs, all with youth events built in .
Our specially designed routes will remain as per 2015 including:
We'll be bigger and even better next year, details to follow!


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Most garages can provide you with car parts, car repairs, window tinting, wheel repairs, spare car parts, cheap MOTs and more.
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January's bag has great value. The products included total almost $50.00. I'm really pleased with the variety and quality of the products and already I can't wait to see what's in store for February.
The theme this month is Super Stars.
|My Ipsy package is full!
|Clockwise from Left: Ipsy Glam Bag, A TRUE STAR WILL ALWAYS SHINE Product Pamphlet, SOHO Concealer Brush ($7.99)


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|Apple employees' lunch boxes, yesterday.
It's not unusual to say that the person who most wants power and authority is, most often, probably not the best person to have it. You'll find at the Apple Store that most of the middle managers are confidence men; tricksters who are able to put on a face and get a position in management, but when it comes down to it they're fucking useless. At my store there's a real prick - okay, I suppose I ought to be honest, they are a lot of pricks - but specifically there are pricks who hold clipboards and 'lead' the floor. If you're a 'lead' at an Apple Store and you aren't sure why people don't like you, or why you don't get invited to drinks after work, or why you're 29 and still live with your parents, this clipboard has a lot to do with it.
The floor leads (people who hold clipboards and don't do a fucking thing) have nothing to do all day but tell people when to go on their lunch breaks. It seems pretty easy right? Well, as it happens these fucking upstarts have tremendous difficulty reading the time. Every shift I'm on I have to take my break more than an hour after it's due. It sounds like no big deal right? Well, if I start at 10, and they decide to generously give me a break at 4 you can imagine I might get pretty hungry right? Well, imagine having some pompous dickhead without any education walk up, grab you by the shoulder and ask (tell you) if it's okay, can you stay on the floor for another 20 minutes? Would it be okay if you wait another 20 minutes? 5 more minutes? By this point you're actually shaking of hunger. It's now 6pm and you've had to work right through lunch time and your planned break because some lobotomized peckerhead leading the floor can't read 24 hour time, or 12 hour time. If ever you have the audacity to ask to take your break you'll be told to toughen up, that the customer comes first or some other macho bullshit.
For those of us working at the apple store who like to eat food at some point during an 8 hour shift, here are a few tips to help you nourish yourself:
1. Talk to the lead like they've given you a kidney and saved your mother from cancer. Refer to them with words like "Lord", "Savior" and "Catamite". They won't know what a catamite is, but they'll realize how complimentary it is after they Google it.
2. Get on your knees and lick their shoes clean. This sounds like a bit much, but I've done this at least 12 times in my store and (I can assure you) I've found floor leads shoes to be an excellent source of protein. The leads think you're doing this out of admiration, but it's enough sustenance to get you through a 12 hour shift without any break at all.
3. Become pregnant or get cancer or diabetes or something. It's a small price to pay for an excuse to get food.
If these don't work my final tip is to just walk off the fucking floor. If your break is at 12, take your break at 12. Don't let these fucking cunts bully you into staying on the floor without eating. Don't ruin your health in the false promise you might be Steve Jobs one day.


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Helping Preteens Deal With Peer Pressure
If you have a preteen, then be prepared. Peer pressure usually escalates in middle school and, if your child doesn't know how to adequately handle it, high school can be brutal. There are a few key ways that you can help your preteen deal with peer pressure better: teach them about what peer pressure is, offer them ways to cope with it, and keep the lines of communication open. Continue reading
Communicating Effectively With Your Teen
Communicative support is a critical developmental factor that adds to the well-being of all children, but it is especially important during the sometimes turbulent teenage years. Teens need their parents to develop the ability to support them with compassion and guide them with understanding. Continue reading
Playing the Sporting Game
Softball, soccer, basketball, horseback riding, swimming, hockey, or volleyball—the sport doesn't matter. The guidelines for parents remain the same. Show support for your child while they are learning or practicing a sport, and consider the following ideas so that they also learn about sportmanship. Continue reading


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iCarly's hour-long special 'iDate a Bad Boy,' which aired on May 9 at 8 p.m. on Nickelodeon US, took the top basic cable spot among entertainment and sports programming, even ahead of the NBA playoffs game on Wednesday, May 6.
The show drew 6.5 million total viewers, up 183% in delivery over last year's time period, also ranking as the week's top telecast on basic cable with kids and tweens, and as a first with total viewers.
In the kids two to 11 crowd, iCarly averaged a 9.5/3.3 million, up 164% in rating and 174% in delivery over last year's time period. With the six to 11 set, it averaged a 12.9/2.7 million, up 187% in rating and delivery.
Tween ratings were going strong with 12.8/2.8 million for the nine to 14 demo, up 246% in rating and 250% in delivery.
As for Nickelodeon's other programs, The Penguins of Madagascar is currently the number-two animated show with kids and total viewers, behind SpongeBob SquarePants for the quarter to date. On Saturday, May 9, at 10 a.m. The Penguins of Madagascar delivered more than 2 million kids two to 11.


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I know that last week I mentioned that the TIMC challenges would come out the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month…well, since last week was the 1st I thought it'd be fine to do the first Feb. challenge this week, and then we'll do the second one next Wed. Then there will be no more challenges until March. Hopefully that will give you all some time to get these done, and maybe even do some catching up on previous challenges as well!
I remember once reading an email about some of the perks of being a parent—and the first one of those perks was naming rights. Having had the opportunity to name four children myself, I know it's fun and also a bit intimidating! A name is with a person for life. Sometimes there's a reason for a name, a story behind it. So…
What is the story behind your name?
How did your parents come up with it? Were you named after someone special in their lives? Do you like your name? What does it mean?
You can record this in many ways, and go into detail on it or just skim the surface. If you're not sure, be sure to ask your parents, an older sibling, or someone else who may know. Even if you think you know it, it doesn't hurt to ask!
Here are a few ideas for you:
What Kim did (wrote on her blog):
My name...
At one time in my childhood I remember liking my name. In fact, I liked it so much that I wanted to have triplets and name then: Kim, Kimber, and Kimberly.
At another point in my childhood I remember hating my name and wanting to change it to Cynthia.
Now, I love my name again.
I go by Kim, because it's easy, but I think Kimberly is a pretty name...and I LOVE my middle name--Lillian.
The history of Kimberly:
I was named after my brother.... who was named after a doll. :) If I remember correctly (which I may not)... my older sister had a Kimberly doll and my parents liked the name. When my mom got pregnant with what they thought was going to be a little girl, they decided that she would be called Kimberly. When my brother was born, they decided to give him a more masculine name--luckily. They saved the name Kimberly for me, their next girl.
The history of Lillian:
Lillian was passed down from my grandmother's care-taker, Lillian. I never met Lillian; she passed away before I had the chance to meet her. But I do love her name.
It's origins are Latin and come from the flower lily. I think lily's are a very beautiful flower as well, which just adds to the enjoyment of my middle name.
What April did:
I love my name and was excited to do a page about where and how my name came to be. People have always asked me why my parents chose my name and how come they picked it when I wasn't born in the month of April. It was fun to put the story of my name in a scrapbook page.
Photoshop Brushes: "Out of the Blue" by Seishido.biz, "Watercolor" by Mcbad Fonts: Cambria (Journaling), SNF Infinity Bold (Title)
April has made a digital scrapbook quick page for you to enjoy! Thank you April!!! Please make sure you're a blog follower, and then you can download it by clicking on it!
What I did:
I made a traditional scrapbook page, and just told how I got my name and why it's meaning fits me perfectly. To be honest, I don't make a lot of "girlie" scrapbook pages—I don't think my boys would appreciate that too much in 20 years—so I'm not good at it, but I did have fun using half a package of flowers! I must say it was a fun change!
Credits: Patterned paper—Sandy Lion. Cardstock—Bazzil. Flowers—Prima. Buttons—Unknown. Letter stickers—SEI. Pen—Sakura Gelly Roll.
Now I challenge you to record the story of your name!


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This is a brand new track by American singer-songwriter, Samuel Beam, aka Iron and Wine, titled "Lovers' Revolution" taken from his upcoming fifth studio album 'Ghost on Ghost' slated for release on April 16 via Nonesuch Records in North America and 4AD for the rest of the world. Still fresh out of the oven. It is a six-minute sprawl dominated by horn and piano.
Listen below to Lovers' Revolution by Iron and Wine and sing along with the Iron and Wine - Lovers' Revolution lyric. Let us know what you think!
Watch Iron and Wine – Lovers' Revolution Music Video here
Iron and Wine Lovers' Revolution Lyrics :-
Send "Lovers' Revolution" Ringtone to your Cell
I came to you, and you to me
And we were tapping on the window of the children when the piggy-bank broke
Pitching quite a fifth
But how the makers of the medicine will always say you're looking sick
I came to you, and you to me
And we would wear up to the women washing … in the form of white gloves (?)
But the funny thing was how in in God and his people were dreaming about the wilds to leave
And all the fingers that we damaged when all we wanted was a diamond ring
I came to you, and you to me
And we were barking at the drug dogs, blood-dried-black on their hands
Never realized,
You never tussle with a giant till you can hit him right between the eyes
That no matter how we chose 'em we'll be chocking on the compromised
(I came to you)
Cause all the jaws, all the claws, they're restless by the riverside
(I came to you)
(I came to you)
And it was a muscle and a shadow that was shoving us into the light
I came to you, and you to me
And we were snatching out a poor baby's bottle just to trade it for change
But now it's come to pass
The every eye beneath the mountains saw the smoke and no one heard the blast
And no one knew the arm was broken, tho everybody signed the cast
Until the compliment was good she said man I thought you'd never ask
And when the world wore out their welcome they just booked up for a bag of grass
But when she cried on the grounds we were sucking all the laughing gas
And when the hat had left the body not a flag was hanging on us
I came to you, and you to me
And then we lost our own lovers revolution but then it all started again
Now we're musicjuzz one
One of the parade wailing widows walking home into the setting sun
One of the soldiers lost, and then dreams and never lose their gun
One of the wise-men wondered onto the podium without a tongue
One of the trophies' corners by the mess we made of being young
One of the prayers, one of the promises swallowed without chewing gum
One of the deaf ear's dumber all of the time for all the years of drums
One of the wide-eyed soap boxes buried under washing time
One of the bee-cops combing every sidewalk-crack for love
One of the crowded stars uncounted when the math was done
One of the weather in the garden left to wonder when the rain will come
Send "Lovers' Revolution" Ringtone to your Cell


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Loans for people with bad credit are available to help people finance their deficit budgets regardless of their credit rating. But do you need collateral to obtain such a laon? Collateral is the asset you give out to the lender to ensure that he or she can recover the money if you are unable to repay the loan. The lender can sell out the property even at a throw away price so as to recover his amount of money he has lent to you regardless of the value of the asset. You can click this link to find out more information about online bad credit loans.
Our question was whether you need collateral for you to obtain bad credit loans. Loans for people with bad credit are referred to as unsecured loans. This is because one does not require providing asset as collateral. You can therefore obtain the loan with or without collateral. These loans are considered high risk loans because they are lent to high risk customers. However, lenders compensate for this high risk by charging a high rate of interest. You will therefore be expected to pay back more than you could have done with other types of loans.
The rate of interest does differ. Your credit score will determine how much the lender will charge you as interest. The higher the credit score, the lower is the interest rate because you are t6aken to be a low risk borrower. On the other hand, if your credit score is lower, you are taken to be a high risk customer and so you will be expected to pay a high rate of interest. Bad credit loans can be tempting because you can obtain money whenever you need it. One must therefore be much disciplined while trying to look for the loan. It is important that you only take what you need to avoid financial problems later.


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So lately I have been trying to get more attention on social media One of the things that I have been trying is Facebook live there is only one downfall to this Facebook live thing is it notifies your followers but it's really hard for someone to cross your live video as far as new people.Then I think maybe I'm not using the Facebook live correctly or maybe I'm not labeling my videos correctly.
When I go on my personal Facebook page to look at other Facebook live feed I always see our people who have millions of followers or thousands of people watching that video at that moment. The other videos that show up are videos that are not live.
Take for example that giraffe that was giving birth I don't even know if she's had the baby yet but I know that it was going on for a few days and there was over x-amount of people viewing so how do I find something like to captivate people to watch? Should I just make longer videos?Should I change the titles to something different? I mean I know this Facebook live is new to everybody and everybody's using it at the moment. I just want to try to use the tools that are available to me. When I use these tools it seems like it's a dead end and what I'm trying to do was build my followers and people who like my jewelry.
What are your guys thoughts on Facebook live? Are any of you guys having the same concerns?


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On Christmas Eve 2006, the crowd at Giants Stadium, what was left of it anyway, lost its mind. Pausing only to cheer the last home game for the beloved and retiring running back Tiki Barber, they booed with previously untapped reserves of loathing and chanted, of course, Fi-re Cough-lin. The Giants, stumbling toward a playoff run under the guidance of embattled and clearly toast coach Tom Coughlin, had lost to the New Orleans Saints 307 in a game that wasn't even as close as the final score. The next day's papers were predictably brutal. The Post greeted its readers on Christmas morning with BLUE XMAS: ANGRY GIANT FANS DEMAND COACH'S HEAD on the front page and YULE HAVE TO GO on the back page. The Daily News cut to the point and simply repeated the fans' incantation: FIRE COUGHLIN.
Coughlin didn't have much to say for himself. Human nature now, it's very easy to not want to be a part of a team that's not having success. And obviously we are not. The team seemed in total insurrection; Coughlin had taken hits from Jeremy Shockey and the departing Barber, who called the team outcoached. It would just be a matter of time. Firing him wouldn't even be necessary; his contract had only one year left on it anyway. ESPN openly speculated on his replacement. (Inevitably, Bill Parcells came up again, as did now-despised Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis.) Coughlin had only one factor in his favor: Firing him at the same time general manager Ernie Accorsi was retiring would plunge the franchise into chaos. It would end up being the only factor that mattered. It was blind luck, really.
Thirteen months later, the Giants were dousing Coughlin in Gatorade after winning the Super Bowl. And now, two years later, the Giants are the best team in the NFL and the envy of the sport. Meanwhile, Tiki Barber is paid to make omelettes on morning television. And interview Giants players for NBC about how well coached his old team is.
What happened? How did Coughlin, as ESPN put it the other day, become a made guy? Coughlin's power has coalesced so completely that the Plaxico Burress situation, which would have derailed lesser teams, was essentially yawned off by everyone but reporters. (In the Giants' locker room last week, tackle Kareem McKenzie admitted to me that the main distraction caused by Burress was that players who don't know the receiver well now had to rack their brains for something noteworthy to say about him to reporters.) Coughlin is now the most powerful coach in the NFL. You can make the argument that Coughlin changed the way he coached, that one night in the middle of September 2007, he woke up in a cold sweat, screamed Eureka! and built himself a genius cave. Or you can recognize the scary truth about coaches, and managers, particularly in this city: A lot of this is dumb luck.
This is not to say that Coughlin is a bad coach, or at least not any worse or better than he was when fans were calling for his head. But the hothouse flowers that make up an NFL team's locker room, and the seemingly random tidbits that can shove a fragile union of professional athletes off the psychological precipice, are an unpredictable lot. Besides talent, much of this is shaped by the Big Mo. If you have been winning, you feel like you can keep winning. Often, the best a coach can hope foreven a coach like Coughlin, who has proven himself this year to be a better game-planner, week by week, than most realizedis to harness momentum and stay out of its way.
The conventional wisdom has always been that NFL coaches have more of an effect on their teams than NBA coaches or, especially, baseball managers. And there's an element of truth to this; the Chargers' Norv Turner is in the midst of running his third talented team into a ditch. But once you reach that minimum level of competencethink of, say, Jim Fassel as the medium point; above him, you're qualified, below him, you're Al Grohthe difference between the best coach and the fifth best is so thin as to not exist. These are all smart guys. It took twenty months for Coughlin to transmogrify from a moron to a mastermind. It's all about the circumstances.
How important is a manager or coach? The definition shifts depending on everyone's mood. Take Joe Torre. When he arrived in the Bronx, he was an underwhelming retread hire, a stopgap until George Steinbrenner came up with a bigger name or figured out how to exhume Billy Martin. And then the Yankees became America's Dynasty, and Torre became the strategic genius, the public face of an empire. Then the Yankees won often enough that people questioned whether Torre was steering the ship or riding along. When they stopped winning World Series, it was because Torre had grown too complacent. Now that he's gone? Why isn't Joe Girardi as smart as Joe Torre? Why isn't he managing, you know, harder? And when Torre's Dodgers made the playoffs last year, it was because he was renewed and energized. It was all headlines; Torre's the same guy. Managers and coaches, to borrow everyone's new favorite sports cliché, are what they are. It's the swirl of public opinion around them that keeps shifting.


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Yahoo drops porn expansion
Leading internet portal Yahoo says it will remove pornographic products from its shopping, auctions and classified pages following an outburst of complaints from customers.
They bombarded Yahoo with emails in protest at news that the company was expanding its online offerings of porn videos.
Company president Jeff Mallett said Yahoo had responded swiftly to its users' concerns.
Pornographic sites are one of the few categories on the internet that make a profit.
Mr Mallett denied Yahoo had significantly increased its adult offerings, but said it had created a new category for them on its shopping pages, while tightening access controls to keep children out.
"Our main concern is our users. Their opinion matters most," he said. "It's not a case of what has changed or not changed."
The company also announced it would not sign any new contracts for banner adverts for adult products.
The withdrawal of sex shopping will not be immediate, but the changes will be made over the next few weeks.
Hard times
The controversy comes at a bad time for Yahoo; its online advertising revenue, the source of 90% of its income in 2000, has fallen dramatically with the decline of dot.com companies.
More than 400 redundancies, or 12% of the company's workforce, have been announced.
On Friday, the religious authorities in Saudi Arabia called on the world's one billion Muslims to boycott Yahoo and other "sites that seek material interest at the expense of morals".
Yahoo has also run into disputes over the existence of Nazi merchandise on its extensive hierarchy of sections and subsections.
And it has come under fire for hosting online chats by white supremacists and other groups.
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March 20, 2017 SVMUG
New people
Dave Wilson
came because of Derrick Story mailing list
Answer to Question from Last Meeting:
Storage for iPhone - From Wally Cherwinski
Jonathan Zdziarski Joins Apple
Pwn2Own Hackers Find 2 Zero Day Safari Exploits
iPhone Thieves Attempt to Phish Victims for Apple IDs
WikiLeaks Publishes CIA Hacking Docs
Apple Has Already Patched Most WikiLeaks/CIA Flaws
Stolen Software Causes Permanent Encryption (Mac)
US Justice Dept. Charges Russian Hackers & Spies
Wall Street Analysts Like iPhone Prospects
Apple Opposes Right to Repair Bill
General News:
Tim Cook on Globalization & Privacy in China
Apple Tops Ratings for Laptop Support
SJ Autographed NextWorld Poster
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Have Dinner
AppleCare Window Now 1 Year for iPhones
Maker Faire Bay Area May 19 - 21
Microsoft Updates Cortana for iOS
Microsoft Wants Users on Windows 10
Next iPhone to have OLED Display
Lynda Gousha 3/20/17
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Apple's Photos app… the oft-maligned, built-in approach to dealing with photos on your Mac. Worth using? Yes!!! Fabulous photo professional Derrick Story is here to show us Photos' current functionality and usefulness. It's more powerful than you think.
Tim Cook said "we care about the Pro users". Yet it seems recently turned away with the discontinuing of Aperture and the languishing of FCPX.
But we do have Photos - and it is surprisedly good. There was no real transition from the old Aperture to Photos. It upset a lot of folks in photography.
Photos is a blessing for iPhone photography.
Derrick had been consultant for the design Aperture.
He became a champion of Aperture during its development,
even though Photoshop is the top editor.
He was not sure at first, if he would jump on the Photos bandwagon.
Common complaints:
no star ratings
no color tags
Apple was actually doing some good stuff under the hood, but were not being very good about promoting it. Apple was concentrating on the meta-data as a means to organize photographs in Photos. They have facial and object and location aware indexing.
Photos is significantly more powerful with extensions
DxO OpticaPro for Photos provides lens distortion corrections for many common camera and lens combinations.
EdgePhotos provides for advanced cropping and framing and texturing.
Noiseless provides for smoothing at eight selectable strength levels.
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I hope everyone had a good weekend, more posts this week. I know I've been silent but it's been crazy around here!
Update: Alright, here is what I made my mom. Go ahead and make fun of it, it was my first real attempt at detailed watercolor! It's things that remind me of her... lavender from our vacations in southern France, 2pac for her love of him and hip-hop, wing tip oxfords, our roadtrips through europe, collecting sand dollars on the beach in San Diego, round glasses, blue and white patterns, and of course, solitaire/ free cell/ any computer card game. Hope everyone had a great sunday!


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Summer holidays are upon us and that means time for travel! Instead of booking tickets to exotic foreign locations this summer, why not try experiencing your native place through another lens? By staying local, you don't rack up your carbon footprint, and you gain a little perspective about the area in which you reside. This continues our ongoing series of sustainable summer destinations, focusing on the North East regions. We promise you haven't seen the Scotland of the East like this.
Homestay supported by the people of Kipepeo
Time to escape Kolkata? May is one of the best months to head to the cool climates of Sikkim and Darjeeling. But how to avoid the crowds? Stay at home. Obviously not your home, but the home of some of the most welcoming locals at their homestay, all supported by the people of Kipepeo.
One of the ways Kipepeo works to harmonize the relationship between conservation and the livelihoods of the local people is through four distinct homestay possibilities in rural Sikkim. If you want to tuck away into a remote corner, stay in the twin villages of Lingee and Payong, situated at the based of the Maenam Wildlife Sanctuary.
As agriculture is at the heart of the village, you have the opportunity to join local families in tilling the land for rice cultivation or help to maintain the ginger and vegetable gardens. Or you can choose to immerse yourself in the culture of the Limboo community in the village of Hee-Bermiok, surrounded on three sides by kholas (rivers) and the Samdong reserve forest. Here you can visit the Sirijonga Yuma Samyo Mangheem, the only Limboo temple in Sikkim, and stay with three-generations of the Chettri family in their heritage house made of a mixture of stone, wood, and bamboo.
Yet another opportunity offers you a homestay 8 kms outside of Pelling in a village called Darap, with the family of Shiva Gurung, where you can learn to cook traditional dishes from the host. You can also venture out on day trips to Pelling and Khecheopalri Lake, a lake sacred to both Hindus and Buddhists. Finally, if you're looking to immerse yourself in pristine natural beauty, visit Dzongu, the 'Hidden Paradise'. This sparsely populated home of the Lepcha community is plush with jungle groves surrounded by mountain peaks. Activities include walks through cardamom fields or a trek to Thoulung Gompa.
By choosing the homestay experience, you have the rare opportunity to experience life through a new set of eyes, and your stay also contributes to a project that is working to set up a sustainable economic model for the people of the region. Kipepeo's commitment to you, as well as to the people and environment of the NE, runs deep. As they state, "We are committed to enabling you to experience the unspoilt richness of North East India…but we are also committed to that richness itself!" Kipepeo offers fixed departures and custom-made trips and a part of their profit earning is invested back into social and environmental projects. Learn more about upcoming trips at the Kipepeo website.
Responsible adventure with The Blue Yonder
Looking for more of a trekking and nature-based adventure this summer? If you want to sign up on a tour, how do you choose a company that adheres to your values of supporting local cultures and environments, but also ensures you some breath-taking adventure? Try The Blue Yonder. Established in Kerala in 2004, this company has since inspired others in various locations to connect with them and work together to use tourism as a tool for sustainable development.
The Sikkim Trekking Trail offers you 14 days of exploration with a light ecological footprint and several opportunities to explore the natural flora and fauna of the region. Beginning at Gangkok, you will trek onto Khedi along the Malingo (Bamboo) Trail, and watch as vegetation changes from rainforest to coniferous forests to thick Rhododendron forests and to finally arrive at the alpine pastures of Khedi.
The next day you will drive to Maenam Wildlife Sanctuary, where you will spend the entire day trekking. Driving to Kewzing village the next morning, you will walk to Mangbrue Monastery and Dubdi Monastery, where you will learn about the work of Khangendzong Conservation Committee, a group of stakeholders from the community working to minimize negative impacts of tourism.
Next, Khangchendzonga National Park will continue your exploration of the vegetation of the region, including mixed forests containing birch, fir, maple, oak and willow trees, alpine grasses and shrubs, and wildlife such as the Himalayan thar (wild goat), the red panda, and the snow leopard. In the final days of the trip, you will take another 2-hour wildlife safari in the morning until finally returning to end your trip at Bagdogra.
Try a trail with India Trail
If you're curious to explore the North East but don't know where to start, turn to India Trail. This fresh enterprise, not yet one year old, focuses on responsible travel and "making sure that travel respects the local way of life," says its founder, Rohan Abraham. India Trail trips concentrate on becoming familiar with the natural and cultural history of the place you're visiting while deeply respecting the culture, with a mission to "give our participants a diverse variety of experiences that will help them understand the culture, history and heritage of India and also add value to their careers and lives". These are the kind of trips in which you engage with local people, be it the young local guides or with families over a meal in their home.
India Trail designs trips – or "trails" – to match your needs, and offers customized, adventure, or educational/development experiences. Group sizes can range from 1 to 12 people, and Rohan works closely with groups to customize each trip to their time and interest.
One of the most popular adventure experiences is to Nagaland, a spectacular destination that offers a rare combination of cultural, natural, and historical diversity. With sixteen different tribes in Nagaland alone, one cultural marker of the region is its cuisine.
Indulge in meats, veggies, sauces, chutneys, chillies, and rice, most dishes of which are smoked, fermented and slow-cooked. In terms of natural beauty, Nagaland offers sub-tropical rainforests that hold possibilities for rock climbing, trekking, fishing, camping, or just relaxing. Or if you're a history buff, perhaps you can create a trail to explore one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. You can follow the movement of the Japanese army and the allies and end up on the site of the famous Battle of Kohima, in which Japan's defeat signified a turning point in its further move into India.
But Rohan's personal favourite is a trail to Arunachal Pradesh. The trip ventures to the small village of Menchuka, housing 5,000 people, and perched just short of the Chinese border in a valley surrounded by the Himalayan range. This town was occupied by the Chinese army for a short time after the Sino Indian War of 1962. While it takes time to get there (it's a 2-day drive from the nearest airport), it is certainly worth it; you can spend your time mountain climbing, taking photographs, trekking, camping, fishing, cycling and biking or visiting an old monastery and spend some time with the monks who live there. This trail connects you to nature and is the perfect sport to relax, unwind and explore.
Check out the India Trail website to learn more about the trails offered or to get inspired to create one of your own.
Travel into the rain with Greener Pastures
Do you love the rain? Dive deeper into that love with a drippy tour of Meghalaya hosted by Greener Pastures. Founded in 2011, this eco-tourism organization is committed to responsible tourism that includes promoting community development and empowering local youth. They aim to provide a value to the cultural, historical, and natural heritage of the NE so that locals are inspired to preserve and protect it. In addition, its offerings provide an offbeat glimpse into the culture of the NE.
One such offering is their "Monsoons in Meghalaya", which invites you to explore one of the rainiest places on the planet in the middle of the rainiest season of the year. On this week-long adventure to Shillong, Mawlynnong, and Cherrapunji, your natural inclination is to curl up indoors during rainy season is satisfied.
Greener Pastures hand-picks the coziest accommodation for you to enjoy the show outside. In Shillong that means a 4-star resort perched beside Umiam Lake; in Mawlynnong, the "cleanest village in Asia", you will either stay in a tree-house or homestay with the Khasi Tribe; and in Cherrapunji, officially the wettest place on the planet, at a 3-star resort on the edge of a cliff.
Of course, a monsoon tour also promises outdoor adventure. If you're lucky, there will be a few hours of rain break each day, just enough time for visits to local villages. Or you can just go outside and explore the beauty of water and its shaping force on the environment: swollen waterfalls, lush green landscapes, and gnarly cloud formations. Rain lovers, this is the trip for you.
Travel into the monsoon this summer and explore another side of the North East part of India. For more details on the "Monsoon in Meghalaya, the Abode of the Clouds" trip, see the trip page, or visit The Greener Pastures website to check out what else they have in store.
Travel Local is a series offering summer travel getaways in North, South, East & North-East and West & Central India to encourage local travel with minimal footprint.


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Dunedin had some of the most amazing architecture we saw on our trip. The railway station is the second most photographed building in the southern hemisphere (behind the Sydney Opera House). Its so big that it's hard to get a good photo though! We went on the Cadbury chocolate factory tour and then walked up the steepest street, and I think we definitely worked off all the chocolate we ate!
Central Otago is really beautiful, with scenery unlike anything else in New Zealand. It has a really warm climate and we ate some amazing stone fruit! At one place we were a bit confused when no one was at the shop, but then we figured out it was set up so you could pay via EFTPOS. The new honesty box haha. That's the South Island for ya!


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mrossk wrote:Hey y'all- I'm wondering if it's common to lose 5 to 10 mpg after installing the full Akra system and map. I'm on my 3rd tank of gas since the change, and I haven't broken 30 mpg, whereas before I was getting 35 to 40. I thought there would be a small drop off, but this seems significant, and wanted to see if its common. Admittedly it's been mostly commuting miles, haven't been out on the open road, but I'm curious for some feedback. What kind of mileage have you all been getting?
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It's been a wile sence I've been on. I have been to my nerve doctor and to my reg doctor and enther one know why I have the pain in my back so I'm thinking its just air in my back can any one help please? Your Freind Penny
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if u think its just air try rubbing vapor rub where the pain is and then cover it really good but try doing it after u take a shower or a nite before bed time so u dont make it worse, if u do it at bed time its the best cuz u let it rest all nite n can shower in the morning if u have too. another thing is soakn herself in the tub with warm water and add a handfull of table salt. those ideas were giving to me by a chiropractor i use to see for back pain and eventually workd great for me. try it out. it really simple stuff
I had terrible back pain for many years and the pain always moved from one place to another, three months on one area then changed to another, my Dr. said it might be fibromyalgia and he gave me cymbalta, this medication helped a lot with my pain even though it's for depression, Good luck and get well soon, hugs…LISA
Women and some men at middle age get degenerative disc disease, and the spine can get so the bones are crooked and it sits on the nerve roots, causing pain.
After 20 years of back pain and trying everything and nothing working, I had a spinal cord stimulator put in which interrupts the pain signal. I have a pack under the skin on my hip, which I recharge, and wires in my spine. It has worked pretty well for me, but not everyone gets relief to the point it's worth doing. Just wanted to mention I did everything!
Hopefully your doctors are thorough enough to do tests if you need it. My back pain was from degenerative disc disease that started young and if I hadn't insisted on an MRI, they would still be just dishing out pain meds. Stress didn't help either, and the more pain, the more stress I had. Plus the weight gain being inactive caused. One of my cervical disc was bad enough to need removal and fusion and for the first time in my life, I can turn my head sideways and live without extreme pain in my neck.
If your pain hasn't resolved in a resonable amount of time, I suggest seeing your doctor again and asking for a more thorough examination and diagnosis. Hopefully it's nothing serious. But pain of any kind is no fun and can reduce our quality of life. Hope you find an answer soon.
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Employment law firm Jackson Lewis PC and two of its former attorneys are in the cross hairs of a new lawsuit stemming from an allegedly flawed employee stock ownership plan valuation (Sealey v. Johanson, S.D. Miss., No. 3:15-cv-00137-DPJ-FKB, complaint filed 2/27/15).
The lawsuit, brought by a participant in an ESOP sponsored by a Mississippi-based DirecTV installation company, comes on the heels of a $6.5 million judgment against the company's owner for causing the ESOP to purchase his company stock at an inflated price (Perez v. Bruister, 2014 BL 291439, S.D. Miss., No. 3:13-cv-01001-DPJ-FKB, 10/16/14).
The nine-count complaint, filed Feb. 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, challenges a settlement agreement between the company and its liability insurers, which allegedly thwarted the plan's ability to collect on its $6.5 million judgment.
According to the participant, the former Jackson Lewis attorneys negotiated a settlement agreement between the company and its insurers that required the insurers to use the policy coverage to pay the company's legal fees in defending twin suits challenging the ESOP valuation. The defendants allegedly kept this agreement a secret from the plaintiffs in the ESOP suits, causing Jackson Lewis to continue racking up legal fees that ultimately depleted the amount of promised coverage, leaving nothing left to pay the eventual $6.5 million judgment in favor of the plan.
In addition to bringing claims against the company owner and the insurers, the participant accuses Jackson Lewis and the attorneys of legal malpractice, fraud and violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, including entering into a "Secret Fee Agreement" that involved overbilling the company's liability insurers.
A spokeswoman for Jackson Lewis declined to comment on the allegations, other than to say that the firm plans to "vigorously defend" the matter.
Underlying Litigation
The instant complaint has its roots in a set of transactions in which the Bruister & Associates Inc. ESOP paid $18.4 million for just over 50 percent of the company.
After a 19-day bench trial, Judge Daniel P. Jordan III of the Southern District of Mississippi found that the deal relied on flawed valuations by an appraiser who was improperly influenced into issuing valuations above fair market value.
In recent months, the Department of Labor has pointed to this case as a glaring example of poor reliance on an appraiser, given the appraiser's lack of college education and felony convictions for embezzlement from a trust.
In addition to slapping the company's owner, Herbert C. Bruister, with a $6.5 million judgment, the court also called out the actions of former Jackson Lewis lawyer David Johanson, the company's attorney and Bruister's agent. Although Johanson wasn't a party to these earlier actions, the court noted in its 2014 decision that Johanson was "clearly the driving force" behind the disputed transactions.
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Students will sail with a team for the week. Generally, at the beginning of week students sail with an instructor. At the end, students are proficient enough to sail the dinghies as a team while their instructor coaches them from an inflatable dinghy. During the week students will compete in several sailing games and races. The top teams at the end of the week receive awards for their achievements
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The concrete Table Tennis table courtesy of the URPC and promoted by Cllr D.Laird has arrived and looks splendid in the play park. Believed to cost close to £4000 (will check the real cost later and amend as necessary).
Now, the big test will it ever be used for Table Tennis? First person to witness Table Tennis wins the star prize – a Concrete Chess Table.


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In one of what will surely be a long and tiring string of stories speculating about running mates, CBS's The Early Show discussed which running mates helped or hurt their parties on Thursday. CBS political guru Jeff Greenfield asserted: "Now Richard Nixon once said, Harry, that a running mate can't help you but only hurt you and he should know, his choice of Spiro Agnew in 1968 proved to be a big embarrassment, thanks to Agnew's careless way with words." After Greenfield added who helped the ticket (LBJ, George H.W. Bush, Al Gore), Smith returned to mocking Agnew: "Alright, not to bring back up subjects like nattering nabobs of negativism."
It was the latest example of Greenfield opining on 1968 without mentioning to viewers he worked as a speechwriter for Bobby Kennedy in 1967 and 1968.
So what were these "careless" words? A Google search for "Agnew" and "gaffes" brings up Agnew's New York Times obituary. It told of the new Nixon running mate in 1968:
The nine-week election campaign did little to polish Mr. Agnew's image, marked as it was by a series of gaffes. He spoke of ''Polacks,'' and of a ''fat Jap''; he accused Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, the Democratic candidate, of being ''soft on Communism,'' a comment that drew rebukes even from fellow Republicans. Although billed as the Nixon camp's urban expert, Mr. Agnew disdained visits to ghettos, saying, ''If you've seen one slum, you've seen them all.''
Greenfield avoided the issue of how much Agnew "hurt" Nixon, as the duo were elected in 1968 and 1972. Immediately, conservatives ask: what was the "gaffe" in saying Humphrey was soft on communism? Almost as immediately, conservatives concede the use of ethnic disparagements is more gaffe-worthy. But guess what? The Times (and other liberal media outlets) are exaggerating the offense. Former Nixon press aide James Keogh explained in his book President Nixon and the Press, page 134, explained the "Fat Jap" incident:
One of the correspondents on the campaign trail with the Vice Presidential candidate was a Japanese-American from Maryland who had covered Governor Agnew for nearly two years at the State House. They knew each other well. Around Annapolis, among the newsman's friends, his nickname was the "Fat Jap." He was on the Agnew campaign's plane the morning of September 20, 1968, when it was scheduled for a very early takeoff after many of the traveling correspondents had spent a night on the town in Las Vegas. Agnew came aboard the plane at 7:30 am, and went back to the section where the correspondents were seated. There, his old friend from Annapolis was leaned back in his seat and sound asleep. "What's the matter with the fat Jap?" Agnew asked with a grin. "Too much Las Vegas?" There was some small talk about Las Vegas before the candidate went on his way.
Three days later, on September 23, as Candidate Agnew was about to arrive in Hawaii for a campaign appearance, The Washington Post printed a more-or-less general story about his campaign trip which ended with this paragraph:
Earlier, Agnew had astonished newsmen traveling with him, when he made a rare visit to their section of the airplane, pointed at a sleeping reporter of Japanese descent, who is, like Agnew, a second-generation American, and asked: "What's the matter with the fat Jap?"
This left the impression that Agnew had insulted the man and denigrated his racial background. Since Hawaii has a large Oriental element in its population the timing was such that the remark was the No. 1 item of conversation. From then on the expression was written indelibly beside Agnew's name....
It was not unreasonable to argue that a candiate for Vice President of the United States should have been more aware of the public relations dangers involved in using the man's nickname in front of reporters on the campaign plane. But in planting and then fostering the false impression that Agnew had crudely insulted another second-generation American, newsmen were far more at fault than he was.


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Trustees of Ampleforth Abbey Trust v Turner & Townsend Management Ltd [2012] EWHC 2137
Whether a duty of care was owed by a project manager to an employer in respect of ensuring that a contract containing a liquidated damages clause was agreed with a contractor
The claimant employed the defendant to project manage the building of three construction projects on its property. The works were carried out by a contractor and were completed to a satisfactory standard, but significantly later than the claimant had envisaged. The contractor stated that it was entitled to an extension of time. The works were carried out under letters of intent, with the contract only being agreed through mediation after the works were complete. The contract contained a clause limiting the claimant's ability to claim for delay. The claimant sought damages against the defendant on the basis that the defendant had failed to exercise reasonable care and skill in the exercise of the build and procurement process from the contractor and that this failure had caused the claimant loss.
The issue in this context was whether the defendant owed a duty of care to the claimant in respect of ensuring that it was entitled to liquidated damages for delay in the agreement with the contractor.
It was held that the defendant did owe a duty of care to the claimant and had failed in that duty by failing to exert sufficient pressure on the contractor to finalise the contract. The breach caused loss because if there was no breach the claimant would have taken steps to ensure that it was entitled to liquidated damages and there was a real possibility that the contractor would have agreed to those terms.
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It is a cheap bargain for them
hijacking your high
they love the glare and gold
and ween to be worshipped
apathy airs their sleep
in the abortive barrens of
hubristic hopes,
they sully the word
with their stale sterotype
squaring slogans to shame
fame, fortune and fervor
are their coveted cravings
like daughters of joy.
They cannot hold a pen
and ink an irony
but they call themselves writers
and some muses of minstrel
when they bleed bile
they suck into your word
those parasites of the phrase
Beware! For you may
meet one soon
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Nick Warren
Nick Warren
|Birth name
|Nicholas John Warren[1]
|24 October 1968
|Bristol, England
|Years active
|Global Underground, Hope Recordings
|Associated acts
|Way Out West
Nicholas John Warren (born 24 October 1968) is an English DJ and record producer. He is best known as a member of the electronic music duo Way Out West, and for his albums released in the Global Underground series. He was head of A&R for the record label Hope Recordings.
In 1988, Nicholas Warren began DJ-ing in Bristol, playing mainly reggae and indie music until house music became more popular in the UK.[2] By the early 1990s, Warren had become one of the more popular DJs in Bristol, performing regularly at the superclub Vision and DJ-ing for Massive Attack.[3][4]
While working at a record store in 1994, Warren met producer Jody Wisternoff and the two decided to work together.[4] Their first collaboration was on the track "Paradise is the Sound" which they released under the artist name Sub-Version 3.[5] Warren describes Wisternoff as being the more technical of the two, while Warren states that he "bring[s] most of the sounds into our projects" and an understanding of what music needs to be successful at dance clubs.[2] Their next two releases were issued under the name Echo, with Way Out West being the name of their remix project.[5] The duo soon adopted the name for their act and signed a deal with Deconstruction Records.
In the mid 1990s, Warren began a residency at Liverpool dance club Cream.[3] In 1997, Warren was given the opportunity to mix the second entry in the still young Global Underground series.[3] The album, Global Underground 003: Prague, is a live set of Warren's from Prague. Although labelled as 003, this was actually only the second release on the Global Underground label. This began a relationship with Global Underground which led to Warren creating seven additional mix albums for the series, including Global Underground 008: Brazil, Global Underground 011: Budapest, Global Underground 018: Amsterdam, Global Underground 024: Reykjavík, Global Underground 028: Shanghai, Global Underground 030: Paris, and Global Underground 035: Lima.[3] Warren stated that he feels comfortable working with Global Underground due to an underlying trust between himself and the label.[6]
In December 2000, Way Out West was dropped by Deconstruction, which had since been bought by BMG, as the label felt that Way Out West's album would not do well commercially.[2][5] Way Out West then signed a three-album contract with Distinct'ive Records, turning down offers from other labels such as Bedrock.[2][5] Their first album on Distinct'ive was Intensify, which featured the singles "The Fall", "Intensify", and "Mindcircus". "The Fall" used lyrics taken from the Cole Porter song "Autumn Leaves" and "Mindcircus" features vocals written by Imogen Heap.[2] For the next Way Out West album, Don't Look Now (2004), Warren and Wisternoff brought in vocalist Omi and drummer Damon Reece.[7] As of early 2007, Way Out West had begun work on new material.[8] Warren made this possible because he is now head A&R of Hope Recordings, the label in which their last single "Spaceman" was released in 2008.[9] In 2008, Global Underground released Warren's next compilation, Global Underground 035: Lima.[10] Before this album, Warren had sold over 110,000 compilations in the Global Underground series in the UK alone.[10]
For in-studio mixing, Nick Warren uses Ableton Live, ProTools, and some Logic Pro on a Macintosh.[11]
Way Out West's fourth album, titled "We Love Machine," was released on 6 October 2009. The song "Only Love" featuring Jonathan Mendelsohn on vocals (the album marks their first collaboration with a male vocalist) was the first single off the album, released 31 August 2009. The deluxe edition of the album on Hope Recordings is available at their own website.
Nick's recent ventures have been a remix of Grafiti's song Spooky Trains, out now on Hope Recordings and a remix of General Midi's song 'Absinth'. Also in 2010, Nick released on Bedrock Recordings, with the track In Search of Silver and he began his Soundgarden show on Frisky Radio, a bi-monthly venture in which Nick plays a wide range of different sets on this popular station.[12]
2011 marked Hope Recordings' 100th release, taken on by none other than Nick Warren himself. The track was titled 'Buenos Aires' – as Nick feels a special connection with the city, having played there on several occasions. "I am in love with the city of Buenos Aires and have the most amazing time, each and every time I go there to play. I started writing this tune after playing there last year".[13] Hope Recordings' next release was by Tom Glass, titled 'Naive' for which Nick did his own 'Psychedelic Wheel' Remix. In November 2011, Nick released another solo single, Rumbletump, on Hernan Cattaneo's Sudbeat label.
On 25 August 2012 Nick announced via his Facebook page that he would be compiling the next Renaissance Master's series album, set for a January 2013 release. He demonstrated his excitement for the release stating "These are exciting times for electronic music with genres and styles more eclectic than ever before and with this album for the Masters series I hope to highlight some of the most breathtaking and diverse electronic music in 2012."[14]
Selected discography[edit]
- Albums[15]
- 1997: Way Out West – Way Out West (Deconstruction)
- 1997: Global Underground 003: Prague (Boxed)
- 1998: Global Underground 008: Brazil (Boxed)
- 1999: Back to Mine: Nick Warren (DMC Publishing)
- 1999: Global Underground 011: Budapest (Boxed)
- 2000: Global Underground 018: Amsterdam (Boxed)
- 2001: Way Out West – Intensify (Distinct'ive Breaks Records, Nettwerk)
- 2001: Renaissance: Revelation (Ultra Records)
- 2003: Global Underground 024: Reykjavík (Global Underground Ltd.) (Billboard Top Electronic Albums #25)
- 2004: Way Out West – Don't Look Now (Distinct'ive Records)
- 2005: Global Underground 028: Shanghai (Global Underground Ltd.) (Billboard Top Electronic Albums #14)
- 2007: Global Underground 030: Paris (Global Underground Ltd.) (Billboard Top Electronic Albums #20)
- 2008: Global Underground 035: Lima (Global Underground Ltd.)
- 2009: Way Out West – We Love Machine (Hope Recordings)
- 2010: Way Out West – We Love Machine – The Remixes (Hope Recordings)
- 2011: Balance 018 (Balance Music)
- 2013: Renaissance: The Master Series, Part 19 (Renaissance Recordings)
- 2014: Nick Warren Presents The Soundgarden (Hope Recordings)
- 2017: Way Out West – Tuesday Maybe (Anjunadeep)
- Singles[16]
- 1994: Way Out West – "Ajare" (Deconstruction) (UK Singles Chart No. 52 peak)
- 1996: Way Out West feat. Miss Joanna Law – "The Gift" (UK #15) (Deconstruction)
- 1996: Way Out West – "Domination" (Deconstruction) (UK #38)
- 1997: Way Out West – "Blue" (Deconstruction) (UK #41)
- 1997: Way Out West – "Ajare" (re-release) (Deconstruction) (UK #36)
- 2000: Way Out West – "The Fall" (Deconstruction) (UK #67)
- 2001: Way Out West – "Intensify" (Distinct'ive Breaks Records) (UK #46)
- 2002: Way Out West feat. Tricia Lee – "Mindcircus" (Distinct'ive Breaks Records) (UK No. 39, Billboard Hot Dance Club Play #6)
- 2002: Way Out West feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw – "Stealth" (Distinct'ive Breaks Records) (UK #67)
- 2004: Way Out West – "Anything But You" (Distinct'ive Records)
- 2005: Way Out West – "Don't Forget Me" (Distinct'ive Records)
- 2007: Nick Warren & Jimmy Van M – "One & Only" (Hope Recordings)
- 2008: Way Out West – "Spaceman" (Hope Recordings)
- 2009: Way Out West – "Only Love" (Hope Recordings)
- 2010: Way Out West – "Future Perfect" (Hope Recordings)
- 2010: Nick Warren – "In Search of Silver" (Bedrock Records)
- 2011: Nick Warren – "Buenos Aires" (Hope Recordings)
- 2011: Nick Warren – "Rumbletump" – Sudbeat
- 2013: Nick Warren – "Devil's Elbow" (Hope Recordings)
- 2013: Nick Warren – "La Fabrica" (Hope Recordings)
- ^ "Warren's entry on the ASCAP database". The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
- ^ a b c d e Petrick, Shannon. "Getting Way Out with Nick Warren". Lunar Magazine. Retrieved 25 July 2007.
- ^ a b c d Birchmeier, Jason. "Nick Warren >> Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 25 July 2007.
- ^ a b Kay, Pete. "Nick Warren interview". About.com. Archived from the original on 25 March 2007. Retrieved 25 July 2007.
- ^ a b c d "Way Out West Biographies". Way Out West Website. Retrieved 25 July 2007.
- ^ "Interview With Nick Warren". TwistedHouse. 1 July 2005. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 31 October 2007.
- ^ Napora, Lukasz (15 February 2005). "Interview with Nick Warren". SoundRevolt. Archived from the original on 25 April 2005. Retrieved 25 July 2007.
- ^ "Nick Warren, a stylish DJ in a stylish city". Beat Factor. 21 January 2007. Retrieved 26 July 2007.
- ^ Hope Recordings
- ^ a b Jones, Simon (21 August 2008). "Features: Nick Warren – Global Underground: 035 – Lima". Progressive-Sounds. Retrieved 6 September 2008.
- ^ Slomowicz, Ron. "Interview With Nick Warren 2008". About.com. Archived from the original on 20 September 2008. Retrieved 6 September 2008.
- ^ "Frisky show". frisky radio. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
- ^ "Buenos AIres announcement". Beatportal. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
- ^ "Renaissance Master's series album". Renaissance Master's series album. Retrieved August 2012. Check date values in:
- ^ "Nick Warren >> Charts & Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 25 July 2007.
- ^ "Chart Archive – Way Out West". Chartstats.com. Archived from the original on 2 January 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2007.


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The Ontario Sustainable Energy Association (OSEA) has released new polling results showing a majority of Ontarians anticipate obtaining their power from renewable sources by 2018.
The poll of 1,170 people was conducted June 7-9 and has a margin of error +/- 2.9%. It was released at the World Wind Energy Conference in Kingston, Ontario.
According to the results, if a Green Energy Act were to be passed by the Ontario government, 49% of respondents indicated that they would like to see renewable energy account for 74% of Ontario's total electricity production. Similarly, 70% of respondents stated that they believe that at least 50% of Ontario's electricity generation should be produced by renewables by 2018.
'The results clearly demonstrate a strong desire among a majority of Ontarians to include renewable energy production as a central ingredient in any future discussion of the provincial power supply system,' says Kris Stevens, executive director of OSEA. 'We hope the Ontario government recognizes the benefits of renewable energy and move quickly toward building capacity.'
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MEMORABILIA - CHA Make N Take
This was the Make N Take from CHA using the new Memorabilia collection and the new TCebosser.
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So, we're a little over a year out. Where are you currently at in your planning? What's your next task? Are you already encountering problems and stresses? We may have lots of time, but it's going by fast!
I'm getting married at the end of September of next year. As of now, we have my bridesmaids, my dress, most of the parts of our centerpieces, our photographer, and, by this weekend, the venue (Bonus cheers: my parents said they'll cover the deposit)! We're starting to hit that "It's coming together and this is awesome" point in the planning process. The next thing is for us to find a caterer. We really just want to have a simple pasta bar, so hopefully we can work that out by the end of the year. After that, we'll be working with Future Father-In-Law on the order of the ceremony (he'll be officiating). We haven't had too many real problems just yet. The most drama has been over not having the ceremony in a church. My mom's come around to it, although she still gives off the wishful thinking vibe. She is genuinely happy with us and the way we're choosing to do things.


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An incredibly neat and rare sighting of a megamouth shark has been confirmed in the Philippines. They are related to the basking shark and feed off of plankton and jellyfish. Not much is known about their range because they are so rarely seen in the wild.
I imagine they probably don't have huge population numbers, and reside in the vast stretches of open ocean rarely traversed by humans, like the middle of the Indian Ocean and Southern Pacific.


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In the words of former Senator Russ Feingold, the only "no" vote against the original version of the PATRIOT Act, "[T]here is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country that allowed the police to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your email communications; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to hold people in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, then the government would no doubt discover and arrest more terrorists. But that probably would not be a country in which we would want to live. And that would not be a country for which we could, in good conscience, ask our young people to fight and die. In short, that would not be America."
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot." - Mark Twain
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Russia pledges no tax rises over next 6 years
"We will try to go in line with the policies that within the six years of the current term of the President all major tax decisions are made," Shuvalov said at a meeting with international investors at the New York Stock Exchange. "Whatever changes should improve the situation of the taxpayer in the near future."
Earlier President Putin said that the tax burden on the non-commodity sector of the economy will remain the same until 2018. However, Bank of America Merrill Lynch in June said, an increase in taxes in the country is inevitable. Putin's presidential campaign promises would require additional budget spending of two percent of GDP, the bank's analysis suggests.
Other experts also doubt Russia's government's promise.
"They will be able to keep taxation at the same level only if the oil price remains at around $110-120 per barrel. But this is very unlikely. We may see the oil price decreasing in about 3 years affected by the shale oil from the US," chief economist at BNP Paribas Yulia Tseplyaeva told RT.
"It is easy for Shuvalov to give such promises as it's very unlikely that he will remain in charge of taxation during the next 6 years," she adds.
Experts say, there are also special taxes in Russia concerning the oil and gas sector that will likely be subjected to changing taxation. In 2011 the tax burden on the Russian economy including oil and gas revenues accounted for 35.6 percent of GDP, according to Finance Ministry estimates.


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Do you have things around your house that are just possessions but somehow they make you feel more yourself, or remind you of who you are at your best?
These rings totally embody that for me, each of them has a story about how it came into my possession, and each serves as a reminder of a part of myself that I cherish.
Since I use my hands so much rings really work for me, I love the way I catch sight of them in little moments, like when I am in the middle of making a painting, zipping up my child's coat, or moving my hands during a conversation. Since often the stories are the best part I thought I'd share just minimal detail about each ring, and while I love how they look all piled on, I don't usually wear them all together.
Thumb~a branch from Brooklyn Prospect Park, which we live a block from and go to every day, cast in gold by a friend.
Index finger~turquoise ring that I bought from a Native American jeweler in Taos N.M. the stones had been in his family for generations, the same jeweler made the bracelet on my wrist which my mom has a match to, I never take the bracelet off, I even wore it in my wedding.
Middle finger~cocktail ring, bought on a whim in NYC, I wear it for fabulous nights out or dinner parties.
Ring finger~a silver ring that I bought in high school at a hippie store that I loved; a large disk of two types of turquoise that I bought at a craft fair right after ending a really big relationship in my 20's; a gold and labradorite beauty that my husband gave to me on our 5th Wedding anniversary which was also my little brother's wedding day (I also never take this one off).
Pinkie~both of these rings I got on a year long road trip around the US and Mexico after college which involved living in my V.W. van (oh yes), I bought the turquoise one at a market in Mexico, the pink stone is from Africa set in a silver setting by an artist in Seattle who I bought it from at a market there.
I took the picture of my bejeweled hand on a leaf from my Banana Palm tree, another old friend, who I have raised from a tiny plant. This is the time of year that I bring all of my tropical plants inside after they spent 6 months on our deck drinking the sun, now they come inside to brighten up our winter months.
I find comfort living surrounded by these old friends.
Old friends
2 comments:
- jqline said...
These is sooo inspirational that i am too begining to look around for these old friends. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I absolutely adore your rings and that gorgeous banana palm tree!
Have a lovely merry happy day and love to you!
- November 12, 2009 at 9:58 PM
- Lori said...
Faith your hand looks so pretty with all of those rings. It was sweet to read the story behind them all. Somehow they all remind me of your artwork! Even the banana leaf does.
- November 13, 2009 at 2:36 PM
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LIFE PATH, CAREER – Open your Eyes
This month, people will feel attracted to the wisdom of those following their truth and who seek to make this place a better world for the highest good of all. Following one's truth is a sign of respect and strength. It is only when you live your truth that you can be an example to others.
LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS – Connect with the Stars
We are stardust. Look at the sky filled with millions of stars and wonder where did we come from? Talk and connect with stars as you go to bed and look at them through your window. Ask them to guide you to meet your soul mate for those who are single – or – support your current relationship for those in couple.
RESPECT, FAMILY, HEALTH, PAST – Nature
Problem or challenged with your current health situation? Nature will pick you up! Walk in the park or in your garden and gently caress a young plant, go out for the day to a National Park and be with Nature. Nature is your best medicine!
ABUNDANCE, WEALTH & MONEY – Blue and Green
Whenever you worry about your finance, wear emerald green and purple blue. These colours will help you focus on positivity and you may well see new opportunities coming your way! In the meantime, no dramas, you perfectly know that you don't need much to be happy.
YOU – Passion
There is a little voice coming from your heart that instigates you to live or revive your passion. What are you waiting for!?
HELP, HELPERS, TRAVELS – Speak
You are offered an important speaking engagement where you will be able to voice what is important (for the highest good of all). Prepare your talk carefully, even if you have no idea when this request will come, and out of nowhere… it will appear!
IDEAS, CHILDREN & PROJECTS – Loving colours
You add colours and joy to your projects. You purchase new colourful clothes for your children.
This month is filled with joy, make the most of it!
SPIRITUALITY, STUDY, OPENNESS – Reiki
This month again like last one, Reiki strongly appears. Have you booked your Reiki session yet? Have you looked into learning this technique?
WELL-BEING, SELF CONFIDENCE, RECOGNITION – Healing a broken Heart
You may have had a broken heart for a while, this month you manage to move on and look at the bright side of life. You are healed.
April 2017 – Healing a Broken Heart
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A wild alchemical mix of comedy and drama, mystery and romance coalesce in Fabrizio's Return the story of Fabrizio, a priest in Cremona Italy 1682, and the church appointed "Devil's Advocate" who is sent from Rome 76 years later to investigate Fabrizio's possible canonization. The peculiar and diverse cast of characters present here gives stage and vocal actor Todd Haberkon ample opportunity to develop sometimes subtle and often sidesplittingly extravagant characters.
The two settings and their inhabitants interweave beautifully, connected by a comet that returns every 76 years. You also will feel the grip of time and won't want to stop listening as the actions of the Earth seem to take on the power of soaring celestial bodies.
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A brilliant novel packed with delights: grand romance, alchemical potions, violins to make you weep, commedia dell'arte theatre, reappearing comets, rambling skeletons and cracks in time.
It is 1682 in Cremona, Italy. With his manservant, an insolent dwarf named Omero, Fabrizio Cambiati, a priest, climbs the town clocktower to await the return of a comet that is said to reappear in the skies every 76 years. He has a new invention called a telescope with which to scour the night. As they await the comet, he scopes the town below and sees the commedia dell'arte players setting up in the town square and a Jesuit arriving in a carriage. We later learn that the Jesuit is Michele Archenti, a Devil's Advocate sent from Rome to investigate the candidacy for sainthood of this same Fabrizio Cambiati - 76 years later!
The novel then begins again, this time in 1758 when Archenti settles himself in the town to assume his investigations. It is his job to find the flaws in Fabrizio's character. In this attempt, he interviews a number of citizens, including an old duchess who holds a secret about Fabrizio's life that would ruin the reputation of this priest, who was both a hidden alchemist and healer. The play held in the town square connects the two time periods by reflecting the goings-on in the wider world. We meet the players, as well as the duke, his beautiful daughter, a happy madman roaming the countryside with a skeleton on his back, and a hunchback who lives with his mastiff in a labyrinthine palace that is, like imagination itself, continually mutating. With enormous assurance and a wonderful affection for his characters, Mark Frutkin has woven a miraculous tale that explores the ambiguous nature of reality and on every page packs joy into the listening.
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Discussion Questions:
1) What does the SARs experience tell you about the Singapore community a decade ago?
[Point of View]
2) Identify the values that guided the actions that were made in the welfare of others during the
SARs experience. [Inferences]
3) Why is it important for you to be concerned about and involved in the challenges Singaporeaces? [Question at Issue]
4) As an active and concerned member of the society, describe one way you can contribute to
keeping the Singapore Spirit alive in times of peace and stability. [End View]
- It tells us that Singapore was a very united community
- Values - Caring, Courage, Responsibility
- As a Singaporean, you will know what to do when there's another outbreak/ major occurence, and we can work together and help Singapore
- Pay attention in NE class, spread national values of Singapore to other countries, uphold racial harmony


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