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Yes, we know. The comment section is still broken. We're still sad about it too. So we've decided to go old school. Again. We're going to open up the ol' Bleeding Cool mail bag and see what people have been sending us through the contact form currently prominently displayed at the bottom of all articles due to a CSS or javascript error.
As you may have noticed, our contact form has been modified to allow readers the opportunity to mark their feedback as private, shareable in a letters column with a name (we'll only use your first name), or shareable but without using a name, so feel free to send us feedback for future editions.
Now, let's open up the mail bag and see what our readers are saying this week…
Don writes in response to DC Co-Publisher Dan Didio taking shots at Marvel's execution of "diversity" in their comics:
He's not wrong.
That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said about Dan Didio. Another reader, Robert, elaborated:
Considering the results, you have to admit he has a point. I wasn't against the concepts of what Marvel put forward, Sam as Cap was one of the only people I personally feel fits, but the way Marvel went about is left a lot to be desired (Original Sin just sucked.) Same thing with Bobby coming out, it was horrible executed and clunky as hell. There's a lot to be said about really putting in the time and work on getting the story right, hitting people over the head is rarely the best way to do things. There would always be that vocal minority that disliked the ideas regardless of execution, but like the saying goes, "Timing is everything."
Great to hear from you, Robert. One concept that we're against is your interesting take on punctuation. Have you ever considered a career as a Bleeding Cool writer? Also, if readers weren't meant to be hit over the head with comic books, then explain to us why they keep producing so many heavy omnibus editions?
Next, Diana disagrees with all this Didio love, writing:
Excuse me? Did Jason Rusch, Jaime Reyes and Ryan Choi not happen on DiDio's watch? Was he not the one who ultimately 86'd them for the exact same reasons Marvel are backtracking now?
Thanks for writing, Diana. Sadly, your argument is invalid because it references history older than one year. In the world of comics, fans aren't expected to have memories that go back that far. That's why the way characters are written is able to change completely based on whichever super-mega-crossover event is being published, and why comics need to constantly rebooted. Comic book fans are idiots who can't even remember to read a book every month, which is why the sales keep dropping and they need a new number one issue to remind them. Marvel and DC must have some kind of scientific evidence to back this up. Otherwise, why would they do it?
Another reader, Jim, took issue not with the content of the article, but with its headline:
"shots fired" way to trivialize gun violence and the feelings of its victims.
here i thought this website was woke.. but obviously trump and his supporters love of violence is just a joke to you with this insensitive headline
bleeding cool needs to be an ally. this article helps nothing.
besides its about stupid comics news. stick to your bread and butter which is identity politics outrage
We appreciate your thoughts, Jim, but we feel we should correct some misconceptions. First, this article was published on Tuesday, a day before the school shooting. Secondly, our bread and butter isn't identity politics outrage. Our bread and butter is clickbait articles about the Zack Snyder cut of Justice League, followed by articles trolling Marvel on their lack of female-led movies, articles about Ike Perlmutter's personal life, articles posting the tweets of Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, articles about pro wrestling, updates on Netflix's Fuller House, stories about the DC-loving mayor of Long Beach, California, articles that feature quotes by world-renowned expert Professor Thaddeus T. Puffinbottoms, and then, and only then, identity politics outrage. Finally, we think you should take it easy on Trump and his supporters, Jim. They've had a rough week.
James writes in with a comment about one of last week's hot topics, the Irish reviewer who ruined Black Panther's perfect Rotten Tomatoes score:
are you SERIOUSLY trying to suggest that the IRISH review is due to Trumps AMERICA? Really? You do know there are other countries in the world, right? If the one bad review is due to Trumps America, are the 99% positive reviews also due to Trumps America? Or does it only work for the things you don't like?
James, thank you writing. As previously established, it was the Irish reviewer who cited Trump's America as one of the reasons for his negative review, not Bleeding Cool. We were merely reporting it. But let's not rehash this subject again. Instead, let's talk about other ways our Black Panther coverage has been right. For example, did you know that we're the only major website who properly predicted Black Panther's success? It's true. Other sites were reporting official estimates, which limited the movie at $160 million for the full four-day weekend, which would have put it in the top 15 superhero openings of all time. But it was Bleeding Cool who said Black Panther had a shot of being the biggest superhero movie opening ever.
Now that the dust has settled, who was right? The movie will have made $192 million in three days, falling just short of The Avengers' $207 million record, and becoming the second biggest superhero movie opening ever. The four day total is expected to be somewhere around $218-$227 million. So it's pretty clear that we got it closer than anyone else.
The lesson here: never doubt that Bleeding Cool is accurate when reporting on Black Panther. Pip pip!
Next up, Aaron writes in about WWE going with dual-branded PPVs:
Thumbs sideways. It will depend on the PPV angles, and historically WWE seems likely to fuck it up, but if the combined shows are booked as well as the Rumble was then I'm all for it.
Great observation, Aaron. Unfortunately, your hopes are flawed because they're based on WWE shows being booked well on a consistent basis, something we have no evidence from the past decade to back up.
An anonymous reader wanted to share some nuanced thoughts on the state of pro wrestling:
WWE Raw and Smackdown Live are to damn SOFT
Raw is Really weak and soft because why it's to damn kid and family friendly it's not hardcore at all 3 hours of run down show the promos sucks ass big time the creative team doesn't even know what the hell their doing at all when it comes to Real wrestling if you watch NJPW they let their own wrestlers have creative control over their on promos so that they can build their on character and they bleed wwe need to get with the time it's 2018 let the wrestlers on Raw and Smackdown Live have more creative control over their on character you know why the tickets sale are down and the crowd are sitting their silence because WWE "SUCKS" and so do Micheal Cole get rid of him his voice sounds like a BITCH please get rid of this guy but on the other hand stop calling us the wwe universe we are FANS who wants to watch REAL Wrestling not a damn kid show wwe it's time to man up or step aside because if you keep going this rate with raw and Smackdown Live you will always have low ticket sales and people around the world will stop watching raw and Smackdown Live I hate to say this but you know what I'm saying it anyway "NXT" show and their ppv are better than raw and Smackdown Live shows and ppv why just listen to the Fans they are loud and they are into the shows and the ppv I Love the shows I tone in every Wednesday to watch NXT and their ppv because it's exciting and you see NEW things every Wednesday and their promos are AWESOME Now this is A Damn Show raw and Smackdown Live take Notes
While we appreciate your take, anonymous, we're not sure we necessarily agree with everything you say. That being said, there is something WWE could learn from your email. The problem with WWE's main weekly shows, Raw and Smackdown, is that they're paced way too slowly. If they picked up the pace, like you did in your email by excluding any form of punctuation, the shows would feel much faster and the segments would blend into each other like your sentences without periods.
In our last wrestling-themed email, Mick takes us to task for misusing a term:
" after Roman Reigns is coronated as WWE Universal Champion at WrestleMania"
Actually, he will be 'crowned' at Wrestlemania. Just like a king or a Queen is. The event is call a 'coronation'.
If he was 'coronated', he would be turned (in biological terms) into a crown-shaped object, which would be a much more interesting sight.
Sorry, Mick, but Merriam-Webster does list "coronate" as a transitive verb that means "crown," and includes "coronated" as its past tense. Do you really think we could get a job writing for Bleeding Cool, the most typo-free website on the entire Internet, if we weren't much gud at language?
Carlos writes to complain about our still-broken comment system:
idk man. why i cant comment?
Carlos, Bleeding Cool aims to provide our readers with the latest in high-tech intrusive ad experiences, which has led to our pioneering of such techniques as auto-play videos or ads that freeze your browser so you have no choice but to continue to stare at a Bleeding Cool article until you reboot your computer. Sometimes, in the pursuit of these lofty goals, errors occur, and one of those is preventing the comments from displaying. We hope to have it fixed soon, but until then, I'll continue to do this weekly letters column so that the voices of Bleeding Cool's readers can be heard, and so that we can meet our weekly quota without putting in any real effort.
Brian writes in to elaborate on the subject of Carlos's comment:
Hey Jude;
Long time reader, several time writer. Just wanted to say that your new mailbag section, while quaint, is a stupid idea in the world of online things.
My suggestion as a web developer is to remove, at random, half of the ridiculous javascript bloat that your so called "advertisers" have added to your website.
Instead, have Rich open up his purse strings to hire an actual sales team who goes out and does actual sales to actual other companies.
BTW, I love your Wrestling posts, but Dan Wickline's stupid Sportsballings posts can go directly to hell where they can die a long and painful death. There are plenty of other stupid Sportsballings websites out there without the random assed token Sportsballing posts getting errr…posted here.
Great to hear from you, Brian. While we hear what you're saying, stupid ideas are the lifeblood of the internet. Think about what sites like Twitter or Facebook would look like without stupid ideas? It would be a barren wasteland, we'd all have nothing to do when we're supposed to be "working," and we'd be forced to… *gulp*… interact with other humans in person. No thanks, Brian.
That being said, we are working on getting the comments fixed as soon as possible. We've gotten a lot of feedback about it, and we understand it's important to our readers to be able to post and read the comments, and therefore it's important to us, because that means the readers will stick around longer and be subjected longer to the javascript bloat from our "advertisers," which is what pays the bills, after all.
As for Dan's sportsball posts, that's all a part of our plan to eventually conquer the entire media world and replace the New York Times and Infowars.com as the paper of record. You see, it's not fair that only comic book fans, wrestling fans, and fans of the hit Netflix show Fuller House get to experience the excellence of Bleeding Cool's "journalism." Our work is too good to keep isolated to niche mediums like comics and TV and movies and video games, though we understand why you'd want to keep it all to yourself.
Anonymous writes:
Bruh. Bring the goddamn comments back. BC sucks without em
Didn't you read the previous responses?!
Loki writes in to talk about this week's X-Men: Bland Design, specifically the recap of Weapon X:
I think you missed out on an opportunity to point out the creepy factor. Domino banging warpath is like uncle Jessie sleeping with dj. Or that it didn't work out with Colossus cause he wasn't murdery enough.
We appreciate the feedback, Loki, though we're not quite sure we agree on the whole Uncle Jesse thing. Domino didn't raise Warpath in a house in San Francisco with her dead sister's husband and his wacky best friend… did she? Now that we think about it, though, a crossover between two of our favorite franchises, X-Men and Fuller House, does sound like a fantastic idea. It could be based around the messed up Summers/Grey families, where someone is always dead at one time or another. Who would you like to see move in with Jean or Scott to raise a young Cable, Nate Grey, and Rachel Grey in a hilarious sitcom environment? Let us know and we'll feature it in the next mail bag!
Anonymous writes to discuss Star Wars director J.J. Abrams's comments on diversity in Hollywood:
People like J.J. in Hollywood don't really care about doing any true objective sort of good. They just push the diversity angle because they want to be praised and adored for being progressive. It's purely ego driven. They think it makes them superior. They also think it places them above criticism. And if anyone disagrees with them for any reason, then they can play the victim card, or disregard such criticism as "Sexist" "Homophobic" "Racist" or whatever. With his kind in Hollywood these days it's all about what's right for THEM, rather than what's actually legitimately right.
Even here, Jar Jar is saying "Look at me! I'm championing women and minorities because I'm better than regular people! If you disagree with me for any reason, then you are a bad person. Now pat me on the back and praise me for my progressiveness!" Of course we don't see Jar Jar ever turning down a gig so a woman or a minority can have it, do we? He's just butthurt here because he tried to recreate Star Wars in HIS image and people are calling him out on his bullshit. HE'S the one doing the lashing out.
Ive never had a problem with minorities or women in Star Wars. I do have a problem with egotists using them as a shield.
Wait a minute… the initials in J.J. Abrams stand for Jar Jar?! It all makes sense now! Especially the terrible ending to LOST!
Okay, that's it for this week. As always, thanks to all of you for reading, and especially those of you who choose to write in with your comments or feedback. We do expect those comments to be fixed at some point soon, but do feel free to keep sending us emails either way, and we'll keep doing these columns as long as long as we get them. You can use the comment form below, or hit us up directly at judeterror (at) bleedingcool.com.


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Halo-Halo: The joy of the mix-mix
SPOT.ph blogger Yvette Tan knows that the end of summer doesn't necessarily mean the end of this icy classic.
When it comes to sangkap, at Razon's (left), a little goes a long way.
(SPOT.ph) We expect heat during the summer, but this year seems especially vicious, with temperatures reaching a height of 41 degrees Celsius in the metro. Heatstroke is a serious concern these days, so it's important to drink lots of water, stay in the shade, and eat cooling foods like watermelon and fresh greens. Now that I've gotten the public service part out of the way, we can concentrate on the more fun part of summer eating: cold desserts, specifically halo-halo.
Who doesn't love halo-halo? Literally meaning "mix-mix," this concoction of milk, shaved or crushed ice, and various ingredients mostly cooked in syrup is the quintessential Filipino summer treat. A culinary descendant of the Japanese shaved ice dessert kakigori, it has been hinted that halo-halo made its way to Philippine shores via Japanese spies before the advent of World War II. However kakigori found its way into the Philippine menu, one thing is clear—we have made it wholly our own.
What makes a halo-halo? It depends on who you ask. It can be anything from two to a medley of ingredients such as minatamis na (insert name here)—fruit (langka, saba, nata de coco, and kaong) or beans (white beans, mung beans, and garbanzos) stewed in sugar syrup, plus colored gelatin, sago, ube halaya or purple yam jam, ice cream, and leche flan. There are different iterations that use just one sweetened ingredient: such as mais con hielo, which uses corn, and saba con hielo, which has nothing but milk, crushed ice, and sweetened plantains.
Part of the fun is participating in its preparation: you get a tall glass with the sweet stuff at the bottom topped with crushed ice, with milk poured all over the whole thing. All you have to do is mix, mix, mix, until everything is an even slush. A delicious even slush, where one spoonful yields an equal measure of ice, milk, and ingredients, their flavors and textures blending beautifully on the tongue. The ice plays a key factor: the best kinds use ice that's somewhere in between a crush and a slush.
Rations are the key to good halo-halo. This is where your math classes come in. If you can find the proper ratio of ice to milk to sweetened ingredients, let me know so we can go into business together. Some places that have mastered the art of halo-halo rationing, include Milky Way, which goes the classic way in terms of its variety of sangkap, the whole thing topped with their homemade ube ice cream; Razon's, which is so hardcore that it only needs three ingredients: buko strips, mashed beans, and leche flan; and of course, the Peninsula Manila's Halo-Halo Harana, the queen of halo-halo, a combination of heft and flavor, a huge dessert that begs to be shared.
The roadside halo-halo is one of the highlights of summer.
Just as highly valued is your neighborhood stall which magically springs up every summer, usually a plastic table on which the halo-halo ingredients, placed in distinctive glass jars, are lined up, both to entice the buyer and to make the seller's job easier; a styrofoam cooler of crushed ice and collection of plastic cups and spoons waiting nearby. The stall is usually manned by a manang who makes the halo-halo on a per order basis, constructing the dessert right before your eyes.
A glass of good halo-halo can mean the difference between a good day and a great one. It signals a small victory over the elements, as well as a sweet, fun way to keep cool on the hottest of days. And like most snacks, it is also a reminder of bounty: that you have enough money for a snack, and that snack is delicious.
Also read: Top 10 Halo-Halo in Manila (2014 Edition)

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During a visit to India in October 2011, we were most fortunate to arrive in Jaipur, Rajasthan just in time for Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. The origin of this festival can be traced back to the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana, when Rama and Sita return to the kingdom Ayodhya after 14 years of exile.
The festival of Diwali extends between 4-5 days, depending on which region in India. The fourth day – the main Diwali festival day – marks the beginning of the new year according to the Vikrama calendar.
Merchants perform religious ceremonies and open new account books. Diwali marks the end of the harvest season in most of India. Farmers give thanks for their harvest and pray for a good one for the year to come. Traditionally this marked the closing of accounts for businesses dependent on the agrarian cycle and is the last major celebration before winter. Lakshmi symbolizes wealth and prosperity, and her blessings are invoked for a good year ahead.
Diwali is the time for visiting and exchanging gifts. Traditionally sweets and dried fruit are very common gifts to exchange. In Jaipur, sweets such as like Mawa Kachori, Til Ke Laddo, Gonth ke Laddu, Piste ke Launj, Moti Pak, Pheeni, Sohan Papdi, Besan Barfi, Jalebi and Shakarpara can be found in most sweet shops during Diwali.
Diwali is also traditionally a time to redecorate homes and buy new clothes.
The name of the festival comes from the Sanskrit word dipavali, meaning row of lights. Diwali is known as the 'festival of lights' because houses, shops and public places are decorated with small earthenware oil lamps called diyas. These lamps, traditionally fueled by mustard oil or ghee (clarified butter), are placed in rows in windows, doors and outside buildings to decorate them.
The lamps celebrate the return of Rama after his exile. To welcome his return, diyas were lit in rows of 20. They are also believed to help Lakshmi – the goddess of wealth and prosperity – find her way into people's homes.
Fireworks are a huge part of the Diwali celebrations. The illumination of homes with lights and the skies with fireworks is an expression of paying respect to the deities for the attainment of health, wealth, knowledge, peace and prosperity.
For more information about the festival of Diwali, see Wikipedia.


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There are number of businesses that count a great deal on their holiday season. As Christmas draws closer, the online sales in websites are expected to rise and this is the time you should maximize your website's potential. If you are keen in getting organic traffic through search engines, you need to start the preparations at least three months before the holiday season starts. If you have been lying low with your online promotional efforts due to certain constraints, you should not give up completely. You can still manage to get some decent traffic by carefully planning your online promotion. If you miss this season, then you need to wait for one more year before you can get the kind of sales that you can expect during the holiday seasons.
The first place you should start is Digg; you can create new pages and integrate with your website. Submit the new page to Digg, or if you have not submitted your website already to Digg, you do not have to create any new page. Digg does not allow the same URL to be submitted twice. If you have any pages that are relevant but not yet submitted at Digg, you can submit it with a catchy title and a captivating story. You can see your search ranking soaring high in the major search engines with this. However, you should be aware that the search rankings for those keywords would only be temporary. This is just to tap the maximum online traffic. So do not rely on just Digg submission for long-term optimization. Make the title as close to the keywords your are targeting. Too boost your Digg effort, use Del.icio.us to tag the Digg page with relevant tags.
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DE PERE - St. Norbert College opened its lead in the Midwest Conference standings to two games following a 75-62 win over Carroll University on Connie Tilley Court at Schuldes Sports Center.
The Green Knights (15-3, 12-1 MWC) lead the second-place Pioneers (13-5, 10-3) by two games with five left to play. St. Norbert also holds the tiebreaker with Carroll after sweeping the regular-season series.
St. Norbert looked to be in dire straits after a 7-0 Carroll run gave the Pioneers a 20-13 lead with 8:29 left in the first half. St. Norbert scored six quick points to get back into the game, getting hoops from Rachel Hagge, Jill Kleiman and Brianna Byrne to trail 20-19 with 6:53 to go.
The Green Knights hung around until taking a 28-26 lead with 2:35 left on a pair of Tasha Giese free throws. Byrne's basket with 51 seconds left in the half put St. Norbert up 30-28 at halftime.
Carroll's Breann Maryanski knotted the score 30-30 on the Pioneers' first possession of the second half, but St. Norbert went on a 19-4 run over the next 6 1/2 minutes to take a 49-34 lead. Byrne connected on a jumper and 3-pointer to start the run, followed by a conventional three-point play from Tasha Giese for a 38-30 lead. Hagge and Byrne hit consecutive 3-pointers later in the run, and Giese's layup put St. Norbert up 15 with 14:04 left.
The Pioneers would get to within eight at 55-47 with 6:26 to go, but consecutive baskets by Heidi Van Sistine put St. Norbert up 12 and clinched the win.
Van Sistine finished with 23 points to lead St. Norbert, while Byrne added 17 points and Hagge 14 points. The Green Knights shot 30-for-54 (55.6 percent) from the floor and had 28 assists on their 30 field goals.
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The Laws of Spirit opens with the story of Dan Millman's encounter with a mountain sage in the wooded hills near his home. Through stories, tests, and experiences in the wild, the female elder challenges her apprentice to examine twelve core principles that underlie human existence: balance, choice, process, presence, compassion, faith, expectation, integrity, action, cycles, surrender, and unity. The book shows how these keys — at the heart of every religion, culture, and moral system — can lead to a deeper sense of meaning, connection, and harmony with the world. It also shows how the principles can transform relationships, careers, finance, and health. Quotations and reminders from across the centuries elevate and inspire readers as they accompany Millman on his journey.
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"Driver delivers a characteristic combination of savvy and likeability and the period and sun-dappled photography are nicely handled." - Time Out
Set in a Welsh comprehensive school during the long hot summer of 1976, keen drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on a rock and roll musical version of Shakespeare's The Tempest of which David Bowie would be proud. To engage her students, she uses hits of the time, performed by a fresh young cast led by Davey.
Minnie Driver is charming in this fun musical drama set during the long hot summer of '76, celebrating the growing pains of teenagers during their final school term. Selected for the London Film Festival and SXSW.
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Do you like that middle eastern dish called humus? It is made with pureed chick-peas? We love it, but lately I haven't bought it much because it is a little pricey for the amount you get.
I was low on our typical lunch making supplies so this morning I kind of experimented. I will share my experiment with you:
Into the blender went half of a cucumber (my personal spin or version, not traditional as far as I am aware), and juice from half a lemon, along with half can chickpeas, some liquid, and then more water. Can you guess?
It was way to liquidey, so I poured it half out into another cup for later and put more drained chick-peas in the blender..... and it was still a little too thin for a dip, so............ I put ground flaxseed and some garlic powder, and the ground flaxseed did the trick with out changing the taste!! Oh, also I splashed a bit of extra virgin olive oil.
Thank you to God for our rich blessings.
Yippee!! I found some sunflower seeds so I dipped into my humus and seeds with my veggies and it was quite satisfying. I recommend you experiment and find your mix.
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*Remember to add your drop shadow as you go along*
Open a new image 800 x 800 or one you prefer.
Paste paper 9 or one of choice, resize larger to 135%, apply your mask, delete and merge group, flip.
Adjust your mask later to fit your tag better.
Paste frame 3, click inside with your magic wand, expand by 5, paste paper 3, below the frame, invert, delete, now paste your middle size tube, if using the same one I used, delete, select none.
Duplicate the tube, Adjust, Blur, Gaussian blur at 4, change the blend mode to hard light or one you prefer.
Apply the Xero filter, Artworx with the default settings, merge down.
Close off your mask layer, merge visible, duplicate, resize to 50%, free rotate to the right at 10 degrees, duplicate, mirror one, place both on the right side. Duplicate one to 50% again and move down to the bottom.
Sharpen the pictures once.
Move the larger picture to the left a bit.
Paste the balls below the smallest picture at the bottom.
Resize the radio to 50%, place on the right below the balls layer.
Resize the camera to 50%, place by the smallest picture at the bottom.
Resize the Binoculars to 50%, place below the camera layer.
Resize beer 2 to 75%, place on the left, resize beer 3 to 60%, place in front of the beer bottle on the left.
Resize the keys to 35%, place by the radio.
Resize the dog to 85%, place behind the beer bottle on the left.
Resize the watch to 35%, place in front of the beer glass on the left.
Paste the leather strap, free rotate to the right at 90, move to just above the mask layer and out from the frame some, duplicate, mirror, adjust.
Type out what you would like your wordart to say and place at the bottom.
I typed out using Great Vibes font
"Anyone can be a Father...
but it takes someone special to be a dad."...
-Anne Geddes
Add any other elements you would like, make it your own.
Crop your tag to be sure no stray shadows are on the edges of your tag.
Once happy with it all, close off any backgrounds, merge visible.
Resize first, then add your copyrights and name.
Resize first, then add your copyrights and name.
That's it
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Garden photo contest: 'Front Yard' is this week's winner
'Front Yard' is this week's winner
Just how much does Suzette Howton like gardening? It's her passion, her place to unwind away from life's chaos. "It's so satisfying to see something I have planted grow," wrote Howton, a South Lyon mom of three, in an email. "I especially love the challenge of taking care of my plants. For me, gardening is a continual learning process and there are surprises every season. The greatest reward is finding a solution to a struggling plant." Still, her yard isn't huge, so Howton has made the most of it with a mixed perennial garden that packs a lot of curb appeal. Howton is this week's winner of the Homestyle Garden Photo Contest. She'll win a free home decor or gardening book. She'll also be a finalist for the grand prize, a $200 gift card for English Gardens. To enter your best garden photos, go to detroitnews.com/gardenphotos.


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I was born on August 26, 1957 in Budapest, Hungary. I've been engaged in painting for 25 years. I regard Péli Tamás and the great Renaissance paintors as my mentors and guides along the way of painting.
I've made exhibitions in cities in various countries of the world: Vienna, New York, Prague, Munich...
Currently I live and work in Budapest.
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What's the best use of a package of, say, 100 billion euros to get the Irish economy moving again?
A Big Problem for Ireland but a Small One for the World
Vanessa Rossi is the senior research fellow in international economics at Chatham House in London.
Updated May 23, 2011, 3:51 PM
Ireland is not Greece. It has been fiscally prudent in public sector finances, but property foolish in private.
Through the 1990s right up until 2006, Ireland ran either small budget deficits or substantial surpluses -- public sector debt stabilized at 40 billion euro to 45 billion euro, only 25 percent of annual gross domestic product in 2005-06. But as hubris over its economic success took hold, the love affair with the property market reached a dangerous frenzy, in remarkable synchronization with the cycle in Spain.
In both countries, this frenzy was fed by banks eager to lend. In a country with little more than 4 million people, it is now estimated that there are around 300,000 unsold homes in varying stages of completion. Related bad debts in the banks have already led to a substantial government bailout but it looks likely that further assistance will be needed for the banks to avoid collapse as confidence is once more ebbing away. However, Ireland's public sector debt is already heading for 100 percent of G.D.P. creating doubts about a sustainable market-based solution.
Can the situation be resolved without an European Union-led bailout for Ireland? This only appears to be possible through direct intervention to prop up the faltering banks. A cash injection into the banking system and forced restructuring would have different implications, arguably allowing the country to recover more quickly from the loss in confidence. At least part of any bailout money could be recouped by asset sales, possibly including arranged bank mergers. Sales and rentals of empty properties could raise cash. For example, property recovery funds or time share ownership schemes might prove popular with investors, such as the Irish diaspora around the world.
The scale of the problem is big for Ireland but relatively small for the rest of the world. But all parties should reflect on how best to use a package of, say, 100 billion euros in order to get the Irish economy moving again.


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WASHINGTON: Reproductive Benefits Survey Challenged
Employers are taking issue with the Reproductive Health Benefits Survey released Tuesday by state Insurance Commissioner Deborah Senn (D), today's Journal of Commerce reports. The survey examined 91 health plans for the level of reproductive health benefit coverage they provide (see Daily Report 9/8). Don Brunnell, president of the Association of Washington Business, took issue with "the sweeping generalizations" of the study. He said, "I'm not sure that their assessments apply to the majority of our 3,780 member companies, and their more than 600,000 employees." Bob Pena, Aetna U.S. Healthcare's regional spokesman, expressed similar reservations. "It is our goal to work with employers to allow them to select the benefits that they want to make available to their employees," he said. At Tuesday's press conference, Senn said, "Employers currently report that costs related to pregnancies and child birth make up the single largest component of health care costs, up to 49% of total health care spending." She added, "The study also shows that employers are being penny wise and pound foolish in that even when insurers do offer these services, employers often cut them out of their group plans to keep their premiums down." (Lent, Journal of Commerce, 9/11).This is part of the California Healthline Daily Edition, a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations. Sign up for an email subscription.


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Digital or print? It's a question on most marketing managers minds that increasing seems to tend toward the prior. Digital marketing budgets are increasing every year, leaving behind more traditional opportunities to get your message across to your audience. But should you really forego your print marketing efforts for digital alternatives? What return on investment…Details


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Fernando Llort Choussy (born April 7, 1949 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is an internationally recognized Salvadoran artist, called "El Salvador's National Artist" by the Foundation for Self Sufficiency in Central America (now called EcoViva). He is known for teaching the citizens of the small town of La Palma, Chalatenango, how to make a living through art. His style is colorful and often childlike.
La Semilla de Dios, meaning "The Seed of God," is a cooperative of artisans of limited economic resources who make a variety of wooden items painted in the famous La Palma region folk art style created by Fernando Llort Choussy. Men do the carpentry, women the hand painting and finishing. The cooperative owns a piece of land in the mountains outside of town where they plant and sustainable harvest trees to supply about 40% of their wood. The income of this cooperative provides better nutrition and educational opportunities for their children.


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By Dr. Chris Wasike
So, finally after defying all expectations, disapproving figures of election pollsters and literally trumping all the posturing's of political scientists and media pundits, Donald John Trump was duly sworn on January 20 as the 45th American president.
As Prof Chris Wanjala rightly puts it "politicians are sometimes writers of no mean repute themselves and if not they are good fodder" for provoking novel ways of examining societal phenomena. In many ways therefore, even as polarising as he is, Trump and the rise of Trumpism (or Trumpology if you like) is a clarifying intellectual and theoretical moment that dares us to explore and do things differently even as we constantly search for new theoretical grammar and vocabulary to help us make sense of a fast changing neoliberal world.
Interestingly, as a student of orature, Trumpism has echoes of the hyena motif in African stories. For starters, animals in African folklore are symbolic personifications of human character types ranging from the hare as a trickster, the hyena as the foolish oaf and the lion as a cruel tyrant.
The hyena in our narratives is consistently typecast as a clever but rapaciously opportunistic villain whose appetite for food, instant gratification and sheer greed to scavenge and turn friend and foe into a meal is legendary. Whether as fisi in Swahili, namunyu among the Babukusu fables hiti of the Gikuyu folktale, lalur of the Luo or even nkita ofia of the Igbo mythology in Nigeria, the hyena is roundly reviled across African cultures and even beyond.
Among classical European cultures, hyenas were scorned for being vile grave-robbers that scavenged tombs just for a morsel of human carcass. But in African communities where witchcraft is practiced, folklore has it that hyenas are used as helpmates and rides by sorcerers, night runners and all manner of weird night sports and totemic practitioners.
Mafisi Sacco
In many African cultural discourses therefore, the hyena doesn't have a good name, just like Trump, and any social metaphor or imagery loosely linked with human personality is always seen as casting aspersions about one's character.
With the emergence of the techno-savvy generation or what we now popularly call the millennials, the word fisi in Kenya today has acquired very 'Trumpy' online etymology so to speak. For the past three or so years, Kenyan youths have repackaged, coined and embraced the hyena motif or Trumpism into an online sexual identity that they cheekily call Team Mafisi Sacco.
A kind of technology-mediated sexual citizenship that alludes to feminist film critic and scholar Laura Mulvey's concept of the 'male gaze' and scopophilia, the Team Mafisi mantra is a celebration of men who derive pleasure in sexually objectifying female bodies, the love of ogling at them and basically salivating and yearning for female bodies the way hyenas size their prey.
Through social networking sites and media platforms such as Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and others youths have taken to sharing and even transforming sexuality and gender through the internet. Complete with a group symbol/letterhead and anthem, the Mafisi group is not only naughty in its commentary on social ideas online, but has since morphed into an internet outfit for ventilating everything sexual and political to satirising the Kenyan society using tools of sexuality.
The concept of users deploying cyberspace to generate new formations and citizenships of an otherwise fluid sexuality is what scholar Ayu Saraswati calls 'wikisexuality'. From a Trumpist perspective wikisexuality alludes to a collaborative, fluid and interactive online sexual identity in progress.
Through social media platforms and their website Mafisi youths and even like-minded adults continue to share all manner of viral raunchy, cheeky and sexually suggestive photos and videos including leaked sexual tapes, photos of prominent male figures surreptitiously caught ogling at female backsides, nude photos or sometimes audio recordings of sexual acts such as the "Mollis I Sullenda" case.
Sexual Predators
What is significant in all these exchanges is that the men, just like Trump, appear to celebrate sexual predatory escapades, masochism and general glorification of their chivalry, chauvinism and sexist bigotry. Unknowingly or deliberately, Team Mafisi members crudely sanction the gross notion that female bodies are always available for men and the male species is tacitly egged on to grope and grab every opportunity to devour their catch, the same way fisi the animal dismembers its prey.
This attitude cuts across all spheres of Kenyan public life and especially in politics.
But during the recent US election campaigns the Hyena mantra was clearly at play when a few days to the voting date Republican candidate Trump was roundly condemned when an online video of him boasting about groping, grabbing and sexually assaulting women circulated in all forms of media.
In the video Trump was shown openly gloating and bragging how he could grab women's private parts and get away with it because he was celebrity. Now that he has been sworn in as president, one can argue that the American people tacitly legitimised his actions for being a typical sexual predator (hyena) enjoying what any Mafisi member would love to do.
As Trump settles in office, his triumph entrenches the view that politics is a dirty game and the dirtier one is the more likely one is able to win. In Kenya, the hyenas, opportunists and scavengers are in charge of our politics! The Hyena that never wins in our folktales won in America. Should we be wary of the rise in Trumpism in our midst?


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DUN dun DUUUUNNNNN......Second Semester Senior Year.
You will all have a front row seat as I am about to embark on the last few months of school I have. The portfolio reviews, the projects start to finish, the piles of letters I am about to send to potential employers and clients, you will get to see it all.
This semester I am also taking 2 classes that I am required to blog about every week, and the links to these blogs are located at the top of this page "Monica's Animations" for my Design for Media class, and "Monica is Drawing" for my Cafe Sketch class.
I have also linked my website (HURRAH!) that I completed about a month ago. I will be updating my site a few times a year, probably right before directions, and then again next fall. This blog will be the one that I will be actively updating and communicating on.
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Pro-nuclear military officer to head Brazil's energy ministry
President-elect names head of navy's nuclear submarine programme to top job at Mines and Energy Ministry
Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro has picked the head of the country's nuclear submarine programme to run its Mines and Energy Ministry.
Squadron admiral Bento Costa Lima Leite de Albuquerque will officially be sworn in on 1 January when the new government assumes control and he will replace outgoing minister Moreira Franco.
The nomination took the energy sector by surprise, with discussions focusing on alternative candidates.
Albuquerque is the twentieth nomination to Bolsonaro's cabinet and the fourth member of the armed forces that he has named. Bolsonaro himself is a retired army captain.
A defender of Brazil's nuclear programme, Albuquerque is little known in the energy community.
"We have a paradox: Brazil has the seventh largest uranium reserve in the world but has only 2.2% of its power supplied by nuclear plants. If our energy mix were nuclear, we could supply power in the country for the next 100 years," he was quoted as saying by the Brazilian Engineering Club during an event this year.
Started in the 1970s under Brazil's 21-year military dictatorship, the nuclear programme aimed to develop the country's own nuclear submarine.
In the 1980s the government-controlled power company Eletronuclear inaugurated the first of two nuclear plants. A third, the 1.4GW Angra 3, is currently under construction.
Although nuclear power has always been debated as an option to complement its hydro-thermal energy mix, Brazil's current 10-year energy development plant (PDE 2026) places the country's nuclear capacity at 3.4GW by 2026 – a tenth of the wind capacity projected for the same year.
Aside from promoting nuclear power, 60-year-old Albuquerque has aired firm views on local content and the need to retain control of technology development.
During the campaign, Bolsonaro and his aides spoke little about energy policies. In his programme, Bolsonaro mentioned the continuation of wind and solar projects in the north-eastern region, the restart of programmes to build large hydro-dams in the Amazon region and the idea of mining rare-earth minerals known to be present in the Amazon forest area.Brazil's RE potential will outweigh political risks: KPMG
In terms of environmental policies, Bolsonaro has said he will simplify and speed up environmental licensing, stop demarcation of natural or indigenous reserves and has criticised the Paris agreement, signalling an intention to abandon it.
In a controversial move he said that he would fuse the environmental ministry with the agriculture ministry, but has since reversed that decision and said he would not abandon the Paris agreement after he was heavily criticised.
But on the flip side, he has named Ernesto Araújo as foreign relations minister, a lower ranking career diplomat who has aired views that Climate Change is an "invention by Cultural Marxists".


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Your Local Party
I'm skipping the first post on my list because it requires thinking and research. I'll come back to it another time.
The Local Party is the lowest common denominator of the Liberal Democrat party. Every Lib Dem is a member of a local party, and has certain rights of membership. If you go to a conference, you will typically go as a member of your local party, and this will be written on your conference badge. Your local party is also written on your Lib Dem membership card.
Roughly speaking, there's one local party for every British Parliamentary constituency (the Lib Dems don't stand in Northern Ireland, where we are aligned with the Alliance Party), and you will normally be a member of the party which reflects the constituency where you live.
What Is It?
Your local party is an elected body, with a constitution. Constitutions can be amended, but most local parties work on the same lines. Your party has an executive, consisting of a Chair, Secretary, Treasurer and other offices (such as Membership Development Officer), which is elected on an annual basis at the constituency Annual General Meeting (AGM) to which all members must be invited. As a local party member, you have the right to stand for election for any position on your local party's executive, and to vote for the same.
What Does It Do?
That's pretty much all there is to say about what your local party is – but what does it do? In a way, that's up to the local party, but all should be seeking to further the aims of the Liberal Democrats in your area. This can involve any of the following, among others:
- organising campaigns to improve your local area
- promoting the party through local leaflets
- fund-raising
- recruiting new members
- holding social events
- electing delegates with voting rights at conference
- submitting policy motions and amendments to conferences
- putting candidates up for election
- communicating with existing members
Local party activity levels vary. The main factor is total number of members – that tells you how large your pool of volunteers is. Local parties where we have a sitting Member of Parliament have lots of Liberal Democrat supporters – if the local party has done its job properly, then it will have recruited many of them. That said, there are many people who contribute to the Liberal Democrats by delivering leaflets, putting up posters etc. who are not members of the party, and their support should never be discounted!
The other important factor is how organised the local party executive is, and what its priorities are. A party that's fighting a marginal seat is likely to concentrate on broad campaigning. A small party in a strong opposition seat is likely to concentrate on building local active support and social events. The age, experience and interest of the executive will determine the direction of the party – which is all the more reason to try and make sure you have a good range of Liberal Democrats on board!
How Do I Get Involved?
The good thing about such a wide range of activities is that it should be easy for you to find a way to contribute to your local party which suits your skills. There's a stereotype of Lib Dem supporters that involves them being leaflet delivery machines, and it's certainly true that we need to keep in touch with the public all year round – but local parties also need people to take minutes, do phone canvassing, go bowling, stuff envelopes, update websites, hold coffee mornings, or just make sure the party hears what's being talked about at your social club or gossiped in the local shops.
In an ideal world, when you join the Lib Dems or move to a new constituency, your local party's Membership Development Officer should be informed as soon as your membership record is updated at Lib Dem HQ in Cowley Street, London. The MDO should then contact you and let you know what's going on locally and how you can get involved.
You should receive regular (at least every two months) members' newsletters from your local party, in addition to more infrequent regional communications. These will let you know about upcoming social, fundraising and campaigning events. They should also contain contact details for your local party, along with upcoming details of meetings and AGMs.
If you don't end up being contacted, then it doesn't mean that your local party is entirely useless, just that they're not making the effort to communicate. You may wish to volunteer as membership development officer or to help with a members' newsletter – they clearly need somebody to do it! The Lib Dem website's In Your Area section allows you to find your local party by postcode, and gives you contact details to get in touch.
More Information
The English Liberal Democrats publish a self-help booklet called
Local Party Made Easy which details how local parties should work together.
There's also a new site called Flock Together where some local parties post upcoming events; if your local party does this it's a useful way of finding out what's going on and getting involved! Many local parties also have groups on Facebook.
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We started last night. The formal. Official. Serious... Diet.
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Trainz carries the full line of Bachmann Model Trains. Bachmann is actually the largest model train company in the world. Bachmann makes trains in G, O, HO, and N Scales as well as other specialized narrow gauge scales. Bachmann is truly an international company and is actually owned by the Chinese company the Kader Group, Bachmann has been around for a long time, since 1833 but didn't get into model trains until right after World War II when they introduced their "Plasticville" buildings that were hugely popular to go with Lionel Trains, especially in the 1950's, and actually still are! Bachmann then got into N Scale trains in 1968 and then HO in 1970. Trainz carries the full line of new Bachmann products including the O Gauge Line - "Williams by Bachmann". Since Trainz also consigns and buys truckloads of pre-owned trains every month we also have a fantastic ever-changing variety of out-of-production models as well.
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We are pleased to present this new podcast as part of the comprehensive digital media program of NPM. This constellation of resources provides essential information for music ministers of all backgrounds and skill levels.
The goal of this podcast, "Ministry Monday", is to provide a short, weekly audio program that will highlight one or two current topics relevant to liturgical ministry. You will hear new content along with information drawn from past NPM articles, presentations, and workshops. You will also hear voices and viewpoints from across the spectrum. It is our hope that you will find practical information to inform your ministry and, in turn, assist the liturgical life of your community.
You can listen to each episode by subscribing to the podcast through iTunes and Google Play, or by visiting this website. Show notes for each episode will be posted here, and will include links to any materials referenced in the episode, and more.
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In many ways, the moniker small business is a misnomer. When you consider that the average entrepreneur takes on the tasks that a big business parcels out to hundreds if not thousands of employees, a small business doesn't feel so small. The consensus among most small business owners is that big-box competition is a real threat to the small business owner. However, the things that make a small-business owner unique is what makes winning the big-box battle possible.
Behemoth retailers with their ability to monopolize distribution channels, spend more on marketing than you make in a year, offer loss leaders at will and enjoy volume discounts do make it hard for the small business to thrive, especially when the business is a startup. Big-box competition can also be a problem for start-ups because it takes some time to be recognized and accepted in the marketplace. However, small businesses are everything that big businesses aren't. Generally in a big-box store, you're lucky to find help and when you do, the employee often doesn't even know if the store has the item and there's no guarantee of the quality of the product. Go into a small retailer, however, and you can enjoy speedy, personalized service and higher quality products.
Many small business owners feel that the key to keeping a small business thriving is relationships. Businesses that survive over the years are the ones where the owners and employees develop relationships with customers. Small business owners should also engage customers with services like Groupon and Living Social to compete with big-box retailers. Getting customers into your business and building a relationship with them can keep them from jumping on the big-box bandwagon.
Building relationships with your local government can also work for your small business. Businesses that get the most support from local governments are the ones that reach out and become a staple in the community. Making an investment in your local community is bound to positively affect your business. For example, join the Chamber of Commerce, be a fixture at community events, volunteer to serve on local boards – all of these will help you obtain more support from your local government.
Keeping these things in mind can help your business thrive as you work to attract and build relationships with customers and your community.
Financing your Business
Getting a small business bank loan is never easy, and it's been especially difficult since the financial crash of 2008 and the lingering credit crunch. Even though small business lending is rebounding somewhat, it is still virtually impossible to get a loan to open a new business because lenders want to see a financial track record for your business that demonstrates your ability to repay the money they're lending you.
What are your options for financing if banks aren't willing to lend without knowing if your venture will be successful enough to make good on your obligation? Most entrepreneurs start their businesses with savings; they put startup costs on credit cards or get loans from family and friends. The void in bank lending has spurred the growth of alternative lending, which can be costly but gets money to entrepreneurs quickly and without a lot of hassle. One example of this is crowdfunding through websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
Some niche alternatives that have sprung up are less well known. For instatnce, culinary businesses can apply to the Whole Foods Local Producer loan program, which lends money to businesses making local food products. Many franchisers also help prospective franchisees with financing after home equity, which was once a common source of startup cash, plunged in many parts of the country.
Perhaps a more realistic option for you is connecting with a nonprofit microlender. A microlender is an organization that makes business loans to individuals. They typically charge higher-than-average interest rates and their maximum loan amount is usually $25,000.
Once your business has been operating for two to three years, a bank loan may be a realistic possibility. Showing your business has a proven business model with steady, paying customers can make the loan officer's job easier when deciding if your business is a good risk. Don't be afraid to take the plunge when it comes to starting a new business – inform yourself of the options available to you to launch your business and you'll be up and running in no time.
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February 2019


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House of Hell
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Status: Announced
|Script: Book Adaptation
Genre: Horror, Adventure
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No news of filming on the net must have derailed. I don't think from the other superteam works that it would be good but was interested to hear more about the interactive stuff.


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This seems silly, but I can't seem to find the Integrated Reasoning question bank. I've logged into my Wiley account and can't seem to find those specific questions. Can someone send me the url? Thank you!
Once you've logged into your GMAT account, click on the Diagnostic tab, you'll find the link on the bottom-left hand side, like this:
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Glenside, PA-based organization calls for equal autonomy and dignity rights of ALL animals
PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Drivers on Business Route 1 in Bucks County Pennsylvania in recent days have been seeing a unique and unusual message from Responsible Policies for Animals (RPA).
A 12-by-48-foot billboard promotes RPA's message "Justice for all animals: The way forward!" in giant letters. Below the message is RPA's website: www.RPAforAll.org. The billboard, which is located south of Tyburn Road, faces south and can be seen by northbound drivers, will run through December 30, 2012. It will then move to Business Route 1 north of Tyburn and run there through July 14, 2013.
The message promotes RPA's goal of establishing unalienable equal autonomy, ecology, and dignity rights of all animals. RPA promotes rights of all animals—the way rights originally came to exist, explains the organization's founder David Cantor. "People must understand that nonhuman animals are persons deserving of equal treatment and fulfilling lives. Without justice, there is little fulfillment. Without rights, there is little justice."
"Injustice toward nonhuman animals is a root cause of nearly all misery in humans and other animals," Cantor says. "The more we can do to establish justice for other animals, the more we will improve everyone's quality of life." He says the problem is not cruelty or diet—as addressed by conventional animal advocacy—but innovation going back to prehistoric times when humans could not know their actions would unleash disease, war, poverty, and other misery in perpetuity.
A tax-exempt educational nonprofit organization based in Glenside, Pennsylvania, with no paid directors or staff, RPA operates on individual donations and foundation grants. One of those donations, from a couple who wish to remain anonymous, makes RPA's billboard possible. The same gift will also fund a digital highway sign and two advertisements in major online university newspapers.
Cantor, 57, founded RPA in 2002 after full-time employment with other national animal organizations since 1989. Cantor has published four book chapters, many articles, and more than 100 letters in Time, Utne Reader, E, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, Philadelphia magazine, and many other publications as a full-time advocate for animals and their rights.
Responsible Policies for Animals
David Cantor, 215-886-7721
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In this episode of 8 Bit Avenue, Matthew Palmer, Katie Talmo, Reagan Simms, and special guest, J Hammond C discuss the best-selling, genre-defining Atari hit, Pitfall!
8 Bit Avenue discusses the Atari hit Pitfall!, XBox One discontinuation, rumours of a Bethesda "Game of Thrones" game, and J Hammond C's new project. Tune in to find out more!
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Barrier Sunburn Lotion
Sunburn Lotion - for small pets
Sunburn Lotion gives factor 25 protection and is a must for pets with pink sensitive skin. So kind and gentle it can be applied directly to exposed areas such as ears, nose and very pink skin without hurting or harming your pet. It helps to soothe existing sunburn and help protect against further sunburn.
Contents: Highest quality essential oils, natural minerals.
Directions for use : Shake well and apply evenly using cotton wool to all areas prone to the effects of the sun. Include the face, especially the ears and the tips of the tail. Sunburn Soother can also be applied to areas that are already burned to help soothe and aid natural healing, but extreme care must be taken as the areas will be very sore. Avoid the eyes.
Liquid: Sunburn Lotion is in liquid form for quick and invisible absorption, to give invisable cover. We do not include perfumes or thickeners as these in themselves can cause pain to animals already sunburned.
Pack size : Available in 150ml bottle.
Safety Data : Non-toxic, Non-irritant.No harmful chemicals.
Storage : Keep out of direct sun light. Store in a cool dry place.
Suppliers: Click on 'suppliers', enter your county to find your nearest staokist.
Uses: Sunburn can be a real problem for small pets. Sunburn Lotion contains natural minerals that give factor 25 protection against sunburn and concentrated plant oils to relieve raw and sore areas.


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How to Restore from a Restore Point in Windows 10
The new Refresh and Reset programs in Windows 10 work wonders in resuscitating an ailing computer, and they're more powerful than the older System Restore technology. But in case you've come to rely on the System Restore programs built into earlier Windows versions, Windows 10 still includes System Restore — if you know where to find it.
To send your computer back to a restore point when it was working much better, follow these steps:
Right-click the Start button and choose System from the pop-up menu. When the System window appears, click System Protection from the left pane. Finally, when the System Properties window appears, click System Restore.
The System Restore window appears.
Click the Next button at the System Restore window.
The System Restore Point lists available restore points.
Click a listed restore point.
You can see more available restore points by selecting the Show More Restore Points check box.
Click the Scan for Affected Programs button to see how your chosen restore point will affect programs.
A handy touch, this feature lists programs you'll probably need to reinstall.
Click Next to confirm your chosen restore point. Then click Finish.
Your computer grumbles a bit and then restarts, using those earlier settings that (hopefully) worked fine.
If your system is already working fine, feel free to create your own restore point. Name the restore point something descriptive, such as Before Letting the Babysitter Use the Computer. (That way, you know which restore point to use if things go awry.)


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Hoosier Dam was a concrete buttress dam with an attached hydroelectric powerhouse on the Rocky River in Chatham County, NC. The dam was built in 1922 and produced power until January 2016 when a fire destroyed the primary 150KW generator. Constructed of river stone and reinforced concrete the dam had a total length of 235 feet and an average structural height of 25 feet.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) designated sections of the Rocky River upstream and downstream from Hoosier Dam, as well as a section of Bear Creek just below the dam, as Critical Habitat for the Cape Fear Shiner, a federally listed endangered species. The non-impounded sections of the Rocky River and Bear Creek exhibit very high-quality riverine habitat that supports a diverse collection of aquatic species including the Cape Fear Shiner and other species of concern. The dam represented a significant blockage to fish migration and as a result, USFWS has documented declines in the disconnected population upstream of the dam. Unique Places understands that removal of the blockage created by the dam to provide access to these high-quality reaches is a substantial long-term benefit to these aquatic communities.
In 2016 Unique Places applied for and received a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant to complete the environmental, engineering, and construction related components of dam removal. After an extensive permitting and design period the dam was finally ready to be removed in the fall of 2018. Unique Places started preliminary demolition work in September 2018. The USFWS Fish Passage team partnered with Unique Places to conduct the demolition of the dam in late October 2018.
As of November 2018, the Hoosier Dam has been removed and the Rocky River now flows unobstructed! You can view photos of our work on the dam and a short video showing progress in our media galleries below. We would like to thank the following partners, funders and others who made this project a success!
Emily Wells, USFWS
Sara Ward, USFWS
Sarah McRae, USFWS
David Hinton, Dam Manager & Historian
Hal Jones, USFWS Fish Passage Team
Cory Gullett, USFWS Fish Passage Team
Vann Stancil, NCWRC
Brena Jones, NCWRC
John Hutton, Wildlands Engineering
Angela Allen, Wildands Engineering
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Funder
United States Fish and Wildlife Services, Partner and Funder
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Partner
NC State Historic Preservation Office, Partner
Wildlands Engineering, Partner
Arcadian Construction, Partner
NC Wildlife Resources Commission, Partner
130 of Chatham LLC, Partner
Unique Places, in conjunction with the Cape Fear River Partnership, is working to develop the Cape Fear Basin Comprehensive River Trail Plan. This plan is a basin-wide recreation plan that focuses on river paddle trails extending from coastal North Carolina to the central piedmont. The Hoosier Dam Removal project contributes to the Cape Fear Basin Comprehensive River Trail Plan by removing a barrier along a navigable stream and no longer requiring portage. In the future, we hope to see paddlers and camping sites that support multiple day river excursions. The Cape Fear Basin Comprehensive River Trail Plan will help connect the Rocky River to other rivers and tributaries, improving the connectivity of the Cape Fear Basin for recreation opportunities.


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Day 15
So now we approach the end of our 2nd week and the body is feeling the effects of shows. Thankfully the body is beginning to feel like a dancers' bod again and BIG SWANS is not as scary as it seems! My PT and I have finally found a gym that doesn't cost the earth and we have been doing some sessions together. We are going to a Gold's Gym which is the hard core bodybuilders gym, so we are feeling sufficiently hard-core ourselves! It's great to have someone to train with and push you that little bit extra when it is easy enough to rest on your laurels and sit in the motel room. But for now my time grows short. I am sitting at Shibuya's main crossroads (I won't tell you that it is a Starbuck's nor try to justify it with the feeble excuse that it is the only placed open before 9am on a Sunday) with my cup of tea (detox still going strong) and watching all the people crossing patiently and respectfully, with a communal order and regard for their fellow pedestriansl... it is still such a lovely aspect of the Japanese. But I must away for the last 2 shows of the week and then 2.5 hrs of massaging whingey dancers... yes they are all friendly to me when they are sore! heheheh. Yes the usual gripeyness of dancers on tour rears its ugly head. I know you can't get on with absolutly everybody in the world, but keep it cordial please. It is easy sometimes to feel alienated... but if I choose to sit in a Martha Stewart esque tea room sipping on Earl Grey instead of going to Starbucks then I bloody well shall.


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SFE was founded in 2004 by Luis Benavides and Donald Gala, who set out to revolutionize the school foodservice industry—by putting child nutrition first. Drawing from decades of experience working within both small and large school districts throughout the United States, they proposed a new approach to K-12 child nutrition. Then, they began to build a cross-functional team of the most dynamic, committed culinary and K-12 experts in the industry.
The result was SFE (Southwest Foodservice Excellence), a company founded on a simple philosophy: Put child nutrition first—through top quality food, more menu choices and superior onsite partnership—and students will be happy, nourished and ready to achieve their highest potential. In so doing, program participation and school revenues will grow, allowing for a financially sustainable, truly effective school nutrition program.
Our Growth
The word is spreading about how SFE can help schools.
Our fresh approach, in fact, has fueled national interest and significant growth since 2004. Still exclusively serving the K-12 school community, the company has expanded throughout the south, as well as into the Midwest and East—with more districts added each year.
"SFE is a unique, dynamic and refreshing food service management company," said Luis Benavides, SFE Co-Founder. "We are proud to be a trendsetter when it comes to child nutrition, with a unique platform for continued organic growth."
As SFE programs are added across the U.S., the company will continue to lead with superior food, menu variety and team support.


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Something very special is coming to Spun! We are pleased and excited to offer you Woolfolk yarns, shockingly soft and responsibly sourced fibers whose uniqueness is echoed in clean, minimalist designs that will boost your handmade wardrobe's longevity and appeal. The yarn will be in the shop on Monday, August 7, and we will celebrate with an end-of-summer party on Friday, August 25. During the happy hour, we'll enjoy drinks and treats, and Spun will offer Woolfolk yarn and patterns at a 10 percent discount.
The Softness
The softness and quality of Woolfolk yarns are impossible to ignore, so let's just put it out there: Woolfolk's Ultimate Merino® feels like cashmere, but with the wear of merino. Why?
The Science behind the Softness
Wool products are composed of strands of fibers that are measured in microns. Generally speaking, the higher the micron count, the larger the diameter measure of a strand of fiber--and larger, coarser fibers mean more "prickle." Most wool products include a high percentage of fibers that are over 30 microns. Woolfolk's Ultimate Merino®, on the other hand, has a micron count of 17.5. The resulting long, cylindrical fibers have elongated, flat scales and thus a smoother surface. What this means for you is yarn that combines the softness of cashmere with the wear of merino. The cylindrical fibers, with their flat scales, also reflect light and absorb dye more easily than elliptical fibers, resulting in yarns with an inborn luster, here dyed in deep and lasting hues.
The Source
Exceptional in every way, Woolfolk yarns combine high-quality fibers with high-quality practices, careful attention to ethical, sustainable means of production. Woolfolk's Ultimate Merino® happens not by chance, but through the efforts of farmers on the Patagonian Grasslands to care for their flocks as they care for their land, seeing themselves as stewards of both.
The Yarn
FÅR. Worsted weight. 100 percent Ovis 21 Ultimate Merino®. 142 yards/skein.
HYGGE. Super bulky weight. 50 percent Ovis 21 Ultimate Merino®, 28 percent alpaca, 22 percent silk. 76 yards/skein.
LUFT. Bulky weight. 55 percent Ovis 21 Ultimate Merino®, 45 percent organic Pima cotton. 109 yards/skein. [NOTE: Due to high demand, LUFT will be in the shop a bit later than the rest of the collection.]
SNO. Fingering weight, marled. 100 percent Ovis 21 Ultimate Merino®. 223 yards/skein.
TOV. Aran weight. 100 percent Ovis 21 Ultimate Merino®. 173 yards/skein.
TYND. Fingering weight. 100 percent Ovis 21 Ultimate Merino®. 223 yards/skein.


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<i>Red Swastik</i>, a Hollywood remake
Courtesy: IndiaFM
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Originality has seldom been Bollywood's forte. So it doesn't come as a surprise to learn that the concept of Vinod Sins Pande's forthcoming film Red Swastik, starring Sherlyn (Mona) Chopra in the lead, bears an uncanny resemblance to one of Hollywood's most controversial and initially banned movie I Spit On Your Grave.
The storylines are simple - A girl is brutally raped by a group of boys. She manages to survive. What follows are acts of revenge. She cleanses with blood!
Not only the storylines, but even the poster designs are identical - with the barely clad girl steadfastly holding a knife to kill. Its time Bollywood starts being original.
When lead actress Sherlyn Chopra was asked, she replied, "In today's times, even originality is undetected plagiarism. Most films are a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve our films."
As for the plagiarism charge, she said, "My role in 'Red Swastik' is not only on the lines of 'I Spit On Your Grave', but also derives inspiration from Oscar-winning Charlize Theron's character of a murderer highway prostitute in the critically acclaimed 'Monster'. Copy from one, its plagiarism; copy from two, its research."
Chopra features on the seductress category today but few know that actress Sherlyn Chopra was not as good-looking as this earlier. "I was an ugly duckling as a teenager," she admits. "At fifteen, I'd wear thick reading-glasses and spend all my time immersed in books. Most of my friends found me 'boring'. Glamour was nowhere on my mind. I was almost like a Jassi".
That was till one day she made up her mind to win the Miss Andhra crown (Sherlyn hails from Hyderabad). When asked, how it feels to have had such a huge metamorphosis, the damsel says, "Today, I've become a fantasy for my childhood friends. It feels surreal!"
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Most of my time in France was spent in the south near Bordeaux and Angoulême.
Following the wine bar night I took took a bus ride with Anaïs, another friend from Ethiopia. We left from Bongolet, the Eastern edge of Paris for Bordeaux where she used to go to school and currently friend Ezana is living still.
Next day we walked around the city. First had to stop for a nice crossant in this chill bakery. Walked also along the longest street in France (Europe?) and of course it's a shopping corridor.
After meeting Anaïs' friend for an amazing lunch we walked a bit more. I grabbed one of these pastries specific to Bordeaux. It was ok – bit too carmely for my taste. Walked to river and old slave market.
Later we drove about an hour to Angolueme – more specifically Torsac, which is where Anaïs mom lives. She had dinner prepared, which consisted of quiche and soup (let the French feasts begin).
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There are total 11 letters in Freelancers, Starting with F and ending with S.
Freelancers is a scrabble word? Yes (16 Points) Freelancers has worth 16 Scrabble points.
An Anagram is collection of word or phrase made out by rearranging the letters of the word. All Anagram words must be valid and actual words.
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In Freelancers F is 6th, R is 18th, E is 5th, L is 12th, A is 1st, N is 14th, C is 3rd, S is 19th letters in Alphabet Series.
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My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies
We spent about an hour doing sit down school time this morning. An hour seems so short, but we got a lot done. They practiced their spelling. Luke has the planets so I taught them the "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies (or pizzas)" you know, for the planets in order from the sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Okay okay, so technically Pluto got demoted. I briefly mentioned that to them. Maybe we will look it up for part of school tomorrow. Isabel then drew and wrote about "Super Isabel's" weaknesses. Since Luke had already done that part for his superhero, he drew and described some setting ideas. We also read Martin Luther King Jr: The Life of a Civil Rights Leader by Gary Jeffrey illustrated by Chris Forsey. What's great about this MLK book is that it is in comic book format, word bubbles and all!
Alright, so the reason why we only spent one hour doing sit down school was because it was a beautiful day outside. After school we got ourselves some Costco hot dogs and headed for the park. They (we) played for a couple hours there and then I let them ride their scooters in the front yard when we got home. When they came inside they played Webkinz while I rested and read my book for a half hour. They are now doing their Math.


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32" Bastogne walnut racks
All of my knife racks are made by hand from solid wood (mostly cherry and walnut) and utilize super strong rare earth magnets to secure your knifes firmly to the face of the rack. Because the rack is wood and not metal, the edges of your knives won't dull if they come in contact with the rack. All racks have keyhole slots in the back that mount simply to a pair of screws in the wall (screws and anchors are included).
If you're looking for specific dimensions and/or wood species, you can commission me to make one of your design.
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EU salmon smoker in limbo over listeria investigation
Polish group claims Danish authorities have given it little information on how to react to the investigation, but 'the damage is already done.'
Polish salmon smoker BK Salmon is in limbo as it awaits the final conclusions of an ongoing investigation into a listeria contamination case involving its product reported by the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration in September.
The company lost its contract with Danish retailer Dansk Supermarked shortly after testing showed some of the product may have been contaminated. The contract accounted for about 25 percent of its turnover, although "this is nothing compared with the reputational damage," Krzysztof Dejk, plant manager at the company, told IntraFish.
"The damage has been done," he said, noting harsh media reports and a "devastating" word-of-mouth impact.
The "massive investigation" gave the company little time to react to the findings, or do its own inspections, Dejk said. Since the investigation started, the company has not received any notifications to entirely stop operations at its factory, as no listeria contamination has been found, according to Dejk.
"We don't know where the origin of the problem with the listeria-positive Danish sample was, but after several weeks of investigation, our processing plants [were] found to be compliant with EU food safety standards," Dejk said.
Listeria was detected in two retail packs, each from a different lot of the same product batch, out of the 20 batches the company had supplied to the retailer.
The levels found in the recalled salmon were 110 bacteria cfu per gram in one and 240 bacteria cfu per gram in the other - the EU food safety limit is 100 bacteria per gram at the expiry date.
"Both claimed lots were already out of expiry, one had expired on July 31, and the other on Aug. 28, the day of the claim," Dejk told IntraFish. It is unclear to him why it has not been taken into account that the batches were expired.
Following the claims, Danish authorities have carried out several tests on BK Salmon products, and have not declared any poisoning threat, according to Dejk.
Bad, bad timing
The news of the recall broke as the company was about to kick off a new packaging line and a marketing positioning campaign with Dansk Supermarked.
"We understand the concern, and our intention has never been to bring any harm to anybody, but this had a devastating effect on us, our plant was categorized as the focus of infection from one day to the other before we got the even got the details of the claims," Dejk said.
The company said it is keeping all its clients updated on the latest in the situation.
"We will do whatever possible to restore business relations," Dejk added.
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Release Date:12/02/2016;Notes:Vinyl LP pressing. Since the early 1950s, Willie Dixon has been the studio kingpin of Chicago blues, having written, produced, and played bass on countless classics by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush, Koko Taylor, and many others. Dixon has always managed to find time away from the studio to work as a performer, slapping his upright bass and singing his own tunes in a highly compelling, conversational baritone. He was working the coffeehouse circuit with pianist Memphis Slim when he cut this, his first album as a leader, in 1959. Besides his unique interpretations of "Nervous" and "Built for Comfort," it includes eight lesser known compositions from Dixon's prolific pen. It is unlike all other albums by Dixon, as he and Slim are accompanied, not by the usual crew of Chicago blues players, but by a group of New York mainstream jazzmen, including tenor saxophonist Hal Ashby, guitarist Wally Richardson and drummer Gus Johnson.;Track List:1. Nervous 3:15;2. Good Understanding 2:15;3. That's My Baby 3:22;4. Slim's Thing 3:24;5. That's All I Want Baby 2:15;6. Don't You Tell Nobody 2:04;7. Youth to You 3:24;8. Sittin' and Cryin' the Blues 3:23;9. Built for Comfort 1:47;10. I Got a Razor 4:14;11. Go Easy 5:52;12. Move Me 3:20;Special Attributes:200 GRAM VINYL
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