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Intense, deep, stubborn, controlling and wet — those are a few keywords for the Moon when it is in Scorpio, where it's been since early Saturday. As of 5:38 AM ET, it's also void of course — i.e., traveling without focused direction until it enters the next sign — Sagittarius — with a huge sigh of relief. That shift happens at 3:48 PM ET. Until then, roll with the flakes and twists. Stick to routine. Crises which crop up during voids are often much ado about nothing. Chill! Your other Moon voids this week happen on THURSDAY 12:42 AM ET – 4:18 AM ET and SATURDAY 12:30 PM ET – 4:06 PM ET.
Once the Moon enters Sagittarius, everyone is sure to have an opinion — the more boundary-pushing, the better. Get out of your rut; expand your mind; connect with nature; catch a foreign film; think positively; avoid putting your foot in your mouth and/or tripping over the furniture.
On THURSDAY retrograde Mercury backs into Leo at 11:29 AM ET, where it will slow to a crawl as it prepares to move direct on Tuesday, September 5th. What does this suggest? Note that Action Hero/Angry Bird Mars will be at 28 Leo on SATURDAY and SUNDAY. Last week's awesome solar eclipse happened at 28 Leo. A planet that travels to the degree of an eclipse serves as a trigger — i.e., a release of energy/action bottle-necked by the eclipse. Got that?
Mercury (information, communication, travel) will meet up with Mars at that same degree — 28 Leo — on SUNDAY at 5:39 AM ET. What will be the fallout (sometimes, literally)? What secrets will be revealed? What royal edicts will be issued (when cooler heads really ought to prevail)? Mercury will hang at 28 Leo until it turns direct. Could be an interesting few days for those with significant planets and points at that degree. Consult your local astrologer for details.
And now, the news.
A harmony between Mars and Uranus on SATURDAY at 8:13 AM ET suggests headlines including, but not limited to tech breakthroughs and aviation. We shall see.
Meanwhile, water, water everywhere — in Texas. Hurricane Harvey continues to rain on Houston, reflecting the wretched potential of a depth-seeking Scorpio Moon. Why Houston? Why now? Are there any astrological patterns suggesting this heartbreaking horror show?
Well, it is interesting to note that the chart for the August 21 solar eclipse set in Houston has a Midheaven (public status) of 0 degrees Virgo — with the eclipsed Sun and Moon sitting right on top of it, separated by just one degree. The chart set in Houston has a 23 Scorpio Ascendant, challenged by the North and South Nodes. I'd translate that potential as an image of depth and control, while feeling trapped between a rock and a hard place. Mars is at 20 Leo, physically challenging that image when it hit 23 Leo early Saturday morning. We will see more Mars action in this Houston New Moon chart between September 2nd and 5th.
It is also interesting to see Neptune running wild in the chart, yet in an obsessive-compulsive relationship with the Sun and Moon. Neptune refers to water, floods, displaced persons, dissolving of boundaries. This pattern was in the chart for the New Moon/Eclipse in every location. Neptune also refers to oil, oceans and naval matters — and here I would be thinking of another recent big headline: the collision of a oil tanker with the U.S.S. John McCain, in which ten U.S. sailors perished.
Meanwhile, the city of Houston also has a horoscope — born on August 24, 1836 at 12:38 PM. Houston's Sun is 1 Virgo — also hit by the August 21st eclipse. Coincidence or conspiracy? We see Mars hot in this horoscope late next week — the 7th through the 9th. We anticipate action and/or assertion.
Of course there is always the possibility that the real culprit here is Mother Nature, aided and abetted by climate change caused by human activity, like most scientists say. And that it doesn't really matter to Mother Nature that U.S. government agencies, under the dangerously deluded direction of the P45 adminstration, have scrubbed the words "climate change" from their websites. Guess they haven't gotten around to NASA yet.
Thinking of all Avid Readers in Harvey's path — hoping you are safe and sound. If you are not in Harvey's path, here are ways to help.
In other news…
Some weeks ago in Astrologer Land there was an article published arguing that the time on the birth certificate released by P45 wasn't correct, and that we should be using the birth time cited by his mother. I don't know about that, given the responsiveness of the horoscope calculated with the time on the birth certificate. For example, we'd expect a public assertion of regal machismo on or a day before the morning of August 27th, when transiting Mars (action) challenged his Midheaven (public status). Sure enough, late on Friday when many were focused on the impending Hurricane Harvey, P45 "pardoned" Joe Arpaio, former sheriff of Maricopa County (AZ). Here is the must-read article on Mr. Arpaio, if you're not quite sure what heinous things he has done.
We don't have an exact birth time, but here is what we know of Mr. Arpaio's horoscope. OMG, he shares a birthday with P45 — June 14th. Gemini Sun — Libra or Scorpio Moon, likely squared by patriarchal Saturn. That can be lean…and downright mean. Macho Mars at 24 Taurus — conjunct wounded healer Chiron and the wretched Fixed Star Algol; retrograde Venus is conjunct Pluto; Neptune and Mars are running wild. Translation: we see the potential for a man on a misguided mission; prone to over-the-top emotions in matters of homeland/family, inflicting aforementioned meaness on others as a twisted retaliation for the misery he likely experienced in his early home life. It will be interesting to see what squeeze he may be feeling in October/November, when transiting Saturn opposes his Gemini Sun for the third time this year.
Over the weekend, P45 also reversed an Obama-era rule that prevented local police departments from getting their hands on military equipment. Because what local police department would be complete without its very own grenade launcher? Earlier this month he rolled back Obama-era flood standards for taxpayer-financed infrastructure projects. Will that one be REconsidered, as one might hope with a bright idea that launches during a Mercury retrograde? Meanwhile, macho militant Mars hits P45's regal Leo Ascendant on September 5th. Actions are sure to make news. Stay tuned….
…and ending on a fun note. Lost objects have an odd way of turning up when Mercury is retrograde. In Canada, a woman was delighted to find her engagement ring when it was pulled out of her garden….wrapped around a carrot!
How's your Mercury retrograde REorganizing, REpairing, REtreating, REconnecting going? Yesterday I ordered a file cabinet and took my broken vacuum cleaner to the repair shop.
Housekeeping note: if you ordered and paid for a personalized report about last week's solar eclipse, it was prepared and emailed to you. If you have not received it, please let me know (to Avid Reader Mary — thanks for emailing me to say you did not receive the report. Please check your spam folder — it was sent on the 19th).
Thank you for reading this forecast. Contributions to my Cosmic Tip Jar are always welcome. If you curious to know how all this talk of planetary patterns mean for you personally, here's the 411 on consultations. We will have an excellent discussion together.


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After receipt of your parcel we digitize your films with our scanners (Nikon, Hasselblad, Epson, Canon). The scans are numbered continuously, e.g. Image001.jpg, Image002.jpg, Image003.jpg... For each slide magazine or each evelope with film strips we create a specific folder on the DVD/USB stick/USB hard drive. Please, choose on the scan order form, which resolution and which image format (JPG, TIF, TIF48) you desire. Your video material will be digitized with professional film equipment according to your options on the video order form. Your videos will be numbered continuously, e.g. film01.mpg, film02.mpg, film03.mpg... Alternatively, you can also give us a list with individual film titles.
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Once again, hackers are showing why you should never, ever download apps outside official app stores.
Hackers have gained access to more than 1.3 million Google accounts -- emails, photos, documents and more -- by infecting Android phones through illegitimate apps.
That discovery comes from computer researchers at Check Point, a cybersecurity firm. On Wednesday, Google confirmed to CNNMoney the nature and extent of the problem.
The hackers have managed to steal digital "tokens" that give them access to Google services, like a person's email and photo collection. But according to Google, hackers have not yet tapped that information and stolen it.
The massive hack appears to be a criminal enrichment scheme.
Infected Android smartphones begin to install other, legitimate Android apps -- then rate them highly. This fraudulently inflates their reputation, according to Check Point researchers.
Google has already removed the legitimate apps from its official store that have benefited from this ratings conspiracy, according to a blog post by Adrian Ludwig, the company's director of Android security.
The malware also installs malicious advertising software that tracks users, a potential boon for data-hungry marketers.
Google says it has blocked 150,000 versions of this kind of nasty cyberattack.
But the problem persists. Another 13,000 devices are getting infected and breached daily, according to Check Point researchers who have been tracking this type of cyberattack since last year. They've nicknamed the hacking campaign "Gooligan."
Check Point has set up a website -- Gooligan.CheckPoint.com -- for people to check if their devices have been hacked. (It requires you to enter your Google email address, gives you a response, and offers the company's "ZoneAlarm" product.)
Alternatively, Android users could check to see if they have downloaded illegitimate versions of any of the apps listed at the bottom of this article.
Smartphone owners are advised to only download certified computer programs from official repositories. Google has its Google Play store. Apple has its App Store.
But some people insist on visiting unofficial app stores -- typically on shady websites -- because they offer free, counterfeit versions of popular apps.
"Not surprisingly, a malware, spread in unofficial markets, can create real damage," said Zuk Avraham, the founder of another cybersecurity firm, Zimperium.
On Tuesday, Google stressed that users should avoid downloading outside of Google Play.
According to Check Point, here's the list of potentially infected apps:
- Perfect Cleaner
- Demo
- WiFi Enhancer
- Snake
- gla.pev.zvh
- Html5 Games
- Demm
- memory booster
- แข่งรถสุดโหด
- StopWatch
- Clear
- ballSmove_004
- Flashlight Free
- memory booste
- Touch Beauty
- Demoad
- Small Blue Point
- Battery Monitor
- 清理大师
- UC Mini
- Shadow Crush
- Sex Photo
- 小白点
- tub.ajy.ics
- Hip Good
- Memory Booster
- phone booster
- SettingService
- Wifi Master
- Fruit Slots
- System Booster
- Dircet Browser
- Puzzle Bubble-Pet Paradise
- Light Browser
- Clean Master
- YouTube Downloader
- KXService
- Best Wallpapers
- Smart Touch
- Light Advanced
- SmartFolder
- youtubeplayer
- Beautiful Alarm
- PronClub
- Detecting instrument
- Calculator
- GPS Speed
- Fast Cleaner
- Blue Point
- CakeSweety
- Pedometer
- Compass Lite
- Fingerprint unlock
- PornClub
- com.browser.provider
- Assistive Touch
- Sex Cademy
- OneKeyLock
- Wifi Speed Pro
- Minibooster
- com.so.itouch
- com.fabullacop.loudcallernameringtone
- Kiss Browser
- Weather
- Chrono Marker
- Slots Mania
- Multifunction Flashlight
- So Hot
- HotH5Games
- Swamm Browser
- Billiards
- TcashDemo
- Sexy hot wallpaper
- Wifi Accelerate
- Simple Calculator
- Daily Racing
- Talking Tom 3
- com.example.ddeo
- Test
- Hot Photo
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This print is a minimal and chic way to elevate your space. The artwork stands out from any angle as the matte museum-quality paper diffuses the light.
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Anyway, as good (or quite frankly brilliant) as the Pi is, the capacity of an SD card isn't going to go far; so connecting to my trusty NAS drive (e.g. shared folder) was going to be a neccessity and as I was going to be using it a lot, automatically mounting it when the Pi started was also needed.
I was going to be need Samba to connect to my NAS, which can be installed using:
Install/Update Samba
(using Debian Squeeze)
Smbfs is required and while smbclient is not, its a useful tool that I thought I might need in the future.
(using Raspian)
Samba is already installed and smbfs has been depreciated in wheezy.
(using Raspbmc)
Samba is already installed but I needed to installed cifs-utils in order to mount my NAS drive.
Make a directory to mount your NAS too
I choose to put it in the pi user's home directory using the structure /home/pi/server/share:
Edit fstab file
I needed to edit the fstab file to mount the NAS drive at startup:
I added the following line to the bottom of the file:
And saved the changes.
WARNING - this will mean your username & password is stored in plain text viewable to all on the device, if this is going to be a problem you can use a credentials file, see http://anothersysadmin.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/howto-mount-samba-shares-in-fstab-using-a-credential-file/
I tested the change by mounting the NAS drive using the command:
I then navigated to the mount directory and successfully retreived a directory listing from my NAS:
To be double sure, reboot and make sure your NAS is connected:


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And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
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KIRKLAND — Students at Juanita High School will vote on whether to change their school's mascot and logo following a petition's approval by the school district's board of directors.
The school is represented by the "Rebels" mascot with a logo showing an eagle sitting on a shield in front of crossed swords. Previous iterations of the logo, including the 1990 yearbook, feature a "stars and bars" style background. The design is widely associated with various iterations of the Confederate flag during the American Civil War that has been criticized as a symbol of hate and racism.
The petition was presented to the Lake Washington School District board of directors at its May 21 meeting, during which the board approved the petition. Board members noted that when the current mascot was proposed and approved by the JHS student body in 1971, it was meant to represent the "revolutionary" approach to education at the school, which included short class periods. However, board members unanimously supported the petition moving forward, saying it was the students' right to change a mascot.
"Meanings drift with time and I don't think that 'Rebel' was as associated with the Civil War at the time as it is now," said board member Chris Carlson.
In order for a petition to make it to the board it has to garner signatures of support from more than 10 percent of a school's student body. JHS had 1,443 students enrolled at the beginning of the current school year, placing the 170 gathered signatures well above the needed threshold.
A change.org petition was started in support of the student initiative, which has gained around 700 signatures.
"The Juanita High School (Kirkland, Washington) mascot is the 'Rebel' and (its) current logo is slightly modified iteration of the Confederate flag. We feel that there is no place for the memorializing of Confederate white supremacy at Juanita High School. Other schools across the nation have made the decision to change their 'Rebel' mascot in light of (its) historical connotations and by signing this, we believe that it is time for Juanita High School to do the same," the petition reads. "By signing this petition, we call on Lake Washington School District, Juanita High School leadership, and the JHS PTSA to take immediate action to remove the 'Rebels' as the Juanita High School's mascot and begin the process of disrupting white supremacy in the Juanita High School community."
A counter petition was also started and has gained more than 1,000 signatures. It says that few people who attended JHS want to see the mascot changed and that "there is no white supremacy in the Juanita High surrounding areas."
According to a document provided by the school district, a black staff member objected to the 1990 yearbook cover, which was subsequently changed. The document also stated that in the mid-1990s JHS hosted Garfield High School for a varsity football game. During that game, Juanita students painted their faces with the "stars and bars" and chanted racist names and slurs. The assistant student body president later apologized for the event.
"Historically, pro-Confederate terms include 'Rebel Pride,' 'Undefeated Rebels,' and 'The Rebel Yell.' These are terms that JHS uses today," the document reads.
Additionally, a picture included from the 1986 yearbook shows a photo of students holding a Confederate flag with the title "In 1986, Juanita High School is riding a rebel wave."
Only current students can vote to change or retain a mascot. Following the board of directors' approval, the petition will now go before the student body, who will vote to either change the mascot or keep it as it is.
Other schools around the country have moved to change mascots associated or perceived to be associated with the American Confederacy, which during the Civil War, fought against the Union to keep black people as slaves.
This story was first published in the Kirkland Reporter.
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Boston Celtics And Freebeat Announce Partnership, Uniting Sports And Wellness
New York City, New York, United States, 6th Feb 2024 – In an exciting new partnership, freebeat, an industry leader in indoor stationary bikes and electric bikes, has teamed up with the 17-time World Champion Boston Celtics. This partnership aims to revitalize the world of fitness and energize the Celtics fan base.
"We are absolutely thrilled to partner with a legendary NBA team like the Boston Celtics this year, an organization that shares our passion and commitment to a healthy lifestyle and sustainability. Working with the Celtics highlights our collective commitment and devotion to the game and fosters an inspiring journey of entertainment, dedication, and fitness goals for all our users and fans. We cannot wait to share our exciting journey and bring some fun activities and other surprises to the fans!" stated Abby Zhu, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer at freebeat.
"freebeat shares in our commitment of building a sense of community and encouraging people to make healthy lifestyle choices," said Ted Dalton, Boston Celtics Chief Partnership Officer. "We look forward to this new partnership, which will feature a Jr. Celtics Academy Theme Night presented by freebeat at TD Garden and will give fans the opportunity to win a Celtics-branded stationary fitness bike."
What to Expect From This New Partnership
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ResearcherAs a researcher, I describe my work in various ways depending on who I am talking with. In the official blurb, published in the College of Engineering handbook, I stress the system identification aspects of my work, and I ramble on about how we can hope to make a better world by understanding our machines and ourselves. I sure hope that I'm right about this. For others, I stress the applications to signal processing and use words like "stability of algorithms," "convergence analysis," and "equalization." For others, I talk about the musical motivations lying behind my work and call it acoustical signal processing or perception based audio, where I have been investigating the relationships between the timbre (or spectrum) of a sound and the tunings (or musical scales) in which the sound will appear most consonant to the ear. This has culminated in Tuning Timbre Spectrum Scale, published by Springer-Verlag (the second edition is now out!). More recently, I have been investigating methods of detecting periodicities in data records, and attempting to automatically detect rhythmic structures in musical performances, as well as in other more prosaic signals such as heartbeats. Rhythm and Transforms (also published by Springer) describes these investigations. There are also links to many of my publications (with all the self aggrandizement of a CV!). |
TeacherSome of my favorite courses to teach are ECE401: Electroacoustic Engineering, ECE415: System Modeling and Identification. and ECE330: Signals and Systems. More recently, I've been spending an awful lot of time on the communications courses like ECE436: Telecommunications Systems. Rick Johnson and I have written a book called Telecommunication Breakdown which is all about the operation of (software) radio. In case you can't read it in the image, the subtitle is: Concepts of Communication Transmitted via Software-Defined Radio. If you really want to know what my students think of me, then click here, but I wouldn't recommend it. If you are wondering what it's like to do an undergraduate thesis at UW, you might want to meet Xiang's Environmentlly Friendly Robot. Or perhaps you may find this Ode to an ECE Prof interesting. |
MusicianMaking noise has always been one of my favorite pastimes, and becoming a grown-up doesn't seem to have changed things much. Being able to combine my love of sound with my official work has been very exciting. You can hear my latest efforts on the "soundtrack" to my book Tuning Timbre Spectrum Scale as well as on my CDs XENTONALITY and EXOMUSICOLOGY. I have dabbled in algorithmic music composition, and am particularly interested in alternate tunings. So many tunings, so little time! Or, join us Beyond the Spectrum for a peek at Berg's Angel Concerto. And here are a few of my favorite audio processing algorithms such as a Phase Vocoder and a Channel Vocoder, both in Matlab... |
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Next week I'll be attending
the National Genealogical Society's 2014 Family History Conference in Richmond,
Virginia. I'm particularly looking forward to hearing some of the presentations
on Virginia records. I know I have several Virginia ancestors and suspect I may
have even more, so I'm also excited about working in some research time at the
Library of Virginia while I'm there.
One person I want to
investigate is Catharine Fox, wife of Jacob Roush. Jacob served in the Dunmore
County Militia under Captain Jacob Holman during the Revolutionary War.[1]
(The name of the county changed to Shenandoah in 1778, after the patriotic
colonists tired of the British Lord Dunmore.) Although I've found a number of
records for Jacob, I know much less about his wife Catharine, who is my
6th-great-grandmother. According to DAR records, she was born in 1758 in Berks
County, Pennsylvania.[2] I haven't
been able to find a birth or baptism record to verify that information yet, but
it's a clue, at least. Her parents are unknown.
Fortunately, I have found some records
naming Catharine:
- The marriage bonds of Shenandoah County, Virginia, show that Jacob Rausch secured a bond to marry Catharine Fuchsin on 21 February 1775.[3] The record, which I've only seen in abstracted form, uses the German spellings of both surnames. (Fuchs is the German word for Fox, and the –in suffix at the end of the name indicates the person is female.) In the absence of a surviving marriage return, I'm following the DAR's lead in using this as the date of their marriage.
- The births and baptisms of Jacob and Catharine's first seven children were recorded in the registry of Old Pine Church in Mill Creek, Virginia. The registry is written in German, but has been transcribed by Klaus Wust.[4] The original book is at the Library of Virginia, and I would love to see it, if it's not too fragile to handle. The family's record appears on page 7. One entry in particular intrigues me. The only sponsor for the baptism of Jacob and Catharine's first child, Rosina, born 20 January 1877, was a woman named Catharina Fuchs. Who was this Catharina? Could she have been the mother, aunt, or cousin of the Catharine Fuchsin who married Jacob Rausch? (Note: Catharine's name is also spelled Catharina in German records, including the baptism registry.) I think there's a strong probability of a relationship between the two women of the same name, but I don't know its exact nature.
- The Old Pine Church registry also contains an entry for the baptism of Johannes Fuchs, son of Adam Fuchs and his wife Elisabeth, born 19 February 1784.[5] Could this Adam Fuchs be the brother of Catharine (Fuchs) Roush? The surname is uncommon enough to make me suspect so, but as yet I have no proof.
- The final clue I've found to Catharine's birth family comes from the last known record that she and Jacob created in Shenandoah County. After both of Jacob's parents died, they moved west and bought land in what is now Mason County, West Virginia, and Gallia County, Ohio. They sold their remaining Shenandoah County land on 9 September 1799 to Peter Fox. Catharine made a mark (X) instead of signing her name.[6] Who was Peter Fox, and might he also have been Catharine's brother?
Catharine (Fox) Roush is buried in Roush Cemetery in Cheshire,
Gallia County, Ohio. Her date of death is a mystery. I think she may have died
relatively early in their residence there, because she did not sign the
customary dower release when Jacob sold land in October 1809, or any time
thereafter. Jacob wrote a detailed will in January 1827, and Catharine is not
mentioned in it.
So where does this leave me? Well, first I need to develop a
research focus for Catharine. I'm considering this: "How was Catharine Fox, who married Jacob Roush in February 1775,
associated with fellow Shenandoah County residents Catharina Fuchs/Fox, Adam
Fuchs/Fox, and Peter Fox?" Then I want to take a good look at the Library of
Virginia's online catalog and determine which resources I want to see next
week. And I'd better get cracking—it's coming up fast!
© 2014, Shelley Bishop
Ancestors in 52 Weeks" is coordinated by Amy Johnson Crow, CG, author of No
Story Too Small.
[1] Gaius M.
Brumbaugh, Revolutionary War Records
Virginia (1936; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing,
1995), p. 607-609.
[2] Daughters of
the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, "Ancestor Search"
database (http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search/?Tab_ID=1
: accessed 28 April 2014), Jacob Roush of Virginia, Ancestor #A098978.
[3] John Vogt
and T. William Kethley, Shenandoah County
Marriage Bonds, 1772-1850 (Athens, Georgia: Iberian Press, 1983), p. 243.
[4] Klaus Wust, Old Pine Church Baptisms, 1783-1828, Mill
Creek, Virginia (Edinburg, Virginia: Shenandoah History, 1987), p. 19-20.
[5] Ibid., p. 20.
[6] Amelia C.
Gilreath, Shenandoah County, Virginia
Deed Book Series, Volume 4: Combination Minute Book, 1774-1780, and Deed Books
M and N, 1799-1804 (Nokesville, Virginia: privately published, 1989), p.
57; citing Shenandoah County Deed Book M: 47, Jacob Roush to Peter Fox (1799).
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I guess we should be used to it: Canadian Tire is still downplaying its Canadianness in Quebec.
I wrote about this a year ago when someone spotted that the chain was running different flyers inside and outside this province, with the ones inside the province being noticeably less patriotic. At the time, the company said it wasn't hiding its Canadianness in Quebec, even though the bilingual flyer outside the province had "Canada Day" on it and the one inside didn't.
This year, at least the words "Canada Day" appear on the flyer, but Canadian flags that are front and centre in flyers elsewhere in the country are missing in the one for Quebec.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
Canadian Tire isn't the only company to do things like this. I showed other companies that downplayed the holiday inside Quebec. Walmart didn't mention Canada Day in its flyers this week either inside or outside Quebec.
Loblaws, which only operates in Quebec and Ontario, also had different flyers for the two. They weren't similar like Canadian Tire's are, but it's funny how one has Canadian flags and the other doesn't:


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And through it all, the shedding of friends. So many people who don't want to talk to me anymore - too much of that crazy conspiracy talk. My favourite Jim Jarmusch movie, Dead Man, made more and more sense.
Once they realised who I was the stories of my adventures angered them. They called me a liar. Exaybachay. He who talks loud, saying nothing. They ridiculed me. My own people. And I was left to wander the earth alone. I am nobody.
Melodramatic sense but whatever. Everyone gets it I'm sure. Not forgetting the old chestnut: if you're going to steal an idea (or a name, ha ha), make sure it's a good one.
And so I barely existed. At least in the sense of interaction with anyone in the real world. With the old man so sick and mad there was no hospitality to be offered - no visitors, no friends, no sensible conversation. But it's alright, you get used to it.
Thus un-named I became a voice in the ether divorced from the real world. And I liked that. When I'd been in the real world my presence had been acceptable but my voice hadn't. And so I flipped it. Freed from the constraints of the real world I could be nothing but the voice. My name was gone, my identity, my physical appearance - all as nothing, what did it matter?
I was a non-sectarian Banquo's ghost free to take on a world of Macbeths. I could say what I wanted and be untouchable. I was a ghostly un-psychopath. With psychopaths being all about their five senses, their bellies, and their cocks and cunts (with their thoughts unspeakable apart from lies) I was the other way around - nowt but thoughts and wondering, with the physicality neither here nor there.
Well, that was the theory. The real world never goes away and there are always people and they'd ask me about my blog. I'd refuse to tell them. I figured having people know would be like crossing the streams in Ghostbusters.
"There's something very important I forgot to tell you."
"Don't cross the streams."
"It would be bad."
"I'm fuzzy on the whole 'good/bad' thing. What do you mean, 'bad'?"
"Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously, and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."
Did somebody say 'melodramatic' before? Oh, it was me. Still it would be bad. Sure enough, what with me being pissweak I didn't stick to it. I told some friends, maybe half a dozen, no biggie but I always regretted it. It meant I wasn't truly free - not if I wanted to write without fear or favour. It was a sullying of the nobody concept.
Up until now this was just a niggle at the back of my brain. It didn't really check anything I wrote and nor did any of these people blow the gaff by lobbing in and turning the house lights up. Regardless, it was a carelessness that was bound to come a cropper sooner or later.
And it did. The inevitable occurred and the streams crossed. But rather than an explosion the opposite occurred. The voice of nobody is now merely me, same as I ever was, tied to the real world and its nagging concerns. For the logic / idea / concept that was nobody this qualifies as a fundamental, existential failure. Without this separation from the world, nobody is nothing.
But it's no big deal. The thing is, nobody was nothing. It wasn't real - it was just a thought, a wisp of smoke, a thing without substance. I have nothing invested in it. Why would one invest oneself in something that was only ever a figment of one's imagination, a name pinched from a movie? A fig for the figment, ha ha. It's not me and I'm not it. Not really.
And so for me the gig is blown and I walk away. Time to start again. This is not a crash and burn - no Sargeant's Inn, me. I'll leave everything standing just as it was. I have no problem with any of it. And let no one be confused about me fleeing something I wrote - I'm doing no such thing. I stand by everything I said and to prove it I'm leaving it all here. Me, I'm proud of whatever this was, this experiment, this art installation, this place. I liked it here and I shall miss it. But we've all moved house and we all know that feeling. You get over it.
I expect that there will be people unhappy about this. I apologise to them. I never wished to make anyone unhappy - except for the Macbeths, ha ha - it just is what it is. And speaking of which, I also expect that there will be people who are exultant. Three cheers and what does it matter?
There will be a new thing but I've no idea what it will be or what I will call it. Sure enough, it will not link to here. If anyone wishes to find it I can offer you no assistance. The idea of starting again necessarily precludes it. Were I tell everyone, the slate would not be clean and the experiment would be as doomed as this one was.
So, off I go now. Thanks boys and girls, you've all been brilliant. All my love to you, and you never know, maybe I'll see you again sometime in the funny pages.
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"The road goes on forever …"
It's not always easy to sum up a career – let alone a life's ambition – so succinctly, but those five words from Robert Earl Keen's calling-card anthem just about do it. You can complete the lyric with the next five words – the ones routinely shouted back at Keen by thousands of fans a night ("and the party never ends!") – just to punctuate the point with a flourish, but it's the part about the journey that gets right to the heart of what makes Keen tick. Some people take up a life of playing music with the goal of someday reaching a destination of fame and fortune; but from the get-go, Keen just wanted to write and sing his own songs, and to keep writing and singing them for as long as possible.
"I always thought that I wanted to play music, and I always knew that you had to get some recognition in order to continue to play music," Keen says. "But I never thought of it in terms of getting to be a big star. I thought of it in terms of having a really, really good career and writing some good songs, and getting onstage and having a really good time."
Now three-decades on from the release of his debut album – with nineteen records to his name, thousands of shows under his belt and still no end in sight to the road ahead – Keen remains as committed to and inspired by his muse as ever. And as for accruing recognition, well, he's done alright on that front, too; from his humble beginnings on the Texas folk scene, he's blazed a peer, critic, and fan-lauded trail that's earned him living-legend (not to mention pioneer) status in the Americana music world. And though the Houston native has never worn his Texas heart on his sleeve, he's long been regarded as one of the Lone Star State's finest (not to mention top-drawing) true singer-songwriters. He was still a relative unknown in 1989 when his third studio album, West Textures, was released – especially on the triple bill he shared at the time touring with legends Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark – but once fellow Texas icon Joe Ely recorded both "The Road Goes on Forever" and "Whenever Kindness Fails" on his 1993 album, Love and Danger, the secret was out on Keen's credentials as a songwriter's songwriter. By the end of the decade, Keen was a veritable household name in Texas, headlining a millennial New Year's Eve celebration in Austin that drew an estimated 200,000 people. A dozen years later, he was inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame along with the late, great Van Zandt and his longtime friend from Texas A&M, Lyle Lovett.
The middle child of a geologist father and an attorney mother, Keen was weaned on classic rock (in particular, the psychedelic blues trio Cream) and his older brother's Willie Nelson records – but it was his younger sister's downtown Houston celebrity status as a "world-champion foosball player" that exposed him to the area's acoustic folk scene. By the time he started working on his English degree at Texas A&M, he was teaching himself guitar and setting his poetic musings to song. That in turn led to a college fling with a bluegrass ensemble (featuring his childhood friend Bryan Duckworth, who would continue to play fiddle with Keen well into the '90s) and front-porch picking parties with fellow Aggie Lovett at Keen's rental house – salad days captured in spirit on the Keen/Lovett co-write, "The Front Porch Song," which both artists would eventually record on their respective debut albums.
While Lovett's self-titled debut was released on major-label Curb Records, Keen took the road less traveled, self-financing and producing 1984's No Kinda Dancer and leasing it to the independent label Rounder Records, which issued it on its Philo imprint. "It was difficult, because I didn't know what I was doing … I literally opened up the phonebook and looked for studios," Keen recalls. "I basically put it all together through brute force and ignorance, but I was shocked with how well it worked out and very happy with it. We had a release party at Butch Hancock's Dixie Bar and Bustop, and Lyle and Nanci Griffith and a lot of those people who were a part of the Austin folkie scene came out."
Keen himself had already started to make quite a name for himself on that scene, thanks to four years of constant regional gigging and winning the Kerrville Folk Festival's prestigious New Folk songwriting competition in 1983. After his debut's release, he began touring more and more outside of the state lines, eventually moving to Nashville in 1986. Keen's stint in Music City, U.S.A., lasted just under two years, but he returned to Texas armed with a publishing deal, a new label (another indie, Sugar Hill), and a national booking agent. He closed the decade with 1988's The Live Album and the following year's West Textures, the album that marked the debut of "The Road Goes on Forever" and, consequently, kicked his career into high gear.
With hindsight, Keen admits he no idea at the time of writing it that his song about a couple of ill-fated lovers running afoul of the law would have the legs it did, but he readily points to the forward thinking of DJ Steve Coffman of San Antonio radio station KRIO for helping to start the fire. "He talked the station into doing sort of a free-form programing format, basically anything he liked, which turned out to be some Texas music along with a lot of cool sort of pop music," he says. "So all of a sudden, I heard my song back-to-back with the Sheryl Crow song that was popular at the time, and that was the first time that I really felt like I was a real part of the music business, despite having been in it already for a pretty long time. And right after that, I went to a show in San Antonio and there were 1,500 people there – whereas up to that point I'd been playing to, max, maybe 150. That was the real ah-hah moment for me that really got me going and kept me going, because before that I'd been doing this for eight or 10 years and had a lot of rejection but very little success."
After that, though, success came in spades. Although he continued to steer clear of the Garth Brooks-dominated waters of the country mainstream, the perfect storm of Keen's literate song craft, razor wit and killer band (more on that in a bit) stirred up a grassroots sensation in Texas not seen since the '70s heyday of maverick "outlaw country" upstarts Willie, Waylon, Kris Kristopherson and the afore mentioned Guy Clark. Armed with two more albums (1993's A Bigger Piece of Sky and '94's Gringo Honeymoon) brimming with instant classics like "Corpus Christi Bay," "Whenever Kindness Fails," "Gringo Honeymoon," "Dreadful Selfish Crime" and "Merry Christmas From the Family," he began packing dance halls, roadhouses, theaters, and festival grounds with diverse crowds of rowdy college kids, serious singer-songwriter fans and plenty of folks who, like Keen himself, had been around the Texas music scene long enough to remember Willie's earliest 4th of July Picnics. And the phenomenon was not confined to the Texas state lines. Famed producer and pedal steel ace Lloyd Maines (Joe Ely, Terry Allen) helped Keen and his band bottle lighting on 1996's No. 2 Live Dinner, a next-best-thing-to-being-there concert document that remains one of Keen's best-selling albums, and the burgeoning Americana music scene (bolstered by AAA radio stations across the country and magazines like No Depression) embraced Keen as one of its prime movers. In the wake of albums like 1997's Picnic and '98's Walking Distance (both released on major-label, Arista), one would have been hard-pressed to tell the difference between a rabid Robert Earl Keen crowd at Texas' legendary Gruene Hall and those at New York City joints like Tramps and the Bowery Ballroom. Little wonder, then, that when the songwriter-revering "Americana" style was officially recognized by the industry 1998, Keen was the genre's first artist to be featured on the cover of the radio trade magazine Gavin.
The '90s may have been a boom period for Keen, but his momentum hasn't ebbed a bit since then – nor has his pursuit of continued growth as a writer and artist. If anything, his output from the last decade has been marked by some of the most adventurous music of his career. "Wild Wind," an unforgettable highlight from Gravitational Forces, his Gurf Morlix-produced 2001 debut for the Nashville-based Americana label Lost Highway, captured the character (and characters) of a small Texas town with a cinematic eye reminiscent of The Last Picture Show; but the album's title track also found Keen wryly experimenting with spacey, beatnik jazz. For the freewheelin', freak-flag-flying Farm Fresh Onions (2003, Audium/Koch), Keen and producer Rich Brotherton (his longtime guitarist) took the band into the proverbial garage to knock out their most rocking set of songs to date – most notably the psychedelic rave-up of the title track. Brotherton also produced the more rootsy but equally playful "What I Really Mean" (2005, E1 Music),but Lloyd Maines was back at the helm for 2009's eclectic The Rose Hotel and 2011's spirited Ready for Confetti (both released by Lost Highway). The later was especially well received by fans and critics alike, with AllMusic's Thom Jurek raving, "Ready for Confetti is, without question, Keen's most inspired and focused project in nearly 20 years." Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions, released in 2015, was a straight -ahead "love postcard to bluegrass". This was something Keen had wanted to do for a long time and it was now or never. Keen ranked Billboard's No. 2, 2015 Bluegrass Artist of the year. Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions, charted as 2015's Top 5 album at Americana Radio and Billboard's 2015 No. 2 album on the Bluegrass Albums chart.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the milestone album No. 2 Live Dinner, Keen returned to the legendary John T. Floore's Country Store in the Texas Hill Country town of Helotes in the fall of 2015 where he recorded his latest project, Live Dinner Reunion, and upped the ante by inviting Joe Ely, Bruce Robison, Cory Morrow, Lyle Lovett and a few other friends and fellow Americana and Texas Music stars to sing along. Some 5,000 fans added their voices to the historic occasion.
The result, the rousing double-disc celebration Live Dinner Reunion, released in late 2016 on Dualtone Records, an Entertainment One company. The repartee of Keen and the other artists, the crowd's response, the songs, and inspired musicianship combine to magically create the album's you-are-there experience. It's these many special musical moments that propel Live Dinner Reunion into the stratosphere of live albums.
This brings Keen's career to now. In honor of the 25th anniversary of Robert Earl Keen's iconic album, A Bigger Piece of Sky, Keen and Dualtone re-issued it on vinyl forthe first time. Robert Earl Keen's legendary album, A Bigger Piece of Sky, was re-released on November 16, 2019 on sky-blue vinyl."A Bigger Piece of Sky was the most thrilling, hair-pulling, penny-pinching, cliff-hanging, scariest record I've ever made," says Keen. "I love every song on BPS."
A breakthrough album for Keen, A Bigger Piece of Sky and its songs, such as "Amarillo Highway," "Whenever Kindness Fails," and "Corpus Christi Bay" are mainstays of his live set. The album was recorded in Nashville, TN, produced by Garry Velletri, and mixed by Velletri and Jeff Coppage. The project features an amazing lineup consisting of Garry Tallent (E Street Band) on upright and electric bass, Marty Stuart on mandolin, Dave Durocher on percussion, Jay Spell on accordion, Jonathan Yudkin on violin, and Maura O'Connell on vocals. It also features guest musicians George Marinelli (Bonnie Raitt) on harmony vocal and electric guitar, Tommy Spurlock on guitar, Michael Snow on tenor banjo, Bryan Duckworth on violin, Dave Heath on upright bass, and Jennifer Prince on harmony vocals.
In the midst of the vinyl re-issue, Keen is as busy as ever touring. Though Keen has played sold-out theater dates with icons such as Willie Nelson, the lion's share of his concert schedule still finds him playing full-tilt with his seasoned road and studio band: Bill Whitbeck on bass, Tom Van Schaik on drums, and Marty Muse on steel guitar, Kym Warner on mandolin and electric guitar and Brian Beken on fiddle, acoustic and electric guitar. "Some of my band members have been with me more than 20 years now," Keen says proudly. "I used to think that was just sort of an interesting fact, but now it's almost a total anomaly – that just doesn't happen much. I always felt like once you lock into the right bunch of people, you try to do the best by them that you can. So, we've been able to stay together a long time, and I think one thing that makes it worthwhile for people to come see us as an act." Keen's act and stage presence more than attest to his career's longevity and its subsequent opportunities.
REK has had the honor of performing with fellow superstars George Strait, Miranda Lambert, Chris Stapleton and Lyle Lovett on the Hand in Hand benefit telethon which raised more than $55 million for hurricane relief efforts in Texas. Keen was featured on a benefit concert hosted by the five former presidents of the United States in 2017. Keen has been involved in many benefits and charity events for communities in his home state of Texas with his main focus being The Hill Country Youth Orchestras in Kerrville. Add that to his legendary status in the lone star state, and it is no wonder REK was inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012.
REK's philanthropic and charity work, along with his legendary music career lead him to be presented with the Distinguished Alumni award from Texas A&M University in the fall of 2018. Awarded jointly by the university and The Association of Former Students, thishonor recognizes those Aggies who have achieved excellence in their chosen professions and made meaningful contributions to Texas A&M University and their local communities.
Following the Texas A&M honor, The Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame inducted Robert Earl Keen into their 2019 class. This is the highest honor bestowed on individuals who have shown excellence in competition, business and support of rodeo and the western lifestyle in Texas. The Hall of Fame honored Keen for his prolific music career and charitable acts, presenting him with The Rick Smith "Spirit of Texas Award," celebrating the achievements and uniqueness of Texans. Keen joins a prestigious list of other Hall of Fame members which includes Willie Nelson, George Strait, Lyle Lovett, Tommy Lee Jones, Red Steagall, Tuff Hedeman, Pat Green, The Gatlin Brothers, and Clay Walker.
The recognition of his legendary career doesn't stop there. In March 2015, Robert Earl Keen was distinguished as the first recipient of BMI's official Troubadour Award. The Troubadour Award celebrates songwriters who have made a lasting impact on the songwriting community. The award honors writers who craft for the sake of the song and set the pace for generations of songwriters who will follow. To protect songwriters, Keen was a member of the delegation that lobbied US Congress to support musicians' rights, specifically the "Fair Pay for Fair Play Act" which was promoted to the Music Modernization Act that passed in October of 2018. Keen's career proves him to be a true trailblazer.
Troubadour Robert Earl Keen has made many meaningful contributions in both his surrounding Texas communities and in the music industry nationwide. As more projects and opportunities come down the pike, and as Keen continues to tour extensively with his band, one thing remains the same: Robert Earl Keen loves what he does.
"It's just like, man, I'm lucky to still be hanging out here and doing this," he says. "I feel like everything came full circle in a wonderful way."


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- Wash your hands after applying Diclofenac Gel, unless you are treating the skin on your hands. Do not wear gloves for at least 10 minutes after applying Diclofenac Gel to the hands.
- After you apply Diclofenac Gel gel, wait at least 10 minutes before dressing and at least 1 hour before you bathe or shower.
- To treat arthritis pain in the foot, spread the Diclofenac gel out onto all areas of the foot including the toes and soles. When treating the hand, spread the gel out onto all areas of the hand including the fingers and palms.
- If you miss a dose of Diclofenac Gel, use it as soon as possible. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not use 2 doses at once.
Ask your health care provider any questions you may have about how to use Diclofenac Gel.
Store Diclofenac Gel at controlled room temperature, between 68 and 77 degrees F (20 and 25 degrees C). Store away from heat, moisture, and light. Do not store in the bathroom. Avoid freezing. Keep Diclofenac Gel out of the reach of children and away from pets.
Do NOT use Diclofenac Gel if:
- you are allergic to any ingredient in Diclofenac Gel, including benzyl alcohol, polyethylene glycol, or hyaluronate sodium.
Some medical conditions may interact with Diclofenac Gel. Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you have any medical conditions, especially if any of the following apply to you:
- if you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding
- if you are taking any prescription or nonprescription medicine, herbal preparation, or dietary supplement
- if you have allergies to medicines, foods, or other substances
- if you have had a severe allergic reaction (eg, a severe rash, hives, difficulty breathing, dizziness) to aspirin or an NSAID (eg, celecoxib, ibuprofen, naproxen) in the past
- if you have growths in the nose (nasal polyps), severe kidney or liver problems, porphyria, asthma, or stomach or intestinal ulcers or bleeding.
Some medicines may interact with Diclofenac Gel. Tell your health care provider if you are taking any other medicines, especially any of the following:
- Aspirin or NSAIDs (eg, ibuprofen) because the risk of their side effects may be increased by Diclofenac Gel.
This may not be a complete list of all interactions that may occur. Ask your health care provider if Diclofenac Gel may interact with other medicines that you take. Check with your health care provider before you start, stop, or change the dose of any medicine.
Important safety information:
- Diclofenac Gel is for external use only. Avoid contact with the eyes. If you get Diclofenac Gel in your eyes, rinse thoroughly with cool tap water.
- Diclofenac Gel has diclofenac in it. Before you start any new medicine, check the label to see if it has diclofenac in it too. If it does or if you are not sure, check with your doctor or pharmacist.
- Diclofenac Gel may cause you to become sunburned more easily. Avoid the sun, sunlamps, or tanning booths until you know how you react to Diclofenac Gel. Use a sunscreen or wear protective clothing if you must be outside for more than a short time.
- Improvement usually occurs within 30 days after you stop using Diclofenac Gel. If no improvement is seen, contact your doctor.
- Do not use other skin products (eg, cosmetics, lotions, sunscreens) on the treated area without checking with your doctor.
- Diclofenac Gel should not be used in children; safety and effectiveness in children have not been confirmed.
- Pregnancy and breast-feeding: If you become pregnant, contact your doctor. You will need to discuss the benefits and risks of using Diclofenac Gel while you are pregnant. Diclofenac Gel is not recommended during the last 3 months (third trimester) of pregnancy because of the potential for fetal harm. It is not known if Diclofenac Gel is found in breast milk. Do not breastfeed while taking Diclofenac Gel.
All medicines may cause side effects, but many people have no, or minor, side effects.
Check with your doctor if any of these most common side effects persist or become bothersome:
Abnormal skin sensations; back pain; dry skin; peeling, scaling, or flaking.
Seek medical attention right away if any of these severe side effects occur:
Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue); chest pain; eye redness or swelling (conjunctivitis); fever, chills, or persistent sore throat; inflammation or severe irritation of the skin; muscle pain; open sores on the skin (ulcers).
This is not a complete list of all side effects that may occur. If you have questions about side effects, contact your health care provider.


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Assessing Your Provider's Financial Stability
There's nothing worse than hiring a logistics provider or carrier, then having it file for bankruptcy or close shop the day before you have a huge shipment planned for a new customer. Danny Monson, president and CFO of States Logistics Services Inc., offers these tips for verifying a service provider is financially stable—before you start a relationship.
1. Research the company's credit history. The simplest way to assess a potential partner is getting its Dun & Bradstreet number, then running a credit report. This could help you better understand the provider's payment history with other vendors, and gives you an opportunity to mention any details that concern you. Credit reports are not always black-and-white, but they do give you insight into the company and enable you to ask relevant questions.
2. Call references. Don't just ask for references—take the time to actually speak to someone. It's not enough to just send an information sheet. You'll get more details from a personal phone call.
3. Request and review a financial statement. Many companies are privately held and do not generally release financial information, or do not have a statement prepared by their accountant. Depending on your situation, this may not be a big deal—for example, if it's a small vendor, and you're moving low volumes, the risk may be low. But if the vendor is more strategic to your business, you should press further to get this information.
4. Verify bank information. Get the provider's bank information, and find out how long it has had the account. Using several banks and switching frequently is not a good sign.
5. Find out if the provider has a revolving line of credit. If the provider's bank has extended a line of credit, that could affirm its credit worthiness. If the company does have a revolving line of credit, find out how often it is used. Is the provider carrying a sizeable debt, or does it use the credit line occasionally for cash flow purposes? Is the provider's business supporting its cash flow needs, or is the company increasing its debt—and maybe having some financial issues?
6. Assess how leveraged the company is. If the provider has a number of liens or UCC filings, they will appear on a credit report. This information can help you determine the company's secured creditors, and provide further insight into any "off balance sheet" transactions the vendor may have entered into.
7. Inquire about the provider's federal tax ID number. Determine how long the company has had the number. A short time in business, or switching its corporate make-up frequently, are red flags. If you still want to pursue the partnership, you definitely need references.
8. Review the company's insurance coverage. Low coverage or lack of coverage (no umbrella or employee theft coverage, for example) could indicate a financial concern.
9. Assess the impact your business volume will have on the vendor. Thoroughly review the provider's current business. Will your volume help grow the company—or stretch it too far?
10. Understand the provider's business growth plan. Partner with a company that continues to invest in its business—for example, developing new products and services.


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- Written by Keith Moore
We will bring new opportunity to the heartland, new prosperity to our inner cities, and new infrastructure all across our nation. When it comes to the future of America's energy needs, we will find it, we will dream it, and we will build it.President Donald J. Trump
On Thursday, President Donald J. Trump joined Energy Industry Executives, members of Congress, and Cabinet Officials at the Department of Energy to deliver remarks on unleashing America's boundless capacity for energy production.
"We're here today to usher in a new American energy policy," he declared.
The President explained that he is not only focusing on "energy independence," but also "energy dominance."
With that goal in mind, he outlined six concrete steps his Administration is immediately taking to promote strength and innovation in America's energy sector.
"First, we will begin to revive and expand our nuclear energy sector, which produces clean, renewable and emissions-free energy. A complete review of U.S. nuclear energy policy will help us find new ways to revitalize this crucial energy resource.
Second, the Department of the Treasury will address barriers to the financing of highly efficient overseas coal energy plants. Ukraine already tells us they need millions of metric tons right now – and we want to sell it to them, and to everyone else who needs it.
Third, my administration has just approved the construction of a new petroleum pipeline to Mexico, which will further boost American Energy Exports.
Fourth, just today, a major U.S. company, Sempra Energy, signed an agreement to begin negotiations for the sale of more American natural gas to South Korea.
Fifth, the U.S. Department of Energy is announcing today that it will approve two long-term applications to export additional natural gas from the Lake Charles LNG terminal in Louisiana.
Finally, in order to unlock more energy from the 94 percent of offshore land closed to development under the previous administration, we are creating a new offshore Oil and Gas Leasing program. America will be allowed to access the vast energy wealth located right off our shores."
These steps will benefit the American people in numerous ways, the President explained.
Our country will no longer be vulnerable to foreign regimes that use energy as an economic weapon; American families will have access to cheaper energy, allowing them to keep more of their hard-earned dollars; and our workers will have access to more jobs and opportunities.
"And this is only the beginning," the President said. The Golden Era of American Energy is now underway – and all of you will be a part of creating this exciting new future."


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One Mistake Won't Ruin Your Life. Remember That.
LatestOne mistake will ruin your life. For generations, adolescent girls have heard that message over and over from mothers, fathers, grandparents, teachers, pastors, rabbis, and busybodies galore. Whether the warnings are about getting their hearts broken, losing their oh-so-precious virginity, or –- worst of all –- getting pregnant, the admonitions are urgent, repetitive, and (even when they're ignored) effective at instilling anxiety and self-doubt. Girls born as recently as the 21st century are taught that adolescence and young adulthood consists of a series of pitfalls to be avoided, and that one false step could mean a lifetime of heartbreak and regret.
This "do one wrong thing and you'll pay for it forever" narrative isn't just tied to perennial parental fears about high school pregnancy. Regrettably, it's become one of the primary lessons of the Amanda Todd tragedy. Less than three weeks after the Canadian teen killed herself, her story has been hijacked to serve as a brutal object lesson about the lethality of a single lapse. In the Examiner, Angela Gaines writes "I'm sure she never fathomed what could happen to her as a result of that unforgettable few seconds of her life, but now we all know… This story is one sad example of how a life was blown to bits because of one regrettable indiscretion."
Gaines' piece is itself "one sad example" of the way in which Todd's suicide has been appropriated in the service of victim-blaming slut-shaming repackaged as concern for vulnerable teens. It's hardly the only one; a story this week on Emoderation carries the URL "Young People's Lives Ruined by Sexting Images." The report itself isn't alarmist, simply warning of the very real likelihood (88%) that a naked image sent privately will end up in the public domain sooner or later. Research shows boys and girls sext in nearly equal numbers. The problem isn't gendered. But the hand-wringing rhetoric about "a life blown to bits" is directed almost exclusively at girls.
It's easy for girls to internalize this message. In her powerful story about being bullied into making nude webcam videos when she was 15, "Anonymous" writes of the pain of her parents' disappointment. Despite her interest in theater, she decided that "a career as a musician or actress were completely out of the question. A job in the public eye could be ruined over a mistake I made at a young age." No doubt Anonymous believes what she wrote. Yet given the great and growing number of celebrated actresses with nude pics or sex tapes in their pasts or presents, her fear seems grounded less in objective truth and more in culturally-reinforced anxiety about what "one mistake" can do.
The heartbreaking tragedy of Amanda Todd fits all too well into the larger cultural narrative that demands perfection from girls. Her "error" serves as a very public stand-in for all the other possible mistakes young women can make that will, we tell them, mess up their lives. The perfectionism that drives young female athletes to ignore warning signs of injury much more consistently than their male counterparts (a growing phenomenon documented in Michael Sokolove's Warrior Girls) reflects a belief that admitting fragility or exhaustion is a mistake that can both ruin a soccer career and reflect badly on their future chances of success. The "Supergirl crisis" is far from over-hyped, made worse by a culture where male underachievement just exacerbates the pressure ambitious and anxious girls already feel. The end result is a cruel double-bind: "you can be anything you want to be," we tell our daughters, "but you're so fragile that a single mistake can wipe out everything you've worked for." That's a recipe for exhaustion.
The reality is that girls are more resilient than we think. That doesn't mean that hurt isn't real, but that their capacity to overcome shame, heartbreak, and a C on their chemistry quiz is much greater than we permit them to believe. We're scared to teach our daughters that they can slough off humiliation, largely because we fear that letting go of the "one mistake can ruin your life" narrative will be misinterpreted as a hall pass to recklessness. The erroneous belief that fear is the best tool to keep girls "safe" and "on track" is what drives this pernicious myth of female frailty.
Acknowledging girls' capacity to thrive after a "mistake" doesn't mean that we shouldn't acknowledge their very real pain. Teaching resilience doesn't mean foisting an unhelpful "big girls don't cry" message on vulnerable adolescents. It means focusing on giving them what we've given their brothers for decades: the chance to see failure –- and even humiliation -– as an opportunity rather than as a life-destroying disaster.
In his famous 2005 Stanford commencement address, Steve Jobs spoke about the hidden blessings of his very "public failure." After his firing from Apple, Jobs said he felt "like running away… I had let the previous generation down." But, he pointed out, his humiliation turned out to be the seed of his liberation: "the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. (What had seemed like a mistake) freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."
Yes, there's a difference between an adult dealing with the fall-out of getting fired by a computer company and a 12 year-old coping with the aftermath of having flashed her boobs on a webcam. At the same time, Jobs' address didn't go viral because it was only relevant to male software engineers and entrepreneurs. It went viral because it was a universal human reminder about resilience and the capacity to overcome obstacles. It was a more eloquent version of the same speech we usually give to boys, when we urge them to shake off setbacks as learning experiences and "try, try again." Teen girls hear that message much less often, and when they do, it's likely with the implicit reminder that 2nd, 3rd, and 97th chances are mostly for men.
Obviously, Amanda Todd needed and deserved a lot more than a pep talk about getting through the hard times. Ending the "one mistake will ruin your life" narrative must also be accompanied by a war on the cyber creeps who prey on young girls. We also need a (long-overdue) campaign against a slut-shaming culture that pushes girls to walk the impossibly thin line between being sexy and being skanky. While there's absolutely no need to encourage girls to send nude pics far and wide, it would also be helpful to press home the message that a young woman's worth has nothing to do with how few –- or how many — people have seen her naked.
The freedom to fail is an indispensable prerequisite for success. We know it because it's part of an old American narrative about endless possibility. Today, women can be successful athletically, academically, and professionally in ways that earlier generations couldn't have imagined. But we've made the mistake of expanding young women's opportunities to succeed much more rapidly than we've expanded their right to fuck up along the way. The result is a culture that sees the Amanda Todd story not merely as a terrible story about misogyny, bullying, and slut-shaming –- but about the fatal consequences of a single wrong impulse.
Someday in the not-too-distant future, a powerful woman –- a Jobs-like figure -– will come forward and produce a pixelated image of her own naked teen body. She'll share what it was like to send that picture out, and what it was like when it was spread all over school. And she'll talk about how as painful as it was, it didn't ruin her life.
That day can't come soon enough.
Jezebel columnist Hugo Schwyzer teaches history and gender studies at Pasadena City College and is a nationally-known speaker on sex, masculinity, body image and beauty culture. He also blogs at his eponymous site. Follow him on Twitter: @hugoschwyzer.
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Editor's note: This is a guest post by Jesse Rodgers. Follow Jesse on Twitter Follow @jrodgers. This post was originally published on November 21, 2012 on WhoYouCallingAJesse.com.
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The Startup Genome released another report mapping top startup cities but this time a bit more specific than it's heat map from April of this year. Canada did well depending on how you interpret it with Toronto at #8, Vancouver at #9, and Waterloo at #16. In its previous report, Startup Genome ranked Toronto at #4, Vancouver at #16, and Montreal made the list at #25. Oddly Waterloo wasn't listed in the previous ranking but made it into the top 20 in the new report while Montreal remained outside of it.
Focusing on my Ontario centric nitpick – the separation of the Toronto and Waterloo "ecosystems" when they are anything but separate is not going to give an accurate picture of Canada's awesome startup communities. They are unique communities but their strength comes from how they work together in the same ecosystem. The emotional energy (and money) burned in defining how they are different is holding Canada back from an even better and sustainable growth curve. That energy is in the report.
In the report:
"Toronto competes for startups with regional competitors such as NYC, Boston and nearby Waterloo."
Then in the Waterloo profile:
"In the near future, it will be interesting to see whether Waterloo is able to hold on to its talent base or whether it will be sucked into Toronto."
Would you say that about Palto Alto sucking talent to San Francisco and vice versa? No. It's the valley. A huge area that is far more developed but very similar to the Toronto – Hamilton – Waterloo. The problem, I think, is that at some point in the past when local economic development groups were competing on a similar scale for tax dollars (and manufacturing plants) they narrowly defined regions (Golden Triangle, Golden Horseshoe, etc) where everything above the escarpment is barbarians and the urban modern folk live below next to the cold blue lake.
There can be (and there are) distinct communities inside the larger Toronto – Hamilton – Waterloo ecosystem. Each community has its strength. Each success in the larger ecosystem helps the entire ecosystem.
The big problem the ecosystem faces (in Toronto):
Startups in Toronto receive 71% less funding than SV startups. The capital deficiency exists both before and after product market fit. Toronto startups receive 70% less capital in Stage 2 (Validation) and 65% in Stage 4 (Scale).
The ecosystem most likely lacks a sufficient quantity of all kinds of startup capital sources: angels, super angels, accelerators, micro VCs, VCs etc. As a result Toronto startups rely more on self-funding, or rounds from family/friends.
The other big problem (in Waterloo):
Waterloo has a funding gap (96% less in the second stage) for early stage startups before product market fit, probably due to a lack of super angels and micro VCs. There are high numbers of accelerators and much lower numbers of super angels and VCs than SV.
Solving the funding problem in Toronto also solves the problem in Waterloo, more companies that able to find the money and the talent to scale in either or both communities helps both or am I missing something?
Building a strong economy, community, and ecosystem isn't a zero sum game.


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The Bad Economics of ... Pretty Much ALL Advocacy Groups Looking For Government Handouts
John Hinderaker at Powerline writes about the House committee hearing on reparations the other day. Just as a review, there is a proposal on the table by many Democrats that a large group of Americans who have never owned slaves or even condoned slavery pay reparations for slavery to a large group of Americans who have never been slaves (nor likely have their parents or their grand parents).
Forgetting the moral bankruptcy of the underlying arguments for reparations, I would have thought that if modern American blacks were somehow owed reparations for past damages, the very fact of being held in bondage was damage enough. That crime is so bad it's hard to imagine anything else really adding more than incrementally to the damage calculation. But apparently Ta-Nehisi Coates tetified, using a recent academic paper, that cotton grown and harvested by black labor amounted to nearly half the US economic activity at the time, and thus was somehow worse. I am not really sure I understand this argument, but if we focus narrowly on the statement at hand it is obviously absurd, if for no other reason than the fact that the South was economically overwhelmed in the war by the North.
Apparently the "trick" in the study was to essentially double count economic activity and claim any activity that only marginally touched on cotton to be part of the tally for the size of the cotton economy.
Coates's numbers come from Cornell University historian Ed Baptist's 2014 book The Half Has Never Been Told. In a key passage in the book, Baptist purports to add up the total value of economic activity that derived from cotton production, which at $77 million made up about 5 percent of the estimated gross domestic product (GDP) of the United States in 1836. Baptist then committed a fundamental accounting error. He proceeded to double and even triple count intermediate transactions involved in cotton production — things like land purchases for plantations, tools used for cotton production, transportation, insurance, and credit instruments used in each. Eventually that $77 million became $600 million in Baptist's accounting, or almost half of the entire antebellum economy of the United States.
My point is not to quibble with Coates's numbers per se -- as I said up top, a) I don't think reparations are owed for our great great grandparents actions b) I think the economic contribution of cotton is a rounding error on any damages that would be owed and c) I feel like the United States government and its people already paid this bill in blood and treasure during the Civil War.
The point I want to make is that this same error is made ALL THE TIME. Every study you see quoted about economic impacts of .. whatever ... likely makes this same mistake, either accidentally or on purpose. When sports teams try to get tax subsidies so their billionaire owners can build new stadiums, the economic impact "studies" they produce do this same triple counting. When the sugar industry tries to justify the absurd tariffs that protect it, their studies use this same trick. When climate alarmists cite economic impacts of a degree of warming, they use this technique.
By the way, I have made my own proposal on slavery reparations that targets the cost of reparations at the wealthy institution in the antebellum south, an institution that still exists today, which did the most to extend and preserve and defend slavery.


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Golden Lava Baked Cheese Tarts (with salted egg yolk!) 10
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Golden Lava Baked Cheese Tarts (with salted egg yolk!)
Impress your friends and family this Chinese New Year with these golden lava baked cheese tarts! With a surprise salted egg yolk filling, the golden lava cheese tarts are a cross between the famous cheese tarts from Hokkaido and the popular Chinese "liu sha bao". Come join us for a fun hands-on class and bring home 10 tarts to share with everyone!
About the course
By attending this course, you will learn:
- How to make a shortbread tart dough by hand
- How to prepare a golden lava ("liu sha") custard filling made with salted egg
- How to make a baked cheese custard filling
- How to assemble and bake the tarts
- Tips on achieving gooey baked cheese layer and "liu sha" consistency
- Duration: 3 Hours
- Type: Full Hands-on
- Recommended age: 16 Years Old and Above
- Equipment, ingredients and packaging will all be provided
*Preparation of the dough and assembly of the tarts will be done individually.
*Baked cheese custard and golden lava fillings will be prepared in pairs.
*Each student brings home 10 Golden Lava Baked Cheese Tarts
Please read our Terms and Conditions before you proceed to register for the class.
- Duration of class might be extended instead of the stipulated timings.
- Cleaning/Washing will be part of the baking experience.
- Fees for scheduled classes must be paid fully in advance to secure your booking. Your booking is only confirmed once full payment has been received.
- Once your booking is confirmed, no refunds or transfers to another class will be given.
- Payment will be fully forfeited regardless of the unforeseen circumstances. We recommend that you arrange for someone to attend in your place. Please inform us of the person who will be attending in your place.
- In the event that the minimum number of participants is not met, the class will be cancelled. We will inform you via email. You can choose to either get a refund of the class fee or attend another class of the same value.


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Adventures of Tintin
In the realm of classic comic book heroes, there is Spiderman, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Hulk, the Green Lantern …and Tintin the baby-faced boy reporter. A comic strip introduced in 1929 by Belgian cartoonist Herge (Georges Prosper Remi), "The Adventures of Tintin" relates tales of a Belgian teenager with a round head and a dorky quiff hairstyle who is dispatched by a youth newspaper called Le Petit Vingtieme (the Little Twentieth) to file investigative reports from hot spots around the world. Unassuming and good-natured, Tintin gamely goes wherever he is assigned, taking his little fox terrier, Snowy, with him. His travels often put him in the midst of political upheaval in the land of the Soviets, the Belgian Congo, China, Chicago, Latin America and elsewhere, and in trying to get to the bottom of a mystery, he is forced to deal with ruthless special agents, diamond smugglers, Al Capone gangsters and other villains who want to run him over, shoot him, torture him, kidnap him and feed him to crocodiles.Tintin and Snowy deal with each encounter without fear and get themselves out of each jam through quick-thinking action and sometimes through sheer dumb luck. What has kept Tintin so beloved over the decades is that he isn't presented as an egotistical super human like Spiderman and Wonder Woman, but as an average young man who doesn't seek out danger but doesn't run from it either. In Brussels, Tintin and Snowy are honored with a life-size bronze statue, and they are even commemorated on a euro coin, which is legal tender in Belgium. An unlikely action hero, Tintin is probably the most admired fictional Belgian in recent history.


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Little Nightmares – Privateer Press
Posted on June 18, 2009 by Billzilla
It's difficult to imagine the miniatures world without in it, yet this company has been in existence for less than seven years. With their breakout hit Monsterpocalypse and their solid Warmachine and Hordes skirmish-level combat lines, Privateer Press is well-situated to be a force in the industry for years to come.
The Warmachine and Hordes product lines mesh well with dark fantasy, as they have a number of factions tailor-made for people of such inclinations. A perfect example is the Gorax, a light warbeast from the Circle Orboros faction in Hordes. The Gorax, looking very troll-like – or even like an Oni from Oriental mythology – strains at the chain that holds him to a large boulder. The pose is interesting and well-executed, and the figure's rippling musculature and tufts of scraggly hair combine to give this model a ton of character. At a $17 MSRP, this model is a smidge pricey, but a first-class sculpt never the less.