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Car Review: 2013 Infiniti QX56 4WD
Among the full-size SUV crowd, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better looking entry than the 2013 Infiniti QX56 4WD with its top to bottom inspired design. After spending a week driving the QX56, you'll realize just how much luxury can be squeezed into a condo on wheels.
The exterior of the 2013 Infiniti QX56 4WD is simply stunning, as the folks at Infiniti have put together the complete package with this high-end machine. The Infiniti QX is designed to attract and hold viewers' attention, conveying its underlying sense of power and strength. The bold, front chrome grille is flanked by automatic on/off bi-functional xenon headlights with windshield wiper interlock and integrated front fog lights. Adaptive Front lighting System (AFS) with auto-leveling headlights and headlight washers add to the list of options.
Other exterior features include LED taillights, heated and power-folding sideview mirrors with integrated turn signals, courtesy lights and reverse tilt-down feature, body color running boards, body color integrated front and rear splashguards built into the wheel arches, roof rails, a power-sliding tinted glass moonroof and a power rear liftgate. A front underbody spoiler, functional rear liftgate spoiler and redesigned side mirrors help provide aerodynamics of 0.36 Cd and zero lift. The QX's strong presence is accented by the powerful wheel and tire combinations, including 22-inch, 9-spoke forged aluminum-alloy wheels with 275/50R22 all-season tires that demand respect.
I have friends who spent big bucks on designing their homes or condos that can't touch the luxurious feel of the 2013 Infiniti QX56 4WD! The QX's world-class inner sanctum offers a comfortable space and personal controls for every occupant. It features standard 7-passenger seating capacity, with 8-passenger capacity available with the second row 60/40-split folding bench seat. Leather-appointed seating is standard for all three rows. Even more luxurious semi-aniline leather seating surfaces in our Deluxe Touring Package with new third row perforation and stitching added for 2013 to match the front two rows. The driver's seat is 10-way power adjustable, including 2-way power lumbar support. It features a standard dual occupant memory system for the driver's seat, steering wheel and outside mirrors. The front passenger's seat is 8-way power adjustable, including 2-way power lumbar support. Heated front seats are standard, with climate-controlled (heating and cooling functions) front seats and heated second row seats, and the second row captain's chairs offer a tip-up function for easy third row entry/exit. Also standard is a heated, leather-wrapped steering wheel which drivers will truly appreciate in colder months, and a 16.6 cubic foot cargo space for luggage is provided with the third row seat up. When the third row seat is folded, the flat load floor offers a wide versatile space for carrying cargo and recreational gear.
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The year is 878 AD, the embattled English king Alfred the Great
has mounted a heroic defence at the battle of Edington, and blunted
the Viking invasion. Chastened – but not yet broken – the Norse
warlords have settled across Britain. For the first time in nearly
80 years, the land is in a fragile state of peace.
Throughout this sceptred isle, the kings of England, Scotland,
Ireland and Wales sense a time of change approaching; a time of
opportunity. There will be treaties. There will be war. There will
be turns of fortune that become the stuff of legend, in a saga that
charts the ascent of one of history's greatest nations.
Kings will rise. One will rule.
Thrones of Britannia is a standalone Total War game which will
challenge you to re-write a critical moment in history, one that
will come to define the future of modern Britain. With ten playable
factions, you must build and defend a kingdom to the glory of
Anglo-Saxons, Gaelic clans, Welsh tribes or Viking settlers. Forge
alliances, manage burgeoning settlements, raise armies and embark
on campaigns of conquest across the most detailed Total War map to
Choose your strategy
The Grand Campaign offers multiple routes to a glorious Victory;
aggressively expand your territory through force of arms, acquire
renown through construction, advanced technology and influence, or
complete a series of unique objectives based on your chosen
faction's history. Once completed, steady yourself for a
significant late-game challenge and the final, Ultimate victory
Explore and conquer the British Isles
From the snowy highlands of Scotland to the orchards and meadows of
Kent, push back the fog-of-war and unveil the extent of Anglo-Saxon
Britain. Varied towns, cities and rural settings inspire a host of
different battlefield environments. Experiment with the strategic
opportunities afforded by newly capturable minor settlements.
Throttle your enemies' trade routes and coax them out of strong,
defensible positions.
Viking warlord or Anglo-Saxon king, define their
Each faction will face a series of unique events and branching
dilemmas, often based on authentic historical events and issues of
the time. Embark on Viking expeditions, manage the Anglo-Saxon
peasant economy, each faction feels and plays differently. Carve
out unique roles for your King and Nobles, customise their impact
by making meaningful choices about their development and determine
how their story will unfold.
'Classic' Total War gameplay refined
Includes many updates to core Total War mechanics – such as
provinces, politics, technologies, recruitment, dilemmas and much
more – designed to make your experience more immersive and more
Playable factions, cultures and kings:
Thrones of Britannia will include ten playable factions, from five
cultures, with a summary below.
The Anglo Saxons – West Seaxe and Mierce
When Roman rule in England concluded, new kingdoms of Germanic
stock coalesced in the counties now known as Northumbria, Mercia,
Wessex, Essex, Sussex, East Anglia and Kent. The peoples of these
regions came collectively to be known as the Anglo Saxons.
West Seaxe
Faction Leader: King Alfred
As the dominant Anglo-Saxon kingdom of southern England, the forces
of West Seaxe – or Wessex in modern English – provided the isle's
primary resistance against the incursions of the Great Heathen
Army. From the capital city of Winchester, Wessex conquered lands
in Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Essex and even Mercia. Alfred's dogged
defense of the Danish invasion laid the foundations for Wessex to
unite England under one ruler for the first time in 927 AD.
Faction Leader: Ceowulf
From its capital city of Tamworth, the kings of Mierce – known now
as Merica – ruled the area now known as the Midlands. At its
height, Mierce stretched from Northumbria in the north of England
to Kent, Sussex and Wessex to the south. In 877 AD, the Great
Heathen Army seized the eastern part of the kingdom to form the
Danelaw, or East Engle.
The Gaels – Mide and Circenn
Gaelic culture initially developed in Ireland, their society built
around a system of clans and chieftains. They raided and traded
with Roman settlements, and by 878 AD had expanded from Ireland to
inhabit much of Scotland.
With the influx of the Vikings, some raiders settled in Gaelic
lands, becoming the Norse-Gaels. The Scottish Gaels would absorb
the Picts to become the Kingdom of Alba – essentially setting the
blueprint for modern Scotland.
Faction Leader: King Flann Sinna
Mide lies at the heart of Ireland. Not just geographically, but
politically, intellectually and spiritually. Many High Kings have
risen from Mide, and its current ruler, Flann Sinna, aspires to
that title.
With many fellow Irish factions nearby, Mide is in a position to
potentially bring the disparate clans together, and usher in an era
of Irish prosperity. However, threats are never far away… the
Vikings of Dyflin have settled to the east, and their power and
influence are growing. Will Mide strive to keep the uneasy peace?
Unite the clans in a war against these Norse settlers? Or find some
other route to supremacy?
Faction Leader: Áed mac Cináeda
Circenn was in origin Pictish, but became more heavily influenced
by the Gaels and other peoples over time as they were driven away
from the relentless Viking raids. 878 AD marked the end of the
Viking invasions, but Circenn's troubles were far from over. While
she had a firm hold over the eastern coast of Scotland, many
threats still exist – both within and without.
Scoan, the capital of Circenn, was once home to the legendary Stone
of Destiny, said to bestow divine strength on her people. Where the
stone now resides is a mystery, but if clues can be found, surely
the Stone's recovery would be an adventure worth undertaking…
The Welsh – Gwined and Strat Clut
The Welsh Kingdoms descended from the Celtic Britons who occupied
much of the island of Britain from the Iron Age, into and beyond
its Romanisation in the First Century.
Ironically, the term 'Welsh' derives from the Anglo-Saxon term for
foreigner, 'wealas', which they applied to the native Britons. The
Anglo-Saxons flourished and many of the old Brittonic kingdoms
began to disappear.
Faction Leader: King Anaraut
The people of Gwined have some claim to the title of 'true
Britons', having been driven to the far west by invaders who now
call themselves 'English'. Renowned both for their bardic arts and
their skill with the longbow, the Welsh of Gwined thrived under the
leadership of Rhodri Mawr.
Rhodri kept Gwined largely free of Vikings and other invaders while
expanding its borders. Now he is gone and his lands are
Strat Clut
Faction Leader: Run
Strat Clut is a kingdom of the Old North that can be traced back to
the Fifth Century and the Celtic Britons. The realm was formerly
based at the fortress of Alt Clut but driven out by a Viking
invasion in 870. The current King Artgal was taken captive and
reportedly killed in mysterious circumstances. The kingdom reformed
further into the valley of the River Clyde under the leadership of
his only son Run.
The Great Viking Army – Northymbre and East
In 865 AD, Ragnar's sons led the Great Viking Army and made
landfall in East Anglia. Over the next 15 years the Vikings ranged
high and low, from Wessex to The Clyde, conquering towns, claiming
victories and suffering their share of defeats until the Battle of
Edington in 878 AD, where its leader Guthrum met his match in the
young King Alfred and his West Saxon army. Bested in the field, his
forces retreated in disarray to a nearby fortress. Flush with
success, Alfred's men gave chase and laid siege. After a fortnight
of starvation, the invaders surrendered.
Under the terms of his capitulation, Guthrum was baptised into
Christianity and he and his men were allowed to return to East
Anglia and settle – provided they kept Alfred's peace, of
Defeated, but never humbled, the Vikings seethe with an
all-consuming rage. One does not cage the wolf without
Faction Leader: Guthfrid
When the Vikings arrived in Northumbria in 867 AD, they took the
city of York – or Eoferwic, as was – for their stronghold. And what
a bastion it was, with its formidable Roman walls still standing
strong 700 years on. King Aelle of Northumbria attempted to wrest
the city back from the Danes, but was captured during the attack.
In retribution for Aelle's execution of their father, the sons of
Ragnar made an example of him with the horrifying Blood Eagle
Northumbria remained under Viking control and, after the battle of
Edington and the subsequent treaty of Wedmore, a portion of the
Great Viking Army marched back to Northumbria, to settle under
Alfred's peace.
East Engle
Faction Leader: Guthrum
Forming the bulk of Britannia's south-easterly coast, East Engle
was the staging-point of the Great Viking Army's invasion, and the
region where many of its warriors settled after the Battle of
Edington. Under the rule of the Danish leader Guthrum (or
Æthelstan, to use his adoptive name by Alfred) it would ultimately
come to be known as the Danelaw.
Yet still, some fight remains in the Danes of East Engle. One does
not shed the mantle of glory and become a landsman overnight.
The Viking Sea Kings – Dyflin and Sudreyar
After nearly a century of escalating raids, the Vikings left an
indelible stamp on Britannia, altering the course of its history
forever. Not least of all culturally, as many smaller bands of
Vikings had settled around the isles prior to Alfred's defeat of
the Great Viking army.
These smaller factions traded an existence of ceaseless conflict
for a new life in Britannia, establishing their own petty
principalities, intermarrying and ultimately becoming part of the
warp-and-woof of Britannic life. This mingling of cultures, so
emblematic of British history, helped create the rich melting-pot
of attitudes, beliefs and language that has made the isles and
their people so unique.
Some Vikings never truly settled however; their designs were
grander, their hunger for conquest and greatness unquenched. These
Sea Kings would continue their bellicose work, heedless of any
decree from England's upstart ruler…
Faction Leader: Bardr
Dyflin was a major port town on the east coast of Ireland, and the
site of Britannia's largest slave market. It was a major site of
Viking occupation, and was ruled until 873 by the Viking lord Imar,
often associated with Ivar the Boneless, a son of the legendary
Viking warlord Ragnar Lothbrok. Viking raiders had wintered there
as early as 840 AD, so their association with the region had been a
long one, and over time their customs began to take on a more
Gaelic flavour as the slow process of integration took its
By 878 AD however, Imar's son Bardr was firmly established on the
throne. Would this ambitious Viking ruler seek to seal a lasting
peace with the surrounding Gaelic factions? Or return to the ways
of Ragnar, and pursue a path of bloodshed and domination? It is
hard to ignore the calling of one's warrior-blood…
Faction Leader: Eirik
To the west of Alba lies Sudreyar, the Kingdom of the Southern
Isles. Comprising the southern Hebrides, these scattered islands
were sparsely populated and, bearing the full brunt of the Atlantic
weather, were not lands suited to the less-hardy.
Like much of Britannia, these islands saw increasing Viking contact
from the 8th Century. Prior to this period they formed part of the
Gaelic kingdom of Dalriada, until they fell under Viking control.
Over the next century, Scandinavian occupancy took on a distinctly
Gaelic flavour (and vice-versa), particularly after 872 AD when
Harald Fairhair became king of Norway, and his former opponents
flocked to the area.
Materially poor, but offering an excellent base for those of a
nautical bent, the isles of Sudreyar are a perfect staging-post for
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US Market Performance: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed the month up 0.3%, the S&P 500 slipped slightly by 0.1%, and the Nasdaq Composite retreated by 0.8%.
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Central Bank Focus: All eyes were on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting that began on January 30th. Investors awaited any hints about the future pace of interest rate hikes, but no major announcements were made on the post meeting communique.
Geopolitical Concerns: Ongoing tensions in the Middle East remain a source of underlying market anxiety, but much of the Gaza crisis has for now at least, been priced into energy markets.
Other Asset Classes
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The market will closely monitor the FOMC's policy decisions and any indications on future interest rate adjustments. Increasingly, they are pricing in 'macro perfection', - that is to say slowing inflation, yet a reacceleration in global growth led by manufacturing. Commodities look ready to rally, after a reset in crude prices, positioning and sentiment all appear to support a bottoming of the commodity complex more generally here.
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God uses people to meet needs. It's in the Bible, II Kings 6:6-7, TLB. "Where did it fall?" the prophet asked. The youth showed him the place, and Elisha cut a stick and threw it into the water; and the axhead rose to the surface and floated! 'Grab it, Elisha said to him; and he did."
We should be willing to meet the needs of others. It's in the Bible, Matthew 23:11-12, TLB. "The more lowly your service to others, the greater you are. To be the greatest, be a servant. But those who think themselves great shall be disappointed and humbled; and those who humble themselves shall be exalted."
Realize that meeting the needs of others is serving God. It's in the Bible, Matthew 25:40, TLB. "And I, the King, will tell them, 'When you did it to these my brothers you were doing it to Me!"
We should open our eyes to the resources close at hand, God may have provided to meet our needs. It's in the Bible, Ruth 2:2-3, TLB. "One day Ruth said to Naomi, 'Perhaps I can go out into the fields of some kind man to glean the free grain behind his reapers.' And Naomi said, 'All right, dear daughter. Go ahead.' So she did. And as it happened, the field where she found herself belonged to Boaz, this relative of Naomi's husband."
We should recognize our dependence upon God for every need. It's in the Bible, Psalm 104:27-28, TLB. "Every one of these depends on You to give them daily food. You supply it, and they gather it. You open wide Your hand to feed them and they are satisfied with all Your bountiful provision."
Even our physical needs are important to Jesus. It's in the Bible, Mark 8:1-3, TLB. "One day about this time as another great crowd gathered, the people ran out of food again. Jesus called his disciples to discuss the situation. 'I pity these people,' He said, for they have been here three days, and have nothing left to eat. And if I send them home without feeding them, they will faint along the road! For some of them have come a long distance."


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Peanut Butter Price Hike Could Make Things Sticky for Consumers
Peanut butter has been a staple for frugal food lovers for years, but a looming price increase could make it more of a luxury item before the end of the year.
Facing shortages after a dismal peanut harvest, producers have begun implementing steep price hikes, and consumers will start feeling the pinch this week — adding to a general rise in the cost of food throughout 2011.
So, how much more can you expect to shell out for a jar of peanut butter? That will depend on your favorite label, but all the leading companies plan significant jumps, including Kraft, owners of the Planters brand (40 percent), Peter Pan makers ConAgra (20 percent), and J.M. Smucker (30 percent).
Much as consumers might grumble about the higher prices, in this case it's a simple matter of supply and demand. This year's poor harvest has spiked the cost of a ton of peanuts, sending it from $450 a year ago to almost $1,200 this month.
Unfortunately, industry insiders don't see any relief in sight. Chris Brand, a spokesman for the Giant food chain, admitted that the "outlook does not look good until next year's crop is harvested and produced." Publix spokesperson Maria Brous admitted that she expects further food price increases "as the cost of goods continue[s] to rise."


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Order "For The Love Of Metal" here: http://smarturl.it/ForTheLoveOfMetal
Directed by Leo Liberty & Edu Ohara
Executive producer: Paulo Baron & Rafa Pensado
Logistic producer (live show): Luisa Yanez
One of the most powerful voices in rock & heavy metal is back…and more ferocious than ever!
Influential hard rock legend, reality TV star, Broadway alumni, horror movie director, radio host – Dee Snider, the face and voice of the legendary Twisted Sister, has a career many would kill for. And yet the singers thirst is far from being quenched – his thirst for METAL! Dee Snider hasinked a deal with Napalm Records for his upcoming solo album For The Love Of Metal produced by Hatebreed vocalist Jamey Jasta and featuring contributions from Howard Jones (ex-Killswitch Engage), Mark Morton (Lamb Of God), Alissa White-Gluz (Arch Enemy), Joel Grind and Nick Bellmore (Toxic Holocaust) and Charlie Bellmore (Kingdom Of Sorrow).
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Snider comments about For The Love Of Metal: "This is a really incredibly exciting album that I did not expect to make, especially at this point in my life. Jamey Jasta challenged me to make a contemporary rock record. … and I rose to the challenge!" The result is a full-on anthemic metal album indulging in modern heaviness without neglecting Snider
Directed by Leo Liberty & Edu Ohara
Executive producer: Paulo Baron & Rafa Pensado
Logistic producer (live show): Luisa Yanez
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XQuery Language Expressions
In This Chapter
- The Need for XQuery
- Why Not SQL?
- XSLT and XPath As Query Languages
- The Structure of XQuery
- Assignments with let
- Iterations with for
- Returning Results
- where Oh where?
- Ordering Up Some XQuery
- Conditional Logic
- Defining Functions
- In Brief
The Need for XQuery
When you combine XML, which is essentially an open data format independent of any specific data-formatting language, with a universal addressing mechanism such as URLs, great things happen. These two factors together make the endpoints of a transaction transparent to the kind of technologies that are on the other ends.
However, this transparency can break down in the presence of databases. Even if a database has an XML-based interface (either through SOAP or through HTTP POST or GET commands), querying that database to retrieve a dataset makes things more complicated. SQL is the standard way to make queries against most databasesbut each database vendor utilizes slightly (or not so slightly) different implementations of the SQL standard. What's worse is that the resultsets that come back are also formatted according to the whims of the database provider.
XQuery was proposed as a solution to this conundrum. To make databases truly transparent (so that it doesn't matter whether there is a Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Oracle 9i, PostgreSQL, or any other vendor's database engine), it is necessary to make a query language that will provide the following:
Platform consistencyThe language should be the same, regardless of which vendor or product is being used.
XML-centricThe language should treat non-XML databases as being equivalent to XML data stores. Note that this does not necessarily imply that the language has to be written in XML.
Set-capableSQL differs from languages such as Java or Visual Basic because it implicitly works on sets of data all at once rather than one item of data at a time. A new query language would similarly need to be set-focusedor more properly, node-focused.
Ease of useThe language should be easy enough to enable someone with a minimal database background to create complex queries.
The goal of this chapter is to examine the language in XQuery that was designed to handle all these primary points. The examples in this chapter are deliberately on the simplistic side to better illustrate the role of the command structure, but in general, XQuery finds utility more in the creation of fairly complex scripts.


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Canyonlands, worth the drive |
Mister Volvo Two |
I began looking at cabin prices in Wrightwood and found that mostly intact cabins started at around $150,000, and incessantly talked about them with Katie on our usual sleep deprived trips. One weekend, we had driven through particularly bad traffic and made it up to Lone Pine at midnight. We awoke around 7 AM to prepare to summit Mt. Russell, and though I could not complain about the amazing sunrise or the gorgeous view out the back of the trunk, I couldn't stop complaining about how tired I was and how much better the frigid morning could be if for once we could drink coffee inside a warm cabin. We actually spent a good two to three hours gawking about the prospects of waking up in the mountains in an actual a bed, making a hot breakfast, jogging from our door to a trail head, having an amazing run, and then... TAKING A HOT SHOWER!!!
Katie, busy appreciating my thoughts on cabin life |
Our first night in the cabin! It was cold! |
Our new weekend life included this, follow by a hot shower |
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Palissade is a collection of outdoor furniture designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for HAY. The collection was designed to fit a wide variety of environments: cafés, restaurants, gardens, terraces and balconies. The construction allows a wide range of typologies with a common formal language. From stools and benches to chairs and tables, lounge chairs and sofas – the collection comprises 13 different elements, united not only by their graphical image but also by their common characteristics: they are strong without being bulky, elegant without being fragile.
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Why Mortgage Centre
The Mortgage Centre became Canada's first national mortgage broker organization in 1989
Plus, your Mortgage Centre professional has roots in the community and an understanding of your local market.
Best of all, Mortgage Centre professionals have access to the enhanced choice offered by our mortgage market technologies and strategic partnership!
Advantages that a Mortgage Centre professional can offer you:
Independent advice.
Because we provide mortgages from various lenders, you're not tied to one lender or one type of mortgage.
More mortgage choices.
Through our Mortgage Market technology, we have electronic access to major lenders in Canada, so we're able to show you a wide range of rates and features available to you.
We work hard to get you a competitive rate by leveraging our wide lending network.
Fast, convenient, local service. We are here to keep your mortgage moving forward. What's more, you're working with a local business person with ties to the communities where they do business.
Specialized knowledge.
Through training and certification, we have a good understanding of available products, features, and rates. We're also great at explaining the sometimes complex industry specific language in everyday terms, so you know exactly what you're getting into.
Reputable lenders.
We deal with reputable and established Canadian financial institutions. Plus, we have access to mortgage specialist-only lenders who offer competitive rates and features that you may not find at your local financial institution.


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We sell denim and work wear from little known Japanese and Indonesian brands - "secret brands" that satisfy the idiosyncratic, authentic seeking aficionados of niche denim-centric apparel.
What are the key factors that have helped your store be successful?
We have 3 rules:
Good people make good things
Good things endure
Relationships matter
As part of the fanatical denim scene, and long term appreciators of denim and work wear, we wanted to represent and bring to light lesser known brands that provided exceptional quality and design uniqueness.
Meeting the brands was extremely important to us, so travel to Indonesia and Tokyo was an extremely important part of our brand development.
Scene presence is an important part of how we market; understanding the nuanced predilections of the denim sub-culture is critical. We represent on Superdenim (part of Superfuture) - a pivotal forum community space for brands and products of this nature, and we use Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
We also engage with scene magazines such as Denimhunters, who are hungry for new wrinkles in the denim and work wear space.
What are your top recommendations for new store owners?
Just. Keep. Doing. It.
Do 3 useful things a day.
Listen to advice but don't obsess over throw away critique - schadenfreude is a real thing, ignore it.
Get regular exercise.
Don't ignore social media.
Any Closing Remarks?
Ideas are easy. Execution is everything.


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This past weekend was Avacal's Kingdom A&S Championship and The University of Avacal. It's the first time the Championship has been done at its own event, and based on how many people I saw there, the event was a massive success. There were a ton of classes in 12 tracks, an A&S display area, and of course the Kingdom Arts & Sciences Championship.
There were two full entrants for the Championship, Her Ladyship Niesa Abdelmessah, and myself. It's a difficult and stressful competition, but at the end, I felt very accomplished just for getting through the creation, documentation, display, presentation, and questioning. HL Niessa had an amazing display, and entered bone carving and hide tanning and I am in awe of her skills in that area. I entered a research paper on the history of bacon, and a beef stew that could have been prepared on board a Tudor naval ship. At court that evening it was announced that I had won both the highest single entry and the championship, and I swore fealty to Their Royal Majesties Kvigr Ivarsson and Svava Suanhuita.
Here are links to my documentation:
Pre 17th Century Bacon PDF: Pre-17c Bacon
Stew On Board Ship PDF: Stew on Ship
The rest of the post is fairly photo heavy.
Just walking around the displays was awesome, and the other entrant especially had an amazing display.
Some photos of my entries:
Some shots of my family at the event:
Swearing the oath of fealty and receiving the regalia of the champion.


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What's your role?
As an SEIU steward, your job involves much, much more than handling grievances.
Grievances are important. They are often the most visible and dramatic aspect of the union's presence. Sometimes they'll take up most of your time.
But grievances should never be confused with your chief responsibility as a steward: to build a united, organized, and involved membership in your workplace.
Without this involvement and solidarity, no union in the world can protect and serve its members.
As a leader in the workplace, you'll have your hands full. That's because SEIU stewards are ...
Organizers. This is the big one. It doesn't just mean signing up new members, although it means that too. It means SEIU stewards are responsible for organizing the whole workplace to deal with problems as a united group.Which is, when you think about it, what labor unions are all about.
Problem solvers. You're the person workers turn to with their problems. It might be a work-site hazard. Maybe someone's been fired, or perhaps layoffs are threatened. It might be just a new employee with a question. Perhaps you can solve the problem with a friendly word, or maybe you'll organize a worksite action or file a grievance. Problems don't go with your territory. They are your territory.
Educators and communicators. The contract. The health insurance plan. What's a "ULP"? How can I do this? Why did they do that? It's a complicated world, and your members are counting on you to help them make sense of it. Equally important, your union officers are counting on you to help them keep in touch with your co-workers. You work with them every day. They don't.
Worksite leaders. You're the one who keeps it moving. You're the one who's not afraid to speak up to management. You make unity happen, and you never let anyone forget there's a union at your worksite. (Nobody said this job is easy.)
The sections that follow will explain some of your different jobs in more detail. (Pages with the symbol « provide handy checklists of things stewards need to know, have, and do.)
For now, it's enough that you understand and accept your wide responsibility in the workplace, and remember that your primary duties are to organize and to solve problems. (You'll see later how those two duties go hand in hand.)


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The Fun Never Stops In The Hart Of Dixie
The Fun Never Stops, from the Fervor Records release Marcus Latief Scott will be heard in an upcoming episode of Hart of Dixie on the CW.
Starring fashion icon and The O.C. alum Rachel Bilson, the show follows a fast-talking 'city mouse' trying to fit in to the small-town country life of a Southern town.
A few fun-loving party hip hop tracks from Phoenix rapper Marcus Latief Scott have also been heard in Access Hollywood, Jane By Design, Bad Girls Club and LA Ink.
Airing Tuesday April 9th at 8/7c, catch some Arizona flavor in the latest edition of Hart of Dixie, episode 218 "Why Don't We Get Drunk?"


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The UK's best and worst cities for EV charging revealed
New analysis has revealed the UK cities with the best charging provision for owners of electric cars, as well as those that are falling behind.
The data shows that while in some cities there is one charger for every 23 EVs, in others, 268 drivers will have to compete for access to a single public charging point.
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Hide AdThe Government recently announced more details of its £500 million Rapid Charging Fund, which aims to encourage EV uptake by improving the country's infrastructure. It says that by 2023 all motorway service stations in England will have at least six ultra-rapid 150kW chargers.
However, the latest announcement only covers provision on motorways and major A roads, rather than city centres. To see how prepared major cities are for a rise in EV adoption, comparison service Uswitch, gathered data on EV ownership and charging infrastructure from around the country.
It found that with one charger for every 22.9 EVs, Bristol is the UK's best city for public charging provision. Milton Keynes, which has been a hub of EV and infrastructure testing, was close behind, with one charger for every 23.4 EVs, just ahead of Dundee (28 cars per charger), Oxford (28.5) and Brighton (28.6).
The analysis looked at the number of chargers per postcode area, the number of drivers in the area and the total number of EVs registered in the UK.
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Hide AdIt showed that EV owners in the Midlands and England's north-west were worst catered for. Stoke-on-Trent has just one point per 268 cars. Southend was the second-worst provisioned city, with a ratio of 201.8 EVs per charger, ahead of Birmingham (174.9 cars per charger). Wolverhampton (164:1) and Bolton (161.3:1) complete the list of the five worst cities for charger provision.
Comparing the most recent data to a previous study in April 2019, some cities have made significant progress on improving their infrastructure. Coventry had made the biggest changes in provisions over the last year, installing more than 140 new charging stations - a rise of 293 per cent. Sheffield (up 147 per cent) and Derby (up 142 per cent) also made significant progress.
Sarah Broomfield, energy expert at Uswitch.com, said: "It's a really exciting time to be an EV driver. This research suggests that the Rapid Charging Fund could have a significant impact for drivers across the UK - especially for those living in cities such as Stoke-on-Trent, Southend and Birmingham who are thinking about purchasing one.
"The funding will be instrumental in delivering a more sustainable future for the nation's transport. It's crucial though that this investment is spent wisely and is targeted towards the regions that need the funding most.
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Anheuser-Busch Donates Thousands of Cans of Water to Flood Victims in Nebraska, Iowa
Victims of the devastating floods that ravaged the Midwest last week are receiving aid from a seemingly unlikely source. Iconic beer brewing company Anheuser-Busch is stepping up to help the thousands of people affected in Nebraska and Iowa by sending 250,000 cans of water to the devastated areas, according to a press release.
In addition to brewing beers including Budweiser and Bud Light, Anheuser-Busch makes it a priority to produce canned water in the event of an environmental emergency. When the mass amount of rain moved through the Midwest in what's known as a "bomb cyclone," bringing massive flooding to areas throughout Iowa and Nebraska, the company took it upon themselves to send a mass water supply.
In addition to the two truckloads of canned water Anheuser-Busch has already sent to the states, the company will send another 150,000 cans from its brewery in Fort Collins, Colo.,. to several wholesale partners, including Eagle Distributing in Fremont, Neb., L&L Distributing Co. in Sioux City, Iowa, and Doll Distributing in Council Bluffs, Iowa. They will then distribute the water to the affected communities.
The move is one in a long line of disaster relief efforts Anheuser-Busch has participated in. As part of its emergency drinking water program instituted in 1988, the company has donated a whopping 80 million cans to communities impacted by natural disasters, including Hurricanes Irma, Harvey and Maria that devastated Texas and Puerto Rico in 2017 and the recent wildfires in California.
"These donations represent our ongoing commitment to help American communities when they need it most," Anheuser-Busch states on its website.
According to NPR, more than 2,000 homes and 340 businesses in Nebraska were devastated by the flood, resulting in roughly $85 million in damage. Both Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds have made disaster declarations for their states. Seventy-four cities and 65 counties are currently in a state of emergency.
Do You Remember These Country Stars' Super Bowl Commercials?
15 Country Stars Who Have Gone Above and Beyond for Charity:


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On Ed Dorn, 'The Newly Fallen'
I'd like to insert Dorn's first book, The Newly Fallen (Totem Press, 1961), into the Symposium to address an element I felt missing in the original presentation of texts. Senses of space and seemed crucial to the new news about poetry I encountered at age twenty-one, living in Vancouver and having grown up in the Kootenay mountains in the southeast of British Columbia. The New American Poetry anthology tapped into a need to identify the "local" as an aesthetic that was just blossoming in the northwest, and was of great interest to us Canadian postcolonials. Olson's poetic mapping of Gloucester was as overwhelming as our concurrent discovery of William Carlos Williams' Paterson. But younger, and more western poets like Dorn, Whalen, and Snyder suggested a geographically closer-to-home and local flavour. Gary Snyder's poem "Riprap" in the Allen anthology was, for me, a gem of affirmation, a poem about the kind of work I had done in the kind of place I came from. The "home of my mind" seemed eligible for the world of the poem.
The Newly Fallen was published by Leroi Jones's Totem Press in January 1961, just before Dorn turned thirty-two. It represents the initial staging of Dorn's work and, it seems, (from the correspondence between Jones and Dorn) that Jones had the manuscript in hand by December 30, 1960. [1] Black Mountain cohort Fielding Dawson did the cover for the book and his drawing plays off of the book's title (in turn, the last line in the book): it is of an aerial contraption used for transporting manure on a farm (can't recall why I know this). In any case, Dorn's first book is central to any assessment of American poetry from 1960.
Dorn had been living in the Pacific Northwest since the midfifties, the setting for his autobiographical novel By The Sound, and was in Sante Fe, New Mexico in 1959–60, in the midst of a poetic community that included Robert Creeley, Max Finstein, and Judson Crews; Gil Sorrentino and Allen Ginsberg were visitors. He had been published in Paul Carrol's Big Table, courtesy of a push from Creeley, The Evergreen Review, John Wieners' Measure, Migrant, Ark II, Moby I, and had work solicited by Jones for Yugen. A twenty-two-year-old Tom Raworth, in Britain, had just started publishing Outburst and solicited poems from Dorn in late 1960.
1960 was very much in the era of a lot of nuclear bravado (French nuclear test, US Polaris missile underwater test, Atlas and Titan missiles, and so forth). That year Leroi Jones travelled to Cuba, met with Castro, and published "Cuba Libre" in Evergreen Review. By 1960, living in Sante Fe, New Mexico, the middle of the continent, in the middle of what Olson called "SPACE […] the central fact to man born in America," Dorn depends on the shared poetic interest of an expansive community of writers from New York to San Francisco. [2] He accepted a teaching job at Idaho State in Pocatello in 1961 where he wrote his stunning journey poem, "Idaho Out," which I first heard in February 1962 when Creeley, who taught at The University of British Columbia that year, brought Dorn to Vancouver for a reading. I was enthralled by a poetry that foregrounded place and class and fleshed out a range of attention to the local, the sensuous, the political, and the national that I could feel somewhat at home with. Soon after, I managed to pick up a copy of The Newly Fallen.
Dorn tells Jones that his selection for the manuscript will be earlier works, "None of the things there were in Don Allens's antho," but scattered magazine pieces. And, he tells Jones, "the chore of selecting from my own work will be a headache". [3] The selection seems a little tentative, considering the more specifically "western" poems in the next book (Hands Up!). A few of the poems incline to an easy kind of lyricism, but more generally they move through what he calls "the great geography of my lunacy" ("Geranium"), a range of love song, the domesticity and furnishings of what he saw as Williams' "grand / commonplace" ("The Open Road"), some biotextual references to growing up in midwest Americanism, farm stuff, Illinois, Sousa, etc. [4] The collection contains no grand address to the geographical but a number of inclinations that a little later, in something like "Idaho Out," shape Dorn's ambivalent tension between the freedom implicit in Olson's capitalized (and open) SPACE and the west as a site of poverty and estrangement, "mad elements to be scrutinized" ("The Open Road"). [5] And an uncollected poem, "The Mountains," likely written in 1960 in Sante Fe, ends with the lines "there is no coming back from the space / you make," a rather sardonic ambiguity so characteristic of Dorn's view of space. [6] The poems in The Newly Fallen intuit his impending observation that the outsider, the stranger in town is the one to pay attention to, "He's the man who knows where he's come from" (The Poet, The People, The Spirit, Berkeley, 1965). Or maybe not:
I go on my way frowning at novelty, wishing I were closer to home
than I am. And this is the last stop before Burlington,
that pea-center, which is my home, but not the home of my mind.
That asylum I carry in my insane squint … [7]
Along with the poems in the Allen anthology, The Newly Fallen signals Dorn's presence in the 1960 roll call of New American Poetry.
[1] Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn, Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn: Selections from the Collected Letters, 1959-1960, ed. Claudia Moreno Pisano, The CUNY Poetics Documents Initiative 1, no. 1 (Winter 2009).
[2] Charles Olson, Call Me Ishmael (New York: Grove Press, 1941), 14.
[3] "Correspondence, 12-1-60," Baraka and Dorn, in Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn: Selections from the Collected Letters, 1959-1960.
[4] Edward Dorn, "Geranium" and "The Open Road," in The Newly Fallen (New York: Totem Press, 1961), 4, 10.
[5] Ibid., 8.
[6] Originally published in the "New Poetry 1963" issue of The Yale Literary Magazine; also reproduced on Isola di Rifiuti; "New Poetry 1963," blog entry by John Latta, July 13, 2010.
[7] Dorn, "Geranium," in The Newly Fallen, 4.


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Organizers say fast food restaurant workers in 100 U.S. cities will walk off the job Thursday, as part of a continuing push to raise wages above $15 an hour in the industry and secure the right to unionize.
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Domino's rejected the "fast food" label, and said only three of its employees had taken part in the August protests, none of whom were scheduled to work at the time. The pizza maker said its delivery drivers make more than minimum wage with tips included, and that it serves as a second job for many employees who work only evenings and weekends.
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A report released in October by the University of California-Berkeley Labor Center and the University of Illinois found that 52% of families of fast food workers receive some form of public assistance. The report estimated that this aid carries a $7 billion annual price tag for taxpayers.
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When: March 4-6, 2011
Where: Avon, Colorado
Who: The Flaming Lips, Bassnectar, Pretty Lights, Lotus, Local Natives, Portugal. The Man, Diplo, Savoy, Big Gigantic.
The Scene: Despite local resident concerns about traffic, noise, and the hoopla associated with music festivals, the inaugural edition of The Snow Ball Festival appears to have been a success. The picturesque Vail Valley provided the scenery while the bands took care of the entertainment.
In between powder days at Vail, I slipped in to catch a few of the acts at the festival. The bulk of the action took place on the main stage, with the Groove Tent providing electronic acts. Over the in the tiny Heat Hut, local DJs kept the temperature warm by keeping bodies moving.
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The Flaming Lips on Sunday night blew me away. I'm a huge fan, but have never seen them live. Pulsating vaginas, bear suits, giant balloons, smoke filled bullhorns, and confetti storms confirmed that the live show lives up the hype. All this and in a snowstorm.