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I hadn't seen my Bestie since our last outing together a few weeks ago when we went hunting for my wedding dress. Once we finally did manage to meet up, we had so much to catch up on that it was hard to know where to start. I was excited to hear all about her new yoga business venture that she was embarking upon. I have never seen her so inspired and passionate about something before and it makes me so happy that she has found her calling in life. Not everyone gets to experience such satisfaction.
Late last year during the whole post-Engagement party debacle we stopped in at The Sentinel for a couple of drinks while we were waiting for The George's manager to get back to us with the whereabouts of my iPod. In sharp contrast to the abrupt, unfriendly service we had received only minutes before at The George; the Sentinel staff all greeted us cheerily as we entered. This jovial attitude left a lasting impression on our memories.
Recalling our previous experience, we decided to return back for a quick lunch in between errands in the city. The Sentinel is owned by Stephen Scaffidi who also owns the popular Bar One. Sentinel's dining areas are stunning, sophisticated and oh so suave – I simply love all that dark polished wood and massively high ceilings. Initially when the restaurant first opened early 2011 they received a scathing review by The Australian's veteran food critic John Lethlean. John scored them a measly 1 out of 5. Luckily for them since then it appears they have picked up their game receiving much better recent reports in local restaurant reviews and blog posts.
We bubbled in to the swanky restaurant chitty chatting away like only besties can. Over the moon to be having some quality "bestie-time" as we like to call it we were determined to make the most of this quick and impromptu catch up. I hadn't called in advance to notify the chef of my allergies and so I was prepared to be given limited choices off their menu. To my surprise, our waiter and the kitchen worked together to provide us with a number of options to choose from and were not bothered at the potential nuisance of my requests.
As we waited for our food to arrive, our waiter brought to the table some complimentary, freshly toasted gluten free bread with whipped butter. This is not something that happens often and I was suitably impressed. As it was only a Monday afternoon, we both initially hesitated as we gazed over the wine list until we saw some champagne and from then on our rubber arms didn't need any twisting. Glasses of Mumm champagne in hand we settled in quickly and managed to cover a lot of conversational ground in a short space of time, spanning from weddings to people management through to newsletter writing and coconut water! (Which by the way I am totally addicted to at the moment.)
Kate and I planned to share a few entrees together and seeing as I didn't get the quinoa dish I wanted recently at Cullen Wines I was keen to try The Sentinel's version. Kate has been a fan of quinoa for years and has been trying to convince me how awesome it is for some time. It was served with roasted beetroot and dollops of tangy smoked goat's cheese perched on top of some pickled radish. I am starting to understand what she has been going on about – if prepared with the right foods it is a lovely treat. I did however struggle to taste the smoky notes of the goat's cheese, they were too subtle.
We also ordered the marinated octopus served with julienned carrot and fennel with a fresh lemony chilli dressing. The octopus was lovely and soft without any chewiness. My only gripe was the serving size – way too small for something this tasty (and for the price I guess)!
For our third dish we chose the steak tartare. This is something I have enjoyed a number of times at Rockpool and been blown away every time with its buttery texture and gentle flavours. Recently the Boy and I have been part-time vegetarians so it actually felt a little odd if not a bit scary to eat this dish once again. To make matter less palatable the meat wasn't quite as fresh as I would prefer if raw. The crisp and peppery watercress helped somewhat to disguise the tainted flavour of the meat.
The potato chips served with this dish were nothing like what we were expecting. I was anticipating some frites, something I consider a classic combination with steak tartare. Instead there were a neat stack of potato crisps. They were cut incredibly paper-thin to the point of being translucent but unfortunately they tasted like stale oil and not much else. This potentially amazing but simple dish was very poorly executed.
Overall our lunch was enjoyable but with a few hits and misses and I would be keen to go back to sample a greater selection of their food in order get a better idea on their overall quality. The service was friendly and efficient and I look optimistically to my next visit.
Like Me on Facebook!Sentinel Bar and Grill 111 St Georges Terrace, Perth 6000 | (08) 6103 0507 | http://www.sentinelbar.com.au/ Price: $$$$ (Entrees/snacks $4.50-21.50, Mains $26.5-45) Food: 2.5/5 (raw meat has got to be fresh) Service: 3.8/5 (brilliant and enthusiastic) Ambience: 4.5/5 (lovely warm décor, very swanky feel to it) Drinks: 4.5/5 (extensive and interesting wine list) Total: 15.3/20


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The Amazing Benefits of a Home Organic Aquaponics System
What Is Aquaponics?
Aquaponics is an integrated aquaculture (growing fish) and hydroponic (growing soilless plants) system that mutually benefits both environments. Aquaponics was essentially born out of hydroponics, which at the time made farming a lot easier. This process was associated with planting your veggies inside containers together with water. The hydroponic model involved utilizing lots of chemicals & fertilizers to promote growth. So the produce was not 100 % natural. Yet, the usage of fertilizers and harmful chemicals are not required when setting up your own home organic aquaponic system. The fish waste is absorbed by the greenery which is used as a nutrient solution for the growing plants, cultivating a wonderful condition for them to grow in. The only external input to the system is food for the fish. Both systems complement each other in practical interdependence. So essentially if you have happy and content fish, you have an amazing system that will produce fresh food for you all year round. Imagine sharing berries with your family & friends in the middle of winter!
The below video shows US farmer (Will Allen from Growing Power) who has taken Aquaponics to the extreme, They can produce 1 million pounds of food per year on only 3 arces just by using aquaponics.
What Are The Benefits Aquaponics?
- Up to 10 Times More ORGANIC Plants! With aquaponics you place plants closer together on a float system above the water, therefore it fits 10 times more plants in the same space! The roots of the plants are always in nutrient rich water and there's no over-crowding!
- There's no more weeding! The system removes the need for pain-staking and annoying weeding. You get more freedom and enjoyment!
- No more soil pests! The need for pesticides is eliminated, which makes it that much easier for you to have amazing plants and fruit without toxic chemicals.
- No More Watering! The aquaponics system uses only 2% of the water normal gardening does. Because the water is constantly re-circulated, and you do not lose any to soil absorption. The roots of your plants are constantly submerged in nutrient rich water and you never have to worry about watering your plants again. If you pay for your water, imagine of how much money this can save you.
- Multiple Sources of Income! When you try the aquaponics system yourself, you'll have more plants than you'll know what to do with. If you decide to sell your vegetables, guess what.. you also have fish to sell as the aquaponics system produces both plants and fish.
- Plants Grows Twice As Fast! Plant experts are shocked when they visit aquaponic farms at how fast plants grow. For example, lettuce which takes 60+ days to mature, takes only about 29 days with this system.
- You use up to 70% less Energy than conventional gardening!
- No More Back-Straining Planting! Planting normally takes a lot of bending over, but not with Aquaponics . You'll find out exactly how to plant your seedlings in the aquaponic floats, and how to make sure the roots get all the nutrients.
A few months ago we published articles on Will Allen's Growing Power farms which is able to produce 1 million pounds of food on only 3 acres of land (click here for the article). The response we received from people was huge. Everyone wanted to know how they could set this up for themselves or some had even been tasked with setting this up for the community. So we created a detailed part 2 (click here for the article). Though this didn't stop the questions coming in for more info.
So, Wake Up World has teamed up with an organic farmer who is also very experienced in aquaponics. He (John Fay) comes from a long family line of organic farmers. Though in his Dad's farming days, there was no such thing as organic farming, there was just farming as that point in history, there were no chemicals or fertilizers.
On offer for Wake Up World readers is an easy step by step guide, both in video and written format. We have also included some great ebook bonus' (300 pages all together) including; Organic Gardening For Beginners, Herbs for Health and Home, A Guide to Flower Gardening, Worm Farming – The World Best Compost, Guide To Organic Cooking. There is also a 60 day 100% money back guarantee, so if for any reason you don't get the desired results. Your entire investment will be returned to you. No questions asked.
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paul Says:
March 26th, 2011
right! canada sucks. why use goggle canada anyway. that address works with any google. just replace xxx (google.xxx) with your country's google.
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March 26th, 2011
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March 20th, 2011
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Cactus Pear Margaritas
Recipe courtesy of Bobby Flay.
Mango nectar or thawed cranberry juice concentrate can be substituted for the cactus pear juice, but if you can find it, the margarita will be magical.
Level: Easy
Serves: 4
- 8 oz. white (blanco) tequila
- 4 oz. Cointreau or other orange flavored liqueur
- 4 oz. cactus pear juice
- 2 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
- 1 c. ice cubes
- Lime wedges
- Coarse salt (optional)
- Place the tequila, Cointreau, cactus pear and lime juices, and ice in a blender and pulse until smooth.
- If using salt for garnish, rub a lime wedge around the rims of the glasses and dip the rims into a saucer of coarse salt.
- Divide the mixture among 4 margarita glasses; garnish each with a lime wedge.
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Seeking to keep French-speaking Quebec part of Canada, Jewish leaders here are supporting a proposed set of constitutional amendments in a nationwide referendum next Monday.
But a Quebec separatist leader has urged Jews to turn down the compromise language of the amendments, which would recognize Quebec as a "distinct society" within the national union, saying there was no reason to fear secession.
Lucien Bouchard, a federal member of Parliament and leader of the Bloc Quebecois, told Jewish community leaders here last week they need have no trepidation over the treatment of minorities in a sovereign Quebec.
His efforts at reassurance came as polls showed a sharp split in the way the vote will go in Quebec. A majority of French-speaking Quebecers – who make up 80 percent of the population – is expected to vote against the constitutional changes, while sentiment in the Jewish community is running heavily in favor.
Polls show the "no" votes predominate in nationwide attitudes toward the complex reform package, which has been endorsed by all 10 provincial premiers.
Canadian Jewish leaders have warned that a vote against the referendum might trigger a Jewish exodus from Montreal. Some 80,000 to 90,000 Jews live in the city, which contains the headquarters of many national Jewish organizations.
English and French-language television spots in support of the amendments are being shown by the Canadian Jewish Congress throughout Canada, with the exception of Quebec, where the CJC does not have an official "yes" committee.
The two-minute ads feature CJC President Irving Abella and the chairman of the organization's National Unity Committee, Max Bernard, who argue the amendments serve the nation's interests.
Bernard also made appearances in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton to back up support for a positive vote.
Bouchard said a "no" vote would not mean immediate sovereignty for Quebec, only that that option would remain open.
He said he recognized that selling the "no" option to the Jewish community was not going to be easy.
"I must be frank," he said. If I were a member of your community, it wouldn't be so obvious that sovereignty would be good."
But he went on to argue that "open nationalism" would "benefit us all in the long run."
A former Canadian ambassador to Paris, Bouchard said the harmonious relations enjoyed by the Jewish community in France were also possible in Canada. "I consider Marcel Proust (a French Jew) one of the greatest writers of the century."
Bouchard, who at one time was close to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney but broke away to form his own separatist party, admitted that Quebec's record was not always one of religious tolerance.
"We all know that in the '30s, there were some problems for you (Jews), like quotas at McGill University. But it wasn't only here," he said, pointing to a similar situation in the United States at the time.
"We in Quebec have to make strong commitments that nothing like that will happen here again," he said.


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Mayor Sara Duterte vowed to provide financial compensation for the forest guard volunteers who have been in the frontlines of protecting Davao city's watersheds.
"Thank you to the Watershed Management Council for their policy work but thank you very much to those people working on the ground, our bantay bukids (forest guards) and bantayo aweg (water watcher)," said Mayor Sara in a statement sent to City Administrator Atty. Zuleika Lopez during the 5th Watershed Summit held on June 29 at the Ritz Hotel.
Mayor Sara arrived soon after to personally thank the volunteers who help the City Government in the "important work of protecting the watersheds."


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Why, I just observed
a stark feeling of shame
sneaking in through my front door,
snaking down the hallway,
slithering momentarily
before disappearing
in the blink of an eye.
Today I know
I am not that shame;
nowadays I observe
those deceptive gaps
when I feel smothered
by this familiar illusion—
an illusion I once thought
to be reality.
How deep are the
origins of my old dictums.
Their reverberations revisited
take me back into my
innocent and naïve years
of childhood.
Always trying harder
to be whatever
I should be, or ought
to be
(god knows
whatever that meant),
I did my best
to look good
do "the right thing,"
lest I loose my
image (mirage?) of success
and well-being.
Sometimes I forget
that I am an Octogenarian.
And I place unnecessary
expectations on myself.
My physical energy
no longer parallels
those foregone younger years;
there is a definite sense
of loss and grief,
(or false guilt?)
which, misunderstood
and unattended consciously,
feigns to become shame.
Embracing my natural
and quite magnanimous
passage into impermanence,
I again embrace
my metamorphosis,
my transformation,
my passage
from youth to old age.
Turning the illusion of shame
into the reality of gratitude
is the meaning of this moment
and the heart of
this little exercise.
It's a good thing
to wake up
-Hal Edwards
September 24, 2015


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Sloan 4 Begins Observations
The Sloan 4 Digital Sky Survey 4 began operations on July 1. Wisconsin's Astronomy department played key roles in its development.
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GLIMPSE on Town Center Media Wall
The dramatic new infrared picture of the plane of our galaxy will be viewable through March 27 on the large media wall in the Town Center of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery on the UW-Madison campus.
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Catch a GLIMPSE at TED
Using more than 2 million images collected by NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of Wisconsin scientists has stitched together a dramatic 360-degree portrait of the Milky Way, providing new details of our galaxy's structure and contents.
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Blue Straggler Secret Revealed by Hubble
UW Astronomers show that mysterious blue straggler stars form through mass transfer in binary systems by identifying white dwarf "corpses" of former companion stars with the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Iain McKell, a renowned fashion and social documentary photographer, has compiled a series of compelling images, The New Gypsies, which depicts both the physical and emotional life of a modern traveler community living in the outskirts of a technology-driven society. McKell creates surreal images that almost treat his subjects as fictional characters, yet we find that there is an undeniable hint of warmness, liveliness and honesty that instantly creates a strong bond between viewer and subject.
The British horse-drawn travelers whom sport decorated caravans, colorful clothing, and share a desire for freedom from the trappings of contemporary life, served the artist as more than just an artistic project; he calls the 10-year study "a personal journey."
With these photographs, McKell intends to show a way of living that is both colorful and meaningful- something that lacks in contemporary living. He states that the tribe draws from the past and combines with the future, therefore "creating a set of progressive new ideas and values that are not based on materialism […] and are not chained by the stress and complications of our modern existence."
In 2011, the photographer published a book of the series by the name of The New Gypsies by Ian McKell, it includes essays by Val Williams and Ezmeralda Sang. (via Huffpost Arts & Culture)


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Logitech Chillstream Controller For PS3
While we still need to get our hands on it - perhaps we can do an accessory review - this product is currently available, but it simply avoided the eye of most gamers until now. So if you're already familiar, sorry for the confusion, but if not, you might want to check it out. Prices vary, but it seems you can get it for far cheaper than either the Sixaxis or the upcoming Dual Shock 3. And rightly so; it's a third-party product, after all.
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What you're looking at here is the new Logitech Chillstream controller for the PlayStation 3. We're still waiting for full release details from Logitech, but these pictures just recently hit the Internet overnight. (source- GadgetBlind.com)
To go along with the imminent release of the Dual Shock 3, this particular controller offers a different sort of feature, one you could probably surmise by the accessory's title. Yep, it basically cools your hands while you play. As you can see, there's a vent at the top (and on the sides) that continually bathes your fingers in a cooling breeze, which is an very cool (forgive the pun) idea. The force feedback is already an accepted feature for controllers - we still don't get the appeal, but whatever - and the Chillstream might become yet another appreciated bonus. As far as we know, the controller operates just like the Sixaxis in every other way, but does that include motion sensing...?
As we said, Logitech still needs to release the information on this handy little unit, but we wanted you to see it ASAP. We'll be interested to see how it compares in price to the Dual Shock 3; we'd like to assume the Chillstream will retail for less than $60. Guess we'll just have to wait and find out.
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Friday, March 21, 2008 @ 12:23:44 PM
You can buy this controller for around 30 bucks. It has 3 fan speed settings off, slow, and high. Its wired and no it does not have sixaxis but other than that it's your standard ps3 controller. Oh and it has a button in the middle, it disables the analog sticks and allows the d-pad to be used.
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Just found out by surprise that Pilcrow now obviously supports post formats (Standard, Aside, Image, Video, Quote, Link). The question is since when and why haven't I read about it?
Don't get me wrong, I'm totally exited and want to say a big thank you to the Theme team. Was on my wish list since post formats had been introduced. A late Xmas present so to speak. (^ o ^)
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In considering whether or not to criminalize cannabis and get some patently outrageous "findings" about cannabis on the record, please think deeply about this question: How can a substance capable of killing its users in one sitting be legal and ubiquitous, while another substance with no known lethal dose is illegal and its users persecuted and prosecuted?
Alcohol, especially in its super-potent distilled form, is a lethal drug. If anyone doubts this fact, simply Google "alcohol poisoning deaths." The attentive searcher will find many people, especially college age young people, die each year as a direct result of alcohol consumption. Yet, no one is demanding the killer drug alcohol be criminalized. Can you imagine the hue and cry if even one young person died as the direct result of cannabis consumption? How do you explain this stupefying double standard? Cultural myopia? Perhaps quid pro quo between the alcohol industry (and other legal drug pushers) and elected representatives? Does any elected public official accept money from the alcohol, tobacco or pharmaceutical industries? We need full disclosure, please.
For anyone knowledgeable about cannabis, its prohibition is the most bogus scam to be foisted on the U.S. citizenry by its elected representatives during the past century. To illustrate the absurdity of allowing alcohol to be legal and widely available while criminalizing a relatively benign plant, I pose this challenge to Messrs. Guaneli, Murkowski, Bobo, and all elected state representatives of Alaska: Let us meet at a public place of your choosing. Let this meeting be televised. I will consume a "bong hit" of the most potent unadulterated organic sinsemilla cannabis available every three minutes. You will consume a shot (one fluid ounce) of the distilled alcohol of your choice (minimum 90 proof) every three minutes. We will continue in this way for six hours. I think this televised experiment will clarify the discussion of the relative dangers of cannabis and alcohol once and for all.
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Waldport, Ore.
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Shocking Tragedy in Upper Carmel Valley
Mrs. Birks and Mrs. Wilmot Lose Their Lives
Full Details of Accident Have Not Been Received
A shocking tragedy took place in the upper Carmel Valley this morning, when two elderly ladies, Mrs. Riley Birks and Mrs. M.R. Wilmot, both well known upon the Monterey Peninsula, lost their lives in the Carmel river. The two women were attempting to cross the river in a rig near the Sella place when the strong current overturned the rig and precipitated them into the stream. They were helpless against the force of the waters, and were rapidly swept to their death. The team succeeded in making its escape from the water. On account of the distance from town and the difficulty in telephonic communication, details of the tragedy are not obtainable, other than above stated. It is not known if any other persons were present when the incident took place, but it is believed that mark Wilmot and J.J. Birks were in the party, the latter evidently being saved. It was stated that the two victims of the waters had made the passage of the stream of at the same point yesterday in safety but owing to either a rise in the stream or a change in the river bottom, it proved a most disastrous failure today. They were on the way to Monterey at the time of the incident, and at to get there they had to cross the stream. All efforts so far failed to locate the bodies of the victims. The scene of the accident is about four miles above the ranch house at the Rancho del Monte. The place from which they came is the Birks ranch, and the Wilmots, whose home is in Pacific Grove, have been stopping at that ranch, also. As stated before, both the women were well known here on the Monterey Peninsula. Mrs. Birks was the widow of the late Riley Birks. She is survived by the following children living in this section: Samuel Birks, Mrs. Copeland, Mrs. Thos. Cruess, Mrs. Herbert Whitney and Mrs. Owen of Salinas, besides a son and two daughters living in the East. The late Martin Birks was also her son. Mrs. Wilmot ws the wife of M.B. Wilmot of Pacific Grove, and she is survived by the following children: Mrs. Clinton Wallace, Mrs. Mamie Looman, mark Wilmot, Miles Wilmot, and May Wilmot. Both women were well and favorably known here to a large circle of friends, and the American joins with the entire community in extending the sincerest sympathy to the sorrowing relatives in this, the home their sad bereavement. (Malinda F. Wilmot buried in El Carmelo Cemetery).
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Inquest Held This Morning
This morning at ten oclock, Judge Michaelis conducted the inquest looking into the death of Mrs. Riley Birks and Mrs. M.B. Wilmot. The coroners jury brought in a verdict of accidental death from drowning by being thrown out of a wagon while crossing the Carmel river. The jury was composed of J. Harris, Fred Nickerson, Thomas Watson, Tony Goncalves, Steve Field, F.M. Hilby, Charles Ollason and S.M. Bevins.
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William Merriette Pleasant, Jr. was a Fine Artist, Sign Painter and one of the early members of the Savannah NAACP. And attended Tyler School of Art and Design of Philadelphia, Penn. He was first of the founding members of the Bahai Faith in Savannah, Georgia and served on the assembly. As a gifted child prodigy he appeared on the Major Bowles Amateur Hour, a then famous national radio program, and subsequently toured the nation as a noted junior showman, and a featured guest on WOR radio in NYC.
David Pleasant is an award winning master percussionist/scholar, composer/choreographer, and writer. His work is inspired by the peculiar traditions of Gullah-Geechee culture and in 1993 he created "RiddimAthon! Inc.", a performance and teaching method developed from a synthesis of African, Caribbean and African-American sound and movement traditions.
Jalal PLEASANT is a represented Installation Artist, Visual Designer and Independent Film Maker. Better known as "PLEASANT". An alumnus of the New York School of Visual Arts, Pleasant's art often walks a fine line between social commentary, parody and satire. Which is presented through his ongoing series of high profile exhibitions and presentations of art internationally.


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DVD & CD Set released in August 2009, containing Highlights of the 2007 German OKEY Festival. Artists featured are; Claudia Hirschfeld, George Fleury, Robert Bartha, Sarah Foley, Mark Whale & Ady Zehnpfennig.
The DVD and CD contain completely different tracks, the CD is NOT an audio version of the DVD.
16 Track DVD (Running Time: 1 Hour 23 Minutes):
OKEY live 2007 Introduction (1:29) - Claudia Hirschfeld: Festival March
GEORGE FLEURY: Johnny Note Plays Classic Rock (4:21)
GEORGE FLEURY: Scherzo B-Dur (2:58)
SARAH FOLEY: Sudamerikanisches Medley (4:55): Amorada / Tico Tico
SARAH FOLEY: Corn-Flakes (2:56)
ROBERT BARTHA: Hammond Medley (4:45): Take The 'A' Train / Mackie Messer
ROBERT BARTHA: Emporio (4:04)
CLAUDIA HIRSCHFELD: Credo (4:32)
CLAUDIA HIRSCHFELD: Gospel Medley (6:05)
MARK WHALE: Russische Impressionen (5:51)
MARK WHALE: Ode an die Freude (6:34)
ADY ZEHNPFENNIG: Medley: Wien bleibt Wien (7:55)
ADY ZEHNPFENNIG: Marco Polo (4:40)
ADY ZEHNPFENNIG & MARK WHALE: El Cumbanchero (5:25)
Impressionen von der Produktausstellung (2:55): Robert Bartha: Smooth Lounge
Impressionen von den Konzerten, Matineen und Latenights (3:34): Claudia Hirschfeld: My Love To You
13 Track CD (Running Time: 1 Hour 09 Minutes):
ADY ZEHNPFENNIG: ABBA Medley (8:19): Mamma Mia / Waterloo / Fernando / Dancing Queen
GEORGE FLEURY: Jill's Theme (4:27)
ROBERT BARTHA: It Had Better Be Tonight (3:19)
CLAUDIA HIRSCHFELD: Lara's Theme (3:37)
MARK WHALE: Drawbar-Medley (7:14): I Left My Heart in San Francisco / Sprach Zarathustra
GEORGE FLEURY: Noreen's Nocturne (2:23)
CLAUDIA HIRSCHFELD: Wenn der Herrgott Net Will, Nützt es Gar Nix (3:12)
ROBERT BARTHA: Medley from "My Fair Lady" (10:23)
CLAUDIA HIRSCHFELD: Radetzky March (3:37)
ADY ZEHNPFENNIG: Evergreen Medley (10:43): In the Mood / Charmaine / Tea for Two / Rock Around the Clock / Wiener Praterleben
GEORGE FLEURY: New York, New York (3:37)
CLAUDIA HIRSCHFELD: Dob's Boogie (3:03)
GEORGE FLEURY: Caprichosos de la Habana (4:53)
Since its successful launch in 2007, OKEY live has grown into a major event as a unique festival for electronic keyboard instruments. Besides a comprehensive product exhibition, the concerts of internationally acclaimed artists attract numerous fans to the festival from all over Europe at hotel Zweibrücker Hof in Herdecke, Germany.
The festival's premiere, organized by the German magazine OKEY, took place from September 20th to 23rd, 2007 and was attended by extraordinary artists; Sarah Foley, Claudia Hirschfeld, Robert Bartha, George Fleury, Mark Whale, Ady Zehnpfennig, Hector Olivera, Barbara Dennerlein and many more.
This DVD & CD set contains a selection of musical highlights, a precious souvenir for all who were there as well as a great introduction to those who could not attend. It also serves also as appetizer for the forthcoming OKEY live festivals.
Please note that due to legal reasons, not all festival artists could be included on the CD and DVD.
DVD Running Time: 1 Hour 23 Minutes (Multi-Region PAL).
CD Running Time: 1 Hour 09 Minutes (different tracks to the DVD).


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Plan a Switzerland Tour to Experience Heaven on Earth
If you want to experience paradise on earth, then there is no place apart from Switzerland, where nature has deposited the entire generosity one can imagine. You must have visited countless other countries in the world, but after taking Switzerland Tour, you will forget all your past fond memories as this tour will be etched in your mind as the most unforgettable and cherished experience of your life. Most of the honeymoon couple opt for Switzerland Tour as this is the foremost romantic destination in the world and no other destination can even match it.
With its mesmerizing scenery, lofty mountains covered with snow, peaceful lakes and glaciers, travel to Switzerland is ideal for everyone, whether someone is on family vacation, honeymooners or holiday makers, the country has something to offer to everyone. Switzerland Tours are appropriate in all seasons as the entire climatic condition has its own beauty and specialty. Adventure lovers and those who love snow, travel to Switzerland in winter when the whole country is covered with fairy snow. This is due to the fact that they can get ample opportunity for snowboarding, skiing, snow rafting and enjoy downhill sledge ride. Sport enthusiasts travel to Switzerland during summer as there are many exciting range of adventurous sports in store for them ,such as paragliding, mountain climbing, bungee jumping glacier tours, water skiing, mountain biking and hot air ballooning.
As network of rail links are amazing, visitors can explore Switzerland on rail in a comfortable way. Mount Platus is the steepest railway line in the world and is famous for its panoramic view. Tourists can also take a cable car ride and explore the high peak mountains. Experience the taste of Swiss chocolates, fine cheese and wine never found more delicious before. Do you want to capture some of the lifetime photo opportunity? Then surely visit Interlaken, famous for snow and thus attracts maximum number of tourists from all over the world. It's peaceful and calmness makes it a perfect destination for honeymooners where they get ample time for each other and at the same time enjoy the beauty of nature.
As it is heaven for tourists, Switzerland receives the largest number of them from the whole world each year. By travelling to Switzerland, you would automatically realize that you could have missed the sense of paradise on earth without paying a visit to this heavenly place. So don't ever miss this golden chance of experiencing heavenly atmosphere and immediately plan a Switzerland Tour as soon as possible.
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Just yesterday we shared the first ever look at James Wan's The Conjuring (previously The Warren Files), which doesn't open until July 19, 2013. Now, EW has a second image featuring Vera Farmiga as Lorraine Warren, alongside Patrick Wilson as her husband Ed, who are investigating a haunting at the Perrons (Lilli Taylor and Ron Livingston) household.
Wan, director of Saw, Dead Silence and Insidious, tells this alternate take on The Amityville Horror that's inspired by the supernatural events that happened in the Rhode Island home of the Perron family.
Word is that this film is absolutely terrifying, and screen testing through the roof. Wan is riding high, and thus emerging as an A-list director ready to take his talents to the next level.


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Switzerland, on the other hand, is grappling with the deleterious effects of the huge gains in the Swiss franc on the country's economy. That which the SNB previously feared, has now apparently materialized; the index of leading economic indicators has fallen by more than had been anticipated by economists. In the wake of such findings, it might be logical to assume that the SNB will take further measures to restrain the franc.
Currency traders appear to be betting on as much; the franc fell against all 16 of its currency counterparts and is now on track for a third week of losses against the euro. It has already climbed 12% year-to-date and is the best performer among ten other developed-nation currencies. The SNB says that's more than enough, and perhaps, way too much.
The recent spectacular rise and fall in gold has only intensified the battle for the hearts and minds of retail investors being waged by the ever-ready-to-fleece throngs of opportunists who lurk in the waters of the financial world. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has found it necessary to come out and warn about gold-related scams/cons/come-ons in a bold statement the other day. Interestingly, FINRA found that gold is being promoted based on a couple of premises that might be all too familiar to readers of many a so-called respectable and popular hard money publication.
Namely, FINRA cautions would-be gold buyers not to fall for the gold sales pitch that employs the scare of hyperinflation and/or the one related to an imminent economic meltdown. Ha. That would leave about 2.5 publications that correctly frame gold as a necessary insurance asset that (in small doses) might be good for most portfolios. At the present time, gold bullion -oriented and gold stocks-oriented investments are on the top 10 most popular products being pitched at hapless and unwary buyers. But, the herd mentality syndrome remains alive and well, apparently.
To wit, guess what has replaced real estate (and to a certain extent equities) as the "must-have" investment of the day? Well, you already know that answer (and it make for a perfect contrarian "mania" signal all of its own). A recent Gallup Poll shows that gold is thought to be the best long-term investment; a belief shared by no less than 34% of Americans. This, despite the fact that-if you consider "long-term" as 30 years, the yellow metal has been unable to offer a break-even to those who bought it at $875 the ounce back in 1980.
Real estate (that's so…2006 now!) has fallen to second place, with only 19% believing in it any longer. You do however recall how real estate and real estate "investing" was being promoted/positioned/hallowed just a few short years ago…As for savings accounts and bonds, well, don't even go there. Americans sure aren't.
Have a nice weekend,
Jon Nadler is a Senior Metals Analyst at Kitco Metals Inc. North America
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Tenants Must Evaluate Whether a Building Owner has the Financial Resources to Meet their Occupancy Needs
During any office lease negotiation it is standard practice for a building owner to request financial statements from the prospective tenant, as any prudent Landlord will underwrite the creditworthiness of a company for the ability to meet the financial obligations of the lease. How much the Landlord will invest in the transaction (i.e. leasehold improvements, design fees, commissions, etc.) is impacted by the tenant's financial stability.
In today's market, tenant's that are looking for new space should be asking their tenant representatives to provide some background on the financial strength of the Landlord.
Loan Delinquency Rates on the Rise
Despite generally improving market conditions in most major markets, loan delinquencies for office buildings are on the rise. Trepp, LLC, the leading provider of information, analytics and technology to the CMBS, commercial real estate and banking markets, recently released its May 2012 U.S. CMBS Delinquency Rate. The delinquency rate for U.S. commercial real estate loans in CMBS jumped 24 basis points in May to 10.04%. In the process, the rate broke through the 10% threshold for the first time ever.
Asking the Sensitive Questions
Landlords and their leasing agents are not always receptive to such questions about the financial situation of the Landlord, but in today's market it is critical to ask questions about the building loan and where the capital comes from. Over the past few years due to the economic downturn an increasing number of tenants have experienced issues in situations where reputable and well-intentioned office building owners are over-leveraged on the property and lack the available capital to sufficiently maintain and operate the building.
Tenant's that are looking for new space, tenants and their brokers should be conducting their own due diligence on the ownership of candidate buildings. In many cases the tenant representative can provide you with background on other properties the owner controls in the market. A good practice is to tour these buildings and talk to existing tenants in the building your are considering, and other properties in the owners portfolio.
When looking for office space tenants and their brokers typically carefully evaluate many factors for buildings under consideration, but often make assumptions as to the financial strength of the Landlord. The lure of a great economic deal in a high quality building can be negated if the building owner lacks the financial capital to adequately operate the property or might relinquish the property to the Lender in the coming months.
Selecting a Landlord with adequate financial resources and a track record of utilizing conservative levels of debt can a long way in ensuring you will receive a high-level of service throughout the life of a lease.


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"I don't see how anybody could believe what that man says," says the rapper Ice Cube of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
He's not one to mince words. The West Coast hip-hop luminary's new single, "Everythang's Corrupt," is a no-holds-barred, politically charged record that plumbs the seedy, greedy underbelly that stinks up so much of American society. It's also the title track off his next LP, his first since 2010, which the MC hopes to have on shelves by spring 2013.
Romney features prominently in the new video for the single. "He just reminds me of somebody who's trying to sell me a Mercedes Benz," says Cube. "He'll tell me that it looks good on me and this is my color and I can afford it and everything, just to get the sale. It's astonishing that people are buying into that at the rate they are."
A self-described "political head," Ice Cube says the track speaks to the corruption rampant in everything from politics to education to sports, but he notes that he was particularly inspired by the 99-percenters who spearheaded the Occupy movement. "That right there was basically the classes clashing. You were able to see the power of the rich really trying to step on the poor. It was really clear, it was really in your face. Corruption was in the air and everywhere."
After laying down his lyrics, however, Ice Cube recalls playing "Everythang's Corrupt" and thinking the track needed something to kick it up another notch – so he enlisted Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello. Though the two knew each other and had long admired each other's work, they'd never collaborated, and Ice Cube figured this was the perfect chance. He sent Morello the cut without any instructions and let the axe man do his thing. He added crunchy, funky riffs and a screeching solo to close out the song.
The track, of course, comes at a crucial time, with the election right around the corner and political fervor reaching a boiling point. While the song focuses specifically on corruption, Ice Cube hopes it will help people get their "antennas up" about the world around them as a whole.
"When it comes to political hip-hop, it's like beauty – it's in the eye of the beholder," he says. "Whatever you get out of this song is intended."
There's plenty to fuel that perspective, and Ice Cube adds that he's been following this year's presidential race rather closely. The rapper praised President Obama for the work he's been able to accomplish despite "a do-nothing Congress and the Party of No," and he hopes if Obama is re-elected, he'll focus on jobs and ending poverty. "We have to deal with that," he says. "We're never gonna give what we need to give as a country if some of our citizens are lower than Third World."
Ice Cube does note, however, that while Everythang's Corrupt will have its fair share of politically charged moments (like the song "Dominate the Weak"), it's not a wholly political record. For instance, there's "Damn Homie," which Ice Cube says with a laugh, is about "a dude that was the shit in high school, and I see him now and he's fat and looks like Homer Simpson."
Everythang's Corrupt also marks Ice Cube's first studio release since 2010's I Am The West, though the MC says getting back into the studio felt easy and natural. "I try to work in a pure way," he says. "Being independent, to me, it's more of a boutique type of deal – you should not be a trendsetter, you should kinda do your own thing, and people will appreciate you for that."


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Considered by many to be a master of cutting-edge cinema, Harmony Korine first shocked audiences and the film industry when he wrote the screenplay for Kids, which Larry Clark directed and which launched the careers of Chloë Sevigny and Rosario Dawson in 1995. He followed that with the unconventional and controversial Gummo, earning the respect of fellow filmmakers Werner Herzog and Gus Van Sant while alienating many theatergoers with graphically violent and sometimes incomprehensible scenes. Korine has continued to confound Hollywood by making movies and documentaries meant to please himself, with a blissful ignorance of the box-office consequences.
JAMES FRANCO: We're doing this movie Spring Breakers together, about a group of college girls who rob a restaurant to fund their spring break. Where did the idea come from?
KORINE: I saw pictures of these girls, spring break girls or something, and I imagined what it would be like seeing girls in bikinis with ski masks and guns. I thought, Wow, that's a cool image. How could that be a reality? I thought spring break would be the only place. Really quickly, over maybe just one or two days, I started writing the outline. I thought to send it to you—which I never, ever do. I never send anybody something before it's actually written—but it was just the idea.
FRANCO: I loved the world of it. I just wanted one level of it to feel real. I loved the gloss and everything on the top, but make the murders real. Then you went off and wrote it.
KORINE: I jumped on an airplane, and it was spring break. I checked into a hotel and wrote it in 10 days or something while teenagers were listening to Taylor Swift and vomiting on my front door. I'd gone to the wrong place, Daytona Beach, because when I was a kid that's where they all went. It was just fat bikers and lesbians everywhere. Some woman in a stationery shop or whatever—she was like a bodybuilder—said, "Spring break hasn't been here since the 1980s or the early 1990s. It's in Panama City." So I jumped on an airplane, went to Panama City and checked in to the Holiday Inn. It was like ground zero for spring break. It was mayhem. It was so disgusting—people fucking everywhere and puking, music all night. It was impossible for me to write or focus. It was like living in hell.
FRANCO: Tell me about the specifics of Kids, your first movie.
KORINE: That one is such a fluke. I was straight out of high school when I wrote it. When I met the director Larry Clark, I was going to NYU. It was my first semester. I'd moved up from Nashville and was living in my grandma's house. I was in a dramatic-writing program. I used to make short films in high school, but I didn't want to go to film school because I understood the basic technical ideas. I knew how to make films.
FRANCO: Blockbuster refused to carry Kids.
KORINE: That was exciting to me. I loved it. I was happy because people were talking about it. Honestly, the whole thing with Kids was that I was excited it made so much noise because then I could make my own movies; I got to make Gummo. To this day I feel the same way. I don't care all that much if you like what I do. I want people to love what I do; I want an audience. You always hope that people like it more than they dislike it, but I don't really sit around and think about it.
FRANCO: Because your movies are unusual you've said, "I make it and I want people to like it, but I'm also in a place where my idea of success is not if the biggest number of people like it." Why make movies for theatrical audiences if that's your attitude? You're connected to the art world, and you've shown movies at the Whitney Museum.
KORINE: I always make movies, all of them, for the theater because all my greatest experiences in life were in movie theaters. All my most profound moments came from being in a theater and seeing things projected. I always start with that, because that, for me, is the best.
FRANCO: If it ever became really hard to make movies for the theaters, would you just say fuck it?
KORINE: I never wanted to be part of a film world. It's all the same to me, the artwork, the writing, the books, whatever it is, the movies—it's all part of the same idea, and it always has been. It's part of a unified aesthetic or a unified idea that even a scribble on a piece of paper is connected in some way. There's a relationship between them. I want to be able to just do it. I never cared about being the best writer or the best artist or the best director. I wanted to be the best me.
FRANCO: That relates to what you told me about Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
KORINE: I remembered reading something Fassbinder talked about that made a huge impression. He mentioned that he didn't care about making masterpieces. What he was really concerned about was making films like emotions, films for different reasons at different times in his life that correspond with emotions or things he was going through. He compared it to a house. He said some of his films were like the floorboards, some were like the chimney, some were the kitchen, some the front door and some the bathroom. The idea was that at the end of your life you've amassed enough work that you've built a house you can live in and in some way be comfortable inside. I remember that having an impact on me, because I understood what he was saying. A lot of times people are just chasing this one thing. For me, it is important that at the end of my life I've put enough stuff out there that it has some type of meaning and some type of an effect. It all says everything and it all says nothing. That's the thing. What does your work mean? It means everything and nothing.


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October 2015 - Viking Buri to Europe
The Viking boat experience itself was exceptional. Though some were exceptional (Avignon) the onshore excursions guides were somewhat disappointing in comparison to our previous cruise. Of particular note here was Arles, which was the optional included tour supposedly concentrating on Van Gogh. Our guide literally picked up postcards from a kiosk rack and said well he painted this here and that there, etc. Others abandoned the tour but we stuck with it thinking it had to get better.Having previously visited Arles and loved it we played up the visit to our friends. After that tour they questioned our advice on the visit. The food though was even better that our previous trip. The Viking employees were all great, especially our server Robert in the dining area. Our Nice extension guide was also exceptional and made that part of the visit.


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Dev8ed Workshop: How to Build & Develop Responsive Open Learning Environments with the ROLE SDK
Dominik Renzel began the workshop by describing the ROLE project and the APIs they have been developing recently. He noted the tremendous shift in education away from "boring" lectures towards more interactive work in groups, where the learners are in control of the learning. The means educators need to create new tools for their specific domains. The ROLE project is facilitating this by creating an SDK and APIs to help create domain-specific widgets for widget-based Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) using Open Social widgets.
The workshop provided participants with some widget basics, including how to create and deploy a widget, then add it to a PLE. It also provided an opportunity to use the ROLE APIs to make a widget manage shared resources and communicate in real-time.
Renzel was joined by Sten Govaert to provide participants with step by step guidance to create a widget in a text editor, host it online using Dropbox, use the ROLE sandbox to build a widget-based PLE for testing, and how to experiment with the ROLE OpenApp and Inter-Widget Communication API.
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In the high-stakes battle over health care, a growing cadre of liberal activists is aiming its sharpest firepower against Democratic senators who they accuse of being insufficiently committed to the cause.
The attacks — ranging from tart news releases to full-fledged advertising campaigns — have elicited rebuttals from lawmakers and sparked a debate inside the party over the best strategy for achieving President Obama's top priority of a comprehensive health-system overhaul.
The rising tensions between Democratic legislators and constituencies that would typically be their natural allies underscore the high hurdles for Obama as he tries to hold together a diverse, fragile coalition. Activists say they are simply pressing for quick delivery of "true health reform," but the intraparty rift runs the risk of alienating centrist Democrats who will be needed to pass a bill.
In recent days — and during this week's congressional recess — left-leaning bloggers and grass-roots organizations such as MoveOn.org, Health Care for America Now and the Service Employees International Union have singled out Democratic Sens. Ben Nelson (Neb.), Mary Landrieu (La.), Ron Wyden (Ore.), Arlen Specter (Pa.) and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) for the criticism more often reserved for opposition party members.
"Will Mary Landrieu sell out Louisiana for $1.6 million?" says one Internet ad that suggests a link between contributions she has received from the medical industry and her reluctance to back the creation of a government-sponsored insurance option.
Why the full frontal assault on Democrats? Simple. If Harry Reid can muster a simple majority, the leftist Democrats plan on blasting this health care "fix" (it is not) through, bypassing the normal rules of the Senate.
What they are not calculating, I suspect, is that should they do so, they will own – wholly – the ire of those people who are forced off their private health insurance because their employers decided it was cheaper to pay than play in a rigged game.
If I were one of the targeted Democrats, my back would be up right now. I sincerely hope this effort by the likes of MorOn.org accomplishes exactly the same result as their attacks on the surge in Iraq: the opposite of what they intended.
I'll just point out that MorOn.org is very, very loud and knows how to grab left-leaning media attention. But in terms of actual strength, not so much. So the targeted Senators have no real reason to fear the sliming from such groups.
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Vermont is open for fall foliage exploring!
Yes! Vermont is open for business and fall foliage exploring…
Silas Griffith Inn in Danby Vermont
I was talking with Catherine at the Silas Griffith Inn in Danby Vermont this morning and she gave me the rundown on the roads in her area. She says Route 7 is in good shape and within a week or so she thinks the one slowdown (at Manchester) will be fully open on down to Bennington. They did suffer a loss in Danby as the Pearl S. Buck house, that the Historical Society just moved into was lost to the nearby flooding river.
The real downside is that all of the roads I like to travel in the Green Mountain National Forest are pretty much closed except to local traffic.
Hopefully, in the next two to three weeks some of them will open up. I will do my best to keep you updated from my friends and photographers who travel that way.
I was up on Vermont.com and found another Vermont road condition map and I was thinking about what we lose during these catastrophic events. I don't have a good picture of the building that was the home for a time of Pearl S. Buck. All I have is a picture of the sign that still stands where the house stood until Irene came through.
My wife grew up in Vermont so this could be why I have strong feelings about losing these places.
Maybe it's more about being a photographer and as I travel through New England taking pictures of scenic vistas I realize one thing. We can never know if they will be there, the next time we travel that way.
As you look through my images (and I hope you enjoy them) perhaps you'll think about the lives that have been disrupted by the storm. Maybe you'll think about coming up to Vermont and go find other Covered Bridges that are still standing.
Many of these are a hundred or more years old and unless we take care of them, they won't be there forever. Imagine losing such a treasure to the ravages of time or weather as we did with the Bartonsville covered bridge. Maybe at some point in the future, all we'll have is a photograph like you're seeing here.
So I hope you'll stop by Vermont and do a little exploring this fall. Take a day to find a covered bridge or maybe go pick out a few Pumpkins to carve for Halloween. Either way just get out there and enjoy the cool days by savoring the flavor of Vermont.
The absolute best fall foliage song in the world!
If you don't know who Cheryl Wheeler is or her song "When fall comes to New England" then you are missing what I feel is the most incredible flavor of fall in New England. What you can do is click on the video slideshow below where I have blended her song "When fall comes to New England with my own photography. I think the results are quite nice…Jeff "Foliage" Folger You can purchase images by visiting my Fine Art Gallery websites
- My Gallery on Fine Art America
- Try out the new Fall foliage forum
- Join my New England Fall Foliage page on Facebook
- Follow @Foliage_Reports on Twitter
- Follow me on Instagram @Jeff_Foliage
Jeff Foliage
but people call me Jeff Foliage.
I have several pages that I write blogs for such as: http://www.4cornersnewengland.com/
My most popular blog is for Leaf peepers: Jeff Foliage.com.
I live in Salem, Massachusetts and work as a blogger and Travel Photographer. I'm also the founder of the New England Photography Guild.
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On IRAs and long-term care insurance
Updated 7:33 am, Thursday, April 3, 2014
Today I have answers to reader questions on using tax-deferred money to buy long-term care insurance, whether parents can qualify for public service loan forgiveness, and required minimum distributions from individual retirement accounts.
Q: Edward K. asks, "Is it possible to roll over tax-deferred money from an IRA into a long-term care policy and if so, what are the tax ramifications?"
A: You can take money out of a traditional IRA and use the proceeds to buy long-term care insurance, but you will owe tax on the money you take out, and possibly a penalty if you are younger than 59 1/2.
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However, there are other ways you can use tax-deferred money to buy long-term care without incurring a tax hit.
The Patient Protection Act of 2006 lets people use money in a tax-deferred annuity (outside of an IRA) or cash-value life insurance policy to purchase long-term care insurance without incurring taxes.
There are some drawbacks, and the company holding your annuity or life insurance must allow it. Most won't, says Jesse Slome, executive director of the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance.
Leonard Wright, a CPA in San Diego, says he has encountered companies that will.
You can also use money from a Health Savings Account (which is funded with pretax dollars) to pay for long-term care insurance premiums - up to a certain amount based on your age - without paying taxes on it, Wright says.
To see the limits, go to http://bit.ly/1mIJS2V.
Certain retired public safety officers also can take tax-free withdrawals from their retirement plans (such as 403(b) and 457 plans) to pay for long-term care insurance for themselves, spouses and dependents, Wright says.
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Q: Ed V. writes: "I read about student loans by government employees that may be forgiven. My wife and I are retired government employees from the city and county of San Francisco. We have been paying (Sallie Mae) for over 10 years for parent loans for our kids' college. Can this be forgiven?"
A: In most cases, parent Plus loans are not eligible for the federal government's public service loan forgiveness program, says Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Edvisors.com.
This program will forgive the remaining principal and interest balance on federal student loans of borrowers who work full-time in a public service job for 10 years. To have anything left to forgive after 10 years (120 months) of payments, you effectively must be in the income-based, income-contingent or pay-as-you-earn repayment plan in the government's Direct Loan program.
These plans let borrowers with heavy debts relative to their incomes stretch out payments beyond the standard 10-year repayment period. Jobs in public service and nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations qualify for the program.
The clock started on Oct. 1, 2007. Public service employment and payments made before that date do not count toward the 120-payment requirement.
Also, only federal student loans are eligible.
Most federal parent Plus loans do not qualify because they are not eligible for income-based, income-contingent or pay-as-you-earn repayment plans. However, there is one loophole, Kantrowitz says.
"If you consolidate a parent Plus loan into the direct loan program, and that loan entered repayment after July 1, 2006, then the consolidation loan is eligible for income-contingent repayment. As a result, there is the potential of getting public service loan forgiveness after 10 years of income-contingent repayment," he says.
Only recent borrowers of parent Plus loans can potentially squeeze through his loophole. The reader won't qualify based on when they got the loans, Kantrowitz says.
Q: Gunnar N. asks, "I have to take required minimum distributions from an IRA. My RMD amount is determined by dividing the account balance on Dec. 31 of the previous year by an age factor. Am I allowed to do the following: On, say Dec. 28, withdraw an amount larger than my RMD for the year, and then on Jan. 3 roll the distribution, less the RMD amount, back into the same IRA? My RMD for the current year should now be smaller because my account balance on Dec. 31 was smaller."
A: "It's a nice idea, but it won't work," says Jeffrey Levine, an IRA technical consultant with Ed Slott and Co. "The Dec. 31 prior year-end balance that is used to calculate RMDs gets adjusted for any outstanding rollovers that are completed after the year-end."
Take an extreme example of someone with a $100,000 IRA who takes a full distribution on Dec. 30. On Dec. 31, they have zero IRA balance so they assume no RMD. Now, in January of the following year, they roll back over the $100,000 to an IRA to avoid the taxes on the distribution. The $100,000 must be added back into the prior year-end balance as an outstanding rollover, thus negating the desired effect.
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Lev Grossman will launch the new Club Book season Aug. 11 with a reading from "The Magician's Land," the third and final installment of his "Magicians" trilogy, at 7 p.m. at Roseville Library, 2180 N. Hamline Ave., Roseville.
Eight other authors will be hosted by metro-area libraries for programs presented by Metropolitan Library Service Agency and coordinated by Library Strategies, consulting group of Friends of the St. Paul Public Library. The programs are free and open to the public.
Here are the visiting writers:
Amy Bloom, 7 p.m. Aug. 14, Galaxie Library, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley — Novelist, short-story writer and screenwriter introduces her third full-length novel, "Lucky Us."
Louise Penny, 2 p.m. Aug. 30, Prior Lake Library, 16210 Eagle Creek Ave. S.E., Prior Lake — Canadian mystery writer introduces "The Long Way Home," 10th in her popular Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series set in Quebec.
Jennifer McMahon, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 11, Chanhassen Library, 7711 Kerber Blvd., Chanhassen — Reads from "The Winter People," her novel that straddles the line between conventional mystery and supernatural thriller.
Sue Miller, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 25, Central Park Amphitheater, 8595 Central Park Place, Woodbury — Author of nearly a dozen bestselling and critically-acclaimed novels introduces "The Arsonist."
Hampton Sides, 7 p.m. Oct. 13, Southdale Library, 7001 York Ave. S., Edina — Historian who wrote "Ghost Soldiers" discusses "In the Kingdom of Ice," a tale of polar exploration and survival.
Julie Klassen, 7 p.m. Oct. 21, Rum River Library, 4201 Sixth Ave., Anoka — Award-winning Minnesota writer of Regency romances discusses "The Dancing Master," about professionals who taught young ladies the social graces necessary for public life in high society.
Rebecca Rasmussen, 7 p.m. Nov. 6, Stillwater Public Library, 224 N. Third St., Stillwater — Novelist and short story writer introduces "Evergreen," her novel about a woman living in Minnesota's north woods in 1938.
Nikki Giovanni, 7 p.m. Nov. 13, Arlington Hills Library and Community Center, 1200 Payne Ave., St. Paul — Poet with nearly 20 collections to her credit, as well as 10 children's books, discusses her career as a writer and civil rights activist. — Mary Ann Grossmann


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... frail Magyar was punting on numbers with immense pluck and uniform ill fortune. Behind her stood a Viennese gentleman of my acquaintance, who enjoys a certain renown amongst his friends for the faculty of prophecy, which, however, he seldom exercises for his own benefit. Observing that she hesitated about staking her double florin, he advised her to set it on the number 3. Round went the wheel, and in twenty seconds the ball tumbled into compartment 3 sure enough. At the next turn she asked his advice, and was told to try number 24. No sooner said than done, and 24 came up in due course, whereby Mdlle L. C. won 140 odd gulden in two coups, the amount risked by her being exactly four florins. Like a wise girl, she walked off with her booty, and played no more that day at Roulette. A few minutes later I saw an Englishman go through the performance of losing four thousand francs by experimentalizing on single numbers. Twenty times running did he set ten louis-d'ors on a number (varying the number at each stake), and not one of his selection proved successful. At the "Thirty and Forty " I saw an eminent diplomatist win sixty thousand francs with scarcely an intermission of failure; he played all over the table, pushing his rouleaux backwards and forwards, from black to red, without any appearance of system that I could detect, and the cards seemed to follow his inspiration. It was a great battle; as usual, three or four smaller fish followed in his wake, till they lost courage and set against him, much to their discomfiture and the advantage of the bank; but from first to last--that is, till the cards ran out, and he left the table--he was steadily victorious. In the evening he went in again for another heavy bout, at which I chanced to be...
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Like so many of jamaican Hit-Makers, Spectacular is a product of the ghetto (born January 26th, 1976 in Kingston, Jamaica). He hails from the Kencot area of Kingston and was educated at the Maxfield Park Primary- and Norman Manley High-School. It was from the street corner that he graduated to start hanging out at the Penthouse recording facility, after school. In 1993 he made his first major stage performance after he had passed an audition for the "Yard and Broad" promoted, StarWave 93, at Fort Clarence/ Jamaica. In 1996 his first recording, "I Love This Girl", on the Chop Chop Label, was released. Right after this first record, Spectacular was burning more fire on the jamaican airwaves with Hit-Singles like "Melody In Your Voice" for Buju Bantons Gargamel Label and "Push On Though", "Who Hail The Man" an "Love & Joy" produced by veteran engineer "Soljie" Hamilton and Dean Frazier. Between 1997 and 2000 Spectacular performed on countless stageshows in Jamaica and recorded for Producers like Bobby Digital or Dean Frazier. Within the years Spectacular worked with different european Producers like Ganglords from Switzerland and Pionear from Germaican Records in Germany to built a strong link with the european reggae market. In 2003 he went to switzerland for his first 4 shows overseas. In 2004 he toured in Austria and Germany together with Lutan Fyah and I-Tal Acoustic Sound. While Spectacular was on tour he voiced for several producers in europe to create enough tunes for his first Album. This succesfull tour created a strong name for the artist in the european reggae-scene and finally leads Spectacular to his first album called "Find Yourself". Later during the year he performed in france & spain, alltogether he did 20 shows in france, spain, germany & austria in 2004. In June 2005 his first Album called "Find Yourself" is released in europe. During 2k5 Spectacular has performed 14 shows all over europe (Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, France & Spain), including four mayor festivals (Nidergösgensplash -Switzerland, Wiesen Vibration - Austria, Rototom Sunsplash - Italy & Summerjam - Germany) & the Half Pint Europe Shows. He also performed several shows in Jamaica & on the Cayman Islands. His 7-Inch Releases in Jamaica are more constant then in the past, he recorded several tunes incl. a combination with Lutan Fyah & Luciano. For 2006 Spectacular is expected to be back in europe (february) & for the first time in the USA (West-USA). Also the Album "Find Yourself" will be relaesed in the States in spring/ summer. Two other albums are on the way...one with US label named I n I Foundation and the other on Irie Ites Records. Few months later, the world discovered his heavy hits "Chant" and "Highgrade feat.Turbulence", on Rocking Time Riddim, and bussed him up in the charts worlwide !!! On Irie Ites latest release, Borderline Riddim, Spectacular has another great tune called Solution available now on 7. You still can get some of Spectaculars singles on labels like Minor7Flat5, Germaican Records and also his great combinations with Sizzla, "All praise belongs to Jah", and Jah Cure, "Chant Rastaman"


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I 'Redshirted' My Kindergartner & Never Regretted It
I 'Redshirted' My Kindergartner & Never Regretted It
by Linda Sharps
My oldest son's birthday is on August 31. When we lived in the Seattle area, that was the kindergarten entry cutoff date -- meaning, if he'd turned 5 one day later, he wouldn't have been allowed to start school without petitioning for early entry. At the time, we were faced with a dilemma: did we want him to be the very youngest child in his class, or the very oldest?
I hemmed and hawed but ultimately made the choice to keep him at home for another year, primarily because I felt in my gut that he wasn't quite emotionally ready for a full day of school. In the years since, I've never once regretted doing so. He flourished the next year, and now at nearly 9, he seems exactly where's he's supposed to be.
Our decision seemed so personal, and so obviously beneficial for him, it's always surprising to hear that holding kids back -- a practice commonly referred to as "redshirting" -- has become a source of increasing controversy.
Wikipedia defines redshirting as "the practice of postponing entrance into kindergarten of age-eligible children in order to allow extra time for socioemotional, intellectual, or physical growth. This occurs most frequently where children's birthdays are so close to the cut-off dates that they are very likely to be among the youngest in their kindergarten class."
That hardly seems like a nefarious parenting choice, but as Slate puts it,
The practice of keeping young athletes on the bench until they are bigger and more skilled is highly controversial. The National Association of Early Childhood Specialists and the National Association for the Education of Young Children fiercely oppose it, saying that redshirting "labels children as failures at the outset of their school experience."
Wait. Young athletes on the bench? Aren't we maybe confusing the choice of not sending a barely-5-year old into kindergarten -- which, by the way, is hardly the play-and-color environment it used to be -- with the collegiate sports definition of redshirting?
Still, some claim that parents are choosing to hold back their kids in the hopes that starting them older will give them an academic and athletic leg up. I suppose this does happen, but don't lump me into that category. I had exactly zero plans to press pause on my child's kindergarten entry in order to somehow mold him into a harder, faster, stronger, better version of himself. What I was listening to was a quiet unease in my heart that told me, simply, that he wasn't quite ready.
Research is all over the place on the long-term effects of redshirting, probably because 1) people do it for so many different reasons, and 2) kids are unique beings who don't necessarily react to environments in the same way ... WHO KNEW?!!
Personally, I wouldn't care if a million studies came out telling me that redshirting was worse than letting my kid mainline two liters of sugary soda while sitting saucer-eyed in front of a Keeping Up With the Kardashians marathon. I know it was the right choice for our family because I see how my kid has been doing in school, which is to say: great. He's not at the very top of his class academically, he's not blowing everyone away in sports, he's not become some sort of charismatic leader ordering all the younger kids around like a mini Jim Jones. He's just ... happy, social, and pretty much right on target learning-wise. Looking at him compared to his classmates, you'd never guess he's likely the oldest one in the room.
And here's the kicker -- when I think about him heading back to school after he turns 9 on August 31, I realize that if I hadn't waited, he'd be going into fourth grade a couple weeks later. Fourth grade! That may not sound crazy to you, but it sure does to me. I can say this with perfect confidence, he's in the exact right place to be heading into third grade. If that's controversial ... well, I guess I can't be bothered to give a hoot.
What do you think about kindergarten redshirting?
Did you have to make a similar choice one way or the other if your child was born close to the cutoff date?
I have taught high school students for over two decades. I have NEVER met one parent who regretted waiting the year, but I have met PLENTY who wished that they had. My kids' birthdays are all mid-year so it was never a question, but I wouldn't have hesitated if they were spring/summer. You can't teach maturity and school is about A LOT more than just academics.
Unfortunately the kids that tend to be red-shirted are the kids whose parents can afford another year of quality preschool (or quality at-home teaching). The kids who could probably benefit from red-shirting the most are usually packed off to kindergrten as soon as they are eligible.
In our upper-middle-class area, nearly all the boys with summer birthdays, and most of the girls with summer birthdays, are held back. Heck, my DD (now going into senior year of high school) has a girlfriend with an APRIL birthday who was held back. Her dad is a principal and thought she "wasn't ready." Ha! The girl has been in honors and gifted classes all the way through school. My guess is that if she had started on time, she would have been well above average-- just not "gifted."
My son has a July birthday and he was not held back. He was at the top of his VPK class in terms of academic skills and his teachers advised him going to kindergarten. I asked about holding him back and they saw no reason to do so. The kids at our school who were red shirted do no better academically than the other kids. The kids who are behavior problems have some common underlying factors but it isn't age.
I do remember reading about some experimental school who divided up their grade by birth dates. They had good results, I just can't remember where I read it.
This is very true. My kids were VERY close to the cut off and while we felt that they were ready for kindergarten, we did not really have much of a choice, in that it was either stay home with me (where we did basic stuff but nothing curriculum based) or they could go to school and be taught properly. Would could NOT afford pre-k or anything like that.
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Unfortunately the kids that tend to be red-shirted are the kids whose parents can afford another year of quality preschool (or quality at-home teaching). The kids who could probably benefit from red-shirting the most are usually packed off to kindergrten as soon as they are eligible.
In our upper-middle-class area, nearly all the boys with summer birthdays, and most of the girls with summer birthdays, are held back. Heck, my DD (now going into senior year of high school) has a girlfriend with an APRIL birthday who was held back. Her dad is a principal and thought she "wasn't ready." Ha! The girl has been in honors and gifted classes all the way through school. My guess is that if she had started on time, she would have been well above average-- just not "gifted."
I don't think its something I would ever do. I have a June birthday AND I skipped a grade, so I only turned 17 a couple of days before I graduated hs. It was one of the best things that ever happened, being able to start college so young and having time to try different things before I settled down.
I'm torn. I know some kids who would have have benefited from it but it's gotten so common that when the kids here go on time when they are 5 they are put into classrooms with a lot of kids who are turning 7.
The first year my son went to kindergarten he turned 5 in May and school started in August. He struggled keeping up with other kids (a lot of factors were in play) and right before school got out I discovered that 5 of the 16 kids in his class were already 7 and 2 of them would be turning 7 over the summer. His birthday came after he last day of school and there were 4 kids including him that were still 5 on the last day of school. That's a large gap to have in one room when it's not planned that way.
He repeated kindergarten which I do regret some because not much changed other than he got much better in the areas he was already doing good in and the areas he was struggling with stayed about the same. At least he had an amazing teacher the second time around and she changed the way he viewed school in general which made it worth it and now we know why he's struggling so hopeflully first grade will be better.
I think it's the right choice for some kids. My dd has a September birthday so she was four when she started kindergarten but she was ready, she already had two years of pre k and was very social. She did great in school starting on time was the right choice for her.
I told my ex we should red shirt ds3 but he didn't listen. DS3 seem to do OK at first but he had some behavioral issues. In first grade those behavioral issues were still there. He is being held back to first not because he is not smart enough but because his teacher did not feel he was mature enough for second grade.


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A huge Green Sea Turtle from Malaysia that was trapped in a fisherman's net in Pulupandan, Negros Occidental, was set free yesterday.
Fisherman Clarence "Islaw" Garganera of Brgy. Zone 6, in the town, reported to the police that while he was pulling his fishnet or "salap" toward the shorelines at about 5 a.m. yesterday, a heavy object prevented him from controlling it until he saw a large turtle trapped inside.
Garganera brought the turtle to the shore and reported the matter to authorities, a press release from the Office of Mayor Magdaleno Peña said.
A DENR representative examined the turtle that weighed 200 kilograms with a length of 105 centimeters and 96 centimeters in width, it said.
Two wingtags were found on the turtle indicating that it came from 768 Sandakan, Sabah Malaysia. A new Philippine wingtag was clipped on it before it sent off to the sea, the press release added.


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This year I decided to finally grow papalo, Porophyllum ruderale, also known as quillquiña. This herb has a flavor somewhat similar to cilantro, but unlike that plant, it has thrived throughout a summer of triple digit days. Not having cooked with it before, it gave me an excuse to make a quick roasted salsa.
- 1-2 tomatoes
- Several hot peppers, I used a mix of fresh and dried peppers
- 1-2 cloves garlic
- 1 small onion
- a handful of papalo leaves, chopped
- 1/4 tsp salt
Heat a cast iron skillet on low. Cut the stems off of the peppers. I leave the seeds in the peppers, but you can remove them if you want the salsa to be less hot. Peel the onion and cut it in half. Roast the tomatoes, peppers and onion in the skillet without oil and turn them occasionally. Remove when they get a few black spots.
Add the tomato to a blender and blend it first without the other ingredients. You may have to cut the tomato into smaller pieces to get it to blend. Once the tomato has liquified add the other roasted ingredients, a little at a time until they also get thoroughly chopped. Then add the raw garlic, the papalo and the salt. Blend another ten to fifteen seconds and you're done.
Note: papalo has a stronger flavor than cilantro, so you may want to use a small quantity if you are not used to its flavor.
Tags: hot weather cilantro, papalo, Porophyllum ruderale, quillquiña, roasted salsa