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After Lil B's 80-minute, unscripted lecture at NYU last night, I returned home in a mania and did what seemed the most logical thing: transcribed it all. There's just something fitting about committing the Based God's words to text. What follows is a complete record of the night, from his suggestion to look at people like "golden, million-dollar babies" to his experiences with ants in the kitchen, his recommendations to wash your hands and wear seat belts, his fear of insulting Mitt Romney and his excitement about paying taxes. There are no words to convey this experience but Lil B's own.
Man. I love y'all, man. I hope this table don't fall and everything stays smooth. First off, NYU I want to say I love you. And thank each and every one of you, every beautiful person in the building, every legend, every historical human being. You know, every future legend in the building, man. I'm in the building with the future. Y'all going to be helping me when things get hard for me. That's what I hope. I hope everybody leaves this conversation together feeling like family. This is not everybody listening to me, this is everybody is a part of it. If you feel compelled to say something in your heart, please do, because at the end of the day we all have something to teach, and we all have something to say.
I want to come to this with a story that I feel symbolizes everybody in the building. This happened to me two days ago. I'm going to the gas station and this older guy—he looks like he's about 70. Me generalizing and stereotyping, I asked him, "Yo, excuse me sir, how you doing? What has changed for you in the last years? From like when you was younger until now?" And he was like, "You really wanna know?" And I was like, "Yes, sir, I really want to know." And he was like, "You know what has changed?" And he was like, "Your attitude." And that was deep, bro! That was deep! I feel that represents us all of us today.
I thank y'all for not judging me and being able to respect us being humans. That's what we should all be able to do. I specialize in love. A lot of people wonder, the small majority who don't understand wonder why Lil B would be here. But you know, it's good. I love to spread love, you know. That's what I'm here to do.
This is the big thing I want to speak on to set the tone: Nobody in this building asked to be born. You didn't ask to be you, bro. I didn't ask to be me. I didn't ask to have this skin. I didn't ask to be who I was, bro. Nobody in here asked that. The beautiful people? Your beautiful parents made you, bro. You didn't ask for that. You didn't ask to live where you live or anything. So when you see people, forgive them and accept, you feel me? You gotta open your mind and say, man, nobody asked to be born. Life is hard, kinda.
Ay, bruh, I love you positively. I love all y'all. With relationships and women and being together and everybody, man, it's just like… It's just real. I'm just happy you guys are getting the real me. No pen, no pad. I didn't script a speech. I come here and all I can do is be myself and spread love. But with relationships and stuff man, I'm just taking it slow. Taking it easy. A lot of things are happening real fast and I'm just taking my time and respecting women, respecting others. I mean, but that's obvious, though. To respect women is obvious, yo.
And a big thing I've been thinking about is the tone with a lot of people I meet and the media, I see it's a lot of: If you get hit, you hit back. Why is that? Real recognize real, bro. You get blessed out of situations. I did that situation because I wanted the world to see that you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive. You know, that was kind of embarrassing. I had a lot of hood credibility [makes quotation marks in the air]. I had a lot of imaginary hood respect. But you know, at the end of the day, it's no respect in being violent or a coward for no reason. It's no honor in picking on people. It's no honor in senseless violence. It's no honor in war.
But at the end of the day, I look at animals and insects. You know I'm the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. You know I adopted straight from the ASPCA, you feel me? Just breaking the boundaries, man, showing everybody it's okay to be yourself. Embrace yourself. Embrace your health. Ayyy! Just continue to love yourself and accept.
I can't lie, when I was younger I loved the media. I believed the media. I can say I was a product of my environment. You know, you grow up. I remember when I was younger, I didn't know how to walk. I was so young, I was wondering how I was walking. Am I walking weird? Something's in my butt? You know what I mean? But really so conscious, though. So hard on myself. And I say through time and love it's just easing up on yourself, easing up on life.
It's a lot of words people have given so much power. When I mean things to be specific, it's that tone of you hit me I hit you. That's not right. The new generation as I see it, how I hold my integrity, why I conduct myself in the way I do—people see me and they say, "He didn't retaliate or taunt that man, and he could have." There are people that love me. People were upset. But just because somebody wants to fight you for no reason, or because somebody says something to you, you can forgive that person. I'd be that guy's friend. You've gotta move on and be positive. We're way past dwelling. I spread that love. Keep it and don't be hard on yourself with anything, how you look to your weight to wanting to complete what your parents want you to be. Don't stress so hard. Pat yourself on the back. You're at NYU. Congratulations. What you guys are doing is very brave. Everybody that is going through school, you've made a huge sacrifice. All the staff, all the beautiful students, everybody that's here to teach. Shouts out to everybody that's here for learning and love and trying to find their way. I mean, shit. I mean, shoot. We're all trying to find our way. I want to thank you for embracing and accepting me, like really. I love you.
I want to show: have friends of all creeds, all colors, all races. Stop saying, black, white, this, that—we're all human. Now I don't know everything. This is my philosophy. But I feel like things are just generalizations. Drop all that. Stop giving negative words so much power. Instead of saying, "Hey, look at him, he's black," just say, "Hey, where are you from? What is your nationality?" Just take two seconds instead of generalizing, because, I promise you, I looked up what black means online, and black means something like coal, you feel me?
We all got problems too, bro, real talk. We all can have something that we can relate to. Make sure you can relate and have a common. And if you do feel too different, make sure you respect the people. Give people a chance to come in your heart. I know why a lot of people don't trust people. You know why? There's a lot of mean, bad people out here. A lot of people don't have a value on their own life. They don't have a value on how blessed we are to be alive. Our generation right here, we're on a class of earth together. This is our class. All of us are going to be like, "Hey, remember 20 years ago when we did that?" Don't be hard on each other. Let your friends have fun. Work hard and do what you do because we've only got one life to live. That is scary, you know. It's scary and it's really real, it's really true. It just makes me appreciate people. Appreciate every single person. Look at them like a golden, million-dollar baby. Ay, bruh, I'ma tell you the real secrets of life, bruh. Ay, bruh, feel me, bruh, I got the real secrets. For real, bro. For real. Real talk: the secrets of life? Look at everybody like they're a baby. Remember like, man, we're young. Don't be so hard on people. We're just little baby insects or mammals or whatever. You feel me?
I tell you, bruh, I was looking at insects. I do my observations when I go out. If I become a neurosurgeon or I'm about to come into some bugs, I'm rocking. With the bugs, man, you just be looking at them. Because I was having these big ant problems in my house. It was crazy. And these are people in their own way, too. As I was studying these ant colonies infesting my house daily, I'm not kidding you, I left food out and 20 minutes later r-r-r-r-r and I'm like, man, they already know! They get it down pat! And real talk, like, seeing these ants and studying them and respecting them, it's like, man, they're in their own community too. They're trying to survive. They love. They fight. They telling themselves something. We can't understand, but one day we will. I'm trying hard to figure it out. I'm there with them. We're very smart animals, you know, or whatever we are. Organisms? What are we? What do y'all think we are? Is there like a fact? Does anybody have any proof what we are? Live that life, experience it, travel, and come up with your theories man. Read the books, too, but experience your own. It's crazy.
Some of the things I think about on the daily: I just want my people to be safe. [Audience member: "What you think about, bro?!"] Safety, man. And real talk, everybody make sure you wear seat belts, for real.
Man, I'm pro-caring. That's a big thing we should bring back. Let's bring back caring about each other, honestly, genuinely. Anybody can have their preconceived notion about me. They can be like, "I think he looks like this and I have my vision in my head." But after the day, break that down. Look at me and I'm not what you think. Some people not even be thinking nothing about me. They might have love. They might look at me like a baby, like a little alien. Cuddle. Hold me. But, man, bruh, all this is is a positive healing. With this historical time together I want everybody in this building to know everybody is your friend here. People that love Lil B's music and respect Lil B from the core, we're about positivity and not judging, letting people be theyselves. Be yourself one hundred and one thousand percent. Everybody man, from the sides to the back to the middle to the sides, you might not even know people, but if you rock with Lil B music and respect me from the core, you should know that based means you have someone you can trust, because we all have a common courtesy. It's about having empathy now. What I mean is really caring and paying attention to somebody else's feeling. You gotta have empathy and know we all on this common vibe. It's all peace. It's saying, hey, you know what, you can hit me and I'm not hitting you back. And that takes a very big person to do that. If someone attacks you or your family, at the end of the day you do what you gotta do. But I'm saying, if you really want to be a bigger person?
I go to sleep and I'm so happy. You know why? I know I'm living what I'm talking about. I go to sleep and I'm like, nyah. On my bean bag like nyah. I'm making history and I'm living it and I'm honest. It feels so good to be honest. Honest as we can be. Nyah. Honesty, integrity, loyalty, passion, friendship. For real, man, that's real.
It's funny, you feel me, this is how I really feel. I'm glad I can come tell you guys and you can see my personality and see this is really Lil B. This is what he wants. Regardless of what anybody says, I want all of you to live as long as possible, have a great, healthy life, fun, full of adventure, full of mystery, full of trials and tribulations. Just going through and seeing things, being able to forgive.
Test your friends. See who really loves you. Remember that. See who will be with you forever. Just see. Take some time out for yourself. A lot of people miss communication. Friendships are such deep things that sometimes people tangle the friendship. People are like, "Well, I knew this person since I grew up, but this person's a douche. You feel me? But I'll still be his friend. But it's like, we don't agree. But it's like, I have some weird thing in my head so I'll still be your friend." But be honest with yourself. Be around people who represent you, who you feel is on the same kind of monotone, you feel me? Who's on your wavelength. I love y'all. Hopefully, everybody in this building is on the same wavelength, you feel me. You guys are very brave and historical and legendary, like I said, so I know everybody is on a wavelength. I'm looking at everybody and I know we could chill and we could have some good stories.
What are some of the things that y'all be feeling? What are some of things that y'all are going through? [Audience: "Family problems… sales tax… the cooking dance."] You know we ain't gonna pull that dance out man! That's millions, billions! I'm feeling like Michael Jackson out there, whipping the wrist like br-br-br-da! But I'm too subtle now. We representing. I got this beautiful quilt. I would'a come up here in a suit so y'all could take me seriously. I take y'all so seriously. I take the based god seriously.
This is about me spreading my love to y'all. This is about saying how much I love you guys. How much I love being alive. How much I love human beings. How lucky we are to have this structure. Who built this? Tell me who built this building, please. Just going through New York you see just, wow, you have so much beautiful architecture. It's so rich. When I look at the buildings, I'm like, dude, everybody is lucky. This might not be here forever. Anything could happen. Take heed, you guys are lucky you're alive. Really, take heed. Can I hear you say, I'm lucky I'm alive! No, really, please, can you feel it? I'm lucky I'm alive!
Real talk: Don't ever deny the voices in your head either. When you're sitting at home alone, right, we all go through depression, anxiety. You're by yourself and you hear those voices going wild in your head, in your unconscious, those angels by your side, your mental, your gut feeling, your heart. Listen to them. Let your mind tell you how you feel. Let your body tell you. Be in tune with your rare—this is a very rare thing. I'm like a robot. Hey look, tell your hand to do this. [Raises hand]. It's like, man, that's amazing! That's amazing to me.
Hey, man, salute to all the beautiful doctors, everybody that's researching and helping find cures. Salute to everyone who's finding cures to diseaaaases. Everybody that's aiding the people. The silent, beautiful American people that are working hard daily. Thank you to everybody. Honestly, a lot of people deserve to be where I'm at. There's a lot of people that's legendary, and to all those people I love you.
[Audience member: "Run for president!"] Ay, I don't know man. But you know, I have nothing to hide either. I might run for president because y'all know everything about me. Look, my very smart NYU family, I tell you, I have nothing to hide and y'all shouldn't either. Don't let other people's stereotypes or stigmas or words put you in a box. Don't let that run your day. Don't be depressed anymore. Believe in yourself. Sometimes you look at yourself in the mirror like, "Ew, really?" For real. I went to the mirror, man, I'm like, "Damn. How? How am I succeeding?" Y'all make me feel gorgeous, but sometimes you go to the mirror like, "Oh my god, I'm not that gorgeous." But it's all from your heart though, and that's why you can always feel gorgeous, one hundred percent. To say "I'm not that gorgeous" is only a reflection of the media. You are gorgeous. I'm telling you. You are what you believe you are. You are a model. You are a rapper. You are a student. You are a positive person. Don't let these words feel like you're different. Nobody is different, I'm telling you, and nobody asked to be born. I'm telling you, bro, I'm telling you. I'm telling you.
Shouts out to Jay-Z, though. Shouts out to Jayyyy-Zeeeee, you feel me?
Does anybody have anything to ask me? I say this, though, out of respect: You see everybody raising their hand, right? Just me personally, when I'm driving, I see somebody raising their hand and my whole attitude of respect is to let this person go. That's my reaction. You see somebody raising their hand? Here you go. Just that vibe, just that tone. We all got our hands raised and we all want to talk, so let that person talk and you'll be next. I feel everybody can do it civilized.
I just want people to see the tone of respect I'm carrying, the love and respect I'm trying to instill for the generations. I don't have no secret plan behind it. I generally want to bring back the people, all of us loving each other. We all human, we all people. Have fun while you're alive. God bless, we're all about to die some day. Be ready. I just want to say, humbly think about this. Our bodies are amazing. We're all consistently—our white warrior blood cells, our red blood cells, everybody is fighting for us in our body and we don't see. Salute to our brain and our cells fighting for us, fighting off those infections when you rub your butt and you forget to—when you're writing a paper and you wipe your butt and you go to shake your partner's hand. Wash your hands! Wash your hands! It's crazy! I'm watching my hands all the time, shouts out to Sam for that.
At the end of the day, we can't judge anybody. From the richest to the homeless, from the dog to the cat. You have to look at these things. I thank my car that I didn't get into an accident. I'm like, thank you. Brand new. Nothing I drive is under 50,000 miles. 50, 50, 50,000, bro. Straight from Europe. I tell you, I'm Buick'd up. Toyota, whatever. We doing it. But like I say, I thank my car. Thank you whoever, whatever, earth, spirit, myself, people. I'm like, man, I got from point A to point B safely. Congratulations to everybody getting here safely, man, I'm telling you. And shouts out to New York for always embracing me. Always. Because, man, coming from Berkeley.
Being in this industry, man, you guys have got to watch out. In business, there are going to be a lot of people. This is crazy and I'm going to tell it to you like this, this is what I really live by. I run my business by this. You see a lot of people—and I cannot STAND these kind of people, I promise you—they're like, "Ah, man, it's just business. Business is business. It's business." It's like, what are you talking about? Have some people love! What happened to humans? Everybody's thinking about capital gains! Ay, bruh, I'm serious. I'm like, dude, I'm hollering at somebody because I do this out of love. I do this for free, for the love. Y'all make me. The people make me. I been giving you stuff free, over two thousand songs. Lil B. I'm around my business different. It's business, but do what you love. If you want to do something out of love and the spirit, do something because your heart tells you that. Do something, not because, oh, it's a business, oh, beat me in the business, I'm going to do this favor because it's the business, I'm not going to pay attention to you because it's the business, I'm going to treat you unequal because it's the business, or I'm going to treat you some way because it's the business. What happened to being a naked human being? Even though we're not. We're advanced now, like you see. It's obvious we're not naked.
Salute to the architects, man, anybody that's designing things. Anybody in here designing anything? Salute to you, bruh. Build some of the next beautiful buildings. Thank you. So what's everybody doing up in here? What you going here for? I know we got a lot of future legends? Congratulations! Salute yourself! Be happy! Talk about yourself! And you know on top, this is one of the best schools ever.
Salute to the generation and to all our kids that are just going to be friends. I can't wait for all of our kids. We about to grow up, 50, 40, and we'll be looking at people with no boundaries, no colors, no judgement. I'm a really do this: I want to have a place where you can come. It's going to be like a city. You can come and it's like, bruh, everybody is on the same wavelength of positivity. You see somebody? Let them go. Ask somebody how they're doing today. I had to train myself to do that. I didn't just become a happy person, you feel me. I had to train myself. I lied to myself for a while. I had to train myself, because I wasn't always positive. I think I was so busy trying to be cool. Being younger, I was skinny and stuff, I was like, I need to garner my respect in the streets. I didn't want to get picked on, so it was things I did that I felt were necessary. You grow up and you're like, man, I was just so wrapped up. Be yourself. I was wrapped up in friends and wanting to be this and wanting respect. This was young. It's crazy what goes on. You see the cool guys, or in high school it's the bad kids. Everybody has their adventure.
I was a product of the media and my environment. I seen the people I like with gold teeth, and I was like, man, I want gold teeth. He looked like me and I wanted gold teeth. Everybody can get a grill in here. Everybody should embrace that. Get gold teeth! Don't be thinking so hard, like, "Oh, man, I can't get gold teeth." Who is going to say what to you? We got love in our heart. We good people. Can't nobody tell you nothing if you doing it from the love and you're embracing people. Try to have fun and try to be as less ignorant as possible and meet people. I'm trying to set a tone for the younger generations. You can look how you want, but now you will be judged from your soul and your heart. Why I work everyday and why I love you guys so much is I want people to no longer, as hard as it is, to not judge somebody for the look but from their heart and their actions and their positivity and how much they put out there. Even if you're pissed off, still stay positive. If you got a friend doing bad, be like, "Stay positive." That's the only way. Positivity, happiness, forgiving, forgiving, forgiving.
Forgiveness? Forgiving. I think that's number one. Forgive and say, "Man, we only human. Man, nobody hates you." We might feel that people hate us, and people do mean. But I go to sleep every night and I feel good, despite the hate every day and the threats. You take a deep breath and you know what you're doing it for. We're all searching life for how we can serve humanity. What are we going to do that we can do for free for the rest of our lives and feel good about? How are you going to serve the humans?
You know how I serve humanity? Spreading true love. Putting myself out there to be vulnerable, to be criticized, to be one of the most critiqued artists ever. They're like, brrrr, Lil B said this at this time. Lil B is talking here. It's beautiful, and I want to give this scarf to somebody too. And real talk, I want to give some books to the beautiful students that made this happen. I've got a few of my rare books. It's love, bro. Shouts out to Seb. I see you. This is the first book I ever wrote when I was 19. We got the positive DVD in there. You already know me because you're seeing me right now. You guys see my true core. It's not sketchy. It's no fraud. It's no corporation backing me. I really love people, I'm really here for the people. I don't care. It's not gimmicks. I pick and choose what I want to do. I deny a lot of people and I love it, I stay rare. Nobody will ever work with Lil B and that's how it goes.
I'm ready to die for the humans. I'm ready to die for positivity. I'm ready to be the poster. A lot of hip-hop artists don't understand the position they're in. They be like, "Bruh, I'm not a role model." And me, I feel totally different. I feel like I am a role model, and we all are. We all role models. Without y'all, it'd be no me. As a role model with the power influence, whether it's Twitter followers or friends, you always want to use your influence for positive things. Put down the guns. Please stop the gun violence. Stop the knife violence. The chemical warfare, let's stop that. Biological warfare, let's stop that. Who knows about hydraulic fracking? Let's stop fracking! Hey, bruh, stop messing with the earth, bruh. Real talk, we hear about these deadly gases going on in the earth, and I'm like, whodie! For real. I'm like, whodie. Whodie, get that oil out the ocean, whodie.
I see what we're living in. We were all born into something. You have to salute the humans before us, right. I have no problem and no animosity because we're in a beautiful place. Imperfections, duh, nothing is perfect, but this is beautiful right here. This moment. We gotta be happy about something. Everything is not going to be right, but we gotta be happy about something right now. It's continuous life living, continuous rotations of life living. Like I said, stop messing with this earth. I'm going to be going in and learning new ways to protect the earth. Trust me, I don't even litter. I'm not a litterer. You see me and I'm not throwing trash on the ground. If I throw this trash right here, this is just adding for someone to pick up. This is just adding for some animal to get stuck in. At the end of the day, it all starts from you.
I had to take steps myself for people to believe in me. I had to be a walking light of spiritual positivity and a walking beam of love before anybody could respect that, you feel me? It's a big thing like, people call me the based god out of respect. People aren't stupid. People here are a high class of honor, and people from the highest class call me the based god. The based god came from positivity and love and from watching out for people. I take that with heed. When people call me the based god, I accept me, but I'm not the based god. The based god is better than me. It's crazy, you know. It's crazy. But we all got a hand in love. One by one, each and every one of us needs to keep living and embedding that positivity. Look at that person. They didn't ask to be born, they didn't ask to be who they are. It's like, man, embrace their style. Look at somebody and be like, "Man, they're unique. But how are we similar? What is our commons?"
My grammar and spelling and how I say things might not be technically what we hear or textbook, but as long as you understand me? You have to work as a human with empathy and love in your heart, staying positive and staying based and staying normal. You have to make an effort to learn about people. You have to make an effort at your job. You have to make an effort to care. When you care about everybody genuinely, when you look at everybody like they're a million dollars, it takes a lot of energy out you. You give everybody a chance. This is the successful lifestyle of personal excellence. Success is what you see on the outside, but I live a life of personal excellence. People can look at a Bentley as success or money as success, but at the end of the day personal excellence is what you strive for. Everybody is successful, we all made it. Y'all are in college. But now it's about going back.
I have no pride. I have no pride issues. I have no pride. I can't be under as well as be on top, and that's for the people. That's why I never signed a deal. I'm unsigned. I have no record label behind me. When you see everything I do, this is me pushing my love. It was a lot of managers and fake managers that wanted to claim me, and you have to watch out for the industry predators, and predators in business. And sexual predators. We've dealt with that. It's a very touchy subject and it's very uncomfortable for all of us. Anybody who has went through hardships like that, I love y'all, and the best I can tell y'all is to forgive. Cleanse your soul and forgive yourself. Don't be hard on yourself.
I don't write my speeches. Any time I speak it will be from the heart. You can't write down love. If I was a phony man, y'all could look me in my face, man. If I didn't have love, and if I didn't really care about the community and wanting people to excel—I want all of us as a human race to excel and stop being so hard on each other. Stop using separation. Stop saying, "Why are you dressed like that?" What are you talking about? Like, stop. If someone looks different from you, admire them. Stop thinking so hard about things. Have a light heart. Get lighthearted. I think that's a big tone of what I pray for everybody in the building and in our anything-is-possible generation. Just be you. The anything-is-possible generation. What is based? What does based mean? Shwoo. Shwoo. Shwoo.
[Audience member asks about the status of The Pack] You know, I'm one hundred percent still in The Pack. We coming, man. Shouts out to Young L, Stunnaman, Lil Uno. We coming, you know. Naw, we coming. With me just making history, the people really wanted me. The people made me. That was my only reason. I been giving you guys free stuff. You don't have to listen to me. You don't have to watch me. I'm not on TV every day. I'm about to be. But right now I'm not. You guys are the beautiful people. You are the beautiful people for accepting me. My mom would be happy, and I really appreciate that. You guys have made me special, and in return you will always get my genuine love and consideration. I'm not perfect. I get mad sometimes. I deal with people that threaten me. I have to protect myself. Everybody know: Protect Lil B. Protect the based god. There's only one me. I promise you, nobody has done what I've done in history. From being the first artist ever to release an ambient album in history with no cursing, Rain in England. Love is strange.
[Audience member asks about working with Lil Wayne] It was great. It was an honor working with Wayne. Me and him was in the studio man, I was really nervous. [Audience member: "I have a question!"] Yes, sir, I definitely hear you. Can I continue? Can I finish? Or do you…? Okay. No, no, this is just me being considerate. He is a man. It was amazing in that studio. Shouts out to Mack Maine. Shouts out to Birdman on the real, bruh. Working with Wayne and seeing how much love he had for me, to see him embracing me like family is so good. That ain't the only track we got in store. And you guys are going to freak out, because, real talk, I got a song with pretty much the biggest artist on earth. You will see. Phwoo, we coming. I'll let you know some history with me towards the end. Anything else?
[Audience member: "Do you like to paint?"] I definitely do, man. My mom was a painter. Ay, bruh, feel me. But you know what I do rock with? My favorite is watercolors. I'm a watercolors type of dude, so definitely collect some of my rare paintings.
[Audience member: "What's your next step?"] Well, you guys are actually the first to hear, but I'm releasing my rock album. Pretty much. Regardless me selling platinum records or me going gold or nothing, I already made history in rap. Nobody has ever done what I've done. So with that, out of respect for people, I'm not just some joke. I'm not some rapper who's going to make some joke rock album. This is going to be real respect. This is going some garage punk. This is going to be for the rebels. And the women and the ladies, we about to be having a real good time. But look out for my Lil B rock album, California Boy. We made history NYU because y'all are the first people to hear that. I'm shutting it down. It's about to be a celebration for all of us. Thank you for believing me, because this rock album is about to go down in history. On everything.
[Audience member tells story of his mom crying listening to Rain in England] I love you. Thank you family. I love you man. Respect knowledge. If you see somebody with gray hair, embrace that beauty. Show the world that we are beautiful! That was me trying to get everybody to rally. Show the world we're beautiful! I'm out here getting my Mitt Romney on. Show the world we're beautiful! I better not talk about Mitt or you might not see me. What happened to Lil B? Lil B is in jail. Why is he in jail? Imprisoned by the government. Lil B made jokes about Mitt Romney at NYU and he's in prison for some reason. But what was you saying about your mother? You just wanted to tell me that? I appreciate you, and thank you. I just want to tell her I love her, and I want to tell her congratulations for making it so far on earth. Serious, serious, serious. Congratulations to her and I pray she stays alive longer, bro. We all not going to have our parents forever, so I'm glad you've got her right now.
[Audience member: "Are you going to have your own clothing line?"] I'm not here to capitalize on people. I only do what I really love. I got full control of this. I know people want to buy stuff from me, and I know a lot of people are buying other clothing lines thinking they're me. So anybody you're buying, you're supporting them, and that's good. Support humans. I put out money. I spend my money in America because this is our money. I'm about to pay taxes, and I'm happy because of that. I'm happy. I don't know what it's going for, and I pray it's going to the people. The government says that and I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt. But, hey, look, anybody is smart and has some facts, let me know. But until further notice, I'm paying taxes and I'm loving it. You've gotta buy people dinner. Never deny your friends food. If your friends are hungry, at least give them food.
[Audience member: "What inspires you?"] You guys. It's you, bruh. Being here, we could be brothers now. It's good, regardless. And everybody, speak both languages too. Listen to slang. Slang is like learning another language. Be bilingual and go learn some slang. For sheezy! Brang dang dang. If you know some slang, rep that. You feel me? You feel me?! Yeah, bruh. Use swag, yeah, dummy.
[Audience member on Jay Electronica] That's one of the only people in rap I'm listening to. A lot of people aren't original. Shouts out to my bro Drake. My brother Drake, I love him. Everybody is rapping like him and I love him. I respect artists. You gotta be yourself. Let my brother Drake have his swag. Let Lil B have his swag.
[Audience member gives Lil B a Rap Genius T-shirt] Shouts out to Rap Genius, man. If anybody has any questions about my lyrics, I would love to spit a cappella. If you ever want me to decode my lyrics, if you ever have questions… Anybody got questions?
[Audience member comes onstage and bows to Lil B and Lil B kisses his hand] Salute to the family. I stay by that. That's my brother right there. His hand is gold.
Alright, y'all, so we're about to wrap up. I want to take pictures with y'all for Facebook and Twitter. Let's take these rare pictures real quick and we'll get up out of here. [Proceeds to sign a variety of sneakers, MacBooks and cooking utensils, and take photographs and shake hands for a half hour]


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Phuket, Thailand, May 3, 2022 / TRAVELINDEX / Island's transaction market heats up as owners face liquidity issues, while broad tourism sentiment wanes. Thailand's battered hotel sector is showing increased signs of fatigue as the global pandemic enters its third year. Nowhere is this more apparent than the resort island of Phuket, where over 73% per cent of new hotel developments either lay dormant or have been put in hold.
According to data in the newly released Phuket Hotel Market Update 2022 from C9 Hotelworks hospitality consulting, the once robust island hotel pipeline has owners now suffering from 'fear factor' as they continue to reel in the wake of a volatile marketplace and unclear future outlook. Negative sentiment and stressed liquidity have impacted development, which has seen an incoming supply of 33 hotels with 8,616 rooms facing an unknown future.
Drilling down on the pipeline data, 55% of the hotel projects are mixed-use, or hotel residences with rental-based investment schemes that target individual investment buyers. In light of the economic climate C9 research indicates that some of these real estate-led hospitality projects are unlikely return to the pipeline.
While glossy tourism campaigns that focus on quality vs. quantity are the new mantra across the country, reality bites hard on an island that went from hosting over 9 million passenger arrivals at Phuket International Airport in 2019 to just over 900,000 in 2021. The sizable 90% decline, coupled with the fact there are already 1,786 registered tourism establishments and 92,604 hotel rooms in current supply mean empty beds that need tourists.
Speaking to the situation, C9 Hotelworks Managing Director Bill Barnett says "over 40% of the island's international visitors two years ago were either from China or Eastern Europe including Russia. While I'm asked daily about when will Phuket recover, the truth of the matter is we are pushing out our estimates of a cyclical return to 2025.
"The elephant in the room for the moment is China. The conundrum is that while I fully expect Phuket stabilized numbers to return given its favorable geographic location, tourism-oriented infrastructure and demonstrated airlift capacity but macro political and economic issues are clouding the short-term horizon."
Phuket led all of Southeast Asia in a remarkable effort of widespread vaccinations and the pioneering Sandbox re-entry program. But a look at the current situation which has seen a return to seasonal trading and departure of winter snowbird travelers dissipate, now has the island looking for replacement markets. As other regional neighbors such as Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines roll out quarantine free travel, Thailand remains in an uncompetitive situation given its beleaguered Test & Go process.
Hoteliers in Phuket have been quick to address damage control from the Ukraine Russia crisis, but most of the Russian market falls away in March historically. Three notable source markets that are ramping up airlift to Phuket are Australia, India and the Middle East, and these remain bright spots, though none have demonstrated traffic to match the mass Chinese market.
While Phuket's tourism-leveraged economy has survived the first two years of the pandemic largely intact, C9's Bill Barnett says "the remainder of 2022 and beyond is already seeing a rapid escalation of hotels coming up for sale. Most of these are not at highly distressed levels but what it indicates is that legacy investment sentiment in hospitality assets is experiencing a changing of the guard.
"The number of Thai hotel owners and also foreign investors that are retreating from the sector is expected to grow. C9's opinion of the slowdown in the pipeline and high activity in the transaction market is this is not an entirely bad thing and will likely reframe supply and demand over the medium term in a return to a more solid, rational and less speculative marketplace."
Another change in attitude for island hotel owners has been a wave of conversions of independent properties to brands given that many of the highest performing properties during the Phuket Sandbox reopening and growth in domestic travelers was to branded hotels. While another outcome has also seen a number of internationally managed properties converted from management to franchises. This reality of owners operating under global brands and a new influx of white label management has been a trend that was coming anyway and has only been accelerated by the pandemic.
Despite the bricks and mortar reality of Phuket's tourism journey back to the future, the backstory of it has been a large-scale exodus of hospitality and service staff from the industry. Given the many stops and starts, opening and closings of hotels and businesses, the shine of tourism's 'Amazing Thailand' byline has been lost on a generation of workers.
While business levels have continued to grow at moderate levels, staff shortages continue to plague the industry and perhaps the greatest challenge that lies ahead for Phuket hotels is regaining its greatest asset – hotel staff to serve tourists when they eventually return. That said, this same comment currently applies across all of Southeast Asia and the world, implying doing more with less staff will have to be the new tourism norm.

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Motoring Coat and Goggles
Early car enthusiasts had open vehicles. They dressed to protect themselves, hence this motoring coat and goggles.
"In the case of driving or riding there are two things only to be considered: how a woman can keep herself warm in the winter and not suffocated by dust in the summer without making herself very unattractive."
--Lady Jeune, English columnist
Modern Kansans rarely think twice about how to dress before jumping in their cars to drive across town or down the highway. Even in the coldest winter weather, we simply put on a coat, crank up the heat, and go on our way.
This wasn't the case a hundred years ago. Weather in Kansas is known for extremes, and it affected early car enthusiasts. Wind, rain, or snow could ruin an outing. The first automobiles were open. They had no windshield, side, or rear windows. Heaters were useless with nothing to trap the warm air in the cabin. In dry weather, dust made it hard to breathe and see.
Dressing appropriately for the conditions was the only way to make a car ride more enjoyable. While this was true for both men and women, ladies had a concern above that of comfort: looking good. The last thing a woman wanted was to dress in her finest clothes, only to cover it up with an ugly coat. At the same time, she didn't want her clothes to be ruined by the elements.
Speed of travel also affected attire. A lady could wear a pretty dress and a smart hat as long as she was just taking a leisurely drive in the park. But what of those ladies who loved to drive fast or had husbands with lead feet? They required an extensive wardrobe, consisting of a jacket, hat, and protective eyewear, to keep them clean and safe on the road.
The duster shown here is an example of how one Kansan, Dora Boeger, battled the elements. The jacket is made of unlined linen, which suggests that she wore it during the warmer months. In the winter, she had to wear layers of warm clothes, from her undergarments to her coat. Her winter coat would have been long to keep her legs warm and might have been lined with fur, with a leather exterior.
Protecting the eyes was more important than protecting the clothing. Though they somewhat resemble modern sunglasses, goggles served an entirely different purpose. A woman couldn't wear dainty glasses on a drive. There was a chance that they could come off, and they couldn't fully protect her eyes from the dust, debris, and insects she might encounter on the road. Goggles fit more tightly and provided better comfort and protection. During the winter, they also helped protect the eyes from cold air. Irritation from dust, wind, and cold could cause serious eye conditions. Doctors recommended that people wash their eyes with a solution of water and boric acid upon returning home after a drive, even if they wore goggles. The solution was thought to remove dust and debris, as well as act as a disinfectant.
As an added layer of protection, ladies also wore hats and veils to protect them from dust. Hats had to be small and well secured to keep them from blowing away. Like goggles, driving veils weren't delicate. Often, they resembled a blanket wrapped over a woman's head and tied under her chin. Edwin Menninger, youngest son of the family of renowned Topeka psychiatrists, observed that his mother wore such headgear on a family trip to Colorado. Both his parents wore linen dusters and goggles. Because of the automobile's new popularity and status, people were generally happy to sacrifice looking good for their new hobby.
Dora Boeger's daughter donated the duster to the Kansas Museum of History in 1974. Dora, who lived in Topeka, purchased the duster new around 1907. The family of Aron Treger donated the goggles to the museum in 1982. Treger was a jeweler and optometrist in WaKeeny, Kansas, from around 1915 until 1920. These goggles may have been sold in his store.
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On a stunning sunny Sunday in October we made a beeline for Broadstairs taking in the beautiful beach at Viking Bay, Breakfast at the delightful Belvidere Place Boutique B & B, the highly acclaimed Broadstairs Food Festival and the hidden delights of Bleak House.
I'd like to say we did the picturesque beach walk from Ramsgate to Broadstairs but alas we didn't allow ourselves enough time. Instead we jumped on the regular Loop bus for the 15 minute journey to Broadstairs.
Belvidere Place
We had pre booked breakfast at Belvidere Place, Jilly Sharpe's rather special Boutique Bed & Breakfast. It's a beautiful quirky and artistic place with just the right level of civilized informality.
There was no menu, breakfast is based on whatever goodies Jilly can source locally. We were offered the choice of figs or baked apple to start. We opted for the Apple served with yogurt and just enough Muesli. Very healthy and tasty. Next course was bacon, tomatoes and egg served with toast and a delicious stuffed mushroom. Arbroath Kippers were also on offer. After a leisurely morning reading the newspapers, chatting to Jilly, her friendly staff and guests lucky enough to be staying in the much in demand 5 bed-roomed B & B, we headed off to the Broadstairs Food Festival.
UPDATE – Under new Management.
Broadstairs Food Festival
The Broadstairs Food Festival is an event that attracts a lot of mainly Kent based suppliers and Restaurants. This year they had 100 plus stalls and 53,000 plus visitors over the course of 3 days. The Kitchen Theatre demonstrations were from several well known local chefs like Matt Sworder from the Corner House in Minster. Steven Edwards who won Masterchef The Professionals in 2013 also did a session. The Kitchen Theatre presentation highlight I suspect though was from GBBO semi finalist and Broadstairs local Chetna Makan. Her session was interrupted by a surprise visit from the ever so slightly famous Paul Hollywood – check out the fun videos published by the Isle of Thanet Gazette. It's just like being there 😉
Top Kent Restaurants like Wyatt & Jones and Rocksalt had stalls, as did Quex Barn – the wonderful deli at Quex Park. There were tastings for Dudda's Tun our favorite Kent Cider, and East Kent College were showing plans for their 4 star Training Hotel due to open next year.
We had hoped to get food from The Ambrette stall but they weren't there this year. So for a late lunch we had some Pad Thai from an old favorite Siam Kitchen, followed by a dessert of coconut macrons and salted caramel bars from Sylvia and Terry. We also brought some bread from McCarthys Country Store.
Bleak House
We took refuge from a very busy Broadstairs in Bleak House, which despite its uninviting entrance via the kitchen area is a lovely tranquil spot for drinks or afternoon tea.
You can pre book the formal Afternoon Tea in the Great Expectations Dining Room overlooking the garden and visit Charles Dickens study and the Smuggling Museum.
So after our lovely day out, we are certainly looking forward to next years Food Festival and to having a good few more breakfasts and afternoon teas in lovely Broadstairs.
UPDATE – Bleak house closed.


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In the Montessori environment, children work on practical life activities to develop independence, body control and coordination of movement, concentration, and a sense of order. As the name implies, an important aspect of practical life activities is that they have a real-life application. The children can clearly see the purpose of each activity, and they recognize that they are contributing in a real way as they work on the tasks. Central to the early childhood program, practical life activities are also relevant in the lower elementary environment as they help students further develop their concentration, independence, self-esteem, responsibility, and connection to their community.
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Researchers believe their surgery-assisting robot is capable of performing complex brain surgeries. The machine can reduce the time of surgeries by cutting down the time it takes to cut into the skull from two hours to two and a half minutes.
Brain surgery is precision business, and one slip can spell doom for affected patients. Even in one of the most skilled jobs in the world, human error can still be a factor. Researchers from the University of Utah are looking to provide less opportunity for those errors to occur. A robot that the team is developing is able to reduce the time it takes to complete a complicated procedure by 50 times. According to CNN, the robot can reduce the time it takes to drill into the skull from two hours to two-and-a-half minutes.
The research was published in the journal Neurosurgical Focus and the team says it is a "proof of principle" that the robot is capable of performing complex surgeries. The robot is guided around vulnerable areas of the skull by data gleaned from CT scans and entered into the robot's programming. The CT scans show the programmer the location of nerves or veins that the bot will have to avoid.
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Many of you know the very talented Pia. She is DT at the idea blog "Scrapfactory", and it was there I found a fantastic tutorial about handmade roses, that was made only from retro punch flowers and water!! I had to try it right away, and experienced that this was something we all can do. The ladies in "Scrapfactory" have been so kind to let me share these flowers with StampARTics readers, and here follows my tutorial of how to make these beautiful roses. Make sure to visit "Scrapfactory", for a lot of inspiration.
For my example I have used aquarelle paper, but you can use all kinds of cardstock. Now it is time to save even the smallest left over papers, and make roses. I have used my Retro punches, in three different sizes. Then I just need a brad, and some water. Here I have made four big, three medium, and three small flowers.
Så soter jeg kantene med vannfast blekk på begge sider. Distress fungerer ikke her, siden jeg skal bruke mye vann etter hvert.
Then I use some ink on both sides of the flower. It has to be waterproof ink, since we are going to add a lot of water.
Then I fold the petals up, one by one. Now and then I add some more water. I am a bit rough, and the bigger petals I crunch a little.
Når alle bladene er brettet opp, og blomsten ser ut som en sørgelig våt klump med papir, så starter magien. Nå bretter du forsiktig bladene ut igjen, og former dem litt underveis. De aller minste bladene kan få stå igjen, og danne en knupp.
Her er resultatet.
La blomsten tørke helt!
Nå kan du velge om du vil pynte videre på blomsten, med Glimmermist, Perfect pearls, glitterlim, eller bare beholde den som den er.
Here is the result.
Wait for the rose to dry. Now you can decorate the flower with Glimmermist,Perfect pearls, glitter, or just keep it the way it is.
Here is a card where I have used flowers made this way.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, and this way of makeing flowers.


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About UNICRI
What is UNICRI?
The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) was established in 1968 pursuant to Economic and Social Council Resolution 1086 B (XXXIX) of 1965, which urged an expansion of the United Nations activities in crime prevention and criminal justice. The Institute is an autonomous institution and is governed by its Board of Trustees.
Working within the broad scope of its mandate to design and implement improved policies and actions in the field of crime prevention and control, the mission of UNICRI is to advance justice, crime prevention, security and the rule of law in support of peace, human rights and sustainable development.
UNICRI's work focuses on Goal 16 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, that is centered on promoting peaceful, just and inclusive societies, free from crime and violence. Justice, crime prevention and the rule of law are the basis for fighting poverty and reducing inequalities while enhancing economic growth and stability and protecting the environment. UNICRI supports governments and the international community at large in tackling criminal threats to social peace, development and political stability.
UNICRI' s goals are:
- to advance understanding of crime-related problems;
- to foster just and efficient criminal justice systems;
- to support the respect of international instruments and other standards;
- to facilitate international law enforcement cooperation and judicial assistance.
The Board of Trustees of UNICRI is composed by eminent experts. The staff cover a wide range of expertise in the management of research, specialized training and technical cooperation, and are supported by highly qualified consultants selected according to project requirements.
What UNICRI does
UNICRI's programmes aim to promote national self-reliance and the development of institutional capabilities. To this end, UNICRI provides a one-stop facility offering high-level expertise in crime prevention and criminal justice problems. Technical co-operation is enhanced by the use of action-oriented research to assist in the formulation of improved policies and concrete intervention programmes. Institutional and on-the-job training of specialized personnel form an integral part of UNICRI activities.
Areas of Action
With more than 50 years of experience, UNICRI has structured its work programmes and modus operandi in order to always be responsive to the needs of the international community.
UNICRI works in specialized niches and selected fields of crime prevention, justice, security governance, risks and benefits of advances in technologies, counter-terrorism and social cohesion. UNICRI's programmes focus on different areas with the aim of creating and testing new and holistic approaches in preventing crime and promoting justice and development. UNICRI plays a leading role with respect to specific niches and supports/complements the work of other international organizations through its specialized and advanced services.
The Institute's current priorities include:
- Artificial intelligence and robotics in the context of crime prevention and criminal justice;
- Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear risks mitigation;
- Cyber-crimes;
- Domestic violence;
- Environmental crimes;
- Illicit financial flows and asset recovery;
- Illicit trafficking in precious metals and gemstones;
- Juvenile justice;
- Nexus between transnational organized crime and terrorism;
- Protection of vulnerable populations and victims;
- Strengthening international criminal law;
- Tourism and major events security; and
- Violent extremism (including rehabilitation and reintegration of violent extremist offenders).


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QNX News Releases
QNX Announces New In-Car Speech Recognition Framework to Understand a Speaker's Intent
New intent framework to bring power of AT&T WatsonSM speech recognition engine to wider variety of in-car systems and applicationsOTTAWA, January 7, 2013 — QNX Software Systems Limited, a global leader in software platforms for in-car electronics, has announced a powerful new framework that will allow speech recognition systems in cars to understand a speaker's intent. The framework extracts meaning from the driver's spoken words, enabling in-car systems to create calendar appointments, dictate email or text messages, set complex navigation destinations, and even perform general Internet searches.
The framework, which is a component of the QNX CAR™ application platform, allows in-car applications to access AT&T WatsonSM speech recognition technology. AT&T Watson is AT&T's pioneering speech services platform, which enables the development of next-generation technologies that go beyond speech to power more advanced natural language understanding and automatic speech recognition, among other capabilities. The multimodal and multilingual speech engine runs on a cloud-based server to provide extremely high-quality recognition with low latency.
Determination of the intent behind the driver's speech starts on the server, where the AT&T Watson speech engine begins to analyze words and fits them to known patterns. The results are then handed from the cloud to the car, where the in-vehicle intent engine from QNX Software Systems performs the remainder of the speech analysis to determine how to act.
"Sharing the workload across client and server offers automotive manufacturers and end-users the best of both worlds," said Andy Gryc, automotive product marketing manager, QNX Software Systems. "The server-side analysis, provided by AT&T Watson, is optimized for complex scenarios, such as a navigation application in which the driver may verbalize destinations in hundreds of different ways. The QNX client-side analysis grants car makers greater flexibility, enabling them to adapt the AT&T Watson results for a variety of in-car applications, regional aspects, or personal tastes."
"For many of us, the most natural way to communicate is with our voice. By working with QNX and opening access to our rich set of speech technologies developed at our labs, we're making it possible for more people to use the power of their voice to stay safely connected in their vehicles," said Mazin Gilbert, assistant vice president of technical research, AT&T Labs. "Delivering this type of next-generation virtual assistant applications for the connected car is especially important as we look at how technology can help drivers keep their eyes on the road and hands on the wheel."
The intent system from QNX Software Systems is dynamically pluggable, which allows the recognized vocabulary to change depending on what applications are active, and to support new apps that are downloaded to the car.
"Enabling natural, intuitive, user experiences is fundamental to our vision of the connected vehicle, and providing our automotive customers with the tools to create those experiences is fundamental to our product strategy," said Linda Campbell, director of strategic alliances, QNX Software Systems. "By providing a framework that enables our customers to take greater advantage of AT&T's phenomenal speech engine, the new intent system should help accelerate the adoption of speech recognition across a broad range of vehicles."
The QNX CAR application platform from QNX Software Systems is a comprehensive, pre-integrated software stack designed to help automotive companies reduce the time and effort of building highly sophisticated and connected infotainment systems.
QNX Software Systems has licensed its software technology for millions of in-vehicle systems worldwide, including digital instrument clusters, hands-free systems, multimedia head units, connectivity modules, and 3D navigation systems.
Developed at AT&T Labs, AT&T Watson has been powering advanced speech services in the marketplace for years. The technology reflects more than one million hours of research and development in speech technologies that has led to more than 600 U.S. patents and patent applications.
The intent system will be offered as a component of the QNX CAR application platform in 2013. Release 2.0 of the platform will be available to the automotive community this month. Separate licensing from AT&T will be required to use AT&T Watson components.
Panel participation at AT&T Developer Summit
Today, at the AT&T Developer Summit, Andrew Poliak, director of automotive business development at QNX Software Systems, will participate in the panel "Navigating the Connected Vehicle Vision." The session will be held from 3:00 to 3:45 pm, at the Palms Casino Resort.
About QNX Software Systems
QNX Software Systems Limited, a subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM; TSX:RIM), is a leading vendor of operating systems, development tools, and professional services for connected embedded systems. Global leaders such as Audi, Cisco, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, and Siemens depend on QNX technology for vehicle infotainment units, network routers, medical devices, industrial automation systems, security and defense systems, and other mission- or life-critical applications. Founded in 1980, QNX Software Systems Limited is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada; its products are distributed in more than 100 countries worldwide. Visit www.qnx.com, and facebook.com/QNXSoftwareSystems, and follow @QNX_News, on Twitter. For more information on the company's automotive work, visit qnxauto.blogspot.com and follow @QNX_Auto.
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Here's a side-effect of the government's continuing shutdown that many people had not anticipated: Expiring TLS Certificates used for web security. Most people clearly see the impacts of national parks closing and the like.
It's worth remembering that the government's IT staffed as been classified as 'non-essential' too, which means they're currently sitting at home twiddling their thumbs, waiting for the politicians to decide what's next and get the doors of government opened up again.
Unfortunately, that's beginning to have an impact on the vast collection of websites the government maintains. TLS certificates are beginning to expire. Currently, there are more than 80 government websites are either insecure or inaccessible due to expired certificates.
If you visit a website with an expired certificate, depending on the browser you're using you'll get some type of highly visible warning, and may not even be able to proceed to the site. Even if you are, know that doing so carries added risk. Sites without certificates, or sites with expired ones are much more vulnerable.
Among a great many others, this has impacted the Department of Justice website, NASA's rocket testing site, and one of the sites used by the US Court of Appeals. As the shutdown grinds on, this list will only expand and grow.
Worse, the longer the shutdown lasts, the more likely it is that some governmental sites will simply go offline. When that happens, it opens a big door to hackers to spoof government sites and begin causing all sorts of trouble.
The bottom line is that for the foreseeable future, take an added measure of care when navigating to government websites. Thanks to the shutdown, many of them are not as secure as they could be, and the problem is certain to worsen over time. Be careful with internet for a while.


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28 Sep 2020
Dr. Stefan Abela
BChD, MFDS, RCS Eng, MSc, MORTH RCS Ed, AHEA, FDS Orth RCS Ed
Stefan is a Consultant in Orthodontics at one of the most prestigious London teaching hospitals; Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust.
Stefan is also a specialist in Orthodontics and is registered on the General Dental Council (GDC) specialist list. Stefan qualified as a dental surgeon in 2003 and underwent further training in various specialties including restorative dentistry, paediatric dentistry, oral medicine and complex oral and maxillofacial surgery including the management of facial trauma.


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March – Women's History Month – is mostly observed by honoring trailblazing women who helped overcome challenges, triumph against sexism, and make our country what it is today. Feminists sometimes use the occasion to highlight how women have yet to achieve economic parity with men, but we should be careful to keep the right perspective when evaluating the status of women in the modern U.S.
It's simply not accurate to think of all women as a marginalized victim class in today's economy. Using the right measures, facts bear this out. Furthermore, when women accurately assess our own success and opportunities, we can see women and men in cooperation, not competition.
By nearly any measure, women are advancing and achieving greater success than ever before. Not only has the sheer number of women attaining higher levels of education increased, but women have overtaken men, earning the majority of associate's, bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees.
And according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report, the percent of working-age women participating in the workforce was 43 percent four decades ago. Today it is near 58 percent. In 2010, women comprised 47 percent of the U.S. workforce.
Modern day feminists sometimes point to the disproportionately low number of women in certain higher-paying professions, or at certain levels — i.e. corporate boardrooms — as evidence that American women still lack opportunities. They emphasize that women still have a long way to go before achieving parity with men.
But women don't need to be equally represented in all facets of American life in order to prove that we are free and prosperous.
A better measure of women's — and men's — success is whether they are living the lives they want to lead, in accordance with their personal preferences. While each person is an individual, and will have individual preferences, the two sexes show substantial differences.
For example, Pew Research asked working moms if they would prefer part-time or full-time work. Fully 62 percent of working moms would prefer to work part time, compared to only 21 percent of working dads. Considering this significant difference in the two groups, it's not surprising that we see more men climbing the ladders of careers that require full-time work.
But a more important truth is this: Comparing outcomes between men and women is simply a useless exercise. This approach tells us little about the expectations and opportunities that men and women face. And these economic comparisons represent the misguided attitude that men and women are in competition.
In reality, men and women's interests are tied, and we want the most freedom and greatest prosperity for all of our neighbors, regardless of sex.
Instead of slicing the pie between men and women, we should focus on the state of the whole pie: When the American economy is growing and strong, both men and women benefit. Conversely, if the economy tanks, that's bad news for us all.
In fact, perpetuating the idea that men are the economic winners and women are victims may do harm. It may encourage young women to accept the status quo as if there is nothing we – as individuals – can do to better our own circumstances.
One favorite – and often misinterpreted – statistic on women is the "wage gap," or the disparity in average wages between men and women. According to BLS, women earn 81 percent of men's median wages. This statistic does not take into account different fields, professions, experience levels or hours worked. It's an average.
If we want more young women to maximize their earning potential, we should encourage them to choose higher-paying jobs, spend more time on the job, or ask for raises more frequently. Really, we should just make sure women are informed about the tradeoffs involved in these choices, and then let each woman decide.
American women are strong, empowered and capable. When we consider women's history, we see what great obstacles women overcame to shatter glass ceilings and reach new achievements. American women – like men – will continue to overcome, to learn and to grow.
But most importantly, we will seek happiness on our own terms, we will work with – and not against – men along the way, and we will not see ourselves as helpless victims in this modern era where we are more successful and free than ever.
By Hadley Heath /// March 23, 2014


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GILMANTON, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire teen has been credited with saving a boy more than 800 miles (1,290 kilometers) away — thanks to TikTok.
Caden Cotnoir, 13, was watching a TikTok livestream of Trent Jarrett, 12, riding a four-wheeler in West Virginia, when something went awry, WMUR-TV reported.
"All of a sudden his phone goes kind of blank, you can see a little bit of light and you can just hear him yelling for help," Caden said.
Caden said he could hear Trent yelling out numbers.
"I was yelling out my grandparent's house phone number," Trent said, adding it was the only number he could remember.
Caden made a virtual call for help and Trent's parents managed to find him and lift the ATV off him. After being trapped for about 20 minutes, he sustained minor cuts and bruises.
"He did was he was supposed to do and got the right people and it worked out. It was an Easter miracle," Caden's stepfather, Gilmanton Police Chief Matt Currier, said of him.
Caden had followed Trent because of the boys' shared interests, including hunting and fishing, the station reported. The two met via Zoom on Monday, and Trent said he'd like to thank Caden for everything he did.
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Explanation: This exciting and unfamiliar view of the Orion Nebula is a visualization based on astronomical data and movie rendering techniques. Up close and personal with a famous stellar nursery normally seen from 1,500 light-years away, the digitally modeled frame transitions from a visible light representation based on Hubble data on the left to infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope on the right. The perspective at the center looks along a valley over a light-year wide, in the wall of the region's giant molecular cloud. Orion's valley ends in a cavity carved by the energetic winds and radiation of the massive central stars of the Trapezium star cluster. The single frame is part of a multiwavelength, three-dimensional video that lets the viewer experience an immersive, three minute flight through the Great Nebula of Orion.
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Anhui Huamao Group Co., Ltd. was founded in 1958. It is a large enterprise group owning textile industry chains covering cotton, spinning, weaving, fabric, garment, non-woven fabric, etc. The total assets exceed ten billion Yuan. There are more than 20 joint-stock and holding companies. ANHUI HUAMAO TEXTILE COMPANY LIMITED is a listed company (stock code: 000850) controlled by the Group. It is capable of producing 55,000 tons of "Chengfeng" brand high-grade Ne5-600 yarns and more than 100 million meters of "Yinbo" brand high-grade greige cloth with breadth of 120-360cm. Our yarn and greige cloth have won the titles like "China top brand", "national customer satisfaction product", etc. Our products are sold well in Italy, Germany, France, Japan, Hong Kong and other high-end markets. The company has been evaluated as "top-20 competitive companies in China's cotton spinning industry" for consecutive years, and rated as "China cotton textile boutique production base", "nationally recognized enterprise technology center ", "high-tech enterprise", and top-500 demonstration enterprises integrating IT application with industrialization. In the CBI (China Enterprise brand competitiveness Index System) publication in 2012, Huamao took the first place among the textile enterprises. In 2016, Huamao won award nomination of "China's quality award" and quality award of Anhui government. The company insists on the ideal of mutual development and support of industrial operation and capital operation and has successfully introduced strategic partners and completed ownership reforms. It has financial assets like GF Securities, Guotai Junan Securities, Huishang Bank, Huatai Insurance, PE investment, etc. and it has formed the rudiment of financial industrial chain covering bank, insurance, security, and pawn. Facing the "13th Five-Year Plan", the company proactively implements Made in China 2025 strategy and has put forward the "126" engineering strategy taking quality and benefit as center, innovation as motivation, and transformation and upgrading as key point, in order to create a new system in textile industry with core competition advantages. The company implements intelligent plant pilot engineering, high-quality fabric brand engineering, internationalized operation and expansion project, capital platform integration engineering and technological management and innovation engineering and talent team construction and strengthen project. We strive to develop Huamao into a well-known brand enterprise at home and abroad.


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For decades, the value proposition in quick-serve circles was pretty easy to capture in a catchphrase: More Is Better. Give those 18–34-year-old guys bigger burgers, burritos, sandwiches, and pizzas; super-size the drinks and sides; pile the toppings high; ladle on the extras, and you had a surefire formula for success.
Nowadays, the picture is a little more nuanced. Our national conversation about obesity has sunk deep into the collective consciousness. In our CCD Innovation surveys of Gen-Y consumers, even young men are displaying an unprecedented concern not just about the kinds of calories they consume, but also about the sheer number. This is a generation that's tuned into the potential hazards of excessive sugar, sodium, and saturated fat consumption. That new reality makes this an excellent time for quick serves to find new and better ways to experiment with smaller portions, rendered creatively.
As I see it, small portions open up a world of intriguing possibilities for quick-serve concepts. For example, they permit the use of more expensive, premium-quality ingredients. While applewood-smoked bacon may be too pricey to drape over a regular-sized burger in multiple sheets, a bite's worth tucked into a slider or a finger-sized chicken sandwich may not be cost-prohibitive. In a similar vein, while indulgent ingredients such as Burrata cheese, with its voluptuous mouthfeel and high fat content, might be a bit too much for consumers to take in substantial quantities, they could provide just enough richness to satisfy a craving for something decadent in small, bite-sized bits.
Small portions also allow menu developers to tinker with more provocative, piquant, and powerful flavors—and flavor combinations—that could overwhelm diners' palates in larger quantities. A batch of mini pizza bites spiked with super-spicy sun-dried chiles can give guests just a pinch of the heat they love; an entire pie slathered in those same chiles might prove downright painful.
Marketing and packaging options also abound with smaller portions. Platter-type arrangements allow consumers to sample widely around a menu and can provide a platform for between-daypart snack offerings. In addition, there are cases where potential health benefits would extend beyond the actual downsizing itself. On a full-size submarine sandwich, for instance, a thin, lighter bun; flatbread; or crispy lavosh carrier might not cut the mustard. In a smaller format, though, a slim carrier might work just fine.
The best reason for quick-serve concepts to dive headlong into the small-portion game, though, is the fact that miniaturization and specialization have such widespread appeal. In my view, there are no fewer than nine quick-serve consumer subsegments that are, or could be, well served by an increased focus on small portions.
1) The Unstarved. These are diners with a hankering for something smaller than a meal, but more substantial than a handful of almonds or doughnut holes.
2) Calorie Counters. These health-conscious consumers on your block keep their eye on fat, sodium, sugar, and fiber content, and seek to eat less of what they love.
3) Wallet Watchers. Call them value conscious, call them pennywise; just don't call on them to order a full-price meal if smaller, more affordable options are available.
4) Variety Mavens. Picking and choosing from among several items on the menu suits these folks fine, given as they are to building meals from several constituent parts.
5) Ethnic Adventurers. A subspecies of the Variety Maven, Ethnic Adventurers think of meals as exercises in cross-cultural discovery. A Thai chicken salad with a cup of Vietnamese coffee or an oolong tea is their idea of exotic travel on the cheap.
6) The Gen-Y Portion Patrol. They've been raised to avoid excess calories and understand that less is more when it comes to healthy eating.
7) The OK-in-Moderation Camp. This group favors measured restraint over outright self-denial. So while they're unlikely to inhale a whole plate of fish and chips, an entire deep-dish pizza, or full-size batch of loaded potato skins, they will pick at smaller indulgences.
8) Build-It-Myselfers. These independent-minded consumers prefer to construct a meal from several pieces and parts of their own choosing, thereby providing them with the control.
9) Waste-Abhorrers. A relatively small niche, but one that can't be ignored. These diners can't bear to throw half a sandwich in the waste bin, yet they won't want to reheat a half-eaten sandwich later on. The moral compunction can simply keep them from enjoying a normal-sized meal out.
With such a wide swath of consumers in play, it's my strong recommendation that concepts that haven't already explored the potential of downsized portions abandon their lingering reservations and start thinking big about getting small.


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