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One after the other the names of writers and bloggers who have been murdered have appeared on the computer screen: Avijit Roy, Washiqur Rahman, Ananta Bijoy Dash, Niloy Chakrabarti, and Roy's publisher Faisal Avefin Dipan. In the course of the year, these people have all been killed, often hacked to death, by religious fanatics who have aimed to silence them and to stop them from pursuing an open intellectual debate. The murders of Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Dash made deadlines in world media, but many others have been assaulted and yet others are living under constant threat for their lives. Assassination lists of secular bloggers are circulating on the web—those who are still alive are meant to be intimidated by these killings, and thereby to be silenced.
This past year, a constant flow of similar horrendous news has been reaching us from Bangladesh. The list of names of murdered persons, however, must not become any longer. All these victims have been killed for the same reason: they have attempted to pursue a serious and intellectual debate about the relationship between scientific findings and social progress and, most importantly, about the role of religion in society. The killers attack these serious-minded debaters with their machetes—all in the name of religion. The guest writer Ratan Kumar Samadder describes in detail what this terror campaign looks like. Several of those killed were connected to the respected blog site Mukto-Mona (literally "freethinker"), which is a platform for critics of religion, agnostics, and secular humanists; the story behind the blog is here given narrative form by the contributor to the site Siddharta Dhar.


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originally posted by: smarterthanyou
originally posted by: JimNasium
a reply to: VoxVirtus
All the info I've read about Kratom™ is that it should be taken ALONG w/some Nascent Iodine, which helps w/the thyroid. Do You remember reading/hearing anything about using Nascent Iodine in concert w/Kratom?
Funny i just started taking Nascent Iodine yesterday lol.. interesting synchronicity.
Too bad I wont have the option of trying Kratom and stopping Suboxone as its going to be illegal apparently.
originally posted by: JimNasium
originally posted by: smarterthanyou
originally posted by: JimNasium
a reply to: VoxVirtus
All the info I've read about Kratom™ is that it should be taken ALONG w/some Nascent Iodine, which helps w/the thyroid. Do You remember reading/hearing anything about using Nascent Iodine in concert w/Kratom?
Funny i just started taking Nascent Iodine yesterday lol.. interesting synchronicity.
Too bad I wont have the option of trying Kratom and stopping Suboxone as its going to be illegal apparently.
That is how You KNOW it works.. Of course, KNOW trumps 'think' "felt" 'believed'.. Maybe it is like the "Gun Control" issue and the ones pushing the law actually are the ones profiting on Kratom™ If it works for guns to Mexico and Heroin just about everywhere, why wouldn't it work for this? I even went out and bought some yesterday, making sure I paid cash..
They sell a 50 count bag, I know I'll have to take these 50 by the 30th...
originally posted by: DJDigitalGem
As an EMT, working in a substance abuse facility, the opiate addiction issue is at the forefront of the majority of what I see. People that started on opiate medications as young as 15 that are now addicted...... Average everyday people that have been seeing "pain management" doctors for 10+ years now hooked on prescription opiates..... When the pills dry up (insurance or doctor reasons) most are already so far in to their addiction that many of them switch to the cheaper alternative which is heroin. I have personally witnessed people detoxing from opiates and while alcohol and benzodiazepines are much more dangerous to withdraw from, the effects of opiate withdrawal are often very painful.
The DEA is proposing a ban on Kratom which would take affect on Sept 30, 2016. Kratom is currently used as an alternative pain, anxiety and opiate detox medication; it is not addictive or habit forming like conventional benzo's and opiates. It is much SAFER than the garbage the big phara's throw at us and hence the DEA crack down. Big pharma doesn't want us to have a choice in the matter. If you're in pain then you either suffer or you MUST become an addict!
This ban is being put in to place with little to no research by the FDA and with the rising opiate addiction levels in this country BECAUSE of prescription pain meds they have no business making Kratom a "schedule 1 drug". It's used for SAFE opiate detox, unlike methadone, suboxone and/or subutex; all of which are just as addictive as heroin.
The DEA reports "15 deaths" possibly attributed to Kratom use from 2014-2016; that's 15 total in two years. In 2014 there were 47,055 lethal opiate overdoses; in one year! If the FDA is going to regulate anything it should be what the big pharma is FORCING us to take, not natural alternatives.
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Reading this thread, I have to quote this and reply to it, as it's so far my favorite response, because it addresses how very long this has been an issue, as well as maybe some of the root causes it became such. I tried to quote Bonchco's whole post, but couldn't keep writing and do that.
So, refer back, if you wish, to what I'm ranting on about.
I went to rehab with a friend of mind who was arrested in an alcohol induced situation, and if he didn't go to rehab he would have done jail time and lost his engineer's license. So. There we are, and we start talking about root causes of addiction, and when we get to the emotional things that feed into addiction, SHAME, in all caps is at the top of the list, and all the reasons and applications and indications of SHAME: family patterns, dysfunctions, carried over into our adult relationships, which tend to mirror each other, if the pattern isn't solved, resolved, dealt with somehow....and all the SHAME of how we dull our emotional pain, and pain and pain and pain.....
Having said that, I am a diagnosed chronic pain patient for at least twenty years, at the age of 55 now, and have had three back surgeries, plus shingles, and many other painful maladies, not even addressing emotional pain that has left me with a good case of post traumatic stress disorder, as well.
Chronic physical pain does a chemical number on your brain, after a while, whether you're taking painkillers or not. Clinical depression follows, and it's a chemical consequence and side effect, secondarily to chronic physical pain.
Some of us have worked quite hard to solve these issues, with psychologists/psychiatrists, with physical therapy, with constant (four days a week/45 min. on a stairmaster at level 4 and an hour following with weights) exercise, and biofeedback study, visualization techniques and yoga, etc. all to address our pain, and be healthier and more productive. Forget friggin happy. Just some relief, coping mechanisms.
I used to smoke marajuana. That was one way of coping. I've been on my back in a hospital bed after bone fusion surgery with a bone graft from my hip for fifteen days, without an ability to move, with a PCS pump full of morphine in my arm, and couldn't even figure out how to get my thumb over the button to push it on my own, without a nurse showing me where that button was, and telling me what to do, the effects of that surgery were so profoundly painful to endure after waking up.......
And then, I've gotten better. A surgeon said it to me this way before surgery: "My job is this much, and parted his hands about a foot. You're job will be THIS MUCH, and parted his hands 3 feet." In other words, what you do after I give you the ability to fix yourself, will be entirely up to your hard work and commitment, rehabilitation wise, and it's gonna hurt every minute of every day.
When I came out of that surgery and left the hospital, slowly being withdrawn from the morphine and brought down to pills, to being able to leave the hospital as I has a 7 yr. old daughter at home who needed me, after 17 days, in a brace and on a walker at 32.......the withdrawal I experienced at home in the next 32 hrs. was intense and profound, as well.
Some drugs are physiologically addictive. Some are not, but EVERYTHING is psychologically addictive, including and not limited to television, exercise, dieting, etc..... My point is this is all more complicated than we think it is. Emotions, SHAME, and prohibition as the poster I replied to play a huge part, as well.
But pain is overwhelming, as well, and it will kill the sufferers' desire to survive or live, eventually, kill their humanity and willingness to deal with anything, as it becomes all encompassing and changes everything about the one suffering and their personality. Frankly, I don't know what I would do without the option of pain management, and I'm dealing with that now, after a significant car wreck, and being an SSI poverty based disability recipient, with quite an overwhelming medical history. I've tried to keep myself as healthy as I could.....
Have I become an addict? Of what? Painkillers, pot, alcohol? At different times, and different things, certainly....dependent upon the pain's cause and my response to it, and what was going on in my environment without my control at the time. This is nothing simple, as I state again.
But I can take Percocet for months, daily, and experience virtually no withdrawal. Go figure. One thing I haven't become in all that, is a heroin addict. And yet, I've had vast experience with hospital morphine intravenously, which seems to usually predispose someone in pain to addiction, but yet, out of a hospital environ, I've never shot morphine, or heroin, which is virtually the same, really.
Take what you wish from my post. I'm just really being honest and being really honest about what my pain, emotional and physical has driven me to do and what my "line" of what I would and would not do, has held me back from, and I cannot really say why or why not. But I can tell you, definitively, that when your emotional pain causes you physical pain, eventually, and then you seek relief and feel constantly guilty for needing that relief, without resolving any underlying issues, emotional and/or then physical, you'll prob/likely only continuing seeking more relief....which to me, then, is what addiction constitutes.
And frankly, it's pain, simply that causes it. If we can't solve the causes of pain, people will continue to self medicate, get high, seek consciousness altering substances, bc they are left without any other choices, to dim that fire flare of what pain is and means......
regards and much love to all who suffer,

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Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) floated the possibility of impeaching President Obama over the administration's recent decisions on immigration, during an appearance on Bill Bennett's radio show on Tuesday.
…If the president insists on continuing to ignore parts of the law that he doesn't like, and simply not enforce that law, the primary remedy for that is political. And you have it two ways: one is oversight through the Congress to demonstrate what they're doing wrong and there are some potential criminal charges there for dereliction of duty. Although, I haven't looked that up yet. And the other part of it is people need to react through the ballot box to turn out of office those people who are not doing their duty. Now if it's bad enough and if shenanigans involved in it, then of course impeachment is always a possibility. But I don't think at this point anybody is talking about that.
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In December 2017, SAS Visual Analytics 8.2 was recently released along with some fantastic functionality. Here's the seven features that I find useful.
I've made the mistake of walking away from a browser session with a report I was building. True I didn't save it but to my defense I didn't think I'd be gone so long. Inevitably the report would close, and I would lose all of my work. SAS Visual Analytics does an autosave of your report and offers to restore the report the next time you open the report. This is first on my list probably because I'm so forgetful and easily distracted.
If you made a change to your data table and wanted to replace the data table, it wasn't always obvious what was going on. Plus, you had to unload the data and then re-load the data. This new import interface makes it easy to understand that you are replacing the data.
You can take advantage of cloud-based data. If you have data on your Google drive, you can import it directly to SAS Viya. It can even be a Google spreadsheet. Watch this …
How about easier calculations – for instance I can easily create the Cumulative or Rolling Average values based on a measure. Just create a new calculation and then select the aggregation that you want.
Here's an example of the Moving Average plotted with the actual values. Easy!
This Undo/Redo functionality is helpful. When you are designing a report sometimes you realize the way you had the object was preferable. As far as I can tell it applies to the last few actions in the report. It did allow me to remove several objects and a page that I had inserted.
You can duplicate the current data object. Or you can duplicate the object as another object! If you have a bar chart, you can duplicate it as a table or dual axis bar chart. Whatever makes more sense to your current report goal. All with one click of the button.
When creating geographic data items, you get lots of extra information. When I assigned the customer country I see that two country names were invalid. It's true! The SAS lookup tables have a country called "Russian Federation" but not a "Russia". This is help – now I can update my data tables.
You can use Open Street Maps for your data or you can use one of the ESRI maps. Sometimes I think the ESRI maps are a little bright and don't allow enough contrast. You can control the brightness by changing the background transparency.
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During the Great War, my father, the eldest son, bought hay for the army cavalry and got to know Wales, travelling round the farms, and much later in his life he organised a co-operative for the sale of T.B. tested milk and cheese all for the benefit of the very poor local farmers on the Lleyn peninsula.
I used to visit a favourite Great Uncle who christened me Miss Peppermint as I bought him a packet of humbugs for his 90th birthday. He told me about his journey to Shrewsbury to his school, in a regular coach and horses post team, way before the trains and cars could take him and said it was very cold sitting on top of the coach with the coachman, and all the luggage behind . Like his brother-in-law, he had the first car in Merioneth soon after the turn of the century! It was like a story told by Charles Dickens!
My father had quite a few sheep on the poor land that surrounded our home and he sold legs and shoulders of Welsh Lamb to customers all over the country - the joints were packed in rush weave bags which were sewn up and posted away. I had to buy the bags from old Miss Clarke in Pwllheli, who kept the fish shop, and was a rather fearsome lady, dressed in long black skirts, a sack round her waist and a big BLACK straw hat and a very strong voice which rather alarmed me on my mission. She had a habit of shouting out my name for all to hear, and the name of our house and then " how is your daddy then ?"
We were not allowed to buy the chips from the van in the square, or to buy sweets and comics, Rainbow, Dandy, etc., were strictly banned. So was the picking of flowers on a Sunday, as I found out when I went out to pick them -"not on the Sabbath"! Despite these minor no-no's we had a wonderful free childhood playing with farm children, especially in the high haystacks and the woodsheds and came to no harm. My mother dressed me in beautiful blue Welsh tweed coats and skirts made by the local men's tailor which did not allow for waists or bosoms and were very straight! and she knitted lovely stripey jerseys with buttons on the shoulder which smelt slightly of sheep and were a bit greasy with lanolin.! We had a very successful small woollen mill nearby at Brynkyr where I loved watching the men and women working the looms, with a deafening noise of clackety-clack and the pretty vegetable-dyed cloth curling out at the end into a roll - and maybe my love of textiles was born there. All the wool came from local sheep and there was brown from the so-called black sheep as well as the white. I used to collect it from the thorn bushes and the barbed wire fences to make pillows for my dolls and as soon as I learned to knit, I knitted pairs of garters to hold up my fathers woolly stockings which he wore below his tweed knickerbocker suit trousers, every Christmas. Although long, they were quick and easy to do as they were all in plain stitch, no purl, which I found more difficult with small fingers; eight stitches across! funny how you remember odd things like that !


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Funeral Set For Tulsa Domestic Violence Victim, Advocate
TULSA, Oklahoma - The funeral for a Tulsa man who rose above debilitating injuries to become an advocate for victims of domestic violence is set for Thursday, May 2, 2013.
Nate Waters died April 21, 2013. He was 35.
Nate Waters was 19 in 1997 when he was severely injured by his mother's boyfriend. Those injuries left him confined to a wheelchair.
In an interview with News On 6 in 2007, Waters said he got his GED, then an Associate's Degree from TCC, a Bachelor's Degree from OSU before getting a job with Williams as an accounting assistant.
Nate Waters added, "Anything is possible with the right attitude, the right people around you and faith in God."
Lori Long, executive director of the Center For Individuals With Physical Challenges issued the following statement:
"The Tulsa community has lost a dear friend in Nate Waters. Nate was truly larger than life and never met a stranger. He inspired people to live better. He was the epitome of forgiveness. Nate is an example of what we should all aspire to be in life – a friend to all, an advocate for those in need, a giver to our community and that we all should follow our dreams with tenacity. His smile could light up a room and his laugh was infectious. My life will be forever changed for knowing him. I will miss him tremendously."
Lori Long said Waters was active in Tulsa Sports Charities, the Mayor's Commission on the Concerns of the Disabled, The Bridges Foundation, American Cancer Society, The DREAM Institute, DVIS, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and 3D Confidence.
She said Nate had a friendship with T. Boone Pickens who gave him equipment so he could eventually regain some physical improvements despite his spinal cord injuries.
Lori Long says Waters donated that equipment to the Center For Individuals With Physical Challenges to help others. She said Nate Waters was a firm believer in the verse "to whom much is given, much is expected."
Waters' funeral will be May 2, 2013 at 3 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church at 1115 South Boulder. Burial will be Friday, May 3rd at Memorial Park Cemetery.
Visitation will be May 1st at Moore's Southlawn Chapel at 9350 East 51st 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.


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My desk and computers are always littered with drawings/ideas/notes/lists made on brightly colored Post-it notes. I go through at least a pack a month. I always feel bad throwing away the cool ones 'cause who keeps Post-it notes? Last night I decided that I will start keeping the ones I can't part with and will be gluing them into my sketchbooks. I actually like the look a lot, instant frames.
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'With a Song in My Heart' to be Staged July 13 to 29
Missimi and Fiorello's new revue celebrates songs and musicals by Richard Rodgers
EVANSTON, Ill. --- From the creative minds behind last year's SummerStage hits toasting the Golden and New Age musicals comes a new revue in praise of American composer Richard Rodgers, considered by many to be the greatest composer of musicals.
Directed by Joseph Jefferson ("Jeff") Award-winner Dominic Missimi and conceived and arranged by music director David Fiorello, "With a Song in My Heart: The Romance of Richard Rodgers" is a grand salute to a man who contributed more Broadway hits to the repertoire than any other. Rodgers (1902-1979) composed more than 900 songs, many of which are featured in 43 Broadway musicals.
Part of the Theatre and Interpretation Center at Northwestern University's 2012 SummerStage season, performances of "With a Song in My Heart" will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 13; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 14; 2 p.m. Sunday, July 15; 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 20: 7:30 p.m. July 21; 2 p.m. Sunday, July 22; 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 27; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 28; and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 29, at the Ethel M. Barber Theater, 30 Arts Circle Drive, on Northwestern University's Evanston campus.
In tandem with the three-week-only revue, TIC will also offer audiences a Rodgers and Hammerstein mini-film series at the Barber Theater. It will feature the 1955 Oscar Award-winning musical "Oklahoma!" at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 19, and the 1958 movie adaptation of "South Pacific" at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 28. Single tickets for each screening are $5 to $10.
Missimi's and Fiorello's three-part revue celebrates the collaborations of Rodgers with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. "With a Song in My Heart" kicks off with a contemporary nod to Rodgers and Hart, continues with a folksy twist on the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein; and finishes in a WWII canteen-like conclusion, featuring songs across both collaborations.
"What I love in our show is that there are stories to follow," Missimi said. "We have 12 actors in the show and six different pairs of lovers -- some are in love all the time, some are in love with love and some may be having trouble and need to rediscover what love is. We are examining the relationships through the music in three very different settings so it's much more than just a musical revue."
Performing such songs as "My Funny Valentine," "My Favorite Things" and "Johnny One Note," the show's cast will be comprised of Northwestern student performers from the School of Communication's Music Theatre Certificate Program.
"It feels like these songs are being rediscovered," Fiorello said. "To me, that's pretty exciting, because it proves their music is more timeless than we thought."
Missimi, former executive director of the American Music Theatre Project at Northwestern University, has directed more than 40 Equity productions for Chicago's three major music theatres and staged more than 80 plays, musicals and operas at Northwestern. He has received three Jeff Awards for productions he directed at Marriott's Lincolnshire Theatre.
Fiorello -- a musical director, performer, director, playwright and composer -- is the staff pianist for Northwestern's Music Theatre Program. He served as music director and co-creator of last summer's "Some Enchanted Broadway Evening" and music directed the American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) at Northwestern University's staged readings of "Fly By Night" and "Triangle." His credits include the Off-Broadway production of "Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical" and he also served as music director of numerous national tours of top Broadway productions, including the John Doyle production of "Sweeney Todd."
Single tickets for "With a Song in My Heart" are $30 for the general public; $27 for seniors 62 and older, Northwestern faculty and staff and area educators; $10 for full-time students; and $5 for Northwestern students on advance purchase only ($10 at the door).
SummerStage 2012 programming is partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. For more season details, visit www.tic.northwestern.edu.
CONSTRUCTION ALERT: A three-year construction project is underway that has closed Northwestern University's Arts Circle Drive to traffic. Free parking for evening and weekend events remains available, but the project will impact handicap parking and patrons requiring special access to theaters on the Evanston campus. Visit www.tic.northwestern.edu/construction to learn more.


text: The orientation of this playful kindergarten in Granada Spain, creates a tension that is expressed through the system of apertures. Designer, Alejandro Munoz Miranda, designed the spaces opening towards the North and the courtyard get large window panels, while towards the south and the public, light is admitted only through glazed "cracks". The fissures corresponding to the corridor and the exterior covered playground are brightly colours, while for the classrooms only clear glass is used. The classrooms are differentiated according to age groups (two classrooms for children up to1 year with bedroom, two classrooms for children from 1 to 2 years with bedroom and three classrooms for children from 2 to 3 years without bedroom). All the classrooms on the same level can be connected for larger group activities. Even if the mobile partitions are closed, visual continuity is still present through the glazed upper parts of the dividing walls.


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Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art is delighted to announce details of the programme for its 5th edition. One of the UK's boldest visual arts events, the Festival will continue its tradition of bringing together exhibitions by the best international and local artists, from Turner Prize winners and nominees to the most exciting emerging talent. The Festival will build on the successes of previous Festivals, showcasing work by more than 130 artists across nearly 50 of Glasgow's best permanent and temporary exhibition venues spanning the length and breadth of the city.
More than 90% of the work included in the 18-day Festival programme is new or previously unseen in the UK and the Festival will also feature a series of newly-commissioned works that draw on a range of other disciplines, including dance, film, music, performance and theatre.
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In a longer stated period, the goal is to reach 50% of the national market, as information given for the direction of the CSN. Plus an advance obtained for the CSN/Metalic partnership it was to become the so reciclvel steel as aluminum, therefore as sena research of 1998 of the BNDES, this age another impediment for the biggest competitiveness of the steel. Given the technological advances implemented by the CSN, the steel, differently of 1998, more delay 10 years not to degrade, but only five years, whereas the aluminum and the PET continue needing the 100 years for its entire decomposition (as if it saw in the report of the 1998 BNDES).


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Two celebrated stars of the opera world join forces for a thrilling afternoon of operatic arias and traditional American spirituals. The Associated Press hails Lawrence Brownlee as "one of the world's leading bel canto tenors," while Eric Owens has been dubbed an "American marvel" by the Chicago Sun-Times.
Doors open
1 hour, 30 minutes prior to performance
S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium - Benaroya Hall
The most in-demand American tenor in the world in the bel canto repertoire, Lawrence Brownlee continues to astonish audiences with the elegance and agility of his instrument. From firmly American roots, Mr. Brownlee has become a star on the international scene, lauded for the seemingly effortless beauty of his voice.
Bass-baritone Eric Owens has a unique reputation as an esteemed interpreter of classic works and a champion of new music. Equally at home in orchestral, recital, and operatic repertoire, Mr. Owens brings his powerful poise, expansive voice, and instinctive acting faculties to stages around the world.
Lauded for his "sensitive and stylish" (The New York Times) and "superb" (Opera News) playing, pianist Craig Terry enjoys an international career regularly performing with the world's leading singers and instrumentalists. Currently Mr. Terry serves as Music Director of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago after having served for eleven seasons at Lyric as Assistant Conductor. Previously, he served as Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera after joining its Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
Lawrence Brownlee's performance is supported in part by the Melvyn Poll Tenor Fund


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We've written previously about Perfect Strangers in such articles as 6 Things You Didn't Know About Perfect Strangers, 8 Characters That Shouldn't Rap, 6 Sitcoms That Would've Been Lousy Video Games, and 8 Alternate Casting Choices, but today is a celebration.
That's right– today, March 25, 2016, marks the 30th anniversary of Perfect Strangers, and what better way to celebrate than with the perfectly strange food and drink of Balki Bartokomous' people.
Mypos Salad
You may have heard of a Greek Salad, but did you know that the island of Mypos has their own twist on this tasty treat? Of course you didn't Cousin, don't be ridiculous! I just made that up.
For the dressing:
1/4 cup olive oil
3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
Juice of half a lemon
1 tablespoon grated Parmesan
1/2 tablespoon garlic
1/2 teaspoon oregano
1/2 teaspoon basil
Salt and pepper to taste
For the salad:
1 head of romaine
Handful of cherry tomatoes, halved
1/2 red onion (or a full shallot if that's the only thing Cousin Larry has in the fridge)
1/2 cup Kalamata olives, sliced
1/2 cup feta cheese
Get a Mason jar and mix all the ingredients for the dressing inside. Ooooh look how Pinterest you are!
Cut up your romaine and use that salad spinner for once in your life instead of buying "pre-washed" mixed greens and getting Listeria (some of us like to live on the edge, but not today, Cousin!) While you're at it, slice up your onion, halve your cherry tomatoes, and slice up your olives if the grocery store was out of the pre-sliced variety.
Combine ingredients in a large salad bowl and add the feta cheese on top.
Portion out into plates before adding the dressing. Some people will add the dressing right to the salad bowl. In Mypos, these people are called assholes.
Mypos Mojito
While Mojitos are traditionally a Cuban cocktail, the people of Mypos have developed a special version of this drink that they enjoy sipping on as they herd sheep. Of course, the recipe calls for importing some very special rum.
Cousin Larry Appleton Jamaica Rum
11 mint leaves
Club Soda
Half of a lime cut into four wedges
2 tablespoons simple syrup (sugar and water)
First of all, you're going to have to make some simple syrup. Don't worry Cousin, it is so simple! This is equal parts sugar and water. Make sure you get the sugar out of the sugar bowl you brought with you from your parents' house in Mypos when you moved out. The more 90s-ier, the better.
Bring the sugar and water to a boil, stir it a few times, and let it go for a few minutes.
Let cool and transfer to a Mason jar because oooh look so Pinterest!
Place the mint leaves and one wedge of lime into a glass and muddle. If you don't have a muddler, the end of a wooden spoon works just fine. That is how we do it back home.
Add your simple syrup and two more wedges of lime. Muddle again.
Fill glass with ice and add a shot of Cousin Larry Appleton Jamaica Rum. Top with Club Soda.
Can we take a moment to appreciate what a fun time these kids are having on the Club Soda bottle?
Garnish with that fourth wedge of lime and enjoy responsibly!
This meal is Dimitri-approved!
Fun fact: that plush sheep toy was part of some fuzzy dice my Dad had for his car in the 80s. He gave the sheep to me and I immediately named him Dimitri. My love for Perfect Strangers is strong!


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WASHINGTON -- Democrats in Congress capped President Barack Obama's 100th day in office by advancing a $3.4 trillion federal budget plan for next year -- a third of it borrowed.
WASHINGTON -- Democrats in Congress capped President Barack Obama's 100th day in office by advancing a $3.4 trillion federal budget plan for next year -- a third of it borrowed.
The measure prevents Republicans from blocking Obama's proposed trillion-dollar expansion of government-provided health care over the next decade.
The budget plan for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 sets the parameters for subsequent tax and spending bills expected to boost clean-energy and student-aid programs and extend many of former President George W. Bush's tax cuts.
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It gives Democrats the option of moving Obama's health-care plan through Congress without the threat of a Republican filibuster, though Democrats promise to try to find bipartisan agreement.
The Senate adopted the plan by a 53-43 vote hours after a 233-193 House tally.
Newly turned Democrat Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania voted against the measure. Three other Democrats also voted no: Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Evan Bayh of Indiana.
Seventeen House Democrats, mostly from GOP-leaning districts, voted against the budget.
Not a single Republican in the House or Senate voted for the measure.
Obama inherited an economy in deep recession and a financial bailout costing hundreds of billions of dollars, and even some Republicans didn't fault him for deficits hitting $1.7 trillion for the current budget year and $1.2 trillion in 2010.
As a result, Democrats opted against extending Obama's signature $400 tax cut for most workers beyond next year and cut $10 billion from his budget for non-defense programs. Also gone is revenue from Obama's "cap-and-trade" plan for curbing global warming by auctioning permits to emit greenhouse gases.
Republicans attacked the plan as the latest example of a spending spree by Democrats that started with Obama's $787 billion economic-stimulus bill. It was followed by an omnibus appropriations bill that showered generous increases on domestic programs and included 8,000 pet projects.
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We would like to share our special moments during our wedding that took pace on the 31st August 2013 at Tsakane, Brakpan.
I love your traditional outfit makoti, may God bless your marriage.
Beautiful wedding makoti! Y ppl ba rata too many brides and groom maids so mara?
The cream roses that are your centrepiece are too stunning for words
Beautiful wedding God bless…..
God bless your wedding.It was beautiful
Ga ke kgatlhe ke sepe mo…n this luks pics sent in by som1 other than the bride and groom!!SOWETAN YOU REALLY NEED TO CURB THIS PROBLEM MAAN, STOP POSTING PICS SENT IN BY THE COUPLE RE LAPILE BYNAONG!
All I can see is an exceptionally beautiful bride, congrats on your marriage Sisi, take care of your hubby!
My beloved sister as you were celebrating your day. Haaimaan you and the groom were looking I mean "WOW". May the presence of the Lord Be with you in greater measure. Than it ever has before. And know that we appreciate. All the little things you did to make your special memorable. And know that God is well pleased. And is smiling down on you. I pray that this marriage will warm your heart forver. And may God's warmth not ever depart for all year round and the years ahead. May you find in family & friends God's love is shared. Have a blessed marriage!!!
maar when was the wedding?i cant see the chairs clearly maar it seems like ke tsele tse di coveriwang.mayb the wedding ke ya last year.well, congrats
Great now that the blog is back they are not posting my comments……….
Congratulations on your wedding and may the Almighty God bless your marriage Mr & Mrs Zwane, and makoti, your dress suits you perfectly.
Just a few misses, napkins as underplates, the groom's hair, main table too crowded and the bridal party, way too many people.
Beatiful centre piece, where is the cake????
nice wedding congratulations hhay mara the grooms hair hahahahaha aykhona nie
love the flowers
beutiful wedding,all the best
Congradulations!! what a beautifull wedding in deed! nice pics and beautiful decor. all the best.
The wedding dress is not bad at all. Not sure about the groomsmen's outfits.
Hey..yaaa neee
wish you the best of luck in your marriage.
didnt like the decor and everything is just simple, perhaps its bcs you displaced few pictures
love your tradition girl beautiful
Shuuuuuu ja neh!!! Ngumshado lo
Eish too many bridesmaid and groommaids but it was a great wedding so far.
Roses are perfect. Too many bride's and groom's maid. Food no
very beautiful wedding, beautiful tradition attire, love it
May the Almighty bless your union.
happy newyear guys im from a wedding ka saty jooo no mokgonyana joo
Then the groom are betha ka 'Makulastyle"? congrats on your wedding
I love the wedding gown, reminds me of a baptism dress – very simple. cant say much for the groom and his men – nothing to write home about. the decor is very basic – the focus was probably on the entire wedding party – too many people.the most important thing is that he loved you enough to 'put a ring on it' – may you be happy and blessed.
Nice wedding…
May the Good Lord bless your marrige, nice wedding.
she was trying to cover both families with groom's and maid.
Wonderfull lolllsss
the dress was beautiful but I ddnt lyk the cake and the way you were posing.i blame the camera man dow


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It's been said that every great poet (or artist, or novelist etc.) is simply writing the same great poem over again and again. The poet herself first and foremost understands this deeply, deeply - it runs to the source, the unexplainable essence from which it springs.
Have you not heard the sparrow, singing?
Most critics have written off Mary Oliver a long time ago. They may acknowledge that she has written a number of very good, if not great, poems (& who among them can say the same, eh, William Logan?) but now, they say, she just repeats past glories, retreads the same old tropes.
And the waves, do they not repeat past glories, retread old tropes?
Imagine, in your life as a poet, toiling day in and day out, for a lifetime, how ever long, imagine having written a handful of poems that deeply touched the lives of others, some who have devoted their lives to the word, others who have not.
Mary Oliver has touched the lives of many and she has done it by tapping deep into the well-spring not only of what makes us human, but also into what it is to live. She shares the great subjects and themes of no less than Whitman and Emerson and Snyder and Berry and Wordsworth and Thoreau. She is formidable, in her way.
If you are a Mary Oliver fan, as I am, you will enjoy very much her new book, Evidence. If you are not, perhaps there is nothing here that will win you over. But there are a handful of poems in this collection which revisit that well and it is pure and it is cold and it is deep.
You will find no workshop Evian here, friends.
And who among us can say the same, a handful of poems, pure and cold and deep?
Yes, there are poems that are working through the same images, the same thoughts, the same themes. Some are light, very light, indeed. But they are true: true to her vision, true to her thought, true to herself. True to the world.
When she gifts another with a cherished possession (a bone from the ear of a whale, found deposited on the beach at the edge of the Atlantic) the significance of which she has written about previously, I felt, in fact, she was gifting her heart.
Imagine giving away the object that inspired a poem that tens of thousands of people read and loved. And the gift she receives in return is even more beautiful, one that Yeats and Lawrence would have admired, indeed.
Here are 3 poems from Evidence that work for me; the are distinctly the Mary Oliver of my mind, not all pretty nature and beautiful this and lovely that. They are the Mary Oliver that senses death, right here, right now, all the time, and its power and its strength are its beauty, the beauty of life.
The beauty of death.
Li Po and the Moon
There is the story of the old Chinese poet:
at night in his boat he went drinking and dreaming
--and singing
then drowned as he reached for the moon's reflection.
Well, probably each of us, at some time, has been
--as desperate.
Not the moon, though.Mary Oliver
Thinking of Swirler
One day I went out
--into a wonderful
----ongoing afternoon,
------it was fall,
the pine trees were brushing themselves
--against the sky
---as though they were painting it,
----and Swirler,
who was alive then,
--was walking slowly
---through the green bog,
----his neck
as thick as an ox,
--his antlers
----brushing against the trees,
-- -- his three good feet tapping
the softness beneath him
--and the fourth, from an old wound,
------I know he saw me
for he gave me a long look
--which was as precious as a few
----good words,
------since his eyes
were without terror.
--What do the creatures know?
----What in this world can we be certain about?
------How did he know I was nothing
but a harmless mumbler of words,
--some of which would be about him
----and this wind-whipped day?
------In a week he would be dead,
arrowed down by a man I like,
--though with some difficulty.
----In my house there are a hundred half-done poems.
------Each of us leaves an unfinished life.Mary Oliver
He takes such small steps
to express our longings.
Thank you, Schubert.
How many hours
do I sit here
aching to do
what I do not do
when, suddenly,
he throws a single note
higher than the others
so that I feel
the green field of hope,
and then, descending,
all this world's sorrow,
so deadly, so beautiful.Mary Oliver
This Sunday, I am going to start a new occasional series, entitled Issa's Sunday Service, which will include a song and a poem.
Because, well, there is just not enough going on around here ...
if my father were here--
dawn colors
over green fieldsIssa
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Playing for the Ronan and Wilkinson Cups
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Iwas reminded of high school as the room was divided into sides: pet food manufacturers
and ingredient suppliers on the
industry side, and state and federal officials on the regulatory
side, which left me and Susan
Thixton, of the Association for
Truth in Pet Food, standing with
nowhere to go.
It's certainly not the first time
I have felt unwanted—thanks,
high school soccer team—and
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divided up was to form groups
to participate in a "feed emergency tabletop exercise." The
moderators of the exercise then
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roundtables. Each table had both
industry and regulatory members. Susan and I were sprinkled
in among these smaller groups.
For this exercise, we were
presented with a hypothetical
scenario in which a manufacturer received a phone call from
a consumer whose dog had become ill after consuming their
pet food. The consumer did not
have the bag. Each table discussed what would happen with
that scenario. Once the table
came up with a plan, it presented it to the moderators so everyone could hear everybody's
answers. After the answers were
reviewed, the best were recorded. They continued to add more
pieces—more consumer complaints, hospitalized pets and
more product information. The
purpose was to see how each
segment of the industry would
react and at what point a recall
would be issued and by whom.
I wasn't sure how I was going to fit in this roundtable, but
I think it's important for retailers
to understand everything that's
involved in a recall. It turns out
that I was able to give input, and
I learned a lot.
In the first scenario where the
consumer did not have the bag,
some of the industry personnel
thought they could call the store
with the consumer's name to figure out the batch code of what
they purchased. I don't believe
that's a possibility for any retailer, and certainly not for the
micro-independent. I can tell
you Jane Doe purchased a bag
of Brand X on Jan. 1, but I don't
track individual batch numbers.
The other thing I pointed out
was that, in many cases, the first
complaint comes to the retailer,
and many times, they might not
even think it's a product issue.
Think about it: How many times
have you had a customer come in
and say, "Fido has been on Brand
X for years, but after eating this
last bag, he threw up or had diarrhea, so I wanted to try a new
brand." This very well could be
a product issue. Do you call the
manufacturer or encourage your
customer to in that case?
After having participated in
this exercise, I would say "yes"—
even if you don't have the batch
code. The manufacturer might
not do any investigation based on
one phone call that doesn't have
a batch code, but the second or
third complaint coming from the
same region should trigger some
investigation on their end. I also
learned that there really are no
set requirements for when to call
in the state and federal officials,
nor any information regarding
directives for manufacturers.
This concerns me.
I certainly think there are some
less-than-reputable manufacturers that would not record all information nor call in the officials
until the last possible moment, if
at all. Have you ever talked with
the manufacturers you recommend to see what their policies
are? Are they going to initiate
any type of investigation on the
first phone call or the 15th? Are
they going to do anything if batch
codes are unknown? I think these
are all important answers to have
when deciding if you're going to
recommend a product or not.
I know from personal experience that no one is really going
to do very much until they have
a batch code and, quite frankly, I
don't blame them. This is another
reason you should be preaching
to your customers to not dump
the bag of dog food into their pet
food bin. Put the entire bag in the
bin and just roll the top, which is
better for the product and certainly better for safety tracking.
With all the conversation at
the AAFCO meeting about when
and if a manufacturer would
launch an investigation, I asked if
we should just be calling our state
officials and reporting an incident
with them. The consensus from
many of the state officials who
took part in the exercise was that
they would prefer it start with
the manufacturer. I understand
completely; they don't want to
get bombarded with phone calls
when it might have been consumers not transitioning properly,
expired product or the numerous
reasons that would not be a safety
issue. It was recommended to use
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) online portal to
report a pet food issue.
When a consumer or storeowner places a complaint via theportal, it starts a process the FDAhas in place to track and followthe complaint. Depending onthe severity of the complaint, theFDA is going to follow it and re-port it to the manufacturer andthe local authorities.
Every store should develop apolicy on what to do with a con-sumer complaint. Are you goingto call the manufacturer, are yougoing to call your state authoritywho regulates pet food, are yougoing to report it to the FDA ordo some combination of all of theabove? I recommend you talk toyour state authority and makea decision on what your policyshould be. In my case, I only sellfoods I have 100 percent confi-dence in, so I will call them on anycustomer complaint. If I receivetwo complaints on the same prod-uct within a narrow timeframe, Iwill probably do all of the abovebecause of what I learned in thisexercise. Communication is notalways as free flowing betweenagencies and industry as I wouldhope.
During the three-day AAFCO
event, someone who was really
curious why I attended the meetings as a retailer approached me.
AAFCO is usually comprised of
pet food ingredient manufacturers
who are trying to get an ingredient
approved for use, manufacturers
and associations that want to keep
track of the rules, and, of course,
the federal and state officials. I attend because my customers want
a safe, nutritious and beneficial pet
food. My customers don't want
byproducts, artificial anything or
questionable meat in their dog's
food. I attend because I want to
see which manufacturers take the
time and expense to sit in an AAFCO meeting. I attend to make sure
I understand the rules. If possible,
you really should attend too.
B.C. HENSCHEN, a certified pet care technician and an
accredited pet trainer, is a partner in PLATINUM PAWS,
a full-service pet salon and premium pet food store in
Carmel, Ind. His knowledge of the pet food industry
makes Platinum Paws the go-to store for pet owners
who want more for their pet than a bag off a shelf.
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text: An observed positive relationship between compensation and productivity cannot distinguish between two channels: (1) an incentive effect and (2) worker selection. In this paper by Guiteras and Jack (latest version: January 2014), the authors use a simplified Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism, which provides random variation in piece rates conditional on revealed reservation rates, to separately identify the two channels in the context of casual labor markets in rural Malawi. Workers choose the minimum piece rate at which they are willing to accept a one-day contract to perform a simple task: sorting beans by type and quality. A piece rate offer is then generated randomly, determining whether the worker is given a contracttand, if so, the piece rate. Random assignment to a quality monitoring treatment provides exogenous variation in the workers' incentives to trade off quantity of output for quality. A higher piece rate increases output in this setting, but does not attract more productive workers. Among men, the average worker recruited at higher piece rates is actually less productive. Local labor market imperfections appear to undermine the worker sorting observed in well-functioning labor markets.


text: I finally got around to sorting and processing my photos from the 2010 Midpoint Music Festival in September. For the uninitiated, MPMF is a music festival hosted here in Cincinnati each fall. It serves as a veritable all-you-can hear buffet of up and coming indie rock. This year I was lucky enough to catch sets by Best Coast, Caribou, Phantogram and Cincy's own Wussy and Seedy Seeds. But the best show I saw all weekend was from Columbus, Ohio's Super Deserts. Great stuff. You can see a few photos below, and many many more over on my Flickr page. As well as photos from the MPMF Indie Summer Series.


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Fourth of July Weekend - 2014
We had a wonderful and relaxing Fourth of July weekend! Is it just me or is this year flying by really fast? We were going to just stay home and work during the day and then enjoy a firework show in the evening. Joseph met with a client and when he got home we decided to hit the road! We love taking drives in the country to small towns; we take back roads that are usually not paved, but lead to the most beautiful pastures, lakes, and homesteads.
Our first stop was Collinsville Texas, it was such a cute small town! Of course being a holiday, the town was pretty much closed up, but look how cute these shops are! We followed Farm to Market road 902 and came across Lake Kiowa, which I think might be the best kept secret of Northern Texas! Everything was clean, beautiful, and quite fancy there! I don't have photos to show you; I feel it's best to keep it a secret place! ;)
We took FM 902 to FM 372 and headed back towards Pilot Point! We love Ray Roberts State Park in Pilot Point so much! We love the whole area; it's known as horse country, and once you're there, you know why! There are the most beautiful horse ranches scattered all around the area. We drove around the backside of the lake, and found a dirt road that led right to the lake's beach. I don't know that I should call it a beach given all the dead trees scattered about. The water level is obviously low; we need rain really bad right now!
Driving into Pilot Point's historic down town I noticed the American flag painted on the side of the building, as we got closer we found Lady Liberty also painted on the side of the building, and just above Lady Liberty on the building behind her is Eve, you know Eve from the Holy Bible. I found the paintings really bizarre but really cool at the same time.
After visiting the official State Park, which by the way was packed full of boaters, campers, and families celebrating the holiday, we headed back towards McKinney. We stopped to pick up a sandwich and then found the perfect spot to park in Craig's Ranch to watch the firework show! It was perfect weather with a light breeze, and the June bugs landing on me only slightly got on my nerves. ;)
On Saturday Joseph worked on a couple restoration projects, and after dropping off a book to one of our clients, we hit Braums and got only the best ice-cream treat imaginable! My S'mores Sunday stretched across two days and both days it was delicious!
Sunday was low key, we went to church and have been relaxing ever since! We hope you all had a fantastic weekend celebrating our wonderful country!


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Maggie Smith picked up an award for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series (hurrah) for her role as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham at Sunday's Emmy Awards . But she was unable to collect her award in person.
It was Downton's only award on the night - despite a whopping sixteen nominations.
Downton's Hugh Bonneville and Michelle Dockery were up against Damian Lewis and Claire Danes of Homeland, and Elisabeth Moss and Jon Hamm of Mad Men.
In a shock win, Brit actor Damian won Best Actor In A Drama for his role as US Marine Nicholas Brody. Check out the ladies in their pretty dresses here.
He was at the Los Angeles ceremony and accepted the award, saying: "I'm one of those pesky Brits, I apologise. I don't really believe in judging art, but I thought I'd show up just in case."
Damian also acknowledged the other stars he beat and said TV was enjoying a special time: "What an extraordinary honour to be in a category with these golden actors setting a gold standard in acting in a golden age of TV.
"The cast that I work with who are delightful and enjoyable to dine with but especially to the two ladies who've suffered me the most, Claire Danes and Marina Baccarin.
"You're both beautiful and it's enjoyable working with you, every minute of it."
He was equally charming about the lady in his personal life – his wife.
"The biggest thank you of all to the leading lady of my life Helen McCrory, I adore you darling, thank you for being here."


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Parlour 416.408.3666 http://www.parlour270.com open Thurs to Sun 9pm-2am
With its fireplace and chandeliers, the soaring room should be mightily imposing, but it isn't. It's lucky the room is so gorgeous and the music so rich, because the kitchen is empty. Being invited to the opening I was hoping to taste the restaurants new menu in any form, but was sadly disappointed. Even when I asked if the hors d'oeuvre floating around the velvety room reflected the menu in some same way – I was told the kitchen was not fully opened, and the food was outsourced. Whats with that? After ordering a martini at the bar I wandered into a quaint garden patio lined with shrubs, bamboo fences and paper lanterns. At first I thought the focus of this spot would be on the food and drink, but now I am not so sure.
"International Small bites" ($10-$15)
Thursday 7pm to 9pm $8 martinis, $5 Coronas; live music till 2am
Friday 9pm live Djs
Saturday 9pm deep soul and full house music


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Crowdfunding Campaign Highlight: BRASS RIBBON CINEMA
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Attn: Philly,
Fishtown's Neighborhood Movie Theater!
Fishtown's Neighborhood Movie Theater!
Fishtown is missing a movie theater. But there's a plan, they just need your support!
Like most of Philadelphia, Fishtown is in the midst of a great revitalization. The neighborhood has changed so much even in the past few years. Coffee houses, ice cream shops, restaurants, bars, bakeries, art galleries, and glorious, GLORIOUS pizza — all within walking distance, BUT the nearest movie theater is way across town.
Enter Miguel Luzon, Mairobi Luzon and Adam Cramer - two people with a dream and one with the perfect space.
Brass Ribbon Cinema is the vision of siblings and Fishtown transplants Mairobi and Miguel Luzon - "Forgoing the usual upsells and glitz of a traditional big-box theater, Brass Ribbon Cinema is first and foremost a community movie theater. Our mission a simple one: To provide Fishtown and Kensington with local, awesome, and reasonably-priced cinema. We do what we do in order to get to the heart of why cinematic experiences matter. We believe that film and community can go hand-in hand as means of finding common ground through shared stories and shared experiences".Some of what you can expect to find at Brass Ribbon Cinema:
Kid-friendly sing-along matinee (because who doesn't still have Frozen's "Let It Go" replaying in their heads?). Adult-friendly drink-along BYOB movie nights (take a sip every time the camera unnecessarily focuses on a gear shift in "The Fast and The Furious"). Free First Friday special screenings. Classic/remake double features. Concessions partnerships with local restaurants. Specialty screenings for independent artists. Free on-screen advertising for local charities and nonprofits. These are just a few of the ideas we have to make Brass Ribbon Cinema a Fishtown favorite.
We are delighted to have found a location that we feel not only suits the needs of a fledgling movie theater, but is also a Fishtown landmark. Adam Cramer of Liberty Vintage Motorcycles has been kind enough to let us lease half of his glorious garage to be renovated into the future home of Brass Ribbon Cinema.
We connected with Adam through a community Facebook page. Adam had put up a post looking for a tenant that would make use of half of his Garage in a way that would be fun, and would add value the neighborhood we call home. It didn't take long for us to fall in love with the space, and after meeting Adam and hearing his story, we knew we had found the perfect location.
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No matter how much education your group has, or how little, your group's money income has been declining for 12 years, not just since the start of the Great Recession.
Yes, you need a good education to get a good job, but in the 21st Century you also need a good education to get a bad job. A recent study found that 46.3% of the projected beneficiaries of an increase in the Maryland minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.00 per hour have at least some college education. Yes, college educated people working for minimum wage, many of them full time. See the comments on Mark Thoma's post What's the Cost and Financial Value of College.
For plutocrats and employers, declining wages is a feature, not a bug. They want taxpayers to train their workers so they don't have to, and they want labor costs to keep going down. They are apparently not even embarrassed by this assault on American workers. Lumina Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded a study at Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce to calculate how many more college graduates the US would need to turn out in order to drive down the college-versus-high-school wage premium from 74% to 46%! That's the goal—reduce the value of a college education by churning out an even bigger glut of degree holders. Even the study's authors question whether it will be feasible to get more Americans to complete college when they have to pay/borrow more as the incremental value of the degree is declining.
So here's my modest proposal: Declare a moratorium on hand-wringing about how to improve our educational system and instead focus serious national attention on creating tens of millions of jobs. Then we'll have the money to pay for more education for more people and a rising financial incentive for people to pursue higher education.
Why have we had for 12 years a chronic shortage of jobs up and down the education scale? Recently there has been a spate of punditry to the effect that American workers are being displaced by robots (shorthand for all sorts of automation). Well of course they are, and have been since the beginning of the industrial revolution, but I'm willing to bet that in the last 12 years many more American workers have been displaced by ill-treated Chinese teenagers than by robots.
Hat tip to Anne for the link to Census data.
Nancy Folbre has a post on Economix that discusses much of this same subject matter and comes to similar conclusions:
As the economist Richard Freeman points out, developing countries have invested heavily — and successfully — in their higher education systems. In 2005 Chinese universities awarded five times as many bachelor's degrees as they did in 1999.
This global expansion of the educated labor force is likely to put downward pressure on the college premium in the United States.
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Certainly students are now encouraged to think more strategically about their majors and to specialize in more technical fields. This is good financial advice, but it won't guarantee success. Unlike financial capital, which can be easily moved from one investment to another, investment in human capital represents a sunk cost.
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The evolution of the global human capital market has momentous political implications. Like many Democrats, President Obama is bullish on human capital. He favors increased public investment in education, ranging from early childhood to post-secondary programs. The assertion that such spending will generate a high individual and social rate of return is based on the optimistic expectation that demand for better-educated workers will remain strong.
On the other hand, many critics of public-education subsidies are bearish on human capital. The economist Richard Vedder, for instance, warns against both private and public overinvestment in education, pointing to the growing tendency for college graduates to land in jobs that don't actually require the credential they hold.
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Those who believe, as I do, that education has intrinsic value both to individuals and to society as a whole should reconsider their habit of relying on market-based private rate-of-return rhetoric.
Rather than bowing to market forces, an intelligent, well-educated citizenry would bend those forces toward better ends, including the best possible development of human capabilities.
Well, the last sentence is pretty subtle, but I think she is calling for policies that create domestic jobs and protect them from the worst possible outcomes of pure laissez faire global labor markets. Even if she isn't calling for that, I am.


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Microsoft Is bringing Azure Cloud Services to Your Datacenter with Microsoft Azure Stack
Azure Stack gives you Microsoft Azure Services to run your datacenter just like a service provider. On this episode of Microsoft Mechanics, Jeffrey Snover takes an IT Pro perspective to show you how you can leverage the operational and resource management model of Azure for your datacenter on premises. Also, you'll see how this hybrid approach gives you the flexibility to deploy apps and resources where and when you need them.
Here you can find more information on Microsoft Azure Stack documentation


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The Best 30-Minute, Full Body Weightlifting Workout
For maximizing calorie burn, metabolism boost and fat loss in your training, you can't beat full body workouts, claims strength coach Marc Perry of BuiltLean.com. Full body workouts hit more muscle groups, meaning they burn more calories and are far more demanding than split workouts. As with anything related to exercise and diet, there's no one-size-fits-all approach for full body workouts, but the key for best results is to keep the intensity high for 30 minutes.
Exercise Selection
Exercises come in two categories -- compounds that work both multiple joints and muscles and isolations, which focus on single body parts at a time. Compounds are your best choice when looking to build muscle, according to the American Council on Exercise. Since they hit more fibers, they encourage more muscle growth. They're also superior for fat loss as the increased energy demands of compounds require your body to burn a higher number of calories. Base your workouts around compound exercises such as squats, deadlifts, presses, push-ups and rows.
Your go-to gym tools include free weights -- specifically barbells, dumbbells and kettlebells -- along with body weight moves. Free weights recruit your stabilizing muscles more than machines and don't force your joints into unnatural movement patterns, according to a report from the McKinley Health Center at the University of Illinois. If you're not sure of exercise techniques, ask a trainer at the gym for assistance.
Sets, Reps and Intensity Techniques
Contrary to popular belief, the number of sets and reps you perform has very little to do with losing fat. Theoretically, sets of one to five reps with a heavy weight are best for strength gains, six to 12 reps are best for muscle growth and over 12 reps with lighter weights are best for muscular endurance. Work across all three ranges, but stick mainly in the one that closely aligns with your goals. As 30 minutes isn't a lot of time to train in, consider using time-saving, intensity-boosting techniques such as circuits, or supersets, where you perform one exercise immediately after another without any rest in between. Not only will these cut down on your workout time, they also boost muscle growth, strength and fat loss, claims strength coach Nick Nilsson, author of "Specialization Training."
Programming and Progression
Perform five exercises per session -- two for the lower body and two for the upper body, plus one core or calf exercise. Train three times a week, leaving at least one day of rest between sessions. Aim to lift a little more than you did in the last workout, or complete extra sets and reps. If you stall on an exercise two weeks in a row and can't do more reps or lift heavier, replace it with a similar exercise. Back squats could switch to front squats, for example, bench presses could switch to dumbbell presses or chin-ups could switch to pull-downs.
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Prior OIG work consistently found that the published prices used to set Medicaid's Federal upper limit (FUL) amounts often greatly exceeded prices available in the marketplace. Partly because of OIG work, provisions of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, P.L. 109-171, were crafted to substantially change the method for calculating FULs and most likely would have resulted in lower FUL amounts; however, these changes were never implemented because of an injunction against CMS and subsequent changes in the law. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), P.L. 111-148, enacted in March 2010, also includes provisions that seek to change FUL amounts. In September 2011, CMS began releasing the new FUL amounts to the public in draft form. Given our previous findings that FUL amounts based on published prices greatly exceeded pharmacy acquisition costs and that the new FUL amounts have not taken effect, we compared FUL amounts based on published prices to FUL amounts based on average manufacturer prices (AMP) and then compared both FUL amounts to pharmacy acquisition costs.
We compared aggregate pharmacy acquisition costs for selected drugs to (1) FUL amounts based on published prices and (2) FUL amounts based on post-ACA AMPs. We also compared FUL amounts based on published prices to FUL amounts based on post-ACA AMPs and calculated the difference for each drug.
We found that FUL amounts based on published prices were more than four times greater than sampled pharmacy acquisition costs. We also found that FUL amounts based on AMPs were 61 percent lower than FUL amounts based on published prices, at the median. Despite the reduction in proposed reimbursement, FUL amounts based on AMPs still exceed sampled pharmacy acquisition costs by 43 percent in the aggregate. CMS had not implemented FUL amounts based on AMPs as of August 2012. Although CMS has taken steps to implement FUL amounts based on AMPs by calculating the new amounts and issuing draft files for review, FUL amounts continued to be based on published prices as of August 2012.
Given the results of the body of OIG work and the potential reduction in Medicaid expenditures, we recommend that CMS complete the implementation of the post-ACA AMP-based FUL amounts. CMS concurred with our recommendation and stated that it plans to implement FUL amounts based on AMPs in the near future.
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FROM: Valerie Hector & David Bacharach
INTRODUCING: CraftsPEOPLE: In Their Own Words (A book of stories written by Craftspeople, to be published in E-book and Print-book formats in February, 2016).
All of us share stories when we meet at craft shows. Whether we do the telling or the listening, it's part of how we live our lives. Yet, we rarely write down our stories making it hard to share them with a wider audience, or preserve them for the future.
We are asking if you would consider writing your craft world stories down and submitting them for possible inclusion in our forthcoming book, CraftsPEOPLE: In Their Own Words. Any memorable story is welcome. Don't worry that you're not a professional writer! Just tell a compelling story, on any craft- or show-related topic.
The GOAL: to gather and publish stories from the juried craft show world. We intend to edit and publish the book, in print and digital formats, in February 2016. The book will be illustrated with photos from shows past and present, as well as photos of contributing artists and their work.
Michael Monroe, a 50-year advocate of the American studio craft movement, has generously agreed to write the Preface. David Bacharach will write the Introduction, which includes interviews of longtime craft show artists.
ALL PROFITS WILL BENEFIT CERF (Craft Emergency Relief Fund).
How can you participate? It's easy.
By September 30, 2015, email your story to:
David Bacharach firstname.lastname@example.com
Valerie Hector firstname.lastname@example.com
Your story should be 1000-2000 words long (that's 3-8 double-spaced pages.) Don't worry if you feel you can't write. None of us can. We're artists. We specialize in the visual. But we all tell stories. Just write your story down.
Please include the name of the story at the top of the first page, along with your name, email address and phone number. Crafts people whose submissions are included included in the book will be asked to provide a color image of themselves and 1-2 color images of your work. At least 2 images will be published for each contributing artist.
Please also consisder submitting images taken at shows or in your studio of yourself, your booth or other subjects of interest.
Thank you! We are looking forward to working with you.


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What is ozone therapy? It's when ozone can be used to assist cure medical conditions. Many doctors as well as biochemists think that ozone can help heal many problems. It is a subject which has and can for a long time create lots of debate, by though not enough research has been finished to create everybody believe that ozone can heal things.
Actually using ozone treatments are not endorsed by medical associations or health government bodies present in any British speaking country. Actually many states within the U . s . States have banned the selling of ozone generators if they're employed for medical use.
Some companies previously have claimed that ozone therapy assistance to cure individuals from AIDS and cancer, however no thorough research has been finished. However, many medical journals have proven articles inside them which do declare that ozone therapy works.
The greatest factor that forestalls doctors by using this is actually the concern this too much ozone can get in to the bloodstream system. This could cause some serious problems, and it is unfamiliar how much your body are designed for this ozonation from the body. But researchers who've studied it more state that your body tends to be effective using the ozone when utilized as a clinical treatment.
Although it really appears to become whom you trust and whether you need to try what's presently only considered an alternate treatment. But individuals who are afflicted by illnesses that demonstrate no cure to date are much more prepared to take a risk.
So ozone therapy though it's been proven in certain studies, is not applied enough for many countries to simply accept it. Possibly more income ought to be put into these studies whether it can really assist with AIDS and cancer though. In the end most of the scientific study has proven great results.


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If ever there were a sign that Facebook was growing up, this is it. Today I logged in and was told in no uncertain terms to "clean up my profile." I detected the silent subtext of "or else" with the hidden threat that I may not be allowed to enjoy a game of scrabulous if I didn't obey.
It's official. Facebook is my mom.
But as soon as Facebook turned its back, I sooo stuck my tongue out in protest.


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As winter approaches and my outdoor outings dwindle into hibernation, I've decided to use the time wisely on some DIY projects that I've had my eye on... Of course I will be doing the smaller detail oriented projects and Joey will tackle the hardcore furniture projects - compromise! I'm sure by the end of these cold winter months Joey will have accomplished more than me, but it's the thought that counts! Kind of :-D
I've linked a few of my favorite projects below; if anyone out there has some good ones they'd like to share... sharing is caring! Happy Crafting :)
[key holder | coasters | plant stand | jewelry blocks]