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Marc Newson has joined Apple's design team under Jony Ive, according to a new report which was confirmed by Apple. The duo have previously worked together to create such products as a special edition red Mac Pro and a similar Lieca M camera, so it's no surprise to see Newson officially join forces with his good friend at Cupertino. As quoted by Vanity Fair:
"Marc is without question one of the most influential designers of this generation," Ive said in a statement provided to VF Daily. "He is extraordinarily talented. We are particularly excited to formalize our collaboration as we enjoy working together so much and have found our partnership so effective."
Newson also gave a statement on his new role, saying that he is "full of admiration and respect for the extraordinary design work that has been produced by Jony and the team at Apple." He went on to say:
"My close friendship with Jony has not only given me a unique insight into that process, but the opportunity to work together with him and the people that have been responsible. I am enormously proud to join them."
The duo appeared on Charlie Rose to talk design late last year
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Newson, for what it's worth, has previously claimed that he "pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade" and has created several concepts and designs for watches of his own. Just something to keep in mind as we move closer and closer to an Apple-designed wearable.
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Whiskey Wednesday: Nikka Days of Our Lives
I love a good story and Nikka Whisky certainly has a good story. A story of both an excellently crafted whiskey but also a phenomenal story in the life of the company's founder, Masataka Taketsuru. The month of January is especially important to the story of Taketsuru and his redheaded Scottish wife, Rita. So, I thought I'd take some time and look at a few of Nikka's offerings for the rest of January.


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Robert Bellamy states the thrust of his "republican defense of constitutional democracy" up front (Political Constitutionalism, viii).
He rejects the common assumption that "a written, justiciable constitution, incorporating a bill of rights" is a "necessary safeguard against the abuse of power by democratic governments."
Written constitutions often have precisely the opposite results: "Far from guarding against a largely mythical tyranny of the majority, the checks imposed by judicial review on majoritarian decision-making risk undermining political equality, distorting the agenda away from the public interest, and entrenching the privileges of dominant minorities and the domination of unprivileged ones. As such, legal constitutionalism can produce rather than constrain arbitrary rule, detract from the rights protection of weak minorities, and damage the rule of law in both the formal and the substantive senses of treating all as equals."
Can you say "judicial tyranny"? Can you say "the law is what 9 Harvard and Yale grads say it is"?
What can serve as a check on authority is the people, organized in political parties and exercising their right to select their leaders:
"the workings of actually existing democracies promote the constitutional goods of rights and the rule of law. Party competition and majority rule on the basis of one person one vote uphold political equality and institutionalise mechanisms of political balance and accountability that provide incentives for politicians to attend to the judgements and interests of those they govern and to recruit a wide range of minorities into any ruling coalition. From the republican perspective adopted here, the procedures and mechanisms of established democracies offer adequate, if not perfect and certainly improvable, safeguards against domination and arbitrary rule."
Bellamy wants to reverse the slogan: The freest government is one of men, not (mere) laws. The actual workings of political institutions are firmer obstacles to tyranny than a written constitution, which always has to be interpreted and will often be interpreted by elites.


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A diverse workforce and inclusive culture are key to Intel's evolution and they are the driving forces of our growth. In addition to being the right things to do, they are also business imperatives. If we want to shape the future of technology, we must be representative of that future. In January 2015, Intel announced the Diversity in Technology initiative, setting a bold hiring and retention goal to achieve full representation of women and underrepresented minorities in Intel's U.S. workforce by 2020. The company also committed $300 million to support this goal and accelerate diversity and inclusion – not just at Intel, but across the technology industry. The scope of Intel's efforts span the value chain, from spending with diverse suppliers and diversifying its venture portfolio to better serving its markets and communities through innovative programs. Intel achieved its goal of full representation in its U.S. workforce in 2018, two years ahead of schedule. This achievement was the result of a comprehensive strategy that took into account hiring, retention and progression. However, Intel's work does not stop here. We continue to foster an inclusive culture where employees can bring their full experiences and authentic selves to work.
2019 Diversity and Inclusion Report
2018 Diversity and Inclusion Report
- Intel Achieves Goal of Full US Workforce Representation, Notes It's Just the Beginning | 2018 Diversity and Inclusion Report
2017 Diversity and Inclusion Report
- 2017 Diversity & Inclusion Annual Report: Approaching the First Leg in Intel's Journey (Barbara Whye Editorial)
- 2017 Diversity and Inclusion Report (Intel.com)
- Intel Global Diversity and Inclusion (Intel.com)
2017 Diversity and Inclusion Midyear Report
- Moving Faster on Diversity and Inclusion (Brian Krzanich Editorial)
- Intel's 2017 Diversity and Inclusion Midyear Report and the Road Ahead (Barbara Whye Editorial)
- Intel's 2017 Diversity and Inclusion Midyear Report (Intel.com)
- Intel Global Diversity and Inclusion Website (Intel.com)
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- Intel Achieves Gender Pay Equity Globally
- Intel Capital Announces $72 Million of New Investments in 12 Tech Startups at Annual Global Summit
- Intel Joins Coalition to Double Number of Women of Color Graduating with Computing Degrees by 2025
- Intel CEO Brian Krzanich Leads Discussion with Leaders of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Forbes And JUST Capital Release JUST 100 Ranking Of America's Most Just Companies
- Intel CEO in New Diversity Report: 'Let's Turn This Tragedy Into Action'
- New Intel Grant Program Invests $4.5 Million to Support STEM Pathways for HBCU Students
- Intel Releases 2016 Diversity and Inclusion Annual Report
- Intel Expands Assistance to Computer Science Education, Supports White House Computer Science for All Initiative
- Intel Capital Expands Diversity Fund
- Intel Celebrates Women in Technology at Grace Hopper Conference
- Intel Releases 2016 Diversity in Technology Mid-Year Report
- Intel to Sign Tech Inclusion Pledge, Discuss Report on Diversity's Economic Impact at Global Entrepreneurship Summit
- Shaping Tomorrow's Generation of Engineers, Today
- Intel and CODE2040, Working Together to Create Opportunities for Diverse Technologists
- Intel Collaborates with Georgia Tech to Boost Diverse Tech Pipeline
- Intel CEO Outlines Future of Computing
- Intel Capital Launches $125M Fund to Invest in Women and Underrepresented Minority Entrepreneurs
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- With Intel's STEM Support, McClymonds High School Reaches Graduation Milestone
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Hunter Biden filed a protective order this week in an effort to seal his financial records from being released publicly — amid his fears that the information would be used "maliciously" by the media and cause him public "embarrassment," according to a report.
Former Vice President Joe Biden's son filed the motion in Arkansas on Wednesday as part of an ongoing child support suit, according to the Daily Mail. His attorneys claim the details would be used by the media, considering his high public profile, to cause him "undue prejudice, annoyance, embarrassment, and/or oppression."
"The likelihood that [Biden's] private records will be used in an inappropriate or malicious manner for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with these proceedings is exceedingly high and should not be tolerated by the court," the filing reads.
"Due to the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the parties involved in this matter, it is in the interest of justice and necessary for a Protective Order to be in place," Biden's attorney says.
An earlier court filing in the case alleged that DNA tests confirm with "scientific certainty" that Hunter is the biological father of a child whose mother he denied having sex with.
A paternity suit filed by Lunden Alexis Roberts was first filed on May 28 when she alleged that she and Hunter Biden "were in a relationship" and that "Baby Doe" was born in August 2018 "as a result of that relationship," according to reports by The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Roberts is demanding $11,000 in legal fees as well as child support, and has agreed that a protective order is appropriate, according to the Daily Mail.
In a sworn statement, Biden goes on to say he has incurred "significant debts" in part due to his 2017 divorce from Kathleen Biden, that he is unemployed and has had no monthly income since May 2019.
The suit comes amid increased scrutiny on Hunter over his links to a Ukrainian energy company where he once sat on the board.
An apparent effort by White House officials and President Trump to get Ukraine to launch investigations into Hunter's link to the company — and Biden Sr.'s push in 2016 to get a prosecutor fired who had investigated the company — is the current focus of an impeachment inquiry in the House.
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10 Cute Ways To Ask A Guy Out
Long gone are the days of us women waiting around for guys to ask us out. It's the 21st century which means, girls, that we're allowed to take control. Asking your crush out isn't as scary as you may think either. No doubt you're panicking and making a massive deal of it in your head but you shouldn't be. Just relax. It's easy – he won't bite.
On that note, I think it's time we get creative too. It's time we think outside the box and ask him out in a cute, memorable and sometimes even cheesy way. You want your proposal to stand out to him, it needs to be unforgettable so that you will be too.
Here's 10 cute ways to ask a guy out…
Send Him A Note
Simple but effective. When he leaves his desk/work area simply walk on by and leave a note asking him out. Be sure to give him a flirty smile as he passes you to go back to his desk too. Just make sure your note can't be mistaken as trash!
Send Him An Email
We really are in the new age now. How about asking him out by email? There's no risk of it getting lost and it saves you having to see him and get embarrassed. Perhaps suggest a date on it and send him your number.
Ask Him If He Has A Girlfriend
Once you're in conversation with him, simply ask him if he has a girlfriend. Once he says no (hopefully!) you can steer the conversation your way and it should end with the pair of you arranging a date.
Give Him Your Number In Style
Giving him your number can be simple or it can be memorable. If he's a sports fan, write your name and number on a baseball or basketball and give it to him. If he reads, slip it into whatever he's reading currently. You get the idea!
Plan A Treasure Hunt
Why not draw him a map to follow and tell him he has to find the hidden treasure by a certain time. Ideally the hidden treasure will be you sitting in a restaurant or somewhere similar.
Send Him Love Hearts
Ah Love Hearts, those classic little sweets! Begin eating a pack in front of him and then purposely offer him one that says 'Be Mine'. Perhaps follow it up with a complimenting one. He'll soon get the idea.
Give Him A Present
Again, if he's away from his desk or workspace sneak up and leave something on his desk. This time you could leave a small box and inside it could be your note and perhaps information on a restaurant reservation or tickets to the big game.
Shock Him With A Parking Ticket
If he's got a sense of humor (and a car!) this one will be great. Write out your note in the style and shape of a parking ticket and leave it on his windshield. If things work out, both of you will be telling people about it for years to come.
Put A Message In A Bottle
How cute is this idea? You do require some props but not many and they'll be easy to find. Get an empty bottle (preferably glass) and fill it with a bit of sand an slip your note inside before sticking a cork in the top to seal it. You can then leave your bottle anywhere for your crush to find. It doesn't matter if it's his desk, his car, his doorstep or anywhere else, just so long as he finds it.
Just Ask Him!
If all else fails, just ask him! This may not be the cutest idea or the most creative but it's certainly been proven effective time and time again. Gather your courage, compose yourself and simply walk up to him. You can either start a regular conversation first or you can jump in at the deep end and ask him. It doesn't matter, just so long as you ask. It's best if you have a clear idea of where you'd like to go on a date first, this way you're less likely to get flustered and mess up your words. He'll love that you had the courage to ask him outright and he'll probably find your blush when you do cute too.
So there you have it, ladies, 10 fun and cute ways to ask a guy out. They're all memorable, creative and if all goes well they'll get the job done. Just remember, the worst that can happen is he can say no so there's nothing to worry about. You can do this, just be brave and be creative.
Let me know if you've tried any of these before or if you do, I'd love to hear from you!
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Prosecutors have just filed charges against two teenage boys who allegedly helped their 16-year-old friend rape multiple students at their school, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
Misty Cox says her 15-year-old son was held down and sexually assaulted after football practice.
"Two boys held him down, a third boy pulled his own pants down and rubbed his backside and genitalia all over my son's face," she tells FOX13.
The alleged attack happened in October 2017 at Gunnison Valley High School in Gunnison, Utah, a small town of about 3,200 people.
But that's only the tip of the iceberg.
USA Today reports:
Five more victims have since come forward since a 16-year-old was charged of six counts of object rape and four counts of forcible sex abuse, according to the Tribune, while FOX13 said there were five counts of forcible sex abuse.
The investigation has revealed at least 13 suspected assaults, according to the Tribune. … The first alleged assault occurred in October 2017, according to charging documents. One assault was reported in November and December 2017, with two in January. One was reported in March and another in June. Four assaults reportedly occurred on the same day: Sept. 17.
Nine of the 13 victims were male. There are currently 349 students enrolled at the school, which means four percent them are alleged victims.
"We're dealing with a lot of victims and a diverse [set] of victims," said County Attorney Kevin Daniels.
Gunnison Valley police detective Carl Wimmer added, "I've never seen anything like this before." Wimmer also said the school district has hired crisis counselors for students who need support.
School officials have remained quiet about the matter, aside from superintendent Kent Larsen saying the 16-year-old would not be allowed back at the school until the case has been resolved.


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Global cases of COVID-19 surpassed 100,000 today. As President Trump signs into law an $8.3 billion emergency aid package to address the crisis, the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday that this is "a time for pulling out all the stops."
New cases are emerging in countries around the world, but COVID-19 appears to be flat or declining in China, where the novel virus first emerged. Earlier this week, VentureBeat took a look at some ways AI is being applied to fight COVID-19.
AI and big data played a significant role in China's response to COVID-19, according to a WHO report compiled by about a dozen outside health professionals and released last month.
The assessment finds that swift action by Chinese authorities to limit travel and quarantine entire cities potentially kept hundreds of thousands of people from being infected. But many also criticized China's measures as draconian.
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It's unclear to what extent facial recognition played a role in enforcement of public safety in China, but a coauthor of the WHO study told Science that China is making strides on COVID-19 through "good old social distancing and quarantining, very effectively done because of that on-the-ground machinery at the neighborhood level facilitated by AI and big data."
China quarantined 50 million people in cities like Wuhan and used WeChat and Alipay to track people's movement and keep infected individuals from traveling. The government also deployed facial recognition and thermal sensors in drones and helmets.
If quarantines are ineffective or improperly carried out, millions of people could die, according to some estimates, but that doesn't mean we can throw civil liberties out the window.
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Aside from the spread of COVID-19, the other prevailing story this week was a rush of revelations about companies peddling AI-powered surveillance technology to businesses, governments, and law enforcement agencies.
Wolfcom is selling live facial recognition body cameras to police departments, a move major body camera company Axon says is premature. Wolfcom has sold cameras to 1,500 law enforcement agencies to date.
Clearview AI made its facial recognition algorithm using 3 billion images scraped without permission from Facebook, Google, and other parts of the web. Now the company is attempting to acquire mug shots taken in the past 15 years. A data breach last week revealed Clearview AI's client list of more than 2,000 customers, including major businesses and law enforcement agencies.
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) sent Clearview AI a letter this week probing the extent of the data breach and the company's relationship to authoritarian governments with poor human rights track records, like Saudi Arabia.
Viral surveillance
Can quarantines serve as an excuse to increase the surveillance state? How should we be thinking about this as communities argue whether Clearview AI and live facial recognition signal the end of privacy?
I posed these questions to Brian Hofer. He's chair of the privacy commission in Oakland, California and coauthor of legislation in a number of cities to adopt surveillance technology oversight policy and facial recognition bans.
Hofer and I spoke roughly a year ago when the U.S. Congress began considering more AI regulation legislation and San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban facial recognition. Police use of live facial recognition body cameras isn't something you currently have to worry about in California, where a three-year moratorium is in place.
Hofer said mass surveillance is often presented as a solution in a crisis, and much like the passage of the Patriot Act after 9/11, he said, people can respond to crises by surrendering freedoms.
"Fear is a powerful motivator, and even if it's just a natural disaster, it's not like 9/11, you still see people willing to make this sort of calculus that if it can save one life and make things a little bit better, that I'll sacrifice my civil liberties," Hofer said. "It's something that really frustrates me, but I think it's also sort of human nature that in a crisis we're not the most clearheaded, and if there are nefarious people at the same time pushing an expansion of surveillance, then it finds a receptive audience."
Without question, the effects of COVID-19 will extend far beyond its health impact.
Productivity apps and teleconferencing software like Zoom are poised to grow in adoption as more people work from home. Chinese communities are experiencing increased racism. Global economies are bracing for recession, and no one knows exactly how the spread of COVID-19 will impact global supply chains, public events, travel, and other industries. And even as we're actively discussing whether a company like Clearview AI will mean the end of privacy, COVID-19 could easily be used as an excuse to spread mass surveillance.
This is not intended to be alarmist, but it's important to keep an eye on mission creep in this space.
COVID-19 is in over 60 countries today. It may be true that, as an analyst commenting on the WHO China study said, no other country in the world can respond to the pandemic the way China just did, but that doesn't mean they won't try.
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Brand Distillery have since its start put the customer at the heart of everything it does from data insight through to creative campaign delivery, underpinned by a strategy framework – The Distillery Process.
The process isn't a gimmick or something to giveaway; this is real insight that can make a change to your business both in the uncertain times of today's economy and helping build future long-term growth.
The customer experience is why we do what we do and what makes us different from many of the other agencies that talk about strategy alone, this is the part where we can add value to a business, and now more than ever its where we can help businesses today.
Our experience working in brilliant advertising agencies that helped steer business strategy from FTSE100 to entrepreneur-led start-ups, through the Recession of 1990/91, the dotcom boom and bust of 2000s and the Great Recession of 2008/09, has given the team considerable insight into what companies can do to effectively navigate and benefit from the opportunities that will undoubtably arise from the current pandemic.
Consumers, businesses and the wider economy as mentioned in earlier blogs (marketing in a pandemic) find themselves in unchartered territories, and now more than ever it's vital we take the learnings from different times, the businesses we have worked with, the insight we have gained and share these with businesses to re-define the potential a business has.
In 1978 Henry Mintzberg published an article in Management Science that introduced emergent strategy, which is not based on an original intention but consists of the company responses to a variety of unanticipated events, the place we find ourselves today. Now is the time to develop a proactive plan to adjust and adapt to changing consumer behaviours, experiences and landscape, marketing sits centre stage reflecting the tone of your brand during a tough time. Mintzberg's thinking was informed by his insight that managers belief that they can predict the future and plan for it precisely.
We are undoubtably in an evolving situation, where consumers quickly turn on brands where they are perceived to exploit tragedy - our greatest challenge is foreseeing how consumers wants, needs, expectations and purchasing decisions will evolve.
The Distillery Process™ considers six key areas and we can use them in today's pandemic affected economy;
Scenario Planning – decide on the best, worst and moderate scenarios that could play-out as we leave lockdown, what are the specific challenges associated with these scenarios, how will the customer experience be affected?
Keep it simple – focus energy on the customers, they decide whether they spend money with your brand. Have consumers changed their behaviour since Lockdown and will these habits continue (what should you be doing to embrace new consumer habits) Keep the summary to a couple of pages.
It's not about perfection – the unchartered nature of where we find ourselves dictates that the strategy cannot be perfect, it's about revenue generation, the world is no longer knowable and controllable.
Changes in customer sentiment – what are your customers feeling and doing, can we gain some insight into the conversations they are having? What are your sales and customer services teams hearing? Are there conversations happening on social media? Staying honest is important, don't overpromise and underdeliver, remember to consider the long-term consequences of short-term actions.
Operational Impacts – walk in the customers shoes and understand the impact of changes in their habits and behaviours, campaigns that promise things the brand can't deliver, customer services are being sought for reassurance – how does this effect the experience for the consumer? Long wait times, lack of knowledge etc. How customers are treated operationally can dramatically affect the long-term brand relationship. Many brands, clients included have seen a shift to digital first, previously only dreamt of operationally through necessity, accelerating the move from analogue to digital platforms and digital transformation strategies. But many areas are neglected at the expense of business as usual activity that swamps the teams working day, is it time to review and audit your digital strategy and website or consider the companies data strategy to unlock previously hidden opportunities.
Adapt marketing – the next three to twelve months will bring many societal changes, use the best, worse and moderate case scenarios to consider challenges and map alternative actions.
The potential danger we will fall into during these times is taking a standard framework and adapting to the times we find ourselves in, tweaking or suspending our existing plans we spent so much time developing. This can lead us dangerously down a path that's sits within the comfort of a strategy the company can control rather than thinking beyond the existing markets and opportunities.
Brand Distillery was formed to help businesses find the right partners to deliver the best customer experience, we use our knowledge to make this happen, but it all starts with our Distillery Process™.
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Clashes between gunmen of rival Lebanese sects in the northern city of Tripoli have killed seven people since clashes flared earlier this week, security officials said Thursday.Judging from the ICRC paper about the laws of occupation, I think a serious argument can be made that Lebanon is occupied, today, by Syria/Iran under international law.
The latest round of fighting that began four days ago in Lebanon's second largest city has wounded another 50 people, officials said. That comes as disputes from neighboring Syria's civil war frequently inflame sectarian grievances in Tripoli.
The clashes pit gunmen from two impoverished Tripoli neighborhoods against each other, areas that are home to opponents and supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The Bab Tabbaneh district is largely Sunni Muslim, like Syria's rebels. The other neighborhood, Jabal Mohsen, mostly has residents of Assad's Alawite sect, a Shiite Islam offshoot.
The latest bout of fighting began building after Oct. 14, when a Lebanese military prosecutor pressed charges against earlier this month against seven men, at least one whom from Jabal Mohsen, for their involvement in twin bomb blasts near two Sunni mosques in Tripoli on Aug. 23 that killed 47 people.
The definition of occupation in that paper allowed occupation by proxy, if the group that runs the occupied territory is a puppet for the occupier. Since Syria did occupy Lebanon from 1976 to 2005, and now Hezbollah (which is an arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards) effectively controls large parts of Lebanon as well as much of the government, that means that Lebanon is still occupied today, notwithstanding a few years when it was ostensibly free.
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I'm linking up with the ladies from Tuesday's on the Run to talk all about race memorabilia. When I started running in 2012, I had no clue that I was diving into an addictive hobby that I couldn't get enough of. Before you know it, you've got race shirts and medals all over the place! I was hanging them on clothing hangers or throwing them into a pile. It was a mess.
After I had a handful of medals, I wanted a fun way to display my accomplishments. You've got to celebrate the hard work, right? I created a little running shrine around my
dreadmill treadmill.
Of course, I separated my special and pretty Run Disney medals from my local races. All of my medals represent memories of friendship, hard times on a course or moments that I felt particularly strong. I keep all of them!
The other items I keep are my race bibs. This is another area where Run Disney shines. Their race bibs are so much more fun to keep and have my name on them. Fun fact- your Princess Half Marathon bib used to display your favorite Disney princess too! Totally miss that… And being in corral A (that might never happen again). I placed the bibs into protective sheets and organized them into a bibfolio.
On the front of my bibfolio, I've got my current PR times. I have to admit, these times haven't changed since 2015 and I truly miss my 10k PR time. Since it's in front of my treadmill, it reminds me of how strong I am. Even though I don't feel strong right now (especially at 7 months pregnant) I am reminded that I can do it again one day.
Onto my next pet peeve… race shirts!
Race directors, if you're reading this, I would totally give up a race shirt for less expensive registration fees. Each year I have to go through my race shirts and donate some that I never wear. For me, the race shirts are a waste. I wish there was something else they could offer instead of a shirt.
I am a sucker for those expensive race photos though. I've bought my fair share of photos and I frame them. I love these two photos. It was my husband's first 5k and our first Run Disney race in 2013.
I love displaying my race memorabilia and remembering all of the miles I've run. Guests ask me about my races when they come over and it's fun to relive the memories.
How do you display your race memorabilia?
If you're looking for a fun way to display your race bibs, check out this post with 6 DIY Crafts for Runners!
Don't forget to check out the Tuesday's on the Run host ladies: Patty, Marcia and Errin for other fun ways to display your race memories.


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Erda and Rabbit Lane lie in the low lands of the Tooele valley. Still, we are high enough to see the silvery ribbon of the Great Salt Lake lining the horizon. The northerly breeze often brings with it the smell of salt in the air as it brushes over the enormous lake, transporting me through the darkness to days of my youth spent beach combing and sailing near New Jersey's Sandy Hook, looking across the bay to the iconic twin towers that exist now only in memory and in mourning, and in old photographs. Continue reading


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The Ecseri Road Flea Market is Budapest's largest second-hand market and is definitely worth a visit. If it's not there, it doesn't exist!
Explore the rich Jewish history of Budapest on an inclusive 3-hour walking tour!
Spend a traditional evening with excellent Hungarian cuisine and folk dancers then go on a panoramic walk and see Budapest by night!


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With the opportunity to do virtually limitless videos on their clients' properties, the members of his team are ramping up their skills when it comes to developing eye-popping visuals.
"We actually created a studio complete with cameras where any of our REALTORS® can go in and do as much visual content as they care to do," says Kalinski, of the company's 110 REALTORS® and 30 – 40 licensed assistants who work to support the firm's teams.
"Only 25 or 30 of our team members are very adept at doing the video work right now," says Kalinski, "but we have a full-time staff member supporting our video studio who can help walk any of our team members through the process."
For Kalinski, the decision to partner with Homes.com came about after he was contacted by a company representative who said they had the answers to all of his problems.
"We get that pitch every day from somebody, but I liked the Homes.com approach, so I listened," says Kalinski. "As an old-time broker, our office had been doing things the traditional way—through referral business—but we're finding that we need to develop an approach that appeals to younger clients, so learning and understanding lead generation was big for me. And the ways in which Homes.com has helped us begin to present ourselves on social media is another important thing."
While the partnership is still in its early stages, Kalinski notes that the leads they're getting from Homes.com are better than the leads generated through their old website.
His team members are also expanding the use of blogging to present themselves to an even broader audience, and Homes.com has been by their side every step of the way.
"Homes.com is supporting our bloggers by helping them understand how to do it, and how to present it in order to help support lead generation," adds Kalinski.
"So far I've been impressed," concludes Kalinski. "Some of the other pitches we've received haven't come with the follow-up or integration to help us grow our business. Nobody else seems to have the tools to do that."
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Anyone who has ever tried to grow parsnip has figured out that their seeds are only viable for a short time and must be used or replaced quickly and frequently.
Parsnip is a proud member of the parsley family (Apiaceae) [1], which includes carrots, dill, fennel, parsley, and others.
They're a bit of a tricky vegetable to grow. But, if you're up for the challenge, below is a basic guide on how to grow and care for them. We'll also look at the nutritional benefits of this vegetable.
Growing Parsnips
There are a lot of steps involved when growing them and while they're not the most difficult vegetable in the world to grow, they're not a walk in the park.
Below are the basic things you need to know to grow parsnips in your backyard.
1. Planting
It always begins with this. The first thing you need is to check what time of the year it is.
Parsnips grow best in warm air before they'll even germinate, which means you'll need a temperature at about 12C (52F) before you can expect to start seeing anything.
The seed packet might tell you that February is a good month to sew in, but we recommend actually waiting until April, in the middle of spring.
Planting them too early, when temperatures are cool, can cause the seeds to die. The seeds also have a short shelf-life, so it's best to purchase a new packet each time.
Seedlings will start popping out in 2-3 weeks, and the plant matures within 16-24 weeks.
2. Care
Next, you'll need to learn how to take care of your cultivating parsnip-lings.
Soil and Site
If you've planted them in the correct place, they'll start to grow in no time at all.
Parsnips enjoy growing in an open environment with deep, sandy soil or else well-dug, heavy clay-based soils. You'll also want to place their spot in bright, sunny goodness for maximum effect.
Watering Soil
Before planting, water the area well to help set in and moisten the seeds for germination.
Sowing Seeds
Sow in a couple of rows about a foot apart. Also, make sure the area is dug very deeply with the rows marked out with a rake beforehand.
Protecting Seeds in the Ground
The seeds are highly coveted by wild animals like birds, so it's best to stretch some chicken wire around them for added protection.
Watering Seedlings
Be sure to water seedlings frequently, especially if you have dry weather. At the same time, keep an eye out for any choking weeds.
Thinning Out
You'll need to wait about 2-3 weeks before you can begin thinning them out. Thinning gives the strong, healthy ones a better chance at survival.
Replant the ones you've taken out about a half of an inch deep and lightly cover. Space seedlings 3 to 4 inches apart, in rows 18 to 25 inches apart.
Creating Tilth
You'll also want to hoe frequently to create a tilth, which allows air and moisture to circulate through the soil.
3. Pests and Diseases
This is always a major concern for farmers and gardeners. What sort of plant disease or pest may get in and how do we deal with them?
You'll especially want to watch out for aphids and leaf miners.
The carrot root flies are also a major problem. As the name implies, they seem to favor tuber vegetables such as carrots or even parsnips.
As a parsnip grower, you won't have a ton to deal with regarding this pest, but keep an eye out regardless. Just cover the crops with a micromesh mini tunnel to keep them at bay.
Parsnip canker is another common problem that you're very likely to face. Drought or damage to the crown are the two biggest causes.
However, you can treat it by making sure you have good drainage, practicing good crop rotation, delay sowing until May, or earthing them up in summer.
4. Harvesting and Storage
This is everyone's favorite part — the part that all farmers drool over from the very beginning of planting season.
After all, this is where all of your hard, earnest work pays off in spades, assuming you did the work correctly. And assuming that you did, you're probably wondering how to harvest parsnips.
As mentioned earlier, it takes about 120 to 180 days for a parsnip to go from a seed to a mature root that is ready for harvest.
They are usually ready from October on through the end of the year. However, it's recommended that they are left in the ground and harvested as needed so they stay fresher.
In fact, and this is going to sound bonkers, you'll be advised to leave them in the ground until after the frost. The starch in the vegetables is changed into sugar from the freezing temperatures, which makes them even sweeter.
This is the true epitome of a winter vegetable since once grown, it appears to survive and positively thrive in cold weather. That's not to say you can't harvest them preemptively.
If you decide to do this, be sure to bag them and refrigerate them for two weeks to help the roots sweeten up. Honestly, it's best to let nature handle this one to sweeten them for you.
Of course, you may have a wetter garden, which will force you to dig them up early. They can be easily stored in sand-filled boxes in a weather-proof shed for easy access.
What do Parsnips Taste Like?
They have a similar taste to carrots, but sweeter, with a nutty flavor. They also contain more starch.
Nutrition and Health Benefits
Parsnip benefits the body in many ways. It is a great source of fiber, calcium, vitamin C, vitamin K, and Magnesium, as well as other important micronutrients.
In addition to the nutrients listed above, it also contains the following:
- Vitamin B6
- Carbohydrate
- Riboflavin
- Fat
- Folate
- Protein
- Phosphorus
- Thiamine
- Zinc
- Iron
- Vitamin E
Parsnip promotes a healthy heart, improves digestion, promotes weight loss, and even boosts the immune system [2].
There is even a possible reduction of birth defects in pregnant women. They can also help improve vision health and growth and skin development.
Some say that they're also excellent defenders against diabetes and a herald to a healthier brain.
These are a classic cooking ingredient, often found in many European dishes like the UK in the form of "neeps and tatties", a popular parsnip and potato dish in Scotland.
While they can be eaten raw, it's best that they're cooked. You can sub them out for carrots in some recipes due to their sweet, nutty flavor.
You can also have roasted parsnip sprinkled with sea salt.
Definitely a vegetable that deserves your respect, particularly if you should find one in nature. Look up those parsnip recipes!
A truly wonderful natural health wonder of a vegetable, and to top it off, it's utterly delicious.
Whether you choose to eat parsnips raw or cook them in a dish, you're bound to feel amazing once your body processes it and takes in every good thing it has to offer.
So happy farming, and happy munching to all our green-thumbed friends.


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Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet …
— Kipling 1889
Many years ago I had a Chinese poster from the Communist era showing the interior of a classroom. On a wall was a world map which — and this is what particularly interested me — positioned China dead centre. In a flash I understood where much of that country's paranoia came from: to the left was Western Europe and Soviet Russia and its satellites, to the right was the USA, and it was quite clear that Red China felt completely beset by rivals or foes. Are we surprised that Chinese corporations are now busy exploiting commercial opportunities all around the Indian Ocean, South America and elsewhere if their maps continue to suggest China's a beleaguered country?
It was a natural step for me to realise that America's own Cold War paranoia stemmed from its world view, US maps showing the country surrounded by Chinese communists to its west and, to its east, communist Eastern Europe and Russian Soviets. No wonder conservative Americans worried about Reds under the bed and commie sympathisers.
On the other hand, the British psyche was long buoyed up by its being centrally placed on its world maps, the globe's chronology even being set by Greenwich Mean Time. Huge swathes of the world were coloured pink — Canada, bits of Africa, Australia and innumerable colonies and possessions — until, in the mid-20th century, that Empire was slowly but surely eased from its hands. Right now Britain also feels embattled, cut loose from its former Empire, increasingly casting itself adrift from Europe and encouraged to believe itself menaced by 'swarms' and 'floods' of immigrants.
It's interesting how we create and maintain a view of the world from our own perspective, despite Donne's reminder that
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
Island, archipelago, peninsula, continent, landlocked — fantasy lands come in all shapes and sizes but, like a satnav display or those cabin screens that show your aircraft's position on a moving map, they nearly always show that one's focus needs to be where the action is, in the centre of the picture. The Land of Oz is certainly in the middle of its map, and I dare you to find a fantasy novel with the action exclusively at one margin or another.
What interests me particularly with fantasy maps showing a substantial coastline is the direction that they face. I suspect this is largely to do with the author's own geographical perspective (though this must be a generalisation with so many exceptions that it doesn't really qualify as useful). Tolkien's Middle Earth is the epitome of this observation, with the huge ear-shaped chunk of continent facing the Great Sea and the Undying Lands surely based on Tolkien's notion of the Old World looking out over the Atlantic and the New World.
Another westward-facing continent that springs to mind is Ursula Le Guin's Western Shore (from her fantasy trilogy 'The Annals of the Western Shore') which I can't help assuming was inspired by her familiarity with the US West Coast from her home in Portland, Oregon; and there will be other examples familiar to this genre's readers. (Of course, her vision of Earthsea as an archipelago of islands doesn't fit this theory, nor does her landlocked country of Orsinia in a short story collection set there.)
I've often wondered if how some of us look at maps is related to how westerners read — from left to right and top to bottom — as opposed to, say, readers of Arabic or Chinese scripts. Looking first at the top left hand corner may be a learned instinct when some writers come to composing their own maps. Some decades ago I became aware of certain maps being turned upside down so that instead of Down Under (Australia, New Zealand) being virtually relegated to also-ran status at bottom right this part of the globe assumes more importance and maybe significance (as in this Peters projection publication from New Internationalist Australia). It certainly challenges preconceptions and may even stimulate re-assessment of our world view.
The form a map takes must always be delimiting, leading the observer to wonder what exists beyond the its confines. In medieval maps, with east to the north, perhaps the fear of dropping off the bottom of the world discouraged official support for exploring west and, instead, encouraged investigation of what remained unknown of the Old World, in Africa and in Asia. So many travellers went east, to reach Jerusalem, Paradise, China or Japan, and the Journey to the East fired the imagination of Marco Polo, Hermann Hesse and C S Lewis (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader) among many others.
With the reorientation of charts around the 15th-century, showing north at the top, the fervour for heading in the other direction soon spread as the fear of falling off the globe faded, inspiring Columbus, Cabot and a fleet of pioneers, pirates, privateers and plunderers. Charles Kingsley borrowed for the title of one of his historical novels the cry of Tudor Thames ferrymen plying for hire — Westward Ho! But he yearned, more than just in his imagination, to voyage outwards from his familiar location in southern England: as he described in his non-fiction book (the aptly titled At Last) it wasn't until late in life that he was able to fulfil his ambition of visiting the West Indies.
The map is certainly an invitation to travel: north, south, east, west. Whether home's best or not, the journey is what fires the imagination. The fact is that unless we move our point of view we will never discover what it is that we have in common with other people, that we will always believe that "never the twain shall meet".


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It's the Caucasus nation that has won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest three times — more than any other country. And over the weekend the Republic of Georgia finally hosted the contest in Tbilisi. The stunning capital is an increasingly popular tourist destination — and it's also a gateway to other wonders, including the awe-inspiring scenery in Kazbegi, the religious gems of Jvari, and the buzz-worthy wine culture of Chateau Mukhrani.
So when Georgia's National Tourism Board invited us to fly over earlier this fall, we couldn't say no. Below you can see some of our favourite memories from our trip, mixed with some of our recent coverage from the contest. Junior Eurovision may be over, but Georgia's tourism industry is here to stay. Let's do this!
The Tbilisi Cable Car
We start our tour in gorgeous Tbilisi, which is a hodgepodge of modern and traditional. Rather than tearing down old buildings from the Soviet era, Tbilisi has given them new life. A great example is the Cubist Bank of Georgia — a strange series of rectangles that jut out in every direction. It was once home to the Ministry of Highway Construction when Georgia was part of the USSR. And then there are totally new buildings like the Presidential Administration, which resembles the White House in Washington, D.C. crowned with the Dome from the Reichstag in Berlin.
Among our favourite structures is the Bridge of Peace, which you can see below. Crossing over the Kura River, it's a steel and glass walkway that resembles and undulating wave.
Tbilisi can be enjoyed at a number of elevations — from street level to high in the sky. And one of the must-dos is, no doubt, the famed cable car that climbs from Rike Park over the Old Town and to Narikala Fortress.
It's perhaps the best way to enjoy the city's many landscapes and buildings. You'll pass over the Mtkvari River, ancient religious buildings and winding cobbled streets. It's a feast for the eyes and your eyes will want to eat.
And as you can see below, it also made our Deban dance, dance, baby.
Tbilisi may be developing fast, but it's keen to preserve its history. In 2004 officials established the Georgian National Museum, which brings together the Museum of Georgia, the Museum of Soviet Occupation, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Open Air Museum of Ethnography and the Tbilisi History Museum.
The vast complex near the city centre features intricate jewellery wrought in gold, silver, bronze and other precious metals that you won't find at your local Pandora. We're talking centuries old jewels.
During our wander we also encountered the Homo Ergaster fossils found at Dmanisi — some of the oldest human remains discovered outside Africa — and video images depicting life during the Soviet, and later Russian, occupation.
It's a great place to get a deeper sense of Georgian history and culture and we're glad we did it.
We know all of you love your Eurovision stars from Georgia.
From Sofia Nizharadze to Anri Jokhadze, Georgia's stars are always active on the music scene.
And it just so happened that while we were visiting in October, we had the pleasure of watching Tamara Gachechiladze perform an exclusive set at in an intimate venue. She still sizzles!
Tbilisi is a great jumping off point for the rest of the county — including the nearby city of Mtskheta, Georgia's former capital and its oldest city.
Located about 20 miles north of Tbilisi at the confluence of the Aragvi and Mtkvari rivers, it's where Georgia first adopted Christianity in 334 and remains one of the headquarters of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
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Religious or not, you'll want to check out the ancient buildings — the so-called "Historical Monuments of Mtskheta" — which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994.
Writing on their official web site, UNESCO praises the region for its "outstanding examples of medieval religious architecture in the Caucasus. They show the high artistic and cultural level attained by this ancient kingdom."
Jvari Monastery
The Jvari Monastery, another UNESCO World Heritage Site, attracts pilgrims from all over The Caucasus.
In the late Middle Ages, it was fortified by a stone wall and gate, remnants of which still survive.
During the Soviet period, the church was preserved as a national monument. And after Georgia achieved independence the building returned to religious use.
Today it's a must-see for locals and visitors alike, as it affords stunning views over the winding river and imposing mountains.
Regardless of your beliefs, the landscape is so beautiful you may find yourself having a religious experience.
Grab your cameras and take those selfies — but be sure to dress appropriately.
Chateau Mukhrani
Georgia was once a kingdom, and this kingdom had many castles. The Princes of Mukhrani (Mukhranbatoni) stem from one of the oldest royal dynasties in the World — the Bagrationi.
In 1512, King David of Kartli donated the Mukhrani Estate to his brother Prince Bagrat. This dynasty now boasts a long line of descendants who have made their mark in the political, economic and cultural landscape of today's Georgia.
And yes: The family liked to drink fine wine!
Chateau Mukhrani is majestic and its gardens are beautiful. It is a lovely venue to stroll around and, most importantly, to sample Georgia's much-ballyhooed wine culture. From rich reds to perfect pinks, they've got you covered.
As well as housing a fully functional vineyard, Chateau Mukhrani boasts a fabulous restaurant serving authentic Georgian food. Some of the country's best cheese can be tasted here….and taste we did.
Khachapuri Adjaruli is, perhaps, our favourite dish in Georgian cuisine. It consists of delicious bread stuffed with Georgian cheese, which is baked in an oven. Then it's pulled out and smothered in butter and adorned with a cracked raw egg. You can check out another version of this dish below — it's a bread that totally encases the cheese. Like a Georgian calzone!
Those of you who are lactose intolerant may want to opt for khinkali — a Georgian soup dumpling. Bite into it, let the juices swirl in your mouth, and then chew on that meat filling.
Enshrined in myths and traditional legends, the Kazbegi mountains climb over 5,000 meters above sea level and offer some of the most spectacular natural landscapes in the country.
Littered with hot springs, lava and covered with 135 square kilometres of glacier, Kazbegi is a great place for ice climbing and mountaineering. The steep valleys on either side of the gorge are great places for bird watching. The flourishing bird life includes eagles, hawks and the massive griffon vulture, and all of them nest among the rocky outcrops of the mountains.
The nearby Gergeti Trinity Church — built in the 14th century — is one of the most popular destinations for trekkers in the area, and can be reached after a three-hour climb of the mountain where it sits.
Back in 2012, wiwibloggers William and Venu took the shortcut: A 30-minute jeep trip!
#tbt: Me and @wiwibloggs comrade Venu balancing on a ledge in the Caucasus Mountains in #Georgia ??, near the border with #Chechnya and #Dagestan (before heading to #eurovision in #Baku #Azerbaijan ??) #instatravel #travel #caucasusmountains #caucasus #esc #eurovision2012 #esc2012 #eurovisionsongcontest #balance #hapa #hapas #halfasian #halfasians
The town of Stepantsminda itself is charming and a wonderful base camp for exploring the region further.
We stayed at Hotel Sno, a lovely 4-star hotel with stunning mountain views and a beautiful garden terrace. Light floods the building's central atrium, helping you feel closer to the nature that surrounds.
Have you been to Georgia? What are your favourite memories? Let us know in the comments box below!


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- Title
- Hyperuricemia is independently associated with hypertension in men under 60 years in a general Chinese population
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- Qian, Tingting; Sun, Hui; Xu, Qun; Charchar, Fadi; Wang, Yutang
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
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- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/179741
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- vital:15666
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- Abstract
- Hyperuricemia has been associated with hypertension, however, whether this association exists across all decades of adult life is unknown. This study aimed to assess the association between hyperuricemia and hypertension in relation to age. This retrospective cross-sectional study included a total of 22,556 adult Chinese people who attended Health Physical Examination in a Chinese hospital. Participants were aged between 18 and 95 years (mean [standard deviation], 45.4 [14.0]). Serum uric acid levels and blood pressure were measured. Associations between serum uric acid and blood pressure, and between hyperuricemia and hypertension diagnosis were analyzed using linear or logistic regression, adjusting for confounding risk factors including age, sex, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and fasting blood glucose. Sub-analysis was stratified by age and sex. Before adjustment, high serum uric acid was associated with higher systolic blood pressure (β = 0.214, P < 0.001) and higher diastolic blood pressure (β = 0.271, P < 0.001). Hyperuricemia was associated with hypertension diagnosis (OR, 1.763; 95% CI, 1.635–1.901; P < 0.001) in an unadjusted analysis. These findings remained significant after adjusting for confounding factors. Sub-analysis suggested that the association between uric acid and blood pressure was weaker in older age groups and the association between hyperuricemia and hypertension was limited to people under 60 years. Hyperuricemia was independently associated with hypertension diagnosis in men but not in women, and the independent association between hyperuricemia and hypertension only presented in men under 60 years. This study suggests that hyperuricemia is independently associated with hypertension in Chinese men under 60 years. © 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited part of Springer Nature. **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate "Fadi Charchar and Yutang Wang" is provided in this record**
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- Springer Nature
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- Journal of Human Hypertension Vol. 35, no. 11 (2021), p. 1020-1028; https://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1062671
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- 1103 Clinical Sciences; Cholesterol; Glucose; High density lipoprotein cholesterol; Uric acid; EMTREE medical terms
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- This work was funded by the Shandong Natural Fund (ZR2015HL008), Shandong Province, China. Yutang Wang is supported by a grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (1062671). JG holds a Practitioner Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC; 1117061) and a Senior Clinical Research Fellowship from the Queensland Government, Australia.
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The China version of Google is at www.google.cn. Try entering an innoucous phrases like "tiananmen" and "Jesus Christ", and then compare the difference in search results from the American version at www.google.com. The differences are particularly dramatic when you click the Images option.
For "Jesus Christ," Google.cn allows only eight images thruough their CensorWare, of which six are incorrect. In contrast, Google.com presents 116,000 images for the same search term.


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Chi-Town's third annual Spring Awakening Music Festival is returning to historic Soldier Field on June 13 – June 15, 2014. React Presents has announced the full lineup for the increasingly gargantuan Spring Awakening and it's filled with VIBE favorites such as the city's native Kaskade, along with Diplo, Pretty Lights and Tiësto.
Other top tier headliners that will grace the fiesta's four stages and two main stages include Knife Party, Big Gigantic, Bingo Players, Dillon Francis, Eric Prydz, Flux Pavilion and Benny Benassi. With acts like Green Velvet and Derrick Carter returning to Spring Awakening Music Festival in addition to Kaskade, Chicago's roots in house music will also be represented.
Check out Spring Awakening's 2014 teaser video below.
Spring Awakening Music Festival 2014
June 13 – 15, 2014
Soldier Field
1410 South Campus Drive
Chicago, IL 60605
Friday: 3 PM Doors
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A Special Invitation to UNE students inviting You to the Passport to Culture International Children's Festival this Friday, March 26 in the Campus Center!
While events will begin at 10:00 am, the most interesting festival atmosphere and Around the World Tour with passports will take place from 11:15-1:15. This would be the best time for UNE students and the UNE community to stop by and check it out.
I have provided a link to
The full press release can be found at: http://www.une.edu/news/2010/childrensfestival.cfm
I have also added an online comment section for kids/teacher to post their feedback after the event.
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If we learn nothing more from emails and other communications that state lawmakers are fighting to keep from the public eye in the Voting Rights Act cases pending here in federal court, we know at least this.
Proponents of what would become one of the most restrictive voting laws in the nation were keen on learning just whose votes they'd be suppressing.
And when the numbers placed before them revealed that in large part those votes belonged to African Americans, seniors, and young voters, they pushed their bill to passage in a hurry.
"From the very conception of House Bill 589, the main sponsors of the bill had sought and obtained information from the State Board of Elections indicating that the challenged provisions repealed practices used disproportionately by African Americans," groups opposing the new voting law said in recent court filings.
Though still in the midst of a battle with lawmakers over disclosure of such emails and documents in advance of a July 2015 trial, those groups and the U.S. Department of Justice are now asking the court to block the state from enforcing voting changes during the November 2014 elections.
They contend that even on the limited evidence obtained to date, the court can find sufficient proof that, as lawmakers intended, the changes clearly impact the ability of African Americans and other minorities to vote, offering this:
"The law's disproportionate burdens on African Americans, the highly unusual and expedited manner in which HB 589 was enacted, the evidence that was before the legislature at the time, and the absence of any credible legislative rationale all show that the legislature enacted the statute (at least in part) to depress minority voter turnout."
As initially passed by the House in April 2013, HB 589 imposed only a voter ID requirement. It then sat seemingly dormant in the Senate until late June, when the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the preclearance requirement under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder.
"Now we can go with the full bill, " said Sen. Tom Apodaca, alluding to the fact that the state would no longer have their voting changes preapproved.
The full bill, unveiled in late July with just days left in the session, sailed through both chambers of the General Assembly in two days.
In addition to imposing voter ID requirements, HB 589 eliminated a week of early voting, banned same day registration during the remaining period, and prohibited counties from counting provisional ballots cast outside a voter's assigned precinct.
It also expanded the ability of partisan groups to send monitors to the polls and to challenge voters (allowing 10 additional at-large observers in a county).
Just as quickly, two groups – one led by the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP and another by the NC League of Women Voters — filed separate complaints in federal court in Winston-Salem seeking to overturn the law.
The Justice Department followed a month later with its own action, seeking not only to invalidate the law but also to bail the state into preclearance under the rarely used Section 3 of the Voting Rights Act. Bail-in relief would once again require North Carolina to obtain approval for any voting changes from either the Department or the federal court in Washington, D.C.
Since then the parties have largely been engaged in a tug-of-war over the disclosure of documents and information generated by lawmakers, who have invoked protection under a very broad interpretation of legislative privilege.
In March, Magistrate Judge Joi Elizabeth Peake rejected that broad interpretation.
Peake ruled that at least some of the communications sought were not absolutely protected — communications with constituents or other third parties, for example – and should be produced. The judge also held that other documents might likewise have to be disclosed if the need for them in the voting rights context outweighed any intrusion on the legislative process.
In an order in mid-May, U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder upheld the magistrate's ruling.
Despite two court rulings to the contrary, lawmakers are still holding on to plenty of documents, claiming still that the privilege protects them from disclosing records in their possession — regardless of whether they've already been produced by or shared with third parties, like state agencies and lobbyists.
But the groups challenging the law say that the court has already rejected that argument and that in any event, many of those documents are public records that must produced.
"Such communications are likely to shed light on the sequence of events leading up to passage of HB 589 and reveal contemporaneous statements and viewpoints held by the decision-makers, all highly relevant to the question of discriminatory intent," the Justice Department said in a recent court filing.
Documents already produced by agencies like the State Board of Elections prove that point.
After unsuccessful efforts to pass voting law changes in 2011, state lawmakers geared up for renewed attempts in the 2013 long session, directed initially only at a voter ID requirement.
To that end, they asked the Board of Elections for data on licensed and unlicensed registered voters.
Here's Erika Churchill from legislative research asking for information in December 2012:
To the dismay of some lawmakers, information from a report generated in response to that request landed in the "Under the Dome" section of the News & Observer, prompting this reaction:
Two months later, Rep. Harry Warren and others asked the Board of Elections to break down the numbers of unlicensed registered voters by race, age and other demographics as well as by the use of early voting and same-day registration:
In a series of reports that followed, the board provided lawmakers with detailed numbers on demographics and voting histories — demonstrating, the challengers argue, an awareness in the General Assembly of the impact proposed changes would have on specific groups.
The numbers show that the state's voting law changes disproportionately impacted African Americans, the Justice Department and the groups challenging those changes contend.
Compared to white voters, African American voters were far more likely to vote early. In 2008, for example, 70 percent of all African American voters used early voting, compared to just 51 percent of white voters. These numbers were almost identical in 2012—70 percent and 52 percent, respectively.
During the 2012 elections, African Americans were also over 35 percent more likely than white voters to register to vote using same-day registration, and twice as likely to cast out-of-precinct provisional ballots.
Lawmakers knew that, the challengers add.
"In early 2013, before introducing the original House version of HB 589, its sponsors requested and received data from the SBOE on the racial impact of their proposed ID law, a request entirely consistent with an awareness that the law might have a disparate racial impact," the Justice Department noted in a recent court filing.
Despite that, lawmakers rushed the bill along through in atypical fashion, ignoring facts and cutting off debate – evidence that they were motivated by a discriminatory purpose, the challengers contend.
And when pushed to offer legitimate reasons for the changes or for the hurried manner in which they advanced the bill, lawmakers had none.
No cost savings would result from shortening the early voting period. In fact it would cost more, as counties told lawmakers – more for overtime salaries for poll workers and for additional workers to handle the increased time that early voting sites would need to remain open.
Early voting sites would become even more congested than they'd been before.
And same-day registration, which the state had proclaimed a success, needed no changes.
Claims of in-person voting fraud to be remedied could not be sustained.
And a professed "crisis of confidence" in the state electoral system went unsubstantiated.
For those reasons, the law's challengers have asked the court to block enforcement of voting changes during the November 2014 elections and pending the trial scheduled for July 2015.
Since voter ID requirements do not go into effect until 2016, that request relates only to the shortening of the early voting period, the elimination of same-day registration and the discounting of provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct.
The Justice Department is also requesting the appointment of federal observers to monitor voting here this fall and to provide balance to the partisan observers permitted under the new law.
The court has scheduled hearings on that request for early July.
(Note: Late yesterday the state defendants filed papers opposing the challengers' request for a preliminary injunction. Policy Watch will address their arguments in a subsequent post.)


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I am 27 years old. I suffered from anorexia and bulimia for several years in my teens, and have had occasional bulimia relapses ever since, fortunately they've become very infrequent (last year no more than 10 relapses). I am wondering how this may have affected my gut health. Is there any research on this topic?
side note; I have quite a healthy/varied diet, eating lots of vegis, fermented foods, yogurt etc, and I gave up refined sugar two years ago. I do however often feel tired. I would love to get a personalised diet through DayTwo/the Erans study, but it's not available in my country (yet).


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Off The Grid
Comedy Bang Bang #270 February 10, 2014
One half of The Pepper Men, Jon Daly is here to discuss all things RHCP on today's Comedy Bing Bong! Jon tells us about his tribute track to the Red Hots and dives deep into the Superb Bowl Halftime show controversy. Then, Scott & Jon start to go through the Chili Peps' discography when suddenly an "off the grid" Jesse "The Mind, Body, and Soul" Ventura maneuvers into the studio to share some explosive information. Check out Jon's tribute to RHCP aka "ABRACADABRALIFORNIA" over at http://rhcp2014.com/


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Architects: Florence Gaudin Architectes
- Area : 280 m²
- Year : 2016
Photographs :Rebecca Topakian, Cendrine Robert
Text description provided by the architects. The existing house lies on a generous lot and has a typical 30's style. Despite the state of degradation, its original architectural language was kept intact: two colours decorating bricks (…), stone basement, apparent metallic lintels, etc.
The house also has features and proportions witch are to be found in any family house of that era.
In the client's program the existing housing surface had to be tripled.
The extension consists in an original form attached to the pre-existing house, showing a contemporary free adaptation of the house pattern. It is used as a mean for two major purposes:
On the one hand, the project keeps the pre-existing house intact, preserving its own original typology.
On the other hand, it generates two specifics, independents entities with their own volumes and design expressions, and creates the in-between part as an architectural transition space.
This architectural transition space is a real metaphor of one of the leading concepts of the agency's work: This is the place where the two worlds melt together and creates the unification of the architectural pieces of the entire new building, in terms of linking rooms together, allowing to combine and enhance use of the different spaces of the different parts of the building, managing the fusion of the two specific times of building attached to another, etc.
On the urbanistic side, despite an important amount of housing surface created, this distinction marked between the pre-existing house and the new volume created helps indeed to blend the project in the architectural context of the whole district area where it takes place.
At last, this gap 'in-between' the pre-existing building (existing house) and the new building (extension) is a technical value for the project. It ensures an independent structure for both building parts, avoiding the under-building works and also avoiding the differential settling of the terrain under the constructions.
The volume part of the extension reads into the archetypical family house: two-symmetrically-sided rooftop, hinged window shutters. Deliberately a fresh copy of the pre-existing house, cleaned from all its design details of the facade, from all the non-functional elements in the design of the roof and of the façades and cleaned from all the architectural patterns of the pre-existing house architectural style.
Under this volume, and between these two different
A floor opening is created through the existing floor of the house, filtered by a residential net, in order to allow people to enjoy the 'in-between' space as they float thanks to this net between to eras of constructions. But this hopper is also a communication for the two generations in the family: the children, in the new building part, and the grown-up, in the pre-existing house part, meet up there, at the centre of the connection between the two entities of the project.
It's in that very spot, where two different construction eras meet and two generations connect, where the expected event of the project is revealed: The typical architecture of the pre-existing house develops itself through this linking space and inverts its outer facade to create the inner surface of the wall that becomes the surrounding element of the common living rooms inside the extension. This mirror effect of exchanging surfaces, materials and architectural vocabularies tells the whole history of this family project as a living element that evolves through time, space and other abstract dimensions.
Product Description. In order to open the inside of the building on the garden at its best, the transition part of the building, located uder the new white volume, consists in broad glass windows that allow a constant visual connection trough out this part of the building between the inside of the building and the outside wich is the garden area. These long glass windows required to follow the current thermic regulation and fit to the strict budget of the project. So, in order to answer to this requierement, we used the product of the SOLEAL range by TECHNAL to get to that level of quality.
These glass windows are firmly fixed into the ground and the surface material of the floor around it inside is blue irish stone, aswell as the outside material. The finishing of the stone is adapted to each environment so to keep the continuous aspect of the material equally inside as outside this space : the outside stone is flamed and the inside stone is flamed and bruched.


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Well, here it is, December 31, the last day of 2014. And as Lester Flatt sang, "I've been sitting here thinking back over my life..." And what I was thinking this morning as I drank my coffee and read my favorite new author Louise Penny on my Kindle was, in fact, Roly Polys.
For me, this was the year that all my attempts to teach improvising on the banjo finally came to fruition in the form of the Roly Polys. In addition to 40 years of teaching (and thank you Tim for that constant reminder!), several things fell into place to coax the Roly Polys into being: My wonderful teaching place in town, the Tip Jar Jams, and an amazing group of courageous banjo students.
The Teaching Place (TP) finally offered a room big enough for a jam session and plenty of parking right in front. I'd tried Misfit jam sessions before---twice in the Barber Shop and once at our house out in the country---but, frankly, I didn't have the skills or experience to make these really work. (And there was no parking at our house. In fact one of the students backed into a tree coming out of our driveway which is how I met Ben Smelser when I called him to come cut it down, but that's an entirely different story!) ...continue reading


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Praying for Your Girl {Day 1}
Empowering tweens, teens, and women to live in the confidence of Christ.
By Lynn Cowell | 2 Comments
Rhonda Fluellen says
Awesome prayer! Our girls definitely need to know how important it is to love yourself and in return to show the love of God towards others. Amen!
Bobbie says
So timely! My girl is starting back at college today, so I know she will feel the prayers!
Thank you, Lynn!
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