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These sandals from Gianvito Rossi will lend a stylish edge to your ensemble. They feature suede straps, leather strings that wrap around the ankles and cork wedge heels. You will feel fashionable and comfortable in this brown pair.
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Per capita, the Dutch are probably the best designers in the world; when they pick the best-designed project of the year, the results are bound to be interesting.
This year, the Dutch Design Awards Golden Lion goes to Wieki Somers, for turning the coat-check at Rotterdam's Museum Boijmans van Beuningen into a full-on art installation, reminscent of a merry-go-round.
The coat rack, which was produced by Haunting Dogs Full of Grace–basically a super-group of Dutch Designers–works a lot like the hanging systems found in coal mines: Red and white ropes, loaded with coat hangers, dangle from a pulley system; visitors can then hang their coats, and also arrange them vertically. Thus, coats, jackets, and purses, which might otherwise be hidden away, become part of a kinetic, ready-made piece of art.
If you like that, you'd probably love Somers's other work: She's known for whimsical, high-concept pieces such as chairs cast from ad-hoc pieces she found in Beijing's back alleys and a bathtub shaped like a sailboat.
Dutch Design Awards has a full list of winners in the various sub categories.
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Praised by the Washington Post for her "assured, sinuous solos," violinist Sandy Choi has performed with a wide range of professional ensembles in some of the world's greatest concert halls. In the Washington area alone, she can frequently be seen performing with ensembles including the Wolf Trap Orchestra, Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, Washington Concert Opera Orchestra, Urban Arias, Inscape Chamber Orchestra, and Balance Campaign, and has previously performed with Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Emmanuel Music, the Southwest Florida Symphony, and the Santa Barbara Symphony. Comfortable in many genres, she has shared the stage with artists including virtuoso violinist Rachel Barton Pine, indie rock artist Laura Tsaggaris, beloved singer Andrea Bocelli, and jazz legend Diana Krall. Over the years, she has had the privilege to perform in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Orchestra Hall (Chicago), Symphony Hall (Boston), Birmingham Symphony Hall (UK), and the Teatro Communale di Firenze (Italy).
A nerd at heart with a love for foreign languages including French, Arabic, and Korean, she holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics and Music from MIT, a Middle East Institute Certificate from Columbia University, and a Master's Degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. She is also a graduate of the prestigious Center for Arabic Studies Abroad (CASA) program at the American University in Cairo. Her musical achievements include an Honorable Mention in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the prestigious Emerson fellowship at MIT, and winner of the MIT Concerto Competition.


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Lang House on Main Street
The house at 360 Main Street remained a private residence until the mid-1970s when a local real estate firm, Lang Associates, purchased the property and gave the house its name.
In 2000, the Lang House was converted to an 11-room Vermont B&B inn, preserving the house's historic nature while adding contemporary amenities and numerous safety features. All through the Lang House, you will see all the architectural qualities and appointments you might expect in a 19th century Victorian home: period furnishings and antiques, soaring ceilings, stained glass windows, and stunning woodwork and plaster detailing with a rosette pattern repeated throughout the house.
Just 3 miles from Burlington International Airport (BTV), the Lang House on Main Street is conveniently located between the University of Vermont (UVM) and downtown Burlington. It's a short walk to the UVM or Champlain College campuses. Also within walking distance are the Lake Champlain waterfront (we are seven blocks east of Lake Champlain) and Burlington's downtown, including the Flynn Theatre, galleries, museums, restaurants, shops and the Church Street Marketplace (a 4-block thriving city center made for walking and browsing Burlington's eclectic mix of shops and eateries).
All 11 guestrooms have private baths and are well stocked with soap, shampoo, lotion, towels, hair dryer and complimentary bottled water.
Each guestroom has wine glasses, water glasses, an ice bucket and a corkscrew / bottle opener. (There is an ice machine in the inn kitchen.)
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Also hanging in each guestroom are Lang House robes, which guests can enjoy during their stay (they are also for sale). Additionally we can provide an iron and ironing board. W e keep a small stock of personal supplies in the event guests find themselves without toothbrushes, razors, etc. Each guest bedroom room has an air conditioner in the warmer months of the year. Guests can regulate heat in their bedrooms as each room has its own thermostat.
All guestrooms have a telephone (local calls are free of charge), HD Flatscreen television with cable service, wireless Internet access, iHomes, and alarm clocks.
We are very children friendly. A portable crib is available, and we can set up cots in a few guestrooms.
Off-street parking is provided for guests in our private lot just behind the main house.
Whether you are visiting for business or pleasure, you will find our Burlington, Vermont bed and breakfast accommodations comfortable and convenient, our staff gracious and welcoming, and our gourmet breakfasts planned to meet your schedule.
We are committed to making your stay with us perfect in every way!
The Lang House on Main Street is also available for hosting and catering your event. Consider our gracious setting and menus for receptions, showers, luncheons, dinners, and small group retreats.
Breakfast at Lang House
We serve breakfast between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. in the first floor Dining Room and Sun Porch.
Three breakfast options are available every morning including an egg dish which might be scrambled, poached, fried, baked or souffled; a sweet offering such as pancakes, French toast, crepes or waffles; or house-made nutty granola served with a Vermont organic yogurt and fresh fruit. All dishes include a selection of breakfast meats, fruits and vegetables, and homemade baked goods.
We serve what we consider to be delicious Vermont maple syrup. It is organic, and the land on which the sugar bush is located has been placed into land trust by Craig and Cindy Walker. You can call the Walkers at 802-899-3088 to place an order.
We can accommodate your special dietary needs or preferences (e.g., vegan, food allergies, or lactose intolerance). Just let us know prior to your arrival! For vegetarians -- we always offer the option of a meat side. It is not automatically served or added to our breakfast dishes.
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Throughout the day, guests can help themselves to fresh coffee, tea and spring water. Each afternoon, homemade treats are offered for guests to enjoy.
Beer, Wine, and Lang House Cheese Plate
As a convenience to our guests, the Lang House has a license to sell and serve beer and wine. We offer a variety of wines and locally brewed beer for purchase. We also offer for sale a Vermont cheese plate, which is comprised of Vermont cow, sheep and/or goat cheeses, a fruit garnish and crackers, and either toasted nuts or olives. Per Vermont liquor regulations, while the Lang House has a beer and wine license in force, guests are not allowed to bring their own beer and wine into the inn. Call us if you have any questions about our beer and wine offerings.
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Kim Borsavage has been the proprietress since December 2003. At various times since acquiring the Lang House, members of her family have worked at the inn including her sister, daughter, sons and nieces.
Kim is especially pleased to offer University of Vermont accommodations as she has a special connection to the University – she is an alumna of the university and worked for the University of Vermont College of Medicine dean before becoming the Lang House's innkeeper. Her son graduated with a B.S.M.E. in May 2007, and her daughter's bioengineering research interest was sparked by a wonderful engineering faculty member at UVM. A niece, who now works here, is enrolled as an undergraduate student. The family legacy continues.
At the Lang House, we combine 19th century charm with 21st century service. We look forward to your visit!
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The Gurkhas have become the latest weapon in the battle for hearts and minds in Afghanistan. Recently, a gaggle of dusty boys and girls warily approached the unfamiliar figures resting in a ditch shaded by fig trees. Five minutes later they were giggling in the late afternoon sun, joking with the legendary Nepalese soldiers.
Southern Nahr-e-Seraj, in the notorious Helmand province administered by the British, was last summer the battleground of the bloody Panther's Claw offensive. Eleven British soldiers died in fighting to secure a corridor from Helmand's capital, Lashkar Gah, to Gereshk, its economic hub. The offensive tried to extend the writ of Hamid Karzai's ineffective national government so it could bring health, education and justice to Helmand's residents.
Nearly 12 months on, the Gurkhas are stationed in a small strip of fertile farmland in Nahr-e-Seraj, training the Afghan police and army, building checkpoints and guarding a new road linking the main towns. Commanders believe the soldiers are ideal for the role. A shared love of Bollywood means the Gurkhas and the Afghans can often converse in Hindi or Urdu, where British soldiers are forced to rely on a handful of interpreters. The link builds bridges and brings life-saving information.
Maj Dave Jones, commander of C company, said: "I might be sitting down with an elder, but my junior rifleman might be talking to a couple of kids on a street corner who might be saying there's a bomb hidden over there." The Gurkhas' suitability runs deeper than language though, said Lt Col Gez Strickland, their commanding officer. Soldiers from rural, traditional Nepal can often find it easier to understand Afghans than those from the cities of Britain or America. "There's a cultural link which makes them inherently understand the pattern of life in a place like this," he said. "It's the respect for elders, the understanding of things that are important to rural communities and the similarity in attitude to life."
"When we go out on patrol, they are very keen to talk to us and we just ask their problems," explained Sgt Maj Shuresh Thapa, a Gurkha based in one of the dusty patrol bases. "If we killed eight or 10 [Taliban-allied] insurgents, it doesn't make a difference, but if I get eight or 10 people on my side, it can make a huge difference."
But when night falls, the giggling children have gone and the Gurkhas must stare tensely down their gun sights at insurgents trying to encircle their position. If they can keep the villages secure, they will form a chain of protected settlements along the route from Gereshk to Lashkar Gah.
If farmers are given security, freedom to travel, health care and education the hope is that they will turn their backs on the Taliban and embrace the Kabul regime. A clinic, police station and school are being built in the north east of their area. But although the Gurkhas are making small inroads, their efforts may not yield the required results in time for ambitious handover timetables being drawn up in London and Washington. Commanders are under growing pressure from their political masters to demonstrate progress and pave the way for Afghans to take charge of their own security.
Gen Stanley McChrystal, commander of Nato-led forces, this week gave the first hints of his frustration at the mixed success. Three months after thousands of troops took the former Taliban stronghold of Marjah in southern Helmand, in the coalition's biggest offensive yet, he said the town remained a "bleeding ulcer". Taliban fighters remain in the town and continue to intimidate the residents.
The 30,000 reinforcements ordered to Afghanistan last year by Barack Obama are due to begin heading home from July. Nato wants to begin handing over the most tranquil provinces to Afghan control as early as the end of this year.
Such an ambitious timetable seems remote in the 110F (43C) heat of Helmand in early summer. While a shallow security bubble is slowly growing around the Gurkha bases, patrols come under almost daily attack. In Nahr-e-Seraj, the Taliban has responded to the arrival of the Gurkhas with an effective campaign of intimidation. Those accused of helping the foreigners are threatened, beaten, imprisoned in makeshift jails, or even killed.
Two weeks ago in Paind Kalay, a village along the new Nahr-e-Seraj road, as a military construction team hoping to build schools and clinics met locals, the Taliban held a competing meeting. They told residents to leave their homes as soon as the wheat harvest was over so that they would not get in the way of attacks on the British. A few days later a convoy of 18 cars and tractors loaded with villagers' possessions headed to Gereshk.
"Everyone, when they come to the British base to claim money for damaged crops, or to attend meetings, they are threatened by the Taliban. They say they will kill us," explained Shahazada, a 48-year-old farmer from Paind Kalay. "The Taliban walk around during the day without weapons. They come to our houses at night." Early this month, Malak Muhammed, an anti-Taliban local councillor was assassinated while at prayer. Twelve elders accused of siding with the British were rounded up a week later and one badly beaten.
Men such as Mohammad Anwar are at the centre of the battle for control. An educated, respected elder in Paind Kalay, he addresses council meetings with a gravity befitting his difficult position. His status and willingness to deal with the Gurkhas have made him a critical link. But one day in mid-May, gunmen delivered an ultimatum: leave the area and stop working with the foreigners, or die. As he deliberated, his house was surrounded one night by insurgents who were later seen dumping something in a nearby canal. Officers spent a tense day fearing the worst for their ally until he was found safe, having fled.
"You can be the bravest man in the world and say I'm going to stand up to you," said Maj Shaun Chandler, a counter insurgency expert who has just returned from two years at West Point, "but if they say I am going to target your wife and family then they are not that brave."
In Lt Col Strickland's briefing tent a map is divided into red villages supporting the Taliban, blue villages supporting the government and green villages hanging in the balance. The map is largely a sea of green. "I liken the people to a rope in a tug of war," Maj Chandler said. "We are pulling them and the insurgents are pulling them, trying to get them to our side. "The people of Afghanistan are by and large pragmatists. They will side with the narrative which gives them the best life."


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At the end of BOARD Server installation on Windows Server, the service doesn't start properly.
From Windows Event Viewer, the following error is tracked:
Error Tracker
BOARD Server is starting
Configuration: C:\Program Files\Board\Board Server\server_config_v2.xml
Cannot start BOARD Server. Original cause: The .NET Framework Garbage Collector is not running in Server mode. Configuration file created. Please restart the process.
Stack trace:
at BoardUtilities.Utils.CheckGCServerMode()
at BoardService.Initializer.InitializeBoardEngine()
at BoardMaster.BoardWinServiceHostManager.Start(Boolean isMaster, Type type)
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We wrap up the summer with a special 'live' show recorded last weekend during one of our Maisonette Electronique Ustream shows. The session features both XLII from Raid System, who was over in Europe for the summer from Tokyo, and Om Unit who co-hosts the Maisonette Electronique Ustream show we've been doing since the beginning of the year.
So this podcast is a combined Rhythm Inc and RIRS session with Om Unit dropping in a short selection towards the end of the show. It features a wide selection of new music and recent favourites from all of us including Thundercat, Danny Brown, Darkhouse Family, Touchy Subject, Zed Bias, Damu and Sully on Keysound Recordings, Shlohmo, Dizz1, Walton, Cardopusher, Prison Garde xxxy, Kuedo, Goth Trad, Throwing Snow, Jonwayne, Krampfhaft and more.
The first hour is mixed and presented by XLII with the second hour presented by myself with Om Unit joining in for the last 20 minutes. Full tracklist is below and as always you can stream and/or download, or simply subscribe to the RSS or iTunes feed to receive all the shows directly.
And remember to check out the Maisonette Electronique Ustream channel from which we broadcast at least once a month now with guests which have in the last few months included the likes of Lorn, Kid Kanevil, Daisuke Tanabe and Kutmah! You can also check all the archived streams here.
Download Rhythm Incursions x Raid System – August 2011 ft. Om Unit (right click and save as)
XLII selection
Danny Brown – Scrap or Die – Fools Gold, free DL
DJ Diamond – Burn Dat Boy – Planet Mu
Darkhouse Family – Where is Everyone – Project Mooncircle
V.C. – Kind of Bad – Donky Pitch
Naive Machine – Robot Ramifications – Hit and Hope
Pritch & Trim – Kiss My Arse – Planet Mu
Touchy Subject – Family Traditions – Unreleased
Johnny Faith – Funkzilla (XLII Remix) – Forthcoming Civil Music
Prison Garde – Zero – Free download
Frandomeda – Catch Me Now – Free download
Pickster & Melo – EL Bumper – Free download
Noha – Pijama (Mendez vs Melo Remix) – Free download
Photonz – Lamborghini Funk – One Eyed Jacks
Martyn – Viper (London's Arches Edit) – Brainfeeder
Sepalcure – Every Day of My Life (Jimmy Edgar Remix) – Hotflush
Dynooo – Tropical Thighs – Surfkill
Raffertie – Twitch (It Grows & Grows) – Ninja Tune
Zed Bias – Phoneline fear. Rosco Trim (Maddslinky Remix) – Tru Thoughts
Sepalcure – Love Pressure (Lando Kal Remix) – Hotflush
Dizz1 & Royalston – Decay (The Dickhead Riddim) – Forthcoming Black Acre
Kuoyah – Convex Gravity (Desto Remix) – Frijsfo Beats
Cardopusher – Tu Bizcochito – Enchufada
Schlachthofbronx – Backup Run – Enchufada
Walton – Aggy – Forthcoming Hyperdub
Admiral Bailey – Jump Up (Terror Danjah Vocal Remix) – Harddrive
Damu – Karolinas Magic J – Keysound Recordings
Laurent selection ft. Om Unit
Shlohmo – Places – Friends of Friends
Dabrye – We've Got Commodity – Ghostly
Flash Bang Grenada (Busdriver and Nocando) – Beat My Bitch (prod. by Nosajthing) – Hellfyre Club
Thundercat – Boat Cruise – Brainfeeder
ichiro_ – one4c – Oilworks
Danny Brown – Die Like A Rockstar – Fools Gold, free DL
B. Lewis – Code(x) – Juslikemusic
Jonwayne – Murderface – Free download
Lunice – Glow – LuckyMe
Sully – Scram – Forthcoming Keysound Recordings
Krampfhaft – I Needed You – Rwina
Instra:mental – No Future (Consequence Remix) – Free download
Sarantis – Scanner Riddim – Forthcoming Senseless
F – Slow Down – Forthcoming 7even recordings
xxxy – Body Movin' – Infrasonics
Goth Trad ft. Max Romeo – Babylon Fall – Forthcoming Deep Medi
Sully – 2Hearts – Forthcoming Keysound Recordings
Roots Manuva – Get The Get (Breakage Remix) – Forthcoming Ninja Tune
Blackwax – Offkey – Forthcoming Tube10
King Midas Sound – Goodbye Girl (Kuedo remix) – Hyperdub
LDFD – Twerk It – Magical Properties
Visionist – Survive – Diskotopia
Touchy Subject – Wicked Act – Forthcoming Numbers
Arkist – Fill Your Coffee – Applepips
The Phantom – The Phantom (Devil Artic mix) – Senseless
Throwing Snow – The Luck Without – Nihon Kizuna
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New Girl Review: Big GuyGabrielle Moss at .
In a way, New Girl's transformation into a well-oiled comedy machine this season has been bad news for me as a reviewer.
Before, there was stuff to complain about. But how many weeks can I get by with just saying "This was pretty freakin' funny?" before the reading public calls for my head?
Well, there are only three more episodes left of New Girl Season 2, so I hope you'll forgive me for noting that "Bachelorette Party" was indeed pretty freakin' funny.
This half hour was a light confection with pretty low stake, however. I mean, Cece is just not getting married, not even if you believe in that theory of multi-verses where every single thing that could ever happen is happening in some universe right now.
Still, the installment landed nicely on its feet, with just as many Schmidt fat suit flashbacks, awesome New Girl quotes and horny lesbian gynecologists as you'd like to see on a Tuesday night.
But for an episode with low stakes, it did shed some interesting light on Cece. Though the show has always given Cece a lot to do, it has only been in the second half of this season that we've gotten a look at who she really is - and that is a successful model who somehow still hates herself so much that she'll marry a virtual stranger and change everything about herself.
This is yet another example of New Girl sneaking some innovative characterization in through the back door, without making a big deal about it. Male self-loathing is never in short supply on TV (in that it is, you know, basically the backbone of modern humor), but spinning comedy out of a beautiful girl's self-hatred is a pretty unusual move.
Comedies are often most comfortable giving self-loathing female characters some traits that society also finds unappealing in women, so that their negativity "makes sense" (The Big Bang Theory's Amy Farrah Fowler jumps to mind). But Cece has almost everything that's supposed to make you happy: she's beautiful, desired by men, and lives a glamorous lifestyle. And still she can barely stand herself... just because that's the way life is sometimes. It's ballsy, and I hope other shows are sitting up and taking note.
Of course, there can be no mate for a lady with that much self-loathing, except a guy who spends every flashback scene in a fat suit (should we start calling them "fats-backs"?).
I loved this episode's latest chapter of the Tale of Fat Schmidt - revealing that, contrary to the emasculated Fat Schmidt we've seen so often in flashbacks, Fat Schmidt was a better boyfriend and may have even been a happier human being than Skinny Schmidt. What will come of those three pizzas that Schmidt brought to Elizabeth's house? This is seriously a The Killing-level cliffhanger for me.
Okay, I was wrong about this episode being a light confection. "Bachelorette Party" was actually a pretty compelling investigation into the meaning of self-loathing and self-worth, somehow set on a stage flanked by male strippers and dick pics. I don't know how you do the voodoo that you do so well, New Girl, but please, keep doing it.
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Beatles fans are in for a treat this October as Beatlemania on Tour make a stop on the Gold Coast. You won't find a better Beatles tribute act this Spring, where you will hear over 30 of the best Beatles songs performed by world-class musicians during this unmissable 2-hour tribute show. Take a time machine back to the golden age of music and feel like you're watching the original band themselves with their complete Beatles getup and state of the art lighting and equipment! Beatlemania on Tour consist of Cameron Charters as Paul McCartney, Zac Coombs as John Lennon, Brent McMullen as George Harrison, and Ben Harper as Ringo Starr. These world-class performers and their Beatles tribute act have sold out famous venues across the globe, having travelled in the US, Canada, Asia, New Zealand, and South Africa! This Spring brings them down under for an unmissable show taking place at The Star Gold Coast on October 28. Beatles fans, mark your calendars today for Beatlemania on Tour!
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Posted by Mike Volpe, CMO of HubSpot
Editor's note: From the founding of Faneuil Hall in 1740 to the opening of Franklin Southie in 2008, Boston's businesses have embodied an enterprising and entrepreneurial spirit. When we looked at several recent lists of the top startups in the Boston area - from Bostinno, Quora and the Boston Business Journal - we were pleased to discover that about 75% of these companies are running on Apps.
Today, we're wicked excited to hear from Mike Volpe, CMO of HubSpot, the industry leader in inbound marketing software and one of those top startups. See what other organizations that have gone Google have to say.
Hubspot has grown to 450 employees since launching in 2006, and along the way, we've settled on a core mantra when it comes to how we work: "use good judgment." We don't tell employees where they have to work or when they have to be here - we care most about results. It's imperative, then, that we leverage enterprise tools that make work easy and accessible anytime and anywhere. That's why we use Google Apps. It lets us work together whether we're at our desks or halfway around the world. That, combined with the fact that it grows with us and is simple to use, makes it the perfect solution for our company.
Our employees use Google Apps every day on nearly every aspect of our business. With Docs, Sheets and Slides, we're able to collaborate on our most important documents with our colleagues, no matter where we are. We can store all our files in one place with Drive, so each team knows they can find their templates and notes whether they're sitting down with their laptops or traveling with their smartphones. And Google Forms makes tracking executive speaking requests simple and seamless. Any time an organization wants a HubSpot expert to talk at an event, we send them a form with a set of standard questions, and the information they submit about the opportunity is automatically populated into a spreadsheet that houses all other requests. It's perfectly efficient.
Google Calendar helps us stay transparent, which we consider essential to empowering our employees. Many of our executives book office hours on Google Calendar and share them with our company. Any employee at any level can sign up for an hour with them, where they can bring up anything from product development ideas to problems they're having at work.
Working for a fast-moving company isn't easy, but with Google Apps, we're not burdened by the hassles that can otherwise grind busy days to a halt without a strong technology platform. We don't have to deal with attachments, version history screwups, email outages or fussing around with our phones to get our email to sync. We open up Google Apps and it works. It's the same experience we offer with our software – simple, effective and lovable.


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In collaboration with 4 Bells Restaurant
December 11th at 6pm, $95
Together with our friends from 4 Bells Restaurant in Minneapolis, we have created a delicious menu featuring six Southern-inspired dishes complete with perfectly paired wine. Our featured courses include peach-smoked black sea bass, gumbo, and fried rabbit roulade. Frankly my dear, you won't want to miss this dinner.
1st Course
Fried Oyster
Pickled okra gribiche
Chateau Pegau
Cotes du Rhone Cuvee Lone 2017
2nd Course
Peach Smoked Black Sea Bass
Sweet tea, charred fresno hush puppy, corn emulsion, tomato syrup
Château Mourgues du Gres
Costieres de Nimes Fleur d'Eglantine Rose 2014
3rd Course
Shrimp, Butcher and the Boar hot links, puffed sorghum
Domaine Jean-Louis Chave
Côtes du Rhône Mon Coeur 2016
4th Course
Fried Rabbit Roulade
rabbit andouille sausage, confit fingerling potato, winter herbs, blackberry, smoked honey
Château Mourgues du Gres
Terre d'Argence Rouge 2015
5th Course
Smoked Brisket
Jimmy Red Corn bread, red eye bbq sauce, sweet and spicy pickles
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Saint-Joseph Offerus 2015
6th Course
Roasted Mushroom Farrotto
Beef jerky, charred tomato demi, cured egg yolk, fines herbes
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Antares Lirac 2014
Peach Cobbler
Sarsaparilla ice cream, oat and cornmeal streusel, shaved dulce chocolate
Gone with the Wind Sazerac
rum, apple spice, amaro, coffee
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Greetings from Helsinki! I am briefly emerging from the chaos of Worldcon to link to my latest column in The New Scientist, in which I discuss Yoon Ha Lee's Raven Stratagem, Karin Tidbeck's Amatka, and Nina Allan's The Rift. It was interesting to see how three novels that seemed so superficially dissimilar ended up being about very similar things, chiefly the way that humans construct their own reality even when it seems rock-solid.
I was particularly struck by how similar the approach that Lee and Tidbeck took to their stories was, in both cases taking a well-defined genre with extremely familiar tropes--space opera/military SF in Lee's case, highly conformist future dystopia in Tidbeck's--and use the idea of humans' ability to shape their world through agreed-upon concepts to subtly distort their stories' conventions. In both cases, I think, the authors end up boxed in by their genres, perhaps more than they intended. But both books (and the Allan) are nevertheless extremely interesting exercises, and fun reads to boot.
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OIL-producing communities in Ugbo-land, Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State have kicked against the composition of the recently constituted committee for oil-producing areas in the state by the state government.
The Ilaje-Ugbo Coastal Communities Development Committee was recently constituted by Mr. Sola Orisamoluwa, Director of Finance, Ondo State Oil Producing and Development Commission (OSOPADEC).
However, a group, Confederation of IlajeUgbo-land, described the committee as illegal, stressing that it was done without any consultation with the host communities and stakeholders known to the oil producing communities.
A protest letter by the group to Chevron Nigeria Limited flayed the composition of the group, particularly nominations made by Oba Obateru Akinruntan and other influential individuals, warn the oil-producing giant not to deal with members of the committee.
Signatories to the protest letter, comprising members of the seven ruling houses, Ugbo-Nla, Aiyetoro and Iluabo Zion and Ikorigho Zion communities said, "HRM Obateru Akinruntan nominated his cousins and relatives. On his part, Dr. Alli Mann, Permanent Secretary, OSOPADEC, nominated his younger brother, Mr. Kunle Alli, as the secretary of the body.
"Moreover, Mr. Sola Orisamoluwa nominated his brother, Mr. Tope Olowofoyekun. HRH Femi Ogbaro, a traditional ruler of his kingdom, put up himself as the chairman of the body.
"All these were done without any consultation with the host communities and stakeholders who have been known from time immemorial as confederation of IlajeUgbo-land representatives," the document, a copy of which was made available to The Nation, stated.
While expressing its dissatisfaction with the turn of event, the group remarked that Obateru protested the composition of a similar committee that was set up by his deposed predecessor in 2002.


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A Chap Goh Meh Posting 2018
A Chap Goh Meh Treat 16 February 1965
I must thank Audie Ng, leader and bass guitarist of the Silver Strings for penning his experience when he appeared with one of the most exciting bands in the world.
An illustration of The Rolling Stones on stage which mostly result in healthy chaos and noise.
In 1965, The Silver Strings was invited to be the introductory band for the hugely successful and well-publicised Rolling Stones performance at the Singapore Badminton Hall on February 16.
It was Chap Goh Meh and you can imagine the crowd, noise and fanfare the whole show created. It was chaos night with fire-crackers on the streets outside at Guillemard Road and twanging guitars with screaming Mick Jagger at the microphone and his troupe on stage.
The Badminton Hall during its hey-day when it was used daily for a different purpose.
The second line up of the Silver Strings during the Stones concert at the Stadium.
Kingsley Morando was the show manager and assisted by Wilson David (Singapore's Elvis Presley impersonator in the 1960's) the Rolling Stones were contracted to perform in Singapore by Singstar's Freddy Eu (Eu Tong Sen Street was named after this family.)
The Silver Strings line-up included Audie Ng (bass), David Chan (lead), Merlin Lim (rhythm), Danny Boy (drums) and Veronica (vocals). Apparently, the instruments used that evening were supplied by the event company and amplifiers belonged to The Dukes but this information was unconfirmed.
|A Rolling Stones $2.00 ticket stub from the website The Lion Raw.
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It was the last night of Chinese New Year and the community was celebrating it with vigour and the unbelievably loud explosions of firecrackers. The whole of Guillemard Road, from Geylang Road and the Kallang area, was overflowing with merry-makers. Since the Badminton Stadium was easy to access from most parts of Singapore - they converged there - you can imagine the pandemonium it caused.
"I doubt this phenomenon can ever be repeated in Singapore!" remarked Audie when I interviewed him for this story.
Nobody really sat on the wooden chairs that night. From the jumping and screaming British servicemen and their families to the sensible Singaporean fan, there was no time to relax. Some of the younger Caucasian girls sobbed on bended knees and broke down hysterically. Even our local teenagers were screaming throughout the concert, enjoying live rock music that was a rarity those years.
The Straits Times report about the show that evening attracted many newspaper readers.
An incident mentioned was the gatecrashers who tried to come in and a gate collapsed as the police (or mata-mata) were called in to help with the milieu that resulted. I understand the Black Marias and Ang Chia (Red Vehicles) were outside the stadium too. These were huge vans that would transport rioters and put them in lock-ups.
Now those were the days of rock and roll in Singapore in 1965 when our tiny island left Malaya to become an independent city-state and boys were still roaming the streets with long hair. What a way to go.
The more expensive $8.00 ticket with row and seat number. It was a lot of money those years.
The performance described was only part of the whole story. Many people saw this show and it was an unforgettable double happiness, Chap Goh Meh evening and the Stones presence.
|Audie Ng Today
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Thanks to Dr Steve Farram (Darwin U.) for the inspiration, after enticing me with the video and ticket as bait, to write this article.😉
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Development processes, the use of version control, and unit-testing
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I've worked at quite a few "flat" organizations in my time. Most of the version control policy/process has been "only commit after it's been tested". We were constantly committing at each place to "trunk" (cvs/svn).
The same was true with unit-testing - it's always been a "we need to do this" mentality but it never really materializes in a substantive form b/c there is no institutional knowledge base to do it - no mentorship.
Version Control
The emphasis for version control management at one place was a very strict protocol for commit messages (format & content). The other places let employees just do "whatever".
The branching, tagging, committing, rolling back, and merging aspect of things was always ill defined and almost never used. This sort of seems to leave the version control system in the position of being a fancy file-storage mechanism with a meta-data component that never really gets accessed/utilized. (The same was true for unit testing and committing code to the source tree)
Unit tests
It seems there's a prevailing "we must/should do this" mentality in most places I've worked. As a policy or standard operating procedure it never gets implemented because there seems to be a very ill-defined understanding about what that means, what is going to be tested, and how to do it.
It seems most places I've been to think version control and unit testing is "important" b/c the trendy trade journals say it is but, if there's very little mentorship to use these tools or any real business policies, then the full power of version control/unit testing is never really expressed. So grunts, like myself, never really have a complete understanding of the point beyond that "it's a good thing" and "we should do it".
I was wondering if there are blogs, books, white-papers, or online journals about what one could call the business process or "standard operating procedures" or uses cases for version control and unit testing? I want to know more than the trade journals tell me and get serious about doing these things.
@Henrik Hansen had a great comment about the lack of definition for the question. I'm not interested in a specific unit-testing/versioning product or methodology (like, XP) - my interest is more about work-flow at the individual team/developer level than evangelism. This is more-or-less a by product of the management situation I've operated under more than a lack of reading software engineering books or magazines about development processes. A lot of what I've seen/read is more marketing oriented material than any specifically enumerated description of "well, this is how our shop operates".
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Island Bliss.
The island of Ambergris Caye, Belize is magical. My first 'OM' was there.
My dad's friend lives on the island and we would visit his friend throughout my teenage years. In college, my pops and I stayed with his friend for Thanksgiving. I was teaching step aerobics at the time at my University Recreational Center and trying to work up the courage to sign up for a yoga teacher training. I loved practicing yoga but had only taken classes in Kansas gyms and from a DVD I had, as well as a basement in a Ramada Inn. My dad's buddy told me their was an island yoga Guru and set me up with a private yoga session on her rooftop which was beachside. I drove my rental golf cart to get there, on the rugged beach terrain, because there were no roads to reach her home, she lived on the mostly uninhabited part of the island. When I arrived I met a beautiful blonde mother who had beach hair and a soothing voice. We shared a special two hour yoga session on her roof at sunset where she chanted during my Savasnana and we sang out OM together over the waves.
It was my first OM and definitely my first 'real' yoga. I started to think about parts of my body and my consciousness that I didn't even know existed before then. As I left she told me she was building up her property to make a Yoga Retreat Center. The next time I returned to the island several years later, she had, and I spent a week in her gorgeous new studio that is built 30 feet out into the water. This is the studio/Retreat Center where I am holding my first International Yoga Retreat this winter. Bliss out with me. Nov 1-8 2014.


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Sixth Annual Patristic Symposium in Honor of Fr. Georges Florovsky
St. Tikhon's Monastery, South Canaan PA
"Practical virtue is the steppingstone to contemplation. Labor to cultivate your soul by means of the body." (St. Gregory the Theologian, Or. 20.12)
The "Florovsky Symposium" is an annual tradition started by a scholarly society at Princeton University. Having chosen the theme of asceticism, the organizing committee is grateful to hold this year's proceedings at St. Tikhon's Monastery, the oldest Orthodox Christian monastery in America.
Please join us for an evening and day of lectures, discussion, fellowship, and prayer. The Florovsky Symposium attracts scholars, clergy, and laity from around the world who are interested in combining serious scholarly inquiry with faithfulness to the Tradition of the Church.
This Year's Theme
What part does the ascetical cultivation of body and soul play in theologizing rightly? What is the relationship between direct experience of God and the indirect knowledge of him through study of nature and of scripture and other inspired texts? How much should terms and concepts formulated by human philosophy be applied to the articulation of divinely revealed truth?
We will be asking these and other related questions in lectures and discussion.
We will be asking these and other related questions in lectures and discussion.
This Year's Featured Speakers
The plenary speakers are:
- Hieromonk Nikolai Sakharov (Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Essex, England), Elder Sophrony Sakharov as an ascetic theologian
- Mary Ford (St. Tikhon's Seminary), Revelation, asceticism, and biblical interpretation
- Brian Dunkle, S.J. (Boston College), St. Ambrose as an ascetic bishop and theologian
- Nicholas Marinides (Holy Cross School of Theology), Lay asceticism in the Fathers
Giving Your Own Short Paper
The organizing committee also invites abstracts for concurrent short paper presentations from advanced graduate students and established scholars (deadline of January 20). Please download and read the full "Call for Papers" before submitting your abstract.
The symposium will begin at 7 PM on Friday, February 24 with a keynote lecture by Hieromonk Nikolai Sakharov. Refreshments will follow. The proceedings will begin again at 9 AM on Saturday, February 25 (after the Divine Liturgy is celebrated) and end around 3:45 PM. A light continental breakfast and lunch will be served on Saturday.
Space is limited and registration is required. The fee is $30, which includes refreshments, continental breakfast, lunch, and program tuition.
Overnight lodging is not included, but recommendations and a group rate at an area hotel will be available soon.


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Based in Longmont, Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley has built 52 homes locally and 76 internationally. Our homes are sold to qualified family partners at cost with zero-percent interest mortgages. As homeowners repay their mortgage, the funds are invested into building more homes for deserving families. We select homeowner families based on their need for adequate shelter, their ability to pay for a Habitat home, and their willingness to partner with Habitat for Humanity, including taking financial and homeownership classes. All homeowners contribute "sweat equity"; they work in partnership with the affiliate and other volunteers, contributing up to 500 hours of volunteer service.
Mission: Since 1988, Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley has been building simple, decent, affordable homes for those in need throughout our community.
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Viewers will apparently be able to vote to select American Idol 10's finalists online, two reports and a Twitter page reveal. Executive producer Nigel Lythgoe previously revealed that the semi-final rounds would be dropped, and this news explains how the show will go from hundreds in Hollywood to 15 finalists. (Yes, 15.)
A Twitter account for "AI 10 Contestants" says "Voting begins Thursday, February 24 at ATT.com/Idol", as the blog AI Now noticed. That ATT.com URL doesn't work, but interestingly, it redirects to a directory on their server (/entertainment/idol/) that is not yet accessible and/or live.
Vote for the Worst reported last week and added to its report yesterday to say that viewers will select the top 12 finalists, who will be joined by three wildcard picks, from around 40 or 50 people who will be featured during the Hollywood episodes. The site's tipster describes the beginning of the season like this:
"The online voting will take place at AT&T's website. Auditions will take place for the first 6 episodes (California, Nashville, Milwaukee, New Jersey, Austin, New Orleans in that order). There will then be 5 Hollywood episodes, a live voting kick off episode that highlights the eligible contestants, a reveal episode to announce the top 12, and a wildcard episode to let 3 more people into the finals. The online voting may stay in place until the finals are down to 12."


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Big Sean has consistently been dedicated to both properly and proudly repping his hometown of Detroit and giving back to the Motor City. He's done this with everything from consistent song shoutouts and naming a mixtape Detroit to building a studio at his high school alma mater and founding the Sean Anderson Foundation. But now he's taking that commitment to Detroit's neighbor.
With the help of CrowdRise, Sean has started #HEALFLINTKIDS, which is raising money for the Community Foundation of Greater Flint Michigan's "Flint Child Health & Development Fund." There's no specific goal, but the baseline is a pretty solid one: Sean donated $10,000 to launch the initiative.
Flint's water supply has been contaminated by lead, causing a health crisis that has reportedly affected the city's children, who could face long-term effects.
"I am devastated by the water crisis that has put the entire city of Flint in a state of emergency," Sean said in a release. "In recognizing the great work that the Community Foundation of Greater Flint Michigan has been doing, it is my hope we can help by raising the money needed to ensure that the children who have been hit the hardest receive the care that they need today and well into the future."
But giving to the fund doesn't just mean helping a worthy cause -- five winners will also win two VIP tickets to Sean's upcoming tour, plus a meet-and-greet with the G.O.O.D. Music MC.
Sean joins Meek Mill, who donated 60,000 bottles of water to the city, as rappers take notice of the crisis.
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This week's Talent and HR News Weekly Update focuses on employees because, why not? Most of us are or have been an employee of somewhere, so these articles highlight the environment where employees work, relationships with employees, and recruiting employees. Enjoy!
1) 7 LinkedIn Tools for Recruiting New Employees from Entrepreneur
"In his book Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn for Business, search engine optimization and online marketing expert consultant Ted Prodromou explains how you can use LinkedIn to quickly engage with ideal customers, partners, and employees, showcase your company and attract new opportunities. In this edited excerpt, the author briefly describes the seven different ways you can use LinkedIn to attract new job applicants. LinkedIn offers a number of paid solutions for companies who do a lot of recruiting. Let's explore these options in more detail, so you can see how they can help you build a premier organization with the very best employees."
2) Closing the Deal: Create a Winning Environment from New Hampshire Union Leader
"Corporate culture is such an important element of successful companies and winning teams. It's also a major factor in how people grow, develop and succeed within an organization. When we think of corporate culture, we often think about the fun that takes place at work and the dynamics associated with day-to-day life in the office. But there's much more to it. Whenever I talk about culture in an organization, I sum it up in one sentence. Culture is all about creating an environment that fosters growth and gives people the opportunity to be successful. It's as simple as that. And when you have that, you have a winning culture."
3) The Surprising Perk Employees Want That Costs the Company Nothing from Entrepreneur
"Ping-pong tables, daily catered lunches and company happy hours grace many of today's startups. However, perks like these aren't as important to employees as employers might think. While no one is likely to turn down free food or a ping-pong challenge, there's one thing in particular employees value above fun work perks. Based on a recent 15Five survey of more than 1,000 workers nationwide, 81 percent of employees said they would rather join a company that values "open communication" than one that offers great perks such as free food, gym memberships and the like. What's more, the same survey found that only 15 percent of employees are satisfied with the quality of communication within their companies."
4) Is your trust factor slipping? 5 tips to increase employee trust from SmartBlog on Leadership
"Trust is a key element in all human interactions. Nowhere is it more important than in a work environment. Yet, often leaders pay little attention to how actions affect trust. If leaders aren't mindful of these actions, they can soon lose the trust of their employees. When that happens, teamwork, communications and performance suffer. Employee dissatisfaction, lower productivity and higher turnovers increase company costs. When leaders consciously strive to improve trust, they'll see an increase in communication. People will reveal more to you and you'll have greater insight into what's really happening in your organization. This will help your employees succeed."
Lexi Gordon is a Lead Consultant for exaqueo, a workforce consultancy that helps organizations build their cultures, employer brands and talent strategies. Contact exaqueo to learn more about how we can help you build a workforce that's aligned with your company culture and develop an employer brand that will allow your business to scale the right way.


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In a previous Q&A, you recommended renting an expensive lens such as the Nikon AF-S 200-400 mm f/4 ED VR II that sells for about $8000. But now, Nikon makes an AF-S 200-500 mm f/5.6 ED VR lens that costs only about $1600 and is smaller and lighter. I could justify buying that lens, but what are the drawbacks compared to the pricier telephoto?
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Well, Bogdan, the good news is that the more affordable and lighter (by over a kilogram) AF-S 200-500 mm lens is getting rave reviews. That's not surprising considering the three extra-low dispersion glass elements and the Super Integrated Coating. Like its larger counterpart, the new lens is equipped with the very fast Silent Wave AF motor, a tripod mounting collar and the latest Vibration Reduction stabilizer. It also extends to a longer focal length, and that can be a huge benefit with distant subjects. While the $8000 lens will produce even better, superlative image quality, the difference won't likely be an issue except for those who often need 24 x 36-inch prints or for professionals with demanding clients.
The AF-S 200-400 mm f/4 model does have some benefits, however, such as its even more rugged and weather-resistant construction. The most important advantage is the very wide maximum aperture of f/4 versus f/5.6. That allows for shooting at a fast shutter speed on overcast days or during indoor sports games with less need to set a higher ISO level where image quality may not be optimal. Also, with the f/4 lens, the effective maximum aperture is a still acceptably wide f/5.6 when using a 1.4x teleconverter versus f/8 when using the same accessory with the f/5.6 lens.
However, considering the price and size/weight, the AF-S 200-500 mm f/5.6 telephoto is an excellent value without too many compromises—a wise choice for numerous sports- and wildlife-photography enthusiasts.
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Welcome to Trinity!
We welcome all visitors and newcomers. At Trinity Church of Covington, Kentucky we encourage anyone who is looking for a new church home to give us a try - we think you'll like what you see and hear. We make every effort to make Trinity not just a place that you show up on Sunday, but a place where you can be part of a community. This website should help give you a good feel for who we are and what we do so you'll know a little bit before you walk in the door. If you have any questions before you come, please feel free to contact us ahead of time. We look forward to meeting you!
At Trinity, we not only welcome diversity of every kind – we celebrate it as one of our most deeply held core values. We are proud and prayerful in standing for equity and social justice. We openly defend those who are marginalized in our community and in the world, including LGBTQ people. We use our privilege as a strength from which to serve. We also welcome one another's differences, treat each other with dignity, and strive to be inclusive and balanced in all our activities.


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Baselworld 2015 new Horological Smartwatch
With a dial design completely « horological » and proposed with a silver finishing, the model is available with an refined polished stainless steel 42mm case. An alligator strap finishes the models for an elegant style, with a folding clasp for a more sporty version.
Displaying central hours and minutes hands, the « smart » counter is positioned at 6 o'clock. The small red hand indicates you the date during the day and will point out the moon during your sleep, while the small steel hand shows you the percentage of your activity or sleep goals. One of the main asset that you have to remember is that the battery life of these models is 2+ years.
With the introduction of these new Horological Smartwatch models, the Swiss Watch Manufacturer Frederique Constant has definitively managed to preserve its design spirit in offering a « real » Swiss watch, whcih has the addition smart feature to be connected.
Powered by MotionX®, the Frederique Constant Swiss Horological Smartwatches are capable of bi-directional communication with iPhone and Android apps. The Swiss Horological Smartwatch is the synthesis of high-tech innovation and traditional Swiss watch craftsmanship; it is the link (no pun intended) between modern and classic, and the bridge between Silicon Valley and Switzerland. There is no digital screen on the Swiss Horological Smartwatch. Instead, the beautiful laser cut hands on the watch dial display information in analog form. The Swiss Horological Smartwatches retain their natural classic beauty and can deliver the benefits of the quantified self, all without ever having to recharge a battery.
The Frederique Constant Swiss Horological Smartwatches will support the following functionalities:
- Always-on time & date
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- 2+ years battery life
- MotionX cloud backup and restore
Frederique Constant Swiss Horological Smartwatches: The beautiful Swiss watch that you love to wear that is now smart and connected, powered by MotionX®
The MotionX patented sensor-fusion engine tracks activity and sleep patterns with high accuracy. Activity and sleep information is presented in real-time on the Swiss Horological Smartwatch using beautiful traditional analog dials. The Frederique Constant Swiss Horological Smartwatch synchronizes automatically with applications on Apple and Android smartphones. On the iOS and Android apps, simple and easy-to-understand graphics highlight how much one has moved and slept during the day, week, or month. This data will assist users to better understanding themselves, and along with appropriate goal setting and intelligent coaching, will improve their well being. Better sleep and a more active lifestyle are widely recognized as simple, but effective, positive behavioral changes. The Frederique Constant Swiss Horological Smartwatch now combines the features and functionality of the MotionX technology platform with a luxury timepiece.
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Secretary of State Jesse White, and mayoral hopeful Rahm Emanuel will also be on hand.
About 1,000 Chicagoans will attend the event, which benefits the 55 Alive after-school program. The whole shindig is organized by the Otis Wilson Foundation, which works to help at-risk youth.
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While until Friday, there was no huge story [or sometimes scandal], it had plenty of interesting items.
Former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort will plead guilty to two charges, special counsel Robert Mueller's office said. Manafort will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy against the US and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice due to attempts to tamper with witnesses Trump tweeted the week of Manafort's conviction in his Virginia trial last month saying "'Justice' took a 12 year old tax case, among other things, applied tremendous pressure on him and, unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to 'break' – make up stories in order to get a 'deal.' Such respect for a brave man!" Will he deny he said that now? Unknown if Manafort will cooperate with the special counsel's office in the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Not surprising the White House has denied Manafort has anything to do with Trump winning the 2016 election.
Since we know how Trump is, it isn't surprising that Trump used the platform to launch a fresh round of assaults on the FBI and Justice Department during the 9/11 anniversary.
Rep. Mark Meadows sent to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein a letter alleging a "systemic culture of media leaking" among high-ranking Justice Department and FBI officials. The letter reveals previously undisclosed messages between Strzok and Page, who were involved in both the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and the probe of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. Not surprising Meadows didn't prove that "high-ranking" officials were involved.
Continuing with the Bob Woodward book "Fear: Trump in the White House", as Trump threatened to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement, a letter signaling that intent sat on his desk, only to be quietly removed by Gary Cohn, the chief economic adviser in the White House, Woodward said. Trump didn't even remember writing the letter [i.e. "Where is that letter?" or in the case of this administration "Who stole my letter?"].
Woodward said Chief of Staff John Kelly was similarly distraught when Trump drafted a tweet threatening to remove all US military personnel from South Korea. Trump was convinced not to send out the tweet in part after Secretary of Defense James Mattis told him those personnel are there "in order to prevent World War III," according to the book.
Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged in an interview that his father can trust fewer people around him [outside of family] than he would like in the wake of an anonymous commentary claiming there is a "resistance" within the Trump administration.
Trump still doesn't believe the numbers that died in Puerto Rico last year. "3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000," he said in a tweet.
He then tweeted "This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!" he wrote. Yes. Over 2900 people died of old age right after Maria. "Raising" billions? The government gave billions. The governor of Puerto Rico is a Democrat. Get it?
Of course [among other things] he is forgetting [or refusing to believe] that [for example] people died from drowning or maybe were in isolated areas of the island where it took rescuers days if not weeks or months to find or report additional deaths. Maybe in his mind, anything after a cut off date isn't a death related to Maria.
Even House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican, said in response to a question about Trump's assertion that "Casualties don't make a person look bad, so I have no reason to dispute these numbers." Slightly jabbing Trump there.
Trump still refuses to accept any blame for the relief effort following Puerto Rico's monster storm last year. He insisted the operation had been "incredibly successful," despite shocking new figures putting the death toll at nearly 3,000. He tweeted "We got A Pluses for our recent hurricane work in Texas and Florida…." Exactly who graded his administration's work? How about there is still a trickle of people in Puerto Rico.
His visit to Texas to assess conditions after Hurricane Harvey was criticized because of his upbeat rhetoric that at times seemed more in keeping with a political campaign than a relief effort.
Trump warned that upcoming storm, Hurricane Florence, would be "tremendously big and tremendously wet" and that the government was sparing "no expense" and was "totally prepared." We'll see.
"I think Puerto Rico was incredibly successful. Puerto Rico was actually our toughest one of all because it's an island. You can't truck things onto it. Everything is by boat," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. He got something right. Puerto Rico is an island but how about airplanes?
Democratic Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is running for a House of Representatives seat from New York, tweeted "The 1 year anniversary of Hurricane Maria is next week. Some of my PR family JUST got power a few weeks ago. People are developing respiratory issues partly due to airborne fungal spores from lack of proper cleanup."
The emergency supplies were brought in by FEMA in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which smashed the island and left its residents without power, without roofs and without running water. And yet in Ceiba, there are 20,000 pallets of bottled water sitting there. Brought in after Maria but never used even though people on the island lacked drinking water. But the current administrator of Puerto Rico's General Services Administration claims that after about 700 pallets had been distributed, complaints began to come in about the water's foul smell and taste. Were they tested?
"John Kerry had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the American people," Trump tweeted. "He told them to wait out the Trump Administration!" This was after former Secretary of State Kerry has been holding some talks with the Iranian regime.
Even current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was briefed by Kerry on his conversations with Iranian officials so he would be aware of Iran's thinking and [probably to please his boss] Pompeo said "What Secretary Kerry has done is unseemly and unprecedented." And then added "actively undermining US policy as a former secretary of state is literally unheard of." Undermining?
Like Secretary of States before Kerry, they still visited other countries to help their country especially when they have good relations. As for Trump, we know he knows nothing about the law. So what was illegal? And I gather Kerry never said anything about waiting until Trump is shown the curb.
As a reminder, after Trump's election but before he became president and took office, his transition team was accused of reaching out to the governments of both Israel and Russia to undermine Obama administration policies.
As of this week, there are 12,800 immigrant children being cared for by the Health and Human Services Department. That's the most ever, an HHS spokeswoman confirmed. In 2016, the monthly average of the number of children in care ranged from just over 4,000 to over 9,000. The rate of children being released from HHS has plummeted substantially. At the same time, the average length of time children stay in custody is skyrocketing.
Maybe adding to the NAFTA trade negotiations is potatoes. US potato growers complaining that Canadian growers are dumping cheap potatoes in the US. Canadian growers say it is just the exchange rate. Maybe expect Trump to add some tariffs on potatoes because it is a national security issue. Potato launchers?
For a good laugh, in her book "Mad Politics: Keeping Your Sanity in a World Gone Crazy," Gina Loudon, who describes herself as a member of the "Donald Trump for President Media Advisory Board," said "My book actually uses science and real data and true psychological theory to explain why it is quite possible that this president in the most sound-minded person to ever occupy the White House."
Her book, ranked no. 436,949 in Amazon's bestsellers rank as of early Friday, refers to her as "America's favorite psychological expert." "The writing is turgid, which is amazing for a book written at the 6th grade level," wrote one reviewer on Amazon.
Her website says she has a PhD. but it doesn't say in what field. But Loudon obtained her PhD in "human and organizations systems" from Fielding Graduate University, an online school headquartered in Santa Barbara plus a certification in "Body Language Interpretation, and Hypnotherapy."
Trump tweeted about an article from August 31, when Ford announced that it was canceling plans to make the Focus Active, a compact crossover, in China and ship them to the United States by saying "This is just the beginning. This car can now be BUILT IN THE U.S.A. and Ford will pay no tariffs!"
Wrong. "It would not be profitable to build the Focus Active in the U.S. given an expected annual sales volume of fewer than 50,000 units," Ford said. So Trump was thinking that Ford would make the car in the US but Ford is actually stopping production of the car to be shipped to the US because Trump's tariffs would make the cars too expensive. The car is still made in Europe.
Native American tribes in Montana and South Dakota say the Trump administration approved the Keystone XL oil pipeline without fully considering its potential damage to burial grounds and other cultural sites according to a lawsuit.
"I mean, the truth is I think President Donald Trump is the most accomplished President of my lifetime, and I think already one of the most successful presidents in American history." This coming from Vice President Mike Pence. He's been drinking that strange Kool-Aid.
A guy now known as "Plaid shirt guy" was escorted out of a Trump Montana rally. He wasn't enthusiastic even though he was supposed to as he was standing just to the left of Trump behind him.
All he made was funny faces – sort of like saying "serious" or "what". He was escorted off the stage and was briefly held and questioned by the Secret service.
In two different rallies in the west, Trump was changing his stories. In Indiana, he claimed nine muscular men – eight crying – greeted him and were miners.
But then in South Dakota, Trump claimed nine big muscular men came to him, eight crying, to meet him. But this time they were steel workers – not miners and happened at a United States Steel plant and not at a rally in Indiana. Trump also seems to like "crying" in his fake stories and even used crying in calling politician names.
Trump claimed that multiple Korean War parents of soldiers [read that again a few times] begged him to get their sons' remains released by North Korea.
Noticed the problem? Those parents would probably be at least 100 years old. So he changed the story and now said it was the children of the soldiers and they were crying.
Commenting about how much he loves [sarcastically] some news outlets, Trump said "The New York Times would not exist" without him. Then he said the New York Times and "CNN and other phone media outlets will be out of business" in 6.5 years when he is out of the White House.
Trump signed an executive order meant to punish foreign entities for interfering in US elections, an attempt to demonstrate muscle on an issue he's been accused of downplaying. The order will allow new sanctions against Russian or other foreign actors. Experts say it's redundant because only he can approve sanctions.
"Today's announcement by the administration recognizes the threat, but does not go far enough to address it…." wrote Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Florida and Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland. The two lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require such mandatory sanctions earlier this year.
Trump's national security adviser John Bolton denied that harsh reaction to Trump's Helsinki meeting with Putin was partly what spurred the decision to sign the new order. OK. So why take 3 months to sign it?
JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said and then backtracked that he could beat Trump in an election. He isn't running. "I can't beat the liberal side of the Democratic Party." He added: "I'm as tough as he is, I'm smarter than he is. I would be fine. He could punch me all he wants, it wouldn't work with me…. And by the way, this wealthy New Yorker actually earned his money," he said, referring to himself. "It wasn't a gift from Daddy."
A group called Make Integrity Great Again tried to block Trump's Washington hotel from renewing its alcohol license from Washington's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. MIGA seized upon DC regulations to assert Trump is not of "good character" and therefore should not be able to sell alcoholic beverages at the Trump International Hotel. They failed. Hotel has the license still. There was an "an alleged sale-to-minor violation" but not enough to revocation, only a fine or warning.
On his 601st day in office, Trump broke what many people might have assumed was an unbreakable barrier: He said his 5,000th thing that was either totally false or partially untrue. That's according to the count at The Washington Post's Fact Checker blog. The number has more than doubled in the past 500 days, averaging just over 4 falsehoods in the first 100 days.
On September 7th alone, he hit 125 falsehoods and in a 10 day period [including the 7th], he averaged 32 per day.
Eight major recent polls [including ABC News/Washington Post, Gallup, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Quinnipiac University] show that Trump's approval has dropped over 2% from the previous pools from each of them on the average. Now a combined average of 347.8% approval.
Special counsel Robert Mueller's approval rating for handling the Russia investigation stands at 50% in a new Poll conducted by SSRS. That outpaces Trump's approval rating on the matter by 20 points. In the last 3 months, Mueller has gone up 9%, Trump has gone up 1%.
In the same poll, 47% think Trump should be impeached and removed from office while 48% don't feel that way.
72% say they think Trump should testify under oath for Mueller if asked. Among the 23% who say Trump shouldn't testify, about half feel that way because they think the President has no obligation to do so, while a third think that testifying could be a perjury trap.


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A CHINESE student has stunned family and friends by holding her own funeral while she's alive to see 'what people think of her' and to 'enjoy it'.
Zeng Jia paid for a full service along with flowers, photographers that was attended by mourners who walked past her while she was in a coffin.
The 22-year-old spent an hour lying in the casket with a Hello Kitty doll on her chest before getting up to join in at her own wake.
Zeng said: "It struck me that people spend all that time and effort on someone when they are gone and they cannot appreciate it.
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