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Our First Look At The 'Will & Grace' Revival Is Finally Here
The Will & Grace reunion is officially a thing, and we finally have our first look at the gang in 2017. Talk about a ~hashtag blessed~ Monday.
In a photo shared by Karen Walker, we mean Megan Mullally, the cast were seen sitting in their chairs in full character, and we're happy to report that not much has changed since we last saw them in 2006.
Karen is still rocking the casual martini, while Jack (Sean Hayes) is sporting his typical shirt, jeans and joggers combo. Grace (Debra Messing) looked ready for a "honey what is this? what are you wearing?" from Karen as she donned a vibrant red frock, and Will (Eric McCormack) kept things simple in a dark grey suit.
Ladies and gentleman, they're back:
"I literally am giddy," Debra told CNN on Saturday. "I never imagined it would have been possible 11 years later for us to reunite. But now that it's happening it's just very, very right. It's been a stressful year and I want to make people laugh, and I think more than anything that's what we are all feeling right now, is we want to make people laugh."
"It was the first of it's kind," Messing said of the hit series. "It was really the magic of the writers who were able to endear the characters to the audience. Their sexuality was a secondary thought and I think that was revolutionary at the time ... This was about four people living their lives and being silly and fun, and I think it was quietly revolutionary."
As for how the show plans to continue on, after the series finale ended with a broken friendship and a flash forward to the future, Debra said:
"I know, I know, I asked the same question. I was reassured that they have it all figured out and I was told it's in present day. I'll read the scripts end of July, we start shooting August 4 and then we are on in September."
The team recently reunited in 2016 for a short skit about the upcoming election, in which they encouraged voters not to choose Donald Trump. We don't imagine the US President will be supporting the re-booted sitcom, though it involves powerful women and gay men so, you know, he *probably* wasn't a fan in the first place.
Will & Grace, we're so excited to have you back!


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It is Warrior Wednesday: If You Hate Your Job, It May Be Making You Sick? Find Out Why & How... "One Event can Change Your Life Forever! Could this be it?" ~ Dr. Princess Fumi Hancock
It is Monday morning or Tuesday or Wednesday and your alarm clock ticktock its way into your dreamland...time to get up and be ready for work. Yet, you lay in that bed looking at the clock, wishing that the time would just turn back because the truth be told, you really do not want to go to that place of work.
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Welcome aboard the boredom ship! You are not alone! "Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days." ― Zig ZiglarIf you hate your job, you are not alone! In 2013, Forbes released results of employee polls, which they did worldwide. According to the Gallup reports released that year, there are twice as many "actively disengaged" workers in the world as there are "engaged" workers who love their jobs. When they polled 25 million employees in 189 in different countries, 13 % of the workers feel engaged by their jobs! They defined "feeling engage" as having a sense of passion for their work, a deep connection to their employer, and as such spend their days driving innovation to move the company forward. 63% are "not engaged", meaning they are unhappy but not drastically so. They regarded themselves as "checked out" and sleep walk through their days, and putting little energy into their work. In addition, 87% of workers worldwide who are emotionally disconnected from their workplaces are less likely to be productive (Forbes.com).
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Welcome Back to Walnut Street!
These photos are from the Welcome Back to Walnut Street event in Des Moines, that I attended recently. This event is an effort of the Downtown Community Alliance with help from Mickey Davis, project manager at Des Moines Social Club, to introduce the public to the redevelopment efforts within Walnut street. There were pop-up shops, food trucks, live music, a pop-up gallery that I was happy to be a part of (my display is the third image from the top), and a collaborative art making space featuring local artist Jon Pearson and his work. I was really intrigued by this idea of collaborative art. Basically, the artist put up signs around this slightly enclosed space off to the side of the street the invited the public to participate in art making. There were various panels set up inside the space with a variety of media spread out on a table for public use. It was interesting to see how others interacted with these panels. My boyfriend even contributed to a couple panels, and it was a lot of fun seeing the work transform in front of your eyes from various contributions. I really love the idea of collaboration and this just hit the spot. It is a fantastic idea, and I hope it happens again and more often.
Oh, and of course we had some amazing tacos from the Taco Loco truck.
If you are in or around the Des Moines area, you should try to make it to one of these events! It's amazing how much this city is growing and changing.
Additional Welcome Back to Walnut Street events will be held on Walnut Street from 11:00 AM – 2:00PM on the following dates:
July 19, between Sixth and Seventh streets
Aug. 16, between Seventh and Eighth streets
Sept. 13, between Fifth and Sixth streets
PS China pictures will come soon. There are just so many to go through! Hold tight.
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Funny Business readers know how I feel about press releases sent to me which are either far outside the field of business news ("We are reaching out to gauge your interest in visiting the Caribbean island of Curaçao in 2011"), or lacking pizzazz ("Northrop GrummanDelivers 20,000th LN-200 Inertial Measurement Unit").
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Perched on a bend of the Saugatuck River, this new modern 2,400 sf cottage engages the natural landscape both visually and audibly. With vast amounts of floor-to-ceiling glass and very few opaque walls, the distinction between inside and out is intentionally blurred. Terraces and the roof, prominently seen from the approach to the house, are planted with year-round flowering succulents and moss. This cottage is all about the views (well, and the owners' art collection) and how the light and transparency informs the spaces.
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Compared with Manon or Giselle, Sleeping Beauty doesn't offer its dancers much of an interpretative range: its lovers Aurora and Florimund are too sweetly, too purely the fairytale prince and princess. Yet individual dancers can still impose a stylistic, even moral, tone on the ballet, and there's been much speculation in recent weeks about what kind of Aurora Natalia Osipova would dance when she made her debut in the role.
Unfortunately, that debut has been postponed by injury. But this week the Royal Ballet has fielded two new casts which have each created their own intriguing alchemy with the ballet, each boasting unexpectedly impressive turns.
In the first production I saw, the company looked to have found one of the great Auroras in Akane Takada. Physically tiny, she dances with a thrilling ballerina reach, but using the power of her supple, expressive back to stretch a legato phrase so that it shimmers mid-air. Most engagingly, she gives Aurora an inner world: her eyes and hands in constant, eloquent dialogue with the stage around her.
If Takada makes us believe in Beauty, so does her Prince. From his five years with English National ballet, we know Vadim Muntagirov to be an exemplary partner, as well as a dancer of elegant clarity. But, making his debut with the Royal, he creates a startlingly effective character out of the dutiful Florimund, his bred in-the-bone hauteur softened by a Romantic melancholy. Muntagirov looks and dances like a man in love.
Matthew Golding, recently arrived at the Royal from Dutch National Ballet and playing Florimund in the second production I watched, could take lessons. Golding has a handsome technique but he lacks nuance. While it was tough for him, having rehearsed the ballet with Osipova, to perform with a last-minute replacement, his Aurora, Yuhui Choe, appeared radiantly unfazed by the challenge.
She sailed through the Rose Adagio balances, shaping each with musicality and style. In the Vision Scene she was a palely exquisite wraith. If a ballerina can be judged on her ability to command the stage under any circumstance, Choe should be promoted to principal now.
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It's officially summertime and the season for outdoor activities is upon us. Oklahoma City has parks, swimming pools and playgrounds. But what does OKC have that no other city has to offer? The Oklahoma City Boathouse District (or, OKCBHD for short). If you haven't made your way down to the north shore of the Oklahoma River to experience RIVERSPORT Adventures, you gotta check it out!
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Everything you've just seen is right here in downtown Oklahoma City. And there is so much more to come. Later this year, a 700-foot zip line will be installed taking you from the top of the Sky Trail across (yes, across) the Oklahoma River and back. A surf park will soon be added to the SandRidge Energy Youth Pavilion and the MAPS3 whitewater course is expected to be complete in 2015.
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Nick Offerman plays urinating drunk in punk act's new video
TV and film star NICK OFFERMAN will appear in punk act FIDLAR's new video as a drunk man urinating all over Los Angeles.
The Parks & Recreation and 21 Jump Street star wears a prosthetic penis which he cannot keep in his pants in the promo for new song Cocaine.
Offerman, whose inebriated character relieves himself off bridges, at the car wash and in a park in the hilarious video, often performs comedy and music gigs with Fidlar guitarist Elvis Kuehn, who persuaded the funnyman to take part in the promo.
Frontman Brandon Schwartzel tells The Hollywood Reporter, "Nick actually came up with the initial idea - this idea of him getting drunk. And we all developed it into him getting drunk and p**sing all over Los Angeles.
"Actually, that prosthetic was the whole budget! It was, like, two grand or something. We got it made by this prop guy that Nick knew. It looked amazing. We were all checking it out, holding it, and everything."


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Cafe Love brings raw vegan concept to Durham, takeout only for now
After three years of delivering prepared raw foods to people's homes with their Triangle Raw Food Truck, and expanding their fan base at local Whole Foods Markets, Jane Howard Crutchfield and Matthew Daniels have taken the next step. After a trial run last week, the partners have opened Cafe Love, a restaurant to showcase their wholesome fare.
Well, sort of. It's a tiny restaurant, and for the time being there's no indoor seating. According to Crutchfield, the partners didn't learn until they were halfway through the permitting process that the bathroom door is too narrow to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Pending widening of the doorframe, the restaurant is officially takeout only, though Crutchfield points out that there's a nice outdoor seating area beside Doyle's Sports Bar in the same building.
Dine in or takeout, the menu tempts with a global palette of flavors from cucumber-dill gazpacho to sweet potato sushi to green tacos to falafel with tzatziki. Even if you throw in a couple of sides (Asian kale, Indian carrot paté), you'll no doubt still feel virtuous enough to splurge on dessert. Strawberry cashew cheesecake, say, or a "Chocolate Jungle" peanut butter bar.
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French court upholds decision to strip jihadist of citizenship
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France's top court on Friday dismissed a legal challenge to a ruling that stripped a French-Moroccan jihadist of French citizenship after he was convicted on terror-related charges, a hot-button legal issue in the wake of attacks in Paris.
The Conseil Constitutionnel, France's top legal body, dismissed a legal challenge by Ahmed Sahnouni's lawyer, saying the decision to revoke his French citizenship was lawful.
Sahnouni, a Moroccan naturalised by France in 2003, was sentenced to seven years in jail in March 2013 for his role in a terrorist organisation and stripped of his citizenship in May last year.
His lawyer had argued that the move breached the equality between French-born citizens and those who are naturalised, and was thus unconstitutional.
The lawyer claimed that Article 25 of France's civil code, which states that naturalised French citizens can be stripped of their nationality if found guilty of "acts of terrorism", does not conform with France's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Article 6 of the Declaration says the law "must be the same for everyone, whether it protects or punishes".
In its ruling on Friday, the Conseil constitutionnel said "the difference in treatment (of French-born and naturalised citizens) instituted with the aim of combating terrorism does not violate the principle of equality", adding that "the punishment is manifestly not disproportionate relative to the gravity of the acts".
The case now heads back to the Conseil d'État, which acts both as legal adviser of the French government and as the supreme court for administrative justice. Legal experts say the Conseil is likely to give final approval to the move.
Expelled, but where to?
If Sahnouni's nationality is definitively revoked, French authorities will still have to find a legal way to deport him.
France does not extradite its nationals, but it could ask the Paris Court of Appeals to approve Sahnouni's extradition to Morocco once he is stripped of his citizenship.
Morocco has requested his extradition in the past, but it is unclear whether it will repeat its request in the present context of diplomatic tensions between the two countries. Paris and Rabat suspended legal cooperation in February 2014.
Should Morocco refuse the extradition, the decision to expel Sahnouni would go before the Conseil d'État, though it is not clear where he would be sent.
Only eight French citizens have been stripped of their nationality since the move became legal in 1998, according to parliamentary sources quoted by Reuters news agency.
"Of course, this only applies to dual nationals, since nobody can be made stateless," said FRANCE 24's international affairs editor, Armelle Charrier.
Following the deadly attacks on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a kosher store earlier this month, opposition lawmakers have called for urgent measures to make it easier to strip terrorists of their nationality.
According to an Ifop poll published last week, 81 percent of French people support measures to strip French citizenship from dual nationals who have committed terrorist attacks in France.


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Violent lyrics bragging about gang life were written by the teenager who knifed to death schoolboy Negus McLean on a north London street, it has emerged in court.
Tershan Edwards' lyrics boasting about carrying weapons in public and threatening to stab victims in the neck were read out at his Old Bailey trial for murder.
Edwards was jailed for life for killing McLean, 15, in Enfield, in 2011.
The killing happened during a "postcode war" between the Get Money Gang, of which Edwards was a member, and Dem Africans, to which McLean was linked.
Both gangs were located on different sides of the same London borough.
Edwards' boastful lyrics showed how the 19-year-old was not living in the real world, said Judge John Bevan, who sentenced the teenager to life with a minimum of 19 years in jail.
"You feel able to operate in some sort of parallel universe in which robbery, theft, drugs and violence are acceptable," he told Edwards, of St Albans.
Also jailed were gang leader Brandon Hamilton, 18, Billal Lariba, 18, and Travis Bowman, 16.
Edwards' verse is part-confessional and partly a puffed-up imitation of violent gangsta-rap lyrics:
"GMG all day brudda that's the set/ When you come thru my hood better show some respect/ Or my little Youngaz will push a blade through your neck/ Stab a man up then ask who's next.
"When I ride out no gun just my samuri/ I'll chop him his head until he f****** dies/ They stabbed me up once but they can't stab me f****** twice/ Ima stab him in the back leave him f****** paralysed.
"Went way for a bit back with a f****** bang/ I'm gmg fam that's my f****** gang.
"She told me she knows the real me f*** this gang sh**/ I told her my life was full of pain so I bang sticks.
"I was only 12 years old when I got my first shift/ Only 13 when I started bunning on a spliff/ At 14 I tried to wisen up a little bit/ But at 15 I was with my shank on the strip.
"Riding around reckless I showed no respect/ If a n***** try diss we stab him in the neck.
"Thought all my n****** was real then I clocked fakes/ Thought all my n****** wouldn't tell then I clocked snakes/ Thought I could do what I want then I clocked jakes.
"Out come like they all, want me f****** dead/ Word is I got a lot of money on my head/ But that sh** make a man of me/ F*** the gang banging its all about family."


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Tuesday saw our brief interview with Magnus Skatvold and Håvard Gosse from Spætt Film. During that interview, they gave us a few film suggestions.
Here they are, suggestions from the top of the film food chain!
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash, and two antique shotguns.
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
Norske Byggeklosser (1972)
This film is well known for its lead actor, Rolv Wesenlund, playing nine different roles. The story follows a married couple Ingrid and Olav Femte meets unforeseen troubles and bureaucracy when they build a new house. A hopeless and hilarious run-in with the system.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
The classic band of heroes discovers the origins of the Ooze, the substance which made them mutate from regular turtles to teenage mutant ones, came from. Unfortunately their arch nemesis and supreme baddie, Shredder learns about it too and uses it to enhance himself. So the turtles have to prove again who's the better ninja fighter.
Fargo follows the journey of Jerry, who works in his father-in-law's car dealership and has gotten himself into a spot of financial problems. He tries various schemes to come up with some money. When all that fails, he sets in motion a plan for two men to kidnap his wife for ransom to be paid by her wealthy father. From the moment of the kidnapping, things go very, very wrong and what was supposed to be a non-violent affair turns bloody. This violence turns loose a pregnant sheriff from Brainerd, MN who is tenacious in her attempts to solve the three murders in her jurisdiction
Apocolypse Now
One of the most iconic films ever produced, Apocolypse Now is set during the Vietnam War. Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.
After having a nervous breakdown, skier Jomar has isolated himself in a lonely existence as the guard of a ski park. Later on, he learns that he might be the father of a child, he sets out on a strange and poetic journey through Norway on a snowmobile, with 5 liters of alcohol as his only means of sustenance. His journey takes him through jaw-dropping arctic landscapes, but on the way, Jomar seems to do everything possible to avoid reaching his destination. He meets other tender and confused souls, who will all contribute to pushing Jomar further along his reluctant journey towards the brighter side of life.
Oslo 31 August
One day in the life of a young, recovering drug addict who takes a brief leave from his rehabilitation treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.
Two competitive friends, fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, endure the pangs of love, depression and burgeoning careers.


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From sea to shining sea, Americans love the beach.
The average citizen hangs out on an ocean shore, Great Lake or river about 10 days a year, according to a federal estimate. And the money they spend is crazy, nearly $6 trillion in 2007, 85 percent of all tourism revenue, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
But money doesn't always buy happiness at the beach. About 3.5 million people each year get sick enough to throw up or get diarrhea after splashing in water containing harmful bacteria, according to an Environmental Protection Agency estimate. This is why environmentalists are criticizing the Obama administration's proposal this month to cut all funding for states to monitor contamination at beaches starting in 2013.
The president's budget request has a long way to go before passing, but "if it goes through, the states are going to have a tough choice: cut back the number of beaches they monitor or find state revenue to cover their efforts," said Jon Devine, an attorney for the water program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, or NRDC.
"I find it hard to speculate about how it might play out, but ... fewer instances of monitoring and less frequent monitoring," Mr. Devine said. "The beach may well be open, but the states will be less well equipped to provide more current information."
The Environmental Protection Agency, which has given about $110 million to states under the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act since its passage in 2000, defended the budget cut as the right decision in austere times.
Beach monitoring is important, but after 12 years of funding, states now have the technical expertise to go it alone and continue testing "without federal support," EPA spokesman Brendan Gilfillan said in a statement. Last year that support totaled $10 million.
Except there's one problem, said Steve Fleischli, a senior attorney at the NRDC: States, which are also cutting budgets, don't have the money.
California, which received $507,000 for testing this year, would be forced to reduce water quality testing that's already been dramatically scaled back by government austerity cuts, officials there said. The state reaps about $11 billion yearly from beach tourism.
Virginia relies on its $273,000 in federal funding for all testing on its 75-mile coast, so cutting it would have an impact, officials said. Virginia's ocean economy generated $5 billion, according to the NOEP.
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It would seem like there is a new look that the Municipality is pursuing for the
Port Stanley beach. It seems that the this look is like a revolving door, and changes
every five years or so. Last time the reasons for the change had labels like Shoreplan
Engineering's Beach Dune Management Plan for Port Stanley's main beach, and the
public was informed of these necessary changes at a public meeting in May 2010.
The Plan had some public opposition to these changes that would drastically change
the Port Stanley Main Beach landscape, but, according to one of those costly studies,
we were told that this was all necessary because our beach was considered a dynamic
beach hazard.
It's hard to tell exactly in what direction that the Municipality is taking in
this new round of landscape changes to Port Stanley's Main Beach, but forming an
opinion right now would indicate that were going to get a clean and level look,
free of all that costly natural sand dune grass that took years to grow just right,
and a smooth level ground that could even get park benches for visitors taking in
the view. But with opinions, it's hard to get it right, so to make it easier to
see where this might go, some reflection on how we got what we had is a good place
to start.
Port Stanley's main beach, under provincial policy statements, was considered a
dynamic beach hazard which could not be developed unless certain standards were
followed. Shoreplan Engineering was also the company that signed off on the development
that now sits adjacent to main beach, with the homes on 5 foot stilts to protect
them from flooding.
Although the study says their recommendations are consistent with the provincial
policy statement, when asked, the engineer could not state what specific sections
of the provincial policy statement justify the establishment of dunes.
In a surprise move early on in the meeting, Mayor Tom Marks said he would go on
the record as not being in favour of building new dunes on the beach.
This was a radically different position than the one he expressed at the Council
meeting of November 25, 2008 when he said: "Just to clarify, the area we're talking
about is our beach, isn't it?" ["Yes," responded Mayor Hofhuis.] " ... and even
if we wanted to put a dune there 300 feet high, we could..." This is also a different
position than the one he stated at the Council meeting of August 24, 2009: "We're
looking at twelve to fifteen thousand dollars here, and if we start this we've spent
the money; and if we four or five months from now get overwhelmed by people challenging
us on it, and if we're going to back off, maybe we shouldn't do it today, otherwise
we're going to have fifteen to twenty thousand dollars worth of egg on our face.
I think we really need to make sure we have the political will to see this through
because it's not going to be popular. It wasn't popular last time."
Residents wanted to know who on Council or staff kept bringing this issue back and
what their real agenda was. More than one person asked if Council could unilaterally
act to build dunes on the beach whether residents liked it or not. Specifically,
they wanted to know how such unilateral action could be justified in terms of the
New Official Plan which calls for public consultation and public input on such decisions.
Deputy Mayor David Marr said Council could act unilaterally but would
not likely do so. Mayor Marks said to do so would be political suicide. Mayor Marks
asked the other members of Council present to declare right then whether they were
in favour of, or opposed to, building new dunes.
Councillor Sally Martyn said she wanted to proceed with the pilot project to see
what happens, to see if it stops the power of the waves from reaching the back shore,
and to try the fence to see if it limits the size of the dunes. Councillor Stephen
Carr said he wanted to protect the municipality's asset but would wait to see what
the rest of Council thought about it. Deputy Mayor David Marr did not think a public
meeting was the right place to discuss it or make such a declaration. Councillor
Russell Matthews noted he lived a long way from the beach and "if the water rolls
on to your front lawn, that's your problem." Although quite ill, he had attended
the meeting because he believed large numbers of the public would also attend it.
Councillor David Rock also thought a public meeting was not the appropriate place
to state a position and that there could be no answer from Council until they went
through their proper processes; however, he didn't see too much positive about building
new dunes.
Deputy Mayor David Marr said they were advised that the municipality might face
liability issues if they did not take flood control measures like dune creation
once they knew about them. When asked to produce a copy of that written legal opinion,
it turned out there was only a verbal opinion from the municipality's solicitor
and no written legal opinion on file. When the liability issue came up, Councillor
Rock noted that when the municipality had at one time considered no longer having
lifeguards at the beach, as a cost saving measure; had they taken away a service
once provided, they could have faced liability had anyone drowned once the lifeguards
were gone. They decided to keep the lifeguards.
It was noted by one resident that if the municipality stopped proactively grading
the entire beach, then not grooming it would passively achieve the same goal of
dune creation.
One issue not raised on the floor at the meeting was the liability
the municipality is quite likely to face for economic loss and property value loss
if they stop proactively grading the entire beach, taking away a service once provided;
or deliberately create new dunes and these result in a decline in tourism and economic
loss for the businesses in the village. That's a liability threat considerably more
likely and more immediate than a potential liability from a potential
Lake Erie flood uprush, as lawsuits of this nature were threatened the last time
the municipality considered creating new dunes and reducing the area groomed.
Even after reading up on what happened in the past, I think the only real opinion
that can be formed at this point in time without any real direction from the Municipality,
is to wait and see, and be happy that the Municipality is still working hard to
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The Promised Land beyond depressionPosted: August 28, 2013 Filed under: Health | Tags: Depression, hope, mental health, Promised Land, Sam Cooke 6 Comments
It's 50 years since Dr Martin Luther King Jr gave his 'I have a dream' speech in Washington, but another of his speeches has stuck in my mind as a beacon of hope as I've fought depression.
Here's an excerpt from it:
"… I've been to the mountaintop … And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land… I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man."
I've often referred to life beyond depression as my Promised Land – a place it's been a struggle to reach, but which I've never lost hope of discovering.
Here's something I wrote in May 2012, as I was emerging from depression and starting to feel better:
"I haven't reached my Promised Land yet, but I am hopeful that I will, and that it will be flowing with milk and honey. And maybe a cool beer. If your boat is still lurching about on the high seas, and the pirates have hijacked it, hold firm and set your course for the coast. We will be the winners in this swashbuckling adventure, and the riches shall be ours, me hearties."
Like Dr King, I feel like I have seen the Promised Land. In fact, I've marched down the other side of the mountain and have one foot on the green pastures. One obstacle remains for me – coming off my antidepressants. After a failed attempt earlier this year, I've gone from strength to strength and have reduced my dose almost – but not quite – as low as it can go. It feels good, and, to paraphrase Dr King, I'm not fearing anything. I feel sharp, alert, and back in control of what my brain is doing. I can enjoy my life again, and will never again take that feeling of enjoyment and happiness for granted.
When you're in the deep trough of depression, you feel like you will never get out. Even when you manage to take a few steps out of it, the path gets rocky, and you can easily stumble and fall. It seems never-ending. The sides of the trough are just too steep and treacherous. The light feels too far away.
All I can say is don't give up hope. I think one of my favourite singers, Sam Cooke, put it perfectly in his incredible song A Change Is Gonna Come. Written five years before Dr King's death, the song was about civil rights, but Cooke's words bring comfort and hope whatever your battle:
There've been times that I thought I couldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long, long time coming
But I know a change gonna come
For me, yes, it's been a long time coming, but that change has come. Next stop: the Promised Land.


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With childhood obesity reaching epidemic proportions, toys that get kids moving give the dual gift of joy and fitness. Here's a guide to some of this year's most popular active toys.
Even better: None of these require batteries.
• Pogo Sticks: The retro jumping toy is back in an assortment of styles and variations for different age groups. $20-$130 at Target, Sears, Toys R Us and backtobasicstoys.com.
• Freejumpers and Kickaroos are bouncy, springy devices that strap onto shoes. Sometimes called anti-gravity boots, they're available for ages 6 and older. $65-$180 at www.amazon.com, www.kickaroos.com and www.backtobasicstoys.com. Mega Mood Moon Hopz are another style of bouncy devices that strap onto shoes. In this version, the bouncy feature is inflatable. One size fits up to size 9 men's shoe; recommended for 7 and older. $34.99 at Toys R Us.
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• DVD Workout: Exploracise Gymathics DVD blends math facts with a 30-minute workout featuring such exercises as arm circles, jogging, jumping jacks and sit-ups. The workout is suitable for ages 3 to adult; math facts are geared for ages 6-9. The DVD is included in Dr. Toy's 10 Best Active Products. $20-$25 at www.Amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com and www.Exploracise.com.
• Loopz is an electronic music, memory and motion game from Mattel. Following sequences of flashing lights and sounds, players mimic patterns by waving their hands through the half-circle loops. The variety of game options allows for single play or up to four participants. For ages 7 and older; $30 at Toys R Us and Kmart, among others.
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If you like good news and happiness, check this out…
So back in January 2010 we reported (and rejoiced) that the FHA had decided to suspend the 90-day anti-flipping rule for 1 year.
The now-infamous rule was originally intended to prevent shady speculators from defrauding the government, but it also stifled the purchase and renovation of foreclosed homes by legitimate #investors like you and me. Yep, dumber than a bag of hammers.
But the 90 day flip rule waiver in January 2010 effectively enabled qualified buyers to once again get FHA mortgages on properties that were acquired by #rehabbers less than 90 days before. Great for them, great for us, great for the economy – thanks for the bone FHA.
And now, in an effort to keep up the momentum gained by the housing market, they've just decided to extend "anti-flipping rules" suspension for at least another year to increase FHA lending.
Yay for Sound Logic and Good Reason!
Yep, this is (again) great news for #investors trying to flip properties to FHA Buyers. But (again) keep in mind the same caveats and important nuances apply…and you really need to be aware of them if you aren't already…
The seller must hold title (no back-to-back, same day closings)
You still need short-term #funding
The 20% Rule still applies
The property still can't demonstrate a "Flipping Pattern"
If you want to read the original waiver from HUD, here it is. Or for a rather exceptional executive summary of these must-knows, you can read this FHA #property flip#ping waiver post I put together with the first waiver.
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It's nice to finally have something nice to say again about the FHA, isnt' it?
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2.Also, how will/won't this decision effect you personally?
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Quiz time: Phoenix is the country's sixth-largest city, with 1,445,632 residents in 2010. Which of the following is number seven, with 1,327,407 population: San Jose, Calif.; San Antonio, Texas; Indianapolis; or Dallas? Did you say San Jose? Nah (#10). Indy? No way (#12). Dallas, right? Wrong again. It's only #9.
Yes, the seventh-largest U.S. city––second only to Houston among Texas cities––is San Antonio. The Alamo City ranked 13th in 2000 (population:1,144,646), and much of its growth can be attributed to this four-letter acronym: BRAC, short for Base Realignment and Closure.
BRAC has been one of the most clever and successful government initiatives of recent memory. It got rid of thousands of unneeded and wasteful Pentagon-owned properties, consolidated operations in key nodes (like San Antonio), improved Defense Department efficiencies, and saved taxpayers billions of dollars.
It did this by eliminating logrolling, that expensive (to taxpayers) practice whereby Congressperson #1 votes for Congressperson #2's bridge to nowhere, in return for #2's vote in favor of #1's highway-to-heaven boondoggle.
To get rid of logrolling, BRAC set up an independent commission to determine (after exhaustive public hearings) which military bases would be closed and which would receive further investment. The BRAC Commission then sent its list to Congress for––and this is the truly brilliant part––an up-or-down vote on the whole list. No negotiating, no logrolling. Take it or leave it, Members of Congress.
Since the late 1980s, BRAC has enabled the closing of hundreds of redundant or underused military bases and facilities, along with substantial investment in places like San Antonio.
Now it's time to apply the same thinking to the 12,000 excess and 50,000 underused properties owned by the civilian arm of the federal government.
The idea of divesting wasteful government properties is one of the few concepts that seems to have some degree of bipartisan support in Washington. A Republican-sponsored measure, the Civilian Property Realignment Act, has already been approved in the House, 259 to 164. "Redevelopment and consolidation of vacant and unneeded federal property is a commonsense way to eliminate waste and save taxpayer dollars," said Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.), the bill's sponsor.
The White House has its own scheme to trim $8 billion in costs for 12,218 excess properties, a third of which (4,140) belong to the Agriculture Department. The Navy holds 2,519 such properties, while Interior has 2,109.
The General Services Administration, the civilian branch's landlord, has already shed many of its 137 properties on the White House list, including the historic Old Post Office Pavilion on Pennsylvania Avenue, which Donald Trump plans to turn into a 250-unit luxury hotel.
There are structural differences between Denham's plan and the White House's, but the point is that there is a modicum of agreement inside the Beltway on the basic need for "CRAC"––Civilian Realignment and Closure. In a presidential election year, that's pretty remarkable.
A civilian BRAC would open the door for more rational investment of taxpayer dollars in civilian construction projects. With BRAC as a model, the federal government could target key cities––El Paso, Texas, is already being discussed––for significant civilian investment. As was the case with the Defense BRAC, a federal CRAC could be a potential boon for many AEC firms. +


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After 18 years of service my 1998 Jeep has taken a rest. In its place is a 2016 Ford Edge. My love of exploring has not changed, and at the root of all my travels is the love of finding something new. It's on these pages I've written travel logs to describe my wanderings. I hope you enjoy the stories ...
Sunday, December 10, 2006
A Muddy Cache Indeed !!
Annacis Island is located in the South Arm of the Fraser River. On the island there is a cache located at its most westerly tip; the cache is called "What's the Point?" and it is hidden by Gorak.
The cache is located approx 1/3 of a mile from parking, but it's the last 1000 feet that you have to be prepared for.
The walk starts off pleasant enough as you walk along an overgrown trail along the top of the dike. After approximately 200 feet the trail takes a slight bend as it moves away from the dike and now runs along an old skid road through the bush.
Again, so far so good; this part of the trail is a good gravel "road" easy to walk on.
Along this part is another cache called "Used Cassette Exchange" hidden originally by Team Muppet, now adopted by Queens Borrowers. Their cache is located next to the trail and is easily accessible.
Continuing on, the trail takes another bend and suddenly comes to a dead end.
Well, at least you think it does: the trail carries on along the skid road but the road level is lower than before. Consequently rain water sits through here and the road is being reclaimed by nature in the form of a swamp.
Skunk cabbage grows large through this area and deep, slippery mud puddles force you to put on your big rubber boots to keep your feet dry. Hidden boards lying in the muck below the stagnant water are hoping you will step on them and take a slip-slide tumble onto your keyster, causing sure calamity for you and a definite photo-op for you companions.
Once you get through the swamp the real fun begins: you have to cross the moat!
The moat is actually a side channel of water that cuts through the island. At best it is a 'boot sucking' mud crossing that threatens to suck your boots right off your feet leaving you hopping in the mud on one foot! And you know that never works….
At worst the moat is filled with 4 feet of water as the tide in the Fraser River rises and floods this end of the island. Across the moat some one has strung a large log chained at either end to large poles stuck in the ground. I don't know about you, but log rolling was never my best subject in high school. It would be pretty tough to make it across the log without taking a bath.
We had timed our arrival at this cache to coincide with the lowest tide of the day:
HEY, we're smart fellers. "I am so smart, S-M-R-T!"
Today we only had to risk having our boots sucked from our feet as we walked bravely across the channel with our gum boots making "shtuck shtuck" sounds as we took each stride.
Once past the moat the island appeared to be all tall grass, how ever that's too good to be true. The tall grass hides more ankle deep mud that makes your boots go "shtick shtick" with each stride. Not quite as bad as the moat but definitely 'no running' through here.
Once past the grass you reach the end of the island and you are now walking on the break water consisting of large boulders. The cache is an easy find at this point and almost anticlimactic. The real challenge was just walking the last 1000 feet!
The view from here is beautiful as you are surrounded on both sides by the Fraser River with the marine traffic chugging by just a stone's throw away. To the south is Delta with industry all along River Road and at the river's edge; to the north is Richmond and large box warehouses along the river front. Way off to the north the North Shore Mountains in North Vancouver stand as testament to the forest that lays just beyond the city.
We took our time here as we signed the log book and sat on the rocks taking in the vista from this rare vantage point. Eventually we gathered up our gear and began the trek back through the 'shtick shtick' mud, through the 'shtuck shtuck' mud in the moat, and back along the swampy trail past the smelly skunk cabbage.
I'm told by other cachers that along the north shore of the island there is an old board walk along the water's edge, reminiscent of by gone days when squatters may have lived there.
Back on dry land our boots were testament how muddy the walk to the cache had been, and how happy we were we had planned the visit to the cache just right.
As we walked back to the car we felt like fisherman just stepping off the river after a day of fresh water fly fishing. Our choice of foot gear was gangly and awkward on dry land, but necessary where we just came from.
This was a rewarding cache to find as the journey required foresight and the cache area was a treat to visit.
A Day in the Life of a Geocacher
I first wrote this story for a Backroads group I belong to as a way of explaining what geocaching is all about. The story has appeared in Icenrye's geocaching videozine episode 13. You can catch all of Icenrye's videozines at www.Icenrye.com, on YouTube and on PodcastAlley.
For Christmas my loving wife gave me one of my "toys" that was on my long wish list: a Magellan Gold GPS. I wanted it mostly for back roading and off-roading, as here in B.C. the Forest Service Roads are poorly marked.
After a bunch of twists and turns, with several forks in the road, and darkness descending, all of the FSRs begin to look the same. A GPS ensures that you get home safe.
While I was getting familiar with my GPS, I remembered talking to some other group members on the Mineral Lake tour in Washington. At Mineral lake these folks took out there GPS and searched for a geo-cache. This is a stash of treasure; usually trinkets, that people have hidden in their home areas, and then post the co-ordinates to one of the "community" sites like Geocaching.com.
I logged on to the web site, created an account for myself, (TJGUY98), and then searched for some caches near my house. With 215,524 caches in 218 countries, it wasn't hard to find several within a couple of miles of my house. With GPS in hand I raced down to find the cache, and failed. Not because the cache wasn't there, but more from my lack of knowledge on how to use the GPS.
Well, a couple of months later, and some experience under my belt, I've become much more adept at using the GPS; I've explored it's various navigation screens and menu options, as well as discovered how to create waypoints and use the GO TO features employed in tracking your way to a known set of coordinates.
Keeping all this in mind, you'll understand my story a little better.
On this day my brother Ken and I decided to go geocaching for the whole day. We picked an area where we could find roughly a dozen caches, knowing that we would only make it to some of them. With the driving between sites and the leisurely walks to the cache site itself, you'd be surprised how much time gets eaten up in a day.
Today we headed for two areas: our first destination was the Mission area of the Fraser Valley about 50 miles east of Vancouver BC. The second area was right across on the Fraser River on the Fraser's south shore, this second area is the northern section of Abbotsford.
Once we began our journey, one of the first things we observed near Mission was a Cormorant on a local pond juggling a fish in its mouth; the bird flipped the fish several times in its mouth as it manoeuvred the fish to swallow it. Now that was neat to see!
Our first stop was at a cache called Complex Mission Sports,(for those cachers in the group it's waypoint name is GCHD99). This one was located in a small forest area on the edge of a large outdoor sports complex. At the complex are several baseball diamonds, as well as several soccer fields. Two of the soccer fields were in use by young girls teams playing hard in the sunny, but cool morning air.
While we were searching for the cache, Ken's dog decided to roll in some unknown substance on the forest floor: that's never a good sign! We found the cache with minimum fuss and had a look through the odds and ends in the cache; I took two "home made" music CD's created by one of the local family caching teams. These folks have made over 50 music CD's, complete with an announcer between songs sending "hellos" out to other local cachers...sounds a lot like Underground radio.
It must take a lot of time and effort to simulate a radio station, and it shows a lot of dedication to their fellow members, good on them! I left a Maytag Olfa knife, and Chirpy the Travel Bug. Travel Bugs are serialized dog tags that people buy and then attach some cute item, like a dinosaur, or toy soldier, or in this case, a largish plush toy spider. These travel bugs are logged on a separate area within Geocaching.com, and you can follow them as they make their way around the country, or around the world. It all depends on where their owner wants them to go.
I had picked up Chirpy the weekend before in Port Moody at another cache, and the instructions for Chirpy stated that she wanted to go to the mountains for the summer. So I took her for a 50 mile drive and dropped her off at this cache for the next person to pick up and carry her on her journey.
We signed the small logbook in the cache, and moved on to the next cache. Our next stop was only a few miles away on the hillside above the town of Mission; this one was called College Cache, (CJV2B). It was called this as it is only a few blocks away from the local college. The actual cache was located along a neat little linear park that was sandwiched between subdivisions. You walk along an elevated boardwalk as you gain elevation to go from one subdivision to the next. The park contains a small creek that flows down the hillside, mostly under the boardwalk.
Neat place!
At this cache I took an air freshener for my little truck, which I've been told could use one! We signed the logbook, made a "thank you" note to the hider, and moved on.
Our last one in Mission was called Mission Hillside Pilgrimage, so called as it is in the park where the original mission of the Oblate priests stood, (GCCDFE).
The park is high on the hillside over lookingthe Fraser River, with grand views west towards Vancouver, and east up the Fraser Valley towards Agassiz. On a perfect day like today, Mount Baker looms large to the south.
The park consists of many acres, both where the mission buildings originally stood, and acres of forest on the hillside above the mission site. The GPS waypoint for the cache led us off into the woods along a good gravel path.
At first the path skirted a deep ravine, and then the ravine gave way to a forest glen where the creek in the ravine originates. A small pond area was the start of the creek, and several Mallard ducks took advantage of the solitude of the area. The cache was hidden in the woods right above the pond.
The cache was the usual Lock and Lock container, similar to Tupperware, but the lid locks much more solidly.
In the cache we found a disposable camera that the cache owner had left for the finders use to take a picture of them selves, and then put the camera back into the cache. (Developed pictures are later loaded on the cache page on the web site).
We took a picture of Ken's dog with her nose in the cache rooting around for a new ball to have as a toy. At this cache I took nothing and left nothing, signed the logbook, then we sauntered back to the car for a trip over the Fraser River for our next cache in Abbotsford.
The next one both Ken and I looked forward to as it was at a small village called Clayburn. At the turn of the century Clayburn was a company town created by the Clayburn Brick Factory. Clayburn Bricks were used all over B.C. and even in Washington state for making every thing from factory smoke stacks and smelters, to brick office buildings in growing downtown areas; even brick houses as can be found in Clayburn Village.
You could easily identify which bricks came from here as they were uniquely stamped with the Clayburn name right on the brick. The cache itself is called A Brick From the Past, (GCKT68), and Ken and I took pleasure in further exploring the old brick factory foundations as we searched for the cache.
Along side the old foundations we found three smallish cement foundations, which we recognized from the cache write up as being 3 of the original kilns where they made some of the bricks. After letting the GPSr average down we found the cache easily. The area was being reclaimed by the land, and tall trees had been throwing off the GPSr's ability to get a lock.
I took nothing; left nothing, signed the logbook, and then poked around in the open area. Under all of the years of leaf clutter we found small areas of broken and discarded bricks. These piles were obviously where they dumped the damaged or poor quality bricks. But I was after better things.
Going deeper into the forest area, and further away from the cache, I found what I wanted; 3 Clayburn bricks with the Clayburn name stamped on them, and all in relatively good shape. An added bonus was one of the bricks had been stamped " Clayburn Made In Canada". I have seen a lot of their bricks in various places in BC, and seen them in history books on the local areas. But neither Ken nor I had ever seen one stamped "Made In Canada".
To me that was a real find, a brick design that had not been seen in the history books!
Back into the car and onto Through The Woods to Grandma's House,(GCHR1E). This one was another one of those hidden gems in suburbia, another small stream that meandered down the hill side from one sub division to the next. The highlights of this one were another elevated boardwalk over a marshy area, and strong wooden bridges over the little rivulets that ran through the forest.
The walk was 3-4 blocks long, and as we enjoyed the forest shade, birds serenaded us as we searched for the cache. Upon finding it, I took a quarter (I put it towards lunch) and I left a holder for sunglasses that clips on to a car's sun visor. We signed the logbook, and headed to another one just a few blocks away.
Those That Came Before (GCJX1Z) is named by a local prominent cacher in honour of all of the past cachers that contributed to the local growth of the sport. This cache was located along the same waterway but 1/2 a mile upstream. Here the water way was not a shallow bed like further downstream; instead a very deep ravine cut through the heart of the local housing areas.
Another few blocks walk along the hidden pathway led us to the cache. This one was a small cache owing to the hiding place, so I took nothing but left a 2-dollar coin, signed the log book and then we walked leisurely back to the car. Along the path both Ken and I commented on what a great job the cachers had done to show case their local areas by showing their fellow cachers these hidden community parks.
And that's the real treasure in this sport...getting one's butt off the couch and out into the cities and surrounding country side to explore the local areas; and if you're lucky, learn some of the local history of our home towns.
This was the last find of the day, as I had to head to work shortly.
Both Ken and I thoroughly enjoyed our day's outing and wished we didn't have to stop.
Oh well, there's always next weekend!
At the heart of the sport of geo-caching is the same explorer urge that drives many of us to become back road drivers to explore the country side.
Ed Pedersen in Maple Ridge BC
(who found that same darn cache tonight that I couldn't find at the start of the story!)


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New HIV/AIDS diagnoses, pneumonia (PCP), please help!
We've heard so many different things so far with the entire host of medical staff in the hospital, primary doctor with no real knowledge of AIDS, and only speaking with social worker otherwise: Brief Hx: Admitted to hospital Nov 1 with severe lung infection and reactive airway. Nov 2 officially diagnosed with pneumonia and prescreen positive for HIV. Diagnosed Nov 5, 2010 through positive Western Blot, CD4, and VL with AIDS - CD4 of 45 (6%) and VL 659,000. Male age 38, height 5 feet 6 inches, current weight 181 pounds. Previous weight one year ago 275 pounds. Weight disappeared within 2 months last year and has been maintained around 180 pounds since. Dropped to 174 pounds in hospital but has regained to 181 in 3 weeks. Was unaware of HIV/AIDS prior to Nov 5, 2010. Discharged from hospital Nov 8 with a LOT of medications (antibiotics, steroids, anxiety meds, breathing treatments, and 24/7 oxygen at 3 to 4 liters - now only weaned down to 2 liters three weeks later and not needing it constantly, but frequently). Nov 15 we were informed pneumonia is PCP and have not been told culture sensitivites. Nov 22 intake appointment with case manager at AIDS clinic and set up appointment for DEC 13 for lab studies and possible genotyping. Nov 29 repeat chest x-ray and doc said it looks no different than Nov 1 x-ray, although O2 saturation is better (beginning low 71% on room air now 95% on room air). Current meds Bactrim 2 pills 3 times a day (every 8 hours), azithromycin 250 mg once a day for 10 days. Just completed 3 week course of prednisone. One multivitamin daily. Xanax 0.25 mg once every evening. Coughing frequently but it is not frequently productive. It's productive once or twice a day. (He's wondering if he can take an expectorant like Mucinex)?
I have a couple questions: First, they've said we need to work on getting his immune system built up by taking vitamins, eating a good balanced diet, etc. We won't start treatment until January 2011 or shortly thereafter we're assuming so is it possible to boost or maintain CD4 count in the meantime? Also, if it is possible to boost CD4, will that not affect the viral load? Will it make it go up?
Second question: This pneumonia is not getting better but not getting worse. It's almost as if progress has plateaued and it's not budging either way. Is this normal for PCP with a low CD4 and high viral load without treatment for virus? Will the PCP ever really go away? He's taken rocephin, avelox, erythromycin, azithromycin, bactrim, diflucan, and albuterol with ipratropium (duoneb) all within this month and has had almost no response. The only improvement has been his appetite with the steroids and his room air saturations improved this week to 95% but no change on x-ray. I think our biggest concern at the moment is the pneumonia as we're well aware that pneumonia can be fatal in some situations. What can we do to get rid of it or help jump start healing? What can we do about immune system in the meantime while awaiting treatment? He's on prophylactic antibiotics as well as bactrim for PCP.
He needs HIV treatment immediately. I don't understand the delay until January. This is absolutely not acceptable. Vitamins are not the answer. Yes, there can be a recurrence or persistence in symptoms of PCP, particularly if the CD4 count is so suppressed, as his is now. More CD4 cells are the answer here, and that is not going to happen without HIV meds.


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Citrix morphs from Windows app virtualizer to all app mobilizer
Projecting a $3bn air kiss in 2013
In its last quarter Citrix has blasted past analyst expectations and produced a very healthy set of results and predicting that revenues will hit the $3bn mark for the year.
A decade ago, Citrix Systems was a Windows app virtualizer that existed largely at the mercy of Microsoft even though it has plenty of clever technology. Citrix is involved with Microsoft and still does Windows application virtualization with XenApp, but it also does VDI and other unnatural things with Windows and other platforms with XenDesktop and is making headway through acquisitions into cloud computing and mobile application management.
And that, explained Citrix CEO Mark Templeton on a conference call with Wall Street analysts in going over the fourth quarter financials, is why Citrix powered through macroeconomic issues around the globe as last year came to an end, growing both revenues and profits.
The company's widening portfolio of tools to help service providers and enterprises alike feed apps or whole system images over the network (or a mix of the two) to just about any device with a screen is why Citrix is pretty optimistic about its prospects for 2013.
In the quarter ended in December, total revenues came to $740m, shooting up 19.5 per cent. Hardware product and software license sales rose by 17.3 per cent, to $286.7m, while software as a service products were up an even higher 18.4 per cent to $135.4m.
License updates and maintenance jumped even higher, spiking 22 per cent to just under $303m. Professional services, which means handholding by Citrix techies for the most part, was up 19.7 per cent to $32.9m. All in all, that's pretty balanced growth.
The creeping up of cost of goods sold ate into profits, but was not unexpected given the mix in products that Citrix is shifting to (more hardware appliances and more SaaS-style services, both of which require hardware to be acquired). And despite fairly large increases in sales, marketing, research, and development costs, the company's net income was still able to grow by 4.9 per cent to $114m.
For the full year, Citrix had $2.59bn in revenues, up 17.2 per cent, and net income was actually down 1.1 per cent to $352.5m, or about 13.6 per cent of the top line.
VMware competes with Citrix on a number of fronts in the data center, and it got slapped around by Wall Street for showing slowed revenue and profit growth earlier in the week. The irony is that VMware's revenues grew by more than Citrix shares did in the same period, and to be frank, both had relatively skinny profits compared to historical levels.
In fact, VMware brought 16 per cent of its top line down to the black ink at the bottom, a bit better than Citrix did. But Citrix is not doing layoffs, and VMware is, which is why Citrix shares will probably spike tomorrow and why VMware's crashed earlier in the week.
David Henshall, CFO at Citrix, said on the call that that the company did 55 deals with more than $1m in revenues, and that 42 of these deals had XenDesktop and other desktop management and virtualization technologies involved. The new Mobile and Desktop group, which includes the Bytemobile and Zenprise tools as well as XenDesktop, XenApp, and a few other items, brought in $411m in sales in the fourth quarter, up 11 per cent from the year-ago period.
Citrix had nearly 4,000 customers buy XenDesktop licenses in the quarter for their desktop and application virtualization. About 240 deals had licenses for over 1,000 seats, with 48 deals having over 5,000 seats and 18 deals having over 10,000 seats.
That's nearly twice the number of deals and seats as it did in the second quarter of 2012, by the way. More than $100m in the bump in sequential deferred revenue from Q3 to Q4 in 2012, which totaled $145m, was due to desktop products.
Bytemobile and Zenprise are still minimal revenue contributors, but Henshall said to expect somewhere around $30m from Zenprise mobile data management sales in 2013. Henshall added that Wall Street should also expect at least $50m from Bytemobile data and video optimization tools for mobile network operators, which Citrix acquired last year.
Bytemobile is now part of the Citrix Networking and Cloud group, which had $156m in sales in the fourth quarter, up 51 per cent. Hardware and software license sales spiked 57 per cent in this group, thanks not only to the addition of Bytemobile, which contributed more than $20m in Q4, but also because NetScaler application optimization appliances (which come in hardware and virtual software forms) were up 38 per cent.
In Q4, Citrix did over 700 deals for XenDesktop that also had a NetScaler component. NetScaler VPX, the virtual machine appliance version of the NetScaler speed freak, had a 79 per cent revenue spike, and the NetScaler SDX appliance, which runs atop the XenServer hypervisor and which has secure multi-tenancy and horizontal scaling through clustering, represented 15 per cent of all NetScaler sales and was up over 200 per cent year-on-year.
Citrix doesn't talk much about sales of XenServer any more, or about the Xen hypervisor project that feeds it, but they still exist and they are an important component in the Citrix stack even if they did not turn out to be money makers in and of themselves.
Templeton said that the open source CloudStack cloud control freak and the commercialized version, called Cloud Platform, had over 100 customers but did not elaborate on how much money this acquired product was raking in.
"We are at the front end here where design wins matter," explained Templeton, who said that there are more CloudStack clouds in production than with any other platform (this means you, VMware, with vCloud, and you, Rackspace Hosting and friends, with Open Stack).
Aside from the design wins at service providers, "enlightened enterprises" who are "thinking beyond server virtualization" are also deploying CloudStack. Work to get XenDesktop and XenApp to run atop CloudStack is progressing under "Project Avalon," Templeton said, but did not give any precise dates.
Last fall, Citrix broke Project Avalon into two pieces and said that it was going to take more time than expected to get its desktop freak, its app freak, and its cloud freak to all freak out together, like Le Chic or Ziggy Stardust.
The Collaboration and Sharing line at Citrix, which is mostly the GoTo family of products, had $135m in sales, up 18 per cent, and the GoTo products themselves had a 26 per cent jump in the quarter.
Citrix added 1,200 employees in 2012 through both hiring and acquisitions and now employs around 8,200 people. The company has $1.5bn in cash and equivalents and $1.2bn in deferred revenues, which is almost as good as having the cash ready to spend.
Looking ahead, Citrix said to expect somewhere between $670m and $680m in revenues in the first quarter of 2013, which represents somewhere between 13.7 and 15.4 per cent growth compared to Q1 2012's $589.5m in sales. For the full year, revenues will air kiss $3bn, with the range of between $2.95bn and $2.98bn, which works out to a growth rate of 14.7 per cent at the midpoint.
That's slower growth than last year. Let's see if Wall Street notices and does some profit taking or just talks the company's shares up higher. My coin flip says the latter. ®


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Notebook check #5
Page 1-- Timeline pg. 128-129
Page 2-- Vocab Crossword
page 3-- Art show and personal reflection
Page 4-- Cause and effect
Page 5-- Ch. 8 review
Page 6-- Grand Coulee Dam
Page 7-- Timeline in CH. 9
Page 8-- The Great Depression
Page 9-- GD Prices
Page 10-- The New Deal
Page 11-- The War Brings Change
Page 12-- Rationing
Page 13-- Cause and Effect
page 14-- Women @ War
page 15--chapter 9 review
Notebook Check #4
Page 1--- Christmas break, 3rd person narrative
Page 2-- SH7 compare/contrast book and movie
Page 3-- Current event--on own
Page 4-- Group current event
Page 5-- Timeline--page 88 in SS textbook
Page 6-- What happened where?
Page 7--Research it!
Page 8--Group current event #2
Page 9-- MLK
Page 10-- Current event presentation notes
Page 11-- Then and Now
Page 12-- Monsters/Rumors
Page 13-- O. Henry questions--After twenty years
Page 14-- Into a New Century
Page 15-- Going to the Source
Page 16-- Chapter 7 review
Page 1--- Kennewick Man Response---Where should the body have gone?
Page 2-- Charting Early Native American Life.
Page 3-- Compare and Contrast Coastal and Plateau native Americans.
Page 4-- Pass the Word
Page 5-- What would our country be like with NO laws?
Page 6-- the Amendment challenge
Page 7--Bill of Rights
Page 8--County Government
Page 9-- Branches of Government
Page 10-- Government for all of us.
Page 11-- Who does what?
Page 12-- Taxing Times
Page 13-- Democrat vs. Republican
Page 14-- Chapter Review
Page 1-- Native American Myth and art
Page 2-- Presentation notes.
Page 3-- Timetable
Page 4-- David Thompson notes D1 and 2
Page 5-- Survey Skyridge sketches/notes
Page 6-- Fur Trapper
Page 7--Application
Page 8--Fact or Opinion
Page 9-- Good or Bad
Page 10-- Chapter review
Page 11-- Current event
Page 12-- Character list SH7
Page 13-- Visual Biography
Page 14-- Nature: Friend or Foe


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Fried Pork Belly
A favorite appetizer dish whenever I visit my neighborhood Filipino Restaurant. All the components of an Adobo Recipe, but made with pork belly instead. Fried until crispy and served with fresh island tomatoes and onion. Enjoy as an appetizer or a main meal.
2 lbs. pork belly, thinly sliced
3 tsp. Hawaiian salt
1/2 c. white vinegar
1/2 tsp. freshly cracked black pepper
1 tsp. red pepper flakes
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp. liquid smoke
2-3 tsp. vegetable oil, as needed
Garnish: sliced local tomatoes, sliced Maui onions, chopped green onion, patis
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In a large mixing bowl, rub pork pieces thoroughly with salt. Let stand for 2 hours. Add remaining ingredients; marinate overnight. Remove pork; reserve marinade. In a large skillet over medium high heat, brown pork in oil on all sides. Pour reserved marinade into skillet and simmer 15-20 minutes until no liquid remains.
For service: garnish with tomatoes, Maui onion and green onion. Drizzle with patis as desired. Serves 6.


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Maksy – Jambon
May 30, 2012 in Singles
Another label you can pretty much always rely on here – this is the latest from Denmark's excellent Gartenhaus.
Four tracks, and as we've come to expect from the Copenhagen crew, the deepest of house is the order of the day. Lenny's Groove is the most uptempo, most percussive and most obviously dancefloor of the four;
Remember Me provides the post-club/sofa-based listening, while Yeah Wa and Cracker sit somewhere between the two. Both of these last two flirt with garage-y tropes, too: the former with its chopped-up vox and a stuttery feel that recalls vintage Kerri Chandler/Madhouse productions, the latter in a more sumptuous, 'deep Jersey' kinda way.
And once again, it's a case of all killers, no fillers. Meget, meget godt, as I'm led to believe they say in Denmark.
Out: This week
About: Gartenhaus seem to live mostly on Facebook, as far as I can see… oh no hang on, here they are on Soundcloud as well


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