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Experience shapes the brain and it is the school's goal to provide opportunities for academic engagement that inspire students to think independently, as well as empowering them to apply information and be problem solvers.
The Lower School recognizes students as individuals with specific strengths and needs and views learning as taking place on a continuum. Children's capabilities, interests, and current knowledge are foundations from which to begin inquiry. Lower School endeavors to create and maintain a community that supports learners' curiosity, creativity, excitement and ownership of the process and strives to develop student's lifelong pursuit of knowledge. The curriculum is chosen and designed to engage learners, build self-confidence, and promote good habits of citizenship.
Teachers work to set up classrooms to be learning communities where students can do the following:
First grade learners spend the majority of their school day with their homeroom teacher. They receive instruction in language arts, math, social studies and science in that setting. Second and third grade students receive instruction in language arts and math in their homeroom setting and receive instruction in social studies and science from a grade level teacher who concentrates in either social studies or science. Fourth and fifth grade students receive instruction in language arts in their homeroom setting and receive instruction in math, social studies and science from a grade level teacher who concentrates in either math, social studies or science.
Specialists in first through fifth grade teach art, Christian Education, music, technology, library, Spanish and physical education. Because students need strong bodies to fuel strong minds, all Lower School learners have a daily recess period in addition to a daily physical education class. Research shows that play is linked to foundational skills and complex cognitive activities such as memory, self-regulation, oral language abilities, successful school adjustment and better social skills.


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What the country is talking about this week…
1 JULIA ROBERTS/LYLE LOVETT What a catch. It's hard to believe he was still available.
2 DENNIS THE MENACE A bratty kid makes a neighbor's life a living hell. Why pay for what we can get at home for free?
3 BEAVIS & BUTT-HEAD Virtual stupidity.
4 MUSLIM TERRORISTS They had to come to New York. There's nothing left to bomb in their own countries.
5 THE FUGITIVE Based on the '60s TV show about a man on the run for murder. Nineties kids will wonder why he didn't just plea-bargain.
6 WALTER ANNENBERG HIGH The TV Guide billionaire gave his old prep school $100 million. Most high schools have metal detectors at the door; this one has a cash machine.
7 THE NEW FIRST STEPBROTHER If they can replace George Stephanopoulos, they can sure as hell replace Roger.
8 IN THE LINE OF FIRE Clint Eastwood as a Secret Service agent. You can bet he gets served at Denny's.
9 TOM CRUISE He plays a good-looking, overpaid young man in The Firm. – Sometimes you can't even tell he's acting.
10 SNOW WHITE Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Happy, Grumpy, Bashful, and Doc. No, not the Seven Dwarfs. That's who'll be taking care of you under Hillary's health care plan.
11 PETE TOWNSHEND He's got Tommy, a new album, and a tour. At his age, any band he plays in should be called the How.
12 THE JERKY BOYS A fast-selling album full of prank phone calls. For this we invented the compact disc?
13 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS They've taken out an ad for a new guitarist: "Must be able to play seminude while on fire. Musical ability a plus."
14 SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE A romantic comedy kicks Last Action Hero's butt. Time to wake up and smell the grosses, Hollywood.
15 "IT'S HARD TO BE A BABY" A song by a 5-year-old French brat makes it to the U.S. We shouldn't import anything younger than their cheese.

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Darkling Cruft
This cruft program updates every hour, capturing images from surveillance cameras watching the streets of New York City. An auto-generated animation is created which seems to obscure specific details as it also focuses the viewers attention on new shapes and colors.
For, you know, nuncle,
The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long,
That it's had it head bit off by it young.
So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling.
—King Lear, Act I:IV
Deservings Cruft
This cruft program started running every 30 minutes beginning on August 1st, 2017. These 48 daily auto-generated images are a residue documenting this moment as we bear witness to the breaking news coming out of Donald Trump's White House. In the age of Trump, there is no other news.
... All friends shall taste
The wages of their virtue, and all foes
The cup of their deservings.
—King Lear Act V, iii
Angry Meditation Cruft (Stone Mind)
Automated computer code samples audio from a a streaming radio station, mixed with muzak from grocery stores in 1975 and recent news images scrapped from Yahoo! News.
Hogen, a Chinese Zen teacher, lived alone in a small temple in the country. One day four traveling monks appeared and asked if they might make a fire in his yard to warm themselves.
While they were building the fire, Hogen heard them arguing about subjectivity and objectivity. He joined them and said: "There is a big stone. Do you consider it to be inside or outside your mind?"
One of the monks replied: "From the Buddhist viewpoint everything is an objectification of mind, so I would say that the stone is inside my mind."
"Your head must feel very heavy," observed Hogen, "if you are carrying around a stone like that in your mind."
Value Meal Cruft (Trumpet Mix)
Automated computer code samples audio from a Donald J. Trump speech, and various streaming radio stations. Images from various fast food restaurants are also downloaded from online sources, which are then combined into this fragment of an audio collage inspired by Vaporwave.
Placebo Cruft
(Reparation for Events Real and Imagined)
This cruft algorithm selects search terms from a compiled list of life events that most people document with photographs. The search term is passed into Yahoo! Image Search, one of the resulting images is selected and a nostalgic filter is applied. With our network connected mobile devices the time between living an event and documenting that event has collapsed. The Internet is becoming one large database of shared social experiences that this work relies upon as source material. Every time this program runs, an image is pulled from this database, processed with a filter not unlike those used by Instagram, shared on my website, and then archived. This new CRUFT builds upon the collected images uploaded to the Internet, to create an ongoing narrative speaking to reparation for events real and imagined.
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image–junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world—all these elements of erotic feeling are affirmed in the pleasure we take in photographs. But other, less liberating feelings are expressed as well. It would not be wrong to speak of people having a compulsion to photograph: to turn experience itself into a way of seeing. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it, and participating in a public event comes more and more to be equivalent to looking at it in photographed form. That most logical of nineteenth-century aesthetes, Mallarmé, said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
— On Photography, Susan Sontag
Blue Colic Cruft
This computer program downloads an image from the web of a surveillance camera located in Southern Illinois. The camera points at a pastoral scene consisting of a row of trees next to a country road, and in the distance is a small body of water. I was struck by the simplicity and beauty of this image, contrasted with the knowledge that someone for some reason is watching. What is the purpose of surveillancing such a peaceful place? When the CRUFT computer program downloads an image from the camera, as well as a short sample of news from the National Public Radio, they are copied and repeatedly manipulated by the algorithm, creating a short video that mashes together two different kinds of streaming data in what becomes a violent stuttering cough.
Cenotaph Cruft (Intermission)
This cruft video consists of images from CNN's coverage on the morning of September 11th, 2001, with manipulated samples of streaming radio. The middle section is a computer voice reading content from Breitbart News, accompanied by selections of elevator music with an image of a tropical beach.
Data Loss Cruft (Corruption)
This cruft algorithm downloads a recent photo from the Whitehouse.gov website as well as a report published by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism listing U.S. covert drone war casualty estimates. The text file of casualty estimates is literally inserted into the binary code of The White House photo. The drone war information becomes hidden from view, but corrupts the image producing visual distortion often referred to as a glitch. This work uses digital leftovers, consisiting of information either usually forgotten, or in the case of the drone war information, it is usually hidden, and in the process this cruft re-generates a new image by altering the data, which then reminds us of it's origin.
Paintings, Drawings, Prints
Ecce Homo
The ongoing Ecce Homo series of mixed-media images are electrostatic prints that begin as appropriated digital images of Donald J. Trump political rallies. These are are manipulated digitally, then scaled up in size and printed. The printed images are then used as the starting point for drawing and painting which simplifies the complexity of the image and stains the subjects.
Ecce Homo ("behold the man") are the Latin words used by Pontius Pilate when he presents the scourged Jesus Christ, bound and crowned with thorns to a hostile crowd shortly before his Crucifixion. These images are created in response to political changes unfolding on a global scale. Two specific events that triggered the making of these images were the British vote to leave the European Union, known as Brexit, and the election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States. The Ecce Homo series of images bear witness to this political change.
Ecce Homo: Resist
The ongoing Ecce Homo series of mixed-media images are electrostatic prints that begin as appropriated digital images of Donald J. Trump political rallies. The source images of Ecce Homo: Resist were created by the Deservings Cruft. Prints were made from selected images, which were then completed with the addition of wax crayon and ink.
Ecce Homo: Moscow Sketchbook
A trip to Moscow, Russia for the month of December 2016, allowed me the chance to study Russian Icon Painting, Russian Constructivism and Soviet Socialist Realism within the context of contemporary Russian culture. All the while, I was reading news of Donald J. Trump adding primarily ex-Goldman Sachs and ex-Generals to his cabinet. It is within this experience that I am working on these smaller scaled images contained within a Moscow Sketchbook.
Ecce Homo: Trace EvidenceThese images are created in response to Donald J. Trump's policy of institutional child abuse taking place on the Mexican border. These images bear witness to a time when our government creates orphans by permanently separating migrant children from their families. I bear witness to the defense of the indefensible. Refusing to call a cage a cage does not transform a cage into a chain-link partition. In Donald Trump's America migrant children are incarcerated.
The ongoing Ecce Homo series of mixed-media images are electrostatic prints that begin as appropriated digital images of Donald J. Trump political rallies. The source images of Ecce Homo: Trace Evidence were created by the Deservings Cruft. These cruft images are digitally altered, large prints are made and altered again with the addition of mixed media.
Erebus: Watching the Dreams of Others
The "Erebus: Watching the Dreams of Others" series of woodcut images are prints that begin as appropriated digital images from the CCTV surveillance cameras watching the streets of New York City. The source images of Erebus were created by the Darkling Cruft. From this flowing stream of digital surveillance, selected images were then made into woodcut prints.
Because things are the way the are, things will not stay the way they are.
-- Bertolt Brecht
Reparation For Events Real and Imagined (tile #9)
For this series of paintings, I selected images from the Anesthetic, False Positive, Placebo, and Phantom Limb Cruft. These cruft are made from the collected database of our socially shared experiences found on the Internet. Photographed memories of so many others are selected by the algorithms, and then later selected once again by myself, these images are taken from this shared database and converted from bits to atoms, transforming ephemeral memories into egg tempera, one of the most traditional and permanent mediums within the history of art.
Live Art & Sculpture
Twittering Machine Object / Performance
The twittering machine is wheeled forward onto the stage, a small wind chime hangs inside the cage like structure, ringing as it moves. A handle is turned, and a small camshaft raises and lowers a platform covered in feathers inside the cage. As the handle is cranked, white feathers begin to squeeze through the wire mesh of the cage, falling to the floor. The mixed audio of Donald J Trump and Frank Sinatra begins to play, amplified by the orange cone. The handle continues to be cranked, feathers issue forth. The sound stops, and the twittering machine is wheeled off stage.
Twittering Machine #2 (at delphi)
This twittering machine object is simply a bottomless corrugated cardboard box. Coming from within the box are the sounds of a poorly tuned FM radio emitting scratchy static, voices and occasionally music.
Red Queens Race (surveillance machine)
This is a live art performance piece that uses computer code, that scrapes recent text from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's blog. The text is sorted, common words are removed, and each remaining word is passed to Yahoo! Image Search. The resulting images are dowloaded. An audio file plays, which is spoken word from the book "Zen Mind, Beginners Mind." My web camera is on, and my image is shown on the desktop. As the audio plays, one of the downloaded images pops up, which I then close. These images continue to appear in pop up windows. The code creates a screenshot, which I then drag to the bottom of the screen. More images are downloaded and opened onto my desktop. I continue to try to close the windows. A second and third audio file of the same spoken word begins to play. More images open. More screenshots are created. More audio files play. I attempt to close the images as they are opened, but over time, the speed increases, and eventually as more of the same audio files begin to play, my entire desktop is overtaken. The race ends when the entire 8 gigs of computer memory is full, as hundreds of images and audio files are opened until, out of memory, the screen goes black and the machine stops in one long slow meditative hum.
Babel Jar & Image
As we now rely on automated algorithms to supply us with "relevant" search results, we have also become more dependent on machine-readable data. This machine-readable data is quite vulnerable to becoming lost if we were to lose access to the machines that can read the information. The objects in the Babel Jar contain data that is much like a message in a bottle. If the viewer can scan the QR code, or open the USB drive or SD card, the URL of the Babel Image will be discovered.
Babel (shadows in the rear-view mirror)
Since the summer of 2013, the main stream news has been filled with a constant flow of information leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowdon regarding the complete surveillance system created by the National Security Agency with the infrastructure and help of companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple. Together the government and corporations have created an automated system of looking, sharing, and hiding. Our personal information is shared by automated machines, and looked at by processes controlled by hidden algorithms. The aesthetics within these systems now control almost every aspect of society
Description of the Live Art Event:
The Department of Homeland Security and images reflected back from the Internet on Yahoo! Image Search are combined with computer voices and audience members reading manipulated text simultaneously in a composite of ever dense sound and image, resulting in a gradual loss of legibility.
This live art performance consists of a laptop with a printer and a projector. The computer code runs and scrapes text from the Department of Homeland Security's website. The common English words are removed, and the remaining text is passed to Yahoo! Image Search. The images and text appear with various degrees of opacity, overlapping and flickering in an ever changing composite of images. The sound of a metronome is heard at 60 bpm. The audience watches as the images continue to build, and at various intervals a computer voice speaks the words as the printer prints a long paper trail of text in a vertical column. The paper is passed from person to person, each audience member then reads the text. This continues to build slowly at first, to an ever complex and dense cacophony of spoken word, computer voice, flickering images, and the sounds of an inkjet printer.
Twittering Machine #3 (Mandela Effect)
Sleep is one part of our day yet to be completely monetized by capitalism. We drink highly caffeinated beverages to stay awake, and purchase sleep aids to finally go to sleep in the hope of achieving a healthy rejuvenating night's rest. Sleep is the one resource that seems to be sacrificed first, when asked to do more with less. We continually optimize and look for efficiencies, throughout our daily activities and many of us now wear biometric devices to monitor and optimize our sleep. As we increase our waking activities and sleep so much less, ironically we seem to be asleep when it comes to creating change in the world. We no longer have time for wasteful activities such as daydreaming. Sleep is a virtual private space where our unconscious mind can explore our hopes and fears through dreams and nightmares.


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Antisemitism Experts: Popularity in Germany of New Annotated Version of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Doesn't Need to Be Cause for Alarm
by Barney Breen-Portnoy
The fact that a new annotated version of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf has become a best-seller in Germany does not need to be cause for alarm, antisemitism experts told The Algemeiner on Tuesday.
"It's more than understandable that sales of Mein Kampf make people nervous," Ben Cohen, author of Some of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism, said. "But we also need to grasp that people read that vile book for different reasons. For historians, for scholars of antisemitism, for those researching totalitarianism, it's a key text in terms of establishing that Hitler's war against the Jews was the foundation stone of the Third Reich."
"Of course, there are others for whom Mein Kampf, with its pornographic antisemitism, is a source of inspiration — however, the editions they read are not annotated by anti-Nazi German historians, but the neo-Nazi versions widely available on the internet," Cohen continued. "In that sense, the far greater challenge is the impact Mein Kampf has when it's read not in German, but in Arabic and Turkish, where it helps to fuel an already intense hatred of Jews in those countries and cultures."
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld — founder of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs think tank's post-Holocaust and antisemitism program – felt similarly.
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"I wouldn't turn this into a major item of worry, because today the venue of communication of hatred is social media — Twitter and Facebook and these kinds of things," he said. "I don't think a 2,000-page book can compete with that as far as the impact of hatred is concerned."
"Some of the books are bought by scholars, others are bought by curious people," Gerstenfeld went on to say "If I'm interested in hatred of Jews, I would not be looking at Mein Kampf. There are far more effective propaganda means than Mein Kampf these days. It is no longer what it was, 80 years ago or so. Today, you can go on Muslim hate websites."
Also, Gerstenfeld pointed out, "If I was a neo-Nazi, which I'm not, I wouldn't want to buy the annotated edition."
The new two-volume annotated version of Mein Kampf was published in January by Munich's Institute for Contemporary History after a 70-year copyright held by the German state of Bavaria expired. At the time, the institute said the new version "seeks to thoroughly deconstruct Hitler's propaganda in a lasting manner." According to media reports, 85,000 copies have been sold thus far.
Dr. Shimon Samuels — the Simon Wiesenthal Center's France-based director for international relations — noted that there was a danger in Mein Kampf's newfound popularity in Germany due to what it represents in the eyes of far-right elements in the country.
"Mein Kampf has the same value to a neo-Nazi as the house Hitler was born in," Samuels told The Algemeiner. "It's not because of the content of the book. The book is a bore. But it's a symbol."
"The question, however, is no longer Mein Kampf, it's the derivations of Mein Kampf and how it is being used in other circumstances," Samuels went on to say, noting the use of passages from the book in antisemitic texts sold throughout the Arab world, including at international book fairs recently held in Doha and Sharjah. "That's the frightening part. Mein Kampf, the German edition, is only the kernel of a much broader nut we have to crack."
In a statement on Tuesday, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt — president of the Conference of European Rabbis — expressed alarm, saying, "Increased sales of Hitler's Mein Kampf in Germany coupled with a resurgence of far-right politics across Europe is deeply troubling. Political, community and religious leaders must speak out now. The dangerous rhetoric of the far-right must be starved of oxygen."
Deidre Berger, the director of the American Jewish Committee Berlin's Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations, also found the robust sales of Mein Kampf to be concerning — "particularly in an era of renewed popularity for conspiracy theories," she said.
"It does not take large numbers of readers to reignite the popularity of key assertions in Mein Kampf, and the annotated version — which is being used for educational purposes — is reaching a much larger circle of readers than books sold," Berger told The Algemeiner. "At a time when populism and antisemitism are on the rise, greater access to Mein Kampf can all too easily fuel again the ever-smoldering flames of antisemitism."
Furthermore, she noted, "Civic education that helps students learn how to distinguish and counter hate propaganda, including antisemitism, is more essential than ever."


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The Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec is a single day race, first held in 2010. Unlike most classics Québec is a race on a circuit. Totalling at around 200 kilometres, the 8th edition will be held on Friday the 8th of September 2017. The route offers a perfect test for the World Championships in Bergen, Norway. (Slideshow route/profile)
In 2016 Peter Sagan outsprinted Greg Van Avermaet in Québec, while Anthony Roux finished in third place.


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Trinity's women's golf team adds another member to the 2017-18 recruiting class with the commitment of Emily Kempster of Grand Haven, Michigan. Emily, a senior at Western Michigan Christian High School, has signed a letter of intent and committed to Trinity and the golf team.
Emily played varsity golf for the Warriors at Western Michigan Christian in Muskegon for three years. She was a team captain and has posted a round of 108 in the Greater Muskegon Athletic Association city meet.
In addition to being on the golf team Emily also was a member of the varsity tennis team for two seasons and on the junior varsity soccer team for one year. She also was involved in Student Council, was a Student Ambassador and an International Student Ambassador, and a tutor.
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So.. you want to go full retard on weight loss? if you've heard of intermittent fasting and the ketogenic/low carb/atkins diet, read on.. this article was written with you in mind.
Rule #1: Track your calories, or else you may lose muscle.
If you are a natural overeater like i am, an overactive appetite has been haunting you all your life. Intermittent fasting will flip that on it's head.
Your appetite will drop to nearly zero the second that your body adapts to using your body fat as a fuel source, so the reason for tracking your calories is basically to prevent you relying too deeply on body fat. Body fat is a very slow burning fuel – it burns slower than dietary fat and can only supply a small percentage of the energy your body needs. If you run on it for too long, your body will start looking for other forms of stored energy. You don't want that.
How much of a caloric deficit you run is up to you. I would start with 10%, and see what you could tolerate from there. Much lower than 20%… and you are going to start having issues anorexic people do, such as hair loss, lack of hormone production, etc. Intermittent fasting is very powerful and there is no need to run a huge caloric deficit.. don't go crazy.. there is no need!
If you do not know how many calories you should be eating a day, google 'basal metabolic rate calculator' and you will find many links that can help you out.
Rule #2: Eat only during a certain window of time and DO NOT SNACK BETWEEN MEALS.
I do an 8-10 hour eating window with 2 ~1000 calorie, high fat meals at the edges of that window. This means that i am not eating 3-4 hours before bed, and 3-4 hours after waking up.
Most of the body fat you are going to burn burns while you are sleeping, and when you wake up, you are still going to be in a deeply ketogenic fat burning state, so not eating for a few hours after waking is a way to keep that fat burning going for a while before meal #1.
It can be difficult to hold off until meal #2. So.. why not snack? Well, there are a few hours between your first meal and your last meal where your body will start burning body fat calories again. Snacking interrupts this and will slow your weight loss. It's time to drink some tea, coffee, electrolyte water, or something that is not caloric to take your mind off it. Sometimes i'll eat a large pickle ( 5 calories ) 1 hour before meal #2 if i really can't handle the wait, but that's it.
At night, you are stopping eating early in order to facilitate the transition to using body fat as a fuel as soon as possible during the sleep cycle. The longer you are in a state of heavy ketosis, the more of your body fat is going to be burned per day, after all. If you eat your big meal right before bed, you might not even enter the fat burning state while you sleep.
The real magic of intermittent fasting is all the body fat you burn while you sleep. But in my plan, the fat burning period during the middle of the day is an additional bonus.
Rule #3: Watch out for non-caloric things that may trick your body into thinking it's being fed.
One good example would be artificially sweetened drinks. This will very possibly screw up what you are trying to do.
Remember that your body will still want to use carbohydrates rapidly if it thinks it's getting them. It could likely decide that the sweet thing you are drinking is a cue to produce insulin and go into carb burning mode, which deactivates the hormones that say 'burn fat for energy.'. and as a result, your blood sugar will dive and you WILL feel like shit and possibly have a raging appetite that derails this whole affair. This is not pleasant at all.
Some people get derailed by artificial sweeteners, some don't. But if you want to be safe.. only consume these things during your meals, or shortly before or after.
Suggestion #1: It is strongly recommended that you follow a ketogenic ( low carb ) diet while intermittent fasting.
Low carb is by far the easiest and most effective way to eat during intermittent fasting, by far.
A high carb approach will be difficult because the metabolic hormone shifts are even greater when you go from running on carbs, to body fat, to carbs, to body fat throughout the day. Your blood sugar will spike and plummet dramatically multiple times; your body will fight it and start shooting hunger signals your way and will make your life difficult. But this depends on how insulin resistant you are. Some people can do it… i can't.
Transitioning from running on dietary fat to body fat is a very easy hormonal shift though, and blood sugar levels will remain pretty flat throughout the day. The average person will not even be able to sense the shift. The low carbohydrate approach is the path of least resistance.
Suggestion #2: Be wary of fake sugar products if you are intermittent fasting on low carb.
There are many 'sugar free' products which claim zero or very low carbohydrates. It is still legal to advertise products towards low carbers and diabetics in this manner, so many companies do it.
I would not believe the labels. Quest bars, for example, advertise approx 4 grams of carbs per bar, yet a diabetes group tested them and saw their blood glucose skyrocket..
Sugar alcohols are another major problem for low carbers. Sometimes they are counted as net carbs, sometimes they are not. Most sugar alcohols will raise blood sugar around 50% of what we expect sugar will, per gram. If in doubt, start reading up about sugar alcohols before you consume them.. they may interfere with your ability to stay in a fat burning state.. whether it is dietary fat, or bodily fat.
And now, for the hitches and gotchas..
Warning #1: When you start this, it may feel like you are 'on something'.
When you first enter deep ketosis, your body is essentially on a huge sugar rush as it is scavenging and using every last drop of stored glucose it can find. Eventually it gives up, and starts making it's own glucose and ketones. Your brain begins to partially run on ketones instead of glucose. A variety of other changes in brain chemistry occur. Personally, I get a massive buzz off of this.
A few studies have found that GABA and other neurotransmitter levels go wild during this time. Here is some information on that:
If you get this effect… just enjoy it!
Warning #2: Your electrolyte requirements massively increase when you are in ketosis!
Some people report feeling very sick during this ketogenic adaptation phase. The keto community calles this 'keto flu' and it has not extensively been studied medically. However, it is known that you are pissing out your electrolytes and become severely deficient in them during the beginning of adaptation. You need much higher amounts of potassium, magnesium, and sodium in your diet now, and the sick feeling is theorized to be a result of that electrolyte deficiency. This usually passes within a few days.
After over 4 years of reading reddit's keto subreddit, i've noticed that potassium deficiency is the most common during intermittent fasting or ketogenic dieting. Symptoms are typically an abnormally fast heart rate, constipation, and muscle cramping. I recommend immediately purchasing some 'lite salt' or 'nu salt', or supplementing with potassium citrate on a daily basis. A low carb diet just doesn't include much in the way of potassium.
Do not be afraid of sodium either. Your sodium requirements will easily double. If you like salty food, this is a huge bonus.
For more information on electrolyte issues, see /r/keto's FAQ: https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/wiki/faq
Warning #3: Be wary of things that can drop your blood glucose rapidly.
Cannabis use and cardio exercise are 2 things that can drop your blood glucose levels quickly and without much warning. Either of these can drop blood glucose quicker than the liver can produce it. The higher the caloric deficit you are in, or the closer to needing a meal you are in the cycle.. the more vulnerable you are to this. Your liver can make glucose from dietary fat much quicker than it can from bodily fat.
If you are going to use cannabis or do cardio, keep a very small piece of candy on you at all times. Even a sugar free candy will work. If you feel like you are about to pass out, eat it. It will raise your blood sugar within seconds and save your ass. The blood sugar spike might derail what you are doing temporarily, but it beats having your brain run out of juice and you injuring yourself. You can either learn the candy trick the hard way or the easy way.. i learned it the hard way, and hope you don't.
You will have to learn how to sense what low blood sugar feels like. Normally, the hormones that control your appetite scream so loudly at you to eat that you never encounter this problem, but remember that those hormones have gone silent, so your indicator is either the feeling in your head, a blood glucose meter, or your memory of what you've eaten for the day.
In conclusion..
Intermittent fasting is the most effective tool in the shed for weight loss, and also one of the safest.
It has been practiced for a long time by bodybuilders, hollywood actors, and certain religions ( Islam's Ramadan comes to mind ).
Adding a ketogenic element to intermittent fasting just sweetens the deal and makes the process much easier due to the stabilization of blood sugar, and thus appetite.
If you are doing a regular ketogenic diet and are having problems with your weight loss stalling etc, give intermittent fasting a try.
You won't regret it, and the realization that you have this kind of control over your metabolism will be incredibly empowering.
Keep calm and keto on!


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Previously for your viewing on Channel Static, the top ten albums of the year has now moved on to here. It's taken so long because it got lost in a box on the removals van.
I'll take any excuse.
10. Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression
'I'm nothing but my name' is something Iggy Pop likes to say, and thus Post Pop Depression was born. It's an album about legacy, about sex, and about death, with Josh Homme bringing his sludgy Queens riffs to the party. Sometimes a sense of vulnerability can be heard, but before you can scoop it up, he's back to ranting, to screaming, to throwing his guts against the wall.
Music for those who don't know who Iggy Azalea is.
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I was kindly given an Apple iPod Touch for my birthday last week, and I have to say that the apps framework and app store have got my creative juices flowing. I have been playing around with a number of the downloadable apps and have now got my calendar, contacts, email, facebook and linkedin access through my iPod touch.
So, next I was thinking what other apps would I like? I started thinking about the tasks I carry out over the web (apart from searching tons of research papers) that I could potentially like to do through the iPod touch. My main thoughts were about my accounts access for banking, mobile phone, credit cards and other utilities.
The most popular of these I would think is internet banking. Yes I can already do this by using the inbuilt safari browser to go to the internet banking site and transact in that way. The problem is that the site is not designed for browsing it in such a way, and I repeatedly need to zoom in and out to manage the transaction which is not very suitable. So, my suggestion is that banks should produce an app for the iPhone to allow their customers to access their internet banking directly from the iPhone/iPod touch home screen.
There would be a number of benefits to this:
- It would work well as a marketing tool to advertise the internet banking offering.
- It provides a new channel to create business (mobile banking already exists but most mobile access is too slow to make the experience enjoyable. The wifi ability of the iPhone/iPod touch allows fast access).
- Surely all mobile phone operators will follow the same app model to increase the attractiveness of their phones (like this Nokia rumour?).
- It could possibly be extended to provide other services in the future.
- The net generation would love it, it would be "cool" to them.
What would the app be like? Well it would be quite simple I imagine.... Click on the app, which would present a login page allowing you to enter you identification code and password. This would then present you account information etc. Obviously there would be some security concerns related to this, but I can't see this as being less secure than the already available web browser option.
I think that more and more companies will enter this domain, as the popularity of the iPhone increases.


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Baker Hughes, a GE Company (BHGE), is fueling the future of industry with their portfolio of smart, predictive and integrated digital solutions – serving customers worldwide across oil & gas, power generation, aerospace, transportation and many other industries.
Their innovative technologies include sensor-based measurement, advanced software, asset condition monitoring, controls,inspection technologies and radiation measurement solutions as well as global services and expertise. GE recognizes the potential of smart machines, advanced analytics and people collaborating, so they are continually developing innovative solutions that help connect machines, data and people. Resulting in more proactive decisions and optimized processes, and ultimately, a smarter, safer way to do business for their customers.


text: We stayed here for four nights in January with our two kids. One had been ill and as soon as we were met at the station by Karen I knew we would all be ok. We were so cared for and looked after it was amazing. The food - best of our 3 week trip and so good to eat and chat with the other guests too. We stayed in the villa which is perfect for a family. The house is a very special place with superb style and character. Dont be put off by it being outside Galle, is a fun short tuk tuk in and you look forward to returning back from the town every time. Don't hesitate to book this place if you are heading that way!!


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The Lake Sunapee Snowmobile Club maintains over 80 miles of trails in the heart of New Hampshire's Lake Sunapee region.
Monday, February 17, 2014
1st Annual Progressive Ride 15Feb2014
Last Saturday, the 15th, while most of NH was still digging out from yet another storm(yay!), our Club hosted our 1st Annual Progressive Ride. With RSVP's numbering around 35, the organizers were excited for a large turnout! We planned on having 4 or 5 scheduled stops to enjoy various segments of an organized dinner, but those plans fell through.After gathering at Sunapee State Beach,we settled on doing a trail ride, down to Lake Todd. It was difficult keeping everyone together with approximately 30 sleds! On the way back we stopped at BUBBA'S in Newbury Harbor(Thanks guys!) for dinner.We then blasted up the lake to Craig Mayo's field for a huge bonfire and fireworks! This was accompanied by hot chocolate,cold drinks and plenty of baked items for dessert! Not to mention the adult vs. not so adult snowball fight! Many thanks to all who helped with this event! We definitely will do this again, maybe having breakfast as the meal, then riding all day!? Send us your feedback!
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Gynecomastia Surgery-Stage TwoDecember 6th, 2011 Miguel A. Delgado Jr, MD
For the man with moderate to severe gynecomastia also known as moobs, it may be recommended that a secondary procedure be performed after the initial male breast reduction surgery. This would be for men that have a large amount of redundant skin usually caused by weight loss and older men who have lost a lot of skin elasticity.
During the initial consultation, Marin County cosmetic surgeon, Dr. Miguel Delgado discusses all options with his Bay Area male breast reduction patients. He can tell if a patient may need the second stage surgery and informs them before any surgery has taken place.
Some patients are pleased with the results of their first surgery and do not choose to have the second stage, this is a personal decision and the satisfaction of the patient is most important. But for those that want the best possible outcome, the second stage can proceed after about four to six months of recovery from the first procedure, after the blood supply reestablishes itself underneath the nipple-areolar complex.
Some surgeons may opt to do a mastectomy type surgery to do everything in one stage, but Dr. Delgado feels the resulting scar is almost as obvious as the gynecomastia itself.
The procedure consists of an incision around the nipple-areolar complex doing what is referred to as a âPeri-areola donut mastopexyâ, whereby you excise skin with a purse-string closure.


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Lowered Torque For 730 HP Engine
Tested on 126.96.36.199s. This mod decreased the torque of engine, now you can feel the weight of the trailer. [the indicator of RPM gauge is moving slower, as the same as in real life] (in the video you will see the difference between 620 hp – engine not edited yet – and 730 hp with lowered torque). I plan to do this with all engine of all default trucks in game.
This mod is just for 730 HP Scania Streamline for the moment!
Have fun 🙂
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text: A study recently published in Neurotherapeutics by researchers at the New York University School of Medicine reviews scientific evidence from pre-clinical and clinical trials of cannabinoids in epilepsy. These studies suggest that CBD avoids the psychoactive effects of the endocannabinoid system to provide a well-tolerated, promising therapeutic for the treatment of seizures. Future placebo-controlled clinical trials will provide insight into cannabinoid function and the potential neuroprotective effects of the endocannabinoid system. Read More


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First Baptist Pre-K to offer summer camp
The Pre-K of First Baptist Church, Bridge City will offer a Pre-K summer camp during June and July. It is available for three year olds to kindergarten age. You may enroll on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 am-1 pm in the Pre-K office at 200 W. Roundbunch Rd., Bridge City, or call 735-3583 during those hours. Enrollment ends Thursday, April 21.
There will be new hours to First Baptist Church, Bridge City. The fall session will begin after Labor Day. Class days are Tuesday and Thursday, from 8 am – 2 pm. You may register your 3-4 year olds during this time. For more information, please call 735-3583 during those hours.


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I haven't posted here in a loooong time, because somehow WordPress (and the limitations which come with a free account) frustrated me.
I also have been busy with other things, among them doing jobs through various freelancing sites.
To advertise my services (and to finance our next trip) I have finally released my own portfolio site:
webbeetle.com & webbeetle.com.au
The last year I spent a lot of time to learn the ins-and-outs of "responsive website layouts". This will be my main service. To find out what this includes please visit the link above. Right now I'm also setting up a new blog – surprise: I will be using WordPress for that, but on my own hosting account with my own responsive design.


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Art Work in Young Library Celebrates New UKCore
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 18, 2011) — The University of Kentucky's W.T. Young Library is now hosting a major 10-panel art work titled "Nation of Nations," installed in recognition of a central theme of UK's new general education curriculum to be implemented in fall 2011. "Nation of Nations" is the work of Lexington artist Marjorie Guyon. A formal celebration of the exhibit will take place during the fall semester and will be open to both the UK and greater Lexington communities.
The piece of art serves as an emblem of the new UK undergraduate general education program, named UKCore. Some of the curricular components of UKCore will require all undergraduates to explore the arts and creativity through performative-based course work and embrace the ideas of citizenship in a contemporary context. "Nation of Nations" is an exploration of people, place and promise through a stunning visual representation.
Guyon said her work "represents the fundamental principle that we all shoulder the responsibility the writers of the U.S. Constitution proclaimed: 'to form a more perfect union.'"
This public art project includes a series of 10 works embodying the spirit of many different peoples and creeds: Incan, Kenyan, Mexican, Moroccan, Cherokee, Hindu, Hebrew, Creole, Arab and Russian. Each panel is a 6-foot-8-inch figure — a bit taller than human scale. On each one, the phrase, "Have Mercy on Us," is written in a different language: Cherokee, Chinese, English, Arabic, Hindi, Hebrew, Swahili, Latin, Russian and Haitian Creole. In addition the titles of the 10 paintings echo the anthems, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" and "America the Beautiful."
"Concepts of diversity, inclusion and community are essential elements of UKCore," said UK Provost Kumble Subbaswamy. "It is only fitting, therefore, that 'Nation of Nations,' which makes manifest those values, will reside for the 2011-12 academic year in the W.T. Young Library, the academic core of the University."
Mike Mullen, associate provost for Undergraduate Education, said, "Guyon's art work is at once aesthetically rich and intellectually provocative, and as such symbolizes the university's commitment to the transformative purposes of general education."
In December 2010, UK's University Senate approved the implementation of a new curriculum in general education, beginning with the fall 2011 semester. The affirmative vote of the university's faculty governance body marked the culmination of a multi-year undertaking to reform this core curriculum, the first such comprehensive revision of general education in a generation. To celebrate this reform, UK will sponsor numerous campus events throughout the 2011-12 academic year, to which campus and the wider communities of Lexington and the Bluegrass Region will be invited.
UKCore is a course of study that all students, regardless of major, must complete. It lays the foundation for the lives of graduates in the workplace and homeplace, and in their communities. It embodies what the university believes every graduate will need in order to compete in a global marketplace, participate in democratic self-governance, and live a well-intentioned and meaningful life.
Further details about the "Nation of Nations" celebration event, slated for late August or early September in the W.T. Young Library, will be released later this summer.
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Absolutely Devastating News For Eddie Murphy This Morning
News has just come in that Eddie Murphy's older brother, Charlie Murphy, has passed away from leukaemia, aged just 57.
A stand-up performer in his own right, Charlie helped to write many of his brother's most famous films, including Norbit and Vampire in Brooklyn.
Tributes are flooding in for the star, who say they were touched by his sense of humour, when they honoured him on social media.
We just lost one of the funniest most real brothers of all time . Charlie Murphy RIP. pic.twitter.com/AAwItp5AJC— Chris Rock (@chrisrock) April 12, 2017
Fellow comedian Chris Rock was among the first to tweet his condolences, writing: "We just lost one of the funniest most real brothers of all time."
I haven't seen anything as funny as Charlie Murphy & Dave Chappelle's skits on the Chappelle's Show!— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) April 12, 2017
Former basketball great Magic Johnson tweeted: "I haven't seen anything as funny as Charlie Murphy & Dave Chappelle's skits on the Chappelle's Show!"
Damn, sorry to hear about my friend Charlie Murphy. He took a chance on a young director in The Player's Club. Always made me laugh. RIP pic.twitter.com/yChjFtSDH4— Ice Cube (@icecube) April 12, 2017
Rest in peace, Charlie.


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Multistage stochastic programming with fuzzy probability distribution
Abstract: In this paper, we study stochastic programs with partial
information on probability distribution (SPI) [1,2]. The probability distribution is
discrete and is only known to belongs to a given polyhedral set. Stochastic programs with
moment constraints in the probability distribution represent a special case of SPI
We extend the solution method for the two stage case [3], to solve the multistage SPI program. First, a certainty equivalent is constructed using the hypothesis that the Decision Maker (DM) has a pessimistic attitude and then the resulting program is solved using a modified version of the nested L-shaped method.
Keywords: Stochastic programming, Partial linear information, Multistage stochastic programming, Nested L-shaped decomposition method.
[1] P. Abel (1987) Stochastic linear programming with recourse under partial
information, in Probability and Bayesian statistics (Innsbruck, 1986), Plenum,
New York, pp.1-6.
[2] F. Ben Abdelaziz and H. Masri (2000): Linear programming under uncertainty: a chance constrained approach, in the proceedings of the international conference ACIDCA' 2000, 22-24 March 2000.
[3] F. Ben Abdelaziz and H. Masri (2001): Stochastic programming with fuzzy probability distribution, Submitted in the proceeding of the SCRO-JOPT conference, Mai 2001.


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What I usually do on weekends, when I have a lot of time and feel lethargic, is to roam around with my cyber feet in the world of internet and eavesdrop on what other people are saying (on their blogs). Of late, I started reading a lot of science blogs and from there drifted to women who practiced science and wrote blogs. Almost in each one of them, I encountered a discussion on the 'sexism' being experienced or seen at their workplaces. These were mostly American blogs ( I think all of them ).
Now I am not an academician, but I have a huge interest in science. I am also a female and happen to have deep interest in women rights. Topics like these, dealing with sexism and feminism, interest me. They invite me to speak in the cyber world and so, here I do.
India is a country with a huuuuuuuuuge baggage of culture. Some people tend to exalt this cultural load and others try to completely dismiss it. I prefer to take the middle route, which is to choose my pick from the offer on this giant plate.
Position of women, in terms of discretionary rights, has never been much here. Till about 20 years ago, women were largely the submissive housewives who looked after kids. Then, a small wave of change came and at least the urban women started going out and being assertive. With the boom of the IT and related industry more and more young females, who went to colleges, got jobs and got some independence. I am one of those. I went to the top college of the country to study in a field which is dominated by men. When I decided to join this college and the field, the first remarks I heard from every man around me (except my Father, who actually made me take it ) was that I was a fool taking up that subject and that I should drop it and settle for a lesser college. Unwarranted advise came for free. People felt free to give me directions as they desired because I was a young female, nerdy, but obviously not smart enough to make up my own mind.
I have often been a fierce speaker about women's rights. Sometimes, I concede, I go over the top. But most of the times, it is justified. It angers me more because people refuse to even accept that they have made sexist comments even if unintentionally. Perhaps, I am too fierce. But anyway, this bug bit me since I was in school. There, some boys gave it back to me by proclaiming that a "guy" had topped school when actually his percentage was lesser than mine and in reality, I, had topped the school. They totally, absolutely, refused to accept the simple and harmless and an inconsequential fact that a girl had beaten all the guys in the school to actually top the school. I did not understand this mentality at all. I could not figure out that why would someone hate me so much so as to blatantly un-acknowledge my achievements on my face. Was it because I was a woman and didn't behave like the coy, sweet, girl next door or because they really hated me? I could never tell.
When I got through a tough entrance exam, I went to share my joy with one of my mentors. He told me that the field I was going to go in was meant for men and I should not be taking it up. He actually said that!! On my face!! I lost all respect for him that day. There was another person, who told me what career I would eventually choose in life and his whole prediction was based on a single fact : me being a "female". There were others also but they can be ignored. These two can be not and never will be. I am glad that my parents were not affected in the least by any of these remarks and that I take pride in the fact that I was able to judge these 'sexist' remarks very early on and was not deterred by them.
When I actually entered the college, I came across such a flood of 'sexism' that I hadn't ever imagined or expected. 'Girls', being so few in number, were an item who needed to pleasure the eyes of men, who were so many. Those of us who reached there just 'got lucky' while the men-they totally deserved it. Girls, who performed better were so sincere and hard working and 'favorited' by the professors and those who performed worse were obviously 'dumb' as is their nature. It was an accepted, said and unsaid norm. They just used the guys to perform well in the exams ( I still wonder how) while the poor old boys did all the intelligent thinking and everything. And all this happened where some of the brightest people of my country go ( male and female ), where the first level intellectuals are made. 'Girls' were the butt of jokes and whole basis of 'satirical/comical' plays being put up in boys' hostel.
I should take a break here and just put a disclaimer that I absolutely have no problems in one person making fun of another person. It is harmless. I do it myself. But here, the issue is graver. It was a bi annual ritual to insult the girls of the college in boys hostel. I don't think it is harmless. It is intended targeting and was proudly done so. It was deeply 'sexist' in nature. If some one spoke against it, they had to face the ridicule of the whole batch. I should stop getting in detail because there will be too much to chronicle then. The point is, overt sexism was practiced in that institute and some boys even took pride in that. Girls, mostly, did nothing about it. Some of us who did, were an eyesore and anomaly. I thought then, and I think now, that it is very very unfortunate and again I applaud my girl friends who marched ahead with great aplomb without being deterred by these events.
College got over. It is now time to come face to face with reality. I talked about the booming Indian Service Sector. It is a little broad minded. As an employee, my services are valued equally(I think!). Mostly, because I think that in businesses the bottom line is "Revenue" and whoever brings it best will be your ally. So corporations will value those who give them value for money. Sounds fair!! Right? But it is fair on the surface only. The prejudices which have been sown in the minds of men are not so easily eliminated. Are they? The 'sexism' is rampant in the behavior. A free spirited girl is a slut, a smoking female is a wastrel and hiring more females is a policy so that the boys are kept 'entertained' and 'motivated'. Lest you not believe me, it is not a made up claim. It was an actual discussion which went on between my 'male' manager, my 'female' HR and my 'male' colleagues. I chose to not participate in it at all.
But even if it is on the surface, the somewhat equality which is there, feels great. I can't complain. There is sexism but it is not very blatant. It is tolerable for us because we are accustomed to much more of it.
I can't put my finger on any one factor responsible but there are many which come to my mind explaining this particular behavior of men. One, is of course the deep seated prejudice that boys are superior to girls, in all respects other than child rearing. In the urban educated India, this notion is being greatly modified but some of the chauvinism remains. It angers me!! It angers me so much.
It just does total discredit to a person because she happens to be a 'she'. To me, it is unacceptable. My colleagues sometimes feel, I am unnecessarily blowing up. I am not. Do I ever say it to them that they are incapable and insufficient, just because they are men. And if I did, on every single step of the way, how would they feel??
And I am not even getting to the men on the streets who very offensively and freely grope women passing by taking them as their property.
Why do they make it so difficult for us to be women? It could easily be sorted. Just let us be people, humans!!


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Malkin distorts Michelle Obama biography to attack her and her father as corrupt
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In her new book, Culture of Corruption, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin claims that first lady Michelle Obama "was literally born into the Chicago political corruptocracy," suggesting that because her father was a volunteer precinct captain and held a city job, she was a party to cronyism and embraced the practice. In fact, the biography of Michelle Obama that Malkin cites to make this case actually argued that the first lady's experience in the "powerful political machine" of Richard J. Daley made her and her family "extremely cynical about politics and politicians" until they met "Barack [Obama], whose political career was pushed in part by a coalition of people who had grown up in opposition to Daley and whose goal was breaking the Machine."
Malkin asserts Michelle Obama was born into "Chicago political corruptocracy"
From Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies (Regnery Publishing, July 2009):
In the Chicago patronage culture that made Michelle Obama, the color that matters most is neither black nor white, it is green -- the color of money. Mrs. Obama was literally born into the Chicago political corruptocracy. Her father, Fraser Robinson, was a volunteer precinct caption for the Democrat Party [sic]. Washington Post writer Liza Mundy called him "an essential member of the powerful political machine run by [Richard J.] Daley, who, in addition to being mayor, was the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee, meaning he controlled both the government and the political party, and could use one to do the other's bidding." Former alderman Leon Despres bluntly told Mundy that it was "overwhelmingly likely" that Robinson's job at the city water department was a reward for his loyalty. "The water department, where Fraser Robinson worked, was a renowned repository of patronage jobs."
Why such little scrutiny of Michelle the Merciless (or "That Other Michelle," as she's known in my house) and her crony-aided rise to power? Like her husband, Mrs. Obama is quick to play the victim card when her ill-considered statements and her dealings come under scrutiny. I don't call her President Obama's bitter half for nothing. [Page 43]
Biography cited by Malkin actually reported that Michelle Obama disliked machine politics
Liza Mundy's Michelle: A Biography actually explains that "Chicago in the 1960s was almost certainly the source of her oft-expressed skepticism about politics." Contrary to Malkin's use of Mundy's book to suggest that Michelle Obama embraced the culture of the Daley machine, Mundy actually writes:
While there were many pleasures in Michelle's childhood -- bikes could be left on sidewalks and moms could stay home and children could roam more freely than they do now -- it's also indisputable that the Chicago she grew up in was not entirely hospitable to citizens like Fraser Robinson and his aspirations to move his family forward. Her dad and her community may well explain her own grounded and hard-working nature, as well as her commitment to her children, but Chicago in the 1960s was almost certainly the source of her oft-expressed skepticism about politics. It was not only a racist and highly segregated city, but one with a complex and ambiguous political system, a system that Fraser Robinson participated in, either because he enjoyed politics or because it was one of the few paths open to an ambitious black man. [Michelle: A Biography, Page 23]
Mundy argued that Robinsons were "extremely cynical about politics and politicians" until they met Obama. Mundy reported:
But it's also likely that for all the pride Michelle took in her father's professional dedication, she also drew a lesson about politics. Part of Michelle's skepticism about it comes form the version she saw up close as a little girl: how the system bought you and protected you, but also controlled you. "If you didn't do this, didn't behave in a certain way," says [Don] Rose [Chicago political consultant and historian of city government], "you could lose your pay, [the Machine could] demote you, fire you." People who underperformed in their political work were susceptible to being "vised," or summarily fired. That was politics in Chicago. "Some of [Michelle's] subconscious -- some of her disdain as to politics could have to do with how [her father] was treated, and what he had to go through," says Al Kindle, a political consultant who grew up on the South Side.
And that, Kindle says, is why the black community was ambivalent about patronage and about Daley: the Machine lifted you up -- got you services and perks -- at the same time that it kept you down. "It was clear that you didn't get access to certain services unless you were a friend to the power structure. That spigot could be cut off. As a young African American with a family, you had to think about that with a jaundiced eye. Just as it helped you, it restricted your choice." So it could be that Robinson's son and daughter developed a dislike for politics even as they developed a deep, deep love for him. "We as a family were extremely cynical about politics and politicians" is how Craig [Robinson, Michelle Obama's brother] puts it. That started to change when they met Barack, whose political career was pushed in part by a coalition of people who had grown up in opposition to Daley and whose goal was breaking the Machine. [Michelle: A Biography, Pages 30-31]
Malkin ignored biography's argument that Frank Robinson had little choice but to be politically active while holding a city job
A former Chicago alderman told Mundy: "[T]he majority of the people were [serving as precinct captains] because their jobs depended on it." Mundy reported:
As a precinct captain, you could expect, in return for this political policing, a city job. In fact, doing "volunteer" work was almost the only way you could get one. "To get a city job, you'd have to have some kind of recommendation from your ward committeeman," says Don Rose, describing a system in which it was crucial to have a recommender, somebody watching out for you -- your patron. Daley kept a file cabinet with a list of jobs in it and was said to know the names of everybody who held them.
"We had some volunteers but the majority of the people were [serving as precinct captains] because their jobs depended on it," says Cliff Kelley, a former South Side alderman who [...] was familiar with machine culture. Most of the time, Kelley says, a person's political activism, and the job he held, were inseparably linked. [Michelle: A Biography, Pages 28-29]
In '50s and '60s, city jobs "insulated" African Americans "from the capriciousness and racism of the open job market." Mundy reported:
A city job was particularly valuable to an African American in that it insulated him somewhat from the capriciousness and racism of the open job market. "This was in the fifties and early sixties. Before affirmative action, patronage was as close as you could get to affirmative action, and if you didn't get rich, at least it was a steady job," says Rose. [Michelle: A Biography, Pages 28-29]
Malkin attacks Fraser Robinson, doesn't note he had M.S. but worked every day for decades "without complaint"
Citing Mundy's book in attacking Fraser Robinson, Malkin ignored Mundy's reporting that Robinson worked every day for decades despite being "crippled by multiple sclerosis." Mundy described Fraser Robinson as a "vigorous man who was crippled by multiple sclerosis, a progressive disease that set in when he was just in his thirties." Mundy wrote that Fraser's "congenial presence defined the home" Michelle Obama grew up in, with his "unflinching work ethic, his deep commitment to family, his view that who you are is defined not only by how you behave in public but what you do in the shadows, when nobody is watching." [Michelle: A Biography, Page 22]. Mundy added that Michelle and Craig "describe what an inspiration it was to both of them, seeing Fraser Robinson get up to go to work every day, something that became increasingly difficult after his disease set in. Despite the fact that he needed a cane -- and, later, crutches and eventually a motorized cart -- he never stopped working." [Michelle: A Biography, Page 30]
Mundy notes that in describing her father's "premature death," Michelle Obama said, "He died on his way to work." Mundy wrote that Fraser Robinson "had recently been in the hospital for a kidney operation, and afterward died unexpectedly of complications," adding that Michelle Obama also said of his passing: "He wasn't feeling well, but he was going to get in that car and go." [Michelle: A Biography, Page 30]
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This one was easy peasy....
Gold Spray Paint
New Foam
I used custom designed fabric by me, of course, for all my fabric, created the piping out of my stripe material and sewed everything together. I put in new 4 inch foam (Should have probably gone with the 3 inch) and cleaned and sprayed the entire frame with gold metallic spray paint.
I'm still working on the hubby's office so I just kinda threw something together for the pics.
The AFTER:
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One Trick Pony, Grand Rapids
You can't visit Grand Rapids without feeling the impact of its philanthropic denizens. From beautiful Meijer Gardens (Frederik Meijer) to DeVos Performance Hall (Richard M. DeVos), evidence abounds. But philanthropy in Grand Rapids isn't limited to corporate business owners. Restaurateurs and entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids have found creative ways to give back to the community, including one innovative program that aims to end hunger for children.
One restaurant owner who's serious about giving back is Dan Verhil, owner of The Cottage Bar and One Trick Pony. "Philanthropy is contagious," he says, "and this is a very philanthropic community we live in. There are a lot of good models of people who have given back. If I can do that in even a small way I'd like to emulate that."
That's exactly what he's done--but in a rather big way.
Verhil is this years recipient of the Michigan Restaurant Associations Cornerstone Humanitarian of the Year award. He received the statewide award, which was created by the National Restaurant Association, for his commitment to community service and community projects. It's the second time Verhil has been honored with the award; he was also the 2007 recipient.
As one of 50 nominees in contention for the National Award, which will be announced at the National Restaurant Association's Public Affairs Conference in Washington, DC. later this week, Verhil is eligible for a $5000 prize. If he wins, Verhil says he'll direct the winning to support local charities in Grand Rapids. That's not surprising, given that he's been hosting charity events at his restaurants for thirty-two years.
The Cottage Bar held its first annual chili cook-off in 1981, pitting chili chef against chili chef in the streets outside the restaurant. That first year, says Verhil, 12 chefs competed for bragging rights and proceeds benefited the Kidney Foundation of Michigan.
The event has grown in popularity and these days Verhil limits participation: the first 40 chili competitors to sign up are in. He fences off the entire first block of LaGrave Avenue and brings in a stage for musicians so guests can enjoy live music while the chefs tend to their chili under the tents. At 3:00 in the afternoon, an impartial panel of judges chooses the winner. It's one big charity block party, and over the years its netted more than $145,000 for Gilda's Club of Grand Rapids.
But Verhil's philanthropy doesn't stop there. Just around the corner, at One Trick Pony, he's raised over $75,000 for a number of local charities through the Monday Night Hat Trick Concert Series. That event has come to a close, but Verhil and friend Ralston Bowles have teamed up to launch Earthwork Music Presents Monday Night Live, featuring artists from the Earthworks Music Collective label. The first show, with artist The True Falsettos, took place last week. There are 3 more scheduled this spring (artists begin at 7:30 p.m.):
- 4/22: Jen Sygit, Americana singer-songwriter
- 5/6: Red Tail Ring, progressive/traditional folk duo
- 5/20: Gifts or Creatures, progressive/nostalgic Americana
But Dan Verhil's not the only philanthropic restaurateur in Grand Rapids.
The Gilmore Collections the B.O.B. hosts a twice-a-year fundraiser, Soups On For All!, which benefits Catholic Charities West Michigan. Each year the event raises over $100,000 to help CCWM deliver meals to the homebound, stock food pantries, and more.
And chefs from a number of local restaurants join forces to annually to support the Signature Chefs March of Dimes Auction. (Last year's participants included chefs from local favorites--Amore Trattoria Italiana, Bostwick Lake Inn and six.one.six.) Guests at the fundraiser sample culinary delectables and bid on silent and live auction items to raise money for lifesaving research and educational programs, including the March of Dimes NICU Family Support Program at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital.
If all of these restaurants are making you think about going out to dinner, wait! Instead of just eating a meal out, you can score a deal, eat out, and help feed a hungry child in one fell swoop. How? Jonathan Kumar is glad you asked!
Kumar, founder of FoodCircles.net, wants consumers to stop and think for just a minute before we head out to eat for the evening. His company contracts with local restaurants to give customers a deal if they eat at their restaurant. Currently, that means $5 off of a $25 bill at San Chez, for example, or free crack fries at HopCat. When you redeem your voucher, FoodCircles makes a donation that helps feed a hungry child. Users choose whether to support Kids Food Basket, a local charity, or World Vision, an international charity. Either way, the restaurants gets customers, you get a deal, and a child gets a meal. Its a win-win-win.
When he talks about kids and hunger, Kumar is passionate about the cause. "The ultimate solution is education and awareness for the parents," he explains, "but while were in this process kids shouldn't have to suffer. These kids aren't able to study and play when they want to because they're operating on an empty stomach. After two years, that has permanent effects. It impacts their high school experience, their college, their future, their job. It all starts with getting basic dinners at home."
Since the FoodCircles website and free app premiered in Grand Rapids just a year ago almost 1300 children have been fed.
FoodCircles will be launching a new easier-to-understand model in the next few months, where consumers will purchase a coupon for an appetizer, dessert, or non-alcoholic drink at participating restaurants for just $1. "Think of it like a Groupon with a conscience," says Kumar, where 100% of your $1 goes to feed kids in need. Grand Rapids restaurants benefit from increased traffic and additional sales, says Kumar, and he believes these patrons are likely to be repeat customers. Essentially restaurants are able to meet new customers who are very passionate and loyal to causes, says Kumar. "They're getting a customer who believes what they believe: that no one should go hungry."


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Oddly…hot…I wasn't sure about this one…it had an 'odd' overly filling flavor that somewhat tasted of Lychee but also tasted artificial and chewy but not in a good way.
BUT…cold…this one I prefer cold over hot. It seem tolerable cold and more fruity and less 'odd' tasting for some reason.
This is alright cold.
Thanks for send my way LiberTEAs!