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The last couple years we try to make it out to Vegas for the holidays and my birthday. This trip was a culinary expedition.
Bouchon for breakfast on our first morning there. Donuts! Nutella! Oh.my.god!
As if that wasn't enough of a fat fest we decided to go to Sushi Samba for some fab dinner and yummy dessert! Mr. Frugal Foodie LOVED it! Sad to say no pics! But here's my bday cake! Oh and they had some cool graffiti on the wall. We felt at home. :)
the following night was the pinnacle of gluttony! Craftsteak! OMG! The waiter asked us if we had time commitments before we starting our tasting menu. We ate for over 2 hours. The team of servers are great. Great service. We walked for prob over a mile so we would not die of over indulgence after our meal!
We also went to Lotus of Siam off the strip which is supposed to be the best Thai food this side of Thailand. I liked it but didn't love it. Next time. I still go for Bangkok Taste over it.


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Inauguration day : ISIS Declares Bloody War on Trump's Inauguration day : Calls it a "Bloody Friday" – ISLAMIC STATE is planning a 'Bloody Friday' assault on the SAME DAY as Donald Trump is inaugurated as US president. ISIS have been reported to have recruited a number of new English speaking operatives in recent months in a major bid to communicate the messages ahead of the day.
When Trump will be taking over the 45th presidential seat on Friday 20th, January in Washington DC, The US special forces will be on a high Alert.
Security analysts have been following communications between members of the group who are planning large scale attacks on that day, it has been claimed.
READ: Clintons to attend Trump's inauguration ceremony.
Inauguration day : ISIS Declares Bloody War on Trump's Inauguration day
From a report, ISIS has expanded production of special editions of official videos with English subtitles in recent weeks and with a view to reinforcing targets on US soil.
And their ISIS-linked Amaq Agency Telegram channels have resumed posting on social networks after they were went temporarily offline following a terror attack in the US last Monday.
In records, at least 9 were injured, when a car was drove by a killer into a crowd on the campus of Ohio State University.
Columbus Police reported that The attacker began to stab those at the scene with a large knife. But later on, he was identified as 18-year-old Somali refugee Abdul Razak Ali Artan and killed at the scene.
The news came as Britain was revealed to be among the countries which are "high on the target list" for aggression from the group, the European Union's law enforcement body warned.
Increased military pressure on ISIS – including a major offensive in Mosul, Iraq has sparked concern about potential displacement of militants.
The report said: "Those who manage to enter the EU will pose a potential security risk for the Union. Given the high numbers involved, this represents a significant and long-term security challenge."
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ordered a halt to same-sex marriages in Utah on Monday, sending a go-slow signal as it suspended a federal district judge's decision that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry.
The terse order came with no dissents, suggesting justices are not ready to recognize a right to gay marriage nationwide and are reluctant to allow a lower court to nudge them into answering a legal question they carefully avoided in two landmark gay rights rulings last year.
"If this means anything, it means they want a little more time to decide this," said Cornell University law professor Michael Dorf, a former court clerk. "And this order guarantees that."
The order puts a stop to the issuance of new marriage licenses for gay and lesbian couples in Utah while the state appeals to the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. About 1,000 marriage licenses were issued over the last two weeks after a federal district judge's Dec. 20 ruling.
The appeals court is expected to rule this year, which probably means the losing side won't get a final decision from the Supreme Court before 2015.
Monday's order, which one gay rights advocate likened to hitting the "pause button," came as a surprise and disappointment to some. It also left in doubt the legal unions of gay and lesbian couples in Utah while the state debates whether to uphold or invalidate marriages conducted before the Supreme Court stay.
"It is very unfortunate that so many Utah citizens have been put into this legal limbo," said Utah Atty. Gen. Sean Reyes. He said his office was "carefully evaluating the legal status of the marriages that were performed since the district court's decision and will not rush to a decision that impacts Utah citizens so personally."
Gay marriage has been steadily gaining acceptance in opinion polls, state legislatures and state courts. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia allow same-sex couples to marry, but at least 28 states — including Utah — have constitutional provisions that limit marriage to a man and a woman.
Gay rights advocates want the Supreme Court to override state bans and recognize same-sex marriage as a constitutional right. But the justices have made clear they want to move cautiously, preferring to affirm a constitutional right after gay marriage has gained broad acceptance, rather than impose a new mandate that is controversial and disputed in much of the nation.
Last year, advocates of same-sex marriage won two significant victories in the Supreme Court, but not an unqualified right to marry. The justices, on a 5-4 vote, struck down a federal law that denied equal federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples.
They also handed down a procedural ruling that cleared the way for gay marriages in California, but they stopped short of creating a constitutional right nationwide or tackling the question of whether states may enforce a more traditional definition of marriage.
On Dec. 20, U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby in Salt Lake City said the high court's June opinion led to the inevitable conclusion that gays and lesbians had an equal right to marry. He struck down Utah's constitutional ban on same-sex marriages and refused to put his decision on hold while the state appealed.
The 10th Circuit Court also refused to stay the ruling.
Last week, Utah's attorney general sought a temporary stay from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who has jurisdiction over such requests from the state. She referred it to the entire Supreme Court, which granted the stay.
The one-paragraph order offered no clues about how justices might ultimately rule. Some legal experts said that if the court had refused to issue the stay, it might have been seen as a strong indication that justices were ready to go further than they had in June.
Michael J. Klarman, a legal historian at Harvard Law School, said he was surprised by the stay because he believed the same five-justice majority that struck down the federal benefits ban in the Defense of Marriage Act would eventually vote in favor of a constitutional right to gay marriage.
"They might prefer to duck the issue for a couple more years," said Klarman, who published a book last year on the struggle for same-sex marriage. "But the historical handwriting on the wall is simply too clear for any of them to want to associate themselves with what will increasingly appear to be a bigoted position."
Others viewed the court's decision to grant the stay as a warning to lower courts that they should avoid moving too quickly on the issue.
"The trial court's ruling in Utah goes further than the court has gone so far, and so it is not surprising that the justices — without comment or dissent — put that ruling on hold, pending further review," said Notre Dame law professor Richard Garnett. He noted that the court often gave states the benefit of the doubt when they appealed.
Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union were disappointed but said the court's action should not affect gay couples who lawfully married in Utah.
"Though future marriages are on hold for now, the state should recognize as valid those marriages that have already been issued," said John Mejia, legal director for the ACLU of Utah.
A similar issue arose in California in 2008 after the state Supreme Court ruled that gays and lesbians could marry. The same-sex marriages that ensued were upheld as valid, even though voters passed Proposition 8 within months, restoring a state ban on gay marriages.
But in Utah, the federal judge's ruling is not a final decision because it is still under appeal, so the question of validity is less clear.
Opponents of gay marriage welcomed the high court's intervention.
"It was outrageous that this brazen judge appointed by President Obama would substitute this view for the sovereign decision by both the Utah Legislature and the people of the state, who voted overwhelmingly in favor of defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman," said Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage.
Shelby was recommended for the bench by Utah's two Republican senators, Orrin G. Hatch and Mike Lee.


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Exploring the different kinds of mentors there are... We either do these things for others or we seek them for ourselves.
Augment-or: Helps you be you in all facets
Augment-or: Helps you be you in all facets
Bewilderment-or: Helps the lost find a path
Cement-or: Part of the foundation of your community, keeping it together
Discouragement-or: Teaches how to handle feedback
Embodiment-or: A role model
Fulfillment-or: Uncovers desires and dreams
Gedankenexperiment-or:Theories of mentoring and networking brought to life
Harassment-or: When you need someone to help you find a way out
Impalement-or: Lets you get away with nothing
Judgment-or: We're all good at this to differing degrees.
Knackerment-or: (thx Karin!) They know how to do a really good debrief
Lament-or: When the world just seems too much, they hold your hand
Movement-or: Helps you frame your vision
Nourishment-or: Feeds your passion
Ordainment-or: Helps you find your calling
Pavement-or: Builds a road with you to wherever you're going
Quiet Enjoyment-or: (thx Anne!) Can sit in silence and relax while you both think
Readjustment-or: Support during the first stages of change
Sediment-or: Asks you to dig right to the bottom
Testament-or: Also an active sponsor as well as mentor
Undergarment-or: Serves as a foundation while you make plans
Testament-or: Also an active sponsor as well as mentor
Undergarment-or: Serves as a foundation while you make plans
Varmint-or: Offers new perspective on those who drive you crazy
Wonderment-or: Uncovers new passions in you
Wonderment-or: Uncovers new passions in you
Xenograft-or: Mentoring at its most basic
Yield-or: Invests time and expertise into helping others grow
Zest-or: Creates excitement and interest within you
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Sportanddev reflects on how basketball has served as a tool for peace-building and social development and has been trying to make this world a better place.
Basketball is a team sport, the objective being to shoot a ball through a basket horizontally positioned to score points while following a set of rules. Usually, two teams of five players play on a marked rectangular court with a basket at each width end. Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports
Visit the website of FIBA to find out more about basketball
Basketball as a tool for development
There are currently many organisations and initiatives trying to bring peace and development through basketball. PeacePlayers International (PPI), for instance, is an innovative global organisation that uses basketball to unite and educate young people in divided and underserved communities, like Northern Ireland, South Africa, Cyprus and Middle East. Other organisations, like Crassover basketball and Scolars Academy, Youth Basketball League Zambia, Hoops 4 Hope and Basketball for Development, are also seeking to bring social development through basketball in many different regions of the world.
Basketball spreading the message of peace and truce
In February 2012 the IOTC launched its collaboration with the Hellenic Basketball League. This collaboration sought to educate and involve the youth in the concept and the aspects of the Olympic Truce. The two collaborating organisations hope that this collaboration will lead to the dissemination of the ideals of Olympism and the Olympic truce.
Visit the website of the IOTC for the press release (available only in Greek)
Basketball promoting health, leadership and education
There are many different programmes and initiatives worldwide that are using basketball to bring social change. Basketball without Borders (BWB), for example, is FIBA and the NBA's global basketball development and community relations outreach program that promotes leadership, education, sportsmanship and healthy living with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.
Since the inaugural camp was held in 2001, BWB has had more than 225 NBA/FIBA players, coaches and team personnel from all 30 NBA teams serve as camp coaches for some 1'000 young athletes coming from over 100 countries and territories worldwide.
Basketball for social inclusion
In 2010 Red Deporte, Fundación Sociocultural de Baloncesto de la Federación Española, Federación de Baloncesto de la Comunidad Valenciana and Generalitat Valenciana organised a Basketball tournament for immigrants in Valencia, Spain. The Basketball tournament, aiming at helping better integration of foreign migrants in Spain, took place in Ciutat de Castello grounds, bringing together residents of the Valencia Region, who originally are from Poland, Iran, the Dominican Republic, Romania, Senegal and the Philippines.
Manual: Fighting AIDS through basketball
There is also a manual published by EduSport Foundation demonstrating how basketball movement games can be a powerful methodology to help young people to learn about HIV/AIDS and other related issues through their active participation. Learning in this way provides a platform that promotes enjoyment, encourages cooperative learning and physically demands the involvement of the participant.
This manual is primarily targeted at basketball coaches/instructors and physical education teachers. The manual can also be of great use to youth peer coaches, to people working with children, and to sports and physical activity leaders.
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To recapitulate, basketball is not only about high profile players, scoring and dunking. It is also about bringing people together, raising awareness about social issues and bridging differences and rivalries. And when this happens, we could definitely say "I love this game".


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Much of the responsibility for this shift lies with the IT department. Workers must have reliable access to data and applications. Additionally, an increasing number of mobile workers need 24/7 support in order to do their job in the field. Any downtime can have critical impact on productivity and hinder responsiveness and agility.
Desktop Transformation can dramatically improve the operational efficiency of an organization. By centralizing the management of all data and applications, IT organizations can ensure that workers experience maximum uptime and reliable access. Additionally, security can be centrally administered reducing the risk of data theft/loss and viruses that can severely impact productivity. Given that data resides on the server rather than distributed laptops, it can be backed up and recovered quickly should disaster strike, ensuring business continuity.
A successful Desktop Transformation rollout requires careful planning to ensure a seamless transition for all workers. Quality of service and support must be maintained. Consequently, an organization must have a clearly defined transformation roadmap and conduct a 360 degree impact analysis at each rollout stage. Most important, user confidence and support must be attained and leveraged for a successful company-wide deployment.
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Tabar has spent a great deal of his career in the field of hedge fund management, one of the most competitive and challenging environments. He was previously at Bank of America as the head of capital strategy.
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According to Bloomberg, Sam Tabar has a law degree from Columbia law school. He also earned a degree from Oxford University with honors. He also edited the Columbia law journal. He is a part of the New York State Bar as a member.
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After Obama awarded Susan Rice, former US Ambassador to the United Nations, for lying to the American public about the attack on Benghazi being the result of a protest over a YouTube video – appointing her his National Security adviser, he nominated Samantha Power as US Ambassador to the United Nations. Retired Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin, on Wednesday, joined other conservatives opposing Power's nomination citing her "track record" indicating she would likely concede US sovereignty to that globalist institution.
Speaking at the National Press Club, Boykin said, "Samantha Power's attitude that we cede our sovereignty to the United Nations is very misguided and very dangerous as far as I'm concerned."
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"This monolithic body called the United Nations would very much like to usurp the individual liberties of Americans and be a global dominant government," said Boykin, who is the executive vice president of the family and faith advocacy group, Family Research Council. "We should be proud to be Americans, and if you look at Samantha Power's track record there is a strong indication that her attitude is just the opposite."
"That she would like to very much convince us that we should be ashamed of America," Boykin said, adding that people should investigate what Power has said and written in the past as he has done.
"I think you will conclude, just as I have, is what she would really like to do is to cede our authority to that international body," Boykin said.
Boykin cited his service to his country, and the freedom it affords from the men and women who protect it, led him to speak out in opposition of Power. Boykin said, "I have the privilege and liberty to stand up and say I oppose her, and I oppose her on the grounds of US sovereignty."
Frank Gaffney, President and founder of the Center for Security Policy, "held the press conference to announce that 49 groups and individuals signed a letter sent to every member of Congress this week to express their opposition to Power's nomination."
The letter to Congress read:
"Now, more than ever, the United States needs to return to the kind of U.N. representation it has enjoyed in the past with prominent figures from both parties, such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Jeanne Kirkpatrick and John Bolton. They loved and admired our nation, exulted in its exceptionalism and courageously defended it against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
"They were under no illusions about the United Nations and routinely challenged efforts to increase its influence and power at America's expense. Samantha Power's decades-long track record makes clear that she neither embraces these principles nor is disposed to play this important role in advancing them."
Gaffney called Power a "very problematic nomination" since she has long been "harshly critical" of the United States. "Her position is easily confused with that of people who are actually enemies of the United States when it comes to the character of this country, its role in the world and the kind of positions it has embraced and stood for and espoused," said Gaffney.
Lt. Col. Allen West, a Republican from Florida who served in Congress, called Power "an uber-left, militant progressive whose previous statements against America and Israel should cause us concern."
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Powers wrote in a March 3, 2003 article in The New Republic: "And the American approach must cease its reliance on gratuitous unilateralism. We make rules and create international institutions precisely in order to bind states when their short-term interests would otherwise lead them toward defection. The United States is willing to bind itself to the World Trade Organization, because it knows it benefits more than any other country from free trade, but not to the [International Crime Commission] ICC, because there is no good selfish reason to expose American citizens to external scrutiny."
If you recall, Samantha Powers was a senior foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama, and is considered to have played an instrumental role in shaping his foreign policy. Ms. Powers was forced to resign during the first campaign because of "disparaging remarks about Hilary Clinton. She returned to work for Obama soon after he took office and has been widely praised for her work, especially on the issue of the Libya intervention." Her current role is head of the human rights division of the National Security Council. Looking at Obama's failed foreign policy and US international troubles because of it, Ms. Power should be excluded from any position in government.
It is no surprise that Obama would nominate someone like Samantha Power for the US Ambassador to the United Nations position; after all, it would appear she shares the same views as our current sitting president. He has demonstrated consistently his disdain for the principles upon which our country was founded, nominating individuals who work endlessly to rip our Constitution to shreds. If Power is confirmed to the position by Congress, they will have driven one more nail into the coffin of the United States. With her views and attitudes coupled with Obama's beliefs, individual sovereignty and US sovereignty will be dragged by the hair, kicking and screaming, into the "global world order;" and, Congress would have put us there by confirming her nomination.
It would be prudent to contact your Senators to encourage them to deny confirmation of Samantha Power to the position of US Ambassador of the United Nations.
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The last line -ssc inst gam- which appears by default is on this
occasion misleading.
. ssc copy gam.zip
will copy gam.zip to the current working directory or folder. Then you
need to unzip it using the program that is your favourite for that
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Rex Morgan returned to the strip bearing his name a couple Sundays ago. HeÔÇÖd been gone since June 29. Over five monthsÔÇÖ absence. Oddly, no one noticed this untoward occurrence until approximately December 14 when Mike Kernels at the Virginia Pilot blew the whistle on Woody Wilson, who writes the strip. Kernels asked Wilson if heÔÇÖd ever done anything like this beforeÔÇöif heÔÇÖd ever taken the spotlight off the title character for such a stretch in the 19 years heÔÇÖs been writing the strip. "I have not," explained Wilson. Well, noÔÇötrulyÔÇöhe hasnÔÇÖt absented Rex Morgan for anything like five months before. Not Rex Morgan. But heÔÇÖs effectively written another title character out of his own strip: Wilson also writes Judge Parker whose title character has been gone for so long heÔÇÖs all but forgotten. Wilson has been writing both strips since 1990 when he inherited them from Nicholas Dallis. No contest: Wilson is the funniesÔÇÖ reigning expert at writing strips whose title characters arenÔÇÖt there.
But Wilson is scarcely the first to prey upon his readersÔÇÖ affections in this dubious manner. In Terry and the Pirates, Milton Caniff used to send Terry off camera for months, leaving the stage to other characters (mostly Pat Ryan but, later, Hotshot Charlie). At first, Caniff performed this dodge in order to enable Terry to grow up a little out of sight from the scrutiny of diligent hawk-eyed readers of the famed strip. In the early 1940s, Terry went away looking like a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old kid and came back 3-4 months later looking like a seventeen- or eighteen-year-oldÔÇöold enough, that is, to enlist in the air corps and take pilot training so he could participate in the World War II hostilities then enveloping the planet.
The maneuver worked so well in Terry that Caniff revived it in Steve Canyon over the last decades of that stripÔÇÖs run, regularly rotating members of an ensemble cast on and off the stage; Steve sometimes disappeared for half-a-year at a time. But Mike Kernels at the Virginia Pilot doubtless never heard of Steve Canyon, Milton Caniff or Terry and the Pirates. The only people writing for newspapers these days are punk kids just graduated from college and therefore too young and inexperienced to find jobs in vocations that arenÔÇÖt about to become extinct. CaniffÔÇÖs strips all happened before Kernels was born.
And so Kernels is left to wild speculation about the importance of title characters to their comic strips: "What would Hagar the Horrible be without Hagar?" he asks. And answers: "Just horrible. Mary Worth? Worthless. [Kernels probably set this whole thing up in order to make that joke.] The Phantom? Non-existent."
In Rex Morgan, Rex and his loyal wife June (formerly his nurse, for, say, forty years) and their daughter went on a cruise in June where they had one adventure, and then Wilson was stuck, he claimed: "TheyÔÇÖre out at sea," he elaborated to Kernels, "ÔÇöwe couldnÔÇÖt bring them back right away. So I just let them keep going."
Meanwhile, the storyline got tangled up around RexÔÇÖs new (relatively speaking) nurse, Becka Hanson, who went looking for two escaped AlzheimerÔÇÖs sufferers while simultaneously fending off the romantic advances of "the not-so-suave Tim," as Kernels put it.
"Unlike most strips," Kernels said, "Rex Morgan has evolved into an ensemble. Think of it like a comic-strip version of ÔÇśGreyÔÇÖs AnatomyÔÇÖ with Becka as Izzie, her doctor/husband Peter as McSteamy and Rex asÔÇöyou got itÔÇöMcDreamy."
See? Kernels never heard of the most celebrated ensemble strip of allÔÇönamely, Steve Canyon.
But Kernels is merely elaborating on what Wilson told him: "You try to create a back story, a story where Rex and June are not the only compelling characters but the rest of the cast as well. WeÔÇÖve got a lot of good characters. Becka being one of them."
The AlzheimerÔÇÖs continuity was hardly a spontaneous invention: a relative of WilsonÔÇÖs was stricken with the ailment, and Wilson felt "compelled" to address it in the strip. Rex Morgan often focuses on some current medical issue. Back near its beginning in 1948, it dealt with leprosy, a nearly taboo subject then. More of the same have regularly ensued. And will continue to ensue, no doubt. However, we should be prepared for future episodes during which the suave Rex is not on camera.
But on December 14, Rex and his happy family returned home only to find it occupied by someone else, who had moved in and taken over the place while Rex was off gallivanting in the Barbados.
Rex Morgan is the second-best well-drawn realistic comic strip in the papers. Graham Nolan draws it. To find out the first-best well-drawn realistic comic strip drawer, ÔÇÖtoon in here on Monday, December 28, after all the festivities are, until Thursday, over.
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Cornerstone Motorcycle Ministry - "Givin 'em Heaven" since 1978
We seek to come alongside all bikers with Love, Respect, Loyalty, and Honor with our
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Sellers, don't pay municipal debt older than three years
In the case of Argent Industrial Investment (Pty) Ltd v Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality the seller had received and paid his utility bills for five and a half years on estimated readings. When the municipality eventually took an actual reading, it was discovered that the actual consumption and the estimate differed by R1,1m. The seller was billed for this amount.
The court had to consider whether the charges older than three years prescribed or had prescription only started running once the seller was billed for the actual readings?
Municipalities may not charge forward projections for clearance certificates
The court held that the municipality had been aware of all the facts giving rise to the debt: The identity of the seller; that it was paying an account based on estimates and that they had not taken an actual reading in almost six years.
The municipality's failure to read the meter for that amount of time was not reasonable and cannot be imputed to the seller. As such, the court declared debts older than three years to have been prescribed and the seller could not be held liable for them.
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New York City Getaways
New York International Automobile Show
April 19-28
Take Metro-North's discount package to the New York International Automobile Show and save on rail fare and admission. Preview the latest in automotive excitement from futuristic concept cars to never-before-seen production models. Fun for the whole family!
Metro-North monthly/weekly ticket holders who wish to purchase only the Auto Show admission ticket must do so at a Metro-North ticket office. Discount will not be honored by presenting your rail pass at the Auto Show.
The show is open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
For more information, visit http://www.autoshowNY.com or call 800-282-3336.
- ADMISSION: Discount Show admission: adults/seniors/disabled/individuals receiving Medicare, $14; children 5-12, $5; children 3-4, $3; children under 3, free.
- RAIL FARE: Discount round-trip rail fare. Check here for your boarding station.
Address: Jacob K. Javits Center (Eleventh Avenue between 34th and 40th Streets).
Take the Hudson, Harlem or New Haven Line to Grand Central Terminal. From there take the train to 34th and 40th Streets & Hudson Yards Station (MetroCard required for subway ride).
IMPORTANT: Be sure to print an ITINERARY. It contains important information about your package.
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I am an Exotic Woman
I'm an exotic woman: half black and half Vietnamese. You've seen women like me in Jay-Z videos. There's always one. In fact, you've seen me in a Jay-Z video. I was paid two thousand dollars to dance and drink Cristal for a few hours. I have the high-perched ass and big Bantu titties of my father's people and the shy rice paddy slant eyes of my mother's people. Men tell me all the time how "exotic" I am.
I'm a hysteric. A lot of women don't like this term. Most women are brainless cunts who don't even want to be women. They whine for their castrated men to give them an identity, the more banal the better, and if the loser accidentally gives them anything good, they pout and sulk. That's your average cunt. I'm a cunt too, but there's nothing average about me. I deploy my demure smile and demand the best, and when I get it, I open like a sunflower.
It was a Friday morning. I had woken up in the arms of a very lovely boy, a poet, broke of course, but ready to sacrifice everything for me. He begged me to drive to Mexico with him so we could get lost looking for the chupacabra together in the mescal groves. I told him he was sweet and spread my legs. When I give a man my body, I give it to him completely, and Dmitri was poet enough to see the beauty of my soul in the symmetry of my perfect ass. After forty minutes of inspired lovemaking he grunted something about Hegel's concrete universal and then came on my double D's. I could see the sincerity in his blue eyes: a voluptuous pleasure your average brainless cunt will never know.
A few hours later I could still feel Dmitri inside me. I had decided to go shopping on Fifth Avenue. I love beautiful things, and I have the money to afford them. I wanted to buy a new bottle of perfume to wear that night for my date with Robert, a brain surgeon with a cleft chin with whom I had been having an affair for a few months. The last time we had seen each other he took me out to dinner at Cobalt. Our bottle of champagne cost a thousand dollars, and Christian Bale was sitting two tables down from us.
I was about to walk into the Lanvin store on 55th street when I noticed him. He stopped dead in his tracks to watch me jiggle by. As soon as I turned towards him, he looked at the ground and blushed. This happens to me about twenty times a day. This peeper was a skinny, middle-aged Caucasian of average height. He was wearing a light blue button-up shirt, khaki pants, ugly nondescript shoes with clunky soles, and a parka. I had a vision of him in Dillard's carefully deciding which pair of characterless brown shoes to buy. He had the kind of face no one remembers.
I live a life of pleasure. Anyone who claims that hedonism is empty and shallow is too much of a coward to try to live such a life himself. I eat fine food, I share my bed with extraordinary men, and I spend my free time cultivating my tastes in music, literature, philosophy and art. I saved the money I made working as a model and escort and used it to buy an apartment building in Newark. I flipped it a year later, bought two more, flipped them too, and now I don't have to worry about money anymore. I am thirty-two years old. My parents were poor and stupid when they were alive and now that they are dead I rarely think about them.
This man was the opposite of everything I am. He was a coward: a man who had never taken a risk in his life, a man who took no joy from his presence on earth, a man who watched beautiful women walk by and no longer even hated himself for not having the courage to approach them.
I am a hard woman. I have no pity for the weak. Life is hard, and no one can live it for you. Either you want to live or you don't.
Perhaps it was because I had just seen Dmitri, but I found myself elaborating a fantasy about this omega male. It was a crucial moment in the smurf's life: the flush I had caused in his cheeks would only diminish in intensity as the years piled up. He would never be more alive than he was right now. Not to say that he was alive now. Just more alive than he would be in a week, a month, a year, or a decade.
Then and there I decided to give this man the kind of explicit opportunity that he had never had the balls or the brains to create for himself. Not out of pity, not out of kindness, but out of simple scientific curiosity. After so many years living in fear, how would an encounter with the woman of his dreams affect him?
As soon as I made the decision to seduce him I began to get the butterfly feeling in my pussy that always precedes a seduction. Robert disappeared from my mind completely. The truth was that Robert had begun to bore me, as all men eventually do.
The man had now turned his back to me. Taking out a cigarette, I walked up to him and tapped him on the shoulder.
He flinched and turned around when I touched him. His intelligent eyes protruded a little from his sockets when he saw who it was.
"Excuse me, do you have a light?"
Here was his first opportunity. I wasn't going to make it too easy on him too fast. After all, a real man would have already approached me. I wanted to see how much iron was left in him.
"Uh…I don't smoke." His eyes pleaded with me not to disappear, but he was incapable even of doing honor to this blatant invitation by responding in a minimally flirtatious way.
He couldn't handle the fastball. I pitched him a floater.
"Didn't your father teach you always to carry matches with you in case a lady needs a light?"
Notice that I do not split my infinitives.
I waited for the gloss but none came. Is this what the average woman puts up with every day?
The fear in his eyes told me that laying it on any thicker would cause an alarm to go off. I was beginning to get a sense for what kind of man he was: a boring moralizer too hung up on "honesty" and the "truth" to tolerate even three seconds of seductive epistemological uncertainty.
I would have to drop the sexy act and engage with him on the level of signification. How boring. This man had gone forty years without realizing that he had been destroying sexuality within the first five seconds of every encounter with a woman.
I have many expressions in my repertoire. Put a porch monkey bitch in front of me and I will go ghetto. I will slash a bitch with the box cutter I keep in my purse. I will set a bitch's weave on fire.
I dialed up the shy smile I stole from my flat-assed Viet cousin Xuan. The man dropped his gaze, stealing a peep at my double D's before focusing somewhere on the sidewalk.
"Look…I'll be honest with you. I saw you looking at me. I know the effect I have on men. The fact is that I'm in a very peculiar mood today. So why don't you come have a drink with me and catch the next bus?" I had already begun threading my arm through his and leading him towards the St. Regis King Cole hotel bar down the street.
The bartender smiled when he saw me. Hinkel is a dear man who makes the best Gin Fizzes in Manhattan. I wasn't in the mood for a Gin Fizz.
"Two double Scotches on the rocks, please…your best single malt." Hinkel's fat bishop's face broke into a ruddy smile.
"Of course, Miss Williams."
My prey stared at the mahogany paneling with a sick expression on his face. I turned to him.
"What's your name?"
"Like Stanley? Or is it Stanislas? Maybe Stanford?"
"It's Tristan." The little accompanying snort indicated that the irony of this impossible name did not escape him. One of my interests is Jungian psychoanalysis. This man had shriveled in response to the romantic name he was unable to live up to. My own name is Tran. I saw no need to share this with him.
"Is this some kind of a joke?" The last word was pronounced with a certain bitterness.
"This…you. I'm not dumb enough to think you might actually be interested in me. So why are we here? Are a couple of guys about to hustle me into the bathroom and rob me?" He attempted to sneer.
Finally a sign of life. I rewarded it with a little smile.
"Tristan, let me explain a few things to you. You seem like the kind of man who needs explanations. It's unfortunate. As I told you, I am in a peculiar mood today. You're right, of course, that women like me are not interested in men like you: men with ugly clothes and no confidence. But women like me are capricious, and today I have decided to pick a man like you and allow him to realize his dreams with me. Call it perversity, call it curiosity, call it what you like, but I can assure you that you are never going to have an opportunity like this again."
Tristan flinched and took a big gulp of his Scotch.
"But why? Why me?"
"That is precisely the kind of response I would have expected from you."
Enough of this.
"Tristan, I am not a patient person. Even now you refuse to allow yourself to admit what is happening to you. Let me be even more clear: I am offering you full access to my body as well as my mind, for no reason. I find your stupid hesitation boring, and will not put up with it much longer."
Tristan finally tore his eyes away from the bar and looked at me. His eyes were beginning to water. He closed them then spoke slowly and with great bitterness.
"I've been married for twelve years. My wife is boring and unattractive. We have a mentally retarded son. I claim to love him but that's a lie. You're the only person I've ever admitted that to. My wife loves our retarded son more than she would have loved a normal child. It's disgusting. Every day I think about throwing myself under the wheels of the bus that I take to and from work, but I am a coward. I masturbate to images of women like you…exotic women…at night before I go to bed."
The detail about the retarded son alone was worth the boring lay I was going to have to endure in a few minutes.
His mouth twitched as if struggling with something. His eyes remained closed. If I had been a more generous person I would have chosen that moment to take his hand and lead him up to a hotel room, but I had made it too easy for Tristan already. Without opening his eyes, he spoke.
"I…want you more than I've ever wanted anything before."
Maudlin, embarrassing, and probably not even true. I'm sure he wanted Suzy Applebottom in the 9th grade more than he wanted me. I had a sudden vision of a middle-aged convict struggling to read Harry Potter.
"Then take me, Tristan."
He looked at the bar and nodded vigorously as if assenting to some inner voice. He leaped out of his stool, grabbed me by the hand and led me to the registration desk. We were practically running.
"Give us your best room," he told the clerk. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith."
There it was: probably the most dignified act of his life.
On our way up to the room I could feel my pussy getting slippery. This is an entirely mechanical process, and happens whenever I know I am about to have sex, whether I am excited or not.
Tristan was trembling.
We walked into the hotel room. Tristan tried to kiss me. I pushed him back.
"No kissing," I said, as I slipped out of the Chanel dress I had been wearing. In ten seconds I was completely naked. I arched my back and looked down. The sight of my black nipples pointing straight out from my perfect, firm breasts excited me.
"Do you like my breasts?"
"They're the most beautiful things I've ever seen."
God, give me a break.
"Take off your clothes," I said
Like a good boy he did what he was told.
Although Tristan was not a sexy man, he regained a certain animal virility once his ugly clothes had come off. His penis was large and curved to the right. I wondered how many times he must have wrung his dead sperm out of the thing to give it such a twist.
I kneeled down and started sucking.
I had expected Tristan to be a timid and rapid lay, but once things got going, I realized to my astonishment that I was in the hands of an expert lover. He stared into my eyes as we fucked, boring into me with what I presume was a lifetime's worth of frustration.
At one point his right hand went to my throat and began tightening. I fantasized that he was strangling his retarded son. It turned me on. I came quickly after that, for the third or fourth time.
After at least an hour and a half it was finally over. We both lay on the king-sized bed, spent.
I could feel Tristan shrinking back inside by the second. He had laid his forearm across his forehead and was staring at the ceiling with a stricken look in his eyes.
I began to dress. Tristan continued to stare at the ceiling. His body looked small and weak again. I wanted to leave.
As I was pulling my dress down over my ass, he turned to me.
"Stay…I'll do anything if you stay…anything you ask."
"It's too late," I told him. "Destiny can only be cheated for so long."
He nodded and looked back up at the ceiling. I saw now that he was crying. It was time for me to leave. I could see that Tristan wanted to talk, and I had to get out of there before the clouds burst. I supposed he was capable of talking for twenty hours nonstop. That was his problem, not mine. If there is one thing I cannot tolerate it is too many words.
"Wait," he said as I began walking towards the door.
"Goodbye, Tristan." He had turned into a baby wailing for his mother, and that is a game I refuse to play.
"Please," I heard him croak as I closed the door.
Part of me wanted to listen outside the door for the sobs that I knew would come, but I kept moving towards the elevator.
Suddenly I realized that I wanted to see Robert after all. It still wasn't too late to stop in Lanvin either.
Life can be good if you let it be.


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Ryan Dunn of 'Jackass' was drunk when he died
Ryan Dunn was drunk, with a blood-alcohol level of more than twice the legal limit, when his car sped through a guardrail early Monday, crashed into a tree and went up in flames, killing him and his passenger, according to a toxicology report out Wednesday.
The "Jackass" daredevil's blood-alcohol level was 0.196, said the report released by police in West Goshen Township, Pa. Like California, Pennsylvania has a 0.08 legal limit for drivers. The coroner, who was still waiting on results for prescription drug use, said tests showed no evidence of "drugs of abuse" -- heroin, pot, cocaine.
Surveillance tapes from Barnaby's, where Dunn, his 30-year-old passenger Zachary Hartwell and others had been drinking Sunday night, did not show him to be visibly intoxicated, according to the bar's general manager, Frank Herron.
"He spoke clearly. He walked clearly.... If these results are true, I'm shocked at it," said Herron, who also said the bar was cooperating in state and local investigations and had given the tapes to police.
While a light drinker would be slurring their words and showing other signs of impairment at that blood-alcohol level, a heavy drinker would be able to "walk around normally," said Dr. Kendel Kidwell, head of the emergency medicine department at Pennsylvania's Abingdon Hospital.
Dunn, 34, had been charged in April 2005 with driving under the influence after crashing his car in the vicinity of Monday's wreck, court documents said. He successfully completed a program designed for first-time nonviolent offenders, the papers said, and charges were dismissed.
The force of Monday's crash left Dunn's 2007 Porsche 911 GT3 in several twisted and blackened pieces, unrecognizable except for a door that was thrown from the crash. A 100-foot-long tire skid marked where the car left the roadway going in the neighborhood of 130 or 140 mph.
Friend and costar Bam Margera, who took on Roger Ebert with a vengeance online after the film critic commented about the crash Monday on Twitter, visited the crash site Tuesday. Margera said he was in Arizona at the time of the crash.
"I've never lost anybody that I care about," a sobbing Margera, 31, told Philadelphia's Fox 29 news. "And it's my best friend."
Ryan Dunn of 'Jackass' dies in car accident
Roger Ebert apologizes for 'Jackass' blast after Ryan Dunn's death
Ryan Dunn: Coroner confirms cause of death for 'Jackass' costar, passenger
— Christie D'Zurilla
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
Photos: Ryan Dunn, center, in 2010, with pictures of police tape marking the scene where his car went off the road, right, and the long skid marks leading to the site of the fatal wreck, where a police car was still parked June 20, 2011, the day of the crash.. Credits: Associated Press.


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House With A Heart
I am the Vice President of House with a Heart Senior Pet Sanctuary. We are an all volunteer, non-profit organization that provides a loving home to senior cats and dogs who have no other home. HWAH was created in 2006 for pets who were at risk for being euthanized due to their age.
Visit our website to learn more about this wonderful organization: http://housewithaheart.com/site/
Malice Domestic
I am Grants Chair for Malice Domestic, a mystery fan convention that takes place in the DC Metro area every spring. For information about the convention and for Malice Grant submission information and deadlines, visit http://malicedomestic.org/
SinC Guppies
The Guppies are a chapter of the great organization known as Sisters in Crime. Mystery writers from all walks of life are Sisters and we work together and support each other towards the goal of getting published.


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In my years in the fitness business as a consultant and club operator, I've learned a few lessons to live by that I'd like to pass along:
- Culture comes first
Every organization has a culture, whether or not anyone at the company has set it. So be purposeful in establishing your club's vision, mission and, most of all, values. This culture shapes the behavior of employees and customers. It attracts like-minded employees and rejects those who don't fit. It simplifies decision-making and minimizes the issues faced daily by companies with sick cultures.
- Every organization is perfectly aligned to get the results it gets
This essentially means that regardless of whether your company is achieving great results, mediocre results or poor results, you are perfectly aligned to get them. Your organization is perfectly aligned to be where it is today in terms of financial performance, customer service, employee relations, reputation in the community, etc. It all boils down to the decisions made leading up to this point about how to allocate resources.
- Get the right people in the right seats on the bus
From the book "Good to Great" by Jim Collins, this concept is one of my favorites. Every long-term success story has the right people in the right seats. Watch problems just disappear when you get the right people in the right seats with shared vision and values.
- No margin, no mission
Unless your business is able to generate more income than it spends, it will ultimately fail, and all of the good things you wanted to do for your employees, your members and the community will be for naught. Everyone on your staff needs to be cognizant of this.
- Begin with the end in mind
A lesson from "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, this applies to every journey, project and job. You are far more likely to achieve your goals and objectives if you clearly define them at the outset and communicate them to those around you.
- Definition of insanity: Keep doing things the same way and expect different results
No need to explain this one.
- Treat your employees the way you want them to treat your customers
This seems so simple, yet many managers and owners don't practice this important habit.
- Seek first to understand, then to be understood
This is another of the "seven habits." It pertains to effective listening. In every human interaction, particularly emotionally charged ones, always try to first listen to the view(s) of the other person and try to see it from their perspective before trying to get your own point across. Most of us typically listen with the intent of making our own point, rather than first trying to truly understand from where the other person is coming. Practicing this important listening skill can produce magical results.
- Share the credit, accept the blame
Great leaders are masters at this. No matter who is at fault when something goes wrong under your watch, step up and take personal responsibility, thereby shielding your staff from some of the heat. Then, when good things happen, be sure to heap praise on those who contributed and deflect the accolades that come your way.
- Choose your battles
So many inexperienced managers want to argue every point. They fail to understand that their circle of influence gets smaller the more argumentative they become. Highly effective leaders understand that you can't win them all and that it's better to give in on some of the less important disagreements but fight hard for those things that matter most.
- People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care
This is one of those golden rules that great leaders follow. Whether you are the toughest, meanest SOB or you are a gentle, quiet boss, your employees will respond far better if they know where your heart is in relation to them. If they know that you genuinely care about them personally, they will typically give you far more of themselves in the job.
- Cleanliness is next to godliness
Those who live by this simple, yet hard-to-execute, practice generally find themselves far ahead of the competition in nearly every business.
Herb Lipsman is chief operating officer of Houston Oaks Country Club & Family Sports Retreat in Hockley, TX. He also has been a consultant in the industry, specializing in design, development and operation of upscale facilities.


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How to Apply
High School Students - Graduating years: 2019 - 2023
Interested students must complete the online application, including a recommendation from a teacher, employer, coach, or school counselor, and submit.
Your application will be submitted, reviewed, and processed. You will be notified via email if you have been accepted. You will receive a welcome packet and enrollment forms to complete. Your spot is not reserved until we receive your $100 deposit and completed enrollment forms.
If you are registering for our second year program, select "Y2" on the application page. You will experience all that NLA has to offer in regular programming, plus added perks and bonus training.
Enrollment will remain open until all 250 spots have been reserved. There is an "Early-bird Registration" deadline of April 1, 2019, to receive $100 off your program fee. It is important to note, however, that you enroll on a first-come, first-served basis. Since program space is limited, it is wise to enroll early for this popular summer program.
Once the 2019 Academy reaches capacity, National Leadership Academy will keep a waiting list for students who would still like to participate should a spot become available. We will contact all students on the waiting list approximately three weeks prior to the program if there is available space.
$795.00 – Early Bird Price due by May 1, 2019
$895.00 – Paid in Full by June 1, 2019
Your program fee includes accommodation, all meals, snacks, & water, local transportation during the program, staff, security, curriculum and instruction, program materials, books, & activities, site visits & events, commemorative T-shirt, and a Certificate of Completion.
Transportation to and from home and the program location is NOT included in tuition. There is a shuttle bus to get to and from CCU from the Airport, if you are flying in from out of town. While attending the program, you will not need any additional money.
Bring a group from your High School! For every 10 paid Student Registrations per high school, NLA will provide a full scholarship to be used as you wish.
We are proud to offer a limited number of scholarships to eligible students. The Academy seeks to ensure that financial support is available to all students who have a desire to attend. Each year, approximately 50% of NLA attendees receive some level of financial support. All students are also encouraged to raise the remaining funds needed to attend, using our Student Fundraising Guide.
Additional information about the application process will be included in the packet of information sent out to students once they have been accepted to the program.
NLA begins at 12PM, on Thursday, June 20. Students who are flying into Denver International Airport will take our shuttle bus to and from CCU. The last shuttle departs DIA at 10:30 AM, so please plan on arriving at the airport no later than 10:00 AM. On Sunday, June 23, the shuttle will depart for DIA at 12:30 PM. Please plan departing flights no earlier than 3:30 PM. Don't worry, arrival flight delays will be handled by NLA staff. We won't leave you behind!
If you are driving or getting dropped off at the Academy, please plan to arrive between 11:00AM - 11:45AM, on Thursday, June 20.
We will gladly help coordinate flights and arrival times to coincide with our airport shuttle service to the program site, and an NLA staff member will be waiting at the airport when you arrive.


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Coral Gables, Miami, FloridaHotel Colonnade Coral Gables is an upscale property located in Miami's Coral Gables, right by the Miracle Mile. Its 157 rooms and suites are bright and well furnished, and some are spread out over two floors, loft style. While the rooms are lovely (despite some noise complaints), the features are a…
Coral Gables, Miami, FloridaLocated in upscale Coral Gables near the University of Miami and the Miracle Mile's shopping and restaurants, the Hyatt Regency has clean, spacious rooms and consistent service, making it a good bet. The fairly large, 5th-floor lap pool bests competitor Westin Colonnade's 2 blocks away.
Coral Gables, Miami, FloridaBuilt in 1926, the iconic Biltmore (a national landmark) brings timeless luxury to a hotel scene overwhelmed by skin-deep glitz. Though far from any beaches, it offers doting (tip-free) service, a lovely pool, a prestigious golf course and a catalog of amenities. Unfortunately, its residential can…
Coral Gables, Miami, FloridaBuilt in 1926, this 28-room B&B-style property in upscale Coral Gables -- about a 25-minute drive from the beach -- is a unique departure from the sleek minimalist hotels found just about everywhere else in Miami. Rooms are a bit worn, however, and features are scarce (no pool and no gym). Vivaldino…


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I am proud and honored to be in the 2016 L.I.P. Bulletin Annual Newsletter. They published my essay, The Mindful Conservationist, in this year's issue along with a very nice profile of me under the Landowner Spotlight section of the newsletter. The essay is an adaptation of an earlier article I wrote for The Society for Ecological Restoration, and if you have not already done so, I would love for you to take the time to read it. The newsletter laso has other good information from in it the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department,
The essay shares some lessons about restoration that we, as new landowners in Llano County, have learned over that past six years. In our efforts to help our land recover and improve, we have tried to combine science-based strategies with personal "place making" efforts that provide satisfaction in the short term, and fuel commitment over the long haul.
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Is an organically labeled fruit or veggie what all of us should be buying?
Many people spend a lot more money than they would if they didn't buy organic. Many of these same people struggle to make ends meet and yet they buy expensive veggies, meat, starches and fruit just because they are labeled with that one magical word -- organic. Is this the best way to be sure of nutrition and health from our food?
So lets start big on this topic. Last night on a 60 Minutes segment, I saw a concrete vault built deeply into the frozen permafrost near Iceland. The vault will withstand almost any catastrophe we can think of and we are currently filling it with seeds. Yes, it is a repository, sort of a library, of seeds from all around the Earth.
The people who built the vault anticipate worldwide calamity and they wanted to have a way for people to replant their food source. Trouble is, the varieties of foodstuff from our gardens are already sharply decreased even when compared to 100 years ago. The earnest middle-aged man who headed this project said during the interview that just 100 years ago we had in America more than 7,000 named varieties of apples and now we may have as few as 35.
Because of having to feed 6.6 billion humans plus our animal food sources, big agribusiness has had to become hyper efficient. This means reducing the numbers of choice so that quantity can be cheaply grown and produced. The consolidation of types of veggies, fruit, starches and meat makes it all more predictable and easier, cheaper and less subject to disease.
We've never had more to eat, but we've never had fewer choices, either. What distinct flavors are we missing? What nutrition has been short changed?
A few years ago we didn't know about phytosterols. Nutritional medicine didn't think they were important. Now we know just how important they are for the immune system, prostate health and cholesterol reduction. Does the organic label mean much?
Certainly, a locally grown organic foodstuff is ideal, particularly if grown from heirloom seeds. But beyond that, the organic label has less and less meaning.
Compare a locally grown heirloom tomato to an organically labeled tomato mass produced and shipped from South America. I know which one I would choose. For flavor, texture and nutrition, nothing beats close to home.
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In the early 2000s FOXP2 was dubbed the "language gene". It was a sexy story. Humans exhibited accelerated adaptive evolution on this locus in relation to our relatives. Additionally, vocally oriented lineages such as birds and whales were also subject to the same process.
But over the past five years or so I've heard a lot of skepticism of the early claims as more genomic datasets have come online. Cell has a new paper which pretty much smashes the door down and breaks the skepticism out into the open, No Evidence for Recent Selection at FOXP2 among Diverse Human Populations:
FOXP2, initially identified for its role in human speech, contains two nonsynonymous substitutions derived in the human lineage. Evidence for a recent selective sweep in Homo sapiens, however, is at odds with the presence of these substitutions in archaic hominins. Here, we comprehensively reanalyze FOXP2 in hundreds of globally distributed genomes to test for recent selection. We do not find evidence of recent positive or balancing selection at FOXP2. Instead, the original signal appears to have been due to sample composition. Our tests do identify an intronic region that is enriched for highly conserved sites that are polymorphic among humans, compatible with a loss of function in humans. This region is lowly expressed in relevant tissue types that were tested via RNA-seq in human prefrontal cortex and RT-PCR in immortalized human brain cells. Our results represent a substantial revision to the adaptive history of FOXP2, a gene regarded as vital to human evolution.
Basically, our confidence in the inferences ran ahead of the data on hand. The reason that the story of the "language gene" spread like wildfire is that people wanted to believe. It was obvious that we were special. And we wanted to find how we were special.
In the 2000s, and even today, there was an idea that some single mutation might have allowed for the "Great Leap Forward" into behavioral modernity. I think that that model is probably wrong, and modern humanity was a more gradual and stepwise development. During the Eemian interglacial from 130 to 115 thousand years ago, agriculture did not emerge. No "lost civilizations" to our knowledge. Something happened to our species over the last 100,000 years. Probably biological, though in a way that facilitates cultural plasticity and evolution.
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7 reasons to go to a fitness club.
Keep fit and tone are different ways: someone is doing exercises at home, someone runs in the morning, and anyone seriously thinks about fitness classes. To motivate the latter to present 7 reasons for finally and irrevocably going to the fitness club.
1. Variety
Not all of us live busy lives. Well, at least on weekdays. The work-home, work-home … But it is necessary to decide to go to the fitness club and began … The day is automatically filled with the expectation of the evening planning how will eat for a day, what will go, how long you intend to do what muscle group will work out today or for a group session go!
2. Communication
Adults are not so easy to expand the circle of friends and acquaintances. A fitness club (or gym), you will somehow interfere with the same people, and quite regularly, you will combine them with the general class, interests and goals. Here you and support, and, if something does not work in the classroom, help practical advice and counseling.
3. Find yourself a couple
It is logical to assume that, where sport, there are men. However, it is not necessary to consider fitness as the only reason for dating. With this approach, you will not achieve good results from ttenirovok for myself, not looking for a man and just wasting your money on a subscription. Incidentally, according to statistics 70% of untested Me "continuation" are taking place in gyms, fitness clubs and other places where people come to play sports.
4. Motivation
In the fitness room you come and immediately drawn into the atmosphere and the pulsation of the place. There go those with whom you want-not, you'll compare myself: someone to inspire, someone will call a constructive envy, and someone will raise your self-esteem. After all, as we know, nothing so lifts the level of motivation, as a living example.
5. The competent professional advice
Thanks to the Internet, you can seriously "pump" in the subject of fitness, articles, sporting social networks, blogs and websites coaches, video tutorials … But all this theory! A fitness center provides assistance and guidance of a professional trainer or instructor. Pros look, whether you are doing the exercises, indicate where you have problem areas on which to work, pay attention to errors in technique, elementary help if you yourself do not feel very well.
6. Psychological help
Fitness rescued from depression. It is a scientifically proven fact! Scientists from the University of Georgia in the United States found that a few weeks of regular exercising in the body is getting better exchange of hormones serotonin and noradrenaline, which disorder usually causes depression.
The main thing – do not allow training to become monotonous and repetitive. If you have a subscription, then one week, try to go to different group classes. If you are alone or in addition to group lessons go to the gym, it also tries to combine cardio with strength training, experiment with an exercise program. You can share training on muscle groups that you want to pump, for example, on Monday – the arms and shoulders, Wednesday – chest and back, Friday – press and legs, or to experiment with different circular program (with a specific set of exercises that need to be repeated at 3-5 times per session).
Do not let yourself get bored! So you maximize distracted by worries and thoroughly clean the head of the problems. Tested repeatedly!
7. Self-esteem
The closer you get to the goal, the higher self-esteem. Even if you're still at the beginning, even small steps, but you are going to translate the desired image – it's always inspiring. After all, not for nothing that they say that the most valuable victory – a victory over himself.


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November/December Issue 244: A ferrocement schoonerNov 1, 2017
The ferrocement schooner Rachel and Ebenezer in the Caribbean in 1981.
C.A. Hill
Rachel and Ebenezer, possibly the first ferrocement coasting schooner working in the schooner travel business, began as an idea in the mind of an engineer at Bath Iron Works in Maine. The idea was to gather a group of workers at the shipyard to finance, design and build a ferrocement schooner that could be enjoyed among them all or put to work in Camden, carrying passengers in the burgeoning passenger schooner trade.
The idea of a ferrocement hull was not a novel idea, as ferrocement boats had been originally built by the French as early as 1848. The framework of a vessel of this type consists of a shape, usually a rounded bilge boat, formed of rebar and covered with wire mesh, tightly bound together to conform to the vessel's hull and subdivisions. The building was done at the Long Reach Shipyard in Bath, which launched Rachel and Ebenezer in 1975.
Captain Fritz Williams, an original investor, bought out the other interests and started in the windjammer trade from Camden, Maine. After one season, Captain Williams sold Rachel and Ebenezer to Dan and Sue Hallock, who had an interest in schooners to daysail out of Greenport, N.Y. The Hallocks ran Rachel and Ebenezer for a few years until about 1984, when Eben Whitcomb — a prime mover in the building and sailing of the schooner Harvey Gamage — purchased Rachel and Ebenezer from the Hallocks.
Whitcomb operated first from St. Thomas, then from Key West in the winter and from Greenport in the summer. As an aside, I sailed on Rachel and Ebenezer from Greenport and was so impressed with the village that I moved there permanently in 1994.
The schooner's time in Greenport was eventful. In 1985, it was on a mooring during Hurricane Gloria and broke its mooring lines, coming ashore on Shelter Island with only minimal damage, to land in a sandy spot where it was dug out by heavy equipment and towed free. At the end of the second season in Key West, Whitcomb and his group sold Rachel and Ebenezer and the vessel was moved to Grand Traverse Bay in Michigan to do day cruises under the name of Malabar. After a few years, the vessel was sold again and worked in the Florida Keys as an adjunct to a Boy Scouts sailing program. As of this writing, the vessel has lost its Coast Guard certificate and is in sad shape, neglected at the Key Largo Yacht Basin.
Let's join Captain Ken Hamilton, master mariner, on a passage going north to Greenport from Bermuda. It's May. Captain Hamilton, being a minimalist, relied on his noon sites and advancing lines of position.
We are doing an upper limb shot of the sun at Local Apparent Noon. Height of eye is 10 feet. We, of course, will be using the 2017 Nautical Almanac. The day is May 15, the DR is at 38° 15' N by 65° 20' W. We need to calculate the time of LAN for our noon sight. At the time of the sight the Hs is 71° 05'.
A. What is the Ho?
B. What time in GMT is LAN at DR?
C. What is the latitude?
A. Ho is 70° 45.7'
B. Time of LAN is 16:16:01 GMT
C. Latitude is 38° 17.1' N
I get LAN as 16-17-20 and L 38 15.3.
DR position is 5 20' W of 60 which is 21m20s later than meridian passage of 1156, thus 12-17-20. ZD+4
D is 19-01.0. L= 90 - Ho + 19-01.0 = 38 15.3
Anyone else get this or where am I off?
Arc to time of 5°20' W is 21 minutes and 20 seconds. Add this to a meridian passage of 11:56:20 and you will get 16:17:40
As for the Ho, Hs is 71° 05', Height of eye of 10ft give a correction of -3'.1. That makes the apparent altitude Ha=71°01.9' The SD correction for the Sun, upper limb on May 15, 2017 is -15.8' Add that to Ha and Ho=70°46.1' Declination at 1600GMT is 19°08'N Additional 17 minutes with a d=+.6' is +.2' So Declination at 1617GMT is 19°08.2'N
Zenith distance Zd=90-Ho=19°13.9' Latitude = Zd + Declination = 19°08.2' + 19°13.9' = 38°22.1'
I agree precise LAN is 16:17:40 when equation of time is used. The 20 second difference doesn't affect the outcome.
Check your declination on 15 May. NA has 19d 00.8' ( not 19 08) at 1600. Additional 17 minutes adds 0.2'.
Thus 19-01.0 at 1617.
Whatever - neither of us can see how the author gets his answers.