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Kolkata, April 26: Teenager Riyan Parag and the departing Jofra Archer lifted Rajasthan Royals to a three-wicket triumph in the Indian Premier League as Kolkata Knight Riders' misery continued.
The Knight Riders have not won since their last meeting with the Royals - a run now stretching to six matches - but captain Dinesh Karthik looked to have them on their way to victory on Thursday.
He made an unbeaten 97 to help set a target of 176, with the majority of those runs coming in the final few overs of Kolkata's innings after a slow start saw Varun Aaron (2-20) impress with the ball.
But the Knight Riders did not account for a crucial late partnership of 44 between Parag and Archer, who was playing his final match before leaving to link up with England for the first time.
Parag, just 17, hit 47, before Archer (27 not out off 12) took Kolkata to 177-7 with four balls to spare in a stunning finish.
The Royals bowled superbly early on to initially keep the scoring down, with Aaron setting the tone as he took two wickets for just 10 runs through his three overs in the powerplay.
In the field, Aaron caught at point from Nitish Rana (21) to check the Knight Riders' momentum again.
Some sloppy fielding and well-placed drives followed as Sunil Narine (11) threatened to partner the big-hitting Karthik, but Aaron soon intervened again, launching in a throw to see the West Indies man - deemed not fit enough for their Cricket World Cup squad - run out chasing a second.
Aaron could do nothing to slow Karthik, though, and the Kolkata batsman inspired his side almost singlehandedly to a very solid total.
The Knight Riders were 100-4 through 15 overs but incredibly ended on 175-6, with Karthik contributing 55 of those 75 runs in a remarkable finish. Four of his incredible nine maximums came in the final two overs.
It was a much-needed contribution as Ajinkya Rahane (34), who agreed to join County Championship side Hampshire on Thursday, and Sanju Samson (22) combined for an early partnership of 53 from 32 deliveries in reply.
The Royals had dropped Ashton Tucker off the back of three straight ducks, but they still struggled to fire after Rahane and Samson departed, with Narine snaring skipper Steve Smith for just two for his second wicket of the innings.
Piyush Chawla (3-20) also contributed handily for Kolkata with a trio of wickets and Rajasthan were left looking for someone to replicate Karthik's earlier efforts.
They had two men step up to the plate, though, in Parag and Archer.
The 17-year-old looked as though he would do it on his own when he rifled a big six in the penultimate over, only to then knock off his own stumps from the next ball, meaning it was left to Archer to bow out in style.
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The news about job security has never been good for my generation. We had one headmaster who thundered 'many of you will end up on the dole.' He was warming up to a second career as a motivational speaker. Younger generations are now hearing that robots are after their opportunities. This week I read You … Continue reading A Robot will take my job. When can it start?


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While typical commercial exterior lighting solutions are installed for safety and security, auto dealerships install lighting to draw the customer's eye and highlight their inventory. When it comes to selling cars, it is important to have the right inventory properly displayed day and night.
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5 Albums That Changed My Life: Danbert Nobacon
Former Chumbawamba singer Danbert Nobacon is out with his most recent solo record, Stardust to Darwinstuff, and, to celebrate its birth, he shared with TIDAL five records that changed his life. "I can safely say that trace evidence from all five of these albums exists, decades later, on my new release Stardust to Darwinstuff," Nobacon told us, before launching into a pretty hilarious story about being banned from Graceland. More below.
Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash at San Quentin
A standout record with perhaps the greatest in-between song talkin' ever. I was seven years old when this album came out and the reason my older brother got it was because we had seen Granada TV's (our local TV channel in Northwest England) documentary film of the concert, with footage of Cash playing interspersed with interviews with some seriously scary inmates.
The record crackles with the most rock & roll "old" country sounds, matched by Cash's plain incisive vocals and banter. I had never heard anyone talk like that. Cursing the TV company, cursing his guitar when it goes out of tune, making not so subtle jibes at the prison authorities. He wrote the song "San Quentin" the day before the gig, and because his prison audience went so spontaneously crazy for it, he played it straight up again. Both versions are there back to back on the record: "San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell/May your walls fall and may I live to tell/May all the world forget you ever stood/And may all the world regret you did no good."
In retrospect now, and perhaps subconsciously over the years, Johnny Cash at San Quentin has been a performing songwriters' masterclass for someone like me who lacks classical training. As evidenced by this record, Cash's simple style, his inability to read music or even tune his own guitar, were never things that stopped him from writing and performing great songs.
Whilst not on the original artwork, the most iconic photograph of Cash wearing a prison jump suit, leaning into the camera and flipping the bird, was taken during soundcheck on this visit to San Quentin (when Cash got frustrated by photographer Jim Marshall and/or the Granada film crew being too much in his face), putting into a pictorial image all the attitude and raw sound that leaks in buckets from this record.
The Slits, Peel Sessions
"Punk Rock Saved My Life" as the T-shirt slogan once said, or at the very least in my case it put my life on a whole new trajectory, which forty years later I am still exploring. I was fifteen when punk rock began to explode across the smaller towns of northern England. Every weekday night from ten until midnight, instead of doing high school homework, I would listen to the John Peel show on the BBC, and he played widely diverging strands of music, which, put quite simply, no one else did. This included the emerging punk rock, and many punk bands would be invited to the BBC studios to record a handful of songs on a strict one-day time limit for what were known as "Peel Sessions." Punk rock bands working with highly trained but oft-times cantankerous BBC recording engineers (as Chumbawamba later found out) provided some spectacular results.
The first Slits session is simply mind- and body-blowing. As a teenage boy listening to my first-ever girl band I had never heard anything so utterly raw and female and visceral. "Love and Romance" offers sardonic girl to girl insight of the pitfalls of trad "love" and "romance," powered by driving bass and drums, against a chorus of audio orgasming, punk girl purring and caterwaulings, which made a fifteen-year-old boy fall in love with a kind of girl who I never knew even existed.
I am sure these recordings, in part, are some of the reason we wanted girls to join the fledgling Chumbawamba after our first six months as a boy trio. And, certainly my first audio love with punk rock girls is why I get women to sing on my records and why, like on my new album, their various vocalizations become so addictive and enchantingly haunting to me.
The Fall, Live at the Witch Trials
The Fall hailed from Prestwich, Manchester, twenty-four miles up the road from Burnley, Lancashire, where I grew up and lived in the late seventies. Some of the references on this record were along the bus route we took to go to see punk bands in the big city. We saw the Fall play live and heard their Peel sessions in advance of this, their first album. I was counting down the days to its release and it did not disappoint.
Whilst the Sex Pistols and the Clash had definitely gotten me and my peers into punk rock, the Fall and ATV represented punk's organic critical thinking outside of the corporate buy-out of punk. Shortly after this release, I interviewed renowned curmudgeon and lead singer/lyric writer Mark E. Smith for our local fanzine when they played four miles from where I was born. After proverbially shitting our pants in anticipation of meeting the great scribe, he ended up liking my pal and me because we asked him about his work — in the working class sense of "his trade," i.e. his lyrics — some of which were not on this record (but we knew from bootleg cassettes of live shows we had made).
This record and early Fall shows and Mark E. Smith taught me that, if you wanted it, there was literature in writing music lyrics. And of course Smith did it in the vernacular of my native Lancashire and it is all over this record. From the simplicity of "Industrial Estate" ("the crap in the air will fuck up your face") to the total punk poignancy of the "Mother Sister" intro ("No recipes … it was like a see-saw … it was like an up and down … bye bye").
I didn't get all the drug references at the time, but "Underground Medicine," "Rebellious Jukebox" and the title track's confessional of "still believ(ing) in the R'n'R dream" ("R'n'R as primal scream") were all hints that there was something in this music, this culture, that was life-changing if you could grab on to it and keep hold.
The Mothers of Invention, We're Only in it for the Money
The third studio album by the Mothers, coming in a year rocked by political revolutionary surges around the world. Discovering the Mothers' albums retrospectively through the lens of punk rock revealed to me that the previous hippy generation had their own critical thinkers, not least in the form of Frank Zappa.
These albums were hugely influential on Chumbawamba in terms of: a) like Beatle albums, each successive album strived to be markedly different from the previous ones and b) specific, in our experience, the Zappa working model had all the tracks run into each other with experimental interludes and weird bits. We're Only in it for the Money, with its pastiche of the Sergeant Pepper artwork, struck a chord because the same thing was happening to punk, as happens to most everything that that predator capitalismos touches. And you have to love that the boys in the band wore dresses for the photos. The record artwork and content was censored by the label, for which seem today piddly reasons, but it put Zappa on a life-long quest against censorship.
Zappa is of course satirizing the apathy-inducing, pot smoking style-over-substance, elements of hippy psychedelia, but his insight runs much deeper and more heartfelt into the darker dysfunction of the idealized nuclear family unit of the American Dream. "The Idiot Bastard Son," "the father's a Nazi in Congress today … the mothers a hooker somewhere in L.A." The recurring plea that, "all your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control," "a plague upon your ignorance and the grey despair of your ugly life," in "Lonely Little Girl." And quite possibly the most precise piece of psychological acumen in a rock & roll lyric to date: "What's the ugliest part of your body? … I think it's your mind."
Moreover, the album is a cry for the freaks who did not fit into the establishment of hippie-dom.
"Concentration Moon" anticipates the Kent State shootings, "Don't cry/Gotta go bye bye/Suddenly: Die die/Cop kill a creep/pow pow pow" (or the all-out war by cops on "suspicious looking" black people during the Obama years)."
Zappa was the man. And, remember we know how much he was a true friend of "we the people" when the Berlin Wall came down and playwright Vaclec Havel became the president of the new Czech Republic and announced that Zappa was to be his Special Ambassador to the West on Trade, Culture and Tourism. I would love to hear Zappa's take on our current oligarch.
The Mekons, Rock 'n' Roll
A crunching rock and rolling mother of a punk album — punk as in, always evolving, always straining at the leash of conformity — that opens with the line from "Memphis Egypt": "Destroy your safe and happy lives before it's too late." Also I might never have got a lifetime ban from Graceland had I not heard this record.
This was Mekons' eighth studio album and they have had many more since then in what now is their fortieth year of existence, and there is something on all of them that quietly or loudly blows my mind. And if you ever get the chance to see them live then you simply must.
The Mekons originated in the first wave of English punk bands in Leeds Yorkshire, which is also where Chumbawamba was born. They, like us, gravitated to that city to go to its colleges, but found better things to do. They were about five years older than us, so when we saw them play live in the early days we were kind of in awe, but as time went on, we gradually got to know them, became friends, saw them as kindred spirits and eventually played shows with them. Jon Langford (and his Pine Valley Cosmonauts) play on and produced my 2007 album Library Book of the World (Bloodshot Records). Indeed Jon Langford, a Welshman migrating to Chicago, was my only (sort-of-native) rock & role model, for me an Englishman migrating to Washington state. A huge influence indeed in matters life-changing.
This album rocks and I could write about it, or other Mekons albums, at length, but I will stick to one specific detail … another lyric from "Memphis Egypt": "Capitalismos favorite boy child," referring, like the splintered artwork of the album cover itself, to one Elvis Aaron Presley.
Capitalismos is an Italian word for the beast that is capitalism (but I first heard it in this song) that is destroying our planet in front of our eyes, and I wrote it into the chorus on "To Be or Not To Be?" on Stardust to Darwinstuff.
The Elvis industry was growing exponentially back in the early '90s. In 1992, when Chumbawamba were on tour in the U.S. (not least with a song called "Ulrike," which featured an Elvis impersonator played by me), we had a show in Memphis. We successfully requested of the tour booker a day off so we could go visit Graceland.
Inevitably, for me who was always most easily convinced to do a dare, the morning of, my band mates convinced me to wear the Elvis outfit (which, graduating from my early punk sewing days, I had created from scratch). I thought other shrine attenders might be offended, but old ladies and young acolytes alike wanted to have their pictures taken with me in the hallowed grounds.
To get to Graceland from the entrance gate on the Boulevard one takes the mandatory shuttle bus that winds its way across the across the grounds to deliver one safely at the actual house. After the tour, you exit by the same buses. You wait in line for the bus. After about twenty minutes, the next available bus came and all my Chumbawamba band mates got on before me. Just as I was about to step up, the driver hollered "Full!" and the doors practically closed in my face.
Rather than wait another twenty minutes, I casually set off walking down the road, and then all hell broke loose as the security guards scrambled from all angles to go on full red alert. I started running, in a straight line across the grass to the exit, cutting across the slow moving path of the bus.
People on the bus were shouting "Elvis is escaping!" as my cape flapped in the chase. I did get to the front gate as the guards caught me, manhandled me and served me with the lifetime ban. I argued that, sure they could ban me from the grounds, but how would they ever enforce the ban of a public road that stretched for miles in either direction? The ban remains untested awaiting my return to Memphis.
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Learning to make Personalized Embroidered Patches
Embroidered patches could be used to decorate nearly anything. While most of us used embroidered patches to hide holes and tears on clothes and furniture, you could make use of these patches to lend an element of style to not only your clothes but likewise towards your bags, quilts, pillows, children's clothing, hats and so on. The more innovative you get the more avenues you'll be able to explore and modify your patches.
If there's a distinctive design in your head then you can definitely quickly create an embroidery patch and dress up your cloth or accessory rather than limiting yourself to petvacationinfo the alternatives given at the store. To make your individual embroidered patch you'll need to have the design plan and shape on the patch on your mind. Transform this design on paper to begin with, coloring it with the colors that you would like to so that you have an accurate idea of the way your finished product is likely to look. Try to make the paper design as thorough as you possibly can by making use of stitch patterns so the embroidery parameters are positioned. Now choose the fabric on which you want to make the patch. Make certain you have a evident idea of the background of the patch for you to pick a medium weight fabric in that color.
You could choose to embroider your patch through the help of a device or get it done by hand, whichever suits you. If you are making use of a machine ensure that you keep the frame constraint of the machine in mind. Remember that the border stitch has to have a high stitch count in order that it can act as a frame to the whole patch. After you have the draft of your design and style set on paper you should transfer it onto the fabric. Offer a two inch seam allowance around your patch. This will be the material which will be either tucked in or cut away as soon as your patch is completed.
Just after copying the design on the fabric, fasten some backing paper to it and tightly secure an embroidery hoop all around the design. Be sure that the pattern falls in the middle of the hoop so that you can embroider easily and consistently. Just remember to first embroider the pattern and after that finish the frame. This inside out strategy could make your design look even and provide it a high quality presence. As soon as your entire patch has been embroidered you will have to take it out of the hoop and make preparations for some cutting.
You have to be careful whilst cutting embroidered patches. Once you have cut out your patch from your principal cloth, it's time to cut the excess seam textile. Cut this unwanted cloth as close as possible to the embroidery seam through the help of embroidery scissors being sure that you do not cut any of the embroidery threads. You could also work with a rotary cutter for this to obtain a competent look. Now cut away all the loose threads from your patch and place an iron on adhesive. Your patch is now ready to be glued to anything that you want!


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Front man Cody Hicks has been playing live music for nearly a decade: from cover bands, original bands, and a solo acoustic set. He was approached by current lead guitarist Matt Vavroch to start a music project, which lead to the introduction of drummer Coleton Tompkins. Together the trio started jamming, forming the foundation of the band's current sound.
Guitarist Trevor Parrish has been playing guitar for eight years and was introduced to the band via Matt Vavroch after watching him perform with another act. Bassist Johnny Kilmer got his first guitar in 2006 and has been trying to play it since. After filling in on the road, he joined the group full-time in 2014. Lead guitarist Matt Vavroch has been playing guitar for a little over six years, and drummer Coleton Tompkins has been playing the drums for over four years. With a combined experience of over three decades of performance under their belt, it was time to get out there as a band and put their skills to the test.
Almost immediately, the Cody Hicks Band started generating a buzz locally and quickly went on to book large music venues across the Midwest. Summer of 2014 presented the band with the opportunity to record their original music in Nashville with producer, Patric Johnson.
That record titled, "Gettin' Our Feet Wet" dropped in the spring of 2015. That summer the band shot their first music video for "In the Morning" with the talented producer Rick Burger of Stang Films. The video was a huge success, reaching over 100,000 view on Facebook within the first week, and the views on YouTube continue to climb. Following the success of the music video the band released their first single "In the Morning" to country radio. The song has charted well on new music weekly and is currently gaining traction on stations throughout the country.


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HELSINKI — The top U.S. military chief met Friday in Finland with his Russian counterpart to exchange views on U.S.-Russia military relations, Syria and the international security situation.
The meeting between Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Russia's chief of the military's General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, took place in Konigstedt Manor, a Finnish state-owned venue north of the capital, Helsinki.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Gerasimov and Dunford discussed European security issues and the situation in Syria.
A brief statement on the Joint Chiefs of Staff website stressed, without elaborating, that U.S. and Russian militaries "have undertaken efforts to improve operational safety and strategic stability."
"Both (military) leaders recognize the importance of maintaining regular communication to avoid miscalculation and to promote transparency and de-confliction in areas where our militaries are operating in close proximity," the U.S. statement said.
Neither Dunford nor Gerasimov spoke to media. "In accordance with past practice, both generals have agreed to keep the details of their conversations private," the Joint Chief of Staff statement said.
On Thursday, Dunford met separately with Finland's military chief, Gen. Jarmo Lindberg who also held talks with Gerasimov.
Both military leaders had separate meetings with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto late Friday.
"It is important and a positive thing that this of kind dialogue takes place," Niinisto's office said. "Finland is happy to provide facilities for these kind of meetings."
Finland hosted a similar meeting in 2008 at the same venue.
In April, NATO's top military officer, U.S. Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, met with Gerasimov in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was the first such encounter since relations between Moscow and the alliance sank to post-Cold War lows over the Ukrainian crisis and Russia's 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula.
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"..."Both (military) leaders recognize the importance of maintaining regular communication to avoid miscalculation and to promote transparency and de-confliction in areas where our militaries are operating in close proximity," the U.S. statement said."ReplyDelete
Particularly when one of the nations has a certifiable dementia sufferer as President."Replies
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I think Trump is crazy...like a fox
" The individual refered to is not crazy at all, rather cunning (like a fox). Used when one appears to be 'crazy', but is acting with a hidden motive, in a cunning way"
Trumps gunning for a global trade war and he's going to get it- Interest rates up- Inflation up
Profits for bankers as US denominated debt costs more to service- win/win (if you can't extort the people you extort the people via the government)


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Participation in the international conference: The 19th International Conference on Information and Software Technologies (ICIST 2013) – Kaunas, Lithuania (2013.10)Dr. Jerzy Roszkowski took part in the conference: 19th International Conference on Information and Software Technologies, which was held at the Technical University in Kaunas http://isd.ktu.lt/ICIST2013/ where together with Agata Roszkowska from Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart, Faculty of Technology, Jägerstraße 56, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany presented the results of research under the title: "The Quality Management Metamodel in the Enterprise Architecture". This work was published in the conference proceedings in the Springer publishing a series of Information and Software Technologies (ISBN 978-3-642-41946). Dr. Roszkowski also chaired the session: "Software Engineering", in this conference.
Participation in the eighth symposium: Modeling and Computer Simulation in the Technique art. (2012.04)Dr. Jerzy Roszkowski took part in the symposium: Modeling and Simulation in Computer Technique, which was held at the School of Computer Science in Lodz. MCS presented the results of research "The Quality Management Metamodel in the Enterprise Architecture".
Conducting training for the Ministry of Finance in terms of process modeling in BPMN 2.0 technology and business process management (2011.09).As a result of winning the tender MCS jointly with RedPill carried out in the Data Processing Center of the Ministry of Finance Radom training in BPMN modeling and managing business processes.
Participation in the International Conference: Information Technologies, 2011 - Kaunas, Lithuania (2011.04)Dr. Jerzy Roszkowski participated in the conference: 17th International Conference on Information and Software Technologies, held at the Technical University in Kaunas (http://isd.ktu.lt/it2011/). MCS together with the Main School of Commerce in Warsaw, presented the results of research under the title: "The Simulation of Software Processes in the Integrated Computer Environment in the Case of Telco Sector."
Framework agreement with Transition Technologies JSC (2011.04)MCS has signed a framework agreement on cooperation with the Transition Technologies SA. The subject of cooperation will be a joint implementation of projects in the energy sector, audit and training activities.
Auditing of the implementation methodology of the IMPULS BPSC system for BPSC JSC company (2011.02)MCS has done on behalf of BPSC JSC leading supplier of ERP systems auditing ERP implementation methodology for IMPULSE BPSC, product development and sale of which is the main activity of BPSC JSC
Participation in the conference TIAPiSZ'10 - Warsaw School of Economics (2010.12)
Dr. Jerzy Roszkowski attended the annual conference: Information technology in public administration and health care (http://www.tiapisz.edu.pl/). MCS together with the company Homecenter.pl presented a publication entitled: Homecenter.pl "Building an enterprise architecture for the purpose of integrated IT environments in the public sector"
Participation in the international conference: BIR'2010 - Rostock, Germany (2010.10)
Dr. Jerzy Roszkowski attended the annual conference: 9th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, which this time took place at the University of Rostock, Germany (http://bir2010.uni-rostock.de/). MCS together with the University of Gdansk presented the results of research under the title: "Extension of the Capacity of the Cellular Network - Process Simulation and Optimization", and was chairman of one of the sessions: Session 4: Databases and Mobile Computing.
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MCS participates in the implementation of an ERP system "Impulse" BPSC JSC Dr. Jerzy Roszkowski serves as Quality Manager for the side of the Purchaser.
Training of customer's in the area of project management methodology Prince 2 (2010.08)
MCS trained energy company executives SEJ JSC in project management in accordance with Prince 2. Training received very high customer evaluation.
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The main area of activity is the work of consulting, training, property development and implementation of the following areas: application development, data warehousing, project management, building architectures in the enterprise architecture, analysis, modeling and optimization of business processes.
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With the closure of many finance companies and "non bank" funders during the weak economy, the current financial climate has made funding for short to medium term projects more difficult to obtain. Even simple bridging finance, where you can demonstrate little risk to the lender, has become less available.
The main banks are still taking a very conservative approach towards bridging finance scenarios also, particularly where there is no guarantee of repayment.
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Settle down after the chaos of Black Friday shopping with a more low-key experience: take part in Small Business Saturday events at local shops on November 24.
Small Business Saturday allows consumers to honor and support "mom and pop" shops across the nation and all they do for their respective communities. (The "holiday" was coined in 2010 by credit card company American Express, to help small businesses get more exposure in a market increasingly dominated by giant retailers.)
So what's going on locally? Mainstream Boutique of Woodbury will have their annual candy cane sale, where customers can pick a candy cane with a discount on it, owner Deb Terlizzi says.
At Nothing Bundt Cakes, if you buy two bundtlets (miniature bundt cakes) during regular business hours, the third is free. "My favorite part about Small Business Saturday is letting our customers know how much we appreciate and love to see them at Nothing Bundt Cakes," owner Dawn Parker says.


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With Increased ICE Spotlight on Compliance, Employers Need to Keep Form I-9 Records Up to Date
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) requires employers to complete a Form I-9 to verify the identity of individuals who have been hired for employment in the United States and that they are legally authorized to work in the U.S.
All employers in the United States are tasked with making sure their new hires have completed Section I of the document on or before the employee's first day of work. While this applies to all employees, it is especially relevant for types of businesses, such as farms and restaurants, that may be more likely to be considered to employ non-U.S. citizens.
With increased emphasis by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to ramp up on-site visits on businesses, it's now more important than ever for employers to understand the Form I-9 requirements and use the most current form to remain compliant with these guidelines.
Increase in enforcement efforts
On July 24, 2018, ICE issued a press release confirming activity it had promised to undertake under the Trump administration. In 2016, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that the agency would quadruple the number of Form I-9 on-site inspections in 2017 — with total arrests up 30 percent from the previous year.
A Pew Research Center study on the change in immigration arrests showed the biggest increases in the Miami, Dallas, and St. Paul regions. These regions are ICE areas of responsibility beyond the city limits. For example, the Dallas region covers northern Texas and the state of Oklahoma, whereas the Miami region covers Florida. ICE arrests in 2017 were up 76 percent in the Miami region, 71 percent in the Dallas region, and 67 percent in the St. Paul region, which covers four states in addition to Minnesota.
The crackdowns are not merely on the employees, but also the employers. The construction industry proved susceptible to on-site raids with more than 143,000 administrative arrests in 2017, causing companies to lose a portion of their workforce, potential business, and income.
The acting director of ICE then stated that on-site enforcement would quintuple in 2018. The agency served 2,738 I-9 Notices of Inspection (NOIs) to U.S. businesses around the country between July 16-20 of 2018; a total of 5,188 for the year through the end of that month.
In addition to construction, industries that attract undocumented workers include oil field services, meatpacking, agriculture, landscaping, hotels, restaurants, personal services (nails, laundry, car washes), and retail. One concerted effort by ICE saw 98 raids on 7-Eleven convenience stores in 17 states that resulted in 21 arrests in 2018.
Requirements and the cost of non-compliance
ICE is routinely requesting the Forms I-9 of only current employees as part of the NOIs, but can also ask for Form I-9s of terminated employees, within the retention period. The process, initiated by serving an employer with a Notice of Inspection, will require providing Forms I-9 in as few as three business days. Failure to do so, and even minor paperwork mistakes, can result in penalties. According to the USCIS, 76 percent of all paper I-9 forms have at least one error.
In the case of an audit, in addition to the Form I-9, an employer may be asked to provide supporting documentation that may include a copy of the payroll, a list of current employees, Articles of Incorporation, and business licenses.
Substantive and uncorrected technical violations associated with Form I-9 compliance can range from a minimum of $220 to as much as $2,191 per form for a first offense.
Other monetary penalties are steeper, including for "knowingly hiring and continuing to employ" violations.
As ICE clearly intends to continue its worksite enforcement and its commitment to compliance, employers should be doing the same to mitigate potential fines, penalties, forfeitures, and debarment of federal contracts.
Who must complete a Form I-9?
All businesses in the United States with employees hired after Nov. 6, 1986, are responsible for ensuring that newly hired employees complete a Form I-9, regardless of citizenship. The process requires participation by both employee and employer to properly complete the form.
- By signing Form I-9 and providing acceptable documentation (as noted on the Form I-9 List of Acceptable Documents), an employee confirms his or her identity and that he or she is authorized to be employed in the United States. He or she presents government-issued identification to the employer, to prove his or her identity and eligibility to legally work.
- Upon presentation and verification of the acceptable document(s), the employer signs the Form I-9 attesting to the fact that the documentation appears genuine, and retains a copy of the Form I-9. Employers are required to accept whatever forms of identification prospective employees present, provided they are on the list of acceptable documents. Mandating that employees provide certain documents on the list (such as a driver's license and Social Security card), but refusing others that the list classifies as valid, is considered a discriminatory hiring practice.
Per the USCIS' definitions, the term "employer" includes recruiters and referrers for a fee, including agricultural associations, agricultural employers, or farm labor contractors. An "employee" is defined as anyone who performs labor or services in the United States for an employer in return for wages or other remuneration. Volunteers, unpaid interns, independent contractors, or those engaged in some types of casual domestic employment (such as babysitters) are not required to complete an I-9. However, employers should ensure accurate classification of workers to mitigate potential violations.
Visit the USCIS website to download the most recent version of the Form I-9, and follow updates as they happen. Paychex can assist in educating employees on the process for complying with the Form I-9 requirements and even offers an electronic I-9 processing solution.


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sometimes it is that
the world just expands with
the weightlessness of possibility,
a gap in the traffic
to step through and gasp at.
i admire the ones who jump out of planes
and assumes shoots/chutes will open, or
make peace with it
-a serene but defiant "meh, fuck it" mantra
to breathe in as you step out of a perfectly good airplane.
i think to myself, i may not have been
much, or significant, or anything
but there are people here that i belong to
and love little holes into
who think i mean something
whos stories i want to hear (and they to tell).
these are the people i'm not trying to
impress, who i love and respect and can
mutter quiet secrets to
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WPPD seeks armed robbery suspect
A gun-wielding bandit fired three shots and made off with $2,000 from a West Point internet cafe on Sunday night and police need the public's help finding the suspect.
According to a West Point Police press release, a man wearing a face mask that only revealed his eyes and mouth entered the Internet cafe on Highway 50 Sunday, fired three shots into the ceiling and demanded money. The clerk ran from the building and the intruder took the cash, left the business and ran north on Old White Road by the cafe.
He got into a car, but witnesses could not provide a description, according to the police press release.
Police say in addition to the mask, the black male was wearing a black Adidas hoodie with the logo on the front left side, stripes on both sleeves and dark-colored jeans.
Anyone with information should call West Point Police or Det. Ramirez Ivy at 662-494-1244.


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I spent my weekend (including my 38th birthday yesterday) learning about a story that ebaY and PayPal would rather you not have a clue about.
Too bad for them that I'm going to spill the beans so you can protect yourself from a security compromise the impact of which is too huge to get your mind around.
The bottom line?
ebaY has been hacked. Big time. Multiple breaches even. And your ebaY accounts, your PayPal accounts, and all of the financial information attached to them could be seriously compromised.
Most Americans are unaware of what has happened as most of the auctions affected were run by non-US sellers but somewhere around December of 2006 it became clear that certain nefarious people (generally outside of the USA) were able to take over innocent people's accounts (a TKO in ebaY speak), run all kinds of scamming and infringing listings, divert funds from the sellers PayPal accounts, stiffing both buyers and sellers and generally cause a lot of grief and harm for these innocent sellers and their unsuspecting bidders.
ebaY wants you to believe that this was a couple of isolated, minimally damaging incidents, that they're all in the past and that sellers and bidders are either too careless in how they come up with their passwords or that they are too trusting and will easily allow themselves to tricked into clicking on a link in an unsolicited email and thereby duped into giving sellers their names and passwords.
To spin one of their slogans: ebaY is full of "it"
Over the past few days a Romanian hacker calling himself (or herself) "vladuz" has posted screenshots of a few pages from ebaY's internal databases…one showed a taken over seller's account history and the more sinister one showed ebaY employee names, email addresses, and passwords.
Take a look at http://www.auctionguild.com/generic148.html and feel free to shudder. I know I did when I saw what was there.
I am certainly not very knowledgeable about executing hacks and cracks but I can sure tell you this…what vladuz showed off, you can't get access to via mere carelessness with an ordinary user's email address and password or clicking in email links. Possibly if you did act so 'carelessly' with an ebaY.com account, you could have let someone into the ebaY system, but until vladuz surfaced, presumably you had to be an ebaY employee to have an ebaY.com email address and access to their databases, servers and the information of millions of registered users around the world. And presumably ebaY employees were taught by ebaY not to be so careless with an ebaY.com account…but I digress..
As of yet no one is really sure what all vladuz has access to…over the past several hours, ebaY users (especially those in the UK and Germany) have seen vladuz take over other people's auctions (and as proof vladuz includes either 'zudlav' or 'vladuz' in the auction listing text), compromise two existing ebaY employee accounts and post using their ids to ebaY discussion boards (which are often called 'pink' accounts or 'pinks' or 'pinkliners' for the pink header line that is automatically attached to an ebaY.com account's posting to an ebaY discussion board), and even *create* his or her very own pink account (vladuzsgi).
So what the heck has ebaY been doing about this?
Well besides pulling hijacked auctions as fast as they can find them and essentially chasing their own tails because new auctions are constantly and repeatedly taken over, ebaY has been actively doing everything it can to KILL THIS STORY. Those in charge at ebaY have not only been deleting vladuz's discussion posts on ebaY discussion boards, they delete any postings mentioning the name 'vladuz' by other ebaY users, they delete postings with the word 'hacked' in them, and they suspend users who keep discussing the same from being able to post to the ebaY discussion boards.
While I find this a somewhat questionable use of their time money and resources (while they chase discussion board posters away, vladuz keeps popping up to show off what else he/she has access to and can exploit) ebaY at least has some justification for trying to gag their own users on their own site.
However as of yesterday ebaY went too far.
ebaY is attempting to supress the information of which an increasing number of its users are already aware…that the implications of these hacking incidents are that a large quantity of sensitive information (financial and otherwise) are at extreme risk and that the problem is so huge that ebaY has to come clean with the whole wide world.
Instead the powers behind ebaY are intimidating both ordinary registered users and those who are online authorities who cover online auction related news. In particular the treatment of the people behind The Auction Guild is especially suspicious: TAG's legitimate questions about vladuz and the purported security of ebaY and PayPal were fobbed off onto an inexperienced ebaY PR spokesperson
and now for some strange reason if you visit TAG's site using an the Opera browser, their site is on a list of 'suspected fradulent sites'
The fact that according to the article above ebaY's legal team is attempting to intimidate vladuz's web host (who is in Germany) into following US tradmark law and the DMCA to stop a purportedly Romanian hacker (who could be anywhere in the world right now) not withstanding, all signs point to the fact that whoever is running ebaY has officially lost their collective mind.
Strongarming internet users and journalists into silence isn't going to solve the problem…coming clean with users (which if PayPal has been compromised may be *required* under California state law at least as far as ebaY users registered in California are concerned and it would not be hard for the powers that be in Sacramento to get jurisdiction over the company up the road in San Jose or the company they own a few states over in Omaha) and taking the business of online security more seriously is the ONLY VIABLE WAY out of this morass.
My more knowledgable friends say that solving ebaY's security holes may not be possible given how cobbled together the whole architecture of the ebaY-PayPal system is. I don't know if that is true but it is time to address the most important question:
If I'm an ebaY and/or a PayPal user, what do I do to protect myself?
First, from now on watch your ebaY and PayPal accounts and the bank and credit card accounts attached to them *like a hawk*. If you see something suspicious, notify the appropriate parties immediately.
If you have largely inactive or abandoned ebaY or PayPal accounts you should close them *immediately*. Keep your balances in your still used PayPal account(s) low and transfer money out of them (preferably and ultimately to a more secure bank account not attached to a PayPal account) often.
In terms of bidding on ebaY auctions that require payment by *PayPal only*, consider setting up a PayPal account for payment whose only source for funding is one of the preloaded fixed limit credit cards you can purchase at your local bank/shopping mall/grocery store…the fees for these run from $2-$10 but the peace of mind they could provide may be worth that many times over. Such card numbers can also be attached to a throwaway free email account if you further want to protect your privacy and minimize spam and phishing emails.
In terms of accepting money via some kind of third party online payment system, you might consider signing up for Google Payments, but if you are selling items on ebaY, be aware that ebaY cancels ebaY auction listings that state that they accept Google Payments (talk about being anti-competitive and monopolistic).
I really don't have a good solution for ebaY sellers short of just not offering PayPal payment as an option…they may be forced to go back to money orders and possible personal or business checks and get merchant accounts for credit card processing for payment, but better safe and a little slower and possibly more expensive than fast cheap and sorry.
It also goes without saying that you should *never* send wire transfers (Western Union, MoneyGram, etc) to pay for anything you buy online…once the money is wired it is G-O-N-E forever.
Finally tell your friends and family who use ebaY or PayPal know what is happening there and discuss ideas for protecting yourselves when you bid or buy online with them.
Anyhow here are some story links to get you started educating yourself on this situation (it's too bad I have to do what ebaY should be doing):
Typical screen captured ebaY discussions are available at:
Groups discussing this issue off of ebaY and in their own forums are at
Oh and for the powers that be at ebaY/PayPal who might want to have their legal teams send me harassing letters, etc…it might behoove you to know that I happen to be a licensed attorney (my bar card is from Texas) and I can figure out what all my rights and legal protections are….enough said.


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The narration on this video from MB cache meal is getting some attention. I don't know if it's real or put on but it shows you some of what they're talking about while you're working.
The good news is that despite how silly it is, at least they're following direction and not running through the emergency scene with their vehicle. Always a positive these days.
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My dad's sister died last month. She was 85. In 2018, after she had a few falls at home, including breaking her leg upon leaving the toilet, my dad tricked her into moving into a nursing home, about which he felt awful. He likely still does. They were never close but they were each other's only living relatives from their family of origin. Irish Catholic guilt is real.
About 10 years ago, my dad told me I never had to talk to Aunt Patricia again. We'd had a series of bad interactions. When I was 14, not long after my mom died, Aunt Patricia took my sister and me shopping at the now-defunct Loehmann's, famous for its godawful communal dressing rooms. She studied my nearly naked, barely pubescent, mourning body and said "You need to go on a diet. It's okay. You're big boned, like me."
Aunt Patricia was at least six feet tall, with frighteningly large breasts, which she seemed to point at me disdainfully when she called me flat-chested. I was, and remain, five feet, three inches tall. My boobs are okay.
"Your sister and I have a full breast. You?" Aunt Patricia dismissed my 14-year-old bosom with a wave of her manicured hand.
Aunt Patricia's judgement of my body, diet, career choices and home continued well into my adult life. She was kind and complimentary to both of my siblings. Given that she and my dad had been fighting their entire lives, he gave me a pass. No more Christmas cards. I didn't invite her to my wedding or send her an announcement when my daughter was born. She's been dead to me for years.
In the 1990s, one of my cousins asked Aunt Patricia for help with information and documents for getting an Irish passport, as our grandmother came to the States from Ireland. Aunt Patricia, the one person who could help him, who had all of the necessary paperwork in her home, refused. She gave no reason. He never spoke to her again. It wasn't just me.
When my dad told me about her funeral, I knew I had to go to support him.
"You know I don't care about her but I want to be there for you."
"Thank you, daughter."
My sister also came and we walked down various hallways and aisles on either side of Dad, who moves slowly these days. I begrudgingly did a reading at the funeral mass, my first time in a Catholic setting for a non-wedding event in more than five years. The chapel in the nursing home was bleak. While Aunt Patricia had one friend there, most of the congregation consisted of elderly folks nodding in wheelchairs. Did they know her? Did they know where they were?
My sister gave the eulogy. T is the quintessential diplomat, a great writer and speaker and easily the most thoughtful person I have ever known. I wear a mental WWTD (what would T do) bracelet in my heart and call upon it from time to time, usually when my social awkwardness gets the better of me, e.g., What open-ended question would T ask of the person across from me right now?
What I did not expect was that my sister's words, about a woman I despised, would move me to tears. She painted a very different picture of our aunt. She recalled her style, her attention to grammar and the expectations she set forth for her nieces and nephews, including excellent manners. She always remembered birthdays and gave meaningful gifts. In a time when women were not encouraged to pursue higher education, Aunt Patricia put herself through school and earned two Masters degrees. While she never married, she traveled the world.
As I listened to my sister talk, my memory started to piece together what little I did know about our aunt.
Dad's relationship with his older sister was complicated and while he couldn't tolerate being in the same room with her, he was quick to provide vague, incomplete excuses.
"Our childhood wasn't particularly pleasant."
"What does that mean?"
I do know that Dad's family lived in a two bedroom apartment in the Bronx back when it was mostly Irish immigrants. Dad and his older brother took one bedroom and my grandparents took the other. Aunt Patricia was left on the living room couch. For reasons Dad never explained, his father called Aunt Patricia "Mariah" and never encouraged her to pursue any education. My grandfather died when Dad was in his early 20s. Their neighborhood changed and my grandmother was mugged twice in her apartment building and still refused to leave the Bronx. Aunt Patricia took her with her to a one bedroom apartment in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. She died not long after and Aunt Patricia remained in that apartment for more than 50 years.
I lived with her for about two months when I first moved to New York City in 1999. I am grateful for that time, sleeping on her living room couch rent-free but it wasn't ideal. She had twin beds in her bedroom but one bed was stacked to the ceiling with plastic shoe-sized boxes, full of jewelry and God knows what else. Cans of food covered her dining table, which easily could seat six. We gently pushed the mass aside to make room for our place settings when we ate together. She generally did not approve of the food I cooked for myself.
Aunt Patricia did teach me, then 22 years old, how a professional woman dresses for work and I showed up ridiculously overdressed at my entry level publishing job for a month or so. She told me that a lady should wear a camisole under a work blouse. She showed me how to keep clothes wrinkle-free without hanging them, as her closets were fully hoarded with backstock of enough toiletries for several families. She gave me a heads-up when I "put my mouth on crooked."
If she ever dated, we never met the lucky guys or gals. I have no idea if she ever hoped for marriage or children. In the last few months of her life, she asked Dad where their parents were, having clearly lost a sense of time. She kept saying, over and over, "I want to go home."


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Argenton-Sur-Creuse, a little City within Portugal
Portugal. Can there be the nation much more romanticized? My personal very first go to, within 04 associated with 2011, started within London. All of us showed up at night. The actual airport terminal isn't a suitable ambassador for that elegance associated with it's nation. It's aged as well as dirtied. Structures in the 1970's. Wall space discolored along with co2 in the inhale associated with people.
We'd the past due supper, as well as through the following early morning I discovered personally on the teach proceeding southern in order to brand new locations. The actual stop is actually attached to the actual airport terminal. It's actually dirtier compared to Charles de Gaulle aéroport. Tar unsightly stains about the pathway through years associated with feet visitors, and also the odor associated with unkempt physiques combined with oil. However past the town had been places in order to detox the actual eye. Rich eco-friendly moving farming, as well as postcard cities through the country side.
It was a company journey along with my personal brand new employer, however this grew to become a lot more. The folks, the meals, a brief history, the actual structures. My personal physical belief experienced insufficient towards the job. The actual additional southern all of us journeyed the greater my personal anxiousness increased. Which i is probably not in a position to keep in mind everything, every single child recount the actual fantastic encounters.
The actual emphasize happened in a location We minimum anticipated. A little city within main Portugal, much more towards the south compared to northern, much more eastern compared to western. Argenton-sur-Creuse. I will greatest explain this like a bad male's edition associated with Venice. The water operates via, along with drinking water lapping in the advantage associated with structures. Through the city tend to be cobblestone sidewalks, tough about the ft however in terms of towards the environment. The actual multi-colored structures, a few having a minor slim, offer an structures that could cause you to think you're the personality inside a Charles Dickens environment.
The early morning conference had been brief, departing all of us 4 several hours to hold back upon the teach. All of us discovered the pavement café, the actual odor associated with cooked pastry wafting in the within. We purchased the cup associated with whitened wines. The meals within Portugal is actually wonderful. Fundamental meals you may change your own nasal area as much as in the usa. It's just about all clean. Some thing because easy because france french fries, known as pomme de frites, attacks your own nasal area along with prepared spud, essential oil, as well as sodium. A parmesan cheese dish starts your own sensory faculties; the actual fairly sweet odor associated with somewhat bitter whole milk, within stunning yellows as well as beiges.
Since the waitress arranged my personal cup associated with whitened wines up for grabs, a small perspiration on the exterior from the gleaming cup, your woman showed up. Do We point out the ladies associated with Portugal? They're past stunning. Trim numbers along with slim French encounters, outlined through restricted mouth through many years associated with pursed pronunciations. Somewhat obvious cheek bone fragments, accentuating luring eye.
However this particular woman was away over the actual group. Lengthy thighs along with restricted denim jeans, hidden in to high dark footwear. I'm incomplete in order to blondes, however your woman experienced lengthy redhead locks, closing in the little associated with the woman's back again. Darkish eye brows along with olive pores and skin, as well as piercing dark brown eye.
Your woman sitting in the desk alongside my own as well as looked straight from me personally having a obvious grin. My personal center missed the defeat. Not really simply because We had been all of a sudden within adore. Much more from shame which your woman may have captured me personally looking from the woman's elegance.
"Est-ce que tu parles français? inch your woman stated.
We recognized the actual phrase, however had been scared to express "oui" with regard to concern she'll talk as well quick as well as depart me personally at the rear of, permanently asking yourself concerning the beast that involved me personally within discussion. My personal employer is really a prevent outside, I believe, speaking company upon their telephone. Their existence has turned into a faraway storage.
"No. I am sorry. Just a little, however mainly I simply understand British, inch We replied.
Within an interesting France highlight, a good octave beneath soprano, your woman states, "That's alright. A guy because good looking while you doesn't have in order to apologize. inch
We experienced get rid of as well as gulped. Your woman ongoing the woman's appealing look, waiting around on the reaction. We were able to recuperate sufficient to express, "That is very the enhance from the woman because stunning while you. inch
"Thank a person. Would you thoughts basically sign up for a person? inch
"Please perform, inch We stated, after which drawn the actual seat reverse me personally apart, opened up towards the woman's being an additional invite.
I'm all of a sudden inside a problem. My personal encounter seems warm, however this time around from the minor stress. Because your woman rests the woman's fragrance attacks my personal nasal area, obstructing the actual pastry odor from the kitchen area. My personal hands tend to be trembling through anxiety. I'm hitched.
She's used the woman's chair however hasn't voiced. Times move. We listen to the actual clip-clop associated with footwear upon cobblestone at the rear of me personally as well as meals clanking within the café. However throughout through me personally there's just exactly the same welcoming grin as well as getting eye.
I'm frantically considering things to state following, how you can earthworm my personal method from the scenario, whenever a tone of voice phone calls through at the rear of.
"Hey guy, the teach is going to be within 10 min's. All of us much better get started. inch
Preserved through the employer! We bet the actual beautiful woman the farewell, "aurevoir, inch We state, along with a fantastic night, purchase my personal wines, as well as I'm upon my personal method. Once we close to the stop my personal employer states, "Who within the heck had been which woman seated throughout through a person? inch
"No concept, inch We state. However within I understand I'll remember Argenton-sur-Creuse a bit more compared to a number of other cities associated with Portugal.


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Osseo Orioles Road To The Prep Bowl
Nov 10, 2015 07:05AM
By Doug Erlien
The Osseo Senior High School Orioles continue to put the game plan together for the East Ridge Raptors. But how did the team that stumbled mid-season and adjusted and has won six straight games get to this point?
Defining A Team:
Ask for one word to define this version of the Orioles and resilient is at the top of the list. The Orioles have been forced to rally in each of their four state tournament games. They have either been tied or have trailed at some point during their games and of the 192 total minutes played, the Orioles have trailed or have been tied in a little more than 93 minutes.
In the middle of the season, the Orioles battled injuries and overcame a three game losing streak, finishing the regular season with a 5-3 record. Back-to-back wins to end the year reestablished the Orioles in the championship conversation of the field of 32 teams.
In the 12 games the Orioles played this season, they had to come back from ties or a deficit in nine of them.
The Road To The Bank:
First Round: White Bear Lake- 48-21
Second Round: Hopkins – 56-34
Quarterfinals: Lakeville North – 24-21
Semifinals: Totino-Grace – 22-21
What a Rush:
To say that senior running back Prince Kruah has been a monster in the postseason would be selling him short. In four games, Kruah has rushed for 900 yards on 143 carries and has found the end zone 10 times. Kruah is a prime time player who will play a huge part in the championship game on Friday night. To put in perspective how dominant he has been, Kruah carried the ball 125 times for 756 yards and six scores in seven regular season games.
Balanced Attack:
While Kruah has carried the load of the ground attack, senior quarterback Malik Gaillard has put together a solid postseason. Gaillard completed 60 percent of his passes, averaged 112 yards per game, and has thrown for nine touchdowns. Those numbers are a huge reason the Orioles are playing for a championship at TCF Bank. His favorite target Damario Armstrong has 20 receptions for 298 yards and five touchdowns.


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Annabelle Dream Reader. The Wytches
Annabelle dream reader starts with a twang and reverb guitar that makes me think of that fantastic 60s hit by ZZ & the Maskers, 'Dracula'. The song, 'Digsaw', caught my attention straight away. Played in a way that singer Bob Bouber and the brothers De Hond could never have perceived, let alone played and still 'Dracula' is a clear grandfather to the grandchild 'Digsaw'. The Wytches are able to tap into 50 years and some more songs and sounds by now to execute its ideas. Then it was all new and exciting. Compared to The Black Marble Selection's debut album 'Under the skin' that was reviewed a few days ago on this blog, The Wytches do not want to be put into one corner only. For that the band blends too many influences, some old, some new, and does not just copy a style with original songs. There's as much Arctic Monkeys on this album as there is Duane Eddy or Link Wray, to drop two names of old.
The Wytches consists of singer guitarist Kristian Bell, drummer Gianni Honey and bassist Daniel Rumsey. They come out Brighton nowadays, having been formed in Peterborough. A lot seems to be going around that old, defunct pier in the 10s I have to say. The band started playing together in 2011 and after a string of singles and EPs released its debut album in the summer 2014.
The buzz word of this album should be excitement. Kristian Bell spits out his lyrics, changing his voice to dramatic shouts and wails, Gordon Gano on 'Hallowed ground' anyone?, while the whole band underscores this by making a lot of noise in the right places. Surf guitar sounds blend with rock, while there's some psychedelic overtones in the edge of madness that shows its face from around the corner every once in a while. Australian band Jet comes to mind sometimes in its louder songs where The Beatles are left alone and Iggy Pop is allowed in, just like The Vines were so good at as well. The Wytches have that peddle down the whole time. No relenting here. In the first half of the album that is.
'Wire frame mattress' seems to be as slow as it gets, at least at that point into the album. All is relative as you understand. In the music on Annabelle dream reader several things come together. Some great surf guitarists, e.g. Dick Dale, without the famous, ultra fast descending string runs, The Kinks and The Who of 1964, Johnny Rotten's snot, Oasis' spunk and a more modern bands like The Libertines. If you appreciate a mix like this, then you'll be alright with The Wytches. The band can cook up a storm and has the songs to make that happen. It's not the best I've ever heard, but Annabelle dream reader certainly is an album I've come back to over the past months, right up to this moment that I decided to seriously invest time in to it.
Even when the pressure really goes off, again things are relative here, e.g. in 'Weights and ties' and 'Part time model'. The slower songs make the album even more interesting. It shows that The Wytches really isn't a one trick pony and is of interest beyond the surf-psych-rock segment. A comment could be that this album has a clear middle dip. The up tempo start and the slower tempo middle, perhaps even a clear A and B side. Putting that aside, The Wytches shows it has room to develop beyond this album, some true potential, which is going to be interesting to follow over the coming years.
You can listen to 'Wire frame mattress' here:
Labels: 60ties, album recensie, psychedelic, punk, review, rock, rock noir, surf, WoNo Magazine Muziek Music
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Life's Lessons Learned #44: Givant's Deli
After living for a short while above the House of Pizza, I moved closer to work. I found an apartment that was about a block from the main office of the bank. At that time I was not packing a lunch, but rather took daily advantage of the plethora of eating establishments in downtown Lancaster. I regularly ate at Zimmerman's Restaurant on the corner of Orange and North Queen streets. My favorites were their daily soup specials (especially their bean soup with rivels) and or the often-available snapper soup. The restaurant is still there, but the clientele, name, and the ownership have changed, and I have not been in the restaurant since the mid 1970s. Now I have to drive about two hours to the Pinetown Inn near New Hope, PA, for authentic snapper soup.
Some of the other places I frequented for lunch downtown (now all gone) included:
• Woolworth's lunch counter – good German Chocolate Cake
• The Rendezvous Café at Watt & Shand – in the store basement
• Garvin's Department Store lunch counter – in the store basement
• Central Farmers' Market (Tues. & Fri.) – buy a roll, meat, chips, etc…
• Southern Farmers' Market (Wed.) – see above, same stuff
• Givant's Deli – Lancaster's only true Jewish delicatessen
This apartment was a vast improvement over the one above the House of Pizza. Since Givant's was closed at night, it was also quieter. However, the neighborhood was substantially worse. Lancaster was at the time a racially segregated community. To some extent it still suffers from the residual effects of this. The area that was available for housing for persons of color, as well as Lancaster's sizable Puerto Rican population, was the Seventh Ward (based on gerrymandered voting districts). This neighborhood was also the only location for the city's public housing units. Indeed, the head of the mortgage department at my bank had explained to me during my training in his department, that there was a neighborhood within the city where the bank did not give homeowner mortgages. He then showed me a map of the city with the "Seventh Ward", actually outlined in red ink, i.e., they actually "red lined" it!!! East Vine Street was the northern border of the Seventh Ward, and also the location of Givant's.
On April 4th, 1968, I watched from my window as two firebombs were tossed: one into a Watt & Shand Department Store warehouse just a half of a block north of my apartment, and one into the Haddad Shoe Company just outside of my rear door. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated that day. When I came home that afternoon (the bank closed early that day because of the assassination) one of my black neighbors warned me to stay indoors that night. I watched as the mob rioted one story below me where they were met by the Lancaster City police.
I built my first piece of furniture while living above Givant's. It was a cube table made of 3/4" birch-faced plywood that I finished in a dark maple stain. I had begun subscribing to Apartment Life and saw the idea in the magazine. The rest of the apartment was fully furnished. It was inexpensive furniture, but I did have a small kitchen. I began to cook some of the recipes in Apartment Life as well. I still have a few of those recipes in my recipe box. The bedroom had two twin beds. I remember that the bathroom had a tub with a shower, and now, as I think about it, I think that my first apartment bathroom only had a shower.
One bathroom memory from this apartment sticks out. I had a friend from the bank that was getting married, and I arranged his bachelor party. He lived a good distance outside of Lancaster, and was far too drunk to drive home, so he bunked at my place in one of the twin beds. In the middle of the night he threw up, and I hauled him, and the sheets, into the bathroom and put him, and the sheets, under the shower. I then threw him back into bed. The next morning, as he awoke I told him that he had been sick and he said, "I WAS NOT!" I simply replied, "Where are your sheets", and we had a good laugh. He later divorced, went to divinity school, became a minister in Boston, divorced, remarried, and is now back in Lancaster. We are no longer close, but there are some great memories in our past.


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A picnic party in the park or beach always sounds like such a nice idea. You pack a basket and enjoy a meal on a blanket. Picnics can be fun, relaxing and even a little romantic. Unfortunately, there's a chance they can also make you sick.
If you're planning to bring food that will remain outdoors for several hours, choose foods that won't wilt, melt, or spoil easily in the heat. Harvard University researchers recommend fresh firm vegetables (raw or cooked), chopped fruit, whole grains, pasta salad, beans, and trail mix.
The last thing you want is to end up spending your picnic time in the emergency department, so here are five additional tips to keep your picnics safe.
Pack Food that Won't Spoil
Even with extra ice packs, you always run a risk when you bring perishable food into a hot outdoor environment. Rather than expose yourself to spoiled food, pack a picnic that doesn't need to be kept cold. That way, you won't have to worry if your day doesn't go according to plan and you don't end up eating right away.
Keep it simple with non-perishable items, like the classic peanut butter sandwich, pretzels and fruits.
Come Prepared and Be Cautious
If you can't stand the idea of a picnic without some of your favorite perishable foods, just make sure you're prepared. Do things like:
- Pack a cooler instead of your traditional picnic basket
- Use ice packs and pack food in airtight containers
- Use your senses to smell, look or tentatively taste for spoiled food
- Don't eat anything that you think might pose a risk
The Food and Drug Administration also recommends these tips to keep you and your family safe.
- Keep cold food cold. Cold food should be stored at 40 degrees Fahrenheit or below to prevent bacterial growth. Meat, poultry and seafood may be packed while still frozen so that they stay colder longer. The key is to never let your picnic food remain in the "Danger Zone" — between 40 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit — for more than two hours, or one hour if outdoor temperatures are above 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Organize cooler contents. Consider packing beverages in one cooler and perishable foods in another. That way, as picnickers open and reopen the beverage cooler to replenish their drinks, the perishable foods won't be exposed to warm outdoor air temperatures.
- Keep coolers closed: Once at the picnic site, limit the number of times the cooler is opened as much as you can. This helps to keep the contents cold longer.
- Clean your produce. Rinse fresh fruits and vegetables under running tap water before packing them in the cooler — including those with skins and rinds that are not eaten.
But even with all of these precautions, don't be afraid to toss food that might be suspect.
Check Expiration Dates
If your picnic basket still has the same jars or condiments from last summer, make sure you check their expiration dates. The majority of condiments have a long shelf life, but they do still expire. Check the labels and play it safe.
Watch for Cross-Contamination
If you're packing for a cookout, you'll likely be filling your basket with raw meat, like hot dogs or hamburgers. To ensure the rest of your picnic doesn't suffer from cross-contamination, pack your raw foods in separate containers. This keeps their juices from contaminating prepared/cooked foods or foods that will be eaten raw, such as fruits and vegetables.
Practice Sun Safety
Since picnics generally take place during warmer weather months, make sure you're staying hydrated by drinking plenty of fluids. To reduce waste and lighten the load, have everyone carry their own reusable insulated water bottles. If refills are needed, bring a jug filled with ice water.
Take breaks from the sun and make sure you apply sunscreen at regular intervals.
A picnic or summer party can be a great way to spend some time outdoors with the people you love. Just make sure you pack properly and be aware of hidden hazards.
Remember to take along some healthy grilling recipes and for more tips on how to have a safe and healthy summer, download our summer survival guide.


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