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These meatballs are easy to make, and they taste great! The sweet pickles and pickle juice give them a unique, tangy sweet and sour flavor. The pictured meatballs contain chopped homemade bread and butter pickles. they were cooked in a slow cooker, but they could just as easily be cooked over low heat on the stovetop.
Serve the meatballs right from the slow cooker as an appetizer. Provide guests with small plates, toothpicks, and napkins. These are excellent for parties or game day events. Or take the slow cooker along to a tailgating event.
If you're short on time, feel free to use good quality frozen meatballs in this recipe. If you use frozen, cook them for about 3 to 4 hours on LOW or for about 2 hours on HIGH.
To give the dish extra color and texture, add some thinly sliced green and red bell pepper and onion to the slow cooker along with the meatballs and sauce.
- 1 can (20 ounces) pineapple chunks
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons light brown sugar, packed
- 1/4 cup chopped sweet pickles with 2 tablespoons of juice
- Meatballs
- 1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef, at least 85%
- 1/4 cup fine dry bread crumbs, plain
- 2 cloves garlic, finely minced
- 1 scant teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 large egg, slightly beaten
- 1/4 cup milk
Steps to Make It
Place a mesh sieve over a bowl. Drain the liquid from the pineapple chunks into a bowl. Set the pineapple chunks aside for the moment.
Stir the cornstarch into the pineapple liquid until smooth. Add the ketchup, soy sauce, light brown sugar, and the pickles with juice. Stir to blend and then add the pineapple chunks. Cover and refrigerate.
Heat the oven to 350 F.
Combine the ground beef with the bread crumbs, minced garlic, salt, pepper, egg, and milk. Mix well.
Shape the mixture into about 3 to 4 dozen meatballs.
Arrange the meatballs on a foil-lined rimmed baking sheet. Bake for about 25 to 30 minutes.
Transfer the meatballs to the slow cooker. Pour the refrigerated sauce mixture over the meatballs.
Cover and cook on LOW for 2 to 3 hours, or until hot and bubbly.
Makes about 2 to 3 dozen meatballs, depending on the size.
Tips for Meatballs
Use a small cookie scoop or spoon to keep the meatballs uniform in size, or weigh them as you shape them. A good size is around 1 inch or a little less in diameter, which would be about 3/4 ounce to 1-ounce in weight.
Another way to make the meatballs uniform is to pat the meat mixture out into a large square on a sheet of wax paper. Score the meat into precise squares and then shape the squares into meatballs.
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Wildflower Grill
10009 107 St.
11 a.m. to 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. (Fridays and Saturdays, 11 p.m.)
Dinner for two, not including tip, tax or beverage: Basic, $70; loaded, $130
Food – 3.5 of 5 Suns
Ambience – 3.5 of 5 Suns
Service- 4 of 5 Suns
By GRAHAM HICKS
Expectations, you are banished. Go sulk under the kitchen table.
You've let me down again.
Off the Weekly Dish reviewing team went last week – three of us – on a mid-week expedition to the Wildflower Grill.
Wildflower has been around for many years – originally the flagship of Richard Lim's now-defunct Lazia Hospitality Group – in the same building as the downtown Matrix Hotel but with a separate entrance and address.
It was sold sometime in the past year, with a reported re-commitment to quality by the new owners, and the hiring of a young Calgary chef, J.P. Dublado.
I had high hopes, having sampled a beautiful albacore tuna salad Dublado had on offer during the Downtown Dining Week opening reception, with exotic grains and a subtle camelina salad oil.
But Wildflower was not what I hoped for.
The menu itself is disappointing.
The entrees are big, dull and expensive. Steaks, pork chop, Icelandic cod, duck breast and lamb shank start in the high $30s and top out at $62 for a Wagyu Ribeye steak. The menu is designed for business dinners for those with big appetites on expense accounts. The last time I looked, that was a dying market.
Wildflower's "lighter fare" are starters or appetizers, not light dinners. Again, they were of the tried 'n' true variety, without the imagination I had expected Dublado would bring to the table. Pork belly, seared tuna, bison tartare, salmon gravlax … conventional to the extreme.
The food itself was good, but, again, without adventure.
The grilled pork chop, for instance, had an interesting apple sauce underneath, and came with a standard maple-syrup sweetened brussels sprouts and prosciutto bits. Imagination, where did you go?
The chop – with Keg-style grill searing – was neither super-tender, nor flavourful unto itself. Just a big, slightly dry, seared pork chop. It was nowhere close in flavour, tenderness or size to the Tomahawk pork chop offered for the same price at ATLAS in the Grand Villa Casino.
The mushroom risotto – no meat, $32 – wasn't bad, but, once again, no wow factor.
Best of show was the Alberta lamb shank – well-cooked, deeply marinated, the long, dark strands of very tender lamb shank meat nicely peeling off the bone. The presentation was full of gorgeous autumn colours from the chopped root veggies alongside.
The smaller dishes around the mains give one hope for Wildflower.
Chef Dublado coaxed unusual flavours out of his fresh, hot oysters with pureed kale, béchamel and liqueur sauce. The crusty brioche buns were delicious, plentiful and not added to the bill as a separate item (a sneaky new practice in restaurants that are nickel-and-diming for extra (needed) revenue.)
Dessert was the highlight of the dinner alongside the lamb. The green-tea sponge cake was something quite new, somewhat crumbly, a refreshing new sweet, with two slightly ice-cream-like parfait molds combining beautifully with the deconstructed sponge cake.
It would appear this chef is being severely constrained by ownership locked into an outdated mindset – when business people on long-gone expense accounts would entertain clients with what usually amounted to far too much meat-n-potatoes style food for any kind of healthy lifestyle.
Coming soon, from the creative culinary minds that brought us Dorinku, Japonaise Bistro and Seoul Fried Chicken, a new restaurant in the bad-luck Metals Building on the southwest corner of 104 Street and 102 Avenue. The name is an intriguing mouthful – Drunken Ox at Night, Sober Cat in the Morning.
Also soon to open is the Two Sergeants craft brewery, shifting from Fort Saskatchewan to a new location off Whyte Avenue with a proper kitchen. The new name is rumoured to be Kitchener's. When, oh when, does Polar Park Brewing/Restaurant open in the former Bee-Bell Bakery off Whyte Avenue?
Meuwly's Secret Meat Club has been just that, a "subscription" service to the beautiful custom-made wholesale charcuterie and sausage company. Meuwly's is soon to open a retail outlet, in the basement of Northern Chicken at 124 Street and 107 Ave.

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Who are the iwi of the Coromandel area?
Kia ora Nani
Well I have to agree! Where there are no claims in progress, buy back what you can before it gets sold into developers hands or worse into overseas owners hands who really don't care about the significance of the land to our people... its all money to them, to some of us, it is far more than $ and cents.
Naku noa
PS Really enjoy reading and learning about Hauraki, Coromandel, Ngati Paoa...
Kia ora @mrtwista13,
The Census of the Maori Population 1878 has iwi / hapu and kainga listed. I don't know the area you are talking about, but you may recognise some of the places in that, which may give you some answers. 🙂
Nau te raurau,
Naku te raurau,
Ka ora ai nga tangata!
Together we will get there!


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'Letterman': Did Selena Gomez REALLY make Bieber cry? (Oh come on)
There's been a vast amount of online chatter this morning Monday night's "Late Show with David Letterman" interview with Selena Gomez, in which she jokes about making former boytoy Justin Bieber "cry." It was a joke; the clip's been everywhere; and is now one of those silly Web things that has taken on a life of its own.
But here's the question: Did Gomez really come out with that quip as effortlessly as everyone assumes she did? My bet is no -- it was fed to her. Here's how it works: Dave tells her backstage that he's going to do a brief lead-in about making JB "cry" at which point -- after two beats -- she is to say something along the lines of "you're not alone."
This does happen in late night -- where something that seems unrehearsed was in fact very much rehearsed. I'm betting this is one of those instances. Take a look:
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Hats Off to your Imagination awarded to The Pig by Troy Bailey.
Boo to You awarded to The Spider by Shila McFaddin.
Be Drug Free awarded to Tiger Football Player by Tate Swearengin
Red, White and Blue award went to The Cowgirl by Hailey Jimenez
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Posted on 04th October 2017 by Media Relations
Proving all good things come in threes, Taronga Western Plains Zoo has welcomed a third healthy Giraffe calf for the breeding season! The birth follows the arrival of two male Giraffe calves in August - Zuberi and Kibo.
This time a female, the calf was born in the early hours of 11 September to experienced mother Ntombi and father Unnami. The birth is another great achievement for the Zoo's successful Giraffe breeding program and flourishing breeding herd of 11 individuals.
"We're pleased to have three healthy Giraffe calves born this breeding season, with each doing well under the watchful eye of their mothers," Taronga Western Plains Zoo Keeper Simone Low said.
"The new female calf has been named 'Malaika', which translates to 'Angel' in Swahili.
"We were excitedly awaiting her arrival, with mother Ntombi showing all the right physical and behavioural signs for some weeks in the lead up to the birth.
"The delivery was smooth and a number of the other Giraffes assisted in welcoming the baby by licking her, as mother Ntombi encouraged her to stand with a few gentle nudges," Simone said.
The two male calves, Zuberi, meaning 'strong' in Swahili, and Kibu, 'the highest', were born within a week of each other, on 8 and 15 August respectively. Nearing two months of age, they are spending more time exploring the exhibit independently of their mothers.
"Malaika is still becoming accustomed to her surroundings and doesn't stray too far from Ntombi's side. We expect she will continue to gain confidence in coming weeks," Simone said.
While Giraffe calves remain by their mother's side for the first month or more of life, they commonly congregate in crèches to rest and socialise, up to around five months of age.
Giraffe numbers in the wild have decreased drastically over the past decade, with an estimated 80,000 remaining. The global Giraffe population has fallen by up to 40 percent in the last 30 years; a result of poaching for bush meat, and habitat encroachment.
Taronga is active in supporting the plight of Giraffes in the wild, with a well-established partnership with Biliqo-Bulesa Conservancy, one of the largest community conservancies under the umbrella of the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT). The conservancy has improved wildlife security in important animal populations including Giraffe, amongst other species, by creating a safer ground for their movement and improving rangeland health.


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By Cesar Trelles 7/21/14
NASL attendance figures jump 143% in week two of the season
There was so much chatter in Cosmos Country last week around attendance and how the fall season opener was so poorly attended. In looking around the entire NASL, you could also make the same argument. For the New York Cosmos, this week they took to the road for their week two match and did not have the opportunity to bounce back and show that their 3800 attedance showing in week one was just an anomaly. No worries however. The rest of the NASL took care of that for them.
With the exception of the FC Edmonton versus Atlanta Silverbacks match, all other NASL matches in the league were extremely well attended in week two of the season. Of course in Ottawa, they set a modern day NASL attendance record by having 14,593 fans pass through the turnstiles into TD Place for the opening of that stadium. But that was not all. The Indy Eleven, despite having a losing record at home in 2014, continue to draw in excess of 10,000 fans every home match. Further, in Minnesota and in San Antonio, both matches held in those respective stadiums drew on or around 7,000 fans. The total attendance differences between both weeks were so drastic that a percentage change shows an astronomical increase of 143% in week two over week one.
So what exactly does this mean?
On one hand it can be debated that week one truly suffered from a sort of soccer burnout due to the World Cup. It can be argued that fans had sat thru a month of non stop soccer and needed sort of a breather from the sport. Conversely, one can also argue that in week two there was a stadium being opened with a record crowd which helped the average attendance swell so much. But here's food for thought. San Antonio has been in the league now for a few years and continues to draw 6-7k each home game. Indy has sold out every home match this year with 10,000 plus fans. Minnesota continues to draw well especially with their recent success. You would expect Ottawa to draw great crowds as well through the end of 2014. At what point do we start to say, hey maybe the NASL is onto something here?
The Cosmos will have to wait their turn until August 2nd to show that their attendance numbers indeed can bounce back. If they do and do so on a consistent basis to the tune of 6k or higher, that would mean that 50% of the teams in the NASL are averaging north of 6k fans per game, a respectable claim for a league with a division two label.
The fall season will be one to watch from an attendance point of view, especially when it comes to Cosmos home matches at Schuart Stadium.


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Les rendez-vous d'Anna
Chantal Akerman
In one of Akerman's most penetrating character studies, Anna, an accomplished filmmaker (played by Aurore Clément), makes her way through a series of European cities to promote her latest movie. Via a succession of eerie, exquisitely shot, brief encounters—with men and women, family and strangers—we come to see her emotional and physical detachment from the world.
"The impression of Akerman as a perpetual wanderer is confirmed by the autobiographical Les Rendez-vous D'Anna, which follows a filmmaker (Aurore Clément) from one European city to the next on a tour in support of her latest effort. It's like the anti-8 1/2: Rather than the vibrant, chaotic "carnival of life" that besets Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini's film, Akerman's director drifts through a succession of hotel rooms and train depots in a state of total detachment. As Michael Koresky writes in the liner notes, Rendez-vous speaks to her experience as "director as nomad"; that personal touch is what elevates these films to something greater than chilly aesthetic exercises." – Scott Tobias, AV Club
"Les Rendez-vous d'Anna seems today in retrospect a very worthy successor, continuing Akerman's exploration and articulation of the feminine experience in a generation younger than Dielman's housewife approaching middle age, though in a film more concise and less overtly demanding due to a greater variety of interpersonal situations" – David Blakeslee, Criterioncast


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How an electrochlorinator works
In order to be suitable for pools, the water must meet several criteria: it should be clear, disinfected, disinfecting, and neither aggressive nor scale-forming. To achieve this, the resources used are: filtration, disinfection, treatment and analysis.
Salt electrolysis
• Electrochlorination (in situ generation of chlorine) is a gentle processing method based on a continuous cycle: the salt is transformed into chlorine which is converted back into salt, etc.
• Because it is semi-automatic, the electrochlorinator makes it possible to constantly maintain water of excellent sanitary quality. So it does not sting the eyes or attack the skin and has no chlorine smell. Electrochlorination is a treatment method that also means that storage and handling of dangerous goods are unnecessary.
Electrochlorination procedure
• Electrolysis is based on an electrochemical reaction: the pool water, which is slightly salty, passes between two plates that have been polarized with a low voltage direct current.
• This treatment process needs salt to function and produce sodium hypochlorite (NaClO), or bleach, to disinfect the pool water.
• The sodium hypochlorite produced immediately dissociates into hypochlorous acid which is a powerful oxidizing agent, destroying both organic materials and pathogenic germs, algae, bacteria and nitrogen pollutants.
• As salt treatment of pools is semi-automated, it makes it possible to constantly maintain water of excellent sanitary quality.
• Electrolysis takes place within a cell filled with electrodes and placed on the water recycling circuit. The electrodes, through which a low voltage direct current runs, are made of rustproof titanium and coated with a noble metal such as ruthenium or iridium. The salt concentration added to the pool is generally between 3 and 7 g/l (refer to the electrochlorinator instructions).
• After disinfecting and as a result of UV rays, the chlorine returns to the state of dissolved salt, which is again available for the production of chlorine. Ideally, with no loss of water, the process could therefore continue indefinitely. In fact, water losses through wintering, washing filters and overflowing, mean that a supply of fresh water needs to be added to the pool. These additions of fresh water must be supplemented by adding the same amount of salt to keep the electrolysis system functioning correctly.
• The salt electrolysis process makes it possible to:
- disinfect the pool
- give disinfectant properties to water
- ensure that equipment remains efficient
- ensure optimum bathing comfort


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Problems With EU Payment Security Persist
The revised EU Payment Services Directive (PSD2) aims to modernize Europe's payment services. It promotes more secure payments and better consumer protection. But the new security procedures troubled some payment service providers, so tighter payment security in the EU has been postponed.
Consumers would benefit from cheaper, safer and more innovative electronic payments, so the European Commission emphasized when they presented the revised EU Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Valdis Dombrovskis, at that time vice president responsible for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union said: "This legislation is another step towards a digital single market in the EU. It will promote the development of innovative online and mobile payments, which will benefit the economy and growth. Consumers will also be better protected when they make payments."
On September 14, 2019, the strong customer authentication (SCA) requirement of the revised Directive on payment services (PSD2) came into force. Through this, PSD2 obliges payment service providers to apply "strong customer authentication" when a payer initiates an electronic payment transaction.
Some EU Member States, such as Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden, already used SCAs for electronic remote payment transactions, be it a card payment or a credit transfer from an online bank. In some other EU countries, some payment service providers apply SCA on a voluntary basis.
Under PSD2, banks and other payment service providers will have to put in place the necessary infrastructure for SCA. They will also have to improve fraud management. Merchants will have to be equipped to be able to operate in a SCA environment.
"Creating security in e-commerce is a continual process," says Markus Schaffrin, security expert at eco Association of the Internet Industry. "The rules of the PSD2 are a good way of making sure that customers do not need to fear identity theft or having their payment details abused."
The Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/389 also assists in the security of payments that are carried out in batches. This is the way most corporations make payments, rather than one by one. The new rules also take into account host-to-host machine communication, where, for example, the IT system of a company communicates with the IT system of a bank to send messages for paying invoices. Although the European Commission called on all EU Member States to ensure speedy and full implementation of all these rules, some stakeholders are still working to put these technological and practical changes in place.
The European Banking Authority (EBA) acknowledged the challenges experienced by some stakeholders in introducing SCA fully by September 14. The EBA therefore adopted an Opinion allowing national supervisors to enforce the new SCA rules for online payments by cards with a degree of flexibility, granting, where necessary, "limited additional time" to migrate to compliant authentication methods. Consumers should continue to pay as normal in Member States that decide to take advantage of this flexibility. At the end of this period of time, consumers will be asked to perform the two-factor strong customer authentication, unless an exemption applies.
The German digital association Bitkom has expressed relief that the financial supervision does not want to consistently enforce the new rules applicable from September 14 on online card payments due to the existing implementation problems. At the same time, Bitkom recommends extending this transitional period to 18 months in the case of "strong customer authentication". This period would be necessary and sufficient to ensure implementation for payment services, technical service providers and retailers. In addition, the transitional period would allow the necessary tests of the new payment routines.
On October 16, 2019, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published the deadline for the migration to SCA under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) for e-commerce card-based payment transactions. The deadline has been set to December 31, 2020. While the payment service providers welcome the long transition period, the customers are still waiting for more payment security in the EU. The new payment study by the Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW) e.V. has shown that 64.4% of Germans do not want to restrict their shopping behavior in online shops despite the EU's new Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Additionally, 13.1% of respondents (n = 1,047) welcome the new heightened security measures and want to shop even more online.
According to a new representative study by the German Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung (GfK), 45% of consumers think the introduction of the new EU regulation is a good thing. Although online shoppers still have to get used to the new procedures of their card-issuing banks and savings banks, the new regulation brings significantly more security.
"We expect biometric authentication to become more important with two-factor authentication, and many smartphone owners are already using their fingerprint or face recognition feature to unlock their mobile phone," said Peter Bakenecker, division president for Germany and Switzerland at Mastercard. "In particular, purchases with mobile devices can be completed safe and convenient with just one click, without having to enter an unwieldy password or a PIN during the payment process."
But some customers will have to wait for the better payment security in the EU, maybe until the end of 2020, while in some EU countries and many countries outside the EU the strong customer authentication already works without any problems.
— Oliver Schonschek, News Analyst, Security Now
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The German Federal Government wants to join forces with other European partners to create a secure cloud for Europe called GAIA-X.
This October we visited the trade fair it-sa, which counts as one of the more important IT security exhibitions in the world. They hosted more than 750 security vendors from 25 countries who presented their solutions for the international market.
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President unwell in morning.
Scarcely takes food all day. Misses appointment with Gen. Schenck. Abraham
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$2,500 as annual compensation for chief chemist of Agriculture Dept. Abraham
Lincoln to Isaac Newton, 22 July 1863, CW, 6:343.
President Lincoln
writes a letter of introduction for a Mr. Houston to present to the Secretary
of War Edwin M. Stanton. Lincoln writes, "[the] bearer of this, now has three
sons in the war. He wishes the youngest, Albert P. Houston, now in the 108th
Ills regiment, at Vicksburg [Mississippi], transferred to the 1st West
Tennessee regiment of Cavalry, at Bolivar [Tennessee] when last heard from, and
in which is one of his elder brothers. I would like for him to be obliged."
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" This is the biggest fire we have ever had here. My son came to wake me to warn us about the fire around 2.30am. We ost all of our stuff.Last night we sat around a fire outside one of our neighbour's houses. We had no place to sleep . All we have left is the clothes on our bodies. It all happened so fast. My husband and his freinds are now rebuilding our place ," Ms Human said
Another resident,Hilda Barbers, said she had at first thought the loud bands in the early mornng houres were gunshots.
Later she learned they had been gas tanks exploding bacause of fire.
"I am very glad that most of us survived the fire, but we have lost everything. I have three children. aged 12, 6, and 3. I don't know what would have happened to my family if our neighbour did not shout the it was burning. When the gas tanks exploded, it sounded lie gunshots going off. The new place they have allocated to my family and me is too small though. We are five people- my children , boy- friend and i. The small size of the demarcated dwelling they gave us wil mean that we will have to eat , sleep and bath in the same spaace" Ms Barbers said.
Community leader with Mieta Hofstander, with the help of two other residents, sorted out donations of clothing they recieved from the Mustadafin Foundation. These clothes wew distributed to those affected by fire.
ward 46 councillor, Aslam Cassiem , was on the scene shortly after the fire.
Mr. Cassiem and ward 47 councillor and sub-council 11 chairman, Antoniovan der Rheede, assisted residentd after the fire.
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I am 22 years old and have been with my one and only boyfriend for over 2 1/2 years now. I love him very much and we get along well, but our sexual life has always had problems....
What Is Healthy Sexual Development?
Depending on your view, the answer to that question might seem really obvious or very tricky and hazy.
At a recent conference I was part of in London, Alan McKee presented Healthy sexual development: a multidisciplinary framework for research. What McKee and his colleagues determined to be the core parts of healthy sexual development had me jumping up and down in my seat with joy (literally: I may have disturbed my fellow attendees with my bouncing). It summed up the things we try to support, encourage and inform our users with and keep core at Scarleteen so well, and so much of what I think -- after many years of thinking hard about and working with these issues, and being fully and broadly immersed in them with a very diverse population -- truly is central to healthy sexual development.
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When it comes to sex and sexuality, I was a very, very, very late bloomer.
Raised in a Pentecostal Christian home where sex and sexuality were rarely discussed beyond, "No sex until you are married," as a teen I assumed I would not have sex until my early- to mid-twenties, after I had finished undergrad.
I assumed any boys/men I met would share my religious beliefs about sex. I assumed my values would never change. And I assumed my husband and I would know how to sexually please one another, in spite of having no sexual experience before our wedding night (which, of course, would be a night of unbridled passion and ecstasy).
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When we're quality sex educators; when we are or aim to be inclusive, forward-thinking and do sex education in ways that can or do serve diverse populations, we will tend to define sex very broadly, far more so than people who don't work in sex education often tend to, even if and when their experiences with sex and sexuality have been broad. Often, the longer we work as sexuality educators, and the longer we also just live and experience our own sexual lives, the more expansive the definition becomes. If we live and/or work on the margins, like if we or people we serve are queer, gender-variant, culturally diverse, have disabilities, the diversity in our definitions of what sex can be will become even greater.
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Despite the differences in culture, language, and history of each place we have visited, the gospel message in each congregation has been the same.
It has also been fun for the boys to see that it doesn't matter where you meet, the Gospel is still the same. Some branches have met in an apartment building, others in a business building, and very few in a stand-alone chapel.
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One of our favorite experiences was in Croatia, where we attended during a fast and testimony meeting--the LDS meeting where members share their beliefs. The Branch was extremely small, but it made for an even more intimate and enjoyable experience. When the meeting started, one of the missionaries said he would translate for us if we wanted to share our testimonies. So we did. After the meeting, the missionary told us that it was the longest testimony meeting they had ever had :)
We've also enjoyed the openness of the small branches we've visited. Coming in with our party of 6 can be a sight to behold, but every time we come to a new branch, we're welcomed with open arms and accepted as part of the branch almost immediately. In fact, today we went to church in La Spezia, Italy, and one of the leaders had Parker fulfill his Bishop's messenger duty as a Deacon.
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IDAL, represented by Chairman Nabil Itani, took part today in the conference on "SMEs: The Road to Economic and Social Equality Development" at the Movenpick Hotel, Beirut. Mr. Itani emphasized on the role of IDAL in providing support for Small and Medium Sized enterprises especially in the ICT and AgroFood sectors through incentive schemes and other support services including access to global bids and tenders. Mr.Itani was also honoured with an award by the Union of Arab Banks.
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So you can make all the resolutions you want about how you're going to blog more often and write more in-depth posts on individual books, but when the new year coincides with the start of a new term and you also have to finish planning your 69-section department course schedule for next Fall, well, that resolution isn't going to be met right away. Still, I have been reading some, so here, in the interest of writing something about those books, is a list:
Romance: Short and Satisfying
(Because only one was sweet). On the 7th day of Christmas I remembered that Janet had sent me a Betty Neels book called The Fifth Day of Christmas. I was behind on starting it! I thought of this as a novella but it was 185 pages and I think I just forgot what size paper Harlequins are. Anyway, I enjoyed this aside from two things. 1. the ridiculous updating of a record player to a CD player–cut that out, publishers! What's wrong with a classic? (Especially as the book in every other way dated to Betty Time–vaguely 50s-ish). 2. The usual Selfish Other Woman was Clever (i.e. intellectual), so of course could not be the affectionate domestic type the hero needed. Of course not. But. Rich Dutch doctor was not too opaque or mean to the heroine; nurse heroine was of the beautiful and reasonably confident type, not the doormat type; Scottish and Dutch settings were grand. I had a good time as always in Betty Land.
Along with several Twitter pals, I read Lavender Parker's novella Flower in the Desert. I really liked the heroine, Ruby, and the survival-in-the-wilderness first half. Then it kind of fell apart. I pretty much agree with Meoskop's review, though the second-half problems mean I'd rate it more like a B-.
Mysteries: Gritty to Cozy
I read Stuart MacBride's Aberdeen-set police procedural Cold Granite. I'm tired of serial-killer-preying-on-children plots and the fact that a number of different crimes ended up connecting made MacBride's Aberdeen seem very grim (also, it was raining/snowing non-stop). But I liked DS Logan McRae and WPC Jackie Watson and will probably read more of this series.
Right now I'm reading James Runcie's Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death, featuring a clergyman in 50s Cambridgeshire. This should be right up my alley–Runcie is the son of a former Archbishop of Canterbury and knows whereof he writes. But I'm hovering on the edge of a DNF. A book like this depends on liking the character and setting, and there's a lot of distant reportage of Sidney's thoughts. A passage like this makes me want to put it down:
He started to think about the question of belonging and identity: how much a person was defined by upbringing, education, profession, faith and choice of friends.
"How much can a person change in a life?" he wondered.
(If you're going to give your character these reflections, dig a little deeper!) But then a few pages later I'm snort-laughing at Sidney's thoughts about his dinner-party hosts:
Their home . . . had previously been the type of establishment in which rich Victorian men had kept their decorative mistresses. Sidney considered this rather appropriate as Juliette Thompson certainly had a whiff of the Pre-Raphaelite about her. Her beauty was both doomed and untouchable: unless, of course, you were Nigel Thompson MP.
For that, I'll stay on the fence a little longer (the book is 6 stories so it's easy to bow out along the way).
I'm not sure what to say about Charles M. Blow's Fire Shut Up in My Bones. This review is far more interesting about its dualities than I can be. I read it more quickly than I'd have liked because I had to return it to the library. Blow vividly evokes the Louisiana of his childhood and he's great at sketching the members of his community and extended family in a few lines. I found the chapters on his childhood engrossing. I was less interested in his experience with a college fraternity, though I understand how it fit into his exploration of his desire for belonging and the violence and abuse that are always a part of his life. I didn't feel I needed so much description of hazing, and the sense of belonging and friendship were never really depicted. In fact, I felt reading this that other people were not very interesting to him except insofar as they cared for him; he doesn't really talk about his love for them. Perhaps it's a common pitfall of memoir that others are treated mainly instrumentally, interesting for their function in the writer's life rather than for themselves.
Money, Money, Money, Money
I am listening to a Big Fat Book: Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. It's really too dense for successful listening–I can understand most bits as they go by but it's hard to hang on to the big picture. But let's get real: I'd never have made time to read this in paper. I am most interested in the parts I can connect to my own family history, like the rise of a patrimonial middle-class and the return, since the period around the world wars, to the starker inequalities of the past and the importance of inherited wealth (have we talked about housing prices in my city?). I'm also wondering if there is a French intellectual style, because phrases like "first we need to clarify the concepts" remind me of reading French critical theory in grad school.
I took a break from this to listen to Niall Ferguson's The Ascent of Money, a much livelier narrative history that covers topics like money itself (the creation of coins and bills), bonds, stocks, insurance, and mortgages. Ferguson is great at pinning these abstract topics to stories about particular individuals/institutions. Enron, blah, heard it before–but I loved the bits about Nathan Rothschild and his impact on the Napoleonic wars.
Plans Doomed to Fail
Even though I'm already having trouble with my resolutions, I'm making more reading plans. Will 2015 be the year I finally finish Dorothy Dunnett's Game of Kings? Will I get back to favorite romance authors like Miranda Neville, Jeannie Lin, Molly O'Keefe, all of whose books are piling up in my TBR? Will I finally read Susanna Kearsley instead of hoarding her books? Stay tuned!
A friend of mine mentioned she is trying the Pop Sugar Reading Challenge in an effort to read more variety. I decided that was too much like homework for me (and I have no desire to tick some of those boxes, like reading a whole trilogy in one year). But I did download it, because I'm curious to see how many I tick by reading whatever I feel like. And knowing me, at some point in the year (if I don't forget all about it) it will eventually start influencing my choices. Because I'm nothing if not a competitive homework keener.


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It came as a surprise that Elaine was posthumously honored by Citibank as a Distinguished Alumni for Community Involvement. In her words, she would have been 'chuffed'. In her career as a banker, Citibank played a pride of place. She worked in the bank from 1974 to 1980, starting as a Credit Analyst and then was the Liaison Officer with the Reserve Bank of India. She would have been even more thrilled to share the platform for 2014 with her friends and contemporaries: Aditya Puri and Jerry Rao.
In 2013 Citibank instituted the Citibank Distinguished Alumni Awards. These awards are given for three categories to alumni in each country. For India the awardees were: 2013 - Victor Menezes for Leadership. In 2014 - Aditya Puri for Leadership, Jerry Rao for Network Development and Elaine Ghosh for Community Involvement. In nominating Elaine the recommendation reads, 'One of our most inspirational alumni was Elaine Marie Ghosh, a charismatic, dynamic individual who devoted herself to make the lives of the poor in India's slums, a little better. It is a privilege to honor her by nominating her the 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award in the Community Involvement category.'
The award is for her work in setting up Parinaam Foundation to provide critical support to urban poor in areas of Financial Literacy which trains poor women in 18 states across India; children's education through the Academic Adoption Program and scholarships for higher education; healthcare through critical illness intervention programs & conducting health camps in slums; and Elaine's unique creation of a completely holistic support for the urban ultra-poor in Bangalore, which won Parinaam sthe Citi-Financial Times Ingenuity Award for Asia in 2013.
'Elaine's legacy will live on through Parinaam and the women whose lives she changed, for years to come.'
|The award was handed over to her mother Doris at their home in Mumbai on July 14th, 2015.
Elaine, Jerry and Aditya were colleagues and friends and joined Citibank within a year of each other in the mid Seventies. Their bond of friendship which went through usual trials of time lasted close to four decades. In 2012 one of the legendary Citibankers from the time we joined the bank in the Seventies, Ajit Grewal (Shorty) passed away. There was a flurry of emails of remembrances and praise for the departed. Elaine who had always been outspoken & irrepressible, was upset that we only say all the good things about a person when he or she has passed away. So she decided to send an email to all the Citibankers she had worked with and admired. This is what she had to say about Jerry and Aditya:
' Jerry – I will forgive all the vapor cracks for the rest of our lives, because of the affection you have always shown us and because of two incidents: when we came back to India in 1985 stuck in a hotel for 6 months with 3 tiny kids, you had negotiated the first available flat in Khursheedabad would be given to us. As it happened it was Venky who was moving out and somehow Sujit was assigned the flat. Samit was travelling and you got to know about it, you kicked up such a ruckus with David and made sure that not only did we get the flat, but that it was fixed to my satisfaction! The second time was when Nihal took ill in Dubai and we thought we were losing him, I rushed him down to Bombay, and you kept a car 24x7 at my disposal and forced that nice doctor to run a battery of tests on him on a Sunday, that night he had to leave for a conference in Washington! And I wasn't even talking to you at the time! I have known you the longest (1973? ESSO?) and with you I need no façade, no facelift, I can be myself and know that I am still cared for – as you care for all your friends irrespective of any shortcomings. You are our link to the wider world that we seem to have left behind. So you see I am not ready to lose you.' Elaine
Jerry is entitled to win the awards in all three categories. He is the pioneer of retail/consumer banking in India which he started in 1985 and I had the privilege to be part of the team. It started the financial revolution which brought real financial inclusion to the Indian middle class and transformed their lives. It was instrumental in kick starting the economy from the doldrums of the 'Hindu Rate of Growth'. Jerry after leaving Citibank has been an outstanding serial entrepreneur in multiple areas but notably in Information Technology. Jerry has a huge network of friends and well-wishers. But his networking does not stop with social interaction but supports a very large number of this network in every way possible. His generosity knows no bounds. Jerry was at Elaine's bedside every day when she was in the hospital before she passed away. He made sure that the doctors prioritized & took good care of her.
'Aditya – the last few years have not been a good time for us. But I have many happy memories of the old times. I told Samit just a few months ago, if I am really honest, I would say that 3 men had a huge effect on my early years: my dad, Father Eustace D' Lima, a Jesuit priest, I knew in college and Aditya Puri! You didn't just guide us on our work; you taught us lessons for life – what to do and what not to do (by example). How to spill a glass of martini in a 5 star restaurant with panache; how to manage difficult clients and bosses (AC?); how to be really efficient (delegate) and leave the office on time; how to put family first. You always pushed us to our uttermost limits, but in such a way that often we didn't realize we were being made to work beyond our capabilities. The best thing you ever did for me, though I cried and cried when you did it – was make me the Citibank liaison for the RBI – that assignment really put steel in my backbone and taught me that I could handle anything. And in some twisted way after all these years, I need to thank you for getting us to come back to India in 1996. Today, after much travail, we are stronger, both of us are doing something we love and we have found our calling.' Elaine
Aditya had an outstanding career in Citibank. He then went on to found & manage the most successful and admired bank in India – HDFC Bank. I worked in setting up the retail banking in the initial years of the bank. Aditya's achievements are very well known and I do not need to extoll them here. As a leader what struck me is his ability to hone into the core & cut out all the fluff. He is definitely one of the best bankers I have worked with. Smiley and Aditya were close friends of Elaine. Like all relationships in life it went through the stress of times, but at the end they were united and both of them were joined to condole Elaine's untimely death.
These photographs were taken in 1976, very early years of their career in Citibank. Elaine & Aditya's photographs were taken in the swanking new office on the 19th Floor of Air India Building in Mumbai. Jerry's photograph was taken at the wedding of a staff in Kolkata. He also soon after relocated to the same office in Mumbai. It was the only time all three worked out from the same office during their career.
Elaine concluded her email of May 31st, 2012: 'I am thankful to each of you for being in my life, taking the muddled up pieces of the jigsaw that was the young Elaine Marie Pereira and making me whole. I am thankful and grateful that Samit is in my life – he is my life. Jerry, would you say I am ready? Much love, Elaine.'.
Samit Ghosh
July 26, 2015.


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MISSISSIPPI COUNTY, MO (KFVS) - Inmates from a Heartland prison were competing with each other to see how many meals they could pack for hungry kids in third-world countries on April 17.
The Southeast Correctional Center is the first prison in Missouri to host a Feed My Starving Children event.
The theme was to turn wrongdoers into 'world changers', and inmate Jonathan Leaks says the friendly competition added a layer of excitement.
"I've never seen energy like that in prison," Leaks said. "I've seen some guys come out of their shell and just filled with joy of truly giving back and change lives."
Other inmates like Jervell Stanciel-el say they could not wait to pitch in and help hungry kids in need.
"I'm at a stage in my life where I want to serve," Stanciel-el said. "I was here before 7:30 a.m. I was like 'I need to get in here, in need to figure it out. I need a front row seat because I do not want my seat taken.'"
SECC's gym was bustling with about 200 inmates, staff and volunteers who were scooping food into meal bags and sealing them to be shipped to one 70 different countries the non-profit serves.
After eight hours of the work, the group packed more than 163,000 meals.
Danny Pyne, the senior event supervisor for Feed My Starving Children, says that amount of food will feed hungry 447 kids for a whole year, and says they have countless success stories.
"Kids that were too weak to stand and so frail they were pretty much skin and bones and were put on this food and were able to grow and get back to healthy stage," Pyne said. "It is a scientifically formulated food product and it's four ingredients. Vitamins, veggies, soy and rice and those things are so important for the physical development of the kids that we are serving."
Stanciel-el says seeing who the meals benefit made him thankful that he lives in United States and can give back.
"I think we should be thankful for what we have," Stanciel-el said. "Growing up in poverty I experienced being hungry sometimes but when you hear about the conditions in other places you don't complain, because some people goes days and weeks without eating."
Leaks described the event as a rare opportunity to help children in need while also healing himself.
"For most of us, this is what redemption looks like," Leaks said. "It's inspiring, and we want our voice to be heard and we want to go about it the right way by giving back and by doing good. It really is peaceful. I'll sleep pretty good tonight."
Inmates at prison also raised 11,000 dollars to help pay for the supplies used at the event. The other two-thirds of the funding needed was provided by Cape La Croix Church and an anonymous donor from Missouri.
Staff at Southeast Correctional Center say they are already planning to host another meal-packing event in the future.
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After an 8-4, extra-inning loss on Independence Day, the Tampa Bay Rays will try and figure out a way to overcome the Yankees on Friday night. The Rays have lost five consecutive games against the Yankees and eight-of-ten this season. New York enters play with the best record American League, having gone 28-7 within the division.
After winning four consecutive ballgames, the Rays have dropped two in a row while allowing 17 runs. As Neil Solondz (Rays Radio) noted, 11 of those 17 runs have come in the final inning of those two games.
On the bright side, the Trop has now hosted four consecutive games of 20-thousand plus baseball fans, allowing the Rays to increase their average attendance to 15,099 per game — a difference of 455 fans per game over this time last season. They are one of just twelve teams in the league whose attendance has increased over last season. In fact, the Yankees have seen their average attendance fall by 2,923 fans per game. A modest increase? Absolutely, but positive change is positive change, and I'll take it.
Furthermore, Tampa Bay has hit the 20-thousand home attendance mark 13 times in 2019, and we aren't at the halfway point yet. For context, 20-thousand plus fans attended just nine of 81 home ballgames last season.
If the Rays can net at least 21-thousand fans over the final three games of this homestand, they will end the ceremonial first half of the season with an average attendance of 16,499, putting them between Oakland and Pittsburgh…but more importantly, above the lowest two teams.
To the Tampa Bay Rays, thank you for the family-friendly promotions and affordable ticket flash sales — they, indeed, are showing returns at the gate. Giving away free flags is also a good start, although we shouldn't be happy until this town is painted with sunbursts and Rays signage. To the fans, I know it's been a tough slog with the owner proclaiming doom and gloom, and making inflammatory proclamations that do nothing more than pit fan against fan, and municipality against municipality (and yes, I still think the sister season concept is nothing more than a leverage ploy). Good on all of us for keeping our head down and focused on something other than Stu.
Let's continue to push those attendance numbers up. Get out to the ballpark and show Sternberg that WE CAN support our guys! At the end of the day, WE are on the up and up regardless of what anyone says about us.
The New What Next
Brendan McKay (1-0, 0.00 ERA) will make his second big league start tonight, pitching opposite of Masahiro Tanaka (5-5, 3.74 ERA).
Brendan McKay pitched six scoreless innings in his big league debut, allowing just one hit (tracked at 66.5 mph off the bat) and one walk with three punch outs. The left-hander took a perfect game into the sixth inning when he gave up two baserunners. McKay's curveball was especially sharp, as he held Texas to 1-for-18 on his breaking pitch and generated 11 swings and misses.
Masahiro Tanaka allowed six runs on four hits and two walks across 2/3 of an inning on Saturday. He did not record a strikeout. The first game in London saw neither team's starter make it out of the opening frame, with Tanaka delivering his worst start of the season by a significant margin. The 30-year-old now has a 3.74 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, and a 3.70 K/BB over 98-2/3 innings this season. Tanaka has been very tough against the Rays this season, going 2-0 with a 0.41 ERA in three starts (22 IP). Key Matchups: Willy Adames (3-12, 2B, RBI), Guillermo Heredia (1-4), Kevin Kiermaier (8-31, 2B, 3B, HR, RBI, BB), Tommy Pham (4-15, 2B, HR, 2 RBI), Joey Wendle (3-8, 2B 2 RBI), Mike Zunino (5-19, 2 2B, HR, RBI)
You can read about the series in our preview, while the starting lineup and Noteworthiness are below.
Rays 7/5/19 Starting Lineup
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- Meadows RF
- Pham LF
- Kiermaier CF
- Diaz DH
- Lowe 1B
- Adames SS
- Wendle 2B
- Brosseau 3B
- Zunino C
— The Rays are expected to have Kevin Kiermaier in the lineup tonight. Kiermaier has missed the last two games because of wrist soreness.
— Matt Duffy went 1-for-2 yesterday in a rehab outing with the Gulf Coast League Rays and played third base for five innings. He is scheduled to DH today.


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The government plans to impose goods and services tax on small online retail purchases which have previously been ignored by officials because it was too expensive to pursue, making foreign suppliers collect the tax and dropping some border duties for the
The more the unrelenting US-China competition foreshadowed in contemporary US planning becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, the more New Zealand and its partners need to encourage a regional environment less dominated by the ambitions of the big two, writes Robert Ayson for Newsroom today.
Synlait Milk has partnered with farm software company FarmIQ Systems to provide certified Lead With Pride™ dairy farmers with a cloud-based farm information system.
Five more businesses have joined Air New Zealand's Airpoints programme, offering their customers new ways to earn Airpoints Dollars™:
Manufacturers, engineers today and through till Thursday is your chance to update yourselves on 3D printer products, specifically the Markforged range with New Zealand master agent Cadpro Systems. Doors open at 0900 this morning.
Apr 30 - An option which came up is using our food and agricultural waste on a wide scale across the country. Environment Conservation Organisations of New Zealand Co-Chair Barry Weeber told Mike Hosking we can put our food scraps to good use. "Using our waste more effectively. Methane is a waste and …
Apr 30 - He said the entire project was through trial and error – piecing together different scraps like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Dickie sourced most of the scrap metal from a large bin at his work. The train's wheels were bought on Trade Me for $240. "I must admit there was the cost of a few beers sitting and studying …
Apr 30 - Florent Petteni, Airbus' aircraft interiors marketing director for the A350, told CNN Travel there will be "no missing windows". "Whenever a passenger selects a window seat, they will always get a window. This eliminates the dreaded "windowless" window seat found on other aircraft."
Apr 30 - New Zealand previously sent most of its recycling to China. Spokesperson Graham Christian for waste company Smart Environmental said paper and plastic stocks had started to build up since the ban.
Apr 30 - New Zealand product awarded runner-up in the WORLD. at the International Travel Goods Show in Vegas.


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Beyonce's Lemonade album has been quite the hit but it was not possible for fans to stream it on Apple Music. The album has long been an exclusive to Tidal, the music streaming service co-owned by her and her husband, Jay-Z. However, the album is now making its way to other music streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify.
The problem with music streaming is that in terms of quality, it might not be on the same level compared to lossless audio files. This is to be expected since such files can be too big to stream efficiently on the internet, plus usually not that many people can tell the difference anyway as such audio will require higher-end hardware to truly appreciate.
Tidal has confirmed that it's adding Venmo as a new payment method for subscribers. It has thus become the first music streaming service to allow subscribers to pay for their plans with Venmo. They will be able to select this as a payment option in the app and the company will charge their monthly subscription fee to their Venmo account or linked payment method.
Tidal isn't as big of a music streaming service as Spotify or Apple Music but it does have respectable streaming numbers. However, it's under investigation for allegedly bogus streaming numbers in Norway. Norwegian financial newspaper Dagens Næringsliv reports that authorities in Norway have opened an investigation following reports that millions of Tidal's stream are bogus.
Tidal, the Jay-Z backed music streaming service, primarily caters to audiophiles. Its main customer is the person that's willing to pay a bit more just so that they can stream music in quality higher than what the other services provide. It has inked a partnership with Lincoln which will see Tidal being integrated into the former's new cars.
Are you thinking about signing up for a music streaming service but aren't sure if you're willing to commit to $10 a month? If you're still on the fence, then you might be interested to learn that Tidal has launched a holiday promotion where they are only charging new subscribers $0.99 for a three-month subscription.
Plex, a popular media center app, has teamed up with music streaming service Tidal to offer its Plex Pass subscriptions access to the over 60 million tracks and 244,000 music videos in Tidal's library. It's now offering several competitively priced deals which combine a subscription to Tidal with a Plex Pass. For those who are unaware, Plex Pass is the company's own subscription service which offers features like recording from […]
Chances are when someone buys an Amazon Echo speaker, they are most likely buying it for Alexa and the various skills and connectivity options the digital assistant offers. However if you'd like to use your Echo speakers for more than just a medium between you and Alexa, you might be interested to learn that Tidal has launched for the Echo speakers.
Music is a great way to keep ourselves entertained or focus when we're exercising, and if you're the owner of a Samsung smartwatch, then you'll be pleased to learn that Tidal has officially launched its app on Samsung's smartwatches (via Engadget) where users will be able to use the app to play music on their wearables.
When you think of music streaming platforms, you might think of them on smartphones, tablets, computers, and maybe even smartwatches. However it looks like Tidal has decided to expand their streaming services to smart TVs, or to be more specific, the company has struck up a partnership with Samsung to do just that.
When it comes to choosing a music streaming platform, how do you make your decision? Admittedly it's a bit hard because for the most part, music streaming services are almost identical in their offerings since they have signed licensing deals with the major labels and they are usually offered at the same price.
Rap mogul Jay-Z's music streaming service Tidal is now accessible through a couple of additional platforms. It may not have a lot of subscribers in comparison to other services such as Spotify and Apple Music but it has come to develop a dedicated fanbase over the past couple of years. The Tidal faithful will be happy to find out that the service has now gained support for Android Auto and […]
One of the features that sets Tidal apart from the other music streaming services is that they offer a hi-fidelity tier, which Tidal claims will offer higher quality music streaming. However it is also priced higher than the regular tier, making it more for audiophiles who might be able to appreciate and tell the difference in quality.
Tidal, the Jay-Z backed music streaming service that reportedly has six months of cash left, today released official apps for Apple TV and Android TV. Its subscribers will now be able to access the hi-fidelity music streaming service via the biggest screen in their home. The apps will enable subscribers to access the entire music library as well as Tidal's collection of video content.


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Munich, September 27, 2019. PANTAFLIX AG (GSIN: A12UPJ, ISIN: DE000A12UPJ7) is strengthening its corporate structures by appointing Eerik Budarz as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with immediate effect. In doing so, the media and technology company will promptly implement one of its core projects announced at the 2019 Annual General Meeting.
Eerik Budarz has already performed various functions for PANTAFLIX AG. Among others, he assumed responsibility as Head of Capital Markets and was a member of the supervisory board. Prior to his assignments at PANTAFLIX AG, Mr. Budarz gathered valuable experience in the capital market environment where he was responsible for the investor relations activities at TecDAX-listed Pfeiffer Vaccum Technology AG. Before that, he worked in investment banking as Head of Engineering & Automotive Equity Research at Westend Brokers AG and in a similar position at Bankhaus B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co.
PANTAFLIX continues to expand its structures by filling the CFO position in order to promote its corporate strategy of value creation.
"Eerik Budarz boasts a great deal of experience, is well connected in the capital market, already knows the company inside-out from his previous positions and can therefore jump right into action. Now it is important to just as quickly address the next steps in driving the growth of PANTAFLIX AG forward with great commitment," says PANTAFLIX CEO Nicolas Paalzow.
"It is a great privilege for me to have the opportunity of contributing my efforts to PANTAFLIX on its path to profitability. I have already been committed to PANTAFLIX for several years and look forward to further enhancing existing partnerships and the good relationships with our investors," comments Eerik Budarz.


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A palm wreath for a Southern-style Chrismtas
December 3, 2013
Early settlers to the Sunshine State did not have the option of "imported" fir Christmas trees for holiday decorating. Instead they made-do with what was at hand. Red cedar trees provided greenery and even palm fronds were called into action. Here's a simple wreath to make with materials you gather from the woods.
Start with a wire wreath form, or just bend a wire coat hanger into a circle — which is what I did here. Look for small palmetto fronds and trim ends of fronds and cut stems to about four inches long.
Start tying two or three fronds together to the form the first bunch. Working your way around the circle, add another bunch on top of the previous bunch slightly farther up the ring and over the stems of the previous bunch until you get back to the starting point. Use florists wire or string to secure each bunch tightly to the form or coat hanger. Work the final bunch in so that the stems are hidden under the first bunch. Hot glue on some seashells or starfish and "fill in" with a bit of Spanish moss here and there. I used a raffia "bow," but a burlap one would look great too. Have fun!


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Two shows this year!
September 17, 2019
Come on out to The Growing Place for another chance to grab a colorful watering can, chair or something else for yourself or a gift! I'm excited to be doing two shows this year. Should be a beautiful fall day.
Ready for TGP Saturday!
June 16, 2019
Looking forward to another Saturday at The Growing Place Gardeners Art Festival. Come out and buy yourself something fun and fill in those baskets with flowers. I'll help you water them!
Need to take a seat? I can help there too!
See you soon. Have a terrific week. I'm still painting.
Holiday shopping: More watering cans!
November 15, 2018
You won't want to miss the Holiday Open House at The Growing Place. It's this Saturday, Nov. 17 and Sunday, Nov. 18 at both locations. I was just over to the Naperville location this week to drop off some more watering cans for sale.
Check out how nice the cans look nested in with the birds! (Aren't the birds supposed to nest? Anyway…) Pick up a couple birds with a coordinating watering can for a holiday gift. (Click on the photos for larger images.)
Happy holidays! Stay warm and safe.
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Labor Day fun 2018
September 6, 2018
BF John and I left for Dandridge, Tennessee, early (like 3 a.m. Central early!) on Thursday night to spend a long weekend with my brother and family for Labor Day weekend. What fun! And … I managed to be productive and start two step stools that have been on order since the Art in the Garden show in June. (Yes. I'm slow when not given a deadline – something I know I need to work on.) I'll post pictures of those in the near future. Meanwhile, check out the gorgeous Douglas Lake we enjoyed and a couple pictures of the silly and courageous John and Bill (brother – left)!
Your flowers are counting on you
August 10, 2018
It is watering season. And it's been SO dry which makes it all the more important to fill your cans and get out there. If you haven't yet, you should sign up for the TGP newsletter. They share watering tips in the latest edition plus other great info. Use the link in the sidebar on the right to reach their site.
Meanwhile, check out a closer look at the watering cans I have at the Naperville location so you can pick one up and water in color!
Garden art roadkill
June 25, 2016
Well. We stopped at the ATM and mom checked a couple items I just sprayed this morning to make sure they were nestled safely (we packed the vehicle last night so these were new additions). We heard a clickity clunk and mom said "I didn't like the sound of that" but we kept rolling (things always shift while driving). About a quarter mile later we realized the hatch was open and stopped immediately. One must love automation–the super helpful rear cargo door closing mechanism failed us. We only lost one item and figured we knew where it was…


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Police say assault in Littleport was a hate crime
Detectives are treating an unprovoked attack on a 40-year-old Eastern European man in Parsons Lane at Littleport as a hate crime.
It happened at about midnight between June the 17th and 18th.
A man and a youth approached the victim as he walked home and verbally abused him before punching him several times causing him to fall to the ground.
After the assault he ran to the Crown pub where police were alerted. He was treated in hospital and released.
Police are appealing for information and have released CCTV of a man they would like to trace.